The Sun. — London, England, 1865-06-09 00:00:00

t si A 4 „sum ,A.3T The Government has at length, it appears, listened to reason, and has determined to avail itself of the many advantages offered by the Trafalgar-square site of the National Gallery for the new and im proved buildings. There are so many arguments in favour of this course that it is only wonderful that its adoption should have been so long a matter of doubt and uncertainty. The open opposition of the Commons, supported by the general sense and feelings of the public, prevented the emigration of the national stores to the far IVest, but there has been so much reluctance in head-quarters to abandon the favourite official scheme that no ad vance was made in an opposite direction. The Government seemed to hope that they might suc ceed in wearying out the opposition of the House, or else they thought that some favourable occasion would present itself for the recommendation of the adverse vote. But the Fates are against them, and they have at length acceded to the often-repeated demand for estimates of the proposed enlargement. Last evening, on the vote for the completion of the sum necessary for the expenses of the National Gallery, Mr. A. SMITH asked whether it was the intention of Government the submit the proposed plan to the committee. Mr. COWPER, in answer, said that he hoped to lay the estimates on the table in a few day, and we hope he will be kept up to this mark. We have had delays and evasions enough in all consience, and since the House is prepared and willing to vote the money, there need surely be no loss of time in submitting the esti mate and the plan. The rest of Mr COWPER'S explanation was equally satisfactory, and will, we trust, be adhered to. It was proposed, he said, to purchase the ground in the rear of the present building, which is at present occupied by the paro chial schools, St. Martin's Workhouse, and Arch bishop TENISON'S school. The parochial authorities are not inclined to stand in the way of so rea sonable and beneficial a change. They have ex pressed their willingness to dispose of the work house and schools to the Government upon the very reasonable condition of receiving the amount requisite for building another workhouse in the suburbs, and for providing within the parish a casual ward and a parochial office. Arrangements are also to be made on suitable terms with the trustees of the schools, and therefore Mr. COWPER will be able to submit to the House a proposal for the purchase of all this property, which has so long stood in the way of one of the greatest of the metropolitan improvements. We hope there will be no more of those underhand delays of which we have already had so many. If the Govern ment are really in earnest about the matter, there are no obstacles in the way, for the House is quite prepared to be sufficiently liberal in its grants to Compensate the present owners of the property. No mean and temporary measures must be tolerated in such an undertaking, but it should be carried out in a manner worthy of the wealth and dignity of the nation, the liberality and intelligence of the people, and theimportance of the object in view. It is really a national undertaking, one which is to last for centuries to come. We have already had one National Gallery which has been our own mortifi cation and the ridicule of foreigners—do not let us repeat the experiment ; neither let some favoured architect give us another edition of the Brompton boilers ; but let the work be really one of which Englishmen need not be ashamed. There is some thing very unsatisfactory about the manner in which the large sums annually voted fo r our National Galleries are expended; and when we hear of £3,000 being spent in the purchase of pictures, an d £B,OOO for the travelling expenses of agents, we have some grounds for thinking that the expenses might be more judiciously distributed. The Royal Academy seems at present to be inclined to stop the way, but since they have been offered the use of Burling ton House, a very convenient and central site, they must not be allowed to monopolise the Tra falgar-square galleries. In one point the directors of the National Gallery might very well profit by their ezample—a-d that is, the opening of the rooms at night. It seems from the statement of The Greenwich Hospital Bill was proceeded with last night, and Mr. AYRTON very properly brought forward the claims of the merchant-seamen to parti cipate in the benefits of Greenwich Hospital. He said that no one could dispute that any man who was wounded or disabled in service in the presence of an enemy, or in defending his ship against pirates, was entitled to the benefits of this Hospital. The hon. member would also have advocated the cause of the widows of such men, but the Junior Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. CHILDERS, was averse to recognising their claims in this respect. Mr. CHILDERS so far acquiesced in the wishes of the House as to insert in this clause the words, " and seamen of the merchant service for the time being entitled to the benefits of Greenwich Hospital." This is a very satisfactory arrangement, but the credit of it is not due to the Admiralty. It is very certain that these deserving members of the profession would have been passed over had not their rights been vindicated and their claims advo cated by private members of the house. It is often thus that the working out of these official measures is characterised by injustice through the perversity of officials, and the real purposes for which so much public money is spent are left unfulfilled. At any rate it is fortunate that a change has come over the spirit of the dream of the Lords of the Admiralty, and that they have consented, though at the eleventh hour, to render justice to those who required it. Mr. CAVE made an admirable suggestion, to the effect that the wing of Greenwich Hospital which is about to be vacated should be devoted to the purposes of the Dreadnought Hospital, instead of incurring the large expense of £60,000 in building a new Dreadnought. It is surprising what sums might be saved the country if a little more fore thought and judgment were exercised by those who manage, or rather who mismanage, these affairs. They appear to take very little heed to their ways in this respect, but go on in a very reckless fashion in squandering public money which might be applied to a better purpose. On the clause which referred to the Governor of the Hospital, Sir J. HAY proposed that this functionary should be retained ; but Lord C. PAGET explained that the question at issue really resolved itself into whether the governorship should be abolished and pensions of £l5O a-year be granted to ten flag officers, or whether it be continued and the ten pensions done away with it. The amendment was negatived, which was as well, because it is always more desir able to spread sums in several directions than to create a sort of monopoly for only one individual. Favouritism so much oftener rules the choice of these officials than individual merit, or the require ments of the service, that the more checks that are interposed the better. It is also a matter of satis faction that clause nine has been retained, which provides that pensions be voted by Parliament. It was proposed to regulate this, but the committee wisely overruled the amendment. The more all that relates to these institutions is under the super vision of the House of Commons the better. It is to be hoped that those hon. members