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OtTSES.--blessrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN , ' uOur ban, and Country. RESIDENCES to LET or SELL. Paniculara upon , application forwarded for two stamps, upon stating requirements and rent Al. Offices, 2, Conduit street, Regent-street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. UTII KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's-Date, Cornwall, Princes and Beaufort gardens, E lvaston- place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and T urloe Squares, Boltons, itt. Messrs TOPLIS and ROBE itTS have RESIDENCES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and South K. naington, facing the Museum. TEETH. —Mr. DAY (for many years principal ass i s tant to Mr. Eske:l. surgeon-dentst, of 8, Gros venor-street, W.) may be consul: ed on all cases of Dental de fect or deficiency. He has made arrangeme nts for the use of Mr. Eskell s Patents, by 'a hick rat ans exquisitely enamelled AILTIFICIAL TEETH of the utmost durability are construnted (in a few hours when necessary), and are worn upon tender gums or roots of teeth or by neryou; persons for any length `Y ms pain, unpieasantness, or discomtort 'the Uyention applied to teeth of ordinary or inferior constructicn. PAINFUL TEETH OR DISE 3 . sED sTuars ExTRxeTED \V Ie II OUT rArst. No chloroform! and perfectly safe. OSTEO-rLA.ST IC ENA3IEL, the exact colour of the natural teeth, used in all eases of stopping. Discoloured teeth t restored,_locse teeth fastened, and all operations on the mos approved p lt rinciples. Terms strictly moderate. Consuations free. 201, REGENT -STREET (3 doors from the Polytechnic). THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET.- Sole Lessee and ManEger, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT: Mr. Howe, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr. Weathersby, &C. Mesdames Cavendish. Wright, Lovell, &:c. After which. THE FAVOU KITE OF FOR ['UN E : Messrs. Sothern, Buckitone, Chippendal e, Rogers, ,tc.; Mesdames Chippendale, 'Saville, Moore , Fitzwi lliam, Lind le LAll y B. ~te. Concluding . with ID: WOLF AND THE I Messrs. Chippendale, Farren , Gordon, ,tc. ; Mesdames Hill, M right, Loveli, etc. Commence at Seven. ROYAL I,YCELTINI THEATRE._ Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, SIM PSON AND CO. Mr. Emery; Miss Elsworthy. After which, THE CORSICAN BR.OTHERS. Pechter; Messrs . Jordan, lEmary, Vezin, Wid•ticomh, Fitz • patrick, tiorsman, r•vans.Moreland, ; Miss Layrntt, Mrs. Ternan, Mrs. Horsman, Miss Hatch, Miss DUVeriley, and Miss Henrade. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Yininir. THIS. EVENING, A LUCKY HIT. Messrs. J. G. Shore, H. Mellon. and Mi,:s K. Rodgers. After which, at Eight, HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Charles Kean; Queen Katherine, Mrs. Charles Kean. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7 precisely (16th time), anew Drame• Comedy, in Four Acts, entitled THE FAST FAMILY: Messrs. J. L. Took, Paul Bedford, R Phillips. Ashley. Eburne ; Mrs. A bred Mellon (Miss Woolgar), Miss 11. Sinarn Miss Furtado, Miss Smith (her 16th appearance), Miss Sea man, Miss Godsall, and Mrs. H. Lewis. To conclude with CRYING JENNY AND L JOHNNY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, W. H. EburneA ; Mrs. UGHING A. Mellon and Miss Furtado. ROYAL STRAND TIIEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, A LEXINA ; or, True unto Death. Messrs. Farcelle, Thorne, rrioe ; Misses Swan borough and Simpson. After which will be p roduced a grand Easter Burlesque, PARIS ; or. Vive Leaaptere : Mes-re. Stoyle, 'I horne,JameN Mesdames A. Swivaborougb, Raynham, Simpson, Johnstone, Ranoe, and Holt. To conclude with JA K'S DELIGHT. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.- Under the Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, Watts Phillips' powerful Drama of TEE POOR STROLLERS. Concluding with 46th night of IXION. Misses L. Will more, Hudspeth, F. Gwynne, Harland, Tracey ; Messrs. Bel more and Barsby. Commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. NYE CUART, THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER. — G. B. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaug,ht terrace, Edgware-road, is specially appointed AGEN I.' to deliver the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at the earliest poFsible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver copies in Town. the Suburbs, and in many parts of the Country at a comparatively early hour the same orening, say 44) miles by 9 o'clock. THE ~S UN" NEWSPAPER._ G. R. GLENIE delivers tl.e LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40 ; Kilburn, 8; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30 ; Uxbridge, 0.20 ; Walford, 8.45. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." J. HOLMES begs to inform his friends, and the pubic generally. that he supplies the . 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Sole Agent for the celebrat"d Ope. a, Race, and Field Glasses made by Volvtl.nder, Vienna. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS g, 9h. 16m.—Afternoon, 9h. 50m, To-Monnow.-Ilorning, 10h. 20m.—Afternoon, 10h. 51m. ................ Ow determination to lose no chance that may present itself. The Prince SOLMS, general in the Austrian army, has arrived unexpectedly at Hanover, and it is thought that the purport of his journey is to open " negotiations " with the Government of Hanover respecting the passage of the Austrian forces through the Hanoverian territory. We learn also that the Austrian Colonel WIMPFEP. has gone to Cassel for motion a similar purpo se, that Austrian troops may be conv eyed through Hesse-Cassel. The to be proposed at the Federal Diet by the representatives of the Middle States is con sidered to be favourable' . to Austria, and, indeed, the prospect of things both at home and abroad tends in that direction. One of the most noticeable signs of the war now so imminent is the great dis- like towards Herr VON BISMARCK which has been manifested by the Prussians, and which seems but to increase instead of diminishing as time goes on, and threatens to bring about hostilities in a summary form. Besides this the sympathies of the German States are quite against the present policy of Herr BISMARCK, and hence , almost all these will side with Austria in the approaching struggle if they possibly can. Seldom in the history of nations has there been a more remarkable instance of retribution than this dilemma in which Prussia is now placed through the unscrupulous selfishness of her rulers, and also through the selfishness of her people in urging on the prosecution of the war against Denmark. It is very convenient, no doubt, to give this view of the question the go-bye ; but truth cannot be hid den, and facts are stubborn things. Nothing can obliterate the disgraceful episode of the Dano- German war from the minds of those who studied the question at the time, and neither can any one, however prejudiced