The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIAN KING'S FAUX PAS- The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, M.P.—The Song of the Polish Scythe, &c. &c.. in FUN THIS WEEK. One Penny. TrIEATRE-Rkri Al. HAY MALt.h.M. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 27th time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy Mr. Birkstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and ars. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by (7th time), a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. H E DUKE'S MOTTO. EEL NDRED AiND THIRTIETH NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. — Under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Ortzinal sketch, entitled A ;51.MDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, M:ss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Prplogue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, Supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougiam, H. N‘ iddimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining, TFII; EVENING, will be presented (20th time), COURT AND CAMP : Messrs. G. Vining:, C. Verner, 11. Marston, G. Belmore, G. Murray, Warde; Miss Amy Sedgwick, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To be preceded by (9th time) a new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. And followed by A CHARMING PAIR. NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-. Sole Prot rtatcr and Manazir. 312. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. THE WILLOW COPSE Mr. Benj. Webster. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, and Miss H. Simms Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. NI( ssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and ears, and Miss K. Kelly. • - Commence at 7. ryi HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Lltest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening: of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 18, 1863. THERMOMETER• This morning This day at Two o'clock 7O Barometer-29. SS. Wind—S. -Easterly; light and fine, but cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tgis DAT.—Morning, 3h. 21m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. To-stoPao-m-Morning, 3h. 59m.—Afternoon, 4h. 16m. # .4., , , « ,w - nit i S, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1863. Ministers, feasted at the Mansion-house, wisely say as little as possible. Their harangus after the Lord Mayor's banquet are, for the most part, composed of the merest platitudes of conventional courtesy. The least said, each of them manifestly thinks this to himself on rising, the soonest mended. And hence, recognising all this —as, who can fail to recognise it ?—for any light that could possibly be reflected by Minister's speeches upon any one of the great political problems now requiring solution tither in the old world or in the new, one might as lief listen atten tively to the whimsical cries raised during the last two or three days in the Sheldonian Theatre by the Oxford Undergraduates. Once and once only—in the Prime Minister's speec'a last evening —was there protruded from the usually inscrutable Official Bag one velvet paw of the Cat so seldom let out of it, a velvet paw that, though revealed but for an instant and then drawn in again, seemed from that one momentary glimpse of it to be bristling out with talons ! " I trust," said Lord PALMERSTON just towards the close of his little say-nothing speech on the part of the great do-nothing Government, "I trust," said his lordship, " that whatever questions may be pending—and I do not dtsgutse from you that Mere are questions of great importance pending— yet I trust that negotiations, conducted on the principles of justice and of right, may lead those questions to an honourable solution." That they " may" lead to that solution, observe! Such being the doubtfully expressed aspiration of the Prince Minister of England—evidently in reference to the negotiations, may we not say it at once, in regard to the Polish difficulty ! Lord PALMERSTON'S words im plying, if they can be supposed to imply any thing, that the negotiations referred to thus may not, on the other hand, lead to some satisfactory and entirely pacific solution. Sothat, in other words there, plainly enough, is at this moment "on the carda," as the popular idiom has it, the old, dreadful, interminable, perpetually recurring alternative, the alternative running through all history, ancient and modern, of—Peace or War. To this complexion, we are perpetually coming, in the annals of Governments. But how often has the alternative itself been drifted into—let alone,the ultimate choice made in that alternative, according to the happy phrase invented at the time of the Crimean war by the Earl of CLARENDON. People are beginning to have certain qualms of doubt as to whether it may not be thus with our Government at the present juncture, not alone in regard to Poland, but in reference also to another far away region of the earth in a totally opposite direction. A firm bold hand at the helm often might secure U 9 from that dreadful drifting, more effectually than all those minute observations, than all those microscopic scrutinies of the chart— more effectually, more securely, than all the most wonderful dexterity in the world applied to the science of political navigation. At the recent meetin g o f the general committee for the relief of distress in Lancashire a very in teresting discussion was held on the prospects of the manufacturing interest, The usual monthly report was highly in satisfactory, seeing that it re cordeda considerable increase sons erapiwieti pn m the number of per there was an i ncrease of 13,451 persons •sv ork lu , g full time, while th e num bers in receipt of relieffrom local comm itt ees was diminished by 68 .389. Them:a were children employed ere at that dat e . 87,938 men, boys, w omen, under the local committe es either e:pwoa of the Work or in th e educational classes , the monthly itur e local committees being £74,900, and th e estimated loss of wages £ 149,914 p e r week. M r , mmis sioner FARNALL stated in his report that there was a deer` ase in the number of recipients of p ar i sh relief in 27 unions in the manufacturing cl.si.ricts though an increase in a few others. Altogethe; there is a net decrease of 105,031 since the 6th of December last. But, on the 6th inst. there were still 166,952 persons in receipt of parish relief, the average percentage of pauperism in the population being B'4, whereas in the corresponding week of 1863 it was 2.4. These facts show clearly enough the severity of the distress still existing, and should be borne in mind by those sanguine persons, who too hastily conclude the danger and difficulty to be over. The prospects of the coming winter give matter for anxious thoughtto those most immediately concerned in the endeavour to mitigate the dis tress. It is satisfactory to know that means are at work to provide regular and remunerative employ ment for the men, and consequently support for their families, since for every able man in full work we naay allow that two or three persons are taken off the parish. Mr. VILLIEP.S' Bill appears as yet to have met the difficulty very satisfactorily, Sir J. KAY SHUTTLEWORTH observing at the late meeting that, although the action of the Central Executive Committee, with respect to public works, had been quite independent of the Government, it was highly satisfactory to find the bill