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Alb in* B ENSON'S WATCHES. "Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold ........ Silver 2to 60 guineas. send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tl Ire of every construction of watch now made, with their p !foes. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom tree by post, or to I/2.dia and the Colonies for ss. extra. 13 and 34, Ludge.tr:-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. TE.EATIiII:-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. For the Benefit of Mr. Buckstone. TWIS EVENING the performances will oommenoe with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck etone„ Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, 111 which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear., And, THE BOARDING SCHOOL. Commence at 7.1 ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MERRY wiv ES Or WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with BOWLED OUT. Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE - ROYAL . . Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of the powerful Adeiphi drama, " The Flowers of the Forest." Eleventh week of the American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. TkilS wVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Mes srs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Bedford and Miss Julia Daly. And GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRADSHAW. Commence at 7, Box-office open from 10 tills. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, IL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Madllc. Delphine Fix.—Positively the last Week but Three. TO-NIGHT, LES PROJETS DE MA TANTE. And LES PATTES DE MOITCHE. Madlle. Delphine Fix and M. Paul Devaux. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 25..; Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at a Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. In consequence of the immense success of the MID-DAY PERFORMANCE, ONE MORE will take place on Saturday, July 14, to commence at 2 o'clock. On Monday, July 9, 1860, and during the week, to com mence with the immensely successful Grand Historical Upectacle in Three Acts, entitled " FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by Scenes In the Cirque, supported by Madlles. De Berg, Monet, and Leontine ; Messrs. F ernan d o, L'E p i ne, F. Watson, and Herr Christoff, &c. (Ix., artistes of unequalled celebrity. Conclud in with a Laughable F arce. Doors open at halt-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. - Stage tanager —Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolti, C A.NTERB UR Y HALL THIS EVENING. C. H. GOUNOD•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 Wan 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, ,tc., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening, CONCERTS.. THE WEATTIER..—SUN OFFICE, JULY 12, 1860. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 66—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.04. WIND—Southerly ; light, with fine warm weather. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL — Morning, 7h. 34m.—Afternoon, 711. 59m, To - monnow.-Morning, Sh. 30m.—Afternoon, 9h. 4m. .......10 ) , J s t• r_.; , .~:~~ '' '~i '~ THE SUN. LONDON', THURSDAY, JULY 12, 18e0. According to the old story, the soldier declared that it was "so nice to be cussed by one's own officer"—not quite so nice it seems for a Minister to be " cussed " by his own supporters. Lord PALMERSTON, and more especially Sir G. C. LEWIS, therefore resent the wrath of the members who vote with them and the constituents who vote for the members, and, if they do not quite "cuss" in return, they do not " render blessing for cursing." It has turned out precisely as we predicted from the beginning that this little demand—" your re ligious profession"—would cause a very great, a very disproportionate—if Lord PALMERSTON pre fers the word—irritation. We were ourselves ' amongst the unreasoning beings—the creatures moved by mere instinct, whom Sir G. C. LEWIS satirizes—who kicked at the question. No earthly harm could it do us, or any one in our office that we know of, if a list of our names and religious professions hung on our doorposts—but we shared the vulgar "unreasoning" sentiment, and "instinctively" felt that we did not choose to answer, if asked by authority, " What is your religious profession ?" If we had replied, the answer would certainly have been, " Please to mind your own business, and we'll mind our's." The only wonder to us is, that any English Mini sters, either smitten with the love of statistics, or entrapped by High Churchmen, did not too quickly sympathise with the general sentiment to yield to the temptation. On the contrary, they seemed quite in love with their strange blunder. Not even the open commendations of a Tory Deputation opened their eyes to the plain fact that they were doing the work of their political opponents. We are quite sure that Mr. DISRAELI cared not a straw for a religious census, but he did care, when he saw his rival had made a false move, to take the full benefit of it. So, he both pleased his own party by back ing up a High Church move, and put Lord PAL MERSTON in the wrong with his party, by alluring him to persist in a course very obnoxious to it. But Sir GEORGE made his surrender in the worst pos sible style. After having provoked the House of Commons' supporters of the Government by pro voking those on whom they depended for their seats; after having called forth such a memorial from Liberal members to their chief as we hardly remember before ; after compelling opponents to organize and appeal to the country, on a matter which could be of no possible consequence to Ministers to carry.—What does Sir G. C. LEWIS do, but come prepared with an unusually long speech, to prove that he should do rightly, not to withdraw the clause he was about to give up ! Not only that, but to hold such language in his speech as compelled a staunch supporter of the Govern ment like Sir MORTON PETO to rise and declare that he, as a Nonconformist, felt personally insulted by the noble baronet's speech ! The battle is no w over, and the arguments of the victors and the vanquished few probably will care much about. The strength of Mr. BAINES lay in his representing the general f ee li n g . No one liked the clause—that was enough. To b ac k t hi s fact, in the minds of a large number there was more than a suspicion that the object of the clause was sec. tarian, and intended in the way we have a l ready magnify the number of —more pointed out toChurchmen w ith those of Dissent ers in comparison especially by including with the former the .5,000,000 who were proved by the last census to attend tea place of worship at all. The trick was transparent. Nor, to people of plain common sense, is there the slightest truth in the represen• tation of Lord ROBERT CECIL, that Churchmen wished for facts, and Dissenters did not. The reverse is the truth; Dissenters are satisfied with the fact of persons being on a given day in a given place. Lord ROBERT CECIL, and