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MEDICAL ADVICE.

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CONTENTS.

SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs.
SECTION IL—Puberty--Manhood -The Morale of Genera-
lye Physio!otry—True and Fake Morality.
SECTION lll.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical
tielations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan-
tages of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring..
SECTION INT.—Spermatorrhcea and Impotence—The causes
at Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries.
SECTION V. -The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per-
nicious habits on the mental and general faculties.
SECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De-
bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of
various Hazardous Specifics —Tne Author's Principles of
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Twenty Years' successful practice

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THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL LETTER,

The Univers publishes an encyclical letter from
he Pope headed thus," To our venerable brethren
,he Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops,
and others, ordinaries of places in grace and in
communion with the Apostolic See." We select the
following passages as the most important :--
" Since the publication of our encyclical letter of
the 18th of June, last year, and the two allocutions
which were subsequently delivered in Consistory,
you have learnt, your souls full of grief, with what
evils religious and civil society in Italy is over-
whelmed, and what audacious and abominable acts
of revolt were directed both against the legitimate
Princes ofthe Italian States and the legitimate and
sacred sovereignty which belong to us, to this Holy
See ' • and, responding to our wishes and our cares,
you hastended, without loss of time, and with a
zeal which nothing could arrest, to order public
prayers in your dioceses. You did not content
yourselves with the letters so full of devotion and
love which you addressed to us, but, to the glory
of your name and' your order, raising the epis-
copal voice, you published writings full of science
and of piety, defending energetically the cause
of our most holy religion, and stigmatis-
ing the religious attempts directed against
the civil sovereignty of the Roman Church. Con-
stantly defending that sovereignty, you made it a
glory to avow and to teach that, by a particular
design of Divino Providence, who directs and go-
verns all things, it has been given to the Roman
Pontiff, in order that, not being subject to any
Civil Power, he may exercise in complete liberty,
and without hindrance throughout the universe,
the supreme charge of the Apostolic. Ministryi
which has been divinely, Intrusted to him by Christ
our Lord. - Instructed by your teaching, and in-
cited by your-example, the well-beloved children
of the Catholic Church have taken, and are still
adopting, every means to testify to us the same sen-
timents. From every part of the Catholic world
we have received letters, the number of which can
scarcely be counted, signed by ecclesiastics and by
laics of every condition, of every rank, of every
order, sometimes reaching to hundreds of thousand's,
which, while expressing the most ardent sentiments
of veneration and love for us, and for this chair of
St. Peter, and the indignation felt by them at the
audacious acts accomplished in certain of our pro-
vinces, declare that the patrimony of the blessed
St. Peter shall be preserved inviolate in all its in-
tegrity, and protected from all attack. Many of
those who signed these letters have, moreover,
established with much force and knowledge that
truth in published writings. These striking mani-
festations of your sentiments, and of the sentiments
of the faithful, worthy of all honour and of all
praise, and which will remain inscribed in letters
of gold in the annals of the Catholic Church, have
caused us such emotion th-at we could not, in our
joy, refrain from crying out Blessed be God, the
Father of our Lord lesus Christ, the Father of
Mercy and God of all Consolation, who consoles us
in our tribulation."

The Pope then alludes to the Imperial letter :
" Recently, as many of you already know, the
Paris journal entitled the Moniteur published a
letter of the Emperor of the French, replying to a
letter from us, in which we earnestly prayed his
Imperial Majesty to protect with his powerful
patronage, in the Congress of Paris, the integrity
and inviolability of the teinporal dominion of the
Holy SZ3, and to free it from a criminal rebellion.
Repeating in his letter certain advice which a short
time before he offered us relative to the rebellious
provinces of our Pontifical dominioas, the very
exalted Emperor counsels us to renounce the pos-
session of those same provinces, finding in such
renunciation the only remedy for the present dis-
order of affairs."

After remarking that it was impossible for him
,o remain silent atter such afftirs, his Holiness con-

tinues:—
" We hastened to reply te the same Enxperor,
and in the apostolic liberty of our soul we clearly
and openly declared to him that we could in no
manner adhere to that counsel ; because, consider-
ing our dignity and that of the Holy See, it was
attended with insurmountable difficulties, and con-
sidering our sacred character and the rights of this
same See, which do not belong to the dynasty of
any royal family, but to all Catholics. And at the
same time we declared that we could not surrender
what does not belong to us ; and that we perfectly
understood that the victory which might be accorded
to the revolted of the "Emilia would be a stimulant
to commit the same attempts to the native and fo-
reign disturbers of the other provinces when they
should witness the success of the rebels. And,
among other things, we caused it to be made known
to the same that •we cannot abdicate the aforesaid
provinces of our Pontifical dominions without
violating the solemn oaths which bind us, without
exciting complaints and insurrection in the rest of
our States, without doing an injury to all Catholics,
and, finally, without weakening the rights not only
of the princes of Italy who have been unjustly de-
spoiled of their domains, but also of all the princes
of the Christian universe, who could not see with
indifference the introduction of certain most perni-
cious principles. We do not omit to observe that
his Majesty was not ignorant by what men, with
what money, and what succour the recent attempts
at rebellion have been excited and accomplished at
nowise
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Bologna, Ravenna, and other towns, while the great
of the people remained stupified at those
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as the Most Serene Emperor
thought that those provinces were to be abdicated
by us, by reason of the seditious movements which
him that this argument had no
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ments took place freq
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Europe and elsewhere; and no one could use it as a
he addressed to us a
legitimate argument to reduce the peoossmesitstieodnstoofrea
civil Government. Neither have w.
mind the same Emperor that
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the war in Italy—a letter which .
lation and not affliction. And, from some
the Imperial letter published in the journal
afore-
said (the Moniteur ), we prayed his Majesty,
name of the Church, that, in consideration of his
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own good and his own benefit, he should completely
paternalciompletely
remove our apprehension. Moved by
charity, with which we are bound to watch over
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account before the tribunal of Christ, and undergo
a most severe judgment, and that therefore each of
us ought to do energetically what depended on him
to merit mercy rather than justice. strictinlnd
"Such are the things which, among others, we
answered to the very great Emperor of the French ;
and we considered it our duty to communicate them
to you, and to the whole Catholic universe, in order
that you might know more and more that with the
aid of God, and fulfilling the duty of our most im-
portant ministry, we try all without fear, and spare
no effort to defend courageously the cause of reli-
gion and of justice; to maintain entire and invio-
late the civil power of the Roman Church, with its
temporal possessions, and its rights, which apptr-
tain to the whole Catholic universe ; and, finally to
guarantee the just cause of the other Princes."
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to suffer the severest trials ; expresses his anguish at
"the danger of the souls in his troubled provinces,
where pestilential 'writings menace each day more
deplorably the piety, the religion, the faith, and the
purity of morals ;" exhorts those whom he addresses
to defend zealously and incessantly the Catholic
Church and the Holy See, "as well as the mainte-
nance of the civil power of the same Sce and of the
patrimony of St. Peter ;" and concludes by exhort-
ing them to offer their prayers to Heaven for the
attainment of these objects. The encyclical letter
bears date the 19th inst.

