The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. 1 THIS EVENING, THE WIFE'S SECRET. Mr. and pirs. C. Kean. WO conclude Isith A MIDSUMMER NIGH r's DREAM. Commence at 7. T HEATIM=RONAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. 3. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, HALLOWE'EN. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. To conclude with A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. C. Marshall, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. On Thursday, Anzust 18, for the Benefit of Mr. W. Smith, acting Manager, THE WRECK ASHORE : Mr. Billington, p. Bedford, Stuart, Mr.W. Smith, Mr. Eburne, 3lissWoolgar , And Mrs. Billino - ton. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Marie, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, for this Slight only ; assisted by Messrs. P. Bedford, Garden, More land, Mrs. Chatte:ley. And The Babes in the TS ood. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to Savants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL, After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Bwanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. ------- VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Mutating of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia D e lepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and ZIGHT year& The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some ..,„ gr t.cuipitasit and brilliant Bolos, Duets, and Trios evc 'oroten r e.xcited mingled wonder and admi ration in Containfal Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu shisti,i tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AtGtST 17. THEIMOXETER, IN THE SHADE. 70 —highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. - - BAROMETER-30.20. WIND, Westerly; light, with dull weather. It rained heavily in the night, and this morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tag DAY.—Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 12m. To-Moitmow-Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 41m. V ',::::c4, i 1. 1 7i " - t 2:i ~. N otr 0... , •m, F `e ' 4/- .T .4 . -k ..71 .- -...,,,, .....4. z„- f . . .r.'.lo`. .- , t,,,, a / - . ) 4 4 4 6 3 6 2 01‘ !fr ?' •a' 4.. °;,1(1,, '.%., biTE t,' ;I' ;I , . . . , * ,,,P."... 14,01 T ---' 4 k' ': .' - THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1859. The fetes of Paris are now over. They have been conducted in a style of imperial splendour, popular sympathy, good-humour, and self devotion, reflecting credit, and even honour, on all. We only wish that the actors in those brilliant scenes could have looked back on the fair but sad plains of Italy, and feel that they had accomplished all they had proposed. The Austrian snake is scotched, but not killed. Still, if we may believe the correspondent of the Morning Post, who is sup posed to receive his inspiration from an imperial source, there may yet be hope left for Italian freedom, but to what amount time only can prove. That gentle man writes—" I hear the French Government has addressed a despatch to the Cabinets of the great Powers, in which it is declared France will not assist the self-exiled Princes of Italy to return to their dominions by force, nor per mit Austria or any other Power to afford them military aid for so doing. Yesterday the Moniteur said—' The Emperor having decided that for the present an army of 50,000 men should be kept in Lombardy, his Majesty has appointed the 3d division of the Ist, 3d, and 4th corps, and the whole of the sth corps, to form this army.' The uncertain state of Central Italy, and the continuance of so many Austrian troops on a war footing in Venetia, caused the Emperor to order the above named troops to remain in Italy. The King of SARDINIA hmtd pointed out to NAPOLEON 111. the necessity of maintaining a French force in Italy until his OWII army was thoroughly organised and cousideralay augmented. The news from Central Italy is satisfactory. Parma, Modena, and Tuscany are perfectly tranquil. The Pro visional Governments work admirably. The National Guard of Florence entered upon its duties for the first time on the 7th, having been equipped and organised in a few weeks. Tuscan Envoys have again left for Paxis and London. The Provi sional Government of Parma has decreed a volun tary loan of 2,400,000 f., at 5 per cent., to be called the Parmese loan of 1850.." Again, under date of last evening, he says— " Before the close of the week the EMPEROR will have left Paris in order to `pass the close of the summer in comparative retirement. No doubt his Majesty will be glad to get away from the Italian Envoys, official and officious, who are continually seeking audiences and making representations about the affairs of Central Italy. NAPOLEON 111. must still fell the difficult position in which the pease of Villafranca has placed all parties. He with the Emperor of AUSTRIA has agreed to the restoration of the Princes of the Duchies, and the people have decreed or are still decreeing the expulsion for ever of their late really Austrian rulers. What is to be done ! The French Government having failed, through its Special Envoy, Count de REISET, to per suade the people of Tuscany, Modena, and Parma, to invite their Sovereigns back from Vienna and the Austriam camp, to govern them even with any amount of fair promises, the Imperial Government of this country is said to be employed more particularly in ersuading King VICTOR EMMANUEL not to accept the annexation vote of the people of Tuscany, the Roman provin ?es, Modena and Parma, where it is Pretty nearly certain that the people to a man will ask to be placed under the protection and incorporated in constitutional Piedmont." And why not ? The heartburning of the Italians was kept in a perpetual commo tion by th e Perfidy aud savage revenge of the Austrians for the outbreak of 1848, and though peace and good will were pi•oclainted in appear ance, the grossest tyranny and ingratitude were continually being practiced till the day of retribu tion arrived. It were, indeed, idle for Austria to hope that she can ever regain her lost power of misrule in Italy. But there's a secret danger impending which it may not be so easy for the Italians to surmount. They are counselled by NAPOLEON Dot to amalgamate with Piedmont, an d yet they 'pray for that united blessing as an assur ance-of their independence, as well as of their or ganised frot ernity and strength. Our read ers may recollect that some time back we asked wh. at kept Prince NAPOLEON so long in Florence with so large an army, when leis presence was much want %ed on the left bank of the Po ? Did he tarry to win golden opinions of the good Tus cans, and endea your to feel their pulse as the chance of better aLviaintanee in future time ? We much fear that som ()thing of that regal hereafter was at the bottom of `iis thoughts. And can that consummation be the sc. •cret spring that actuates the EMPEROR, for he wilt not permit the exiled tyrants to return, nor even allow Austria to help them. What then ? Is theltalian war over, or is it to be renewed under other pretences ? We be lieve that the EMPEROR feels the difficulty as well as the delicacy of his own position in respect to what was agreed on at Villafranca. But if he wishes to get out of a scrape his only course now is to be firm, and insist on amending the past by rectifying any inconsiderate assent which he may have made to FRANCIS JOSEPH'S propositions respecting the return of the Austrian Dukes to break anew all the pledges made or promised to be made. They hare no faith in themselves, and the people have long lost all faith in them. Let NAPOLEON take England's advice, and leave Italy to the Italians. It is their birthright, and ought to remain their heritage. The undisguised ill-temper with which Sir SAMUEL PETO replies to the statements put for ward by Messrs. EASTON, A3ros, and SONS, in regard to the very questionable project (to say the least . of it) for cleansing the water now in the Ser pentine, shews clearly enough that he is having the worst of the argument. Whenever one of two disputants loses his temper—a wise observer of humankind has remarked—you