The Sun.
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A.ssembly with vain promises ? have I deceived them
by my arguments upon the consequences of a struggle
into the rashness of giving their consent o❑ the in-
stant to the dissolution of the Ateliers Nationaux ?
Judge for yourselves ! Towards the end of May the
Committee of Labour interrogated M. Gamier Pages
and myself as to the plan of the Government in re-
gard to the dissolution of the agglomeration of autho-
rised idleness which already began to evidence the
fermentation of the spirit of fiction. I explained the
best means to the Committee. I detailed the se means
above all things in the redemption of the railways, a
measure, the principle of which had been decreed by
the Provisional Government, and the action of which
would be that, in reviving that great mechanism of
industry under the hand of the State itself, it would
impart to all the other secondary interests many mil-
lion springs of impulsion.
" Since the 24th of February," I said to the
Committee, " my only thought has been to discover
some pacific solution to the extreme difficulties of our
situation, to find out the causes of those difficulties,
and to avoid all kinds of shocks and all effusion of
blood, in the hope of preserving to the Republic its
beautiful character of gentleness, and to the people a
certain serenity of temperament. I knew better than
most persons the urgency, the turbulence, and the
anxiety which the Ateliers Nationaux caused to press
heavily during many weeks upon Paris and upon
France—a load of intimidation and inquietude which
no industrial society could sustain for a very long

period. But by the redemption of.the railways, by a
large display of armed force in Paris, and by the
graduated dispersion of the workmen throughout the
departments, together with work assured to them and
prepared for them in perspective, I still hoped to
traverse this last crisis without resorting to the lunar
caustic of the Government ( sans porter le feu dams
la plate)."

"But," observed the President, "if the:National
Assembly does not coincide with you as to the re-
demption of the railways, how will you then contrive

,o carry out your plans for a pacific disbandmen

" Oh ! then I can only see the inevitable alterna-
tive of a battle," I replied without a moment's hesita-
tion, " and it is precisely this extremity that I should
wish to avoid at all hazards and at all sacrifices."
The battle has since taken place. Ought we, after
this, to regard Paris and society as_ having been be-
trayed ?

I open again the authentic proces-verbaux of the
Government, and I read :

12th May.—M. De Lamartine proposed that the
Ateliers Nationaus should be scrutinized, and that a
certain portion of the persons employel in those
establishments should be distributed throughout France
and Algeria ; and that the workmen should be paid
one-third in money, and the two other thirds in
drafts upon the confiscated property.—(Adopted.)
It was decided, moreover, that the lists of inscrip-
tion to the Ateliers should be closed.
And that all the able-bodied men between eighteen
and twenty-five years of age, without families in

Paris, should be allowed a choice between enrolmen

and disbandment.

May IG.—The Government dissolved the mown.
:aineers, besides authorising and purifying the Re.

publican Guard. I myself assisted personally at the
Hotel of the Prefecture of Police, on the occasion of
the dismissal of the old National Guard, who were

:here assembled together to the number of twenty

:housand men. The National Guard there saluted

me with their farewell acclamations. At this sitting

was also read the law against unnecessary
.assem•
blages.

On the 30th of May, the Government decided that
the garrison of Paris should be composed--
Ist. Of twenty thousand men of the troops of
.the

2d. Of five thousand men of the Garde Mobile.
3d. Of two thousand six hundred of the National
Guard.

4th. Of two thousand and fifty of the Guardians
of Paris.

sth. Of five thousand men of the troops of the
line in the suburbs and in the garrisons, who could
within a few hours concentrate themselves in Paris.

In all fifty-four thousand six hundred and fifty
bayonets.

An order of commission was also passed autho-
rising the Minister of War, in the event of any
serious danger, to take the supreme command of the
troops of all arms, infantry, cavalry, artillery, the
Garde Afebile, and the resident guard of Paris.
During the following days a series of military
orders were issued for the purpose of covering the
Assembly and repressing all nocturnal assemblages.
Eight hundred conspirators were arrested in a single
night.

31st May.--An order was dispatched to the
Minister of War, instructing him to send in every
day to the Executive Commission his reports upon the
state of the army.

THE MAGAZINES
BLACK WOOD.

