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ER MAJESTY'S THE:ATB.E.' FAREWELL PERFORMANCES. CHEAP PRICES. IL TEOATORE, TO-MORROW EVENING (Thursday). V NOTICE. In con sequence of a domestic affliction, Madame HarriCrs. Wippern is obliged to return immed,atel to Berlin. Md le. Titiens has theretore most kindly beepundertaen the part ot Leonora in " Trovatore," which will rformed _Co morrow, Evening -u[ ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FAREWELL RE PRESEESNTATIONS, AT CHEA PRIC To suit the Views of the General Public. The Nights of Performances Set Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs days, daurdays. TO-MORROW EVENT NOr (Thursday', July 21, will be presented Verdi's favourite Opera, IL TROVA.TORE, With the following Cast:— Leonora, Madlle. Titiens ; Azucena, Madile. Grnssl, her first appearance in t hat character in England ; 11 Comte di Luna, Mr. Santley ; Ferrando, Signor Bessi ; and Maurice, Signor Giuglini. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. TITIENS, TREBELLI, VOLPINI, GROSSI —SANTLEY, GASSIER, BETTINI, G.A.RDONI. Saturday next, July 23, will be re-produced Weber's Grand Ilomantic Opera, OBERON. The New and extensive Scenery b y lir. Telbin, ass isted by Mr. Henry Telbin. GingLisa, Santley, Marcell° Junca, Gassier ; Trebelli, Rebonx, Volpini, Titiens. Conductor, Signor Arditi. Monday next, July 25, Gounod's last new Great Work, MIRELLA. The Scenery by 31. r. William Telbin. Doors open at Half-past Seven. Commence at Eight pro elBelY ; terminating in time for the night trains to the environs. 28. Pit, ss. ; Dress Circle , 7 s. ; 'Upper Prices : —Gallery, Circle, se. ; Orchestra M alls, 128. 6d. Private Boxes — Pit Tier, Two Guineas ; Grand Tier, Three Guineas; One Pair B oxes . T wo Guineas and a Half ; Two Pair Boxes, One Guinea ; Gallery Boxs restrictions hld four), 10s, 6d. Notice.—The usual. to Evening Dress will not be enforc.d. Box office of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 0, where places ma y be s ecured' also at all the principal Librarians and Musicseilers. Tickets also procurable, on the evenings of performance, at the Special Of f ices, open at the entrances of the Fit and Boxes. TIOAYL ITALIAN OPEILA, Covent-garden. Positively the Last Week but One. Mdlle. Adelina Patti ; Signori RDneoni, Faure, and Mario. To-Morrow Evening (Thursday), July 21, will be performed, for the last time this season, Donizetti's favourite opera, in two acts, L'ELL-IR D'AN ORE. Adina, Mdl.e. Adelina Patti ; Gianet, a, Madame Tagliafico ; Dulcamara, Signor ' E mconi ; helcore, M. Faure, ; and Nemorino, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. After which the Divertissement, L'lle Enchantee. ported by by Mdlle. Salviont, Mettle .. ' n Matte. Navarre, Mdlle. Assunta, M. 'Desplaces, and Mr. W. 11. Payne. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and li brartans ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new play by John Oxenford, Esq., THE MONASTERY OF Sr. JL SP : Messrs. Vining', H. Mars ton, J. Nelson, J. Marston, H. Mellon, W. Robins, C. Seyton, Chapman Mrs. H. and Mdlle. Stella Colas. THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- B,ge Proprietor and ManaLrer. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips. After which, JANET PRIDE : Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, Stephenson, Romer; Miss Woolg,ar, Miss Denman. Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, et. ItumerMiss , Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion. ne•engagement of those ce'ebrs.ied and popular artistes, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. Production of an entirely new original 'rravestie of a very popular subject, by F. C. Burnand, Esq., entitled FAITS Ara) MARGUERITE, in which Mr. and Mrs Charles Mathews will appear. The new scenery by the celebrated artists, Messrs. Danson and Sons ; the incidental lia,let by Osear Byrne. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr.:F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley , Mr. J. Johnstone; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matth ews, Miss 11. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, MISS Wentworth, - Mrs. Stirling, ana Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY Est - ENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MAGUERITE Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. 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The rather questionable advantages held out to society by that wonderful little Divorce Court, originally established, not so very many years since, in one of those judicial holes and corners hid away yonder down at Westminster—have been rather curiously illustrated within the last few days by the result of the case of HOPLEY versus llopL E y. The case Was in itself, no doubt, a very curious one—nay, thank GOD, we may even add, 'we believ e quite confidently, one in its whole character enti re ly and absolutely exceptional. Into its merits (to employ a current phrase that seems to drop into its place here, by the way. rather oddly) into its merits, so-called, we don't propose in any way to enter. byr e refer toil, or rather to the decision that it has led to, ato one of the latest nod, beyond an instant's doubt, one of the strongest illustrations of the system of wLieh it is mainly valuable as it is also - .Lost painfully interesting as an illustration. As such, namely, as a truly astounding illustration of the glorious uncertainty of the law as it is revealed to our con templation at work, there in these later days in the Divorce Court, it is, in simple truth, the ne plus ultra of:non sequiturs !It shows to us—as we should certainly never have expected to have shown to us by any even the most eccentric scheme of judicial Eirran ge monts—How a young wife can prove to alasolnte demonstration, can prove beyond all pos sibility of denial (as shown by the summing up of the judge, as shown by the unanimous verdict of the jury)—How, we say, a young wife can prove to absolute demonstration the fact of her having been subjected to a series of the most revolting cruelties by her husband, and yet :now that unhappy wife may completely con• done those proven cruelties by the affectionate prattle of her correspondence. In itself, one of the most distressing cases that has ever been brought under the consideration of the Divorce Court since that court was first opened down at Westminster — it is, in its result, about the very strangest that could imagined. We all know the old have been easily rhyming proverb about the woman, the whelp, and the walnut tree, to the effect that the more - . -ou whip them the better they'll be : And certainly the correspondence brought to light by means of this case of HOPLEY versus HOPLEY is entirely and essentially a very case in . point. In its tenderness of affection, indicated by the lady in this instance, the pamphlet that has come to us—originally marked private, but with ; the