The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

At R. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS EVERY EVENING, at light.—ROYAL ITALIAN OPMIA, COVENT-GARDEN MOZART NIGHT, THIS EVENDTG, on which occasion the first part of the Concert will consist of a Selection from the works of Mozart. The second part will be Miscellaneous. The following Artistes will appear This Evening :—Mdlle. Carlotta Patti, Mdlle. Mario Krebs ;Mr. Levy, Mr. Lazarus, Mr. R. s. Priv ten, Mr. W. H. Hi , l, M. Barret, Mr. Young, Mr. J. Winterbottom, and Ali Ben Sou-alle. BAND OF ONE HUNDBED PERFORMERS. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED 3IELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One Shilling. To-morrow (Friday), First Appearance of Mr. Alfred Mel len's GLEE UNION. On Saturday next, Aug. 13th, First Volunteer Night. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'ltafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Alter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vinhag-, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H• Form-ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THEATRE-ROY AL, ADELPIII.— Sole l'ronrletor and Manaf . :er, :VI:. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Ales-q*s. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Stephen n ,aomkr ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly. and Mrs. Ell ,'inn con. After which, at 10, THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, B. Phiii4a, and Miss Woolgar. To conclude with a new Farce, ca ll e d MY WIFE'S MAID. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, and Mr.i. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 7• ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, uader the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Last Two Bights of the present Season. Crowded with rank and fashion. Production of an entirely new original Travestie of a very popular subject, by F. C. Burnan4, P. —sq., entitled FAUST ASD MARGUERITE, in which Mr. and M:s Charles Mathews will appear. The new scenery by the celebrated artists, Messrs. Ranson and SOW ; the incidental Ballet by Oscar Byrne. Re-engagement of those ce'ebrated and popular artistes, Mr. an 1 Mrs. Charles Mathews. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular n :raes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul B e dford, Mr. F. Itobinson, Mr. A sh l e y ; M rs . Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Mise Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. EVERY EVENING, at 7 o'clock. A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. 3liss Herbert, 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. Chamberlaine, and Mrs. C. Mathews. At 10, USED UP. Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Patti Joseph To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE. Mr. Ashley, and 3liss Cottrell. On Friday, 12th August. Benefit, and last night of the pre sent enga,;ernenc of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mathews, a new and original comedy, in 3 acts, by Arthur Sket hley, Esq., en titled HOW WILL 'THEY CET OUT OF IT, in which 31r. and Mrs. C. MATHEWS will appear. MOSE S AND SON 14. respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. The newest taorics are combined with the latest and most fashionable oesigns, arid the best workmanship. E. MOSES and SON give particular attention to this important branch of their business, and they can with confidence affirm that the prices Are such as must satisfy the most economical. This depart ment is in a distinct part of the premises, which will be found a great convenience for ladies and children, MOSES AND SON E • resnectfully invite public attention to their large and well-assorted SUMMEit STOCK. MOSES AN]) SON'S • "SANDRINGHAM" WRAPPER J utroduced by them) is the newest and most fashion lb:e style of 'Overcoats for the season. EMOSES AND SON'S • READY-MADE and BESPOKE CLOTHING for all classes and all ages. MOSES AND SON'S • CELEBRATED "INDISPENSABLE" SUIT, from 30s. E• MOSES AND SON'S HOSIERY and DRA.PERY, for all classes and all ages. .1 - 4 1 MOSES AND SON'S gi-A• HATS AND CAPS, for all c asses and all ages. wi MOSES AND SON'S x:j• BOOTS and SHOES, for all classes and all ages. E• MOSES uTFI A I,s N D SON' S for all classes, all ages, and all climates. E• MOSES AND SON'S . LONDON HOUSES, 151, 155, 155, 157, Minories ; 83, 84, 85, 86. 87, 88, 89, Aldg,ate 506, 507, 508, New Oxturd--street ; 1,2, 3, Hart-sT rect 137, 138, Tottenham-court-road ; 288, Eu3ton-road ,t -1 MOSES AND 6ON'6 -A• COUNTRY ESTABLISHMENT, Bridge-street, Bradford, Yorkshire. 1. 4 1 , MOSES AN D sort's • • Establishments a:e closed every Friday evening at sunset until ,aturday evening at sunset, when business is re un: it 1. o'clock. A 1 articles aroniaried the lowest prices in plain figures. Any article not appr...ved of will be exchanged, ur the money returned. List of Prices with Rules for Self-measurement, Fashion Card, and our new pamphlet, " The Tercentenary; or, The Three Hundredth Birthday of William Shakapeare," gratis and post free. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COAL. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 23s. per ton. I Double . 20a. per ton. Top 2.25. „ Deep 2ls. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole :gent. riIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Dan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Eveninz by lIENRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendish street, W. The Weather--Sun Office, Aug. 11, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30 . 28. WIND—N.W. ; fresh breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS D4 T. — Morning, 7h. 12m.—Afternoon, 7h. 40m. r O- KORROW.-Morain g , BL. 10m.—Afternoon, Bh. 45m. q)jyt '4.4*w-A Sum LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1861. ~►-- - Lord PALMERSTON has indeed no rest; he scarcely gives up the onerous duties that devolve upon him daring the session before he undertakes all sorts of new engagements, and enters upon tasks that in volve great fatigue both physically and mentally. No one can accuse him of being an idle Minister, for he is ever ready to fulfil any of the deities that by common consent and courtesy devolve upon a Minister, and these, tco, he performs in a genial manner that doubles the favour. He also enters upon them with a spirit and bonhommie that im parts a zest to the affair ; this expedition to Brad. f3rd has not been an exception to the general rule in this respect, for universal satisfaction appears to have prevailed throughout the whole course of the proceedings. In fact, Lord PALMERSTON seemed to be in his right element, as the chief Minister of State rendering a tribute of respect, and doing honour to the foundation of an Exchange. It was a gtsod idea of the Corporation of Bradford and the Chamber of Commerce to endeavour to make t h e noels:on memorabTe by in viting so distinguished a personage to pre. eJe at their ceremonies. The simplicity of the proceedings were more in keeping with the nature of the affiir than hed they been more compact or extravagant, and it appears that good sense and good taste alike prevailed in the various arrange ments. The address presented to Lord PALMER. ETON at the site of the Exchange was a very affec. tionate one, and fully explained the requirements of the case. The spread of trade and the increase of Population in Bradford has been great, and it is an encouraging proof of the flourishing state of the country when we hear such statements as those put forth in the communication to Lord PALMER, STON on the site of the new building. The require ments of the present are quite out of keeping with the supplies which in past days were suffinient, and certainly there was sufficient reason for th e erection of anavvExchange. In 1828, the period wizen the old Exchange