The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

VLCATEE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lesgoo, Wt. V.!. T. gnzitil. THIS EVENING THE NM'. Folio xe 1 by TWICE KILLED. A BAI,LET vi - 0 . 2:4( F.E'Srt.4 Under the Uanagement o? *dir. GII4ELU KEAs. Title MUSIC H ATI' (ALARMS, Aft,r PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRI\•"E FOR AN' HOUR TEJEATIIP, iff)Y.t f„ i3A.VALA RE ET. Under Ii Id arweiner tof Mr. BUftiitGl24. TEii EVESiENO, LIE BEAUX' STRATAGEM', EL GAM BUSINO. After which, TOE SECOND To roil:110e with THE SPANNII SF.RJ:• : iNT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the management of Mr. Charles Dillon, THIS EVENING, BELNIEGDR. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon ; Maleline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon, To be followed by W. IlroiNh's new Burlesque, P RD ETA, THE ROYAL MILICUAID ; or, a Winter's Tale. Florisel, Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Wool , ar) ; Autolycus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Hermione, Mrs. Rockingham White ; Leontes. Mr. Ualhaem ; Polixinea, King of Ilithvnia, Mr. Wm. Br.auh (hls first appearance on any stage) ; Fast Time, Miss Harriet Gordon ; Per- Ma. Miss Marie Wilton; A.ntigonns, Mr. Barrett. Miss Rosins Wright, and a grand Corps de Ballet. • Stalls. ss. ; Dres4 Circle. 43. ; Upper Poxes, 34. ; Pit. 23.; Gallery. Is. Commence at 7. Half price to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from I I till 4. ROYAL THEATRF: ADP:UNIT. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame kleleste. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT i 1 nwNi hv DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which TIIE Mill TUTOR. To cmclu,le with OUR OAL. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP iIITITEATIZE. Lessee and Manager, ?gr. Wm. Cooke. TUIS EVENINt), Seventh Week ! Shakspere's RICHARD TUE THIRD, pith the introductioh of horses. The equestrian Witstrations by Mr. -W. Cooke. Death of White Surrey. (Vide `• lillustrated News," of Saturday, 6th.) Uattle of Bosworth Field, &c. After which, The EQUESTRIAN GEMS in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a number of other Entertainments. Box-office open from E‘even till Four. Stave Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. Cooke. lan. N.B. Vale "Illustrated News of Sept. Gth for the Death of White Surrey. - MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuis DAT—Morn. 43 min. aft. 2 —Evening 9 min. aft. 3 71 -licr3rtow—Morn. 23 min. aft. 3—Evening 49 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER IG, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. ail —highest sine 3 soon yostardpty. 4 ; —lowest this morning and during the night. 65 —this day at noon. 30.21. WIND, N.N.W.—Light, with fine weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Elision of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half- past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subserib3rs in the Country will pleas 3 to elagerve that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is• always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sum Office will remedy it. Sum Office, 112, Strand. v..) ("VI C • -- - ...7----- • .--- ', , .., - 1' .# ,; - -T --,, • , z-;:.....12,,,,-.47\ ~~i~; -LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886, It is impossible to esti:nate too highly the vas iMportance cf the existing trans-Atlantic difn nutty. It is not merely the fate of the model Republic, or the interests of twenty-five millions of men, the large majority- of whom are of the Anglo-Saxon race, speaking the same language and professing the same religion as ourselves, but the peace and tranquility of the world, that are involved in the result. The future welfare and happiness of the human race greatly depend on the issue of the Presidential election. The parties immediately concerned are fully aware of the magnitude of the stake for which they are contending. Should Ducar &NAN unfortunately succeed, filibustering quotations will rise mate. rially in the market. A course of piratical aggression will be entered on that must load to a sanguinary and ruinously expensive war. Cuba will be the first object aimed at, inasmuch as its acquisition would at once lead to the addition of a New Slave State to the Union_ 3n additional stripe to the Yankee banner. The example of General ViraratEa will be generally followed by the pro-slavery men, and visions of new acquisi tions will be indulged in throughout the whole of the Southern States. There is, in fact, no possibility of the slave owners resting on their oars. They must progress or fall from the position they have assumed. The proceedings in Kansas the fierce invasion of one of the States of the Union, and the civil war now raging therein, proves the utter recklessness of the Missourians and their coadjutors. They have set their lives upon the cast, and will stand the hazard of the die. Should they obtain a renewed tenure of power for four additional years matters will be brought to such a pass that a general war between the Old and the New• World will become inevitable, and in that war England must take a leading pail, not only for the sake of her North American and West India colonies, but for the maintenance of that prestige which she has hitherto enjoyed, and the sacred cause of truth and justice, the abandonment whereof would be the signal for herspeedy downfall. , The SUCOOS3 of Colonel FREMONT, on the other hand, would immediately- allay the well-founded apprehensions that have been entertained. It would at once be seen that there was but little danger to be anticipAtel from a .firm and well organised -Government., which had the vast majo rity of the free population on its side, and which set out with an earnest and unflinching determi nation to suppress all these buccaneering exp e di_ tions so greatly to be deprecated. The furth er extension of " the domestic institution''—that atrocious system thai; so contemptuously disregards all natural ties, - paternal and marital—will rigidly be prohibited. It is, perhaps, impossible to an ticipate the immediate enfranchisement of all the unfortunate victims of man's cupidity and lust of Power ; but the gOod seed would be sown and en abled to take permanent root during the FREMONT Administration. Even men past the middle age might reasonably hope to see the day when the crying abomination would be numbered with the Vast, and the sanguinary stain for ever eradicated from the banners of all civilised na- tions. It is then, indeed, a question of vast import. of equal magnitude Never, 'perhaps, has o ne de pended on a popular election. Every vote given for BUCHANAN tends to rivet the chains on the coloured population. Every one for FitEMONT to relieve the weary and oppressed, and to hasten the time when thelle shall be peace and good-will amongst men. That the glorious cause will eventually triurriph it is impossible to doubt ! But there must be serious misery and suffering should the cont , 3st be protracted. Tile Northern know their own strength. Their eyes have been already opened by the admirable brochure of the veteran " Qui - NcY," who has so clearly and distinctly pointed out the causes by which " a miserable minority" has hit erto been enabled to defeat those who hold the trump cards and have the game in their own hands, if they only play it boldly and independently. Thcy can only lose by allowing their insidious opponents to sow dissensions upon minor points. Now that the House of Representatives has yielded on the rider to the appropriation, that it has abandoned the position which it so nobly assumed