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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck-
stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss
Weekes, and Mrs• Wilkins.
=Followed by A HANDSOME HUSBAND.
To conclude with THE. ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By
the Leclercqs•

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—.
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Tins EVENMG, will be performed THE MERRY
WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps,
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadowth
Kiss C. Leclercq, &c.
Commence at 7.

A 1) ELY Hi, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, " The Flowers
of the Forest "
Tenth week of the popular American Actress, Miss Julia Daly
TH IS -.VENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
Messrs. J. L. Toole P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Eburne,
C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs.
Billin,gton, Miss Laidlaw.
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billiagton, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mce at 7rs. Cbatterley.
Commen.

Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Al.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. phitheatre, 1s ; Gallery, 6•l'.
Acting fir.Mlr Wm. Smith.

FRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lossee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
• Positively the last night but One of M. LECLERE.
THIS EVENING,
LES FEMMES QUI PLEURENT.
LES NOCES DE CLEOPATRE. Madlle. Marie Basta
)f. Thomas, and M. Leclere.
LES DEUX TIMIDES.
Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s.
Gallery, ls.
Private Boxes, from Two Guineas.
Commence at 8.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.
To-morrow (Tuesday) Last appearance of M. Leclere.
On Wednesday, Maxine. Delphine Fix.

STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wsl. BATTY.
Notice.— The Entertainments on Monday Evening last
having been honoured by the presence and approbation of
their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold and
suite, and other distinguished visitors, the magnificent Hippo-
Drama, and the Novel and Wondrous Scenes in the Arena
forming the programme on the occasion, will be repeated
every evening till further notice.
By particular request, there will be TWO more GRAND
MID DAY PERFORMANCES, viz., on Wednesday, July 4,
and Saturday, July 7, commencing, each day at 2 o'clock.
On Monday, July 2, 1860, and during the week, to com-
mence with the immensely successful Grand Historical
Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled FAIR ROSAMOND, or
the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by Scenes in
the Cirque, supported by Madlies. De Berg, Monet, and
Leontine ; Messrs. Fernando, L'Epine, F. Watson, and Herr
Christoff, Sze. &c., artistes of unequalled celebrity. Conclud-
ing with a Popular Farce.
The magnificent Chandeliers manufactured by Messrs.
Decries and Sons, of Houndsditch.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOIJNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite ...... Miss Russell.
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, TrOVatOre, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls, Hall. 641.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critahfield.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of seventeen performers
(organised expressly for this Establishment), will make their
first appearance on MONDAY next for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Surt OYFIC9S, JULY I, 1660.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
49 —lowest this morning and during the night.
65—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.38.
WIND—North-Westerly ; light, with fine dry weather.
JULY 2.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
69—highest since noon yesterday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.45.
WIND—North-Westerly; light, with fine, warm Sum-
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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1860.

The Quarterly Revenue returns are again before
us, and again indicate how vast and satisfactory
must be the trade and resources of the nation, and
how well off the consuming classes must be. No
less a sum has been raised by taxation during the
year ending June 30th, 1860, than £71,416,587,
being an increase of £5,727,014 on the Revenue of
the preceding year.
Of course the point of greatest interest is—
to what the increase is due? It is not certainly to
the new Customs Tariff. Customs figure with a de-
crease on the quarter,compared with the correspond-
ing quarter of last year, of not less than £375,641,
although we may be sure that orders had been held
back in anticipation of the changes to be made by
the Budget, and that they must have been very
large this quarter, both for speculation and to re-
plenish the diminished stocks.
The Excise, however, makes up, and more than
makes up, for the losses sustained under the new
tariff. Its inerease on the year is £2,309,000, and
though a part of this is to be accounted for by the
earlier payment of the malt and hop duties, yet
the amount of malt made during the year has
been unusually large. Altogether the excise re-
turns show that the consumption of articles
in popular use has increased ; and so, indeed, do the
Customs,' for the alterations in the tariff were cal-
culated by Mr. GLADSTONE to cause a considerably
greater deficiency under that head than has actu-
ally occurred.
But it is the Highwayman-tax—the tax which,
whatever your necessities, you cannot escape—the
tax which you must pay in the same proportion,
whether it represent the sweat of your brow or your
brains, or whether it flow without trouble to you
from consols or broad acres—it is the merciless
Income-tax to -which the chief increase of the na-

