The Sun. — London, England, 1861-07-22 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. TO THE LIVERYMEN AND OTHER ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. GENTLEMEN,—A requisition of a highly-flattering cha racter, numerously and influentially signed, having been this day presented to me inviting me to allow myself to be put in nomination to represent the City in Parliament, I cheerfully respond to such a call. Having been for so many years before the public, I feel that it is not necessary for me to make any statement of my principles or of my political opinions. I however desire to assure my brother liverymen and my fellow-citizens, that my efforts shall always be so exerted as best to pro• tect the privileges of this important City, and generally to promote the honour and interests of our great country. I have the honour to be, Your faithful Servant, WILLIAM CUBIT T. CITY of LONDON ELECT ION.— The CENTRAL COMMITTEE for PROMOTING the ELECTION of the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, SIT DAILY, at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate street. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., Chairman. BRANCH COMMITTEES. POLLING DISTRICTS. Aldersgate Within and Without. Aldgate. Billingsgate. Bassishaw and Coleman street. Bishopsgate Within and Without. Bread- street. Quecnshithe and Wintry. Bridge, Candlewick, and Walbrook. Broad -stmt. Castle Baynard. Cheap, Cordwaincr, and Dowgate. Cornhill. Criuplegate Within, Cri b talco-ate Without. Farringdon Within. North Side, Farringdon Without. South Side, Farringdon Without. Langbourn and Lime-street. Portsoken. Tower. COMMITTEE ROOMS. Clarence Inn, Aldersgate. Coal Exchange Tavern. St. Mary at Hill. The Globe, Finsbury Pavement. Tho Vine, Bishopsgate-street. King's Head, Queen-street. The Bay Tree, St. Swithin-lane. United States, Liverpool-street. St. Paul's Coffeehouse. The Castle Tavern, King-street, Guildhall. Garraway's, Change-alley, Cornhill. Cripplegate Tavern, Cripplegate-buildings. The Fountain, Redcross •street. Queen's Arm 9, Newgate-street. Saracen's Head, Skinner-street. Peele's Coffee-house, Fleet-street. American Stores, Fenchurch-street. Bull, Aldgate. Tho Hambro' Coffee-house, Water-lane. TREAT': HAYMAIMET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIg EVENING, the performances will oommenco with a new Ballet, BACthIUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, ,tc. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &o. Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, &c. ; Misses Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. NEW THEATRE -ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kato Kelly. To conclude with (dth timer THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CIANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCIIERA, arranged and conducted•by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and French, the most grotesque performance iu London. Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly for him, including the "Excursion to Brighton." Admission, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will shortly appear at his old quarters, after an absence of five years. RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former zrandeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im provements have been made in the VENTILATION and LIGHTING. T H 0 X FOR D, 6, OXFORD -ST RENT. This noble building being now completed, its architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting render it one of the sights of the metropolis_ ()pen Every Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selectirms (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus) from "Macbeth" and "Mt Ballo in Maschera." both operas by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), W. 11. Wieland, E. Marshall. and W. Randall. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAY.—Morning, Ih. 58m.—Afternoon, 2h. 24m. To - -monzow.-Morning, 2h. 46m.—Afternoon, 3h. Cm. - THEWEATIIER.--Sux OPPIOE, JULY 21, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN TUE SHADB. 73—highest since noon yesterday. 58—lowest tnis morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.84 ; WlND — South-Westerly; rather fresh, with cloudy, dull weather, and some rain in the night. Afternoon—Wind tresh and gusty, inclining to rain. JULY 22. THEEMOMIIITER, TN THE SHADE. 70—highest zince noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETEn-29.85. WlND—South-Westerly; moderate, with heavy rolling clouds, and sunshine occasionally. It rained in the night, and heavily this forenoon for about ten minutes. 1 ,9e ~,-, „,_,....0E ... . .-,,, tt: ,. 7.L ..,-../.....„.,,f.: „ :).: ,/ ,.. „.:.........,,...... r, .> t 1k7Z,.„..0.• .‘3, r:o 1 i . , -...,., ..-.... THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1861. A fresh arrival from Ame r i ca i s of a very war like character. A Colonel TAYLOR came to Wash ington with a flag of truce, but was sent back,as if a spy, under false pretences, or, at least, as having been employed merely to gain time. Congre ss wa s busy voting appropriations and lo — an s and one piece of intelligence, if confirmed, will do something to conciliate a little more good-will in this country, we refer to the proposal to abolish the MoREILL Tariff, and restore that of 1857. The Treasury and the people too will assuredly feel the benefit of this late approxi mation to something like justice to other countries. Military matters are a little chequered. General PATTERSON, who, it will be remembered, had routed General JOHNSTON from Martinsburg, finds him so powerful near it, that he has been reinforced; General M'CLELLAND, too, is ex pecting hot work ; but, in Missouri, 1,200 Federalists have been compelled to give way to, they say, 4,000 Secessionists, with small loss to themselves and much heavier loss to the rebels. It is not said how the Federalists became aware of the rebels' number and losses when they had to turn their backs on them. The St. Domingo affair 1 8 so much felt that it has already produced a demand for papers. As to the Message, we are told that e . v ek in NOW ;York, which will have to pay meat neavity towards its demands, it is generally ars proved. The Senate even outruns the President it has appropriated £100,000,000 to the war; and authorised raising 500,000 volunteers!!! The Lord Chancellor's maiden speech on Thurs• day evening iu the House of Peers was altogether as brilliant and successful an inauguration of his career as a debater in that Rouse as could possibly a nticipated or h o p e d have been f o r by the most z eal o us appreciators of the learned lawyer, popu larly kno-nn until so very recently as Si r RICHARD BETHELL, M.Y. fisr Wolverhampton. The Lumen of this first appearance of Lord WESTBURY in the discussions of the House of Lords was indicated not so much by the unusual cordiality of the applause with which that generally sedate and phlegmatic assembly greeted the close of Lord WESTBURY'S remarks upon his resuming his place upon the woolsack, as it was by the all but universally ad mitted cogency of the Chancellor's arguments in refuting the objections raised by Lord ELLEN. BOROUGH to the Indian Courts of Judicature Bill, then under the consideration of the House of Lords for a second reading. Before taking into account any one of these objections of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, the Chancellor took occasion, at the very outset of his