(From the Timm.)
It must be said for the Emperor Napoleon that
if he does sometimes perplex ustby doubtful policy
and ambiguous language, when he has once taken
a resolution there is no man who follows it out with
more decision. But a little while ago everybody
was in doubt which side he was about to espouse—
whether he would throw his sword into the scale
of Italy; or, as the letter of the Treaty of Villa-
franca seemed to promise, ledd himself—content
with the renown of two splendid victories—to
patching up the tattered glories of Austria. But
the Emperor has made his election ; and, having
mad. it, he follows it out to its legitimate conclu-
sion with no faltering step. He has determined
that he cannot do for the Popeavhat he will not do
for Austria, and views the case' of the-Romagna
exactly in the same light aehe-hadrbefore regarded
the position of Modena, Parma, and Tuscany. Al-
though the Sovereign of a Roman Catholic State,
he has refused to see any difference in the case of
clearly ascertained misgovernment between the Pope
and other Italian Princes.
In his manner of dealing with the Emperor Na-
poleon the Pope is more than ordinarily fallible,
even according to the rule which we apply to tem-
poral potentates. For ten years has he been main-
tained on his throne by French arms, and for ten
years has he listened with a passive and immutable
obstinacy to the constant admonitions which he has
received to reform his Government and, redress the
miseries of his people. No doubt, the Pope and his
profound ecclesiastical advisers thought that they
might safely despise the admonitions of a Prince
newly seated on a precarious throne, and who would
be sure to befriend them for the sake of a support
from his clergy, so necessary to the permanency of his
dynasty. They never thought that the time would
come when a Prince who had endured so much
would at last assume a tone better corresponding to
the power which he disposes, and can scarcely now
believe that the hand which has hitherto supported
them can be so suddenly and so unceremoniously
withdrawn. " The eldest son of the Church," " the
Most Christian King," holds to the head of that
Church pretty nearly the same language as he
would to any temporal Prince. He tells him plainly
that he has no choice but to acquiesce in the deci-
sion of his own revolted subjects, and that he will
be no party to forcing back on the people of the
Romagna a yoke which they have just shaken loose.
To such an announcement the Pope replied at the
beginning of this month with a conditional blessing,
and now, at the end of the month, has arrived at
the point of launching an encyclical letter against
the Emperor, in which there is neither blessing nor
condition, but a downright and straightforward de-
nunciation. The breach has widened rapidly, and
the thunder of thejarms of this world is answered by
those thunders of the Vatican which at one time or
other have shaken the foundation of every throne
in Europe. The Pope pats forward every consi-
deration except one that a deposed Prince could
urge in his behalf.. His rights are inviolable, his
patrimony is sacred, his dominions are the residence
of the betel-of. the Church on earth, the necessary
appanage -of -the 'successor of the. Fisherman of
Galilee. Ie is bdund not to desert them, he is
answerable forihe souls committed to his Charge,
his fate ivould break the bonds of obedience which
bind other subjects to other Sovereigns. There is in
the letter every plea that could be put forward -ex-
cept the one that would avail the most—the argu-
ment that the continuance of the government of
the Pope is necessary to the temporal well-being of
his subjects. This he does not venture to assert, or
rather he passes it by as a thing too far below the
dignity of the Holy See to be worth stating at all.
It might look too much like an admission that the
inhabitants of the Romagna had a right to be consi-
dered as somethi g better than mere instruments for
supporting the l'apal dignity ; indeed, the existence
of his people once admitted, the Popo might be
shocked with the blasphemous inference that he
had a duty'to per form towards these same people,
not only as priest, but as Sovereign. The Emperor
of the French by no ateans flinches from the con-
troversy. His semi-official journals announce that,
though the Emperor will still observe the utmost
moderation towards the Popo, though he will even
defend him by arms should he be menaced with ex-
pulsion from Rome ; yet, if the political authority
of the Pope be everywhere else destined to experi-
ence another crisis, the responsibility will fall, not
on France, but on himself. Nor is this all. The
encyclical letter of the Pope appeared in the
Univers, but it was the last song of the dying swan.
The Univers has been suppressed. The right divine
of the French Government to put down, in humble
imitation of the Pope, all opinions which are not in
strict accordance with its feelings or its interests,
has been exercised without scruple, and the Univers
is mute. The Pope has met a man as little disposed
to allow his opinion to be contradicted as himself,
and must feel, while he regrets the fate of his un-
fortunate advocate, some degree of satisfaction at
this remarkable instance of the triumph of autho-
rity over opinion. Nay, we cannot doubt that our
poor friend the Univers itself, did its unhappy des-
tiny permit it to moralise on its own fate, would
pay the genuine tribute of an extorted and unwill-
ing adrai:ation to the exercise of arbitrary power
by which it has been overthrown. How often has
England been reviled by the pen of M. Veuillot
for the licentious freedom of its discussions, and for
the encouragement it gave to heresy and anarchy
by leaving its people utterly unprotected to
judge between the most contradictory arguments
on every subject ! The Univers fir once is on
the Protestant aide' an
eldest son of the Churchwd with exactly from
lytrho c same
e
measure of toleration as it would itself have ex-
tended to Protestants. Such reasoning as it has
put forth is only valid so long as it is urged by
the stronger party. The nroment that power is on
the other side, the Univers itself must accept the
position of a martyr to the rights of man and a
sufferer in the cause of free discussion.
For ourselves, we may very well afford to stand
on one side, and leave the question to be fought
out among Roman Catholics themselves, by the or-
thodox Emperor and his ally the Popo. There is
no occasion for a Protestant nation to mingle in
these broils. The Pope has no right to complain
that to is who dissent from the religion of which
he is the head he is nothing more than any other
temporal Prince, to be measured by the same prin-
ciples and treated with the same fairness and im-
partiality. We never claim the right to interfere
with his temporal sway, we deny his spiritual su-
premacy, and we may therefore fairly be excused if
we leave him to settle matters as best he may with
the occupant of the throne of St. Louis, Sovereign
of 36,000,000 of his spiritual subjects. For our
own part, we find it difficult to believe that the
loss of temporalsovereignty will be as great an evil
as the Pope seems to imagine. That bauble which
a Dioclesian or a Charles V. could fling aside •as
no longer worthy the hand of a wise man ought
not to adhere too firmly to the grasp of a
priest, and we confess that we are more aston-
ished than edified by the littleness of that
faith which can believe that the preservation of
Divine truth on earth really depends on the acci-
dent of possessing a few square leagues of desolate
land or a few thousands of discontented subjects.
We should have thought that, freed from the
littleness of a paltry sovereignty, exempted from
the cares of government, from the scandal of lot-
teries, and the disgrace of a systematic perversion
of justice, the successor of St. Peter would have stood
higher, not only in his own opinion, but in that of
the Catholic w-,rld at large, and that his authority
on matters connected with, the next world would
have become more weighty exactly in proportion to
his alienation from the pomps and follies of this.
If, however, this be not so, and if the same power
that makes him an infallible spiritual guide does
not watch over the perpetuity of his temporal do-
minion, the Pope has no cause of complaint against
the Protestant Powers, but must address himself to
the Catholic subjects who will no longer tolerate
his rule, and the Catholic Emperor who refuses any
longer to be the instrument of his oppression.