word private now very carefully scratched out—might vie with any equal number of pages that might be selected from the Yelverton Correspondence. Yet the incentives to these manifestations of tender affection appear to have been of the oddest kind in any way conceiv able ! What those instances were oar reports of the case of HOPLEY ',versus HOPLEY will have shown the reader rather distressingly from day to day as the trial proceeded. The defendant'a peculiarities were then brought out as case opened to view pretty plainly, as every one who at all watched the case will be prepared to admit. His history is the history of a theorist, and, what is more, of aphilanthropical theorist. His was a theory of a threefold kind, and one, moreover, that had a threefold illustration. His project has been so to deveiope an educational scheme of his own that, as applied successively to a boy pupil, to a neastly-married wife, and to a newly-born infant it should produce—a model pupil, a model wife (and mother), and a model child. The worst of it has been that one of the Theorist's intended model pupils was, somehow or another, whipped to death—that one of the Theorist's intended model children evidenced, somehow or another, very early and very unmistakeable signs of idiotcy that the Theorist's modal wife, somehow or another, was led in the end to bring an action against him for cruelty. But, in the latter instance, there was (by reason of the truth expressed in the old rhyming adage already alluded to) the possibility of these proven cruelties being effectually condoned. Happily for any other theorist's purpose who might aspire to contrive means for having the rot spared to the walnut tree, or (let us say under MARTINS Act, for _instance), to the whelp—neither the walnut tree nor the whelp could condone cruelties as cazi the woman (vide this henceforth of course leading case of HOPLEY V. HOPLEY) namely, by writing—after all sorts of curious little eccentric proceedings on the part of the Theorist, spittings in the face, kicks in the back daring the period of pregnancy, hammerings on the head, and so forth—completely and most effectually condone these and sundry other acts of cruelty, any one of them worse than whipping, by entering afterwards into a prattling correspon dence with the Theorist ! There are few points on which Englishmen of all creeds and parties are more unanimous than detes- tatio❑ of the slave trade. Until they discovered that the civil war in America was a war of independence rather than of emancipation, and that the difference between ABRAHAM LINCOLN and JEFFERSON DAVIS had in reality no concern with the liberty of the negro, this feeling enlisted the sympathies of most of our countrymen on the Federal side. Even now, when they fully recognise and shrink from the hypo crisy which would make emancipation a political tool to ba used or not according as occasion serves, the Southern advocacy cf the barbarous traffic in human beings militates against their full satisfac tion in the prospect of Confederate success. It is not that they pat any faith in the proclamations of ,he Northern President, or believe that, were the Union re-established to-morrow, slavery would suffer from its resuscitation, but the presence of so discordant a❑ element in the body politic prevents ,heir having that full sympathy in the Southern cause which otherwise they would have felt in the efforts of a brave and self-devoted people struggling or their independence. It ie, therefore, not sur- prising, when this is the prevailing sentiment of the English nation, that one of the most venerable and learned of our statesmen should rise in his place in the House of Peers and declare that in looking back over a Parliamentary life of nearly half a cen- tury, there was no matter upon which he reflected with so mnch satisfaction as the part which he had taken in the abolition of the slave trade. Such a declaration is doubly emphatic coming from the lips of a man like Lord BRUT:GUAM, distinguished for his share in many another legal, social, and poli tical reform. The noble lord mentioned, in evi dence of the unquestionable success attending the efforts of this country in behalf of the slaves in her colonies, that three years ago a petition was pre sented to that House from a district in Jamaica, which was signed by 800 liberated slaves, 793 of whom had written their names with their own hands. Bat notwithstanding all the work that was done by that earlier generation to which Lord BROUGHAM may claim to belong, the satisfae• tory results of their labours and the undiminished interest which England still takes in the welfare of the unhappy negro, there is much still to be done. The conduct of Spain in this matter is on all hands admitted to be most reprehensible. By every obligation of right, of honour, and of gratitude, she is bound to suspend the traffic, but in spite of all she persists in evading the treaty and in giving every encouragement to the traffic. Cuba is the stronghold of the slave trade, and so long as it remains so under the open protection of the Spanish Government, all our efforts for the abolition of the trade will be fruitless. It is perfectly useless to waste the lives of our men in watching the un healthy shores of Africa, when the high prices given at Cuba for slaves stimulate slavers to run any rick. By such a course we only increase the horrors of , the middle passage by inducing the slave-dealer to make every effort to conceal his illegal cargo. It is an unvarying rule of political economy that so long as there is a demand there will be a supply, but at once let us stop the market and we shall soon dispose of the traffic. Let our Government boldly insist on the Spaniards fulfilling their treaty obligations; or, if not, let them demand payment of the large debt due to us from that country. As Lord BROUGHAai very truly observed the other evening, the giving of the large sum o f £400,000 is the only part of the treaty which Spain has yet fulfilled, She has in deed passed a few timorous and inefficient acts which were never intended to serve their pro fessed purpose, but she has done no more, and the consequence ic manifested in the fact that in the 18 years between 1842 and 1800, the annual impor tation of slaves into Cuba has increased from 13,000 to 40,000. The Spanish Governors of the island have, it is commonly reported, been bribed to connive at the trade, and although there have been of course some favourable exceptions t o this rule, amon g which th e name of VALDE Z stands honour ably prominent, still the system is 93 well assured that Lard BROUGHAM actually gives the r ate of profit. Three doubloon s a h ea d f or the slaves imported into the island is the char.:, and in con, IHE suic, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVIOING, JULY 20, ISM. induced to controvert their wishes. It may be as well to let the matter pass in silence, so far as re gards the House of Commons, b2cause the