The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

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Fail - v •.;;fa 44 1 • *,t'!- - - I;'7- - Bv<l7 prefer our own age to live'n befortaittOtteire;-iNtjnimift that all the appliances an.: discoveries of Atit own jay cßuld be intolerably missed if of e were removed from them, rrwle are forced to gran', too, that in every past period we knew of we should find a lower tone of general public opinis; - .a., than that which prevails now—still we must all allow that there is such a thing as progress, that society in some way , improves with lime, that not only in science, but also iji social morals, some steps are gained as years roll by, and that these steps, once gained, are permanent acquisitions. Whether it be so or not, we cannot believe it otherwil. We can neither believe that, having learnt the power of steam, men will go back to pack-horses, nor that the moral social enlightenment which they have now reached will ever relapse into degradation and barbarism ; and to call tho the world wiser and better than it was is, we suppose, in a certain sense, to allow that the men and women who compose it are wi:er and better. Thus we are all disciples of progress ; we are so because, in this sense, it is impossible for men to ha otherwise. Nevertheless there is something irritating, and prompting to instinctive contradiction, in the assumptions of "advanced thinkers" on this head. They are for ever raying with the boastful Capaneus, " We era much better than cur fathere"— Far more than heirs of all our parents' fame, Our glories darken their diminished nen e— " the children of cur day know more than the sous of the past," and so on. Under such talk, and even under cur Own aiinissions, we know that a fallacy lurks, if they aro intended to mean that the old boundaries of human nature the old capacities rer human wisdom and greatness, are ex tended by the course of acquisition and discovery. It is not knowledge, but thought, which makes the wise man. - .Taft as the children who know so much are very Common place children still with all their knowledge, so the sages who were ignorant of most of the things they know were sages still. Nor, for that matter, can we see that the diffusion of useful knowledge, railways, and elec tricity, and the penny post, would have made them much wiser in the line in which we now look up to and revere them, and still accept them as teaclieFs and ea oncnta. 'The INAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very 'Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at THE SUN, LONDON, MOINDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1864. 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Ainahan's LL Whisky." N°. 22,575. Now ready, in 2 vols , Bvo., with Portrait, i;NURN t FUJIE, CARPETS, B EDDING, and Ii'LOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at scoond-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CI.ERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo adm -able engravings of every description of Furniture and ffeasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and post-free on application. This eostly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised DEATH OF KR. JOHN LEECH. PRICE ...... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. ESTABLISHED 1837. - Ft RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE CORI PATSY. Empowered by special Act of Parliament 4 Viet., cap. 0. 1, Princes -street, Bank, London. THE HON. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS. sure for the regulation of street music that I am desirous of strengthening your hands by putting you hi possession of some facts within my knowledge. I formerly lived in Gor don-street, Gordon-square, but was compelled to quit Lon don to escape the distressing consequences of street music, although G3rdon-street was comparatively a quiet locality. A dear friend of mine, and one to whom the public has been indebted fur 20 years for weekly supplies of innocent amuse ment, ani whose namaAvill find aphice'in the future history of Art, has not been ie. fortunate. Relived in Brunswick. square, and remained there until the nc.rve:ius system was so seriously affected by the continual disturbance to which he was subjected while at work that he was compelled to abandon a most desirable home and seek a r:•treat at Ken sington. After expending eansiderabie !titer to make his present residence convenient ' for• his art work—placing double windows to the front of'his house, &c.. ho is again driven from his home by the continual visitation of street bands and organ grinders. The effect upon his health pro duced—on my honour, by the causes I have named—is so serious.that he is forbidden to take horse exercise, or indulge in fast walking, as a palpitationof the heart has been pro duced—a form of angina pectoris, I believe—and his friends are most anxiously concerned for his safety. He is ordered to Homburg, and I know that the expatriation will entail a loss of nearly £5O a week upon him just at present. lam sure I need not withhold from you the name of this poor gentleman—it is Mr John Leech. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Grcat ➢larlborough street. To be had at all the Booksellers and Libraries. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted at the lowest rates of Pre,lin consi-tent with security. Tito various Tables, some of whica are peculiar to this Com pany, have been studiously adapted to the requirements of every class of Assurers. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in __3 vols., THE MASTER OF MARTON. "This 'work will take a very high place among the novels 'of the seazon. It is well written, and has an interest ing plot. The dialogue throughout is good, sparkling every where with geniality and wit."—Star. llurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto Established 1836. Offices-1, Pale- treet, Liverpool ; and 21, rouliry, 7, Cornhill, and 56, Charing-cr,lss, London. (Empowered Specially by Parliament.) Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., TETE QUEEN OF THE COUNTY. By the Author of "Margaret and her Bridesmaids,"A c "The Queen of the County' is a novel of the first class. It is a story of exciting interest, and a delightful study of female character. Independently of its interesting plot, an elevated moral tone and great literary ability give it accu mulated claims to a place in a andard literature."—Post. Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. l'ogrether with a Yam List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valnable informationto all requiring household furniture, nrpeis, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentltmen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Eiy, Preston, Grimsby, Ityde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, iL►rgate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Aban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 osier places in all parts of Great Britt, INVES I'ED FUNDS EXCEED £3,(K0,000 STERLING. By an Act of the last Session of Parliament, the Globe Insurance Company of London was amalgamated. as from the 29th September, 1 /.4'2, with the Liverpool and London Corn pa,y, and by a clause in the Act the name of the latter Com pany was subsequently changed to TUE LIVERI'OO t, AND LONDON AND GLOB o. INSURANCE CO )I.PANY. COlifiETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E. The CAPITAL of the Company is Two Millions, of which £399,000 is paid up and invested ; and in addition there are Reserve Funds, which, independently of the Life Reserve, amount to £1,200,000. FIRE INSURANCE.