The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEW

FRANCE.
4 The,E_Faperor is still at Dieppe where, it appears,
tr,ntelighted with his reception. On Monday
4711% the Emperor and Empress were present
latro,,e launch of a vessel. The whole of the popu-
', eat,..4eiwas on the strand to see their Majesties. An
e was raised near the vessel for the Imperial
4—J • The Empress looked exceedingly well.
11(1 shouts
ror came greeted their arrival, and the Empe-
erew_, e forward, and, with his hat off, saluted the
the "It is stated," says the Patrie—" That
te 25Emperor and Empress will be absent from 20
'a thee, and that after their Majesties' return to
CoeraiY Will successively visit Fontainebleau and
tlr'•gue• It is expected that the Emperor will
e interval pass one or two days in Paris."
itB4•lle Constitutionnel devotes 'nearly the whole of
first Page to extracts from and remarks on an
giaonn"— ,Th"s Pamphlet, purporting to be by a Bel-
on the marriage of the Duke of Brabant with
thevls,trian Archduchess. The author, who, al-
tion. 7..,a Belgian, expresses regret at the separa-
earl ° from Holland, thinks that Belgium
State, be, strictly speaking, an independent
or d and that it must either be confounded with
•jelePendent upon some neighbouring and more
he 7, e j rtal government.- France appears to him to
giuState .. which should possess or protect Bel-
bast he imagines that from the marriage
bu,
hi ItLia just taken place, it must necessarily
Win e arms of Austria. The marriage, be says,
le deparate Belgium still more from Holland, and
a
tract efiance to France. The Constitittionnet ex-
very long passages from this pamphlet,
it /lug out this text of the writer, and although
j+2.,enclares that it does not in any degree identify
wrilichwith the ideas expressed in the work from
that . it quotes, the remarks that are made show
sOm® importance is attached to them.
rayiii:
,e,J°llrney of the Emperor in the north appears,
and
Constitutionner, to have been postponed,
a:(Z is now almost certain that the Empress will
de aLanY. him. M. Duhamel, Prefect of the Pas
the --1/4•w) has announced to the Council General
de,,,aPProaching visit of their Majesties, and he
tines for
from the Council a credit of 10,000
at es for their reception in all the department,
the a further credit of 2,500 francs for furnishing
apartmentreception.
at the Prefecture for their Majesties'
The
vhe Monsieur says—The Emperor of Austria,
at sae attention had been called to the manoeuvres
seeta,terY, has been pleased to have his army repre-
eu at the French camp. That mission has
Fbeen entrusted, on the designation of the Emperor
„ain,eis Joseph himself, to Prince Jablonowski,
thlu. Marshal, Grand Master of the households ag.
Imperial Highnesses the brothers of his
al;f.jes,,t3l; to Colonel Baron Leykam, brother-in-
d°' Prince Mette:mich ; to Colonel Baron Smola ;
the to Colonel Aubin. Prince Jablonowski and
Placers who accompany him have just arrived
pans.
AL
add ertoul, Minister of Public Instruction, has
tie"
a circular to the archbishops and bishops
tie," Gallician Church pointing out to their atten-
ex,,' hen fact that religious music has of late years
Frlgly degenerated in the church service in
I'o„,TP) arid that the cause of decadency must be
eltr,ll in the fact that no special school has hitherto
to
for such instruction. That deficiency is
4,:kt about to be supplied by the establishment of
under
for religious music, vocal and instrumental,
ash the direction of M. Niedermeyer, in the
of State
Of St. Louis cl'Antin, to which the Minister
all"'ate will accord 5,600 fr. a-year from the credit
of Wed for the Fine Arts, and from the departmen.t
Est public Worship a sum of 18,000 fr. a-year. This
admissions
;slim is to be divided into thirty-six half free
The
of 500 fr each.
in'tente late' General Count de Montholon was born
Pemtris in 1783. His father was Colonel of the
f
th:-.,'llievre regiment of dragoons, and Master of
The Sounds to Monsieur afterwards Louis XVIII.
