The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 24, Two o'clock.—The market is
0r 2
d2,OEf .
sompte 20f., at
more animated, but offers prevail. The discount
list comprises 37,500 Three per Cents. and 5,000 f.
Italian Rentes. Threes are 68f. 72ic., with a de-
cline of 'lie. ; Fives of 15c., at 49f. 25c.
Credit Mobilier shares have fallen 12f. 50c., at 322 f.
C Credit Foncier
2
505.,
cf.; Satpain,i3sl7lollfl.o;bilcieormspft., at
730 f.; Gas shares 5f., at 1,545 f. ; and Immobiliere
6f. 25c., at 162 f. 50c. Railway shares are likewise
offered at a loss of about sf.

Three o'clock.—The market has remained dull to
the close, which is as follows
4} per Cents 99 75
Du. end mouth —
3 per Cents. 6B 75
Do. end mouth 6B 74
Credit Mubilier
Do. end month
Credit Fonder
Do. end month 1363

Bank Shares 3350
Italian Loan 49 20
Do. end month 49 25
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds. —
.14kish Threes
11-mho Debt —
Deferred

HAILW itYB.
For Account.
Orleans 876 23
Northern 1147 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 875
ci7 50
Southern -
Western
r 36 Z.. 71
Eastern
Sardinian ................... .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain —
Saragossa ...... g 5 _
73 7U
Roman.

THE CRETAN INSURRECTION.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23.

The Ottoman Legation at Athens telegraphed
yesterday to the Porte announcing the evacuation
of the Sphakia district by the insurgentg, and its
complete occupation by the [teperial troops. The
whole island is sail to have submittel.

A solemn funeral mass was performed here this
morning, accompanied by the firing of minute guns,
for the repose of the soul of the
Emperor Maxi-
milian.

The following
official despatch has been received
from Athens, dated the 92d inst. :
,4 the Imperial troops completely occupy Sphakia,
and the insurgents have evacuated the district in
disorder. The whole island has given in its sub-
mission to the Imperial authorities." .

The following official despatch has been received
from Omar Pasha, dated Sphakia, July 18 :
" Our soldiers, after two fights, have routed the
insurgents,
an—d
occulied the heights of Calikratie
and Sfendo, and, after securing possession of those
mountains and the villages of the same name, they
proceeded across the plain of Askifo, where they
effected their junction with the corps which came
from Apocoron, crossing the defile of Gfappi. The

BELFAST, July 23.--Flax :—Rather an increased
supply was exposed for sale in the various markets
of this province throughout the past week ; an
animated demand continues to prevail, especially for
the better descriptions ; prices remain firm and un-
changed. Yarns :—Very little improvement has
taken place for home consumption, orders for ex-
port were not numerous, nor to a large extent.
Stocks have rather increased, save in some few num-
bers of line wefts. Prices generally are unchanged ;
still the tendency is downwards. Ilandloom linens
(brown) :—Save for the superior descriptions of
cloth for dyeing and Hollands, medium and fine sets
of linen handkerchiefs and cambric handkerchiefs, a
total absence of all animation has existed for all
other goods in this department. Powerloom linens
have also been neglected, except roughs, some manu-
facturers being oversold at full rates. Dr_ills and
damasks have also been in moderate request.
Bleached and finished linens were not much iu re-
quest for home account. A moderate amount of
business was transacted on continental account.
The business done on American account was com-
paratively trifling, Stocks cannot be said to have
increased ; prices are without change.

