The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-06 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1848.

solicitous to observe, on the meeting of the National
Assembly, on the 20th proximo, their immediate con-
firmation in those ministerial capacities which they
have already rendered illustrious by their services,
their activity, their wisdom, and their consummate
daring. We would see, for example, such a one as Citizen
LEDRU•ROLLIN definitively installed in the Re-
publican office for the administration of the Interior ;
we would see again the interests of the operative '
classes permanently confided to Citizen LOUIS BLANC
and to Citizen ALBERT, himself an operative; but,
above all, we would see the diplomacy of Republican
France entrusted to that skilful and reliant genius,
which in the very crisis of the late volutionßeon
proved the salvation of Democracy,
genius of Citizen ALPHONSB DE LAMARTINE,
the instigator and champion of the recent
movement. While, however, we acknowledge the
capacity and integrity of several members of the
new Administration, it is idle to regard it as other-
wise than an Administration of an essentially tem-
porary and provisional character. Before the ensuing
April has expired a substantial Government will, in
all likelihood, be inaugurated, the electoral assemblies
being convoked for the 9th, and the National Consti-
tuent Assembly for the 20th proximo—that Assembly
being deputed to decree the constitution, and subse-
quently, of course, to nominate the individual mem-
bers of the Republican Administration.
Although the present Government of France is in
this manner merely consolidated for the moment, the
great Revolution of which it is the immediate
embodiment has proved to be one of so triumphant
and momentous a description, that it has already
produced a wonderful sensation in the different
capitals of Christendom. Even the revolutionary
struggle of the three days of July exercised a visible
influence over the destinies of adjacent states, and the
immortal contest which commenced between the bar-
ricades of Paris and extended to the furthermost
shores of the Mediterranean and the Baltic, was as
nothing when contrasted with that still more glorious
victory which has just been consummated within the
circumference of the Boulevards.

Europe was ripe for the catastrophe which only yes-
terday terminated in the annihilation of monarchical
government in France. A multitude of extraordi-
nary circumstances had prepared the way for the
insurgent populace. In Berlin, FREDERICK WIL-
HELM IV. had spontaneously granted a representation
to his people, and Prussia, comparatively speaking,
was free ! In Italy a concurrence of memorable cir-
cumstances had anticipated the revival of republi-
canism in the land of VERGINAUD and CONDORCET.
Rome had shaken off its incubus of Pontifical
repression, and had arisen in all the glory of its
reborn liberty at the voice of the reforming Pius !
Tuscany had acquired its rights, and re- organized
its Legislature, with the acquiescence of its Grand
Duke LEOPOLD !—Lucca had been merged into the
emancipated territories of the Tuscans !—Marino
still looked down divinely and serenely from its hill-
top over the regenerated valleys of the Pontifical
states !—Sardinia bad responded to the joyful cries
which resounded among the mountains of Savoy,
when the King of PIEDMONT sundered with his
own hands the bonds of its population, and invested
with the lustre of royal beneficence the name of
CHARLES ALBERT !—Even the petty principalities
of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, were by the
demise of the ex •Empress MARIA LOUISA,
afforded an opportunity of proclaiming their
political independence, and of enabling themselves
and the luckless Modenese to fraternize with their
more fortunate fellow-countrymen !—Sicily had
wrestled its freedom from the covetous grasp of the
Bourbon, and had excited a sullen sympathy among the
more sluggish Neapolitans I—Lombardy itself had
raised the standard of rebellion before the Vice-regal
Palace of Milan, and the blood of its citizens had
attested the fact that their patrotism was unextin-
guished, and that their animosity towards their op-
pressors was inveterate 1 Such were the Italian antece-
dents to the French Revolution of 1848. In Greece
a chance of the financial and political advance-
ment of the sovereignty had presented itself in
the unexpected death of COLETTI—of that statesman
who, by pandering to the pecuniary lusts of GUM;
had jeopardised the authority of OTHO. In Bavaria
the freaks of a wanton had infuriated the multitude to
an assumption of supreme power, and King Louis
had yielded to the demands of his outraged subjects,
through his fear for the personal safety of the beauti-
ful and capricious LOLA MONTES. In Switzerland
the Radicals had just _conquered the promoters of
the Sonderbund, and pronounced in a popular Vorort
the perfect emancipation of the several cantons. In
Belgium the progress of constitutional reform continued
as steady aril very nearly as pacific as in the islands
of Britain. In Spain the return of ESPARTERO had
but a moment before given the peninsula a gleam of
hope, and in Portugal the national banners of DAS
ANTAS, of SA DA BANDEIRA, and of BOMFIM, were
only furled for a time, while the guns of a British
fleet awed the population of Lisbon into obedience to
MARIA DA GLORIA. If Poland was absorbed
in the territorial greed of northern absolutism,
its refugees were übiquitous and were in-
spired with a sterner resolve than ever
for the ultimate vindication of their nation-
ality. Austria maintained a ferocious tranquil-
lity, but a tranquillity which rendered its vigilance
still more conspicuous, for METTERNICH looked with
jealousy towards Lombardy, towards Hungary, to-
wards Prussia, and towards Switzerland ! Denmark
had begun to stir itself into legislative activity.
Sweden and Norway stagnated into happiness : and
the remote realms of the AUTOCRAT presented, as they
have done for a century and a half, a gradual and
almost imperceptible preparation.
Before the three days of February had arrived
this was the position of the kingdoms of the Euro-
pean continent. Everywhere the genius of demo-
cracy was proving triumphant except in the frigid
regions, of which St. Petersbargh, Vienna, and
Copenhagen, are the capitals. Everywhere there were
visible the antecedents of the great convulsion which
is beginning even new to affect the various Govern.
ments of Europe. How those Governments are being
affected we shall explain to-morrow.

