The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

Next week will be published in Svo, with lisps, W HAT LE!) To THE I;IcOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. By JOHN lIANNING SPERE, Capta.n H.M. Indian Army, Author of "Journal of th , p,d 9 pvery of the Source of the bile." W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. This day is published, H E SCOT ABROAD By JOHN HILL BURTON, Aut or of "The Book Bun er." n Two Volumts, Crown Svo, 15s. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edluburgh and London. ][I , OAYL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. The n bility, r entry, subscribers, and the public are respect fu ly informed that the season will lose en zatuid4y, J u y 30. There will in this reek be five opera nights, viz. Monday, Tues.:2.y, Thursday, I , %iday, and z..atbrday. Extra I%l,ght THIS EVENING (THURSDAY), June the 30th, will be performed. Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, in tour acts, LE YEOPIIETE. Fides, Madame Dialer, her first at pe .rance In that character this season ; Bertha, Iladam. Rudersdoril ; Count Überthal, Signor Ta liafi ; Zac:atia, Signor Capponi ; Math , sen, signor Polonini ; Giona, Signor Teri-Bar ldi ; and Jean of Leyden, Signor Tamberhk, his first appeara...ce in that character this season. Conductor, Mr. Costa The Grand Sk tin Scene and incidental Divertisse = eat will be supported by M 11e Salvoni, lidlie. Carmine, Mdlle. avarre, .nd M. Desplaces. Commenbe at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre rta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ,• smphitheatre.'2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had 9.t the box-office under the portico of the them re, which is 3pen from ten to five, and at the principal musicselltrs' and THEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARE.ET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, TETE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, !% eathersby, dtic. ; Mesdames Snowde.n, Nelly Moore, Fitzwillism. Followed by LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To cone ude with TURNING THE TABLES. Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, &,,1 _ Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Hay, J. Nelson, &c. ; 31iss Stafford and .7 , .,5s Caroline Carson. After which. the new play by John Oxenford, Es , THE MONASTERY OF S JUS : 3lessrs. Vining, 11 21.r5t0,,, to,,, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins, L. Seyton, Chapman ; Mrs. H. Alaiston, and Mdlle..ttella Til EA CRE-RU Y AL, ADELPHL dote Provrlstor and Manager. M:. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips. Fo:lowed by THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his original character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, uppo ted by Messrs. A. :- tiling, J. L. Toole, 'l'. Stuart, aut Bedford, 13,11ington; Miss Woolr.",ar (Mrs. Alfred Melton), Miss Kelly, arc. After which, TilE AREA BELL}, with I Horrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Too'c, P. Bedford, Ktmerliiss I'Voutgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis, Commence at 7. It()YAI, S f. J A\l'r.S' lt EA I ICE. under the Management of 11Er B EBSTER. l-rowd_d with rank and fashion. Re•engagement of those ce and popular artistes, Mr. all Mrs. Lharles Matlijw4.7.. Amongst the artists enzaged wit be found the opular n du, sof 3lr. Be..jamin Webster, Mr. Charle Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. Clarke, Mr. P .ul IledtOrt, 31r. 14'. oobinson. sir. Asidev, , 3lr. J. Johnstone; Mira II rberr, Mrs Frank Matthews, Miss 11..-imms, 3l , ss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny .Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentwortu, Mrs. Stiring, and Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CL: )THING. Mrs. SArling, Mr. J. Oarkr, and Mr. P. At ihe Comi! Dram of USED UP Messrs. C. Mathews, Ashley, J. Jrdinstorie, Mou Lague, W. h.mberlaine ; Miss Patti Josephs, and M. - s. F. ank ..atthews. At 14., ITTLE TODDLEKINS, Mr. Cha - les Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRIsTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank 3lacht ws, Mr. Ash cy, Miss IVentworth. In Ben. arsal, FAUST AA D MaIIt.WERI rP. An Im morality, by C. Burnan , Esq., in which Mr. and M.s. Charles alatbews will appear. V MOSES AND SON .124• respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. The newest taorics are comb.ned with the latest and most fashionable oesigns, and the best workmanship. E. 310-41.:s and SON give particular attention to this important branch of their business, and they can with confidence affirm that the prices ergs such as must satisfy the most tconomical This depart ment is in a oistinct part of the premises, which will be Lund a great convenience for ladies and children, E. M O S E S A N D S 0 N • respectfully public r attention to their large and we' SPITINGc-TOCK. M () S F S AND SON'S • , -SANDRING:43.II" ivnAPPER J utroduced by them is the newest and most fashion 4; , :e style of Overcoats for the season. MOSES AN]) SON'S • READY-MADE and BESPOKE CLOTHING , for all clatses and all ages. MOSES AND SON'S CELEBRATED "INDISPENSABLE" SUIT, irom 30s. MOSES AND SON'S • HOSIERY and DRAPERY, • for all classes and all ages. MOSES AND SON'S 1 ' A i • HATS AND CAPS, for all c asses and all ages. 1, MOSES AND SON'S 4 BOOTS _ __ and SHOES, for all clasaes and all ages. MOSE S AND SON'S E• OUTFI i $ for al! classes all age , and all climates. MOSES AND SON'S • LONDON HOUSES, 153, 155, 15 1 , 157, Minories ; h 3, SI, 85, 86, R 7, P. F 9, Alihrate; 508, 507, 508, New Oxtoid—street ; 1,2 3, Hart-s , re t ; 137, 128, '1 ottenham-c.,urt-rcad ; 288 ' , Eu3ton-rood MOSES AvT) SON'S • COUNTRY ESTAI3LISIDIENI'. Bridge-street, Bradford, Yorkshire. MOSES AND S O N'S iri• Establishments are closed very Friday evening at suiiset until baturday evening at sunset, when business is re sumed un 11 i o'clock. A 1 articles ard marked the lowest prices in plain figures. Any article nut appr _Ned of will be exLhaugcd, or the money re u. ned. List of Prices with Rules for Self-measurement, Fashion Card, and our niw pamphlet, The Te , centena‘ y ; or, The Three II unoredth i3u thaay et William Shatt,pear , ," gratis and post ffee. COALS. —The LiJ.Es'ErALL COMPANY'S COAL Direct from the,r own Collieries, Marquis' .239. per tan. Double.. ....... 20s. per ton. I Top 225. „ De , p ...... Well screened and delivered within five miles of thew De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Beet Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 1, Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, W he had Every Evening 01 G. EL GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, llyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 30, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 69 Barometer-29.87. WIND —S.W. ; mcdcrate breeze and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tina DAY.—Morning, 11h. 2m.—Afternoon, 11h. 36m. r o - scounow.-Morning, —h. —3l.