The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-10 00:00:00

- E t 3 S'S It 0 Y A l i i . osB e Pe and R 1 2 I N . i t aa l et% Mr. A. Harris. THEATRE. -- THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Feebler. Sup ported by Hermann Vezln, Ryder, Meadows, &c ; Misses Heath, klsworthy, and R. Leclercq. Ems' THEATRE-ROYAL, A DELPHI.- E3ole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of " Tho Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census" every Evening'. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford. After which (202 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boncicanit, D. Fisher, Billinzton, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Ebnrne, - Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. i'horne,, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- T EIIS EVENING, the most successful Spectacle ever produced, MAZEI'I'A, with splendid scenery and stately effects. To be followed by the Rocky Mountain Wonders and SCENES in the CIRCLE. Concluding with the Panto mime Ballet entitled JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. Reduced prices. Doors open at hall-past 6. On Thursday, June 13th, Benefit of the Rocky Mountain Wonders. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced in England and only to be heard at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; the popular Solos on the Cornet-a piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day) ; the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); con tinued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following favourites : —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Blanchard, and numerous other artistes. Re-appearance at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. T H E 0 XFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. I.rvv, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, ctn., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari. Kimber ley', Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and po:verful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall. Harvey, and French. and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsui Ds'. —Morning, 2h. 58m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m. To-mounow.-Morning, 3h. 36m.—Afternoon, 3h. 56m. Vag WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 9, 1861. THEEMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29 . 78 ; falling. WIND North Tasterly; light, with dull, cold, rainy weather. It also rained in the night. JUNE 10. THERMOMETER, IN TEE SHADR. 58—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29'76 ; now up to 29.87. WlND—South-Westerly—light ; with dull, but warm, weather. There was heavy rain in the night and this morning. Two o'CLocx.—The wind veered to N.W. about one o ' clock with very heavy rain, with sti ong gusts and water falls in torrents. It has now gone back to S.W. again, with sunshine and cloudy weather. There must be a thun der-storm not far off. We had lightning yesterday. ' • 1 11 R, —9li • C • , r'c. _• • , hnorr ~~~~►a ;~.- ~ :v t ri,3,-.2 . • mt., THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1861. If anything could alleviate the profound sorrow caused by the untimely end of Count CAMILLO BENSO DI CAVOUR, it would assuredly be the news now brought to us of what may be called the sine qua non of the policy announced by his successor, the Baron BETTINO DI RICASOLI. The indispensable condition of RICASOLI'S ac ceptance of the Premiership, that able statesman has frankly intimated in his answer to the KING'S offer to him of that supreme responsibility. What is that indispensable condition ? Is it not precisely what ought to be the first essential proclaimed by Count CAVOUR'S successor ? THAT--'‘ Not an inch (more) of Italian territory shall be given up !" That is the condition which, it is confidently as serted, has been announced by RICASOLI to VICTOR EMMANUEL—the indispensable condition, without which he (the Baron DI RICASOLI) cannot under take the duties of Prime Minister, cannot hold in his hands the Foreign Portfolio. Supposing that we are to accept the glad tidings—as let us sin cerely trust we may, as authentic—adieu to the dreams of NAPOLEON HI. about the acquisition by France of the island of Sardinia. Anxious glances in the meanwhile are turned just now towards the Island of Caprera, where, according to the unwelcome intimations of the telegrams, an alarming attack of illness has pros trated General GARIBALDI. Is it not possible, however, that this dreadful intelligence may be untrue—that, at any rate, it may have been exag gerated ? Is Italy, immediately after losing her foremost Statesman, to be threatened now with the loss of her most illustrious Soldier ? GOD grant that out of all the bitter griefs and anxieties that are now descending upon that beautiful land in the very hour when its political unification appeared to be ensured—Cop grant that out of all those bitter griefs and anxieties the brightest epoch of her history m a y yet emerge, and that,in spite of the lamentable death of CAVOUR, and the reported alarming illness of GARIBALDI—ItaIY may yet fulfil her noblest destiny, and happily accomplish the work of her complete political reorganisation. Hitherto, CAVOUR had been the Brain of Italy, directing her councils, while GARIBALDI has been the strong Right Arm wielding her sword. Having lost her master-mind in Diplomacy, she cannot afford now to lose the foremost Hero upon her battlefields. It is impossible to credit that any such terrible crisis could be reserved to her after all that has recently been achieved in her name both at the council board and upon the battle field. On Wednesday evening a Festival of a deeply nteresting character will be presided over by the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckingham shire. The occasion, however, is one of a purely philanthropical character. We would premise this for the information of several among our brother Editors in Paris, the redacteurs of those imperial organs who recognised a political manifesto in the graceful tribute offered to H.R.H. the Dac D'AU MALE, as Chairman of the Literary Fund Banquet —so regarding it simply (in every sense sim ply) because that touching and eloquent tribute was offered to the exiled Prince by the right hon. gentleman the leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. Our brother journalists over in Paris, quite losing sight for the moment, it would seem, of three facts as sufficiently obvious in themselves as the following, as sufficiently obvious, that is, to all of us here in England—Firstly, that the Literary Fund Institu tion is in no respect whatever a political establish ment. [Even Mr. DICKENS will allow that much —earnestly though he has striven to reform it from its foundation upwards as an institution urgently requiring rehabilit at i on !] Secondly, th at the Due D'AUMALE was there in the chair at theLiteraryFund Banquet, not at all in his capacity as an Orleanisf, but solely in his capacity as an exiled Princeaeldlitss-. dis tinguished by his many rare accomplishments. Thirdly and lastly, that the Right Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI was known to the world as an eminent Novelist before he had ever dreamt,:perhaps (though of this the readers of even his maiden romance " Vivian Grey" may be doubtful), before he had ever dreamed, perhaps, of