remarks, to observe most gracefully—" Since I have had the honour of holding a seat in this House, I have listened on several occasions with the plea sure and admiration which all must feel to the speeches of the noble lord on my left. But," added Lord WESTBURY, "I must confess I do not think the speech he has made this evening is distinguished by so much candour or so much knowledge of the subject as generally mark the speeches of the noble earl." And the Chancellor then went on imme diately to indicate it thus :—" The noble earl," said he, "spoke of the Supreme Court as if it had not now to administer native law ; but the Supreme Court has an area of jurisdiction within which come the great cities of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. Within that area the judges of the Supreme Court administer not only English but native law." And, again—" One principal topic of the noble earl's speech has been the ignorance of English barristers, and their unfitness to administer native law satis factorily. Yet the present state of the administra tion of justice in India is this—there is a Supreme Court within whose jurisdiction come the chief towns of the Presidencies ; beyond them there is a local jurisdiction that I may describe as divided into districts, each having a Zillah judge, who decides both in civil and criminal cases. From these judges there is an appeal to the Sudder Adawlut, and, with great deference to the noble earl, I must say that, though in theory this court may have some original jurisdiction, it is practically confined to matters of ap peal." And, asked the Lord Chancellor, " What is the result ? That with regard to the natives beyond the limits of the towns, there is one supreme court to administer the law, and with regard to the natives within the limits there is another. And with regard to British subjects, if they are within the limits of the towns of the Presidency they are amenable to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, but if they are beyond those limits they are subject to no jurisdiction except the limited powers the 53d of George 111. gives to the local magistrates of the Mofussil. The result is there is an unjust and un reasonable division between the nati7es on one side and the Europeans on the other; one is placed on a different footing from the other. Can this be satisfactory to the natives of the country 9" In these passages the whole argument for the measure now passing through the Imperial Legislature may be said to be condensed. That measure is a Govern ment measure. It has been introduced into Parliament for the simple purpose of amalgamating twojurisdic tions hitherto—if not directly antagonistic to each other—unnecessarily running parallel with each other—and separated, each from each, conse quently quite as unnecessarily. Until now, in point of fact, there have been, there are two Courts existing, as it were, side by side in India—at Madras, at Bombay, and Calcutta—the one Court entitled (an absurd misnomer as it will be seen forthwith) the Supreme Court, and the other the Sudder Court—the Supreme Court exer cising jurisdiction over the Europeans, and the Sudder over the natives in Hindostan. We have said. that the title of the Supreme Court is in itself an absurd misnomer. And it is so thus. It could only of course affect to bo the Supreme Court in contradistinction to the Sudder Court ; thereby presumed to be below in authority. Whereas, upon the contrary, the two courts are in authority perfectly upon a level. They are inde pendent of each other, as we have already observed —and each in its way is supreme, the one over the Europeans, and the other over the natives in Hin dostan. The India Courts of Judicature Bill proposes then, we repeat, to undertake nothing more nor less than the amalgamation of these two courts, and the blending together, harmoniously, of their two need lessly divided jurisdictions. In undertaking to do this, the measure now before Parliament is simply fulfilling a promise formally given to that effect no less than nine years ago : that is in 1852. And the need there is for the fulfilment of that promise, is all the more clearly recog nisable in the fact that the two classes of courts— Supreme and Sudder—are in existence in the capi tals of the so-called Presidencies, meaning the Governorships of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. District tribunals, of course, exist also apart from these supreme courts at Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras—district tribunals scattered here and there, far and wide, throughout our Indian possessions. Appeals being referable from the judges of these district tribunals in the instances of natives to the Suddar Court, in the instances of Europeans to the Supreme Court, in the respective presidencies. All who have examined into the past and present system of the administration of the laws in Hindostan, agree in recognising the advisability of amalgamating the two supreme jurisdictions. Ad mitting that to be the case—and who shall gain say it ?—not even Lord ELLENBOUOUGH—the next question is, as to the source or sources from which the Judges of the One Court shall he drawn? Remember- lug that the jurisdiction of that One Court will be one affecting both Natives and Europeans, it is obvious that, in all fairness, the sources from which the e a d n g d e ledges u s t h o p a l e l a n b . e taken : s 0 it ought is p r t o o p o b s e e a — b o b t y h N tle a vr tive l this new measure, the Indian Courts Judicature Bill, introduced by the Government and cham pioned by the Chancellor. Natives of Hindostan British CiVil Servant s now i n our I n di an provinces, , barristers promoted from silk or stuff gowns to the ermine and the bench in Asia, and the European judges already out there at Madras, and Bombay, and Calcutta—these are proposed to be the administrators of the law h ence. forth in the Supreme Courts of our Indian Empire. Happily the specious objections rai se d . by Lord ELLENBOIIOI7GH have scarcely been arti culated by the lips of that eloquent and gifted, but captious and precipitate censor of our whole Indian scheme of Government, before they are scattered to the winds by the resistless force of the logic of the Lord Chancellor. Vie National Review for July* has an article of high merit on the " Civil War in America ;" on some points the writer's views ;differ from those which we have brought before our readers, but on more it harmonises with them. The whole is cha racterised by an independence, yet sobriety, of thought which make it every way worthy the at tention of our readers, and of the well got up and ably edited Quarterly in whicq it appears.. The National Review strongly sustains the position we have always taken, that " Ambition not humanity has been the guiding and inspiring passion of the * Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly. strife." Dr. PATTON, of New York, and many other Americans, when appealing to England, or de nouncing her, lay great stress on Slavery being the real subject of dispute. We hear loud complaints of this country's inconsistency, in leaning, as we are quite falsely supposed to do, to the South. England, the country which has abolished slavery and attacks the slave trade, at such a cost--that she should not be in a furious, a warlike passion with the South -monstrous, inconsistent, to be accounted for only by envy of our greatness and a wish to see it obscured ! We know here how absurd all