The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-12 00:00:00

FIER MAJESTY'S 'THEATRE. Jehazna. Wagner, Amadei, Charles Braham. THIS EVENING (Saturday, July 12), will be performed D•nizetti's Opera, LUCREzu 'BORGIA. Lucretia, Madlle. Johanna Wagner (her first appearance in that character) ; Maffei Orsini, Mine. Amadei (her first appearance); Gennaro, Mr. Charles Brahaui (his first appear ance); Gubetta, Signor Bouche; Gault, Signor Zuecoui ; Astolfo, Signor Baillou ; and Alfonso, Signor Belletti. To conclude with the highly successful new Ballet, LE CORSAIRE, With new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. Conrad, Signor Ronzani; Seyd, M. Dauty ; Yussuff, M. Venafra ; Birbanto, M. Vandris ; Sulmea, Mdlle. Clara ; Gul ware; 3ldlle. Rasa; Dilare, Mdlle, Lizereux; Medora, Madame Roast!. The Opera will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. TinkTRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, ti;. Z. T. Smith. ENGLISPI OPERA. On MO •I)AY IIvENING will be produced The 84 caid and Th;rcl Acts of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Followed by One Act of THE ENCHANTRESS. To which will be added a portion of the MAID 01' ARTOIS. To conclude with FLYING COLOURS. THEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Bnehitono. THIS EVENING, TIVELF TR NIG ft T. After which The Spanish Dancers. Followed by ME HUGHES AT HOME. To con:dade with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TEIZATRE. OXFORD-STREET. Under the Minetement of `lr. ClfWas KZAN. TrivINTINTO. MUSIC AITII CHARMS. After whin, VIE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Followed by MEDEA. After which, THE CUSTONIS OF THE COUNTRY. To conclude with THE IRISH LION. ROYAL OM M PIC THEATRE. Lessee anl 'Manner, Mr. Alfred THIS EVENING After which, RETRIBUTION. To conclude with A CONJUGAL LESSON. ASTLEY'S ROYAL. AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING. The Romantic Equestrian Spectacle called THE HORSE OF THE CAVERN, or the Mounted Brigands of the Abruzzi, with Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained docile horses. After which, The Incomparable Equestrian Display of EQUESTRIAN ART In the ARENA. The novel and miraculous performance of the German Brothers. To conclude with THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE ; or, Honour to the Brave. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. Jun. there should be some person to instruct the people in the Russian language. The Polish dress was prohibited, and all the inferior orders were commanded to wear the Russian dr-,s. Surely, if ever there was just found ition for remonstrance—if ever it was an impe tive duty on those who were entitled to claim the bona fide performance of such a contract—it was in the case under notice. But there were sinister in fluences in operation. Russia was not the only wrong doer ! Austria and Prussia should be arraigned by the same indictment—their representatives should stand in the same dock. This would not conduce to the pending matri monial project. It might avert the possible chance of having England governed b'y a Prussian Vice roy. The inauspicious marriage of our fifteen year-old Princess Royal was in certain quarters regarded as of far greater consequence than the welfare and prosperity of betrayed Poland. The all important topic was therefore passed by sub silentio. Hints were thrown out that the intentions of the new Emperor of RUSSIA were generous and benevolent —that any interference might only damage the cause which it was intended to benefit. " The light cloud was therefore permitted to pass from the face of the moon." The golden opportunity slipped away. The " so-called" amnesty was published, the shortcomings whereof have been so well exposed by Lord LYNDHURST, and which was therefore most properly rejected by the exiles, who could only consider it as a mockery and delusion. The word of promise was "kept to the ear," but it was cruelly "broken to the hope." Lord CLAREN DON thinks that there is more to hope and expect from him than this pretended amnesty. We wish we could share these hopes —we cannot, however, pin our faith on Princes—more especi ally on one who has already so greatly disap pointed the expectations that had been formed on his sense of justice and equity. We cannot call it " clemency," for that would be to admit that there was an error to be pardoned ! The brief discussion of last night casts additional light on the Precious Peace—cobbled up to suit the wishes of Germanism, without regard to the honour or interests of Great Britain, or the cause of suffering humanity throughout the entire A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL. I world. The Saturday Half-Holiday Movement we do not hesitate to stigmatise at once as a mere farce, sham, mockery, and delusion—if en Sundays such places as the Crystal Palace, and the National Gallery, and the British Museum, and the Surrey Gardens remain obdurately closed against the labouring population. The Early-Closing Move ment is little better, wthout some such compre hensive corollary in the way of a Sunday Opening Movement. The benevolent project set on foot last night at a great aggregate meeting in Exeter Hall will, even when happily fructuous of the good intended, be but a partial benefit after all, without it be coupled with precisely this con comitant advantage—the generous enterprise ad ventured upon, we mean, for the emancipation if possible from a long, grinding, and hitherto hope fess thraldom of the unfortunate assistants of the London Milliners and Dressmakers. GOD speed, say we, each and all of these gene rous and congenial schemes for the moral and intellectual advancement, as well as for the phy sical amelioration of such very numerous and hard-worked members of our industrial community —as the needlewomen, and shop attendants, and the toiling multitude generally throughout this vast hive of labour, our huge and crowded capital I HEAVEN prosper, say we, the labours of those who would in any way forward the benevolent undertaking inau gurated yesterday, and with it the philanthropic purpose involved in the Early Closing Movement, and in the offshoot from that elder and more comprehensive project the movement in behalf of an organised system of Saturday Half-Holidays ! HEAVEN prosper the pro moters of these plans in the very process of their development—GoD speed each one of these noble enterprises individually ! And yet while avowing our heart- to be thus earnestly in the cause, we cannot conscientiously but reiterate a profound conviction that no thing adequate can by possibility be at all accomplished in the proposed direction, unless together with schemes like those already enume rated, there shall be simultaneously effected the most practical benefaction of all to the struggling million ! That involved in the open ing of places of innocent resort and recreation, of places conducive at one and the same time to bodily and mental improvement, on each recurring Sunday, on every seventh day, on those 52 equi distant holidays comprised within a year, holidays already belonging as an inalienable right (in the wayof rest and leisure) to each and every individual indiscriminately. Common sense tells us, surely, that we ought first of all to apply the privileges already in our possession, bofore striving after others with a view to their better employment. Fifty-two holidays in each year, not half-holidays but whole holidays, the labouring people of England in town and hamlet, in farm and factory, already possess. Fifty two Sun days already remain in every twelve-months at the disposal of our industrious tens and hundreds of thousands in London and Westminster. But upon these fifty-two holidays per annum, the people are formally restricted by the sheer force of legislative enactments from enjoying to their heart's content the very freedom which is to any holiday the real source and secret of its advantage. The Law comes in upon these fifty-two annual days of leisure, and positively prohibits the