The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FAREWELL PEIVORMANCES. CHEAP PRICES, IL TROVA.TORE, TO-MORROW EVENING (Thursday). NOTICE. In consequence of a domestic affliction, Madame 'Harriers- Wippern is obliged to return immedlate.y to Berlin. a id le. iens has therefore most kindly undertaken the part of Leonora in " II Trovatore," which will be pert armed To morrow Evening ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.' FAREWELL REPRESENTATIONS AT CHEAP PRICES, To suit the Views of the General Public. 'TheNlg.tts of Performances are Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs days, and Saturdays. TO-MORROW EVENINi (Thursday', July 21, will be presented Verdi's favourite Opera, IL TV.° VATORE, With the following Cast: — Leonora, Macille. Titiens ; Azucena, Madlle. Gr ossi, her first appearance in t hat character in England ; 11 Comte di Luna, Mr. Sautley ; Ferrando, Signor 13essi; and Maarice, Signor Giuglini. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. TITIENS, TREBELLI, VOLPINI, G ROSSI— S4-.NTLEY, GASSIER, BETTINI, Saturday next, July 23, will be re-produced Weber's Grand Jtomantic Opera, OBERON. The New and extensive Scen b Mr. T e lbln, assisted by Mr. Henry ery Tey Ginglini, Santley, Marcelo Junca, Gas sier ; Trebel li, Reboux, Volpini, Titiens. Conductor, Signor Arditi. Monday next, July 25, Gouno6's last new Great Work, MIRELLA. The Scenery by 3lr. William Telbin. Doors open at Half -past Se-ven. Commence at Eigt totre time or the night trains he Cisely ; terminating in environs. 20. pit, ss. ; Dress Circle, 7s. ; Upper Prices :—Gallery , Circle, 50. ; Orchestra Stalls. 120. 6d. Private Boxes—Pit Tier, Two Gllineas ; Grand Tier, Three Guineas; One Pair Boxes, Two Guineas and a Half ; Two Pair Boxes, One Guinea ; Gallery Boxes (to hold four), ]Os, 6d. Notice.—Th.o usua l restrictions to Evening Dress will not be eniorctd. Box Office of the Theatre open daily , from 10 t ill 6, where places mai b e secured ; also at all the principal Librarians an d Itusicseilers. 'rickets also procurable, ou the evenings of perfor m ance, at the Special Offices, open at the entra n c es o f the Pit and Boxes. - - ITOAYL ITALIAN OYER,A, Covent-garden. Positively the Last Week but One. 31,211 e. Adelina Patti ; Signori 11.:)nconi, Faure, and Mario. To -Morrow Evening , (Thurs fty), J lily 2J , will be performed, for tit' last time this season, Donizetti's favourite opera, in two acts, L'ELL , IR D'AM OBE. Adina, Mdl.e. Adelina Patti; G ianet.a, Madame Tagliafico ; Dulcamara, Signor lionconi; lielcore, M. Faure, ; and NeMOll3lO, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. After which the Divertissement, L'lle Enchantee. Sup ported by Mdllc. Salvioni , Mdile. Carmine, Mdlle. Navarre, Mdlle..Assunta, M. - )esplaces, and Mr. W. 11. Payne. Con2mence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; an:phitheatre staas, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 25. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five , an d at the principal musicsellers' and OY AL Pit INCESS'S Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy 0` Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new p:ay by John Oxenford, Esq., THE MONASTERY OF St. JUST' : Messrs. Vining, H. Mars too, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins, 4.. Seyton, t hapman ; Mrs. H. Marston, and Mdlle. Stella colas. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPEIL— soIe proprwtor ant; Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TIIIS EVENING, SHAKOPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Ur. R. Phillips. After which, JANET PRIDE : Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Staart, Stephenson, Romer; Miss Woolgar, Miss Denman. Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a Horrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, ic. itozneraiss Woolgar, and Mrs. IL Lewis. • - Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion. Rs-engagement of those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr. aril Mrs. Charles Mathews. Production of an entirely new original Travestie of a ver y popular subject, by F. C. Bill'll/1.110, Esq., entitled FAUST AND 3IARGUERI rE, in which Mr. and Mrs Charles Mathews will appear. The new scenery by the celebrated artists, Messrs. Danson and Sons ; the incidental Railet by Oscar Byrne. A m ongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. 'F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss 11. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentwortn,;;Mrs. Strung, anti Mrs. Chas. Mathews. E VERY EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MARGUERITE : Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley. Mr. Montague, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiaine, and Mrs. C. Mathews. At 10, LITTLE TODDLEMNS, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. 3latthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth. Mr. and Mrs. 4GOODWOOD.-RACE GLASSES, the best at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A. New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—hole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. OPERA. and RACE GLASSES, ..fleld and Yacht Glasses, in every varie' y of size, form, and mounting, matchless for their great magnifying power and sharpness of definition. Price, from ns. each, at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. Sole scent for the celebrated race and field glasses and photo graphic lenses made Or Veigtlander, Vienna. Field glasses mace expressly for India, warranted to withstand the greatest tropical heat. The new aluminium mounted glasses (as re cently made for U.R.H. the Prince Gf Wales:, though of the largest size, weigh but a few ounce' 00UNTRY an 3 SEASIDE DRESSES. NJ Messrs. JAY, of •Relzent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING SILK DRE•iStS, suitatle for the co untry and seaside, and at the c.earing-out cake of only £1 us. ed. the dress. JAY'S, 217, 249, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r sen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far greater per-centage. Messrs. JaY, therefore, invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favOur able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b; more costly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. 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Inn DAT.—Morning, 211. 31m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m, ro-moßalow.-Mornizg, 3i. 20.32.—Afternoon, 3h. 44a ( JO, IY,, SUIT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864. - - The rather questionable advantages held out to soc i e ty by that wonderful little Divorce Court, originally established, not so very many years since, in one of those judicial holes and corners hid away yonder down at Westminster—have been rather curiously illustrated within the last few days by the result of the case of HOPLEY versus 11-() P 1 . 