The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-26 00:00:00

liER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FOUR GRAND PERFORM ANCE3 OF OPERA AT _REDUCED PRICES. • Oct 26, will be performel THIS EVENING (Monday • Gounod's celebrated Opera. FAUST. Titiens, Trebelll, TACCaIIi ; itossi, Santley, Sims Reeves. To-morrow (Tuesday), Oct. 2i. FAL sT. These Representations must be necessarily thus limited to tour, on account of the final departure of the great Artistes for r the it, ss; Boxes, Continent. ss. ; Dress Circle. 7s. ; Orchestra Stalls, 325. (A. ; Gallery, 2s. Private Boxes from Half-a-Guinea upwards. Commence at Eight o'clock. Restrictions to Evening Dress hot enforced. Box-office of the Theatre (Ander the superintendence of Mr. Nugent), open daily from Ten till Five. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, R CCVENT-GARDEN. Under the Mautizement of Miss Louisa Ppe and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, IV+ll,lce'i Romantic Opera, THE DES r:RT FLOWER: Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. W. H. Weiss, 11. Corri A. Cook, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. A. Nlellua.--Doors open at half-past Seven. commence at Eight. THEArI.'RE ROYAL 1) RU R Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and le. B. Chatterton. Great and continued success of the production of Lord Byron's MAN FR ED, generally ackno lede - ,ed by the press and the public to be one of the most complete and legitimate triumphs of a combination of artistic capabilities presented on the stage for many years. THIS EVENING (TUESDAY), October the 20th. and during the week, the ,ertormances will commence with the Comedietta, byJohn Oxenford. Es q of GONE TO TE XA principal cnaracters by Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Neville, Mr. spencer, and Miss Murray. After which, comm. ncine - , at a Quarter before Eight o'clock, Lord Byron's Choral Tranedy ot MANFRED. . Mortals:.a Manfred, Mr. Phelps; Abbot of st. Mauric , Mr. Ry der Chamois Hunter, Mr. A. Rayner ; Manuel (an aged Retailer), „ e), Dlr. Neville; Herman la young Domestic in the Cast e of Manfren), fir. G Weston ; Retainers, Weaver, Kirk, Wilson, Smith, and Edwards. a m rcle • ' Ariel Messrs. t m ß n ed rt l n o i r s ci ; Arimanes (Ruler of the Evil A gencies), Mr. W (Spirit of the Ether), Miss Emma Heywood Hester (Sp the of the Stars), Miss Louisa Bitter; dthe (is p e memo ,y ) . Miss ( o i e t Waters). Miss Poole; Meserima (Spirit of ), Ctely Nott ; Auster (Spirit of the Storm), subes (Spirit of Mr. swift tarot!! (:spirit of the Earth). the Shadow of Night), Mr 3 . lr 4d e , e7 , k 4 (G o ddess of Vengeance), Meager °°' (Spirit of the Mountains), Mr. G. Spencer ; Mrs. Edmund Falconer ; Atkinson, Miss C. Weston, Three Destinies—Miss Emma CloNtheo7. Lathe-is, and Atropos—the an d Miss Murray ; the Phantoiztosf Ast.t•te, Miss s Le- Cle rri ; the Witch, of the Alps. a ° p sc pear- A•encies and Spirit Spectres of anc e at this Theatre ; Evil the Weird World, Harfleur, Mrs Melville, Mrs. T - Matthews, J. Morris, J. Cor- Msc k, Miss Seymour , and the n e IVar low, and the I.,adiesiVilkinsiiGenntttlhe enisecnenoefrtyh.e r Ball et. Order and character Glaciers near the Summit of the Jung : S tudio and Gothic Gallery in Manfred's Castle. Scene 2: a Precipice and The Chalet of the Chamois rau. Act 11. - Scener,, ss. Scene 2: The Steinbach, a Mont er and .Alpinte tr, o Lower Valleys among the Alp i, Mall, in one and Overhaneinng ° Cliffs, the Haunt of the Witch of the .Alps. "The sn bow's rays still arch the torrent with the and roll the sheeted silver's waving many hues of heaven, col un n o'er the crag's perpendicular." Scene 3 : The snow 'capped Summ it of the Jungfrau, by Moonlight. Sce ne 4 : .Th„ H an Arimanesin the Nether World, painted by M i, Danson and Act 11L—Scene 1 : Terrace and E x t er i or off stlo. Scene 2 : The Turret Studio, the 3lagian's flaunt.Mid shook and Illumined by a Thunderstorm, and t oyed by }lashing . Bolt and Crashin,,Avalanch _. 41- n a `,. 7 „, „ i n c e' r A Snowy Alpine Waste or Wilderness. P e. myros ;TraP:m-e-itofe ;he Songs and Choruses—Act I —Scene 1 Mys tical Responses of Viewless Spirits to the Magian's Invoca tion. let Solo, "Mortal to thy bidding bow'd," Miss Emma lleyW oaf ; 2nd Solo, In the blue depth of the waters" mks Poole ; 3rd Solo, " I am the r id er of the avind, " Mr. Swift ; Septette, Misses Poole, Hey wood , Cicely Nott, Mr. Swift, and chorus; The Impre catio " When the Moon is on ti,e Wave," Miss Cicel y Nott ; Solo, "Th ;ugh thy Slumber may be deep," ati i i Poole ; Chorus, by the whole Choir. Act. ll. cene 3 ; Solo and Chorus, " The Captive Usurper," Miss Cicely Nott and. Chorus ; Song, " The Ship sailed on, the Shin sailed fast ," ;Miss Emma Heywood. S ene 4—Grind Choral Hymn of t lie Evil Agencies. " Bail to our Master, Prince ot Earth, and Air." solo verses by 3lr. Swift, chorus by full Choir; Ju bilant Chorus and accompanying Dance, by full Choir and the Ballet. Act Hl.—Last Scene: Grand Dual Chorus 01 Goo d and Evil Spirits, by the Principal Singers and Full Choir. The general action of the tragedy arranged by Mr. Phe Ips. The incidental dances designed and directed b f Mr. Cor niack. Costumes from designs by R. W. Keene, Esq., and fro m lilaxman's Illustrations t Coissical and Mythological Co nceptions. Machinery by Mr. J. Tucker and Assistants. Ga s Illuminations by Mr. J. Hinckley. Spectral illusions by Mr. Cox, under the direction of Mr. Telbin. The whole oft he entirely new scenery designed and principally painted by Mr. W. Telbin, assisted by his son, Mr. H. Telbin. 'I he 1 (1 11 of Arimanes painted by Mr. Danson and Sons. The Inc reased orchestra and present arrangement ot the music, ori.o . inally composed by Sir Henry Bishop, under the direc tion of Mr. Barnard. The choir under the direction of Mr. Charles Beale. - To conclude with the Musical Farce of A RO LAND FOR AN OLIVER. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Spencer, and G. Belmore, Miss Ilea Miss K. Lecicrq, and Miss Murray. —Private Boxes, 10s. 6d., 215., lls. 6d., £2 2s , £3 35., and .C.l 4s. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, 4s. ; First Circle, is.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, 25.; Lower Gallery. Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. No half-price. B office open from Ten to Five daily. Doors open at half-vast Six, commence at Seven o'cicck. Stage Manager, Mr. Phelps. THEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.- s ole Lessee and Msnatrer, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVE-NING, OUR. MARY ANNE. Atter which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mat hews. Followed by TAE GOLDEN FLEECE Messrs. Charles l%Tathews, Compton,Weathersby,&c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews, I, Keeley. Griffith, &c. And MY IiUSBAN o'S G OST. Commence at 7. ROYAL • LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. 'PECHTER begs respecttu , ly to inform the Nobility and Public that the above Theatre H.N on SAT ET lt- DNY next, with a new Drama, entitled BE 1. DEMONIA, a Love Story, in Four Acts, in which Mr. Feeliter will ap p,ar, supported by Messrs. Br - nn.:ll,ln, S. Emery, G. Jordan, audio. Charles; Miss Kate Terry, Miss Lavenue, sirs. Lee, and Miss Elsworthy. The Mx-Mice will be opened on Mcnday, Oct. 26, from eleren till live. MISS BATEMAN.—LEA FL—The celebrated young American Actress, Miss BAT MEAN, having en her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH ob tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has been wi.nessed for many years. and the profound impression Created by her impersonation of the character of LEAH upon a c• - owded audience iFivino - been completely ratified by the unanimous verdict and critical approva; of the entire Daily Press, the Manaper ot the NEW ADl' LPHI THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss BAT EMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till further notice. N. E W . T HEATRE-RO YAL, Sol. Pronrl,4tor and lianazer. Mr. R. Wabgter. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. t the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs.A , -thur Stirling, H. Phillips, liillin,tou, Stuart, A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Ilillington. To conclude wi h CATCHING AN 11E1ra:5S : Miss SVoolgar and Mr. A. Wood. ITERRNIANN.-PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Immense Success.—" The Tricks and Feats of Herr lierrmann are nearly all of the most astonishing. and inc3m r,Viensible ki n d . Hi s s l e i ght - o f-h an d f eats are rea ll y mar ,„„,?us and the ease, finish, and accuracy of his tricks are have never before been witnessed in this country."— llvd , ,Sept. 29. Herrmann in his MONEY TRICK, Money " A New System of Makin- Plc,,ty of Henn• at Eight. 'Ralf-price at Nine o'Clock, It () YAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS pNEN/gG, At ter whi c h , TURN HiM our. Mr. C. Fenton. null ups CRIME. 3fessrs. G. Honey, Parselle, lieltorci, Turner Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders. Followed by Tlll,l MOTTO I'M ALL THERE." 'Honey, Furner, . baiwer ' Collier Mesdames Ada Swan- Messrs. brouv,h, P. Ilughes, Westo s n' , Thorne,Wallace, W ace and Jenny White. Commence at 7. T" TILT RI) EDITION OF " THE SUN," - CF the L'Ateat SPO RTING INTELLIGENCE, Zian be had. E very Evening ot G. R. GLENIE. NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde -park _ _ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. ruts DA - 7.—Morning, lh, 21ta.......Astenioon, lh. 44m. TO-JKOR R°Iv • -\l°rain g' 124' Sm.--Afternoon, 2b. 93m. The Weather — Sun Office, Oct. 26,1863, - THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock .............. Barometer-30.00. ...... 66 wind —North-Nest; moderate, and very fine. ji •J, -I , ted) y lgt '*lllll LONDON, MONDAY, OCf. 26, 1863. As a strategist General LEE st ands at the present at the very head of his noble and gallant p rofession. His pre-e m i nence i n that'waY Is frankly recognised alike by the soldiers of the old world . a nd of new. His greatness as a Capt a in in the Field is conspicuously visible even tortehnederei the unprofessional multitude, less by the number and the splendour of his victo r i es , th an b y t h e f ac t t h a t his lieutenants hav e proved themselves so many paladins, an d that Yet all this while, even the most illustrious amongst them, ar e men whose fame s but subsidiary to his still grander and loftier reputation. Paladins, ere they not, those lieutenants of LEE P—leaders of brigades and of divisions such as BEAUREGARD, and Jois sroN, and BRAGc, and JACKSON, and last, but not least in the glorious catalogue, General LONG STREET, The feat but so very recently accomplished by LON GSTREET —accomplished by him, remember, as the one intrusted to carry out the pro found and daring strategic designs of the Great Confederate Commander —stands at this moment, as w e feel t o l era b ly certain it will long remain hereafter, unparalleled in the annals of war. The Greatest Soldier of modern times, perhaps of any times, meaning, of course, N APOLEON the Great k of him, b ut he is SU so speak —and it is not we who lassie masterpiece by th e grandest spoken of in a c military writer who ever lived, one as eloquent as TA,errus and as enthrallingas PLUTARCH, th e Peninsular War, the 'veteran historian of the late General Sir WlLLiam FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER—the Greatest Soldier of modern times, perhaps of any time (HANNIBAL being the only Great Captain who is seriously brought into comparison with him) NAPOLEON — performed miracles in the field, particularly in his first campaign and in his last campaign but one, in his first Italian campaign in 1797, and in his won derful campaign upon the soil of France, the cam paign of 1814, by what was called " maltiplying his forces" by the marvellous rapidity of his movements. If by the late achievements of LONGSTREET still greater wonders in that way have been accom plished, it is attributable, of course, to the fact that now there is, in aid of the strategist, what NAPOLEON had not in his time—the railway sys tem None the lees admirable is the daring of the designs of LEE as a strategist, in transferring to and fro, along a distance of four hundred miles, the whole corps of troops under the command of LONG sTREET. To and fro, over a distance in all of no: much less than a thousand miles, LONGSTREET'S corps has been whirled like a tremendous shuttle. And, with so perfect a concealment of the design meditated, and with such a ready swiftness in the execution of it, that in this moving to and fro of a whole corps of troops, between LEE'S main array on the banks of the Rapidan and BRAGG'S army four hundred miles away on the southern frontier of Tennessee, it has been like the passing hither and thither, quietly at LEE'S bidding, of a solitary messenger. The oppo nent of the two Confederate armies has in each instance been surprised. ROSENCRANZ has been driven back, his army routed in part, the rest of it being fairly " trapped" at Chattanooga. MEADE four hundred miles away from Chattanooga (himself con fronting the main army under LEE) has scarcely realized to his dismaythe predicament into which his brother Federal ROSENCRANZ has been outmance• uvred—when BRAGG'S auxi iary having accom plished his purpose at Chattanooga is back again with his chief, corps and all—and the Federal Commander awakes suddenly to the knowledge that what LEE had contrived by the aid of his lieutenant LONGSTREET, in regard to ROSENCRANZ, LEE has again contrived no less effectually and by the very same agency in regard to MEADE himself. Insomuch does this now actually turn out to be the case that upon the re turn of LONGSTREET'S corps—that is to say upon the forward movement at last, in a body, by order of LEE, of the whole Confederate army on the banks of the Rapidan, upon the forward movement of LEE'S whole army from the Rapi dan northwards (LEE doing this directly his lieutenant LONGSTREET has returned from the borders of Tennessee), the unfortunate Federal. Commander-in-Chief finds himself outmanoeuvred still mote completely and unmistakeably than by LEE'S designs had even been ROSENCRANZ. MEADE, in effect, we now learn, had found no alternative bat to escape from a disas trous discomfiture by an instant retreat. The Federal army had withdrawn bodily and with such precipitation that all that could not be carried away with them had to be burnt. They have recrossed the Rappahannock, They have withdrawn, en masse, northwards. LEE resuming his old position upon that field already twice fatal to the Federals, as the scene, for them, of two dis astrous Yankee Battles of the Spurs—the now world-famous field of Bull Run. Such is the latest " situation," in respect to the relative position of the main armies of the American belligerents. Such is the latest result of the warlike designs of that great master of strategy, General LEE. His an tagonists have had to beat a hasty retreat. He him self takes new ground upon old ground—at Bull Run, The Confederates will fight there with the prestige of victory—the Federals with a damning recollection of defeat. Let MEADE turn out to be beaten there at Bull Run—as is probable—and the capital of Washington will be open to the Confederates. Like the Centurion in the Gospel, LEE has but to say to any among these lieutenants of his, " Go there and he goeth, do this and he doeth it." And certainly the one who has been of late the most conspicuous of them all in the faithful