The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-04 00:00:00

DRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE Directeur, M. Talexy.—Leasee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Mesdames Basta, Guerin, Gravier, and M. Paul Devaux. LES JEU AU COUVENT. M. Paul Devaux. LES PROJETS DE MANTE. LES FEMMES AUX OEUFS Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 28. - Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Was. BATTY. Notice.—The Entertainments on Monday Evening last having been honoured by the presence and approbation of their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold and suite, and other distinguished visitors, the magnificent Hippo- Drama, and the Novel and Wondrous Scenes in the Arena forming the programme on the occasion, will be repeated every evening till further notice. By particular request, there will be TWO more GRAND MID DAY PERFORMANCES, viz., on Wednesday, July 4, and Saturday, July 7, commencing each day at 2 o'clock. On Monday, July 2, 1860, and during the week, to com mence with the immensely successful Grand Historical Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled "FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by Scenes in the Cirque, supported by Madlles. De Berg, Monet, and Leontine ; Messrs. Fernando, L'Epine, F. Watson, and Herr Christoff, ttc. Sec., attistes of unequalled celebrity. Conclud ing with a Popular Farce. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT• Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolti. CONCERTS.- CA NTERBUR Y HALL THIS EVENING. C. H. GOIINOD'S OPERA. FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust ., Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Marguerite .• • • --. Miss Russell. Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Travatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. T:salcony, is, Hall. 6d. Comic Voas.tists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic). and W. T. Critchfield. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of seventeen performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), will make their first appearance on MONDAY next for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till II on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 4, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and daring the night. 71—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.23 ; falling. WIND—W.-N.-Westerly ; moderate, with fine summer weather. Two o'CLocx.—Wind more Northerly, and fresh. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechaniem."—Morning Post Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watch es sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buskstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commense with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck. stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. Followed by A HANDSOME HUSBAND. To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By the Leclereqs. Commence at 7. ROYAL PR,INCESS's THEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will ba performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps. To oonclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Leclercq, &c. Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, " The Flowers of the Forest." Tenth week of the popular American Actress, Miss Julia Daly THIS nIVXNING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daffy, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, h. ' • Pit Stalls, 28. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Malinger—Mr. Wm. Smith. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. True DAY.—Morning, 2h. 31m.—Afternoon, 2h. 53m. To-atonnow.-Morning, 3h. 11m.—Afternoon, 3h. 33m. g I, ~..., ,,, ....., - -, - i .o. ~,,., .. 4,7,j k1, ~,,.,..._, ''''•-zt , . . ...,, 44.? A-7 ' 3l 0 S_ 2 161 i •k Y THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, :JULY 4, 1880, We have now clearly the business before us which the House of Commons will take in hand, we pre sume, according to arrangement on Thursday night, —to get through with it, no one knows when ! Altogether, this quarrel on or over paper bids fair to be a notable one. There was first the long struggle of the out-of-doors repealers. Then the hard one of the Cabinet and House of Commons Repealers ; then the unlucky contretemps in the Lords, and the repeal of a tax stopped where, in the memory of liv ing man, no Tax Repeal Bill had ever been stopped before. Next came the , indignation of the Cheap Press, and the grave looks of members of the House of Commons, angry with the Lords for trenching ' on their privileges, yet glad to save almost a million and a half under the fear of having to pay, otherwise, twopence more in the pound income-tax next year. The solemn searching of the Lords' journals for what every reader of newspapers knew followed-- then the Tax Bills Committee to hunt for prece dents, then the val reports of WALPOLE and BRIGHT, with the conflicting votings in committee of members of the Cabinet, and now at last th e resolutions to be proposed by the servants of her MAJESTY in regard to the " Aggression of the Lords" on her " faithful Commons" are fairly be fore us. What will or can be said on Thursday that has not been said ? Oratorical powder may be burnt, as much as honourable members please, but the shot have all been used. The plain facts of the case are that the Lords are technically right, but substan tially wrong. But owing to . our Chancellor of the Exchequer having attempted too much this year in the way of repeal, and the Commons having voted too much in the way of exPelid;Aure, things were going " over the left sh'Jul..der." The Lords saw their opportu nity to revenge themselves on two or three orators for Whom they have no great love—saw that saving the money would indemnify them with the country Tor snubbing these mighty commoners—so they tighten afresh the straps of one heavy burden which the Commons had undone. This is the plain state of the case. The public generally overlook or con done the attack on the rights of their representa tives because the Commons used their rights wrongly, and the Lords, we were going to say, did a wrong rightly. It may be that this is all very tieing —it is so. "Todo a great right do a ut "wrong " this is not the motto for the highest court of appeal in the kingdom ; but they have done it , and no great agitation can be got up about it. And now for the resolutions—they got into the paper somehow—Mr. DISRAELI in vain inquired for them early in the evening ; but no Lord PAL. MERSTON was there ; still Lord J 01.1 1 ,1 RUSSELL had no doubt that they would find their way unto the table in the cours e o f the night. How they got there we are not told by our reporters. Lord p AL mERsToN only peeped in at a door fora Minister minute and fizded again from view ; ve r y qu i c k ly ' after Minister followed him ; soon the number of members fell below the sacred forty, mild the planned count out saved a host of awkward questions and speeches, and left all parties to furbish their weapons in readiness for the grand fight of Thursday; A little time is, therefore, left for the country—. and who knows not that " we" of the Daily Press are the country?