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S " FAREWELL rAjS pTEIF'gR3LITNIcIEEIA T E. C ICEAP PRICES. IL TROVATORE, TO-MORROW EVENING (Thuraday). NOTICE. In consequence of a domestic affliction, Ma to dame gated s Md le, - Wtppern obliged to return immediate,y Berlin. art of Titi e ns has thereto re most kindly undertaken the p Leonora in •• II Trovatore," which will be performed To morrow Evening ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FAREWELL REPRESENTATIONS AT CHEAP PRIC E , To suit the Views of the General Public. T h e Nights of Performances are Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs days, and SaturnaYs. TO-MORROW Evioasa (Thursday,`, July 21, will be presented Verdi's favourite Opera, IL TROVATORE., With the following Cast : LeOttOTA, Madlle. Titiens ; Azucena, Madlle. Gr ossi, her di first appearance in that character in England ;11 Comte Luna, Air. Sa.ntley ; Ferrando, Signor licssi ; and Maurice, Signor Giuglini. Conductor, Signer ARDITI. TIVENS, TREBELLI, YOLPINI, GROSS' SANTLEY, GA.SIKEZ, BETTINI, GAItIIoNI. Saturday next, July 23, wi:l be re-produced Weber's Grand Bomantus Opera, OBERON. The New and extensive Scenery by lir. Telbin, a ssisted by Mr. Henry Telbin• Ginglini. Santley, Marcell° Junca, Gass ier; Trebel% RebollX, Volpini, Titiens. Conductor, Signor Arditi. lgon.day next, July 25, Gounod's last new Great Work, MIRELLA. The Scenery by Air. William Telbin. ---- trains t Doors open at Half-past Seven. commenceat Eight prehe - cisely ; termin atin g in time tor the nigh o t environs. 2 8 , ; Fit, ss. ; Dress Circle, 7s. ; Upper Prices :—Gallery. Circle. Is. ; Orchestra Stalls, 129. 6d. Private Boxes—Pit Tier, Two Guineas ; Grand Tier, Three Guineas; One Pair Boxes, Two Guineas and a Half ; Two Pair Boxes, One Boxes (to hold . Guinea ; Gallery Notice. —The usual restrictions to fOur Evening Dress will not be en{ orc , d. Box office of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 6, where places may be secured; also at all the principal Librarians and Musicseilers. tickets also procurable, on the evenings of performance, at the Special (aces, open at the entrances of the Pit and Boxes. - ROAYL ITALIAN OrEB,A, Covent-garden. Positively the Last Week but One. 3idlle. Adelina Patti ; Signori Ronconi, 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'ELLAR D'AM ORE. Adieu, Mae. Adelina "'Uhl; Gianet a, Madame Ta,gliafico ; Dulcamara, ,Signur lionconi; Belcore, M. Faure, ; and liemorino, signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. After which the Divertissement, L'lle Enchantee. Sup ported by Mdlle. Salvioni, 51.dfle. Carmine, Halle. Navarre, aldile. Assunta, M. 'Desplaces, and Mr. W. IL Payne. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sialls, 10s. 6.1, 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Boxes , stalls, and tickets may be had open e box-office under the portico of the theat . re, which is from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and libr.ulans'. p OYAL PRINC ESS'S THEATRE.- ,Xll.l Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Railerty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new p:ay by John Oxenford, Esq., THE MONASTERY OF ST. JUSr Messrs. Vining, li. Mars ton, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins, C. Seyton, i h a pwaja ; Mrs. H. Marston, and Mdlle. Stella Colas. N". THEATRE-R.O YAL, ADELPIII. B4le Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr.:. Phillips. After which, JANET PRIDE : Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. 'Toile, P. Redford, Stuart, Stephenson, Romer; Miss Woolgar, Miss Denman. Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a Horrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, it. RomerMise Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the M ana gement of Mr. B. WEBST ER. C r owded with rank and fashion. Re-engagement of those ce'ebrated and popular artistes, Mr. ana Mrs. Charles Mathews. Production of an entirely new rigial n Travestientitled FAIT STe of a very po pular subject, by F. C. Burn o anc, Esq., AND SIARGLIERLFE, in which Mr. and Mrs Charles Mathews will appear. The new scenery by the celebrated artists, Messrs. Danson and Sons ; the incidental Ballet by Osear Byrne. gaged will be found the popular A mo ngst the artists en names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr.:F. Robinson. Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss ,A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss -Wentwortn,:nrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CZ.OTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. Al a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST ANI.I MARUEITE : r. Chas. 