The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1862.

proud. He neither lowers himself, nor asks for
alms. His grandfather was a soldier in the First
Republic. He has entered as a master the capi-
tals of Europe, and has seen more than once the
backs of Kings. His father was at Austerlitz.
He himself has burnt a cartridge in Africa. He
knows that he is the equal of any one. He has
seen the Revolution of 1830, and that of 1848. He
is a man and a citizen, and if he still wants several
things he knows that he shall have them sooner or
later." So that—while M. ASSOLANT begins with a ,
diatribe of the most uncompromising kind upon
the Englishman---we find, after all, that ho
has trailed off here this long while into
a studied panegyric upon the Frenchman.
Did he come to London, one is tempted
to ask, to learn all this the more vividly about his
fellow-countrymen ? All, yes ! by the sheer force
of contrast. The very crass stupidity and bruta-
lity of. the Englishman brings out to this amiable
Frenchman's eyes the charming excellencies he has
left behind him at home. Stich tight-fighting
Paris spectacles as he has upon his nose, this genial,
charming, delightful, outspoken M. ASSOLANT!
He sees everything according to the conventional
tint of those glasses.

Does he visit any place of amusement here
in London any place that is to him of so-
called amusement? "Excepting the great play-
houses," he says, " which I have not yet seen"
[their turn will come next !] they are, he de-
clares emphatically, " miserable !" Our London
squares he pronounces " sad looking things." Each
individual Englishman, he observes, " dines apart,
shut up in his box at the eatinghouse, like vicious
horses in a stable." Only one thing can he find in all
London and Westminster on which to sprinkle a few
syllables of cool approbation—our parks ! Though
certainly in this regard he could hardly in reason
have written otherwise. " The Luxembourg," he
condescends to remark, "and the Tuilleries do not
approach them. They are vast prairies, where you
see flocks of sheep browsing pell-mell among women
and children, who are lying down in the grass, or
playing on it. In this consists the real superiority
of London, and I must admit that Paris has nothing
like it." With the opening of the Great Interna-
tional Exhibition, on Mayday, however, M. Asso-
LANT was not by any means satisfied. Everybody
else, it is true, thought pretty well of the inaugural
ceremonies as a whole, but—ah, me ! after all, there
comes that fatal counter opinion of M. ASSOLANT.
And a bitter disappointment the knowledge of it
must be to the Earl GRANVILLE and the
rest of the responsible committee of Manage-
ment. " Decidedly," writes this egregious
gentleman, " the opening of the Exhibition was
very badly conducted. Snob," he adds, "is the
opinion of every one"—meaning himself ! " The
English," he observes axiomatically, " understand
everything except organization. The art of ad-
ministering brought to such perfection among us (a
little too much so)," [innocent admission !] "is abso-
lutely unknown to them. Every one goes on wildly,
lives as he can, works where he can, and spends pro-
digious force with very little result." [Then follows
the proof of this, drawn from his personal experi-
ences.] " Though I was by chance and by my own
exertions one of the best placed for seeing the cor-
tege and the whole ceremony, I hardly heard any
of the music, and the speaking not at all. I did not
even see the speakers. A mass of trophies and
ornaments. very much out of place on such an occa-
sion, concealed from every eye half the gallery.
There remained, it is true, the spectacle of the
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Frenchman's comments_ upon En/Ala
and proceedings. Why, even that sad vagabond
of a clerical humourist—the Rev. LAWRENCE
STERNE—went forth upon his Sentimental Journey
in a nobler spirit than this. Immediately he had
landed at Calais, upon the first page of his diary,
he did not thereupon, after the fashion of M.
ASSOLANT, at once set it down that he saw nothing
to compare to himself or to his countrymen. No!
instead of that—why the words are household
words by this time—instead of that, STERNE
scarcely has pen in hand before he writes in a
generous, manly, cosmopolitan spirit upon his very
first page, almost in his first sentence, "They
manage these things better, said I in France." We
have no hope for M. ASSOLANT as a generous
observer of things new and strange to him. Four
months would hardly do better for him than this
first fortnight of his stay in London. He comes
with malice prepense and aforethought, determined
to view everything captiously, carpingly, the
veriest JEAN CRAPAUD of a Curmudgeon ! So soon
as he cares to return to the scenes and haunts
he loves best, let him be off. For, honestly, we have
had quite enough of him.

