The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1861

ties of the authorities in their endeavours to carry

out the conditions of the treaty. The case is bad
indeed, for our official representatives are "quite
powerless" to restrain these irregularities. The
nest point touched upon is that, as a Christian na-
tion, our persistent attempt to force an acquaintance
upon the people is not likely to redound to our
honour or to their advantage. Certainly, if half of
the charges here preferred are true, if a quarter of
the irregularities here commented upon take place,
there can be little gain, and less credit, to any one
at all concerned in the affair. There is a remedy
to the evil that is mercifully shown to us, and that
is to give up the undertaking, to relinquish all
notion of establishing a permanent footing in the
place, and to retire with the best grace, leaving the
Sapanese to enjoy their pristine state of "internal

order, peace, and prosperty." This would suit the
views of the Peace Party, they would raise their
voices in jubilation to utter thanksgivings, and fore-
tell all sorts of greatness, glory, and renown for the
country that sacrificed ambition for so good a cause.
There is another side to the question, however,
and that is, How would such base conduct and
craven policy accord with the genius of an enter-
prising people, and be adapted to the honour of a
mighty nation. It was not by listening to the sug-
gestions of cowardice, the language of flattery, or
the crotchets of infatuated men, that our country
has been represented in so many quarters, and her
sons made famous from the rising to the setting of
the sun. Could anything more preposterous be
imagined than that such a missive should be sent
to the Foreign Secretary of the foremost
nation of the world. We are told that
commerce cannot flourish with so reluctant
and angry a people, and hence the work of
itself will be rendered comparatively abortive ;
but so vast are the advantages that will accrue from
the wise policy suggested, that to gain them we are
to make sacrifices of our " commercial advantage."
If intercourse is not concluded in a friendly spirit
it had better cease at once, is the stern behest of the

udge who presides over this affair, and views a

through the medium of the society's rules. Ac-
cording to these traditions the great ones who
have tracked their country's way in steps of blood
and fire through many a land, and procured for her
flag the empire of the deep, are all from henceforth
to be nobodies. There is to be no conquest, no im-
provement, no infusion of intellect. The world will
jog on in its lame and unaltered course, unmarked by
any notable change, and uninfluenced by the spread
of commerce and the want of mind. If these peace
societies could exercise the spell of a magician and
work their will for a few months, to what a new
world should we awaken. The sight would be the
best reproof to their shortsightedness, and the
surest way of publishing their folly. It seems al-
most incredible that wise persons should persist in
pushing forward such extravagant notions, and
forcing others to agree nolens volens to their doc-
trines. There is great vanity in this presumption,
and the folly of the course that is advocated almost
equals the arrogance. Nothing more surely and
effectually occasions disorder and discord than to
dread the consequence of decisive action, and to
fear to make an attack, holding the notion that
failure is inevitable, and that success, if achieved,
would be disastrous. Doubtless there is much to
occasion mirth in the extraordinary ideas promul-
gated in this despatch, but really there is more rea-
son to lament than to be amused. It is deleterious
to the growth of sound principles for such notions
to gain ground among us, and some are so infatuated
with this peace-mania that they are ready to be-
lieve anything if only it comes in the form of a flag
of truce. The interests of civilisation, and the pro-
gress of humanity, are best served when the inter-
course between the more elevated and enlightened
nations of the world with the less favoured ones is
carried on to the fullest extent, and developed to
the utmost possible limits. It is false reasoning
that urges the adoption of the laisez aller principle.
What we did with yesterday we'll e'en do with to-
day, may suit those who are never heard of half a
mile from home; but those who would write their
names in their country's history to be read on the
morrows that shall succeed to the last syllable of
recorded time, must act differently. The axioms
of the Peace Society can never make heroes, it is
certain, but neither do they create sages or produce
patriots.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN,

MADRID, AUG. 25.
The Progressist Committee have written to
Senores Madox and Olozaga, asking their opinion
on the advisability of the Progressist party abstain-
ing from voting at the elections.
Doubts are entertained whether they are favour-
able to this course.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The following telegram was received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
MARSEILLES, AUG. 26.
The Nlassilie, with the above mails, arrived here
at 6.30 a.m., this day.
The mails leave for London by the 11.30 a.m.