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The rather questionable advantages held out to soc i et y by that wonderful little Di vorce C ourt , 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 HoPLIT. The case was in itself, no doubt, a very curious one — na y, thank GOD, we may even add, we believe quite confidently, one in its w h o l e character entirely and absolutely exceptional. Into its merits (to employ a current phrase that seems to drop juts its place here, by the way, rather oddly) into its merits, so-aalled, we don't propose in any way to enter. We refer toil, or rather to the decision that it has led to, ato one of the latest and, beyond an instant's doubt, one of . the strongest illustrations of the system of which it is mainly valuable as it is also most 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 eon tomplation at work, there in these later:days in the Divorce Court, it ie, in simple truth, the ne plui 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 arrangemen t s —How a young wife can prove to absolute 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 how that unhappy wife may completely con. done those proven cruelties by- the affectionate prattle of her correspondence. I n itself, one of the most distressing cases that has ever been brought under the considerr.tion of the Divorce Court since that court was fire t opened down at Westminster— It ie, in its result, about the'very strangest that could have been easily imagined. We all know the old rhyming prover b about the woman, the whelp, and the walnut troe, to the ef f ect that the more yon whip them tb ,e better they'll be I And certainly the correspon dense brought to light by means of this case of ILOPLEY versus HOPLEY is entirely and essentially a very case in, point. In its tenderness of affection, indicated by the lady in this instance, the paniphl , :t 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 I What those instances were our reports of the ease of HOPLEY :versus HOPLEY Will have shown the reader rather distressingly from day to day as the trial proceeded. The defendant's peculiarities were then brought out as case opened to view pretty plainly, as every one who at all watched the case will be prepared to admit. His history is the history of a theorist, and, what is more, of a'philanthropical theorist. His was a theory of a threefold kind, and one, moreover, that had a threefold illustration. His project has been so to develope an educational scheme of his own that, as applied successively to a boy pupil, to a newly-married wife, and to a newly-born infant it should produce—a model pupil, a model wife (and mother), and a model child. The worst of it 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 model wife, somehow or another, was led in the end to bring an action against him for cruelty. But, in the latter instance, there was (by reason of the truth expressed in the old rhyming adage already alluded to) the possibility of these proven cruelties being effectually condoned. Happily for any other theorist's purpose who might aspire to contrive means for having the rod spared to the walnut tree, or (let us say under MARTIN'S Act, for ,instance), to the whelp—neither the walnut tree nor the whelp could condone cruelties as can the woman (Lido this henceforth of course leading case of HOPLEY v. HOPLEY) namely, by writing—after all sorts of curious little eccentric proceedings on the part of the Theorist, spittings in the face, kicks in the back during the period of pregnancy, hammerings on the head, and so forth—completely and most effectually condone these and sundry other acts of cruelty, any one of them worse than whipping, by entering afterwards into a prattling correspon dence with the Theorist ! There are few points on which Englishmen of al creeds and parties are more unanimous than detea• tation of the slave trade. Until they discovered that the civil war in America was a war of independence rather than of emancipation, and that the difference between ABRAHAM LINCOLN and JEFFERSON DAVIS had in reality no concern with the liberty of the negro, this feeling enlisted the sympathies of most of our countrymen on the Federal side. Even now, when they 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 put any faith in the proclamations of the Northern President, or believe that, were the Union re-established to-morrow, slavery would suffer from its resuscitation, but the presence of so discordant an element in the body politic prevents their having that full sympathy in the Southern cause which otherwise they would have felt in the efforts of a brave and self-devoted people struggling for their independence. It is, therefore, not sur prising, when this is the prevailing sentiment of the English nation, that one of the moat venerable and learned of our statesmen should rise in his place in the House of Peers and declare that in lookiog back over a Parliamentary life of nearly half a cen tury, there was no matter upon which he reflected with so moth 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 BROUGHAM, 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. seated 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. But notwithstanding all the work that was done by that earlier generation to which Lord BROUGHAM may claim to belong, the satisfaca 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 handa 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 risk. By such a course we only increase the horrors of the middle passage by inducing the slave-dealer to make every effort to conceal his illegal cargo. It is an unvarying rule of political economy that so long as there is a demand there will be a supply, but 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 BROUGHAM 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 i timorous and in e ffi c i en t acts which were never intended to se rve t h e i r pro fessed purpose, but she has done no more, and the consequence is manifested in the fact that in the 18 years between 1842 and 1860, the annual impor tation of slaves into Cuba has increased from 13,00 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 to this rule, among which the name of VALDEZ stands honour ably prominent, still the