this denunciation is, vet probably to this hour the great mass of the Northern population really believe it. The plain truth is that both parties are animated by what we conceive to be such, very commonplace mo tives that we can feel no interest in their real objects. We have never been able to detect (with the exception of the Abolitionists) a spark of in the aspi ra ti ons o f th e N ort h . as the ambiti on o f wor ki ng ou t a philanthropyor except manifest destiny " of the most inflated preten sions, may be called patriotism, have we seen any thing worthy of being dignified by that name. The North hates negroes indeed far more than the South does ; it hates slavery, too, but it is a politi cal, not a moral and religious hatred. We are pleased to see so independent and well informed a contemporary asserting so strongly views which some have thought rather harsh on our part. We are, however, satisfied of their correctness, and the facts which prove it are abundant. A patent one is the readiness with which the North has made one concession after another against the poor slaves, and in favour of their oppressors. The North has persecuted Abolitionists, hitherto, only less than the South has done. While the Northern clergy were, in truth, in their pulpits, in regard to slavery, "denying the faith and worse than infidels," they were branding as infidels the men who believed in the fundamental doctrine of their own Declaration of Independence, as well as in the spirit of the Gospel and Christianity. Their public religious societies, even Bible and Tract and Missionary Societies, were gagged on the subject of slavery. Two minis ters once went hence as a deputation from the Baptists—the sect which took the lead in the abolition of negro slavery in the West Indies— to the Baptists of America. They were forbidden in a triennial Convention of Baptists in America to open their mouths on the subject ! They thought of persisting in delivering the message they had brought from England; they were told that, if they did, the police would be ordered to deport them from the country ! This was long ago, and the same temper has been growing ever since. If we turn to the PRESIDENT'S last speech, which, of course, has arrived since the article we have re ferred to was written, how fully dos it confirm our views. Negatively, it is altogether prc-slavery. We may say that positively it is so, since it refers the timid to his inaugural address, and this address openly recognises the black spot in the Constitu tion of the rendition of fugitive slaves as the pole star of Federal slavery legislation ! We must repeat what we have said more than once, that, in these circumstances, while we cannot wish well to those who are fighting for slavery as a heaven-descended institution, we cannot feel any interest in the great effort of the North, which is merely to reunite themselves in one national bond with all the abomi nations of slavery. Amply large enough in terri tory, and numerous enough in population to form at once a mighty nation, and a wealthy one too, we have wondered that the North should not be glad to shake itself loose from the corrupting and debasing embraces of the South. To us it appears infinitely degrading to the North that it can take any pride in such an illicit con nexion with so disgusting a paramour. Up to the time of the last election, indeed, this domineer- I ing DELILAH, the South, so completely infatuated the Northern SAMPSON, that there was nothing which was not surrendered to her. The Republi can throne, the Bench of Justice, the Church itself, and of course all the spoils of office were all freely sacrificed by Northern Republicanism, such as it was, to retain the love of its imperious mistress— Slavery. With a truthfulness which his American readers will perhaps resent, but which they will do well to remember is the sketch of no unfriendly writer, who can see their behaviour before other nations better than they can themselves, the reviewer observes, page 158 : "Nay, if they could only read the dispensation rightly (though it would be unreasonable to expect them so to do), these very humiliations and enforced foregoings arc so many grounds for gratitude and gratulation. The lesson might be severe ; but no nation ever needed it so much. For generations they have revelled in the unwholesome and perverting" contemplation of their own grandeur, and the one sentiment that filled their hearts had been that of the Babylonian despot : 'ls not this the great Babylon that I have built, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" Under_this demoralising influence they had grown aggressive, overbearing, and unjust ; Truth and Right had become dim and feeble in their sight before the pagan worship of a gigantic strength and a Titanic will; external greatness had blinded them to the progress of domestic degeneracy, and they had grown daily prouder and more imperious as they grew less and less worthy of imitation and command. They had lacked deplorably, though without the faintest consciousness of the want, the controlling and compressing influence of some antagonistic power; of impassable boundaries; of natural, cogent, but invisible restraints; of barriers that compelled respect, but did not awaken irritation." Again, page 168, speaking of their possible future, he says— " Every aim, every blessing, that collective Man ever sought for is within their command, if only they are wise and just. But it is in vain to deny that immorality of more than one kind has eaten deeply into the heart of the people.. Their objects are not noble, their means are not scrupulous or pure, their standard of what is worthy, lovely, and of good report is neither lofty nor righteous. They are greedy, grasping, and overbearing ; immoderate in the extent and not delicate as to the character of their earthly desires. Their egotism, not unnaturally, has grown gigantic and blinding. In the idolatry of their self-worship and self-seeking, they have become regardless of the equal rights, and almost ludicrously unconscious of the relative position, of others. We cannot say that morally, intellec tually, or physically they have of late been an improving race. Their literary taste and their political behaviour seem to have degenerated. The language and temper of their public men at this conjuncture, especially towards England, are really painful and astounding, and show how a long career of self-indulgent encroachment, and long ha pa their b th it :fi o tn: eascshtildish self- a d u l a ti on , h ave bli n d e l them alike to what is reasonable an d w h at i s d ecent, and augur ill o to the crguidecrisis and ßc f a governstart startling e c a a t la nation i naya shock them into soberness, and prove the commencement of an altered course. It will assuredly be their own fault if they are not in future a worthy as well as a mighty people." This, though strongly stated, is not more than the simple truth. Whether our author is as correct in his anticipations of the impossibility of i allows to think h fionrkin af a r the con quering the South we are not so sure. It is often asserted, but there is, wear are inclined heene stronger Unionist eleme nt t han very cotton States themselves. The wisest men there must see that if the demagogue s w ho at pre sent domineer over them conquer, it must be by a help which may in its turn domineer over them. The " mean whites" with arm s in their hands, and such clever but moneyless lea& rs as they now have, will