Augustine Caxton recounts the history of his first
love—Lady Elinor Compton—to his wife and the
Anachronism. The story is touching from the sim-
plicity of the narrator. It is the clue to the mys•
teries of the plot—the main spring of the machinery
of the fiction—the very bone and marrow of the
story. It is a beautiful revelation of the different
characters already introduced--the gallant and
haughty Roland ; the generous old Earl of Rains-
forth ; the ambitious Lady Elinor; the active and
enterprising Trevanion ; and Austin himself, the
noble old philosopher. It is quite in keeping with
the disposition of the latter when he exclaims that he
should have been " crushed" bad Lady Elinor, while
he was wooing her, become an heiress by the death
of her brother Lord Pendarvie, Mr. Tibbets in vain
dangles the puddings of emolument (2,0000 before
the eyes of the author of the " History of Human
Errors." The great book can find no publisher—like
many other great books which have been written only
to be destroyed. Besides his project of the " Literary
Times" Uncle Jack has another scheme in his head,
to wit the " Grand Anti-Publisher Confederate
Author's Society." The notion is an exquisite
absurdity—especially, as Pisistratus observes, as
any one would as lief submit a work to a pub-
lisher as to a select committee of authors.
Part VII., however, of " The Caxtons," is principally
delightful for its development of the novel and fasci-
nating character of Sir Sedley Beaudesert. The de-
lineation of his temperament is as delicate as that of
Will Honeycomb of immortal memory ; and the grace
of his home is depicted as voluptuously as that of
Pelham. Beyond all these tidbits, nevertheless, com-
mend us to the twenty-eighth chapter—the chapter
of the cr-cr-crrrr I—the earwig, the very large
motherly earwig, the earwig far gone in that way in
which—cr-cr-cr !—the hornet, the Labidoura, the
Forficulida auriculana—crawl, crawl, crawling over
the nape of the author's neck while he is writing, re-
minding him, in a breath, of Mrs. Primmins, and her
horrid nursery story,:of Mr. Payne Knight and his
" Inquiry into Symbolical Languages," of the Zebub
of Baal and antenna with thirty joints ! Laurence
Sterne might have written it in one of his broken
chapters on Shandeau philosophy. Robert Southey
might have written it in the scholarly fun of his
Doctor. Charles Lamb might have written it and
revelled over the writing of it, in his fantastic, odd,
capital Essays. The close, too, of the instalment of
" The Caxtons " for October -is perfectly and
charmingly Shandean. If Sterne exercises any
occult influence over the literature of his coun-
try, he is certainly the inspiration of this con-
tributor. After a sober criticism upon Mr. Mill's "Pi in-
ciples of Political Economy"—there is the continua-
tion of the late Lieutenant Ruxton's jovial chapters,
entitled, "Life in the Far West." "A Legend from
Antwerp," purporting to be a translation from a tale
in the Flemish, tells us in rapid and earnest words of
the career of the " Doomster's Firstborn." We
rather suspect that Line, beautiful as her devotion is
