The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

ONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
rim.: of FOURTH lti.-A'AL -rINT on late LONDON
and Hilt 1.1 !NGEAM 211. SHIRES, CitEATED AUGUST, 1845.
Notice is Ptreby Given, that the Directors, in pursuance of
the provis!cns of the Act of Incorporation, have passed a re-
solution ca:fir r for a FOURTH INSTALMENT of 41. per share on
the 201. sha:fs, created 7th August, 1845, PAYA aLE on or BEFORE
the 14th OCI OBER. NEX r ; and that they have ordered such call
to he paid to one of the undermentioned Bankers, namely—
London ...... -.Messrs. Glyn, Mills and Co.

absence of those poets, humorists, and writers who
knew and were known to Hood, who valued his genius,
and whose friendship he valued, from his grave•side is
to be interpreted as a slight to the poet's memory. Our
contemporary has not taken pains to lie well informed.
A little inquiry among the subscribers will show him
that Literature has had nothing to do with Hood's
Monument—except to pay for it."
It will be remarked that, at the very outset,
the A thenceum Bays, "A passing ceremonial was
got up by those who 'have mismanaged the mat-
ter." How ? " Mismanaged ?" So " mis-
managed the matter," in truth, that the testimo-
nial is completed—the object of the whole move-
ment is actually accomplished. So " mismanaged
the matter," that where there was only a poor
neglected grave, there is now a beautiful and
picturesque monument. The sneers by which
this absurd allusion to the mismanagement
of a matter that has proved from first to last
brilliantly successful, are altogether too manifestly
spiteful and frivolous to deserve even the most
cursory consideration. It may not be advisa-
ble, however, to pass over the closing sentence
wholly without comment—the sentence where,
it is rather awkwardly remarked that "A little
inquiry among the subscribers will show that
Literature has had nothing to do with HOOD'S
Monument—except to pay for it." An unlucky
observation, seeing that "a little inquiry" will
show that the individual, so many years Editor
of the Athenceum, has been about the
only one among the subscribers to the
HOOD Monument who has never paid in the small
amount of his nominal contribution ! So that,
in fine, the sneer at the mismanagement of the
matter comes rather oddly, to say the least of it,
from an organ that furnishes the list of sub-
scribers to the fund, with the name of the one
almost isolated defaulter among those assuming to
themselves the dignity of being the representatives
of Literature. Notwithstanding the comparative
proximity of the Zoological Gardens, one scarcely
expected a skunk to have emerged from the green
shrubs at the back of the HOOD Monument. Now
that it has rendered itself sufficiently obnoxious to
those who had assembled round the grave to evi-
dence their honour for the memory of the Poet
and Humorist, perhaps while, may be, else-
where—

E`nn~a sham —The Birmingham Banking Co.
Liverpool ......Masers. Moss and Co., or the Rank of Liverpool.
Manchester ....Sir, B. Heywood and Co ,or tho Manchester and
Liverpool District Bank ;
and the several Proprietors of such 201. shares are required to pay
such call accordingly.

CHANDOS, Chairman.
ROBT. BENSON, Deputy Chairman.
By Order.
HENRY BOOTH,
CHARLES E. STEWART, Sec".
Euston Station, London, 15th July, 1854.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY•
NOTICE of SECOND INSTILMENT on (late MANCHESTER
and BIRMINGHAM) tot. C SHARES, CREATED 18th October,
1845.

Notice is hereby given, that the DireCtOrS, in panuance of the
provisions of the Act of Incorporation, have passed a Resolution,
calling for a SECOND INSTALMENT of 41. 10s. per share on the
101. C Shares, created 18th October, 1845, PAYABLE ON or BE-
FORE the 14th OCTOBER NEXT, and that they have ordered such
Call to ho paid to one of the undermentioned Bankers, namely—
L0nd0n...... Messsrs. Glyn, Ming and Co.
Birmingham .. The Birmingham Banking Company.
Liverpool ....The Bank a Liverpool, or Messrs. Moss and Co.
Manchester.. Sir B. Heywood and Co., or the Manchester and Liver-
pool District Bank.
And the several proprietors of such 101. C shares are required to pay
such call accordingly.

