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mow HANDEL FESTIVAL. GRAND SELECTION DAY, TO-MORROW. The Exeter Hall Offices open until. TEN o'clock THIS EVN.,NING. Intending Visitors to the Festival will save themselves Much trouble by purchasing Tickets beforehand. Crystal Palace, 24th June, 1862. lIANDEL FESTIVAL-TICKET OFFICE- The only authorised Ticket Office connected with the Festival is at No. 2, Exeter Ball. The Festival Committee are in no wise connected with any other ticket office in the same building, and caution the public accordingly. By order, Crystal Palace, June 24, 1862. GEO. GROVE. R OYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND -1F62. GREAT AGRICULTURAL SHOW of HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, PIGS , an d M ACHINERY, in BAT TERSEA PARK, LONDON, JUNE 23, to JULY 2. TERMS OF ADMISSION. THURSDAY, June 26, ENTIRE SHOW (Live Stock, Machinery, &c.) Five Shillings FRIDAY, June 27 .. II .. Half -a-C rown SATURDAY „ 28 .. .. MONDAY, - " 30 .. ~ .. One Shilling TUESDAY, July 1 .. If • • II WEDNESDAY „ 2.. 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Fares there and back :—Bath, 12s. and 6s. ; Bristol, 148. and 78. a R EAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- k-A On SUNDAY, June 29, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at 8.45 a.m., for Reading (ss. ed., and 35.); Theale and Aldermaston (Gs., and 3s. 3d.), Woolhamptcn, Thateham, Newbury, Kintbury, and Ilungerford (6s. 6d. and 35. 6d.); returning the same evening, as per bills. GREAT WESTERN RAI LWAy._ CHEAP SUNDAY EXCURSION to BRENTFORD, Uxbridge, Taplow, and lienley-on-Thames.—On SUNDAY, June 29, an EXCURSION TRAIN will le ave PADDING TON blouls.); West at 9.15Yt0n an Dray ton for Southall and Brentford (fand ares Is. 6d. arid Uxbridge (2s. 6d.ls. 6d.): gli and Taplow(3s. and 25.), Twyford and Henley Cis_ Sul and 2s. 6d.); returni ng th.--mamc crcniu T an per mils. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH LAW LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. 12, Waterloo -place, London, 24th June, 1862. NOTICE IS DERMA GIVEN, that the lIAL F YEARLY INTEREST on the Shares of the Association, at the rate of four shillings per share per annum, will become PAYABLE to the proprietors (free of Income-tax), at the Offices of the A ssociation, on andal ter the 10th day of July, 180?, 13y order of the Board, 'JILL WILLIAMS, Actuary and Secretary. HAMILTON. --On the 17th inst., at Gothic Villas, Finchley road, St. John's - wood, John Hamilton, Esq., aged 59. N °ItWI CH UNION FIRE INSURANCE NOTICE._ SOCIETY. MID SU HITE It RENEWALS. are made Losses by fire occurringduring the fifteen days of grace good to th e assured. The 2 The business of Vie Company exceeds £68,000,000. 4,5 duty paid t o G overnment for the year 1860 was X 9,9 ,88 33 3% ' 9s. 9cl and the amount insuring on farming stock ' A bonus of three -fifths of the profi's periodically made to Parties ins uring, who have thus from time to time received sums amounting in the aggregate to £400,000. chThe rates of premium are in no case higher than those arged by the oth er principal offices making no returns to eir insurers. For prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich, and 6 Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY FLEET-STREET, LONDON. Established 1823. The invested Assets of this Society exceed FIVE MIL DR',,,N_SE iiLING ; its Annual Income is FOUR HUN ._,I) and NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS. d to ea l th ls . L . D sun ec l e s m A b s e s r ur , l e B a 6l, the Society had paid in Claims upon p £4,329,378 Bonus thereon Together 45044,76 The Profits are divid e d every fifth year. All participating Policies effected during the present year will, if in force be yond 31st December, 1864, share in the Profits to be divided up to that date. At Bonus the Divisions o f P rofits hitherto made. Reversionary es exceeding THREE AND A HALF MILLION'S have been added to the several Policies. ' Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, and Statements of Ac counts, may be had on application to the Actuary, at the Office, Fleet-street, London. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. February, 1862. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. The numerous and urgent appeals which are made for admission by the homeless and destitute sick render it im perative on the Committee to entreat the continued bounty of the affluent and humane to enable them to persevere in the extensive system of relief afforded by this hospital. During the past year, in addition to 1,190 in -patients, no ess than 50,496 out-patients received the benefits of this Charity. 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To be had from thc.i.t;ittniors, 44, Weymouth-street, one door from Portland-place, Regent's-park, W., where they may be daily consulted from 11 to 2, and a to 8, on those diseases which blight the prospects of life, and for which they have discovered never-failing remedies, the fruits of many years' private and hospital practice. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAT. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. PRIVATE:B USINESS.; The following bills were read a second time :—Moreton haropstead and South Devon Railway, Rotherham and Wortley Road, London and North-Western Railway, and Chester and Holyhead Railway (capital), Red House and Weeland Roads, Eastern - Counties Railway and other companies amalgamation, West Riding, Bull and Grimsby Railway, Stockton and Darlington, South Durham and Lancashire Union, &c., Railway, Llandloes and Newtown and Milford, &c., Railways. PROSELYTIZING IN SCOTLAND. The Dukeif ARGYLE said as a statement had been made in reference to proselytizing pauper children in Scot land he had to move, in accordance with the wish of the Board of Supervision, that copies of the regulations and all correspondence relative to pauper children in that country be laid on the table. The motion was agreed to. ORDERS IN CHANCERY. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition very numer ously signed by the law writers of the metropolis complain ing of the new order by which printed documents were to be used instead of written ones. The noble and learned lord said by the new regulations a great number of very industrious persons would be nearly ruined. THE POST-OFFICE. The Earl of MALMESBURY said on an early day he should move for the production of all the correspondence which had taken place between the authorities in the Post offices with the chief constables of counties. PRIZE MONEY. Lord CHELMSFORD said on Friday next he should call the attention of their lordships to the Board of Admi ralty with respect to the prize money gained at Kertch. The Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill passed through committee, and was re ported without amendment. The Oxford University Bill was read a third time and Passed, The Rifle Volunteer Grounds Act (1860) Amendment Bill Passed through committee. The Retiring Pay, ecc , India Bill was read a third time and p assed. * TE QEN'S PRISON. The LORD CIANCUEELLOR called tho attention of their lordships to the intended removal of the Queen's prison. The Jurisdiction in Homicides Bill and the Discharged Prisoners Aid Bill were read a second time, Their lordships then adjourned. at 12 o' NS---YStERDAY. ' Thesr r HOUSE IKE il Ot took 1 ‘ c PRIVATE BUSINESS.assedn C ti Tyt i l i 1? and nornsea. Rail clQedkthe bills were o'clock. Railway Com p Lords' amendments to the 11l o m n e si a d n er d ed and Passed. ordered for third way Bill were considered and agreed t°, ordered to be read a third time. The C o e ' r culstes-rshire p a The y B followingi 1 Bill was ze ad a bills tb werei r d t c i reading :—Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway and Aberdeen Junction and Inverness and R n os vernesB Railway Companies—.Llynvi Valley Railway Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Railway—and Wili a o n r a d Bridge. THE INCOME-TAX. Mr. DOULI ON asked the Chancellor of the Exche . quer whether the Commissioners of Income-tax had autho rity, in cases of appeal based Upon a three years' ;statement of profits, to dismiss the appeal without investi gating such statement ; and, whether, in the event of such dismissal (the assessment being under £l5O per annum), the appellant has any remedy by application to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, the Treasury, or other person or body ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that parties liable to the income tax were bound according to law to make a correct return of their income on an average based upon three years' profits, The commissioners were - ~~ - 1 / 4. ! %,...„,..,...--Cri:E;ft4L4t's, • 4 41* : • 111111 h - 4 ) 7:11 • \ 4011141 r. .11 • • • - ••••* 411" ( 9 ° . 44 / / <8,4141, ?,! '‘ 11._ AP, e , 7,73 AO' 14" , - t - 0 0• A )11: -., _ 1,•1 •• R • OTT ` , A 4 , 1 k •• . ..... THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1862. bound to receive authentic information in support of state ments made by persons liq.ble to the income-tax. THE POOR LAW (IRELAND). In reply to Mr. MAGUIRE, Sir. R. PEEL said that he would lay on the table the correspondence relative to some of the Poor Law Commis sion in the south of Ireland, of which the Government were in possession, and for the production of which the hon. member had moved on a former occasion. the Government had announced their intention of not pro ceeding with the works at Spithead and with the central arsenal; and it seemed to him that under those circum stances it would be better that the amendment should not be pressed, but that theyshould consent to the introduction of a bill which would afford them an opportunity of consi dering in detail the proposals to which the Government still adhered. between these methods as shown in translations of the same passage in the Odysses by Chapraln,Pope, Cowper, and himself, and we regret our space pre cludes our giving those examples. In the preface to the Iliad will be found some very pertinent re marks on the distinction between. the real and the artificial Epic, and the author thus speaks of Sir F. SMITH recommended the hon. member for Liskeard not to press the amendment. Mr. OSBORNE replied. He would not press the amendment to a division. FAIRS AND MARKETS (IRELAND) BILL. In reply to Mr. VANCE, Sir R. PEEL said that it was the intention of Govern ment to proceed with this bill, and they hoped to be able to get a morning sitting next week for that purpose. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. The amendment was acccrdingly withdrawn ; the origi• nal resclution was agreed to; and leave was given to intro duce a bill founded thereon. Mr. SCULLY gave notice that he would ask a question of the Government, as to whether it would not be desirable to increase the height of the balustrades of the new "West minster Bridge, in order to diminish the facilities which it now presented for the commission of suicide. (Laughter.) • TRADE MARKS BILL. In reply to Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. M. GIBSON said he hoped to be able to obtain a day next week for going into committee on this bill. FORTIFICATIONS AND WORKS. The remaining business was then disposed of, and the house adjouincd. Sir G. C. LEWIS, in a committee of the whole house on fortifications and works, moved the following resolu tion :—" That, towards providing a further sum for defray ing the expenses of the construction of works for the defence of the Royal dockyards and arsenals and of the ports of Dover and Portland, and for the creation of a .central arsenal, a sum not exceeding £1,200,000 be charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and that the commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury be authorised and empowered to raise the said sum by annuities for a term not exceeding 30 years; and that such annuities shall be charged upon and be payable out of the said Consoli dated Fund." The right hou. baronet observed that mea sures of national defence necessarily partook of the charac ter of an insurance, and such measures might be quite pro per, although subsequent information might prove that the precaution in which they had their origin was unnecessary. The experience which we had acquired during the progress of the Crimean war created a general conviction through out the country of the expediency of increasing the efficiency of our armaments, and increased efficiency was but another word for increased expenditure. The additions which we had of late years made to the strength of our military estab lishment had originated exclusively, or almost exclusively, with the political heads of the War Department, who had themselves only acted in conformity with the wishes and opinions of their colleagues, of that house, and of the coun try. The right hon. gentleman, after having expressed his belief that our armaments had not attained any extravagant dimensions, and, after having stated a variety of details in reference to the number of men, of guns, and of other ele ments of our military power, passed to a consideration of the special question of fortifications. The total cost of all the works of this description which had already been constructed or for which the Government had actually entered into con tracts, was £3,385,000 ; and the estimated charge for comple ting our present plan of fortifications was £6,700,000. Im mediately after the naval action in America, in which the Merrimac had been engaged, the house had expressed a wish that the works at Spithead should be suspended; and the Government had yielded to that wish, and had deter mined on not renewing the consideration of that subject until the spring of next year. But they did not therefore think it desirable that the progress of all our proposed new fortifications should be arrested ; and as those undertakings had already received the sanction of Parliament, he trusted that the house would not by their vote on the present oc casion give the enemies of constitutional government any excuse for saying that the conduct of the principal