The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-11 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. GENTLEMEN, —The old Parliament is dis solved—a new one is to be constructed-and you are now called upon to exercise the high and important privilege of 8. lecfin.,cr the represen atives of the greatest city in the world. We venture to place our names on the list of com petitors for your suffrages, or rather for a rtnewal or con tinuation of them ' • tor we have this advantage over many candidates that we do not come before you as strangers. Our exertions in yiur interests during a long series of years are not unknown, nor have they been unrewarded. We are old and tried Reformers. Grieved to b.:hold our fellow-citiz. ns outrageously overtaxed, we introduced a new system, and raised the cry of "ECONOMY AND EXCtLLENCE IN HAPPY COMBINATION." We have mast earnestly opposed and condemned all exorbitant claims upon the publics purse, setting an example to others in the extreme modera von of every Bill presented by ourselves. Thus not a single Bill so presented has ever been objected to, or rejected, or amended. We have never disappointed our constituents — we have never violated our pledges—we have never neglected our duty. The improving state of our revenue from the con tinued and increased prosperity of our commerzial justifies us in promising to give our best consideration to the p , sribility of still f ,rther retrenchmen s of all de.r:ands upon the incomes of our constituents. IVe are advocatvs for an e • tension of the suffrage, not "laterally" only, but in all directions. Our constituency has always been rernstksbly extensive-the a. gest in the king dom-but we have no objec.ion whatever to see it multiplied to any exte. , t, alai amongst all classes. We ever iden i y our own interests with those f the richest and the poorest of our Sell w-countrynien, and arc ready to work for all alike—for birth sext a and for all ages. We have continued to satisfy all parties without addrepsing ourselves exc'u , ively to any. With the expression of these principles. opi ions, and pro mi-ca, and with the most grateful sense of past favours, we have the honour to remain, GENTLEMEN, Your ialthfui and obecUent Servants, E. MOSES and SON. The committees cf E. MOSES and Sox sit daily from Seven a.m. and 'Nine p.m. (Satu days excepted). at the great Cloth int Matt, at the Corner of Minories and Aldgate ; at the Corner of Hart-street and New Oxford-street ; and at the Corner of Tottenham-court-road and Euston-road, where a:1 clss es, without distinction, will meets ith a cordial recep tion, and may command a prompt and cheerful attention to their w rites. LAST EDITION OF " THE SUN," JIL Containing the Latest 61 . 01‘TIAti INTELLIIJE.Z , tan be had Every Evening of G. a. GL IsN IE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Bycle-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. 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Their resemblance to nature is perfect and undetectable, and they are guaranteed for an purposes of mastication and articulation. Operations o f evary kind being unnecessary, the most nervous patient can be supplied wi , hout fear 01 pain or inconvenience. Con sultation ;ree. Teeth from sa. Sets, 5,7, 10, and 15 :;luineas, warranted. For the eirica - ty, unlit), and success of this system, vide " Lancet.' Daily attendance at 15, Whitcfriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-paraGe, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, Scarbro'. *** iNo connection with any one of the same name. YAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—Under the Patronage of Her Most Gracious MAJESTY, 11.11.11. the Prince of WALE°. 11',R. ff. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. GRAND FETE and FANCY FAIR, CRYSTAL PALACE, SATURDAY, 15th, and MONDAY, 17th July, 18A5. The Stalls, Exhibitions, Fairy Post-office, Wheels of For tun? Aunt Sallies, &c., will be presided over by the leading Ladit and Gentlemen of the Dramatic Profession, who have kindly tendered their services. At Twelve o'clock precisely the Fair will be opened by Proclamation —Rieharthon's Show : the Drama written by Nelson Lee the Younger, produced by Mr. J. Ciarke—Womb well's Menagerie, with a collection of living animals, con sisting of lions, tit.fers, panthers, bears. &c.—Mr. Addison, Mr. J. Robins the I;i Toole-i-o-rana : poetry, Painting., Music. Dislio'ving Views of a Norrible Tale , Pio-Toole-ierarly described by Mr. - J. L. Toole, with appropriate =win by A Paul-10-Bedford Prot costar Anderson's Teendapameibome nostecon ; or. the Abode of llankepankadom —The Hall of Meru Momua —Great Vance, Arthur Loyd, Mr. and Mrs, . Lingard - Mr. and Mrs. Ilotvard t au! will pre side each day at their Temple of Industry, in the shape of a bran-new Bee-hive. Lecture on Comparative Anatomy, wri ten by Mr. I'. • Eurnand, delivered by Mr. Felix Rogers, arsi•ted by Miss Jenny %% Atmore—The Cri tat spalosionian —The Brothers Nem , , in the r worWerfut Entertainment it la Davenport— rhe Roy -0 Steam Hippodrome, under the direction of Mr. J. B. Buckstone—The White Lilies of the Prairte"—Aunt Sally here again—M - . J. B. 13uakstone, Lord Dundreary, Mr. F. Mathews, Mr. 11. Widdicomb—The Fairy Post-offize —The Bower of Love—The Gipsy Cave—Alas Agnes Burdett - Jac.: in the Green—" Bother the nie.."— The Royal t unch and Judy—Mysterioli Thograpsiensis, the Wonder of the Age- The Royal Weighing Machine—Grand National Cirque and Hippoirome. The Band of the C. ystal Palace Company will perform at va , ions periods of the day. Tickets of Admission for Saturday (if purchased before the day), 'lB. 6d. ; if purchased on the day, 58.:_ for Monday, ls. 'rickets, admitting to Rich irdaon's Show, Wombwell's Pro fessor Anderson's. Hall of Merry Momus, Messrs. Toole. P. Bedford, and Billington's Entertainment, and Mr. Felix Rogers's Lecture, if purchased before the day, 3s. 6d. ; it pur chased on the day, ss.—may be had at Mr. Sams's Royal Library, I , St. James's-street ; Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, Bt, 011 Bond-street; Mr. Bubb's Library, 167, New Bond stri et; Messrs. Keith, Drowse, and Co., Cheapside; Messrs. Mt ade and Powell, 71, Cheapside, E.C. ; at the Crystal Palace Office, 2, Exeter Hall, Strand ; and at the Offices of the Col lege. T i ckets of Admission to the Palace may be also had at the same places. The newly-constructed Ladies' Stalls may be !lad on hire for Fancy Fairs, Bazaars, Indoor Fetes, &c. For terms apply to the Secretary, Mr. J. W. Anson, at the Offices of the College, 20, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. THEATR E-R YA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Gordon, &C. ; Mesdames Snowden, Hill, WA lit, C. Alter which, BROTHER SAM Messrs. Sothern, Back stone, Co , upton, fie. ; Mesdames :•nowdon, Moore, itc. To conclude with NO SONG NO SUPPER. Compton, Chippendale, leaner!, Jce. ; Mesdames Moore, Wright, Keeley, & 7. To commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THROUGH NIKE AND WATER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Billington, Ashley; Min U. Simms, and Mrs. A. Mellon. After which, at r, SOLON SHINGLE. Solon, Mr. John E. Owens, supported by Mess. s. H. Phillips, Billingion, St. plies son, Ashley. faunae ; Mrs. 11. Lewis, 41r.c. To conclude with TIIE TIRISEI TIGER. Mess . e. C. H. Stephenson and Eburne ; Miss K. Belly. Commence ut 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, by Mr. David Fisher, entitled HEART-STRINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS. Alter which, ARRAY! NA FOGUE : Messrs. Dion Bonet can't. J. Brougham, 11. Vandehhoff, D. Fisher, D. Murray; Mrs. Boncicault and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with AN AMPLE APOLOGY. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Jlanageress. Mrs. Swanborough. 'IIIIS EVENING, at 7, THE BETTER HALF. Mr. Parselie; 31155 Johnstone. Alter which, WINDSOR CASTLE. Messrs. Stoyle, Thorne, James, Fent°, ; Mesdames Swanboroug,h, Rayn-, h im, Simpson, Ho t, Hughes, Weston, aad the Misses Liunniss. To oxiclude with SAM'S ARRIVAL. Mr. Belford; Miss Thorne. liIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DlT.—Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 4h. Om. To-Itionitow.-Morning, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m. T „,, e l jg trnf i t * ::'' '4674 'SUM LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1865. Although the doings of yesterday will be totally eclipsed by the excitement of to-day, still, compared to ordinary occasions, much took place to attract attention and create interest. The nomination-day is always a very unsatisfactory affair to all con cerned, and very little reliance can be placed upon the expression of opinion that then and there takes place. The City of London was the scene of anxious and eager excitement yesterday, but all the proceed ings went on in a peaceable manner considering the circumstances of the case. A rule was made that no one should speak for more than ten minutes, which was a very admirable one, as lengthy orations are quite out of place on such an oc casion, and only give rise to clamour and provoke irritation. Mr. 13rxToN, in proposing Baron ROTIISCIIILD, made a speech very much to the purpose in some respects, but in his endeavour to prop up the Ministry he went too far. When he came to notice the foreign policy of the Government, he was met by cries of ""Oh," and " Denmark and Prussia." Nothing new was said by any of the candidates, but some hits were made by both sides in the dis cussion, and an amusing by-play went about the " old, old story " of Reform, After this subject has been tabooed for so long a period by all parties of prominence there is now a regular scramble taking place as to who shall have the credit of inaugurating the matter. Mr. GOSCIIEN resolved to take up the affair with a high hand, and denounced the policy of the Conservatives. He said "Lateral Reform " was a quack experiment, and the homoeopathy of politics. To this stricture Mr. LYALL very properly retorted that the supposed Liberal party had not even achieved a measure of " homoeopathic reform or drawn themselves to the homcepathic reformers." " They obtained power under the pretence of carrying a Reform Bill. They brought in such a bill, but they never seriously attempted to pass it, and they never, at the same time, proposed to resign their offices." At Westminster great excitement prevailed, and the Conservative candidate appeared to be in great favour. Mr. MILL'S few remarks were much to the purpose, and Mr. SMITH'S speech was a very practical one, and he truly observed that men of business could be of great ser vice in Parliament. Captain GROSVENOR'S ob servations were to the point, especially when he retorted on those who called him a stripling, by saying " that it was well to work whilst the spirit was willing before the flesh was weak." If it be true, however, what he declared at the conclusion of his address, that the " determination of the Liberal party to move on_ had been the means of raising this country to its present high position," then we are in a very unsatisfactory condition at present, because they are decidedly standing still. Mr. ROEBUCK has been bestirring himself in Sheffield, and made a very striking speech. The hon. and learned member has been roused up to dis play his old animation by the unfair criticism and virulent opposition which he has met with, and his speech may, therefore, in some measure be re garded as a reply more than in the light of an election address. It refers more to the past than to the future; but it will be found to contain some startling truths, more profitable than pleasant for some parties to dwell upon. Recommenced by re ferring to the long years during which he had served his country with zeal and devotion, and he truly declared that it was unfitting and unseemly for him to be treated with insults now. This reproach was well merited, and nothing can possibly excuse or exculpate those who take advantage of the confu sion prevailing at election times to annoy and offend a tried servant of the public, and a valued agent in the cause of Reform. Mr. ROEBUCK told his hearers that such treatment as he had received was enough to disgust any one, and might well induce many men to retire altogether from public life, and to relinquish their endeavours to represent a constituency which tolerated such a course. " What has been my life,?" he exclaimed. " When I began public life liberality was not so rife as it is now." In enumerating his acts, the hon. and learned member showed what arduous tasks he had had to perform. Changes in those days were not wrought so easily and quietly as at pre sent. There was a stand-up fight for everything, and strong and uncompromising opposition as sailed those who attempted to inaugurate any necessary reforms. So it was with Mr. ROEBUCK, in the eventful years when he ap peared as the pioneer of progress in a community wedded to old-fashioned customs, and pre-deter mined not to admit of any improvement being made. The first struggle was the liberty of the Colonies, and he was hooted as an enemy to Eng land, although everything he then proposed has since been agreed to and become law. In the Crimean War the exertions of the hon. and learned member were very strenuous. " I turned out a Ministry, I damaged a policy, I re lieved the Army of England," he exclaimed in in dignation and reproach, and certainly he did great things in that epoch of shameful neglect and dis graceful indifference in high place and at headquarters ; and now, forsooth, he is to be treated as a man of very bad character, or rather without a character at all. The last notion is that he has been bribed by the Water CoMpany. In answer to this extravagant idea he said, " Geptlemen, I have been before the public for thirty-three years, and have been subjected to greater influences than the Water Company ; I have withstood all temptation, and here I am plain JoHN ARTHUR. ROEBUCK." One consolation re mains, however, for those so unjustly attacked and calumniated, and that is, that those who advocate grand new ideas are sure to make enemies, and as Mr. ROEBUCK truly declared he has been a forward man all his life, one in advance of public opinion ; and when this is the case, fools and wiseacres are always ready to hoot. As for his opinions about America time has more than justified Mr. ROEBUCK in all that he said, and in his masterly exposition of his views he pointed this out. When it was asserted that the Federals were against slavery, and the South in favour of it, he had said that if there was one thing that the Federals hated more than slavery, it was the black slaves. At this moment there are constant fights going on in Washington, because the poor black