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The screw steam troop ship Megiera, having had
her collision defects made good at Plymouth, left
the Sound on Saturday morning for North America
and the West Indies, where she will be employed
in changing the troops at the different stations.
The screw steam sloop Alert, 17, Capt. Mejendie,
left Plymouth on Saturday for Portsmouth. She
will be attached to the Channel Fleet.
Our correspondent at Plymouth has received a
letter from the Pacific, which states that the screw
steam frigate Sutlej, 35, Capt. Matthew Connolly,
flag of Rear Admiral John Kingcombe, after leav-
ing Valparaiso, called at two or three places on the
coast, to enable the Rev. John Cawston, tho chap-
lain, to christen acme children, and arrived at Callao
about the 20th of April. The screw steam corvette
Charybdis, 21, Capt. the Hon. George D. Keane,
left Valparaiso on the 14th April, called at two or
three places en the coast, touched at Islay on the
22d, and arrived at Callao on the 27th. Both ships
wait until Sunday May 31 to obtain letters from
home, when the Sutlej will proceed to Vancouver's
Island and the Charybdis to Panama. The screw
steam frigate Bacchante, 39, Captain Done.ld 111‘L.
Mackenzie has gone to the coast of Mexico to relieve
the screw steam corvette Tartar 20, Capt. John M.
Hayes. The paddle-wheel steam sloop Devastation,
6, Commander John W. Pike, goes to relieve the
screw steam sloop Matine, 17, Commander W.
Graham, which will call at Panama when returning
to England. The screw steam frigate Topaze, 39,
Commodore the Hon, John W. S. Spencer is ordered
to call at Valparaiso on her way to England.
The Urgent, screw iron troopship, was some
three months since undocked at Portsmouth, after
having had all compositions and paints carefully
removed from all the external parts of her iron
hull and her wooden topsides, and has since lain
afloat in the steam basin, her rusted hull exposed to
the action of the sea water, and her bare topsides
to the sun, wind, and rain. A few months longer
and the ship's bottom will drop out into the mud
of the steam basin, and her wooden topsides will
crumble into dust. Surely the Lords of the Ad-
miralty who visited Portsmouth dockyard hut a
fortnight since must have seen and noted the posi-
tion and state of this very useful vessel?
Her Majesty's ships Sanspareil and Sphinx, and
the hired transports Copenhagen, Cospatrick,
Walmer Castle, and Her Majesty, are on their way
home from India, bound to Spithead, with invalids
and time -expired men from regiments serving in
India. The invalids will be sent to the Royal
Military Hospital at Netley, and the time-expired
men will join the depots of their respective regi-

ments.
The Racoon, 20, steam corvette, Captain Count
Gleichen, arrived at Spithead, at a late hour on
Friday, from the Wrest Indies. She brought home
from the station a few naval invalids and military
invalids and time-expired men, embarked on the
9th of May at Bermuda. The naval invalids were
transferred on Saturday to the Victory, flagship of
of the Commander-in-Chief, at Portsmouth. The
military comprised three men of the Royal Artil-
lery and three men of the Royal Engineers, inva-
lids, who were sent to the Royal Military Hospital,
at Netley, and 12 men (time expired) of the 39th
Foot, who were forwarded on to the regimental
depot at Templemore. His Royal Highness Prince
Alfred will join the Racoon as her junior lieut.
Her Majesty's ships of war, now at Spithead,
consist of the Black Prince, 40 guns, screw iron
frigate, Capt. Wainwright ; Defence, 18 guns, screw
iron frigate, Capt. Phillimore ; Racoon, 20 guns,
screw wooden corvette, Capt. Count Gleichen ; and
Orontes, screw iron troopship, Capt. Hire.
Her Majesty's ship Dee, having undergone
thorough repair in ship and machinery, went down
the river on Friday from Woolwich to Southend on
trial, and will now be recommissioned for the trans-
port of naval engines, boilers, &c., as heretofore.
A number of seamen and petty officers were on
Saturday despatched from the flagship Fisgard at
Wool wich to Sheerness, to join the Royal Oak, un-
der fitment for sea.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :
Masters—Haben B. Hunt, to"
,the Phaeton ; John Pal-
mer, to the Barrosa ; Percy V. James, to the Rattler.
Assistant-Surgeons—F. H. Moore, to Victory; Mat-
thew Coates, Haslar Hospital.
Engineer—John Barnet (acting first-class assistant), to
the Fi,gard, for ;Vivid.
Second Masters—J. G. Liddell, S. H. Liddell, G. White,
Selwyn Sugden, C. Hirtzel, C. S. C. Watkins, and J.
Thomas. to the Euryalus (supernumeraries).
Masters Assistant—William 11, Brickdale, to the Cos-
sack.
Midshipman—W. E. Heatheote, to the Esk.