Mr. BERKELEY, old stager as he is, seems to have
been caught napping. If any one's business, it was
his to watch against a surprise in the interest of
electoral corruption. The preceding discussions
were, it is true, on a subject too likely to make
honourable members seek "tired nature's sweet
restorer," even while occur)) ing their seats, or to
quit their seats till something more attractive was
before the House. We do not, however, know the
nature of the accident which caused the second
reading of the " Corrupt Practices Protection Bill"
to be read a second time without Mr. BERKELEY'S
cognisance. He did his best to atone for the mis-
take by giving notice of moving its rejection on its
third reading. An important opportunity has,
however, been lost. It was the duty of the
Liberal members, and there surely are some,
who are really opposed to bribery and intimidation,
and who consider their seats safe, if the people
voted under no influence whatever but their own
political opinions, and their opinion of the candi-
dates,—it was the duty of such members to have
staved off the second reading of this discreditable
bill, to have compelled a discussion, and not one dis-
cussion only, but a second, and perhaps a third.
If Tories can at the demand of interested clamour
compel the Government to modify an honest
scheme, at the cost of the income-tax payers, surely
sincere Literals, and we are sure there are such,
might with irresistible arguments on their side
compel the Government to halt in a" corrupt prat_
tices" course. %Ve know clamour is a mighty
power; but so is fact and argument. Now the fact is
undeniable that the dishonest bill, read a second time
lest night, has utterly failed of its professed object,
and that Sir WILLIAM HAYTER, the man who, of
all others, was competent to judge, declared on his
oath that he regarded it from the day of its passage
" ae a dead letter," It has not brought one single
'fftnder yet to justice; it has not rescued one
tenant-at. will, or a debtor, or a mortgagor, from
political serfdom; it has not prevented the most
lavish expenditure of money in direct bribery. It
is a disgrace to the Government to reproduce the
bill—a disgrace to the House quietly to Accept it;
and it is anything but honourable to the supporters
of the ballot in the House that they should not have
in a body and demanded that the glaring
he old bill should be followed by a trial
fraisileunre of t

of their simple, easy, and—wherever it has been
honestly tried—effectual plan. We only hope that
in committee, and on the third reading, Mr. BERN
KELEY mad the ballot members will vindicate their
SINCERITY and their GOOD FAITH towards their con-
stituencies.

We would just call the attention of Liberal mem-
bers and their supporters to the second reading of
Sir JOHN TR.ELAWNY'S bill, which is fixed for to-
morrow. Sir JOHN has given his opponents all this
time that they might bring in their compromise
bill, which the Speaker's vote in their favour last
year requires of them. They have no bill. They
can only doggedly oppose. Last year they wanted
some other settlement than total abolition. " Pro-
duce it then," say the abolutionists. Instead of
producing their settlement, this helpless party still
calls for "some other provision," and has no bill to
tell us what it shall be. Mr. ESTCOURT has, on the
, contrary, given notice of his intention to move the
following amendment for to-morrow :—" That it is
unjust and inexpedient to abolish the ancient and
customary right, exercised from time immemorial
by the ratepayers of every parish in England, to
raise by rate among themselves the sums required
far the repair of their church, until some other pro-
♦ision shall have been made by Parliament for the
discharge of those obligations to which by custom
or statute the churchwardens on the part of the
parish are liable."

The Tories, who add to their zeal for the POPE'S
temporalities equal zeal for the temporalities of the
dominant religious sect in England, are whipping
up, we understand, to the uttermost to carry this
ignominious resolution. They are not ashamed to
vote themselves incompetent to offer any scheme,
yet to obstruct the only proposal which can over be
a final settlement. Will the great Liberal suffer this?
Will the real friends of the Church suffer the Tories
to drag them through political dirt, merely to save
them from these expenses of worship which the very
humblest sect of Dissenters freely meets? It is
surely time that such a piece of ecclesiastical
tyranny—one so out of harmony with the
spirit of the age as compelling persons to pay
for the worship of their Maker—should come to
an end. The real question is a very simple
one, although Mr. ESTCOURT may wrap it up in a
sentence as long and roundabout as a collect ; it is
this—" Cannot Churchmen pay the expenses of
their worship as well andeasily as Dissenters P We
are ashamed of the Churchmen who, to-morrow,
will not be ashamed by their votes to say—No,

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are ex-
pected in town to-day, fron their seat in Scotland, for the
season.