—to speak its mind. As to the first resolution, then, we may pass it over. All parties will agree to it. It is but the reaffirmation of old and accepted declarations of the House of Commons. The second, also, is one the Lords them- selves will not deny—the exercise of their power to negative money bills as a whole has been so infre quently used that a committee of precedents was appointed to see how often, and on what occasions they had used the power. The resolution omits the definitions proposed by Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. GLAD STONE in committee, by which the precedents seemingly favourable to the Lords would be affirmed to be inapplicable to the case which has caused the dispute. It merely affirms that the Commons jealously" and " justly" watch the exercise of their power by the Upper House ; this, however, expresses only a shadow of opinion— that conveyed by the word " justly"—which can hardly be denied, and all the rest is mere history. But the last resolution, like the everlasting post script to the lady's letter, contains the sting if there be one. As it stands, however, even in this one, we can see nothing which the party in the Commons who stand by the Lords need object to. It threatens nothing. It proposes no steps for practically rescinding the obnoxious vote of the Lords. Its sum is that the Commons have power to frame their tax bills so as to prevent an undue exercise by the Lords of their negativing power,— to insure that " the right of the Commons as to the matter, manner, measure, and time, may be main tained inviolate." This seems to be hardly an opinion, but a fact. The Commons, had they sus pected what the Lords would do, could certainly have made the repeal of the paper duty part of a supply measure, in such a manner that by rejecting it the Lords would have stopped the wheels of Government. One curious circumstance struck us in the reso lution. It is not exactly bad grammar; but one short sentence is such a misfit as shows pretty plainly that the resolution as it stands is a better one marred. That dragging clause, "for the future" —how came it there ? Without it the sense is ' clear as described above. " That to guard against an undue exercise of their power by the Lords, this house has in its own hands the power so to impose," &c.—that is, it has it constitu tionally. But why insert that "to guard for the future" against the Lords' abuse of their power, and so forth. Plainly in the draft resolu tion the connection was this—that to guard for the future against the Lords' abuse of power the House of Commons has and will use the power, so to shape its tax repeal bills that the Lords must pass them, The advertence to " the future" points to a sup pressed clause worth all the rest of the resolutions put together. A clause which said in effect, we do not mean to fight the battle this time, my Lords ; but :we :warn you that we 'will take good care, for time to come—we will give you no opportu nity, in future, to reject a bill which repeals a tax. That the House can do this is self-evident, for it can make all taxing bills annual, and the chief mischief the Lords have done, 'perhaps, practically comes to this, that it will favour annual taxation bills. While we are writing our reporter informs us, that Mr. DUNCOMBE has given notice that on the Premier's moving his resolutions on Thursday, he will propose to add to them, that an humble address be presented to her MAJESTY requesting her not to prorogue Parliament until a bill has been presented for her sanction, to Repeal the Duties on Paper I The hon. member will have against him not only the friends of the Lords, but the summer days at last—when other members will care much more about enjoying them out of doors, than about fight ing the tenants of " another place." The Parliamentary Committee appointed to that end is steadily working its way to the demonstra tion of the perfect feasibility of the Thames Em bankment. Witness after witness is examined day after day with the same result. Engineers and architects, contractors and theorists, all tell the same tale—all insist upon it that the change can be made, and ought to be made. And made assuredly it will be sooner or later—of that every body is by this time tolerably well satisfied. The sooner it is commenced say we the better. Why, in truth, should not the good work be begun at once without any further procrastination ? At the best the whole scheme will require some years for its complete accomplishment. Its early, or rather immediate commencement, consequently, is for two obvious reasons assuredly most advisable. In the first place, the work that is to be done will be the sooner brought to its final completion. And, secondly, the fear entertained in regard to the ex penditure requisite in carrying out such an en terprise may be at once dissipated. The labour requiring so many years before it can be expected to terminate, that labour will not manifestly have to be incurred instanter—the disbursements will in due course be periodical, year by year, instalment upon instalment. What should hearten us all the more towards the realisation of this long-cherished design is the recollection that already, in two ways, the preliminary - works have been adventured upon successfully. The Embankment is there already, to a certain extent, on the Middlesex side of the river, in the vicinity of Vauxhall. Upon that bank the scheme needs only gradual elongation and develop ment. And as it advances along the margin of the city of Westminster towards its twin city, the great capital of London—does not the pro ject come at its very next move upon those debris of the old bridge there close by the Palace of the Legislature—those debris which will have to be removed from the bed of the river imme diately the new bridge shall have been completed. And that can be removed nowhere so conveniently or so advantageously, or even for that matter so economically as to the contiguous bank of the river, where it would be most acceptable and serviceable in carrying out the great project of the Thames Embankment. Government is willing —even eager so far as Government can be eager about carrying out anything—to aid in the development of this superb metropolitan improvement. The Board of Works looks upon the scheme with complacency, and is prepared to lend it not only its coun tenance, but to give it the most positive assurance of its encouragement and appro bation. The Chief Commissioner views it in like manner with cordial approval. The very cor poration of the City is most favourably disposed to this plan of embanking the river—as projected o Yesterday, in truth, the City Chamberlain stated such to be the fact quite explicitly—adding, for the information of the committee, that a full score of years back they had actually originated a plan for the embankment of the river Thames upon both sides—the very enterprise that now twenty years afterwards all are bent upon co-operating in the realisation of ! The information given to the Committee during the course of yesterday's sitting by Mr. SCOTT, the City Chamberlain, while in some parts it may appear to have been somewhat irrelevant, will un doubtedly prove to the majority peculiarly accept able. It shows that if so much more remains to do, already much has been actually lish in the diversified. labours of carrying out these grand met ropo li tan improvements. accomplished gou ed t with the production of those three Acts of Par liament during the reign of the present Sovereign, empowering the Corporation of London to borrow £300,000 for City improvements—the Chamber lain of the Corporation showed in round numbers the manner in which the annual expenditure of the Cor poration has been distributed. That expenditure amounts it is calculated within the year to the ample sum of £Bo,ooo—a total thus apportioned : to the magistrates £7,ooo—to the police force from £9,000 to £lO,OOO (one quarter only, however, of this being disbursed by the City, the remaining three-fourths being drawn from the Consolidated Fund)—to the the prisons generally £6,ooo—to Holloway prison in particular, £5,700—t0 the Debtors Prison, £5,400—t0 the Coroner, £Boo—for printing, sta tionery, and other incidental expenses of a miscel laneous kind, £s,ooo—for carrying out the administration of criminal justice, £B,OOO. Altogether, as before intimated showing an annual expenditure of some £BO,OOO on the part of the Corporation. In addi tion to all which, it is satisfactory to note that, as the City Chamberlain demonstrated yesterday be fore the Parliamentary Committee—large sums of money have been all the while laid out by the Corporation in the inauguration or development of divers metropolitan