—Afternoon, 12n. 10m. • 4 7; g4M :r 10 .11.04 * 1%, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1864. It would ha:dly have been possible for any friend of the Government to haye hit up on a more admir ably clever amendment than Mr. Rix GLAKE'S. It is so wonderfully c!ever IA —d '''ingenuous his—it deserves to succeed. It is far bttttr that, what is vti'garly trailing tl;e herring, at ones a most subilv, und yet, at the alai , : 1110.21,11 t, ei most fl evaaioa of the diflictlir3 - . Sir HVGB CAIRNS might ba tempted ►to epeak of it, es five year' ago he liplike (v.. ry mernomb 3 ) of Lord RUSSELL'S Rz•olntione, namely, as a dodge. 131.1 f, Mr. KING LAKE'S amendment is too clever to admit of in, being adequately cleaned by the appticition to it o so ignoble an epithet. It is far removed above the dead level of a dodge. It is is its way a work oi high art. It is worthy of remembrance henceforth as a sort of model for what an amendme, might to b.. I . c grin• - • • that the Address to the Crown, about to be proposed iu the How of Common° on Monday by Mr. DISRAELI, merns—War. Mr. KINGLAKE affects, in other words, to look upon the "situation" as this—that, Whereas the Government are for Peace, the Opposition are for War ! When the "situation," in reality, is nothing whatever of the kind. The Voting of Mr. DISRAELI'S pro posal for an Address to the Crown would, in no imaginable way, jeopardise the pacific future of England. On the contrary, the very objection raised by the words for which Mr. KINGLAKE now proposes to substitute his Amend ment—the very ajeetion raLied by those words, at the close of Mr. DISRAELI'S suggested Address to the Crown, is to the rffict that the course pursued by the Government tends to the jeopardising of peace, renders the prob ,bility of war later ou more end more inevitable ! Saving only of course if those increased temptatioes to war should not again be evaded by mcre of these mean and despicable concessions made, in the haughty name of Englaad, by a faltering and a paltering Government ! Mr. KINGLAKE, however, affects not to sec anything of all this—affects,in fact, to see exactly the reverse. Hence his amendment. We shall be curious to observe how Mr. DISRAELI will deal with that Amendment under the circum stances. One way of dealing with it, one is almost tempted to suggest this, might be the incorporation of the purport of the Amendment parenthetically in the Address to the Crown to be proposed on Monday in the House of Commons by the Leader of the Opposition. Namely,byinterpolating,among the closing wordsof the Address, something to the effect that "although we have learnt with satisfactioo," et cetera! Thereby taking the little sidelong puff of wind out of that cleverly unree'ed Amendment of Mr. KINGLAKE'S, designed by that ingenious as well as honourable and learned gentleman to carry her MAJESTY'S Goa vernment safely into port, even when at their very direst extremit3 . Clever, wonderfully clever, though the amendment nnquest;ouably ie, it nevertheless admits of being rendered perfectly nugatory and inefficacious if adroitly dealt with by a far cleverer man and a far abler tactician than even Mr. KlNG LAKE—meaning, of course, the right hon. gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. It is just precisely the opportunity for Diamond cutting Diamond. Tnere are same men whose names are so identified with a particular cause that they are regarded as to some measure authorities upon the subject, and whatever may fall from them res?ecting it commands attention. Lord BROUGHAM has long occupied this position with reg trd to the Save Trade, and con srquently the brief address which he made on our relations wish the Br ziiao Gevernmen! on Tuesd.y evening aro not altogether to be over►ooked, even amid the twiny exciting topics now pressing upo❑ public attention. To whatever subject the noble lord addressed himself he was not, indeed, likely to be heard with anything but deference; but on this question ho has expended to much time and energy, be has laboured so strenaously for the good cause, and hs,s been such au unflinching advocate of the rights of man against the oppression of his fellows, that his speech will be read with interest by a more comprehensive circle. Despite the ana themes of Federal partisans, Lord BROUGHAM is one of the recognised leaders of anti-slavery princi ples in this country, and the public is inclined to receive with favour any proposition which he mey make respecting it. Hij object on Tuesday evening was, singularly enough, not to increase the severity or efficiency of the acts now in force, but to obtain the repeal of one which he considered to be injurious is its operation. The measure to which he referred was the Aberdeen Act of 1845, whose present agency he believed to be rather deleterious to the cause than favourable. It is highly satisfactory to find from so competent an authority that the slave trade in the Bra zils may be considered as actually terminated. Twenty years ago from forty to sixty thousand slaves were annually imported into Brazil ; it is, therefore, no light matter to have succeeded in putting an elLctual stoppage to so large and flourishing a trade. Much of the credit due for this suppression Lord BROUGHAM attribatesuureservedly to the Brazilian EMPEROR,who has not only shown some anxiety for the total stoppage of the trade, but has also wished to preclude the possibility of its revival. In these views be haq been power ully supported by his own peop'e, and, in fact, he could lot on such a matter have effected much withou their aid. Pub,ic opinion is happily entiatcd on the right side of the question, and some half dozen years oink the Bri-zitian legislature passed an act reader ing the slave trade piracy. There is, therefore, little ground fur uneasiness I.« sp. c:ing the future prospects of a trade which appears to have been virtually annihilated. Lord BRUUGUA3I contended that the wording of the Act gave great cif, nee to the Bra. zi!ians, both people and Government, especially as regarded the very large indemnity which it gave to British cfacas for acts done in the suppressiin of the slave trade. Lord ABERDEEN himself said that when the trade was abolished, the Act should be repealed, but the Act has now survived the trade for nine or ten years without any modification; and although it may not be fully carried out at present it remains in existence, occasioning causeless irri tation. The Brazilian Government appears to have acted with good faith throughout, although we need n ot inquire too closely how far its honourable Jul filtnetat of its obligations has been encouraged by the ehdatte in the views of its citizens. The result is at any rat e a matter for congr a tul a ti on , an d it i s only to n lamented that while Brazil has sincerely 3 . be endeavoured to discourage and suppress the slave trade, Spain, which has accepted large subsidies for the same purpose, has treated her engagemnts with the most open . disregard. The real cause of this dishonourable breach of contract is Cuba, and Lord BROUGHAM was perfectly Correct in his assertion