fulfilment of his great leader's designs, the most conspicuous amongst them, at least, since the lamented death of gloriaus " Old STONEWALL," is that LONGSTREET, who (certainly as yet) knows no turning ! The memory of a great man must be ranked among the noblest possessions of his country, and it is a possession common to all his countrymen. The more numerous and distinguished the names in her annals, the higher rank a country holds in the story of the past, and the prouder the position she occupies in the present. England is rich in great men in arms, in arts, in science, in literature, in statecraft, in philosophy, in philan thropy, and the names recorded on the memorial tablets in her great cathedrals may bear com parison with those of any nation in the civilised world. Sometimes she has not known or acknow ledged their merits until the recognition was too late to do them service ; often the panegyrics on their tombstones were the first words of public praise that reached them. Envy and prejudice, poverty and misfortune have too often stood in the way of those born to rule or influence their kind ; but some, more fortunate, if not more gifted, have won the applause of their fellows while still living to hear it, and have been placed among the seats of honour while yet the position was of value. They have received the meed of well earned confidence and distinction during their lives, and over their graves men of all ranks, creeds, 1 and parties have united in tributes of approval and expressions of regret. Such sentiments are never more appropriate, or more impressive than w hen uttered at the birth-place of the one who h as th a t t that to his grave full of honours. The fact history ec t areer which has filled a marked place in th e ory of the time opened unpretendingly amo ng ittlitizstel.n i themselves gives to the speakers a per sonalts meridian and its close. The remembrance that took parth politics the great man who has since played a b usy in the broad arena of war, or s their h . subsequent achievements. streets gives to first faltering s t e p s a l ong each of the citizens an individ ua l share in They feel with liati ß f act l : B that w h en hi s f or t unes are traced in coming yes': en will look with in terest on the unattractive e i s na t the quiet village. known as his birthplace and Y e ' or ltheir build a Tthh e a y t areh proud of the reflected honour, ,:rllycihhome. their streets with his effigy assembled and to call to adorn jogs with his name, to show to strangers w h os e fame has crossed the seas perhap s wa s that he ts l o l f - i t t h h e so c m ou e n s t u y ch of fe L e a li nnaersk the born among th . em. ° Princi pal inhabitants last week in the Merchant's Hall, at Glasg ow , with d view to do honour to the memory of Lord CLYDE, Th e monument which they proposed to erect to hi m was not intended to be especially costly in i ts nature, but was meant to include a largo number of subscribers, with the view of giving expression t o the widespread respect and admiration for the brave Scottish chieftain now laid to his rest. The meet ing was large and unanimous, as befitted such an assembly in Sir COLIN CAMPBELL'S native city. A fitting oration for such an occasion was delivered CLYDE'S by one w h o was no unworthy chron i c ler of Lord fame and achievements. Sir ARCHI BALD ALISON, in an eloquent add r es s , a ll u d e d to his own personal friendship for the departed soldier, and paid duo honour to his memory. Not at such a time or place, he said, could he give a summary of the deeds of the late Fie 'd Marshal, or even men tion the chief events in a career which extended " from the time when he joined the British army in 1808, amidst the wooded cliffs of Portugal, on the eve of the battle of Vimiera, to when he trampled under foot the last embers of the Sepoy insurrec tion beneath the shadow of the mountains of Ne paul." But although Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON did not attempt such a task as this, he could dwell on the personal characteristics and substantial virtues of his friend ; he could testify to the simplicity, the generosity, the absence of all those mean and en vious feelings which sometimes shadow the nobility of men who have achieved eminence. He could dilate upon the high sense of duty which animated Lord CLYDE, his promptness and willingness to act in his country's service ; his modesty, which was se great as to lead to misapprehension and pre vent him from doing himself justice. Sir ARCHI BALD could also dojustice to the merits of the Gene ral who, ever ready to hazard his own life, was always sparing of his soldiers. The young officer who led the forlorn hope at St. Sebastian was the same leader, it is true, whose " thin red line" ex cited the wonder of friends and foes at Balakiava, but he was also the commander who exhausted every combination in his endeavour to accomplish a necessary end with the' least possible sacrifice of men. His capacities as Commander-in-Chief can only be estimated by the last act in his long mili tary career—the final subjugation of the Sepoy mutiny. Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON cited several in stances to prove that, however influence or preju dice might succeed in putting others before him when times were fair, in the moment of emergency acd peril, when real efficiency was needed, he was at once turned to. The most remarkable occasion of this sort is fresh in all our recollections, and we all remember, too, the characteristic reply to the ques tion, when he could be ready to start for India — "To-morrow morning." Arrived there, there was no sign of haste or rashness to be found in the im petuous soldier. Some, indeed, blamed him for dilatoriness and over-caution, but he heeded them not, but went on his way steadily till the end was won. It was an office of no small responsibility and danger, for, in the words of his eulogist at the Glasgow meeting, when marching from Cawnpore to Lucknow, " He bore the fate of India on his sword's point, for he was marching with 6,000 men —our last reserve—to assail 60,000, intrenched to the teeth, in the capital of Oude, with 15,000 vic torious rebels threatening his rear and communica tions." Such recollections may well animate his countrymen to do honour to his fame, and in no more fitting spot could they raise his memorial than in the streets of his native city. Among social improvers there are few who rank higher, or whose rank exercise a more beneficial influence on the community, than those who address themselves to the wants and privations of the in mates of workhouses. There is no class of institu tion a: present existing in the metropolis or through out the country that stands in greater need of care and attention than these receptacles for the desti tute. It may be said of them, lasciente agni speranza vir cleentrale. While hospitals are price less boons to the poor and suffering, and while even prisons and gaols are often rendered positive places of relief, as regards physical comforts, it has been proved by close investigation and attested by not able witnesses that the workhouse is per se, as it were, among those establishments that receive a large share of our population. This inferiority is especially to be regretted, because for the most part those who become denizens within its walls are com pelled so to do in consequence of great misfortunes having befallen them, or of sickness depriving them of the means of supporting themselves. The paper read by Miss TWINING at the Social Science Con gress at Edinburgh goes far to show the great neces sity that prevails for some remedial measures to be adopted. It seems a strange and a sad thing that in this wealthy and benevoleut land, so many charities should abound, and yet that by some unaccountable