improvements. For example, there is set down in this way in the City accounts the goodly sum of £92,000 for the new prison at Holloway—and another sum for the Debtors'Prison of £B,ooo—besides the apportionment in all proba bility for the new civil courts of an additional sum of £lO,OOO. An extra sum of £11,600 per annum being set apart, moreover, for metropolitan im provements generally. Beyond which, is there not on record the contribution to the fund for the con struction of the Metropolitan Railway of no less princely a sum than £200,000 by the City Corpo ration ? A contribution proportionately munificent from the same source we now look for, if only out of the merest motives of self-interest, in aid of this grand and in many respects most desirable of all metropolitan improvements, the project of the Thames Embankment. •We deeply regret to see that on board the . steamers of the Cunard Line a distinction is still made among first-class passengers educated and cultivated ladies, too, founded on the colour of their skin. How can this be ! Mr. Com missioner HILL, the Recorder of Birmingham, and his friend, Mr. CHAPMAN, have done well to bring these painful facts before the British public. When there was general in dignation at the manner in which Mr. FREDERIC DOUGLAS was treated by a captain of the Cunard line, Sir SAMUEL promised that such thoroughly un- English practices should never occur again—yet it seems Mrs. PUTNAM, a name well-known even on this side the water, with her whole party of four, after having taken a first-class ticket, were not allowed by the captain to dine with the rest of the passengers, but compelled to go into a small room by themselves ! The American agent offered to refund them their money if they did not like it ! but circumstances compelled them to proceed. We almost question whether the captain and the agent would not be held legally bound to furnish like accommoda tion to all—that they were morally bound no one can doubt. The subject ought to be men tioned in the House of Commons. Sir S. CUNARD is now receiving from the national exche quer an enormous subsidy for a service which others would undertake without a subsidy at all. His vessels sail also under an official flag. Is it fair that to gratify the prejudices of Americans in re gard to colour—prejudices so disgusting we may truly say to all England, the receiver of such a large amount of public money should please Americans to the grief and shame of the nation which pays him. All English ships are, legally, a " part of the territory" of the coun try they sail from, and in that country the slave who steps ashore is free, and the coloured man is treated as an equal—as a man and a brother. Especially must all the world look on ships in the Govern ment service as part of English territory—and England may reasonably expect that the noblest privileges of the country shall be respected there. We trust Sir SAMUEL CUNARD will no longer allow his country to be dishonoured by truckling to bullying, slavery men, in the otherwise noble line of ships which he has created. PORTRAIT OF H.R.H. TEE PRINCE OF WALES, Mr. John Watkins, the eminent photographer, of Par liament-street, had the honour of attending at Buckingham Palace this morning, and taking several sittings of his Royal Highness the Prince of 11 ales, prior to his departure for Canada. Major-General the Hon. It. Bruce, Governor of the Prince of Wales, also sat to Mr. Watkins, by whom por traits of Earl St. Germans an•] Major Teesdale, C. 8., had been previously taken; thus completing a series of photo. graphs of the gentlemen who will officially accompany the Prince of Wales on his visit to the United States. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Last night an Ita lian version of Weber's fairy opera, " Oberon," was pro duced with a very powerful distribution of the dramatis persona, and great splendour of scenery, costume, and stage accessories. Mademoiselle Titiens, Madame Alboni, Signor Mongini, Signor Belart, Signor Evarardi, and other emi nent singers were included in the cast. Mr. Benedict directed the orchestra. The house was crowded, and the opera entirely successful. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.— Her Majesty, accompanied by H.R.H. the Prince Consort, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, H.R.H. the Prince Arthur, and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, honoured the Royal Italian Opera, Co vent-garden, with their presence last evening. Her Ma jesty's suite included the Countess:of Caledon, Hon. Horatia Stopford, Lord de Tabley, Gen. Grey, Col. the Hon. C. H. Hardinge, Major Elphinstone, and Captain Grey. The entertainment consisted of Gluck's opera of "Orfeo e Euri ... dice," performed, according to the announcements, by the express desire of the Queen. Mdlle. Csillag was loudly applauded, and the whole opera appeared to afford great gratification to the Royal party, as well as to the audience in general. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE HON. JAMES STUART WORTLEY.—It will be in the recollection of our readers that this gentleman accompanied Lord Elgin's embassy to China in an official capacity. He was on board the Malabar when that vessel was suddenly wrecked in the Galle har bour, and with his noble chief was among the last who left the ;hip. He bad previously one of his boxes broken open and robbed during the Overland route, and now the remnant of his portable property is at the bottom of the sea, with Lord Elgin's orders, papers, and credentials. We regret to announce the death, at Dresden, of Sir George Bowyer. He succeeded on the death of his father, Admiral Sir George Bowyer, to two titles—one con ferred on Sir Wm. Bowyer, of Denham-court, B u cks, in 1660, for services during the Civil War and at the Restore ration ; and the other granted to Admiral Bowyer, after Lord Howe's victory on the Ist of June, 1794, in which engagement he was severely wounded. The deceased baronet formerly represented the boroughs of Malmesbury and Abingdon, and was a friend and supporter of Pitt and Canning. By his wife—daughter of Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, who was captain of Lord Howe's flagship the Queen Charlotte, and also severely wounded at the victory on the Ist of June—he leaves three sons and two daughters. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, the member for Dundalk, now Sir George Bowyer, of Rad ley—park, Berks. RETIREMENT OF MR. BINGHAM.—A severe and somewhat sudden attack of indisposition, last week, has induced Mr. Bingham, the senior magistrate at the Marl. borough-street Court, to send in his resignation. Mr. Bingham, before he was' appointed to the Metropolitan Bench, occupied a respectable and a rising position at the bar. He was the legal reporter to the Common Pleas, and " Bingharn'e Reports" continue to maintain a high autho rity with the judicial bench. His practice was on the Western Circuit, and he was for some years Recorder of Southampton and Portsmouth. About 20 years ago Mr. Bingham was made one of the metropolitan magistrates, taking his seat at 'Worship-street, from which court about 14 years back he was removed to Marlborough-street Police Court. In retiring into private life Mr. Bingham carries with him the esteem and respect of all with whom his pub lic position brought him in contact, for thorough upright ness and indefatigable exertions as a magistrate, acknow ledged ability as a lawyer, and undeviating kindness of dis position. His successor is not yet named. The liabilities of Messrs. Smith and Patient and Messrs. J. H. Smith and Co., whose failure in the leather trade was notified on Monday, are respectively stated to be £lBO,OOO and £200,000. The additional stoppages an nounced are Messrs. W. and C. Mundy, for £70,000 ; Mr. Hacker, for about £30,000 or £40,000 ; Mr. A. Waring, for about £30,000 ; Mr. T. H. Mortimore, of Andover, and Mr. Gibson, of Godalming. The books of the latter, whose liabilities are estimated at £140,000, and also those of J. H. Smith and Co., have been placed in the hands of Quilter and Co. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25.12} per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng lish Mint price of £3 17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.34 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 109 i to 1094 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex change is slightly in favour of England • but, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a very trifling profit on the importa tion of gold from the United States. THE WEATHER.—Since Friday there has been a most agreeable change in the weather, and the appearance of the country already exhibits the blessings resulting from the change. The glass has gradually risen and settled at " fair," and the sun yesterday was bountiful in its heat. On Saturday a great deal of grass was cut in the neighbour hood of Plymouth, and hay making will become very ge neral here in the course of this week. We passed through many corn fields yesterday, and the wheat generally looked as if it were uninjured, and if the fine weather continue it is hoped that no harm will have been done. The plough will now be set to work for the sowing of swedes, &c., much work having been delayed by the incessant wet that has so long prevailed.—Daily Western Mercury, Plymouth. REMARKABLE WEATHER.—Mr. E. J. Lowe, of Highfield-house Observatory, says :—" It is desirable to place upon record the extraordinary weather of June, 1860. On only seven days did the thermometer in shade reach 70 deg., the maximum heat for the month being 73.5 deg.—a great contrast to June, 1858, when it was 92.2 deg., or 181 deg. higher. Previously the lowest maxima have occurred in 1843 and'lBs2, when the temperature reached 77 deg., or 3.5 deg. higher than in June, 1860. On refer ring to Mr. Glaisher's tables of temperature for June, it will be found that at Greenwich the temperature was lower in 1797 and 1821 by half a degree, and in 1852 by three quarters of a degree. The mean temperature of June at Greenwich, from observations commencing in 1771 is 58.0 deg., while the mean here for June, 1860, was only 55.0 deg. June has been, moreover, unusually rainy, and, although the amount fallen here has been less than in most other places, the whole amount is half an inch above the average. Raine fell on no less than 26 days. In 1852 and 1853 the amount of rain was greater, but, as the excess fell in violent thunderstorms, these years are scarcely com parable with the month just ended. A change has now taken place, in the weather, with every appearance of continuance." SMITHFIELD MARKET BILL.--This bill as amended by the select committee, contains a clause providing that a part of Smithfield-market-place (coloured red upon a plan deposited at the office of Land Revenue Records) shall be for ever reserved as an open public place, subject to its use as a hay-market, and no building shall be erected other than a fountain and dwarf walls with iron rails not exceeding in the whole four feet six inches high at the sides of the pro posed entrance to a goods station. Several of the neigh , bouring streets are to be alt ere d , some w i dened, some stopped ' up and new ones opened, and Duke-street is to be paved with wood, if found necessary, on account of the nearness to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The market tolls are to be a farthing for every 211 b. of provisions, a half-penny a cwt. for provisions weighed at the owner's request, and Id. a week per square foot for every shop or stall, which tolls and the rent for the use of the railway station are to be applied towards paying the cast of the market, after which the tolls are to cease, and the rent is to be applied towards the maintenance and improvement of the market, which the Corporation have power to enlarge if necessary. The bill is not to authorise the erection of any slaughter • house or gas works. STATE OF THE RIVER THAMES.—At a meeting of the City Court of Sewers, yesterday, Dr. Letheby re ported that the river up to the present time has not been offensive, and is in its normal condition. This satisfactory state of things, he says, has evidently been obtained by the continuance of wet weather. In the month of May last year the total rain-fall in London was but two inches under the corresponding months of this year, when it amounted to 3.7 inches. In June last year it was barely two inches, but in the- three weeks of the last month it has been 4.6 inches. The report goes on state that Dr. M'William, of her Majesty's Customs, ha s so recen tl y i nqu i re d i n t o the effects of the river nuisance, and has so clearly shown that they have not yet produced the injury which was an ticipated, that Dr. Letheby considered it unnecessary to discuss the subject in this report, and he says it is evident, happily, that some condition is still wanted to make this " filthy river capable of generating cholera, or of forming a soil fit for the germination of the seeds of that disorder when introduced into it." But this is no argument for the neglect of sanitary precautions or for disregarding every means for abating She noisome condition of the river ; nor is it a reason for temporising with the mischief by resorting to any doubtful expedient that may merely serve as a dis guise for a nuisance. CANCER HOSPITAL, LONDON.—The annual meet ing of the governors of this charity took place on Friday, the 22d inst., in the board-room of the hospital, 167, Pic cadilly. Upon the motion of Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Oliver Farrar, the brother of the treasurer to the hospital, Mr. Wm. Loxham Farrar, was voted into the chair. Many friends of the institution were present; amongst others, Captain W. King Hall, Mr. Halswell, Dr. Marsden, Mr. David Mocatta, Mr. Win. Withall, Mr. Hannah, Mr. Weedon Cooke, Mr. Hinchliff, Rev. J. B. Owen, Dr. Knox, Mr. Alexander Marsden &c. Thesecretary (Mr. Cockerill) read the annu a l report, which showed that the institution was prospering. Her Majesty had graciously contributed £lOO to the hospital, and many of the city firms and com panies had presented £5O each. An effort has recently been made to enable the committee to complete the build in., the first stone of whi eh was laid by Miss Burdett Coutta last June, and who has also been a most liberal contributor to the hospital. The first part of the building now erected, but not yet finished, will accommodate 60 patients ; but there is ground enough attached to provide for an extension of wards sufficient to accommodate 300 patients. Since the foundation of the hospital in 1851, upwards of 3,500 poor persons have been received either as in or out-patients; and we have no hesitation in saying that this is one of the most useful and meritorious institutions of the metropolis, assuaging the misery of multitudes that have hitherto had little if any help from the hand of the benevolent, usually so warmly extended towards the suffering.— Court Journal. It was Napoleon's marriage in particular against which Jerome declared himself loudly, and for this reason ho never, up to his dying hour, was fully reco nciled with k the Empress. It doe s no t appear t o b e in the nature of ladies, at least not of Spanish ladies, to pardon such little mistakes. On the other band, Jerome evinced great fond ness for his daughter-in-law, the Princess Clotildo of Sar dinia, who many a time had to become the mediator be tween him and hi 3 nephew. Perhaps had he not been such a very necessary ornament of the imperial throne, it would have fared ill in latter times with the ex-King of Westphalia, for his ill-humour sometimes got the better of hie judgment, and he allowed himself to say things to his Mends over the table, which no other man in France would have dared whispering. All things considered, I do not think the Emperor is very sorry for the loss of his old uncle, valuable though he was to him aka piece of histori cal furniture. It is true, Jerome Bona parte was not a great man in the stricter sense of the word; yet he had, nevertheless, some of the spirit of the family in him, and was possessed of more atility, and even geniality, than the world in general has given him credit for. It was his misfortune, in more than one respect, that he had such an all-domineering brother, who not only made the whole of the members of his family the tools of his political desires, but even interfered in their most intimate private cencerns. There is little doubt but that he loved hisyoung American wife most sincerely, and was beloved no less in return : and their forcible separation by the powerful arm of Napoleon brought nothing but misery to both. The succeeding career of Jerome came to be what in nine cases out of ten is the ordinary result of such a calamitous break of life's golden hopes ; Jerome grew careless and dissipated, and finally took to the bottle.