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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT , lir. Bowe and Miss Ada Cavendish. Followed by THE POOR GENTLEMAN. Messrs Howe, Chippenda e, Compton, W. Farren, Rogers. Clark, Braid, do.; Mesdames Chippendale. Moore, Laws, &a After which, BOX AND COX. Mr. Bucks one :nd Ur. Compton. Concluding with THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE. Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippendale ; Miss Nelly Moore, Mrs, Chippendale. . Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vinirr.r. SLIMMER SE XSON.—Doors open at Half-past Seven, performanci:s commence at Eight o'clock precisely. TLIIS EVENING, a New and Original Drams, in Three Acts, by Watts Phillips... Esq., entitled THE HUG UENOT CAPTAIN. Principal characters by Mrs. Stir:ing, Miss Neilson, 31 iss Augusta Thomson; Mr. Geor_ e Honey and Mr. Vining. Grand Lallet of 801 - iemians. in which MM. Flageo let, Clodoche, Comete, and Normande, will appear. New scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds. NEW THEATRE -ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. at 7 precisely, THE FAST FAMILY. Messrs. IMilington, J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, R. Phillips, Ashley, Eburne; Mrs. A. Mellon (Miss Woolgar), Miss H. Simms, Miss Furtado, kiss Smith, Miss Seaman, Miss God pall, and Mrs. H. Lewis. After which a Burlesque Opera, called HELENE ; or, T.ken from the Greek. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ashley, Ebume; Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Seaman, Miss Godsall, arc. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Sirs. Swanborough. THIS .EVENING, THE WEATHERCOCK. After which, will be produced the Latest Edition of KENILWORTH. Mes , rs. Thorne, James, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborougb, Raynham, John stone, and Holt. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. 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MOSES & SON, CORNER OF MINORIES and ALDGATE, NEW OXFORD STREET Corner of HART STREET, and Corner of TOTTENHAX COURT ROAD and EUSTON ROAD 8.180 at BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 81, 1866. The great Reform demonstration of last evening went off quietly enough, so far at least as the ex ternal tranquillity of the metropolis was concerned. The meeting at the Agricultural Hall was a very large one, numbering many thousands, and being reinforced by processions from various gathering points. The people, moreover, were of a more respectable class than those who betook themselves to Hyde Park last Monday in defianCe of the law. A good many were very likely attracted by the curio sity excited by the events of the week, but the mis chief-loving spirits who are invariably in attendance on an open-air demonstration, especially when any thing like riot or disturbance is anticipated, were no longer conspicuous. The crowds who thronged the Agricultural Hall were for the most part a regular - English mob, good-humoured and well conducted, doing no discredit to themselves by their behaviour, and requiring no external force to prevent them from damaging the property or persons of others. The great drawback to last night's proceedings was one which was inevitable from the nature of things. The crowd might mean very well, and might be really anxious to hear what such a speaker as Mr. MILL had 'to say, and those who addressed them might avoid inflammatory harangues and really endea vour to discuss the questions before them, but it was simply impossible for any one speaker to make himself heard by even a large proportion of the assembled multitude. One man cannot command the attention of even a thousand persons ; how, then, can he do so when his audience consists of many thousands ? Only those in the immediate vicinity of the platform could hope to hear any thing, and as those behind, in pursuance of communistic doctrines, did not see why those in front should possess an advantage which they did not have, there were lurches and swayings of the crowd which effectually disarranged the perorations of the orators. Added to this desire to obtain the best places those who could not hear what was going on naturally got tired of inaction, and those who did not push, talked together, adding to the buzz of sound which filled the huge hall. No doubt there were some who pushed and shouted " for the fun of the thing," hut the result was that while there was no riot or breach of the peace the confusion was so great that neither energy nor per severance availed the speakers. Some, indeed, who possessed stentorian lungs, persisted in the effort, but to little purpose. The evening came to a peace ful termination, and after passing the proposed re solutions the assembly disperged in due order, with all the ceremony of bands and processions with which it had assembled: So far, then, the proceedings were highly satisfactory, but it may be very fairly asked what has been actually gained by them? It can scarcely be said to have proved that the lower classes of the community are capable of holding a large political meeting without disturbance, since that we knew before. There was no fear of riotous proceedings BO long as no open defiance of public authority was promised to the "roughs." Neither can it be said to have shown the eagerness of the people for Reform, for every one knows that the more intelli get of our artisans are anxious to obtain political privileges. But it may fairly be doubted whether the cause of Reform has profited by the transactions of the past eight days. In the first place, the enthusiasm which leads Mr. BEALES to volunteer to lay down his life for the cause, and Colonel DICKSON to declare that he is ready to share his martyrdom, is a little out of date at the fag eud of a session, when there is no particular measure under dis cussion. The bill of the late Government would certainly have done something towards emanci pating the people, though its best friends ad mitted it to be partial and incomplete ; but it would scarcely have been worth any one's while to die on its behalf ! The new Ministry, if they retain their places long enough, will have to deal with the Reform question ; and must deal with it, if they hope to succeed, frankly, liberally, and comprehensively. But it would be idle to suppose that any Government could introduce a Reform Bill this year ; and if so many