—The Premiums in 1863 exceeded £550,000, and were greater than those of any other Company by upwards of £2OO,(YA). The position in the Duty Return will be understood from the following statement:-- The Sun, established in 1710, collected duty in 1863, £215.000 The Phcenix „ 1782, f t ~ 138,00) The Liverpool and) ~8 30, 133,00) London and Globe 5 ' f t tt Whilst no other Company collected as much a 5...... 90.030 Now ready, in7crown Bve., with a Portrait of the Princess, 6s, MEMOIRS of HENRIETTA CARACCIOLO, of the Princes of Forino, ex-Benedictine Nun. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. R 30,000 —This Amount to be advanced • by a private gentleman in sums of £5O and upwards, to Noblemen, Gentlemen, heirs to Entailed Estates, Officers on full-pay, &c., with secrecy and despaich, on their notes of hand; also on Reversions, Legacies, and Life Interests, at 5 per cent.—Apply, by letter only, to L. G., 7, Jermyn-street, St. James's, S.W. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," &O. FOURTH EDITION, READY, __ _ _ riIHE DOCTOR'S WIFE , A.. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. If those gentlemen who laugh at complaints such as this r inger contains were to 4 know-what are the natural penalties of constant brain work. thq wouli no,t4espatvdkvoottia such unnecessary inflictions as street music entails upon some of the benefactors of their age. Such men are thB last to interfere with the enjoyments of their poorer fel low-labourers, but they claim to be allowed to pursue their calling in peac9, and to have the comfort of their homes secured to them. All they ask is to have the same immu nity from the annoyances of street music as the rest of the community have from dustmen's bells, post-horns, and other unnecessary disturbance. The objecti3n to street noises is LIFE INSURANCE.--The Premiums receive .1 in 1863 Were X. 209,54), and the Annuities paid amounted to £33,500. The Fund accumulated to meet these Liabilities is Z 1,450,000. The Liab lily of Proprietors is unlimited. NEW NOVEL BY •GUSTAVE ADIARD. This Day, in 3 vols., THE BEE-HUNTRESS By GUSTAVE AIMARD. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. FLUID: - 2TB',lTigl - liblborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curl.; Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6(1.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, ls. 6d., or 20 stamps. 'SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary. September, 1561. NEW NOVEL BY A CLERGYMAN. This Day, in 2 vo s., SKERDALE PARK. A Novel ill John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently— Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from 58. The Dye is sold at 3s. 5d ,or sent free for M stamps. It is most easy of tre. "'AIR DESTROYER —248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the sktn, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day.as ordered by post for 54 stamps. not a matter of taste. It involve; the progress of hone; A NEW NOVEL BY A NEW AUTHOR. This day, in 3 vols., GASPER TRENCHARD, By BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG, Barrister-at-Law. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet street. labour and the avoidance of great mental. adiction. "Apologising for the liberty I have taken, "Believe me, yours faithfully, "M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P." ‘. MARK lamoN. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Offices-2, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS, (Ohio Division) Payable in London. 4,C00,( 00 Dollars. Due in 1883, Coupons due Ist January and Ist July. Secured by a Registered Mortgage on the Income and all Corporate Rights, Privileges, Lands, Franchises, Plant, and Property of the Ohio Division of the Railway. The Bonds are redeemable at par in New York, or in Lon don at 4s. 6d. per dollar, and are transferable wi . hout stamp or endorsement ; Interest Coupons are attached to the Bonds, Payable semi. annu .1 y, at the Cons lidated Bank in London, at the fixed rate of 9s. to the dollar. The Builds wilt be issued at 56, at wh ch rate Bonds of 1,000 dollars will cost £l4B 10s., carrying Coupons due January 1, 1865. The Coupons represent £l4 per annum on each Bond of 1,000 dollars, or 91 per cent interest on price of issue. The several divisions of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway have been c9nsolida'ed under the government of James Robb, Esq., whose reput tion as a Banker and Rail way Administrator is established in Europe as well as in America. Mr. Robb. as President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, joins the Direction of the Erie and other lines forming the Throu2ll Route between New York and St. Louis, so as to secure unity of action. The price of issue has been fixed at (6. The terms of issu; are as follows : • .£ s. d. 5 per cent on application, being 11 5 0 per bond of 1030 dols. 10 „ on allotment „ 21 10 0 „ 15 „ 19th November „ 33 15 0 ~ 15 „ nth Th.cember „ 33 15 0 „ Sl „ loth January 11 47 5 0 less £ 7 Coupon due Ist January Xl4' 10 0 ' Su , scribers have the option of payin.7 the instalments in advance, and will be allowed a discount of 0 per cent per an num on such pre-paymen s. After allotment, Scrip Certificates will be issued to " bearer " These Certificates will be exchanged for Bonds " bearer" on payment of the final instalment. Forms of Application may be obtained at the Consolidated Ilank, or at the offices of the Company, No. 2, Old Broad street, London, KC.. or of E. P. SAYTERTH WAITE, Broker, 28, Throg,morton-street, London, E.C. London, Oct. 12, 1804. ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Issue of SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS, payable in London.—NOTICE I 7 HEREBY GIVEN, That no ApPlication for these Bonds will be re ceived after THIS DAY, Oct. 31. By Order. No. 2, Old Ifroad-street, October 31,1851. THE NORTHERN ASSAM TEA COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated and r the Companies' Act, IS I 2. Capital £20 0 ,000, in 20, , .00 shares of £lO each.. First issue, 15,010 shares. 10 per share on application ; 10s. on allotment. No Cali to exceed 10s. per share, or to b.: made at a less interval than three m.mtlis from a prev:ous Call. It is not intended to call up more than 30s. per share f :r twelve month a. Where no allotment is made the deposit money will be tult,e4 tlYaun. A miimum Dividend payable half-ye ley in July and Janu n ary, of 10 per cent. per annum, for three years, is secured to the shareholders, to the satisfaction of tne Direc ors. DIRECTORS. E. W. Wingrove, Esq., Chairman (late Mackenzie, Lyall, and Co., Calcutta). Percival Battiscombe, Esq., Sevenoaks, Kent. *E. if. Higgs, Esq., lustow, North Dixon, and Dibrooghur, Assam. II Stavely King, Eeq.. A Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. J. W. Mitchell, Esq. (Messrs. Mitchell and Aspinall), 8, Great Tower-street, KC. Col. T. 11. SiSsmore, Bengal Artillery, Houghton Lodge, Stockbridge. J, H. Young, Esq., 8.C.5.,10te Commissioner Burdwan Divi sion, Bengal. * This gentleman will join the Board as Managing Direct r When the transfer of the Estates is completed. CALCUTTA AGENTS. Messrs. Thomson, Shaw, and CO. BANKERS. The London and County Bank, Lombard-street. The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, Calcutta. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick, 63, Al 'ermanbury. BROKERS. Messrs. Seymour anl Co., 38, Throymorton•street. SECB.F.TARY PRO TEM. Mr. C. 11. Fielder. TEMPORARY OFFICES, 35, Bucklersbury, London, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed for the purchase of Twelve valu able Tea Estates, situated in Northern Assam, on the south side of the Brahmapo..tra river, at distances varying from two and a half to ten miles from Dibrooghur, the principal shipping port of Upper Assam. The purchase money is fixed at £54,f 00, payab'e £7,0)0 in cash, and the residue by four annual instalments, commencing in January, 18d3, witri interest at 5 percent. The vendor has substantially guaranteed to the directors a minimum dividend of 10 per cent. on the paid-up capital during the first three years ; but from the estimates of pro duce and expenses, which have been ca-efully examined, the directors are justified in anticipating of er the first yearcon siderably larger dividends. The Articles of Association end Contract with Mr. Higgs may be seen at the Offices of the Company. Applications for Shares to be made on or before Monday, 31st October, 18.:,4, on which date the list wiil b 2. closed. T ETE NORTHERN ASSAM TEA COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE.—No application for Shares in this Company wl.l be received after THIS DAY, Oct. 31. By order, C. IL FIELDER, Secretary, pro tem. Temporary Offices-35, lincklersbury, London, E.C., 31st October, 1861. riIEETII.—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENT, —The IL exclusive right to this Patent was Fecurei to Mr. Eskell, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor - squar e, by her Ma jesty's Iloval ~ e al (July 17, 18(30), and can only be procured at his residence, where specimens may be seen, and every infor mation can be obtained. Under this Patent, A rtificial Teeth, to last a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without pain or extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect tender gums ; their resemblance to nature is perfect and un detectable, and they are guaranteed for m astication and articulation. Treatise on the subject sent fur seven stamps. Consultations free. OPINIONS or TIIE. PRESS. "Mr. Estell, dental-surgeon, has succe eded in producing artificial teeth, and so constructing them that they patented last their purpose a lifetime. . . . The cess has been p and promises to be most valulble."—pro Court Journal, August 4, 1860. "A surprising novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth to the gum by a patented principle, which secures the most perfect aid, combined with the greatest ease and agreeable appearance."—Morning Advertiser, Auf.,,ust 9, 1860. Decayed teeth stopped, &o. Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. The REAL NICKEL SILVER, introduced more than thirty years ago by WILLIAM S. BURTON, when PLATED by the patent process of Messrs. Elkington and Co., is, beyond all comparison, the very best article, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such, either use fully or ornamentally, as by no possible test can it be distin guished from real silver. A small useful set, guaranteed of first quality for finish and durability, as follows : lattl. , - , .... — „, Fiddle Thread king's or Old Bead' or Brun or Silver !Pattern swiek Lily --.--. Patternl Pattern &c. . ---,-- - £ s. d.l £ s. d. X s. 0. £ s. d. 12 Table Forks 1 13 (:) 2 0 0 2 4 0 1 2 10 0 12 Table Spoons 1 13 0: 2 0 0 2 4 C) 2 10 0 12 Dessert Forks 12 Dessert Spoons 0 1 2 0 1 1 5 0 12 Tea Spoons 6 Egg Spoons, gilt bowls OlO o', 0 12 0 0 12 0 ; 0 13 6 2 Sauce Ladles 0 6 01 0 8 0 0 8 01 0 9 0 1 Gravy Spoon 0 6 6 1 0 9 0 0 10 0,011 0 2 Salt Spoons, gilt bowls 0 3 4$ 0 4 0 0 4 01 0 4 6 1 Mustard Spoon, gilt bowl 0 1 81 0 2 C 0 2 01 0 2 3 1 l'air of Sugar Tongs 026:0360 3 61 0 4 0 1 Pair of Fish Carvers.-- 1 4 0' 1 10 0 1 10 0 1 10 6 1 Butter Knife 0 2 6' 0 4 0 0 5 6, 0 6 0 1 Soup Ladle 0 10 01 0 12 0 0 16 01 0 17 0 1 Sugar Sifter 0 3 l 3 0 4 6 0 4 6' 0 5 6 1-- 919 912 9 0 1 13 9 611 17 3 Total.. Any article to be had singly at the same prices. An oak chest to contain the, above, and a relative number of k n ives, &c., £2 15s. Tea and coffee sets, dish covers and corner dishes, cruet and liqueur frames, &c., at proportionate prices. All kinds of re-platin,g done by the patent process. WILLIAM S. BURTON, GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGER, by appointment to H.R.11. th' Prince of Wales, mends a CATALOGUE gratis, bild post paid. It contains 'inwards cf GOO Illustrations of his illimited Stock of Sterling Silver rind Electro Plate, Nickel Silver aid Britannia Metal Goods, Dish Covers, Hot-water Dishes, Stoves, Fenders, Marble Chinineypieces, Kitchen ltam..:es, Lamps, Gaseliers, Tea Trays, Urns, and Kettles, Clocks, Table Cutlery, Baths Toilet Ware, Turnery, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, Bedding„ Bed-room Cabinet Furniture, ac., with Lists of Prices, and I' ans of the Twenty large Show Rooms, at 3f, Oxford-street, W. ; 1, Us, 2,3, and 4, Newman street; 4,0, and 0, Ferry's-place; and 1, Newman -yard, London. THE NEW NOVEL. This day, at a!1 Libraries, in 3 vole., 11[AR TIN TOBIN, By Lady CAMPBELL. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Flect-street. A. NEW NOVEL BY A /s EW AUTHOR. 20th Thousand, price Is., DR. HARVEY ON CORPULENCE.—Its diminution and cure without injury to health, with Remarks upon the Maladies produced by obesity. CANCS.R and CONSUMPTION. New and painless treat ment. Price is. By JOHN HARVEY, M.D., 9, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Smith and Co., 52, Long-acre. THE SOLDIER'S LEGACY.—Mr. GERMAN REED'S New Opera di Camera TO-NIGHT, at Eight , entitled THE SOLDIER'S LEGACY , composed by G. A. Macfarren, Esq., and written by John Oxenford. Esq., in which Miss R. Henderson, Mr. Whiffin, Mr. P. A. Shaw, and Mis 3 Poole (by the kind permission of the New Opera Com pany), will appear. Concluding with TOO MANY COOKS, sustained by Miss D'Este Einlayson, Mr. J. A. Shaw, and Mr. Whiffin.—ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, Is., 2s. ; stalls, 3s. ; stall chairs, ss. ; may be secured in advance without lee. HE 0 X F OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). THIS EVENING will be produced (fifth time in this country), ORPH 14:E AUX ENFERS, by Offenbach. MASANIELLO, MARTHA, LA TROVATORE, and THE FAVORITE, &c., by the tollowing Artistes,vlx., Misses Russell, Fitz-Ifenry,Walmsley, Tyrrell, &c. With augmented Band and Chorus, condu3ted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. Mr. JACKSON lIANES, the Champion Skater, in his per formano on the Drawing Room Skates, of Quadrilles, Varsoviennes, UNSWORTH (or any other man), EUGENE, W. Randall, 11. Nash, Herr Hermann. and Mdlle. Cavatho. LE PETIT BLONDIN. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. C ANTERBURY .HALL. Triumphant Success of PRINCE PERFUME AND PRINCESS BOUQUET. Under the title of Prince Perfume and Princess Bouquet is nightly to be seen at the Canterbury it all a Magic Spectacle far transcending in poetry of concept on, b auty and in- Lev uity of arrangement, scenic effect _and brilliancy ~ f light -; tin at this lia-P4, o l,thes, and colour mg.y. former (c orriCA L - 1:;. 1 •ITS -11 0-i\ - - h tittrlitsT collective display of scenic art and choreograplic and statuesque grouping will be found pie tires surpassing some of the greatest achievements of the Modern Extra vaganza—Si o "THE SLI IP Wit E C K," "T II PII ANTOM COMBA and "THE CURTAIN OF FIRE." The "Illusive Sketch," which is the centre of these corns cat one, is by Mr. W. F. Vandcrvell ; the overture and inci dental music by Willem Vandervell. Prince Perfume, Mrs. 