system is so well assured that Lord BROUGHAM actually gives the rate of proft. Three doubloons a head for the slaves imported into the island is the chary, and in con, sequence of this easy way of making money, one Governor amassed a comfortable fortune of about £lOO,OOO. The Governorship of Cuba has, accords 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. Our West India planters justly complain of having to compete with Cuban slave-grown sugar, so that our weak indulgence towards Spain not only injures the negro, but our own colonists as well. Lord RUSSELL'S explanation of the matter is that every successive Foreign Secretary has remonstrated with Spain, and that Government has always professed its willingness to carry out the treaty, bat owing to the strength of private interests in Cabe, and its reluctance to offend those interested in the maintenance of the trade, we have never been able to obtain efficient aid from it. This has gone on quite long enough. If it is worth while to send men to die of fever on the African coast and expend the large sums which we give for keeping up our naval force there, it is surely worth while to put a little more energy into our dealings with Spain. Half the men and money spent profit lessly in the one quarter would have effectually settled the slave trade if properly applied in the other. Let our Government insist upon the immea 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 Brezil as "flagrant," and our Cabinet can easily show a bold front to a weak Power; but when once European interests are in volved, a very great alteration is perceptible in tone and manner. The interests of humanity de mand immediate action, or has England sunk so low from her ancient position that she fears the frowns of Spain ? It is to be hoped that due attention will be paid to the act for the prevention of employing young boys as chimneysweeps. It hes now received the sanction of Parliament, and a more 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 little victims, and it is only surprising that before this some stringent enactments have not been made to prevent such a scandal being practised among us. This pernicious habit has been so widely spread that it would 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, that in places where above all others regard should be paid to the law, the open violation of the enactment took place. At a prison one poor boy was employed, and he suffered so greatly from the injuries he re ceived that he died in consequence. Another instance was given of the practice occurring at the house of some member of Parliament, whose infringement of the laws was curious and most unsuitable. Time after time the evil is done in secret, or in such a manner that no one is likely to take note of it. In some of the old chimneys it is fancied by the prejudiced that machines and instruments are not efficient for the purpose of 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 absnrditiee. The cause of humanity is not strong Enough to plead for these little victims who are exposed to such cruel suffering at an early age. It is of great consequence that the stern voice of the law should interfere, and that strict heed be paid as to the due observance of the regulations that are decreed. If proper attention is given to the law now passed, no possible opportunity can occur in which a poor child is tortured and injured by the ,barbarous practice of chimney-sweeping, but the mischief often happens through inadvertence on the part of 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 those who attentively survey the passing events, that even in small matters, or what may be termed so, comparatively speaking, great cause may be concerning the manner in found for reprehension, which the Government has acted. A vote moved in supply, by Lord C. PAGET, may serve to suggest reflections of a peculiar character. It concerned the purchase of the steam rams, and the noble lord's offer to make any explanations that might be re quired, appears to have been unprofited by, and the vote agreed to in silence. For several reasons it is desirable that the observers of public events should not imitate this quiescence, and copy this tacit ap proval of an act which is a disgrace to the adminis tration of the country. It was one of the most poltroon affairs in which a British Minister has ever been engaged. When we contrast the aspect which this case has assumed at the commencement and close of the Session, a warning is given to the public for the future, not to trust overmuch to the profes sions of statesmen, especially when their statements are very verbose, and their language unusually vehement. Who but a skilled judge in such mat tors, or a very cynic in faith and confidence, but would have thought that the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs meant something when he dis. coursed upon the steam rams at the outset of the Parliamentary campaign. When he so deprecated discussion, and deplored arguments concerning them, and above all, when he fired up and de. nounced as unfair and illegal the attempts made to force information from him when the whole facts wero 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 Go vernment had purchased the rams at first, or at least abstained from making so much parade about matters that they did not intend to see the light. It is quite evident that if they had had such a good case against the vessels in dispute as they professed