presented to Parliament was, both in principle and outline, in strict accord. ance with their views. He stated that the com mittee had held frequent conferences with the members of the cotton districts, and he was happy to say there was no material difference of opinion either on the main question of the bill or on the de tails. The hon. baronet further said, that there appeared in London a very imperfect knowledge of the state of things in Lancashire. It was supposed, he said, that the cotton districts had to a large ex tent surmounted their difficulties. It was not generally supposed that the next winter would be as formidable as the last. He also said, " those pas sages of the reports of this committee which antici pated that the resources of the working classes would be exhausted, that the means derived formerly from private charity would no longer be available, and that we should have nearly the same number of cotton operatives dependent on the relief fund or some other assistance than the ordinary sources of labour—those views were not generally enter tained in society or in the House of Commons.' , Mr. Commissioner FARNALL brought a terrible array of figures to confirm this statement. It had been calculated that the number of men who could be employed on the million and a half to be borrowed by the parishes would be 30,000 at the outside. Allowing this to provide for 100,000 persons, there would still remain 300,000 to feed and clothe—the probability being that there would be 400,000 to provide for this winter. This alarming estimate is 250,000 above the average pauperism in the cotton districts, aad is certainly enough to startle people out of their fancied security. In the face of such statements the proposed million and a half appeared to the meeting to be a very small sum, and it was proposed that, before the prorogation of Parliament, additional facilities should be provided to enable the Boards of Guardians to borrow such further sums on similar terms as may be necessary. Mr. FARNALL and some other gentlemen objected to this proposal, on the ground that Mr. VILLIERS' bill has not yet passed, and might possibly en counter strong opposition, and that it would be better to let the Government pass one measure through the House before they introduced another of the same kind. This may possibly be a correct view of the case ; and at any rate is is satisfactory that the Government and the Guardians have agreed upon so rational and bene ficial a mode of relief. The want of the proposed public works of drainage, road-making, and other necessary undertakings, has been felt in many of the towns of Lancashire in the days when cotton was too plentiful and trade too flourishing to spare any hands from the mills. It is well, too, that we should know the true state of the case and realise the extent of the danger. Forewarned is forearmed, and however earnestly we may hope and pray that the cruel and profitless war, which ,has caused all this distress, may come to a speedy close, yet we cannot allow a large portion of our people to depend on no other hope. Let us then make every prepa ration for a winter as trying as the last, trusting:at the same time that it may be the last season that our Lancashire mills will depend for their supply on uncertain and limited sources. Sir S. SIIUTTLL WORTH expressed the views we have always main tained when he said that although the committee took a graver view of the coming winter, tfasy had also a more confident expectation than any other part of the country of the ultimate triumph of the cotton trade over all obstacles. This, we trust, will be the case—the present distress having taught a lesson which will not easily be forgotten. A letter to the Times of yesterday suggests reflections of a very painful nature. It is headed "Death in the Workroom," and relates the sad de tails of an untimely end. The writer is a dress maker in a large West-end house of business. She works in a crowded room with twenty-eight others. The other morning one of her companions was found dead in her bed, and it was the general opinion of the house that "long hours and close confinement" had a great deal to do with her end. Then follows a list of the duties required of these unhappy beings. They are called at half-past six in the morning, and work till eleven at night, but often much longer. " On the Friday before the last Drawingroom they worked all night, and did not leave off until nine o'clock on the Saturday morning." What a vision does this statement conjure up ! " Look on this pic ture and on that" may well exclaim some who know both sides of the question. In one place there are beautiful objects in all directions, youth and loveli ness set off by every advent Ige and attraction that can charm and adorn, rich robes of every hue and texture that fashion can devise or fancy frame. " Within 'tis brilliant all and light, A fairy throng of figures bright, As when the setting sun has given • Ten thousand hues to summer even." Yet surely if the occupants of this gorgeous and glittering scene could behold the converse view, the skeleton at the Egyptian feasts would be nothing in comparison. If they could see the weary forms drooping with langour, and wasted with watching and bending over their brilliant attire, would they not be shocked and startled. " It is not linen you're wearing out, but human creatures' lives," says the author of the " Song of the Shirt," and surely one like to him is wanted to celebrate the •wrongs and advocate the cause of these oppressed and toil,-worn dressmakers' assistants. The description of the place where they s l e ep is another harrowing detail. " The room is divided into little cells, each just large enough to contain two beds, there are two sleeping in each bed, there is no ventilation. When I first came from the country I could scarcely breathe in them; the doctor who came said they were not fit for dogs to sleep in." It is surely time that some stringent moa sures were adopted to repress within due limits the toil exacted from these hapless creatures, who are burn to labour, but who seem to demand protection from their richer and happier fellow-creatures that labour may Lot grind them down with its iron bondage and encompass them with ruthless fetters. "A fair day's a t e . e h l el aknown r taudnage, y b e u u t e n g e never females.does it e e m fa a u p l p t l l i i e e d e many quarters. In the first place, parents and guardians should be more careful how they girls;, h e e v h e ree heads s a n o apprentice these it a stipulation that the they ought s f r g e e r s s e t t s a s b from l t i ho s eh limitsm make r that should bo assiehelte weary toil. Then agai n should not be suffered to infring e wi t h, i mpun ell it t ; the claims of consideration, until the law of th e land compels them, as in the case of the factories, to keep within a margin, nothing lasting w ill ever be accomplished in this sad affair. I. is too late to bring back light to the faded eye, colour to th e pallid cheek, and health to th; shattered frame of yice of this man y a Wretched drudge in tho Moloch ; tut for the sake of the unnum bered individuals destined to follow the same weary road, let something speedily be effected. It is of no use for philanthropic persons to go abroad to free the negro, succour the distressed, and befriend the persecuted—they are at home at their own doors if they wiii but look for them. Few sufferings are greater in their way than those of these " nameless