'William Rand All. - - -• The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). QTRAND MUSICK HALL. PROMENADE CONCERTS EVERY EVENING. With a full Band of Forty Performers. Conductor, Mr. F Kingsbury. Vocalists :—Madlit s. Wilka, Molidoff, and Mayer. Instrumentalists: —Violin, Signor Giovanni Adelmann ; Cornet, M. Duhem; Pianoforte, M. Mattel, Pianist to his Majesty the King of Italy. Admission, ls.; Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, 2s. Commence at Eight. STRAND MUSICK HALL. MUSICK AT EIGHT O'CLOCK. COMICK AT TEN O'CLOCK. EVERY EVENING, THE GREAT VANCE AT HALF-PAST TEN. M GALMADAF, TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL LERY : established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. COUTY DE LA POMMERAIS, th Poisoner,f Paris, taken from the original photograp h, by Mons. T e . in quart, o from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physio:memy. Admittance, Is. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, It. BIGNELL. 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The Tunnel through the Alps, Before the tunnel of Mont Cenis was undertaken, the most daring engineers did not venture on the construction of a tunnel one-fifth of its let:gth ; and they wore espe cially careful, by vertical shafts, to provide for venti lation, It was considered that, without such a precaution, even the tunnels then executed would be, at least, highly injurious to human life. Yet not only will the Alpine tunnel to of very great length, but ventila tion by vertical shafts is out of the question, on account of the enormous height of the mountains above. Ordinary tunnels are excavated simultaneously in various parts. Such a mode of proceeding was impossible in this case, and for the same reason that ventilation cannot be obtained by means of vertical shafts—the altitude of the mass above. 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They form an opening ten feet wide and ten feet deep; this is enlarged to the proper size by the workmen, after which the walls and vault are constructed. The work proceeds at about a yard a day at each end—that is about twice as fast as if carried on by manual labour alone. At this rate, twelve years will be required for its completion; but it is expected so to accelerate it, after a while, that it will be finished in seven. About 1,700 yards are already executed on the French side, about 1,250 on the Italian. It may well be supposed that to ad vane° with such accu racy, that the two portions of the tunnel may at last exactly nyet, is a matter requiring. great carp and ingenuity. In stances have occurred, with comparatively short tunnels, in which the excavators have passed each other by. This would be a very serious thing in the present case, but it is rendered impossible by extremely sample means. A. lamp is placed in the centre of the rock at the inner extremity of the excavation, and signal posts in the proper direction on the mountain above. Tho tunnel is known to run in ex tctly the required direction when the lamp and the posts are shown by a theodolite to be in the same vertical plane; that is, when the signal posts are seen if the instrument is raised, and the lamp if it is depressed—the motion being, so to speak, in a truly perpendicular direction. When the work is completed the Alps will be passed in half an hour. Cassell s illuaraW Paper, Suddenly there is a great blank among us, and the shadow of a great darkness, One of our dearest and most delightful companions, one whom not only we, but also all whose eyes will rest upon these columns, must think of as in some sort a cherished companion, is taken from us, John Leech, known to the public as one of the most kindly and the moat graceful humonrists that ever lived, known to his friends for a peculiar gentleness and refinement of character that at &et sight seemed as it were in opposition to the robustness of his judgment, and therefore took many people by surprise, died on Saturday - evening at 7 otelock. The death of G midi was said to have eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and the death of Mr Leech will touch many more hearts both of this and other ,nations, than Garrick ever reached. Although he looked strong, he had been long a suffererer, and complained of sleeplessness; his incessant brainwork induced a peculiar irrita• bility with which most persons have a terdency to jest rather than to sympthise. He was much affected by noise, and or* literally driven from his house in Brunswick- E —by 'street futile. He hoped to get peac e at ng t oo , es p ec i a ll y as h e ' abut them o ut kly__t he. 'ea ed-doublo windows; but ho had no peace, and in addition to the torment of the organs he came to be efflicted at early dawn by the hammer of some small mechanic. His friends made light of it, and tried to jest with him. " You may laugh," he would say, "but I assure you it will kill me." He was so unwell that during this last summer he was obliged to go abroad, and he was forbidden to indulge in his favourite exer cise of riding on horseback. He came back better in the autumn, but still he was strangely susceptible to noise, and only than a fortnight ago he spoke with more than his usual earnestness, with something even of passionate entreaty in his tones about the suffering which the street organs gave him, and about the smallness of the sympathy which he received from people who have to work their brains in a mere routine. At last his sufferings have come to an end, and if any of his friends were inclined to treat them as imaginary they will now be convinced. It is not a year since he stood in tears by the grave of his schoolfellow, Thackeray, and now his friends will follow him, too, to his long home. They were schoolfellows together, they were fellow-workers together in Punch; both h a d some thi ng even o f womanly gentleness intermingled with the strength of their characters; and both were in their styles of working classical. Although Mr Leech lived to be 47 years of age, the record of his life is short and simple. He was born in London in 1817, and was educated at the Charterhouse. He left school to study medicine, and had made considerable progress in that direc- tion before he discovered what was to be his true path in life. His first sketch in Punch, entitled "Foreign.Affsirs," appeared in the first week of August, 1841, and thenceforward the history of his lite is to be seen week by week in the pages of that popular periodical. Nu doubt, he was otherwise engaged also. lie illustrated almanacs and novels, books of travel and poems. A Christmas time with out two dczen sketches by Leech, full of the most graceful and delicate humour, would be a strange Christmas indeed, a Christmas which might as well he without holly and mistletoe, dancing and good cheer. He always took great pains as Christmas drew nigh, and year by year seemed to surpass himself in delicacies of touch, and in the charm of his humour. But it was through the weekly pages of Punch, far more than through the yearly almanac, that Mr Leech was Vest lanse#4. to the _public; end his life is there rifleaft. He goes to France and drawsa French scene, to Scotland anddraws a Scotch one. Then his experiences of our social life—his pictures of balls, dinner parties, mess-rooms, bache lors' chambers, Rotten-row, gardens, parks, streets, watering places, shooting parties, hunting fields, boating, fishing, and we know net what else, make up such a history of his time as to the future historian will be invaluable. The fashion of the day, the psesion of the hour is reflected on his page as in a photograph. And while we have thus in his sketches a curiously complete history of certain phases of this Vi6torian era, we have also in them a picture and a chronicle of the artist's own life, Anyone, without knowing Mr Leech personally, can detect in these sketches the work of a keen sighted, hearty sort