The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-13 00:00:00

EITF,'NI NG, - J_urTiy. 13, _
_18(13.

BEER IdAJESTYS THEATRE.

Mr. Mapleson brought his subscription season to
an end on Saturday night. The opera was Gounod's
" Faust." In the evening the National Anthem was
sung. The following was circulated in the
theatre :

" Having reached the closing night of the Opera
season of 1863, Mr. M-Ipieson begs to tender his
most grateful acknowledgments to his patrons, and
to the public, for the support which they have
afforded him in his exertions to revive and even
surpass the early renown of the establishment over
which be has the honour to preside. The encour-
agement which has thus rewarded the pains and
anxieties of his arduous enterprise enable him now,
at the termination of the regular season, to look
back upon it with the utmost self-congratulation,
as one of the most successful on record. On two
principal features of the season now concluding Mr,
Mapleson has especial reason to pride himself.
These are the production, for the first time on any
stage, of Signor Scnira's opera, " Nicoll) de Lapis"
thus taking the initiative in the introduction of new
works to the lyrical stage of Europe, which has
hitherto been exclusively left to the great operatic
establishments of the Continent; and, secondly, the
production, for the first time in this country, of N.
Gounod's universally-admired opera, '• Faust." The
latter work, presented with a miss en scene in every
way worthy of its importance and with a cast which
it would be
bct difficultr of t o approach,whichm
has achieved a suc-
esa y
be judged by the
fact that it was performed ten consecutive nights to
cs theearae
crowded audiences. Mr- Mapleson now begs to
announce his intention to extend, by aseries of eight
popular performances, at reduced prices, to a wider
range of the public, the advantages of the complete
and unprecedented organisation to which he has
brought his operatic establishment. It may be
truly said to comprise an orchestra and chorus un••
surpassed for completeness and perfection of disci-
pline, and a corps of vocalists not equalled in any
other establishment in Europe, which !acts the lists
prove."
of the principal artists

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION

CRA',,OW, JULY 13.

The announcement that the funds of the National
Government had been seized by the Russians is
entirely false.

Wierzbicki, by a measure whereby he deceived
the Russians, has succeeded in penetrating into the
interior of the government of Lublin, and has
effected a junction with Rucki's insurgent corps.

Czengery has left Kielce, whither considerable
forces had been despatched against him.
Fiquette is operating with a flying column of
gendarmerie in Sandomir, Bogusz, and Stobnick.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 13.

The Queen of Spain, the King of Prussia, and
the King of Holland, have sent their congratula-
tions to the Emperor, on the taking of Mexico.

An Imperial decree has been published to-day
concerning the measures to be taken before any
educational professor of superior or secretary rank
can be dismissed his functions by the Minister.
The decree is preceded by a statement of motives in
which the necePts4 is pointed out for the members
of the body of teachers to have every guarantee
that justice will be done them.

The illoniteur of to-day publishes the notes ad-
dressed to Russia by England, France, and Austria

respectively.

BOURSE, July 11.—The announcement of the cap.
tura of Mexico has not imparted any buoyancy
to the market, which remains dull, but with yes-
terday's prices maintained. Threes, for the Ac-
e )unt, are now unvaried at 68i. 55c. Railway
Shares also inanimate. The market closed as fol-
lows :

It per Cents. 97
Do end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 60
Credit. Mobilier 1175
Do, end munth 1175
Bank Shares 34]0
Credit F oneter l3OO

Italian Loan 7l
Do. end month 7l
New ditto
Do, end month.... 72
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes.~
Home Debt

RAIL'

'416.

Cash. Account.
Orleans ................ 1017 50 1012 50
Northern .......... 992 50 .. 992 50
New ditto ............ . • •
Lyons and IVlediterranean 1025 1027 50
Geneva ................ 470 • • 480 757
Southern ............. 650
653
Western ......... 6:30 • 5.'7 -
Eastern . ............. 500 .. 500
Sardinian .............. 412 50 , . 413 75
Austrian ............. 453 75 • • 455
I,ear. hard ..............
North of Spain ........ 543 75 545 Saragossa .............. 700 —.. 695
Ditto to Barcelona .... 362 75 362 50

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POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