mischance no provision should be made for a class that particu larly deserves our commiseration. There are many painful ordeals to be gone through in the treatment of disease, many anxious moments of sus pense to be endured during its fluctuations, but nothing else can so afflict the sufferer as to be told that hope is past. The human mind na turall y shrinks from th e con t em pl a ti on of such a dreary and dismal prospect. It seems hard, then, to reflect that there is no alleviation whatever afforded to those unhappy beings who are dismissed from the hospital as incurable. They are compelled, almost without exception, to proceed to the workhouse, where their condition is truly deplorable. There is great truth in the remark of Miss TWINING that it "certainly seems strange that, thoughtful and liberal as we have been in these countries about the temporarily sick, we have bestowed so little thought in inquiring what becomes of all those incurably sick persons who are annually dismissed from hos pitals." It is of no use to question the records of the past, but it will be of the most service if we avoid the recurrence of this unfortunate neglect for the future. It stands to reason that one of the first evils to be rectified is that glaring error mentioned in this paper referred to, namely, the practice of cm ploying untrained pauper nurses, and these, too, with out a superintendent to watch their proceedings. Hapless is the lot of the unhappy victims to lingering maladies, to be subjected to so many of those minor Alictions which, in the time of sickness anti de pression, assume a form of magnitude, and are a grievous burthen. The Workhouse Visiting Society has endeavoured to relieve some of the sufferings alluded to by timely suggestions, and the introduc tion of sympathising visitors. Also an admirable proposal was made, which, in some instances, has been found to be most efficacious—namely, to place the incurable in a separate ward, where they might obtain more attention and voluntary relief, without creating jealousy among the other inmates. The plan suggested by Miss TWINING bids fair to miti gate the worst part of the evils now so prevalent. It is that a ward should be set apart for those who are able to pay a small sum, or whose friends can pay for them. Hero they would have nearly all the advantages of an hospital, and with the continued care that cannot be afforded in those institutions , many of the poor sufferers, whose recovery is now deemed hopeless, would very likely be restored to comparative health, or bo enabled to gain their own livelihood. At present there are many in this position, and if they contribute their small stipend to their support, they r eceive no .g distinction whatever" from those who Pay nothi ng. The incurable wards, b efore refereed to : I°4 partially Pa 11 y supply the wants of the destitute C lass, and thus more than these numerous and grievously afflicted members of the community will be in a fair way o f seeing bett er d ays . S ure l y if one class anoth er claims our pity, merits our con sideration, and deserve s o ur exertions, it is the in curable in workhouses . As at present they are situated, in too many eases th e y seem endur i ng a state as monstroun, and a posit ien that can afflict humanity. ;ni t everlasting has shut them ftom day," so far as regards the coin- TEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2G, 1563. forts, the enjoyments, or the kihdly sympathies that elevate and adorn humanity. Great credit is due to those who have hitherto so strenuously laboured to better their lives, and to soothe their weary passage to the grave. We know of such that their praise is not of men, but the society whose humble members they struggle to benefit, should not be unmindful of their efforts, and above all should endeavour to fol low their good example. There may have been some partial excuse for the neglect that has hitherto prevailed from the ignorance that has existed in regard to the unhappy position of these "incur ables," but that reason will not now be valid when the subject has been brought so prominently for ward, and it is earnestly to be trusted that on moral and social grounds the claim now put forward may be acknowledged and recognised. It is truly stated in this paper that in our own ranks of life such suf ferers aro deserving of every care and thought, and their position in a humble sphere serves but to in crease their misery and misfortune. The charity of the benevolent and the attention of the authorities ought to be put in requisition at once to forward the interests of a large and needy portion of the inhabi tants of this wealthy and populous country. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, OCT. 26. The Chambers have been summoned to meet upon the 15th November. The chief military commandants have been ap pointed, viz., General Floresco, for Bucharest ; Colonel Mano, for Jassy; and Colonel Couloglon, for Grohova. A new Cabinet has been formed under the preni denu of M. Cogalintchano, composed as follows : President of the Council and M Minister of th e Interior.... M. Cogalintchano. Minister of Finance M. Steege. Minister for Foreign Affairs M. Rosetti. Minister of Justi ce an d C omp' troller ad i n t er i m • 3M. B. M ar i an. Minister of I ns t ruct i on an d Public Wor s hip •••• M. Bolintiniano. Minister of Public Works .... M. Orbesco. Minister of War ...... General Floresco is charged with the general inspection of the army. AGRAM, OCT. 26. The Agranzer Zeitung of to-day states that appre hensions are enterlained of an impending conflict between Turkey, Servia, and Montenegro. The signal is expected to be given by Bosnia, which is is a state of great affection. SWITZERLAND. TRIUMPH OF THE RADICAL PARTY. GENEVA, OCT. 26. The elections of the Natimal Council have taken place. The list of candidates of the Radical party com prised amongst others MM. Ftzy, Vautier, Challet, and Vuy. The majority of these candidates have been elected, The Radical party is in opposition to the Grand Council. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 25. The question of the Budget is settled. The surpluß is to remain undiminished. It has been decided that the Imperial Bank will pay the November divideuds upon the Consolides in London and Paris. FRANCE. BouitsE, Oct. 24.—The market has again be come heavy, and the business done has been at lower prices. Threes, for the Account, opened at 67f sc, and are now at 07f 71c. Mobilier Shares are slightly lower. Railway Shares rather offered, and of the lines have receded. Too market closed as follows : It per Cents .. 95 25 Italian Loan r; 73 30 Do. end month... Do. end month 73 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 10 Do. end mouth — Credit Mobilier.... 1115 Russian Do ' end m0nth....1115 Austrian Bank Shares — Spunish Threes.... Credit Foneier l3OO Home Debt Roman RAILWAY% Cash. Account. Orleans Northern .• .. Lyons and Mediterranean : 955 .. 