The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-01 00:00:00

LO NOON, TrIU'RSD Y. EVENING, 1111 AY 1, 1862.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.

.;;• Wonderful Perim mane,e of Mr. Bell's trained Elephnnts.
THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
RAJAH Or 'NAGPORE, introducing two colossal Asiatic
Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals
ever exhibited.

To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un-
rivalled Troupe of Equestrians.
Concluding with a laughable Farce.

Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

C 1 NT.ERBU It It HALL
ARTS GALLERY.

AND FINE

The miraculous STECKEL at Ten o'clock.
UNSWOR lilt, “or any other man" (the original), and
EUGENE, late principal comedians of the Ramsey and
Newcomb Minstrels, at a quarter-past ten o'clock.

Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rug-
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh-
Mane.

Comic by Messrs. Unsworth and Eugene, Mr. Randall, Mr.
J. G. Fordo, Mr. Hollingsworth, andMias Caroline Parkes.

1 gill-1E OXFORD. 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
lIIMISEY and NEWCOMB'S MINSTRELS
In their original burlesque, serio-comic, instrumental, and
Terpsichorean Entertainment,
THE OLIO OF =Rol lAN ODDITIES.

Births' celebrated "Jolly Beggars,,, with character! - tic
liithsic by George Linley.
Grand Selections from "lin' Ballo in bI schen," Tro-
vatcre " "Norma," &e &c , by Miss Russell and the
entire Company. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr.
?. Jonghmana.
A host of comic talent, including W. Randall and Harvey
aad French (the Nerves).

Thdiads, Duets. Am, &c. ' • and, at 11 o'clock. it tntr and
pleAtt appear in New and Extraordinary Double Feats on
the Flylig,•• Trapeze.

LOCH TAY SALMON FISHING.—Owing to the
fine genial weather which has prevailed during the past
week, the salmon fishing on Loch Tay has greatly im-
proved. Since yesterday week anglers. especially at the
west end of the Loch, have enjoyed good sport, and mor
fi3l2 have been killed than were captured for the six weeks
pre/ioup,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TRIG DAY.—Morning, 3h. 16m.—Afternoon, 3h. 31m.
To-MORROW. -Morning, 3h. 48m.—Afternoon, 4h. sm.

THE SU N

it was, due td the English spirit of the work-
ing men. " The spirit of the Lancashire ope-
ratives," he said, " had been applauded in the
highest quarters in the land. Their independence,
their patience, and their forbearance had been the
theme of statesmen ; and he for one gloried in
being associated with men who would rather sell
every article of furniture and pawn every vestige
of clothing before they would stoop to have the
name of pauper branded on their brow. This in-
nate pride in the working classes prevented them
from making application to the Poor -law Guardians,
well knowing, as they did, the humiliating pro-
cesses through which they would have to go before
they got 2s. 6d. for five days' work in a stone-yard ;
and, if they missed a day, would have sixpence
knocked off." We cannot wonder that such a state-
ment elicited sounds which on some occasions the
meeting might have heard in the House of Com-
mons itself.

We can appreciate fully the difficulties of the
guardians with such a body of industrious men
suffering from enforced idleness, almost suddenly
thrown upon them ; to avoid imposition is the only
thing, we may be quite sure, which they desire.
Such men as assembled in this meeting know, in
the bottom of their souls, that they would not im-
pose if they could ; they would only too gladly give
full value for the best wages they could earn ; but
the men themselves will frankly confess that the
guardians and relieving-officers have no means of
knowing, almost at sight, the honest men in want
from the impostor, who makes their known want
the means of his imposture. Could the working
men devise no unchallengeably honest organisation
of their own, by which they could guarantee in a,
case like the present, when wholesale relief is
needed, that the applicants they sent needed the
help ? They can better detect impostors among
their own class than the parish officers can ; and it
seems conceivable that a committee of the most
intelligent, upright, and trusted of their own num-
ber could lighten, very effectively, the labours of
the officials. One thing is obvious—hard manual
labour is not the proper test for operatives who have
not been used to it. Their muscular system fails
beneath it. Long continuance at it might, indeed,
unfit them for resuming their more delicate opera-
tions when work returned.

What, however, strikes us throughout with the
greatest admiration is, the excellent spirit of the
suffering population ; may it long continue, but
never let it be a pretext for neglecting to contri-
bute to their relief. A potato rot and a cotton rot
cause, it may be, equal distress, so far they are
alike—but the former was due solely to that will to
which we all must bow, there was nothing in it to
irritate us with our fellow men. The cotton failure
is, on the contrary, caused entirely by the ambition
of Northern Americans to force into political union
with themselves a people who bitterly hate them—
and, for this ambition, tens of thousands of our
workmen, and of French workmen too, are
to be starved, or thrown on charity ! We do
say that to us it is wonderful that such sufferers do
not exclaim " We have paid onr share of £300,000
for the Warrior, our share of the £11,000,000 for
the navy—we demand that you go and reopen our
communications." The American blockade, we
must say ourselves, touches so closely on a reduction
of our case to that necessity which has no law but
itself, that, if long continued, it will certainly raise
the question how much the Governments of Europe
will sacrifice to Northern lust of territory and power•