legisla tive assembly in the world had been marked by inconsis tency and vacillation. In reply to a question from Mr. Buxom; Sir G. C. LEWIS afterwards stated that he did not mean upon that occasion to raise any money for the con struction of a central arsenal. Mr. OSBORNE moved as an amendment to the resolu- tion the omission of all the words after " that," in order to add the following words :—" Considering the changes and improvements now in progress affecting the science of at tack and defence, it is not now expedient to proceed with the construction of the proposed forts on the shoals at Spit head, or the additional defences at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Dover, recommended by the commissioners appointed to consider the defences of the United Kingdom ; and that in any general system of national defence this house is of opinion that the navy should be regarded as the arm on which the country must mainly depend." The hon. gen tleman said he entirely agreed with the right hon. baronet that works of national doeonoo rrcio a..caouroa of I, insurance ; but he believed, at the same time, that the Royal Marine Insurance Office afforded the best element of security to this country; and if the house should be of that opinion they would, no doubt, be prepared to adopt his amendment. He entirely dissented from the statewent of the right hon. gentleman that " increased effi ciency" translated into Treasury English meant nothing more than " increased expenditure." But his special duty upon that occasion was to oppose the con struction of the proposed fortifications at various points of our coast. The hon. gentleman then proceeded at consider able length to argue against those works, founding his ob jection to them on their indefinite but necessarily enormous cost, on the very questioaablo character of their advantage to this country, and on the impossibility of our manning them even if they were completed. The number of men re quired to garrison them would amount altogether to 95,000, and we could never expect to have an army available for such a service. The command of the Channel was our real security ; we were not to assume that it would be lost ; and if we should cease to retain it no forts could materially help to place us beyond the reach of foreign invasion. Sir G. LEWIS replied to various statements in the ad dress of Mr, Osborne, and contended that it would be ex tremely‘impolitic to leave our great dockyards and arsenals undefended. Sir F. SMITH supported the amendment, and expressed his decided disapproval of the proposed system of fortifica tions, which would involve a vast outlay, and which could only be manned by throwing into them an immense force that could be much more usefully employed in the field. Mr. H. A. BRUCE hoped the committee would adopt the original resolution ; and would not abandon those works at the instance of gentlemen who had opposed them from the commencement. Mr. D. SEYMOUR spoke in favour of the amendment. Capt. VIVIAN thought the Government acted wisely in determining to continue those works. Sir S. NORTHCOTE objected to the mode in which the question was brought by the Government under the notice of the committee. They had no security that if they were to agree to the resolution the money would not be devoted to the commencement of new works which had not received the previous sanction of Parliament. He trusted that the Government would afford them some ex planation upon that subject; and the vote which he would give would very much depend on the contingency of his receiving an assurance that they should not be involved in any unexpected outlay for works of that description. Mr. BENTINCK said that under all the circumstances of the case he should vote for the resolution, but he 'would remind the Government that they could not pursue any more fatal policy than by neglecting our maritime defences. Sir M. PETO recommended the Government to institute a more careful inquiry before they committed themselves any further to that enormous and very questionable ex penditure. There was nothing that could have been done which was left undone by the Government of France during the last few years to show the most cordial friendship to wards this country, and that circumstance ought to diminish the apprehension in which those works had originated. The debate was continued by Sir John Walsh, Mr. Monsell, and Lord C. Paget. Lord PALMERSTON defended the course adopted by the Government in that matter. They proposed to extend the expenditure over a series of years because the works were to be of a permanent character, and would naturally .1 be advantageous to distant generations. They readily ad • 1 mitted that the navy was the great arm of defence in this country ; and it was because they recognised that principle that they were anxious for the construction of fortifications which had for their object the protection of those great naval stations or arsenals without which we could have no navy whatever. The Emperor of the French had un doubtedly manifested the most friendly feeling towards this country. That was a fact which was willingly acknow ledged by her Majesty's Government and by every man in the United liingdom. But that was not a ground of security on which a great nation could tranquilly repose in 1 a matter of such vital interest as its means of defence against the possibility of attack. The most certain source of union between two great and civilised states was an equality of strength, whizit would leave each of them the master of its own destiny. Mr. DISRAELI said he could not help thinking that the Government had displayed great vacillation in dealing with that question. Their estimates of the cost of those works had undergone some very considerable variations, and they were still unable to decide what were the portions of their original scheme to which they should adhere, and wha!, - were the portions which they should relinquish. The nobleother lordm members changing of the h t Government,eitheir opinions upon who that sub charged. j ect had himself used very different language in the year 1860 in referen ce t o our re l a ti ons w ith France, f r o m th a t which ho e mployed upon the present occasion. He had then held out to the h ouse the danger of an immediate inva sion of • th's country by France ; but ho now spoke in per fectly conciliatory and dbee it o becoming si g ot no sb. termsbe hoped 0 o i : et dh the r respect p i l edenetdl continuey to the feel ing which subsisted, subsist between the and two amen dment proposed by the hon. member for Liskeard, he , , could not b t 1414 that it wis no longer applicable after LZ ~1 POETIC DICTION. Many words, though fewer than some suppose, aro fit for poetry without being suitable to prose ; but ho knows of few words, not scientific, that fit prose, and may not find a place in poetry. The poetic character of the latter class lies in their value in the place they appear in. And, apart from that value, where is the poetry of the best? The separation of prose and poetry is rather in the