The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-19 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 130.

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DEVONPORT ELECTION.—Sir J. Romilly was yes-
terday morning re-elected for Devonport without opposition.
a qurter
ANOTHER EXPLOSION AT THE HOUNSLOW POWDER
Wednesday evening, at
o'clock, another explosion took place about
at Messrs. a
Curtisto six
and
Harvey's Powder Mills Hounslow Beath. The consterna-
tion excited was not allayed until it was ascertained that no
person was killed or injured. During the latter part of the
consequence. In a short time after-
afternoon the lightning was extremely vivid, and the men,
women, and children, of whom there are nearly 20)
the building em-
ployedde-
in this dangerous occupation, left their work much
earlier than usual in
wards the lightning struck one of the buildings, the roof of
everything
Pills.—A lady, an
of General
:%tihroiycledw.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—An excellent Cure of a dis-
but had not been able
Rosas, Governor of
intimate friend of the family
the Republic of I.a Plata, declares that she was lately cured of
order in tahsebSlotowmna (chireffsencdtede'beyr)H.
a disorder in the stomach, and restored to perfect health, by
the use of this admirable remedy. She had consulted the
to obtain any relief from the complaint that was
most eminent physicians in the country,
killing her by
inches until she took Holloway's Pills. John
Eastman, Esq.,
an eminent merchant of Buenos Ayres,. communicated these
particulars to Professor Holloway, in a letter, dated Sept. 4,
lEstablishment, 244, Strand, London. Professor Holloway's

The storm which, as will he perceived from the details
selected from the country papers, and given below, has
raged so generally throughout the country: extended its
fury yesterday to tho metropolis, and we fear will prove
to 'have been not unattended with disastrous conse-
quence; to many in their property, although we may
Is ipe nit in their person:. Between four and tive o'clock
in the afternoon, the sky having been, up to that time,
heavy and overcast, the rain descended with a su 'den-
Less, and in an overwhelming vuluale rarely witnessed,
and continued with some slight intermissions, and with
some abatement cif its vieleuee during a great portion of
the evening. There were also throughout the day seine
vivid flashes of lightning and heavy peals of thunder.
In some of the suburban districts the roads were nearly
if not altogether impassable, so lung as fresh floods were
poured down to reinfoi co the torrents which were
eagerly sucked into the pores of the thirsty soil. We
await with anxiety exact accounts from the rural dis-
tricts surrounding the capital, in the hope that the real
ethe:s of the storm upon stock and crops may not have
Leen so injurious as its portentous violence while it
lasted would tempt ono us to apprehend.
READING, GUILDFORD, AND REIGATE RAILWAY.—
A violent thunder storm occurred on Wednesday even-
ing at Gomshall, five miles from Dorking; the rain fell
in torrents, resembling a water spout, and had the effsct
of excavating gullies in the embankment of the railway
to such an extent as to stop the passage of the trains fur
some hours. The damage was repaired during the
night, and the traffic passed over the line yesterday
morning without interruption.
BRIGHTON.—A storm of lightning, thunder, and rain,
of almost unexampled violence, broke over Brighton on
Wednesday evening. During the whole of Monday,
.Tuesaday, and Wednesday, the temperature was very
high; and on Monday the thermometer in the shade
reached to nearly 80. Indicatloas of a coming tempest
were discernible during the whole of yesterday after-
noon; and about a quarter 'to seven o'clock it burst,
after a few preparatory grumbles, over the centre of the
town. The lightning and thunder were terrific; the
flashes of blinding brilliancy were followed the next in-
stant by the crash, and the buildings were shaken to
their foundations. The rain came down, not in poetic