be dangerous masters when a' war is over. Again, we cannot but think a peaceful emancipa: Never before, perhaps, has there been more strik ingly illustrated in this country the necessity there is for a PUBLIC PROSECUTOR than in the instance of this very lamentable case of the Baron DE VIDIL. Upon the case itself we have not as yet one syllable to write by way of comment. Comment of any kind whatever, in fact, at this particular moment, upon a matter so exquisitely painful in every way were not simply indiscreet, but would be abso lutely unjustifiable. Yet from the very delicacy of the " situation" actually arrived at between the accused and the accuser, between father and son, be tween M. DE VIDIL and the Baron DE VlDlL—con strains one, almost irresistibly, to point the impres sive moral of this terrible and most tragic tale by adducing the dreadful facts, even as they now stand, as affording an all-sufficient argument in favour of the appointment of a Public Prosecutor. Were there an office of that kind already in exist- ence there would Lave arisen no such painful incident as that which now threatens to impede the course of justice in consequence of the natural reluctance of a Son to prosecute his Father, upon second thoughts, on so fearful a charge as that of attempting his murder the murder of that father's own offspring. Heaven grant that the appalling occurrences recently enacted in the green lane down at'Twickenham, and in the head Police•court at Bow-street before the Chief of our Metropolitan magistrates—where Father and Son stood opposed to each other so frightfully —may at length awaken our jurisconsults and our legislators to the recognition of the sore need there is for our placing a Public Prosecutor in the front rank in the revised scheme of our criminal law adminis tration. MR. EDWIN JAMES, Q.C: TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I beg to inform you that I have, by the instructions of Mr. Edwin James, given notice to the Benchers of the Inner Temple that it is his intention to appeal to the Judges against the order made by them at their sitting on the evening of the 18th am, Sir, your most obedient servant, W. E. KNOBEL. 3, Cannon-row, Whitehall, July 20. We understand that it is the intention of her Majesty, by the advice of her responsible Ministers, to create Admiral the Right lion. Sir Maurice Fitzhardinge Berkeley a peer, by the title of Baron Berkeley of Berkeley castle. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the first Lord of the Treasury in Dows ing -street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmer ston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alder ley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. E. Cardwell. The Duke of Argyll, after the Cabinet Council on Saturday afternoon, suddenly left town for Paris. We are informed that his grace in the afternoon received a telegram from the French capital conveying intelligence of the illness of the Duchess of Argyll, who had accompanied her mother and brother, the Dowager Duchess of Suther land and Lord Albert Leveson Gower, to the continent. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.—We are informed that the Duke of Buckingham is in a very precarious state of health. The accounts received last night gave a more favourable view of his grace's illness, but only slight ex pectations were entertained of his ultimate recovery, The Marquis of Chandos was summoned to town yesterday in consequence of the illness of his father. The Bishop of Durham's state is, and for some clays to come must necessarily be, very precarious. During the past night such a change for the better has taken place as it is hoped will lead to his lordship's recovery. Dr. D. White, of Newcastle, and Dr. R. Ferguson, of London, are still in attendance on his lordship. NATIONAL BOUDOIR OPERA COMPANY.—This celebrated company is now performing in Wrexham. They have taken the theatre for six nights. Selections from the grand Opera "Ii Trovatore" were given on Monday and Tuesday evenings last, which were admirably executed. The contralto, Miss Emma Heywood, gave great satisfac tion; and it is sufficient to say that her ability is of no or dinary character. Signor Borrani, the primo-basso, needs no comment from our pen, he is an artist of no ordinary merit. The company have spared no expense to gratify the taste of the admirers of the opera in Wrexham.— Wrexham 2'elegraph. PICTURES AND GAS.—The letters written in April last by the late Mr. Braidwood and Mr. Sidney Smirke on the subject of lighting the British Museum with gas have been laid before Professors Faraday, Tyndall, and Hoffman, but they adhere to their former opinion of the safety of the gas-lighting at South Kensington, and state that the tem perature of the picture galleries there, in the parts most ex posed to the action of the gas, is not so high when the gas is burning as when the sun is shining through the skylights Professor Faraday, howeiver, recommends that the roofs of such galleries lighted by gas be of iron, and he observes that he should greatly hesitate to recommend gas-lighting in the British Museum against the opinion of the architect, who alone is aware of the construction of the building and of the dangers by fire which it may involve. He remarks that he is very strongly against the common practice of erecting a church or other building by one set of hands, under one mind, and then giving it over to another autho rity Ind set for the introduction of gas apparatus and pipes, or pipes of hot air or water (frequently at high temperatures and pressures) into parts and places where no intention re specting them had existed before, where no preparation had been made for them, and where the final arrangements must partake more of accident and risk than of premeditation and forethought. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S PEERAGE.—Some of the papers have stated that Lord J. Russell's title would be Earl LadlowiThis is a mistake, which probably owed its origin to the fact that Lord John Russell has inherited from the Duke of Bedford an estate in Ireland, which he bequeathed to his brother, as it was bequeathed to him, by Lord Lud low, and which (with the profits that had accrued from the estate) he considered himself entitled to dispose of without trenching on the large property belonging to the ducal estates. This princely property the late duke left, not only unimpaired, but largely improved ; but he left to favourite and distinguished brother the casual inheritance which now enables Lord John Russell to take his rightful place among the foremost in rank, as he has ever been in intellect and patriotism, in the land. Lord Jobn Russell will retain in WA' earldom the illustrious name of Russell, to which he has been so long attached, and which he has done so much to illustrate. He will meet his constituents at Guildhall on Tuesday naxt, to take his leave, and m ill not again appear in the House of Commons, where ho has won so many triumphs during the last 40 years ; but he has not the slightest notion of giving up public life, as some of his opponents are glad to assert, without any knowledge or foundation.—Observer. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON.—At a general mee L ing of the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron held at the Castle, Cowes, a few days ago for general busiaess, the following members were present :—Commodore the Earl of Wilton (in the chair), Henry Thqrold, Richard Franklin George P. Bentinck, M.P., W. B. Ponsonby, F. P. Delme Radcliffe, H. J. Adeane, M.P., Colonel Sir Anthony Ster ling, K.C.8., Sir Thomas Whichcote. John E. W. Rolls, John Wardlaw, Lord Henry Cholmondeley, Earl Vane, Lindesay Shedden, John Harvey, H. M. Hammersley, Ar thur A. Davenport, Sir Henry Oglander, and the Earl of Dalkeith. The following candidates were balloted for and elected members of the squadron :—Lord Aberdour, Mer lin schooner, Gt tons ; James Edward Bradshaw, Destiny schooner, 140 tons; W. J. Pawson, Zoraide schooner, 143 tons ; and the following captains of the Royal navy : Thomas Saumarez and James H. Cockburn, as honorary members. It was also ordored that an annual subscription of £lO be in future paid by the Royal Yacht Squadron to the National Lifeboat Institution, instead of £5 as hereto fore, Lord Henry C holmondeley, as a member of the com mittee of its management, and other gentlemen bearing their te s ti mony a t t h e same time to the great and national importance of the operations of the Lifeboat Inst i tution. Four yachts were wrecked on our coast last year. The Earl of Rosso and Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, who respectively subscribed £5 a-year to the Lifeboat Society, have, with other yacht owners, recently supplied their yachts' crews with excellent cork jackets, similar to those worn by the crews of the lifeboats of the institution. The next meeting of the squadron will take place at the Castle on Friday, August 9, being in the Regatta week, for the election of members and general business. N' - E4w AMERICAS Q.UEENSTOWN, JULY 22. The Royal Mail stet unship Europa, which arrived here at 2.20 a.m., let Boston on the 10th, and Halifax on the 12th in st. She brought 108 passengers, and diamonds of the value of 2,625 dols. far England, and 895 dols. for Havre. She landed all maits except those for Liverpool, and 10 passengers, amad proceeded at 2.30 a.m. NEW 'YORK, JULY 9, EVENING. Colonel Taylor, wliu had arrived in Washington with a flag of truce, bearing despatches from Pre sident Davis to President Lincoln, has been sent back without any unswer. The contents of the despatches have not transpired, but are reported to be frivolous, and the trending of the despatches only a ruse to gain information. Congress has pass ed a resolution to consider busi ness concerning nay ul and military appropriations only. All private bills are to be referred for consi deration to next Congress. Bills have been in:troduced for the repeal of the tariff of 1861 and tle adoption of the 1857 tariff, and also for abolishing all ports of entry below Baltimore. A resolution has passed, asking the President for the correspondence 'with Spain relative to the incor poration of San Doi vingo, and what protest, if any, the Federal Administration had made against the insolent and aggres the conduct of Spain. 6,000,000 dols. h mve been voted for the payment of volunteers. The President's llTessage and the report of the Secretary of the Tveasury are generally approved in New York. General Patterson. has been reinforced at Mar tinsburg. General Johnson it; reported to be in the neigh bourhood of that place with a large force of Con federates. A mutiny has broken out among the Garibaldi Guard at Washingtorn, and is not yet quelled. The Arago, from ,:;outhampton, has arrived out. (LATEST BY TIZLEGRAPII TO HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, JULY 11. A battle occurred at Carthage, Missouri, on the sth inst., by 1,200 Federal troops attacking 4,000 rebels. The FederaliLs is finally retired with the loss of eight men killed and 45 wounded, while the enemy, it is said, lost over 250 men. The Federal troops are fast concentrating, and the rebels in that section are expected to be utterly routed within a day or two. There was some brisk skirmishing yesterday near Laurel-hill, \V e stern Virginia, between the Federal troops and the rebels. A battle is expectocl to occur to-day by General I‘l‘Clellan attacking the entrenched position of the rebels. The Senate has ps ssed a bill authorizing the em ployment of 500,000 -volunteers, and appropriating 500,000,000 dols. for the war. The House of Representatives has passed a bill authorizing a loan for 250,000,000 dols. The Senate has expelled a member from one of the seceded States. The wife of Professor Longfellow was acci dentally burnt to death at Boston yesterday. COMMERCIA.I INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 11. Exchange, bankers' bills, 107. Stocks buoyant. Illinois Central, 671 ; - .Erie, 23 ; New York Central, 75. Cotton firm, and prices continue to advance. Middling upland, 15t. Breadstuffs remain flat and declining. Provisions dull. NAPLES, JULY 19. General Cialdini has ordered 15,000 volunteers from the National Guard to be enrolled for mobili- sation. Several Garibaldi= officers have accepted ap• pointments. The brigands who were concentrated at Monte falcone have been beaten. JULY. 20. General Cialdini has issued a proclamation ex pressing his confidence in the people and the National Guard, and appealing to the whole Liberal party to assist in dispersing the Reactionary bands, and thereby defeat the man who pays them and directs their movements from a distance. JULY 21. Several persons belonging to the Reactionary party, and the chief of the Reactionists at Monte Silvano, have been arrested. The chief of the brigands at Montcfalcone, author of the massacre at Mileto, has also been arrested, and, according to the Nazionale, shot. Nearly 500 brigands still threaten Avellino. About 50 have been made prisoners. TURIN, JULY 21. The journals Il Popolo and l' _ltalia of to-day an nounce that the brigands have given a banquet within eight miles of Naples to celebrate the ap proaching return of Francis IL The .Nazionale says : " The Minister of War has ordered the distribu ,ion of 30,000 rifles among the National Guard of ,he province of Naplcs." PESTH, JULY 20. The Pesther Lloyd of to-day says : " Counts Apponyi and Mailath will for the pre sent remain at their posts. " Count Fogach, the new Chancellor of Hungary, has declared to the Councillors of the Aulic Court his determination to act acording to the constitution and the wishes of the nation. " A circular to the Obcrgespane is in course of preparation, urging them to act in concert, according to the constitution." VIENNA, JULY 20, EVENING. Count Moritz Esterhazy has been appointed Minister without a portfolio. JULY 21. Omar Pasha 'has landed at Ragusa, and was re ceived with military honours. He will leave imme diately for Antivari, in order to have a conference with the Prince of Montenegro. THE LATE DUCHESS OF KENT. —The Aberdeen steamer of this week brings to London a sarcophagus in ended for the mausoleum at Frogmen). The sarcophagus, which will enclose the coffins containing the remains of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, is of blue granite of very fine quality. The principal part is formed from a block of some six tons in weight, hollowed out to the re quisite depth entirely by the chisel, with great labour, after the surface polishing had been finished. The top is a splendid slab nearly four tons in weight, the upper surface bevelled from the edges upward. Under the body of the sarcophagus aro four moulded supports resting on a sub plinth. The length is about eight feet by four feet in wi4th, and five feet in height. In style the sarcophagus is chaste and simple, with nothing in the way of ornament save plain