phraseology, than the single words ; though, as regards phrases, he would have a miserable notion of the grounds of poetry who should g o about to exclude idiomatic expressions from its diction. That was the great fault of a school that once had its admirers in this country. They had a notion of the elevation of language apart from its indissoluble connection with thought. Remoteness from common speech, and sheer grandiloquence, with such are very apt to pass for elevation. There is, however, the right expression for the right thought. If they meet they must not be parted ; it is a blessed union, be it prose or poetry; if separate it is a make-shift, whether you get the thought without the ex pression, if indeed such a thing be possible of the whole thought, or, which is too possible and too common, you get the expression denuded of the thought. And Homer, himself, with all the resources of his mar vellous language at command, was anything but a lover of grandiloquence. Far from thinking that sublimity lay in avoiding common speech,he was much of our Shakespeare's mind, and uttered the highest things with familiar sim plicity. Little did he think that the dignity of the Epic might be compromised by his not uttering common things . in au uncommon out-of-the-way dialect. And his negli gence in this way has troubled the Daciera and others con siderably, who are for giving him a lift on these occasions. As for eschewing common wards that aptly expressed his meaning, nothing could be farther from our poet's manner. The very familiarity of these words, and their at-homeness in the minds of the hearers, would have been their greatest recommendation to him as to our own sweet idiomatic Shakespeare. The translator, therefore, confesses to having made no attempt at this species of epic dignity in the follow ing version, although there are not wanting high names on its side. Clarke, for instance, whose appreciation of our poet is in general very just, yet, in a note on Iliad xiii, 707, gravely repudiates the word rilivet as too familiar for epic elevation I The remark would, of course, not apply to so ripe a scholar ; but, from Greek being a dead language, and consequently all its words on an equal footing as to familiarity, i. e. equally un-familiar to most readers of the orginal, they are apt to lose sight of a very important fact in judging of the elevation of the diction, viz. that there was no distinction between written and unwritten language as with us. The language of books, as a separate body of words, could not have existed, for there were no readers. Homer indeed, I am persuaded, himself wrote and carried his written compositions about with him for recitation ; hut the audience he addressed was of necessity,• in an age when manuscripts were rare and costly, unable to read. So that in the measure that his poem should recede from the spoken language it would cease to be intelligible. In fact, his poems, like our old ballads, must perforce have been written in the common language of the country, and only more graceful because that language had attained to a higher pitch, and the people were, perhaps, of higher aesthetic capacity. Poetic diction, as distinguished from common speech, there was none. The specimens of translation given are both'spirited and faithful, but for them we must refer our readers to the volume itself, which contains a body of infor mation indispensable to those who would rightly comprehend the subject therein discussed. The Last Judgment. A Poem in Twelve Books. Longman and Co. The fact of a new edition of this poem being issued is a sufficient proof that it must have found favour with the public, a result to which the orthodox element in it has, no doubt, contributed. We give a specimen of his " comfortable creed"— " Come ye by Me, and by My Father bless'd Inherit, and enjoy, your endless rest ; Enter the Kingdom through Jehovah's love, Before the world was made for you prepared above." While yet those words in heavenly music flow, The Just with full immortal transport glow, While all the joys of Heaven, in current sweet, Flow through their raptured souls in bliss complete. With look severe, which all compassion spurns, The Judge then to the left in anger turns ; While wicked men, swift as His words advance, Shrink from His eye, and wither 'neath His glance : "Depart, ye cursed, into endless fire, Prepared for Satan 'neath Jehovah's ire; There, far from Heaven and bliss, for ever dwell, Tortured by Demon hosts, and justly doomed to Hell." 3 Unto this Last." Four Ebbays on the First Prin ciples of Political Economy. By John Ruskin. Smith, Elder, and Co. Diffidence is not one of Mr. Ruskin's characteris tics ; and in the preface to these essays, reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine, while admitting that they were, to use his own words, "reprobated in a violent manner, as far as I could hear, by most of the readers they met with," ho still asserts, " Not a whit the less, I believe them to be the best, that is to say, the truest, rightest-worded, and most ser viceable things I have ever written ; and the last of them, having had especial pains spent on it, is pro bably the best I shall ever write." Upon the type and binding we bestow unqualified approval. La Belle Marie. A Romance by the Author of " Smugglers and Foresters," &c. Booth, Regent • street. It is so common now-a-days for novels to be written with the professed view of improving the reader that it is a relief to occasionally meet with one which appears to aim solely at amusing him, and in this the writer ,of the present work has thoroughly succeeded. The scene is laid on the coast of Cornwall, one of the heroes is a bold smuggler, and the characteristics of the wild and lawless inhabitants of that district have all the vigour of sketches from life. The style, moreover, is clear and spirited. The story is interesting, the sequence of events is natural. The writer never obtrudes her personality, and the result is highly agreeable and praiseworthy. GENERAL REPORT OF THE EMIGRA- TION COMMISSIONERS. The general report of the Emigration Commis sioners for 1861 has been issued. Emigration from the United Kingdom attained its maximum in 1852. In 1855 emigration began to fall off. It revived to a. slight extent in 1857, but since then has again fallen off. In the year 1861 the number who left the United Kingdom was only 91,770, being the smallest emigration in any year since 1844, and a.reduction, as compared with 1860, of 36,699, and as compared with 1852 of 256,984. The great reduction was of course in the emigra tion to - the United States, which fell from 87,500 in 1860 to 49,764 in 1861. The decrease to Aus tralia was only from 24,302 to 23,758, while to British America there was an increase from 9,786 to 12,707. And, as might be expected, the principal diminution was in Irish emigration, which fell from 60,835 to 36,322, being a decrease of 24,513, or more than two-thirds of the whole reduction. Even if civil war had not broken out in the United States, it is probable that the emigra tion