The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN ING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1862.

LIVES of EMINENT
FUNSTATESMEN, by
THOS. HOOD, Esq., in , every weelc

to recognise the privileges of the States of the
Church"—and France has "announced a firm de-
termination to maintain the POPE in his present
territory"—and " Italy must renounce her preten-
sions to Rome." All of which look very much like
keeping up the barriers between Rome and Italy.
But what is the POPE'S part then to be ? He is to
" return to ancient traditions, and to recognise the
privileges of the municipalities and provinces, so
that they may govern themselves." Does any one
of our readers understand all this ? If he is mysti-
fied, perhaps another sentence or two may put him
in the way to guess the enigma. It was placed be-
fore M. THOUVENEL on the 20th of last May. On
the 30th the Minister wrote to the French Ambas-
sador at Rome, M. LAVALETTE

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Mr Levy ; Solo Flageolet, M. Bonnisseau. Commence at
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ances on the Great Festival Organ at intervals.
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• .• For full particulars of amusements see first page.
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN,
This Evening, Auber's Exhibition Overture. Alter which
SONNAMBULA.

" The words of tke Emperor have never held out
a hope to the Cabinet of Turin that Rome could
become the capital of the kingdom of Italy with the
consent of France.
" All the declarations of France announce a
firm determination to maintain the Pope in the pos-
session of his present territory. The only possible
arrangement would be the maintenance of the terri-
torial status quo. Italy would have to renounce her
pretensions to Rome, and engage with France to
respect the Papal territory and assume the greater
portion, if net the whole, of the Roman debt."
And this M. THOUVENEL calls a policy of conci-
liation, says that there is nothing in it of a minatory
character, exhorts ANTONELLI, the holy butcher of
Perugia, to lay aside the doctrine of immobility,
only adding that if he does not, the EMPEROR
would be compelled—we suppose it is what he
means—to withdraw his troops from Rome : which,
from no love to the POPE, but from love to the
BONAPARTES alone, he will certainly not do. This,
the holy murderer for his Holiness knows as well
as the EMPEROR, so he still coolly replies " we are
immoveable"—non possumus.

Commence at 8.

Some, comparing Sir HUGH CAIRNS' scheme with
Lord WESTBURY'S, still accord to the former a very
decided preference. Altogether idle, however, at
the present moment, is any such comparison.
What we have to deal with, is the actual
measure passed into law last session the
act which is nominally to come into operation on
the Ist of this ensuing month of October : a date
that will probably have to be abandoned from the
difficulties still remaining to be cleared away,
so that, in all likelihood, the commencement
of the operation of the act will be postponed
from the beginning to the end of October.
Sooner or later, by a few days, in any case that
act will unquestionably come into operation.
There need be no alarm at all, nevertheless, even
amongst the most timorous, because of this cer-
-1 tainty of its coming into operation so very speedily.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.

Ws Evening, THE ROUGH DIAMOND. After which.
THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. To conclude with TIIE
ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni-Zoug-
Zoug. Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
This Evening., THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. After which,
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CALIA.
And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI
This Evening., THE GREEN BUSHES. _Followed by
THE SHILLING DAY.
Commenceat7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
This Evenincr, THE LOST LETTER. After which, at a
quarter to 8, 'KING CoNRY VIII. With THE TWO
pours. Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR-
NEY. Conclude with TIM COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED
AT LAST. Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle,
Concluding with a Comic Ballet.
Commence at 7.

MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS ~ AT
ROME," at Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This
Evening. Commence at 8.

W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,
Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross.
Commence at 8.

Europe is sick of these farces—but what cares
the master of sixty legions ? And what care the
Cardinals at Rome ? The position of the French is
confessed to be unjustifiable, but the despot is
strong enough to confess and go on. A pretty
woman weeps to him, and the woman's POPE must
be sustained in his unrighteous power over the
bodies and souls of the poor Romans. An ignorant
clergy, and yet more ignorant peasantry, worked
up by designing and thoroughly worldly bishops,
threaten to vote wrong ; so, the poor Romans must
be kept out of votes altogether to please them. And
so it is that, to the infinite scandal of religion,
and the joy of all the atheists and infidels of
Europe, the head of one of the largest of Christian
sects is exhibited to all the world as the trampler
on all human rights—and that for the basest of all
motives—in the eye of religion—worldly ambition.
Disguise it how men will, but for the worldly ambi-
tion of the Popx's advisers (for the good old man
himself is, we are told, as well meaning as he is
weak, notwithstanding his allocution curses) all
this wickedness would be at an end. The POPE
would be advised not to "lower," but to destroy
the barriers between Roman and Italian Catholics
—to assume the independence of freedom from
worldly ambition—to tell the French that he no
longer wanted to murder his fellow-citizens' liber-
ties by foreign bayonets—and to set all the bishops
of Christendom an example worth following—that
of renouncing temporalities, and being content
with spiritualities.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay,
market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing.

CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.—
Steckel, the great Trapeze performer —Grand Operatic Selec-
tion as usual Unsworth, Eugene, and Duley, the great comic
trio, &c.

Commence at 7.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY
EVEN ING.—Grand Operatic Selections, with full band and
chorus.—The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes—
Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of
Rumsey, Newcomb, &c.
Commence at 7.

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Did our readers last night notice the Imperial I
Riddle, presented them by his MAJESTY of Paris—
and, we were going to say, of Rome—through the
Illoniteur 1 It came to us rather late. We did
not understand it before we went to press. We do
not understand it now. When we say so, we, of
coarse, mean that we cannot make separate sen-
tences intelligible, or the several sentences square
with each other. But as to understanding its
object—there can be no difficulty in that. To the
serious practical question—will you leave the Romans
to the exercise of their just rights, and cease to im-
pose a master on them—the guilty despot is ashamed
to say " no;" but he is determined not to say
"yrs." We wonder he is so nice about it. Why not
say "yes," and go on telling a lie? The man who
cared not a straw for the most solemn legal oaths,
and spontaneous oaths, and the obligations of guest-
ship, and the pledged right hand, prior to the 2d of
December, and who made nothing of certain nega-
tive assertions about Nice and Savoy prior to his
seizure of them—why should he mince matters—
why not say, " I will leave Rome before Christmas,'
and then keep his soldiers there till he died, and
all the suppressed ability of France united to hand
his little boy out of the Empire ? It would be but
the addition of one more deception to the list.

What is the use of this Imperial riddle-setting P It
can deceive no one. Why not say boldly—" In 1849
I bagged Rome, and put the POPE into it, and no laws
against international night-poaching shall make me
give up my spoil." It would be at least merely
Imperial to say, " I am a political highwayman,
and I mean to keep what I have got."
Instead of that what have we ? Why, first a
letter from his MAJESTY to M. THOUTENEL—on a
" reconciliation between the Holy See and Italy."
Which compels one to wish the See were holy
enough to give Italy and the Romans no trouble
about such a secular and profane thing as temporal
Power. However, to the first fisherman it was pro-
mised that he should be a " fisher of men." The
inheritor of the fisherman's seal may therefore think
that his net should catch men's bodies as well as
their souls ; and that, as his net broke in 1848, it
was very kind of the French to come and mend it
for him.

But the Romans, and all the intelligence and
liberalism of Europe, do not like this everlasting
mending. Indeed, the net after a dozen years French
patching, has become a BONAPARTE not a Papal
net. The poor fisherman, therefore, is actually har-
rassed by the BONAPARTE reminding him that he
is really the net holder, and demanding of him
some little adaptation of his behaviour to this
notorious fact. Outside the net, the Ramat,
see
all their fellows of the same name, disporting
themselves at liberty, while they in vain try to
burst the Franco-Papal meshes. They think
this hard. Why should they thus be netted
up ? What good does it do anyone?
They are told that it is for the good of
the Catholic fish of Italy and all others
countries. They deny this. The Catholics of all
Italy, they truly say, wish them to be as much at
liberty as they are. And as to all the rest of the
Catholics in the world, they can't comprehend what
good on earth it should, be to them to keep their
fellow Catholics thus bondage. They are not
sharks; they will not 97, Tallow up " the Fisherman."
Oh dear, no; they only wish to be at large them-
selves, and then they will not even, on any future
day, make a grand una ruinous push at his French
net, and drag "Fisher man," net and all, into the
Water.

But to our riddle—if, indeed, it be of any use to
have a try at it. Ist. The POPE id to lower the
64"1"8 which aepara tr 3 the Pontifical territory
from Italy. What bariei era ? For the POPE 18 to
be " master in his own domain"—" This sway is to
be freely accepted by is subjects"—and "Italy is

And for the one simple reason, that the act itself
is purely permissive. Advantages of a very
obvious and of a very considerable value are
held out to all those who will avail themselves of
the enactment by registering. But their doing so
is a matter purely optional. And even when they
have called the Act into operation by registering
their title to real estates, they can at any subsequent
period, at their own pleasure, cause the fact of their
having done so to be erased from the books of re-
gistration. The very preamble of Lord WESTBURY'S
Act states the object of the Act to be threefold ;
namely, " first, to give security to the title of real
estates; secondly, to facilitate the proof of such
title; and thirdly, to render the dealing with land
more simple and inexpensive than it is at present."
As to the greater simplicity ensured by the
new enactment here is an instantly appre-
ciable exemplar of that advantage. Here, in
other words, is the very brief and lucid
form of transfer of land which will have to be filled
up after the enactment comes formally into opera-
tion some time in the course of this next month of
October :—•

Dated this day of . I, AB, of etc., in
consideration of (five thousand pounds) paid to me, grant
to C D and his heirs for ever, all (insert description of
land).