and manfully sustained for a time, the battle of the constitution must be fought on the Presidential Election. As we have long since ex plained the real contest lies between FREMONT and BuccrasaN. FILLMORE is only put forward as a mere stalking-horse to divide the votes of the Free-sellers. Every vote given to him is practi cally the same as ono bestowed on BUCHANAN. His personal influence may also be used to pre vent Congress from agreeing, so that the prize may remain for BRECKENRIDGE, which would be but a faint improvement on BUGHANA?.7. Should that gentleman be pitchforkel into power, the same policy that has oharacterised the PIERCE Presidency will be maintained. The hopes of the Federal Republic, and of all the well-wishers of freedom throughout the world, rest on FREMONT. A few months must reveal the issue whereon the happiness of the human family so greatly depends. At this moment we have, in the diplomatic vacancy at Naples, a rare and glorious opportu nity. An opportunity for turning over a now leaf in the manner of the general distribution of our first-class appointments I It behoves every Administrative Reformer to be on the alert. It behoves us all to mark what follows—to note what manner of man it is wo ought in reason and by right to see inducted into this luxurious but responsible office of Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of the Two Sicilies. Shall it be another WILLIAM BARNACLE " precipitated" into this as already into so many other snug places according to Precedent ? Shall it be another Lard DEO/MUS TITE BARNACLE soaring to this as already he has risen to so many of the official heights upon the wings of one indignant idea? Shall it b 3 another TUDOR STILT• STALKING, " despatch-boxing the compass" all over the European Continent, wafted to this as already to so many other pleasant capitals upon winds blowing nobody any good save a BARNACLE or a STLLTSTALKING, mellifluous zephyrs, fragrant Lnd aromatic with " the odour of circumlocu tion 9" A new Ambassador will have to be nominated as soon as possible to the post vacated very re cently by the death of the Hon. Sir WILLIAM TEMPLE —own brother of the now Prime Minister of England, the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. Is it to be the old, old story all over again —the story we are all so heartily sick of ? A BARNACLE replaced by a STILTSTALKING, a STILTSTALLING by a BARNACLE--" not a square yard of ground in Bri tish occupation, under sun or moon, with a post upon it, but sticking to that post a BARNACLE, " or stalking grandly towards it across land and sea upon certain hollow and stilted pretensions a STILTSTA.LICING ! Are we to go on thus, and thus, and thus down to the very end of the chapter ? Or is there at last the glimmering of a hope anywhere for Merit—for Merit per se, Merit viewed altogether apart from Family ? In Heaven's name let us now trust- and believe so—now that we have had the euelc)o cry about " The Right, Man in the Right Place," dinned into our ears so often of late, now that ive have heard so much about the intentions and aspirations of the Administrative Reform Associa ,iol], now above all that we possess in this diplo matic Neapolitan vacancy a priceless and really golden opportunity We are unfortunately compelled to imagine that there really are jest a few more perhaps thin some half-a-dozen credulous individuals in this 3ountry who are disposed to believe with Lady BARRABA SINCLAIR., in MC. CHA I% LE3 READE'S 4parkling little novel of " Christie Johnstone," —"that in England, Government is ad.mixistered not by a set of men whose salaries average from eighty to five hundred pounds a-year, and whose names are never hoard but by the First L)rd of the Treasury, and other great men." Credulous people these are, who conceive of course, and pito as a matter of course, that diplo►natists like the late lion. Sir BARNACLE STILTSTALKING, Brother of the Premier, and Minister Plenipoten tiary at the Court of Naples, actually did " some thing" or other that (let us say) " earned the salt" of his splendid embassy ! The condition to which our influence at that ill-favoured Court had dwindled down at the period of Sir WILLIAM TEMPLE'S death "proves"--positively—to the contrary ! It " proves," moreover, that nowa days, mcro than ever, it has become imperatively requisite to get the diplomatic wheel of fortune out if the old deep-worn rut of feudal, that is to say, family or hereditary, appointuneut ! Niw—if ever ! At Naples—if no where else ! The evils Aro have to ward against there are imminent. reere, at the Curt of BOMBA, let the labour of diplomatic reform begin in real earnest. It is wore than merely desirable that it should be so ; it is essentially and imperatively requisite. Di. olomatists are, of course, not made in :s day. Eley, •nore than any men perhaps, need a regular and 'yste►natic oducttion. It becomes necessary, therefore, that we should select judiciously from among the best of the materials already within reach of our selection. Not from anteing men who, as diplomatiits, are notoriously valurAess— but from among those who actually do p assess a real and approoiable raputa,tion. - Leaving fit while contemp:;nously overlooked at their seve ral posts—Lord HownEN at Madrid, Lard WoDE• trousE at Petersbur_r, Lord STRA.T.P.JIID DF REDCLIFFE- (under . a taboo) at Constantinople ! A.nd turning to such men of mark, and minl, and :uerit as Sir HENRY BULIVEIt, and Mr. Ttromas WysE., and Sir FIAMILTON SEYSIOUIt. The last mentioned can scarcely be spared, it is true, from his German post of responsibility. The first man tioned has just taken in hand the solution of the great European problem affecting the future go vernment of the Siamese Danubian Principalities. The distinguished Ambassador intermediately par. ticalarised might, we cannot but conceive, be transferred very judiciously from his irksome posi tion at Athens to this vacant post at Naples with nor we are mach mistaken) infinite satisfaction to himself and immediate advantage to -the national nterests he has so long and ably represented. "A change," a thorough and radical chan ,, e, we believe, 111113 f", sooner or later (pray HI?,AVEN sooner rather Llian later) "came o'er the spirit, of our dream" at the Court of 01'110 alid at the Court of BOMEA ! Now is our opportauity for .s inanguratic.m. The free and easy exhortation of the Chartist minstrel to the class expected to participate in yesterday's demonstration— " Cheer up, cheer up, my gallant lads," appears to have been penned in a moment 0 prophetic inspiration, for certainly the marked disregard shown to the advice given in the follow- ing lines caste away, my hr,arties, To welo - ,71.1” tail d , ty with loud huzza OA brave John Fr)st, the Chartist," betokened a want of sympathy with " brave (?) old JOHN," as the subsequent proceedings did a good deal;' of indifference about the Charter. That Chartism is at present, as it has long been, a lifeless ism will hardly admit of doubt, and many will be of opinion that an ovation to a hero like the hero of yesterday is not the likeliest way to revivify it. It is natural enough in the leaders, or would-be leaders, of a popular movement to avail themselves of every eligible opportunity to extend their inflaence and promote the spread of the political doctrines to which they are pledged. But, at the same time, their followers have a right to look for some degree of judgment in the sc,slec- Lion of such opportunities. flow far the Char tists, as a body, are satisfied with the selection of FROST as a Chartist hero we cannot undertake to say, but we unhesitatingly affirm it was a great, a grievous mistake, and the