CHANDOS Chairman.
ROBT. BENSON, Deputy Chairman.
By order,
HENRY BOOTH,
CHAS. E. STEWART, }
Secretaries.
Mist= Station, London, July 15, 1854.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, Jut 25,
Will be performed Meyerbeer's Opera LES HUGUENOTS. Cha-
racters by Madame Rudersclorff, Madame Caradori, Mdlle. Sed-
lavek, flerr Reichardt, Sig. Gregorio, Herr Hubert Formes (his first
appearance in London), and Herr Formes.
frices--Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 23.: Gallery,
Is. ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The
Box-office open dully from Ten till Six, where places may be
secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and
Cock. 63, New Bond-street.
Notice.—Doors open at Half-past Seven. Performance commences
t Eight. Ha.f-price at Half-past ine.

THE I.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. v.uckstone.
THIS EVENING. Jut? 25,
Will be performed THE OLD CHATEAU. Characters by Messrs.
Howe, Rogers, H. Marston, and Buckstone ; Mrs. Fitzvrilliam, and
Miss Reynolds.
Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a GRAND BALLET.
The new Farce AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS.
To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
•
tinier the Management of Mr. Cniatrate
THIS EVEINLNG. Juu 25,
Will perform'el TOE MARRIED UN lA.WRIED. Characters
by skews. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart ; and Misses Heath and
Murray.
Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by
Messrs. C. Kean and Daild Fisher ; and Mrs. Winstanley, and
Mies C. I.,c!erco.
To conclude with THE• HALT OF THE BALLET.

" The creature's at its dirty work again"—
the friends and admirers of THoMAs HOOD may
have had the last of Smellfungus.