Signed and sealed by A. B.
Witness—E F, of, &c., a Solicitor of the High Court
of Chancery, or a certified conveyancer.
Again, turning from the mere simplicity of these
new arrangements to the manner of the order-
ing of them—supposing that any proposed title
be approved, the applicant for registration will be
required to furnish to the registrar-
1. An exact description of the lands to be registered.
2. A statement of the several persons interested in such
lands, and of the nature of such interest; and
3. A statement of the charges and incumbrances (if any)
on such lands, and of the persons entitled thereto."

Finally, in illustration of the scope of the ope-
ration of this new enactment, it is especially notice-
able that it expressly provides that all registered
land may be dealt with or conveyed—

„ 1. By a statutory disposition in any of the forms de-
scribed in the schedule to the Act.
2. By endorsement on the land certificate.
3. By deposit of the land certificate.
4. By any deed, will, or other instrument by which land,
not registered, may now be conveyed or dealt with.

As to any doubts that may yet be entertained by
the cavillers against Lord WESTBITRY's measure,
as one appreciably inferior (according to their
view of it), when contrasted with Sir Hum! CAIRNS'
earlier and certainlymore comprehensive and elabo-
rated enactment—but a very few months will suffice
to demonstrate the validity or the perverseness of
those objections. So hampered, hitherto, has been the
transference of land throughout, that it is impos-
sible not to wish that all possible success may
attend the earnest, vigorous, and conscientious
efforts embodied in. this enactment of the Lord
Chancellor's efforts, namely, to clear away,
henceforth, and for ever, a mass of costly, and
worse than idle, of absolutely pernicious obstruc-
tiveness.

apparently only enough so to prevent the Federal
troops being withdrawn thence into Maryland. In
South Carolina also they have attacked the Federal
troops, and suffered a repulse ; the attack being
probably with the same object. It was repelled,
as of old, by gunboats. Ohio is frightened, but
thinks itself safe. Pennsylvania is still more
alarmed, but probably with little reason. It would
be madness for the South to attack States it could
not hope to gain. An opinion is indeed expressed
by the New fork, Times that the Confederates
really aim to subvert the LINCOLN Government and
install their own. JEFFERSON DAVIS is too shrewd
to think of that,

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS
MARIA PIA.

TURIN, SEPT. 23.

The civil contract preliminary to the wedding
ceremony between the Princess Maria Pia and the
Marquis of Lou le, acting as proxy for King Louis I.
of Portugal, is to be signed to-day. For the wed-
ding ceremony the 27th, Saturday next, is ap-
pointed. There are to be grand Court dinners both
on Thursday and Saturday; on the latter day a
serenade and illumination; on Friday a grand con-
cert at the palace. The bride will leave Turin for
Genoa on Sunday, accompanied by the Prince of
Piedmont, her brother, the heir to the throne.
Three Portuguese men-of-war and the best part of
the Italian fleet are awaiting the youthful Queen.
An Italian squadron of four ships, under the orders
of Admiral Albini, will follow the nuptial cortege.
This is the first instance on record of a " daughter
of Italy" being given in marriage. The congratu-
lations which both the Princess and the King her
father received from almost all the most conspicu-
ous cities of the newly-united kingdom, are as many
proofs of the depth of feeling to which loyalty to
the reigning dynasty has already penetrated in
Italian hearts. Handsome, elegant, and sumptuous
presents also come in from all parts.
The corporation of the city of Turin presents an
album of beautiful drawings in water-colour paint-
ings, illustrating the localities among which the
childhood of the young bride were spent. Florence
and Milan are quite determined not to be beaten by
Turin in their token of devotion to their King's
daughter; and we hear from Naples that the muni-
cipality are sending over a splendid ornament in
pink coral, of native manufacture, of the value of
4,500 ducats.

The most important present, however, comes
from that once most ardent of all Italian patriots,
his Holiness Pope Pius IX. The good Victor
Emmanuel, however, deemed the marriage of his
daughter too auspicious an opportunity of laying
aside political rancour, and the Abate Stellardi, his
chaplain, was sent to Rome to announce the forth-
coming wedding. The sleek, soft-hearted Pius IX.
seemed to take great interest in the welfare of his
god-daughter, who bears his name Pia (the prm-
nomen, Maria, being common to all the ladies of
her house), and on the Abate taking his leave, his
Holiness gave him a parcel containing his wedding
present to the bride, consisting of a magnificent
album, all studded with precious stones, with two
fine engravings, representing the Virgin and an
Ecce Homo. The Pope's autograph is on the title
page, and Stellardi bears with him the Pontiff's
blessing for the bride and bridegroom. The sister
of the bride, Princess Clotilde, and her husband,
Prince Napoleon, will arrive in Turin from Paris
to-morrow, and great festivities are prepared by
way of greeting to them.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The visitors
to the Exhibition yesterday numbered 41,369, of whom
4,052 were admitted by season tickets, and 37,317 paid at
the doors.