2 .T. The case was in itself, no doubt, a very curious one—nay, thank GOD, we may even add, we believ e quite confidently, one in its whole character entirely and absolutely exceptional. Into its merits (to employ a current phrase that seems to drop into its place here, by the way, rather oddly) into its merits, so-called, we don't propose in any way to enter. We refer toit, or rather to the decision that it has led to, ato one of the latest and, beyond an instant's doubt, one of the strongest illustrations of the system of which it is mainly valuable as it is also m os t pa i n f u lly interesting as an illustration. As s uc h, namely, o 3 a truly astounding illustration of the glorious uncertainty of the law as ir, is revealed to - our eon , tem plation at work, there in these later days in th e in simple truth, the ne plu s Di v orce Court , it is, ultra oft'non sequiturs !It shows to us—as we should certainly neve r have expected to have shown to us by any ewn the most eccentric scheme of judicial arzangements—HoW a young wife can prove to absolute demonstration, can prove beyond all pos. si.hility of denial (as shown by the summing up of the judge, as shown by the unanimous verdict of the jury)—How, we say, a young wife can prove to absolute demonstration the fact of her having been subjected to a series of the most revolting crneliiee by her husband, yet how that unhappy wife may comp letely cone done those proven cruelties by the affectionate prattle of her correspondence. In itself, one of the most distressing cases that has ever been. brought under the consideration of the Divorce Court since that court was first opened down at Westm inster— it is, in its result, about the very strangest tLat could have been easily imagined. We all knovr the old rhyming proverb about the woman, the whelp, and the walnut tree, to the effect that the more you whip theta the better they'll be ! And certainly the correspondence brought to light by means of this case of HOPLEY versus HOPLEY is entirely and essentially a very case in point. In its tenderness of affection, indicated by the lady in this instance, the pamphlet that has come to us—originally marked private, but with ,the word private now very carefully scratched out—might vie with any equal number of pages that might be selected from the Yelverton Correspondence. Yet the incentives to these manifestations of tender affection appear to have been of the oddest kind in any way conceiv able ! What those instances were our reports of the case of HOPLEY ',versus HOPLEY will have shown the reader rather distressingly from day to day as the trial proceeded. The defendant's peculiarities were then brought out as case opened to view pretty plainly, as every one who at all watched the case will be prepared to admit. His history is the history of a theorist, and, what is more, of dphilanthropical theorist. His was a theory of a threefold kind, and one, moreover, that had a threefold illustration. His project has been so to develops an educational scheme of his own that, as applied successively to a boy pupil, to a newly-married wife, and to a newly-born infant it should produce —a model pupil, a model wife (and mother), and a model child. The worst of it hes been that one of the Theorist's intended model pupils was, somehow or another, whipped to death—that one of the Theorist's intended model children evidenced, somehow or another, very early and very unmistakeable signs of idiotcy that the Theorist's model wife, somehow or another, was led in the end to bring an action against him for cruelty. But, in the latter instance, there was (by reason of the truth expressed in the old rhyming adage already alluded to) the possibility of these proven cruelties being effectually condoned. Happily for any other theorist's purpose who might aspire to contrive means for having the rod spared to the walnut tree, or (let us say under MARTIN'S Act, for instance), to the whelp—neither the walnut tree nor the whelp could condone cruelties as can the woman (vide this henceforth of course leading case of HOPLEY V. HOPLEY) namely, by writing—after all sorts of curious little eccentric proceedings on the part of the Theorist, spittings in the face, kicks in the back during the period of pregnancy, hammerings on the head, and so forth—completely and most effectually condone these and sundry other acts of cruelty, any one of them worse than whipping, by entering afterwards into a prattling correspon dence with the Theorist ! There are few points on which Englishmen of al creeds and parries are more unanimous than detes tation of the slave trade. Until they discovered that the civil war in America was a war of independence rather than of emancipation, and that the difference between ABRAHAM LINCOLN and JEFFERSON DAVIS had in reality no concern with the liberty of the negro, this feeling enlisted the sympathies of most of our countrymen on the Federal side. Even now, when they folly recognise and shrink from the hypo crisy which would make emancipation a political tool to ba used or not according as occasion serves, the Southern advocacy of the barbarous traffic in human beings militates against their full satisfac tion in the prospect of Confederate success, It is not that they put any faith in the proclamations of the Northern President, or believe that, were the Union re-established to-morrow, slavery would suffer from its resuscitation, but the presence of so discordant an element in the body politic prevents their having that full sympathy in the Southern cause which otherwise they would have felt in the efforts of a brave and self-devoted people struggling for their independence. It is, therefore, not sur- prising, when this is the prevailing sentiment o the English nation, that one of the most venerable and learned of our statesmen should rise in his place in the House of Peers and declare that in looking back over a Parliamentary life of nearly half a cen tury, there was no matter upon which he reflected with so me.ch satisfaction as the part which he had taken in the abolition of the slave trade. Such a declaration is doubly Emphatic coming from the lips of a man like Lord BuorGueet, distinguished for his share in many another legal, social, and poli tical reform. The noble lord mentioned, in evi dence of the unquestionable success attending the efforts of this country in behalf of the slaves in her colonies, that three years ago a petition vv as pre sented to that House from a district in Jamaica, whic'i was signed by 800 liberated slaves, 793 of whom had written their names with their own hands. But notwithstanding all the work that was done by that earlier generation to which Lord BROUGHAM may claim to belong, the satisfac tory results of their labours and the undiminished interest which England still takes in the welfare of the unhappy negro, there is much still to be done, The conduct of Spain in this matter is on all bands admitted to bo most reprehensible. By every obligation of right, of honour, and of gratitude, she is bound to suspend the traffic, but in spite cf all she persists in evading the treaty and in giving every encouragement to the traffic. Cuba is the stronghold of the slave trade, and so long as it remains so under the open protection of the Spanish Government, all our efforts for the abolition of the trade will be fruitless. It is perfectly useless to waste the lives of our men in watching the un healthy shores of Africa, when the high prices given at Cuba for slaves stimulate slavers to run any risk. By such a course we only increase the horrors of the middle passage by inducing the slave-dealer