The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

Ilk SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVNING, AUGUST 10, 1861; THEA TRE. OYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. ' T HIS EVENING-, the pertormanoes will comm.noe with anew Ballet, BACCHUS AN D ARLADNE. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, Sr a After which, a new Comedy, e ntitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, Sm. Followed by OF AGE TO-MORROW. Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with TIJRNmL.NmG TH E TABLES. Commence at 7. R O YA I PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. H a rris. THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, dm ; Misses 'Beath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. IsT Env THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.— Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Belly. To conclude with (23d time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Belly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, • - Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CI ANTERBURY HALL, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and s'rench, the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly for him, including the "Excursion to Brighton." Admission, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will shortly appear at his old quarters, after an absence of five years. RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former grandeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im provements have been made in the VENTILATION and LIG FETING. T H E 0 X F OR D, 8, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro gramme is varied, and Includes Selections from "La Tra ♦iat "lin Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, ' , notch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The imp portion of the entertainment is supported by Messr . 31 Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, 11 9 4'veYt_ a a n .. d , French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and NV% Randall. Boger, sixpence Boxes, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. 10s. 6d. HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY. —Morning, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m. To-ltartnow.-Morning, 4h. 58m.—Afternoon. 6h. 20m. THE WEATHEIL-Surt OFFICE,. AUGUST 10, 1861. THEamostrrnit, IN THE SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday. 61—lowest this morning and during the night. 75—this day at noon. BARO3tZTER-30.18. WlND—Westerly—fresh ; with fine harvest weather. rt..'46--i4 1,,,Nt 4 _l.-•-• , " ~,:, • .•r!, , 4 -- ,I.CLU I. Mg ~.c . . .... _...-.- „ A v l . f .-,: , (2.491 7 .!.:1i k, \ V ' - ' t '. W , , ‘..,..t57i' 'l :r '' -(--', 4 -4., ''''',l l \t. s'.' - ist • ' o' ,, T __,, E '"''''' 4 4; ''''' I. ' fi; F , - T?. ,4 1 : Vl . • -. 1 0 , ' 4.‘ ''.. ---',--' -1 ~ —, • ' " '44,, •. 0 LI.; THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1881. WELLINGTON, we are told, once said that he had often blundered even in the Peninsula cam- paign and got into scrapes, but somehow his MEN always contrived to get him out of them. Neither General SCOTT, nor his representative on the field of battle, M‘DowELL, were so happy. Their men got them into scrapes rather than out of them. If we may include the subordinate officers with the men, for the officers seemed the greater cowards of the two, it was the army which failed the General rather than the General the army. We hare now .an account of the Battle of Bull's Run—the Vir ginians will surely rechristen it, Yankees' Run— from a pen which Englishmen can rely on ; and it corroborates all our unworthiest suspicions, such as we hardly liked to utter before, respecting the Northerns. One of the worst facts of all we take to be the perfect nonchalance with which the officers talk openly about their being so well " whipped." We confess we had on this point pictured to ourselves gentlemen smarting with unendurable indignation under the stigma of a most discreditable defeat, and ready to reorganise, to lead their regiments with despera tion, and, ready as we have so often read of morti fied or desponding heroes "to plunge into the thickest of the fight, and to retrieve by a glorious soldier's death the dishonour which they could not survive." On the contrary we have it on in&sputa ble authority, that the desponding mein of the com mon soldiers, was more becoming than that of their officers—" who are crowding the hotels and talking of their whipping with complacency and without shame." In tracing back the calamity to its origin, as " to the House that Jack built"—we come to Yankee pride and love of sensation. Some astonishing feat of " whipping the Southerners " was wanted to satisfy the States who had massed together a large, but raw and ill-disciplined, army on the line of the Potomac. Their cla mour and conceit moved the President, the President urged General SCOTT, General SCOTT commanded M'DowELL—and so, both SCOTT and M'DowELL, in their own minds opposed to the movement, and quite aware of their army's defi ciencies, prepare to do the bidding of the Sovereign Yankees. Now, though the movement itself was a bit of a " scrape," yet our English informant who had all the plans of the advance explained to him by M'DOWELL himself, after the battle, acknow ledges that to his poor judgment, as he modestly expresses himself, " they were judicious and clear." His columns, ho-wever, made the scrape worse by be ing too slow and too late in their movements, though they had ample tinio allowed them ; the consequ ence being that instead of turning the enemy's left fla n k as he intended, they advanced to meet him , and General JOHNSTON had time to get away from PAT TERSON'S home-sick regiments at Harper's Ftrry,, and augment BEAUREGARD'S strength largely. But M'DowBLL'S men and officers, having thus got him into a , worse scrape than that of advancing at all before the tioe, were not like our Iron Duke's raw recruits in the Peninsula, always ready to get him out of it. They made matters ten times worse by their want of pluck. After all we have heard from the New York papers, Mr. RUSSELL says, justly enough, that we must rely a little on "cha racter" for the truth of the following astounding statement :—" There w:as not a bayonet charge made by the Federalist infantry daring the day there was not a charge of any kind made by the Con federate cavalry upon away regiment of the enemy until the latter broke. 