Churchmen who act with him, want the fiction of five millions of persons reckoned as Churchmen who attend no place of worship at all! We are not sorry that the Government has thrown up a religious census in any form. They will not—being now in dudgeon —propose even to repeat that of 1851. This is of little con sequence. We fear that even one similar in plan to that would be but very unreliable compared with it. There would be more effort made by all the rival parties ;—a regular whipping up. In 1851 there had been no excitement. Dissenters did not suppose, any more than Churchmen, that they were doing, comparatively, so much. Dissenters were prepared to acquiesce in a considerable in feriority, and Churchmen thought they need not exert themselves to show a great superiority. Hence things on the whole took very much their usual course. After the result became known—a result equally surprising to both sides, surprising we confess to us—one party is naturally anxious to preserve the position it has gained, the other to recover the one it has lost. We do not believe the latter will ever be done except by fair means. Let the Church out-work the Dissenters, and they will then stand first in the eyes of public men ; till then, those of ns who have no wish but to be fair to all, must give to Dissenters the credit due to them. They have had nothing from the State—they ask nothing from the State. They refuse, therefore, to be catechised by the State, as the different tolerated sects are in States which pay their clergy of all sects. Still more do they reasonably object, after a census ten years ago which proved what all sects were doing towards national religious instruction, to have it changed to a census which shall include those amongst , whom no sect was doing anything amongst the dominant party. However, the whole thing is now dropped, and though peace in our time—espe cially while church-rates last, and while the leaders of the Church are encroaching, and the leaders of Dissent sensitive—is too much to expect, we shall at least furnish neither party with a fresh bone of contention. The only party now damaged is the Government, which persisted in harassing its own supporters. We can all remember when we were boys setting traps for sparrows. Four old bricks would often suffice for the purpose, and these with a bit or two of stick were all made to look as much as possible like bricks and sticks that had no covert object. And as to baits—anything that sparrows were fond of—the crumbs shaken out from the table cloth after dinner, in daily expectancy of which sparrows peered over the edges of eaves and water troughs, would do as well as anything. And then all being ready, we retired to watch our trap, and to see how our bait took. After a little time the pert and saucy creatures would descend to examine; would look at it from a wall perhaps, hop down, hop up again, then down again, and so on—at length some younger or middle-aged sparrow would give it as his opinion that the pleasant•look ing food was worth trying. To be sure all was not quite as it used to be—the bricks, he did not know how they came there exactly—but they were old ones, though not quite in the old disorier, and the bits of stick—they, too, looked quite common withered sticks, and though not exactly as if they grew on trees, yet they seemed quite inno cent—and then the crumbs, why, they were ex cellent, he had himself first taught them not to fear the flapping table cloth, but to regard it as the sign of a first-rate entertainment—he would go in and have some. But some crafty old cock sparrow would not venture so far. He would sit on the edge of the brick ; peep down into the specious but mysterious narrow space ; the crumbs might be very well, but what if, after all, the brick should fall and shut him up with the crumbs! So he prudently lets his more hopeful companion hop down first, and turn ing his knowing little head this way and that, says don't mean to be caught, not even with crumbs, It was these doings and sights of boyhood, of which we were reminded the other night in the House of Commons. Mr. WYLD set his trap there. Though Reform is not to be tolerated, putting down " Corrupt Practices," at least putting down the expense of them, is thought desirable, and Sir G. C. LEWIS had his bill, founded on a formidable Blue Book Report, on the subject—a bill which he had to give up for a continuance of the half-con demned old one last night. Now, Sir GEORGE is the reputed author of the _Edinburgh Review scheme of voting papers, and he . listened to and questioned with evident favour Mr. CHADWICK, in the com mittee, when the latter was giving his evidence in favour of taking the votes by voting papers. So Mr. WYLD proposed to " amend the system of taking votes at elections "—and the bait was that it should be done by "voting papers." These voting papers might, of course, be given in, and might even be filled up either secretly or openly ; to be sure the voter after receiving a voting paper num bered to correspond with his number on the regis ter was to retire into another room to strike out the names from the list which appeared to him least worthy—but they were only voting papers. It looked no doubt a little Australian, but why should they not take hints from their own colonies ? At any rate there were the voting papers—to the desirableness of which Mr. CHADWICK and the ex- Edinburgh Reviewer could testify. Sir GEORGE hardly felt quite sure. He went out of the house—stepped in again —might it be but pure harmless, rather excellent, voting papers ? Mr. WYLD vas " a brick ;" no doubt, a ballot brick too ; mere voting papers were hardly in their natural place in his hands ; still voting papers were excellent. He had tried them in argument; and his friend Mr. CHADWICK, in the election of guardians—he would vote for hopping down under the brick. But the mere wary old lord was not so sure. He would only look from the outside ; to him the speech of Mr. WYLD looked " rather misty." He sniffed the ballot, though he did not clearly see it. He would not utter a word of hope —not he ; he would only protest, lest " under the misty covering in which the honourable gentleman enveloped his proposal a nucleus of the ballot was contained within it." Mr. WYLD has, however, had as good a catch as he ever hoped for; probably a far better one. He little expected, probably, to get the two chief Cabinet Ministers consenting to a bill being brought in for taking votes after the fashion of the Australian colonies ; which is cer tainly as much of a ballot :system as we can need ! Once indeed he had almost had his trap sprung with nothing inside, by a " count out," much to the discredit of professedly " advanced Liberals." As skill and luck, however, would have it, the younger Minister swallowed the bait, and even the older one did not pertinaciously object, but only chirped a little nervously—ballot ! ballot ! The necessity is at length recognised for a vigorous interference in Syria, on the part of the Powers of Europe, with a view to the preven tion of further atrocities by the Armes, and for THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING; JULY 12, 1860. the protection, in fact, from massacre of the Christian population throughout those fair but ill fated regions, extending between the range of the Lebanon and the shores of the Mediter- ranean. Thanks to the timely inquiries addressed by Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE en Tuesday evening in the House of Lords to the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, we have already been put in possession of additional and per fectly authentic particulars as to the late deplorable occurrences in Syria. From the state ment made on Tuesday by Lord WODEHOUSE, in answer to the inquiries of the noble viscount, late her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador at Constan tinople, it is only too clearly manifest that the ac counts already received from the Levant were hardly in any way exaggerated. • The disturbances in the first instance seem to have been entirely of the old character—originating as plainly as could be, as so often of yore, from the brutal fanaticism of the pagan Druses—that fanaticism being allowed full Flay by reason of the feebleness, the utter powerlessness (for the prevention of outrages, and the preservation of order) of the troops and emissa ries of the Turkish Government. According to the account of Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, the signal was given during the month of May last, by a descent of the Druses upon the little coast town of Beit MeH, upon the shores of the Mediter ranean. Having thus whetted their appetite for slaughter among the unfortunate Maronites— the Maronites being, as Rom;tn Catholics, peculiarly odious both to the Druses and to the Mahometans—the Druses of the Lebanon, reinforced by Kurds and Bedouins, appear to have directed their attack in a more formidable and infuriated body upon the larger town of Zaleh, also not far from the coast, or from the city of Beyrout on the Mediterranean. Thence, after per petrating a series of what Lord WODEHOUSE termed "most horrible attrocities," they seem to have threatened the destruction far and wide of the defenceless Christians. Even Damascus has been reported to be in imminent jeopardy, though it is satisfactory to learn from the statement made on Tuesday night by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, that our own Consul at Damascus has no such fears that any of these horrors will be under gone by its inhabitants. There is not the smallest shadow of doubt any longer remaining, however, but that the situation of affairs in Syria is such that the Christian Powers of Europe, together with the Turkish Government itself, all recognise the necessity, at last, for a vigorous and immediate interposition. An interposition not merely between the Druses and the Maronites, but between the whole of the lawless bands of the heathens, and even, it is hinted, of the Mussulmans themselves, and the entire Christian population of Syria, otherwise threatened with destruction by the swords of the Druses, Kurds, and Bedouins, with the connivance, saith rumour, if not with the direct encouragement and co-operation, of the whole race of the Mahometans. A Pacha with full powers to put down this cruel and brutal rebellion is reported to have already left Constantinople for the scene of these atrocities. Reinforcements are known to have either preceded or accompanied this alter ego of the Sultan ABDUL-MEDJID. France, in the meantime, is understood to have intimated in so many words to the Sublime Porte, through her ambassador, her fixed determination to see that the Christians in Syria are no longer subjected to these atrocious persecutions and fiendish massacres. England has not hesitated for an instant in sending a squadron to cruise off Beyrout, to be in readiness there for any emergency. And with a view to concert all necessary measures to the one desirable end of restoring order in Syria, and of there enforcing its future continu ance, her MAJESTY'S Government has already placed itself in direct communication upon this subject with the Governments of Turkey of Russia, of Prussia, of Austria, and of France. The urgency of the necessity, now all but univer sally recognised, for this interference, could not have been more clearly demonstrated than it was on Tuesday evening, in the House of Peers, by the whole tone or tenour of the speech delivered by Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE. The ante cedents of the noble lord render any remarks of his upon the vitally important question under conside ration especially valuable and peculiarly significant. And what said Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, who knows more about the situation of affairs generally throughout the East than perhaps any other Englishman now living—what said Lord STRATFORD on Tuesday in reference, for example, to the rumoured connivance of the Turkish autho rities—of the Mussulmans as a body—in these in human massacres of the Syrian Christians ? Why, the noble lord said among other things, " I should be slow to entertain any suspicion of the kind, but I must say that there are circumstances, not yet confirmed or proved, which seem to open a door for some distrust on the subject, and at all events to furnish an additional reason for desiring to ascer tain from her Majesty's Government the real state of the case, and for pressing upon them the im portance of bringing the Porte and their subordi nate authorities to a sense of their duty, not only towards their own subjects, but towards the great Christian Powers who interfered at such a sacrifice of blood and treasure to preserve them from a great danger." And the Noble Viscount added—" I can not conceal from myself that an empire which has been confessed to exist politically on sufferance has a paramount duty to perform to wards allies, as well as towards its own subjects. It does, I confess, appear to me that, whatever suspicions we may have entertained in former times with regard to the intentions of Rus sia, and however we may have acted for the repression of her apparent disposition to interfere too much with the Porte's independence, it is exactly in proportion to our own interference on that subject tat we are bound, as one of the principal Powers of Europe, to see that justice be done to the Christian subjects of the Porte, aye, and to their Mussulman subjects too, and that the security which has been given to the Turkish Go vernment by the treaty of 1856 be not made use of as a screen for their negligence and for the faults of administration which allow of the perpetration of atrocities such as those which it has been my pain ful duty to describe." The reasonableness of this argument—who will be slow to recognise ? Not one rational Englishman, or Frenchman, or Rus sian, or Prussian, or Austrian —not for that matter, we believe, one solitary Christian European. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have left Camp den Hill for Brighton. The Countess de Flahault and the Hon. Miss Elphinstone de Flahault have left Coventry House for Brighton. Mrs. Edward Cotterell Seholefield has left Far rance's Hotel for Paris. Mrs. Lockwood, Mrs. Wiles, and Miss Lockwood have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Paris. PLEA ON INDICTMENTS BlLL.