train.

and the aristocracy of the city. The rooms near
the entrance hall, which are inhabited by the
family, are spacious, but not lofty ; the proportions
of the recently-built ballroom and grand saloon, the
ceilings of which are arched, are perfect. Shortly
after 8 o'clock, which was the hour appointed, the
German Sovereigns, who are models of punctuality,
began to arrive, and by 9 there must have been
between 200 and 300 persons assembled in the above-
mentioned saloon and adjoining apartments. The
master and mistress of the house received their
Royal visitors in a room which adjoins the hall of
entrance, and the former conducted them through
the rooms leading to the grand saloon, at the upper
end of which, in a large recess, is Dannecker's
far-famed statue of Ariadne. As the different
Sovereigns entered—there were 27 or 28 present—
several loud blows were struck on the floor with
the point of a stick. At the signal the inferior
guests fell hack, and formed a lane, through which
the Rulers over 45,000,000 of souls advanced. The
Kings of Bavaria, Saxony, and Hanover appeared
first; the Emperor of Austria last, or nearly so.
The Sovereigns sat together in the grand saloon for
about half-an-hour, and then they adjourned to the
ball-room, where a so-called " circle " was formed.
For an hour or more they conversed freely with the
various ladies who were presented to them, and it ap-
peared to me that all of tlaerWendeavoured,to make
themselves agreeable to the persons with whom they
were brought in contact. The King of Hanover spoke
so loudly that the bystanders could hear every word
he said, but the other Sovereigns pitched their voices
so low that only the persons to whom they ad-
dressed themselves could catch the sense of what
they said. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess
Mary, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Meeklenburgh-Strelitz, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge, came over from Rumpenheim to do honour
to the von Bethmann family, and it is probable that
they stopped to supper, which many of the princely
guests did not do. Shortly after 7 o'clock I quitted
the festive scene, and the carriages of the Emperor
of Austria and of three or four other Sovereigns
passed the vehicle in which I was seated. It ap-
peared to me that there was a great lack of cordiality
between the German Potentates, and persons of my
acquaintance fancied that they seemed to try to keep
out of each other's company. Two Prussian officers
of rank were at the rout, but they seemed to be ill
at ease, and kept aloof from the other guests. Baron
Charles von Rothschild is the Austrian Consul-
General in Frankfort, and it has excited some little
surprise that he should have allowed M. von Beth-
mann, the Consul-General for Prussia, to get the
pas of him.

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG. 26.
The Paris papers of to-day publish the following
telegram :

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 25.

Prince Conza has addressed a note to the Powers
who protested against his sequestration of the pro-
perty of the Greek convents, declaring that his
sequestration is definitive, but that he is disposed
to grant an indemnity to the Greek priests for the
sequestrated property.
Holland has demanded of Prince Couza a modi-
fication in the Roumain flag on account of its re-
semblance to her own.

BOURSE, Aug. 25.—The market remains in the
same quiescent state, but with prices well main-
tained in the little business transacted. Threes, for
the Account, are now unvaried at 67f. 60c. The
Railway Share Market has been also quiet, with
prices up to the present time firm at yesterday's
quotations. The market closed as follows :

It per Cents .. 96 85 Italian Loan 72
Do. end month.... Do. end month 72
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 67 50 Do. end month 72
Credit Mobilier.... 1092 50 Russian
Do, end m0nth....1091 25 Austrian
Bank Shares 3396 Spanish Threes....
Credit koncier 1255 Home Debt

RA IL'

'AY%
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1026 25 .. 1023 75
Northern
New ditto -
Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 .. 1025
Geneva 492 50 .. 493 75
Southern
Western
Eastern .. „
Sardinian 415 .. 412 50
Austrian
Lon, hard , 552 50 .. 551 25
North of Spain
Saragossa 683 75 .. 681 25
Ditto to Barcelona