question has already been debated there at sufficient length on divers occasions, but a more striking proof of Ministerial incapacity and official blundering has seldom been put on record. It may be very con venient to turn a deaf ear to the voice of reproof, but the judgment of the country must be against a course of procedure which thus compromises the free and independent spirit that has always nharac terised our dealirgs with foreign nations, and cur transactions with our own citizens. Representation of Finsbury. Last night a meeting of electors desirous of pro moting the return of Mr, M'Cullagh Torrens for Finsbury, at the next election, convened by circular, was held at the Belvidere Tavern, Pentonville. Mr. Torrens attended, on the invitation of a large and influential body of requisitionists, who, mindful of his past career in Parliament and his fidelity to the principles he avowed on entering it, were de sirous that a metropolitan borough of such import ance should be adequately and properly represented. The requisitionists seeking for the proper discharge of the duties of such a position, desired that they should b© represented by gentlemen whose mental power, political knowledge, and established public reputation qualified them for the discharge of the onerous duties devolving upon the representatives of such large and important constituencies. :Reference to the past conduct of Mr. Torrens in Parliament had produced the conviction that in him these quali ties were combined, and that gentleman was thPre. fore invited to lay before a meeting of electors his political opinions, and also state his decision whether the amount of popular support accorded to him would induce him to become a candidate. To this requisition, which was signed, on the whole, by those who used to take a prominent part in the election of the late Mr. T. Duncombe, without any expense on his part, Mr. Torrens readily responded, and last night was met by an assembly of gentlemen who might fairly be said to be representative naen from every part of the borough. Mr: M‘DoNNELL, representative of Clerkenwell at the Metropolitan Board of Works, was called to the chair, and in a few brief but telling sentences introduced Mr. Torrens to the meeting. The learned gentleman, in the course of an ad dress which was listened to with the deepest atten. tion, and with frequent and warm applause, explained the grounds on which he ventured to solicit the suf frages of such an important constituency. He had an ambition—but it was not a selfish one—it was, in his day and generation, to make his mark on the age in which he lived as a man who had done something useful and permanently beneficial to his fellowmen, He had in the earlier portion of his public and political career at least given proofs of the spirit by which he was animated, the objects he aimed at, and the principles of which he was the advocate; and to the past he thought he might confidently refer as a guarantee for the future. He did not wish to be a mere talker, a mummer, or a dummy. In past Parliaments he had served his time to the business of legislation. He hoped he hej p eeople ought to be done, and how to do it. learned by study a nd ex p erience how the work of the H e ma d e nt _e vague promises , no elastic profession-3 of pr i nc i p l e. tom' would not go into Parliament tied and fettered by irone.."t pledges, but he referred to his votes on all great qu,7stioue as the surest te sts of what his future course wol!ld be. When in Parliament he helped to carry the repeal of the na vigation laws, and the removal of the disabilities of the Jews. He was one of the small majority that first enabled Mr Locke King to carry the prin ciple of a 1:10 county suffrage, and he had had the pleasure of voting with the late Mr Joseph Hume for a large extension of the suffrage in towns, on the ground that the exclusion of the working classes was the chief defect of the Reform Bill, 1832. For the adoption of the ballot he hdd voted with Mr Berkeley, though by itself he did not think it would produce political purity, but must be one of a com bination of measures for that purpose. With re spect to the administra tion of the country, Mr Tor rens expressed the epic ion that they were too exclu sively taken from one class, and at the same time deprecated a rather wide-spread opinion that lawyers, as a class, should be excluded from Parlia ment in favour of commercial and practical men in other pursuits and callings of life, whose success in a mere monetary way, though creditable to them as individuals, was not necesealily a proof of their possessing the qualities requisite for a legislator, On the subject of church rates he thought the time had come when the Government should remove this cause of religious discord. On general grounds he would vote against the public money being given to any sect whatever if those who received those grants would agree to stand upon that ground. He n 6 advocate retrenchment of p ublic ex general terms , but in detail, With res2c ct to an important ques tion —the law relating to te t 'e relief of the poo r and the mode in ped2ll4ureid not only in which it was adneinistered—while he thought public opinion was notripeN the adoptioe of a national and equal rate, he thought ti me h a d Come for the abrogation of the law of settlement and tee adop tion of a union rating. With respect to the metro poliscould not agre e with Mr. Avrton and other advocates of a federal matropo. itself, while he li tan m unicipality, he thought it w as an open and a pressing question how such boroughs as Finsbury could be welded into a compact mass, a nd exercise their legitimate influence on Parliam ent and upon t h e Government for the time being. They would ne ver do so in their present stat e, and for their own sakes, apart from general questions, it was ex tremely important they should have the advantages of local self-government. The hon. and learnefl gentleman, after adverting in very felicitous and eloquent terms to other raatters, concluded by stating that he asked no one to pledge himself to support his candidature should a better man appear in the field. In that case he would be the first to withdraw from it, If not, he promised, should he of ascertaining be elected to represent that important constituency, that he would render an annual account of his stew. ardship, and take every opPortunitY the views of his constituente, though he did not promise he would always act upon them. When he could not do so honestly he would return the tru st they had confided to him. (Cheers.) E fficiently statement whic hec o o f fi t s h is e te p n o t l i l y tiC a a n l Dr. EPPS, in a very ab le and telling speech, h a ving listened to a m oved—" That this meeti n g nc i p i es o f d pri Mr. Torrens, ee preeses its opinion many years in Parliamen uat, l ifi e d to become a repre. that he is eminently q House of C se ntative for Finsbury in the Commons and pledges itself to u se its