The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

Ilk SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVNING, AUGUST 10, 1861;

THEA TRE. OYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
' T HIS EVENING-, the pertormanoes will comm.noe with
anew Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARLADNE. Miss Fanny
Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, Sr a
After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND
MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews,
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs.
Wilkins, Sm.
Followed by OF AGE TO-MORROW. Miss M. Oliver.
To conclude with TIJRNmL.NmG TH E TABLES.
Commence at 7.

RO YA I PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A
HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss
Harris.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, dm ; Misses
'Beath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq.

IsT Env THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart."
THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD
HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing-
ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate
Belly.

To conclude with (23d time) THE PRETTY HORSE-
BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K.
Belly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and
Mrs. Chatterley,
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Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CI ANTERBURY HALL,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA,
arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on
the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son,
the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary
comic duet, "The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and s'rench,
the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence
and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly
for him, including the "Excursion to Brighton."
Admission, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is.
RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will
shortly appear at his old quarters, after an absence of five
years.
RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed
by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction
of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This
popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former
grandeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and
SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT
PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im-
provements have been made in the VENTILATION and
LIG FETING.
T H E

0 X F OR D,

8, OXFORD-STREET.
The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and
brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of
the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-
gramme is varied, and Includes Selections from "La Tra-
♦iat "lin Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a full company of
principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone.
Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, ',notch Duets by the
Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the
highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The imp
portion of the entertainment is supported by Messr . 31
Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, 1194'veYt_aan..d,
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and NV% Randall.
Boger,
sixpence Boxes,
sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling.
10s. 6d.

HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY.—Morning, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m.
To-ltartnow.-Morning, 4h. 58m.—Afternoon. 6h. 20m.

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THEamostrrnit, IN THE SHADE.
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61—lowest this morning and during the night.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1881.

WELLINGTON, we are told, once said that he
had often blundered even in the Peninsula cam-

paign and got into scrapes, but somehow his MEN
always contrived to get him out of them. Neither
General SCOTT, nor his representative on the field

of battle, M‘DowELL, were so happy. Their men

got them into scrapes rather than out of them. If
we may include the subordinate officers with the
men, for the officers seemed the greater cowards of
the two, it was the army which failed the General
rather than the General the army. We hare now
.an account of the Battle of Bull's Run—the Vir-
ginians will surely rechristen it, Yankees' Run—
from a pen which Englishmen can rely on ; and it
corroborates all our unworthiest suspicions, such as
we hardly liked to utter before, respecting the
Northerns. One of the worst facts of all we take
to be the perfect nonchalance with which the
officers talk openly about their being so well
" whipped." We confess we had on this
point pictured to ourselves gentlemen smarting
with unendurable indignation under the
stigma of a most discreditable defeat, and ready to
reorganise, to lead their regiments with despera-
tion, and, ready as we have so often read of morti-
fied or desponding heroes "to plunge into the
thickest of the fight, and to retrieve by a glorious
soldier's death the dishonour which they could not
survive." On the contrary we have it on in&sputa-
ble authority, that the desponding mein of the com-
mon soldiers, was more becoming than that of their
officers—" who are crowding the hotels and talking
of their whipping with complacency and without
shame."

