The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major-Gen, Bloomfield, Inspector- Gent.ral of Ar-
tillery, in temporary command of Woolwich garri-
son, and Commodore the Hon. J. R. Drummond,
C. 8., Superintendent of the dockyard, aides•de-
camp to her Majesty attended the embarkation on
Saturday at Greenhithe of their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess George of Saxony and the
Duke of Oporto. A guard oehonour, consisting of
100 non-commissioned officers and gunners of the
Royal Artillery, in command of Captain Travers,
from Woolwich, and the Royal Artillery band per-
formed the customary honours. Their Royal High-
nesses, accompanied by Gen. Bloomfield and Com-
modore Drummond, were rowed alongside the
Royal Portuguese steam yacht Bartolomeo Dios,
which lay in the offing, in the Admiralty barge,
fitted out and provided from Woolwich for the oc-
casion, the Artillery band and the ship's music
playing the national airs. Her Majesty's ships
Banshee, Commander Colin A. Campbell; Princess
Alice, Mr. V. W illiams ; and Monkey, Second
Master Syndercombe, were in attendance, with the
national colours flying at the main. Immediately
after the departure of the Royal visitors three of
the ships embarked their freights and returned to
Woolwich at 12 o'clock, the Banshee remaining at
Greenhithe, where she was subsequently swung in
preparation for sea, and was to sail this (Monday)
morning for Portsmouth, on her way to the Medi-
terranean. _ _

The following officers of the Chatham garrison
have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness
the
to embark for India, for the purpose of joining
service companies of theirrespective Corps :—Lieut,
Edward F. S. Lloyd and Lieut. Henry D. Crozier,
Royal Engineers ; Lieut. N. X. Gwyune, Ist Bat-
talion, 20th Regiment; Lieut. F. Gerard, Ist Bat-
talion, 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers ; Lieut. Richard
D. Burroughs, Lieut. Thomas Simpson, and Lieut.
Charles Keyworth, 52d Light Infantry ; Ensign F.
C. Keyser, Ensign Edward Bridges, and Ensign
Morris J. Fawcett, Ist Battalion, 7th Royal Fusi-
leers ; Ensign Francis H. Evans, Ensign Robert G.
Train, and Ensign Cortlandt Skinner, Ist Bat-
talion, 19th Regiment ; Ensign Clifford G. Gibaut
and Ensign Charles E. Hussey, Ist Battalion, 20th
Regiment ; Ensign Robert Albert E. Hay, 23d
Royal Welsh Fusiliers; Ensign J. M'Neill, 43d
Light Infantry ; Ensign W. B. P. Burrell and
Ensign John P. Mickleburgh, 52d Light Infantry ;
Ensign Edward L. Stehelin, Ensign Henry Farrer,
Ensign Percival Richards, and Ensign Philip R.
Anstruther, 94th Regiment.

THE MILITIA.
On Friday an order was received by the adjutant
of the 3d Lancashire Militia, from the Vice-Lieut.-
Colonel, J. IV. Patten, for the assembling of the
corps for their annual training at the latter end of

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Win. Howard and his son,
,oy manufacturers, of G 2, Barbican, were summoned
for assulting a carman in the employ of the South-
Eastern Railway Company.
Samuel Charles Brampton said—l am a porter in
the service of the South-Eastern Railway Company.
OE the 2d of the present month I took a box to the
defendants' house. I placed it on the counter, and
retained my hold of it while I made a demand for
2s. 4d. for the carriage, There was a label on the
box, directing that it should be forwarded by the
luggage-van train. Mr. Howard refused to pay
the amount, and on my saying I must take the box
back he said r should not, and called his son to
assist him to take it from me. In the
struggle for the box the cord round it cut
my hand severely, and that is the assault I com-
plain of. This is not the first time I have had a
bother with the defendants about the payment of
the carriage for parcels.
Cross-examined—The defendant refused to pay
because he thought the charge ought not to have
been more than Is. Gd. I brought the box from the
London-bridge station. Mr. Howard, jun., signed
the delivery-book, which I produle.
Mr. De Jersey (for the defendants)—We contend
that the parcel was actually delivered, and the
company had their remedy against the defendants
for refusing to pay.
Sir P. Laurie—That is the difficulty I see in
this case. It is a nice point to determine whether
the box was delivered or not. The company's ser-
vant clearly did not intend to part with the posses-
sion of it without the money ; but, on the other
hand, he has taken a receipt for the delivery, and
the refusal to pay may, to a certain extent, be jus-
tified by the error in the charge.
Mr. Howard, sen.—The fact is, sir, this parcel
was directed to go by the luggage-van train, which
would cost about ls. 3d. or ls. Gd., but the company
thought proper to convey it by passenger train,
and to charge for it at the increased rate for pas-
senger luggage, which I, of course, objected to pay.
Sir P. Laurie—This is quite a new case, for I
never heard of such a point being raised before. I
would recommend you, Mr. Howard, to pay the
charge demanded and proceed against the company
to recover the excess.