who take an active part in the discussion of the debates on this subject will still be on the alert, and watch narrowly the manner in which the Admiralty fulfil the task intrusted to them. Greenwich Hospital should be so conducted that it answers the purpose for which it was originally intended ; and it will be a lasting reproach to the authorities of our time, if they fall short of their duty, and neglect the administration of an institution of which our forefathers were justly proud. Mr. DAVID KEANE, Q.C., has issued an address to the Liberal electors of Beverley. In this the learned gentleman expresses himself in a very fair and straightforward manner, and advocates opinions that must meet with the favour and secure the sympathy of all real Liberals and independent electors. Mr. KEANE actually does not mince the matter, but goes straight to the point at once, and allows those whose suffrages he solicits to form a very accurate idea of his intentions. In this candid confession of political faith he presents a striking contrast to some of those who are endea vouring to get into Parliament and leave their constituents in a very vague state respecting their tenets. Lord AMBERLET was a notable instance of this in his memorable indecision, and Mr. GLADSTONE in canvassing the electors of Chester did not give one very precise ideas as to his future course. Mr. KEANE, on the contrary, is most explicit, and in some points he affords a clear insight into his views. Thus, he declares that he means by " Liberal opinions " the belief that the unrepresented classes are worthy of being repre sented. "I am for a large extension of the fran chise, for vote by ballot, and religious equality." This sounds something in earnest, and pre sents an example to other candidates, which they will do well and wisely to follow. Mr. KEAI , ZE is well qualified to have a seat in Parliament, and it is to be trusted that his frank expressions and explicit avowals of opinion may so impress the electors that success may attend his efforts, and that he may be returned as one of the members for Beverley. In the concluding passage of his address we find that he is a disciple of progress, and desires it to be continuous and uninterrupted, in fact such as only an extended and free suffrage can secure, and common sense accords with the justice of this observation. " I fail wholly to understand why the men of thirty years ago had a right to fix the franchise of the people of England." If we had more members of the style of Mr. KEANE in Parlia ment, ministers would not find it so easy to give the go-by to Reform and other questions of im portance. It is through the lukewarmness of soi disant Liberals that so little is done, and the sooner these apologies for representatives make room for real Reformers the better it will be for the country, aundnetihveles and real nearer will d b v e an t c h e e ml a eit. dvent of enlightened v The public must keep a very sharp watch over their few remaining open spaces if they hope to preserve any glimpses of rural life. Two of the most favourite and best known retreats from the smoke and noise of London are Hampstead-heath an d rpping Forest ; and surely it is not too much to expect that some active steps shall be promptly " This machine is constructed so as to present to the eye an endless succession of musical combinations, or of sen tences in grammatical and idiomatic form. These are produced by interchanges of the words or the bars, which have been previously selected and arranged according to a certain formula, and then written upon the faces of the little cubes. The peculiar characteristic of the apparatus is a contrivance which prevents the faces of the cubes from presenting themselves in regular succession. An ir regular movet.4ent being secured, a different variation of the words or bars necessarily results from each revolution of the machine on its axis. A complete sentence appears at the windows on each occasion, and all the rest of the words or the bars is excluded from sight. The working of the machine exemplifies the process whereby children, when taken abroad, reproduce foreign sentences in idiomatic form. It shows that the intellect works mechanically in the colloquial attainment of foreign languages ; particularly in relation to the idiomatic arrangement of the words. The machine was devised to illustrate the method set forth in Mr. Prendergast's work on the " Mastery of Languages." The beginner commits to memory two foreign sentences very perfectly. The English translations are inserted into the machine, and whenever it revolves a different variation of the words appears at the windows. The system requires that the learner shall go on translating these variations until he shall have obtained the " mastery" of them. Then he may undertake another sentence ; but he must recapi tulate them in every lesson in order to prevent their escap ing from his memory. The exclusion from sight of all words except those with which the learner is actually deal ing at the moment is of great importance, because it re moves all uncertainty and obviates the difficulty of retain ing in the memory the latter words of a spoken sentence, while he is employing that faculty in recalling the foreign words required for the beginning of it. A machine with t;.:77-ows affords an additional exercise, for if the foreign words are placed in one row, and the English in the other, each revolution will give an opportunity for practising double translation. The machine will soon recommend itself by the rapidity and the economy with which it works. To write out the variations of the sentences on paper would be a very tedious operation, and to make them riva voce from two written sentences would be perplexing and unsatisfactory. Tho apparatus is a sort of dumb waiter, from which the beginner helps himself without bothering or being bothered by a talking one. One promi nent feature of the scheme is that it bars the beginner from attempting to manufacture a sentence in a foreign language. The sentence muss be selected from books, or else received from a native. No man, however learned he may be, can make an idiomatic sentence in a foreign tongue until he knows something about it ; and it is very irrational to attempt it." The apparatus is a novel application of the kaleidoscope principle, and almost realises Swift's descriptiori of the art of book-making in Laputa. The words are put into the machine, and they are varied to form sentence after sentence at the pleasure of the operator. Its adaptation to musical composition was aptly illustrated by Dr. Gilbert on the pianoforte. A number of the cubes, upon each of the sides of which was written a different bar, which, read together, harmonised into a regular theme or melody, were placed in the machine, and varied at pleasure by turning the handle, the same arrangement or tune as rarely recurring as the same combination of pattern and colour in the kaleidoscope. Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Prendergast, and other gentle men, put questions to the inventor as to the applicability of the machine to instruction in languages and other pur poses, all of which were satisfactorily answered, and two ladies present stated that they used the invention in edu cational establishments with very great success. DEATH OF SIR JOHN RICHARDSON, C. 8., F.R.S. —We have to record the death of Sir John Richardson, C. 8., F.R.S., who eipirad at Lancrig, Grasmere, on the sth inst. The decoased gentleman, who had attained the age of 77 years, was son of tho late Gabriel Richardson, Esq., provost of Dumfries. NEW ACT ON CRIMINAL TRIALS.