to make every effort to conceal his illegal cargo. It is an unvarying rule of political economy that so long as there is a demand there will be a supply, but et once let us stop the market and we shall scon dispose of the traffic. Let our Government boldly insist on the Spaniards fulfilling their treaty obligations; or, if not, let them demand payment of the large debt duo to us from that country. As Lord BROUGHAM very truly observed the other evening, the giving of the large' sum of £lOO,OOO is the only part of the treaty which Spain has yet fulfilled, She has in deed passed a few timorous and inefficient acts which were never intended to reeve their pro fessed purpose, but she has done no more, and the consequence is manifested in the fact that in the 18 years between 1842 and 1850, the annual impor tation of slaves into Cuba has increased from 13,000 to 40,000. The Spanish Gove rnors of the island have, it is common ly re ported, been bribed to connive at th e t ra d e, an d a lthough there have be en of course some favourable exceptions to this rule, among which the na me o f V A LDEZ stands honour ably prominent, still th e system i s s o well assured that Lord BROUGHAM actually gives the rate of profit. Three doubloons a head for the slaves imported into the island ie the ciukr,;, , and in on* IHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1864. sequence of this easy way of making money, one Governor amassed a comfortable fortune of about £lOO,OOO. The Governorship of Cuba has, accord• ing to Lord BROUGHAM, become a recognised method for mending the fortunes of any needy Spanish noble, and even when a Governor like the present endeavours to check the traffic, he finds local interests too strong for him. The reform must begin at head-quarters, and it is quite time that some decisive effort were made. Oar West India planters justly complain of having to compete with Cuban slave-grown sugar, so that our weak indulgence towards Spain not only injures the negro, but our own colonists as well. Lord RUSSELL'S explanation of the matter is that every successive Foreign Secretary has remonstrated with Spain, and that Government has always professed its willingness to carry out the treaty, bat owing to the strength of private interests in Caba, and its reluctance to offend those interested in the maintenance of the trade, we have never been able to obtain efficient aid from it. This has gone on quite long enough. If it is worth while to send men to die of fever on the African coast and expend the large sums which we give for keeping up our naval force there, it is surely worth while to put a little more energy into our dealings with Spain. Half the men and money spent profit lessly in the one quarter would have effectually settled the slave trade if properly applied in the other. Let our Government insist upon the imme. diate fulfilment of the Treaty or the liquidation of the debt, and let them not accept empty words but demand that an English official shall be placed in each of the Cuban ports, with the right of searching vessels—a method which will soon produce an effec tual change. Lord PALMERSTON can very readily stigmatise the conduct of Brazil as "flagrant," and our Cabinet can easily show a bold front to a weak Power; bat when once European interests are in volved, a very great alteration is perceptible in tone and manner. The interests of humanity de mand immediate action, or has England sunk so [ow from her ancient position that she fears the frowns of Spain ? It is to be hoped that due attention will be paid to the act for the prevention of employing young boys as chimneysweeps. It has now received the sanction of Parliament, and a more wise and neces sary regulation has seldom been made concerning social affairs. The refinement of melt) , would appear to have reached its climax in the mode adopted for the training of these wretched little victims, and it is only surprising that before this some stringent enactments have not been made to prevent such a scandal being practised among us. This pernicious habit has been so widely spread that it would seem to have taken root in the minds of those who ought to know better. The other day it was mentioned by some who take an interest in the putting down of the barbarous practice, that in places where above all others regard should be paid to the law, the open violation of the enactment took place. At a prison one poor boy was employed, and he suffered so greatly from the injuries he re ceived that he died in consequence. Another instance was given of the practice occurring at the house of some member of Parliament, whose infringement of the laws was curious and most unsuitable. Time after time the evil is done in secret, or in such a manner that no one is likely to take note of it. In some of the old chimneys it is fancied by the prejudiced that machines and instruments are not efficient for the purpose of thorou;hly cleaning them. If this be true, there is a very easy remedy in having them altered, but in most cases it is only obstinacy and the tenacity with which many cling to old notions, and think all improvements are newfangled absurdities. The cause of humanity is not strong encugh to plead for these little victims who are exposed to such cruel suffering at an early age. It is of great consequence that the stern voice of the law should interfere, and that strict heed be paid as to the due observance of the regulations that are decreed. If proper attention is given to the law now passed, no possible opportunity can occur in which a poor child is tortured and injured by the ,barbarous practice of chimney-sweeping, but the mischief often happens through inadvertence on the part of hcuseholders. Let these now set their faces against the inhuman habit, and from hence- forth let the cruelty be banished from among us , No possible excuse can be made on the plea of ignorance, because the subject has been so much discussed that by this time everyone must be pretty well familiarised with its details, and the neglect of watchfulness will be nearly as culpable as the open commission of the error on the part of others. Too much care cannot be given to the prevention of a practice that is a disgrace to all who are engaged in it remotely or immediately. The last days of the Session are approaching, and it is doubtless with very great satisfaction that the occupants of the Ministerial benches behold the close of their probation. It must appear, however, to those who attentively survey the passing events, that even in small matters, or what may be termed so, comparatively speaking, great cause may be found for reprehension, concerning the manner in which the Government has acted. A vote moved in supply, by Lord C. PAGET, may serve to suggest reflections of a peculiar character. It concerned the purchase of the steam rams, and the noble lord's offer to make any explanations that might be re. quired, appears to have been unprofited by, and the vote agreed to in silence. For several reasons it is desirable that the observers of public events should not imitate this quiescence, and copy this tacit ap proval of an act which is a disgrace to the adminis. tration of the country. It was one of the most poltroon affairs in which a British Minister has ever been