The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-11 00:00:00

TIM SON. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEVBER 11, 1863,

ROYAL
COVENT- GARDEN . ENGLIS H OPER:A,
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, Airllice's Romantic Opera, TI LE
DES ti;RT FLOWER c Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyr to •
Messrs. W. H. Weiss, H. Corn A. Cook, and W. Harris; jn
Conductor. Mr. A- Mellon.—Doors open at half-past Sev, en:
tommence at Eight.
-

HEATRE ROYAL DRURY- I,ANE„ -
TManagers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F.B. Chattertcf i.
THIS EVENING-theterformances will commence witil an
h‘.oxenford, Esq., entitled BEAUTY OR THE BEA. ST.
Y'rirnr-ceipal chaiacters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville,
t,
Spencer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and
Miss 11. Leclerq.
A.f ter which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFR I
Istes,rs, t helps, Ryder, Rayner, M-agreson, Ward, Spen.: er ;
miss Heath, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercii, and 31rsi E.
Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss flitter, Miss Cie ely
'Nutt, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.

To conclude with a New and Orininal Farce, by s srs.
-vv- Rrott'fb and A. Halliday, entitled MY :1 PA RT'S IN
T LIE HIGHLANDS : characters by Mr. Ne,7i Ile. Mr. G.
Weston, Mr. Wards, Mr. J. Mauls ; Mrs. C. Melville, and
Miss tiartleur.

THEATRE ROYAL HAY \1 A RKET..-
Sole Lessee and Manag-er, Mr, huckstone.
THIS EVENING (3d time), LITTLE DAISY.
After which, at half-past 7 (4th time), A BULL I 7 A
CHINA 8110 P. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Clark,
Rogers, and Gordon ; Mesdames Lindley, Wright, Pitz-
wil dam, Hill, &c.
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Chal,•les
Mathews, Compton,Weathersby, ; Mesdames C. Mathe ws,
L, Keeley. Griffith, &c.
And XY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

-ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
At Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
DEMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Evening until further notice.
T}I.IS EVENING, to commence with a Comedic tta,
1w W. Gilbert, Esq., entitled UNCLE BABY Mess's. J. G.
Shore, Widdicombe, Charles, Miss P. Lezlercq, and Carbotta
Leclereq.
After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, BEL DEMON ID,
a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's
"Italian Chronicle ~" by John Brougham. Principal cha.rac-
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Brougham, Emery, Raymond, 3foreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, LATCLItte, 15,1rn.
Lee, and Miss Elsworthy.

-DEL DEMONIO; a LOVE STORY, in Twelve
_I) Tableaux.

NEW THEATRE-BO YAL, ADELP HI
Sole Proprietor and Monacan. Mr. R. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
g.
kt 8, the New Drama of LEAH
Philli : Miss Bateman, supported
by Mossrs.Arthur Stirlinz, R.Phillips Billinz ton, Stuart
A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Wool gar and Mr. A. Wood.

ISS BATEM AN.—LE A R.--The triumphqnt
nd enthusiastic success of the great tragic artiste,
on her first appearance in the character of
31E,MillsAg BBARiTnl;tltneAnerw' five act Drama of that title, having been
n•—htl repeated, and even exceeded during the last four
weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences,
lacnea tne profound impression created upon all who have wit-
nessed the touchinv, impersonation by Miss Bateman of the
heat-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani-
mous verdict and critical approval of the entire press, the
manager of the NEW ADEL PIII THEATRE has the honour
to announce that Miss BATEMAN will appear in the New
Drama of LEA EI EVERY EVENING till further notice • and
in order to meet, as far as possible, the increasing' demand
for s
in gtalls, has added two more rows to those previously
exist.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Miss
Simpson.
After which, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey,
Parselle, Belford, Turner, 31Iss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
To conclude with FAINT HEART NEVER WON /AIR
LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray.
Commence at 7.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, 1863