becoming an eminent States man. The imperial redacteurs at Paris, in their strictures upon Mr. DISRAELI'S recent speech a the Literary Fund Banquet—recognizing in that right hon. gentleman—not the celebrated author of Coningsby, of Sybil, and of Contrini Fleming, but exclusively the member for Bucks, and the Leader of the Great Tory Party, the front ranks of which are filled up for the most part by the country gen tlemen of England. Yet, if—as who shall hesitate to say P—ltaly can nowhere find another CAVOUR, could nowhere dis cover a second GARIBALDI—Out of 25,000,000 of men, " numbers" may, at any rate, in some degree, compensate (so far, at least, as anything can compen sate) the loss of TUE MAN. Vanished the " divine fire "of GE/sans! Imperilled the " divine fire "of HEROISM! there must still be left the ardent hopes, and aspirations, and resolutions kindled by Each in the bosoms of—how many millions shall we say out of those 25,000,000 ! Time will answer. And in the meanwhile the dismay awakened throughout Italy, we may also add throughout Europe, by the death of CAvot•R, had been already allayed by the announced policy .of his successor RICA SOLI. The grief of Italy, the sympathetic affliction of Europe, caused by the tidings of that calamity may be yet further alleviated, will be yet further alleviated, let us venture to say, by the consolatory intelligence that OARIBALDI's illness has been exaggerated, and not only exaggerated but dissipated. Premising therefore that the banquet over whic h Mr' D ISRAELI is about to preside as Chairman s in no Way a merely political demonstration—being far beyond that, an earnest effort in the interests of philanthropy —we would here add briefly that it is a banquet given upon the occasion of the first anniversary (the advertisements erroneously print it the second anniversary) of the foundation (in 1860) Three days later from New York make us ac quainted with advances on the part of the North, and increased musters for defence by the South. The rumours, however, of actual fighting at Alexandria THEATRLE- R m r Y A J T a 0 l k i s t ° A n - ) r e . MARKET. prove to have been baseless. From the South we cannot easily obtain definite information ; it has THIS EVENING, the tertornlanoes will commence with the Crn dy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. probably no wish to- furnish the world with any, Mathews, °e Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, ke. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. and hardly any means to do so if it had. It has Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Ma thews. not only no postal communication with E uro p e , And THE SUN AND THE WIND. but it has none with the States through whom all Commence at 7. - American news has to reach us. Hence we rarely get anything more specific than that "it is re ported that the Secessionists are throwing up earthworks at Manassas ;" or, " it is reported that large numbers of Confederate are troops at Rich mond." One telegram, however, boldly says that, " 10,000 Southern troops are at Harper's Ferry," and the " report" in this case is made to apply to the Federal troops which were to ',make a move to cut them off from Richmond. From the North, however, both of its doings within its own lines and in the South, the informa tion is, much of it, more categorical. They can tell us what the enemy are actually doing close to them—as at Harper's Ferry and Alexandria —at which latter place, as well as near the former, the belligerents seem to be face to face ; though the telegrams relating to Alexandria are a little con flicting and obscure. This place is, it will be re membered, a few miles south of Washington, on the other side of the Potomac, and is on the rail road which connects the Virginian lines with Washington. Our readers must not forget, if they wish to observe the effect of movements on either side, that Harper's Ferry is the western extremity of the attack and defence ; Washington and Alexan dria the centre ; that from thence the Potomac and the Bay of Chesapeake bends down to the South and East, till we find General BUTLER on the extreme East and South, relatively to Harper's Ferry and the centre. Richmond, the capital of Virginia, lies, as it were, in the centre of the arch r oughly formed by these places and the line o f th e Potomac, and is probably made the chief centre of the assembling of the Secession troops, because from thence any part of the line can be most easily reached. It is to Richmond, we read, that the forces go, and from thence that reinforcements are expected at Alexandria or Harper's Ferry. As all our news comes direct from the North, we must suppose that the accounts are as favouz able to it as they can be ; though we have not observed any tendency to exaggeration. The war excite ment and enlisting continue as vigorously as ever ; which is more than might have been expected. The onward movement has not been much ; an " important movement on Western Virginia, where the people are Unionists," is spoken of, also the " taking possession of Grafton in Western Vir ginia." A report at New York on the 28th that the Federal troops had actually marched on Harper's Ferry was not confirmed by telegrams from Halifax on the 30th; only that large bodies of Pennsylvanian troops were moved in that direction. For the rest the North was strengthening the defences on the Potomac. General BUTLER had captured Hampton, the town adjacent to fort Monroe, and was waiting reinforcements, which are leaving New York for him, before he attacked Norfolk, where the Navy yard is situated. The blockade appears to be efficient. A con siderable number of prizes are already announced ; and New Orleans itself is at last closed to trade. The correspondent of a contemporary gives us a very interesting sketch of the blockade of another port—Pensacola, the port of Florida, where there is a navy yard and forts, which, he says, have cost the Federal Government above £6,000,0000. This alone might fairly account for the unwillingness of Mr. LINCOLN to part with it lightly. The Yard is pro tected against a properly foreign enemy by forts on the mainland, and also by the now much heard of Fort Pickens. Those on the mainland are old and inefficient ; Fort Pickens, on the long, narrow sand bank, or island, Santa Rosa, is strong, and reminded the writer of a Sebastopol fort. It is also backed by the presence of a considerable Fede ral squadron. The channel is so narrow that the forts entirely command it, and Fort Pickens, it is said, could easily knock down those on shore. On the other hand, General BRAGG appears to have erected, skilfully, powerful batteries on the coast, and the works at the Navy yard enable him to cast shot and shell to destroy those who built it. At present the hostile officers were very civil to each other. They seemed to fight cniefly by practical jokes, such as compelling £50,000 worth of provisions to go up the Alabama river to Montgomery, four or five hundred miles, and to come back by railway to Pensacola, when the commander of the squadron could as easily have seized them aIL Such things, and permitting the enemy to erect, without disturbance, under the muzzles of the guns of both fleet and fort, the bat teries which are to be used against both, are cer tainly an unique mode of carrying on war. A few bloody encounters will soon put an end to all such hesitating lenience. By