85
65
75
70

LORD CLYDE'S FUNERAL.—A writer in the

Morning Post says no man is a hero to his valet de
chatnbre ; neither is he, so it would seem, to be considered
one at his club. On Saturday last, when universal respect
was paid to the funeral cortege of Lord Clyde, at the United
Service Club—the deceased field-marshal's especial haunt
—it was conspiuous by its absence. The blinds of this club
were not drawn down on the occasion, as every one expected
them to have been. But this is not, I hear, to be attri-
buted to accident or mere neglect ; it was the result
of a consultation and a decision. The latter pro-
nounced that, inasmuch as the blinds were not drawn
down on the occasion of Lord Dundonald's funeral,

they must remain up during that of Lord Clyde. Did
the committee forget altogether that the funeral pro-
cession of Lord Dundonald did not pass the United Ser-
vice Club at all ?

SHAKSPEItE'S STUDY—Or rather a relic of it just
discovered at Stratford-on-Avon : whence Mr.
Halliwell has recently (August 19, 1863) addressed the
At/enceum :—" I have the pleasure of informing you that
excavations I have lately caused to be made on the east (the
garden aide of the New Place, have resulted in the dis-
covery of the foundations of a large bay window, which is
undoubtedly a fragment of the poet's residence. There are
other remains also laid bare, and it is hoped that the works
now in progress will reveal other relics; but the discovery
now mentioned at the end of a room out of which
Shakspere must often have looked, and which, most pro-
bably, was his study, appears to he one of so much interest,
I cannot help thinking that you will be glad to draw public
attention to it, That the remains of the window belong to
Shakspere's New Place, not to the later Clopton residence,
is a fact which admits of absolute proof, their situation and
character being altogether inconsistent with the known
disposition of the latter building.
THE GREAT METROPOLIS, with its population of
very nearly three millions, has, in point of fact, a
population larger than that of Denmark and many Sove-
reign States, nearly as large as that of our sister kingdom
Scotland, and more than half as large as that of Ireland.—
City Press.
The half-yearly meeting of the General Steam
Navigation Company was held yesterday, John Wilkin,
Esq., in the chair, when the report of the directors and a
statement of the accounts for the year ending 30th June
last were read to the meeting and unanimously adopted.
The usual dividend of 14s. per share, being at the rate of
10 per cent. per annum, was declared.

AMERICAN WAR STATISTICS.—The following
Confederate Governorsof States are in eyre, and have
no lccal habitation for their executive :—Thomas O'Moore,
of Louisiana; Johann Harris, of Tennessee ; John Pettus,
of Mississippi ; F. Flannigan, of Arkansas. It is estimated
that:, from the commencement of the war, 69,874 Federals
have been killed, 117,020 wounded, 73,218 made prisoners,
and 250,000 died from disease and wounds. That 50,893
Confederates havo been killed, 119,615 wounded, 52,169
made prisoners, and 250,000 died from disease and wounds.
This estimation dates prior to July.—.4rmy and Navy
Gazette.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT,—On Saturday last, while
reaping with a machine at Ayton Law, Berwickshire, a
young woman had the misfortune by some means to get in
front of the reaper, and had both her feet cut off. Medical
aid was obtained, and it was found necessary to amputate
one of the legs above the knee. On Sunday sho was in a
precarious condition.

THE LATE PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN TRATERS AND
.DILLON.—At the Petty Sessions for the Woking-
nam Division of Berks, held yesterday, before Major Court,
Captain Gower, and other justices, Robert Travers and
James Dillon, who recently fought in the neighbouring
village of Twyford for £4OO, were summoned for having
attended at that place for the purpose of committing a breach
of the peace; and Alexander King, Robert Webb, George
Brown, Nathaniel Langham, Tom Tyler, Fred. Oliver, and
John Hicks wore summoned for aiding and abetting the
above. Travers, King, Webb, Brown, Oliver, and Hicks
appeared and pleaded guilty. The justices called upon the
principals to enter into their recognisances in the sum of
£5O to keep the peace for six months, and the others were
bound over in the sum of £2O. These conditions were
complied with by the defendants, and we believe that at a
subsequent period of the day the others attended and en-
tered into the required sureties.
A FRISKY OLD GlRL.—T'ne celebrated tight
rope dancer, Sach6, not having been able to obtain a license
for performing in France, owing to her great age, 92, has
Me to P4leucia, where t e 1)49 for better luck,

