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

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LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening,

WHITEHALL, Atm, 11.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Thomas Burch Western, of Rivonhall, in the
county of Essex, Esq., and the heirs male of his body law.
fully begot.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr George
Thomas Guttery as Consul at Cape Town for the Free Han-
seatic City of Hanaburgh.
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, Aug. 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 ILA-
forms.

ADMIRALTY, ArousT 12.
The ungermentioned Officers have been th's day pro-
moted to the rank of Assistant Engineers of the First Class,
with Seniority from 25th July, 1861 :—Messrs William
Jeffrey Grant (acting), Jolo. Austen Cawley, George
Edward Milliner Keey (acting), George Brewer (acting),
William Bremner, John Franklin, W. J. Hancock (acting),
Edward
l
dgman 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), Georgen' Sullivan (acting), Joseph
Richard
Connolly (acting), RichtirGreen. David Crichton (a),
Samuel Kiernan, John Robert Ecroyd
(acting), Isaac Hall, ohn 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 Cox (acting),
John Jenkins (acting), William Thomas Goldie (acting),
John Dunlop, James Legate, Alexander Beattie (acting),
Andrew Gibson, Charles George Muller (acting), Charles
Boddington, James Wilson Sivewright.

Course of Exchange.--Yesterday,
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Amsterdam
12 0
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 2 12 21
12 2,
Antwerp
Brussels --25 72k 25 77;
Hamburgh ,, 13 10 13 10k
Paris ... Short. 25 25 26 35
Ditto •
3 Months. 25 70 25 75
Marseilles — 25 70 25 7,5
Frankfort on Maine —
_l2Ol . 121 k

Vienna

11 85 11 90

Trieste
Petersburgh ...
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan

11 85 11 90
31 31a

47! 48!
48 48k
25 71 7k 25 86
25 80 25 85
25 77! 25 82
25 77 25 S2i
25 80 25 85
25 80 25 85
51t 52
51k 62k

Genoa ..
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

Foreign Mail Packet Lifit.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Aug. 18
via Marseilles Aug. 12,
Brazil and Cape Yards, by British packet. Sept. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, viavla Smoarutshealluilepst.o.n AAuugg..ll2B..
_ .__

Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 18.
India (Calcutta), mid Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 18.
via Marseilles Aug. 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Aug. 25.
via Marseilles Aug. 20.
Portugal.... Sept. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 18.
via Marseilles Aug. 12.
Newfoundland .. Aug. 17.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 17.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Aug. 19.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Aug. 13.
California. and British Columbia..

NEW BOWER OPERETTA HOUSE.—The Old
Bower Theatre, so loeg allowed to sink, into neglefzt
has found a lessee in Mr. John Walter Limber, so long the
stage•manager of Madame Vestria, daring 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-
men, s 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-TAX.—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 vow that it should die in 1860.
It is needless to say that instead of dying it sprang up
with greater vigour than ever, and that it is now, perhaps,
the part of our system which has the greatest promise of
permanence.

SOMETHING LIKE PANEGYRIC 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 gaze 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
hid 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, making it more sweet and exquisite
there, imparting to it the last touches of 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 I 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 aad outposted to meditate and to sing I 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 P—The Reader.

CESSATION OF EMIGRATION.—The vast tid3 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 six
guineas nominally. It is expected that before a month
elapses the rate will be as low as 3 10s. per head. A
inducement plen-
tiful harvest at home and the absence of
to the
other side of the Atlantic appear to have acted powerfully
impul-
sive glienktlryyminecu.hfcgoirek R
g theepodretsetr.in y of many of our impul.
THE LATE MR. ROBSON, THE COMEDIAN.—By a
melancholy oversight the Reader of to-day, under date
the 13th of August, observes—" We are glad to report that
the state of Mr F. Robson's health is still improving, Re
is so far recovered as to be able to take carriage exercise
daily." Mr Robson—as announced in The Sun of y ester-
d3y—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. Kenworthy," tried at
the Liverpool assizes 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 &fondant's lorries. The
p'aintiff at the time was passing through a shed occupied by
defendants, in order to get to a Glasgow steamer. By the
accident he 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
in" 1,1-‘. Defendants denied the ne2ll.
assenrs before
genre, on the ground that the men in charge of the lorry
orry
had given sufficient warning to pge
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
transmittedeiwith the Senate, for the renewal of the Zoll-
v e
Prussia. At the same sitting the Assembly
r t o
rr it by
was occupied with the increase and regularisation of the
contingent which the free city of Frintfort furnishes tc the
German Foderal army.