The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

IMPIRIAL PLRLIAKENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This Day.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 10 minutes after 12
o'clock, a house not having been made before that time.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Carmar-
then and Cardigan Railway (No. 1), Newry and Greenore
Railway Pier and Wet Dock, North British Railway
(Steamboats).
The following bills were read a third time :—Edinburgh
and Dunfermline and Perth (North British) Railway,
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Newcastle and Carlisle
Ruad, North Eastern Railway (Hull and Doncaster
Branch), Scottish Central Railway.
The following bills were considered, and ordered to be
read a third time :—Great Eastern Railway, Great Northern
Railway (Cheshire lines), and Bonelli's Electric Telegraph
Company.
The second reading of the London (City) Traffic Regu-
lation Bill was postponed until Thursday.
FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL.
The house then went into committee on the bill.
The consideration of clause 4 was resumed.
Mr. BRUCE explained that the Government had lis-
tened with great attention to suggestions from all parties
interested in these fisheries, and he believed that whilst the
best parts of the Act of 1842 were conserved by this bill,
it would likewise lead to the proper distribution of salmon,
which all unbiassed and disinterested persons desired. The
Government considered that the clause as amended would
work well.
Sir N. SOMERVILLE said he was a supporter, though
reluctantly, of the compromise which had resulted in this
bill, and it was rather too bad for its supporters to feel it
their duty to oppose such alterations in the clause on the
part of the Government, which would legalise stake and
bag nets, and thus destroy all salmon that ascended the
rivers. Had the bill of the hon. member for Wexford (Mr.
M'Mahon) not been interfered with by the Government,
he believed it would have received the assent of the house.
Mr. BRUCE denied that the clause as amended would
legalise these nets. •
After much discussion, the committee divided on the
clause as proposed to be amended, the Government having
proposed the omission of the words "or any other waters,"
when there appeared—
For the amendment 33
Against
Majority —2
Several verbal amendments were then agreed to.
Mr. REDMOND proposed the insertion of the words
"or estuaries" after the word "rivers."
The alteration was opposed.
After some discussion, the house divided, when there
appeared—
For the amendment 76
Ayes
Majority .. —6B
(LEFT SITTING.)

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 15

THE PURCHASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION.

