The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

tRISTOL, JuNE S.W.—A•trd. Ina, Jamaica; ah "E 4 Y, Aft•ica.; Pomona and Parch ise, Trinidad;t Merdd, Bsrbadoei; Standard, St. John's, new Bruns wick. NEWPOR T y JUNE 9.—Wind E.—Sld. Aginoria, New "It; Li Dorado, Qlebec; Edward, ditto. The Friends, of . "V Oaa^ went on the rocks at Strumble Head, on the " ot June, and immediately sank; crew saved. IyVEENSTOWN, JUNE 8 —Wind W.S.W. —Acrd. 4; 1 ;, ° 13 ritig, Callao; London , ditt o ; Pearl, Buenos es. r DE AL. JUNE 9.—Wind squally.—Arrd. est , s, Colombo. Arid. from the River, Susan, G. BY Pe ns, New York. Arrd. from the River and s,iled 1 , 1 ! 1 ' Robert Peel, New York. Sid. Earl Grey, Sydney, A lt South Wales ; British Sovereign, Melbourne; e,, ll3 , a ret Calcutta ; Duke of Argyle, ditto ; Dahlia, 4, 3 ''°n; Unity, Algoaßay ; Victory,Cape of Good Hope; Ml ll Wise, Demerara; St. Croix, Honduras; Durham, ontreal ; Louisa, Quebec; and others. A large num rof casks of tallow, apparently the cargo of a ship, ,Pl 3o sed from the Australian colonies , tog ether with * Ors, &c., also pieces of the ship's plank v er y much l o tt were fallen in with 19th May, lat. 37, N. long. " by the Earl of Balcarras, arid. here from Born- Ti l Y , Which hove to and picked up the casks of tallow. vessel was supposed to have been only recently h"ltTS r nt, the cargo being so much together. OUTII, JUNE 9.—Wind W .S.W., hard.—Arrd. !jean Congress, New York , a nd sld. for London. ". ner M a j es ty's steamer Devastation, West Indies. s ° I3 THAMPTON, JUNE 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Severn 41 ner, Bra z il. VIatOUTFI, JUNE 9.—Wind W.S.W. , fresh.—Arrd. re de S u d, T. JOH N ' S *, N E WFOUNDLAND, MAY 20 . — The schooner wo 41 ", Plymouth to Sr. Anthony , on the F rench shore, 4 8 .% stove and sunk in the ice May 4, in lat. 53, long. t rf erew saved after being eleven days on the ice , and 1 0 1 Nd at Greenspond Bonavester; six passengers were t nu the ice. MARKET NEWS.-(T 11 IS DA/ .) HAT IVIAZIL ' ETS. TrlFlELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 41 4s; Clover, 0 to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 11 is tv 11 9 s per load.. Ply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. rlulftnEßLAND. Meadow Hay, 31 3 s to 41 81 ; i, °v er,3/ 5s to 41 8s; and Straw,l/ 2 s to 11 Ils p er load. Ve steady, at full prices. 11/TECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 31 Oi to 41 is; er, kodorate 315 a to 41 10s; and Stra, I/ Is to 119 s per load. supply, and as luggi w sh demand. c OLONs.a.sa. ,The markets are closed to-day for public sales. 'EA.—The market is steady, and the deliveries last increased. 41 4.0w.—There is not much doing. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) BRIGGS V. PENNY.-WILL CONSTRUCTION. g i appeal against a decree of Vice - Chanc ellor 14 night Bruce was opened on Friday last and seas re timed this morning. The questions in the case turn 4 4, the validity or invalidity of legacies left by the Hon. 188 Harley, and as to whether Miss Penny, her ex -I,lltrix, took the residue for her own benefit, or as trus -0! for the next of kin of the testatrix. The Vice -IViecellor held her to be a trustee of the residue. t 4" Solicitor-General resumed his argument this orning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) RICE V. GORDON. T his part-heard petition was proceeded with: t his m orning. The cause, which has been frequently be fore be Court, arose. out of bill transactions between the irdons and a Mr. Scarlet, who had discounted bills for p.eir accommodation. On the original hearing. Lord ; 413 gdale directed an issue, to ascertain whether Scarlet • lls the bona fide holder of the bill in dispute between o e Parties The petition now was upon the question of ,tB. VICE-CHANCERY. —(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) JONES v. BRICE. M erest arguments in this Welsh suit, which are o f no pith except to the parties concerned, were proc eeded this morning. t , (Before Vice-Chancellor Lord CRINWORTH.) 4 4 Lordship this morning heard and disposed o f a L umber of short claims and causes. (Before Vice-Chancellor TURNER.) BEADON V. LING. ),This cense, relative to the lands belonging to the pre adary o f Wiv e l e scombe, the circumstances of which 0 already•appeared in our columns, was again re ' . 1111 ;_ed. Bazalgette proceeded with the evidence for the ti fr. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The Court took the special paper this morning , b ut ja°. cases argued were not of suf f icient importance to tifY a report. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) m llothing of the slightest public interest took p lace in un a Court during the morning. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice EaLE.) QUEEN V. ASKEW. t H U DDLESTONE • applied to the Court tor a habea s been to bring up the body of this prisoner. He ha d "h committed to the House of Correction by the ma !istrates of Staffordshire, for absenting himself from his m aster's employ; but there was a defect in the warra n t of Commitment, and as the imprisonment was ca lculated to do him a serious injury, he sought to obtain his im mediate discharge on this ground. Application granted. GILL V. FOWLER. This was a n actionbrought by an attorney to recover " sum of 341. 7s. 6d., being the amount o f his bill of te sts against the defendant, who was a repo rter. The te sts were i ncurre d in prosecuting a suit for libel against the Daily News, but as the defendant was not forth t°4ling with funds, the plaintiff refused to procee d an y fu rther with the action, and brought the pres ent action to recover his costs up to the period f n ueri the sui, was abandoned. On the trial, be "re Dar. Justice Wightman, the defendant called 1 : Witness to prove that the plaintiff undert ook bring the action and carry it to trial for 71., but in 443 rver to this defence the plaintiff produced a let ter _w ritten_ in the name of the defendant, wherein it was R ated that if he continued the proceedings in the action 1 , 411 his cos ts should be paid in the course of a few days. ' 4 r. Justice Wightman held thatt this letter got rid of s ',..Qo 17/, agreement, and the jury returned a verdict for ralQ plaintiff. The defendant now applied in person for a to show cause why a new trial should not be bad, on the ground that the producti on of the letter had ' token him by surprise, or he could have shown that it Wes written by a friend, and related, in fact, to the 71. `lPplication granted. MARLBRO'-STREE r --(THIS DAY.) , A COUPLE OF SMASHERS.— George Gray and Ann Lewis, two well-dressed persons, were brought before 4 4. Hardwick, charged with uttering two counterfeit shillings. Mr. John Roberts, landlord of the Bunch of Grapes, win -court, Shepherd's-market, stated that about half- Past seven on the previous evening the prisoners came kto his house and called for a quartern of gin, which earns to fourpence, and in payment the male prisoner tendered the shilling produced. Witness not liking the appearance of the coin, tried it in the " detector," and broke it in halves. He told the prisoner it was a bad shilling, and while he was speaking an officer came in and took them into custody. Daniel May, 357 City Police, said, about five o'clock la s t evening he saw the two prisoners walking together in Fleet-street, and followed them from thence to Half- Moon-street, Piccadilly, where he saw the prisoner Gray Ito into a public-house, leaving the female outside the door. When he came out witness entered the house and ascertained from the landlord that he had endeavoured to pass a bad shilling there. He then followed them as far as Shepherd's-market, and saw them both go into the house of last witness, where they passed a second counterfeit shilling. Witness went into the house and took them in charge. On searching the male prisoner be found 11. 10s. in silver, and on the woman seven farthings. They were both known to the police as " smashers." The prisoners were remanded till Thursday, for the attendance of the Mint solicitor. WANTON MISCHIEF.-- William Elphick, the lad who was charged at this court on Wednesday last with wil fully boring two holes in a large gin vat, whereby about 20 gallons of gin was destroyed, belonging to his master, Mr. James White, Spread Eagle, Oxford-street, was brought up for re-examination. The 'report of the former examination has already appeared in this journal, and as there was no further evidence adduced, the Magistrate eaid the case being one of wilful damege he had not the power of interfering, but if the prosecutor thought proper to indict the pri soner at the sessions he (Mr. Hardwick) would hold him to bail, in one surety of 401., and himself in the like amount, to appear at the se ssions to ans wer any charge that might be made against him. Mr. White thanked the magistrate, and expressed his determination to prosecute. ACCIDENT TO Ma. JOHNSTONE OF ALvA.---An accident happened to Mr. Johnstone of Alva on Saturday ] last, which, had it not been for the preFence of mind dis played by that gentleman on the occasion, might have been attended with serious, if not fatal consequences. Mr. John stoJe had been engaged in visiting several of the consti tuency on that day, and while riding past Logic, his horse, a high-bred animal, but remarkably quiet in temper and steady, suddenly put his foot on a sharp pointed stone, which brought him down as quickly as if he had been shot. For tunately he did not fall upon his rider, but as he was re , gaining his feet, Mr. Johnstone found that his foot was so fixed in the stirrup that he could not ecate it, when he in a moment placed his other toot to the heel of the en tangled boot, ai.d succeeded in drawing it completely from his leg, leaving it dangling in th e stirrup as the horse started to his feet. Dr. Stein, of Menstrie, who happened to be visiting a patient in the neighbourhood, was imme diately sent for, but Mr. Johnstone, although considerably shaken, was fortunately in no way seriously injured, and was able to proceed to Alva House.