mouldings. The effect of the whole--finished, as it is, with great care and skill, and of very superior granite—is massive and striking. On one end there is a monogram of the letters Alpha and Omega, en circled by a serpent, executed in the early Christian symbolic style, and on the bevel of the top, on one side an inscription in English, setting forth the titles, age, &c., of her late Royal Highness, an inscription in German occupying the other side. The sarcophagus is from the granite works of Mr, Macdonald, Aberdeen, war. tion of all the slaves by a gradual advance of a large Northern army quite possible. It requires only that the hitherto infatuated North should see the necessity, now such a glorious opportunity is offered, of destroying the root of all its worst evils. We cannot now develop° fully the policy we refer to, but in a single sentence may say that a large, well arranged army would have in its power two things if it choose to effect them, the emancipa tion of the slaves, and the prevention of a servile LITERATURE. Our Cruise i n th e Claymore,wlth a visit to Damascus -and the Lebanon. By Mrs. Harvey, of Telswell- Bury. Chapman and Hall. This volume furnishes us with some entertaining ;Al :counts of the various places of note through w hick the travellers passed. Although numerous works of travel have appeared concerning these countries, there is always something interesting to be gleaned in the records of the East, and the. descrip tions here met with are very pleasingly written. The diary begins with a voyage from Beyrout to , Damascus, which furnishes us with many details. Thee are a few sketches here and there of the mast striking objects that meet the eye. A Druse Woman is thus mentioned—" There we saw for the :first time a Druse woman with her horn." This is a most singular head-dress, projecting about a foot and a half beyond the forehead, and support ing a thick white veil, which is carefully wrapped round the face and figure, especial care being taken to conceal the mouth. None but the married women wear this " horn," which is given by the husband on the wedding day; among the poorer people it is generally made of wood, but the rich have it of silver and even of gold. They carry this absurdity into the toilette of children as appears from the account of a Druse baby's attire. " The eyes were painted with antimony, while the tears caused by the operation had washed long streaks of black down its poor little cheeks; on its head it had three caps, the upper one being of velvet, perched quite on the top of its head, and ornamented with diamonds." There is a long account of Damascus, which is very well worthy of notice. There is always considerable interest attached to this won derful spot, on account of the elasticity of its exis tence. In " Tancred," it is said, " the rivers of Damascus still run and revel within and without the walls of which the steward of Scileik Abraham was a citizen." The English consul's abode appears a most charming place from the details here mentioned. "From the shade of a lofty alcove, paved with marble, and curtained by the large branches of climbing plants, we looked upon a garden glorious with flowers, in the height of their summer beauty, in the centre was a large marble tank, surrounded by water plants, little jets d' eau at the corners refreshed the water, keeping up a constant tinkling music; the house being built round the court, ah commu nication between the upper rooms is by means of outer staircases and balconies, now perfect bowels of vines and roses, the brown carved wood only peeping out here and there amidst the masses of green. The rich luxuriance of a southern clime is here, this is the land of the citron and myrtle, and the air is perfumed with the fragrance of the orange-blossom, while the eye is charmed with the clusters of golden fruit. Never had we seen such jasmines and roses ; even the geraniums were of a double size, and amidst the darker foliage, the bright flowers of the pomegranate and oleander seemed like little clouds of scarlet and pink." Afterwards the travellers proceeded to Baalbcc and Tyre. They arrived there at a critical period when the massacre of the Christians took place. Hearing reports of the disturbances they had hurried to gain their yacht, and from thence they could see " The . mountains beyond B e y rou t, re d w i t h the fl ames at burning - villages, and even the flashes of musketry were distinctly seen on deck ; the consternation in the town was extreme." These adventurous travel lers had thus au exciting episode in their wanderings, an.d these circumstances of course add considerably to the interest of the work. There is an exciting account of the scene that took place at Tyre, where the idea Prevailed that the yacht Claymore was a small man-of-war, and therefore they were enabled to be of great service to the unfortunate inhabitants. This little work is well written, and contains much to attract attention in its animated descriptions of places that hav e a S cr i p t ura l assoc i at i on and a his torical interest; while, added to this, there has been an excitement felt in many quarters regarding recent events. It is therefore a very desirable volume for the perusal of the general reader. The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer. With a Memoir of the Author. Routledge. The volume befOre us is, unfortunately, the last account we shall receive of the travels of this ad venturous lady, who has obtained an extended re putation even in these days of wanderings and explorations. The work in question has two espe cial features of interest, in the biographical memoir of the author, and in the account of that perilons visit to Madagascar where she was attacked by the illness, which subsequently proved fatal. Madame Pfeiffer was staying in Madagascar at the time of the last persecution of the Christians, and in common with the other Europeans there expected nothing less than death or torture. After an in terval of terrible suspense the sentence of banish ment was pronounced upon them, the Queen fearing to murder white people. The magnanimity, how ever, was not so great as it appeared to be since the malevolence of the tyrannical queen had attached conditions to their removal which were intended to prove fatal, and which were the cause of great and lasting suffering to the enterprising feminine traveller. Knowing that some of the party were attacked by the disastrous Madagascar fever, the queen had given orders that the journey from the capital to the coast should be as dilatory as possible, and accordingly instead of eight days they were made to pass eight weeks in traversing marshy lands and forced to stop in the most unhealthy places. They were likewise refused the smallest comforts and forbidden to hold communication with any one. Fortunately the lady who had boldly faced so many dangers survived the ill-treat ment of the barbarous Queen Ranavola, but she never recovered her health, and after lingering some time in the Mauritius she returned to Europe, where she soon after expired to the great grief of her family and friends. The memoir which is pre fixed to this work will be read with interest. It gives a concise account of the life of this celebrated woman and of the difficulties which she encoun tered. In the days of her eccentric childhood she wished to be a soldier, and was bitterly grieved when attention to more feminine pursuits was in sisted on. When forced to abandon the idea of mili