The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-19 00:00:00

The Dante Festival, (FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.) FLORENCE, May 14. I am not aware that any pen has yet been in vented that can do full justice to the externals of a great festival, to the masterpieces of decorators and upholsterers, of florists and illuminators, of the cun ning artists who mate pasteboard look better than stone, lath and plaster more stately than marble, tinsel as brilliant as purest gold from California, humble calico to resemble silken sheen, and who display flags and wreath flowers and group l am p s with skill sufficient to rouse the enthusiasm of admiring multitudes. Such a pen would indeed be diamond pointed and a magnum bonum to a jour nalist in Florence on the 14th of May, 1865, the 600th anniversary of the great Dante's birth. Could colours be displayed in your columns, you might forthwith assert the brightest tints to set forth the gorgeous ceremony from which I have just returned. A grbater contrast cannot be imagined to the last, at which I saw the King of Italy play the principal part—namely, at the laying of the first stone of the Victor Emmanuel Gallery at Milan. Then the Lombard capital wore its most dreary aspect ; a morning of rain succeeded to a night of snow, the Royal pavilion broke, the benches were flooded, ladies kept away, and from under a canopy of umbrellas a dripping crowd witnessed the pro ceedings, and then went home to have bad colds. Thoie who yesterday morning watched the dwind ling quicksilver and felt the humid breeze that came up from the Mediterranean feared lest this pageant should also be spoilt by rain. But towards evening the look of things improved. Judging from the noise in the streets, I imagine that a great many persons forgot to go to bed. Perhaps they were engaged in watching the state of the atmosphere, or in invoking the shade and intercession of the late Mathieu de la Drome, of whom the ancients would assuredly by this time have made a demi-god in charge of the celestial weather office. Within an hour after daybreak most people in Florence were out of bed, elegantly-dressed ladies were to be seen in the streets, and there was a strong demand upon hotel-keepers for cups of coffee. All doubts about the day were removed. The grey tints of early morning and a few light fleecy clouds were rapidly clearing away from beneath the bright blue sky. Drums beat in all directions, troops and National Guards hurried to their parade ground ; in every street one met numerous open vehicles occupied by groups of three or four white-cravated, black-coated individuals, bearing the banner of their guild or cor poration or district. The line of streets leading from the square of San Spirito to that of Santo Croce was easily to be traced by the ornaments of the houses. 'These may be dismissed in a line. Flags, coloured hangings from some of the windows, festoons of laurels and flowers, wreaths of the same here and there extending across the streets. It was the usual routine. But it had also been arranged that at the houses celebrated as the birthplace, residence, or as connected with the labours of the illustrious inhabitants of Florence, trophiould be erected and inscriptions placed, some of the aci. companied by busts or portraits. These formed most interesting portion of the embellishments of the streets, and were not confined to the line of the procession. Some of the inscriptions were very happy, others would read rather highflown in a translation. There was one to Goldoni, " Prince of Italian comedy ;" another to Galileo, whose glory, it said, " will finish only when the human race shall cease to see the sun and inhabit the earth ;" Farinata degli Überti, it need hardly be mentioned, was lauded for his bold and patriotic defence of Flo rence ; at the gigantic statues of Arnolfo and Bru nellesco an inscription recorded their merits as archi tects of the beautiful cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore; here, on the square of the Holy Trinity, was marked the house of an Englishman, Robert Dud ley, " who assisted by his science the country that showed him hospitality ;" in the Tornabuoni a roughly-painted head of Beccaria, the great anta gonist of capital punishment, looked remarkably happy and smiling considering the defeat his dis ciples have lately met with in the Italian Senate. Passing these and many others not uninteresting to dwell upon if space permitted,we reach the Piazzi di Santa Croce, the scene of the great event :of the day. To every one who has visited Florence the Church of Santa Croce, the Pantheon of the Tus can capital, is familiar, as well as the square in front of it, an oblong piazza, of which its beautiful facade forms the greater part of the ,east side, the other three being composed of houses of no great archi tectural beauty or pretensions. To-day the lower portion of the buildings on the two longer sides of the quadrangle were hidden from view by walls of mock masonry, looking solid enough to resist a cannon-ball. Above these the windows and balconies were draped with coloured hangings and crowded with ladies ; below and within them were broad galleries or tribunes, the floor sloping down to two inner barriers, which en closed the space allotted to the ceremony, and to those who took a part in it. The gallery on the south side was for persons having special tickets of invitation, that on the north for the public. Tickets of representation, which attributed to the bearers a right to figure in the procession, gave access to the central enclosure. This was floored with green canvass, and had ten broad, shallow steps rising against each of its longer sides, on which the pro cession was to form up as it entered. In the centre of the square, the statue was concealed under a mountain of white linen. At the east end, on steps leading up to the church, the orchestra and chorus were stationed, which were to perform a hymn to Dante, written and composed for the occa sion. In front of the orchestra stood the band of the National Guard, to play during the interval. About midway between the statue and the west end of the square was a platform, slightly raised from the ground, carpeted and with an awning which hung between two low columns, each surmounted by a magnificent basket of flowers—FlorencOs cheap and beautiful adornment in a May as bright and warm as July in England. Between the columns stood the throne, composed of a great deal of gilding and a small patch of crimson velvet. Two lions couch ant guarded it. Five gilt chairs were ranged on each side of the Royal dais, and a number of ✓stools, covered with damask of various colours, were drawn up in rows in the vicinity of that central points. Around the inner enclosure, on the top of the parapet, were the arms of different trades. On the wall against the houses were thirty-eight paintings, in imitation of bas-reliefs, illustrating the life of Dante, beginning with his first meeting with Beatrice, when he was but nine years old, and ending with his death and funeral procession at Ravenna in 1321. All the principal incidents of his eventful and romantic life are recorded in this gallery, which shows him as a lover and a soldier, a diplomatist and a poet, as the friend of princes, and as an exile seeking shelter in foreign lands._ Here he returns to Flo rence , a fter the battle n Campaldino, where he fought as a mounted man at-arms ; there, in his v ill a a t C amora t a h e i s enjoy ing: society of literary friends; he presents him self a mbassador before Pope Boniface VIII., and in the follewin is sacked andb g year he is a fugitive and his house him disputtiligrerai ed by the Guelfs. Later we behold with theologians and philosophers at the Paris then at Lucca with his friend Uguccione, afterwards made welcome in Ravenna hom he presents the painter Giotto. Between these scenes of the great poet's life are placed portra*+ I.e, o f his C ommentators, trans , to the lators, and biograph ers number of 40, and and between and below the portraits the scenes are disposed, in groups of six, the escut cheons of the communes of Tuscany and the p r i n • eipal mann i ci ties of all Italy. Over every portrait are garla Pa - nds of flowers and laurel, and a cluster of five bright glass lamps, to serve for the evening's illuminations. Waving from the summits of lofty poles, disposed around this outer wall or postergale, are the banners of 44 of the chief Italian cities ; others are disposed along the line of the procession, and in the corners of the squ ar e are f o ur much larger flags, those