--Paris Correspondent of th e Ceto t .4Yetc6. THE SUN, LUNDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 18604 THE PRINCE OF WALES 1N TEE C.RIC.K_ET-FIELD. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General Seymour and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, went to Windsor yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, to play a game of cricket with the Marquis of Bowmont, the Hon. Mr. Sumerville, Mr. Pepys, Mr. Thomas Baring, and a number of students of Christ Church; Oxford. Elegant tents were erected in the Home Park, fronting the east terrace, under the able supervision of Mr.itoberts, of the Lord Chamberlain's Department, where at two o'clock the Royal party partook of a sumptuous repast, ex pressly prepared at the Castle for the occasion. Unfortu nately there was no music to enliven the scene, the band of the Royal Horse Guards being. at Aldershott, and that of the Grenadier Guards in London, a very unusual circum stance for "Windsor to be without military music. The Prince arrived at Windsor at eleven in the forenoon, and left at six o'clock in the evening. Lord Turner's eleven played. a match against the Etonians, the same day in the shooting fields of Eton College, in whichthe latter were victorious by 31 runs ; the score being—Eton, 96; Lord Turner's 65, first innings. READY! King Alfred forth from Athelney leapt,-- 'Twas a thousand years ago,— T Because espeitro his lair atestho he ugh so quietly tthattbe kept, had slept, u But out he lash'd, and suddenly swept His den of the Danish Fos I And brave Queen Bess when at Tilbury Fort She rode out stern and slow, Throng' d by her People, her Guards, and her Court, With Drake in the Channel, and Howard in Port, 0 how that old Queeß of the Pope made sport And jeered at a Spanish Foe I And now, well-mustered on Wimbledon Heath, Victoria's sons will show How wisely,—tho' friends, we are armed to the teeth, And care for no Power on earth, or beneath, Should even a " faithf u l ally" slip sheath And come sword and hand as a Foe I Ready,—ay, Ready ; for Freedom we stand ; And so the wide-world shall know That, girt by her children, one brotherly band, Riflemen swarming all over the land, With plenty of Drakes in the Channel at hand, Old England fears no Foe 1 MARTIN F. TUPPER. The New York advices state that remittances of specie to this country are likely to continue. The letters from Amsteidam state that in Holland the subscriptions for the Russian Loan, which is to be ad judicated to-day, have been rather large. The bar silver brought by the Mexican steamer has, in the absence of any immediate demand for the East, been sold for transmission to the continent at 611 d. per oz. This establishes a decline of 1,1. from the rate obtained for the silver brought by the previous packet. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Gross traffic 'returns for the week ending June 30, 1860, £22,689 ls. Id. ; ditto 2d July, 1859, £22,669 16s. 4d. Increase, 1860, £l9 4s. 9d. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. — Traffic for week ending 30th June, 1860, £21,991; ditto July 2, 1859, £19,140 ; total of the half -year to the above date, 1860, £382,182; ditto 1869, £361,808. Total number of passengers for week ending 30th June, 1860-273,041. Total miles open, 1860, 2231 ; ditto 1859, 202 f. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : ME.RSEILLES, JULY 3. According to advices from Naples to the 30th ult., assemblages of the population commenced on the evening of the 26th ult. The populace shouted " Garibaldi for ever !" " Annexation for ever !' " Death to the police ! The following day a panic took place, the police were maltreated, and disap peared as soon as the same cries were raised by the populace. The King had twice sent Signor Aquila to Baron Brenier, and had promised to make a strict investigation. On the 28th ult. all the police stations were pillaged in open day; 40 of the agents were sur prised, and either killed or wounded. The archives were burnt. The spoils were carried about in triumph by the populace. The King bad arrived at Naples, and had ordered the immediate formation of a National Guard. The Official Journal praised the calm attitude of the majority of the population. The Advocates Romano had been appointed Pre fect of Police. A proclamation had been issued, prohibiting seditious shoats, and recommending the military to disperse assemblages of the population with mode ration. MARSEILLES, JULY 3. Letters from Palermo to the 25th ult. state that the Councils had been convoked, and would prepare electoral lists. The universal suffrage of the people and the army would be taken on the question of the annexation of Sicily to Piedmont. The com munes were to indemnify the deputies. Orders have been given for the conversion of the greater part of the bells into cannon. Advices from Palermo to the 28th ult. state that numerous arrests had taken place among the former functionaries, some of them being noble. Some of the people demanded that they should be shot. Fresh massacres of the sbirri had taken place Garibaldi bad sent some columns to re-establish order in.the interior of the island. The Ministry which he had formed was, however, unpopular. Notwithstanding the dissensions between the towns and the villages, and the resistance offered to the levying of the imposts, the same ardour to drive the Neapolitans out of the island continued to prevail. MADRID, JULY 3. The Emperor of Morocco has placed one instal ment of the indemnity at the disposal of Spain. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Siecle, Patrie, and Opinione Nationale very properly stigmatise the conduct of the Count de Montemolin in retracting the voluntary renuncia tion of his claim to the Spanish Crown. Thus far so good; and had they left the matter there no on• would have anything to say. But the Patrie goes on with historical parallels, and quotes the chival rous conduct of Francis 1., the " heroic memory of the vanquished of Pavia," as the Gazette de France terms him, by way of contrast with the Count de Montemolin. Nothing could be more unfortunate. It is true that when Francis was defeated and taken prisoner in that battle, he wrote to his mother the Regent, Tout est perdu fors l'honneur.' But, alas! " rhonneur" was soon forgotten. Fran cis was brought to Madrid, lodged in the Al cam, where he was certainly subjected to un generous treatment by his rival and vanquisher Charles V. After nearly a year's captivity he agreed to accept the terms dictated by Charles, and signed the treaty of Madrid on the 14th January, 1526. Moreover, he bound himself by oath that if within the time limited he did not fulfil the stipu lations in the treaty, he would return to Spain and surrender himself again a prisoner to the Emperor. Yet this chivalrous monarch, whose boast it was that amid the wreck of his fortunes he had pre served his honour, which fortune could not touch, assembled his confidential servants a few hours before he signed the treaty, and having sworn them to secrecy, declared