The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-04 00:00:00

absurdity of squeamishness. It is the outpouring
of an ardour resembling, if it really can
be said to resemble anything at all that
we have ever yet heard of—bearing just the
faint shadow of a resemblance to the ardour, at the
close of a severely-contested electiol, by a party of
carousing potwalloppers. Yet never was there
actually anything, strictly speaking, to compare to
it ! Not even the impassioned phrenzy of the
Dublin mob in its late open-air apotheosis of Ma-
demoiselle PICCOLOMINI. Nay, for that matter—
not even, be it said, the overflowing tenderness of
that lady's companion in the ovation, Signor
GIUGLINI, when he appeared upon the balcony of
the hotel towards the close of the demonstration,
and in broken accents protested to the screeching
multitude—" I love you all very much." Evi-
dently, from first to last—(one can understand this
from the spasmodic variety of capitals and the hy-
sterical notes of admiration at the head of the
authentic accounts in the New York papers)—evi-
dently, from first to last, the scenes lately witnessed
on the other side of the Atlantic, as the familiar old
phrase of reporters says—beggared description.
Yet even from the glimpse we catch of those doings
through the incoherent account of the celebrants in
the local newspapers, it must have been, in Dominic
Sampson's phrase—Pro-di-gi-ous. Or, according to a
favourite Yankeeism of their own,they evidentlywere
piling up their enthusiasm mo-ountainously ! In fact
it could hardly be called enthusiasm—it was rather
(with the late Mr. BRAHAM'S pronunciation, be it
said) enthusimuzzy. Torch-light processions were
nothing, illuminations, public and private, were
nothing, cannon firing, bells ringing, flags flutter-
ing, bands playing, crowds cheering—all this was
merely just nothing. They must needs, beyond all
this—in the midst of all this—set fire to the town
hall at New York with their over-abundant squibs
and crackers. Beyond even that they must actually
go to the length of Serenading a Sea Captain. Not
one of those blue-frock-coated, gold-laced, dandy
capped young gentlemen of polite comedy, who
climb over garden walls, and hide among the holly-
hocks, and, at the most critical moment of the elope-
ment, come down to the footlights, and sing a very
loud duet (with an encore) with the young lady in
the white muslin—but a regular salt water Jack,
a spinner of yarns, a swigger of grog, a tough,
bluff, rough, genuine briny Skipper. Fancy, "of
all things in heaven and earth, Horatio,"
Serenading a Sea Captain ! Yet they actually
did it the other day in America. Concoc-
ters of gin-sling and squirters of tobacco
juice—they actually went and Serenaded an Adult
Sailor. What Mr. THACKERAY says in his last
new number of his delightful " Virginians," in re-
spect to his youthful hero, might certainly be ap-
plied to the extremely youthful nation of which
that hero was one—" 0 Niminy, 0 Piminy, how can
I go for to say that a young man is ever a young
man." It is the only reasonable explanation, how-
ever, of their acting thus—they arc so very young
as a community. Surely—if one might judge of
them by their latest proceedings in the matter of
this submarine telegraph—not yet out of their teens.
Altogether, we really cannot, for the life of us,
do otherwise than regard these recent United States'
Demonstrations as excessively ridiculous from be-
ginning to end. It is certainly overdoing the thing
very preposterously. It is what we are accustomed
over here to deprecate as too much of a good thing
—this ranting, raving, ravaging delight of the
Americans. It is tearing a noble passion, as HAM-
LET warns the players they should never think of
doing—" to tatters, yea, to very rags." It is taking—
with the ludicrous suddenness of a hop—that one
step mentioned by NAPOLEON to the Abbe de
PRADT as separating the Sublime from the Ridicu-

lous.

It will be well when we can forget these extra-
ordinary exhibitions of joy over the tidings of a
grand event. When we have entirely done so,
we shall be better able to appreciate its full
grandeur. At present we seem to be look-
ing at it through a swarm of moving,
gambolling, tumbling, mouthing absurdities,
provocative only of laughter and derision. By
the time all these frivolities shall have been cleared
away, and obliterated from recollection, we shall
be enabled to contemplate the glorious incident
that has just occurred, the like of which cer-
tainly never occurred before—to contemplate it in
a fitting spirit and with undisturbed equanimity.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, SEPT. 3,
The following had audiences of her Majesty yesterday

The Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Earl o:
Hardwicke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stan.
ley, the Right Hon. S. Walpole, the Marquis of Salisbury
and the Right Hon. 3. Peel.

