The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-28 00:00:00

The New Site of the Royal Academy. There is now at last a fair prospect that the Royal Academy will find a domicile worthy of itself. The workmen have begun to excavate the site of the new buildinga in Burlington-gardens, and we may hope that before the summer of next year ends every thing will be in readiness for the migration of the academy from Trafalgar-square to its new abode. In the meantime the plans for the proposed change are so far advanced that we can give some account of them. The late President, Sir Charles Eastlake, came distinctly to the conclusion that if the Academy was to be excluded from Trafalgar-square, then of all the sites which the Crown had to offer its most suitable duelling-place was to be found in the pre cincts of Burlington House. But Sir Charles East lake's idea was that the Academy should occupy an edifice to be raised on the Piccadilly front of this ground. The scheme on consideration was found to be impracticable, partly because of the great ex pense which the erection of such an edifice would entail on the Academy, partly because of the incon venience of exhibition rooms arranged in a building the ground-floor of which has to be pierced in its centre by tall arches of entrance to the Burlington quadrangle. That it was proposed that the Academy should accept a home in the South Kensington estate ; and much was said in favour of that sug gestion. There is just now being formed at South Kensington a museum of art which will before long be esteemed one of the chief glories of the metro polis—a casket of jewels worthy of a great nation. But it is a❑ undoubted fact that this magnificent collection is not yet as famous as it deserves to be. The reason is that it is out of the way, and not well enough known. And if the Academy were to transfer its annual Exhibition to this neighbour hood, it would have for many years to submit to a considerable diminution of those shilling visitors upon whom its income largely depends. Here, than, was a dilemma. There were serious objec tions to the Piccadilly front of Burlington House, and there were serious objections to the South Kensington estate as sites for the Royal Academy. What was to be done ? The new President, Sir Francis Grant, solved the difficulty by finding the Academy another site in Burlington House itself and the garden behind. Few persons strolling about Piccadilly, even with the long vista of the Burlington Arcade to help them, have any adequate notion of the quantity of ground belonging to Burlington House, and extend ing from the dead wall in Piccadilly to the dead wall in the street known as Burlington-gardens. Some notion of it may be formed when we state that Burlington House itself occupies about the centre of the ground, and that it is proposed to raise at theback of it and parallel with it two great buildings, one for the London University, the other for the galleries of the Royal Academy, with a space as wide as Oxford-street between them. Of the edifice in tended for the London University, which is now being built at the extreme end of Burlington-gar dens, facing the street known by that name, we have nothing to say, save that it fills the whole breadth of the gardens, with the exception of a 12- foot roadway on one side, leading to the Academy buildings, and, indeed, right across the grounds to Piccadilly. The London University will extend back into the gardens about 130 ft. Behind it there will be a vacant space about the breadth, as we have said, of Oxford-street, and between this space and Burlington llouse will rise up(with a depth of about 120 ft.) the galleries of the Royal Academy. These galleries will be built somewhat close to the back of Burlington House, with which they are intended to form one edifice for one purpose. In fact, Bur lington House is given up to the Academy, and will form its frontage. The public will enter the galleries of the Academy through Burlington Mouse. They will ascend the staircase of the house, to an open ing at the back, which is now used as one of its principal windows. This will be transformed into a doorway leading through a short corridor to the exhibition rooms. The galleries and offices which it is proposed to provide in the new buildings look well in the plans. The galleries are of course on the first—that is, the upper floor, in order to secure the advantages of top lighting; and they certainly have the merit of creat ing ample accommo lation for the exhibition of pic tures. The wall space allotted to pictures in the pre sent rooms of the Academy is measured by 748 lineal feet. It is better to give the measurement in lineal than in square feet, because the precise height at wl, ich pictures can be advantageously hung is always a variable quantity, and in a calculation like the pre sent it conduces to clearness to assume that all pic tures are hung on the line. This line in the galleries now occupied by the Academy extends, we repeat, to 748 ft. In the new galleries it will extend to 1,884 ft. The principal gallery, in which the annual dinner of the Academy will be given, is intended to be 82ft. long and 44ft. wide. The next in import ance is equally long, but only 35ft. wide. The cen tral gallery of all, which in the plan we have seen is called the Vestibule, is an octagon intended for sculpture. Underneath these galleries is the ground floor, which is allotted chiefly to the schools of the Academy. On the north side are the rooms destined for the life and the antique schools, lighted by win dows looking to the London University, but receiv ing light from the sky at an angle of 45 deg. across the space which we have compared to Oxford-street for width. Besides these schools accommodation is provided for the exhibition of casts, for the custody of rejected pictures, for a kitchen, for lavatories, for various cellars, for heating apparatus, for a lift to raise heavy sculpture to the upper story, and for many other purposes. Altogether, the arrangements in this new building, S 3 far as we understand them, seem to be very complete. In Burlington House proper the Academy will find further accommoda tian—a council room for its meetings ; chambers for its keeper, a library, a gallery for the exhibition of Gibson's works. In addition to this it is proposed to add a story to the building. The story thus added will have a double value. It will form a fine gallery for the exhibition of the diploma pic tures of the Academy and some other treasures in its possession—as for Sir Joshua's, a first rate Gior gione, and a fresco Paul Veronese, recently be queathed. It will, on the other hand, from the external view, give dignity to a facade which— graceful enough —was felt to be rather flat. These plans promise well, and we heartily wish the Academy undisturbed and prosperous enjoyment of its 999 years' lease. But it is not yet in possession of all its rights ; nor. is possession possible until the Government has provided house-room for the Royal and other learned societies which are at present lodged in Burlington House. The Government pro poses as follows :—From Burlington House to Pic cadilly extend two wings which are to be pulled down. In their place, and along the front of Pic cadilly, there is to be raised an edifice harmonising in style of architecture with Burlington House, and intended for the abode of theßoyal Linnasam,Chemi cal, Geological, Astronomical, and Antiquarian Societies. These societies it is proposed to provide with rooms far better than any they now possess ; the frontage to Piccadilly, if it does not show much originality