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TRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY '2, 1863.

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NEW WORK by the AUTEOR of "JOHN HALIFAX.
Now ready, at all Hit Libraries, in 2 vols.,

ments cau be made providing Generai Banks with
another command in the same direction.
The west had been visited by a very severe snow-
storm. At Louisville, Kentucky, it was 18 inches
deep on the level. So great a quantity was never
seen in that city before. At Cincinnati about 29
inches fell.

MISTRESS AND MAID.
By the Author of "Join Halifax, Gentleman."

Vermicelli.

" The first of these volumes 0' "Mistress and Maid" is as
good as "John Halifax," and written with the same true-
hearted earnestness. The spirit of the whole book is excel-
lent, and the picture of a simpe honsehold of women reads
like truth itself, and truth flit was worth the telling,"—
Examiner.

Fried Brill.

A special despatch from Nashville, dated Jan.l6,
gives the following particulars of the affair on the
Cumberland River

London.
M. G. Ponjard'hieu, Anc7en Secretaire General des Chemins
de Fer du Midi, 6, Rue de Milan, Paris.
Lighily Simpson, Esq „Director of the Great Eastern Rail-
way, 25, Gower-strcet, Bedford-square, London.
M. V.'S, Jarry, of the Firm of M. M. Jarry, Sureau, and Co.,
Rankers, Rue Lafitte, Paris.
Miles Stringer, Esq., 8, Austin-friars, London.,
slam Schoales, Esq., late Messrs. Dunlop and Schoales,
Eastbourne-terrace, London.

GENERAL MANAGER -Monsieur M. P. Bornier.
SECRETARY-T. A. Masey, Esq.
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buildings, London, E.C. •
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don, E.c.
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BROKERS -Sir Robert Carden and Son, 2, Royal Exchange-
buildings, London, E.C.
OFFICES -58, Threadneedle-street, Londop, E.C. ;
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NOTICE.
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The great addition to the traffic between England and
France, consequent on the commercial treaty, renders some
better mode of Conducting it an absolute necessity.
To meet this want and to, do for Paris what the Parcels
Delivery Company has done for London, and Pickfords and
other great carriers have done for England, tnis company has
been established.
At present Paris is without a Parcels Delivery Corac.nY.
and the-International traffic so Imp:. that no
arotigh ra.tus be astiertahied-between English
ittarrellelf provincial towns.
This company possesses exclusive and peculiar privileges
granted by a decree under date of 10th January, 1862, by the
I-'refet and the municipality of Paris—privileges indispen-
sable for the local trade, and invaluable for the international
I traffic.

Negotiations have been successfully opened with some of
the leading French and English railways, who not only offer
to make arrangements with the " Factage Parisien" to act as
their agents and carriers, but to render to it every support in
their power, as wit be seen (in the prospectus, from letters
rectived from the London, Chatham, and Dover, the Great
Weston. and the Great Northern Railways of England.

At the 80 offices of the company authorised by the above-
mentioned concession to be established in Paris, Railway and
other Tickets will be issued, and every information given to
merchants and travellers. _ _ _

At the,e offices parcels and goods will be received for deli-
very in every part of the world at rates periodically pub-
lished, which 0 ill be profitable to the company, though the
charges will be no higher than the cost which would have to
be incurred by the sender, were he to undertake the excessive
trouble of superintending the transfer of the goods to the
different railway and navigation companies, and the pay-
ment of the duties thereon.
The company will thus perform the business of Railway
Carriers, General Carriers, Agents for Railways, Steamboats,
an 1 other conveyances.
The Articles of Association may be seen on application at
the offices of the company, where, as well as at the brokers,
prospectuses and every information, together with detailed
estimates, letters from the rilway companies, and Corms cf
application for shares may be obtained.

FORA OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Factagc Parisien, Limited.

Gentlemen,—Having paid the deposit of £1 per share on
shares in "The Factage Parisien, Limited," I request
that you w 11 allot me that number of shares, and I agree to
accept the same or any less number you may allot to me, sub-
ject to the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and I
authorise you to add my name to the register of shareholders
of the Company.

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Name in full, plainly written
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the King of Prussia.

