The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-28 00:00:00

MADAME' .31,4R10'S LECTURE.

Madame Mario delvered her concluding lecture
upon Garibaldi and laly last night to an audience
which filled St. Jameas Hall. Mr. Stansfeld, M.P.,
presided. Madame Maio received as a welcome an
enthusiastic demonstration of applause. Her lec-
ture contained the history of the events which took
place from the time Garibaldi landed on the Cala-
brian coast until the Two Sicilies, having been
annexed to Italy, till conqueror returned to his
home in Caprera. It need hardly be said that a
survey, contained in an hour's lecture, of the im-
portant and thrilling !vents which passed during
that interval, must necessarily have been rapid and
general. But the deeeription given by Madame
Mario was neyertheleso, in the strictest sense, com-
plete and symmetrical. It gave to every event its
due proportion, and vas indeed a true picture in
little of the campaign. Madame Mario's descrip-
tion of the battle of the Volturno was one of the
clearest, calmest, and, at the same time, the most
thrilling narratives we have heard in a lecture
room. The style of the fair lecturer is peculiarly
easy, fluent, and unconstrained ; her language, even
where it is most brilliant, is spontaneous and un-
exaggerated. It is almost entirely conversational,
and although always eloquent, never aims at the
declamatory. We do not mean to express a concur-
rence in all the opinions which Madame Mario
uttered in relation to Italian politics, and are far,
fr Am nrrnntinu► he. eat,....edto of the Into
Count Cavour, to whom sbe appears to entertain
sentiments of the strongest antagonism. But with-
out endorsing all the lecturer's views, we can
speak in the warmest terms of her eloquence, her
enthusiasm, and the impression she produced upon
her audience.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, MAY 26.

Her Majesty, their R)yal Highnesses Prince Alfred,
Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess
Helena, and Princess Louse, attended Divine service yes-
terday at Balmoral. The Rev. Dr. Caird officiated.
The Ladies and Gentlenen in Waiting and the House-
hold were also present.
Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, also
attended the service at Creithie Church.

Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, left Balmoral
this morning to join her Majesty's ship St. George.

A deputation from the Voodstock Union, consisting of
the Duke of Marlborough, Sir Henry W. Dashwood, Mr.
C. E. Thornhill, and the Ray. J. Dodd, had an interview
with the Rigkt Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., yesterday at the
office of the Poor -law Boari, Whitehall.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the North American Provinces.
Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands.

Among the publications of marriages made two
days back at Brussels was that of Baron Charles Perigord
de Talleyrand, Minister of France at the Court of Brussels,
and Madlle. Vera Berordoli, of St. Petersburg.
Cardinal Prince Schwtrtzenberg, accompanied by
eight bishops, left Vienna for Rome on the 24th inst.
The Oat-Deutsche Pod of Vienna says that the
state of health of the Empress does not respond to the hopes
which had been entertained from the residence of her Ma-
jesty in a southern climate.
A grand demonstration is to take place in Ipswich
to-morrow, on the occasion of the launch of the lifeboat,
presented by that town to the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion. _ _