of man, healthy and broad in his sympathies, full of fun, but still more charmed with grace, and sensitive to beauty, fond of chil dren, fond of dwelling on all youthful beauty, fond of beautiful dogs and horses, bat above all things of truth and nature. We have said that he was classical in his style of working. One cannot well speak of the ridiculous in itself as classical ; and much of Mr Leech's work concerned the ridiculous. Bat in him the sense of the grotesque and the love of satire was never allowed to interfere with, much less to over-ride, his attraction to whatever was beautiful and true. There never was a caricaturist who was so little of a ca. ricaturist ; who would giro the truth of nature on so many different sides, and seemed at the same time to have so quick an eye for whatever is lovely in nature. He drew with equal ease a fine lady and a erossing-sweeper—and on the same page he would bewitch the reader of Punch with the lovelieet of little maidens, and provoke him with the vulgarest of upstarts. And ha was always seeing and drawing something new. Suddenly we should be astonished with some sea-piece in which the billows were ren dered with wonderful skill. Or we had some moun tain scenery, or a glade in a wood, or ploughed fields, or standing corn. He never stood still. When we wondered what should come next, we had some rare sky, some curious effect of light. And all this display of scenery was the mere background to views in which men, and women, and children were the chief objects of interest. All seemed to flow from his pencil so easily that people scarcely enough understood how hard he worked. • H e must have worked very hard to produce so much variety in constant succession week after week for more than 20 years. He died, too, in harness, working to the last, and working, indeed, beyond his strength. With cha racteristic generosity he made unusual exertions in aid of his relatives, and his labours were latterly more severe than they need have been if he had had only to think of himself and his household. These anxieties and exertions have at length struck him down—and who is there to fill his place ? A good, great man, of fine and rare genius, has gone from among us,and we shall not know how much he was to us until we discover by his loss that nature does not often produce such artists as John Leech. One of our greatest artists, Sir Edwin Landseer, has said that there is scarcely a sketch of Mr. Leech's which is not worthy to be framed by itself and hung on our walls. Other artists are equally strong in his praise. No mar envied him. The public at large think more of the human interest that belongs to his drawings and the amusement which may be de rived from them. But, over and above all this, they have qualities which, notwithstanding the lowli ness of the material employed, will hereafter confer on Mr. Leech's sketches a very high renown as works of art. To these few observations wo append the follow ing letter, which will have a sad interest at the present moment. When Mr. Bass proposed to bring a bill into Parliament relating to street music he received a number of letters from various persons who wished him success. He published these letters, and among them we find the following. We will only add that, though Mr. Leech suffered much, his life was not supposed to be in immediate danger. He went out to consult Dr. Quain on Friday, and there was a child's party in hie home at the time of his death : " Punch Office, M, Fleeb-street, 231 May, 1861. " Sir,--I venture upon what might possibly be consi dered an impertinence, were not the subject of my note of public interest. am so greatly interested in the success of your mea- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE EARLDOM OF WICKLOW.—The reverses of fortune are not to be compared to those which men bring upon them selves by their vices. If chance makes them penni• less, they have still left their energies and their self-respect. They can battle against the world, though they are obliged to put off most of its come forts, and can feel, even if they sink in the struggle, that they have fought their right well, though not successfully. It is otherwise when men involve themselves in ruin by wanton folly or the indulg. ence of degrading propensities. In the life of such a man there is nothing to respect. We would rather blot out all trace of him, and forget, when he has gone his way, that such a being ever cum bered the ground. He has been an enemy to him. self and to all who have come within his influence; as well to those who have ministered to his vices as to those who have suffered by them. He has been a disgrace to his name and a scandal to the world. And yet it may be that, with all this, the source of his errors has not been so much an original baseness as a softness of temper, an absence of the sense of responsibility, vacuity of intellect, and exemption from the necessity of labour. If the uses of adversity aro not precisely sweet they are far the most pare wholesome. There is an energy within us which some way or other must bs em ployed. We may appease it by healthy toil of any kind, or we may deaden its cravings by the indul gence of ourpassions. Wise men take the one course, fools the other. Yet the fool's vices may have had their origin in nothing worse than weakness, which the necessity of labour might have fostered into strength. If, in his last moments, the unfortunate man who died last week in a brothel in one of the lowest slums in the neighbourhood of Dublin could have contrasted his death-bed and its surroundings with his social sta•e, his opportunities a nd expecta tions, he might have cursed the hour which brought him into the world with the certainty of most ,of these advantages, and with the strong possibili enjoying all at • If .one could sl t \taignAtg ones birth in what position in life We should be horn, it would not show a defickney of judg ment to resolve on corning into the world as did the fate William George Howard. Many years before his death he was presumptive heir to the earldom of Wicklow; and though, if a man had the right to select to which out of a t - 1( earldoms he would like to succeed, it would not be difficult to chcose a more attractive one then that of Wicklow, it moist bo admitted Csp•ain Howard's prospect of succession was not to be looked clown upon. He was, to say the least, nobly born. It the revenues which he had the strong probability of inheriting were not immense, they were sufficient to enable him to raise very large sums of money from the Jews. When, some years ago, he came before the Insolvent Court, his debts were stated at little. if anything, less than £lOO,OOO. And this enormous sum had been raised upon post obit bonds. Yet in the history of this man we find not a single trace of any feeling that he owed to himself or to others the duty of living decently for a single day. His associates were the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile. In the peerage he ranked as heir to an earldom. In society the most abandoned and despicable knew him and saluted him as "Billy." And when last week he bade farewell to the world he had scandilised, the historian of his last hours was an " unfortunate" in whose arms he expired. In such miserable companionship did the heir to the earldom of Wicklow breathe his last—in the prime of manhood, with hostages given to fcrtune, in a wife who had borne him one child and was about to bear him another. It would appear that, as if led by the instincts which had debased him from his early youth, he had left the roof which sheltered wife and child to close his days in a manner more