was opened, there were not more than two or three firms trading as stuff merchants in the borough, now there are one hundred and fifty-seem The population of the borough about that time was forty-three thousand five hundred and twenty•seven, in 1861 it was computed at upwards of one hundred and six thousand. These are interesting facts to dwell upon, a nd speak greatly as to the skill and industry which have spread the efforts of trade and commerce, and turned unnoticed villages into flourishing manufacturing towns, the centres of industry and the theatres of traffic. It was men tioned that the trade of the borough of Bradford was never better than at present; " the vast capital that is employed connects it with the prosperity of the farmer at home and the distant colonist, with every sheepfold, however remote, and every shepherd in every clime; its ambition is to trace its trophies in every household, to wrap them round the inmates of its houses." Lord PALMERSTON, in his appropriate answer, emphatically declared that they had that day laid the foundation of a temple of peace. There seems no cause to doubt that the hopes expressed by the noble founder will be disappointed, and all must join with him in trusting that the ceremony thus inaugurating the erection of the edifice may be the "harbinger of future greatness and increas ing prosperity to that industrious and increasing town." The great event was over when the foun dation stone was laid, but other interesting affairs took place, giving opportunities for the expression of opinion and the interchange of good feeling and kindly sentiment. Both at the banquet and the presentation of addresses at the Great Hall, unani- mity prevailed, and the general feeling seemed to be one of gratification at the course of the day's proceedings. There was no opposition to the address, which expressed the pleasure afforded by this visit of the Premier, and trusted that he might long live in the enjoyment of intellectual and bodily vigour, to take a part in the councils of the nation. This was as it should be, for an occasion like this is not the time for any discordant sentiments to be uttered, but still in mixed assemblies it is difficult at all times to obtain the due decorum in such matters, and to inculcate the propriety of reticence of opinion, therefore it may be regarded as an additional sue• cess to this Bradford ceremonial that so unanimous a tone prevailed, and perfect concord reigned para mount during the prolongation of the proceedings. Lord PALMERSTON made a happy allusion to the advantages that Englishmen derived from their Constitution. He said that in other countries those who have the charge of affairs were prevented from meeting their fellow.countrymen as he had done that day. This was a good thought, because it greatly explains the vest superiority of this country in all matters of enterprise, for no undertakings can be brought to perfection if the promoters and origi nators are fettered and trammelled by the arbitrary regulations of the Government, and the undue in terference of authorities. It is the want of free ex pression which checks progress and stays prosperity in many lands that might else be flourishing. All enlightened Statesmen, and men who take a right estimate of their position and its duties and respon sibilities, will concur in the expression of Lord PALMERSTON when he said, "It is a great and heartfelt satisfaction to lat.‘ able to meet as I have done to-day the people of England, to see their faces, and show one's own." The noble lord truly called Bradford a type of the English character, as it had exhibited perseverance, industry, enterprise, judgment, and courage in pursuing that which had been undertaken. Altogether it way be considezed that this ceremonial has been a very successful one, and the carrying out of the attempt has reflected honour alike on the visitor and the entertainers, I besidesbeing a trophy of the great things wrought by industry end enterprise. The addresa of King CHRISTIAN to the P,gsdag can hardly be read without feelings of regret and mortification in this country. It presents us with the mournful spectacle of a loyal and determined people struggling vainly, not for aggression, not for conquest, but simply for the preservation of their old national possession. According to a form of our law a tenure of any property for more than two hundred years bars any objection to the right of Dossession ; but the Danes have held the Duchies for double that time. It is a mere platitude to say that if all States were compelled to resume their status at the middle of the fifteenth century, one at least of Prussia's persecutors would have very certain cause to regret it. Yet this brave and resolute people, staunch in their loyalty, their patriotism, and their self-devotion, have been, from sheer force of opposing numbers and superior sup plies of the equipments of war, compelled to sur render to the agstessors the full sum of their outrageous demands. The conduct of the German Powers, more especially of Prussia, presents another view of the question, which is no less irritating and unsatisfactory. While it is impossible for English men not to feel a painful degree of humiliation in reflecting that this country, with all the appliances which wealth, freedom, and ingenuity can place at her disposal, with a formidable army and navy for active service, and a voice which should carry weight in the councils of Europe, has been powerless to prevent such dire misfortunes from befalling her weaker ally. In fact, she has not only been power less to prevent them, she has been actually instru mental in bringing them upon her, and Denmark robbed, despoiled, and oppressed, her rights dee trauded, her dominions curtailed, her defenders slaughtered, her peaceable inhabitants ruthlessly plundered and maltreated, and her resources crippled, presents to the world an im pressive example of the benefits to be de rived from following England's advice and rely ing upon English promises. If any Englishman were present in the saloon of the Folkething, at noonday on the 6th of August, some such reflections must have arisen in his mind. It was a mournful occasion; and when the KING, the Crown Prince, and Ministers entered, it was difficult to imagine the authorities of any European nation, still pos sessing the rank and semblance of a State, assem bling under more melancholy auspices. According to the Danish constitution, the members of a newly elected Rigsdag (or Legislative Assembly for the kingdom alone), must be convoked within two months of the general election. It was therefore supposed that the meeting last week was a mere matter of form, but unexpected interest and im portance was imparted to it by the presence of the KING and by his brief address. After reminding them that the newly opened session would be im mediately closed, King CHRISTIAN briefly told his people that, notwithstanding the courage and en- durance shown on every occasion by the naval and military defenders of Danmark, and, . _ iedeed, manifested by the whole nation, who have cheerfully responded to every call for sacrifice, the fate of war would neverthe. less compel him to submit to the heaviest and most grievous concessions. "For," said the Danish Monarch, in words that breathe a deep reproach to all free and powerful nations, " as all Europe leaves us without assistance, we have seen ourselves forced to yield to numbers." So, then, the law of might is henceforth .o be the rule which governs Europe. Farewell to the hopes of Venetia, of Hungary, of Poland —farewell to all resistance to tyranny and aggression if backed by superior strength. The lesson thus taught to the unecrupu. ions and the powerful is one that Europe will yet have to mourn over through long years of conten' tion and disaster. Such seeds do not bear fruit at once. The life of nations is unlike