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',LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1863.

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As startling a contrast in its way es that very
recently presented to view in America by the simul-
taneous publication of the Orders of the Day
signed respectively by Generals LEE and HOOKER,
the Federal and Confederate Commanders-in-Chief,
has just now been submitted to the wondering con-
templation, not only of our good friends the Pari-
sians but of the adult male population of all France.
" F. DE PERSIGNY" is the name affixed to one of
those documents. " CR. DE MONTALEMBERT" is
the signature to the other. M. DE PERSIGNY, in
the one instance, addresses himself to all the Pre-
fects indiscriminately, in his capacity as Minister
of the interior. M. DE MONTALEMBERT, on
the contrary, addresses himself to the electors
of the Daubs exclusively, in his capacity as a can-
didate for their suffrages, that is to say as one of
the foremost of the candidates of the Opposition.
The Minister's circular blazons itself far and wiC.e
upon the walls of the French metropolis.
The Count's address, on the other hand, will
hardly be allowed to appear, we should conjecture,
even in the most rashly outspoken of our Paris, or
of our French provincial, contemporaries. Such
as they are, however, we present them elsewhere
this evening in eeenso to our readers, commending
each of these remarkable documents to their very
attentive contemplation.

As inspiriting a trumpet-call—the very reveilles
as it aeems to us, of the mare rational aspirations
of Frenchmen for a return to Parliamentary free-
dom—as any yet sounded for a dozen years past
within the boundaries of France, is breathed forth
in noble and reverberating accents through the
Address penned to (we will venture to call them
at once) his constituents at Doubs, by the Count
DE MONTALEMBERT. Simple though the medium
is, through which this.'.llustrious Champion of Let-
ters, of Liberty, and of Religion, addresses himself
(through the Electors of the Doubs) to the whole
mass of his compatriots, placed at his lips we may
say as truly as WORDSWORTH said of the Sonnet
when placed at the lips of MILTON
"The Thing became a Trumpet."
Not one alone, but all, of the French Constituencies
will take well to heart, more or less eagerly of
course in proportion to the fervour or the coolness
of their political predilections, the burning words
breathed forth with a simple yet most impresive
eloquence by this beneficent but formidable advo-
cate of Constitutional Government. Accused of a
desire to paralyse the energies of France, to im-
peril her security at home no less than her legiti-
mate influence abroad, to jeopardise the stability of
her institutions in a word, to imperil the Empire,
by preparing the way for new Revolutions—the
Count DE MONTALEMBERT condescends at the very
outset of this the latest of his addresses to the con-
stituency he aspires to represent in the Imperial
Legislature--the Count DE MONTALEMBERT, we
ti:;eolescends to repel those charges categorically')
lat'a,fer once and for all, the notion that he
as, x:
.‘'tltonceivable point of view, be regarded
and affet7:l"raer and revolution. With a noble
life is oteel alluPligity, he exclaims, " My whole
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to the covert insinuations or to the nal:ea:en:::
blushing imputations cast against himself by which,
he is here, in this manly address, replyingie w
that any one may comprehend, the Count then
says to his good friends the Electors of the Doube
and through them we repeat to all France " The
whole of what they [namely the officials] tell you
amounts to this :—You must name deputies docile
and resolved to do everything the EMPEROR tells
them. If this be so," he observes with a calm but
cutting irony, "the shortest way is to suppress the
Legislative Corps altogether. For if it be composed
only of salaried approvers it is but a costly and
useless piece of machinery. Its suppression will
simplify matters and reduce the amount of the
Budget. The EMPEROR will be very Well
able to go on alone. He bas no need of
a crowd of achisera all paid to be always of his
Opinion." Toe force ofaarcastir, logic could no