martyrs," and the voice of justice calls aloud for redress from this cruel grievance. It has been urged in excuse for the mistress not employing more hands to assist in times of pressure, that the employers do not pay regularly, and therefore she has not funds of sufficient amount to meet the emer gency. But if it was once an esta blished fact that it was incumbent on the proprietors of business establishments to keep to re gular hours, the whole arrangement would be very different. Minor difficulties vanish where a broad principle is laid down definitively, and if it is once known that these over hours and enforced suffer ings are against the law, very different will be the result. It is surely worth the effort, and no one has a right to denounce a scheme that has not been tested. It is true that its adoption will offend many pet prejudices, and be inconvenient to several cherished fancies ; but right and wrong are sepa rated by broad boundaries, and it is too solemn a subject and too sacred a cause to be despised and lightly treated. A death such as that recorded above is a crying evil, it is a scandal to our boasted civilisation, and a disgrace to our enlightened gene ration. If some energetic and influential members of society will take up this question, it will be of inestimable advantage to thousands who now toil in the gloom of a night that sees no morning, and the dreariness of a winter to which spring is un known. There can be no higher incentive to exer tion than to know that the objects sought to be bene fited are precluded from ever helping themselves. They are living in dependence, and must die rather than rebel. It behoves those who are independent to advocate the claims of these oppressed outcasts. If the task is difficult, they have a worthy end in view to animate their efforts and to fire their zeal. If it takes long to succeed, when they gain their object what relief and respite will be afforded to those who had hardly dared to hope before. The workers in this cause will have a long list of happy results—they will have relieved the op pressed from a bondage that bids fair to rival that imposed by Egyptian taskmasters—they will have prevented their fellow-creatures from incurring a heavy responsibility in unjust demands, and the blessings of those that were ready to perish will be the witnesses that will attest that their labour has not been in vain, nor their efforts thrown away. THE MORALITY OF THE OPERA. The following is a remarkable fragment of a letter addressed to our chief morning contemporary by the Hon. Mrs. Norton in reference to her recent work "Lost and Saved' : The opera is unquestionably the favourite amusement o tho English aristocracy, Now, what are the plots of the principal operas ? The plot of "Don Giovanni" is so well known that the name has passed into a byword for profligacy. In " Norma" two Druid priestesses are seduced. The elder priestess, with consummate hypocrisy, continues to head all sacred rites till jealous frenzy forces from her the fact that she is the mother of two children. These children she threatens to murder, but spares, and ia herself executed ; leaving it doubtful whether or not the younger priestess and incon stant lover are to " live happy ever after," or not. In the" Sonnambula" a young I. , rd puts up at the village inn, where two young women walk into his room at night, one from wantonness, tho other because she is a somnambu list. The somnambulist, who was a bride on the point of marriage, is unable to convince her betrothed by any amount of melodious argument that she is innocent, til during a repetition of her somnambulism, he is compelled to admit that " seeing is believing," and all ends happily. In the " Favorita " a young monk falls in love with a lady while dipping their mutual fingers in holy water; forsakes his monastery; lives a life of pleasure; goes to the wars, and returns, covered with glory, to claim her hand. But he discovers she is mistress to a King ; so renounces the tainted bride and returns to his monastery ; where the lady arriving, disguised as a male novice, he instantly re verts to his earthly passion and proposes to her to elope. He then finds that she has poisoned herself, and appointing the next day for his own death from a broken heart,the piece ends. In "Lucrezia Borgia" a beautiful youth, of unknown parentage, falls in love at first sight with his own mother I•Tot knowing this fact, but learning that she is the in famous Lucrezia Borgia, he clambers up and strikes out the first; letter of her carved name with his dagger, leav ing the word " Orgia." Seized while completing this insult, and dragged before her husband, a pretended pardon from the latter (who believes him to be Lucrezia's paramour) is followed by tie presentation of a cup of poison. Lu crezia offers an antidote as soon as she can, and he is saved for the nonce. But, attempting to destroy a whole group of her insulters, with whom he is feasting, she poisons him over again. Afe w drops only of the antidote remain, which he magnanimously refuses to take, since there is not aufficient to share with his friends. Ho there fore dies; learning at the last moment that the fatal en chantress he had adored is his profligate mother. In Rigoletto the buffoon or jester in another most profli gate Court has a beautiful daughter, who is seduced by the Duke, his master, while he is encouraging the Duke's vices and ridiculing the misery of an aged nobleman in whose family the like misfortune has Lccurred. Cursed solemnly by the old nobleman, he discovers that his daughter is ruined, and that he himself connived at her fall, thinking it was the abduction of some other woman. Finally, he hires an assassin to murder the lover, ties him up in a sack and throw him into the river ; but the daughter is unfoi , tunately murdered in mistake by the hired bravo, so that when the father triumphantly drags out the sack with the body he finds it to be the corpse of his own child. We have, besides these, an operatic version of Goethe's "Faust;" and " Traviata," a story of an " unfortunate" beloved by a young gentleman of good fortune, and held to be (Heaven knows why) a more improper opera than even " Lucrezia Borgia." Such are the subjects which twice or three times a week recreate the understandings of the higher classes of Great Britain. Whatever of sensuality can be added to these themes by the sensuality of sweet music, the glitter of light s and decoration, and the usual temptations of a theatre, find their full measure in that ever fluctuating crowd, the whole entertainment winding up with the "ballet," an amuse ment which an intelligent Indian gentleman affirmed it had " paralysed him with astonishment" to find was an enter tainment for both sexes. "To the pure all things are pure," and " habit makes burdens light, ' and therefore I do not say that these extra ordinarily vicious stories need of themselves corrupt any one, But Ido say that there is something very ludicrous in the students of such subjects becoming discontented if any moral warning respecting their own world be offered instead of these motiveless fabl e s o f s i n . , A LADLEFUL OF PUNCH. Punch absurdly informs his musical readers that the ilusie of the Spheres is led by a lightning conductor, who, he is given to understand, is rather a flashy sort of gentle• man. The Traveller for a large commercial house, he insists, is not necessarily a journey-man. Kicking up a Bobbery he defines, rather aptly, as getting into a row with the Police. In the hot summer weather he recommends the Londoner to indulge in a morning's trip to the Serpentine. St. James's Palace, on a Drawing Room Day, he sug gests, should be called The House of Detention for Ladies. Au Irishman's fatherland, says he, is, of course, Pairia. _ . . As a fine specimen of Ornamental Turning, ho mentions a gentleman who had recently succeeded, while at his lathe, in turning a conversation. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The number of public Acts passed in the present Session is only 29, and of local Acts 66. The number of public Acts will be, it is understood, under the general average. There are many local acts to be passed. The Session commenced on the tith of February. SUICIDE OF A COOLIE FROM A DUNDEE VESSEL. —When the barque Bonanza, of Dundee, at board Greenock f rom D emerara, was on her passage to that port from St. H e l ena, with coolies, and in lat. 4 S., long 35 . 53 I .:*, one of the m b e Arno refractory, and was put in irons. leuveesrtal h ours afterwards h e was lib erate d at hi s own re quard, atnalihe immedi a t e l y went forward and jumped over iin.medi._kceinygraoubnudneddlotoof tlodthaesbwoaitthlohwimer.edT, butoasnhoiptrwaacss LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (PER THE HIBERNIAN.) NEW YORK, JUNE 6 (EVENING). (By Telegraph to Father Point.) General Lee has evacuated Fredericksburg, and abandoned the line of the Rappahannock. It is not known where he has gone. General Hooker has crossed the river and occu pied Fredericksburg. Ad vices from Vicksburg to the 2d inst. state that General Grant has planted heavy siege guns close up to the enemy's works. G neral Johnston is at Jackson. One division of General Grant's army has gone up the Yazoo River. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 6 (EVENING). Money easy : Gold, 44 , -1 per cent. prem. Stock s t ea d y N e w York Ceutral, 1211 ; Illinois, 110 ; Erie, 961; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 104-1 Cotton advancing : Middling Upland, 58c. The Great Eastern sailed hence to-day. The Hibernia takes out 40,000 dols. in specie. [The Hibernian touched at Cape Race on the 9th inst. Telegraphic communication, however, being intercepted, she brings no later despatches.] THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, JUNE 18. Czachowski was beaten on the 11th instant, at Rataje, but his force was not dispersed as asserted in the Russian bulletins. The events at Babrzl have likewise been entirely misrepresented in the Russian accounts. SPAIN, THE SPANISH ELECTIONS. MADRID, JUNE 17. It is asserted that the Marquis Miraflores is about to forward to the different prefects circulars relative to the coming elections, recommending as candi dates the partisans of a Liberal-Conservative FRANCE. BOURSE, June FT.—The market has been again heavy, Stock was cffered, and quotations generally lower. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f 60c. Railway Shares slightly declined. The following are the closing quotations per Cents. 96 95 Do. end month 3 per Cents 00. end month 3B 50 Credit INlobilier 1210 Do. end month — Bank Shares 34.50 Credit k oncier 1375 Italian Loan 73 Do. end month 72 90 New ditto Do. end month.... 73 95 Russian Austrian Threes — Home Debt ,WAYS. RA IL Cash. Account. Orlectne 998 75 .. 1000 Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1043 75 .. 1042 50 Geneva 450 .. 457 50 Southern Western ...... Eastern ... , Sardinian - , . 422 50 Austrian .. 465 .. 466 25 Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 726 25 .. 72:5 Ditto to Barcelona PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter has the following :—" Since the incident at Dantzic, the Prince Royal of Prussia has declined all official receptions. That abstention, however,laas not prevented his Royal Highness's aide-de-camp from being revoked, in consequence of the speech. A similar measure will, it is expected, be exercised against the Prince's private counsellor, M. Dunker. It also appears that the Government is not satisfied with punishing those who are in the immediate presence of the Prince ; his former secre• tary, M. Mayer, who was a short time back called to Berlin to fill the (Ace of private secretary to the Queen, has been requested to send in his resigna tion. It is Count de Bismark who has suggested all those measures, and to him is also attributed the intention of exercising judicial prosecutions against the persons who signed the protest relative to the ordinance against the press." The following is a specimen of the warnings given to the press in Prussia ; it has been received by the IVestphalian Gazette, published at Hagen : " Considering that in the review of a literary work the Westphalian Gazette designates the Prue si,n constitution as a masterpiece,' which is evi dently said in an ironical sense; considering also that the Gazette, in sketching the history of Charles X., and the Revolution of July, openly pointed out to the people a revolutionary course of action, and disobedience to the laws, a "warning is hereby in consequence given it." The Gazette of Northern Germany of the 15th states that the relamation made to the Minister of the Interior by the editors of Voss's Gazette, the National Gazette, the People's Gazette, and the _Reform, against the warning given to those jour nals on account of their declaration, has been re jected as unfounded. APTOMMAS'S BARDIC FESTIVAL. The Festival given by Mr. Aptommas on Tuesday at the Hanover-square Rooms attracted a very numerous and fashionable audience. The harp performances, of ceursb, were the principal feature in the concert. In addition to Mr. Aptommas we had as performers on the same in strument Messrs. Engel, Hargitt, F. Chatterton, Cheshire, Ellis Roberts, Leyland, Lockwood, George, Mdm. Dryden and Miss E. Ward. The vocalists were Mdlle. Parepa: Miss Wynn, Herr Richardt, Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Lewis Thomas. With such a company the performance could not fail to prove highly attractive, and the whole of the pieces were listened to with evident gratification. In the first part Miss Ward played a solo on the piano with much bril liancy, and bids fair to become a most accomplished pianist. The great feature, however,of the festival was the perform ance upon eight harps, entitled " Sounds from Home," which is thus described in the programme. This bardic fantasia was suggested by the characteristic pecularity of the melodies to which it owes its origin. Pre ceded by a short introduction (representing the stillness of the night), the piece opens with " The Dawn of Day," the development of which is designed to illustrate the gra dual approach of daylight, the appearance of the sun upon the horizon, and ultimately its glorious rising. The men of Harleeh, in the distance, aro now heard marching to the battle-field, from whence after a fierce engagement they re,curn victorious, and enter on the festivities, the scenes of which it {is attempted to pourtray in the treatment of the concluding melody. The performance was a complete triumph, and called forth the loudest demonstrations of applause. A selection of Irish and Scotch melodies concluded the festival, which must be classed high amongst the concert successes of the season, THE ALHAMBRA PALACE. Not content with having secured the services of the most wonderful gymnasts that ever appeared in the metropolis, Mr. Wilda has added another attraction to the already over 115wing programme of the Royel Alhambra Palace. On Monday evening three French clowns, "Les Trois Nicholet," from the Cirque Napoleon, made their first appearance and met with a very hearty reception. Tha first part of their performances comprised some of the most wonderful feats in balancing ever attempted. With the aid of six or seven chairs piled one above another, a frail and trembling c 'halm is erected, and the three artistes mount it simultaneously with the most surprising agility, and when on the summit go through the first part of the evolutions, which,if described would hardly be be lieved. Th e second part consists of a tumbling act, and never have we seen such fun created as that on Monday evening. The audience were in extacics with "Le Trois Nicholet," and well they might be, for certainly a neater or more pleasing performanco of its kind has never been witnessed. MR. WooDIN IN DIIBLIN.