We have received a great many communications
from various parts of the country, complaining in the
strongest terms of improper detention of The Sun by
the Post-office authorities. In some instances the
covers have been forwarded to us, but unfortunately
they give no clue by which the parties in fault may
be discovered. That the detention is not owing
merely to unforeseen accident may easily be judged,
bfrcause it is invariably at the moat exciting periods,
when intelligence of the most interesting character
may fairly be expected, that such occurrences are
most frequent. We have frequently communicated
these complaints to the Secretary of the Post-office,
and demanded that means should be taken to coun-
teract a practice so vexatious to our subscribers ;
but, although our representations have invariably been
received with courtesy, and answers have been re-
turned, promising that the subject matter thereof shall
be attended to, no practical benefit has as yet re-
sulted therefrom, and day by day new accounts reach
our office, either of the undue detention or total ab.
straction of papers from the parties by whom they
should have been received.

Europe is already beginning to experience the
effects of the third French Revolution. That is but
natural—it was a necessity. Democracy could not
prove victorious in Paris without exercising a pro-
found influence over the different forms of govern-
ment in this hemisphere. Not merely was the esta-
blishment of a Republic by the Parisians an occur-
rence calculated to operate either directly or in-
directly upon the political constitutions of the conti-
nent, but a variety of coincident facts rendered that
international sympathy inevitable. With the destruc-
tion of the monarchy of Lours PHILIPPE, the Charter
of 1830 was destroyed ; with the destruction of the
Charter, there was an end of the Treaties of 1815 ;
with the destruction of those treaties the compact
which had for nearly thirty-three years been regarded
as the talisman of European peace was broken.
Beyond all this it could not be overlooked that
Frenchmen had not only repudiated all dynasties—
the glorious dynasty of BONAPARTE, as well as the
venerable dynasty of CAPET, and that faithless
dynasty of the bourgeoisie, the dynasty of ORLEANS—
but they had also jumbled the whole Legislature into
a temporary chaos. The intolerable policy of
GUILOT had already thrown the country into con-
fusion, but the revolt which caused the sudden anni-
hilation of his authority had made even that confusion
worse confounded. Notwithstanding the exalted
genius of the different members of the Provisional
Government, notwithstanding the it unimpeachable
probity, their recognised independence, their in-
disputable courage, and their majestic and even
sublime self-possession—in spite of all this, beholding
all this, recognizing and acknowledging all this, it
would be frivolous to pronounce the Republican
2flinistry recently installed in the Hotel de Ville as
anything else but a Government of transition. From
the extraordinary capacity evinced by several of those
democratic leaders, we shall continue to be most