AWFUL. VISITATION AT THE STRAND THEATRE.—
' Last night Mr. S. F. Lang,ham, the deputy coroner
for Westminster, hold an inquest at King's College Hos-
pital on the body of Mr. William Simpson, aged forty
years. Mr. Tom Surridge, licensed victualler, and pro-
prietor of the Black Horse Tavern, Coventry-street, Hay-
ma, ket, said that he had known the deceased for several
years. He was a man that used to bring information to
persons interested in proceedings on the turf. He was last
seen alive by witness between eleven and twelve o'clock
ou Friday morning last, when ho appeared to bo in good
health. Deceased was then quite sober, and he never
drank in the morning. William Edinburgh said that
he was the fireman at the Strand Theatre. On Friday
evening, about ton minutes past eight o'clock, he
heard a disturbance in the gallery, and after making
his way there he found the deceased in a fit. Witness
assisted to get hint out to the steps of the theatre, when
he recovered, Lot whc n he reached the street he had an-
other fit, and the police had him put in a cab and conveyed
to the above hospital. Police-constable Redford proved
going in the cab to the Losrital with the dtceastd. He was
then alive. Witness found Os. and a pocket book upon
him. Mr. ShingLam Smith, house physician, said that
he saw the deceased about 9on Friday night. He
appears like a man fast recovering from an epileptic fit.
He was attended to, but died in a very short time after
admission. The post-rnoltem examination proved that
deceased's kidneys were double the size than usual. The
brain was softened. The liver was tolerably healthy. The
state of the kidneys would produce the fit. Verdict—
Death from disease of tae kidneys.
A DISPUTED BET. —A case which has excited
some interest in Belfast was laid before the stew-
ards of the Down 'llia Corporation Races last week.
About two months before the Derby a person called
upon a well-known bookmaker iu Belfast, and asked the
price of Hermit for the Derby, on behalf of a gentleman
who had commissioned him to make the inquiry. The
price was stated to be 10 to 1, and, on being informed that •
the money was good enough, the bookmaker entered the
bet of .£5OO to .£5O, and a receipt for the £5O, marked
unpaid" was given. We believe there is no dispute
that there was sent a short time before the race to the
bookmaker a cheque for £5O by hand, and there is also no
dispute as to the fact that the cheque was not offered to
the bookmaker previous to the race, although the person
by whom it was sent states that he called at the book-
maker's place of business, and found that he was not at
home, and therefore did not leave the cheque. Hermit as
every one knows, won the Derby, and on the £5OO being
demanded, the bookmaker refused to pay. The question
on the above facts is—was the bet what is known in turf
circles as a " confirmed" bet? No doubt, had the book-
maker thought it was, and been put in possession of the
£5O, ho could, if the horse did not answer his book, have
made eight or ten times as much by backing the horse' a
week before the race, as ho stood to lose over the bet men-
tioned. This is a very fair argument in the bookmaker's
favour. On the other hand, there is the argument that
the bet was booked, though the money was not paid. The
case was brought before the stewards of the Down Royal
Corporation Meeting, who sat with closed doors, although
the defendant, as the bookmaker may be called, requested
that the Press should be present, as he said ho did not
acknowledge that the stewards of the Maze Meeting had
any power in the matter, and he wished a full and fair re-
port of the proceedings to bo laid before the Stewards of
the Jockey Club, whose decision ho would abide by. The
stewards, including Lord Downshire, Captain Gray Mr.
Winder, and others, decided on the facts as stated
above
against the bookmaker, and so the matter at present
stands.—Northern Whig.

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT.—Ismail Paella, Re-
cording to the Egypte, as soon as ho arrived in Paris, made
a gift to the Empress of the tree and the ground surround-
ing it under which, as tradition says, the Virgin rested
during the flight into Egypt. Every ono in that country
knows the Virgin's tree. His Highness has enclosed in
small coffer a portion of the earth in which it is planted, a
piece of the bark, and the hodget, or title to the property,
which wore presented to her Majesty,
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—The joint benefit
of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and Mr. John Parry will
terminate the present season at the Gallery of Illustration
on the sth of August. rbe " Dream of Venice " will
then be represented for the 140th time, and will be fol-
lowed by Mr. John Parry's "Merrymaking" and other
entertainments. The occasion of publicly acknowledging
the services of these popular artistes is one:which the
lovers of a refined and, at the same time, animated and
brilliant class of amusement ought not to miss.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.--The select committee
appointed to consider and report on the advisability of
purchasing articles at the Paris Exhibition for the benefit
of British schools of science and art have just issued their
report. They advise that such objects bo bought. as will
be useful to the manufacturing industry of the country.
The committee think that the sum spent should not, under
any circumstances, exceed £25,000, and that no object
should be purchased except such as shall be recommended
by r. commission, consisting of gentlemen distinguished for
their artistic and scientific attainments.