man desires to ride in an omnibus. Surely this is a sufficient reply, and a powerful vindication of the truth of the statement made by the hon. member, to the effect that, if things had gone on quietly, liberation would have taken place "carefully and wisely for the American and the negro." Mr. ROEBUCK has come forward manfully to speak for himself, and has confronted his slanderers with us straightforward statement and decided demea- His speech was worthy of himself, and his opportunity in accordance with what should be the words of an old and tried servant of the commu nity of time-honoured reputation,. seeking the suf frages of his countrymen on the eve of a great election. Affairs would be very different now if, in the dark days of intolerance and bigotry, men like Mr. ROEBUCK had not come forward as the champions of popular rights and the advocates of enlightenment and progress. The electors of Shef field should remember this when the time of trial comes, and show that they appreciate the merits, as much as they admire the abilities, of their old mem ber, who is, in some respects, a national represen tative, for he displays, to a great extent, that scorn of oppression and love of freedom which have been, from time immemorial, some of the most glorious characteristics of the English people, honoured and upheld wherever their race has wandered, from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same, nour. Foremost among the men wh9 have been the leading spirits or professions must be ranked the name of JOSIAII WEDGWOOD, and it is no great wonder that the county which is indebted to him for its most flourisning business should desire to do honour to his memory. Within the last year or two his career has been brought into prominent notice by. the eloquent address of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and by the interesting memoir of Miss METEYARD, and the particulars of his laborious and honourable career have been more widely known than they were previously. In Staffordshire, how ever, there was little to tell, for the services which WEDGWOOD had rendered there were so well appreciated that some years ago a public memorial of him was resolved upon. In 1859 a meeting was held under the presidency of the late Earl of CARLISLE, at which it was resolved that some sub stantial erection should commemorate the name of JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, and the whole population of Burslem and its vicinity took up the idea most heartily. In the metropolis and in other parts of the country the project was also received with favour, and the Public Libraries and Museums Act gave further encouragement to the scheine. The Wedg wood Institute, as it is called, is, in every respect, THE SUB, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1865 a worthy memorial of the gifted man whose name LATEST INTELLIGEbTOE it bears. It is intended to combine the several features of a museum, a school of art, and a public (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) library, and the good citizens of . Burslem have taken advantage of the Act of Parliament to esta blish the library out of the rates. Very large sub scriptions have been raised for the erection of the Institute, and the able and eloquent address de livered by Mr. G LADSTONE on the occasion of laying the first stone of the building must be fresh in the recollection of many of his hearers. The promoters of the scheme are now anxious to carry their work to completion, and it is with this view that the interesting Art Exhi bition now being held at Alton Towers was or ganised. The idea was first suggested during Mr. GLADSTONE'S visit to Burslem, and on the authorities at South Kensington being communi cated with, they expressed their approval of the scheme, and agreed to furnish specimens from their own museum. The Earl of SHREWSBURY kindly consented to permit the exhibition to take place in his beautiful domain of Alton Towers, and all the preliminaries being thus satisfactorily arranged, it did not take long to collect an art exhibition of very great and varied attractions. Specimens of the said WEDGWOOD ware, and modern examples of the art manufactures of our Midland Counties, occupy of course a prominent place. Many noblemen and gentlemen have willingly assisted to furnish the Exhibition, and one of the most interesting of the contributions is that of Mr. GLADSTONE, who has sent the dejeuner service in jasper ware, to which he alluded in his speech at Burslem. The right hon. gentleman naturally feels much interest in the success of the Exhibition, and in the successful completion of the linstitute to which he lent such valuable aid. The application of WEDGWOOD ware to ',ornamental purposes is shown in almost endless variety, and the beauty of some of the speci mens is the best testimony to the genius of the origi nator. The ceremony of the inauguration was presided over by Earl GRANVILLE, who, in a brief but appropriate address, commented on the general features of the day, and the fortunate cir cumstance that whatever the heat of political dis cussion Englishmen of all parties could meet on neutral ground with cordiality and good feeling. In a few hours, he remarked, they would many of them be abusing one another's politics with right good will, and he laughingly alluded to his horror on finding his noble host's private room full of Conservative electioneering papers, with a pamphlet, " Shall GLADSTONE Represent Oxford ? " lying on his table. But in all matters tending to improve the social state of the people, as well as on all grave occasions of national emergency, it was the happy privilege of Englishmen to lay aside all party-feeling and unite in action and in sympathy. Lord GRANVILLE was a very suitable president for such an occasion, not only on account of his association with all matters of art and education, but from his connection with Staffordshire, and the friendehip which the earlier members of his family enjoyed with the great founder of the Staffordshire potteries. Of him Lord GRANVILLE justly said that " WEDG WOOD was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable men of his day, one of those constructive geniuses of men of science, possessing a true sense of art, who could show to future manufacturers how to unite the grand and beautiful with the useful." The great importance of extend ing art education among the manufacturing classes is now becoming widely recognised. Our schools of art testify to its appreciation, and the opening of establishments like the South Kensington Museum has clearly shown how eager the better class of workmen are to avail thernselveS of the opportunity of refining their taste and enlarging their knowledge. The new feature of Industrial Exhibitions, too, has given unmistakeable evi dence of the taste and talent already possessed by many whose days are passed in the most laborious and mechanical occupations. Such powers turned into the right channel and trained by the experience of those who have gone before would soon raise the whole style of our art manufacture and art workmanship. When first the schools of design were projected the scheme was ridiculed in many quarters and pronounced to be visionary and extravagant, but the extraordinary progress made by our manufacturers in the last twenty or thirty years gives ample evidence that for once a theory has produced a practical