A Liverpool contemporary inserts a letter from
Turin which makes some very curious revelations.
Our contemporary's knowledge of the origin of the
letter and the channel through which it was re-
ceived are, of course, our only guarantee for its
tzustworthiness, but we have certainly no reason to
doubt the reliableness of the Liverpool .Mercury

n such a matter.
The story, in brief, is that the Heir Apparent
of the Italian Throne, Prince HUMBERT, wishes to
come to England at the time of the Great Exhibi-
tion, and to come via Paris, but that the Emperor
of the FRENCH puts his veto on the journey by that
way, and, ♦irtually by any other. The KING,
like our own SOVEREIGN, is desirous to fit his son
to occupy his own throne, not only by giving him a
good education, a far better one than he received
himself, but to qualify him to rule at home by see-
ing what he can of nations abroad. England was
to be the first country visited by him, and the year
of the Exhibition was thought to be a specially in-
structive one for a young man of eighteen. But he
must needs go through France; he has a married sister
there, and the political relations between the two
Governments might have given it the air of intended
evasion if he went round by Gibraltar, or by
Germany and Belgium. Still it was desired to
make a mere formal visit to France, and to be
received at Court there afterwards, perhaps on
his return ; but to proceed at once for England.
This arrangement was just the one which the
EMPEROR is said to have made use of to forbid
the journey. The EMPEROR was in every way
courteously notified of the intended visit, but a
reply is sent that " Prince HUMBERT cannot, even
in passing through France, dispense with paying
a visit to the Court." At first sight this would
seem nothing more than a bit of over-sensitive
ceremoniousness. There seems, however, to have
been a much deeper meaning. The Prince, as
representative of the House of Savoy, is supposed
also to represent antagonism to Popery, while
the fair Empress is equally supposed to represent
femine devotion to it. Hence, if the Prince went,
to Court, its most essential personage must either
be present, and receive him with damaging coldness,
or with equally damaging effect must, on that day
leave the Tuilleries for St. Cloud. She could not
very graciously receive the son of the King, who
has been excommunicated by the Holy Father, the
object of EUGENIE'S most tender religious affection.
At present, therefore, all parties, Emperor, King,
and Empress, are described as annoyed or exaspe-
rated. The Emperor is said to have requested the
King to put off his son's journey till a more conve-.
nient season, and to save him from a family quarrel;
t] King's answer is not yet known, It seems,
however, to be assumed that the Government and
Court of Turin are not in a position to send the Prince
by Switzerland, the Rhine, and Holland, which
would certainly be for him the pleasanter route. It
!s vexatious to see how even in such minor matters
as these the false position of the Emperor in his per-
tinacious occupation of what is really VICTOR EM-
MANUEL'S capital, brings its annoyances with it.
LOUIS NAPOLEON and the French have no better
political right to occupy Rome than VICTOR EM-
MANUEL and the Italians to occupy Paris. A deep
consciousness of wrong must pervade the hearts of
a Sovereign and people who feel themselves thus
trampled on by a man to whom they f:eely confess
they owe much. The consequences of the occupa-
tion are bad enough, but its ungenerousness is, if
possible, even worse, The Southern brigandage
which it inevitably fosters and protects—the mili-
tary weakness, in the face of the Quadrilateral, of
which it is the cause—these are, of course, great
material evils, sut, in combination with the
Savoy and Nice affair, this mean advantage taken
of the comparative weakness of Italy by the Power
which began as her deliverer, deprives France of all

claims to magnanimity. ." I have helped you to
partial emancipation, therefore be grateful—l refuse
you still a part of your own, but try to take it if
you dare"—is unworthy language of France at
present.

In that delightfully Roundabout way that we
are all of us so well accustomed to in our deal-
ings with the Circumlocution Office the
intricate maze of all the twistings and wind-
ings of which we can only hope to traverse
securely by following a clue of red tape—
after this most pleasant official manner we have
at last been enabled to learn what General Lord
CLYDE thinks of the Brighton Review, and of
the Volunteers generally. The gallant and
noble Veteran, it now appears, wrote, on the
24th, to Lieutenant-General Sir I. Y. SCAR-
LETT, the Adjutant-General of her MAJESTY'S
Forces, a communication, in which he
expressed his admiration of the bearing and dis-
cipline of the Volunteer force that had passed
before him on the Monday preceding the date of
his letter, being, in fact, the Easter Monday of
1862. This communication of General Lord
CLYDE was, thereupon, laid in due course by its
recipient, the Adjutant-General, Sir J. Y. SCAR-
LETT, before his Royal Highness the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE, the General Commanding-in-Chief.
By his Royal Highness, Lord CLYDE'S letter to the
Adjutant-General was subsequently forwarded on
to the Right Hon. Sir G. C. LEWIS, her MAJESTY'S
Secretary of State for War. And now, by order of
the Secretary of State, the Earl DE GREY and
RIPON, Sir GEORGE'S ;Under Secretary, for wards
the raport on to ourselves, among others, for the
purpose of publication. So that "at last, nearly a
fortnight after the Review, at any rate ten days
after it has passed by, the public learns what was
thought about it by the gallant and noble veteran
who on Easter Monday presided over it.

