The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-06 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnakstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with HALLOWEEN. By the Leclercqs. And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Bnckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietts., HIS EXCELLENCY , In which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. To conclude with THE KING'S GARDENER. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed HOME TRUTHS. And LES DEUX AVEUGLES. By the Zouaves. With THE LOST LETTER. After which, UNE FILLE TERRIBLE. Characters by the Zouaves. Followed by AN .AMBUSC.A.DE AT INKERMAN. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. ti Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS ~;VENTNG. THE HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J L. Toole, I'. Bedford, D. Fisher, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, Miss ti. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, 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 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Cirsle Stalls, 3s. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery , 6d: Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. - Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Immense Success of " Mazeppa." 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-pait 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—al. Felix Revolti. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- THIS EVENING. C. H. GOIJNOD'S OPERA. FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls , Hall. 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. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 5, 1160. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 65—this day at noon. BAROMETER.-29. 66 • WlND—Westerly; light, with fine weather. AuG. 6. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.45; a sudden fall. WIND--W.S.W. ; fresh, with fine weather now—but rain in the night and this morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 30m.—Afternoon, 4h. 45m To-MORROW.-Morning, sh. Om.—Afternoon, sh. 15m. - ~~ ''M er7,17 -, ~_~~ r,~r. r-~ re , i. - 4.-,, THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1880. To-night we are to have a battle, which we think it every way discreditable to Ministers to have converted into a party fight. Why cannot the House of Commons be allowed to settle a mere item of our tariff, like that of the Customs' duties on paper, in accordance with the unbiassed judgment of the majority ? What has resignation of Minis ters, or dissolution of Parliament, to do with the right or the wrong of the relation of the French Treaty to the duty in question; or, with the other point in dispute—whether a countervailing duty on the manufactured article from a country which prohibits export of the raw material, is a violation of Free-trade. Able, and intelligent, and perfectly impartial men take opposite views on both ques tions. Either may be wrong ; but to impose even the right view by open or secret threats, is, we maintain, an unfair way of treating a subject which is, more than most, one for discussion, not for coercion ; and one with which, except, perhaps, in the case of actual paper makers, no one can have either interest or prejudice. We so resent such a mode of treatment that, if it be made a question of confidence in the Govern ment, we should vote against the Ministry, to show that we were an English, not a Continental Repre sentative Assembly. We can imagine no ground on which our con temporaries, who attack so vulgarly the Times, and expose, as they think, its personal interest in re taining the countervailing penny duty, can charge us with advocating its retention from interested motives. So far as we can anticipate consequences, we must, commercially, be gainers, if the Govern ment resolutions be carried to-night. It is shabby, however, to meet arguments by personal abuse. Put it at the worst. Suppose two or three gentle men connected with the -Times have large interests in paper-mills at stake ; suppose, in consequence, they see the whole case as the long list of gentlemen do,whose names appear in our advertising columns to day, and that they, naturally, express their views in their own organ ; is this any reason why their ar guments should be ridiculed as interested ? Let them be as interested as opponents please, we should like to know who can plead a cause, suppos ing him to have the faculty of speaking or writing, like the person interested. It may lessen the value of a judgment for a person to have an interest on either side, but we never heard yet that it lessened the value of an argument. It is not very well bred of our penny contemporaries, to assume that, even if interested, the Times in its public capacity will not pronounce a fair judgment; but let it re tire from the bench, and let it be dealt fairly with as honourable counsel for its threatened interests— answer it, then, we say, don't abuse it. Perhaps, however, we must expect the latter from those whose manners are learned in the penny school. The paper makers, however, will not be denied the right to speak for themselves, though the vul gar joke of wincing at the removal of protection will be heard, when they ask for the retention of the penny Customs Duty which was imposed to meet the prohibition or taxation of the export of r aga by foreign countries. It is rather singular, as it strikes us, that we never, till this spring, heard this penny talked of as a protectionist penny. It is only since the extraordinary zeal to do the com plaisant to France of this year, that it was repre sented by any party, so far as we can remember, as otherwise than 'what it is. It has always been rightly supped .0 I be n o duty levied be- CAUSe i English manufacturers are inferior in any respect to those of France ; or because they desire , in s p ite of natural hindrances, to go on manufact urin g what the Frenc hcould do better, or with greater natural facilities, than we. It has been regarded as the amount of duty which fairly met an artificial advantage, given to French manufacturers, b y a partner, against whom no private firm in t his country could compete—the Second thoughts are not always best. There is a case in point, illustrative of this not very generally recognised truth, in the matter of the rival sub- Atlantic telegraphs ! Six years ago the North American route was suggested; and two years afterwards the Atlantic Company was organised for the carrying of a direct line from Ireland to New foundland. The northern route, therefore, had the priority—obviously and undeniably. It was in 1856, we repeat, that the Atlantic Company was organised for the laying down of the cable from Ireland to Newfoundland; but it was in 1854 that the northern route was propounded. Nay, not only had Colonel SHAFFNER suggested this particu lar line of sub-Atlantic telegraph, but in that very year, in 1854; that gallant officer had already ob tained the Danish concession to construct the telegraph from Europe to America, via the Feroe Islands. and Iceland, and Greenland. From the European side it was to start from Scotland. From the American side, from Labrador. " The success of this enterprise," Colonel SHAFFN En has himself said, "was not promotive of the interest of some New Yorkers, who were the owners of the monopoly of telegraphy in Newfoundland, and it was by their efforts that the Atlantic Company was organised (in 1856) for the