The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

A letter from Vichy says :—" The Emperor and
the King of the Belgians have attended the musical
performance at the Casino, and were received, on
their arrival, by M. Callon, director of the thermal
establishment of Vichy. Among the artists who
took part in this representation were M. Cane de
Hauteville, violinist, M. Henry Kowolski, pianist,
with Mtnes. Ugalde and Frasey, singers. The open•
ing of the Horticultural Exhibition of the Allier,
got up under the auspices of the Prefect of the
department, M. Lemasson, has just taken place.
The Emperor and King Leopold were present on
the occasion, and passed some time in examining
the different products exhibited. The King par-
ticularly remarked a box of cherries sent by the
steward of the. Duke de Murny's estate in the Allier.
In the evening there was a grand fete at the
Ardoisere." The Emperor will, it is said, return
to Paris from Vichy on the 6th.
The Emperor has received letters from the Elector
of Hesse accrediting M. de Goeddaus as his resident
minister at the French Court.

The Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne, French am-
bassador in London, has arrived in Paris. Lady
Cowley, with her daughter and Lord Sidney, were
in the same train.

The Marquis de Banneville, political director at
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has left for Swit-
zerland on leave.

" We are informed," says the Tetnps," that Lord
Clarendon is not going to Vichy, as reported, but to
Wiesbaden."

BOURSE, August I.—On account of the liquida-
tion, there has been but little business done, and
prices have scarcely varied from the closing quota-
tions of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are at
66f. sc. Mobilier opened at 977 f. Railway Shares
are firm, and some lines are quoted rather higher.
The market closed as follows :

4t per Cents 94 30
Do. end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 35
Credit Mobilier 9BO
Do. end month 983 7:5
Bank Shares 3360
Credit Fonder l2OO

Italian Loan 6B
Do. end month 67 95
Ditto Threes — :
New Mexican
Russian
Austrian .. —
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt
..

Roman

Deferred

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 976 50 .. 977 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 890 • . 895
New ditto
Southern
Western -
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Resignation of the Greek Ministry.

[REUTER'S EXPRESS.]
ATHENS, July 23.

It was not thought likely that the Assembly
would meet again before new blood had been infused
into it by the arrival of the lonian members. The
day before yesterday, however, the committee
charged to report upon the bill for pensioning the
survivors of the war of independence from 18214829,
desired a meeting in the interest of this handful of
aged patriots. The house met yesterday, but the
bill was, after all, postponed. The matter next taken
in hand was the appointment of a uhief of the
National Guard. It will be recollected that the
Assembly had determined that the effieers of this
force should elect a candidate, who was to receive
the royal sanction. It appeared that this decision
had not been laid before the King for
Signature,
being, in point of fact, really an infringement of the
prerogative. Notvvithstaeding the protests of se-
veral members, who were anxious to point out that
his Majesty had the right of veto, the Assembly
fixed a period of three days within which the bill
was to be submitted for signature, or the Ministry,
not doing so, should offer an explanation of its
conduct.

The Assembly then entered upon another matter,
which led to a totally unexpected result, entailing,
in fact, the resignation of the Ministry.
A request
for a supplementary credit was brought
in by the
Minister of War to defray the expenses of a few
additional gendarmes he had found it requisite
to employ in repressing brigandage daring the
recent vacation. There was not the slightest rea-
sonrefused, the
to expect that the credit would be
expenditure having been sl;ght and quite indispen-
sable to publ;c safety. Both parties in the Chamber,
however, regarded the affair in a different light to
that of the Government. The Minister of War was
accused of having acted unconstitutionally, and after
almost unanimously rejecting the credit (20 votes
only being recorded in its favour),
both parties
united in reproaching the Government f"
the fault.
afterwards the Ministry
Two hours resigned in a
body.