apathy shown in the gathering of the procession goes far to show the working classes an regarded it. The Charter is not one of those things which are so unmitigatedly bad that nothing short of unmixed reprobation can be applied to them by the honest admirer of the Constitution. Some of the points are good, and possibly in course of time the greater portion may be adopted. Per haps the worst of the Charter is—the Chartists. So far their leaders have contrived to offer the greatest possible Obstacles to the adoption of any of the reforms they profess to seek. By the wild extravagance of their harangues and the mina ciousness of their attitude they have frightened the timid Reformer; and by their questionable dealings and impracticable policy have offended and alienated the bold. Indeed so strangely have they acted in times past that the good faith of the majority, excluding such men asERNEsT JONES, haS been more than questioned. If the party, small as it is, be now sincere, it could hardly be good policy to attempt an ovation to an individual lately punished for a crime, the temptation to Which is so generally associated with the maintenance of the Chartist cause. The selection of such a hero was, we repeat, a mistake—a blunder—unless it be regarded as indicative of something worse. It associated by the newest ties ideas of violence in connection with the Charter which, it was to be hoped, would never be so associated again. The inference is that, like the BOURBONS, the Chartist loaders have learrii nothing, and forgotten nothing, during the long abeyance of their power. What claim had JOHN FROAT on the respect or gratitude of . any honest Englishman ? The Mayor of New port—he was a rebel to his SOVEREIGN, and per jured alike to her and his fellow-townsmen. As a magistrate and an educated man he abused his privileges, to the mortal injury of the weak ; while, as a Chartist leader, he displayed such wis• dom and foresight as may consist with the array of a few desperate men against the power of the British CROWN. Some twenty individuals fell, riddled with shot, from a conflict which he pro voked and contrived to leave unhurt. Many . were imprisoned, and some transported, himself' . among them beside. And now, with her MA JESTY'S gracious pardon hardly crumpled in his pocket, and indebted to the Caosrx for an esotpo from the gallows, this man, of all men, must be, selected as a Chartist martyr, and must flout the public eye with his presence, and turn to ridicule the commiseration which led to his recall from banishment. This madman and ingrate, to call him nothing worse, is, forsooth, deemed worthy, on account of his misdeeds, of all the honour Chartists could show a deserving Democrat There can hardly be two opinions among moderate mere as to the truth of our previous assertion that the Chartists are the worst of the Charter! We had hoped that, taught by experience to avoid past errors, and not without honest, if misguided, men among them, they would hate endeavoured to redeem those errors by a junction, however temporary, of their efforts with those of reformers of all grades to obtain some points on which there is a common agreemeet ; but we must confess to having experienced considerable disappointment, which nevertheless would have bean greater had the character of the vast majority of the assem bly on Primrose-hill been other than our re porter describes. Such a collection of roughs must ever, save in extreme cases, be politically powerless, and prove obstructive to whatever cause they disgrace or honour by their aid. The only vital power of Chartism resided in the laborious and intelligent working classes, and it is not to these the roughs of the metropolis can fairly be said to belong, much less to represent. As the Chartist movement is now directed, we cannot regard .with regret the substitution of the ode class for the other, because the results will in fallibly be less prejudicial to the cause of reform. One thing we are fairly entitled to notice in cell nection with the meeting. In what other coun try would the like be tolerated ? In France, Austria, the Sicilies? No ! It is iu that Eng land the tyrants of the two latter countries de light to vilify that public opinion can control the endiusiastic, and hold the rascally politician in check without aid from the bayonet and sabre, and the loudest vaunter of the success of secret combination can be challenged to the outrance, to the prostration of his power and his signal dis comfiture. It is only in Eagland that the honest and practical reformer can draw new spirit from such manifestations, and be led to the discharge of a duty he owe: I , v the failure or rampancy of a movement of whie:i .he disapproves. May such result follow in the wake of yesterday's demon stration. Acctrw.NT Ti THE WES•L , IINSTER CLOCK BELL.— WEsT HARTLEPOOL, Sept. 13.--An accident, fortunately unattended with fatal conseq . ummes, occurred here this afternoon to the great bell recently cast at Norton for the new clock tower at Wer.tmii'ster. It was originally icttntled t) ship the bell by inears of a pair of shears er cted for the occasion in tiie West Dock, none of the cranes being sufficiently Fioverful to lift the enormous weight ; but the i,hears set up were found to be too small, and a larger pair wa i erected in the Swaineon D. , ck, and this afternoon was appointed for shipping the bell r.o board the biiiyhoy schooner Wave, Moncrieff, master, of Wisheach. Ever y precaution that was deemed requi,ite was taken in urdi T to secure its safe shipment. About one o'clock it was lit ted from the:carriage on which it was deposited and safe! , • swung over the hold of the vessel ready for being layered. While in this position it was discovered that l'ne aperture to the hold was not sufficiently broad for it.s reception, and another deck plank was cut out in order to admit it. When all was in readine s s i cr lowering., one of the chains was found to have s l i p pe d :. in rag lines the accir' on one side of the sheave, and the block refus. dto wort A delay of an hour occurred be fore this c: iu ld b e re , nedied, and when a ll was once more few mi nu t es previot theto readjustment of the chain a lent we have to report took place. A Wight crick was he xrd to proceed from the woodwork, but of thisnoti. N i was taken, as it Was not deemed of any c onsequence. As soon as is strain was again put. upon th e t ac k' ing the shears immediately swerved a little to one Wide, al rkl in ao i ns t a nt the ponderous ma chinery cam e t o t h e ground, cracking and smashing like firewood, ar.d i n it s course b r i nging down the f oremas t of the v esse l an ,/ b re; .king it into splinters, besides do i ng other serio us dranag:e the hull. The b e ll d e scended with a fearful cracrash, to tl.