now, misunder stand the case when its fatal consequences are so plainly put before them. If Prussia be greatly despoiled of her possessions, and if innumerable losses are entailed upon Germany, throwing her back in her course of prosperity to an extent that This generation will not see retrieved, still there will be no other course to which the historian can point as the immediate agency of the mischief but the unlawful desire of aggrandisement of territory. This feeling, carried to an inordi nate extent by the two great German Powers, was fostered and encouraged by the fatal indiffe rence of this country, and the results we all have seen and deplored two years ago in the losses of Denmark. Those were the immediate results, these are the subsequent ones which to-day we are wit nessing, and which to-morrow may bring forth war. While Prussia, therefore, desires peace, we see Italy intent on war. It rests with Austria in this emergency to maintain a bold front, and yet to show that she is wise as well as brave. No greater mistake could be made than that she committed in 1859, but it is to be hoped that she will be wiser now. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. There is no real news in the Paris papers to-day respecting the position of affairs in regard to Ger many ; and, indeed, there is a scarcity of the usual contradictory and alarming reports. A Vienna journal (Le Debat) which is ready to support every thing said and done by Austria will have it that there is not to be a Congress. No Power will interfere, it argues, to attempt to arrest Austria in her just course, and " all news about a Congress is false, under whatever mask it may be inculcated." According to the Frenidenblatt, of Vienna, a post ponement of hostilities would be very prejudicial to Austria, since, without allowing the hope of the maintenance of peace, it would increase the expenses and anniversaries of war." This journal, therefore, advises Austria to maintain the defensive in regard to Italy, and to assume an energetic, offensive atti tude relative to Prussia. So much for the pacific aspirations of the Austrian official organs. According to a private despatch from Bucharest, Prince Charles of Hohenzollern was to arrive in that capital to-day. On the Prince's arrival at Touruau Severin, the first Roumainicity, in an Aus trian steamer, he was challenged by a Wallachian sentinel, who took him before the Prefect, to whom he said, " I am Prince Charles of Hohenzollern, whom the people of Roumania have chosen to rule over them, and I accede to their wishes." The population of Tournau Severin assembled and cheered the Prince enthusiastically. There were shocks of earthquake in several parts of France on Saturday. At Marseilles the shock took place at nine o'clock in the morning, and was sensibly felt. The windows were shaken as if by a violent wind, and the furniture was seen to oscil late. The shook lasted from four to five seconds, and was felt at the same instant in several parts of the city throughout the whole extent of it from north to south. At Nice there were two violent manifestations of the earthquake, but they took place at 20 minutes past four in the morning. The direction of the earthquake was from east to west. Some of the French scientific men are of opinion that this phenomenon has some connection with the volcanic eruptions which recently took place near Santorin in the Archipelago. At Dragaignan the earthquake was felt at eight o'clock in the morning. The following is the result of the racing at the steeplechases of La Marche yesterday. Grand Annual Military Steeplechase, gentlemen riders, 5,000 f. Magenta, 1 ; Grabuge, 2 ; The Africain, 3. Amount of prize, 6,000 f. ; 500 f. to the second. Weight 1401 b. Prix du Parc (Selling Race) I,ooof. for all horses. 11 horses ran. Pronostic, 1 ; Farin tosh, 2 ; Joe Maley, 3. The winner was claimed for 4,725 f. Prix de Consolation (Free Handicap), 1,500 f. added to 100 f. entrance. Mario 1 ; Sorciere, 2 ; Tambour de Basque, 3. Mario won easily :by a length. The pleasure of the race was much diminished by' a dispute about the Africain into which I will not enter, as there is to be an inquiry into the sub ject. The Africain, which ran for the first time after a long absence, was the favourite at first, and the betting was all in his favour. It was soon evi dent that he was not up to his work. The disap pointed backers were very angry with his rider, M. Riddell, who replied to their taunts with a blow, and a scene of great violence and confusion ensued. The backers in a body rushed upon him, and had it not been for the interference of M. Riddell's brother, and several leading and respectable sporting gen tlemen, there might have been bloodshed. As it was, the scene was quite unprecedented at a race in France, where in general matters proceed very amiably and smoothly. M. Chouy, a gentleman of property, residing at Estenencuby, in the Lower Pyrenees, has just died at the age of 107 years. The Journal des Debats contradicts the report that a French army of observation was about to be formed near the French frontier at Cannes, An tibes, Nice, and Menton. The movements of troops in that direction are merely those which take place every year at this period, and arise from insignifi cant changes in some of the troops quartered in different garrisons. At the Tribunal at Toulouse yesterday, the case for the prosecution against Aspe, the innkeeper, charged with the murder and mutilation of Marie Guillonet, was concluded. M. Manau, the counsel for the prisoner, having addressed the Court in his favour, the Attorney-General was heard in reply. He contended that the evidence had completely proved the prisoner's guilt. It was expected that the jury would give their verdict to-day. The agents of the municipal authorities in Paris, St. Cloud, and the localities in the neighbourhood, have commenced the work of making a new census of the the p o p u p l o a p t o l n a t o i o f n h e I t a is p t a a l l r ewa ill r eascertainedney tw ot millions. In 1800 the population of Paris was 547,000 inhabitants, 900,000 under the Restoration, about a million in the time of Louis Philippe, and 1,200,000 in 1856. In 1861, after the annexation of some neighbouring localities to the capital, the number of inhabitants was estimated to be 1,696,140. On Sunday there was a very interesting fete at Nanterre, near Paris—the crowning of the Rosiere. A crown of white roses is placed on the head of that young girl who during the year has the most dis tinguished herself for virtue and general good con duct, and a sum of money is given to her as a mar riage portion. Fifty young girls, clothed in white, kneel in the church, and, to the sound of sacred music, the crown of white roses was placed by Madame Mastre, a sister of charity, on the head of Mademoiselle Joseph Guerbois, the rosiere of the present year. It was in the reign of Clovis, in 511, that this fete of virtue was instituted. The church last Sunday wat redolent of flowers, incense, and the light of wax tapers, and crowded with an ad -1 miring congregation. After an appropriate dis i course, under a velvet dais, did this young girl re ceive this crown, the reward of virtue and good ness. The ceremony was sufficiently affecting to draw tears from many eyes, and to excite sympathy from every heart. ExcußsioN OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF TILE FRENCH.