The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-09 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."-3lorning Post. Gold Silver 2to 60 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom ftes by post, or to India and the Colonies for se. extra. $3 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with HALLOWEEN. By the Leclercqs. And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale. Rog ers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Hrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, In which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To concinde with THE KING'S GARDENER. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.— Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. irf HIS EVENING, will be performed THE LADY OF LXONS. Mr. G. Melville and Miss Heath. After which, UNE FILLE TERRIBLE. Characters by the Zouaves. Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole eroprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington. _ Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, .£2 28. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ; Pit Stalls, 2c; Pit, 15. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, le ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Was. BATTY. Immense Success of "Maseppa." A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Aug 11, commencing at Two o'clock. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA. AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day. Doors open at half-past 8, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, C. H. GOIJNOD'S OPERA. FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite •• • • Miss Russell. Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, Hail. 6d. Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), 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 11 on Sunday Evening. CONCERTS.- THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 9, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BAnomzTzß-29.69. WINr—W.N.W. ' • light, with fine weather. It rained heavily yesterday at times, and continued nearly all day. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Day.—Morning, 6h. 4m.—Afternoon, 6h. 22m, To-moitßow.-Morning, 6h. 43m.—Afternoon, 7h. Gm, THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1860. Wednesday's sitting—what was it about-014! only the Bishop of London's " Union of Benefices Bill "—and what's that to me! Such is probably a fair account of the mental colloquy which followed many a reader's glance at the columns headed " Parliamentary Intelligence." We confess it was what passed in our own mind ; but glancing down the list of speakers, making now very short speeches, it seemed like a Parliamentary game of foot-ball ; and, when we were thus led to look at it, we found the five or six hours' debate to be in reality a very amusing battle of " All the Crotchets." And no wonder, when we come to think of it. The Bill had for one-half of its object to pull down churches—not the Church—like that infidel Libera tion Society—something, if possible, much holier in the eyes of many, churches themselves—con secrated buildings. It is true the Bishop of St. David's, whose studies in Grecian history may have partially heathenised his mind, told us once in an angry fit in the House of Lords that the common notions of consecration were all a delusion—that it meant nothing more than registration of the property in the Bishop's office ; that no service at all was necessary, much less one which should transmute base earth and stone into the fine gold of the sanctuary. But supersti tion can survive many such attacks of fact and sense. It is of too cetherial and subtle, not to say silly a nature, to be smashed by such missiles ; it lets them pass through, closes again, and is its whole self as before, Indeed, if you turn iconoclast and smash its holy images, it picks up the frag ments, caresses them with a tender affection, and dubs them relics. We cannot be surprised, then, that, though the de molition was the work of Episcopal hands, yet tender veneration for the consecrated edifices inspired many a speech. Like a lover's passion, it did not wish to show itself too conspicuously in the House of Com mons, but it could not conceal itself, even at the hazard of incurring smiles. The bill itself is, in its purport, a religious business bill. It aims to treat religious worship as a matter which should be amenable to the dictates of common sense. The course of trade, and the habits of the day, have, as we all know, converted the city of London into a city of offices and shops, and made it on the Sun day., so far as inhabitants are concerned, almost as mucli a desert as the Great Zahara. Measured by resirient population, the artificial limits, which we designate the city, are but a very small municipality. It is surpassed by almost every large city or town in the Kingdom. Yet within this now small city there, are, Sir G. C. LEWIS tells us, 58 churches for • 55.,C.00 people. On the other hand, large districts in the suburbs have scarcely any church accommoda tion at all. The Bishop of LONDON, who has in him as much of the man as of the ecclesiastic, very sen sibly says, give us power to pull down the churches, sell - the sites, and apply the proceeds to the erec tion of churches where there are people to go to I thee a. lii the Lords, where bishops rule the roost, the bill got along pretty smoothly ; but there are no bish ops in the Lower House, no persons indeed who " 4 ever become bishops. Here, therefore, as 'alight be expected, all the crotchets of the unpro fe"l e l lB l laity had full swing. One thought in steak/ or pulling down the churches, they ought to gL t Preachers who were adapted to the popula tion, and who would draw a congregation. " Why not get us fifty SPURGEONS?" was loudly asked. If humdrum sermons and dull services would not td_tract people, why not get up services, and invite 'preachers like those who so easily, last winter, over l's?And the re seeme d reason crowded even St.Pau in the demand. It would save all the expense of pulling down :and rebuilding ; and the City would be resorted to on the Sunday for worshi p, as it is on the week' -day for business. Sir G. C. LEWIS said it was but the old difficulty—that re presented by the fahle, , of the mice—who will give lie t„ G. 1.0.41 4. / M\ 4 4 : o • 4 1 14 5 4 , f; \ r a> ti DiZU ; 7 i4 . • At 0 _ us, he said, the fifty SPURGEONS ? Another zealous Churchman offered to find 500 us popular, if they were but placed in the churches. But to that offer the immoveable Home Secretary had the immoveable objection—who eould compel the patrons to put them in ? Sir MORTON PETO troubled the hyper-churchmen as much as any one. The honourable member, it is well known, has provided, nearly at his own cost, two first class places of worship in London, and furnished bot'a with very popular preachers, besides . almost rebuilding the parish church at his own country seat of Lowistoft. He could not therefore well be sneered down as a mere destructive. Now the Bill cautiously provides that the churches shall be pulled down, the materials stacked, and the site and materials offered for sale. Why pull down—says M. PETO, who knows so well the cost of building. To prevent the old empty churches from being turned into ball-rooms or gin shops, or to other unholy purposes was the reply. Well, says M. PETO, not wasting time in discuss ing the consecration theory of holy stones and mortar,—why pull them down, if any congregation of dissenters would give as good, or a better price for them as they stand, for the purposes of dissent ing worship ? I wish to move a clause to give full powers to that effect What was to be done ? There were members there who would rather an empty church of the Establishment were turned into a gin-shop, or into a stable, than into a place