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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, :JULY 4, 1880,

We have now clearly the business before us which
the House of Commons will take in hand, we pre-
sume, according to arrangement on Thursday night,
—to get through with it, no one knows when !
Altogether, this quarrel on or over paper bids fair
to be a notable one. There was first the long struggle
of the out-of-doors repealers. Then the hard one
of the Cabinet and House of Commons Repealers ;
then the unlucky contretemps in the Lords, and the
repeal of a tax stopped where, in the memory of liv-
ing man, no Tax Repeal Bill had ever been stopped
before. Next came the, indignation of the Cheap
Press, and the grave looks of members of the House
of Commons, angry with the Lords for trenching '
on their privileges, yet glad to save almost a million
and a half under the fear of having to pay, otherwise,
twopence more in the pound income-tax next year.
The solemn searching of the Lords' journals for
what every reader of newspapers knew followed--
then the Tax Bills Committee to hunt for prece-
dents, then the val reports of WALPOLE and
BRIGHT, with the conflicting votings in committee
of members of the Cabinet, and now at last the
resolutions to be proposed by the servants of her
MAJESTY in regard to the " Aggression of the
Lords" on her " faithful Commons" are fairly be-
fore us.

What will or can be said on Thursday that has
not been said ? Oratorical powder may be burnt, as
much as honourable members please, but the shot
have all been used. The plain facts of the case are
that the Lords are technically right, but substan-
tially wrong. But owing to. our Chancellor
of the Exchequer having attempted too much
this year in the way of repeal, and the
Commons having voted too much in the
way of exPelid;Aure, things were going " over
the left sh'Jul..der." The Lords saw their opportu-
nity to revenge themselves on two or three orators
for Whom they have no great love—saw that saving
the money would indemnify them with the country
Tor snubbing these mighty commoners—so they
tighten afresh the straps of one heavy burden which
the Commons had undone. This is the plain state
of the case. The public generally overlook or con-
done the attack on the rights of their representa-
tives because the Commons used their rights
wrongly, and the Lords, we were going to say,
did a wrong rightly. It may be that this is all very
tieing—it is so. "Todo a great right do a
ut
"wrong " this is not the motto for the
highest court of appeal in the kingdom ; but they
have done it, and no great agitation can be got up
about it.

And now for the resolutions—they got into the
paper somehow—Mr. DISRAELI in vain inquired
for them early in the evening; but no Lord PAL.
MERSTON was there ; still Lord J 01.11,1 RUSSELL had
no doubt that they would find their way unto the
table in the course of the night. How they got
there we are not told by our reporters. Lord
pALmERsToN only peeped in at a door fora
Minister
minute
and fizded again from view ; very quickly '
after Minister followed him ; soon the number of
members fell below the sacred forty, mild the planned
count out saved a host of awkward questions and
speeches, and left all parties to furbish their
weapons in readiness for the grand fight of
Thursday;
A little time is, therefore, left for the country—.
and who knows not that " we" of the Daily Press
are the country?—to speak its mind. As to the

first resolution, then, we may pass it over. All
parties will agree to it. It is but the reaffirmation
of old and accepted declarations of the House of
Commons. The second, also, is one the Lords them-

selves will not deny—the exercise of their power to
negative money bills as a whole has been so infre-
quently used that a committee of precedents was
appointed to see how often, and on what occasions
they had used the power. The resolution omits the
definitions proposed by Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. GLAD-
STONE in committee, by which the precedents
seemingly favourable to the Lords would be
affirmed to be inapplicable to the case
which has caused the dispute. It merely affirms
that the Commons jealously" and " justly" watch
the exercise of their power by the Upper House ;
this, however, expresses only a shadow of opinion—
that conveyed by the word " justly"—which can
hardly be denied, and all the rest is mere history.
But the last resolution, like the everlasting post-
script to the lady's letter, contains the sting if
there be one. As it stands, however, even in this
one, we can see nothing which the party in the
Commons who stand by the Lords need object to.
It threatens nothing. It proposes no steps for
practically rescinding the obnoxious vote of the
Lords. Its sum is that the Commons have power
to frame their tax bills so as to prevent an undue
exercise by the Lords of their negativing power,—
to insure that " the right of the Commons as to the
matter, manner, measure, and time, may be main-
tained inviolate." This seems to be hardly an
opinion, but a fact. The Commons, had they sus-
pected what the Lords would do, could certainly
have made the repeal of the paper duty part
of a supply measure, in such a manner that by
rejecting it the Lords would have stopped the
wheels of Government.

