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Messrs. JAY, therefore, invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b more costly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 219, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESH.ALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......23s. per ton. I Double.. 20s. per ton. op 225. „ Deep 2ls. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best COk' las. per chaldron. Terns cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent 'TIRE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, eau be had Every Evening of G. K. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 20, 1861. THEE:MOM ETED This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.20. WIND —W. ; calm, and sultry. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rIIIS DAY.—Moraing, 2h. 31m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m. rO.IILORROW...MOI7:Iing, 3a. 20,n.—Afternoon, 3h. 44m. , 'l4 ivat n ER MAJEELLSTY FORMANC'S THES.E:ATRE. FAREW PER CHEAP PRICES. IL TROVATORE, TO-MORROW EVENING (ThurAday). NOTICE. In consequence of a domestic affliction, Madame Harriers- Wippern is obliged to return immed,ate.y to Berlin. Md le. Tittens has therefore most kindly undertaken the part of Leonora in "Il Trovatore," which will be performed To morrow Evening ER MAJESTY'S T HEATRE. I-1 FAREWELL REPRESENTATIONS AT CHEAP rracEs, To suit the Views of the General Public. Th e Nights of Performances are Mondays., Tuesdays, Thurs days, and Saturdays. TO-MORROW EVENING. (Thursday', July 21, will be presented Verdi's favourite Opera. IL TnoVATORE, With the following Cast : Leonors, Titiens ; Azucena, Gross!, her first appearance in that character in Enziand ; 11 Comte di Luna, Mr. Santley ; /errand°, Signor Bassi; and Maarice, Siquor Giugliui. Conductor, Signer ARDITI. TITIENS, TREBELLT, VOLPINI, GROSSI -SANTLEY, GASSIER, 13 ETTINI, GARDw.I. Saturday nest, July 23, will be re-produced Weber's Grand Romantic Opera, OBERON. The New and extensive Scenery by Mr. Telbln, assisted by Mr. Henry Teibin. Gitz Santley, Marcell° Junca, Gassier ; T rebel li, Reboux, Vulpini, Titiens. Conductor, Signor Arditi. moyiday next, July 25, Gouno laat ne , ,v Great Work, MIRELLA ll i a m Telbln. The Scenery by Air. `ti --- Doors open at Half-past seven. Commence trains at Ei g ht. to p%he re elselY terminating in time for the night envirc us. Prices :—Gallery, 28. ; Pit, ss. ; Dress Circle, 7s. ; UP per Circle. 58. ; Orchestra 6talls, 128. ed. Private Boxes— Pit Tier, T, , 0 Guineas ;Grand Tier, Three Guineas; One I 'air Boxes, Two Guieeas and a Half ; Two Pair Boxes, One Guine4 ; Gallery Boxes (to hold four). 108. 6d. Notio-.—The usual restrictions to Evening Dress will not be enforc , d. Box Offioe of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 6, TO sere places may be secured ; also at all the principal Librarians and 51C be Tickets also procurable, on the event ngs of periormance, at the .special Offices, open at the entrai ices of the Pit and Boxes. R oAIL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. Positively the Last Week but One. _ Didlle. Adelina Patti ; Signori Ronconi, Faure, and Mario. To-Morrow Evening (Thursday), July 21, will be perform ed, for the last time this season, Donizetti's favourite opera, in two acts, L'ELI~IR D'ADi ORE. AtilD Adelina Patti; thanetca, Madame Ta.gliafico ; Dulcamara, Signor ltonconi; eelcore, M. Faure,; and Nemorino, Aionor Mar 10. Conductor, Mr. Costa. After which the Vivertissement, Enchantde. Sup ported by Mdllc. Sah ionf, Mdfle. Carmine, Mdlle. Navarr e, Asstmta, M. )enlaces, and Mr.:NV.H. Payne. Commence= at half' past Eight. Pit tickets, 75. ; amphitl;eatre rtails, 103. 6d., 78., and 58. amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new p;ay by John Oxenford, Esq., THE MONASTERY OF S JS r : Messrs. Vin ing, IL Mars ton, J. Nelson, J. W . Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins, J. Seyton, thapman ; Mrs. H. Marston, and Mdile. Stella Lolas. I+l' THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.--• Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. 'Toole, Mr. Phillips. After which, JANET PRIDE : Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, Stephenson, Romer; Miss Woolgar, 3liss Denman. • Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, V. Bedlord, tc. temerMisii Woolgar, and Jars. R. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion. Ec.-engagement of those ce'ebrated and popular artistes, Mr. an i Mrs. Charles Mathews. Production of an entirely new original Travestie of a very popular subject, by F. C. Burnam', Esq., entitled FAUST AND MARGUERITE. in which Mr. and Mrs Cnarles Mathews will appear. The new scener y b) the celebrated artists, Messrs. "Janson and Sons ; the incidental Ballet by Osear Byrne. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular mimes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. larke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Mica Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Mist , Wentworth,;,Mrs. Stirling . , and Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MARGUERITE Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague, Sir. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiame, and Mrs, C. Mathew:. At 10, LITTLE TODDLEEINS, Mr. Charles Mathews, Nr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank ,Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth.. GOODWOOD —RACE GLASSES, the best at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole agent to Volgtlander, Vienna. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864. The rather questionable advantages held out to soc i e ty by that wonderful little Divorce Court, es tablished, not so very many years originally judicial holes and corners hid since, in one of t hose away yonder dawn at Westminster—have been rather curiously illustrated within the last few (lave by the result of the case of HOPLEY versus lioPixr. The case was in itself, no doubt, a very curious y thank GoD, we may even add, we belie ve quite confidently, one in its whole character entirely and absolutely exceptional. Into its merits ( t o employ a current phrase that seems to drop i tit° its place here, by the way, rather oddly) into its merits, so-oalled, we don't propose in any way to enter. We refer toit, or rather to the decision that it has led to, ato one of the latest and, beyond an instant's doubt, one 0i the strongest illustrations of the syste m it is mainly valuable as it i s also most z s- o s t c thh the glorious fnaB painfully interesting as an illustr a ti on . ely, as a truly astounding illustration of uncertainty of the law as it is revealed to o ur con , temptation at work, there in these later "d Divorce Court , in Sim p l e truth, days in the the ne pl us ultra of non sequiturs ! It shows to us—.as we should certainly ne ver have expected to h ave s h own to us by any even the most eccentric scheme of judicial a young wif e can prove to arrangements—How absolute demonstration, can prove beyond all sibility of denial (as shown by the summing up of the judge, as shown by the unanimous verdict of the jury)—How, we say, a young wife can prove to absolute demonstration the fact of her having been subkoted to a series of the most revolting cruelties by her husband, and yet hotv that unhappy wife may completely con. done those proven cruelties by the affectionate prattle of her correspondence. In itself, one of thr , most distressing cases that has ever been brough t under the consideration of the Divorce Court sine 0 that court was first opened down at Westminster it is, in iti 3 result, about the very strangest that could have beer s easily imagined. We all know the old rhyming proverb about the woman, the whelp, ane . the wal ant tree, to the effect that the more yo, . 