We can most positively affirm that this grievance
is not in any degree owing to any negligence or de-
fdult on our part. The utmost care is taken to have
copies of our journal forwarded to all our subscribers
who
Post-
office, may
ain y desire to receive them through the Post-
ample time for transmission by the earliest
mail after publication. Not a single paper is delivered
to the public in general, or sold over the counter at
our office, until those required for our regular sub-
scribers have been set apart and dispatched from our
premises. The fault must therefore rest either with
the Metropolitan Post-office, or the local branches
through which these copies pass before they are de-
livered to our provincial readers. And we cannot
understand why precautions may not be introduced,
by which the detection and punishment of the guilty
parties may be obtained, and greater regularity
insured for the future. There is no reason why
newspapers should not be forwarded with as much
certainty and dispatch as private letters. Yet it is
notorious that such is not the case, and few persons,
we believe, can be found in any part of the country
who have not repeatedly been disappointed and de-
prived of their expected journal. This would pos-
sibly be avoided if the hour of departure from the
office where posted was stamped upon every news •

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ditional trouble may certainly be entailed en the 'PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.
We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
authorities, but it would be as nothing in comparison
to the safety which it would afford to the public
of , .
yes xrday-
,Tl'.e Mon.tteur of yesterday publishes the following
generally. A tax equal in amount to the postage of i
,4 sosre-zt ant circular from M. De LAMARTINE, the a single letter is levied upon every newspaper, which. ti I
tarp sot Foreign Affairs, to the diplomatic agents of
Secre-
must be paid before it can be issued from the press.,
The postal facilities that are given are the only
r .nd
the French Republic. It is a complete and most
grounds upon which the charge can be justified,
satisfactory explanation of the future foreign policy
surely it is not too much to demand in return
that
of the great French Republic.
every care and attention should be paid by the Post-
" CIRCULAR OF TUE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
office employes, that the property entru' sted to
TO THE DIPLOMATIC AGENTS OF THE FRENCH
their hands should not be mislaid, or kept from those REPUBLIC.
for whom it was intended. Soinethi.ng- must " Sir—You know the events of Paris, the victory
speedily be done. The nuisance has 'become per- of the people, its heroism, its moderation, its pacifica-
fectly intolerable. If the parties entrusted with the tion, the order re-established by the concurrence of
arran ements for the transmission of the mails cannot the whole of the citizens, as if, in that interregnum of
g the visible powers, the reason of the public were alone
introduce some better system, an appeal should be the Government of France.
made to the Legislature to render the department " The French Revolution has thus entered into its
more effective. The point i 4 one in which the definitive period. France is Republican. The French
periodical press should cordially co-operate to procure 1 Republic has no occasion to be acknowled in order
a reform, as their interests, and those of the public, to exist. By natural law as well as by the law of
nations it exists—it is the will of a great people,
are materially affected thereby. We trust thut this which does not demand its title but from itself.
publio notice may at least produce some attempt to Nevertheless, the French Republic, desiring to enter
remedy the acknowledged evil. into the family of governments instituted as regular
powers, and not as a phenomenon coming to disturb
the order of Europe, it is proper that you promptly
snake known to the Government to which you are
accredited the principles and tendencies which will
henceforth direct the foreign policy of the French
Government.
"The proclamation of the French Republic is not
an act of aggression against any form of government
in the world. The forms of government have
diversities as legitimate as the forms of character,
the geographical situation, the intellectual, moral,
and material development of nations. Nations, like
individuals, have different ages. The principles
which govern them have successive phases—monar-
chical, aristocratical, constitutional, republican go-
vernments, are the expressions of the different
degrees of the maturity of the genius of the different
nations. They demand more liberty in proportion
as they feel themselves capable of supporting
more. They demand more equality and democracy
in proportion as they are the more inspired with
the feeling of justice and love for the people. It
is a question of time. A nation goes astray in
outrunning the hour of that maturity, as it dis-
honours itself in allowing it to escape without seiz•
ing upon it. The monarchy and the republic are
not, in the eyes of true statesmen, absolute princi-
ples which are enatnies to the death ; they are facts
which are contrasted to each other, and which can live
face to face, while they understand and respect each
other.
" War, then, is not the principle of the French
Republic, as it became the fatal and glorious neces-
sity of the Republic in 1792. Between 1792 and
1848 there is half a century. To return, after a lapse
of half a century, to the principles of 1792,
or to the principle of ccnquest and of em-
pire, would not be to advance, it would be to
retrograde w ith the advance of time. The revolution
of yesterday is a step in advance, and not one back-
wards The world and ourselves wish to march to
fraternity and peace.
"If the situation of the Republic in 1792 ex-
plained the war, the differences which exist between
that period of our history and that in which we live
explains the peace. Apply yourself to the under-
standing of these differences and explain them to those
around you.
"In 1792 the nation was not one. Two nations
(peoples) existed on the same soil. A terrible strug-
gle still prolonged itself between the classes dispos-
sessed of their privileges and the classes who kad just
succeeded in achieving equality and liberty. The
classes dispossessed united themselves with the cap-