Mr. Fisher, surgeon-in-chief to the metropolitan police,
was presented to her Majesty by the Right Hon. S. Wal-
pole and received the honour of knilthood.
The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of her
Majesty.

Mr. J. Chapman, chairman of the Great Southern o:
India Railway and Captain C. Mangles, MP., had an in•
terview with Mr. Hamilton at the Treasury, yesterday, or
the subject •of the Indian and Australian Telegraph Corn•
pang.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France has
arrived at the Embassy, Albert-gate House, from Paris.
Madame Musurus has recovered from her late
illness, and will leave town in a few days for St. Leonard's-
on-Sea. _ _

The Duke of Beaufort arrived in town on Wed-
nesday from Badminton. His grace left town yesterday on
a visit to the Earl Howe, at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire.
The Marquis of Lansdowne is on a tour of visits
in the north.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are enter-
taining a select circle at Bretby Hall, Derbyshire.
The Earl and Countess of Shelburne have re-
turned to Lansdowne House, from Richmond.
. The Earl of Jersey left town on Thursday on a
visit to Viscount and 'Viscountess Villiers at Upton House.

The Earl.of Cardigan has left town foi the Con-
tinent.
Lady Burghersh was safeely delivered of a son
yesterday morning at Curzon House. Her ladyship and
infant are preressing favourably.
The Dowager Lady Musgrove has arrived at the
St. George's Hotel.
Mr. Smyth Owen has arrived at the St. George's
Hotel.

fIIE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.—NEWHAVEN, Fri-
day.—Thefour o'clock this afternoon, and left at 4.30 p.m. for the
Marshal Duke of Malakhoff landed here at
Pimlico station.
A NEST OF SNAKES.—One day last week one
of the kitchen gardeners at Dangstein House, Reigate, was
moving a heap of rubbish, and found in it nearly 200
snakes.—West Sussex Gazette.
THE NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIAN, CEYLON,
AND ADEN MAms.—The Emeu arrived at Suez on the
night of the 2lth, having left Sydney on the 11th, Melbourne
on the 16th of July, Galle on the 7th, Aden on the 18th of
August, with 87 passengers and 52 packages of cargo, in-
cluding specie and gold to the value of £537084. The Aus-
tralasian left Aden on the 9th of August, outward bound.
On the 23d of July the Victoria had not yet reached King
George's Sound. The Columbian is posted to bring the
next homeward mail. The Tcviet, with the outward mail,
which will go on by the Emeu, reached Alexandria on the
25th of August, and would leave on the 26th, at night,
with the homeward mails by this latter, looked for at Malta
early on the morning of the 30th of August.
111 E CIVIL SERVICE.—There is a paid attache-
ship at Copenhagen vacant ; also the third paid attacheship
at Teheran, Persia. The consulship at Zanzibar, Muscat,
is unfilled. The office of vice-consul at Jeddah and several
viec-consulships are vacant. British Museum : A vacancy
in the department of antiquities has been caused by the
death of Mr. Thomas Burgon, first-class assistant. The
the superannuation,
ee
deceased. after
Stationary-office : There is a clerkship vacant, owing to
Customs sl onngi s service,
Sel- e • (1)f clerkships
in
the Examiner's-office are vacant, owing to a new
establishment and the doing away with overtime.
Several tidewaiterships are vacant. Several established
weigherships are also vacant. Mr. Daniel C 1 uh
o q oun has
been promoted from collector at Portsmouth to be collector
at Southampton. Mr. W. J. Redpath has been promoted
from collector at Yarmouth to be collector at Portsmouth.
Mr. William Smith has been promoted from collector at
Boston to be collector at Yarmouth. Mr. Clifford Gill has
been promoted from comptroller at Newry to be collector
at Boston. Mr. John Swann has been promoted from
tittewaiter in London. Ireland—Mr.
third to second class-.
ted to' the third class in tb.e Regis-
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trar of Deeds-office
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