1 whip them the better they'll be ! And certaiul y the cc r respondence brought to light by means of this c vie of HOPLEY versus HOPLEY is entirely au d essent daily a very case in . point. In its tenderness of all 'ection, indicated by the lady in this instance, the pamphlet that has come to 118—prig in ( aly marl :ed private, but with ,the word private aow very carefully scratched out—might vie with any equal number of pages that might be selected from the Yelverton Correspondence. Yet the incentives 1 to these manifestations of tender affection r h ppear to have been of the oddest kind in any way conceiv able 1 What those instances were our reports of the case of HOPLEY ;versus HOPLEY will have shown the reader rather distressingly from day to day as the trial proceeded. The defendant's peculiarities were then brought out as case opened to view pretty plainly, as every one who at all watched the case will be prepared to admit. His history is the history of a theorist, and, what is more, of aphilanthropical theorist. His was a theory of a threefold kind, and one, moreover, that had a threefold illustration. His project has been so to develope an educational scheme of his own that, as applied successively to a boy pupil, to a newly-married wife, and to a newly-born infant it should produce —a model pupil, a model wife (And mother), and a model child. The worst of it has been that one of the Theorist's intended model pupils was, somehow or another, whipped to death—that one of the Theorist's intended model children evidenced, somehow or another, very early and very unmistakeable signs of idiotcy that the Theorist's model wife, somehow or another, was led in the end to bring an action against him for cruelty. But, in the latter instance, there was (by reason of the truth expressed in the old rhyming a dage already alluded to) the possibility of these proven cruelties being effectually condoned. Happily for any other theorist's purpose who might aspire to contrive means for having the rod spared to the walnut tree, or (let us say under MARTIN'S Act, for ,instance), to the whelp—neither the walnut tree nor the whelp could condone cruelties as caa the woman (vide this henceforth of course leading case of HOPLEY v. HOPLEY) namely, by writing—after all sorts of curious little eccentric proceedings on the part of the Theorist, spittings in the face, kicks in the back during the period of pregnancy, hammerings on the head, and so furth—completely and most effectually condone these and sundry other acts of cruelty, any one of them worse than whipping, by entering afterwards into a prattling correspon dence with the Theorist ! There aro few points on which Englishmen of all creeds and parties are more unanimous than detes tation of the slave trade. Until they discovered that the civil war in America was a war of independence rather than of emancipation, and that the difference between ABRAHAM LINCOLN and JEFFERSON DAVIS had in reality no concern with the liberty of the negro, this feeling enlisted the sympathies of most of our countrymen on the Federal side. Even now, when they fully recognise and shrink from the hypo crisy which would make emancipation a political tool to ba used or not according as occasion serves, the Southern advocacy of the barbarous traffic in human beings militates against their full satisfac tion in the prospect of Confederate success. It is not that they put any faith in the proclamations of the Northern President, or believe that, were the Union re-established to-morrow, slavery would suffer from its resuscitation, but the presence of so discordant an element in the body politic prevents their having that full sympathy in the Southern cause which otherwise they would have felt in the efforts of a brave and self-devoted people struggling for their independence. It is, therefore, not sur prising, when this is the prevailing sentiment of the English nation, that one of the most venerable and learned of our statesmen should rise in his place in the House of Peers and declare that in looking back over a Parliamentary life of nearly half a cen tury, there was no matter upon which he reflected with so mach satisfaction as the part which he had taken in the abolition of the slave trade. Such a declaration is doubly emphatic coming from the lips of a man like Lord BROUGHAM, distinguished for his share in many another legal, social, and poli tical reform. The noble lord mentioned, in evi dence of the unquestionable success attending the efforts of this country in behalf of the slaves in her colonies, that three years ago a petition was pre• rented to that House from a district in Jamaica, which was signed by 800 liberated slaves, 793 of whom had written their names with their ow n hands. But notwithstanding all the work that was done by that earlier generation to which Lord BROUGHAM may claim to belong, the satisfac tory results of their labours and the undiminished interest which England still takes in the welfare of the unhappy negro, there is much still to be done. The conduct of Spain in this matter is on all hands admitted to be most reprehensible. By every obligation of right, of honour, and of gratitude, she is bound to suspend the traffic, but in spite of all she persists in evading the treaty and in giving every encouragement to the traffic. Cuba is the stronghold of the slave trade, and so long as it remains so under the open protection of the Spanish Government, all our efforts for the abolition of the trade will bs fruitless. It is perfectly useless to waste the lives of our men in watching the un healthy shores of Africa, when the high prices given at Cuba for slaves stimulate slavers to run any risk. By such a course we only increase the horrors of the middle passage by inducing the slave-dealer to make every effort to conceal his illegal cargo. It is an unvarying rule of political economy that so long as there is a demand there will be a supply, but et once let us stop the market and we shall soon dispose of the traffic. Let our Government boldly insist on the Spaniards fulfilling their treaty obligations; or, if not, let them demand payment of the large debt due to us from that country. As Lord BROUGHAM very truly observed the other evening, the giving of the large . sum o f £eloo,oo o is the only part of the treaty Spain has yet fulfilled, She h as in deed few timorous an d i ne ffi c i ent a whichtsw which were a erenever intended to serve their pre fessed purpose, but she has done no more, and the consequence is manifested in the fact that initmhpeolr. 