The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-13 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND HIS TUTORS.

Among those preirent at the marriage celebration in
St. George's Chapel, and of erwards at the dejeuner in St.
Geo"ge's Red, were the Rev. H. M. Birch and the Rev. C.
F. Tarver, both of whom had been engaged in the instruc-
tion of the Prince of Wales in his early days, and, as this
incident will show, had not been forgotten by him. After
the dejeuner, they were informed that on retiring to a cer-
tain room in the Castle they would find a memorial front
the Price-, of wh eh he desired their acceptance, and this
proved to be a copy of the Holy Scriptures, hands, mely
bound, and inscribed by his royal highness as a memento of
his wedding-day. Through the kindness of the Prince of
Wales, the Rev. C. Tarver, (who is the eldest son of the
late Professor of French in Eton College) has been pre-
sented by the Lord Chancellor to the valuable living of St.
Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet. vacant by the death of the
Rev. Sanderson Robins, of the value of nearly £7OO per
annum.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LAN E.--MR. STMS
REEYES.—In con,tquence of the sudden and severe
indisposition of this distinguished artist, we are authorised
to state that Mr. Howard Glover's morning concetr, an•
nounced for Saturday next at the above theatre, and at
which Mr. Sims Reeves was advertised to sing, is unavoid-
ably postponed for a few weeks.
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Mlss SLIDELL.—A serious accident occurred the
other day at. Paris to one of the daughters of
Slidell, the Confederate Commissioner. The young lady
was riding on horseback in the Bois de Boulogne with her
father when her horse took fright aid threw her violently
to the ground. Her head struck against the wheel of a
carriage, and on being raised up her skull was found to be
fractured. The young lady is now said, however, to be out
of danger
EXTENSION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY.—
Operations have commenced within the last few days at the
terminus of the Underground Railway. Farringdon-street,
near Cow-cross, to procaed with the formation of the sub-
way to the extremity at Finsbury, as allowed by the com-
pany's act.
WEST Los DON RAILWAY.—The half.yearly meet-
ing of the proprietors of this line was held at 16,
Tokenhouse-yard yesterday afternoon, under the presidency
of Mr. W. Cubitt, MP. The report stated that the exten-
sion line had recently been opened, and that consequently
a dividend at the rate of 4s. per share per annum on the
original or C shares would be payable within 28 days after
the expiration of six months from the date of the opening.
The directors had not been informed that the extension
company had obtained powers to extinguish the West
London Company. At the last meeting a committee had
been appointed to negotiate with the extension company,
and it had been proposed that that company should conduct
the transfe- of shares and the other business of the West
Loi.don. It was believed the propos tion would meet the
viewo of the extension company. On the motion of the
chairman the report was adopted.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND SERGEANT
GLOVER.—The French Government has at length
made up its mind to speak to the French public about the
case of " Glover v. Billault and Persigny," and the fob
lowing semi-f.ffieial article, signed " Boniface," appears in
the Conetitutionnel:—"About 10 years are Sergeant Glover
became pioprietor of the Morning Chronicle, and edited
that journal in a spirit favourable to the policy of Fiance.
Some years later, in 1857, Mr. Glover came to France.
II ,ving been presented by the English Ambassador, and
supported by many honourable persons, as well as recom-
mended by the friendly tone of hie journal towards France,
he solicited and obtained from the French Government the
concession of the telegraphic line between trance and Ame-
rica. This concession was made without any subvention,
as well as without any g ,arantee of monopoly or interest,
and it was stipulated that the concession should be cancelled
if the line were not executed by a certain date. The time
granted having expired before the works were begun the
concession was cancelled and passed into other hands. Mr.
Glover was dissatisfied with that result, but for a long time
his complaints only bore on the injury done to him by the
withdrawal of the concession and the right which, in his
opinion, his devotedness to France and her policy gave him
a hope for more favourable treatment. Meanwhile, in 1858,
he had sold the Morning Chronicle. The embarrassed state
of his affairs had obliged him to c,)mpound with his credi-
tors, and in the balance-sheet then presented by him there
is no trace of any claim on his part against the French
Government. But four or five years later, when becoming
desperately involved, he conceived the evil design of specu-
lating on the fear of a scandal, and did not blush to cora•
mence legal proceedings with a view to making it a means
of pecuniary profit. In June, 1862, pretending, contrary
to ell truth and probability, that he had been promised,
from the 9th of May, 1857, a monthly subvention of £BOO
to conduct his journal in a sense favourable to a good un•
derstanding between France and England, Mr. Glover
sued M. Billault, as Minister of the Interior in 1857, and
Count de Persigny, the present Minister, in the Court of
Queen's Bench for a sum of £14,000, as due to him for the
promised subvention from the 9th of May, 1857, to 23d of
October, 1858. lvo arrangement of the kind had ever been
made with Mr. Glover. No French Minister had ever
offered or promised him money."