befitting his antecedents than their society. He , had known the woman in whose house he died for eleven months, and on the Tuesday week before his death he took up his quarters with her. It is a dreary narrative that we now learn from her lips. He told her he had been ill. He complained of cramps and diarrhoea, but would neither see a medi cal man nor take medicine. He would take whisky ; and day after day he lay in bed drinking whisky— sometimes a quart a day; and, when he found that whisky did him no good, drinking brandy. During the ten days preceding his death, he appears only to have eaten one egg and one chop, but not to have retained either on his stomach. Day after day his cry was the same—" whisky." And so drifting out to sea, the wretched man spent his last hour, till on Wednesday week he became delirious, craving to his last breath for drink. "He continued wandering and delirious," says the unfortunate who attended him, " up to the time of his death. It was at half-past ten o'clock, and he had been asking me to lift him out of bed all day. I had promised to raise him up, and when I caught his hand to raise him he said, Don't catch me•' I then put my hand behind his back, but he said let me lie down, and he fell back. I then heard something in his throat, but I did not think he was dying. He died then, but I did not know he was dead. I asked him to speak to me, but he did not, for he was dead." So passed the scion of a noble house. Had he been born the son of ono of its labourers, he might have had a better chance for the life of soul and body than fell to him as the heir to its hononrs and re venues. Malicious he was not, nor an intriguer, nor brutal, nor daring in iniquity, nor strongly wicked. He was weak. Empty of brain, soft of disposition, easily manipulated by the vicious, and in his feebleness the most notably vicious of them all. Poverty might have compelled him to labour. He was born rich, and his rank overwhelmed him. He possessed the means to distinguish or debase himself. And of the two ambitions he chose the latter. THE "EXAMINER" ON SUBMARINE CABLES...- Long submarine electric cables began six years ago with the Atlantic cable. This extended to rather more than 2,000 miles, with unequal depths, vary., inn from the height of an Irish round tower to that of the peak of Teneriffe. It held together just long enough to allow her Majesty the Queen of England and the President of the then United, now the dis united, States to exchange compliments, and to enable the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to make a knight of its engineer. It cost 1600,000, and of the project as at present under renewal the cost is estimated at a sum of £700,000. Government binds itself to guarantee a dividend of 8 per cent on the capital, " upon the completion and working of the cable." How these very vague words may be con strued by lawyers we know not. If, 14 example, the cable, which is of double the strength and size of its predecessor, should work well for a whole month and then snap and perish like its predecessor, would the guarantee be effective? If it would, the public will be burdened with an annual and per. petual charge of £56,000 per annum. But the guarantee would seem to apply equally to the sum laid out on the first cable, for it is dated 1857, that is, before this was laid, and in this case the annual burden to the State in perpetuity, and no benefit received, would amount to X 104,000! The tele- graphic communication whico is to connect us with India, and eventually with China and Australia, begins with the Mediterranean cable, or that which runs between Malta and Alexandria, of the length of 1,550 miles. This has proved the most Success ful of all the long submarine cables, yet it has snapped three times in three yea's, producing an interruption of communication of 137 days by the admission of its own engineer. The mete first cost of this cable is said to have been 1;409,000. Next comes the notorious Red &a cable. Tne cost of this was £BOO,OOO, and the Government has gua ranteed on that capital an interest of 41 per cent. down to the year of our Lord 1908. This cable has proved a total failure, but we, our children, and our grandchildren will hare to pay for the Itilure the yearly sum of £36,000! We come, then, to the Persian Gulf cible, which was to have completed the communication, land and sea, between Thgland and our Indian dominions. We do not know what it cost, but in the estimated accounts for the Home Government of India for 1884 we find it credited with the handsome snm of 1;306,000. It gave on the 24th of July last, and up to this day has not been in operation. The cable, indeed, is said not to be worth repairing, and the construc tion of an improved one is is contemplation. Sir Charles Bright, its engineer, and one of the con troversialists in the 'limes, ought to have told us ail_this when he was holding up the hope of a tele -S=P:ADAII.-Aug4kothwia":thtee-Yearel.,47,liZiiT -43 THE " SPECTATOR" ON ADOPTED CHILDREN.— here is a certain absurdity which was going the round last week of the lady who asked a Board of Guardians for " a child only two years old, with blue eyes, and light hair, and a complete orphan." One felt that the demand had been dictated rather by sentiment than by genuine kindliness, that the child was selected on the same principles as a doll might have been, but the anecdote indicated a curious defi• ciency in our law. The practice of adoption, so frequent in the Roman and the modern Asiatic world, allowed by all German laws, sanctioned by the Code Napoleon, has never received in England and kind of legal recog nition. It is not opposed to our manners, is rather approved by opinion, and is among the philanthropic an incident of very frequent occurrence, but the law takes no notice of it, provides no ceremonial for recording it, and imposes no obligations upon those who attempt it. Yet it would be difficult to suggest a practice which might be . proeuctive of more general benefit to a society which like our own is unfavourable to marriage, which throws the time further and further back in every generation, and which allows in the same family excessive inequalities of fortune. There are thousands of old maids among us, well to do and excellent, to whom the privilege would bring a new zest to their lives, new interests, and new occupation, thousands of widowers whose lives are passed in a sort of unwilling solitude, thou sands of married homes where the 'only thing wanting to life is the sound of childrens' voices. There seems no rea son, natural or artificial, why a void due chiefly to the ac tion of an imperfect social system should not by that system be filled up. Adoption of a kind is indeed already much more frequent than the public imagine. Let any one of ourreaders look round his acquaintance, and he will find cases where children loft unprovided for have been brought up by rela tions, friends, and even strangers, with a kindness which makes their circle at last almost forget that the children are not their own. Indeed, the complete EUCCGSS of such ar rangements sometimes suggests a doubt whether "natural feeling" is quite so strong an instinct as it is the fashion to assume, whether it is not the relationship of intercourse which begets family affection rather than that of blood, whether a child does not love its mother as mach from its reliance upon her as from any natural instinct beyond its own control. Children love nurses more than their mothers very often indeed, and the poetry thrown by all races round the relationship of fosteremotheg e lw justification in fact. Frequent as thelneident is, however, the law throws diffi culties in the way of a very positive k 4.: The adopted child, for example, does not inherit un through a rela• tionship other than the adoption, which* . l . iy seldom exists. The tendency is of course to adopt rives, but they will as often be the wife's as the husban - end in that case the legacy duties 'are as hea v y as IC2 adopted were utter 'strangers. So with the most just t , . , : : ::" pcdient of allforms o f adoption—the recognition o f a e .. legitimate child, which though,provided for in everyotbir*ntry of Europe, evenin Calvinistic Scotkateeys inEngli9 IWwitliout any legal sane knwhatever. helegacy i Ili ty may be met by settle r- • . air ", r '. . , ._. .