e Count de Montholon commenced his military
careerr, when he was still a child of 10 years of age,
Corsica. In 1797 he entered a regiment of light
valr37- He made the campaigns o Italy, Ger-
many,
te,,u Poland, Span, and France ; he waswatasAfiuvs;
tz, Wagram, lena, and Friedland, and
aas wounded. In 1797
he was attached to the
11,-,7, Berthier, and in 1809 he entered the ouse-
-4-7 of the Emperor,' by whom he was made Ohara-
Itirriairt• During th hundred days, he became
411
sr-de-camp-General to the Emperor, was pre-
he at Waterloo, and followed the Emperor to St.,
-`ena. He had the honour of being named the
rgt testamentary executor of the Emperor, and
had
his writings and papers deposited in his hands.
t 'Peculation at the Bourse yesterday was confined
!railwav shares. Goverment Rentes were neg-
aTeted. The Three per Cents. opened at 80f. 35c.,
nd closed at 80f. 45c., for the end of the month.
10e Pour-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 105 f.
pOrleans Railway Shares, 1,297 f. 50c. ; Rouen,
ly;4 Havre, 520 f.; Great Northern, 906 f. 25c. ;
,11,13 and Strasburg, 982 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
`I• 50e., Lyons to the Mediterranean, 830 f. ;
C4N-7. ;
"ern of France, 750 f. Bordeaux and Cette,
• ;. Central,Gsraeradtinianvc
i 562 f. 50c. ; Lyons to Geneva,
Victor Emmanuel 510 f. ; Shares
t 'Bank of Credit Mobilier, 890 f.

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A TURKEY AND RUSSIA.
„eccording to advices of the 17th from Bucharest,
that w 8
.:was said to have arrived from Constantinople
the Divan had on the 13th unanimously re-
reQedY;ed to advise the Sultan to accept the Vienna
lat ory project.
celi•-e• letters from Vienna contain overland ac-
tei,illts, which seem to confirm what had been re-
letied here by the telegraph from Trieste. 0:—.)
PNer of the 20th, in the Post Ampt Gazette of
sl7ll.kkfort, says :_cc According to a letter froia
e4arest of the 17th, intelligence had been r
tei
N'ed there from Constantinople, that in a sitti:
the :-;
to " 13th, the Divan had resolved unanimouc,
mediation
the Sultan to accept the project a,:
Tlation drawn up at Vienna."
e Posen Gazette announces that the Emperor
IRussiathao is no longer expected at Warsaw, and
he will not visit Poland this year.
the
2letter from Trieste of the 20th states that
the Austrian war Echooner Artemisia, has sailed for
Gulf of Volo to cruize against the pirates.
g'"
cfct letter from Galatz, 12th, in the Bresla,,-,
Ito 24te; says :—" A Russian commission arrived
e days since at the mouths of the Sulina,
fq,r.ged to examine the river, and propose a plan
tl,lllProving its entrance. A French Colonel of
tißV,eers, named Magna, has been for the last
'lays at Kunkowitza, a frontier town of Bul-
t%ca2, near Galatz, directing the works of the for-
tholls. He 1:1;,s recently made a journey
ob.r:"lighout the whole of Bulgaria for the same

ITALY.
011."111,0 Queen of Sardinia visited Sarzana and Leric:
the,e 18th, and returned to La Spezia on board
malfatano steamer the same evening. Tier
liiej"tY was everywhere received with great de-
papptrations of loyalty and affection.
er Special Committee for the reimbursement of
the money in the Papal States, has notified to
(2,4111)fic the withdrawal of" 500,000 scud
Wiliel;'°°":l of paper money from circulatic:;,
coin
of ' r-
11111 as been replaced by an equal amour-,
!tile 'Pontifical Government has recently pub-
%Olhed
in - two financial documents, which have excited
tio e attention,
owing to the rare fact of publica-
ili°l ally kind, for the Court of Rome is not over
llco7 to such things. The first of the documents
6/i ',-€,,8"°11 is called "Bilancio Generale della Pub;
---Ll,..clministrazione del triennio dal 1845 a/ 1847'_
'-'lldget, in fact, for those three years ; and
185,(411er, Tabella Preventiva per l'Esereizio de
/4'5 or the Budget for 1853.
cam,
tate ot be denied that these publications of the
in of the finances is a step in advance, proceed
hatd3 it does from a Government which shuns the
licity°olfela Y, an. d has been a decided enemy to pub-
any kind.