best exertions to secure his return for this borough i n the ensuing Parlia. ment." _Mr. HOPWOOD secoaded the resolution, and after a short conversation, id which Mr. Collins, Mr. Elt, and other geutlemen toete part, the resolution was carried with two d i ss entiots, on the under• any opposition to Mr. Tor sn t o a t n a d c i t n u g apl t rl h eys a e t vno i t t t edefiffdo re notrietd. bi n d those present who did A t the same time no gen tlemanrene, but merely reserved their freedom of selection for the future. The following gentlemen were then elected a committee to promote the election of Mr. Torrens, with power to add t o their number :—Messrs. J, L. Hopwood, Dennis lerDenne ll, Chas. D. Toime, Hugh Owen, John Robert Hall, Richard Moore, John Lloyd, Bowles Pattison, William Birkbcek, T. Bounce, James Seott„\Svaamlkueerl,Szac.ith, M. Samuel, John Walker, Willia m A vote of thanke to the chairman closed the proceedings. • passed was one, which Settled Estates Act of HAMPSTEAD-11EAVI AND TILE NEW SETTLED he: ESTATESjust h A, —Among ecaT issued,— Amn t g e t e h m e e l a n s d t a t h e t e s 1356. As introduced, it was expected that the act would lead to the inclosure of a part of Hampstead-heath. It was amended in the Commons, and as it now stands, it is enacted that the Court of Chancery, in determining what are settled estates, is to be governed by the trusts and limitations when that settlement was made. Other alteratiops were made to preserve the law on the subject, sequence of this easy way of making money, one Governor amassed a comfortable fortune of about £lOO,OOO. The Governorship of Cuba has, accord. ing to Lord BROUGHAM, become a recognised method for mending the fortunes of any needy Spanish noble, and even when a Governor like the present endeavours to check the traffic, he finds local interests too strong for him. The reform must begin at head - quarters , and it is quite time that some decisive effort were made. Oar West India planters justly complain of having to compete with Cuban slave-grown sugar, so that our weak indulgence towards Spain not only injures the negro, but our own colonists as well. Lord RUSSELL'S explanation of the matter is that every successive Foreign Secretary has remonstrated with Spain, and that Government has always professed its willingness to carry out the treaty, but owing to the strength of private interests in C Abe, and ito reluctance to offend those interested in the maintenance of the trade, we have never been able to obtain efficient aid from it. This has gone on quite long enough. If it is worth while to send men to die of fever on the African coast and expend the large sums which we give for keeping up our naval force there, it is surely worth while to put a little more energy into our dealings with Spain. Half the men and money spent profit lessly in the one quarter would have effectually settled the slave trade if properly applied in the other. Let our Government insist upon the imme• diate fulfilment of the Treaty or the liquidation of the debt, and let them not accept empty words but demand that an English official shall be placed in each of the Cuban ports, with the right of searching vessels—a method which will soon produce an effec tual change. Lord PALMERSTON can very readily stigmatise the conduct of Brazil as " flagrant," and our Cabinet can easily show a bold front to a weak Power; but when once European interests are in. 7olved, a very great alteration is perceptible in tone and manner. The interests of humanity de mand immediate action, or has England sunk so low from her ancient position that she fears the frowns of S 1 gin ? It is to be Loped that due attention will be paid to the act for the prevention of employing young boys as chimneysweeps. If, has now received the san ction of Parliament, and a m ore wise and neces sary regulation has seldom been made concerning social affairs. The refinement of cruelty would appear to have reached its climax in the mode adopted for the training of these wretched litt:` , victims', and it is only surprising that before this some stringent enactments have not been made to prevent such a scandal being practised among us. This pernicious habit has been so widely spread that it would seen to have taken root in the minds of those who ought to know better. The other day it was mentioned by some who take an interest in the putting down of the barbarous practice, ll'ett in places where above all others regard should be paid to the law, the open violation of the enactment took place. At a prison one poor boy was employed, and he suffered so greatly from the injuries he re ceived that he died in consequence. Another instance was given of the practice occurring at the house of some member of Parliament, whose infringement of the laws was curious and most unsuitable. Time after time the evil is done in secret, or in such a manner that no one is likely to take note of it. In some of the old chimneys it is fancied by the prejudiced that machines and instruments are not efficient for the purpose of thoroughly cleaning them. If this be true, there is a very easy remedy in having them altered, but in most cases it is only obstinacy and the tenacity with which many cling to old notions, and think all improvements are newfangled absurditie. The cause of humanity is not strong enough to plead for these little victims who are exposed to such creel suffering at an early age. It is of great consequence that the stern voice of the law should interfere, and that strict heed be paid as to the due observance of the regulations that are decreed. If proper attention is given to the law now passed, no possible opportunity can occur in which a poor child is tortured and injured by the barbarous practice of chimney — sweeping, but the mischief often happens through inadvertence on the part of householders. Let these now set their faces against the inhuman habit, and from hence forth let the cruelty be banished from among us. No possible excuse can be made on the plea of ignorance, because the subject has been so much discussed that by this time everyone must be pretty well familiarised with its details, and the neglect of watchfulness will be nearly as culpable as the open commission of the error on the part of others. Too much care cannot be given to the prevention of a practice that is a disgrace to all who are engaged in it remotely or immediately. The last days of the Session are approaching, and it is doubtless with very great satisfaction that the occupants of the Ministerial benches behold the close of their probation. It must appear, however, to survey the passing events, those who attentively that even in small matters, or what may be termed so, comparatively speaking, great cause may be found for reprehension, concerning the manner in which the Government has acted. A vote moved in supply, by Lord C. PAGET, may serve to suggest reflections of a peculiar character. It concerned the purchase of the steam