of Rome and Venice on the western side and of Ravenna and Florence on the east. Excluded from the city of the Lagunes, where it once so proudly floated, by the black and yellow standard of Austria, the hon of Venetia, spreads its wings in Florence, telling of hope fief erred but not lost, and of a determination which no difficulty is to daunt. Soon after 7 o'clock the first comers nter the reserved galleries, in front of which are two lines of benches, calculated to accommodate but a very small portion of the throng expected. Hif an hour later the door of the people's tribune is opened and the general public enters with a run. In the arena is a highly embroidered personage, pointed out as Pre fect of Florence, a fe - v military officers, and a sprinkling of black coats ; but it is early ; the King is not expected until half-past 10 o'clock, the pro cession, although announced to start at 8 o'clock, will hardly make its appearance till nearly two hours later, most of the persons who are to enter the square are figuring in the procession, and those who are not are in no hurry to come in. The best place for the present is the reserved gallery, where the two lines of benches are quickly filled by ladies. The pressure of crinoline is great; a few self-indulgent men who had accom modated themselves with seats soon found that they need not hope to retain them, and, as an American neighbour of mine remarked, " vamosed" accord ingly. The sun was hot to an unpleasant degree as early as 8 o'clock, and it really seemed as if it had got up unusually early and high on purpose to spite the sightseers. Above the double line of fair faces and bright colours there arose a swelling bank of parasols and umbrellas, and even some of the gentle men in the arena thought it necessary to protect their complexions in the same manner. The orches tra had the best of it, stationed in the shadow of the church. After a short time it was the only shade to be seen in the square. There was plenty of leisure to make one's observations,but after one had studied all the scenes in Dante's life which were within view, counted the flags and marvelled at the strange heraldic monsters depicted on them, and passed in review the crowd of female faces—some of them very pretty—at the windows behind,• and assented to a few neighbourly remarks concerning the heat and the nuisance of waiting, one began to wish very earnestly that the procession would make its appear ance, or that one of the embroidered gentlemen in the centre would give three cheers for Dante or for anybody else, or that a dog would run into the course, or that something else would happen to break the monotony and distract one's thoughts from the dis comforts of the situation. One or two false starts occurred, and the more eager and energetic of the ladies jumped upon the benches, not much to the contentment of the unseated crowd behind them. Irritable gentlemen, apprehensive of a coup de soleil, expressed indignation at the managers of the festi val for not having applied some part of the half million of francs voted by the municipality towards establishing an awning over the whole square, as a protection against sun and possible rain for the 18,000 persons for which it was estimated to afford standing room. Some of the malcontents thought it doubtful whether the money was laid out to the best advantage, and others seemed disposed to find fault with the King for not coming at once and bringing the procession with him, and told small scandalous stories of how he had not intended to come at all till the telegraph warned his Ministers that there Was discontent in Florence and that Pas quin was sharpening his pen, which produced rather a sudden move. All this gallery gossip, however, was confined to a few, and upon the whole every body, foreigners and natives, appeared in high good humour, and the Tuscans were courteous, well be haved, and good-tempered, as is their wont, and if some of the British and Americans there present (and they were very numerous) grumbled a little, it was only by way of asserting their national privilege so to do. At last, just as a very stout gentleman had gasped out his conviction that the thermometer stood at 120 degs., music was heard in the distance, and soon the head of the procession approached. It con sisted (I quote the official programme) of the " re presentatives of the Italian municipalities and of Italian foreign literary and scientific Academies ; of those of the Colleges, Lyceums, Universities, and other educational establishments ; of the members of the Society for the Installation of the Dante Monument, Colleges of lawyers, doctors, physicians librarians, journalists, &c. ; delegates from Italian artisan and working men's asssociations; and depu ties from the Italian Emigration." Accompanied by several bands of music, which played in turn as they entered the square, and bearing many hun dreds of rich banners, having emblazoned upon them coats of arms, inscriptions appropriate to the day, portraits of Dante and of other celebrated persons, the long procession slowly marched in, forming up in close order and with great regularity oil the spa cious steps which rose, in gentle ascent, from the level of the arena to the inner parapet around it. The collection of banners, all seemingly quite new, borne upon velvet-covered staves, surmounted with gilt ornaments and splendid with golden tassels, and tresses, was such as I do not remember to have seen surpassed in any ceremony of the kind. Genoa, the rich city, sent two standard-bearers, clothed in scarlet and embroidery in charge of her magnificent colours. A whole day might have been spent in studying and decyphering the mean ing of the devices on the flags, and in affixing names to the portraits upon many of them. My American neighbour before-mentioned seemed to be of opinion they must all be heads of Dante, and upon it being objected that some of them were bearded he " expected" that the gentlemen had given up shaving when they were taken. Then came a loud cheer from the entrance to the square, and " the King !" was the cry. Nothing could hold the ladieg in front, and they were upon the benches with the aotivity of acrobats. Shouts of indignation in the rear led to official interference, arid the restless female element again subsided. No King was there ; the applause was addressed to a banner draped with black crape. The American was of opinion it was out of respect to poor Lin coln, but the word " Venetia" told a different tale. Fresh and vehement plaudits were. called forth by banners bearing the she-wolf and boys, and in scribed "Roma." All along time line of the proces sion I have since heard these two flags were greeted with enthusiastic applause. Upon accompanying flags were inscribed " Istria," " Trieste," and other names, which are not generally to come within the scope of United Italy as she is one to be. When the whole of the procession was formed up round the square, several thousands strong, while the uniformed bands, comprising many hundreds of musicians, drew up at the east end below the orchestra, the sight was really gorgeous, as the brilliant sunlight played among the vivid colours, and was refleeted from the gilt battle-ages, medal lions, and other ornaments in which the flag-staves terminated. Exclamations of admiration and de light burst forth continually from the spectators, although the view of many of them was impeded by the serried line of banners which now sur rounded the square. Hardly were all the compo nent parts of the sumptuous pageant stationary in their places when the King arrived, attended by General Lamarmora, and a numerous suite. Con sidering that the vast assemblages only gradually became aware of his presence his reception seemed to me excellent. The cheers were hearty and reite rated. What remained to be done took but little time. The ceremony was even less than a stone laying, where the curious in such matters have an opportunity of seeing a Sovereign at work, of ob serving with what degree of grace he pats mortar and taps a stone, and of noting the interment of the documents and coins which are to remain there until brought again to light by the pick and hammer of a remote posterity. The band struck up a grand symphony, the Gonfaloniere of Florence, Signor de Cambray Digny, made a short speech, which was doubtless much to the purpose, but which nobody heard ; and then at the pull of a rope, the covering of the statue parted in the centre and lay in folds upon the ground. The music played louder than ever, the multitude cheered, the bells of the Palazzo Vecchio h t