engaged. When we contrast the aspect which this case has assumed at the commencement and close of the Session, a warning is given to the public for the future, not to trust overmuch to the profes sions of statesmen, especially when their statements are very verbose, and their language unusually vehement. Who but a skilled judge in such mat- tars, or a very cynic in faith and confidence, but would have thought that the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs meant something when he die. coursed upon the steam rams at the outset of the Parliamentary campaign. When he so deprecated discussion, and deplored arguments concerning them, and above all, when he fired up and de nounced as unfair and illegal the attempts made to force information from him when the whole facts were about to be brought into a court of law, aid to comment upon them prematurely would occasion damage to the cause of: justice, it is strange to think that another and a very different solution was at hand. How much more consistent it would have been if, instead of all that palaver, the Go vernment had purchased the rams at first, or at least abstained from making so much parade about matters that they did not intend to see the light. It is quite evident that if they had had such a good case against the vessels in dispute as they professed that they had, they would not have shrunk from inquiry, and beat so hasty and undignified :I retreat. The purchase of these vessels is alike a confession of impotence on their part as prosecutors, to carry out the part they pretended to be well versed in, and an instance of weakness as regarded the FocierAl goyernment, beonse they 4id, not *1 induced to controvert their wishes. It may be as' well to let the matter pass in silence, so far as re gards the House of Commons, because the question has already been debated there at sufficient length on divers occasions, but a more striking proof of Ministerial incapacity and official blundering has seldom been put on record. It may be very con venient to turn a deaf ear to the voice of reproof, but the judgment of the country must be against a course of procedure which thus compromises the free and independent spit it that has always charac terised our dealirgs with foreign nations, and our transactions with our own citizens. Representation of Finsbury. Last night a meeiing of electors desirous of pro moting the return of Mr, M'Cullagh Torrens for Finsbury, at the next election, convened by circular, was held at the Belvidere Tavern, Pentonville. Mr. Torrens attended, on the invitation of a large and influential body of requisitionists, who, mindful of his past career in Parliament and his fidelity to the principles he avowed oa entering it, were de sirous that a metropolitan borough of such import ance should be adequately and properly represented. The requisitionists seeking for the proper discharge of the duties of such a position, desired that they should be represented by gentlemen whose me ntal power, political knowledge, and established public reputation qualified them for the discharge of the onerous duties devolving upon the representatives of such large and important constituencies. Reference to the past conduct of Mr. Torrens in Parliament had produced the conviction that in him these quali ties were combined, and that gentleman was thPre fore invited to lay before a meeting of electors his political opinions, and also state his decision whether the amount of popular support accorded to him would induce him to become a candidate. To this requisition, which was signed, on the whole, by these who used to take a prominent part in the election of the late Mr. T. Dancombe, without any expense on his part, Mr. Torrens readily responded, and last night was met by an assembly of gentlemen who might fairly be said to be representative men from every part of the borough. Mr. MTONNELL, representative of Clerkenwell at the Metropolitan Board of Works, was called to the chair, and in a few brief but telling sentences introduced Mr. Torrens to the meeting. The learned gentleman, in the course of an ad dress which was listened to with the deepest atten. ion, and with frequent and warm applause, explained ,he grounds on which he ventured to solicit the auf- reges of such an important constituency. He had an ambitkat—but it - was not a selfish one—it was in his day and generation, to make his mark on the age in which le lived as a man who had done something useful and permanently beneficial to his fellowmen, He had in tho earlier portion of his public and political career at least given proofs of the spirit by which he was animated, the objects he aimed at, and the principles of which he was the advocate; and to the past he thought he might confidently refer as a guarantee for the future. t He did not wish to b e a mere talker, a mumme r , o r a dummy. In past Parliaments he had served his time to the business of legislation. He hoped he had learned by study and experience how the work of the people ought to be done, and how to do it. He made no vague promises, no elastic professions of principle. He would not go into Parliament tied and fettered by ironcast pledges, but he referred to his votes on all great questions as the surest tests of what his future course would be. "When in Parliament he helped to carry the repeal of the na- vigation laws, and the removal of the disabilities of the Jews. He was ono of the small majority that first enabled Mr Locke King to carry the prin ciple of a £lO county suffrage, and he had had the pleasure of voting with the late Mr Joseph Hume for a large extension of the suffrage in towns, on the ground that the exclusion of the working classes was the chief defect of the Reform Bill, 1532. For the adoption of the ballot ho had voted with Mr Berkeley, though by itself he did not think it would produce political purity, but must be one of a com bination of measures for that purpose. With re spect to the administration of the country, Mr Tor rens expressed the epic ion that they were too exclu sively taken from one class, and at the same time deprecated a rather wide-spread opinion that lawyers, as a class, should be excluded from Parlia ment in favour of commercial and practical men in other pursuits and callings of life, whose success in a mere monetary way, though creditable to them as individuals, 'was not necessaeily a proof of their possessing the qualities requisite for a legislator. On the subject of church rates he thought the time had come when the Government should remove this cause of religious discord. On general grounds he to any sect 'whatever if th ose w ho received those the public money being gi v e n would vote against grants would agree to stand upon that ground. He should advocate retrenchment of public ex penditure not only i n genera l terms , but in detail, intlin important question — the law d—while he thought public relating to the relief of the poor and the mo de in With wh i ch t e s c a t d to administered--while opinion was not ripe for the adoption of a national and equal rate, he thought the time bad come for the abrogation of the law of settlement and the adop tion of a union rating. With respect to the metro polis itself, while he could not agree with Mr. Avrton and other advocates of