that Spain would never do anything_ to injure the slave trade so long as Cuba remained in Spanish hands. The Government is too easily influenced by the wealthy capitalists of Cuba, and accordingly they encourage rather than repress the trade. Lard RUSSELL consoles himself for this unsatisfactory state of things by anticipations of the total extinc tion of slavery by the American Civil War. In waiting, however, for so doubtful and distant a prospect, it would be well to see whether some thing cannot be done to secure a better observance of the Treaty, and to check a great and appalling evil, which it rests with us in a great measure to cauntenance or to cure. Tuere have been so many defeats of the Govern :nent thio year that the oecupaws of the Treasury I•nches 11)Udt be ruth*r more surprised when they brain u tuccebs than when they sustain a reverse. A any rate the m+rity which voted for Mr. Dout..ToN's reso!ution on Tuesday did good service .0 the community, and more especially to the .umbler lanks, to whom the preservation of open .paces is Moat important. I. is difficult to exp.ain vhy the G ., vernruent are dlways against these roposals, p suited as th e y are t o t h e requ i remen t s o f the people. Perhaps it is from a dislike to any in terference id their departments, or from their in nite love of arbitrary power, and the wish to usurp .1 rights of judgment to themselves. 8, , this asit n ,y, it Is very certain that no . - )ne brings forward the claims or the wishes of the community in any respect that some official does no; start up and attempt to explain away what has been said. Either this suggestion is not practical, or that ar gument is not solved, or it will not be expedient to do anything just now, but the Government will bear the question in mind for a future occasion. Mr. DOULTON made out a very good case in support of his proposal; he stated facts, which should have been sufficient to convince even official impractica bility ; but it is tru!y said that there are none so deaf as those who will not hear. No one can deny the great importance of preserving these open spaces, and yet it is equally true that while more demands exist for their maintenance it becomes more difficult to preserve them. London is fast losing the great advantages it once enjoyed of being surrotmded by open places, they are ra pidly becoming absorbed fur building purposes. Under these circumstances, Mr. DOULTON proposed that the Government should introduce a bill for the purpose of affording the necessary protection, the Board of Works not having the power to do so. There can be no reason why more active inter ference is not used in this case, for it is surely a bounden duty on the part of the Government to undertake the responsibility themselves, and not to be continually shifting it from their own shoulders to those of others who cannot perform the task if they have the willingness to do so. The usual absurd excuses were given by the Government speakers, which amounted in reality to declaring that the subject was important, but that reasons prevented it being properly attended to. Surely it one thing more than another imperatively calls for action, it is the preservation of the health of the metropolis, and yet this is constantly neglected by those who are ready to go to any expense for mere matters of business or objects of interest. In no better way eould the Government spend the funds at their disposal than by first clearing those open spaces over which private individuals have a right, and thus prevent their being built upon. Had they acted with promptitude and proper publicfeeling there would not have been all tie outcry raised concerning Hampstead Heath, which has given so much annoy ance and caused so much odium. It is always very disgraceful for public functionaries to display meanness in their dealings or inaptitudelor their tasks, but when these qualities are shown in affairs of moment asreg srds public he lth, the consequences are disastrous and deplorable in the extreme. Mr. TORREY'S made a few very forolole observations, and said that persons were in the habit of laying claim to considerable portions of Epping Forest, under the plea of beicg lords of the manor, and +h it tee Government were so supine that they did not protect the rigors of the Crown. He truly said that the Attorney Ganeral ought to be instructed by the Treasury to interfere and prevent such spoliation taking place. It is very easy to make glib speeehes on the Treasury benches and its immediate vicinity, and the exaggeration of this and that statement, the incorrectness of those de tails, and the utter impossibility of that proposal being carried out ; bat the end always is the same, that the worst fears of the complainants are ful filled, and the general interests of the public are sacrificed. Mr. F. PEEL made a most ridiculous observation when he said that he could not admit it was the duty of the Government to pay for the compensation out of the public purse,and that there " ought to be no difference in that ropect between the metropolis and other large towns." Nor can anything ba more extraordinary than this state• ment, when the population of the metropolis is an numerous, and is so much more precluded from the means of obtaining fresh uir. Tue end is the same, whatever means are adopted to encomp,ss it, and the Government mea❑ t.► do nothing. The large ma jority against them is a great satisaction to con template, as they will now be forced to do some thing, nolens volens, if they remain in office; and it they do not, their successors will be able to take advantage of this warning, and exert themselves to perform their duties more faithfully in this impor• tent respect. All that relates to the health and comfort of the working classes should receive a double share of attention. The annual meeting of the Manchester Cotton Supply Association took place on Tuesday, at the Manchester Town Hall, and its members could not fail to contrast the present cheering aspect of the cotton trade with the gloomy state of things when she Associatio❑ was first formed. Then all seemed dark and hopeless, so hopeless, indeed, that many able and experienced men seriously recommended that the great masses of the cotton spinning popu tation should turn their attention to some other mode of pilling a living, eince there was ►ittle or no chance that the cotton industry would ever again support them. Others advised a wholesale deportati,,n of the people, and every suggestion commanded some degree of attention when the re cipients of public relief were reckoned by tens of thousands. But while this perplexity and anxiety were filling most minds, a few more sanguine or energetic considered what cculd be done to revive the cotton trade. It was plain that that trade supplied countless necessities, that it met the wants of all grades of the community, that it was able to give employment to all these starving thousands, while its stoppage was occasioned by no inevitable otlamity, no national misfortune which human power could either foresee nor