95
90
10
20

C, J 9.
At length the Invalide Russo Rasp acknowledged
a Russian defeat. The following is the paragraph
in question ;—'s Colonel Danilow, at the head of two
companies of rifles of the Imperial Guard and two
companies of the Esthonian Regiment, discovered
on the 22d June, in t'-43 vicinity of the village of
Popelian, in the woods near ttie village of Draginiq,
a very large band of insurgents, and atter attacking
it repeatedly without success, was forced to retire.
The following of our troops were killed :—Captain
Neihardt, of the battalion of Imperial Rifles, Capt.
Nekrasow, and Sub-Lieutenant Vestipcins of the
Esthonian Regiment, and 23 soldiert, Capt. Rosen
bach, Lieut. Gogel, Sub Lieut. Zindar, Ensign
Stachowiez, and 46 soldiers of the battalion of Im-
p,rial Rifles, were wounded. Steps have been taken
io destroy this bend." Letters from Wilna describe
this battle as a very important one, and put the
losses of the Russians as very much greater than
they are acknowledged to have been by the Invalide.
It must be confessed that all the probabilities are in
favour of this view of the question. When a news-
paper persists for five months in assertiLg that the
Polish insurrection is crushed, and that the Rus-
sians are always victorious, and never lose more

than one Cossack in a battle, although every one
knows that during that time the insurrection has
been kept up solely by the fact of the Poles being
victorious in almost every engagement, the acknow.
ledgment by such a paper of a Russian defeat, with
a loss of 26 killed and 50 wounded, can only be un-
derstood as a complete and sanguinary check to
Russia.

Another desperate battle has taken place in the
district of Pizasnysz. The Russians, having re-
ceived news that 200 Poles, under Trombezynski,
were organising themselves into an ibsurgeut band
on an island in the river Oizyc, between Dronzdzen
and Krasnocielce, advanced to :he spot in great
force. The Poles, finding they were surrounded,
entrenched themselves as best they could, and for
three days resisted the attacks of the Russians.
The latter began a regular siege; they brought up
tour guns against the Poles, and seized 50 peasants,
whom they compelled to dig trenches for them.
The peasants, however, after working a fuw hours,
contrived to escape; and on the fourth day the Poles
received the welcome intelligence that a body of
1,000 peasants was advancing to their assistance.
These peasants, led by Jasinaki, crossed the Maw:),
and attacked the Russians. The battle lasted four
Hours, and the Russians, after losing a large body
of men and one gun, which was swallowed up by a
quicksand, retreated in great precipitation.
Mouravieff is rapidly proceeding with his task—
the exterininiti.m of the educated population of
Lithuania. He has invented several new species of
torture, which,it is said, exceed anything of the
kind hitherto known. One of them is to strap a
man down to a board, and place a large bock of ice
on his chest. Numbers are dying of starvation in
the prisons, and the Cossacks have been sent into
the fields to stop all agricultural labour, and pro-
duce a famine. in Warsaw things are almost as
bad. The citadel is crowded with prisoners, a car
tain number of whom are thrown with their hands
tied into the Vistula every night.

The Queen of Prussia arrived the day before
, yesterday at Laeken from England. Her Majesty, who
was received at the railw .y station by the Duke de Brabant,
at once went to visit King Leopold, and dined wi h the
Royal family. Her Majesty afterwards left by railway for
Germany.
THE PROROGATION: —The progress made in
Supply at the morning sitting on Friday leaves little more
voted of the Estimates for the year. Should the
t 0
00ubse
House of Commons get through the few remaining votes, as
expected, by Thursday, it will be possible to carry through
the Appropriation clause, so as to prorogue Parliament on
Thursday, the 28th of July.
Verdi is engaged in transforming Flaubert's
Carthaginian novel, " Sala,, bo," into an opera.
Mr. Home's Book has been translated into French
under the title "Revelations sur ma vie surnaturelle."
CH( TS AND TOMATO SAuce !—The Athena=
gravely obliges us with the following matter-of-fact expla-
natory remarks apropos to Sergeant Buzfuz's exclamation :
Poor Pickwick had gives. directions fur dinner in a note to
his landlady ; and the Sergeant was to prove that the din-
ner-order was nothing but a phrase of en, earment. So he
put a lady into the box who proved that her husband called
her duck, being himself very lond of duck ; and who fur-
ther testified that if he l ad been fond of chops or tomato
sauce, perhaps he would have applied those names.
THE CAT STANE stancisin the parish of Kit klia-
ton, on the farm of Briggs, in a field, and on the
north side of the road to Linlithgow, and between the 6th
and 7th milestone from Edinburgh. It is placed witnin
100 yards of the south bank of the Almond, nearly half a
mile below the boathouse bridge, and about three miles
above the entrance of the stream into the Frith of Forth.
at the old Roman station of Cramond, or Caer Amend. The
monument is located in nearly the middle of the base of a
triangular fork of ground formed by the mewing of the
Gogar Water with the River Almond. The Gogar flows
into the Almond about sim or seven hundred yards below
the Cat Stone. The ground on which the Cat Stane stands
is the beginning of a ridge slightly elevated above the gene-
ral level of the neighbouring fields. The stone itself con-
sists of a massive unhewu block of the secondary green-
stone-trap of the district, many large boulders of which lie
in the bed of the neighbouring river. In form it is some-
what prismatic or irregularly triangular, with its angles
very rounded. This large monolith is nearly twelve feet
in circumference, about four feet five inches in v idth, and
3ft. 3in. in thickness. Its height above ground is about 4ft,
and a half,—.or, Treatise on the Cat k'tane.