As we are going to press we receive by the sub-
marine telegraph the text of the autograph letter
addressed by the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. to the
Sovereigns of Europe. It is far finer, even, because
yet more forcibly outspoken, than his remarkable
address the other day when inaugurating the new
session of the Legislature. It is conceived in a
noble spirit throughout. Bead it—and answer if it
be not! Look boldly and honestly at the words writ-
ten down thus by the hand of this powerful ruler,
who, when already EMPEROR, deigned not to speak
of himself, several years back, otherwise than as a
parvenu among the Sovereigns. It is true that
there is a tone so ominous as to be almost
sinister, in the bold allusions thrown out in the
earier past of this letter, as they had been more
vaguely already thrown out, the other after-
noon in his speech, in reference to dangers of a
most serious kind now impending imminently
over Christendom. But they are ominans, from the
force of circumstances. What is sinister in them
comes from the momentous peculiarities of the
situation. NAPOLEON 111. is plain enough, in all
conscience, it must be allowed in what he says, as
to the situation, as to this crisis or juncture at
which we have arrived. "We are threatened,"
he says to his cousins, the Sovereigns, quite frankly
"We are threatened with a danger, so much the
more formidable because the improvements effected
by civilisation which have bound the peoples toge-
ther by an identity of material interests
traup
render a war still more destructive. Let us
not w
suadeanit,before'dtaking our part, for [mark this !)
inagrten“tna irresistible events to disturb our
contrary dit'cl draw us, despite ourselves, into a
in a,ythin:tion." Who shall say that there is
—with poltt:! all this any exaggeration ?
and for
the qstruggling now, for the life
under the yet death'Thor in the brutal grasp and
with Italy standing,prt
oduring
b
years, (and still !)
u these last few
her heart
uritle alert, armed cap-
other changes than thosieng within her for
have already
been effected in the Rom" p Which
danger is imminent, who shall de
That the
Borne
years It has been
Past—ever
increasingly imminent for
aiway:fte began,
since 1818, in fact—ever since the
now overt, now latent, (a strife
he more
deadly when thus intermitted and s
uanres
tween the revolutionary party end the rea:teiaou)ii:e:
Returning to the EMPEROR S letter, howevie;
after the solemn warnings addressed to himself, ee',
might say, not less than to the other Sovereigns

Furore--how do we find NAPOLEON expressing
himself upon what is in truth the real subject.
matter of this extraordinary and most exceptional
communication ? We find the French EMPEROR
opening up his thoughts'with a manly simplicity
of frankness that has about it a majesty far beyond
the ordinary circumlocution of diplomatic corres-

pon( lencn "Cal:cd to the throne"—Mr. KINGLATi.
(and, with him, hoc genus omne ) must grind his teeth
E
on reading this and just simply read on—" Called
to the throne by Providence, and the will of the
French people, bat trained in the school of j
adversity, it is perhaps less allowable for me than
for any other to ignore the rights of Sovereigns and
the legiti
Mate aspirations of peoples. Thus, I um
ready, without a preconceived system, to enter an
International Congress with the spirit of modera-
tion and justice, ordinarily the portion of those
who have endured so
there is a di many various trials." That
gnity and, so to speak, oven a pathos
in the words we have italicised in this last extract,
e conceive it would be difficult indeed not to
says—if it would i
the remarks, however,
recognise. Continuing
have been here momentaril which
y interrupted, the
F3trazoll be possible for
words
ea, moment to apply such a phrase to any
failing from the impassive lips of
this
reputed sphinx—ingenuously
"If I take
initiative in this overture I do not yield to an

1 an imptifse of vanity, but [here, at any rate, is plain
speaking againUbecause lam a sovereign the most
credited with ambitious projects, and I have it at
heart to prove by a frank and loyal step that my
‘ole object is to arrive without a shock at the paci-
fication of Europe." The last paragraph of the
telegram containing the text of the EMPEROR'S
letter offers to the acceptance of the Sovereigns,
the French capital as the place of rendezvous.
And the EMPEROR does this, it must bo allowed,
with incomparable cleverness. Having remarked
with a gracions air of courtesy, " If this proposition
be accepted, I Dray you to accept Paris as the place
of meeting," NAPOLEON adds, by way of explaining
his reason for naming, Paris as the place of ren-
devous, "Europe would perhaps see some advan-
tage in the capital, whence the signal for overthrow
has so many times issued, becoming the seat of
conferences destined to lay the basis of a general
pacification." While the telegraphic wires have
been thrilling under the waters of the Channel
these words of weightiest import, the Cabinet Coun“
cil has been sitting to decide as to the answer which
shall be returned to the French EMPEROR in the
name of the Sovereign of ENGLAND. And the
decision to be arrived at by the deliberations of the
Cabinet is one indeed of a most momentous
withea g most
er e p
ecsotlactimLrespweocnasni:
bilities.
character, one frauigthitn
Waiting
not but count with implicit confidence upon the full
appreciation of those responsibilities by the patriotic
statesmen to whose care has been confided, in the
interests of the English Crown and of the English
people, the opening
or the shutting of the gates of
the Temple of JANUS.