SPECIAL SERVICES AT ST. PAUL'S.—The follow-
ing is the list of preachers at the Special Services, at St.
Paul's, appointed by the Bishop of London, for February :
—Feb. 5, the Rev. Henry Melvin, Cauon of St. Paul's ;
Feb. 12, the Rev. Dr. Thomson, Provost of Queen's Col-
lege, Oxford; Feb. 19, the Rev. T. Rowsell, of Stepney;
Feb. 26, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle.

[IDTIRTISIMINT.]—Mr. Benson, Litdgate-hill, kas JIM
published a new illustrated pamphlet on watekes (tree by post
for two !stamps). It should be read by all who are about
baying a watch, as it contains prism clad important informs.-
lien as to —Wkat wistek to law I where to boy it 1 and how to
NO

The report of the commissioners appointed to in-
quire into the corrupt proceedings for which the
last election at Gloucester had become so notorious,
was made public yesterday. The report is accom-
panied by the evidence taken before the commis-
sioners, and the whole forms a blue-book of the
largest size, containing more than 000 pages. The
evidence, however, has been already published,
and the report alone remains to be examined.
The commissioners begin by stating at length the
circumstances out of which the election rose. They
then, after premising that " the evidence which we
have received places it beyond all doubt that. hardly
had Sir R. Carden announced himself as a candi-
date before the agencies of bribery and treating
were employed to secure his election," proceed to
narrate the facts with which the public has been
long familiar. The commissioners interrupt their
narrative to say :
" The evidence, as it affects the part taken by
Sir W. Haytor and Mr. Moffatt, does not lead
us to the conclusion that either of those gentle-
men was cognisant of the bribery to which the
money entrusted to Thompson was subsequently
applied. Had not Thompson been employed, and
had any money reacned its destination through a
banker, or been conveyed by a clerk to Gloucester,
as Mr. Price stated it to have been his intention
when he requested that it might be sent by "pri-
vate hand," no suspicion could possibly have at-
tached either to Sir W. Hayter or Mr. Moffatt,
neither of whom had any knowledge of Mr. Wal-
ton's intended proceedings, nor any motive for
sanding the money to him in particular, other than
the directions they had received from Mr. Price;
and having regard to the circumstances under
which Thompson was employed, the fact of his em-
ployment had in reality no influence on the transac-
tions which afterwards took place at Gloucester,
and does not, in our opinion, make the case stronger
against them than it would have been if the money
had been sent by a clerk. Althongh we think Mr.
Moffatt did not give proper effect to the suspicion
which his interview with Thompson must have ex-
cited in his mind, yet we give credit to his emphatic
statement that the money was sent down with a
bona fide belief that it was to he spent in perfectly
legal expenses.'
" As regards Sir W. Hayter, we are of opinion
that he—relying on the fact which had been com-
municated to him by Mr. Moffatt, that the money
was provided at the instance and was to be sent
down in obedience to the instructions of Mr. Price
—relying also upon the character of Mr. Price as a
guarantee for the legitimate expenditure of the
money, and upon the character of Gilbert, that his
application would have resulted in the selection of
a responsible person—had no reason to infer that
the money would be employed in any other than a
legitimate manner, and did not intend that such a
person as Thompson should he entrusted with its
conveyance to Gloucester. We therefore exonerate
both Sir vs'. Hayter and Mr. Moffatt from the charge
of being accessories to the bribery which was sub-
sequently practised at Gloucester."
The moral disorder, the commissioners afterwards
say, which seemed to have attacked the people of
Gloucester, was " the substitution of money for
principle," and they give it as their opinion
that bribery will not be checked until the briber
is regarded by law, and punished as the more cul-
pable person than the receiver of the bribe. Fur-
ther on again they say :—" From what we have
stated we think the deduction is inevitable that
purity of election must be impossible so long eel
voters, and the relatives of voters, are permitted to
be employed as messengers at elections. Payments
en account of chairing, cockades, ribbons, music,
and banners, the fertile sources of bribery in earlier
times, were made illegal by the 7th section of The
Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854,' and it
seems surprising that the employment of messen-
gers, as it fell within the spirit, should not have
been included within the prohibitory language of
that section."
The commissioners write as follows of Sir R.
Carden :—" It is perfectly clear that at the time
Sir R. Carden repaid Mr. Bernard the sum of .£5OO
he had more than a suspicion that it had been ille•
gaily spent, and when questioned by us as to
whether he did not believe that it had been ex-
pended in bribery, he said, I had no right to sup-
pose that at all. I was sure it must have been
spent improperly, but I cannot say I supposed it
was spent in bribery ; it might have been a fce to
some man ;' and when fat ther questioned as to the
effect of the word 'improperly,' he said that by that
word he meant illegally ;"1 ut as to bribery,' he
added, I knew nothing of it whatever.' Although
we think there is great reason to believe that Sir
R. Carden must have known not only that the
money had been illegally spent, but that it had
been expended in the purchase of votes, we hesitate
to come to the conclusion, in direct opposition to
his own declaration to the contrary, that he was
guilty of bribery. The payment to Mr. Bernard
would have been a payment rendering him guilty
of bribery, as falling within the words of the second
section of the statute 17 and 18 Vic., c. 102—' who
shall knowingly pay, or cause to be paid, any money
to any person in discharge or repayment of any
money wholly or in part expended in bribery,' and
it would have been our duty to have found Sir R.
Carden guilty of the offence of bribery if we could
have satisfied ourselves that he knew at the time he
repaid the money that bribery had been committed ;
but as an illegal expeniture of money does not neces-
sarily imply the practice of bribery, and as we are un-
willing to question the truth of his statement as to the
extent of his knowledge, we have not felt ourselves
warranted in finding that he was guilty of that
offence."
Among the causes tending to engender corrups
tion at Gloucester the commissioners point to the
practice of employing a great number of attorneys
on each side. They assert also " that the condition
in life and the ostensible circumstances of many of
the voters proved to have been bribed were not
such as to afford any palliation of their conduct on
the plea of poverty ; but that, on the contrary, men
apparently possessed of property, and occupying
tenements of value much beyond the minimum
qualification for a household suffrage, received
money for their vote."
The conclusion of the report, in which the re-
sults of the inquiry are summed up, we give below.
" We find that corrupt practices extensively pre-
vailed at the election in 1867. We find that Sir
Robert Waller Carden, William Philip Price, and
Admiral Sir Maurice F. F. Berkeley were not
privy to or cognisant of the corrupt practices which
prevailed at that election. We find that the per-
sons named in Schedule A, to this our report an-
nexed, were guilty of bribery at the election in
1857, by corruptly giving or promising money or
other valuable consideration to voters, for the pure
chase of their votes, or on account of their having
voted, or by corruptly advancing money for the
purpose of bribery. We find that the persons
named in Schedule B, to this our report annexed,
were guilty of bribery at the election in 1857, by
receiving money or other valuable consideration
for having given, or to induce them to give, or to
refrain from giving, their votes. We find that the
persons named in Schedule C, to this report an•
flexed, were guilty of treating at the election in
1857. We find that corrupt practices extensively
prevailed at the election in 1859. We find that
'William Philip Price and Charles James Monk
were not privy to or cognisant of the corrupt prac-
tices which prevailed at that election. We find
that the several persons named in the Schedule D,
to this report annexed, were guilty of bribery
at the election in 1859, by corruptly giving or
promising money or other valuable considera-
tion to voters, for the purchase of their votes,
or on account of their having voted, or by
corruptly advancing money for the purpose of
bribery. We find that the persons named in Sche-
dule E, to this report annexed, were guilty of
bribery as the election in 1859, by receiving money
or other valuable consideration for having given, or
to induce them to give, or to refrain from giving
their votes. We find that the persons named in
Schedule F, to this report annexed, were guilty of
treating at the election in 1859. We find that 151
persons named in Schedule G, to this report annexed,
were employed as messengers or doorkeepers on the
behalf of Sir Robert Carden at the election in 1859,
and that those who are therein described as voters
were colourably employed, and paid the sums set
opposite to their names, for the purpose of inducing
them to give their votes to Sir Robert Carden. We
find that 112 persons were employed as messengers
at the election in 1859, on behalf of Messrs. Price
and Monk, and that the persons named in the Sche-
dule 11, to this report annexed, were voters or rela-
tives of voters, and that the voters were colourably
employed, and were paid the sums set opposite their
respective names, for the purpose of inducing them
to give their votes for Messrs. Price and Monk.
Finally, we report to your Majesty that, with rare
exceptions, corrupt practices have for a long period
prevailed at contested elections for members 0
aGrvc in Parliament far the city of Glaucutcr."

