The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-03 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--('This Day.)

LONDON, July 3.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.W. ;
light breeze, and fine clear weather.
The Herons, Monte, sailed from Liverpool on the 6th
March for Konigsberg; A...tains, from Bombay, let Dec.,
last fur Londan ; City of Montreal, from Liverpool, 2,1
April, for Quebec, the latter was spoken on the 2 tth April
in let. 45 lung. 47, and have not since been heard of.
PonTs3tourti;July2.—Wind S.E. t,o S.S W. Sailed—
Brandon (s.s. tpt.), for 'Woolwich ; Alister (s.s. tpt.), for
_

PLYMOUTH, July 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived —Severn
(tpt. 19 I), from Gibraltar and 134.1aklava ; Adonis, Bergen.
Off the port William and Jane, from New Z ialaud.
FALMOUTH, July 2.—Wind E.—Arrived—Galion, from
Porto Rico ; Leon, Havana.
SW ANSEA, July 2.—Wind. N.W.— Sailed—Uuion, for
St. Thomas.
NEWPORT, .l my 2.—Wind E.—Arrived—Danubo, from
Bristol, fur Indi Sailed—Utility, for Monte Video;
Neptune, 13ahia.
CORK, July I. Arrived Gesina Wilhelmina, from
Ibrail.

CARDIFF, July 2.—Wind
for Sa❑ Francisco. _ •

GALWAY.—Arrived—Engineer, from St. John's, N.B.
ELSINORE, June 30.—The Eleonora, of Sund-iwall,
got in contact in the roadsted yesterday with the Eliza-
-o,th, of Shields' from Memel to London ; the latter re-
ceived trifling damage to bows and bowsprit; both vessels
%%Pt, however, proceed. Upwards of 250 vessels, bound
wostward, are windbound in the roads. Wind to-day
N.N.W. and N.W., very strong.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 2.—(Per Electric Telepraph.)—
The R9bert Peel, from Terschelling, for Narva, the Sieke
van der West and the Isabella, from Liverpool, for Nerve,
are on shore near Narva.

(PER tLEOTRTO,TELEGRAPH.)
••• SOUTHAMPTON, WednesdarMorning.
Arrived—r Lady Mary from •Arundel ; Cicero, Swansea;
Medway, steam transport, from Portsmouth.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.
•
Wind S.

Arrived.—Kate Swanton, from New Orleans ; Margaret,
steamer, Havre; Clarissa Bird, New Orleans ; Wigton-
shire, St. John's, N. 8.; Cs,silda, Bremer'-haven,
Wilmington.
SAiled—Atinfe, for Bilboa ; Carrnels, Trioste ; Aeron
Lass. and 'Lively Lass Havre; Theodore, Marseilles ;
Alert, Tronasoe ; Waldemar, Iceland • Haavest, Ria
Janeiro ; Almora, Melbourne ; Maria Clotilde, Manilla ;
Geo. .Washington,- 'Boston;; Escort, Calcutta; Defence,
Melbourne, .
'Wind S:E: . QUEENSTOWN, June 30.
. .

ftom Cassabianca ; Arabia, Crimea;
Mn; Pira3ust ;',Gray Von. Brandonberg, Dantzio ; "Palo-
rioio, Galata

DUBLIN, Jane 30.
Arrived—Henri Vergelaud, from Ancona; Eclipse,
Santander.....

• KINGSTON, July 2.
•
Wind 11/;I•E. . . •
Aiiired.,--Vestal, from the West Coast.

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Fsurourits,—Brugess; • f3/14tifi.erds; ; Cordova,
Riga ; S Alriborg -Frienitg Khhigiburg.
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NAPOLEON GREAT AT BAS'SANO.

PAINTED BY T. J. BARKER.