958 75 New ditto GenEwa .. Southern 687 5 1 Western Eastern Sardinian .. — Austrian Lombard North of Spain - Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, A short series of performances commenced on Saturday evening with the brilliantly successful opera ot " Faust." The house was crowded from the parterre to the uppermost passage in the rear of the loftiest seat in the amphitheatre, and numbers were sent away from sheer incapacity of the vast space of Her Majesty's Theatre to contain the visitors. This is a very gratifying fact, as it shows most unmistakeably that, notwithstanding the dull period of the year, good music and good singing, although in a foreign language, will invariably attract " the million." The cast of the opera in cluded, as before, Mdlle. Titiens and Trebelli as Margarita and Siebel, Mdmo. Taccani as Martha, Santley as Valentine, Signor Bossi (in place of Gas' Bier) as Mephistopheles, and, to the regret of the immense audience, Signor Volpini as Faust, in plane of Sims Reeves, whose non-appearance was occa sioned by his not having recovered from the hoarse ness under which he has been labouring for some time. The opera was given in splendid style by the above artistes—Volpini receiving the most en thusiastic applause for the manner in which he sung the music of Faust, receiving it as he did with only a couple of hours' notice. The grand march and chorus of victory, " Gloria immQrtaie," was splendidly performed under the direction of Signor Arditi. To-night " Faust" is to be repeated. --- SURREY-THEATRE. - - On Saturday Shaitspear's play, " The Winter's Tale," was produced here in a manner deserving the highest approbatkn, and at the same time reflect ing the greatest credit upon the joint lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and James Anderson. It has been said that the taste of the play-goers on the other side of the water has been vitiated, and that Shakspear has been voted a bore ; but could he who holds this opinion bat have seen the tremendous gal lery of the S urre y, th e spacious pit and boxes , filled as they were with compact masses , a n d up on the countenance of each attention plainly visible, he would at once admit that he laboured under a mistake. The acting of Mr. Anderson as Leontas was of more than ordinary excellence, and Miss Pauncefort's Herrnione will add greatly to her reputation. Mrs. Gordon, from America, and Mr. Russell both made their first appearance in the play, and from the opportunity wo had of. judging of their abilities, they bid fair to become highly useful members of the co m p an y . Miss S. Webster made a most interesti n g Perdita, a nd Florizel was well represented by M . Fernandez . At the conclusion of the play th e last new nautic al drama, "Poor Tom: or, Farew ell my trim-built Wherry," was performed, in which Mr. Shepherd capitally sustained the brave and jolly Jack tar to the life; the pact of his sweetheart was also prettily sang and acted by Mies Jacobs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, ..-- MARLBOROUGII-STREET. A RIOT IN SILVER-STREET, GOLDEN-SQUARE,—AT TACK ON THE POLlCE.—Shortly after Mr. Knox took his seat on the bench this morning, the following charges, arising out of a riot which took place in Silver-street, Gol den-square, on Saturday night, and again yesterday after. noon, between a number of Scotch bakers and Irish tailors were brought on : Daniel M'Carthagan, Irish tailor, was charged with assaulting Thomas Cole, 220 C, and John Staines, 123 C. Cole said—l was on duty on Saturday night in Silver street, when I saw a crowd of between 500 and 600 persons behaving in a very disorderly manner. I went to take a person into custody, when the prisoner struck me a violent blow on the cheek, knocking me down. I was thus pre vented from taking the person into custody. Staines—l saw the prisoner strike Cole, and on assisting Cole in taking the prisoner into custody, the prisoner struck me. He was very violent all the way to the station, and had been drinking, Prisoner—l am very sorry. I was only in the affair five minutes. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for one month's hard labour. Christopher Hennessy, tailor, was next charged with riotous conduct and assaulting police constable John West, 210 C. West—l was in Silver-street on Saturday night with Sergeant Smith, 1 C, when the prisoner without my inter fering with him struck me and violently kicked me on the ankle, and knocked my hat off. The prisoner was drunk. Wm. Barker, 77 C—l saw the prisoner strike the lasr witness, who had not touched him. The prisoner said he had a wife and family to support. Mr. Knox---I am very sorry for your wife and family, but these disturbAnces have been going on for the pest two or three weeks. Prisoner said thero had been a row going on between the tailors and bakers. Committed for a month. THAMES. STRANGE HALLUCINATION BY A GlRL.—Julia Sharp, a servant girl, aged 16 years, was brought befere Mr. Part ridge, charged with stealing Bs. 4d. in silver and copper, moneys belonging to Mrs. Dixon How. The prisoner had baen in the service of Mts. Clara How, a lady residing in Stainsby-road. A few days since the girl was entrusted by her mistress with a half-sovereign to pay a butcher's bill. She returned to her mistress after a few minutes' absence, and said she had lost the money. Her story was doubted at the time, but Mrs. How, who is a kind-hearted lady, overlooked the affair. While Mrs. Dixon was at tea on Thursday last the girl absconded. Soon afterwards Mrs. How's children discovered that a box in the parlour had been forced open, and called their mother's attention to it. Mrs. How then missed Bs. 4d. from the box, which contained a much larger sum. She also missed a black leather bag from a cupboard in her bedroom. Mrs, How went in search of her servant, and the mother of the girl assisted her in doing so. The girl was found in the house of a friend, and upon seeing her mistress she opened a window, jumped into the street, and made her escape, She was afterwards captured by a police-constable as she was making preparations to go to Liverpool with the black leather bag she had stolen in her possession. It contained three cotton dresses and several other things belonging to the prisoner and articles of trifling value the property of Mrs. How. The mother of the girl said her husband was a cooper. The prisoner was the eldest of eight children. The girl had been in five situations, kept each of them five months only, and left for the purpose of proceeding to Liverpool. Mr. Partridge—Liverpool. What does she want there ? The Mother—l don't know, sir, indeed. She has a strange fancy to go to Liverpool, although she has no rela tives or connections there. When she has been in a situa tion five months she becomes low spirited and desponding, and wishes to go to Liverpool. Mr. Partridge—These fits come over her periodically. The Mother—Yes, sir, she is thinking of Liverpool morning, noon, and night. She only took sufficient money from Mrs. How to enable her to proceed to Liverpool. She might have taken more. Mrs. How said that was really the case. She had no wish the poor girl should be sent to prison. Mr. Partridge—l think I must do so for a short time. The Mother—l have to implore you not to send my child to a prison. Her father and myself will do all we can to keep her out of harm's way in future. She is not 16 until next April. She would not think of robbing any one if she had not fancied going to Liverpool. She started one morning for Liverpool with Prayer-book and Bible in her hands, and we brought her back. Mr. Partridge said he would remand the girl at present for one week, and he would decide what was to be done with her when she was brought up again. LITERATURE. Tara : A Mahratta Tale. By Captain Meadows Taylor, M.R.1.A., author of " Confessions of a Thug," &c. Three vols. Blackwood. Never since the wondrous tale of " Alroy" was written, has an English novel been more thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Eastern Romance. Capt. Taylor has fairly transported himself, and his readers also, into the age and place of which he writes. The illusion throughout is perfect. We take part in the home life of the Bramhuns some two centuries back, we witness the frantic worship of the Hindu goddess, and are, for the time, almost carried away by the wild phrensy of the excited and exalted Tara. Later on " The fierce Mahratta swordsman and the Mussulman Ameer " appear upon the scene, and the interest, although not less thrilling, becomes more human, and the crafty wiles of Asiatic intrigue alternate with scenes of blood and