tional revenue is clue. £3636,710, are the figures
which indicate how much, what Mr. GLADSTONE
has designated as a tax which is the sum of all
fiscal iniquities, has been vs rung from ten thousand
sufferers—a tax 'which he has made more profi-
table by three or four millions, almost with
the avowed purpose of torturing us to cut down
our naval and military expenditure.
On all the heads except Customs and Miscel-
laneous, for the year, there is, however, an in-
crease ; and under the latter, as it usually means
that we have sold at a " tremendous sacrifice"
stores we had previously purchased, a decrease is
generally a real gain. On the year, stamps
skew an increase of £269,277, and the Post-office of
£1:30,000, both being indicative of an active state
of trade. On the whole, both the quarter and the
_
year present an encouraging aspect.

By this time Lord PALMERSTON must be pretty
well convinced that we have not laid undue stress
on the political blunder of inserting R
a " eligious
Profession" column in the Census Bill for next
year. It may be true that it is an exaggeration
to term it an attack on religious liberty, but it is
,au irritating attack on the religious susceptibilities

of, we are persuaded, the majority of Englishmen.
We can, it is true, for ourselves, have no particular
object in concealing our religious profession. The
same may be said, probably, by every nine English-
men out of ten, yet, if we mistake not, these same
nine would with different degrees of repugnance
resent an official question on the subject; especially
one proposed under the only condition which could
make the return of any service—under a penalty
on refusal to answer and to answer correctly.
' To the tenth man, however, it might be of vital im-
portance not to write down his profession. Intoler-
ance is not quite dead yet ; and it may well be that
thousands in the country have the most impera-
tive reasons for not disclosing to what religious
sect they belong.
Lord PALMERSTON now sees what is the general
feeling. Even Lord SHAFTESBURY has by a pub-
lished letter felt it due to himself to deny a rumour
which had gained circulation, that he was the
prompter of the scheme, and distinctly to avow his
objection to it. This may be taken as an indication
that the large body of Evangelical Churchmen and
social reformers, with whom he is in such. close con-
nection, dislike any such bone of contention being
thrown among them. But, following on that, we
have the memorial signed by ONE HUNDRED AND
SIXTY-SEVEN of the Premier's supporters in the House
of Commons, respectfully informing him that the
provision for obtaining every person's " religious
profession"-Ist. Appears to themselves very ob-
jectionable. 2dly. Is highly offensive to many of
their constituents. 3dly. Will produce no infor-
mation deserving of reliance. 4thly. Will, if per-
sisted in, seriously injure the Liberal party. And,
therefore, the memorialists " earnestly recommend
that it be withdrawn from the bill."
Lord PALMERSTON, we understand, intimated
that his personal opinion was still in favour of the
proposed clause ; but acknowledged that a memorial
with so large a number of signatures deserved his
serious consideration. That is beyond question.
No doubt, with the aid of the Tories, he could
easily carry his proposal. But it is for him to
consider whether he will alienate 167 friends, and
probably another hundred, who would vote with
them, for the sake of pleasing an Opposition which
is aiming to supplant him, and whom no bribes can
purchase, He has not yet quite cut himself off from
retreat. The memorial is one which, from its in-
fluential character and numerous signatures, affords
a Minister abundant reason for withdrawing what
he finds will only irritate his friends; but, if he
should persist, in the face of it, in what is so ob-
noxious to them, he will assuredly cause a split in
his camp, and that in the face of an ever-watchful
and able antagonist, which he may never remedy.
We agree with the memorialists that the return
would be perfectly valueless. That great Dissenting
body, the Conference Methodists, have avowed their
determined hostility to the proposed question. The
other very numerous Methodist bodies h ave followed.
The more educated denominations of Dissenters are
to a man hostile to the proposed inquisition, and
Churchmen, for whose glorification a small party
amongst them design it, show in large numbers their
characteristically English dislike to such questions.
In what good society, we may ask, would not the
question proposed not be considered a breach of
that reserve and decorum which marks an English-
man? :Mr. DILLWYN—we think it was—expressed
the opinion of us all when he observed that he would
ten times over rather pay the £5O penalty than
ask his guests at the breakfast-table after having
slept in his house on the Census night, what was
the religious profession of each of them.
And why must this annoying question be put ?
If there be an Income-tax, we must of course tell
what our incomes are, though our questioners are
pledged to secresy ; while, however, the French will
outbuild us in ships of war, money must be had.
But no one will contend that the State must know
what is every man's religious profession. We do
not indeed think it worth knowing. What the dif-
ferent religious bodies are actually doing
towards the national object of religious
instruction and worship, c,it may be at least
interesting to know, especially when it in-
dicates what yet wants to be done, as it did last
time. But under what head the masses who wor-
ship nowhere would register themselves, and what
all the timid would profess in fear of superiors, and
what the enumerators would put down for the great
numbers who would give no account of themselves,
we do not care to know. Practically the attempt
will certainly fail. We see that the Dissenters are
determined, if Lord PALMERSTON forces it through
Parliament, to spare no pains to make it fail. They
are discussing two courses. The first is that of
entire abstention from giving their profes-
sion. The second, that of all signing
themselves " Churchmen !" This seems at first
sight an absurdity—but the fact is, that any Eng-
lishman is, legally, a member of the Established
Church. He may be a very bad—a schismatical
one—but till by some legal process he has been
deprived of his interest in the National Church,
he as a part of the nation has equal rights with his
neighbour in the Church he never attends. "I am
asked—the Dissenter says—by the law what is
"my religious profession"—l give as my answer, I
give a legal answer and, the law makes me—a
Churchman. _