Mr. Howard—l would rather not, sir, for I had
a similar dispute with the South• Eastern Railway
Company in August last, and protested against the
charges. I, however, paid them, and then tried to
recover the excess, and it was three months before
I succeeded, and then not until I had threatened to
write to the Times about it.

Sir P. Laurie—l think the defendant was wrong
in this case, but I should like to consider it further
before giving my decision.
Mr. Martin—The defendant had no right to
question the charge made by the company.
Mr. De Jersey—He had every right, for the com-
pany published a scale of charges from which they
ought not to depart ; and if they do we have a
most undoubted right to dispute them.
Sir P. Laurie—ls it legal as well as customary
for carmen to take parcels back when they cannot
get the money for them ?
Mr. Reece—Most unquestionably, sir, as the com-
pany have a lien upon all parcels until the carriage
is paid. This is the first case of the kind we have
ever had.

Sir. P. Laurie—l will give my decision on Wed-
nesday next.

The summons was adjourned accordingly.

MARYLEBONE.—A young man named John
Dignan was charged with having been concerned
with another in knocking down and robbing of 12s.
James Ray, of 8, Little North-street, Lisson-gr9ve.
The evidence went to show that on March 12th
last prosecutor was passing along Capland-street,
Marylebone, in the evening, when he suddenly re-
ceived a tremendous blow from the prisoner which
knocked him down and stunned him, and, while
lying bleeding upon the ground, the sum above
alluded was stolen from his trousers' pocket by the
prisoner and his companion named White : the pri-
soner then escaped, but White was taken by Ser-
geant Boden, 11 I), and after an examination at this
court he was committed. The jury found him guilty
and the sentence passed upon him was four years'
ppnal servitude. The police had, ever since the out-
rage, been in quest of the prisoner, and he was
ultimately captured by 237 D. A former conviction
was now proved against him by Cattermull, 38 D.
It was also shown that prosecutor was so much in-
jured by the violence of the blows inflicted upon
Shim by the prisoner as to render it necessary for
him to be conveyed at once to the dispensary, of
which he remained an out-patient for some weeks.
The prisoner, who declined making any defence
at present, was committed by Mr. Long for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—Wm. Groves, a rough look-
ing fellow, was charged as follows :
Collis, 268 B, said that at half-past one o'clock
that morning he was on duty in Cranley-mews, and
thought he heard some one in the gardens of On-
slow-square, Brompton, close by. He stood still for
a moment, and then distinctly heard footsteps in
one of the gardens. He called a brother constable,
and having been raised to the top of the wall
" the garden
his
againstlanternlialendwsaall. imni
saw thepreisdoinateevrover
in
seeing witness the prisoner made his escape
over anon
adjoining wall, and on witness springing his rattle
ouanndo another esit• ce okn, sat
na bd e
in. In the pri-
shoenwera,ss
pocket
trehd yebl.
a rope, which together were used for burglarious
purposes. purposes. Witness found on the prisoner, besides
some matches, a knife,
estring,
brokers' duplicates. and several pawn.
weCnltlrtiestoopnhseirel‘,_ Martin,H 33 B,
athlse address.
prisoner's footmarks tell'at B, said, that morning he
squar andhe fioutudn dh
been
n tracingthe th e
gar-
dens of no less than 11 houses—six in Sidney-place,
and five in Onslow-square. A back window of the
house in the garden of which Collis saw the pri-
soner was thrown wide open. There were no marks
of violence upon any portion of it, and the probabi-
lity was that prisoner, finding it unfastened, had
opened it, and was about to get into the house when,
hearing Collis coming, he endeavoured to secrete
himself, and afterwards to make his escape.
George Sowerby, 113 B, hearing a rattle sprung,
watched the prisoner, and saw him leave the area
of No. 2, Onslow-square, upon which he took him
into custody.
The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday.
A pawnbroker's ticket having been found on the
prisoner relating to a shirt, and as he was strongly
suspected to have been concerned in other burglaries
which have been committed in the neighbourhood,
no time was lost in going to the pawnbrokers and
examining the article in question. The result was
that a woman of bad character named Fogherty
was taken into custody, charged with being con •
cerned with Groves in another offence, the shirt
being part of the proceeds of a burglary, and the
woman having pawned it.
She was also remanded.