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.
The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com-
pany's screw steamer, City of Cork, Capt. Tibbetts,
from New York on the 12th instant, arrived in the
Mersey this evening, bringing 40 passengers.
The City of Cork was intercepted off Cape Race
by the newsboat of the Associated Press, on the
17th inst., and received telegraphic advices from
New York to the night of the 14th, which have
already been published. The New York journals
of the 13th add very little detail of interest to that
brought by the Scotia,
The New York Times says—" We have a report
from San Francisco of trouble in the lower counties
of California with the Secessionists, who are there
from Texas and other points in the south-west in
considerable numbers. Rumours are current that
they contemplate a general rising, but they appear
to have no better foundation than a collision which
took place on the 6th instant in Tillare county be-
tween a party of Secessionists and some soldiers
stationed there, in which one soldier was killed and
several of the Secessionists were wounded."
It will be remembered that a telegraphic report
of a naval battle between two steamers on the coast
of Maine, said to have occurred on the 23d ult.,
was published a day or two after that date, since
which time until now nothing additional in regard
to it has reached us. It now appears that there
was such a battle, but of the actors in it we are in
as much ignorance as before. The particulars, so
far as known, are copied from the Portland Argus
of Tuesday. The belief of those who witnessed the
battle is that the belligerents were a United States
gunboat and a rebel privateer, and that the gunboat
was worsted; but no official report of the affair has
appeared, though it is believed that the Navy De-
partment must be in possession of the facts in re-
gard to it.
The Argus describes the privateer as a large pro-
peller steamer, painted black, and states that some
of those who saw her think she was the Lord Clyde.
The battle occurred between 10 and 11 o'clock in
the forenoon, about ten miles east-south-east from

Baker's Island, Mount Desert. The day was per-
fectly clear, and the battle was witnessed by Capt.
Richardson, of Cranberry Island, and others, from
the lighthouse on Baker's Island. With a glass
the vessels could be seen with perfect distinctness.
The persons in the lighthouse counted 53 discharges
from guns, eight very heavy calibre.

Captain Cawes, of the schooner George Kilborn,
from Calais, arrived in Fremont about three hours
after the engagement. He reports that he saw the
whole engagement tit about 10 to 12 miles distant
from him. The engagement lasted about three-
quarters of an hour, when the vessel which was
taken to be the U. S. gunboat, run in for the land,
and the other steamer, supposed the one that had
been lying there, followed her in as near the shore
as she dared to, apparently, and then went off.
The gunboat went into Southwest harbour to Fre-
mont, sent a boat ashore and a message to the post-
office. The officer of the boat, on being asked
what the firing meant, replied, "We had an en-
gagement with a Confederate privateer, and sunk
her." The boat returned to the steamer, which
then started off westward.

The New York Tribune says :—The dispatch

telegraphed from Cincinnati, and published in all
the papers, stating that there is to be an important
meeting of distinguished personages in Washing-
ton this week, to discuss grave questions bearing
on the rebellion, has no foundation, in fact no such
gathering will take place during the coming week,
nor is any such contemplated.
The Herald goes so far even as to announce the

immediate cause of the assembling of this Con

ference to be that news has been received from the
South that leading rebels are willing to come back
into the Union provided terms are offered them.
the opinion is becoming general that no overtures
for peace on the part of the Rebel Government can
or will be received by the Federal Government
while a single rebel remains in arms.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tunes says that under no exigencies will the Pre-
sident's Emanicipation Proclamation be departed
from.