—On the let of July a section in a new act of Parliament (the 28th Victoria, cap. 18) will take effect in the law and practice on criminal trials. It is recited to be expedient that the law of evidence and practice on trials for felony and misde meanour and other proceedings in courts of criminal judi cature should be more nearly assimilated to that on trials at Nisi Prius. The following provision is to apply to every trial for felony and misdemeanour commenced on or after the Ist of July next :—" If any prisoner or prisoners, de fendant or defendants, shall be defended by counsel, but not otherwise, it shall be the duty of the presiding Judge at the close of the case for the prosecution to ask the counsel for each prisoner or defendant so defended by counsel whether he or they intend to adduce evidence, and in the event of none of them thereupon announcing his intention to adduce evidence, the counsel for the pro secution shall be allowed to address the jury a second time in support of the case, for the purpose of summing up the evidence against such prisoner or prisoners, or defendant or defendants, and upon every trial for felony and mis demeanour, whether the prisoners or defendants, or any of them shall bo defended by counsel, each and every such prisoner or defendant or his or their counsel respectively shall be allowed, if he or they shall think fit, to open his or their case or cases respectively, and after the conclusion of such opening, or of all such openings, if more than one such prisoner or prisoners, or defendant or defendants, or their counsel shall be entitled to examine such witnesses as he or they may think fit, and when all the evidence is concluded, to sum up the evidence respectively, and the right of reply and practice and course of proceedings, save as hereby altered, shall be as at present." The sections from 3 to 1 inclusive are to apply to all courts of judica ture, as well criminal as all others, and to all persons having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence. The provisions men tioned have reference to the discrediting of witnesses and the cross-examination as to a previous statement in writing, and how a previous correction of a witness is to be given in evidence. A comparison of disputed writing is allowed. The act is not to apply to Scotland. SWIMMING.—It appears by a Parliamentary return issued yesterday that 27 non-commissioned officers and soldiers of her Majesty's land forces were drowned at the various military stations of the United Kingdom during the year 1864. On the 27th of March last a circular gene ral order was issued on the subject of gymnastic instruc tion for the army, which directs, among other things, that swimming is to bo taught as a military duty at all stations where facilities for it exist, and a variety of details are given, but it appears that " as regards swimming, arrange ments have not yet been matured for carrying the above circular into effect." PARIS, JUICE 8. The following is the text of the Proclamation of the Emperor to the French Army in Africa : " Soldiers of the Army of Africa,— " I wish, before returning to France, to thank you for your labours and fatigues. In visiting all these spots, now so peaceful, but which for the last 35 years have witnessed heroic struggles, I have ex perienced feelings of lively emotion upon this soil, conquered by your predecessors and yourselves, upon which were formed those illustrious general and in trepid soldiers who have borne our glorious eagles into all parts of the world. Africa has been a great school for the education of the soldier. He has here acquired those manly virtues which are the glory of arms, and the most solid support of an empire, learn ing to face danger, to suffer privations, to place honour and duty above all material enjoyments. He has felt his soul expand to every noble senti ment. Therefore it is that in your ranks anger has never outlived the conflict. Among you there has been no hatred to the conquered foe—no desire to enrich yourselves with their spoils. You are the first to extend to the erring Arabs a friendly hand, and to wish that they should be treated with justice and generosity, as forming thenceforth part of the great French family. " Honour, therefore, to those who have shed their blood upon this soil, the possession of which has been disputed by so many different races ! " Soldiers of Staoueli, Mouzai, Constantine, Mazagran, Isly, and Zaatcha—and you also who have been fighting in the arid plains of the desert or upon the almost inaccessible peaks of the Kalzla, you have deserved well of your country, and you have, through me, the thanks of France. " Done at Constantine, the 6th June, 1865. " NAPOLEON." BOURSE, June B.—The market has been exceed ingly inactive since the commencement of business to-day, and a general though slight falling off has taken place in nearly all the departments. Spanish Stock of every description has been considerably affected, in consequence of rumours having been circulated in monetary quarters that the North of Spain Railway Company was not in a position to pay the interest becoming due on its obligations, and the Spanish Mobilier Company, which are extensive holders, are expected to be seriously victimised French Thres per Cents have been done at 67f. 40c., and the shares of the Credit Mobilier at 772 f. 50c. Italian Fives are at 66fr. 85c. Affairs have shown no improvement since two o'clock, the last quota tions being as follows : per Cents 95 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 67 45 Do. end month 67 421 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3675 Credit Fonder 1285 Italian Loan ~. 66 85 Do. and month 66 90 RAIL' Ditto Threes — New Mexican Do. Bonds 330 Russian 9O 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Roman 'AYR. Cash. Acct. 822 50 Orleans Northern lO6B 75 ... 1070 Lyons and Mediterranean 847 50 ... 845 Southern 595 --... 595 W es tern 526 50 ... 527 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5 OO --... 500 North of Spain 2lO ... 212 50 Saragossa 3 13 75 ... 312 50 Ditto to Barcelona 162 50 ... 157 50 AN UNDISCOVERED OPERA BY CAVALLI.—An in teresting discovery of an unpublished opera by Cavalli has just been made at the imperial library. M. Go vaert, the well-known composer, was looking over a num ber of scores of ancient operas, when among them he found one bearing simply the words in Italian, " Drama without a title." On examining it more closely he saw from certain indications that the music could not have been composed earlier than 1650 nor later than 1660, also that the author seemed to be a Venetian, and might have been Cavalli, who lived about that time. Several of the airs were headed " Artemise," and M. Gevaert having referred to F6tis' " Biographies des Musiciens," found mentioned among other works by that master an Artemisia in 1656, which had thus apparently been never printed. The Imperial library purchased this original, unaware of its value, in a sale a few years back, for the modest sum of 12f. Cavalli was invited to France by Cardinal Mazarin, and au opera by him, entitled " Verses," was performed at the Louvre on the occasion of the marriage of Louis XIY. She was admitted at once, and shown into the library where the clergyman sat in the red dusky glow of the firelight, sipping a glass of wine, and looking very much like an ox-animal chewing the cud; for