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Intendinv, 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 Hall. The Festival Committee are in no wise connected with any Other ticket office in the same building, and caution the public accordingly. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1862. N°. 21,836. Letter from Paris. - - By order, Crystal Palace, June 24, 1862. GEO. GROVE. PRICE..... ~.4d. STAMPED ....sd. THE LADY GODIVA PROCESSION. PUBLICATIONS. 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 they should 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 Chapnann,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 s r h e i n p c s e tiot Awuasst:roa4liapietrweaesntl.:l7pdeirneethnet.Governmen During 1861 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. HURST AND BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY. On June 28, illustrated by Tenniel, 55., bound, GRANDMOTHER'S MONEY. Forming the New Volume of Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions of Popular Modern Works. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., :: One Shilling Sir F. SMITH recommended the hon. member for Liskeard not to press the amendment. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIE TY OF ENGLAND —F 62. GREAT AGRICULTURAL SHOW of HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, PIGS, and MACHINERY, in BAT TERSEA PARK, LONDON, JUNE 23, to JULY 2. TERMS OF A DMISSION. THURSDAY, June 26, ENTIRE SHOW I Five Shillings (Live Stock, Machinery, &c.) FRIDAY, SATURDAY June 27 .. .H ~ ..alf-a-Crown ,1 M 28 .. ONDAY, • 30 .. TUESDAY, July 1.. WEDNESDAY „ 2. ~. Members Free. Open each day from 8 i n the morning till 8 in the except the l a st day, w h en th e Yard will he closed at 6 evening o'clock. , On THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, June 20, 27, and 28, there will be a 'PUBLIC EXHIBITION of STEAM CUITIVAToRS at 11 ORK, from 11 a.m. too p.m., near Parningham Station, in Kent, a distance of 24 miles from the Victoria Terminus of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. By order of the Council, IL HALL DARE, Secretary. i ___-""i BEAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- NA A CHEAP EXCURSION TRAIN to BATH and BRISTOL will leave the PADDINGTON S PATION, at 6.35 p.m., and READING at 7.41 p.m., on SATURDAY, June 28, returninz at 5.30 p.m., on Monday, June 30. Fares there and back :—Bath, 125. and Os. ; Bristol, 14s. and 7s. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- On SUNDAY, June 29, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at 8.45 a.m., for Reading (ss. 6d., and 35.); Theale and Aldermaston Os., and Ss. 3d.), Woolhamptn, Thatcham, Newbury, Kintbury, and Hungerford (68. ad. and Bs. 6d.); returning the same evening, as per bills. GREAIT WESTERN RAI LWAy._ . C HEAP SUNDAY EXCURSION to BRENTFORD, Uxbridge, Taplow, and Henley-on-Tliames.—On SUNDAY, June 29, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave PADDING TON at 9.15 p.m., for Southall and Brentford (fares, is. 6d. and ls.); West D ra yt on and Uxbridge (2s. 611. and Is. 6d.) ; Eilough and T a pl ow(3s. and 25.), Twyrord and Henley (3s. 6d. and 25...6d.); returning the same evening, as per bills. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH LAW LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. NOTICE 12, Waterlo ace o-pl, London, 24th June, 1862. S lIERELI GN, that te lIAL Y EARLY INTER INTEREST on the Shares of the Asshociation, at the rate of lour shillings per share per annum, will become PAYABLE to the proprietors (free of Income-tax), at the Officcs of the Association, on and after the 10th day of July, 186!. 'WBy order of th e Board, J. RILL I LLIAMS, Actuary and Secretary. H read St. John's-wood, John " Hamilion, Esq., aat GothicVillas,F g i e n d ch s l 9 e . y- NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE N OTICE. SOCIETY. Losses b 111IDSITAIMER RENEWALS. are made good to y fire occurring. duringthe fifteen days of grace the assured. T he business ofte Company exceeds £68,000,000. XBl The 2 duty Paid t o G overnment for the year 1860 was £9,9 ,3 388,3698.5. 9d., and th e amount insuring on farming stock PaArtibeosninussuorfinthree - fifths of the p ro fit s per i o di ca ll y made to g, who have thus from time to time received sums Themounting in th e aggregate to £400,000. r ates of pre m i um are in no case higher, than those their insurer s e by the other principal offices making no returns t o For ro , pcetuses appl y at the Society ' s Offices, Surrey street, Norwich, and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.G. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY FLEET-STREET, LONDON. „ Established 1823. pc inved Assets of this Soy exceed MIL RONs ST ERLING. its Annualciet Income is FOUR FIVE I)HUN upED and NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS. on to 31st D ecember, 1861, the Society had paid in Claims death —Sums Assured .C8,329,378 Bonus thereon X 5,444,676 Together The Profits are di v id e d every fifth year. All participating Policies effected during the present year will, if in force be yond 31st D ecember, 1864, share i n th e P ro fi ts to be divided oP to that d ate. At t he Division s o f Profits hitherto made. Reversionary Bonuses exceedin g T HREE AND A HALF MILLIONS have been added to the several Policies. _ '"--- coPunlssPectuses' Forms of Proposal, and Statements of Ac- Office,, my be had on ap lication to the Actuary, at the Fleet-street, London? February, 1862WILLIA.M SAMUEL DOWNES , Actuary. 