to that country would never have recovered its late proportions. As it consisted almost entirely of Irish, the depletion of Ireland by the excessive emi gration of recent years must, under any circum stances, have brought it down to moderate propor tions. Between 1841 and 1851 the population of Ireland fell from 8,175,124 to 6,515,794, or . a de crease of 1,659,330 ; but during the sam e p er i od Irish emigration amounte d to at lea st l , , souls, or more than three-fourths of the decrease. Between 1851 and 1861 the population of Ireland fell from 6,515,794 to 5,764,543, oradetchreealetishof 751,251. But duri n g the same period emigration was upwards of 1,210,000 souls. Even, therefore, after making allowance for Irish settled in England before 1851, who may be included in the return of Irish emigrants, there remains a large margin to be accounted for only by the excess of births over deaths in Ireland. The amount of remittances from settlers in Ame rica to their friends in the United Ki ng d om in 1861 was, as far as the commissioners have been able to ascertain, £426,285. The above am oun t, assum ing, as is probable, tbat the ()Teat bulk of it wa s sent from and to Irish, Would h ave been more than double what was necessary to pay the whole exTpehneseeomfilgrri4sthioen hasmigra ag a in been very healthy. The mortality in ships proceeding to the United States (for returns of which the commissioners are obliged to depend on the shipowners) has been only .00 per cent. In nips proceeding to the St. Law STAMPED ....sd. rence it was •04 per cent., and in the Governmea ships to Australia it was 1.11 per cent. During 18G1 no accident attended with loss of life occurred to any passenger ship. Of 307 ships which sailed from the United Kingdom, one, the United States, was wrecked at the entrance of the St. Lawrence, but the crew and passengers were saved. No other casualty occurred. LITERATURE. Homer and English Meter. By W. G. T. Barter, Esq. Bell and Daldy. Upon the importance of rendering the greatest poet of ancient times accessible to the English reader we need not dilate ; it is manifest, and has of late largely engaged tie attention of the literary world, as the numerous essays, translations, and reviews which have appeared, testify. But if opi nions have been unanimcus as to the necessity for a faithful translation of the Iliad and Odyssey they have differed widely as to the form it should take, although some, of note, hive strongly advocated the hexameter. As Mr. Barter had published a version of the Iliad, in the Spenserian stanza., 1854 ; toge ther with a preface in which he discussed the nature of epic poetry, the principles which should govern translation, and the differences between Greek and English metre, he has now taken the opportu nity of republishing it, together with another essay in which his opinions on these points are amplified, and he gives at the end of the volume specimens of his version of the Iliad ani the first book of the Odyssey both in Spenserian stanza. As the views propounded by him are original and accurate, we will lay before the reader some of their features. Thus speaking of " the proper metre for English translation of the Iliad anc Odyssey," he says— On this my opinion frankly is that in English metrical translation, from whatever language, the metre should be English, and the translator do as the original author had done, consult the requirements of the tongue in which ho is writing ; so that Spenserian stanza should not be exacted in Greek version of the Faery Queen, for example, nor hexameter in English Iliad or Odyssey. I am aware, how ever, of a growing opinion to tie contrary, and of a certain general expectation among scholars that, when the proper man to do it comes, the Iliad and Odyssey shall appear in the full lustre of their originalm.etre. When the thing is done it will prove itself, solvitur ambulando, it is said. And when it comes to that I shalt hail it with pleasure, and none the less for its being an unexpected one. It is difficult to think at all without a certain tenacity of what comes of it ; but I flatter myself with no, holding by my opinion so firmly as not gladly to let go of it for a better. In the meantime the following are among the groundg-of my not being sanguine as to the advent of the coming pedestrian, who is to walk into popular English acceptance at hexa meter pace. The philosophy of Shakespeare's lines--" A jest's pros perity lies in the ear of him that hears it," yields a prin ciple which, if applied to poetry, would have saved much spasm in versifying by prescribing the limits within which new experiments are possible. For the prosperity of all' attempts in verse must ultimately rest with the ear to which it is addressed ; and the requirements of this are according to the language. A verse or line consists of words arranged in a certain rhythm, usually different from prose, but in which the words separately are pronounced exactly as in prose. Poetic licence, indeed, sparingly deviates by marking words out of their accent, when driven by stress of metre, but the licence is grudgingly yielded in long works, and is absolutely inad missible in short ones, and, with the progress of poetry, almost disappears from the works of the best poets. From the above description it follows that words are fragments of the poetic melodies of a language, and that, whatever the language, no verse is possible in it but that of which the words be fragments. With this we see clearly how, in Greek and Latin, they should early have taken to hexameter, a s th e wor d s , for the most part, are fragments of hexameter ; being either whole feet, or parts of feet, that easily range and cluster into that verse without requiring the words to be separately pro nounced otherwise than in prose, yielding spondees as well as dactyls in abundance. In English, on the other hand, even if you discharge quantity and content you with ac cent, we are helplessly deficient in spondees, without which the Ilcacanetcr -is a,.