The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

MILAN, MAY 30 (Evening).

Letters received here from Venice state that the
Jesuit priests are leaving their houses in Venice and
are proceeding north.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAY 30 (Evening).

It is believed in well-informed circles in this city
that no new Minister of Finance will be appointed
until the Chamber of Deputies have voted upon the
proposal of Government requesting extraordi-
nary powers.

THE DUTCH MINISTRY

THE HAGUE, MAY 31.

M. Pels Rycken having accepted the Ministry o:
Marine in place of M. Andreal, and M. Vanden•
bosch that for War, hitherto left vacant, the forma•
tion of the new Cabinct is now completed.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 31.

An Imperial decree dated yesterday has been
issued to-day fixing the tariff for the importation of
tea as follows :

40 francs per 100 kilos if brought from tea grow-
ing countries in French bottoms, 100 francs per
100 kilos if imported from other countries and in

foreign vessels.
The poi declines are included in this tariff.
BOURSE, May 30, Two o'clock.—Purchases ren-
dered requisite by the reponse des primes (option),
which takes place to-morrow, have caused a con-
siderable advance in quotations. Threes, for the
Account, after reaching 65f. 40c.; are now at 65f.
20c., with a rise of 65c. Italian Fives, after having
been been done at 42f. 10c., are quoted at 41f. 95c.,
with an advance of 85c. Credit Mobilier Shares
have improved 10f., being quoted 542 f. 50c.
Spanish Mobilier have a similar rise—to 280 f.
Credit Foncier have advanced no less than 22f. 50c.
—viz., to I,lBof. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte 15f.—
to 740 f. A forward movement is also noticeable
in the Railway Department, Orleans Shares having
improved sf.—to 810 f. ; Lyons, 10f.—to 807 f. 50c.
Northern, 151.—t0 1,085 f. ; and Lombard, sf.—to
307 f. 50f. English Consols have lost at the second
despatch the advance telegraphed by the first.
The charge for carrying over is very cheap ; there
is a deport of 15c. on the Three per Cents., 4f. on
Credit Mobilier Shares, and sf. on Comptoir d'Es-
compte Shires. Italian Fives are demanded to be
carried over at par.
Three o'clock.—The market has closed on the
following quotations :

41 per Cents 94 10
Do. and month —
3 per Cents. 65 75
Do. end month 65 55

Bank Shares 3420
Italian Loan 42 50
Do. end month 42 05
Mexican Loan 32

Credit Mobilier ... 550

Do. Bonds 240

Do. end month ... 545

Spanish Threes ...

Credit Foncier

.OMO

Do. end month 1182 50 I Deferred

RAILWAYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean BlO
Southern 532 50
Western 530
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa l5O
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman —

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE GERMANIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 31.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Germania, from New York on the 19th inst.,
has arrived here. She brings $780,000 for Eng-
land, $150,000 for France, and $140,000 for
Hamburg.

Off Sandy Hook she spoke the ship Thornton
and the Norwegian barque Ovilgie ; on the 24th a
steamer, and another on the 29th, both bound for
New York.

CANADA.
TORONTO, May 17.

On Monday a military exhibition was opened at
Montreal by Gen. Sir John Michel, commander of
the forces. An address was read to his excellency
by Gen. Lindsay, in which industrial pursuits for
soldiers were strenuously advocated. To encourage
this object the exhibition was originated. Her
Majesty the Queen has desired her name to be added
as patron of the movement.

The bust of the Prince of Wales, presented by his
Royal Highness to the Corporation of Toronto, has
arrived out here, and has been placed in the Council
Chamber.

In Montreal the drivers and conductors on the
street railway are on strike. The scarcity of
labourers is so great that the works of the Corpora-
tion cannot be done. The same scarcity of labourers
prevails in Upper Canada.
It is thought by some that in the event of the
New Brunswick elections being favourable to a
Confederation of the Provinces, that the forthcom-
ing session of Parliament will be prolonged so as to
admit of the introduction and passing of the schemes
for the local Government of the Province.

Dr. Lawler of the 25th Regiment died suddenly
at Montreal on Sunday last. He was interred with
military honours on the afternoon of the Wednes-
day, General Lindsay and his staff being present.
The coffin was.earried to the grave on an Armstrong
gun drawn by six horses. Dr. Lawler was uni-
versally respected. He had the character of great
bravery, and possessed medals and clasps for dis-
tinguished services from the Turkish and British
Governments.

The military have replaced the Volunteers at
Ottawa, the ilew seat of Government.

OUR AMERICAN BENEFACTOR AND AMERICAN
GRATITUDE.---MT., George Peabody is still living in
retirement at South Danvers, Massachusetts. It is stated
that he had scarcely set foot in that town before the in-
ternal revenue collector served him with a notice to pay
his income tax siuce the beginning of 1863. This will
amount to a large sum, being 8 per cent. on the income of
1863, 10 per cent. on the income of 1864, and 10 per cent.
on the income of 1865. Such treatment of an honoured
visitor would scarcely have occurred outside the State of
Massachusetts. Mr. Peabody claims still to be a citizen of
the United States, and is therefore liable to income tax.

