The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

No. 1. BALLOON ASCENTS without. a DIP-FALL PARACHUTE PRECAUTION. 11IEmo.—The " Cruelty to Animals Act" advances as a prevention, the stoppage of these foolery association excite ments, without wisdom being made manifest in the case of collapse at the over-three-mile ratification of gas within the balloon, as witnessed on Thursday last. Mr. Coxwell's omission to take up with him the pure oxygenic wax taper flame (as made by Jackson, of Picca dilly), used within its vehicle " the lamp of life," for nasal inhalation—as other asronauts use against the 151 b. square inch atmospheric pressure on the lung s —accounts for the Blue , lip'd Glaisher suffering - from the descent of the hy drogen gas-weight circumvent in attraction. Whence the clsar-sight' point of expansion and absence of fog within the motive power, ought to have evidenced, by the blue drowning-like effects on the system, that they were entering the Paradi-e " where the first pair meet," or, in other words, t h e Z-overhead region of the Whyte "Wulfra' Hampton of EDG.tI3:B s ister's iiip-scite—prior to the Plcton-like collapse bull's run, to the Lang-ham. let of Oakham. ht default of the authorities for However I—This over -si g prevention, on known g aseous change' at giddy heights— as well as to man's re -aeriform•within, as a timely ratifi cation of the breath, for purification of the blood against any Prussian blue' discolouration of the skin ' at four miles loftiness', absence of Winged life—shows a precedent. * /4 1 Atkyns-Montague C. g AC-KERLEY, EX C. g • • 1-2 W. IT., rt.. 54, ' Uhamberlayne' Gie-sworn. - PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid§ if • China Huff wall circuit horizon of—. London, July 21. 1862) its Montezuma'd red flag of it. Ind.-Hs., not in al; Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793 China, to 'Orem and cause of Captain's xi-yr support, the' kirk- Qn's. ministers use his veto, and mock him &c to death. (See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & July 1.) 'TUN" EVERY WEEK ONE PENNY. CRYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW. - ALL THE GREAT FOUNTAINS.-ONE SHILLINU. G REAT FOUNTAINS. AT FOUR, TO MORROW. CRYSTAL PALACE —TO MORROW. —The LOFTY WATER TOWERS are placed on a hill level with the Cross surmounting the Ball of St. Paul's Cathe dral. These Towers were built nearly 250 feet high for the purpose of supplying the two centre jets on y of the large basins. In TO-MORROW'S DISPLAY of the GREAT FOUNTAINS these jets will be played their full height. Country and Foteign Visitors to London should avail themselves of this opportunity. A HALL. kJ The renowned Performers, o' DEBONNAIRE and AIRiONARD (from Paris), at Ten clock. Grand Selections from "DON SEBASTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE," Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor. Unsworth, in his celebrated Stump Speeoh, " Or any other man " the original), in conjunction with Eugene and Duley, forminff the greatest Come Trio in London. Also the following Comic Talent, viz, Mr. J. G. Forde, air. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, and Miss Georgina Smithson. Gallery of Modern Paintings. T H E OXFO R D, 6, OXFORD STREET. " TH E DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES," a Cantata composed by H. LESLIE, Esq., an d written by A. MATTHIsON Esq., in honour of the Mairiaze of her 'Royal Highness the Princess Alice , EVERY EVENING, in addition to the usual entertainments, which include operatic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethierian oddities of Ramsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the originai " or any other man" l , and the astounding feats on the Flying Trapeze of DEBONNAIdE. Hall, ed.; Balcony and Stalls, Ss. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. ____-------- THE AT RE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Mr. D. Boucicault, sole Lessee. This Evening, THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. Messrs. A tkins, F. Robinson ; Sara Stevens. After which, THE COL LEEN BAWN. Boucicault, Mdme. Celeste, irc. To conclude with THE RIS at S 17. N THE DARK. Commence THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager , Mr. Buckstone. This Evening, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Buckstone, Sothern ; Mrs. C. Young, Miss Oliver, &c. With LA CON TRABANDISTA : recommence &c. 7 And FAMILY JARS. at . NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Pro , rietor and Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. This Evening', MUSIC BATH CHARMS. And THE DEAD HEART. essrs. Benjamin Webster, J. L. Toole, ae. ; Miss Woolgar,M Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. This Evening, _THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a quarter to 3, KING HENRY VIII. • Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, &c. With THRICE MARRI.ED. Co C mmence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessen and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. This Evening, PEEP O'DAY : Messrs. Lag. Falconer. Addison ; Mrs. Bowers, Sic. Followed by KILLA.iNEY. Conclude with HE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Charles Selby and Lydia Thompson. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W Batty. This Evening, MAZF,PPA : Mr. C. Mortimer. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle by the unrivalled Troupe of British and Foreign Equestrians. Concluding with a favourite Farce. Commence at 7. NOTICE. Ail rerniLtances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of Me Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. 6. 1 i, f 7 4-? .), -- , N. ,, , r ~ • vq),. -,,,-i-1.:..,..,",.7.,,''',„ 7 - ',::.:_ -- )- 2 \' •-•, 1 :+Zc,(tWt, ii'l:„,_r,.,' (,:, ~.,,, 7' t s k:... k '.:' •-•,--: .!.-.:, - -- q•:-....,,, .•:- ~ ,,,-t.,-. _.,3) ,_ .:;'s' --- t• - - :- -- i',-.;:,..;\,,L i•,, y ~•,•..04 , `,, , , - -7••.; :- . . ,_ .:,... -,,,,,,,,; ,--,,z-,...2:"..: - _ , ; - .t-L.L._-. ,-;- :,.: - : : :' - r. , 7:--`-..-' ',,,- '• -, THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1862. Still nothing to contradict the report by the Glasgow, says our principal morning contemporary. A fact not very remarkable, seeing that only a prophet in America could contradict what the un inspired there knew nothing about. It is per fectly certain that if the Government can control the telegraph, it cannot stop private correspondence, and yet communications seven days after the date assigned to the Queenstown invention show that at New York no one knows anything at all about it, That knowledge we strongly suspect to be confined, so far as the origin of the report is concerned, to the Liverpool Exchange, and to the agent of our con temporary. thrrhean it ease needed not, however, to be made worse Ras. The anniversary of American inde pendence was celebrated in sadness, this year, in the North. The banners were hung with crape. The pall of defeat supplanted the flag of victory, an d the usual trumpet -toned speeches were con verted into funeral orations for thousands of the sons of the North who lay scarcely buried on the conqueror's side of the Poto mac. ceremony. Nothing could 'well relieve the sadness of the The "strategic reasons" for the movement, though they undoubtedly existed, were little consolatory ; for, in the first '— ellan had place, they showed that m been guilty of the sa►n© blunders as our own generals were, at first, in the Crimea, that