The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

AND His

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,

Virginia advices state that it is anticipated that
the secession ordinance will soon be passed.
Kentucky has refused to supply troops to the
Washington Government.

Official advices have been received at Washing-
ton, stating that General Santana surrendered San
Domingo to Spain on the 18th March.
The Fulton has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Exchange unsettled, 107 to 1071; Stocks falling.
Erie, 22i ; Illinois, 661; New York Centrals, 73 ;
Missouri Sixes, heavy fall, quoted at 51; Virginia
Sixes, 571; cotton nominal; flour heavy.

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NEW YORK, APRIL 18.
The North appears united, and volunteers are
being rapidly enrolled.

Money is liberally tendered from all quarters to
support the Government.

President Davis has issued a proclamation autho
rising letters of marque.

The Governors :of Kentucky, North Carolina,
and Missouri refuse to supply troops to the Federal
Government.

Maryland and Delaware sustain the Federal Ad•
ministration.

Troops are concentrated at Washington,
The Confederate Government is about to issue a
call for 150,000 volunteers.

It is understood that President Lincoln is about
to make a second call for volunteers.
The Federal fleet has left Charleston for New
York.

Griffin Town, the lower part of Montreal, has
been inundated, and damage done to the amount of
1,000,000 dollars. No lives were lost. The North
Briton and Glasgow have arrived out.

NEW. ORLEANS, APRIL 17.
Cotton irregular. Freight for British ships Id
and for American ships refused at Id.

TURIN, MONDAY.
In the course of next week a bill will be pre-
sented to the Chamber of Deputies for niegotiating
a loan of 500,000,000 f.
A despatch received from Naples to-Cap states
that the city is perfectly tranquil.

NAPLES, APRIL 28.
Perfect tranquillity prevails in the city.
Yesterday, at four p.m., the drums'of this National
Guard beat a general alarm, and numerous patrols
traversed the streets.

Numerous arrests have been made among crimi-
nals who had escaped from prison and alsiumed the
uniform of the National Guard.

The events of yesterday were the n3sult of a
Bourbon conspiracy.

News from the provinces announces tlz at a reac-
tionary movement had been made by some Bourbon
soldiers and brigands, who were preparimp ; to march
on Naples in the belief that the reactionnary move-
ment had succeeded there.

Five hundred brigands had entered filt e Roman
States, in the province of Aquila.
Four vessels having left Civita Veochia for
Naples with Bourbon soldiers and brigans ds on board,
an Italian war vessel has gone to meet t b em.
The officers of the National Guard at W:aples have,
in the name of the entire corps, protested in the
Pungolo against the events of yesterday, declaring
at the same time that they are ready- to defend
the Government.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, A ~ PRIL 28.
In yesterday's sitting of the Federal Diet the
Danish representative declared that the Patent of
1869 would be submitted to the Estat ea of Hol-
stein to receive their ratification, althm ugh they
would have no power to cancel it.
The Danish representative also refu ti
11 the ob-
jections recently
1111'1 by the Estates (g ainst the
proposals of the Danish Government.
In the same sitting the Federal Diet passed a
resolution respecting the Federal milita Ty organi-

sation.

The division of the Federal resery is to be
maintained, and an increase of the troops furnished
by each contingent was also resolved up, vt

BERNE, APII IL 28.
The treaty between Switzerland and Italy for
carrying a railway over the Luckmanier has been
concluded.

Switzerland is to contribute 48,000,00 C T. towards
.he cost of construction.

The treaty also stipulates that when 25000,000 f.
of this amount shall have been guaran G aed, and
5,000,000 f. actually spent on the constr ti ction of
the railway, the kingdom of Italy will, within four
years, contribute 20,000,000 f., which ill not,
however, bear interest.

It has been further stipulated that that cost of
laying the railway over that portion of t e Alps
between Dissentis and Olivone shall be ill :frayed
by the kingdom of Italy.
The canton of St. Gallen has alreatij. voted
5,000,0001. towards the expenses.