e rang out a no i s y p ea l, f rom th e summ it o f the l o f ty tower a shot was fired, and a rocket rose into t lelieeve, air like a st rea k o f w hi te smo k e across t h e u firmament. S ome more speaking ensued—l by Professor Giuliani—and then came the hymn to Dante, executed by a band of vocalists and by the great orchestra, while the notary proceeded to the registration of the solemn act. And thus concluded one more brilliant spectacle, to add to the many which in former days were witnessed on that same square of the Holy Cross, once the favourite rendezvous for tilts, tournaments, and carrousels, for sham fights and masquerades, and many other Courtly and chivalrous divertissements common in the palmy days of splendid Florence. The colossal statue of the great Florentine poet, who was also a distinguished soldier and statesman, whose genius had exercised so great an influence on his country, and of whose fame Italy is so justly and enthusiastically proud, is the work of the sculp tor Pazzi, of Ravenna, the refuge and death-place of Dante. Its height is 5.68 metres, and it stands upon a lofty pedestal in the style of the 14th century, de signed by Luigi del Sarto. Around it four lions guard as many shields, on which are inscribed the names of the four principal of the poet's minor works. On the front, in the centre, are the arms of Rome, as the capital of Italy. Those of all the principal Italian cities are also sculptured upon the monument, to the cost of which all those cities have contri buted. Their assemblage there is with reference to the union - of the Italian States into one country having been foreseen by the poet. Various other allegorical devices and four bas-reliefs of scenes in the Divina Commedia adorn the base of the statue, which as yet there has been no opportunity of closely examining. The inscription is as brief and simple as possible :—" To Dante Alighieri ; Italy. MDCCCLXV." Crowds are doubtless at this pre sent moment examining the work, and the sculptor must be in a fever of impatience to know the verdict of the public. The applause which greeted the un covering of the statue was given to Dante, and not to its artistic merits, not to be decided upon at a glance. There is one drawback, which was unavoid able ; the statue, placed in the centre of the facade of Santa Croce. The church stands too much to the north of the square. It seems a question whe ther it would not have been better to place the statue in the proper position as regards the church, which cannot be moved, whereas the character and importance of the adjacent lines of houses are not such as to preclude the probability that at no dis tant period the square might be partially recon structed, so as to establish symmetry with its two most important ornaments. At present the best way to view the ensemble of the church and statue is to enter the square from the Via di Benci, and to pause a short distance from the centre of its southern side. I have given you merely my individual impression of this morning's proceedings, for there has been no time to compare notes or collect opinions, but I shall be surprised if it be not generally admitted that all went' off in a most satisfactory manner. As far as my own observation extended there was not a symp tom of disorder of any kind. There was a rumour set afloat within the last few days of an intention on the part of certain malcontent factions to get up a disturbance, but probably the report was only spread with a view to create uneasiness, and cer tainly the attitude of the people of Florence is not such as to encourage such an attempt. The wea ther continues fine, the whole population is abroad and amusing itself, and while I write thousands are assembled along the Arno enjoying the regatta, and other thousands are witnessing the grand tour nament got up in memory of the peace proclaimed between Guelfs and Ghibbelines. The chief feature of the evening will be the illuminations, and at 10 o'clock at night chorus-singing commences on the square of Santa Croce, all the pieces performed being composed and written with reference to the festival and in honour of Dante. Surely the shade of the poet must be gratified by such unlimited eu ogium and hero-worship. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIAO, MAY 19, 18b5. staircases 27 feet high), thereby severing the two main arteries of traffic, and which, if so carried into effect, must occasion great loss and injury to the trade and property of Farringdon ward. The plan submitted by the ward pro vided for direct communication between the high and low level, and was one which should be adopted, inasmuch as it not only remedied all evils which the bridging over the Holborn valley was intended to obviate, but in addition greatly improved Farringdon-market, making it easily ac cessible for traffic, and also the various streets and thoroughfares adjoining. The petitioners said they had carefully examined the financial part of the question, and that by the adoption of the ward plan a great saving would be effected, inasmuch as two streets contemplated by the corporation plan and which would cost £300,000, would be entirely superseded ; and further, that in order to provide for the necessity of an approach from the south, not con templated in the City plan, an increased cost of £400,000 at the very least would have to be incurred, but which the adoption of the ward plan would render unnecessary. They also adverted to the fact that by the adoption of the ward plan the property in Farringdon-street and its neigh bourhood would largely increase in rateable value, irrespec tive of the annual value of the arches under the roadways, which would realise at least £3,000 a year. They, there fore, prayed the Court to cause a reconsideration of the whole subject. The petitioners underwent examination from different members of the Court as to the details of their plan, Mr. Deputy Lott eliciting from them that their plan did not include side streets, and if it had the attendant expense would be greater than that of the corporation plan. Mr. Deputy FRY, the chairman of the improvement committee, to whom the work of raising the valley has been entrusted, said the corporation plan was adopted after anxious consultation with eminent engineers, and after wards received the sanction of Parliament in all its great leading features. He never looked upon that plan as complete. It had certain failings, which the committee hope to have obviated. The plan of Mr. Abrahams, which was so lightly recommended by the petitioners, had been carefully considered by the committee, assisted by the City architect, but they had rejected it, on the grounds chiefly that it divided and narrowed two noble streets— Farringdon-street and Farringdon-road, and concentrated and crossed the traffic, Which it had been a great object with the corporation of late years to distribute on the very centre of the proposed viaduct. The corporation plan on the other hand would diffuse the traffic by four different streets, and prevent any of that from the north or south coming upon the viaduct at all. Another objection to the plan of Abrahams was that it contemplated taking down the whole of the western side of Farringdon-street. Re plying to the statement by the petitioners that, according to the corporation plan, there were no means of getting from the low to the high level, he said the corporation proposed that there should be a street from Farringdon-street to Shoe-lane, leading from the. low to the high level, and at the same time improvifig -Alti- - .3%prltches to the market. There would be similar facilities for ascending from Far ringdon-road to the higher level, while there would be a main thoroughfare running east and west. The corporation would also take permissive powers to widen Fleet-lane and at the same time to afford additional facilities for reaching the high level. After some further discussion, Alderman Sir J. Dula moved that the petition be re ferred to the improvement committee with the view to their hearing further evidence on the general subject before deciding to adopt any plan. The motion was lost on a division by a large majority, and the court adjourned. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL• Yesterday a meeting of the Common Council was hi at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Hale) .g siding. ~•04 THE SHERIFFS' COURT. Mr. Woodthorpe, the Town Clerk, read A letter which had been addressed that morning to the.. , ,Lor , : Mayor by Mr. Commissioner Kerr, the judge of th.. s' Court at Guildhall. The commissioner stated t select com mittee of the House of Lords, to which,, ounty Courts Equitable Jurisdiction Bill was rofe =gad inserted a clause in the bill conferring jurisdicti• the Sheriffs Court ; that he immediately communlcatkd with the Re membrancer on the subject ; and as the bill then stood for committee on the following Monday, he on his own behalf sought and obtained au interview with the Lord Chancellor, at which he stated his objections to the clause. The Lord Chancellor would not yield to his chief objection—to ac cepting the duties and responsibilities the bill would im pose upon him—and the result was the clause stood part of the bill. The bill had since passed the Lords, where it ori ginated, and now stood for second reading in the House of Commons on the 25th inst. The clause conferred the same jurisdiction on the Sheriffs' Court as that given to the county courts, and to that he had no objection in the ab stract; but it subjected the judge and officers of the court to rules of practice and scales of costs to be be framed by county court judges. Hitherto those rules of practice of the Sheriffs' Court had been framed by the Recorder, Common Sergeant, and judge of the court, and the regulation as to costs by the judge alone. The clause then provided for the fees taken on proceedings in the court being paid into its general fund; but these fees were not to be fixed, as here tofore, by the Court of Common Council, but partly by the Treasury and the Lord Chancellor, and partly by the Lord Chancellor alone. Finally, the clause provided for the re muneration of the judge by giving him not the fees intended as a fund for his remuneration, but an additional salary, equal to that receivable by the county court judges out of their collective fund. To such a clause he most strongly objected, and he should be obliged, in order to preserve for himself a locus standi, to petition against the bill ; but that was a step he should not think of taking without communicating his intention to the Court of Common Council. The letter gave rise to a very warm discussion, in the course of which Mr. Do Jersey censured Mr. Commissioner Kerr and the Itemembrancer for having in a matter affect ing the rights and privileges of the City put themselves in communication with the Lord Chancellor and with the Lords' select committee without having first consulted either with the Common Council or the Lord Mayor. Mr. CURTIS, the Remembrancer, explained that the bill as originally introduced did not at all affect the City. He called the attention of the law and parliamentary commit tee of the corporation to it, and suggested whether or not it might be desirable that an equitable jurisdiction should be conferred on the Sheriffs' Court. That committee de clined to interfere in the matter, and a clause was after wards introduced, conferring that jurisdiction on the court. The effect would have been to throw the fees of the court into a hotch-potch, while the judge would be paid the same salary ; and by the instructions of the corporation committee he prepared a clause to obviate that result by empowering the Common Council to award an additional salary to the judge in respect of the additional labour which would be imposed on him. That clause was not adopted by the Lords' committee, and so the matter rested. On the motion of Mr. De JERSEY it was referred to the law and parliamentary committee to investigate the whole circumstances, and report forthwith to the court. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS AND THEIR ENGINEERS. Mr. BONTEMS referred to a report of a committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works, proposing to present gra tuities, amounting to £lO,OOO, to the principal engineer (who was to have £6,000), and his three assistants, in respect of the completion so far of the main drainage scheme. He strongly condemned the proposal as extra vagant in a high degree, and the more so as the salary of the chief engineer had been increased, first from £BOO to £1,200, and then to £1,500 a year. Already, he said, the two largest parishes in the metropolis—those of Meryl-- bone and St. Pancras—had protested against the proposal, and he trusted the City of London would join in the pro test against what, in his opinion, would be unmitigated plunder. The public, he said, had not forgotten the Odessa contract, which had yet to be deodorised in the estimation of the metropolis. He felt the extravagance tho more as he happened to be one of a committee who had frequently to hear and determine claims to be excused from payment of the rates made by the Metropolitan Board, on the ground of poverty. He reminded the Court that the Metropolitan Board took 1314,000 annually fiom the ratepayers of the metropolis, of which £27,000 was contributed by the City of London. He moved, " That in the opinion of this Court the proposal is uncalled for and extravagant, and ought not to be adopted." Mr. H. LOWMAN TAYLOR objected to tho proposed gra tuities as excessive in amount, and, at least, premature, so long as the most difficult part of the main drainage scheme —that of the low level sewer—remained to be completed. He moved an amendment to that effect, but it was lost on a show of hands, and the original motion was adopted. THE HOLBORN VALLEY IMPROVEMENT. A great number of the inhabitants of the ward of Far ringdon-without attended at the bar with a petition, which had been adopted at a meeting, protesting against the plan in contemplation by the corporation for raising Holborn valley. The petitioners stated that they viewed with great dissatisfaction and alarm the rejection of a plan which had been submitted by their ward to the Improve- I No less than 1,970 carts laden with forced fruit went Committee of the Corporation, and the intention of came into the Paris ma r k e t d ur i n the first twelve days of the Ccrporation to execute the viaduct from Skinner-s treet May, and 12,805 carts of vegeta b les, o f w hich number 1,301 g to Ely-court, Holborn, which they said did not provide for were laden with potat oes . Fro g s seem to have come into a direct communication between the high level and Fa r - fashion again ; the best como from. Alsace, whence bugs ringdon-street (except for foot passengers by means of baokete of green frogq are sea try 11 41 to Paris. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. and regardless of private interests, "We do not want these leading strings. We can go alone in our amuse ments, subject, of course, to a censor morum alike for all places of theatrical and musical entertainment. In the petty squabbles between One set of managers and another set, we take no concern, except to regret that they stand in the way of general improvement. There is an evening for the theatre, and an evening for the music -hall, and why the two institutions should not do their best to provide us wholesome entertainment is a question to which we want a plain answer." That answer has never been given, ex cept in the form of an interested and a ridiculous one. If you make the music-hall more attractive, or allow it to be made more attractive, say the lessees, we shall suffer in pocket. Our " crowded houses" will sink to a beggarly account of empty boxes, we shall never have the melancholy satisfaction of turning money from the doors, and "only stand ing room " will no longer affright the playgoer as he stares wretchedly in at the box entrance. Indeed, " complet" will be as unfamiliar a word to us as to a ramshackle stage-coach rolling on a dull day from Paris to beyond the barriers. We have not heard any answer but this to the demand for " free trade in theatres." Certain writers have, it is true, hinted something about theatres becoming taverns if music halls are to have the privileges at present enjoyed by theatres ; but this notably absurd idea is repu diated even by theatrical lessees themselves, as an imputation of a scandalous character. It is unne cessary, therefore, to do more than entertain the question of self-interest, of pecuniary loss to thea trical managers, and this may be easily disposed of as a consideration totally inadmissible, when the broad ground of freedom from a monopoly that de grades one kind of entertainment is the basis argued upon. It is not possible to maintain for long the profits of a particular class up to a certain standard, by shutting out the rivalry of another class. The law may do it for a time - but, as the existing dis pute shows, it cannot make: monopoly permanent. There will be ingenious evasions, as in the case of the Canterbury Hall ghosts, and triumphant de fiances, as in the case of the