rams, and the noble lord's offer to make any explanations that might be re. quired, appears to have been unprofited by, and the vote agreed to in silence. For several reasons it is desirable that the observers of public events should not imitate this quiescence, and copy this tacit ap proval of an act which is a disgrace to the adminis tration of the country. It was one of the most poltroon affairs in which a British Minister has ever been engaged. When we contrast the aspect which this case has assumed at the commencement and close of the Session, a warning is given to the public for the future, not to trust overmuch to the profess sions of statesmen, especially when their statements are very verbose, and their language unusually vehement. Who but a skilled judge in such mat ters, or a very cynic in faith and confidence, but would have thought that the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs meant something when he dia. coursed upon the steam rams at the outset of the Parliamentary campaign. When he so deprecated discussion, and deplored arguments concerning them, and above all, when he fired up and de- flounced as unfair and illegal the attempts made to force information from him when the whole facts were about to be brought into a court of law, and to comment upon them prematurely would occasion damage to the cause of, justice, it is strange to think that another and a very different solution was at hand. How much more consistent it would have been if, instead of all that palaver, the Goa vernment had purchased the rams at first, or at least abstained from making so much parade about matters that they did not intend to see the light. It is quite evident that if they had had such a good case against the vessels in dispute as they professed that they had, they would not have shrunk from inquiry, and beat so hasty and undignified a retreat_ The purchase of these vessels is alike a confession of impotence on their part as prosecutors, to carry out the part they pretended to be well versed in, and an ins ',lance of weakness as regarded the Federal Governor ant, because they did not feel LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.) Per the City of London, via Cape Clear, July 20. NEW YORK, JULY 9, 11 a.m. The accounts from the Upper Potomac continue confused and contradictory. Some state that the Confederates, after levying money contributions upon Hagerstown, Sharpsburg, and other towns, and plundering the surrounding country, have re crossed the Potomac, evacuated Harper's Ferry, and are retreating southward. Others, equally trustworthy, assert that the present force of in. vaders is destroying the communication and marAcavring until the main body, consisting at lesst of Ewell's and Longstreet's corps, arrives when the whole will march upon Baltimore and Washington. . . Some anxiety is felt for General Hunter, who at the latest acounts (on the 3d inst.), was at Charles ton, West Virginia, his army dispirited and exhausted by long marches. Sigel has been superseded by General Howe. Governor Seymour has directed General Sandford to allow none of the militia to leave New York, in response to the President's call, until further orders ; he has also ordered all commandants to recruit their regiments to the maximum standard within ten days, or they will at the end of that time be filled up by draught. Secretary Fessenden will visit New York next week, to consult with the bankers and others upon the immediate necessities of his department. Gold 2633, The City of London taker 437,305 dots. in specie, SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 20. The North Garman Lloyd steamer Bremen, Capt. Meyer, sailing hence to-day for New York, direct with the German, French, and English mails, takes out 119 cabin passengers and a large cargo of general merchandise and jewellery, from Havre, value 165,000 f. MARSEILLES, JULY 17. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said, Cap tain Burnet, left this port to-day with the mails, 45 passengers, 602 packages and specie, value £215,300, for India and China, and 53 passengers, 2,097 packages and specie, value £93,450, for Alexandria. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 19.—The market has been heavy, causA s3me measure by the arrival of English Consols with lower quotations. Threes, for the Account, have receded to 66f. 25c. Mobilier have also declined, the price being now 1,005 f. Rail way shares little in demand, but previous rates up to the present time pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows : 11 per Cents .. 94 20 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 20 Credit Mobilier 100 S 75 Do. end month 1006 25 Bank Shares 3375 Credit Fancier 1220 Roman RA IL Italian Loan 67 90 Do. end month OS 10 Ditto Threes .. Na v Mexican .... JG 75 Russian Austrian .. B3 50 Spanish Threes.,, — Home Debt Deferral Account. Cash. Orlear.s...•.•t - 678 75 Northern Lyons and iledituranean 897 50 .. 897 50 New ditto Southern Western Eastern .. ....... ~,, SarJinian 352 50 .. 352 50 .Ao.u,trian Lowbard ....... . North o Spain Saragossa .. Ditto to Barcelona SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette publishes the text of the new bill on lite press lately sanctioned by the Queen : " The principal characteristics of this measure can• sist in three special dispositions-Ist, for submitting to the bishop of the diocese all writings on religious dcetrines, the Scriptures, and Christian morality ; 2dly, that, for investing the Ministry of the Interior with the power of regulating as it pleases the adver tisements, sale, and distribution of jcurnals ; and, lastly, that which represses and punishes offences not provided for by the penal code. Such offences, committed by attacking or turning into ridicule the Roman Catholic religion and its worship, or by insulting the sacred character of its ministers, are to be punished with imprisonment; if they consist of exciting to the abolition or the change of the said religion, or in leading to the introduction of any other form, the punishment is to be imprisonment with hard labour. In either case a fine of from 100 to 500 piastres is to be inflicted." ITALY. A Turin letter, of the 16th, contains the follow in g ; Since the day on which the Chamber had to judge the conduct of M. Tofani, no sitting mere to be regretted than that of yesterday has been held, This was the second time that the Assembly had been transformed into a chamber of accusation. The seats were all full in spite of a heat of SO deg. Fahrenheit. At 2 o'clock after the vote, by a small majority, of the bill granting a pension to the Thousand of Marsala, M, Pisoli, the reporter of the committee of inquiry into the participation of certain deputies iu the affairs of the Southern railways, ascended the tribune, amidst a profound silence, to read his report. After tracing the history of the concession of the said railways, the speaker said that the task of the committeee of inquiry