the meditation in which the good man indulged over his wine was seldom worthy of being characterised otherwise than as mental rumination. " Well, Annie, my dear, come away," said he, " I am glad to see you. How does the boat get on ?" Deeply touched by a kindness which fell like dew upon the parching misery of the day, Annie burst into tears. Mr. Cowie was greatly distressed. Ho drew her between his knees, laid his cheek against hers, as was his way with children, and said with soothing tenderness— " Walawa,! what's tho matter with my dawtio ?" After some vain attempts at speeeh, Annie succeeded in giving the following account of the matter, much inter rupted with sobs and freeh outbursts of weeping. "Ye see, sir, I gaed last nicht to the missionar kirk to hear Mr. Broon. And ho preached a gran' sermon, sir. But I haenn been able to bide mysel' sin' syne. For I doobt I'am ane o' the wicked 'at God hates, and I'll never win' to haven at a' for I canna help forgettin' whiles. An' the wicked 'll be turned into hell, and a' the nations that forget God. That was his text, sir. And I canna bide it." In the bosom of the good man rose a gentle indignation against tho schismatics who had thus terrified and bewil dered that sacred being, a maid-child. But what could he say. He thought for a moment, and betook himself, in his perplexity, to his common sense. "You haven't forgotten your father, have you, Annie?" said he. " I think aboot him maist ilka day," answered Annie. " But there comes a day now and then when you don't think much about him, does there not ? "Yes, sir." "Do you think he would be angry with his child because she was so much taken up with her books or her play—" " I never play at onything, sir." " Well—with learning songs to say to Alec Forbes and Willie Macwha—do you think he would be angry that you didn't think about him that day, especially when you can't see him 2" "'Deed no, sir. He wadna. be sae sair upo' me as that." " What would he say, do you think ?" " Gin Mr. Bruce war to cast it up till me, he wad say, Lat alane the lassie. She 'll think about me the morn— time eneuch." " Well, don't you think your Father in heaven would say the same ?" "Maybe he micht, sir. But ye see my father was my ain father, and would mak' the best o' me." "And is not God kinder than your father ?" "He canna weel be that, sir. And there's the Scrip ter !" "But ho sent his only Son to die for us." " Ay—for the Week, sir," returned the little theolo gian. Now this was more than Mr. Cowie was well prepared to meet, for certainly this terrible doctrine was perfectly developed in the creed of the Scotch Church—the assembly of divines having sat upon the Scripture egg till they had hatched it in their own likeness. Poor Mr. Cowie ! There were the girl-eyes, blue, and hazy with tearful question, looking up at him hungrily. 0 starving little brothers and sisters ! God does love you, and all shall be, and therefore is, well. But the minister could not say this, gladly as he would have said it if he could ; and the only result of his efforts to find a suitable reply was that he lost his temper—not with Annie, but with the doctrine of election. "Gang ye hame, Annie, my bairn," said he, talking Scotch now, "and dinna trouble yer heid aboot election, and a' that. It's no' a canny doctrine. No mortal man could ever win at the boddon o' I'm thinkin' we haena muckle to do wi"t. Gang hame, dawtie, and say yer prayers to be preserved frae the wiles o' Sawtan. There's a sixpence to ye." _ . His kind heart was sorely grieved that all it could give was money. Sho had asked for bread, and he had but a stone, as he thought, to give her. So he gave her it with shame. He might, however, have reversed the words of St. Peter, saying, " Spiritual aid I have none, but such as I have give I thee ;" and so offered her the sixpence. But, for my part, I think the sixpence had more of bread in it than any theology he might have been expected to have at hand; for, so given, it was the symbol and the sign of love, which is the heart of the Divine theology. Annie, however, had a certain Scotchness in her which made her draw back from the offer. "Na, thank ye, sir," she said, " I dinna want it." " Will ye no tak' it to please an auld man, bairn ?" " Deed will I, sir. I wad do a hantle mair nor that to please you." And again the tears filled her blue eyes as she held out her hand--receiving in it a shilling which Mr. Cowie, for more relief to his own burdened heart, had substituted for the sixpence. " It's a shillin,' sir !" she said, looking up at him with the coin lying on her open palm. " Weal, what for no ? Is a shillin' no a sa,xpence ?" " Ay, sir. It's twa." " Wee], Annie," said the old man, suddenly elevated into prophecy for the child's need—for he had preme ditated nothing of the sort--" maybe Shan god o:fers "Ye scorner ! Ile cam hame last nicht bleedin' at tho heid, and i' the han's o' the watchman. Puir man ! ho cud hardly win up the stair. I canna think hoo he cam' to fa' sae sair ; for they say there's a special Providence watches owes drunk men and bairns. lie was an awfu' sicht, honest man ! A terrible mister o' reid and white." " What said he about it ?" asked Alec, trembling. "Ow, naething. He had naething till say. Ye maunna gang near him ; for I left him fast asleep. Gang awa benn to yer ain room, and I'll be in wi' yer brakfsst in ten mi nutes. Eh ! but ye wad be a fine lad gin ye wad only gie up the drink and the ill company." Alec obeyed, ashamed and full of remorse. The only thing he could do was to attend to Mr. Cupples's business in the library, where he worked at the catalogue till the afternoon lccture was over. Nobody had seen Beauchamp, and the blinds of Kate's windows were drawn down. All day his heart was full of Mr. Cupple3 ; and as he went home ho recalled everything with perfect distinct ness, and felt that his conduct had been as vile as it was possible for conduct to be. Because a girl could not love him, he had ceased to love his mother, and had given him self up to Satan, and had returned the devotion of his friend with a murderous blow. Because he could not have a bed of roses, he had thrown himself downin the pig-stye. He rushed into a public-house, and swallowed two glasses of whisky. That done, he ran straight home, and ran up to Mr. Cupples's room. Mr. Cupples was sitting before the fire, with his hands on his knees and his head bound in white, bloodstained. He turned a ghastly face, and tried to smile. Alec's heart gave way utterly. He knelt at Mr. Cupples's feet, laid his head on his knee, and burst into very un-Saxon but most gracious tears. Mr. Cupples laid a small trembling hand on the boy's head, saying, "Eh! bantam, bantam !" and could say no more. "Mr. Cupples," sobbed Alec, "forgive me. I'll cut my throat, gin ye like." " Ye wad do better to cut the deevil's throat." "Hoo could Ido that ? Tell me, and I'll do 't." " Wi' the brokon whisky-bottle man. That's at the root o' a' the mischeef. It's no you. It's the drink. And eh ! Alec, we micht be richt happy thegither efter that. I wad mak' a scholar o' ye." " Weel, Mr. Cupples, ye hae a richt to demand o' me what ye like ; for henceforth ye hae the pooer o' life or deith ower me. But gin I try to brak throu the drinkin', I maun hand oot ower frae the smell o't ; an' I dooht," added Alec slyly, "ye wadna hae the chance o' makin' muckle o' a scholar o' me in that case." And now the dark roots of thought and feeling blossomed into the fair flower of resolution. "Bantam," said Mr. Cupples solemnly, "I sweir to God, gin ye'll gie ower the drink and the lave o' yer ill gaits, I'll gie ower the drink as weel. I hae naething ither to gie ower. But that winna be easy," he added with a sigh, stretching his hand towards his glass. From a sudden influx of energy, Alec stretched his hand likewise towards the same glass, and laying hold on it as Mr. Cupples was raising it to his lips, cried— " I sweir to God likewise.