In tracing back the calamity to its origin, as " to
the House that Jack built"—we come to Yankee
pride and love of sensation. Some astonishing feat
of " whipping the Southerners " was wanted to
satisfy the States who had massed together
a large, but raw and ill-disciplined, army
on the line of the Potomac. Their cla-
mour and conceit moved the President,
the President urged General SCOTT, General SCOTT
commanded M'DowELL—and so, both SCOTT and
M'DowELL, in their own minds opposed to the
movement, and quite aware of their army's defi-
ciencies, prepare to do the bidding of the Sovereign
Yankees. Now, though the movement itself was a
bit of a " scrape," yet our English informant who
had all the plans of the advance explained to him
by M'DOWELL himself, after the battle, acknow-
ledges that to his poor judgment, as he modestly
expresses himself, " they were judicious and clear."
His columns, ho-wever, made the scrape worse by be-
ing too slow and too late in their movements, though
they had ample tinio allowed them ; the consequence
being that instead of turning the enemy's left flank
as he intended, they advanced to meet him,
and General JOHNSTON had time to get
away from PAT TERSON'S home-sick regiments
at Harper's Ftrry,, and augment BEAUREGARD'S
strength largely.
But M'DowBLL'S men and officers, having thus
got him into a ,worse scrape than that of advancing
at all before the tioe, were not like our Iron Duke's
raw recruits in the Peninsula, always ready to get
him out of it. They made matters ten times worse
by their want of pluck. After all we have heard
from the New York papers, Mr. RUSSELL says,
justly enough, that we must rely a little on "cha-
racter" for the truth of the following astounding
statement :—" There w:as not a bayonet charge
made by the Federalist infantry daring the day
there was not a charge of any kind made by the Con-
federate cavalry upon away regiment of the enemy
until the latter broke. 'There was not a hand-to-
hand encount,?,r between any regimentiy. There
.SVEtS not a single " battery charged" or taken by
the Federalists. There were no masked batteries
in play by the former. There was no annihilation
of rebel horse by Zouaves, Fire, or other. A vol-
ley fired by
one battalion emptied three saddles
among a body of hors® who appeared at some dis-
tance, and the infantry which performed the execu-
tion then retired. There were no desperate struggles
except by those who wanted to get away. The
whole matter in plain .ia •
glash amounts to this,
The Federalists advanced
arstliolwle,l
y, hut steadily,
under the fire of their ry,
driving the
enemy, who rarely shov.red out of cover, in line
before them, and gradually forced
them back on
the right and centre for a mile and a half towards
Manassas. As the enemy fell back they used

their artillery also, and there was a good deal of
pounding at long ranges with light flekkguns, and
some heavier rifled ordnance, The line 'on both
sides being rarely within 500 yards of each other."

We believe Mr. RUSSELL'S statements—we'
believe them not only on account of his undoubted
veracity, but from the necessity he must feel himself
under to publish to all Europe only what could be
verified when he thus pledges his character for it,
and from the general aspect of the exaggerated ac-
counts which the American paper s manufactured,
or taken from the lips of fugitives who gave utter-
ance to their terrified imaginations, have not to their
knowledge. It was, in fact, a long balls fight through-
out. Now the Federalists received a volley of
musketry from those who took good care they
should not first come too near—they fall back ; they
advance again and deliver a volley, and now the Con-
federates fall back ; and so forth throughout the day;
reminding one of the curious cavalry fighting de-
scribed by XENOPHON in which the combatants
rode up to each other almost within bow-shot,
and there sat all day on their horses
contented with archery practice • which did
not empty a single saddle. The Germans,
Scotch, and Irish are unanimously reported to have
done their part most bravely of all. Indeed, Yan-
keeism seems to have regarded it as a cool business
affair entirely ; so much so, that the three months'
term of service of one regiment having expired
that day, it was quite content to leave its artillery
to be taken by the enemy, and to march straight off
home.

We do not wonder, however, that the better class
of Americans feel a little for their national reputa-
tion. What will England and France think of
it ?" is the question asked, we are told, again and
again. Well it may be! What can we think of it ?
We can only modestly say, that it is not our way of
doing things. We did not adopt that style of fight-
ing at the Alma and at Inkerman, nor the French
and Sardinians at Magenta and Solferino ; nor
GARIBALDI anywhere. Fort Sumter fighting,
Bull's Run fighting, will become standard expres-
sions for that kind of fighting which consists in
caring for a whole skin more than for a victory. We
are bound, however, to confess that there seems to
be a family likeness between the combatants;
the South as well as the North showed a due respect
for bullets and cannon-balls, though the general-
ship of the South was the better. Moreover, so
prudent was the South, that it did not know when
it had beaten—very natural, when we remember the
distance at which it fought the beaten foe. Indeed
it seems clear, even from Mr. RUSSELL'S nar-
rative, that had it made a prompt forward move,
and used the cavalry it is reputed to have, as it
ought, it might have taken a large portion of the
Northerners prisoners, and even have presented its
regiments in front of Washington. As it is its
advanced pickets are within six miles of Alexandria,
ten of Washington itself.