the life of indi viduals, but as surely as such political crimes are committed and are tolerated, if not sanctioned, the hour of retribution comes. But what matter, cry our materialists, so long as trade and commerce flourish, so long as our wares are in demand and our manufactories thriving, what matter about such empty words as nationality and freedom. We are not going to war for an idea. So the Danish king dom is dismembered under overwhelming odds, and the English world goes quietly on its accustomed way, taking for its motto, "Apres 9noi le deluge." LATEST MITELLIGENCE. IR EUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 11. The Inman steamship Edinburgh, from New York on the 30th ult., arrived here at 3.40 a.m. today. She brfngs %passengers and 163,178 dole. in specie. She landed six passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 3.45 a.m. Her news has been fully anticipated. SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA. BERNE, AUG. 11. The Federal Council has a second time requested from the Austrian Government the extradition of General Langiewicz. The International Conference for the care of the wounded in battle has held three sittings at Geneva since Monday. SPAIN. MADRID, AUG. 11. The Diario Espanol announces that the Libertad and Iberia have been prosecuted for publishing seditious writings, and have been brought before the military tribunals. FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 11 (Morning). Frankowski, an agent of the Polish National Government, was tried yesterday at the Court of Assize for the Soine. Ho was charged with having altered the numbers of some bonds of the Credit Foncier of Poland, stolen during the insurrection. The court sentenced him to .I , lw years' imprison ment—that being the lightest punishment that could be inflicted. BOURSE, August 10.—The market shows but little or no change either in quotations or in the the amount of business doing. Threes, for the Ac count, are now at 66f. 45c., and Mobilier at 1,007 f. 50e. Railway Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents. 94 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do, end month 66 Credit Mobilier 1006 Do. end month 1007 Bank Shares Credit Fonder ...,1220 Roman 35 45 2.5 50 Italian Loan 6B 20 Do. end month 6B 25 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 66 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 49 50 home Pat Deferrel - RAIL WAYS. Orlsms Worthtrn Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Cash. Account. EB7 50 885 980 .. 982 50 920 922 50 Southern Western 640 - .. 641 25 515 - .. - - Eastern Sardinian Austrian LOlrbard North of Spain Saragossa 503 75 .. 505 Ditto to Barcelona MARKETS---This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 44s ld ; barley, 2Se 3d ; oats, 22s 10d ; rye, 33e Od ; beans, as 2d ; and peas, 35e 3d. THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 423 8d ; barley, 27s id ; oats, 218 9d ; rye, 31s 5d ; beans, 37s 5d ; peas, 34s 7d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 97,201; barley, 1,371; 0ate,L1,553 ; rye, 4S; beans, 4,735; peas, 341 quart ers. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on sale here to-day was moderately extensive ; nevertheless, all breeds changed hands steadily, at quite Monday's currency. The general top figure was 4s 10d per Siba. We were fairly supplied with sheep, in which a fair average business was transacted, at full prices. The best Downs sold at 5s 41 per 81bs. Lambs moved off steadily at extreme rates, viz., from 53 81 to 63 81 per Siba. The supply was moderate. We have to report an improved sale for calves, at 2.i per Blbs inoTe money. The top figure was 53 per Sibs. Pigs and milch cows were dull, but not cheaper. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. F. (1. 8. d., s, d. s, d Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 )Primeers-wool d 0.4 8 5 0 Second quality do. 3 S 4 0 !Prue. S'thdown d 0.5 2 5 4 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Large orse. calves 4 0 4 8 Prime Scots, et 0. 4 8 4 10 Prime sniall do 4 10 5 0 Crse..;; inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second qualitydo. 40 4 6 Small porkers 42 4 6 Lambs....ss Sd to 6s Bd. Suckling calves, 16s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 203 to 253 each. TOTAL SUPPLY. I POIMION SUPPLY. Beasts ... . Cows l5O ' Sheep and lambs .... 2,100 Sheep and lambs.... 9,210 i t Calves Calves Pigs B5O 1 MEAT MARKETS. NEIVGATE AND LEADENTIALL.—Thcse markets are fairly supplied with meat, and the detnand rules inactive, as fol lows :—Beef, from 3s ltd to 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 4d to 48 10d ; lamb, 53 4d to 6s ; veal, 3s 841 to 43 Ed; and pork, 3s 4d to 48 Ed per 81b8 by the carcase. SOUTHALL, August 10.—The supplies of stock on offer to-day were seasonably large, and the trade ruled inactive, as follows : Beet, from 35 Fed to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 4d ; lamp, 5s 8d to 63 6d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 8d to 45 Gd per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, August 10 .—Prirus beasts and sheep sold steadily at full prices. Otherwise, the demand ruled inac tive, and the quotations had a drooping tendency. Boot', from 3s 4d to 48 10d; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d; lamb, 58 10d to 6s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 48 Gd per 81bs; suckling calves, 16 5 t o 20s • quar ter -old store pigs, 20s to 255; and milch co ws , £l4 Os to £lB Os each. IHE suJ, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 18G4. St. Stephen's Crypt. The date of the erection of St. Stephen's Chapel and crypt is supposed to be from about A.D. 1290 to A.D. 1345, and, though the upper chapel was roofed with wood, the crypt always possessed a groyned ceiling of stone, with massive ribs and bosses, which have been carefully reinstated and restored. The bosses are in most cases original, as their fragments have been collected and put together again with great care. Some of the largest bosses are really medallion groups of historical sculpture, and contain representations of the martyrdoms of St. Stephen, St. John, St. Catherine, St. Lawrence, and also a representation of St. George and the Dragon. Some of these bosses are most quaint, ea pecially the chief one, which represents the martyr dom of St. Stephen, who is clad in gorgeous robes, and being stoned by Hebrews dressed in the curious costume and long pointed shoes of the time of Chaucer, who, by the way, was himself clerk of the works during the erection of part of the crypt and chapel. Another boss, which represents the mar tyrdom of St. Catherine, is Equally grotesque in its manner of telling the tale of suffering. Weird and monstrous, too, are the Gothic dragons which peer from the roof and vary these bosses, and give such appearance of originality to the whole The crypt is of nearly the same dimensions as the original chapel above it—namely 9Oft. long by 28ft. wide, and 20ft. high. It contains five elaborate groins, all richly decorated in gold and colours, Attached to each of the side walls are groups of clustered columns which support the grains. Each cluster contains five columns, which, with their capitals and bases, are all of Purbeck marble polished. The side and end walls, as well as the private entrance from the Palace, are all painted and ornamented in a manner to correspond with the decoration of the groins, and as from the situation of the crypt there is necessarily a deficiency of light, Mr Barry has thought it necessary to make a liberal use of gold grounds, as a field on which the various decorations have been executed. The floor is paved with Minton'a tiles, with an admixture of ma -rble, the designs i ncreas i ng i n r i c h ness and ela boration t017. qr(14 the east end. The windowo Are all . It is some years now since the late