The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-26 00:00:00

And again, 'public parks and gardens are to be cut or tun-
nelled through.' These extracts sufficiently justify us in
saying that there is a reckless disregard of public and monu-
mental property in the exactions of projects for material
changes, on this vexed soil of ours, into something new and
strange. As to more religious objects, my own experience
may warrant somewhat. I have myself received this year
seven or eight notices of the intended destruction of
churches, schools, orphanages, or other charitable institu-
tions, to be ruthlessly demolished or treacherously bur-
rowed under. And my portion in the danger must be but
a small item in the general fate."
Altogether the Londoners have reason to feel not
only gratified, but rejoiced at the circumstance
that one so rarely gifted and so eminently well
qualified to afford us an invaluable word of advice in
regard to the future prospects of our metropolitan
architecture, should have spoken out, at once as

frankly, as elequently, and as pezeussively as Car-
dinal Wiseman Ims certainly done in this, in marl
respects, masterly lecture upon the architectural
prospects of London and Westminster.

A COLLECTION OF OCCASIONAL ODES, by John
Francis Waller, LLD., better known cn this side
of the Irish Channel as the " Jonathan Freke
Slingsby" of the Dublin University Magazine, has
lately appeared as a pamphlet of 23 pages octavo.--
across the counter of the Messrs. Hodges, Smith, and
Co., of Grafton-street, the publishers to the Dublin
University. One of these Occasional Odes has
reference to the opening of the Exhibition at Cork.
Another to the installation of the Earl of Rosso as
the University Chancellor. Another to the opening
of the Dublin Royal Society's Exhibition. It is at
all times a gratification to read anything of Dr.
Wallen's, whether in prose or in verse, whether
grave or gay, whether relating to matters of perma-
nent interest, or, as in these instances, to subjects of
the most fugitive character. But the Occasional
Odes which have just now reached us are pecu•
liarly welcome, coming as they do simultaneously
with an entirely new Ode from from the same
ready and gifted hand in celebration of the Dublin
Exhibition, the Exhibition, comparatively speaking,
but a few hours since inaugurated. Sufficient
for us if we add that this latest of the Occasional
Odes of Dr. Wailer is one of his most graceful and
felicitous improvisations.

THE CHEVALIER DE CHATELAIN'S 'poetics'
apostrophe, through the columns of the Courier (1$
L'Europe, to M. Victor Hugo, as the author of (that
last work of the great French Poet-Nnvelist-
Dramatist-Critic's I) the book entitled "Willis
Shakespeare"—would certainly tempt us to descant
upon the merits both of Victor Hugo's book and of
the Chevalier de Chatelain's panegyric in respect
to it, but that we are really repelled, almost as
by a sense of shame, from enlarging upon
whatsoever relates either directly or indirectly to
the late unfortunate Tercentenary Celebration. Vi re
ca❑ therefore only find the heart at this moment to
offer our felicitations to the accomplished Chevalier
de Chatelain for his brilliant and apropos tribute to
his illustrious contemporary.

SHAKSPERE, AN ODE FOR THE TERCENTENARY
OF SHAKSPERE'S BIRTHDAY, written by Mr. J.
Carpenter, and published by the Messrs. Routledge,
Warne, and Routledge. Bvo. pp. 16,—we are, for
the self same reason that repels us from descanting
upon the effusion last mentioned, constrained to pas
by, with a mere look askance, coming to us, as It
does, now, upon the morrow, as it were, of the date
of the Tercentenary Celebration. Here at any rate
are the closing lines of Mr. Carpenter's Ode—

What I are there none to fill the mimic scene—
To catch the mantle of the generous Sean ?
Are all the actors of the .fremble school
Lost to the Theatre they once could rule ?
The boards where Foote and David Garrick played,
Unmeaning spectacle alone pervade ?
No I not while .1311•Ips will his ripe powers engage,
To grace and elevate the British stage ;
While Helen Faueit, now toe seldom seen,
Still lives, her well-earned laurels fresh and green;
While Stirling acts, and Compton keeps the boards,
And Webster glimpses of the past affords;
While _Henry Marston, artist good and true,
Still keeps the Drama's polar star in view ;
SEIAKSPERE, again enthroned, may crown the stage,.
The noblest, greatest bard of EVERY AGE !
The liv:ug names of the well-known actors of our
own times—names hero very agreeably, and soll°,
of them at least not at all extravagantly introduce'
thus in an ode in celebration of the Immortal Bard
thus lend a present interest of some kind at least t°
the always harmonious verses of 7. E. Carpenter.