result. No more fitting memorial to WED GWOOD could be chosen than a school of art, to smooth the way of the young genius . over the obstacles that he himself had to encounter, and we are glad to find that such a school forms part of the plan of the Institute. The very building will give encouragement to youthful enterprise, and stimulate that honourable ambition which impels men to succeed and to excel in whatever they un dertake. In this stir and tumult of contending parties, it is well to pause for a moment and con template the solid and lasting good effected by the life and labours of one man—a working man in the true sense of the word ; and while many a loud de claimer about the rights of the people has passed away, deservedly forgotten, the thriving trade of the Midland Counties and the beautiful combina tion of art and industy bear witness to the lasting achievements of honest JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. AMERICA. NEW YORK, JULY 1 (Noon). The Military Commission on the conspiracy trial have agreed upon their verdict, but the decision is not yet published. The Judge AdvQcate previously submitted an argument asserting that four of the prisoners were fellow-conspirators with Booth, and contended that the evidence showed that Davis, Sanders, Tucker, and others planned and assisted the assassination. A serious affray has taken place at Ports,„ mouth, Virginia, between the white and coloured people. Many persons were wounded. General Herron, commanding in Northern Louisiana, has forbidden the slaves to leave the plantations. The Governor of Kentucky has ad dressed the people, declaring slavery to be dead, and urging the adoption of the constitutional amend ment. General Hooker has superseded General Dix. The City of Dublin has arrived out. NEW YORK, JULY 1. Money easy. Gold, 140. Exchange on London, 1521 ; ditto Paris, 3.68/. Stocks very firm. New York Central, 94i ; Illinois, 1284 ; Erie, 79*. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 45c. Flour, wheat, and corn, declining. Provisions dull. Coffee, good inquiry. Sugar, very firm. Molasses, steady. Petroleum, quiet ; crude, 35i. Refined, 53 to 54f. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JULY Ist (Morning.) Advices received here from Matamoras to the 25th ult. confirm the defeat of Negrete and the Imperial occupation of Chihuahua. Juarez had fled. A Federal sentinel fired across the Rio Grande on two French officers. Baron Brian addressed a pri vate letter to General Brown, expressing contempt for the act. The latter, however, made no reply. COLOGNE EXHIBITION.—STEAM FIRE ENGINE TRIALS.—At the recent competitive trials of steam fire-engines, at the Cologne International Exhibition, there were exhibited four steam fire-engines, two being of Eng lish, one of American, and ono of German manufacture. Messrs. Merryweather and Sons, of London, have carried off the first prize of 500 thalers, placed in the hands of the exhibition committee by the Colonia Firo Insurance Com pany to be awarded to the makers of the best steam fire engine, as well as a diploma certifying that they have re ceived the first prize for the best steam fire-engine. Messrs. Merryweather's engine raised steam from cold water, and commenced working with 1001bs. pressure in 7 minutes 28 seconds from the time of lighting the fire, weighed one ton less, and was of considerable less cost than either of the other two competing engines. The German engine was considered out of the contest, as its jet failed to reach the water target efficiently. THE VIOLENT DEATH AT WOLVERHAMPTON.—An inquest was held yesterday at Wolverhampton on the body of the man who died in the streets of that town on Sunday morning under such suspicious circumstances, and after some evidence had been taken the proceedings were ad journed, to await the result of a post-mortem examination. The man suspected of having caused the death of the de ceased isatill in custody. EXTRAORDINARY BALLOON VOYAGE.—Mr. Joseph Simmons, aeronaut, of Hull, has furnished us with particulars of his late night balloon voyage from the West of England to the Midlands. Starting from Bath just before 7 p.m. in the Raven, with a strong wind blowing from the south-west, at 7 5 ho was near enough to the earth to ascertain the name of the place below him to be Malmes bury. At 710 he passed over Tetbury, and at 735 was heartily cheered by the inhabitants of Cheltenham. The wind increased in violence, and at 8 10 he heard the words "Come down here," exclaimed from Stratford-on-Avon. Soon afterwards he threw the grappling irons into a tree, from which they speedily broke loose. Presently he again threw out the grapnels, which clung to some hurdles, but the Raven, riding gaily with the wind, was not to be brought to earth in this manner, so getting rid of her bur den and shaking herself off she careered away into cloud land. When Mr. Simmons looked around ho found him self lying in a barley field, close to the river Avon, just below Warwick, at a distance of more than 100 miles from the place where ho had ascended and it was now 8 15 p.m. The aeronaut made the best of his way into the town by a slower but safer conveyance than his mile-a-minute ma chine, wondering whether he should ever recover it. As soon as possible he followed by railway in the direction taken by his balloon. On reaching Leicester he was in formed that it had been secured. The grappling-irons had luckily taken firm hold of a large elm tree on the farm of Ur. Jeffrey, at Stony Stanton, in that county, and his labonrere thus Oft Ted Yr. Simmoto the loss of £7OO. LITERATIIED, Miss Braddon's New Story, Only a Clod. Three Vols. By the Author of " I,ady Audley's Secret." John Maxwell and Co. Already—even before we have been able to snatch an opportunity for commenting upon the fact of its collective appearance—already Miss Braddon's new story, in three volumes, has run into its Fourth Edition ! If we have any surprise at all, however, in regard to this circumstance, it is certainly not that the number of the edition thus rapidly attained should be the Fourth, our only marvel being that it is not rather the Fourteenth. For, in proportion as the Authoress of " Lady Audley's Secret" feels her mastery over her own great natural powers and— by her facile exercise of them—extends more and more widely her already ample reputation, she evidences, as it appears to us, through each addi tional fiction coming from her hand, a keener and a subtler appreciation of the responsibilities devolv ing upon her as an Artist, as one of those rarer artists (potent beyond all others now-a-days) the prose-poets of our time, who are perpetually peopling anew with their creations the ever-halcyon fields of imaginative literature. Never yet has she written, what even the most blaA of readers would venture to call, a dull book. We could hardly fancy her, under any circumstances, writing ineffectively, much less could we imagine her, at any time, de generating into a bore. She began well, nay, for that matter, indeed, she must be said to have begun brilliantly—captivating her readers upon her' first appearance into a keen and instant attention— holding them spell-bound to the very end of the last chapter of her earliest work, a work which it may be remembered was issued as an anonymous publi cation. Beginning thus well, beginning thus bril liantly, she has ever since then been advancing from