may be quite cer tain that he is in the wrong. Here is a discussion going on for some time back, first of all, in the Press and in the House of Commons, and now in the Press alone, Parliament being pro rogued. It is a question simply as to facts. It is an alternative, the value of which can be weighed, so to speak, by a simple balance of figures. Upon one side we have Mr. HAWKSLEY with his crotchet of filtration. Upon the other we have Lord LLANOVER'S plan of empty ing a dirty bed like that of the ornamental pool in St. James's Park—smoothing the bottom of the cavity—lining it with concrete six inches thick — and then briming it up again with clean water capable of being replenished at will by other fresh water to make up the deficiency caused by evpora tion. The scheme tried in St. James's Park by Lord LLANOVER has proved eminently successful. The proposition of Mr. HAWSKLEY is, on the contrary, nothing more nor less than a gigantic experiment. It is an experiment, more over, that involves an expenditure at its very com mencement of no less than £17,000 sterling. It involves, however, beyond this expenditure, the laying out at the head of the Serpentine of three quarters of an acre of ground to be employed thenceforth permanently in the particularly plea sant process of filtration. A process so obviously disgusting that the propounder of this extraor dinary contrivance, set forth in his elaborate argument in its favour the advantages in the way of cencealment, as to his actual doings there, of a pretty little lodge-like cottage, surrounded by shrubs and vases and other kinds of Cockney garden ornaments, though at the same time, with curious inconsistency, he insisted that there will be really and truly nothing to hide ! If so, why go to the absurdly unnecessary trouble and expense of building that "lodge-like cottage," of planting those shrubs, and dotting that sylvan Screen (toNothing) with roses and statuary ? The anomaly presented to our contemplation by these contradictory remarks of Mr. HAWKSLEY can only be regarded as in some way comparable to that still more glar ing one upon which we have already at sufficient length commented. That point-blank assertion, we mean, of Mr. HAWKSLEY'S, according to which the water now in the Serpentine is " essentially clear, sweet, and inodorous"—yet an assertion fol lowed up by Mr. HAWKSLEY, nevertheless, with his wonderfully complex plan for pumping out that " essentially clear, sweet, and inodorous" water for the purpose of submitting it again and again and again to an elaborate filtration. We should certainly not have reverted to arguments like these so glaringly and prepos terously inconsequential, but that Sir S. M. PETO has to-day endorsed them by his high authority. The Member for Finsbury is still persuaded that Mr. HAWKSLEY'S plan is one in every respect admirably designed. He thinks it judicious. He conceives that it will be per fectly effectual in securing to the waters of the Serpentine the advantages of purification. But oddly enough to our mind (for we do utterly fail to see the common sense of it), he cannot regard as either impure or as unpleasantly odorous—to put the matter in still plainer English we would say— Sir SAMUEL PETO does not regard as either dirty or stinking the water as it actually now is in the Serpentine ! The honourable baronet says," Pardon me for also observing that, as the water of the Serpentine is not muddy, but merely discoloured by vegetation, the only operation the pro posed filters will have to perform is the removal of the colouring matters." Really—this being the case—the water of the Serpentine being at the present moment not in any way muddy, being "merely discoloured by vegetation," we can't, for the life of us, see why such a sum as £l7,ooo—(even supposing that to be all that Mr. HAWKSLEY will require in carrying out his I crotchet—which would be an absurd supposition) —why such a sum of £17,000 should be expended in " merely removing the colouring matters" from the water of the Serpentine. If the ques tion simply resolves itself into an artistic question as to the colour of a sheet of water—it surely were better to keep our £17,000 safe in the Treasury, instead of wasting one sixpence of it upon such an absurd enterprise as that of abstracting from the Srepentine a certain colour in no way pernicious, nay, we are assured by Mr. HAWKSLEY himself and his sup porters, in no way disagreeable to taste, sight, or smell. It is evidently with a jealous regard to the integrity of his olfactory nerves that Sir S. M. PETO has penned the last petulant paragraph of that communication of his given else where in our impression of this evening. " I re side," says he, " near the Serpentine, and have a business establishment immediately adjacent to St. James's Park. I have cultivated a habit of obse ry a tion, and I am somewhat accustomed to the conside ration of public questions of a practical character. I therefore hold myself to be entitled to express my opinions on these and other schemes sub mitted to the Government either in the House of Commons or elsewhere, although I may happen to entertain views differing from those put forth by Messrs. EASTON, Amos, and Sons." All this is perfectly reasonable, of course, but it is also evi dence of a singular amount of morbid irritatio What Sir S. M. PETO claims for himself he will surely allow to the mass of the population. He himself can detect nothing disagreeable in the atmosphere rising from the Serpentine as he passes to and fro upon its margin—notwithstanding all his cultivated habits of observation. Mr. STEPHENSON, the world-famous engineer, protested exactly the same on his own part. Thousands and hundreds of thousands declare " all the year round," b u t par ticularly in the dog-days, diametrically the reverse. We hardly conceive that it requires any extraor dinary perseverance in cultivating habits of obser vation to detect a stench that is felt to be intolerable poor—by lies ladies a a g n e d s in i crowding the roofs i by high and low , b y ri ch and gen tlemen slowly mcauitnydcelreirnkgs o r o f u o n m d n b h u e gßesining—thbeYßayswater road—by nursery maids with their little charges clustering the green expanse of Hyde-park—by exquisites cantering along Rotten-row in the height of the season. Everyone tells the same tale about the Serpentine —everyone except the fortunate few whose noses, happily for them, are impenetrable by disagreeable odours, Mr. HAWKSLEY, Sir M. PETo, and Mr. STE - PHENSON. The public, however, having noses that possess the power of smelling, regard the question in very different point of view—they want to have the Serpentine cleaned, and what is more they want to have it cleaned thoroughly. Hence our reprehension of Mr. HAWKSLEY'S nasty puddling process as wholly insufficient. We differ from him throughout the whole of this argument. We differ from him and his supporters ab initio—and if not, as the phrase is tote certainly tota aqua. To us and to the public the water of that stagnant pool frequently smells aloud—and it is precisely, we conceive, because it " smells aloud," that it has grown to be a Crying Nuisance. The old-established banking business of Messrs. Dixon and Co., of Chancery-lane, was transferred yesterday to the Union Bank of London. The Royal Mail steam-ship Shannon, which sails to-day on her first voyage for the West Indies, takes £151,970 in gold, of which £149,000 is for Chili. The principal part of this sum was withdrawn for the purpose from the Bank of England on Saturday last. Speculative operations in the new Russian Loan continue to take place at Ito premium, but they afford little guide as to the price likely to be ultimately established. This will depend on the amount of applications that may be sent in on Saturday morning, and on the accounts of the progress of the continental subscriptions. - lt is said that Mr. Charles Capper, the manager of the Victoria Docks, has made a proposal on behalf of Mr. J. 0. Lever, M.P., to charter the Great Eastern steam ship for a voyage out and home—viz., from some safe port in Great Britain to some safe po'-t in North America. The terms offered are £20,000. The vessel to be provided with accommodation for 2,000 passengers, and to steam 14 knots an hour upon her trial trip. Mr. Lever to give satisfactory security for the due performance of the contract. In relation to contemplated alterations in our smaller coins, a correspondent points out that a nickel coinage has been employed for more than 10 years in Swit zerland, and more than two in the United States. He also alleges that while nickel is perfectly distinguishable from silver, it has been found in practice to possess in a superior degree all the advantages of bronze, and that it is less cum brous, and at the same harder, so that the impressions would be more durable. Nickel is about being adopted for the lowest denothination of coins in Belgittm. EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.