for the son of the headsmen, must come under the
category of strong-minded women, when we find that
devotion carrying her to the foot of the scaffold to
see her lover enact the part of an executioner. " A
Word about Novels," being a dialogue contained in a
letter addressed to Eusebius by Aquilius is worth
reading, if only for its sensible argument in favour of
novels and romances. The Curate reasons most
logically against all those prudes and Puritans who
scout fictions as " Satan's books," fraught with
everything pernicious. From the dialogue, moreover,
the memory is " jogged" pleasantly enough in regard
to the whole catalogue of novels and novel-writers,
from the gorgeous and magical phantasmagoria of
the "One Thousand and One Nights," to the sickly
and puling crudities of the " Hymns in Prose," from
the " Pilgrim's Progress" to " Modern Philosophers ;"
from " Calebs" to " Clarissa ;" from " Pamela" to
" Joseph Andrews ;" from the " Vicar of Wake-
field" to the " Vicar of Wrexhill ;" from " Tom
Jones" to " Waverley ;" from the " Canterbury
Tales" to Miss Edgeworth ; from " Don Quixote"
to " Pickwick ;" from "Dombey and Son" to " Gil
Bias ;" from " Tristram Shandy', to " Sir Roger de
Coverley ;" from " Mount Sorrel" to the " Juif Er-
rant ;" from "Ten Thousand a Year" to "Emilia
Wyndham ;" from the " Diary of a Physician" to
the " Doctor ;" from " Daphne and Chloe" to the
"Mysteries of Udolpho," &c., &c., &c., Ice., &c., down
to two of the most remarable of recent fictions,
" Jane Eyre" and " Madame de Malquet." Coin-
ciding, as we do right heartily, with the contributor
in his eulogistic estimate of Mr. Warren, we differ
from him not the less heartily in his depreciatory
estimate of Mr. Dickens. The former is as much
above the philsophic Godwin in genius as a novelist,
as the latter is to our thinking beyond Fielding, both
in humour and pathos. And we say this with all
reverence both for the intellects of Godwin and of
Fielding—with a full appreciation of the extraordi-
nary powers betrayed in " Caleb Williams" and the
" History of a Foundling." Granted that the close
of " Dombey and Son " is in many respects faulty,
but we are, in spite of all this, bold to say that in no
one of the immortal fictions of Fielding can be found
anything comparable to the life-scenes and the death-
scene of little Paul Dombey. As to Dickens being
wanting' in Simpletonianism—is there no simple.
tonianism in the Brothers Cheeryble, in Tin,
Linkinwa ter in Tom Pinch, in Mr. Pickwick, in
Captain Cuttle, in Mrs. Mayley, in Abel Garland,
and in glorious old John Willet ? Is there none ?
To our mind there are simpletonians among the
creations of Dickens comparable to those, enumerated
by the reviewer,—to Uncle Toby and Parson
Adams, to Gil Bias and Sancho Panza, to Dr. Prim-
rose, to Moses, to Sir Roger de Coverley, and to their
companions. Howbeit the literary gossip of the
paper is agreeable and wholesome. The concluding
contribution a critical analysis of " Byron's
Address to ,the Ocean "—those magnificent
stanzas which are familiar as household