better to,tietter. Unconsciously to herself perchance, her motto has been more than simply Onward. It has been Excelsior. For, while advancing in her career as a novelist she has risen—risen into a higher and a purer atmosphere. Whatever there was of the morbid or of the terrible, of the unwholesome, we will even say, or of the deleterious (morally) in her writings, she has been ridding herself of, rapidly, appreciably, thoroughly. A delicate-complexioned, blonde-haired bigamist, an insidious and daring ad venturess, partaking somewhat in character of the combined natures of the Lamia, of Becky Sharp, and of Clytemnestra—a lovely, ghastly, odious, in sinuating creature like Lady Audley of Audley Court, with her grimly ghostly Secret hidden away for ever, as she supposes, down at the bottom of the old dry well, at the end of the lime-tree avenue— such an one, Miss Braddon no longer chooses as her archetype of a Heroine of Romance. Upon the character of Lady Audley, in truth, even her very next creation, meaning the character of Aurora Floyd, was recognisably an immense improvement. Aurora--in this wholly unlike her predecessor— was, for one thing, notoriously, more sinned against than sinning. Proverbially a second work is the crucial test of a new writer's capabilities. And it was a test that upon being applied to Miss Braddon, demonstrated, beyond all further chance of denial, her capacity and her originality ! Aurora Floyd, taking rank, still, to our thinking, as, among all her works, everything considered, her master piece. Not but what Miss Braddon's subsequent fictions have, in the construction of them, in the con ception of them, even for that matter in the detailed execution of them (reference being here made to the mere style or manner of the composition), evi denced a steady rise, advance, progression, or general development of the author's powers as a mistress of her art, in other words as an artistic novelist of genius, power, and originality. What ever may be her other gifts, she:has unquestionably and very signally, indeed, the most essential of all gifts for a Novelist. She is, above all things, essen tially and intensely, a Story-Teller. She has the gift of so relating a story, of so recounting the incidents of a fictitious narrative, of so tangling up the thread of it into the intricate web-work of a plot, of so un ravelling that thread afterwards without snapping even one of its gossamer filaments, that the reader's attention is held by her, from first to last, under a sort of glamour—breathless, eager, spell bound ! Following up her first radiant adventure into fable-land, as the author of " Lady Audley's Secret," and afterwards, and yet more effectually, as we have said, as the author of " Aurora Floyd," she since then has con firmed her popularity while very considerably rais ing her reputation by works of art as honourably conspicuous among the prose fictions of our times as " Eleanor's Victory," as " Henry Dunbar," as "The Doctor's Wife," and now, very recently in deed, by the completion of this wonderfully clever and admirably constructed narrative of ONLY A CLOD ! Singularly rapid though sheis as a writer, she betrays very few evidences of haste, hardly one of mere carelessness. Pouring out her bright imagin ings as a Novelist, in one three-volumed work after another, as swiftly, one might think, as pen could well write, to say nothing of the incidental task of elaborate correction and revision for the press—Miss Braddon, as a writer of fiction, shows exactly the reverse of any falling off. Step by step, she takes, to our thinking, higher and yet higher ground upon each new adventure of hers as a Popular Novelist. Of this we conceive " The Doctor's Wife" yielded a very striking attestation. And it is a fact yet more apparent, we believe, in the still later work now before us, this latest story completed by her pen of fascination, under the quaint but significant title •of " Only a Clod." Crime is here in no way the main-spring, so to speak, setting in motion the elaborate machinery of the plot. The motive power is discoverable, here, rather, it should be said, in one of those great coups of Fortune, of which we have before now occasionally heard in real life, but which, strange to tell, seem never, until now, to have been once thought of as suggestive of the ground-work of a fictitious narrative by any Novelist. The Hero of the B9ok—Only a Clod, in ,fact—is a Private Soldier, born of the soil, so to speak, in the Ranks of the Army, sprung from the Ranks of the People, one Francis Tredethlyn, who suddenly finds himself by a bequest in a will transformed into something like a millionaire ! that fact lies the whole charm—out of it grows the whole interest— of this enthralling narrative. Tredethlyn, who is at heart a fine fellow enough, one in whose fortunes the reader never once throughout the book ceases to feel an affectionate interest, is first introduced to us as a body-servant to Ensign Harcourt Lowther of H.M.'s 51st Light Infantry, a regi nient then quartered in the neighbourhood of Port Arthur at our antipodes. Here, whilst Harcourt Lowther is eating his heart out with vexation be cause of his own professional expatriation far away from the regions of civilised life—there comes to his man Tredethlyn the startling announcement that he, Francis, has suddenly inherited from an old Uncle of his in Cornwall a magnificent income of upwards of thirty thousand pounds a year. And thereupon it is that we have abruptly brought before us the first passion of the book ! Harcourt Lowther, with his serving man's letter still lying open before him, sits staring at the lines. " Then suddenly the blank stupor upon his face gave way to a look of despair. The ensign flung his head and arms upon the table, and burst • into tears. ' I have been eating my own heart in this place for nearly two years,' he sobbed, and not one ray of light—no, by the heaven above me ! not one— has dawned upon my life ; and a valet, a private soldier, the fellow who scours my rooms and blacks my boots, has thirty thousand a year left him !'" In the which outburst, there is recognisable, surely, by any one, even through this fragmentary eitract, one of those strangely poignant minglings together of tears and laughter. " There was something," adds the writer, "so terrible in this hysterical out burst of rage and envy, something so utterly piteous in this unmanly revolt against another man's good fortune, that Francis Tredethlyn forgot his own trouble before the aspect of his master's degradation. ' Don't, sir,' he cried, 'for God's sake, don't do that! All the riches in the world wouldn't pay a man for taking on like that. If you want money, you're welcome to borrow some of mine as soon as ever I get the power to lend it. There's more than I care to have, or could ever spend. You'll be welcome to what you want, Mr FRANCE. BOURSE, July 10.—The flatness and inactivity habitual to the commencement of the week have again predominated in all the markets to-day. Offers to sell have been the ruling feature of transac tions, and the result is a modification in the rates of nearly all the principal Securities. Threes, for the Account, have receded to 67f. 5c., and Mobilier shares to 653 f. 75c. Italian Five per Cents. remain without change at 64f. 75c. The market has im proved towards the close, and left off as follows :- 41 per Cents 96 Ditto Threes 66 75 Do. end month — New Mexican 3 per Cents. 