—The Journal de la illeurthe says : " Their Majesties, wh . o aro to bo accompanied by the Prince Imperial, will leave Paris on Saturday, July 14, for the camp of Chalons, where they will pass the night. On Sunday morning they will reach Bar-le-Due, and arrfre at Nancy about three in the afternoon. In the evening there will be official receptions, and on the 16th and 17th grand fetes in commemoration of the union of Lorraine to France. On the evening of the day last named, being a Tuesday, their Majesties will take their departure for Luneville, whence they will visit several points of the country round during three days, arriving at Strasburg on Saturday, the 21st, and after staying there the Sunday and Monday, will resume their tour the morning after." MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLES' POSTHUMOUS DRAMA. —Mr. R. B. Knowles, the famous dramatist's son, writes to a contemporary about this play you per mit me to say, with regard to the drama produced to-night at the Strand Theatre as a "posthumous play" of the late Mr. Sheridan Knowles, that it is simply the dialogue of a ballad opera which my father wrote many years ago for Messrs. Cramer, Addison, and Beale, with the songs omitted. it is thus not all to be judged by the same stan dard as the dramatic works by which he won his reputa tion, nor is its success to be regarded by modern playgoers as a sample of his power to awaken the sympathies of an audience. Pray let me add that I say this without the slightest wish to disparage the most meritorious efforts of the management and company of the Strand Theatre to render interesting a work which was put upon the stage with but half the attraction intended by its author. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT TO A LADY.—A very singular accident happened on the Preston-road on Thurs day afternoon to a young lady residing is the western part of Brighton. She was taking horse exercise with others, riding behind the rest of her companions, when a young man rushed from the side of the road towards her, and commenced tearing away the skirt of her riding habit. A gentleman on horseback, thinking that some insult was being offered, rode towards the young lady to give her his protection, when it was discovered that her habit was on fire. It was soon e xtin g uished, but not before the hands of the i n n o w w e n r . e much c l h vas burnt. attributed T at l origin of m the eto accidentthe time the skirt having ca u g ht the hot ashes of an ignited ci g ar is young not in k con jecture is that the skir t caught fire from a p umber s por- f which, we are informed , was on the fusee, carelessly th rown awa y ; but the most probablel e o table grate, used f or meltin g lead in routetheopeanesaeidr, by y n the p jury. lady, who, we are pleased to le arn, esca p ed any serious in- it 7 Poik z* • LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1866. -411.---- The proposed Congress still engages attention, and the arrangements are progressing rapidly, if not altogether satisfactory. The Patrie of yesterday evening states that Mr. LAYARD had an interview with M. DRot;v:v DE L'ITUYS, and was afterwards received by the EMPEROR. This is a significant announcement, and shows that our Government are in earnest in their efforts to promote the Congress. Of course, however, it will not be of any avail for the neutral Powers to take trouble unless the par ties most interested in the affair will consent to work for themselves to attain the ends of peace. The chid part of our intelligence comes from France, and therefore it is in the journals of that country that we must seek to inform ourselves. The Constitutionn e t states that England and France have settled upo n the terms of the communication that is to be made to the Governments in dispute. The reply of Russia is also expected, and it is thought that in a few days the time Cabinets will be able to accompli sh the proposed task. The Con stitutionne/ enters pretty freely into the subject, an d is at great pain to inform its readers of the nature of the work before the originators of the Cong ress. It admits that the situation is very serious, but Ba y, that the mediating Powers are entirely in earnest. The plan in view appears to be to offer territorial compensations to the three disputing kingdoms, so that indemnities may be afforded to them, but of tourseAhe difficulty will be to find the territorial c iftpensations that are suitable to each case. The (I ° ll bt that will rest upon the minds of all who read this will be, how far can it be possible to find a satisfactory offer for each of the aspirants. In op position to this news of the proposed Congress we find that the A ustrian army now under arms is of the extraordina ry number of between six hundred and seven hundred thousand men, and to these can shortly be added three hundred thousand more i n case of need. It does indeed seem idle for have s eahl aany arinf the Prussia to boast, or for her Alinister to give himself airs w w h re en J is ar ra y e d Austrian aga inst them.considered that the time would come when the patience Government would be exhausted, and whe n the Prussians would have to exchange their overbearing conduct for a very different course. Perhaps, in the event of this Congress patching up a peace, th e 'grand preparations just made by the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH may serve to prevent the Prussians giving themselves such airs for the future, and at tempting to lord it over all Germany in the manner they have done. We do not see any indication that the Vienna Government desire really that the .result of this Congress may be a peaceful one. On the contrary we can discern in all directions an ;eager desire for being ready for emergencies, and a Botany as a science and as a pleasure has lately made great strides among us, and horticultural societies, assemblies, and fetes have become organ ised institutions. Notwithstanding the high reputa- tion of our existing associations and the beauty and success of their exhibitions, it seems there was still room for further achievements in this line, for cer tainly the inauguration of the International Horti cultural Exhibition yesterday was one of the most extensive and brilliant affairs of the kind on record. Probably the expected arrival of the Prince and Princess of WALES had something to do with the crowds of visitors who poured in continuous streams into the gardens, but the beauty and va riety of the scene before them was sufficient of itself to repay any exertion. All that taste and skill could do had been done in grouping