of extending his line beyond his strength It eon _ victed their foremost general, therefore, of a great mistake. And next, the rectification of the mis take was duo to a bold and successful onset of the enemy, and cost six days at least of severe and deadly fighting. The rapid fall in Government paper and stocks of all kinds must a!so have added to the gloom of the great national holiday. Qui te enough all this to make the last 4th of July one of the most memorable in the Northern States since the inauguration of the Union. Not that the North is dismayed. It bears its defeat as Englishmen by descent might be expected to bear it ; the only difference is, that we hear more loudly expressed threats of merciless revenge. The Arabia, besides later news, has brought us lengthened correspondence from the field of battle; it is a 1 )ng and weary story of six days' hard fight g ; much of it is furnished by eye-witnesses, but even their details of losses are generally of little value : without intending to deceive, it is natural for men writing under such excitement to exagge rate everything ; our own correspondence did the same thing during the Cr im ean war. The general results are, however , sufficiently plain . The un wearied attacks o f the Confeder ates, theslow fall ing back of the Federals , the fi ring of large quan tities of their stores to p.revent their fallin g into the hands of the enemy, thei.advantage the Federals had in artillery compensating at first for their de ficiency in numbers, the eagerness with which the Confederates attempted to capture the guns, and desperate courage with which they did capture them after the "canister and grape had mowed them down in winnows"—for they go " with orderly joy upon the muzzles of our guns; neither French nor English every charged field batteries with steadier bravery " the retreat continued by night as well as by day, through bewildering forest, as well as by roads—the varying fortunes of the fights, 'or the Federals themselves made many prisoners, and captured some guns, the last onset of the even ing at the James River itself, the gunboats now tak ing part in the affair, all this is plain ; and though it is a Northern correspondent's account we can well believe that the Federals fought with all the cou- rage and firmness possible to retreating men, while the Confederates followed them up with all the ardour of men fighting for their fatherland, and confident in their numbers, their leaders, and their cause. Most graphically does one correspon• dent describe the feelings of the part of the army with which he was mingled when, emerging from a forest, the regiments " debouched into a magnificent wheat field, and the smoke stack of the Galena was in sight. The gun boats had been the heralds of many deliverances and victories for retreating Federals, well may he add—" XENOPHON'S remnant of the ten thousand, shouting The sea! the sea! ' were not more glad than we." There were instances of poltroonery, no doubt; some are specifically mentioned, but eve have no sympathy with those who would detract from the merits of either a brave assault or a brave retreat; and, looking at the mere fighting on either side, we do not think Englishmen need be ashamed of their descendants. The strategical skill of the original arrangements is quite another question ; but even that is for • gotten in the more urgent question of the real character of M'CLELLAN'S present position. That he is now under the protection of the gunboats almost seems to assure his actual safety. They were able to participate in the last battle; they pitched their shells over the heads of their friends into the ranks of the enemy, of course with irre sistible effect; and as long as M'CLELLAN is so near to them, nut only is his rear safe, but an ad vancing foe must be disordered before it could reach him. The boats could even silence a Con federate battery which was harassing a luggage train. Still an eye-witness says, " The salvation of his decimated, exhausted, and depressed army is a question of supplies and reinforcements, imme diate and heavy. If these weary thousands could get twenty-four hours' rest their safety would be assured, but if let alone, any cessation of attack and repulse until the final catastrophe will not be per mitted." Happily for M'CLELLAN'S brave army the repose seems to have been obtained. By the latent account the attacks did cease ; and backed by 17 gunboats, the General was feeling his way about seven miles from his camp, till he had lighted on the Confederate pickets which led to the expec tation of another battle. On the taste of General M'CLELLAN'S 4th of July address to the army, there will be' various opinions. Oars is, that it is very good American. M'CLELLAN has given no proof yet that he is at all above the level of his countrymen in matters of style. His opponent JEFFERSON DAVIS, if he does show his country in his despatches and papers, is, on the contrary, much superior in this respect to the Northern men. DAVIS had the true strength to confess in plain English that the Confederates were worsted when they really were. M'CLELLAN seems to invent every conceivable mode of representing a defeat as a victory. He knows his men, and his countrymen north of the Potomac too ; and if they all prefer that their general should be a special pleader, and exchange the matter-of-fact style of a 'WELLINGTON for the lying rhodomatade of a NAPOLEON, why they must have their way. The more serious question is—What can the North now do ? It proposes to raise 300,000 more men ; but it remains to be seen whether the sick and wounded will not prove bad recruiting sergeants; the South has resorted to conscription, and already it seems the Press of the North is beginning to pro claim that the North must do it also. But M'CLEL LAN needs further and immediate reinforcements, or he must be unable to advance from a position where he has no retteat but to his gunboats. Gene• ral BURNSIDE'S army from Newbern, has already joined M'CLELLAN'S, the General himself going to Fort Monroe, where the PRESIDENT saw him, and then went on to M'CLELLAN on the James's River. The nature of the despatches which brought him so far, is not known ; it is however natural to suppose that M'CLELLAN has told that very large reinforcements, or withdrawing the army from Richmond are the only alternatives. The Confederates have adopted the policy of concen trating their forces, and staking all on the capital. The Federals will have to follow their example if they mean to take the capital. Their armies are now scattered, for they attempted to form the famous " Anaconda Coil" around the Confederacy. Events show that they are not strong enough to crush it in this way ; and it must now be a very diffi cult question for the PRESIDENT, whether he can make himself strong enough on the James River for the capture of Richmond, without losing his hold on Kentucky, Missouri, Tennesee, and the Mississippi. He has, indeed, his summer's work lefore him. The Distress in the Manufacturing Districts is becoming rapidly more and more serious in its character. Its increase, more particularly in Lan cashire, is becoming indeed of so serious a character that certain efforts in the way of relief that had been very recently delayed, out of feelings of deli cacy, are now being hastily adventured upon, with a view to the assistance betimes of those who are the most alarmingly situated among the sufferers. Not long since, for example, a meeting was convened