‘s b..ittorn of the v esse l, f o rtuniVely, it was believe,! at tht• tine this report was despatched, without iijr.ry. The large crowd o f p eo pl e who wire. standing near had a n arrow escape from the falling mast and timbers. The can tain of the vessel was in the hold at the time, but fortunately escaped without injury. The vessel immediately begs '.rs to make a great deal of water, and in order to prevent her sinking in the doc'c a couple of steamboats took he - in tow and removed her out of the dock into the inner 1 win, where she was run on the ground. THE SUN, LONDON, rUESDAY EVE.4INeI, SEPTEMBERS 16; _ I'BBB THE TR EA TREE'. DRURY-L ANE. The winter season at this theatre commenced last evening with a company of more than tFutal excellence — the of tine company containing the names of Mr. arA Mrs. Keeley, Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. B. Sullivan, Mrs. F. Mathews, and Mrs. Emma Waller. The last men tioned lady comes to us after having achieved great rue- COR','. in Autralia. The opening play was Bill wees " Lady of Lyon 7," and the great event of the evening was the appearance of Mrs. Wailer in the character of Pauline. Frorn the manner in which the appearance of this lady has been announce.l to the metropolis for the last two or three months public curiosity was greatly excited, and we confess we had our doubts as to the advisability of raising such great expectations. We were prepared for a per forimance in which great physical power would form the principal characteristic, but we were disappointed in our calculations, and instead of which Mrs. Waller mani fested great intellectual ability, and a pathos undeterio• rated by the artifices of exaggeration. It gives us great pleasure, therefore, to announce that the debut of Mrs. Waller was decidedly successful. Her delineation of the character of Pauline, the petted beauty of Lyons, was beautifully true to nature, and the impression she created last evening gives promise of a most brilliant career in London. In the earlier portions of the play her manner and appearance was lady-like and gentle, and as the piece progressed the emotions of the heart were exquisitely delineated. Nothing could exceed the beauty of Mrs. Waller's acting in the scene where Claude relates the fraud that has been practised on the unsuspecting loving woman. It was a perfect triumph of art, and it elicited a hurricane of applause. Mr. B. Sullivan's Claude Melnotte was a painstaking and careful performance. Mr. Yonge, as Col. Datnas, was excellent. At the termination of the play, as at the end of the third and fourth acts, there were loud calls for Mrs. Wailer, and on her appearance, led by Mr. Sullivan, she was enthusiastically received. Oxenford's farce of "Twice Killed," in which the Keeleys sustained their original characters, concluded the evening's enter tainments. The house was crowded almost to suffo cation. HAYMARKET. Mr. Buckstone seems determined to take the town by storm, by means of an army of ladies. He has bad for some time some of the most attractive of our female ac tresses, in addition to the Spanish dancers. A few days back we attended at the very promising debut of Miss Booth, in the character of Rosalind. Last night a Madame Julie Leonti appeared for the first time in the character of Mary Copp, in "Charles the Second." The part does not offer to an actress any great facilities of producing startling effects, but the cleverness of the situations, and the quantity of work throws upon the shoulders of the performer, make the part telling. Madame Leonti has several of the necessary qualifications for success in her profession. She has a charming voice, and took her share in the duet "As it fell upon a day" with marked effect . . The dust was unanimously encored. Her face is good and her figure graceful. She has evidently been well taught, and her byeplay is very careful. A slight want of power, arising very probably from nervousness, was evident, but this fault will doubtless be corrected in proportion as she gains confidence. Altogether her in• terpretation of the part was distinguished for earnest ness and expression. An universal call at the fall of the curtain indicated the satisfaction of the audience. Mr. Howe's Charles was the best that we have witnessed for a long time ; Mr. Chippendale's Captain Copp was also a successful performance. In the previous part of the evening the "Beaux' Stratagem" was represented. We take the opportunity of earnestly advising all lovers of theatricals to witness the representation of this play at the Haymarket. Mr. Buckstone's Scrub, and Miss Reynolds' Mrs. Sul len, aro completely perfect. Mr. Chippendale's Sullen, and Mr. Howe's Archer, are also careful and well studied. LYCEII This theatre opened last evening for the winter season under the direction of Mr. Charles Dillon. The list of the company comprises a number of the London fa vourites, and also the names of several ladies and gen men new to London. The piece selected for the opening night was " Belphegor the Mountebank," in which Mr. and Mrs. Dillon sustain the principal parts. We have already spoken in eulogistic terms of Mr. Dillon's repro• sentation of Belphegor, suffice it therefore to say that last evening he exhibited the same pathos which marked I his first performance of the character in London some I short time ago. At the termination of the melodrama Mr. and Mrs. Dillon received the honour of a "call." The novelty of the evening was a burlesque from the pen of Mr. Brough, entitled "Perdita ; or, the Royal Milk maid." It is a travesty of the " Winter's Tale "as mise ea scene at the Princess's, in which Mr. Calhaem, as Leontes, gives a striking imitation of the Leontes of the Oxford-street boards. Mr. Brough, the author, re presents Polixenes ; Miss Harriet Gordon, as Time, introduces the piece in a song to the air of the " Rat oatcher's Daughter," the refrain in the present instance being the " Poor old dramatist's slaughter." The out line of the piece is the same as Shakspere's. Perdita, the lost daughter of the King, is represented by Miss Wilton ; and Prince Florizel, the son of Polixenes, by Mrs. A. Mellon (Miss Woolgar). The entry of the latter Indy in her lively hunting dress-- the very Diana of the stage—was the signal of cordial and rapturouk, applause from all parts of the house, which was re peated again and again. Mrs. Buckingham White made a noble Queen, and Mr. Toole as Autolycus was , amusing as usual. The success of the burlesque was decided. It has been placed on the stage in the most gorgeous manner; and Mr. Dillon seems determined to uphold the reputation of the Lyceum for the pro duction of splendid burlesques. The house was quite full, and he has our best wishes for kis success. ENTERTAINMENT TO THE HIGHLAND BRIG AND THE OTHER CORPS A 7 DOVER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sln,—ln common with many of my countrymen in the metropolis, it afforded me much pleasure to observe from your impression of yesterday evening that it was the in tention of the Highland Society to entertain at dinner, in the Royal Surrey Gardena, the Crimean medal men of the Highland Brigade, at present stationed near Dover ; and as much regret thatthe Commander-in- Chief refused to allow the troops to be removed for such a purpose to euel a distance from their quarters. Without at all wishing to detract from the Highland Society the credit which this patriotic act would have awarded them, I beg at the same time to observe that to a letter signed " A Scotch roan," in your paper of 14th August last, belongs the merit of first drawing attention to the propriety of insti tuting some demonstration to mark the sense of their countrymen in London of the chivalrous hearing of thr Higblanders throughout the campaigns of the Rest ; an, further, that out of that suggestion has emanated tbr meeting of a few gentlemen w:th that view, at which the question whether it would be more practicable to dine or to give them a ball on New Year's Eve, in the neigh bourhood of their own camp, rather than dragging them to London, was discuserl, but to which an ultimate decision had not been given, although the, ball had most approval. The reasons for deferring the compliment to late a period as the :Het December were, it being* ascertained that nearlyet hundred men of all ranks were at present absent from their re.pectiva cerps on six weeks' furlcu .; li ; also, that New Year's Eve has at a l; (Imes been an evening of festivity in Scotland ; adding to these the fact that at a ball their wives could