STOKE ELECTION.—A somewhat strange course
The Philosophic Humorist, who by a singular of proceeding has been adopted with reference to the elec-
freak of fortune occupies the courtly post of Clerk tion of Mr. Grenfell. On behalf of Mr. Hope a protest has
been entered against the validity of his election, on the
to the Privy Council, has somewhere among
ground that the seconder of his nomination (Mr. Hill) is
his charming Essays a day dream thus not an elector.
articulated :—" I have often fancied," he says, TUE IRON TRADE.--BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 25.
" that a man might play the part of BRUTUS
The preliminary meeting of the ironmasters of South Staf-
fordshire and East Worcestershire was held at the Hen and
in the law. He might simulate madness in Chickens Hotel here to-day—Mr. Philip Williams in the
order to ensure freedom. He might make him- chair. The reports were concurrent as to the fact of the
trade being in a much more healthy state than it has for a
self a great lawyer, rise to eminence in his pro-
long time been. There is an increasing demand for all de •
fession, and then turn round and say, 'I am not The long expected mails from America have scriptions of finished iron, bars especially; and the prices
going to enjoy this high seat and dignity; but reached us at last. They are both exciting and of makeer lrs whass fo ushually
ers. lundersellth are comtingortarerdto the
n
ese
might have be
intend henceforward to be an advocate for the disappointing. It is easy to see that M'CLELLAN iurthe price of iron generally ennvaenvtunreccle
people of this country against the myriad oppres- and the Confederates have met, have marched, and upon; it would not, however, have been quite prudent to do
unanimously passed to adhere to
the old scale of prices. Pig-iron is half-a-crown a ton
sions and vexations of the law. No Chancellorships perhaps countermarched ; but whether there has
so, and a resolution was
or Chief Justiceships for me. I have only pre- been a really decisive battle, and what are the exact higher than it was three months ago. There was a nume-
tended to be this slave in order that you should not positions occupied, is by no means clear. The last
convictione result
thatlt of the
legitimateimprove-
ma
toneen
roes attendance of the members of the trade to-day, and the
say that lam an untried and unpractical man— account is a " private telegram" to Mr. INMAN,twwahsiechheehrafus l
taken,fromthe
place is
th
that I do not understand your mysteries.'" All dated the 17th, from New York, via Cape Race. and not speculative demand for manufactured iron. The
which is, however, as we have already termed it, the The regular telegram, via the same place, is North Staffordshire makers are full of orders, and are ready
merest day dreaming. And it is a day dream only to dated the 16th. This last telegram says that theirto a advance va n
brethren c e p prices, ci enslhboutawouiltlhnotTdhoesree
ieaxacept inictoncoferlt
labour
be thought of, even by the most sanguine and ima- M'CLELLAN had occupied Hagerstown, and men- of the unskilled class in this district. If therey are any
ginative, in connection with ideal regions like those tions a battle at Sharpsburg, considerably nearer the stout fellows in Lancashire out of employment, and willing
sacred to the fancied footsteps of Arcadians and Potomac and Washington, too. While it describes Wolverhampton to labour,
they
aidemayf h
n findt ii t at some
of the works on the
s district, and possibly in other
Utopians. While Mr. HELPS is pleasantly con- the Federals as surrounded by the Confederates at quarters in the neighbourhood.
ceiving to himself the possible advent of a wholly Harper's Ferry, which is en the Washington side THE GRAIN TRADE AT LIVERPOOL.—The Mersey
impossible Lord Chief Justice and Lord High Chan- of Sharpsburg. The private telegram of the 17th Docks and Harbour Board at its meeting yesterday agreed
cellor—bit by bit the anomalies of the law are speaks of a terrible battle at Hagerstown between both the Liverpooldtn f
atonderßeotkvelexdten.dsivee fwthaererhiveuersefserotnhe being lopped off by the trenchant blows dealt the two commanders.in-ehief, M'CLELLAN and the corn traden of the port. A special committee of the
the
at
_them by one after another of our great Law Re- LEE. board had been considering the subject for some time; and
formers. How many of those cruel anomalies have All these accounts may possibly be true, yet they yesterdaywih
tredcommendlyatitoonseroefetthwaatrechoemumaeisttefiettewdernep
ailidoe
there not been cleared away, as so much obstructive do not harmonise conveniently with each other ; theprequisite appliances, upon the Birkenhead side of the
rubbish and pernicious lumber, by the bold hand of the dash and vigour of the Confederates are such, Mersey, at an estimated cost of £169,486, £lOB,OOO of which
the greatest of all living law Reformers, the vener- that positions are quite possible, which yet do not ssutrumeatpwperretahionu eexacolunsitvheelymtvoarptheeelbanidiledfionrgesim;
ialnd to en-
able ex-Chancellor Lord BROVGIIAM ! Beside seem easy to be accounted for. The Potomac runs at an estimated cost of £291,671, L 131,000 of purposeswhich
amount
him, upon that same removed bench, encouraging northwest from Washington past Harper's Ferry, will be expended upon the warehouses exclusively, and the
the development and continuance of those whole- separating a long narrow strip of Maryland from balancer inPrince's
Basin,
forb 1
d oth
an affecting the
same in e
some and beneficent innovations and improvements Virginia. Chiefly in this narrower p ortion of the pnected with the machinery,
efficient working of the workphuo
rupee:se! co n -
are there not those two other INT ...ESTORS in the Coun- State, which lies immediately south of Pennsylvania, A soiree was given two eveni •
ngs back by the
cils ofhlrisprudence—invested like LordßßouGHam the operations we now read of are carried on. Literary and Artistic Association of Brussels to the Mem-
himself with the honourable dignity appertaining Hagerstown is the furthest from Washington, yet beietrys.ofTthhee SDukeoci Social
dSeciDernecbeeCutongredssthnocw sittidng in that
to them as ex-Chancellors—Lord LYNDIIURST and M'CLELLeer seems to have gone thither after LEE, / were present, and conversed with several foreigners
Folfanddiare
Lord ST. LEONARDS ? Conspicuous among the who had arrived before him, Frederick city, nearer tinction who were presented to them by the President of
champions of
leading Law Reform in this Washington, having been evacuated by the Confe- the Association.
rhe steam-frigate Christophe Colomb has just
