The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

DANCING OVER, THE VOLCANO.

Our city is absolutely crowded with strangers.
Go where you will, you cannot find a room in an
hotel, unless you make application a week in ad-
vance. The streets are crowded. All our places of
amusement are making fortunes. The country is
getting deserted. Oar citizens are flocking back
to Broadway.

ADVENT OF ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE.

It is now certain that a great battle will be
fought in the vicinity of Chattanooga by thejoint
Forces of. Rosencranz and Burnside, and the rebel
forces in that region.

'WHAT A PITY AUNT ABE WAS DELAYED I

Mrs. Lincoln is in town, and stopping at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. Her departure for Europe
is delayed. It is to be regretted that she could not
have reached Germany in time to attend the meeting
of Sovereigns in Frankfort.

Query : 'Would the old lady have been admitted P

DEATH OF MR. TOOKE, F.R.S.—We regret to
announce the death of Mr. William Tooke, F.R.S.,
a gentleman whose name has long been associated with
literature, and who is well known as the promoter and
founder of literary associations throughout the country.
Mr. Tooke, who was born in 1777, was trained to the study
of the law, and having been admitted a solicitor, practised
his profession for some years in London. Science, art,
and literature had, however, greater attractions for him,
and to their cultivation he devoted his energies. In 1804
he published, anonymously, an edition of Churchill's
poetical works, which were republished among the Aldine
Poets, with the editor's name, in 1844. In 15.55 he pub-
lished a work entitled, " The Monarchy of France; its
Rise, Progress, and Fall ;" having, meanwhile, given to
the world several minor publications. In conjunction with
Lord Brougham, Dr. Birkbeck, Mr. Grote, and others, he
took an active part in the establishment of the Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and for a considerable
period acted as its treasurer. He was a Fellow of the Royal
Society, and President of the Society of Arts, which office
becomes vacant by his death. For two years, namely, from
1835 to 1837, during the administration of Lord Melbourne,
Mr. Tooke represented the borough of Truro in Parliament.
He was born at St. Petersburg, and was the son of the Rev.
William Tooke, an English divine and writer, who became
chaplain to the factory ut the Russian Company in that
city, and was the author of a " Life of Catherine II.," " A
View of the Russian Empire," and other works.
CHARLES MATHEWS' PARISIAN ACHIEVEMENT.—
The comedy in which Charles Mathews is now
playing before the Parisians is his own; the translation
into excellent French is his again. These are rare qualifi-
cations, of which any man might be proud. But there are
yet some few who could have done these things almost as
well as this charming actor. But no other man, having
done these things, could have performed so easily and na-
turally as he did, in " L'Anglais Timidie " or with tha
same wonderful mastery of the pronunciation. It is this
last feat which has given this finished actor ens rooted
esteem of the elegant and polished French people, which
they will never cease to cherish along with his memory.
What he has attempted, and what he has so fully succeeded
in, was bold to a degree; but in every circumstance it has
been completely justified.— Court Journal.

DEAN CLOSE OF CARLISLE having recently
alluded with a jeer to one whom he speaks of as
"the slashing editor of the Examiner," has just called
down upon himself the following retort polite from our con-
temporary :—" Like his prototype Mawworrn, Dean Close
loves to be despised. To be talked of is his great ambition,
and how he is talked of is quite a secondary consideration.
He would of course much prefer praise, for which he has an
excellent appetite; but if he cannot get that he will gladly
accept ridicule or contempt rather than pass unnoticed.
Notoriety is his passion, quocungue modo. Happily for him
he has a bishop over him who requires a vast deal of de-
fence, and who gives plenty of opportunities for the Dean
to come forward in the character of ecclesiastical awash.
buckler. The word is rather obsolete, but there is no other
that so well represents the character defined by Johannes
one who makes a great clatter pugnaciously.

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OXIXT-- I limitat

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador find the
Countess Bernstorff, who left Carlsbad the week before last,
an their way back to London, are making a series of visits
en route. His excellency and the emintess are expected to
arrive in a few days to join their family at Brighton.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will receive
a select circle at their seat in Wales torards the close of
the week.

The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort leaves town
to-day on a visit to Lord and Lady Londesborough at their
seat in Scotland.