months must elapse before any practical measure can be even proposed, where is the use of wasting strength in getting up excitement now ? The question may, indeed, be pro fitably discussed through the recess by the Reformers at large ; it may he kept before the public by every constitutional means, among which meetings of working men may fairly be reckoned. But these monster assemblies, in which a man can scarcely hear his own voice, leave matters very much where they find them. Who can follow a logical ar o _ ment, appreciate an apt illustration, or be impressed by an eloquent appeal in the midst of the pushing and the hubbub inseparable from such assemblies ? If we want a practical thing, let us set ourselves by practical means to get it. Mere empty declamation will not carry the day against opposing influences any more than mere numbers will bear conviction by those who doubt and hesitate. We cone Leaguegratulate Mr. BEALES and the other members of the in having realised their undoubted wish in getting andettiug through the monster demonstration quie tl y satisfactorily, but we think their own judgment must confirm the verdict of the common sense of the public that we have had enough of such exhibi tions at present, and that the cause of Reform is more likely to be fought successfully in smaller de tachments and with less parade of pomp and cir cumstances. But little progress has been made by the autho rities in the arrangements of the peace-prelimi naries. The Prussians seem desirous of making people wait as long as they can without coming to a settlement, and the favourite plan is to refuse to see those who come to make propositions ; thus the King of IlartovEn has sent an aide-de camp to the Prussian head -quarters, but the KING would not see him. If this sort of conduct is con sidered dignified and becoming it is a great mis take, for nothing can be more unsuitable. 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BENSON'S GOLD JEWELLERY. N ove l and Artistic. 11ENSON'S ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET. 2d. JJ ENSON, Old Bond-st r e e t and Westbourne grove. BENSON'S STEAM FACTORY, Ludgate-hill HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 21m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m. To-Alos.Row.-Morning, 4h. 56m.—Afternoon, sh. 20m. It „I=4 Al. , • - , -. 1 . - ,t ~1 A 1 2 ment. ing Germany are bound to hold inter course with all who are and have been in an influential position. By giving themselves airs, and taking advantage of the chances which success has given them, they are only showing their own little ness. It would seem as if a new plan was about to be tried in order_ to settle the vexed question of Frankfort. It is said in the Berlin news that the city of Frankfort will probably become Prussian territory, and in that case the KING will remit the whole or part of the contribution demanded of it. No doubt a great deal of this is owing to the intervention of France, for the representatives of the EMPEROR have been most assiduous in their efforts to rescue the " free city" from the fate which menaced it. This in demnity dispute has been one of the chief difficulties in the way of negotiations. The French represen tatives very properly reminded the Government that after the war in the Crimea England and France did not demand any money from the Russian authorities, and Count BISMARCK had better follow their example in this instance. M. BENEDETTI was instructed by his Government to insist upon the preservation of the integrity of Saxony, and this is one of the chances of the preser vation of peace. We, in common with the rest of Europe, are certainly indebted to the French Government for the decision they have displayed in dealing with the preliminaries of peace ; it is in consequence of their energetic efforts that the States of Southern Germany have been included in the armistice, from which it was llerr BISMARCK'S intention to have excluded them. This was a piece of signal injustice, and eminently characteristic of the statesman from whom it emanated. The fact is that our late Government so mismanaged matters that the Prussian authorities knew they had nothing to fear from any interference on our part. The French Government have in consequence had all the work to themselves, in 'the way of mediation and representation, and, taking all things into considera tion, it must be confessed that they have done pretty well. Prussia is evidently afraid of Offending the Em peror NAPOLEON, no matter what parade and boast ing she may make about her independence. It is fortunate, indeed, that some Power is able and willing to cope with the arbitrary and over-daring despot who now holds sway in Berlin. For all the influence which this country has exercised in the Councils of Europe, King WILLIAM, and his satellite BISMARCK, might have appropriated all the disputed territories to themselves. It appears that the Austrian army is rather dis appointed at the sudden turn affairs have taken, and would rather have continued the war for a short time longer. This is not to be wondered at, for with one thing and another the Austrian troops have not had fair play. They were not fully pre pared, and it was very blameable of the Govern ment of Vienna to go to war in such haste. There is much to sympathise with in the desire expressed by some for the prolongation of the war. They feel that a chance would be then afforded to them to reinstate themselves. They doubtless feel jealous of the manoeuvres of Herr BISMARCK, and think that peace under his auspices will be worse than war. The conduct of the Italians has been throughout this affair most extraordinary, and in nothing have they shown themselves more absurd than n their accounts of the late ,naval engage- They have twisted and turned things n order to make the worst seem the best, and a stranger coming suddenly . upon the scene might be deluded by their representa tions into believing that theirs were the honours of the affair. Such a course is beneath contempt —it is quite unworthy of a great people, and shows to what artifices men will resort when they have entered upon a course of which they are ashamed, and cannot extricate themselves easily from the difficulties into which their folly has placed them. Herr von PFORDTEN has concluded a three weeks' armistice between Bavaria and Prussia, but he had no power to arrange anything for the other German States, who