later generation, being men as gifted, as Berates. Yet but a day or two before LEE had been arrived at Toulon from Algiers and Ajaccio, bringing 100
'
as pre-eminent, it
eminent,may be said, reported on the south of the Potomac, at Leesburg, i cavalry horses from Algeria and a battalion of the 87th
each of them in his own peculiar capacity, with a large force. We gather, however, from the I Regiment from the latter place. This vessel is to return
to Algeria immediately, to again remain at the orders of the
as the late Solicitor-General of the political party whole that the Confederates had retreated westward
Governor-General. The steam-transport La Seine is also
he present learned
now in Oppositior, and t occupant from Frederick city to Hagerstown, and that the at Toulon under orders to leave on the Ist October for
of the woolsack, a man so profound in the depth and Federals and they had had some sharp en- Alexandria, first calling at Algiers to take on board 200
erudition, that he enjoys the r Turcos to fill up the ranks of that corps in Cochin-China.
scope of his legal epu- counters there. Whether the statements of the
The Ocean of Brest
oc mentions a melancholy acci-
ofbeingthe greatest Lawyer private telegram be true we cannot know dent whichprofession
has justoccurred in the pond of Moulin-a-
who has held the seals as Chancellor since the days for some days yet. If they are, the Confederates Poudre, situated near the military port. Twelve children
of ELDON. And it is:a notable circumstance surely, have been were amusing themselves. on a raft which was fastened to
obliged to recross the Potand Potomac ; the bank. After playing on it for some time they unfas-
inreat law reform upon MT', -
its way, that the last g ELLAN nas fairly beaten LEE in the field. tened the rope which held it and pushed it off into the
which the Imperial Legislature is known to have Such a victory would somewhat revive the Federal middle of the pond, where some irregular movement on
acceptance and the reali- courage. their part capsized it, and all of them were precipitated into
adventured, to the acceptan
the water which was 15ft. deep. Four of them were rescued,
zation of which the Lords and Commons of Eng- The entrance of the Confederates into Maryland I though with great difficulty, by two persons who happened
successively has threatened
land have been guided, at the instance not only that State, but Pennsyl- I to witness the accident, and the other two by a lad named
Commons, and of vania also. Sparfel, who had been on the raft, and who was afterwards
of Sir HUGH CAIRNS, in the We hear repeatedly of movements •
in drowned in attempting to save a third. The eight others
that direction, andof
Lord
WESTBURY, in the Lords. the orders of the Pennsyl- were drowned, life being quite extinct when the bodies
The Land Transfer Bill, which was happily vanish
authorities to call out the militia and to were recovered.
being I make preparations for defence. As to Maryland I- EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Mr. Samuel Harris,
Passed through the legislature last session,
self, the Confederates are - 1 landlord of the Fox and Crane, Bristol, accompanied by his
enrolled enact-
upon the statute book as a complete pretty sure that that State brother, adopted a novel mode of visiting the International
ment, bat f will throw in its lot with the s very shortly before the prorogation o
outh. They treat the Exhibition. Having seated themselves on a velocipede
Parliament, inhabitants therefore well, and offer to liberate (which had previously been constructed by Mr. Harris), off
may be said to owe its existence, in the them
first place, of co from Federal rule. They tell them, they started, and arrived in London (a distance of 108 miles)
line, to the exigency of the times, however, that on Monday, at mid-day, the journey having occupied exactly
the pear being rip, f . . decision lies with the Maryland
the . ers themselves. 211 hours. After spending three days in the metropolis
or this particular Law Reform
in preference to any Oth • The south will receive them into the confederation the return journey was comfortably performed in 18 hours,
Other; but in a secondary way
quite as undeniably to the • . their own free act only. The South is disposed neither of the travellers feeling any fatigue.—lrestern
joint labours, to the by
Daily Press.
' frank and earnest co .operation of the genius and to conquer the goodwill of a State three-fourths
of EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF A FIRE.—On Mon-
skill unmistakably appertaining, as inhabitants of which, we fear, are already warm day afternoon a fire broke out in a newly erected block of
law reformers, the inhabi
to Sir HUGH CAIRNS and Lord WE though a large proportion of the buildings belonging to Mr. Ridley, consisting of four re-
H.*ll3Annit. If Sir pro slavery men,
to the Wyche,
CAIRNS may be said, of the two, to have led the more intelligent deeply regret the breaking-up of aboutcently
aerecitl eedfrheomusAeisalovnertuhe roadA
was soon on the
way by his earlier scheme of an enactment
, Lord the Union. Indeed the Border States, which prac- I spot, but before the flames were engineanrrested two of the houses
WESTBURY has the honour and good f t Slave States to the North, ‘ were completely gutted. Mrs. Thomas, the occupantf of
fortune tically unite the worst
thee house in which the fire originated, in a moment o ea-
The
to have developed his later scheme into an enactment. h athies with both. They
aye naturally strong quip itement at the discovery of the mishap, cut her throat.
passing of this measure was noticed at the sime
have slaves, though few comparatively—they have She remains in a very precarious state, and not in a condi-
as almost the one solitary and consolatory fruit et whites in largely predominating numbers. Tradi- tnitt,oa furnish any information as to her motive.—B• -
an otherwise barren and disappointing session of t;
--on with them looks to the South, progress to the . "
TUEh .Daily Gazette.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW-STREET
the Legislature. Perfect as a reform, the Act now North. STATION, BIRMINGHAM.—The inquest was resumed on
• Tuesday afternoon
upon the eve of coming into actual operation, does Operations in other parts lose much of their before Dr. B. Davis, and a great deal of
additional
not, of course, even pretend to be. Its principal interest in the great struggle in Maryland. In Mr. Graham evidence wa s taken. Amosetealholedr witnesses
not,
Holmes, who erected the
merit is that it is, at any rate, a commencement. l Kentucky the Confederates continue active, but mined, but the inquiry
WWI adjourned,

