The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 9.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr Georg©
Thomas Guttery as Consul at Cape Town for the Free Han-
seatic City of Hamburgh.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Manuel de la Quintana as Consul at Liverpool for the Re-
public of Peru.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Are, 12.
Honourable Artillery Company of London—The Queen
has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of
the Commission held by Major William Henry Snell, and
to approve of his retaining his rank and wearing his
utu-
forms.

ADMIRALTY, AVQtST 12.
The undermentioned Officers have been this day pro-
moted to the rank of Assistant Engineers of the First Class,
with Seniority from 25th July, 1861 :—Messrs William
Jeffrey Grant (acting), Join Austen Cawley, George
Edward Milliner Keey (acting), George Brewer (acting),
William Bremner, John Franklin, W. J. Hancock (acting),
Edward Highman Willey (acting), James Torkington,
George Alexander, William Robson Henry (acting), Joseph
Stocker (acting), Henry Bunting, Francis Horatio Donni-
son (acting), 'William Childs Archbold, John Bolas, John
Hall (a) (acting), Charles Hall (acting), John Davies
Wood (acting), William Vincent (acting), William Stewart,
John Reith (acting), George Sullivan (acting), Joseph
Connolly (acting), Richard Green, David Crichton (a),
Richard Samuel Kiernan, John Robert Ecroyd
(acting), Isaac Hall, John Etherington, James
Joseph Conway (acting), Thomas Hunter (acting),
William Moore (acting) Augustine Kedward (act-
ing, William Harris (acting), William Strachan (acting),
Henry Collar, William Blake Rock (acting), Henry Brown,
William Henry Keats (acting), William Jones, Thomas
William Johnson, John Dinwoodie, James Richard Jack-
son, Edwin Comley, Robert Phillips (acting), Mr John
Plowright, Stephen Vincent Bull (acting), William Henry
Phillips ,(acting), Edward 'Williams (acting), Thomas
William Dearden (acting), John George Cex (acting),
John Jenkins (acting), 'William Thomas Goldie (acting),
John Dunlop, James Legate, Alexander Beattie (aciing),
Andrew Gibson, Charles George Muller (acting), Charles
Boddington, James Wilson Sivewright.

NEW BOWER OPERETTA HOUSE.—The Old
Bower Theatre, so long allowed to sink into neglect
has found a lessee in Mr. John Walter Timber, so long the
stage•manager of Madame Vestrig, during her triumphant
career at the Lyceum, who proposes to revive the fortunes
of the house by giving a class of entertainment with which
the frequenters of the Strand and New Royalty establish-
ments are familiar. The theatre has undergone great altera-
tion, and is now elegantly decorated. The company is a
strong one, and there is every prospect of the season, com.
mencing on Saturday, August 13, proving eminently suc-
cessful,

GENESIS OF THE INCOME.TeX.—Twentyatwo
years ago the Income Tax was imposed for three
years only; at the end of that time its extinction was
certain and fixed, like the decrees of fate. But 1845 saw
it prolonged for three years, and in 1848 its term was
postponed again for three years, and then for two years
successively it was renewed positively for the last time and
for twelve months only, until Mr. Gladstone arose in 1853,
and registered a solemn TOW that it should die in 1860.
It is needless to Bay that instead of dying it sprang up
with greater vigour than ever, and that it is now, perhaps,
the part of our syscem which has the greatest promise of
permanence.