In one respect most of us must modify our views
looking at the total result. Two things especially
strike the reader, the absence of that increased
bitterness on the part of the North which had been
expected as a matter of course; and the absence
of anything like strong patriotic feeling on the
part of the soldiers. If Fort Sumter created such a
stir in the North, it was presumed that Bull's Run
would bring down the North on the South almost
like the floods of Northern barbarians which deso-
lated the Roman Empire. But, if anything, the
reverse takes place. All who can shirk the conflict
seem inclined to do so. The men of a volunteer
regiment marched off, leaving their guns
on the ground the very morning of the
battle, because their three months' term
aw-v-sicro nas u j,, cua vu.
showed the same spirit. While, as we saw yes-
terday, at Harper's Ferry General PATTERSON was
hampered, and, perhaps, has lost the place again,
because nineteen of his volunteer regiments had
determined to leave for home, their term of service
having expired. The truth is, the North has no
cry worth fighting for. We almost begin to hope
that a big Slavery Union will not be found stimulus
enough to bring the North to a hand-to-hand con-
flict with the South. What LINCOLN is now fight-
ing for, Europe certainly does not regard as worth
the blood of many citizens ; and it seems as if the
Yankees themselves had somewhat of the same

feeling. Let the battle be to wipe out the fou

stain of slavery from the flag of the Republic, and
Europe would applaud—and all the worth of the
Union would stand forth as patriots.

If the French EMPEROR is allowing 1861 to pass
away without either provoking diplomatic contro-
versy, or throwing down the gage of battle again
in defiance to one of the European Sovereignties—

his Imperial Majesty is at any rate keeping atten
tion in his regard upon the alert, by coming into
personal communication with one or another of his
brother potentates. A crowned BERNADOTTE is
now his guest at the Tuileries. There he has
already entertained, among other august per-
sonages,7the Reigning British SOVEREIGN. He has
received a visit there before now from the young
King of PORTUGAL. He has shaken hands upon
the frontiers of the two countries with his
MAJESTY of Belgium. If he has not yet
greeted as a guest in his capital either of the Czars
of Russia who have been his contemporaries, either
NICHOLAS I. or ALEXANDER 11., NAPOLEON 111.
has at least had the satisfaction of so doing by the
brother of the present autocrat, the Arch-Duke
CONSTANTINE. More than simply greeting in his
palaces the representative of the oldest dynasty in
Christendom,King VICTOR EMMANUEL, the French
Emperor has enabled that Re Galantuomo to add first
of all Lombardy to his Sardinian territories, and
witheventuallyh he aasilde fotf thea
up ac
et h,
rather,
o p en before
it
tsh him,
bs h
eo
said,tat
in spite of the manifest wishes and aspirations of
France, he should absorb the bulk of the great
Italian peninsula into his dominions, and to come
er title than was
fat,, her, t
EC
OHNA CHARLES
S
If
everforth
dreamt before theef b world or
hisld ba yal
ambitious
i tgi roauns...d. ,
NAPOLEON ALBERT as—King of Italy!
farhas inelhowin
acknowledged himselfghis way
has succeeded so
in parvenu, "he
to be—among the crowned heads of Europe, he
has nevertheless once or twice had to submit to
rather glaring indignities. At Baden he might
swagger it as he pleased among the German
princelings—but previously don't
we a
l l
to recollecttha
how haughtily he was denied admittance
sanctum sanctoruDt, where the creme de la creme
of the claimants of the Right Divine met in
solemn conclave, unembarrassed by the presence
of a BONAPARTE ? He had his revenge afterwards,
however, by meeting face to face the young Kaiser,
FRANCIS JOSEPH, at that little green table at
Villafranca. across which the two Emperors, the
Conquered and the Conqueror, talked over the conse-
quences of Solferino upon the mot row of Solferino—
FRANCIS JOSEPH pulling the flowers to pieces like
some bashful young maiden at a baII—LOUIS NAPO-
LEON coolly smoking his little paper cigaretto.
His Imperial MAJESTY is again endeavouring to
treat, and be treated, en famille, in this way, by the
European Sovereigns. There is the Swedish
Monarch, as we have said, now his guest:at the
Tuileries. A parvenu, like himself, it is true, but
still a reigning Sovereign. A BERNADVIT4 and 4