— Stu-ling Journal. MEDICAL ADVICI3.—" Sir," said a hypochondriacal patient, while describing his symptoms to Abernethy, " I feel a terrible pain in my side, when I put my hand up to my head." " Then, sir," exclaimed the mild physician," why the deuce do you put your hand to your head ?" The reports from the Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets speak of the complete absence of activity. Coffee and sugar were without the least change, and rice and tea manifested symptoms of weakness. Indigo, although there was not much business, was maintained with some firmness. THE SUN, LONDON, T ITESDAY SPORTING NOTES. No. LTV. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—MrJtaugan's communication relativ:t., to the non-starting of Russborough, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday, explains away to a great extent se veral ideas not very creditable to him which the public mind had laid hold of. He states " that immediately upon landing in England on Monday last, and finding the commission I had given to back Russborough not executed, I went to Tattersall's, and publicly declared that I should not start my horse for the Empiror's Cup, unless I could get a stake on him." This was all very well, tut the announcement was made in too private a manner to reach the ears of the public generally; it ought to have been posted, instead of which it was con fined to a small portion of the members of the Subscrip tion-room. It did not reach the ears of the reporters to the public press, consequently was of comparatively little service to the sporting world generally. Agate, he says, that he did not hear " the horse's name mentioned in the ring on the course on either day of the races pre viously to the Cup being run for." That may have been the case for more reasons than one, but it was mentioned elsewhere, and very heavily supported. lam not one of those who advocate that curious doctrine that, because the public choose to back any particular horse, whether good or bad, Lightfoot to wit, it thereby be comes, in a peculiar sense, the public property; although, at the same time, I consider it to be the more honourable course, should the horse have been tried high and not found wanting in the necessary requisites, more especially if for such an important stake as the Derby, Chester Cup, &e., to run it on its merits, that is, provided the public have selected it to bear the weight of their investments, and this to hold good whether the owrer is "on " himself, or not. Of course these ideas of mine do not apply to small stakes, to any, in fact, but the leading handicaps, Derby, Oaks, St. Leger, &c.; or even to those where early notice is given that the horse will not start. There is a consider able amount of truth in the following lines, extracted from a poetical effusion of Lord M—'s published in 1847 : iorses are not the public property I ! The public never paid one single farthing . To keep the owner or his horse from starving; The public bet, tout, bother, and forestall, And if they burn themselves, the public squall." The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes at Hampton, to my view, look very like a certainty for Gladiola or Abdal lah. Old Dan Tucker is " talked about" this morning. Rhesus is considered a first-rate thing for the Manches ter Cup; as is Uriel for the Northumberland Plate. I doubt much whether the former will come off; I should take Pandemus and Candlewick in preference. W. H. M. P. B. is informed that should the present favourites continue well for the St. Leger, Exeter will have no chance. For answers to other queries sce Derby article t0.13:101TOW. I nro , Sir, yours, &c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. June 10,1851. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT TERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. A heavy settling and a crowded room prevented much business on future events; two or three horses, however, were backed with considerable spirit, and enough was done to admit of a list of prices:— SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Abdallah—taken 4 to 1 apt Sir J. Hawley's Gladiole—taken NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 4 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel GOODWOOD CUP. 10 to 3 agst Sir R. Pigot's Essedarius—taken 10 to 1 agst Baron Maltzahn's War Horse 12 to 1 agst Count Hahn's Mon , es 16 to 1 agst Prince Galitzin's Young Altisidora ST. LEGER. 7 to 2 agst Sir J. Hawley's Aphrodite—taken 7 to 1 agst Lord Enfield's Hernandez—taken 10 to 1 agst Lord John Scott's Misserima—taken DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Lord J. Scott's Brother to Elthiron 28 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Homebrewed—t 30 to 1 agst Mr. S. Davidson's Vortex—taken 33 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Houlakin—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Daniel O'Rourke—taken 33 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Claverhouse 40 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Lapidist—taken 45 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—taken A paragraph having appeared in our paper, headed "Not to be Done," we beg to state that at the time of its appearance we knew nothing of the gentleman who now complains of it; and although Nro do not think it bears the offensive meaning which he now attributes to it, we have no hesitation in expressing our regret that it should have appeared in our columns. ROYAL HENLEY-ON-THAMES REGATTA. Yesterday a meeting of the stewards, competitors, and others interested in these races was held in the town-hall, Henley, for the making of the usual prelimi nary arrangements for the regatta, which is to take place upon the 17th and 18th. The following have already entered : GRAND CHALLENGE ClTP.—Cambridge University Boat Club, and another conditionally. LADIES' CHALLENGE PLATE.—Cambridge First Trinity Boat Club (Black Prince) and another club con ditionally. STEWARDS' CHALLENGE CUP.—Several boats condi tionally. VISITORS' CHALLENGE CUP. Cambridge First Trinity Boat Club, and another conditionally. SILVER GOBLETS, PAIR OARS.—Messrs. Howard and Williams, Leander Club, London, and Messrs. Hawkins and Symonds. DIAMOND CHALLENGE SCULLS.—C. Clifford, 'Meteor Club, London; G. P. Edwards, Thames Club, London; E. L. Vaughan, J. E. Clarke, and H. Cowie, First Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge; and E. Macnaghten, Trinity College, Cambridge. CHAMPION PRIZE, FOUR OARS.—Newcastle crew, Richard Clasper, Robert Clasper, William Clasper (stroke), and John Clasper (coxswain) ; Richmond, Mackinny's crew; and London, R. Coombes's crew. The races are expected to go off with great eclat, and at present they promise to be more brilliant than those of last year. WRESTLING AT COPENHAGEN- 110 USE. These annual matches, in the Cornish style, com menced yesterday, at the above house, and considering the unsettled rawness of the day, the suburban grounds were most numerously and respectably attended, many of the honourable subscribers being present to witness the play—the prizes being open to all players to con tend for, drew forth a numerous lot of players from dif ferent counties. We have only space to name the win ners in their well-contested matches, Robinson of Cum berland defeating Rattenbury of Devon; Niakolson, of Westmoreland, throwing Moore, of Devon; Pierce, of Cornwall, Dowring lloopel, of Devon. Stephens, of Oxford, played a beautiful winning game with Bowden, of Devon. Several other matches came off, the last being the Giant G 1 oyne cf Devon, being matches against Berryman of C., a fresh man came with the in tentions of wearing home the champion's belt, but the giant very obstinately r( futed his claim, playing a most severe bout with him for upwards of a❑ hour, when night put an end to one of the finest day's wrestling ever seen in London. A NEW MODE OF COOKING OLD POTATOES."' After the Ist of April potatoes ought to be peeled at night for the one or two o'clock dinner, and for late dinners any time before nine o'clock the same day. I have repeated this experiment many times, and the improvement in the quality of the potato is very great. It is well known that, owing to the inherent nature of the potato it will grow in spite of every precaution to stop its growth, leaving the tuber very' spongy and with much of the water extracted out of it. By peeling and steeping them in cold spring water for ten or twelve hours the pores and cells become filled, however limp the tuber may be, and in the process of boiling this fresh water is again discharged, taking with it all bad flavour as well as partly removing the dark spots which all potatoes at this time of the year have. I tried them steeped in salt and water, but the salt turned them dark. I has, e also steeped cut sets, which in twelve hours became firm, and, like steep. ing seeds, they would vegetate directly. Water will, how ever, not penetrate through the tough skin of a whole potato so easily.—Correspondent of a Morning Paper. THE TRUCK SYSTEM IN SOUTH WALES.