will have to negotiate with Gen. MANTEUFFEL at Berlin. Ac cording to the remarks made by the Nord-Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, it would seem as if it was pos sible to have too much of a good thing, for it dis tinctly repudiates the notion of the union of the States of Southern Germany with those of the North in the Confederation. It states that the inhabitants do not desire such a thing to take place, and that, to draw them into the union of the North will only strengthen the divisions that have taken place, and create mischief. The pros pects that lie before the dispossessed Princes of Germany is indeed a sorry one, and they are to be pitied, inasmuch as they have fallen from no fault of their own. it is said that they intend to risk the arbitration of Europe, but in allusion to this the Gazette of North- Germany makes an emphatic declaration, to the effect that Prussia has resolved not to permit any foreign interference to take place respecting these matters for the interior affairs of Germany must be settled among themselves. This decision bodes very ill for any real progress being made, as we all know what the style and temper of the men dictated is likely to be, and how much independence worthy of the name will be enjoyed at the German Parliameu t. THE IRISH ELECTIONS.—We learn by telegraph that the Attorney-General, Mr. Walsh, was elected yester day without opposition for the University of Dublin. The nomination for the borough of Galway took place yester day ; the candidates proposed were the Solicitor-General, Mr. Michael Morris, and Mr. Stubber. The show of hands was for Mr. Morris ; and a poll having been demanded, to-morrow was fixed for the purpose. MURDER IN ST. GlLES'S.—Yesterday morning the dead body of a boy, apparently about six years of age, was found suspended by the neck, and with his hands tied behind him, in a cellar at No.l, Neal's-passage, Eari-street, Seven-dials. The neighbourhood is occupied by working men and their families, the apartments being let ouL in separate tenements. For the use of those who might bo out late the street doors are constantly open, or such means are afforded for opening as would render a key unneceisary. One cistern of water supplies each house, and is situated in a kind of cellar, approached by eight or nine stairs. The discovery of the dead body was madthiby agirl n ame d M ary A nn C otter, living in the first floor of No. 1, L'l breakfast ears-pass for th a ge She family h (iw i e l n y about tdom fivnse inu ta m irsto te o s btitin water for past seven, when s h e saw in the indistinct light something hanging by an upright p os t w hi c h was placed beside the cistern. She ran up the stairs into the street alarmed , and aroused the neighb ours. A plumber living next door ;vent down and there saw the dead body of a boy suspended by the neck with a stout cord t o th e post mentioned. The hands were tied behind the back with part of a red silk handkerchief not closely together, but six or eight inches apart. Life appeared extinct. The police speedily arrived, when the body was Gut down, and medical assistance called. It was pronounced to be dead, and having been stripped was conveyed to the deadhouso of St. Giles's workhouse. The boy, it appears, was seen playing in the neighbourhood of Neal's-passage on Sunday ev en i ng, b ut n o particular notice was taken of him. It has been further stated that the deceased was fetched away on Sunday night from his grandmother's, t somewhere bordering on his sister ' s up till two o'clock, and subsequently taken o'clock, when he was fetched away by hisfather.. No other It is stated that the deceased after that time. person saw the parents of the deceased are separated , and that the mother is living at Kennington. MADAME TUSSAUD'S,—A new bridal group noss the es re presenting the marriage of their Roya l Hi g h Princess Helena and Prince Chri s tian, life-size,is now added to Madame T ussaud's exhibition, Baker-street. The figure of her Royal Highness is attired in a magni ficent dress, being a fac-simile to the one worn on the oc casion. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) • PARIS, Monday Evening. The Moniteur has the following communication : —" The armistice concluded between Au‘stria and Prussia having been successively extended to all the belligerents, hostilities have completely ceased as well in Germany as in Italy. The last warlike act is the entry of the Prussians into Bayreuth without any assistance." Public opinion seems very much excited in Italy against Admiral Persano, who is accused of having committed grave errors at the battle of Lissa. The Movimento of Genoa publishes the text of an address to the President of the Council of Ministers, which has been extensively signed by shipowners and others, captains of ships and merchants. This address, which is couched in very energetic terms, openly accuses Admiral Persano of incapacity, and even goes the length of demanding that he should be put upon his trial, as was the case in England formerly in regard to Admiral Byng. The Gazette Ofiicielle, on the other hand, invites the citizens to abstain from pronouncing a premature opinion on a battle which has done honour to the Italian arms." The Government, it adds, will do its duty. The Paris papers render full justice to the energy and genius which directed the successful effort to land the electric cable on the other side of the Atlantic. The Journal des Debats speaks of the result in these terms :—" England has just obtained one of those successful victories more useful to humanity, and we do not fear to say more glorious, than the most splendid triumphs which military genius could dream of." According to the Debats of Vienna, there are various difficulties yet to be arranged between Aus tria and Prussia. One of these is in regard to Baden, which from its position forms a portion of the Southern States, but which Prussia is very desirous not to give up. Hanover and Electoral Hesse, con trary to the demand of Prussia, are not disposed to give to that Power a part of their territory, and to submit to Prussian homogeneity. Austria wishes for guarantees for those States; and for Saxony, which has had to make such great sacrifices. The Nord contains an article which enters into a comparison between the present state of the armies of Prussia and Austria. It says that at the com mencement of the war Austria had