in the way of architecture, will at least be pleasant to look on, and will save our great thoroughfare from the reproach of a long, dull, dead wall—a hideous monument of exclusiveness. Origi nality in such a facade was scarcely possible, seeing that Messrs. Banks and Barry, the architects of this part of the building, had to adapt their design to that of Burlington House . as it stands. W e may say roughly that the front is not unlike that of the Privy Council and Board of Trade officea in White to distinguish it—th a t a hall ; with this, however, noble archway, 82ft. high by 20ft. wide, rises in the centre. The effect is good, and Messrs. Banks and Barry deserve not a little credit for the skill with which they have handled a style of architecture which is by no means remarkable for its variety, and is too often quite oppressive in its monotony. We should add that in the block of buildings which it is proposed to rear on the grounds of Bur lington House no less than-three architects are en gaged. We speak of Messrs. Banks and Barry as but one. They have charge of the buildings in tended for the learned societies. Mr. Sydney Smirke is the architect of the Academy, and to him is due the improvement of the aspect of Burlington , House by the addition of a story to it. Mr. Penne thorne is the architect for the London University.— Times. Termination of the Engine-drivers' Strike. The directorsof the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway and the engine -drivers and firemen employed on their various lines came yesterday to an amicable arrangement with respect to the points of dispute between them, or rather as to the only one which remained a subject of controversy up to Tuesday evening, the directors having pre viously conceded all the rest, and therefore the strike is at an end, both parties having yielded. Yester day morning all the drivers usually employed south of Three Bridges, or between Brighton, Portsmouth, and Hastings, about 100 in number, out of the 196 who had struck, with an equal number of firemen, resumed work, and throughout the clay the trains on the main line from London to Brighton or Ports mouth, and from London to Hastings, were run ning according to the time-tables, and at the ordinary speed, and to-day, when the rest of the locomotive staff shall have returned to their duty, the main line and the different branches will again be in full working order. Up to Tuesday evening the only remaining difference had reference to the demand of the men that the increase of wages should be regulated at the rate of 6d. a day addi tional for every six months' service until the maxi mum of 7s. 6d. a day was reached ; and yesterday, the men having received an assurance from the di rectors and superintendents to the effect that every man shall have an opportunity of proving his claim to the promised advances in the sale -of wages, they consented to resume work, depending on that arrangement being carried out to the letter. The graduated scale of wages agreed to was—for drivers, 65., 6s. 6d., 75., and 7s. 6d. a day ; and for firemen, 3s. 6d., 3s. 9d., 45., and 4s. 6d. ; and arrangements will be made by the directors and superintendents for having the pay-sheet reconsidered at the end of each year, with the view of advancing such of the men as are competent, and whose general conduct is good. It is creditable to the men that in adjust ing the matter in dispute in that way they ex pressed a hope that for the future things would go on more confortably between them and their em ployers, and that the company would be saved the expense of such a struggle. With those mutual concessions and a spirit of forbearance manifested on both sides, the contest has been happily brought to a conclusion with only a day's inconvenience and loss to themselves and the public. The men, while in the best temper at the result, are not unduly elated, and the probability is that their employers and they will pull all the better together for this brief interruption in their relations. In Lon don and at New-cross the men held out in the morning, and the delegates sat in council as on the day preceding, at the Green Man, Tooley-street. It may not be generally known that the engine drivers and firemen in England and Scotland be long to what promises to be a very formidable trade union. It was established about 10 months ago, has some 15,000 subscribing members, a capital estimated at about £50,000, and 64 branches, their head-quarters being in London. To this so ciety, which supports a newspaper of its own, ap propriately called The Train, the drivers and fire men on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway belong, and had the strike continued they would have been maintained at full pay by a general contribution among the subscribing members. It is a noteworthy circumstance that the prime movers i❑ the recent strike were all men receiving the highest rate of remuneration paid by the company, and working nominally 1G hours a day, but practically not so much, and who did not expect to be benefited to the extent of a single shilling by the success of the agitation they had begun. Their sole object, they say, in originating it was the interest of their less fortunate or less skilful fellow workmen, many of whom have for years been paid on the lowest scale, though daily discharging duties hardly less, if at all less, responsible and important than their own. Justice has hardly been clone to the efforts made by the authorities of the line to meet the emergency of Tuesday, on the commencement of the strike. With the aid of some of the old hands who bad re fused to join the movement, and of travelling inspec tors and foremen of works on the line, they were enabled to start 18 engines from the London termi nus in the course of the day, and so to run the prin cipal Brighton trains and the corresponding trains thence to Hastings and Portsmouth ; but the trains on the smaller branches to Bognor, Littlehampton, Eastbourne, and Hailsham were entirely suspended. On the suburban lines around London, instead of trains being run according to the time-tables, they were run as frequently as possible, stopping at all the stations, and taking up passengers as they went. By that arrangement all suburban passengers were ac commodated, though not with the same punctuality as ordinarily. Many of the season ticket-holders-and other passengers residing in the neighbourhood of Sydenham, Forest-hill, and Croydon availed them selves of the trains of the London, Chatham, and Dover, and South-Eastern Companies, though at more or less inconvenience. Though Tuesday was the first day of the Epsom Spring Meeting, the London and Brighton Company did not attempt, under the circumstances,to run trains on their line to the Dow us, and the consequence was a considerable loss to them, and again yesterday, when the branch line to Ep som was still closed. Mr. Scott, the manager of the London and South-Western Railway, however, had given orders that the season-tickets of the Lon don and Brighton Company should be recognised by their servants in trains to or from Waterloo and Clapham Junction, IVimbledon, :well, Epsom, and Leatherhead, and on the West London line to Ken sington. Mr. Eborall, again, on the part of the South Eastern Company, offered facilities with re spect to East Croydon, Redhill, and Hastings pas sengers. To guard against accidents, through the engine-drivers improvised for the occasion not be ing used to the signals, Mr. Hawkins, traffic mana ger to the London and Brighton, placed on the engines a number of old guards familiar with the signals to point