—This bill, which has passed the Lords, is now in the House of Commons. it provides that a person indicted shall no longer be ask. ;d whether he is guilty or not guilty, but whether he desir es to be tried or pleads guilty. The subject having been d: is cussed by the lawyers, laymen must take for granted tli at there is an imperative necessity for making some such qui tion ; otherwise they might have thought th a t w h en a r son is sent for trial by the grand jetry, coroner's jury, or h ot i h m er w c i competento r a e u t h ado,or t y un ,t le h s e s C h o e u a r h t o m u i l g a h i t u p t e r r o p c o e s e e d w t h t r y a °Week= of guilt, HAYMARKET THEATRE. MR. BUCKSTONE'S BENEFIT. The celebrated lessee of this theatre, Mr. Buck stone, took his annual benefit last night, and chose for the performances a new comedietta, by Mr. Charles Mathews, the new comedy by Mr. Falconer, performed a fortnight since for the benefit of Miss Sedgwick, entitled Does He Love Me? and the grand Terpsichorean divertissement from Mr. Tal fourd's burlesque of Electra. The little com edy is a light one- act piece, probably adapted by Mr. Charles Mathews, but, at all events, it is a lively piece of slight intrigue, which the author's vivacity renders amusing. The embroglio is effected by Laron (Mr. C. Mathews), a valet and humble friend of Theodore de Rougemont (Mr. E. Villiers), producing a pretended letter from the young man's father, and getting him (Theodore) ensconced in the ambassador's house, whose daughter, Isabella (Miss Henrade), he is in love with. Of course, this ruse being discovered, there is great consternation, but it is all cleared up, and the young people marry, and the valet is rewarded. The new comedy of Does Be Lore Me? went off with renewed applause, and Miss Amy Sedgwick and Mr. Buckstone, as the immortal Bubble, alternately interested and highly amused the audience. Not withstanding the excellence of the performance, the chief feature of the evening was Mr. Buck stone's address, which is always amusing from its comic points, and from his peculiar and admirable rendering. The present quite equalled all his pre vious efforts in this way, and was received with enthusiastic applause, which proves that years only add to the esteem and admiration in which his audience hold him. As this composition is unique in its way, and is 1 always looked for as a part of the seasonal enter tainment, we give it entire : LADIES AND GENTLENDN,—According to custom, on these occasions, I appear before you, not only to give an account of my stewardship, but to touch upon various topics connected with this theatre, and which I think may interest you ; but when I begin to consider my various topics I find that I have very few to touch upon, and therefore I feel like the celebrated needy knife-grinder, who had no story to tell, or his cousin the well-known New Zealander, but with no dramatic ruins to contemplate. The volunteer movement has already been well and deservedly expatiated on by the press; the exploits of Garibaldi are not exactly suitable themes for the address of a theatrical manager ; and although the re cent state of the weather might afford me a very fruitful subject, yet we only talk of the weather when we have really nothing else to say ; and I do not think you would be particularly interested if I were to discuss the question of church rates ; still there is one gratifyind subject that I can dwell upon, and that is the constant success which attends this theatre. Whatever may be the cause of such success—whether it may be the skill and enterprise of the management, the good character of the house, the popularity of the actors, or the talent of the authors, it will not become me to assert—l can only say that we are always successful here, and I am quite satisfied with know ing that pleasant fact ; while to prove this ladies and gen tlemen, I have but to inform you that our last long season, which we brought to a close in July, 1858, extended to 1,428 nights ; that after a short recess for repairs we coirmenced the present season on Sept. 7, in the same year, and have continued open ever since, this being its 560th night. During this time we have produced some of the most popu lar comedies of the day—" The Contested Election" and " The Overland Route," by Tom Taylor ; " Everybody's Friend," by Sterling Coyne; "The Family Secret" and " Does he Love Me," by Mr. Falconer ; all of whom are again at work for the Haymarket. Other comedies. by well-tried authors, have also been produced ; and these, with many representations of the standard drama, of new and old farces, with Christmas pantomimes, Easter pieces, and ballets, and all supported by an unrivalled company of performers, and received with approbation by you, have achieved that genuine success, of which I hope may be allowed to boast. And now, ladies and gentlemen, for want of any particular topic on which to discourse, I will endeavour to explain one thing to you, and that is a mana ger's benefit. The question has often been put to me— some saying " What do you mean by taking a benefit ; isn't it your benefit every night ? " I believe there are a few managers in town and country who would say " De-- cidedly not." But a manager's benefit may be thus explained —he pays throughout the year large sums of money to his tradespeople—to his gas compony, timber merchant, rope maker, draper, ironmonger, basket worker, upholsterer, cabinetmaker, stationer, printer, modeller, tailor, milliner, dyer, hairdresser, and many other tradespeople that I can not just now remember, though I recollrct them when their bills come in. These tradespeople make the manager some return by patronising his night. Then there are his per sonal friends, to whom he occasionally gives an order or a private box ; they think it but right and proper to be paying parties on such an occasion ; then there are the manager's unknown friends:amongst the public, and I am happy to see by the attendance of to-night, that this manager numbers many such. They also flock on these occasions to prove their regard, and to hear what the manager has to say for himself. Sometimes members of the dramatic profession will show their unanimity by patronising a brother or a sister performer, and I feel much gratified by informing you that to-night a celebrated brother actor—attached to this theatre—has not only taken a box, but has paid for it handsomely. This combination secures a good house and a good sum for the manager's pocket. Then why should he refuse to take it ? who ever refuses to take money ? I am sure you will believe me when I tell you in confidence, that from the politician to the player, it is an objection I never knew insisted on. With respect to the future, ladies and gentlemen, every exertion will be made to sustain the high character of this theatre. New comedies and many other novelties are in preparation. There will again be a panto mime at Christmas, a fairy tale at Easter—recruits will be enlisted to strengthen our corps, and as I am now making arrangements extending to this time next year, there is every probability of the doors of this establishment remain ing open for many a merry month to come ; while with the one hundred and thirty thousand volunteers belonging to the country, added to the thousands of volunteers who throughout the year march in here at box, pit, and gallery, I think I may feel assured that not only England, but the Haymarket Theatre, is quite safe. Now, ladies and gen tlemen, in than!ing you for the brilliant assembly of this evening, I bid you farewell, but only until to-morrow, and beg to say, that during our recess of 20 hours, we shall be diligently occupied in sleeping, dining, and reading the newspapers, and we shall be quite ready to face our audi ence again at the "ringing in" of the overture at seven o'clock to-morrow night. rino. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JULY 12. No intelligence has been received here to confirm the report that Signor Bentivoglio, the French Consul, at Beyrout, had received a stab from a Yataghan. PARIS, JULY 12. The Moniteur contains the appointment of Ad miral Rigault de Genouilly at Senator. PARIS, JULY 11. It is positively stated that a perfect understand ing exists between the Governments of England and France in reference to the affairs of Syria. MARSEILLES, JULY 11. A letter received here from Beyrout states that the French Consul there had received a blow on the head from a yatagaii. A panic prevailed at Beyrout. Advices from Constantinople to the 4th inst. state that, in consequence of the mission of the Grand Vizier, the agitation in Roumelia and Bul garia had subsided. The Grand Vizier had visited Belgrade and the Eastern provinces. Agitation prevailed at Damascus, and cannon had been placed in position. The number of troops was considered insufficient. There was a general panic at Beyrout, and the Christian inhabitants were taking to flight. Turkish reinforcements had arrived. MARSEILLES, JULY 11. Advices from Messina to the Bth inst. state that Colonel Medici was at the village of Barcelona, awaiting volunteers. He had reconnoitred the heights of Messina and Melazzo. The attack on Melazzo was fixed for the 10th inst. Assassinations took place in Messina on the night of the 7th. The Neapolitan army was demoralised. The soldiers were deserting. GENOA, JULY 10. Signor Cosenz arrived at Palermo on the 6th, and was received with joy by Garibaldi. I'soo volunteers embarked yesterday at Genoa. Another embarkation will take place this evening. Volunteers continae to arrive. TURIN, JULY ii. General de Lamoriciere having withdrawn his troops into the interior, insurrectionary move ments have broken out at Santagala, Montefeletro, and near Cattolica. The Neapolitan mission left Naples to-day for Turin. It is composed of Signori Manna and Winspeare (?). RAVENNA, JULY 11. The Adriatic Journal states that the Pontifical troops stationed at Pesaro were ready for depar ture ; their destination, however, was not known. Fifteen hundred Austrians had been sent to Urbino. Five hundred and fifty-seven Irish volunteers had disembarked at Ancona, and committed dis orders at Sinigaglia, which were repressed by the Papal carabineers. MALTA, JULY 7. The English fleet, which left Malta in June last, is cruising in the Lavant. A division is at Nava- VIENNA, JULY 12. General Skocsevich, Bau (Governor General) of Croatia, has arrived here in order to come to some understanding with the Central Government, in reference to the demand of the inhabitants of Croatia to employ their national language in the tribunals of the country. VIENNA, JULY 11. The official Wiener Zeitung publishes the report, dated June 4, of the National Debt Committee upon the state of the entire national debt from the be ginning of 1860. The opinion of the Minister of Finance on the report of the committee is also added. The Minister's opinion is adverse to a forced con version of the national debt. The report of the committee, and the opinion of the Minister thereon, have been referred to the Reichsrath by an autograph letter of the Emperor, dated the 10th July. According to the report of the committee, the entire national debt amounted at the beginning of 1860 to 2,268 millions of florins, Austrian currency. The annual interest required amounts to 991 millions of florins. The committee proposes the gradual conversion into 5 per Cent. Securities, Austrian currency, of all bonds in Conventionsmunze not belonging to the category of lottery shares. This proposal is maintained by the committee on the principle that public creditors will not suffer any loss, either in their interest or their capital. Furthermore, in order to avoid contracting new debts, the redemption of the national debt may for the present be limited to those securities mentioned in the Imperial Patent of Dec. 23, 1859, which, in accordance with the promise given in the im perial regulations of the respective loans, are to be redeemed by lottery or other kind of payment. The further redemption of the bonds made in Austrian currency is to be suspended until the sur plus of the public revenue offers sufficient means for their partial redemption. MADRID, JULY 11. Marshall O'Donnell has recovered from a slight indisposition. Large quantities of provisions have been stored at Tetuan and Ceuta. The body of the late General Rios will be trans ported to Barcelona. MADRID, JULY 10. General Rios has died at Tetuan. General Macßohon has been appointed Captain- General of the Philippine Islands. LISBON, JULY 10. The Portuguese press enthusiastically supports he new Ministry. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 10. Fund Pacha has arrived (?) with full powers for ,hc pacification of Syria. The telegraph has been opened at Salonica. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 8. Fuad Pasha has left for Syria with full powers. lle will have under his orders 16,000 men, the commander of whom is llelim Pasha. The Turkish Government are shipping corn to Beyrout. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 11.—The market opened firm at about the closing prices of the previous day, but the arrival of the English funds with a decline of per cent., caused quotations to again recede. A little rally has since taken place, and Threes, for, the Account, are now at 68f. 85c. to 68f. 90c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 55 Credit Foncier 876 25 Do, end month.... 