the last accounts the rebels have abandoned all intention of attacking Fort Pickens. of the Agricultural Benevolent Institution. The object held in view by this institution is the relief of Decayed Farmers, their Widows, and Orphans —a cause surely in the furtherance of which every one of us alike, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, may equally wish to participate. The Festival, in aid of the Funds of this newly-established Agricul tural Benevolent Association, will take place, then, in the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday evening— the day after to-morrow. And most heartily do we wish it success. As Chairman of the evening, no one assuredly could have been in any way more suitably selected than the right hon. leader of our English Country Gentlemen. It was purely a coincidence, of course, but still it was a singular coincidence under the circum stances, that at the very sitting of the House of Commons which witnessed the successful passing through the popular branch of the Legislature of the long-contested Budget Bill, with its dubious little enigmatical surplus—[in respect to which surplus, by the way, there was all that pother about the Tea Duties, and the Paper Duties, and the Sugar Duties, and the Income Tax]—the Secre tary of State for India produced his startling and almost alarming motion for a supplementary loan of £4,000,000 in behalf of the Government at Cal cutta. There always are these tantalising addenda requiring —as certain as fate—to be taken into con sideration by the House of Commons, after that House has nominally got through the whole tangled web of the country's resources and liabilities. It is a mere matter of course, we must acknowledge it, that when the financial position of the empire appears to have been thoroughly scrutinised in all its bearings without anything of importance apparently having been any whereoverlooked, there will all of a sudden start forth, almost at the mo ment of self-gratulation with JOHN BULL, another of those vexatious little sums in addition of which, until that instant, he wots not at all. Talk of every house having its " skeleton in the cupboard," Mr, THACKERAY ! The political House that Jack built swarms with them. And, above all, the Counting House attached to it, among the other " Offices," the old familiar Counting House where Jack sits, like the king in the nursery song about the black bird pie, "counting out his money"—yes, counting it out, everlastingly counting it OUT—doing this vicariously, of course, through the hands of his appointed Steward fad Cashier and Seneschal all in one, to wit, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer ! Why, that one apartment alone, among all the numberless apartments of the great national estab lishment, the palace-home of Circumlocution— Laeie's Counting House—is completely wainscoted, is absolutely walled with those Skeleton Cup boards. And as the national destiny will have it— the door of one or another of those cupboards, Joux beholds flying open perpetually—now that, now this—at moments, too, almost always the most pro vokingly inopportune. It happened exactly in this way as we have here intimated on Monday, the 3d of June, in the House of Commons—the very sitting at which the long talked-of and obstructed, but at last triumphant, Custams and Inland Revenue Bill was read a third time and passed, amidst the readily comprehensible cheers of the Liberal side'of the House, the side of the Government. Scarcely had the echo of those cheers of theirs died out, when—er-r-r-whang ! wide open flies the Calcutta cupboard, disclosing to view the grim Indian Skeleton. The Secretary of State, Sir CHARLES WooD, with no unwilling finger, has touched the spring—the right hon. baronet, skilled by long practice in these heartless manoeuvres, wants to borrow a snug little sum of £4,000,000 for the convenience of Hindostan. Thereupon, after Sir CHARLES has spoken and explained, so far as he himself could then understand it, the situation of affairs, fiscal and financial, over yonder in the far East [Mr. LAING'S admirable speech not having then arrived], there is a somewhat lengthened discussion in regard to this motion for a loan of £4,000,000 in favour of the Indian Government. The upshot of it all being—what it always is in these cases—just as a mere ordinary matter of course—how does the phrase run ?—" the motion was agreed to, and the House resumed." Scarcely a moment's hesitation about it. The thing is to be, the House sees that it is to be, and it acts accordingly. Mr.VANSITTART stood almost alone on Monday evening last during this debate in the House of Commons, when pro testing that, to his view, the statement just heard from the lips of Sir CHARLES WOOD justified the gloomiest anticipations. That lugubrious view of the future, particularly of the financial future, opening up to our Indian Government, we, for one, could not but regard even then as in the highest de gree extravagant. Unwelcome though this fresh de mand upon the Imperial Government for aid through a loan to the extent of another sum of £4,000,000 may be, we will even say at once is, we must never theless think, as we do think, and that most deli berately, that the aspect of affairs in the Indian perspective is in all respects, when viewed as a whole, singularly fraught with encouragement. Indications of the on coming of this more propi tious future for Hindostan were visible to all who cared to look at them with a dispassionate glance on Monday, even in the inadequate and merely frag mentary explanation given by Sir CHARLES WOOD when asking for this new loan of £4,000,000. Mr. LAING'S Budget for the year had beenwwe knew that much oven then !—[how much more fully do we not know it now that we have actually read and have since commented upon Mr. LAING'S masterly Financial Statement !]—had been brought forward at Calcutta, and had been recognised as, upon the whole, far more satisfactory than any one could have well anticipated. Mr. LAING had telegraphed to Sir CHARLES WOOD—the pleasantest news he could well have sent him!—that by January he (Mr. LAING) would be able to balance the Indian income and the India expenditure ! More than which mortal man could hardly have looked for at the hands of the late Mr. WILSON'S successor under existing circum. stances. Remembering the legacy of debt left by the Sepoy Mutiny, and recollecting how in addi tion to that after-result of the dreadful Bengal insur rection the resources of the Exchequer at Calcutta had been latterly drained away by reason of the late deplorable drought and consequent famine in ecrativhaeiertho Nest aVernagpnrio.fivicenhctes—suript surplus, in iu a its manner way that assurance of Mr. LAING'S, promising the Secre tary of State that by January next there shall be a balance in India of income over expenditure ! As it is the India Chancellor of the Exchequer is now known to have distinctly announcedi.a y deficith n is recent Financial Statement that th ere , i n that last Budgeto f his, there is already nowhere recognisable Still money,actual money,hard cashmeang out up on the nail is wanted, and must be got at sera h e e w _b y reason of the famine there, and of the necessary employment of the starving population upon the public works latterly, and very judiciously set on foot—hence this demand for the sum of £4,000,000. A million of silver, Sir CHARLES WOOD remarked, he