of worship for a dissent ing congregation. It would not do, however, to have such a statement reported all over the King dom in the next day's papers. With the excep tion of a very small clique indeed, the whole country would resent such bigoted ideas at the present day. The objection, therefore, was raised that some time hence these dissenters, if they could not succeed, might sell the old church for profane purposes. But it seemed dissenting chapels were put in trust for purposes of worship, and so come under the direct guardianship of the Lord Chancellor Then, Sir M. PETO was perfectly willing to draw the clause in a way to suit all par ties ; and Mr. BoUVERIE, who had charge of the bill, and Mr. HENLEY himself having acknow ledged the reasonableness of the proposal—the latter shrewdly observing that the material might be re-erected under the present bill in its old form— the inexorable clock put an end to this episode by pointing to a quarter to six. We presume Mr. HENLEY, Mr. BOUVERIE, and Sir M. PETO will prepare a clause to which none will dare to object, however much they might wish to do it. Mr. C. BENTINCK distinguished himself by deter mining to have legal protection for the beauties of city ecclesiastical architecture: Under the bill it was possible that St. Stephen, Walbrook ; St. Martin, Ludgate; St. Peter, Cornhill ; and St. S within, Cannon-street, might all be pulled down. It was replied in vain that the numerous parties who must give their consent could never be got to agree to it. But the member for taste was resolute, and to please him a special schedule was provided for the four churches ; not, however, till Lord JOHN MANNERS had politely informed Mr. BENTINCK that in all matters relating to Gothic architec ture he was "nothing but a Vandal." We ought also to notice the strong plea for the bill of the member for the Tower ',Hamlets. The removal of the bones had been objected to; whereupon the member for one of the largest borough con stituencies in the kingdom appropriately ex claimed, that" he hoped the house would prefer the the souls of the living to the bones of the dead ;" referring to which Mr. 13. OSBORNE observed that Mr. AYRTON'S remark had been objected to, but was it not an old proverb—De mortuis nil nisi— BONUM. As there is some apprehension that the bill, if not actually dead, is in the article of death —suffocated by the business of the session—we may as well, perhaps, act on the old proverb, and say no more on it least we should injure its meaning. Under the somewhat unattractive and recondite title of Government upon First Principles,* a philosophic writer has recently given to the world a volume so original in its manner, so daring in its speculations, so comprehensive in its argument, so varied in its research, and so replete from first to last with valuable information, that we rest satisfied it can hardly fail to attract very speedily a consi derable portion at least of the general attention its author has doubtless ambitioned for it. The purport of the bold thesis here maintained by the adven turous inquirer (Mr. JOHN GROSSMITII), to whose acumen we are indebted for this almost audacious treatise, has been distinctly enough fore shadowed by him in the two little mottoes inscribed upon his title-page. One is the senten tious dictum (which we may presume to be his own)—" Crime and injustice among Rulers of Nations beget crime and injustice everywhere." The other is a wise and aphoristic saying of MARCUS AURELIUS, to the effect—" If I have done anything for society, I have done it really for my own advan tage." The former utterance implying significantly enough the magnitude of the responsibilities de volving upon all administrators. The latter suffi ciently expressive, in an equally well-balanced sen tence, of the inextricable intimacy of our mutual relations and dependence upon each other. The courage with which Mr. GROSSMITH has here undertaken to unfold this treatise of his in regard to " Government on First Principles" is manifested moreover quite plainly in the announcement made upon that same significant title-page, that the thesis maintained in it is not so much argued as absolutely " PROVED, and illustrated analogically." How successfully the reader can alone duly appre ciate after scrutinizing the majority, at any rate, of the 131 chapters into which the treatise of Mr. GROSSMITH has been subdivided-113 chapters comprised within the compass of these 1460 pages. In a kindred spirit of adven turous speculation a philosophic contributor to the current number of Mr. THACKERAY'S Cornhill Magazine—[J. B..—Can it be JOHN RUSKIN ? Read ing the partially symbolic title of this initial in stalment of the series, " The Roots of Honour," we might rather say, can it be any other than JOHN RUSKIN ?]—in a kindred spirit of adventurous spe culation, we say, a writer in the Cornhill has bat just now thrown forth the plummet of inquiry —in, we believe, a reverent and conscientious effort to sound the abysses of our social system. Turning over this ponderous volume of Mr. GROSSMITH in reference to the vast and vitally important subject of which it treats we cannot but fear at times that his investigations here and there have been conducted somewhat too discursively. Nevertheless even this is so far accounted for, that at the very outset of the work he has forewarned his reader frankly that the theme he is about to discuss, he is bent upon dis cussing only as it deserves to be discussed—viz., most comprehensively. The reader is still further prepared for this; remembering, as he can hardly fail to do, that upon page one the author inti mates almost in so many words that they will have to begin together, „ dp x ij, in principio, from the very foundations. " The very basis of governments, as now constituted," he writes, at the opening of the second paragraph of that first * Government upon First Principles : Proved and Illustrated Analogically. By John Grossmith. One vol. Pp. 460. Piper and Company, 1860. page, "is wrong." And further " They," i. e. the Governments or the bases of the Governments, " are wrong theologically, morally, and civilly." From the mere audacity of this formal denunciation of the civil, moral, and theological bases of all ex- isting Governmenis—it may be inferred at once, it is almost unnecessary to intimate upon the in stant that it must be perfectly well understood , by our own readers, that we disclaim altogether any intention of going always with Mr. GROSSMITH in his reasoning, of avowing anything like an invari able coincidence with him in his deductions, or of accepting his case (according to the wording of his title page) as " proved" however clearly, or inge niously, or elaborately it may have been, and fre quently has been, we will admit at once, " illus trated analogically." Our purpose, at this mo ment, is simply to direct attention to the fact of the appearance from the press of this really remarkable scientific, political, and philosophical publication. It is an endeavour, as its learned author avows, to " produce scientific deductions for the sceptical ; theological and philosophical axioms for the thoughtful, the virtuous, and the pure; and first principles for all." In the effort to accomplish all which the writer conducts those who can to follow him through the sciences of Geology, Geometry, Metallurgy, and Chemistry, briefly introducing them, by way of analogical corro• borations illustrative of the First Principles of Government. How wide and various are the fields traversed in so doing, may be appreciated even by a cursory glance through the table of contents, from the initial chapter, upon the Elementary Laws, down to the one hundred and thirteenth, upon Love to All, as the elementary foundation—of Govern ment ! Like LAMARCK, like DARWIN—our author deems that in Nature—Creation has been Progres sion ! As suggestive of