a federal metropo litan municipality, he thought it was an open and a pressing question Low such boroughs as Finsbury could be welded into a compact mass, and exercise their legitimate influence on Parliament and upon the Government for the time being. They would never do BO in their present state, and for their own sakes, apart from general questions, it was ex tremely important they should have the advantages of local bell-government. The boo. and learned gentleman, after adverting in very f elicitous and eloquent terms to other matters, concluded by 'stating that he asked no one to pledge himself to support his candidature should a better man appear in the field. In that case he would be the first to withdraw from it. If not, he pr omised, should he be elected to represent that i m portant constituency, that he would render an annual account of his atew• ardship, and take every opportunity of ascertaining the views of his constituents!, though he did not promise he would always act upon them. When he could not do so honestly he would return the t ru st they had con fided to him. (Cheers.) Dr. EPPS, in a very able and telling speech, That this meeting having listened to a statement of the political principles of Mr. Torrens, which he consistently and efficiently advocated for many years in Parliament, expresses its opini on that he is eminently qualified to become a repre sentative for Finsbury in the House of Comm ons, and pledges itself to use its best exertions ,to s ecure his return for this borough in the ensuing Parlia. ment." Mr. HOPWOOD seconded the resolution, a n d a f ter a short conversation, M ---- on the i n which Mr. Collins, r. E w l a t 8 , and ca r r l other i th gen t t . w l e 0 m d e n i s s t e oo t k i pe pnot part, s the reso l ut i on s ito Mr. , under standing that it did not bi nd those p re sent who did not actually vote for it. A t the same time no gen tleman present offeredany n o tion Tor rens, but merely re served the ir fr eedom of selection for the future. The following gentlem en were then elected a committee to promote the election of Mr. Torrens, with power to add to their number :—Messrs. J. Tolme, Richard Moore, L. Hopwood, Dennis INl`Dohnell, Chas. D. William Birkbeck, J H o u h g a h L O l oy w d e , n i , I I J w o i l e i n s r ßob tit t e i r s t on, Hall, T. Bounce, James Scott, Samuel Smith, M. Samuel, John Walker, William Walker, &c. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. HAMPSTEAD-HEATS AND THE NEW SETTLED ESTATES ACT.—Among the last acts passed was one, which has just been issued, to amend the Settled Estates Act of 135 G. As introduced, it was expected that the act would lead to the enclosure of a part of Hampstead-heath. It was amended in the Commons, and as it now stands, it is enacted that the Court of Chancery, in determining what are settled estates, is to be governed by the trusts and limitations when that settlement was made. Other alteratious \litre wade to proem the lAvf 011 the subject, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (FROM TITE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.) ,Per the City of London, via Cape Clear, July 20. NEW YORK, JULY 9, 11 a.m. The accounts from the Upper Potomac continue confused and contradictory. Some state that the Confederates, after levying money contributions upon Hagerstown, Sharpsburg, and other towns, and plundering the surrounding country, have re crossed the Potomac, evacuated Harper's Ferry, and are retreating southward. Others, cqually trustworthy, assert that the present force of in vaders is destroying the communication and marceavring until the main body, consisting at least of Ewell's and Longstreet's carps, arrives when the whole will march upon Baltimore and Washington. Some anxiety is felt for General Hunter, who at the latest acounts (on the 3d inst.), was at Charles ton, West Virginia, his army dispirited and exhausted by long marches. Sigel has been superseded by General Howe. Governor Seymour has directed General Sandford to allow none of the militia to leave New York, in response to the President's call, until further orders ; he has also ordered all commandants to recruit their regiments to the maximum standard within ten days, or they will at the end of that time be filled up by draught. Secretary Fessenden will visit New York next week, to consult with the bankers and others upon the immediate necessities of his department. Gold 2631. The City of London takes 437,305 doll. in specie. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 20. The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, Capt. Meyer, sailing hence to-day for New York, direct with the German, French, and English mails, takes out 119 cabin passengers and a large cargo of general merchandise and jewellery, from Havre, value 165,000 f. MARSEILLES, JULY 17. The MesstAgeries Imperiales steamer Said, Cap tain Burnet, left this port to-day with the mails, 45 passengers, 602 packages and specie, value £215,360, for India and China, and 55 passengers, 2,097 packages and specie, value £93,480, for Alexandria. F RANCE. BOURSE, July 19.—The market has been heavy, caused in some measure by the arrival of English Consols with lower quotations. Threes, for the Account, have receded to 66f. 25c. Mobilier have also declined, the price being now 1,005 f. Rail way shares little in demand, but previous rates up to the present time pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows : 11 per Cents .. 94 20 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 20 Credit Mobilier..., 1008 75 Do. and month 1006 25 Bank Shares 3;75 Credit Fonder 1220 Roman RAIL Italian Loan 67 90 Do. end month 6B 10 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 56 75 Russian Austrian .. B3 50 Spanish Threes..,. Home Debt Deferred 'ANS. Cash. Orleans Northern Lyon:. and Mediterranean 897 50 .. 897 50 New ditto — Southern 612 50 .. 642 50 Western Eastern •• • • 477 50 .. 477 50 Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain Saragossa 532 50 .. 535 Ditto to Barcelona Account. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette publishes the text of the new bill on the press lately sanctioned by the Queen; — "The principal characteristics of this measure con sist in three special dispositions-Ist, for submitting to the bishop of the diocese all writings on religious doctrines, the Scriptures, and Christian morality; 2dly, that, for investing the Ministry of the Interior with the power of regulating as it pleases the adver tisements, sale, and distribution of journals; and, lastly, that which represses and punishes offences not provided for by the penal code. Such offences, committed by attacking or turning into ridicule the Roman Catholic religion and its worship, or by insulting the sacred character of its ministers, are to be punished with imprisonment; if they consist of exciting to the abolition or the change of the said religion, or in leading to the introduction of any other form, the punishment is to be imprisonment with hard labour. In either case a fine of from 100 to 500 piastres is to be inflicted." ITALY. A Turin letter, of the 16th, contains the follow ing Since the day on which the Chamber had to judge the conduct of M. Tofani, no sitting more to be regretted than that of