The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1858, Page 2

2 NEW YORK. HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1858. ROVAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE. THE Their Origin, Intermeriiages, and Con ections. THE REIGNING LINES or RUROPE There are forty-eight crowned heads in Europe— namely, three Emperors, of France, of Russia, and of Austria; two Queens, of Great Britain and of o! “yain; thirteen Kings, of Prussia, of Swede: olland, of Belgium, of Sardinia, of Denmark, vrtagal, of Greece, of Bavaria, of Hanover, of Da ee iWourtemberg, and of Naples; one Sultan, of Tur- one Pope, of Rome: one Elector, of Hesse; yen Grand Dukes, of Tuscany, of Baden, of Saxe- Mmar, of Hesse Darmstadt, of Oldenburg, of Meck- « euhurg Schwerin, and of Mecklenburg: Strelitz; nine Dukes, of Parma, of Modena, of Anhalt Dessau, of ‘Apha!t-Bernburg, of Branswick, of Nassau, of Saxe- rg, of Saxe Meiningen, and of Saxe-Coburg and ten Prin a Lippe, of Waldeck, of Hesse-Homburg, of nwarzburg Londershausen, of Schwarzburg Rudolstedt, of Lichtenstein, of Schamburg-Lippe, of ReussGreiz, of Schleis, and of M All these princely person - ages are soverel, tries, and as suc equal in rank; although the Em- peror of Russia is master over a territory of more | than seven millions of square miles, and the Princes of Monaco and of Lichtenstein have less than fift each. Nevertheless, in the eyes of eve faith tit royalist, as well as of the Almanach de all legitimate princes are “ ebenburtig,” or equal born, whatever may be their political power or the extent of their dominions. They are in their own order cc rj" and if the eldest daughter of the Czar or of Austran Kaiser chose to marry the poorest ce of Reuss-Greiz, uo herald at arms could call ce wever, some other minor differences determine the position of these sovereigns, or rather these forty-six; Ss and the Pope, mus x a frow the es Al ve fi in: ta: t ut with royal legitimacy, or length of tenare: and it is tacitly understood that all roya! houses whose pedigree does not extend over at least a couple of centuries are hon-legitimate. Measured by this standard, the sovereigns of France and of Sweden cannot be said to belong to the circle of “equal born’ m archs, whose number is thus reduced to forty-f The forty-tour, again, may be divided into two classes; namely, princes of German origin and princes of Galic descent; so that altogether the European sove- reigns fall under four different divisions: — 1. Sovereigns quite un@pnnected with the rest— two in number, the Snitan and the Pope. it a mesalli There of rank forty-eight for “two of them, the asons he roby 2. Sovereigns of recent creation—two in number, | the rulers of France and of Sweden. 3. Sovereigns of Gallic o —three in number, the Queen of Spain, and the Kings of Naples and ot Portugal, the descendants of Hugh Capet, or the Bourbon family, 4. Sovereins of Teutonic origin—forty-one fin number, namely, the rulers of the whole of Europe, with the exception of those of the Iberian Penin- | sula, of a small part of Italy, of France, of Sweden, and of Turkey. In this concise classification, already a singular fact forces i of telf on our attention. Surope number about 2 The inhabitant: 60 millions. Of these, 78 Latin, and 83 tothe Teutonic races; and, conse- , if every nation were governed by rulers of n as themselves, the proportion of Surope would consist, in about three of monarchs of these three divisions of mankind. Butso far is this from being the case that the Slavonic tribes furnish no ruling princes at all to Europe, and that the Latin races contribute but a proportionately small number; so that the sovereign power of the most important quarter of the world is chiefly in the hands of mo- narchs of Teutonic origin. li was not always so, in- asnuch as only about three centuries agothe sover- cign rulers belonged more equally to the three domi- nact races in proportion to their political influence. ‘The present prepouderance of German royalty has come™bout gradually and very steadily, and the tendency of the present state of affairs in Europe is certainly rather towards a further increase of Teu- tonic kingships, and a further decrease of Latin and lavonic power, than the contrary. It is curious how race has worked its way in this respect. The house of Stuart, with afew drops of Celtic blood in its veins, had to give way before the German family of Brunswick-Luneburg, which has since received new elements of race by a fresh infusion of Saxon blood. Again, the house of Romanoff, of pure Slavonic ori- gin, made room for the line of Holstein-Gottorp, by birth and by continued alliances completely Teu- tonic; and before this, the Slavonic families which ruled Austria and Bohemia were unseated by a Ger- man prince of very modest fortune, Rudolf von Haps burg, whose descendants up to this day govern a Multitude of foreign tribes, but conclude their matri- monial alliances only inthe land of their origin. Nay, even in the classic iskands of the Mediterranean, © Gernfin king holds the sceptre, and the Iberian i ninsula is successfully invaded by the house of oburg. These princely German houses, through centuries of matrimonial alliances, have become united mto one large family, with greater or lesser grades of ruinity betw the different crowned heads. J y aced, however, to six different lines, growing up almost simultaneously in the soil of a covntry highly favorable in its feudal constitution for the production of kingship. The first of these lines is that of Saxony, the princes of which trace their origin up to Duke Wittekind. a leader of some half savage tribes on the river Elbe, who was con- to Christianity by the Emperor Charlemange, year 785. "The Princes of Savoy, who have become at present Kings of Sardinia, as well as the equal third ings of Saxony, the Grand Duke of] Saxe-Weimar, a Saxe Meiningen, Saxe- Alt rg Gotha “ to be the descendants of this Duke Wi t c second line of sovereign German princes is that of sece, whose members find their ancestor in one Adelbert, duke of a territory on the Rhine, who | lived in the beginning of the eighth century, and whore descendants are the Emperor of Aus- trina, the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and of Baden, and the Dukes of Parma. The third line is that of Oldenburg, founded by a Count of Ringelheim in the eleventh century; and from it springs the kings of Denmark, the te posed kings of Sweden, the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg, and the Dukes of Holstein. A younger branch of the latter house has filled for the last century the throne of Russi The fourth line is that of D'Este, founded by Azon I., Margrave Este, in the beginning of the eleventh centary: and from it the present royal family of Great Britain, the Kings of Hanover, the Dukes of Branswick and of Modena, and the Princes of Lichtenstein, draw their origin. The fifth line is that of Zollern, or, as it is commonly called, Hohenzollern, which has its ancestors in the Counts of Zohlern who lived in the tenth century, and from whom descend the Kings of Prussia, Lastly, the sixth line is that of Nassau, founded in the twelfth century, from which spring the gs of the Netherlands and the Dukes of N 1. The rest of the sovereigns of Teutonic n come all indirectly from these six great Bources. ‘There are, as already said, only three monarchs of the Gallic or Latin race, tue Queen of Spain, and the Kings of Naples ond of Portugal. They are de- scendants of Hugo Capet, Count of Paris. RUSSIA The rulers ef the vast dominions colloquially in- Cluded under that name, down to the time of Peter the Great, were natives of the country, deacendants of the old chieftains Rurick and Romanoff. Peter, as is well known, married a Livonian peasant girl, Catherine ; who brought him two children, Anna and Elizabeth. The first of these, Princess Anna, united herself to a Duke of Holstein Gottorp, and became in course of time the mother of a little Ger- man Prince, called Peter Ulrich, whg, after bis aunt Elizabeth, by the aid of sundry conspiracies and as- fassinations, had ascended the throne of the Czars, was pamed her ruccessar. The Czars of the house of Holstein-Gottorp are physically a fine body of men. present Emperor of Russia is a tall and some- what