The disappearance from among us of the last sur-
viving brother of the Great NAPOLEON, is an event
which cannotbe regarded with other than profound
emotions by the present age, the age, as it may be
calla, of his later contemporaries. It is an inci-
dent which more vividly than any other casualty
now possible recalls to mind, with startling effect,
the whole series of extraordinary occurrences con-
necting the reign of the present EMPEROR with
that of his wonderful predecessor, the founder of
the Imperial dynasty—events dating back even still
further, to that seed-plot of glory, the great French
Revolution. H. I. H. the Prince JEROME—last
relic of the immediate family of the Gallic C/ESAR,
until Sunday the 24th instant, sole remaining
member of the home-group gathered about the later
ALEXANDER, the greater JUSTINIAN, the modern
CHARLEMAGNE—was the youngest of the five sons,
the youngest of the eight children of CHARLES
BONAPARTE and LETITIA NEE RANOLINI. He
was born on the 14th of November, 1784, at Ajaccio
and little more than a quarter of a year afterwards
the " Mother of the GRACCHI" was prematurely
widowed. The noble Corsican Advocate—father
of that race of Kings—expiring on the 24th of
February, 1785, in the bloom of his manhood, at
Montpellier ; during the delirium of, his •last mo-
moments, mysteriously and incessantly calling
NAPOLEON (then a mere boy) to come to his aid
with his great sword! Nurtured in the midst of
the turmoil of the most astonishing revolution this
world has ever witnessed, JEROME was still no
more than a nursling when his wonderful brother,
(himself then little else than a stripling) first rose into
notice by the sheer mastery of his genius " riding the
whirlwind and directing the storm" in the midst of
what Sir ARCMBALD ALTsorl has magnificently
expressed in a single word as that grand political
" mindquake." The history of this rise is the most
familiar, while it is the most romantic and remark-
able, that the pen of annalist, perhaps, ever recorded.
It is the narrative of the career of one whom the
most gifted of all our military annalists has em"