also join them. As the division to which they belong contain:. the 41et (Welsh) and 44th (East Norfolk), it was intender' to invit e them also. It is a generally received fact that Mighlanders in their Social habits will always give a pre fereece to the " dance" rather than to a "dinner." The , strength of the five regiments would be about four thousand, for whose accommodation Mr. Edgington, of Southwark, offers to provide marquees at very reasonable cost ; therefore, an entertainment of the latter description would not require a larger sum than a dinner, at the came time having so many advanta;es in its favour. AP the Highland Society is an organised and a popular body, if they would take ,the same view of the subject as here submitted, and convene a meeting, admitting others as u ell as their own members to it, I have no doubt that a successful and creditable demonstration would be secured. To remove any question that might arise as to the carry ing out of its details, it may be well to observe that they might be safely entrusted to the colonels commanding, the arijutaute, and to the non-commissioned officers. I hope that true-beerted Highlander, Sir Charles Forbes, aid move in this matter, which Las for its olject, the appreciation of his beloved countrymen's gallant services. An insertion of this letter in your excellent paper will very much oblige your obedient servant, 14, Upir..r Islington-terrace, Sept. 13Lh. J. C. MT. SOMETHING CURIOUS.—A n American paper givesa curious incid en t o f a late thunder storm :—A little girl was standing at a window before which was a young maple tree. Aft:r a brilliant fl isle a complete image of the tree was found imprinter! on h 7 body. This is not the first in9tance cf the kind, but it is a singular pheno• menon. - F. IV St TEFirr NAPLES. With respect to the Neapolitan difficulty, says the T;mes (second edition) Paris correspondent, hopes are entertained here that it will be settled by negotiation through the ordinary channels, and it is even thought probable that it will not be deemed necessary to send an answer to the Notes of the King. This may appear rather a sanguine view of the matter ; but I understand that things are at the present mo ment in such a state that it is held desirable to await in silence the probabilities of an amicable adjustment. I give you this as the French view of the matter. B iron Hubner has really arrived at Naples, but here it is maintained that he has merely gone to sec Vesuvius, and that he has no political mission whatever. This may be so, but, according to information from Vienna, which I transmitted to you some weeks ago, and a great part of which has since been proved correct he certainly had orders to make representations to the King of Naples, although not in An official manner. On the other hand, it is possible that those instructions have been revoked, and this is indeed positively stated by some of the German papers. CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. • (1 7 t4i rn the second Edition of the Times.) MOSCOW, MONDAY MORNING, SFIT. 8. The Czar is now the Lord's anointed. The great ceremony which has consecrated his power in the eyes of so many millions of his subjects has been performed with rare precision and success, and with a magnificence to which no historical pageant known to mc can claim superiority. The day 7 —how much of our grandest efforts depend on that which we can not control —was beautiful. At sunrise all Moscow was up and stirring, and ere it was day the hum of voices and the tramp of feet rose from the streets. At 6 o'clock the Kremlin was assaulted by a sea of human beings, who lashed themselves angrily against the gates, and surged iu like waves through the portals. This is to the Russians what the Tower, St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, the oath°• drals, and the universities, all in one, would be to an Englishman :—" It is the heart and the soul of Moscow, as Moscow is the heart and the soul of Russia." It is her historical monument and the temple of her faith. The most important and solemn part of the ceremony has now to be performed, and there is a general stillness in the church, as the Emperor de scends from his throne and proceeds to the entrance of the chancel. He is met there by the Archbishop of Moscow, who holds iu his hands the sacred vessel which contains the holy oil. Stretching forth his right hand, the venerable father takes a golden branch, with which, having dipped it in the consecrated oil, he/anoints the forehead, eyelids, nostrils, ears, hands, and breast of the Emperor, pronouncing the solemn words—"lmpressio doni Spiritus Sancti." The act is done, and Russian eyes look with awe upon the Anointed of God, the Delegate of His power, the High Priest of His Church, at once Emperor and Patriarch, conse crated and installed in his high temporal and spiri tual office. A salvb of cannons, the bray of trum pets, the roll of drums, announce the completion of the sacred act to the oars of those who are without the church and cannot witness it. Meanwhile the Empress comes 'forward, and is in like manner anointed by the Archbishop, but on the forehead only. Then the Emperor and Empress, the one on the right, the other on the left, of the pre siding Archbishops of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novgorod, receive the holy sacrament ; to the Emperor, as the 'chosen servant privileged by [leaven, it is administered into the two kinds • the Empress recei v i ng on ly th e sacramen t a l bread Which is partaken of by all the members of the Russian Church. Once more the choir burst out in full jubi lant chorus, and their Majesties once more mount the platform of the throne, and stand erect while the mass is intoned by the priests, and the re sponses are chanted by the choir. The holy service . being concluded, the Emperor steps from the throne, bows right and left to the great digni taries of the State, to the prelates, to the represen tatives of the foreign Powers, and then leaves the church by the northern gate, accompanied by his splendid retinue, and followed at a short distance oy the Empress. At the moment that the Emperor took back the sceptre and the globe, the priest proclaimed the Im perial title, and then chauuted _Dornine, salvum fac Imperatore m, et Do mine, salvum fac Imperatricem, to which the choristers added ad multos annos, and at the same instant the bells which had been silent burst forth once more with tremendous elamour, and r.he guns of the batteries fired 101 rounds. The smoke rolled over the walls and floated like a fine veil over the flashing arms of the soldiers and over the crowd inside. It was at 10.30 that the mouth of the cannon inaugurated the prayers which his Majesty, kneel ing, addressed before all his people to the King of Kings to sanctify his reign. All this tumult sud lenly ceased. There was a murmur of voices for a moment in the Court, which was hushed at once is a bell tinkled once or twice from the Cathedral, and there was a profound silence, while Empress, Metropolitan, and people inside all knelt down and addressed their prayers to Heaven for the Emperor. He alone stood upright as they prayed. At 10.45 the hells broke out again, and the Te Deunt which heralded the High Mass was chanted. The Imperial banquet concluded the ceremonies of the Coronation-day, and judging by the worn and exhausted looks of their Imperial Majesties, human nature could scarcely bear the fatigue of their - prolongation. At the first toast, to the Health of the Emperor, tho artillery fire 61 guns ; to the Empresses, each II guns ; to the Imperial house, 31 guns ; to the clergy and all faithful subjects, only 