carnage. The story possesses a powerful interest throughout, and the lovely face and lovely character of Tara gleams like a silver thread throughout the intricate maze of tho momen tous and, at times, most stirring narrative. Like a calm clear dawn, unconscious of coming tempest, the opening chapters introduce us to a charming picture of domestic life in that far-off age and country. Here is a passing glimpse oZ A HINDU INTERIOR. Enter the Shastree's house at any time, and you were at once struck with its great neatness. The floor was always plastered with liquid clay by the women -servants when he was absent at the temple for morning worship, and retained a cool freshness while it dried, and, indeed, doting the day. It was generally decorated by pretty designs in white and red chalk powder dropped between the finger and thumb, in the execution of which both mother and daughter were very expert and accomplished. The Shastree's seat, which was, in fact, a small raised dais at one side of the large room, was usually decked with flowers, while, upon the door before it, the greatest artistic skill was expended in ornament by Tara and her mother. Above it were pictures of favourite divinities, painted in distemper colour : the amorous blue-throated Krishna playing to the damsels of Muttra ; the solemn four -armed Ganesha, sitting with a grave Elephant's head on his shoulders; the beautiful Lakshmee and Suruswitti, the goddesses of wealth and learning, the objects of household adoration : and the terrible six-armed Bhowani in her contest with the demon Maheshwur, in commemoration of which the temple had been erected— all surrounded by wreaths of flowers inter woven with delicate border patterns ;—had been partly executed by the Shastree himself, and partly by Tara, who followed his tastes and accomplishments after a pretty fashion. Thus decorated, the dais had a cheerful effect in the room: and choice and intimate friends only were admit ted to the privilege of sitting upon it. The house itself was perhaps in no degree remarkable, Outside, facing the street, was a high wall, with a large door within a projecting porch or archway, which had a seat on either hand as you entered. The door-frame was richly carved, and on each side a horse's head projected from the upper corner. Above the daor, in a space left for the purpose, was written in red Sanscrit letters, " Sree Martund Prussunn," "The holy Martund protects ;" and Martund was one of the appellations of Siva. This legend was surrounded by wreaths of flowers in the same colour; and across the whole was a garland of mango leaves now withered, which had hung there since the last festival. As you entered the court, the principal room was before you, on the basement of the house, which you ascended by three steps; It was a wide open verandah, extending the width of the court, supported upon seven wooden pillars, also richly carved, on which cross square capitals were fixed, and from these beams were laid to form the roof, This verandah was double ; the inner portion being raised a step above the other to form a dais, and at each end of the inner portion were two small rooms in the corners, one of which was the Shastree's library. The whole of these verandahs could be shut in closely by heavy curtains of quilted cotton, neatly ornamented by devices of birds and flowers, which hung between the pillars ; but usually all was open, or closed only by transparent blinds of split cane suspended outside. Having a northern aspect, this room was always cool, and was the ordinary resort of the Shastree. Here he re ceived his friends and neighbours, held disputations and in structed his pupils. The women seldom entered it except in the evenings when undisturbed : for though un secluded from men a certain degree of reserve and retire ment is always observable in the women of Hindu families. There was no ornament about the main apartment except the Shastree's dais, and the borders painted about the niches and architraves of the doors; but it was kept a pure white, and was scrupulously clean. Such is the early home of Tara, daughter of Vyas Shastree, priest of the Bramhuns, and here is a portrait of the heroine herself : TARA. Do you expect that her complexion will be fair like that of our own northern girls 1 Ah, no I that would not har monise with the dress of the country; and yet it is very fair. Not a deep rich olive, but what seems at first glance pale and colourless; yet the skin is so glossy and trans - parent that the warm glow of her blood is suffased under it with the least passing emotion or excitement, which, as it fades, leaves, as you think, a more beautiful tint behind. And the features harmonised with the colour. To a casual observer their expression was almost one of habitual sadness, yet it was not so in reality; there was calm, which as yet had known no rude ruflitinee—a sweetness that was index to a simple, loving, trustful mind. True, she had cares beyond those of ordinary household occurrences, and these had no doubt increased the pensive expression always remarkable. So her countenance was not easy to describe ; nor could you acccunt very well for the patient, care enduring look which met you from one so young. What every one saw first, were the soft brown eyes, shaded with long eyelashes welch rested upon the cheek. Ordinarily perhaps, or if seen when cast down, these eyes appeared nowise remarkable; yet if passing emotions were noticed, they closed when she was merry, till only a bright spark of light remained glistening through the long lashes ; and again, if surprise, wonder, or admiration were excited, they suddenly expanded, so that one looked into a depth of clear glowing colour, violet and brown, the expression of which could not be fathomed. But habitually they were modest pensive, and gentle full of intelligence, and seemed to cor• respond with a low musical cadence of voice perfectly natural, yet, assisted, perhaps, by the habit of reading and studying aloud, which she has learned from her father. In those calm eyes there was as yet no passion of any kind. Some suffering, perhaps, but no rough awakening to the reality of life. The rest of her face left nothing to be desired. The Bramhuns of Western India usually possess features more European in their character than those of the same sect in other parts of the country, and in this respect the women share them with the men, if they , do not, indeed, exceed them. So Tara had a soft oval face, with small full lips and mouth, a thin straight nose with nostrils almost trans parent, which seemed to obey the passing emotions of her countenance. Though the features were soft, they were neither insipid nor weak in character; on the contrary, they appeared full of a woman's best strength—endurance and patience; while, in the full glossy chin and throat, enough of determination was expressed to show firmness and con• sistency of no common order. Except the eyes, perhaps, there was no feature of the face which could be called exactly beautiful, yet the whole combined to create an ex pression which was irresistibly interesting and charming ; and where all harmonised, separate portions were not re marked. Every movement of her lithe form was displayed by the soft silk drapery which fell over it in those graceful folds which we see expressed in ancient statues, and it was cast in those full yet deAcitely-rounded proportions which sculptors have best loved to imitate. Standing as she was, the girl had fallen into an attitude which was most ex pressive: her head raised and turned to meet her mother's entrance : a delicate naked foot, with a chain anklet of gold resting on it, put out from beneath her robe : her eyes open, yet not to their full width : and her lips apart, disclos ing the even glistening teeth—she appeared, in