tive royalty and with jealous foreigners to deny its
revolution in France, and to re-impose upon it the
Monarchy, the aristucracy, and the theocracy by in-
vasion. At the present day there are no longer any
distinctions and inequality of classes. Liberty has
freed all. Equality before the law has levelled every-
thing. Fraternity, of which we proclaim the appli-
cation, and of which the National Assembly is to or-
ganize the benefits, is about to unite all. There is
not a single citizen in France, to whatever opinion he
may belong, who does not rally to the principle of
the country before everything else, and who does not
render, by that very union, all attempts impregnable
to the attempt and to the fears of invasion.
" In 1792 it was not the entire population who
entered into possession of the Government. It was
the middle classes only who wished to exercise
liberty and to enjoy it. The triumph of the middle
class at that time was egoistical, as the trjumph of
every oligarchy must be. It wished to retain for
itself the rights achieved for all. It was necessary
for it to operate a strong diversion against the ad-
vance of the people by precipitating it (the people) on
the field of battle, in order to prevent it from entering
into the service of its own Government. This diver
sion was the war. War was the idea of the Monar-
ehians and Girondins. It was not the idea of the
most advanced democratics, who wished like us the
sincere regards and the complete reign of the people
itself, comprising in that name all classes without
exclusion or preference, as the nation is composed.
" In 1792 the people was only the instrument of
the Revolution. To-day the Revolution is made by
the people and for the people. The people is itself
the Revolution. In entering into it, it carries into
it its new necessities of labour, of industry, of in-
struction, of agriculture, of commerce, of morality,
of prosperity, of property, of cheap living, of
navigation, and, in short, of civilisation, which are
all the necessities of peace. The people and peace
are but one woid.
"In 1792 the ideas of France and of Europe
were unprepared to comprehend and to accept the
great harmony of nations among each other to the
benefit of the human race. The idea of the age
which was closing was only in the heads of some
philosophers. Philosophy at the present day is popu-
lar. Fifty years of liberty of thinking, of speaking,
and of writing, have produced their result. Books,
journals, and the tribune, have acted as the apostles
of European intelligence. Reason spreading every-
where, and overstepping the frontiers of nations, has
created that intellectual nationality which will be
the achievement of the French Revolution, and the
constitution of international fraternity all over the
globe.
" In short, in 1792 liberty was a novelty, equality
was a scandal, and the Republic was a problem. The
title of nations, which had only just been discovered
by Fenelon, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, was so com-
pletely forgotten, buried, profaned by old feudal
dynastic and sacerdotal traditions, that the most
legitimate intervention of the people in its affairs ap-
peared a monstrosity to the statesmen of the old
school. Democracy made the monarchs, and at the
same time the founs!atious of society tremble. To-
day thrones and the people are accustomed to the
word, to the forms, and to the regular agitations of
liberty, exercised in nearly different proportions in
all states, and even in monarchies. They will ac-
custom themselves to the Republic, which is its com-
plete form in all the ripest of nations. They will re-
cognise that there is a conservative liberty. They
will acknowledge that there may be in the Republic
not only better order, but that there may be more real
order in that government of all for all, than in the
government of the few for the few.
" But besides these disinterested considerations, the
sole interest of the consolidation and the duration of
the Republic would inspire in the statesmen of
France the thoughts of peace. It is not the country
that runs the greatest danger in the war ; it is the
liberty. War is almost always a dictatorship. Sol-
diers forget ins itutions for men. Thrones tempt
the ambitious. Glory dazzles patriotism. The
prestige of a glorious name veils the attack upon the
sovereignty of the nation. The Republic desires
glory, without doubt, but it wishes for it for itself,
and not for Caesars or Napoleons.
"Do not deceive yourselves, nevertheless. Those
ideas which the Provisional Government charges you
to present to the powers as a pledge of European
safety, have not for their object to obtain forgiveness
to the Republic for having bad the boldness to create
itself, and still less to ask humbly the place of a great
1 right and a great people in Europe. They have a
more noble object : to make sovereigns and nations
reflect, and not to allow them to deceive themselves
involuntarily as to the character of our revolution;
to give its true light and its just character to the
event; in short, to give pledges to humanity before
giving them to our right, and to our honour, if they
should be unacknowledged or threatened.
" The French Republic will, then, not make war
on any one. It has no occasion to say that, if condi-
tions of war are laid down to the French people it
will accept them. The thoughts of the men who at
the present moment govern France are these :—lt
will be fortunate for France if war be declared against
it, and if it be constrainedethus to increase in strength
and in glory, in spite of its moderation. It will be
a terrible responsibility for France, if the Republic
itself declares war without being provoked to it. In
the first case, its martial genius, its impatience of
action, its strength accumulated during so many years
of peace, will render it invincible within its own ter-
ritory, and redoubtable perhaps beyond its frontiers.
In the second case, it would turn against itself the
recollection of its conquests, which diminish the affec-
tion of nations, and it would compromise the first
and most universal alliance, the spirit of nations
and the genius of civilization.
" According to these principles, Sir, which are the
upon
yourself the fellowing
cool principles of France—principles she can pre-
sentfrienthwitahodutitmpr
foearts,sermi
asenNiees—you will have the
without suspicion, to her
goodness to n
declarations:.. .