—And noo," he added, leaving his hold of the glass, "ye daurna drink it." Mr. Cupples threw glass and all into the fire. " That's my fareweel libation to the infernal Bacchus," he said. " Let it gang to swall the low o' Phlegethon. But eh ! it's a terrible undertakin'. It's mair nor Hercules himsel' could hae made anything o'. Bantam ! I hae saicri feesed mysel' to you. Haud to your pairt, or I canna hand to mine." It was indeed a terrible undertaking. I doubt whether either of them would have had courage for it, had ho not been under those same exciting influences—which, under mining all power of manly action, yet give for the moment a certain amount of energy to expand. But the limits are narrow within which, by wasting his capital, a man secures a supply of pocket-money. And for them the tug of war was to come. And here at this crisis we take leave of Alec Forbes, commending his history /ery heartily to our readers. They will find in it, as the above examples testify, vigorous writing and genuine feeling. The charac ters, in their weaknesses and waywardness, in their faults and frailties, are true to nature, to poor human nature ; but the silver lining as well as the cloud is revealed, and the divine aspirations which ennoble the weakness and efface the failings are felicitously interwoven by the appreciative care of one who to the tender sympathy of the poet unites the vital faith of the Christian. All who thought fully peruse Alec Forbes will corroborate this eulogium, and unite with as in cordial congratu lations to its author. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM AND THE SCOTTISH CLERGY.-At a recent meeting of the clergy of the rural deanery of Belford, it was agreed to ask the Bishop of Durham how far they might go in occasionally availing themselves of the assistance of clerical friends ordained in Scotland without troubling his lordship with special appli cation for leave. In his reply Bishop Baring said :—"With reference to your question respecting clergy of the Episcopal communion in Scotland, I beg to inform you that I do not allow any clergyman to officiate in my diocese who is not ordained by some bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland." Yesterday there was a performance at th e Hanover-square Rooms of the above new oratorio in aid of the Royal Infirmary for Chest Diseases , City-road. The solo singers were Madame Lew mens-Sherrington, Madame Laura Baxter, AliS s Cecilia Westbrook, Mr. W. 11. Cummings, Mr. Wallace Wells, and Mr. Renwick. The chorus and instrumental band were numerous and complete. The room was very full, and the performance, n° doubt, has been advantageous to the charitable in stitution for whose benefit it was given. " Paradise Lost" is a work of great magnitude. It is divided into four parts—" The Garden of Eden," " Pande:, monium," " The Entrance of Satan into Paradise, and " The Expulsion of Adam and Eve." Id' Ellerton's music is full of talent, and displaye d great learning and skill but there appeared to be a lack of originality essential to the success of A great work of art. The oratorio, however, does . its author great honour as a sound and accomplii he° musician. The performance on the whole was cellent. THE NEW DERBY RACE GLASS, price Skit., with Sling Case complete. Will show distinctly the entir , race from " the start to the "comm,g in." huaranteed the cheapest ? nd best glass (a nes niodel) ever offered to the publl.3. bent carriatze tree to any part of ti:e Kingdom. post - office orders payable to WiLLtAll CALL GH AN, Optician, 23 A , New Bond-street, W. keorner Conduit-street). T HEATR E-R OYA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. 13uckstone. TIT'S EVENING, THE MILLE tt'S DAUGHTER. M ess rs. Coe per, Whiten , Clark, eke. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, F. Wright, So After which, 13ItOTHE SA. Messrs. Sothern, Buck stot.e. Co-npton. ; Mesdames' nowdon, Moore. &c. To conchae with GRE ..N-EYED 51ONSTER , . Messrs. Ch vpendale, Howe, Farren, Compton, anti MIA Lou se Keeley, c. To commence at 7. ikTEW THEATRE-ROYL, M Of CS. T lIIS EVENING, THE IRISJI 3less s. C. II Stephenson and Eburne ; 3lles h. Kelly. After which , a t S, I‘EAII. Leal). Miss Bat, man, sup orted by Messrs. Swinboure, Jordan, Stuart, Ashie y , St e phenson, Eburne , C. J. bmi; Miss H. Simms, Mrs. 11. L,w.s, Mrs Stoker, Miss A. Seaman. To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the I'l';;skin. Mews. J. L. Tools, Paul Bedford ; Miss K. Kelly Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining'. 1 HIS EVENING, a new Farce, by Mr. David Fisher, entitled HEART-STRINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS. After which, AR HAH NA POGUE : Messrs. Dion Bouci cault, J. Brougham, H. Vandenholf, D. Fisher, D. Murray; Mrs. Boucicault and Miss H. Oliver. To conclude with AN AMPLE APOLOGY. Commence at 7. R OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, at 7, SHORT AND SWEET. Mr. Parsell e ; Miss Johnstone. After which, WINDSOR CASTLE. Messrs. Stoyle,, Thorne, James, Panto ; Mesdames swanborough, Missesßayn h ,m, Simpson, Ho t, Hughes, Weston, aud the unniss. To conclude with UP STAIRS AND DOWN STAIRS. Mr. Stoyle ; Miss Simpson. trHE LAST EDITION OF " THE SUN," Coutatning" the Latedt 61'01LT1NU INTELLIGENCE, Can be bad Every e.vening of G. R. GLhNIE, Nztva AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, 011 Cavendist, street, Oxford street. THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as Published. containing alt the LA MST NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H. W. H&ItRiS, Ne !paper Agent, 4, Blacklrlars-road, London, S. TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.- Messrs. LEWIN ano SIIIEON SIuSISLI and oONS, 3u, Beruers-strcet, Oxfordi-stree , , and 448, Sirs d, opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Established :830. Al. ificial Tent h made with their patented advantages are fitted with out the least inconve len..e, however tender the mouth, s p porting. and strengthening loose and sensitive teeth until they become useful in mastication. Their resemblance to nature is perfect and undetectable, and they are guaranteed for all purposes of mastication and articulation. Operations of every kind tieing unnecessary, the most nervous patient can be supplied wi hout fear of pain or inconvenience. Con sultation .ree. Teeth from ss. Sets, 7, and 15 uineao, warranted. her the efficacy, utility, and success of trite system, vide " Lancet. ' Daily attendance at 15, Whitefriargato, Hull; 10, Norfolk- Street, Sheffield ; 4, East-pu.ra....e, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, S,iartiro'. . 4 , 9 ' No connection with any one of the same name. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. Om.—Afternoon, 2h. 20m. To-Moßnow.-Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3h. Om. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1865. Mr. KINNAIRD that there is a strong feeling in favour of this on the part of many societies. In one part of London, seven societies, numbering nearly as many hundred members, are unanimous in the expression of their wish ; while " three friendly societies, with 726 members, 13 building societies, comprising 5,000 members, various congregations, upwards of 60 teachers of schools, and the tem perance societies at a public meeting at which 9,000 members were present, all unanimously petitioned Parliament in favour of the movement." Wher ever it has been tried it has been successful, and as the great object of all these exhibitions is to refine and elevate the tastes of the people, it is manifest that the opening of the picture galleries during the leisure hours of the masses must be a great assist ance. The principal object, however, which the house must keep in view at present is the rebuilding and enlargement of the National Gallery on its present site, and we hope that hon. members will keep a close watch over Government, and take care that so great a national work is well and wisely done. ~.._. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1865. taken to p 1 •eserve them to the public. We do not wish to soe them turned into pleasure-grounds or trimly laid-out parks, with stiff fences and orna mental eater. They are wanted as real holiday retreats, where the tired toilers of London may see something of the freshness and wildness of country life. The incumbent of Hampstead has just addressed a contemporary, asking why the recommendation of the Commons' committee in 1858—that the Board of Works should purchase Hampstead Heath as a park for the use and recreation of the public— should not have been earlier attended to ? The value of the land is increasing year by year, as London moves more and more out of town, and suburban property grows more and more valuable for building purposes, so that nothing can possibly be gained by the delay. The suggestion is a very good one, and we hope it will not be allowed to drop. The encroachments being made on Epping Forest also demand prompt attention, and the state ment of a recent visitor that large portions of the forest are being rapidly enclosed, should not be suffered to pass unnoticed. Almost every Lon doner is familiar with the beauties of Epping, Loughton, High Beach, and Chig well. It is a happy chance that so charming a retreat should be in such close vicinity to our overthronged metropolis, and it is really too bad that so great and innocent a source of pleasure should be taken away from the people when it is their undoubted right. We sincerely hope that the matter will be taken up in the right quarter without any delay ; and if there be any rights or claims which interest with the people's privilege, let the Government buy them out, but on no account let us suffer ourselves to be deluded with the promise of a few acres of parks and gardens in place of the real fresh and untrammelled country. Let the Heath and the Forest still deserve their titles, for at no time was fresh air and change of scene more needed by all classes, and it will be a lasting dis grace to us if we suffer ourselves and our successors to be deprived of them. Teaching by Machinery. A very ingenious mechanical contrivance for aiding the ordinary educational process in the acquisition of languages, music, arithmetic, &c., was exhibited on Wednesday at Messrs. W. and R Chambers' London establishment in Paternoster row, in the presence of Mr. S. Morley and several ladies and gentlemen interested in the work of edu cation. The patent Metabolical Machine is the name which Mr. Alfred Long, the inventor, has given to this very simple but apparently very efficient piece of mechanism, and in the explanatory lecture with which he introduced it to his audience he described it thus : LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA.. ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA. (Via Crookhaven.) The following are the heads of the news brought by the Cuba. NEW YORK, MAY 31, Morning. President Johnson has issued an amnesty procla mation, excluding therefrom rebel civil officers, military above the rank of colonel, naval above the rank of lieutenants, governors of States, rebels with over $20,000 of property, pirates, and border raiders. Kirby Smith has surrendered. A terrific explosion has occurred at Mobile, hun dreds of people were killed and millions of property destroyed. Several persons have been arrested at San Fran cisco for complicity in a conspiracy to seize a steamer and put to sea as a Mexican privateer. Gold, 136 g. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 31 (Morning). Money abundant. Gold, 1361. Exchange on London, 157 ; on Paris, 3.721. Stocks downward tendency. New York Centrals, 87 ; Illinois, 115 : Erie, 70/ ; 5-20 Bonds, 1021. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 48. Flour dull. Wheat and corn slightly firmer. Provisions good inquiry. Coffee quiet. Sugar and molasses steady. Petro leum dull ; crude, 351 ; refined, 49. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, JUNE 8. The Delhi, from Southampton May 27th, arrived here on the sth inst. at 5 a.m., and left at 1 p.m. for Alexandria. The Nyanza, from Marseilles on the sth inst., arrived on the 7th at 1 p.m., and left at midnight for Alexandria. AUSTRALIA. PENZANCE, JUNE 9. The Norfolk, from Melbourne on March 21st, has passed up the Channel off here. She brings 203 passengers and 5,672 ounces of gold. She lauded 20 passengers here this morning. FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 9. The Empress has received the letter written by the President of the United States to the Emperor, in reply to the imperial letters recalling M. Mercier. A decree has been issued, signed by the Empress, according to which all warnings given to the jour nals in Paris and the departments are considered null and void. The resignation of Prince Napoleon of the Vice- Presidency of the Privy Council and the Presidency of the Exhibition Commission has been accepted by the Emperor. The text of the despatch of the 22d ult., addressed to Mr. Bigelow by the American Minister for Foreign Affairs, is published to-day. It expresses the grateful memory preserved by the Government and people of the United States of the sentiments expressed by the Emperor, the Senate, and the Corps Legislatif, on the occasion of the assassina tion of Mr. Lincoln. It reverts also to the old friendship existing between the two nations, a friendship, adds the Minister, which is cordially reciprocated on our side. PROCLAMATION OF THE EMPEROR. LITERATURE. Alec Forbes, of Howglen. By George Mac Donald, M.A. Author of " David Elginbrod." 