that his consent should be considered as an involuntary act, and be deemed null and void. While he saved his honour in signing the treaty, he had already satis fied his conscience by finding a pretext to break it. And break it he did, the first moment he had an opportunity of returning to France ; and when the league which he had concocted against Charles V. was concluded, he demanded, and obtained, from Clement VII., who formed part of the combination, absolution from the oath which ho had taken to observe the -treaty of Madrid. It is rather unfor tunate, then, for these journals to appeal to Francis 1., and quite as much for the Gazette de France to talk of " tha heroic souvenir of the vanquished of Pavia," and speak of the Kings of the old race as models of honour. The Gazette observes that what the Count de Montemolin has done might be " authorised by numerous precedents in•the troubled history of our times, meaning, doubtless, that ex amples might be alleged of people having violated the most solemn pledges. Certainly such examples could be quoted, but it is no justification of Monte molin that he can break his promise because others have done so. AMERICA. LONDONDERRY, TUESDAY, The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North Briton, Capt. Borland, which left Quebec on the 23d ult., has arrived here and landed all mails. The United Kingdom had arrived out. _ A motion made in the Senate to reconsider the vote for postponing the Tariff bill had been agreed to. A committee has been appointed on the Post Office Deficiency Bill. The Baltimore Convention were awaiting the report of the Committee of Credentials of the mem bers of the Convention. Another session was expected. Seceders would meet immediately and proceed to a nomination. The Japanese Embassy received the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce on the 20th ult., and in answer to a congratulatory address from the Committee, replied that they hope that the inter course between Japan and the United States would become more extended. The Brooklyn Common Council had resolved to invite the Embassy to visit Brooklyn. CO` MERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 22. Stocks active and higher. New York Centrals, 82; Illinois, 624 ; Erie, 18, Money 4t05 on call. Exchange firm and unchanged. Cotton heavy; middling upland, 101 c. Flour, sc. to 10c. better. Demand not active. Canadian firm. Wheat, lc. to 2c. better. Market quiet, Oats dull. Pork quiet. Lard firm. _Freights for cotton to Liverpool, 5. 32d. MONTREAL, JUNE 23. The news brought by the Asia caused an advance in flour. Sales moderate at 5 dol. 30c. Peas and ashes dull. The account of the crops received from the country aro satisfactory. THE WEATHER IN SPAIN.—MADRID, June 28. The English papers are wondering what has become of the summer; they inquire whether anything has been heard of it either in the torrid or frigid zone—stolen or strayed, the dog days. If you would know where they have strayed you need only come to Madrid for half an hour, and the aspect of the panting, perspiring people would quickly con vince you that you had at last found the object of your search. In London and Paris you appear to be cowering over blazing hearths—in the latter city especially, the ladies seem to have brought out their furs again. Would that we could send you some of our surplus caloric ! for our too solid flesh is fast melting under the pitiless beams of the raging sun. The heat in Madrid is at this moment so intense that it has driven forth all politicians; the Senate and Chamber still are supposed to meet for the despatch of business, but urgent private affairs seem to have deprive d the country of their legislators. The entire city is deserted —not a soul remains here save such as are detained by in terest or necessity. AINSWORTH'S NEW WORK. Ovingdean Grange ; a Tale of the South Downs. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. One vol. pp. 357. Rout ledge and Co. The completion of another romance by Harrison is always a welcome announcement—welcome at least to all those lovers of romance whose eagerness has not impelled them to devour the new narrative, bit by bit, in its original piecemeal publication. To them this same announcement is anything but ac ceptable—for it is the intimation that they have again done, for the time being, with the mist en thralling and accomplished romancist of our gene•. ration. As such, Harrison Ainsworth has long been regarded, not by a mere clique, but rather, one might say, universally, cordially, and by accla mation. Beginning, as he did, when yet very young indeed—with somewhat of the precocity of Shakspere's Henry the Fifth. (though, it will be observed, with one slight italicised difference)— " To 'witch the world with noble penmanship 1" Harrison Ainsworth has already enjoyed more than a quarter of a century of popularity, though but yet himself in the vigour of his manhood — having been born in the same notable year (1806) which witnessed the birth of three among the most illustrious of his literary contemporaries—the late Douglas Jerrold and the Right Hons. Benjamin Disraeli and Bulwer Lytton. While Disraeli the Younger was winning his spurs in the lists of literature anonymously (his vizor closed—no crest on his helmet—no device upon his shield) as the Author of Vivian Grey—while 3'erroid was fleshing the maiden sword of his wit behind the scenes as the playwright of Black-eyed Susan—while Bulwer was couching his lance at all the social follies within his ken as the exquisitely humorous and vivacious selebrant of Mr. Pelham—the author of Rookwood was riding over every difficulty at a bound, was taking his place among the foremost rank as prin ceps in the new era of romancists, as firm in the saddle, as light yet as sure in his grasp upon the reins, as blithe of temper, as dauntless in courage, as the earliest, and still to our mind the most re nowned and popular of his heroes of questionable character, Dick Turpin, the famous Highway man. Since this last-mentioned and most memo rable literary feat was accomplished—how largely have not the lovers of romance been indebted to this heir and successor and surpassar of Anne Radcliffe ! It is now very nearly 30 long years since Rook wood was first conceived—the notion of writing that pink and pattern and paragon of all " romances" having first caught the imagination of Harrison Ainsworth in the autumn of 1831, during a visit to Chesterfield. A year or two after that happy thought the germ of it was so far developed that towards the close of 1838 a considerable part of the work was written—where ? Why close upon the very scene of this last of Ainsworth's romances, but now (in 1860) just completed—namely in the pretty little Sussex village of Rot tingdean ! Afterwards, that glorious " Ride to York"—the finest thing Mr. Ainsworth ever yet wrote, or to our fancy ever will write, as it is one of the most inimitable fragments in the whole range of imaginative literature—was penned (as he himself has told us in a delightful preface) in one day and one night, in less than twenty four hours, in " The Elms," a house then occupied by the author at Kilburn. " Well do I remember the fever into which I was thrown during the elm position"—wrote the Author of "Rookwood," fifteen years afterwards, in the preface alluded to—" My pen literally scoured over the pages. So thoroughly did I identify myself with the flying highwayman, that, once started, I found it impossible to halt. Animated by kindred enthusiasm, I cleared every obstacle in my path with as much facility as Turpin disposed of the impediments that beset his flight. In his company I mounted the hill side, dashed through the bustling village, swept over the desulate heath, threaded the silent street, plunged into the eddying stream, and kept an onward course, without pause, without hindrance, without fatigue. With him I shouted, sang, laughed, exulted, wept." And so on. No wonder his readers were carried away with him in this rush of imaginative ardour ! No wonder he took his place at once, as we have said, at a single bound in the front rank among the most gifted writers of prose fiction ! No wonder that since that celebrated achievement, for an achievement it undoubtedly was, and a remarkable one—no wonder that thenceforth Harrison Ains worth's name has been right welcome to all the thou sand-thousand lovers of purely romantic literature ! Particularly remembering how industriously during this interval of more than a quarter of a century the author of Rookwood has been making good again and again by romance after romance the distinction won for himself at the outset of his literary career by the book that gave him as it were instanter a reputation. Has he not associated that reputation of his with some of the noblest historic piles adorning this fair land of ours, but chiefly its imperial capital ?