18 years b e t ween 1842 and 1 860 , the annual tation et slaves into Cuba has increased from 13,000 to 40,000. The Spanish Governors of the island have, it is commonly reported, been bribed to connive at th e trade, and althoug h th e re have been of course some favourable exceptions to this rule, among which the name of VALDEZ stands honour ably prominent, still the that Lord EROUG HAIt of actually gives the rate system is so well assured profit. Three doubloons a head for the slaves imported into the island is the char; , and in cons sequence of this easy way of making money, one Governor amassed a comfortable fortune of about £lOO,OOO. The Governorship of Cuba has, accord• ing to Lord BROUGHAM, become a recognised method for mending the fortunes of any needy Spanish noble, and even when a Governor like the present endeavours to check the traffic, he finds local interests too strong for him. The reform must begin at head-quarters, and it is quite time that some decisive effort were made. Our West India planters justly complain of having to compete with Cuban slave-grown sugar, so that our weak indulgence towards Spain not only injures the negro, but our own colonists as well. Lord RUSSELL'S explanation of the matter is that every successive Foreign Secretary has remonstrated with Spain, and that Government has always professed its willingness to carry out the treaty, but owing to the strength of private interests in Cuba, and itn reluctance to offend those interested in the maintenance of the trade, we have never been able to obtain efficient aid from it. This has gone on quite long enough. If it is worth while to send men to die of fever on the African coast and expend the large sums which we give for keeping up our naval force there, it is surely worth while to put a little more energy into our dealings with Spain. Half the men and money spent profit lessly in the one quarter would have effectually settled the slave trade if properly applied in the other. Let our Government insist upon the imme. diate fulfilment of the Treaty or the liquidation of the debt, and let them not accept empty words but demand that an English official shall be placed in each of the Cuban ports, with the right of searching vessels—a method which will soon produce an effec. tual change. Lord PALMERSTON can very readily stigmatise the conduct of Brazil as "flagrant," and our Cabinet can easily show a bold front to a weak Power; but when once European interests are in volved, a very great alteration is perceptible in tone and manner. The interests of humanity de mand immediate action, or has England sunk so low from her ancient position that she fears the frowns of Spain ? It is to be Loped that due attention will be paid to the act for the prevention of employing young boys as chimneysweeps. It has now received the sanction of Parliament, and a more wise and neces sary regulation has seldom been made concerning social affairs. The refinement of cruelty would appear to have reached its climax in the mode adopted for the training of these wretehed little victims, and it is only surprising that before this some stringent enactments have not been made to prevent such a scandal being practised among us. This pernicious habit has been so widely spread that it would seem to have taken root in the minds of those who ought to know better. The other day it was mentioned by some who take an interest in the putting down of the barbarous practice, that in places where above all others regard should be paid to the law, the open violation of the enactment took place. At a prison one poor boy was employed, and he suffered so greatly from the injuries he re. ceived that he died in consequence. Another instance was given of the practice occurring at the house of some member of Parliament, whose infringement of the laws was curious and most unsuitable. Time after time the evil is done in secret, or in such a manner that no one is likely to take note of it. In some of the old chimneys it is fancied by the prejudiced that machines and instruments are not efficient for the purpose of thoroughly cleaning them. If this be true, there is a very easy remedy in having them altered, but in most cases it is only obstinacy and the tenacity with which many cling to old notions, and think all improvements are newfangled absurdities. The cause of humanity is not strong enough to plead far these little victims who are exposed to such cruel suffering at an early age. It is of great consequence that the stern voice of the law should interfere, and that strict heed be paid as to the due observance of the regulations that aro decreed. If proper attention is given to the law now passed, no possible opportunity can occur in which a poor child is tortured and injured by the barbarous practice of chimney-sweeping, but the mischief often happens through inadvertence on, the part of householders. Let these now set their faces against the inhuman habit, and from hence. forth let the cruelty be banished from among us. No possible excuse can bo made on the plea of ignorance, because the subject has been so much discussed that by this time everyone must be pretty well familiarised with its details, and the neglect of watchfulness will be nearly as culpable as the open commission of the error on the part of others. Too much care cannot be given to the prevention of a practice that is a disgrace to all who are engaged in it remotely or immediately. The last days of the Session are approaching, and it is doubtless with very great satisfaction that the occupants of the Ministerial benches behold the close of their probation. It must appear, however, to those who attentively survey the passing events, that even in small matters, or what may be termed so, comparatively speaking, great cause may be found for reprehension, concerning the manner in which the Government has acted. A vote moved in supply, by Lord C. PAGET, may serve to suggest reflections of a peculiar character. It concerned the purchase of the steam rams, and the noble lord's offer to make any explanations that might be res quired, appears to have been unprefited by, and the vote agreed to in silence. For several reasons it is desirable that the observers of public events should not imitate this quiescence, and copy this tacit ap proval of an act which is a disgrace to the adminis tration of the country. It was one of the most poltroon affairs in which a British Minister has ever been engaged. When we contrast the aspect which this case has assumed at the commencement and close of the Session, a warning is given to the public for the future, not to trust overmuch to the profess sions of statesmen, especially when their statements are very verbose, and their language unusually vehement. Who but a skilled judge in such mat ters, or a very cynic in faith and confidence, but would have thought that the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs meant something when he die. coursed upon the steam rams at the outset of the Parliamentary campaign. When he so deprecated discussion, and deplored arguments concerning them, and above all, when he fired up and de nounced as unfair and illegal the attempts made to force information from him when the whole facts