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love, this unbounded reverence and admiration for
ROYAL E GLISH OPERA,
COVE
his Royal Highness the late PRINCE CONSORT
Under the Manae:n
of ARDEN.
Miss Louisa Pyne and
W
T-Ger
Ivn.tHars
Romantic Opera, THE rison. than by the foundation of this very order of merit,
M. las Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ;
THIS EVENING. this
most appropriate and characteristic symbol of
DESERT FLOw-%-- Corri. A. Cook, and W. Harrison.
Flo h. nour--t companion order, even in name, to
Messrs. W. H. Weiss,.,_n open half-p _Doors at ast Seven.
Conductor, .Mr. A. Mello •
Commence at Eight.
order of peaceful merit to be known and
aspired after, and cherished 'when won,
as The Albert Cross? An order of merit
of this particular kind has often been thought of,
has occasionally been suggested—but never under
this name, never as thus distinctly associated with
the memory of his Royal Highness, never coupled
with a title so signally and resplendently signifi-
cant. And this radiant symbol of " The Albert
Cross," if but once called into existence by the man-
date of our beloved QUEEN, would infallibly become
an enduring commemoration of the peculiar
glory won by her MAJESTY'S princely husband in
the annals of England as the patron and promoter
of the arts and the sciences, of that literature and
of that philanthropy, the wondrous combination
and co-operation of which are every day tending
more and more visibly and appreciably to aid the
steady and rapid advancement of modern civili-
sation. What The Victoria Cross is as the reward of
Heroism upon the Battlefield-7he Albert Cross
would at once become as the recompense of the
beneficent achievements of the artist and the
philanthropist, of the man of science and
of the man of letters. As among
the gallant
hearts rewarded by the bestowal of The Victoria
Cross, that symbol might be regarded as equivalent
to the crowning of the brave man's brow with a
wreath of laurel—so among the recipients of the
Albert Cross, that new symbol might, in its turn,
come to be regarded typically as an equivalent to
a garland of oak. A few simple words of Normall
French, spoken in the name of her MAJESTY, la
.Reine le Veut, can, any session, transform an inani-
mate Bill into a living Enactment. One single
word written by the hand of her MAJESTY—the
sign manual of the Sovereign—can, any day, im-
part supreme authority throughout the realm to a
mere scrap of parchment. May we not hope that
in the interests of those arts and sciences, of that
literature and of that philosophy which were
throughout his pure and noble life so dear to the
heart of his Royal Highness the late
PRINCE CON-
SORT—may we not hope that, in commemoration of
their having been so dear to his heart, and in com-
memoration, also, of his own elevated and beautiful
reputation—the QUEEN'S gracious mandate may be
pronounced, the QUEEN'S Royal signature may be
penned, calling this now order of The Albert Cross
into existence ?

THEATRE 110' CAL DRURY- LANE.-
Managers, Messrs. E.. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, (.TON ETO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy
and Miss Murray.
A.lter which. Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
Messrs. t helps, Ryder, Ra vner, M-agreson, Ward, Spencer ;
Miss Heath. Miss E. Atkh ison, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. Vocalists—Miss, Poole, Miss hitter, Miss Cicely
'Cott, Miss Heywood, and : iEr. Swift.
To conclude with THE DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G.
Delmore. F. Charles; Mi as R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund
Falconer.

PRINCESS'S THF: ATR R.—Gre,t Success of
HERRMANN. P:RESTIDIGITATEUR. HERR
jlrlit RMANN has the horour to announce that, in conse-
quence ,f the great succetts and flattering. recept on he has
met with, he will continue his Performances, EVERY
KVENING. until further notice.

Commencing at Eight.

THEATRE ROYAL HAY NI ARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVE ING, FINESSE ; or, Spy and counter Spy
Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Buckstone, Chippeudale, Howe, W.
FaTrell, Braid, and 13ordon ; Mrs. Dowton, Miss L. Angel,
Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss Wright, dte.

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After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH : Messrs. A
Bnekstone, Compton, Howe, and Miss L Keeley.
Concluding with THE GALLICIAN FETE.

Commence at 7.

NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELVFII.-
Sole ProDristor and Manager. Mr. B. Wpbster.
THIS EVENING-, at 7, THE TitAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
Sti ding.
At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported
by 3fessrs.Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billing-ton, Stuart,
A. Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Biiiington.
To conclude with CATCHING AN lIEIRE6S : Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

I-I.—The celebrated
ISS BATEMAN.—LE A
young American Actress, Miss BATEMAN, having
an her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH ob-
tained the most triumphan, and enthusiastic success that has
been wi nessed for many years, and the profound impression
created by her impersonation a the character ot LEAH upon
a c oi,vded audience h Lying been completely ratified by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily
Press, the manacrer ot the NEW ADEL PHI THEATRE',has
the honour to announce that M ss BAT EMAN will appe
in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till furtherr
notice.
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0 , yAL STRAND THEATRE.
o-, 3.W.H. Manaer, Ir. Swanborough.
R

THIS EVENIgG, MIRIAM"; CRIME. Messrs. Honey,
elle, Belford, Turner, Miss E..Saville, and Miss Minders.'
-148;rosllowed by THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THERE." Messrs.
Tnrner, K. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan-
Honey,rOugh,
F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
bo
White.
To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford.
Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
MIS DAY.—lforning, 3h. 21m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m.
To-ktoßsow.-Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4b. 16m.

The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 15, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock 62

Barometer-29.63.
Wind—North ; light, end hazy, with rain.

It has been truly said that people never know
when they are safe, and the accounts that have
been recently received regarding sea-side lodgings
go far to exemplify the fact. Nothing can be more
reprehensible than the practice that has prevailed
in some quarters of allowing persons to enter into
houses from whence those afflicted with contagious
diseases have only just departed. A letter to the
7imes of yesterday fully exposes this nefarious sys-
tem. A medical gentleman in practice at a fashion-
able watering-place has disclosed three cases, in
each of which great blame must be attached to the
parties concerned. A family went down for change
of air, but were lodged in a house where the scarlet
fever had been raging some time before they came.
The children fell ill, and subsequently the mother
also caught the malady, and died. Here
was a sad affliction befalling a family from
want of common care and due precaution.
The next incident mentioned might have prc-
duced effects still more disastrous, and have
given rise to a wider spread disease. A friend
was on the point of engaging apartments fora re-
lative, when, on returning to see the bedrooms,
that were not vacant before, he came upon a hearse,
which was taking away a coffin that had been re-
moved from one of the bedrooms that were about
being let. It seems almost incredible that people
should go on in this way, and endanger health, and
risk life for the sake of a little extra gain. Their
wanton negligence is rendered the more inexcus
able when it is remembered that it is precisely those
who come to the seaside for change of air who are
the most liable to catch the infectious diseases
hovering about, from the fact of their being
exhausted with the beat of the weather,
the fatigues of business, and the oppressiveness
of town life. Those who constantly reside
at the watering-place would not be in near')
so much danger, even if they, were exposed to the
risk, which they are not. A gentleman, who
was just recovering from the small-pox, went
down to the seaside, and in the even-

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 15, 1863.

THE ALBERT CROSS.

The Noblest Monument of all has yet to be raised
under the above title to the memory of the "great

and beloved husband" of our revered and mos'

gracious SOVEREIGN. The foundation of an Order
of Merit so entitled would, beyond all doubt, serve

in the most effectual manner to commemorate to

after times the peculiar lustre appertaining to the
reputation of his Royal Highness. Already within
the last few years of her MAJESTY'S reign two

glorious orders have been established—The Star o.

ladia and The Victoria Cross. It is as a companion

to the one last-mentioned, to The Victoria Cross,

that we would now see the Albert Cross founded,

organised, and distributed. 7he Victoria Cross

has already become the most dearly prized and the
most ardently coveted among all the rewards of
valour that could by possibility be bestowed by the

SOVEREIGN of these realms upon an English.

man. Let The Albert Cross be so founded

BO organised, and ao distributed that, in its turn,

it shall come to be thus regarded among

all the loyal and patriotic subjects of the Crown, as
the symbolical recompence of peaceful merit of all
kinds—moral, social, and intellectual. An English

Legion of Honour, designed to evidence the

national recognition of distinguished ability, of
good work done, of noble achievements. A ribbon

unstained by a drop of blood. A cross nnblurred
by a whiff of gunpowder. An Order of Merit iden-
tified always with peaceful avocations, with Art,
with Science, with Literature, with:Philanthropy.
A Cross of Honour to be awarded alike to the

jag proceeded to an hotel, from whence
he took lodgings. He returned "all right," but,
says the narrator very truly, " will it be all right
with those who, succeeding him in his rooms, have
to use his blankets and bedding." Doubtless, from
this known case of dereliction of duty, there
have arisen numerous cases of severe illness, dis-
figurement, and even death. Now it seems time that
this anomaly should be checked, and that some sani.

