The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

the purpose of FREDERICK WILLIAM. He has
a pressing motive for averting the disclosures
that may be made during the stringent in-
vestigations, and, with the usual selfishness of
Princes, hazards the lives of those who so reck-
lessly and foolishly took up arms in his name
and on his behalf.

It obviously could not be tolerated by any de
facto Government, that every idle person should
be allowed to set the law at defiance, and disturb
the tranquillity of the State while asserting the ob-
solete claims of some pretender to the Sovereignty.
The claim of Prussia is, therefore, clearly inadmis-
sible, and cannot bo supported by the Allied
Powers. Should FREDERICK WILLIAM, however,
persevere he will be boldly met. We do not,
however, as already stated, apprehend that he at
all contemplates such extremities—if a little
" bunkerin," as the Yankees term it, can accom-
plish his object there will be plenty of bluster and
swagger; but, if not, he will think twice before he
brings such a nest of hornets about his ears as
Swiss soldiers fighting in defence of the honour
and independence of their fatherland.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge leaves
;own, this morning, for the Camp at Aldershot, to re•
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view the troops at present stationed there.
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The troops

are ordered to march out a little after breakfast.

His H.gimeas Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, Prince of
Lahore, accompanied by Sir John Login, has arrived

at Claridge's Hotel, from a visit to her Majesty, a

Osborne.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady
Cecilia Gordon Lennox, and the Princess Edward of
Saxe-Weimar, leave town, to-morrow, for Goodwood,
for Christmas. His Serene Highness Prince Edward

of Saxe-Weimar, who is at Aldershot, will join the
family circle next week.
The Earl of Cardigan is entertaining a succession of

visitors at Deane Park, near Kettering.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town,

yesterday, for Broadlands, Hants.
Lady Howard de Walden and the Hon. Misses Ellis
arrived in town, at the close of last week, from visiting
the Earl and Countess of Jersey, at Middleton Park,
near Bicester, and have since gone to rejoin his lord-
ship at the British Legation at Brussels.
The Right Hon. Sir Chas. Wood has left his official
residence at the Admiralty, for his seat, Hickleton

Hall, Yorkshire.
Lieut.-General Sir Stephen Lakeman was married on
the Ist inst , at Bucharest, to the Princess Marie de

Philipesco.
The Royal family of Oude visited the Princess's
Theatre on Friday night, to witness the performance of
the " Midsummer Night's Dream."
The Eastern Steam Navigation Company are inviting
enders for the contract of launching their great ship at

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending the 13th December, 1856, is 2,144, of

which 604 were new cases.

THE BOLTON-ON-DEARNE MIIRDERS.—The murder o
Mr. Luke White and Elizabeth hi 3 wife, at Bolton-on

Dearne, is still shrouded in mystery. The perpetrator
of the crime is still undiscovered.

MISS CATHERINE ITAYES.—We regret to announce
that our great and gifted townswoman is suffering from
an indisposition which prevents her appearance in Dub-
lin, as had been arranged.—Limerick Chronicle.
ANOTHER GREAT RAILWAY ROBBERY. Last night

(Monday) information was received at Bow-street of
another most mysterious robbery of a leather box, on
the Coleraine and Londonderry Railway, containing
2,014 gold and silver watches, amounting to upwards of
1,0001. A handsome reward is offered for the apprehen-
sion of the thieves.
DEATH OF R. R.-IWIAT, ESQ.—We have to announce
the decease of this gentleman, formerly so well known
as a delineator of Scotch characters on the stage. His
"Dougal creature," in "Rob Roy," was altogether un-
rivalled. A lairg and very severe illness, extending over
the last two or three years of his life, has at length ter-
minated in death. Mr. 3/Plan expired on Saturday
mcrning, at Heath Mount, Hampstead.
FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE AT LIVERPOOL.—A very

melancholy occurrence took place on Sunday morning at
Liverpool—the destruction of a dwelling house and loss
of two lives, a man named M'Culloch, and his wife, by
fire. The unfortunate event occurred in a place called
Raglan Street, at the north end of the town.
A Court of Common Council was held yesterday, at
which it was agreed that the salary of the new Recorder