The long dresses which our ladies are now
wearing, and which one is sorry to see employed in sweep-
ing the filth of the streets, bring to recollection the follow-
ing passage in the " Citizen of the World" :—" Nay, he
ventures to affirm that a train may often bring a lady into
the most critical circumstances, for should a fellow,' says
he, ' offer to come up to ravish a kiss, and the lady attempt
to avoid it, in retiring she must necessarily tread upon her
train, and thus fall fairly upon her back, by which means
every one knows—her clothes may be spoiled.'." The
image must have tickled Goldsmith's fancy, for it is re-
peated in No, 2 of the "Bee."—Bulletin.

SIPAPER
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the direction of Italy,. the 'folloWisir u
written by a correspondent of the' -crib' *ill be read with interest :—" ,
At 10'.6'Citickr
morning a regiment of grenadiers of Ad, •auard
disembarked, and the Genoese population; -tired
of the white turbans of the ZouaYes,--
_
dared, by loud shouts and expressive pantominite,
their admiration of the high hairy caps and martial
bearing of these veterans, almost all of whom ex-
hibited the Crimean medal. The Zouaves
received the new corners with a shower -of
oranges which they had bought of the vendors
usar bea,
neclodamr
thege e a
don , the quays and which the grenadiers eagerly
seized and eat. By the bye the sale of oranges
ia
question of importance. The first
troops who disembarked, seeing in every street and
s
oreaanlgeress, exposedspeeulating
for
on the
easikgendoralltheceir
price,
of the soldiers, fixed the, price at a sou. The sol-
diers, pleased with their bargains, bought the
oranges in heaps, and were loud in praise of a city
where they could get oranges for a halfpenny which
in Paris they would have to pay fire pence for. The
matter coming to the ears of the Syndic or chiefmagis-
trate, be issued a proclamation, in which he appealed
to the patriotism of the orange merchants, and
desired them in future not to take advantage of
the inexperience of our soldiers. The fact is that
the soldiers had been cheated by being charged a sou
for what is hardly worth a centime at Genoa and
all along the shores of the Mediterranean. How-
ever, the soldiers finding that they had been
"done," took their revenge by insisting on having
six oranges for a sou instead of five, which is the
usual number given in exchange for that coin.
With the exception of the orange trade, in which
the desire of gain got the better of patriotism, the
Genoese population received the Freneh:Ailte
brothers. . The ladies oil the .--itrieteeiaet. have
placed their opera boxes at the service :Of our
officers, and the night before last • the :first
and' second rows of the theatre Carlo Felice •
were filled with French nnifornis. All the pekoes
of Genoa, and you know they are nunaerouF,
are open to our generals and superior officers.
Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers is lodged in the Royal
palace, General Brazaine in the Doria palace, and
General Foray in the Durazzo palace, and a curious
sight it is to see our soldiers seated in these marble
halls or leaning their elbows on the marble bal-
cOnies. The Strada Balbi and the Via Nuova con-
tain a unique assemblage of costly palaces, as re-
markable for their artistic merits as for the beauty
of the material of which they are built. All is
marble ; the caryatides, the mascarons, the bal-
conies, the pillars, the basements, the cornices;
and, in the interior, the staircases and
walls. All these palaces seem to have been cut
out of a gigantic block of marble, and they are
so numerous, not only in the Via Balbi, the
Via Nuova, and the Via Nuovisima, but in all the
streets, that a man who goes to Genoa, must indeed
be an outcast if he cannot find some humble little
marble palace to shelter himself in. My lodgings
are in the ancient Grimaldi palace, which neces-
sity has converted into furnished hotel. My
room is paved with white marble, and to reach it
I ascend a staircase of black marble, after tra-
versing a hall whose roof is supported -by eight
marble columns, each a single block.- Do not
imagine that I am favoured in this. For two francs
and a half in ordinary times, and for five francs
now, when Genoa is crowded with strangers,
anybody can enjoy this marble luxury. lam
bound to add, however, that great power of
limb is required for its enjoyment. At Genoa,
the smallest palaces are ten stories high. Each
palace, wishing to have a view of the sea, looks
over its neighbour's shoulders. A palace not tall
enough to get a peep of the sea, is a dishonoured
building. The pleasure which the Genoese have
for viewing the vessels which plough their way
through the blue gulf, makes them prefer the
upper stories. Thus the rich Genoese live in
aerial altitudes, which are usually attained only by
means of balloons. For my part, I ought to be