— During the late thunderstorm an immense quantity of shells fell from the clouds upon the grass plots in tho Library Square of Trinity College. The grass at first was perfectly white with them. They are chiefly of two kinds, the conch and the common cornua. Some are without the living snail, while in others animal life is existent. The walk between the two plots had not a shell upon its surface.—Dublin Times. STRIKE OF COLLIERS.—The colliers employed at the Westminster, Frood, Vrom, Brynmally, and Brymbo Collieries are at present out on strike, demanding an ad vance of 6d. per day. Whilst the harvest continues the men are not likely to give in, as plenty of work offers itself at 55., 65., and 7s. per day. Employers will for the present be the worse off.—Birmingham Daily Post. THE CHASSEURS OF THE ALPS.—The Unione of Turin publishes the following communication from Lovere :—" The corps of Chasseurs of the Alps is increas ing every day. A numerous band of young . riflemen, be longing to respectable families of Como and Milan, have passed this place on their way to Tonale. Another com pany of young men have also come from Urano (Valteline)." REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH SHROPSHIRE.— Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., chairman of the Salop Quarter Sessions, has issued an address to the electors, soliciting their suffrages, in place of the late Hon. Robert Windsor Clive (whose funeral took place on Friday last in the family vault at Bromfield, near Ludlow). Sir B. Leighton professes himself to be a Conservative, but raffling to adopt all reforms which he sees necessary. He has for many years past been an active magistrate for the county of Salop, and has consistently advocated reform and retrench ment in the county expenditure, and his efforts have con tributed mainly to keep the rates very low. There is no probability of any opposition to his return. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie yesterday honoured the establishment of Mr. Hancock, of Bruton-street, with a visit, and was graciously pleased to inspect his numerous works of art and taste in jewellery and silver, including all the choicest articles from his " atelier," which he had been collecting for the last few days to submit to her imperial highness. Mr. Hancock has himself had the honour of personally waiting upon all the imperial family at St. Petersburg for many years. Before leaving, her imperial highness was pleased to honour Mr. Hancock with her commands. DEATH OF SIR JOHN SLADE.—The death of General Sir John Slade, Bart., G.C.8., removes the oldest living member of the array save one. Had he lived but a few months longer he would have completed 80 years of military service, his commission, as cornet in the 10th Hus sars, bearing date May 11, 1780 , and with the exception of General John M'Kenzie, who wore the Royal uniform as far back as the Ist of January, 1778, no officer of the army can point to the same term of service. Sir John Slade became a Major-General in 1809, exactly 50 years ago, and commanded a brigade of cavalry in the Peninsula in that and the preceding year, under Sir John Moore. In the subse quent Peninsular campaigns, under the Duke of Welling ton, he retained his command, covering the retreat to Torres Vedras, and sharing in many cavalry affairs, as well as in the battles of Fuentes d'Onor, Sahaque, Benevento, and Busaco, for which, along with Corunna, he had the gold war medal with one clasp, and the silver medal with two clasps, besides being twice honoured with the thanks of Parliament for his services. He became colonel of the sth Dragoon Guards in 1831, which appoint • ment is rendered vacant by his death. The deceased Gene ral belonged to a ° Somersetshire family, was born in 1762, and was in his 98th year. The baronetcy, which was con ferred upon him in 1831, is inherited by his eldest surviv ing son, Frederick William Slade, the well-known Queen's counsel, who is twin brother of General Marcus Slade, the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey. The next brother is Sir Adolphus Slade, R.N., who, as Muchavar Pasha, is the head of the Turkish navy. Of the male branches of Sir John's numerous family the greater portion are in the army, and nearly every one of them have earned distinction in their profession. By the death of Sir John Slade the colonelcy of the sth Dragoon Guards is placed at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief, and a vacancy is caused in the fi.x.ed establishment of general officers by which Major-General Straubenzee becomes a general officer on the establishment. The new baronet was born at Salis bury in 1801. He was educated at Brasenose, Oxford, where he graduated 8.A., 1824, and was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple in 1830. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1851, and goes the Western Circuit. Sir F. Slade is a Conservative, and for a short time represented the borough of Cambridge in the House of Commons. JERSEY, Saturday.—The Queen paid a flying visit to this island to-day. At about 9 a . m . the Royal Squadron came to anchor opposite Elizabeth Castle, amid a salute from that picturesque old fortress, and the bailiff and a deputation from "the States" having boarded the Royal yacht, they brought back the news that her Majesty would shortly . land. Accerdingiy at about 11 o'clock the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Royal party landed in boats at the Victoria pier, a structure of solid granite, enclosing one side of the harbour, a quarter of a mile in length, and were received by "the States," the military authorities (ex cept the Lieutenant-Governor, who is not at present in the island), and a vast concourse of people. After making a cir cuit of the principal streets the Queen proceeded to the New Victoria College, where she was received by the principal (Dr. Henderson) the Bishop of Winchester (who happens to be visiting this distant part of his diocess), and the principal inhabitants. Here her Majesty seemed struck with the handsome design of the great hall (which con- tains a good copy of her own portrait, by Winterhalter), and the view from the window, but her stay was short ; no address had been prepared, and after writing her name on a piece of paper (no book could be found in the hurry of the moment), the Queen and Royal party departed, made another circuit of the town, and re-embarked at 1 o'clock. Considering that the whole arrangements had been ex temporised the thing went off extremely well. The weather, as usual, was splendid, and the scene at certain points, the harbour and the college, are of great beauty. Not less remarkable was the orderly good humour of the people. Although there did not appear to be a single policeman in the place (only a few gentlemen acting as special con stables), and the population of the character called " mixed," the contrast with a London mob was wonderful. There was not a symptom of disorder, and, though a little exube rant and demonstrative in their loyalty, the spirit which animated them was not to be mistaken, and her Majesty and the Prince evidently appreciated the warmth of their greetings. FEARFUL ACCIDENT TO AN AERONAUT.