yesterday has been held. This was the second time that the Assembly had been transformed into a chamber of accusation. The seats were all full in spite of a heat of 80 deg. Fahrenh e it, At 2 o ' c l oc k a ft er the vote, by a small majority, of the bill granting a pension to the Thousand of Marsala, M. Pi so li , t h e repor t e r of the committee o f inquiry into the participation of certain deputies in the affairs of the Southern railways, ascended the tribune, amidst a profound silence, to read his report. After tracing the history of the concession of the said railways, the speaker said that the task of the committeee of inquiry had been the more difficult that the accusations brought forward applied not only to MM, Bastoglki and Susani, but to other deputies. When the Parliament granted the concession to M. Bastoggi in preference to Baron de Rothschild, a rumour was current that the above-named deputy kad purchased the votes of several of his col leagues. The statement was traced to an advocate of Turin, who, on being called on to giye an explanation, declared that ono of his clients, a former deputy, bad admitted that 30 votes: had been sold for a sum of 3,000,000 f. ; that the mission of effecting the transaction had been offered to this deputy, but ho had refused to accept it. The committee had resolved to get to the bottom of this accusation, but the advocate, on being required to furnish proofs, could give none. The vague rumours, which were the most dangerous, having thus completely disappeared, there only remained for the committee to verify precise and determined facts. A deplorable impression had been produced on public opinion by the publication of the names of the persons forming the board of directors, as it included almost all the members of the com mittee appointed to examine the bill and the concession. The committee of enquiry, however, added that it was happy not to have discovered any proofs of collusion or engage ments between its members and the concessionary. The report then referfed to the participation of the deputy, M. Susani, in the affair of the railway. That gentleman was the secretary of the committee charged by the Chamber to examine the concessions made to Baron de Rothschild. An arrangement was nevertheless made between M. Susani and M. Bastoggi, to obtain for the latter a preference over M, de Rothschild ; for that service M, Susani received a bonus of 1,200,000 f, which he discounted at Milan for 675,000 fr. The report does not conceal the fact that the explanations fur nished by MM. Bastoggi and Snsani do not appear satis factory, and terminates with the following conclusions :- Ist. That the vague rumours and suspicions of corruption put in circulation against the deputies on the subject of the southern railways are completely disproved ; 2d. That the suspicions which hung over the deputies who formed part of the committee charged with examining the project of concession to the Rothschild bank, and who afterwards entered the board of directors of the southern railways, are also dissipated; 3d. That the interest and dignity of the Chamber nevertheless require that the office of deputy should be incompatible with the functions of directors, or the position of parties interested in undertakings subventioned by the State, or which may be placed in opposition to those of the States ; 4th, That M. Susani, at the moment in which he was a member, and even secretary to the committee charged to make a report on the Rothschild concession was the adviser of M. Bastoggi ; that he participated in M. Bastoggi's undertaking, and that pro priety required that he should first have given in his resig• nation as a member of the P ar li a ment Committee, which he did not :do ; sth, That the sum of 1,200,0001., brought in question in the Weill-Achott trial, was the bonus des • tined for M. Susani in r e t ur n for his co-operation; 6th. That M. Bastoggi ought not to have accepted the aid . of th M. Susani, knowing him to be a member of the Pas- Megctary Committee; 7tb, That AN, )3astoggi, in 4 Acting as he has done, has been wanting in the respect due to a member of - a Parliamentary Committee; that M. Susan! has been wanting in a still more serious manner in the respect which ho owed to his quality of repre • sentative of the nation. The Chamber was deeply moved at this conclusion of the report. M, Bastoggi asked per mission to speak, but as the hour was late, his reply was put off until the next day. In the following sitting he spoke at great length, and was listened to with silence, mingled with respect. His defence did not, however, ap pear to produce much effect on the Chamber," It may be remembered that the telegram has al ready announced that the conclusions of the com mittee were voted by 153 votes to 10, with 43 abstentions. The New llefonn Movement, Last Evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bethnal-green and the East-end of London was held at the Peel-grove Institution, for the purpose of advancing the cause of Parliamentary Reform, by the adoption of manhood soffu4go as the basis of representation. Mr. Hilton having been voted to the chair, Mr THOMAS BUFFHAM moved a resolution to the Effect that the time had arrived when the waren. chised masses of the people of this country should be admitted to a share in the right of election of members of Parliament, by that right being ex. tended to all resident and registered adult males, persons of sound mind and unconvicted of crime. The resolution was seconded by Mr W. R. CRE➢IER, who stated that the apathy of the masses on this subject of Parliamentary Reform was little to be wondered at after the manner in which they had been deceived and betrayed by those who had promised, and who had the power, to confer the franchise upon them. Mr JOUN R. TAYLOR having supported the re solution, it was put from the chair and unanimously adopted. Mr BLIGH next moved a resolution, in effect that a committee be appointed for taking the neces sary steps and raising the necessary funds for carry ing into effe,et the preceding resolution, and with that view to establish an association to be called the Bethnal-green Branch of the Universal League for the Welfare of the Industrious Classes. Mr WESTON seconded the resolution, which was adopted, and a committee appointed in terms of it. The proceedings then terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman. Historical Anecdotes about the Savoy, The Church of St. Mary-le-Savoy, as it had long been improperly called, last week perished by fire —all but the bare walls. Properly, it was the royal chapel of St. John the Baptist, which the parishioners of St. Mary-le-Strand were empowered o use, under certain conditions, as a parochia church, Its antiquity was not very great—three hundred and sixty years—but it was nevertheless of interest, from the history connected with it, and from the locality in which it stood. It had nothing in common with the palatial edifice in which Eleanor of Equitaino housed her uncle, Peter Earl of Savoy, six centuries ago. It was not even in that old palace in which the conscientious French King, John, died in honourable ciptivity, in the 14th century. John died in the new palace, built on the site of the old one, by that Henry Plantagenet who