phatically designated in the peroration of his
famous history of the War in the Peninsula—
" NAPOLEON, the greatest ma.n of whom history
makes mention t" It is a narrative, the marvels of
which were aptly epitomised :in a few syllables at
the commencement of the ims ginary conversation
written by the late Viscount STR. kNGFORD, as a dia-
logue between " Fifteen and Twenty-five" :
25.—Little School Boy, come here. What are

you reading ?
" 15.—The Life of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
" 25.—D0 you like it ; are you amused ?
" 15.—Amused—what a word ! to ask if I am
amused. lam dazzled, fascinated, and bewildered,
if you will. lam awed and astonished."
It is the marvellous narrative we have all of us
devoured again and again, at same time of our lives,
with similar feelings of delight and amazement.
As a participator in the incidents recounted in it,
his Imperial Highness the Prince JEROME was the
last surviving personage, commanding on all hands
in a peculiar manner the personal sympathies of
this younger generation. It is remembered, in re-
gard to his early boyhood, that JEROME, together
with his sister CAROLlNE—afterwards the beautiful
wife of the handsome MURAT, Sovereign of Naples
—was placed at Madame CAMPAN'S educational
establishment, in Paris, at the very time 1
when Italy was being conquered and carved
into republics by the sword of the
young General BONAPARTE, preparatory to his
consolidating it into the semblance of the ancient
kingdom, and placing upon his own brow the iron
crown of CHARLEMAGNE. From Madame CAm-
PAN'S elementary academy, JEROME was subse-
quently removed to the College of Juilly, where be
was still engaged in his studies when NAPOLEON,
returning from the conquest of Egypt, and boldly
crossing the broad Rubicon of the Mediterranean,
destroyed at St. Cloud, on the 18th Brumaire, the
effete Directory, building up at once among its
ruins the majestic fabric of the Consular Govern-
ment. It was then, while he was yet scarcely
fifteen, that the youngest of the brothers of the
First Consul was permanently removed by him
from the meditative seclusion of college-life, and
placed at once in the navy as an enseigne de
vaisseau, or midshipman. At seventeen, namely
in 1801, the young sea-captain was appointed to
the command of the corvette l'Epervier, taking his
departure, in that capacity, from the shores of
France, as one of the associated Capitaines sent
out in the renowned expedition to the Island of St.
Domingo—the expedition conducted by the
brother-in-law of the BONAPARTES, General LE
CLERC, the ill-fated spouse of the lovely PAULINE,
afterwards Princess of BORGHESE. In the March
of the following year (1802) Captain JEROME
BONAPARTE returned to France, the bearer of de-
spatches, recounting the successful landing of the
forces and the capture of Cape Frangois. The in-
telligence was received with transports at home,
tie bearer of the news being everywhere greeted
with acclamations. It was shortly afterwards,
while stationed at Brest that JEROME received
from the First Consul the well-known letter in
which NAPOLEON upbraided his youthful brother
with certain frivolities and indiscretions. " Die
young," wrote the inexorable Chief of the State,
" if you ever intend to disgrace your name ; for if
you live to sixty without having served your
country, you had better not have been born."
JEROME has lived beyond sixty by upwards of
fifteen years additional ; but JEROME has also, at
times in a very signal manner, served his country,
and has certainly done anything rather than dis-
grace the glorious historic name of BONAPARTE.
At eighteen he was, according to the whimsical
idiom, "sowing his wild oats." But the stern repre-
hension of his great brother damped, in some