— On Monday evening Mr. Hall ascended in a balloon from the Cricket-ground, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. The ascent took place at 10 minutes to 7 ; at a quarter past that hour the balloon was seen to descend rapidly in the neighbourhood of Boldon, about seven miles from Newcastle, and fell in a clover-field. The grappling-irons, however, did not keep hold of the ground, and, some of the ballast having upset, the balloon suddenly rose again, and, Mr. Hall being about to alight from the car at the time the balloon rose, his feet were caught in the ropes, and he was whirled suddenly into the 1 air. For a moment he hung with his head downwards, when the rope got disentangled, and he fell a distance, it is computed, of 120 feet. A farmer and his son who were in a field close by came to his assistance, and he was found to be sensible, but he soon after became unconscious. He was removed to Scots-house, the residence of Mr. H. L. Patti son, where he was immediately attended by a surgeon; and though he fell the fearful distance mentioned, it is hoped that he will rec)ver. After Mr. Hall was thrown out the balloon ascended to a great height, and was last seen drifting out to the German Ocean. A little dog belonging to the aeronaut was taken up in the car. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE.— SHIELDS, Sunday Evening.—" The moral lesson of the gallows," at Durham, on Thursday, does not seem to have had a deterring effect in the neighbourhood where Wilthew murdered his wife, for another cruel murder very nearly occurred at North Shields this afternoon. A steamboat man, named Henry Whitfield, has a drunken out-of-the way wife, and on going home between twelve and one at noon, and finding her drunk, he pulled out a largo Spanish knife, and attempted to destroy her by sticking her in the neck with it. A meeting of the Bank of Egypt took place yes terday, Mr. W. Tite, M.P., in the chair. It was stated that the smallness of the profits of the past half-year is to be attributed to circumstances beyond the control of the board. In answer to questions, it was stated that the cur rent expenditure in the past half -year was about £ll,OOO, and that the reserve fund is not specially invested. The directors did not propose to declare a dividend, but to adopt the course successfully pursued by the Ottoman Bank under similar circumstances, and to carry forward the whole balance of £6,101. An amendment that a distribution be made at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, occasioned some discussion, but was eventually rejected by a majority of 21 to 20. The report was then carried unanimously. THE - SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1859. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, AUGUST 17. The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol lowing Imperial Decree : "A full and entire amnesty is granted to all persons sentenced for political crimes and offences, or those who have been the object of any measures taken for public security (une amnestie pleine et entiere est accordee a tons les individus qui ont ete condamnes pour des crimes au des delits politiques ou qui ont ete objet des mesures prises pour la surete generale)." The Moniteur further contains the following list of nominations to the Senate :—" Generals Renault, Forey, Thiry, Prince de la Moskowa, Admiral Trehauart, Count Labedoyere, M. Paul Richemont, and Baron Vincent." COPENHAGEN, AUG. 16. The FaderZander of this day says :—" The Council of State is to be convoked for October next, but not for the deliberation of a project of the constitution for the whole of the country as such a project does not exist." BERNE, AUG. 17. The 2d and 3d Regiments of Swiss, in the ser vice of the King of Naples, are to be completely disbanded; the Ist and 4th to be transformed into four battalions of Chasseurs for the national army. The Dowager-Empress bf Russia has arrived here, and is stopping at the hotel " Zum Bernerof." ZURICH, AUG. 17. Yesterday M. de Bourqueney and 'Count Col. lerodo had a conference. MARSEILLES, AUG. 16. Advices have been received from Naples to the 14th inst. The remaining Swiss soldiers having refused to comply with the new regulations, thus continuing to give examples of insubordination, Government has ordered the Foreign Legion to be disbanded. LEGHORN, AUG. 14. Six English ships are in our port. FLORENCE, AUG. 15. The statues of their Majesties the Emperor Na poleon and of the King Victor Emmanuel have been placed in the salle of the Deliberative As sembly. MADRID, AUG. 16. The cholera is limited to the province of Murcia, TURIN, AUGUST 16. The elections have been followed by admirable order. A great number of people took put in the elections, and distinguished persons and honour. able patriots of all classes of society have been elected. General Fanti, Marquis Fontanelli, Comte Rangoni, Chevalier Malmusi, Achille Me notti, Chevalier Chiesi, and Professor Lini are among those elected. The town and all other places in the Duchy are in fete. BERNE, AUG. 16. To-day the Plenipotentiaries to the Conferences witnessed the opening of the railway to Wald.shut. Yesterday the Plenipotentiaries, their secretaries, and a deputation of the Zurich Government, were present at a banquetiven by M. de Bourqneney on the occasion of the fete of the Emperor. The President proposed " The health of the Em peror ;" M. de Bourqueney and M. de Banneville that of the Swiss Confederation and the Zurich Government. A confidential report announces that the Govern ment of Naples is disposed to accede to the wishes which have been expressed to it by the national Counsellor Latour, in respect to the Swiss regi ments. The Plenipotentiaries of the three Powers at Zurich have accepted the invitation of the Federal Council to visit Berne. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. PARIS BOURSE, Aug. 16.—The market showed at first rather an improving tendency, but afterwards gave way. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 60c., receded to 69f., and are now at 69f. 15c. Mobilier varied from 845 f. to 820 f. ; Austrian, 565 f. to 555 f. ; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,360 f.; Lyons, 870 f. to 865 f. ; Southern, 512 f. 50c. to 507 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations : 41 per Cents. .... 97 25 I Credit Foncier Do. end month .. 9 7 25 Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents 69 Piedmontese (5) .. 85 Do. end month 69 5 Roman — Bank Shares. 2BOO Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 827 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 82 5 Home Debt 4lk RAILWAYS. -- - -- Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto B2O .. 812 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 867 50 .. 867 50 Geneva — • • 530 Southern Western 556 25 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 410 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. lle. ; money, 251 9c.; three months, paper, 24f. 96c.; money, 24f. 94c. PRUSSIA. POTSDAM, AUG. 15, 6 P.M. The physicians are of opinion that the King's attack will pass over, and that he may linger on for some time longer. His friends, therefore, are most urgent with the Prince Regent to go at once to Ostend, as his presence here is not necessary now, and in the winter he must:be in a condition to give all his attention to the weighty reforms which he projects. This was the first day of the subscriptions to the New Russian Loan. It has been most favourably received here, and a large sum has been already snbscribed. It seems to be considered that the majority of the biddings for the New Indian Loan will b e a t about 98. TILE Loss OF THE ARGO.—The circumstances in reference to the loss of the Argo have been under investi gation in Dublin for some days past, and on Saturday evening the court announced that it had come to a deci sion which will not be made public until the Board of Trade have considered it. There is reason to believe, however, that it will be favourable to Capt. Halpin, except in one point, viz., that the court conceive he ought to have slack ened the speed of his vessel when the fog came on. THE FITZROY InoN AND COAL MlNES.