further go. But here it is that M. DE MONTALEM-
BERT reminds his compatriots of what the more
obsequious imperialists would, latterly, seem really to
have lost sight of, namely, that it was the EMPEROR
himself who, one day (and not so very long ago !)
said that his Government needed " control and pub-
licity." A noble utterance, and one that France is
now about to respond to ! " The country"—as M.
DE MONTALEMBERT plainly puts it—" has taken the
EMPEROR at his word." It is, as he expresses it, "at
this moment shaking off its sleep." And among
the potent, and once familiar voices, becoming,
at length, yet again audible in France, after so long
a silence, the heart of France is beginning to stir
within her breast, on hearing not only those of
men, whom the Count DE MONTALEMBERT declares
he is proud and honoured to be called the friend of
—THEIRS, DUFAURE, BERRYER, ODILLON BARROT
—but the voice also of M. the Count DE
MONTALEMBERT himself. Together they already
demand, these gifted Candidates of the Opposi-
tion, individually, he, the purest and noblest
amongst them, tells the electors of Doubs,
tells France, tells all Europe, "I demand"—
What ? Note well the stirring antithesis—
" Less of taxation and more of liberty, fewer con-
scripts and greater control, less of arbitrary rule
and more of responsibility, less police and more
discussion." And, as if even this were not suffi-
ciently sententious and epigrammatic, he says in
conclusion, " My programme is comprised in three
words : I want three things as necessary for the
country as they are advantageous to the
Government—viz., Peace, Economy, Liberty !"
Those are the trumpet notes, that is the
trumpet-call sounded over France by the pure and
eloquent lips of CHARLES Count de MONTALEM-
BERT. And we have confidence that those words are
prophetic of benefits instead of disaster for France.
For we believe the Emperor to be more liberal and
enlightened than his Ministers.

The arrangements that were thought to be so

happily in train between the governors of St.
Thomas's Hospital and of Bethlehem seem at fault.
It was considered by all parties to be a most desir-
able plan when first proposed, and therefore these

vexatious hindrances are the more annoying.
Everything seemed to point out that the proposition
was wise and desirable. Bethlehem was not suited
for its object, and it would be much better for the

unhappy patients to be taken into the country. I
appeared almost providential that such an oppor.
tunity offered itself as this idea of transferring St

Thomas's Hospital to the site. The governors on
both sides appeared quiescent, but the strange thing
is that nothing is done, although a considerable
time has now elapsed since the idea was mentioned.
It would seem from the accounts that the fault of
the delay rests with the governors of Bethlehem.
Their committee refused to allow the architect to
meet the architect of St. Thomas's, which was in
itself a very questionable act of discourtesy. This
is a very strange course of proceeding on the part
of these gentlemen ; they should either have de•
, clined the proposition in toto, or have affirded every
possible means that lay in their power to facilitate
the desired end, or at least to give it a chance of
reaching a speedy solution. The proposals of the
Grand Committee of St. Thomas's appear most
judicious ones. The Governors of St. Thomas's
were prepared " either to build for the Governors
of Bethlehem a new hospital in conformity with the
plans and estimates prepared by Mr. CURREY, the
surveyor of this (St. Thomas's) Hospital, at a cost
not exceeding £150,000, including the Rite ; or to
pay for the site and buildings of Bethlehem the sum
of £150,000, subject to the approval of the Court
of Chancery, and the sanction of Parliament and
this court." Surely nothing could be fairer than

this proposal, and, indeed, it is so liberal that it
proves an actual intention on the part of the sug-
gestors to do everything that lay in their power for
the furtherance of the object under disc;tssion. This
scheme, however, did not satisfy the Governors of
Bethlehem. They had previously made an arrange-
ment, or come to an ultimatum, which was at the

same time most unwise and most grasping in its
demands, They laid down as an infallible dogma
this specified condition :—" That no proposal for

the exchange of sites can be entertained which is
not based on an agreement that the whole of the
cost of the removal of Bethlehem Hospital is to be
borne by the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital."
Could anything be more preposterous, and could