should continue at 3,0001. per annum. The report o
the committee appointed to carry into execution the.
formation of New Cannon-street was brought up. It
recommended that the committee should be empowered
to prepare a plan for the appropriation of the " vacant
space" near St. Paul's. The report was agreed to
unanimously, and the Court adjourned.
THE NEW METROPOLITAN CATTLE MAHRET.—Yes-
terday the Lord Mayor, accompanied by Aldermen Sa-
lomon., Challis, and Lawrence, and Mr. H. L. Taylor
(the chairman of the Markets Improvemets Committee),
Mr. De Jersey, Mr. Holt, and other members of
Vae Common Council proceeded upon a visit of inspec-
tion to the New Metropolitan Cattle Market, upon the
occasion of the Grand Christmas Cattle Show. His
lordship expressed his approbation of the improvements
which had been recently made, and of all the arrange.
ments which had been completed fur the comfort and
accommodation of the buyers and sellers.
THE RAILWAY PASS CASE AT LIVERPOOL.—With re-
ference to the report of Monday, the attorney (Mr.
Godfrey) for the defendant requests us to state that the
defendant did not " describe himself as a reporter for
newspapers," which he never was. That at first, as at
last, it was treated as a case of " fare," and the decision
was based on that, the defendant having travelled from
Crewe with a genuine unused, but old and altered (in
time, &c.,) free ticket, which he contended he was
just fled in using, under his correspondence, and he
refused to pay the fare. The correspondence not being
forthcoming, and being ignored, although it has since
been found, and comprises his statement, the adjudica-
tion to pay the fare, &c., followed ; but legal opinion
is that the correspondence justifies ulterior steps, and it
has been submitted to the authorities.
CONCERT AT GRAVESEND.—Mrs. Pyne Galton gave
an excellent operatic and miscellaneous concert last
evening at the Assembly-rooms, Harmer-street, Graves-
end, to a very crowded audience, comprising a large por-
tion of the elite of the town. The first part consisted
of selections from "Ii Trovatore," the principal charac-
ters in this romantic and interesting opera being sus-
tained by Mrs. Galton, Mrs.ltosenthal,the fine baritone,
and Mr. Manley, the well-known tenor, each of whom
not only sang with spirit and feeling, but acted well, and
were warmly applauded. Miss Emma Harrison, a fair
debutante, made a favourable impression in the difficult
but effective song of "Fierce flames are 1ng1e..." At
the conclusion of the operatic entertainments, M. Chace
Lingwood created some sensation by his performances
ala Picco upon a common tin pipe or whistle. The
most prominent pieces in the second part were—a duet
on the organ and piano, by Mrs. Galton and Mr. Beale,
the conductor; the popular duet, "Oh, Maritana," by
Mrs. Galton and gr. Manley ; and a new Christmas
song, entitled "The Mistletoe," by Mr. Rosenthal—all
of which were encored, and some more than once. Miss
Emma Harrison also received an encore in the humorous
and spirited song, " Oh, don't be so angry, Mamma "
This lady has a good soprano voice of considerable com-
pass, but she is more likely to shine in the singing of
ballads than in operatic music. The concert was alto-
gether a superior one of its kind, and deserved to meet
with the success it received from the inhabitants of
Gravesend.
ORIGIN OF TITHES.—Tithe was first received by the
bishop, and distributed by him in three or in four por-
tions ; to himself, to the clergy, for the fabric of the
churches, for the poor. But all kinds of irregularities
crept into the simple anti stately uniformity of this uni-
versal tax and its administration. It was retained by the
bishop ; the impoverished clergy murmured at their
meagre and disproportionate share. As the parochial
divisions became slowly and irregularly distinct and
settled, it was in many cases, but by no means univer-
sally, attached to the cure of souls. The share of the
fabric became uncertain and fluctuating, till at length
other means were found for the erection and the main-
tenance of the Church buildings. The more splendid
prelates and chapters,aided by the piety of kings, barons,
and rich men, disdained the fund, so insufficient for their
magnificent designs ; the building of churches was
exacted from the devotion or the superstition of the
laity in general, conjointly with the munificence of the
ecclesiastics. So, too, the right of the poor to their por-
tion became a free-will contribution, measured by the
generosity or the wealth of the clergy ; here a splendid,
ever-flowing largess ; there a parsiminious, hardly-stricken
dole.—Dean Milnaan's _History of Latin Christianity,
THE POETRY OF LOZMON.—The poetry of London is
in the great brimming waggon of hay, grinding through
the street on bright eisminer mornings, scattering dry
perfume that brings thought of country homes to doleful
men, bleached or sellowed by long imprisonment at
tavern-bars and behind dusty warehouses. It is in the
crystal blocks of ice, like Pitt diamonds grown up, that
are handed down fishmongers' cellars on sharp wint:r
awnings, when men pass muffled and beating their
breasts for warmth—too cold to speak, and too lifeless
to look about them. It lay, in old times, in the dlisty
coach, rolling in from its long course over moor and
common, and green lane, under the dim, low archway of
the city inn, with its rough ostler, ready to criticise the
smoking cattle—and the smart maid servants, in the
galleries above, ready to criticise the passengers. There
is poetry, too, in the rough dusty-footed countryman's first
bewildered stare at the immensity of St. Paul's. Poetry,
scuttling away from the flood of cabs and the torrent of
omnibuses, takes refuge in little nooks in the Temple where
a fountain waves its silver rod, which melts in the sun
and dissolves into a torrent, as if in emulation of the
shining river beyon ; or in the brick archway of Christ's
Church, with its silence and repose ; or nestles in the
green tree in Cheapside, where, as in a cliff over an
t;he the
pinciannoti sry en3spin singing,
,
ocean rooks build and clamour. The sickly geranium,
laittehtein
pale-faced
enchanted
bird of gold,stitching gay shrouds for dead men of rank ; the squalid
children who sell violets and scentless weeds to careworn
arindo
to w
City men ; sham countrymen, with dank bulrushes and
birds' nests that look unreal ; all combine into a picture
rich in poetry—into elegy, ode, even hymn,—Tltorn•
burg's Art and Nature.