tary glory, she replaced it by the love of travel, and this passion she retained to the end of her life. Again she m as unable to follow her wishes, and in amore important questi on s h e was a l so disappointed. Her mother refused to sanction her affection for her tutor, a man of character and ability, and after much unhappiness she was induced to marry Dr. Pfeiffer. She did not begin the travels which have made her name famous until she was forty-five years of age, and had completed the education of her two sons. Her means were extremely limited, nevertheless, she contrived to visit in turn every quarter of the globe, beside s exp l or i ng many places little visited by Europeans, and com pleting two " journes round the world." The writer of the memoir justly observes, "If we compare the results of Ida Pfeiffer's undertakings with the limited means at her disposal for carrying out her plans, her achievements appear marvellous. She traversed nearly 150,000 miles by sea and 20;000 miles by land; and the f un d s f or th ese travels were obtained entirely by wise economy, and by the energy with which she kept the goat continually before her eyes." Her description of the Island of Madagascar will be new to many. She gives a melancholy picture of the state of the people under the tyranny of their wretched sovereign. The style of the narrative, like all Mdme. Pfeiffer's works, is fresh and simple, and is fully in accordance with the straightforwardness and absence of pretension ascribed to her. A Few Personal Recollections of the late Dr. Croly, with extracts from h?s Speeches and Writings. By R. Herring, author of " Paper and Paper making," &c. Longman. The late Dr. Croly bore so deservedly high a reputation as a man of learning and ability, that extracts from his works can scarcely require criti. cism. The present selection includes passages from his prose and poetical writings on a wide range of subjects, displaying their author's eloquence, study, and sound sense. The "Personal Recollections" give some interesting details respecting his life, and ithe outlines of conversations which he held with the writer. No doubt the volume will prove very acceptable to the large circle who hod in well merited esteem the memory of Dr. Croly. High Speed on Railways. A Letter to the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., President of the Board of Trade. By George Robert Stephenson, Esq., C.E. R. Clay. George Stephenson forced railways into England, Robert St e phenson developed what could be done by engineering science, but the author of this pam phlet forgets what is due to the public, and looks only to the interest of shareholders and railway directors. He advances many plausible theories and facts known to all engineers—that high speed is detrimental to the permanent way of a : ny rail way, and that the wear and tear of the rolling stock is increased in a like proportion, but he forgets that it was the penny wise and po und foolish p olic y of railway companies that led them to lay down of metals should ONLY TWO LINES OF RAILS in the first construction and thus hampered the d e , elo ad ir o, er a i n t .d of st t r r o a n d g e l . y l i lr m e . ehiartil)aosusrenigineerstraffie, and good proposed, some thirty years pressed upon some of the lea_ . mg directors of our should not run on tshheort_si b t l e ) e laidn k known lines, o ghted their of rails. Too late they find that and mineral trains same line s policy entails loss. Bat are the public to suer for are their want of fo resi g ht P Fast trains c ome a necessity , and owe la now be g coute must bo maintained, so that railway companies must lay down new lines, or bear the expense of their own improvidence. SPORTING NOTES. The Nottingham and Stamford meetings were both de cidedly successful. At Nottingham the sport was unusually ' exciting, beginning with the Trial Stakes, in which the meeting of Malta and Lustre was regarded with no little interest. The former, although incurring a 91b penalty from being entered not to be sold, was made the favourite, and looked like winning at the half distance, where.his bolt was shot. It afterwards required all the skill of the rider .of Wynnstay, the winner, to stall off the rush of the two year-old Beverley, whose party " stood " Lord Stamford's colt, and subsequently refused 200 soya for their own. The Sherwood Handicap, decided for the first time since its establishment without a gentleman " up," will be remem bered with good cause by those who recklessly betted 5 to 2 and 3 to 1 on Kinnersley, seeing that before he was fairly collared by his solitary opponent, Rupee, the odd-'un laid back his oars and cut up a bigger cur than ever. For the Castle Plate the "pieces" were likewise freely put on Neo phyte, until at last he was sent to the rightabout, and slight odds were betted upon Spicebox. ; the upshot, hew" ever, being that Ellen bowled over the pair. Looking at his Carlisle performance (when he won with nearly a couple )f stone in hand), not a few considered the Nottinghamshir e Handicap a " gift" to Prince of Denmark, although a slight preference was accorded to Calpe in the Ring ; and next to them Heiress was supported for money at 4 to 1, her stable companion Industrious being an absentee. Heiress el ) " peared unable to move, and cut up wretchedly. The issue was confined to the favourites, Calpe making a good figh t of it from the distance, but never overhauled the Prince, who obtained the verdict by half a length. Hambleto Lass next pulled oft the " Shorts," and at the hammer wee knocked down for 70 guineas to Mr. Saxon, who in th e ' evening made a " termer" by his bargain, and the mare goes into Hopwood's stables. The old number, half-a dozen, sported silk for the Robin Hood Stakes, in which the colours of one of the noble stewards were again suc cessful on King of Hearts, after a remarkably fine contest with Antares, The County Members' Plate also proved a slashing affair, and resulted in favour of the Miss Eva colt by a head, the closeness of the finish being attributable to the winner's saddle slipping round at the critical moment But the Stand Plate, reserved to wind up the afternoon's sport, was perhaps the most exciting event of the day from the defeat of Nutbush, who stumbled near the distance, by Dr. Nichol, who was steered by Little Midgley with the calmness of a veteran. All the races closing over night having filled, left eight events for decision on the second day, when the crowd was enormous Tao weather was propitious, though a few showers would have been acceptable to lay the dust, which rose in clouds from the newly made grounds. Business was resumed with the Bunney Park Stakes, for which Barricade was thought to have so good a chance that as little as 5 to 2 was taken. about him at the opening; eventually he receded to "liberal odds," and Middleton Maid won cleverly. But for the withdrawal of Paradox, whose number was exhibited on the telegraph, there would have been a dozen runners for the Nursery Plate, which was set for two o'clock, though it was nearly three cre the start was effected, partly owing to the conduct of certain jockeys, who were subsequently "carpeted," and to the limited width of the new half-sole course at the starting point, which wo are informed will )0 enlarged by next year. Grant was a regular " hot-un" the Ring, but she perf orme d indifferently, and tho winner turned up in Seahorse, who, in Fordham's hands, cane through and won cleverly. It may be