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 less than 50,496 out-patients received the benefits of this Charity. 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The characters In troduced act and re-act upon each other's destiny exactly as human beings do in actual life. The observations and reflec tions appal to the reader's sympathy from their truth, as well as the singularly plcesing tone in which they are given." —Atheenom. Hurst and Blackctt, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Nov ready, in 2 vols., 215., FEMALE LIFE 'IN PRISON. By A rrusoN MATRON. "This book should have many readers among our Focial re formers of both sexes, and few, if any, will close it without serious thought having been stirred by the details and sug gestions contained in it."—Athenmum. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. A NEW NOVEL, by the Author of " ADAM BEng," will be commenced in the July number of the CORNIIILL MAGAZINE. Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN T RADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITIPS " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grosamith's "Goyernment upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. wS. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO • SITIES—NewIy Polished and Re-Iined—POLY GRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing-cross, Every Evening, at eight (except Saturday), with new.characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic Ilustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under the direction of Mr. William Callcott. Morning Performance, Saturday, June 28, at 3. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, Is. Box-office open from eleven to five. Mr. Woodin as Mr. Sothern, of the Haymarket, in his celebrated character of "Lord Dundreary," Morning and Evening. ARGYLL ROOMS. 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WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT FxrunrrioN or 1851), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. The use of a steel spring ' so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot, be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. M., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John. White:Yost office, Piecadilly. 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Contents : —Functions and dis orders of the reproductive organs—Diseases of the kidneys. spermatic chord, and testes in youth, adult age, and advanced life- Spermatorrlima—Non-retention and irritab lity of the bladder—The urine, and urinary deposits—their clinical exa mination, microscopically and chemically—Stricture of the urethra—Gonorrhoea, ,gleet, and all urethral discharges— Syphilis, primary, seconAs,Ty, and tertiary, constitutional, and confirmed, cured '''Author's new mode of treat ment, without the adue.,_,;;on of mercury. To be had from thoi../truorly, 44, Weymouth-street, one door from Portland-place, Regent's-park, W., where they may be daily consulted from 11 to 2, and 5 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-YESTERDAY. The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at tho usual hour. PRIVATE:B USINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—Moreton hampstead and South Devon Railway, Rotherham and Wortley Road, London and North-Western Railway, and Chester and Holyhead Railway (capital), Red Houso 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, Llandloas and Newtown and Milford, &c., Railways. PROSELYTIZING IN SCOTLAND. The Duke of 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 bo 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. T he Rifle Volunteer Grounds Act (1860) Amendment ~ B ill passed thr ough committee. The R e ti ring Pay, Sc India Bill was read a third time and passed. CE QUEEN'S P RISON. their The LORD lordshi D HANCE LLOR called the attention of prison. ps to the intend e d removal of the Queer's The Jurisdiction in Homicides BM and the Discharged Prisoners Aid Bill were read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. l HOUSE OF COMMONS ESTERDAY The SPEAKER took the c h a i r at 12 o'clock. . , coc PRIVATE BUSINESS. bills The Lords' amendments to the Hull and li way Bill we: e considered and agreed to, and the were a Rail ordered to be read a third t ime. The Ceylon pany Bill was read a third time and passed. Railway Corn- The following bills were considered and ordered fore_third reading : — Enniskillen an d Bundoran Railwa y — inv and Aberdeen Junction and Inverness and Roaa_Thei7 Railway Companies—Llynvi V alle y Railwa y —Ulst er, and ° Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Railway—and Wilford Bridge. THE INCOME-TAX. Mr. DOULTON 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 5150 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 EX CHEQUER 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 ' bound to receive authentic information in support of state ments made by persons liable 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. FAIRS AND MARKETS (IRELAND) BILL. In reply to Mr. *VAxcE, 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. 