that they had, they would not have shrunk from inquiry, and beat so hasty and undignified 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 instance of weakness as regarded the Federal Goyernuaeut i became they (lid not feel "I HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1864. induced to controvert their wishes. It may be as well to let the matter pass in silence, so far as re gards the House of Commons, because the question has already been debated there at sufficient length on divers occasions, but a more striking proof of Ministerial incapacity and official blundering has seldom been put on record. It may be very con venient to turn a deaf ear to the voice of reproof, but the judgment of the country must be against a course of procedure which thus compromises the free and independent spirit that he.s always charac terised our dealings with foreign nations, and our 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 oa entering it, were de sirous that a metropolitan borough of such import ance should be adequately and properly represented. The requisitionists seeking for the proper discharge of the duties of such a position, desired that they should be represented by gentlemen whose 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 Air. Torrens in Parliament had produced the conviction that in him these quali ties were combined, and that gentleman was there 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 "necome a candidate. To this requisition, which was signed, on the whole, by those who ' d sed t o t a k e a p r ominent part in the election, of the late Mr. T. Duncombe, without any exp nee on his part, Mr. Torrens readily responded, and last night w:ls met by an assembly of gentlemen who might fairly be said to be representative men from every part of the borough. 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. Torrena 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 as 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 ho was animated, the objects he aimed at, and the principles of which he was the advocate; and to the past he thought he might confidently refer as a guarantee for the future.' t He did not wish to 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 had learned by study and experience how the work of the people ought to be done, and how to do it. He made no vague promises, no elastic professions of principle. He would not go into Parliathent tied and fettered by ironcast pledges, but he referred to his votes on all great questions as the surest tests of what his future course would be. When in Parliament he helped to carry the repeal of the na vigation laws, and the removal of the disabilities of the Jews. He was ono of the small majority that first enabled Mr Locke King to carry the prin ciple of a £lO county suffrage, and he had had the pleasure of voting with the late Mr Joseph Hume for a large extension of the suffrage in towns, on the ground that the exclusion of the working classes was the chief defect of the Reform Bill, 1832. For the adoption of the ballot he had voted with Mr Berkeley, though by itself he did not think it would produce political purity, but must be one of a com bination of measures for that purpose. With re- sprct to the administration of the country, Mr Tor rens expressed the opinion 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 necessarily 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 ehould 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 should advocate retrenchment of public es penditure not only in general terms, but in detail. With respect to an important question—the law relating to the relief of the poor and the mode in which ityas administered—while he thought public opinion was not ripe for the adoption of a national and equal rate, he thought the time had come for the abrogation of the law of settlement and the adop tion With respect to the metro polisofitaseulfr: while he e he could not agree with Mr. Avrton and other advocates of a federal metropo litan municipality,question e thought it was an open and a -ow such boroughs as Finsbury' iirittflU a compact mass, and exercise ence on Parliament and upon could th er b e e g w t e m i d a e t a d the Government for the time being. They would never do so in their present state, and for their own sakes, apart from general questions, it was ex tremely important they should have the advantages of local self - govenment. The hon. and learned gentleman, after stherting in very felicitous and eloquent terms to other matters, concluded by stating that he asked no one to pledge himself to support his candidature should a better man appear in the field. In that case he would be the first to withdraw from it. If not, he promised, should ho be elected to represent that important constituency, that he would render an annual account of his stew. ardship, and take every opportunity of ascertaining the views of his constituents, though he did not promise he would always act upon them. When he could not do se honestly he would return the trust they had ccnfided to him. EPPS, (Cheers.) Dr. in a very a ble and telling speech, moved—" That tlis meeting having listened to a statement of the political principles of Mr. Torrens, which he consistently and efficiently advocated for many years in p ar li ame nt, expresses its opinion that he is eminently qualified to become a repre sentative for rinebury in the House of Commons, and pledges itself to use its best exertions