at her disposal the Army of the North, consisting of 250,000 men ; the Army of the South, forming a total of 150,000 men ; also 50,000 men, to whom the defence of the coasts of Dalmatia were confided, and the five bat talions of the 80 regiments of the line recently formed, and making a total of 80,000 men. After calculating at 60,000 men the loss in dead, wounded, and prisoners, and at 40,000 men the garrisons in Bohemia and Moravia, there remains of the Army of the North 150,000 men. Altogether, even now tha Archduke Albert must have under his orders 320,000 men, to which may be added 20,000 Saxons. As to the Prussian army, when it invaded Bohemia it was composed of nearly 350,000 men ; but if a calculation be made of the losses, and that 100,000 men are necessary for the occupation of the enemy's country and the protection of the basis of operations, Prussia could not reach Vienna with more than 300,000 men. It should be recollected, too, that the new levies and the mass of volunteers who have joined the Austrian flag within the last three weeks have not been included in the estimate of the amount of the Austrian army. A corres pondent of one of the Paris journals, who is in Germany, writing upon the same subject, says— " Austria, within a fortnight, will have at her dis posal no less than 380,000 men." The Moniteur Prussien says that Prussia has no idea of extending her territory and forming a Con federation of the North and Centre. There will shortly be a very imposing ceremony at Paris. Austria having consented to restore to France the mortal remains of the Duke de Reich stadt (Francois Joseph Charles Napoleon), the son of Napoleon 1., they are to be interred in the Inva lides with the pomp and ceremony suitable to the occasion. The King of Rome, who was to be, was born at Paris on the 20th of March, 1811, and sel dom was a child ushered into the world under more brilliant auspices. All the nobles and illustrious men came to see him in his cradle, a splendid work of art by Thomine and d'Odiot. On it were em blazoned the arms of the City of Paris ; a bas-relief represents the god of the Tiber; and round it is the figure of the wolf which suckled Romulus and Remus. This magnificent cradle is still in existence at Vienna. The designs were by the eminent artist Prudhon. The great dignitaries of the kingdom placed their orders on the cradle, and the Austrian Ambassador, on the part of his Sovereign, presented the grand decoration of the Order of St. Etienne. The the atings of Spain, Naples, and W es t p h a li a did hog Imperial Prince. War and disaster soon arrived. Napoleon, on leaving the Tuileries for the battle-field, called together the officers of the Legions of the National Guard, and used these memorable words, " I leave ; lam going to combat the enemy. I confide to you my dearest treasure, the King of Rome, my son.,, Yet a little longer and the young Prince died iu exile at the Palace of Shoenbrunn in Austria. His death took place on July 22, 1832. His last words were uttered in German, " Ich gehe unter—l succumb. My mother, my mother." The last time that he ap peared before his troop the Duke de Reichstadt wore the uniform of the Regiment of Prince Wasa, of which he bad just been appointed colonel. He was decorated with the Austrian orders. It is only within a few weeks that the excavations and other works for levelling the hills at Passy, and to provide materials for the great Exhibition, have completely transformed the locality where the palace was to be built for the King of Rome. I mentioned a short time ago that a young girl at Tours had been in a lethargic state for several weeks. This condition has now lasted 57 days. Many medical men of Paris have visited her, and it is now stated that some eminent English gentlemen of the profession are expected at Tours in order to form their judgment upon this extraordinary case, an account of which they probably saw in Ike Sun. The girl's parents are very poor, and it is to be hoped that some pecuniary assistance will be given to them. They have four children. The father, who occupies a subordinate situation on a railway, has a very small salary. The mother has been com pelled to give up her usual occupation in order to pay constant attention to her daughter. At the Vesinet steeple chases the Prix de la Colonie, in which 12 horses were engaged, was won by Frankfort ; Brunette, second ; L an squenet, third. The Prix du Pavilion (gentlemen riders) was won by Sebastopol. Four horses were ente red, but he ran alone for the prize. The Prix des Tri bunes was !yip by Gabion ; Misterton, second ; Caprice ran in third. Six horses ran. The Mediterranean squadron is now under pre paration for the continuation of its shooting prac tice and evolutions in the roads of Hyeres and in the Gulf of Juan. It will sail almost immediately for Ajaccio, where it will remain during the fetes of August 15. The weather has been unsettled the last day or two. Yesterday there was a great deal of rain. To-day at 6 o'clock a.m., it was really cold, al though it became warm as the morning advanced, but the temperature was much lower than of late. The most absurd mistakes arc made daily iu the telegrams sent to the Paris papers by the Haras Bullier Agency. They commit foul furders on the Queen's English. Here is the specimen of to-day. The telegram informs the Paris papers that the Observer says that the annual Ministerial dinner "at the Whitebaits," Aux Whitebaits, will take place on Saturday next. Negotiations were opened several years ago, but without result, between the cabinets of Vienna and Paris, with the object of removing to France the remains of Napoleon 11., Duke Reichstadt. A letter from Vienna now states that the Emperor Francis Joseph, to show his gra titude towards Napoleon 111., has spontaneously offered to restore them to France. Mr. Hepworth Dixon sailed on Saturday from Liverpool, on board th e J ava, bound for N e w York, en route for Utah and th e S alt Lake. Queen E m ma, CRYSTAL PALACE,of the Sandwich Islands, w as a l so among the J ava ' s passengers& ONE SH I LLING DAY.- - Monday, July 00.—Admissions on payment, 8, 429 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,272—t0tal visitors, 9,701. LATEST INTELLIGENCE,. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN GERMANY. MUNICH, July 30, Evening. The Official Gaulle of to-day says :—" We re gret to have to announce that a sanguinary engage ment has taken place near Weiden between the Prussians and a battalion of the Bavarian guard which had started from Munich. This affair is in explicable in view of the armistice and the suspen sion of hostilities concluded yesterday between Prince Charles and General Manteuffel. The officer in command of the Bavarian troops had in vain despatched a flag of truce calling the attention of the Prussians to the uselessness of further blood shed. The losses of the Bavarians were consider able." ITALY. FLORENCE, July 29. Proceedings have commenced against Admiral Persano, and will be pushed forward with the greatest possible activity. Signori Sella and D'Afflitto set out to-morrow for Udine and Treviso respectively. The King will leave Ferrara this evening for Rovigo. SPAIN, MADRID, July 30, Evening. The Government has sent strict orders to the Governors of the Provinces of Spain to enforce the payment of the taxes for the first six months within five days. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, July 29' The Ceylon and Pera left here at 4 30 p.m. to day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter at Southampton on the 11th August. SOUTHAMPTON, July 31. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Bavaria, from Hamburg, arrived here this morning with 300 emigrants for New York and 14 passen gers for England. One of the ship's firemen was taken ill en leaving Hamburg from the effects of drinking, and died at midnight. In consequence, Dr. Wiblin, medical superintendent, proceeded to the boarding station, and the body was committed to the deep. The steamer has a clear bill of health, and all on board are well. Dr. Wiblin examined all the passengers for Eng land, and finding them healthy, allowed them and the captain of the ship to land, but as a precau tionary measure the ship was not permitted to come into dock nor the emigrants to land. The North German Lloyds steamer New York, from Bremen, with 500 passengers, has arrived. She was inspected and found healthy, and admitted into dock. FRANCE. PARIS, July 30.—Two o'clock.--Business in the markets for Stocks and Shares continues very re stricted, whilst quotations—with the exception of Italian Fives, which have retrograded no less than lf. 15c.—have undergone no sensible change. The above-named Stock is now being dealt in at 51f. 80c. Three per Cents., for Account, remain unvaried at Saturday's closing prices —viz., 681. 85c. Credit Mobilier Shares have declined 2f. 50c., to 653 f., and Credit Foncier 5f., to 1,295. Comptoir d'Escompte are 3f. 75c. lower —viz., 876 f. 25c. In Railway Shares Austrian show a decline of If. 25c., and Lombard of sf. A fall of in Consols is tele graphed from London. Three o'clock.--The market has closed as fol lows : .41 per Cents 96 75 Bank Shares 3565 Do. end month — Italian Loan 5l 90 .3 per Cents. 6B 80 Do. end month 5l 85 Do. end month 6B 85 Mexican Loan — Credit Mobilier ... 651 25 Do. Bonds — Do. end month ... 655 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier — Home Debt — Do. end month 1292 50 Deferred LITERATURE. Etchings by John Leech. One Volume, William Tegg. Fifty-one etchings by John Leech—six of them illustrative of Theodore Hook's " Jack Bragg," twenty-six of Albert Smith's " Christopher Tad pole," and the remaining nineteen of W. H. Max well's " Hector O'Halloran" --make up a volume, for the publication of which, who will not be grate ful to Mr. Tegg, of Cheapside ? Although Leech was to find, later on, that his forte lay in pencillings upon boxwood far rather than in scratching the var nish off copper plates with the point of his etching needle, these easier manifestations of his rare gifts as a pictorial humorist, have a delightful interest for all who appreciate his unrivalled genius as a comic draughtsman. Many of the etchings here collected together for the first time, apart from the letter press they were designed to embellish, we know by heart, and have laughed over years ago to our heart's content. Grouped together in their present form, they make a most acceptable table-book for the drawing-room, full of fun as they are, and set ting even the sourest faces (as they are safe to do) on the broad grin when the leaves are turned 'twixt thumb and finger. BiErger's Lenore. Translated by John Wynniai Grant. Murray and Co. Often as Gottfried August Burger's wierd Ballad of " Death and the Maiden," otherwise better known, the wide world over, under that Maiden's name of " Lenore," has been done into English, and that too upon occasion by masters of German and English as rarely gifted as the great author, or compiler rather, of " The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders "—a happier translation, upon the whole, has hardly ever been achieved, even by the best among his nine or ten English predecessors, than the one upon his successful completion of which Mr. Wynniatt Grant may well receive our congra tulations. It is at once flowing and literal—but best of all it is a translation into idiomatic English from the thoroughly idiomatic German original. Mattie : A Stray. By the author of " Owen : a Waif." One Volume. Chapman and Hall. Another of the popular tales penned during the last few years by the writer of " High Church" and " No Church" is here re-issued as the eighty-second volume of the Messrs. Chapman and Hall's two shilling series known as the Select Library of Fic tion. Although Charles Lever and Harrison Ains worth are among the contributors to that Library, and although Mrs. Trollope and Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Oliphant, Whyte Melville and Geraldine Dewsbury are in the same enterprise—the homely tale here told about " Mattic : a Stray," is not unworthy of taking its place at the end of the long bookshelf already loaded with its eighty-' one predecessors. A Waif on the Stream. By S. M. Butchers. One Volume. Triibner and Co. A Waif of a very different kind from the one just above mentioned—(poor Owen to wit)—is this modest little collection of fugitive pieces in verses, by a writer with whose name we do not remember to have been previously acquainted. The preface is so deprecatory, in its tone, of anything like serious or searching criticism, that it would be out of place to deal in any way severely with lucubrations so in troduced to us. Happily, we can recognise in them no call for severity of any kind in the way of direct reprehension. The verses are harmonious