control, but from purely secondary causes. The earth did not refuse to nurture the precious seed, the seed itself showed no malign influences, but the fault lay in the 1311133011 agent for its supply, and men refused to profit by what the peat Mother would willingly have given them. Why, then, since the soil and the climate which favoured its development was confined to one part of the globe, why could not the seed be sown elsewhere, and the energies of other nations be enlisted on behalf of the cotton cultivation. Had this reasoning been acted upon earlier it would have spared Lancashire the cotton famine. Had the gloomy prtents which wise men could see in the political horizon been earlier heeded—had the pos■ sibility of an American War been calculated on instead of being thrust into the background as a catastrophe quite cut of the question, how much loss and misery might have been saved. But a reckless spirit of speculation possessed the mill owners, and they went on adding store to store, regardless of the future. Happily now the sky is brightening again, and while every month the pluper returns show a considerable diminution, the sta:istics collected by associations encourage us to hope for a gr4dually increasing supply of the pre cious material. The cc:net:Wing words of the report would be borne in mind by all concerned in the revival of the trade. The writer says, after sum.• ming up the rapid progress of the cultivation in many widely removed lands, " the review of the obt supplies hope for the future; and whether we look to India, or Egypt, or Turkey, or Italy, or Australia, to Central or South America, the West Indies, or eny other quarter, it is manifest that there must be no faltering policy pursued if we would reap the harvest for which we have sown." EXETER HALL.—Handers oratorio, "Judas Maccatteus," will be per!ormed for the last lime this sea son on k% ednesday next, the 6 , h July, by the National Choral Societ), under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin, Principal singers—Madame Parepa, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr, Sentley, Band and chorus, 700, tll-t4; SUN' i LOINDon _ TH.UIZSi).i.,Y EVE.NING, jeNE 20, 1864. FINE ARTS, Washington Irving and his Literary Friends. Designed by F. 0. C. Darley. Engraved by T. 0. Barlow. Published by Moore, Macqucen, and Co. Everyone knows, of course, those two delightful pictures called respectively, " Shakepere and his Contemporaries," and " Scott and his Contempora ' ries." Here, in this profoundly interesting en graving of " Washington Irving and his Literary Friends," is an American ditto, revealing to view, in Geoffrey Crayon's charming house-room at Sunnyside (just the name for Irving's llama!) the Author of the Sketch-book and his Contemporaries. Fifteen celebrated American men of letters are here, in this most interesting work of art, grouped together, and revealed each in propria persona, each a vivid and wonderfully life-like resemblance. In the centre of the picture, of course, is the host— literally a host in himself Geoffrey Crayon, Diedrich Kuickerboclnr, Leuncelot .Longsteff, Jonathan Otdstyle, all rolled into eine— otherwise Washington Irving, Novelist, EJsayist, Historian, Biographer, homme- de-lettres, and Ansbaesador! Rather a lackadaisical pose is given to the head of this delightful writer, as he is here repre sented, with that same head of his turned senti mentally on one side, while the blandest of smiles, a smile almost amounting to a simper, is expressed on the features. Stated near him, with his features shown in profi e, is the author among mem all with the noblest head—a sort of Napoleonic head—and the finest thoughtfullest couutenanee—William Henry Prescott, the luminous fits!orien of "Ferdinand and Isabella." The glasses lift is fingering, suspended round his neck by a ribbon, remind tie of that tern• rible tiff ction of his,: embittering his effitction annost amounting to biindiates. Leanii:g en the back of the chair in which Prescott is seated, is that . noblest of all the American poets, Professor Longfellow. Behind him is the the mystical face of the anther of the " Scarlet Letter," Neehaniel Hawthorne, recently &ceased. In the background, between Prescott and Longfellow, appears the lugubrious, ringtetted visage of Mr. N. P. Willis, looking like that of a handsome rocs thoroughl used up. Yonder on the other bide of the picture is the manly, vigorous, sailor-like face of Fenni more Cooper, the sea-neveliet, par excellence. Nest to him is the historian of Aueeriee, Gems-, Berncrott. And, further back, Ralph Waldo Emerson's shrewd, close-shaven, old-fashioned leaking Yankee visage peers at us incongruously over a sort of a Byronic turned-down collar! Near him, grim and ungainly as a Polar bear showing his teeth through a shock of white hair, is - William Cullen Bryant, Poet, and Editor of au Evening Newspaper. Besides one other celebrity not yet mentioned, to wit, Oliver Wendell Holmes, there are five- welters, well known probably in their own country, but little thought of in the old hemisphere —namely, Halleck, Lirams, Paulding, Kennedy, end Tuckerman. The difficulties in the way of " arrangieg" such a picture as this transatlantic companion to the two famous English prints already menticned, viz., " Shakspere and his Contemporaries," and " Scott and his Con temporaries," have been admirably well over come by the eminent American artist from whose hand the original design emanated. And, in transferring the general effect of that design of Mr, Darley's to steel, in a style of (the engravet'e) art known as mixed line and stipple, Mr. Barlow, of London, has done his part, we should conjecture, fo the painter's complete satisfaction. Published by the Messrs. Moore, McQueen and Co , of Ber ners-street, this engraving of Washington Irving and his Literary Friends is likely to vie in Levu lerity--39 affording the public a welcome p ee p into Sunnyside—with the celebrated pictures already yielding that public peeps', respectively : into the Mermaid and into Abbotsford. Miss Bateman as Leah Painted by J. Edgett Cd,.ins : E :graved b 3 a-orge . H. Every : Pubtist . .kd by Ilvory Grave; atiti Company. Any one whose glance may chaece to fall upon this beautiful engraving, as it now hangs displayed to view, far land wide, iu the shop windows of cur London printsellers—it is quite certain must nerds halt upon the instant, eo ma, ter what his prececupa nun of mind or his hurry in regard to ,ime, eve❑ sup posing this casual passer-by to be hastening at the moment, hot toot, to some over-due appointment. Beautiful thou e h the picture is BS an engraving, it is still more beautiful, it is still mor - entitled to admiration, as an all but living, breath ing, speaking likeness. The original—who does not know her, by this time, among London play goers ? Miss Bateman, the American actress of consummate genius, the Leah of the Adelphi ! She who has won the admiration of so many thousands, besides the enthusiastic pa l phleteer, who eagerly pressed forward from among the ctowd to become