to secure his return for this borough in the ensuing Parlia ment," short Arr. HcooP:v'eorosai)tsieocno, i n which Mr. Collins, Mr.nded the resolution, and after a Elt, and other gentlemen took part, the resolution was carried with two dissentients, on the under standing that it did not bind those present who did not aotually vote for it. At the same time no gen tleman present offered any opposition to Mr. Tor rens, but merely reserved their freedom of selection for the future, The following gentlemen were than elected a committee to promote the election of Mr. Torrens, with power to add to their number ;—Messrs. J. I, Hopwood, Dennis APDonnell, Chas. D. Tolme, Hugh Owen, John Robert Hall, Richard Moore, John Lloyd, Rawles Fattison, William Birkbeck, T. Bounce, James Scott, Samuel Smith, M. Samuel, John Walker, William Walker, &C. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. HAMPSTEAD-HEATS AND THE NEW SETTLED ESTATES Act —Among the last acts passed was one, which• has just been issued, to amend (he Settled Estates Act of 1856. As introduced, it was expocted that the act would lead to the inclosure of a part of llampstead-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 alterations were made to POMO tin IMF 911 the giuli,lct% LATEST ItiTELLIGENCE. [ REUTER'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 maneeuvring until the main body, consisting at least 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 263. The City of London takes 437,305 dots, in specie. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 20. The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, Capt. Meyer, sailing hence to-day for New York, direct with the German, French, and English mails, takes out 119 cabin passengers and a large cargo of general merchandise and jewellery, from Havre, value 105,000 f. MARSEILLES, JULY 17. The Messsgeries Imperiales steamer Said, Cap tain Burnet, left this port to-day with the mails, 45 passengers, 602 packages and specie, value £215,360, for India and China, and 55 passengers, 2,097 packages and specie, value £93,480, for Alexandria. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 19.—The market has been heavy, caused in some measure by the arrival of English Consols with lower quotations. Threes, for the Account, have receded to 66f. 25c. Mobilier have also declined, the price being now 1,005 f. Rail way shares little in demand, but previous rates up to the present time pretty well maintained. The market closed as fellows : 4t per Cents 94 20 Do. end month — Italian Loan 67 90 Do. end month 6B 10 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 20 Credit Mobilier...,looB 75 Do. end month 1006 25 Bank Shares 3375 Credit Fonder 1220 Roman Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt Deferred RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans B7B 75 Northern 975 976 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 897 50 .. 897 50 New ditto Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lorpbard North of Spain • 433 75 .. 435 Saragossa 532 50 .. 53:5 Ditto to Barcelona SPAIN. Account. Th 6 Madrid Gazette publishes the text of the new bill on the press lately sanctioned by the Queen : "The principal characteristics of this measure cone sist in three special dispositions-Ist, for submitting to the bishop of the diocese all writings on religious doctrines, the Scriptures, and Christian morality ; 2dly, that, for investing the Ministry of the Interior with the power of regulating as it pleases the adver tisements, sale, and distribution of journals; and, lastly, that which represses and punishes offences not provided for by the penal code. Such offences, committed by attacking or turning into ridicule the Roman Catholic religion and its worship, or by insulting the sacred character of its ministers, are to be punished with imprisonment; if they consist of exciting to the abolition or the change of the said religion, or in leading to the introduction of any other form, the punishment is to be imprisonment with hard labour. In either case a fine of from 109 to 500 piastres is to be inflicted." ITALY. A Turin letter, of the 16th, contains the follow jog : Since the day on which the Chamber had to judge the conduct of M. Tofani, no sitting more to be regretted than that of yesterday has been held. This was the second time that tho Assembly had been transformed into a chamber of accusation. The seats were all full in spite of a heat of 80 deg. Fahrenhejt. 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 in the affairs of the Southern railways, ascended the tribune, amidst a profound silence, to read his report. After tracing the history of the concession of the said railways, the speaker said that the task of the committeee of inquiry had been the more difficult that the accusations brought forward applied not only to MM. Bastoggi and Susani, but to ether deputies. When the Parliament granted the concession to M. Bastoggi in preference to Baron de Rothschild, a rumour was current that the above-named deputy 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, bad admitted that 30 votes: had been sold for a sum of 3,000,000 f. ; that the mission of effecting the transaction had been offered to this deputy, but 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 almost all the members of the com mittee appointed to examine the bill and the concession. The committee of enquiry, however, added that it was happy not to have discovered any proofs