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New Edition, corrected from the personal Communications of the &c. " The best genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage, and the first authority on all questions affecting the aristocracy."— Globe. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. TO THE ItDITOItOf THE TIMES. Sire—My first impulse on reading your article on the "Traviata" was to remain silent, but, feeling strongly the responsibility which you have cast upon me, I am induced, on reflection, to trouble you with this commu nication; and, while I recognise the zeal fcr public mora lity which prompted your criticism, I cannot doubt that, in the investigation of a truth to which you attach so much importance, you will give me a patient hearing, and that this appeal to your candour will not be in vain. Grant me this indulgence, and I hope to satisfy you that, however just your strictures may be, as applied to the Dame au Camellia, the opera of "La Traviata," both in scope and detail, is not only undeserving of censure, but is of a strictly moral tendency. And first let me meet an objection which may be suggested as to my ap pearing as the defender of the libretto. It may be said that I was interested, at whatever risk to morality, in making use of a plot offering musical opportunities for the display of the versatile genius of the principal artiste. This is not so. Nothing would have been easier than to expunge from the story everything which you have treated as objectionable, without sacrificing a particle of the interest, or changing a single situation of the drama. To take your own analysis, the excitement of the tale de ponds upon the play of passion between the two lovers, upon his jealousy, upon hordevotion, and upon the tragic fate of the heroine at the moment when her troubles seem to have been surmounted. To give scope to these feelings Violetta might have been made a girl of simple purity and humble birth. The self-sacrifice which is the charm of her character might have been rendered necessary by the aristocratic pride of her lover's noble relations. The denouement would have been equally effective if theglimpse of happiness which precedes it had been caused by the vie tBry of simple worth over the prejudices of a haughty fa mily. The change of a very -few words would have effected the necessary transformation. You will ask why I did not introduce alterations which would have removed every ground for cavil. My answer is, that they would have injured the moral tendency of the plot. As it stand e the melancholy catastrophe illustrates the Nemesis that at tends on vice, and that cannot be entirely averted even by the most touching and devoted repentance. Strike out from the character the evil which had blighted it, and the last scene would hare offended against the dra matic canon—that suffering should only be exhibited for the purpose of teaching a moral lesson. The business of the stage is'to hold "a mirror up to nature," to exhibit the contest between good and evil, and, as a necessary consequence, to let vice be seen in contrast with virtue. I do not understand you to contend for the principle that none but faultless characters should find a place in our dramas and operas, or that the education, whether of the schoolroom or the theatre, should be based upon the delusion that there is nothing but purity in the world. Such notions have no eoubt bean entertained by good men, who, as a natural inference from their doc trine, have condemned the stage under whatever condi tions. For my own part, I believe the exhibition of the retribution which attends on sin may have as bene ficial an influence as the highest example of virtue. In stead of fruitlessly attempting to ignore the existence of vice, would it not be well rather to follow the counsel of Bacon, and let the young see the basilisk before the basilisk casts its fatal glance on tliem ! I do not wish to fill your columns with a catalogue of the many classical tales and dramas which are open to at least as severe a criticism as that with which you Lave visited Verdi's opera. You would not surely proscribe the "Vicar of Wakefield," for example, for the objec tionable characters it introduces, or for the supposed seduction on which the interest of the tale depends . . Though the greatest works of the greatest dramatists and novelists are filled with examples of the most fearful and hideous crime, you allow that the common sense of mankind has determined that no evil can arise to morality from the manner in which these subjects are handled by the great masters of tragic emo tion, and that the tendency of such displays is rather to purify than to cor rup t th e passions of an audience. Ido not argue for the indiscriminate representation of vici ous characters upon the stage ; but I do ask that a mo dern libretto may be judged by the same principles on which Sophocles and Shakspere, Corneille and Racine, Alfieri and Goethe, have thought right to work. Two conditions seem to be essential whenever vice is presented in fiction —one, that its grossness should not be offensively obtruded ; the other, that it should not be presented in an alluring form. It is true that the play of the " Dame au Camellia" offends in some degree against one at least of these principles, and is open to some of the charges which you have transferred to the opera of "La Traviata " But in the construction of the libretto of the opera everything of the kind has been studiously avoided, and it is only to those who are fami liar with Dumas' novel that the situation of the drama can oven by an accidental association suggest a single impure or offensive idea. The opera begins with the re coil of the heroine from her past dissipation ; her for mer career, so far from being offensively obtruded, is only dimly indicated by a few words, which the moral purpose of the plot requires, There is not in the whole play a sentence that the most prudish could condemn as indelicate, nor a sentiment to raise a blush on the face of decent womanhood. The sympathy which the cha racter of Violetta commands is given not to the evil of her ways, wherein she has offended, but to the nobility, sorrow, and suffering by which she atones her guilt. It may possibly be true that the vice of the Dame aux Camellias is presented under an alluring shape, but it is certain that the sin of the Traviata only wins our pity by her repentant devotion. If, as you say, the perdi tion of the libertine in Mozart's opera is not "likely to invite imitation, or to excite the pruriency of passion," it may with equal truth be said that the hopeless strug gle of Violetta to retrieve the past supplies a more powerful, because a more natural warning, against the evils of such a career than any necromantic and unreal catastrophe like that of Don Giovanni. Incidentally I may add, with reference to one of your objections, that in order to disconnect the opera as much as possible from any impuritiesisug i gested by the novel of Dumas, or what you calf the debauchery of modern life, the scene of the opera is purposely thrown back to the beginning of the last century. No one who sees or reads the opera with out a previous acquaintance with the French tale will find in it the slightest matter of offence—a circumstance which will sufficiently explain how it is "that the ladies of England have not felt their delicacy outraged" by a plot which some have thought it just to denounce as im pure. Your own illustration derived from the play of "Jack Sheppard" seems to show in the clearest light the moral tendency of "La Traviata." :The two dramas are exactly the antipodes of another. In "Jack Shep pard" the charm is derived from the excitement and adventure of the thief's career, not from the occasional expression of passing