Sir Charles Barry began the restoration of this beautiful crypt, the only relic that remains to us of the once un equalled St. Stephen's Chapel, unless Westminster hall and the cloisters on the east side are to be considered parts of the famous' Palace, What the crypt was 600 years ago, now that it has been per fectly restored to the splendour of its original decoration, we can judge for ourselves ; but the glories of the chapel which once rose above it can only he guessed at from comparison with the crypt, or dimly admired through the traditions of anti. queries. Long before the fire which finally destroyed it, the gradual, but necessary, process of accommo dating its interior to the wants of the House of Commons, had totally changed this once superbly decorated edifice. Mr. Fergusson, in his "Hand book of Architecture,' , says of St. Stephen's:—" As might be expected a priori, the gem of English art was the chapel in the Royal Palace at Westminster. On this was lavished all that the metropolis could then produce most exquisite in the arts of design, and this not in architecture only, but the best works of sculpture and the highest class of painting were put in requisition for its adornments. The dimensions were not large, being only 90ft. by 33ft. internally, and its roof was of wood, but so elaborate were its decorations that it must have cost more than many edifices three or four times its size. There can be no doubt that it was designed to sur pass everything of the sort in England, and being erected wholly within the reigns of the three first Edwards, it embraced the very best period of English art, answering to the Sainte Chapelle at Paris, which belongs to the great architec tural age of St. Louis." Bu', as we have said, very little of this grandeur beyond its traditions remained till 1834, when, after having been partly burnt about a dozen times, the old building finally succumbed to the great confla gration known as " the burning of the Houses of Parliament." In traditions of other kind, however, St. Stephen's, as the arena in which were fought out the great battles for England's Constitution was not inferior in historic interest to any building fire has yet destroyed. A building in which the Confes sor died, which was not new when the first Norman councils were held in England, and whioh witnessed and survived every reformation but the reformation of Parliament, must have possessed such historic associations as would leave it without an equal in this respect in Europe. But, endless as are the traditions about St. Stephen's Chapel, about the crypt beneath, with which we have now to do, there is almost none. Some of the early Edwards gave banquets in it, which must, one would think, have been genial feasts, for there is a legend that one of their Queens indulged to such intemperate extent at a banquet there as to enable her to shuffle off this mortal coil much earlier than she or her friends anticipated. After this period it was merely a crypt—a dull sort of ecclesiastical lember-room, about which there are no records save the doubtful rumours which assign it as a Owe of meeting for Cromwell, Pym, Denzil Holies, and others of the Liberal party when the debates which preceded the Commonwealth were drawing to a violent close. From this time forth it seems to have been a lumber room, which was left alone in its dusty silence till used to prepare the coronation banquet of one of the early Georges—a mode of turning it to account which seems to have suggested the idea which after wards was carried out by many successive Speakers of giving their Parliamentary banquets in it. After the fire which destroyed St. Stephen's Chapel above it, but did not much injure the crypt, the gas meters used to be kept in it, and in the New Palace the site of St. Stephen's above the crypt was used in order to obtain an entrance to the present structure through Westminster-hall. All who have visited the Ne e' Palace will, we are sure, have a vivid re collection of St Stephen's-hall, leading from West minster-hall to the great octagon central hull, and containing the marble effigies of Pitt, Somers, Hampden, Fox, Eldon, Clarendon, and others of our greatest and most renowned orators and states men. This hall is exactly over the crypt, which was spared by the fire, and which has now been completely restored under the care of the present architect to the New Palace—Mr E. M. Barry. The late Sir Charles Barry, while, in common with all other architects, he lamented the destruc tion of St Stephen's Chapel, always held as his most cherished idea the restoration of the crypt, and its re-dedication to religious uses as the pri vate chapel of the New Palace at Westminster, whose inmates are some hundreds, now that the Speaker, Black Rod, Sergeant-at-Arms, librarian, and other officials possess regular family residences within the building, and which, we believe, being necessarily extra-parochial, give no legal claim for seats in the neighbouring churches. It is some years since this restoration was commenced, and it has fallen to the lot of Sir Charles Barry's son to carry out his father's views by completely restoring and decorating the crypt, and nothing now remains to be added except the fittings to render it a chapel worthy of the moat important Gothic edifice of modern times. In the progress of this restoration the workmen came upon the embalmed body of an eccles i astic, without any coffin, and buried under one of the window seats. The body lay with its feet towards the east—an unusual position for an ecclesiastic. It was wrapped in several folds of waxed cloth, sewn with twine. Its right hand was on the breast, and on the left arm lay the pastoral staff, a crook of oak, beautifully carved, while on the feet were sandals, with leathern soles sharply pointed. The face was perfect in its preservation, with the hair still on the chin and upper lip. This was supposed to be the body of William Lyndwood, Bishop of St David's, the only person, it is be. lieved, who was buried in the crypt—at all events, the only one found during the course of the repairs, which were most extensive. As it appears now, the crypt is restored to all the pristine splendour of its early erection. Every tone of its rich gold and colour decorations have been, wherever they could be traced, most diligently reproduced, and the result is a chapel which, in its general richness of effect, will bear comparison with any in Europe, with the Sainte Chapelle, with the Chapter-house of Salisbury Cathedral itself. filled with stained glass by Hardman, and aro il lustrative of the life and death of St. Stephen, who is depicted in the discharge of his various diaconal duties, and meeting in the end a martyr's death. The east end probably contained windows origin ally, as the chapel above undoubtedly did ; but, as the Palace now adjoins the east end of the crypt, no windows can now be obtained there. The panel ling is therefore occupied with full length figures on gold grounds representing St. Peter and St. Stephen, St. Oswald, St. Ethelreda, St. Edmund, St. Edward the Confessor, St. Margaret of Scot land, and St. Ed ward the Martyr. It is to be hoped that no time may be lost in fit ting up the crypt and making use of it as the private chapel of the New Palace at. Westminster. No permanent seats are contemplated, but the chapel is proposed to be furnished with chairs to accommodate 250 or 30U persons.—Times. The Royal Horticultural Society. Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., his addressed the fol• lowing letter to the Assistant-Secretary :- 7, Pall-mall East, London, July 20. Sir,—Having been requested to give my opinion as to the nature and character of exhibitions which the Royal Horticultural Society should encourage for the true ad vancement of horticulture and its accompanying sciences, I have draughted out this letter, in order to form a founda tion or data on which this matter can be discussed, and I trust with a good result. 