line from Ireland to Newfound land." Whatever the reason for the proposal thus made, as by an after thought for the laying down of the direct line of telegraph, in reference to the one suggested for the western route, via Ireland and Greenland—the facts are indisputable, of course, that fully two years after the projector of the northern line had obtained the Danish concession for its construction, the Atlantic Company was first organised for the:connection (if possible) by the elec tric cable of Ireland and Newfoundland. Everybody remembers how magnificently the latter enterprise was for one brief and glorious, but most illusory, interval realised. The incident of its realisation is one, in fact, not very easily to be forgotten. Never, as we remarked ourselves at the time in these columns, never surely were the deathless words of the Royal Psalmist more sublimely realised —De profundis clamari ad to Domine I—than:when first thrilled under the waters of the great Atlantic ocean, from shore to shore, from Europe to America the earliest electric signal between the two hemi spheres, Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus ! But the golden cord of this magic it tercourse between the nations was no sooner woven than it was snapped asunder. Row fatally we now know for certain—now that the old submerged cable has been found corroded and crumbling away wherever it has been hauled up for exa mination. Recollecting the total and absolute failure, so far, of the direct route of the sub-Atlantic Telegraph the one propounded two years subEequently to the more circuitous line (not yet tried) via Iceland and Greenland, from the Faroe Islands to Labrador, one not unnaturally reverts with interest to a consideration of that elder plan, as unfolded first of all six years ago French Government. It is not the French manu- (viz., in 1854) by its ingenious projector, Colonel facturers but the French Government whom our SHAFT NER . manufacturers say they are unwilling to meet as It ' was only as recently as last month (July) a rival. They say so justly. It appears to us won- that ( ;folonel SHAFFNER restated succinctly the derful that intelligent Free-traders do not see whole, of his very remarkable scheme in a lucid through the sophism which represents Free- and lu.minous paper laid by him, at Oxford, trade as demanding that private manufacturers before the British Association, for the advancement should be required to compete against Go- of scievice. Step by step, the gallant and learned vernment bounties, as well as against project( it of this northern route of the sub-Atlantic skill or natural advantages of their fellow- Telegraph showed how the cable might, according traders. Were our Government to select a score to his c %lculations, be trailed securely from Scot of names from the list of the papermakers in our land to Quebec, via Feroe Isles, Iceland, Green columns to day, and declare that they would remit, land, an d Labrador. Landed at Thorshaven, the in their favour, so much of the duty as would capital of the Faroe group, it is to be trailed balance the difference between the price of rags in thence, Colonel SILAFFNER has explained, a short France and their price in England—the immediate distance overland to Westerman's haven ; effect would be that all the trade would go into the thence under the northern seas to Iceland, hands of the favoured twenty, or that all the rest which the cable will cross from Portland to Reik would endeav'our to unite themselves in vast joint- varik—and so on by way of Greenland, onward stock partnerships with them. Yet where, we still onward, until lamded in Hamilton's Inlet confidently ask, would the position of the select (lat. N. 54 deg. 30 sec.) upon the coast of Labrador. F twenty differ from that of the paper manufacturers From that point it will b e run further on, either (to which of the two destinations apparently it has of France at this hour ? And , sur el y , we are not nit -yet been decided) to the Gulf or to the River about to allow the French Gove rnment to p ractise on our papermakers, generally , with im p unit y , an St. Lawrence. Having once reached Quebec, injustice which we would n o t hear of from our own. it will then be in instantameous communication with the various lines of telegraph radiating thence But we are pointed to the t reat y ; and we are told that our honour is pledg ed b y it to the repeal to all parts of the North American continent. Now , of the Customs' Duty. We need not repeat, now, as to the six sections of the proposed telegraphic that that treaty is diversely interpreted. We cannot route, Colonel SHAFFNER well observed to the doubt that paper was not thought of when it was British Association that they are, everything scon made. The treaty itself doe s not sa y that all French sidered, as well known to other nautical geographers merchandise, but certain merchandise shall be ad- as to himself, saving and excepting only, perhaps, the places sounded by the telegraphic expedition last mitted, either en payment of eq ual duties to what is paid on the same article s here, or with an au g - autumn between Iceland and Greenland, and, again men tation only equalling the extra cost due t o our further on between Greenland and Labrador. In exc ise regulations; it then enumerates the articles, regard to which two most important sections, what is the evidence now given upon authority by and amongst them paper is not mentioned. This seems to shew, if anything c an d o so , that paper is Col. SHAFFNER ? It is this :—" The bottoms of not fairly included in the treaty. those seas," he writes, " were found to be deep mud, But there is another clause—the 21st—to which and a cable once laid thereon will lie undisturbed for we call the special attention of every member to- all time. Neither the heaving of the seas, nor the night. It reserves to the contracting powers the spire-like iceberg will disturb the fiery cable re right "to introduce by common consent into this posing beneath their white-crested waves. Ice treaty any modification which is not opposed to its bergs float, and there will be no part of the spirit and principles, and the utility of which shall sea in which the cable will be laid that have been shown by experience." Now, is our Go- the bergs will reach the bottom. It is easy for ment in a position to show that it has done its best those in rival interests, or for those unacquainted with France on the basis of this clause. Has it, with the physics of the seas, to imagine difficulties. first, brought all its influence to bear on the aboli- Artic navigators with whom I have had the plea tion of the export duty on rags. If it has, which sure of conversing since my arrival from the voy we much doubt, can it show that it has represented age of last autumn, agree that if the cable can be to the French Government the necessity, in that carried into deep fiords on the respective coasts, case, of retaining the penny countervailing Gus- there will be no danger of interruptions arising toms' duty ? If it cannot, it hardly deserves a single . from icebergs. I have seen such fiords on the coasts vote in its favour. We do not think so badly of Labrador and Greenland, and therefore the of the French as to suppose them so utterly lost to problem is solved !" Than this, assuredly, nothing all sense of decency as to ask us to abolish our min- could be more positive, more reliable, more empha tervailing duty, while they retain the prohibition it tice, or more