One of the Paris journals, in reporting the Epsom
Meeting, represents Achievement as having won the
Wood-Cok Shakes ! We have sometimes a crow to pluck
with English compositors, but this beats them all to
shivers.—Sporting Life.
THE INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBI -
TION.—The specimen plants exhibited at the International
Horticultural Exhibition from the well-known nurseries of
Messrs. Bull, Lee, Standish, Turner, Lane, W. Paul, Ivory
and Son, Jackman and Son, Watson, Brown, Stark, Fraser,
Bleu, Osborn, J. Verschaffelt, and others, will be sold by
auction, by Mr. J. C. Stevens, to-morrow and Saturday,
in the largo tent where the show was held, at South
Kensington.

ETHARDO IN DUBLIN. —On Saturday Ethardo
made his first ascent in the Exhibition Palace, in
the presence of a large assemblage. It was viewed with
great interest ; and for the benefit of all who would not

like to miss seeing his very wonderful performance, we
may mention that Ethardo will make his ascents daily at
the Exhibition Palace during the week. The apparatus
used by the ascensionist was placed in the centre of the
glass building, opposite the apse. it consists of a masrive
pole, some.6o or 70 feet iu height, round which a pathway
of planking is constructed in a spiral or conical form, from
an extended circular base to a point at the top, where there
is a resting place. Shortly before five o'clock Ethardo
made his appearance. Ho is small in stature, but well made
and muscular. He wore a brilliant tight-fitting dress, of
the style usually assumed by public athletes. He did not
commence his wonderful ascent until five o'clock. At in-
tervals, during his progress up the spiral, he stopped and
bowed to the audience. On reaching the top he was warmly
applauded. The display does not last much more than a
quarter of an hour. This and the other engagements,
already fillel or announced, will be accepted by the public
as au earnest that the directors of thq Exhibition Palace
intend to do everything in their power to provide varied
and interesting displays at their unrivalled place of p,o2use-
ment.—Saunclers'a News Letter. _ _

WHO'S YOUR DOCTVE F-1-11-01LISON5 PILLS

LITERATURE.

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Travelling in Spain in the Present Day. By Henry
Blackburn. One Vol., pp. 248. Illustrated.

Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.

This pleasant volume, dedicated to the Right
Hon. E. Horsman, M.P., by his late private Secre-
tary, admirably fulfils its author's design, which
was " to record simply and easily the observations
of ordinary English travellers visiting the principal
cities of Spain." The travellers whose adventures
are here recorded were, however, something more
than ordinary observers. Some artists, being of the
party, have given graceful evidence of their observa-
tions in some spirited sketches of Spanish scenes and
Spanish characters. There are uo less than nineteen
of these illustrations, someby John Phillip,"R.A., and
the ornaments at the beginning and close of the
chapters are fac-similes of embroidery brought from
Granada. The whole volume, in its getting up and
appearance, is most attractive, and the descriptions
of Spanish men and women are singularly interest-
ing, because so evidently faithful and natural. Very
amusing is the account of the travellers' visit to a
workshop in Burgos, where little business was ap-
parently carried on. " Here," says the narrator,
" and elsewhere on the Plaza the people were very
quiet and civil, and if we gave no trouble, and lifted
anything down ourselves that we wanted to see, we
were free to look about us as long as we pleased ;
for your Castilian, true aristocrat that he is, will
lay his hands to nothing menial." With regard to
the national costume, we are reminded that
" Spaniards seem to suffer in appearance more
than any other European nations by adopting the
modern costume. A swarthy, stout senor in a scanty
paletot, badly-made trousers, and chimney-pot hat,
loses what he most prizes and depends upon—
his dignity of bearing ; and there is uo question that
las senoras, who look grand in their dark dresses
and black lace mantillas (which are still de riqueur
in the churches), do not appear to advantage in
Parisian bonnets and bright colours." The descrip-
tion of Burgos Cathedral is very interesting, with
the groups of peasants that seemed to have stepped
out of the canvas of Murillo" or Velasquez. At the
close of this volume is an appendix, corrected to
April, 1866, which will be invaluable to all intend-
ing travellers in Spain. It gives very accurate and
intelligible information respecting distances, times
and fares of railway trains, diligences, and steam-
boats throughout the entire excursion with other
useful information.

The Toilet and cosmetic Arts. By Arnold J. Cooley

One Vol. 804 pages. Robert Hardwicke.