NEW ADELPIIL

LATEST NEWS.

MR. WEBSTER'S BENEFIT.

The benefit of a London favourite, whether
manager or actor, must always be looked at in
the light rather of a challenge to public sympathy
than an appeal to public support. It must be re-
garded as an occasion on which his patrons are en-
abled to testify to him personally—apart from
, the acknowledgments, pecuniary and profes-
sional, which they may make throughout a season.
Viewed in this light, it has a propriety
which is creditable to both sides. It is a test of
personal estimate which it is as worthy in an actor
to invite, as it must always be gratifying to the
public whenever warrantable to tender. It is, in
fact, an occasion on which artist and patron
shake hands as it were, together, and with as
little loss of dignity on the one side as
of sincerity on the other. As we believe
it would be difficult to mention a man
who, in the course of a long professional
career, has succeeded in engaging a larger amount
of personal respect than Mr. Webster—in addition
to the admiration which he has so justly won, as
one of the most perfect artists in the drama of real
life who have been seen in modern times
—there can be little wonder that his benefit
should always be regarded by the public
as a very pleasurable opportunity of crowding his
theatre to the roof. Last evening, however, he
enforced the event by two additional attractions.
He revived in the first place, after a slumber of some
five or six seasons—one of the best Adelphi
pieces, and one of the greatest of modern suc-
cesses—Mr. Bnckstone's drama of the " Green
Bushes," and he presented in its heroine, a lady whose
tragic power has been demonstrated as successfully
on the boards of the Adelphi, as at Drury-lane
—Miss Avonia Jones. Of the drama itself we can
have no occasion at this late period to speak. All
who have ever seen or heard of it are well aware
that, whether in respect to its interest or its
humour, its force of situation, or its happy
grasp of character, it has had few, if any
equals in the native melodrama of our stage.
It had, it is true, the advantage originally of
wonderful talent in its acting; but its continued
popularity afford sufficient proof that the great root
of its success lay after all in its own inherent and in-
disputable merit. One of its most striking features
undoubtedly is the character of its Indian heroine,
in which Madame Celeste, it will be remembered,
produced so powerful an impression. It was a charac-
ter in every way adapted to the genius of that lady,
alike on the score of its vigorous emotion
and its wild and picturesque details. She had the
advantage of studying Indian life in her early
travels in America, and years before in the same
theatre had presented the first picture of its truth
in a little drama which was taken from Cooper's
story of the " Borderers." All these circumstances
must be remembered, and in merest justice
to that lady, if we would fairly esti-
mate either the trial or the triumph of
her successor, Miss Jones had to follow an ad-
mirable actress in her very greatest impersonation,
and to follow her in a field of acting which is en •
tirely distinct from her own. Miss Jones, as we
have repeatedly said, is a purely ideal actress, who
neither by sympathy or study is adapted for mere
melodrama. She belongs to the school of Rachel
or Ristori rather than Celeste, and would
be infinitely more at home in Shakespeare
or Milman, than in Buckstone. Naveriheless, by
a sudden effort, that was just as surprising as it
was agreeable, she evinced last evening that the
range of her powers was quite on a level with their
depth. As in other eases she made her difficulties