won the ducal coronet of Lancaster by his prowess at Poictiers, and whose daughter, Blanche, carried the paternal title to her husband, John of Gaunt. This newer palace had no long life of it, for Vat Tyler and his fellows, in their especial rage against John of Gaunt, burnt all that would burn oZ the edifice in 1381. Till the beginning of the 16th century the place lay in ruins, but in 1505 Henry VII. built the church, or chapel, which has been so recently destroyed, as the chapel of the hos pital of St. John the Baptist, for the relief of 100 poor men. In about fifty years this religious foundation went the way of all others in England, and though the hospital was subsequently restored and for some time maintained, the Savoy precinct became as notorious for thieves and beggars, as for the lame, the sick and the vagabond, who considered them-- selves privileged to claim succour from the Master of the. Hospital of the Savoy, an cflice which was much coveted, and which Cowley struggled ineffec- tually to obtain. The old hull was partitioned ou among noisy handicraftsmen who plied their respec tive callings therein, and it also served for a prison in which debtors, and infected soldiers, and deser ters, and pressed men, and recruits, and robbers waiting transportation were all alike kept under lock and key, And yet within the precinct there was sanctuary for those who dwelt there, and danger of life or limb to the audacious cfficial who should venture to make arrest there. It is barely necessary to say that the Savoy Conference for the revision of the Liturgy was held on this spot. This Savoy had its literary aspect, too; all proclamations, acts of Parliament, and Gazettes used to issue from the royal printing press established in the precinct ; and there Fuller lectured, if he did not write his Worthies.' The walls of the old cruciform hospi tal were standing in Pennant's time, and in 1816, Ackermann published a view of the ruins as they were in their last condition, before they were swept away. They look far more picturesque than the ancient palace itself does, in the picture of Dulwich College. The royal chapel, which was made paro chial after the "impious destruction" of the parish church of St. Mary-le-Strand, by the Duke of Somerset, did not always hold its own with dignity. While the Dutch, German, and French congrega tions met quietly within the precinctai favour which was originally owing to Charles the Second, all sorts of unseemly marriages were celebrated by the " Savoy parsons." The minister advertised his readiness to unite couples in the bonds of matri mony'` w ith privacy," which was the chief matter, and it was added, for the form's sake, "with de cency and regularity," and all for a guinea, the five shilling stamp included. Very significant are the concluding lines of the advertisement, which tell l over s longing to be married in haste and secrecy, that " there are five private ways by land to this chapel, and two by water." The Act of Parliament forbidding such celebrations of marriage did not deter the " Savoy parsons" till the Rev. Mr Wilkin son came to grief. For performing the illicit cere mony, Wilkinson was informed against by—among others—no less a person than Garriek,and the reve rend gentlem&n was transported. His_ son, but for this catastrophe, would probably have gone into the Church, but losing his chance, he crossed from the Savoy to Drury-lane, and the man who had trans ported his father helped to make an actor of him, and to give to the history of the stage the name of eccentric Tait Wilkinson. In George the Fourth's days the royal chapel was restored chiefly through that king's liberality, and her present Majesty has acted as munificently as her royal uncle ; but it was the parishioners who put up the beautiful painted glass window representing St. John the Baptist. That window was entirely destroyed by the fire of last week. Th e splendid roof lies in charred fragments on the encumbered floor ; and as t h e g ames , bursting forth, no one could well tell when ce or how, though the blame is laid on the gas, swept through the structure, down fell many a noble monument of the noble dead, or stood but to be unsightly and marred—for there slept Rokebys, and Douglases, and ladies of note, and soldiers of renown, with monuments to, some buried elsewhere, and " the bowels only" of one, and he, the great Earl of Clifford, with no memo rial at all; and, perhaps more truly worthy than any of them, the poet who chanted the praises of liberty under a tyrant, and piety in a licentious age, cheerful and religious George Withers Fes now under the superincumbent ruins caused by the fire. Her Majesty has graciously announced her intention to repair this ruin at her own cost. Viva t Regina M. HACIIETTE, TIIE FAMOUS PUBL ISHER OF THE " CHEMIN DE FER"— recen tly reported to be dead —has an establi s h ment w hi c h i s one of the P aris lions. Of the enterprisi ng way in which business is carried on there, some opinion may be formed from the fact that a young and talented avocat is paid 12,000 francs a year for writing the advertisements of the works which are brought out in it." A branch establishment is in London, at the corner of King William-street, Strand, a spot that has recently become quite a market for dealers in books, and which bide fair to home a sort of Wot-so.d Paternoster-row, L I T R E. Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of NaP° l6°ll 111, Compiled by Sir Lascelles Wraxall, Bart.,' and Robert Wehrhan. New Edition. 0 00 " 14 pp, 436. Hurst and Blackett. As another, the twenty-seventh if we remembe r rightly, of the Messrs. Hurst and Blacketts charming series of Popular Modern Works, Pub lished in compact and cheap one-volume editions/ in the form of a really, and not alone nominally, Standard Library, we have here a most acceptable reissue of a work combining within it all the fascination of a romance with all the profound and; c nthralling interest of actual history. The Memoirs —emphatically The " Memoirs of Queen Horten se!" The mother of the reigning Emperor of France, the Emperor Napoleon 111. ! The daughter of the Er n ] press Josephine when the letter was simply the ;cif' of the Viscount de Beauharnais ! Hortense, the beautiful and accomplished Hortense—herself th e wife of Louis, King of Holland ! Hortense- - Nr b° first emerged from comparative obscurity as the step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte ! R' °5 (together with the other members of the se two favoured races, the Bonapartes and t he Beanharnais)—with the rise of that most wonder" ful adventurer (using the term in no invidious, sense) that the world has ever seen I General at, twenty-five, Consul at thirty, Emperor at thirty' four, Conqueror, King-maker, Lawgiver, Hero an d ; Eage, Orator and Historian ! " The greatest °I " Poets," according to Beranger ! One of the noblest of rhetoricians," according to Broughton' According to William Napier—'' the Soldier of Soldiers I": According to all subsequent tary historians, unrivalled among all gre et Captains save by one, and that one Ila n : nibal I As Lord Byron sang in his Childs t Harold " The greatest nor the worst 01 men I" As Charles James Fox averred--" I believe him to be one of the best, as I am certain he 1e