For a long time past this exquisite engraving has
been about the most picturesque and conspicuous
object in the windows of the printsellers. "Na-
poleon the Great re,iiking his Officers at Bassano"
—engraved upon a grand scale and in the highest
style of art by Charles G. Lewis, from the original
painting by T. J. Barker, a masterpiece now in
the possession of J. Garle Browne, of Leicester.
By this time every body knows it surely by heart—
this noble picture of a most noble incident. The
celebrated incident of the young Republican Com-
mander-in-Chief, General Napoleon Bonaparte,
coming one evening about sundown upon a most
affecting group upon the battle-field--the dead
body of a soldier over which his faithful hound
piteously howled forth its lamentations. " There,
gentlemen"—exclaimed the youthful hero, direct-
ing the attention of his staff to the occurrence—
" that dog teaches us a lesson of humanity !" In
portraying the whole scene the artist has revealed,
we cannot but think, a really uncommon, amount
of genius as an historical painter. The ,lovely.
Italian landscape forming, the .background is not
more true to the reality than the reedy foreground
-where Napoleon's war-horse plashes amohg the
water-flags and bullrushes. The entire comppsition
of the picture, moreover, demonstrates, in a very
remarkable manner, the artistic. capacity tat the,
mind from which fhiS be'atitiful work of art has
happily emanated.. Although the dog with his
snout raised in the air,.,and his forepaws -extended
over the corpse of his master, is A figure-'
central figur-
in the picture—giving it the familiar advantage too
of the old, and charming, and favourite pyramidal
appearance—the most notable part of the prodtle;
tion is, of course (as it ought to be), the mout4d.
form of Napoleon the Great, pointing to the inci-
Aent delineated, and uttering to the officers of his,
staff his famous words of 'rebuke and admonition..
As for the authenticity of the anecdote itself, of -1
that, we believe, there can be no- reasonable,.;
doubt- whatever. It has been related againn
and again, by historian after historian, and
biographer after biographer. The only question at.
all • about it, left in a manner undecided,
even now appears to us to be the precise
date and the actual locality at which the incident,
really occurred as already related. The mos-- gene-
rally, received notion on the subject is the one,
which has been here adopted by Mr. Barker,
namely, that fixieg upon the Bth of September,
1796, as the time, and the batttle-field of Bassano
as the place of the occurrence so often recounted,
and here at length so touchingly commemorated.
Aceording to the narrative written by Laurent
de l'Ardeche, and illustrated by the pencil of Horace
Vernet, the "date" was, on the contrary, nearly
four years later on, namely, the 14th of June,
Iboo, the " scene " being that of a much more
famous battle-field, that of the great historic vic-
tory won upon the plains of Marengo. Napoleon
being nearly thirty-one at the last-mentioned
period, and scarcely twenty-seven at the epoch
selected by Mr. Barker, _namely, that of his earlier
triumph at Bassano. It should be remembered,-
moreover, 'in regard to this victory of. Bassano,
that it was but the ninth of those marvellous suc•
cesses which were so soon to be multiplied in num-
ber'. and magnitude beyond the limits of very
ready calculation. Gen. Bonaparte ,then a young
liero Of twenty-six, already renowned by reason of
hiaeapture.of Torilma(l9th Dec., 1793) and by his
Defeat of-the Sections (sth Oct., 1795) had opened
on the 9th of April, 1796, the first, and, perhaps,
all things considered, the greatest of his Italian
,cainpaignti (wonderful though the succeeding cam-
paigns were in their general character)—winning on
the 11th:of-April the battle of Mantenotte, on the'
14th that of Mille.sSitno, on the *lsth that of.
Deg,O;`alid on the 21st that of Mondovi ; passing
like a whirlwind on the 10th of May over the
bridge of Lodi ; striking dOwn the Austrian ban-
ners on the 3d of August at Lonado, and on the
sth at Castiglione defeating the veteran Wurm-
ser on the 4th of -September at Roveredo, and on
the Bth (as already observed) at Bassano. Here the
vivid brush of our eminent English artist has de-
picted him—as Napoleon appeared then,- very dif-
ferent indeed from the Napoleon of after-times—
thin, sallow, his hair hanging in elf-locks down his
shoulders, exactly as his features have been pre-
serVed to us in marble by the master hand of An-
tonio Canova. Napoleon -the Great it is we have
before us iu Mr. Barker's noble painting—but Na-
poleon as a General, not as an Emperor. Napoleon
somewhat as he appeared for the first time before
the future arch-C.iancellor of his Empire, Duke
awl Prince of Cambac6res. And that ? Listen
how Cambacdrea describes him as he appeared then
at their first interview—" A little, thin, sallow-
complexioned man ; his ill-arranged hair hanging
down in curls called ore'illes de chien, in fashion at
that time ; very badly dressed—his boots too short,
his coat too long, his cravat horridly wrinkled, his hat
bearing e vidence oflong service." Yet, C3ntin ties the
Arch-Chancellor of the Hereafter, " Disfigured as
he was by these shabby habiliments, I could not help
remarking his white and beautifully-formed bands,
and his mouth, which was inconceivably hand-
some, especially when animated by either a good
natured or satirical smile. And then his eyes !
. . What eyes they were !as brilliant as
those of the lion or the eagle, at once gen le,
firm, penetrating, and confiding . . . .
expressive of sublime genius and magnanimity.
He had altogether the -air of a sovereign in the-
garb of a beggar, or perhaps, I may say, lie looked
like Jupiter when lie visited Baucis and Philemon.
. . Superiority of intellect . was marked in
every look and gesture : his appearance, in short,
produced upon me an immediate and irresistible
fascination. I was under a spell. I felt that I
was in tile presence of a man who commanded my
respect and admiration. Such, at least, is the im-
pression lie produced on me at first sight. Citi
zen said my visitor, lam General Napoleon
Bonaparte.'" And Mr. Barker has, in this noble
picture of the incident of the Dog on the battle-
field of Btssano portrayed for us in feature, if
not in garb, the young General Napoleon Bona-
parte, as depicted in marble by the chisel of Ca-
nova, and as described to Baron Langon by the
voice of Cainbaeeres. And Mr. Lewis also, in his
turn, has, with a most adroit and ingenious graver,
admirably represented in black awl white what
the brush of the painter has so glowingly deline-
ated in the historical original, at present in the
possession of Mr. Garle Browne, of Leicester. Al-
together, we are in no way surprised to observe that
the engraving is formally dedicated by the latter
gentleman to " Those who pay homage to Intel-
lect''—for is' it not the portraiture of a great man
by an artist of extraordinary ability ?—this glo-
rious picture of Napoleon the Great teaching a
lesson of humanity to the future Marshals of his
Empire, the Paladins of a later and greater
Charlemagne.

COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT ON THE DI:
PERTAL CONCESSION TO THE ORLEANS
FAMILY.

Count de Montalembert has addressed the fol.
lowing letter to Count de Morny, the President of
the Corps Legislatif :
" Monsieur le President,—Being detained 120 leagues
from Paris by imperative family duties, which obliged
me to a-k for leave of absence from the Corps Legisla-
tif, I feel the deepest regret that I cannot take part in
tie c.mong debate on the bill relative to the grant of
60,000 f. rente to the Princesses of the house of Orleans
or their heirs.

" But I apprehend that my forced absence does not
deprive me of the right to express my opinion upon this
bill, and conformably with divers precedents which you
will readily-find in the annals of the assemblies where
we have sat together, I have the honour to address my-
self to ;you, Monsieur le President, to request you to
make known that opinion to my colleagues.
"I repudiate with the utmost strength of conviction
both the provisions of the bill and the reasons for it
which are given in the expose des motifs signed by MM.
Boinvilliers and Godelle. During the twenty years..and
.upwards that.l have sat in the deliberatiVe assemblies of
my country, I can call to mind xt.a. instanceOf any mean
sure so' mititely incompatible with every --rule of pul he
and private.,,riglit As this _
I sviil. not Stop .to- speak of the implied sanction
which the bill gives to
.the decrees of January 22, and
March 2, 1852, which stripped the House of Orleans
Tlie,PUri-4,Legislatif :has already.'
:6n three_ successive: occasions, ,beard my protest. against
,those acts. '''Btitrtaking the fait geeepipli, as the poiht
of departure, this much must he .plaie
.to, every man's
understanding':-=-If the 'law which settled the civil list
of King Louis Philippe, and if so .many sul sequent lawn
which, -even under the republic, sanctioned the dots"
Men made*, his:Children, were all instifficient to .over 4
-ride those ancient rules of the monarchy, so strangely inl
coked under the-reign Of Napoleon 111., most assuredly
the law which .we are. now called upon .;W .vote
can have no `greater virtue. - 't donner ice vaut.
if.yett,hatta:thb right-to take 'yOu Cannot have tha right
to give. [Of course M. de Monta!einbertisepert+
-of gevernnientir dealing with Pi,irilEd-property.]
things--s-ene,.- either it was, as -the expose says, in 66U-:
fortuity with the ancient public law-of Franee;' that "the,
patrimony of the Hots of Orleans was ` brought back',
to the den/fen-of the state'; and •then, by virtut eof what
right is the. State now to be partially despoiled of it 2
Or, this"' ancient right' was not applicable to th. royalty,
created by the Charter in 1830 ;' and then, achy is,a part
only of the Orfeex property to be restored to the familiC
and to the female brans only ? -
"If the prciperty which the Duke of Oileans htforel
he ascended the throne settled upon his children dots nut
belong to tbem, why should a present be mane to them,
at the expense of the tax-payer ? But if it d tes belong
to them, or even if the question is doubtful, on what
principle is it to be restored to some of the heirs; and
net to the other# ?
Hoy in Oesenoo of our civil law, mud the equality