had already very recently transmitted in hot haste to Calcutta. But one million of silver, it scarcelyn (a needed hdtehaytet did addtheSeerentaervyertohele of the wases State should add wholly inadequate for the emergency out in vened. VENING, JITNE 10, 1861. was altogether insufficient for the pressing exigencies of the Government. The Secretary of State further remarked that "he believed this loan was the only one he would require" (adding, however, as a saving clause) "unless the railroad companies should not be able to fulfil their engage ments, in which he might have to ask for power to borrow more on the railway account, and to be re paid by them. The sum of nearly £31,000,000," Sir CHARLES WOOD explained, " had been ex pended on railways, and about £25,000,000 more required to be raised to complete the un dertakings sanctioned. Of this sum £36,000,000 had the Government guarantee." In respect to which relative position of the Government guaran tee and the Railway repayment nothing could well be more singular in its way or more exceptional. The absolutely eccentric and whimsically round about way in which repayments of money are made through the Railway Companies of Ilindostan, by the Indian to the Imperial Government, has recently been very happily " put " as follows by the organ of Lord PALMERSTON'S Administration. " The necessity," says the Post, " of promoting to the greatest possible extent the progress of such public works as tend to develop the resources of the country has been long apparent to the Indian Government. It has accordingly, for several years past, advanced out of the Indian revenue to different railway companies large sums of money annually. This year, for instance, six millions have been so advanced. The railway companies, however, instead of repaying to the Indian Government the loans advanced, make their payments into the British Exchequer. The consequence of this system is, that although loans are made by the home to the Indian Government on the security of the Indian revenues, still the railway companies form the medium through which the repayments are made. The payments made by the Indian railway companies to the British Government have for several years past averaged between two and three millions." These left-handed payments, however, have dropped down in the current year to no more than as many hundreds of thousands ! Altogether it must be admitted nevertheless that the system of repayment here particularised as the one latterly in vogue in liindostan is in itself so irregular and out-of-the-way that we cannot but hope soon to recognise its gradual abandonment in preference for a mode more in accordance with the financia system of the Imperial Government. LArIET NEWS. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING The Prince of Wales, Captain Watson, with 20,000 ounces of gold, 200 tons of copper ore, 200 hbds. of brandy, a full cargo of wool, and 263 pas sengers, has passed up Channel for London: She left Melbourne March 3, rounded Cape Horn April 4, crossed the line April 29, and put in May 30 to Corunna, where she remained three days. TURIN, JUNE 9. The remains of Count Cavour have been trans- ported to Villa Santena. It is believed that they are only provisionally deposited there. A subscription has been opened among the bankers of Genoa and Turin for erecting a monu ment to Count Cavour. The municipality of Turin has taken the initiative in regard to the erection of another monument. It is asserted that Baron Ricasoli has accepted :he mission of reconstructing the Ministry. TURIN, JUNE 8 The King will receive Baron Ricasoli to-day, The Opinione insists that the new Premier should confine himself to appointing Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Marine, and should carry out the pro gramme of the late Count Cavour. ing that Omar Pacha, immediately on arrival at Mostar, ordered measures to be taken to prevent the Montenegrins from perpetrating any further massacres. According to the same telegram an arrangement had been signed at Constantinople between the delegates of the Bank of France and its debtors. The health of the Sultan had improved. The Paris papers also publish a despatch from Athens, dated the Bth inst., with news from Con stantinople to the 6th inst., asserting that in the previous day's sitting of the Syrian Conference Aali Pacha opposed the proposal of France that the governor of the Lebanon should be a native of the Mountain. The same message also states that Sir Henry Bulwer assumed a threatening attitude, and that Russia and Prussia appeared to lean to the views of France, and had proposed a compromise. A telegram has been received here from Can stantinople, dated the 7th inst., announcing that, in the sitting of the Syrian Conference that day, the Porte, supported by England, opposed the pro posal of France that the governor of the Lebanon should be a native of the country. The same tele gram asserts that Russia, Austria, and Prussia con curred in the opinion of France. Prussia, however, made a mediatory proposition, which appeared likely to be accepted by the Powers. Another conference will take place on the 9th inst. In Saturday's sitting of the Corps Legislatif the budget for the Ministries of State and Justice were adopted. When the vote for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came under discussion, M. Plichon directed the attention of the Chamber to the Syrian ques tion. He reviewed the events since 1840, and con• chided by saying that if fresh distrusts should thwart the policy of France, the Government might depend upon the concurrence of all France for maintaining that policy. M. Billault replied that the Syrian question formed the subject of negotiations which he hoped would soon lead to a satisfactory result. "He would not," he said, " enter into inopportune de tails, but was happy to state that the Corps Legis latif, as well as the Senate, the Government, and the whole country, attached serious and practical interest to that question. The Government were,' he said, "cognisant of their duties, had fulfilled them in the past, and would fulfil them in the future." Loud cheers followed the words of the Minister. The budget of the Minister for Foreign Affairs was then adopted. On proceeding to the vote on the budget for the Ministry of the Interior, M. Keller criticised the state of things in the interior. He attacked the revolution, and deplored the exceptional laws for general security, which, he said, had been made against the revolutionists, but which would soon be turned against the old political parties. M. Keller then attacked the Government and the magistracy of the country, but his observations here caused the President to call him to order. He afterwards continued, and complained of the toler ance of the Government towards the revolutionary journals, and of the prosecution against the clergy. The discussion will be resumed on Monday next. M. Fould has been summoned to Fontainebleau by the Emperor. It is said that he will thence proceed to Turin. BOURSE, June B.—There has been but a very limited amount of business transacted, but the market has been firm, and the quotations of yester day well maintained. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 55c. Railway shares also quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :--- 41 per per Cents ... 96 40 Credit Fonder — Do, end month.... 