The Countess of Ashlurnbam has issued cards
for an assembly on the 15th,

Lady Fitzwygram's morning concert in Con.
naught-place will take place on Wednesday, the 21st inst.

Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last
evening the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Mar-
chioness of Ely, the Marcuis of Clanricarde, Earl Gran-
ville, the Dowager Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone,
the Countess de Persigny, Earl Cowper, Lady Frances
Gordon, the Hon. F. Caltiorpe, Viscount Castlerosse,
Lord Dufferin, Mr. and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Town-
ley, and Dr. Quin.

Lord and Lady Catroys and the Hon. Misses
Stonor are expected to arrhe at 31, Dover-street, for the
season, in the early part of the week.

The Rev. Mr. and tle Hon. Mrs. Edgell and
family have left town for Stanford Hall, Leicestershire.

Mr. and Mrs. R. liddulph and family have
arrived in Eaton•place for tie season, from the Continent.

Mrs. Gardner's concert will take place on Friday,
the 6th June, at her house in Eaton-square.

Mr. Alex. Oswald has returned to Hampden
House, Green-street, from Paris, for the season.
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt have arrived at their resi-
dence in Lowndes-square, from the North.
Mr. Augustus Keppel Stephenson, of the Norfolk
},as been appointed Recorder of Bedford% in eueces •
stun to Mr. R. Crouch, appointed a judge in India.
THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS.—The Japanese
Ambassadors and suite arrived at Greenwich yesterday at
12 o'clock, on board Mr. John Penn's steamyacht, and after
disembarking at the pier proceeded in five carriazes.tostiv
and Son, at Deptford. After inspecting various objects of
interest at this and other establishments, the distinguished
foreigners re-embarked, and returned to town The Am-
bassadors are expected to visit Woolwich dockyard during
the present week, a notice to that effect having been received
from the Admiralty.

PLYMOUTH, May 12.—His Royal Highness
Prince Arthur and suite visited the Earl and Countess of
Mount Edgcumbe, at Mount Edgcumbe, on Sunday after-
noon, lunching there, remaining in the house and park
several hours, returning in the evening on board the Vivid.
The Vivid went outside Plymouth Sound this morning with
the royal party, accompanied by the screw gunboat Clinker,
in order that the prince might witness Armstrong shot
practice from the gunboat. His highness is expected to
visit Tregantle Fort and the Royal William Victualling-
yard this afternoon and to-morrow.
THE SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PARKS.—The
seventh season, to commence in the Regent's and Victoria
Parks on May 25, is expected by the committee to be a
highly successful one, and preparations are being made ac-
cordingly. n the Regent's Park the platform enclosure
will be enlarged, and chairs placed in rows therein, so that
the visitors, having paid id. admission, may promenade or
be seated at pleasure. Increased accomrnodat on and aid to
the band fund will thus be provided, no support to the band
having been derived from the chairs placed in front of the
platform by parties unconnected with the committee. The
Chief Commissioner has just completed a drinking fountain
of chaste design in the broad walk, and is now erecting a
commodious refreshment stand near to the platform. In
the Victoria Park liiss Burdetts' fountain will doubtless
have its thousands of admirers.

MURDER OF A BROTHEL—A shocking fratricide
was committed in Newcastle, about midnight on Saturday.
A party of men, living in the neighbourhood of St. Peter's
Quay, had been drinking at the Grapes public-house, at St.
Peter's, on Saturday night, and were ejected at 12 o'clock.
A quarrel took place between two of them, named John
Berry and Henry Shafto; and on another of the party,
named Wm. Redhead, encouraging Shafto to fight, Berry
asked Redhead to fight, and they immediately set to work.
Berry got Redhead down, and was uslng a knife, when
the brother of his antagonist and others pulled him away.
Berry seems then to have placed himself in an attitude of
defence against a wall in the neighbourhood ; and on his
brother, Geo. S. Berry, going up to him to get him home,
ho struck him such a blow with the knife in the lower part
of the body, that death was almost instantaneous. The as-
sassin gave himself up to the police. Ills unfortunate
brother has left a widow and ore child, and his wife is
again pregnant, The murderer has a wife and six children.
Newcastle Journal.