by the hon. and gallant mem [ b " for North Lancashire, Col. S. W. P_ ATTEN—a meeting intended by him to carry out formally this very t enterprise. Although numerously attended it I led nothing at all being done, simply for the reason that thost, then and there brought together deemed it advisable'upon reflection, to wait awhile, in order to see ho w . matters were in the distressed districts after the lap" of though such a reasonable interval. it was one of th e most generous e a postponement es m t a o y erir appear was well wishers to hold , s kindexpressed iSatriatnseglet i mag inable un der the circumstaue , Fh actua lly in defer ence to the earnest wishes to that effect b y the sufferers themselve s, Who man ghats, at least fully and most a t tr heir atiag ge lY ner b o e Us hands, ouh '.o see whether or not t h e for a time, districts afflicted by t h e cotton f am i ne could contrive to pass through the ordeal by their own un ass i s ted efforts. In obedience to these brave-hearted entreaties, the meetieg con vened a few weeks since by Colonel PATTEN , M.P. was adjourned indefinitely. Alas! though so brier an interval has since then sped by, t h e distress in the manufacturi n g district s h a s g rown so rapid l y' is still growing so alarmi ng bung of those w ho sym pathised with Colonel PATTEN'S practical work of philanthropy, could no longer be delayed. A considerable number of THE SUN LONDON, MOND t V EVENING JULY 21, 1F62, noblemen and gentlemen, conspicuous among them VICTon HUGO was made a viscount by Lots' a large gathering of influential members of both PHILLIPE, just as ALEXANDRE DUMAS was—just Houses of the Imperial Legislature again assem- as M. DE MORNY and M. WALEWSKI and M. PER bled on Saturday afternoon, again (thanks to the SIGNY are made Zukes by the Emperor NAPOLEON generous permission of the Earl of ELLESMERE) at 111. Who remembers, or cares to remember, that Bridgewater House, again in answer to the sum- the great Flemish Painter was Sir PAUL RUBENS ? mons of the hon. and gallant m ember for West Who troubles himself , when quoting the author of Lancashire. the Genie du Christianisme to particularise him as As the immediate result of this augural meeting the Iriscomte de CHATEAUBRIAND ? What matter is of the promoters of an entirely new movement it that the" Spectator' was a Right Honourable? Or in behalf of the principal sufferers now rapidly thduatstAhechaortiegsinsaTtEorELoE, was k ‘ ng fthe‘ Spectator," Ani oT a s is u o N Ns mu ltiplying in the manufacturing districts—up - rictus of the First NAPOLEON'S own most happily_ wards of £lO,OOO were collected there a nd ( then before the close of the proceedings o n chosen Dukes) perhaps hit off the absurdity of all Saturday. The noble Earl, the Leader of the this folly about ancient descent and titular honours, Opposition, heading the list with a donation of a and the like old -world rubbish and new-world thousand! An example immediately followed with trumpery, when, in answer to the boasting of some kindred munificence by the Marquis of WEST- of the old nobles as to the length of their line of MINISTER, by the Earl of ELLESMERE, and by Lord ancestry, the newly-created Duke D'ABRANTES EGERTON, of Tatton. Other subscribers putting cried out with a shrug of the shoulders—" Ah, ma down their names upon the catalogue of sympa- foi ! je n'ea sais rien ; moi je suis mon ancestre !' thisers for sums graduated according to their capa- Old lamps for new—new lamps for old—it is all city, from £5OO to £5O each. And what is espe- as the homely idiom has it, much of a muchness. cially worthy of note in regard to the proffering this " A rose by any other name"—et cetera. And so of aid to the victims of the cotton famine, is the fact very possibly MM. DE MORNY, WALEWSKI, and particularised by the noble Earl (Lord DERBY) PERSIGNY will do quite as well as Dukes as they who occupied the chair at Saturday's meeting : have already done well (for themselves) as Corn thereby leading off the discussion which took place on Saturday, and, gaisw(es in truth became havealreadyseen him) the,himsel list of himself heading with thegenerous donations subscribed. Referring to the circumstance that the labouring classes in the distressed districts have already themselves made very considerable sacrifices to compensate so far as might be for their frightfully protracted lack of employment, Lord DERBY particularised a very remarkable evidence of the fact of their having done so—when he mentioned that at Preston alone the withdrawals, in excess of the average, from the local savings bank, had been no less, within a very interval recently, than £17,000! ,‘ That fact," remarked the noble Earl on Saturday, " indi cates a great amount of suffering on the part of a class who have not become pauperised, and I should wish distinctly to stateto this meeting, and to have it generally understood, that certainly my own ob ject in proposing, and, I hope, your object in sanc tioning, the raising of a general subscription, is not the relief of paupers, but to relieve by private charity those persons who are still struggling to maintain their independence, and to prevent them from being added to the list of paupers. Indi rectly, of course, that will tend to relieve the ratepayers, but it will be in a manner that separates the recipient of the charity from the habitual pauper—which will not interfere with the feeling of self-respect which has been so meritori ously manifested, and which will enable a large proportion of those who are ratepayers, and who are themselves upon the verge of suffering, to keep their heads above water—to maintain the position they have hitherto held, and which they are still desirous of maintaining." Of all descriptions of aid that could be afforded to the distressed districts, that is surely the most desirable and the most generously thought of! The mere knowledge of the fact that it is assistance of this character that is being prepared for them will be more calculated than almost any other tidings that could be brought to them—savingand excepting only the happy news that the war in America has somehow been brought to a definitive conclusion—to hearten on the labour ing classes of Lancashire in their struggle against the lamentable trials brought upon them by the consequences of the Cotton Famine. While the Lords and Commons were thus on Saturday, at Bridgewater House, organising a sup plementary aid to the inhabitants of the afflicted districts in Lancashire —subscribing £lO,OOO as an earnest of their good intentions—the London Relief Committee was still pursuing its generous career at the Mansion House under the auspices of the gene rous-hearted and public-spirited LORD MAYOR. According to the statement put forth by the trea surer of that Committee, the total sum sent to the LORD MAYOR, down to Friday evening inclusively was no less than £15,785 15s. Bd., more than eleven thousand pounds sterling of which sum had already been promptly remitted to the distressed districts for distribution under the wise, supervision of the local committees of relief. Particulars such as these indicate as distinctly as possible that the Legisla ture has not had the solution of the momentous problem of this terrible distress left entirely to it self—but that all ranks and classes of the commu nity are already co-operating in the endeavour to mitigate as far as casual efforts of this kind can mitigate—these deplorable sufferings down in the manufacturing districts, but more particularly in the County Palatine of Lancaster. moners. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. The subject of the Marriage of Figaro is one o the most striking instances of vicissitude in the his tory of the comic and lyric drama. Whether as comedy or opera it has most signally illustrated the revolutionary epoch which brought it into being. The world has long since forgotten its political celebrity. Whilst the' Barber of Seville" owed its success to its dramatic merits simply—as a resuscita tion of French comedy which had undergone a cen tury's declension from the force and nature of Moliere, to the formal graces of Reynard, the affec tations of Marivaux, and the dull and dawdling pedantries of Des Forges and La Harpe,—the Marriage of Figaro—which repeated all its spirit and its wit—made the force of their incisions ten fold by rendering them political. It was unques tionably one of the most efficient of the proximate causes of the Revolution. Whilst the Encyclo paedists merely appealed to the higher and cultivated classes in their attacks on State abuses, Beaumarchais, with a wit and vigour which even they did not possess, appealed to the world at large, and by that world was at once responded to. With a freedom wl - oily unparalleled he assailed, in the Marriage of Figaro, the Ministers of the day—the Bastile—the censorship—the state of the press— and the police ; and the excited Parisians, who crowded the Comedie Francaise for nearly fifty nights of its first production by their loud laughter and acclamations, gave the earliest public manifes• tation of the feeling which, five years afterwards, was destined to take shape in the great event of modern times. Everything connected with the pro duction of the comedy had a strange public signi ficance. The King, on hearing it read, was so amazed at its audacity that he peremptorily forbade its performance; but Beaumarchais, whose resolu tion was quite on a level with his humour, and who said in regard to this repulse, "Only give me enemies and obstacles enough, and I consider my success certain,"—actually succeeded in getting it privately performed before Marie Antoinette—when no less a person than the Count d'Artois, afterwards Louis XVIII., became the original Figaro—the great preacher of revolution—whilst the Queen was so de lighted that she obtained permission for its produc tion, and thus egain helped to promote the crisis which was to be so fatal to her and hers- The lyrical history of this subject is quite in keeping with its dramatic. Joseph 11. of Austria, whose liberalism was so extraordinary that Voltaire called him the " royal razormaker who was forging a blade for his own throat"—was so delighted with the novel sarcasms and spirit of the " Marriage of Figaro, that he invited Mozart to make it an opera, and appointed his own poet to write the libretto— the Abbe de Ponte"—who, to complete as it were, the circle of its revolutionary features, was actually a Jew in the disguise of a Christian priest. Mozart accepted the subject with avidity, and produced in a few weeks a work which many have considered his masterpiece, and which he himself at times,—accord ing to the statement of his widow, ranked above his " Giovanni." Michael Kelly, who performed in it, describes, in his pleasant Memoirs, its extarordinary success, which was almost on a level with that of the comedy in Paris—the encores being so frequent, and thereby its length being so prolonged, that at length the King was compelled to forbid any encore taking place. Transferred to other capitals, its impression was quite as great, especially in London, where it was produced in 1812 by Mdme Catalani, the great songstess oddly enough selecting the character of Suzanna. Fifty years have since elapsed, and the attraction of the subject has ceased. As a comedy it has not been played in London since its original adaptation, nor as an opera on the English stage—but in the hybrid form of a comedy with songs—whilst on the Italian boards it has only come to us at intervals of several years. Now, if on account of its politics we can explain its decay as a drama, how are we to explain its comparative neglect as an opera, when the latter unquestion ably contains some of the finest and most distinctive inspirations of Mozart, as well as several solos, which in our concert and our drawing rooms have always maintained their popularity. The reason we believe lies in the unusual difficulty of the concerted pieces, more especially the two finales, which require an amount of musical knowledge as well as of dramatic expression which are very rarely found combined uncle the roof of any theatre. The opera is also distinguished by containing five leading characters, each of which has a speciality, both vocal and dramatic, the want of any one of which is a serious bar to its due impression. We see little in the circumstance that there is no love interest in the story, and that the hero is a barytone instead of being a tenor, since both of these peculiarities attach to the Giovanni. At the same time, we can understand why "The Marriage of Figaro" of Mozart is much less performed than " The Barber of Seville" of Rossini. It is not only the more diffi cult, but it is also the less comic. Indeed, in the true sense of the word it is scarcely a comedy at all. Whilst its movement and its incidents are in the highest degree diverting; its characters have an earnestness which at times almost becomes serious. They oppose rather than unite with the situations they are involved in. The large-hearted Mozart was so full of truth and sensibility that he could not like Rossini transcribe or heighten comic treach eries. He had no taste for musical persiflage and roguish double entendre. His natural goodness compelled him to elevate his ecoundrels with some sentiment, and both in the Count and Figaro give an ardour that is very commendable, if not yaw appropriate. This is an honourable fact as respects the man, but rather a fatal one as respects the opera. The Marriage of Figaro is, accordingly, rather an operatic play than a comic opera, in which the feeling and the tenderness are quite as apparent as the humour. Its music, however, is of a charac ter that must always maintain its reputation, and, as we have already said, in its due rendering lies the difficulty that explains its comparative neglect. Its adequate production, therefore, must be regarded as a test of the artistic capocity 01 a lyric theatre, and such a test on Saturday evening her Ma- The fun that M. FORCADE make, in the Revue des I)eux londes, of this new distribution of titles in France by NAPOLEON 111., is. after all so justifi able a pleasantry ! Beyond which—alas ! that we should have to say as much—it is so frightfully applicable elsewhere. The illustrious men of now adays in France, argues M. FORCADE—and really (may we not say it ?) with just a dim :glimmering of reason—are such men as MM. GulzoT, THIERS, VICTOR HUGO, and LamaRTINE! And yet—we have now added to the bede-roll of " the illustrious" (conventionally) in France, three bran-new Dukes in the persons of—M. DE MORNY, M.PERSIGNY, M. WALEWSKI ! When the brilliant satirist and critic in the Revue des Deux Mondes ridicules the founder of the Imperial Dynasty (l'Oncle de son Nevue) for inasmuch as while he could exclaim magnanimously " If CORNEILLE had livedin my time, I would have made him a Prince," he (Napo leon the GREAT) depreciated the dignity of that high title, by making a Prince of