them out to the drivers as they ap proached them. Ile had also platelayers stationed all along the main line, throughout the whole of Tuesday, just as iu a dense fog, for the purpose of repeating the signals, and so of preventing mistakes with respect to them. The result was that not a single accident occurred. Various offers of assistance by strangers were made in the emergency to Mr. Hawkins—some of them peculiar. One was by a person of gentlemanly appearance, who said he had been for some years a driver of first-class marine engines on board Government steamers, and under stood the driving of an engine so well that he would gladly undertake the responsibility on this occasion. On being told there was a great difference between a marine engine and a locomotive, and that he could hardly be trusted to drive one of the latter class, he begged to be allowed to act as a stoker, so desirous was he of rendering assistance at such a time. Another said, though not a mechanic nor an engine driver, he had studied mechanics and the theory of engines during a great part of his life, and he be lieved he was capable of driving one. lie added, in reply to a question, that he had been brought up to the law, but was so thoroughly disgusted with it that he would prefer to drive an engine if they would accept his services. The shares in the London, Brighton, and South Coast receded 3 per cent. in the course of Tuesday, and a continuance of the strike would, doubtless, have induced a much more considerable decline. We regret that the drivers' and firemen on the Midland intend sending in their notices on the 2d of April, and the met, similarly employed on the Newcastle, Leeds, York, and Maldon sections of the North- Eastern Railway —nearly one thousand in number —have expressed their intention to stop work on the 20th proximo, unless in the meantime their de mands are complied with by the directors. On Mon day, it was resolved at a crowded meeting of the drivers of the London, Brighton, and South Coast, that in the event of the Board acceding to their pe tition, they would reauire Cue dismissal of five or six men who remained on duty on Monday, but we believe no result will follow this determination, made as it was in a time, as regarded those interested, of almost unprecedented excitement. The following notices were issued yesterday " LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. " All the trains to and from London and Brighton, THE SUN, LOisItION, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1867. as well as those on all the coast lines and branches between Portsmouth and Hastings, Horsham, Guild ford, and Tunbridge Wells, have been running to day as usual ; and to-morrow morning (Thursday) it is intended to resume the ordinary service, as per time-tables, over the whole suburban system be tween London-bridge, Victoria, the Crystal Palace, Croydon, Epsom, Leatherhead, Dorking, and the South London line. " GEO. HAWKINS, Traffic Manager. " March 27." "The.Engineedrivers' and Firemen'sUnited Society, 31, Brydges-street, Strand, March 27. " Dear Sir,—The strike on the Brighton Railway is virtually at an end. The only point at issue be tween the men and the directors—namely, the con ditions on which the men should receive their pro motion—has been arrang'd by the authorities agreeing that, if any me❑ are pas6ed over, they will have the right to appeal to the Board of Directors, and their claims will be duly considered. The men ask no more than this, and, the Brighton directors having conceded every other point, they have re solved to trust themselves to the upright dealing of gentlemen with whom they have no especial quarrel, and hope that their future relations may be both amicable and satisfactory. " Yours truly, " J. 0. PUTLEY." miralty have wisely determined on disposing of her. Her dockyard stores and other gear will be removed from her before she is scold. The paddlewheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakey, Master-Commander, left Chatham yester day with a number of the wrought iron frames on board, for conveyance to Woolwich, to be used in the construction of the twin screw composite gun vessel Dwarf, building at that establishment. The chartered convict ship Norwood has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of a party of between 300 and 400 convicts, under lengthened sentences of penal servitude, from Chat ham and the other convict establishments, to IVest ern Australia. She will receive on board her comple ment from Chatham at the Nore to-day. A military guard of army pensioners will accompany the con victs to Australia. The larg. 40 ton steam hammer at Chatham dock yard, which broke down a short time since while forging the massive stcrnpost for the ironclad frigate Hercules, having been repaired, the post was forged at the smithery yesterday. The Admiralty obtained the services of some of the workmen from a private establishment, accustomed to large forgings of this description, to assist the dockyard hands in the undertaking. Five thousand stand of arms, from the armoury, Chatham, have been despatched to the Tower for conversion to Snider breechloaders, at the Royal Small Arms Factory, about 40,000 remaining at Chatham to be so converted. In accordance with instructions from the Horse Guards the removal of the Ist King's Dragoon Guards to Aldershot has been arranged to take place as follows :—On; troop, March 27 ; two troops, March 28 ; two troops, March 29 ; two troops, March 30 ; and the head-quarters, and one troop, including the band, &c., April 1. The dis mounted, including sick nen, women, and children, will be removed during the first week of April. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. B. C. Booth and Lieut. C. S. P. Woodruffe, to the Malabar ; Lieut. T. Clanchy and Lieut. J. F. Lenon, to the Jumna ; Lieut. W. L. Martin and Lieut. A. F. M. Mayer to the Euphrates ; Lieut. S. Gassiot to the Simoom ; Lieut. C. A. Watts to the Donegal ; G. D. Perry, master, to the Juana ; H. B. Akaster, master, to the Malabar ; E. Vise, master, to the Euphrates ; Sub-Lieut. Arthur C. B. Bromley, to the Terrible, as supernumerary ; S. H. Moore, paymaster, to the Malabar ; 11. Seward, paymaster, to the Jumna ; J. B. Swan, paymaster, to the Euphrates ; and P. M. Sims, assistant paymaster, to the Terrible. emotion, "are you in favour of a vigorous prosecution of the war ?" "I am. I am." " Then, boy, take her ! Maria, child, come hither. Your William claims thee. Be happy, my children ! and whatever our lot in life may be, let us all support the Go vernment." His letter to the Prince of Wales, " An Agricul tural Discourse," " Fourth of July Oration at Baldinsville," "The Census," " Boston" and "Joy in the House of Ward," are among his choicest pro ductions to " perlite litteratoor." He has written several novels, and though none of them are more than three pages in length, they contain quite as perfect a plot, have quite as much in them, and are far more racy and humorous than nine-tenths of the three-volume romances of the day. It is not often that the writer of a biographical sketch has space to embody in a newspaper an entire work of his hero ; but with your kind permission, Mr. Editor, I insert here Mr. Artemus Ward's very popular story, entitled "Marion : a Romance of the French School." It is a good specimen of his novels, and I believe it is one of the longest tales he ever wrote : Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, March 23.