96 50; Belgian 4/ 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 601 Roman Bank Shares 2890 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 692 50 , Spanish Threes 5Ol Do. Account 695 —1 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1351 25 .. 1352 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva Southern Western Eastern Sardinian —••— Austrian Lorebard 490 .. 491 25 985 - 986 25 888 75 .. 890 - 926 25 .. 927 50 410 - .. 410 - 571 25 .. 572 50 522 50 .. 523 75 576 25 .. 577 50 LITERA7DRE. Henry IV. and Marie de Medici. Part 2 of the History of the reign of Henry IV, by Martha Walker Freer, author:of "The Life of Margue rite d'Augouleme," &e., &c. 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett. Miss Freer's ability and patient research have raised her to a conspicuous position among our historical writers. Without being gifted with those brilliant powers of description which bring the scenes and actions of a distant epoch as vividly before us as the celebrities of our own day; without bringing to her task that grasp of mind and know.. ledge of statecraft which assists the ex-minister or politician in a similar undertaking, she possesses some qualities perhaps even more rare. The most prominent of these is a spirit of moderation and impartiality, the recognition of the good a'nd evil that is so strangely mingled in most of us. We escape the extremes so common in all histories, the undue elevation of one or two characters and con sequent depreciation of others. Miss Freer is more just in her views. Because a man is heroic in the field she recognises the fact that he need not necessarily be wise in the council chamber, or if both of these, that it does not follow that he should be disinterested in seeking favours. Another quality indispensable to the historian is industry. Miss Freer's ample supplementary in formation concerning all the persons mentioned prove her to be thoroughly familiar with the epoch she is describing. Her histories are compiled from M.S. documents in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, the Archives du Royaume de France, and other un published sources; and the fulness and authenticity of her information will certainly render her work indispensable to all future writers on one of the most important reigns in French history. The earlier portion of this work, it will be remembered, left the great Henry firmly seated on his throne, after his triumphant entry into his subjugated capital, The volumes before us show us the con queror of Ivry as legislator and ruler, in which more difficult position he appears to equal advan tange, notwithstanding the moral weakness that marred the greatness of his character, and was too often the cause of perplexity and suffering to others. The generosity and magnanimous forbearance of the King; were among his most admirable qualities, and are not always the attributes of those who have had to struggle for their rights. Voltaire speaks of him as one 16 Qui par de longs malheurs apprit a gouverner, Calma les factions, sut vaincre et pardonner." The latter lesson some hinted he had learned too well, for in his ready gifts to his reconciled ene mies his old adherents considered he was unduly liberal, and some of them remarked that to obtain King Henry's favour it was necessary to conspire against him. Mayenne, Epernon, and Mercoeur were in turn pardoned and received into favour, though, in the latter instance, that secret influence was exerted which too often interfered to the detri ment of state interests. The melancholy fate of the Duke de Biron, the King's old companion in arms, who was executed in 1602, is scarcely to be cited as an exception to the royal clemency, since the open opposition of rebel subjects ,is not to I be viewed in the same light as the secret treachery of a trusted adherent. To increase Biron's guilt " Who Breaks—Pays." Dalian Proverb. By the he made a partial confession to the King, who for- author of " Cousin Stella." 2 vols. Smith and gave him and continued his confidence ; but on some Elder. imagined affront to his susceptible vanity or irritable This is a very interesting tale, that is equal to temper he lent a willing ear to the suggestions of the former production by this author. The charac his perfidious agent Lafin. That one enjoying the ter of Lill is very well drawn, and furnishes a very eminent dignities of Marshal Biron should enter striking instance of what mistakes are made by into a traitorous league with his country's enemies, those who are really well-meaning, but are impetu was certainly a crime of the greatest magnitude, ous and hasty. Lill Tufton led a sad life, indeed, and the repeated endeavours made by Henry to in- although at first sight she appeared to enjoy so duce his treacherous and ungrateful servant to con- many advantages with her bright youth and her fess his faults, and throw himself on his clemency, great beauty. Giuliani is a fine disposition, and were met by obstinate denials of his guilt. Biron all must sympathise with his sufferings, must ad relied on the fidelity of Lafin, who bad already be- mire his zeal in the cause of his injured country, and frayed everything to the King, and placed in his respect his strict adherence to principle, and his hands the fatal sheets of instructions given to him resolution to make any sacrifices that were by the Marshal for transmission to the Duke demanded by duty. Lill would have been far of Savoy. In these documents Biron counsels happier had she kept to her engagement with the Duke as to the best means of em b arrass i ng the Giuliani than she was in marrying Sir Frede r i c arms of France, and of protecting hi s own f or t r e sses; Ponsonby. She wo u ld always hav e f e lt respect for he tells him the disposition of the best condition regiments in Giuliani , and he would never, under any provoca the royal services; he proves f rom th e non, have been so testyas was Sir Fr e d er i c. I t was most . unwise to leave one so young and inexpe of the King's finances that a lengthened war rienced as Lill in such society as Mrs T would be difficult, and advises a compact with e. for a year • and had not her health so • own sem p, Spain, and the proclamation of such an alliance. man, who wore direful results might have taken place rapidly sunk the Nlar Many other proofs of the treason offlee a s re ga.iaen her reputation. Sir Mark is a delineation shal existed, and osnyß was not without practical evidence, At the siege of the Fort St. Catherine, ( t ) e t st ay and last was also in the dac's domains, he was riding w d Crompton amuses us with her quaint A s l im is ! Marshal one day, when the later, who despised. lici proposed a one in , p ty, which rendered him P. A civilian and parvenu, 0 Snore Marie de Medici does not occupy a prominent place. The concluding volumes of the work will probably give us an account of her regency. As Miss Freer remarks "The military successes and frank temper of King Henry have ga i ne d f or him a renown which the domestic annals of his life certainly do not sanction." A few weeks after the sudden and mysterious death of his adored Gabrielle, d' the great Henry was cowering at the feet of an ambitious woman ; false to his private and political engagements ; and the credul ous dupe of a family renowned for its intrigue." Mlle. d'Entragues is her© referr e d t o, who was afterwars concerned in a formi dable conspiracy. The king's