moiling and toiling multitude of our metropolis from the merest chance of any rational enjoyment. The alternative permitted to the people on Sundays, the alternative from which they are allowed to choose lies mainly, in fact, between the tavern and the con venticle; or supposing them to shrink with repug nancefrom either, there are still the sordid streets to perambulate, with all the shop-shutters tightly fastened, as though the city were hebdomadally stricken with the plague, and the inhabitants (decked out in their best) were hurrying away in opposite directions, in the hope of escape from the chances ofcontagion. Certainly, besides these, there are othv egregious sow:cesof enjoyment still within the grasp of the more t :nterprising members of the labouring- community,. They may, if they list, be churned up and Acr wn the great open sewer of Landon called the Thal mes. They may swill beer and spirits by the gallo if they so please, in the rural retreat of their cot .kney tea-gardens. They may, if they care to dr, a 3, between certain hours of the Holy-Day, keep the swing -doors of the flash gin-palaces ever on their one dreadful vibra tion, to and fro, elbowi 'ng, as they pass in and out, the dregs and refuse tof an idle and vitiated MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MI6 DAY—Morn. 41 min. aft. B—Evening 11 min. aft. 9 cb-lf oußow—Morn. 43 rain. aft. 9—Evening 13 min.aft.lo THE WEATHER—SuN OFFIOS, JULY 12. THERMONXTER, IN THIII SHAD/11. 73 —highest sinse noon yesterday. Cl —lowest this morning and during the'sight. 70 —this day at noon. BARomreiß-29.89 —falling. WIND, S.W. Fresh and squally, with heavy clouds and occasional slight rain. ~~ 41111 b, dr, 4 TT ) t LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1856, " Byre me from ray friends" has been a time honoured adage, even from the days of Jos to the present hour. It has now received a new and powerful illustration in reference to deeply injured Poland, and her long-suffering and mag nanimous children. She may, indeed, bitterly feel the contemptuous indifference displayed towards her at the Parisian Conferences when her name was not even mentioned nor the slightest allusion made to her manifold and almost intolerable wrongs. This extraordinary silence on the part of France and England was the more remarkable, inasmuch as there had been a total departure from the arrangements entered into at the Congress of Vienna, which gave an un doubted right of remonstrance to the represen tatives of any Power that participated there ie. ; and, also, because there was no such forbearance with respect to minor States, the Governments of Greece and Naples hav ing been very properly censured for their gross and : palpable misconduct, and a significant hint was given to Belgium respecting its toleration of what Count WALEWSKI was pleased to designate as the undue freedom of the Press. But a total and nnbruken silence was maintained respecting Poland, which possessed the first claim on the attention of the Conference, after the question of War or Peace had been finally disposed of. When fresh engagements were about to be con tracted, nothing could be more pertinent than an inquiry into the manner in which those formerly entered into had been fulfilled, and a demand for redress with 4 : aspect to any violation thereof. We can, therefore, sympathise with the incre dulity displayed by the veteran Lord LYNDHURST, in suppocing that the interesting and important subject should be so completely shelved, or the golden opportunity suffered to slip by without observation or comment. The Noble and L9arned Lord, in his lucid and convincing argument, &early and distinctly ex plained the conditions on which alone Poland, or rather a portion of Poland, was handed over to the tender mercies of the then CZAR. It was expressly stipulated that it " should remain a separate king dom --that it should never be incorporated with the Russian Empire that its national institutions should be preserved—that it should have a re presentative assembly, and that the administration of the financial department of the army should always be kept distinct !" Every solemnity that could add weight to the obligation was observed. The then Autocrat, ALEXANDER the First, swore to the observance of these stipulations, which constituted the foundation of his authority. His successor, the late Emperor NICHOLAS, also ratified the Treaty by an oath. But how did he discharge the sacred duty thus imposed on him Row did he fulfil the five points which he had undertaken to respect ? L e t Lord LYNDHURST atiBWl Yr :---"Regardless of the earnest remon stannees of the Allies, regardless of the oath be ha:d taken, he incorporated the ter ritory of Poland in the empire of Russia, making it .an integral part o f th at emp i re. From that period the Emperor NICHOLAS passed a series of laws the object of which was to extinguish the Polish name and character. The works of art in the Palaoe at Warsaw were trans ferred to St. Petersburg. The two universities of Warsaw and Wilea were totally abolished. The national schools were either abolished or re modelled. Many thousands of the inferior order of nobles were transported to distant parts of the Russian empire. The language of Ramie was ordered to be introduced in administering the laws throughout the whole of Lithuania, and it -wag ordered that in every school of the empire population. All this t he law tolerates upon Sundays, upon the fifty-t ego annual holidays of the people—but obdurate 5- closes against those who are earning their brea A by the sweat of their brow on all the rest of thr p six days of every week, such places as the Surrey Gardens, and the British Museum, and the Natir 'G a ll ery, and the Crys tal Palace I As thou ilia the abomination of de Ib those p . eiously to k eep laces were really la I,tion ! 14' Continue pertina op( la t , 4 e gin , pa u ce s, the beer- THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING-, JULY 12, Isst; shops, the inn -bars, and the suburban tea-gar dens at certain intervals on the Sundays—and you may have—you actually do have drunken ness as an inevitable consequence ! Whereas in regard to the " other places "—say for example the Crystal Palace—you do not have, you cannot in reason expect to have, intoxication visible there, not on the Sundays alone (supposing the heathen ish " taboo" to be removed in HEAVEN'S good time), but on the whole of the six previous work ing-days in every successive week ! Tu contra diction of this—let anybody, if he can, produce substantial statistical evidence to the contrary. It is notorious, we believe, that on the Monday the Metropolitan Magistrates find brought before them in their respective police courts on an average the immense proportion of " drunken and-disorderly" cases, for fine and deliverance ! While we fancy Mr. GROVE the excellent and ingenious Secretary to the Crystal Palace Com pany at Sydenham, would be rather puzzled to find for the malcontents in search of such exceedingly pleasant information, the num ber of people daily, weekly, monthly, an nually, intoxicated within the precincts of our beautiful Penge Fairyland. Why, the con trast presented is nothing short of a monstrous absurdity—the contrast of our open public houses and our closed galleries of Art : both in the sacred but outraged name of Religion. In that holy and desecrated name, in the awful name of Religion, in the name of our common Chris tianity, let us, for once and for all, have an end of this ! It is only rich folks, we are told, can afford to be ostentatiously shabby ; and perhaps this ac counts for the scurvy manner in which the helpless population of London are treated. The spirited members of • a corporation or Board of Health, in no matter how small a provincial town, would be ashamed of being so backward in drainage, and would kick up a bobbery, would make the Council Cham• ber decidedly unpleasant, if any one dared strenu ously to oppose the removal of tolls from the local bridges, that is, if we can conceive any