Alhambra ballet. There will be puzzled magistrates giving decisions to be quashed, and an astounded people laughing over the laboured attempts of " experts," to show the differ ence between stage tweedle-dum and music-hall tweedle-dee. Allthe while, poor Mr. Donne, from the Chamberlain's-office, will be tortured to prove that he is absolutely hors de combat, and unable to do more than promptly obey a subpoena. We maintain that the present condition of things cannot last, and that even while it does last, practically the law will be evaded. There are ..many persons who gravely assert that the decision recently pronounced at the Middlesex Sessions in favour of the Alhambra ballet was itself a violation of the law : and really the business is so nice a one that he would be a rash man who should maintain the perfect and complete legality of that decision. It is all a muddle, a muddle that .Mr. Locke's bill is framed to cure. To postpone or burke the consideration of such a bill is, therefore, not the best policy on the part even of those who favour the very slight and simple case of the theatrical managers. While everybody is in doubt as to what is and what is not legal in a music -hall, the benefit of the doubt will be given to the more liberal policy of permission, and theatrical managers will roll up to the police-court the stone of Sisyphus, that it may be pushed down again by higher authorities. It would be as well to ponder these facts before trying to get rid by a side wind of a question that requires a proper settlement. CORK REPORTER.—The war in America being now over, and the South having failed to establish their independence, it is to be hoped that President Johnson's policy will be one of conciliation, and not one of subjugation. He must see the error com mitted by Russia in the management of Poland, establishing a despotism there which has been equally injurious to both. No doubt, his Ministers will be in great measure guided by the advice of the gentlemen representing foreign Courts at Washing ton, whose duty it is to do everything in their power to assuage the evils of war. President Johnson seems to have great animosity towards the Southern planters and country gentlemen, which rankles in all his speeches. He seems to look on one class— the rich—as inconsistent with good government. If his feelings for the people be carried into execu tion by trampling on the planters, what is to pre vent similar feelings against men of wealth in the' North being carried out ? When the ban kers and merchants of New York and Boston see a class legislation against men of property in the South, it will be time for them to remember the words of the poet, " Praximus ardet Ucalegon ' " —when your neighbour's house is on fire, &c. Mr. Johnson in his speeches calls treason a diabolical crime, but we must consider what is treason. Was it treason in the colonies to revolt against Great Britain? Was it treason in Naples, Modena, and Pa ma to dethrone their Sovereigns ? Was it treason for the people of England to bring in William the Third, and substitute the House of Hanover for that Stuart? Was it treason for France to select the Emperor Napoleon vice the Bourbons ? It was not. No more was it treason for the people of the Southern States, united in their wishes, to elect Davis vice 'Lincoln. Mr. Horace Greely, on the breaking out of the war, boldly stated that " the cotton States had every right to secede, and that to deny them that right would be against all ideas • of liberty and freedom." The constitution . of the United States did not forbid it, but expressly stated that " whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), it is the right of the people to alter and to abolish it, and institute a new government, laying its founda tion on such principles, and organizing its powers in such a form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." The South acted on this principle, but failed in achieving secession. During the Hungarian rebellion, and other revolu tions in Europe, the United States Government were the first to support the insurrection, having sent a Minister to recognise Hungary to Europe, and on this point we . must refer President Johnson to the action of Messrs. Webster, Buchanan, Seward, and other principal Secretaries of State, in, their corre spondence with their envoys in Europe, to prove that, with the precedents of his Government, trea son in other countries was not considered diabolical. POST.—Mr. Ferrand is one of those persons who never know when they have had enough of it. The mistake which the Lord Chancellor made some time ago, in being somewhat too ready in throwing a veil over the delinquencies of Mr. Edmunds, has been chosen by him as an incentive to a fresh attack, which, at present at least, seems to fail in the first conditions of plausibility. Twenty years ago Mr. Ferrand was well known as one who made it his business to purify the political world by acting in the rather invidious character of a public accuser. We all remember the fierce attacks which he made upon Sir James Graham some twenty years ago ; and, whatever was judged to be the success of his crusade against the Home Secretary of those days, Mr. Ferrand at any rate retired for a long time afterwards from bringing fresh Ministerial indict ments. The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Edmunds scandal has, how ever, apparently lent him fresh courage. The com mittee having differed with the Lord Chancellor as to the course which should have been pursued on that occasion, Mr. Ferrand is encouraged to find new scope for the expression of a diversity of opi nion with reference to what has lately taken place at Leeds. It would have been at least as well, if only for his own sake, if he had been content to leave things as they were. But he rakes up a story with reference to an alleged appointment of Mr. Richard Bethell to the post . of Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy at Leeds, asks several ques tions which are met with a most circumstantial negative from the Attorney-General, and, dis satisfied with a reply which bears at any rate the prima facie aspect of being conclusive, he gives notice of a motion for the appointment of a select committee to make full inquiry into the whole subject. Of course it will be in the power of the House of Commons to grant this committee if they should think, after the explicit answer they have received, that there is sufficient grounds to justify an inquiry. On Wednesday, however, it apparently occurred to Mr. Ferrand that, even in this motion, he had not gone quite far enough. The brilliant notion occurred to him that he might possibly catch not only the Lord Chancellor, but also the Attorney- General, tripping. Accordingly he gave notice of his intention to ask the question last night by whom this circumstantial statement of the Attorney- General was supplied, and also whether Sir Roundell Palmer would object to produce the letter of Mr. Welch tendering his resignation, and also that of Mr. Bethel]. confirming Mr. Welch's statement. Any application more frivolous than the former it would be hard to imagine. The Court of Bank ruptcy of Leeds did not lie within the department of the Attorney-General ; and it was quite enough surely to assume that the Attorney-General derived his information from the department to which the Leeds Court of Bankruptcy belonged, and further more, that those matters which were stated on the authority of the Lord Chancellor, namely, that Mr. Bethell's appearance at Leeds, if it ever took place, was without Lord Westbury's cognisance, must have been obtained from the Lord Chancellor him self, and could be valuable only as being drawn from that source. Hoviever, Mr. Ferrand was de termined to have the plainest deductions drawn out in actual words ; and last night he put his question. We think Sir R. Palmer was fully justified in re fusing to produce the person who had supplied him with information which he had stated on his own responsibility ; and we should imagine any gentle man will be content with Sir Roundell's offer to hand over to Mr. Ferrand the two letters of the genuineness of which he insinuates a doubt. The circumstances of the case in the Attorney- General's statement appear plain and simple enough, and there can hardly be much mystery about it. Within a short time there have been two registrars at Leeds, namely, Mr. Wilde and Mr. Welch. It appears that certain irregularities, not extending, however, to personal defalca tions, were discovered in Mr. Wilde's accounts by Mr. Commissioner Ayrton, who reported thereon to the