—At the sitting of the magistrates at Aberdare on Thursday, Mr. F. James appeared on behalf of the Anti-Truck Committee, and filed forty informations against Mr. R. Fothergill of the Aberdare and Treforest Iron Works. Four informations having been previously - filed, the hearing of them was ap pointed for to-day ; previously, however, to their being called on, Mr. Edwards , solicitor of Pontypool, appeared on of the Aberdare Iron Company, and stated that the company having been convinced of their error iu acting contrary to law, were determined to give up the truck system entirely, and that in future all the men should be paid in cash; and further, that every man shoal be at perfect liberty to spend his money where and how he pleased—the company also agreeing to pay all the costs which had been incurred. The Anti-Truck Society, through their solicitor, therefore en gaged to suspend all their proceedings for the present, keep ing, however, the forty informations filed as a guarantee of good faith. The proceedings then terminated. THB w AL o LOT WANTED.--A carpenter of the name of Dash, h gave his vote to Mr. Dawes at the late Isle of Wight election, has been discharged by his employer for so doing. He was unblushingly asked, " Who told you to vote for Dawes ? I did not !" If electors require protection at the hustings from the violence of a mob, how much more does a poor man with a family require protection from the tyranny .of those who would starve him for conscientiously discharging a public duty ? The ballot will go far to accom plish both these desired ends.— Hampshire Independent. The whole number of lawyers in the United States is 21,979, of which number New York has 4,374, Massachu setts 1,040, Rhode Island 112, Pennsylvania 1,739. It is estimated that, supposing 979 to have retired from practice, the annual emoluments of each practising lawyer average 1,500 dolls., making the total income of the profession to be 31,500,000 dolls. REPRESENTATION OF CHATHAM.--A movement is in progreis at Chatham to secure the return of a more active and energetic Member than the Noble Lord who now repre sents the town. It appears that Viscount Enfield has been for some time past intimately connected with the Govern ment, and that whenever lie votes his, support is given to the Administration, whatever may be the wants or wishes of his constituency. The dockyard and other Government establishments at the port of Chatham give the Minister of the day considerable influence over the elections; but still it is believed that, if the requisite energy be shown, a thorough Liberal may be returned. Committees for that purpose will be formed. CLACKMANNAN AND KINROSS ELECTION.. --The fol lowing are the numbers on the gross poll at four o'clock on the first day :—Mr. Johnstone, 300; Mr. Adam, 243; ma jority for Mr. Johnstone, 57. Both candidates are Free traders. The advices from Rouen represent the manufac turing interest as having suffered from increased depression. Prices for most descriptions of fur ther given way, but sales continue to be effe cted With diffi culty. goods, it is state d, have MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.) DUB LIIV UNIVERSITY. The best article in the number for the present month—indeed one of the best magazine articles we have read for many a day—is that entitled "Glean ings after the Spanish Arabs." It is written in a spirit of masculine joyousness worthy of poor Llaginn in his best days. The versions of the Spanish ballads, especially that of " The Saxon Lord and the Moorish Lady," are excellent, and the entire paper is thickly strewn with shrewd and sparkling mortels of obser vation and description. We cordially concur with the writer of the pages on " The United States and Cubs," on the desirableness of the attainment .of in dependence by that magnificent gem of the sea, rather than that she should become a province or colony of either England or America. Let her be delivered from Spain by an honourable compromise, and placed on her own merits, under the joint protection of the two great maritime and commercial powers, and we are much mistaken if all parties are not benefited by the arrangement. The other papers are, a continuation of " Maurice Tierney ;" the conclusion of " A Yarn about our Forefathers ;" on Eliot Warburton's " Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries ;" on Oxen ford's translation of the " Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret," with copious interest ing extracts; on that tale of tinkerdom, Borrow's " Lavengro ;" a poetic collection entitled "Our Gar land for June," in which we find some noble effusions from the late Eliza Mary Hamilton, especially the sonnets suggested by reading the "Lyra Aposto lica," and the fine stanzas on the greatest reformer the world ever saw—Martin Luther, giving as the reviewer well remarks, "such vivid pictures of the life of the poor miner's son of Eisleben—the little shivering boy, who went forth at night to sing for food—the ardent student of Erfurt—the fiery dis putant who tore the Bible from the iron chains that bound it in the house of God, to hurl it in thunder at those who made it a sealed book ;" and " Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager," full, as usual, of pleasant reading. The following passage is from the writer's observations on theatrical criticisms : " Among the principal features of dramatic criticism may be observed a disposition to indiscriminate praise, where private partiality or personal influence has super seded judgment, with occasionally an ambitious desire to write something brilliant, without any distinct notion how the aspiration is to be carried into effect. There is yet another remarkable ingredient of more modern growth, the affectation of interlarding French words and idioms to such an extent, that the whole composition becomes an ill-assorted hybrid, neither French nor English, but an unnatural jumble of bitb, in the midst of which the honest vernacular is bewildered, loses all sense of identity, and wonders what has become of itself, or how it has got mixed up in such a masquerade. Acting a part is now interpreting a idle ; songs are not sung, bat rendered; a play is no longer got up, but mounted; the dresses and decorations are mystified into the mist en scene; and the entire operation is called the tout ensemble. But these are simple obscurities com pared with the idiosyncracies, cesthetics, syncretics, transcendentalisms, and other incomprehensible modernisnis, which, as Junius says of Sir William Draper's figures of speech, dance through' some of these articles in all the mazes of metaphorical con fusion.' These hard compounds, so frequently dragged in, remind us of the poet's lines— " "The words themselves are neither rich nor rare; The wonder's how the devil they got there.' " We should not omit mentioning a Greek version of that renowned ballad " Arrah, Mrs. Magrath, the Sergeant said," to which is appended a convincing argument of " the sergeant" being Agamemnon, " 'fadv" Diomed Tydides, and " Mrs. Magrath" herself Madame Tydeus, veuve. 851 ; or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys. Part V. A glorious etching by George Cruikshank, repre senting the first shilling day—going in, and coming out—is the frontispiece to the present instalment. A glance at the sketch will repay even those who have the faintest appreciation of the ludicrous with a hearty outbreak of laughter. PHELPS'S SHAKSPERE. A reprint of the fourth portion of this exceedingly compact, cheap, and cleverly arranged edition has recently been given to the public, with a portrait and biography of Macready—the latter by Fox, the former by Thorburn. In the eleventh part, just is sued, is comprised the whole of the noble historical drama of Cymbeline. LITERATURE. AN EXCURSION TO CALIFORNIA, tc. By William Kelly, J.P. It were difficult to say with what kind of feeling we regard a book purporting to take us, no matter which way, to that mighty region the world now turns to with such variety of emotion, the land of gold and hardships, of rapid fortunes and lasting misery, of great expectations realised, and sad disap pointments encountered—California, the very name of which might have induced us, nay, did induce us, to pause awhile before entering upon our proposed task, when, partly from prudential reasons, partly from a desire to be fairly introduced to it, we read the author's preface, and all at once we were relieved of much anxiety on finding, is a few words therein contained, ample evidence that the manner in which the writer intended to treat his subject would go far to invest it with that kind of interest we like to feel in a book—in short, that we had before us a readable book ; and right gladly do we now bear testimony to the fact that our surmise was fully correct, and that the work we now recommend to our readers is not only readable but highly entertaining, well written, full of information, and judiciously relieved by a vein of humour which, without detracting from its interest and ability, renders its perusal rather a pleasure than a labour, and lastly, that it bears much internal evi dence stamping it with the seal of truth. But let it speak for itself. At the very outset we find the writer as independent in his narrative as in his preface ; no con fidential communication as to what induced him to write or start, he assumes that he has a clear right to do both, and he does accordingly leap, in medias res. We are at sea, and, as a foretaste of ad venture, we have a