together the different kinds, in blending and harmonising the delicate shades of colour, till the gazer scarcely knew which to wonder at most, the richness and variety of the works of nature, or the patience and ingenuity with which man had devoted himself to their exhibition. As an evidence of the extent of the exhibition, we may mention that there were some hundreds of classes, and no less than £2,500 have been given in prizes. The preliminary ex penses for the gardens demanded an outlay of £3,000, and the expenditure has been well repaid by the varied and beautiful scene which yesterday delighted the visitors to this botanical congress. The area of the orchid tent is 400,000 cubic feet, the length of the pipe which heats it 3,200, feet, and the quantity of water it requires 1,760 gallons. The inauguration being happily accomplished, the weather having favoured the enterprising origi ginators of the scheme most kindly, the opening was celebrated by a grand banquet at the Guild hall, which was very numerously attended by English and foreign guests. The speeches were ap propriate and interesting, and just at this time of threatening war, the contrast between the courtesies of the botanists and horticulturists and the troubled aspect of diplomatic affairs was not a little marked. Professor DE CONDOLLE, who was the spokesman of the foreign visitors, regretted that the disturbed state of the Continent prevented many of his brother horticulturists from attending. The learned Pro fessor humorously remarked that the cost of the mil lions of soldiers now massed together in continental Europe for a single day would construct a conserva tory reaching from Paris to Berlin. So much for the rival expenditure of peace and war ! The prin cipal address of the evening was, however, that of the Right Hon. C. HAMILTON, who declared his con viction that the exhibition he had seen that day was the finest he had ever beheld, though he had seen many in all parts of the world. No less than 300 years ago one of the greatest intellects of England, Lord BACON, in dedicating an essay to horticulture, made use of this remarkable expres sion—" GOD first planted a garden, which indeed is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork." Mr. NISIIET commented upon the high esteem in which horticulture was held by all classes in this country, even the poorest showing their love of flowers by a single flower-pot or box on a dirty window ledge. There is little doubt therefo re o f t hi s exhibition o taining the popular suffrage it deserves, a n d we h o pe that although the first, it will not b e the lastof such congresses , more p eaceful and more profitable th a n the troubled assemblies of designing diplo matists. e i n n s t i o v i e _ fire broke out on Mond a y conveyed to Inverness, and every li ence was immediately GREAT FIRE 1 N TH E in h R ia o li th L i AN em p ur S c .— hu A s Forest. h o wever, property to standing the great exertion; pou nds was destroyed before the value of several hundred means g taken to check the progress of the flames. Notwith the fire was stopped.— WORLD. The Egyptian paddlewheel steam yacht THE THE FASTEST STEAMERIN.THE«ortr.n. IN. Mahroussa , Ca p tain i n t e ndence of the Pen insular and O r i en t a l C o mpany, by Fredrigo Bey, b u ilt un d er the super stopped.— Edinburgh Evening Cou rant. Messrs. Samuda, Egypt, arrived • Brother; of London, for the Viceroy of here on Saturday, the 12th inst., at 6 30 p.m) h av ing per formed the voyage from Southampton in the unprecedented short ti me of 157 hours. When under full steam s he con sumes seven t ons of coal an hour, and is without exception the fast est vessel afloat. At the measured mile in Stokes Bay her average speed was upwards of 18.1 knots an hour, which is equal to about 201 statute miles. After replenish ing fuel she proceeded on the 16th inst. for Constantinople, to meet his Highness the Viceroy, who, it is reported, in tends paying a visit toEngla n d i n her this summer. This splendid vessel is of 1,800 tons, and is fitted with ma chinery of 800 horse power. Her interior fittings are of extraordinary magnificence. Her cost is said to have been £166,000.-3falta Timm THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1866. PAMPHLETS RELATING Two MASTERLY PAMPHLETS, BY Mr. DUDLEY BAXTER, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, have recently been published by Mr. Edward Stan ford, of Charing-cross. The earlier of the two has already been honourably mentioned in the House of Commons during the late debates there upon the subject they refer to--among others, in terms of high praise, by the Right Hon. baronet the member for Herts. This earlier of Mr. Dudley Baxter's Two Pamphlets on the New Reform Bill being a brochure of 44 pages, having inscribed upon it as its title, "The Franchise Returns Critically Examined." Together with this critical examination of the Franchise Re turns, moreover—returns that were laid upon the table of the house in such a hurry-scurry, at the eleventh hour and three quarters, and evidently, at the very first glance through them, in a state that might be described (without the smallest hazard of exaggeration) in Stephen Blackpool's phrase, as " aw' a muddle "—returns, in fact, so faulty, so glaringly and undeniably erroneous, that they were repudiated upon the earliest oppor tunity in open house, and in the hearing of Mr. Gladstone, by that right hon. gentleman's fidus Achates, the member for Birmingham—together with this critical examination, we say, of these most unsatisfactory Franchise Returns, Mr. Baxter supplies us in his first pamphlet, with " A Table of the Future Constituency," and with an account—his account of course (neverthe less he fairly challenges contradiction and therefore ought to be listened to)—as to the " Proportion of the Working Classes in Each Borough." This earlier of the two pamphlet now more immediately referred to has already, by this time, become so thoroughly well known among the politicians of the day, both within and without the walls of the legislature, that it needs no other allusion to it here beyond the notification of the fact of its re-isaue in a revised form—a supplementary but unmistakable attestation of its success. As a companion pamphlet in every way worthy of the one just now particularised, Mr. Dudley Baxter has yet more recently issued from the press, through the establishment of Mr. Stanford, another brochure, this time one of 37 pages, relating to the second moiety of the piecemeal Government Reform Bill, and having as its title " The Redistribution of Seats and the Counties." The motto selected by Mr. Dudley Baxter for his new argument (of course antagonistic to the Ministerial measure) is a thought or aspiration rather from LEschylus to the senten tious effect—re S'ev vocarw—" May the Right Pre vail !" So soon as the House fairly gets into Commit tee upon the Two Bills, with the amiable intention (suggested by Mr. Bouvcrie) of rolling those Two Bills into One (if