compunction. In the opera the whole interest is absorbed by the deep, though unavail ing efforts of the sinner to blot out the evil of her earlier life. Therefore it is that, while Jack Sheppard may in vite imitation, the example of Violetta will rather tend to doter from yielding to temptation. The one resembles a will - o'-the-wisp to allure, the other a beacon to warn and to save. There is yet another way in which the opera of " La Traviata" may operate for good. An over-fastidicus sensibility has made it too much the fashion to sigh at misery, and to shun the wretched. It is not very long since you yourself administered a just castigation to the morbid prudishness which had dared to reflect upon an angel of mercy who did not shrink from watch. ing at the pillow of the sick and wounded. And is there not the same unclean spirit to be found in the code which would exclude the suffering and repentant sinner from the sympathy of her sisters ? Should we not do well to pour oil into the wounds of the unfor tunate, and to open a door, were it nev er so sma ll , to the return o f t h e erring ?, Is it not our duty at least to admit the truth, which our Pharasaism pracLi cally denies, that noble feelings may freqetently dwell in the broken heart even of a stricken and repentant Mag dalen ! If, as I believe, the tend ency o f La Traviata is to soften the hearts the pure towards those who are struggling to raise themselves from degradation, I shall never regret the part I have had in its production. Had the plot contained one circumstance to hold up evil to imitation it should never have appeared at a theatre under my control. But as I believe it presents a whole some warning to the weak, and may teach a lesson of mercy to the strong, I should be most reluctant to de tract from its moral value, out of deference to what I cannot but regard as a mistaken sensibility. I need not, I think, dwell on the objection which you take to the dying scene. I know nothing in which it can be sup nosed to offend, unless it is in being too exquisitely true to nature. But it does not approach in painfulness many Shaksperian scenes, as, for instance, the death of King John by poison, and I believe it is within the legitimate limits of dramatic emotion. The tenderness of the heroine's farewells and plaintive music in which they are embodied, refine by their beauty the suffering which touches the heart, and I cannot conceive why the con cluding scene of the "Traviata" should be thought more open to objection than the death of Katherine or Juliet, the murder of Desdemona, the melancholy catastrophes of King Lear and Hamlet, or the admired tragedy of "Adrienne Lecouvreur." If death by natural sickness is too terrible for the stage, surely the throes of poison ought not to be exhibited. Physical agony, it is true, ought to be veiled, but the death of Violetta is as free from every adventitious horror as it i 3 possible. for any truthfully-acted scene of the kind to be ; and really the only question with respect to it is one which bas been practically settled for centuries,—whether the closing scene of life is or is not a fit subject for dramatic repre sentation ? In conclusion, let me assure you th at i n presenting be lwithoutbelieve, thatm o d modification, o a n d , n l i n d i s e _- tering to a good, a right, and a me rc if u l cause. Youmay l t i h b e e r l a i b t e r l e y t t o b e o l e t v h e e d possibly differ from my views, but if y ou w ill only exa mine a n d lira r i s a t t i7l libretto of the opera, re j ecting every am, Sir, r m e i m n i e n t is h c e en pr c i e n o t f ed the " Dame au C ame lli a, " I do not de spair of your final judgment being w ith your obedient servant, B. LUMLEY, Her Majesty's Theatre, Aug. 9. (Nom the Times.) Mr. B. Lumley, the manager of her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, has forwarded to us a defence of the opera named "La Traviata,' ) which has been performed under his auspices during the last season. In truththe exhibition stood much'in need of a defence, and as many The remains of this much-lamented and distinguished gentleman left his residence, Ravens well, Bray, early in the morning, attended for a considerable portion of the route by the carriages of most of the gentry of the neighbourhood, and reached Mount Jerome Ce metery at 10 o'clock. We observed, as chief mourners, Charles Weld, Assistant-Secreta r y of the Royal So ciety of London, brother of the deceased; R. Meadows Taylor, Dr. Fordo, and the Messrs. Prendergast. Upon the arrival of the cortege at the gate of the cemetery, it was met, notwithstanding the season of the year, when so many persons are absent from town, by a large assemblage of members of the Royal Dublin Society, anxious to pay their last tribute of respect to their late venerated vice-president, including Lord Talbot de Malahide, V.P. ; L. E. Foot, and J. F. Waller, LL.D., Hon. Secretaries ; W. E. Steele, M.D., assistant secretary ; H. C. Whiter, registrar ; Professor Davy, F.R.S. ; E. R. P. Colles, lib rar i an ; D. Moore, curator of the Botanic Gardens ; asd Mr. M'Manus, head master of the School of Art ; Right Hon. F. Black burne, F. S. Sidney, LL.D. ; J. Barton, Henry Roe, J. Patten, G. Saunders, H. Beauchamp, M.D., W. Fry, T. Gresham, H. C. Field, M.D. ; Edward Clibborn, H. Carey, Parke Neville, P. Ryan- S. Foot, C. E. Bagot, M.D., J. M'D ona , M. Creg4_,_r, P.R.H.A., R . Wi lson, C. P. Croker, M.D., G. M. M`GustlY, A. J. Ferrier , M. M'Master, L. Th orn hill, &c. , The servants of the society were also in attendance. The service was impressively performed in the chapel of the cemetery, by the Rev. Messrs. Quinton and Tom linson, in the presence of a large and attentive assem blage, who followed the body to its final resting-place. Thus closed the earthly career of one distinguished through a long life, exceeding eighty years, for an ar dent love of art and science. Possessed of geniu,, an d a mind of great e l egance , M r . Weld imp rove d his origi nal gifts by study, and by a personal acquaintance with foreign lands. Ho visited a great portion of Europe and America at a period when travelling was comparatively a rare and difficult achievement, forming acquaintance with most distinguished men of the age, including Washington and Sir Humphrey Davy. " Weld's Tra vels in America" rank amongst our standard literature ; and his descriptive work on Killarney, illustrated by his own drawings, has never been exceeded for interest 'and truthfulness. As a member of the Royal Dublin So ciety for a period of fifty-six years, his life and labours were mainly devoted to its prosperity and usefulness ; and his memory will be long held in grateful recollection by every member of that body who had the honour and happiness of his acquaintance. The last official act of Mr. Weld, in connection with the society to which he had been so long attached, was assisting at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Museum, by his Excellency the Earl of Carlisle, in March last. We congratulate the society on possessing in their board-room a fine portrait of their late vice-president, painted by M. Cregan, P.R.H.A., a compliment paid Mr. Weld some years ago by the society when honorary secretary of that body.—Dublin Mail. A TRUE SOLDIER'S WIFE.