97 50 Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 80 Roman Bank Shares 9 805 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 685 —, Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 687 50 Home Debt ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. Since Mr. W. Batty resumed the management of Astloy's Royal Amphitheatre he has shown that his temporary retirement has not in the slightest degree interfered with his great anxiety to meet the wishes of his numerous patrons by the production of the most dazzling spectacles and first-rate talent in horsemanship in his world-renowned theatre. On the occasion of his re-opening the house he produced a most elaborate and highly interesting spectacle, entitled " The History of a Flag," which ran a successful career for a great length of time, and ere the at tractions of this piece subsided he produced the brilliant "Fair Rosa mond," which, like all his former productions, met with great and deserved success. It was placed upon the stage with the utmost care and with all the accessories of magni ficent scenery and dresses. Yet the utmost success must give way in its turn to other novelties. Notwith standing the enthusiasm that still attends the spectacle of " Fair Rosamond," the enterprising lessee has deter mined, in order to comply with the wishes of his patrons, to lay it aside for a time and to revive, in all its pristine splendour, the magnificent spectacle of " Mazeppa, or the Wild Horse of Tartary." In order that our readers may have no doubt about the matter, we insert the following note which we have received from Mr. Batty:— " Astley's Royal Amphitheatre. " Sir,—Will you kindly permit your valuable journal to be the medium of answering the numerous communications I have had upon the same subject. I beg to inform all my kind advisers that I have determined upon the revival of Mazeppa,' which will be produced as speedily as the ex tensive preparations in all the departments of the theatre are completed.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, " W. BATTY." Such an announcement, we feel assured, will be hailed with delight by thousands who have heard the glories of the wonderful epectacle extolled, but who have never had an opportunity of witnessing it. " Mazeppa" is a piece that, in years gone by, commanded unbounded ad m iration and success; and there cannot be a doubt that its resuscitation will prove a great success, and that Mr. Batty will receive a substantial proof that his efforts to sustain his high repu tation are duly appreciated. PLAN OF TILE VOL UNTEER SHAM FIGHT. Just in time, as usual, Mr. Wyld has published a spirit-looking Map or Plan of the great fight —not for the Belt—but for self-defence against invasion between the rival hands of Volunteers on Saturday next in Camden Park e Chlselhurst. It will be a sight worth seeing alough only in sham, and will give an excellent idea of what may turn up some day hereafter perhaps in real earnest. We cordially recommend the map to all sight-seekers for its clear delineation and picturesque appearance. MAGISTERIAL CHANGES.--Mr. Tyrwhitt, the senior magistrate at rue Clerkenwell Police-court, and who has sat there for many years, is to sit at Marlborough street, in the plac e o f M r. B i ng h am , w h o h as res i gne d . Mr. D'Eyncourt, the senior magistrate at Worship-street, is to take the place of Mr. Tyrwhitt, RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1360 .. 1361 25 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 888 75 .. 891 25 Geneva 385 380. Southern 505 505 Western Eastern Sardinian 403 75 .. 405 Austrian Lombard - 505 LITERATURE. Memorials of Thomas Hood. Collected and ar ranged by his Daughter. With a preface and notes by his Son. Two vols, Edward Moxon and Co. We accept these two very agreeable volumes at once as most welcome souvenirs of an exquisite poet and a delightful humorist. At the same time we cannot but feel that The" Memorials of Thomas Hood" will henceforth be regarded as discoverable not so much in the pages here submitted to our consideration (readable though these are in them selves) as in the Works both Serious and Comic of the inimitable author of whom they are commemo rative, and in that eminently beautiful Monument erected, now six years ago, over the grave of Thomas Hood, in Kensal-Green Cemetery. That last-men tioned testimonial, in truth we take to be not only the most touching and the most graceful, but also the most conspicuous and conclusive attestation of the living and indestructible popularity of the great Wit and greater Lyrist whose remains had until then for nine long years been lying in the earth, unmarked by the humblest stone or by the poorest little flowering clump of rue—that lowly herb that, as Ophelia sings, is for remembrance ! A kindred Poet of the great English people—one kindred both in genius and in popularity—Eliza Cook, chaunted in remonstrance, over that neglected grave, a lay in honour of the noble head and gentle heart that. had there been mouldering into dust without, until then we repeat, the scantiest epitaph or the plainest headstone to mark the honoured place of their sepulture. In answer to that plaintive appeal, the grave of Hood has now, for six years past, (as we have said) been distinguished by its appropriate monument; by a monument worthy of perpetuating there, upon that sacred spot, the name and fame of Thomas Hood. We must confess that we think the insertion of the lines which led to the erection of the monument would have been a simply just addition to the interest of the work. They are certainly good enough to compete with the prose writing of the volumes, and the engrafting of them in these pages would have been a graceful and grateful compliment due to one whose " strenuous exertions" far excelled those of the " Committee formed of members of the Whit tington Club," and whose personal sympathy with the genius of the dead poet effected an object which had never been even suggested or attempted by his contemporary and influential familiar friends. We regret this omission, we say, on more grounds than it might be worth while to touch on. However, the good work was done, and done well. Standing in fancy, by that grave, now so gracefully adorned through the intervention of the sculpturesque genius of Matthew Noble, as shown there in en during bronze and granite—there comes stealing to our senses from that honoured ground at our feet : " Colder, colder, colder still— Upward steals a vapour chill— Strong the earthy odour grows— I smell the Mould above the nose I" But the poet's own mournful thought is dashed upon the instant by one of a more benig nant influence—one floating now around that tomb in this genial summer weather : " O'er the earth there conies a bloom— Sunny light for sullen gloom, Warm perfume for vapours cold— I smell the Rose above the Mould !" The memory of Hood is embalmed in his own beautiful verses, and gratefully, too, in the popular recollection. In obedience to the dictate of a most happy thought, the work—such as it is —has, by Hood's children, been DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLES: FOR WHOM THOMAS HOOD WROTE ♦ND LABOURED. Nothing coed be more tenderly or more irresis tibly persuasive than the apology with which the delay in the issue of these volumes is accounted for by the son and daughter of the long since dead and buried man of letters—respectively the editor an d the annotator of these " Memorials." In his manly and graceful preface, writes the son, Thomas Hood the Younger—" It is owing chiefly to this fact [i. e., the fact that, in the performance of this self imposed labour, so very often pain has predominated over pleasure] that the publication of these volumes has been so long delayed. To