- - s, autpeoplelars r im • .t to sottla tatteakittpcomstr even on their own children,—it impairs too much the peasant stnse of possession and of choice. A still more serious impediment is the difficulty or rather hie/ ossibility of terminating the rights of the real parents. The natural parents can always reclaim their offspring, at least up to the ago of discretion, and wo know of a case m here that power was sacrificed for their adopted children as much es for their own. no lady who asked for a " complete orphan" probably dreaded contact with vulgar or evil relatives, but the fear that all care may be thrown away by a sudden demand for tho child's restoration greatly dimi nishes the practice. TUE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON PItOGRESS,—As every thing is done by association in our days,eo there are compa nies of thinkers, in perhaps a new senee—psople who club their ideas and throw them into a common stock, not on ac count of their identity of thought or aim, but es if with view of realising the magic of numbers, the strength of an imposing title, and of a united front against a common foe. Oae of there companies has taken to itself the striking title of Advanced Thinkers, with the motto "Excelsior," and shows us what wonders can be effected by a name, not only on these who hear it, but on its self-elected possessors— especially if those who use it do not know its meaning, as is the case both Mr LongU How and the Advanced Thinkers, who ought to be, like Saul, taller than his neighbours. The sense of fellowship arising from a common badge and title, the concerted action against established ideas, seems to in duce in them a feeling of advance, of general successful movement, which it would have been impossible for the most sanguine member to entertain as a private solitary thinker, and which is so far unreasonable that not one brother of the community holds positively with another, or believes in his panacea. As members of the company, these men talk as though they expected some fundamental radical change in human nature, and as if this change were already at work; and they can so manage books and figures that their accounts shall seem to prove it; only we observe that the view is not an actuating one, and that, in their private capacity, they have no more faith in men than the rest of theworld. So we conclude that the theory needs an association for its full development, with a ma chinery of commissions and reports; for no man of any school, looking about him in a humble retail sort of way, can make his conclusions fit in with theirs. We do not positively deny the facts or deductions of the grand scale, but we are unable to reconcile them with our personal cx periances, and we fail to perceive that the members of the fraternity are more successful in this than ourselves. It is a strange thing, if we think of it, that the world should have reached this time of day, and that it shou'd be matter of dispute whether it is immeasurably better or immeaear ably worse than when history first reveals it to us—the disputants not being wholly at variance as to what is better or worse. It really depends on a few points, not of the essence of the question, whether wen pronounce the world they live in to be miserably degenerate and vicious beyond all former precedent, or a scene of perpetual improvement— of fair performance, and yet fairer hopes. And it is, perhaps, equally strange to the neutral looker-on that the feelings of a partisan of either faction towards such specimens of the world in dispute as come immediately before him should be so little influenced by his theory, or influenced, if at all, by a rule of contr. ry. Tho asserter of progress has apparently arrived at his favourable conclusions in spite of his face-to-face intercourse with mankind, and of a sour, critical tendency that renders ordinary acquaintance dis tasteful; while the mourner over the world's degeneracy is as likely as not to be a good fellow of the genial sort, who gets on with everybody he meets, and is generally pleased with his company. And this paradox presents itself so often that we come to expect that every proclaimer of the world's perfectibility will despise most people, and hate some one or two with a particular rancour; while the favourite of society, and the man who enjoys himself in it, is pretty sure to be ono who sighs for the good old times, and finds nothing in the moderns to compare with the giants of the past. Dr Johnson, who lived in an age of good fellows, had occasion to quarrel with this universal tendency to exalt the past. "I am always angry when I hear ancient times praised at the expense of modern ones,' , he says—a sentiment that might almost consti tute him a prospective member of the band of associate thinkers, but that his grounds for his op nion would not satisfy their more confident claims, and would reduce him to neatrality in the contest. "There is more learning in the world than. there was formerly," he goes on to say, "for it is more universally diffused, We may not kre o a Bentley or a Newton, but, more men know Greek and Lelia and mathematics than formerly." Thus he believed in great men of the past, though not in the past's general rupei iorit y, and would have had something to say, wo doubt not, to Mr Emerson's view that the world has not yet seen a Man, and that it remains for the New World to produce him. II ever, this anticipation of a pre-eminent and model man is not a necessary part of the new hopes. The advanced thinkers seem to look rather to a gradual assimilation, to end in universal equality, There is to be no Saul in the future towering above his fellows, for the whole host are to reach Saul's stature. They are ready, in fact, to meet their opponents with the admission that progress is fast doing away with great men. 'I here will be no more philosophers of world-wide fame, because all men will be Aristotles and Bacons; there will be no more learned men, because all will surpass Bentley and Newton. We shall call no man saint, because ail i will have passed cur preseut atandard of saiutahip. 11 we cintitve; th 6 filin - aginition could, to say the least, take as long flights ; they could think, and feel, and talk, and play the man with any of their descendants, let the world last as long as it may. They left names which will never be sur passed; and this is so universally granted that, to the great majority of men, even to those who talk most of progress, it would be a joke to compare any one they know with the great men who have been. Extravagance is never felt to have so utterly exceeded bounds as when the hero of the hour is compared with some hero of the past, looking out on us from the far misty distance. Even the boasters have their moments of depression and compulsory homage, like the French sculptor who, after proving to demonstra tion that his horses were in every respect—in beauty of form, in anatomy, in atr angement-Zitnmeasurably supe;for to the group of Lysippus, prose Iu upu., La., Y,p j a a iossion of unwilling candour, "Mais it Taut avower—it must--le granted that those ugly brutes are living and mine are dead."