The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-01 00:00:00

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE I' THIS EVENING (Wednesday). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Poloniue, Mr. John Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan: Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden h. ff ; Ho, atio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. 11. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. W M'lntyre, F. Morton, Rayo:ond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, hats M Ilenrade ; and Gertrude, Miss Elswortby. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half .past 7, and Hamht com mences at S. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. 'PHIS EVENING, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. Atter which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien dei Franchi, Mr. Vining ; Chateau Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. To conclude with BORN TO GOOD LECK. Paddy O'Raffer,y, Mr. Dominick Murray. N - ENV THEATRE-1W YAL, ADELPI - 11.— Sclo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Last Week but One of I he mat Tragediene, Miss Bateman, in the character of I::EAti THIS EV ENING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S ROUSE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Biliington, Stuart. Eburne, Stephenson ; Airs. Biilington. To conclude with T II E AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, rt. Homer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BATE MAN.-L E A H.-'llll EVENING and EVE EtY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish ma den until further notice. In order to give due effect to this most remarkable success of the se. son, eillire , y new scenery by the celebrated artists Messrs. Danson and :7. , 0n5, and Thorcipscn. New drcss,s and appo ntments have be: n prepare , i for its production.—N.ts. In consequence of the pressing and numerous applications ar, the Box-otThe, ar rangements have now been made by which Seats ni , y be ob tained a week in Advance. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. rowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dion Boucicault ,Esq., every Evening. Re-engagement of those ce ebrated and popular artistes, Mr. an i Mrs. Charles Mathews. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular n +lnes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. .). Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. F. it obinson. Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss IL rbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss 11. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirring. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and original Comely in 5 nets, by !Dion Boucicault entitled THE FOX CHACE C Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews' Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. ltobinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cham ,er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and M;ss Henrietta Simms (her first am: earanee here). At 10, OUT OF HT OUT OF MIND. Mr. Charles Mathews snd Mr. Frank rl atthews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss Fanny Josephs. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEA TRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE SILENT SYSTEM. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada 6 wanborough. After which, 3IAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Marie Wil con, Simpson, &C. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. Thorne. . _ JU 1 4 41 E 2.0? h. —S T. JAME S'S HALL. Under the Immediate Patronage of His Rrghntss he P INCE of WALES and Her Royal I 1141inest the rE,L.NcEss of WAL ' ES. Mr. EN RI T begs t• , announce his ANNUAL GRAND MORNING CONJEKT, io commerce at hilt-past 1 o'clock. Mesdames Carlotta Patti, Volp•ni, Louisa Liebhardt, Treoetli, Bette.heirn, Meyer Dustmarin, Emquist, Sainton- Dolby, Weiss, Gcorgi, C. Georgi, Louisa Vianing, Emily Soldene, Linas Niartorelle, Parepa, Signori Gardoni, Bettini, Delle (fedie, Messrs. Sims Reeves, Weiss, Santley, Herr Fricke (from the Royal Opera, Berlin), the Vocal Associ ,tion— two hundred voices, Herren Joachim and WieniawrAci, Platt, Miss E. Ward. Masttr F. H. Cowan, and Mad ,me Arabella. Goddard will appear. Conouctors Arditi, Be•: edict, and Alfred Mellon. At the Piano —Messrs. Lindsay Sloper, W. Ganz, Prank Mori, A. Randezzer, F. Archer, Harold Thomas, C. Hargitt, and George Lake. Mr. Benediot's cantata, "Richard Cecur de Lion," and a selec— tion from his 0, eretta, "The Bride of Song," will be per formed on this or..•easton. Owing to the arrangement' not being completed, the full programme cannot be published until Wednesday, June sth. Early applica ion is solicited for the few remaining stal s. Leserved Seats, 10s. 6d.; Un reserved Seats in Area or Balcony, ss. ; Gallery, 3s. Tickets can be t'btalned at all the Lib , aries and Musicseliers ; at Austin's Tic's et Office, 2Q, Piccadilly ; ant at Mr. Benedict's, 2, Manchester. square, W. R OYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. There will, both in this week and in next week, be five opera nights, viz., Monday, 'lnesday, Thursday, Friday, and battrday. Extra Night. Mdlle. Adelina Patti ; M. Faure ; signor Naudin. TO-MORROW h. VENING (Thursday), June 2, will be performed Belini's Opera, LA SONNA MBULA.. A ere.a, mina, Mdlle Adelina Patti; List, Madame Tagbafico T Mdlle. Anese ; Rodolfo, 31. Faure ; Alessi°, signor Polonini ; Notarl, Signor Rossi; and E,vino, Signor Naudin. Conductor, Mr. Costa. After which, the new Ballet Divertissement, by 31. Despla ces, entitled L'lle Enchantee. Suoported by 31d1c. Salvioni, Mdlle. Carmine, Mille. Navarre, 31d:le. Assunta, M. ')espla ces, and Mr. W. H. Payne. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatr e rta le, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 25. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-offic, under the portico ot the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. 'THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. Alter w hich, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, drc. ; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. Lire. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nellyl'ower, Hill, Wright, Rogers, dm. To conc:ude with MRS. WHITE. Mr. Compton. Commence at 7. Commence at'. LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 24s. per ton. I Double.. 2os. per ton. Top 23a. „ . lB3. „ Deep . .21s. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, W e stbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. 11HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Contafnintt the Latest SPORTING DITELLIGENCE, ben be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 1, 1864. - s - THERMOMETER. 60 This day at T wo o'clock Barometer—':'.9.6B. Wind—East ; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsis 1 112, 26m.