MANSION HousE.—The customary banquet to
her Majesty's Ministers at the Mansion House has been
fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 7th of August, and
the Earl of Derby, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and the rest of the members of the Cabinet, have accepted
invitations from the Lord Nio.yor and Lady Mayoress on
the occasion.

ROYAL HOUTICULTURIL SOCIETY.—The annual
conversazione of the above society took place last evening
at South Keusirgton. The conservatory was thrown open
for the reception of members and visitors at nine o'clock,
and was fitted up iu precisely the same style as on the
occasion of the Sultan's visit on Monday last. Refresh-
ments were served in the corridors. The company sepa-
rated shortly after twelve o'clock.

TUE CATTLE PLAGUE.—III the week ending July
20th only one fresh case of cattle plague was reported. It
occur:el at Long Sutton Crosses, in Lincolnshire. The
animal attacked died, and 22 h.althy cattle were slaugh-
tered to prevent the spread of the disease.
THE Loss OF IiER MAJESTY'S SHIP OSPREY.—A
naval court of inquiry was to assemble at Shuou's Town
on the 19th ult., the day of the mail leaving for England,
to investigate the circumstances under which the Osprey
was wrecked.

BATHING IN REGENT'S PARK.—Sir F. Goldsmid
has written to Mr. Beare, the hon. secretary of the Regent's
Park Bathing Association, to say that the difficulties
which he perceives in the way of proper arrangements for
bathing in R?gent's Park, together with the strong objec-
tions which his neighbours entertain to the project, will
provent hina from assoxiting to it."---Parocleiai Critic.