The Duke of Hamilton was to leave Baden-Baden
yesterday for England. His grace enters Christ Church,
Oxford, on the 20th of the ensuing month.
The Duchess of Bueeleueb, with Lord Henry
Scott, M.P., and the Ladies Scott, arrived on Thursday
last at Baden-Baden from Carlsbad, and during their stay
dined with the Duchess of Hamilton Ode Princess Marie
of Baden). The duchess and family were to leave Baden
on Saturday on their way home by easy stages.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Viscount
Lascelles, Mr. and Lady Augusta Sturt, Count Maffei, &;0•7
have joined the party staying with Mr. and Lady Margaret
Beaumont at Bretton Park, Yorkshire.
The Ear! and Countess Ashburnham have arrived
at Ashburnham House, Dover street, from their family seat
in Sussex.

The Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon have
during the past week entertained a select party at Studley
Royal, their seat near Ripon.
The Earl of Povvis and Ladies Herbert intend to
came to town for the wedding of Lady Violet Graham and
Mr. Greville.

The Earl and Countess of Darnley have left
England for the Continent.
The Earl of Lonsdale has arrived at his residence
in Carlton-house-terrace from Lowther Castle, Cumber-
land.

Lord and Lady Llanover will receive a succession
of guests at their seat in Wales during the next furtnight.

Lord and Lady Rendiesham have arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel,

MAYALL'S GALLERY OF CELEBRITIES.—We find
from the catalogue that another long-looked for
carte de visite has just been added to Mr. Mayalt's collec-
tion of distinguished indvidualss. It is a likeness of Dr.
Sheridan Muspratt, author of the unrivalled Dictionary
bearing his name, and one of the first chemists of the day.
The Professor is taken in two different attitudes—standing
and sitting. In both his hands lest on a book, and he
seems pondering, as if in deep thought. The manner in
which these pictures have been finished defies criticism.
The general sphericity of the figure, projecting as it were
from the piper, produces an admirable effect. As works of
art these photographs possess the highest merit, and they
are wholly devoid of the technical blemishes so common in
such productions. It is the most striking carte de visite,
intellectually, that we have seen for a long time.—Glasgoto
Herald.

A SKRIMMAGE IN THE lONIAN SENATE.—At
the last sitting of the Senate, some four days ago,
a u.ost scandalous scene took place which has become the,
engrossing subject of conversation, and resembles the famous
encounter between .Tabez Dollar and Slick of Tennessee so
graphically described by Bon Gaultier. Two senators
having differed in opinion, expressed themselves in terms
more befitting street porters than ministers ; and having
exhausted their vocabulary of abuse. in which neither
spared his nearest female relatives, and which was only
limited by a lack of natural eloquence, they proceeded to
impress each other with their respective views in a more
laughable form. The other four members now intervened,
and separated these most illustrious combatants, while the
mob outside the palace "assisted" at the ground-floor win-
dow with appropriate cheers and groans. A similar scene
has never as yet occurred even in the Legislative Assembly,
nor would it have been possible under the old system,when
the Ministers or Senate were taken from the nobility and
gentry of the country. These are, however, abhorrent to
Sir H. Storks, whose innate sympathies lead him to prefer
those of the class from which he himself is sprung. Let us
picture to ourselves Mr. Gladstone coming to fisticuffs with
Sir C. Wood, or the Duke of Newcastle "punching Lord
Russell's head" at a Cabinet Council I

A COURTLY PRY.—A Parisian correspondent of
the Court Journal gives the following account of his
peeping at the Empress Eugenie while her Majesty was
playing at billiards at Biarritz. This descendant of
Coventry Tom describing even the blush upon the cheek of
the Empress and the percale about her Majesty's ancles
"During the short stay we made at Biarri:z,we were fortu•
nate enough to catch a glimpse, through tha open window,
of the billiard-room at the Villa Eugenie just when the
sport was at its height. In the midst of the animation in-
spired by the game, her Majesty's vivacity and playfulness
of disposition were brought out to their fullest advantage ;
her joyous laugh rang through the lofty room, and found
its echo even with those walking on the terrace without, so
gay and fresh was the sound. Her Majesty's figure, which
is still as lithe and youthful as ever, bent over the board
with much grace; and as the colour came and went on her
cheek, which in Paris has of late been so very pale, we
could not help rejoicing at the custom which permits the
cares of greatness to be laid aside for awhile, and forgetful-
ness of a crown to be found in the more genial distractions
which the peculiar temperament of her Majesty so greatly
requires. The dress worn by her Majesty in the billiard-
room consists of a bolero jacket and petticoat of striped
percale, orange and white, the stripes broad and sharp, like
the stuffs made for the Creole ladies of Bourbon. A. thick
white Spanish shirt underneath, without collar or wrist-
bands, was the novelty in the costume ; while the petticoat
being necessarily short, and bending over the boar°, a neces-
sary movement of the game, the whole was terminated by
short, loose drawers of percale, reaching just above the
anele. Nothing could be more charming and gallant than
this dress, which the broad ceinture, with loose bow and
floating ends of the same material as the petticoat, and the
orange•coloured net, a la Figaro, falling down the neck
behind, in which the hair hung loose and unconfined by
any other obstacle, finished with a nieces which had already
inspired the great poet (name I) who is just now staying at
Biarritz with some of the happiest verses he ever penned."
LUKE CHARLES, the policeman who is accused
of the murder of his wife, was yesterday committed
for trial at Bury. The body found in the canal at Pendle-
bury in February last has been identified as that of the pri-
soner's wife, and evidence was given yesterday to show
that after the woman's disappearance Charles was in the
habit of telling plausible stories in reply to the inquiries of
her friends and others as to what had become of her. It
would also appear that the prisoner during his wife's life-
time had proposed marriage to a young woman in Ireland ;
that his offer had been accepted ; and that he was only pre-
vented from committing the offence of bigamy by :he re-
fusal of a Catholic priest to perform the ceremony of mar-
riage until he had satisfactory evidence that the prisoner
was what he represented himself to be—an unmarried