and graceful throughout—repeatedly, moreover, evidenc ing, on the part of the authoress, a gift of sensi bility so rare, of its kind and in its intensity, as of itself to influence us, as we read, as with a spell of fascination. Search. One Volume, pp. 60. L. Booth. A painful little book to read, although the argument enforced within these sixty pages, is one that we should exult to believe might yet be acted upon throughout the land, among rich and poor alike, in the palace and in the cottage. It is an argu ment penned directly in the interests of humanity, and in the interests also of morality and of common decency. " Both mother and child are doing well" would henceforth be far more frequently than they have been hitherto, the happy staple of Home News, here in England, were the suggestions of " Search" sagaciously and systematically carried out—in the revision, that is to say, of the whole scheme of the application of the science of obstetrics. A Bundle of Epigrams. By Dufferiah. One Vol. Mann Nephews. A -whimsical little half-crown volume of jeux d'esprit, all of them short--some short and sweet, some short and sour. There are seventy of them in all, so that there are enough and—to spare ! Dufferiah calls himself on his title-page, Incumbent of Horsehair-cum-Chintz—from which it may be understood at once that his motto might almost be " Easy does it," as, with a half shut eye and a care less stroke of the pen on paper, he pokes fun at his readers, upon all sorts of themes, good, bad, and indifferent, now well, now badly, now, indifferently. Several pamphlets dropping in upon us during the last few days are so seasonably apropos as to deserve at least enumeration at our hands. Carl Barthe lemy's " Sure Preventi ve f or A s i at i c Ch o l e ? a " ( PP . 70) is among them. Then there is Dr. George Johnson's brochure (pp. 32) " On Epidemic Diarrhcea and Cholera." There is besides these upon the same al -important subject the Epidemiological Society's " Report (pp. 93) of the Council on Cholera _Hospitals." Following. very acceptably close upon the heels of Lord Cranborne's Indian Budget, we have a reprint of a paper (pp. 42) on " The Indian Empire and our Financial Relations therewith," a paper read before the London Indian Society a couple of months since by Robert Knight of the Times of India. Besides this, published by Simms and Company, of Manchester, we have in a valu abe pamphlet of 82 page s oc t avo, a cop i ous re cord o f lth the " Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society."—Season 1865-66. GREAT AUCTION SALE OF THE EARL OF STAM FORD'S SPORTING DOGS. - -Yesterday the kennel of sporting dogs, the property of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, were submitted for sale under the hammer by Messrs. Tattersall. The dogs had been on vitw last week, and the kennel consisted of seven brace of pointers of the most fashionable blood and pedigree, and were bred by his lordship at his seat at Dunham Massey. The dogs were highly hroken, and have been regularly shot over to grouse and black game. There was a large attendance of the elite of the sporting world, and competition ran high for all the pointers ; and for three young broken dogs—Sam, Pilot, and Staley—there was quite a furore to beconaci the purchasers and they were knocked down to an average bidding of 40 guineas each. The deerhounds consisted of three-and-a half brace of celebrated dogs, and were fine specimens of Scotch blood. These dogs have distinguished themselves in deerstalking in the Highlands, and are duly entered for sporting in the approaching season. There was less com petition for these dogs, but they realised very high figures. At the annual meeting to-day of the Australian Agricultural Company, Mr. Edward Hamilton, M.P., in the chair, the report presented stated that the net revenue amounted to £30,388 2s. 6d. (Ac count B), and that on the 31st December Last the accumulated profits available for distribution as dividends amounted to £14,525 16s. 9d. (Account C). In the month of February last this balance was reduced by the payment of £5,000 to the pro prietors, so that the balance due to them on the operations of the Company, up to the 31st Decem ber, 1865, now stands at £15,388 2s. 6d. The cash in London amounts to £11,753 ss. lid., and out of this sum the directors recommend that a dividend 0 f 10s. per share, free of income tax, be declared, and that it be made payable on Tuesday, the 14th day of August next. At a meeting held to-day of the shareholders of the East London Bank, the report of the directors stated that, notwithstanding the severe and continued monetary depression which has prevailed during a period of the last half-year, the directors are enabled to recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and make the usual pro vision for the reduction of the amounts expended on bank premises and preliminary expense. This will absorb £3,750, leaving £2,568 ss. 3d. to be carried to profit and loss new account. The rebate on cur rent bills has been calculated at 10 per cent. " rt DIEII HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Monday. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited her Majesty this morning. Prince Leopold went out, attended by Lieutenant Stirling. Accident to Her Majestfils 'ohip PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. Her Majesty's armour-plated iron screw steam ship Achilles, 26, Capt. Edward W. Vansittart, having been refitted at Devonport, left Hamoaze this morning under her own steam, aided by two tugs on her port side and one on the starboard side. Shortly before 8 o'clock she struck the eastern side of the Winter Rock, which lies in the northern part of the Sound ; her head was then south-east. She was backed off immediately. The Achilles afterwards proceeded outside the Breakwater, ap parently to try her speed at the measured mile, but having immediately afterwards returned to the Ad miralty anchorage in the Sound, it is supposed she has incurred some damage. At the time of the accident it was about high high water. Wind W.N.W., a strong breeze. The rock is marked by three buoys. THE HOUSE-HUNTER'S CATECHISM.