touch of sea-sickness, and we, in spite of ourselves, smile at the dire effects of the monster, though not at the startling intelligence for the first time imparted to us, that no less a body than the British Association have hit upon no less a di covery than that of a cure for it. But the thing is said to be as yet a profound mystery, and with volumes of thanks ready to pour forth to that learned body, we await their fiat, and proceed rapidly across the Atlantic to New York, Boston, Albany, Buffalo, (where we take a lesson upon the way to manage matters in a strange country), the Falls of Niagara, ultimately reaching St. Louis. We re sist the temptation of introducing here, as a sample of the writer's humorous style, the narrative of an event which precedes his departure from St. Louis, nd proceed with him to Jefferson City, on our way from which we find a spirited description of a boat race. At length we approach and enter the Prairie ; but here all attempts at following the writer and his companions in their progress across the mighty desert of the west, save in the pages of the fescinating book before us, must be unavailing ; a fearful task it were to analyse the dense mass of anecdotes, discriptions, adventures, records of impressions, hair-breadth escapes, melancholy losses, startling incidents, fatal catastrophes, which crowd upon our attention and command our interest, and all this, and more, only to bring the reader to the scene of action, to the pro mised El Dorado, to the far-famed California, where, one arrived, we start afresh, to follow them through a life richly coloured with the strong contrast of light and shadow, through an endless variety of the vicissitudes of fortune ; but to do this with any de gree of justice or effect we must expose ourselves to the accusation of wholesale piracy, for, unless we quoted the whole, we could hardly deal fairly with any part, so well has the author contrived to make a harmonious whole of the constituent parts of his work, and, in a literary point of view at least, we must con gratulate him upon having drawn from us, perhaps unwittingly, as he admits authors frequently do, the admission that his work contains a fine moral—thus defying the scalpel and the lancet, and proving that union is force ; and to convince him and our readers of the correctness of this, our view of the matter, we echo his farewell sentiments, as an earnest of our wish to see him again a free citizen of the republic of letters, only appending the word Amen. to the expression of his valedictory conclusion. HOSPITAL FOE CONSUMPTION.-STRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT TITS ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA.— The en sning festival, which is to be held in the gardens of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on the l'ith and 18th inst., in aid of the funds of the above hospital, under the patronage of her Majesty, will be got up on the grandest scale, and in addition to the extensive musical and other arrangements, a monster tent, to be planed in the grounds, bas just been completed by Nr. Benjamin Edgington, of the extraordinary dimensions of 200 feet in length and 100 feet in width. ROYAL ARTILLERY.--WOOLWICH, JUNE 7, Captain Maude's company, 9th battalion; Captain Sand ham's company, Ist battalion; and Captain C. J. Dalton's company, Ist battalion, from Canada; and Captain F. Dick's company, Ist battalion, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, assem bled in heavy marching order on the barrack-field on Thursday last, at half-past ten o'clock, and were inspected by the commanding officers of the Ist and 9th battalions and Brigade- Major Bingham. After a minute inspection of the men and their appointments, the officers expressed themselves highly pleased with the clean and soldierlike appearance of the whole of the men of these companies. The men appear in more than ordinary good spirits and health, which they attribute to the unexampled short passage they had, having been only . 131 days from Halifax to Woolwich. T wen ty-six fine young men, recruits from Lisburn, Ireland, joined bead-quarters at Woolwich, in charge of Sergeant M ason , and have been entered to the 4 t h bat talion. THE DEGREE Or CosarAnisorT.—" Gentlemen," exclaimed a Chartist at a public meeting, during a foaming speech about the " fi ve points" and the charter, " is cot one man as good as another ?" "Uv coorse he is," shouted an excited Irishman i n th e crow d, " an d a good deal betther." FINE ARTS. PYNE'S LAKE SCENERY. Almost every week enables us to announce some new pictorial exhibition to the lovers of art, as having been opened somewhere or other is the metropolis. In this manner we have successively notified the ex cellences or defects perceptible in the galleries throughout London from that of the Royal Academy downwards. Nevertheless, while we have repeatedly found reason to eulogize the originators of these col lections, we have seldom had more peculiar cause than in the present instance for felicitating them very cor &ally on their union of judgment and enterprise. To the Messrs. Agnew and Sons, of Manchester, the public are indebted not only for the display of this noble collection of paintings at the establishment of the Messrs. Graves, near the Opera Colonnade, but for, what is of yet greater interest to the mass of the community, the promise of their ultimate re-production in the form of en gravings. It must surely be counted as among the curiosities of the picturesque that, not withstanding the matchless beauty and celebrity of the lake scenery of England, there has been no at tempt until the one here noticed at any consecutive series of pictures by way of their illustration. For tunately, the task has fallen to one of the most gifted artists of our time, one of the most brilliant among the many noble landscape painters of our country and generation—a worthy contemporary of Stanfield, and the most successful among the disciples of Turner. At any period a visit to the apartment adorned by these five-and-twenty exquisite productions would have proved to ourselves peculiarly agreeable, revealing as each picture does the genius of art and the splendour of nature as they are in England, but our satisfaction upon both these heads is, of course, especially enhanced by the presence of so many intelligent foreigners in the metro polis, men who may here be enabled to form something like an adequate idea of the powers of English artists, and of the loveliness of English landscapes. Wbat adds, moreover, very considerably to the pleasure with chick the collection will be viewed, is the fact that so many will be enabled to appreciate the truthfulness with which Mr. J. B. Pyne has delineated the magnificent scenery of Cum berland, as well as the poetic genius he has revealed in the process of that same delineation. Remem brance will tell the majority of spectators the close adherence to reality maintained by the artist, even at moments when to the ignorant he would seem most to have idealized his subject in regard to colour, to per spective, or to elevation. Literary as well as physical recollections will force themselves likewise upon the minds of most people while surveying these remark able drawings, representing as they do spots of our beloved fatherland hallowed by the residence of genius, green nooks familiar to the foot steps of Coleridge, sunny orchards haunted by Hemans, woods and umbrageous coppices where Wordsworth has so often strolled, where Southey has meditated over dreams of oriental romance, where Wilson has mused over the marvels of creation, De Quincey over the wonders of intellectual speculation, and Arnold over the miraculous truths of philosophy. Such is the classic region whose charms have been here pourtrayed by the luminous pencil of Pyne, with not less faithful adroitness if regarded under their most homely, or under their most sublime aspects. The names merely of some of the paintings referred to will be sufficient to remind the generality of the beauty with which, under the hand of Pyne, they are instinct. There is " Buttermere," for instance, (No. 1) and this, too, under the influence of a tempest. Then there are " Bassenthwaite" (No. 2), with a portion of Skiddaw, and " Derwent " (No. 3), with a perspective peeping into Barrowdale, and " Windermere" (No. 4) as it appears when approached from Ambleside, and " Ry der (No. 5), with a sombre darkness over it as if mourning for its great departed, and " Grasmere" (No. 6), with that wondrous gleam of light streaming round the corner of the boulder stones in the fore ground, with the sheep thrown out into bright light, while overhead in the next picture (No. 7), near "Kes wick," the moon floats a pale and ghostly crescent in the watery distance of the sky. Thirlemere, Wy therburn, Wast Water, Lowes Water, Langdale Pikes, Dungeon Gill Force, Ennerdale, Brothers' Water, Crummock Water, are none of them forgotten, each being represented with a marvellous verisimili. tude. " Skiddaw" (No. 10) is depicted with asto nishing power under the appearance it assumes when covered with autumnal snow. " Ulleswater" (No. 11) again is an exquisite composition. The incident of the overloaded timber waggon pausing as it descends from Gowbarrow-park, is charmingly introduced. In (No. 14) a . view em bracing the vale of Keswick, Basenthwaite Lake, and the River Greta, may be recognised one of those pe culiarities of colour which we have already alluded to as observable in the Lake District, the pink clay and pebbles lying in the left-hand