provincial town being so belated as to have bridges so burdened. The local papers to a man (ought we to use that expression ?) would fulminate fiery bolts unceasingly in their support, and there would be no peace for any public func tionary, or newspaper reader, till the obnoxious impost was removed. Yet here in London, in this great metropolis of ours—this more than Italian duchy—this kingdom of itself— this capital of the mercantile world---only two or three of our bridges are to be crossed without the payment of a halfpenny toll ! Do you know this, gentle reader ? Have the newspapers bored you about it ? Has ever an alderman of your acquaint ance lost an ounce of flesh with talking about it, or gone• wineless and turtleless to bed through thinking of it ? Has ever a member of the Me tropolitan Board got warm about it to your know ledge, or diminished his refrigerating powers one iota in relation to it ? The apathy in all influen tial quarters on the subject is really astonishing, and the population bear the infliction to a mira cle. Bad to have new, but you have but to keep the old one in and we Londoners may be de pended on to keep our course and show our paces. As much ostentatious charity, gentlemen, as you please ; but, in HEAVHN'S name, a little more quiet, serviceable justice to the labouring poor ! Men who have a hard day's work before them, or who carry the penalty of a hard day's work on their weary legs and drooping shoulders, really do not feel it a luxury to walk two-and-a half miles instead of one-and-a-half So far from it they would rather pay a penny a day (if they could afford it) than do so. And what's a penny a day ? Nothing to one who has his hundreds or thousands a-year, but so much to a poor labouring man who has half-a-dozen mouths to fill and backs to clothe at home that he don't cross your bridges, butt wearily trudges round, los ing much of the little time alloted him for the cul tivation of the domestic charities and somewhat of the gratification the hugging of his little ones affords him. If his bones were broken he could get them mended for nothing ; but as they only ache from toil there can be no harm in letting them ache a little more and a little longer. Even vigorous young fellows come to feel the infliction, and as for poor weak sempstresses, &c., nobody seoms to mind them. Better perhaps keep off the bridges, lest they should it take into their heads to leap over into the foul and mirky tor rent below. There is no class, however, having to cross the river in the locality of these bridges, but suffers feelingly in some way from them. We may be fanciful, but the payment of a bridge toll is a grievance to which an hour's chucking of half pence into the Thames at our own cost would be a positive gratification. It is, at the best, of the nature of an infringement on the liberty of the subject, and to some men the enforced passage of the wicket is thorns and briars, pins and needles, irritating to the flesh and grievous to the spirit. The mere delay and bother of dip ping into your pockets for "only a halfpenny" on a winter's day, with a keen' northeaster blowing round your neckcloth, are far from doing you spiritual good. But beyond the ques tion of personal convenience, or, rather, be yond the personal inconvenience, these tolls occasion, they aro found decidedly inju rious to trade. In plod of 'this we would appeal to house agents, and ask whether property on the respective streets leading to these bridges would not be almost doubled in value if the tolls were removed ?—and their reply, we are quite sure, must be in the affirmative. Much more may be said of the evils occasioned by these toll-traps, but really their wounding the feel of industry, and causing it to limp, as they do, ought to suffice for their being thrown open. It is not, as we have said before, as if we had free bridges enough without the toll bridges —we have not a sufficient *umber putting free and toll toge- tiler. One at Charing-cross, for instance, is greatly needed. The world moves—how long will our local governors stand still ? COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-July ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE At a general meeting of the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, at the Squadron-house, this day— Present : The Earl of Wilton (the Commodore, in the chair), the Marquis Conyngbatn, G. H. Ackers, E-q., Rear-Admiral C. Hamlyn Williams, Spencer de Horsey, Esq., E. N. Harvey, Eeq., L. Sh e dd en, E sq., E ar l V ane, J. Gee, Esq., Lord Colville, H. B. B ar i ng, E eq., W . B. Ponsonby, sq., and about 20 other members—the fol lowing noblemen and gentlemen were elected members, viz. :—Sir Henry Beecher, Bart., cutter Spider, 45 tons ; the Marquis of Drogheda, schooner Fancy, 120 tons ; the Earl of Giff.ir4, M.P., schooner Fair Rosamond, 123 tons ; the Hon. Hercules Rowley, schooner Claymore, 130 tons ; Charles Liddell, Esq., cutter Maritana, 57 tons ; Captain Phillimore, schooner Anaconda, 101 tons ; George Tomline, Esq., cutter Lark, 65 tons; the Earl of Yarborough, schooner Zoe ; 161 tons. An honour. able exception to the general rule was made with the Earl of Yarborough, out of respect to the name of the "Good old Commodore." His lordship was not elected by ballot, as all other members are, but by acclamation. The following yachts are in the roadstead :—Alarm, J. Weld, Eq., 248 tons ' • Amazon, Sir J. B. Walsh, Bart., 75 tons ; Aurora, La Marchant Thomas, Esq., 60 tons ; Brilliant, G. C. Ackers, Esq., 480 tons; Ca price, Col. Charles Baring, 58 tons ; Claymore ; Colum bine, Capt. R. H. Smith-Barry, 74 tons ; Genevera, Sir Edward Colebrook, Bart., 142 tons ; Gloriana, J. Gee, Esq., 134 tons; lone, Si r H. O g l an d er, B art ., 75 tons ; Lotus, Earl Vane, 188 tons ; Miranda ' J. Gray, Esq., 94 tons; Nautilus, Geo. Bate son , E sq ., 45 tons ; Stella, R. Frankland, Esq., 65 tons ; Viking, Col. A. C. Stirling, 110 tons ; and the Urania. In the harbour fitting : Lavrock, Admiral C. Hamlyn Williams, 72 tons ; Sul tana, Lord Colville, 130 tons ; Cecile, Marquis Conyng barn, 190 ; Constance, R. C. Naylor, Esq., 249 tons ; Zara, Earl of Wilton, 150 tons. The Court is expected at Osborne on Tuesday next. Advices from St. Petersburg state that the Emperor's departure for Moscow has been fixed for the 16th Ariz. A canonry residentiary in Worcester Cathedral has become vacant. It is worth 8001. a year. and is in the gift of the Crown. The Prince Dhuleep Singh and suite are now at Castle Menzies. His highness goes out fishing and shooting as keenly as any native sportsman, and seems particularly fond of these manly recreations. REVIEW OF THE ARTILLERY.—We have authority to state that is the intention of her Majesty to review the Artillery lately returned from the Crimea, at Woolnicb, on Monday next, att 11 o'clock. It is stated that 600,000/. in sovereigns may be ex pected from Constantinople during the present month• 100,0001. of the amount was delivered at the Bank ef England yesterday. According to a statement in the Pays, founded on official documents, the losses of the Russians in the late war by sword and disease amounted to 277,000 men. It is probable that the greater part of this immense loss occurred in forced marches. Major-General W. C. Cochrane, who has for some time commanded the Dublin district, will, we believe, have the colonelcy of the 11th Regiment, vacant by the death of General Sir John Wilson. Sir Colin Campbell's commission as Lieut.-General has been antedated the 4th of June, 1856, thus placing the gallant officer in his proper position as senior of Sir Wm. Codrington, who was promoted to be Lieutenant- General on the 6th of June. COLONEL LAKE.—on Monday evening next, a grand banquet is to be given to Colonel Lake, C. 8., in the Music-hall of his native town, Ramsgate, when a pre sentation will take place of a sword, valued at 100 gui neas, and a handsome salver. The Earl of Shelburne arrived in town on Tuesday night from Bowood, Wilts. On the following day the noble earl entered on his official duties as Under Secre tary of State for the Foreign Department, at the Foreign office, in Downing-street. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Mr. David Wad dington has announced his intention, immediately after the approaching half-yearly general meeting of the com pany, to retire from the seat in the direction to which he was recently re-elected. THE WEST INDIES. —The steamer Prince arrived at Falmouth yesterday morning, with dates from Jamaica, June 7 ; Bermuda, 20th ; Fayal, July 2. She left her Majesty's ships Powerful, Pembroke, Malacca, and Ter magant at Bermuda. She reports 50 cases of fever on board the two latter. Bermuda is healthy. THE FRIDAY CONCERTS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.— The attractions of Grisi, Bosio, Didide, Marai, Mario, Formes, and Tagliafico, at the Crystal Palace Concerts are undiminished. The programme embraces selections from Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. The operatic gems were rendered with the usual excellence. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Madame Ristori appeared last night, for the first time in comedy, in the character of Mirandolina, in the Locandiera of Goldoni. Her per formance, partaking more of the breadth of farce than of the refinement of comedy, was not exactly what might have been expected by those who were only ac quainted with her as a tragedian. It was, however, eminently successful, and appeared to give the highest satisfaction to one of the most fashionable audiences of the season. The specie by the Arago yesterday from New York is 30,0001., and the private letters mention that con giderable sums will be sent by the next two or three steamers. The decision of the English Government re garding the course to be adopted with Mr. Dallas had not yet been received, and the stock-markets were with out material alt barion. The rate of discount was 7 per cent. Erie Railway was quoted 59 ; Reading, 911 ; Panama, 105 ; Illinois Central Bonds, 871 ; and Nica ragua, 10f. RIGA RAILWAY COMPANY. --The Riga Railway Com pany have officially notified the ratification of their con vention by the Russian Government, and that a compe tent staff have been despatched to test the accuracy of the plans and estimates prepared by the Riga Exchange committee, after which the directors will proceed to complete the statutes of the company with the Russian , Government. It is also stated that the first call of 41. per share is not expected to be required before the middle of August. COLLISION IN PLYMOUTH SOUND.—Plymouth, Friday Evening.—The merchant brigantine Ketrurah of Ply mouth, from Newcastle to Naples, having sustained some injuries in the heavy gale a Portland, on Thurs day, put in here for repairs, and while coming to an anchor in the Sound, this forenoon, was run into by her Majesty's paddle-wheel steamer, Rhadartanthue on her way out of port, and cat down to the water' s edge, with very considerable damage. The steamer, which was bound to Portsmouth with seamen, carried away her bowsprit and cutwater, and was compelled to put back. Letters from the agricultural and wine districts in France mention that the return of fine weather has dissipated all fears of an unfavourable result to the crops and vintage during the approaching harvest. The change has come at a time when the vines are in flower, and the wheat getting into ear, and should the weather coatinue even moderately fine there is every probability of the harvest being remarkable for quality as well as quantity. From the inundated districts the accounts j state that the grain destroyed is happily less than was calculated upon ; and the crops untouched by the floods are in fine condition. The prospectuses has been issued of another Indian railway, to be called the Calcutta and South-Eastern, with a capital of 1,000,000/. in 201. sh ares . Th e ob ject is to connect Calcutta with a new seaport on the Mutlah river, by a line of about 26 miles, and thus to escape the rapidly increasing difficulties of the Hooghly navigation. Wet docks are also to be constructed. Sub , equently it is contemplated to extend the line to Chittagong, Arracan, and the principal places in the Burmese territory. The Indian authorities are stated to regard the work with favour, but the directors, rely ing upon the natural profits of the traffic, have refrained from soliciting a guarantee, and propose to commence the undertaking on its own merits. The returns of the Bank of France for the past month are very unsatisfactory, and, together with the alarm caused by the inundations, are fully sufficient to account for the distrust lately prevalent on the Bourse. The stock of bullion has experienced a diminution of 1,800,0001., and stands now at about 9,300,000/, At the same time the pressure for money has led to an in crease of 3,530,060/. in the discounts, while in the ad vances to sustain the Bourse there has also been an au z mentation of 180,0001. ou Government Securities and of 212,0001. on railway etooks. There has likewise been au increase of 804,0001. iu the note circulatiou. The balance to the credit of the Government has decreased 560,0001., and• tits, depo•iits show an addition of 1,060,0001. Notwithstanding the rapid eflitux of the bullion, it appears that 13,3001. was paid during the month to meet the loss from purchases of gold on this aide. —Tinges City Article, THE REBUILDING OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE, AND GRAND CONCERT-ROOII.--The rebuilding of this noble lyrical and dramatic temple having now been fully de• tided upon, and, in fact, actually commenced, the houses in Prince's-place are all to be taken down, in eluding the residence of Mr. Simian, the master car penter, in order to secure space for the whole intended area of the concert-room, which will run the entire length of the present theatre, parallel with the Bow street front. It is stated that the saving of expense in re-construction, in consequence of the outer walls hav ing been declared safe, will not be less than 60,0001. The contractors are Messrs. Fox and Henderson. The principal capitalists engaged in the undertaking are the Duke of Buccleuch and Miss Bardett Coutts. Several noble donations have also been made in aid of the restoration and completion of the building, and amongst them is a sum of 1,000/. contributed by her Majesty. THE BISHOPS OF LONDON AND DURHAM RETIREMENT BILL.—We have received a copy of this important mea sure, which was introduced into the House of Lords on raursday evening and read a first time. It is entitled "An Act to provide for the retirement of the present Bishops of London and Durham," and contains four causes. The preamble recites that the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Charles James, Lord Bishop of London, and the Right Hun. and Right Rev. Edward, Lord Bishop of Durham, have severally represented to her Majesty their inability, from their state of health, to discharge the duties of their office, and their desire on that account to vacate their respective sees, the preamble adding that the said bishops, on relinquishing the in cmies to which they are now entitled in respect of their sees, are " willing to accept" the annual sums by this act provided. The present Bishop of London will be allowed to retain during his life the episcopal palace at Fulham, subject to the usual obligation to maintain the same, and will receive a pension of 6,0001. a year for life, and the Bishop of Durham one of 4,5001. a year, to commence from the Ist of September, 1856, The bill steeds fora second reading on Monday night, LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, JULY 11. M. de Richthosen, the Prussian Representative in the Commission for reorganising the Principali- ties, has set out. He will pass some time at one of the Bohemian baths, and aril then repair to his post. It is considered probable that Sardinia will be admitted to the same Commission. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Emperor, by decree dated Plombieres yes terday, has decided that, in consideration of the late M. Fortoul's eminent services a Minister of Public Instruction, his funeral shall take place at the public expense. The mortal remains of the deceased arrived in Paris yesterday, and were de posited in a chapelle ardente at the Hotel of the Ministry of Public Instruction. To-morrow (Sa turday) a cannon is to be fired every hour at the Invalides from seven o'clock in the morning until the starting of the funeral procession to the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin, at noon ; at that moment a salvo of 15 guns is to be fired from the Invalides, and another salvo of 15 guns is to announce the conclusion of the ceremony. Count de Morny will not stay more than a fort night at Wildbad. Thence he will proceed to Berlin, where the principal persons attached to his embassy will be waiting for him. His carriages, servants, &c., are to leave i n a d a y or t wo for St. Petersburg. The evacuation of the Crimea by the French troops having been completely terminated on the sth, and the landing of the allied army having taken place on Sept. 14, 1854, it follows that the French occupation lasted 21 months and 20 days. As however the adhesion, given on Feb. 1, 1856, by Russia to the preliminaries of peace, was fol lowed by a suspension of arms, transformed on the 25th of the same month into an armistice, lasting to the conclusion of peace on March 30, the real duration of hostilities in the Crimea was about 17 months. BOURSE, July 11.—Two o'clock.—No business doing, but prices are maintained. Threes are 71f. 55c. to 71f. 65c. A slight improvement in most of the railroad shares. PHOTOGRAPHIC' PORTRAITS. The public are under obligation to Messrs. Maill and Polyblank, of 55, Gracechurch-street, for undertaking the , issue of a series of photo graphic portraits of living. celebrities (originally taken by the firm), accompanied by biographical males. A faithful portrait at any price of a die ting uished fellow -countryman used occasionally to be a. desideratum. By means of photogyaphy the public are presented in each number with a speak ing likeness, faithful to the most minute particular, anti beautifully executed, together with the above accompaniment, at the low charge of five shillings. This: is making the photographic art the medium of much refined pleasure to the many, and conse quently to entitle the publishers to general appro bation and patronage. It affords us gratification to acid that merit is not likely in this instance to go without its appropriate reward. The portraits and biographical notices presented in the two opciiing numbers are those of Professor Owen, the accomplished philosopher and naturalist, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, th e distinguished historian, essayist, poet, and statesman. Both are admirably execut e d, and Mr. • Herbert Fry briefly but happily describes the of their career. p r i n cipal features TI S CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION. The following memorandum, drawn up by the representatives of Honduras, will be submitted to the representatives of the different European Powers accredited to her Majesty, as explanatory of the policy of Honduras on the only subject on which it can have a general or European interest : "The geographical position of Central America, be tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, gives to that country a special interest in the eyes of commercial na tions. " The establishment of adequate lines of interoceanic communication through its territories by means of rail ways or canals, or both, is an object of universal im portance. "Great Britain and the United States, recognising its importance, have made it the subject of a special con vention, concluded in the year 1850, in Article VIII. of which they establish, as a general principle,' and agree to extend their protection, by treaty stiouiati9ns,' to all practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America. " They also declare that such communications be ing open to the subjects and citizens of Great Britain and the United States, on equal terms, should also be open to the subjects and citizens of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as Great Britain and the United States engage to afford.' "Now, although several lines of interoceanic commu nications have been designated, each having its earnest supporters, yet it is the opinion of competent judges that the line recently proposed through the State of Hon duras, from Puerto Caballos to the Bay of Fonseca, possesses signal advantages over any ether that has yet been suggested for a railway. "The commission to which its examination was con fided reported that 'the natural conditions of the county, its general salubrity, and abundant resources, not less than capacious, safe, and altogether unexceptionable bar hours, at both extremities, distinguish this line as corn bining the obvious and primary requisites for anadequate and permanent intenceanic communication.' And Cap tain Fitzßoy, R.N., in his report to Lord Clarendon on the subject, after a general review of the various routes, concludes that this recently proposed line through Honduras appears to him more promising, as a perma nently important work, than any other railway yet pro posed across the isthmus.' "To facilitate the construction of a work, promising so great advantages, the Government of Honduras has conceded a charter of the most liberal character to the parties to whose enterprise the world is indebted for the discovery and explanation of the route. This char ter recognises in their fullest extent the principles laid down in the convention between Great Britain and the United States. It offers equal facilities to the whole world, and is not encumbered by stipulations which might restrict the usefulness of the work or give to any nation the slightest advantage over another. "This charter, which was ratified by the Legislative Chambers of Honduras, and proclaimed as a law of the State on the 28th of April, 1854, provides (Art. 5, sec. 6) that the Government of Honduras shall open nego tiations with the various Governments with which it may have relations, for their s e p ara t e recogn i t i on o f t h e neutrality, and for the protection of the route ;' and to prevent any misunderstanding or jealousy, it fur thermore provides, that the treaty stipulations with each and all Governments in respect to the said route shall be in terms the same.' " In deference to these indications, the representatives of Honduras, accredited by Great Britain, France, and the United States, have draughted an article which they conceive might be appropriately appended to all treaties of amity and commerce that Honduras may have the good fortune to make with the great maritime Powers of Europe and America. In framing it they have fol lowed out the earnest wish of their Governments to concede all useful privileges connected with the pro posed transit to all nations on equal terms—viz., the recognition of the undisputed sovereignty of Hon duras over the line of the road, the guarantee of its neutrality, and its protection against vio lence and interruption. The Government of Hon duras does not anticipate that circumstances will ever arise to require any of the Powers which may enter into these stipulations to give practical force to their guaran tees ; but it is not be doubted that the fact of their ex istence would give to Honduras &great moral support, and contribute to make the proposed route of transit useful and secure. " PROPOSED ARTICLE. " Inasmuch as a contract was entered into by the Government of Honduras and a company entitled the Honduras Interoceanic Railway Company, for the pur pose of constructing a railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, through the territories of Honduras, which contract wai ratified by the constitutional powers of the State, and proclaimed as a law on the 28th day of April, 1854 ; and since, by the terms of article 5, sec. 6of the said contract, the Government