—Accord ing to a report from Mr. Thomas, one of the engineers in the Government railway department of the colony of New South Wales, on the present condition of the Fitzroy Iron and Coal Mines, these works, notwithstanding past mistakes in the mode of developing them, promise, at an early date, to be of much importance. They are situated at a place called Mittagong, which will shortly be within two or three hours of Sydney by rail, and the ere is pronounced to be equal, if not superior, to any now obtainable in England for all the finer operations of cutlery. It is stated also to be in every respect adapted for ordnance purposes, since " a heavy gun of thi s i ron wou ld ne arly approach to a steel one ;" and Mr. Thomas remarks that at the Great Exhibi tion at Paris, in 18.55 the Mittagong ores, and the articles manufactured from them, attracted peculiar attention from the ironmasters of France. Under these circumstances, he recommends the proprietors to take immediate steps for bringing the best ores to market, either for local railway machinery, or for exportation, a proceeding which would require no other outlay than the payment of a few quarry men, who, if remunerated according to the amount of ore sent to Sydney, would require no superintendent or over seer. Good workable coal, however, exists on the spot, so that the manufacture of iron can be ultimately undertaken on any scale that may be deemed desirable. Limestone—a less important adjunct—is found at a distance of 12 miles. In the neighbourhood there is a chalybeate well, and the idea is therefore entertained that with the facilities of the railway the place may eventually become the Cheltenham of the Sydney population, AMERICA. iLIVERPOOL, AUG. 16. The North Briton has arrived from Quebec with advices to the 6th inst., and from New York, by telegraph, to the same evening. The firmness of the English markets, combined with the peace news, had caused a much better feeling than was anticipated in the Quebec timber market, and some heavy purchases had been made. White pine sold largely. Bay of Qninde timber. 96 average, a shade under 81d., measured off, Freights to Liverpool and Greenock, 30s. to 30s. 6d., with an advance of from ls. to 3s. per load to outports for suitable vessels. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPII VIA FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, AUG. 6, EVENING. The Jura will sail from here for Liverpool early to-morrow with about 450,000 dols, in specie. The stock-market opened at an improvement, especially for Western stocks, but closed rather weak. Money in good demand. Call loans, 61 to 7 per cent. ; short first-class paper done at 8 to 9 per cent. Sterling exchange without material alteration. Cotton unchanged ; middling Uplands, 12 c. Flour heavy, and 10c. to 15c. lower; super fine State, 4 dols. 655. to 4 dols. 90c.; round hoop Ohio, 4 dols. 95c. to 5 dols. 40c. ; Southern, 5 dols. 25c. to 5 dols. 60c. Wheat dull, and 3c. to sc. cheaper ; Western red, 120 c., being an outside price ; Southern red, 1 dol. 25c. to 1 dol. 35c.; ditto white, 1 dol. 45c. Corn quiet, and heavy. Beef dull. Pork active. Lard steady, sales small. Resin nominal, at 1 dol. 75c. for common. Freights dull; cotton, for Liverpool, at 5-32 d. NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 5, EYENING. Cotton quiet and easier, but not quotably lower ; middling, lite. Freights and exchange without alteration. CHARLESTON, AUG. 4. Cotton irregular and nominal, at from B,le. to 121 c. MEXICO. NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 6. We have received advices from Vera Cruz to the 28th ult., mad from the city of Mexico to the 19th. Miramon had issued a manifesto in which he promises to protect the people in their power and wealth, and favours the plan of a dictatorial go vernment, and declares it to be the traditional policy of Mexico to guard against any encroach ment. Mr. M'Lane, the American Minister, had only sent the skeleton of a treaty to Washington, and that was unsigned. The Tehuantepec Company continued to be an noyed by the authorities, in consequence of which the mail would probably be suspended soon. General Zenzuer was approaching San Luis Po tosi with 5,000 men, and Miramon's troops were concentrating. It was reported that a grand move ment was afoot. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Madras and Theodore, from Liverpool ; the Butler, fron. Queenstown; the Rectitude, from Dundee; the Egyptian, from Barcelona ; the Return, from Yarmouth ; the Frederick the Great and the Queen Victoria, from Genoa; the Lydia M'Henry, from Carthagona, and the Rolla, from Cadiz, have arrived at Quebec. The North Briton passed the followiag ships :—On the 6th, in the St. Lawrence, the Belle, the Secret, the Orso, the Benlmnond, the John Moore, from Shields, and the Jemima, from Newcastle ; on the 7th, in lat. 49 N., long. 68 W., the Nova Scotian screw steamer Adept, the Excel lent, and the American ; on the Bth, the Achilles ; on the 9th, the Wordsworth; on the 13th, in lat. 56 N., long. 25 W., the Hungarian screw steamer ; and on the 15th, in lat. 56 N., long. 13 W., the United Kingdom screw steamer, LITERATURE. The Odes of Horace. Literally translated in English verse. By Henry George Robinson. Vol. IL, Part 11. Longman and Co. Fifteen years ago Mr. Robinson gave to the public the first instalment of this in many respects really remarkable, and in some, we believe, per fectly unique translation. The ambitious design bas now at length, with the issue from the press of this second part of the second volume, been brought happily to its completion. The immortal Odes of Horace—the most exquisite of all the gems of classic poetry—gems of the purest water, each of them most dexterously cut, and each of them set to very perfection—the glorious Odes and Epodes of Horace, so often before now " done into English," with various success by other zeholars, have been by this one adventurous scholar our contemporary, here, we may safely say, for the first time Literally Trans lated. So far as the spirit, the tone, the style of the great Roman Lyrist are concerned we must still regard the version of the Rev. Philip Francis, —father of the reputed author of " Junius"—to remain yet to this day unrivalled. We are still in a great measure disposed to say, with Dr. John son, " Francis has done it the best. I'll take his, five out of six, against the best of them !" Bearing in mind that the apparent enthusiasm thus indi cated in favour of Francis by that authoritative Critic was somewhat tempered, however, by the Doctor's previous dictum, to the effect that "The Lyrical part of Horace never can be properly trans lated ; so much of the excellence is in the numbers and the expression." Yet it is precisely this Lyrical part that Mr. Robinson has selected for translation. And strange to add, he has translated the Odes throughout in a spirit in which he has ever been prepared to sacrifice both " numbers" and " expression " to the end that he might secure at least coute qui coute, the one great and para mount quality in his eyes—literalness. The result, we repeat, is certainly very remarkable. It is such that we have now (we are bold to say, yet once more), for the first time, a scrupulously faithful, and accurate translation of the Odes of Horace—one in which verbal exactitude is alone so far forgone at intervals that idiom is translated by idiom—but a version otherwise entirely, literally, absolutely an Echo in English ode for ode, line for line, word for word, without one solitary sin that we, at least, have been able to discover in the way of para phrase. That the work has been a labour of love to the translator he indicates significantly upon his title-p , ge by that motto from his favourite and beloved Horatius Flaccus— " Dulee periculum est." It is a peril that, while it was sweet in the contemplation must have been doubly sweet in the vanquishing. Vanquished it is now after fifteen yews have elapsed. One by one the odes have been re-echoed from the page of Mr. Robinson in our Saxon vernacular--one by one, throughout the four books of the Odes and the fifth book, the Book of the Epodes: in effect, throughout the whole of the One Hundred and Twenty Odes and Epodes of Horace taken collectively. The main difficulty of translat ing Horace