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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, July 11.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Lein-
ingen, drove out yesterday.
The Bon. Mrs. Bruce and Lord Alfred Paget
were in attendance.

SUNDAY.

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise
attended Divine service at Whippingham Cnurch
this morning.

The Rev. George Prothero performed the service.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, since their arrival at Frogmore, have been
enjoying the luswy of a country life amid the beau-
tiful and varied scenery of Windsor and its neigh-
bourhood. On Friday their Royal Highnesses
passed the greater part or the day at Virginia Water,
and dined with a select party o❑ boarn the Adelaide
frigate. The band of the Colds,ream Guards arrived
at Windsor on Saturday, and will remain during
the Prince's residence at Frogmore.
The Prince and Princess of Wales attended
Divine service yesterday morning in the parish
church of St. John. The Prince and Princess occu-
pied the Royal pew previously used by the late
Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Kent. Their
Royal Highnesses were attended by theMarebionesa
of Carmarthen and Captain Grey. The lessons for
the day were read by the Rev. Thomas Rooke,
M.A., who was assisted in the prayers by the Rev.
J. Stone, B.A. The Rev. R. J. Simpson, M.A.,
preached an eloquent and impressive sermon.
This is the first time either the Prince or his Con-
sort attended Devine service at the parish church;
and as they came trough the park, and entered by
the east door in St. Alban's-street, without any pre-
vious intimation, a great portion of the congrega-
tion were unaware of their presence.
In the afternoon the Prince drove the Princess
oat in a pony phaeton, and proceeded down the
Long-walk through some of the private drives in the
Great Park. Their Royal Highnesses were attended
by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Capt. Grey,
who foliowel in an open carriage.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, who arrived at Frogmore Lodge on Thursday
evening last, are enjoying the beauties of that quiet re-
treat in comparative seclusion,--Court Joienal.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
ridge and the Princess Mary honoured Lord and Lady
Foley by their company at dinner on Saturday evening, at
their residence in Grosvenor-squ,re. A distinguishes circle
had the honour to meet the Royal guests, Lady Foley had
an evening party atterwards.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
de Joinville and the Duke de Penila:evre, attended by M.
Fauvel, have returned to the Clarendon Hotel from Tun-
bridge Wells.
The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa
Cavendish left Devonshire House on Saturday for East.
bonnie until Wednesday next.
Frances Countess Waidegrave and Mr. Chichester
Fortescue, M. P., have been entertaining the following com-
pany at Strawberry Hill daring the past week:—Viscount
Melville, Lord and Lady Norreys, Lady Horatia Wardlaw,
Lady Ida Waldegrave, Sir John Johnstone, the Hon. and
Rev. F. E. Byng, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Vernon, Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Masters, Mr. William Harcourt, Mr. Charles
Harcourt, Captain Charles Vernon, Mr. Henry Grenfell,
Miss Money, and Mr. Charles Braham.
The Eon! of Wilton will return to town to-day
from Cowes After Goodwood races the nob e earl will
return to the Isle of Wight for the Royal Yacht Squadron
regatta.
Tne Earl of Dudley has left Dudley House for
his shooting quarters in Inverness-shire.
The Brov, nlow and Lady Marian Alford
returned to town on Saturday, from Ashridge Park, Hert-
fordshire.
The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury enter
tained a select circle on Saturday evening, at their residence
in Stratford-place.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and the
Hon. Misses Jocelyn left Cambridge House on Saturday
afternoon, for Brocket Hall.
Viscount Canterbury has returned to town from
Newmarket.

Vibcountess Jocelyn will return to town on Wed-
nesday from Osborne,

ly Caroline Townley has issued cards for an
assembly on Wednesday next, at the family residence in
Charles-street.