her arrested movement, as if she waited some further communication from her moth- , r, or had herself one to make before she stirred. A shadow may well rest upon the brow of Tara. According to native custom, she had been married in childhood, at the age of six years, to the son of some friend of her father. The death of the bride groom, three years afterwards, left Tara a widow! —a name of disgrace and reproach among her coun trymen. As yet her loving parents had brought her up as though no such calamity had befallen her, but the time was approaching when certain cerem)nial rites must be performed, and Tara's girlish happiness would be at an end for ever. Unexpected and marvellous are the various mis fortunes that befall her. The ardour of her enthu siastic temperament at first saves her from the de graded position of a Hindu widow, and she is for a time regarded as an inspired votary of the goddess. A yet more direful persecution, however, follows her foOtsteps, in the unholy love of Moro Tremmull, the evil genius of Tara's life. Saved, in the first instance, from his power by the happy advent of the Moorish horsemen, Tara, later on, is again within his grasp. Then it is that, dreading a yet more fearful fate, the excited girl, standing by the altar of her divinity, demands, with eager accents, the Hindu widow's privilege of Suttee—the awfai death by fire to which so many hapless and mad dened women have before now been consigned. Then, towards the close of the third volume—for Captain Taylor understands the art of working the ►nterest of the reader up to a climax—the follow ing vivid scene occurs, an admirable specimen of the effective style of the narration : THE COMING DOOM. She reached the pile, now covered with fluttering pennons and streamers—orange, white, and crimson—and thousands of garlands, which the people had hung or thrown upon it as votive othrings since the morning—and the litter was set down for her to alight. It was with difficulty the crowd was kept back so as to form a space round the pile which would admit of her passing in procession ; but it was cleared at last by the Bramhuns, and the people hung back awe struck and staring at the beauty of the victim. Tara looked at the pile; but there was that strange ecstacy glowing in her eyes which appeared to have ren dered her unconscious of its purport or of all else about her. Sometimes she cast up her eyes with a strange bright smile, and nodded as if she were saying, as perhaps she did, " I come, I come." Again she looked round her dreamily. The roar of the people's voices, the clash of cymbals, the shrill screams of the pipes and horns, the hoarse braying of trumpets, and the continuous beating of deep-toned drums were around her, drowning the sound of words, and the bitter sobs and low shrieks of her mother and Radha at her side. Her father's spirit seemed to have risen to the need of the occasion, for he stood near her, joining the solemn chant, which blended with and softened the rude music. As she stood, the Brambuns worshipped her and poured libations before her and on her feet, touched her forehead with sacred colour, and put fresh garlands over her neck. Then the last procession was formed, in which she would walk round the pile thrice, and ascend it, as her last act of ceremonial observance. Now, and before she had to take off her ornaments, she turned her full gaze on it, and they thought, who were watching her, that she seemed to com prehend its purpose. A huge platform of logs, black with oil and grease that had been poured upon them, strewed with camphor and frankincense, Which had been scattered lavishly by the people in their votive offerings, and smeared with red powder. A rude step had been made for Tara to ascend by, and on the summit some bright cloths were laid es a bed, where she might recline, upon which a small e ffigy of a man, rudely conceived and dressed, had been placed. Her marriage -bed in the spiritual sense of the sacrifice, on which, through fire, she would be united to her husband. The whole was garish, hideous, and cruel. Face to face with death so horrible, so imminent, the girl seemed to shiver and gasp suddenly, and sank dawn swooning. Vishnu Pundit and another old Bramhun, raised her up. " It must not be," they said to each other in a whisper ; " she must not fail now, else shame will come upon us. Bat Tara's fate is not thus decided! However, we will reveal no more. The lovers of sengation may here indulge their favourite sentiments after the most legitimate fashion, and acquire historical knowledge in the midst of romantic excitement. In the very interesting introduction, Captain Taylor tells us that, so far back as 1839, in a conversation with Professor Wilson, he (Captain Taylor) sketched out tha outline of this tale, which is actually founded upon historical fact. Professor Wilson de sired him to write a story to that effect for Black wood's Magazine, but many accidents then pre vented the carrying out of that design. At length, nearly a quarter of a century later, the history 01 Tara is presented to the public, and we doubt not that it will now excite in the minds of many readers the same feelings of interest and admiration with which, in its eel ly infancy, it was regarded by the Great Critic of the North. The Pocket Date Book. By William L. R. Cates. One vol., pp. '252. Chapman and Hall. A wonderful repertory of information ! And, what is more, a work of reference in the accuracy of every individual entry com prised within which, the most implicit re liance may be placed at once and unhesitat ingly. It comes to us, moreover, this little volume, with the avowed and emphatic approval of one eminently well qualified to estimate the merits or demerits of such a compila"ion, and one, too, wh o in the instance immediately under notice, has had peculiar opportunities for so doing. Mr Cites' Book of Dates—" which," as Mr. Peggotty observed under similar circumstances, "is rhyme, though 1 didn't mean W"—appears before the public, in point of fact, with a Prefatory Approval, dated from Windsor Castle, by Mr. Woodward, the learned Royal Librarian, and now Editor of the Fine Arts Quarterly as well. The wor k we are now re ferring to, it appears from Mr. Woodward's brief but perfectly sufroient preface, has undergone a careful scrutiny by himself , both in manuscript and in print bef ore publication, that is in the proof sheet. As a series of classified sables of Dates, the work appears, of course, as all such works should appear, unencumbered in any pan by a no tification of the authorities consulted by the compiler. Yet, f or a ll th a t, we have the satis faction of learning, through Mr. Woodward (who has seen the "MSS." and the "Proofs "), that the compiler has certainly and conscientiously through out consulted the most reliable sources of information. As we have said, the work is classified : but—we should add at once—very simply and briefly clas sified. There are two main divisions—Part 1., Ancient; Part 11., Modern. Each of these Parts again is halved in its turn : here giving us the Historical, here the Biographical. The Ancient Historical Division has six separate sections—the Ancient Biographical Division four. Whereas—by reason of the superior copiousness of the materials stored up since the Christian Epoch—while the Modern Biographical Division has nine sections in all, the Modern Historical Division has as many as thirty-one ! A noble, resplendent, marvellous catalogue. As a matter, of course, however, furnishing (as that first section does undoubtedly) by far tne most extended list of the kind anywhere to be found in the world's annals, these thirty-one sec tions of the Modern Historical Division lead off wan the Popes. The record of the Sovereign Pon tiffs, here given, however, we observe at