that ingenious feat should only prove to be in any way practicable), certain are we that Mr. Baxter's newly promulgated arguments this time in reference to the Redistribution of Seats— will be mentioned, and that, moreover, as formerly upon the other Branch of the Reform Bill, authori tatively. MR. LOWE'S GREAT SPEECH on the Second Read ing of the Representation of the People Bill—deli vered in the house of Commons on Thursday even ing, the 26th of April, 1866—a speech which for two hours and forty minutes held one of the most densely crowded houses we have ever seen collected together at Westminster, enchained in breathless attention—the orator being interrupted again and again by explosions of admiration during the deli very of it—has just been published in the form of a fourpenny Bvo. pamphlet of 31 pages by R. J. Bush, of Charing-cross : the report thus issued separately being carefully corrected and revised throughout by the Right Hon. member for Caine himself. REFORM AND REFORMERS—is the title of a read able little shilling brochure, edited by John Tillot son, and published by S. 0. Beeton. It relates to the Question of Reform as it stood exactly one generation since—namely five-and-thirty years ago. The Reformers sketched off—some of them " to the life"—being the great men of those times. Among them Major Cartwright, William Cobbett, Daniel O'Connell, Joseph Hume, and Jeremy Bentham, Earl Grey and the Marquess of Lansdowne, Richard Cobden and Sir Samuel Romilly. Happily there are others who are still surviving—foremost among them the Leader of Reform in the House of Com mons of those days, still the Leader not only of Re form in these present times, but the Leader also of the Government —meaning the Earl Russell, K. G., of to-day, the Lord John Russell, M.P., of yesterday. Another veteran Reformer, great amongst the great then, great amongst the great still, is not only commemorated in these pages, together with his then contemporaries, but has his engraved effigy printed upon the cover of the little volume as an apt symbol of the energetic fervour then, and let us hope still, actuating Reform and Reformers. This vera effigies being the counterpart presentment of Henry Lord Brougham. MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS. THE CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE--t 0 be com pleted in Six Monthly Sixpenny instalments—the literary masterpiece of Isaac Disraeli, has just begun to enter upon its periodical appearance from the establishment of the Messrs. George Routledge and Sons, of the Broadway, Ludgate-hill. It is beyond all comparison the cheapest edition ever issued from the press, of one of the most charming ency clopaedic compilations that was ever built up by a single man of letters as a genuine labour of love ! Built up by him slowly, industriously, laboriously, during a long series of years, bit by bit, as the honeycombs are built up in a hive by a swarm of bees, cell by cell, each formed of golden wax, culled from innumerable leaves, and collected together, and moulded into shape by the indefatigable worker, each stored brimfull with the luscious honey of knowledge, extracted by the same indomitable and devoted gatherer of ambrosia, from the very heart or core of unnumbered clusters of leaves—meaning the leaves in the one case of books, in the other of blossoms. Printed in double-columned pages, in very minute but exqusitely beautiful type, this new reissue of Isaac Disraeli's world-famous " Curiosi ties of Literature" will, because of its very cheap ness, be dearly welcomed by multitudes both of pro fessional and unprofessional cultivators of literature. As a book of reference, as a book of instruction and of entertainment, it is in its way just simply in valuable. It is a luxury that once taken into use becomes a necessity. Assuming its place, for how ever brief an interval, upon our bookshelves—its attempted removal thence afterwards would show a gap not less unsightly than that revealed by the loss of a front tooth. FAMILIAR ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCOTTISH LIFE, by the Rev. Dr. Rogers (Houlston and Wright), is the Eighth Thousand of a Shilling Volume of shrewd dry humour, penned by a canny Scotchman, the wallet of whose memory has had dropped into it close upon five hundred anecdotes and stories, many of them " ower true," and most of them original. Only five years ago the first edition of the book made its appearance, and already the issue has num bered up its eighth thousand. Dr. Rogers may con gratulate himself, therefore, upon having achieved a rapid and unmistakeable success. THE HANDY BOOK OF SHOPKEEPING—iS the title of a capital Shopkeeper's Guide, published by Houlston and Wright, and compiled by the author of "Inquire Within," pp. 96, price one shilling, and it certainly contains its money's worth of useful and sometimes of really valuable information. RIGHT FOODS FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN, by the late T- Herbert Barker, M.D. (S. 0. Becton) is the very book of books for young mothers—the elementary treatise for the nursery—A No. 1 among the guides to life's enjoyment. FATHER PROITT'S DEATH.--The Times' Paris correspondent says Mr. Francis Mahony, who was a native of Cork, was, at one time, well known in London literary circles as " Father Prout," under which designation he published, some 30 years ago, a series of most amusing articles, " The Prout Papers," in Fraser's Magazine. To this periodizal he, as well as the late Dr. Maginn and Sergeant Murphy, both Cork men, were fre quent contributors. His translation into Greek and Latin of some of " Moore's Melociies," and of some well-known Irish slang songs, such as " The Groves of Blarney," and " The Night before Larry was Stretched," showed con siderable power of language and humour. " The Prout Papers" were collected and published in one volume and passed through several editions. TO REFORM. I LATEST INTELLIGENCE. present. No prominent Federal State or municpal official is yet reported to have visited Stephens. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) • NEW YORK, MAY 12. Money abundant ; Gold, 1281 ; Exchange on London, 144. ; on Paris, 3.98. Stocks firm but little doing. New York Centrals, 92 4 1 ; Illinois, 1224. ; Erie, 73- 3 4 ; 5-20 Bonds, 102. Cotton :held firmly ; Middling Upland, 34i ; flour and wheat dull ; corn quiet ; provisions dull ; coffee steady ; sugar and molasses quiet ; crude petroleum, 29 ; refined, 42. Receipts of cotton at New York last four days, 5,000 ; Two days sales, 3,000 bales. NEW ORLEANS, MAY 11. Cotton firm and active ; low, middling ; 32 to 33 weeks receipts, 6,000 ; two days sales, 4,000 THE WAR CRISIS. BERLIN, MAY 22. The Prussian Government has prohibited the exportation until the Ist October next, of corn, hay, or straw, across the frontier from the Vistula, near Thorn (inclusively) to the frontier bordering on the kingdom of Saxony, near Seidenberg. The prohibition will also apply to exportation across such other parts of the Prussian frontier as border on those States of the Zollverein, which shall refuse to decree a similar prohibition. CASSEL, MAT 22. bales. The Austrian Colonel Wimpfen has arrived here to make arrangements for conveying Austrian troops through Hesse Cassel. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 23. VIENNA, MAY 23. A telegram received here from Jassy, announces the entry of a combined Russian and Turkish corps d'arinje into Moldavia yesterday. Omar Pasha commands the Turkish, and General Kotzebue the Russian troops. The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an article headed, " The peaceful policy of the Empire," in which it states that the French Government has taken the initiative for a collective step on the part of France, England, and Russia. The Constitu tionnel adds :—" Diplomatic communications are being carried on between the three Courts to settle the form which this step shall take, and the moment when the attempt shall be made." BOURSE, May 22, Two o'clock.—The tone of market is much improved to-day, and all securities show higher quotations. Threes, for the Account, are dealt in at 63f. 55c.—a rise of 40c. Italian Fives are in good demand at 39f. 15c., or an ad vance of lf. 15c. Credit Mobilier Shares improved 6f. 25c., viz., to 513 f. 75c ; and Credit Foncier, 5f., to 1,090 f. Better prices are also obtained on Railway Shares, Northern having advanced 2f. 50c. —to 1,045 f., and Lyons, sf.—to 715. Austrian are actively dealt in, and show an improvement of 15f., at 300 f. Lombard Shares have an advance of 10f., the price being 297 f. 50c. English Consols are telegraphed with an advance of k percent. 147,500 f. French Rente is being " discounted" ; also 95,000 f. Italian Fives, 1,250 CreditMobilier Shares, and 150 Lyons. Three o'clock. —The market has closed as follows per Cents 93 Bank Shares 3350 Do. end month — Italian Loan 39 35 At the Paris Conference Prussia alone raised any objection to the proposal of the Porte for a joint intervention in the Danubian Principalities. Russia even is said to have agreed with Turkey on the subject, and the proposal for intervention as agreed to by them was submitted ,to the Conference. France, England, and Austria intend to protest against the enthronement of Prince Charles of Hohenzollern. HANOVER, MAY 22. Prince Solms, General in the Austrian army, has arrived here unexpectedly. It is anderstood that he is instructed to open negotiations with the Government of Hanover respecting the passage of Austrian forces through Hanoverian territory. 3 per Cents. 63 35 Do. end month 39 35 Do. end month 63 55 Mexican Loan 32 Credit Mobilier ... 510 Do. Bonds 230 Do. end month 513 75 Spanish Threes ... 34 Credit Fonder — Home Debt Do. end month 1097 50 Deferred RAILWAYS. For Account. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 790 Southern 526 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman.. 495 - 300 - 295 - 115 - 150 - The Bombardment of Valpai aiso. [REUTER'S EXPRESS.] MADRID, May 20. The following official despatch of Admiral Mendez Nunez commanding the Spanish naval forces in the Pacific, detailing the bombardment of Valparaiso upon the 31st March, has been received in this capital. " On board the Numancia, Valparaiso Roads, March 31, 1866. " Most Excellent Sir,—Profoundly saddened, as your Excellency can understand, and labouring under the sorrowful impression the duty of directing the fire of the ships placed under his command upon a popula tion that does not defend itself must produce in the mind of the chief of a squadron, I hasten to acquaint you with the manner in which I have fulfilled this painful obligation conformably to the instructions H. C. M.'s Government,.after having in vain ap pealed to all the means of conciliation compatible with dignity, as your Excellency will perceive from private communications, and the Government of Chili persisting in its refusal to give our insulted flag the satisfaction due. At dawn this morning the vessels completely equipped set themselves in motion under my orders and anchored in the interior of the port. A few minutes before 8 o'clock the English and American squadron (pitted their anchorage to take up a posi tion at the entrance. At 8 o'clock I gave the signal agreed upon to unmask the guns, and to announce that fire would be opened after an hour's delay. At a quarter to nine I gave orders to beat to quarters, and at a quarter past nine, each vessel occupying the post assigned to her in order of battle drawn up the day before, and of which I enclose a copy to your Excellency, I opened fire against the enemy. " The Villa de Madrid, the Blanca, and the Vencedor a anchored at from 4 to 7 cables lengths distant from the points upon which they directed their broadsides, kept up their fire with perfect precision and accuracy. The manoeuvres were all admirably executed. The Resolution did not suc ceed until towards ten o'clock in placing herself in a good position to cannonade the point designated to her. Her fire was not always very precise ; therefore, perceiving that she did not manage to throw her shells into the railway buildings, and that several on the contrary fell in a convent situated upon a height at some distance, I ordered that ves sel to cease firing against the point she thus vainly cannonaded, in order to direct her broadsides against the customs warehouses, an operation she carried out this time with sufficient success. Conforming himself to the instructions I had given him, the com mandant of the Blanca, iu concert with the Ven cedora, bombarded the Exchange and the Govern ment House. 44 At half-past 11 I ordered the Blanca to attack the railway establishments, and the Villa de Madrid to turn her fire against a barrack and a small fort upon a height above the Customs' warehouses, where the Chilian flag was hoisted. The gunners of the Villa de Madrid displayed admirable skill. They succeeded in cutting the cords of the flagstaff, so that the flag remained hanging from the broken staff between earth and sky. At noon the four Customs' warehouses were set on fire, as well as that portion of the city past the Exchange, from a shell fired by the Vencedeora, which scattering into some shops and houses adjoining soon spread the flames. The railway buildings having also been burnt, I gave orders to cease firing by hoisting the Spanish flag from the mizen—tho signal agreed upon with the English Admiral and the American Commodore to announce that the bombard ment had ceased. I then immediately returned with my ships to the anchorage the squadron had occu pied since the day of publication of the manifesto to the corps diplomatique residing at Santiago, leaving the Resolution at the entrance of the port to sus tain the blockade. " The foreign vessels having resumed their former anchorage, I addressed a letter to the English Ad miral, earnestly begging him to lot m e know whe ther he had heard that the inhabitants of Valparaiso had to regret the loss of many of their number. Admiral