The new screw steam frigate Forte, of 51 guns,
and 400 horse-power, nominal, was commissioned at
Sheerness on Saturday last by Capt. E. W. 'Fur
pour, 10th Aug., 1857. Commander Cecil W. Buck-
ley took up his commission yesterday and joined
tho Forte. The Forte his already her full comple-
ment, within about 40 petty officers and artificers,
seamen being draughted from other ships at the
western ports She takes a complement of 500 in
all.' -Her marines are ordered to join from the
Chatham depot. She will in a very short time be
ready to proceed-to Portsmouth.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty Marks -Bidet], pro-
moted to chief engineer, and appointed to the
Asia, for the Stromboli ; William E. Campion,
promoted to the chief engineer, and to remain in
the Firebrand ; James G. G. Dunn, promoted to
chief engineer, and appointed to the Welling-
ton, for the Desperate; William M'Dowall, pro-
moted to first-clasS assistant-engineer, audappointed
to the Asia, for the Hornet ; Thomas E. Miller,
promoted- to first-class assistant-engineer, and ap-
pointed to the Nimrod; Wm. H. Hooper, promoted
to first-class assistant-engineer, and appointed to
the Ariadne; Willoughby D. Beaton, promoted to
first-olass assistant-engineer in thf Pembroke, for
the Magnet; James Lethban, promoted to acting
first-class assistant-engineer in the Racoon ; John
Fox, promoted to -acting first-class assistant-engi-
neer in the Renown ; John Wm. M'Kenzie,seeond-
class assistant-engineer, to the Fawn ; Richard H.
Alvin, acting second-class assistint-engineer, to the
Rhadamanthus ; John T. Belly, acting third-class
assistant-engineer, to the Flying Fish ; Wm. H. S
Bate, assistant-paymaster, to the Algiers; and R.
C. Webb, assistant-clerk, to the Conqueror.

NI
The Doncaster and Wakefield, 17,miletv, For the
Northern districts are promoted the Neirclintlo and
Derwent Valley, 13 miles 24- chains; theWortit-
Eastern (Blaydon and Considerbranches); 13imiten-
-16 chains ; Sacriston Junction and South Shieklar;" ,
17 miles 69 chains; Wharfedale, 13 miles 3 chains;
Upsall and Ormesby, 4 miles 47 chains. The Scotch.
Railway Bills include the Inverness and Ross-shirN
9 miles 31 chains; the
31 MileeatLe.hains ; the Keith and Dufftown, 9
miles 44 chains; • Montrose and Bervie, 12 miles 7
Dumfries, Loehmabearand Lockerby Junction, 14
miles 50:c ; ther*lashiels, Inverleithen, and
Cchaaleindsonr the
(LanarkMoraybTasllvirelles), 10 miles 44 'chains ;
Peebles, 18 'les 38 chains; the Monkland, 11 miles
27 chains; the North British (Stations), 10 chains;
the Lymington, Biggar, and Broughton Extension,
11, miles 9 chains ; and West of Fife Mineral, 3
miles 64 chains. The Irish Railway Bills include
the Belfast and Bangor, 7 miles 74 chants; the
Carrickfergus and Larne, 15 miles 16 chains; the
Dublin and Drogheda, 12 miles; Dublin and
Meath, 11 miles 64 chains ; Finn Valley, 13
miles ; Kells and Baillicborough, 181 miles ;
Letterenny, 15 miles 38 chains ; Londonderry
and Lough Svrilly, 11 miles 19 chains ; Ulster, 2
miles 8 chains ; Bagenalstown and Wexford,
miles 55 chains; Dublin and Wicklow Extensietir
181- miles; Kilkenny Junction, 25 miles 12 chains j.
Athcnry and Ennis Junction, 25 miles 74 chains ;
Cork and Limerick Direct, 17 miles, 23 chains •
Ennis and Galway, 34 miles 53 chains; Kilrush
and Kilkee, 8 miles 48 chains; Galway Pier Junc-
tion, 75 chains; Waterford and Limerick 46
chains; and the West Cork, 44 miles 33 chains,
Yesterday,the following bills were declared to
--.qth the standing ordera;t-
-(Tlefore Mr. Smith.) 44
HORSHAM AND GUILDFORD DIRECT.—To make
a railway from Hoishain to London and South.
Westerh Railway at Godalming.
EPPING.—Ti make a railway from Chipping
Ongar to Dunmow. .
(Before Mr. Frere
WIMBLEDON AND DORKING.—TO wake a rail-
way from Wimbledon to Dorking. The standing
orders were complied with.