but in literal torrents, and the widest streets were turned
into streams over their whole width. Even the most ap-
parently secure roofs were not proof against the attacks
of the water; the rain came through in numerous houses,
flooding the apartments. In our own office operations
were suspended; and during the height of the storm
the probability ot the publication of the present sheet as-
sumed a very dubious aspect. The violence of the storm
lasted about an hour. After the above general observa-
tions had been written, we learned the following de-
tails:—Pool Valley, as is kno ell to all the residents of
Brighton, and to most of its visitors far and near, is situ-
ated in the lowest part of Brighton. It is at the back
of the Royal York Hotel, and years ago, previous to the
construction of the Grand Junction-road, which now
forms a barrier between it and the sea, was constantly
overflowed at high tides. Within a few minutes of the
commencement of the storm the water poured from
three different sources, namely, from East-street, the
Steyne, and the Marine-parade (the streams bringing
with them the overdo wings of North-street, the Marine-
parade, St. James's-street, and Eiward-street, into the
valley); and the result was, that Creek's baths, Sarong's
painters' shop and adjoining carpenters' shop, two small
houses, and the Wellington Inn were flooded. Tho
contents of the cellars and shops were imme-
diately floated into the street; and as the storm
continued and the accumulated water poured
down, two of the three shops at the back of the
York Hotel, and forming a portion of the building, were
also inunda.ed. The shops are occupied by Mr. Pegg,
wine merchant, and his brother, a fishmonger. The
third shop, occupied by Mr. Donald, furrier, escaped a
similar visitation, from the fact ot its being approached
by a flight of steps. In rushing from the Steyne, one
of the streams entered and deluged in succession the
area of Mr. C. ,Burrowes, surgeon, the shops of Mrs.
Streeter, baker ; Mr. Smith, stationer ; and Madame
Dorney, milliner; and approached within an inch of the
shop doors of Mr. Bruce. engraver, and Mr. Martin,
ornamental hairworker. When the water first rushed
into the valley an attempt was made to give it exit by
keeping clear the sink gratings by means of brooms ;
but that attempt was immediately and necessarily aban-
doned. Boats were then brought to the spot—first one,
then a second, and then a third, for the purpose of se-
curing the floating property ; and as the depth of the
water increased, the inmates of the houses were driven
to the upper stories to aid their escape, the women and
children uttering piercing cries from the windows for
assistance. Fortunately, however, the water did not
rise to such a height as to render the latter course expg-
dient.—Brighton Herald.
BATH.—Our city was visited by a heavy thunder-
storm on Monday. Some of the peals were truly start-
ling, and the lightnins, was extremely vivid. An im-
mense quantity of 111i:fell. It caine down in such tor-
rents that, in some of the steep thoroughfares, the rush
of waters was like the rapid flow of a river. This was
particularly the case near the old Badge, on the Wid-
combe side, where a confluence of streams from Hullo-
way and the Wells-road caused quite a flood. A piece
of the ornamental masonry of one of the pinnacles of
St. Mark's Church was struck off by what appeared to
be a large boJy of flre. Two houses in Macaulay-
buildings, the residences of Mrs. Palley and Mr.
M'Dougall, were injured by the lightning. The electric
fluid struck the chimneys, accompanied by a loud explo-
sion, scattering large fragments of stone into the gar-
dens. Descending the chimney at Mr. M'Dougall's
into the kitchen, it filled the room with burning soot,
scattering the fire from the grate iu all directions. The
walls in some of the rooms are discoloured, and the
ceilings are cracked. The lightning injured a servant
in the neck and arm.—Bath Chronicle.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.