the philosophic tone of the arguments here brought forward in illustration of Government upon First Principles—take a few of the headings of these 113 Chapters : " It is law of first principles, that he who makes others most happy, is, by the very act, himeelf made most happy." " The Creator regarded eternal, not temporary objects in creation, because time must subserve eternity." " Process of purifying a low metal, such as iron, is ana logous to the means necessary in purifying man in his low condition, viz., his uncultivated nature." Enough, however, if we here add that the politi cal and philosophic treatise which we have thus un usually particularised in our leading columns, appears to us to be addressed in a spirit of patrio tism as well as in a spirit of philanthropy, to the minds and hearts of all intelligent and conscien tious Englishmen. There have been many versions of GARIBALDI'S . reply to the letter to him of the King of SARDINIA, sent by an adjutant, recommending him to abstain from invading the mainland, and throwing on him the responsibility of the attempt, should he venture to make it. We give the following from a con temporary; if it does not really contain the exact words of the General, we may be certain that it is not far from expressing his thoughts : " Melazzo, July 27. "Your Majesty knows the profound respect and devotion which I feel for you ; but the actual state of affairs in Italy prevents me from obeying you as I could wish. Having been appealed to by the people, I have restrained them as far as lies in my power ; but, according to all that I hear, were I now to hesitate, I should fail in my duty, and com promise the sacred cause of Italy. Permit me then, Sire, this once to disobey yo i ; and when I shall have accomplished my task and delivered the people from a detested yoke, I will lay my sword at your feet, and obey you for the rest of my life. " GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI." On Tuesday we were told " that Count LETTA, who was sent to GARIBALDI by the King of SAR DINIA, was not very cordially received by the Dic tator, and was told by him that he could not now stop in his career, and that he would state the rea sons to his Majesty." And yesterday we were told by a correspondent of the Debuts, " a personage so high placed as to be well informed, that the following are pretty nearly the terms of the reply of GARIBALDI to the letter of the King of SAR- Sire, I thank your Majesty for the honour you have done me in sending me a letter. I receive with respect the counsels of your Majesty, and I reserve to myself to reply categorically to them from Rome.' " DINIA :-I These and all the other communications agree pretty closely in their tenor ; the little extrava gance respecting Rome excepted. What, however, we must look to is—what GARIBALDI does. Almost from silence he emerged at Marsala, Calatafimi, and Palermo. That work done, another interval of silence followed. It was broken by the victory at Melazzo, and the occupation of the city of Messina. It i= another turn of silence now—where will it be broken ? On the coast of Calabria, or at the city of Naples itself: We may be sure no outsider knows. As before, GARIBALDI is preparing for any desirable achievement, with a pretty clear notion of what he means to do. But he is not a rovitinist. His genius watches the whole scene. Should changes make it desirable to change his plan, he is ready to swoop down wherever the prey may be. By the last written communication all things seemed to be preparing for a passage of the Straits. Nothing more likely; yet nothing mere certain than that the great commander can in an instant adapt himself to any scheme he thought certain of success. Would that our Horse Guards could give:us but one or two GARIBALDIS in each generation, and with such soldiers as we have no Frenchman would ever venture a hostile trip across the Channel. The 36-GUN FRIGATE LUTINE.—An interesting experiment is in progress for recovering treasure from this frigate, which foundered off Terschelling, on the Dutch coast, 61 years ago. The Lutine had been captured by the British from the French, and had been selected to convey an amount of specie, supposed, according to some state ments, to be nearly £2,000,000, partly for the pay of Bri tish and Russian troops, and partly for the assistance of Hamburg merchants, During the past 30 or 40 years vari ous attempts have been made to recover the treasure, and about £50,000 had at considerable expense been obtained, but the wreck ultimately sanded up, and her position was not re-discovered until some fishermen accidentally found a portion eatangled in floating ice. Within the last few weeks the parties interested, in conjunction with the Com mittee of Lloyd's on behalf of the representatives of the underwriters who sustained loss, have resolved to empl'y Heinke's diving apparatus, and the result is that an exa mination has been effected, which shows that the wreck is at present unusually free from st.nd, although still buried to a great extent, and that hopes are held out of the possi bility of a considerable portion of the treasure being reco • vexed this season. It is stated, however, that prompt ope rations will be necessary, as from the influence of peculiar winds the sand may at any time again accumulate. MARRIAGES OF INFANTS.—Yesterday an act was passed to " explain" an act with respect to the marriages of infants. By the 18th and 19th Vic., c. 43, the Court of Chancery could give its sanction to such marriages by those who were wards of the Court, and a doubt has arisen whe ther the Court of Chancery in Ireland could give such ap probation ; thererefore the act was passed to remove all doubts on the subject. SIR ROBERT PEEL.—We are authorised to state that Sir Robert Peel does not retire from the turf except as an owner of horses, and that he will continue to give the national pastime all the encouragement in his power by his personal patronage.--21formna paper. TERMINATION OF THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE LOCK OUT.—We are glad to state that the lock-out of the South- Yorkshire colliers is now terminated in a satisfactory manner, and that a day or two need only elapse before all the men are again at work. The first step towards the ad justment may be traced from the proceedings of a meeting of the masters on Friday evening last, when it was an• nounced that Messrs. Sturges, Palsy, and Co, had assented to the terms agreed upon by the colliery delegates and the committee of the Masters' Association. Mrs. Clarke's men having previously retracted, the only matter for considera • tion was as to Messrs. Smith, Carr, and Smith's colliery. It had been previously arranged with regard to that colliery that men should be appointed on the part of the masters and colliers, who were to work in the pit for a fortnight, each side having overlookers, so that it might be seen what a man really could earn. Colonel Daly, it is stated, has con sented to act as referee in the event of any dispute in carry ing out this arrangement. At a meeting of the masters, on Tuesday, it was arranged that the men snould commence work to-day at their respective collieries. The amount paid by the Colliers' Executive to the men during the lock out amounted to £l,lOO per week.