A despatch from Memphis, dated Aug as t 5, states
that Gr neral Herron and the army under his com-
mand have landed on the east side of the Missis-
sippi river, five miles below Port Hudson. A few
cases of yellow fever have occurred in New Orleans,
but the health of the city for the season of the year
is good. Vicksburg is reported very unhealthy—
typhoid fever and diarrhoea being the principal
diseases. I❑ Jackson County, Ohio, Morgan cap-
tured 290 horses, and the Union forces appropriated
46, valued in the aggregate at 29,700 dols. The
merchandise, cash, and buggries, stolen by Morgan,
was valued at 16,000 dols. The damage done to
the Portsmouth and Newark Railroad will run up
the total to about 50,000 dole.
The Canadian Parliament was to me©t on the
12th inst.

A Washington telegram says:—" It is stated by
those who profess to know much of the programme
of the rebel leaders, that the organisation of negroes
in the rebel armies has been determined upon. The
negroes thus employed are to be compensated by
donations of land, and emancipation at the end of
the war. They are also to be allowed five dollars
for each United States musket, twenty-five dollars
for each United States horse, fifty dollars for each
United States negro soldier captured by them, and
fitly dollars for each scalp of a United States white
officer commanding negro soldiers.
"It is not believed here that the rebel authorities
will persist in the execution of Captains Sawyer
and Flynn at Richmond, knowing that such execu-
tion will be promptly followed by that of General
W. H. Lee and Captain Winder. The reported re-
monstrance of General R. E. Lee, and his threat to
throw up his commission and retire from the Con-
federacy if the execution is carried out, comes from
such widely different sources that it is believed to
be entitled to full credit."

The trial of the New York rioters was being con-
tinned in that city. The leader of the attack on
the 77. ibune office was tried on the 12th, and found
guilty.

BEAUTIFUL ROSES—may now be multiplied by
thousands, says Ilibberd's Gardeners' Magazine, in
a very simple manner. In the first place take cuttings of
shoots just getting ripe—that is, shoots of this year. Cut
them clean below a joint, remove the lower leaves, and have
about four joints above the bottom joint. Dibble these into
pans or boxes of damp sand, pretty close together, and put
them in a close shady place, or in a frame kept shaded, or
under the stage of a greenhouse. Keep them only suffi-
ciently damp to prevent flagging and to keep the leaves
fresh. In about ten days they will have formed a callus at
the base, and they may either be potted separately in small
pots and plunged, or be planted out four inches apart on a
moderate bottom-heat. There is nothing so good for this
purpose as a large bed of short dung that has been two or
turee times turned, and the bed made up a few days before
the cuttings are potted; there will then be a steady heat.
The soil in which to root them should be light, and have a.
considerable proportion of leaf-mould or cocoa-dust in it.
If it is not convenient to make up a dung-bed, pot the
cuttings separately as they are taken from the plants, and
plunge in coal-ashes in a pit and keep close and shaded.
The earth is a hotbed now, and anything may be propa-
gated with ease if done at once, and done properly. Fine
plump shoots with the soft tops removed root quickest ;
cuttings of old hard wood are of no use to amateurs, and
the same may be said of soft sappy shoots.

DR. LIVINGSTONE'S EXPEDITION.—On the 3d
July Sir Thomas Maclear received letters from Dr.
Living-stone, written in October, 1862, forwarded to Natal,
sent from there to England, and finally returned to the
Cape. Of course the principal portion of their contents
has been anticipated, but the following passage will be read
with interest :—" Dr. Kirke, I am sorry to say,will soon leave
us, and I suppose that I shall die in those uplands, and
somebody else will carry out the plane I have longed to put
into practice. I have been thinking a great deal, since the
departure of my beloved one, about the regions whither she
has gene, and imagine, from the manner the Bible describes
it, we have got too much monkery in our ideas. There will
be work there as well as here, and possibly not such a vast
difference in our being as is expected, but a short limo there
will give more insight than a thousand musings. We shall
see him by whose inexpressible love and mercy we get
there, and all whore we loved, and all the lovable. lon
sympathise with you now more fully than I did before,
and work with as much vigour as I can, and mean to do so
till the change cornea; but tie prospect of a home is all
dispelled,,,

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The Queen in Germany.