of collusion or engage ments between its members and the concessionary. The report then 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 M, de Rothschild ; for that service M. Susani received a bonus of 1,200,000 f, which he discounted at Milan for 675,000 fr. The report does not conceal the fact that the explanations fur nished by MM. Bastoggi and Susani do not appear satis factory, and terminates with the following conclusions :- Ist. That the vague rumours and suspisions of corruption put in circulation against the deputies on the subject of the southern railways aro 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 sou thern railways, are also dissipated ; 3d. That the interest and dignity of the Chamber nevertheless require that the office of deputy should be incompatible with the function of directors, or the position of parties interested in undertakings eulaventioned by the State, or which may be placed in opposition to those of the State s ; 4th, That M. Susani, at the moment in which he was a member, and even secretary to the committee charged to make a report on the Rothschild concession was the adviser of M. Bastoggi ; that he participated in M. Bastoggi's undertaking, and that pro priety required that he should first have given in his resig. nation as a member of the Parliament Committee, which he did not ;do ; 6th. That the sum of 1,200,000 f., brought in question in the Weill-Achott trial, was the bonus des tined for N. Susani in return for his co-operation ; 6th. That M. Bastoggi ought not to have accepted the aid of Susani, knowing him to be a member of the Parlia watery callnittao ; 7th, That M Saatoggi, iu 4007* as he has done, has been wanting in the respect due to a member of a Parliamentary Committee; that M. Susani 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. Bastoggi asked per mission to speak, but as the hour was late, his reply was put off until the next day. In the following sitting he spoke at great length, ant] was listened to with silence, mingled with respect. His defence did not, howeTer, ap pear to produce much effect on the Chamber." It may be remembered that the telegram has al ready announced that the conclusions of the com mittee were voted by 153 votes to 10, with 43 abstentions. The New Reform Movement, Lst evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bethnal-green and the East-end of London was held at the Peel-grove Institution, for the purpose of advancing the cause of Parliamentary Reform, by the adoption of manhood suffrage as the basis of representation. Mr. Hilton having been voted to the chair, Mr THOMAS BUFFHAM moved a resolution to the effect that the time had arrived when the 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 ez• tended to all resident and registered adult males, persons of sound mind and unconvicted of crime. The resolution was seconded by Mr W. R. CREMEA, 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 BLIGII next moved a resolution, in effect that a committee be appointed for taking the neces sary steps and raising the necessary funds for carry ing into effeet 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 ohairman. Historical Anecdotes about the Savoy, The Church of St. Mary-le-Savoy, as it had long been improperly called, last week perished by fire —all but the bare walls. Properly, it was the royal chapel of St. John the Baptist, which the parishioners of St. Mary-le-Strand were empowered 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 Eleanor of Equitaine housed her uncle, Peter Earl of Savoy, six centuries ago. It was not even in that old palace in which the conscientious French King, John, died in honourable 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 Wat Tyler and his fellows, in their especial rage against John of Gaunt, burnt all that would burn oil' the edifice in 1381. Till the beginning of the 16th century the place lay in ruins, but in 1505 Henry VII. built the church, or chapel, which has been so recently destroyed, as the chapel of the hos pital of St. John the Baptist, for the relief of 100 poor men. In about fifty years this religions foundation went the way of all others in England, and though the hospital was subsequently restored and for some time maintained, the Savoy precinct became as notorious for thieves and beggars, as for the lame, the sick and the vagabond, who considered them selves privileged to claim succour from the Master of the.llespital of the Savoy, an cffice which was much coveted, and which Cowley struggled ineffec tually to obtain. The old hall 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 efficial 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 bad its literary aspect, too ; all proclamations, acts of Parliament, and Gazettes used to issue from the royal printing press established in the precinct ; and there Fuller lectured, if he did not write his Worthies; The walls of the old cruciform hospi tal were standing in Pennant's time, and in 1816, Ackermann published a view of the ruins as they were in their last condition, before they were swept away. They look far more picturesque than the ancient palace itself does, in the picture of Dulwich College. The royal chapel, which was made paro chial after the "impious destruction" of the parish church of St. Mary-le-Strand, by the Duke of Somerset, did not always hold its own with dignity. While the Dutch, German, and French congregas 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 