treatment o f his sister, too, shows nei ther justice nor generosity and is unworthy the son of Jeanne d'Albret. His love of pleasure at first misled the courtiers , who h owever soon learned to appreciate his declaration, " I may cover with my royal robe the trusty armour worn at Contras, Argues, and Ivry, but I never lay it aside." Henry's straightforward logic and plain speech often amazed prosy dignitaries anxious for oratorical display. On one occasion, as he entered a town, the munici pality met him with their oration,--" King, most mighty, clement, benign !" "Stop!" cried the Monarch, " those titles suffice ; add only, and very weary.' " Before his repast another body arrived with a second harangue, b, pinning with, ‘' Age silaus, King of Lacedaimon," when the King im patiently stopped them, with the declaration that Agesilaus had dined, but that he had not. Henry's determination to register the edict of Nantes was much to his c re di t , and many other of his acts might have taught his successors wisdom. We congratulate Miss Freer OR having so successfully continued her laborious undertaking, which we trust she will bring to an equally satis factory conclusion. Important and eventful as the reign of Henry IV. Was, its details are little known by general readers among us, and therefore in pre senting so complete and interesting a narrative Miss Freer has done good service to the public, besides enha nc i ng h er own well-earned reputation. The Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces are struck with consternation at the death of Count Cavour. At Palermo all the shops were closed on receip of the mournful intelligence. The official Gazette of to-day confirms that the King has ordered the remains of Count Cavour to be interred in the Basilisk of Supergo. GENOA, JUNE 9. The journal Morimento, of to-day, gives a most positive denial to the statement made by the Natzonalites that Garibaldi is ill. BUCHAREST, JUNE 6. In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Assembly the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that the Porte had consented to the complete union of the Danubian Principalities, and that an international conference would shortly assemble at Paris for the purpose of settling this question in a satisfactory manner. The National Central Commission has been con The Georgius barracks, valued at four millions, have been destroyed by fire. CO NSTANTINOPLE, 'TUNE 7. At the meeting of the Syrian conference yester day a definitive scheme was agreed to, according to which there will be one Christian governor for the whole of the Lebanon, to be provisionally appointed by the Porte for three years. The Maronites and Druses are each to have a sub-governor. Turkish troops will provisionally occupy the main roads of the country. VIENNA, JUNE 8. In to•day's sitting of the Lower House the Minister of Finance declared that the landed pro perty possessed by the National Bank was the pro perty of the State, and never formed part of the provincial Crown domains. The Minister also stated that the sale of the pro perty was to be deferred until the new regulation of the bank should have been agreed upon. The proposal s i n re f erence to Ministerial respon sibility and the periodical assembling of the Reichsrath were adopted. BRESLAU, JUNE 8. According to advices received from Warsaw, an ordinance has been published there enumerating the articles of dress which the inhabitants are prohibited from wearing—namely, square caps, Polish tunics, amaranth coloured waistcoats and neckties, coloured boots and shoes, and any dress of a showy colour or unusual cut. It is said that the Grand Duke Michael is ex pected at Warsaw. MADRID, RINE 8. A official denial has been given to the rumour of a treaty between France and Spain for securing the possession of the Antilles. LISBON, JUNE 9. A royal proclamation prohibits the open-air meetings convened on Sunday by the Patriotic Society. It is said that seditious manifestoes have been distributed among the troops. FRANCE. The Pari s p a PARIS, S UNDAY. from pers of to-day publish a message Constantinople, dated the 6th inst., 4111104nc, spection of the fort. Rosny demurred, as the uni form of the Marshal made them conspicuous. Biron laughed, but spurred his horse close to the principal battery, which was instantly silenced, and the firing paused until he had left the vici nity of the fort, A few hours later, Rosny, with one of his officers, went to the same spot, and as he expected was received with a tremendous volley. The acute minister retired with his previous sus picions confirmed. After such ;proceedings on the part of one high in military authority in dangerous times, the sentence of death on the king's old com panion in arms is less surprising than his pre vious leniency to a traitor. On the very day of his arrest, Henry despatched Rosny to make another effort. "If M. de Biron confides in you," said the King, "assure him that he may fear lessly seek my presence and avow all. If he dis guises nothing, I give you my royal word that I will, with all my heart, accord him a free pardon." l3iron had previously had the honour of being selected as ambassador extraordinary to our Queen Elizabeth. Henry IV. was always the firm ally of England, and Elizabeth frequently afforded him substantial aid, although sometimes driving a hard bargain. She was quite ready to take advantage of " her dear brother's" difficulties, and on promis ing to assist Henry with troops and a fleet, to dis lodge the Spaniards from Calais, merely requested that the town when evacuated should be ceded to the English. Henry properly replied that he would rather dispense with the proffered aid, since the Spaniards would ere long be glad to cede their conquest. His letter to Elizabeth on this question is given in full by Miss Freer, and is a favourable specimen of royal epistles. On another occasion Rosny had a confidential interview with the Eng lish Queen, in which they discussed the scheme which the allies entertained of remodelling Europe. It was proposed to restore to Germany its ancient privilege of electing an Emperor; to render the Seven Provinces independent of Spain, and to erect a powerful republic by the addition of certain pro vinces ; to construct a similar republic of Switzer land ; to equalise the power of the chief European states, by depriving Spain of the Indies, by adding the Lombard provinces to Savoy and Piedmont, by giving Sicily to the Venetians, and by making Naples an independent kingdom. As Miss Freer observes " The designs of Elizabeth and her ally have most of them been realised; it is, however, no slight homage to render to the genius of these great personages, that projects which two centuries and a half ago were discussed by them, have been, with various modifications, adopted by the succeeding statesmen of Europe. Elizabeth was then too old to see the first step taken towards these projects, while the dagger of Ravaillac cut short the days of the great Henry too soon for his country and for Europe. The readjustment of the finances was one of Henry's greatest benefits to his people. In this, as in most of his other reforms, Rosny took the lead. This famous Minister, better known by his later name of Sully, was as remark able for his fidelity to the interests of his sovereign as for his consummate ability. Devotion to Henry was his one sentiment, and truly it compensated the