—Aft ernoon , DAY. — Morning , 53m. Ta-mcntuow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 26m. /04 1.044 • , -111021 , urt . LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1864. The marriage of the exiled heir of the House of Orleans with his fair cousin, one of the Princesses of Spain ,w hi c h took place onM on d ay l ast at Kingston upon-Thames, excited very naturally profound sentiments of interest an d Sympathy. It i s an event in the present d a y of no political imp or t a nce whatever. So little does the Imperial party ap prehend at the hands of the lime of Orleans that some little time back, when the approaching marriage of the heir cf the fallen house was first announced, the Emperor NAPOLEON volunteered the offer of his congratulations. It was an event, therefore, of no pol:tieal importance, but it was nevertheless an incident of deep historic interest that was witnessed on Monday in that little English chap!. To the mind of the politician it might not unnaturally recall the very different scenes of th e two marriages of the par elis of the bride and bridegroom, the eldest and the youngest of the sons o f LOUIS PIIILIPPZ. Tne marriage of the D ec DORLEANS was an event of national interest and hope. The city of Paris presented magnificent gifts to the young bride, who was then reasonably e nough regarded a s the frturo Queen Hof the FRENCH. A double misfortune put an end to these anticipations. The bereaved Duchess of ORLEANS 12',:t to deplore the loss of her husband, and then, of her son's inheritance. The regal sPlendours of those nuptials were full soon indeed overcast with disappointment. The other 'wedding, that of the Due DE MONTPENSIER, was too much matter of notoriety to be easily forgotten. It was the culmination of the crafty ambition of Louis PHILIPPE, and also the " catastrophe" of his " sinister career." That marriage was intendsd to render the Orleans influence paramount in Spain as well as in France, and once more, as in the days of' Loris XIV., to ann4hilate the Pyrenees. ".// ts'y a plus de PyreMes"—was the exclamation of LOUIS XIV. on a similar union between the royal families of France and Spain. And so in the pride of his heart thought King Louts PHILIPPE. And so w—aias I for human hops and human ambition !—the daughter of that Spanish Princess is united to the exiled heir of his own fallen house. Such lessons are almost of too common occurrence to excite much remark. The vanity of human ambition has long been proverbial, and the lesson is also Equally vain. A more pleasant subject for contemplation is presented by the other side of the picture. If the ambition of the kingly head of the house has proved utterly futile, very different has been the result of the higher ambi tion of the royal mother. Queen MARIE AMELIE had chosen for her family inheritance " that better part," which is not dependant upon the passing breath of popular applause, even under most ad verse circumstances. The domestic virtues of the Orleans family have been proverbial ; and those virtues which adorned them, amid the splendours of a court surrounding them, still in exile and misfortune, have been happily rewarded by the full enjoyment of that— " Only plant of paradise that has survived the fall." The wedding at Kingston was rendered especially interesting by the presence of the venerable lady who is less remarkable for her royal rank than for her great misfortunes and her greater virtues. She has seen her children " rise up and call her blessed," and the best prayer that can be offered for the young bride and bridegroom is that they may follow in her revered footsteps. Public expectation is to a certain extent satisfied. The long pending question of the rams is Mai• tively settled. Those black sheep which, if the threats.and remonstrances of Mr. ADAMS, and the big words and truckling actions of Earl RUSSELL have any s:gnificance, were to involve this country in a war with the United States, have been peace. fully folded with the flocks of Great Britain. This is a third instance in which the Government have been defeated, for if, as in the present instance, the case be settled by compromise, the contest ends in a drawn battle, the aggressor must of necessity be considered to have failed in his attack. So it has been with each and every attempt made by the law officers of the Crown to show that there was just cause to detain vessels building in our private yards for foreign nations. In the case of the Alexandra, after " fighting back in fierce delay" from court to court, the House of Lords decided against th , ... Government; but, after all, this victory was to a certain extent gained upon technical grounds rather than upon the real merits of• the case, although borne out by the original verdict of a jury. In the case of the Pampero, which was tried in Scotland, a compromise was come to, the prosecution not being strong enough to ensure conviction ; and now in the case of the notorious Birkenhead rams, at the eleventh hour, her Majesty's Government are fain to purchase those very ships which were seized with so much ostentation last year, and to render which seizure certain the anxiety of the Admiralty jeo pardised the safety of a fine frigate and her ship's company. The Attorney-General admitted in the House of Commons that, although the law officers of the Crown relied upon the goodness of their case, they were by no means confident of obtaining a verdict, and that they therefore considered dia -1 cretion to be the better part of valour, and bought up their opponents. This was perhaps the wisest course for both parties to pursue, for although it is more than probable that M. BRAITABX, who is now admitted to have been the bona fide owner of the rams, no matter to whom he was afterwards to transfer them, would have ulti mately carried his case; the tedious and expensive delays to which the law cfficers of the Crown conic have subjected them would most probably hove virtually frustrated the purpose for which the vessels were built. A favourable verdict by an impartial jury in such cases is of no immediate benefit, for the Crown prosecutors, like GOLDSMITH'S school- master,— "Even when beaten, can argue still " The Frenchman, no doubt, having learned to his cost what influence Mr. Areeets exercised over Earl RUSSELL, reluctantly relinquished the contest, and disposed of the two splendid ships wieich were all but completed for him by Messrs, - I,AIRD, and in all probability gave orders for craft to be built in the yard of one of i dis countrymen, who, if he possessed not all the appliances and resources of the great Mee le y firm, could at least trust to the protectiera of his Government, which, .however exac;:ing it might be in its own requirements, was rot to be intimidated by any foreign Power. It M. BRATARY was, as is generally supposed, com• missioned by the Confederate Government to cause these vessels to be constructed, and has followed the course which we have suggested, and have every reason to believe to be the fact, ho has acted wisely. President LINCOLN and Mr. SEWARD are too wise in.their generation to use the language to the French EMPEROR which they know they can employ with impunity and also with advantage to the English Government. There was great bluster and talk both in Washington and New York about the New Mexican empire, but it all ended in smoke. The Americans, with all their bounce, are quicksighted