The directors of this company have just issued their
report, to be submitted at the half-yearly meeting, on
Thursday next. _ _

It states that the capital account being now practically
closed, the regular working of the completed system of
lines belonging to the company may be considered as
having commenced. Accordingly great pains have been
taken to reduce the accounts to such a system as should
distinguish the working of the different departments.
The amount of capital raised to the 30th of June last is
7,139,567/., consisting of mortgage debts, 1,486,337/4
preference share capital, 1,037,596/4 and consolidated
stock, 4,615,6341 The whole of the capital receives in•
terest or dividend Out of revenue. The additional capi-
tal expended during the past half-year amounts to 56,1871,
of which 35,3651. was for the enlargement of the London
station, 9,132/. for the completion cf the Portsmouth
station, and the Eastbourne and Hailsham and Thames
Junction branches; and 8.6901. in providing additional
plant and accommodation far the increase of goods traffic.
The directors state positively that the works for the en-
largement of the London station will cost less than
the estimate of 150,000/. for land and works. and
7,0001. for preliminary and Parliamentary expenses.
The rapid increase of the goods traffic, which now
averages about 7001. per week more than in 1848, has
required a large outlay for waggons, sidings, warehouses,
&c., not contemplated in the estimate of 7,200,000/. for
the final capital. The directors see no reason to apPre•
hend any excess in that estimate, unless a further consi-
derable development of traffic should take place. A large
portion of the mortgage debt has been raised or renewed
in the course of the past half-year, at the rate of interest
not exceeding 4 per cent., and for periods of seven years.
The total receipts for the half-year have been 227,664/.,
showing an increase of 13,602/. over the corresponding
half-year of 1849. Deducting the cartage, &c., the in-
crease in the railway traffic has been 10,6301., of which
6,1881. has been in the goods traffic, which has more than
equalled the expectations formed from the opening of
the Bricklayers' Arms station and the Deptford Dock.
The opening of this dock has lowered the price of coals
to the consumer at Brighton and throughout a consider-
able part of Surrey and_Sussex. 4s. or ss. a ton. This
trade is as yet in its infancy, being crippled by a heavy
duty levied on the coals in transit through the port of
London; but strong representations having been made to
the Government and the City authorities on the subject,
it is confidently believed that this duty will be
shortly repealed, in which case the company's route,
via Deptford, will command the principal supply of
coals to Brighton and the south coast, at a price which
will afford a inost 'material boon to the population of the
district. The passenger traffic has not kept pace with
the goody traffic. During the first four months of the
half-year, when the weather was very unfavourable, it
showed a slight falling off as compared with the corre-
sponding period of 1849, except upon the Croydon and
Eptom line. In order to meet this, the directors have
done all in their power to attract traffic to the line by
increasing the accommodation to the public, and afford-
ing frequent opportunities for excursions at very low
rates. The present state of the passenger traffic is more
satisfactory than it has been at any time since last au-
tamp, and the directors see no reason to doubt the con-
tinuance of a moderate but steadily progressive increase.
The number of miles run by trains during the past half-
year has been 580,190 k, as compared with 552.856 miles
in the preceding half-year, and 496,238 mites in the
corresponding half-year of 1849. The additional mile-
age having been provided for, in a groat n.essure, by
improved arrangements and by the use of light engint.s,
has not been attended with any corresponding increase
of expense, and the total consumption of coke has been
less than in any preceding half-year. Brighton, being
now reached with punctuality in an hour and a quarter,
is practically as much a suburb of London, and as con-
venient for the residence of persons having business in
the city, as Kensington or Bayswater ; and parties visit•
ing Hasting, Eastbourne, Worthing, Littlehampton,
Arundel, Chichester, or Portsmouth, have now al oppor-
tunity of leaving home at a moderately early hour,
reaching London at ten o'clock in the morning, remain
ing there until five o'clock, and returning in time for a
late dinner. Even the Isle of Wight is brought within
a three hours' journey of London, the passage between
Portsmouth and Ryde being effected in twentyminutes,
by fast steamers in connexion with every train. The
total traffic receipts (excluding cartage, &c.) for the
half-year ending 30th of Juno last amounted to
221,1381., and for the corresponding period of 1849
to 210,508/. The total expense during the former
period-amounted to 98,6341., and in the latter period

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA rTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
A very thin attendance, and no betting.
STAMFORD RACES.—THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added; to start at
the double distance, and go once round. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Standwell's Miss Stamford, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 1
Mr. Lister's Lecomt, 5 yrs, 83t 131 b... (Savin) 2
Mr. Baxter's Maid of Mansfield, 4 yrs (Marion) 3
6t04 on Lccomte. Won by a length.
The Two Years Old Stakes of 150 sous. each, 5 ft, and
25 added. T.Y.C. (19 Subs.)
Lord Exeter's Mida5.........,
The Gold Cup of 100 sore., with 20 added; for three
yrs old, 6st 71b; four, Bst; five, Bst 131 b; six, 9st; and
aged, 9st 71b; mares, &c., allowed 31b. Thrice round.
Lord Lindsey na The Gent, 3 yrs (F. Smith) 1
Lord Burghley's Little Jack, 3 yrs (J. Mann) 2
Sir W. Booth's Retail, 4 yrs... (Bartholomew) 3
Duke of Richmond's Jelly Fish, 4 yrs (Nat) 4
5 to 4 on Little Jack, 3 to 1 agst Retail, 5 to 1 agst
The Gent, and Bto 1 agst Jelly Fish. Won easy by
three lengths.
The Barleythorpe Stakes of 15 sots. each, 5 ft, and 10
if declared, for two yrs old, &c. Once round and a dis-
tance. Gentlemen riders. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Rayner's Pulcherima, 4 yrs, lOst 121 b (Mr. Bevill) 1
Mr. Bird's Mrs. Taft, 5 yrs, llst 4lb (Lord Strathmore) 2
4tol on Pulcherima. Won by half a length.
The Stamford Selling Stakes of 10 sovs, eAch, and 10
added. Once round and a distance. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Lister's Peasant Girl, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 1
Mr. Webb na Egali,Ca, 3 yrs, Get 31b
Mr. Draper's Ruth, aged, fist 121 b 3
2tol on Peasant Girl. Wo►e by a length and a half.
The Forced Handicap of 5 soya, each, and 10 added.
New mile. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Rayner's Pulcherima, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Flatman) 1
Lord Exeter's Visite, 3 yrs, 7st
Mr. Lister's Knight of Gwyrine, 3 yrs, Bst 51b......... 3
Mr. St,endwell's Miss Stamford, 4 yrs, Get 121 b 4
7 to 4 agst Knight of Gwynne,s to 2 agst
and sto 1 agst Visite. Won by a short head, after a
fine race.

