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London, England, 1858-08-23 00:00:00

THE SUM; LONDON, MONDAY E V ENING, AUGUST 23, 1858.

honest Englishman to atte-inpt to utter in
the presence of a woman, aim, ist in that of a man.
And the thing is growl .ng ; hardly is one case
got well out of the way by the Bishop and the
Archbishop, here in London, than we find one quite
as bad, all but patronised by the Bishop of OXFORD
—the once tutor to her AIA,JESTY. It is said that on
one occasion our SOVERFIIGN, by personal remon-
strance, checked the extravagances of the Roman-
ising son of the MethocUst, WILBERFORCE—we know
not what truth there was in the report, probably it
was like most other caurt tales; but here is a case
in which a female soveroigm might well remonstrate
with a Puseyistic Bisho p--in which, revolted as she
must be by the facts, if' she knows them, she could
properly, on behalf of her sex all the kingdom over,
warn the Bishop that such intolerable indecencies
must be put down with a much stronger hand, and
by much more severe rebukes. Nothing will more
entirely alienate Englishmen from the Church of
their fathers than to find that, conformably with its
laws and rubrics, a Bishop can retain in their offices
men who can abuse them for the purpose of entering
houses in the absence of the husband, and of
putting questions such, as have lately been made
public.

We repeat that here lies the real mischief. There
ought to be nothing in. our canons and liturgy which
a perverted mind can legally make a pretext for act-
ing the Papist in what the people have, till the last
quarter of a century, honestly taken for a Protestant
Church. The Bishop of OXFORD and his client
equally rely on canons and rubrics; they ought to
be unable to do so. Accustomed to the prayers of
the Church, in all their simplicity and beauty, the
flocks have forgotten that their shepherds have the
means of driving them to spiritual pastures—or bogs
in truth—which they would rather avoid. This ought
to be put an end to. Why in the world should the
Act of Parliament, of which the Prayer-book is de-
clared to form a part, be less open to amendment
than any other ? It is absurd to be so delicate about
he matter. Our Prayer-book, with its rubric, is an
Act of Parliament Prayer-book, and if it screens
such offenders as the one who has just escaped under
the Bishop of Oxronn, it is time we settled.the matter
at once—that we sent Romanisers to Rome, and kept
our Protestants at home.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.

SlR,—The directors having received the gracious
permission of the Queen to publish her Majesty's
telegraphic despatch as transmitted through the con-
ductor of the Atlantic cable to his Excellency the
President of the United States, and the reply of his
Excellency thereto as also received through the
cable, I beg to aanex office copies thereof. The
President's message with addresses numbered 143
words as transmitted, and occupied two hours in its
passage through the cable, including several
" repeats " and corrections. I also attach the copy
of a complimentary message from the directors of
the New York, Newfoundland, and London Tele-
graph Company in reply to the inaugurating
message transmitted to them from the directors of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company.—Yours truly,
(Signed) GEO. SAWARD, Sec.
Chief Office, 22, Old Broad-street, London,
Aug. 23, 1858.

" From her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain to
his Excellency the President of the United States.
" The Queen desires to congratulate the President
upon the successful completion of this great inter-
national work, in which the Queen has taken the
greatest interest. The Queen is convinced that the
President will join with her in fervently hoping that
the electric cable which now already connects Great
Britain with the United States will prove an addi-
tional link between the two nations whose friendship
is founded upon their common interest and recipro-
cal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus
directly communicating with the President, and in
renewing to him her best wishes for the prosperity
of the United States."

The following is the President's reply to the fore

going :

"The President of the United States to her Alajes'
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain.

" The President cordially reciprocates the congra-
tulations of her Majesty the Queen on the success of
the great international enterprise accomplished by
the skill, science, and indomitable energy of the two
countries. It is a triumph more glorious, because
far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by
a conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic
telegraph, under the blessing of Heaven, prove to be
a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between
the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by
Divine Providence to diffuse religion, civilisation,
liberty, and law throughout the world. In this
view, will not all the nations of Christendom spon-
taneously unite in the declaration that it shall be for
ever neutral, and that its communications shall be
held sacred in passing to the place of their destination
even in the midst of hostilities ?