her panegyrist in print, end to tell the world that in One, of the " Little Batemans" of years gone by, there had appeared at last a worthy successor to Mise O'Neil tied Helen Faucit. And here, in Mr. Edgell admirable portraiture of Miss Bateman as " Leah,"—a portraiture exquisitely transferred to metal by the graver of Mr. George Every—the admirers of the gifted young American, el the tearful, half distracted Jewess (one hardly knows which of the two she is the more really and the more intensely) have , at length placed within their reach a memotial of her, beautiful to look upon, and one hardly to be surpassed in its way as a memorial. The tearful glitter of her eyes, the choking sob of her voice, are here in a marvellous manner, as it were, perpetuated. We almost seem to hear her gasping again with anguish, as we gaze upon the pic ture. It is a double triumph of art—first of the painter's, afterwards of the engraver's. It is certain of winning for itself a wideirextended popularity—a popularity almost as widely extended. as the charming original's. For thepicture, in truth, is alike admirable as a work of art and as a like ness. Royal Gallery of Illustration. The visit of Mrs. Roseleaf and her family to the seaside to recruit, alter the fatigu 3 of their " Even ing Party," has furnished Mr John Parry with materials for the construction of a new descriptive story, in which bi 3 great skill, both as a musician and a mimic, is displayed with the best effect. The novelty is introduced by a "saline symphony," and this enables Mr Parry to show the great command he possesses over the pianoforte, and at the same time allows him to introouce a variety of marine melodies, such as " What are the wild waves saying," " Over the sea," " 0 'tis pleasant to float," and the " Bay of Biscay," all of which were sung in the most irresistibly comic manner. The humour of the musical narrative is oivided into parts, viz , sea-bathing, promenading on the ciff., boatieg and yachting on " the expansive ocean," strol ling on the sands, &a., &c., and thus Mr. Parry introduces all those "characters" peculiar to the sea-side during the height of the summer season. For example, we have Mrs. Ducker, the old bathing-gnitle, the terror of the juveniles ; then the organ-grinders; next the Italian with his "playful" monkey; then, again, Niles Gush ington, the sentimental spinster, given to moon , light rambles, in the vain hope of securing " one fond heart ;" and a variety of others, the peculiarities cf which are tit off by Mr. Parry with the utmost fun and drollery. Tee narrative is a very acceptable addition to the " Pyramid' and ihe"l3ard and his Birthday," and oae which we can safely commend to the attention of the pleasure seekers of the metropolis. A REWARD FROM THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT TO A LIFEBOAT CREW.—The Swedish and Nor wegian Government has just forwarded £24 for distribution amongst the crew of the Southport lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, for their gallant services in rescuing, during a gale of wind, seventeen persons from the barque, Tamworth, of Skein, Norway, which was wrecked on the Trunk-hill Sandbank, about five miles from Southport, on the 31st October last. The Swedish Govern ment has also sent a silver medal to William Rockliff, the coat wain of the lifeboat, in acknowledgment of his brave tnd skilful conduct on the occasion. The Lifeboat Inalitu • tion had previously rewaried the men for their laudable services on the occasion in question, and Rockliff is also in possession of the silver medal of the instutition. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 30, The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen, from New York on the 18th inst., arrived off the Needles at 12.5 p.m. to-day. (Per the Virginia, via Roche's Point, June 30, 9.55 a,m.) NEW YORK, JUNE 18, Evening, Nothing later from Grant. Gold 193. Cotton Ibo cents. MEXICO. MEXICO, MAY 28, On the 22d inst. Commandant Courcy defeated the united ban !is of S.ndaval and Cadanena at Volparaiso, 30 mires from St. ZAcatecos. The enemy had 120 killed and lost, in addition to 300 prisoners, 5 guns, au entire park of artillery, and 200 horses. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. SUEZ, JUNE 30. The Jeddo, from Bom bay, June 9, anchored at 7 a.m. this day. The Sultan, from Mauritius, 'Tune 6, arrived tit 2 p.m., ou the 25th. The Behar, with the outward mails of 12th-18! June, left Sthz, for Bombay. on the 27th inst. TEA BRAZIL MAIL. LISBON, JUNE 30. The royal mail steamship Parana has arr►ved here, and Kill sail for Sou' hamptoo ibis naJrning a: 7 o'clock, with 106 passengers, £2,813 in sptcie, 403 bags of eLffee, 300 bArrcls of tapioca, 794 rollb of toblcco, 22 pickages of ipecacuhana, and 321 packages of sued►its. The Magdalena lett St. Vincent, for the Breziis &c., at 7 p.m., on the 21st inst. PRUSSIA AND GERMANY, sr. PETERSBURG, JUNE The semi-official Deutsche Peterburyer Zeitung of to-day, in a leading article favourable to Ger many, says :—" It would be inconsistent, on the part of England, to wage war against Germany, as she took no active steps when the German Powers rejected the Treaty of London of 1852, and subsea quently occupied Schleswig and Jatland. England ought logically to advise Danmark to yield to Ger- many." ITALY. TURIN, JUNE 29 (Evcning). In the Chamber of Deputies to•day the Minister of Finance stated that he had been able partly to carry out his financial programme, although he had been in part unsuccessful. Respecting the deficits for 1864 and 1865, he would be able to provide for them by the sale of Crown lands to the value of 200 million lire, and by the s Ile of the State railways, without having recourse to a loan. The Miaistcr showed that be has Effteted reductions in the budget or expenditure to the amount of forty million lire, and that after the vote upon the new constitutional laws had been taken the reduction would reach 100 millions. The revenue derived from the income-tax was regularly increasing. 