of partition which it prescribes, cati• avy one dare to
recognise the right of the daughters, at tue same time
that they strip the sons, and thus create a species of
Salique law for the benefit of confiscation ?
"And if the domains in question- really belong to
those to whom it is now proposed to pay the. value of
them, why are they not restored in kind 7 Whence is de-
rived the right to substitute `rentee',E.:- real property?
What private individual would accept such an exchange!
And where do e e get this figure of 200,000 f. relates
each ? What surveys, what contracti, what adjudica-
tions, served as the basis of the induation of the lands
and property of which the administration of the domains
to 'lc forcible possession ?
" Mor -over, how can it be said that the matrimonlei
conventions' between the princesses, daughters of Louis
Philippe, have an international character which bind
France, while it is at the same time denied that the same
character exists in regard to the conventions made be-
tween the sons of the king and 'the foreign princesses
when they married ?
" Are not the patrimonial fortunes of' the Duke di
Nernours, the Prince de Joinville, the Duke d'Autnale,_
and the Duke do Montpensier to be considered as one of
the conditions which induced the marriage' (to use the
expression of the expose) to the princesses, who left
their own country to enter into a foreign family,' and
-who are also deprived of the,advente.ges resulting from
the'denation of August 7 which ".,their children were to
inherit ?

" Finally, if we are to concur with, the expose in re-
garding the decrees of 1852 as regular And.definitive,
how can a, French assembly be-Asked to inscribe upoa
the ledgtrOf the pu bile debt rentda Which would:be,, intact,
gratuitous pensions in favoUr of young foreign princes,
who never did, -And probably never do,,anything
for France,. While Ad- reparatian-And ail indemnity is re-
'fused' to prpiCeii essentiaAly French, -who,. from the siege
of A.Atwerp to the capture of etbd•el.Knder, never missed
an opportunity to serve At id de hondur to the national
flag, who at the head ,nf' aur 4.ragss, set an example of
eyery inifltary and civic virlicei.: and Who, since the
andesetwed exile, has, clos'ed the doors of Franco
against them, have.; never; by aiiy enterprise, any not,
any woril, Ircnibled the pnbliQ.,peaca Nor attempted to
cause :division and hloodshed-ih the cbui44,.:;
4‘ For all these reaiinnVAliiii fin* Kany .ethers;, I should
vote a thotri4atid fimltsoyer,44liS4,tbe..bill‘presented on
itie'.2ll; of tune. If Ahern the.ityth-e,rwiiredj3rinces so
abject, so forgetful of the honour of their -blood, a 4
to accept benefits'will not be, one of
the legislators to inflict., this humiliation upon them.
In thus acting I obey no..party. nor, personal conside-
rations. If, which, God forbid,, Princes •f the house
if Bourbon could be induced to act _in.. such a man-
ner towards Princes of 'the Napoleon dynasty, I should
-entertain 'the same sentiments and hold thejsarue lan-
guage,' .ft'ir I am one of th..se who seiVe fusticio and
not fortune.