once be gins, oddly enough, with the beginning of the third century, when it might just as well have begun with the beginning of the first. It might far more reasonably have been made complete while the chronologist was about it. St. Linus is as per fectly authenticated a personage as St. Severus The year 63 is as reliable a starting point of the sequel to the Acts as the year 202, The martyrdom under Severus is certainly not one jot more striitly historical than is the crucifixion under Tiberius Caesar. It is not however as the swallowing of the great and the subsequent declining to swallow the camel : it is rather than anything of that kind, as the gulping of a whole caravan of camels and then the declining of a very few additional drome daries. However, though still, as in this instance, incomplete at several points, the outline of it is wonderfully comprehensive, and the filling up of that clear bound outline even yet more wonderfully minute. In subsequent editions any compara tively insignificant histories may be readily enough filled up—while a judicious erasure here and there of entirely superfluous information may, at the same time, be boldly ad ventured upon by the compiler. A single exemplar of each—that is, of any erasure of super fluous matter, on the one hand, and of any additional information, in regard to whatever has been over looked, upon the other—will, for our present purpose, be perfectly sufficient. Uader the head, " Eminent Men" (in the modern Biographical Divi sion ), it should be added also in the title of the heading, " And Women"—we cannot in any way perceive the interest or utility of such an entry as— " Byron Anne Isabella, Lady Noel, widow of Lord Byron, 1793-18G0." While it is surely a strange oversight, indeed, on the part of the compiler to have no mention whatever, under the head " Modern Statesmen," of one of the most resplendently distinguished modern statesman in our own country (the Byron of politics, we might almost call him), the rarely gifted and still lamented Earl of Durham. A men who, had he survived till now, instead of being cut off, as he unhappily was, in the very flower and glory of his manhood, would doubtless have held for years, possibly at this moment, the supreme post of the Premiership. Skimming the cream from the thirtieth section of the first divi sion of Part IL, what marvels are there not arrayed before us in this most acceptable little volume of Mr, Cates' when we can jot down upon a mere incidental glance along hie records in that one sub division, the following as among the very pick of MODERN INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. Yrs. Mariners' Compass .. .. 1300 Gunpowder .. .. 1250 Paper .. • • • . 1270 Spectacles 1290 Cannon 1300 Printing............ 140 Diving Bell .. .. • • • • 1550 Air Gun 1600 Thermometer, by Galileo .. 1603 Telescope, by Galileo 1609 Microscope, by Galileo .. .. .• 1610 Logarithens, by Napier .. 1614 Circulation of the blood, by Harvey ".. .. 1620 Barometer, by Torricelli .. • • .. 1645 Air Pump, by Otto Guericke; 1650 Law of Gravitation, by Newton .. .. 1665 Phosphorus, by Brandt 1668 Watch-spring, by Huyghens 1675 Ruins of Pompeii .. 1689 - .• • • Steam Engine, by Newcombe .. 1705 Blowpipe 1740 Achromatic Telescope, by James Dollond 1759 Spinning Jenny, by Hargreaves .. 1760 Spinning Machine, by Arkwright 1769 Balloons, by the Montgolfiers 1782 Bramah Lock 1781 Argand Lamp 1787 Life Boat, by Greathead 1789 Stereotyping 1800 Jacquard Loom .• 1806 Safety Lamp, by Davy .. .. • . 1816 lilleidescope, by Brewster .. 1817 Calculating Machine, by Babbage.. 1822 Steel Pens • . • • ~ .. .. 1825 Steam Gun, by Perkins 1825 Locomotive, by George* Stephenson .. 1529 [*Mr. Cates, p. 126, puts it by a strange lapsus Robert Stephenson.] Lucifer Matches .. • • .. .. 1830 Screw Propeller, by Smith and Ericsson .. 1836 Electric Telegraph 1837 Stereoscope, by Wheatstone .. 1838 Lenticular Stereoscope, by Brewster 1849 Electrotype • • • • • • .. .. 1839 Daguerreotype .. . • • • .. 1839 Steam Hammer, by Nasmytb. . , .. .. 1842 Gun Cotton .. .. .. .. 1846 Revolver, by Colt s 1850 Chloroform, by Simpson 1850 Spectral analysis, by Kirchof and Bunsen .. 1860 The book is a very hive of information, with rich stores of the honey of knowledge packed away, as it were in cells especially contrived for the re ception of each individual little drop. A very para dise for bee readers of all kinds, whether those flaunting drones who are too idle for such honey. hunting themselves, preferring much to have it thus collected together for their enjoyment, or whether, on the contrary, it,be those" humble" " busy" ones who, in the midst of their own habitual toils, taste perhaps with a keener relish than any others could do, the luxury of a casual sip, here, on the sly— namely, the professional man, thesoholar, the work ing man of letters, in effect any one seriously and assiduously engaged in the whirling work of this age of perpetual industry. THE CHAMOIS -HUNTER, Mr. Charles Boner, has started on a tour through Transylvania, the wild sports of which country will give full occupation to his gun, as the little known manners and customs will serve to employ his pen. " WATERLOO CLARK"—that is Mr. John Clark, so called from his " Scenes from the Battle of Waterloo," sketched by him on the field itself immediately after the battle—died a few days ago at Edinburgh in his 92d year. THE CONCERTS OF MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR will begin on the 4th (being the anniversary of Mendels sohn's death), with a Mendelssohn Evening. " THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT."—The Spectator laughs good-humouredly at the Hon. H. Winter Davis, of Baltimore, who revels in the idea of Admi ral Dupont sending his " bombshells over the dome of St. Paul's, and the ruins of London-bridge tumbling into the stream below!" Evidently, says our contemporary, Mr. Davis wishes to play into the hands of Lord Macaulay's " Maori,'' who from his broken arch will paint the picture, while Adrsiral Dupont realises it. But if the shells are to fiy over the dome of St. Paul's the elevation of the mortars will be somewhat unpractical, like that of Mr. Winter Davis's oratorical artillery. TUE LYCEUM THEATRE, after extensive altera tions, will open on the 31st inst with "Bel Demonic) (Mr. Pechter as the hero), when we believe Mr. G. F. Neville, a young actor of great promise and provincial reputation, will make his first how to a London audience. Ho is a younger brother of the talented H. Neville, who has made himself famous in the " Ticket-of-Leave Man." The news of the meeting of German Ministers at Nurem berg was a surprise, and no pleasant one, to the Prussian Government, whose diplomatic agents are not generally renowned for correctness and rapidity of information•-not very surprising, if we consider the way in which some of them are appointed. We hear that Gen. Wil'ison, whose projected appointment to Turin caused so much controversy, and was finally sent to Rome, is about to return home, not having been found adequate to the duties of the situation. It is added that he is not to be reinstated in the post ho for merly held at Court, and which it was understood would for a certain time be kept open for him. The King, it ap • pears, lately wished to appoint one of his aides-de-camp Minister at the Hague, that post being vacant, but M. von Bismark positively objected to a persistence in the plan of converting respectable generals into bad ministers pleniPo" tentiary. BA Co: h( Ix( ir e y titli ke )l hloa Nem Pan Di Port Di Rum Di Di card span Dit Span Dii saved Turk pit flit flit vene; nit ,nit flit Aust r "utei y -talia, Con s ,, Diu Th probL it op e lit ee ( r rhi of the Years th e a tb aior the Ith ee 0 th e ne th eir 1 koagi _ t. tr ' 1 tePpdy