'There was not a hand-to hand encount,?,r between any regimentiy. There . SVEtS not a single " battery charged" or taken by the Federalists. There were no masked batteries in play by the former. There was no annihilation of rebel horse by Zouaves, Fire, or other. A vol ley fired b y one battalion emptied three saddles among a body of hors® who appeared at some dis tance, and the infantry which performed the execu tion then retired. There were no desperate struggles except by those who wanted to get away. The whole matter in plain .ia • glash amounts to this, The Federalists advanced arstliolwle,l y, hut steadily, under the fir e of their ry , driving the enemy, who rarely shov.red out of cover, in line before them, and gradually forced them back on the right and cen tre for a mile and a half towards Manassas. As the enemy fell back they used their artillery also, and there was a good deal of pounding at long ranges with light flekkguns, and some heavier rifled ordnance, The line 'on both sides being rarely within 500 yards of each other." We believe Mr. RUSSELL'S statements—we' believe them not only on account of his undoubted veracity, but from the necessity he must feel himself under to publish to all Europe only what could be verified when he thus pledges his character for it, and from the general aspect of the exaggerated ac counts which the American paper s manufactured, or taken from the lips of fugitives who gave utter ance to their terrified imaginations, have not to their knowledge. It was, in fact, a long balls fight through out. Now the Federalists received a volley of musketry from those who took good care they should not first come too near—they fall back ; they advance again and deliver a volley, and now the Con federates fall back ; and so forth throughout the day; reminding one of the curious cavalry fighting de scribed by XENOPHON in which the combatants rode up to each other almost within bow-shot, and there sat all day on their horses contented with archery practice • which did not empty a single saddle. The Germans, Scotch, and Irish are unanimously reported to have done their part most bravely of all. Indeed, Yan keeism seems to have regarded it as a cool business affair entirely ; so much so, that the three months' term of service of one regiment having expired that day, it was quite content to leave its artillery to be taken by the enemy, and to march straight off home. We do not wonder, however, that the better class of Americans feel a little for their national reputa tion. What will England and France think of it ?" is the question asked, we are told, again and again. Well it may be! What can we think of it ? We can only modestly say, that it is not our way of doing things. We did not adopt that style of fight ing at the Alma and at Inkerman, nor the French and Sardinians at Magenta and Solferino ; nor GARIBALDI anywhere. Fort Sumter fighting, Bull's Run fighting, will become standard expres sions for that kind of fighting which consists in caring for a whole skin more than for a victory. We are bound, however, to confess that there seems to be a family likeness between the combatants; the South as well as the North showed a due respect for bullets and cannon-balls, though the general ship of the South was the better. Moreover, so prudent was the South, that it did not know when it had beaten—very natural, when we remember the distance at which it fought the beaten foe. Indeed it seems clear, even from Mr. RUSSELL'S nar rative, that had it made a prompt forward move, and used the cavalry it is reputed to have, as it ought, it might have taken a large portion of the Northerners prisoners, and even have presented its regiments in front of Washington. As it is its advanced pickets are within six miles of Alexandria, ten of Washington itself. In one respect most of us must modify our views looking at the total result. Two things especially strike the reader, the absence of that increased bitterness on the part of the North which had been expected as a matter of course; and the absence of anything like strong patriotic feeling on the part of the soldiers. If Fort Sumter created such a stir in the North, it was presumed that Bull's Run would bring down the North on the South almost like the floods of Northern barbarians which deso lated the Roman Empire. But, if anything, the reverse takes place. All who can shirk the conflict seem inclined to do so. The men of a volunteer regiment marched off, leaving their guns on the ground the very morning of the battle, because their three months' term aw-v-sicro nas u j,, cua vu. showed the same spirit. While, as we saw yes terday, at Harper's Ferry General PATTERSON was hampered, and, perhaps, has lost the place again, because nineteen of his volunteer regiments had determined to leave for home, their term of service having expired. The truth is, the North has no cry worth fighting for. We almost begin to hope that a big Slavery Union will not be found stimulus enough to bring the North to a hand-to-hand con flict with the South. What LINCOLN is now fight ing for, Europe certainly does not regard as worth the blood of many citizens ; and it seems as if the Yankees themselves had somewhat of the same feeling. Let the battle be to wipe out the fou stain of slavery from the flag of the Republic, and Europe would applaud—and all the worth of the Union would stand forth as patriots. If the French EMPEROR is allowing 1861 to pass away without either provoking diplomatic contro versy, or throwing down the gage of battle again in defiance to one of the European Sovereignties— his Imperial Majesty is at any rate keeping atten tion in his regard upon the alert, by coming into personal communication with one or another of his brother potentates. A crowned BERNADOTTE is now his guest at the Tuileries. There he has already entertained, among other august per sonages,7the Reigning British SOVEREIGN. He has received a visit there before now from the young King of PORTUGAL. He has shaken hands upon the frontiers of the two countries with his MAJESTY of Belgium. If he has not yet greeted as a guest in his capital either of the Czars of Russia who have been his contemporaries, either NICHOLAS I. or ALEXANDER 11., NAPOLEON 111. has at least had the satisfaction of so doing by the brother of the present autocrat, the Arch-Duke CONSTANTINE. More than simply greeting in his palaces the representative of the oldest dynasty in Christendom,King VICTOR EMMANUEL, the French Emperor has enabled that Re Galantuomo to add first of all Lombardy to his Sardinian territories, and witheventuallyh h e a a s i l d e f o t f the a u p a c e t h, rather, o p en before it tsh him, b s h eo said,tat in spite of the manifest wishes and aspirations of France, he should absorb the bulk of the great Italian peninsula into his dominions, and to come er title than was fat ,, her, t E C O H N A CHARLES S If everforth dreamt before the ef b world or hisld b a yal ambitious i tgi roauns...d. , NAPOLEON A LBE RT as —King of Ital y ! far has inelhowin acknowledged himselfghis way h as succeeded so in parvenu, "he to be—among the crowned heads of Europe, he has nevertheless once or twice had to submit to rather glaring indignities. At Baden he might swagger it as he pleased among the German princelings—but previously don't we a l l to r e collect tha how haughtily he was denied admittance sanctum sanctoruDt, where the creme de la creme of the claimants of the Right Divine met in solemn conclave, unembarrassed by the presence of a BONAPARTE ? He had his revenge afterwards, however, by meeting face to face the young Kaiser, FRANCIS JOSEPH, at that little green table at Villafranca. across which the two Emperors, the Conquered and the Conqueror, talked over the conse quences of Solferino upon the mot row of Solferino— FRANCIS JOSEPH pulling the flowers to pieces like some bashful young maiden at a baII—LOUIS NAPO LEON coolly smoking his little paper cigaretto. His Imperial MAJESTY is again endeavouring to treat, and be treated, en famille, in this way, by the European Sovereigns. There is the Swedish Monarch, as we have said, now his guest:at the Tuileries. A parvenu, like himself, it is true, but still a reigning Sovereign. A BERNADVIT4 and 4 BONAPARTE—they harmonize well together as such. But if the French SOVEREIGN meets his brother monarch claiming the world's homage as NAPOLEON the Third—the Swedish Sovereign is there, parvenu though he is, BERNADOTTE though he is, descendant but a generation or two back of an obscure advocate of one of the provinces of ' France, as his Majesty CHARLES the lifteenth ! Not satisfied, however, with the friendly intercourse established between the Court of the Tuileries and the . Courts of so many of the European monarchies, the French EMPEROR is still striving:apparently:to bring himself into direct personal communication h, u oi n lnd ic s outaatnioo a hand in hntewaint tohd the other reigning sovereig ns. _ IL He I in one direction to King W Queen ISABELLA. It is significant that both his Prussian and her Spanish Majesty evince a coy reluctance to respond to these proffers of more intimate friendship. After the most confident intimations have gone the rounds of the newspapers all over Europe to the effect that the King of Prussia is about to become the guest of the French Emperor at the camp at Chalons —it tarns out that this semi-official state ment is nothing less, after all, than a deliberate mis-statement. All the courtesy that the King of PRUSSIA can vouchsafe is a holograph letter addressed to his Imperial Majesty of FRANCE, in excuse of course, or explanation, and as a prelimi nary, it is stated, to an interview that is to take place between the two Sovereigns—not at Paris, not at the Camp of Chalons, but—somewhere on the frontier of France about the sixth day of October ! As to the Queen of SPAIN, the response made by her to the friendly advances coming to her from the direction of the Tuileries, appears to have been even more uncomplimentary. It is pretty confidently asserted that Queen ISA BELLA has no ambition whatever to obtain the privilege of an interview with the Impe rial MACHIAVELLI, somewhere or another at the foot of the Pyrenees. All these courtly advances made by the reigning French EMPEROR to the surrounding European Sovereigns, and all these particularly discourteous replies made thereto, and therefore by the latter, being—as we cannot but think—singularly significant ! The advances savour somewhat of the parvenu, the rejections or evasions of those advances, of the suspicion with which that parvenu is still (nay, if possible, more intensely than ever) regarded. It tells a tale, that persistent suspicion. It speaks of the tortuous policy of which it is the comment and of which it is the repudiation. It is the natural result of the revival of an empire, in regard to which its reviver announced upon the eve of its inauguration, " Cest la paix"—following up that solemn declara tion by War upon War. It is the sequence, the inevi table sequence to a campaign, opened as the Italian campaign was opened—in regard to which, see the Milan proclamation! And closing as the Italian cam paign closed—for which see the record of the impe rial tete-a-tete at Villafranca. It is the consequence, this persistent suspicion, of the emancipation of Lombardy by the glorious sword of France, for a paltry . " consideration "—that is, in return for the cession of Nice and Savoy to the dis interested Liberator ! It is a necessary ac companiment this ineradicable suspicion —a necessary and wholly unavoidable accompaniment, of these yet reiterated and sinister rumours as to the intended evacuation of Rome at last by the French army, in return for, or rather simultaneously with, the yet further cession of the magnificent Island of Sardinia, the cynosure of the whole Mediterranean. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—It has been officially notified that the nomination of candidates for the newly-created seat for South Lancashire is to take place on Wednesday ..ivit,;n 6 r, 10 n'elock - , nt Newton-in.. Mackerfield. The polling, it is understood, will be on the following Saturday. THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—The will and two codicils of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G., were proved in Her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 31st of July, by the executors, his son, the present Duke of Bed ford ; Lord Foley, Mr. Charles Romilly, and Mr. George Russell. The personalty was sworn under £600,000. The will extends over 530 folios, and it and the codicils bear date May 7, 1861, and are all attested by the same witnesses, being the Rev. S. F. Cumberlege, incumbent of Woburn, and Mr. R. du Cane, of Gray's-inn. His Grace's son, the present Duke, in addition to the family estates, has bequeathed to him by his late father all the property not otherwise disposed of by will, and is appointed residuary legatee. With a view to increase the rent-roll of the family estates the late Duke has further directed that the yearly sum of £5,000 is to be set apart to accumulate for the period of 21 years. His Grace has devised to his brother, Earl Russell, for life, the Irish estates left to the testator by the late Earl Ludlow, which, on the Earl's decease, are to descend to Earl Russell's eldest son and his issue, but subject to annuities to the Earl's daughters. His Grace has also bequeathed toEarlßussell a life interest in £15,000 with rower of disposition to his children; and to the Coun tess Russell is left a legacy of £l,OOO ; and there are be quests to all the other members of his Grace's family. The late duke has most munificently considered every person employed by him throughout his large establishment by granting handsome annuities and liberal legacies. There is also a legacy of £l,OOO given to the Bedford General In firmary.—lllustrated London _Ana. BARON FITZHARDINGE.—It will have been seen by our Parliamentary report of the 7th inst. that the title conferred upon Admiral Sir Maurice Frederick Fitzhar dinge Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, is that of " Baron Fits hardinge, of the city and county of the city of Bristol." A more appropriate title could scarcely have been selected, for the first of his ancestors who set foot in England was Har dinge, son of the King of Denmark, who came to England with William the Conqueror. Hardinge lived in Bristol, and the walls of his house still stand in " Baldwin-street," which was so named by Hardinge after the Conqueror's brother, Baldwin, Earl of Flanders. In the reign of King Stephen, Robert Fitzhardinge, the son of Har dinge, began to build the monastery of St. Augustine, which is now Bristol Cathedral. He completed it in the reign of King Henry 11. Over the cathedral gate there is thisinscription: — "DominusHenricus Secund us et Robertus filius Hardingi, filii Regis Daciae primi Fundatores hujus Monasterii extiterunt." To this Robert Fitzhardinge King Henry 11. afterwards granted Berkeley Castle by Royal charter, and Maurice, his son, was first of the race who assumed the name of "Berkeley." Robert Fitzhardinge was buried in Bristol Cathedral, where his tomb still re mains. It bears this inscription :—" The monument of Robert Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, descended from the Kings of Denmark, and Eva, his wife, by whom he had five sons and two daughters ; Maurice, his eldest son, was the first of this family that took the name of Berkeley. Thisß.obertFitzhardinge laid the foundation of this church and monastery of St. Augustine in the year 1140, the fifth of King Stephen, dedicated and endowed it in 1148. He died in the year 1170, in the 17th of King Henry 11. This monument was repaired A.D. 1742. From the said Robert Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, Augustus, the present Earl (1742), is the two-and-twentieth in descent." PUBLIC TESTIMONIALS AND STATUES.