The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

SAVE LEICESTER-SQUARE.

It is to be hoped that the inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood of Leicester-square and the friends of open
spaces, will organise a proper opposition to the com-
pany who threaten to fill the area with a general
market. Now that the "globe" is removed, the
largeness of the space, which bad been forgotten,
comes to light again. Thrown open, as we have said
before, with trees bordering a few walks, it would
be a boon and a blessing. Every inch of open space
in the metropolis ought to be fought for—given up
only at the sword's point.
Leicester-square, first Leicester-fields, has many
stories. In the house of the Earl of Leicester, at
one corner, died Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia. To
this house retired two Princes of Wales in dudgeon.
In Saville House Peter the Great was entertained
by the Marquis of Caermarthen. Poses Plastiques
and a Cafe Uhantant are the present entertainments
there. Sir Joshua Reynolds lived, painted, and died
at No. 47 in the squat e ; Hogarth, whose house was
on the opposite side, took his regular walk in the
inclosure ; and after him came the great John Hun-
ter, who formed there that collection which has
grown into the noble museum of the College of Sur-
geons in Lincoln's Inn-fields. However, it is not
of the Leicester-square of past times that we would
speak, but the Leicester-square of today, which we
would see improved, beautified, and preserved for
to-morrow. The Board of Works, if they have
power, should give their aid to prevent the area
from being again blocked up.—Builder.

LINES TO A LEADEN BULLET.

(From Punch.)

" PISA, Nov. 2G—At ten o'clock this morning Dr.
Zanetti successfully extracted the bullet from Garibaldi's
wound.--Renter's 2elegrans."
What gold or gem, discoloured lump of lead,
Now in a hero's wound no more to rankle,
Outshines thee, drawn to light from that deep bed,
Where thou halt lain in GARIBALDI'S ankle ?
Thy lustre is such glory as redounds
From hangmen's tools that wrought a Martyr's passion,
Clear of the doubt that commonly surrounds
Those trinkets of ecclesiastic fashion.

No fable 'tis that thou didst strike him down
Against oppression strong and shameless, leading
A hope forlorn ; what Saint o'er won his crown
In juster cause more generously bleeding ?
Dy Wee no rest upon lit. tumuli w 110111 C,
Where the Erect of France expounds her mission,
Trampling the right by which he reigns at home ;
Propping by force the rule of superstition.
True Relic, how unlike that spurious Cross,
The Legionary badge false France wears on her
That bauble's but the mock of Honour's loss,
Thou art the emblem of all lost but Honour.

M. Mario has abandoned to the pension fund of
the Opera the sum which was coming to kim for the re-
presentation in which he appeared in the " Huguenots."
Several of the journals state that M. Lafontaine,
of the Oymnase, is about to be married to Mlle. Victoria,
of the same theatre.
The State of Mlle. Livry, after exciting great
alarm until the last days, has now so far improved as
to allow her medical Mien°.
, ts to entertain hopes of her
recovery. She is, however, still ,:ceedingly weak.
A new piece by M. Emile Aug."': entitled ,
File de Giboyer, a sort of sequel to the LffrAn•• Dais.
same author, has just been brought out at tho rar,„
.he
The piece was very successful on the first night, but as it
is a cruel satire on the "old parties" and the "catholic
world," disturbances, it is thought, may perhaps occur at
future representations.
Mdlle. Patti remains at Paris till January next,
and is engaged to return the ensuing season; the interval
being filled up by engagements in Vienna, London, and
be generally known that the new
Naples, where she is to appear in a new opera by Verdi.lt may not
work, " Throu
Erb Algeria," is the production of Miss Craw-
ford, daughter of the late Mr. Sharman Crawford, formerly
member
marble for
Rochdale.statutes, intended to fill the recesses
avl"
which still remain vacant in tin court-yard of the Lo •
have just boon deposited fur the moment at the
entrance to
• Assyrian Museum. Th •
Wt. • They consist of " Pandora," by
- "A woman toi- • • '
M. Loison I bu<richng herself while standing
on a funeral pile," M. Rawls; " Diana with a Fawn,"
by M. Chabaud ; " Modest:4'l." by the same ; " In' ocence,"
by M. Marcellin; and " by M. Thomas.
M. Emile de Girardin him agro,-: joined the Press*
as one of its writert6,