In committee of supply, motion made and question proposed,
" That a sum not exceeding £67,000 be granted to her
Majesty to defray the charge which will come in course
of payment duriLg the year ending on the 31st day of
March, 1864, for the purchase of land and certain build-
ings from her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition
of 1851." The committee divided—Ayes, 267 ; Noes,
135.
AYES-267.
Adair, H. E. Gower, F. L. Packe, Col.
Adderley, C. B. Gower, G. W. L. Padmore, R.
Addington, Hon.W. Greenwood, J. Paget, C.
Adeane, H. J. Grenfell, H. R. Paget, Lord A.
Agnew, Sir A. Grey, Sir G. Paget, Lord C. E.
Andover, Lord Griffith, C.D. Pa ington, Sir J. S.
Ashley, Lord Gurdon, B. Palmer, Sir R.
Atherton, Sir W. Gurney, Jahn H. Palmerston, Visct.
Aytoun, K. S. Gurney, Srmuel Papillon, P. O.
Baines, E. Hamilton, Viscount Paull, H.
Baring, Thomas Hamilton, 1. T. Pease, H.
Baring, Thos. Geo. Banbury, R. Peel, Sir R.
Beamish, F. B. Handley, John Peel, F.
Beaumont,Somerset Hankey, Thomson Pender, J.
Beecroft, G. S. Hanmer, Sir J. Pennant, Col.
Bellew, R. M. Hardy, Gathorne Peto, Sir M.
Benyon, It. Hardy, J. Pigott, Sergeant
Beresford, W. Hartingtor,Marquis Pilking-ton, James
Beresford. Denis Headlam, Thus. E. Pinney, Col.
Bernard, Col. Heathcote, G. IL
PottPortman, W. H. B.
Biddulph,-.Col. R.M. Henley, J. er, E.
Black, Adam Henness, J. P. Powell, F. S.
Blencowe, J. G. Henniker, Lord Powell, J.
Bonham-Carter, J. Herbert, H. A. Price, It. G.
Bouverie, E. P. Hervey, LordA. Pritchard, John
Bouverie, P. P.. Heygate, W. U Proby, Lord G. L.
Bramston, T. W. Hibbert, J. Pugh, D.
Bridges, Sir B. Hill, Hon. R. Puller, C. W.
Browne, Lord J. T. Hodgson, R. Repton, G. W. J.
Bruce, 11. A. Holford, R. S. Ricardo, 0.
Buchanan, W. Hood, Sir A. Ridley, Sir M. W.
Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Hope, G. W. Robartes, T. J. A.
Buller, J. W. Hopwood, J. T. Robertson, H.
Buller, Sir A. Howard, Hon. C. Roebuck, J. A.
Bury, Viscount Howes, E. Rose, W. A.
Butler, C. S. Hume, W. Roth schild,Baron 11
Butt, Isaac Hutt, W. Russell, A. J. E.
Buxton, C. Ingham, R. Russell, Sir Wm.
Caird, James Jervoise, Sir J. St. Aubyn, J.
Calthorpe, F. H. Johnstone, J. J. H. Salomons,Aiderman
Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Johnstone, Sir J. Sclater-Booth, G,
Cartwright, Cot. Kinglake, A. W. Scott, Lord H.
Castlerosse, Vist. Kinglake, Serj. J. Scott, Sir W.
Cave, S. Kingscote, Col. Scrope, G. P.
Cavendish, Hon. W. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Shelley, Sir J. V.
Cavendish, Lord G. Layard, A. H. Sheridan, H. B.
Childers, H. C. E. Langton, W. G. Smith, Sir F.
Cholmeley, Sir 31. Langton, W. H. G. Smith, 31.
Clay, James Leaner, N. Smith, J. A.
Cobden, R. Lefroy, A. Somerville, Sir W.
Cole, Hon. H. Lee, W. Somes, Joseph
Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Legh, Major C. Stanley, 0.
Colthurst, Sir G. Legh, W. J. Stansleld, J.
Corry, H. L. Leighton, Sir B. .Steel, John
Cowper, Hon. W.F. Lennox, Lord H. G. Stuart, Col.
Crawford, R. W. Leslie, C. P. Taylor, Colonel
Crossley, Sir F. Leslie, W. Taylor, P. A.
Curzon, Viscount Lever, John O. Thompson, H. S.
Dalkeith, Earl of Liddell, Hon. H. G. Thynne, Lord E.
Dent, John Dent Long, R. p. Tite, Wm.
Hering-, Sir E. Lopes, Sir U. Tollemache, Hon.F.
Divett, Edward Lovaine, Lord Tollemache, J. H.
Drax, J. E. Lowe, Itt. Hon. R. Trefusis, Hon. C. H.
Duff, It. Lysley, NV, Vandeleur, Col.
Dunbar, Sir Wm. Mackinnon,W. A. Vane, Lord H. G.
Duncombe, W. E. Malcolm, J. W. Verney, Sir Harry
Dunkellin, Lord Matins, R. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Dunlop, A. Manners, Lord J. Vivian, H. H.
Du Pre, C. Marjoribanks, D. C. Vyner, Reginald
Elcho, Lord Martin, P. W. Vv alcott, Adm. J. E.
Ennis, John Martin,J. Walpole, S. H.
Evans, T. W. Merry, James Walter, John
Ewart, William Miller, William Warner, Edward
Ewart, J. C. Mills, J. R. Watkins, Col. L.
Farquhar, Sir M. Milnes, R. M. Watlington, J.
Farrer, J. Mitford, W. T. Wegueiin, T.
Fenwick, Henry Moffatt, George Weiby, W. E.
Finlay, A. S. Montagu, Lord R. Western, S.
Fitzroy, Lord F. Montgomery, Sir G. Whalley, G. H.
Foljambe, F. J. S. Morgan, Major Whitbread, S.
Forester, Gen. Morrison, W. White, L.
Foster, W. 0. Mure, David. Whitmore, H.
Fortescue, Hon. F. Murray, William Wood, Sir C.
Gibson. T. M. Naas, Lord Woodd, B. T.
Gilpin, C. Newport, Visct. Woods, Henry
Gladstone, IV. E. Nicol, William Wrightson, W.
Glyn, G. G. Noel, G. J. Wyndham, Hon. P.
Goddard, A. L. North, F. TELLERS.
Gore, J. R. 0. Northcote, Sir S. H. Brand, 11. B.
Goschen, G. J. Ogilvy, Sir J. Knatchbull-Hugess

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S MoNDAy.