SOMETHING LIK EPANEGYRIC ON THE LAUREATE.
—Who is there who would not, if he could !—be a
poet like our Laureate? To walk, in noble leisure, in a
beautiful island, away from the crowd and bustle of men;
to gaz3 at sea, and cliff, and cloud, and landscape, and let
the images sink on ; to hear or quietly read of the doings of
the world ; to allow thoughts to come and go, and to cherish
only the select ; sometimes, when a thought or feeling
brimmed over to expression, to hum or round it off in a few
musical stanzas, which, when detached from the maker,
should float through the air to sympathetic thousands as
a new thing of beauty; at other times, when some subject
of larger and more continuous interest had been chosen or
had been suggested, to carry it about from day to day, rumi-
nating it, evolving it, artfully singing it into shape,wedding
to it scores of ideas and fancies that had been lying half-
forgotten in the mind till the fit occasion should be found for
them ; not then to be in any hurry to publish the little metri-
cal history, but still to retain it as one's own secret possession,
going over it again and again with loving fastidiousness,
strengthening it here, tasking it more sweet and exquisite
there, imparting to it the last touches ct felicity in sound
and phrase, and only then, and still with reluctance, letting
it go—who is there that would not, if he could, choose the
happiness of a life like this ? And yet, out of all those that
are capable of envying such a life, how few are there with
whom, if it were rendered possible, it would be anything
better than a life of dilettantism or unhonoured and small
Epicureanism ! How great must be Nature's part in a man
to fit him for the highest capabilities of such a life; how
nobly must the leisure have been earned ; what a confessed
gain there must be for the world in the fact of such a leisure
—what must be the magnitude, the depth, and the rarity of
the thoughts that habitually come and go in the mind so
privileged sad outposted to meditate and to sing! All this
it is that justifies Britain in her peculiar feeling towards
our Laureate. Of all that are among us doing work what
man, save one or two, can be compared for the preciousness
of his work, with him ?—The Rsader.
CESSATION OF EMIGRATION.—The vast tide of
emigration which has for so long a period flowed
ceaselessly from our shore, has at length almost subsided.
The fine steam vessels, in which the last place was usually
filled, now depart all but empty. The large crowds who
daily clamoured for passages have disappeared. So great
has been the decrease of numbers that the emigration agents
have reduced their charges considerably, in the hope of re-
suscitating their trade. The charge for steerage passage
has been reduced by the Inman Company from seven guineas
to five guineas, and by Messrs. Cummins Brothers to she
guineas nominally. It is expected that before a month
elapses the rate will be as low as £3 10s. per head. A. plen-
tiful harvest at home and the absence of inducement to the
other side of the Atlantic appear to have acted powerfully
and quickly in changing the destiny of many of our impul-
sive countrymen.—Cork Reporter.
THE LATE MR. ROBSON, THE COMEDIAN.—By a
melancholy oversight the Reader of to-day, under data
the 13th of August, observes—" we are glad to report that
the state of Mr F. Robson's health is still improving. He
is so far recovered as to be able to take carriage exercise
daily." Mr Robson—as announced in The Sun of yester-
day—having on the contrary expired at midnight between
Thursday and Friday, the 11th and 12th instant.
A :MERCHANT'S CLAIM FOR PERSONAL 'INJURY.
—ln the case of " Reddie v. lignworthy," tried at
the Liverpool essiz as yesterday before Mr Baron Pigott,
Mr R. M. Reddie, a china merchant, claimed compensation
from Messrs. Kenworthy and Co. for injuries which he re-
ceived on the 29th October by the falling upon him of a
bale of canvas from one of defendant's lorries. The
p'aintiff at the time was passing through a shed occupied by
defendants, iu order to get to a Glasgow steamer. By the
accident ho was very severely injured, and is now only able
to move about on crutches. Since this occurrence he has
been unable to attend to any business except the reading
of a letter, whereas he should have sailed to China in
time for the tea season. Defendants denied the negli-
gence, on the ground that the men in charge of the lorry
had given sufficient warning to passengers before each
bale was thrown out. The jury found for the plaintiff—
Damages, £5OO.
The Legislative Assembly of Frankfort, at its
last sitting, gave its sanction to the treaty which had been
transmitted to it by the Senate, for the renewal of the Zoll-
verein with Prussia. At the same sitting the Assembly
was occupied with the increase and regularisation of the
contingent which the free city of Fraukfott furnishea to the
German Federal army.