—Mrs. Wilding, wife of a corporal of the Royal Artillery, was one of three women who were allowed to land with the troops at Old Fort, in the Crimea. She was present with her husband at the battle of the Alma, marched by his side across the country to Balaklava, and was present at the battle of Balaklava, where she took a horse from a Russian officer. During her residence in the camp she earned by washing an average amount of 20s. per diern,and saved a considerable sum. her invariable companion during the war was an excellent revolver, which she much prizes. Corporal Wilding, with his brave wife, left Woolwich for Weedon barracks hut week. In course of publication, price ss. each, a series of PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS of LIVING CELEBRITIES. By 11fAuLL and POLYBLANE. With appropriate Biographical Notices. Already published— No. 1, containing Professor OWEN, F.R.S., &c. No. 2, „ The night Hon. T. P. MACAULAY. No. 3, „ 11OBT. STEPHENSON, ESQ, M.P., F.R.S., &c. No. 1, „ J. A ROEBUCK, Esq., M.P., &c. Maull and Polyblank, 55, Graceellurch-street ; David Bogue, 86, Fleet-street, and all book and printsellers. This day is published. complete in I vol., price 63., LAD Y LEE'S WIDOWHOOD, By E DlVAltif BRUCE HARLEY, Captain R.A., and Lieut.-Colonel. A New Edition, with Illuitrat ons. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, Now ready, with Map, price 3 5., THE EUPHRATES VALLEY ROUTE TO INDTA. By a Dedicated to W. P. Andrew, Esq TRAVELLER. Chairman of the Scind e an d Euphrates Railway Companies. "After the very able work of Mr. W. P. Andrew, in advocacy of the Euphrates Route to India, any further publication of opinions in support thereof mi flit almost have been considered an act of supere rogation, but we have much pleasure in noticing an anonymous writer, whose views give full corroboration to those recently enunci ated by Mr. Andrew. The object of the writer, who has evidently given great attention to the subject, and possesses a vast knowledge of the requirements of India, is to prove the practicability rf. the °Onions set tbrthlCY General Chesney for the junction of the Medi terranean and the Persian Gulf via the valley of the river Euphrates." —Observer. London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross ; and all Booksellers. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY__ C FIEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of ENGLAND.—On SATURDAY, 16th. August, an Excursion Train will leave Pad dington at 8 for Plymouth (offering facilities for visiting Tor bay, Brixham, Dartmouth, and the south coast of Devon), calling at Weston-super-mare, Bridgewater, Taunton, Tiverton-road, Exeter, Creditor, Eggesford. South Nlolton, Instow, Barnstaple, Bideford, Starcross, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torquay, Totnes, and Kingshrldge road, and will return con Wednesday, August 27th, from Plymonth at 6.30 a.m., Bideford at 6 a,na, r and from intermediate stations as per 4 4},,, FARES TECERE AND RACK, Ist Weston•stmer-Mare and Eridgewater 20class. Covrd. carriages, s. .. 13s. Taunton or Tiverton-r oa d 22s. .• 15s. Exeter 73rediton, Eggesrord, South Molton, Irstow, Barnstaple, and Bideford ...... • . .• N)s. .. 20s. Starcross, Dawlich, or Teignmouth ...... • • 255. .• 17s. Torquay or Totnes • Plymouth or Kingsbridge ••• . • • Children under 12 half-p r i ce . Ti c k ets not transferable, and only available for the Excursion Trains. ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RA.ILWAY. TOURISTS' TICKETS, COMMENCING IST JUNE, AND TERMINATING 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1856. NORT II WALES. Ticketvavailable for THREE WEEICtI, enabling the holder to stop at Rhyl, Conway, Bangor, Caernarvon, and Holyhead, either :ming or returning, ‘re issued at the following fares by the through trains. The First-class Tickets are avalable by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached. Class. Londox to Holyhead and b ac k.. let Class. 2d £3 10 0 .. •. £2 10 0 Oxford Peterborough ] to ditto and hack.... 210 0 ... • 115 0 Birmingham to ditto and back...... 2 0 0 .... 110 0 Wolverhampton to ditto aril back.... 115 0•• • • 1 7 0 To IPIE LAKES OF WESTiIfORELA.ND AND EMMERT. AND Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, to the above lakes, are issued at the following Fares by the through Trains. The First class Tickets aro available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached : London 2tiord to Windermere and back.,,, I st Class. 2d Class. £3 10 0 .... £2 10 0 0 Peterboroagii ,} to ditto and b ac k .... 215 0 .. . .2 0 0 Birmingham to ditto and back ...... 2 5 0 .... lis 0 Wolverhampton .....• •••• • • ...... 2 0 0 ...• 112 0 To MR FAVOURITE LANCASHIRE WATERING PLACES, LYTHAM, BLACKPOOL, FLEETWOOD, Olt SOUTIIPORr. Tickets, available for THREE WEER:3, are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, and the Second by such as have second-class carriages attached. From London lst Clays. 2,1 Class. ......... ••••••• " • • „ Oxford X 3 gi 0.. •• £2 5 0 ~ Peterborough 2 5 0 .... 115 0 3 „ Birmingham "olverhampton I• • • From Fleetwood Royal Mail Steamer sails every evening (Sunday excepted) for Belfast', and Weekly Ewursion Tickets are issued at the Steam Packet Office for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causeway, and back. EXCURSIONS TO THE SEA SIDE. Tickets, available for TWENTY-EIGHT DAY 4, are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, and the Second by suclitrains as have second-elks. car riages attached, to Harrowgate, Scarborough, Whitby, Flicy, or Bridlington. lIARROWGATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 435. ; second Class, 325. 6d. SCARBOROUGH and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 3.55. WHITBY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Se cond Class, 355. FILEY and Back, for each Pa.SSenNr—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 355. BUDLEICGTON and BaP:tr, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s Second Clas, 355. These Tickets are riot transferable, nor will they be available for he Return Joarney unless they have been entlorsecl at the Booking office of the Stati,,ti on the day of returning. Passengers to all the above places, e...caept irarrow., its, are at liberty to break the journey by remaining one night at York, either going or returning. IRISH TOURIST TICKETS. Available for ONE MONTH, will be Issued at the following prices : Ist Class. • 2,1 Class. From London ..•• • • •• ••••• • • • • £6 10 0 .... £5 5 0 ~ Oxford.... ••.•••• • . • • • • 515 0 ...• 415 0 „ Birmingham, Leamington, and Coventry 5 0 .... 45 0 And from the other principal stations at proportionate fares. These tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be available for One Month from the date of issue. They will enable the Holders to proceed to Chester, thence to Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin, from Dublin to Cork, situate on the picturesque River Lee, and within ten miles of the celebrated Harbour, Dockyard, and Naval station of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork hack to Mallow, and thence by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed LAKES OF KILLARNEY. The Tourist can remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester Bangor (for the inspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy , head, Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his return to the Station at Which he took his ticket must be not later than One Month from the date of his departure therefrom. Supplemental Tickets for CONNEMARA, GLENGARIFFE, the GIANI"A CAUSEWAY, and other places of interes7, are issued at Reduced Fares to Visitors holding Irish Tourist Tickets." General Manver's Office, Euston Station, June, 1856. A LLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—Reduction i n P r i ce. cx. — HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and Beer Merchants, 514, Pall-Mall, are now delivering the March Brewings of the above celebrated Ale, in Casks of 18 Gallons at 335. each. Also A.LLSOPP'S PALE ALE Il , l* BOTTLE, Imperial Pints at 55., Imperial Ilirlf-pints, for Luncheon, 3s. 5%, Pall-mall, June 13, 1856. ARE YOU GOING TO THE HIGHLANDS, unrivalled for scenery, famous in story and song, to visit the land of Sir Colin Campbell and the Highland Brigs +e ? Ifs.. make a note to call at (when in the Capital of the beautiful North) MA CDO UGA LL'S WAREHOUSE. High-street, Inverness. There only can the varied products of the Highlands, natural and industrial, be seen. In his extensive rooms MACDOUGALL has gathered together all the best productions of the Highland looms, in TWEEDS, T TANS, LINSEYS, PLAIDS, SHAWLS, DRESSES, the &Yount() IIIcIoLAND CLOAK, FLORA MACDONALD ditto, NC., &c., with the best Native JE WELLERY, CAIRNGORMS, PE kIILS, &C.; the pretty products of the Skye, Lewes, and Gairloch Looms and Knitting Needles ; the Home-made. Undyed PL AIDS of Ord. Suther land, and Aroch ; the SNUFF-BOXES, COUPS, BICKERS of the Culloden Carvers, &c. Side by side with all this he has placed all the necessary clothing of every description for Deer Stalking, Grouse Shooting, and for Tourists, &c. Visitors to his rooms can at once compare the varied products of the Three Kingdoms. D. 