—Manchester Guardian THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AuGusr 9, 1860. LITERATURE. The Poetical Works of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P. One vol. pp. 561. Routledge and Co. The Dramatic Works of ,Fir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart, 111. P. One vol. pp. 496. Rout ledge and Company. Among the numerous popular editions of favourite authors published of late years by the Messrs. Routledge, few, if any, can hav© been more gene rally acceptable than the two here particularised. It was fitting, moreover, that the firm whose enter prize had already, at a cost to themselves of no less than twenty thousand pounds sterling, placed the novels and romances of Sir Bulwer Lytton within reach of the great mass of the reading public, by ,be issue of those celebrated fictions at prices vary- ing from penny weekly numbers to shilling, eighteertpenny, or half-crown volumes—it was fitting, we say, that the firm who had acted thus in regard to the further popularization of the prose writings of Sir E. B. Lytton should become the medium also for the wider and wider dissemination of the poetic and dramatic effusions of the genius of the same prolific litterateur. Those who have already possessed themselves, by a very moderate expenditure, of the Bulwer Novels, from the history of Mr. Pelham to the masterpiece of Pisistratus Caxton, will now find themselves en abled, by the same adventurous publishers, to com plete the ample display of the productions of Bul wer Lytton upon their book-shelves by adding to them these two comprehensive volumes, comprising within their narrow compass our great novelist's numerous poetic and dramatic compositions. In reference to the second of these two supplementary volumes, the one namely giving to us for the first time, we believe, alone in a separate form, the col- lectiVe Dramas of Bulwer Lytton, it is especially noticeable that those dramas no longer in clude among them " The Sea Captain." In the five-volumed edition of the Poems and Dramas of Sir E. B. Lytton. published a few years since by the Messrs. Chapman and Hall, of Picca dilly, there was an intimation, if we recollect rightly, of some such projected withdrawal of " The Sea Captain." That intimation is at length realised —the withdrawal, then hinted at as probable, being now apparently decided upon definitively. To what end this is done the public is left to conjecture —the obvious impression being that the writer designs some more careful revision, or remodelling of a drama once popular among even the more fasti dious of our London playgoers. This circumstance of " The Sea Captain's" withdrawal is all the more noteworthy from the fact, that while an ellision so absolute has been thus ruthlessly decided upon by the dramatist, his maiden play, " The Duchess de la Valliere," has been carefully retained in the present collection—nay, still here, as in the earlier collective edition of Sir Bulwer Lytton's plays, it leads off the series. Yet "The Sea Captain" during its season was unquestion ably successful, and " The Duchess de la Valliere" was--though not by any means whatfis technically called damned—most unmistakably, when produced upon the stage, unsuccessful. We can only con jecture therefore that the former—clever and suc cessful though it was—but inadequately realises its author's ideal of what he intended it to be. Whereas the retention in its original form of the all but damned play of " The Duchess de la Valliere" confirms our own long-cherished opinion that that historic drama is as worthy as a literary perform ance, if not as a dramatic composition, as any other play that has emanated from its writer's hand— confirms, or at the least strengthens, that opinion of our own, we say, by our author's evident con viction to the same effect, in his own matured and tempered judgment. A persuasion evidenced plainly enough by the simply contrasting in cidents here particularised—namely, the with drawal of " The Sea Captain," simultaneously with the retention of " The Duchess de la Valliere." Together with that the maiden drama of our brilliant and popular playwright, the volume under notice contains the four later and greater dramatic effusions which have secured to Sir E. B. Lytton his high reputation as one of the most accomplished dramatists of his age. There is that ever charming " Lady of Lyons," that one always associates somehow with two of the most remarkable comedies in our dra matic literature—Tobin's " Honeymoon," and Shakspere's " Taming the Shrew." There is " Money," perhaps the wittiest comedy that has appeared upon the English stage since the plays of Sheridan. There is " Richelieu," which, if only for its marvellous portraiture of the whimsical side of the great Cardinal's character, must ever remain an enthralling study tut aw lite rary psycliologist. rinalty, there is that long titled drama, generously written for the benefit of the Guild of Art and Literature, and enacted, to that end, with various ability by Mr. Dickens's amateur company—i.e., Not so Bad as we Seem ; or, Many sides to a Character. Dramatic produc tions, any one of which, almost, would have been perfectly sufficient—(certainly this would have been the case either with the " Lady of Lyons," or with " Money," or with " Richelieu") —perfectly suffi cient to establish securely and permanently our author's repute as a dramatist. A single work of rare merit has before now been adequate— (as in the instance of poor Tobin's masterpiece hereinbefore incidentally specified)—been perfectly adequate to secure to the writer of it lasting fame among our galaxy of great English playwrights. Sir Edward Lytton has insured the permanence of his eminent reputation as a dramatist, however, by the production of three plays ranking in the highest category among the stock-pieces "holding their own," season after season, upon the English stage—pieces not less favourites with the actor than with the audience—chosen by the former for "starring in" upon a benefit night—filling the theatres with the latter upon their every reiterated representation. It is thus incontestably with the "Lady of Lyons," with " Money," and with " Richelieu." The fact that it is so is notorious.4To appreciate the literal accuracy of which statement it is only necessary to glance casu ally now and then at the playbills and the theatrical advertisements. So much for the dramatic works of Sir Bulwer Lytton here given to the public in a single volume by the enterprise of the Messrs. Routledge—so much for the chances of that single volumed edition winning for itself a wide popu larity—so much we should rather say, perhaps, for the certainty of its being eagerly welcomed by what has happily nowadays to be counted in round num bers by the million the great mass of our reading population As to the Poetical Works of this Protean genius—who is Novelist and Dramatist also, no less than Orator and Statesman—a very few words will be sufficient to indicate the proba bility, or rather, here also we should say the tole rable certainty of this compact and beautiful single volumed popular edition being most acceptable among the cheaper editions of bygone and living poets already issued to the extent of a noble library from the establishment of those publishers for the 1,000,000 ! These few words even might be judi ciously restricted to what would of itself be an im plied panegyric, a reprint -of the mere table of contents— the Poems themselves range over fields so wide and various. Within the compass of these 561 pages octavo, a world so alluring and so diverse in its fruitfulness lures the reader as if down through the winding sylvan ways leading to the Vale of Tempe, down into the Arcadian haunts of Fairy land. Here as in the dream of Horace— Nos manet Oceanus circumva,gus ; arva, beata Petamus arva, divites et insulas Reddit übi Cererem tellus inarata quotannis, Et imputata floret usque vinea ; Germinat et nunquam fallentis termes Suamque pulla fleas ornat arborem ; Melia cava manant ex ilice ; montibus altis Levis crepaiate lympha desilit pede. For here, are we not with Mor'vale in the New Tinton traversing, even among the streets of May fair, the sequestered mazes of dreamland—musing in her garden with Eva, the bride of the 11l Omened Marriage—soaring in companionship with Milton, the blind seer ! into the trackless empyrean —wan dering by the sedgy banks of the Avon with the fair young Constance—turning the