corner of the fore ground. Another splendid painting is (No. 17), that of the lake of Windermere, the hand of the artist being everywhere traceable from the fleecy sinus or mackerel sky to the men who have clambered up into the tree tops in the frolics of the regatta. " Hawes Water and Wallergill Force" (No. 19) are rendered with surprising ability, the foaming cascade reminding us in its descent of the impetuous and inspiriting verses of Southey on the cataract. It were frivolous, however, to attemptaaseere matter-of-fact enumeration of the merits of this series of pictures, requiring, as they do, more than one visit for their full and perfect appreciation. Every one familiar with the great and rare powers of Mr. Pyne as an artist — and not only as an artist, but also as a poet and a geologist, a poet in sentiment and a geologist in the minuteness of his observation—will conjecture what must be accomplished by him when, as in the instance before us, he has undertaken to depict the lake scenery of England. To such as these, and to the rest of the public indiscriminately, we commend these five-and twenty most remarkable paintings, which for their representation, not only of earth, or water, of foliage, and of cloudland, but of airy distances and atmos pheric phenomena likewise, must be eulogised as no thing less than artistic masterpieces. THE ART JOURNAL. Still coupled with the Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition, the Art Journal yields each month a splendid specimen of the modern class of periodicals. It is of itself a brilliant evidence of the progress of the age, more especially in regard to enterprise. Wyatt's picture of the " Fair Sleeper" is the principal engrav ing from the Vernon Collection in the present instal ment of the publication, being accompanied by Lance's famous picture of the " Red Cap," so called from the scarlet head gear worn by the monkey. " Excepting Van Os," according to the Art Journal, but excepting no one according to our ow n np i n i a „ , it may justly be said of this gifted artist, that no other person has ever proved so successful as a fruit painter. Foley's lovely stat ue of " Innocence" is the sub ject of the other larger engraving, a fact which will prove agreeable to those who remember the same artist's " Ino and Bacchus," now in the Sculpture-room at the Cr y stal Palace. A. charming portrait and biography of Claude Lorraine lend addi tional attractions to the number, as the seventh por tion of the series entitled "The Great Masters of Art." As embellishments to it, moreover, we have several choice woodcuts, representing some of his most celebrated masterpie ces. Amon g the letter-press we must especially notice an ingenious paper on the Guild of Art and Literature. The supplement, or Illustrated Catalogue, we may observe, is elaborated beyond all expectation. The researches of its con ductors have evidently been at once minute and com prehensive. WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT.--Yesterday, an action was brought by Mr. Hayes, a tailor, to recover from The O'Gorman Mahon, M.P. for Clare, the sum of 61. Bs., for goods supplied and work an d labour done. 41. 16s. had been paid into court. The defendant said lie had paid only that sum into court, being all he considered the plain tiff entitled to. These proceedings, he added, were instituted to obtain the whole demand, it being supposed that he would sooner pay it than expose the transaction in a public court. In the first place he was induced to patronise the plaintiff by seeing one of his circulars, whereinle proposed to make a dress coat for 21. 10s., and wish—in g It o save a better one, he gave him an order, and was charged 3/. He . then gave him cloth to make a " Chesterfield" for 1/. is , but was charged 11. 10s. ; and on showing it to some friends (Lau g her.) In the at the " House, " instead of a " Chesterfield" it waspro nounced by them to be a sack."--- next place, he supplied cloth for a pair of tro t wsers, and for spoiling the cloth plaintiff had charged 83. Gcl., besides 2s. Gd. for altering and re-spoiling them by stitching up the front part instead of the back. —(Laughter.) The other items were similarly exorbitant. A witness, named Whit ney. thought 1/. for making the "Chesterfield" a fair charge. Plaintiff said that the coat was a full-dress blue body coat and a regular wedding coat.—(Laughter.) Defendant—a wedding coat ! Plaintiff—Yee, you told me it was to at tend a wedding in—(Laughter)—and you wore the trowsers for twelve months. Defendant —Why, I declare that I never wore them in my life, for I couldn't get into them.—(Loud laughter.) His Honour, having inspected the plaintiff's bill, gave judgment for 30s. in addition to the money paid into court. THE EXHIBITION AND HOLYDAY TRAINS.—Yes te-day and the two preceding days every line running into London brought monster trains filled with visitors. Oxford contributed a large portion, as did Northampton, Rugby, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Liverpool, &c. Numbers arrived early in the day, one from the Midland line, which was much thronged, but it was towards the evening that the great mass came in from the long journeys. Omni buses, cabs, and every vehicle that could be made available for travelling, were brought out for the accommodation and distribution of the excursionists. The Great Northern' brought up a fair portion of visitors from Yorkshire and the more northern districts. Trains from Colchester, Peterbo rough, Ely, Norwich, and Yarmouth brought several thousands to the metropolis. We could not learn with any accuracy the number who arrived by the cheap trips yester day, no return being taken at the London end, but the num bers who will visit the Crystal Palace in the course of the week will give a tolerable idea. The accounts of the state of business in the pro vinces during the past week have been upon the whole more favourable. At Birmingham there is the utmost activity in almost all departments. The Irish linen trade shows no alteration. EVENING, JUNE 10, lB5l. WHITSUNTIDE AMUSEMENTS DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The long-promised " new romantic p'ay " of ltigornar was produced here last evening with decided success. The original German version has been for some time past very popular in " Father land," and the present English adaptation by Mrs. Lovell, the lady of the author of the Wife's Secret, bids fair to become as popular on the English boards, " provided always" the piece undergo judicious cur tailment, more particularly in the love-making and sentimental scenes ; indeed, we should recommend the condensation of the five acts into three. The scene is laid at Massillia (Marseilles), a Greek colony on the coast of Gaul, about a century after its foundation. The barbarous Alemanni have made an irruption into the colony and carried off Myron (Mr. Cooper), a goldsmith, into captivity. His daughter Parthenia (Miss Vandenhoff), sets off for the barbarian camp, being determined to offer herself as a ransom for her father. Her offer is accepted by the barbarian chief tain (Ingomar), and the Greek girl remains a hostage in his camp, whilst her father is restored to his fa mily. As might have been foreseen, the fero cious barbarian is soon tamed down into the mildest of monsters by love, he becomes the captive of his captive, and eventually sets her free, and detaching himself from his barbaric compa nions accompanies her to Marseilles. Arrived at Marseilles, his love will not permit him to quit her, and he becomes the servant of her father for her sake. The Alemanni besiege the city, and Ingomar is offered by the Greek authorities wealth, honours, power, and Parthenia as his bride if he will betray his country men into the hands of the Greeks. He indignantly refuses to become a traitor, and is preparing to leave the city a beggar, when Parthenia comes forward, avows her love for him, and declares her determination to quit the city with him and share in his wanderings and his fortunes. This, perhaps the most dramatic scene in the play, was acted with exquisite taste and judgment by Miss Vandenhoff and Mr. Anderson, and was much applauded. The Alemanni enter the city, and confer upon Ingomar, who is united to Parthenia, a piece of land outside Masillia, on which to found a new city, and thus all ends happily. There is an under plot of the love of an old miser for Par thenia, and the said miser, the rival of In gomar, eventually gets plundered by the Alemanni, as all such old hunxes should. The whole weight of the play fell upon Miss Vanden hoff and Mr. Anderson, and was admirably sustained. The part of Parthenia being quite within the grasp of Miss Vandenhoff's powers, was excellently acted. It is a part requiring grace rather than passion, and in such parts Miss Vandenhoff always shines. Mr. Anderson's was a fine manly version of Ingomar. As the barbarian he was somewhat rough, but he delineated the gradual process of " taming" very beautifully, and as the reclaimed and civilized Ingomar acted beautifully. The piece was superbly mounted ; the scene representing the Bay and Port of Masillia, was a beautiful picture, and re minded us of the days when Stanfield was wont to paint the scenery for Old Drury. At the conclusion Mr. Anderson and Miss Vandenhoff were called on, and there were loud calls for the authoress, who ac knowledged the compliment from a private box. The house was crowded to suffocation. lIAYMARKET THEATRE. Auber's lively and sparkling opera, The Crown Diamonds, was performed here last