One curious circumstance struck us in the reso-
lution. It is not exactly bad grammar; but one
short sentence is such a misfit as shows pretty
plainly that the resolution as it stands is a better
one marred. That dragging clause, "for the future"

—how came it there ? Without it the sense is '
clear as described above. " That to guard against
an undue exercise of their power by the Lords,
this house has in its own hands the power
so to impose," &c.—that is, it has it constitu-
tionally. But why insert that "to guard for
the future" against the Lords' abuse of their
power, and so forth. Plainly in the draft resolu-
tion the connection was this—that to guard for the
future against the Lords' abuse of power the House
of Commons has and will use the power, so to shape
its tax repeal bills that the Lords must pass them,
The advertence to " the future" points to a sup-
pressed clause worth all the rest of the resolutions
put together. A clause which said in effect, we do
not mean to fight the battle this time, my Lords ;
but :we :warn you that we 'will take good care,
for time to come—we will give you no opportu-
nity, in future, to reject a bill which repeals a
tax. That the House can do this is self-evident,
for it can make all taxing bills annual, and the
chief mischief the Lords have done, 'perhaps,
practically comes to this, that it will favour
annual taxation bills.
While we are writing our reporter informs us,
that Mr. DUNCOMBE has given notice that on the
Premier's moving his resolutions on Thursday, he
will propose to add to them, that an humble address
be presented to her MAJESTY requesting her not to
prorogue Parliament until a bill has been presented
for her sanction, to Repeal the Duties on Paper I
The hon. member will have against him not only
the friends of the Lords, but the summer days
at last—when other members will care much more
about enjoying them out of doors, than about fight-
ing the tenants of " another place."

The Parliamentary Committee appointed to that
end is steadily working its way to the demonstra-
tion of the perfect feasibility of the Thames Em-
bankment. Witness after witness is examined
day after day with the same result. Engineers
and architects, contractors and theorists, all tell
the same tale—all insist upon it that the change
can be made, and ought to be made. And made
assuredly it will be sooner or later—of that every-
body is by this time tolerably well satisfied. The
sooner it is commenced say we the better. Why,
in truth, should not the good work be begun at
once without any further procrastination ? At the
best the whole scheme will require some years for
its complete accomplishment. Its early, or rather
immediate commencement, consequently, is for two
obvious reasons assuredly most advisable. In the
first place, the work that is to be done will be the
sooner brought to its final completion. And,
secondly, the fear entertained in regard to the ex-
penditure requisite in carrying out such an en-
terprise may be at once dissipated. The labour
requiring so many years before it can be expected to
terminate, that labour will not manifestly have to
be incurred instanter—the disbursements will in
due course be periodical, year by year, instalment
upon instalment. What should hearten us all the
more towards the realisation of this long-cherished
design is the recollection that already, in two ways,
the preliminary -works have been adventured upon
successfully. The Embankment is there already, to
a certain extent, on the Middlesex side of the river,

in the vicinity of Vauxhall. Upon that bank the
scheme needs only gradual elongation and develop-
ment. And as it advances along the margin of the
city of Westminster towards its twin city, the
great capital of London—does not the pro-
ject come at its very next move upon
those debris of the old bridge there close by the
Palace of the Legislature—those debris which will
have to be removed from the bed of the river imme-
diately
the new bridge shall have been completed.
And that can be removed nowhere so conveniently
or so advantageously, or even for that matter so
economically as to the contiguous bank of the river,
where it would be most acceptable and serviceable
in carrying out the great project of the Thames
Embankment. Government is willing—even eager
so far as Government can be eager about carrying
out anything—to aid in the development of this
superb metropolitan improvement. The Board of
Works looks upon the scheme with complacency,
and is prepared to lend it not only its coun-
tenance, but to give it the most positive
assurance of its encouragement and appro-
bation. The Chief Commissioner views it in
like manner with cordial approval. The very cor-
poration of the City is most favourably disposed to
this plan of embanking the river—as projectedo
Yesterday, in truth, the City Chamberlain stated
such to be the fact quite explicitly—adding, for the
information of the committee, that a full score of
years back they had actually originated a plan for
the embankment of the river Thames upon both
sides—the very enterprise that now twenty years
afterwards all are bent upon co-operating in the
realisation of !