BONAPARTE—they harmonize well together as such.
But if the French SOVEREIGN meets his
brother monarch claiming the world's homage
as NAPOLEON the Third—the Swedish Sovereign is
there, parvenu though he is, BERNADOTTE though
he is, descendant but a generation or two back of
an obscure advocate of one of the provinces of '
France, as his Majesty CHARLES the lifteenth !
Not satisfied, however, with the friendly intercourse
established between the Court of the Tuileries and the.
Courts of so many of the European monarchies, the
French EMPEROR is still striving:apparently:to bring-
himself into direct personal communication
h,uoinlnd ics outaatnioo a hand
in hntewaint tohd
the other reigning sovereigns.
_IL He I
in one direction to King W
Queen ISABELLA. It is significant that both his
Prussian and her Spanish Majesty evince a coy
reluctance to respond to these proffers of more
intimate friendship. After the most confident
intimations have gone the rounds of the newspapers
all over Europe to the effect that the King of
Prussia is about to become the guest of the
French Emperor at the camp at Chalons
—it tarns out that this semi-official state-
ment is nothing less, after all, than a deliberate
mis-statement. All the courtesy that the King of
PRUSSIA can vouchsafe is a holograph letter
addressed to his Imperial Majesty of FRANCE, in
excuse of course, or explanation, and as a prelimi-
nary, it is stated, to an interview that is to take
place between the two Sovereigns—not at Paris,
not at the Camp of Chalons, but—somewhere
on the frontier of France about the sixth
day of October ! As to the Queen of SPAIN,
the response made by her to the friendly advances
coming to her from the direction of the Tuileries,
appears to have been even more uncomplimentary.
It is pretty confidently asserted that Queen ISA-
BELLA has no ambition whatever to obtain
the privilege of an interview with the Impe-
rial MACHIAVELLI, somewhere or another at
the foot of the Pyrenees. All these courtly
advances made by the reigning French EMPEROR
to the surrounding European Sovereigns, and all
these particularly discourteous replies made thereto,
and therefore by the latter, being—as we cannot
but think—singularly significant ! The advances
savour somewhat of the parvenu, the rejections or
evasions of those advances, of the suspicion with
which that parvenu is still (nay, if possible, more
intensely than ever) regarded. It tells a tale, that
persistent suspicion. It speaks of the tortuous
policy of which it is the comment and of which it
is the repudiation. It is the natural result of the
revival of an empire, in regard to which its
reviver announced upon the eve of its inauguration,
" Cest la paix"—following up that solemn declara-
tion by War upon War. It is the sequence, the inevi-
table sequence to a campaign, opened as the Italian
campaign was opened—in regard to which, see the
Milan proclamation! And closing as the Italian cam-
paign closed—for which see the record of the impe-
rial tete-a-tete at Villafranca. It is the consequence,
this persistent suspicion, of the emancipation of
Lombardy by the glorious sword of France, for a
paltry." consideration "—that is, in return for the
cession of Nice and Savoy to the dis-
interested Liberator ! It is a necessary ac-
companiment this ineradicable suspicion
—a necessary and wholly unavoidable
accompaniment, of these yet reiterated and sinister
rumours as to the intended evacuation of Rome at
last by the French army, in return for, or rather
simultaneously with, the yet further cession of the
magnificent Island of Sardinia, the cynosure of the
whole Mediterranean.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—It
has been officially notified that the nomination of candidates
for the newly-created seat for South Lancashire is to take
place on Wednesday ..ivit,;n6r, 10 n'elock-, nt Newton-in..
Mackerfield. The polling, it is understood, will be on the
following Saturday.
THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—The will and
two codicils of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G., were
proved in Her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 31st of
July, by the executors, his son, the present Duke of Bed-
ford ; Lord Foley, Mr. Charles Romilly, and Mr. George
Russell. The personalty was sworn under £600,000.
The will extends over 530 folios, and it and the codicils
bear date May 7, 1861, and are all attested by the same
witnesses, being the Rev. S. F. Cumberlege, incumbent of
Woburn, and Mr. R. du Cane, of Gray's-inn. His Grace's
son, the present Duke, in addition to the family estates, has
bequeathed to him by his late father all the property not
otherwise disposed of by will, and is appointed residuary
legatee. With a view to increase the rent-roll of the family