" I beg you, Monsieur le President, to be so good
as to read this letter to the Corps Legislatif, and to
take care that mention is made of it in the official re•
port of the sittings,

" COMTE DE MONTALEMBERT."

HER MAJESTY'S STATE £aNCE6T.

(From the Court Newsman.)

Her Majesty la,t night gave a state concert at Buck.
ingham Palace, and for the firit time in the new ball and
concert room, a spacious orchestra, rising from the fluor
to the organ gallery, having been built for the orchestra.
A party of near 500 were invited; comprising the
Royal Family; the Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, and
Chargé, d'Affaires, and a large party of the nobility.
The Ye mien of the Guard were on duty in the Palace,
under the command of Captain Macdonald the -UOl2 in
• •
Writing.
A Guard of Honour of the Foot Guards was on 11 qtYil
with the band of the regiment, in front of the palace.:
The R yal Family alighted at the garden entresiOft
and were conducted to the Queen.
Her 'llibje.-ty and his Weyal Highness the Prince Con'
sort, with be Princess Royal, accompanied by hid )tae
jesty the King of the Belgian.", their Royal Highn4st,s•
the Princes-, Charlotte of BelgiuM, tbe. COunt of FlaP'
der4, the Duchess of Kent, Prinne o.car ofSweden;the
Duchess of. Cambridge, and the Princess and the
Duke of Cambridge, entered the bAI and elleertivoin
shout ten o'clock.
crVI.
- _ - - _

The Queen wore a dress of whi Sr,io”..v, with "three
flounces brocaded in roses and goldtrimmed witligold
blonde. The jewels worn by her Majesty on her head
con:isteri of opals and diamonds.
-

Her Royal. Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a
dress of white brocaded silk, trimmed with blonde.' Her
Royal Highness's bead•dress wag formed of gold bldnde,
with ornaments of amethysts and diamonds and ostrich
Lathers.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge wore
a dress of white glace silk, with three skirts, richlyt eta-
broidered with white bugles and chenille, each skirt
edged with chenille fringe. The necklace and stomacher
of diamonds and emeralds.

Her Royal Highness wore a tiara of pearls and, dia•
monde with blue feathers.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a double skirt
white tulle dress, with reversed bouillonnes from top to
bottom, over a rich glace white silk petticoat, trimmed
witu bows and loops of pink ribbon ; the holy ores.
(Dented with blbride and pink bows, lb
each bow having
diamond star in the centre. The necklace was diamopdt!.

Tai Ptincass wore round her head a wreath of pink
and white m )s-t rosebuds, with diamond stars intermingled.
The Princess Royal wore a dress of white crepe lease
over a petticoat of white silk, trimmed with bogs of
satin ribbon. The headdress was composed of pink
roses.

Her Mjesty was attended by the Duchess of Suther-
land, Mistress of the R.bes ; the Countess of Gains'
borough, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Flora Macdonald
and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Maids of Honour ;
Lady Charlotte Copley, Bedchamber Woman in Wait-
ing ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lori Chamberlain
a••d othfr Officers of State and Gentlemen of the Royal
Household.

The Kit.g of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, the
Princess Charlotre of Belgium, Prince Oscar of-Sweden,
the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, Red
the Duke of Cambridge, were attended by their respec-
tive suites.

The general company followed her Majesty and, the
Royal circle into the ball and concert room. The gen-
tlemen appeared in full dress, and the members of orders
of knighthood wore their respective
Directly after the entrance of the Queen the concert
commenced.

Th-a orchestra of nearly 120 performers comprised her
Majesty's private band, with several of the leading in-
strumentalists from the Philharmonic Society, the Royal
Ita ian Opera, and her •Majesty's Theatre.
The chorus of 60 voices was selected from the Royal
Italian Opera, the ladies of the Royal Academy of
Music, and the Sacred Harmonic Slciety.
The orchestra was conductel by Mr. Andersen, direc-
tor of her Majesty's private band, Mr, W. G. Cumin',
organist of her Majesty's Private Chapel, presiding at
the organ.

BA Y A BKET THEATRE.

MR. BUCKSTONE'S ADDRESS.