conclusive. was intended to meet. Mr. COBDEN, indeed, As to the land sections, Colonel SHAFFNER says of them, in a communication which has been writes quite as satisfactorily. And, in thus writing, made public today, "the French are very little in it ought to be remembered that he does so from all their commercial notions, monstrously fond of actual and prolonged experience. The difficulties money, but all after a penurious fashion." Yet we there (in the land seetions) are not, he observes, of will not speak of our neighbours as so outrageously serious importance. "A telegraph line can be selfish and " little in their notions" as the conduct constructed on land wherever thefoot of man can be referred to would suppose. placed. I have built lines over hills and valleys If, therefore, the retention of the extra penny is where neither waggon nor beast could go, and these quite compatible with Free Trade principles ;ifit be regions were in the great Mississippi valley, a coun not a violation of the Treaty ;if we may reasonably try having great variety of soil, surface, and climate. believe that even little-notioned, Frenchmen them- I have been in the service some sixteen years, and selves would not object to it; then, surely Mr. have participated in the construction of several PULLER'S resolution ought to be carried by an thousand miles of lines, and have for years served overwhelming majority. For replies to other as President, and also in nearly every position objections, all of which have been however already known to telegraphy." Everything in effect points answered in The Sun, and for several important to the North American route encouragingly. Its aspects of the subject, we must refer our readers to own feasibility both by land and by water, no less the able advertisement of the paper makers. We than the total failure hitherto of the rival enter have considered the subject without reference to po- prize—trailed ineffectually by " second thoughts" litical consequences at home; we have a very high from Ireland to Newfoundland. regard for Mr. GLADSTONE as a man, but we cannot sacrifice our deliberate opinion to keep him in office. Should he be defeated, however, we cannot think he will be so ill-advised as to go out on such a ques tion ; and to dissolve Parliament in favour of French manufacturers, and of submitting to such a trick as passing the Treaty under a promise, re ceived with cheers, to abolish the rag prohibition — a promise not kept by France would ensure a new Parliament such as neither Lord PALMERSTON nor Mr. GLADSTONE would meet, except to resign their offices. When Mr. HADFIELD suggested in the House of Commons that the letter to "My dear PERSIGNY" naight enable Lord PALMERSTON to dispense with fortifications, the response was a universal " laugh." There was something very rich, certainly, in the representative of the great hardware town being satisfied with such very soft defences as that "frank" and genial communication. Old COBBETT was ready to pit " paper against gold ;" but Mr. HADFIELD was ready to match it with rifled can non, and with all the " dread artillery of war." " A magnificent and verbose letter comes," and forthwith our Senate is to give up troubling itself about national defences. The turf on Portsdown Hill may lie undisturbed, and the costly stone which should build the seaward batteries may slumber in its cheap dormitory—the quarry. The letter answers for all. We should not be surprised if an address of congratulation to Her MAJESTY were proposed—or if some " peace society" man should suggest that the letter should be publicly read in the Park, and honoured with a Royal salute. However, Consols rise. So they ought. The letter itself is one thing, and the professions it contains ano ther. That a letter has been sent breathing all sorts of pacific assurances, offering the most plausible ex planations of ugly past deeds, and of quite as ugly existing appearances, is a fact. The professions will be taken to represent facts, or the contrary, according as persons possess the faith in the writer, which he attributes to Lord PALMERSTON or not. We accept the fact, and we interpret it just as the sellers and the buyers of Consols do. It looks to us pacific that "a neighbouring potentate is alarmed to find his huge instruments of aggression looked upon by England's Premier, as well as by continental Governments, as the evidence of un righteous intentions. Why this alarm ? Just because that even with double his present Army and Navy, Europe if combined would, to use Mr. COBDEN'S phrase, " crum ple up France in six months." We have no doubt what ever that there is a vast deal of secret preparation, as there always can be under the most unmitigated despotism ; but what " crops out " has told its tale at Toplitz, at Brussels, aril now at last in the Bri tish House of Commons. The game is up. No more Savoy and Nice treacheries and lies. The next -violent attempt to rectify a French boundary will unite the fleets and armies of Europe to put down for ever the imitator of his " uncle." Unless LOUIS NAPOLEON cherish villainous pur poses at heart—we say it openly—he has no more right to menace the repose of Europe with 400,000 soldiers, ready at a moment's warning, and 200,000, and we know not how many more, ready to follow them in a few weeks, than we have. He has not a more extensive or more acces sible frontier than we have. Algeria is a trifle to our vast colonies, including India ; and as to a navy, he scarcely needs one, compared with us ; we have shores that can hardly be measured, to watch ; he, but his two sides of the square which contains not many more inhabitants than our shapeless islands. The right reply to this letter is to ask its author for deeds. It is perfectly certain that not a single neighbour has the slightest wish to meddle with France, while she leaves the geography of Europe as it is. While com paratively helpless no one moved a finger against her. Latterly, however, not content with being at the head of the polite civilisation of the Continent, this fickle nation, or its ambitious ruler, have de sired to regain the ascendancy of brute force which L they enjoyed for a little time under the first Em-' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AuGusr 6, 1860. pire. Some, we know, say the people do not de sire it. Then let them speak out. Let them get rid of their physical force EMPEROR, if they can not compel him by reasonable means not to keep himself armed to the teeth in the midst of peace ful Europe. It cannot be endured that we should pay ten millions income tax, and other European States pay in proportion, merely because an upstart of the last Decade sees fit to arm himself like a Mon tenegrin chief. If he wishes for peace, let him boldly cut down his naval and military strength; all Europe will gladly follow, and the taxation remitted will flow abroad as capital to stimulate the commerce which he pro fesses to desire for France. We are glad to see the fears which the letter indicates; but they only warn us to put no trust in letters, but in the preparations and language here, which have called forth such a self-huiniliating epistle. LATEST W S. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PALERMO,!AUG. 4. Decrees,'bearing the signatures of Signors De pretis and Crispe, and promulgating the Sardinian statuto in Sicily, will be published to-morrow. The Council of State and the tribunals will be reorganised. A programme will be issued expressing devoted ness to Xing Victor Emmanuel, and to the cause of national unity. PARIS, MONDAY. The Moniteur says :— The Emperor wishing to give Abd-el•Kader a token of the sentiments which his noble conduct at Damascus has inspired, has conferred on him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Moniteur also publishes the text of the two protocols, signed at the Conference of the 3d inst., an analysis of which has been given by Lord John Russell. PARIS, AUG. 5. Yesterday, at four o'clock, the Turkish Ambas sador signel all the protocols which empower France to send an expedition to Syria. The expedition is expected to sail on Tuesday. PARIS, AUG. 4. The Patrie of this evening says:— "The regiments destined for Syria left Chalons this morning. Four steamers left Toulon yester day for Algiers, to embark troops. "News received here states that great agitation prevails in Canaia, Djeddah, and Arabia." LANDING OF GARIBALDI'S TROOPS IN CALABRIA. PARIS, AUGUST 5. The Patrie and the Pays of this evening state that a despatch has been received in Paris an nouncing the unopposed disembarkation of 1,500 Garibaldian vclunteers in Calabria. According to the same despatch Garibaldi is ex pected to arrive very shortly at Naples, he having been summoned thither by the Garibaldian com mittee of that city to assume the direction of the Government. NAPLES, JULY 31. A military column has been sent to Calabria. ROME, JULY 31. A popular movement "at Arpino has been sup pressed. The people shouted for Garibaldi. Gen. de Lamoriciere has despatched a column of troops to Terracina. MILAN, AUG. 4. The Perseveranza announces that the Sardinian Government has ordered the levy of the classes 1838 and 1839. TURIN, AUG. 5. A rumour is current that the Neapolitan Pleni potentiaries, having seen the impossibility of con cluding an alliance between Sardinia and Naples, will leave Turin immediately. The journals announce that the Government has contracted a loan of 150,000,000 lire at 80.25. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 4.—The market has been ♦ery heavy, and from the trifling amount of business doing, prices are next to nominal. The quotations at the present moment are, Threes, for the account, 68f 25c; Mobilier, 686" ?5c ; Northern, 960 f; Orleans, 1,370 f ; Mediter• ranean, 887 f 50e:; Austrian, 507 f 50e. The follow ing were the latest quotations :- 4f per per Cents 97 751 Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 251 Bank Shares 2820 Credit Mobilier 690 Do. Account 687 50 Credit Fonder BB5 Belgian 4i — • Piedmontese Fives Bl Roman — • Austrian Spanish Threes 471 • Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cask. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto — .. Lyons and Mediterranean 887 50 .. 890 . Geneva 367 50 .. Southern 5OO _ 501 25 Western Eastern _ _ _ Sardinian strian Lombard The Duke of Buocleuch, as lord lieutenant of the county, will leave Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire, to day, in order to receive the Queen on her arrival at Edin burgh. The Archbishop of Armagh and Mrs. Dunbar left town on Saturday to visit the Hon. Edward and Mrs. Ken yon at their seat in Wales, after which his grace proceeds to Armagh for the autumn. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh and Lady Charlotte Innes Ker have left the Clarendon Hotel for Floors Castle, Kelso, N.B. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Lords Ronald and Albert Leveson Gower left Stafford House on Saturday for Trentham, Staffordshire. The Marquis of Stafford, M.P., has left town for Edinburgh in order to attend the review of the rifle volunteers of Scotland by her Majesty to-morrow, The Marchioness remains in town. The Marchioness (Maria) of Waterford has left town on a visit to Admiral and Mrs. Eden at their seat in Norfolk, whence her ladyship goes to Ford Castle, Northum berland. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of State in attendance on the Q ueen on her visit to-morrow to Edinburgh. M.P., will be A marriage is contemplated between Lord Eustace Cecil, third son of the Marquis of Salisbury, and Lady Gertrude Scot, fourth daughter of the late Earl of Eldon. WHAT'S IN A NAME !—A writer in the Court Circular, faute de mieux, says:—The following curiosities are to be found in the present House of Commons :—Two Cubits and a Foct ; a Lever and two Lockes ; a Gore • stained Hood and candied Peel • a Peacock and Pease ; a Bridge and a Bcoth; a Longfield and a little Brook, Greenwood Freeland and a Cave ; a Cro ss and a Trollo p ; a Hunt with Foxand a Roebuck; a Collier bringing Coke and Coles ; a Hutt with Leeks ; a Patten conveyed by a Bond to a Fellow with two Deedes ; also a company of gentlemen who are Rich, Wise, Long, Hardy, Moody, Lowe, Merry, and Thynne—each acquained with Manners and Knightley. To sum up all, they have amongst them two Kings, one Dike, a Marshall, a Palmer, and a Knight. ROYAL CREMORNE GARDENS.—Mr. Simpson an nouneestis benefit at these favourite gardens for Wednes day next. Upon this occasion will be exhibited, for the first time to the public, a very beautiful and effective pictorial exhibition called the Stereorama, upon which Messrs. Grieve and Telbin have been engaged for some months past. It represents Swiss scenery, the visitors being sup posed to be standing in the midst of the mountain ranges near the route by the pass of Mount St. Gothard. There will be numerous other attractions and novelties, not the least important of which will be, it is to be hoped, a fine day for the celebration of this annual fete. LITERATURE. Dublin University Magazine. There is a second article on Rienzi, which is forcibly written. A most unfavourable view is taken of the character of the Tribune in this paper ; it is said that he " abandoned himself to acts of tyranny, cruelty, and spoliation." If, as is here asserted, Sir E. Lytton has drawn too flattering a portraiture of his career in his brilliant romance, it will occur to some readers that the writer of this sketch has gone to the other extreme. It is stated that he " estranged all parties, lost the esteem and confidence of all," by his unfair con• duct in many instances, particularly in the unjust, cruel, execution of Pandolfo di Guido, and the dis missal of Anibaldi from his command ; and even, it concludes, " during the better period of his political career, Rienzi is a striking example how much in reality imagination is a dangerous, inefficient gift when it stands isolated. Practical intelligence and resolution in human affairs can alone save and re generate a State." " Vonved the Dane, Count of Elsinore," is continued. This instalment contains some exciting chapters. The trio of friends, who are the forlorn hope of the condemned outcast, wait upon the King, where they meet with worse than failure, inasmuch as their ill-timed remarks and injudicious advocacy of their claims infuriates the Monarch to such a degree that he became almost frantic with passion. Further on the heroic young wife visits her husband in prison, and, in obedience to his directions, she proceeds to the dwelling of his grandfather to obtain from him some important gifts that were to effect his liberation. This story is told in a very impressive style, and is a great attraction to the magazine. " The Informer" is a tale of Irish life, that presents nothing new or par ticularly striking, but that reveals some traits of character which, unfortunately, are too often observable. Notwithstanding the horrors that occur the story at last is satisfactorily