—On Tuesday even ing Mr. Woodin appeared in the Rotondo in his extraordinary r epresentations of chataeter, and had the gratification of bayin g a crowded house, which he is also lik'ly to be favoured with so long as he remains in Dublin. His personification of " Lord Dundreary" is really excel lent—almost as good as the original himself. Mr. Woodin is decid€dly the best mimic of the sayings and doings of others of all ranks and classes, and of both sexes, that has ever appeared before an audience in this city.'-1r" 2irturs. (ova HER MAJESTY WINDSOR CASTLE, Inn 1.1. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, went to Dover in the afternoon to meet her Majesty the Queen of Prussia. Lord Methuen and Lieutenant Colonel Hon. D, de Ros have also left the Castle for Dover, to attend the Queen of Prussia to Windsor. The Countess of Desart has succeeded the Mar chioness of Ely as Lady in Waiting. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party last evening at St. James's Palace. There were present their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess d'Aeponyi, his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brunnim, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Count Pahlen, Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse, Viscount Sudley, Dowager Lady Truro, Mr. H. Grevilie, Dr. Quin, Colonel Purves, and the lady and gentle man in waiting on the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale. The Duchess of Cambridge was visited by a select circle after dinner. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and the officers of the Royal Artillery will give a grand banquet on Wednesday neat, at the mess-room, Woolwich, to a distinguished party. Several of her Majesty's Ministers are invited. The Earl of Wicklow had a musical party last night at his residence in Cavendish-square. A marriage is arranged and will shortly take place between the Lord Edward George Fitzalan.Howard, M.P., Deputy Earl Marshal, and Miss Winefrede de Lisle, third daughter of Mr. Ambrose Philipps de Lisle, of Garendon Park and Grace Dien Manor. The marriage of the Han. Georgiana Susan Copley, youngest daughter of Lord Lyndhurst, and Mr. Du Cane, M.P., is to be solemnised on Thursday next, the 25th inst. Admiral the Hon. Sir George Elliot, K.C.8., is in a very precarious state of health. Sir Edwin Scudamore Stanhope has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, DEATH OF LADY HENRIETTA LOUISA MORANT. —This lady, who has been suffering for some time from a painful illness, expired last evening at her residence in Park-lane. Her ladyship, who was daughter of the late and sister of the present Duke of Beaufort, was born in 1831, and in 1855 married Mr. John Morant. By her lady ship's death several noble families are placed in mourning, DEATH OF A SON OF THE EARL OF ELGIN.-O❑ Friday afternoon the Hon. Master Charles Bruce, third son of the Earl and Countess of Elgin, died at Meth ven Castle, Perthshire. About three weeks ago the boy was seized with inflammation of the brain of a rather virulent type, and. as usual, in attacks of that malady, became in sensible. On Thursday consciousness seemed to have re turned, and hopes were entertained that all might yet go well. These hopes were, however, deemed to speedy dis appointment. On the following day, Friday, at half-past one o'clock p.m., he breathed his last. Death seemed with out pain or suffering of any kind. It is a consolation to know that, though so widely separated from both parents, Mr. C. Bruce was not without the devoted attention of the kindest friends. Mrs. Smythe, Methven Cattle, cousin to the Earl of Elgin, watched over the boy with almost a mother's solicitude during the entire course of the fatal malady—day and night she was by his 'ouch. Of other friends, Lady Elma Bruce and Major Cumming Bruce were also most unremitting in their watchful care. Master Charles Bruce was a pupil in Trinity College, Glenalmond, and was in his 11th year. The corpse was brought last night from Perth to Broomhall, the seat of the Earl of Elgin, and will be in terred to-morrow (Wednesday) in the family vault, Dun fermline.—Edsnbirrgh COurant. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Oxford has not drawn so large a detachment of the pleasure-seeking community away from London but that the second great show of the Horticultural Society at South Kensington was graced by an attendance equal in number and brilliancy to that of any similar event of the season. The show yesterday was distributed over a considerable part of the Exhibition building ; and not only was it over spread with crowds of visitors, but the gardens were almost as full as we have ever seen them. The conservatory, too, with its recent sculpturesque additions, was a much-fre quented spot ; and in speaking of this department we may repair a former omission with regard to the well-ramed statue of Purity, by Mr. Noble, which piece of simple grace and beauty is as fitly placed here as if the marble lilies in the young maiden's hand were real, and she herself a nymph of Flora. Among the company were especially noticeable Prince Leopold and Prince Lucien Bonaparte; while the general list presented a most imposing array of titles and distinguished names. A very attrrctive feature of the show was the ladies' ex hibition of decorations for the dinner-table, in competition for the prizes offered by Sir C. Wentworth Dilke. The judges in this department, the Marchioness of Waterford, the Countess of Besborough, and Lady Dorothy Nevill, have, we think, exercised a very laudable taste and discre tion in preferring the type of ornament which originally gained the palm when these competitions were instituted two seasons ago. This is the slenner glass shaft, with its upper and lower plateaux, decked out with flowers. In the present case, the first prize has been awarded to Lady Rokeby, whose invention has enlisted the aid of humming-birds, which spread their jewelled wings among tempting clusters of fruit, branching spikes of the beautiful fern called Gleichenia, and rings of perfumed Stanhopea flowers. The second prize fell, by decree of the unimpeachable tribunal above named, to Mrs. J. Worthington Bliss, who, pursuing the same principle of decoration, was less complex in her mode of evolvement. Mrs. Fawcett took the third prize ; and other noteworthy objects in this branch of display were contributed by Miss Robinson, who veiled her tastefully grouped exotics with a cloud of the most delicate grass; by Miss Maling, who artfully adapted to her use the white Minton ware established by Messrs. Goode