21 guns. ft was nearly 4 o'clock before the banquet was over, and their Majesties retired to take some repose. fn the evening all Moscow was illuminated, but tf tho patience of your reader: is exhausted, and is all illuminations are pretty much alike, I must defer ,what I have to say about them till next post. It is sufficient to say that the city was a ,naze of light, that the streets were thronged to suffocation, that carriages could not pass through r,ho thoroughfares, that the heat, dust, and smoke were intolerable, and that the English embassy was very finely illuminated. The Czar has signalised :he day of his coronation by publishing a most important ukase, which contains an amnesty and lays the foundation for great reforms. The fol owing points aro contained in it :—A civic and 'unitary medal for all who took part, directly or directly, in the war. Freedom from military ser vice for four years throughout the Empire. A most equitable assessment of the poll tax. The Emperor accords an amnesty to the political offenders of 1826 and 1831. All the Jews of the Empire are freed from the special burdens of i,he recruitment that still oppressed them. The children of soldiers that were brought up by the St ate, and as such formed part hitherto of the truly, in which they were bound to servo as sol liers, are now restored to their relations. TUESDAY MORNING, 8 A.M. Yesterday there was a parade of the Guard at 10 )'clock in the Kremlin, and a leass3 and presenta tion at mid-day. There was also a State ball on a very grand scale at the Palace. The Emperor re ceived the Ambassadors and Ministers at his levee, and spoke to each for 80010 time 9 and the Turkish Minister present e d hi s credentials. The illumina -ions were repeated last evening, but a gentle breeze which sprung up after sunset blew most of the lamps Out. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The total of subscriptions for the victims of the inundations is now 10 , 462 ,557 f. 31c. There hav e bean dreadful fires at Saint Pol, near arras, and at Pau, the first to the extent or damage of 40,000 f., the second 15,000 f. Au Imperial decree inserted in the Bulldin des Lois extends :to the colonies of Martinique, Ganda loupe, and La Reunion (Bourbon) the law of the 27th November, 1849, relative to coalitions of workmen. The Prefect of the Stine has proposed to the municipal council, in order to make up part of the deficit in the budget of the city of Paris for 1857, to establish a tax on all sorts of vehicles, and to make persons pay for admission to the Bourse. the Senate, it may be remembered, rejected in its !ast session a bill for imposing a tax on private car ivros, but the Government has promised to cause ), bill to be brought beforo the Legislative Body mil the Senate before the end of June next, for Taxing not only private carriages, but all vehicles employed in the conveyance of persons or ma terials. The revenue from this tax is calculated at 1,200,000 fr., and the collection of it, should the bill pass, is to be commenced in July next. With regard to the charge for admission to the Bourse, the prefect calculates that it will produce about 300,003 fr. a-year, and that it will besides have the advantage of preventing the inconvenience caused by crowds flocking there on certain occasions of excitement, and of reducing the number of small capitalists and workmen who speculate. A letter from Galatz of the 3d says :—" The French steam gun-boat the Alerte arrived hero this morning ; she is the first French war vessel that has entered the Danube." BOVRSE, Sept. 15.—The following were the las quotations : Cash. fr. e. Ent of Meath. 41 por Cents (xd) ... f;.`.? --f. 3 por Cents -7) 59 70 75 New Loan 7O 70 Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit Alobilier 1,681 25 Austrian Belgian ri ves. 99.}— Spanish Threes eiedmontede (5) . 9l 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-7'Cs CAlrn. fr. c. fr. c. (Means ...... , Northern .1,005 Stro44l - mrg Lyons Nle(litorraneen 1,890 Grand. Central Lyons Gonova 7SS 'i'eat© Coats RUSSIA. A letter from Odessa of the 2d, in the Aus trian Gazette, says :--" Workmen continue to be actively engaged in endeavouring to raise the vessels sunk in the harbour of Sebastopol. It appears that the fine steam-frigate Vladimir is completely lost. According to a census lately taken, the population of the south side of Sebas topol amounts to 1,500 souls, exclusive of about 3,000 sailors. The Russian officers now here gave a grand banquet last week to General Buchmaier, of the Engineers, who constructed the bridge of boats across the harbour of Sebas topol, an operation which was thought to be impossible under the fire of the enemy, and the success of which saved the garrison of Se bastopol. A discovery has just been made in the village of Alexandropol, in the government of Ecatherinslow, which has caused an immense sensation among our archmologists. M. Luzancho, the director of the museum of Kertch, has found in a small mound the catacombs of the Scythian Kings. Numerous articles in gold, silver, bronze, iron, earthenware, &c., have been discovered there. The existence of the Gherros, or Necro polis of the Scythian monarchs, spoken of by He rodotus, is thus proved." THE PRINCIPALITIES, A letter from Jassy, in the Wanderer of Vienna, says :—" We are assured that the French consul has received from his government orders to make severe representations to the Moldavian govern ment on some of its recent proceedings, and espe cially for having attempted to prevent the exercise of the privilege of the navigation of the Pruth and Sereth accorded to Captain Magnan, and for its conduct in the affair of the Moldavian Bank. M. Place, the French consul, has, in consequence, had with the Caimacan an interview, in which bespoke very energetically on these two subjects." AUSTRIA. The Augsburg Gazette says :--" A telegraphic despatch announces that the Emper of Russia has conferred on Prince Paul Esterhazy, who repre sented Austria in the coronation, the Order of Saint Andrew in diamonds, which is the highest distinction that can be obtained in Russia." A letter from Vienna of the 11th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" It is positively stated that the Servian government has taken steps to support its demand for an increase of its military forces. It Lae drawn up a memorial on the subject in which it points out that such an augmentation would be not only for the interest of the principality, but also for that of the Porte, whose frontiers would be thus better protected from a sudden irruption." HA.NOVER. The following decree, just published in the Hanover Gazette, announces the resolution of the Ring to dispose of the public revenues, and aug ment his own civil list, in a manner which the Second Chamber—prorogued on the 4th inst.