Denman replied to me in a very friendly manner, that, according to the only information he had received, four persons had been killed on land. I hasten to communicate the above to your Excel lency's superior knowledge, as is my duty. " May God protect your Excellency many years. (Signed) MENDEZ NUNEZ. "'Co His Excellency the Minister of Marine." MISS RUSSELL'S CONCERT.:—This fascinating prima donna will give her annual concert, uuder the direc tion of Mr. Jonghmans, at the Canterbury Hall, on Friday, the Bth of June, when several distinguished artistes have volunteered their services. During the evening the cele brated Hungarians, the Brothers and Sister Keralfy, will make their first and only appearance at this establishment in their wonderful entertainment of " Kanasz es Csardas," and a new waltz by Willem Vaudervell, entitled " Nemea," will be played for the first time. We have no doubt that this especial and deserving favourite will command a bumper. BRUSSELS. BRUSSELS, MAY 23. A royal decree has been issued, ordering the cattle market at Antwerp to be closed. BRUSSELS, MAY 23. The Hereditary Prince of Denmark arrived here yesterday evening. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, MAY 22 (Evening). Prince Charles of Hohenzollerin arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day. All the church bells were rung on his arrival, and the authorities presented him with bread and salt. The Prince went in a carriage to the Chamber of Deputies, and to the Metropolitan Church this evening. The town is illuminated. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIAN. (Via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, May 12 (Morning). O'Mahony assigns as reasons for resigning his having given consent to the Eastport expedition, the failure of which had damaged the cause ; and furthermore he objected to remain an obstacle to the restoration of harmony among the brotherhood. Stephens, in a letter accepting his resignation, ap proves the action as wise and patriotic, but con demns Mahoney's weakness in sanctioning a move ment calculated to divert the attention from Ire land. Stephens declares that the objective point of the Fenians is not Canada or Japan, but Ireland. Stephens was serenaded last night, and made a short speech acknowledging the compliment, and exhorting Irishmen to be united, to drop dissen sions, and look to the wants of Ireland. A Fenian mass meeting was to take place at Jones Woods on Tuesday. It is rumoured that a Fenian movement has been organised at Buffalo. General Meade has been ordered thither. The Fenians who captured the schooner Went worth restored the vessel in a few hours, uninjured, to the captain. The party then landed on the coast of Maine. Generals Steedman and Fullerton, the commis sioners sent south to investigate the affairs of the Freedmen's Bureau, report from Wilmington that agents of the Bureau had been exercising arbitrary power, and practising great cruelties upon freed men. The commissioners recommend the removal of all officers of the Bureau in Virginia and North Carolina, and the transfer of their duties to others. The Senate has confirmed the appointment of General Sidles as Minister at the Hague. NEW YORK, MAY 11 (Evening). James Stephens arrived here yesterday evening in the steamer Napoleon, and was enthusiastically received by the Irish. It is reported that he has been elected General Head Centre. O'Mahony has resigned, previously removing Killian from the post of Treasurer. Stephens stops at the Metropolitan Hotel, and receives a great number of visitors. He has informed the reporters of the press that he will soon return to Ireland, adding that if the Fenians discontinue their dissensions here they can be fighting British troops in Ireland in solid front within the present year. He was told that the Senate had advocated the invasion of Canada be cause O'Mahony opposed it. He had procured the latter's election as head centre. Roberts has bad an interview with Stephens, and it is reported that the contending factions are becom ing reconciled under the recognised leadership of Stephens. Killian has issued a circular, declaring the failure of the Eastport expedition to be only temporary. The few thousand dollars had been well spent, they having increased the existing complica tion, brought the British fleet with shotted guns within 100 yards of the American forts, caused the suspension -of the government of New Brunswick, and agitate& the fishery question. He had selected the sensitive point between Great Britain and the United States. The north-west frontier was the gateway to Ireland. The massing of Fenians on the frontier had strengthened the Confederation scheme, and Mr. Seward might soon have some cause to oppose the establishment of Royal blood in the North as he had done in Mexico. The grand jury of the Federal Circuit Court of Norfolk has indicted Isir. Davis for treason. The Court has adjourned until the first Tuesday in June, when it will meet at Richmond. Judge Abell, of the First District Court of Louisiana, has decided that the Civil Rights Bill is unconstitutional and not binding on that Court. A part of the Grand Level of the Mississippi river has given way, flooding thirteen parishes of Southern Louisiana, and causing an immense destruction of property. Yesterday the New York Chamber of Commerce protested against the proposed export tax on cotton. News from St. Thomas announces that the steamer Styx left that port on the Ist May for Vera Cruz, with 1,200 French troops. NEW YORK, MAY 12 (Evening). The French Alinister is reported to have explained thAt the French troops, announced to have passed St. Thomas, on their way to Mexico, are only to replace for the present some whose terms of service has expired. islt rumoured that Stephens will make a tour in the States, in order to reorganise the Fenian circles, preparatory to the development of a new plan of operations. No Irish Bonds are to in issued at • '‘Wr . Court r". HER MAJESTY• - - -4> WINDSOR CASTLE, Tue sday. The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday after noon, and walked and drove this morning, accom panied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, and attended by Miss Bowater. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also went out driving. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alfred and Princess Helena, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Lieut-Generally Knollys, Major Teesdale, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, visited the In ternational Horticultural Exhibition at South Ken sington yesterday. We regret to state that the Bishop of Hereford is suffering from very serious illness, and is unable for the present to attend any business. THE BBum ) OF LONDON.