were about to be brought into a court of law, aid to comment upon them prematurely would occasion damage to the cause of,, justice, it is strange to think that another and a very different solution was at hand. How much more consistent it would have been if, instead of all that palaver, the Go vernment had purchased the rams at first, or at least abstained from making so much parade about matters that they did not intend to see the light. It is quite evident that if they had had such a gocd case against the vessels in dispute as they professed that they had, they would not have shrunk from inquiry, and beat so hasty and undignified a retreat. The purchase of these vessels is alike a confession of impotence on their part as prosecutors, to carry out the part they pretended to be well versed in, and an instance of weakness as regarded the Feder4l Government, because they did hot feel induced to controvert their wishes. It may be as well to let the matter pass in silence, so far as re gards the House of Commons, because the question has already been debated there at sufficient length on divers occasions, but a more striking proof of Ministerial incapacity and official blundering has seldom been put on record. It may be very con venient to turn a deaf ear to the voice of reproof, but the judgment of the country must be against a course of procedure which thus compromises the free and independent spirit that has always charac terised our dealirgs with foreign nations, and our transactions with our own citizens. Representation of Finsbury. Last night a meeting of electors desirous of pro moting the return of Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens for Finsbury, at the next election, convened by circular, was held at the Belvidere Tavern, Pentonville. Mr. Torrens attended, pa the invitation of a large and influential body of requisitionists, who, mindful of his past career in Parliament and his fidelity to the principles he avowed on entering it, were de sirous that a metropolitan borough of such import ance should be adequately and properly represented. The requisitioniets seeking for the proper discharge of the duties of such a position, desired that they should be represented by gentlemen whose mental power, political knowledge, and established public reputation qualified them for the discharge of the onerous duties devolving upon the representatives of such large and important constituencies. Ileference to the past conduct of Mr. Torrens in Parliament had produced the conviction that in him these quali ties were combined, and that gentleman was there fore invited to lay before a meeting of electors bis political opinions, end also state his decision whether the amount of popular support accorded to him would induce him to become a candidate. To this requisitiem, which was s i gne d, on the whole, by these - who used t o ta k e a prom i nen t par t i n th e election of the late Mr. T. Duncombe, without any expense on his part, Mr. Torrens readily responded, and last night was met by an assembly of gentlemen who might fairly be said to be representative men from every part of the borough. Mr. M'DosSetEnn, representative of Clerkenwell at the DTs 'sropolitan Board of Works, was called to the choir, and in a few brief but telling sentences introduced Mr. Torrens to the meeting. The learned gentleman, in the course of an ad dress which was listened to with the deepest atten. tion, and with frequent and warm applause, explained the grounds on which he ventured to solicit the suf frages of such an important constituency. He had an ambition—but it was not a selfish one—it was, in his day and generation, to make his mark on the age in which he lived as a man who had done something useful and permanently beneficial to his fellowmen, He had in the earlier portion of his public and political career at least given proofs of the spirit by which he was animated, the objects he aimed at, and the principles of which he was the advocate; and to the past he thought he might confidently refer as a guarantee for the futuren t He did not wish to be a mere talker, a mummer, or a dummy. In past Parliaments he had served his time to the business of legislation. He hoped he had learned by st u d y an d ex p er i ence h ow t h e wor k of the people ought to be done, and how to do it. He made no v ague prom i ses, no e l ast i c professions of principle. H e would not go into Parliament tied and fettered by ironcast pledges, but he referred to his votes on all great questions as the surest tests of what his future course would be. When in Parliament he helped to carry the repeal of the na vigation laws, and the removal of the disabilities of the Jews. He was one of tha small majority that first enabled Mr Locke King to carry the prin ciple of a .£lO county suffrage, and he had had the pleasure of voting with the late Mr Joseph Hume for a large extension of the suffrage in towns, on the ground that the exclusion of the working classes was the chief defect of the Reform Bill, 1832. For the adoption of the balla he had voted with Mr Berkeley, though by itself he did not think it would produce political purity, , but must be one of a com bination of measures for that purpose. With re spect to the administration of the country, Mr Tor. rens expressed the opinion that they were too exclu sively taken from on e c l ass, an d at t h e same t i me deprecated a rather widespread opinion that lawyers, as a class, should be excluded from Parlia ment in favour of commercial and practical men in other pursues and callings of life, whose success in a mere monetary way, though creditable to them as individuals, was not necessarily a proof of their - possessing the qualities requisite for a legislator. On the subject of church rates he thought the time Lad come when the Government should remove this cause of religious discord. On general grounds he would vote against the p u bli c money b e i ng g i ve n to any sect whatever if th ose w h o rece i ve d those grants would agree to stand upon that ground. He should advocate retrenchment of public ex penditure not only in gen era l terms, b ut i n detail. With respect to an impo r t ant quest i on —the law relating to the relief of the poor and the mode in which iewas administered —.while he thought public opinion was not ripe forthe a d opt i on o f a na tional and equal rate, ho thought the time had come for the abrogation of the law of s e t t l ement an d the adop tion of a union rating, w ith respect to the metro polis itself, while ho could not agree with Mr. Ayrton and other advocates of a federal metropoe litan municipality, he thought it was an open and a p re ssing question holv such b oroug hs as Finsbury could be welded into a, compact mass, and exercise their legitimate infinsnee on Parliament and upon the Government for the ti me being. They would never do so in their prese n t state, an d f or their own sakes, apart from general questions, it was ex tremely important they should have the advan ta g es of local self-government. The hon . and learned gentleman, after adv ert i ng in very f e licitous and eloquent terms to oth er matters , c oncluded by stating that he asked no one to p l e dge