THE ROYAL WEDDING, au Ode, extendia
through 28 pages, penned by J. R. W. LotOir:
and recently published by Messrs. Dlurra9
and Co., of 13, Paternoster-row, .would Oc:
been more valuable, had it appeared ab°llo
a twelvemonth earlier. As it is—coming into 1113
world later even than the Royal Baby itselVio
can be pronounced extremely pretty, and A/30
passed by. As an artistic production, it comintLc.7,.
from us no more lengthened scrutiny than Mr.O'Nol'.,
Court picture in this year's Academy Es
Lion—a picture all scarlet cloaks and pretty
girls and spring flowers, "all" that is, r,
ceps the youthful Royal Pair theinsell;
—then, at the Arrival, as a week afterwards at fh4e
Wedding, the cynosure of neighbouring 11601 kci
observed of all observers. Mr. Lomax, in a Nycs4i;
is after-date. He surely cannot have been all tli
while writing it--meaning his Ode.

The Metropolitan Association for Promoting l;
Education of Adults being desirous of gici3o
encouragement to physical exercises and games of strevelle
and skill among the working classes, and also to afforcl
do°
members of the Literary and Mechanics' Institu7o
Working Men's Clubs, Young Men's Societies, (kc'',Jel
union with the association an opportunity for a 6°-ael
re-union, have arranged for a gathering at the er,:,00
Palace on Monday, June 27. In addition to the vs6;ee
attractions at the Palace, arrangements have 1)"00
made for a series of athletic spores, for which Val°oo
money prizes Fill be given; an open air concert of oe
voices, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin; a bal°, of
ascent; a grand organ performance; and a prize coniea.d
cadet bands. The band of the Crystal Palace Co
will play during the day within the pa,ace, and the the
the Greville House Working Alen's Institute, eel
Kingsland sub-division of Metropolitan Police, divi 14
!:
is the palace grounds. Excursions are being organic, :too
ncof
institutions in union, all expenses, apart from the pure,'
of tickets, being bore() by the aesociation.
INTERNATIONAL STEAM PLOUGH COMPETIT-
et,
This contest, which took place at tiie regional Ofor
ing of Roanne (Loire), has proved a great aueicess boil'ote
the inventors and manufacturers of such impievie re
and. also for the proprietors of the heavy an .d etabeo
lands of that and the neighbouring departmtenis' of
great, indeed, has been this success, that the quectifid- of
the general use of agricultural instruments woll°;e fed'
steam in such of the soils of France as have hitherto °.-woi
the greatest resistance to the ordinary means of ti:Jegavoll
now be considered as set at rest. The trials of the led
competing machines were made between the 29th Air:,, the
e
the Bth May, at about three miles from Retinue, th
presence of the Sub-prefect, the Mayor of Roaaa l
t4c'eti'
members of the Committee of the Agricultural 5' sq
and before a special jury composed of the 014,01
French gentlemen :—Count Benoist d'Azy, .5114.
c'
Lehalleur, Charles Jobez, Tiersonnier, Piuchet, lijeto
unuernamed English gentlemen; Messrs. Fisher, 010'
T. J. Thackeray, and Jacob Wilson. Three French gaol'
men=the Marquis de Poncins, M. de Baulay,
sad t rya
neron, and two English parties—Mr. Fowler az/t-irero'
Messrs. Howard—had sent in their names as coraPee cola'
Mr. Fowler, however, was unable to get his inanhia-to tV3
plated in't time, and so aid not compete, much Goer
regret of tiee Committee. The machine of g' wool
ron operated as a " digger," and was worked by abed oP3r
five steam engine connected with it, and which pO,O pea'
the land operated on. The machine of the le larquialverci
eine' operated as a sub soil• plough. The mac Line autitieecfo;
Howard operated—let, as a plough ; 2d, as a
c d. `el`
3d, as a sub. Boiler ; and is well known in En gl/ seecl
machines both of the Marquis Poncins stud Toeoe
Howard were operated on by stationary steam cagi eleect°o'
in adjoining ground. The jury awarded to tbci ;to flit
Howard the first prize of £lOO and the gold oleth'the eils„;
Mat quis de Poncins the second prize of £BO arid e and iae
medal ; and to AI. Ganneron, the third prize of itypilee
bronze medal. The prizes were distributed by th
Bersiguy.— Galtgnani. Aubio.
A mason named Lieurei, residing atistoo t.hore::
du-Thernay (Eure), while proceeding to h
evenings ago, from a wine shop where he bad ono Jo 0;
ing, met a woman Lamed Desdoights, to whonle, oleo "ar,.e
use of some insulting expression. Iler husband' plti;
with her, resented such conduct, and a struggl%
jeciliflo
between them. At that moment a man nap" a leaue
___ -Fever „ee
came up and put an end to the fight, el no' e—is eilo
use of:a heavy iron hook which he held in is feet.. 0
with a blow on the head Levillain de
beat
Do in
then returned to his first antagonist and
i,ees
dreadful manner. Lieurey was e 002% after arre tv-•