--As I am not much of a business man, my future mother-in-law insisted on writing me down a list of questions—a cate chism for landlords. They were not complementary to judgment, but they were still essential, as Mrs. Masterman pithily observed. They ran somewhat in this way :—"Rent? Number of rooms ? If a store-room? Mind the coal-cellar. Ask what taxes. Look at the gas. Try the bells. Fell all the walls. Stamp on the floors to see if they are strong for danc ing. Make a note of the wall-papers. Who are your neigh bours Turn on the water. Look at the kitchen grate. Is the house dangerous for robbers ? (Bad grammar, Mrs. Masterman.) How long since occupied last ? When built ? If lumber-room ? Go on the roof. Look down the chim neys. See if the wine cellar is damp. Opserve fastenings' Measure all the rooms. Ask rent of neighbouring houses Price of meat, poultry, and fish. Price of wages ? Size of hall ? Number of stairs ? If main drainage ?" " Why, Mrs. Masterman," I remarked, "it would take a surveyor a week to answer all these questions." "Edward," said that august and terrible personage, laying down her cards (we were playing whist at the time), 'if you love Lizzie, and if you love me, you will not negleCt a single question."— Dickens's "All the Year Round." FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES.—New York possesses the magnificent Astor Library, containing about 100,000 volumes in every department of literature, open freely to the public for reference every day from nine to five. It has also a City Library freo, open daily from ten to four; an Apprentices' Library—established solely fcr the use of apprentices and females in the employ of mechanics and tradesmen, and open freely to this class from eight in the morning till nine in the evening; a Medical Library, free, open from ten to ten ; a Printers' Library, containing more than 4,000 volumes, also free ; and now there is every pro spect of another free Library being added on a large scale. Boston, by a special act of the Massachusetts Legislature, in 1848, was provided with a free public library, and had granted from the City funds 5,000 dollars a year for its maintenance. Immediately on its establishment energetic citizens contributed largely in books and money towards the preliminary expenses, and a citizen of London (Mr. Joshua Bates), connected with Boston by business and personal ties, presented a sum of £lO,OOO sterling for the purchase of books. Throughout the United States, libraries—readily • accessible to all in search of knowledge —are numerous, and oue result is that in intelligence, in acquaintance with litera ture and knowledge of the best writers in their language, the American people are unequalled in the world. But it was not left for democratic institutions to set an example in this respect—France possesses more than 100 public lib raries, open free to all corners, without distinction of per son, rank, or country ; Austria and Prussia together have nearly 90 ; Bavaria has 17 ; Belgium 14 ; and other .Euro pean kingdoms have a fair share. Until the passing of Mr E wart's Act, in 1850, for enabling Town Councils to esta blish public libraries and museums, England had the unhappy pre-eminence of being without a single strictly free public library. Paris now possesses seven perfectly free public libraries, Vienna has three, and Berlin two. The library of the British Museum was, and is still, we think, properly available to readers only under certain restrictions. The libraries of Sion College and of Dr. Williams' also were and are subject to restrictions which prevent their free use by the public. These three libraries, however, are, at the pre sent moment, notwithstanding the activity of provincial towns, the only libraries available for inhabitants of this great city of London, and the restrictions to which we have referred, including the hours during which they are open, render them totally useless for the man of business, the clerk, the mechanic, and the artisan. Many smaller towns and cities throughout E ngland have voluntarily taxed the m selvesunder the provisions of the act of Parliament referred to and have established libraries,most of which are rendering immense service to the cause of education. London, which of all other cities in the world owes most of its po sition to the intelligence, education, and activity of its citizens, stands, to our thinking, degraded and disgraced for • its apathy in this matter. Is there no public spirit among our bankers and merchants equal to that which has made John Jacob Astor's name one to be carried down to the remotest posterity, accompanied by the thanks and bless ings of those whose intellectual advancement has been promoted by his princely liberality ? Is the accumulation of wealth alone the object of ambition to our citizens, and have they no desire to contribute aid towards the elevation and improvement of the masses ? We hear of political reform till we are sickened with the very name—and re cognise it only as the war-cry of a party and the rod flag of political antagonism—but this branch of social reform, the truest and surest of all reforms, is left unheeded and uncared for. Among the bankers, merchants, and traders of our city there are men who have felt it an honour to enrol themselves in the ranks of literature, whose fame hereafter will depend more upon their contributions to literature and science than to anything they may have done in the accu mulation of wealth, such men—honoured and re spected in all circles, possessing the confidence and respect of their fellow-citizens, we call upon to be up and doing in this matter. Let them initiate measures for the establishment of a Free Public Library in this city—a library which shall be an honour to the first city in the world. The contribution of their wealth, and, more than all, the influence which their active exertions will give to such a movement, is sure to rally around them a body of supporters whose energies and exertions will bo irresistible. It is apathy, not opposition, that has to be overcome; antiquated prejudices doubtless prevail—penny wise-and-pound-foolish difficulties may be urged, but theso are mere cobwebs, which will be swept away with ease by a body of determined men. The aim of such a movement as we speak of should be to induce the Corporation of tho City of London to grant an eligible and central site for a building, and to contribute from its funds a sum towards the expenses of erection and endowment ; such sum to be supplemented by voluntary contributions, and we have such confidence in our fellow-citizens that we believe indi vidual subscriptions will be by hundreds and even thou sands of pounds towards such an object. Apart from the benefit which will result to the inhabitants of this city from such a library, a movement iu this direction on the part of the metropolis will set in motion similar active exertions throughout the country; and we hope the day is not far distant when our country will stand first among the nations of the world in the activity of its educational institutions, and the extent of its means for imparting knowledge.