grateful for being lodged in a story of honour—the
eighth! From my marble window, I see the port,
the towers, the lighthouses, the forts, the citadel,
and, beyond and around them, scattered here and
there amidst groves of myrtle and orange trees,
costly Genoese villas ; but I cannot enjoy this
splendid view without scaling a staircase of 162
steps ; and when, pressed for time, I have come down
again from this elevated region and find that I have
left an important letter on my table, you will not
be surprised at my wishing to exchange the
grandeur og the palace for the convenience of the-
entresol.
EDMOND TEXIEII.
" Genoa, April 30."
Between the present condition of Europe and
the circumstances existing during the first French
empire, many parallels have been drawn. Even
the names of the continental sovereigns engaged
in the last great war, were identical with those of
the present reigning monarchs. The Emperor of
Russia was then, as now, named Alexander ;—The
Emperor of Austria, Francis ;—The King of
Prussia, William ; and the Emperor of the French,
Napoleon.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of William James Chaplin, Esq., of 2
Hyde Park-gardens, was preyed in London on the
17th of May, the personalty sworn under £lBO,OOO.
Ager payment of a few legacies, amounting to
about £1,200, he has left his property to his
widow and his eight sons and six daughters. To
his executor. Charles Pressly, he leaves £lOO ; to
his clerk, Charles Palmer, £100; to his eldest son,
William Augustus, £l,OOO above his share in the
residue. The testator had a fourth share in the
extensive business of the firm of " Chaplin and.
Horne," railway carriers, the value of which con-
stutes part of the residue, as also his interest and
share in the business of a brewer at Stockwell, as
partner with his son Horace, of the value of
£12,500. Has bequeathed to his widow his term
in the leasehold residence in Hyde Park-gardens,
and leaves for her absolute use the furniture, plate,
linen, china, books, jewellery, pictures, articles of
virtu, and such carriages, horses, and harness as
she may select. The residue of his estate, real and
personal, to be divided into three parts; he bequeaths
one-third to his widow and the remaining two-
thirds to be divided into as many parts as there are
children (fourteen). The executors are Elizabeth
Chaplin, the relict; William Augustus Chaplin,
Esq., of Mansfield-street, Portland-ce, Ernest
Chaplain, Esq., of Victoria-street, Westminster,
two sons of the testator ; and Charles Pressly, Esq.,
of Surbiton-hill, Surrey. The will was written
on seventeen sheets of paper, and dated August 17,
1858. The testator died on the 24th of April, 1859.
Miss Jane Clarke, the Court milliner,—The will
and codicil of Miss Jane Clarke, of 170, Regent- *
street, and of Bold-street, Liverpool, was proved in
London, and the effects were sworn under £45,000.
The charitable bequests amount to £1,700, being
£lOO to each of 11 metropolitan police courts, £lOO
to the Liverpool police court, and £5OO to the
Westminster Free Hospital. The greater part of
the remainder of her property is left to her sister,
her nieces, and great nephews and nieces. Be-
queaths £2OO to each of the children of her three
nieces, numberino, 11 at the date of her will. To
her sister, Rosetta M‘Laren, £3, and to her sister's
children, David and Mary M'Laren, £l,OOO each.
To each of her executors, William Gilbert, Alfred
Gilbert, and Samuel Howell, £2OO. Legacies to
two of her assistants—to one au annuity of £2O, to
the other a legacy of £lOO. To Edmund Graham,
residing at Chelsea, an annuity of £5O, as well as a
legacy of £5OO. There are other pecuniary legacies.
Bequeaths to the National Gallery an original oil
painting, " The Blind Beggar," by Dye
and sold with his effects and paintings at C s ,
Antwerp, formerly belonging to Leopold Jhrimtead_
Pt
iaet' hs
Benvenuto Cellini. Leaves the
and bequeaths to the British Museum
ofa hervas vase by
residue
pro-
perty to be equally divided between her three
nieces, Margaret Gilbert, Jan
e Vii and Helen
ocecupying 15 sheets of
pllaopwerel;Lbutltthise
adlaoteng will,wa
snot filled in. A codicil
the vase. Miss Clarke died on the
was made thereto holuohthaeresagmiveendatyh—o tohhearBittahbolef
March, 1858—by w
bequests and
28th of January, 1839, at St. p eter s-square, Ham-
mersmith.
The will of Lady Domvile, of Ashburton House,
Putney, relict of Sir Compton Domvile, Bart., of
Santry House, Dublin, and of Grosvenor-square,
London, was proved in London, by Daniel Boys,
Esq., of Ely-place, the acting executor. Power
reserved to Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, the
son-in-law. The personalty sworn under £20,000.
Her ladyship has bequeathed the whole of her
property between her two daughters, or to the
survivor. The will is dated the Bth of May, 1857,
and her ladyship died the 10th of Feb euary, 1359.
—lllustrated London News.