'lnc Government and the nation could not accept the po\ir.y 1,-;-,,r,6”-ri. by Si, nm. S din ai no itaient. Ministeriallirogramme was still that announced by the C-Ibinet oncoming intoalioe—viz„ to hold themselvcs rekidy to tube advantage of poll ticA events in Europe, in order to bring about the realisatioo of the dtstioies of Lois.. (Applause.) Signor Sarraco protested against the interpreta tion given' by the Minister to his politic.Al pro grtnime, and (lectured that he had no intention of proposing a policy of disirrnament. FRANCE. We are assured, says the Union, that towards the latter psrt of last week a very animated con versation took place b,:twuren M Drouyn de Lhujs n d Count de Wilz, the Prussian ambassador. The intercourse between the Tuileries and the Cabinet of Berlin are said to be growing more and more cold, whilst it is quite the reverse between Vienna and Paris. Abd-el-Kader, actually residing at Cairo, has just forwarded to the Emperor Napoleon 111. a long memorial with reference to the present rising in Algiers. Thi3 document, which is written in Arabic, will be translated and published. At the same time the Marquis de Moustier, French am• bassador at Constantinople, has transmitted to the chiefs of some Circassian tribes an offer to emigrate to Algeria, where some lands will be granted to them. The Journal des Vales et des Cainpagnes notices as follows a book which is at the present moment creating a great deal of sensation throughout France:—'" The Frontiers of Francs,' such is the title of a large volume in 18mo which has just come out of the pen of M, Theophile Lavall6e, one of the professors at the Imperial Military School of Saint- Cyr, and well known in the literary world for his historical works. The present book sketches briefly the victorious as well as the unsuccessful campaigns which have enlarged and diminished our territories in the course of the last , two centuries, and also the treaties which have sanctioned our victories and our reverses." M. Laval!e , s, in his preface, protests against any intention on his part of alluding to the engrossing topics of the day. He has only wished to write for his pui.ils a book intended to complete the lessons of history in a manner specially adapted to their military vocations. In spite of this declaration, which is after all supported by the long studies of which this book presents a resume, certain news papers have insisted on seeing in M. Laral work a sort of experiment —an attempt at reviving in the hearts of the French people their grievances ' against the treaties of 1815; and this preoccupation has given to the new book a temporary vogue• far beyond its real merit and the obj.7cr which the author had in view. More over, the conctusion of the book is not calcalated to dissipate completely the suppositions of the papers, in spite of their little foundation. "France," says the author, 'a has recover e f her natural frontier in the south (Nice), shall she re cover her natural boundary to the north (the banks of the Rhine and of the Skeldt)? Uudoub - ediy. She must have the limits which the hand of GJel has traced to her; those which she possessed in the Celtic and Roman times, those which she conquered again during her regeneration in 1789. Sue must grasp within her territory the find of 'foibiac and the tomb of Charlemagne; she must have, as Vauban said to Louis X AT, her square field! The natural frontiers of France have become since the last twelve years a part of the public right of Europe ; they are a primordial necessity of the modern times; they are a pledge of the world's peace." But if you ask from the author when this restoration is to take place, ho will answer :—"lt is a work of time, of patience, of conciliation; it will be done without struggle, peacefully, it Europe is wise and has coefilence ; it she will re pudiate her old prejudices and accept that which nature, history, reason, and justice have rendered necessary," This prospect alone will only half please the pupi!s of St. Cyr; but the end of the paragraph is, perhaps, of a nature to bring back a smile upon their lips :—" Bat from this day, and whatever Europe may wish or do, the treaties o' 1815 have ceased to exist." We have heard those words already uttered on several solemn circumstances. Whatever may hap p-n, the doom of the tra itics of 1815 i pronounced L4vabea has ktniy suratmd up the Cqbe i merely stated the points of r7g,ht and fact. But it is else where than his book that we shall be able to find any future information r2specting, the time and the rowans of execution. The celebrated traveller and naturalist Junghuhn, well known for his curious researches on botany, fossils, end ethnography, has just died at Java. His agitated life did not shake his love for science. He was at first a surgeon in the Prussian army, but having been condemned to twenty years in prison in consequence of a duel, he ma d e hi s escape and went to Algeria, where he acted as medical assistant in the Foreign Legion. He joined subsequently the Dutch service. He had gathered a multitude of observations, which he published in several works. He was only 52 years of age. The market has been less firm than yesterday, and the arrival of lower epotations from England has been followed by a retrograde movement here. Threes, fur the Account, have receded to 65fr 60c, and Mohilier to 1,045 fr. Railway Snares quiet, with but trifling variation in prices. The market closed as follows : 4i per Cents. 93 25 [Jo. end 3 per Cents . 65 75 Do. end month„ , 6.5 75 Credit Mobilier lO5O Do. end month lO5 iiank Shares t; relit onemr 1240 Roman /IA IL Italian Loan 69 65 Do, end month 69 80 Ditto Threes — No,w Mexican ttussiaa • Austrian • .ipanish Threes., 5l 50 lornt, Dmbt - Deferred ..... NI•• moi. Cash. .leeoto - . 660 —• B',i2 50 or tilern and neditGrraneat 877 50 880 New ditto ...... SJutnern Western Eastern •• • ..... ~• , • 33r•liui an Austrian ton. bird North a Spt tin Saragos,a Onto G 45 645 - f;00 - - t . 463 7.5 465 - 365 - 365 -- 402 50 „ 405 - 5_7 50 .. 530 - 428 75 ~ 430 - 560 - 562 50 257 50 252 50 -His iloliness the Pope. The following is the text of the reply made by the Pope to the congratulatory address deliverfa by Cardinal Mattel, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Pontifl's accession The crown which the Lord has deigned to place on tle head of the most humble of his servants has become the object of the plots and artifices of the enemies of the Holy See. One part of those adversaries have never belonged to the Ceurch against which they wage an implacable war; another part, after having bad the h.ippiuesa of being barn within its paie, have abandoned it to make common cause with the former. By both of them ail means of attack are considered good, per , secutions, violence, falsehoods, and calumnies. Like Absolom et the gates of Jerusalem, they constantly repeat that if the crown, of which they wish to de spoil the Vicar of Jesus Christ, mood on another head, justice would be better dispensed, the people would become freer and happier, and the golden age would again flourish for all. I need not point out the gross errors with which such reasoning abounds. May those who make use of them have the heart pierced not with the spear which went through that of Absalom, but by a ray of divine grace, which would make them aware of the iniquity of their actions, and show trtem the abyss of the eternity which they approach, bilad and deaf, without per ceiving the brink of it. And you who faithfully assist me either in the administration of the shred of state which has been left to me, or in the more difficult one of the universal church, continue to assist me with your fidelity and your devotedness I do not arrogate to myself the gift of prophecy, but although I do not see in the horizon any g ctim of hope or any probability of human assistarc , 2, I neverthelcss think I can uffi-rn that our sufferings, our resignation, and our prayers will in the end merit fur us from God those mercies which he is sometimes lung in granting, but which ho never re fuses to those who s,rve Him with