a clever and and accomplished gourmand like the Arch Chan cellor CAMBACERES—M. FORCADE should have re membered, at any rate, at the same time, that the First NAPOLEON really did contrive (as well) to award his " bran new" titles not unfrequently to men just a trifle, we will say, more than acciden tally fortunate ! It is not quite fair again for M. FORCADE to draw the invidious distinction he has done, between the really illustrious men of letters above enumerated—to wit (their names will bear repetition) MM. GUiZOT, THIERS, VICTOR HUGO, and LAMARTINE—and the three new Dukes of the Empire, whose names—don't somehow bear any such repetition! It is not quite fair, we say, for M. FORCADE to draw a distinction thus superficially invidious, and invidious we must insist only superficially. For—can it be possible that M. FORCADE has forgotten that his Majesty, Mr. ,SMITH, otherwise King Louis PHILLIPPE, actually did raise (?) one of those four great authors of France to the dignity (such as it was) of a Viscountcy ! And hence possibly it has come to pass that out of the whole four M. le Viscomte VICTOR HUGO is the only one who has dared to perpetrate a meanness like that malignant brochure (n " almost forgotten) "NAPOLEON le Petit," and stil l more recently the yet more degrad ing meanness. of penning 6 fulsome pane-. gy Up on toe very commonplace man by : ha : e h: ter titled writer, was whose hand, h e (save the m „ k c'a'bled—that nauseating of Mr. SgiTH,Aguring cal..ogium upon the k'oncA DE : ali ti P o P n e , (appropriately enough, as it , . I t 3s) for i g n et L i e t: ffiserables! No•--111 jesty's Theatre amply sustained. No such per formance of this charming opera has been heard in London for many years, whether in respect to the individual or the collective power employed ; and had the season furnished no other evidence of skill and zeal in its direction, the production of this opera must have stamped it with distinction. A brief survey of its execution will suffice to sustain our praise. Madame Titiens, by assuming the Cot,lntes for the first time in England, placed that character before the public in an entirely different ight from that which 'it assumed at the hands of the Caradoris annd Ortolanis of a few years a go . F f hp gave it a dignity as well as a tenderness that struck at once the key-140e of the elevated feelipg of the work, and prepared the audience all the more freely to enter into the more earnest rendering of the Count and Figaro especially. He de livery of her opening aria, the " Porgi Amor," and the still more exquisite " Dove sono" were in stances of tlrAt union of the deepest feeling and the most perfect method which distinguish our great songstress, whilst her share in the concerted music tended not slightly to convey its superb impression to the audience. Not inferior in merit was the Susanna of Miss Louisa Pyne, however wanting in the d u e buoyancy of its dramatic illustration. Ten derness rather than gaiety has been her charac teristic always, and it was accordingly in the con veyance of this sen timent that her efforts were most successful_ Her share in the " Sall Aria" was one of the loveliest things of the night, whilst her deli " Deli vieni nor tard ar ," on e of Mozart's very of the most perfect gems —was one of the most striking instances of deep-feeling, melodious sound and faultless intonation which has ever been heard upon these boards. The result was a most ardent and well deserved encore. Equal in vocal and certainly supe rior in dramatic quality was the Cherubino of Mdlle. Trebelli, which was one of the most charming im personations which have as yet secured her fame. Nothing could be more spirited or delightful than her acting of the ardent page, whilst her delivery of the " Voi the sapete" was an instance of pure vocalisation which could scarcely be surp a s se d, an d certainly the most perfect rendering of the air which we have ever yet enjoyed. In this case again was won a well deserved encore. The Almavira of Mr. Santley, if wanting somewhat in its bearing of the dignity of a Spanish nobleman, lacked nothing of the earnestness required by the music; his delivery of the " Crudel Perche finora," but more especially the recitative and air, " Vedro mentrio sospiro," being admirable in the extreme, and amply vindicating his claims as the most perfect English bari tone which has as yet adorned our stage. The Figaro of Monsieur Gassier was also a most able effort, thorougly grasping the Mozart conception of the uneasy barber, who is transformed from the common assailant of domestic happiness to that of its defender, in his own person, a retribution rather necessary to the enjoyment of the story, and giving admirably the music in sustainment of such a view. In the "Se vuol ballare" he wanted ra pidity and humour, but in the " Nonpiu Andrai" he had every quality that was required, his share also, as well as Mr. Santley's, being thoroughly adequate in the concerted music. The Bartolo of Signor Zuccheni was a very careful and able effort, and the Basillio of Signor Bettini not unworthy of the general excellence. In conclusion, we have only to say that the band and the chorus were irreproachable, and that the entire impression of this noble opera was one of the highest gratification to one of the most crowded and intelligent audiences which have honoured the theatre for the season. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S HEIR. The Princess Clotilde was, es the telegram has already announced) safely delivered of a prince on Friday morning at the Palais-Royal. Her Imperial Highness felt the first pains about half-past five, and was safely delivered a twenty-five minutes after six. The ceremony of christen ing was performed at half-past eleven by the chaplain of the Palais Royal, assisted by a vicar of Saint•. Roch. At half-past two the proces-verbal of the birth of the young prince was drawn up on the register of the Imperial family by the Minister of State, assisted by the Minister President of the Council of State, and in presence of the Empress, the Prince Imperial, Prince Napoloon, the Minister of Justice, Marshals Valliant and d'Ornano (appointed as witnesses by the Emperor), the Grand Master of the Ceremonies, the Minister of the King of Italy, and the ladiss and officers of the house-holds of their Majesties and of their Imperial Highnesses. The young prince has received the names of Napoleon Victor Jerome Fr43eric. The Empress and the Prince Imperial signed the register of birth. The Prince Imperial returned to the Tuileries on foot, about three o'clock, accompanied by M. Bachon, his equerry, amidst the acclamations of the crowd. The Empress remained at the palace until twenty minutes to four. The Emperor addressed a telegraphic despatch from Vichy to Prince Napoleon, to congratulate him on the birth of his son. During the day the Ministers and foreign ambassadors left their names at the Palais Royal, in front of which numerous groups of persons were collected during the whole day. It is said that the Princess Mathilde and King Victor Emmanuel will be the young Prince's sponsors at his baptism. The accounts given on Saturday morning of the health of the Princess and of the newly-born infant were most favourable. DEPARTURE OF THE ZOUAVES AND GENDARME RIE DE LA GARDE.