mentioned that it first 4 and 5 to 1 was taken about Cutler, though he was finally returned among the outside division. The Portland Plate was won by Malta, after a waiting race; after which the Chesterfield Handicap was placed to Mr. Payne's credit by the aid of Voltella ; and next the Queen's Guineas proved the "certainty" it was booked for Bivouac. The remainder of the racing presented nothing for special remark. Tho list of sport at Stam ford, on Thursday, comprised seven items, the opening race the Stamford St. Leger deriving additional interest from the circumstance of The Lawyer rather unexpectedly "putting in an appearance." He was, of course, made a "hot" favourite, and beat Malta in A style that would have delighted the hearts of his numerous; friends in the "Emerald Isle." Alchymist, who was backed very freely for the Two Year Old Sweepstakes, bowled over his two opponents—Exchequer and Discretion. —very easily, the latter, who ran in a most slovenly man ner, being last all the way. A round dozen started for the Burghley Handicap, a large field considering the distance, for two miles and rather more than a quarter is not a very favourite "spin" now-a-days. The betting on this race was rather brisk and for some time Carbineer and Weather bound were nearly equal favourites. The former, howe7er, eventually " took the lead," which was more than he aid in the race, for he never showed very prominently in it; and when Amy—who made most of the running—was dis posed of within the distance, the race was reduced to a match between Weatherbound and Newstead, the Cam bridgeshire victress, after one of the gamest struggles ever witnessed, beating her fix() year old competitor, to whom she conceded 81b. by a " short" neck. Weatherbound, of course, wins her party a tolerably good stake, as the second would have done his had ho " brought it off," as he was backed rather heavily. The morning of Friday broke dull and lowering, and towards noon the rain began to descend steadily, and continued with more or less force throughout the greater part of the day, which, as a matter of course, considerably detracted from the enjoyment of the sport. The card, as on the previous day, again wore an attractive appearance, the Clifden Cup and the Stamford Cup alone being "a host" in themselves. The first named popular race brought out a dozen starters, Sporting Life, who was 'generally considered to be most leniently handicapped, being made a warm favourite. Like the favourite for the Burghley Stakes, however, she cut up indifferently, and the issue was finally left to Lord Exeter's good looking Knight of St. Patrick and Count Batthyany's Suburban, the former getting home first by a head. An objection, however, followed, the Knight, it was stated having swerved across Suburban within the distance, and prevented him from winning. The weighing room was then " cleared "—a proceeding which considerably delayed the other races—and after a protracted investigation by the Stewards the race was awarded to Suburban. The third Wothorpe Biennial Stakes proved a very easy victory for Lord Stamford's King of Hearts, and in the Scurry Confidence had little difficulty in disposing of the favourite, Greenwich Fair. The main interest of the day was cen- trod in the Stamford Cup, from the circumstance of the starting of 01 timist, who won so cleverly, beating Bivouac and Duleibella, that it lcd to many subsequent inquiries of " AVhat against him for the Goodwood Cup ?" No doubt he will start first favourite and be near pulling it off. The meetings of this week will not produce any large fields, as a great many of the horses engaged are under orders for Goodwood. The only closed race at Ascot is the Ascot Stakes, which Mr. Jacobs may secure with either Amsterdam or Von Strom. The events to bo decided at Marlborough and South anipton do not require any consideration. The Goodwood Stakes, as I said when the weights ap pearcd, will go to Starke or Eleho—the former for choice —and Optimist has little or nothing to fear in the Cup. A FRESH MAN. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—SATITRDAY. GOODWOOD STAKES. 3to 1 agst Elcbo (taken and offered) 7to 1 agst Starke (taken) Bto 1 agst Brownie (offered) 9to 1 agst Shipwreck (offered) 10 to 1 agst Schism (offered) 12 to 1 agst Canary (offered) 20 to 1 agst West End (taken) 25 to 1 agst Ilenham Lass (taken) 33 to 1 agst Voltella. (taken) GOODWOOD CUP. 4to 1 agst Optimist (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst Mons. Etoile, (taken) 6to 1 agst Ben Webster (off., take 7to 1) Bto 1 agst The Wizard (off., take 10 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Thormanby (taken) 11 to 1 agst Doefoot (taken) 12 to 1 agst Diophantus taken) 12 to 1 agst Ivanhoff (offered) 12 to 1 agst Voyallieu (offered) 33 to 1 agst Starke (taken) 33 to 1 agst Parmesan (taken) ST. LEGEIL. 9to 4 agst Kettledrum (wanted) amusingiaiveaenidpi mooetl . Fitzsimmonsheom Robert s se ve r s r i ownpaPossaetrdo on A sat S u A rd D iy A la F st i:Al a ß fi .— ne A l t iti t i h o e fe L l " lo if v er n p a o m o e l d P H ol e i n c r e y - c o Urt Fitz simmons was charged with stabbing a schoolfellow, named. Joseph Roberts under the following melancholy circum stancesother little boys present, Friday liament-fields, Toxtet P , nlast. :—Both the lads h w al e i r c e , the character of highwayman, takeßoberts giving him an old rusty oyster knife for the purpose of sustaining the theytAhfatte, After enjoying y l t d l i :i g p it l t s a l i s y i e s n i t a a s t n e c i , v e , e r o s o f b f o b s r e e r m s :e: character. The play was progressing favourably, and Fitzsimmons had exclaimed, on seizing Roberts, " Your money or your life," the latter of course refusing, when the former, assuming a tragic position, cried out, raising the knife, "Now for the awful deed !" and suiting the action to the exclamation, plunged the rusty old knife into poor Roberts's breast. A sad scene now ensued—Roberts's shirt and vest soon became crimson with blood, and the poor lad, supported by Fitzsimmons, who was almost wild with grief, was gradually sinking from loss of blood, when the other lads, who had run away when they saw the blood on the wounded boy's breast, returned with some men, and Roberts was ultimately removed to the Southern Hospital, where the doctors gave up all hopes of recovery, the wound being of a most frightful nature, and the hmmorrhage very great. In his deposition the dying lad freely forgave Fitz simmons, saying—" I am quite sure he did not intend to injure me. He was not in earnest." Tho magistrates decided that there was no ill-feeling evinced against Roberts by Fitzsimmons, and attributed this sa d an d melancholy occurrence to foolish play on the part of the boys. Fitzsimmons was discha r g e d , and left the court about the same crying bitterly. Both boys ar e age, viz., 14 years, XON From during 1 tory oho ter have hom e u: Rudder: of impro has beer the hard field, at renaainel Conti] Cotton / firtn. A furl into the At th Scottish, tors, a d half-yea The 1 1 lasia wil There roodatioi Sto c k E : °n low, Trad e i for ino, Aortio na of imprc pleats of befor e a In the 48811 Ine meat sL favourat The A about XE A rec , Place i n ° Wing t‘ account. transfer, fr ° 11 :1 An 81 ". T at 893 a I°4ll Sc a re 10s. Busin, lately a , 4u PPorte 'ditto, 18 68 1 and 481 1, The have bt sh own 'Western Eastern ; and The dal], at kl,cl Indian declined . 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