fear and love." The Alabanaa and tliip The France publishes thc.: I•Albj , )iced en.respor deuce "The captain of the Kearsage has jtv . t addressed the fol lowing letter to M. Bontils, commercial agent ot the Ala baral. claiming as his prisoners the persons belonging to the Lauer vessel who wei e saved by piluL boats. The appli cation raises a question of inters atiunal law which wJuld not be one according to the principles adopted in France A pris,,nvr of war who escapes and succeeds in t inching tee French soil is undoubtedly tree ; neit he r can a foreign vessel of war have prisoners on board when she is in French waters. But appears that the Washington Cabinet does not admit. those principles; at least that would seem to be the ca,,e from the letter of ihe captain ot the Kearsage. The reply made to him appears to us to be decisive. The following are the letters which have been exchanged on the subject. The first is that addressed to M Borifis "'United States Steamship Kiarsage, Cherbourg, June 21. " Sir,—Certain pilot boats which out of humanity I allowe , l to save several prisoners when the Alabama sank carried them to Cherbourg. Those officers and seamen are not the less subject to the obligations imposed by the laws of war; they are my prisoners, and I demand that they should be sent as such on board the Keargage. In case they should endeavour to escape those obligations under favour of the means which have been employed, they must not in any similar case expect mercy.—l am, !cc., " J. A. WiNsLow.' Tho following reply was sent : " ' Sir,---I have received your letter of 21st ; the object of your claim is one of those over which I can exercise no cm trol, and I must observe that your application ought to have been addressed TO the French Government, with whom those unfortunate men have found refuge. lam not aware of any law of war which would prevent a soldier from escaping from a field of battle after deteat, even should he have been already made prisoner; and I do not see why a sailor Phr , uld not be able to do the same by swimming. I must refuse to act as your intermediary with certain persons whom you do not even name, and whom you nevertheless claim as being your prisoners. Neither can I comprehend how the United States authorities can pretend to retain prisoners within the limits of the French E'npire—l am, ecc., " ' BONFILS,' " ABOLITION OF 7 uRNFIKEs.—To-day, at noon, the new Ac 26 and 27 Vic.. cap. 78, came into opera- tion, and London has been relieved from an intolerable nuisance in thvi shape of the toll bars which am sted the ti aveller in whatever directian ho might happen to be going. For some years past Mr, J. E. Bradfield, the Parliamentary agent, assisted by many of the large firms engaged in com meree, has directed his artillery against those ugly struc tures, and at last they have fallen before the heavy firing, The Act, at one tell swoop, abolishes 81 gates and bars, These camps ise those of Walhamsgreen and Earls-court, and all gates and aide •bars in the Fulham district ; Hammersmith, Notting-hill, and all side-bats iu Kensington and Hammer smith ; Harrow-load, Kilburn, and all gates and side-bars ; King's-road gate, Camden Town; High 'street, Chalk Farm ; Haverstock-hill gate, and all gates and side-bars in the Camden Tuwn district; Brecknock gate, and sit gates and side-bars in the Camden road ; the gate in Kenth h Town-road, and all gates and side bars near 'and a, Gloucester-place ; Holloway-road, B els Pond, and all gates and side-bars in that district; Kicgsland-read, Cam bridge Heath, Hackney, and all gates and side-bars in Hackney, Clapon, and Stele,' Newington; and all gates and bars in Twickenham and Te,d,lington ; the City-road, and all gates and side- bars. Ueda . the Act H great reduction of tolls will take place in the several die tricts of Hounslow, Brenttord, E ding, Uxbridge, Harrow, Edgeware, Tottenham, Enfield, Edmonton, Lea bridge road, and o her places. The attention of Mr Bradfield aria the abolitionists is LOW directed to the toll gates on the Surrey side, and they are in communication wi h Sir G. Grey, the Hoene Secretary, on the subject. Some of thee tilts, especially in notherhithe, Bermondsey, and the sur rounding districts, are of a isost vexatious character, anti are a great' impediment to the operations of the large firms carrying on business there. i'or some time past Mr. H. P. Chandler, of Ihruers-street, has called the attention of the medi cal faculty, and such portion of the public as it may concern, tohis improvements in surgical appliances for the treat ment of spinal and other deformities. Mr. Chandler has for some years devoted his entire study to this most im portant branch of surgery, and if we may judge from the testimonials from the most eminent of the faculty, as also from patients who have been treated on his plan, his labours have not been in vain, No disease is more aflEcting than bodily distortion, and from the vast number of del rmed persons to be met with, it is evident that this important matter has been much neglected both by parents and the faculty, doubtless from the ineffi ciency of the surgical appliances and the complicated cha racter of the iron instruments which were in use until the past few years to remedy such bodily deformities, for which Mr Chandler's scientific and anatomical appliances are specially designed and so successfully applied. The chest expanding brace is an excellent invention, and is designed to correct stooping habits, applicable to both sexes frurn the most tender age, and is recommended to all who would acquire a comet carriage and a graceful figure. a - TCI (61111 ----- qg HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, June 29. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove 10 the grounds this morning. Their Royai Highnesses Princess Helena, Prin cess Louise, and Prince Louis of Hesse, rode 0 0 horschtek, attended by th© Hon. Horatia Stopford and Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. B. de Roe. Their koyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, Lieutenant-Coionel the Hon. D. d e Roe, Madlle. de Grapey, and Captain von Westerweller, left the Castle this evening forßuckingham Palace. Etrl Russell arrived at the Castle, and had an audience of the Queen. liar Majesty afterwards gave audience to General Negrete, Minister Plenipotentiary from SAlvador, who teas presented to the Queen by Earl Russell. Lord de Tabley and Colonel the Hon, A. Liddell were the Lord and Gro.Jm i❑ Waitieg, The Prince and Princess of Wales. Tt.e Prince of Wales presided at the halt-yearly meeting of the governors of tt,e Wellington College, held yesterday lorftioon in the Fine Arts Commis* sion 11)om at the New Palace of Westminster. The Prince and Princess of Wales, went in the afternoon to the training-ground of the Royal and Hon. Artillery Company, where his Royal Highness inspected the corps. Her Royat Highness the Princess of Wales presenreu new colours to the regiment. Their royal highnesses were accompanied by the Ptit.ce end Princess of Lt-iningen, and attended by tile M.,rcnioness of Carnatir.hen. LLutenant- General Knollys, and Lieutenant-Colonel Visit of the Frince and Princess of Wales to Harrow School—This day. Tne Prince and Princess of Wales lett London this morning on a visit to Harrow, to listen to the speeches which are annu3lly delivered in t►he cele brated school there. I❑ the afternoon their Royal Highness,s will meet a distinguished party at the head master's house, including most probably Lord Palmerston, one of the governors; the Archbishop of Canterbury (who was formerly bead master of the school) ; Sir 11,;.bert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel, &J. Their Royal Highnesses will return to town about 7 o'clock. State Ball at Buckingham Palace. B } . command of the Queen a State BA! was given last evening at Buckingham Palace, to which a party of between 1,700 and 1,800 was invited. The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, with their officers, Lieut.