• tasteless a metro as can ',veil be ima ginal, and perfectly impotent to express the flexible and varied melodies that the ancients have drawn from it, with a free command of both kinds of feet of which it is com pose i. Those who advocate the use of the hexameter in an English translation of Homer appears to forget, as Mr. Barter oiserves, " that of the ancient poets who wrote in it the hexameter of each was characteristic of him ; that the hexameter, for instance, of Hesiod in the - Works and Days,' was quite another thing from the hexameter of Homer in either the 'lliad' or Odyssey ;' and that though Virgil, Horace, and Juvenal all wrote hexameters, the hexameters of the Ars loetica,' or 'Epistle to the Pisos,' are very different from those of the ./Eneid' or Georgics.' " It is clear, then, "that if you give one kind of hexameter where Homer gives quite another kind (aid an allegro for an andante movement, or vice versa, is clearly so), you will gain nothing in proximity of metre by using that which is called indeed by the same name but is alien in tone." In fact English hexameters, in stead of expressing all the variety and beauty of which the language is susce?tible, reduces it to monotony, destroys its force sod spirit, and is in spirit the most antagonistic to Homer that could be chosen ; whilst the Spenserian stanza, which the author has selected for his version, is one of the most harmonious forms of verse our language pos sesses. Another important point with regard to translation is the degree of literalness to be em ployed. Literal metrical version, both from its difficulty, and its little scope for original power, will /ever be very popular with translators. Neither is it desiralie or practicable with all poems. It is a sort of engraving which will give. in valuable results from high originals, although it be com- , pelled to renounce colour. Such loetry, then, whose characteristic is colour, with little clse, in other words, whose beauty is untranslatable, as lyricpoetry, for the most Fart, will lose incalculably in the rociss. It is accord ingly fittest for poetry that hath body and bone in it ; best adapted, therefore, for rendering the very early poets, whose objectivity in picturing people and manners gives the trans lation its value, and, at the same time, takes from its diffi culty. For literal version of such, as compared with what lacks that objectivity, is like drawing film the original or from a copy of it. Such is the postur of a translator of Homer or Virgil. Homer is nature, Viriil but a copy of him ; and literal translation of the latter, from his vague ness, gives no field of choice whatever beyond the expres sion before you. In Homer the thing is brought out definitely, and with sharp precision, and you can picture it bodily with little or no fear of misapprehension, however you may doubt your own ability of limning from the life. The difference between Homer and Virgil in this parti cular is partly in the poet, but more in the age in which he lived. Objectivity may he, and is, the quality, to some degree, of every great poet in a moder 4 and artificial state of society, as of Dante, for example, and Shakespeare ; but in the early and primitive states it is an indispensable qua lity of all poets who get any hearing at all of their country men. We find it more or less in all early ballads. Virgil, be it observed, for those who are not conversant in these matters, was a modern poet, not merely in point of chrono logy, but as regards the state of society in which he lived. For all practical purposes he was as far removed, in man ners, thought, faith in their mythology, artificial civilisa tion, and so forth, from the times of Homer as we are our selves. For it is not chronology but the state of society that determines this. Literal version, in my point of view, would be as inappropriate to the rendering of a Latin poet of Virgil's day as to a German or Frenrth of our own. It is of productions of the early states of society that lite ral translation is so telling. How it tells in such case no reader of our noble literal version of the Scripture need be reminded. Its value consists, among other advantages, especially in this, that it makes the translator stronger than himself, I mean that it enables him to give a faithful rendering, which shall be thdroughly understood in its full significance by another, though it appear dark to himself. I will give an instance from our own version, and from the fine old German of Luther, in which our translators are literal, and beat the great Reformer by rigorously sticking to what they felt to be the letter, while he produces' what he thought the spirit of the passage. It occurs twice in Exodus, and once in Deuteronomy, xiv. 21, where, in our Bible, it is rendered, " Thou shalt n o t see th e a kid i n his mother's mllk." But Luther, expressing what he thought to be the significancy of these words, translates it as referring to the cooking a kid, not in its mother's milk, but while the mother is suckling it. "Du sollst das Bock lein nicht kochen, weil es 'loch seine Mutter sauget." In a sensible note on the passage in the Nuremberg folio Bible. ed. 1731, the literal rendering of the Ilebrew is preferred, the annotator considering that it pointed at the heathen superstition of boiling a kid in its mother's milk, and sprinkling their fields with it to make them fertile. Be that as it may, the English version lets in the gloss, which the German excludes, and the value of it is the same whether the English translators knew of the custom or not. "Translation," the author observes,' may be of three sorts. The first is very free, in which you go upon the compensation principle, giving what you sup pose as good as the original," whilst the second " gives the thoughts of the original, but takes a latitude iu the expression," and the third "aims at giving both the thought and the manner of its ex pression." The author illustrates the difference C,aV!ilaifvf:Aa'stg z. _ r .Egyptian cotton crop for the present year is esti. mated at 700,000 quintals. The cotton crop for the year 1861 was calculated at 600,001 quintals, of which the four-fifths were exported to England and the remainder to the continent of Europe. — Letter from Paris. ~ ~~~~/~ ~ FRENCH MARKETS. Commercial operations are still impeded by the infl aence of the weather on the crops, the disastrous commencement of the campaign in Mexico, and the critical state of the cotton market. Hopes never theless arc entertained that when the treaty of cam naerce with the Italian Government now under con sideration is concluded, a profitable market will be found for French produce. In the meantime busi ness is dull in the manufacturing districts, though, prices are firm. At the market of Chalons-sur- Marne last week 60,000 kilogrammes of wool were offered for sale. The greater part of it came from La Brie, and was well washed. All was sold ex cept about 10,000 kilogrammes. One house took a third of what was sold. Had it not been for this large purchase it is probable that the price would have declined. Quotations varied from 4f 50e to sc. The rain and wind which have prevailed almost without interruption for the last eight days have caused considerable injury to the growing crops in several places. The heavy wheat particularly creates uneasiness, as it is more liable to be laid flat than any other crop. The rust which I mentioned last week has not made further progress, and the ac counts from the southern and eastern departments are in general favourable. The farmers in the neighbourhood of Paris are the loudest in their complaints. The most serious apprehension enter tained is that, should the rain continue, the quality of the corn will be deteriorated. It is admitted that the harvest cannot be absolutely compromised, the wheat being so near maturity. The farmers who attended the Paris corn market on Wednesday demanded from 4f to 5f the sack for their wheat above the price of the preceding week. The mil lers, however, refused to pay that price, and any business transacted was concluded at a rise of from 2f to 2f 50c the