The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, June 29—William and Martha, from Laviache;
Christian Jantina, from Konigsberg ; Alert and Veritas,
from Guernsey; I)ancing Sally, from Riga; Catharine and
Karen, from Dantsic ; Britliant, from Cronstadt ; McDuff,
frem St. Vincent.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
gassed—VenFtian steamer, from Alexandra, for London;
Edmund Graham (in tow), from Melbourne, for London ;
Idomeneo, from the Sunderland, for New York.
Anchored—Excel, trom Ghent, for Dublin.

" GOETHE'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GRAND
DUKE OF WEIMAR," so long looked for and so often
promised, is at length in the press, and the publication is
promised for the beginning of July. The two volumes will
contain about 600 letters, and among them a great number
that have not only never been published, but the perusal of
which has never been permitted beyond the family of the
Grand-Duke. They will embrace the letters of the Grand-
Duke on the Campaign in the Palatinate, Goethe's letters
to his patron from Italy, and will, no doubt, form one of the
most interesting of the collections of letters connected with
Goethe that have yet been published.-41thenasum.

THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME.—A fancy bazaar
opened this morning at St. James's Hall, in aid of
the funds of the London Surgical Home, and attracted a
very large attendance of the nobility and gentry of London.
The " Home" is established for the reception of gentlemen,
and females of respectability suffering from curable surgical
diseases. The " Home" has met with great success in its
mission,and each anniversary witnesses its extended useful-
ness. The bazaar will remain open until Thursday next.
THE SHAKSPEARE MONUMENT.—DRURY LANE
THEATRE.—The performance in aid of the funds
for erecting a national monument to Shakspeare takes
place this evening, and from the extraordinary combination
of talent an overflowing house will, no doubt, be the result.
We are to have selections from no less than nine of Shak-
speare's ploys, each supported by the leading members of
the dramatic profession. The selection from `• As You
Like It," with Miss Helen Faucit as Rosalind, will be a
great treat. The performance, we see, is under the
patronage of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
THE REFRESHMENT-ROOMS OF THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.—The subjsined resolutions have been
agreed to by the select committee appointed to control the
arrangements of the kitchen and refreshment-rooms in the
department of the sergeant-at-arms :—" That it is the opi-
nion of this committee-1. That an application be made to
the commissioners of the fee fund for an additional annual
grant of £3OO to provide for the better management of the
kitchen and refreshment-rooms. 2. That the committee,
having further considered the subject of the enlargement
of the dining-rooms, are of opinion that such enlargement
is absolutely necessary, and having seen Mr. Barry's im-
proved plan, are of opinion that i.-;, would afford the accom-
modation required, but express the hope that his plan might
be executed for a smaller sum than the amount which has
been named in the evidence. 3. That as the present mana-
ger still fails to per form his duties satisfactorily, the com-
mittee should be empowered to receive proposals from
any person who may be willing to undertake the office in
the next session of Parliament."

BERWICK ELECTION,—The nomination of candi-
dates to fill the vacancy in the representation of
Berwick-on-Tweed toek place on !- aturday, and the elec-
tion yesterday, Mr. Alex. Mitchell, of Stow, was brought
for Ward by the Liberals, and Mr. W. W, Cargill, merchant,
London, by the Conservatives. At the nomination Mr.
Mitchell had the show of hands, but at the close of the poll
yesterday, after a severe contest, Mr. Cargill was returned
by a majority of 18, the numbers being—Mr. Cargill (Con-
servative), 328; Mr. Mitchell (Liberal), 310.
THE LAST MINUTE ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT
SHIP.—I looked about me again, and saw the letter
writing going on with the most curious composure. Per-
fectly abstracted in the midst of the crowd ; while great
casks were swinging aloft, and being lowered into the hold;
while hot agents were hurrying up and down, adjusting the
interminable accidents; while 200 strangers were searching
everywhere for 200 other strangers, and were asking ques-
tions about them of 200 more; while the children played
up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the
people's legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, top-
pling over all the dangerous places ' • the letter writers wrote
on calmly. On the starboard side of the ship, a grizzled
man dictated a long letter to another grizzled man in an
immense fur cap : which letter was of so profound a
quality, that it becomes necessary for the amanuensis at
intervals to take off his fur cap in
both his hands for the
ventilation of his brain, and stare at him who dictated as a
man of many mysteries who was worth looking at. On the
larboard side, a woman had covered a belaying-pin with a
white cloth, to make a neat desk of it, and was sitting on a
little box, writing with the deliberation of a bookkeeper
Down upon her breast on the planks of the deck at this
with her head diving in under a beam of the
feet, with
side, as an eligible place of refuge for her
a neat and pretty girl wrote for a good hour
woman'sk
s
bulwar
fain ed at last), only rising to the iurface occasionally
for a diP
sheet(she of ii ape r,
of ink. Alongside the boat, close to me on the
poop-deck., another girl, a fresh well-grown country girl
wo writing another letter on the bare deck. Later in the
day, when this self. same boat was fillet with a choir who
sang glees and catches for a long time, one of the singers,
a girl, sang her part mechanically all the while, and wrote
a letter in the bottom of the boat while doing so.—Charles
Dickens in" All the Year Round," just published.
The 100 years' lease of The Corner expires in
1865, and the Messrs. Tattersall have just begun to build
their new yard and betting rooms at Knightsbridge-green,
about half-a-mile nearer Kensington.
MAGISTERIAL GENTLENESS.--A little child, not
seven years old, has been sentenced by the Kenmure magi&
trates to six weeks' confinement for picking a handful
green gooseberries off a bush in an unwalled garden!

ThfI?EBIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening.
Their lordships assembled at four o'clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The House of Commons were summoned to hear the royal
assent given by commission to the following bills :—lnland
Revenue, Militia Bill, London, &c,, Diocese, Offences
South Africa, A frican Slave Trade Treaty, Bleaching and
Dyeing Works Act Amendment, Local Government Sup.
pleinental, Coventry Market House, Norwich Poor,
Skipton Gas, Stourbrldge Railway, ()sweaty and
-Welchpool Railway, Ashbourne, Sudbury, and Yoxall
-Bridge, and Uttoxeter and Collingwood-road ; Cork
and Youghal Railway, St. Luke's (Middlesex) Work-
house and Vestry Hall, Itchon-bridge, Llanelly Railway
and Dock, Bann Navigation Improvement, Buckley Rail.
way, Launceston and South Devon Railway, Birkenhead
Improvement, Bristol and Portshead Pier and Railway,
Carhermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway; London
and South Western, and Andover end Redbridge Rail-
ways ; Newport Pagnell Railway ; Transmere Docks and
Yarmouth Gas.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the
I id St. Germans, and Viscount Sydney.
Their lordships then adjourned during pleasure.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at five
esti° c k.