SALISBURY RACES.
The Wiltshire Stakes of 25 sovs. etch, 15 ft. and 5 only
if declared. Two miles. (24 Subs., 17 of whom
do Glared.)
Mr. Kennedy na Confidence, 3 yrs, Est 31b (Goater) 1
Lord B. Lennox's The Wren, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Collins) 2
Lord Pembroke us Cheerful, 4 yrs, 7st (Kitchener) 3
Mr. F. Huddlestone us Paquita, 4 yrs, sst 9lb (Troen) 0
Ur. Kuutchbull na West Indian, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Li upper) 0
Won by a length.
The County Gold Cup of 70 sovs. Two mile:.
Major Pitt's Mounseer. 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Sly) 1
Duke of Richmond's Vampyre, 6 yrs, Bst 51b 2
Sir F. Bathurst na Stockbridge Buck, 3 yrs, 75t...., 3
Won by a neck.
The City Members' Plate of 50 sovs. added to a sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs. each, One mile and throe-quarters.
(3 Subs.) , -
Mr. Bingley's Christiana, 4 yrs, Bst 31b .....(Thick) 1
Lord H. Lennox's The Wren, 3 yrs, ist (Kttcheuer) 2
Mr. S. Herbert's Kathleen, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Ford) 3
Wou by two lengths.
The City Bowl of 18 sovs„ with 12 from the fund, added
to a S.veepstalces of 5 sovs. each. Gentlemen riders,
&c. Heats, one mile. (3 Subs).
Mr. Stollard's Woodsprite, Tat 131 b (A. Day) 1 2 1
Mr. Hay ter's Heather Bell, 7st 131 b (Goater) 3 1 2
Mr. T. Smith's Cambric, 4 yrs, 9st 111 b (Smith) 2 3 dr
Three well-contested heats.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT COWES, JULY 18.
SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
July 14. Freak
cutter,ARRIVALS William. Curling, Esq., fioa3
Eastward.
15. Cygnet ditto,
Ryde. Hedworth Lambton, London, from
17. Osprey ditto, H. C. Goodden, Esq., from Torquay.
18. Enchantress schooner, Earl of Cardigan, from
Southampton.

SAILINGS.
July 13. Fernande schooner, Major M. Marlyn, for
Plymouth.
15. Gipsey
Torquay.
Queen ditto, Sir IL B. Hoghton, Bart., f,r
18. Corsair Mater, Jos. Gee, Esq., for Hull.
Merlin, Enchantress,
YACEITS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Frisk Water-Lilly, Plover, Aurora,
' Arrow, Turquoise, Freak, Cygnet.
00 Thursday, the 18th inst., at halt-past six p 31., her
Majest,Y, Prince Albert, and the royal children, arrived
its the royal
7th Cottage Mr,
yacht steamer Fairy, and landed at the
Trinity Wharf at 23 minutes before seven P.M.
Lord Northcsk has taken Rosetta, Mr. Batterman the
Cott
Woree t White.
a erLynch Mill-hill House, the Dean of
Rose House, Mr. Rickets Prospect
Cottage Lord Fitzhardinge Townshend House, Mrs.
Colonel Elderton the Pavilion, Mr. Wm. Hans Sloane
Stanley the Bth Cottage.
CIMAP PLEASURE TRlPS.—Hundreds of persons in
search of health and pleasure are visiting the Isle of
WkghL weekly. The South-Western. Company are
tng them every Snnday. from London to Southamp-
t°ll and back, again for three shillings, and the
steamers take them to Cowes and back for one shilling
and sixpence more. On their landing on the steam. boat
wharf,
they spread away in all directions. Her Majesty's
marine residence, Carisbrook Castle, the Beach and the
Baths Each having their attractions, the latter drawing
the greatest numbers. Hundreds took a dip in the brine
on Sunday last; every bathing machine, male and female,
way Put iuto requisition, and the warm baths were even
converted into cold ones to please ladies.
AN UNPLEASANT
~MISTAKE.—One of the ladies
(not,heing able to procure a bathing-machine) intended
to taste a cold bath in one of the warm bath rooms,
when, in the confusion, the hot water was turned on
instead of.tb cold, and the mistake was not discovered
till the lady's accesses brought tha guide to her assist-
ance, and hhe escaped with a slight scalding and a great
fright.
.ha DISAPPoINTMENT.—A young widow, who
11 d about two mouths since placed her husband
in his last resting-place, became smitten on Coro-
nation-day, and was prevailed on without much
difficulty again to enter the marriage state. Mon-
day last bas the day appointed, and Northwood Church
the place. The widow and her friends were at the
elsurch at the time appointed, but the happy min did
not make his appearance, and the lady bad to order the
coachman to drive her buck again, her name unchanged.
The bride room that was t s have been could nowhere be
found. He had mwsagerl, however, to convert a boat tind
souse other articles of his lady love's into money, with
which he left the island on another speculation.
L