—with "Windsor Castle "—with "St. James s " Palace — with " The Tower of London "—with " Old St. Paul's" Cathedral ! Even " Auriol," that " Frag ment of a Romance" which was originally designed to have given us a record of " The mysteries of London" more wholesome than Eugene Sue's power ful but pernicious prototype—failed not in its time to evidence, in a new way, the varied force of our author's vivid and vigorous imagination. The selec tion of themes has, in another way—of itself—upon the very title pages of Ainsworth's fictions—de monstrated in a conspicuous manner the daring of that same almost audacious imagination. Has not his " Guy Fawkes" served, in its turn, to emphasise that whimsical remark of Charles Lamb's, when that dry humourist regretted the non-success of the Gunpowder Plot, because, said he, it would have been such a magnificent thunderclap in his tory ! Again, when going in quest of a hero for a new story, who else should he light upon at an other while than " Crichton" the admirable ! Writing in a monetary age, his heroine at another time is not inaptly or unattractively designated " The Miser's Daughter ;" but about the fair Hilda Scarve what a glamour of romance is there not thrown from the moment of her introduction in that crazy old house in the corner of the Little Sanc tuary of Westminster, to the hour of her happy marriage at last with Randuiph Crew ! As for " Jack Shephard," who has forgotten the aptness of that most apt of all quotations upon a title page, that emblazoned upon the " head and front of its offending," in those expostulatory and explanatory words from The Life and Ac tions of Guzman D'Alfarache ? " Upon my word," said I, " you have almost made me long to try what a robber I should make." "There's great art in it if you did," quoth he. " .21h! but," said I, " THERE'S A GREAT DEAL IN BEING HANGED." A quotation that ought certainly by rights to have been emblazoned also in very legible characters over the proscenium every time the dramatised version of this far-famed story was represented by her Ma jesty's servants before her Majesty's lieges. For " Jack Sheppard" has exercised from first to last — even its antagonists have insisted upon this (perhaps of all, indeed, the most loudly)—a won drous fascination. Not to tarry longer, however, over the past productions of Mr. Ainsworth's fancy as a romance writer and novelist, let us content ourselves here with enumerating some of his later effusions—the " Lancashire Witches," for example, and the " Flitch of Bacon," and " The Spendthrift," and " Mervyn Clitheroe ' " and now last, but not by an y means l eas t, this latest of his numerous works of imagination ! Works so nu merous that we believe they have numbered up already from sixteen to eighteen separate fic tions, most of them of very elaborate construction. As we have before intimated—where the first of Ainsworth's many popular romances, " Rookwood," was for the most part written, there lies the scene of the last of his romances—this " Tale of the South Downs," called OVINGDEAN GRANGE. Published re cently, month by month, in instalments as the feature and chief attraction in Bentley's Miscellany, " Ovingdean Grange" has now upon its completion been reissued in a separate form (in one goodly volume, but indifferently illustrated) by the pub lishers of Mr. Ainsworth's collected writings, the enterprising firm of the Messrs. Routledge. The illustrations (to have done with these at once) we cannot but regard as altogether unworthy of the pencil of Hablot Browne—probably the ori ginal designs having been marred by the careless ness or the lack of skill of the engraver. However this may be, they are wretchedly . not only of the hand of Phiz , but f picturesque and entralling letterpress of of which unworthy of the bellishments. These illustration s, we presume they arc designed tmoreeovtehr—e f e o m r: ether—are all the more noticeable f tunately to the number of no more thoarntheiegirhtalto- g insig nificance from our remembrance of themany orm ex quisite plates adorning previous worksforms of master romancist , p lates touched ynoat. p artists like Georg e intofrom the i Cruickshankg race and lines and Tony of b e a j u o t h y a b n would do well not to trifle t oo fre q uently, as he has done of oii 1 3; c e o a d r i s o ago an d at tle point of his keen late, with a re ptt e e en faily v etchingrs sus tained with admirable effect also years ago with a lead pencil upon boxwood, as in the wood cuts contributed by him, in companionship with George Cattermole, to " Master Humphrey's Clock." Enough, however, about the mere "plates." And now, if we cannot say revenons a nous moutons, at any rate let us return again to the tale of the South Downs. It is a narrative that has been fami liarizing itself for some months past to the readers of Bentley's Miscellany; and one that will now secure to itself yet more numerous " troops of friends" in its present form, as a complete a n d sepa rate publication. Divided into Nine Books—these again being subdivided into (altogether) forty-eight chapters—the story begins by awakening profound interest in the fortunes of the family at the old Grange at Ovingdean—the family, that is, of the old Cavalier Colonel Wolston Maunsel—and, page by page (numbering them up to the full comple ment of 357), it carries this interest uninterruptedly, unceasingly down to the very close of the fic titious history. The history, however, it should be said at once, is not altogether fictitious—it is in considerable parts of it strictly historical. And throughout these portions, as it appears to us, the narrative is wholly and most veraciously historical, with one solitary exception—a single exception in regard to a purely incidental particular that may, indeed, for aught we know, be anything rather than an inadvertence ; it may even, in fact, be intentional (for the purposes of fiction) on the part of our skilled romancist. We allude here simply to the circumstance that " my Lord Wilmot," captured by Stelfax and his Ironsides in the courtyard of the Old Grange at Ovingdean is described (p. 160) as disguised in a sad-coloured attire, of Puritan plain nese, and having his locks cropped close to his head like the veriest Praise-God-Barebones or Zeal-of the-land-Busy. Whereas it is beyond a doubt that Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, never once, from the fatal day of Worcester to the hour of the landing of the royal fugitives near Havre-de-Grace, never once assumed any disguise whatsoever. It is thus that in Mistress Anne Wyndham's Claus tram Regale Revaratum we find it recorded that, upon the date of his arrival at Trent, " his lordship was not in the least altered—except a hawk on his fist, and a lure by his side might pass for a disguise ! " Nay, in King Charles the Second's own account of " His Majesty's Es cape from Worcester"—the account dictated to Mr. Pepys by the King himself--we read in a quaint foot-note, penned by the Merry Monarch's own hand, or dictated by his own voice to his Bos• wellian amanuensis 1—" I could never get my Lord Wilmot to put on any disguise, he saying that he should look frightful in it, and therefore did never put on any.