regu:arity," and all for a guinea, the five shilling stamp ine2uded. Very significant are the concluding lines of tiro advertisement, which tell lovers longing to be mari:ied 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 ma: riage did not deter the " Savoy parsons" till the Rev. Mr Wilkin son. came to grief. For performing the ill;cit care mony, Wilkinson was informed against by—E; mong others—no less a person than Garrick, and the re ve rend gentleman was transported. His son, bat 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 ; an d as the flames, bursting forth, no one could well tell whenco or how, though the blame is laid on the gas, swept through the structure, down fell many a noble monument of the noble dead, or stood but to be unsightly and marred—for there slept Rolcebys, and Douglases, and ladies of note, and soldiers of renown, with monuments to .some buried elsewhere, and " the bowels only" of one, and he, the great Earl of Clifford, with no memo rial at all ; and, perhaps more truly worthy than any of them, the poet who chanted the praises of liberty under a tyrant, and piety in a licentious age, cheerful and religious George Withers Fes now under the superincumbent ruins caused by the fire. Her Majesty has graciously announced her intention to repair this ruin at her own cost. Vivat Regina M. HACHETTE, THE FAMOUS PUBLISHER OF THE 64 CHEMIN DE FER"—recently reportsd to be dead —has an establishment which is one of the Paris lions. Of the enterprising way in which business is carried on there, some opinion may be formed from the fact that a young and talented avocat is paid 12,000 francs a year for writing the advertisements of the works which are brought out in it." A branch establishment is in London, at the corner oL King William-street, Strand, a spot that has recently become quite a market for dealers in books, and which bids fair to become a sort of Weat•end Paternoster-row, LITERATURE. Memoirs of Queen liortense, .Mott er of Napoleon Compiled by Sir Laseelles Wraxall, Bart. , and Robert Wehrhan. New Edition. One vol., pp. 436. Hurst and Blackett. As another, the twenty-seventh if we reraemb°'r rightly, of the Messrs. Hurst and Blackett's charming series of Popular Modern Works, pub" lished in compact and cheap one-volume editions, in the form of a really, and not alone aominallY, 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 Meraoirc —emphatically The " Memoirs of Queen H o rteneel i The mother of the reigning Emperor of France, the Emperor Napoleon 111, ! The daughter of the Bra' press Josephine when the latter wee simply the Wife of the Viscount de Beauharnais ! Hortense, the beautiful and accomplished Hortense—herself the wife of Louis, King of Holland ! Hortense--vcb ° first emerged from comparative obscurity as the step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte ! Rising (together with the other members of those two favoured races, the Bonapartes and the Beanharnais)—with the rise of that most wonder' ful adventurer (using the term in no invidious sense) that the world has ever seen I General at twenty-five, Consul at thirty, Emperor at thirty' four, Conqueror, King-maker, Lawgiver, Hero and Sage, Orator and Historian I " The greatest O f Poets," according to Beranger ! " One of the noblest of rhetoricians," according to Brougharn, According to William Napier—' the Soldier of Soldiers I": According to all subsequent Ini. ll. tary historians, unrivalled among all great Captains save 'by one, and that one 1 1014 niball As Lord Byron sang in his Child') Harold --'The greatest nor the worst of men I" As Charles James Fox averred—" I believe him to be one of the best, as I am certain he 1° the greatest or men I" He who had entered i° triumph all the great capitals of Europe—Vieno c l Berlin, Milan, Madrid, Moscow, as conqueror, among other great powers, of Austria, Prussic' Italy, Spain, Russia! He who, from being a younge r son of a Corsican Barrister, had made himself Eui" peror of France, King of Italy, Mediator of Sviit" zarland, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine—creating his elder brother Joseph 1 0 ° 5 first of all of Naples, afterwards of Spain--b i° brother Louis, King of Holland—his brother Serape' King of Westphalia—his brother-in-law Joachim Murat, King of Naples—one of his lieutenants' Junot, Governor of Portugal—besides causl e g a variety of others to become occupan t° of minor thrones in that marvellous arrange' went of the European System, the headsb'P of which constituted him, in a manner, for series of years Lord Paramount over the lengthe n breadth of the Continent. At any period in th e history of modern Europe since the close of ti le , Great Napoleonic Era, since the death, that is; .°:, the hero himself on the memorable " Cinq A l5l, 1821, on the rocky island of St. Helena—an authe° 4 tic narrative of the Life and Adventures of his felt and famous step-daughter and sister-in-law Hortense nee Beanharnais, would have been a s ubje°' of eager curiosity to all endowed with a liveli er appreciation than the generality,"of the peculiar_, interest appertaining to the romance of hist ory ' Published, as the joint work of Sir Lascelle° Wraxall, and Robert Wehrhan has been, since th e restoration to supreme power in France of the Napoleon Dynasty, and that moreover in the Per t° of the third and youngest of the sons of Queen Hortense herself—the Prince Louis Napoleon , n ° for more than a dozen years past Emperor France under the glorious title of Napoleon 1 11 . the work comes before us with a witchery of its O that it would be difficult to exaggerate: ilovi ever the story of this life might be related, it could not fail to read otherwise than wondrously, as thoor; it were the record of some extravagant fiotl° rather than the account of a succession o f eve°o each of which, marvellous though it may a p pear ~,s t now while reading about it, was neverthelees all that a veritable realty. It is, of its ki.