concluded, and it is well worthy of perusal from its animated descriptions. There is a sketch entitled " Three Days at Killarney," and to those purposing a visit to those romantic regions, these pages will be of interest and utility. The programme here given of the sight seeing, it is observed, will well occupy the day, and the objects here cited are so numerous that there is no reason to doubt the truth of the assertion, that they filled our day with incessant occupation, and as ceaseless enjoyment. At the end of these amusing pages it is said that, "re viewing our whole experience at Killarney, and all its varieties of mountain, lake and woodland scenery, we were as much struck by its forests as by aught besides ; but we should add, by way of explanation, that we are as fond of trees as ever a Hamydryad that haunted the woods of Thessaly. The mantle of foliage that clothed the form of nature before us was broidered with every hue of the rainbow and with every caprice of pattern ; green of course was the prevailing colour, but green, from the duskiest black to the most faded white—no " bull" this, for the dark green and the pale by contrast appeared in very deed like the cheeks of day reposing on the lap of night." " Our Political Chorus" contains some appropriate remarks on the national defences, which denounces in proper terms of scorn and con tempt the Manchester peacemakers. The following passage concludes the article in a spirited manner:— The Review on the 23d of June was a splendid success. The value of the display is the proof it give that the warlike instincts of the British race are as fresh and vigorous as ever. There were above 20,000 men, the bone and marrow of the middle classes, representatives of 130,000, who have already come forward at their country's call. The incle mency of the weather during the preceding six months is, doubtless, the principal cause why the entire levy has not yet shown a much longer muster-roll. Two hundred thou sand, only half the number of Volunteers in 1805, is the least sum-total the country should be content with ; and in our character as Chorus, we loudly call for " more men." It is, in truth and in effect, loyalty and patriotism which make the Volunteers, one and all, the heartiest defenders of their Queen and country. From its very nature, a volun teer force must remain in its:own country, and is, therefore, strictly a defensive force, not menacing our neighbours, and opening no vistas of foreign military glory to ourselves; and just as the most powerful fleet at sea is the British specialty for war, an armament of volunteer riflemen should be regarded as our national land specialty, for further secu rity at home, even during times of peace. An immediate effect of the success of the Review and the National Shooting M atch has been a large augmentation to the force ; the Royal rifle shot on Wimledon Common is echoing round the remotest hills of the land by volleys from many thousand new weapons. A volunteer guard com posed of 200,000 of the flower of the youth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, will be a better guarantee for peace thax the thousand influences said to lurk in interchange of national commodities; and as mankind are governed by fear as well as by reward, let us, while we buy and sell freely with foreigners, keep, Deo adjuvante, our "powder dry." There will be no need of a second Waterloo, when the nations trio junta in uno that fought under Wellington, shall have peaceably mustered a larger force for de fence than the great duke commanded ; so let us rejoice, that— " Still the thick battalions come and come, As though all England, the long pent-up store Of her deliberate valour would outpour ; Not flaunting in war's trappings, rich and gay, But all in sober green and working grey, 0 Lady of the Land! thy feet before." Bentley's Miscellany. Victor Guadre continues to criticise the conduct of the English Parliament and Government in his satirical fashion. The indefatigable Ouida contri butes a long story on the only subject on which his prolific pen can dilate—viz., the military at country quarters, their conquests, and flirtations. Were the tale under notice condensed into one-third of its length, it would be amusing without being tedious. As it is, one would require to be caged in a roadside inn on a wet day to enjoy it in its en tirety. Part one of " Once a Child," by Monks hood is superior to his other entertaining chapters of " Mingle Mangle" : " The Norfolk Islander was ones a child. The systema tic, wholesale poisoner was once a child. The hoary Fagins, the rugged Bill Sykeses, the blackest blackguards and worst reprobates of society—shunned by her, banned by her, sent out of the world by her—each of these sovereigns in scoundrelism was once a child. Nero, whose name is become a byeword for all that is base, brutal, bloody,' was once a child. The historian records of him—after saying that ' the loss of his fierce and brutal father, when he was but three years old, was certainly no matter of regret,' and that his mother, Agrippina, had a princely sense of the duty which devolved upon The .hild was docile and affectionate, apt to learn, and eager for praise.' " " Curious Mesmeric Experiences in California' relate to a certain gentleman who, having involun tarily entered into a deep state of mesmeric rapport with a criminal about to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, undergoes that unpleasant operation in spirit. To enjoy and understand this description thoroughly requires more faith than we confess to; many are, however, more sensitive on this point, and will believe and appreciate it. " A Visit to Charles Dickens," by Hans Christien Andersen, is highly complimentary to Mr. Dickens. There is a sketch of the history of Mademoiselle de la Valliere, one of the mistresses of Louis Quartorze, also the continuation of Gurney, or Two Fortunes, by Lindley Costello. Colburn's United Service Magazine. The Unzted Service opens with a Paper on " The Defence of London," a subject on which many articles have already been written, and which is so inexhaustible that we may look forward to a con tinuous succession until the long-threatened inva• sion comes at last. In the chapter on " The Naval Articles" we find a history of the ambiguous articles of the time of Queen Anne and George I. down to our own : _ _ The sentence passed upon Admiral Byng was referred to the twelve judges, who pronounced it legal ; but Admiral tho Hon. John Forbes, who was then a Lord of the Admi ralty, and whose duty it was in that capacity to sign the death warrant, refused to do so, entering at the time a written protest, which protest has taken its place among the historical facts of the period, and conferred upon him im• mortal honour. _ _ _ The strong common sense contained in that document, coupled with the general feeling that Byng had been rigorously, though unavoidably. sentenced in accordance with the terms of the Articles of War, which admitted of no milder interpretation, brought about the act 19 George 111., cap. 17. This act, passed in 1774, gave a court-martial discretionary power to substitute for death "such other punishment as the nature and degree of the offence should be found to deserve ;" but this mitigatory power only ex tended to the twelfth Article of War, and it was left to her most gracious Majesty to introduce the same qualifica tion, with reference to every other article in the code. Admiral Byng's judicial murder brought about a