THE CORPORATION OF LONDON.

The City of London is one of the paradoxes of the
age. We smile at foreigners who entertain so grand
an idea of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, yet we
should be ourselves at a loss to assign to these func-
tionaries their real dignity and position. They are
not the mere exaggeration and abuse that they seem.
An indefinite feeling that the Corporation of London
could not be included in the same category with our
other municipal corporations led to its omission from
the Municipal Reform Act. Sir G. C. Lewis ascribes
this to the services rendered by the Corporation to
the Liberal cause and to its liberal constitution. As
it was the most popular body in the kingdom, so
it seemed in no need of reform. This, however,
is not so near the truth as Mr. Ayrton's account of
the matter. The Corporation of London, he says,
as originally constituted, was not a merely local
body, but a union and representation of all the
trading companies in the metropolis. It was not
necessary, as we know, for the freemen of a com-
pany to reside, and thus it was compatible with the
laws and principles of the Corporation that the
whole of the metropolis should be included in the
City of London. This made the City less of an
anomaly and less of an abuse than it is commonly
supposed. Yet, even in general opinion, the City
is not a mere local constitution. Not only the civic
functionaries, but most of the freemen who possess
influence in City affairs, reside far out of the City
bounds, and have for the sphere of their business
the country at large, if not all the world. It is this
which has sustained the City in its exclusive as-
sumption of the metropolitan character ; for if it
had dwindled into a mere local tradition of old
London, like the " City" of Paris, it svocld long ago
have been laid under the axe of Reform. Before
the Corporation, then, be further reformed, we ought
to know exactly what it is and what it is not. It
is not merely a representation of a twentieth of
this metropolis, that by lapse and error of time has
stolen the right and title of the rest. On the
other hand, it cannot quite be classed with the
universities, as a community just anchored to one
spot, but riding free on the tides of life and the
currents of thought. The City of London does not
profess to represent the commerce and trade of all
England. Yet it certainly represents, both in
theory, in fact, and in public opinion, much more
than is contained within the old City walls.
To the difficulty of ascertaining exactly what the
City of London is, what it affects to be, and what
it ought to be, must be ascribed the delay in its
reform. It comes before us in a double character,
and when we take it in one it falls back on the
other. If we treat it rig a local corporation, it
appeals to its metropolitan and useful aspects. If
we propose to carry out its metropolitan design,
and include within its circle the two millions or
three millions comprised within the modern metro-
polls, it then takes refuge behind the line of its old
walls, and claims to be a favoured locality, Sir G.
C. Lewis, as we understand, and as 111 r. Ayrton
interprets his bill, would sink the City to the or-
dinary municipal class, deprive the freemen of their
votes, end restrict the freedom of the City to £lO
householders. This, of course, is either a singular
blindness or a hold indifference to the lofty preten-
sions of the City. If actually carried out it must
tend to lower the City and its functionaries. On
the other hand, is Mr. Ayrton prepared to show
that the freemen of the present day do really re-
represent the higher element of the City? Are
they its metropolitan element? Are they the
trading communities not so much of London as of
England? If they are not—if they are rather a
scandal and a weakness to the City, then it is a
mere sentimental indulgence to retain them, and
any sensible reform must extinguish the class.
We do not fight for shadows in these days. It
.is the present, not the past, that question.
If the City of London can really, with the aid of
Mr. Ayrton, assert its metropolitan character, affi-
liate all trades, and represent all the interests of
manufacture and commerce, we shall then be pre-
pared to give it a wider reign, and to give the whole
metropolis the rights of its citizenship. If, on the
other hand, the City has no such territorial ambi-
tion, but wishes to be simply a v(3ry rich munici-
pality, surrounded by some others not so rich, then
its most romantic champions must csee the necessity
of treating it as we have done all the other corpo-
rations of the kingdom.
The difficulty will be solved, in all likelihood, by
practical remedies. The majority of the freemen
below the class of £lO householders are no great
strength or credit to the City companies, so they
will therefore, probably be allowed to die away, till
the order comes to an end. The coal dues and
other ways in which the City taxes the surround-
ing metropolis or the public at large, will one by
one expire. Public opinion is quick to dis-
cover an actual wrong, and wherever there is a
payment or a loss without its equivalent we may
be sure the end is not far. In this way, either by
Sir G. C. Lewis's bill or other measures of the kind,
the City will probably become at last a merely
local municipality. Once in that state, it cannot
long escape the consummation its friends havelong
dreaded. It will find itself merged in a huge me-
tropolitan constitution. For our part,
we are
quite resigned to this catastrophe, shocking as it
is to all civic feelings. It will not be in our
time. For many a year to come the Lord
Mayor's State coaoh, as well as Ma-
jesty's.lillerrum
be
its appointed rounds. We shall have l scarcely less hideous vehicle, will
banqiets and Mansion-house ball ws. e
by clerks
shall
lldhhayttlal
the revenues of a kingdom disbursed
town,
We the population of a moderate-sizedl
and as many separate and. conflictin
of cutting our
empowered to do everything shortshall
We shall have a thousand char.iti!bgeinstditiucttlioonnsei
munici-
pality
with
Butsuffiactie length
pow
metropolis. have a munici-
o all London, our
f Under the mild
gth weer to conduct all the
another for the gas and the sewers, another for
ipthiosfgraearteal
streets will not be torn up one day for the water,
dafficatiartsoroshf 3fayor
overor g •
We shall have a power that can improve the me-
aalaonine,
repair, and another to begiannatheancoutrmseper
me-
tropolis as well as keep It in order—that can do
for us what an
.Emperor,
can do for Paris. We are !MATS that of such a
power there is a jealousy in some quarter.. The
municipality of a Corporation which by that time
e formidable
to embrace four millions will b -
to the Government which meets within its own
limits. There will be collisions, in which the pre-
sence of the municipality will give it a certain ad-
vantage. This we believe to be all nonsense. Lon-
(on can never rival in power the manufacturing
interest. Lancashire and the West Riding alone
will always be too much for it. Once it shows a
will of its own, and at variance with the interests
ant opinions of the whole, it will receive a lesson.
But these are speculative considerations. 'What
we have to do is to adopt practical improvements,
and do what is now right, just, and good, leaving
the future to take its own course.-7 iines.