Lord Chancellor.. Lord Westbury accord ingly called upon Mr. Wil an explanation. The Chancellor, no dou 'the chief, if not the only, judge of the meri f e explanation ; but it can hardly be do 't he was both a compe tent and disin d udge. The Chancellor de cided that I..4oExplanation was not satisfactory. That wa• doubt, a sufficient ground for Mr. Wilde* • gnation. Next, however, comes the questioit o f Mr. Wilde's pension. Probably Mr. Ferrand imagines that the Lord Chancellor wished to # 4 btain Mr. Wilde's resignation by a sort of mingled principle of rewards and punishments. He would give him a pension if he would retire at once, in order to nominate a relative in his place. Un luckily, however, for Mr. Ferrand's theory, the Lord Chancellor nominated neither a relative, nor a friend, nor even an acquaintance. He gave the office to a Mr. Welch, whom he knew only by the honourable mention made of him by Sir William Atherton and Mr. Edward James in recommending him for a legal appointment.. Here, however, there is a remaining straw for Mr. Ferrand to cling to. This gentleman declares it only a provisional ap pointment, to fill up the interval between that time and the expiry of Mr. Richard Bethell's outlawry. The appointment, however, appears to have been permanent, and to have been made without any qualification. So far as regards Mr. Bethell, the evidence of dates seems to be conclusive against Mr. Ferrand's hypothesis. Mr. Welch's appointment took place on the 30th of July, 1864 ; the outlawry only dated from the 15th of December following. With this circumstantial contradiction, it can hardly be pretended.that any part of Mr. Ferrand's posi tion survives. The Attorney-General declares also that, although the Lord Chancellor had been re quested to transfer 11r. Welch to London by way of promotion, in order to make room for Mr. Bethell at Leeds, he altogether refused to do so. It is quite possible that this proposition may lie at the bottom of the whole fabric Mr. Ferrand has built up. But, be this as it may, it is impossible to conceive, after the Attorney-General's plain and demonstrative reply, that it can have any better foundation. HERALD.—The ill-luck which has attended Mr. Locke's bill for establishing " free trade in theatres," and for rendering theatres commodious and safe places of public entertainment, should not so far discourage the advocates of the measure as to make them despair of ultimate success. This bill is not the first necessary piece of legislation which the inexorable Wednesday rule of the house has " put off," and postponed till its appearance on the notice paper became rather a sign of what was not to be than of what would really happen. Bills which have bloomed into acts of much greater importance than Mr. Locke's bill have successfully passed the ordeal of disappointment and delay, in spite of public and private attempts to burke them, and in defiance of deeply-interested augury. Therefore, when we find certain interests adverse to the reform which would be created by the bill hailing with a shout of triumph the fact that the measure halts considerably on its way to a second reading, and attempting, by the aid of unpolished badinage, to laugh Mr. Locke and his proposal out of countenance, we only recog nise the old tactics, and see behind the transparent mask the would-be confident mummer. Unhappily Mr. Locke's bill affects two classes of public caterers for amusement who have agreed to differ, and to consider themselves as enemies, the one class against the other. The theatrical lessee has, in many in stances, taken it into his head that he is being out generalled and made to suffer loss by the music-hall proprietor. He sees that while he has to obtain " leave and licence" for his performances, his brother of the music-hall is, in matters of entertainment, a chartered libertine, and chartered, too, to offer his patrons the extra attractions of the tavern or the hotel. It is here that the theatrical lessee feels, or thinks he feels, the sho e pi nc h. Th e English, although on the whole a sober people, have bibulous tendencies when they take their pleasure ; and so terribly common has become the practice of smoking tobacco, that where the smoker may send up his curling wreaths between himself and the footlights, a goodly company is pretty sure to assemble. The bait of the music -hall, then is very nicely compounded, and the theatrical lessee thinks it a little too nice for the public to be pleasant to him. He therefore asks for a counter balancing advantage. He wants a monopoly of drama, ballet, and pantomime, as a set-off against the pipe, the cigar, and the grog. It is purely a question of profit ; not of morality or the well-being of society. The music-hall runs the theatre very closely in the matter of popularity, and the theatre wants to have the music-hall weighted or handi capped till absolutely rivalry shall be out of the question. " Keep these places," says the lessee, " down to their old level : grant them their comic songs, their tumblers, their trapezeists, their dogs and monkeys, their irrepressible niggers, and all the irregularities of the entertaining school, but prohibit them from the higher grades of public amusement. In other words, keep the music-halls down to a low standard, and condemn their audiences to the pe nalty of a second or third-rate programme for their ill-conditioned tastes. Deny them anything like , elevation, save that which may be supplied. in the body of the house by the waiter, and quarter your pipes and grog with mountebank supporters." There is nothing more in the whole dispute than this—it is a question of rivals in trade. The music-hall has grown ambitious of improvement ; and the theatre craves to nip this ambition in the bud. And because , Mr. Locke's bill would hinder the proceeding, and let the two classes of establishments do what they please under precisely similar conditions, the " ori ginal houses" are wroth, and the hon. member for Southwark feels in various ways the effect of med dling with a monopoly. The public, however, has something to say in such a matter; and it says plainly Emerson on President Lincoln --- e The following address was delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, on oc- casion of the funeral services in honour of Mr. Lincoln : We meet under the gloom of a calamity which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civilised society, as the fearful tidings travel over sea, over land, from coun try to country, like the shadow of an uncalculated eclipse over the planet. Old as history is, and manifest as are its tragedies, I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this has caused, or will cause, on its announce ment ; and this not so much because nations are, bymodem arts, brought so close together, as because of the mysteri ous hopes and fears which, in the present day, are con nected with the name and institutions of America. In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb, and saw, at first, only deep below deep, as he meditated on the ghastly blow. And, perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contained the dust of the President came for ward on its long march through mourning States, on its way to its home in Illinois, we might well be silent, and suffer the awful voices of the times to thunder to us. Yes, but that first despair was brief ; the man was not so to be mourned. He was the most active and hopeful of men ; and his work had not perished; but acclamations of praise for the task he had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph, which even tears for his death cannot keep down. The President stood before us a man of the people. He was thoroughly American, had never crossed the sea, had never been spoiled by English insularity, cr French dissipation ; a quiet native, aboriginal man, as an acorn from the oak ; no aping of foreigners, no frivolous accomplishments, Kentuckian born, working on a farm, a flatboatman, a captain in the Blackhawk war, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois —on such modest foundations the broad structure of his fame was laid. How slowly, and yet by happily prepared steps, he came to his place. All of us remember—it is only a history of five or six years—the surprise and disappoint ment of the country at his first nomination at Chicago. Mr. Seward, then in the culmination of his good fame, was the favourite of the Eastern States. And when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced (notwithstanding the report of the acclamations of that con vention) we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times ; and men naturally talked of the chances in politics as incalculable. But it turned out not to be chance. The profound good opinion which the people of the West had conceived of him, and which they had imparted to their colleagues, that they also might jus tify themselves to their constituents at home, was not rash, though they did not begin to know the richness of his worth. A plain man of the people, an extraordinary fortune attended him. Lord Bacon says, "Manifest virtues procure reputation • occult ones fortune." He, offered no shinin g qualities at the first encounter ; he did not offend by supe riority. lie had a face and manner which disarmed suspi cion, which inspired confidence, which confirmed goodwill. He was a man without vices. He hada strong sense of duty which it was very easy for him to obey. Then he had what farmers call a long head ; was excellent in working out the sum for himself, in arguing his case and convincing you fairly and firmly. Then it turned out that he was a great worker, had prodigious faculty of performance, worked easily. A good worker is rare ; everybody has some disabling quality. In a host of young men that start together, and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial ; one by bad health, one by conceit or by love of pleasure, or by lethargy, 9r by au Jingly terapeP-0,4 j i 09123,0 dig qualifying fault that throws him out of the career. But this man was sound to the core, cheerful, persistent, all right for labour, and liked nothing so well. Then he had a vast good nature, which made him tolerant and accessible to all ; fair-minded, leaning to the claim of the petitioner, affable, and not sea' sible to the affliction which the innumerable vists paid to him. when President, would have brought to any one else. And how this good nature became a noble humanity in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him every one will remember, and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on hie compassion. The poor negro said of him, on an impressive occasion, "Massa Linkum am eberywhere." Then his broad good humour, running easily into jocular talk, in which Is delighted and in which he excelled, was a rich gift to this wise man. It enabled him to keep his secret, to meet ever" kind of man and every rank in society ; to take off the edge of the severest decisions, to mask his own purpose and sound his companion, and to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed. And, more than 814 it is to a man of severe labour, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural restorative, good as sleep, and is the pro' tection of the overdriven brain against rancour and insanity. His occupying the chair of state was a triumph of the go d sense of mankind and of the public confidence. This middle' class country has got a middle-class President at last. yes, in manners, sympathies, but not in power, for his peva were superior. His mind mastered the problem of the dal; and, as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it. Rarely was man so fitted to the event, In the midst of fears and jealousies, in the Babel of counsels and parties, this man wrought incessantly with all his might and all his honesty, labouring to find what the people wanted, and 1 301 to obtain that. It cannot be said there is any exaggeration of his worth. If ever a man was fairly tested he 108 ' There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, n or of ridicule. The times has allowed no State secrets; the nation has been in such a ferment, such multitudes had t ° be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door Was ajar, and we know all that befel. Then what an occasio n was the whirlwind of the war! Here was place for 11 ° holiday magistrate, the fair-weather sailor; the new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado. In four years—th e four years of battle-days—his endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting. There, by hi s courage, hi s justice, ill' even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a ll heroic figure in the centre of an heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step hi step he walked before them; slow with their slowness , quickening his march by theirs ; the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his count* the pulse of 20,000,000 throbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remark that the axe which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suf . fered at the block adds a certain lofty charm to their Pie" ture. And who does not see, even in this tragedy so recen‘ how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim. Far happiek this fate than to have lived to be wish e d awa y ; to 10" watched the decay of his own faculties ; to have see n '', perhaps, even he—the proverbial ingratitude of statesmen' to have seen, mean men preferred. Had he not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow-men—th e p rac ti ca l a b ol i t i on of slavery ? P hid seen Tennessee, Mi ssour i, an d M aryland emancipate' ° ,7 their slaves. He had seen Sav anna h, Charleston, and Rich' mond surrendered ;'had seen the main army of the rebellioe lay down its arms. He had conquered the public opinio n of Canada, England, and F rance . O n l y Washingtcfn can compare with him in fortune. And what if it should toi l out, in the unfolding of the web, that he had reached t ll° term; that this heroic deliverer could no longer serve u s that the rebellion had touch e d it s na t ura l conc l us i o n, an d what remained to be done requ i re d new and uncommitted hands—a new spirit born out of the ashes of the war ; and that Heaven, wishing to show the world a completed:We factor, shall make him serve his country even more 1 91 death than by his life. N a ti ons , lik e ki ngs, are not cowls 0051 v 4 : 1 4 facility and complaisance. " Th e ki n d ness o f Vs c in justice and strength." E as y goo d na t ure s .been tb dangerous foible of the republic, and it was necessary ti l* ,_ A its enemies should outrage it, and drive iw to unwon: t firmness, to secure the salvation of thi s coun t ry i n the hef t ages. • - The Fatal Accident to Captain Newbery, Yesterday afternoon Dr. Lankester held an in quiry at the Bank of England Tavern, Church street, Paddington, into the death of Capt. Henry Charles Le Clame Newbery, of the 51st Madras Native Infantry. The deceased was 33 years of age, and a son of the late Col. Newbery, of Park lane, Hyde-park. He had been on furlough from India, and while proceeding home by the road leading from Praed-street to Bishop's-road, Pad dington, a boundary wall which was attached to a coal depot connected with the Great Western Rail way fell and caused his death. Mr. A. Newbery, a brother of the deceased, said he saw Capt. Newbery in the hospital after the accident. At that time he was sensible, but could give no account of the acci lent In answer to the coroner the witness said that everybody of whom he had made inquiry knew that sufficient care was not taken with regard to the wall. Mr. S. Woodman, house surgeon at St. Mary's Hos pital, said that deceased was brought in about half past 6 o'clock on Monday evening. He was suffering from severe wound on the left eye. The frontal bone was fractured, and the back part of the head was much injured. His death was not caused by any operation. He had made a post-mortem examination and should say the immediate cause of death was exhaustion from the shock the deceased sustained, coupled with the injuries. Police-constable Fisher, D 293, deposed to seeing the wall fall down, about half-past 6 o'clock on Monday evening. The wall was near to the gates belonging to the Great West ern Company. On hearing a noise he went to the spot, and found a man's hat in the road. The coals inside the wall had fallen down, and some persons began at once to clear them away. Witness, find ing that the gentleman whom he had seen passing disappeared, concluded that he was buried under the coals. The people removed two or three feet of coal before they could get to deceased, a circumstance which induced the coroner to remark that it was a marvellous thing how he could have survived at all. A cab proprietor, named Hogben, was called, and said that he was waiting for the express train, and saw the wall fall. He had often called the attention of a person he supposed to be connected with the railway to the dangerous condition of the wall, but he had never kno Arn it to fall before. It was a mere parting wall, one brick thick. The jury expressed a wish to know what was the quantity of coals