1. No doubt the result of the society's exhibitions has in many respects been very advantageous to the cause of hor ticulture, particularly the earlier ones. They have en couraged great improvements in the culture and manage ment of plants, particularly such plants as can be pro duced in flowerat what may be called the London fashionable season; but they have by no means been productive of unmixed good. They have brought into existence an un natural and artificial condition of things, which is not only objected to in the interests of gardeners themselves, but is also opposed to the interests of the public, by causing what may be termed a spasmodic effort and exertion, which at other seasons of the year is unemployed and to a great de gree unproductive. I may illustrate this by stating that a good many years ago (and the same state of things now exists to a certain extent) I called to see a first-class London garden—forgetting that it was one of the exhibition days— and I found only about six or eight plants in the garden, and others having all been trained—like a horse for racing and had been taken to the show to win the stakes. In the same season, some time after this, I called again, and found the plants having been their round of racing, all flowerless, and beginning to be placed under training for the next season for the same purpose; and this training was effected by keeping some plants back and forcing others, so that they might all flower together, and such plants as would not bear this treatment were not cultivated. 2. Everyone, of course, says ho has a right to do what he likes with his own plants, which I do not deny; and if a gentleman does not mind being 10 months in the year without flowers in order to make a great display, I have no fault to find with him; all I contend for is, that should not be the main aim and scope of the exhibitors of the Horti cultural Society. In one respect the exhibitions of the pre sent day have produced a good result by giving prizes for collections of beautiful foliage plants, as the culture of these plants (which look beautiful all the year round) is thus stimulated, and they are a great improvement in the garden. But in other respects those great show cultivators grow very few plants which do not flower at the show season, and therefore leave the flowers which might be cultivated with great effect for other seasons of the year without much attention. 4. The true object of horticulture should be, in my opinion, to increase the enjoyment derivable from it, and to diffuse it as widely as possible; to enable the owners of gar dens to get the greatest amount of pleasure and satisfaction from their possesions, and to enable the general public to procure the greatest number of fruit flowers and vegetables in the greatest quantity, of the best kinds, and at the cheapest prices, 5. in order to carry out this, there should be something like a continuous exhibition, so that a gardener would have no interest in forcing his plants unnaturally into flower; but if he had a beau.iful specimen at any time he would know he could exhibit it where it would be seen and appre ciated and its merits rewarded. When the Horticultural Society was in its palmy days, one of its great sources of benefit and attraction was the fortnightlyshows at their great room in Rogent-street, It was then the practice for any gentleman in the country, if he had a new plant or a new fruit, to send to one of these exhibitions at any time in the year, and the nurserynian brought every new plant there from their respective establishments. Dr Lindley explained the nature and properties of everything as it qppeat ea in each exhibition with his lucid and agreeable manner, in which on this subject ho has no rival, and these meetings were in tensely fa>hionable, and often densely crowded. G. When the Horticultural gardens at Chiswick were the leading gardens in the country for new plants many gardens were supplied thence, and so they were never without great interest. They could not trust altogether to country gen tlemen and nurserymen for plants for exhibition, and when the entries were deficient the shows were made up of beau tiful plants from the IlorticulturalGardens. Though then a Certificate of Merit from the Society meant something and was prized at a high rate, it insured the sale of any plant which received it, and often practically represented a prize of some hundreds of pounds sterling —as many nursery. men had orders before the exhibition closed for very large amounts. It therefore appears to me that these fortnightly exhibitions should be renewed at once, and every attraction given to them. And considering the increase of commercial transactions relating to horticulture, the facility of carrying anything from a distance, and the great influx of visitors into London in the season for a temporary sojourn, for the spring and summer months, it would be well to try a weekly exhibition without the descriptions, which, in point of fact, would almost amount to a cuttinual show. And they should be held in a place suitable for plants, where many nurserymen would not mind allowing them to remain all the time they were in full flower. One or two of the great shows might be still held in the gardens, where the fashion ables could attend to show themselves and look at each other; which they do on these occasions quite as much as at the flowers. 7. It would be tao much in a letter of this sort to go into details as to how many branches of horticulture have re mained stagnant for many years past; though it would not be irrelevant, it would occupy more space and time than I can now afford to give to it. But there is one subject that has pressed upon me so long, and I am so convinced of its damaging effects upon the commercial part of the supply of the finer fruits in the public market, that I cannot help re verting to it in this letter, and that is—the growth offruits for sale by private establishments, in competition with the market gardeners. Many gentlemen keep gardens, partly for their own use, and partly for the sale of the pro duce, which they sell to cover part of the gardening ex penses; and this is done to a very large extent and by some of the highest private garden establishments in the country. The result is that fruit, with all the facilities of cheap glass and cheap coal all over the country (compared with 40 years ago), is absolutely dearer than it was 40 years since; while the produce of real market gardens is perhaps 50 per cent. cheaper and 100 per cent, better, the forced fruits in which the private establishments compete have made very little progress in goodness. If you went to Covent-garden market between 30 and 40 years ago and looked at the fruit, you would find the grapes wero grown by Mr Andrews, the great market gardener at Vauxhall, Mr William Wilmot, of Isleworth, or some other good market gardener of the day, whereas, if you go there now, the same kind of fruit is from some private garden ; and supposing a large quantity of fruit is wanted for a big party, none of the great fruiterers will undertake to supply you until they have written or telegraphed to some private establishments to know wha they can get. 8. The first question that naturally strikes you is— How is the public worse off for this change ? I can answer this, I think, to everybody's conviction in a few words. A private establishment will very often sell in the early season lib of grapes or a dozen peaches, regardless of cost, at a price which it would ruin a market gardener to attempt. This price will content a private gentleman who does not know the cost of growing them, but competition at these prices would ruin any market gardener, who is nearly de terred from growing them at all ; and therefore the regu lation of the supply of the market is left in the hands of these limited private establishments. If the market gar deners were not met there they would try to excel each other in the cheapness and goodness of the fruit, as they do in all other things, and in a short time the market would have a regular supply at half the present cost of spring fruit, which is not attempted now on a scale largo enough to compete with the great number of private establishments who send the best of their things, and pocket their losses, and the public have in consequence a very limited supply. I dare say it answers the purpose of the fruiterers very well, but it is very detrimental to the public. 