evening in a really brilliant manner. Miss Louisa Fyne made . a most fascinating and agreeable Catarina, and Mr. Donald King sang the music of Henrique with great taste and sweetness. The Rough Diamond, with Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitz wiiliarn, followed, and 111 y Friend in Straps concluded the evening's entertain ments, sending a crowded audience laughing home at the amusing whimsicaliti es o f th a t P r i nce o f rollick ing Irishman, Hudson. ADELPHI THEATRE. There was no novelty at this theatre last night. Indeed there was no need of any. The popular drama of the Green Bushes, and the new comic opera of Good Night, Signor Pantalon, were attrac tive enough. The house was crowded in every part, and the audience appeared thoroughly to enjoy the performance. LYCEUM THEATRE. The performances last night consisted of Only a Clod, Court Beautits, and King Charming. The second of these pieces has been revived, principally, we imagine, for the sake of the characteristic dresses in which it abounds. It was one of the most popular of Mr. Planche's dramas when first played at the Olympic Theatre, and when since occasionally repro duced has always been admired. As a spectacle of the period of Charles the Second, in which all the aspects of a Court renowned for its gaiety and brilliancy are set forth, we remember nothing more perfect. The costumes of the ladies are as sumptuuus as they are exact—just as if a group of Sir Peter Lely's beauties had stepped from their canvas to animate and illumine the stage. The repu tation of Madame Vestris in constructing a complete dramatic picture was never more eminently justified than in this bright and costly piece, the resuscitation of which at this holiday period is an act likely to be of advantage to the treasury. Scenic excellence, it is supererogatory to remark, is also the characteristic of King Charming. This extravaganza, brought out at Christmas, ran a great number of nights, and its course was only interrupted by the prescriptive neces sity of producing a novelty at Easter. Its restora tion to the boards now will be welcomed by all who admire artistic scenery, splendid habiliments, and the showiest of showy effects. It returns with all its lustrous decorations unimpaired. The characters, we may add, are sustained precisely as before. The house last night was crowded. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The notion that the Great Exhibition has emptied the theatres is a popular fallacy. Your genuine Cockney knows this full well ; but if there be still any respectable visitor from the provinces who, pin ning his faith on Punch, is still a victim to the de lusion, let him give up the great show next Saturday, and manfully invest his five shillings in a visit to the Princess's, which will straightway disabuse his honest mind, and afford him as good an entertainment as he can get for his money to boot. And yet it was no array of novelties which last night filled the theatre, from the critical and discriminating pit to the vociferating and enthusiastic gallery ; for the per formances were Mr. Slous' clever adaptation of Duress ' s story of Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, The Duke's Wager; Mr. Brough's amusing piece de circonstance, called Apartments, fresh and laugh ter-compelling as ever, even on its nineteenth repre sentation ; and the extravaganza called The Alhambra, which was produced for the first time at Easter. The merits of all these we have already made known, and it is only necessary to say that they were given last night with all their wonted excellence. Indeed the manner in which every piece is put upon the stage at this theatre is something unprece dented in theatrical annals. We used to think that Madame Vestris at the Olympic had carried the mise en scene to its farthest point; but here all her efforts are fairly outdone. What, for instance, could surpass the scenery and decorations in the first piece ? No ancient properties, no dovetailing of scenes originally intended to represent the most hete rogeneous parts of the habitable globe, were there, but everything to the tie of a shoe was chronologi cally correct, and one was instinctively wafted back to the days of Richelieu, and wondered to find him self clad in sober broadcloth of the 19th century. Let no manager, therefore, yield himself up to de spair, but spread a goodly table with good cheer, like that set forth last night in the Princess's Theatre, and he may rely upon it he will find no lack of guests. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. completely full, the gallery, we should opine, incon veniently so , j u d g i ng f rom th e t urmo il and stentorian cries which occasionally resounded from aloft. From such capital entertainment and attendance on Whit- Monday we augur, with cordial wishes for a success ful issue, a flourishing after•season for the elegant little Olympic. STRAND THEATRE. The novelty provided last night for the Whitsun tide holiday folk at Punch's Playhouse—the alias which the Strand Theatre has lately assumed under the management of its present spirited lessee, Mr. W. R. Copeland—was Morton's farce of Th e Eton Boy, in which Mr. Leigh Murray (his first appearance this season) played Captain Popham in a style more than usually effective. He was greeted with all the genuine enthusiasm which an old favourite never fails to elicit from an audience who have heretofore been charmed by his skill. The fun he made of the poor dupe, Dabster—excellently well personated, by the way, by Mr. J. Rogers—kept the company in an almost continuous fit of laughter; whilst the hoax was admirably sustained by Miss Marshall, who was equally felicitous in the double character of Fanny Currey and the Eton Boy. The three were loudly called on the fall of the curtain, and returned to gether to bow their acknowledgments. The acting of Mrs. Leigh Murray, who played Mrs. Scrop Turn bull, in the comedy of Kensington Gardens, being her first appearance also this season, lent additional interest to the evening. Nor can we omit to men tion Mr. Tilbury, whose personation of Doctor Botts in the comic drama of Poor Relation, was a treat of no ordinary kind. The evening's entertainments appropriately concluded with Air. Shirley Brooke's clever burlesque of The Exposition, which sent the audience to their homes in a pleasant humour. At the second performance of Adrienne Lecouvreur last night, there was a brilliant and crowded audience. Her Majesty was present, with the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duke of Wurtemberg, &c. This was the first time her Majesty had assisted at a representation of the drama of MM. Scribe and Legouve, and, so great was the effect produced by Mademoiselle Rachel's powerful acting. that at the end of the play her Majesty sent for Mr. Mitchell and directed him to express to the great tragedian the gratification she bad received from her performance. OLYMPIC THEATRE. After the favourite comedy of My Wife's Daughter, in which Mrs. Stirling, Compton, and W. Farren, elicited their wonted tribute of applause, a new farce was produced, last night, entitled The Fast Coach, which achieved an uproarious triumph. There is nothing very intricate in the plot, and so much the better for a broad, rattling farce, the aim of which is to keep the audience in.a continuous peal of laughter. Mr. Whifflebinks (Mr. G. Cooke), a comfortable old gentleman, wishes his nephew, Mr. Phelix Phastley (Mr. Kinloch), to marry hi s ward, Laura (Miss Adams), both of whom believe they have never seen the other, although they had casually met and fallen mutually in love, and are therefore dutifully bent on frustrating the intentions of the match -making senior. Young Phastley, who has been summoned to town from Oxford by his uncle on this matrimonial business, by a happy accident encounters in the street a quondam servant of his at the University, Jeremiah Boldt (Mr. Compton), who had suddenly decamped f rom his service, and was eking out a vagabond livelihood in the metropolis by his wits. He engages this worthy to enact the part of his tutor, a learned professor , in w hi c h capacity he introduces him into hii uncle's house, in order that , whil s t the le arned pundit keeps the old gentleman in conversation, he may have time to effect his escape and marry the young lady, who t u rns out, after all, to be the identical ward of his uncle whom be was so bent on avoiding. Thd quaintness of Compton 's cominalities, his extraordi- nary profusion of puns and queer sayings, and his to control and guide the motion and the course of his grotesque appearance were irresistibly ludicrous, and I extraordinary aerial machine—which, unlike the bal kept the house in an uninterrupted explosion loons hitherto is use, is of an oblong cylindrical of mirth. Indeed, a more jovial, care-killing, shape, and has its car furnished with an apparatus farce we have never enjoyed, and never has a suited to act on the air, somewhat in the more decided hit been accomplished. Compton, capacity of a rudder. Mr. Bail. we understand, whose Jerry Boldt would kindle exhiliration in the undertakes to rise in his aerostatic locorno breast of a misanthrope, was called before the curtain tive from the gardens, direct his course across on its descending amidst a tornado of cheers; and the the Thames, wheel about in mid-air, and return to joint authors, Mr. R. Soutar, jun., and Mr. C. J. the gardens, in sight of the gay throng below, the Claridge, had to crass the stage to receive the bois- only condition of the atmosphere