thoughts to every one who can appreciate the
noble poem of " Childe Harold "—the concluding
contribution, we say, upon this Address deserves our
severest reprehension. And why ? Because the
writer labours hard, through fifteen mortal pages, to
prove that the stanzas in question are little better
than fustian and hyperbole, sometimes sinking into
a maudlin affectation, and sometimes rising into a
preposterous rant. We remember reading once an
elaborate essay proving—yes, proving—by all the
laws of grammar, poetry, and rhetoric, Gray's
" Elegy in a Country Churchyard" to be sheer non-
sense. We read this essay, and we acknowledge that
the arguments w ere cogent enough and forcible
enough—so cogent and so forcible, indeed, that we
would not readily have undertaken their refutation,
seeing that it would have required more time and exer-
tion on our part than we would have deemed the subject
to be worthy of. And yet we loved Gray's " Elegy"
not a whit the less—the more, in truth, if that be
possible ! So is it with us after the present criticism.
And if our estimate of the poet be enhanced, we
need not say what are our thoughts of the critic !
Of the article upon the " Continental Revolutions,"
we may speak elsewhere. Blackwood seems to ripen
in merit with the advancing autumn—its outpourings
this month are, on the average, as generous as the
nut-brown ale of October.

BENTLEY
Again we have three articles on the events in
Paris, and the last (entitled Parisian Silhouettes)
evidently from the pen of some " waiting gentlewo-
man." We have already had de trop of Parisian re-
miniscences in all the magazines. Our old friend the
Flaneur, leaving Paris to the amateur writers, has
wisely shifted his quarters to Frankfort, and has
given us some delightful sketches of the members of
the German Parliament. Take the following por-
trait of Von Gagern, the President, as an example :--
" That tall commanding figure in the President's tri-
bune is the President himself, Von Gagern. He is the
true type of the revolutionary Moderate of the day.
Long one of the most firm,. conscientious, and energetic
deputies upon the opposite side, in the
Darmstadt
Chamber, he retired with disgust from public life when
he foiled that he could not carry out his theories of con-
stitutional liberty, and, like another Cincinnatus,en the lived
apart ' in the farm,' and ' at the Plough,' until, wh
stormy wind of revolution began to blow, and threatened
to sweep down every bulwa.rk_of the little state, he was
suddenly called upon by his Prince tor take the helm,
an
and direct the vessel through the g Y waves in that
track which he had as yet so vainly attempted to follow.
One of the chosen representatives in the National As-
sembly, he has since thrown up place and power, and
refused, a post of weight in the new Cabinet of the
new German Empire,
to order to direct the movements
of that new vessel in which the destinies of all Germany
are embarked, the General Assembly. He is in truth
the ' man of the de): i' and, perhaps, he is, among all
the numerous deputies, the only ono capable of directing
the tempest of Parliamentary violence and dominating
the storm. He has energy, presence of mind, good sense,
and the commanding manner, that does so much towards
imposing and directing. He is tall and stout ; his face
is intelligent and dignified without being handsome ;
his brows, more especially, are strongly marked, and are
full of the essence of calm, self-conscious energy. There
_
is a dignified boldness in his appearance, manner, atti-
tude, voice, language, all.
Again, he is the 4 man of the
day ;' and, perhaps, as the President of the National
Assembly, he may be said,
alone, to have grasped the
convulsed materials of which it was composed, and
moulded them with powerful hand from the first chaotic
state into a whole, which bears a more dignified, impres-
sive, and practical form."
George Hodder and Leech furnish a drollery enti-
tled the " Golden Fleece," and William Henry
Maxwell, under the title of " Queen's Bench
Sketches," gives us some powerful, but most
sombre, portraits of the inmates of that
wretched abode of misfortune and vice. They
are as true to the stern realities of life as the charac-
ters that Crabbe was wont to draw, and this paper
furnishes arguments irresistible in favour of a
reform of our whole system of imprisonment
for debt. It is rotten from the foundation,
and while it ruins the honest WW affords impunity

to the swindler and holds out a premium for the com-
mission of perjury. "The Demon of the Steppes,"
by Mrs. Sinnett, is a legend of the Cossacks of the
Don. It is well told, and conveys much curious
information as to the manners, customs, and super-
stitions of the Cossack tribes. The delightful sketches
of French scenery, architectural and rural, entitled
" Wayside Pictures," are continued. Caen, the
Vaux de Vire, and Ville Dieu, are the subjects of the
sketches in this number ; their author, moreover,
gives us some delightful peeps into fairy land—(the
belief in the existence of the fairies still forms a por-
tion of the creed of the Norman peasant), and takes
us on a visit to the Mill of Olivier Basselin, the
Beranger of the fifteenth century, and who is im-
mortalised as the inventor of the vaudeville. One of
the most interesting papers of the present number is
by Charles Whitehead, and is entitled the "Carica-
tures of the Eighteenth Century." It is, in fact, a
biography of James Gillray, and is illustrated by a
portrait of that far-famed caricaturist and by wood-
cuts from some of his most celebrated caricatures.
With the exception of "Parisian Silhouettes," all the
papers in this number of Bentley are much above the
average.