stout man, with a pleasing countenance, but a Jook as if suffering under some hidden malady or forrow. His eyelids droop over the inner corner of the eye with deep melancholy; and though the mouth is not without sweetness, the whole profile, Grecian in outline, recalls the features of termagant Catherine, the Elizabeth of the North. Czar Alex- ander was married on his twenty third birthday to a Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, the youngest sister of the present Grand Duke. Czar Alexander bas five brothers and sisters, The Cidest. Mary, is widow of the Duke Maximilian, of Leuchtenberg, a son of Bagene Beubarnois, the adopted child of the gl Napoleon 1; the se cond sister, Olga, is married to the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg. Grand Duke Constantine, the next brother, has united himself to the daughter of the Duke of Saxe Altenburg. Grand Duke Nicholas has married @ Princess of Oldenburg, and Grand Duke hel, the youngest of the late Czar’s children, ushand to a Princess of Baden, a sister of the nt rejzning Duke. Finally, the mother of the ‘var, the =_ Dowager, who is at present living in Italy, is sister of the King and the Prince of Prossia, and, consequently, aunt to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, whose nuptial knot has been tied last week ot St. James’ Palace. The imperial family of Ras fia is, the e, to sum up the whole, closely related to the royal houses of Prussia, of Wartemberg, of Holinnd, and of Great Britain ; and the dueal honses Of Iewe-Darmstadt, of Saxe-Altenburg, of Olden- b of Saxe: mar, and of the two Mecklenburgs. Tt cong the Protestant princely families of Ger. mary that the Czars of the house of Holstein Gottorp Leve always sought and continue seeking wives for nm ives and their children. fmpire on the continent of fein population. The ruler of Austria beara the title o kK n rulers of their respective coun- | illions are Slavonians: 81 millions belong to the | | the moat important | in extent as well | the country of itic: aiser Konig—(Emperor King)—Kaiser on ac. | tations, drighn, too, of the two re ee count of the imperial States, and Kénig for Hun- alone. othe house of Hapsburg is of purely German ori- gin. Rudolf, the founder of the royal family, was tne descendant of an old noble line of counts of the « Holy Roman” Empire, who lived in a well fortified castle on the river Aar, the ruins of which all travel- Jers in the north of Switzerland may see at the pre- sent day. A hundred years ago, with the death of Kaiver Charles VI. the male line of the house be- came extinct, but as the Kaiser's only daughter, Maria Theresa, again married a ce of German descent, Teutonic blood may be said to flow in its purest state in the veins of the Austrian emperors. No reigning family of neneee has derived so much advantage from successful matrimonial alliances as the house of Hapsburg. The sword of its founder, Rudolf, constructed only the nucleus of the vast essions which the family afterwards soqulted, Next to Rudolf, the greatest man whom the family | ever produced, Maximilian 1, may be called the founder of the power of the house of Hapsburg, for | it was he who, by three lucky marriages—his own, Reuss: | his son's and his grandson'’s—consolidated the rising State. Francis Joseph I. is at present in his twenty- seventh year. He is a pale, js Ape | has | man, with dull, heavy eyes, low forehead, and the he- | reditary big under lip. He married, about four ears ago, a daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, Eliza- beth; who has brought him two children, both female, one of whom, however, has already died. This union was brought about by the Emperor's mother, Archducheas Sophia, a princess all powerful | at court, who may be re; as the real raler of | Austria. The Emperor has three brothers, Ferdi- nand, Charles and Louis, the first and the last of whom are unmarried; but the second, Archduke Charles, was united, about a year ago, to a daughter of the King of Saxony. The Austrian ig family is vi | the present time. There are three widow of the late Em Francis I., a Bavarian Princess, now in her sixty-sixth year; the Empress Anne, wife of Ferdinand, and, lastly, the consort of the present Emperor. Besides these three Em- resses and the two Emperors, there are sixteen Archdukes and seventeen Archduchesses, mostly de- scendants of the Emperor Francis I., who was mar- ried four times, and of his brothers, each of whom | had several consorts. The actual connections by marriage of the Aus- trian Imperial family do not extend very far, nor are they with very great houses. The princely families of almost the whole of Northern, central, and West- ern Germany, being Protestant, the choice of the kaisers and Archdukes is restricted to the houses of | Bavaria and Saxony; unless they again hazard which they do not seem inclined to do, fres! | monial alliances with the Bourbons of Naples and of Spain—connections which have proved, in the | example of Ferdinand, so nearly fatal to the race of Hapsburg. FRANCE. The third Emperor in our list of European sover- | eigns is Charles Louis Napoleon Bot rte, Emperor ot the French: but we shall not have to say much of , him, as of all the monarchs of this quarter of the | globe, he—of course with the exception of the Po} | and Sultan—is the least connected with the rest by | family alliance. He is certainly regarded as non-le- gitimate by all of them. The whole, or at least chief conrlection of the Bona- parte family with the other reigning houses of Europe, | is through the uncle and aunt of the Emperor. | The ancienne maison royale de France, the great rival of the new family of Bonaparte, derives its | chief power from its connections with European pt og and has, for this reason alone, a still pow- erful hold on public opinion in and out of France. Far behind them in the night of time rise their great ancestors: their Carolus Magnus (theirs not altogether, yet claimed by them), their Hugo Capet, their Henri Quatre, their Louis “le Grand. ae is their might ally, of whom they boast and to whom they trust. Yet monarchy in France, though it is old enough, has not always been very ‘‘legitimate.”” The descendants of Clovis were robbed of their soverej numerous at presses—the rights by Pepin, the major domo; and the his progeny again was overruled by the son of Hugh the Great, Lord of the Isle of France. After him, the line of Valois ruled the country of Gauls till Henry 1V.. of the younger branch of the Hugo Capet family, laid nold of the crown by force of arms. From him down to Louis XVI., who died on the scaftold, the line of legitimate French kings is unbroken. | NAPLES. | The Bourbons have sunk immensely from their for- mer greatness, yet they are still in possession of three crowns, and lay claim to the fourth. The present Queen of Spain, Isabel II, is the sixth Spanish mo- | narch of the house of Bourbon; the kingdom of Na- | ples and Sicily is ruled by the family for the last | century anda half, and Portugal for nearly eight | hundréd years. Ferdinand Il., the present King of Naples, has been married twice—the first time to @ daughter of Victor Emmanuel, of Sardinia, who died in 1536, and had not been dead many months before the disconsolate widower rushed off to Paris to ask for the hand of a daugiter of Louis Philippe. The arrangements between mee and France were all but concluded, when, one day, at table, the Duke of Orleans uttered a few disrespectful words about the Duchess de Berry, which offended the fraternal feel- ings of Ferdinand. A quarre] ensued, and the con- sequence of it was, that King Ferdinand straight- way left Paris for Vienna, and was mar- ried im January, 18: to Princess The- | resa, a daughter of the Archduke Charles, bro- ther to the late Emperor Francis I.,of Austria. By this princess the King eight children; the last of | whom, horn in 1855, is called Mary Immaculata | Louise. By his first marriage with the Princess of Sardinia, Ferdinand had one son, Francis, who is | now twenty-two years old, and heir apparent to the | throne. | _ King Fe d has ten brothers and sisters. The | first is the somewhat ill famed Duchess of Be: the second, the no less reputed Queen Christina of Spain; the third, Prince Charles, married to a Miss | Penelope Smith: the