estates the late Duke has further directed that the yearly
sum of £5,000 is to be set apart to accumulate for the
period of 21 years. His Grace has devised to his brother,
Earl Russell, for life, the Irish estates left to the testator
by the late Earl Ludlow, which, on the Earl's decease, are
to descend to Earl Russell's eldest son and his issue, but
subject to annuities to the Earl's daughters. His Grace
has also bequeathed toEarlßussell a life interest in £15,000
with rower of disposition to his children; and to the Coun-
tess Russell is left a legacy of £l,OOO ; and there are be-
quests to all the other members of his Grace's family. The
late duke has most munificently considered every person
employed by him throughout his large establishment by
granting handsome annuities and liberal legacies. There
is also a legacy of £l,OOO given to the Bedford General In-
firmary.—lllustrated London _Ana.
BARON FITZHARDINGE.—It will have been seen
by our Parliamentary report of the 7th inst. that the title
conferred upon Admiral Sir Maurice Frederick Fitzhar-
dinge Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, is that of " Baron Fits-
hardinge, of the city and county of the city of Bristol." A
more appropriate title could scarcely have been selected, for
the first of his ancestors who set foot in England was Har-
dinge, son of the King of Denmark, who came to England
with William the Conqueror. Hardinge lived in Bristol,
and the walls of his house still stand in " Baldwin-street,"
which was so named by Hardinge after the Conqueror's
brother, Baldwin, Earl of Flanders. In the reign of
King Stephen, Robert Fitzhardinge, the son of Har-
dinge, began to build the monastery of St. Augustine,
which is now Bristol Cathedral. He completed it in the
reign of King Henry 11. Over the cathedral gate there is
thisinscription:—"DominusHenricus Secund us et Robertus
filius Hardingi, filii Regis Daciae primi Fundatores hujus
Monasterii extiterunt." To this Robert Fitzhardinge
King Henry 11. afterwards granted Berkeley Castle by
Royal charter, and Maurice, his son, was first of the race
who assumed the name of "Berkeley." Robert Fitzhardinge
was buried in Bristol Cathedral, where his tomb still re-
mains. It bears this inscription :—" The monument of
Robert Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, descended from the
Kings of Denmark, and Eva, his wife, by whom he had
five sons and two daughters ; Maurice, his eldest son, was
the first of this family that took the name of Berkeley.
Thisß.obertFitzhardinge laid the foundation of this church
and monastery of St. Augustine in the year 1140, the fifth
of King Stephen, dedicated and endowed it in 1148. He
died in the year 1170, in the 17th of King Henry 11. This
monument was repaired A.D. 1742. From the said Robert
Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, Augustus, the present Earl
(1742), is the two-and-twentieth in descent."
PUBLIC TESTIMONIALS AND STATUES.—The num-
ber of public statues and testimonials, either proposed or in
progress at the present moment, to the memory of public
men recently deceased is more remarkable than at any other
period. Among those in progress tc commemorate the ser-
vices of distinguished statesmen may be mentioned one to
the memory of Lord Melbourne in marble, to be erected
on the north side of St. Paul's ; another of the late Lord
Macaulay at Cambridge ; a literary institute and statue
to Earl Dalhousie at Calcutta; a statue to Lord Elphin-
stone, and a memorial of Count Cavour. A military statue
and trophy to the Duke of Wellington, twelve feet high,
in bronze, will shortly surmount the Wellington column,
erected for the purpose at Liverpool, and statues to Have-
lock and in honour of Sir Hope Grant, are proposed in the
places where they were born. Statues to the eminent en-
gineers Robert Stephenson and Isambard Brunel are being
executed by Baron Marochetti, to be placed opposite Palace-
yard. Another statue, in addition to the one at the Euston
station, is about to be erected to George Stephenson at
Newcastle, and one is talked of to the late Mr. J. Locke.
Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Houses of Parlia-
ment is to have an effigy in Westminster Abbey. An archi-
tects' travelling fund is b be established in honour of the
late Mr. Pugin. In the religious world two commemora-
tive monuments have just been inaugurated to Dr. Watts
and James Montgomery, and another is to be dedicated to
Bunyan. Sir Hugh Myddleton, the projector of the
wealthy New River Company, and who is said to have died
in penury, is to have a drinking fountain erected to his
memory at Islington. Dr. Baily, the late physician to the
Court, is also to have a statue. Among the most recently
proposed testimonials, apart from statues, are those to the
Right Hon. Milner Gibson and Mr, Braidwood,