(Signed) " JAMES BUCHANAN."

" From Peter Cooper, President of the New York,
Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Com-
pany, to the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, London.

" New York, Aug. 18

" The directors of the New York, Newfoundland,
and London Telegraph Company desire to express
to the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph their joy
and gratitude for facilities and privileges of coming
into closer union and fellowship with them and their
fellow-men throughout the world. May the success
that has crowned your labours secure to the nations
of the earth a perpetual bond of peace and friend-
ship:"

THE QUEEN IN GERMANY

FROM THE COURT NEWSMAN.

POTSDAM, AUG. 19

Yesterday her Majesty the Queen and the Prince
Consort, with the Prince and Princess of Prussia, and
Prince and Princess Frederick William, dined early
in private, and afterwards embarked on board the
Alexandria, the steam-yacht of his Majesty the King,
and went to the beautiful island called the Peacock's
Island. Here an evening party was assembled to
meet her Majesty. Amongst the principal guests
were their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Charles, Prince Frederick Charles, Princes Albert
(father and son) of Prussia, the Princes Leopold and
Charles of Hohenzollern, Prince William of Baden,
Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg, Prince Julius of
Schleswig-Holstein, and Gen. Bonin, the Governor
of Potsdam.
The band of the Ist Regiment of the Infantry of
the Guard played several pieces of music in a supe-
rior manner.
Tables were laid in front of the large palm house
in the open air, and tea and coffee and refreshments
were served to the Royal and other guests.
Upon her Majesty's return the Palace of Glienike,
the seat of his Royal highness the Prince Charles,
and the castle and grounds of Babelsberg, were illu-
minated with the greatest taste. Boats, ornamented
with Chinese lanterns, passed backwards and for-
wards upon the water, and the whole scene was one
of great brilliancy and picturesque effect.

MR. RAREY AT THE ALHAMBRA PALACE,

It will be seeeu from an advertisement in another column,
that this attractive place of amusement has added another
item to its already overflowing programme. The horse
"Cruiser" will be exhibited by that most wondetful of all
rarey-showers, Mr. Rarey himself, every morning and even-
ing during the week ; and we have no doubt that our readers
will be much
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA.

The following telegram, from her Majesty's
Ambassador at Constantinople, was received at the
Foreign-office, at 8.45 a.m.:—

" TIIERAPIA, AUG. 20.

" Intelligence from Alexandria, dated August 9.

" The steamer Madras arrived at Suez on the 7th
instant. Dates, Bombay, July 19, 6 p.m.: Aden,
July 31. _ _ _

" The Gwalior army has been broken up and gone
Liao quarters.
" Sir H. Rose resumes command of the Poonah

Division.

" The force from Nusserabad and General Roberts
reached Jeypore on the 2d July. The enemy be-
coming alarmed halted, and withdrew to the south-
ward, Roberts following in pursuit.
" Sir Robert Hamilton has reached Indore, ashave
nearly all the European troops despatched from
Bombay and the Deccan, in apprehension of an out-
break.

" Matters seem settling down in all parts of India,
though there are 20,000 to 30,000 rebels in the
field.

The rainy season has commenced favourably."

BIRTH OF AN HEIR TO THE

AUSTRIAN EMPIRE.

PARIS, AUG. 22.

A telegraphic despatch announces that her Majesty
the Empress of Austria has just been brought to bed
of a Prince.

