The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-03 00:00:00

LITERATUBE.

Tales from Zloliere's Plays. By Dacre Barrett
Lennard. Chapman and Hall. do for
In this work the author has attempted Charles
the great French comic dramatist what
Lamb did for Shakespeare. The task la a more
arduous one, and the achievement has scarce/
been equally successful. Great allowances must,
however, be made, for the extreme difficulty of re'
producing the Frenchman's sparkling *wit ana
broad humour in so different a tongue and in an
altered form_ Nevertheless, despite its deficieneisif
the translator has given a fair outline of each 1)1E91
and the care with which he has revised the dir
logue renders it a very suitable work for young
persons, giving them a good idea of these cel6;
brated plays without any of the objections Oil
might attend the perusal of the original.

Is it not Written? By E. S. Pryce, A.B. Sol'til

and Elder.
This work consists of a summary of the testitnoll
of Scripture against the doctrines of the RO,.
Catholic Church. It makes a full examination ill,"
various disputed texts and doctrines, and eonsite
the various explanations brought forward by
Romanist, the Rationalist, and the Protestant.
is written with much care and moderation, and vrrn
afford a valuable assistance to those who wish "
examine into the relative doctrines.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disr
received at dinner on Saturday, at their residence, GreA;
venor-gate, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and
Countess Bernstorff, the Earl and Countess of Eglintell]
the Earl and Countess of Portarlington, General and Laii
Alice Peel, Sir John and Lady Pakington, Sir Antb°l ei
and Lady de Rothschild, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl
Powis, Viscount Exmouth, and Mr. Win. Legh, M.P.
WINDSOR, April 2.—This afternoon, at 4.30 pill
her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales,
Royal Family, with their distinguished visitors and erg 2.7
arrived at the Windsor station of the Great Western rw";
way, having left Paddington at 3.55 p.m. The royalPP;(
were received by a guard of honour of the 2d battalion
Grenadier Guards, under the command of Col. Burrardi
colours being borne by the Hon. C. J. Eliot. As the OS
carriages passed up Castle street her Majesty was agr:,
saluted by the Windsor and Eton Rifle Volunteers.
Court will remain at Windsor about a fortnight.
LYCEUM THEATRE.--We understand that i
-ty
theatre has been taken from the Ist of May next until, to
return of Madame Celeste, by M. Laurent, sen., one (o,,si
most judicious and experienced entrepreneurs of 00 70
fir a French company, for the performance of operetts!_mi
vaudevilles. The names of several of the most distingturdei
artistes of the principal Paris theatres have been menti„du-
to us as forming. part of th-i corps, amongst theta
Faure and others, already established favourites Wilde
London audience, and no doubt can be entertained byrty
who know the energy and ability of M. Laurent thao_dr
enterprise will deserve the highest success, and the ben
port of "every man and woman of good taste," as OPiO
said on another subject, "to whom the French langl!;00
familiar." At the termination of IK. Laurent's 01;10
Madame Celeste will resume the reins of government
period of years.
THE HARWICH ELECTION.—An arrangement r.
been concluded between the Conservative candidates. 1,0
Crookshank will give way to Colonel Rowley, 341°1091,
pledges of support from many electors who polled fah,
*the previous election. There is a complete disagree t
among the three Liberal candidates. Between the tasrool
fluential supporter a of Mr. J. D. Thompson and Mr. me/
Liberals, there are serious differences, and neither of Ile
gentlemen is likely to retire in favour of the other.,"
Montagu Chambers' friends state they are confidente'tit
cess from his favourable reception among them reniottr,
and believe that a retirement of the other Liberal can °w,
will be effected in his favour. The Liberals are very.atto'
that their candidates may agree as to which shall e"
the borough, a party contest appearing certain. utile,
MARCH OF THE GUARDS.—This day, the Poolio•
hold infantry of Foot Guards changed quarters as fa., Pr
—Grenadier Guards-Ist Battalion, from WellingteWook
racks to Portman-street and the Magazine; 2d Da!
from Windsor to St. George's Barracks ; 3d"Battalle itele
main at Dublin. Coldstream Guards---Ist Battalion, iron
Portman-street to Wellington Barracks ;2d Battalion' f.st'
the Tower to Windsor. Scots Fusilier Guards---1,00
talion, at the Wellington Barracks; 2d Battalion.' toor
George's Barracks to the Tower of London. Tillefeoo
proceeded to Windsor by the South Western Rail
London, and return by the same conveyance.
THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON'S METROP,' •e"
TA.BERNACLE.—A numerously attended public anestilifri,
held last evening in New Park-street Chapel; the bt6,
pose of hearing a statement as to the progress °' t
ing fund for the erection of the great metropeWan
sa
nacle for the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, now in progreseas, .1 •
adopting measures to obtain additional subscriptoio
meeting was presided over by Mr. Spurgeon, wh,,eti'lartoisot
lated those present on the success which had oP
tended this great work. Since they met in the 'Lea vets
ot
year, he was happy to say that they had
much as a congregation. They could now ntla fon i),tn,
1,500 church members, and he had no doubt th,!:„ersitt;#
tiey had the new tabernacle opened and in hpuji-vg Zoe
they would have over 3,000. When the lioru..,a
finished, it would comfortably seat 5,000 pe sra'der.
Exeter-hall would contain but at most 3,0000. Zmtri,
chapel there was a school-room capable,
tirieusecrefp
1,500 Sunday school children. Mr' C°" to therbee°
read a statement of the building fund uPc__ ha, to
incremafer obfa
time, from which it appeared that there 'r{"_...onatiep
received £18,904 18s. 2d. the donation aws
_e„h
after sermon Pre Td..,
£9,950 Os. 6d., the collections
s 3 Go 'fi 4
tb
different churches by Mr. Spurgeon to , DeterEx
and
t
£BBl 7s. Bd. The eavendi ~_at 0
~c,
'te being L 5,100 of to.
18s. 2d., the land for the si
00 • but as '"" coil 'to
Surrey Hall fund to £3,294 ss. 4d..,t anedbtandebeen
oixie; tos
that there was still in hand. £B,O hai 0
_ to make up a sum..
forbee
been
hpeaipaidbuilding, they
ey
000 of that having Day'e rein';
complete the erection-1,2, . making uPlie,tro
condition of the congregation he
wised, on condi
addressed by Di 0
The meeting was then a handeu
sums. was 120,000, £4,000 of wni u_f 0,0„41
had still k
courseSt ov el aofn di t others, r s,and
considerablysubs c,overrpt subscriptions were