e services rendered by geographical discoverers
are too often accomplished at no small cost. We
are very ready to think that the glory of discovery,
the triumph of success, the reputation which a for-
tunate explorer acquires among his fellows, are
ample compensation for the toils, the hardships, and
the dangers of the task. There is no doubt that as
it is an enterprise undertaken almost more than any
other in obedience to a strong natural bent, so the
searcher is willing and ready to pass over a great
deal that less eager travellers might angrily resent,
or at least complain of very seriously. Still there
are wants to be felt and perils to be encountered,
which, however bravely borne, must occasion suffer-
ing and distress, which we who reap the benefit of
the knowledge thus hardly acquired should not
lightly estimate. The direction in which the atten-
tion of our geographers is now chiefly turned is
one replete with difficulty and danger; but although
we have to lament the untimely demise of many
valuable followers of science, yet the advantages of
carrying the blessings of civilisation into the heart
of a vast continent and the nations now sunk in the
depths of barbarism are great enough to soften the
inevitable regret and to sustain the energies of the
survivors. It is now some years since Dr. LIVING-
STONE, in his double capacity of discoverer and
missionary, drew public attention to the vast
capacities of the interior of the southern part of the
country. Since then Captains BURTON and SPEKE,
Consul PETIIERICK, and others, have been largely
extending their researches, bringing the most hope-
ful accounts of the possible future of the land, if
but dark and doubtful representations of the now
existing inhabitants. M. Du CIIAILLU, of gorilla
celebrity, has assisted to popularise the subject,
until Central and Southern Africa, thanks to one
and another, are no longer words of mysterious and
unknown import. The value of these researches
w ill be more apparent in a few years' time than at
present, since we may reasonably hope that the
cultivation of the cotton plant will work a rapid
change in the fortunes and habits of the natives.
The demand for labour, the peaceable and profitable
employment, will be mighty agencies in the work
of reform and civilisation. That some refining in-
fluences are sadly needed among the African abo-
rigines has been abundantly proved by the revela-
tions of those hardy and adventurous travellers who
have penetrated beyond the accustomed limits. In
the very interesting address delivered by Sir It.
MunumsoN to the members of the Royal Geogra-
phical Society, the savage and inhospitable nature
of these central tribes was spoken of. The Baron
vox DECKEN, a Hanoverian nobleman, who has
displayed the most liberal and intelligent interest
in the cause of geographical discovery, encountered
very serious obstacles in his efforts to pursue his
course. This nobleman, who has fitted out a whole
scientific expedition at his own cost, has recently
explored the highest mountain yet known to us in
Eastern Africa, This mountain had been pre-
viously declared by a German missionary to be
capped with snow, but his assertion was received
by many persons, among whom the President,
with the simplicity of real knowledge, modestly
included himself. It seems, however, that the
missionary was quite correct in his statement,
which Baron VON DECKEN has verified by two
ascents, one reaching to an altitude of 14,000 feet
above the level of the sea. This enterprising tra-
veller further ascertained by trigonometrical mea-
surement that the summit of the mountain was over
20,000 feet in height, and that its snow line de-
scended below 16,000 feet—thus, in the words of
Sir RODERICK MURCIIISON, " sstisfactorily esta-
blishing a grand and new phenomena in the physi-
cal geography of Africa." The Baron, like other
enthusiastic followers of science, is willing to incur
real danger in pursuit of his object, and endea-
voured, though vainly, to reach the spot where
Rosman had been murdered, with the hope of
obtaining the papers of that intrepid traveller. He
was unfortunately obliged to relinquish this design
from the hostility of the Arab traders and the de-
sertion of his porters. This latter misfortune is one
to which all African exp orers are liable, and every
reader of their narratives must remember how often
their porters threaten to proceed no further, and
how sometimes they fulfil the threat to the great
loss, inconvenience, and danger of their em-
ployee. Although forced to abandon his first
Project, however, the Baron's journey yet bore
valuable fruit, foe the specimens of the rock which
with the raised
hbeeeb:°Z;il:t with him show the mighty peak to have
DEes:Ex
of Kilirea:7„.
Kenia, which
ag
grupher, has
200 miles north
by volcanic action ; and not content
Iliesormation already acquired, Baron VON
Poh:otphoeses to explore Kenia, the rival
mountain already ascended.
been" yet been reached by any geo-
Placed on the line of the equator
of Kilies„jaro. The Baron has
now come to E 1
Rratifyiuquip for this second ex-
-again(' to ,
.find that so enter-
Dedition, and it is
prising. and liberal a traveller
to
.receive every
ssistance from our authorities
will .tiutitb is to be hoped
which
unfortu
ftl'hat his new undertaking
so Fistful an adventure us his 10,9 t, Nvii e dened by
was the occasion of the untie:lbis' death of a
geologist, !Ur. RICHARD T
nately
gifted young uoßreroN
ss ho lost his life on the Zambesi. The Baron.
him.:
self had to encounter great perils; in one Spot outs
pacifying a hostile chief by consenting to drink
blood with him. This raminds one of the incident
in the reign of Terror, when Mademoiselle d,
SOMBREINT was forced to quaff the same deadly
draught to the toast of "A bas les aristocrats l' The
naturalist will learn some new and curious facts
from the Baron's account of his travels—among
them the existence of an insect so venomous as to
destroy goats and asses in a day or two. In com-
memoration of the serviees which he has rendered