Poet and the Philosopher, to the Painter and the
Novelist, to the Architect and the Manufacturer.
It is but the other day that one of the most princely
benefactors of his age and country, that munificent
man of taste who was the founder of the magnifi-
cent Gallery of the English School of Painting
which is called, after his
pa owdn name, the SHEEP-
SHANKS'
midst of us without away from the
hisoe noble gift of that
collection, during his
fo
wl:
hi lifetime, to the
him, nation at large, having
won
either from the
people or from the Government, any, even the
feeblest, symbolical indication of the gratefal admi-
ration which was certainly his doe. The establish-
ment of precisely the very kind of Order of Merit
here hinted at—an Order of Merit that could not
by possibility receive any more suitable name than
the very one we are now suggesting, that of The
Albert Cross—would, while at once satisfying a na-
tional want long felt, serve at the same time in the
most signal and effectual manner to perpetuate the
peaceful, stainless, bloodless, beneficent reputation
won for himself in history by that BEAU IDEAL Or
WHAT A PRINCE OUGHT TO BE, that "Prince in-
deed," as our Poet Laureate has emphatically called
!1.413, that Royal Patron of Letters, of the Arts, and of
the Sciences, One of whose brief but beautiful career
this Albert Cross would be the most radiantly con-
spicuous and the most significantly appropriate of
all commemorations.The foundation of the Order of Me Albert Cross
would, as a memorial of his Royal Highness, be
far beyond
nany
raised in his number
hoo of statues that could be
ri:,Sovereign in broLz3 or marble—acrd ! And W of this realm
could more appropriately
Merit, fur the eucoura: foundent this noble Order of
of the peaceful arts
and sciences, than the revered
and beloved Consort
of his Royal Highness, the gracious QUEEN of these
Realms, who, so recently as only the day before
yes-
terday, spoke of that lamented Prince Bo
exquisitely
and so tenderly! Proclaiming before hepeople;
upon that occasion of her first appearanue:'
public
since the date of her bereavement, the devoted love
fur him that fills her heart, and that must throw a
lasting gloom over all her future life _and,
with that devoted love of the widowed QUEEN
for the memory of that "great and beloved
husband"--what ? they are her MAJESTY'S own
words, remember—" unbouuded reverence and ad-
miration !'' How, more signally, attest this devoted

.ary regulations should be enforced without delay.
The fact is, that lodging-house keepers, as a rule
(there are of course exceptions), are too greedy for
money, and in pursuance of this object they forget
that the society which supports them has a claim
on their consideration, and that they make immense
profits during the season, which cannot even
afford them the excuse of need for their over-
reaching conduct. Without imposing any irksome
restraint on the liberty of the subject, or adopting
undue interference with business, it must be pos-
sible for the local authorities to make 80M6 altera-
tions in the present system. In all cases where a
serious neglect of due precautions has arisen, let a
heavy
fine be exacted, and the lodging-house keeper
be forbidden to re-let for a stated time—say a month
—during
which all purifying processes can take
place. One of the chief causes that produce these
disastrous casualties is the indifference that reigns
in 80 rna
nY quarters
affair of theirs, ; people think it is no
and if changes are proposed they
are afraid of giving
offence, and hence all is left to
jog on in the old routine. These lovers of expe-
diency are apt to forget that they are neglecting a
solemn duty and ignoring a sacred trust. It is not
always wise, right, or kind to avoid annoying or
inrrciutmatbinegutouthpeorns ;usontotdho so, if the needs of society contrary, it is at times
i
or propriety
require it, and the demands of health
call for interference. The fault is not all
with the lodging-house keepers, for the
convalescents themselves aro often seriously to
blame. Oae case is cited by Mr. JEFFERY, a surgeon
at EAstbourne, in which a lady, whose husband had
died of the fever, and one of whose daughters had
been very ill, came direct to Eastbourne on her re-
covery, and took rooms without having told the
landlady of the case. " Two children, who came
after, went into their rooms and died." The secret
was disclosed by the lady's nurse mentiJning it to
The proper remedy for
the servants when too late.

this cruel state of things would be for the magis-
trates to have each case of fever occurring in lodg-

ing-houses reported to them. This would be an
effectual check upon the careless, ill-advised proc‘.?ed-
lugs now taking place, and in the course cf investi-
gation it Would be easy to detezmin-?, which parties