—These celebrated bands, which have excited so much attention at the Exhibition and elsewhere, left London for Paris on Thursday morning. A great crowd collected round the Crown Hotel, in Rupert-street, where they have been staying. The soldiers seemed much pleased with the fraternal greetings they received. In compli ment to the proprietor of the hotel, M. Cartal, they per formed in front of the house a selection of music, terminat ing with " God save the Queen" and " Rule Britannia," which elicited tremendous cheering from the crowd, and was returned with equal fervour by the French. The offi cer in command expressed the high sense the gallant men entertained of the courteous treatment they had received at the hands of M. Cartal, and the delight they had experi enced at the kind manner in which they have been every where met with. THE LUDGATE-HILL TRAGEDY.—Mrs, Vyse is still an inmate of Newgate. The unfortunate lady continues to give way to the deepest melancholy. Nothing relative to her ultimate destination is yet known. SHIPWRECK ON THE HORSE BANK.—SGUTHPORT, July 20. —Yesterday afternoon a brig was observed drifting towards the Horse Bank, near Liverpool, with a flag of dis tress flying. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institu tion was launched us soon as possible to her help. The vessel proved to be the brig Commodore, of South Shields, from Trieste to Fleetwood, with a cargo of grain. The life boat found that the ship's crew had previously abandoned her in their own boat and eventually had succeeded in reaching Lytham. The master had been put on board a fishing boat, whence he signalled for the lifeboat, which took him out and brought him to Southport. The Commo dore appears likely to become a total loss. It is supposed that the cause of the wreck arose from the master being ignorant of his situation, and at the time the vessel struck was trying to make out the land. SERIOUS FIRE IN SALFORD.—On Saturday morn ing, about five o'clock, the Patent Piston Works of Messrs. Mather and Platt, Brown-street, Salford, were discovered to be on fire ; and although a body of firemen were soon in attendance, and were able to direct six jets of water from the street mains and a fire-engine upon the flames, nearly two hours had elapsed before the fire could be extinguished. Nearly the whole of the building, including a finishing room for Irish linen, a mechanics' shop, a corn mill, and the piston works, was destroyed, and the damage done to the building alone is estimated at over £l,OOO. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—The ordi nary half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at the Euston-square station; Mr. 8.. Moon in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the Chairman said it had been thought ad visable to hold their meeting at an earlier period than usual for the purpose of declaring a dividend, but it was intended that the usual half-yearly business should stand over until the 7th of August next. He would now move that a di videhd of 4± per cent., less income-tax of 9d. in the pound, be declared, with interest at 5 per cant. on all sums in anti cipation of calls upon the B shares, The motion having been seconded, was agreed to. The chairman then moved that the meeting should stand adjourned until th e 7th of August, then to meet for the transaction of the usual half yearly business. This having been agreed to, the meeting adjourned accordingly. A HORSE KILLED BY A WINDMILL—On Thurs day last week, a valuable young horse, belonging to Mr. Smith, miller, of Ashley, got from the meadow and ran into the mill-yard, while the mill was t urn i ng at a rapid pace, th e re being a fair wind at the time, and notwithstanding the praiseworthy endeavours of the parties present to stop the mill and drive the horse away, the poor animal ran within reach of the sails, one of which struck it upon the head and dashed out its brains, killing it upon the spot. A portion of the sail was broken off by the force of the blow, —Cambridge Indepe)zdent, - -• ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—The accounts of this great house of charity show that its annual income from rents and funded property is about £32,000. Among the expenditure for 1861 is £5,942 for provisions, £2,034 for drugs, £932 for wine and spirits, £353 for porter, £771 for washing, £3,156 for salaries to medical 4ficers, £2,257 for wages to sisters and nurses, £l5l for hospital dinners, and £747 fur insurance against fire. The in-patients of the year were 3,943 in number, the out-patients 41-814. The hospital has been sold to the Charing-cross Railway Com pany for £ 9 96,000, a transaction that has not been accom plished without "costs." The governors of the hospital incurred costs to the a mount ef more than £3,C00 in oppos ing the railway bid in Parliament ; the costs in proceedings in Chancery against the company amounted to nearly an other £l,OOO, and above £B,OOO costs were incurred in the arbitratim for asceitaining the purchase money to be paid, but these are to be paid by the company. There are further costs not yet ascertained ; and the clerk to the governors has gravely to add at last that npne of these large sums in clude the cost of the sale and conveyance of the hospital , hooAL thing to be done, LATEST , NEWS. COPENHAGEN, JULY 20. The fete given to the Kings of Sweden and Den mark yesterday, in this capital, was of a very bril liant character, heightened by favourable weather. Their Majesties entered at two o'clock, and traversed the larger portion of the city. All the houses were splendidly decorated, and flowers were thrown from the windows. At four o'clock their Majesties, accompanied by the princes and a numerous suite, repaired on foot from the Castle to the banquet, prepared by the corporation, at the exchange_ The entire National Guard paraded. guilds, the At eight in the evening the various students, and different associations went in proces sion, carrying banners to the Castle. - Immense crowds thronged the streets, and the enthusiasm of the people was indescribable. Upon the arrival of the procession at the Castle, the two Kings appeared hand in hand upon the Castle balcony. The King of Sweden will leave Elsinore for this country at noon to-day. TURIN, JULY 20 (EVENTNG). In the Chamber of Deputies of to-day General Durando, in reply to a question of Signor Petru celli, stated amidst much applause the condition of the foreign relations of the country. He said : " The basis of my policy is the alliance with France. I renew the energetic protest of the Administration against the speech delivered by Garibaldi. Allied with France, the Government will never act contrary to the interests of Italy. Oa 'relatfons with England are of a very cordial nature, and I repudiate the eventuality of a war with that country. The documents relative to the recog nition of the Italian kingdom by Russia and Prussia have all been laid upon the table, from which it will be seen that no conditions were imposed. The Government of the King hopes that the other German Powers will follow the example of Prussia." The Minister further declared the existence of friendly relations with Belgium, Switzerland, and the other Powers ; he mentioned the difference with Spain, and added a few words with respecting Montenegro and Servia. Relative to the question of Venice, General Durando stated that some projects had been enter tained during the past year of the purchase of Venetia, which had not arrived at any result. He hoped, finally, tnat the settlement of the Roman question would not be long delayed. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 19.