TILE PRESS IN 4US.I.RIA

The Independance publishes the Mowing obser.
vations on the new bill on the pros in Austria :
"We have never had, as our reaters know, any
great confidence in the liberalism o M. de Schmer-
ling ; but in spite of all our distrus never could we
have expected to see issue from lis hands a mea-
sure similar to that which he has ?repared on the
press. It is not the example of coautries in which
liberty is established that he has felowed ; it is not
in England, or in Belgium, or in Prussia that he
has gene to seek for the model of tie legislation he
proposes for the Austrian press; i±is Spain which
has supplied the plan, He has wt even confined
himself to borrowing the greater fart of the vigor-
ous stipulations in use, but has exaggerated the
severity of them, and adopted enactments which ex-
perience has caused to be abandonel in France. His
bill is, in fact, a clever combinatim of preventive
measures and penalties, in which he cases of com-
plicity are multiplied with extra*rdinary art. It
is on the one hand based on the light which it re-
serves to the Government of wthdrawing their
licenses from printers, and on theother on the sus-
pensions and suppressions which tie journals incur
by the simple fact of one or two condemnations.
Lastly, by the elasticity of its definitions, and the
extension it gives to certain categories of offences, it
realises in a large measure the execrable theory of
moral complicity. The Austrien Liberal party,
which expected everything fromM. de Schmerling,
must be bitterly disappointed ; and still more so
will be the journalists—they we, it is true, very
few—who have given almost unreserved support to
that Minister on the strength of his liberal pro-
mises."

MR. E. T. SMITH AND THEPAVILION PROPERTY

—A Brighton contemporary says :—" Mr. E. T. Smith,
having failed in his negotiation for the northern buildings
of the Brighton Pavilion, has, we perceive, purchasedCre-

morne Gardens. Some will be inclined to regard it aimos

a pity that he could not have had the Pavilion buildings.

. .
He was pr epared to give £3OO a-year, and to lay out £l,OOO
on them, so as to convert them into a grand concert hall
and floral promenade. The rent was not large ; but addi •

tional attractions would have been offered to visitors, who
are (a fact which our local authorities too often forget) our
staple commodity, ' the means whereby we live,' and ought

to be consulted in every way."—Era.

The O'Conor Don, M.P., has (we learn from the
Roscommon Messenger) purchased, by private contract, the
estates of Mr. O'Beirne in that county and in Sligo for the
sum of £24,000. This additional purchase ranks The
O'Conor Don among the largest landowners in the county.
THE SOUTHERN PRIVATEER SAVANNAH.—In the
United States' Circuit Court, on the 23d ult., the officers
and crew of the Confederate privateer Savannah, recently
captured by a Federal cruiser, were remanded on the charge
of piracy until October next.
THE CAMBRIDGE MURDER.—PiIson and Carter,
the men charged with being concerned in the murder of
Harvey Rumbelowe, were discharged yesterday, on the
ground that the legal evidence was not sufficient to insure
a conviction from a jury.

Seven hundred men, of whom twenty-four are
divers, are now daily at work at Alderney. About 500 feet
of the west breakwater will be brought above highwater
this summer. The outer end of this breakwater will be
nearly a mile from the shore. It has been decided to erect
another breakwater, 1,000 feet in length, to shelter the
anchorage from easterly winds.
STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE.—The
shipbuilding firms continue for the most part well employed
Messrs. Napier have nearly completed the China, the fine
screw which they have in hand for the Cunard company ;
and Messrs. Caird, of Greenock, have in a still more for-.
ward state a screw of 3,000 tons burden, which they have
been building for the Bremen and New York line. The
same firm is also engaged on a screw of 2,000 tons for a
Cadiz company; this vessel will be fitted with engines of
1500-horse power. Messrs. Scott, of Cartsdyke, are building
three passenger steamers, of 500 or 600 tons each, for the
Mediterranean. Messrs. Hutcheson have turned out a deck-
saloon passenger steamer, built expressly for the Caledonian
Canal traffic. Messrs. Laurence Hill and Co., of Port
Glasgow, have launched a screw 185 ft. long, 25ft. broad,
and 161 t. deep; she is now being fitted with engines of
120-horse power. Mr. J. G. Laurie, of Whiteinch, has
launched a screw of 520 tons (named the Andalusia) for the
Spanish trade: At the London Works, Renfrew, and at
other establishments, other steemers are also in an advanced
state of construction.

THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST " DR."
GRIFFITH J ONES.—An application, which stood over from
a former day, was made yesterday to Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn at Chambers, by Mr. Lewis, jun., to admit to
bail Dr. Griffith Jones, who stands committed for trial on
the charge oz rorging the will of Mrs. Sophia Bellis under
circumstances which will be fresh in the recollection of our
readers. It was urged that the defendant could not pro-
perly prepare his defence unless the course asked were
acceded to. The application was opposed by Mr. Hardinge
Giffard, on behalf of the Crown, on the ground that if de-
fendant were admitted to bail he would not surrender; that
he was endeavouring to escape when arrested, and that he
attempted to bribe tt.e official who arrested him. The LOrd
Chief Justice said he could not get over the attempt to bribe
the officer, and on that ground, with other circumstances

in the case, ho could not grant the application. It was only
a short time to the sessions, and under the able assistance
of Messrs. Lewis he would no doubt be prepared with his
defence. The application was accordingly refused,
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A POLICE COURT.-
The usual fortnightly petty sessions at Spittlegate Police-
court, near Grantham, was to have been held on Friday
last, when the following gentlemen were present :—C.
Tumor, Esq., the Revs. C. B, Otiey, G. Osborne, and
R. C.,rtwright, and G. Nevile, W. Ostler, and J. Hardy,
Esqs. The Hon. and Rev. Ralph William Lionel
Tollimache, Rector of South IN itham, also took his seat
on the bench. Before the commencement of the business,
the senior magistrate, Mr. Tumor, said it was his duty to
state that unless a gentleman on the bench amply apolo-
gised for the abusive language he had used towards the
county magistrates, they had decided not to sit with him
in the administration of justice. Some little time was
taken up, and no apology having been offered, Mr. Tumor
intimated that it was his painful duty to say the resolution
would be carried into effect. Their worships, with the ex-
ception of Mr. Tollemache, then left the police-court, so
that there could be no mistake who was the gentleman

alluded to. After a short pause, Mr. Tollemache put on
his hat, and as he could not act, he left the room; in other
words followed the example previously set him. Complain-
ants, defendants, witnesses, and hearers were left, some
with wry faces exclaiming they ought to be paid for the loss
of time, and others with levity insisting the scene was as
good as any play. The hearing of the majority of the cases
was postponed for a fortnight. One or two important cases
requiring immediate attention were ultimately disposed of
by Mr. Nevile and Mr. Hardy in the course of the day.—
Stamford Mercury.
THE Moons.—On the whole extensive moors in

the Highlands of Perthshire, the prospects of sr ortsmen
for the ensuing 12th of August are highly encouraging.

On the shooting grounds belonging to the Earl of Mans

field, the Duke of Athole, Sir W. D. Stewart, of Murthly,
Mr. Butter, of Faskally, and others, grouse aro abundant,
and the early hatched broods are strong and wild, and
scarcely a diseased bird among young or old has been seen
this season. Owing to the cold, heavy rains which have