ROSENAU, COBURG, Aug. 23.
The Queen and Royal family have continued to
take walks and drives in the neighbourhood.
Her Majesty is everywhere received with marks
of affection and respect, but her privacy is nowhere
intruded upon.
The Crown Princess of Prussia has visited the
Queen, and has dined with her Majesty every day.
The Duchess of Coburg has also dined with her
Majesty.

Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe•Coburg,
with their son and daughters, visited the Queen
yesterday.
-411,

Foreign Courts.
PARIS, Aug. 24.
A letter from the Camp of Chalons, dated Satur-
day, says :—" On the evening of the races, after a
dinner at which the gentlemen riders and the officers
who won the races were present, the Emperor, the
Prince imperial, his Majesty's visitors, and the
other guests went to the theatre. The Emperor
and the Prince were received with enthusiasm. The
rain, which had returned, caused an apprehension
that the naance uvres fixed for the next day would
not take place, but fortunately those fears were
groundless. At about 10 the troops took up their
position for the sham fight at the north-eastern ex-
tremity of the camp, between the farms of St.
Hilaire and of Jonchery. The Emperor, the Prus-
sian princes, Marshals O'Donnell, Randon, de
M'Mahon, and a brilliant staff, among whom were
several foreign officers, followed the different move-
ments with great interest. Marshal Baraguay
d'Hilliers commanded the troops. The Prince Im-
perial, on horseback and in uniform, was present.
An immense concourse of persons were assembled.
The departure of the Emperor from the Camp of
Chalons is, it is said, fixed for Wednesday.
The. Empress honoured with a visit the day before
yesterday the Agricultural Exhibition now open in
the Zoological Gardens in the Bois de Boulogne.
Prince Napoleon arrived at Havre two days back,
and alighted at Frascati. Oa the following morn-
ing the crew of the Prince's yacht, Jerome-Napo-
leon, waited on his Imperial Highness to present
him with a beautiful model of that vessel, on the
scale of one-fiftieth, executed by the men them-
selves.

The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna announces that
Queen Maria of Naples has become so ill since her
return to Rome that her medical attendants have
recommended another visit to Germany.

The Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana
Beanclerk remain the guests of Lady Molesworth, at Pen-
carrow, Cornwall.

The Dukt, of Hamilton arrived at his family
residence in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, on Monday night,
from Baden-Baden.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have left
Tarbet House, for Dunrobin Castle, where the noble duke
and duchess will entertain a large circle of friends.
The Marquis of Abercorn is staying with a select
party of friends at Tandragee, on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Manchester.

The Marquis of Tullibardine, in consequence of
the serious illness of his father, the Duke of Athole, is ex-
pected to return home as soon as possible from Canada,
where his lordship has been serving with his regiment, the
Scots Fusilier Guards.

The Marquis Conyngham has arrived at his seat
in Ireland, alter a cruise of several weeks in his yacht.

The Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Ranelagh,
Hon. Colonel Lowther, M.P., Major-General Wood, and
Sir Henry Willoughby, M,P., have been among the guests
of the Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle, Cumberland.
The Earl of Strathmore and the Earl of Stamford
and Warrington, since the close of the York races, have
been staying at Glamis Castle, N.B.

The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres has joined
Lord and Lady Lindsay at Dunecht, N. 8., from Haigh
Hall, Lancashire.

Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
and the lion. Misses Canning have left Grosvenor-square,
forPenearrow, on a visit to Lady Molesworth.

Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn
left Walmer Castle, where they have been staying with
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, for Switzerland.
Lord and Lady Taunton and Hon. Misses Labou-
chere, Hon. Charles Howard, Hon. and Rev. F. and Eliza-
beth Grey, are staying at Naworth Castle, Cumberland, the
seat of the Earl of Carlisle.

Mr. J. and Lady Georgian a Balfour, the Countess
(Dowager) of Ellesmere and the Earl of Ellesmere, and
Lord W. Thynne, have arrived at Cawdor Castle, Nairn-
shire.

The Duke de Rianzars, husband of Queen
Christina, has just leased the villa at Pau called DU
Bousquet.

THEODOR JENSEN, the Danish painter, is at pre..
sent occupied in this country painting the portraits of their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

A pamphlet is preparing by M. Thiers, urging
a strict alliance between France and Austria.