3 Vols. Hurst and Blackett. A pleasant story-teller is George Mac Donald, and we close the last volume of his book with regret. We are loth to part with the group of very various but very original characters to which it has intro duced us; we miss the earnest tones of the narrator's homely voice, but many a happy recollection lingers pleasantly in the memory. As a story " Alec Forbes" is a great improvement upon " Adela Cathcart. The interest is more concentrated, and the characters are very forcibly and naturally developed. The first volume is principally devoted to the childhood of the hero and heroine, of Alec Forbes and gentle Annie Anderson. Alec Forbes, although holding that honourable position is, iu fact, anything but a hero. He is, when we first know him, a gay, careless, high-spirited, generous-hearted Scottish laddie, not gifted with any great intellec tual powers, and at the close of his recorded history he is still much the same, but Annie—how shall we describe her, the simple loving child, with earnest anxious heart, and restless inquiring brain. Very few such heroines as Annie Anderson are to be met with in the pages of romance. In her isolation and her unworldliness she is like some tenant of a better world, who is only here as a stranger seeking for her home—a description which should per haps apply to all the inhabitants of earth. In the opening chapter we find Annie, a lonely child of nine, on the day of her father's funeral, seeking for comfort and companionship with the dumb inmates of the farm-yard—" Nae body mindit me, an' sae I came to you, Broonie," and she laid her cheek—white, smooth, and thin— against the broad, flat, hairy forehead of the friendly cow." These innocent consolations are speedily in terrupted, the little country lassie, the playmate of the farm-yard, is sent to live in the town in most ungenial companionship. Here she attends the day school ; and here, among the scholars, she becomes acquainted with Alec Forbes, the only son of the widowed Mrs. Forbes of Howglen. The character of the schoolmaster, his severe discipline, and his cruel brutality, is perhaps naturaFand typical of a class now, let us hope, extinct, but the description of his doings is singularlyrevolting. Alec, the favourite of the schoolboys, by whom he is styled " General," constitutes himself the champion of little timorous Annie, and the grateful devotion of her tender heart repays his services with interest. Alec goes after a while to a distant college, and becomes sepe rated from the companions of his boyhood; even his dearest friend " Curly"—a capital specimen of honest, faithful friendliness and fealty—recognises a difference in their relationship. We must not fol low the history step by step. It is in the inner rather than in the outer world, however, that the chief trials and difficulties of both hero and heroine take place. As the Scottish dialect plentifully per vades the pages of Alec Forbes, so also does the strong religious feeling of the North hold a prominent place in the history. One Sunday evening the little earnest-hearted maiden goes to the missionary church so heartily commended by honest Thomas Crann, the stonemason, himself one of the most religious but intolerant of mortals. Here poor Annie is overwhelmed by the awful de nunciations to which she listens. Once before, when in want of a book, she had fearlessly called, though then unknown to him, on the clergyman of the parish—to him she goes in her new perplexity. When Annie descended from her hateful eminence, just before her final prayer, it was with a deeper sense of de gradation than any violence of the ta wse on her poor little hands could have produced. Nor could the attentions of Alec, anxiously offered as soon as they were out of school, reach half so far to console her as they might once have reached; for such was her sense of condemnation that she dared not take pleasure in anything. Nothing else was worth minding till something was done about that. The thought of having God against her took tho heart out of everything. As soon as Alec left her, she walked with hanging head, pale face, and mournful eyes, straight to Mr. Cowie's door. us a saxpence, it may turn oot to be twa. Good nicht, my bairn." But Mr. Cowie was sorely dissatisfied with himself. For not only did he perceive that the heart of the child could not thus be satisfied, but he began to feel something new stirring in his own bosom. The fact was that Annie was further on than Mr. Cowie. She was a child looking about to find the face of her Father in heaven ; he was but one of God's babies, who had been lying on his knees, re ceiving contentedly and happily the good things he gave him, but never looking up to find the eyes of him from whom the good gifts came. And now the heart of the old man, touched by the motion of the child's heart—yearning after her Father in heaven, and yet scarcely believing that ho could be so good as her father on earth—began to stir uneasily within him. And he went down on his knees and bid his face in his hands. Annie does not rest here. Very beautifully and very truthfully is the progress of her inner life pour trayed, and we will not mar the completeness of the development by any further isolated fragments. Turn we now to Alec, at the University, where he makes an enemy and finds a friend, and meets also with a lady-love to supersede poor homely Annie. The friendship which Alec makes is at first sight an unfortunate one. His new friend is Mr. Cupples, one of the most original characters in the book. Mr. Cupples is a sort of librarian to the College. He is a great scholar, and would be a very ciNkL• and excellent man were it not for his almost con tinual intoxication. Conscious of the enormity of the evil, while he is himself its victim and its slave, he endeavours with a vehement persistency to save Alec from the same temptation. He will willingly give Alec as much " Greek" as he likes, but (even while continually emptying the tumbler himself) not one drop of " toddy." Here is an example : " Wee], Mr. Cupples," Alec ventured to say, " what for dinna ye sen' the bottle to the deevi] ?" " What, my ain auld tappit hen !" exclaimed Mr. Cup pies, with a sudden reaction from the seriousness of his late mood; "Na, na, she shanna gang to the deil till we gang thegither. Eh ! but we'll baith hae dry insides or we win frae him again, I doobt. That drouth's an awfu' thing to contemplate. But speyk o' giein' ower the drink! The verra attemp'—an' dinna ye think that I haena made it—aich ! What for sod I gang to hell aforo my time ? The deils themselves compleen o' that ? Na, na.* Ance ye hao learned to drink, ye canna do wantin"t. Man, dinna touch 't. For God's sake, for yer mither's sake, for ony sake, dinna let a drap o' the hell-broth gang ower yer thrapple—or ye're damned like me for ever and ever. It's as quid's signin' awa' yer sowl,wi' yer sin han' and yer ain blude." Mr. Cupples lifted his glass, emptied it, and, setting it down on the table with a gesture of hatred, proceeded to fill it yet again. But when some of the troubles of youthful life befall Alec, when he is disappointed in his dream of love, he weakly yields to the influences around him, and not in the society of Mr.,Cupples, however, puts the enemy within his mouth. Great is the grief and indignation of the poor frail Mentor, and noble at last the heroism of his friendly devotion. On one occasion Mr. Cupples endeavours to restrain Alec in the midst of his dissipation, and the unhappy youth mad with drink strikes his devoted friend to the ground. Then follows a scene which is the turning point in the life of Alec Forbes. We give it with out comment, it requires none. When Alec woke in the morning, it rushed upon his mind that ho had had a terrible dream ; and he reproached himself that even in a dream he should be capable of striking to the earth the friend who had just saved him from disgrace, and wanted to save him from more. But as his headache began to yield to cold water, discomposing doubts rose upon his clearing mental horizon. They wore absurd, but still they were unpleasant. It could be only a dream, that ho had felled the man twice his age, and half his size, who had once shed his blood for him. But why did it look so like a fact, if it was only a dream ? Hor rible thought ! Could it ?