SPAIN.
isToliebe
/Pe -13/241. rt.° Espanol states that the Duke
Madridandn
.
v
ts de Montpensier are to arrive in '
ivrtaber for the accouchement of the Queen.
teut• Joaqu
Jose de Csuna, Minister Plenipo. -
of 1,'417 and Envoy Extraordinary of the Republic
'
ern) bad arrived at Madrid.
;ar accounts from Madrid are of the 19th inst
T ifae Three per Cents. were done at 444 ; the New
ariPer-Cents. at 237 ; the Debt of the first class,
0 7-16 ; and that of the second, at 5 5-16.

ALITY
of SIR R. PEEL.—The parish church of
2-7,`.,°n, 'Warwickshire has been restored at an expense
tro '"°/- The remains the late Sir Robert Peel are
apTd there. Ris son, the present baronet; on being
4,1,1:41ed to for a subscription, at once said—" Gentle-
!kill; instead of putting my name upon the list as a sub-
-1.14'211011 Will permit me to see your plans carried
""Y OWr cost, I shall be moat happy to do so.

The recent melancholy accident, involving as it did so
serious a loss of life, has attracted to the progress of the
works at Sydenham an unusual degree of attention. The
public have been pained to hear of co distressing an
occurrence in the execution of an undertaking dedicated
peculiarly to themselves. Its accidental character the
coroner's inquest has placed beyond a doubt, and the
general sympathy excited is manifested by a subscription
list which we hope will receive wide and liberal support
from the benevolent. Nearly all enterprises of the
same extent are attended with casualties of a similar
description, less severe and therefore less startling, it is
true, but still in the aggregate heavy and sad enough.
The wars of former times hardly involved greater sacri-
fices of life than those through which civilisation now
pursues her course of peaceful and material progress.
On the sea, in the mine, on the railway, or in
the construction of public works, it is every-
where the same. We read of these mishaps, and
are shocked by them for the hour, but the requirements
of the world soon close in around us again, and the un-
dertaking, with all its risks, which yesterday made so
many orphans and widows, is going on more rapidly
than ever to-day. This constancy of industry to
from
her
purpose—this courage that will not be put back
what it has once resolved to achieve—Ws nerve which
finds fresh hands to accomplish what others have
perished in attempting—are surely instructive things
to look at and consider aright. Such a spectacle may
now be witnessed at Sydenham. The extraordinary
novelty and boldness of the work to be performed taxes
to its full measure that adventurous spirit, border
almost on rashness, which distinguishes our artisan
class. Labouring away, often on the most precarious
footing, at heights varying from 100 to 150, and even
200 feet, where one false step is instanton death, the
workpeople of the new palace, perched aloft scaffold-
ing and girder, look more like flies than men ; nor can
one fancy how, in such situations, any presence of mind
or energy can be spared by them from the first and most
necessary duty of self-preservation. The completion of
the upper galleries now enables visitors to understand
the difficulties of working coolly at such giddy elevations.
However great the provisions made for security under
such circumstances, it is impossible not to be struck with
the audacious confidence which must be habitually exer-
cised by the men. Take, for example, the fifth gallery tier
on the north front of the centre transept, and look down.
You are on the level from which men and scaffolding
tumbled together last week, and can conceive how awful
the smash must have been. The old building in Hyde
Park would not at its highest point have reached to
your feet, and yet you aro only where the great
arch begins to spring. It is the gigantic design of the
new palace which renders all the details of construction
so formidable and perilous, which makes such calls upon
the nerves of those employed on it, and which invests
the progress of the works at this moment with such ad-
ditional interest. While that design existed merely on
paper, or was only realized up to a certain point, it was
impossible fully to appreciate its magnitude and gran-
deur. Now the sense of both is impressed upon you,
not only by the state of the works, but by the labours
of the men employed.