law to carry out the sentence before the Sultan's
death signature had reached Jeddah. Ismael Pacha,
two days afterwards, appears to have arrived with
the necessary orders for the executions, which then
immediately took place. Now, there could be little
doubt touching the determination of the Government
at Constantinople to punish the cruel murders
which had excited the indignation of Europe, and
elicited from England and France the most energetic
remonstrance. The Turkish Government at once
pledged itself to the Governments of England and
France that full justice should be applied to the
actors of the Jeddah massacres ; further, the families
of survivors of the bloody drama had been recom-
pensed, and two commissioners, appointed by Eng-
land and France to investigate the affair and see that
full satisfaction was given, are now on their way to
Jeddah—at least, the French Envoy was to have left
Paris yesterday, and the English Commissioner had
equally received orders to proceed to his post. All
these circumstances taken into consideration, and
the knowledge on the part of the captain of the
Cyclops that Namik Pacha really had no power to
execute the condemned without the Sultan's orders,
would perhaps have prevented the further bombard-
ment of the town. No doubt our people on board
the Cyclops thought the Turkish authorities were
shuffling, and sought to screen the murderers, so
they continued to shell the town.
If I understand the history of the Jeddah affair
rightly, the Governments of England and France
thought it best to allow the offending parties to be
punished by Turkish authorities. Such a policy
was calculated to produce a valuable moral effect
throughout the East. It was for the Mussulmans to
know and feel that the Turkish Government pro-
tected Christians from outrage, and punished even
to death those who molested them. There are scat-
tered about in various corners of the Turkish
dominions small groups of Christians, many of whom
are English, French, or subjects of European coun-
tries, surrounded by fanatical Turks just now in a
most excited state, for they have been taught that
the Western Powers wish to destroy their faith and
occupy their country. If it were believed in these
districts that Turkish authority would wink
at any persecution of the Christians, outrages
would assuredly be committed. The fanatics
would think escape easy, supposing they once
imagined foreign ships alone would be sent to
revenge their murders. It is therefore to
be feared that the bombardment of Jeddah may lead
to irritation in Turkey ; whilst, on the other hand,
the ends of justice would assuredly have been ob-
tained through authorities on whom the scattered
followers of the Cross in the land of the Mussulmans
must ever depend for protection. These observations
are made on the existing information which has
readied Paris, and may be open to correction. At
all events the whole proceedings demand investiga-
tion.

The Gazette de France, speaking of the bombard-
ment of Jeddah, says :—lt is difficult for us to be-
lieve,that this statement can be exact. We hope, in
facti-that the English vessel has not bombarded
Jeddah before the arrival of the French Commis-
sioner, and of the Ducayla, which was to assist it."

We learn by telegraph :
" TniasTE,l9tli.—Adviees from Constantinople to the
14th state that the Turkish Ministry had held a special
meeting to examine the projects of Vely and Ahmed Pacha
relatilie to the affairs at Caudia. The plan for the regula-
Min' of the exchanges has been adopted. A loan of
2800,000 issued by the Government has been taken up.
Accounts from Athens state that King Otho was expected
to return in October."

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa stigmatises the
bilious articles of one or two of your contemporaries
on the subject of Cherbourg as being contrary to
every great principle tending to the development of
an intelligent European policy, and believes them to
be solely dictated by the jealousy of England at
e-Tery increase of the maritime power of continental
nations. The same journal considers Mr. Roebuck
in the light of an English Brofferio (M. Brofferio is
the'leader of the Ultra-Liberal party in Piedmont),
whose opinions, formed during his tour, are of the
most grotesque kind imaginable.
The Independance of Brussels gives the following
account of the reception of the Queen at Berlin,
from its correspondent in that city :
" The visit of the Queen of England has, it eannos be de-
nied, been greeted by the population of Berlin with an
enthusiasm the like of which we have not witnessed for
many years. When the late Czar used to come to the
Prussian capital, a multitude, inspired by curiosity, col-
lected to receive him and his brilliant suite, but it
remained indifferent and silent. But what a difference
did yesterday present ! The news that Queen Victoria
was at the palace of the Prince of Prussia spread like wild-
fire, and immediately a compact crowd filled the immense
square of the university—raising acclamations and hurrahs.
At length the Prince of Prussia, in spite of his repugnance
for display on such occasions, was obliged to cede to a de-
monstration so enthusiastic, and to solicit the Queen to
allow him the honour of leading her Majesty on to the bal-
cony. The Queen, with the best grace in the world, con-
sented to accept the ovation, which was addressed partly to
the mother of a princess who has quickly gained general
affection, but ohm e all to the Sovereign of a kingdom which
old traditions and new hopes render dear to the people."

PARIS, SUNDAY, 6 P.M.