67 20 Do. Bonds 313 75 Do. end month 67 15 Russian — Credit Mobilier ... 662 50 Austrian Do. end month 658 75 Spanish Threes ... Bank Shares 3568 75 Home Debt Credit Fonder 1240 I Deferred Italian Loan 64 80 I Roman Do. end month 64 75 RAILV VATS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern 1032 50 ... 1035 Lyons and Mediterranean B4O 840 Southern 555 552 50 Western 532 50 ~. 532 50 Eastern 516 25 ... 515 Sardinian , 260 ... 260 Austrian Lombard 475 476 25 North of Spain l5l ... 150 Saragossa 307 50 ... 311 25 Ditto to Barcelona The Last Nile Discovery, --- -e--- TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Sir,—Having during the last few days met with many persons who have said that they are unable to form a clear conception of the relations of the two vast equatorial African lakes--the Victoria of Speke and the Albert of Baker—to each other and to the Nile, I venture to offer the following brief explana tion. Let the inquirer consult the map contained in Speke's book, and he will see at a glance how the discovery of Baker has substantially confirmed the views of his distinguished precursor. Speke places the Luta Nzig6 (now the Albert) on his map as a great sheet of water of which he had heard, and into which the Nile, from the point where he was obliged to quit it, descended by rapids, and then reissued a little to the north to flow to Gondo koro. So strongly did he believe, from the descrip tion of the natives, that such would be found to be the case that he incited his friend Baker to endea vour to ascertain the facts. Now, in every essential point the researches of Baker have confirmed the accuracy of the views of Speke as regards the Luta Nzige ; for the Nile, leaving its first gfeat and lofty reservoir, the Vic toria, at a height of 3,740 feet above the sea, is found to descend 1,670 feet into the deep rock basin of the Luta Nzige, or Albert Nyanza, which is placed by Baker at the elevation of 2,070 feet. Thence the stream flows downwards and northwards to Gondokoro, from which place to Khartum, where it is joined by the Blue or Abyssinian Nile, it becomes, as is now well known, a perfectly navi gable stream. The representations of ancient geographers, as seen on old maps, of two streams issuing from two separate and unconnected lakes, these streams unit ing further north to form the Nile, is proved to be erroneous ; since we now know that, whether in the form of lake or river, the White Nile consists of one continuous system, the waters of which descend in the first instance from a higher into a lower lake, land thence into the main stream, which in its course to Gondokoro and Khartum is fed by many other raffluents. In short, the water system by which these lakes of the Nile are first connected and then feed the main stream, is analogousto the connection between the North American lakes and the issue of their waters into the St. Lawrence.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, RODERICK I. MURCHISON. 16, Belgrave-square, July 10. AN INFAMOUS DOCTRINE !—From Mr. John Stuart Mill's work on " Liberty," p. 92 :—" I believe that other ethics than any which can be evolve.' from exclusively Christian sources must exist side by side with Christian ethics to produce the moral regeneration of the world." THE PARLIAMENTARY RETURN of the INSURANCE DUTY paid in 1864 has just been published, and is the first return embodying the differential rates on stock (Is. 6d. per cent.), and on Buildings and Furniture (3s. per cent.), the reduction of the duty on stock having com menced at Midsummer, 1864. For the purpose of compar ing the business of each company with that of 1863, we havo been obliged to make up an account for 1864, as though the duty had remained unaltered. We thus get a measure of the progress of each company, and the result is as follows : INCREASES. Livorpool and London andGlobe,and Leeds and Yorkshire £ (amalgamated) — T..26,729 Royal _16,097 North British and Mercantile ... 7,446 Queen... ... ... 7,014 London & Lancashire 6,485 Alliance and Hants, Sussex and Dorset (amalgamated) 5,648 Imperial ~, 3,919 Northern 2,617 Commercial Union ... 2,552 County ... 2,070 European and Mercan tile Union. (amalga mated) 2,062 Norwich Union ... 1,977 London ... 1,897 Scottish Provincial 1,530 Scottish Union ... 1,472 Law ... ... 1,390 Provincial ... 1,245 Caledonian 1,193 General ... ... 1,077 Scottish National ... 1,055 Law Union ... ... 1,047 Guardian ... ... 968 Hercules ... ... 935 Sun „. ... 930 Royal Exchange ... 849 Atlas ... 641 Yorkshire „, • „ 556 Manchester ... 549 Kent 474 Lancashire ... 384 Notts and Derby 246 Midland Counties ... 244 Prince 176 Essex and Suffolk 148 District ... ... 139 Salop ... ... 115 Emperor ... ... 112 Royal Farmers 106 Norwich Equitable ... 95 Church of England ... 81 Preserver ... . 61 Volunteer Service and General 60 Town and County 57 Friend-in-Need ... 42 Netherlands ... 35 Westminster 20 Oldham ... 10 DECREASES. Phoenix 964 Union ... 823 West of England ... 716 Hand-in-Hand 587 Irish National 265 Ultrajectum 93 Patriotic 56 Birmingham ... 22 Shropshire and North Wales ... 5 Stewarton, Dunlop, and Fenwick E. Lowther.' " There, in effect, in that one little she has, by the simple fact of the completion of her incident, lies, perdu, the key to the whole mystery new work, whetted our appetite for its immediate of the tale, the solution of the whole problem of successor, rendering us eager for the ending in the plot, the clue through all the mazes of its wind- due course of the serial story with which her inde ing labyrinth. There, in effect, it may be grasped fatigable hand is now adorning one of the Messrs. —there, in that one little incident between Man and Maxwell and Company's popular periodicals. Master ! Parting as they do, shortly afterwards, in Tasmania, the two men, later on, meet again in Belgravia, no longer as master and man, but, so cially, ostensibly, to all intents and purposes, as equals and companions. Turning from the plot of the story, however, to the mere construction of it, to the mere manner of its composition, it strikes us, here and there, as nothing less than oddly incon gruous that the symbolism of the author is borrowed, it almost seems to us with a sort of wilful perver sity, from the artificial instead of from the natural, of which latter, the artificial is, of course, but the very faintest of shadows, of echoes, of imitations, of adumbrations. Here, however, is a casual exem plar of what we are now more immediately refer ring to, as a sort of wilful perversity on the part of Miss Braddon in her choice of imageries. In her seventh chapter she has found occasion to change the scene of her narrative from the black moorlands of Cornwall to the wooded heights about the Star and Garter at Richmond— and, thereupon, how in the name of fortune does she realise to us the startling effect of the transforma tion ? Why, by likening it to the pushing away of some battered front scene doing duty for the blasted heath near Forres, in order " to reveal a glimpse of fairyland fresh from the pencil of Mr. Beverley !" Nay, upon the very page opposite to this astounding eulogium of Nature as a something comparable to the scene-painting of Mr. Beverley —we find our authoress depicting in vivid colours the blooming parterres of the garden surrounding Mr. Hillary's mansion on the margin of the Thames near Richmond—how ? By telling us that " banks of parti-coloured blossoms blazed in the sunshine on the lawn tier above tier, like—" what ?