That such a building, so vast, so novel, so full of
laced, should
light and splendour, and so majestically p
be rising near London for purposes of public instruc-
tion and recreation - that it should be undertaken as
a commercial speculation, and, that it should engage
such a variety of talent in its construction and em-
bellishment, must fill with emotion every man, how-
ever ordinary in sentiment, who now pays a visit to
Sydenham. More significant evidence does not exist
anywhere among us of the progress which this country is
making. After a period during which between servi e
imitation on the one hand, and gross vulgarity on the
other, the taste of the people languished, we are
length, in the way we like best, supplied with a true
realisation of that progressive spirit which, gathering
all the knowledge and strength it can from the past and
the present, faces boldly and hopefully the future. The
industrious classes of this metropolis understand well
the importance and the grandeur of an institution which
will be at once their palace and their university. On
every holiday they repair in crowds to the building,
watch its growth with curiosity, and anticipate the new
pleasures which it will place within their reach. The
interest which they thus manifest in its progress is not
inferior to that which they displayed in Hyde Park, and
every appearance seems to promise for the undertaking an
unprecedented success. From a quiet country retreat
Sydenham has suddenly been converted into a centre
of attraction, where great hotels are rain up in a few
weeks, where innumerable building speculations are on
foot, where new railways push their way for a coming
traffic, and where the majesty of the people is to est .-
blish itself in its own Windsor. Wherever you go an a
clear day around London, the, palace attracts your eye.
From Blackheath, from Richmond, from Hampstead, and
from every other elevated situation around, it is plainly
discernible. Such a structure requires no advertisement,,
but proclaims itself. When it was first started, we ven-
tured to pred'ct that it would cost a million sterling.
We were contradicted at the time, but we adhere to our
estimate. If that amount is not exceeded, large as it
is, there seems no reason to doubt that it will, with
good management, prove a fairly remunerative specu-
lation. The demand for exhibiting space alone
already insures a sutisfactory return for the money,
and our best manufacturers and tradesmen feel that they
cannot afford to be unrepresented in a building where
all that is wonderful and excellent in nature or in art
will be collected into one focus. As the whole under-
taking assumes its final shape and dimensions it is clear
that there will be no choice left, and that people must
go there ; the palace ifself, the-terras.-ee, thy. exqui.it.ay
diversified grounds, the fountains, and the sculpture are
objects that cannot lose their bold upon the imagination
until they are outdone. They appeal to all alike, and
the scale upon which they have been formed, while it for-
bids any idea of rivalry, leaves nothing further in the
way of grandeur or effectiveness to be desired. Sir J.
Paxton has, in this respect, shown an instinctive appre-
ciation of popular taste, which derives its highest and
most unqualified gratification from the largest and sim-
plest manifestations of splendour. Of the millions who
now-a-days are enabled to indulge in the pleasures of
sightseeing a very small proportion indeed examine what
attracts thm in an inquisitive and studious spirit ; yet,
to such the Crystal Palace will open up an immense
field for observation. Even Professor Owen warms
into enthusiasm when he describes how much the palm-
ontologist will learn there. Before the sculptor and
architect will be displayed complete illustrations of
every style and school in their respective professions
from the remotest times and countries. This centre of
the high tides of commerce through the world has
already, within a year and a half, furnished the largest
ethnological collection that has ever been got together,
and in that department alone how much new informa-
tion will oe conveyed of the varieties of our species, and
of the habits which give to each its distinctive character
and interest ! In natural history and geology, also,
the amount of instruction popularly and attractively
imparted will be enormous ; nor must it be forgotten
that by the easiest and simplest process of education—
that acquires through the eye—the multitude will be
able to bring down to the latest date a knowledge of
those brilliant discoveries which have rewarded in so
many different branches the patient researches of modern
science.