—The squadron of heavy ships, consisting of the Victoria, 102 (flagship) ; Prince Consort, 35 ; Arethusa, 35 ; Royal Oak, 35 ; and Ocean, 21 (three of them ironclads), under the personal command of Lord C. Paget, hove in sight on the morning of the 20th inst., and, after communicat ing with the Palace Signal Tower got up steam, and resumed their moorings in the Grand Harbour, The Admiral did not take the squadron to Sicily, as was the original intention, but confined his cruise to sailing off and on in the Malta Channel, not exceed ing a distance of 30 miles from this island, and exercising the crews in great gun and other practice. Her Majesty's ship Endymion, 35, screw frigate, Capt. C. Wake, arrived here on the night of the 19th inst. from Alexandria, Beyrout, and Cyprus, having left the first-named place ou the Bth ult. She reports having had head winds the whole time, and she per formed the entire voyage under sail. Commander Butler, who has been appointed to this ship, and who has been awaiting in the Hibernia the arrival of the Endymion, joined her on the 20th inst. Letters from the Pirreas announce the arrival there on the 7th inst. of the Caradoc, despatch vessel, Lieut.-Commander E. H. Wilkinson, on her way to Constantinople. This vessel, which took up the Bishop of Gibraltar to Greece, had a very rough passage, and had to put into Xyli Bay for 24 hours, having had her bow ports carried away on the night of the 3d inst., and she took in so much water as to render constant use of the pumps necessary. The Bishop of Gibraltar returned last night in the En terprise, 4, Commander Bosanquet, from Patras, Zante, and Argostoli, which last place she left on the 20th inst. While at Argostoli, the surgeon, Dr. Thompson, visited the sick who were suffering from wounds caused by the earthquake. Authentic ac counts have been received here from Syria to the 9th of March, when all was quiet. It is most pro bable the Megzra, screw troopship, Capt. Simpson, will get away the day after to-morrow, the 25th inst. She will call at Plymouth and Portsmouth, en route to the Thames, and will take with her a number of naval and military time-expired men and invalids. The Assurance, 4, Commander W. H. Pym, which, it has already been announced, has received orders to proceed to the West Coast of Africa, is to leave to-day for that unenviable station. First Lieut. L. Malet, of this vessel, having been invalided, will proceed to England, and Lieut. Powlett, of the Arethusa, has been appointed to succeed him. Lieut. Macnatnara, of the Assurance, has been permitted to exchange with Lieut. Pulley, of the Arethusa. Mr. Stocker, Second Master of the Royal Oak, has been appointed Acting Master to the Racer, vice Mr. Spry, invalided. Sub-Lieut. Aitchison, of the Endymion, and Sub-Lieut. Gamier, of the Galatea, lately promoted, have been aproin tal additional to the 'Victoria, for disposal. Lieut. Aitchison has since been appointed by the Commander-in-Chief to the Arethusa. The English yacht-schooner Marcia (Mr. R. B. Sheridan, owner), left port on Monday, 18th inst., for Syracuse, and put back the same day. The two "Martin's patent self-canting anchors," of 52 cwt. each, supplied to the Admiralty for her Majesty's ship Pallas, which a few days since sus tained under the hydraulic machine at Portsmouth dockyard a testing strain equal to that given to an ordinary Admiralty pattern anchor of 95 cwt. with out exhibiting the slightest permanent deflection, have since been removed to the smithery of the yard and submitted there to the severest possible form of " fire" proof, with results equally satisfac tory to those which attended their hydraulic tests. The arms were taken out of the shanks, placed in separate fires, and heated to a low red heat. Taken from the fires, each section of the anchors which had been subjected to the greatest strain was scraped, filed over, and sprinkled with water, and then most scrupulously examined by the master smith and his assistants to ascertain whether there existed any sign of weakness, or cracks, flaw, or defect of any kind in the metal. Not the least imperfection of any kind could be detected, and the anchors were then declared accepted for service. Admiral Sir T. Sabine Pasley, K.C.8., the Port- Admiral and Naval Commander-in. Chief at Ports mouth, embarked yesterday morning on board the steam yacht Fire Queen, Staff Commander Paul, and proceeded to Spithead, where he inspected the armoured frigate Royal Alfred, 18 guns, 800 horse power, Capt. F. A. Herbert, about to sail for Hali fax with Vice-Admiral Sir George Rodney Mundy, K.C.8., the newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships in North American and West Indian waters. The Royal Alfred was to have left Spithead immediately after her inspection for a 48 hours' cruise and trial of her 12-ton guns, south of the Isle of Wight, but this has been deferred by the discovery of the fracture of a large number of her boiler tubes. The workmen of the steam factory at Portsmouth yard are employed on board the ship at Spithead repairing the damage. The date of the sailing of the Royal Alfred for Halifax will most probably be about the Gth proximo. The Rodney, 78, sailed from Spithead for the Channel and Plymouth Sound yesterday afternoon. The Rodney will make a stay of some days in the Sound before finally sailing from England for her station. In the meantime it is hoped that the fresh air of the Channel will effectually clear out the sickness which has been prevailing on board of her previous to her arrival in the Sound. The armoured iron frigate Bellerophon, Capt. E. Tatham, has left Spithead for St. Helen's Roads anchorage, preparatory to a cruise in the Channel for trials of her 12-ton guns, with their iron car riages and slides. The armoured iron frigate Warrior, 32,1,025 horse power, is ordered for commission at Portsmouth. It is understood Capt. Lord Gilford will be intrusted with the command of this famous frigate. Her Majesty's screw troop ship Himalaya, Capt. S. B. Piers, was appointed to sail from Spithead at 10 p.m. yesterday for the Channel Islands, Queens town, Gibraltar, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Mauritius. She steamed out of the harbour to Spit head, where she anchored until the appointed time for sailing for the Channel Islands. Instructions have been recAved at Chatham Dockyard from the Admiralty to sell the fine unarmoured screw frigate Chesapeake, 35, 2,377 tons, 40u horse power, attached to the third di vision of the Steam Reserve. She has accordingly been surveyed by the officials connected with the Master Shipwright's staff and a report as to her value has been forwarded to the Admiralty. The engines and machinery, which have been but little used, have been taken out and removed into the steam factory, where they are undergoing a thorough over haul and repair, in readiness for being fitted on board another steamer. The Chesapeake was one of the last of the 50 gun sailing frigates converted into screw steamers, but since her alteration she has seen btit little service. Although in pretty good repair she is unadapted for the present state of naval war fare, and instead of allowing her any longer to en ctuaber the entrance to Cbatharn harbour, the Ad- The Lats Artemus Ward. The following aiticle, written by a personal friend of the late Aitemus 'Ward's, appeared in the Anglo- Anievican 7in es:— In the cruel grave this day we deposited a jewel of his nation. Artemus Ward is dead. When this sad news is carried t) his native land there is not a village or hamlet frail one end of the great Republic to the other in which a deep sorrow will not be felt. Tears will unbidden start from the eyes of thousands and tens of thousands who loved to hang over the briliant productions