The Emancipation Society of Genoa has just held
a sitting extraordinary, in consequence of recent events.
The President made a violent speech, in which he blamed
the sanguinary acts at Brescia, and declared that the Italian
democracy and the volunteer army felt immense confidence
in Garibaldi. One of the members, M. Malatesta, proposed
an address to the general. The motion was adopted unani-
mously.
THE JAPANESE AMEASSADORS.—NENV CASTLE-
ox-TYNE, Tuesday evening.—The Japanese Ambassadors,
who arrived in this town from the south last night,
district, proceeded this morning by special train on the
Blyth and Tyne Railway to North Seaton Colliery. They
were met there by Mr. George Baker Foster, Mr. Thomas
C. Foster, Mr. Jobling, and others, and one of the princi-
pal members of the Embassy descended the mine with two
of his suite, the other two ambassadors remaining at bank.
The Japanese official who descended into the mine was
taken about half a mile into the face of the workings, and
was shown the process of bringing away a quantity of coal
by firing a shot, and he had afterwards pointed out to him
the method by which coals are brought to the bottom of the
shaft by an incline, and the machinery of the mine gene-
rally. The pumping apparatus was also explained to him,
and he appeared to take a very intelligent interest in the
arrangements for working the mine generally. After par-
taking of luncheon at the colliery, the party returned to
Newcastle, but too late to give them an opportunity of
viewing the engine works of Messrs. Robert Stephenson
and Co. They left by the quarter past 4 train for Carlisle,
en route to Liverpool, but before departing the principal
members of the embassy expressed through Mr. Macdonald
their deep obligation t) the Mayor and the authorities for
the attention that had been paid to them during their short
visit, A large crowd assembled to see them away. They
appeared to be delighted with the manner the people cheered
them.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Grand Archery meeting
af Thursday and Friday next will be the first great gathering
of Toxophilites this season, which, including as it does
members from all the leading archery societies, will prove
of unusual interest, and its effect wilt be considerably
heightened from it taking'place at a time when the beautiful
grounds in which it is held are in their greatest perfection,
the rhododendrons, with the other American plants, being
in full bloom. Among the different societies sending com-
petitors to this meeting we may mention the Royal Toxo-
philites, the Cheshire Bowmen, the York Archers, the
Devon and Exeter Archers, the Lichfield Archers, the Wor-
cestershire Archers, the Woodmen of Arden (Warwick-
shire), the Enfield Archers, the Ivanhoe Archers, the West
Somerset, the Bath, the East Norfolk, the Long Milford,
the Queen's Royal, the St. Leonard's, the Breconshiro, the
Cheltenham, the West Bells, the Buccleuch, the Thames
Ditton, the Dawlish, the Anglesea, the Aston-park, the
Edgbaston, and the Grand National societies. The present
champion of the United Kingdom and the ex-champion
will both be present.

SOHTII KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the
week ending the 24th of May the visitors have been as
follows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days,
open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 11,531 ; on Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, students' days (admission to the
public, 6d.), open from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 1,079. Total,
12,613. From the opening of the Museum, 2,728,491.
Museum of Patents, South Kensington Number of
visitors for the week ending May 24, 3,243 ; total number
since the opening of the Museum free daily (May 12, 1858),
545,650.

TEE HOP PLANTATIONS.—ROCHESTER, MAY 27.
—Seldom have the hop plantations throughout Kent, gene-
rally, exhibited a more promising appearance than is the
case this season, everything indicating an unusually large
crop. Aided by the remarkably fine weather of the past
few weeks the plants are everywhere growing vigorously,
the bine coming forward strong and rapidly. As yet very
little vermin is to be seen, and in most of the high, rich
lands the plants are all that can be desired. In a few plan-
tations, the two or three cold nights recently experienced
have slightly affected the young shoots, but these are now
regaining their former appearance. Most of the large factors
still hold considerable stocks, and the exports are still
heavy, upwards of 40 tons having been sent abroad during
the week ending Saturday last, while the imports during
the same period were nil.
ESCAPE OF THREE CONVICTS FROM MILLBANK
PRISON.—On Monday morning three convicts, one under
sentence of transportation for life, the other two for 14
years, made their escape from this prison by breaking
through the top of the building; after which, by removing
some slates and a large flag and making a rope of their sheets
they let themselves down, and got clear off. The police
were immediately apprised of their escape; but, though
measures were instantly adopted for their apprehension,
they have not as yet been retaken
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT IN A SUGAR REFINERY.
—On Monday an accident of the most horrifying nature
occurred at the sugar works of Messrs. Crossfield and Co.,
Vauxhall-road, Liverpool, Thomas Lee, a workmen em -
ployed by Messrs. Fawcett and Preston, was sent to the
sugar works to assist in fisting up an engine; and during
the dinner hour he visited the " crushing room." He
commenced to play with a man named Ball, and was chas-
ing him round the machinery in the room, when he slipped
under an iron rail, was caught by the teeth of the sugar-
Crushers, and literally ground to atoms. For hours the
machinery could not be entirely freed from pieces of flesh
aad bone of the unfortunate man's body.

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