The attendance this afternoon was very numerous, and
the Tomato case was again discussed among the principal
members of the room. It has already been stated that a
petition was drawn up at the Hampton Meeting, asking
that the question might be re-opened, and in reference to
this the following notification was issued in the course of
the afternoon :

" Tattersall's, Monday, June 15.

" The members of the committee are hereby summoned
to attend on Monday, June 22, at four o'cleck, to take into
consideration a petition signed by numerous members of the
Subscription-room.
(Signed) " H. J. Rous.
" G. PAYNE.
" C. GREVILLE.
" H. LOWTHER."

Settling on the Hampton and Newton events chiefly en-
grossed attention until a late period of the afternoon, and
the betting that took place was by no means of en bx ten -
sive character. Subjoined were the prices at the close :

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
100 to 12 agst Caller Ou (offered)
10 to 1 agst Brighton (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Marigold (offered)
100 to 8 agst Carbineer (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Doefoot (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Monk (taken)
15 to 1 agst Brilliant (taken)
100 to 6 agst Polynesia (offered)
25 to 1 agst Prologue (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
100 to 7 agst Knutsford (offered)
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst Ranger (taken)
7 to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
7to 1 agst Lord Staralord's lot (taken)
9to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
THE DERBY, 1864.
9to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered)
100 to 6 agst Blair Athol (offered)
18 to l agst Ackworth (offered)
30 to 1 agst The Doctor (offered)
50 to 1 agst Birch Broom (taken)
50 to 1 agst Prince Arthur (offered)

CITY BETTING—MoNDAY.
ODIRIM LIA.NDICAP.
sto 2 agst Gibraltar (taken)
3to 1 agst Flash in-the-Pan (taken)
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
9to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken)
10 to 1 agst Brighton (taken)
12 to 1 agst Marigold (taken)
12 to 1 agst Monk (taken)
14 to 1 agst Clarior (taken)
14 to 1 agst Alice (taken)
14 to 1 agst Stanton (taken)
16 to 1 agst Carbineer (taken)
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst Ranger (taken)
7to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
10 to 1 agat Queen Bertha (taken)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER, MONDAY:3

Far the Northumberland Plate a few commissions made
Caller Ou the favourite, she being supported at 8 to 1.
The price was offered against Brighton, but nothing
higher, as there were several offers to take 9 to 1, which
met with no response. The little done on any of the others
calls for no particular notice. Closing prices :

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
Bto 1 agst Caller On (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Brighton (offered)
14 to 1 agst (Stanton (taken)
14 to 1 agst Doefoot (taken and offered)
14 to 1 agst Pilot (taken)
14 to 1 aget Clarior (offered)
16 to 1 agst Daniel O'Connell (offered)
20 to 1 agst Polynesia (taken)
20 to 1 agst Brilliant (taken))
33 to 1 agst Oldminster (taken)
THE DERBY.
4o 1 agst Doctor (taken and wanted)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.
JUNE. _

()diham 16
Beverley l7
Bibury Club l7
Stockbridge lB

Chelmsford 23
Newcastle-on-Tyne —23
Ipswich ..25
Carlisle

SHIPPING—This Day.

(Elt MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND Tuesday Morning

Arrived. June 15—Kelpie, from Bathurst; Gotha, from
Soderham ; Oleander, from Trinidad; Albert and Mary,
from higa ; Champion, from Grenada; Balhara, from Mon-
treal; Erneste Foster, from Frederickstadt ; Regalia, and
Malcolm, from Riga; Speedwell, from Gurensey ; Tadal,
from Embery ; Maylille, from Hamburg; Emanuel, from
Lebau.