man.

CRASS STUPIDITY.—In the Perth Circuit Court
Samuel Tumbleson, from Dundee, was charis•ed
with having, on Tuesday or Wednesday, 28th or 29th of
April lax;, attempted to poison Elizabeth Holland or
Tumbleson, his wife, by instructing Helen Cassels or
Tumbleson, to give to his wife, as an article of food, oat-
meal mixed with strychnia, or other poisonous substance.
The that witness called was Mrs. James Tumbleson, who
deponed—l am the wife of James 1 umbleson, and am the
sister-in-law of Samuel Tumbleson. The Advocate-
Depute (pointing to the prisoner at the bar)—ls that your
brother-in-law, Samuel Tumbleson. Witness—lf it is hires
he is awfully changed. (A laugh.) The Advocate:
Depute—Did he live with you ? Witness—Did he bids wi
me, d'ye mean? Yes, he did. He bade wi' me last spring.
Lord Deas (to the Advocate-Deputy)—But the first thing
is to make out that this is the man, Samuel Tumbleson.
The Advocate-Depute (to witness)—ls that Samuel Tum-
bleson? Witness—May I ask him? Lord Deas—Can't
you answer the question, woman ? Witness--I want to
speak the truth, my lord, and nothing but the truth.
(Laughter,) Lord Deas--Is teat your brother-in-law, or
is it not? Now, don't laugh? It is no laughing matter,
I can tell you—very far from it. Is that your brother-in-
law? Witness turned her eyes on the prisoner, and stared
at him for fully a minute. Lord Deas— Well, what do you
say ? Can you say it is your brother-in-law ? Witness
To the best of my knowledge itis. Lord Deas—Ha ve youanY
another doubt about A? Witness—Well, I have very little doubt of it.
Lord Deas—Well, have you any doubt that it is your
brother-in-law? Answer
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then said—He had nae beard when he was biding with us.
(Great laughter.) Lord Deas—Don't laugh at that, gantle-
men. Now, witness, answer me that question—ls ails
your brother-in-law, or is it not? Witness—Well, I sup
pose it is. Lord Deas—ls it, or is it not ?
the best of my knowledge it is. Lord Deas—Have Y°ll
any doubt that it is ? Witness—l can't say whether csr not
have any doubt about it. Lord Deas— But you roust
say whether you have any doubt, otherwise I will
have to send you to prison. Witness—Can I ask
himself ? Lord Deas—You can speak to him if you like.
Witness (to the prisoner)—Are you Samuel Tumbleson ?
Prisoner—Yes; lam Samuel Tumbleson. Lord Dees—
Now, is that your brother-in-law ? Witness—Yes, it is.
(Laughter.) Lord Deas—Now, Mrs. Tumbleson, it is ne-
cessary you should consider it your duty more to speak the
truth than to amuse yourself. It is necessary you should
answer the questions put to you truthfully and directly, for,
it you do so, you will put yourself to less trouble, and will
get away sooner than otherwise you will do. Witness--My
Lord, it would not be my inclination to speak against my-
sell or against the truth. Lord Deas—Well, tell us the
truth to the best of your abA.ty.
.Atter a lengthened trial,.
the jury returned a verdict linanire. eusly finding the libLl
not proven, and the prisoner was dismissed from Abe bar.

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