The Reliques of Father Prone. New Edition.
Complete in One Volume., Bell and Daldy.
Call him how you please—Father Prout, Oliver
Yorke, Francis Mahony--the brilliant wit and ripe
scholar who penned these radiant and racy
" Reliques" had carved out for himself before his
death an unique and enduring niche in the
Walhalla of our national literature. And from that
niche none will ever care to, topple his effigy or oust
his reputation. He has won it. It is there. It
is fairly and securely established. And what is re-
markable about these writings in their very origin, is
this—that they grew up gradually, imperceptibly,
in a manner quite unpremeditatedly, under the
hand of their writer, as a series of occasional
contributions to Fraser's Magazine : contributions
for the most part of a very fragmentary, some few
among them even of an apparently quite fugitive
character. Pleasantries light as air—the merest bub-
bles, so to speak, born of the effervescence of a
sparkling and irrepressible wit—these quite casual
trifles (no better seemingly than so many chance
straws, flies, and so forth) have somehow or another,
after floating loosely down the current of Father
Prout'a fancy, become congealed, embedded, em-
balmed, eternised in the amber of his scholarship.
And here, in this same comprehensive and delightful
gathering together of them all, we have the fun and
frolic, the learned acumen, the incisive irony, the rol-
licking humour, the poignant sarcasm, the exquisite
taste, the eloquence, the erudition, and the scholarly
larking (for after all there is really no other phrase
for it than scholarly larking) of this grog-
swigging, joke-cracking, song-singing, bright-eyed,
mellow-voiced, open-handed, large-hearted, Parish
Priest of Watergrasshill, in the county of Cork,
Ireland—the brogue from whose tongue was only
the more delectably laughter-moving from its having
been flavoured, as it were, by the sufficiently ob-
vious fact of that same tongue having once upon a
time given a lick to the blarney-stone. As to this the
latest " new edition" of Father Prout's " Reliques,"
the volume is, in simple truth, a ne plus ultra. It
has been carefully revised throughout, and —what
is far more—it has been largely augmented. In
the mere embellishment of it, the book is precious,
and one that every possessor will (once having it)
gladly treasure up on his book-shelves. They are
the earliest manifestations (these embellishments)
of the genius of one of the greatest painters
now living, Daniel Maclise, or—(as he might have
been, only that he is understood to have declined
both those proffered honours from the Crown and from
his profession)—Sir Daniel Maclise, President of the
Royal Academy. Scattered through the delicious
letter-press of this volume are one•and-twenty of the
earliest productions of Maclise's pencil—etchings,
many of them, quite perfect in their way as illustra-
tions of character. First and foremost, there is
that wonderful, historical, folding frontispiece,
giving us seven-and-twenty life-like portraitures of
writers in Fraser two-and-thirty years ago—namely,
anno domini 1835. And of which seven-and-twenty
celebrities (seven-and-twenty--that is, including
among them Fraser himself) not more, alas
than six are actually still surviving : those
six being— William Jerdan (once upon a time
one among our own predecessors as Editor of The
Sun newspaper)—Barry Cornwall (otherwise Bryan
Waller Procter, ex-Lunacy Commisioner)— Thomas
Carlyle (then issuing from the press, piecemeal,
" Sartor Resartue")—Harrison Ainsworth (still, to
this day, indefatigably wielding his pen as a popular
roraancist)—Rev. George Robert Gleig (still, as he has
been eversince 1816, the honoured Chaplain-General
of the Forces), and last, not least, of the illustrious
group, Sir David Brewster, the venerable natural
philosopher, to whose ingenuity the world is indebted
for (among other beautiful contrivances) both the
Kaleidoscope and the Stereoscope. All the rest of
that one-and-twenty who two-and-thirty years
igo were feasting with those still surviving
11:x in 1835, at 212, Regent-street., when. Fraser
.-
and his six-and-twenty most famous contri-
butors were pencilled by the hind of young
Daniel Maclise, have, one after another, dropped
2ut of life, lapsing thereupon into so many mere
memories! Among them—Coleridge, Thaekeray,
D'Orsay, Lockhart, Hook, Moir, Hogg, Galt,
Sauthey, Crofton Croker, and Allan Cunningham 1
Side by side, too, on the left hand of Maginn—the
Reverend 'Francis M away and the Reverend
E award Irving—the Catholic Priest and the foun-
der of the Irvingites ! Sir Egerton Beydges, Dun-
lop, Percival Banked, Churchill, Macnish, and Ser-
geant Murphy—completing the catalogue of those
assembled Opposite the cartoon-frontispiece there
is, too, that delightful vignette on the title-
page representing " The first Planting of the
Potato() in Ireland"—Sir Walter Raleigh stand-
ing by as witness of the incident, with a short pipe
of tobacco—a genuine dudheen—between his lips.
A. du lheen—or a clay pipe of any kind for that
matter--being simply, of course, an anachronism—
remembering how tobacco-smoking was first of all
enjoyed by Sir Walter and other early English
smokers through the aid of a straw an I a walnut-
shell, or other such exceedingly primitive devices.
As for the occasional likenesses scattered through
the book, some among them are absolutely wonder-
ful, from their life-like verisimilitude. Instance
this—Sir Walter Scott (p. 51) Kissing the
Blarney Stone—L. E. L. (p. 229) seated on
a moonlit bank with the young artist, Alaclise
himself, reclining at her feet as her lover
—or Bdranger, again, (p. 313) seated tranquilly
with his feet crossed, in quiet meditation. Turning,
however, from the scattered pictures by Maclise to
the affluent letterpress by Prout —what charming
morceaux we 'light upon as we casually turn the
pages ! Foremost among them Mahony's own
choicest metrical masterpiece, those melodious " Bells
of Shandon," the music of which rings charmingly
to us from the distance of the past, and will con-
tinue so to ring on, charmingly, down the lengthen-
ing perspective of the future. Then, too, those
inimitable " Rogueries of Tom Moore"—as, for
example—
Lesbia hath a beaming eye,
But no one knows for whom it beameth ;
Right and loft its arrows fly,
But what they aim at no one dreameth, Sco.
Translated thus by Prout—
Lesbia semper hint of inde
Oculorum tela, movit;
Captat omnes, sed delude
Quis ametur nemo novit, Jce.
Or, again :