himself to support his candidature should a better man appear in the field. In that case he would be the first to withdraw from it, If not, he promised , should he be elected to represent that important c onstituenc y , that he would rende r an annua l ac count of his stew• ardship, and take ev ery opportun ity of ascertaining the views of his Constituents, thoug h he did not promise he would alw a y s a ct upon them. When he could not do so h onestly b e would return the trust they had c onf i ded to h i m' (Cheers.) Dr. En's, i n a very a bl e and telling speech, moved—" That thi s meeting having listened to a statement of th e political pr i n ciples of Mr. Torrens, which he consi s t ently and e fficiently advocated for many years in P arliament, e xpresses its opinion that he is emi nently qua lified to become a repre sentative for Pillsbury in the house of Commons, to use its best and pledges its e lf ex ertions to secure his return for thi s boroug h in the ensuing Puha. ment." Mr. HOP W°°D 3 e con ded the reso lution, and after a short conv ersat i on, i n which Mr. Collins , Mr. Elt, and other geutlemen took part, the resolution was carried with two di sse ntients, on the under standing that it did no t bind those p resent w ho di d not actually vot e f or i t . At the same t im e n o gen tleman present o ff ere d an y opposition to Mr. Tor rens, but merely reserve d their freedom of s e lection for the future. The following gentlemen w ere then elected a committeeto ?remote the elec tion of Mr. Torrens, with power to add to their number :—Messrs. J. L. Hopwood, Den n i s m.Donnell, Chas. D. Toime; Hugh Owen, John Robert Hall, Richard Moore, John Lloyd, R3wles Pattisen, William Birkbeck, T. Bounce, James Scott, Samuel Smith, M. Samuel, John Walker, William Walker, B , :c. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. ---- HAMPSTEAD -DEATH AND TEENEW SETTLED ESTATES ACT.—Amon g the last acts pa ssed was one, whi ch has just been i ssue d io amen d the Settled Estates Act of 1556. As introduced, it was ex.pected that the act would load to the inclosure of a part of Hampstead-heath. It was amended in the Commons, and as it now btands, it is enacted that the Court of Chancery, in determining what are settled estates, is to be governed by the trusts and limitations whoa that settlement was math:, Other alterations were made to pteseryo the law on Oa Subject, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.) (Per the City of London, via Cape Clear, July 20. NEW YORK, JULY 9, 11 a.m. The accounts from the Upper Potomac continue confused and contradictory. Some state that the Confederates, after levying money contributions upon Hagerstown, Sharpsburg, and other towns, and plundering the surrounding country, have re crossed the Potomac, evacuated Harper's Ferry, and are retreating southward. Others, equally trustworthy, assert that the present force of in. vaders is destroying the communication and manoeuvring until the main body, consisting at least of Ewell's and Longstreet's corps, arrives when the whole will march upon Baltimore and Washington. Some anxiety is felt for General Hunter, who at the latest acounts (on the 3d inst.), was at Charless ton, West Virginia, his army dispirited and exhausted by long marches. Sigel has been superseded by General Howe. Governor Seymour has directed General Sandford to allow none of the militia to leave New York, in response to the President's call, until further orders ; he has also ordered all commandants to recruit their regiments to the maximum standard within ten days, or they will at the end of that time be filled up by draught. Secretary Fessenden will visit New York next week, to consult with the bankers and others upon the immediate necessities of his department. Gold 263. The City of London takes 437,305 dols. in specie SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 20. The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, Capt. Meyer, sailing hence to-day for New York, direct with the German, French, and English mails, takes out 119 cabia passengers and a large cargo of general merchandise and jewellery, from Havre, value 165,000 f. MARSEILLES, JULY 17. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said, Cap tain Burnet, left this port to-day with the mails, 45 passengers, 602 packages and specie, value £215,360, for India and China, and 55 passengers, 2,097 packages and specie, value £93,480, for Alexandria. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 19.—The market has been heavy, caased in some measure by the arrival of English Consols with lower quotations. Threes, for the Account, have receded to 66t. 25c. Mobilier have also declined, the price being now 1,005 f. Rail way shares little in demand, but previous rates up to the present time pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 94 20 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 20 Credit Mobilier 1008 75 Do. end month 1006 25 Bank Shares 3375 Credit Fonder 1220 Roman AIL Italian Loan 67 90 Do. end month 6B 10 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 56 76 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — [Tome Debt . 4B 75 Deferred PAYE. Cash. Account. ___ OrlePne 3 000 000 Northern Lyons and Neditrirranean New ditto — Southern 642 50 .. 642 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain Saragostm OO 532 50 .. 535 Ditto to Barcelona SPAIN. 878 75 .. __ - 975 - .. 976 25 897 50 :: 897 50 The Madrid Gazette publishes the text of the new bill en the press lately sanctioned by the Queen : "The principal characteristics of this measure cone sist in three special dispositions-Ist, for submitting to the bishop of the diocese all writings on religious doctrines, the Scriptures, and Christian morality ; 2dly, that, for investing the Ministry of the Interior with the power of regulating as it pleases the adver tisements, sale, and distribution of journals; and, lastly, that which represses and punishes offences not provided for by the penal code. Such offences, committed by attacking or turning into ridicule the Roman Catholic religion and its worship, or by insulting the sacred character of its ministers, are to be punished with imprisonment; if they consist of exciting to the abolition or the change of the said religion, or in leading to the introduction of any other form, the punishment is to be imprisonment with hard labour. In either case a fine of from 100 to 500 piastres is to be inflicted." ITALY. A Turin letter, of the 16th, contains the follow- iug :- Since the day on which the Chamber had to judge the conduct of M. Tofani, no sitting more to be regretted than that of yesterday has been held. This was the second time that the Assembly had been transformed into a chamber of accusation. Tho seats were all full in spite of a heat of SO deg. Fahrenheit, At 2 o'clock after the vote, by a small majority, of the bill granting a pension to the Thousand of Marsala, M, Pisoli, the reporter of the committee of inquiry into the participation of certain deputies in the affairs of the Southern railways, ascended the tribune, amidst a profound silence, to read his report. After tracing the history of the concession of the said railways, the speaker