The commercial letters from New York yesterday
show that there is still a total absence of consideration with
regard to the way in which the present and prospective
debts of the country are to be provided for. It was now
doubted if any tax bill would be passed before next Session
of Congress, so that meanwhile not only the expenditure
for the war, but for the interest on the liabilities already in-
curred, will have to be met by an increase of inconvertible
issues. Yet it is affirmed that a universal opinion prevails
that before long Europe will be a large customer for Trea-
sury notes and other Federal obligations. This belief has,
it is said, considerable influence in upholding prices, and as
the banks, in the absence of commercial paper, are lending
to almost any extent on Government securities, there is a
general readiness to speculate from the great rise which it is
fancied will occur whenever the sudden announcement
shall be made from Washington that the subjugation of the
South has been consummated. The chief cause of uneasi-
ness to these operators consisted in the apprehensions as to
possible reverses at Yorktown and Corinth, but it is re-
marked that "whatever battles may be fought, nothng
will be heard of them unless we win." The reported oc-
cupation of New Orleans had not created much sensation,
and the question as to the prospects of a Northern garrison
at that place during the fever months of July, August,
September, and October were, of ,course, a subject of un-
easy contemplation. With regard to the Mexican ques-
tion, great indignation has been excited by the news of the
probable march of the French army on Mexico, and " a
possible quarrel with the French Emperor" is discussed as
if the Washington Government had no other matters on
their hands. The motives of the visit of M. Mercier to
Richmond were still deemed inscrutable; but the journals
are full of conjectures on the subject. Gold was leaving
the country, and the rate of exchange was advancing, the
latestquotations being 1121. N
THE BANK ROBBERY AT GEOA.—A Government
despatch
just received from Spezela announces the arrest
of the perpetrators of the audacious robbery committed on
the Ist inst. at the bank of Messrs. Parodi. The prisoners
are five in number, and had embarked on board a sailing
ship in the Gulf. Upon them wero found various effects,
valued at more than 300,000 f. The men were furnished
with arms of different kinds,

LATEST NEWS.

THORN, MAY 13.
It is said that Governor-General Krzyatowski has
tendered his resignation.
Some Directors of public schools who had offered
resistance to the Government have been dismissed.

Several officers of the garrison of Warsaw have
been arrested on account of prohibited prints having
been found in their possession.

FRANKFORT, MAY 13.

Reports are in circulation of the intended mobi-
lization of the fourth of the 7th Prussian Corps
d'Armee.

It is strongly believed that Austria and Prussia
will occupy Electoral Hesse in case the mission of
General Von Willisen should remain without result.

It is probable that an extraordinary sitting of
the Federal Diet will take place.

PARIS, MAY 13.

The illoniteur of this morning publishes Admiral
Bonard's report, dated Saigon, March 28, confirm-
ing the taking of Vinhlong after an energetic resist-
ance on the part of its defenders.
Sixty-eight cannons and an immense quantity of
rice were captured.
The French losses were very small, and the gun-
boats sustained no serious damage.

BRUSSELS, MAY 12.
All the complications in the illness of the King
have disappeared.
The physicians believe they will shortly be able
to authorise a fresh, and it is hoped, final operation.

PARIS, MAY 12.
The King and Queen of Holland will leave Paris
on Wednesday next.
The Patrie of this evening says :—" The Govern-
ment andthe committee on the Budget have agreed
to withdraw the bill for augmenting the tax on salt.
" The session of the French Chambers will pro-
bably be prolonged until July."
The Paris papers publish a despatch from Saigon
(Cochin China), dated the 24th of March, announc-
ing that the French troops had taken Fort Vinlong.

PARIS, MAY 12, EVENING.

The Paris papers of this evening publishes a tele-
gram from Alexandria, dated to-day, containing
news from Beyrout to the 9th inst., asserting that
matters had reached such a crisis at Aleppo as to
render disturbances imminent.