to the cause of science, the Hanoverian explorer was
on Monday ranked among the honorary members
of the Royal Geographical Society. Such incidents
prove the advantages of such a society which is
able promptly to acknowledge the public debt and
to pay homage to enterprise and intelligence when
exerted for great ends of lasting benefit to the

community.

As was anticipated, the KING opened the Prussian
Chambers in person. This was so fer satisfactory,
as it evinces a determination on his part to come
more prominently forward than he has recently
done. Nothing can be more deleterious than for
the SOVEREIGN to hold back, and keep aloof, as it
were, from all important questions, and leave the
discussion and arrangement of affairs to the
Ministers. This monopoly of power is al ways in-
jurious to the interests of a State, and in the case
of Prussia has proved singularly adverse to the wel-
fare of the nation. Apart from the fact of its having
been delivered in propria persona, this address of
King WlLLisers is anything but a promising one.
It holds out no hopes of anything approaching to a
readjustment of the difficulties which last year pre-
sented themselves so constantly at the debates in
the Chamber. Instead of a conciliatory tone being
adopted, it would appear that the Royal Address
intimates a determination to continue the same
course, and to pursue the same line of policy as that
which has aroused the indignant remonstrances of
the great body of the people, and called forth the
sympathetic sorrow of the nations of Europe. It
seems in some way a mockery for such a message
to commence by expressing a wish that the diffe-
rences between the Government and the Chamber
may terminate. It is of no avail to utter these pla-
titudes when all experience testifies to the contrary.
How can differences cease when the cause of disa-
greement remains unchanged, and there seems no
desire to alter any of the vexatious proposals that
have so irritated and annoyed the deputies, and also
the people in general. In the first place, some
most extraordinary measure is proposed in re-
ference to the Budget. Taking for granted
that this will not be settled, there is to be some
sort of indemnity provided for the Government,
which will most likely cancel the effect of anything
advised by the Chamber. At all events these words
seem pretty significant in their way, " that without
endangering the most important interests, the
KING can only assent to such a budget as shall
ensure the maintenance of the new organisation of
the army." It is a novel mode of carrying out the
tenets of a free constitution, and a strange manner
of addressing an independent assembly, to base all
arguments on the premises that the KING has settled
beforehand what is and what is not to become law,
or to point a course of action from which there shall
be no departure. It would be more in unison with
the dictates of common sense if all attempt as a re-
presentative assembly was abandoned, and a regular
form of arbitrary Government was substituted. The
people of Prussia will not allow themselves to be
hoodwinked into the belief that time had worked
wonders for them, and that the wise and beneficent
rule of this Sovereign has created peace and pro-
sperity for the land. How can the prevailing sen-
timent be other than that of disappointment, when
such a failure is exhibited to the world as this
attempt to solve an irritating point of discussio❑
between the Ministers and the representatives of
the people. Foreign affairs do not seem to be
any better than home ones in the manner
in which they are discussed in this speech. The
allusions to Federal execution i❑ Holstein are most
unsatisfactory, and demonstrate a reckless persist-
ence in the harsh and arbitrary measures that have
already drawn down so much disapproval. Esti-
mates are to be laid before the Chamber, in case the
application of " extraordinary means " from Prus-
sia are rendered necessary. This looks very much
like a predetermined plan and a concerted arrange-
ment in high quarters, and the supposition is put
in to give grace to the affair, and make it appear a
little more honest and honourable. The conclusion
of this address is fine in its language, but the inter-
pretation that is sought to be put on the expressions
is not a fair one. First of all, the deputies are in-