placed against the wall ; and Mr. John Scott, who described himself as an agent of the Lilleshall Coal Company, was called, and promised that if the inquiry were adjourned he would be prepared with the fullest information. He thought about 40 tons of coals had fallen, and he attributed the accident to vibration caused by the railway trains. The coroner, addressing the jury, said they had heard enough to show what was the nature of the accident, but a great deal of evidence must necessarily be forthcoming, and an adjournment would be indis pensable. The inqury was then adjourned until 10 o'clock on Monday, the 29th inst. Accidents in Chatham Dockyard. CHATHAM, May 18. A very alarming and serious accident has oc curred in the iron-foundry in this yard. For three weeks a mould has been in course of construction for making the great brass casting for the stem of the Lord Warden, 24—a task of no mean difficulty. The casting was to be made in the iron-foundry, as it was larger than could be accomplished in the brass-foundry. Late yesterday afternoon a number of the officers of the yard and several ladies assembled in the foundry to witness the casting. Among the officers were P. Thornton, Esq., master-shipwright; R. Dawson, Esq., T. Bakor, Esq., T. Clatworthy, Esq., &c. The brass having been properly melted and prepared it was received in two large crane ladles, worked by a dozen men over the mould. Each ladle contained about four and a half tons of metal. After the mould had received several tons of the molten metal, it gave signs of bursting ; an alarm was given, and those who were in danger attempted to escape. A man named Crossling was not success ful, as the mould burst, and. the molten metal flew about ; he was struck by a quantity of it on the back, which knocked him down, setting fire to his clothes. He was immediately dragged away by Mr. Rowland and Mr. Colley, who used every exertion to extinguish his burning clothes, their own hands being severely burnt in doing so. Crossling was taken to the surgery and thence to Melville Hospital, where he lies in a very dangerous state. The spec tators of the casting were cn great danger ; but the molten lead happily did not fly in the direction where they were standing. ;lad the metal spurted upwards the men over the mould, working the crane, must have suff ere d . It does not appear that any one is to bla me f or t hi s di sas t er ', as every pre caution had been taken: It is suppo,s'ed that there was a flaw in the sand of the mould. Another accident occurred to-day in the' dockyard, but fortunately without injuring any one. The powerful hydraulic machine used for lifting balks of timber from the water-pit near the steam saw-mills broke down. It was lifting- a piece of timber from the pit, when it suddenly fell, breaking the machine. COUNTRY MARKETS BRIS T OL—THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was not much activity wheats, with a moderate show of English samplest_ . l o prices fully maintained. Foreign steady. Barley again r , large supply, at a decline of 6d per qr. Oats 6d per cl cheaper. Beans inquired for, and is per qr. higher. BIRAIINGHAM—THuRsDAy. Attendance of farmers to-day v er y sma ll. For Wheat holders asked more money, which checked business; ley unaltered ; oats 6d lower ; beans and peas firm. 4290 Currencies :—English wh e at, w hit e , 43 s t o 47 8 ; red,, to 44s per 36 stone. M a lti ng b ar l ey, 30 s to 35 s ; grinauv; 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24a to 30s ; Irish, 21s to 249 P e 3Q stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 408 to 42s per qr. • BURY ST. EDMUND'S —WEDNESDAY. There was a good supply of wheat, and buyers Fein compelled to give is per qr. m ore money . Li ttle doing la barley, except for grinding purposes. Oats, beans, o n peas maintained their value. Talavera wheat, 448 to 495; red ditto, 37s to 40s ; ba le r' 30s to 325; secondary ditto, 27s to 29s per qr. ylii Averages : Wheat, 9021 qrs., 38s lld ; barley, qrs., 39s ld; oats, qrs., —s Od. MANOHES TER--TuuusuAv. Our market this morning was only moderately attende d .: Wheat was generally held for more money, at which lers were reluctant t o o p era t e, an d on l y a l i mited busitl; occurred. Flour fully maint a i ne d l a t e ra t es, b u t maud was not active. Oats and oatmeal unchanged. BO and Indian corn each brought extreme prices. BRIS T OL —THURSDAY. On our market to-day th ere was a mo d era t e suPP 1, Of 'i to t English wheat, for whi c h th e t ra d e ru led fi rm at f u lly . 1 3 ,. week's values. For e i gn a d vance d 6d to i s per qr. bla'ro ing barley quiet ; g r i n di ng very f ree l y offered, and buY e u t supplied themselv e s a t ra th er l ess money. O a ts Nal ° alteration. Maize and beans supported late -values. - GLAS GOW—WEnis-EsDAY. d e r This day's market was m o d era t e l y a tt en d e d , an d the,. a wand slow for any article. Fine States wh ea t and I d , were firmly held at previ ous rates ; B a lti c eas i er; barloYiro. oats 3d to 6d, oat mea l 6d t o i s l ower; pea; beans, and • than corn unaltered. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton }fay 19. Ditto, via Marseilles June I f' Brazil and Cape Verde. by B r iti sh pac. et June ~. Ditto, by French pack e t . Ma)? ''''• 25. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and st Helena—. 3lo' 9, uhina, Penang. and Singip,re. via Sou hampton_MaY i 9 ' Ditto, via Mantillas Jane 2 ' Fmkland Islands Gibrattar, tis Southampt on India ( Calcutta .), and Ceylon, via St;uthamoton....... „„ ea ., 19 ,,. Ditto,- via Marseilles •• • JO" : India (11..mbay), via Southampton may z: • ''• Ditto, via .larseitles MaYI. 1 Mauritius, via Southampton June , Ditto, via Marseite 4... June 5. ,• Newfoundland - May 2 Portugal •• June ''•• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United states and British North America, by Brl- KAY 24 tish packet Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton . Ditto, via C.;rk ...... '" • • r Ditto, by Canadian p ac k et, v ia Londonderry .. Ma ) 19 o. West Coast of Africa. M a d e i ra, and Teneriffe .. •J .t ..June - West Indies and Pacific (except Baba:LAß, Cuba, and Mexico MO 22 ' Bahamas, via New York. Ju6 - , 1 Bermuda, ditto June 1. 29. Luba and Mode.° MAY ;ADVERTISEMENT.) - Holloway's Ointment and r-- Security against Bad Health.—With the warm, s tthe days of Spring, maladies will be made manifest unle s s es, blood be pure and the skin be active. Eruptions, 1310 ' e fa ill and more formidable skin affections may be success cot , subjugated by the use of Holloway's detergent Ohlliilo , when it is aided by moderate doses of his purifying icto cls, Hoarseness, sore throat, chronic cough, enlarged g; and stiff neck will be at once relieved by ruhhini , t to cooling Ointment upon the skin overlying or adia ce- it s the afflicted part. Holloway's remedies have for sl o o years been recommended in preference to all other ono for healing sores, wounds, and all varieties of ulcers"' and for giving smoothness and elasticity to the skill• Births. 1,,t0/V BREAREY.—On the 18th inst., at Derby Lodge, v a ',",,ry, lane, the wife of P. T. Brearey, Esq., of AlderMauw of a daughter. __ A c e Of GOVETT.—On ( the 17th i ns t., a t Ri c h mon d, the 1 "`" Charles Albert Govett, Esq., of a daughter. flare , LINDSAY.—On the 15th inst., at 11, Grosvenor -sc l - Lady Lindsay, of a daughter. Marriages. r NigIV MURRAY — HAYMAN.—On the 15th i ns t ., at West " - n - c6 erf mDuth, Archibald M urray , E sq., of Rolls-yard, C..,- 4 78,1 0 lane, to Emily S o phi a , on l y d aughter of the late Hayman, Esq., of Torpoint. RACKHAM—MAILTELLI.-011 the 17th inst., at St. S a otto-7 Paddington, Thomas Hanworth Raekham, ESq" g. A' Norfolk, to Laura Catherine, eldest daughter of 0. Martelli, Esq., of 22, Westbourne-square, Hyde -r: Deaths. „ id 8001 ATKINSON.—On the 14th inst , at Paris, liellrY" --11 Esq., of Quebec, Lower Cana • da. Jane OW OARMICHAEL.—On the 17th inst., at Kilbur n ? michael, aged 72. L , a ir • 1 .,4, HUNT.—On the 17th inst. Jared Terrett Hunt , ----- ' 1 beth Wharf, aged 73. , s _ JENNINGS.—On the 17th in s t. at Hillesdon Pr ince gre ir Liverpool, Mary, relict of Wm. Jennings, Esc" C°° bury, Somerset, aged 91. , walole Ouvz.—On the e 4th inst., John Olive, Esq., °A ' El' of vale, Frome, aged 66. THORP.—On the 13th inst , Joseph Druitt Thorp , -"''' Ball's Bank, Dublin. • - _.....--••••••• .ondon : Printed and Publibhed by WIL LIAM AN 1 " — „ j Llgt of No. 112, Strand, PLinter, at THE SUN °dice, '-`" gt Strand, in the Preci nct o f the Savoy, in the C OW ° Alltigles9x—yriday, May 19, 1865. .~`"