—lt could—lt must be—lt was a fact! Haggard with horror as well as revelry, he rushed to wards the stair, but was met by Mrs. Leslie, who stopped him and said : " Mr. Forbes, gin you and Mr. Cupples gang on at this rate, I'll be forced to gie ye baith warnin' to flit. I oucht to hae written to your mither afore noo. Ye'll brack her hert or a' be dune. Eh ! it's a sair thing when young lads tak' to drink, and turn reprobate in a jiffie (mo ment)." " I dinna gang to your kirk, and ye needna preach to me. What's the maitter wi' Mr. Cupples ? He hasna ta'en to drink in a jiffie, has he ?" \kr , e - - Curt tt GVLOIEN Tat HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, June 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, attended by the Duchess of Athole, went to Alt-na-Guithasach. Princess Helena and Prince Arthur, attended by Mrs. Gordon and Miss Bowater, ascended Bell 9 Baurd. The Princess of Wales. The following bulletin was issued yesterday : " Marlborough House, June 8, 9.30 a.m• " Her Royal Highness the Princess of Waleo is steadily advancing towards recovery. The infant Prince continues well. "ARTHUR FAR RE, M.D. " E. H. SIE V E KING, M.D." RETURN OF HER MAJESTY FROM SCOTLAND.—Her I — Crirfarl-, accompanied by the junior members of the royal family, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, will, it is understood, according to the latest arrangements, leave Balmoral Castle on Friday, the 16th inst., and return to the south. The royal journey, as in the progress to the north, will, it is expected, be performed by a special train provided by the directors of the London and North Western Railway, which will leave Scotland in the course of Friday, and proceed by the usual Scottish and English lines to Windsor, where her Majesty will arrive in time to breakfast at the Castle on Saturday morning. The various preparations for the reception of the Queen and royal family are being made at the Palace. On her ga" jesty's late journey to Balmoral the royal special train kept most excellent time, and arrived at Aboyne a few minutes before it was due, so that no delay was experienced by the royal travellers. The Queen, after a short residence at the Castle, will make a trip to Osborne. HER MAJESTY.—We have reason to believe that it is the intention of the Queen to hold another Court at nuckingham Palace before the close of the season. It is said that Saturday, the 17th inst., is the day appointed by the Queen for the reception. STATE BALL.—There will be a full dress ball at Buckingham Palace on the 27th inst., at which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will assist the Princess Helena. PRINCE ALFRED'S NEW BOAT ON THE RHINE.--* His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has already brought hig new and beautifully-built four-oared gig, the Queen Vic toria, into use upon the Rhine at Bonn. The prince, upon trying the elegant little craft, was much pleased with her build, and has signified the samo to Messrs. Searle and Son, of Lambeth, the builders, through Major Cowell, his royal highness's equerry. PORTUGUESE ORDER OF SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC MERIT.—The King of Portugal, on the occasion o f the publication of the " Histoire de Jules C4sar," has conferred upon the Emperor Napoleon the collar and grand cordon of the Order of Scientic and Artistic Merit, a distinction to which only three individuals have yet attained. Lord and Lady Rivers received a select party at dinner last evening, at their residence in Portman-squar e " Sir William and Lady Scott received at dinner last night, at their residence in Eaton-place, the Earl and Countess of Suffolk and the Lady Victoria Howard, 3.11. ' and Lady Charlotte Watson Taylor, Miss Watson Taylo r, Sir Alexander and Lady Gordon Cumming, Miss Gordon Cumming, Colonel and Miss Wilson Patten, Mr. Egertoal Mr. Trotter, &c. Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard have returned to town, from passing the Whitsuntide holidays at Compto n House, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, in Sussex. Mr. Mansell Talbot's ball will take place at 3 ' Cavendish-square, on the 21st inst. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured the performances at the Royal Italian Opera with his presence last evening. 1113 royal highness was accompanied by the Duke of Suther land, the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, and the Earl ° Dunmore. Mr. Ellertou's Oratorio "Paradise Lost." A-- BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, JuNE 6 . The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. —..... June 8. June 1• c. fr. c. fr. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 182,500,000 --* Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,724 81 7,04 3 , 871 81 Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve in laniled pro perty Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 11 4,000,000 - 4,000,00? 5, 795,612,975 - 809,856,00 8,548,809 47 7,55 9 1 889 25 receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur -2t rent creditor 91,862,759 19 88,418,60 ,1 Current accounts, Paris 173,614,943 35 165,374, 475 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 645,181 75 698,6 39 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last 06 six months 2 1 789,444 ,(I Sundries . ,b v., Total CREDITOR. June 8. June 1. c. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. ~_ 93 Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- 257,731,865 263,417,, oq i 6 6 connted, not yet due 234,197,887 91 229, 627,'" Do. branch banks - ~6 9 --- Advances bullion on deposit of 6 3:) 39,029,296 35 38,226,99-- s 6 "" DO. branch banks 10 ,17 7 ,186 9,1111- g Do. on French Public 685,727 41 18,189,836 31 14,994,500 -14,914,89 g 9,901,950 9,53114°' Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 19,159,250 Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 00 30 161'50 5 31,12 537,200 - 403, 5° 406,700 - 60,000,000 0" ,°' 0 1 4 12,980,750 14 12,980, 4 1 - 91 36,557,487 91 36,557, 100,000,000 serve Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisdes -- (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches ... Expenses of manage- 8 ,494, 0 8,242,592 - 1,872,915 10 1,83}+816 907,797 21 8882, nient Sundries Total 1,342,807,436 69 9 ' , , 1,345,68, Certified by the Senator Governor of th e Bank of Fil ul-e RoULAND. GREENWICH HOSPITALOUT - PENSION. outer vacancy has occurred in the list of officers on th e .,,,11, value x ns 6 of Greenwich Hospital for a Commander, -R° i i 5 per annum, in consequence of the death of CI,. William Speck, who expired at Torpoint, Cornwall, o ut ' sth inst. for MANURE Wor,Ks.—A copy has been ri p ate& the information of Parliament of a report 11 A Pi o . i Letheby and Mr. Bazalgette, of the Metropolitan Board - Works, after the inspection of certain manure an d c-e a mica works in the neighbourhood of the northern t',11.... southern outfalls of the main drainage of the m The result of their inspection is that large and " re a offensive opera t i ons are carried on in rho neighbourbooue and that t 0 of both the northern and southern outfalls ; putrid and other vapours emitted from the Iorl!lr... diffused into the atmosphere and wafted to a conslaeto able distance. No precautions whatever are in 115 '; , prevent the escapo of the noxious alluvia, and it 1 ~ • s Hui, question whether the effluvia, may not be a seriou to sauce to the workpeople who v,ill have to reside at etropoilros, . drainage works. MEM ~~" sDullio; D Bt Public Other S even ° Ver O ther Notes Les and b ar e 7 2 ° 2, PaLil Bth l nsta n ha ve taate, The el iang B ar 4 i 130 14 at 45i; F ret °. Oo il , c to, D u o ' D o ' Do. Do: 13:11)ja; 0°. fah 0 . 1)„