formed that "They live in an agitated time," and
also that a yet more disturbed future may await
them. This is true enongl:, but that is not their
fault, nor that of their predecessors either. It was
the entire doing of the Ministers that the fracas
arose, which has cost so much in reputation, pro-
sperity, and good-will in Prussia. The concluding
words of advice are most ill-timed. The deputies
are urged to come to an understanding on home
questions, the more readily because of foreign mis-
understandings. This might have come very well
from a monarch whose aim and object has hitherto
been to maintain inviolate the principles of the
Constitution, and to uphold with might and
main the existence of those measures which
guarantee the rights and liberties of the subject.
As unhappily it is too well known that the present
ruler of Prussia has listened to the counsels and
sanctioned the decrees of those whose purpose has
been to uproot established customs, and remodel,
or rather destroy, the plans which have seemed to
secure the best advantages to the people,it is merely
a waste of time to appeal to the patriotic or chi-
valric sentiments which are wont to animate men
in moments of great national peril. There is no
common point round which divers interests may
assemble in Prussia at this moment. That vantage
ground has been abandoned by the Ministers, and
they cannot now return to it. They mast play out
their difficult part without such false supports, and
stand or fall upon their own merits. It is much to
be regretted that things should have come to such
a pass, but it is almost as much to be deprecated
that a false impression should be given to affairs of
moment, and that those who have chosen to assume
a false position should deny the issue they have
provoked,and refuse their share of the responsibility.
If the Deputies are men of sense, spirit, and dis-
cernment, they will not brook this false position
in which they are placed ; they will refute the im-
putation put upon them, and deny the aspersions
cast on their disinterestedness. It is theirs to do
their duty to the country whose welfare is at
stake, and to defend the interests of the people who
sent them to be representatives of their rights,
and, if need be, the champion of their liberties
and the vindicators of their privileges. The glory
of such a success will be all their own, and, at any
rate, no confusion that arises can be laid to their
charge, but the grave responsibility will devolve
o❑ those who first made the attempt to change
the existing state of things, and thus provoked a
struggle whose commencement has been a source
of great disturbance, and whose conclusion may
so alter the aspect of affairs that this generation
may not witness its ultimate effects.

TELEGRAPHIC FEAT.—The Emperor's speech on
the opening of the Session consisted of 2,044 word!.
The transmission by telegraph from the central station in
Paris commenced as soon as it was ascertained that the
reading had been completed, which was at about half-past
1.. The average time occupied in the transmission to the
principal
The
of Prance and Europe was an hour and a
quarter,. capitals for which the longest time was re-
quired from a want of direct comr.unication were Rome,
St. Petersburgkthens,
and Lisbon. The speech was
everYwhere before the evening, and
nevertheless received
the journals of the whole of Europe
lowing morning, the same as those of Parissaa/ignani,
produced it on the fol-

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]

FRANCE.
THE EMPEROR'S LETTER TO TIIE
SOVEREIGNS.
PARIS, Nov. 11.
The letter of the Emperor of the French to the
Sovereigns, inviting them to a Congress at Paris,
has been published to-day.
It points out, that from the political condition of
Europe, it is impossible not to acknowledge that
nearly everywhere the treaties of Vienna have been
destroyed, modified, or misunderstood. The Em-
peror continues as follows:

" We are threatened with a danger, so much the
more formidable because the improvements effected
by civilisation which has bound the peoples toge-
ther by an identity of material interests
would render a war still more destructive.
Let us not wait before taking our part
for sudden and irresistible events to disturb our
judgment and draw us, despite ourselves, into a
contrary direction.