ROME, SEPT. 24.
The Marquis de Lavalette will leave next week
for Biarritz, whence ho will proceed to Spain.
It is asserted that M. de Lavalette, having ex-
hausted all diplomatic means of bringing about a
solution of the Roman question, will not again re-
turn to Rome as Ambassador from France to the
Holy See.

TURIN, SEPT. 25, EVENING.
A grand banquet took place at Court to-day,
after the ceremony of reading the stipulations of the
marriage contract between Princess Maria Pia and
the King of Portugal.
Chevalier Nigra has arrived. The arrival of the
Princess Mathilde is expected to-morrow.
Senor de Castro has presented his credentials as
Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal.
The papers of this evening state that Prince Napo-
leon had a long interview to-day with the President
of the Council, and received several other members
of the Ministry.

Several deputations of Syndics from provincial
towns have arrived with presents for Princess Maria,
upon the occasion of her marriage.

MADRID, SEPT. 25.
It is asserted that the King and Queen of Portugal
will go to Paris after the marriage.
Ovations continue to be given to the King and
Queen of Spain at Seville.

ATHENS, SEPT. 23 (via Marseilles).
Tho Bill relating to the re-organisation cf the
National Guard has been voted by the Chambers.
Tile session was then closed.

The soldiers who took part in the insurrection of
Naapolia, and afterwards fled into foreign countries,
have been amnestied by the King.

the true measure of her success. In the early
scenes of the Indian huntress she threw a spirit
and reality which could not be exceeded,
and in the conflict of passion which arises on her
discovery of her betrayal—the kindling of revenge
in the blood of the Indian, struggling with devo-
tion to her deceiver, until at length the madden-

ing sight of his enfolding a rival in his arms,
leads her, as she watches his caresses, to level her
rifle at his heart, and achieve in his punishment
a far worse doom for herself she found a
means of revelation for the tragic power site pos-
sesses, which revived the memory of higher efforts,
and fully established all her claims. In entire con-

tract to this display was the calm and pathetic
dignity with which she invested the last act, when
the loving and remorseful girl, haunted with the

thought of her fearful crime, and yearn-
ing in some way to atone for it, comes
to the land of her lover, and at length
obtaining her desire—dies calmly and thankfully
at the expiation she has rendered. The deep pathetic
truth of the sinking spirit of the poor Indian—
Miss Jones painted with a quiet power that was
quite as striking and affecting as her most
impassioned ebullitions. It is unnecessary to
say that the impression she produced was most
decisive, and that, applauded loudly in
her early scenes, her closing one raised
the audience to a general feeling of enthusiasm.
She was called for, together with her associates, at
the close of the second act, and also the last. The
drama was excellently played throughout. Mrs.
Mellon renewed her admirable and unique picture
of the Irish Girl—originally sustained by Mrs.
Fitzwilliam—rendering it with a mingled humour
and pathos which no other actress of our
time could rival ; and Mrs. Billington played the
deserted wife—originally sustained by Mrs. Yates

I—with an earnestness and feeling that were scarcely
less successful. Among the gentlemen, Mr. Billing-
ton played the husband with great tenderness--
giving to the one good scene that is allotted him—
his reading the letter of his wife—a more than
usual amount of interest. Mr. Bedford, of
course, resumed his original character,
Jack Gong, and with not the slightest
diminution of the peculiar quaintness of its first
performance—whilst Mr. Toole, who, we believe,
appeared for the first time in Muster Grinnedge,
added another to his many and very original as-
sumptions. The thorough earnestness ho threw
alike into the terrors and the dignity of the pere-
grinative showman, expanded its humour to a
point which could scarcely have been surpassed.
After the drama, which, we must remark, was ex-
cellently placed upon the stage—Mr. Webster con-
tributed his quota to the night's enjoyment by ap-
pa+ ring in his old Haymarket character of the
Woman Hater, in the petite drama of Mr. Ber-
nard. His reception, we need not say, was

most enthusiastic from the whole house, and his
acting of the would-be misanthrope—whose then-

retie asceticism thaws under the presence of domes_
tic happiness—had all the force and geniality Which
stamped it years ago.