at all we believe lies precisely, as Dr. Johnson intimated with his unerring sagacity in that lyrical part of his works which has thus been given to us entire by Mr. Robinson in a literal English version. His success has been so conspicuous throughout, as far as we have examined the translation, that we should gladly welcome a new and revised issue of the whole work in a single volume. We commend the early pro duction of this one volumed edition of Robinson's Horace to the attention of both the author and his publishers. It must be remembered especially in the writer's regard, that he has, with what the late Judge Talfourd called, and called truly,' " so just a daring" placed on opposite pages—leaf:by leaf— the Original and the Translation. It is surprising to us that a version like this, which is avowedly designed to be, and which, for that matter, really and truly, is above all things, literal, should be so frequently (as it alio is) at once, so musical, and so flowing. The translation dances through the maze of the lyric, so to speak, in fetters —but the clanking of the fetters is but seldom heard, they are so gracefully muffled in harmonious language. The charm springing from the very literalness, by theway, is sometimes really and singularly effective. Take for example the closing passage of that exquisite cairn. I. lib. iv. Ad Venerem—thus blandly but feebly syllabled by Francis : "Yet why, ah ! fair one, still too dear, Steals down my cheek th' involuntary tear ? Or why thus falter o'er my tongue The words which once harmonious forced along ? Swift through the fi e ld an d fl ow i ng streams, I follow thee in visionary dreams ; Now, now I seize, I clasp thy charms And now you burst, ah cruel ! from myi arms." Not a word her e out Cair.pus Martius—not a touch here of the poetry almunding in that brief fragment of one of these small but perfect master pieces. Note now the words of Horace as they flow forth from his lips in the mellifluous original : " Sed cur, lieu! Ligurine, cur Jlanat rare mats lacrynia per genres? Cur facunda parum decoro Inter verla cadit lingua silentio ? Nocturnis to ego somniis Jam capture teneo : jam volucrem sequor Te per gramina Martii Campi, to per aquas, dure, volubiles." Now note in its turn the flow of Mr. Robinson's literal translation : " But why, oh ! Ligurinus, why Flows the rare teardrop down mu cheeks? Why does my tongue, once fluent, die, Between the very words it speaks, In graceless silence ? Now, at night, Thee in my dreams I closely strain A captive ; now, in thy swift flight O'er Campus Martius' grassy plain, Or the fast-rolling waters thro', Thee, thee, unkind one, I pursue. The superiority of this faithful adherence to the very words of the poet is obvious when compared with the mamby•pamby prettiness of the version previously excepted from Francis' Translation. Take, again, the opening verses of the carm. 1., lib. iv., ad Torquatum—running thus in the version of Mr. Robinson : " The snows have vanish'd : to the plain The herbage now returns again, To trees their leafy green : Her functions earth begins to change, And the subsiding rivers range Their eustom'd banks between. And now too with her nymphs the Grace And her twin sisters dare to pace, Unzon'd, the dances gay. So, not to hope for endless pow'r, Warns us the year, and every hour That steals the tering day. The frosts dissolve 'neath Zephyrs' wing, The Summer tramples upon Spring, In turn to perish doom'd, As soon as Autumn, applo-crown'd, Shall shed its store ; and then around Dead Winter is resum'd." Here is caught and echoed back the mellifluous beauty of many a phrase from the arbori busque come to:the poinifer Autuinnus. The "literal" proving, in truth, the most vigorously poetical—• and paraphrase, on the other hand, amounting to little less than emasculation. Enough, however-- the work, now that it has at length been thus hap pily completed, will commend itself to all lovers of Horace—that wittiest, daintiest, most refined and mast musical of the world's great lyrists, born Poet and born Gentleman. A Bandy Book for Be Volunteers. By Captain W. G. Hartley. Saunders and Otley. By far the handiest book of all the handy books recently published for the use of Rifle Volunteers. Captain Hartley, of the Royal Denbigh Rifles— already known as the ingenious author of " A New System of Drill"—was just the very man to write this very entertaining and instructive compendium of information. What he writes, he writes from the fullness of his own knowledge. The scießce of drill is essentially his metier. He is perfectly well " up" in his subject ; and, satisfied of this, his readers will take his advice to heart with all the more pleasurable reliance. The little volume in troduced by " A Few Words to Volunteers on their Introduction to Drill and the Rifle," followed by a few words more in regard to arms, clothing, and appoint ments, is subdivided into twelve parts or chapters, and completed by a cluster of valuable appendices. Squad Drill, subdivided into three sections, with out arms, with arms, and with arms in two ranks— Company Drill—Company Light Drill—Battalion Light Drill—each has a chapter or part to itself. Separate chapters aro also accorded to the Forma tion of a Battalion—to the Inspection or Review of a Battalion—to Manuel Exercise—Platoon Exer cise—Sword Bayonet Exercise—lnfantry Sword Exercise—Mounting and Relieving Guard, and Instruction of Musketry. The whole of the lucid and comprehensible letter-press is rendered yet more lucid and yet more comprehensible by a plen tiful sprinkling of plates and diagrams, by way of vivid and most apt illustration. We heartily re commend this Handy Book to all the corps now in course of formation, or already formed, satisfied that it will be the most acceptable bit of literature that could well be dropped into the pocket of a Rifle Volunteer. Northumberland and the Border. By Walter White, author of a " A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End," &c. Chapman and Hall. Mr. White's pleasant records of his pedestrian excursions are familiar to many readers. Those whom duty or business keep in the turmoil of the great metropolis, through the long bright summer days, may wander in fancy over breezy downs and through rural villages ; may learn something of the miners and the colliers, may make acquaintance with the characteristics of the country folk, sit in their cottages, and listen to their gossip. We have no doubt that many have learned more of the local peculiarities and remote districts of their own country from Mr. White's pages than they would ever do from personal experience. He penetrates quiet places which no railways traverse ; he explores the hills where few wanderers trouble the solitude of the lonely shepherd ; and in the most unpro mising locality he generally finds some local curi osity, or tells some anecdote eonnected with it, for the reader's entertainment. He is well versed in legendary lore and local tradition ; and England, so rich in song and ballad, in historic as sociations and warlike recollections, requires this knowledge in the traveller who would give a fair description of any of her shires. But while Mr. White makes such rare use of his month's idleness, turningit to good account in gathering and retail ing information, he does not fail to find pleasure in it as well. Witness his anticipations when setting out for his holiday between the Tyne and the Tweed 2 " Sweet is the pleasure of going home, as we all know ; but what can equal the pleasure of going forth ? To rise ere the dawn has lost its rosy blush on a fine summer morn ing, and feel that you are free to go whithersoever you will ; to wander as inclination prompts for the whole of a sum mer month, and with feet as willing to stir as your heart to enjoy—what pleasure can equal that ? Before you stretches a long vista of anticipations ; a plan floats loosely in your mind, to be shaped day by day, or hour by hour, and there is a sense of power and quiet satisfaction in the reflection that the shaping depends chiefly on your own wayfaring capabilities. Where among robust pleasures can this be matched ? " It is as if a sceptre were placed