CHESUIRE, AND S'A'AFFORDSIIIRE
RAILWAY.--yesterday the Master in Chancery, Blunt, is-
sued a peremptory order for the delivery of cll the books and
papers of this concern to the official manager. The peti-
tioner, against whom a judgment has been recovered for
2211., states that there were 96,000 applications for shares,
but that of the whole number allotted, only 635
paid the &-
posit. The managing
committee had 250, and the provi-
sional committee 100 shares each. The outst,iudiog debts
are about 3,0001.

Qui me deivrera des Glen et des Romaine?
Du fond de h.urs tombeaux ces peuples inhumaias
Feront assur6,neut le mulheur de ma vie . . .
Et toi, triste famille a qui Dieu false pair,
Race d'Agamemnon qui ne finit jsmais,
Et dont on voit pullout lee quenelles antiques
Et lee assassinate, mis en Vera heroiques
Returning to the foreigners at Paris—l could not,
except here, have hoped to convene with • a young
Swede who asked to light his cigar by mine—quad
felix faustumque sit—prmbere lucernam accendenti.
He was a very intelligent person, obviously more
than a German. Z told him in the words of Charles
XII. that the Swedes had formerly compered Rome
and had not degenerated like them. " I es," be said,
" there is still une jeunesse in Sweden." In a few
years, he said, .Sweden, Norway, and Denmark will
form one nation : tho' little spoken of, it is certain. I
think he said Oscar I. would be chief. These confe-
derations have always been succcessful : a confedera-
tion of Italian states conquers the world—Luxuria
incubuit—a confederation behind the Danube and
Rhine, with currency difficulties, reconquers it—
victumque ulciscitur orbem. Again, America is a
confederation, and even England a triple cord which
will not be soon broken. Perhaps the Swedes may
yet march to Rome ?
But in fact the Decline and Fall, like all other
great events, is a CURRENCY QUESTION, and Robertson,
in the Introduction to his " Charles V.," lays it down
formally. The Romans had sent so much cash to
India in payment of various luxuries, "from whence
in the course of trade it never returns," that they
were unable (for want of medium] to pay the stated
tribute to the confederation behind Danube and Rhine.
In other words, prices fell, labour lost hire, exports
lost return, and the damage, pressure, burthen, and
veritable cost of all DEBTS was immensely increased,
so that " money-prices could not redeem money-
obligations." These Romans couldn't pay—they
" wanted money to pay dividends." Illyrian fund-
holders were suspected of complicity with the Bank of
Rome and the exporters of gold. General Danube,
the best officer in the service, was pnt on half-pay.
The congestive bankerhood (of Rome) was supposed
to have absorbed all the deposits entrusted—else why
those Quarterly Advances, "renewed, not generally,
but to individual" Romans, according to Pageus —at
lower rates than discounts (Normannus et Tooheus)
Or why did Peelus complain of " the bank maintain-
ing an arbitrary preference for such bills ?" And
whence the terrific procemium to his Oratio pro
Virili, 10th Kalends June, 1844 ?—" Mr. Speaker,
deep and entire secresy is necessary absolutely in all
transactions relating to money." Symptoms also ape
peered (at Rome) analogous to our " Song of the
Shirt," and Bivouacs in llyde Park, in more modern
times. One Pate (a Roman) took it into his poor
pate that all this money went to the Empress of Rome
and her Consort, and that people were imprisoned
during her Majesty's pleasure, or hanged when her
Majesty's pleasure was known, when she chose to
sign a death-warrant !
The Roman usurers, the annuitants, the salaried,
the agioteurs, no doubt were slow to find this out—
the latifundists, or 11e21 proprietors of land, who had
the fief-simple and " royalties" or held in capita (mu-
tatis rnutandis), had a strong suspicion, but were too
much in the power of their bankers to complain ! This
might appear to settle the currency point, but the
great question, What is a pound ? remains. The
noble Romans would have beeu wise to pre-
vent the oozing of gold and silver—if they
could because it was the only medium
of payment, but we, having adopted bills of various
kinth, invented originally in leather by Carthaginians
and Tuscans, Tyrians and Tyrrhenes—both Tyr—
may " let our riches fly," as Bacon speaks, " to bring in
more," and create a market money for our own market-
able labour—if the foreign market is not worth keeps
ing. At present there is a consensus or common-
sense. us that it is not. Why then delay creating
market-money for bread and cheese-market ?—Because
the money-market won't permit ? C'est incroyable !
In fact we ought to keep up both home and foreign
market, but down with money-market.
I have been long enough here to verify two remark-
able facts : first, that you never see a beggar, which
may be owing to extreme cheapness of bread ; se-
condly, that in height of Paris season, with a pulve-
rising March wind, such as we insulaires never feel,
the audience even at the Grand Opera and Italians,
depart on foot, scarce half-a-dozen carriages being
visible at the principal entrances. From the cheap-
ness of bread, nearly all the shops closed out of com-
pliment to the terrorists of February, have re-opened,
and the Palais Royal, now National, resumes its
splendour. How, with this palace before his eyes,
converted into an immense phalanstery or parallelo-
gram of shops, Napoleon could have qualified the
English as a nation boutiquiere, is difficult to
imagine. This shop-keeping is another consequence
of the central position of France.