Several musical celebrities passed through Berlin
last week—Verdi, on his way to St. Petersburg. ; mime.
Lombord, on her way to Moscow; and Von Flotow, who
was going to Paris to superintend the performance of his
work, " Stradella," at the Grand Opera there.

Tamburini, the celebrated baritone, has arrived
at Nice, where he intends passing the winter season with
his son .in-law Gardoni, who recently arrived there from
London.
Lightning fell on Thursday on a floating prison
for convicts, anchored in the Roads of Toulon.
After
having traversed the roof and pierced the two decks, the
electric fluid escaped without having caused any further in-
jury except having set fire to some timber, which was easily
extinguished. But it is not easy to describe the horror
experienced by 800 convicts when they perceived the electric
spark flying from one end to the other of the massive iron
bar to which their chains were attached.
DEATH OF MR. FORBES MACKENZIE._We re-
gret to record the sudden death of Mr. William Forbes
Mackenzie of Porttnore. Mr. Mackenzie had been at "The
Glen" on a visit to Mr. Charles Tennant, and had retired
to bed on Tuesday night apparently in his usual health.
On his attendant calling him yesterday morning, he found
him dead in bed. Mr. Forbes Mackenzie was returned for
Peeblesshire in 1837, and retained his seat for that consti-
tuency till the
ceeded by general election of 1852, when he was sue-
his brother-in-law Sir Graham Montgomery,
At that time, Mr. Mackenzie, having been a Lord of the
Treasury in the Ministry of Lord Derby, offered himself for
Liverpool, and was returned, though in a month or two
unseated upsn petition, for bribery and treating. As a
legislator, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie's name threatens to live
longest in connection with the parentage of the Public-
we believe, the demerit of
}buses Act of 1852—though/
that Act really belongs to Lord Kinnaird and (we grieve
to say), to our otherwise reasonable townsman Mr. W.
Duncan S.S.C. After his retirement from Parliament,
Mr. Forbes Mackenzie took little part in public affairs,—
rho tqmongroi

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 26.
The Union Company's steamer Dane, with the
Cape mail, arrived here this morning. She left
Table Bay on the 21st, St. Helena on the 29th ult.,
and Ascension on the 2d inst.
She brings 53 passengers.
The Cape Parliament was prorogued on the 9th
ult.

A motion for the complete separation of the two
provinces had been rejected.
The real grievances of the eastern colonists were
being remedied. Parliament and Government were
concurring in vigorous exertions for that purpose.
The principal department complained of, " the
Roads and Bridges," had been called to account
by the Assembly, and taken in hand by the Go-
vernor himself.

A bill had been passed for the construction of a
railway from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town, the
colonial 'revenue being pledged for the interest at 6
per cent. on £750,000.
A proposal was made to introduce a bill for

facilitating the administration of justice on the
frontiers. It was, however, resolved to postpone
the measure for another year, in order that the
question might be maturely considered.
A proposal had been made to petition the Gover-
nor to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the
country, but was rejected.

X 15,000 had been granted for the immigration

service this year.
A large quantity of evidence and information re-
specting irrigation had been collected, and a Bill
on the subject would be introduced next ;session.
Bills had been passed for a railway from Wel-
lington to Worcester, with a branch line to Malmes-
bury.

The long pending separation movement has been
abandoned, and the state of feeling between the
two provinces had become very favourable.
The weather had been very boisterous, and rain
bad fallen incessantly. The rivers throughout a
great portion of the colony were dangerously
swollen. Bridges had been washed away, and the
roads in some parts completely destroyed.
The destruction of private property had been
enormous. The damage was estimated at £50,000.
The shipping had also suffered severely.
On the Bth ult. the brigantine Marietta and the
barks Rate and Crystal Palace were driven ashore
in Table Bay, and became total wrecks. The crews
were saved.

The steamer Golden Fleece, from Calcutta, put
into Simon's Bay on tie 12th inst., totally dis-
masted. The captain was killed.

The breakwater and dock works withstood the
gales.

The Norman arrived in Table Bay on the 12th.
The Ariel reached Simon's Bay on the 21st from the
West Coast.

No despatches had been received from Dr.
Livingstone's expedition at Cape Town,

Mr. Robert Moffat, jun., died near Durruman.
The Rev. J. S. Moffat was returning, with his wife,
dangerously ill.
The Coquette, from Rio, had arrived at Simon's

Bay.
Business at the Cape was still very dull.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegram :
MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING.
"The Yectis, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day.
" The mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m."

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