had been the more difficult that the accusations brought foTward applied not only to MM. Bastoggi and Susani, but to other deputies. Wh en the Parliament granted the concession to M. Bastoggi in preference to Baron de Rothschild, a rumour was current that the above-named deputy had purchased the votes of several of his col leagues. The statement was traced to an advocate of Turin, who, on being called on to give an explanation, declared that 'one of his clients, a former deputy, had admitted that 30 votes: had been sold for a sum of 3,000,000 f. ; that the mission of effecting the transaction had been offered to this deputy, but he had refused to accept it. The committee had resolved to get to the bottom of this accusation, but the advocate, on being required to furnish proofs, could give none. The vague rumours, which were the most dangerous, having thus completely disappeared, there only remained for the committee to verify precise and determined facts. A deplorable impression had been produced on public opinion by the publication of the names of the persons forming the board of directors, as it included ai2lost all the members of the com mittee appointed to exatine the bill and the concession. The committee of enquien however, added that it was happy not to have discovered any proofs of collusion or engage ments between its members and the concessionary. The report then referred to the participation of the deputy, M. Susani, in the affair of the railway. That gentleman was the secretary of the committee charged by the Chamber to examine the concessions made to Baron de Rothschild, An arrangement was nevertheless made between M. Susani and M. Bastoggi, to obtain for the latter a preference over de Rothschild ; for that service M. Susani received a bonus of 1,200,000 f, which he discounted at Milan for 675,000 fr. The reportdocsnot conceal the fact that the ‘xplanations fur nished by MM. Bastoggi and Susani do not appear satis factory, and terminates with the following conclusions :- Ist. That the vague rumours and suspicions of corruption put in circulation against the deputies on the subject of the southern railways are completely disproved ; 2d. That the suspicions which hung over the deputies who formed part of the committee charged with examining the project of concession to the Rothschild bank, and who afterwards entered the board of directors of the southern railways, aro also dissipated ; 3d. That the interest and dignity of the Chanebr Pcverthaees require that the office of deputy should be incomOtible with the functions of directors, or the position of parties interested in undertakings subventioned by the State, or which That M. Susani, at the moment in which he was a member, and even secretary to the committee charged to make e. report on the Rothsaiild concession was the adviser of M. Bastoggi ; that he participated in M. Bastoggi's un dertaking, an d that pro lariety required that be should first have g i ve n in his resig , nation !le a member of the Parliament Committee, which he did not ,do ; s th , That the sum Df 1,200,000 E, brought in question in the We:l-Achott trial, was the bonus des • ( or his co-operation tined for M. Susani in return . the aid of That M. Bastoggi ought not to have a2' e l3t° v - M. Susani, knowing him to be a member of the ... mentary Committee; 7th. That At, Bastoggi, in acting as ho has done, has been wanting in the respect due to a member of a Parliamentary Committee; that M. Susan' has been wanting in a still more serious manner in the respect which he owed to his quality of repre sentative of the nation, The Chamber was deeply moved at this conclusion of the report. M, Eastoggi asked per mission to speak, but as the hour was late, his reply was put off until the next day. In the following sitting he spoke at great length, and vas listened to with silence, mingled with respect: His defence did not, however, ap pear to produce much effect on the Chamber." It may be remembered that the telegram has al ready announced that the cotclusions of the com mittee wero voted by 153 votes to 10, with 43 abstentions. The New Reform Movement. L-ist evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bethnal-green and the East-end of London vas held at the Peel-grove Institution, for the purpose of advancing the cause of Parliamentary Reform, by the adoption of manhood suffrage as the basis of representation. Mr. Hilton having been voted to the chair, Mr '2IIO3IAS BUFFHAM moved a resolution to the effect that the time had arrived when the unfran. chised masses of the people of this country should be admitted to a share in the right of election of members of Parliament, by that right being ex tended to all resident and registered adult males, persons of sound mind and unconvicted of crime. Th© resolution was seconded by Mr W. R. CREMER, who stated that the apathy of the masses on this subject of Parliamentary Reform was little to be wondered at after the manner in which they had been deceived and betrayed by those who had promised, and who had the power, to confer the franchise upon them. Mr JOHN R. TAILOR having supported the re solution, it was put from the chair and unanimously adopted. Mr BLiart next moved a resolution, in effect that a committee be appointed for taking the neces sary s!eps and raising the necessary funds for carry ing into effect the preceding resolution, and with that view to establish an association to be called the Bethnal-green Branch of the Universal League for the Welfare of the Industrious Classes. Mr WESTON seconded the resolution, which was adopted, and a committee appointed in terms of it. The proceedings then terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman. Historical Anecdotes about the Savoy, The Church of St. Mary•le-Savoy, as it had long been improperly called, last week perished by fire —all but tho bare walls. Properly, it was the royal chapel of St. John the Baptist, which the parishioners of St. Mary-le-Strand were empowered to use, under certain conditions, as a parochial church. Its antiquity was not very great—three hundred and sixty years—but it was nevertheless of interest, from the history connected with it, and from the locality in which it stood. It had nothing in common with the palatial edifice in which Elcanor of Equitaine housed her uncle, Peter Ear of Savoy, six centuries ago. It was not even in that old palace in which the conscientious French King, John, died in honourable captivity, in the 14th century. John died in the new palace, built on the site of the old one, by that Henry Plantagenet who won the ducal coronet of Lancaster by his prowess at Poictiers, and whose daughter, Blanche, carried the paternal title to her husband, John of Gaunt. This newer palace had no long life of it, for Vat Tyler and his fellows, in their especial rage against John of Gaunt, burnt all that would burn of the edifice in 1331. Till the beginning of the 16th century the place lay in ruins, but in 1505 