sack. Choice samples of wheat were quoted at 38f, but this price is nominal inas much as none were offered for sale. Wheat of first quality found buyers at 36f 50c, and 37f, and , good quality at 35f 500 ; inferior, 33f and 34f. There was a large amount of business transacted at those prices at the close of the market. Several lots of merchants' wheat, which the owners would have sold the preceding week at 30f., were eagerly purchased on Wednesday at 32f. and 32f. 50c. One lot of very superior Californian wheat was sold at 38f. 50c. Several millers from Picardy purchased foreign corn in the Paris market on Wednesday. It is still very difficult to find buyers for bakers' flour. Millers ask high prices, and bakers will not submit to their terms. To avoid doing so they are living on their stock on hand. The last prices quoted vary from 58f. to 64f. the sack 01157 kilogrammes. Rain and sunshine exercise the greatest influence on flour of the six marks. The price, which on Wed nesday was 63f. 50c., the sack for the present month, fell slightly on Thursday under the influence of the sun's rays, but rose again on Friday in con sequence of a shower of rain. On Saturday after noon, all the orders received having been supplied, and the weather being dry, the official quotations fell to 631. for the present math, 62f. 75c. for July and August, and to 60f. for the last four months of the year. The factors declared on Saturday 1,937 sacks of flour, of which 265 sacks of first quality sold for delivery within 30 days at from 55f, to C4f. 600. jLn sack. There was a considerable amount of business transacted at Marseilles last week, under the influence of the rise in prices in the interior of France. The announcement that the wheat in the neighbourhood of Paris had been laid flat by the rain and wind induced many merchants of the town to purchase corn on speculation, but very few foreigners took any part. The sales altogether exceed 141,000 hectolitres. The imports were limited to 13,300 hectolitres of Rus sian wheat, and 3,724 from the Danube. The Havre corn-market was likewise very brisk last week, in consequence of large purchases made for Zugland 15,000 barrels of flour were exported from Havre to British ports during the week. The entire sales during that period amounted to 50,000 sacks of wheat and 20,000 barrels of flour. Red American spring wheat was purchased at 53f. the 200 kilogrammes, free ; red winter wheat, 56f. 50c. to 58f. 50c. ; American white wheat, 601. to 60f. 75c.; red Canada wheat, 55f. ; Californian, 59f. ; New York flour, 28f. 50c. to 29f. ; Ohio, 30f. to 33f. the barrel of 88 kilogrammes ; Chilian flour, 33f. to 34f. the 100 kilogrammes ; Spanish flour, 36f. the 100 kilo grammes. The Nantes corn market is more firm. Wheat is in demand at from 21f. to 23f. the hecto litre. Flour has risen 2f. 50c., in consequence of a brisk demand from England. Flour of the first quality is quoted at from 62f. to 64f. the sack of 159 kilogrammes. Amiens-Although the market was well supplied, wheat rose 50e the hectolitre. Oats offered. Arras—A good market; price of wheat, 20f to 26f 50c the hectolitre, being a rise of 60c. . _ Chartres—A large market; a rise on wheat of 30c. The price of oats well maintained. Dijon—Wheat and flour in demand at a rise of if 50c. Wheat scarce. Weather cloudy. Laval—A small market. Prices firm. Marseilles—Danubian wheat, 26f 50c; Galatz, 30f 50c; Irka, 32f. Corn for delivery scarce. Melun—A small market. Wheat, 20f 86c the hectolitre, being a rise of if 4c. Metz.-926 hectolitres of wheat sold at 30f 40a the J.OO kilogrammes ; flour, 391. Rainy weather. Montereau—An ordinary market; wheat asked for at an advance of 50c the sack. arise of 2 f th e sack on Orleans—A small market; wheat. Rheims—A brisk market. Wheat, 29f to 30f the 100 39f ; rye in good demand, kil og rammes ; flour, 38 f to Weather wet. Troyes—A large market ; a rise of 25 c the hectolitre on wheat. Weather cloudy. Accounts from Lyons state that the crops are in general not less abundant in the department of the Rhone than in the neighbouring departments. The wheat fields which had been laid by the recent storms and rain had again risen, and maturity. Wheat,they are rapidly approaching rye, oats, and barley promise not only plenty of grain, but an abundance of straw. There has been a goodaverage crop of rape and hay. All the green crops are luxu riant, in consequence of the late rain, The meadows were mown early in the season, and there is now a heavy crop of after-grass. The vine, however, pro mises to be the most abund an t w ill enrich the if winegrowersof all the crops. It it be not injured by hail. The quantity and the development of the grapes are described as marvellous. Some of the grapes are already lar ger than a pea. It is expected gin to ripen in July, and that the vintage will probably commence before the end of August. A letter fro m T ou l ouse , o f th e 15th inst., says : I have collected some important information relative to the crops in this part of the country. The autumn sowing was accomplished under the best possible atmospheric con ditions, and the wheat crop is consequently magnificent as toits strength. The winter, moreover, was very favourable to vegetation. At the beginning of spring the wheat bore a healthy appearance, and a harvest earlier by a month than the last was anticipated. Dry weather, with a hot south wind, then set in, an caused great anxiety. This con tinued for 15 days, but at length the wind shifted to the north, and some mild rain refreshed the corn corn crops. In four days the wheat recovered its healthy appearance, and since then the weather has ;been all that we could de sire. According to all appearances we shall begin to reap the wheat on the 25 t h June. But we have many risks to incur—fogs, or hai l, violent wind, or heav y rain maya.itT down the wheat. Should we escap e these eventuhh:l which I trust we shall, the harvest of 1862 will be sue has not been seen for many years. The The Indian corn Is growing apace, and promises to be a sp i e ndi t d h c r ro a p r . e vetches, which had suffered from the dry wea e now luxuriant, as well as the oats, barley, and rye. Accounts trona Alexandria announce that the' THE LADY GODIVA P.ROCAION. COVENTRY, MONDAY. After being omitted for 11 years the Lady Godiva ride through Coventry was to-day celebrated with greater magnificence than was ever before wit ness€ d so far as the oldest inhabitants of the city can re member, and the immense influx of visitors fully proved that in a pecuniary point of view the result will be highly advantageous to at least one portion of the inhabitants. The procession formed near the entrance to St. Mary's Hall, and from that point proceeded through the principal streets of the city. It is scarcely pos sible to convey an adequate idea of the magnificent spectacle, as it slowly wound through some of the oldest streets. First came two heralds, dressed in strangely-shaped coats, richly embroidered with armorial devices. Next followed the great ele phant from Wombell's menagerie, with