-Col. Cooke, the Easign, and Lieut.-Col. Patterson, the Exon is Waiting, were on duty in the interior of the Palace. A Guard of 1 - I,nour of the Foot Guards was mounted in. front of the Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, escorted by a squadron of the Royal Horse Guards, and attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Elrl Spencer, the Eirl of Mount Edgeumbe, Lord Harris, Lieut.- Col. Koppel, and Mr. C. L. Wood, arrived at the Palace from Marlborough House at 10 o'clock. 'l•heir Royal Highnesses the Duchess - of Cam bridge and Princess Mary arrived from St. James's Palace, uttended by the Countess Spencer and Capt. Ellis. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived, attended by his equerries. The Prirce and Princes, of Wales, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, her Royal Highness the Princess Helena, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary, and his Royal Highnets the Duke of Cambrioge, conducted by Viscount Sydney, the Lord Chamberlaic, and Attended by thu 14 idles and Gentlemen in Waiting, entered the ball-room soon after 10 o'clock. Her R , ya , Highness the Princess of Wales wore a dress of black sidr, covered with black and white tulle, band omely d with rich Brussels lace; flowers of mountain ash and liiieo; tiara of monds; necklace, brooch, at.d earrings of diamonds, Her Royai Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse wore a lilac tulle skirt over a lilac silk petticoat, with ruches of white and lilac tulle; a top Skirt of wnrie tulle with silver embroidery, and trimmed with passion Had dress, a net of dia• monds and passion flowers; broach and earrings, emeralds and diamonds; necklace, pearls, with emerald and diamond ornaments. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena wore a dress of green to le and crape over ghee si:k, trimmed with pink roses and Aides of the valley. tietzd. , dress of roses and fillies of the valley, and ditimond ornaments and orders. Her Royal Highness the .Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of violet satin with Houitou lace. Diadem of pearls and diamonds; stomacher, neck• lace, and earrings of pearls and diamonds. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary wore a blue tulle dress over blue glace sills, trimmed with bouquets of pink roses and silver wheatears, covered with a silver hind veil. Head dress, a diadem of diamonds, with silver wheatears and pink roses ; stomacher, necklace, and earrings of diamonds. Prim and Princess Gargarine have arrived in London from the Hotel Mirabeau, Paris. 'The Archbishop of York and Mrs Thomson en- tertained at dinner, yesterday evening, at their residence in Belgrave-square, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvetor, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford do aedoliffe, Viscount and Viscountess Nevin, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord and Lady Wenlock, Sir John and Lady B. Johnstone, Sir William and Lady Payne Gall wey, Mr Christopher Sykes and Miss Sykes. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby t Earl Musgrave, Lady Catherine Phippe, and Lady Laura Phipps have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Mu'grave Castle, Whitby. Gros 1 The Marquis Aligliorati, Italian Ambassador to F South America, has left the Hotel Mirabeau, Paris, for Lima, by way of Southampton. Miss Kate Gordon's second morning concert took as pianofortedon done, an d solo at by v p a i n s Core. street, r e e s e t t e , yesterday attracteda t C o Collard's a a r v d e ' r a y Ceroonwcdeerdt fashionableßoom s, e M o r f lt t e h n e w ir ick b , e a st nd sn li; B B . E ai l l Vi G l; audi ence. The concert nommen:cit.:lit:l.e was .hiss Gordon, to which amp c k l i t i t l s s e on M r co G n e t t h e greatest satistac(ion. Toe principal which gave just rum ntal performances were the " Trio in E Flat" (0p.14) clarionet, and v iola — Mozart—by Miss Kate G K o iu,i l l d e : r Ge n eo ' r u a odne aCnUdnuet-er: Mr. LIZ true, and Mr. H. Webb ; and Mozart's tor pianoforte, r o i r ti g u e te P d err s 7 n l for two pianos, from " Juan"—Miss 88 they ci,:i.r,"Lede,litnthreyerlo.udle'hstesetwooanpositions applause, and we cel ' ineint°edt'C lo , e our brie! nonce of the pleasant performance wit bout awarding great praise to Miss Guidon. Her touch was good ow her taste unexceptionable, 111'2 CITY COMPANIES, —Non- citizens have very , time ktiowleoge of ;here companies : they hear occa •,ionally that the Prince of Wales dines with one company. Garibaldi with a second, some other c• lebrgted personage with a third, and so on ; and that the companies c , ntl 'but° iiberally to various benevolent institutions, besides main taining almshouses for decayed poisons. But b. , yond these timits, little is popularly known of the companies. The tiuth is, there is little to know. The companies have out oved the purposes for which they were originally chartered. Each was intended to regulate some particular trade at a time when unfettered commerce was little thought about. It was believed in the days of the Edwards and Henrys that there ought be some central authority in each trade, to determine wages, prices, quality of goods, quantity of work done in a part cular time, number of persons free of the craft, number et apprentices, and other such matters. We noW know that these things are Lest left to manage themselves; but it was a well-meant and perhaps b(m.ficial system in those days. Wealthy citizens lett estates to the companies to which they belonged, for appropriation generally to the needs of the poorer members of the craft. These estates nave now become enormously valuable; and as the com panies have very few trade privileges to exercise, or trade duties to fulfil, the annual revenues are mainly spent in charities and in feastings. Parliament has sometimes talked of interfering in the matter but without effect, for the states are really and legally vested in the companies. VlSany readers be surprised to heat that there are 80 city Companies, establistle4 to coatrul us Wow cittforen t trades,— Owe a ifieek,