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HOUSEHOLD WORDS.—Messrs. BRADBURY
and EVANS beg to state that their connection with
HOUSEHOLD WORDS will cease from and after the 28th
inst., and that on Saturday, the 2d July they will commence
• new Weekly Illustrated Periodical, to be called
"ONCE A WEEK."

All communications for the Editor to be addressed to No.
Bouverie-street, London, E.C.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The SECOND OPERA
CONCERT will take place on WEDNESDAY next, the
25th inst., when the following eminent artistes will appear:
—Madame Grist, Madame Didiee, Madlle. Lotti, 3iadlle.
Marai, Madlle. Calderon, and Madame Penco (her first ap-
pearance at the Crystal Palace), Signor Ronconi, Signor De
Bassini, Signor Neri Baraldi, Signor Lucchesi, Signor
Tagliafico, gignor Polonini, M. Zelger, and Signor Gordoni ;
with the full Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Italian
Opera, Covent-garden. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Admission
by Two Guinea Season Tickets by One Guinea ditto, with
payment of 2s. 6d. ; by Day Tickets, 7s. 6d., or if bought by
the 24th inst., ss. ; ReservPd Seats, 2s. (Id. extra. 'rickets at
'the Crystal Palace, or at Exeter Hall. Doors open at Ten
Concert to commence at Three.

CRYSTAL PALACE. - MADAME PENCO,
the New PRIMA DONNA, will make her First Appear-
ance here at the Opera Concert on WEDNESDAY, the 25th
stay. Admission to non-Ticketholders, Five Shillings, if the
Tickets are bought by Tuesday evening ; or on the 25th, Seven
Shillings and Sixpence.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-HANDEL
COMMEMORATION FESTIVAL—FIVE SHILLING
TICKETS.—In accordance with their published intention
" of affording the opportunity of attending, the Festival to
those who do not desire reserved seats," the directors
have now the pleasure to announce that TICKETS
will be ISSUED at FIVE SHILLINGS EACH, for
each of the THREE DAYS of the FESTIVAL, viz., the 20th,
22d, and 24th of June. The Fountains at the conclusion of
the performances. These tickets will be in the North and
South Naves, commencing on either side at the limit of the
Orchestra, and extending from thence towards the ends of
the Palace. Seats will be provided, with an access entirely
separate from that to the reserved seats and stalls.
Applications for these tickets will be received at the Crystal
Palace, and at 2, Exeter Hall only but no applications can
be attended to unless accompanied by a remittance of the full
amount. Cheques and post-office orders to be made payable
to George Grove, Esq.—the latter at the General Post-office,
St. Martin's-le-Grand.
As only a limited number of these tickets is issued, early
application is recommended.
By order,
,GEORGE GROVE, Secretary.
N.B.—Additional stalls have been reserved in the galleries
and in the area. A portion of the latter are on an inclined
platform on the site of the small Orchestra immediately
fronting the Handel Orchestra; these and the stalls in front
of the galleries are Five Guineas the set, or Two Guineas the
single stall ; the remaining stalls One Guinea each, and Two-
: said-a-Half Guineas the set.
Seats in the unnumbered blocks at Twenty-five Shillings
the set, or Half--a-Guinea each, may also be had.
Plans of the above may be inspected at the Crystal Palace.
and at 2, Exeter Hall.
Crystal Palace, May 18, 1859.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
v under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.

'IIHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original
Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The
characters by Lcssrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far-
rell, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, &c.
After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled
ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs.
Campton, Braid. Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright,
Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclereq.
And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Commence at 7.

NEWW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL
THEATRE - ROYAL, A)ELPHI
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

Reappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan.

THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas.
Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and
Mrs. Billington.
Followed by (seventh time), by Tom Taylor, Esq., THE
HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. Alfred Wigan, C, Selby,
Billing-ton ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss 11. Simms. Miss Laid-
law.

After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J.
L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Wool,gar, Keeley, Arden, and
Kate Kelly.

Acting slanager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking:. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by
J. M. Morton. Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ?
Supported by the company.
After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark.

Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
Unparalleled and Continued Success of INANHOE.
Overflowing Houses Nightly.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular
work, entitled IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro-
ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic
Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts,
Victories, and Achievemerts in extraordinary magnificence.
Ivanhoe, Mr. It. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. .Jas. Holloway;
Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm.
Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss
Dowton.

After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing- Mr. John Henry Cooke, the
greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's
family, being the only instance on record of such a domestic
C3ncentration pt' unequalled male and female talent.
To conclude with the Farce of KILL 011 CURE.