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" Brigadier-General Forrest, of the rebel army,
with a force of about 4,000 men and 12 pieces of
light artillery, attacked our relief and store ships
coming up the Cumberland River, and succeeded in
capturing five steamboats laden with valuable com-
missary stores, and the gunboat Slidell. Several
of the boats contained wounded soldiers, who, in
jumping from them while burning, were shot in
the water. The negro crews were stripped of their
clothing, tied to trees, co whided, and left to starve
on the shore. The boats were all anchored in the
mid-channel, and burned after being robbed of their
valuables. The officers and soldiers were stripped
of their clothing, placed on shore, and paroled. A
tremendous rain-storm has set in, and the river has
risen over three feet in a few hours. Several
bridges on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
have been destroyed by a band of marauders, and
mail communication cannot be resumed for some
time. The wires between this place and Murfrees-
boro' hive been cut by Secessionists, who pretend
to tirifuiet Union farmers. I have no word from
our army to-day, but it is ready for the enemy.
Nineteen deserters from various Tennessee regi-
ments came into this city to-day. An entire regi-
ment, numbering about 300, deserted and came into
an outpost 15 miles below Murfreesboro' yesterday.
Ninety thousand dollars of Confederate State
funds were seized from brokers in this city, and
confiscated yesterday by order of General Mitchell.
General Longstreet will attack us, it is said,
next.week, with his entire force, which is thought
to number 45,000. We shall have stirring times
here soon. General Rosecrans is fully prepared for
the enemy, but will not move until certain expedi-
tions effect the destruction of a railroad, and cap-
ture Forrest and his men, or drive them off. We
have nothing but rebel news here, and feel gloomy,
but hope for the best."
The Washington National Intelligencer of the
17th publishes eight columns of intercepted rebel
despatches, being letters of instruction to Mason
and Slidell and other rebel agents in Europe. The
first is a letter from Secretary Benjamin, dated in
September last, exaggerating all the rebel victories,
and summing up the Federal losses in all the
battles up to that time at 350,000 meu. The most
important portion of the correspondence relates to a
movement on the part of the French consuls at
Galveston and Richmond, supposed to have origi-
nated in Paris, to induce Texas to secede from the
Southern Confederacy and establish an independent
government. The result of this discovery was an
order to Magruder to send the consul at Galveston
to Mexico as soon as possible, and to order the
Richmond consul to leave forthwith. The order,
however, with regard to the latter was rescinded.

The address of the House of Representatives to
the King of Prussia which was agreed to on
Thursday by 255 against 68 votes is as follows :
" Most Serene Most Mighty King, Most Gracious
King and Lord—
"Your Majesty has again called together both
Houses of the Diet of the Monarchy. The House
of Representatives have responded to this appeal
impressed with the earnest will to prove again their
unalterable devotion to the throne and their con-
' scientious care for the maintenance of the consti-
tution. It is not concealed that they commence
_ti-,eir,,,,ttiarv..jp.ker gloomy auguries : but it is

a duty to lay before your Majesty as publicly as
reverentially the situation of the country.
" The last session was closed before the budget
for the year 1862 prescribed by the constitution
was fixed. The estimates for the year 1863, which
should have been arranged before the expiry of the
preceding year, were withdrawn. The appeals to
your Majesty's Government to bring in this account
at the proper time were without any result.
" Since then the Ministers appointed by your
Majesty have carried on the Government indeed,
in opposition to the constitution, without having
introduced the legal budget, and, in opposition to a
declared vote of the House of Representatives, have
ordered an outlay which was expressly and definitely
refused by a vote of the House.
" The chief right of the representatives of the
people—that of the approval of the outlay—was
thereby attacked—a right which is the basis of
constitutional existence, which therefore all exist-
ing constitutional forms of government guarantee,
and which until now was exercised by the Prussian
representatives under the fixed recognition of the
Government of the State itself. The country saw
with alarm the entire advantages of our previous
national development placed in peril. It stood by
its representatives.

" Only a small minority, for a long time estranged
from the nation, supported by the Ministers of
your Majesty, have borne to the foot of the throne
the gravest calumnies against a fraction of the
Legislature, and have hesitated to confuse the
judgment respecting the measure and signficance
of clear constitutional right.