fourth, Prince Leopold, united to a Princess of Savoy; the fifth is Antoinette, Grand Duchess of Tuscany; the sixth and sevamth, Amelia | and Caroline, are married to Spanish Princes; the eighth, Theresa, is the Empress of Brazil: the ninth, Prince Louis, is married to a daughter of the | late Emperor of Brazil; and the tenth, Francis de | Paul, has a Princess of Tuscany. The aunt of King Ferdinand is the ex-Queen of the French, now re- siding at Claremont, a frequent visiter at Windsor Castle: and the niece of the King is married to the Duke d’Aumale, also at Clareniont, Surrey. The royal family of Naples is thus related by marriage to the sovereigns of Austria, Spain, Brazil, Porta ‘al, Tuscany, Sardinia and to the exiled house of suis Phi P ‘6 SPAIN. The Bourbons of Spoin are not so v ell fortified by family alliances as their friends at} Isabella has married ber cousin, Francis Maria Fer- dinand, and her sister is united to the Duke af | Montpensier. The Queen's mother has married a | tall Spanish grenadier, the son of a Tarangon tobac- | conist, with whom she is living at present; and all | the rest of the Queen's male and female cousins, some two dozen in number, have married among thimselves. PORTUGAL. The process of amalgamation of the different royal families of Europe, and the vltimate absorption into the Teutonic element, is not visible in Spain, bat, as if in opposition, becomes the more apparent in the neighboring Portngal. The young King of this , country, behind bis array of seventeen Christian names, has the somewhat homely sounding title of “ Duke of Saxony: and his father, alvo a King, car- es this out still more by calling himself Ferdinand, j ing of Portugal and Duke of Saxe-Coburg { Gotha. The grandson of Hugo Capet, Count Henry of Bourgogne, came into the Iberian peninsula about the year 1090, and received from King Alphonso IV. permission to fight the Moors, then still inhabiting the western 7 of the country. He did so suc- cessfully, and got reward for his services the whole of the land thus conquered, a fine little lord- ship extending from the Minho to the Tagas. Hen- ry’s son and successor, Alfonso I., completed the work, and, with the help of the fleet of the Cra- saders, laid hold of Lisbon, unconquered hitherto, and of a good part of the country south of it; and having beaten five Moorish kings in one successful battle, in 1139, he crowned himself king, and, to perpetuate the remembrance of the origin of the crown, put the five shields of the Arab chiefs into the arms of Portogal, where they are seen up to this day. His successors have ruled the country ever on and even given emperors to a vast trans/Atlan- ic § SARDINIA. The family of Victor Emmanuel IL, King of Sar- dinia, isoriginally of German origin, but the founder of the direct line of Princes of Savoy was a Swiss Count, Berthold, who lived in the beginning of the eleventh century. The descendants of Sherthold fox ~ ng ad a small but compact little prin- cipality in the Alps, thence gradual end: into the fertile plains of North Ital: van ae Victor Emmannel 11. seventh year of his ave is at present in the thirty: He married, in 1842, 0 daughter of Archduke Renier, of Austria, a brother of that Archduke John who wooed and won a Tyro- lese intikeeper's child. The Queen died in the’ be- ginning of 18¢ d the King had not only to de- oe this loss, but saw, within a few weeks of it, both his mother and his only brother laid in the grave. His Queen jeft him five children, the second of whom, Prince Hombert, now fourteen years old, is heir ap- parent to the throne. The King's late brother, who married a daughter of King John, of Saxony, also left two children, the youngest of whom, now in his fourth year, is called Duke of Genoa. Direct rela- tions the royal house of Sardinia has only with Aus tria and Saxony, but through the latter its family is connected with the majority of European sovereigns. PRURATA. What Sardinia is to Italy, Prussia is to and of liberal of Savoy and Hohenzollern has much similarity, for the founders of houses had to thank only their own strong arm for what Territory they acquired as the basis of the future power of the family. Unlike the ancient Hapsburgs, neither Zollern nor Savoy ever got a square yard of land through matrimonial calculations. The reigning family of Prussia is connected »y earlier alliances ‘than any other princely ine with the sovereign house of Brunswick, now on the English throne. The second King of Prussia, Frederick William 1., was married to a daughter of George I., when George was as yet on! vlector of Hanover. After he came to the English throne, @ double between the Prince of Wales and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, and Prince Frederick (afterwards Frederick the Great) and the English Princess Amelia, was projected, and was on the eve of being concluded, when secret Aus- trian machinations interrupted and finally broke the good understanding between the two sove- reigns. Frederick the Great ever afterwards deplored chisand had good reason for doing so, as the wife with which his somewhat despotic father provided him was all but an idiot. Frederick's nephew and successor was #0 much influenced by the dissolute manners which the absence of refined female society had engendered at the Court of Prussia, that during his reign, down to 1797, royal manners and morals were like those in the time of our Charles II.; and it was not until the accession of Frederick William III., the father of the present king, that a better state of things got the upper hand. The King has six urothers and sisters: the first is the actual Regent of Prussia, who has last week become the father-in- ‘aw of our Princess Royal, and who is married to a daughter of the late Grand Duke of Saxe-Weima the second is the widow of the late Czar Nicholas, now Empress of Russia, residing in Flo- rence; the third is Prince Charles, married to an- other daughter of the late Grand Duke of Saxe Wei- mar, a sii of the Princess of Prussia; the fourth is the Grand Duchess Dowager of Mecklenburg- Schwerin; the fifth is Princess Louisa, married to the Prince Frederick of the Netherlands; and the sixth is Prince Albert, who was married to Marri- anne, @ daughter of the late King William I. of Hol- land, but divorced from herafter a union of nineteen years, on account of adultery. There are, besides, some children of the late King’s brother, all of them, as also the Princess of Hohenzollern, the eider branch of the family, married to German sovereigns, but of lesser'importance. On the whole, the house of Prussia has more extensive aud more im- portant family connections than almost any other royal line in Europe. The Hohenzollern sovereigns are nearly related to the reigning houses of Great Britain, of Russia, of Holland, of Bavaria, of Austria, of Saxony, of Hanover, of Baden, and many other reigning families of minor power. SWEDEN. The house of Prussia is also, though indirectly, re- lated to the royal family of Sweden, a family inte- resting in more than one respect. The tenure of the house of Bernadotte is of posterior date to that of the house of Bonaparte, and yet the royal Swedish family is already sufficiently engrafted on the stock of European royalt; ind wives and husbands among the class—a thing in which the members of the Corsican house, although their chief is a mighty Emperor, have not as yet succeeded. The reason for this good luck of the Bernadottes may be found in the calm, quiet, diplomatic way in which they settled down on their northern throne, and gradually screwed themselves into the confidence of their bro- ther monarchs. The founder of the house, Jean Ber- nadotte, the son of a notary in the south of France, acted all his life long in this quiet, unpretendin: manner; and from a private of marines he worke: his way through all the grades of military hierarchy up to the rank of general, under the first Bonaparte. On the 12th June, 1850, Prince Charles, the pre- sent Regent of Sweden, married a princess of the an- cient house of Orange-Nassau, a daughter of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and of Princess Louise of Prussia, the sister of King Fredevick Wil- liem IV.; and now the family of Bernadotte might be said to have entered, on a footing of equaligie great