of our de - parted friend. Artemus Ward had grown to be a necessity in nearly every American home. As was truly remarked in one of his programmes, "no family should te without him." His wit was truly American, net heavy, but sparkling and transparent; and no writer of this age has commenced to hit so many vulnerable points in the character of his countrymen, or understood more thoroughly human nature as it is found on the other side of the Atlantic. It is impossible to adequately sketch the many and varied qualities of that mind, which both charmed and amused a world—the rich humour, the clean-cut sentences, the perfect naturalness, and the genuine purity of all his writings. In him poetry and philomphy joined hands, and kissed each other. Some of his essays appear perhaps at first rough and tncouth, but they are rough dia monds, and through the bad spelling and awkward metaphors they [lash with a brilliancy that only belongs to GENIUS. In looking over his complete works, which I hive done to-day, I am surprised at the variety of tofics on which he has touched. From New England Puritanism to Utah _Mormonism, from Julius Cm3ar to Daniel Pratt, from Chaucer to Tupper, from Christopher Columbus to P. T. Barnum, he has pricked with his pen nearly every noted character of ancient or modern times. For the last ten years he has been to America a sort of a universal police. Every species of humbug, of sham patriotism, and popular imposture, has felt his deadly spear, and the good lie has thus done is incalculable. No honest man, no true gentleman, no bona fide enterprise, had ever anything to fear from Artemus Ward ; but to the reverse of this he showed uo mercy, and as nearly every newspaper in America copied with delight Artemus Ward's " latest" his power had become simply unmeasurable. And even now, though he has written nothing on American affairs for nearly two years, quotations from his writings are found plentifully sprinkled through the leading articles of almost all the American newspapers. For instance, the following extract from a speech of Artemus Ward, published just at the time when every sensible man was disgusted at the do-nothing policy of Congress, and the unheard-of extravagance of the people had a most telling effect :—" The fact is, we air gettin' ter'bly extr'vagant, and on less we paws in our mad career in less than two years the Goddess of Liberty will be seen dodgiu' into a pawnbroker's shop with her gown done up in a bundle, even if she don't have to spout the gold stars in her head-band. Let us all take hold jintly and live and dress centsibly, like our forefathers who know'd moren we do, if they wasn't quite so honest ! (Suttle goaketh.) There air other cheerio' signs. We don't, for in stuns, lack great generals, and we certinly don't lack brave sojers ; but there's one thing I wish we did lack, and that is our present Congress. Gen tlemen of the Senit and of the House, you've sat and draw'd your pay, and made summed complaint speeches long enuff. The country at large, incloodin' the underlined, is disgusted with you. Why don't you show us a statesman, sumbody who can make a speech that will hit the pop'lar hart right under the Great Public Weskit ? Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head ? Congress, you won't do. Go home, you mizzerable devils—go home ! At a special Congressional 'lection in my dis trict the other day I delib'rity voted for Henry Clay. admit that Henry is dead, but inasmuch as we don't seem to have a live statesman in our National Congress, let us by all means have a first-class corpse." one of the curses arising out of all great wars is the shoddy people, who accumulate fortunes out of the blood and bones of the soldiers. The following chapter was aimed against 'the Shod dayites by Artemus, "flow the shaft went home can be imagined": - A ROMANCE.-WILLIAM BARKER, THE YOUNG PATRIOT. "No, William Barker, you cannot have my daughter's hind in marriage until you are her equal in wealth and social position." - - The speaker was a haughty old man of some sixty years, and the person whom he addressed was a fine-looking young man of twenty-five. With a sad aspect the young man withdrew from the stately mansion. _ . _ Six months later the young man stood in the presence of the haughty old man. "What! you here again ?" angrily cried the old man. "Ay, old man," proudly exclaimed William Barker, " I am here, your daughter's equal and yours ?" The old man's lips curled with scorn. A derisive smile lit up his cold features; when, casting violently upon the marble centre-table an enormous roll of greenbacks, William Barker cried— "See! Look on this wealth. And I've tenfold more ! Listen, old man ! You spurned me from your door. But I did not despair. I secured a contract for furnishing the Army of the - with beef -" "Yes, yes!" eagerly exclaimed the old man. "- and I bought up all the disabled cavalry horses I could find--" " I see ! I seo !" cried the old man. "And good beef they make, too." " They do ! they do ! and the profits are immense." "I should say so !" "And now, sir, I elaim your daughter's fair hand !" " Boy, she is yours. But hold! Look me in the eye. Throughout all this have you been loyal ?" " To the core !" cried William Barker. " And," continued the 91c1 man, in a TOice huiky with CIIAP. I. -, Friday; -, 1860. ON the sad sea shore ! Always to hear the moaning of these dismal waves ! Listen. I will tell you my story—my story of love, of misery, of black despair. I am a moral Frenchman. She whom I adore, whom I adorn still, is the wife of a fat marquis—a lop-eared, blear-eyed, greasy marquis. A man without a soul. A man without sentiment, who cares naught for moonlight and music. A low, practical man, who pays his debts. I hate him. CHAP. 11. She, my soul's delight, my empress, my angel, is superbly beautiful. I loved her at first sight—devotedly, madly. She dashed past me in her cove. I saw her but a moment—perhaps only an instant—but she tookme captive then and there, forevermore. Forevermore ! . I followed her, after that, wherever she went. At length she came to notice, to smile upon me. My motto was en arant ! That is n. French word. I got it out of the back part of Worcester's Dictionary. CHAP 111. She wrote me that I might come and see her at her own house. Oh, joy, joy unutterably, to see her at her own ho,use ! I went to see her at nightfall, in the soft moonlight. She came down the gravelled walk to meet me, on this beautiful midsmnmer night—came to me in pure white, her golden hair iu splendid disorder—strangely beautiful, yet in tears ! She told me her first grievances. The marquis, always a despot, had misused her most vilely. That very morning, at breakfast, he had cursed the fish balls and sneered at the pickled onions. She is a good cook. The neighbours will tell you so. And to be told by the base marquis—a man who, previous to his marriage, had lived at the cheap eating-houses—to be told by him that her manner of frying fishballs was a failure—it was too much. Her tears fell fast. I, too, wept. I mixed my sobs with her'n. " Fly with me !" I cried. Her lips met mine. I held her in my arms. I felt her breath upon my cheek ! It was heavenly. " Fly with me. To Now York ! I will write romances for the Sunday papers—real French romances, with morals to them. My style will be appreciated. Shop-girls and young mercantile persons will adore it, and I will amass wealth with my ready pen." Ere she could reply—ere she could articulate her ecstasy, her husband, the marquis, crept snake-like upon me. Shall I write it ? He kicked me out of the garden—he kicked me into the street. I did not return. How could I ? I, so ethereal, so full of soul, of sentiment, of sparkling originality! Ile, so gross, so practical, so lop-eared ! Had I returned, the creature would have kicked me again. So I left Paris for this place—this place, so lonely, so dismal. Ah me T. Oh dear THE END. The great mission Artemus Ward believed he bad in this world of pain and trouble was to niake men happier by provoking their mirth. And what nobler ambition is there ? To turn tears into laughter—the painful serious into the ridiculous— grief into joy—what more blessed talent, if pro perly used, as his was? lie knew well the very small difference between a tickle and a scratch, and he never wantonly wounded the most fastidious taste. There is a charming delicacy and diffidence to the opinions of others in all his writings. Lewis, in " King John," had he by him one of Artemus Ward's books would never have, sighing, said— There's nothing in this world can make me joy. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man, And bitter shame bath spoiled the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness. No, it was a labour of love for poor Artemus to drive " shame and bitterness " from men's hearts, and let the sweet sunshine in. There was never anything desponding or vexatious that fell from his pen, but his writings were like himself, all happiness and hopeful joy. His wit was like the lightning that burns up the poisonous vapours in its flash : it flashed to destroy the poisons of melan choly and unaccountable sadness that so often dwell in monotonous life. Of his writings in Punch, and great success as a lecturer in England, they are too fresh in the minds of the public to need any comment from me. John Bull melted in almost inextinguishable laughter when Artemus told him that his main object in lec turing here was to try and raise enough money to get him some clothes and hire his passage to New Zealand. He should then feel he had not lived in vain. " And now," said he, " let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it with." He made thousands of friends public and per sonal in England, just as he always has wherever he went. He was almost the only man I ever knew who had no enemies. lie was such a perfect gentleman—so generous, so true, so honest, and so thoroughly good-hearted, none could know him but to love him. "Be a good man, Lockhart, be a good man," said Walter Scott on his dying bed ; " it is all that can comfort you when you come to lie here." When Charles Brown lay down to die, that sweetest consolation must surely have been his, for he had, indeed, been a " good man." Scores of his poor or unfortunate countrymen sought him out in London, and to my personal knowledge they never sought in vain. "As long as he had a loaf his friends should share it with him " was his motto ; and with a most liberal hand he aided the poor, re lieved the suffering, and gave away goodly portions of his earnings for sweet charity's sake. The widow and the fatherless wherever he has lectured have had substantial reasons for their gratitude towards him. The entertainments he has given in nearly every large town or city in America for the benefit of asylums and the " poor we have with us always " are simply innumerable. Though entirely Northern in his sentiments, he showed what a noble soul he had by giving lectures in Louisiana for the benefit of the suffering poor of that State, rebels though they had been—Mrs. Jefferson Davis being among the participants of the proceeds of his lec tures. He playfully alludes to the benefits he gave for the women of the South when he says in his book, " Ther's considerable human nater in a man, and I'me afraid I shall allers giv aid and comfort to the enemy if he comes to me in the shape of a nice young gal." Artemus Ward, contrary to a popular belief de duced from his writings, which is quite natural, was one of the most accomplished men of his time. For thirteen years be had been in the public eyes He knew personally about every man of prominence in America, having lived much in Washington and in all the large cities. Mr. Lincoln was particu larly fond of him, and greatly enjoyed his com pany. One day Mr. Lincoln sent to Ohio for him, asking Artemus to come down and change places with him. He would write jokes, and Artemus should be President for awhile. The showman of wax figures (as Artemus called himself) replied, "No. The moral wax figger perfeshen musn't be permitted to go down while there's a drop of blood in these vains. A Linken, I wish you well! Ef Powers or Wolcut was to pick out a model for a beautiful man, I scarcely think they would sculp you ; but of you do the fair thing by your country you'll make as pretty an angel as any of us ! A Linken, adoo." Though not a politician, his convictions and opi nions were strong and decided. Being from his very nature an intense hater of intolerance, bigotry, and persecutions of every kind, it is quite unneces sary to state to which of the two great Northern parties he belonged. But it was in the social circle, amid congenial spirits, that he shone the most. The happy hours I have spent in his delightful company will be to me " a joy forever." There was not a subject on which he could not talk fluently. He had read everything, and, what is more, remembered every thing he had ever read. In the arts, the drama, among books and men, he was perfectly at home, and his happy powers of conversation, united to an inexhaustible fund of wit, made him of all companions the most enjoyable. His heart was mercy's own—so full of kindness and tender feeling. I know one day I was reading to him an article from the Pall Mall Gazette, in which the writer described his visit to a reunion meeting of poor girls who had been taken from the streets, and had found respectable homes. Saved, as they had been, by one of the noblest institutions in London, they met once a year to celebrate their altered con dition in life. " Sitting round the tables," said the writer, " were sixty as bright-eyed and rosy cheeked girls as I ever saw—girls that one or two years ago were leading a life of sin and shame, their eyes blood-shot and a deathly expression in their faces. As I thought of them then, and as I saw them now, I never before so fully appreciated those Divine words, ' Though our sins be as scarlet, they can be made white as snow.' I looked up from the paper as I read this sentence, and saw a great round tear roll down the manly cheek of my lamented friend. His heart was touched; and he earnestly inquired where he could send his contri bution for the assistance of the poor and sorely tempted girls of this great city." Those of us whose happiness it was to know him intimately know how bravely he fought disease and death till his entire strength was gone. How rigorously he kept his appointments at the Egyptian Hall, though a great deal of the time he was so ill he could scarcely stand up at all. And as I think of his last illness, and the friends around him—how gentle he was, and what a daily beauty there was in his life, some lines of Byron's seem as appro priate as if they had been written on himself : He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless yet so tender. Kind And grieved for those lie left behind, With all the while a cheek whese bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb ; Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray— An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the sick-room bright ; And then the sighs he would suppress Of fainting Nature's feebleness. And not a word of murmur ; not A groan o'er his untimely lot ; A little talk of better days, A little hope, our own to raise, For we were sunk in silence—lost In this last loss—of all the most. I saw him not long before he died. As I entered the room he was gently reclining on a sofa. How beautiful he looked. Though disease was fast gnawing out his very life there was an uncommon brilliancy in his eye, a mellow flush upon his cheek, and such a calm and sweet expression in his face. I saw but too plainly that the angel of death had touched him with his wing. He was very weak, and I only remained in his presence but a few minutes. Informing him of some little business matters I had arranged for him, which was equally my pleasure and duty to do. He turned toward me as I was leaving and said, " You are very, very kind. You have been a brother to me— a dear, good brother. God bless you, good-bye." I could not speak. I felt it was to me his good-bye forever, and I also felt how little I had done to merit his generous words. But it's all over now. Death loves a shining mark, and Charles Farrar Brown has fallen. Cut down at the early age of 33, in the very budding of his manhood, his work was not half done. Were it not for the Divine assurance that " He doeth all things well," it would be impossible for his friends to reconcile themselves to his untimely death. Though reason had left its throne, his last words " showed his thoughts were dwelling upon his native land." Dwelling on his native land, from the heart the mouth speaketh ; though his intellect had fled, his heart still remained, and—pure patriot as he was— it was " dwelling on his native land "—that great country he loved so well " over the sea." As we lifted his dead body up into the little chapel in Kensal Green, and I saw the distinguished men and ladies there present, and as I remembered how kindly he had been received in this country, and how univer sally popular he had become, I could not help ap plying the same words to him that were spoken over poor Prince Arthur as his lifeless form was lifted from its stony bed. " All England takes thee up." Dr. Spencer Hall, in his beautiful and touch ing remarks over the grave, said, "In my cottage home down by the lake, surrounded by my little family, many, many times Artemus Ward has made me laugh ; to-day is the first time he ever made me cry." By his will he leaves one hundred pounds each for the education of two little English girls he never saw but once. He provides amply for his faithful page, George Stephens, whom he always had by him. His splendid library is to be given to the cleverest scholar in his native town, and the remainder of his property, amounting to about 30,000 dols., goes to his aged mother, and on her death it is to be appropriated for establishing au asylum for decayed printers, he having started life himself as a printer's boy. Every dollar of his property was the fruit of his own unaided brain and hand. He was never married. His " Betsy Jane " was one of those children of his fancy— children that shall still walk the earth, along with those of Swift, and Hood, and Thackeray, though the minds that fashioned them all are now cold in death. To the members of the Savage Club in London we Americans feel we owe a debt of gratitude we can never repay for their great kindness to our much-loved friend and countryman. May the choicest of Heaven's blessings ever be theirs. May He who tempereth the winds to the shorn lamb comfort his aged mother in her great affliction. And may an abiding faith in that Saviour in whom her son believed, and in whose everlasting arms he died, be balsam to her bleeding heart. Langham Hotel, March 9. Miscellaneous American News. The Round Table furnishes the following items : Miss Emma Hardinge, the " meejum," is writing a "History of Spiritualism in America." Mr. W. J. Paulding is soon to publish a memoir of his father, James K. Paulding, the fellow author with Irving of " Salmagundi," and the writer of several novels, besides various poetical, political, and historical works. Mr. William Gillmore Simms, beside the serial he is contributing to a Democratic monthly, has com pleted a novel pleasingly entitled " The Ghost of my Husband." That Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford is engaged upon a novel of New England life we have already announced. A daily paper describes its characters as "powerful," when it may be inferred that as the introduction of Samson, Hercules, or Milo could hardly be managed without anachronism, Dr. Win ship, or some of his followers, will figure in it. Mr. Bayard Taylor, it is said, will employ himself, while abroad, upon a novel—his fourth, we believe, of Americans in Europe. Mrs. Elizabeth Stoddard has a novel nearly com pleted. Mr. H. P. Arnold, a lawyer of Boston, is soon to publish a book of his travels in France, Switzerland, and Italy. Mr. Matthew F. Whittier, brother of John G., is said to have a humorous poem in preparation. Col. A. J. H. Duganne is delivering a lecture upon the characters of Columbus, Washington, and Lincoln. Longfellow is now busily engaged in revising the proofs of his translation of Dante, which will not be given to the public for several months, as the revi sion is scrupulously minute. The Worcester County West Agricultural Society has elected George M. Buttrick, of Barre, and Charier) Adams, jun., of North 13rookfteld, vice presidents, and re-elected Charles Brimblecom and Daniel Cummings secretary and treasurer respec tively. The sum of $5O per annum was voted to pay the tuition of one scholar at the State Agricul tural College when that institution is completed. The Central Cheese Company at Barre made 156,711 pounds of cheese from 1,531,219 quarts of milk, last year. The cheese brought $19.72 per hundred pounds, or a total of $30,903, and the cost of making $2.84 per hundred pounds. The business of exporting fine-blooded sheep from Vermont to the Western States, mainly to Ohio and Indiana, has been very brisk during the winter, and seven car loads were sent from St. Alban's last week. The prices were lower than those of a year ago, but the sheep-raisers find it still a paying business, and say that it is the most profit able part of their farming operations. Six ewes were sold by Edwin Hammond and Son, of Middlebury, Feb. 25, to Abram and John Good, of Clarence Centre, New York, for $3,600. Henry M. Burt, formerly of the Northampton Free Press, will commence at Northampton, in April, a monthly agricultural paper, to be called the New England Homestead. lts external appearanc e will be similar to that of the Albany (New York) Country Gentleman, and its subscription price will be 50c. a year. Mr. Burt assumes the chief control of the enterprise, with Mr. A. Perry Peck, of North ampton, as his assistant editor. The maple sugar season has already begun in some parts of Franklin county, and the prospect is good for a very large run. Congress has given permission to Captain John A. Webster, of the steamer Mahoning, to accept a gold medal tendered by the British Government in recognition of his services in relieving a British vessel in distress. Mr. Fox and other officers of the Miantonomah have been permitted, by act of Congress, to accept the presents tendered by the Czar. Among the gifts is a snuff-box set with diamonds, presented to Mr. Fox. The customs duty upon these diamonds, amounting to $4,000, has been remitted by special act. Longfellow, the poet, was born in Portland, and was 60 years old Feb. 27. It is thought that Judge Caron would probably be Lieutenant-Governor for Quebec. We are informed that the petition of Mr. James Freeling Wilkinson to the Crown for a free