FRASER.
We rejoice to find Fraser coming forward to vin-
dicate the much-abused Provisional Government of
the French Republic of February from the accu-
sations which the reactionaires in the Assembly,
headed by Thiers and Odilon Barrot, have brought
against it, with the double object of ruining their
political opponents, and of producing such a state of
anarchy and distrust as to render a republic impos-
sible. In an elaborate review of the " Report on the
French Insurrection in June"—a report which tres-
passed far beyond the bounds of the inquiry confided to
the committee ; Fraser boldly declares that the real
objects of the attack of the reactionary and monarchi-
cal party—the men of the Provisional Government—
stand on higher ground than they did before. He
thus sums up the marvels which the Provisional
Government, or rather M. de Lamartine, who was
the soul of the Provisional Government, accomplUed
by moral means alone :
" Without an army, with no other force than their
moral influence, these men succeeded in creating some
kind of archr out of such complete disorder ; and with-
out shedding a drop of blood, or infringing on the
liberties of one of their fellow-citizens, by their well-
timed concessions, kept hostile factions in comparative
repose, until a more legal authority could be substituted
for theirs. For these services they are entitled to the
gratitude of their country, whatever may have been their
legislative acts. Most of their decrees have been re-
voked one by one, and almost the only remaining vestige
of their administration is the abolition of the 'sin of
death for political offences : but this is of itself a title of
glory, when we consider under what circumstance it was
pronounced. It is, thanks to them, that France can
point with pride to the bloodless annals of the first days
of the Republic. We may also safely affirm that the
triumph of order over anarchy in the late insurrection
was mainly owing to an admirable !measure of the Pro-
visional Government,—the establishment of the Garde
Mobile, whereby twenty thousand deserters from the
cause of the Barricades were enlisted in the defence of
order. The toleration accorded to certain men, the sup-
port given to certain clubs, are in vain brought forward
as proofs of guilty connivance, when, by the very docu•
ments before us, we see how impossible it would have
been to oppose them. The Provisional Government
could as easily have replaced Louis Philippe on his
throne, as have closed one of those clubs, whose armed
bands could dictate laws to the seeming dictators. The
Republican cause, during eighteen years of conspiracies
and hazardous attempts, had recruited adherents, whose
demands, it was evident, would become a source of in-
conceivable danger whenever the day of triumph arrived.
These desperate allies could not be discarded with
impunity on the morrow of victory ; and had the im-
prudent experiment been tried, there can be now little
doubt as to what would have been the result."
This is excellent, and, it is true ; and the suffrage
of Fraser more than counterbalances the pigmy
assaults of those who in the English reactionary
press, in obedience to the inspirations of the
Tory aristocracy, write as if cet excellent Aberdeen
were still in office and could reward them for doing
the dirty work of the clique at Claremont. The other
political article in the Fraser,of this month is entitled
" United States' Aggrandisements and Projects on
the side of Mexico." The writer of this paper shows,
by the most irrefragable documentary evidence that the
designs of the United States on Mexico have been of
long standing; that, as far back as 1805, a project was
broached for the conquest of Mexico, and that the
different Governments of the United States have
steadily kept the object in view ever since. " The
Convent Witch" is an elaborate review of Meinhold's

recently published work, " Sidonia von Borcke, die
Klosterhexe." We have also reviews of Harold and

of Amymone, and biographies of Major-General
Sir John Hunter Littler, and of hector Berlioz, the
great French composer. " The Inundation of Pest"
is a Hungarian romance, of which we have the two
first chapters; and " Yeast" is continued. One of the

pleasantest articles in this number of Fraser is en-
titled " Publishers and Authors," and is full of
amusing gossip about Dryden and Tonson, Lintot
and Pope, Cave and Johnson, and in fact about all
the celebrated publishers and authors who flourished
in the first half of the last century.

SUICIDE by a REJECTED LAVER.
On Wednesday an inquest was held before Mr.
Chapman, the borough Coroner, at the Royal In•
firmary, on the body of a young man named John
Ashmore, stripper, Butler-street, Newton-lane, aged
21 years, who poisoned himself under the following
circumstances :

It appeared that the deceased resided with his pa-
rents in Gegg's-buildings, near Butler's-street, and for
the last two or three years worked in a factory with
a young woman named Isabella Hudson. An intimacy
sprung up between the parties and they were about
being married, but some dispute having arisen the
match was broken off, and Miss Hudson refused to
receive the deceased on the same terms of intimacy
which she had previously done, though she spoke
civilly to him. This seems to have preyed upon the
mind of the deceased, who became gloomy and low
spirited, dE voting all his leisure time to reading and
letter writing. On Thursday, the 21st, deceased
called his former sweetheart to his frame in the
factory, and told her that he would destroy himself
unless she again restored him to her favour, at the
same time telling her that he blamed her parents for
the estrangement which existed between them. He
also added she would soon receive a letter, written in
blue ink, with three black seals. The girl chided
deceased for his foolishness, and returned to her
work, taking no further notice of what he had
said. On the following morning Hudson re-
ceived a letter written in blue ink, having
three black seals, in which he intimated
that he would poison himself beneath an arch in
Rochdale-road, where his body would be found. The
father of deceased stated that deceased left home on
Friday night, for the purpose of taking a bath, and
returned again. He then sat down and wrote a
letter, and the rest of the family having gone to
bed, deceased again left the house, and did not re-
turn until about five o'clock next morning, when
he came in a miserable plight. He was without shoes,
hat, or waistcoat, and appeared to be very ill. He was in-
stantly put to bed, and then admitted that he had
taken a quantity of arsenic, which he had purchased
at the shop of Mr. Rae, druggist, Oldham-road. Mr.
Storey, a druggist, was then sent for, but deceased
refused to take what he had ordered, and as the day
advanced he became very ill. He was removed in ,
the course of the same evening to the Infirmary, where
he died on Tuesday morning last. A verdict of
" Self-poisoning with arsenic, whilst labouring under
temporary insanity," was returned.-21fanchester
Times.