Such are some of the general results, which the pros-
pectus of this undertaking, indeed, warranted us to look
for, but which the present advanced state of the prepa-
rations at length hold out a near and certain prospect of
being amply fulfilled. To satisfy the reader of this we
need only refer to the stage of progress at !which the
works have arrived ; and first, of the building. The
west end is still the most advanced, being glazed and
almost entirely painted up to the centre transept ; the
galleries and staircases are finished ; the flooring for the
most part laid, the foundations of some of the fountains
prepared, and even a few of the plants ready to take
their appointed places in their new home. The style
of internal decoration decided on by Mr. Owen Jones 's
now clearly and most favourably displayed, and it is
impossible to award too much praise to the effect of the
colours, which, spreading along the vaulted roof of the
nave, seem to lift it still higher than its real distance from
the eye, and increase its grandeur. A striking appearance is
presonted by the spiral staiscae es which communicates with
the upper galleries at the structure at each terminal point,
and which, climbing up lightly round tall central co-
lumns, look at a distance like so many gigantic soaks
worming their way upwards. The basement, set apart
for machinery in motion, and for other purposes, dis-
plays an immense amount of heavy work accomplished.
The Pompeian Court is rapidly approaching comple-
tion ' • and the decorations of many of the rooms have
been finished. These already possess extreme interest,
and reflect the highest credit upon Signor Abotf, tae
Neapolitan artist, to whom the execution of them
has been entrusted. It is not without a sense of hu-
miliation that we are here enabled to see illustrated
with what admirable taste the ancients adorned the
interior of their dweilings, and our house painters
will be brought into sad disrepute by the compari-
sons which this court unavoidably suggests. A promi-
nent position on the north side of the west transept
has been assigned to the bronze cast of the eques-
trian statue of King Charles at Charing-cross. Mount-
ing to the upper gallery at this end of the building,
the visitor has an overwhelming impression produced
upon him by its dimensions as seen from that point.
Though shorter than the old palace, the additional
height of the nave, and the manner in which the mono-
tonous succession of columns is broken down by projec-
tions, make it appear much longer. A curious effect is
also secured at this great elevation by the 8-foot wide
gallery, which extends on either side, and which, car-
ried through circular connecting pieces in the structure,
assumes the appearance of an immense tubular chamber
suspended aloft and stretched out as far as the eye can
reach. The central transept has not recovered from the
effects of the late accident, but the two huge ribs which
span its width on the north side give some faint idea
Arl • MOROCCO. of what it will be when completed. An arched space,
The ieevices from 120 feet across, 208 feet high, and 380 feet long, insures
erial troops Morocco of the 9th inst. state that for this part of the building an architectural grandeur
taN.es over the insurgents
have obtained signal advan- of which mere description can convey no adequate
the insurgents
have been captured, and deca,_-,i-
tato eeei chiefs in the interior. Two of
ttin-aeril3_,
has sent
The Emperor, who is
alr-`4 at m_ u.idea. The eastern half of the palace, though less
advanced than the western, is by no means
Owen,m a
4.04
deal
of empire. On the coast there is
large gparnt
of
theat for his eldest son, who governs backward state. Here are the workshops of
Jones, and Digby Wyatt, and the courts. which the
of the
are busily preparing for the illustration
c e for the pur-
ish
mactivity in commercial affairs.
eof e_"; er great schools of sculpture and architecture, ancient
has arrived at Lan, h us' A and modern. 'These are all necessarily inclosed against
g the rivers of Morocco.the weather, and other large portions of the spaces not so
occupied have been roofed in. There is, however, a good
I deal of glazing still to be done here, especially at the end,
and much to be effected also in the completion of galleries,
flours, staircases, and painting. The courts under Owen
Jones's charge are progressing rapidly, those for Nineveh
and Egypt being well advanced, and many of the most in-
teresting objects in their places. He has not yet
' gathered into them all their properties, and it is only
in a general way that their future arrangements are
indicated ; but the sloping walls, supported by stolid

THE INDICTMENT AGAINST MAJOR BERES-
FORD AND OTHERS.

Application was yesterday made to Mr. Baron Platt
on the subject of the indictment found at the last session
of the Central Criminal Court against Major Beresford
and others for conspiring to bribe the electors of Derby.
Mr. Bodkin, attended by Mr. Whateley and Mr.