said that the task of the committees of inquiry had been the more difficult that the accusations brought forward applied not only to MM. Bastoggi and Susani, but to other deputies. When the Parliament granted the concession to M. Bastoggi in preference to Baron de Rothschild, a rumour was current that the above-named deputy had purchased the votes of several of his col. leagues. The statement was traced to an advocate of Turin, who, on being called on to give an explanation, declared that 'one of his clients, a former deputy, had admitted that 30 votes, had been sold for a sum of 3,000,000 f. ; that the mission of effecting the transaction had been offered to this deputy, but he had refused to accept it. The committee had resolved to get to the bottom of this accusation, but the advocate, on being required to furnish proofs, could give none. The vague rumours, which were the most dangerous, having thus completely disappeared, there only remained for the committee to verify precise and determined facts. A deplorable impression had been produced on public opinion by the publication of the names of the persona forming the board of directors, as it included almost all the members of the com mittee appointed to examine the bill and the concession. The committee of enquiry, however, added that it was happy not to have discovered any proofs of collusion or engage ments between its members and the concessionary. The report then referred to the participation of the deputy, M. Susani, in the affair of the railway. That gentleman was the secretary of the committee charged by the Chamber to examine the concessions made to Baron de Rothschild. An arrangement was nevertheless made between M. Susani and M. Bastoggi, to obtain for the latter a preference over M, de Rothschild ; for that service M, Susani received a bonus of 1,200,000 f, which he discounted at Milan for 675,000 fr. The report doesnot conceal the fact that the explanations fur nished by MM. Bastoggi and Susani do not appear satis factory, and terminates with the following conclusions :- Ist. That the vague rumours and suspicions of corruption put in circulation against the deputies on the sulject of the southern railways aro completely disproved ; 2d. That the suspicions which hung over the deputies who formed part of the committee charged with examining the project of concession to the Rothschild bank, and who afterwards entered the board of directors of the southern railways, are also dissipated; 3d. That the interest and dignity of the Chamber nevertheless require that the office of deputy should be incompatible with the functions of directors, or the position of parties interested in undertrkings snbventioned by the State, or which may be placed in opposition to those of the States ; 4th, That M. Susani, at the moment in which he was a member, and even secretary to the committee charged to make a report on the Rothschild concession was the adviser of M. Bastoggi ; that he participated in M. Bastoggi's undertaking, and that pro priety required that he should first have given in his resin• nation as a member of the Parliament Committee, which he did not e d° ; sth. That the sum of 1,200,000 f., brought in question in the Weill-Achott trial, was the bonus des tined for M. Susani in return for his co-operation; 6th. That M. Bastoggi ought not to have accepted the aid of Susani, knowing him to be a member of the Parlia mentary Committee; 7th, That M, Paetoggi, in actipg as he has done, has been wanting in the respect due to a member of a Parliamentary Committee; that M. Susani has been wanting in a still more serious manner in the respect which he owed to his quality of repre sentative of the tation, The Chamber was deeply moved at this conclusion of the report. hI. Bastoggi asked per mission to speak, but as the hour was late, his reply was put off until the next day. In the following sitting he spoke at great length, and was listened to with silence, mingled with respect. His defence did not, however, ap pear to produce much effect on the Chamber." It may be remembered that the telegram has al ready announced that the conclusions of the com mittee were voted by 153 votes to 10, with 43 abstentions. The New Reforin Movement, Lsst evening a public muting of the inhabitants of Bethnal-green and the East-end of Londott was held at the Peel-grove Institution, for the purpose of kdvancing the cause of Parliamentary Reform, by the adoption of manhood suffrage as the basis of representation. Mr. Hilton having been voted to the chair, Mr l'uomAs BUFFUAiI moved a resolution to the Effect that the time had arrived when the unfran. chised masses of the people of this country should be admitted to a share in the right of election of members of Parliament, by that right being ex• tended to all resident and registered adult males, persons of sound mind and unconvicted of crime. The resolution was seconded by Mr W.R. CREMER, who stated that the apathy of the masses on this subject of Parliamentary Reform was little to be wondered at after the manner in which they had been deceived and betrayed by those who had promised, and who had the power, to confer the franchise upon them. Mr JOHN R. TAYLOR having supported the re solution, it was put from the chair and unanimously adopted. Mr BLIGII next moved a resolution, in effect that a committee be appointed for taking the neces sary steps and raising the necessary funds for carry ing into effect the preceding resolution, and wltb that view to establish an association to be called the Bethnal-green Branch of the Universal League for the "Welfare of the Industrious Classes. Mr WEsToN seconded the resolution, which was adopted, and a committee appointed in terms of it. The proceedings then terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman. Historical Anecdotes about the Savoy, The Church of St. Mary•le-Savoy, as it had long been improperly called, last week perished by fire —all but the bare walls. Properly, it was the royal chapel of St. John the Baptist, which the parishioners of St. Mary-le-Strand were empowered to use, under certain conditions, as a parochial church, Its antiquity was not very great—three hundred and sixty years—but it was nevertheless of interest, from the history connected with it, and from the locality in which it stood. It had nothing in common with the palatial edifice in which Eleanor of Equitaine housed her uncle, Peter Earl of Savoy, six centuries ago. It was not even in that old palace in which the conscientious French King, John, died in honourable captivity, in the 14th century. John died in the new palace, built on the site of the old one, by that Henry Plantagenet who won the ducal coronet of Lancaster by his prowess at Poictiers, and whose daughter, Blanche, carried the paternal title to her husband, John of Gaunt. This newer palace had no long life of it, for Wat Tyler and his fellows, in their especial rage against John of Gaunt, burnt all that would burn of the edifice in 1381. Till the beginning of the 16th century the place lay in ruins, but in 1505 Henry VII. built the church, or chapel, which has been an recently destroyed, as the chapel of the hos pital of St. John the Baptist, for the relief of 