" At the same time many abuses of administrative
power have appeared, as in the troublous years be-
fore the commencement of your Majesty's regency.
Officials who have been true to the constitution, at
the same time such as were deputies, have been
visited with oppressive measures. The press has
been persecuted in cases where it has publicly
combated for the right. The attempt has been
made to prevent the exercise of undoubted rights of
citizenship on the part of not called out Landwehr
men, by inadmissible orders of military superiors
not justified by the rules of the service.
" Most Gracious King and Lord—Your Majesty
has been recently pleased to declare that no one
need doubt your gracious intention to maintain
intact and to protect the constitution to which you
had sworn. In fact, no one ventured to hold such
a doubt; but your Majesty will permit it to be said
openly that the constitution has been already vio-
lated by the Ministers. The 99th article is no lon-
mb er a truth. The serious ill of a budgetless Go-
vernment has fallen on the country ; and a new ses-
sion has commenced without, by any steps of the
Government, merely the prospect being opened that
the session may result in restoring the regulated
administration of the finances, and the support of
the army establishment again on legal bases.
" Foreign nations see with astonishment the pro-
longation of a conflict which concerns the consider-
ation for the name of Prussian deeper day by day,
and which threatens to deprive the voice of the
Government in,' the council of peoples of its best
strength. They know well that duty and conscien-
tiousness compel the Prussian representatives to
preserve the right which the constitutionllgsriadntess
them from ail attacks, and all injury
perplexity is no
i
and that the prospect of external
Per
an only regain her
curds. They know that Pr_t
medium for the adjustment ofss our domestic dis-
reby
influence in German)", andu
ia
thereby her strengh,
c
when she restores constitutional
German people and
order to herself,
and when she calls upon the
her representatives to co-operate in the national
unity of the great fatherland.
In the meantime this affliction does not deprive
h
ne
Prussian
people—who have been proved in SO
rs, who in loyalty and endurance are
exceeded by no other people —of the hope that
your Majesty's wisdom will
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distinguish the honour
able voice of your
legal rtpresentatives from
the counsel of those who endeavour, in the strife

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of parties, to cover and support their exertions,
powerless of themselves, by the exalted name of
your Majesty.
"Your Majesty, our position as representatives of
the country imposes on us the imperative duty
solemnly to declare that the internal peace and the
external strength of the country can only be re-
stored by the return to constitutional conditions.
" We remain, with the deepest reverence," &c.

The Disaster at the Princess's Theatre.

On Saturday evening Dr. Lankester, the coroner
for Central Middlesex, held an inquest at the
Middlesex Hospital touching the death of Sarah
Smith, alias Gibson, one of the ballet girls, who
was removed in flames from the stage of the Prin-
cess's Theatre on the night of Friday week during
the performance of the pantomime. The crowded
state of the large apartment in which the inquest
was held testified to the painful excitement caused
by this melancholy occurrence.
Sarah Gibson, mother of the deceased, was the
first witness. She stated that her daughter was 17
years of age at the time of her death. She was an
extra ballet girl, and had been engaged at the
Princess's for the whole time of the pantomime.
Witness saw her in the hospital on last Saturday
week, the day after the accident. She did not tell
her how it had occurred, but she said she had been
very much burnt, and that if there had been rugs
in the theatre she could have been saved. Witness
had heard from another young woman that the
man who was managing
the blue lights had turned
" the tin" wrong: The deceased went by the name
of Smith, her (the witness's). maiden name, at the
Princess's.

Mr. Edward Morgan, house-surgeon of the hos-
pital, stated that the deceased was admitted on the
night of Friday week. She had extensive burns
on the face, forehead, neck, temples, arms, chest,
and thighs. A third of the whole surface of her
body was burnt. She never rallied, and she died
on Wednesday last at a quarter before 6 in the even-
ing. Exhaustion caused by the burns was the
cause of death. Most of the internal viscera was
congested, but there was no internal inflammation.
Mr. William Harris, " supermaster " of the
Princess's Theatre, stated that he engaged the extra
ballet girls. He was on the stage the night of the
accident. It happened on the prompt side of the
stage; that was the side to the left of the audience.
He was standing on the O.P. or opposite side. He
saw Mrs. Hunt on the prompt side in flames. She
ran to the first entrance for assistance, and passed
Miss White on the way without setting fire to her.
She then met miss Smith, and set her on fire. Mr.
Roxby, the stage manager, ran after Mrs, Hunt,
threw his inverness cape over her, and put the fire
out. He and several of the men who were perform-
ing in the pantomime run to Miss Smith, and en-
deavoured to extinguish the flames that enveloped
her. She would not attend to then calls but-ran
about in her fright. The outside skirt worn by
the extra ballet girl was supplied by the mana-
ger. The young women themselves supplied
the inside skirts. Miss Smith was very par-
ticular about her appearance, and wore more
skirts than were usually worn by extra ballet girls.
It was the outside skirt, the one supplied by the
management, that took fire on this occasion. He
believed that it and the others worn in the
theatre had been dipped in a chemical preparation
to make them uninflammable, and that the effects
of this had worn away. He did not, however,
know this as a fact. The girls were to have a
change of outside skirts in a few days after the
accident occurred. The two outside skirts were not
washed. The girls themselves had the inner skirts

washed.
By the Jury—There were arrangements in the
theatre for putting out fires, but he was not aware
that on the evening of the accident there were any
particular arrangements for preventing the dresses
of ballet girls taking fire. They were cautioned to
be careful.
The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death."
Appended to the verdict was this resolution :
"The jury wish to express their opinion that
sufficient precautions were not taken at the Prin-
cess's Theatre to extinguish any accidental catching
fire of the clothes of the corps de ballet. They
strongly urge the necessity of rendering articles of
linen clothing fire-proof by manufacturers and
laundresses."