—The market has been inani mate, but previous prices were maintained. Threes, for the Account, are now unvaried, at 68f. 35c. Railway Shares quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : 4t per Cents. 97 70 Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 40 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 822 50 Do. end month 825 - RAIL' Bank Shares 3250 Credit 1. oncier 1175 Piedmontesc Fives 73 80 Italian Loan 7l 20 Roman Austrian Spani,h Threes 5O 25 Rome Debt Cash. Account. Orleans 997 60 .. 992 50 Northern New ditto - • • -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1072 50 .. 1075 Geneva 360 .. 358 75 Southern BO6 25 .. 806 25 Western Eastern Sardinian .. Austrian Lombard 6OB 75 .. 608 75 R USSIA. The Gazette de St. Petersbourg publishes the Imperial notification of the birth of a son to the Grand Duke Constantine, and of the infant having received the name of Viatcheslaw. The Emperor's manifesto says : " Hailing this addition to our' Im perial house as a new mark of blessing and consola tion that God has given us, we are convinced that all our faithful subjects will raise with us their prayers to the Omnipotent for the welfare and prosperity of the new-born child. We order that the title of Imperial Highness be given to our well beloved nephew, the infant Grand-Duke." POLAND. The following telegram from Cracow, of the 19th inst., appears in the Presse :—"The administrative separation of the Kingdom of Poland from the Russian Empire is decided on. A Russian Cus tom-house will be established at Kowno, and a Polish Douane at Kribartz ; the Grand Duchy of Lithuania will not form part of Poland. The de termination of restoring to Poland its administra tive independence is attributed to the Emperor, and the Grand Duke Constantine has been ap pointed to carry out the plan. " The declaration of a general amnesty is ex pected at Warsaw." THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC UNI- VERSITY. DUBLIN, SUNDAY NIGHT. The foundation stone of the Roman Catholic University was laid yesterday. A procession, com posed of the trades and Roman Catholic societies, numbering about 8,000, walked to the site, display ing banners and flags, and accompanied by bands. About 36 Roman Catholic bishops, dressed in their robes, attended, including several from America and the colonies. They rode in close carriages. The M.P.'s present were The O'Donoghue, Major O'Reilly, Mr. Maguire, and Mr. Lanigan. In point of number the demonstration was the largest that has ever taken place in Dublin. The pro cession passed off quietly. A banquet was given in the evening at which The O'Donoghue, Dr. Nixon, and Major O'Reilly spoke. " The Pope," was the first toast, and " The Queen," followed. A meeting is to be held to morrow to again agitate the granting of the charter. THE IIV7E.RNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The counter attractions of the Dramatic College fete at the Crystal Palace of course exercised an adverse influence on the attendance at the building on Saturday. The visitors were fewer in number than they have been for some weeks past, the total being only 24,362, of which 15,037 were by payment, and 2,325 by season tickets. This brings up the total number for the week to 303,641, which, though not a high number, is still beyond that for the same week in 1851 by 20,000. Very false and unfair notions of the comparative popularity of the two exhibi tions are constantly being given to the public by stating the total number who entered the building in 1851, includ ing staff, exhibitors, attendants, police, &c., side by side with only the numbers of those who pay on the present occasion. By this means an apparent equality is given to the first display, which is daily contradicted by the financial results at South Kensington. The daily returns on each occasion are, iu fact, as follows : Monday (Is.) .. Tuesday (ls.) • • Wednesday (Is.) .. Thursday (Is.) .. Friday (2s. 6d.) Saturday (55.) .. 1851. 59,148 70,041 58,204 60,465 3),09 9 5.443 1862. 64,353 65,305 .. 57,917 62,806 .. 28,898 .. 23,362 Total 283,400 • • 303,041 The receipts for both week s Iron, payments at the doors, however are as nearly as possible equal, there being 30,000 half-crown payments on Friday . in 1851, as against 20,000 for the same day last week, while on Saturday there were 15,000 half-crowns against 5,000 five shillings in 1951. As far as can yet be jud . ged, therefore, all seems to promise that the Exhibition will clear its expenses, as the days of the great attendances after the harvest have yet to come. e temp era t u re, as shown by N egre tti end Zamb ra ' s patent thermometers, stood lower in the building on Satur day than on almost any day since the opening. At two o'clock the highest poini, reached was only 61 . 5 in the nave, 62.3 in the galleries, and thi s a t a time when at l east from 12,000 to 14,000 people had been in the place nearly t wo hours. THE MYSTEBIOUS MU.RDER. IN GLASGOW. -~ (From the AortA British Daily Mail.) As we anticipated in our yesterday's impression, the bloody clothes have been fully identified as be longing to the prisoner, Mrs. .M•Lachlan, and that she is known to have worn l'hem on the night of the murder there is also no doubt. The identification is complete, nay superabund for several persons can speak positively to the fact of their being hers, and used by her on the eventful night. They con sist, as our readers are aware, of a brown merino dress, and two flannel petticoats, all of which are saturated with blood. One of these petticoats has been made out of a blanket, and therefore is easily identified; and Sarah Adamson, a little girl who was servant to the prisoner for some time, can per ceive some of her own sewing on one of the gar ments. The trimming on the dress is likewise posi tively spoken .to. The manner in which the discovery of the gory clothing was made reflects great praise on the police. The fact having been clearly established that Mrs. M'Lachlan visited Hamilton last week, and left behind her an empty box, in which was clothing belonging to the deceased Jessie Macpherson, strongly impressed the minds of the police with the idea that she must also have left the clothing some where. Accordingly, simultaneously with Capt. Nl‘Call setting about a diligent search for the clothing in Hamilton, Edinburgh, and elsewhere, Captain George Mackay, chief constable of the Lanarkshire Police, instructed his men—and also took a forward part in it himself—to search sys tematically and minutely the whole town of Hamilton and surrounding districts for several miles, particular injunctions having been laid upon the constables to spare neither time nor trouble in the investigation, and to pass over no ditch, nor "burn," without searching to their bottom, and to leave no hedge, nor barn, nor out-house, nor, in fact, any nook or cranny in the whole district unexplored, until they should find some of the missing clothing, either of that which belonged to the deceased or to the pri soner M`Lachlan—for it was not doubted but she had done away in some manner with a portion of her clothing. The town of Hamilton was first scoured thoroughly, and then the constables spread themselves over the adjoining locality. The result of this search, which had been conducted for about. a week, was the discovery of the dress and petti coats above mentioned. This was effected by Donald Stewart, one of the first-class county con stables of the Hamilton district, between five and six o'clock yesterday afternoon, in two grass