Humphreys, the solidors, supported the application,
which was for a cs7;icrari to remove the indictment into
the Court of Quecn's Bench, at the instance of Major
Beresford, who, the learned counsel stated, at the time
the offence was alleged to be committed, held the office
of Secretary at War. Mr. Bodkin also relied upon an
affidavit, which stated that the matter out of which the
charge arose had been the subject of inquiry by two
Committees of the House of Commons, before whom
Major Beresford had been examined, and that among
the difficult questions of law expected to arise, one was,
how far the evidence then taken could be made Ilse of
in siipport of the present indictment. He also adverted
to the discussions which had taken place in Parliament
and through the medium of the public press, and sug-
gested that a special jury would be less likely to be in-
fluenced by popular prejudice in a matter which had
been in so many forms before the public than the class
of persons, however respectable, who were usually sum-
moned to the Central Criminal Court.
Mr. Baron Platt said that, for the reasons stated, he
considered it a fit ca-e to be tried in a superior court,
and granted his fiat fir the writ as prayed, fixing the
bail to be entered into by Major Beresford at 100/., with
two sureties in 50/. each.
In consequence of the absence of Lord Campbell, Mr.
Baron Platt disposed of this matter at his private rest.
dence. Mr. Coppock attended as solicitor for the pro-
secutor.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock,
the inhabitants of Goodman's-fields, St. Botolpb, Ald-
gate, City, were suddenly thrown into a/ state of great
excitement in consequence of a most dreadful and deli-
-1 rate murder of a married female named Catherine
Mobbs, aged 46 years, by her husband, Nathaniel Mobbs,
aged 43, a wine cooper and porter, rending at No. 7,
Enoch-court, Goodman's-fields, Minories, who afterwards
cut his own throat with a table-knife.
The man Mobbs had been in the service of Messrs.
Walser Howell and Hale, the wholesale wine-merchants
of Water-lane, Great Tower-street, City, but for some
time past he has been leading a life of dissipation, and
while intoxicated he would return home in a state of
excitement, and cruelly ill-treat his wife. They had a
family of four children, two boys and two girls, the
eldest being about ten years of age. Mobbs went out
in the morning, and returned about half-past one in the
afternoon apparently quite sober, and told the children
to go out and play in the street, and nothing was
heard of the man or his wife until about a
quarter to three o'clock, when one of the landlord's
daughters who was sitting in the front parlour, heard a
cry of " murder," which was accompanied by a despe-
rate struggling noise in the first floor room. The girl
went on to the stairs to listen, when she met Mrs.
Mobbs rushing down with a frightful wound in the front
of her neck. Her hands were covered with blood, and
her dress was also saturated with gore. Mrs. Mobbs
reached the front of the houie, and fell on to the stone
pavement, where several neighbours, who had been at-
tracted to the spot, raised her up and placed her in a
chair, while several persons ran for medical assistance.
By this time a young man named John Reader came to
the house, and was asked by ore of the family to go up
stairs and see where the man Mobbs was, when a most
dreadful scene presented itself to his view. The man
was lying in a corner of the room with a severe wound
in the throat, and the floor' rig boards of the apartment
were literally covered with blond, which in some parts
had gushed on to the walls and boxes round the room.
There were two knives besmeared with blood lying on
the table, and a piece of grindstone, on which the hus-
band had sharpened the weapons before he cut his wife's
ihrnat; and used the second knife on his own person.
The room was in a-state of great confusion, as if the de-
ceased and the wretched man had struggled together for
several minutes. _

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Mr. Rawle, of the Minories, and another medical
gentleman, were soon in attendance, and no time was
lost by them in temporari:y dressing the wounds ; but
such was their condition that it was deemed expedient
to place them in separate cabs, which was accordingly
done by city police constables 526 and 577, who conveyed
them to the London Hospital, where Mr. H. K. Deben-
ham, the house surgeon, rendered every possible atten-
tien, but the female expired as she was being placed on
the surgery table. The man was sensible, but his wounds
were not so extensive, although the windpipe is partially
cut through. No holes were given of his recovery when
he was first examined.