and intelligent people, and they know full well that the reply of Louis Nero- LEON to an insolent message would have been the immediate raising of the blockade of the Southern ports, and the closing of those of New York and Boston. This would not suit their views, and al. though it was safe enough to talk large on American soil, it was deemed prudent for their representative to be civil in the French capital. If Southern re ports are to be credited, and although all American reports must be taken cum grand sails, the South erners are less given to mendacity than the North■ erners, they will be furnished this summer with some twenty steamers from Europe. We hope that this is no exaggeration, but we regret that the pusillanimity of our Government has deprived our shipbuilders of the undoubted right to sell their wares to any customer not at war with thi s coun t ry . The Foreign Enlistment Act is a dead l e tt er as regards the interests of the Northern States, it is strained to the utmost against the Confederates. Let England be again involved in a European war and we shall soon see how the Americans will repay our truckling policy. We have earned their coatempi, and they will then laugh at all laws of neutrality, and shape their course as it best suits their own interests. With regard to the purchase of the rams by the Government, it is in one respect highly satisfactory. These vessels are pronounced by competent authorities to be models of naval architecture. No Government surveyor or ad miralty constructor has had a han d i n d rawin g their lines, and as they have been built in one of the first yards in the kingdom, and are in too advanced a stage to be spoiled by official inter ference, there can be little doubt that they will realise all that is expected of them. Here, then, we shall have two fast well armed turret ships to compare with the Prince Albert recently launched from the yard of Messrs SAMUDA, and the Royal Sovereign being converted at Chatham. The Prince Albert is said to be a very handsome ship, with fine lines, but if report be true her en gine power will not enable her to attain a greater n 1 SUN, LAu . N. WEDAESi) 3117 VEINIAG, itiNE 1, 18G4 speed than nine or ten knots. This is, of course, no fault of the builders, but rather a crotchet of the Admiralty. Mr. REED, the Constructor of the Navy, exercises great influence, and although he is undoubtedly a man of considerable talent he seems entirely to forget the interests of the Nary in car rying out his own pet projects. He has certainly succeeded in constructing ships of only one thousand tons, capable of carrying four•and-a•half-inch armour plates, and drawing only some fifteen feet of water—namely, the Enterprise and the Research ; but in so doing he has limited their speed to under ten knots. These vessels carry 400-pounders, and would be, no doubt, formidable antagonists, pro vided the enemy would consent to give them battle on their own terms, but they could neither overtake a flying fee, nor avoid an action with La Gloire or any other large and swift cruiser. This is a great mistake, and we trust that the trials of El Monas sin and El Toussin, or whatever their Christian names may be,will prove that it is possible to com bine strength, speed, and light draught of water; and if this desideratum be once established, public opinion will compel Admiralty prejudice and inte rests to give place to common sense and activity. Reformers will be disappointed at the prefatory apology which Mr. GLADSTONE has thought fit to prefix to the issue of his famous speech on Mr. BAINES'S motion. They thought they had gained an important auxiliary—one whose eloquence in the Senate and whose influence in the Cabinet would prove of material assistance in smoothing away those unaccountable obstacles that always seems to intervene between Whig promises and performances. The conversion of so distinguished a member of those half•and-half Liberals, of which we have only too many among our public men, was hailed with acclaim by genuine Reformers, and as much importance was attached to the unexpected adhesion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Liberal side on the debate and division respecting Mr. BAINES'S measure for the Extension of the Franchise, as if some part of the scheme had actually become lacy. But, alas, for these sanguine antici pations and confident rejoicings ! The valiant leader, who was to rout the forces of the enemy, seems very much inclined to retract the steps he has already taken, to surrender the point which he has gained. Instead of bringing up an unexpected reserve on another occasion, he is much more likely to appear on the opposing side, or at best to hover mid• way between the combatants, while he exhausts all the resources of his subtle logic in showing ro the bystanders the pros and cons belongin g to each party. Our quick-witted friend Punch was apparently very near the truth with his formidable pencil. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has made a false start and come back again to the starting place, but we very much question whether by his return he has improved his chance iu the race. Is it that he really thinks it is, as his pictorial mentor tells him, too soon for a profession of democratic principles, or is it that he was unprepared for the importance attached to his words, and, consequently, dis- inclined to support them unqualified ? It is cer tainly strange to find a man like Mr. GLADSTONE attributing to the heat of the debate the expres sion of his views on a question like the franchise. The particu:ar passage in his speech which Mr. GLADSTONE thinks it necessary to qualify appears to be a vary just and moderate one. In it he maintains that exclusion from the franchise should only be based on two grounds—the unfit ness of the non-elector, personally, and the possible political danger arising from his admission. These two reasons comprise all the arguments upon which objections are based, and it is difficult to see what other grnnnds (lan be stated fur the most wholesale exclusion of classes• Personal unfitness is the objection of the prudent Liberal ; constitutional disturbance and consequent political danger is the argument of the Tories. The manner in which Mr. GLADSTONE endeavours to qualify his state ment, to prune away its dangerous Liberalism, and to retain his position among the quasi supporters of Reform on the Government benches is more in genious than satisfactory. A proposition of seem ingly wide scope is often, he tells us, reduced by large exceptions to narrow limits ; and he evidently wishes us to infer that his proposition belongs to this class. It is as well, perhaps, that he says inci dentally, that these " large" exceptions are also " scarcely definable," since even his subtle skill might be puzzled to define them. Of what nature are these exceptions ? Are we to exclude from the franchise on accaunt of particular trade, or profes sion, or even creed ? Are we to restrict the exer cise of the right of voting to those classes who have hitherto taken part in the representation. But if, on such grounds, we might reverse many of the most enlightened measures of modern times, and even