required being a terous graiulations of the delighted multitude. Leman certain degree of calmness, so that the current of the Rcde's drama of The Devil and D r . Faustus, pl a y e d air may not be too strong to overcome his leverage here for the first time, concluded the eve ning 's e nter- of guidance. Last evening was most unpropitious tainments, the student of Mentz being personated by for the experiment, but he is to make another trial Mr. H. Farrell. The handsome figure of Miss on Friday, when it is to be hoped the weather may Fielding, who made her first appearance at the Olym- he more favourable. The other entertainments corn pie on this occasion, was very advantageously dis- prised concerts, v oca l and instrumental, dancing, played in the role of the unhallowed mortgagee , Which equestrian feats in the circus and the various other she sustained " devilish" well, and proved herself a de - standard recreations of theßoyal property. The tided acquisition to the efficient corps dramatique crowded assemblage was gay, cheerful, and animated, of this excellently managed house. Mr. Diddear notwithstanding the lowering sky and menacing played the part of Isfark Meadows with excellent aspect of the weather—a result, no doubt, attri feeling in both its phases. The piece is got up in butablo to the excellent arrangements of Mr. War very good style, the scenery especially, reflecting dell, who is usually so successful as a caterer for the much credit on Mr. W. Shulders. The house was public. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Notwithstanding the attraction of the Great Ex hibition, and the uncertain weather, the concert monstre at the above place of amusement attracted a numerous audience yesterday evening. Jullien was in great force, having four military bands, in addition to his regular orchestra, and 'gave a selecti on f rom the Prophae andi also his " Exhibition Quadrille," with unusual brilliancy and effect. The finale of the latter, " God save the Queen, was enthusiastically encored. The entertainment concluded with the usual display of fireworks. CREMORNE GARDENS. This place of amusement had its share of holiday patronage. The Bosjesmans of South Africa—the astonishing feats of the Brothers Elliot and the " terrific Globe ascent"—the ballet entitled the Star of Beauty"—the panorama of Nineveh, showing the city in its glory and in ruin—the Ethiopian Serenad ers , with all their humourous origina li ty — the concerts, vocal and instrumental—and the other amusement s of the place afforded evident satisfaction to the company assembled, It appears that Franco ni is to be here with his Parisian troupe in a few days. ARGYLL ROOMS. The Great Exhibition has had no effect in reducing the number of visitors to these popular rooms. On the contrary, it has wonderfully i ncrease d th em , and night after night they are besieged with a multitude of gay Terpsichorean votaries, who:pride themselves upon being the glass of fashion an d t h e mou ld o f form. Our facetious friend Mr. Punch inquired the other day, in a tone of disappointment, " Where are the foreigners ?" He had looked for them in every part of the metropolis, but none could he find, and began to fear that the World's Fair would have no attraction for them. Judging, however, from the display of beards and the Babel of tongues that ge nerally prevail at the Argyll Rooms, it is more than probable that he omitted them from his tra vels in search of our continental visitors. At least two-thirds of the company last night were foreigners, who polked or waltzed to the brilliant strains of M. Laurent's orchestra with astonishing energy and perseverance, and then betook ice creams, with equal zest to s h err y cobbler, creams, or mint juleps. The music appeared to afford them immense delight, and well it might, for the labours of M. Laurent's able band extended over nearly all the best compositions of the season. An original polka brilliant, composed by Mr. Beresford, jun., and performed on the cornet-a-piston by M. Boulcourt, in his best style, excited considerable ap plause, while Henri Laurent's " La Mandoline" waltz also came in for its share of the encomiums bestowed upon the exertions of the orchestra and character of the music. Mr. Beresford's polka does great credit to the taste and ability of the youthful composer, and since it is full of originality and admirably adapted for the piano, it will no doubt become a great favourite in the drawing-room. The ceremonies, it is almost needless to add, were conducted with strict decorum and propriety. SURREY THEATRE. With the first holiday evening of Whitsuntide, the operatic season was commenced at this theatre, the management displaying no little enterprise in the way of its effective inauguration. Everything, in deed, appeared to have been done tbat was at all prac ticable in order to provide the frequenters of the Surrey with a varied and satisfactory entertainment. And the spirit evinced by Messrs. Creswick and Shepherd has already been admirably responded to by their patrons, the house being literally crowded to the ceiling before the beginning of the first piece— Cinderella. It must be remembered that Whit- Monday, especially at the principal suburban theatres, is a sort of summer boxing-night, and so it certainly seemed to be last evening, if , not in the boxes and pit, at any rate in the galleries, where the sixpenny gods disported themselves rather coolly in their shirt-sleeves, and indulged themselves at intervals by quaffing thin potations of stout and other homely refreshments. Yet with all the crush ing they were compelled to submit to, in spite of all their efforts to obtain something like elbow-room, the audience contrived to enjoy themselves without uproar or indecorum, and found plenty of space, too, to shake their sides with laughter. We have seldom seen a more attentive and never a more gratified assemblage of playgoers. They listened throughout with evident enjoyment to the three acts of Rossini's charming opera, and to the two acts of the romantic drama by which the performances were brought to a conclu sion. Cinderella, as played on the English stage, it must be remembered, is not precisely the Cinderella of the original libretto. For reasons which do not require to be enumerated, it needed some sort of adaptation to our stage, and this adaptation has been judiciously accomplished, in the present instance, by Mr. R. Lacy; the dear old nursery story, loved by all of us from the days of our childhood, being more closely followed than in the Italian version, especially in regard to the fairy spectacle and the magic trans formations. Altogether the cast of the opera last night at the Surrey was really excellent. Miss P. Horton, as the heroine, secured to herself, as she al ways does, the sympathy of the house, her voice tell ing admirably in the difficult but bewitching part she had undertaken. Her appearance both as the ser vant in the kitchen and as the 'princess in the ball room, was full of fascination, and at the close of the piece she was called for again with a genuine and unanimous enthusiasm. Travers, as the Prince, was commendable, though his memory at times appeared somewhat faithless. His principal song, however, he gave with so much energy and passion as to com mand a very general encore. Borrani looked, sang, and acted Dandini to admiration. His assumed pomposity, as the mock prince, was delightfully facetious, his very " a-hem !" being expressive of portentous solemnity, and his strut what we might expect from a seven-league-booted lord of burlesque. In the comic aria, " As the bee when the sunbeam uncloses," he was repeatedly interrupted by ap plause, and the same weed was awarded him in the humorous duet with Pompolino. The latter part, that of the Baron, was capitally represented by Mr. H. Corri; and Mr. Widdicomb as Pedro called forth shouts of laughter both from the gods and the groundlings, by the drollery of what Charles Lamb would have called his stolid and in corrigible " visnomy." Miss A. Norman looked charmingly as the Fairy Queen, and the Misses Coveney enacted with considerable ability the roles of the spiteful and vixenish sisters of Cinderella. Several of the scenes were cleverly painted, and the metamor phoses were ingenious specimens of mechanical:contriv ance, the rats, the lizards, the mice, and the pumpkin. After the opera came a new drama, entitled Roland the Rider, being founded by Mr. J. Courtenay on the popular tale of " Second Love," by Mr. Palgrave Simpson. The plot will be readily remembered by those who have read that delightful fiction, and those who have not should forthwith devour the written narrative of the novelist, and hasten afterwards to hear the spoken ono of the dramatist. It may be mentioned, however, that Mr. Shepherd was Roland ; Mr. T. Mead, Gaston de Courval ; Mr. Montague, Albert Walsingham ; Mr. Widdicomb, Sam Bolter; and Mr. B. Norton, Achille Napoleon Pommedivine. The drama was not less favourably received than the opera, and the whole entertainment, which did not end until nearly one o'clock, went off to the entire satisfaction of the auditory. ASTLEY'S (BATTY'S) ROYAL AMPIII THEATRE. The audiences at this theatre are proverbially good-humoured on holiday nights, though tlhesitr mirth may be somewhat uproarious, and they a showed no dissatisfaction at the absence of n ovelty in respect to the first piece, Eleanorth of which we e Amazon ! Queen of France and England, the gave on its first representation on p lot Easter Monday. Suffice it to say that the story