fields on the estate of Eddlewood, belonging to Mr. Allan, draper, St. Paul's-churchyard, London. The gown. and petticoat were found in a field known by the name of the Quarry Park, and the other petticoat was discovered in an adjoining field called Tommy Linn. They had been torn into shreds, there being no fewer than thirty-eight pieces 0f... them •in all. Eddlewood-road runs alongside, of both - fields, which are only divided from it 1 4 a low hedge, oven which the clothes must have been thrown. There is evidence, also, to show that the prisoner was on the Eddltwood Road on the Monday or Tuesday of last week, and near where the clothes were found, so that this part of the case will bear most heavily upon her. The clothes were retained by the con stable who found them until to-day, when he, along with Capt. M'Kay, brought them to Glasgow, and delivered them up to the Sheriff's Fiscals in the usual and legal way. The blood upon them is now, of course, being analysed to see whether it is human blood, of which there is no doubt. The prisoner has not yet been fully committed for trial, although due sanction for that course has been g y i e v t e b n e by ag t a h in e C ex ro a r ine a d uth in ori r t e ie r s a , rdse that t o the she above may clothing. This, however, ir„ not likely to be the case; and she will in the way be fully com mitted for trial at the en.suing Circuit, which opens here on the 15th Sep ember, on Monday next, be ing the eighth day of her incarceration. The pri soner has never refused food, but we understand she takes a due quantity ; and as for the intention being entertained of forcing food into her stomach, that, we are assured, is a pure invention. DEATH OF THE LORD PRIMATE OF IRELAND. The Dublin Evening _Freeman publishes the following :-- "Belfast, Saturday, July 19.—1 t is with extreme sorrow we announce the death of the venerable and beloved Lord Primate of all Ireland. His Grace Lord John George Beresford died this (Saturday) morning at Wyburn, Donaghadee, the residence of George Dunbar, Esq., D.L., his nephew by marriage. His lordship, who was in his 89th year, died without the slightest struggle, having literally fallen asleep." The nearest relations of the Primate had not, we are informed, received such information by tele graph up to a late hour last night. At the Primate's house in Charles-street, St. James's, no authentic nevi's has been received of his death. Lord John George Beres ford, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, whose death we record to-day, was the second son of the first Marquis of Waterford, and was born in 1773. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1793. After filling various minor offices in the church he was nominated in 1806 to the Bishopric of Cork, and shortly afterwards was translated to the sees of liaphoe and Clogher. 1820 he was appointed by Lord Liverpool's government to the, Archbishopric a Dublin, and by the same government in 1822 to the Arch bishopric of Armagh and the Primv,cy of Ireland. He was Vice -Chancellor and Visitor of 'Trinity College, Dublin, from 1829 to 1351, when he becrAme Chancellor. Connected with the archbishopric are tb.e offices of Lurd Almoner of Ireland, Prelate of the Order of St. Patrick, and the patron age of 56 livings. The province contains the dioceses of Meath, Derry, Down and Connor, Dromore, Tuam, and Elphin. The archbishopric is worth £15,000 a year. THE MIDDLE LEVEL.—The tides rose so high is the course of last week that they completely submerged the famous dam, the construction of which in the middle level drain excited such interest a few weeks since. For some little time the water accumulated on the flooded land re ceived some additions, but on the dam being heightened by t; a formation of a clay bank upon it all danger was speedily averted. The banks of the drain from the dam to the out fall into the Ouse have become unsound from the contin— uous soaking of water through them, and some of the fa" joining lands are consequently unduly wet. To prevent further inconvenience from this cause recourse has been had to puddling, and with a fair prospect of success. The waters continued in the week ending on Saturday to run off the drowned lands through the outlets afforded them by the Marshland, Smeeth, and Fen drain and Marshland sewer, which has been rendered available pro ton by tvirc° or three openings through the gravel bank. By means of these outfalls the depth of the flood so long accumulate d is being reduced at the rate of about an inch per day, and it is now some 2ft less than the average height which it had attained before the completion of the dam and the clos ing of the staunch at Well Creek. It will be seen from these' details that a general progress is being gradually made in the right direction. ARREST BY MISTAKE.--A strange affair occurred at Farnham, on Friday morning, which has supplied food for gossip both there and at the Camp, ever since. It pears that a somewhat serious robbery having been cony mitted at Aldershott, the Farnham police were on the look out for the perpetrators, who were supposed to be soldiers' Yesterday morning, at four o'clock two suspicious looking fellows were observed approaching Farnham from the di' rection of the Camp, and a policeman who met them o n, the road, immediately jumped at the conclusion that these were the men that were " wanted. Accordingly he made his I suspicions known to a comrade, and with his assistanc e succeeded in arresting the men. While conveying them t o the station, they espied another person, walking at a rapid rate, and although he was in civilian's costume, anyon e could have seen, with half an eye, that he was a soldier. As ho was about There to goes pass, a oneehu chum," thew whereupon sctlaabimesdc'encluded that the stra nger was an accompl i ce in t h e r obbery, or, at all events, a d eserter, an d they s e ' cor dingly arrested him also. Th e stranger declare d that h e was Colonel Clifford, A s sistant Quartermaster men in on cus t t h o e dy co e:: le General, and that he was out thus early for the Pu r ,... pose of training, as he w as a b out to share in the divis i on al field sports shortly to take place at Aldershott. This expla nation the police treated as a capital joke • and it is stated that they behaved with additional rudeness in consequence of it. At all events, they marched the colonel to the house of Superintendent Hollington ; where he made the sane statement. The superintendent who was in bed, and c°9l— with th e men from the window, did no t recce" n-se the distinguished prisoner, and he was ordered to b e taken before the military provosts who were stationed at. neighbouring ion. On the way thera, he recalled some cis' c umstance to the minds of the policemen which sa tiefi them that he really was the Hon. Colonel Clifford, an ir they immedi a tely volunteered to r e l ease him ; but he n ° _` ig refused to accept their offer. He had been arrested a ordered to the provosts, and to the provosts he would ! a ; Here things were very soon explained ; an d the colon ci 7_, released. We understand that Colonel Clifford, with re:set_ racteristic generosity, does not blame the police for red ing him, and thinks that they may only have a ct the performance of their duty in doing so; but that he e u_v as , complain of the incivility and rudeness to which b subjected after he had stated his name and rank. iS -11 ,„,,, quiry will doubtless take place into all the circum stance s• Times. * 1- .7"