The information given to the Committee during
the course of yesterday's sitting by Mr. SCOTT, the
City Chamberlain, while in some parts it may
appear to have been somewhat irrelevant, will
undoubtedly prove to the majority peculiarly accept-
able.
It shows that if so much more remains to
do, already much has been actually
lish
in the diversified. labours of carrying out these
grand metropolitan improvements.
accomplished
gouedt
with the production of those three Acts of Par-

liament during the reign of the present Sovereign,
empowering the Corporation of London to borrow
£300,000 for City improvements—the Chamber-
lain of the Corporation showed in round numbers the
manner in which the annual expenditure of the Cor-
poration has been distributed. That expenditure
amounts it is calculated within the year to the ample
sum of £Bo,ooo—a total thus apportioned : to the
magistrates £7,ooo—to the police force from £9,000
to £lO,OOO (one quarter only, however, of this being
disbursed by the City, the remaining three-fourths
being drawn from the Consolidated Fund)—to the
the prisons generally £6,ooo—to Holloway prison
in particular, £5,700—t0 the Debtors Prison,
£5,400—t0 the Coroner, £Boo—for printing, sta-
tionery, and other incidental expenses of a miscel-
laneous kind, £s,ooo—for carrying out the
administration of criminal justice, £B,OOO.
Altogether, as before intimated showing
an annual expenditure of some £BO,OOO
on the part of the Corporation. In addi-
tion to all which, it is satisfactory to note that, as
the City Chamberlain demonstrated yesterday be-
fore the Parliamentary Committee—large sums of
money have been all the while laid out by the
Corporation in the inauguration or development of
divers metropolitan improvements. For example,
there is set down in this way in the City accounts
the goodly sum of £92,000 for the new prison at
Holloway—and another sum for the Debtors'Prison
of £B,ooo—besides the apportionment in all proba-
bility for the new civil courts of an additional sum
of £lO,OOO. An extra sum of £11,600 per annum
being set apart, moreover, for metropolitan im-
provements generally. Beyond which, is there not
on record the contribution to the fund for the con-
struction of the Metropolitan Railway of no less
princely a sum than £200,000 by the City Corpo-
ration ? A contribution proportionately munificent
from the same source we now look for, if only out
of the merest motives of self-interest, in aid of this
grand and in many respects most desirable of all
metropolitan improvements, the project of the
Thames Embankment.

•We deeply regret to see that on board the .
steamers of the Cunard Line a distinction is still
made among first-class passengers educated
and cultivated ladies, too, founded on the colour of
their skin. How can this be ! Mr. Com-
missioner HILL, the Recorder of Birmingham,
and his friend, Mr. CHAPMAN, have done
well to bring these painful facts before
the British public. When there was general in-
dignation at the manner in which Mr. FREDERIC
DOUGLAS was treated by a captain of the Cunard
line, Sir SAMUEL promised that such thoroughly un-
English practices should never occur again—yet it
seems Mrs. PUTNAM, a name well-known even
on this side the water, with her whole
party of four, after having taken a first-class ticket,
were not allowed by the captain to dine with the
rest of the passengers, but compelled to go into a
small room by themselves !
The American agent offered to refund them their
money if they did not like it ! but circumstances
compelled them to proceed. We almost question
whether the captain and the agent would not be
held legally bound to furnish like accommoda-
tion to all—that they were morally bound no
one can doubt. The subject ought to be men-
tioned in the House of Commons. Sir S.
CUNARD is now receiving from the national exche-
quer an enormous subsidy for a service which others
would undertake without a subsidy at all. His
vessels sail also under an official flag. Is it fair
that to gratify the prejudices of Americans in re-
gard to colour—prejudices so disgusting we may
truly say to all England, the receiver of such a
large amount of public money should please
Americans to the grief and shame of the
nation which pays him. All English ships
are, legally, a " part of the territory" of the coun-
try they sail from, and in that country the slave who
steps ashore is free, and the coloured man is treated
as an equal—as a man and a brother. Especially
must all the world look on ships in the Govern-
ment service as part of English territory—and
England may reasonably expect that the noblest
privileges of the country shall be respected there.
We trust Sir SAMUEL CUNARD will no longer
allow his country to be dishonoured by truckling
to bullying, slavery men, in the otherwise noble
line of ships which he has created.