measure, the ardour of, if it did not in point of
time considerably abbreviate, those strange
experimental pursuits of his in the science of
social agriculture. Almost upon the morrow of this
rebuke from the First Consul, JEROME (still in
command of the corvette l'Epervier) sailed for
Martinique ; during his stay there residing at the
house of Madame de la PAGERIE, the mother of the
charming and admirable JOSEPHINE.
Immediately after the rupture of the Peace of
Amiens, JEROME cruised in his vessel during several
months along the southern coast of England, at the
end of this long cruise crossing the Atlantic, and
putting in at the port of New York. There it was,
that is to say, in the United States, that occurred
the famous episode in his personal history—his
marriage at Baltimore, on the 24th of December,
1803, with Miss ELIZABETH PATTERSON. The
fame of his extraordinary brother invested JEROME
himself with a halo of popularity in America. He
was an object of universal interest and curiosity.
He was gayest of the gay in the society of Balti-
more, New York, and Philadelphia. In the for-
mer city, as we have seen, he consummated
his gaieties by espousing upon Christmas-eve the
daughter of one of its richest merchants—the
celebrant of the nuptials being JOHN CARROLL,
Bishop of Baltimore, brother of the last signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Although the cere-
mony was performed agreeably to the rites of the
Roman Catholic Religion, and in obedience to the
laws of the United States, its sanctity and its lega-
lity, it will be remembered, were neither of them
ever recognised by NAPOLEON, either as Head of
his House, or as Chief of the French Government.
Having remained with his young American bride
for more than a year as a sojourner in the United
States, Monsieur and Madame JEROME BONAPARTE
embarked in the spring of 1805, on board the Erin
for Europe. Upon their arrival at Lisbon in May,
they separated—JEßOME going to Paris overland,
his wife proceeding on board the Erin to Amster-
dam. Scarcely, however, had she reached the Texel
when she found herself prohibited from landing by
a positive order to that effect transmitted from Paris
by the Imperial Government. Her destiny and her
destination were alike thereupon similarly changed
altogether. In consequence of the arbitrary man-
date of NAPOLEON she sailed for England, arriving
there in June, and upon the 7th of July gave birth
at Camberwell, to her only son JEROME NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE,
Princenowran,TE,s
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grandson, en ofra Baltimore,son,now a young
officer and father
of
f otuhnger
of the
officer in the Imperialarmy of NAPOLEON 111. By a
special decree of NAPOLEON'S Council of State
the marriage was virtually declared to have bate
informal; and, although Pope Pius VII. (declining
to comply with the EMPEROR'S request) absolutely
refused to annul the marriage—the will of the
Lord of Europe in this, as in so many other
matters, prevailed. ELIZABETH, wife of JEROME
BONAPARTE was, from that time forth, to all in-
tents and purposes no longer a wife—occupying a
sort of midway neatral position between a widow
and one divorced. Her husband himself, as an
evidence of his submission, undertoak shortly after
this an extraordinary mission from the EMPEROR
t• the Dev of ALGIERS—a diplomatic mission in
fact akin to that which more than ten years after-
wards preceded our own glorious and triumphal
bombardment by the British fleet under Admiral
thoeNALpAorßdViscount EXMOUTH. Ambassador
B TE, in fact,
the immediate release woafs
cienrsttariunc t
Genoese
d e n tooe s
e demand
sailors
and citizens captured and carried into slavery by
the buccaneering Algerines: In this difficult