It was not until yesterday that the Plenipoten-
tiaries signed the last protocol of the last meeting, at
the Hotel of Foreign Affairs. Probably this docu-
ment refers to the navigation of the Danube, and is,
in fact, very much like a protest against the pro-
posed regulations agreed to by Austria, Turkey,
Bavaria, and Wurtemburg. As I have before in-
formed you, the regulations for navigating the
Danube are not yet accomplished. On this question,
however, France and England are agreed; the text
and spirit of that portion of the Treaty of Paris, you
may be sure, will be carried out in such a way as to
prevent the sipping of any one power exercising a
monopoly, which would have been the case had the
interested Powers accepted the Yiustrian propositions,
or rather " regulations." It will be remembered,
Austria originally contended the right of the Con-
ferences to bring the question forward, but, subse-
quently, the Cabinet of Vienna has given way.
Whether the final laws for the navigation of the
river can be agreed to without the Plenipotentiaries
meeting again I know not.
M. Renee, in the Constitutionnel of this day, gives
an outline of the results of the Conferences touching
the organisation of the Danubian Principalities. It
adds little information to that already in the pos-
, session of the readers of the Morning Post. In the
first place, we are reminded that, after three months'
hard work, the Plenipotentiaries charged with the
organisation of the Principalities have brought their
labours to a close; but the text of the Convention
cannot be made public before the documents
are ratified. The writer then gives an out-
line of what has been done, first reminding
the public—France is still for the union, but,
finding herself in a minority, obtained for the
Roumans the nearest approach to the union. This
is certainly perfectly correct ; both the Emperor and
his Government regard the union as the best guaran-
tee for the integrity of that portion of the Turkish
empire. The two Principalities, says the Constitu-
tionnel, will be endowed with the same political in-
stitutions. As your readers are already aware, a
liberal franchise enables the people of Moldavia and
Wallachia to elect their respective legislative bodies.
Their deputies will eventually elect the two Hospo-
dars, hitherto named by the Porte at Constantinople
The Sultan will then confirm the said election, by
which means the sovereign power of Turkey will,
at all events, appear to be maintained. The Hospo-
dars are powerless without their decrees are counter-
signed by the Ministers, who are responsible to the
Legislative Chambers.
Independent of the two Chambers, a sort of per-
' manent Council of State will be formed—an upper
House, recruited from the two Chambers of the Prin-
cipalities, to regulate general laws which interest
both Principalities: This is the nearest approach to
the union embodied in the new Convention. It was
impossible for the Plenipotentiaries to do more than
give the Roumans material for self-legislation,
as there are many delecate questions on which
they themselves are not agreed. Certain

stipulations, however, are settled : such as equality
before the law ; equality of taxation ; individual
liberty; guarantee for respect of property; abolition
of caste privileges, and the admission of all classes to
public employment. It results, therefore, to that of
placing the people of the Danubian Principalities
beyond those abuses which Turkish agents, who
bought their positions in Constantinople, hitherto
imposed. The domestic affairs of the people are now
in their own hands, to be conducted by a constitu-
tional form of government, which, wisely employed,
ought to make the country prosperous and happy.
The party who desired a foreign prince as ruler,
and complete independence of Turkey, will alone be
discontented. The people of the Principalities have
now every opportunity of elevating their political
position. It will nevertheless perhaps be a work of
time. They have been demoralised by corrupt
practices; they have suffered from the occupation cf
their territory by Russian and Austrian armies, and
their geographical position has caused Roumania
to become the ground of constant foreign intrigue.
If the great Powers of Europe accept the modern pro-
gramme of material progress, and cease to entertain
the ambitious aims of war, the people of tht.
Danubian Principalities will eventually con-
solidate themselves into a compact and in-
telligent nation, stretching from the mouth of
the Danube to the extreme Carpathians. They have
now material for making themselves a people superior
to the Turks, the Austrians, or the Russians, if they
steadily turn a deaf ear to foreign intrigue, and look
to their own advancement and nationality. A con-
servative use of their liberty will eventually make
them an important group of modern civilisation.
It remains only to add that the Moniteur con-
tains this morning a note which reminds the
public of the completion of the labours of the
late Conferences. " One had for object," says the
official journal, " the regulation of the Moldavian
frontier towards Bessarabia ; another to verify the
Turco-Russian frontier. Two conventions have
been drawn up for this double object, the ratifica-
tions of which have been exchanged some months

MINIATURES ON PHOTOGRAPHS.