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COW:NT-GA R DEN.

Meantime there is the agreeable fact before us that
Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE is once more in t e House,
and that he is there, as we might say o: Mr. SIMS
REEVES, in capital voice, and with a I), rfect readi-
ness to signalise the truth that he is to the satis-
faction of all listeners. Of this, last evening afforded
proof positive. There was a discussion going onyes-
terday in the Commons upon what one might reason-
ably have deemed to be one of the most unpromising
themes in the whole world for a joke—the proposi-
tion moved by Mr. GLADSTONE, as Chancellor of
the Exchequer, for the reappointment of a
select committee "to inquire into the manner
in which contracts extending over periods
of years have from time to time been formed
or modified by her MAJESTY'S Government with
various steam-packet companies for the conveyance
of mails by sea ; and likewise into any agreements
or other arrangements which have been adopted at
the public charge, actual or prospective, for the
purposes of telegraphic communications beyond
sea, and to report their opinion thereon to the
House ; together with any recommendations as to
rules to be observed hereafter by the Government
in making contracts for services which have not yet
been sanctioned by Parliament, or which extend
over a series of years ; and to report from time to
time." Where upon earth could one hope to
get the ghost of a joke out of that ? But
Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE did it. The House had
been addressed in succession by the Chancellor o
the Exchequer in support of his motion—by Sir
JoIIN PAKINGTON in shrewd commentary upon it
—by Sir FRANCIS BARING in defence of the course
adopted 'by the committee last session—by Lord
JOLIII MANNERS complaining that the committee
had inquired into the conduct of private individuals
in a manner which was pre-eminently unfair—when
Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, with another wild shriek of
liberty, celebrated his re-appearance as a debater
within the walls of Parliament. Throughout his
speech the House was enlivened by much hilarity
—towards the close of it, nearly convulsed
with laughter. As the theatrical critics
used to say some thirty years ago, "We
can never do without LISTON," so might the
frequenters of the House of Commons declare
now, " We can never do without BERNAL OSBORNE."
At any rate we are heartily glad he is back there
once more in the House of Commons. And how-
ever he may whimsically aver that, for his own
part, he is exceedingly grateful to the right hon.
baronet, Sir JouN PAKINGTON, for having got rid
of him out of Dover, we do cordially hope that it
may be long before the House of Commons is rid of
him in like manner.

urpinr the many enient of Miss L. Pyneand Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, 11.
-Haigh, 11. Cerri, G. Honey, itialworth, &e. Misses Pampa,

Condactor, Alfred Mellon.
Toconclude with the new grand, loa.ntornime, called PUSS
BOOTS;' or, -lEfarleqUin and the Fairy of the Golden
ralmi. Messrs. W. 11. Payne, 11. Payne, F. Barnes, Tallien,
Infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan.
Doors open at hall-past 6 —Commence at 10 rates to 7.

THtAT It E-R 0 Y AL,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. BuckilstAmYe.MAlMET.
TTITS EVENING, will he performed TIIE STTIKNGER.
Mrs. Haller, by Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, the new Ilaymarket comic Christmas Panto-
, mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy
of the True Lovers' Knot. The pautomimists the unrivalled
Leclercqs.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.-
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.
Last;Nights of the Spanish Dancer, Isabel Cuhas.
THIS EVENING, a new Drama, called A TALE OF
TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that
name by Charles Dickens, Esq. Principal characters
tyre
J.
r.
James Vininv. Walter Lacy, Villiers, Nouse,,
Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, H. Butler,
Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner,
Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste.
After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex-
:rava.cranza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBE ARO, the
LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H.
Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL P R INC E S S'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Danrsr, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
Reuse of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family.
These highly-talented Children will appear every night.
The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.

THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH

After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11.
J. Byron, called JACK TIl I, GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King Art7.4ur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss 'Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta-
oon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Reproduction of THE DEAD HEART, with all its power-
fal effects.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B.
Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith,
Billiagton, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly.
After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LIIRL HYDE RG ;
or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Kelly, Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
Last Week of the Pantomime.
THIS E 'TEN tNG the performances will commence with
A BORDER MARRIAGE. Messrs. 11. T. Craven' Charles
Young, G. Spence*, and Miss iVyndham.
After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS
NORVAL. Support,d by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Casse, &c.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing, Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing Dogs.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Last Three Weeks of Dir. W. Cooke's Season,

THIS EVENING, the Grand Illustration of Shakspeare's
RICHARD THE THIRD, or The Death of White Surrey.
Richard, Mr. Ennis; Richmond, Mr. R. Phillips, New Olym-
pian Scenes in the Circle by the first riders of the day—Mr
W. Cooke's great Menage Act—terminating with the Eques-
trian, Operatical, and Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN
TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the God-
dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs.—Costly and
dazzling Transformation Scene.—Harlequin, M. Richarde ;
Columbine, Mdlle. 3lazoni ; Clown, M. Ifilderbrandt ; Pan-
taloon, Mr. P. Abbot A family of Sprites - Epsom Races by
Living Jockies and real Ponies, with ring and Stage com-
bined.

If the Rifle Volunteers are sneered at by Lord
MELVILLE, they are heartened on by General
GARIBALDI. There is no foreigner perhaps who
could speak to our riflemen at this moment upon

Commence at 7.
Grand Morning Performances of the Pantomime on Satur•
Feb. 4 and Saturday, Feb. 11, at Two o'clock each day.

their discipline in accents so welcome, or so trum

OANTERBUR HALL CONCERTS.—
V.) EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett'n MAY
QUEEN.
And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DLNORAH.