Tne Duke de Morny is said to be about to form a
racing establishment at Newmarket.

HIS HOLINESS is said by the latest accounts
from Rome to be in the enjoyment of good health,
having been able to celebrate Pontifical Mass at St. Peter's
on the Fes ival of SS. Peter and Paul. According to a cor-
respondent who Was present the Holy Father sang the
High Mass in a remarkably clear voice, and it Was uuiver
sally observed that in the firmness and elasticity of his
movements as he ascended and descended the Altar, and
also in his gentral appearance, he gave the impression of
perfect health.

DEATH OF DOWAGER LADY KILMAINE.—The
death of the Dowager Ledy Kilmaine took pictee
on Monday, at her house in Chester-square. The Hon.
Anne Lady Kilmaino was the fourth daughter of the Right
Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart., by Sarah, Baroness
Waterpark, and was born March 22, 1774, so that she war,
m her 90 h year. She married, July 25, 1793, James Caul-
field, second Lord Kilmaine, father of the present r>er, by
whom, who died in May, 1825, her ladyship had a mime
roue family.

THE ROYAL FAMILY AT CREMORNE.—A thin
stream of people, says the Spectator, guided us from
King's-road, Chelsea, into Ashbarnham Hall, a lofty barn-
like building, ornamented for the occasion by scores or
cheap flags of all nations, and pasteboard medallions of
knights and kings. A barrier divided the centre of the hall,
and opposite to it was a kind of platform with five rows of
wooden benches, covered with red cloth aid saw dust.
"Are these reserved seats?" we asked of a kindly -disposed
policeman, engaged in dusting his boots with his pocket-
handkerchief. "Ohno I" he exclaimed, "they are for tht
royal family." " What ? You don't mean to say that tht
Prince and Princess of Wales, or even the Queen, are con
ing to the grand tournament. In that case it would be ‘s ell
to take the sax. dust oft the seats." "..kb.l" he retorted pet-
tishly, " I know nothing of Queen Victoria; I speak of our
royal family." If Barnum has any sense of his own dignity
and the eternal fitness of things, he will, we hope, increase
the salary of that man out of armcur.
DULNESS CF OUR FASHIONABLE WATERING
PLACCS.—It is not only as respects the greater
abundance and efficiency of the mineral springs that conti-
nental watering places can succe stully compete with Eng.
lish ones; they likewise offsr more resources and agremens,
both to valetudinarians and pleasure seekers, being often
situate,' amidst beautiful scenery, having well-lighted sa
loons for evening reunion, and for walking in hot weather.
At the German baths especially there is a greater freedom
of intercourse and association; the music promenades and
waters are free of charge ; concerts and other entertain-
ments are at a comparatively low price of admission ; public
dinners, &c., and the expense of living considerably less
than at English watering places. Recreation and society
being the objects tor which a large proportion of visitors
resort to watering places, it is not to be wondered at that
those which present ,he greatest facilities for obtaining these
objects should be preferred, In most of these places in
England, the single visitor, as also families, unless they
happen to have several acquaintances in the place, find
themselves isolated, and atter a few days I ccome too
ennuyes to remain. The single man has to dine in the
ceflee-room of his hotel, or in his lodging, upon a chop,
steak, cutlet, or fowl; and families in their apartments,
instead of joining the well-appointed tables d' ho!e, enlivened
by conversation, and frequently by music, which they meet
with abroad—the only resource in the evening or in wet
weather a newspaper or a novel from the circulating library.
It the visitor attends a concert given by artistes of inferior
reputation, he must pay a high price fur admission; he
must also pay for drinking the waters; and where there are
several promenades, as at some places, he must pay for en-
trance to each; and at the end of a week's monotonous
existence, he finds his bill amount to two or three times as
much as it would at a first-class German bath. Even in
England, however, it is seen that those pla.res where to
greater degree of sociability prevails by means of tables
d' hole, evening reunions, &e., are alwa) a the fullest; as,
ter instance, Harrogate, Scarborough, and Buxton.—Dr.
Edwin Lee's Watering Places of England.
CHUhCH AND CHAPEL, 1337 the author of "
Church," "Owen a W,if," Sc. 3 vols.—"
novel says the Athenceion) sustains the credit of the
author's previous works. It is a story of well sustained in-
terest, without going into the vulgar sensational line so
much striven after at present. The interest of the narrative
arises from the struggle and conflict of human passions,
human interests, and human limitations, Every figure has
its characteristic faults, but also redeeming points. Th,
aim of the work is to inculcate charity, faith, patience,
with the infirmities of others, and especially a liberal toler-
ance of, or rather, we should' say, sympathy with, their
method of striving to do right. The characters of the book
are drawn witil spirit and firmness.