,hey reasonably hope, or on:a calm reflection believe,

that the other party in the conference could agree.
The sum was fixed upon, and therefore the com-
mittee of St. Thomas's would have been most faulty
had they agreed, especially as they had communi-
cated the unsatisfactory intelligence that the sum

they should require would most likely be much
more than the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital
would like to give, " or which Ivould be permitted
by the Court of Chancery, or by Parliament,
to be given for a site for a new St.
Thomas's Hospital." Such a statement is a con-
tradiction to their previous assent to entertaining
the proposition at all, for how could the Governors
of St. Thomas's Hosp:tal be induced to take into
consideration a scheme that was to overwhelm them
with expense, while after all they would not be
paying for their own property, and would not even
have the gratification of knowing that the handsome
and commodious structure was for themselves. It

is impossible to overrate the folly and shortsighted-
ness of such conduct. These wise men are defeating
their own ends by such unaccommodating views
and such fallacious proposals. It would seem as if
they gloried in the opportunity that is afforded to

Ithem of throwing obstacles in the way, and of
abusing the power that bas been delegated
to them for nobler and higher purposes.
It is unworthy of any body or com-
pany to comport themselves after this fashion;
but for the trustees of a charity and the guardians
of the afflicted to cast aside all the notions that
should influence, if not absolutely actuate, their
conduct, is most reprehensible. It is lamentable
to think that the patients, who are now, it is said,
" cooped up like poultry" in the insufficient space
allotted to them in the crowded confines of Bethle-
fai
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as some imagine they must inevitably be, after whtv

has taken place. Before the day of grace is past,
we trust that some arrangement TOII be entered
into that will compromise the affair and allow a

work that is vital to the interests of many to be
settled in a laudable spirit of.fair play and mutual

concessions.

The defenders of Ludgate-hill have not yet aban-
doned hope, and until the ground required is fairly
in the possession of the company, and the dreaded
viaduct is actually above their heads, they will not
seemingly relax their efforts. At the last meeting
of the Metropolitan Board of Works, a deputation
attended from the committee for the preservation
of Ludgate-hili, with the object of obtaining the
assistance of the surveyor of the Board of Works.
They stated they had already obtained the opinion
of several competent engineers on the matter, who
thought that a tunnel would be far better than a
viaduct for the passage of the railway across
Ludgate-hill, as they would then have the platform
in Farringdon. street on the ground instead of on
stilts. This would be a sensible advantage to the
railway company themselves, and should induce
them to look with some favour on the proposal.
The deputation, therefore, desired to have the
opinion of the Board of Works surveyor upon the
two plans, and in the event of its coinciding with
their wishes they hoped the Board would act upon

it. It was then moved by one of the members
present that the memorial should be referred to
the Thames Embankment Committee for conside•
ration and report, and it was suggested that the
Embankment Committee should be requested
to report upon it immediately in order that the
Board might lost no time in endeavouring
to come to an arrangement with the Company on
the matter. We sincerely hope that by some
means or other the affair will be satis►actorily
settled by the adoption of the proposed alteration.
There can surely be no wish on the part of the rail-
way company to disfigure one of our leading
thoroughfares by an unsightly structure, which
would block up still further the view of that noble
pile, already too much shut in by the accident of
its situation. Neither can the difficulty of the task
be a consideration. The marvellous course of the
Underground Railway forbids English engineers to
talk of difficulty.

The Company have already obtained the neces-
sary powers, " and nothing," said a speaker, at the
meeting referred to, " can stop their proceedings
but the intervention of Parliament." We should
hope, however, that some compromise may be come
to without such extreme measures. The Company
will certainly hear reason, and have, probably, no
desire to oppose the wishes of the general public.
If it can be shown to them that the tunnel has
equal, or even superior advantages to the viaduct,
they will scarcely refuse to relinquish their
rights in favour of the desired substitution.
London possesses already but few claims to
architectural beauty, and we should be careful how,
in our eagerness for rapid locomotion and business
convenience, we disfigure it needlessly. Of course,
where the interests of the public are really at stake,
questions of art and taste must stand aside in a vast

commercial community like our own, but where
there is happily a very feasible alternative, it
should surely have the preference. We trust, if the
report of the surveyor be favourable to the wishes
of the committee, the Board of Works will at once
take up the affair, and endeavour to come to an
arrangement with the railway company, who on
their part will do well to consult the general feeling
of the public on a public matter.