as a staple orna ment of dessert; by Lady Kerrison and by Mr. Salter, both of whose designs were commended, the latter for its singu• lar simplicity; and by Mr. W. Thompson, who imparted motion to his elaborate device by crystal reservoirs of gold fish, reflections of which appeared in a horizontal mirror at the base. Passed over by the la.:y judges, possibly as being mere adjuncts of decoration, were the ingenious flower stands of glass, which Messrs. Naylor and Dunn have so contrived that they may be employed either in one or more pieces; and an excellent flower-tray, invented by Mr. Geo. Weeks and called " The Paragon," enabling cut flowers to be ar ranged with growing hyacinths and ferns, in the form of a miniature garden, which may be watered with a fine rose, the superfluous moisture draining away beneath. The main attractions of the flower show were arranged, as on a fernier occasion, in the nave; and there has not often been so full a representation of every class of horticulture. The orchids, with their sweet, subdued odour enriching the varied beauty of their blossoms, included nearly all kinds that have been yet seen in England, and, if we are not mis taken, one or two strangers beside. The pelargoniums, each plant a perfect cloud of dainty colours, and looking not un like ladies in light ball dress, reached in a long line on one side of the avenue. In this division alone, Messrs J. and J. Fraser, of Lea Bridge, took three prizes, dividing with Mr. C. Turner the honours in every class. Se near, indeed, were the merits of the competitors, that the first prize in one class was doubted, and bestowed on both, it being impossible for the judges to decide which was best. Among the richest varieties of the flowers shown by the Messrs. Fraser were a fiery crimson speci men, called Lightning; another of a rosy scarlet, entitled Sunset ; a parti-coloured kind, blending deep pia with white, called the Roi des Fantasies; and a most bewitching combination of pure white and lavender, rightly named the Bridesmaid. In all, the number of prizes taken by Messrs. Fraser were five; and indeed they were in no small degree a support of the show, their stand of cut blooms of Chinese peonies being a really astonishing collection, which eclipsed even that of Messrs. Paul and Son, while their stove and greenhouse plants were the admiration of all the experienced growers present. Chiefly worth seining for special notice was their clustering Prostauthera lasianthos, the pearly white blossoms of which gave it the character of an abores cent lily of the valley. Among the rarer plants exhibited by Messrs. Veitcb and Son was a Bromelia sceptrum in flower. Tbis curious example of tropical vegetation belongs to the pine tribe, and as its long prickly spikes diminish towards the centre, they merge into a radiating system of bracts or pseudo-leaves, of deep scarlet, in the middle of which is an immense mass of white bloom tiped with violet. The Japanese plants of Messrs. Standish, the rose trees, in their Arcadian exaggeration and seeming unreality of bloom, the ferns, the heaths, and a rich display of fruit, made up what may certainly be pronounced one of the most notable exhibitions of the season. PLAYING AT FRIENDSHIP.--A correspondent of a Ne iv York paper writes from the Rappahannock : . 4 Our pickets at the river front are again becoming intimate with the graybacks on the opposite shore. Simultaneously a few days since a party came down to the water's edge on either side to bathe. They stripped off and swam towards each other, and paddled about promiscuously for half an hour. Then the rebels struck out for the Union shore, changing places with our men. In this position the naked rebels amused themselves by talking Union to the Federals, while the latter shouted back from the rebel side any amount of treasonable sentiments. This little performance over, the bathers changed places again, dressed themselves in their respective waitorms, resumed their muskets, and became 040 more the moat implacable of foes.", LITERATURE, The Fine Arts Quarterly Review. No. I. Royal Bvo., pp. 224. Chapman and Hall. A more adMitahle first appearance we certainly cannot recad to mind, than that which here fixes public attention at once upon this most welcome additioe to the number of our Quarterlies. It is superbly " got up" to begin with—being exqui sitely printed, from a new fount of type, upon the loveliest thick, glossy, tinted paper—illustrated bete and there with a select few of the very choicest embellishments. As the prospectus had already informed the public, before tf e apparitive of the first number of this new periodical, it is ushered into the world of letters and art under the very highest patronage. Her most gracious Majesty the Queen, several of their Royal Highnesses, his eminence Cardinal Wiseman, and other distin guished promoters of the interests of the finelnheog in s art e s e , both in this country and abroad, have been announced by the originators of the enterprise, as having inscribed their names, not only readily but eagerly, upon the list of the subscribers. The Fine Arts Quarterly Review, therefore, starts under the happiest auspices. It is secure from the very commencement of its career, in the front rank, among the chief of the first class organs of periodical literature.--it is secure, from the very outset, of finding itself recognised, and even, it may be said, gladly welcomed at all the great ;public institutions,;,in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, in the Queen's Private Library, in the libraries of almost all the Royal palaces of Europe, as well as in many of the mansions of the private collectors upon the continent, and in most of those scattered throughout the United Kingdom. Mr. Wood ward, the Librarian in Ordi nary to her Majesty, and officially also the Keeper of the Prints and Drawings at Windsor Castle, has undertaken the office of editorship to The Fine Arts Quarterly. A guarantee of itself of the efficiency with which it is proposed that the enterprise shall be carried out in every department. Having pre mised thus much in regard to the design of this new and most important periodical, we turn now to the initial number of it here published, in order to see how far that first number shows that original design to have been, as yet, (so far as in one number it could be) realised. Lavater has some where said that, if, upon first meeting any man, you are unfavourably impressed by his bearing and physiognomy, no matter how Charmed or fascinated you may be by him upon a further acquaintance— never forget that first impression! According to Lavater's view, that first impression having about it, in some most subtle and mystical way, an infal lible significance. Now, to a very considerable ex tent, we cannot but think that exactly the converse to this might be maintained quite as confidently. It certainly does appear to us to hold good, in refe rence to most of the new ventures in periodical lite rature. There was a case in point very recently, in the instance of a weekly publication precisely carrying out the notion expressed by Lavater's axiom. A capital paper, in many respects, excel lently well written—by name " The Mirror"—and yet, at our very first glance at the very first num ber, we knew for an absolute certainty that the project must, of a dead necessity, fail. It had about it that je ne sais quoi of an inexpressible something, that told, as plainly as words even could tell, that