Henry VII. built the church, or chapel, which has baen so recently destroyed, as the chapel of the hos pital of St. John the Baptisi, for the relief of 100 poor men. In about fifty years this religious foundation went the way of all others in _Englund, and though the hospital was subsequently restored and for some time maintained, the Savoy precinct became as notorious for thiexe3 and beggars, as for• the lame, the sick and the vagabond, who considered them- selves privileged to claim succour from the Master of the Hospital of the Savoy, an office which was much coveted, and which Cowley struggled ineffec tually to obtain. The old hail was partitioned out among noisy handicraftsmen who plied their respec tive callings therein, and it also served for a prison in which debtors, and infected soldiers, and deser- ters, and pressed men, and recruits, and robbers waiting transportation were all alike kept under lock and key, And yet within the precinct there was sanctuary for those who dwelt there, and danger of life or limb to the audacious official who should venture to make arrest there. It is barely necessary to say that the Savoy Conference for the revision of the Liturgy was held on this spot. This Savoy had its literary aspect, too; all proclamations, acts of Parliament, and Gazettes used to issue from the royal printing press established in the precinct ; and there Fuller lectured, if he did not write his Worthies,' The walls of the old cruciform hospi tal were standing in Pennant's time, and in 1816, Ack.ermann published a view of the ruins as they were in their last condition, before they were swept away. They look far more picturesque than the ancient palace itself does, in the picture of Dulwich College. The royal chapel, which was made paro chial after the " impious destruction" of the parish church of St. Mary-le-Strand, by the Duke of Somerset, did not always hold its own with dignity. While the Dutch, German, and French congrega tions met quietly within the precinct,a favour which was originally owing to Charles the Second, all sorts of unseemly marriages were celebrated by the " Savoy parsons." The minister advertised his readiness to unite couples in the bonds of matri mony " with privacy," which was the chief matter, and it was added, for the form's sake, "with de cency and regularity," and all for a guinea, the five shilling stamp included. Very significant are the concluding lines of the advertisement, which tell lovers longing to be milled in haste and secrecy, that "there are five private ways by land to this chapel, and two by water." The Act of Parliament forbidding such celebrations of marriage did not deter the " Savoy parsons" till the Rev. Mr Wilkin son came to grief. For performing the illicit cere mony, Wilkinson was informed against by—among others—no less a person than Garrick, and the reve rend gentleman was transported. His son, but for this catastrophe, would probably have gone into the Church, but losing his chance, he crossed from the Savoy to Drury-lane, and the man who had trans ported his father helped to make an actor of him, and to give to the history of the stage the name of eccentric Tait Wilkinson. In George the Fourth's days the royal chapel was restored chiefly through that king's liberality, and her present Majesty has acted as munificently as her royal uncle ; but it was the parishioners who put up the beautiful painted glass window representing St. John the Baptist. That window was entirely destroyed by the fire of last week. The splendid roof lies in charred fragments on the encumbered floor ; and as the flames, bursting forth, no one could well tell whence or how, though the blame is laid on the g as, swept through the structure, down fell many a noble monument of the noble dead, or stood but to be unsightly and marred—for there slept Rokebys, and Douglases, and ladies of note, and soldiers of renown, with monuments to some buried elsewhere, end " the bowels only" of one, and he, the great Earl of Clifford, with no Tr erao rial at all ; and, perhaps more truly worthy than a ny of them, the poet who chanted the praises of liberty under a tyrant, and piety in a licentious age, cheerful and religious George Withers Fes now under the superincumbent ruins caused by the fire. Her Majesty has graciously announced her intention to repair this ruin at her own cost. Vivra _Regina M. HACHETTE, THE FAMOUS PUBLISHER a THE " CHEMIN DE FER"—recently reportsd to be dead —has an establishment which is one of the Paris lions.' Of the enterprising way in which busin ess is carried on there, some opinion may be formed front the fact that a young and talented avocat is paid 12,000 francs a year for writing the advertisements of the works which are brought out in it." A branch establishment is in London, at the corner of } :ing William-street, Strand, a spot that has recently become quite a market for dealers in books, and which bids " L‘CQPIW? Et sort of West-cud VatorhoAer-row. lAA, ~.. LITERATURE. Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of IVaPole°7l 111, Compiled by Sir Lasceiles Wraxall, Bart., and Robert Wehrhan. New Edition. One yOL, pp. 436. Hurst and Bieekett. As another, the twenty-seventh if we rernembsr rightly, of the Messrs. Hurst and Blacketee charming series of Popular Modern Works, pub lished in compact and cheap one-volume editions, in the form of a really, and not alone nominally' Standard Library, we have here a most acceptable, reissue of a work combining within it all the fascination of a romance with all the profound and nthralling interest of actual history. The Memeirs —emphatically The " Memoirs of Queen Hortense!" Toe mother of the reigning Emperor of France, the Emperor Napoleon IN, ! The daughter of the :E0- press Josephine when the letter was simply the wife of the Viscount de Beauharnais ! Hortense, the beauliful and accomplished Hortense—herself the wife of Louis, King of Holland ! Hortense—wbe first emerged from comparative obscurity us the step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte ! Rising (together with the other members of tlinee two favoured races, the Bonapartes and the Bec,nharnais)—with the rise of that most wonder* ful adventurer (using the term in no invidious sense) that the world has ever seen I General at twenty-Ave, Consul at thirty, Emperor at thirty" four, Conqueror, King-maker, Lawgiver, Hero end; Sage, Orator and Historian I " The greatest 01 Poets," according to Eiranger ! "One of the noblest of rhetoricians," according to Brougham According to William Napier—'. the Soldier 01 Soldiers !" 