—KING." It must, however, be con ceded at once to Mr. Ainsworth, in this compara tively trivial particular—the enlarging upon which for one moment longer would savour unmistakeably of hypercriticism—that in cropping the locks of Lord Wilmot and exchanging his laced velvet raiment for the sombre garb of a Puritan, he exer cises the power of the romancist as allowably and justifiably as in subjecting Rochester to the incon venience of a temporary incarceration. And who that has read, or that shall yet read Ovingdean Grange, will quarrel with the literary wizard who thus skilfully in this latter particular, and to such good effect, wields the pen of the romancer as though it was the wand of a necromancer ? Who, in other words, wo u ld ven t ure t o su ggest the elimination from this absorbing narrative of one of its most exciting and breathless adventures ? The whole story, however, is one ingenious chain of adventures adventures connected inextricably link by link with each other. It is this artistic peculiarity of Ovingdean Grange that precludes us effectually, as it seems to us imperatively, from indulging ourselves and our readers with any illustrative quotation. In our attempt to select which we have only realised the more vividly, what we had already conjectured, the infinite skill with which the story has been con structed. Whenever we have momentarily decided upon some Particular incident in the tale as one admirably' suited for an extract, we have, upon searching for the close of this extract, found page after page turning glibly under our fingers, until it has been apparent that a column or two would barely do justice to the quota tion, and that even the excerpted passage could am pear then but fragmentarily. The sequence of the incidents, the uninterrupted rush of the interest, whether through dialogue or through description, proving as notable here as in the best portions of " Rookwood" or of " Jack Shepherd." And how, for example, could any reviewer begin an extract of the Ride to York (Rookwood, Book iv., ch. i.), with the accidental death of Tom King by Turpin's chance bullet at Kilburn Wells, and have the heart to close that extract until (B. iv., ch. vi.—the whole book, in fact !) Dick, as the red-haired countryman, sits eating his breakfast in the bowling-green at York ? Or, again, who could foreshorten the nar rative of Jack's escape from Newgate by the omis sion of one corridor, of a single chimney, a solitary door, or bolt, or screw of the huge iron-and-granite cage of the housebreaker turned prisonbreaker Mere " shreds and patches" of quotations would do _but scant justice in like manner to the singularly alluring interest of Harrison Ainsworth's last ro mance, even as we have said the same would have been done to his first romance of " Rookwood." Sufficient then let it be, if we here remark of Oving• dean Grange, that it is a romantic history of love, and valour, of " hair-breadth 'scapes," and peril. ous adventure, of loyal, and for that reason not the less patriotic devotion, and of politico-religious fanaticism, as represented (these two last) respec tively in the Royalists and the Roundheads. Charles the Second himself appears upon the scene, and, as already intimated, his companion and intimate Wilmot Earl of Rochester. The period of the tale is that romantic interval associated inextricably with the euphonious name of Boscobel, Indeed there is in the second part of the narrative of Boscober—so called after the region of the Royal. Oak, the place of the young fugitive King's conceal ment—there is in that narrative (p. ii) towards its close a mention of one Mr. Francis Mansel, the merchant of Chichester, who negotiated the hire for the King of that little barque of Captain Nicholas Tattersal, that led ultimately to the happy escape of Charles and Wilmot—a name (Mansel) that we cannot but conjecture to have fixed the title of the good cavalier house of the Mau nsels of the Grange of Ovingdean. Whence the root idea of the book however—no matter whether born of the Grange itself and its traditional associations or of Boseobel and its historical recollections—the narrative adds another surety to the expansion yet further of Harrison Ains worth's already wide popularity, and to the yet further elevation of his already high and conspicuous reputation. It is precisely for these reasons, and because at all times predisposed to expect so much at the hands of the author of Rookwood, whenever we open a new fiction from Harrison Ainsworth, as the recognised chief among our romancists, that we are here enabled upon the appearance of Ovmgdean Grange to offer him, as critics, our cordial and earnest congratulations. He has thrown a new charm through the spells and witcheries of romance over those beautiful South- Downs, over Brighton, over the Devil's Dyke, over Rottingdean and Ovingdean. RUG B 3'-July 2. RIFLE CORPS.—On Tuesday afterzioon last, at three o'clock, the rifle corps assembled li2 the close in greater numbers than at any previous tiine, and under their respective officers formed into four companies, into which they have lately been divici;d. After manoeuvring for some time in two divisions, they united, and were dismissed about 4.15. Much pleasure and surprise was expressed at the very. rapid progress they have made in the field exer cises, and we think that when they have obtained their uniform they will be as well as look a fine military body. The corps is looked on very favour ably in the School, as was evident from the ap plause that greeted the introduction, by Mr. Collyer, of some complimentary stanzas in " Vive la Com pagnie," at the concert on Monday evening. A. strong muster of the corps is expected at the ter mination of the holidays. CONCERT.—The usual private concert was given by the School Choral Society on Monday evening, and presented an unusually attractive programme. The first part consisted of a selection from Handel's "Alexander's Feast," admirably performed. The Choral Society well maintained their reputation for precision of time and accuracy of tone. The second part, as usual, was of a more popular chastac ter. The concerted p ieces w e re tastefully per formed, hands,ll r. o who o ll 's ti me; and to our mind the gem of the second art was a quartette from the oratorio of " Para dicep Lost," compo sed b y J. Lodge Ellerton, Esq., a Ru did justiceit was to entrusted it hyh t their very r c h as te and even singing, Mr. Barber sang Men delssohn's song of '"The Roamer," with mimit gbceiraenfuolf a able spirit, and elicited a hearty encore, as did also the songs " I'd mourn the hopes that leave me," by Mr. H. H. Walker, and the fine old English melody of the " Maypole," by Mr. H. Davies. Mr. Collyer was, as usual, quite . at home in "Vivo la C • • II ompagme to which several humor ous verses were added for the occasion. Invi tations were issued to the principal families in the town and neighbourhood, and the room was filled with a fashionable and attentive audience. The concert was considered one of the most successful ever given by the society. We need make no com ment on the admirable taste displayted by Mr. Walker in conducting the whole concert. MEETING OF TIIE TRUSTEES.—On Wednesday last the annual meeting of the honourable the trus tees, was held at the school. The new trustees ap pointed are Sir T. G. Skipwith, Bart., of the Hill House, Lutterworth, and the Rev. C. Holbeche, of Farnborough, near Banbury, in the room of the late Lord John Scott, and Henry Grimes, Esq.— The vacant almshouse was given to Thomas Batchelor, of this town. The Prince Jerome has left voluminous memoirs, which will be of great interest. His son, the Prince, went down to Fontaineleau with the PrincessClotilde to submit them and other matters to the Emperor. The Prince has left a will, in which he bequeaths £20,000 to a male child , born some four years since to one of his household.