of Hon• duras, with the view to secure the route herein con templated from all interruption and disturbance from any cause, or ender any circumstances, engages to open ne gotiations with the various Governments with which it may have relations, for their separate recognition of the perpetual neutrality, and for the protection of the afore said route ;' therefore, to carry out the obligations thus incurred : "1. The Government of Honduras agrees that the right of way or transit over such route or road, or any other that may he constructed within its territories, from sea to sea, shall be at all times open and free to the Government and subjects (or citizens) of (Great Britain), for all lawful purposes , hatever, and no tolls, duties, or charges of any kind shall be imposed on the transit of property belonging to the Government of (Great Britain), or on the public mails sent under autho rity of the same, nor upon the subjects (or citizens) of (the British Crown) ; and all lawful produce, manufac tures, merchandise, or other p r ope r ty belonging to subjects (or citizens) of (Great Britain) passing from one ocean to the other, in either direction, shall not be subject to any import or export duties what ever, and shall be secure and protected from all interruption or detention on the part of the State ; and finally, as an evidence of its disposition to accord to the travel and commerce of the world all the advantages resulting from its position in respect to the two great oceans, Honduras, of her own good will, engages to establish the ports at the extremities of the contemplated raad as free ports for all the purposes of commerce and trade. "2. In consideration of these concessions, in order to secure the construction and permanence of the route or road herein contemplated, and also to secure for the benefit of mankind the uninterrupted advantages of such communication from sea to sea [Great Britain], recog nises the rights of sovereignty and property of Honduras in and over the line of said road, and for the same reason guarantees positively and efficaciously the entire neu trality of the same, so long as [Great Britain] shall enjoy the privileges conceded to it in the preceding section of this article. And when the proposed road shall have been completed [Great Britain] equally engages, in con junction with Honduras, to protect the same from in terruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, from what soever quarter the attempt may proceed." ITALY AND THE ENGLISH PRESS. The following address of the students of the University of Turin to the conductors of the Eng i•sh press has just reached this country Gentlemen,--We, the undersigned students of the University of Turin, would wish to convey to you, gen tlemen of the English press, the feelings of our high re spect and gratitude. The lively interest and earnest zeal with which you have advocated and developed the principles set forth by the Sardinian Minister at the Paris Conferences have laid us under a deep sense of obligation, and we speak in our own name and in that of our fellow-students of all the Italian states and provinces to whose thoughts and feelings no utterance is allowed. Gentlemen, the principles announced by Count Cavour at Paris are the same to which so many of our best and bravest countrymen have fallen victims. Till very lately they were but simple though warm aspirations of a certain party, frowned at and scouted by the powers and even by the nations of Europe, who deemed them fraug',t with danger to the general peace and security. But those, principles have now found an open and a legal utterance ; they are embodied in a free and yet orderly and peaceful state— an Italian state ; they are allowed by a lawful King ; they go forth into the world under an acknowledged and a respected standard. That standard, gentlemen, our national standard, the only hope of Italy, reared aloft, and held up by the con stancy and loyalty of our true-hearted King—has waved, not without honour, beside those of England and France on the shores of the Tauric peninsula. It has at last brought together, and joined all the hearts, the wants, and interests—the longing of all Italians—and breathed into them a confident hope that the hour is at hand when, by unanimity and valour, they may make their country their own. To hasten that hour, gentlemen, powerful aid has been yielded by all the free European press, and by the freest of all—the English. That press has strenuously brought the cause of Italy before the court of public opinion—it has maintained in the face of Europe that our national aspirations were not the wild schemes of hairbrained youths or the plot of obscure fanatics, but that they were shared alike by all men who understood the real, presiding, irresistible wants of a divided and oppressive country panting for union, for freedom, for a manly reclamation of its birthright. That press has shown that Italy is r,ot to be governed by gaols and scaffolds, that the feeling which is now abroad in the country is not to he quenched in blood, but is only strengthened by it. That press will now, we have no doubt, follow up its sacred mission, and when the day comes for a renewal of our national contest it will have enlisted in our behalf the good wishes and sympathy of the friends of freedom and progress throughout the world. Thanks to you, then, gentlemen, who have exhibited generous and chivalrous feelings for the cause of the oppressed. We are mere youths, and can do no more than give you this slight token of our regard and grati tude ; but the duty is, perhaps, at hand when the Ita lian youth, matured by age, may yet stand by old Eng land, and fight out the cause of political and religious freedom all the world over, and s`low themselves worthy of the esteem of the free men of .England of all parties. We have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obliged servants, in the name of the students of the University of Turin, RONCHIETTI GIAONNI, NIGRA MICHELA.N4ELO, FsItRABIX CARLO W Gran. DOM. of Foroari, Tub; Juno 24,1856, TURKEY. It is affirmed here (says a Paris letter in the Independance of Belgium) that a circular has been addressed to all the European consuls and agents in Turkey by their respective governments relative to late events. In this document are described to them all the efforts made by the central government at Constantinople to maintain internal tranquillity and to carry out the reforms ordained by the Sul tan. They are requested to support the rights of the Christian population and to defend them ; but at the same time they are desired to recommend pru dence to the Christians, who are more enlightened than the Mussulmans, in order to avoid any pro vocation to fanaticism. This circular is impressed, it is said, with a deep sentiment of moderation, and displays an excellent feeling towards the Porte. THE CRIMEA. ODESS A, June 30.—The plan for colonising the Crimea with Greeks has long been under conside ration, and at length the Emperor's will on the subject and the official proclamation have been re ceived. According to the particulars which have hitherto transpired, the object in view is to pre vent the depopulation of the Crimea, or rather to replace the Tartars, who are emigrating en masse to the Dobrudscha and other parts of Turkey, by fresh colonists, who will be the more acceptable as they belong to the same religion as that of the Russians. To induce the Greeks to come over and settle very great inducements are held out to them. Thus each family will receive the sum of two hundred silver roubles to purchase agricultural implements and other articles needed, and be per mitted to cultivate the land allotted to them with out the payment of any taxes for fifty years, whilst their children will have the benefit of being edu cated at the public expense in schools to be estab lished by the Russian government. They are fur ther permitted to import their furniture, farming stock, clothes, &c., without the usual payment of duty. The houses abandoned by the Tartars will be allotted to the new colonists, and churches built, and clergymen of the Orthodox Oriental Chgrch appointed to them. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JULY 8. The following is the Austrian official account of a collision which took place a few days since in Wallachia between some Austrian and French soldiers : " According to a telegraphic communication of the lot instant, which is now before us, a lamentable colli sion has occurred between Austrian troops belong. ing to a baggage train detachment, on its way from Bucharest to Giurgevo, and some French soldiers who were on duty at the telegraph station. Unfortu nately, one of the latter received a mortal gunshot wound. A mixed commission, of which some employes of the French Consulate formed a part, went imme diately from Bucharest to Giurgevo, and has already returned to the place first mentioned. The commander of the baggage-train detachmment will be tried by a Court-martial. The Commission, whose duties were facilitated by the mutal confidence which prevailed, is a guarantee that justice will speedily be done. The result of the examination now going on can, however, a'one enable us to form a sound opinion on the case in point and of the persons who are guilty." The King of Greece, who left for Carlsbad yes terday, was accompanied to the railroad terminus by the Archduchess Hildegarde, his sister, and by four Archdukes. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JULY 10. The necessity for making a number of new ap pointments in our Consular and Diplomatic ser vice, occasioned by the close of the war, continues doubtless to be a subject of no little embarrassment to our Foreign Office. The number of appoint ments is far greater than that of appropriate candidates—" the harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few." The circumstance of our present Minister to St. Petersburg having been selected from the staff of the Foreign Office rather than from the ranks of the corps diplomatique does not speak flatteringly for the amount of rising talent in the latter, and it will be a long time before the plan of examinati ons lately partialy in troduced will effect much improvement in this service, seeing that the young gentlemen already occupying the subaltern posts at foreign missions are promoted to other and higher functions without their being in any way required to come home and submit to examinations, the result of which would prove their fitness or unfitness for the promotion conferred on them. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 7th inst. The anniversary of the revolution of July, 1854, was celebrated with much solemnity on that day. Castile was tranquil. It does not appear that the pending inquiry has yet thrown much light on the origin of the recent Socialist movement. The Commission was at one moment in hope of deriving information from a young man named Mariano Penago, who was executed at Valladolid. He oc cupied a lucrative situation under the railway , com piny, but, although the authorities offered him his pardon, he would make no disclosure. An individual was arrested at Bilboa, in whose possession were found various papers connected with the events in Castile. The authorities of Madrid had been informed that an attempt would be made the night before to set on fire the gasworks outside the gate of Toledo. They had accordingly adopted precau tionary measures, and the Government had ordered the troops stationed in the neighbourhood to ap proach the capital. The resignation of M. Llaseras, Civil Governor of Barcelona, had not been accepted. The cotton factory of M. Fontanella, at Vich, had been de stroyed by fire. The cause of the disaster, how ever, was not known. The Gazette announces the dismissal of the Se cretary of the Spanish Legation at Venezuela, M. J. Antonio Lopez de Coreallos. MADRID, July 10.—M. Escosura, Minister of the Interior, returned this evening. Incendiary fires have been lit up in various parts of the pro vince of Toledo, but without doing much damage. Au investigation has been instituted: A letter from Modena, in the Opinione of Turin of the 9th, states that a Tuscan wa s arre s t e d at Modena a few days before, for having replied with some asperity to questions addressed to him by a patrol in the streets, and condemned to a year's imprisonment. It is added that the Duke of Mo dena has reduced the punishment to six months. The Pope, on the 3d, went out to sea for a few hours on board the Papal steamer San Giovanni, and afterwards left Porto d'Anzio for Rome, where ho arrived safely in the evening. A letter from Munich says that Prince Adalbert, who, as already announced, is to marry Dona Amalia of Spain in August, is to leave for Madrid at the end of the present month, and is to return to Munich with his bride in the middle of Septem ber. LITERATURE. The Journal of Agriculture. Blackwood and Sons . Maintaint its high position as an organ of the agricultural interest and a record of the Highland Society. Among the numerous contributions an article on " The Food of London," and another on the " Universal Agricultural Exhibition in Paris," are likely to be generally read with inte rest. In the former we have a good deal of useful information, prefaced by a more than usually vi gorous attempt to convey in a succinct form a definite idea of the real magnitude of the metro polis. "It may serve," remarks the writer, "to give a more graphic and tangible form to the sub ject to say that such a population exceeds that of Norway, or Hanover, or Saxony, or Switzerland, or Tuscany, or a dozen of the smaller States of Germany—that it is equal to that of Denmark, five-sixths as many as the whole of Scotland, as numerous as that of the five departments of Nor mandy, and if it is not easy to convey a precise conception of its multitudes, neither is it easy to define its superficial extent. If it is not boundless it may almo t be said to be without bounds, for there is scarcely any distinct line of demarcation which separates it from the country. You scarcely know when you enter London and when you leave it." The Agricultural Exhibition in Paris is elabo rately noticed. Our improved native breeds main tained, we gather, their pre-eminence and elicited much admiration. From anything the writer saw " they cannot be improved by the amalgamation of foreign blood." The paper concludes with a warning, " Let us not relax our energies, for we may be sure that many countries will date an im provement in their agriculture from the Paris Universal Agricultural Exhibition." Among the remaining contents will be found a valuable paper on " Agricultural Mineralogy and Physiology," and the 52d No. of " The Farmer's Note-Book," rich, like its predecessor, in information and sug gestion. The Journal of Psychological Medicine. Edited by Forbes Winslow, M.D., D.C.L. John Churchill. Contains a number of able and interesting arti cles on various subjects connected with the philo sophy and pathology of mind. Among them may be noted a paper having for its subject that noto rious criminal William Palmer. ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. These gardens which for so many years have been an object of attraction from their presenting great facilities for that pure and healthful recreati)n so' essential for the inhabitants of this densely -populated metropolis are about to be re-opened to the public. The day fixed is Tuesday next, on which occasion there will be a grand inauguration festival for the open ing of the colos-al concert-ball, when M. Jullien, who has so long, and, we hope, successfully laboured to wards elevating the tastes of th e l ower c l asses for musics will preside over 1,000 performers, many of whom are artistes of acknowledged reputation, and who take a prominent part in most of the nobilities concerti and at the operas. The effect of music in elej vating the taste and refining the feelings has long been an acknowledged fact, but hitherto these great ad vantages have been confined to the rich, and have been considered as luxuries for their especial enjoyment. Happily through the indefatigable exertions of M. Jul lien, the delightful and elevating and soul-inspiriting charm which surrounds good music, which takes pos sesSion of the mind and thoughts of all classes, and leads them captive, is now brought within the reach of all, and the number of those who are termed " the lower classes," who attend concerts of this kind, is a con vincing proof that they do possess the capacity for, and that they do appreciate, good music. At the commencement of the year the gardens changed hands, and the new proprietors very judiciously decided on closing them to enable them to introduce many im provements, and make them equal if not superior to anything of the kind in this country. Having completed all the necessary arrangements for the commencement of the season, a private view of the grounds took place last evening under the direction of Mr. Coppock, a gen tleman possessing not only the ability but the determi nation to succeed in everything he undertakes. Much as we had heard of the vast change and great improvements that had been made in thesegardens we were not at all pre pared for what we had the pleasing satisfaction of witness ing last evening. It was beyond that of an old friend in a new dress, for here we have none of the old characteristics, whilst in the former, however, much intercourse with society might polish the exterior of our village friend, there is something in the contour when you unexpectedly meet him after a lengthened absence that marks him as the veritable John Smith of former times. But here all is change ; you cannot recognise anything as pertaining to " Old Surrey ;" even the lake is so managed, and the ground around it so metamorphosed, that you cannot identify it, and here we must compliment Mr. Forest, the eminent landscape gardener, for the wonderful genius and ability he has displayed in laying out the grounds, and for the manner in which they are beautified and adorned. The space comprises upwards of ten acres, and, planted with well-grown ornamental timber, has been laid out in flower-beds, undulating lawns, Italian terraces adorned with statuary, and pathways, through alleys of choice shrubs and plants, Swiss chalets, grottoes, foun tains, jets d'eau, cas ca d es , an d runn i ng streams, and com bine with the well known lake in forming a most beau tiful garden for open air entertainments. One great object of attraction and of utility is the newly erected music hall. It is a colossal building--a truly substantial erection but at the same time so con structed and decorated as to give a light, elegant, and pleasing effect. The architect, Mr. Horace Jones, has combined elegance of design with usefulness of pur pose, and has produced a building rivalling, if not excel- Hug, the famous Music-hall at Munich. The building is situated near the lake, and affords accommodation for 10,000 persons, and, owing to its peculiar construction 10,000 more can bear the music to perfection, protected from the weather by balconies, verandahs, and galleries, outside, and breathing an atmosphere as pure as they would enjoy in an open garden. The interior of the music-hall is fitted up and decorated very chastely—the prevailing decoration being dead white and gold, and between each of the ten pillars which support one of the upper galleries is a very handsome crystal chandelier. The building is lit up in a novel manner,by 1,600 gas jets, - around the base of the dome, which has the effect of producing a subdued and pleasing light, and prevents it from becoming over-heated as in ordinary buildings. The acoustic properties of the hall are perfect. The general arrangements of the ground are excellent, presenting all the variety and reality of the country ; and the visitor, when once within the domain, has great difficulty in persuading himself that he is not a hundred miles from London, in the midst of sylvan scenery, but within one of the metropolitan districts, and not a hun dred yards frome some of its most frequented thorough fares. One of the most pleasing features connected with the grounds is the novel mode by which they are illuminated. 800 Chinese lamps in the form of flowers are placed along the edges of the paths, and at each corner is an• illuminated pillar. There will also be a brilliant display of fireworks every evening and other arnusemeits, which we must defer for farther notice. The proprietors deserve the thanks of the public for their endeavours to provide a place of recreation worthy of the metropolis, and we hope it will be appreciated and successfully supported. VACA CIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PRO MOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. The Board of Trade—Mr. William Dashwood Fane, bar rister-at-law, has been appointed legal assistant to the Board of Trace, in the place of Mr. Arthur Carron, de ceased. General Post-office—Mr. Thomas Coffin, first clerk at Davenport, and eon of the postmaster there, has been appointed postmaster of Taunton ; Mr. Daniel Wilkinson has been appointed chief clerk a'z Nottingham, vice Mr. Hervey, resigned; a vacancy has been created in the Post office at Devenport, by the promotion of Mr. Coffin, the first clerk. Customs—There are two clerkships vacant in the office of the Receiver-General of Customs, at 8 , 1. a-year; security required from each each applicant for 1,0001.; a tide svrveyorship at Newcastle-on-Tyne is vacant by the death of Mr. Elthringhain ; two tide- waiterships at Newcastle-on- Tyne are vacant by the deaths of Mr. Cohen and Mr. Oakley ; Mr. Graham Eden has been appointed a searcher in London ; Mr. Thos. C. Lewis has been appointed a clerk for general business in London. Inland Revenue Depart ment—Excise Branch—Mr. Wm. Potts, examiner, has been appointed, on promotion, supervisor of Marlborough Dis trict, Sarum Collection; Mr. Richard Hill, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Longside District, Aberdeen Collection ; Mr. Stephen Maffey, examiner, has be en ap . u a u deputy . F . Mac. pointed supervisor of Louth District, Lincoln Coll ec ti on. East Indies—Mr. F. H. Cooper, Lieut. B. L. Ausk, and, Lieut. B. the t t e h i i d i have class commis sioners of naghten and Lieut. W. G. Davies have been app o i n t e d as sistant commissioners of the first clas s in th e Punjaub ; been u t a li p e po P int nej.db ;I Lieut. J. Fendall, Lieut. H. B. Uniston, Lient. S. S. Boulderson, Lieut. P. Maxwell, Lieut. F. C. Maisey, Lient. C. B. C. Bacon, Lieut. G. M. Bettye, and Mr. C. P. Elliott have been appointed assist an t comm i ss i oners of the second class in the Punjaub.—Civil Sevvice Gazette. APOTHECARIES' HALL. Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of ineuicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs. dat, July 10 :—Thomas Eyton Jones, Corwen, North Wales ; John Sharman, Abersycham, Pontypool ; Chas. Langstaff, Andover, Hants ; Charles Terry, Northamp ton ; Ashton Godwin, Pelham-crescent, Brompton. MINES.—The standard still declines, and dividend shares in consequence have a lower tendency, with an almost general absence of business in the market. Many progressive mines are worth looking after, but the dealers wait in expectation of a further fall. Bassett offered at 290 to 300 ; Snuth Frances, 820 ; 390 to 400 ; at, the latter, the 501 m. level in the eastern mine is very rich, and said to be yielditg 10 tons of ore per fin. ; and as the deeper levels are not yet up to this point, when•they do reach it a new mine may be opened here. speculative shares are as dull as others, with very few exceptions. — Mining Journal of this day. ACCIDENTS AT THE REVIEW IN JITDE•?ARK.—IIpon inquiry last evening at St. George's Hospital, it was as■ certained that of the five persons who were injured at the review of the Crimean Brigade of Guards by her Majesty in Hyde-park, on Wednesday, four were still in a precarious condition owing to the hoverity of their wonders _ _. 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