THE Aron" IN IRELAND.—The following is an
official return of the troops in Ireland for the present
month:-Ist Dragoon Guards Cahir, 6th ditto Dundalk,
2d Dragoons Athlone, 4th Light Dragoons Newbridge,
6th ditto Dublin, 7th Hussars Dublin, Bth Hussars, New.
bridge, 12th Lancers Cork, 13th Light Dragoons Long-
ford, 17th Lancers Cerk, Ist Foot (2nd battalion) Par-
sonstown, 2d Foot Dublin, 3d Buffs Limerick, 6th Foot
(2d battalion) Fermoy, 9th Dublin, 13th Belfast,
26th
Cork, 31st Athlone, 35th Mullingar, 40th Dublin, 41st
Buttevant, 42d Templemore, 47th Limerick, 4. Bth Dub-
lin, 49th Dublin, 55th Dublin, 57th Enniskillen, 59th
Templemore, 64th Clor.mel, 68th Galway, 70th Cork,
71st Naas, 74th Dublin, 75th Kilkenny, 82d Fermoy,
85th Waterford, 89th Parsonstown, 92d Limerick. In
addition to these there are the depot companies of the
7th Foot Youghal, the 19th Castlebar, 34th Nenagh,
38th Boyle, 66th Kinsale, 73d Fermoy, 79th Mullingar,
88th Tralee, 95th Londonderry. None of the new
military stations formed in Ireland will remain perma-
nent, but they will nevertheless be maintained for some
time longer. The whole of the force now in the
country, including those already recounted, Artillery,
Marines, Sappers and Miners, armed police, &c., amounts
to about 48,000 men. It is expected that ex-Quarter-
master Hannahan, of the 13th Prince Albert's Own,
who stands charged with having e-!nhezled the funds of
the regiment, as well as with having joined the rebels,
will be tried by general court-mar
in court-martial. The prisoner'
was by virtue of his responsible situation a lull com-
missioned officer her Majesty's service. The unfor-
tunate man rose from the ranks, and also served for a
long period in India.
ALTRINCHAM.•-•-A CHILD KILLED BY DRINKING
HOT TEA.—On Thursday last an inquest was held at
the Wool Pack public. house, before Mr. Roscoe, on the
body of Henry, aged two years, son of Mr. Peter Drink-
water, gardener. It appeared that on Wednesday last
whilst his mother and lather were sitting at the tea."
table, the child came into the house, got hold of the small tea-
pot, and drank a,
quantity of scalding tea from it.
,
He lingered until Thursday morning, when he died. A
verdict of Accidental death was returned.—Manchester
Guardian. _