° a sort of fairy tale in its way. It is us astooi shi l in the marvels it recounts as any one of the thou sand and one Arabian figments told to the bre stbles : r interest of the Sultan-Caliph, by the Vizier s daughter, the Sultana Sheherazade ! 1 1 °Nc eve 0 recounted, we repeat, the faithfully related Memoirl of, Queen Hortense could not but have p ossesse d this attraction for, could not but leave wields this glamour over the general run of reade r o i whether readers of history or readers e, romance. Penned, as they have been b et a , however, in this graceful and courtly ne rr eo five, by biographers who seem to sound th e Preis 40 of their heroine to the flourish of golden true3Pctt —the incidents here brought to view by tbe r° o o seven-and-forty romantic chapters, might 111111 00 be said to pass before ns with all i pomp and panoply of some stately nirofjc rial procession. Now and then one is 01°1 tempted to swallow, not a mere grain or two , to a large handful of salt in order to get down P er o culars, in themselves apparently too huge e to portentous in their way; for easy passage, c ° op . speak, down the gullet of our credulity ! Yet eli.of there in those exceptional instances where be ll in the events referred to, appears to be so 't!tf o i difficult, we are fain to swallow the aatoalad/e, statements—cum (out sine) grano salis—rem e c, ing as who can fail to do bow often, how of t p g the word " impossible," as the wouder-werljo hero himself said was swept out of Napole°oo vocabulary by Napoleon himself. And so--b rea d light of Napoleon's own history—we fees balievingly these enthralling Memoirs of a li o Hortense—mother of Napoleon's successor, o f tb a, rehabilitater of Napoleon's throne in Paris, of o a restorer of Napoleon's empire over France among the chief Powers of Christendom. City Sewers Commission, Yesterday the Commissioners of Sewers of the CPI,' o( London met as usual at the Guildhall, for the despetv°-4. public business. The Chairman, Henry De Jersey' lice; presided, and among the Commissioners present we n ° B ede Alderman J. C. Lawrence, Deputy Farrar, Deputy at e Deputy Elliott, Deputy Larkin, Deputy Bower , P J , °P Lloyd, Deputy Burnell, Deputy Perkins, Messrs. ue,oil Walter, Fox, T. Symonds, Chaplin, Young, Dg'tis' Cole, Botterill, Green, Farlow, Burrower, &c. lily BAY The Solicitor, to the Comecission, Alexander I. of ). Esq., reported that on the sth inst. , he c aused to b° ,t3too' damned, before Alexander J. C....i..awrence, at the 0 113. . by house, four quarters of an ox which had been sro e ,toL / as p actor Wylde, in Leadenhall -market, a nd formed 01-01). an animal that had died of diesease. The meat v0 1e ,,, bB bad, and quite unfit for hu man food . It was ordered t o destroyed, and Alderman Lawrence directed hire I ‘o l o l Baylis) to bring the matter before the Court, in °reit° fi l; 0 further proceedings might be taken against the per° had sent the meat to London. nee r It was decided to instruct the solicitor to mak e the 0„ sary preliminary inquiries with a view to further P r°G r 0 ings being taken against the offender. Dr. Letheliblo%34 medical officer of health, reported on t he state of 259' i t to' that had been inspected during t he week, and he ea l g i a 0 0 ° a list of 114 places for san a t or y im p rovement. submitted a list of places w hich r eq uired further Pr° cote ings on account of orders alread y issued, but not Yet plied with. If ill; -11 The markets and slaug ht e r. h ouses had boll 0 t epected, and the officers had condemned 3,403 1 bs * unfit for human foo d . Nearly the whole of it Ws." diseased conditio'n. t tha",, o t The returns of last week (says Dr Letheby) el° now births and 57 deaths were registered in th e Cit y . 1 11f3 - : o f deaths is just the average for the correspoudiv vPef °,`"3 of the last eight years '26, or just half of tho d°'9 an d t I among children of less than five years of eg° , lo co . 4 a mong old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief c01;iL; death were as follows :—Phthisis 4, pneumon ia 1, tc° ti,5 11 1 a 2, mesenteric disease 4, hydrocephalus 1 , wh oo p i 0/1 , infantile diarrhoea 3, continued fever 4 , scarlet feve.dio'srit" measles 4, making together 9 deaths from tuberetiOr i d fro' 2 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, fo ld L eer ~; diseases of a zymotic character. Dr, Letheby fur,, a 1 0 tP ported that the illuminating power of the gas suPP/Itoehts n r city during the week had been above the requir,° the act of Parliament; but the average amount 0 1 00 11 " of the Chartered and Great Central Ga s had be°l3 • the quantity sanctioned by Parliament. ot her Dti". The Commissioners, after transacting setae ness, adjourned. _ CIIARLE S DICKENS'S NEW SERIAL Messrs. Chapman and Hall, acc ording iffotnol Reader: have bought the copyrigh t of " °tit' /,°°°d Friend." The fortunate author rece ives, they BY. —X6,000 on the issue of the firs t, a nd the remaining'- on the completion of the tale,