prevailed for the last four weeks, the late-hatched coveys
appear weak!y ; but with more propitious weather they
would soon improve. On the Glenlyon, Glengarry, Glen-
tummel, Glenbruar, and, in fact, on the long range of hills
all the way north to Inverness-shire and west to Argyle-
shire, grouse and all kinds of game are numerous, and on
some of the moors where grouse were scarce last year they
appear to be well stocked this year. On the extensive
shooting preserves belonging to the Marquis of Bread.
albane, which are considered the best nursery for game in
Scotland, grouse, blackcock, snipe, pheasants, wild ducks,
hares, &c., have not been so rife or in better condition
for many years. It seems that several proprietors of
shooting have allowed the heather to get too old on their
estates, which no doubt afforded sufficient cover for the
grouse, but for want of food the birds have been compelled
to seek shelter elsewhere. His Royal Highness the Maha-
rajah Dhuleep Singh and party have arrived at their shoot-
ing quarters at Auchlyn Killen, and the moors in that dis-
trict never gave promise of better sport than this season.
The accounts from the Forests of Blair Athole and the
Black Mount represent the deer and young fawns as being
numerous and in fine condition.—Perthshire Courier.
AWKWARDNESS.—Not that real awkwardness is
tolerable long, but hero women have a permanent advan-
tage over men. Not only dons timidity in them naturally
find more graceful expression, but they can generally find
something legitimate to do with their hands—same little
occupation with the needle, the shuttle, or the fan—to
mitigate the p tinz of embarrassment from which men's
hands have no safer refuge than the pocket—most other
expedients proving a worse, and often mischievous alterna-
tive. And if hands are a difficulty to the shy man, what
can we say of legs, which, we presume, women need never
think of, as an incumbrance, at all ? Where is he to put
them? How is he to keep them in order, so that they
shall not betray the perplexity of his soul ? What an in-
finite variety of bad tricks, with these particular mem-
bers, does not the demon of sheepishness suggest to its
victim in the hour of trial! What postures I What oscil-
lations I Who does not rernembar that curate immortal-
ised in Shirley, who, in the critical moment of courtship,
contrived with his own hands to tie his legs so firmly to-
gether with his pocket handkerchief, that he could not set
himself at liberty when retreat from the scene of discom-
fiture became essential ?—" On Manners," in Blackwood's
ZWinburgh Magazine.

x'LLO-_,F NEWS.

PARIS, AUG. 10.

The Illonzteur of to-day announces that the
Emperor has bestowed the military medal on the
King of Sweden and Prince Oscar.

PESTH, AUG. 9, Evening.

Deputations from the magistrates and the elec-
tors have to-day congratulated M. Deak on his late
conduct. M. Deak refused a serenade which they
offered him.

The reply of the Diet to the Imperial rescript
will be despatched on Monday to Vienna.
A dissolution of the Diet is expected.
The Moderate party and the party of action are
now united.

BERNE, AUG. 9.

The Italian Government has informed the Federal
Council that the decision in reference to the expul-
sion from Naples of the Swiss soldiers formerly
belonging to the Swiss regiments, in the service of
Francis 11., has been cancelled.
The note of the Italian Government regrets, how-
ever, that the Swiss Government had caused the
publication of the despatches of M. Tourte, Swiss
Minister at Turin, on this subject.

PESTH, AUG. 9.
The Upper House of the Hungarian Diet will not
hold a sitting until Monday next.
Many deputies, expecting a dissolution of the
Diet, are already preparing for departure.

PARIS, AUG. 9.

The Patrie of this evening says :—" Reports are
current that the Prince of Montenegro had de-
manded that the Porte should recognise his inde-
pendence and the right of inheritance in his
family. He also demanded the concession of a port
on the Adriatic sea, and a fresh settlement of the
frontiers.

According to the same reports, the Porte had re-
:used to accede to these demands, and had declared
•
;hat it would recommence hostilities.

The review in the Champ de Mars to-day was a
brilliant affair. The weather was fine and the heat

very great.

THE WEST AFRICAN MAILS.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 10.
The Royal Mail steamship Ethiope, with the
above mails, arrived here this morning.
Her dates are—Old Calabar, June 29th; Came-
roons, July Ist; Fernando Po, 2d; Bonny, 6th ;
Brass, 7th ; Nun, 7th; Benin, Bth ; Lagos, 10th ;
Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Cape
Palmas, 17th; Sierra Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th ;
Teneriffe, 31st ; Madeira, Aug. 2.
The Ethiope brings 2,500 oz. of gold dust.
In the attack on Porto Novo the English lost one
man killed and five wounded.

The palm oil trade on the coast was brisk. The
natives said that the season for oil had been the
best ever known.

Her Majesty's ship Prometheus had captured
three slavers, one of which was the Spanish ship
Jacintha; her Majesty's ship Wrangler also captured
the American bark Ardennes, with 495 slaves on
board.

The South Coast was very unhealthy, and the

Europeans were dying fast.
The slave trade was brisk, but legal trade was
dull.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegram:-
- The IrGetl.,, ,vith th above mails. left Malta on
the 7th, at 6 p.m., for Marseilles.
" The Euxino, with the heavy portion of the
mails, left Malta on the 7th, at 8 p.m., and may
therefore be expected at Southampton about the
16th instant.
" The China, from Bombay, reached Suez on the
3d.