"The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Preven
on Acts Consolidation Bill" has been reluctantly
withdrawn for the present session by the Home
Secretary. Can the cholera also be postponed in
consequence of the war ? We fear that is an enemy
whose advances cannot be delayed by pending
negotiations, and that unless we resort to the
means of defence which experience has already
proved to be available, we shall be at the mercy
of the grim and formidable invader. We find
that it has already made its appearance in the
country, has claimed its victims even in the heart
of the metropolis, and yet we are to remain indif-
ferent and apathetic, without taking any effec-
tual steps to avoid the infliction of the fear-
ful scourge. Everything must be borne, every
risk encountered, in order that what the Le-
viathan terms " the delicious treat of au
autumnal session" may be avoided, that there
may be no interruption to the holiday pursuits of
our used-up Legislators, and no interference with
the arrangements of the "dear and excellent"
Premier for the protection and security of " his
friend of forty years' standing."
Everything combines to render an early meeting
of Parliament indispensable. It is, indeed, the
absolute, imperative necessity—the sine qua non
of the moment. The Noble Leader of the House
of Commons, however, refuses to give the slightest
satisfaction on the all-important topic—" Cir-
cumstances may make it very desirable to have
Parliament meet again soon, or the circumstances
of Europe may be such as to render it inexpedient,
in the opinion of the Cabinet," (i.e., of Lord
1
Anannzast) "to advise an autumnal session.
We must be left at full liberty to give such
advice as the circumstances of the time may
seem to us to require." Such was the cavalier
announcement put forward on behalf of the
Coalition Government to the chosen repre-
sentatives of the People—an announcement justi-
fied on the rather extraordinary ground, that the
leaders of a former " Coalition Ministry had re-
:used to bind themselves to the Sovereign as to
the course they would pursue in reference to a
particular measure 1" Never was there so glaring
a " non sequitur," so absurd and illogical a con-
clusion. It would have been most unwise, most
impolitic, and most unconstitutional for any
Minister of the Crown to pledge himself unre-
servedly to set at naught the deliberations and
councils of two co-ordinate branches of the Legis-
lature in deference to the obstinate prejudices of a
third. It would justly have subjected the persons
who did so to the censure of their Peers, if not to
direct impeachment. They would have been not
merely "crippled and fettered" by an engagements°
improvident, but they would have been for ever
disgraced and dishonoured as public men.
But the engagement to convene Parliament
It was because of his perpetual snarling, his together, to require the advice and assistance of
fretful,' captious, carping, querulous discontent- the different Estates of the Realm, under circum-
meta that TOBIAS SMOLLETT was dubbed by one stances of no ordinary importance and no ordi-
oftie,gni. If the author of " Roderick Random 7, the pleasantest humorists of his day—Smell- nary difficulty, is of a very opposite character.
fungus. [t is not because Lords GREY and GRENVILLE very
has since then had few to rival his genius, he has properly refused to be the slaves of a King that
had many to emulate his ungenial peculiarities, his the Leaders of the modern Coalition should
slenetic ill-humour, and peevish hypercriticism. attempt to become public dictators, or to render
p
themselves in every respect independent of the ad-
In all these viler particulars, the present time has
vice and assistance of Parliament. The demand for
the very double of the man in our periodical
an autumnal session could not be considered any in-
literature. There is, and has long been, notori-
vasion of the prerogatives of the Crown; nor could it
ously a character of this kind in the newspaper
be regarded as a servile surrender of the independ-
press; of England—a character ever ready to find
ence of the Administration. It is one thing to be
a fault or to pick a quarrel, upon any occasion,
bound to pursue an undeviating course, no matter
and under any circumstances. If ever there were
b y what obstructions and difficulties it might be
circumstances, if ever there was an occasion, when
impeded. Another to ask the advice of those
it might have been deemed reasonable to suppose
who have a constitutional right to tender it, and
that the customary malignity and habitual spite
to afford a suitable opportunity for its expression.
might .have been, for once, smothered up and
The . Commons have
a mode of enforcing that
silenced under a sense of common decency, one
privilege without which it would be compara-
might reasonably have supposed it would have
Lively worthless. They may refuse the supplies
been in regard to a little incident like that which
for more than a limited period, and in such case
took place a few ' days since round the grave
or. one of the gentlest-hearted men, lone of they must be appealed to. If they are satisfied
the most genial poets, and one of the with a mere promise of being called together
before the winter, they practically exhibit a
most amiable humorists of our generation. That
incident .not
soon be forgotten—we believe it degree of confidence for which the " Coalition"
will
will not be unworthy of a record in the annals of ought to be very . thankful. If every Minister
oar home literature. Ithad, however, been so exacting as Lord JOHN
was a simple kindly un-
affected incident, - ' RUSSELL, and every House of Commons so yield-
enough—one that might have ~
touched, it could almost have been thorteht even
tag as the present, there would not be quite
the heart of a Saiellfungus. But no - Honour S) much of the democratic element in the British
was paid, it -is true, ' . f'onstitution, nor should we have so much reason
unostentatiously to the ' '
memory of HOOD to boast of the national liberty of English subjects.
over the spot wh;ch contained boa'
his dust—.a spot untilthen • Lord JOHN RUSSELL was not always so averse
only grass-grown and'
neelected, but thenceforth „ to an autumnal session. It is not so very long
eeneeforth rendered co •
nspLuous, .
among the tombs is the . since such a demand was pressed on the Ministers
national cemetery by a
eraccful sad enduring on behalf of
te monument. The tribute of the Crown, without any protest
wt 3 the spontaneous tribute offered by the Noble Lord or any of his present coadjutors
among the many friends and admirers of thseodmee —and surely the matter which led to the stipula-
par ted man of genius—a tribute profetred to his Lion was by no means so urgent—the national
Dame in earnest remembrance—a test •
testimony of emergency was by no means so critical as at the
cordial respect and affectionate admiration. But present. When the object was to accelerate the
for those who took part in this tribute to the possession of place and power by their opposition,
S HOOD—his grave might h•
-wernory of Tll°-HAare to give to Whigs and Peelites an earlier enjoyment
continued
not only until now but long after- of salary and patronage, it was perfectly right
' if not permanently, unmarked, even by the that the screw should be applied. For that pur-
most ordinary headstone. Pose Hono
wards,
commonest slab or the urabl e Gentlemen should relinquish
is distinguished now, and will their chosen recreations, should leave the
As it is--the spot . ,
) 'shed from this time forth, by 1 field, or the heath—the
continue to be distingui . ocean wave, or the
the hand of genius, and 1 serene lake. They should b
- a work of art designed by e contented to , hang
monument in up their guns or rods
abscription—a , to allow their spirited h,
erected by by public s'
w'sich is en- ters to remain idle in their stalls, to give rest to
substantial bronze and granite, on i
• the
t the date of his hares and birds of the heath or
stubble, to
- graved the name of the poe , I refrain from dispensing
with his hospitalit in their
y
-birth, and the date of his death, together —e_ 1 nal halls. "The delicious treat of an autumnal
' own sententious, but sufficient, epitaph. .b
Cession" should be encountered
to hasten
hold the simple fact, and now behold how that ,
the
. simple fact has been recorded by the spiteful
,Y.
f i demonstration of hostility not to objectionable
pen and the virulent ink of the Smellfungus o
measures, but to obnoxious men. But when 't •
• English newspapers—the Athenceuin. Observe—
. merely to insure a vigorous energetic and lis
waging
s , the Anbjoined are the exact words, in reference to
of the war, to see that the unconscientious dis-
the occurrence, in the last number of our con-
turber of the peace of Europe be thoroughly
temporary :
' foiled, and the honour and security of the United
~ The Hood Monument in K 1 Green has this •
ringdom be efficiently cared for—then, forsooth,
week been uncovered. A. • ensa
' I was rot 11"
rnapnasslng ceremonla &
up by those who have mismanages it would be unreasonable to expect so much ad-
Mr. mged the matter—to which
M. Mimes lent the celebrity of his name and the ditional trouble from the representatives of the
grace of his oratory. Beyond this single literary pre-
~,,, and it would be unbecoming in the ad-
sence, a contemporary—who seems to have represented pe'kje'
in his own person the whole .press of Enodand—nom. visers of the Crown "to cripple and fetter them-
plains that the affair was a failure and ,assumes that the selves by any such engagement."