in these cases personal unfitness or political danger must be tha real objections. If we are to accept an educational test, or a warrant of character, as security, it is personal unfitness that must ex clude the unsuccessful applicants. If we make pro perty or rental the rule of admission, we are desirous of preserving the preponderance of power in the hands of the wealthier classes and of avoiding political disturbance, Mr. GLADSTONE says, truly enough, in defence of those wholesale statements which he is now inclined to qualify, that the oppo nents of Mr. BAINES'S measure assumed in their arguments against it, that the present limitations of the franchise required no defence but were to be accepted without in quiry. Such is certainly not the opinion out of doors, and judging by the faint and feeble manner in which Parliament represents the popular feeling about Denmark and Prussia, there is need of a con siderable alteration in the number or the character of our constituencies , . Perhaps the least satis factory passage in Mr. GLADSTONE'S preface is that in which he declares that he spoke chiefly in respect to the past, and that neither time nor reason per mitted him " to attempt the solution of problems of real intricacy, which belong wholly to the future, and which are little likely to become practical except for another generation. Certainly our re forms are likely to be only theoretical as long as we have a Whig Cabinet at the helm ! But these questions do not belong exclusively to the future; they are pressing for a solution, and, Sphinx-like, will be the ruin of the Statesman who cannot, or will not, answer them. It would have been better for Mr. GLADSTONE'S reputation had he boldly stood by the principles he upheld in that eloquent address which reflected so faithfully the sentiments of a large body of the public. By his flinching from his colours he will not regain the confidence of those whom he has startled by his outspoken advocacy of the ppular sentiments, but he will forfeit the respect which might have been his had he boldly maintained his ground and yielded to the claims of right and justice, that which must here after be ceded to the exigencies of political expediency. THE MONTMORENCIEB AND THE TALLETRANDS. —An Imperial decree has conferred the title of Duke de Montmorency on young Prince de Talleyrand. The Mont morency family and their collateral branches—the Roche foucalts, the Beauffremonts, and the Rohan-Chabits—have lost no time in applying to the competent tribunal for what we would call a rule nisi, calling on the Prince to show cause why he should not be prohibited from assuming a name to which be has no claim, and which, not being in abeyance, it is not in the Emperor's power to give. 'MM. Thifaure, Berryer, and Andral are to support the rule. There is also a rumour of a duel between the head of the house of Montmorency and the Prince de Talleyrand, LITERATURE, Charles Dickens's New Story. Our Mutual Friend. No, 2. Chapman and Hall. Another delghttul number here introduces us to several new characters. Every one of them—no less by name than by nature—intensely Boz-like. 'three chapters are here—entitled, iespectively, " Boffin's Bower," " Cut Adrift," and " Mr. Wegg looks after himself:' This last-mentioned person, Silas Wegg to wit, being that very tonL;picuous wooden-legged Greenwith-pansioner-looking man, seated at a little; table, on the alreadylfamiliar green cover, etotlionsly reading a book, with Vat) aid of a bottle and a steaming glass of grog. Mr. Wegg in in affect is a stalf.teeper—crippled by accident—a " literary man with a wooden leg," who vends fruit and gingerbread to the infantile lieges of the Crown, by way of eking out for himself a precarious subsist ence. The hardest little stall of all the sterile 8! ails in London, his is said to be thus humorously----" It gave you the face-ache to look at his apples, the stomach-ache to look at his oranges, the tooth. ache to look at his nuts !" The idiosyncracy of the man is wonderfully imagined and described. His identification of himself with the establishment of " Our House" es part and parcel of it—his con ceiving to himself all the ins and outs of it—his subtle adaptation of various salutes to the passers of distinctive names to the differentbyis p inmatesor apportioning " Oar Ho t is e "—hi s habit of " taking a powerful sight of notice," as he says of apo o himself—all these minute traits, whims, oidities, characteristics of the man, are touched in with the inimitable hand of the Master Humorist. The very coiner of the street ia which he passes the chief part of his existence—don't we know it ? "A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times. Shelterless fragments of straw and paper got-up revolving storms there when the street was at peace ; and the water cart, es if it were, drunk or shortsighted, came blundering and joltieg round it, making •it muddy when all else was clean." The introduction to each other here—in this bleak desolate howling wilderness of a corner — of Silas Wagg, the stall-keepor aforesaid, and of that rhinoceros-like passer-by, who turns out to be the inheritor of much of the countless wealth of ad Harmon, theD ustraan millionaire (this thick set man of wealth and aigcnr being entitled—so like a Boz character—Noddy Boffin 1) the introduction to each other, at the street corner, of Silas We g g and Noddy Bi.ffin, is molt laughably recounted throughout. Wegg becomes reader to Boffin, at the rate of a crown a-week—reader to Baffle, of " Gib bon's " Decline and Fail." Hence the smock-frocked clownish fellow on the green cover, who is gozing evidently in wonder at the classic frieze with the basso-relievo illustration of what the wooden legged-man is reading. Above, in the right corner of the green cover, is Mrs. Boffin, a highflyer at Fashion, it appears, who robes herself habitually in a low evening dress of black satin, with a sable velvet turban and plumes. The menage of the Bower by the dust-hills is the oddest thing ima ginable—'' Boffin's Bower" that is ! In arriving at which place of destination Mr. Wegg has consider. able difficulty. Thanks to which seeming inacces sibility on the part of the Bower, we are told of the old stall-keeper's wonderfully ludicrous encounter (as follows) with— single descriptive passage that we should be tempted to quote as a specimen of brilliant writing. His forte lies almost exclusively in the record of imagi nary conversations. Of this fact, the new number of his current serial story affords in itself the amplest evidence. ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE, Yesterday afternoon the annual general meeting of life governors, annual subscribers, and ordinary subscribers to this fund was held at the Nev Adelphi Theatre, to receive the annual report, and to elect two male and three female pensioners. Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, who presided, baid he was happy to inform them that they progressed so favourably in the formation of the institution— they had progressed so far that they might say that they were treading on velvet, at all events they were treading on very good Kidderminster. If fortune favoured them in the future as it had in the past, they would bs able to fill the whole of the residences in the next year, and also to increase the allowance to the inmates; Thera were 20 resi dences, tied all the furniture was paid for, which was a great thing in any institution. The inmates received 10s. a week, which was as much as the present resources of the college would admit. The inmates had coals, candles, and all medical assistance that was necessary. In this respect they were in ad vance of many institutions of much longer standing. They had a noble building, with pictures, and the nucleus of a very good library. Still this had been attacked, like many other beneficial insti tutions, Some unblushing person had circulated a rumour that the promoters of the college had re ceived £35,000, whereas the sum received had been less than £17,500, and more than half of that had been received from the fancy fair. As there would be another fair in July, he trusted that the college might egdu be fortunate, (Hear, hear.) Miss Brad don had given a house, while another had offered to complete the residences of the governor and governesses. They had started a fund for a school, and the Provost of Eaton had consented to serve on the committee. (Hear, hear.) All around the college the clergy had exhibited the greatest interest in if - . Referring to the death of Mr. T. P. Cooke, the chairman read the terms of his bequest, which provided, inter alia, for an annual entertainment on the 23d of April, which was Shakspere's birthday and his own. Mr. ANSON, the secretary, then read the report, of which the following are the principal portions : " Since the last annual meeting the college has lost the services of its warm-hearted friend, the late Mr. T. P. Cooke. That gentleman for some time occupied the office of deputy-master, from which he retired only because failing health de manded it. But though he ceased to be deputy master, he never ceased to attend the meetings of the council, or to take part in the proceedings while his state of health permitted him to do so ; and when his medical attendants had expressed a desire that he should only be seen by the members of his family, he requested the presence of Mr. Webster, the master of the college, that he might be informed of its progress, and that he might make known his bequest of £3,000, and the manner in which he wished it to be employed. In their last report the council expressed their regret that they had found it necessary to terminate their con eec:ion with Mr. Wm. Webbe, who had been em ployed as architect. Though Mr Webbe, when sending in his certificates of amounts due to the builder, had always asked for and received his com mission, the council thought it advisable to enter into a careful investigation of the terms of his en gagement, to see whether anything remained due to him. All they imigined he could reasonably claim was tendered, and something more ; but nevertheless Mr Webbe sent in a claim of £2,629 6s 11d, and intimated his intention to enforce it if not forthwith paid. Of course nosuch demand could be entertained, and at length the matter was submitted for the ver dict of a jury ; but the judge, thinking it a case for reference, the council reluctantly consented, and the result was an award of £104175, in addition to £36 ls paid into court. It is one of the misfortunes of English law that the costs are not apportioned in accordance with the supposed erro:s of the respec tive parties, and in consequence the council had to pay the taxed costs of Mr Webbe, as well as those of the defence; therefore, though the arbitrator by his award cleansed Mr Webbe was in error to the extent of £2,524 9s 13d, and the council only to £lO4 173, he required piyment from the college funds of £2lO 153 4d as Mr Webbe's costs, end £lB7 6s Bd, the costs of the awarc:. The fancy fete and fair at the Crystal Palace, the ball at Willis's Rooms, and the recent benefit at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, produced the usual profit, and the council have, in the names of those on whose Lsehalf they labour, expressed their acknowledgments to all who have assisted them. As the buildings for the pensioners have been completed, and as it may reasonably be hoped that those who have laboured in the cause will continue to exert themselves, or that others not less useful will eucceed them, the council are of opinion that five additional pensioners —viz., three females and two males—should be elected, thus making in the whole six female and six male pensioners. It will now be your duty to elect six gentlemen to become members of the coun cil for a period of four years. The following are those who retire from office, all of whom are re eligible, viz. :—Messre. J. B. Buckstone, William Cullenford, Frank Matthews, Robert Bell, G. B. Childs, and W. R. Sams." Appended to the report was a balance-sheet, which showed that the receipts for the year ending April 30, 1861, had been £2,632 4s. 11d. There was a balance at Messrs. Coutts' of £426 2s. 7d., and in the secretary's hauds a balance of £94 2s. ld. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the r, port. Mr. BILLINGS (the architect), in seconding it, thought that it was necessary when vacancies occurred that new blood should be infused into the committee. He thought that some of the resi dences at the college might be let until they were filled. He was almost tempted to make an offer himself, that he might be allowed to b 3 amongst such pleasant people. He had almost begun life as a theatrical himself; his first speculation being a theatrical one which turned out very successful. In Charles Kemble's time he had the run of every theatre in London, both before and behind the scenes, and he became so disgusted that he deter termined never to go to a theatre again without paying. (Cheers and laughter.) The CHAIRMAN—And I think I have heard you say that you enjoyed it all the better. Mr. BILLINGS—Yes, sir, I have, (Laughter.) After some discussion on matters of account, the report was unanimously adopted, and the retiring wardens were re-elected. The meeting then proceeded to elect the pen sioners. DETERMINED S UICID E.—Yesterday William Brown, about 55 years of age, foreman to Messrs. Gordon and Son, wine merchants, 1, Argyle-place, Regent street, committed suicide under the following circumstances. It appears that the cellar not being opened as usual in the morning, it was supposed that the deceased might have for gotten the key, of which ho had charge, and returned to his home to fetch it. As the day wore on, and deceased did not make his appearance, a messenger was sent to Cam berwell, where he had been residing, when his wife stated that he had left home as usual in the morning. On the messenger returning Messrs. Gordon ordered a strict search of the cellar to be made, and, after some time, the deceased's body was Lund in a water-butt in the cellar, it having evi dently baen there some hours. There is little doubt that the deceased had premeditated the rash act, for in his pocket was found a razor. The deceased had been in the employ of Messrs. Gordon for above twenty-five years, and of late it had been noticed that his mind showed symptoms of being affected. The body was removed to St. James's workhouse to await an inquest. HOROLOGICAL PRODUCTIONS.