The theatre; at Paris seem built to show the spec-

tators as much as the spectacle. You are struck at
first by the ugliness of nearly all the women—
if any are handsome you are sure they ars-
Poles, Germans, or most of all, English. The
men, on the contrary, are very handsome, exactly
the reverse of what is observed in England. The
military education universal here does not compre-
hend the women, except indeed the vivandieres of re-
giments, who have a most military costume with
" pants" cramoisis. But the women in many De-
partments are intensely interesting from health and
moral beauty, which 1 attribute to the good parish
priest with candle, with book, and with bell.
The theatres here are a part of popular education,
as it was in the days of Ben Jonson and Shakspere.
" Our fathers came to theatres for wit
And sat knee-deep in nutshells in the pit."

The whole classic repertoire is recited in the ears of
the luxurious and ingenious French,
" A people artful, active, curious, brave—
Yet will be slaves themselves whilst others they
enslave."
I went to the 103 d representation of Francois le
Champi, by—. It is exactly what "Tom Jones,
a Foundling," might have been if the characters bad
been all Alworthys. Francois the foundling is brought
.up by a miller's wife ten years older than himself,
travels, returns, finds the miller's wife a widow,
and phthisical—by his energy andshrewdnese retrieves
the mill, and the widow recovers her health. Diffi-
culties from Madame Severe, who being merely
cock-brained and purse-heavy, appears a demon by
contrast. Ends by Francois le Champilfalling in
love with the widow, who dreamed of no such thing,
but was seeking everywhere a wife for her adopted
soh, and marries him at last, because tout le monde le
veut. All is most artistic—
" E quel che i 1 taro e it hello accresce all' opre
L'arte che tutto fa, nulls si scopre."
All is unexpected, nothing improbable, all too
humble and too excellent to be foresees. Stint
lacrytnx rerum. The tears are wrung from
you by mere sympathy. Yet the only positive
suffering is that the widow has a cough in the first
act, which gets well before second act beg;np. One
forgives Mme. George Sand Dudevant the ci.-cular of
Ledru Rollin, No. 16 (which, by the way, with. excel-
lent), and other printed matter one never dt red to
read. She declares solemnly in the preface flaw. such
characters are found in every French village--but
whether she was conscious of it or not, the busi.less
character of the hero is precisely that of an English-
man. The play is an exquisite commentary on
Rochefoucault's maxim, " b'il y a un amour pur et
exempt de tout melange, c'est celui que nous igno-.
rons nous-ta.mes.

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.—A performance by the
Printers' Dramatic Society will be given to-morrow evening
at the Strand Theatre, the pieces selected for the occasion
being The Hunchback, The Eton Boy, and Sketches in India.
The members of the society will be assisted by the profes-
sional talent of Alms Jane Coleman, Mrs. Parker, and Mrs.
C. Wharton. The receipts of the evening are to be handed
over to the Committee for th'e Exhibition of 1851.
KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JULY 3.---Ottiwen
Charles Waterfield and Charles John Evans, scholars of Eton,
were this day admitted scholars of this society.

[The ful:owing appeared in our Third Edition of
nigiat:---]