success in that instance was utterly hopeless. It was so, we remember, also, a very few months back, in regard to another literary weekly, still more clever than the one already mentioned. A literary weekly easled The Budget, sparkling with wit and fun, with humour the most original and audacious —and yet—so manifestly incapable in its very ap pearance of succeeding, that it might almost be said at its birth to have hung out its escutcheon as its banner. With this difference only, that on its escutcheon was nowhere legible—resurgam! Quite manifestly the very reverse of all this, is the in stantaneous first impression produced by numberone of The Fine Arts Quarterly. A certainty of a success already achieved, of a triumph already assured, is the result of that first impression. Upon more carefully examining the contents of the initial num • ber we may have, as indeed we here certainly have had, that immediately favourable first impression corrected and modified to a considerable extent in regard to several of the lesser particulars, or minor details. A modification we ' ourselves could here and there suggest that if adopted, even partially, would, to our thinking, lead to very marked improvements in respect to the general design, or at any rate in respect to various parts of the general arrangement. First of all, however, we would here briefly particularize among the thirteen principal contributions to this first number of The Fine Arts Quarterly those which appear to us more particularly deserving of notice. As a comprehensive survey of the position assumed at this epoch in this country by the most glowing of all the flue arts, the introductory paper entitled " English Painting in 1862" is undoubtedly clever, is—more than that—in many respects not unworthy of the able hand that penned it. The hand, namely, of that accomplished and versatile and indefatigable man of letters, familiarly known, even to the public, as Tom Taylor, now yet more familiarly identified upon the public placards about our streets with a Ticket of Leave Man, meaning (the placard should, it seems to us, always be so far explained) pot a veritable garotter, but an eminently successful play, perhaps among all his dramatic pro ductions Tom Taylor's masterpiece. Not, however, as a dramatist, as a writer of comedy, farce, or melodrama, does Captaiu Tom Taylor, of the Rifle Volunteers, lead off the good men and true, making up the select,but still numerous,corps of contributors to The Fine Arts Quarterly, His introductory paper upon " English Painting in 1862" is penned by him, rather, it should be said, in his capacity as an art critic—a capacity so well known already, and so conspicuously recognisable, that it has long ago installed him in power among the artists of his age, as the reviewer or art-critic upon our chief morning contemporary. Comprehensive and clever, though the survey here taken by Tom Taylor in this opening paper in regard to his favourite art, it still, for all that, is marred, we cannot but venture to hint, by being at once slightly confused and some what superf cial. The most remarkable contribu tion, as it appears to us, in the whole of this initial number of The Fine Arts Quarterly, is the one imme diately following—the second article,that is, descrip tive and explanatory of " H.R.H. the Prince CONSORT'S Raphael Collection." Among all the tri butes,and some of them eminently beautiful tributes, paid to the memory of our beloved and lamented Prince, this little paper or treatise is unquestion ably about the most beautiful. As a recognition of his consummate taste, of his rare and admirable enlightenment—more particularly as affording evi dence of his (in truth) princely munificence in carry ing out a singularly original and refined project for the development of the general knowledge of art —this paper upon his Royal Highness's Raphael Collection is entitled to very careful attention, and is certain, when examined, to command the reader's highest admiration. Towards the end of the paper it is well and most gracefully re marked by the writers (Dr. linker and Mr. Ruland, formerly H.R.H.'s librarians) that whereas the splendid mausoleum at Frogmore will comme morate the undying love of the bereaved Sovereign, while Wolsey's Tombhouse will serve to perpetuate the warmest affection of their children, "The Raphael Collection" deserves to be regarded as peculiarly and especially the Prince Consort's Own Memorial ! And how noble, and beautiful, and costly a memorial it will be, who may not readily enough conjecture when he learns that the en gravings and photographs and drawings consti tuting this literally unique Collection will extend, when put together, to fully as many as fifty magni ficent volumes, destined to be received into a cabi net expressly constructed for them by Mr. Craoe—a Cabinet that when completed an d filled willas suredly constitute one of the art glo Castle, one of the most. precio us art t ri e e e s as o u t r W es Windsor Castle, United Kingdom. In a for the contribution to it, the very title chose n paper especially referring enn testa and being " Points of Contact re between delivei d Scienceu Art," the masterly lee,,u theme very recently at the Royal Institution by his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, receives, what so conspicuously deserves, the highest 00mmendv,„ tion. It ie here spoirt,..." of emphatically as a subject treated of by his Eminence in at lecture with un usual power and felicity of illustration. Already there are begun in The New Quarterly four se; es of papers—papers, that is to aay, announced at the end of each "to be continued." Of the merit of none of these, however, will we venture to 3xpres3 any tiecided opinion, until the series shall have been somewhat further advanced. One gives promise of providing us with a most entertaining " Early History of the Royal Academy." Another begins an elaborated estimate of "The Loan Museum at Kensington." A third undertakes to analyse the Catalogue of the Works of Visscher. The fourth, delightfully anecdotal throughout, opens up a lively disquisition upon The Preservation of Paintings and Drawings." Besides the thirteen principal contributions, the pick of which thirteen we have here particu larised, there are several minor papers appended to The Fine Arts Quarterly—some of tbem, as instance the very last, to our mind quite unworthy of being appended to so noble a publication. Several of the minor notices, indeed, are almost ludicrously super ficial and frivolous. Instance, at p. 219, that of L oyd's Theory of Proportion in Arcaitecturai Design. If nothing more or better could be said of it—better say nothing! Those, however, are but specks upon the new luminary. What we do now, and what we here most unhesitatingly do and with especial pleasure, is to notify the fact of its rising, of its radiant rising, above the horizon of art literature. Stammertng and Stuttering : Their Nature and Treatment. By James Hunt, Ph.D., F.S.A., 8:c. One vol., pp. 256. Fifth Edition. Longman and Co. The extraordinary success of Dr. Hunt's treat ment of this unhappily too prevalent affliction is shown plainly enough by the rapidity with which edition after edition is published of the work in which he explains the philosophy of that treatment. To his pupils the book is gracefully and very appro priately dedicated. They are the living illustrations of the efficacy of the system it expounds—they are, we may rest assured, the grateful recipients of the