9. And now, sir, before I close my letter allow me to say a word or two about what is done in the sale way by the Royal Horticultural Society. It is quite 12gitimate and right to propagate and distribute any now plants (which it has brought into the country) to Fellows, but I object in tote to buying new plants, cultivating them, and ballot in g for them ; this is (allow me to say) an infr i ngemen t of the legitimate business of the nurserymen, who can do it much better and cheaper than the society can.—l am, &C., JOSEPH PAXTON. THE MAIL ROBBERY. —Cash, the engine -driver, was tried at the Chester assiz?s, on Tuesday, for the rob bery of a mail bag from Che',ford station, near Macclesfield. The prisoner was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. INCOME WITHOUT RlSK.—Agents wanted for Arthur Granger's (New Patent) Ladies' and Gents' Paper Co lars and Cuffs in every variety at id. 6d.,25. 6d., 3s. 6d., and is.6d. per gross; Patent Safety Envelopes is., le. 3d., and is. 6d. per gross ; Samples and terms 3 stamps.—Cheap Stationery, Printing, and Toy Warehouse, 308, Wet 1101 oru, W.C.— Advt. HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURES. The After Glow" and "London Bridge." These two wonderful pictures, by one of the most gifted of living artists—the " London B ridge," picture, simply remarkable to our mind as a curio sity, " The Atter Glow in Egypt," a marvel of the beautiful as well as of the extraordinary—are still on view at the New Gallery, 16, Hanover-street, Regent-s►reet, and are yet likely to remain there upon view for two or three months longer. The genuine London scene, commemorative of the Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of \Vales, is, in its way, a pictorial pheno menon. It excites one's astonishment, but fails altogether—at any rate, we may speak thus for ourselves—it fails altogether to afford one any tense of real pleasure. Nut so the grander, nobler work from the hand of the same rare colourist. " The After Glow in Egypt" takes rank immediately after "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple," as among Mr. Holman Hunt's masterpieces. Of itself it is an instant and triumphant attestation of the genius of the Painter, not only as a great master among colourists, but intensely and essentially as an Artist—as a Poet. The picture itself is like the realisation visibly of a dream of Poetry. It was in obedi eßce to the true thought and feeling of a poet that Mr Holman Hunt selected the subjeet of this picture, the season of it, the hour of it, one might almost say the very moment of it. For, is it not during the evanescent " After Glow of an Egyptian sunset— that after glow that divides by a luminous haze of 10 minutes' duration the light of day from the dark ness of night—is it not during those fast fleeting moments that he has here in this wonderful picture revealed to view, the Egyptian maiden standing on the banks of the river Nile, bearing upon her head a golden sheaf of ripe corn and scarlet poppies, raising aloft in her right hand the green glazed ghooleh or water-bottle, while the Barbary pigeons cluster about her feet pecking the grain, one of the more adventurous of them selecting the unshaked corn from the sheaf itself, close to which the bird is fluttering all but audibly, half clinging with its talons, half hovering upon the wing ? Those who have not yet seen this marvellous painting should on no account omit doing so before the time arrives for its removal from the Gallery. The visitor will be yet further rewarded for his attendance there by seeing in the apartment containing the " London Bridge" commemorative picture of Mr. Hunt, the very masterly and pathetic painting by Mr R. B. Martineau of " The Last Day in the Old Home," a picture that tells its tale as distinctly and as im pressively, and as completely in its way, as any one of our great Hogarth's masterpieces. WHALLEY THE WISE. (Fiona Puielk.) Mr G. H, Whalley has lost no time in giving an account of his Parliamentary Stewardship to the intelligent electors of Feterborou;h, who do themselves so much honour, and so thoroughly vindicate their title to the franchise, by re turning that determined enemy of Popery. We regret we can find room only tor a portion of his admirable address to his constituents. lair Whalley, after a sketch of the past session, and refer ences to his introduction of a protest against the Church of Rome on the Thild Reading of every Railway Bill and other domestic measures, proceeded : "I shall continue this course. I am asked what Popery has to do with railways ? I answer, Everything. I know that nearly every stationmaster is a Jesuit iu disguise, and some day when there is a Roman Catholic rebellion, and troops ate wanted, the lines will be blocked, and probably collisions will be arranged for the destruction of the Queen's soldiers. The Jesuits are everywhere, Do you know why the Nelson Column is not complete ? Be cause Popery obstructs homage to the victor of Roman Catholic fleets, and Sir Edwin Landseer has been converted. (Cheers.) Do ysu know that the Lord Chan cellor of England, in utter defiance of the law that the keeper of the Queen's conscience shall have no Popish leanings, has favoured the interests of Mrs Yelverton ? Why ? Because that lady is a Catholic. (Sensation.) Do you know that the Queen of Spain has ordered a statue to Columbus ? 'Why ? Because the Emperor of the French has founded a new Catholic empire in America, and that in ten years Federals and Confederates will lie at the feet of the Pope. Gentlemen, I have often felt the pangs of conscience at representing a borough called atter St. Peter, and I do wish you would change the name of your town. (Cheers,) Are you aware that in the heart of London, in front of the most magnificent railway terminus we have, is rising a beautiful and costly copy of an Eleanor's Cross, the superstitious monument erected by a Popish king? Do you know that the conductor of the music at our noblest opera house (visited I am sorry to say by the Heir to the Throne) is M. Costa, a Catholic, and that he has got a dispensation fur leading the Hugue nots and the National Anthem ? Have you heard that Earl Russell, the pretended enemy of Popery, is going to bring in a blll for restoring to his relative's property its old Popish name of Convent Garden ? You knew, gentle men, that the London General Omnibus Company was a foreign speculation, hut do you know that all the conduc tors are Jesuit priests, that they charge half fares to pas sengers who cross themselves, and misdirect to Catholic chapels those who inquire their way to Protestant places of worship. (Shame.) Yes, gentlemen, and can you hear with patience that a Catholic .tract Society has obtained leave trom Mr Panizzi, of the British Museum, to insert a tract in every volume of the library? Does Mr Panizzi's name remind you of England or of Italy? Was there a word, gentlemen, in the Queen's Speech last week to re mind us that the Sovereign is a Protestant? Not one. But the Queen was made to go out of her way to express satisfaction that she is on good terms with the Emperor of China, Who cares for the Emperor of China in himself ? But what so-called Chris tian religionists