embassy JEROME acquitted himself completely to
his Imperial brother's satisfaction. lie had the
personal gratification of conducting back to Genoa
250 of these released captives, and of there
receiving from the population of the city a
grateful ovation for his Iramane achievement.

Appointed before the close of 1805 to the com-
mand of the 74 line-of-battle ship, the Veteran,
JEROME for the third time sailed for the West
Indies. There he cruised about for eight months
in their immediate vicinity—on his homeward
voyage capturing six English merchantmen, but
being subsequently compelled to escape himself
from a British squadron by stranding his vessel
(without, however, losing his crew) upon the coast
of Brittany, under the batteries of the little har•
bours of Concarneau. Arriving in Paris shortly
afterwards, he was in 1806 decorated with the
Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour, created
an Admiral, and proclaimed a Prince of the Empire.
Here, however, JEROME'S nautical career termi-
nated. Quitting the navy as a profession uncon-
genial to his tastes, and entering the army forth-
with, Prince JEROME, in the November of 1806,
was placed in conjunction with VANDAMME, at the
head of the ninth corps of the Grand Armee, a
column of 25,000 troops of Bavaria and Wurtem-

burg. The task entrusted to him by the Emperor
and King NAPOLEON was the reduction in rapid
sequence of the six fortresses of Silesia—
_Glogau, Breslau, Brieg, Neisse, Glatz, and
Schweidnitz. This undertaking, difficult though
it was, JEROME and VANDAMIVIE, with their
25,000 men, rapidly and most successfully
accomplished : the former himself in person
directing the blockade of Glogau in December. On
the 17th of the January following (1807), he was
appointed Governor of the Province of Silesia. And
having besides this been in March promoted to the
rank of General of Division in the Grande Armee,
he had the satisfaction of capturing Glatz, the last
of the Silesian strongholds, on the 14th of June,
1807, the very day of the renowned battle of Fried-
I land.

It was on the 12th of August, in the same evenl

ful year, that Prince JEROME was married to the
Princess FREDERICA CATIIARINE SOPHIA DORO-

THEA, daughter of the reigning King of WURTEN
BURG. With this second wife H.I.H. lived happily
to the date of her death—namely, until the 28th of
November, 1838—having by her three children :
their first-born, JEROME NAPOLEON, born in 1814,
and who died at the age of thirty-three, in 1847.
And two others, a son and daughter still surviving
—the Princess MATILDA LETITIA WILUELMINA,
born on the 27th of May, 1820, and married to
Prince ANATOLE DEMIDOFF of San Donato, and
the Prince NAPOLEON JOSEPH CHARLES PAUL, born
on the 9th of September, 1822, and who was
until the birth of the Prince Imperial (Enfant de
France), heir presumptive to the Imperial crown of
NAPOLEON. Almost within the date of his honey-
moon H.I.H. was proclaimed by,, the Conqueror of
Europe—King of Westphalia. In this capacity
JEROME continued for very nearly eight years
uninterruptedly—namely, from the Ist December,
1807, the day of his proclamation, to the 26th Oc-
tober, 1813, the day of his downfall from sove-
reignty. History has since told the story of his
vigorous rule, and—more than its vigour—has re-
lated its "liberality." As a reigning Prince, he
was not without a love for genuine magnificence.
A considerable portion of his capital he resolutely
tore down, summoping the famous Parisian archi-
tect GRANDJEAN to superintend the labour of its
reconstruction. As illustrative of his kingly
energy and determination, it should be remem-
bered of him that in 1809 a formidable insurrec-
tionary movement in his dominions was crushed
out by his strong hand—King JEROME, as ALISON
emphatically remarks in recording the event, "evinc-
ing in these critical circumstances a spirit worthy
of his family." The precarious tenure of his sove-
reignty—precarious in so far that it depended en-
tirely upon the whim and pleasure of his Imperial
brother, Suzerain virtually of the whole European
continent, directly or indirectly, from the Gulf of
Bothnia to the Straits of Gibraltar, from the
Skager Rack to Cape Matapan—was strikingly in-
dicated during the following year, 1810, when the
Electorate of Hanover was suddenly separated from
the Kingdom of Westphalia by a stroke of NAPO-
LEON'S pen ; Hanover being, thereupon, absorbed
within the boundaries of the vast French Empire,
under the distinctive title of the 32d military
division.