"Go where glory waits thee, &e."
Translated thus:—
" va cat la gloire t'invite ;
Et quand d'orgueil palpite
Ce occur, qu'il pense lb moi, &c."
Or, yet again :

" Wreathe the bowl
With flowers of soul, &c."
Translated thus :

Ireliewl.ctv OVV KvreXXov

Tots avecizotol qtvxtir.
There is one peculiarity about these really astonish-
ing feats of scholarship, wit, and poetry combined,
that has always seemed to,,us very noticeable in-
deed in Father Prout's [or as he ought rather to
have been known, as in propria persona in Father
Mahony's] instance as a Master-Philologist, that he
was, as a rule, at his best, far rather when translating
from English into another language—Greek, Latin,
French, Italian, what you will—than when trans-
lating into English.fro:n those lang iage.s, ai in the in-
stance, let us say, of o les or lyric. 4 penned by II oracc,
Pindar, B6ranger, Petrarch, &e. Better, for example,
far and away better, that bewildering transference
from Moore to Petrarch of—

"Fly not yet ! the fount that played," &c.
Transformed into—
" 3orero nel mezzo giorno,"
Better that, we say,than any,:even the choicest among
his versions in our vernacular of many priceless gems
from the peerless Ronan Lyrist, or from (in his
school) the no less peerless French Chansonnier ! Still,
what metrical translations there are, too, among
Prout's Songs of Italy, Songs of France, and Songs of
Horace!--with individual lines here and there quite
worthy the bards they affect to come from—

" . . . Jewels five words long,
That on the stretched fore-fiuger of all rime,
Sparkle for ever."
Then, too, what outpourings there are here
of full and frolic in their very revelry and
devilry, one is almost tempted to say ! Where
possibly could we hop to find them more signally

The Duke of Leuchten'oerg and the Prince de
Sayn-Wittgenstein have arrived at the Imperial Hotel,
Torquay. Their yacht, the Verky, is in Torbay.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are en-
tertaining a select party at Kialbolton Castle, Hants, dur-
ing the Huntingdon races.

The Due de Iluescar and the Duchess Louisa
d'Alba and son havo left Claridge's Hotel for Portsmouth.
The Duke de Vallonibrosa has left the Clarendon
Hotel for Paris.

The Marquis and Marchioness de la Fuente y
do Sotomayor and family, and M. J. J. do Osmor, have lei t
Alaurigy's Hotel for Brighton.

Lady Howard de Walden has arrived at Cla-
ridgo's Hotel from Paris.

Funeral of Madame Musurus—This Day.

The funeral of this lamented lady, whose death,
it will be recollected, occurred during the late grand
ball given at the India-office to his Imperial Majesty
the Sultan, took place this day at Mensal-green
Cemetery.

As the deceased was a member of the Greek
Church the solemn rites of interment were con-
ducted in accordance with that form of reli-
gious belief.

Shortly before eleven the illustrious personages ,
invited to take part in the solemn ceremony arrived
at the Embassy, and at half-past eleven the funeral
cortege quitted Bryanstone-square for Welbeck-
street. The attendance comprised nearly the
whole of the corps diplomatic and some of the
members of her Majesty's Government, the
funeral procession being lengthened by the
attendance of an immense number of private car-
Tiages, headed by those of her Majesty and his
Royal Iligliness the Prince of Wales.
Oa the arrival of the procession at the church, his
Excellency took his seat behind a screen on the
right of the altar, his family occupying seats near
the coffin.