Who will be the immediate successor of M. Balbi
partisans is one
it would be vain to hazard a guess. The general
feeling of all but passionate political
of regret, not for the downfall of this particular
Cabinet, but that the inevitable modification was
not delayed until the arrival of the lonian members.
It is believed now that this will take place upon the
27th. At present they are all assembled at Zante,
under the presidency of AL Lombardo, to come to
an understanding upon the line they shall adopt in
the Assembly, when both parties—Mountain and
Plain—hope to attract the new recruits to their
banners. It is hardly to be expected that the entire
84 will act strictly together. Some ten or a dozen
will probably join the Opposition, the remainder
going over to the Mountain under the lead of
Canaris. It is with this hope indeed that the Moun-
tain' party intends to propose Admiral Canaria as
President of the Assembly,
while the Opposition is
reported to be about to put forward Buigaris. More
importance is attached to this matter than meets the
eye, for the President elect, as chief of the majority,
will be caled upon to construct the new Cabinet.
The result of the Cephalonian elections is now
known. That island sends its best men to Athens
—four of the Typeldo, three Metakas, Messrs. E,
Zervo and Mompherrato, Solomo, Lunzi, Balsa-
macchi, &c. M. Napoleon Zanibolli must be struck
off the list of members for Sta. Maura, having de-
clined that honour before the commencement of the
voting. M. Sp. Valaoriti, evsenator und a cousin
of the poet, must be substituted in his stead.

Tho Grand Duke Constantine arrived on the
28th July at Lubeck, and embarked on board the
steam frigate Ismrad. Two princes of the Imperial
family accompany his Imperial HigLness. The
Russian squadron consists ut the above-named
veael, tho frigate Syetiana, and the steamer Satava.

LITERATIME,

Can You Porgive Per 13y Anthony Trollope.

No. VIII. Chapman and Hall.

Unless the drift of the whole story changes won-
derfully in the subsequent instalments of it, we feel
perfectly persuaded that we can't I That is, of
course, that we can't possibly forgive her—this
jilting, nonchalant, she-would-and-she-wouldn't
heroine, Alice Vavasor. Already the reader has
been made acquainted with her causeless and en•
tirely heartless throwing over of excellent, hand-
some Mr Grey of Nethercoats. And now, in this
fresh instalment of the narrative, he, the reader,
learns with yet greater disgust of her absurd taking
up again with her worldly, ugly, sear-faced cousin,
George Vavasor. In the number before us there are
two soi distant ove.letters—one from George to Alice
the other from Alice to George. And of the two we
really don't know which we like the least. They
are simply odious and entirely intolerable. Another
character that we have heard a good deal about in
the previous chapters, but that we had not, until this
portion of the story appeared, mado acquaintance
with, is here introduced to our notice—meaning the
ultra handsome and, we were going to add, utterly
worthless, Burgo Fitzgerald. Utterly worthless
he is here, however, shown not to be—and as to
his beauty being, as we have said just simply
ultra handsome, does not the author himself
speak of Burgo's face as Godlike P
the effect of it is such upon people of all classes and
conditions, cabmen, potboys, bar-women, and men-
dicants, that we are reminded by it of that hand-
some schoolfellow of. Leigh Hunt's (was it not ?) of
whom the humorous essayist used to relate with so
much gusto the anecdote of the comely blue-coat
boy upsetting an old applewoman's tray of fruit
and nuts at a street corner, and being greeted for
his clumsiness with—" Where are you driving to,
you stupid, blundering, good for nothing"—(and
then on the applewoman's chancing to catch
sight of his face)—" beautiful creature, God bless
you !" Just thns is it with the Burgo Fitzgerald
of Anthony Trollope's new fiction—a fiction care-
lessly though prettily illustrated by " Phiz," the
once matchless illustrator of Bcz and Harry
Lorrequer.

NAMES OF THE STREETS OF THE METROPOLIS.—
In a pamphlet form (pp. 82), numbered as 153
among the Metropolitan Board of Works' publica-
tions, we have here some very interesting Returns
(ordered to be printed May 6, 1864), giving us the
names of those streets in the metropolis
which have been regulated by order of the
Board since 1855. These returns include lists
of new streets named, of old streets renamed
and houses renumbered, as well as of streets
whose names have been altogether abolished. So far
all this is excellent in the way of simplification.
But—if, as is certainly the case, " much has been
done," yet " more remains to do" of exactly the
same kind in all parts of the metropolis I As may
very readily be recognized at a casual glance upon
anyone's examination either of a map of London,or of
any portion you please of the street ncitnenclature
of the metropolis as given of that particular depart-
ment of the last issue of the Post• oface London
Directory.