—The num ber of public statues and testimonials, either proposed or in progress at the present moment, to the memory of public men recently deceased is more remarkable than at any other period. Among those in progress tc commemorate the ser vices of distinguished statesmen may be mentioned one to the memory of Lord Melbourne in marble, to be erected on the north side of St. Paul's ; another of the late Lord Macaulay at Cambridge ; a literary institute and statue to Earl Dalhousie at Calcutta; a statue to Lord Elphin stone, and a memorial of Count Cavour. A military statue and trophy to the Duke of Wellington, twelve feet high, in bronze, will shortly surmount the Wellington column, erected for the purpose at Liverpool, and statues to Have lock and in honour of Sir Hope Grant, are proposed in the places where they were born. Statues to the eminent en gineers Robert Stephenson and Isambard Brunel are being executed by Baron Marochetti, to be placed opposite Palace yard. Another statue, in addition to the one at the Euston station, is about to be erected to George Stephenson at Newcastle, and one is talked of to the late Mr. J. Locke. Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Houses of Parlia ment is to have an effigy in Westminster Abbey. An archi tects' travelling fund is b be established in honour of the late Mr. Pugin. In the religious world two commemora tive monuments have just been inaugurated to Dr. Watts and James Montgomery, and another is to be dedicated to Bunyan. Sir Hugh M y ddl e ton, the projector of the wealthy New River Company, and who is said to have died in penury, is to have a drinking fountain erected to his memory at Islington. Dr. Baily, the late physician to the Court, is also to have a statue. Among the most recently proposed testimonials, apart from statues, are those to the Right Hon. Milner Gibson and Mr, Braidwood, TILE PRESS IN 4US.I.RIA The Independance publishes the Mowing obser. vations on the new bill on the pros in Austria : "We have never had, as our reaters know, any great confidence in the liberalism o M. de Schmer ling ; but in spite of all our distrus never could we have expected to see issue from lis hands a mea sure similar to that which he has ?repared on the press. It is not the example of coautries in which liberty is established that he has felowed ; it is not in England, or in Belgium, or in Prussia that he has gene to seek for the model of tie legislation he proposes for the Austrian press; i±is Spain which has supplied the plan, He has wt even confined himself to borrowing the greater fart of the vigor ous stipulations in use, but has exaggerated the severity of them, and adopted enactments which ex perience has caused to be abandonel in France. His bill is, in fact, a clever combinatim of preventive measures and penalties, in which he cases of com plicity are multiplied with extra*rdinary art. It is on the one hand based on the light which it re serves to the Government of wthdrawing their licenses from printers, and on theother on the sus pensions and suppressions which tie journals incur by the simple fact of one or two condemnations. Lastly, by the elasticity of its definitions, and the extension it gives to certain categories of offences, it realises in a large measure the execrable theory of moral complicity. The Austrien Liberal party, which expected everything fromM. de Schmerling, must be bitterly disappointed ; and still more so will be the journalists—they we, it is true, very few—who have given almost unreserved support to that Minister on the strength of his liberal pro mises." MR. E. T. SMITH AND THEPAVILION PROPERTY —A Brighton contemporary says :—" Mr. E. T. Smith, having failed in his negotiation for the northern buildings of the Brighton Pavilion, has, we perceive, purchasedCre- morne Gardens. Some will be inclined to regard it aimos a pity that he could not have had the Pavilion buildings. . . He was pr epared to give £3OO a-year, and to lay out £l,OOO on them, so as to convert them into a grand concert hall and floral promenade. The rent was not large ; but addi • tional attractions would have been offered to visitors, who are (a fact which our local authorities too often forget) our staple commodity, ' the means whereby we live,' and ought to be consulted in every way."—Era. The O'Conor Don, M.P., has (we learn from the Roscommon Messenger) purchased, by private contract, the estates of Mr. O'Beirne in that county and in Sligo for the sum of £24,000. This additional purchase ranks The O'Conor Don among the largest landowners in the county. THE SOUTHERN PRIVATEER SAVANNAH.—In the United States' Circuit Court, on the 23d ult., the officers and crew of the Confederate privateer Savannah, recently captured by a Federal cruiser, were remanded on the charge of piracy until October next. THE CAMBRIDGE MURDER.—PiIson and Carter, the men charged with being concerned in the murder of Harvey Rumbelowe, were discharged yesterday, on the ground that the legal evidence was not sufficient to insure a conviction from a jury. Seven hundred men, of whom twenty-four are divers, are now daily at work at Alderney. About 500 feet of the west breakwater will be brought above highwater this summer. The outer end of this breakwater will be nearly a mile from the shore. It has been decided to erect another breakwater, 1,000 feet in length, to shelter the anchorage from easterly winds. STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE.—The shipbuilding firms continue for the most part well employed Messrs. Napier have nearly completed the China, the fine screw which they have in hand for the Cunard company ; and Messrs. Caird, of Greenock, have in a still more for-. ward state a screw of 3,000 tons burden, which they have been building for the Bremen and New York line. The same firm is also engaged on a screw of 2,000 tons for a Cadiz company; this vessel will be fitted with engines of 1500-horse power. Messrs. Scott, of Cartsdyke, are building three passenger steamers, of 500 or 600 tons each, for the Mediterranean. Messrs. Hutcheson have turned out a deck saloon passenger steamer, built expressly for the Caledonian Canal traffic. Messrs. Laurence Hill and Co., of Port Glasgow, have launched a screw 185 ft. long, 25ft. broad, and 161 t. deep; she is now being fitted with engines of 120-horse power. Mr. J. G. Laurie, of Whiteinch, has launched a screw of 520 tons (named the Andalusia) for the Spanish trade: At the London Works, Renfrew, and at other establishments, other steemers are also in an advanced state of construction. THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST " DR." GRIFFITH J ONES.—An application, which stood over from a former day, was made yesterday to Lord Chief Justice Cockburn at Chambers, by Mr. Lewis, jun., to admit to bail Dr. Griffith Jones, who stands committed for trial on the charge oz rorging the will of Mrs. Sophia Bellis under circumstances which will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. It was urged that the defendant could not pro perly prepare his defence unless the course asked were acceded to. The application was opposed by Mr. Hardinge Giffard, on behalf of the Crown, on the ground that if de fendant were admitted to bail he would not surrender; that he was endeavouring to escape when arrested, and that he attempted to bribe tt.e official who arrested him. The LOrd Chief Justice said he could not get over the attempt to bribe the officer, and on that ground, with other circumstances in the case, ho could not grant the application. It was only a short time to the sessions, and under the able assistance of Messrs. Lewis he would no doubt be prepared with his defence. The application was accordingly refused, EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A POLICE COURT.