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

SAVE LEICESTER-SQUARE.

It is to be hoped that the _
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 had 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 Chantant 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 to-day, 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 ap.—Builder.

LINES TO A LEADEN BULLET.

(From Punch.)

" Pisn, Nov. 26.—At ten o'clock this morning Dr.
Zanetti successfully extracted the bullet from Garibaldi's
wound.—Reuter's lelegram."
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 'tie that thou didst strike him down
Against oppression strong and shameless, leading
A hope forlorn ; what Saint e'er won his crown
In juster cause more generously bleeding?

By thee ho fell upon his march to Rome,
Whom the E'cct of Prance 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 Franco wears on her I
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 him for the re-
presentation in which he appeared in the "Huguenots."

Several of the journals state that M. Lafontaine,
of the Gymnase, is about to be married to Mlle. Victoria,
of the same theatre.

The state of Mlle. Livry, after exciting great
alarm until the last two days, has now so far improved as
to allow her medical attendants to entertain hopes of her
recovery. She is, however, still exceedingly weak.
A new piece by M. Emile Angier,
entitled L.e
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Fils de Giboyer, a sort of sequel to the .4froi:o2l°%abytihs.
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member for Rochdale.
Si% marble statutes, intended to fill the recesses
whichstill remain vacant in the court-yard-yard of the Louvre,
hivrejust been deposited for the moment at the entrance to
"A woman poignarding herself while standing
the .Assyrian Museum. They consist of " Pandora," by
on a funeral pile," by I\l, Ratans ;
M. Loison;
"Diana with a Fawn,"
by M. Chabaud ;
"Modesty," by the same ; " Innocence,"
by M. Marcellin; and " Virgil," by M. Thomas.
M. Emile de Girardin has again joined the Prase
as one of its writers,