" Called to the throne by Providence, and the
will of the French people, but trained in the school
of adversity, it is perhaps less allowable for me than
any other to ignore the rights of Sovereigns and
the legitimate aspirations of peoples. Thus I am
ready without a preconceived system to enter an
International Congress with the spirit of moderation
and justice, ordinarily the portion of those who
have endured so many various trials.
" If I take the initiative in this overture I do not
yield to an impulse of vanity, but because I am a
sovereign the most credited with ambitious pro,
jects, and I have it at heart to prove by a frank
and loyal step that my sole object is to arrive with.
out a shock at the pacification of Europe.
"If this proposition be accepted, I pray you to
accept Paris as the place of meeting. Europe would
perhaps see some advantage in the capital, whence
the signal for overthrow has so many times
issued, becoming the seat of conferences destined
to lay the basis of a general pacification.
BOURSE, Nov. 10.—The market has been rather
firmer, and quotations show a slight improvement,
but without any material change as to the amount
of business. Threes are now at 67f. 10c. Railway
Shares well maintained. The market closed as
follows :

Austrian .......
4i per Cents. ...... 94 90 Italian L0an.,,,,, 72 50
Do. end month.., Do. end month.... 72 40
Do. Do. endend
mmoonuttnh....
3 per Cents ...... 66 95 New ditto ........ 72 30
05 Do. end menth•••• ''"'•
Credit Mobilier.... 1077 50 Russian ........
:108607
Bank Shares ...... 3400 Spanish Threes.•.. Credit Foncier ....1265 Home Debt ...... 75
Roman .......... 77 75 •Deferred ........
ItAILWAYS.

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New. ditto
Geneva
Southern ........
Western
Eastern ...........e~•
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
972 60 .. 975
980 .. 980

- ••
948 75 .. 950 -
905 - - _

.. - -
498 75 •• - -
688 75 .. 692 50
512 50 .. 517 50
485 - .. 483 75
410 - .. 412 50
405 - .. 407 50
535 - .. 533 75
536 25 .. 536 25
615 - .. 620 -

327 50 .. 332 50

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 11.
The Invalide Russe publishes an article relating
to the general recruitment which is to take place in
the Russian provinces between the 13th Nov. and
the 31st December. The Invalide says that this
recruitment is the first since the Crimean war. The
system of drawing by lot formerly employed being
now objected to, the Government has now left the
communes the choice of four methods, based upon
age, drawing by lot, selection by the authorities of
the commune, and the engagement of substitutes
paid by the communes. The standard of height
having been lowered, the Invalide hopes that this
measure will considerably augment the number of
men fit for military service.

The Northern Bee feels no confidence in the ad-
dresses of loyalty sent into the Government, and the
provisional suppression of the revolt in the
Western provinces. It foresees that sooner or later
the Poles will again take up arms. To anticipate this
difficulty, the Bee recommends that the Poles should
be compelled to entrust the education of their chil-
dren to Russian teachers ; that Polish should be
forbidden in the schools ; that Russian libraries
should be increased; that all officials of Polish
descent should be dismissed from their posts; that
parents should be compelled to bring up childre❑
born of mixed marriages in the orthodox Greek
religion; that the Catholic churches and convents
still existing in Podolia and Volhynia should be
gradually suppressed ; that the statues of saints
and the crosses erected at the sides of the public
roads shall be taken away, to divide the popular
element in the Ukraine and in White Russia from
Polish influence ; and, lastly, that every possible
means should be employed to undermine the still
solid foundations of the Polish nationality and of
the Catholic creed in the Western provinces.

WARSAW, Nov. 6.
The last extraordinary contribution imposed by
Gen. Berg upon the population was fixed at 300,000
roubles. With the exception of 20,000 roubles, the
whole of this tax has already been paid jams the
Russian treasury. It is asserted that Gen. Berg
intends to levy another extraordinary impost upon
the whole population, not excepting servants,
amounting also to 300,000 roubles, for the purpose
of rebuilding the Hotel de Ville.
The French paper La Patric has lately published
a series of articles attacking. the Russian authorities
of this city in violent terms. They are signed
" Christian Ostrawski." It has been discovered that
the writer is the brother of Count Thaddeus Os-
trawski, a French subject living i❑ Warsaw. The
latter, it seems, furnished his brother with the ma-

:crisis for the articles to which the Patrie has given

the place of honour in its columns. Count Ostrawski
has consequently received orders to quit Warsaw.
Since the commencement of the insurrection the
Prussian military authorities have confiscated 965
fire-arms, 670 sabres, 2,055 bayonets, 720 cwt. of
powder, 3,310 cartridges, 500 cwt. of lead, 60,000
percussion caps.