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. Sir G. C. LEWIS, in a committee of the whole house on fortifications and works, moved the follow:ng 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 hon. 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 duriug 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 £3,335,000; 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. BRIGHT, 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." Tho hon. gen tleman said 1,0 Liu me right lava. harm that works of national defence were measures of national i insurance ; but ho 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" translat ed 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 questioaable character of their advantage to this country, and cr. the impossibility of our manning them even it they were completed. The number of men re quired to garrison them would amount altogether to 93,000, 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 be advantageous to distant generations. They readily ad • witted 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 arsenali 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 B ingdom. But that was not a ground of security on which a great nation could tranquilly repose in 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, which . nould leave each of them the master of its own destiny. n Mr. DISRAELI sa id h o cou ld no t h e l p thi n ki ng th at the Government had di s pl a y e d g r eat vacillation in d ea li ng with that ques ti on. Th e i r es ti ma t es o f th e cos t o f th ose d works they had underg o ne s ome very con s iderable va r i a ti ons , were still unable to decide what were the portions of th eiro riginal scheme to which they should adhere, and whatwere the headportions of h whichte ve t G he o ys r h no o lnt ul e ctrelinquis e h h . or The noble lord at the withchangingedververy differenttheir in thatthe sub ject, had himself used year 1860 in reference by F t our relations with France, from that employ e d which he upon the present occasion. He had then held out t o the house the danger of an immediate inva sion of this country becoming e e tbutterms mhs of he theow spoke frjetid in per fectly conciliatory a n d feel ing which subsisted, and it was to be hoped would continue to to kubsist between the two nations. With respect to the amendment proposed by the hon. member for Liskeard, he could not b Oak that it wu no longer applicable after Mr. OSBORNE replied. He would not press the amendment to a division. The amendment was accordingly withdrawn ; the origi nal resclution was agreed to; and leave was given to intro. duce a bill founded thereon. The remaining business was then disposed of, and the house adjoutnccl. LITERATURE. Homer and English deter. By W. G. T. Barter Esq. Bell and Daldy. Upon the importance of rendering the greates, poet of ancient times accessible to the English reader we need not dilate ; it is manifest, and has of late largely engaged the attention of the literary world, as the numerous essays, translations, ad reviews which have appeared, testify. But if opi nions have been unanimous 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, have strongly advocated the hexameter. As Mr. Barter had published a version of the Iliad, in the Spenserian stanz9, 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 and 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 he says— glish metrical tra o n n sl t a h t is io in n y of op t i h n e ion lli f a ran d a hl n y d is O t d h y at ss in ey E ," . 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 he is writing ; so that Spenserian stanza should no t b e exac t e d 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 the 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 original metre. When the thing is done it will prove itself, solvitur ambulando, it is said. And when it comes to that I shall 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 not 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 grounds 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, as the words, 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. IT? ' aeity and content you \ k 11. C: even if rnr• „ el obf. wo are hplessly deficien t in spondees, without which the hexameter is as tasteless a metre as can well be ima gined, and perfectly impotent to express the flexible and varied melodies that the ancients have drawn from it, mith 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 observes, "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 Poetica,' or 'Epistle to the Pisos,' are very different from thoseof the or Georgics.' " It is clear, then, "that if you give one kind of hexameter where Homer gives quite another kind (and an allegro for an andante movement, or vice versa, is clearly so), you will gain nothing in proximity of metro 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 susceptible, reduces it to monotony, destroys its force and 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 never be very popular with translators. Neither is it desirable 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 poetry, then, whose characteristic is colour, with little else, in other words, whose beauty is untranslatable, as lyric poetry, for the most part, will lose incalculably in. the process. 