'According to all subsequent mili tary historians, unrivalled among all greet Captains save by one, and that one linv nibal I As Lord Byron sang in his Childs Harold -- "The greatest nor the worst of men 1" As Charles James Fox averred—" I belie° him to be one of the best, as I am certain he i 9 the greatest of men I" He who bad entered in triumph all the great capitals of Europe—Viennal Berlin, Milan, Madrid, Moscow, as -conqueror' among other great powers, of Austria, Prussier Italy, Spain, Russia! He who, from being a younger son of a Corsican Barrister, had made himself E'°' peror of France, King of Italy, Mediator of Scs'it' zerland, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine—creating his elder brother Joseph first of all of Naples, afterwards of Spain--shia brother Louis, King of Holland—his brother Jerotne' King of Westphalia—his brother-in-law Jesehilli Murat, King of Naples—one of his lieutenants' Junot, Governor of Portugal—besides causing a variety of others to becomo occupants of minor thrones in that marvellous arrange' meat of the European System, the headship of which constituted him, in a manner, for series of years Lord Paramount over the length en breadth of the Continent. At any period in the history of modern Europe since the close of tll Great Napoleonic Era, since the death, that the hero himself on the memorable " Cinq MTh 1821, on the rocky island of St. Helena—an authen. tic narrative of the Life and Adventures of his °ir and famous step-daughter and sister-in-law o,lleetit Hortense née Beauharnais, would have been a suhi'e, of eager curiosity to all endowed with a liV811e; appreciation than the generality,lof the Deculia interest appertaining to the romance of history' Published, as the joint work of Sir Laseelle: Wraxall, and Robert Wehrhan has been, since t",; restoration to supreme power in Franco of the Napoleon Dynasty, and that moreover in the Pere% of the third and youngest of the sons of anee; Hortense herself—the Prince Louis Napoleon, na for more than a dozen years past Emperor France under the glorious title of Napoleon lII' a the work comes before us with a witchery of its °set, that it would be difficult'to exaggerate: 110Welot the story of this life might be related, it could 11,11 fail to read otherwise than wondrously, as thonr'oo it were the record of some extravagant fleti to rather than the account of a succession of eve each of which, marvellous though it may age,,ol. now while reading about it, was nevertheless d, all that a veritable realty. It is, of its 101%, a sort of fairy tale in its way. It is as astonishi in the marvels it recounts as any one of the 01000 and one Arabian figments told to the breatbleS 13 interest of the Sultan-Caliph, by the Vizier daughter, the Sultana Sheherazade ! Hewerl recounted, we repeat, the faithfully related Alernc”ra of Queen Hortense could not but have posgear this attraction for, could not but kayo wielded , this glamour over the general run of readero'i whether readers of history or readers e? romance. Penned, as they have been be however, in this graceful and courtly nnr,rso tive, by biographers who seem to sound the pre, eta of their heroine to the flourish of golden trawl) io —the incidents hero brought to view by thelnot seven-and-forty romantic chapters, might al°3oo be said to pass before us with all ,e• pomp and panoply of some stately irarost rial procession. Now and then one i 8 111111 bot tempted to swallow, not a mere grain or tWe, rti, a large handful of salt in order to get down Patina culars, in themselves apparently too huge to portentous in their way, for easy passage, °yea speak, down the gullet of our credulity ! Yet c there in those exceptional instances where heed in the events referred to, appears to be 5° A,5 difficult, we are fain to swallow the astonnubeior statements—cum (ant sine) grano ing as who can fail to do how often, how the word " impossible," as the wonder-Wnr 00'9 hero himself said was swept out of Napnle the vocabulary by Napoleon himself. And 50—'1100 light of Napoleon's own history—We,oets believingly these enthralling Memoirs of Hortense—mother of Napoleon's successor, off the rehabilitater of Napoleon's throne in Paris) ° and restorer of Napoleon's empire over France among the chief Powers of Christendom. City Sewers Commission, Yesterday the Commissioners of Sewers of the C' ; o London met as usual at the Guildhall, for the desplitc",4,, public business. The Chairman, Henry De Jersey, Eta presided, and among the Commissioners present we ne e d, Alderman J. C. Lawrence, Deputy Farrar, Deputy Deputy Elliott, Deputy Lorkin, Deputy Bower, P, t3P „fre Lloyd, Deputy Burnell, Deputy Perkins, Messrs. i j e-f llt Walter, Fox, T. Symonds, Chaplin, Young, 1)44°11e Cole, Botterill, Green, Farlow, Burro wes &c The Solicitor, to the Commission, Alexander Esq., reported that on the sth inst., he caused to 1)0 demned, before Alexander JJ. C. Lawrence, at the MallVi, house, four quarters of an ox which had been keise- rt Inspector Wylde, in Leadenhall-market, and f o rnied g l e ff an animal that had died of dieseasc. The meat N`l ° , o Do bad, and quite unfit for human food. It was order ° (Jr' destroyed, and Alderman Lawrence directed 11 °,2 Baylis) to bring the matter before the Court, in °rite' f ur ther proceedings might be taken against the pe r° I( had sent the meat to London. 6 0 ' It was decided to instruct the solicitor to make th e ": inns being preliminary inquiries with a view to further Pr°"eerD° gs taken against the offender. Dr. LethellPtioes h medical officer of health, reported on the state of 2-591i,:tte`i that at had been inspected during the week, and he 0°, 1 ; 1 10 list of 114 places for sanatory improvement. P. , - t ea' submitted a list of places which required further P r t ° e ol 3 ' # inns on account of orders already issued, but not Y e " i n ° ' plied with. The markets and slaughterhouses had been du' vi Ato spected, and the officers had condemned 3,4031b 5 ° I ip unfit for human food. Nearly the whole of it - fit 5v diseased condition. c t The returns of last week (says Dr Letheby) sh esc : ll births and 57 deaths were registered in the Crt 1 ' 13 ' 31.1 ; 1 ' ill of deaths is just the average for the corresP of the last eight years 26 , cr just half of the d sad among children of less than five years of age '° (3 : 1 among old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief 'o"'llitl° death were as follows :—Phtl ' isis 4, pneumonia 1, h r"c . , D '2, mesenteric disease 4, hydrocephalus whooping infantile diarrl.cea 3, continuedfever4;seqrlet t ' ve c t° measles fro 4, making together 9 ducks from tubercular “t'i.'fron` m inflammatory affections of the lungs, 912C1 r fe n diseases of a zymotic character. Dr Letheby fu r ti d e ° 0; ported that the illuminating power of gas t city during the week had been above the rcquire-,,,Tplfir the act of Parliament; but the average amoun t of A bo as of the Chartered an d G rea t C e ntral Gas had be° the quantitysanctioned by Parliament. h 1) 1151' The Commi s ssioners, after trans cc n some er "less, adjourned. g 6° Y. / CHARLES DICKENS'S NEW SERIA L S l°ll 0 ° Messrs. Chapman and Hall, according t lottott Reader, have bought the copyright of "our 12 ,000 Friend." The fortunate author receives, they Say' —D3,000 on the issue of the first, and tho reutaitiiPs on tlto completion of the tale,