_ -
SAVINGS BANKs IN IRELAND.—By an Act of the
last session (11th and 12th Victoria, cap. 133), from and
after the 20th day of next month, trustees and managers
of Savings Banks in Ireland may limit their responsi-
bility to 1001.; but are to be personally liable for all
sums received by thew and net paid over.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
This, the drawing-room of theatres, opened for the
winter season last evening, and if the opening night
may be considered as in any degree prophetic of the
fate of the season, then will the nest season fill to
repletion the coffers of the treasury, for long before
the commencement of the performances the house
was crowded. The performances consisted of the
farce of Anything for a Change, which, with Charles
Mathews as the hero and Kathleen Fitzwilliam as the
heroine, was so successful last season ; a revival of
Planche's chef d'oeuvre the Court Beauties, and the
Critic. The Court Beauties will be recollected by all old
playgoers as perhaps the prettiest comedy that was
produced at the Olympic under the management of
Madame Vestris. The scene is laid at the Court of
Charles 11, and Mr. Planck& has given us all the
sparkle, the wit, the repartee of the Court conversa-
tion of that period without any of its grossness. The
piece was much more strongly cast last evening than
when originally produced at the Olympic—Charles
Mathews, fur instance, was Buckingham, and made
quite a character of that part which in the hands of his
predecessor was little better than a walking gen-
tleman. The raise en scene was the perfection
of elegance and good taste. All the mini/lice of
costume, decorations, and properties were attended to,
even to the "King Charles spaniels," which attended
his Majesty in his walks in the park. The last scene
—a tableau vivant of the portraits of the Court Beau-
ties, as they now appear at Hampton Court—was one
of the most beautiful ever represented. The National
Anthem was sung at the conclusion of the Court
Beauties, the solo parts being taken by Madame
Vestris and Miss Kathleen Pitzwilliara. Ma-
dame Vestris, who looked exceedingly well, and
who sung divinely, was received with the most enthu-
siastic welcome, and her charming manner of render-
ing the last verse of the National Anthem secured
for it an encore. The Critic followed, Charles Mat-
thews acting, as is his wont, both Sir Fretful and
Puff, and Barley Don Ferolo. The great event of
this part of the performance, however, was the first
appearance at this theatre of Mrs. Yates,
who took the character of Tilburina. When,
on her first appearance, Charles Mathews, as Puff,
greeted her with, "A h ! Mrs. Yates, who would have
thought of seeing you here ?" the applause was un-
bounded—to make use of a phrase familiar to those
who study the reports of the debates, it was "loud
and long-continued cheering, which lasted several
minutes." She was called for at the conclusion, and
was again rapturously greeted. Madame Vestris
was called on at the conclusion of the National
Anthem, and there were divers other calls for old
favourites in the course of the evening, all of whom
received the most enthusiastic welcome.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. Maddox has taken advantage of the recess to
reburnish and redecorate this gorgeous little theatre,
that it looks now "as good as new." The panels of
the boxes have been redecorated and regilded ; the
boxes themselves have been newly lined and hung
with new curtains of rich red dsmask and white
muslin, the effect produced by which is very beauti-
ful, and exceedingly becoming to the fair occupants of
the boxes aforesaid, whose charms are thus set off
a nzerveille. The ceiling has been ornamented
by an allegorical painting of the four sea-
sons, and there is a new and elegant chandelier.
The performances last night were an English version
of the Daughter of the Regiment, with Miss Poole
as the heroine; the last new farce of Pay Jlle; or If
You Don't; and the divertissement, La Rosiere,
which introduced to us three new aspirants for Terp-
sichorean fame, viz., Signor Ferranti, from Madrid;
Mademoiselle Merry, from La Scala; and Made-
moiselle Ferranti, who were all completely success-
ful. Mr. Maddox, it is said, intends to confine him-
self to the performance of operas, giving ballet and
farce as afterpieces. His operatic corps is very strong.
It includes Mademoiselle Nau and Mademoiselle de
Rossi, from the Grand Opera, Paris ; Miss Poole,
Miss Rafter, of whom report speaks highly ; Miss
Julia Harland, and several debutantes; Mr. Allen,
Mr. Charles Braham, Mr. Rafter, and Mr. Weiss.
Flotow's new opera of Leoline will be among the
earliest productions.

