The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-14 00:00:00

CO WES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-July 13.

[FRO* OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
At the general meeting of the members of the
Royal Yacht Squadron, on Saturday, July 10, at
their new club-house (Cowes Castle), the following
members were present :—Commodore the Eafl of
Wilton (in the chair) ; Vice-Commodore, C. R. M.
Talbot, Esq., M.P. • the Duke of Rutland, the
Marquis of Bath, ;llenry Thorold, Esq., Lord
Godolphin, Sir A. Bannerman, Bart., Spencer do
Horsey Esq., Capt. IL U. Smith Barry, G. R.
Duff, Esq., Earl of Dalkeith, Lord Otho Fitz-
gerald, Duke of Leeds, E. N. Elaryey, Eq., W.
B. Ponsonby, Esq., Lord Colville, Lord Valle, C.
Lee, Esq., Le Marchant Thomas Albert Ham-
brough, Esq., Chas. Leslie, Esq., M.P., H. B.
Baring, Esq., M.P., George Bentinck, Esq.
The following members wei e elected :—W.
Hal-
Cosway, Esq., Sir Gilbert East, Bart., Henry
J. Adeane, Esq., M.P., Philip L. Powys, Esq.,
' Philip Percival, Esq.
Horace Hamond, Esq., H.B.M. CJusul, Cher-
bourg, was elected an honorary member.
The following alterations were made in the jl
R. Y. S. Regatta, consequent on her Majesty's in-
tended departure for Cherbourg :—Monday, Aug.
2d, H.R.H. the Prince Consort's Cup to be sailed
for ; Tuesday, Aug. 3d, the R.Y.S. Dinner ; Wed-
nesday, Aug. 4th, her Majesty's Cup to be sailed
for—the R.Y.S. Ball in the evening ; Friday, Aug.
sth, H.I.M. the Emperor Napoleon's Cup to be
sailed for.
All the yachts of the squadron are to assemble
and sail from Cowes for Cherbourg on Thursday
with her Majesty.
Arrivals, July 11th—Zoe, the Earl of Yarbo-
rough, from Gibraltar ; July 10—Amazon, Sir J.
B. Walsh, Bart., from the Western ports ; July
13—Chesapeake, Joseph Gee, Esq., Guernsey.
The Marquis Conyng,ham arrived here on Mon-
[ day, and his lordship's yacht came into the road-
I stead to-day (Tuesday).