Summoned by NAPOLEON to take part in 1812 in
the stupendous Russian Expedition, King JEROME

received from the EMPEROR the command of the
German Division of the Grande Armee, this single
division alone numbering in all a gigantic force of
no less than 75,000 men. At the commencement
of the expedition the young Monarch distinguished
himself even among that host of heroes, the Marshals
of France, the Paladins of the later and greater
CFIARLEMAG/a. A daring movement improvised
by JEROME at the battle of Mihilow, covered him
with a momentary glory which was soon afterwards
quenched, however, by a movement less fortunate
at the far more important battle of Smolensko. In
consequence of this last mentioned casualty the King
of WESTPHALIA was summarily dismissed from the
command of the German Division, in a sudden and
impetuous burst of indignation on the part of the
Emperor, an outburst of wrath which his Majesty
afterwards avowedly regretted. The remainder of
the narrative is soon related. It may be summed
up in one pregnant sentence, that JEROME—almost
dethroned by the incursion of CHERNICHEPF—was
finally swept away from the kingdom of West-
phalia by the arms of BERNADOTTE. This, of
course, occurring in the midst of the general dis-
ruption of the mighty fabric of sovereignties raised
by the spells of the wonder-working rnius at the
beck of the magical sword of NAPOLEON BONA-
PARTE! NAPOLEON, besides making himself Em-
peror of France, King of Italy, Protector of Ger-
many, and Mediator of Switzerland—having made
his brother JOSEPH King of Spain, his brother
Louis King of Holland, his brother JEROME King
of Westphalia, his brother-in-law JOACHIM King
of Naples, his favourite JUNOT Governor of the
Kirigdom of Portugal : beyond this transforming
the electorates of Bavaria and Saxony and Wur-
temburg into sovereignties, and surrounding him-
self by subordinate kingdoms, and feofs of the
empire, such as Elyria, Algarves, Dalmatia, and
Estramandura. When the whole marvellous
system crumbled together under the pressure
of events—when, as Lord BROUGHTON has written,
the whole world, " from the Tanais to the Thames,"
seemed to ba rising against that " one dauntless
mortal"—the brothers of NAPOLEON fell by neces-
sity, of cour3e, wit.h the founder of the dynasty. In
the midst of the uoiversal subversion JullomE
yielded up to the A lies the Crown lie had worn
for eight years as of Westphalia. Afterwards
came the Hundred Days, with the second and final
crash of the fortunes of NAPOLEON. Here it was,
in that closing scene, upon the field of Waterloo,
that, as the evening fell in, when the last hopes of
the EMPEROR were dashed by the arrival of the
Prussians, the Prince JEROME, grasping the hand
of NAPOLEON, exclaitned,. "Here; brother, all who
bear the name of BONAPARTE should die." At

the utterance of that heroic sentiment NAPOLEON—

at the moment on foot—responded to it by instantly

mounting his horse and plunging into the conflict
where it raged the most fiercely—only, however,
to be dragged from the melee soon afterward by the
hands of his marshals and aides-de-camp. Pre-
vious to the terrible catastrophe, Prince JEROME,
who commanded at Waterloo the left wing
of NAPOLEON'S army, had himself in person
led with heroic valour the renowned charge

upon llougoument. Even M. DE LAMAR-
TINE (not by any means a Bonapartist) has remarked

thus earnestly while relating the circumstance in
his History of the Revolution—" Being sent by the
EMPEROR at the head of a column, JEROME braved
fire and death with the devoted gallantry of a