have had for hundreds of years the greatest sway in the Chinese Empire—who have been tole rated when Protestants have been excluded ? Why, the Jesuits. (Cheers.) Again, do you note that it is made matter of boast that the French and English are drawing into closer alliance, Catholic with Protestant ? (Cheers.) Ay, you cheer, but that is not all. Who is our friend's friend? Who, at this moment of the increased amity is about to visit theTuileries. The King of Spain. Does that anti-Protestant bigot comejor nothing ?,Will,Lord Cowley see him ? We live in awful and perilous times, gentle men. I know for a fact that there were hundreds of Catholics among the Riflemen at Wimbledon, and that if one of them had been the best marksman of the meeting, Lady Elcho would have unhesitatingiy presented him with the Queen's Prize. (Sensation.) Yes, and how soon would that silver vase have become the ornament of a Popish mass-house? It was providential that it fell to Mr Wyatt, who is a Protestant, but no thanks to the authorities. Why have passports just been so universally abolished on the Continent ? In order to entrap English men and Englishwomen into Catholic countries in order to promote proselytism? Why has the cross on St. Paul's just been ostentatiously and splendidly regilt ? Look at that. And why is a magnificent bridge being constructed, a t vast expense, at Blackfriars—and observe that Popish natnqt gentlemen. Because Blackfriars-bridge will open a tempt• ing and delightful toad Pram mid •Lincion to Cardinal I Wiseman's Popish cathedral, St. George's. Lastly, gen tlemen, though I could give you a hundred similarly alarm ing C.emonstrations, hear this. You have heard of Mr Banting. His system is artfully promulgated all over the country. It is pretended that he merely desires to reduce the over-corpulent. Bah 1 He is a Jesuit priest, and his object is to introduce and make popular the Popish practice of regular fasting. Yes, gentlemen, I repeat that we live iu perilous times, and the Triple Crown will soon domi nate the Three Kingdoms." Mr Whalley sat down amidst loud cheers and passionate cries of "No Popery I" SUDDEN DEATH DURING A HONEYMOON.—A terribly sudden death occurred on Sunday fortnight to Mrs. Arthy, wife of Captain Arthy, whose maiden name was Miss Winstanley, and who had been married at Beverley only on the previous Tuesday week, They re paired to Scarborough to spend a portion of the honeymoon, and were residing at one of the hotels. On Sunday morn ing Captain Arthy awoke about his usual hour and found his wife a corpse by his side. A coroner's inquest was held the same evening, and a verdict of " Death from natural causes" was returned, HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, £3 10s to £5 5s ; new do., £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover, £4 to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 123 per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow nay, £3 15s to £5 5s ; new do., £3 to £4 lOs; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 63 to £1 123 per load. A. fair demand. WHITECHAPEL —Old meadow hay, £3 lOs to £5 ss; new do, £3 to 4'4 lOs; clover, £1 to £6 Os; and straw, £1 63 to £1 12s per load. Supply limited. COAL AI Prtoea of Coal per Ton a 8. d. :ARKET. the close of the market. Byass's Bebsido West Hartley ...17 9 Eden Main ...17 6 North Pelton Gas 14 0 Walker Primrose 13 3 Pensher Primrose l7 6 Walls End. Tiaswell l9 0 Hartlepool ......... 18 9 East Hartlepool 18 9 South Hartlepool 17 9 K elloo.. ....... l7 9 South Kelloe 18 Heugh Hall 18 0 Russel's Hetton 17 6 Wharucliffe l7 0 71; sold, 57. Harton jWalls End. 16 9 Ersddyll's lietton l7 9 Byron 17 0 Ships at market THE 3D CITY OF LONDON RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS,—A correspondent requests us to contradict a state ment which appeared in our impression of yesterday, that this regiment was commanded at Harwich, on the 6th inst., by Captain Br e tt . The battalion was un d er th e command of Major Rich ar d s. A WARNI NG TO U NCL E ABE."—In the vici nity of Washin gton, atter the Confe d era t e ra id , t h e follow ing brief note was found tacked to a tree Near Wash ington, July 12.—NOW, Uncle Abe, you had better be quiet the balan ce of your administrat i on. W e only came near your town this time just to show you what we couid do:; but, if you go in your mad career, we will come again soon, and then you had better stand from under.—Yours respectfully, Tier ,WOnsT REBEL You EVER SAW.-55111 Virginia Infantry." MRS. YELVERTON AND HER LITERARY EMPLOY MENT.—The following letter is addressed by the lion. Mrs Yelverton to the editor of the Aberdeen Free 19 ."" Sir,—A most erroneous statement, copied I be . cave from your journal, is now going the round of the press, and ,'s it is calculated to do me some injury, I hope you will kindly a!low me to correct it through your medium. The facts are simply these—One of myjunior counsel having in his possession a short manuscript story of mine called ' Yarns from a Yacht,' sold it for the sum of ten pounds. The publisher changed the title to Tales of the Squares,' thought what a yacht had to do wah the squares I am at a loss to explain, My counsel subsequently informed me that the purchaser would be glad to make an arrangement with me to write similar tales for a publication he was bringing out, and the remuneration was to be £3OO a year. I agreed to this, being wishful to maintain myself in inde pendence by any pen or brush. I think it will be easily understood that during six years' litigation for the main tenance of my honourable status, all my own means, and whatever could be afforded by my relatives and friends, have been expended. Up to the present time I have had no leisure to begin writing these stories, and consequently have not receic°c l any account is not correc4 as the want of fortune appears to in the present unsettled have been my grea t es t s i n , rem uneration. I really regret your state of the mar r i age l aw fortune m.b ht yet where love had b een d esp i se d, an d a husbanc:win her way : Qt claim , a wife's earnings, as we havo before seen in a memor a ,..)" and aristocratio cases Yours truly, THERESA YEE- I yBRTON.'!. Clill4 HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 10. The gieen and Princess Louis of Hes3e drove out yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat was in attendaaee. Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Dowager Countess of Mount•Edgcumbe as Lady in Waits°g' Wales for Scotland. Yesterday evening their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompa nied by their infant eon, P r i nce Alb ert Vi ctor , l e ft Londo n on their w a y to Ab erge ldi e, where, as it i s under stood, they will rema i n f or a b out s i x wee ks. Their royal highnesses, who were, attended by Hon. Mrs. Coke, Lieutenant-Generalllys , a na ., Major T ees d a l e, travelled by the 8.4 0 limited es express mail," on t h e L ondon and N ort h-' tern Railway. Two royal saloon carriages, a first-class' and a luggage van were attached to the train, al behind w ere th ree large Post-office carriages and some heavy vans. A considerable number of persons collected out side the station and within the entrance yard, while the platform itself was by no means unte : s nanted. On th e arr i va l of the prince an d princess at a few minutes after the appointed time 1111 were received by Mr Moon, chairman of the com pany,n and some o f t h e principal officers, by 1611 :, they were cond uc t e d to t h e saloon i n w hich th e y were to travel. Th e h andsome carriage i s divided '" into two compartm en t s , i n the first of which rodeel, the prince and p r i ncess, and in the seco nd young prince and two nurses. A door allows e e communication betw een t h e two d i v i s i o ns. Tb spectators out s id e an d i ns i de the stat i on cheere d ._ the prince an d pr i