pardon has been rejected by Mr. Secretary Walpole, who states that he "is unable to discover any sufficient ground to justify him in advising interference in the convict's behalf." Commodore Charles Stewart has been seventy years in the American navy, having entered in 1797, and he is still in the full possession of his mental faculties. Since Mr. Jefferson Davis has been confined at Fortress Monroe sums amounting to £25,000 have been received for his benefit in letters. The money has been carefully kept as his property. On Christmas-day a vast number of presents were received for him, some of which came from Boston. Formerly the prisoner's letters were opened by General Miles, but since that officer has been relieved of the command of the fort they have gone into Mr. Davis's hand unopened. Zalman Storrs, a prominent citizen of Tolland county, and the last surviving member of the class of 1810 of Yalo College, died at MansfiOld, on the 17th Fob., aged 87. Mr. Peabody proposes to return to England in the spring. Should his life be spared, in about two years he will again visit America, when he designs to make a tour through the South, with Governor Aiken and other members of the trustees, to witness the workings of the schools intended to be established by his last liberal dona tion. The general expectation and wish is met in the appointment of Professor Benjamin Pierce of Cambridge to be superintendent of the coast survey. He took the oath of office at Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27. Secretary Seward has lately insured his life for $lOO,OOO. Jack Hamilton of Texas is candidate for post master of the next Rouse. Senator Ira Harris, of New York, who goes out with this Congress, will continue to reside at Washington and practise law. The Senate confirmed, on the 23d February, Edward M. King as consul at Canton, China ; Anson J. Crane, of Huntington, as collecter of internal revenue in the third district of Vermont; Alvan C. Gillem and William 11. French of the regular army to be major generals by brevet, and the following to be brigadier generals by brevet : Chauncy M'Keever, John M. Cuyler, Madison Mills, William 11. Sidell, and Charles F. Ruff, all for gallant and meritorious service. Galusha. Pennypacker, Henry A. Morrison, and Luther P. Bradley were confirmed as colonels in the regular army. Besides these confirma tions there were many others of subordinate grades. Mr. Bidewell, now a member of Congress, is likely to be chosen the next governor of California. Mr. Bigelow, late Minister to France, appeared on the floor of the Senate on the 28th Feb., and was heartily welcomed by many of his friends of that house. The Senate has concurred in a resolution for the erection of an equestrian statue of General Winfield Scott. W. W. Clarke, Esq., of New York—that go a-head American—has taken a house in Paris for a term of years in the Champ d'Elysees. He has sent to Ame rica for a complete set of tools, engine, and an American model of a petroleum oil well for pumping oil out of a covered tank, What an important enterprise this is, and what an astonishment it will create in Paris ! It is said that pelsote has been found lately in Italy, and Mr. Chande has been requested to go there and examine it, and, if it be true, a company will be formed to work the wells, and Mr. Clarke will be tendered the presidency of the company. His well-known business talent will insure success in whatever he undertakes. Mr. James Eldridge, of St. Manasa, one of the largest owners of the New Almaden Quick Silver Mines in California, is on a visit to Spain to examine the Almaden quick silver mines there. He has been absent there for several weeks. COUNTRY MARKETS. GAINSBOROUGII-TUESDAY. The supply of wheat was good. Trade slow at about late rates, holders declining to quit at a reduction. Barley for seed purposes in request. Oats an upward tendency. Other sorts of grain unchanged. HULL: TUESDAY. ---•-- - At our market to-day there was a moderate show of English wheat, for which farmers asked last week's prices, but buyers sought a reduction. Barley unaltered and in little demand. Oats a better sale. English white wheat, 58 s to 665; red, 54s to 635; pant sic and Konigsberg, 65s to 68s ; Baltic red, 60s to 62s ; Danish and Hamburg, 58s to 60s ; Russian, 57s to 595. Barley, English, 36s to 49s ; grinding, Mediterranean , 34s to 35s Gd. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s • Russian, 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 58s to 60s; foreign, 43 s to 445. Peas, English blue, 42, to 44s Od • foreign white, 44s to 45s ; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. SALISBURY.-TUESDAY. At market this morning there was quite a large attend' ante as compared with last week. Wheat came to hand i n bad condition, and trad e ru l e d s l ow w ith ou t any c h an ge 111 price. The supply was moderate. Barley firmer, business done both in malting and grinding qualities being at lull 9 i previous quotations. Oats, beans, and peas unaltered n value. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 56s to 64s ; barley, 37s to 51s; oats, 24s to 32s ; beans, 46 3 to 58s ; and peas, 40s to 52s per qr. Tares, from 5s 6d to 7- 6d per bushel ; Best bread, lod ; household ditto, 1 4 d per 81b loaf. Flour, 45s to 49s per sack. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. The following are the average quotations:—Wheat, rOB, 7s 3d to 7s 6d per bushel ; white, 7s 6d to 8s Od ; inferior, 6s Ud to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 46s to 52s per qr ; grind' ing ditto, 34s to 36s Od; beans, 44s to 50s; white oats, 20 ' to 28s 6d ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. cr. Holywell Main l7 3 Harlon lB 3 Ships at markot, 21—sold. 19. Births. BARNARD— On the 26th inst., at 63, Portland-place, t he wife of Herbert Barnard, Esq., of a son. Bow RING— On the 26th inst., at 69, Westbourne-terrac e, Hyde-park, the wife of Edgar A. Bowring, Esq., C. 13.1 of a son. SmYTHE.—On the 24th'inst., at Clytha House, Monmouth shire, the wife of Walter Smythe, Esq., of a daughter. VYE—On the 25th inst., at Glen Falls, Bridge, near Can terbury, Mrs. Henry Vye, of a son. Marriages. CHILTON—STOTHERD —On the 25th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Alfred R. T. Chilton, Lieutenant Royal Bengal Artillery, to Mary Clifford. youngest daughter of Major-General Stotherd, Royal Engineers. HOOK—NARES —On the 25th inst., at St. Matt hew's Church, Oakley-square, Henry Hook, of 32, Munster-street, Re gent's-park, to Sarah Nares, of 6, Stanhope-place, Morn ington-crescent. Deaths. LAw—On the 26th inst., at 63, Upper Seymour-street , Edmund John Law, Esq., eldest son of William John. Law, Esq. RICHARDSON— On the 25th inst., at Caterham, Surrey, Philetus Richardson, Esq., formerly of Moorgate-stree t, London, aged 55. SOIVARD—On the 26th inst., at Tooting, Surrey, George James Soward, Esq., aged 69. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS• of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 11 1, Strand, in the Precinct Of the Savoy, in tho County of Mud), 28,1667. AFT] iIL SL After London K IN This Dnhlin T It is some. Sol 1 b by the Obsorl " Kitrttr. COU: FURN Partior month al AU 5, Aza liu' 1.. RI:1W ADVA.N Freehold repayabl riiIIE . 111, Jt Aoo4n, land, S 9 and RA' le.; rese froin ele T OPER Russell, , Fox, Flu Conduct( Solo CI Gua'cls' COITE the celel BALM, and her Kr. ties and NOTE( Acrobats NEW QUEEN! to QUE] Admit rooms, & AIR These I deeoratec end Dan M. GREN WE Enthu: Donletti MOOR." Arturo, Lucia, D' Irish 3 danees, Corri. 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