ARTL'Et'S ROYAL AMPIIIT RY,AT

tensee'rnul Manager, Mr. WlMara Coolie.

SUCCESS of the " COSSACKS ; or Viva la France," equal to that
of the Battle of Waterloo or Mazeppa. Screams of laughter at the
new Auglb-French, Russo-Turkish, Witty and Patriotic Burlesque.

THIS EVENING,
The War Spectacle, THE COSSACKS; or, Vive la Franco.
After which, LES ELIIS DE VARENE ; or, Scenes in the
CIRCLE—in which Miss Emily Cooke and Mr. Alfred Cooke win

appear.
The Brothers Franc'sco will perform ; also. the German Brothers.
To conclude with Mr. T. Simpson's Burlesque de Circonstance
called, RUSSIA AGAINS r TURKEY NOW ON TRIAL.
Kol-ottloo open trots Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. 5-
t. est„

fOli WATER AT LONDON BRilN;ii
PAv —Morning 9 tnin.after 2 I Evening 28 min.aft. 2
zow—mornin., 47 ,nin.after 2 1 Evening 4 tnin.aft. 3

nis ()muss, JULY 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
80 - highest since noon yesterday.
,64--lowest this morning and during the night.
-80—thii day, at noon.
'BAROMETER, 30'18—still gradually falling.
W.T,io. variable and light, from N.W. to with
bets !sunshiny weather.

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