100 poor men, In about fifty years this religious foundation went the way of all others in England, and though the hcspital was subsequently restored and for some time maintained, the Savoy precinct became as notorious for thieves and beggars, as for the lame, the sick and the vagabond, who considered them selves privileged to claim succour from the Master of theellospital of the Savoy, an efface which was much coveted, and which Cowley struggled ineffec. tually to obtain. The old hall was partitioned out among noisy handicraftsmen who plied their respec tive callings therein, end it also served for a prison in which debtors, and infected soldiers, and deser ters, and pressed men, and recruits, and robbers waiting transportation were all alike kept under lock and key, And yet within the precinct there was sanctuary for those who dwelt there, and danger of life or limb to the audacious official who should venture to make arrest there. It is barely necessary to say that the Savoy Conference for the revision of the Liturgy was held on this spot. This Savoy had its literary aspect, too ; all proclamations, acts of Parliament, and Gazettes used to issue from the royal printing press established in the precinct ; and there Fuller lectured, if he did not write his Worthies.' The walls of the old cruciform hospi tal were standing in Pennant's time, and in 1816, Ackermann published a view of the ruins as they were in their last condition, before they were swept away. They look far more picturesque than the ancient palace itself does, in the picture of Dulwich College. The royal chapel, which was made paro chial after the "impious destruction" of the parish church of St. Mary-lc-Strand, by the Duke of Somerset, did not always hold its own with dignity. While the Dutch, German, and French congrega tions met quietly within the preninct,a favour which was originally owing to Charles the Second, all sorts of unseemly marriages were celebrated by the " Savoy parsons." The minister advertised his readiness to unite couples in the bonds of matri mony " with privacy," which was the chief matter, and it was added, for the form's sake, "with de cency and regularity," and all for a guinea, the five shilling stamp included. Very significant are the concluding lines of the advertisement, which tell lovers longing to be married in haste and secrecy, that "there are five private ways by land to this chapel, and two by water." The Act of Parliament forbidding such celebrations of marriage did not deter the " Savoy parsons" till the Rev. Mr Wilkin son came to grief. For performing the illicit cere mony, Wilkinson was informed against by—among others—no less a person than Garrick, and the reve rend gentleman was transported. His son, but for this catastrophe, would prubably have gone into the Church, but losing his chance, he crossed from the Savoy to Drury-lane, and the man who had trans ported his father helped to make an actor of him, and to give to the history of the stage the name of eccentric Tait Wilkinson. In George the Fourth's days the royal chapel was restored chiefly through that king's liberality, and her present Majesty has acted as munificently as her royal uncle ; but it was the parishioners who put up the beautiful painted glass window representing St. John the Baptist. That window was entirely destroyed by the fire of last week. The splendid roof lies in charred fragments on the encumbered floor; and as the flames, bursting forth, no one could well tell whence or how, though the blame is laid on the gas, swept through the structure, down fell many a noble monument of the noble dead, or stood but to be unsightly and marred--for there slept Itokebys, and Douglases, and ladies of note, and soldiers of renown, with monuments to some buried elsewhere, and " the bowels only" of one, and he, the great Earl of Clifford, with no memo rial at all ; and, perhaps more truly worthy than any of them, the poet who chanted the praises of liberty under a tyrant, and piety in a licentious age, cheerful and religious George Withers Fes now under the superincumbent ruins caused by the fire. Her Majesty has graciously announced her intention to repair this ruin at her own cost. Vivat _Regina' M. HACHETTE, THE FAMOUS PUBLISHER OF THE 64 CHEMIN DE FER " —recently reported to be dead —has an establi s h ment Which is one of the P ar i s lions. Of the enterprisi ng Way i n w hi c h b us i ness is carried on there, some opinion may b e formed from the f ac t that a young and talented avooat is paid 12,000 francs a year for writing the advertisements of the works which are brought out in it." A branch establishment is in London, at the corner of King William -street, Strand, a spot that has recently become quite a market for dealers in books, and which bids fair to Noma a sort of Weat-end Paternoster-row, LITERATURE , Menzoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon 111. Compiled by Sir Lascelles Wrestsll, Bart', and Robert Wehrhan. New Edition. One ' el. ' pp. 436. Hu rs t an d Bl ac kett. As anothe r , th e t wen t y - seven th if we rremembe r rightly, of th e M essrs . H urs t and Blackett charming series of P o p u l ar M o dern Works, Pub lished in compact and c h eap one -volume editi ons, in the form of a really, an d no t alone nomin all y' Standard Library, we have here a most acceptable reissue of a work combi n i ng w ithin it all th? fascination of a romance with all the profound 01.31 enthralling interest of actual history. The Mei: l3 ° l 7 i , —emphatically Pie "Memoirs of Queen Hort ense. The mother of the reigning Emperor of France, the Emperor Napoleon 111, ! The daughter of the ' 6r4 : o press Josephine wh en th e l a tt er was s imply the NO' of the Viscount de Beauharnais ! Hortense, the beautiful and accomplished Hortense—herself the wife of Louis, King of Holland ! Hortense"' t he he first emerged from comparative obscurity as step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte ! The Leg (together with the other members of egose hee two favoured races, the Bcnapartes and r o Beanharnais)—with the rise of that most weeue a! ful advent urer ( us i ng th e t erm i n n o ineid sense) that the wo r ld h as ever seen I Generalo a!, twenty - five, Consul at thirty, Emperor at th irtl a four, Conqueror, King-maker, Lawgiver, Hero an f Sage, Orator and Hi s t or i an "The greatest of Poets," according to Eerangee ! ' 6 One of th noblest of rhetoricians," according to Brought°, According to William Napier—' the • Soldiers I" According: to all subsequent tallit tury historians, unrivalled among all g reil „ Captains save by one, and that one 11 . e ici fi e nibal! As Lord By r on s a n g in his O bis f Harold -- " The greatest nor the worst e s men I" As Charles James Fos averred—" I be u li . e % him to be one of the best, as I am ce rtain "" 1 „ the greatest of men I" Ho who h a d entere d 1" triumph all the great capitals of Europe--Vi eells ; Berlin, Milan, Mad r id, M oscow , as eoneele rn : among other great powers, of Austria, r 11156 , 1 , - ; Italy, Spain, Russia! He who, f r om b e ing a Ye t t. son of a Corsican Barrister, had made himself peror of France, King of Italy, Mediator of " t i e zerland, Protector of the