FF. Ali CE.
The Assembly during the sitting of yesterday I
adopted the following law of prorogation :
" Art. 1. The National Assembly is nraregued from
Sunday, 12th August, to Monday, 11th November, I.Bao.
"Art. '2. A commission of 25 members shall he
elected by secret ballot. and by an absolute mijority,
to fulfil in concurrence with the bureau of the As-
sembly the obligations prescribed by Art. 32 of the
Constitution.
"The powers of the bureau of the Assembly are pro-
rogued until the re-assembling of the Assembly."
The Assembly then proceeded to discuss the budget
of 1851.
M. Fould, Minister of Finance, said that on the 4th
of April he had informed the Assembly that, accord-
ing to his provisions, the budget would be balanced
by a surplus of 10,000,000, notwithstanding the sup-
pression of 27,000,000 of the land-tax and 6,000,000
of the mortgage duty. He expressed the opinion that
it would not be necessary to recur to a loan or to
the creation of new taxes. Three months had
since elapsed, and facts had confirmed him in his
hopes. The expenditures set down by the Committee
for 1851 were estimated at 1,431,000,000 E, although
the Government only asked 1,336,000,000 f. That
difference of 95,000,000 f. should not be ascribed to
any augmentation of the public burdens. It arose
from the fact that the Committee had inscribed in the
budget the dotation of the binking Fund, which he
bud left in blank, 5,000,000 f. fur the working of
the Paris and Lyons Railroad, the receipts of which
would amply compensate that sum, and various
other items, which constituted no augmentation
in the expenditures. Tne budget of 1850 would be
closed with a deficit of 12000,000, which would be
reduced by 6,000,000, produced by the new stamp
duty on commercial bills. The deficit of previous
years amounted to 260,000,000, to which should be
added 3,000,000 for 1848, 249,000,000 for 1849, and
91,000,000 for public works, so that the general defi-
cit at the close of 1850 would amount to 632,000,000.
That sum, however, would be lessened by vari-
ous items, recovered by the Treasury, and by
15,000,000 already received for 1849. The improve-
ment in the proceeds of the indirect taxes, which he
had fixed at 709,000,000, but which the Com-
mittee had found exaggerated and was reduced to
698,000,000, was considerable during the six months
ending on the Ist of July, showing a surplus of
25,000,000 ; and the amount for the whole year
could be estimated at 723,000,000. He thought,
however, that it might be safely set down
at 740,000,000. That difference of 42,000,000,
added to the 15,000,000 for 1849, or
57,000,000, would reduce the general deficit from
632,000,000 to 575,000,000. He then reminded the
Assembly that he had authorised the state to sell
renter to the amount of 40,000,000, which would be
negotiated before the close of the year, and national
forests for a sum of 15,000,000, which would con-
tribute to reduce still more the general deficit and sup-
ply the Government with funds for public works. The
state, moreover, if obliged to terminate the Paris
tend Lyons Railroad, intended to concede its working
to private industry. Should it dispose of it otherwise
the 160,000,000 f. already expended on its construction
would afford an important additional resource. M. Fould
could not pledge himself that supplementary credits
should not be demanded in 1851, but he firmly trusted
that they could be met without having recourse to a
loan or the creation of new taxes, provided the peace
of Europe and internal tranquillity were maintained.
Never was the collection of the direct taxes more easily
eff?eted. Of the 179,000,000... due on the Ist
of July, upwards of 173,000,0001. had been paid into
the Treasury. The export of goods of Parisian
manufactures declared in the Customs office, ex-
ceeded those of the corresponding period of last year
by 14,000,0001. In Lyons the improvement was not
less marked, and the number of unemployed
operatives had diminished by two-thirds. In
short, the amelioration was general all over the
country. The movement of the navigation had also
considerably increased. The railroads had produced
2,971,000 f. more than during the first half of 1849.
The situation, in short, was most re-assuring, and was
to be ascribed in a great measure to the resolute and
conservative policy pursued by the Government with
the cordial co-operation of the National Assembly.

WAR WITH SPAIN.
(From the New York Weekly Herald.)
S 3 it seems that Mr. Clayton and the present
cabinet are determined to have a war, that is if we
believe them, with some foreign power, and that
Spain is the one selected. Several of the organs
of the Cabinet in this metropolis, made
the announcement on. Saturday, detailing
the positive information that the Secretary of State
regards a rupture with Spain almost unavoidable, in
consequence of the disputed questions growing out of
the recent invasion of Cuba, under the command of
Lopez and his pirates, or patriots, as the case may be.
In the Tribune we find the following dispatch :

"PROBABLE wan. BETWEEN SPAIN AND THE UNITED

STATES.

" Washington, Friday, June 14.
" The Secretary of State has received dispatches from
General Campbell, our Consul at Ha vannan, informing
the G.)vernment that the Count of Alcov (Governor-
General of Cuba) peremptorily refuses to surrender the
Contoy prisoners, although proof was clear that they
shipped for Caagres, without an intent of participating
in the xpedition.
"Mr. Clayton has dispatched instructions to General
Campl)ell to make an unqualified demand for the pri-
soners, and in the event of another refusal, war will be
declared against Spain.
" Mr. Bulwer has given assurances that England will
not interfere, considering the course of the United States,
thus far, unexceptionable.
" Mr. Clayton now evidently regards a rupture with
Spain as unavoidable."
If this singular announcement appeared in the
Tribune alone, the editor of which is in Washing-
ton, we might, out of pure charity, consider it a re-
vival of the celebrated Slievegammon intelligence,
which was communicated through the same chan-
nel, during the attempted revolution in Ireland,
about a year ago. But this intelligence comes to
us from Washington, not on Slievegammon authority
alone. It is corroborated, to a very considerable
extent, by a more cautious, but equally warlike,
announcement in the Courier and _Enquirer, of which
the following are the principal points, the one corro-
borating the other as to what the Cabinet would like
to do, had they the power :

IMPORTANT FROYI CUBA.