- -- -
The preparations for Whitsuntide arc on an extensive scale
already.

Stage Manager. Mr. E. Phillips

Dress Circle, 4s. ;Boxes, Pit. 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, tid.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and ..C1 ls.
To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11.

lANTERBI TRY HALL AND FINE ARTS
k..) GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

oOnsistint.,, of three Juvenile Violinists, viz.. Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.

The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
et the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NISE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-Srx Orrtc-E, MA.Y 22.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon. yesterday.
61—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day at noon.
BAROMETER--30.11, still rising.

WIIVD, Northerly; light, with fine cool weather.
MAY 23.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
63—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.09.

WIND, N.W. ; light, with fine weather, but cloudy.

THE F IRST BATTLE !

The die is cast ! The Austrians have attacked
the French outposts, and met their fate. Although
numbering 15,000 men—a good army in itself—far
more than those who won the battle of Alexandria,
under the brave ABERCROMBY, still they were beaten
back on their dismayed comrades in the rear by the
• daring deeds of the French advanced posts. This will
give an impetus to the spirits of the gallant French
soldiery, -which no heavy amount of Austrian
stolidity can resist. It would appear that the
Austrians had made, or believed they had made,
themselves so secure, that they could not
feel very comfortable unless they were as-
sured of the position of their rivals on the
other side, and so they rushed in—only to
return in shame and confusion. So be it. The
brutal enslavers of Italian freedom have at length
met their match, and more than their match, on
the. old ground consecrated to glory and heroic
i'Leeds. The French fought like their fore-
fathers—emulous of the grandeur of bygone
days when the eagle of chivalry swept over the
adjacent plains of Marengo, and humbled the pride
of Austria in the dust. The battle seems to have
been boldly contested, for each party felt that there
would be more than special glory appertaining
to . the first victory after such a long delay,
and the memory of other days seems to
'have acted like a charm on both sides.
That the French fought like soldiers is proved
by their loss-500 or 600 men being killed or
w'ullded, while the loss of their assailants numbers
over 2,000. The official account of the Austrian
Genes Id sounds more like a paradox than regal, for
he sa:ys that their loss was something approatching
that of the French! Now, how could an. army
beaters, and in full retreat, reckon on the loss of
those in hot pursuit ? We rather think the
German has " reckoned without his host."
We may now expect very important news almost
daily tic) m the seat of war—for the battle

once begun there will be no more shilly-shallying
about the delicacy of abstaining from blows.
The immediate consequences of this first blow
will be to set Italy in ,a blaze—each soldier or
volunteer rushing forward to take a part in the
work of freeing his country from a yoke at once
odious as oppressive. The Germans have no more
right to Italy than they have to England ;
but it has been the curse entailed on that
fair land of Literature and Arts from
the foolish contentions of jealous nationalities or
sections of the same people that in the very midst
of the quarrel they have opened the door to a
foreign innovator—foreign in everything—and un-
congenial to the last degree—as much opposed to
Italian nationality as are the poles asunder. And yet
this is the German Power which our Cousin Germans
here in England would assist if they could. Hea-
ven protect us from such a villainous compact ! The
recent speech, and the whole bearing of the Prince
Regent of PRUSSIA, clearly indicate how "the
wind blows" for the selfish " Father-

land" of :Germany—that same Germany which
will take all, but give nothing. Really we
have had too much of Germany, and the precious
Germans in our own time, not forgetting the Past,
to be over anxious about any closer connexion witk
such outlandish " Cousins."

The chief effect of this first brush with the
Austrians will be to decide the sympathies of the
doubtful and to rouse the energy of the daring.
We have little doubt that the French will now
stretch along the right bank of the Po, right
through Parma, masking her neutrality as they
would a fortress under equivocal circumstances,
and so meet a flotilla of French gunboats near the
mouth of that noble but " wandering" river,
cross at once to the Venetian side, and so take the
Austrians in flank and rear—cut off Venice, and
make all the Austrian "grand preparations" of
very little account. For what can Austria do
against a people goaded to desperation, and mad-
dened by the recollection of the past, and by the burn-
ing sense of present wrongs ? All we hope is that the
French Emperor will not be betrayed into an over
wild, however legitimate, ambition ; and prove, like
his great prototype, that victory has only served
to give to Italy the misery and not the benefit
resulting from a struggle in which the world is so
deeply interested. The Austrians must now look
to themselves in good earnest, for if once their
communications are endangered there will be
such a panic as when the Great NAPOLEON on the
field of battle, not far apart from Montebello,
sounded the knell of her power—that field
whereon—

" Marengo gave her desolation's broom."