ncess most heartily o n their arrival, a n d re d ou bl ed their acclamations when Prince Alb er t Vi ctor was seen in his nurse 's arms , The hurrahing wa s , i n d ee d , so loud t h at the r°l:' infant's sl um b ers were evidently distur b e d. The Prince of W a l es conversed for a few momen ts With Mr. Moon w hil e t h e preparations were being cc)rn—i pleted ; but in a very brief space after the r o y al travellers had e n t ere d their carriage the signal was given, and the train sped on its way. eed The prince a n d pr i ncess intended to P"c direct to Stirling on their way to the Trossachs' after visiting w hi c h t h e i r royal h i ghnes ses W 1 continue their journey to Abergeldie. It is expected th a t t h e pr i nce and prince ss Thl ll visit Gordon C as tl e an d other places during r stay in the North. - The Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Dea, mark at the conc l us i on of their stay in Scotland , The visit would h ave b een made at an ear li e r per" „d but fer the recent hostilities. Prince Willi am o f P russ i a, the eldest son of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, forV has been on a vi s it t o h er M a j esty at O s b o rne il. some time, will return to Berlin in a for dad Major von S c h we i n i tz, adjutant to t h e Crow n Prince, h as befin deputed t o accompany Prince William home. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville are it" lt . to leave Chilli ng h am Castle, Northum b er l a nd ; f°' the North. The EArl and Countess of Malmesbnrh v lb° have been visiting the Earl and Countess of Tanker , culla at CniHingham Castle, go to tha noble earl shooting box in the Highlands to-morrow. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, wh o hag been o n a v i s i t to h er Royal Hig h ne ss the Crowd Princess of Prussia (the Princess Royal of Enr land) at Potsdam, has left for Geneva, and will remain several weeks in Switzerland. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio left the Italian Legation yesterday, for Belgium, on his W a Y . to Aix-ht-Cbapelle. The Duke of Newcastle left Carlton-hous e " terrace yesterday for Clumber Park, Notts, acc al h : pl The duke's by Lord Ed war d P elham Clinton. 1; duke's health i s somewhat i mproved, but great care ill be requi re d b e f ore he regains loaf strength. The Earl and C ountess of Winchilsea have eft the St. George's Hotel. TIIE EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111., whose health said to be very much improved by his recent sojourn !! Vichy, return e d t o S t . Cloud on Sunday evenfng, where " was received with great; joy, and the loudest accl°l3l3- ROSSINI'S FETE DAY !—Signor Mercadante 1311 s ~ written an ode for out• door performance by 400 v oices fa S a commemoration f es ti va l i n honour o f ROSSini t whi ch j to be li held at Pesaro on Aug. 21, Rossini's jour de n° l4 ' has reßcejn.tlßy .aPivLetIAN to o Cl t l h E e It wo O r Ti ld 7 ,, CARCOoIrNInerr I.Ter jitfelzia'to; ::r: I Sites and Existing Antiquities." Some_ istori A e ceoant of' the Parish of Ash-next-Sandwich, n•P d i l t i e a l l a l ' .—We have much pleasure in learning li ved E PURCHASE OF ASTON YARN, BnofiNG‘ understand that the contract w sign ed purchase is nearly on the point of completion , W e yesterday. The corporation's and as the company's seal have of s th e e na t m o been attached to their respective documents' a iad it only remains for the conveyance to be settled for the matter that this lung' be entirely completed and the property to become t he Captain 'i I Pos sessionlEtown,--b.Buti.ri;dirii:,:aomn Gazette. (m an ti d n e e r nt h i . :: " NEW ALABAMA."—The new '''' A with solid which will August, is reported as over 4,000 tons and will be protectea s t eel pla pro bablytes 2 be lin ready thic. toswh,aerdiss tothe :lose of. be alled the New Alabama, and will be armed with Armstrong g ur-9 'f . she is built for a ram, will be furnished with eug ines e i ° . great power, and will possess the means of throwing se' to ing water on her opp onen t s . I t i s intended for "r ita have the very l arge comp l ement o f 1 , 100 men I E ecr u Per month wages, and prize money equal to that of her o Cry wander, Captain S emmes ; i n other wor d s , the prize m ood is to be divided p ro rata b y all en b oar d, Most o f ,7 . 11 : officers and crew of th e sun k en s hi p w ill join th e A ' '' s . Alabama. It is inte n d e d th at s h e will comm ence o peratio n s near Boston, United Stat es . F e d era l s hips of wa r ! l i r ,: watching her progress, and will di spute h er first attemP 0 aro offered a b oun ty o f £lO eac h on j o i n ing, with go to sea.—John Bull. ILLE SATURDAY REVIEW SPEARING BOA BIT OF ITS MIND" TO SIR CHARLES WOOD !—lt is in/Pe' • Bible to say that he is by any means either an admirable or a pleasing specimen of the British statesman. Perhaps 0 more entirely unoriginal mind never occupied itself with the bu,ieess of Government. For more than 30 years he t has been an in e vitable member of e ver y -Whig Adwinistra ion, but his warmest frien ds would scarcely venture to assert that he has ever displayed powers beyond those of a painstaking and industrious clerk. He has been Chancellolr of th e Exchequer, and P resident of the Board of Contro , and First Lord of the Admiralty, and Secretary of State for India; bat it cannot be said that in any capacity he has risen above the level of the dreariest commonplace. It is certain. that he has never uttered a word in public which mankihti are will take the smallest interest in remembering; and e not aware that he ever originated a measure which history' will care to associate with his name. He is best known t: his contemporaries by a style of oratory which perPl es ,, and exasperates even the friend l y listener, and which P' singularly fitted to make the bet ter reason a pp ear the worse' If he has ever deviated into vivacity, it has been at the expense of conventional proprieties which a wiser man wo u , g have studiously respected. The most livel y passage 0111' public career that we recollect was his famous controversY with Mr Laing, when he pulled to pieces with unedityia frankness the facts and figures of the Indian Finance All: ulster, and rudely discredited the policy of an abler on: meritorious colleague, who, whether mistaken or net ~e the particular que stions at issue, was at lea st entitled ''' courteous treatment. Of his temper and deportment ther° is, unfortunate l y , nothing to be said but wha t it would b: m ore agreeable to leave unsaid. Sir Charles 11 " d l' t , ne ver enjoyed the reputation of being a pleasan t rea d ° -; work with, or under. Art has done nothing to correct co nceal the acerbity of a h ars h an d ill-conditioned nature and charity hero if has no resource but to assume that '" offensive to others. On the whole, though is wholly unconscious of peculiarities of manner which are candid to deny him the • possession of some qualities whicA h tekeni are valuable in a public servant, he can onlY - e , ad e, at the best, as a type of laborious, not to sa3' ' e ~,,c a u mediocrity; and the country would learn with more fn House complacency that he had made his last speech in the Minister. of Commons and served his last term as a Cabinet ja We have had a very long spell of Charles Wood, on l le list of new peerages which shell include the name _' s ` _ it would b e u . v. ._ heaviest of heavy Whigs is cure to be generally pLoor.:7o always provided that promotion to the House of _ n 'L et, uuderipood to mean retirement from official liiifeo.ra:: Secro with perhaps the one exception of the present btry, there is no living public man (not already I ,e n 1 . r ., Upper of possible Ministers we nl4 be more universally a i. House) whose final withdrawal from theccesap',g_bui,j, Departure of the Prince and Princess 0 f C o , .... 8n 1)01 b l Ezei 411 Th 1) 0 1)0 1.), 4