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 from the original or from a copy of it. Such is the posture of a translator of Homer or Virgil. Homer is nature, Virgil 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 be, and is, the quality, to some degree, of every great poet in a modern cud artificial state of society, as of Dante, for example, mad 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 French 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 thoroughly understood in its full significance by another, though it appear dark to himself. I will give an instance from our own versi n, 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 not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." 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 des BOck lein nicht kochen, weil es noch seine Mutter sauget." In a sensible note on the passage in the Nuremberg folio Bible. ed. 1731, the literal rendering of the Hebrew 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 p r inciple, giving wh a t the compensation you sup pose as good as the original," whilst the s econd " gives the thoughts of the original, but takes a latitude in the expression," and the third " ainls at giving both the thought and the manner of its ex pression." The author illustrates the difference POETIC DICTION. Many words, though fewer than some suppose, are fit for poetry without being suitable to prose ; but he 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 rat her in the phraseology, than the single words; though, as regards phrases, he would have a miserable notion of the grounds of poetry who should ' cm about to exclude idiomatic exFression s f rom 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. Rmoteness 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 , venous 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 an uncommon out-of-the -way dialect. And his negli gence in this way has troubled the Daciers and others con siderably, who aro 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 riµvEi 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 ou r o ld b a ll a d s , mus t per t orce 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 Poe»). 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 Dernnn n ,fi.. " " Unto this last:" Four Essays on the First Prin ciples of Political Economy. By John Ruskin. Smith, Elder, and Co. Diffidence is not one of Mr.ltubkin'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 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 unnualificd approval. La Belle Nark. 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- ZION 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 extentin 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 6,515,70, or a tdee crease of 1,659,330 ; but during th e same period 9 the Irish emigration amounted t o at least 1,28 ,000 n souls, or more than three-fourtobsuleaftiothe d of l ecre relan ase d Between 1851 and 186 1 the p p or a decrease of fell from 6,515,794 to 5,764,543, 751,231. But during t he same period the Lien,dulthelrish e migration was upwards of 1,21 ,o therefore, after making allowanmcoayfohrelireisehludseetdtleind in England before 1851, who 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 re mittances from settlers in Ame rica to their friends a s far as the Thethe commissionersgarbe above h et b a u v al have obouefne it a ble to t, In the United Ki ng d om i n 1861 was, , 28 th 5 a . t w as sent from a nd to Irish, would have been more assuminga,SCElesritsaipnr'olba4b2l6e, than double what was necessary to pay the whole expense of Irish emigration. e migration has aga i n Thebeen very healthy. Th e mortality in ships proc ee ding whichtheeemm to iss t i l e ie cc U re ni a te r d e States (for returns of obliged to depend on the shipowners) has been only .05 per cent. In ships proceeding to the St. Lay.; FRENCH MARKETS. Commercial operations are still impeded by the influence 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 are entertained that when the treaty of com merce 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 50c 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 placer. The heavy wheat particularly creates uneasiness, ts 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 50c ; 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 68f. to 64f. the sack of 157 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 haying been supplied, and the weather being dry, the official quotations fell to 63f. for the present month, 62f. 75e. for Tilly and August, and to 60f. for the last four months of the year. The factors declared on Saturday 1,937 I sacks of flour, of which 265 sacks of first quality I sold for delivery within 30 days at from 55f. to 64f. 50c. the sack. There was a considerable amount of business transacted at Marseilles last week, under the influenop of 4I -' • - ii,v iutetiur UL vraiace. ine 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 England 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 641. the sack of 159 kilogrammes. Amiens-Although the market was well supplied, wheat rose 50c the hectolitre. Oats offered. Arras—A good market; price of wheat, 20f to 26f 50c the hectolitre, being a rise of 50e, 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, 30150 c; 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 40c the 100 kilogrammes; flour, 39f. Rainy weather. Montereau—An ordinary market; wheat asked for at an advance of 50c the sack. Orleans—A small market ; a rise of 2f the