As the man was being carried to the cab he exclaimed,
• I did it, I did it." The wound in the neck of the
female is very long and deep, extending from ear to
ear. The house surgeon ordered the body of the female
to be conveyed to the deadhouse, and the man, after
his injuries were dressed, was taken into the ward,
where he was placed under the care of two nurses and
a policeman of the city force.
Mobbs was a most desperate character, and was called
in the neighbourhood, among the lower class of persons,
" General Haynau."
Mobbs is a man about 40 years of age and a jobbing
wine-cooper by trade. His wife was of about the same
age. The children of the murderer were removed by
the city police to the unionhouse, where they will be
much better taken care of than they ever were during
the lifetime of their unfortunate mother. They appear
to have been most grievously neglected, and were the
objects of much sympathy. Their cries on hearing of the
horrible fate of their mother were most heartrending.

CREMORNE GARDENS.—The Scottish fetus, which, for
some seasons past, have been successful in the metropo-
lis, when Lord Holland's Park was thrown open for
them, and royal patronage smiled upon then', are to be
repeated this year, and Cremorne has been the spot
selected for the representation of these favourite na-
tional sports and pastimei. The first of these fetes takes
place to-day, and doubtless large numbers of the sons
and daughters of Caledonia will flock to these favourite
grounds to enjoy what to them will indeed be national
festivities. The advance of Vie c..ns.m causes no diminu-
tion in the number of the patrons of this popular place
of entertainment, and yesterday an immense concourse
assembled to witness the aerial ascent by the Italian
brothers upon the double trapeze. The balloon ascended
very steadily at about seven o'clock, and the brothers
were seen hanging beneath the car, the one suspended
by one leg, and iding the other in one hand. A safe
descent, though of a somewhat novel character, took
place about nine o'clock in Kensington, where, guided
•by the light of the gas, the balloon and its intrepid
freight reached terra firma quite securely.
ENFIELD.—The twelth estate purchased for allotment
amongst the shareholders of the Conservative Land So-
ciety has just been made, at the ancient market town of
Enfield, Middlesex, on the Eastern Counties Railroad,
close to the old edifice occupied by the Earl of Essex,
now used as the station. Enfield is remarkable for its
salubrity, the soil being gravel, and is celebrated as the
residence of Edward the Sixth, and afterwards of Queen
Elizabeth, who held their Courts at this place.
EAST Impie. HOUSE.—Yesterday a Court of Directors
was held at the East India House, when Major-General
William Staveley, C. 8., was appointed Commander in
Chief of the Company's forces on the Madras establish-
ment.
CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—FORGED Si. NOTES.—ln-
formation has been received by the police of an exten-
sive issue of forged 5/. notes. The engraving of the
note is very good, and would deceive the most expe-
rienced judges, especially the Britannia in the corner ;
but the water-mark is badly executed, and appears to
have been impressed after the paper was made, and the
note has not that crispness of feel and whiteness of
colour so peculiar to Bank of England notes. The three
edges of the notes are cut, the other appears to have
been torn, and different to the usual fray-edges of the
genuine Bank of England Si. notes.
THE FOG.- Durlig Tuesday night a dense fog, appro-
priate to November but unusual in August, settled down
in the valley of the Thames, and was the occasion of
much confusion and inconvenience, but fortunately not

attended with any accident. The above-bridge river
boats did not commence plying so early next morning as
usual, from the danger to navigation arising from the
impenetrable mantle which hung like a shroud over the
river. As the morning advanced the fog began gra-
dually to vanish, and before 10 o'clock it had disappeared
altogether, and the sun broke out in effulgent rays.
From the suffocating heat and the unhealthy state of
the atmosphere for some days, the fog was expected,
and created no surprise.
DOCKYARD AND SOMERSET-HOUSE CLERKS.-It is re-
ported that Sir James Graham is about to introduce a
new plan of appointing clerks to the Admiralty Depart-
ments of Somerset-house in future, which he considers
will prove highly beneficial to the service,—namely, by
promoting the hard-working dockyard clerks to that
establishment. It has long been our opinion that such
a system would prove of great advantage to the service,
and ought long since to have been adopted. A dockyard
is the place in which a newly-appointed Admiralty clerk
should certainly commence his official career.—Plymouth
Mail.

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