pet-tongued. Every volunteer in the United King-
dom ought to have a copy of that remarkable com-
munication penned by General GARIBALDI and
transferred from the columns of the Court Journal
into our impression of yesterday. These opinions of
the Great Italian Patriot, and one of the world's
beat military adventurers are at once timely,
and fraught in their every syllable with encourage-
ment. What has the Scottish Commander-in-Chief
thought of such words as these from the lips of
GARIBALDI ?—" As regards the volunteer force, I
believe that England has done the best thing pos-
sible in availing herself of such an armament, and
that this wise measure will render her territory
impregnable against any foreign invasion. Would
that my country would follow the example." Or,
again :—" Above all theory in the art of warfare,
one practical fact reigns triumphant—' defeat the
enemy'—a truth that will always triumph over all
theories." 'A remark at once illumined by the
following reminiscences :—" The retreat of the most
disciplined troops of Austria before the less disci-
plined Zouaves proves that a man may be a soldier
without wearing a white tunic or a tight cravat.
The shepherds of Paulus Emilius, armed only with
daggers, rushing on the Macedonian phalanx, those
terrible conquerors of Asia—the clouds of French
Voltigeurs of the Army of the Republic—and,
lastly, the Bersaglieri and Zouaves at St: Martino,
Magenta, Solferino, and Palestro —prove that
masses are not alone useful in battle fields, and
that Volunteers, Bersaglieri, and Zouaves need not
learn how to fight in close order, like troops of the
line." GARIBALDI adds, of course, that " Discipline
is, no doubt, the basis of the organisation of all
armaments, and without it war cannot be correctly
carried on ; but," he asks, " why should not volun-
teers, who have sworn not to abandon their stan-
dards during the danger of their country, have the
same discipline as regular corps ? Are patriotism
and enthusiasm such despicable and heterogenous
sentiments as to destroy regularity in na-

Comic Vocalists --Messrs. Georg•et Hodson (the Irish Come
Alan and Mimic), W. I'. Critchtleld, and E. W. lf acknlnt.

Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONI I EUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 31, 1860,
THEEMONIETER, IN THB SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.56.
W/ND, North-Westerly ; rather fresh., with fine sun-
shiny weather. For the last three days the weather has
been very rainy, and out of sorts.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tnis DAY.—Morning., 6h. 39m.—Afternoon, 7b. Om
To-monnow.-Morning, 6h. 44m.—Afternoon, 7h. 3m,

Nothing could well have been more characteristic
than Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE'S facetious re-appear-
ance last evening as a debater in the present Par-
liament. It is unnecessary then to add that
nothing in its way could very well have been
more delightful. The hon. and gallant gentleman
has long held his place as one of the pleasantest
joke-masters in the Legislature. Unlike the more
deadly wit of the right hon. the leader of the
Opposition, the wit of Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE cor-
ruscates as harmlessly as sheet lightning. One
can't very well perceive much the use of it—saving
that it serves perhaps to clear the political
atmosphere of ill-feeling, and to promote
general good humour on both sides of
the- •House by provoking laughter that somehow
Or other,: While he is speaking, proves invariably
contagious. Let Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE be but
once fairly on his legs and warmed to any subject
in the wile universe of things—it don't matter in
the least. what—let him but have wee arm tucked
under his coat tails after the approved oratorical
fashion of the celebrated Mr. VicKw-tex, while the
other is waving hilariously like that of an exceed-
ingly loose-jointed semaphore worked by some
energetic novice in the old-fashioned art of tele-
graphing, and we would confidently wager that
the most smileless man in the house would find
some difficulty, as the phrase is, in keeping his
countenance. The only really vexatious peculiarity
about the hon. gentleman as a debater, or (which
is pretty much the same thing in his instance) as a
Parliamentary droll is this, that whenever he has
obtained what by hiS talents he eminently well
merits a place of any sort in the administration, hel
bears at once a curious resemblance—we won't
Say by any means to a Jack in office, but to that
favourite toy of children known as a Jack-in-the-
box. When he is fairly got into it he is shut up !
nave we no recollection any of us of the immediate
result of the breaking up of Lord PALM—iItSTON'S
last Government ? The lid off—Jack was up in an
instant. The apparition had all the effect of a re-
freshing surprise, and Mr. Dlsua ELI congratulated
the hon. gentleman upon having not only found his
voice
again,but upon leaving celebrated the finding
Of it by the reverberations of that " wild shriek of
liberty." Fortunately for the frequenters of the
House of Commons and for the- lab3rious readers
of the debates, Mr. BERNAL 'OSBORNE is now like
one of those Scotch wagsheis so fond of
quoting—" Bock again." And still
more fortu-
nately for them both,
he is ne longerit
is Secretary
at at the Admiralty. There is a fear,
some quarters that he may perchance be selected in
in
a day or two by the noble Viscount the First Lord
of the Treasury as the Chief Commissioner of the
People's Parks and of the Royal Palaces, in the
place left vacant by the untimely and lamented
demise of the Right Hon. HENRY FITZROY. But
then at least we should prohibly have the consola-
tion that in losing the most amusing talker in the
;tornmons, as such, we should in all likelihood
Vain in post wonderfully requiring it
Oa efficient and sagacious administrator,

tional troops ? Certainly they are not
despicable, since, in every war, a wise
chief derives advantages from them in
his harangues and his proclamations ; and the First
NAPOLEON, who was master of half Europe, and
the best army in the world, was defeated by the
patriotism of the English so-called shopkeepers,
of whom he appeared to have no great opinion."
What is General GARIBALDI'S ultimate view, then,
of our Volunteer Movement ? It is this—" If

Great Britain organises," he says,
[she has already, by the way, even now or
ganised ♦ery nearly 100,000] volunteers,

" her 200,000

will form the nucleus of a million of armed
patriots, in case of need, if she continues to
train them (and that will not be difficult for the
English), so that they become as disciplined as

regular troops—we shall then see who will dare to
invade the asylum of all, and the protectress of the
universe." Those words are of themselves a suffi-
cient set-off for the sneer of Lord MELVILLE.

But to return to GARIBALDI'S letter, we there find
the following all-important consideration.): —" I
believe," 'writes the General, " that the theory of
great regularity of the masses and lines is generally
carried too far, and that the open order of battle is
too much neglected, as it has become necessary,
through the perfection of fire-arms, and through the
obstacles that cultivation has accumulated at every
step." Adding, "If there is a country in Europe
that has served for fields of battle, and continues to
do so, that country is certainly and, unfortunately,
Italy. How many places are there in Italy where
a squadron formed in a line, or a regiment in
square, could fight ? I believe that there are very
few. On the other hand, places may be found in
all directions which aro adapted to the Bersag-
lieH. In short, I think that several lines of Ber-
saglieri sustained by a few masses of troops, would
be the most convenient order of battle in our
country, and in many others ; and that volun-
teers can be adapted, for this end, to the same
kind of manceuvres as the troops of the line." The
ItalianCondottiere thereupon refutes the argument
recently put forth by one of the most skilled and
experienced of all English soldiers now living,
the argument, we mean, advanced by Sir JOIIN
BI RGOYNE in the initial number of Mr. THACKE-
RAY'S brilliant I•Cornhia Magazine :—"I have
read," 'writes the
Conqueror of the Aus-
trians, " the valuable paper by Sir JOHN