The canton of Neufchatd, in Switz.!rland, has just
thrown off the yoI4P of the King of rat:SilA, and has
named a Provisional Government.

A letter from Carlsruhe, of the 29th ult., says :
" At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the
Grand Duchy of Baden held this day, the Govern-
ment announced that it was about to present Bills for
granting an entire freedom of the press, for arming
the people, and for instituting trial by jury. The
Bill on the freedom of the press has been a long time
drawn up. The law on criminal trials is so con-
structed that nothing more is necessary than to in-
troduce the trial by jury, without any other essential
changes. The arming of the citizens is commenced,
and some of them already guard several posts and
one of the gates of the town. Muskets have been
given out. The defence of the city will soon be
complete. A general enthusiasm prevails. At a late
meeting at the Hotel de Ville, cheers were given in
honour of the GRAND DUKE. Seven persona were
arrested last night, but they are said not to Wong to
the town. They had been watched several days at-
tempting to disturb public order. This evening
patrols of citizens are paradirg the streets."
The Prussian Uniimrsal Guze:le declares that
Prussia will not interfer.? with France, but will re-
main upon the watch. The Prussian Government
has sent a note to all the German Governments re-
commending them to put their co_tingents upon the
war footing.

The King of Pitussii has recalled his Ambassador
(Baron AENIM) from Paris, leaving Baron lIATFELD
as Charge d'Affaires.
The Duke of HESSE CUSEL has been expelled from
his dominions, and hl3 chateau has been burned. The
Duke of NASSAU has fled, and the Grand Duke of
BADEN has given a constitution. Great agitation
prevails at Mayence, Saar-Bruck and Saar Louis.
The King cf WURTEMBURCI has accorded to his
pe'ple the liberty of the press.
The Augsburg Gazette states that two additional
regiments of Chasseurs and two battalions of Croa
tians have been ordered by the Emperor of AUSTRIA
to march into Lombardy.
The whole number of Austrian troops on the
frontier of I'ely is upwards of 100,000 and 600
pieces of artillery.
A letter from Posen of February 24, in the
Journal de Frankfort, states that the Russian Go-
vernment was concentrating considerable forces on
the frontier of Austria, and that Prince PACKS-
WITSCII was to command them ; the whole body
will consist of sixty thousand men. Part of them
had, the letters state, already arrived at their des-
tination.

The German Diet has been convoked at Frankfort,
to meet immediately.
Eighty thousand men are to be immediately re-
cruited in Austria. - Archduke John of AUSTRIA
has taken the command of the division in Styria.

Madrid papers of the 27th and 28th ult. have ar-
rived.