The Christian priests and population had, it is
stated, been insulted and provoked.
The same despatch adds that the Prince of
Wales, while in Syria, was cheered by the Druses.

MESSINA, MAY 12.
Yesterday the King received the authorities o:
this city and the clergy.
His Majesty set out this morning for Reggio.

TURIN, MAY 12.

Signori Sella and Depretis have set out for
Naples. Signor Durando and the Marquis Pepoli
will leave for Naples this evening.
A conciliatory circular has been issued by Signor
Rattazzi on the subject of the celebration of the
National fete.

BERLIN, MAY 12.

The semi-official Allegemeine Preussische ( Stern)
Zeitung of to-day announces that General-Lieute-
nant Von Willisen, General Aide-de-Camp of the
King, yesterday proceeded to Cassel, by order of
his Majesty.

THORN, MAY 12.

A report is current that a military conspiracy in
favour of Poland has been discovered in St. Peters-
uu►s.

A great numbtr of officers, all of whom are Rus-
sians, are said to be seriously implicated, more
especially those belonging to the garrison of Kalisch.
A full and searching inquiry into the affair has
already been instituted.

RAGUSA, MAY 11.
Dervisch Pascha is still at Gatzko, but the Alba-
nians occupy the surrounding country.
Two detachments of Turkish troops, while
escorting a convoy of provisions, were attacked
and put to flight near Gatzko.

The Montenegrins captured all the provisions.

FRANCE.

La Patrie publishes the following :
"Prince Napoleon reached Marseilles on the
morning of the 11th. At nine o'clock the same
evening the Imperial yacht steamed out of port
direct for Naples."
La Patrie also says

" We learn from Toulon, under date of the 11th
inst., that the steam frigate Asmodee had received
orders to be ready to start for Civita Vecchia, to
bring back to France the soldiers of the Army of
Occupation at Rome who had a right to their conge.
They number about 1,100. They number about
1,100. The soldiers destined to replace them and
fill up the vacancies in the regiments have already
arrived at Rome.

The King of Holland, on Saturday morning at
eight, visited the fort of Vincennes, the Salle
d'Armes, and the Donjon. His Majesty also went
to the gunnery school, and the artillery executed
some manceuvres at field filing as well as at long
range. The visit lasted upwards of three hours.
The King in the afternoon, accompanied by his
suite, visited the Luxembourg. His Majesty, who
was received by General the Marquis d'Hautpoul,
Grand Referendary of the Senate, passed through
the state apartments, the hall of assembly, the
library, and the museum.

Tho Princess Mathilde gave a grand ball on Satur-
day night at her residence, Rue de Courcelles, in
honour of the King and Queen of Holland. The
illustrious guests arrived at nine o'clock with the
Empress, accompanied by several personages of the
Court. The salons, which were magnificently deco-
rated, could scarcely contain the brilliant society
that had been invited. Among the number were
the ministers, the diplomatic representatives of
England, Russia, Prussia, Turkey, Italy, and
Sweden, the Marquis de Lavalette, the French
Minister at the Papal Court, and a great number
of high dignitaries. The fete was organised with
exquisite taste, and the objects of art which orna
mented the rooms were the subject of general admi-
ration. The garden was illuminated by the elec-
tric light, which produced a most brilliant effect.
Dancing commenced about ten o'clock, and
was kept up to a late hour. The Queen of Hol-
land wore a dress of blue gauze with a coronet
of diamonds of the richest kind. The Em-
press had on a white dress, remarkable for its
simplicity And eDl.Banee_ llor Ilejenty appeared in
excellent spirits, and seemed to enjoy the scene.
The King was in plain evening dress, with the
grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. The Im-
perial party remained till one in the morning. The
Princess 'Mathilde did the honours of the evening
with her usual grace.

The Jloniteur publishes the following notifica-
tion :

" Prince Napoleon, who proceeds to Naples to pay
a visit to his father-in-law, the King of Italy, has
not been charged with any political mission by the
Emperor."

The Prince left Paris on Saturday evening by ex-
press train for Marseilles, where, according to a
telegraphic despatch received from that port, he
embarked last night at nine o'clock in the Prince.
Jerome stem corvette direct to Naples. A 01"