us, to turn over the MSS. for these pages—to con sult, the letters, written in that well-known, clear hand—was to recall to memory such a flood of re collections of dead joys, of long past sorrows, of gentle, loving deeds and words, that we may well claim to be excused if we were slow in our pro gress, and lingered somewhat over pages that were often hidden from us by our tears." And the same filial annotator adds imme diately afterwards in the preface : " Look ing back now on my own emotion, while reading over these memorials, I can scarcely think how I should be so moved after the lapse of fifteen years, and. I can fully realise how intensely painful must the compilation have been to my sister, who, as the elder, was more intimately connected with, and has a clearer memory of the events chronicled, than I." Who will not bow in respectful recognition of this generous sensibility? Who will not turn the pages afterwards with a reverent recollection of the tears with which they have been sprinkled (nature's holy water) during the process of their arrangement. A formal biography was hardly to be looked for in the pages designed, only by their very title, to be devoted to the preservation of mis cellaneous recollections of the departed hterateur. Yet the memoirs of Hood, or, at the least, the ma terials for his memoirs, are here discernible—with a certain charm in their unostentatious completeness. From his birthday, in the Poultry, on the 23d of May, in the year 1799, to his marriage day, on the sth of May, 1824, down to his death day, on the 3d of May, 1845—the whole of these " short and simple annals " are epitomized. Interspersed throughout with fragments of Hood's correspon dence with his intimate fritnds—many of these (as for example, Charles Dickens) his illustrious con temporaries. Several of the witticisms we cannot but think are s omew h a t i napt l y se l ecte d . Th e sub joined epigram for example—dedicatory of the first series of his Whims and Oddities to the Reviewers —might very well have been omitted : " What is a modern Poet's fate ? To write his thoughts upon a slate ; The critic spits on what is done, Gives it a wipe—and all is gone 1" 'ost of the titles again, suggested by Hood for the sham book-case at Chatsworth (according to the device of Hood's noble patron—patron in the noblest sense—the late Duke of Devonshire) are unworthy of the author of the Whimsicalities. While the publication, in cold blood, of the frag mentary jottings in Hood's note-book, we take to be the cruelest kindness ever done to Wit posthu mously. These—beginning at page 341 of the second volume —are, it must be remembered, an nounced as fr©m his common place book, it might even have been put as from his very common place book—they are to our thinking, in many particulars, so exceedingly indifferent. The excessive particularity again which has been shown here and there in regard to dates, both by editor and annotator, we cannot but deem a blemish provocative of the sneers of the supercilious. As, for example, at page 40 of the Ist Vol., where it being observed in the text that " In 1832 he (Hood) left Winchmore Hill," &c., an asterisk at the year 1832 .* carries attention down to a footnote, where we read : "*lt will be seen by reference to the letter:3lo the D ake of Devonshire, that this removal took place toward the end of the year—probably in October. —T• H." Frequently, however—be sure of that !—the readerd of these pleasant volumes comes upon jokes, and witticisms, and whimsicalities, and fun-poking, worthy of one of the quaintest and most delectable humorists of his age. Who can preserve a grave face when reading (p. 46, Vol. I . ) in the midst of Hood's wonder at the prodigious quantity of egg s imported into England from the Continent, Frenchntinent,g,hl:lo2rs certain the quantity is great, and must lay longer odds than mine ! Or-who can re main true to his own centre of gravity, W h en shaken towards laughter, by Hood's record of a smooth passage down the river :—" There was no sickness whatever when I came down —at least human sickness," he writes, "the only sympt om I sa w was the heaving of the lead." Delightfully ridiculous, too, is his chance remark to anotln r correspondent, when touching upon amenity as opposed to ascerbity in religious matters, he con tinues : —" If I recollect rightly your style of singing,you were also in favour of ‘tolloPeration !' " Then the airy inexhaustible play of comicality, whenever he is "in the vein !" As, for instance when writing (p. 111, vol. i.) about his son, thus : " But ' henuff hov 'im,' as of course you used to say at Margate. " * Tom, Junior, who came tes Cologne a little shabby, flabby, dabby babby,' has grown a young Kentuck, who can lick his father—as hard as nails, and as brown as rusty ones.—For his temper, only fancy mine with sugar.' So unlike Jane's ' warm without.' Therr he is already so good on his legs. I wonder he ever required 1). to stand for him,' Tand as to talking he can say papa when he likes. I have no doubt he only don't cut his teeth because he don't choose. In bulk, he is really a; double number, but a good deal more amusing." Occasionally this same Thomas Hood Sccundus, drops a note on one of these pages not unworthy, in its quiet humour, of being fathered upon his famous progenitor. Ex. yr., where (p. 313, vol. upon his exclusion, as a child, from the hope of taking part in some continental pageantry, he writes, "I confess I shed some natural tears at being denied a chance of wings. When the procession did come off, I remember the harmony of the car was not exemplary, for the angels were all fallen' to fisticuffs, like at lot of little Benicia Boys and girls, or Hee-nans and She-nans.—T. H." Sometimes, too, he comes out in the same purely incidental way with a bit of shrewd criticism or sagacious observation : as where (p. 12, vol. II.) he , observes, " I believe one secret of the success of my father's humorous writing was, that he read Humphrey Clinker,' 'Tristram Shandy,' and 'Tom Jones,' and caught their style, without catching that something far more infectious, which occasion ally breaks out in their admirers." About the most charming exemplars of the Hood's delightful hu mour in its very happiest style are the letters given here and there to " the little Elliots," Jeannie, and May—three especial favourites among a throng of loved and loving children. A letter to Jeannie especially (written on the Ist of July, 1844), and for the which in its entirety we re fer our readers to Vol. 11. 