The intelligence of the abdication of Louts PIII•
LIPPR was known in Madrid on the 27th, although
the Ministry in the early part of the day pretended
that the state of the atmosphere was such that they
could not rely on the information conveyed by tele.
graph. The Eco del Comercio, however, announced
the fact, but not until the Ministerial speculators had
had time to conclude some most profitable bargains on
the Stock Exchange. In the Chamber of Deputies the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, on being ques
tioned on the subject, admitted that grave events
had occurred in Paris. Queen CHRISTINA was
so affected that she was twice bled. She
sent for CORTINA to endeavour to form some
new Ministerial combinations, but he refused to un-
dertake the task. She then dispatched the Duke of
AHIMADA to Paris, with an urgent request to the
Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER to proceed at
once to Madrid. On the news of the establishment
of the French Republic being received, the Afrance-
sados were in a perfect ►tate of consternation.
" What is to become of the unhappy woman CHRIS-
TINA ?" was asked by those who had heretofore been
her staunchest supporters. She herself, meanwhile,
was making most active preparations for immediate
flight.
A Council of Ministers was held, and NARVAER
proceeded to the Chambers to demand a suspension
of all constitutional guarantees, and a large increase
to the army. A large army will, it is said, be imme
diately a3sembled on the French frontier.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 28.—The Three per Cents.
have fallen as low as 25, at which price they wet.r
done to- day. This is a decline of nearly 5 per cent.
since yesterday.

THE WEST INDIAN MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship
Clyde, W. Symonds commander, arrived st South-
ampton this morning, bringing the West India
mails. The mails came in charge of Lieutenant
Percival.

Her dates are—Nicaragua, Jan. 27; Chagres, Jan.
28 ; Charthagena, 31 ; Santa Martha, Jan. 19 ;
St. Jago, Feb. 4 ; Jamaica, Feb. 7 ; Jacmel, Feb. 9 ,
Puerto Rico, Feb. 11 ; Demerara, Feb. 5; Tobago;
Feb. 7 ; Trinidad, Feb. 7 ; Barbadoes, Feb. 10 ;
Grenada, Feb. 7; St. Vincent, Feb. 10; St. Lucia,
Feb. 10 ; Martinique, Feb. 11 ; Dominica, Feb. 11 ;
Guadaloupe, Feb. 11 ; Antigua, Feb. 12 ; Montserrat,
Feb. 12 ; .Nevis, Feb. 12 ; St. Kitts, Feb. 12 ; Tortola,
Feb. 13; St. Thomas, Feb. 14; Fayal, Feb. 27.
She brings on freight 530,000 dollars on merchants'
account; platina, value 5001.; 149 casks of coffee, 3
bales of tobacco, 157 bales of sarsaparilla 45 serons of
indigo; precious stones, value 1,6001. ; 297 packages
of sundries, and 50 passengers.
This steamer encountered stormy weather on the
passage home. From the advises brought by her we
learn that the West Indian islands were generally
healthy, and the weather seasonable.
The political intelligence is important and interest-
ing. A revolution had taken place on the 24th of
January at Caraccas, the capital of Venezuela, where
the Congress was in session. A violent debate oc-
curred, and a tumult arose in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, in which five members were killed. Some
fighting afterwards took place in the city, which
ended about nine in the evening ; but fresh outbreaks
were expected.
The commercial alvices by this arrival are impor-
tant. The trade of the British West India co!ooies
is represented to be in a sad state of depression, and
shippers are recommended to use the utmost caution
in sending supplies of goods.

DEATH OP SAM VALE —At eleven o'clock on Fri-
day morning, " Sam Yale," who for many years was a
must popular comic actor at the Surrey, hadler's
and other metropolitan theatres, died at his residence in
lientiingtOn•lane. "Sam" had retired from the stage
tir the last two or three years, and was enjoying his
churn cunt dignitute. It seems that ho had been '• bre.:.k-
ing up" latterly, but his demise was sudden, fur he was
out a day or two before his death. He was fifty years
of age the 3d of October.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE TOM COOK E.—The remains
of the late Mr. T. Cooke were dep-sited in the
green Cemetery on Saturday, attended by only a low
relatives. Several of the musical profession were anxious
to pay a tribute of respect to hi. memory, which, how-
ever, was respectfully declined, as the deceased had
expressed u wish that his funeral should be as private
as possible.

APPOINTMENTS —Mr. Kindersley, Q.C., the emi-
nent Chancery barrister, will Int the new Master in
Chancery, in place of Sir Griffin Wilson, resigns d.
Colonel Herman is appointr.cl Vice Consul of Great Bri-
tain at Bengazi in Tripoli, in place of Mr. F. H. Gilbert,
promoted to be her liitjesty'e Consul at Alexandria.