circle of sovereigns of Europe. SAXONY. What we now call Saxony is not the country ori- ginally so named, which lies farther North. The house of Saxony, chiefly the elder line, now re- resented in the four dacal families, bas been more fertile in members than any other princely house for the last centui The present King of Saxony, John Nepomuk, who is married to a daughter of the jate King Maximilian of Bavaria, has no fewer than eight children living, all born at intervals of from eighteen months to two years. Four of them are married already; the Crown Prince to a Princess Ww Princess izabeth to the brother of the King of Sardinia, whose death we mention- Princess Anne to the Crown Prince ny; and Princess Marguerite to the second brother of the Emperor of Austria. There are, be- sides, the widow of the former King Frederick Au- gustus,a daughter of the King of Bavaria, and several other relations. The next Saxcn Prince in importance, the Grand Duke ot Saxe-Weimar, married a daughter of the late King William I. of the Netherlands, and has four children, the eldest of whom, Prince Charles, is not more than thirteen years old. His two sisters ave married to two brothers of the King of Prussia: the eldest sister, Maria, to Prince Charles, and the | ey sister, Augusta, to the Prince of Prussia. he latter reyal lady, who accompanied her son last week at the important ceremony in St. James’ chapel, is at present in her forty-sixth year. Her mother the Grand Duchess Mary of Russia, is the eldest sister of the late Czar Nicholas. Lastly, the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen and Saxe Altenurg bave, both of them, not many children, but numerous cousins, uncles, and aunts. One of the latter, Princess Alexandrine, now called Alexan: dra-Jossfowna, was married, in 1830, to the Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, eldest brother of the present Czar. The last branch of the four ducal houses of Saxony. the house of Saxe-Coburg Gotha—not consisting of above a dezen members, and the head of which rales over a population of not more than 150,000—about the population of Bradford, in Yorkshire—is un- | doubtedly the best connected family in Europe. | The reigning Duke, Ernest IL, married Princess Alexandrina, daughter of the late Grand Duke Leo- | pold of Baden : his brother is Prince Albert, consort of the Queen of Great Britain ; his eldest aunt is the divorced wife of the late Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, the elder brother of Czar Nicholas, who dis- carded her that he might unite himself to a Polish lady, the Countess of Grudzinska ; his other aunt is the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria ; his uncle is King Leopold of Belgium. One of his cousins is King of Portugal, and another has mar ried the daughter of a king, Princess Clementine, who followed her husband into Coburg when her father, Louis Philippe, was on the throne of France. The honse of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, therefore, is nearly related to the royal families of Great Britain, of Por- tugal, Belgium, Russia, Holland, Baden, and most of the other reigning houses of Europe. GREAT BRITAIN. The present royal family of this country, members of the house of Bunswick Luneburg, trace their ori- in to the first Margraves of Este, who lived in the beginning of the eleventh centary, and who married into the family of the Guelph, German counts, who were living in Snabia, but who had possessions in the — of Italy, then a province of the holy Roman empire. ¢ family, as well before as after it ascended the English throne, had continually intermarried with German princes and princesses, and with them alone; and it is consequently of pure Teutonic blood. All the matrimonial alliances, with the sole exception of this last of the eldest daughter of Queen Vietoria with the presumptive heir of the throne of Prussia, were concluded, too, with the sinaller princely houses of Germany. ° | Theatrical, Musical, &e. Trautas Orena.—The Academy will re-open to- morrow evening under the direction of Mr. Ullman, who has added a few new artists to the many favo- rites connected with his corps last season. The selection for the commencement is Bellini’s “I Puritani,” in which Mme. La Grange and Messrs FPormes, Tiberini, &c., are to perform. Broapway Tueater.The rts of the arena continue to be remarkably well patronised at this establishment. The chief features for to-morrow night are the fairy spectacle of “Cinderella,” the dashing bare-back riding of Mr. Eaton Stone, and the comical act of Mr. Sherwood—the whole en- livened hy the witticisms of Messrs. Lathrop and Btone. _Bowrny.— Manager Eddy issues a regular gala bill for to morrow hight, when he will personate the hero in a patriotic piece called the “Dawn of the Stars and Stripes.” Mr. R. Johnston is to make his first appearance this season in the play entitled the “Man with the Iron Mask.” The amusements close with the “Floating Beacon.” Bertox’s.Shakspere’s celebrated “Comedy ot Errors” isto be revived tommorrow night. Messrs. Burton and Brougham are to represent the Dromios, and wi'! be supported by various favorites of the company. Messrs. Barton and Walcot are to play ina “gulvanized farce” styled the “ Metropolitan Policeman.” “Love and “Marder” is the after- piece. watt WALL \ck’s. Mr. Bourcicanit’s new drama entitled “Jessie Brown, or the Relief of Lucknow,” is to un- dergo its initial performance to-morrow evening. It [pirports to be, founded on the beautiful episode in he present Indian war.” Miaa Agnes Robertson and the author, together with all the leading members of the talented company, are in the cast. Lavra Keenr’s.Tomormw night we are pro- mired a repetition ot the highly exciting drama de- nominated the “Courier of Lyons,” backed by the mirthfal farce of the “Village Lawyer.” Mias Keone Sees sees hy ae Pp , Amon, jar all, 4 will soon ‘make her debut. ¥ Awrntoan Mcerum.—The very successful drama called the “Pioneer Patriot, or Maid of the War Path,” is to be performed to morrow afternoon and evening. A grand “Allegorical Tableaux” will also be given, in whi@h G. Howard is to represent the Goddess of Lil and sing the “Star Spangied Banner.” The cui lies may be seen at all hours. Necxo MinstReELSY.—Fresh selections of bur- leeques, meledies, dances, &c., have been arranged by the different managers for to morrow eveuing. The afterpieces are to consist of “Weffo, the Sensi- ble Monkey,” at Geo, Christy & Woods; a new sketch called “Ten Minutes’ Trip tothe Academy of Music,” at Buckleys’, and “Dan's Dream of Shovel- ry” at Bryants’ The Militia of New York. ANNUAL RKPORT OF THE ADJUTANT GSNERAL OF THE STATE. The Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York, recently presented to Governor King is now before us. We select its principal features of iate- rest, many of its details having reference merely to mat- ters of official routine. After describing the manner in which the new roster is made up, the report proceeds as follows:— m ‘The enumeration of the strength of each company, and the total of the regiment, as contained in the roater, are taken from the regimental returos transmitted to the Department durig the past summer, and furnish. perhaps, a fair estimate of the strevgth of the force; yet, in special instances, from rome uD} ented increase, as will be neted with regard to the Seventh regiment, they may not show exactiy the pace regimental etrength. It will be ‘seen from the table im the roster, contaising a recapitula- tion of the force, that the mihtary force ot tho Stats 1s divided into cigtt divisions, twenty-eight brigades and sixty-seven regiments, comprising in the aggregate 16,434 officers and men, and is classified in the various arms ag foul — Infantry, 241 companies and pair) cfficers end men 1712 1436 Artiliery, 79 “ 41 ” 41 te re are general officers,, Regimental field officere, Stafl and non commission By a comperison of this a et last year in the report from this department it will be seen that there is a somewhat large diminutioa, which need, however, suggest no fears for the existence of the force. In fact, though several regiments have been dis- banded by cousolidation with others, the number of raul and file to-day cannot be less than it was last year at this time. On