revision of the statutes, and it was found advisable to grant a discretionary power to courts-martial, the service not appreciating the encouragement which Voltaire informs us was held out to them by this execution when he writes of the English Government, " Its ont tue un admiral pour encou rager les autres :" But unqualified severity was far from being the only objectionable feature connected with the Articles of War laid downin George the Second's reign. They did not reach many weighty offences, and courts martial were continually at a loss to know how far they were justified in condemning a prisoner of whose guilt they were often morally convinced. A man was perhaps charged with the commission of a, certain offence not strictly cogn i za bl e b y any p ar ti cu l ar " Article of War, and they could only fall back upon the 36th Article, referring to " all other crimes not capital," which were to be punished "according to the laws and customs in such cases used at se a ," wkich laws and customs admitted of a variety of interpretations: The powers of a court martial were also restricted in the way of imprisonment to a term of two years. We find another article on the subject of defences relating to the United Kingdom in general. " A Russian Account of the Campaign in the Crimea" is continued, and the general naval and military intelligence completes the number. Macmillan's Magazine. This magazine is scarcely equal to its former numbers. Two lengthened poems occupy a con siderable space, which are greater i n intention than execution. The editor, Mr. Masson, contributes a paper on Thomas Hood, in which he renders due honour to the humourist and the poet. The fifth and sixth volumes of Mr. Froude's History receive a careful criticism from the able pen of the Rev. F. D. Maurice. " Tom Brown at Oxford" is as usual a prominent feature, and it chronicles some very important events. The examination comes on and leaves Hardy in a place of honour, while Blake pays the penalty of his idleness and dissipation. This disaster is aggravated by an outrageous sup per party which terminates in the general disgrace of himself and his set, Two fair ladies make their appearance in the story, to whom Tom. assumes the office of cavalier serviente. The navies of France and England are discussed and compared in an article which gives evidence of care and thought. Body's Sports and Pastimes.—The Marquis of Exeter is the subject for a frontispiece and bio graphical sketch. We are glad to find a continua tion of Horse-racing, by Admiral Rous, who treats his subject in a masterly manner. From Oxford to St. George is continued. The Experiences of Mr. Sydney Godolphin Yahoo lead him deeper into the favour of Miss Cameron. There is, of course, a full account of the Thames Grand National Regatta, Cricket, Racing Register, and other sporting intel ligence. Daily's Turf Guide and Racing Register is a useful register of the doings on the turf for the first half of 1860. One of Them. By Charles Lever. Chapman and Hall. There is nothing of much interest in the present number. Stockman and Paten fall out about the fair and crafty Loo, alias Mrs. Morris. An Ame rican panic threatens to ruin the Heathcotes. Charley Heathcote gives up his old love, and shows signs of taking up a new one—Mrs. Morris's sup posed daughter, but in reality the heiress of the murdered Hawke This marriage will come about, or we are much mistaken. Loo has an amusing confab with her worthy paternity, and, for the first time, we find Mrs. Morris speaking plainly and straightforwardly. The Technologist. Vol. 1., No. I. Kent and Co. This new serial, with a somewhat abstruse title, is likely, if well conducted, to be a work of value and interest. It purposes to be a monthly record of science applied to art and manufacture, and is edited by P. Simmonds, F.S.S., author of several works on commercial products. The following paragraph on the use of paper and rags in China, affords a fair sample of the condensed information to be obtained from its pages : The graceful and useful bamboo is the source of paper supply in China. The paper made from its culms is suffi cient to meet the demands of the Chinese. It is, for the most part, of a quality unfit for European books and news papers. In some places the article is manufactured with such care as to answer even for foreign writing paper. The Anglo-Chinese newspapers, however, find it best to import their material from England. The paper mulberry also contributes to the paper demand in China, and so does rice straw. Do you ask what becomes of the cast• off, or, rather, fallen-off, garments of the uncounted millions of China ? The world of letters can derive no aid from Chinese rags, until leather becomes more abundant in that country. Crispin claims them all for soles ; the shoes of China have soles an inch thick, formed of suitably prepared rags, faced with a thin strip of leather. Plain or _Ringlets (Bradbury and Evans) is concluded. Rosa catches a tartar. She throws over Mr. Bunting because, although he has an estate in Scotand, he has no castle, as she sup posed, and marries the banker's son ; but the bank stops payment on the day of her wedding, and Mr. Bunting's estate turns out a treasure, being a mine of wealth. Mr. Boyston, alias the Tory, marries the widow, who keeps a rather tight hand on him, docks his corn (i.e. wine), wants Billy Roughun to go in the coal cart ; and when the poor Tory remonstrates with tongue and boot-jack, he is threatened with the terrors of Sir Cresswell Cresswell. The tale, taken as a whole, is amusing. The author has a talent for exposing swindling in all its shapes, and in this respect his stories are instruc tive as well as interesting. A sharper, who sells a broken down horse as a sound one, is, of course, a swindler; and though a man who passes himself off for a wealthy husband, when he is in reality penniless, or the mamma who bestows a portionless daughter as an heiress, are called by polite society by a softer name, there are those vulgar mortals in existence who do not see much difference be tween them. We should have liked to have seen more of Mr. Young Jessop, the most gentlemanly sportsman whom the author has yet produced. We hope to meet him on a future occasion. MISCELLANEOUS. The Eclectic has several papers of interest in this month's number. A second article on " The Oxford School" discusses the recent volume of " Es says and Reviews," which, as may be supposed, do not meet with very favourable criticism, the ten dencies of the Eclectic being totally opposed to the general tone and character of these essays. Hum boldt's letters form the subject of a paper which gives an outline of the great man's career, as well nc a native of a book which would have been batter unpublished. There is a very pleasant article on letters and letter writers, and a memoir of General Havelock, besides several other papers of more or less merit.-2 he National Magazine is, as usual, an agreeable miscellany of tales and sketches in verse and prose. Mr. Ritchie selects Lord Stanley for his Parliamentary portrait gallery, and gives a fair account of his career. Another political article is on the life and administration of Sir Robert Walpole, which seems inclined to share the opinion so warmly expressed by Thackeray in his lectures, and to attribute to him, despite all his faults, the preservation of our political liberties.