monarch for the ingratitude he too often en countered. Henry had discernment enough to per ceive Rosny's integrity and ability, and steadily advanced him, notwith s t an di ng th e opposition and coldness of the nobles. His appointment to the management of the finances was expedited by Gabrielle d'Estrees, partly from enmity to Sancy, partly from a real desire to extricate the King from his difficulties. The results were 80011 apparent. The enormous peculations he discovered amazed the king, who saw him return f rom hi s first visit of inspection with 500,000 crowns of arrears. This was the more welcome as the king had been pre viously at a loss for 12,000 crowns to pay his Swiss companies :--- "Henry, accordingly the following day, desired Saucy to send to M. de Ro:ny for the money to discharge the arrears. This mandate Saucy gladly obeyed. Believing that Rosny, a civilian, was probably ignorant of the amount needed, or willing perhaps to test the integrity and pliancy of Henry's new minister elect, Sancy sent to desire Rosny to give the sum of 90,000 crowns to the bearer of the war rant for the pay of his Majesty's Swiss. Rosny compla cently surveyed his well filled coffers, which he had had ranged round the apartment he occupied in the Abbey of Si. Ouen, and returned a dry negative to the demand. ' I do not know M. de Saucy, nor do I recognise his writing nor his orders,' contemptuously observed Rosny. Re Pardiete, we shall soon see whether this Rosny knows not who 1 am,' exclaimed Saucy furiously, when this answer was reported. He then went in search of the King, whom he found walking in the gallery of the monastery, with several lords of the Court. Well, M. de Saucy, what do you here ? Are you not going to pay my Swiss to-day?' asked his Majesty. Sire,' retorted Saucy, lam not, for such is not the pleasure of your M. de Rosny, who is playing the Emperor in his chamber, sitting savagely upon his silver cans like an ape upon a block. He says he knows nobody. I doubt whether your Majesty will have more credit with him than others.' The King retorted angrily, and then sent for Rosny and commanded him to explain. Rosny obeyed without reserve, to the astonishment of the persons pre sent, who all dreaded the wit and the supposed power of Sancy. From this period Rosny was seldom molested by his colleagues, while he studiously refrained from interfer ing with their respective departments," On another occasion Miss Freer gives the following portrait of this celebrated Minister : " One of the grievances of the princes was that the realm was governed by the coterie form e d o f B ell ie vre, Villeroy, and .o.om:ly—that the king listened indeed to tho advice of his peers, but never acted upon the counsel given, unless approved by Rosny. The latter, from being a humble member of the household, occasionally addressed condescendingly by Mayenne or Montmorency, or made the but' of Sancy's sarcasms, now beheld himself the patron of the house of Lorraine-Guise ; the minister whose nod Henry, when in council, always waited; the recipient of the confi dential projects of the superb Epernon ; and courted by the chief of Rohm, who about this period proposed matri monial alliance between their children I Rosny attained this altitude by the devotion of every purpose, friendship, and personal advantage to the attainment of one object— his interest was that of the king—his friends were com prised in the single person of the king—and his recreation and sole pursuit, the business of the king. Austere and re served, Rosny displayed no accessible foible; he despised women; he hated gambling; he wearied of banquets and revels; and grimly submitted to be present at these, and to entertain others, as part and parcel of the burden of office. He had no religious principle—he went to mass with the the king, and was ever ready to stay away from le pr ec h e a t Henry's desire. I n hi s communications with the Pope, and with the eminent divines of the day, ho adopted without scruple their priestly titles of honour, which rigid Hugue nots like Duplessis Mornay sternly rejected ; and was as ready to accommodate the acts of his synods to the views of dissentients, as du Perron was to smooth down the canons of Holy Church." .. , • 1 conspicuous from her being surrounded by so many ( crafty and subtle ones. Lady Ponsonby was very 'kind, but wanted judgment in difficulties, while Alicia exemplifies how disagreeable a good per son can make herself by her harsh criticism of others, and by her narrow notions in many things, while in some she was too free and unguarded. It is a sad sketch of life that we meet with in these pages. The hero is so brave and enthusiastic, the heroine so generous and sincere, that the reader may fancy, to begin with, that all will eventually prove satisfactory in their careers. However, the contrary is the case, and we learn of Lill's early death, and of Giuliani'; life-long sorrow and regret for her deserting him, and sorrow for her after disappointment. No better proof could be given of his devotion to her than when he pleaded the cause of his successful rival. There is no surer test of uprightness than this, and he reaped his reward inasmuch as the influence he obtained over her induced her to make overtures of reconciliation to Sir Frederic, and although they did not meet again, she had the happiness of departing in peace. The proverb which gives a name to the work is a very expressive one, and the illustration is fully carried out. They who, like Lill, rush on in reek, less desperation will inevitably come on shoals and quicksands, while those who attempt deceit like Sir Frederic will as certainly find themselves in very awkward situations, of which the most un pleasant result will be that they will not be able to do themselves justice, or explain their motives to their indignant judges. As a good representa tion of society in some troublous times, and an able exposition of character in some of its most striking phases, this novel may be confidently recommended and there is no reason to doubt its success, consider ing its claims to attention. It is a brilliant work in its peculiar style, and reflects great credit on its author by its originality and vigour. The Life of Richard Porson M.A. By th e R ev. J. Selby Wats on , M.A., M.R.S.L.f Longman. It is somewhat surprising, as the writer before us observes, that the life of so eminent a scholar and, critic as Richard Porson should have remained un written. The attention which the precocity of his talents drew upon him procured him influential friends who afforded him the means of prosecuting his studies, and thus, through his own abilities, h e was raised from a very humble origin to a p os iti on. which command e d th e respect of te world of let ters. The name of Porson was held in honour by every scholar in Europe, and at the present day the Parson Prize and Porson Scholarship still commemo rate his abilities in the University of which he was a member. It is mournful to reflect that such great powers should have achieved so little, that with the exc e pti on o f some excellent emendations of ancient Greek, the world should be so little the richer for such stores of knowledge, such keen. perception, and such wonderful force of memory,. It is painful to consider that the individual so great as a scholar was not equally great as a man, that the tyranny of a degrading habit clouded the vigorous