—From Trdbner's Literary Record, July, 1866. THE MONEY MARKET SIX MONTHS Aao.—BUt though 7 per cent. might be a good sign, there were certainly bad ones in the commercial wealth on New Year's-day. There had been in the autumn a terrible crash in the Indian markets, especially at Bombay. Much money had been lost. Financial companies and banks had already begun to totter. There was an uneasy feeling abroad, was it unreasonable ? The country was committed to a fearful amount of new expenditure. Every kind of outlay was in motion ; railways, English and foreign, re constructions of London, of provincial towns, and of maul foreign ones also. Hotels, docks, warehouses, works of sewage, new mines, were absorbing prodigious quantities of capital. The City forgot, no one took heed that capita laid out on works which yield no return fur years was capital destroyed, money lost for the moment, was real poverty increased, was diminution of means and wealth , absolutely without compensation at the time. A railway' in construction is as pure, as true a destruction of wealth as the digging and filling up of holes in the ground ; it is only when the traffic flows in, and an income makes its appearance, that it ceases to be a most effective generator of poverty. Works of this nature, impoverishing for the time, and remunerative only at distant periods, had been commenced in unheard-of numbers : and misgivings begun to be felt as to the pressure which their congletiori, might exercise. Bonamy Price, M.A., in The Gentleman Magazine. REPRIEVE OF THE NOTTINGHAM :MURDERESS. - "" Jane Revill, sentenced to death at the last Notts Assizes for the murder of her child, has been respited during Her Majesty's pleasure. The respite was made known to the unhappy young woman on Saturday evening, when she was so overcome by the intelligence that sh e was unable for some time to give utterance to her feelings. After her condemnation she bocame very dejected, but since the remission of the sentence she has become com paratively cheerful. RAILWAYS. For Account. Orleans Northern ll2O Lyons and Mediterranean B6l 25 Southern 527 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman 530 - 351 25 381 25 122 50 Admission to the Public Service, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-It would be accepted as a public favour if you would be good enough to admit into your columns the following representation of a grievance, arising out of the deceptive state into which ad mission to the public service has grown under the system entitled " competitive examination." Previous to the introduction of this false manner of election the dispensers of Government patronage were restricted to the giving of one appointment to one person, which consistent rule has for some time been superseded by a regulation which enables the dealer to multiply his gifts by five-fold. Experience of the worthlessness, and proof to conviction, has now been admitted, that the "cream faced loon" who scores the greatest numerals in the ologies, is by no means the best qualified for the place; and a case illustrative of the traffic which enables Government to display magnanimity at the cost of anxious parents and the disappointment of hopeful sons will corroborate the allegations made in the afoiesaid. Admission to the corps of Royal Marines is by nomination, and vested with the Admiralty, and gained by competitive examinations, which take place twice a-year, viz., June and Dec., —the vacancies accumulating being filled up by the highest marks of the examination following. At that which has just passed there were eight va cancies, to which, it will scarcely be credited, that nomination for five times the number were given, nearly all of whom Attained the standard of marks. Is it not sad to contemplate the number of disap pointments ? To be sure they are allowed to try again in December, provided their age do not ex ceed 19. But even then the chances are not great, inasmuch that, taking the number of vacancies comparative with the former, will yet leave a score of them rejected. Your space will not admit of, even if my pen could fairly describe, the evils at tending the custom of alluring youths thus towards baits, where the chances of gaining them are so disproportionate, involving not alone the inordi nate expense of the cramming curriculum, but the more serious consideration of, in many cases, the wrecked prospects of the rejected ; for, you must understand, disappointment of success in the civil department is not of so much consequence as when the youths are entered either for the naval or military services. Your paper, circulating in official circles, will, I trust, be the means of drawing attention to this delusive mode of training the best men for the service of the country.—l am yours obediently, A PARENT. In our Irish Correspondence published yesterday reference was made to the report of the Union Bank of Ireland, and we are now requested to state that the de posits in that bank have not been reduced to £120,000, but have been diminished by that amount. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy is closed. The annual conversazione of the members and their friends takes piece on Wednesday evening. A HINT.—The Record of last evening observes in a leading article Mr. Bright has as yet scarcely escaped from the peril of being held responsible for blood shed in Hyde -park; and although happily there is no Go vernor Eyre in the case, the fate of poor Mr. Gordon in Jamaica has no doubt excited in his breast a sympathy in which the idea of identity of danger is a component ele ment." It will be seen that we are getting on. a G C Per C Do. h Per C 1 , 3 4e Nv Do . sk Dii o . f tio c I Ah r geuti - atri ra z i n t 13 °. 4 s'o Do" Do, p, bc, '4 ' e( •' 1 ( 13 0 k 6 bu b ° Ae( tr,, 4 0 . 1 , r z t ° '-' 1 1.),4 Do . t 1) 1, Ittj(;11.11 0, 4 Sol b o iS f . 41. e rno the nui rea: it' t char te r d 15 e . cow den, den, 13ro £49 Iteui 82e. Indiz