sack on wheat. Wheat, 29f to 30f the 100 Rheims—A brisk market. ein good de mand , kilogrammes ; flour, 38f to 39 f ; r y . Weather wet. Troyes—A large market; a rise of 25c the hectolitre on wheat. Weather cloudy. Accounts from Lyons state that the crops are in ge neral not less abundant in the department of the Rhone than in the neighbouring departments. The are w heat fields which had been laid and by they the recent s t o rms and rain had again risen, rapidly approaching maturity. Wheat, rye, oa t s , and barley promise not only plenty of grain, but an abundance of straw. There has been a good average crop of rape and hay. All the green crops are luxu riant, in consequence of the late rain. The meadows i wer e mown early in the season, and there s now a heavy crop of after-grass. The vine, however, pro mises to be the most abundant of all the crops. It will enrich the winegrowers if it be not injured by hail. The quantity and the development of the grapes are described as marvellous. Some of the grapes are already larger than a pea. It is expected that they will b eg i n to ripen in July, and that the vintage will probably commence before the end of August. A letter from Toulouse, of the 15th inst., says I have collected some important information relative to the crops in this part of the country, The autumn sowing was accomplish e d un d er th e best possible atmospheric con ditions, and the wheat crop is consequently magnificent as to its 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, and 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 25th June. But we have many risks to incur—fogs, or hail, v iolent wind, or heavy rain may beat down the wheat. Should we escape these eventualities, which I trust wo shall, the harvest of 1862 will be corneas The growing not been s een for man y y ears. The Indian he gro wing apace , and p romises to be a splendid er, crop. now vetches , which had suffered from the dry Weath are luxuriant, as well as the oats, barley, and rye. Acoounts from Alexandria announce that the COVENTRY, MONDAY. After being omitted for 11 years the Lady Godiva ride through Coventry was to-day celebrated with greater magnificeve than was ever before witnessed 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 inhabitante. The procession formed near the entrance to St. Mary's Hail, 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.l; corststaca,tne two heralds, d resse d i n strangely shape eichly embroidered with armorial devic es . Next f o ll owe d the great ele phant from Wombell's menagerie, with huge ings hanging dow n hi s s i de and a castleonhishboaucks-, painted half red and half -green—a representation of the city arme. Then came Wonabwell's band in a carriage drawn by four camels. After the ant. b 1 14 city guards, clad in the old iron armour, which, except on State occasions, was hung in front cf the minstrel gallery of St. Mary's Hall since the tim e of the Commonwealth. A couple of banners came next, and then St. George, armed cap-a-pie 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 b y men with sashes, 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, &c., 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 Fellow,s, 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 Rand, after which the City Banner, and two little boys on horseback, dressed in the full civic costume of the city crier and beadle. Two heralds, blowing :rumpets, succeeded; and after the heralds came the great feature of the procession, and the one to which all others were subordinate, namely, Lady Godiva, repreiented 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 a boy, habited as a page, and two little girls in light blue satin _drespg p , & ~other ~ehil~ren 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 end 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 t procession than his neighbours. By favour of Sir Chas. Wetherall, General Com mander of the Midland District, the two companies of the First loyal Dragoons now stationed at 'Coventry were allowed to accompany the proces sion, and keep the crowd back and they performed from breaking the line or obstructing its progress, their duty in a most satisfactory manner. The procession started soon after 12 o'clo c k, ana was not broken up till nearly 5 o'clock. RAIL TVAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN .PABLIAME.AT. Yesterday , e in the Duke of Ri c h mon d' s committee, th fur evidence was adduced in f avour of the pro moters of the East Glouc es t ers hi re Railway. The bills of the Banstead and E psom, 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 nnconcluded, and it will be necessary to ask waiver of the standing orders of the House of Lords, introduced by Lord Redesdale, which declare that no bill can be read a second time after a given d a t e, i n 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-house and the B oard of Control shall be deemed to form part of their ed t es tablishments ; that no bhildings shall be ere thereon without the consent of the Comm Woods of Woods and Works; and that as regards the rights of the Duchy of Lancaster, the amount of valuation for any lands belonging to it shall be paid e to ethrae receivership of the duchy before any streets stlr.eeets is to minced in the Savoy , o r u p on the lands of the Crown. 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