blessings of which that system has already been productive. They know the truth of every word it contains from the title-page to the finish. The Fifth Edition, like its predecessors, wilt be found by those who consult it, with any previous knowledge of those predecessors, to be but lightly and cautiously touched up and improved here and there. The text of the treatise is still. as formerly, subdivided into seven chapters. The first defining Stammering and Stuttering. The second tracing out a great variety of external influences on articulation. The third con taining within it a wonderfully comprehensive historical review of the chief theories and modes of treatment, of which we have any record, for impedi ments of speech. Names as renowned as those of Herodotus and Aristotle, Demosthenes and Plutarch, and in later times of Francis Bacon and Charles Bell, appearing in this ample survey. The fourth chapter comprises within it the statistics of psellism. Another enumerates the surgical opera tions for the removal of stammering. A sixth, iii answer to the inquiry with which it is headed, " Is Stammering or Stuttering a Disease ?" proclaims stuttering to be no disease whatever, while it ac tually declares pselliam to be the cause, instead of the effect, of disease ! The seventh and final chap ter of the work explains fully, lucidly, and agree ably the system propounded by the author's father, the late Mr. Hunt, and, in connexion with that, in practical development of that, the lenghthened practice of the author himself. Appendix A con tains, in addition to an interesting biography of the late Thomas Hunt, the opinions entertained in re gard to him and his system by such men as Sir John Forbes, as Robert Liston, the great surgeon? as John Forster, the editor (during so many years) of the Examiner, and of Robert Chambers, the eminent author and publisher. Appendix B, with which the volume closes, and which is certainly not its ;leo.at important section, comprises, wham three or four pages, some admirable hints to stam merers. For inasmuch as it deals practically with a serious social affliction, this little treatise deserves what we hereby award to it, our earnest commen dation as the work of an energetic philanthropist. The gouchstone : a Series of Letters. By Thomas Doubleday. Bvo, pp. 189. Hard%vicke. The writerof these three•and-thirty well thought out and carefully written letters, comes before us in no way as a stranger. As the author of the "Financial History of England," as the Political Biographer of Sir Robert Peel, he has been lung known, and known favourably. The letters here collected together and republished as a callection, originally appeared, one by one, at uncertain in tervals in the columns of the Newcastle Daily Chronicle. They there appeared, anonymously, under the signature of Britannicus. They deserved collecting and they are here collected. The range of topics in them is curiously ample -- administrative reform, social improvement, cur rency revision, being among the prominent themes here discussed. The writer deserves an audience, and is always tolerably sure of obtaining ono. Hospital for Consumption and Diseases o the Chest, Brompton. Sermons in aid of the funds of this charity were preached on Sunday morning as follows :—At St. Paul's, Herne-hill, by the Bishop of Mauritius; at St. John's, Claph.am-rise , by the Rev. T. J. Rowseil, rector of St. Margaree.s, Loth bury ; and at Christ Church, North Brixton, by t,lee Rev. J. 111‘Connell Hussey, the incumbent. From the very able discourses of the several preachers it appeared that since the opening of tho new buildeog, in 1846, upwards of 78,000 persons had experienced the bene fits of the institution, viz., 10,341 as in-patients and 68,077 as out-patients. The patients were well and kindly cared for, every comfort and mitigation being brought to bear on their bodily sufferings, while their spiritual interests were faithfully looked after by the chaplain, patients not belong ing to the Church of England being visited by ministers of their own persuasion. The institution was characterised as one of the grandest and noblest of our modern hospitals, and intending contributors were assured that their gifts would be well and judiciously dispensed in the relief of a peculiarly interesting form of suffering. The mission of this charity was to assuage one of the most prevalent and fatal, and, at the same time, one of the most mysterious diseases known in this country. The temperate climate of these islands was favourable to the growth of a hardy and manly race; bus, the fitful seasons and changeable temperature of England too often induced ailments which became developed into consumption. hue, 22 years ago, this institution arose from the mere necessi ties of our common suffering human nature, the consumpti ve patient being usually turned away from general hospitals, from the lingering and fatal character of his disease. Bl perience, however, has shown how much could be done to check this malady, or to alleviate the sufferings of its vic tims; and incurable as it was generally deemed, yet the time might arrive when, by the light of advancing science , consumption would become rare and curable, even as those fearful scourges of by-gone days, the plague, leprosy, wad small-pox have disappeared, or have been greatly modified. In the winter 210 in-patients, and in summer nearly 200, were constantly under treatment in the hospital ; 1,11 6 cases passed through its wards during 1862; and 6,019 nevi cases were registered as out-patients. The numbers were steadily increasing. Many had gone from that locality, and more and mere would apply for treatment at the hospita now that by the opening up of they new railway they could have easy and rapid communication with the Brompton Hospital, a great boon to the poor consumptive invalid. The expenses were nearly £9,000 per annum ; but the annual subscriptions were not more than half that sun), therefore, constant and generous. support was needed to maintain efficiently this useful institution; which benefited persons not from one particular district, but from the entire country at large. The bishop and the other clergymen who had kindly undertaken to plead for the charity, did so with great earnestness and eloquence, the congregations respond lag lib era lly to the appeals. I nc l usive of collections a fter sermons also preached at St. John's, in , he evening, by the Rev. E. Hudson, and at Christ Church, afternoon and even ing, by the Revs. C. E. Casher and J. M. Hussey, the amounts realised were—at St. Paul's, Herne-hill, £43 45.; at St. John's, Clapham, £34 14s. 6d. ; and at Christ Church , Brixton, £44 14s. 4d. COCK FIGHTING BY A MARQUIS ON A SUNDAY' —ln a quiet village in the northern part of Leices" torshire, a few Sundays ago, eonsiderable sensation Mss caused by a rumour that the demesne of a certain noblo marquis was fur some hours the arena for the barbarous sport of cock fighting. It appears that information of t l3° occurrence having reached the secretary of the Royal So' ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, that gentle' Man despatched two of the detective officers of t he society tto the locality. The result of these investigations has le` the laying of an information against the noble marquis to question and several other gentlemen of p osition is „11: county. The cases are fixed for hearing at L ou g hborough' on tho 24tla lust. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1863.