—" Ranged around the base of the clock w e re the w a tches which Mr. Benson ex hibited, and which have been universally admired for the beauty and elegance of the designs engraved upon them. The movements are of the finest quality which the art of horology is at present capable of producing."—lllustrated London News, Nov. 8, ME!. Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeaters, centre seconds, keyless, split seconds, and every description of watch, adopted to all climates. Benson's illustrated pamphlet, free by post for two stamps, contains a short history of horology, with prices, and enables th, se who live in any part of the world to select a watch or clock. Prize medal and honourable mention, c'asses 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, Ludgate-hill, watch and clo k maker by special warrant of appointment to ILII.II. the Prince of Wales. Nstatolished 170, EDDARD AND THE COSTERMONGER ! Ths Bower was as difficult to find, as Fair Rosamond's without the clue. Mr. Wegg, having reached the quarter indicated, inquired for the Bower half a dozen times with out the least success, until he remembered to ask for Har mony Jail. This occasioned a quick charge in the spirits of a hoarse gentleman and a donkey, whom he had much perplexed. " Why, yer mean Old Harmon's, do yer ?" said the hoarse gentleman, wko was driving his donkey in a truck, with a carrot for a whip. " Why did'nt yer niver say so ? Eddard and me is a goin' by him I Jump in." • Mr. Wegg complied, and the hoarse gentleman invited his attention to the third person in company, thus : "Now, you look at Eddard's ears. What was it as you named, agin ? Whisper." • Mr. Wegg whispered, "Boffin's Bower." " Eddard ! (keep yer hi on his ears) cut away to BAAn's Bower 1" Edward, wiih his ears lying back, remained immoveable. " Eddard I (keep yer hi on his ears) cut away to o.d Harmon's." Edward instantly pricked up his ears to their utmost, and rattled off at such a pace that Mr. Wegg's conversation was jolted out of him in a mast dislocated state. " Was-it-Ev-verajait ?" asked Mr. Wegg, holding on, "Not a proper jail, wot you and me would get committed to," returned his escort ; they giv' it the name, on accounts of Old Marmon living solitary there," " And-why-did-they-callitharm-Ony ?" asked Wegg, "On accounts of his never agreeing with nobody. Like a speeches of chaff. Harmon's Jail; Harmony Jail. Work• ing it round iike." "Doyouknow-Mist-Erboff-iu ?" asked Wegg. " I sheuld think so 1 Everybody do about here. Eddard knows him, (Keep yer hi on his ears•) Noddy Bofflu, Eddard 1" The effect of the name was so very alarming, in respect of causing a temporary disappearance of Edward's head, casting his hind hoofs in the air, greatly accelerating the pace and increasing the jolting, that Mr. Wegg was fain to devote his attention exclusively to holding on, and to relin quish his desire of ascertaining a hether this homage to Boffin was to ha considered complimentary or the reverse. Presently, Edward stopped at a gateway, and 'Wegg dis creetly lost no time in slipping out at the back of the truck The moment he was landed, his late driver with a wave of the carrot, said " Supper, Eddard I" and he, the hind hoofs, the truck, and Edward, all seemed to fly into the air toge ther, in a kind of apotheosis. • In the next chapter called " Cut Adrift," we learn more about the H —exams, particularly about Lizzie and Charley, the latter of whom it is that is " Cut Adrift." 'rnere is an exquisite little scene at page 55, where the boy is described as leaving his wretched home for ever—a scene that no ono but Charles Dickens could ever have dreamt of, or, dreaming of, could so have written. We read it through a mist that often makes the letterpress hardly decipherable. Here, too, in this chapter we get at the interior of the Fellowship-Porters' road side public house, kept by one Miss Potterson — an old lady—(what though landlady of a public house) —a worthy old lady that we are already prepared to fail in love with. In the next chapter, where "Mr. Wegg looks after himself," we are admitted to yet another interior, one stranger than the cozy bar of the Fellowship-Porters —stranger even than the Bower of Nicodemus Bcffia—meaning the inside of the shop and habitat of Mr. Venus, the melan choly love-lorn Articulator of Skeletons. Com mend us, for a hearty laugh, to his contention with the small boy. who comes in for the stuffed canary—the squabble wound up by Mr. Venus with "You've to idea how small you'd cows out if I had the ar;iculaing of you Altogether a capital instalment, as full of good things as a Christmas plum-pudding. Mr. Venus, surrounded by the trophies of his art, and Miss Potterson in the snug little bar of the Fellowship Porters, with that squinting vagabond Riderhood (Hisam's late part ner) leaning, pot in hand, over the half-door to talk to the old landlady, are the subjects here selected byMarcus Stone for illustration. " Can You Forgive Her ?" By ANTHONY T R OLLOPS. No. VI. This story, as a story, is h ere, throu g hout number six, almost, as one may say, at a standstill. The people talk, and that is all. Nothing happens. But they talk—though for the most part the smallest of small talk—delightfully. We skim over the pages amused, often smiling, never laughing, that is, never laughing right out. Indeed, we hardly recollect ever doing so while reading even the best and happiest of Mr, Trollop's thoroughly amus ing and widely-popular fictions. Though it would be difficult, and probably unfair to pronounce any opinion in that way as yet decisively—" Can You Forgive Her" hardly seems to us to give promise of taking rank with this rapid writer's cleverer imaginings. " His Framley Parsonage," lot us say, or his "Small House at Allington." Nevertheless, we take it that it would be almost impossible for Anthony Trollope to write a whole dull page, cer tainly not a whole chapter. Hence the marvel of his popularity. He is not the least bit in the world of a bore. He always entertains us. We read him with the greatest ease, and most frequently with the greatest satisfaction. But while this is so, we never yet to this day—and we have read delightedly almost everything be has ever written (with his name to it)—we have never once to this day met, in any one of his books, with a LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per extra steamer City of Cork, via Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, MAY 18, 3 P.M. President Lincoln's alleged proclamation calling for 400,000 men has been officially declared a forgery. Mr. Stanton reports this morning that, according to the latest adviccs received froni fleneral Grant the roads are greatly improved. Large reinforce ments are reaching Grant, who designed moving against the enemy without delay. The Secretary of the War Department also says that it is the intention of the Government to maintain the national forces until the rebellion is overthrown, and to provide against inopportune reduction whew the services of the 103 days' men expire. A draft to fill their places, and all other reductions, will be ordered on July 1. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 811 per cent. premium. Stocks advancing. New York Centrals, 131 ; Illinois, 1338 ; Ede, 115 k 5.20 x; U. S. Bonds, 1064. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 1. The Sasonia, sailing to-day for New York, takes the English, French, and German m ails, 600 pas. sengers, a large cargo, and jewellery of the value of 6,000 f. from Havre. SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 31 (Evening). The usual monthly auction for the Sinking Fund of the Passive Debt took place to-day. The prices fixed by the Government were—for the first class, internal, 5150; second, 29; second foreign. 34.75. Tenders were sent in at from 47.48 to 5090 for the first description, from 2830 to 2925 for the second, and from 31 to 35 for the third. THE BRAZII I S. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) BUENOS AYRES, APRIL 27. Exchange, 501. Ounces, 2,885. Wet salted ox hides, 40, in demand ; dry American, 39 to 42. Tal low, 15. Lumber, 32 to 37. Flour, 71- to 8. Rs fined Sugar, 191. Imports improved. MONTE VIDEO, APRIL 23. Exchange, 52 54. Ox hides, 6 ; dry Ame. rican, 5.20 5.30, firm; dry German, 5.40 5.80. Wool firm. Tallow, LBO. Imports improving. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MALIA, MAY 31. The Baroda leaves at 10 p.m. for Marseilles and the Masilia at midnight for Southampton. THE OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Ceylon, from Southampton, the 20th inst., arrived at Malta at 10 p.m. on the 30th, and left at 8 a.m. on the 31st for Alexandria. Thc Syria, from Marseilles, the 28t 1 -1, reached Malta at 9 p.m. on the 30th, and sailed at 3 a.m. on the 31st for Alexandria. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 31.—The reponse de primes (option) has been made at 66f. 60c. for the Three per Cents. The market has been heavy, bat up to the present time quotation's have varied but little. liailway Shares rather offered, but little doing. The market closed as follows :- 11 peri,Cents. C.3 50 Do. ehd a per Cents bo. end month 66 65 Credit IVlobilier 1135 Do. end month 1128 75 Bank Shares '3390 Credit / °lacier 1242 50 Roman Italian Loan 69 05 Do. end month 69 05 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 69 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes bli florae Debt - - Deferred , RA ILWAYB. Cash. Account. 870 867 50 985 .. 985 875 870 Orleans ~•••• Northern Lyons and Ileditorranean New ditto — • • Southern Western Eastern ......... Sardinian 365 361 25 Austrian - 403 75 Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 665 665 Ditto to Barcelona PENINSULAR NAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam. ship Valetta, Captain Leckie, arrived last night. She left Gibraltar on the Toth. The Valetta brings neither mails, passengers, or cargo, having come home for repairs. GIBRALTAR, MAY 25. Accounts from Barbary mention that as regards the removal of Hash Hash, the Governor of Tetuan, the Sultan was satisfying the demands of the French Govarnment, Three of the Sultan's officers have arrived at Tetuar, and Hash Hash is ordered to proceed with them to the Court. The French sub ject murdered at Tetuan was by birth a Spaniard, but had acquired the rights of a naturalised French subject from having lived some years in Algeria. Hash Hash, like the Moorish authorities in the case of the Jews accused of murdering the Spanish col lector at Saffi, seems to have been more anxious to satisfy the demands of the European Power ag grieved than concerned about fixing upon the right men to execute. Two notorious robbers and cattle-lifters, belong ing to a tribe under the control of the Governor of Tangiers, seemed to Hash Hash the most likely men to have committed the murder; and, at all events, he thought, whether they committed it or not, the Sultan would be well rid of such rascally subjects, the French would be satisfied, and the crime would be set down to a tribe under a neigh bouring Bashaw, instead of to one under himself— three sufficient reasons Hash Hash might suppose for beheading the poor wretches. It happened, however, that the murdered man had a companion, and the French consulir authorities, not being satisfied with rough and ready Moorish justice, looked into the case themselves. The Christian witness, who had a good opportunity of seeing the features of the murderers, declared that the accused were not the men, and that Hash Hash's little scheme was thus frustrated, 'and the prisoners set at liberty. The real murderers have not yet been discovered. The French say that had Hash Hash shown proper activity the culprits could not have escaped, and therefore they insist upon his removal. Thomas Jellowes Read, her Majesty's Consul at Tangier, has been appointed Consul in Cairo. The Spanish brig of war Gravina, from Monte Video, arrived at Cadiz on the 21st. • The American corvette St. Louis aucbored in Tangier Bly on the 21st. The British steamer Danube, six days from Liver pool, arrived here on the 22d. The schooner Paella. seventeen days from New port. and the steamer Messina, eight days from Glasgow, arrived on the 23d. The representatives of the European Governments in Morocco have extended to the Ist July next the term of their acquiescence in the Sultan's present system of limiting to the towns of the coast the commercial transactions of foreign merchants. After that flute it is understood that European merchants buying or selling in the interior of the country will ..~ ---r- be protected in the exercise of a right laid down in the . ireaties between the several Christian Powers and Morocco. The change is looked to as likely to stimulate the trade of Morocco, by leading to the establishment in the interior of the country of agents of the foreign merchants who will then be able to give greater extent to their operations than when limited to the markets after coast towns. '7'3\ 7' 4 45 1 Anrt (AVA -" strobir HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, MS37 29. The green, their Royal Highnesses the Princess Helena, Princess Louise, the Princess Leiniegen, the Princes Arthur and Leopold, and the ladies and gentlemen of the household, attended Divine ser vice in the Castle. Dr. R. Lee, one of her Mtjesty'a chaplains, officiated. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena and her Royal Highness Princess Leiningen afterwards attended Divine service at the parish church of Crathie, where Dr. R. Lee officiated. The D ake of Argyll and Dr. R, Lee had the honour of dining with her Majesty ani the Royal family. The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and attended by the Countess of Morton, Madlle. de Graney, th e Hon. R. H. Meade, Major Teesdale, and Captain von Westerweller, returned to Marlborough House yesterday afternoon from the White Lodge, Rich" mond-park. Their royal hignesses had a dinner party in the evening. The company included their Royal High' Ruses Prince and Princas Louis of Hesse, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the French Ara' bassador, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Normanby, the Marquis and Marchiones s of Kildare, the Countess of Morton, Earl and Cone' teas Spencer, Lady Constance Grosvenor, Viscount Hiachingbroke, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord Brougham, Sir George and Lady Grey, the Hoc. R. H. Meade, Colonel the Hon. Arthur Hardinget Mr. Fisher, Mr. C. L. Wood, Colonel Tyrwilitt (Equerry in Waiting to the Duke of Cambridge)) Madlle. de Grancy and Captain von Westerwell er (in attendance on Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse), Lieutenant-General Knoilys, and Ale.P r Teesdale, The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz an d Prince Adolphus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz visited the itor li Olympic Theatre last evening, and cccupied the royal boy Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes° de Joinville gave a grand banquet last evening. at the Clarendon Hotel, to their Royal Highnesses the Do ° and Duchess Augustus of Saxe Coburg Gotha, Princ e° Philip and Augustus of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, the Duke d° Montpensier, Prince Philip of Wurtemburg, the Coun t d'Eu, the Duke d'Alencon, the Count and Countess de Bondy, Viscount de Bondy, Viscount and 'Viscountess Vigier, M. and Madame Odier, M. Estancelin, Colonel Velarde (in attendance on the puke de Montpensier), The Dake of Devonshire will, we understand' give a grand ball on the 24th inst. at Devonshire House, when their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess °I Wales will honour the noble duke by their presence. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Among the visito ro who honoured her n.jesty's Theatre with t heir presence yesterday evening were the following :- --311° Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis of Bath, tho Ma r q uis, and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Earl and Countess of a Wilton, the Earl of Hardwicke and the Lady .Ag ne Yorke, Maria Countess of Harrington, the Earl of S trad : broke, the Countess of Harrington, the Earl and Countess of Mountcharles and the Lady Susan Vane Tempest. Oe Majesty's box was occupied by the Countess of De ssrt Lord and Lady Edward Thynne and party, &c. Miss Kate Gordon's Concert. Miss Kate Gordon's first Matinee Musicale toes place yesterday morning in Collard's Rooms, arcs' venor-street. Miss Gordon gave her, first c oncert under very distinguished patront;ge, ,owing t° which, added to the fact of her great talents es 3 pianist having preceded her debut, the room v( 4B crowded by a very fashionable audience. The concert commenced with a pianoforte 5 01° ' " Where the bee sueks" (Benedict), by Miss Sat e Gordon, who did full justice to this exquisite cowls /. sition. It was not until the second part commen ced that Miss Kate Gordon's skill and taste were refil l, observable, when, with .Mr. Oito Booth on the violin, was given that grand sonata No. in C minor, op. 3, from. Beethoven. Her er t quisite touch and taste were fully brong b out, and elicited for her well-merited apPla cs , e : giving her the assurance that the first !Dei ce d musicale may safely be fcaln wed by a so ° and a third. The Fantasie solo, violin, by H er d Otto Booth, was favourably received. Ma dam Weiss, Miss Mina Poole, and Mr. L. Walker sayo. their several songs with their usual skill, and w et t received as old favourites generally are. This 6 . , r13 0 concert of Miss Gordon's may be pronouune u e , success, and we understand that a second is to v place in a few weeks. • M. BENEDICT'S ANNUAL CONCERT.—The g re l: concert of the season, unit of M. Jules Benedict, announced for Tuesday morning, the 20th of J . 111 17 at St. James's Hall. The programme, as u stit' o { contains the names of nearly every Binger tke eminence, both native and foreign, all being anxious to show their high estimation of the of Mr. Benedict as a compose.r, as a conductor, ~1111. highest and best of all, as a fr iend. The Eye' artistes will be headed by Simx Reeves, SaP tielt Weiss, and Sainton•Dulby; the foreign by M cli k le ; Patti, Signor Gardoni, and the instrumental ists Madame Arabella Goddard. A con cert of te e • utmost brilliancy may be expected, and we cord o and heartily wish him that which his high w err deserves, an' overflowing audience. e „ CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB.--Bet - e - o four and five years ago a subscription was e et „ c o foot among the college boat clubs at Cambridge for `7B, purpose of raising £250, to be presented to the Royal 14 4 ' lions' Lifeboat Institution for a lifeboat. This has ll be been completed, and the boat, which will be named "ri Tom Egan, after the originator of the idea, who "wt'a for' merly president of the University Boat Club, wi ll be " t o f to replace the present one at Tramore, on the south c 095 jt Ireland, which has been found too small for the 100 1 1 0 , is greatly to be hoped that this good example set bi bridge may ere long be followed by the sister VoicerA-ici. and perhaps by some of the public schools either in dually or as a united body. At Ratherglen, on Saturday night, a young /11 0 :1 named James Love, who is said to have suffered frors lll- ar to delusions, cut the throat of his brother Robert fro/0 e a ' t o ear. Robert must have been asleep a t the time, °'did murderer went so cautiously about his' work that l '!" e of not awaken his father wh o wa s s l ee pi t lg by the 51.-‘i 13 the deceased THE STATUS OF SERGEANTS IN THE COTT• - eel l'fl it °I? LAW.—The Lord Chief Justice of the 12(1-010' Bench, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Pottlti, quer, have signifi e d that hereafter serg eants-atJe l° w oo' be entitled to take their seats equally with Queen's ca re re' within the bar. Until Saturday last these seats Wecort served for Queen's counsel only ; and except in th e tl 3° of Common Pleas, where the sergeants—at-law riorer° year 1846 had exclusive audience, sergeants a nd iAre for were entitled to address the court trom behind to te d l t° only, within which the sergeants are now Adell practise. d on_ The Board of Trade returns for the Pas t he (1 6. again show an extraordinary increas e in t ree eo t dared value of our shipments, the difference on th 6. P f 10 3 occasion compared with the corresponding' mon th :a Mug £1,327,862, or about 111 per cent., and con3Pe r f April, 1862, more than 35 per cent, This degree ° vity is merely a continuance of that which has prevailee or since the commencement of the year, the figu res A ce 0 t four , months exhibiting an augmentation of 26 p er cerfr over the same four months of last year, and of 36 P f 00 0 ' over those of the preceding year. All branches 0.000 facture appear to have participated in although a large portion of the difference ti " 00 an the 01 ,. : zo nsi l total is, of course, due to the high prices of c otton jaYs for too goods, the increase in the exportation of cotton Yar_ cen t• ill month being 24 per cent. in value, and only 3 k E 703 v alue quantity, and of cotton manufactures 23 per ee O W r woo lla . and 6 per cent. in quantity. Of linen and tils . c op: manufactures, the value of the ,hipments has . 10 e . c6 , j, al p case more than 30 per cent. above that of April! iron_l° boy tho consignments of metals, including railroad also been large,