simple grenadier." The rest of this romantic
career is soon recalled to recollection. Thirty-three
years were passed by JEROME in exile, under the
title of the Count de MONTFORT, namely, from 1815
until the Revolution of 1848, at which revived the
hopes of the Imperial dynasty. Shortly after the
1 intermediate revolution of 1830, the eldest of the
brothers, JOSEPH, then Count of Survilliers, had
written from his place of banishment at New York,
in the course of his Address to the French Chamber
of Deputies—" La famille de NAPOLEON a ete
appelee par trois millions cinque cent mille votes."
February came—and those three millions and odd
were thrice endorsed by the confirmatory votes of
a considerable proportion of the French adult male
population. The youngest and sole surviving
brother of NAPOLEON the Great, besides regaining
his rank as Imperial Prince, became in turn
Governor of the Invalides, conservator of the re-
mains of his glorious brother, President of the
Senate in 1851, and for some few years father
of the heir - presumptive to the Imperial
diadem. During the chief part of this last decade'
his Imperial Highness has lived in great state at
his residence in the Palais Royal, the object of uni-
versal interest as the solitary survivor of all that
family of Kings and Queens who were the brothers
and sisters of the Great NAPOLEON. Among the
many subjects of supreme interest indeed presented
to the imagination of late years in Paris, not the
least attractive assuredly have been the historic
memories suggested by the sight of that venerable
Prince, who in his youth had served, by land and
by sea, under the banners of the Imperial Con-
queror, and who, while still in the flower of his
manhood, himself led, upon the field of Waterloo,
the last heroic but bootless charge upon the heights
of Hougoumont,

LATESI

N S.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, JULY 2.

The Moniteur of this morning announces the
appointment of the Duke de Grammont, M. Bene-
dette, and M. de Talleyrand-Perigard as grand
officers of the Legion of Honour.
_

The Marquis d'Antonini, the Neapolitan Minis-
ter at the Court of the Tuileries, has sent his re-
signation to Naples.

NAPLES, JUNE 30.
The people appear more tranquil.
The police are being hunted down in the pro-

The constitution of 1848 is to be granted.
A state of siege has been established here.
The city is quiet.
The state of Baron Brenier is satisfactory.
The constitution has not yet been published,

PARIS, JUNE 30.

The Patrie of this evening says :—" Since the
28th inst. the state of affairs at Naples has im-
proved. Tranquillity has not been disturbed and
the agitation has somewhat subsided. The ministry
is determined to fully and loyally carry out the
new institutions, and to maintain order and tran-
quillity. Many troops have been concentrated at
Naples." .

The Patrie also says :—" The disturbances in
Albania have been considerably exaggerated. The
statement that the Austrian Consul has been mur-
dered is inexact."

MARSEILLES, JUNE 30.

Letters from Naples to the 26th inst. announce the
publication of a Royal decree, dated Portici, the
third article of which runs thus :
" An understanding is to be brought about with
the King of Sardinia relative to the common inte-
rests of the two crowns in Italy."
The police administration was quite disorganised.
The chiefs were concealed.
The King was still ill.

NAPLES, JUNE 29.

The health of Baron Brenier is improving, and
he will soon be able to resume his functions as am-
bassador. The King sends to the French embassy
twice a day to inquire about his health.

VIENNA, JULY 1.

Sinch the meeting of German Sovereigns at
Baden, the Prussian Ambassador, Baron Werther,
has had several conferences with Count Rechberg,
with the object of bringing about a perfect under-
standing between Austria and Prussia.
The fact that Austria no longer insists upon a
guarantee of the integrity of her dominions will
greatly facilitate such an understanding.

BERNE, JULY 1.
It is asserted that Switzerland will submit to the
Conference the following question only :
Is it in the interest of Europe and the neutrality
of Switzerland to leave the Simplon Pass perfectly
accessible to France without demanding any fresh
guarantees ?

Should this question obtain a solution unsatis-
factory to Switzerland, she would confine herself
to taking cognisance of the declarations in which
France engaged herseli -to assume all the military
obligations resulting from article 93 of the final act
of Vienna.

Switzerland would besides claim the right, in
case of war, of militarily occupying the neutralised
districts of Chablais and Faucigny.

Switzerland would also state her reserves, the
insertion of which in the protocols of the Conference
she would demand, and would maintain in prin-
ciple all the rights which are guaranteed to her by
treaties.

PARTS, JULY 1.

The Mildew of this morning announces the pre-
sentation to the Corps Legislatif of the project of
law relative to the calling out of 100,000 men of
the class 1860. The a/or/deur also states that the
report on the Budget of 1861 has been laid before
the Corps Legislatif.