— has recently refused to sanction : We, George V.,&c. When, by the 4th article of our edict on the Ist of August last year, and proceeding on the federal resolu tion of April 19, 1855, we reserved to ourselves the right of giving fresh validity to the 6th chapter of the constitution of August 6, 1840, in its totality, and when nevertheless we confined ourselves provisionally to re establish only the 154th, 155th, and 156th articles of that law, we indulged the tope of seeing established between us and the general assembly of the States, an understanding respecting the new financial measures which it was proposed to base on the principle of cen tralising the public receiving offices. In this expectation we caused to be submitted, for the deliberation and constitutional consent of the States, on the 11th of April last, the prject of a finance bill, which would avoid the incompatibility between that of 1848 and the laws of the Confederation. But our wishes have not been accomplished. Whilst the first chamber of the General Diet has shown itself ready to come to an agreement, the majority of the second chamber has adhered in the essential questions to the principles of 1848. This attitude has rendered all arrangement impossible. Being neither able nor willing to put off any longer the execution of the federal resolution of April 10, 1855, concerning the finances, which requires that the consti tution should be brought without delay into harmony with tee fundamental laws of the confederation, we have by our edict of this day annulled the chapter in the con stitution relative to the finances, and have restored the one contained in the constitution of 1840. Nevertheless, in the absence of an equable distribu tion of the expenses between the royal treasury and the treasury of the state, which exist separately, we have ordained merely the partial execution of the chapter of finances, and have organised a provisional form of regu lations. In virtue of the constitution of 1840, we return as lor.l paramount into the enjoyment of the feudal revenues designated in the 86th article of the constitution of 1848, which said revenues form no part of either the royal or the state treasury. Nevertheless, not wishing to change the budget fixed for the current fiscal period, we have renounced the revenues of the fiefs in favour of the general treasury until the Ist of July, 1858. We have maintained, by the sth Article of this decree, the principle in accordance with which the members of the Court of Accounts, recently nominated by the States, will have to be confirmed by us in their functions. The regulation laid down in the constitution of 1848, by virtue of which the councillors of this court, delegated by the States could enter into the administration with a delibe rative vice, is too far opposed to the monarchic prin ciple and to the essence of the executive power of the Crown for us to be able to tolerate its existence any longer. In consequence of the suppression of the 81st Article in the Constitution of 1848, we have from this time for wards male fresh arrangements respecting the civil list. The civil list, as fixed by our late father, the King Ernest Augustus, is no longer in harmony with actual circumstances that imperiously require its augmentation, and as the Diet itself recognised in its last session. Animated by our duty as a member of the confedera tion and by our royal prerogative, we shall shortly carry into effect the separation of the treasures, and shall submit to the chambers as soon as possible a project lot dividing the expenses among the different receiving offices. Should the chambers, contrary to our expectation, refuse all arrangement upon the basis proposed, we shall reserve to ourselves the right of taking such steps as shall be requisite for the complete execution of the federal resolution passed on the 19th of April, 1855. • • We declare, however, that we are still ready to enter tain any desire expressed by the Diet for the re union of the treauries, could we Lut believe that our propositions would be better appreciated by it than was the case last session ; and we give by this declaration to our faithful ut.,j,cts the proof of our sincere desire to regulate by some arrangement the question of the finances in a man ner conformable with the interests of the crown and those of the country. The decree enacts that the civil list shall be endowed with a revenue of 600,000 dole, derived from the produce of Cie domains, and also with the interest derived from a capital of 600,0001. sterling invested in the English funds. SPAIN. MADRID, Sept. 14. The Gazette publishes a royal decree appointing General Urbistenda to bo Captain-General of Andalusia ; General Leimerick will remain at Puerto Rico. The most perfect accord exists between. the members of the Govern. ment on the subject of the constitutional question. The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains a circular from the Minister of War to the captains -general of provinces, announcing that, in consequence of the re-establishment of tranquillity, the Govern ment desires that the Watt) of siege i n w hi ch all Spain has been placed shall, without bein g d one away with all at once, be so modified "as to permit all the branches of the administration of the State to re-enter gradually in their normal conditions." Tho Gazette publishes a letter from the Minister of Finance to the president of the junta on the public debt, .stating that the Queen has granted. to the Duke 'do Berwick and Alba, in compliance with his demand, on account of the recent di:. turbed state of the country, a l onger per i o d than that fixed by the royal decree of the 10th December last for producing pro o f s o f the sums duo to him for supplies made to the Fre nc h c theoui mig troops by his family d ur i ng the War of Inde ion hstal ad communicationsno min a t b e e d . pthern regulatingdence. W e an Spain and h er West India colonies. The departures from the port of London for the Aus• tralian colonies during the past week have comprised e ight vessels—three to Port Phillip, one to Sydney, one to New Zealand, one to Portland Bay, one to Launces:, ton, and one to Moreton Bay, with an aggregate capa• city of 5,591 tons. The rates of freight continue to ex hibit heaviness. CHARLES MACKAY. Among the cheap popular reprints of the day there is not one, we do verily believe, calculated to be more widely or more heartily welcomed by the masses than this cheap popular reprint of Charles Mackay's charming and inspiriting Lyrics. It musical publisher of great enterprise has already placed within reach of the community " One Hun dred Songs, by Henry Russell"—Music and Words —for One Shilling ! 'Nay—coupled with this be nefaction in the shape of an aggregate reissue of so many masterpieces by a distinguished living favou rite—has republished, upon a similar scale, the chefs d'oeuvres of the most national and classic of our great national and classic ballad-mongers —" One Hundred Songs, by Charles Dibdin "-- Music and Words—for One Shilling ! Mr. Rout; ledge has taken a leaf out of the book of Mr. Davidson. Here, coming from the press in an elegant form, volume by volume, each volume " one shilling," are the poems, sonv, ballads, lyrics of Charles Mackay ! Productions, Minos every one, stamped long ago with the authorita tive and enduring timbre of popularity. First and foremost—" Songs for Music" (84 of them in pp. 116), gracefully inscribed 4 , To Sir Edward L. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P., with every seu'' timent of personal esteem and literary admira tion." Secondly, " The Salamandrine, o r Love and Immortality" (3d edition), the daintiest cele bration of elf-land since Pope's memorable Rape of the Lock—not forgetting, when we so speak' of it, the faisry idyl of Hood, or the glorification of the pixies by Coleridge ! Thirdly—" Ballads and Lyrical Pieces" (2d edition), 37 distinct pro ductions in pp. 118—some of these same ballads and lyrics already (while their author is even now but in the flower of his manhood) world-famous ! Yes, that largo phrase has about it no exaggeration whatever, when urged in regard to some of the many popular songs of Mackay—songs familiar not only to us stay-at-homes, but equally to the Ame rican backwoodsman and to the Australian gold digger 1 " Tubal Cain"—do we not all know its lusty and sonorous accents, accents sweet as the treble of a flageolet, and thrilling as the diapason of an organ ? " The Good Time Coming"—is it not carolled as often as the home liest " refrain" of all—about not going home till morning ? "A Plain Man's Philosophy"—has it not (that simple heart-born ditty) something far more bewitching about it than all the love-sick bal' lads ever warbled about Chloe and Strephon ? I've a guinea I can spend I've a wife, and I've a friend, And a troop of little children at my knee, John Brown; rye a cottage of my own With the ivy over grown, And a garden with a view of the sea, John Brown ; I can sit at my door By my shady sycamore, Large of heart, though of very small estate, John Brown; So come and drain a glass In my arbour as you pass, And I'll tell you what I love and what I hate, Joh n Brown." Another volume, uniform with those already" par' ticularised, is announced (as even now in the press) by the publishers—a volume intended to compris e " The Legends of the Isles." And with these four shilling volumes must be enumerated three others —in every way companion publications. A Shil ling Reprint of " Town Lyrics "—a shilling reprint of " Voices from the Crowd"—and a shilling re print of " Voices from the Mountain." Poetic largess scattered with a l av i s h h an d to th e mw' titude ! THE COURT AT BIARRITZ. BAYONNE, SEPT. 11. Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, and bis young wiles the Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of Don Francisco do Paula, and sister to the King Consort , arrived here to-day, at half past 12 o'clock, from Madrid. Their Royal Highnesses were met, at some distance outside the town by an escort of cavalrY• A tent was erected a few hundred yards from the Porte d'Espagne, from which floated the flags of France, Spain, and Bavaria, and where they were received by the authorities, namely, the general command ing the district, the mayor and deputy mayor, the prefect of the Basses Pyrenees, and the sub-prefect. Their approach was announced by a royal salute fired from the citadel. The streets leading front the Porte d'Espagne, the entrance to Bayonne on the road to Spain, to the Hotel de Commerce in the Rue du Government, were lined with troops, who rendered to the Princes the salute corresponding to their rack. The residences of the Consuls were all decorated with the flags of their respective nations. One of the Emperor's aides-de-camp received them as they entered the town. A Court carriage, with outriders and other attendants, was sent at 3 o'clock from Biarritz to convey them to the Palace, or, as it is now called, the Villa Eugenia ; and at 4 o'clock the Princes left to pay a visit to the Emperor and Empress. Crowds of people were assembled in the principal streets and on the Place d'Armes to see them pass, and though no acclamations were heard they were received with much respect by the people. £hey drove to Biarritz by the Allees Marines, and, at the Prince's request, were unaccompanied by any escort. Prince Adalbert has quite the German type—fair complexion, rather large features, with light moustache and beard. The Princess, who when a young girl was remarkably thin, has grown very stout. Her resemblance to her cousin Queen Isabella is striking. She is also of fair complexion, and, though perhaps deficient' in distinction, her features are marked by a kind and gentle expres sion, which is not without its attraction. The Prince and Princess returned at half past I o'clock to Bayonne. The authorities of the place, as well as the Spanish and Bavarian Consuls, dined with them at the Hotel de C ommerce . Th e i r Royal Highnesses dine with the Emperor to-morrow at Biarritz, and a ball will be given in the evening. Prince Adalbert will hold a levee to-morrow, "t which the authorities and the officers of the garri son of Bayonne will be received. THE DISPOSAL OF TOE DEAD. We still hear of interments in positions they should not be permitted, and find individuals eve'', now obstinately d en yi ng th e ev il o f p ili ng up dean bodies in the midst of the living. Many London grave-yards have been closed, and the rest must follow ; it will never do to continue burying 10" bodies on a single Sunday in one grave-yard, s' we are told is the case at present in Bethnal-green. Instead of the thickly packed metropolitan grounds , burying-places have been provided in various parts of the suburbs. This has led to considerable changes iu the cost and manner of funerals, whic h press rather hardly on the poor, particularly when old fashioned plans are persisted in. When an in: dividual in the midst of two or three millions et people dies, the body ought to be removed with' out loss of time ; but then, survivors say, how can we part so suddenly with what remains of those we have so much loved! The parishes, in several instances, have provided places for the reception of bodies until the friends of the deceased can ar range for the funeral. The value of this accom modation is very great, particularly when the receiving houses for the dead are well placed, and yet it is not much used by the groat numbers of the London poor who so much require it. In some instances, too, the London undertakers have made provision on their cwn premises for the re ceptiondes not adu always until the time e for the good, fixed for xed m any of these places are in close neighbourhoods, where funeral. This te i numbers of persons are living around—indeed, in some cases, in the same house. Prejudices have to be overcome, and all may aid in doing this. There are often difficulties in the way of early burial, and in such cases the body should be removed to a proper reception-house, where it could remain till the arrangements were coniplete.—The Builder. 'I [ADVERTISEMENT.] 1 1 =mows To the Editor of the Sun. SlR,—Thero is no real cause for thapresent depressing of Consols, and .there must be a great rettotUni in a few days, for the following reasons :- Ist. The last million of the last loan will have been paid on Thursday, % , ,hich will cause an increase of one million of notes in raserve at the Bank. 2d. There are no foreign loans in the market. 31 The American Question has been amicably settled, and we are at peace ith all the world. 4th. The cJrn crap is larger than any ever grown before. sth. Gold keeps continually pouring in in large quan tities from America, from the East Indies, and from Australia. 6 ch.—Money i❑ discount transnctioes is decidedly easier, and dividends to the amount of five millions will come in for reinvestment after the 10th of October. Consols were 96 iu Juiy, ju.t after the dividend had been paid. They are now run down to 931, a quar ter's dividend being due on them, which in reality makes the present price under 92i, whilst Exchequer Bills are at a high premium, This must have bee,. the result of mere speculative sales.—l am, sir, your obedient set. van t, A. C. Morley's Hotel, Sept. 16, 1856. The King of the Belgians, the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, and the Princess Charlotte visited on Saturday the Economic Exhibition in the Jardin Botanique st Brussels, and Tent ROM, time in examining it. In the 4 eneral business of the port of London during the past week there has been little change. The nem' bar of ships reported inward was 164, being 24 less than in the previous week. Thirty-seven cargoes of corn and flour have been reported, nearly all from Russia. The number of vessels cleared outward was 151, including 17 in ballast, showing an increase of seven. sal Po n a wen and Wee] Mar tom Not disc( fort] lion ioni ( comi Uar] mane Lom tesi( '. 4 1173;; dined been No Ore fil 41 411 T. Per bitt btu Ditt 1 - .• truili ` , l bitt •Equad truvi t v ortug Pitt F. butch Peruri C E A SU] 1.1 5, , #ft4ir ti, CUJ itSi 1 14. gad, I - W E lt '1 A g ma