the greatest of men 1" He who bad entered In triumph all the great capitals of Europe—Vien n° ' Berlin, Milan, Madrid, Moscow, as conquere r ' among other groat powers, of Austria, Prussia, Italy, Spain, Russia! He who, from being a young er son of a Corsican Barrister, had made himself Bin a peror of France, King of Italy, Mediator of Sw it '. zerland, Protector of the Confederation Of the Rhine—creating his elder brother Joseph JC in ! first of all of Naples, afterwards of Spain---° brother Louis, King of Holland—his brother Jerome' King of Westphalia—his brother-in-law Joachim Murat, King of Naples—one of his lieutenants' Junot, Governor of Portugal—besides eauEleg a variety of others to become occupants of minor thrones in that marvellous arrang e : ment of the European System, the head s ll l P of which constituted him, in a manner, fo r series of years Lord Paramount over the length 81/ breadth of the Continent. At any period in the history of modern Europe since the close Of tb Great Napoleonic Era, since the death, that re; °,, the hero himself on the memorable " Cinq 1821, on the rocky island of St. Helena—an anther tic narrative of the Life and Adventures of his felt and famous step-daughter and sister-in-law Q ues t Hortense nee Beauharnais, would have been a subj ee , of eager curiosity to all endowed with a lisel' e r appreciation thin the generality;of the fecul ie interest appertaining to the romance of hien/ . Published, as the joint work of Sir LeEne lles Wraxall, and Robert Wehrhan has been, since tr e restoration to supreme power in France of Napoleon Dynasty, and that moreover in the p ets % of the third and youngest of the sons of Quee o Hortense herself—the Prince Louis Napoleon , o° of for more than a dozen years past Empere r ,, France under the glorious title of Napoleon lII' ti l l er the work comes before us with a witchery of its °e that it would be difficult to exaggerate: Nevr el o t the story of this life might be related, it could n fail to read otherwise than wondrously, as tba.g r it were the record of some extravagant finti°t; rather than the account of a succession of even each of which, marvellous though it may uPPe tor now while reading about it, was neverth eless all that a veritable realty. It is, of its ki n a sort of fairy tale in its way. It is as as tonishl in the marvels it recounts as any one of the thous° g and ono Arabian figments told to the breathles s interest of the Sultan• Caliph, by the Viziers daughter, the Sultana Sheherazade ! li nwel ; e s recounted, we repeat, the faithfully related M emo- a of, Queen Hortense could not but have pos sesse d this attraction for, could not but have wielded this glamour over the general run of renderos i whether readers of history or readers re romance. Penned, as they have been b e a ; however, in this graceful and courtly nnr,seo five, by biographers who seem to sound th e P rni e to of their heroine to the flourish of golden trump —the incidents here brought to view by thern ot seven.and-forty romantic chapters, might el nl oe be said to pass before us with un ns . pomp and panoply of some stately iniost rial procession. Now and then one is al bat tempted to swallow, not a mere grain or tW O, a large handful of salt in order to get down P er ot culars, in themselves apparently too huge t o por t e ntous in their way, for easy passage, ° al e speak, down the gullet of our credulity ! Yet! jot there in those exceptional instances where P e d in the events referred to, appears to be s e 'f o g difficult, we are fain to swallow the astontlioer statements—cum (acct sine) grano sails —r e cileraftea, ing as who can fail to do how often, nosy °jog the word " impossible," as the wonder -Wer hero himself said was swept out of N e V ie t he vocabulary by Napoleon himself. And so—bl es e light of Napoleon's own history—Wen%oo balievingly these enthralling Memoirs of ', li t e° Hortense—mother of Napoleon's successor, eic t bo rehabilitater of Napoleon's throne in Paris, e l 00 4 restorer of Napoleon's empire over Franc° among the chief Powers of Christendom. City Sewers Commission, of 4 - Yesterday the Commissioners of Sewers of the London met as usual at the Guildhall, for the despe t , c c: public business. The Chairman, Henry De Jersey , Hoe d presided, and among the Commissioners present we Ile%cf Alderman J. C. Lawrence, Daputy Farrar, Depu t y 11 %t; Deputy Elliott, Deputy Lorkin, Deputy Bower, li e l ) , - ne Lloyd, Deputy Burnell, Deputy Perkins, Me SetS• 61"3 :71 Walter, Fox, T. Symonds, Chaplin, Young, D 4(18- Cole, Botterill, Green, Farlow, Burrowes, &c. avfiet The Solicitor, to the, Commission, Alexander 3. Esq., reported that on the s th inst. , he caused to 17° demned, before Alexander J. C. L awrence, at the Sel's,.:l2/ house, four quarters of an ox which had been e oe ' t, of I ns p ec t o r Wylde, in Leadenhall - market , and formed. o Or an animal that had died of diesease, The meat Nve°,,,lel)o bad, and quite unfit for human f ood. It was orderod `gr, destroyed, and Alderman Lawrence directed biU' tlis t Baylis) to bring the matter before the Court, in o rder ODo further proceedings might be taken against the per son had sent the meat to London. „e It was decided to instruct the solicitor to make the ' t ' sary preliminary inquiries with a view to furth er pro ells tags being taken . against the offender. Dr. Lethebl'oe medical officer of health; reported on the state of 2591 t ea that had bean inspected during the week, and he 011,113113-pe a list of 114 places for sanato r y improvement. P j3 ° a d' submitted a list o rplaco which required farther P r eon ings on account of orders already issued, but not Ye t plied with. duly • • en s e . ' Th e markets and slaughter - houses had b een spected, and the officers had condemned 3,4031bs a so t , unfit for human food. Nearly the whole of it 1,46 diseased condition. tha t The returns of.last week (says Dr Letheb ) She births and 57 deaths were registered in the City. 3r. % D ': of deaths is just the average for the correspond ieg ° w, of the last eight years 26, or just half of the dc 3t :,:el among children of less than five years of age, " - a fro' among old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief 0 ' 1 , 3 % itie death were as follows :—Phthisis 4, pneumonia 1, br °3l , - "fla s i f 2, mesenteric disease 4, hydrocephalus 1, whooping ° , 2 - v ati u ' infantile diarrhoaa 3, continued fever 4, scarlet fe' ver A; - : 0 50 o measles 4, making together 9 den' hs from tubercular '6efroel from inflammatory affections of the lungs, a nd C her r ep of a zyrnotic character. Dr, Lethe b Y far- d e t diseases gto th e ported that the illuminating power of the a s suPP li n - en ta city during the week had been above the re quire — l - 01 ,0r the act of Parli amen t; but the average amou nt of 51.11,,ave of the Charter e d an d Great Central Gas ha d been th fl e quantity anctioned by Parliament. 101 4 ' The Commissions s, after transacting some o ther ness, adjourned. •-• 6 CHARLES DICKENS'S NEW SERIAL S sC ''' • Messrs. Chapman and Hall, according °,attol Reader, have bought the copyrig ht of " Our 000 Friend." ' The fortunate author receives, they WO Ili ietp —.C6,000 on the issue of the first, and the rewan aing on the completion of the tale.