At Christmas, Mr. WrooDIN opened this his third
entertainment. And, recollect, "the third—[cer-
tainly in this instance]—is the charm I" Already
Four Months have elapsed since " The Cabinet of
Curiosities" was first of all unlocked—appropriately
enough upon Boxing Night ; and ever since then,
with the solitary intermission of the one exceptional
week immediately preceding Easter, the Polygra-
phic Hall has been crowded day after day with
those lovers of fun whose delight is expressed alter-
nately through rounds of applause and peals of
laughter.
Everybody is familiarly acquainted with Mr.
Woodin by this time. Insomuch that he may be
set down confidently as one of the best known men
in the United Kingdom—not in the metropolis
merely, but all through the provinces, in England,
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and, we dare say, even in
that little imperium in imperio yclept Berwick-
upon-Tweed. He has made the round of our forty
shires, including the counties Palatine. Like one
of our most popular novelists, he has forsaken the
beaten track and taken "Rambles Beyond Rail-
ways." Supposing his bumps of locality to be as
well developed as his bumps of individuality
—and in that last mentioned particular don't
we remember how truly "he speaks with
most miraculous organ !"—his memory of the cities,
boroughs, villages, hundreds (we might count them
by thousands) through which he has flitted during
the course of his provincial excursions, would ren-
der him an invaluable reviser of a newly perfected
British Gazetteer. Talk of Sam Slick—as Mr.
Bernal Osborne talked of him after his discursive I
speech of Thursday evening in the House of Com-
mons, as an appropriate editor of " The Rambler"
—we would back Woodin in that particular against
a dozen Haliburtons.
Yet, after all—intimately acquainted though the
three kingdoms are by this time with this Human
Hydra, W. S. Woodin, a man who really seems to
have as many " heads" as the discourse of a Scotch
Controversialist—it appears to us scarcely further
back than the day before yesterday, when we had the
first surprise of attending his " a. no. 1" perform-
ance. Nevertheless, looking back to dates—we
find that no less than nine long, and to Mr. Woodin
busy, years have elapsed since this seeming event
of—just the day before yesterday! It was during
the year after the Great Exhibition, it was in the
year of the coup d'etat that our new Master (of
the Revels) took all London by storm—with the
aid of the quiet little device (for all the world like
Somebody Else over the water) of one single night's
Entertainment. Our Imperial ally, we all recollect
—it was one of the most memorable little incidents
of 1848—set forth originally to take possession of
Paris, and through Paris, of France, carrying with
him (just like Woodin!) a Carpet Bag. Hither
moreover came his imperial highness the Prince
President Woodin, in his turn eight years ago—as
another conquering embodiment of that mysterious
stranger the Man with the Carpet Bag. And when
he set resolutely to work unpacking it, upon that
first occasion of his public appearance in London in
the principal room of the old Adelaide Gallery,
hard by St. Martin's-in-the-fields, it would have
been impossible even for Sir Charles Coldstream
himself, gazing in upon it through the most super-
cilious spyglass, to have asserted that there was
" nothing in it !" There seemed to be everything
in it in the way of good humour and comicality—
and not only everything, but everybody : old
and young, man and woman, short and tall,
stout and spindling—the victims of atrophy
and the sufferers from elephantiasis. After-
wards when that übiquitous Carpet Bag had
travelled pertinaciously hither and thither upon all
the railroads, on all the coaches, in all the post-
chases we might fancy of the United Kingdom, the
light-heeled bearer of it, the easily fitted wearer
of all its motley contents, returns amongst us here
in London not so much like " a giant" as like a
whole Caravan of Giants " refreshed," appearing
upon his second advent, not simply as the Man with
the Carpet Bag, but as that plastic and elastic
Jack-of-all-trades known in all large households as
the Odd Man. The man who can turn his hand to
anything--who can be for the nonce upon an in-
stant's notice, just anybody, Figaro la ! Figaro
si ! the Oddest of all Odd Men, as it hap-
pened, illustrating again in his own person
a very " Olio of Oddities !" Accomplishing
this, moreover, so successfully that without
wishing to be any more invidious than cassio—ail
London declared Number Two, as compared with
Number One (until then, as became it, "taken care
of" sedulously) to be "more excellent than t'other.''
A preference chorussed during the last two or three
years all through these islands, all through this
little laughter-loving British Archipielago.
And now—"bock agen,"asdeliberately as that canny
Scot who knew so well where he was the best off,
comesthe youngpolyphonist to his old often-trodded
haunts in his own well-frequented Hall Polygra-
phic. As youthful as ever he is in appearance. As
though scarcely nine weeks, to say nothing of nine
yesrs, had elapsed since his earliest apparition in
London as the giver of these Entertainments.
His elegantly little thetstie completely and in parts
exquisitely redecorated. His two little green tables
of yore transformed each of them now into—a
veritable " Cabinet of Curiosities." Himself the
same slim, smiling, voluble, bright - eyed
young Entertainer as ever his smooth-
shaven face, in spite of all its manifold
contortions and tortuosities 'of feature while im-
personating his World of Characters, not yet seem-
ingly, even when scanned through the lens of an
opera glass, "up to a wrinkle"—his costume,
though (as a gentleman's evening dress, of course,
should be invariably) simply black and white, yet
altogether, in spite of that, the very pink of per-
fection. Yonder he stands before his audience,
when the curtain rises evening after evening in his
Polygraphic Hall telling them how glad he is to
see them again, and explaining to them--while he
is fitting on his white kid gloves—how, since they
last met there, he has, during his progress through
life, met with another singular variety of whimsi-
cal personages, whose introduction upon the scene
(extracting them one by one from his Cabinet of
Curiosities—into which they have been somehow
conjured and there carefully enshrined) will con-
stitute the night's entertainment. After which—
hey! Presto!—the wand of the Enchanter is
waved—and the audience for two hours afterwards
(with the single intermission of merely ten minutes
between the first and second part of the per-
formance) is to all intents and purposes
whisked away into the fairy regions of No-man's
land—the stage of your true Polyphonist
How possibly can NN e now describe the quickness,
the diversity, the completeness, the inimitable ela-
boration of all Mr. Woodin's nightly transforma
tions. Giftcd though the ablest critic may be—
and it is superfluous to say that our modesty aspires
not to that pre-eminence—as well might Mr. Hunt
the water-colourist himself (though he can depict
miraculously the rainbow sheen of a dead pilchard)
attempt to paint the hues of some expiring dolphin.
The spectator has scarcely begun to reconcile him-
Self to the fact that Mr. Woodin has expanded into
a Stout Gentleman let us say—some Stout Gentle-
man like one of their late Royal Highneeses—with a
j
double chin and an immense waistcoast, a voice like