the contrary, if there be any difference it ig one indicating an increase of the force. The total, as now stated, is based upon sufliciently revable data, while that published last year was, I am informed, the’ result of a calculation pécessarily uncertain, and, as it now seems, quite at variance with the fact. Fron: theso spe- cial regimental returns bas likewise been digested a table of ordnance, arms and other military stores be- longing to the State and in the possession of the troops. By this table it appears that there are ia the bands of the troops, of ordnance, arms and accoutrements ae fol- lows: Cannon, calibre nine pounders, “ “ Do. | calibre six pounders ne How tzers, calibre twenty-four pounders, Do. calibre of twelve pounder: Mountain howitzers, ‘The artillery is returned to be in an excellent condition, while the muskets are, for the most part, reported to be utterly worthiess. Indeed, these special returns have Deen So constant!y a matter of reference in the daily dis- charge of the duties of the office that I am at a loss to un- derstand how the department could have been satisfacto- rily managed without the information which they contain. e subject which next claimed the attention of the de- partment, after putting in train the means by which the Decessary. departmental information was to be obtained, was ove having ieference to the military comtautatioa Complaints of the utter and even wilful negligence of the Assessors in making out the enrolments of those liable to military duty iu their respective towns or wards, and of the carelessness of the civil officers in enforcing the collection of the commutation when it had been assessed, having reached the department, the idea was entertained that perbape if the various supervi- sors, assessors and collectors throughout the State wera properly apprised of their duties in this regard, aud of the penalties aitaching for their neglect, the cause of these complaints would in a great measure cease, aud the com- mutation fund necessarily be augmented. With this view instructions ia pursuance of section uive of article first of part third of the militia law were prepared and printed in pamphlet form, aud several thousands of them, accompa nied by a general order to regimental commandaats, were transmitted to each cf such commandaots for distribution to the various civi! officers concerned in the cotlection of the commutat on fund of their respective districts. Though this effort may not have been as successful as was de- sired, it can hardiy be said to bave utterly faiied of ac- e*mplibing some improvement, for the reports of the boards of supervisors show ia the aggregate an increase over the enrolment of the past year, yet not of so marked a character as to lead to the bope that the military portion of the tax to be returped next month will much exceed the limit it Bas heretofore reached; a resuit indicating a state of things, it must be confessed, discouragicg and - hopeless of relief uncer the present law . ‘The quota of artos due the State from the general go- vertimentfor the year 1856 having been forwarded to murke's altered from flint to purcus#ioo, instead of the Crigival percussion muskets, as desired, was not accepted by the authorities of the State; consequently, for the past year there were two quotas due, The one for 1866, after deducting a balance due the general government for the expense of the alteration of muskets ia 1855, amounted, in muskets, to 1,561, equal to $20,319. That of 1897, after decucting for transportation of the returned quota, amounted, in muskets, to 1,595, equal in money to $20,775 both quotas to 3,161’ muskets, being equal in money to $41,004. As it was ro less objectionable ia 1867 than in 1856 to receive from the general government the quota in altered muskets, an urgent demand was agaio addreased to the Ordnance Department at Washington for the orginal percussion arms, but without success, However, afier @ somewhat lengthy correspondence, it was conceded on the part of the authorities at Washington to be proitable to furnish tLe State with two thirds of its quota for one of the years in cadet muskets: and also to furpish lovg’ range rifle, with sword onet (comm called ye Minnie rifle), and e long ranged rife musket, with the Maynard primer attachment. With regard to the quota for the year 1868, it ia perhaps proper to say in this connection tliat since the long rr musket bas #0 completely supplanted the musk in the hands of the United States troops, t has once more wartaly urged upon the ment the propriety of e vern opplying for the future tue or.gi ich, under the recor a of ol, H. K. Craig, ' a consented to do, an by back sighting and rifling to the ese of age. arseale, and in the ble proportion of whieh tas perentiy come down from the war of 1812. It was ed advisable to coliect th vd from time to tim them, together with the damaged ammut the proceeds of such sales to improve or to purchase, woder y: ction. The Comtais sary Gene ing the early part of the year the proper instructions from your Excellency, nd will doubtiess report to you his actioa iu the pro mises. Whule the bulk of the smali arme be'onging to tho State tre thus worthless, it nevertheless owas a cousilerabie qrantity of se le muskets of quite recent patteras, altered from flint to percussion, and ao a large quantity which bave been rendered unservicrabie simply by the careless mauner in which they have been aitered. [t was sugcested by Captain J. A. Ward, ap ingenious officer of the United States iy, that by applying a cone seat to ibe side of the barrel, aod removing the cone from the | top of the barrel and tapping it into the cone soat, by Adapting the weapon to the use of the Minn 4 cartridge, and by attaching hia magazine hammer to the lock, clamp to the bayonet, these muskeys might be rendered, at an expense of four dollars each; As serviceable as the most improved arm of recent invention. Tlis magazine bammer is @ method of appiying the primiog to the arm in a manner different trom su ed by Mayuard, the inventor of the process. * * * . . * * ‘ Of the sum of thirteen thousand doilars receited from the general governient i settlement of advances fo: stores, and appropriated by the Legislature for the purebase, under your Fxeelleacy's directon, of arms and ammunition, there has been expended for 27 brass svare drums, 137 maple snare drums, 51 bass drums, 2 bugles, 20 regimental colors, 30 guide coi ws—$2.602 60 90 improved conical teuts, Sibley’s patent, $3,600 Ammunition, $2,550 50—waking a total of v leaving an unexpended balance of 83.26 62. view of precuring snare drums of the character, it was thougbt advisable to be nbeded to be made with brass shotls, 'y the French army dium. Of this description 27 were made; but on discovering that they sux the French drum in solidity aud reso facture was discontinued, 4 maple shell drums ordered in their stent. It is eminent! y desirable, cn the ground of military convenience, order and system that the troops in eome of the larger cities of the State be provided, at the expense of the State, with two spare drums and one trumpet for alternation, per company, to be kept like otber State property when not in ure,’ habitually in the compauy armory, and under the supervision of ita commanding cffloer. Also, that im each of auch companies, three boys be enlisted, with ali the riguts, privileges auc autios of its regular members, to be initiated in the use of these instruments, Who, in addition to accompanying (heir respective compa uies to and from the reg mental parade, when t sembled, aa the field musi¢ of tharerin torest in the company urged that th's syeters rable additivoal tax ut it is ifflonlt to believe that cannot be fomd @ sullicient number of respectable and patriotic boya, who, frots wo other cousiveration than that of a yotimoute and plemsor able association with the cominar A feo) & just pride in marching as drummers at the regiments which bed eecured for themselven ave aud honorable r putation. The band of a regitoent partakes of the pature Of ani xereecencs, while the fied music it exseatially a part Of tte vcrv existence. It t# indeed in lispomeadie to thé pr manaovre of a regitnent that we field musicmns thoroughly instructed, not only in the various rilitars signals