PORTRAIT OF H.R.H. TEE PRINCE OF WALES,

Mr. John Watkins, the eminent photographer, of Par-
liament-street, had the honour of attending at Buckingham
Palace this morning, and taking several sittings of his
Royal Highness the Prince of 11 ales, prior to his departure
for Canada.

Major-General the Hon. It. Bruce, Governor of the
Prince of Wales, also sat to Mr. Watkins, by whom por-
traits of Earl St. Germans an•] Major Teesdale, C. 8., had
been previously taken; thus completing a series of photo.
graphs of the gentlemen who will officially accompany the
Prince of Wales on his visit to the United States.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Last night an Ita-
lian
version of Weber's fairy opera, " Oberon," was pro-
duced with a very powerful distribution of the dramatis
persona, and great splendour of scenery, costume, and stage
accessories. Mademoiselle Titiens, Madame Alboni, Signor
Mongini, Signor Belart, Signor Evarardi, and other emi-
nent singers were included in the cast. Mr. Benedict
directed the orchestra. The house was crowded, and the
opera entirely successful.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—
Her Majesty, accompanied by H.R.H. the Prince Consort,
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness the
Princess Alice, H.R.H. the Prince Arthur, and the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg, honoured the Royal Italian Opera, Co-
vent-garden, with their presence last evening. Her Ma-
jesty's suite included the Countess:of Caledon, Hon. Horatia
Stopford, Lord de Tabley, Gen. Grey, Col. the Hon. C. H.
Hardinge, Major Elphinstone, and Captain Grey. The
entertainment consisted of Gluck's opera of "Orfeo e Euri-
...

dice," performed, according to the announcements, by the
express desire of the Queen. Mdlle. Csillag was loudly
applauded, and the whole opera appeared to afford great
gratification to the Royal party, as well as to the audience
in general.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE HON. JAMES STUART
WORTLEY.—It will be in the recollection of our readers
that this gentleman accompanied Lord Elgin's embassy to
China in an official capacity. He was on board the Malabar
when that vessel was suddenly wrecked in the Galle har-
bour, and with his noble chief was among the last who left
the ;hip. He bad previously one of his boxes broken open
and robbed during the Overland route, and now the remnant
of his portable property is at the bottom of the sea, with
Lord Elgin's orders, papers, and credentials.