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Priestly, chemist, 51, Lord. street, Liverpool ; Powell. bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street Dublin ; Winnall bookseller, 41111-street,BirmlTagbaini LA TRAVIATA. of our readers as may think Mr. Lumley's arguments worth consideration must judge for themselves how far he has succeeded in establishing his point. For ourselves, again we renew our indignant protest against this exhi bition of harlotry—whether harlotry triutnphant, or har lotry repentant—upon the public stage. There are foul stains in human existence which notoriously exist— which cannot and should not be ignored, and which yet cannot be exhibited on a public stage without imminent danger to public morality. We write in no Puritanic spirit on such matters —we admire and wish well to the efforts! of dramatic genius —nor do we, who acknowledge ourselves in all humility to be frail and erring men, wish to cut off from human sympathy and commiseration those poor creatures who have been led into vice by the passions and inhumanity of our own sex. With all these admissions, which are made in the plainest sincerity, we must still protest against the poetry of the brothel as a fit inspiration for dramatic performances. The image of the weeping Magdalen is one of the most touching which has been handed down to UR even in the pages of Scripture, but who can wish to see the story of Mag dalen dramatised, and presented to the public with all the soft allurements of music and song ! Does Mr. Lumley believe in hie o wn proposition, that one of his purposes in setting "La Traviata" on the stage was to soften the hearts of women who 'yet stand upright to the shame of their erring sisters ? Is it true that the opera-at . the Haymarket was intended in any degree as a charity sermon for the relief of unfortunate persons of the class to whom the heroine of " La Traviata" belongs'? Mr. Lumley knows better than we can tell him that nothing of this sort was the case. Whether this were so or not, there is nothing in the progress of the story which is peculiarly calculated to evoke the active sym pathies of women. An unfortunate young person who has acted the part of a public prostitute—not from dire necessity, not from the strong impulses of passion, but coldly and professionally for gain, and much gain— finds at last a man who will love her for her awn sake. She turns with disgust from the filth of her condition— but it is too late. The fell hand of consumption is on her. The parents and relatives of the young man who had become enamoured of Violetta very naturally oppose themselves to such an ill•assorted union, The excite ment consequent upon these struggles still further agi tates the diseased frame of thepretched young woman, who coughs her way through three acts, an d fi na l ly ex pires on the stag e i n th e p u bli c sight in a manner whicb, however true to nature, ought to be revolting to the feelings .of the spectators. Such is the story of "Ls Traviata." Mr. Lumley contends that it is one pre-eminently fitted fir dramatic representation. Hie chief ground is, as we before eug. gested, that as such things as prostitution and seduction unfortunately exist, it is wrong to slur them over and ignore them altogether. We ought, on the contrary, to display striking txamples of them for the b ene fit o f young wives and ma id ens , ju s t in the same . way that Helots —to use an old hackneyed example —were exhibited in a state of drunkenness before the youth of Sparta. The spectacle of a poor prostitute dying of consumption must necessarily operate as a wholesome warning to all young ladies. Why, then, should we not take our sisters and daughtersand wives into the hospitals at once ! Thereisnothieg like therude truth of nature. Mr. Lumley only weakens and dilutesthe wholesome impres sion by the help of his orchestra and stage scenery. There is no escape from this position. If the arguments by which he endeavours to defend the exhibition of "La Traviata" be true, then on the same principles we ought to direct the attention of all those whom we most wis h to preserve f rom mora l so il or pollution to improper books and improp er ex hibiti ons o f every kind. All that will be necessary will be that the book, the picture, or the exhibition should contain some suggestion of retri bution, and that the subject with which each may deal should not be presented in too warm and attractive colours, and all the exigencies of Mr. Luml e y w ill b e satisfied. We entirely protest against such a doctrine. There are things which cannot even be glanced at with• out injury to the freshness and delicacy of th e mind. We are not writing for men hackneyed in the ways of the world and familiar at least with the existence of vice, but even the worst among such persons would, as one may hope, be unwilling that their young daughters should be initiated even in the preliminaries of vice. Now, of what persons is the majority of the audience at the opera Composed ? Mainly, we believe, of young persons, and these young ladies, who have for the most part been carefully and religiously educated. Why com plete this education by a finishing course of Magdalen ism, to show them what they may come to if they mis conduct themselves, and the consequences of such mis conduct? Mr. Lumley must excuse us if we still per eiet in the belief that this last finishing touch to female education is wholly superfluous. Again, with regard to the argument that the hearts of women are likely to be softened towards their erring sisters by an operatic display of the miseries of harlotry, we are compelled to express our entire ,dissent from it. If th• implied command of the Divine Founder of the Christian religion and the recorded example of . His ten derness and mercy in such a case are unavailing, neither will the warblings and simulated cough of a Piccolomini be of much avail. It is unnecessary for us to repeat here the distinction which we drew in our firmer remarks between Mr. Lumley's present apotheosis of prostitution and the other examples which he quotes from earlier authors. Let the reader judge of his candour, or fitness for instituting such a comparison, when he finds that the manager of her Majsety's Theatre can really see no sub stantial difference between the plot of the "Vicar of Wakefield" and the plot of "La Traviata !" On such a comparison it would be idle to waste a word. Finally, we renew our objections to " La Traviata" on artistic grounds. A dirty story is the ready resource of every vulgar fellow who can do no better; and, just in the same way, our present coneoctors of dramas and operatic libretti are ever ready to serve us with hideous tales of incest, rape, prostitution, Reduction, and adultery, be cause they have not wit or capacity for anything more true to human nature under its usual and healthy aspects. We have not made this protest against Mr. Lumley's opera from any spirit of hostility t o hi m , f or we s i ecerely wish well to his enterprise, but we leave it to the public to decide whether we or Mr, Lumley and the Satanic dramatists are the truest friends to the stage. Who plays most into the hands of the Puritanic party—those who represent or those who protest against the sys tematic representation of obscenity in our theatres ? Besides, we protest again most earnestly—despite Mr. Lumley's special pleading --against any further exhibition of consumption, dropsy, cancer, cholera, or hydrophobia upon the stage as necess try for the instruction and de light of mankind. Let Mr. Lumley leave the prostitutes to the pulpit and the patients to the doctors. Next season we trust to hear no more of such abominations. THE LATE ISAAC WELD, ESQ. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS, HERTFORDSZURE.—Wheat cutting was commenced by several farmers - .near Hertford on Tuesday. The crops look yield LE than dE last i n d s , H a. a yule : i cd t,4 l i_ he Tß r e is e ilueckbsr brilliant l iae r ,n y at I prospect of a better weather we have had for the two last weeks has been most auspicious for har vest prospects. The hay, a very heavy crop, is nearly all secured in good or der, and the extraardinary heat of the past week has forced the corn towards maturity in a rapid manner. The fields present the appearance of har vest being now at band. Some early pi eces o f oats and barley are already cut, and if this fine weather continues the corn harvest will become general in ten days. The showers in the previous week bad the best effect upon the corn, causing the ears to fill with bold corn, which, if well got, will insure a good quality. Speaking of the corn crops in this neighbourhood generally, they are good, and may be estimated at something above an ave rage measure. The heat has been excessive ; at 3 p.in. on Friday the thermometer wrote 88, and on Saturday it reached 112 in the shade.—Leicester Journal. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—The weather continues warm and fine. The cutting of barley and oats is now general in the neighbourhood, and some patches of forward wheat have fallen before the sickle.—Northampton Herald. GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Since our last the weather still continues as propitious as ever, and the crops are fast verging to maturity. In some places in this county the reaping of wheat has already commenced ; and should the weather continue as warm, fine, and settled, as it is at present, the harvest next week in the vale will become pretty general. From our own observations we can safrly aver that a heavier and more promising crop of wheat, in this neighbourhood at least, has perhaps seldom been seen ; and as there has been very few storms of rain during the important period between the blossoming and the near approach of the wheat crop to maturity, and also a very small proportion of corn beaten down, there is every likelihood of a very large yield. Prices have retrograded in consequence, and a fill of at least 2s. per bushel has already taken place. Bread 'also in the me tropolis has already become cheaper, with every prospect of becoming more so. .The hay crop may now be consi dered as nearly secured, and for bulk and quality has never in the memory of man been equalled.• Barley is fast becoming ripe, and likely to prove productive. Some early patches are ready for the scythe. Notwith standing the sinister reports about the potato crop in some parts of the country, our opinion is that the dis ease is very partial, ifsit exists at all, and that a good crop may be considered certain. Beans are a wry heavy crop almost every where—abundance of haulm, and well " corned." Indeed, with the exception of fruit, which has in mo 4 places almost entirely failed, we may look forward hopefully to one of the most prod active har vests which has been ever seen, and fervently thank the Merciful Giver of all good for the great blessing He has vouchsafed to us.—Gloucestershire Chronicle. YORKSHIRE.— We have had a succession of brilliant weather since last week, under the effects of which the crops have experienced a marked and beneficial change. Wheat is now ripening fest, and some of the earliest crops will be ready for the sickle next week. Barley and oats, too, are now fit for cutting in many places, and harvest operations will commence in earnest in these de scriptions of grain next week. Wheat generally presents a satisfactory appearance, having greatly improved during the last few weeks. There are complaints of blightin some of the wheats on thin and poor soils. Occasionally, too, we hear of the plant being thin on the ground, and the ears being short and small, but on the best wheat lands the crop is in excellent condition.—Doncaster Chronicle. STIRLINGSHIRE.—During the past week the weather has been most oppressively hot, and the effect upon the crop is already very apparent. Many fields are approach. ing the golden hue of harvest, and all are looking ex tremely healthy. It was feared that the thunder showers of Wednesday would have damaged the standing grain, but we are glad to see that these fears were not realised. The heat still continues, and there is at present no ap pearance of a change.—Stirling Journal. EDINBURGH.—The weather in this neighbourhood dur ing the past week has been very warming and forcing, and the cereal crops have made astonishing.progress towards maturity. So far as wP can judge wheat will be a full average crop in the Lothians, for though some of the spring sown crop is samewhat thin on the ground, much of the autumn sown is considerably over an ave rage. Barley will be a fair crop, but the acreage extent is small this season. In early districts cutting may begin abort the end of the mouth. Oats are somewhat irregular ; on fine land they are about an average, but in the late districts they are short in straw and rather unpromising. Potatoes have improved with the fine weather, still the crop must be greatly inferior to that of last year. Turnips have made rapid improvement of late. There are some fair crops to be seen here and there, hut on the whole,they are not very satisfactory. —North British. Daily Mail. MPLANCHOLY DEATH OP A CHILD FROM POISON.-SINGULAR CASE. Monday morn i ng, w h en our menibers y at zended the London-bridge station, the use of a desk for selling tickets, usually allowed on societies' excursions was flatly refused ; and several meta. hers, posted as usual for the sale of tickets, were not a little surprised to be told such sale would not bo allowed, and that they would be given in charge of the Police. This was not however done, because Mr. Sli g ht , the Secretary, knew- his threat was an idle one, as he knew also his next statement was untrue ; his words were, "Every Ticket you sell, you rob me of sixpence." Mr. Slight knew well from the largo numbers pressing at the entrance, more than ail ordinary day, that they came because the Odd Fellows--and the Odd Fellows alone—had can vassed for them. Later in the day he and the other officials refused to take Odd Fellows' Tickets, which had been purchased by members in the country days before ; and also stopped the trains for conveying Lem and their friends to the Palace. A proof of the ticket was shown to and approved by Mr. Slight in June, and on it was stated that the trains would run up to 5 o'clock. It is unpleasant for Odd Fellows to have these complaints to make, and it is to be regretted for the sake of the Brighton Company, that its legal adviser was not at the station, as he might have told Mr. Slight the little fact that these acts amounted to a breach of contract, for which the Odd Fellows' Committee would recover damages. But, sir, the annoyance to the Odd Fellows did. not end here. The letter of an " Eye Witness,'' who might have signed himself " An interestrsd agent of the Company," states the Odd Felleew e were "allowed" to go to the Palace after persu.std ing the directors'. The truth is, the directors.' ad vertisement persuaded the Odd Fellows, and after engaging with them the companies threw every difficulty in the way. The Odd Fellows who went by early trains to the Palace, found that though the engagement was made months since, the doorkeepers of the Palace had not received orders to admit the tickets. The Widow and Orphan Fund, which was intended to be benefited, lost money by this proceeding—lost money by the dis honest and unjustifiable conduct at London-bridge —and lost money in providing a dinner, which, from the delay at Loudon-bridge, the excursionists could not come to partake of and pay for. An "Eye Witness" says the Odd Fellows eat, and drunk too much, and that disorderly conduet prevailed. Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Tidd Pratt, and others can testify that in the dining. roam nothing was amiss. The vice-chairman, Grand Master Cox, proceeded from that room to the terrace to deliver an address as announced in the bills. lie was a little behind time, how ever, a large crowd was collected to hear him, and the leader of the band was asked to allow a pause between the pieces of music, that Mr. Cox might speak. This was the gentleman whom an "Eye Witness" sneeringly calls an " Orator," and wishes it to be inferred he was one of Thomas Car lyle's stumps. Mr. Cox had nearly concluded his short (not "long and tedious") speech, when the band again commenced. All around who were attentively listening to hini were astonished at this insult, and many called out to th© band to stop. One old gentleman near the platform ventured to raise himself to be more plainly heard, and was struck by one of the band with a music stand. After the irritating proceedings all day, this dis graceful conduct aroused a few who ascended the platform, doubtless with the intention of compell ing the band to desist, but the whole of the band (without main force) immediately descended from the platform. Mr. Cox was pressed to resume ; he did so, and immediately con eluded. This an " Eye Witness " calls a " scan dalous row." I, as another eye witness, and one of the Odd Fellows' Committee, can only say if there is any scandal, let the blame of provocation rest on the right shoulders. It is hinted that the Crystal Palace Company ought not to allow these excursions. If the company can do without the industrious provident classes, those classes can do without the Crystal Palace until the Brighton Railway and Crystal Palace Com panies know how to treat them properly. The Odd Fellows cannot think they should tamely submit to the annoyances that were practised ; the committee have worked most zealouslyformore than two monthet past to insure the comfort of their fellow-members and friends; engaged lecturers to explain the various Courts ; have been in repeated communication with the proper officers of the companies ou the plan of the day's proceedings, and were animat e d with the best spirit towa r d s the companies. The Odd Fellows were therefore surprised to find themselves treated with such contempt—to find their chief officers, representing a quarter of a mil lion provident men, insulted whilst speaking —to find, in a leading newspaper, one individual is per mitted to question the right of themselves and their wives and families to have a little healthy and in nocent recreation on the lawns, and to unjustly stigmatise them as a drunken band when retusping komc. They have not hitherto sufficiently courted the aid of the Press in behalf of their cause ; but have maintained a steady resolve to help themselves ; yet they desire, like every other well-meaning body; of men, to have "Justice" meted to them by theA Press, and I therefore beg to offer a true statement of the circumstances to you. JOHN HARRIS, " Earl Cathcart," MARC ANTONY LboDGIL, Munster-square, Regent's-park, 7th August, 1856. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—We fear the expenses of repairs on the permanent way have been so great that the forthcoming dividend of this company will be a serious disappointment. There is a talk of submitting to the shareholders to put a large portion of the expenses to an account to be liquidated by annual instalments, spread over a period of perhaps 10 cr 12 years.—Herapath.. SCENE IN A ClRJECH.—Yesterday morning, during Divine service in the recently opened church of St. Stephen's, in the \Vestbourne Park-road, Paddington, a numerous congregation were suddenly seized withleel ings of alarm, at a precipitate descent of a portion of the ceiling from the right hand gallery of the church. The noise and dust, coupled with the uncertainty of what might follow, naturally caused the greatest portion of the congregation to retire. After a suspension of nearly a quarter of an hour, the service was renewed before an extreme'y diminished congregation, to whom the worthy incumbent, who had exerted himself strongly to allay the excitement, stated that providentially no injury of serious import had been sustained. 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The Crystal Palace advertise certain terms upon which Friendly Societies' Committees can take per sons to the Crystal Palace, and realise a benefit for their Charitable Funds. The Odd Fellows' Committee engaged with the Secretaries for au. Excursion on Monday, the 4th of August, and im mediately announced it in London and the pro vinces. The expenses of the committee were very groat, large quantities of bills and tickets being issued in all parts of the country, and deputatickna waited upon the South-Western, North- Western, Great N or th ern, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies, to engage trains for excursions to Lan. don. The result was that several thousand persona came to town on Saturday and Monday purposely to be at the Crystal Palace on Monday. " A A deputation, from the committee also askeTthe Brighton Company for a train from Brighton, which was refused in consequence of the Company's other engagements ; but it was afterwards found that a train was announced in Brighton for the Crystal. Palace on the Odd Fellows' day, and the deputr.4- tion insisted upon having a percentage from the company on all persons coming up on that repre sentation, which was conceded by the compan -- - ,11" BIOGRAPHY OF JEAN JACQUES PELISSIE z;.. I'he War Almanac gives the following bio graphy of this extraordinary man, who has just reached his native land, under such flattering cir cumstances Amiable Jean Jacques Pelissier is a native of the French soil, and drew his first breath at Maromme, in the arrondissement of Rouen, in 1794. " A t the age of 20, he was entered as a student at the School of Artillery of La Fleche, and after a brief resi dence of two months in that institution he was remover] to the Military School of St. Cyr. In 1815, two days before the entry of Napoleon into Paris, after his ill starred return from Elba, Pelissier was attached to the artillery of the King's household, with the rank of sub lieutenant ; and he was seat soon after to join the 57th Regiment of the line, which formed part of the army as sembled by the Emperor on the Rhine. When the disbanding took place in August, the young soldier found that-his occupation was gone for the time being ; and he was reduced to inactivity till October, when he joined the departmental Legion of the Lower Seine. At this period he turned his leisure hours to profitable account, strove to accomplish himself by study in the science of war, and attained such proficiency that in 1819, when the corps d'etat was formed, he gained admittance into it after