and calla, and inthe proper beals and souous which mark the pase, but also na to their varie in parades of coremouy, I coiunue of manus route, With the view of effecting the coanges templated, a French army snare drum Acgeth t sticke, flag and apron, also a trumpet, and the Prenet military music, which dow not comprise ary 0 4 but eimply beate apd sounds to Mark the pace. have bees orcered from France to serve ae movie's for their oupp.y by artieane of our own land, aad it is hoped that sooa nh the city of New York will ba seon & properly equipped ‘and instructed corps of ficid musicians. ‘The roport here the number of arma and equip. ments ordered to be , Sad the gumbor sotuaily rally be expected to take ae mur a8 uny of its members. issued during the past year, which we omit. Then the military districts, comprisicg the divisions, brigades and regiments of the State, are inserted, cecupying a large space in the report, for which we muat refer our military readers (o the report in pamphlet, when issued from head- quarters. In accoréance with the provisions of the Ia should have been transmitted to this office ina} returns {rom twenty gght brigades, wioreas ouly sixtoon have been received. hether tais omiasion to return is due to the pegiige. ce of the delinquent brigade iaspe store or toan oversight of the Brigadiers in not ordering pa- rades for inspection, I am at a lore to determine © tus fles of the cepartineot folly attest that the omission is not peculiar to this year, end it scems to be more than probebie that if the officers of the service were selected because of their known military capacity, conjoined with their zeal for tbe efliciency of the service, there would | scarcely arise an occasicn for remarks of this character. Sue hs he on ee a ef The system known as the commuting system, were it evforced in accordance with the spirit of the law, wou'd, it can bardly be denied, ovide a sufficient fund for the 2 ee elief of our military anization from the burthens r which 1 is at present struggling. While it is pot desired that the force should be wholly sus- tained from this system like & mercenary one, it is Bevertheless consonant with reason and I joes that men volunteering to perform duty which all, with a few exceptions, are required by the laws of Congress to diecharge, should be at least assisteo in some of their ex- perses, as music, armory, rent, horses for guns, by those who are thereby relieved fromsuch duty. To show how inadequately the system as at present administered { mects this reascnable demand, reference is made to the | returns of the various county treasuries of the Sta‘e, | which furn#h a statement of the funds recewed, ani to the reports of tho boards of auditors of tha different regi- | ments, which explain the mode tr which they have been | disbursed. * * * 1p connection with this subject, it may be remarked, that in mapy instances, were the regimental furd to be devoted exclusively todefrayivg the expenses of music or the usval expenses of au armory, is would be found barely to suffice, while ia otbers it woul scarcel: meet, by ono half, these indispensable requirements. is, however, certain, under the best view of the case, that the system has failed of accomplishing the end for which it was instituted. From the reports which coastantly reach this department from the military authorities, verifed as they ares by tho returns the county treasurers, and of the clerks of the beards of supervisors, the conviction is irresistible that the responsibility for the failure 1s in no small degree due to the previousty negligent manner in which their duties under the military law are discharged by the asses- tors and collectors of the various towns of the State. In not a few of the towns, the asseseors have utterly neglect- ed to make the enroiment, snd in many instances where the enro!ment has been made, if the number enrolled bo compared with the population of the town, it cannot but appear singularly defective. It ia msisted that had the asseesors and collectors made more persistent efforts ta the discharge of the military portion of their duties, there would rot have existed against them the present almost universal complaint; yet,on the other hand, it may be urged that the law ia the matter of exemptions, by its many and sometimes inconsistent provisions, is quite as apt to mislead as it is to direct, and that though its gene. ral epirit partakes much of military stringency, still the provision authorizing the deferring ot the collection of the commutation to the second year often defeats the efforts of the best intentioned collector; while another provision, in prescribiog no pena'ty, though it authorizes a prosecu- tion, absolutely prevents the enforcement of the law at his ban In correction of these defects, it is respectfully suggested by way of amendment to the Inw that tho no- tice now gpquired to be given to each person enrolled that he is go @Rrolied, be discontinued, aud that the notices the asgeseors are required to afflx conspicuously in st three places of public resort io their respective ‘auswer in lieu therecf; and that the assessors be | furiber required, under a penalty of Atty cents for each narae omittec,to return upon the military roll to the Bosre of Supervisors of their respective Counties, the name of every person in their town, between the ages of 18 and 45 years who is not exempt from the performance of mililary duty. To enable them to discharge properly this duty, it is desirable tbat all the various grounds of military exemptton and privilege bespecified counectively in the law, and so clearly that a misapprebension of them shall be impossible. It is also desirable that whea the as- sessors 1 have completed their roll they shall certify it to the Board of Supervisors, who shall take the same | and incorporate it in the tax ‘roll, by simply adding @fty cents to the total of tax standing against the name of every person upon such tex roll whose name shall have been Tetarned upon the military roll; and where there are bames upon the military roif which do not appear upon the tax roll, they are ty be added to the tax roll, ape from each whose nazne is thus added is to be collected the sum. of fifty cents The suvervisors will, in their warrants, direct the collector to deposit with the county treasurer, out of all moneys collected, to the creda of the regiment in whose bounds the same has been collected, the sum of — dollars, being a sum equal to fifty cents for each man returned by the assessor upon the milita rotl. The collectors, in making their collections, will make no distiaction between the commetation and tax proper, but will proceed to collect the sums specified Against the names of persons upon their tax rolls in the manner in which they now coilect taxes. Where from any cause, such as the abseuce of property to be levied on or the removal from the county, it is iniposeible to col- lect the commutation, the collectors shal! certify a list of the pames of those from whom it is impossible to col- lect the same to the county treasurer, to be by him trans- mitted to the Roard of Supervisors, who shall mclude the | amount uncollected in the general tax to be levied | there officers at Wasbicgton, and that it was deemed prudent by {these Commissioners to discontiaue their labors until sau Copies of the revised work oouid be procured. These were obtained in the cariy part of last spring, when, upon e cuntn of the to works, it became apparent taat the whole of the labor alreatty performea would have to be . 