The King of Prussia and the Crown Prince

The Sud Deutsche Zeztung publishes the folkrving
letter from the erbwit Prince of Prussia to the King.
It was written on the 31st of May, before the
Prince set out for the military tour, during which
he expressed to the Municipality of Dantzic his dis-
approval of the course taken by the Ministry '• Expressions you lat.-ly made use of in my presence, re-
garding the possibility of forcing your measures upon the
country, oblige me to speak out on the subject. On oisroiss-
ing the Auerswald Cabinet you told me that, being more
liberal than yourself, I bad now got an opportunity for
enacting the u-ual part of a Crown Prince, and throwing
difficulties in the way of your Government. At that time
I promised you to keep back and maintain silence, and offer
no opposition. intending to keep my promise, as I do, I
yet feel it my duty to speak to you in private. I beseech
you, my dearest fatber,not to invade the law in the way you
hinted. Nobody is more fully aware than myself that to
you an oath is a sacred thing, and not to be trifled
with. But the position of a Sovertign in regard to his
Ministers is sometimes very difficult. Skilled as they are
in the lawyers' art, and expert at interpretation, they know
how to represent a measure as fair and necessary, and by
degrees to force a sovereign into a path very different to
that he intended to tread. The concern, however, I feel
tor your happiness, and the conviction that it is seriously
imperilled, ind ce me," &c.
Next follows the answer of the King, conceived
in a mild spirit :

"You sav you do not intend to offer any opposition.
You must not have been cautious then. Opposition speeches
or yours have got abroad and found their way to me.
You have now an occasion for making amends by express-
ing yourself in a different way, by slighting the Pro-
gressists and courting the Conservatives. The decree of
June, besides be ng in consonance with the charter, and
more particularly with Clause 63, will be laid before tb e
Landtag. The decree, so far from being the enormity you
say, ought to have been introduced in the shape of a bill,
even under the late Liberal Cabinet; for it was on this con-
dition only I sanctioned the law protecting printing-offices
against the supervision and interference of the police.
On the 3d of June the Crown Price lodged a
formal protest against the decree ou the press. It
was addressed to Herr von Bisraark, accompanied
by a request to communicate it to the CiAinet.
In this protest, written in proud and haughty
language, the Prince expressed himself in the fol-
lowing style :

" I deem the proceedings of the Cabinet to be both illegal
and injurious to the State and the dynasty. I declare the
measure to have been taken without my wishing and know-
ing it; and I protest against any inferences and ascriptions
to be possibly based upon my relation to the Council of
State."
On the 4th of June the Prince wrote again to th.e
King, stating in vigorous language that the Charter
had been evaded and set aside in the case of the
decree on the press. The words of the Charter
might be made to agree perhaps with the measure,
but to be really constitutional it ought to have been.
submitted to Parliamentary assent. On the sth he
delivered the well-known address at Dantzic. Then
followed a letter of the King, censuring the Crown
Prince in no measured terms, and commanding an
immediate disavowal of anything falsely reported in
the papers. The letter also enjoins the Prince to,
abstain from venturing any similar statements. If,
however, it should occur again, he would be recalled
to Berlin, cnd, perhaps, deposed from office and de-
prived of his command.
The King had been originally inclined to have
recourse to measures of restraint, but the Cabinet,
though similarly disposed at first, ultimately ad—
vised the King to bear with his son. From the
reply the Crown. Prince sent to the King we ex-
tract the following sentiments :--
"The address I deliVered at Dantsic is the result of calm
reflection. I long owed it to my conscience and my posi-
tion to profess, in the face of the world, an opinion the
truth of which has forced itself upon me more fully from.
day to day. The hope only of being able atter all to avoid:
placing my self in opposition to you stifLd the monitions of
my internal voice. But now, ignoring my different views),
the Ministry have taken a step imperilling my future and
that of my children. I shall make as courageous a stand
for my tuture as you, my dear father, are making for your
own. I cannot retract any thing I have said. Alt lean do
is to keep quiet. Should you wish me to do so, I hereby
lay at your feet my commission in the army and my seat in
the Council of State. I beg you to appoint me a place of
residence, or to permit me to select one myself, either in
Prussia or abroad. If lam not allowed to speak my mind,
I must naturally wish to dissever myself entirety from the,
sphere of politics."