—" the bonnets on the grand stand at Ascot on a cup day !" Yet the lady who thus writes has herself a very keen sense, indeed, of the ludicrous, of the savoir faire, of the savoir parler, of that nameless something in the proprieties of description that our neighbours subtly define (by the indefinable) as the je-ne-sais quoi—Miss Braddon, we say, has all this as fully as any fair writer who ever dipped pen into standish without once hazarding the risk of her dwindling down into a mere bas bleue ! Her sketches of character, for example, are often delightfully humorous. In stance, this, even her purely incidental mention of the complete subordination to his wife of Jona than Dryscroll, the farm bailiff of that dead and gone old hunx Oliver Tredethlyn—" If she told him to do anything, he did it. If she told him to think anything, he thought it—or would have done so, if the mental exercise had not been gene rally beyond the scope of his faculties." And yet we are told, that " that worthy woman was most punctilious in respect to her liege lord and husband, whom she always spoke of as ' the master.' Jona than obeyed and trembled, but the sceptre which his wife wielded was an invisible one, and the chains that bound her slave were as impal pable as if they had been fashioned of cobwebs." A capital touch, too, is that which occurs where— speaking of Julia Desmond's father, Patrick Macna mara Ryan O'Brien Desmond—our authoress remarks upon some of his lifelong dreams as among the fond delusions surviving unchanged and changeless to the last "in the eternal boyhood of an Irishman's nature !" And still further, where, in reference to the old Colonel's demise, we find it recorded of him that= " To Mr. Hilary the old man confided his penni less daughter. He had nothing to leave her but a set of old-fashioned garnet ornaments which had belonged to her mother, and to which he fondly alluded as the famly jools ;' he had nothing to leave her except this antique trumpery and his blessing; but he confided her to his largest cre ditors, having a vague impression that the largeness of the debt and the heavy interest he would have given upon all the money lent him by his friend, had he ever lived to return the principal, laid Mr. Hillary under a kind of obligation." Again where Francis is in search of his cousin Susan—what, in their way, can be droller, as touches of the ridiculous, than those glimpses of the Drury Lane lodgings, with (outside, on the window sill) " some scarecrow geraniums, which seemed as if they had been put upon a short allow ance of mould," and (inside, under foot) " the scrimped morsel of worn carpet, which only made an oasis of Kidderminster in a desert of boards?" We still cherish a laughing reniembrance of a certain Southampton waiter's estimate of his col laborateur in the manipulation of the corkscrew and the table napkin, in one of the chapters of " Henry Dunbar." Yet is he' as nothing in the way of grave-featured comicality, to the sketch here given of the Drury Lane Door-keeper when " haggitated his wittles," as Buckstone used to say, years ago, in an old forgotten farce! " That gentleman [the doorkeeper]" saith Miss Braddon, " was in the midst of a very greasy dinner and in the bosom of his family when Mr. Tredethlyn in truded on him, and was at first inclined to resent the interruption. I don't carry 249 addresses in my blessed head,' he remarked, in an injured tone, which our company at the beginning of this sea son was over 249 ; and I don't care to be hunted upon Sundays, when I'm eating of my dinner, for a pack of ballet-girls. I don't get paid for that when I take my salary. If any young swell wants to find out one of our ladies' address, to leave 'em a bokay, or to take a ticket for their benefit or such-like, I should think they could find it out of a week-day, and not come chivying of a man over his Sunday wittles.' " When at last Francis Tredethlyn comes upon his cousin's sister-lodger in the poor, sordid sky-parlour already mentioned, Miss Willoughby's professional lamentations over her domestic afflictions prove to be rather a tax upon our gravity if only by reason of the preposterous pathos of her ejaculatory • " Oh, sir ! nobody that hasn't gone through it can tell the pain of having to change your widow's-weeds for white muslin and spangles, and put away your baby from your breast to go and slap cheesemonger's shops into furnished lodgings with a harlequin's wand !" It was surely by a sort of mesmeric foreknowledge of the idiocyncracy of Mr. Sothern's Brother Sam that Miss Braddon—in another part of this most amusing delineation of modern life in London, fast life and slow, the soi disant great world and its foil the demi-monde—talking of Francis Tredethlyn's progress in the ways of the world (the denti, that is, not the great, so-called) under the insidious tuition of Harcourt Lowther, it was by some such fore knowledge, we say, that our authoress came to remark in a delightful tone of persiflage—" Mephistopheles shrugged his shoulders in mild deprecation of his pupil's impertinence. Faust was positively be ginning to acquire the tone of good society. He was learning to be insolent." As for the continuous and cumulative interest of the plot, the diversity and originality of the characters, and the linked-sequence, so to speak, of the incidents of the tale—enchaining the reader's attention from its commencement to its conclusion—" Only a Clod" may take rank with the very best and brightest effu sions of its author's unquestionable genius as a No velist. As a story it is often as enthralling as "Lady Audley's Secret," while its heroine, though more fri volous than "Aurora Floyd," is frequently (but more particularly towards the close of the work) more charming even than Aurora as an individual delinea tion. The central form in the grouping of this last picture from the artistic hand of Miss Braddon shines agreeably. in contrast to the comely but ter rible Murderer (first of all) and Impersonator (afterwards) of " Henry Dunbar"— the central figure on the canvass, here, in this masterpiece of "Only a Clod" being that true-hearted„ manly, handsome, wealthy, born-gefitleman, Francis Tre dethlyn. For thus recounting' his history, we have reason, even in our capacity as somewhat fastidi ous readers of. romance, to express here our per sonal obligations to Miss Braddon, obligations beyond even those am akened by her earlier nar ratives of "The Doctor's Wife," and "Eleanor's Victory." More than ever she has made her name thrice-welcome to us upon the title-page of a three-volumed fiction. More than ever Village Bells, Lady Gwendoline, and other Poems. By John Brent, jun., F.S.A., author of " The Battle Cross." Hamilton and Adams. These " Village Bells" have much of the ring of true poetry about them. There are lines in the volume which have even reminded us more than once of Longfellow and our own. Poet-Laureate. The love tale of Esmond and Elsie is singularly interesting, and winds up, as far as they are con cerned, very happily. The following tomes to us almost as an echo from the Psalm of Life : " Gentle, humble, all who tremble While fierce passions round them jar, Shall hear whispers that resemble Angel voices from afar." " Lady Gwendoline" is a charming little romance in verse. With the tales and poetry which hang about and cleave to old castles, Mr. Brent, who is a well known antiquarian, is curiously familiar; but his antiquarianism is by no means of the " Dry-as-dust" class. His associations and reminiscences are as fresh and umbrageous as the ivy on some of our old castle walls. We have pleasure in offering thus to " Village Bells" our hearty commendations. 