Arrived, June 16—Art, from Windau; Sarah Richard-
son, trom Memel; Edward, from Guernsey.
ailed—Talbot, for Calcutta; Elizabeth Ann, for Port
Natal.

DEAL, Taesday Morning.
Passed—Sarah Goodwin, from Sierra Leone, for London;
Jabez, from Sombrera, for Ipswich.
Anchored—Hanah Giova, from Alexandria, for Dover.
Sailed--Rifleman, for Hongkong; Albert the Good, for
Boston; Alarm, for Quebec.

THE OUTRAGE UPON YOUNG FEMALES.—Since
Arthur Robert Willoughby Wade's apprehension
a great many reports have become current with regard to
his past career, which are far from flattering ; and there
seems to be very little doubt that for some years he has
been leading a loose discreditable life. When first he ar-
rived in Dorking, now several years since, he was the very
picture of " hard- upishness," and no one had any-
thing to say to him until Mr. Evelyn took him by the
hand. Then he started upon a new existence, and being
appointed adjutant of the 3d Administrative Battalion of
Surrey Rifles, he became all at once a man of some import-
ance, and obtained introductions into society of such a class
that he succeeded in engaging the affections of Miss Cole,
a lady of good connections, whom he married. By this
lady he has had three children, one of whom has died since
this sad affair was brought to light, and was buried on Satur-
day last, at Dorking. As a married man his conduct has
been so bad that his wife has left him on several occa-
sions, and she had only returned to him the last time,
about six months ago, when he was arrested on these dis-
gusting charges. During the period of his wife's absence,
Wade lived in open adultery with his c ok, whom he re•
presented to his wife as a married woman, and this cook
was actually confined of a child at his house at Cotman-
dene. Wade's income as adjutant was probably about
.L3OO a year, and there was a likelihood of that being
increased by about another hundred under the new
regulations. He was making preparations, therefore,
for improving his style of living, and increasing his estab-
lishment to an extent commensurate with his augmented
income. The small furnished house at Cotmandene, hired
at £4O a year, was about to be abandoned, and a much
larger house, with beautiful grenade, lately occupied by
Miss Sumner, had been taken in South-street, at a rental
of £6O a year, unfurnished. A great many men had been
engaged for some weeks in painting and decorating, and at
the time when Wade's arrest put an end to all these pro-
jects, a man had been hired as coachmen, and everything
seemed to indicate that a person with comfortable means
and a respectable establishment was about to take up his
abode at the house in South-street. It now transpires that
Wade had never paid the men engaged on the decorations
a single penny; the coachman has been left by himself in
a cottage adjoining the residence, and he does not know
where to look for his wages; the horse which Wade rode
was lent by Mr. Evelyn; and it is said that ho owes debts
in Dorking to the amount of several hundred pounds,
which have been contracted within the last twelve months.
Wade having been arrested on Friday, his wife, for whom
the deepest commiseration is expressed, left Dorking on
the following Monday, and returned to her relatives at
Wimbledon. The child, whose death is referred to above,
was taken from Wimbledon to Dorking on Saturday last tc
be interred. Since his apprehension cases are almost daily
brought to the notice of the police in which Wade is said
to be concerned. Many of these charges are perhaps un-
justly laid to his account ; but if the concurrent testi-
mony of many witnesses is to be credited, morality is not
one of the virtues which adorn the character of Arthur
Willoughby Wade--West Surrey Times.
TALLEYRAND AND MADAME DE STAEL PRATTLING
—According to Mr. Dendy's account of them in his
newly published " Legends of the Lintel and the Ley."—
' Toff/ours gale, toujours la belle,' whi-pered Talleyrand,
drawing his chin within his magnificent cravat, ' and how
porte themselves the Locks.' Tres Bien, and greet you,
Monsieur d'Autun or Augustodonum, for cutting the
revolu Talleyrand frowned away the other syllables.
Bah, bah you are thinking even now more of a mitre
and a princedom than la liberte nest ce pas, n'est ce pas,
Monsieur ?' Thoughts may not be spoken, Madame,
speech was given to conceal them.' Par examplio (sic),
when you glorified Fanny's Evelina, and made3inie, youer,
poor Corinne, so jealous," I may love Evelinae,t
smilea on
yet worship Corinne ; I may kneel to Juno. Y
Venus.' Then give me the smile ; love is dearer fawreator
woman's heart than worship.' Then, Madame,
your robe long to hide your bas bleu.'
CHURCH PLATE.—A curious and interesting. dis,
covert' of ancient church
recently
papers,
celebrated of the formerly_
celebrated college at that town secretly buried two coffers
full of valuable church plate at the time of the great French
A many
Revolution. The secret, which was carefully kept for
years, has recently been divulged. corps of engineers,
who now occupy the buildings formerly used by the college,
searclvd, for the hidden treasures, and they have already
succeeded in disinterring various silver vases bearing the
names, of Presidents of the College, and that of Philip
Howard of Norfclk, with the date 1744. The search is being
prosecuted for other articles supposed to ha* been also
buried,