sibylline leaves in which the Parcae chaunt to us successively of Napoleon the Great at Isola Bella, of the Cardinal Mazarin, of the young poet Andre Chenier dying in despair for his ruined genius upon the scaffold of the Revolution, of the faithful little mourner of Mary Stuart of the avenging horrors accumu lated in her last days over the head of her aged rival Elizabeth, and of the wierd dream dreamt, according to a historic legemd, by Cromwell, the Lord Protector ? Above all—immediately prior to the two books of the charming Corn-Flowers, whence Fancy scatters "--from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn"— . have we not the twelve books of that elaborated national epic of KING ARTHUR, in regard to which Sir Edward Lytton still asserts at the close of his Preface—" I am unalterably convinced that, on this foundation, I rest the least perishable monu ment of those thoughts, and those labours, which have made the life of my life." If only in conside ration of this solemnly avowed and deliberate con viction, on the part of our great writer himself, the comprehensive volume, comprising within it the whole of his " Poetical Works," could hardly fail to command the attention and win the favour of that ever-widening multitude, beside whose hearths, his name has long since come to be enshrined as a LA ATESI !,11 Ei V V 0 • The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, AUG. 9. The Moniteur says :—Prince William of Baden arrived yesterday at the camp of Chalons. His Highness will be present at the great mili tary manoeuvres. MARSEILLES, AUG. 9. Gen. Beaufort has left for Syria with 1,000 men. In:an order of the day he reminds the soldiers that they are going to avenge offended humanity in a country where they will find souvenirs of Gode froy, the Crusaders, Gen. Bonaparte, and the first Republic. He concludes by saying :—The wishes of the -whole of Europe accompany the expedition. MALTA, AUG. 4 (via MARSEILLES). Damascus is quiet, but murders are still com mitted in the surrounding country. 3,000 Christian women have been sold at 25 piastres each, and are detained in the harems. FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 8. BOURSE, Aug. B.—There has been rather more firmness visible in the market to-day, and at the commencement of business and for some little time after, prices had a slight upward tendency. As soon, however, I,s any improvement had declared itself, sales for realisation were made, and quota- tions again recoiled, remaining, however, slightly above those of the previous day. Threes, for the account, are now at 68f 30c. Mobilier, 691 f 250; Orleans, 1,370 f ; Mediterranean, 890 f ; Strasburg, 638 f 75c; Austrian, 506 f 25c. The following are the latest quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 98 Credit Fancier BBO Do end month.... 97 90 I Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 15 Roman Bank flares 2830 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 687 50 I Spanish Threes — Do. Account 687 50 Home Debt 47 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1368 75 .. 1367 50 Northern New ditto B7O 875 Lyons and Mediterranean 888 75 .. 888 75 Geneva 367 50 .. 367 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard ROME. A letter from Rome states that on the Ist inst. a body of 1,500 Piedmontese volunteers landed at San Stefano, on the Papal territory. They intended to march on Corneto. General Goyon immediately sent orders to the commander of the battalion of Chasseurs, stationed at Civita Vecchia, to detach a part of his force for the protection of the threatened town. The French garrison of Rome, General Goyon having left on the oth, is commanded temporarily by General Noue. CHINA, CALCUTTA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 9, The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Massilia, Captain Black, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived in dock. She brings 102 passengers and £490 in specie. She spoke the Ceylon on the 30th and the Valetta on the 31st ultimo, the schooner Malcolm Bevan on the sth, and the Ripon on the 7th instant. The British Brigantine Topsy, thirteen days out from Cardiff, foundered on the 29th ultimo, the crew reached Gibraltar on the 3rd, per Mariner. Gibraltar Exchange on London 90 days 501 to 50k. Freights unaltered. TAE IVILITIVOR7II CANNON. REPORT OF THE ORDNANCE SELECT COMMITTEE. We have received information from a quarter on which reliance may be placed, that the Ordnance Select Committee have sent in their report concern ing the Whitworth guns. That report, we are given to understand, is condemnatory. Mr. Whitworth's ordnance are stated to be ine ligible for her Majesty's service. Four causes of objection are said to be especially insisted upon— namely, great irregularity and uncertainty of range; difficulty of extracting the expended cart ridge ; danger to be apprehended from the launch ing rearwards of the friction tubes ; wildness of ricochet. =DELPHI THEATRE. The annual benefit of Mr. Webster is always looked for ward to with great pleasure by the numerous patrons of the Adelphi Theatre, because on that occasion, more especially, they are enabled in some degree to mark, in a substantial manner, their high appreciation of the efforts made for their amusement and gratification. The interesting event came off last evening, and drew together one of the most mumerous and brilliant audiences that has yet as , sembled within the walls of the new theatre. The entertainments commenced with the drama of " Janet Pride," which was wisely reserved for the occasion, for certainly within the whole role of the characters of Mr. Webster there are few that gives him greater scope to dis play those great abilities which have stamped him as the most intense and natural actor of the present generation. His magnificent embodiment of the part of Richard Pride is too well known and appreciated to stand in need of the slightest adulation or elaborate eulogy. From first to last it was the perfection of dramatic art, and the moist eyes of the audience amply testified how truly he played his part. His "make up," as it is professionally termed, for Richard Pride was ano ther triumph of artistic skill; and whether as the idle, drunken, dissipated workman, or the wild and reckless denizen of the bush, in each he was unapproached and un approachable. To Mrs. Mellon the greatest praise is due for her pathetic delineation of the suffering mother and injured daughter (Janet Pride). In both parts she exhibited the most in tense and truthful acting, and won immense applause. Mr. Toole also contributed greatly to enliven the play by the capital manner in which he sustained the part of Dicky Trotter. Mr. Selby's Carl Bernard was one of those finished bits of acting for which that gentleman is so cele brated ; and Paul Bedford acted with all his usual good humour and gusto. At the fall of the curtain the applause was immense, and after the principal actors had all re-appeared a special call was made for Mr. Webster, who shortly afterwards ap peared before the curtain. He seemed to be particularly gratified at the warmth of the applause, and after bowing bowing his acknowledgments he came forward and briefly but gracefully returned his thanks. He said the recognition of his labours in the cause of the drama that evening was par ticularly gratifying, and he only regretted that he was not able at that moment adequately to express how deeply he felt the honour. For many years it had been his good for tune to receive the favours of his audience, and he trusted that his future efforts for their amusement would be deemed worthy of continued support. In the ensuing season many novelties would be produced, supported by new and original talent, all "native and to the manner born." After remark ing that he looked hopefully to the future, Mr. Webster again thanked the audience for the extraordinary enthu siasm of his reception, and then retired amidst loud applause. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH FROM POISON IN HYDE PARK.—lnformation was yesterday received by Mr. C. St. Clair Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, of the death from poison of a respectably-dressed female, described as Miss Anne Owen, aged about 30, of No. 1, Lower George street, Chelsea, which took place in Hyde Park, about half past nine on Tuesday evening, apparently under the sub joined singular circumstances :—At the time above men • tioned some persons, male and female, were sitting on a cir cular scat in the park, near the Serpentine, when a ttention was suddenly attracted to one of the females (the deceased), who fell suddenly from the seat. Ono of the party called a policeman, and the hapless female, appearing lifeless, was conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where, on examination, she was found to have died from the effects of poison . The body was then removed to St. George's Workhouse , Mount street. Upon her person was found a phial thre e p ar ts full of cyanide of potassium, which it is alleged was pur chased by the brother in •lasir of the deceased , w ith who m she had been lately res idi ng , the day previous, for photo graphic purposes. An inquisition is appointed to take place on Friday next, to investigate the circumstances of this, at present, my s t er i ous case. THE LIVERPOOL POLICE COURTS.—Yesterday the business of the Liverpool police-courts was conducted for the first time i n th e co urt-rooms attached to the new police-office buildings in Dale-street. There was nothing in the way of ceremony or observation of any kind on the occasion, and the business, which had been conducted in the borough sessions-house ever since its opening on the 30th of Oct., 1828, was qu ietly transferred to the new pre mises], where it will be conducted in future. "household word"—one among the cherished penates and beloved lures of our popular litera ture. Memoirs to Illustrate the .History of my Time. By F. Guizot, translated by T. W. Cole. Vol. 111. Bentley. The third volume of M. Guizot's memoirs opens with the year 1832, when he was himself a member of the cabinet, occupying the congenial post of minister of public instruction. Whatever may have been M. Guizot's errors as a statesman, his patron age of letters reflects on him nothing but honour, and the tone in which he always speaks of men of science, art, or letters, is worthy of one who has ac quired a reputation in literature as well as in politics. The first chapters of this volume he devotes to the recapitulation of his labours in the particular de partment over which he presided, and a general description of the state of education in France at that epoch. He then proceeds to narrate the poli tics,l events of the time, and the complex questions that troubled, divided, and finally overthrew the ministry. It was in truth no easy task which the members of the cabinet undertook in assuming the responsibilities of government. The people rejoic ing in the charter, proud of the freedom, they had waded through so much blood to gain, expected every day greater concessions ; while the turbulent spirit of Red Republicanism still actively foment ing discontent in the heart of the capital, and the recent establishment of the monarchy, seemed to call for, what M. Guizot terms, the policy of repression. On this difficult path they started with some draw backs. " The ministry was far from combining all the conditions, or of presenting all the features, usually considered essen tial to a Parliamentary cabinet. We did not enter into office together and at the same time; neither did we all spring without exception from the same political ranks. We had not all adopted similar maxims and marched under one flag. Of the eight ministers of the 11th of October, 1832, four had belonged to the preceding Cabinet, four only were new. Some had supported and served, others had op posed the Restoration. A close investigator of our ideas and general tendencies, of our habits of mind and life, would have found amongst us important distinctions. But whether from principle, taste, good sense, or prudence, we all looked upon liberal government as the form required. All were unanimously desirous that the monarchy and the char ter should pass into a truth together." In attempting to follow the policy of resistance in the then existing state of France his Cabinet, as M. Guizot acknowledged, endeavoured to carry out a most difficult work. In his own words, "in struggling against disorders, it undertook to con quer by the laws alone, and by laws enacted and applied in presence of liberty." Yet, while he de fends the general principles and policy of the Go vernment, M. Guizot does not by any means take the part of an undeviating adherent. He frankly admits, in many instances, that they committed serious errors in judgment. For instance, the series of prosecutions of the press, in which they suffered themselves to become engaged in 1833, he regards as a mistake, which aggravated the mis chief they were anxious to stifle. His remarks on the liberty of the press are not without importance, and contain much truth. Two points he especially dwells upon as deserving the attention of those in authority. He considers that they should meet the enemy on their own ground, not by attacking them before a legal tribunal, but at the bar of public opinion ; that they should avail themselves of the facilities offered by the press to set questions fairly before the public by the establishment of organs of their own. Secondly, he maintains that " power must be indifferent as well as bold ; and while its partisans maintain the struggle with vigour, it should bear blows with patience,'and notbetoo eager either to stop or punish them." On another occasion, where he thinks the Ministry in error, he dissented in opinion from his colleagues at the time. In the de bate on the budget of 1833 two members of the Cham ber, holding public offices, vehemently supported an amendment proposed by the opposition. A tumult was excited in the chambers, and after a stormy debate the amendment was negatived, and the Cabinet decided the following day on removing the two dissentients from their posts. The retire ment of Marshal Soult from the Cabinet was an error, attended by more serious consequences to the ministry. Owing to his irascible temper, and other drawbacks, his colleagues had long desired his re signation, and they seized the opportunity of a dif ference of opinion respecting the substitution of a civil for a military governor in Algeria to break with him. This M. Guizot now terms a double error ; for he considers they greatly anticipated the day for the establishment of a civil government in Algeria, and they found, too late, that " the door by which Marshal Soult went out remained an open breach for the enemy they contended with." The secret societies were amongst the most formidable of their adversaries. The leading one of the Friends of the People had been dissolved in 1832 by a decree of the Court of Assize in Paris ; but its chiefs soon re-established it under another name. It was trans formed into the Society of the Rights of Man; " it was organised into sections, each consisting of 20 members, and gee— s . ' 2 l a - a" --- tors. The number of sections soon amounted, in Paris, to 162 ; the central committee had thus un der its orders about 3,000 men." A number of similar societies were connected with it, so that the central committee was able to congratulate itself on being the parent of more than 300 other societies. Their principles were not doubtful. They an nounced their determination of overthrowing all monarchies, and founding the Republic on their ruins, " not an abstract Utopia, but the Republic born in 1792 already known to