We see that the Volunteers are organising an
active opposition to the now Bill, or rather to those
clauses of it which threaten the independence and
Liberty of members. The Bill itself is received with
favour, but the clauses 21 and 24, which are cer-
tainly highly objectionable, are exciting the greatest
indignation. A committee has been formed by
some members of the various metropolitan corps for
the purpose of obtaining some alteration in these
sections of
.the measure, while petitions are being
got up for signature by officers and men, who are
alike concerned in the invidious clause 21, which
places the power of summary dismissal from the
regiment in the hands of the commanding officer.
The Bill will come on before the House to-night
for consideration in committee, when we should
certainly anticipate a strong opposition on these
points. Several notices of amendments are down,
and we should hope that the framers of the measure,
who can certainly have no wish to disgust the
Volunteers with their self-chosen duties, would be
glad to take the opportunity of introducing some
modifications. It is perfectly incomprehensible
how such clauses should ever have been inserted,
investing the commanding officer of a Volunteer
Corps with arbitrary powers never bestowet on
officers of the regular army. We shall expect to
see these offensive clauses, which, in the opinion of
the Committee, threaten the very existence of the
Volunteer Movement, entirely altered or else re,
moved from the measure.

' THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN CAMBRIDGE-
SHIRE.—Rain is again very much required, and
husbandmen generally are looking for it roost anxiously.
The wheats, with their long fibrous roots, obtain moisture
and aro looking well, with every indication of a splendid
I crop, but barley, clover, grass, mangolds, &c., are suffering
I immensely, and of hay it is feared there will be none,
although a copious rain would no doubt produce effects the
most beneficial. The cold frosty nights have been very pre-
judicial to the apple crop, and of that useful fruit there
will be a short crop ; pears are rather more abundant. The
little green caterpillars have not made such havoc with the
gooseberry trees this years as they did in the last and former
years, and there is a pretty good crop, and also of cherries
and apricots; but currants, plums, and damsons appear to
be thin upon the trees. Lawns are parched for want of
moisture, and the ground is as hard and as hot as the sunny
side of Fleet-street.—Cambridge Independent.
ANCIENT PICTURE OF THE B. VIRGIN AND
CHILD.—A curious old picture, alleged to have
been painted by St. Luke, is now on view at 230, Regent-
street, the proceeds of its exhibition being devoted to the
funds for the relief of the sick and wounded Poles. With-
out expressing any opinion as to the extreme antiquity
claimed by M. Szerelemy for his picture, or as to the indi-
vidual by whom it is alleged to be painted, there is still
sufficient of interest in the picture to repay an examination.
That it is a very old work there does not appear much doubt,
and it is contended that the inscriptions upon the front, as
well as upon the back, afford evidence for testing its authen-
ticity. The statement that St. Luke, although a physician,
had a knowledge of and practised painting, is founded upon
, a passage in St. Metaph to the effect that, in addition to his
medical labours, St. Luke had acquired uncommon pro-
ficiency in the art of painting. Evidence of the antiquity
of the picture, and of its existence at a time coeval with the
Evangelist, is sought to be established from the existence
of the inscription round the head of female figure—
" Jesus Maria Hodegedria, give strength to thy servant
Luke to proclaim thy name." This inscription is said to be
in the ancient Chaldaic character, of which only a few spe-
cimens are now extant, and those in some bowls discovered
by Mr. Layard at Nineveh. The owner also relies upon
the writings of Nicephorus (61, ix., Derebus Livra)—the
history of the cathedral of St. Sophia—the former stating
that Luke painted a picture, the Jesus Maria Hodegedria;
the latter, that such a picture was preserved in the cathe-
dral of St. Sophia. Further evidence is sought in the fact
that the features of the B. Virgin, as shown in this picture,
correspond with the description given of them by Nicepho-
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