BURGOYNE, on volunteers ; and, although I do
not know enough English, and have not had
the time to form a thorough judgment upon it, it
seems to me to be the work of an intelligent soldier,
who has seen many fields of battle. Ido not, how-
' ever, agree with him that 50,000 veterans will
defeat 100,000 volunteers, if the latter have the dis-
cipline that all troops ought to have; and that
they are, as may be imagined, animated by the
) love of their country:" He frankly admits—" I
do not yet know the way in which the English
volunteers are organised ; but I believe, however,
that for volunteers, in all countries, the training of
the Bersaglieri is the best. The lightness of their
uniform, the open order that forms the basis of their
manceuvering, without hindering them from acting
in masses, when the occasion presents itself, and,
above all, the swiftness of their movements, make
them the most perfect soldiers I have known." And
he concludes by avowing emphatically " I wish that
all the Italian army was composed of Bersaglieri ; and
I do not doubt that such an organisation would
also be easily attainable by English volunteers,
English soldiers having obtained the reputation
of intrepidity and coolness under fire." Only just
such a comment as this of General GARIBALDI'S
upon the Volunteer Movement was required to
complete tho incentives to that more perfect orga-
nisation of our National Defences, the first and
I foremost of which incentives was the Tyrtwan call
to arms by the voice of the laureate TENNYSON.

BA l'lll ARKET THEATRE.

ATEST

Miss Amy Sedgwick has renewed her engage-
ment at this theatre for a brief period, and last
night made her appearance as Mrs. Haller in the
" Stranger." This is the first time this lady has
appeared in this once favourite role, but it is need-
less to say she must have played it frequently in
the provinces, and is quite at home in it. The ad-
mirers of Miss Sedgwick are numerous, and she is
sure to please her audience, or the majority of them,
and if she does not carry them along in a whirl of
admiration, as the great performers of our earlier
days did, still sho is sure to touch the fount of sym-
pathetic tears, and to give sufficient effect to all the
well-known points.
The cast requires no notice, being the same as has
been lately in use at this house, comprising Mr.
Chippendale, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Compton.

Mr. Reuter's office :

sage :

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1.60.

FRANCE.

N E NV '6.

The following telegrams have been received at

PARIS, lAN. 30.

The Moniteur of to-day says :
" Government has often deplored the irritating
character of the controversy in religious questions.
The Univers having been suppressed, -violent ar-
ticles in reply to its provocation are henceforth
without motive and without excuse. The whole
press will understand that these grave questions
must be discussed with that quietness and modera-
tion which are ordered by the interest of public
peace and respect for religion."
The Correspondant, a religious periodical, has
received its second warning.

NAPLES, JAN; 27 (via GENOA);

Gen. Pianelli has demanded reinforcements. It
is stated that th 3 troops on the frontiers are to be
increased. A popular manifestation, with shout-
ing " Viva la Constituzione," has taken place.

MARSEILLES, JAN. 31.

The Secretary of the French Embassy at Rome,
the Marquis Cadore Larochefoucault, embarked
yesterday for Civita Vecchin. It is asserted that
he is the bearer of important despatches from the
French Government to the Pope.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 31.
The Univers, which has just been suppressed by

;he French Government, will be continued here.

PARIS, MONDAY.
The Paris journals publish the following mes•

" CHAMBERY, MONDAY:

Yesterday the party hostile to a cession of
Savoy to France made a demonstration. Nearly
250 persons assembled from all parts of Savoy at
the request of the residents of Chambery, and asked
information from the governor as to whether it
was the intention of the King of Sardinia to cede
Savoy to France. The governor replied that the
King would not willingly cede the province. This
statement was received with some cries of Vive le
Roi ." A large number of Republicans are known
to be acting in the matter, actuated by hatred of
France and the Imperial dynasty.
" The population were complete strangers to the
demonstration which took place in the. street. At
the theatre in the evening not one lady was pre-
sent.

" Judging by the results of the demonstration,
it appears that the feeling of the populace at Cham-
bery was Conservative and sympathetic with
France."

BERLIN, JAN. 30.

It is asserted that the arrangement between
France and Sardinia respecting the cession of
Savoy was agreed upon previous to the war in
Italy, and was to be executed in case Austria should
entirely evacuate Italy.
It was alto agreed that Chablais, Faucigny, and
Geneva should be ceeaed to Switzerland.

FLORENCE, JAN. 28.

Baron Ricasoli,i4presenting flags to the National
Guard, delivered a long address, in which he said :
" We require great prudence and large forces to
preserve our independence. A great deal remains
to be done. The annexation of the provinces of
Italy to Piedmont is necessary to guarantee Italian
nationality, the defence of which has become a
common duty."

PARIS, JAN. 30.
Count Cavour's visit to Paris has been tempora.
rily postponed.

PARIS, MONDAY.

We regret to announce the death of the Grand
Duchess Stephanie of Baden, which event took place
at Nice on Sunday afternoon at half-past one. The
Moniteur, in giving this melancholy intelligence,
says :—" This sad occurrence, which causes profound
sorrow to the Emperor, was anticipated for some
days. The Duke of Hamilton, son-in-law of
the Grand Duchess, had arrived on the previous
evening ; the Princess Mary, her daughter, suffer-
ing from grave indisposition, was not able to join
her; and her other daughter, the Princess de Hohen-
zbllern, only reached Marseilles on her way to Nice.
The Emperor had sent Dr. Corvisart to the Grand
Duchess, and he was able, in compliance with her
wish, to prescribe. General Roguet, aide-de-camp
to the Emperor, has left Paris to accompany the
mortal remains of the Grand Duchess through
France to the frontier of Baden." The deceased
princess was cousin to Napoleon 111. Her maiden
name was Stephanie de Beauharnais, and she was
niece of the Empress Josephine, and the adopted
daughter of Napoleon I. Born in 1789, she was
married in 1806 to Prince Louis Frederick of
Baden. The Grand Duchess, at the time of her
death, was in her 71st year.
THE BOURSE, Jan. 30.—The market has been
very depressed, heavy sales having been effected
throughout the day. English Consols arrived with
a fell of 7. Threes opened at 68f. 10c. and declined
to 67f. 65c.; Mobilier varied from 755 f. 50c. to 736 f.
25c. ; Lyons, 890 f. to 880 f. ; Orleans, 1,350 f. to
1,340 f. ; Northern, 905 f. to 900 f. ; Austrians 515 f.
to 510 f. ; Lombard, 550 f. to 547 f. 50c. The fol-
lowing were the last quotations :

4f per Cents. .... 96 70 I Credit Foncier 745
Do. end month .. 96 75 I Belgian 4} —
3 per Cents 67 60 Piedmontese (6) .. 81 50
Do. end month 67 601 Roman 79
Bank Shares 2826 Austrian —
Credit Mobilier .. 740 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 735 Home Debt 43

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