- The usual fortnightly petty sessions at Spittlegate Police court, near Grantham, was to have been held on Friday last, when the following gentlemen were present :—C. Tumor, Esq., the Revs. C. B, Otiey, G. Osborne, and R. C.,rtwright, and G. Nevile, W. Ostler, and J. Hardy, Esqs. The Hon. and Rev. Ralph William Lionel Tollimache, Rector of South IN itham, also took his seat on the bench. Before the commencement of the business, the senior magistrate, Mr. Tumor, said it was his duty to state that unless a gentleman on the bench amply apolo gised for the abusive language he had used towards the county magistrates, they had decided not to sit with him in the administration of justice. Some little time was taken up, and no apology having been offered, Mr. Tumor intimated that it was his painful duty to say the resolution would be carried into effect. Their worships, with the ex ception of Mr. Tollemache, then left the police-court, so that there could be no mistake who was the gentleman alluded to. After a short pause, Mr. Tollemache put on his hat, and as he could not act, he left the room; in other words followed the example previously set him. Complain ants, defendants, witnesses, and hearers were left, some with wry faces exclaiming they ought to be paid for the loss of time, and others with levity insisting the scene was as good as any play. The hearing of the majority of the cases was postponed for a fortnight. One or two important cases requiring immediate attention were ultimately disposed of by Mr. Nevile and Mr. Hardy in the course of the day.— Stamford Mercury. THE Moons.—On the whole extensive moors in the Highlands of Perthshire, the prospects of sr ortsmen for the ensuing 12th of August are highly encouraging. On the shooting grounds belonging to the Earl of Mans field, the Duke of Athole, Sir W. D. Stewart, of Murthly, Mr. Butter, of Faskally, and others, grouse aro abundant, and the early hatched broods are strong and wild, and scarcely a diseased bird among young or old has been seen this season. Owing to the cold, heavy rains which have prevailed for the last four weeks, the late-hatched coveys appear weak!y ; but with more propitious weather they would soon improve. On the Glenlyon, Glengarry, Glen tummel, Glenbruar, and, in fact, on the long range of hills all the way north to Inverness-shire and west to Argyle shire, grouse and all kinds of game are numerous, and on some of the moors where grouse were scarce last year they appear to be well stocked this year. On the extensive shooting preserves belonging to the Marquis of Bread. albane, which are considered the best nursery for game in Scotland, grouse, blackcock, snipe, pheasants, wild ducks, hares, &c., have not been so rife or in better condition for many years. It seems that several proprietors of shooting have allowed the heather to get too old on their estates, which no doubt afforded sufficient cover for the grouse, but for want of food the birds have been compelled to seek shelter elsewhere. His Royal Highness the Maha rajah Dhuleep Singh and party have arrived at their shoot ing quarters at Auchlyn Killen, and the moors in that dis trict never gave promise of better sport than this season. The accounts from the Forests of Blair Athole and the Black Mount represent the deer and young fawns as being numerous and in fine condition.—Perthshire Courier. AWKWARDNESS.—Not that real awkwardness is tolerable long, but hero women have a permanent advan tage over men. Not only dons timidity in them naturally find more graceful expression, but they can generally find something legitimate to do with their hands—same little occupation with the needle, the shuttle, or the fan—to mitigate the p tinz of embarrassment from which men's hands have no safer refuge than the pocket—most other expedients proving a worse, and often mischievous alterna tive. And if hands are a difficulty to the shy man, what can we say of legs, which, we presume, women need never think of, as an incumbrance, at all ? Where is he to put them? How is he to keep them in order, so that they shall not betray the perplexity of his soul ? What an in finite variety of bad tricks, with these particular mem bers, does not the demon of sheepishness suggest to its victim in the hour of trial! What postures I What oscil lations I Who does not rernembar that curate immortal ised in Shirley, who, in the critical moment of courtship, contrived with his own hands to tie his legs so firmly to gether with his pocket handkerchief, that he could not set himself at liberty when retreat from the scene of discom fiture became essential ?—" On Manners," in Blackwood's ZWinburgh Magazine. x'LLO-_,F NEWS. PARIS, AUG. 10. The Illonzteur of to-day announces that the Emperor has bestowed the military medal on the King of Sweden and Prince Oscar. PESTH, AUG. 9, Evening. Deputations from the magistrates and the elec tors have to-day congratulated M. Deak on his late conduct. M. Deak refused a serenade which they offered him. The reply of the Diet to the Imperial rescript will be despatched on Monday to Vienna. A dissolution of the Diet is expected. The Moderate party and the party of action are now united. BERNE, AUG. 9. The Italian Government has informed the Federal Council that the decision in reference to the expul sion from Naples of the Swiss soldiers formerly belonging to the Swiss regiments, in the service of Francis 11., has been cancelled. The note of the Italian Government regrets, how ever, that the Swiss Government had caused the publication of the despatches of M. Tourte, Swiss Minister at Turin, on this subject. PESTH, AUG. 9. The Upper House of the Hungarian Diet will not hold a sitting until Monday next. Many deputies, expecting a dissolution of the Diet, are already preparing for departure. PARIS, AUG. 9. The Patrie of this evening says :—" Reports are current that the Prince of Montenegro had de manded that the Porte should recognise his inde pendence and the right of inheritance in his family. He also demanded the concession of a port on the Adriatic sea, and a fresh settlement of the frontiers. According to the same reports, the Porte had re :used to accede to these demands, and had declared • ;hat it would recommence hostilities. The review in the Champ de Mars to-day was a brilliant affair. The weather was fine and the heat very great. THE WEST AFRICAN MAILS. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 10. The Royal Mail steamship Ethiope, with the above mails, arrived here this morning. Her dates are—Old Calabar, June 29th; Came roons, July Ist; Fernando Po, 2d; Bonny, 6th ; Brass, 7th ; Nun, 7th; Benin, Bth ; Lagos, 10th ; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Cape Palmas, 17th; Sierra Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th ; Teneriffe, 31st ; Madeira, Aug. 2. The Ethiope brings 2,500 oz. of gold dust. In the attack on Porto Novo the English lost one man killed and five wounded. The palm oil trade on the coast was brisk. The natives said that the season for oil had been the best ever known. Her Majesty's ship Prometheus had captured three slavers, one of which was the Spanish ship Jacintha; her Majesty's ship Wrangler also captured the American bark Ardennes, with 495 slaves on board. The South Coast was very unhealthy, and the Europeans were dying fast. The slave trade was brisk, but legal trade was dull. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram:- - The IrGetl.,, ,vith th above mails. left Malta on the 7th, at 6 p.m., for Marseilles. " The Euxino, with the heavy portion of the mails, left Malta on the 7th, at 8 p.m., and may therefore be expected at Southampton about the 16th instant. " The China, from Bombay, reached Suez on the 3d. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. "The Delta, from Southampton 27th July, reached Malta on the sth at 7 a.m.; left midnight for Alexandria. " The Massilia, from Marseilles the sth, reached Malta on the 7th, at 9 p.m. ; left on the Bth, at 4 a.m. for Alexandria." FRANCE. BOURSE, August 9.—Sales for realisation have again produced a slight retrograde movement, Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f 25c, with, however, but a limited amount of business doing. Railways dull, and some of the lines lower. The following are the last quotations : 4i per per Cents — Do end month 98 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 25 Bank Shares 2890 Credit Mobilier — Do. Account Credit F ancier 1245 Belgian 41 — Piedmontese Fives 72 25 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 47 75 Home Debt .. — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. .. 1413 75 .. 978 75 .. 900 - .. 1017 50 .. 345 - - .. 618 75 .. 527 50 Orleans Northern New, ditto Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva Southern Western Eastern Sardinian .. .. Austrian — .. 495 Low bard — 526 25 BANK OF FRANCE,—The following is the accoun for the month ending Thursday, August 8 : ASSETS. F. Cash and ingots .. ~. Cash at the branch-banks .. .. 89,842,67 46 .. 304,987,991 -- 2,641,133 65 Bills due to be paid to-day.. .. .. Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 66,373,749 f. 29c. are from the branch banks .. - 258,581,278 9 Bills inthe branch••banks .. 289,33117 Advances on coin and ingots .. 39,921,234 34 Do. in the branch• banks .. 7,073,900 Do. on French securities 19,525,700 Do. in the branch-banks 11,521,200 Do. on railway shares and bonds 35,770,800 Do. in the.,branch-banks .. 21,284,850 Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds .. • • 603,700 Do. in the branch-banks .. • • 197,200 Do. to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 30,000,000 Rentes of the reserve-fund 12,980,750 14 Rentes, disposable funds 54,614,797 58 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks 6,004,645 Expenses of administration . • 507,758 76 Sundries . • .. 21 ,877,722 89 1,309,167,415 91 LIABILITIES , .. 91,250,000 - .. 91,250,000 - .. 12,980,750 14 9,125,000 - 4,000,000 - Capital .. .. • • New Capital .. • • • Reserve .fund •• •• • New Reserve •• •• •• Reserve-immobiliere Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9, 1857) Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks Do. to order (Post-bills) Bills payable at sight •• , • Acc. cur. of Treasury Creditor Various accounts current Do. branch-banks • • • . Dividends to be paid Arrears of values deposited Discount, interest, and expenses Re-discounts of the last half-year Sundries 2,316,503 57 .. 757,923,475 - 4,919,177 7 5,990,913 - .. 136,000,005 87 .. 150,532,567 79 .. 29,654,157 - 2,412,087 75 2,890,524 68 4,807,796 47 1,936,567 58 1,177,889 99 1,309,167,415 91 HUNGARY. A letter from Pesth, of August 4, says :—" I have just learnt that the person named Turitz, who, as I informed you, was arrested in consequence of the resemblance of his name to that of General Turr, was shot yesterday in the fortress of Komorn. It is not known of what crime he was found guilty, but people are indignant at the way in which he has been condemned and executed in three days, and without any publication of the judgment. The comitat of Oran has sent an address to the Emperor to complain of the forced collection of the taxes, and of the excesses committed by the soldiers. In some places the collectors are made use of to ascer tain the political opinions of the inhabitants. Dis turbances have broken out at Szerenes. Those who choose to pay into the comitat treasury are threat ened with imprisonment. There is talk of a recon ciliation which has been recently effected between Kossuth and the members of the Diet who had long resisted his anti-dynastic projects. This is very significant, for Kossuth is the most irreconcileable enemy of the House of 119psburg." AUSTRIA. A communication from Vienna of the sth, in the Journal de Frankfort, says : " Before the temporary breaking up of the Chamber of Deputies, the Ministers gave an as surance that nothing decisive as regards Hungary would be done during their absence. The Tcheque deputies hastened to proceed to Prague to endea vour to calm the popular excitement in that quar ter. The news of the demonstrations against the Jews, which are generally regarded in Bohemia as the precursors of attacks against property, pro duced a very strong impression on these deputies. The Government is decided on repressing any agitation with energy, and particularly on vigour ously opposing the religious tendency of the movement." The last accounts direct from Prague state that no further disturbances have taken place. Calm and reflection were said to have gained strength in the minas of the population, and that there is no longer any reason to fear fresh excesses. SAXONY. At the closing sitting of the Second Chamber of Saxony on the 6th, Baron de Beust said : " Gentlemen,—The period at which the present Diet assembled was more agitated than at the time of the preceding session; it has led to many exigencies and many pretensions. To reject them all would have been rashness and blindness ; to have satisfied them all without distinction would have evinced weakness and want of foresight. The Government and the Chambers may congratulate themselves on having steered a middle course between those two faults. In consequence of the agitation of the period, liberty of speech in the tribune has manifested itself with much less re serve. Ido not regret that circumstance, for the Government has been able to enlighten itself on many points, and on the other hand I am persuaded that the country has learnt, by judging of the Go vernment, and of its acts, to distinguish between what is true, and what is founded on misguided opinions. Whatever may be the difference in our views and our political convictions, we may, in separating, shake each other cordially by the hand." A communication from Turin says :—" A sin- gular affair is exciting attention. Last year, when the King entered the kingdom of Naples, he issued a decree of amnesty to the soldiers who had joined the Garibaldian army. This decree was communicated to Garibaldi, but was not registered, and consequently not executed. Garibaldi has just exhumed it, and has had it pub lished in the journals. This has caused some sen sation, although a subsequent decree, but of a less extensive character, had regularised the state of things. The Ministry affirms that the incident is owing to a misunderstanding, and to papers having been mislaid. Tue statement so made is probably correct enough, but no one will believe it." The Official Gazette of Turin publishes some im portant laws voted by the Italian Parliament and promulgated by the King. They are:-1. A law authorising the expenditure of 227,000 f. for im provements in the port of Rimini. 2. Another ap plying 1,750,000 f. to the purchase of rolling-stock for the railways worked by the State. 3. Do. for applying 2,700,000 f. in the erection of the Genoa railway terminus at Turin. 4. Do. intro ducing the metrical system of weights and measures throughout Italy. The names used are the same as th6se employed in France. Standard weights and measures are to be kept in every district town. The quintale-metrico (hundred weight) is fixed at 100 kilogrammes, and the ton at 1,000 kilogrammes. 