211-214—is really and truly one of the charmingest child-letters well ima ginable ! "So you are at Sandgate !" he begins: " Of course, wishing for your old playfellow, M H--, (he can play,—it's work to me) to help you. to make little puddles in the sand, and swing on the gate. But perhaps there are no sand and gate at Sandgate, which, in that case, nominally tells us a fib. But there must be little crabs somewhere, which you can catch, if you are nimble enough, so like spiders, I wonder they do not make webs. . . . . I suppose you never gather any sea flowers, but only sea-weeds. The truth is Mr. David Jones never rises from his bed, and so has a garden full of weeds, like Dr. Watt's Sluggard. . . . . I hope you like the sea. I always did when 1 was a child, which was about two years ago. • • • . Well, how happy you must be ! Child hood is such a joyous, merry time ; and I often with I was two or three children ! But I suppose I can't be ; or else I would be Jeanie, and May, and Dunnie Elliot. And wouldn't I pull off my three pairs of shoes and socks, and go paddling in the sea up to my knees ! And oh ! how I would climb up the downs, and roll down the ups on my three backs and stomachs !" Reading through these child-letters, we cannot certainly but coincide to the full in the regret ex pressed more than once by Hood's children, that he never carried out his design of contributing sub stantially to the literature of the nursery—a de lightful literature to which Oliver Goldsmith did not disdain to contribute, in his time, the pretty legendary tale of " Goody Twoshoes." As to the letters addressed to his wife by Thomas Hood, in a strain of the tenderest affection, while some of them tempt us to comment upon their exceeding grace and suavity as very models of what may be termed the correspondence of the hearth and heart, we pass them respectfully sub silentio. In contrast to the excessive particularity in some places noticeable in these " Memorials," as already observed, in regard to the exact date of a removal, there is a curious reticence at other parts of the work, a slurring over of particulars that might have been given easily enough with an accuracy at those times not without its interest and advantage. When relating the circumstances attendant upon the original appearance of " The Song of the Shirt" —a fac simile from the original MS. of which forms the frontispiece to Vol. I. of these memorials ! —it is mentioned that an universal interest as to the authorship of the song having been awakened upon its anonymous publication in the Christmas number of Punch (1843)—"' At last my father wrote to one of the daily papers and acknowledged it." The particular journal might very easily have been specified. It was in The Sun that the authorship of "The Song of the Shirt" was first acknowledged—Tom Hood having written to ourselves a note in which he owned the exquisite "impeachment !" Scattered up and down the volumes are embellishments taken from accurate copies of Hood's own original sketches—from an examina tion of which embellishments we may recognise at a glance how deplorably the quaint pencilled fancies of the Humorist have, in almost every. instance before this, been murdered by the misera ble lack of skill on the part of previous wood en gravers. Examined however critically, these " Memorials" of Thomas Hood, by his Son and Daughter, will be found a really charming awl most graceful addition to any library, however fastidiously selected or amply furnished. Two Months in the highlands, Orcadia, and Skye. By Charles Richard Weld, author of " Vacations in Ireland," "The Pyrenees East and West," &c. Longman. Among the many works of travel that are brought before us we do not often meet with one more fascinating than this one. It is written • throughout in a flowing style, and the variety of • the topics, the manner in which the scenery, &C., ' is described all contribute to render it a very charm ing work. The lines from Burns on the title page fully exemplify the object of a book whose endea vour is to set before one the land of the north in its majesty and magnificence— " Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume, Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom." There is always something very attractive in the scenery of the Highlands, and surely those who rave about the delights of foreign tours might look at home before they rush about to seek variety in German baths and Swiss mountains. The author avails himself of every opportunity of making us acquainted with the chief objects of rarity and renown in the several places through which he passes. At Peebles, one of the first towns he enters, he mentions the curious silver arrow that is there, and to which the medals gained by successful archers, are attached by silver chains instead of being kept by the winners.. In this neighbourhood resided David Ritchie, the original of the" Black Dwarf" of Sir Walter Scott. The novelist actually saw this man when once stay ing in the neighbourhood, and the account here given is very interesting to peruse. In mentioning Sir Walter Scott it is remarked that he ex claimed, "I really believe that I should die if I did not see the heather every year," and this remark is in every way characteristic of him who sang— " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires, what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! " An amusing account is given of the crowded state of the vessel in which they made the voyage from Aberdeen to Wick. It is wisely remarked that if cheapness is the object, the water way is the best, but it does not include comfort in its stock of ad vantages. There is a long account given of the herring fishery, which will be of service to some; and those who think it tedious can easily s ki p i t , and proceed to " fresh fields and pastures new." The manner in which the fishing is conducted is if you can, up heir nets down, w v e a r r y d s p e o r f i l o o n u e s t a h t o u t i s m a n e es e " a C tsr w ce it iv h e t , struck by the storm-blast. Amidst the thunder notes of the hurricane, they strive to reach the haven from which they sailed, but the open boats, shipping water at every sea, labour in the foaming ocean troughs, and the crews are glad to run, with loss of nets and tackle, for any creek where shelter may be found. Picture this, and you will feel how much is conveyed by the lines in the popular ballad Herrin'—an mithers maist despairinV of Caller lvivesa Ca' them lives of men.' " The writer gives a glowing account of the pleasures of his mountain resort, and of the grand doings of himself and his brother sportsmen. He says they worked hard, often not sitting down to their dinner till Past ten. Their sport averaged fifteen brace of grouse per day per gun. This, it is said, is not much beside some of the slaughter on certain moors ; but their shooting-ground did not resemble a poultry-yard, and they had to exercise skill in their sport. Among other curious tales, it is said that the art of making heather ale is lost, it was known to the Picts. A legend narrates that, Kenneth Mac Alpine slew all the Picts but two, an aged father and his son, who were said to have the recipe of this nectar. The father agreed to tell on one condition, which was to have his son's head cut off! Now, said the old man I am satisfied, he might have told you, I never will! This explains the lines of the ballad— " The Picts were undone, cat off, mother's son For not teaching the Scots to brew heather-ale." It is truly stated that John o'Groat's house has a world-wide fame, but strange to say, that while his name " has been carried to the uttermost ends of the earth, it is ignored by some persons residing