THE COMMEMORATION AT OXFORD,

OXFORD, June 15.
The solemn, quiet days of Oxford's academic year,
the regular routine of chapel and of college, end
with this week in all the joviality which marks
" Commemoration." In this great University re-
joicing dreary recollections of "gated" days, ruined
honours, and plucked fame are all alike forgotten.
It is Commemoration week—when unpopular prod--
tors have to screw up their courage to meet the un-
dergraduates in the Theatre ; when gay crowds and
pleasant parties throng the fine old College Quads;
when the dim religious-looking windows are filled
wida:blooming faces, and the eanctuaries of the grass
plots are trodden unheeded. Oxford at all times is
a cheerful place, and in Commemoration time is
merrier than ever ; but the Commemoration of this
year will be one, the like of which the University
h!..s never seen since when, just 49 years ago, the
Sheldon:an Theatre was honoured with the presence
of the Allied Sovereigns, when George IV. was Re-
gent. But, even the rejoicings of that great occasion
are likely to be surpassed on this, for now the under-
graduates have to welcome their late fellow-gowns-
man and his fair young bride, and the University au-

thorities have to do honour to one who hereafter: it is
to be believed will do such honour to them, and, over
and above all, to suit the convenience of their Royal
visitors, the fetes and rejoicings of Commemoration
this year have all to be said or sung, danced or eaten,
in two long summer days, instead of six. The pro-
gramme offered for the acceptance, and, if possible,
for the enjoyment also of the youthful pair is of
the same diversified kind as marked every day
of the Prince's long route through Canada into
the far west beyond the Mississippi. It is such a
programme as only a very young and very happy
pair could venture to undertake, and we much
doubt if a young Princess was ever called upon, es
an enjoyment, to go through so much before, Leav-
ing aside the railway journey down to this city to-
morrow, there aro also private receptions and public
routes to ba gone through—a public welcome, with
addresses, at Magdalen-bridge, a procession through
Oxford, a grand distribution of prizes to volunteers,
a special congregation in the Sheldenian Theatre, a
Fancy Fair and Bazaar which their Royal High-
nesses are to open, a Horticultural and Flower Show
to which they are to accord a similar honour, a mag-
❑ificent banquet to which 400 guests will sit down
in the hall of Christchurch in the evening, and a ball
in the beautiful new Corn Exchange, where the
visitors are somewhat rashly expected not only to
find room for themselves, but room for the dancing
also. This is a fair amount of festivity for one day,
and that which follows it is just as good or as bad
—certainly beginning earlier and probably ending
later, and including another grand banquet and ball,
a rowing match, the procession of boats, a Free-
masons' fete, a great collation at All Souls, and,
above and beyond all, the Enceenia or Commemora-
tion—where the undergraduates can express their
opinion, and when they will avail themselves of their
privilege to the utmost, as Dr. Pusey and others
already know. With such great things on hand, it
is almost needless to say in what a fever of prepara-
tion Oxford is just now. Great Deans, Wardens,
and Principals are immersed in arrangements for
banquets and dances, and have to bend their minds to
the minute contemplation of such frivolities as never
entered the heads of Dons before. In every College
committees of some sort or kind are sitting, gigantic
piles of plates and table furniture, more or less
attractive, may be found in odd nooks and out-
of-the-way corners, and in every " Quad" the
residence of some fortunate dispenser of patronage,
in the way of tickets, may be known at once
by the hurried arrivals and slow disappointed de-
partures of the applicants, who come to prove, but
always in vain, that there is room at banquet and
at hall for them. The claim for tickets of every
kind has been enormous, and the courtesy and
kindly wish of the university authorities to favour
the applications of those who had even the re-
motest pretensions to be present on any occasion
have been tasked to the utmost. No reduction in
the number of these applications is likely to be
found as time draws on. Every train brings in
fresh crowds of visitors, and every minute the car-
riages of the country gentry come rolling in. Ac-
commodation in the literal sense of the term is
scarcely to be bad for money, and certainly not for