a severe examination. Four months later he was attached to a regiment of hits - are, and, era lone, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant ; but, in 1821, at his own re quest, he was permitted to serve in the 35th Regiment of the line, in which his elder brother was captain. " Time passed on, and in 1823, when a French army, under the Duke d'Angoulerne, at the instigation of the three Sovere:gos who had signed the treaty celebrated as U. Holy Alliance, croieed the Pyrenees to suppress the revolution la Spain, Pelissier, being placed on the general staff, made the campaign as aide-de-camp to General Grundler, and was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honour, and that of St. Ferdinand of , Spain. In 182$, having meanwhile acted in various , 1 military capacities, and attained the rank of captain, Pelissier made the campaign in Greece, and signalised,' his valour so conspicuously at the siege of the castle of Morea that he was rewarded with the insignia of the Order of St. Louis, and subsequently with the gold cross of the Greek Order of the Saviour. " When the Bourbons, on the eve of that revolution which irrevocably lost them the French crown, sought to win back popularity by means of a military triumph, and undertook an expedition against Algiers, Pelissier went thither with the army, under M. de Bouratont, and was appointed chief of battalion, and officer of the Legion of Honour. Returning to France in the autumn of 1832, he became aide decamp to the general command. ing the army of observation assembled on the Meuse dur ing the expedition to Antwerp. Pelissier, having meanwhile held several important commissions, was, in 1839, nominated lieutenant-colonel and chief of the staff of the 3d Division of the army in Algiers ; in 1840, he filled the same position in the divi sion of the Oran, and was promoted to the rank of colonel and assistant chief general of the staff in the Algerian army ; and in 1845, he obtained a wide, though not quite an enviable, celebrity. The Arab, Bou-Maza, who styled himself The invulnerable,' after inspiring the Kabyles with a blind confidence, proclaimed the holy war in the Darab, and raised the tribes in insurrection. The im portance of crushing a movement so formidable without delay was felt, and means were resolutely used with that object in view. In this war, while carrying on combined operations in the west with the afterwards illustrious St. Arnaud, Pelissier was occupied with the pursuit of the Ouled Riahs. The latter, finding themselves hard pressed, took refuge in immense caverns, which served them for houses, and where it would have been madness for the French troop': to follow. Pelissier, however, was not to be thus baffled. He surrounded the caverns with his soldiers, caused faggots to be lighted and thrown before the entrance, to convince the besieged fanatics that he had the power of suffocating them if he chose. He then, ' under the impression that his menaces would have been effectual, threw in letters offering them life and liberty if they would surrender. At first they refused ; but after wards consented to yield, on condition of the French troops being meantime withdrawn. The conditions ap peared utterly unreasonable, and could not be agreed to, so more faggots were thrown in to bring the desperadoes to their senses, and presently a violent dispute arose among the besieged as to the course they should pursue in their very critical position. The majority decided on enduring the worst ; and a few of those who differed from them contrived to escape. Pelissier, determined to conquer, but, anxious to spare life, employed some Arabs to exhort them to surrender; but so determined were these Ouled Riahs to suffer to the last, that they unhesitatingly fired on some of their women who attempted to escape from self-sacrifice. Pelissier thereupon suspended the throw ing of faggots, and sent a French officer to hold a par ley with the enemy ; but - this messenger was received with a d stela -ge of firearms. At length, on the second night of this extraordinary siege --it was on the 19th of June—Pelissier's patience deserted him ; and he re solved to scruple no longer as to the means of victory. The hour for mercy having passed, the fire was renewed, and rendered intense in heat ; and, for a time, dreadful cries and agonising shrieks were hoard from the wretched inmates of the caverns. Then succeeded a silence, un broken save by the crackling of the faggots, and terribly significant in its import. The French troops on entering found 500 dead bodies ; and 150 persons so near death by suffocation, that though instantly brought to the open air most of them expired. When intelligence of this military transaction was conveyed to Paris it created a profound sensation, and excited at once regret and indignation. But in Algiers it was justified by Marshal Bugeaud as a military necessity,' rendered imperative on Pelissier by the orders of his commander-in-chief. The necessity, it was said, appeared so strong as to justify, in his eyes, a slight divergence from the strict laws of humanity, after he had used every effort in his power to avert a catastrophe so' horrible. "In the year 1848, when Gen. Cavaignac was armed with a brief authority, as head of the French Republic, he appointed Pelissier commandant of the division of Oran ; and it was from this post, after he bad served in Algiers during 15 consecutive years, that Pelissier was transferred, by the Emperor of the French, to the second command of the forces before Sebastopol, under General Canrobert. He arrived in the Crimea at that disastrous period when the allied army was exposed to the utmost hardship, and to him was assigned the ardu ous duty of supporting the artillery and engineers on the forts extending from the quarantine bastion to the ravine which leads to the military harbour. He bad occupied with distinction this position for four months, when General Canrobert, finding himself unable to sustain his arduous duties, on the 16th of May requested leave of the Emperor to be allowed to resign the chief command, and indicated General Pelissier as the person, from his skill and experience, best fitted to fill the onerous and honourable position to which he was forthwith ap pointed. " The change of generals was generally applauded in the Fi each camp ; and the enterprises since undertaken, and the signal success with which they have been at tended, are indications not to be mistaken of the supe rior vigour, the intellectual energy, the iron will, and the dauntless determination of the commander. " There can exist little doubt that at the time of his appointment, no more energetic or experienced officer than General Pelissier could have been found in the magnificent army in front of that gloomy stronghold, which has been described as throwing its frowning shadows over the waters of the Black Sea." His cha racter is stern and vehement, and his personal courage all but unrivalled. It is narrated that on one occasion, when in command of a punishment corps, known as the Zephyrs, he attacked a mud fortress, occupied by Arabs. His soldiers repeatedly attempted to scale the walls, but in vain ; for the vigilant foe kept a sharp look-out, and repulsed every effort. Pelissier grew weary, and lost patience. Throw me over, and lam sure the company will follow,' exclaimed he to three or four of the men around him. The order was obeyed. For some mi nutes he was alone among the enemy, and received seve ral wounds. He bad, however, correctly calculated the effect that would be produced by his intrepidity. The soldiers followed him ; and the mud fortress was taken. Even in times when strength and courage were the titles to power and influence, hardly ever was such indiffer ence to danger displayed. The bold father of