— Once a- Week proceeds with unabated spirit. Miss Martineau's able articles on matters of health and social economy are already well known and appre ciated. Sir John Bo wring contributes a paper of Oriental Recollections, and Captain Sherard Osborn some sketches entitled " Japanese Fragments," de scriptive of that extraordinary people. Eliza Cook's beautiful lines " Once upon a Time," which we have previously quoted in our columns are included in this month's number. We are glad to find the popular poetess has lent her aid to the pages of this agreeable mis cellany.—Dunry's _Hibernian Magazine is a new publication of average merit, chiefly adapted to the inhabitants of the Emerald Isle.—Knight's admir able English Cyclopcedia progresses with its accus tomed variety of information, and includes a wide range of subjects. The number before us has ar ticles on mathematics, meteorology, microscope, mining, the moon, and other subjects of importance.— Routledge's Illustrated Natural History bids fair to be the must comprehensive work of the kind ex tant. The easy and popular style in which it is written, enlivened by numerous anecdotes, and the quantity and excellence of the illustrations, render it especially attractive to the unscientific reader.— Cassell's popular publications maintain their charac ter for a combination of good sense, sound informa tion, and remarkable cheapness of price. .A.RI UNIOIV OF LONDON. A private view was given on Saturday of the ex hibition of pictures selected by the prizeholders of the Art Union of London in the lottery for the pre sent year. The exhibition, which is held at the gallery of the Society of British Artists in Suffolk street, Pall-mall, comprises a total of 157 works, 114 of which are oil paintings chosen from the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Royal Scot tish Academy, the Society of British Artists, and the Institution of the Fine Arts. The water-colour drawings, to the number of 36, have been selected from the old and new societies of water-colour pain ters. In addition to the above there are several photographs and chromo-lithographs, and a reduced copy of Foley's statue of Caractacus. The prize holders have displayed considerable taste in their selection, which has for the most part been in landscapes and genre pictures rather than in those illustrative of historical or poetical sub jects. The winner of a £2OO prize has pur chased an English pastoral scene in Surrey, by Mr. H. B. Willis. The £lOO prizholder has chosen " Tantallon Castle," by Mr. J. Syer, the price of which was £2OO, the balance being paid by the purchaser. For the two prizes of £l2O and £lOO, " Sardis," by Mr. Henry Johnson, and the " Nile Raft," by Mr. F. Dillon, have been selected. Mr. Lance's fruit piece, " Full Ripe," has been favoured by the preference of the winner of a £l5O prize. Some of the less costly produc tions include works by Staufeld, Danby, J. C. Ward, Callow, Williams, S. P. Jackson, and others. Mr. Durham's marble statue of " Chastity" has been selected by a lady prizeholder, and occupies a pro minentthe position in the gallery. With regard to u society's operations next year, 11 works of he sc tlwpu ture have been sent in competition for prizes of 70 and 30 guineas offered by g uineas for the and the response to the offer of 100 htl shaded, the council best series of designs in outline , y or nS silg of the y illustrative of Tennyson ' s mg," has been 42 contributions. The council have not yet decided on the merits of t hese p ro ductions. The engraving to be distributed next year among s t the members is one from TurnersT ,he picetuxrheiboif:oltnawly.l,'; or " Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' which Mr. Will more has reproduced onsteel. _ be publicly openede day, and a visit t o th e gal lery is recommend d. _ i ----- . APOTHECABIES'-HALL.—lhe following are the names o f gentlemen who passed thei r examination in the science and practice of medicine, and receiv e d cert ifi cates t o practise,_ on Thursday. the 2d of Augu s t : —A dam Fletcher, ury ' Lan cashire ; Eugene F ranc i s Cronin, Kennington; Evesham, W orces t ers hi re. Th e on the s ame d ay passed the i r f i rst kestr gentlemen Haynalesso, exa mination :—Thos. Weinyss Bogg, S ou th Li nco l ns hi re ; following A l l e Allen L anc ashire; John Dunstan, Jersey; Sidney Thorp, Thomas Holatested, and Crawford John Pocock, Guy's Hospital. SPORTING NOTES. The meetings held during the past week at Lewes and Brighton attained a success they could on no previous oc casion lay claim to, particularly the latter, at which occur red a series of contests almost equal in interest to those which had recently taken place at the parent meet ing. The most astounding " turn up" at Lewes was the easy overthrow of bliss Julia by Fravola, on her favourite course, half a mile, at a difference of 191 b only, although at Goodwood she beat Fravola by a head at a difference of 271 b ! Next we saw Oliver, who last year gave promise of attaining to sore* excellence, if not celebrity, defeated by Cronstadt, at a difference of 131 b only for the year, a fact which goes far to indicate that either the Newminsters do not " train on," or that Cronstadt is a much better two year-old than he has yet got credit for being. A still more unlooked-for defeat was that of Crater for her Majesty's Plate, and no eruption ever created more dismay than the easy manner he succumbed to Defender, a result which proved him to be either completely "off," or that he has no ability to stay a distance. On the second day Feo dorowna's running for the Lewes Handicap, of only 81b worse terms with Blue Jacket than they had previously met at in the Goodwood Stakes, the horse won after a long and determined struggle, in which the meed of praise is equally and well due to Grimshaw as to Fordtiam for the splendour of the finish, and thus, in some measure, was the Stakes running proved to be untrue, the Jacket being in that race beaten " out of sight." The first day's proceedings at Brighton were remarkable for the continued success of the " home stables," three of the six races on the card falling to their share. The result of the Brighton Stakes in favour of Blue Jacket was fur ther confirmatory of the incorrectness of the Goodwood Stakes running, for he carried, with Claire, relatively the same weights, and though he had an advantage of 71b. over Flitch, he beat them both so easily and so far that it is diffi • cult to account for the inglorious position he held in that race, which, if the result be true, leaves Wallace about as good as Blue Jacket at level weights ; consequently it is not surprising his finding favour for the St. Leger. The racing on the second day was of an equally interest ing character, and gave rise to some heavy speculation. Bel Esperanza was accounted so favourably weighted for the opening event that a very short price was taken about her, but, as she never runs twice alike, Bullock could not prevail upon her to make an effort, and Fitz-Avon won easily, giving the second, Ipswich; another three year old, 211 b The winner, owing to his having run so badly at Lewes, was not trusted by his stable for a guinea, and was run merely to test the correctness of his performance the day but one previous, which, he wever, being a journey of two miles, was not within his compass. Eight horses, all of which possessed both character and quality, contested the Champagne Stakes, on which the betting was very spirited, Crater being installed the favourite, not withstanding his Lewes defeat, and after him Blue Jacket and Satellite were