8 large amount of origina! matter. During the recent apprehensions, of bread riots in the city of New York, the Commissary General received a notice from the Presicent of the Metropotitan Police Com- mission that there was reason to fear tha! the State aaa een & the Central Park, would be rifled of ite military stores unless guarded by a proper force, and that the limited number of policemen at hie dlepeos D his furnisbing the proper protection. ‘The Commi General, on transrai to you this notice, received your ipstructions to make a forma! demand upon the Presideat of the Police Commission for a force of juate to the protection of the State property, and if tt nud eee then to Seetese: & special hie 4 being refused policemen, Conz- missary General hired a sufficient number of mien for the purpose, and having had them sworn ag special ie gurdinylae bolls nuke cape one they remained building ni rere) days ble expense, which has been met, however, by the ad- vances of the Commissary Goreral, who will hi & more full and detailed report of his proceedings in premises, and will, doubtless, request that in the absenos of apy other method, this reimbursed by act of the Legis! concur. the mont of the Major Gene- ral Randall and Brigadier General G. A. Scroggs, that the Management of the battle was in the hands of General eo 5 rae ' it is not to be doubted that some few advantages to the military force may grow out of encampments, it w on the other hand, questionable if these advan' ‘are not more than counterbalanced by the injury of morole of the force inflicted thereby. Encat or the eye of our State force, as at present instituted, with the exception of some twelve or , Cannot but have a disorganis.ng tendency, since they too frequently lead to, and encourage dissipation, occasion illness from an exporare which is not of sufficient duration to enure one to hardship, Ung e long enough to sow the seeds of fatal disease. ‘hiie they are largely expensive tothe State, they are ruinous t the resources of the troops, and are too frequently devoted to reviews rather than to serve wilitary instruction. Indeed it is to be re- ike that fewer encampments ard more field for instruction are not ordered, and that a greater effort is not made to perfect aregimentin a knowledge of all the battalion mancuvres, aud to ground its companies thoroughly in the company formations, and the elemen- tary duties of the soicier, than to attempt all the mockery ‘of a camp without such essential knowledge. To pursuance of a law of the lat eession, the arsenal in the city of New York has been sold to the city of New York, and the proceeds of the gale deposited in the trea sury of the State. Provision bas been mado for the edy erection of one in fag more oligidiy located, for the erection of other arsenals and armories if! us places named ia the act. All of which is respect- full submitted. Our London Correspondence. Lonvoy, Feb. 2, 1858. ‘The Child Leaved Her Mother and Her Country fora Foreign Land—Royalty is after all but Slavery—The Marriags— rance and Engiand—The Leviathan—Home Dottings— Balfe's “La Zingara"'—Amusements—Grand Ball of the Reyal London ¥e Club, under the Presidency of Mr Anirew Arcedeckge, the Commedore. Lecomble du bonheur must this morning have beea synonymous with le comble du malheur. Poor little Prin- cos! Such a bitter cold morning to leave, even under the protection of a husbané, so good, so kiad a mother, and her faithful, loving and devoted subjects! Wo have just been on the roac to Temple Bar with the procession, and never were the eycs ef a schoolgirl or boy more swollen with tears, ox tho expiration of the holidays and return to the acadewy, than those of the now Princess of Prussia, No ove seemed tosee er care for him, for he was going home, but one feeling of sympathy electrically touched the hearts of the shivering crowds, as they aa- dibly invoked a blessing on the poor child—not that she was a princess, but a young girl, not out of her teens married to a young man, with the usual etiquette of ‘State transaction, aud quite without the pure and holie; feclings common to the lowly born. Royalty & but slavery after all, and we felt the more com vitced of this when the Prince of Wales followe the open carriage of bis sister and his brother-in-law alse in an open burouche, bare headed, ashe bowed to th people and received Heaven's snowy tears, which nov and tW®n white clad the earth in very sorrow. Poor Litt Princess! Poor little girl! Compassion proper to mankind appears Which nature witnessed when abe gave as tears. This Prassian alliance is not popular for Clicquot’s # of indecision, aud, worse still, what occurred tactical irty-tirst brigade is ascribed to upon the property of the county during the succeeding Year, to supply the deficiency of the year then past. From ed, that these provisious be applied, with amendments, however, where experience has demonstrated their inhar- with the exception of those wherein the First Division law is in force. e amencments which seem to be neces- sary to a proper operation of these provisions are such as shall relieve exempts from the continued harrassment of being warned to parade, to pay, or to excuse themselves at a Court of Appeals; and also those which sball provide for the collection of dues by Marehals appointed under the sancticn of the County Treasurer, to whom they shall be required to return all the moneys collected by them tor fines, excepting therefrom their fees, together with a list of the names of thoze from whom the same have been collected, arranged in alphabetical order, with the resi dences, avd with the amount collected, specitied against the respective names, which list the treasurer is to pub: lish on a given day, and for five consecutive days, and in & notice tw be appended thereto, specifying that the list contains the pemes of those from whom a fine has been coilceted in a particular district, to request those who may have paid the tiae, whose names donot appear in such list, to report the fact anc their residences on or before a given day, tothe County Treasurer, who will thereupon make ovt a List of the pames of persons g> reporting, aad transmit the same to the commandant of the regimental disgrict, to enable bim to investigate the conduct of the morebal in the premises, With regard to the city of Now York, the receut dis turbance: s, which would bave ended, doubtiess, in scenes | of rapine and bloodshed, were it not for a ree ction of | the summary manner in which the Astor place riot had been suppressed, have demonstrated. to the satisfaction of all, that the presence of a powerful military force is in- | dispentable to the preservation of the lives and the pro- ho citizens of that town. The commuting | pplied to the city of New York, is scarcely a‘e- | (uate to the or¢inary expenses of music for the division, | and, when consisered in connection with the additional | expenses of the force in responding co frequently to the calls of the civil authorities, it is ttle better than a mock- To prepare and mainta‘n the First Division for the neies of the future, it is considered that a sum equal dol at who has servea faithfully as an officer or ot the division during the year, | would, perbape, meet the requirements of the case. therefore do not hesivate to, recommend yearly upon the _ propert f the ety of New York, equal sum hat shail to five dollars @ man, a above set fort, to tvided by the Division Board of Utficers, after deduct jog the expenses of the Board, aud of the several Brigade Boards, among the various regimentacf the divieion re spcetively, in proportion to the number of regular officers | ood men returned as baving faithfully complied with the of the law, as to their services during the | sear, baving a eare, meanwhile, to prescribe such re. | quirements of law, as to parades for instruction and in- spection, and the returns of the names and such other UIGYig.9b8, ag shall ensure a just distribution of the fonds throug hots the division, _ It ig recommended as necessary to the proper manoeuvring and ay of the Oe of the First division, that the various flank be mag the Cvielon be classified into regiments of artillery, cavalry ard rifle, though without a separate nominal ation; 't being found ‘thet such designation for each arm would icad in & short time to the old com!used system of skeleton regiments of aruiliery, cavalry and rifles, scattered all over the State, with their brigades only upon paper. The be as follows:—“ Third desigpation might. however, regiment ‘ww York militia, cavalry; “ Fourth regiment New York militia, artillery;" “Fifth regiment New York Miitia, rifles itscems to have been the intention of the framers of the m!itary statute, in permitting two flank companies of either cavalry, artillery or rifles, to be atteched to the pabt battalion companies of a regiment, that in each regi- forth! district of the State there ehould be a combination ros st band in case of need, though the great depend- ae to be placed upon the infantry arm. Whether sor wns not