France." The recol lections of the Reign of Terror, the Noyades of Nantes, and the tragedies of the guiilotine, did not interfere with the projects of these theorists. In an exposition of their principles they de clared that " the Society of the Rights of Man, adopted as the expression 1 of its principles, the declaration presented to the National Convention by the representative of the people, Robespierre." Some of the sections of the societies adopted the names of Couthon, Marat, The 21st of January, Abolition of 111-acquired Pro perty, and similar pleasant and pacific titles. It is not surprising that M. Guizot, whose father had perished under the guillotine, was not inclined to share their sentiments. He is justly indignant at the countenance these advocates of anarchy received from many persons of station and reputation, actuated by various motives. On his once remonstrating with a wealthy banker who held monarchical opinions, on this subject —" What would you have me do ?" he said ; " you and your colleagues will never do me any harm ; but these gentry will one day be the mas ters, and they have friends who are very capable of seizing my property and cutting off my head." Such pusillanimous conduct merits nothing but contempt, but it proves the feeling of insecurity then prevalent. Another difficulty was the dis tribution of inflammatory pamphlets by the public criers. On this the Government determined to take active measures. A law was passed subject ing the distributor of writings in the public tho roughfares to municipal superintendence. Riots and tumults broke out, repressed with extreme severity by the authorities. Another bill was in troduced directed against associations. In speak ing of this bill, M. Guizot says he has no wish to extenuate its character, but he considers it was necessary at the period. It would have been better, he admits, to have made it exceptional; but the name of exceptional law had become so unpopular, thanks to old associations, that the Cabinet dared not make the experi ment. After a debate of fifteen days the bill was passed by a strong majority, and the Government proceeded to dispose of a foreign diffi culty—the long pending dispute with the United States respecting the compensation due for the seizure of American vessels during the Empire. The outbreak at Lyons, and the disaster at the Review on the Boulevards in 1835, when in an attempted assassination of the King 41 persons were killed or mortally injured, are subsequently alluded to. Of the outbreak at Lyons we have a very full account in the Historic Documents, written on the spot by an eye-witness,tand giving full details of the struggle and its suppression. M. Guizot's defamers, among other accusations, asserted that he had issued " most pitiless orders for the suppres sion of the insurrections at Lyons in 1831 and '34." This he proves to have been a calumny, since at the forfner epoch he was not in the Cabinet, and at the latter he occupied a post where he could issue no order whatever concerning Lyons. On this point he expresses some indignation ; but; generally speaking, his public career appears to have afforded him more satisfaction than disappointment. Not keenly sensitive, and fond of power, his long tenure of office seems to have been'to him a source of gratifica tion, notwithstanding all the attendant drawbacks. He says that he feels no inclination to complain, as some politicians have done, of the sorrows and re verses of public life, though he avers that, when most successful, he never found it sufficient to com pensate for the absence of domestic affections and sympathy. These observations he makes in alluding to the death of his accomplished and estimable wife, whose loss he had to deplore during his tenure eromance tom whichost a o t f t o e ffi nd c e e d ii t i h t e h i e r C fir a s b t in a e cun tqofailBt3an.ce The familiar readers. Madame Guizot wa s : one well fitte d to share her husband's anx ieties, and sympathise in his pursuits. Giftedherself ordinary powers of mind, and entering warmly into all his with n o projects, it is not surprising that her sudden loss filled him with despair. It was fortunate for the survivor that the inevitable duties of his office afforded him some distraction. With regard to the results of his labours as Minister of Public Instruction, we will give his own statistics— " On the 15th of April, 1834, within a year after the P mu l ga ti o n of the law of the 28th o f J une, 1833 I o mmruc nicated.to the King the nature of its p rogress , in 4 detailed report, including acts, documents, and results. I repea here in a few words and figures, such of the latter as can be so conveyed. In the course of the year named, the number of primary schools for boys increased from 31,420 to 33,695, and the pupils actually receiving instruction from 1,200,715 to 1,654,828. In 1,272 townships, school-houses had been built, purchased or repaired. Fifteen new elemen tary normal schools had been established. Thirteen years later, by the end of 1847, through the unremitting efforts of my successors in the department of Public Instruction, the number of elementary schools for boys had augmented from 33,695 to 43,514, that of the pupils from 1,654,828 to 2,176,079, and of the school-houses belonging to the town• ships, from 10, 316 to 23,761. Seventy-six primary normal schools supplied masters to every department. I pass over in silence all that had been either begun or accomplished for girls' schools, asylums, workrooms and other establish ments, directly or indirectly affecting popular education. Such at the end of fifteen years were the fruits of the law of June, 1833, and of the movement which I cannot say A created, but which it undoubtedly directed to a real and effective institution." He frequently finds occasion to censure the want of public liberality towards men of art, science, and literature. With regard to the holders of offices in public buildings, he speaks of " that jealous par simony which bitterly assails the worldly comfort of those hard-working men, the greater part of whom are distinguished, nearly all of whom are limited in means, and which doles out to them the produce, always extremely moderate, of their long labours." He inserts a letter of M. Saint Hilaire in answer to an assertion publicly made, that the house allotted to him in connection with his duties at the Botanical Gardens was unnecessarily large. M. de Saint Hilaire says, with justice, after disposing of the accusation, that if he had devoted the 40 years of uninterrupted labour and research which he had passed at the Botanical Garden, to the active prose cution of a trade, he would in all probability have been a rich man, instead of which he had diminished his own private means by the purchase of books and materials for the prosecution of his studies, and by the publication of works of elaborate science for the diffusion of knowledge. On another occa sion M. Guizot writes as follows respecting literary societies :- 4 , I am a steady partisan of monarchy and administrative government. France owes to both much of her prosperity and progress. I feel sincerely grateful to the Emperor Na.