Imagine a goodly ponderous tome of eight hun-
dred and four pages devoted to the arts and myste-
ries of the toilet ! Napoleon, by a happy soldier's
metaphor, is said to have described the toilet of the
fascinating Josephine as a perfect arsenal with
which she withstood the attacks of Time." Such a
magazine is now offered to the ladies of England
by the painstaking author and compiler of " The
Clyclop3ia of receipts, processes, data, and col-
lateral information in the arts, manufactures, pro-
fessions, and trades ;" of the " Dictionary of the
English Language," of " The Latin Grammar for
Technical Students and Self-tuition," and of " Two
Months in a London Hospital." Mr. Arnold J.
Cosley is one who delights in a very thorough per-
formance of any given task. The works above
enumerated bear evidence of this praiseworthy pro-
pensity, and a mere epitome of the present work as
given on the title page will be sufficient to attest the
amazing comprehensiveness of this undertaking.
This very elaborate work affords us complete in-
struction respecting " The Toilet and Cosmetic Arts
in Ancient and Modern Times : with a review of
the different Theories of Beauty, and copious other
information Social, Hygienic, and Medical, in-
cluding instructions and cautions respect-
ing the selection and use of Perfumes,
Cosmetics, and other Toilet Articles, and a com-
prehensive collection of formula and directions for
their preparation." Il fast souffrir pour etre belle,
says a homely French adage, and, assuredly, a
glance at this very formidable-looking work (which
would be alarming even for a moral homily or a
scientific treatise) would threaten pains and penal-
ties enough to the gay young aspirant for the pri-
vileges of beauty.

" The fair maid of the vale, when with flowers she'dresses
Her dark flowing locks for some festival day,"
might with reason, indeed, " mournfully turn
from lier mirror away" at the prospect
of a preliminary study of these eight hundred
pages! We cannot but think that the author has
made a mistake in the arrangement of his work.
The historical descriptions of the Toilet from the
earliest ages, interesting as they may be in them-
selves, should appear in a separate form, addressed
to a different class of readers, while the chapters on
the management of the hair, and other mat-
ters of practical utility, might have been
published in a smaller and more attactive
form as a handy-book of practical instruction
for the dressing-room. The curiosities of historical
research might interest one large class of readers
who would hardly care to be instructed in the
mysteries of curling tongs and kalydor. Speaking
of this last attraction, we are surprised to find a
writer who acknowledges the solo efficacy of
health in promoting beauty devote nearly three
hundred pages to a list of cosmetic receipts ! Skin-
cosmetics, forty-eight pages 1 Hair-cosmetics,
sixty-three pages ! Tooth-cosmetics, forty-two
pages ! We reme.nber, in some pantomime,
when Dame Nature, personified as a vener-
able old lady, being about to undertake some
distant journey was offered the facility of some
artificial express. The old lady indignantly pro-
testing to the aerial Art, " Your best invention
can't beat legs for walking !" Fresh air, fresh
water, and plenty of both, are truer cosmetics than
any contained in these three hundred pages of re-
ceipts. With all its manifest ability and research,
Mr. Cooley's book is too ponderous for general in-
vestigation, nevertheless we do not quite despair
as regards the good looks of our fair country-
women.

Our Social Bees. _ Second Series. By Andrew
_ _

Wynter, M.D. One vol. Hardwicke.

This second series of Dr. Wynter's republished
essays will be generally welcome. The articles
having already appeared in the first-class quar-
terlies hardly require recommendation. The con-
tents of the present volume are principally of
practically useful interest. " The Water Sup-
ply of London," " The Thames Embankment,"
" How to buy your own house or land ;" " Our
great Ironworkers ;" " The birth of the Steam-
engine ;" " A word about 'Winds ;" " Old Clo' ;"
" The Foundling Hospital ;" " False hair ; where
it comes from," &c., &c. ; "Sweets for the Million,"
recommends " boiled goods," such as acidulated
drops and barley-sugar, as being necessarily free
from adulteration, whereas peppermint drops may
contain any amount of plaster of Paris. " Imagine,"
says the doctor, "a schoolboy filling his inside with
gypsum, under the fond delusion that he is enjoying
a great treat,'

Sport and Sportsmen. A book of recollections. By

Charles Stretton. 1 Vol. Hurst and Blaekett.

Some half dozen amusing tales filled with sport-
ing anecdotes and adventure. "My First Trip to
the Highlands," with some curious facts regarding
salmon fishing; " The Welsh Parson," "Two Days
with a Native Chief," "A Day's Otter Hunting,"
&c. We should like the recollections better if they
were avowedly.fictitious. Lord L—, Captain H—,
Mr. W—, occurring at every page, give a doubtful
appearance of truth to narratives which have littlp
interest or value beyond that connected with the
sporting scenes which they record,

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT TO A WOMAN.—A shocking
accident occurred at a flour mill about 10 miles from Bide-
ford, North Devon, on Monday, under the following cir-
cumstances :—The wife of Mr. Johns, the miller, had charge
of the mill during the absence of her husband, and was
about to put the " smut" machine in motion, when, as she
was adjusting the band round the drum for that purpose,
her dress was caught by the machinery, and the poor
woman was carried around the wheel with fearful velocity
until she became a mangled corpse. The body was broken,
and the head dashed to pieces, the brains being scattered
on the machinery. The husband found his wiWg remains
crushed beyond identification.