Charle magne successfully combating a lion and a wild bull, and our First Edward leaping his charger over the wall of a beleaguered town into the midst of a hostile and ex asperated garrison, were tame in comparison. We doubt whether the old chroniclers relate any instance of such splendid intrepidity. " For the capture of Sebastopol he was created a Mar- , shal of France ; and nom i na t e d G . C . B . b y her Majesty., SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN EDINBURGH. EDINBURGH, Thursday Evening. At a few minutes past seven o'clock this morning an old tenement in Leith-wynd, which partially gave way a few weeks ago, and which was in progress of demolition, fell to the ground with a great crash. A hollow rambling was heard within the walls, an immense cloud of dust proceeded from each of the windows, and finally the entire front wall gave way, dashing dawn one of the gables of a house opposite and covering the men engaged in the work of de molition. Up to 2 o'clock p.m. nine persons had been ex tricated, two of whom were dead, viz., David Moffat (son of Mr. Moffat, painter, Leith walk) and a labourer named James M`Lucas. Moffat had been superintending the demolition of the building, of which his father was one of the proprietors. The other parties recovered from the ruins were Peter M`Lachlan, labourer, who has been seri ously injured, and who tiow lies in the infirmary; Boswell Thomson, labourer, likewise in the infirmary, seriously injured ; John Darling Todrecks, whose hurts were not very severe ; and David Davidson, an assistant to Mr. Moffat, who was conveyed to the infirmary, being fearfully hurt. The house opposite was partly knocked down by the fall of the ruin, and a woman and two children have been se riously—it is feared mortally—injured. Mrs. Douglas, whose maiden name is Christina Mason, was going about her household work, when the wall came in with a crash upon herself and two children—the one a little girl of two years, named Mary, and the other a boy of six years, named John. All these lie in the infirmary in a very cri tical state. A child'from one of the neighbouring houses, which was playing about the street at the time, has, it is ,feared, been killed. On Saturday, Mr. Wm. Payne, the coroner of London and Southwark, held an inquest at the Sportsman Ta vern, Southwark-bridge-road, on the body of the male illegitimate child of Sarah Pearce, aged two years and four months, who died under the following somewhat remarkable circumstances. Mr. John Collier, of No. 176, Southwark-bridge-road, a clerk and collector, deposed that he knew the deceased, who had resided in the same house with its mother. On Monday last he heard, upon going home, that the child had taken an overdose of medicine, which he took in the next house to that in which he resided. Dr. Humble was present when be went home, and he remained with him several hours. Witness sat up with the deceased all night, and he found that his pulse was beating at 31 to the minute Mrs. E iza Harlwicke, a highly-respectable married lady, residing in the Southwark•bridge road, said thatthe mother of the deceased had lodged with her for nearly 3 years before she took her present house, and that she was remarkably fond of the child, and used to call him Wil liam Williams. On Monday last the child came into her bedroom before she was out of bed, and, unfortunately, as she had to go out, she asked his mother to come in, and whilst she was away to prepare her (witness's) din ner. When she re'urned home she found her medicine bottle on the mantelpiece, and some of the contents gone. She spoke to her servant about the circumstance, and she said that the child had taken the bottle up and had spilled some of the contents. Finding that he grew sleepy, she sent for Dr. Humble. In spite of his exer tions the child continued to sleep, except when aroused, and he died on Thursday night. The witness added that she was in the habit of taking 25 drops of the me dicine diluted with water, and had derived immense advantage from its use. Sarah Pearce, the mother of the child, said that the deceased must have gone to Mrs. Hardwicke's bedroom, have taken the bottle off the mantelpiece, and drunk some of its contents. Dr. Humble, of the London-road, proved that he at tended the child; who, he was informed, had taken part of a bottle of chlorodyne, but in spite of all that he could do for him, including artificial respiration and the use of the galvanic battery, be died from the narcotic poison, the chief ingredient being opium. The jury, after being addressed by the learned coro ner, returned a verdict that the deceased was accident. ally killed through inadvertently taking an over-dose of medicice of hie own accord. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. FARRINGDON•STREET EXTENSION—NEW VICTORIA.• STREET.—During the past week the barriers have been re moved on the completion of the roadway of the new street from Farringdon-street to Coppice row, near Clerken well Workhouse, so that this thoroughfare is now opened throughout for the passage of vehicles as well as for general traffic. The pavement of the footway is entirely completed and the paving of the carriage road will now be proceeded with after as little delay as possible. Vic toria-street is intersected by three transverse main lines of street, as well as by other subordinate approaches. The first main line is a continuation of Charles-street, which proceeds from Cow-cross, passing Hatton garden to Brooke-street, Holborn. The second is parallel there with from St. Peter's Church, Saffron-hill, and eventually will be continued in a direct line through Wilderness row to Old-street ; and•the third will run from Clerken well-green through Brook-hill, Vine-street, and Hatton wall, when, after crossing Leather-lane, it will join the line which is formed by Portpool-lane to Gray's inn. Adjacent to the new street, and on the eastern side thereof, lies a large portion of the land which will be required in the execution of the new Metropo litan Railway, leading from the Post-office, by Clerk enwell-prison to Paddington, and for the purchase of which that company are now in treaty. Clerken- well-prison eventually is designed to form the principal coal station of the metropolitan railway. The area of this site is about 81 acres, and conditional agreements have been entered into between the magistrates of the county for taking the property upon certain conditions, among which it is stipulated that a new county prison shall be constructed, which shall accommodate the same number of prisoners, and shall be erected upon a site to be ap proved of in a more open part of the county, where land is not as valuable as in Coldbath-fields. Tower-hill.— In order to facilitate the traffic proceeding to the Landon and St. Katharine•dock from the west-end and City, through Thames-str9et and Great Tower-street, over Tower-hill, the barriers have been removed and the gates opened which have so long closed the p as sage across Tower-hill. U n d er th e present arrangement the to the eastward i s di rected to pass through George - s treet, while the w es t ern passes through Postern-row. T"lsi° Head Ta vern h as b een erected opposite the T ow er at the eastern corner, ne ar th e Mi nor i es , under the direction of Mr. Hill ; and other alterations are i n p r ogress this et locality. Under the present arrangement the in circuitous route of Le a d en h a ll- s t ree t, Aldgate, ande ev he f Minoriesapor ien is, avoided, and th ese th oroug hfares are r more particularly of their heavy traffic.—Building N ews . li t ed CARLTSLE AND SILLOTH BAY RAILWAY.—The works on this railway are now rapidly drawing to a close. In a day cr two it is expected that an engine will be able to run along the entire line from silloth to Carlisle. _ _