love, and the local journals, who appear to have for
the thousandth time consulted the " oldest inhabi-
tant" declare on his unimpeachable authority that
Oxford never was so full. It is quite easy to believe
this when we find that the notices of beds to let
have all disappeared from the heart of the city, and
been driven to the remotest purlieus, such as
would only be discovered in the wanderings of
some innless travellers. On the Sunday before
Commemoration Day all, without exception, high or
low, gentle or simple, come to promenade in the
evening under the grand old avenue of elms in
Christchurch meadow. On this occasion, too, all
the belles in Oxford do their best to appear in
toilettes worthy the occasion, and hence its name
of " Show Sunday." Last Sunday it was a mere
contradiction in terms to call it a walk, or a pro-
menade, or a show, or anything but a dense crowd
which feebly tried to circulate along the avenue or
kept standing still till dusk, when the bell rang and
the solemn booming from " Tom Tower" rang out
the last exhibitors from the " Show," to be early
afoot again this morning, beseeching, intriguing,
striving in every way known to female inge-
nuity for tickets for one of the many ce-
lebrations to-morrow. Fortunately for the
Princess, and fortunately, perhaps, for the im-
pressions which she will take away from this famous
seat of learning, Thursday is to be a quiet day—a
day devoted to a long and strictly private visit to
the famous monuments and buildings of the Univer-
sity. This, however, is to be the only quiet day,
for on Tuesday and Wednesday there will be not a
moment's rest for either of the Royal visitors.
Amid the general bustle and excitement going on
on all sides, even the quaint, gray old Colleges are
putting on a gayer aspect. The turf of the quad-
rangles, always beautifully soft and green, has been
mowed and rolled until it looks like the finest
velvet. The Men's rooms have been swept and

garnished for the visits of critical sisters andcousins,
and Chapels and Halls have been trimmed up so a 4
to look their oldest yet their best. The noble re-
fectory of Christ Church, in which the Prince and
Princess are to be entertained at the grand banquet,
has been tastefully re-decorated, and the portrabs
of many of the many eminent men who once sat as

students within its walls, having been cleverly
cleaned and restored, now present a brilliant and
imposing array. The Dean's apartments at the
other side of the quadrangle have been handsomely
fitted up for the reception of the Royal party.
Exeter and All Souls' are also preparing to do
honour to the Prince. In the picturesque gardensan
of St. John's rows of dainty booths, gay
wiathndinycoloured canvass, and decked with
arti-
ficial flowers, are being reared for t
saleswomen who are to hold a
Favr
morrow for the benefit of the ne buildings of the
Radcliffe Infirmary. grounds of
Fair Sage
aristocratic
there
to-
saleswomen o
of Trinity and
being The ro
gmade ready for a Hor-
ticultural Show
nWorcester are alsood
Masonic Fete. The
aCorn-
Exchange, a
e new building, in the interior of
which coloured brickwork is introduced with
novel and striking effect, is, under the busy hands
of painters and upholsterers, assuming a festive
appearance worthy
of the two balls which are to
take place there on successive evenings, and which,
it is certain, from the number of tickets issued,
will, as we have intimated, be densely crowded, In
front of the Town-hall the inscription " Let the
earth rejoice and the nations be glad" will blaze at
night in letters of fire. Along the High-street, from
Magdalen-bridge to St. Aldatcs, wooden galleries
have been raised at many convenient and some in-
convenient positions for the accommodation of spec
tators to view the entrance of the Prince and Prin-
cess. Stout barriers have also been erected to guard
all the entrances to the Sheldonian Theatre, and to
check a premature irruption of violent under-
graduates or excited strangers. Amore substantial
guarantee, however, for peacs and order has been
furnished by the arrival of Superintendent Walker,
of the A Division of the Metropolitan Police, with
200 of his picked men, to whom the University has
transferred for the time all its ancient privileges.
There will soon be scarcely any town in England

which has not at some time or other been given over
to the moral guardianship of this celebrated Div,l-
sion of Police and its experienced leader, and there
is little doubt that Superintendent Walker will not
fail in his first visit to a University town to graduate
with honours.