The Polish women, especially at the present mo-
ment, occupy the chief place in the revolutionary
organisation. They fill various functions, above all,
contribute to inducing young men to join the bands.
Women undertake the charge of distributing the
orders of the National Government over the pro-
vinces. An interesting letter has lately transpired,
written by a well-informed Polish lady, from which
it appears that the bombs thrown at General Berg
were manufactured abroad, and that four men de-
voted themselves to carry out the attack. It is said
that among the women arrested the day before yes-
terd

ay were some 20 armed with daggers. The
mother of a quiet and inoffensive youth studying
at Warsaw University lately visited the capital
for the express purpose of persuading the lad to join
the insurgents in the field. The son obeyed. Ile
was mortally wounded at the first engagement with
the Russian troops, and has since died in the hos-
pital at Warsaw.

Much has been said of the little confidence to be
placed in Poles attached to Russians fulfilling im-
portant functions. It has just come to light that a

secretary of the chief of the Warsaw gendarmes,
named Trayanowski, with the secretary of the chief

of the staff, and another Pole who filled the post o
adjutant, transmitted all the intended movements o
the military authorities to the revolutionary centra:
committee. The guilty persons have been brought
before court-martial.

A third clandestine printing-office has been die.
covered in Niccola-street, behind the palace of
Bruhl, formerly the residence of the Marquis
Wielopolski.

CRACOW, Nov. 7

The Czas publishes the following from Polish
Livonia :—" The intelligence received from all parts
of Lithuania is excellent. The insurgent corps in
Samogitia and in the districts of Lowno, Tooki,
Wilkomir, and Jeziorsk, are preparing for the win-
ter campaign. Their main efforts are directed to
procuring men, horses, and ammunition.

" The Livonian insurgents, shut in upon all sides
by the Muscovites, separated from Sauaagitia by a
long distance, have no assistance and no reinforce-
ments to expect from any quarter. It is, there-
fore, more difficult for them than for others to
operate in arms, as, in the event of a reverse, they
would have nowhere to seek retreat. Far, however,
from allowing ourselves to be discouraged, we shall
fight energetically for the ❑ational cause, either in
arms or by passive resistance, and by active propa-
ganda among the rural population."

MEXICO,

PARIS, Nov.

Official despatches received here from Mexico
announce that General Bazaine was preparing, with
a column of the expeditionary corps, to march on
the 20th October to attack Juarez' army, which
was concentrated between Queretaro and the S.ln
Juan river.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov. 1

Letters received here from St. Petersburg, of the
Bth, state that the Grand Duke Constantine and
his consort, corning from Livadia, in the south, on
their way abroad, will pass through Austria.

PORTUGAL.
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
The screw steamship Tartar, Captai❑ J. W.
White, from Lisbon on the 4th inst., and Vigo the
6th, has arrived, on her way to London. During
the voyage she has had strong easterly winds. The
Tartar brings five passengers, a few bags of mails,
£660 in specie, 10 live bullocks, 2,056 half chests of
oranges, 976 bundles of cork, 41 boxes of plums,
115 cases of eggq, and sundries.
The Tartar does not bring any political news of
importance from Portugal. The Duke of Louie, Pre-
sident of the Council, had recovered from his recent
illness, and resumed his attendances at the Depart-
ments for Foreign Affairs and Public Works.
M. Braamcamp, Minister of the Interior, had
taken charge of the portfolio of Justice during the
temporary absence of M, Gaspar Pereira da Silva.
Their Majesties and the Prince Royal of Portugal
are represented in excellent health, and had ap-
peared frequently in public driving through the
city of Lisbon.
The exchange on London was quoted on the 4th
inst. at 53 to 1-1- for three months. Portuguese
stock, 491 to 50 ; and Bank of Portugal shares,
550 to 552.

Application of Langiewicz to the Austrian

Government.