THE POET LAMARTINE has just had another sad
of befaM him. His sister, to whom he was deeply
attached, has (lied, after a most painful illness. Mdme. de
Ligones was tlte wife of a former sous-plefet under the
Restoration. M. de Lamartine is at St. Point, where he
has been ever since the death of his wife.

SERIO-COMIC ANECDOTE OFLATOUR-MAIMOURO,
whose leg was carried off by a round shot at the battle of
Leipzig,—" Amputation was immediately and successfully
performed on the ground, and 'he lived to fight another
day ;' but his servant, who had accompanied him through
so many dangers, wao quite overcome at the occurrence.
Tiens-toi, camarade,' a aid the General ; ' pour ton soulage-
ment to n'auras jamais plus qu'une botte a frotter,' "

A STROLLING COMPANY—has been thus giaphi-
cally described very rei2ently by Mr. Frank Buck-
land.—The manager, I learned, had been proprietor of
several theatres, and had made some considerable sum of
money, but had lost it all by theatrical speculation : his
wife had once been a star of London theatres, and having a
magnificent voice, earned an excellent living. The pro-
prietor had married her, and was with his wife doing a good
business when, through simple hteed work and over exertion
in singing, one day her voice broke down in the middle of a
song. and she lost not only her power of ever after-
wards singing, but almost of even talking, for the poor
thing can speak only just in a faint whisper. She
has besides this had a large family of ten, seven being
alive. The eldest boy performs the " Cure," the
youngest, the baby, is huddled up into a corner while
the mother is playing the piano. The next principal per-
formers are a man and his wife, both of respectable parents,
and who, I was given to understand, were stage-
struck in their youth, ran away from home, and got mar-
ried ; years ago the wife took the part of " walking lady,"
that is, the lady who acts the part of the beaueiful
date, ter," and who does nothing much but walk about,
look graceful, and is made love to ; now, alas, she takes
the part s of old women " and mothers," and I regretted to
hear the market was overstocked with candidates for this
character . The gentleman had once been " the singing
gentleman ;" he is now obliged to take almost any part
assigned hien, and right well he does his duty, being, by
nature, a ca pital actor, and no disgrace to the London
boards. company were in miserable circum-
stances; they had walked twelve miles, the morn-
ing of the play, with all their properties, and a few bits
of scenery, in
a country cart, they had gone to
considerablewere in
hoexperthopes
se in advertising all over the town, and
of
obtaining a success. When, how-
ever, the curtain dre w up there were about 15 people in the
place, most of these b, eing the average specimens of thick-
booted, grinning villag, e boys, who were all ciustered togee
ther in cne corner sittOg upon the witness-boa, used on
county court occasions, like a lot of sparrows on a hedgetop.
The faces of the poor actor s fell when they saw the house,
but they bravely, however, went on with their performance.
The Lottery Ticket." At th e conclusion of this they began
the concert, omitting, with Neologies, the " Red Barn."
There were but two persons in the reserved seats, which,
by the way,
consisted of a sofa a.'id some of the hotel arm
chairs. The poor manager's face' brightened up a little
when our party came in, for we aided somewhat to the
appearance of plenitude of the room by our presence, and
did all we could to lead off the applause, which
the country boys followed willingly enough, but SiVrtl
too shy to begin. During the acts we went down into
the street and finding a crowd round the door we paid for
and sent in all the people we could find—some four-and-
twenty altogether—in the hope that the room would thus
look a little less deserted. All we could do, however, failed
to make the room look anything like full. The audience
were, I must say, excessively stupid, and were never once
thoroughly awakened except when the son of the old worna.s
n
in the play, who was suddenly made a lord, rushed into In.
mother's cottage (the window of which was the natur'd
window of the room, and looked very well), upset the,
dumplings which had been prepared for his supper, and
so.:ashed the plate on the floor in the most lord-like style.
This " brought down the house," and almost the the:c",.
also ; all the clever sayings, jokes, puns, and forcible
them
Dag that preceded this were quite lose, and fell fig uPcl3