PAINTED BY THOMAS CARRICK.

Everybody who is familiar with the Royal Aca-
demy Exhibitions for some years past is of course
perfectly well acquainted with the name and works
of Mr. Thomas Carrick, one of the most successful
and popular of living miniature painters. Several of
his more remarkable productions, when mentioned,
come vividly before the mind's eye upon the instant—
they have been sofrequently and cleverly reproduced
in well-known engravings. There is that admirable
portrait of his of Lord John Russell—the most feli-
citous likeness ever yet produced of the great Whig
leader—better even as a likeness than that noble
idealised life-size representation of Lord John painted
a year or two ago by Mr. Grant, the Royal Acade-
mician. There is that wonderful limning of Daniel
O'Connell—as the Liberator appeared when age had
begun to dim the sparkle of his eye,and to relax and
multiply the lines upon his mobile and thoroughly
Hibernian countenance. There is Carrick's fa-
mous miniature of Lablache, with his gay,
riant, fat, handsome Italian face, crowned with
that "shock" of white hair that might have befitted
the scalp of Sir John Falstaff—a marvel of art, in
its way, this last portraiture, as it well need be in
fact—a Miniature of a Giant of Song like Lablache,
an Iliad in a nutshell. Then there is the admirable
companion semblance of William Farren, the come-
dian—representing the inimitable old-man actor, as
he looked before his voice became groggy and his
memory treacherous. Besides all which, are there
not stores of, others, equally well known in their
way, pencilled by the same skilful and delicate
brush, veritable reflexions of the features of notabi-
lities, some of them still happily living, several long
since dead—Thomas Carlyle and Lord Lyndhurst,
Samuel Rogers and William Wordsworth ? Long
after Mr. Carrick had acquired for himself, by these
and similar examples of his perfect mastery of
his art, a high and conspicuous reputa-
tion, there appeared a formidable competitor
to the whole of his craft, to artists in
oil and water-colours, to painters of full-length por-
traits, kitkats, and miniatures. In other words, the
dim, shadowy, uncertain, spectral Daguerreotype de-
veloped into that wondrous art of Photography, which
has been rendered all but instantaneous in its action
by the magical agency of the Collodion, and has even
at last taken to itself an apparent form and substance
by its marvellous application to the wizard mecha-
nism of the Stereoscope.
There is, however, an old threadbare scrap of
Latinity that tells us it is well to take a hint even
from an enemy —fag est ab hoste doceri. So, happily
for himself and his sitters, has thought Mr. Carrick.
If so very obvious a joke is permissable, it is appa-
rent enough, from some of the older faces portrayed
by his new system, that our eminent miniature
painter has taken a wrinkle or two from photo-
graphy. It is one of the most remarkable ad-
vances yet made simultaneously in the develop-
ment of the photographic art and in the facilitation,
and yet more the elevation of the old art of miniature
painting. Mr. Carrick's plan is in itself sufficiently
simple : it is the acceptance of a photograph in one
of its earlier stages as the basis for an elaborately
painted miniature. It is, in other words, the
transformation by him of photographic portraits
into pictures of extraordinary brilliancy and
exquisite finish—pictures requiring for their produc-
tion a skill like his, a 'delicacy of touch like his,
and an eye like his for thp scrupulous preservation
of that soul of a portrait—the individuality ! There
was but one thing really,wanting for the two arts,
and Eureka! it is here disc&ierable in their combi-
nation. 4

The Gretna Green for —this convenient mar-

riage of Miniature Painting and Photography'
is, at the present moment, fixed at Scar-
borough. There, at the establishment of a skil-
ful photographer of the locality, Mr. Sarony, the
magic union is accomplished. The camel's hair
comes in aid of the sunbeam. The colourless ray
takes a permanent hue from the palette. And the
neutral tints of the photographic likeness glow under
the brush of Mr. Carrick with the richest colours of the
most delicately-pencilled miniature. Judging of
the results from what we ourselves have witnessed,
they are veritable triumphs
.in the way of life-like
portraiture.