CREMORNE GARDENS.
These delightful and favourite gardens closed for
the season last night. Notwithstanding the threaten-
ing aspect of the weather upwards of 3,000 persons
assembled on this occasion as a mark of respect
to the indefatigable and worthy proprietor, Mr.
Ellis, whose benefit it :was. The farce of The
Bath Road ; or the Intrigue, was very well acted
throughout, especially the Tom of Mr. Van
Buren. The National Anthem followed, Mr. Ellis,
Mr. Van Buren, and Miss Prescot, singing the prin-
cipal verses, assisted by the entire company. Mr.
Ellis (the proprietor) was much cheered at the
conclusion of his verse, which he gave with spirit, and
in delivering the following address, the applause was so
great, and his feelings so overcome, that he was only
faintly heard by the greater portion of the audience :
" Ladies and Gentlemen—On the present occasion
I feel it a duty I owe both you and myself, to submit
to your notice a few observations, and as this is
my first appearance on any stage, I trust you
will afford me your indulgence. I beg to offer
you my most sincere and grateful thanks for the
very liberal and distinguished patronage with
which you have been pleased to honour Cremorne
Gardens during the three seasons it has been under
my direction, and to assure you that no effort shall
be wanting, no expense spared, in
.rendering it
worthy your future approbation and support.
During each vacation alterations, enlargements, and
I trust, improvements, have been made, and while
encouraged by your approval, rest assured I will
nut relax in my endeavours to render this place
of amusement worthy of your patronage. I regret
that the present season, owing to the unfavour-
able state of the weather, has not been
equal to our anticipations ; still I am not discouraged,
and pledge myself that during the approaching recess
every improvement shall be made which may add to
your comforts, and every novelty and attraction
sought for which may contribute to your amusement.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, I beg to offer you
my most profound and grateful acknowledgments,
with an assurance that your approbation shall be the
best stimulus to my future exertions."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In reply to the observations which have
appeared in several journals, on the omission in my
programme of the names of any soi-disant professors
of the legitimate drama, permit me to state, through
the medium of your important columns, that however
I might feel myself warranted, by an experience of
their utter want of attraction, in declining engage.
ments with such artistes, I have nevertheless mani-
fested every desire to include them in my arrangements.
I offered to Miss Helen Faucit the highest salary
(25/. ler week) given to that delightful actress Miss
O'Neill, when she was drawing all the world after
her, but Miss Faucit demanded 1.51. per night, which
is 901. per week.
I should have been ready to have given Mrs.
Nisbett the salary of such actresses as Mrs. Jordan,
Mrs. Davison, &c., viz., 25/. per week, but I was
scared by her intimation that she had recently been
in the receipt of 601.! and was exempt from playing
in afterpieces, in which class of entertainments both
those actresses so enchanted the town.
I was prepared to give Mr... Anderson 201. per
week (higher terms than he had with Mr. Macready
at Drury-lane), but he required 101. per night (601.
per week !! with certain other drolleries, quite bijoux
in their way !)—and recollecting that the Kean had
251. per week in the plenitude of his attraction, I felt
called upon to decline the difference.
I am old-fashioned enough to think that the his-
trionic talent we possess is by no means equal to
what we have lost—that English performers neither
improve nor attract by emigrating to America—that
the public are not to be blamed for confining their
patronage to first-rate instead of second-rate artistes,
and, that a director cannot justly be condemned for
refusing to give the latter about three times the sala-
ries, on an average, that were given to the former.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your much obliged servant,
A. B
Theatre Royal Covent-garden, Oct. 2, 1848.0 NN.
T-

HE
DISTINS' FAREWELL TO ENGLAND..--This
talented family will give their farewell concert at Drury-.
lane Theatre on Monday next, and from the talent en-
gaged it cannot fail to rove successful.
GATHERING AT } OAT WILLIAM[ —The Highland
Society at Lockaber had their annual competition on
the 21st current, for the encouragement of the per-
manent wearing of the Highland garb, as well as for
games. The meeting took place under the ramparts
of Fort William, thus affording amphitheatrical scats
for the spectators, and a flat arena for the competitors.
Probably in the whole Highlands so excellent a site
for the purpose could not have been selected ; ar.d cer-
tainly no district could have produced a better display
of Celtic beauty or Celtic strength or agility. The
company amounted to nearly 3,000 persons (all ad-
mitted free). It must be apparent to all spectators that
in competitions of this nature the judges are placed
in a most embarrassing situation, and probably never
to a greater extent than the gentlemen were on
this occasion ; for where all the competitors were
worthy it was with great difficulty any decision could
be made. It may be pointed out that the result of
giving prizes to boys for competing has been emi-
nently successful. Tho boys of Fort William and
vicinity, under twelve years of age, will run, leap, swim,
or put the stone, in a manner that would astonish their
seniors. The long race, 1,200 yards, up a steep hill and
back, was run in four and a half minutes, and it was
keenly contested—the winner being about two yards be-
fore the second competitor. The ball, which took place
in the Freemasons' Hall, was most numerously attended
by the nobility and gentry of the district, as well as by,
numerous friends from a distance The music, refresh-
ments, &c., &c., were provided by Mr. Melrose, of
the George Inn, and gave perfect satisfaction.—lnverness
Coder.