M. ALEXANDRE DUMAS, Marquis de PAILLE-
TERIE, has found his match.after all ! Not in
the person of Mr. G. P. R. JAMES, with his
modest contribution of from 100 to 200 Bvo.
volumes—ranged (quite as a small library in
themselves) among the treasures of imaginative
literature. Not, for that matter, indeed, in the
instance of any novelist whomsoever. -AL&X-
ANDRE DuarAs Pere has found his rival at last,
his superior, his undoubted vanquisher, in the
person of a popular English Dramatist. We
must never have any more vaunting in reference
to those colossal and portentous stage effects pro•
duced by the great feuilletonist through histrionic
productions extending through fifteen acts, and
requiring a series of nights for the purpose of
completing their consecutive performance. Mr.
BUCKSTONE has, by one extraordinary feat, effectu-
ally extinguished the glory by eclipsing all the
many past, and some of them prodigious, suc-
cesses of the Marquis de PAILLETERIE. What
' does M. DUMAS the Elder think of One Dramatic
Triumph requiring for its completion, not a single
week, but Five Years consecutively ? This un-
paralleled histrionic performance, in Five Great
Acts, has, !,in simplest truth, been but just now
brought:to a close triumphantly. The precise date
of its completion, indeed, was the night of
Saturday last, the 10th of July, 1858—the exact
locality in which this peaceful victory was achieved
being the stage of the Little Theatre of the Hay-
market. The incident we do honestly conceive
to be one in every way so entirely without pre-
cedent, that we are solicitous to direct to it here,
through our leading columns, the particular at-
tention of the public at large, if only in grateful
tribute to one who has catered so well for the gene-
ral amusement, and of unaffected admiration for
the skill with which he accomplished a success in
every way so remarkable.
Mr. BUCKSTONE'S management certainly marks
are, epoch in the Haymarket. Already it has ac-
complisbed far more than this—it has effected a
triumph in every way so entirely without a
parallel that it serves of itself to repudiate effectually
the old calumnious notion about the Decline of the
Drama. Upon this subject, in truth, Mr.
BUCKSTONE was himself sufficiently outspoken in
the facetious and sparkling harangue with which
he brought his five years' season to a close on
Saturday evening last so very pleasantly. Nothing, LADY BULWER LITTON.—We are informed on the
best authority, that All matters in reference to this lady,
indeed, could well have been more genial, more i
about whom paragraphs have appeared in some of the
neighbourly, or, in every respect, more magnani- public journalP, are iu process of amicable settlement,
mous, than his complimentary allusion to the other by family arrangements, to the satisfaction of all parties
. concerned.
leading theatres of London, each under its exist- In the matter of Messrs. Calvert and Cot.t,ohtethh duedd
Manager (Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER), so far from
egerjoudeng•
ing management • among others, to the Adelphi toeut delivered by Mr. Com Missioner Evans in the Court
of Bankruptcy, refusing a certificate upaoist
that the evi,:ence was not eatis.ac.orY
bankruptcy that he is actually engaged in rebuild-
elrte‘dviateir:n,
1'717 t (tin affirmed
e
having been signed by fix.seirenths of the
yesterday
ing his theatre from the foundations—to the
Princess's Manager (Mr. CIIARLES KEAN), with sent themselves before the c, ointuissioner again with fresh
the hitherto undreamt-of splendour of his various ev'Lld'uel'eePerce o biryerthtehaitjotrhdespjeutsittiCineers can pr:-
GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
Shaksperian representations. And now, side by is about 2 per mile discount, and the short exclianF,:e on
side with these facts, disproving so very signally London is ..5.02!, per 1/. sterling. On 08mPari"F these
rates with the Die,lish Mint price of ;.i/. 17,'. 10;21. per
‘44 babble about the decline of the drama, the ounce for standard gold, it apdears that gold is wady
1-10. r r .I),rig thin in Lon3on.uall,:
conclusion of this enormous :wawa of Live yeat6'
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duration at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. 1
Such, according to literal matter of fact, wt s sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint pr
08 is,
therefore, a',out 3-10.1 as per cent. dearer in London than
the wonderful performance, in Five Grand Acts, in
Hamburg. The course of exchange at New Y, rk on
brought to a triumphant conclusion on Saturday London far bills at 60 days' eight h
is 1091 to 1091. per
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evening, and then virtually announced, or we are cbent
showsewnhtihcle.,twwohecneucnomirreasredwit h
that Mttbi t
exchangerr lo
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much mistaken, "for repetition" by the Auth( r about at par ; and after making allowance for charges
of it : an Author who —more accuratel than of transport and difference of interest, the prevent rate
y
leaves no profit on the importation of gold from the
Captain ABSOLUTE-..-is really, in point of fact, as United States.

THE QUEEN'S SQUADRON FOR CHER-
BOURG'.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 13.
Orders have been promulgated this day by the
Lords of the Admiralty, on the command of the
Queen, for the assembling of a squadron forthwith
at this port to attend her Majesty to Cherbourg on
her forthcoming visit to the Emperor and Empress
of the French at that great naval rendezvous. This
squadron will consist of six sail of the line, six
frigates, and a flotilla of the Queen's and the Ad-
miralty's steam yachts, comprising the following,
the whole under the command of Admiral Lord
Lyons, with Rear Admiral Sir C. H. Fremantle as
second in command :
Royal Albert, 121, Capt. the Hon. Francis Eger-
ton, flag of Vice-Admiral of the White the Right
Hon. Edmund Lord Lyons, Commander-in-Chief ;
Hannibal, 91, Capt. H. Chads, flag of Rear-Admiral,
of the Red Sir Charles Howe Fremantle ; Bruns-
wick, 81, Capt Ommanney; Orion, 91, Capt D'Eyn-
court ; Renown, 91, Capt. Forbes ; Cresar, 91,
Capt. Frederick ; the . Euryalus, 51, Capt. Tarle-
ton, C.B. ; the Arrogant, 47, Capt. Heath, C.B. ;
the Diadem, 32, Capt. Moorsom, C. B. ; the Cura-
cog, 31, Capt. T. M. Mason ; the Racoon, 22, Capt.
Paynter ; the Terrible, 21, Capt. Glasse, C.B. ;
the Valorous, 16, Capt. Aldham ; the Victoria and
Albert, Capt. the Hon. J. Denman ' • the Fairy Royal
tender, Mr. D. N. Welch, master, R.N. ; the Elfin
Royal tender, Mr. A. Balliston, master, R.N. ;
the Osborne miralty yacht, Mr. G. H. K. Bower,
master, R.N. ; the Black Eagle Admiralty yacht,
Mr. J. E. Petley, master, R.N. ; the Fire Queen
Admiralty yacht, Mr. W. F. Paul, master, R.N..;
the Sprightly steam tender, Mr. George Allen,
acting master, R.N.
It is by her Majesty's express wish and command
that Admiral Lord Lyons commands in chief this
squadron of honour, for which duty the Royal
Albert, carrying his lordship's flag, arrived at Spit-
' head this afternoon.