Any night or every night at the Ilayre:lrket, the pub-
lic give amule testimony of the estimaVon in which tbef
hold the talented and enterprising lessee; but if one
wished to behold him in all his glory, surrounded by
troops of friends and overwhelmed continuously with
plaudits and bouquets, one must go on the night of his
annual benefit, and baying arrived betimes in order to
procure a seat, be will see an amount and cordiality of
welcome such as is seldom accorded to actor or manager.
Mr. Thickstone treated his audience yesterday evening
to a varied and strongly-cast entertainment. ask'
spere's " Twelfth Night" wag drawn from the theatrical
repertoire after a rest of eight years for the occasion, fol-
lowed by a new Spanish ballet and a dramatic sketch, in
which Mr. Buckstone and Miss Fane were most suc-
cessful in amusing the audience. But benefit nights Are
not occasions for criticism, and the public will no doubt
be iotere,ted in hearing what Mr. Buclurtone bas to say
for himself, which will be found in the subjoined lid-
dress, delivered by him with "due emphasis and discre-
tion," and amid thunders of applause
"',Ales and Gentlemen,--It is now three years anal I
had the honour of addressing you, on the occasion of my
benefit, in July, 1853, when this theatre closed for three
mouths, in order to make certain alterations and repairk

n Of
I then promised a new and enlarged stage, the eletairo
the scenery, a thorough re-decoration, and, for the first
time here, a Christmas pantomime. All these promises I
have fulfilled ; N4hile the introduction of a pantomime has
for three years been most successful, and which, when
Christmas comes again, I shall continue to present, in our
usual poetic and fanciful manner, aided by the masterly
painting brush of Mr. Wm. Callcott. lam happy, ladies
and gentlemen; to tell you that in adhering to the old pur-
poses and character of the Haymarket Theatre, as the
house for English comedy and farce, I have met with so
mush eucouragement, by chiefly keeping to that class 'of
dramatic eetertAntneet, ,that .will. still continue to form a
pri appal saltlype of atteactteffi here.; Akuugh in reeking this
statement; berirg myself a comedian, you will probably, be
reminded pf ther.olet story in,theeepelling-bOok, of a town
in,dangerof being- besieged, 'when in order to resist the
assaultreof the enemy; a certain Shoemaker assured the in-
haifitants then:l'loo'lncithinß, Iflee leather.' Now this is
fiecitledly'idy' opirifOn as to what ought to be acted at-the
Haymarket Theatre—for comedy,is a shoe of the stoutest
leather here, and one that I hope wilt never wear out. I
have certainly added the Spanish ballet, but that may be
,called the-toe and heel of my shoe ;.• and when .the toes and
heels of Perea Nene and her company are displayed, I am
sure they are more likely to wear out the stage than your
patronage and admiration.
It is a common custom to make use of common phrases,
and whether such phrases may convey the truth or not, we
sometimes employ them so often that they at least wear the
swrible4ce of truth. A. coalman phrase. of the day is to
refor'to the dectirxe'of theAlrama.. Whatever may be-its
notlec eclrineneglnoei:ed here,vliere:l am prowl and. happy to say that it is
which may be proved by'the factthat
when this theatre opened, in Octebee, 1353, after the alte-
rations have allotted to were Made, it: baa continued open
and without any other interruption than Christmas-day,
Ash Wednesday, and Passion Week, up to this evening,
for 815 consecutive nights. Ido not know whether this has
been accomplished by any other London management; I
only know that it has never before occurred in this theatre;
end, as I still intend to go or), it is calculated that some
time iu February next we shall have completed continuous
performances of 1,000 nights, and, lifoand health permit-
ting, we do not intend to stop there:
~ I ',hive plenty Of
materialtud novelty of every description to present to you,
and hope for a long time to come to be enabled to welcome
and-amuse you under this time-bottoured and most legiti-
mete roof; and, while thanking you for the brilliant at-
tendance of this evening, I shall not say, on behalf of my- .
self and the ladies and gentlemen of the company, I bid
you farewelltill October or November next —I shall only,
ladies and gentlemen, bid you fixewell till 7 o'clock to.
=now (Tfilitici4).ofeniug,".

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