‘-,.. Their own heroes they patronise as their own creation, but what has stood the test of ages and achieved an enduring name they know to be another sort of - thing altogether. However, involuntary candour is a frequent visitant to no one, and certainly one cause of the opiimiK's exaltation of the present is a defective appreheueion of past merit; they are too much occupied with themselves and their own' views to realise the difficulties and the achievements (f pre. vious, and especially remote, times. To such men as' Theodore Parker all the thinkers of Chris ian times before the Reformation are' merely puerile "shabby Africans," and the like. It matters not that these Africans gave the cue to ages of thought; they fasten on same weak point, which is-never hard to find, draw comparisons between what doey know and what the ethers were ignorant of, and conclude that every tiro of the present day who is well up in its commonplaces excels St. Austin, not only in know ledge, but in grasp and largeness of mind—is morally and intellectually above him. And if, in some points, they cannot prove any advance at all over the past—if the noblest poetry, the grandest architecture, the art of ex pression in its heroic perfection, is not to be,fony4,- is scarcely pretended t o i n our time—these are things which "advanced thinkers" do not care for, take no neoount of, and consider W 3 have - Board - of Trade Returns, The officiareturns relating to t ra d e and navi4s; -tion for the nine mo n th s , en d e d the 30th September have just been published. From these it appears= the total declared value of the exports froni etik United Kingdom -was £123,401,161 against £104,294,713 on the like poriOd of 18643, showing: an increase of £19,109,448, the increases is- m ost perceptible in coals and culm, cotfon yarn, cotton manufactures, earthenware, haberdasiberyP'''' 2-.1- **"" .an d' millinery, hardwares and cutlery, linen manu factures machinery sheep end 1amkta1.:...5 • ..;2, } `v A~ I princlpal articles were larger es regards raw co:- ton, sheep and lambs' wool, fl LT, quicksilver, ecff,:.e, brandy, tobacco, and wine. There has been a dimi ou!ion, ho -ever, in provisions, raw siik, tallow, cocoa, wheat, barley, nrart fined sugar, and tea. The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in the amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom for the entries inward , , as also for the clearances outwards, Iu the coasting trade, however, for the same period, there has been a slight decrease in the tonnage engaged for both the entries inwards and the clearances outwards. The Lord Mayor and the Charing-cross Railway. At the Lord Mayor's Court on Saturday, before Mr Harelake, Q.p., as assessor, and a special jury, a compensa tion case which has been pending some time, Lawrence end others v. the Charing-cress Railway Company, was heard and occupied the whole day. Mr Bovill, Q.C,, and Mr H. Lloyd were counsel for the Lord Mayor, and Mr Lloyd, with whom was Mr Shiel, represented the company. The claim was for two houses, Nos, 5 and 6, Cannon-street, near Tnrnwheel lane, which were built in 1852 by Mr Al derman Lawrence, and let respectively at £350 and £450. One was leased to Baron Rothshild and would expire in 1865,the other to a public company, and would expire in 1874. The principal question raised was the value of the rever sion. All the witnesses admitted that property in the City of London had greatly increased in value within the last few years. It had " enormously " risen in price within the "commercial area," and a question was mooted whether the houses were within that area. Several witnesses de scribed the houses as worth respectively £650 and £B5O a year. One was at the corner of Turnwheel-lane. On the part of Mr. Alderman Lawrence the property was valued at upwards of £30,000, the highest sum being nearly £30,700. On the other hand, for the company the valuers estimated the worth of the two houses from £21,000 to £21,6.)0, including the usual 10 per cent. for a compulsory sale, Mr. Hyde,:tho surveyor of the Charing-cross Railway, said he bad purchased property for the South-Eastetn and the Charing. cress Railway to nearly £3,000,000. He considered that £21,641 was a liberal price for the property in question. In a letter which was -read to the jury, addressed to the Lord Mayor, Mr. Hyde said that in order to settle the matter and on account of the "uncertain view which juries took of pro perty in the city of London," he offered a sum of £23,000, The Lord Mayor, in answer, said that was not a fair value for the increase in the price of property, and he would sub mit the case to a jury. Mr Lloyd entreated the jury not to be led away to give an extravagant sum. His experience, connected as he was with railway companies, as to compen sation claims, was a painful ono. Enormous sums had been; demanded, and if property was to increase in value as it had within the last few years, there were trades that could not bo carried on within the city, as they could not give the rent demanded. His opinion was, that property had now reached its culminating point in the city—it had attained its apex, and it must go down. He (Mr Lloyd) though: that at the present time, when money was fetching 8 and 9 per cent., a gentleman would be glad to receive his money. Juries had been in the habit of giving 10 per cont. to cover any difficulty as to investment, but new there was a demand for money, and large interest was to be obtained. He prayed the jury not to give an extravagant price. A. very fair offer of £23,000 had been made to avoid the present litiga tion, which was an expensive affair, but upwards of £30,003 had been demanded. Mr Bovill ridiculed the view taken by Mr Lloyd, as to the culminating point in the value of pro perty and the means of investment at the present time. The value given had been attained in the last 10 years, and was increasing. It showed the great wealth of England, and the largo sums made by commerce, The question was not what was to be obtained for money at a month or so, which might be 8 or 9 per cent., bat what it would yield as a permanent investment in the funds, which would be from 3 to 31 per cent. The learned assessor, in placing the cave before the jury, contrasted the evidence given on both Bides, and told them that the question was, what was a fair and liberal compensation fur the property. There was nothing in the Act as to 10 per cent, being given fora compulsory sale, it had been the practice for juries to do so, and it was for t he u to give the amount or any other bum. They had hoard of the effer made by the company and the sum demanded —they hod heard of the value put on it by respectable men on bath sides, iron £29,000 and some hundreds to £30,700, and on the other side to £21,000 and upwards. The jury retired, nn l on their return assessed the value at i'25,100, including£ lo o for fixtures. 'A call of L 2 lOs alive has be€n made by the directors of the City Offices Company. An accident occurred at the Theatre of Nirmes (Gard) a few ennings since, daring the performance of t he " Pirates de la Savane." An actor who was performing the part of Riberio arrived on the stage on horseback, when the animal, being frightened by the glare of light, became unruly and fell into the orchestra. Both the rider and horse fortunately escaped unhurt, and the damage was limited to thtt breaking of a tew music duke. The performance con tinued after a short interruption.