The boly of the deceased was placed under a
magnificent catafalque, richly hung with black vel-
vet, ornamented with silver cords, tassels, and
fringe. Around the body were placed a number of
wax candles in massive silver stands, the chapel was
entirely hung with black drapery looped up with
silver cord, and on each side silver entablatures,
the coronet, and the monogram of the deceased
were placed. The altar was richly decorated ac-
cording to the custom of the Greek Church.

A solemn requiem was then performed, at the
conclusion of which the body was removed to a
splendidly ornamented hearse, and the cortege then
proceeded to the cemetery at Kensal-green, where
the remaining portions of the funeral service was
performed.

There was a large attendance of the public as-
sembled at the cemetery, and along the entire lino of

route.

A Correction Corrected.

EPAMINONDAS, THEMISTOCLES, AND PERICLES.
The following bas been addressed to the editor of
the Times :

It was a 'sad slip of Lord Cairns last night to
make out that Epaminondas ruled Athens. He
lived a little after my time, and was better known
at Thebes than in Athenian circles. But are you
quite right in your correction, when you suggest
that his lordship meant Themistocles ? I am not
old enough to remember Themistocles at Athens,
though I well recollect hearing of his death in exile
in Persia when I was a girl in my teens.

The story about " ruling Athens," &c., belongs
neither to Epaminondas, nor to Themistocles (who,
though the head of the most powerful party, and
Premier in his day, can scarcely be said to have
ruled" Athens any more than Mr. Gladstone or
Lord Derby rule England), but to the great Pericles,
whose unworthy relict I am ; and I feel sure that
you will allow his widow to put in a word on behalf
of his memory, as the only man who can be said to
have " ruled" Athens in the strictest and fullest seuso
of the term. I cannot vouch for the exact words used
by my dear departed husband, but, as nearly as I
can remember at this distance of time, they were
said to have been as follows :—" Europe zules the
world, Greece rules Europe, Athens rules Greece,
I rule Athens, Mrs. Pericles rules me, and little
Master Pericles rules his mother ; therefore little
Master Pericles rules the world." Such, at all
events, was the version of the story as told by the
late Dr. Whateley to his pupils at Oxford, when
giving them an example of a fallacy in a Sorites.

Apologising for the length of this communication,
on the ground of a mother's and a widow's feelings
and a woman's volubility,—l am, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, THE GHOST OF ASFASIA.

Athens-villa, Puyx-place, July 24.
P.S.—I am not going to deny that I did rule Perinlol
occasionally, or that my little boy always ruled me.

TEMPORARY LAWS.—A register is annually laid
before Parliament at this season showing what laws ere
temporary and may have to be renewed. The register this
session comprises CO Acts of Parliament. Some of thee°
would ex,.ire before next session unless now renewee•
The Act passed last year relating to the authentication of
copies of depositions produced under the Extradition
Treaties Act expires on the Ist of September; on the saute
day expires the Act of 1863 regulating the use of locomo-
tives on public roads; ou the 31st of December the Act °f
1811 for the completion of a survey of Great Britain ex-
pires ; and of com so the annual Indemnity Act for persons
who have omitted to qualify themselves for certain oflices,
the annual Act for exempting stock-in-trade from poor-
rates, and the annual Act for suspending the ballot for tb°
militia have to bo renewed. The act suspending the
Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland will expire on the Ist of
March. Several acts would expire at :the end of pelt
session unless renewed :—The Poor-law Beard Act, the
Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Act, the Preservation of the
Peace (Ireland) Act. An Act of 1840 for preventing frauds
by weavers, sewers, and other persons employed in the
linen and o her manufactures in Ireland, and for the hotter
payment of their wages, expires in August, 1869.
NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—We are informed
that the Executive of the National Reform Union have de"
termined to hold a large conference in Manchester intlue-
diately after the ReforM Bill has passed the lions° °t
Lords, and also a grand banquet during the autumn!
which the leading Liberals of both Houses of Parliament
will be invited to attend.