4 /fir Onnit Uri I 1 Tr. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 10. The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left the Castle to-day, at five minutes past four oclock for Osborne. The suite consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Emma Lascelles, the Hon. Horatio Stopford, Col. the Hon. Sir Chas. Phipps, Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Col. the lion. A. Hardinge, Mr. Buff, and Mr. Sahl. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, took leave of her Majesty this morning, and returned to London, attended by the Countess De Grey and Major Grey. Their Royal Highnesses attended Divine service yesterday afternoon at St. George's Chapel. The Bishop of Worcester had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yes terday. Departure of Her Majesty for Osborne. Yesterday afternoon, shortly after four o'clock, her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Princesses Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, attended by Major-- Gen. Hood, Col. Hardinge, Col. the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps, Viscountess Jocelyn, &c., left Windsor Castle for Osborne. Col. Sir T. M. Biddulph, the Master of the Queen's Household, proceeded to Osborne in the morning. Her Majesty, the royal family, and suite drove in -several carriages by way of Castle-hill and High street, which were lined by the inhabitants and visitors, to the Windsor Station of the Great Western Railway, where a special train of seven carriages, including three saloons, had been pro vided by the authorities of the London and South- Western Railway. The platform on both sides of th 6 Queen's waiting-room was crowded. The royal party at once proceeded to the saloons and very graciously returned the loyal salutes of those present. The special left Windsor at 4.10 p.m., and proceeded along the narrow gauge rails of the Great Western line by way of Slough and Reading to Basingstoke, which was made about 5.25 p.m. Here the engine was changed, and the care of the royal train transferred to the traffic superintendent of the London and South-Western Railway, by which line the special travelled on its way to Winchester, which it reached at 6 o'clock, and Gosport at 6.33 p.m. The train was run in the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, where her Majesty and the royal family were met by the chief military and naval officers of the port. The royal party immediately embarked on board her Majesty's yacht and steamed across to Osborne, where the Queen arrived in the course of the evening. Fier Maj esty will remain about a month at Osborne, and, should the weather permit, will then not unlikely embark for the Isle of Wight for Germany. This, however, is as yet uncertain. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will probably visit her Majesty on Thurs day at Osborne. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, returned to Marlborough-house yesterday morning from visiting the Queen at Windsor Castle. The Countess de Grey and Major Grey were in attendance. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess de Grey and Major Grey, went to the horse show air the Agricultural Hall, Islington. In the evening their Royal Highnesses went to the Italian Opera, Covent-garden. The Countess de Grey has succeeded the Countess of Macclesfield as Lady in Waiting to the Princess of Wales. 0 --....., THE VISIT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY TO THE CON- TlNENT.—Preparations have already been made at the palace in Brussels for the accommodation of the Queen and royal family during their stay next month, and it is stated that the visit will be paid sooner than was expected, on account of the present condition of the King of the Bel gians. It is anticipated at Berlin that her Majesty will have an interview with the King and Queen of Prussia before leaving Germany. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Royal Italian Opera last night, attended by the Countess de Grey and Major Grey. In the royal box were also the Prince of Teck, the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of Dunmore, and the Countess of Macclesfield. The Queen of the Netherlands honoured Lady Molesworth with her company at dinner yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also honoured her ladyship with his company. Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weiraar„the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Duchess of Manchester, the Duchess San Arpino, the Marchioness of Ely, the Belgian Minister, the Countess Cowley, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and Dr. Ruin were invited to meet the illustrious guests. The Count Randwjk and Baroness Pabst, in waiting on the Queen of the Netherlands, and Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, in waiting on the Duke of Cambridge, were also present. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will receive a distinguished party this evening at Stafford House, St. James's. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland leave their residence in St. James's-square in a few days for their seat, Battle Abbey, Sussex. , The Earl Cathcart has arrived at Maurigy's .4 Hotel from Thornton-le-Street, Yorkshire. Viscount Palmerston has left Cambridge House for Tiverton, on an electioneering visit to his old consti tuents. Lord and Lady Londesborough leave town to-day for their seat near Scarborough, where they will shortly receiVe a succession of friends to witness a grand muster of the local volunteer rifle corps, which extends over seve ral days. Lord Brougham left his residence in Grafton street on Thursday last for Brougham Hall. Mr. Williato Brougham and family left on Saturday to join the noble and learned lord at his seat in the north. Mr. and Lady Susan Milbank have left Eaton place for Gogmagog, the Duke of Leeds's seat in Cam bridgeshire. WINDSOR CASTLE.—The Vandyck Room, one of the State apartments of Windsor Castle, is at the present moment being redecorated. This magnificent chain ber, which is situated on the north side of the palace, arid once the ball-room of the Castle, and when her Majesty'. the Empress of the French was a visitor to the Queen some few years back, it was fitted up as a drawing-roor a • The old crimson satin drapery, which was ornamente d , with a star and garter, and the motto, " Qui separabit; dated 1783, is being removed from the walls which it haft covered probably some 70 years, while fresh crimson satin is being substituted. The latter is decorated with the royal arms. Most of the other rooms on the north side 0' the Castle have been redecorated within the last ten ° V twelve years. mo A very, has preva at 2j 3 p( Teleg ra of the rol and Co. but its bu not thoug country. There Bank of dria. The disi Investinen Thursday The prc Estates C( and near ] advances, descriptioi a very pro men hold world. 1 half the a £2O each. At the ] Reuter's t 67f. 10c. 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