mind, and enslaved the independent spirit. The biographer has acquitted himself of his difficult task with kindness and discrimination. He openly states that h e i s f ully sensible of the delic a cy l of his undertaking ; but while frankly confessing the errors of his hero, he has not dwelt upon them more than necessa r y, and h as obeyed Othello's famous injunction, by neither palliating what deserved censure, nor bringing into unnecessary prominence the failings of a great and gifted man. Porson was the son of a weaver in East Ruston, Norfolk, who w as a l so t h e parish clerk; his mother was the daughter of a shoemaker. Neither of his parents, says Mr. Watson, had any education beyond what might be gained at the village school; but they appear to have been above the rustic level. His father was a man of good sense end great powers of memory, possessed also of a correct knowledge of arithmetic, for he taught his son before he was nine years old to extract the cube root by mental calcu lation. His mother had a taste for poetry, and was familiar with the plays of Shakspeare, which she had obtained access to in the library of the vicar, where she had been at service. Porson was sent at an early age to a neighbouring school, where his abilities soon attracted attention. " On his daily re turn to school," said his master," it was evident that he had been thinking, when he was not asleep, of his studies, for he generally came armed with some algebraic or mathematical problem solved in his own way," a process which he adapted wit h the 47th proposition of Euclid's first book. The curate of the parish, hearing of the boy's precocity, offered to educate him gratuitously with his own sons, an offer which was of course gladly accepted. From this time his progress was rapid. Mr. Hewitt, the clergyman, being anxious to adVance his pupil, spoke of him to Jr.A Norris, a wealthy gentleman of the neighbourhood, who afterwards founded the Norrisian Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge. He was consequently sent for exami nation to the head tutors of Trinity College and the Greek Professor at Cambridge, not thinkin g perhap s th a t h e hi mself should subsequently' hold that distinguished post. Their report was unanimous and most favourable. Mr. Norris there fore exerted himself to raise a fund for educating him at a first-rate school, and subsequently main taining him at the University. Eton and Cam bridge only confirmed his reputation. In 1781 he gained the Craven scholarship, took his degree in 1872, and soon afterwards obtained the first Chan cellor's medal and was elected to a fellowship, contrary to the rule of that time, while still a junior bachelor, exception being made in favour of his eminent abilities. This fellowship he resigned ten years later in consequence of his refusal to take orders. This is one of the instances which prove Porson's honesty of purpose. " I found, said he, " that I should require about fifty years reading to make myself thoroughly acquainted with divinity, to satisfy my mind on all points, and therefore I gave it up. There are fellows who go into a pulpit assuming everything and knowing nothing ; but I would not do so." He soon after became engaged in the Travisian controversy respecting a disputed text in St. John's first epistle. The biographer gives us a full account of this discussion which oc cupied much attention at the t e jhu t a i rin m e,h e i Porson's astuteness of intellect and vigour of ex kindness Which n t p e courtesy or hk p a r i nedsdsnri resigned s n s isg is nt oe better etht opponents,eisr d f e is l lo y s p m F hb o e r t w u a n s a t e e l and his prospects were in consequence most doubtful and heartening.dis seolarsphs eipd abte f l e y e ,t elected to tuot the a Greekf e w r. ro monthsfes ocrae . dge, which he held until his death in 1808. Many years previously he had • offered t o the Syndics of the University Press to edit a reprint of Stanley's edition of aEschylus, but as he was told he must preserve Stanley's text and Pauw's annotations untouched, he declined the conditions. A. curious specimen of collegiate scholarship was given on this occasion. Porson urged upon the Syndics the necessity of obtaining the various readings of the Medicean manuscript of Florence, and offered to journey thither for the pur pose of collating it at a trifling expense to the University. The offer was rejected, and one of the Syndics, speaking strongly against it, asked why Mr. Porson could not collect his manuscripts at home. Porson referred to this display of ignorance long after. It is said that this repulse so dispirited him as to check his whole critical career. Had he then, in early life, undertaken so great a work, he might have proceeded to others, and have accom plished all that was expected of him, instead of frittering away his powers on trivial tasks, and sinkin g in t o d esultory and indolent habits. With all his familiarity with the ancient Greek writers, and the special qualifications which he possessed for editing them, he never achieved a complete edition of any writer. The isolated _days which h e pu bli s h ed fully maintained his reputation as a cr iti c and editor of the highes t order, but his l ove o f s t u d y and the satisfact i on of sufficient to accom plishing a r ea lly great work were not induce hi m t o ma k e the continuous effort. Ab out the time when th e l ast ed i t i on o f t h e H ecu b a was published, which termi na ted the public lab ours of booksellers to e dit an e diti on of Arsto phanes, for Porson on E ur ipid es, h e was solicited by the L on d on i which they offered him .£4,000. In Dr. Raine's opinion P orson m i g h t , w ith hi s k now l e d ge of the his task in six months, but author, have com pleted he'refused to undertake it. He was, in truth, gra dually falling more and more under the influence of his evil habits. In 1806 he was appointed librarian of the London Institution, with a salary of £2OO a year and a suite of rooms. But the great scholar proved miserably unworthy of his post. Many re sorted to his rooms to confer with him on literary matters, and when his faculties were clear he was e r e a I ,:v c a o s n i d r u r c e t g k u a v r e ; I i h t e t I e m s a a d t e i s n fa o c t e i ff o o n ; t s s t always ready t o i mpart whatever he knew. But as His ahti tsehngadedannebeen expected from him to augment the bo li ef b ei r nn a s r pe y rno ; sli a ob n ni lg d i teyhde:oiNtVnais afterfa tt.edn h ard l y n b ti r do o j u bi g eg h hs t t p home plisae dti that as s t t l a ih t fee e would have been suffered to continue in his office." The directors sent him a severe letter containing the observation, " We only know you are our libra rian by seeing your name attached to the receipts for your salary." Af ter h e had held i t b ut tw years hi s h ealth, which had long been failing, gave Way suddenly, and he died September 25th, 1808, in the 49th year of his age. Of his power of me mory many astonishing feats are recorded, from the "a3" 3 when at Eton, going up to say a lesson is Horace, he took a volume of Ovid by mistake, but went on boldly, and construed the passage with perfect accuracy, the ma s t er no t dis covering the difference till he took the book t o ex amine it. "Nothing," says o ne writer, " came amiss to his memory; he would set a child right in his twopeiNiy fable-book, repeat the whole of the