HOME OF HOPE,—Fourth Report. Another
pamphlet, this time it is one of 62 pages, is here
submitted to us—but it is a pamphlet not simply
interesting like the one last mentioned—it is in the
highest degree solemnizing and impressive. It con-
tains within it the Fourth Report of the Committee,
whu have undertaken the furtherance of the
humane design out of which has sprung the
philanthropic institution now for some time
past established under the name of the
Home of Hope, at 6, Regent-square, Gray's
Inn-road—a benevolent institution designed for the
restoration, or at any rate for the attempted
restoration of fallen and for the protection of
friendless young women. From the latest
report of the proceedings of the particular asso-
ciation having in view, here, this doubly bene-
ficent object, it would seem that at the least
un admirable commencement has been made,
with a view to the mitigation of some
among the almost iLcalculeble, horrors arising out
of what is spoken of amongst us significantly as
the Social Evil, At the best, however, the work
already done, and still.doing, to this end, in con.
nection with the Home of Hope, has been under-
taken by the large hearted members of this com-
mittee so very recently, that it could by no pos-
sibility be, yet awhile, anything more thana
mere commencement. 2lais, ce West que le pre
mier pas qua coute in regard to these most benign
projects. Bat, that first step having in this instanoe
happily been taken, as we have hereby already seen
and notified, may we not reasonably conclude that
the design of its promoters will henceforth, as it
deserves to do, advance and prosper ? To ensure
this, the very first consideration is, of course, for the
public at large themselves to make certain by their
own acts that the funds planed at the disposal of
the committee shall more and nacre rapidly con-
tinue to increase and multiply.

Mr Roinford's Hounds. Part IV. By the Author

of " Handley Croas."

Mr Romford, in company with his newly. created
sister, arrives at Reldon Hall, and is duly installed
in that ancient mansion, and although the new
lodger or lessee is rather overcome by its greatness,
not so is Mrs Somerville, late Mrs Sponge, neeAmy
Glitters, whose mind grows colossal in proportion
to her prospects, and she enacts the fine lady with
readiness and tact. The doubts and perplexities of
Mr Romford at the anticipated expenses which his
new residence will entail upon him are humorously
depicted, but it is rather straining a point to make
a man of even his consummate assurance and
effrontery send for a blacksmith to pick the lock of
the owner's wins cellar; however, novel writers are
privileged now•a-days, and one must keep pace
with the age. Many new characters are introduced,
so that there is no likelihood of there being any
lack of incidents in the succeeding numbers.
Among others, the portraits of the Giant Game-
keeper, and the omnibus driver, Independent
Jinimey, are depicted in a style peculiar to the
author.

DALZIEL'S ILLUSTRATED GOLDSMITH brings us
this month,with the magazines,thesixth instalment.
In it, besides other pcetieal pieces, are those two
delicious jeux d'esprit, " The Haucch of Venison"
and " Retaliation." Each of these humorous poems
being excellently well illustrated. In the former,
Oliver himself is shown to us wrapt in admiring
contemplation of the haunch just arrived from Lord
Clare ! In the latter, that is in " Retaliation," we
see him seated at the club-table in the midst of that
glorious group of friends whom he sketches off eo
inimitably in that delightful composition.

DALSIEL'S ILLUSTRATED " ARABIAN NIGHTS
ENTERTAINMENTS."—A serial edition of. that great
work, still as magnificently illustrated as ever in
this eighth instalment of it I Here it reveals to us in
a succession of admirable woodcuts, Schemselnihar
and the Jeweller, the Birth of Camaralzaman, the
Sultan entreating Fatima to induce Camaralzaman
to marry, the Slave presenting himself before King
Schahzaman, and other equally wonderful person-
ages. When the book is completed, it will be,
among cheap works of the kind, what Harvey's still
remains among the costlier—that is, the ne plus
ultra.