Confederation of;. eg Rhine—creating his elder brother Joseph ' i hio first of all of Naples, afterwards of Spain e, brother Louis, King of Holland—his brother l eres ' e i King of Westphalia—his brothe r -in-law In eebi t , Murat, King of Naples —one of his lieutenee.e Janet, Governor of P or t uga l—b es ides ee llEls t s a variety of others to become occaPeo.. of minor thrones in that marvellous arranghip ment of the European System, the he ed , 6 , of which constituted him, in a manner , .wi l a series of years Lord Paramount over the length e tbe breadth of the Continent. At any period le , th e history of modern Europe since the close et Great Napoleonic Era, since the death, that le i ' i 0 the hero himself on the memorable 1821, on the rocky island of St. Helena—an auto it tic narrative of the Life and Adventures of his ea and famous step-daughter and sisterein-law 1211.eset Hortense nee Beauharnais, would have been a e llb i- e r of eager curiosity to all en d owe d with a liv fi e i l i s t appreciation than the gen era lity, of the P ee . interest appertaining to the romance of hle +-4 'v - 1 0 Published, as the joint work of Sir Le ecei t ha Wraxall, and Robert Wehrhan has been, e ine : t he restoration to supreme power in France c 4 sea Napoleon Dynasty, and that moreover in the P er ea of the third and youngest of the sons of G uc ci Hortense herself—the Prince Louis N a poleon' e f for more than a dozen years past EmPer.reiri France under the glorious title of Napoleon.' . 14 ,0 of lte W e ver the work comes before us with a witchery that it would be difficult to exaggerates il e i e ee t the story of this life might be related, it COuldch fail to read otherwise than wondrously, as t b : t ti to o it were the record of some extravagant i 4e t s rather than the account of a succession of ece "t each of which, marvellous though it may ePP e ce r now while reading about it, was neverthelegl. all that a veritable realty. It is, of its k 11 3; a sort of fairy tale in its way. It is as astonish ing in the marvels it recounts as any one of the tholli° g and one Arabian figments told to the breathi es , interest of the Sultan-Caliph, by the " iero daughter, the Sultana Sheh e ra za d e ! However,i recounted, we repeat, the faithfully re l a ted Al em % a a Queen Hortense could not b u t have Pes se ; 3 l, - a this attraction for, could not but have w ield this glamour over the general run of re eue- a i , whether readers of history or readers re , romance. Penned, as they have been be re however, in this graceful and courtly n er , so e five, by biographers who seem to sound the P rel e to of their heroine to the flourish of golden trump ja —the incidents here brought to view byebetaat seven-and forty romantic chapters, might t he be said to pass before us with ail, pe . pomp and panoply of some stately l i e t i a ot rial procession. Now and then one ie a l' tempted to swallow, not a mere grain or W e ' rt e• a large handful of salt in order to get down P il oa enters, in themselves apparently too hug e °0 to portentous in their way, for eas y passage' e on speak, down the gullet of o ur cre d u lity ! Y et b - e iief there in those exceptional instances wher e - ee ry in the events referred to, app ears to be e e a ieg difficult, we are fain to swallow the seta° be r statements—CUM (acct sine)grano salt's—Va le° teV ing as who can fail to do how often, how . e it ieg the word " impossible," as the wonde e-weri epa hero himself said was swept out of igaPe the vocabulary by Napoleon himself. And t light of Napoleon's own history—"W e nu aell believingly tees° enthralling Memoirs io f '` t he Hortense—mother of Napoleon's succesece e c t he rehabilitater of Napoleon's throne in Plait e es ' a d restorer of Napoleon's empire over Fra ne e among the chief Powers of Christendom. City Sewers Commission, Of Yesterday the Commissioners of Sewers of t he Clil of London met as usual at the Guildhall, for the d espatc; a ,, public business. The Chairman, Henry De Jer a 1 . 1 re d presided, and among the Commissioners present s r 4 11 , ° ;c1r Alderman J. C. Lawrence, Deputy Farrar, Depu.t Y e Deputy Elliott, Deputy Lorkin, Deputy Bower, 3 2:re Lloyd, Deputy Burnell, Deputy Perkins, Messrs- ` - r o , ° el/, Walter, Fox, I'. Symonds, Chaplin, Young, W l ' s Cole, Botterill, Green, Farlow, Burro , 29 yllOt The Solicitor, to the CommiGsion, Alexander F. c oir Esq., reported that on the sth inst,, he caused to ( b itzt %icai' dunned, before Alexander J. C. Lawrence, at the „d of which had been (at house, our quarters of an ox whim, .a,.. Inspector Wylde, in Leadenhall-market, and forme' I ineti an animal that had died of diesease, Th o m eat a l:, , Tl )o destroyed, , and quite unfit for human food. It was order 5d to Ba. and Alderman Lawrence directed b i rn . tiet ' t further r ) to bring the matter before the Court, in ° rjet fil ° proceedings might be taken against the Pe c 73°11 . had sent the meat to London. It was decided to instruct the solicitor to make 03° sere, sary iags I: e r i e no. m t . nary inquiries with a view to further T r°c are against the offender. Dr. Lett 10D1',0a0 m th e a d t ioal o ' ffic a e k r e o n f health, reported on the state of 2 591 : 0 3 a list had been inspected during the week, and he 6 11 ., 1 1) ; 1 ls° 114 places for sanatory improvement. . 1 ",,, - I' d' i s a ub a mit o t f ed a list of places which to wired further P r s eloW . plied with. account of orders already issued, but not you fill'i is , 0' The markets and slaughterhouses had been. 00 spectecl, and the officers had condemned 3 , 4031 b! °f moat IA II unfit for human food. Nearly the whole of ft " diseased condition. t i a t 55 b The returns of last week (says Dr Letb.eby) 0 11° ' ic - „, l o De r a it the and 57 deaths were registered in the City. Tlfe l ' -- rid f deaths is just the average for the correspondia.„:oo6 of the last eight years 26, or just half of the de 3 ';' - c i 13 ,, among child) on of less than five ears of ag e ' ti ., - se` among old persons of 60 and upwards y 'r ha chief c6t s se P i° death were as follows :—Phthisis 4, pneumonia 1, broo - : 3 13 , 3, 2, mesenteric disease 4, hydroce hal 1, whoopifigc°:%o infantile diarrh ma 3, continuedPfeverls4scarlet fev er [ a f , a set t measles fro 4, making together 9 deaths from tubercular (1615000 m inflammatory affections of tho lungs, all d , l t ,, i . to' diseases of a zymotio character. Dr. L thebY fu r OE' ported that the illuminating power o rithe:ge s r s et r l3Plieci t° f uirefileisi° °I. city during the week had aabove uhreaaungt of st ole va the act of Parliament ; but the average of the Chartered and Great CenvtrearlagGesas had be en 9D° the quantity sanc by at liaraen he Commission ti e oned rs, at ter P transactine' t. some Other bffsi ness, adjourned. b CHARLES---------.... cri,raa• Messrs. ''' DICKENS'S NEW SERIAL PA e ye Chapman and Hall, according t ° * t ~c,ittis Reader, have bought the copyright of " Oar '''',-; 00 0 Friend." The fortunate author receives, they says foie4ltY —6,000 on the issue of the first, and tho remajui". 04 the completion of the tale, IHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1864, Ti to qu 3 p, I 3 p, Ne, No