A speech from KOSSUTH, a circular from KLAPKA
—have, each in turn, but just now given the signal
to the Hungarians. The magnificent oration
delivered on Friday, in the city of London, by the
celebrated ex-Governor of Hungary—an oration of
which we gave our readers but a condensed epitome
in our last impression—was addressed by KOSSUTH
in an especial manner to the free people among
whom that illustrious exile has been now for ten
years past a sojourner—the whole argument of his
most remarkable harangue was addressed, we say,
earnestly and impressively addressed by him to the
millions of free-born Englishmen. The circular
recently issued by General KLAPKA, on the con-
trary, was designed expressly for his own country-
men. It has been scattered abundantly among the
Hungarian troops in the army of Lombardy.
" Hungarians !" exclaims the gallant defender of
Comorn, "Brothers! soldiers! These lines are sent
to you in the name of the Hungarian fatherland
and of your former leaders, that you may know how
to act at the commencement of the next war :" the '
writer adding significantly, " We inform you that
not only the Piedmontese, but also the French, are
about tc attack Austria, and drive her out of Italy."
Simultaneously almost with the scattering of these
mysterious little billets in the barracks of Milan—
KOSSUTH is explaining, at length, to an enthusi-
astic audience of Londoners his views as to the charac-
ter of the great struggle which has just commenced
upon the borders of Piedmont ; as to the promise
of good there is in that contest for Italy ; as to the
course which ought to be pursued by observant
nations not actually involved in the struggle ;
and, finally, as to the particular policy which
he deems it most advisable to be adopted, at
this great crisis, by the Hungarians. As
usual this elaborate speech of the great
Magyar statesman, though delivered in what is
still for him a foreign language, and articulated in
every syllable with what is yet for us a foreign
accent—an accent, however, it must be confessed,
imparting additional piquancy to the vibration of
his resonant and impassioned eloquence—has
proved from first to last to be a perfect masterpiece
of English oratory ! Certainly when the period
comes at lenth, as come it will, when Louis KOSSUTH
shall take his departure from these shores to return
homewards to his beloved and emancipated father-
land, the most graceful souvenir that could be
placed in his hands in commemoration of his years
of exile in these islands would be a volume contain-
ing within it the collected orations of this extra-
, ordinary genius!! Orations not translated, but
thought and spoken in pure Saxon English by the
mind and lips of a Hungarian—orations that for
their stirring eloquence, for their graces of diction,
for their poetry of sentiment, for their abounding
affluence of apt and picturesque phraseology, might
have reflected honour on the rhetorical powers of
the most gifted orators among our own country-
men. The speeches of KOSSUTH, when thus col-
lected together, will prove indeed no unimportant
addition to the treasures of our insular literature.
In testimony that these are no carelessly exag-
gerated panegyrics—here is this last soul-stirring
harangue from the all-eloquent lips of the illustrious
ex-Governor of the Hungarians.
The exordium of KOSSUTH's great oration on Fri-
day in the city of London was in manner almost lyri-
cal, with a refrain or burthen impressively recurrent,
urging upon England at all hazards, and under all
circumstances, as the war now commenced advanced
and developed, to maintain undeviatingly the
course she has already marked out for herself,
namely, that defined by a policy of "honest neu-
trality and strict non-intervention !" Again and
again these words were powerfully reiterated. Again
and again they were repeated as the enforcement
of a strenuous and almost impassioned recommen-
datiou—so firmly was the orator persuaded in his
own great heart that in the resolute maintenance
of this policy of neutrality and non-intervention on
the part of England lay the best hopes of so many
down-trodden nationalities ! At last, as if the
fervent repetition were of no avail to lay bare the
pleadings of his soul, KOSSUTH cried out in thrilling
tones of adjuration—" As an exile, as a Hungarian,
as a member of one of those oppressed nationalities,
as a man identified in all his aspirations with the
cause of its emancipation, I repeat, as an ardent
prayer, what your lordship advanced as the well-
matured vote of an English patriot—that England
should deliberately adhere to the policy of honest
neutrality and of strict non-intervention." Yet his
hopes, and yearnings, and aspirations as to the
happiness which in all human likelihood will
accrue to Italy, to Hungary, to the great Sclavonie
races now held in bondage along the eastern Iron.

tiers of Entope—KossuTs reminds us with
pathetic sole n.mity—spring from no illusory antici-
pations bort i from youthful fancy or momentary
excitement. ." Adversity, my lord," says he to the
chief magistr ate of the English capital—" adversity
is a great t ;acher, and the icy finger of time
is a mighty c lisenchanter." And he adds with the
touching sim).?licity, as of GOLDSMITH—

'Mid all my griefs—
and G od has given my share—
KossuTH, in the same gentle but persuasive
spirit, adds in deprecation of any sneers at his anti-
cipations as those of an idle day dreamer—" I have
much suffered in the last ten years of my tempest-
tossed life, but .in compensation I have learned
something—l havt ) learnt not to clutch with eager
impatience the flee, Ling forelock of illusory hopes.