includes of the French Court in the reign of the departure of Louis VII. for the Crusade, the subseque nt marriage of Henry 11. with Queen Eleanor of Prance, andtt of the " Fair who, Rosamond," history (altered and adapted for melodramaticstd ea effects) of drinking poison, is l uc ky enough to be ' rescued by the Lady Abbess of Godstone, who removes her at once from the potion so freely offered by the Queen, and from the perfidy of her false lord , Henry. As a spectacle the affair is not so good as the general run of these pieces, though th e performers e xerted themselve to the utmost. A G a rdoni astonished the audience by her very un ique and graceful performance on the tight-rope. The scenes in the circle were much applauded ; and, as a matter of contrast, the riding of Mdlle. Alberti, of Paris, on her highly-trained steed of the ntenage, was highly pleasing. Barry, the clown, charmed " the gods," and so did Wheal, the gymnastic buffoon. The performances closed with " a grand hippo-dramatic sketch," called A Night in P ers i a ; or, the Fete of the Shah. This was made the vehicle for introduc ing serpent charmers, sprites, target-players, pos turers, mandolin players, almas, nymphs of the veil, ladies of the harem, dancing girls, guards, lantern bearers, by numerous auxiliaries ; silver sprites ; or, ariel acrobats ; the serpentine ladder, polandric pheno: rcenon, Egyptian jugglers, musicians of the royal band, the globe equilibrist, the pas de cocoa 17 , dancers of Senegal ; the dance of the floating veil, by as the alma of the ganges ; wild dance of the serpent charmers of Koordistan; waltz Oriental, by the bayaderes of 'Tibet, &C. VAUXHALL GARDENS. Notwithstanding that Whit sun tide has been ushered in with its usuel severit y , this deservedly favourite resort attracted a crowded attendance last evening, when amongst other entertainments pro vided for the holiday-makers was an aerial ascent by Mr. H. Bell, in his patent locomotive balloon. The ascent was an excellent one, but owing to th e hi g h wind prevailing at the time, Mr. Bell was u na bl e t o bring into operation those peculiar applia nces by i me ans of which, n very calm weather, he undertakes THE POLYORAMA. Among the numerous pictorial exhibitions now open to public view in the metropolis, the Polyorama —an establishment adjoining the Polytechnic Insti tuticn—maintains a large and well-deserved popu larity. Every one at all interested in pictures of considerable ability, as well as of considerable magni tude, would do well to imitate those who yesterday thronged to witness Mr. Allom's brilliant panorama of the Bosphorus and Constantinople. Among most of the other paintings of the like size now exhibiting in the capital, that now displayed in the Polyorama is what Mr. Hope's pearl is among the gems of the deep, and what the Koh-i-noor is among diamonds. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—The visitors to the Museum, though not so many as on previous Whitsun holidays, owing to the superior attraction of the Great Exhibition, wore yet very numerous. For the first time the holiday folks had an opportunity of viewing the immense collec tion of books in the Museum Library, the whole of the rooms being thrown open. In the gallery of sculptural antiquities the works still remain unfinished. The ar rangement of the collections in the new rooms in the west wing are not completed. The formation of the ornamental palisading in front of the Museum is rapidly approaching completion. From ten till twelve o'clock, 2,434 persons entered the building. The total number of visitors during the day was 27,734. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—According to the returns of the officials, the gallery was yesterday visited by 17,347 persons. THE VERNON COLLECTIONo—MarIbOrOIIgh I.IOIIBC was yesterday thronged with company. Upwards of 23,700 persons visited this splendid collection. GARDENERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. -- The eighth anniversary of this benevolent institution was cele brated yesterday by a dinner at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill. The chair was taken by Joseph Paxton, Esq., who was supported by Messrs. C. Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, Mark Lemon, and some 150 of the subscribers of the institution. The cloth having been removed ; the ordi nary and routine toasts disposed of, the health of Prince Albert being combined with a high compliment for his exertions in furthering the Great Exhibition, Sir. Douglas Jerrold rose to propose the health of the Duke of ry .. Devon shire,e who he said was one o f the stewards of .1 denee, who, h av i ng b een bl esse d w ith abundance, distri buted his wealth i n th e cu lti va tion of science and art, and in the improvem en t o f man kind. The toast the day, The drunk, the ch a i rman gave the toast off He referred to Gardeners' Benevolent Institution." the th a t a a n s c t i ehnet civilizationh ist ry o f e t f h e s G c o r s e e s k tr s an its i s people. P Sir. Charles r d sa l r to es m se a d n , s, ga t r o de s n h i o n N g v became the favourite recreation of airman, r e c m n a r t a r . n y T to he health w hos e h Dickens genius, as evinced ie a health dchs i; o g f h cn h og e map c n h l Great Exhibition, he paidwasnsexcht,erptrsodpotseedt,haendadrve,asin)otnagdeedthtlo ys of f the u. vice-presidents p 0 vrna Esq., who h o rticulturists had conferred on society in the promotion of and the Severalafter e t h h e a r routine i n t o a e s f t s n w e ar e r l e y given 3 o o/. was made. 111URDER.—Sotne weeks since, two men named Murphy and Keefe were charged before the magistrates of Newport, Monmouthshire, with cutting and Wounding Thomas Dowd, and wounding and scalding John Dowd, his brother. The case was remanded from time to tim e , t h e me dical gentleman who had been called in to aid the sufferers, Dr. Stack, expressing a belief that the man who was the most seriously injured, Thomas Dowd, could not long sur vive. Last Saturday evening Dowd breathed his last, at his house in Bear-street, adjacent to the Wiltshire beerhouse, where, on Easter Monday, the fatal occurrence took place. An inquest was held on Monday, when it appeared that the cause of this fatal occurrence arose out of a broil in a beershop. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder " against Murphy, and " Guilty of aiding and abetting in the death of 'Thomas Dowd," against Keefe.—Afonniontlt Illerlin. THE NEW PROPERTY-TAX Acr.—This Act, which received the Royal assent n Thursday, is only to continue for one year, from the sth e of April last. The former _ Acts . . l were for three y , ea h r e s each, commencing from the s th and et! of the Queen. r conti nued, and there is respecting powers contained in the Acts are a new provision in the present tenant-farmers. It is enacted that if at the end of the year of assessment any person occupying lands for the purpo se of hus bandry, assessed under Schedule B, shall find and prove to the Commissioners that his profits and gains have fallen short of the assessment, it shall be lawful for the Commis sioners, on an appeal made to them within three months of rooms the expiration of the year, to cause an abatement to be made, s and in case the money should have been p aid to cause the sum overcharged to be return ed. gene meeting A fe u L T e f ORPHAN d s I n ei n e d T s l e T h U s T e r r i O h N e r of this institu .— Th e annual of tion, which was founded in the year 1819 in memor y of the the late Princessinstitution, , thew m a l s rew he ,s ld .pi y a e c s e t , er ige d t a e yi n n t s park _ ; Mr. James Muir in the chair. The report of the committee alluded to the loss which the institution had sustained during the past year in t he deat h of the Marchioness of Cornwallis, who bad been Lady President for twenty years. Lady Mary Ross had accepted the office held by her mother, and Ladv Elizabeth Cornwallis had been elected a member of the com mittee. The subscriptions during the year had been of the average amount. The number of senior wards is now 41, and there is at pres p en e t tshe i n n ecN ve t a h or e df sjtE Duchess junior ward 35 inmates. A theßishoopf t Kent, Ripont, which publict taken place in examinationth eof r w as in the highest degree satisfactory. The total receipts all u e f r om all sources (including, the balance of 890/. 13 s. ld. rY e had from y thed defraying ng t) th aeconduringnece necessaryafter expenses, there was a balance in favour of the institution of 2351. 14s. 3d. The report and stalement of accounts were ordered to be printed and circulated, and the proceedings terminated. THE GREAT CHESS TOURNAMENT. —Phis interest ing contest, which is exciting an extraordinary sensation among the lovers of the game, is proceeding very satisfac torily. Since our last notice the second series of games has made great progress. Mr. Williams has beaten his antago nist, Mr. Mucklow, out of the field, having won his four games without losing one, although the country player con tested the palm vigorously, the games having lasted on an average eight hours each. The other players have contended on more equal terms: Herr Anderssen, of Berlin, has won three games of Herr Szen, of Pesth, losing two. Mr. Staunton has won two games of llerr Horwitz, and has lost two to the latter gentleman. The severest struggle is be tween Mr. Wyvill and Captain Kennedy, each of whom has won two games, while one has been drawn. They played again yesterday, but the game was not terminated when our informant left.