in your hand by virtue of which you become a monarch, going forth on a progress ; not with glittering train or cumbrous ceremonial, but with health, imagination, and fancy as attendants. Yet more than royal pomp may be yours ; for your matins and ves pers shall glow with the splendours of the eastern and western sky, and in the blaze of noon there shall be around you the garniture of woods, and your pathway shall be strewn with flowers. You shall be careless of measured hours ; why should a king count time who can do what he will, whose days are to be reckoned not by minutes, but by happy emotions ? For my part, I can clap my hands and sing when the social yoke is loosened, and I am fairly off, with no heavier burden than my knapsack. " One word more, gracious reader : If I begin my story in Cumberland, do not be impatient, and insist upon the title-page as a rigorous text ; but consider the appeal with which this text bgins, and remember that my beginning is within sight of the hill on which rises the South Tyne—a branch of the great Northumbrian river. To the Sea- Kings every wind was favourable, for, wherever borne, they conquered; so, to an Englishman, any starting-place within his own country will be fortunate, for travel whithersoever he will, he finds something lovely and of good report ; some nobleness of the past that shall make our present nobler; some triumph of industry to inform the mind, and rouse its admiration ; and, with all this, faults and blots which he may help to wipe away, and still be a conqueror." Commencing his tour in Cumberland, he explores all the North Countree—the Border land, so famous in ballad and tradition, the scene of so many fierce encounters, from the Border raid of Scottish song to Chevy Chase or Flodden. In the neighbourhood of Newcastle, however, more practical associations are found, and a full description of the mines and collieries will interest the reader. The author de scended two different mines, and gives an account of the descent and the works going on while he was there. While there he came in for a social dis cussion— " Old Robert took the opportunity to question two of the boys who were passing; one of his under-men hearing the talk drew near, and there we stood leaning on a laden waggon, our two candles standing on the lumps of coal, the black roof pressing cbsely down above us, the walls shut ting us closely in on both sides. There we stood while the worthy viewer relieved his heart by an examination. " ' Well, Jack, how lang wast thee at day-school?' Mebbie eighteen months.' " Look at that noo, Jack—eighteen months at school, and years at cock-fightin'. Canst read? canst figure ?' " No muckle.' " Thee speaks truth there, Jack, 'tie no muckle. Thee canst do better at cock-fightin' and quoits, eh, Jack ?' " Jack and his companion grinned, and made demonstra tions that they would like to be off; but old Robert im proved the occasion in his rough homely way, and warned them of the consequences of quoits and cock-fighting. While he was speaking, a big boy came up, and would have passed on, but he too was detained with Look here, now ; here's a boy lately set on to do a man's work, and getting man's wages, and what must he do but go with the men in all their wickedness I What's to become o' thee, Bill ?' "Bill grinned in his turn, and hurried away, and old Robert exhorted the other two to take warning by him, when the underman interposed and said, " Thee's too hard on the boys, Robert. There's no harm in quoits. It's a game I've played at many a time myself, and never felt the worse. If ye want to do good to the lads ye should gie 'em less time in the pit. Look at them two, now, they've been down here ever since five o'clock this morning ; and when they've worked down here twelve hours, then they go up again. What would ye have the lads to do after twelve hours in the pit ? What can they do, Robert, if they don't take to the quoits?' " I listened, hoping that the question which has so long baffled philosophers would then and there receive a rough and ready solution ; that a way, desirable to the rudest ca pacity would be shown, to divert the throng from that broad highway which leadeth—ah ! whither ? which is so delicious and so fatal ; which entices alike millionaires and miners. And while listening I wished for the ready pencil that could have taken a sketch of the group as we stood there leaning upon the waggon—the two men with broad-brimmed round-crowned hats ; the two . boys just tall enough to show their heads above the lumps of coal, their teeth and eyes glistening in the candle-light in strange contrast with their black faces, and looking from ono to the other with a wicked expression; the black roof and walls shutting Us in—a dimly-lighted group in a vast darkness. " Old Robert looked at me, looked at his mate, looked at the boys ; shook his head sadly, breathed out a hoarse sigh, but said nothing. And I, who hoped to hoar in the sun less mine the answer which philosophers have been unable to give satisfactorily in the sunshine, was disappointed." Of course, in such an expedition, he could not do otherwise than make a pilgrimage to Wylam, th e birthplace of George Stephenson ' o tlff onit or a bn pilgrimage right pro Pit seeertmo go on a pil gr i mage to to me right an d proper Wylam. In th e one place we ren dme r a genius, matchl ess f or i ns i ght, toS t g Stratford-on-Avon, oAv on , a s no to o does i g h i n o a m t t a o g n e t and n t fang a l reigning undisputed monarch wherever books are read; in the other, We recognise the triumph of intellect over mere brute matter, and do honour to the genius that battled bravely with adverse circum• stances i thought, and strove and laboured with rwle appli- ances, until iron and vapour became tractable in his hands as a well-trained child ; and in eight hours men could travel from the Thames to the Tyne. " I sometimes walk into that stately hall at Euston square for the pleasure of looking at the statue of George Stephenson, which there has a fitting site. A high stal wart hero, he stands there as he once stood in a certain house at Westminster, composed and thoughtful, thumb button-hole; in Wisdom before the Wigs, and getting the better of them. " After all, I found it hard to realise that Geor g e Stephenson had once been such an urchin as some among' the groups playing here among the coaly pathways, clad in corduroy or fustian, and with not a few grimy smears upon their chubby faces. But inquire of the villagers, and you will find Geordie Stephenson remembered here and there among their household words. Jemmy Watt, at the pub lic house, recollects how that when he was a boy, his father, who liked reading religious books, used sometimes to go and read to Geordie Stephenson's father, then a blind old man. Geordie was a decent lad, he says, and keen after the larnin' " A railway for the transport of coal runs from Wylam down to Lemington ; follow this railway for half a mile and you see on the left standing alone one of the ordinary rude double cottages of the locality, and that is George Stephen son's birthplace. It stands on a pleasant spot ; wooded heights rise beyond the river ; the stream flows past broad and clear, and sufficiently near for its rippling to be heard, and hedgerows, plantations, and fields overspread the slopes in the rear. There is nothing squalid about it ; the village is out of sight ; all around is sylvan ; so no wonder that Geordie was fond of birds and birds'-nests I It is just the place for birds • and, as Jemmy Watt says, Wylam u sed to have more wood about it formerly than now : and t here is no disturbance save when the coal-wagons rumble past, or the trains flit along the farther bank between Newcastle and Carlisle." When at Newcastle he paid another visit : " To walk through the works of Messrs. Robert Stephen son and Co. is some what amazing, especially after a visit to that poor little cottage at Wylam. The one so lowly: the other so mighty I Fifteen hundred men were at work, busy as bees, with all that clang, bang, and uproar, uh a, whirling and sliding, that marvellous ingenuity and tel; dexterity which Sir Francis Head described so w ell _ a Stokers and Pokers. The young man who showed_ round talked as coolly of fifty locomotives being in han4 France, amid all the usual work, as a baker would talk of fifty loaves. I saw the engine building for the Pasha (1 01 . Egypt, which was to combine Oriental luxury and maglll ficence with English strength and celerity—and, proved, the result was a carriagef workmanship. T _ was a door in front of theg from which the ream' could step out upon " the plate," whenever he took a faneY to drive the engine himself. out I wanted to see the ' Rocket,' and it was pointed to me in a yard, standing neglected amidst a heap of rusty iron, as a thing of no account. There it stood, without chimney, the boiler stripped of tubes, the working gear all gone ; but there it was the same original frame, the wooden wheels with flanged tire that gained the victory on dial eventful day between Liverpool and Manchester. An although George Stephenson had Mr. Booth artner neverthelessin its construction, his name and his triumph are, so much associated therewith, that while looking a t it 1 ; as since ere said to myself, had my father been the builder, the ragged old Rocket' should at all events have a shed to itself and shelter from the weather. " However, let us not forget Number One,' 'wh ich stands on the pedestal at Darlington, placed there by praiseworthy friends, as a memorial of George Stephenson, who alone achieved it. For many a year did Number One' do the work it was built to do." The various processes in the different establish ments are all clearly and simply explained. But it is not alone in the manufacturing districts that t he traveller lingers to admi re . H e has a ready aPPr e : elation of the beauties of nature, and finds ragnY romantic locality to wake hi s en th us i asm . One 0 the finest views he obtained was seen from the summit of the highest of the Eildon hills— " Far and wide lay the Border-land—the glorious Ber" der-land ; birthplace and home of p oe t s, historians, men, and warriors, now all a-glow with the golden beonl e ,; A vast panorama, stretching from Ettrick Forrest an d Yarrow to Cheviot, and Flodden, and Lammermuir, fay ° and woods, parks and meadows, outspread in broad undula tions, and here and there a graceful peak, such as the Black Hill of Cowdenknowes, the or massive ridge rising above rest, inspiring a sentiment of the mountains. Every bein" stands up in brighter relief by contrast with the daric broadening shadows in their rear; twinkling spots reveal the places of human habitation which but ,for that goldol speck would be hardly discoverable ; the Tweed in gilled °. curves gleams for miles along the vale ; and Melrose re poses among trees where plain and hillfoot meet. can states stand on the Eildon Hill, said Scott, and point out forty" three places famous in war and verse.' " And the hill itself has a history ; on this central sum' mit the Romans are said to have had a look-out station. What magnificent prospects for the sentries ? And legal! tell that Michael Scott, th e m i g ht y magician, hav ing keep a troublesome fiend in constant work, set him firs t to build the dam across the Tweed, which is still to be se en at Kelso, next to remodel Eildon. The command Ivn' s speedily obeyed, and for one peak there appeared three, and the familiar was only baffl e d a t l as t b y b e i ng order ed + , to twist ropes out of sea-sand. Another version represe n 4 ; Michael himself as the perpetrator : when attempting carry away the hill on a spade, it fell and broke into tbreei What says the aged monk to Deloraine d own th er e ill abbey concerning the wizard ? ' Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone.' " We heartily recommend this pleasant volume for its fresh and animated style, an d f or th e variety °f its information. It will ma i n t a i n t h e repu tation Mr. White has already acquired by his interesting panoramas of Cornwall and Yorkshire. THE SERPENTINE. TO THE EDITOR OP THE TIMES. Sir,—Messrs. Easton, Amos, and Sons have thought fit to address you in relation to the ex" pression of my opinion in the House of Commons on Mr. Fitzroy's plan for cleansing the water of the Serpentine, and in so doing have rendered explans" tions which satisfy my mind that I had arrived at a perfectly correct view of the subject. St. James's-park and the whole of Belgravia were once parts of a large lagoon connected with the estuary of the Thames. This became filled with deposits of rolled gravel, sedementary mud; peat, and ultimately vegetable soil. The gravel is charged with water to a level depending on the tidal infia ence, and if that water were removed there would possibly be some infiltration from the Thames. The Ornamental Water in St. James's Park is held in an artificial basin of a pervious character, and stands above the gravel from which Messrs. Easton, Amos , and Sons, now pump the comparatively small quail: tity of water required to supply this basin. It therefore stands to reason, and is the fact, that when the engine is not at work the level of th e Ornamental Water lowers and the level of the water in the gravel rises more than proportionate l y to the fall of the Ornamental Water, because the gravel is, to some extent, fed by the infiltration and also occasionally by descending rains. I am quite convinced the well is, to a consider able extent, replenished from the lake with water filtered in its passage, and therefore rendered clear. I am also satisfied that the quantity which 4 1 1 0 W ° out of the lake into the sewer is greatly less than the quantity pu m p e d i nto the lake, an d I am 4l ! more convinced that it is quite impossible to obtain. 2,500,000 gallons daily from a well sunk in 8 4 James's Park without exhausting the basin its elf and the p ea t an d mud b eds, on which many build i ings depend for their support. Pardon me for also observing that, as the water of the Serp en ti ne i s no t mu dd y, b ut mere ly dis coloured by vegetation, the only operation the Pr e; posed filters will h ave t o p er f orm i s the remov al e' the colouring matters. I reside near the Serpentine, and have a busines s establishment immediately adjacent to St. Jam es ,' Park. I have cultivated a habit of observation, an , I am somewhat accust ome d t o t h e cons i dera ti o n al public questions of a practical character. I there fore hold myself to be entitled to express to opinions on thes e an d o th er sc h emes su bmitted ' the Governme n t e ith er i n t h e H ouse of C ow mens _ or elsewhere, a lth oug h I may h appen to en t e rtain views diff er i ng f rom th ose put forth by Messr • Easton, Amos, and Sens. I have the honour to be, sir, your very faithf ul servant, S. MORTON PET°' Kensington Palace-gardens, Aug. 15. an I have only just r e t urne d f rom t h e country, a am sorry to find my friend Mr. St ep h enson has le"; for Norway. I believe, however, that his opini eu on this subject coincide with mine. THIS DAY'S MARKET'S. CORN EXCHANGE. i' Only a limited supply o f b ot h old and new English wheat was on offer here to-day. For most kinds there S a fair demand, at Monday's currency. Some of the n e " wheats appeared in excellent condition. Good and fine samples of foreign wheat were held at ve r y o full prices , but th e t ransactions in them were by no me a ns extensive. In l ow an d d amp qualities next to nothing `Q doing. Floating cargoes of grain supported late prices. The few sampl es o f b arley on offer were taken o n for mer Malt mot a dull inquiry. Prices, however, were sup ported, The oat trade was tolerably active, at full quotations• Tim show of samples was tolerably good. Beans, peas, and flour were a slow inquiry, at late rates• -- s k y ...... b ARRIVALS THIS WEEK Wheat. Barley M a lt. Oats. Flour. English 1,770 i 1 1,020 30 . 650 Irish Foreign. I 1 BOROUGH HOP. Scarcely any business is doing in our market, and Pr' ce rule almost nominal. The duty is called £255,000. WHITECHAPEL. There is a moderate business doing to-day, as follows' —Peel, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4cl ; lamb, 4s Od to 58 Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and pork) 311 6cl to 4s 8d per 81b., by the carcase.