the inteation, the system a vod one for the State at large, and deserves to be cco by confining the organization (outside of the jou) in the artillery, cavalry and rifle arma to anies, aa now allowed by law. It is, however, ies should bo properly disci: the ortoecf thelr orgauization, and as their in by the commandant of the regiment to which Htached woald be perhaps too much to demand, to bis battalion Cuties, I would recommend a | ent to the militery law, whereby one | fo ich of the three arms of artillery, try be appointed for each division, as instructor of those arms ravk of Major, and be on staf, who shali have iret, with the oly’ ‘operations of the provision of the tenth title | of the Militia law in the cities of Albany and Buffalo, it is | decmed to be advisable, and it is accordingly recommend: | Movious action, generally to all the cities of the State, | ing the Crimea war, is uot forgotten, One te. * is quite certain: in order to avoid disappoinum We must expect nothing from, and be assured ~ bail have everything to do ‘for Prussia. If @ goes to war we shail have to take part with her, and th | reverse would more than probably be the case’ were w similarly placed. We indeed foresee mucha malhea as Hamict says, in this match, which will at no dista: | period embroii’ us with our French neighbor, toucbir | certain banks of the Rhine. “Lay thy finger thus and | iby soul be instructed.’” The wolf quarrelied with th lamb merely for a slight ripple. The ho mapsne accus tions, and stil! more unpleasant and insulting suggestion of French military men touching the shores of Albior ‘pent our hospitality to ali grades of refugees, are too ev dently rekindling, visa visto France, the contemptib feeling which unbappily existed during the old wa | Then Freuchmen were as scarce as unicorns and wer | not called frogs, but an animal that crawis st | does not leap. Of Louis Napoleon's tact and talent the: cannot be two opinions, ner of his faithfulness as an all | His little game is to keep on friendly terms, and not tot vade our shores. An invasion of the whole of the Fren population would not turn out an excursion, for not mother’s son would return to teil the tale. As refuge we would receive and take care of them all. Louis Nap leon is well aware of this, and i@ not so imsaue as destroy bis foriorn hope. Weil, the Leviathan is afloat at last. Instead of, usval, going to church, we were present at the last sho" avd ina Hittle boat dodged the enormous trees forming b cradles, which came explosively up to the surface of t river as she quitted the launching ways and frozen mi beneath her. The bettor y the better the deed, not the real cause for the rest being so ected, b only because the tide was then best a¢apted for the pt . In company with hundreds of boat ioads we f lowed the mozster—joining in the enthusiastic cheers— Ler meorings All the political leaders are on the qui vine for the @ proaching meetiog of Parliament. The Karl of Derby b Just issued invitations for a feed to his followers. Havi made Privy Purse Phipps a K.C. B., Lord Pam thinks Dut just to give one of the garters to that half witted « Imrotent party, the Duke of Wellington—Magni nomi: wmbra ”’ The great event in the dramatic world is the p duction next Saturday, at Her Majesty's theatre, of « celebrated composer's—Mr. Balfe’s—Bohermian Girl, Italian, under the title of “La Zingara”” It has aires been given, with great success, io this form through< Italy and Germany; bas been played in the German lt guage too—the i being turned into effective rect For Saturday's representation Mr. Balfe has « ‘essly Composed some baliet music,as Mr. Lumley + ists the services of bis premidre danseuses and coryph we then a cast, includiog the all-attractive naw of Piscolomini, Giugiini and Be'letti. Appropriate scene bas been painted and new dresses supplied for the oc sion; and judging from the opisions of our mnsical crit who have attended the rehearsals, success is corte We had a new play at the Lyceum last evening from | pen of Westian Marston. The story is simple and dom Uc ; the lines, though sweet, long drawn out, and } Ditton, who played the hero, seemed to follow the adage of ing and carrying out what he drank—be Of the ladies, we are Moucquotaires, and will not ap) ill of them. At the Orrmple the revival ot © You Ox Marry Your Grandmother” has not been a success | Sims Reeves, our invaluable tenor, has, to the geuoral of the concert going world—and that includes eve bocy—so nearly recovered from his severe indisp Hon as to give promise of singing next week. Charies Kean—aiso an invalid—'s spending a qv reek with bie pretty att accomplished daughters at © Hill, once so celebrated tor the feats of dar! highw men. When wesay daughters, we mean with his « caughter ard many nieces, though we are told Mr. ¢ Mrs. Kean neither feel or make any difference betw: their own child and their orphaned relatives. During husband's absence Mrs, Kean. directs the Prine theatre. Your tragedian, Mr. Roberts, who baa + with o much success in town here and in the provine last evening came in for the usual sbare of misfort parcelled out to us mortals ict bas; ¢. ¢. his lodgings w mrtpped of nearly all his mufti Chotbes and Tiaea, what is worse still, many papers of importance. lice are on the alert. Mr. James Anderson has been + cited by the Court of Berlin to form a ody oat 2 and pay that capital and Prossia ly. atari visit ‘tise nes E leworthy bas been named as lea) tragedienne. How this is to be carried out we know not, wo were assured that Mr. Anderson was to set sai Now York, en route for California, early this month. ond Mrs, Barney Williame are playing at Portsmouth Southampton. It is unnecessary to say that they are cessful, indeed we have heard of but one dark spo Rarney’s hay vines —the mis-fit of a groat cont mate | West end ard fashionable tailor. It appears that like word of the oe ake in the ‘ Hoaeymooe,”’ the + tals have # vrsty trick of getting between his legs. * at every “brigade and regi the division should be re. attend, and (under the Bri as the case may be, as {/the companies corresponding vely represent, in a thorougl arm, in the city of New the concentration of the , and where the brigade seems to be some reason paraces ar £0 frequent, tue Arranging the troops in the manner best arapted to Aourres and discipline of a large force—namely, reg mente, according te their various arme. The commis: jon tuted by General Oraera No. 7, of () Jevuary, 1856, for the purpose of preparing, under our ajaeorval, requiationg for the government of the eof the State, bave, aftor much severe labor, pleted their work, which is now in press sod & ready for issue, it is hoped before the middle f« February. [tia due t9 the officers composing this cepopsaton to state that the delay in the preparation of the work was oceasioned by the arnoancement that the army requiations of 1847, in force at the time, aud which bad been partinily adapted hy the com. mission to the government of the State force, were oncerg’ vg tevivml Sad aingadm@nt by a vuard of army talented twala—we don’t mean the lege—but Raroey Mrs. Williams, appear at the Adelphi next Monday we where Mme. Goleste has beon drawing crowded bor since Christmas. Mr. Hall Wilton still promizes to giv: entertainment. Pie crusts, pie crusts! By dee words, for he would be sure of success. The Chev Wikotf is almost the only fashionable man in town, an is so deep in diplomacy that, like the sun, he is ra seen Last evenii came off at Almack's rooms the R London Yacht Club Ball, where Mr. Andrew Arcedec for the firet time since bis election, made bis appears in full uniform as the Commodore. The rootas were t fully decorated with the flags of various nations and oe! Most conspicuous al them waa the burgee of the York Yacht Cinb and the ensign of the jolly stare stripes There were about 450 to bg yr oy all Irie were pretty. all well dressed, aud, with the boy ¢ Nght fentastih tit the grey dawn of day gave kr the arrival of Tuoeday, eet down supper was so rechorché, aud the champagne flowed and was d A wianie, The toaste were © The Qaven,” “ Happine ber rewly married Cauguter,” « Tho ladies,” © Tae dor Yacht Club," aad, thovgb by no means lonay) American fing,” Mr. © Grinned, our houorasy |» eud “The New York Yacht Club.”