I have learnt with calm reflection to trace the law
of concatenation be tween cause and effect which
presides over the log is of history." Borne onward
by the strong current'. of that clear and irresistible
logic he beholds—to c Taploy more happily a phrase
otherwise lamentably familiar of old to some of the
dead and gone Irish demagogues as applied to the
Imperial Government--" In Austria's difficulty lies
Hungary's Opportunity.•" That is the basis of the
hopes now kindled aneNv in the bosom of the
patriot leader, once the glorious liberator of the
Hungarians.

It were impossible within reasonable limits to
follow the orator through the whole of his blight-
ing, blasting, withering vituperations upon the
Austrian dynasty and the Austrian Government.
Hardly less striking are they in their impassioned
eloquence than those hurled of yore at the Chief
and the Councils of Macedon by the thundering
voice of DE3IOSTHENES. Scornfully does he point
with the finger of uttermost derision to that simple
proof that there is not the merest shadow of
the shade of even German nationality to im-
part a momentary semblance of right or dig-
nity to the Austrian Government. They actually find
it impossible in the census of that empire (he re-
minds us) to raise the number of their German
subjects higher than to about 7,000,000 out of a
population of 37,000,000 ! "In fact, Austria," says
he, "is the only power in Europe which has no
national character ; it is of no country, of no
race—it is just a dynasty and nothing more ;it is
simply the House of Hapsburg—no, not even that ;
everything in that accursed house is usurVation,
down to their very name ; they are not Hapsburgs,
they are Lorraine-Vaudemonts, rebellious crown
officers of France, as NAPOLEON I. used to style them
—not they, but the Lords DENBIGH of the house of
Fielding are the only Hapsburgs on earth." Later
on, he asks his English hearers whether the per-
petuation of the House of Austria can be regarded
as commercially a matter to this country of any
importance or consideration whatever.? And he
immediately answers his own query thus conclu-
sively and contemptuously. " Why," he exclaims,
" just consult the latest returns of the Board of
Trade, and you see that your commerce with small
but free Belgium is nearly six times as extensive
as your commerce with the big Austrian empire.
Uruguay nearly equals it, the Philippine Islands,
poor Norway, and little Greece, rank each before
Austria." Break up, he adds, however, " the hete-
rogeneous compound of that European nuisance"—
Austria—and your commercial intercourse with
Hungary alone must be ten times what it is now
with the whole Austrian empire, peopled by
37,000,000 ! Again, he asks tauntingly, "Is it true,
as some have told you, that Austria is your useful
ally, both faithful and true ? Useful, indeed! I
know that Austria was the insatiable pensioner of
England ; that she was the bottomless sack into
which England poured millions from the life-sweat
of her industrious people. I know that in the late
French wars you gave her the little snug sum of
17 millions of pounds; but what advantage you
have got from her in return, that is not yet recorded
in history." While as to her being our ally, faith-
ful and true,—" Why, gentlemen," exclaims Kos-
SUTH, " remember the Crimean war. Cast your
eyes at the gloomy churchyard field before Sebas-
topol. It is faithful Austria, that pale phantom of
death, that sent your heroes to die in vain on that
barren field, while she stood idly by without firing
a shot, without raising a finger, in return for all
your consideration for her." Admirably, in fine,
does he sum up the whole case against Austria in
one sentence, as tersely axiomatic as it is profoundly
philosophic,—" Artificial States," he observes, with
his glittering eye fixed scornfully upon Austria,
" Artificial States, without either organic cohesion
or harmonising cement, are an incitement to war,
instead of constituting a check upon it." No—the
truth at last should be told in regard to what
KOSSUTH wittily designates " this cabalistic abra-
cadabra of balance of power, which, unlike that of
the olden Syrians, creates the diseases which it is
intended to cure." The Balance of Power ! It is
"a delusion, a mockery, and a snare," so long as
Austria remains in existence ! If we might sum
up now into an epigrammatic truth what has
hitherto been but a most disastrous fallacy and
illusion, we would inscribe henceforth upon the
Charter of Peace to Christendom—
THE BALANCE OF POWER

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, MAY 23, 1859.