• poleon I. for having said to M. de Fontanes, "Leave us at least the republic of letters," and I adopt these words more seriously than perhaps Napoleon himself meant when he uttered them. The system of administrative monarchy, its intractable unity, its monotonous bearing from head to feet, its frigid prepossession for things rather than persons, its severity against disorder, and its want of sympathy with liberty,—all these characteristics are unsuited to the region in which the literary and scientific character holds rule. Such establishments require a large share of independence and spontaneous action, of variety and personal govern ment. Not to gratify vain or fantastic whims, but from the very nature of the 'men with whom we treat, and the matters specially treated of in such cases. General and su perior administration requires rules and agents ; above all things it fears and rejects individual caprices, unforeseen acts, anomalies, and abuses. It is ill suited to the manage ment of scholars and philosophers, men accustomed and disposed to invent, to criticise, and determine their own ideas and labours, and with whom it is necessary to con verse and argue incessantly, instead of simply sending them a copy of instructions on a formal circular. Shall govern ment place over them an agent analogous to itself, a petty administrative Sovereign? In that case, the scholars and philosophers thus controlled, take offence, the Government incurs their secret opposition and ill-humour • they resign and nullify themselves, leaving the affair s o f letters and science to be transacted by mere strangers to their necessi ties, their tastes, their pleasures, their studies, and their books ; who may, perhaps, introduce order into literary es tablishments, while they utterly destroy their vitality. Then follows a general feeling of astonishment that letters languish and scholars become disaffected." The narrative portion of the volume before us ter minates with the downfall of the Ministry in 1837, though the Historical Documents occupy a considerable portion. Whatever may be our opinion of a statesman's career, it is always interesting to see his own account of it, and in criticising the acts of the French Government at that epoch we must remember the serious and alarming perplexities which surrounded them. In recalling a time, how ever, when the press was comparatively free, and a vigorous opposition was possible in. the Chamber of Deputies, we should conjecture, notwithstanding all the trimming statecraft of Astutio and his master, that modern Parisian liberals must be in clined to reflect on a certain fable which tells us hew a discontented body politic exchanged a King Log for a King Stork. C.REMORNE G.d.RDENS—TH.E STEREORAMA. Yesterday was appointed for the annual benefit of Mr. T. B. Simpson, the popular and deserving proprietor of this delightful public resort, but in consequence of the extremely unpropitious state of the weather it was found necessary to defer until Monday the splendid fete which had been prepared for the occasion, and which was to have formed the culminating point of the season. Although thus sharing the public disappointment, our visit to Cremorne was productive of extreme gratification, from being rendered availAhlp for flip pnrpo2o of s private view of that magnificent work by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin, which well justified the name of the " Stereorama," and which will be this day thrown open to the public... -rue scenic effects displayed in the Stereorama are of so novel and effective a character that it is, by no means easy to convey an adequate idea 01 them by mere description. It may be represented, however, as constituting a vast and gorgeous pano rama of the stupendous scenery which presents itself to the traveller between the Lake of Lucerne and the Lago Maggiore, through the famous Pass of St. Gothard, in which stereoscopic effects are pro duced by the introduction of solid representations of every object, natural and artificial, living and inanimate, which stands nearest the spectator, in the foreground. In thus looking at this wonderful work, we may imagine that we are applying the stereoscope to each successive portion of the scenery, so admirably is the idea of depth realised to the mind. The building in which the stereo' rama is displayed is an elegant circular pavilion, 13 0 , feet in diameter and 50 f eet hi gh, the interior 01 which presents a surface of upwards of 18,00 0 square feet of canvas, upon which the masterly skill of Mr. Telbin and his artists has been 'em ployed since January last, as also upon the inns merable models of cliffs, glaciers, ravines, villages , roads, monasteries, vineyards, and other object); upon which the eye is delighted to rest, after having taken in the stupendous heights above. The most wonderful among the infinitude of detail , embraced by the Stereorama is the grand cataract of the Reuss, in which the rush of the river into the yawning gulf is respectably represented by the actual discharge of 900 gallons of water perminute over the rocky surface. The magnitude of this effect may be conceived from the fact that it keeps a five-horse power steam-engine at work to supply the water. The Lago Maggiore and the Bay of Uri in th e are wonderful pi e ces 0 , Lake painting, number of o bj ec t s mo d e ll e d is sucihn t ai o no h,s and as to t t o Fr baffle Four Cantons, althel attemp ts at counting. Among them, and con stituting a disti nc t f ea t ure o f the work, is the interior of the chapel of the MadonnS del Sasso, which i s e l sewhere seen most pictu resquely situated on the verge of a precipice which down up on t h e Lago Maggiore. The interior isilluminated as in the Roman service, and the monks are seen at their devotions. The Stereoran 34 is certain to prove extremely attractive, and if the . weather will only gi ve M r . Si mpson a chance , will tell amazingly in his favour at his benefit 4 911 Monday; as, indeed, it ought to do, when it is re' membered that this one addition to the Gardens ha cost him many thousand pounds. POISONING BY A WIFE, 1N LINCOLN' SHIRE. The Lincolnshire _Herald reports that a labouring man, named Dodds, died somewhat suddenly et Wrangle, a few days ago. lie had been attended by a surgeon for a slight illness, and on the 21st of July his wife went to the doctor to inform him that her husband was better. She received a tonic to complete his conval escence . A s s h e returned h o me Mrs. Dodds called at the s h o p o f Mr. Charrington druggist, &c., of Leaks, arid asked for a qua rter of a pound of arsenic, stating that her husband was suffering from a severe toothache, and re quired it to relieve the pain. After s ome little hesitation, she was supplied with the ars en i c, b e ing h g t the man h a d Eng and vomiting, well known. Next day the doctor was b row ht and ht to g cdingly. The poor in a Dodds, t w e ho cholera,of e w aon a nd s a ill s withe. prescribed H e p t u h r oa g uc in or in m at e h evfreonming great agony. A ody was i n t erred on the follo w bilious diar r h oe a 'wa g goei man vrteinfi d ,e i oa e tn d ed theotfh the same ing Tuesday. A day or two after the w ider called on Mr. Charrington, when that gentleman' on finding her husband was dead, expressed surpriO' the purchase of arsen i c , wadd someand, remembering inciu iries. It was then ascertained that the deceased and his wife had not lived on on ' comfortabl e t erms, as it was rumoured that ell' had been heard to use threats in reference to him' All these circumstances tended to excite suspicion, and ultimat e ly a communication w as f orwar d e d t° the authorities, when the Coroner ordered the body to be exhumed, and a post mortem examination t ° be made. Thi s was d one on T hursday last. 1110 0 same day an inquest was o p ene d, an d a dj ourn edl_ gondny. On th e l a tt er occas i on med i cal ev iden,ce was produced to sho w th a t arsen i c h a d been the cause of the death of the d ecease d ; an d o th e r is ll ' nesses spoke of the heartless way in which M,r, 13 ; Dodds had, in conve rsa ti on , a ll u d e d to t h e probabl e death of her husband. A ver di ct o f " Wilful mur der" was brought against the wife. _ A NOBLE LADY.—Miss Cornelia 13arbour, $ daughter of the Hon. James Barbour of Virginia, form Q , governor of that state, and a member of President J . Adams's cabinet, has resolved to emancipate her numero us slaves and locate them in a free state, whero they cau ell 4 joy liberty and (if they will) acquire p ro p er ty.—New y°" Tribune, al fa 3 RI to 13a 3 I 3 F NF Ar