5. A law fixing an annual sum of 100,000 f. to be applied to prizes for rifle exercise. The Nord of Brussels says :—" The rupture of negotiations for pacification between Omer Pasha and the insurgents has revived at Vienna the appre hensions to which the precarious situation of the Slavo-Turkish provinces had given birth. Austria foresees a possible check to the Turkish arms, and she fears the supportwhich the two neighbouring princi palities, Servia and Montenegro, appear disposed to openly give to the insurrection, which might lead her own Slavonian provinces into the movement. The Austrian Government is therefore prepared to act if required in case of a Servian or Montenegrin intervention in Bosnia." THIS DAY'S ALIREETS. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit is very small, of vegetables toler ably extensive. On the whole, the demand may be considered steady, at the following rates : FRUIT. s. d. s. d. Pine apples, perlb 3 oto 6 0 Colonial do. each 1 oto 3 0 Grapes,per lb ... 2 oto 5 01 Foreign do 2 oto 3 01 Melons, each Peaches, perdoz 12 oto 21 a j Nectarines, per dz 10 0 to 15 0 Apples, per -6 sieve!. 6to 3 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 6 oto 12 0 Lemons, per 120 4 oto 8 0 Apricots, per doz 1 oto 3 0 VEGET Greens, dz bunch 3 oto 3 6 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9td 1 6 Savoy do., pr bh. 0 2to 0 4 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 3 0 Brocoli, per bush. 1 2to 1 4 Potatoes, per ton 70 to 100 0 New ditto, pr ewt. 0 oto 0 0 Peas, per sieve 1 3to 2 0 Turnips, dz bunch 3 oto 4 0 Carrots, pr do 6 6to 7 6 Cucumbers 0 3to 1 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Spinach, hf. -sv 0 6to 1 0 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 1 6to 1 9 Onions, hf. sv 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 1 oto 1 6 French beans, h.s. 1 6to 2 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0 s. d. s. d Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 1 0 Filberts, per lb 1 6to 2 0 Cobnuts, per lb 1 6to 2 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0 Figs, per doz 2 oto 4 Strawberries pun 0 6 to 1 6 Gooseberries hf sv 5 oto 6 0 Currants, per do. 5 oto 8 0 Plums, per do. Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries, pr ptlo 6to 1 0 kBLES. Shallots, per lb Horseradish, pbn 1 6to 2 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 0 Beet, per doz. Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 3 Mushrooms.p pun 1 3to 1 6 Artichokes, pr dz 3 oto 6 0 Cabbage lett,score 0 Bto 1 3 Endive, per score 2 6to 4 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 Bto 0 10 Tomatoes, doz 6 oto 0 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 4to 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 2 0 to 4 o Seakale, per pun. 1 0 to 1 6 NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s Od to 7s Od ; poults, 5s Od to Gs Od each ; geese, 4s 6d to 7s Od ; goslings, 4s 6d to 7s Od ; ducklings 2s Od to 3s Od; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each; wild do., 6d to is Od ; pigeons, Os Gd to 10(1 each ; large Surrey fowls, 5s Od to lOs Od; chickens, 4s Od to 7s Od; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to Os Od ; capons, 4s Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; grouse, is 6d to 2s Gd each; pheasants, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; ptarmigan, 2s Od to Os ; woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s Od; snipes, is Gd to 2s Od; teal, Os Od to is 6d ; wild ducks, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; widgeons, is 6d to Os Od ; plovers, is Od to is 6d each ; guinea fowls, 5s Od to 7s Od ; roasting pigs, 5s Od to 8s Od each ; Ostend fresh butter, 10d to is Od ; English, Os lld to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to lOs Od ; French do., 7s Od to 8s Od per 120 ; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s Od; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 10d to 58 Od per 81bs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s Od; veal, 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per Blbs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, is Od to I;3d ; trout, Os 9d to Os ; eels, 4d to 10d , prawns, 5s Od to Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d pel lb. Turbots, 5s Od to 15s ; cod, 2s Od to 4s Od ; brills, is Od to 6s Od ; doreys, is Od to 5s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, is to 4s Od ; crabs, is to 3s Od ; plaice and garnets, 4d to la 6d each; soles, 3d to 2s 6d per pair; common oysters, 10s to 20s ; natives, 42s to 44s per bushel ; whitings, 3s -Od to 6s Od ; haddocks, 4s to 12s Od ; smelts, 2s 6d ; floimders, is Od to 2s Od per dozen ; mackerel, 50s ; fresh herrings, 8s; bloaters, 6s to 8s per 120; carp and tench, is Od to 3s per brace. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Bid to 9d, of household do., 62d to 8d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d to 34d ; 641 b to 721 b, 31c1 to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3id to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 41c1 ; 881 b to 961 b, 41d to 44d ; 961 b w 1041 b, 4/cl to sd. Horse hides, 8s to 9s Od ; calf skins, light 25 Od to 3s 6d ; do. full, 6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to —s Od ; half-breds, 95 Od to 108 6d ; Downs, Os Od to Os Od ; lambs, 2s 8d to 4s 4d; shearlings, 2s 2d to 25. 10d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od' do., £3 10s to £6 Os new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 108 to £2 Os per new do., £2s Os to £4 Os ; old elovei £3 lOs to £6 Os ; new do load. Trade dull. •£1 10, to £2 Os load,. CUMBEELAND.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 5 s ; new rEL.—Old Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; d x o 3 . , 1 L o a 2 Os to x £ 4 0 0 a 5 ; : and old s Mover, traw , and straw, per Trade w H Ir heavy. E og . old clove,, £3 lOs to £6 Os Od; S 1 105 to £1 186 per new new d0.,d0. x £ 3 2 Onsattoo x£s4 Oa; : load. A slow trade. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM: The Right Rev. H. Montagu Villiers, who died yesterday at Auckland Castle, deserves more than a passing notice at our hands. He was a remarkable man, and historians will doubtless refer to him often hereafter as a good specimen of the Palmerston Bishop. It has been Lord Palmerston's fortune :o appoint an unusual number of men to the high places of the Church, and, for the most part, those whom he has selected have been less celebrated for their intellectual cultivation than for their practical piety, their success as parish ministers, and their sympathy with Protestant Dissen ters. Montagu Villiers was a man of this stamp, with the addition, however—which we must not underrate—that he was of noble birth. There may be no particular merit in it, yet people are not unmoved when they see a man who might be enjoying the pleasures of fashionable life giving himself up with the most perfect devotion to the religious, and when they see the brother of an Earl, whose despatches are hurrying over Europe, and read eagerly over all the world, toiling resolutely in the dirty back streets of a London parish, making friends with poor cobblers, trying to comfort sick cabmen, and luring ragged children to school. Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, the Rev. H. Montagu Villiers made himself a great name, and this not merely as an earnest preacher, but, what is far more difficult, as for 15 years the hard-working, much-trudging pastor of a parish that numbered about 17,000 souls. Spite of a recent occurrence which gave rise to much criticism, it may safely be said that few men have entered the Church with more disinterested views, or have toiled in it with more self-denying energy. He had a genial, easy nature, and his hard work seemed to have agreed with him won derfully. His portly figure and rubicund coun tenance presented the very picture of health and Episcopal comfort. As, he entered the house of Lords with the pale and careworn Lord Clarendon, people said it was easy to see which brother served the Church, and which the State. Thirteen years the junior of that brother, he breaks down in all the fullness of his powers at the age of 48, and in his death reminds us who have lately heard so much of the fatal effects of overwork that there are other diseases not less fatal, though they are, more easily avoided. Henry Montagu Villiers was the fifth son of the Hon. George Villiers, brother of the late Earl of Clarendon. His grandmother was the eldest daughter of Lady Jane Hyde (Countess of Essex), the last representative of the old Clarendon family, and a younger son of Lord Jersey marrying her was, in her honour, created successively Baron Hyde and Earl of Clarendon. Of the lady's grandchildren there now survive, Lord Clarendon ; Mr. Charles Villiers,who took a prominent part in the free-trade controversy, and is at this moment President of the Poor Law Board; and Lady Theresa Lewis, who is well known both as an authoress and as the wife of one of our foremost statesmen. Mr. Montagu Villiers was born in London on the 4th of January, 1813. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and took his degree in 1834. Shortly afterwards he was ordained by Dr. Sumner, now Archbishop of Canterbury, and commenced his work as a. curate in Lancashire. At this time, however, we infer from a passage in one of his lectures that he did not regard himself as in any true sense worthy of his high calling. In a lecture to the Christian young men of London he says, " One of my earliest and dearest friends in the ministry—one who was faithful to me before I was myself in the faith—one whose memory, now that he is entered into his rest, is most dear to me, was a linendraper's apprentice before we were fellow curates together in Lancashire." The great ques tion which the chief admirers of Bishop Villiers will wish to have answered—namely, when did he come to be "in the faith ?"—it is not in our power to solve. We can only deal with the external facts of his life, and tell that in 1837 he was admitted into Priest's orders ; that in the same year he was appointed to the living of Kenilworth ; that in 1841 he was translated to the metropolitan rectory of St. George's, Bloomsbury ; and that in 1847 he was made a Canon of St. Paul's. It was as rector of St. George's that he made his reputation. He dis played great ability and en untiring zeal in the management of his parish, though in cordially acknowledging the great good which he effected. we must take into account the good which he left undone. Mr. Villiers was the lowest of Low Churchmen, and his style of preaching was not cal culated to attract men of education. He laid him self out for a different class. He preached to the poor. Like most Low Churchmen, he understood the Divine precept too literally, and preached too uniformly to the poor in intellect as well as to the poor in spirit and the poor in pocket. Yet, as we cannot expect everything from a man, let us dwell rather on what he did than upon what he could not do. If his creed was narrow in one direction it was wide in another. If he hated High Church doc trines, if he shrank from the shadow of Roma* Catholic practices, if he told young men to avoid. theatres as an "unmixed evil," and to look well to their steps in the ballroom,—if by that plainness of preaching which some call " gospel simplicity," and others, using a more scriptural phrase, " the foolish ness of preaching," he failed to win over men a cultivation, yet on the other hand he worked vigor ously with the Dissenters; there were Dissenters in his vestry who eagerly supported him ; he turned. the City mission to account, and with men of every sect and stamp who belong to the so-called Evan gelical order he had the most ample sympathy. No minister in London was more popular than Mr. Villiers when in 1856 he was appointed by Lord Palmerston to the Bishopric of Carlisle. It was a step to a still higher promotion, for only last year he was translated to the see of Durham. He proved himself not less energetic in a diocese than he had been in a parish, and there seemed to be before him long years of useful work. Durham is the diocese, of all others in the country, in which the increase of papulation has lately been greatest, and in which the spiritual provision has been most deficient. Great things were expected from the energy and tact of Dr. Villiers, and the Evangelical party regarded with particular interest the man who filled so princely a chair and undertook so vast work. His first csnspicuous act in his new sphere of labour certainly disappointed his admirers, though his premature death will now be considered, if not to justify, yet to excuse it; for he has died by no means a rich man, and leaves a widow, three daughters besides Mrs. Cheese, and two sons. Row ever incautiously he may have acted on the occa sion to which we refer, he never lost the esteem of those who knew him best; and the strong interest which vast numbers of people, Dissenters as well as Churchmen, have taken in his last illness is the most eloquent of all comments upon his life and. character. Not only in his diocese but throughout the country, in all the largo towns, Dissenters of every denomination have combined with Church men to offer up prayers for his recovery. Seldosi are ecclesiastical dignitaries the object of such affectionate solicitude ; seldom is their departure felt so universally as a great public loss. THE BRAIDWOOD TESTIMONIAL.-Yesterday, St 3 o'clock, a meeting of the committee for managing t he fund now being raised for a testimonial t o th e me mory °', the late Mr. James Braidwood, was held at the Mansion house—the Lord Mayor in the chair. It was announced hi Mr. Baddesley, secretary, th a t t h e fund now amoun ted to nearly £6OO, and whil e t h e committee were sitting a dons' tion a£2l was received from the Fishmongers' Compa n y It was stated during the meeting that the fire insur ance' companies had voted a sum of £7OOO to the widow an d family of the deceased, and that his personal estate had been sworn as unde r th e va l ue o f £5,000. A very gen era' opinion was expressed by the shole committee that th e knowledge of those circumstances had materially operatel to check th e p u bli c su b scr i p ti ons t o th e m emorial fo nd ! which had in consequence been comparatively abortive. it conversation ensued as to the appropriation of the fun:, in hand, in the cours e o f w hi c h several members .1 the committee expressed themselves to the effect that as through the bounty of the fire offices, and the private fortune of the deceased himself, his wide'_ and family were placed above the reach of dependence, 12eu_ greater part, if not the whole of it, might properly be t ~dare toted to the comfort of his aged sisters, for whose Wel . _ A he always felt the deepest concern. The question stra over for consideration eventually at a future meeting , I ' m the committee adjourueii. ill ac )10 Zts n Por 1 14 1:1