We regret to announce the death, at Dresden, of
Sir George Bowyer. He succeeded on the death of his
father, Admiral Sir George Bowyer, to two titles—one con-
ferred on Sir Wm. Bowyer, of Denham-court, Bucks, in
1660, for services during the Civil War and at the Restore-
ration ; and the other granted to Admiral Bowyer, after
Lord Howe's victory on the Ist of June, 1794, in which
engagement he was severely wounded. The deceased
baronet formerly represented the boroughs of Malmesbury
and Abingdon, and was a friend and supporter of Pitt and
Canning. By his wife—daughter of Sir Andrew Snape
Douglas, who was captain of Lord Howe's flagship the
Queen Charlotte, and also severely wounded at the victory
on the Ist of June—he leaves three sons and two daughters.
He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son,
the member for Dundalk, now Sir George Bowyer, of Rad-
ley—park, Berks.
RETIREMENT OF MR. BINGHAM.—A severe and
somewhat sudden attack of indisposition, last week, has
induced Mr. Bingham, the senior magistrate at the Marl.
borough-street Court, to send in his resignation. Mr.
Bingham, before he was' appointed to the Metropolitan
Bench, occupied a respectable and a rising position at the
bar. He was the legal reporter to the Common Pleas, and
" Bingharn'e Reports" continue to maintain a high autho-
rity with the judicial bench. His practice was on the
Western Circuit, and he was for some years Recorder of
Southampton and Portsmouth. About 20 years ago Mr.
Bingham was made one of the metropolitan magistrates,
taking his seat at 'Worship-street, from which court about
14 years back he was removed to Marlborough-street Police
Court. In retiring into private life Mr. Bingham carries
with him the esteem and respect of all with whom his pub-
lic position brought him in contact, for thorough upright-
ness and indefatigable exertions as a magistrate, acknow-
ledged ability as a lawyer, and undeviating kindness of dis-
position. His successor is not yet named.
The liabilities of Messrs. Smith and Patient and
Messrs. J. H. Smith and Co., whose failure in the leather
trade was notified on Monday, are respectively stated to be
£lBO,OOO and £200,000. The additional stoppages an-
nounced are Messrs. W. and C. Mundy, for £70,000 ; Mr.
Hacker, for about £30,000 or £40,000 ; Mr. A. Waring,
for about £30,000 ; Mr. T. H. Mortimore, of Andover, and
Mr. Gibson, of Godalming. The books of the latter, whose
liabilities are estimated at £140,000, and also those of J. H.
Smith and Co., have been placed in the hands of Quilter
and Co.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25.12}
per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng-
lish Mint price of £3 17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the
price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange on
London is 13.34 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the
English Mint price is therefore about 1-10th per cent.
dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is 109 i to 1094 per cent., which, when compared with the
Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex-
change is slightly in favour of England • but, after making
allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest,
the present rate leaves a very trifling profit on the importa
tion of gold from the United States.
THE WEATHER.—Since Friday there has been a
most agreeable change in the weather, and the appearance
of the country already exhibits the blessings resulting from
the change. The glass has gradually risen and settled at
" fair," and the sun yesterday was bountiful in its heat.
On Saturday a great deal of grass was cut in the neighbour-
hood of Plymouth, and hay making will become very ge-
neral here in the course of this week. We passed through
many corn fields yesterday, and the wheat generally looked
as if it were uninjured, and if the fine weather continue it is
hoped that no harm will have been done. The plough will
now be set to work for the sowing of swedes, &c., much
work having been delayed by the incessant wet that has so
long prevailed.—Daily Western Mercury, Plymouth.
REMARKABLE WEATHER.—Mr. E. J. Lowe, of
Highfield-house Observatory, says :—" It is desirable to
place upon record the extraordinary weather of June, 1860.
On only seven days did the thermometer in shade reach 70
deg., the maximum heat for the month being 73.5 deg.—a
great contrast to June, 1858, when it was 92.2 deg., or
181 deg. higher. Previously the lowest maxima have
occurred in 1843 and'lBs2, when the temperature reached
77 deg., or 3.5 deg. higher than in June, 1860. On refer-
ring to Mr. Glaisher's tables of temperature for June, it
will be found that at Greenwich the temperature was lower
in 1797 and 1821 by half a degree, and in 1852 by three-
quarters of a degree. The mean temperature of June at
Greenwich, from observations commencing in 1771 is 58.0
deg., while the mean here for June, 1860, was only 55.0
deg. June has been, moreover, unusually rainy, and,
although the amount fallen here has been less than in most
other places, the whole amount is half an inch above the
average. Raine fell on no less than 26 days. In 1852 and
1853 the amount of rain was greater, but, as the excess fell
in violent thunderstorms, these years are scarcely com-
parable with the month just ended. A change has now
taken place, in the weather, with every appearance of
continuance."
SMITHFIELD MARKET BILL.--This bill as amended
by the select committee, contains a clause providing that a
part of Smithfield-market-place (coloured red upon a plan
deposited at the office of Land Revenue Records) shall be
for ever reserved as an open public place, subject to its use
as a hay-market, and no building shall be erected other than
a fountain and dwarf walls with iron rails not exceeding in
the whole four feet six inches high at the sides of the pro-