CRACOW, Thursday.— ftie ex-Dictator Langie-
wicz has addressed the following application to the
Austrian Government from Josephstadt, his place
of confinement :
" When the Prussian Government, by its orders
of the 17th September last, released me from obli-
gations as its subject, it recognised at the same time
by that act that, notwithstanding the convention of
the Bth of February, I have not incurred liability to
punishment, either by the Prussian code or by the
law of nations, through my participation in the
rising, and also have no right to be handed over to
Russia. The expression in the said order, for the
purpose of your emigration to Switzerland,' shows
that the Prussian Government believes it will in
no degree violate international engagements with
Russia by permitting my removal to Switzer-
land. I believe, therefore, that the Austrian
Government also will not infringe international
stipulations by permitting my immediate depar-
ture to Switzerland. At the sitting of the Lower
House of the Reicbsrath upon June 23 the Police
Minister said that' the Austrian Government could
not issue passports to the insurgents, as it possessed
no guarantee they would not return to the scene of
action,' and also' persons requiring protection must
submit to the conditions upon which such protection
is afforded. This declaration can no longer apply
to me, as the Prussian order of dismissal permits
my departure for Switzerland. Besides English,
French, Italian, Swiss, and Prussian subjects have
been continually released from Austria without any
security that they would not return to the scene of
action. By its consent to my journey t) Switzer-
land the Prussian Government acknowledges that
a neutral and even friendly State is not bound
to require a guarantee that an insurgent permitted
to visit Switzerland should not return to the theatre
of war. If, therefore, the Austrian Government
will not do me the favour of dismissing me to Swit-
zerland, I shall find myself compelled by the course
adopted towards me in Austria to ask that I may
be specially delivered up to the Russian authorities.
Without discussing whether my crossing the fron-
tier upon the 19th March was in the hope of finding
an asylum, or whether my imprisonment in a for-
tress is an asylum, and whether my repeated re-
quests for dismissal to Switzerland do not afford
proof that I seek no asylum in this country, I trust
I may be allowed to hope that the high Ministry
will be graciously pleased either to assent to my
departure for Switzerland, or to my being handed
over to the Russian authorities."

TIIE LIBERATOR'S LAST DAYS.—The death
of that great man was attributed to various
causes ; among others, to the effect which his imprisonment
in 1814 had upon him, mentally and physically; and also
to the influence which the disasters of his country produced
upon a man of a highly impressionable nature, and • one
who so thoroughly identified himself with its fortunes.
Then there was the sudden break up which usually takes
place in men of gigantic frame and prodigious strength of
intellect and body, the moment the first symptoms of decay
aro manifested. The consciousness of his having been
worsted—even though temporarily—in his struggle with
the Government of the day, mast have had a depressing
effect upon the successful leader, who had so long and so
justly boasted that he could " drive a coach and six through
any Act of Parliament ;" but the deprivation of his health-
ful mountain exercise, enjoyed amidst the wild and
romantic scenery of his native Iveragh, must also
have told terribly on his health. O'Connell de-
lighted in the music of his dogs, as it echoed amid the
hills, and he loved the grand roar of the Atlantic, as its
waves broke in thunder upon the rocky headlands that girt
his home of Dorrynane; and not all the flattering addresses
which he received from every parish of Ireland, not all the
sympathy which was felt from ono end of the country to
the other for the imprisoned chief, could compensate him
for those fresh breezes of the hill and the sea-shore, which
made his blood dance ha his veins, and his heart feel young
again. Then came the failure of 184-5, and the crushing of
1848, to say nothing of the struggles and contentions in
which the Apostle of Moral Force was continuously en•
gaged with the advocates of the Sword. With the sorrows
and the misfortunes of his country, a man like O'Connell
could not but sympath!se heart and soul ; and the contem-
plation of the ruin which no effort of his could either arrest
or prevent, must have tended to bow his spirit and depress
his v.ital energy. The grand old tree was struck by the
lightning, and it fell with a crash to the earth, causing a
shudder through the land.—llaguirc's " Lift of lather
Mathew."

TIIE NEW NILE EXPEDITION under Miani is
about to be accomplished. The Austrian Govern-
ment has, it appears, directed its whole attention to the
solution of the old mystery of the Caput NW, which it does
not believe completely cleared up by Speke. Not only the
ammunition and arms for which Miani has asked, but a
considerable amount of money out of the coffers of the State
have been promised to the new explorer,