This letter seems to have produced a powerful
impression upon the _king; but lately he had for-
bidden Herr von Bismaik to lay the pi otest of his
son before the Ministry ; now he endeavoured, as
the first and sole object of his policy, to restrain the
Prince in the course he had entered upon. 110
wrote him a friendly letter, saying he was welcome
to open his mind to his father; but he was to main-
tain the strictest secrecy with regard to all others,
unless, indeed, he wished to incur the punishment
suspended over his head. Hs, too (the King), had
a conscience.

Tne reply of Herr von Bismark to the Crown
Prince was long in making its appearance. The
Pieinier wrote

" Yeur Royal Highness is in a position to render our
task easy or difficult. The Ministers, however, will perse-
vere in pursuing the grand object they have identified
themselves with. They are but the loyal and obedient
servants of the King. They, too, had got a conscience," &c.
This letter closes the correspondence for the
present.

IMPOSSIBLE!—The Court Journal actually asserts
that the Duke of Sutherland, at the late ball to the Prince
and Princess of Wales, not being able to find hrs ha;, coolly
walked off to the fire•engine station at %V at ing-street, and
borrowed a fireman's helmet, forayed in which he onartered
a Hansom cab, and drove in triamph to Stafforc House,
A fresh competitor for lame as a lion-hunter has
recently appeared in Algeria in the person of M.
Lucotte, a native of Lyons. A magnificent lion, which had
been sent by that gentleman, was exhibited a few days back
at Algiers. Untortunately the rifle-shot which brought the
animal down had not sufficiently disabled it, and M.
Lucotte was obliged to fire his pistols at it almost point-
blank, by which the head was disfigured, This is the third
that M. Lucotte has killed within the last two months.
HE ..tERCEN TEN ARY Ok' 1141.1iESPERE. —A meet-
ing of gentlemen interested in the tercentenary of
Snakespere's birth was held at Birmingham on Friday, for
'he purpose of considering a proposal to celebrate that event
oy the formation of a Shakesperian library. The Rev.
Charles Evans, head master of King Edward's School, Etre-
.ll:led. The following resolution moved by Mr. George
Dawson, aad seconded by the Rev, S Bache, was aduptf,d
—" That it is desirable to celebrate the tercentenary of the
birth of Shakespere by the formation of a Shakesperian
Library, comprising the various editions of the poet's maks,
and the literature and works of art connected therewith,
said to associate such library with the Borough Central Re-
terenee Library, in order that it may be permanently pre-
served," A subscription was opened, and a sum of £lOO
subscribed.

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FEET BELOW.---
A curious circumstance occurred at the quiet little
village of Lower Eythorne one day during the past week.
The well, situated in the centre of the village, was the
scene of the sensation. It appears that a woman, about in
the prime of lite, from some cause evidently unknown to
anyone but herself, opened the lid of the well and jumped
down—a distance of 180 feet, The water and the chill,
however, soon drew forth cries and groans from the now
repentant woman, and the unearthly sounds attracted the
attention of one of her sex, who, going to the mouth of the
well, feelingly inquired, '6 Who's there ?" " Throw down
a rope," was the answer from the depths below. Assistance
was got, the rope lowered, and Immediately afterwards the
•' immersed' was drawn up. The serious part of the story
must now be told—anxious to get on to mother earth, the
the poor frightened creature, as soon as she reached the top,
clutched at the woodwork of the well, when the rope slipped,
and she was precipitated below. After a lapse of time she
was ag'in got up, when it was found, upon examination by
De. Chalk, that her leg was broken and other parts of her
body were seriously injured.—Lover Chronicle.
THE MURDER OF ELIZAEhTII 11.11.NTER.—Since
the examination of the prisoner at the Clerkenwell
Police Court, the authorities have been unremitting in the
endeavours to find a further clue to the murderer, but they
have not succeeded, as yet, in eliciting anything material
It will be recollected that, with the excepti,,n of the lower
jaw, the whole of the bones had been found. Police con-
stables St,mniers and Goss, of the N division, have since
discovered the missing bone in the hole where the head was
interred, and now the ,nly things that are, missinF are the
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wires that were in the poor child's ears. he remains of the
unfortunate deceased were placed in a coffin, covered with
white cloth, and studded with white nails. The inscription
was as follows :—" To the memory of Elizabeth Ann
Hunter, aged nine." The public funeral of the bones took
place yesterday. The procession started from Ward's-
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