posed entrance to a goods station. Several of the neigh-
, bouring streets are to be altered, some widened, some stopped
' up and new ones opened, and Duke-street is to be paved
with wood, if found necessary, on account of the nearness
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The market tolls are to
be a farthing for every 211 b. of provisions, a half-penny
a cwt. for provisions weighed at the owner's request, and
Id. a week per square foot for every shop or stall, which
tolls and the rent for the use of the railway station are to
be applied towards paying the cast of the market, after
which the tolls are to cease, and the rent is to be applied
towards the maintenance and improvement of the market,
which the Corporation have power to enlarge if necessary.
The bill is not to authorise the erection of any slaughter •
house or gas works.
STATE OF THE RIVER THAMES.—At a meeting
of the City Court of Sewers, yesterday, Dr. Letheby re-
ported that the river up to the present time has not been
offensive, and is in its normal condition. This satisfactory
state of things, he says, has evidently been obtained by the
continuance of wet weather. In the month of May last
year the total rain-fall in London was but two inches under
the corresponding months of this year, when it amounted to
3.7 inches. In June last year it was barely two inches, but
in the- three weeks of the last month it has been 4.6
inches. The report goes on state that Dr. M'William,
of her Majesty's Customs, has so recently inquired into
the effects of the river nuisance, and has so clearly shown
that they have not yet produced the injury which was an-
ticipated, that Dr. Letheby considered it unnecessary to
discuss the subject in this report, and he says it is evident,
happily, that some condition is still wanted to make this
" filthy river capable of generating cholera, or of forming a
soil fit for the germination of the seeds of that disorder
when introduced into it." But this is no argument for the
neglect of sanitary precautions or for disregarding every
means for abating She noisome condition of the river ; nor is
it a reason for temporising with the mischief by resorting
to any doubtful expedient that may merely serve as a dis-
guise for a nuisance.
CANCER HOSPITAL, LONDON.—The annual meet-
ing of the governors of this charity took place on Friday,
the 22d inst., in the board-room of the hospital, 167, Pic-
cadilly. Upon the motion of Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr.
Oliver Farrar, the brother of the treasurer to the hospital,
Mr. Wm. Loxham Farrar, was voted into the chair. Many
friends of the institution were present; amongst others,
Captain W. King Hall, Mr. Halswell, Dr. Marsden, Mr.
David Mocatta, Mr. Win. Withall, Mr. Hannah, Mr.
Weedon Cooke, Mr. Hinchliff, Rev. J. B. Owen, Dr. Knox,
Mr. Alexander Marsden &c. Thesecretary (Mr. Cockerill)
read the annual report, which showed that the institution
was prospering. Her Majesty had graciously contributed
£lOO to the hospital, and many of the city firms and com-
panies had presented £5O each. An effort has recently
been made to enable the committee to complete the build-
in., the first stone of whi eh was laid by Miss Burdett Coutta
last June, and who has also been a most liberal contributor
to the hospital. The first part of the building now erected,
but not yet finished, will accommodate 60 patients ; but
there is ground enough attached to provide for an extension
of wards sufficient to accommodate 300 patients. Since
the foundation of the hospital in 1851, upwards of 3,500
poor persons have been received either as in or out-patients;
and we have no hesitation in saying that this is one of the
most useful and meritorious institutions of the metropolis,
assuaging the misery of multitudes that have hitherto had
little if any help from the hand of the benevolent, usually
so warmly extended towards the suffering.— Court Journal.
It was Napoleon's marriage in particular against
which Jerome declared himself loudly, and for this reason
ho never, up to his dying hour, was fully reconciled with
k the Empress. It does not appear to be in the nature of
ladies, at least not of Spanish ladies, to pardon such little
mistakes. On the other band, Jerome evinced great fond-
ness for his daughter-in-law, the Princess Clotildo of Sar-
dinia, who many a time had to become the mediator be-
tween him and hi 3 nephew. Perhaps had he not been
such a very necessary ornament of the imperial throne, it
would have fared ill in latter times with the ex-King of
Westphalia, for his ill-humour sometimes got the better of
hie judgment, and he allowed himself to say things to his
Mends over the table, which no other man in France would
have dared whispering. All things considered, I do not
think the Emperor is very sorry for the loss of his old
uncle, valuable though he was to him aka piece of histori-
cal furniture. It is true, Jerome Bona-
parte was not a great man in the stricter sense of the word;
yet he had, nevertheless, some of the spirit of the family in
him, and was possessed of more atility, and even geniality,
than the world in general has given him credit for. It
was his misfortune, in more than one respect, that he had
such an all-domineering brother, who not only made the
whole of the members of his family the tools of his political
desires, but even interfered in their most intimate private
cencerns. There is little doubt but that he loved hisyoung
American wife most sincerely, and was beloved no less in
return : and their forcible separation by the powerful arm
of Napoleon brought nothing but misery to both. The
succeeding career of Jerome came to be what in nine cases
out of ten is the ordinary result of such a calamitous break
of life's golden hopes ; Jerome grew careless and dissipated,
and finally took to the bottle.--Paris Correspondent of the
Ceto t .4Yetc6.