—The Bishop returned to Fulham Palace on Saturday afternoon last, and was present at the services in Fulham parish church on Sunday. The public will learn with pleasure that his lord ship has derived great benefit from his short sojourn near Hastings. The Bishop is, we hear, expected to officiate at the marriage of the Rev. G. Stopford Ram, M.A., of Wad ham College, Oxford (now chaplain at Thun), with 3 daughter of Lord Inchiquin's (of 47, Prince's-gardens, and of Dromoland Castle, Ireland), at All Saints' Church, Prince's-gate, this morning. The Dowager Lady Truro died on Monday after noon very suddenly. It will be remembered that her ladyship's brother, Sir Augustus d'Este, claimed the dukedom of Sussex on the death of his father, the well known son of George 111. ; but the marriage of the Duke with Lady Augusta Murray, the mother of Sir Augustus and Lady Truro, was pronounced invalid by the House of Lords, as having been contracted without the consent of the Crown. The statements, published by a contemporary yesterday, that Lord Romilly will shortly succeed the Lord Justice Knight Bruce as one of the Lords Justices of Appeal, and that Sir Roundell Palmer, the Attorney General, will be appointed to the Rolls, were equally de void of truth. We can state that the Lord Justice Knight Bruce was never in better health than he now' enjoys. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The above mail brings advices and papers from Bombay to April 28, and from Calcutta to April 20• We find the following in the Bombay Gazette of the former date : " The marked increase of the temperature during the last forfnight has reminded those whose cir cumstances permit of their retiring to the hills during the hottest months that the time has arrived for migration to those cooler • regions. Many have already taken their departure from the presidency towns, and others are preparing to follow. His Excellency the Viceroy and staff, to gether with the members of council, have lately ex' changed the stewy vapours of Calcutta for the grateful breezes of Simla, whither Lady Lawrence' had preceded them. His Excellency, accompanied by Miss Lawrence and party, paid a visit, en route, to his Highness the Maharaja of Vizianagram, a t Monghyr, where his highness owns the well known house said to have been built at enormous cost bY' Warren Hastings when he was Governor General. Secretaries and heads of departments are following the Viceroy in rapid succession as the railway an d transit service will admit of, and Simla will be the seat of the Supreme Government till such time 5 5 the approach of the rains renders a return to the plains desirable. The Lieutenant Governors of Ben gal and the North West, with their respective esta,-, blishments, also retire for a time—the former to Darjeeling and the latter to Nynee Tal. His Ex cellency Sir Bartle Frere has not yet left Bombay' but as the work of the Legislative Council is nos° over, not to be resumed till July, at Poona, it is understood he will soon seek, at the cool retreat of. Mahableshwar, that rest which he must require. "A commercial crisis has been pending over Bombay during the past fortnight, owing to the lin' satisfactory nature of the telegrams from Great Britain. The telegrams of the 23d, received on the 26th, showing a decided improvement in the Liver' pool markets, have, however, tended greatly to re store confidence. ." The East India Bank and the Bank of Indite have both determined to wind up under voluntary liquidation. " The High Court of Bombay has been engag ed for the past fortnight in hearing a case in which ti le Advocate General is plaintiff, and H.H. Aga 1 0 ' 9 ' the alleged head of the Khojah community, the de fendant. This suit is nominally to recover the pr ° ' perty of that caste, but it is actually to oust AP Khan from his so-called headship of that comet' i c i nity. The pl a i n tiff' s case i s no t y e t fi n i s hed, an the case is now adjourned until next term. " At a meeting of the leading members of the 0 native community o f B om b a y, h e ld a t th e residence of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, it was resolved to Pre sent an address to the Right Hon. Lord Halifax. " Mr. Alexander Brown, of the firm of Mes s / W. Nicol and Co., has been appointed a member ° 0 the Bombay Legislative Council. M r . Rustoalj e o Jamsetjee hr Je u e g j h i eet lt y ea ha h s . resigned his seat in tb cul " The crew of her Majesty's steamer Octavif‘ having recovered from the recent outbreak of stoat pox on board, the vessel has been admitted pratique. " Captain Cotter, of the ship Ambrose, has e °l: s gated suicide while labouring under an attack temporary insanity. " The ship Ellora, after remaining nea rli ti :, twelvemonth in the fairway to Bombay barb has been blown up by Captain Methven, of Peninsular and Oriental Company's service. the " Several disasters have occurred among tor shipping at Calcutta. The flat Cossipore hasf, e ota l dered, and the ship Maharanee become a total wreck. Should the prevailing high winds cont'iPt. it is feared additional casualties will be the rest ll 4 , " A landslip has taken place at Pert Cann l ' and much damage has been done. " A famine prevails in Orissa. tp " Some anxiety is felt in Calcutta for the i e ly of the Edith Kidd and Commodore Hayes, 10 left Liverpool and Glasgow respectively for r i o f port in September last, and have not been he ard for over three months. p r of " A battle has been fought between the Ann e ba n Cabool's troops and those of Mahomed Azim l ' de , before Ghuzuee, in which the latter were totallyo feated. The Ameer with the C a ndaharee t roo ole er was expected at the above-named place. The As o still refuses to release Ufzul Khan. Sirda r ce ie homed Azim Khan is collecting another f orce order to fight the Ameer again. tro° o " News from Bokhara says that the Russia n le o have advanced from Tashkund to Javag, 3 1 ,a about 40 miles from Samarcand. The chiefs berS people of Bokhara are assembling in large nuol re to resist the invaders. Two engagements a"jell ported to have taken place, in the latter a Te the Russians were victorious. t it 014 " Dr. Day's experiment of introducing ix ° into India has proved a total failure. 80 1 n. " OnerUAßY.—Captain Pellew M. Brigg s ' d 0.1 3 ' bay Invalid Establishment ; Captain Edw ar j3ee ker , Cotter, master of the ship Ambrose ; CaP t ' of the ship Malvina ; R. Haines, Esq., 1 ‘ 1 • 13. :, ;" cipal of the Grant Medical College, Bombay' Helen Hogarth (Mrs. Roney), ell' Miss the l c ' ntia l known teacher of singing, has announced her 811- o f concert to take place at St. James's Hall on the eve nil3 . s l - S Wednesday, the 30th inst. Nearly all the principal artiis; .now in London will appear, the names announced W 1314, ins, among others, those of Mr. Sims Reeves, MissSant :0 Signor Gordon, Herr Egichardt, Signor Piatti, M 1 1:rt Pyne, Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame iel)'' and Madame Parepa. . , 1 0 BOROUGH OF GREENWICII.--A public Ille etill qbe announced to be held at the Town-hall, Woolwich, for . ~ adoption of measures to induce the Government to divio: the borough of Greenwich, and give ono member to ea cj " division. " WiLo'B ICQVit DOCTOR ?"---310111SON'S 1 1 4 1 -' "