huge hous ings hanging down his side and a castle on his back, painted half red and half green —a representation of the city arms. Then came Wombwell's band in a carriage drawn by four camels. After the band 14 city guards, clad in the old iron armour, which, except on State occasions, was hung in front of the minstrel gallery of St. Mary's Hall since the time of the Commonwealth. A couple of banners came ne4, and then Sr. George, armed cap-a-pic in a brilliant suit of white armour, followed by an at tendant in the costume of a Knight Templar. Next were representatives of the old City Guilds, with streamers illustrative of the trades to which they belonged, and beautiful little children dressed in rich silk or satin dresses of various bright colours, and riding 'upon gaily-caparisoned horses led by men with sashgs,.cockades, and rosettes of ribbon. The Warwick Yeomanry band in uniform followed, then the members of the Coventry Volunteer Fire Brigade in uniform, with their engine. After them came the Lady Godiva Lodge of Foresters in full costume, bows and arrows, &e., and accompanied by a fawn. After the Foresters came Edward the Black Prince in full armour, followed by a band of music. After them came the members of four Lodges of the London Order of Odd Fellows, with streamers, prettily dressed, and on horseback. After the Odd Fellows came representatives of the Watchmakers' Association, the 'Watchmakers' Provident Society, the United - Patriots' Society, and the Operative Carpenters' Society,' each led by its chairman, and accompanied by a streamer and gaily-dressed children upon horseback, called followers. Then came the Volunteer Rifle Corps Band, after whioh the City Banner, and two little boys on horseback, dressed in the full civic costume of the city crier and beadle. Two heralds, blowing trumpets, succeeded ; and after the heralds came the great feature of the procession, and the one to which all others were subordinate, namely, Lady Godiva, represented by Madame Letitia, of the Royal Academy, Trafalgar-square. The lady was dressed in silk fleshings, with a white satin petticoat fastened at the hips, and reaching to within an inch or so of the knees, the petticoat being profusely ,embroidered with silver lace. On her head was a countess's coronet, set with brilliants, from which flowed a long, white, gossamer lawn veil, enveloping :the whole of her person, except the face and bosom, and producing an exquisitely graceful effect ; her hair was loose, and fell in large masses over her shoulders ; and on her bosom she wore a large brooch, in the shape of a star, composed of brilliants. The horse on which she rode was a milk-white charger, hired from Mr. Batty, of Astley's Amphitheatre. It was adorned with dark blue velvet trappings, ornamented with gold and brilliants, as was also the housing, on the four corners of which were stars formed of the same luminous material. On each side of the lady rode Ls buy, United as a page, and two little girls in light blue satin dresses, and hats with white plumes. After the lady came other children followers ; then Leofini, Earl of Mercia (the hus band of Lady Godiva), banners, pages, and followers; Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, Henry the Sixth, and Queen Margaret ; a capital impersonation of bluff King Hal, Queen Elizabeth, Sir John Falstaff, and a number of representatives of local celebrities, each being accompanied by pages and followers, preceded by banners and interspersed with bands of music. Some idea of the imposing appearance of the pro cession may be gathered from the fact that it reached nearly a mile and a quArter in length, and. comprised about 300 men, 70 children, and upwards of 150 horses. It would be impossible to convey an adequate idea of the crowded state of the streets. Every housetop and window in the line of procession was thronged :with spectators. Temporary platforms were erected in the streets, and carriages, carts,and other vehicles on the line seemed breaking down with occupants, added to all which was a great surging, swaying crowd of spectators on foot, all anxious to obtain a more advantageous view of the procession than his neighbours. By favour of Sir Chas. Wetherall, General Com mander of the Midland District, the two companies of the First Royal Dragoons now stationed at Coventry were allowed to acco m pany the proces sion, and keep the crowd back from breaking the line or obstructing its progress and they performed their duty in a most satisfactory manner. Th e procession start ed soon after 12 o'clock and 4.•+••••••••..I was not broken up till nearly 5 o'clock. RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES`• IN .PARLIAIIIIENT. Yesterday, in the nuke of Richmond's committee, further evidence was adduced in favour of the pro-• motors of the East Gloucestershire Railway. The bills of the Banstead and Epsom, Garston and Liver pool, and Trent and Ancholme Railways, were passed in Lord Redesdale's committee. The cases of the Oswestry Railways, in Lord Stanley's commit tee, and of the Extension lines into Hull, in Mr. Puller's committee, are still unconcluded, and it will be necessary to ask waiver of the standing orders of the House of Lords, introduced by Lord Redesdalof which declare that no bill can be read a second time after a given date, in order that they may be pro , ceeded with. THAMES EMBANKMENT. This committee met for the last time yesterday, Hon. Mr. Cowper in the chair, when clauses were proposed by Sir J. V. Shelley, to the effect that compensation should be given to the wharfingers along the line of water frontage to be affected or taken by the intended em bankment ; but the committee negatived the propo sition, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act not COn' templating any such kind of compensation. The committee haVe agreed to clauses on behalf of the Crown to the effect that any part of the foreshore to be filled up in front of Somerset-hose and the Board of Control shall be deemed to form part of their es tablishments ; that no buildings shall be erected thereon without the consent of the Commissioners of Woods and Works; and that as regards the rights of the Duchy of Lancaster, the amount of valuation t o it shall be p aid to the for any lands belonging receivership of the duchy be f or e any works are com menced in the Savoy , or upon the lands of the Crown. All tho land reclaimed not intended for streets or ro ads along Cecil , Surrey, and Arundel streets is to be devoted to the purposes of ornamental grounds, and for public no and recreation. • CRYSTAL FALAc E.—HAN DEL FESTIVAL.--First June 23, 1862.—Total visitors, 15,604. AtENT I—Holloway's Ointment and Pills— , A.ovz . , cancer, ulcers, hemorrhoids, or piles, boils, Erysipelas, prickly heat, are treated with unvarying success by an d t hi s mild yet penetrating unguent. The vast consumption day,E Monictgs,E of these remedies in India and throughout the East is a better proof of their excellence than the testimony of anY individual. 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