ROYAL INSTITUTION.

The usual meeting of the members of tlie Royal Institu-
tion, on Friday evening, was crowded to overflowing to
hear a lecture by Cardinal Wiseman, " On the points of
contact between science and art." He commenced by re •
lating an anecdote of Hannibal, who, when an exile in a
foreign country, had attended a lecture, and on being
asked what he thought of it, replied," That ho bad heard ~
many old doterls ;a the course of leisjife.* bat the greatest
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dotard of all was the man who ilia ventured to • •
deliver a lecture on war in the presence of Hannibal."
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Ho feared a similar opinion would be entertained of
him for venturing to lecture on science and art in the pre-
sence of some of the most eminent men of science and of
some of the most distinguished living artists. Cardinal
Wiseman lonsidered the subject in its relations separately
to painting, sculpture, and architecture, each of which de-
partments of art, he said, is intimately connected with the
progress of science. The first representative man in whom
science and art were combined in the greatest perfection
was Leonardo da Vinci; tor, though little is generally
known of that great artist's scientific acquirements, he
wrote thirteen folio volumes on matters relating to
science, and ho had brought that knowledge to bear in
executing his works of art. The man of modern times who
had done most to connect science with art was the late
Prince Consort, whom Cardinal Wiseman eulogised in high
terms, and mentioned the many successful endeavours
which had been made by the lamented Prince to promote
science in connection with art. The relation of painting
to science was, he observed, shown by the rules of perspec-
tive, which are founded essentially on scientific principles ;
and the absence of the knowledge of perspective by the
ancients was exemplified by the Assyrian marbles, on.
which the most absurd placing of objects in wrong places
is shown. Though some great painters, by close observation
of nature, succeeded in representing the objects of different
distances correctly, yet there were no rules of perspective
established until so recently as the middle of the last cease
fury. Art came to the aid of science in giving atmospheric
effect by diminishing the brilliancy of the colouring of
distant objects, but the preparation of the colours de-
pended in a great degree on the application of science ; and
thus, in the prAuction of a perfect painting, science
and art aro combined. Even the feeling for natural -
beauty, which is more strongly experienced by the people
of this country than of any other, and which develops
itself cn the admiration of landscape painting, may be
said to be in a great degree attributable to the applications of
science, by which locomotion has been so greatly facilitated
that all can be transported readily to scenes of natural
beauty. Cardinal Wiseman related two anecdotes to illus-
trate the natural appreciation of good works of art; one of
them relating to sculpture, the other to painting. A York-
shire horsedealer, on looking at a marble group of a cha-
rioteer driving two horses, closely examined all the points
of the animals, and then patting one on the neck, said, " This
is a splendid animal ; but I don't think much of t'other," the
other having been a restoration. The second instance oc-
curred at the Manchester Exhibition. Two countrymen
were looking at a picture of Absalom, suspended by the
hair of his head, and the mule on which he had ridden
was galloping away. One of the countrymen ex-
claimed, `'He richly deserved it ;'' " WhY so ?" asked his
friend. "For riding such a vicious animal as that, with
only a snaffle," was the rejoinder. The relation between
Scripture and science was illustrated by reference to the
' elliptical curves of which the form of the human body is
composed, and Cardinal Wiseman pointed out an analogy
between these elliptical curves and the orbits in,
which the eirplanets revolve round the sun. The
study of anatomy, also,
had been of eminent service to the
sculptor, who, by that means and the examination of casts,
by the muscles, which
of
was enabled to ascertain the external forms and workings
of
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observation les,sc veic
itnhethaecteiaornly agofthese
muscles
gladia-
tors in their fatal conflicts ; and the Cardinal took occasion
to describe in forcible language such a combat in the pre-
sence of thousands of spectators, and noticed the vast im-
provement in the state of society by which such horrible
sights were abolished, and the sculptor obtained a know-
ledge of his art by the pursuits of science, instead of by
witnessing such barbarities. The relation between archi-
tecture and science is so intimate that the operations of the
architect are entirely founded on a knowledge of the prin-
ciples of mathematics. To illustrate the importance of the
application of science to architecture, Cardinal Wiseman ex-
plained, in considerable detail, the manner in which the dome
of St. Peter's at Itome had been repaired when in danger of
falling. The lecture was not concluded till nearly eleven
o'clock—one hour longer than usual. The Cardinal, indeed,
does not appear to possess the art of condensation, for the
lecture might have been brought within the hour, and the in-
terest in it would have been well maintained, but towards
1 the close many of the audience became wearied, and retired,
The applause, however, at the end was very loud and hearty.

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