awarded the chief support. The result was, however, far from being in accordance with these fancies, as Twilight, who had been a little "off" when defeated by Narcissus a fortnight ago, came to the rescue of the fielders, and won very easily. The first two days of . the week are devoted to Wolverhampton, North Staffordshire, and Ripon, and the clashing of the three must be somewhat unfortunate for the two former, as one or the other must be the sufferer by it, the localities being rather too close together. The Cleveland Cup, run at Wolverhampton to-morrow, looks a certainty for Defender, nothing, with the ex ception of Twilight, appearing to have a chance with him. The twenty-seven nominations to the Nursery Stakes are sure to furnish a considerable field at the starting post, and those I am inclined to put the most trust in are Louise Leclereq, Sacerdos, and Naid of Honour. In the Samford Biennial, Horror, Northern Light, Odo r Botheration, Lupullus, Provision, Rameses, Stolzenfels, Little Dick, Narcissus, and Dreadnought, with thirty-four other three-year-olds, are engaged, but beyond those en.u• merated I can see nothing likely to take part in the strug gle, and I doubt if many of them will face the two first named—Horror and Northern Light—who will only have to appear at the starting post to invest the race with ex traordinary interest, but I will give the preference to Northern Light. The programme set forth for Ripon shows no falling off from former years. In the Grand Stand Plate Doefoot will again have it all her own way. The Members' Plate Handicap will be strongly affected by the Great St. Wilfrid Handicap, the winner of which, however, will have his work out out to beat Edmund Kean and Baron Parke. Doefoot is the top weight in the Great Northers Nursery, but it is rat'ier too much to expect her to give so much weight to Fast Runner, Lady Bird, and Royal Princess, and one of the last-named ought to be about the mark. Reading is always largely patronised, and the visitor' may be assured of first-rate sport this year, for the meet; are all well filled, and the Berkshire stables always suppll good fields. The King's Meadow Stakes will find the two top weightist Amsterdam and Speaker, formidable. The recent running of Wallace and Convivialist causer the Berkshire Stakes + o 1,, 0 k la in a it p-ift" to either, and only in Lovett can I see anything likely to interfere with them. The Abbey Stakft, for which fourteen two year olds are engaged, has three or four celebrities amongst the no minations, including Lady Clifden, Fairwater, Copernicus, and Cronstadt. The three former are each penalised 31b, notwithstanding which the race ought to fall to one of the trio, though from Croustades recent performance with Oliver, I shall expect to see him make it hot work for whichever of them may enter the lists with him. The Nursery Plate has, as usual, an immense entry► and making any certain selection is out of the question. The winner may, however, be comprised in the following lot :—Confidence, Corfu, Foxhead, Rosedale, Count Horn, and Balham. The East Hampstead Park Stakes, one mile and a half, is a weight for age race instead of a handicap, and Amster dam, 5 yrs, with Weatherbound, 3 yrs, Odo, 3 yrs, Pre dictor, 3 yrs, and Ripon, 3 yrs, ought to invest the event with some interest, Amsterdam and Ripon being most likely to produce the winner. The Reading Stakes, for two year olds, half a mile, may bring together the Sister to Mincepie, Fairwater, Folke stone, Little Lady, Brown Duchess, and one or two others► but if anything beats Brown Duchess, it must be Mince pie's slashing sister. The Whitley Handicap, one mile, has an excellent ac ceptance ; still, Twilight, 4 yrs, Bst 81b, ought to carry her colours in front, Traducer, 3 yrs, 7st 71b, being most likely to bowl her over. A FRESH MAN. CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMBS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your long and interesting account of Doggett's Coat and Badge wager, and the interest you always take in everything that benefits the working men, gives me en. , oouragement to trouble you with the following . Does it not appear strange, Sir, that a powerful body like the Waterman's Company should leave it to others W patronise the river rowing. The famous " Doggett" wale not connected with the Watermen or their company, and perhaps it was better for them the management of the wager was left to the Fishmongers' Company, or it might have died out long ago. The Thames Regatta at Putney is conducted and upheld by gentlemen and landsmen. We do not hear of the company's prize being rowed for ; per haps they, as a company, do not subscribe a guinea towards it. All the rowing matches are got up and supported by the friends of the men—no prize of any description is given by the directors of their own company. If the privilege is to be maintained (and I suppose it is), I am informed that the company have expended £5,0 00 in oppos ing the bill that was to throw it open. Why not give an inducement to the men to become good scullers, &c., by having a champion prize, with £lO or £2O a-year, and other minor prizes for the unsuccessful men. In looking over the new act bye-laws I find there are numerous pains and penalties for the men, but no encouragement for them to do well. Although not a waterman myself, I am i n ti ma t e ly acquainted with them, and feel great interest in all that concerns them. I hear there is great dissati s f ac ti on amon g the body ;andsome If the directo rs w i sh to be supported company st o t hei n by the men, they sh ould act wit h more liberality towards them, by subscribi n g for a ch ampion's belt to be row e d for ann ually, and open to a ll who choose to cont en d f or it ; the sa y they do not see what good the i holder to acc ept all r ea sonable challeng es f or th ree y ea r., and if not defeated during that time, the belt to become his own property.—Your obedient servant, Fore-street, Lambeth. ROBERT BAIN ROYAL YACHT SQUADROI 4 REGATTA. The £lOO prize given by the squadron to be competed for by vessels belonging to any Royal Yacht Club was sailed for on Saturday. Ten vessels were entered for the race, of which nine started. The course was the same that lid been sailed over for her Majesty's and the Prince Consort'. Cups, and there was a fine fresh breeze from W.N.W. The Lulworth took the lead at starting, and kept it throughout, her only dangerous competitors being the Arrow and the Osprey. The former carried away the jaws of her gaff is working to the westward off the Kicker Point to cony' plete the first round, and was compelled to hal down her racing flag, and retire from the race. Several 0 the others gave out after the first round, and the race the; lay between the Lulworth, Osprey, Wildfire, Audax,.e o _: Amazon. The three first named vessels well sustaine d their old reputation, but the Audas did but little to vindr cate the high name she obtained a few days since at Queenly town. The Warner Light was rounded the second time el follows : The Lulworth, 12 minutes ahead of the Osprey, th e Osprey 2 minutes ahead of the Wildfire, the Wildfire minutes ahead of the Audax, and the Audaz 2 minutes ahead of the Amazon. The race was now a dead beat beck to Calshot 9.0 thence to the goal in Cowes Roads. The Lulworth passed between the station vessel and the Castle, .f. 4 , l ;_ti . . finished the match 25 minutes ahead of the Osprey. 1 o ilf Osprey passed ahead of the Wildfire 5 minutes; Amax M fourth; AIL