Lord CLYDE'S excellent letter, it will be seen by
those who turn to it in another part of our issue of
this evening, gives us in an admiraby lucid and suc-
cinct form, within the compass indeed of a very few
sentences, a record of the extent and character of
the whole of this last and very interesting
demonstration on the part of the Volunteers.
General Lord CLYDE recalls to mind at the
outset the fact that the force reviewed by
him was a force of 20,000 Volunteers. His
Lordship commends—and with reason the
" excellent arrangements " entered into with
the Railway Companies, long before Easter Mon-
day dawned, by Colonel M'Mußpo, the experienced
Inspector- General of all the now numerous corps of
our Riflemen, "Aided by the punctuality and order
of the Volunteers themselves," says Lord CLYDE,
" the whole of this large force, portions of which
came from distant districts, arrived at the times
appointed, and immediately proceeded with perfect
regularity to their several places of rendezvous,
where the companies were told off, and the bat-
talions formed for drill and manceuvre." Their
march thence, that is from the various places of
rendezvous, to the White Hawk Down, is then
duly noted down as having been performed,
in each case, with laudable precision.
The summary then given by Lord CLYDE,
is, in its brevity, strictly in harmony with
the review itself, which the noble and gallant
writer himself explains, was judiciously conducted
with all convenient speed, so as to enable the
Volunteer to return home at as early a date as the
inspection itself would admit of. " After riding
down the front of the lines," he says, " the march-
ing past in open column at once commenced; and,
on the whole, was admirably performed; showing
what pains must have been taken by the officers,
non-comu►innioned officers, and men to arrive at the
high degree of efficiency which they had attained/
Finally came the simple manoeuvres, observed with
so much bewildered satisfaction by the specta-
tors assembled upon and around the Grand
Stand. Having thus specified, in a few words,
what it was that had been actually done at the
Review of these 20,000 Volunteers, General Lord
CLYDE distributes the proportion of praise re-
spectively deserved, according to his judgment,
by those who were engaged more or less promi-
nently in getting through their movements. From
Colonel 11,1'1111mm and his Staff downwards each
comes in for his die share—commanders, officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men. Altogether
the noble Veteran's communication is a most grati-
fying souvenir of a Review, that was not only a
gala-day's show, bat rally remarkable
also in a patriotic point of view.

LATEST' NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.
We (Times) have received the following telegram
from our correspondent at Cork :
NEW YORK, APRIL 19.
The President has signed the Act for the emanci-
pation of the slaves in the district of Columbia.
The Confederates have been defeated at Apache
Pass, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Col. Slough.
Their loss amounts to 400 killed and wounded.
Commodore Foote and General Pope have in-
vested Fort Pillow, on the Mississippi, 70 miles
above Memphis.
The siege of Yorktown makes no progress.
The Merrimac remains at Norfolk, repairing da•
mages caused by the bursting of her large gun.
Jefferson Davis is reported to be chief in command

in Yorktown.
General Banks has captured Mount Jackson:
A great battle is anticipated at Rudes Hill.
The Potomac flotilla has sailed up the Rappahan-
nock, and taken possession of Rappahannock with-
out resistance.

M. Mercier, French Ambassador at Washington,
has gone to Richmond on a special mission from his
Government.
Ex-Secretary Cameron has been arrested in
Philadelphia at the suit of Pierce Butler, for illegal
imprisonment in Fort Lafayette.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, APRIL 18, EVENING.
Money easy ; gold 12 prem.
Exchange dull ; bankers' bills 112 to 1121.
Stocks inactive. New York Central, 801 ; Erie,
36i ; Illinois, 601.
Flour heavy, with decline of sc. to 10c. per
barrel. Coffee quiet. Sugar in steady demand.
Cotton active. Middling uplands, 29 to 291.

PARIS, MAY 1.
The Constitutionnel of this morning states that
General Govon is shortly expected in Paris.
The Paris journals publish letters from Vera Cruz
to the 30th March, stating that fresh acts of vio-
lence had been committed by the Juarez Govern-
ment against the French.

LISBON, APRIL 30, Evening.
Disturbances have taken place:near Oporto re-

specting the new taxes.
Three hundred armed men attacked the col-
lector's house and burnt his papers.
The disturbances were afterwards surpressed.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 1.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Sultan, Captain Cook, has arrived here.
She brings four passengers, but no mails or cargo.

The Sultan left Gibraltar on the 25th ult. The
British barque lnkermann, bound from Shields to
Genoh, was run down by the Janus, Ceeli on the
16th tilt.; the master and three of the crew were
drowned.

The brig Wynard put into Gibraltar on the 22d
ult., with loss of bulwarks, &c.
The delivery of the new territory at Melilla to
Spain, for the completion of the frontier demarca-
tion, was daily expected.
Exchange and freights at Gibraltar were unal-
tered.