The Emperor of Austria and the Museum of

Art and Industry.

It may not be uninteresting to note, at the pre-
sent time, when so much feeling respecting the De-
partment of Science and Art is being exploded, ztnd
those inimical to its administration, and denying .'ls
merits or services as a state institution, are loud Ls
their fears about the future occupancy of the ground
occupied by the late International Exhibition, the
estimation by foreign critics of this establishment,
which was directly crested under the influence
and suggestion of the Prices Consort. We
have had handed to us an ;autograph letter
from the Emperor of Austria to the Archduke
Rainer, which was registered as a state document
but a month or t wo back, and which we will present
without comment or further introduction :
" Dear Cousin Archduke Rainer,--
"Inasmuch as it is an urgent want for the eleva—
tion of Austrian industry to accord as much assist-
ance as possible to the native manufacturers, who
so much and in such large numbers desire to further
commercial activity through the medium of art and
science, and in particular by the improvement of
taste, I have given orders that an institution, to be
named the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry,
shall be founded as soon as possible.
" Within this museum will be gathered objects
out of the collections of my Palace, the Belvetlere
Arsenal, the University of Vienna, the Polytechoic
Institutions, and from other public buildings of the
same kind. These objects will be lent under reser-
vation of the rights of property, and after having
served their purpose will be returned iu exchange
for others. I have also every confidence in the
proved patriotism of our various towns, and espe-
cially of my chief and royal city of Vienna, as well
as that of the nobles and the public in general, that
they will, after the example of my palaces, render
the museum useful by their scientific or artistic

collections.
"But inasmuch as the establishment of this
museum, on account of the liberal scale upon which
it is to be founded, will at all events require some
time for preparation, and as the want of such an
institution is urgently demanded by the art-indus-
try of the day, I have granted the use of the ban quet-
tin g-house 'of my palace for the provisional carrying
out of the museum and awaiting the future enlarge-
ment of the same.

" The works of art destined to be exhibited there
are from my Palace Library, from the Belvedere
Picture Gallery, the furniture and tapestry of my
Cabinet palaces,
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the Ambraser Collection, my Treasury, and from
the arsenal before the Belvedere line. In this
manner it is to be hoped that the corporation of
Vienna, the nobility, and public, will also contri-
bute articles to the museum from time to time out
of their Vienna City Arsenal and private collections.
" The works of art are to be put in good order,
and labelled with the necessary explanations to
assist examination and study before being sent in.
Thus an opportunity is afforded to the Austrian,
manufacturers themselves to send rare and beautiful
objects to be exhibited. In connection with the
museum will be photographic and casting depart-

ments.
" Bat, first of all, a charter must be granted, and
for the working of this as well as for all the prepa-
rations necessary for the opening of the museum, I
have considered it necessary to name a provisional
committee, which, under the presidency of the
Ministerial Chief of Department Carl Edlen a Sevi-
nisky, will consist of Johan Gabriel Seial, Master
of my Treasury and Keeper of my Cabinets of
Coins and Antiquities ; Dr. Gustav Heider, the
Ministerial Art Referee and Secretary ; and of the
Professor Extraordinary of the History of the Fine
Arts at the University of Vienna, Rudolph Von
Eitelberger, to whom I have given power, in case
of unforeseen necessity, to add another to their
number, and if required to consult connoisseurs.
This committee has its propositions, and the charter,
as decided on by them, ready to lay before you, for
your opinion immediately, and I hope this oppor-
tunity will be made the best nee of, and that the
charter, as well as any farther propositions, may be
laid before me at the very earliest for my final de-
cision. "FRANCIS JOSEPH."