"We have private advices by telegraph, from our
Ws shington correspondent, which represent the con-
diteon of our relations with Cuba as being less satisfac-
Very than has been reported hitherto. Dispatches
'have been received at the State department, from Mr.
Campbell, our Consul at Havennah, by the steamer
Isabel, dated June Bth, in which he states that the cap-
tains of the Georgians and the Sarah Loud will proba-
bly be exeeutei by the Spanish authorities, unless the
United States Government immediately and perempto-
rily interferes. The other prisoners, it was believed,
would be treated with less severity. This was the im-
pression, not only of the consul, but of the American
shipmasters and others in Havannab.
" Mr. Campbell asks for positive instructions, peremp-
torily to demand the surrender of the prisoners, fearing
that no other interference would have any effect. The
tenor of his dispatches leads our correspondent to inter
that at the time they were written Mr. Campbell bad
not received Mr. Clayton's instructions of the Ist instant.
The sumnieriel process against the prisoners bad not
closed at the date of Mr. Campbell's letters. All the
proceedings were kept secret, notwithstanding the
rumours that have been circulated to the contrary. It
wat understood that the trials would be conducted in
strict escordance with the rigid process of the Spanish
law. The fate of the prieonera was, of course, uncer-
tain, unless Mr. Clayton's dispatches should be re-
ceried before the matter was closed ; their tone and
ttenour could hardly fail to hate some effect upon the
Evanish authorities.
"The Spanish Minister has net been seen since the
arrival of the Isabel, his views, and the tenour of dis-
patches he may have received, are therefore unknown.
The aspect of sifters is still a little threatening. The
Administration is disposed and determined to hold the
Cuban authorities to the most rigid accountability for
any injury they may inflict upon American citizens not
guilty of participation in the ievasion. The next dis-
patches from Mr. Campbell will be looked for with deep
ar,xiety."
Thus, then, on the authority of the Cabinet, and
chtulated by the organs of the Cabinet, we are in-
formed of almost the positive certainty that a war
'Kith Spain must grow out of the recent compli-
cated affairs between the United States and the
Cuban authorities, that is if we are to believe
them, and one of those organs goes so far as to
say, that the Administration is determined to declare
war, without reference to the disposition or ac-
tion of Congress. In this, however, they go a little
too fast ahead. Neither the President nor the Cabi-
net has any power under the Constitution to declare
war, no matter how much soever they may, for their
own purposes, be inclined to do so, without the pre-
vior,s sanction and concurrence of Congress. It is
ye' y true that Mr. Polk, in bringing on the war with
Illexico, took almost the whole responsibility of that
.event on his own shoulders ; but he was aided and
assisted by the audacity, folly, and impertinence of
the Mexican military authorities on the Rio Grande.
The Mexicans made the attack, and General Taylor,
the commander of the American troops on the border,
was put on the ckfensive, and the two countries were
involved in war without any previous declaration
sanctioned by Congress. It is doubtful if Spain will
give the Galphin Cabinet such a charlee.
In the event of a rupture between the Spanish au-
thorities in Cuba and the United States, growing out
of our present difficulties, we cannot perceive, how-
ever, how war can grow out of it without its first
being authorised by Congress, and a debate and dis-
cussion had upon it in the old and regular way. Per-
haps, however, Mr. Clayton and the Galphin Cabinet
intend to imitate the policy of Mr. Polk, in bringing
on the Mexican war ; and if we are to believe their
organs, they have already made up their minds to

bring about a collision between Spain and the United
States, on their own responsibility, and without the
previous sanction or concurrence of Congress, or I
without Spain, or the Spanish authorities in Cuba,
giving any occasion for it. It may be done,
too—but smart as the Cabinet are, in their own
estimation, we hardly think they will have
an opportunity—but if such an event should
be the result of the present complication
of affairs, all the technical questions arising
under the treaty, or the laws of 1313, will be
entirely set aside, and the whole impulse and soul of
the nation will be given to carrying on the war, with
the same force as was that with Mexico. If the na-
tions of Europe should be neutral—we mean France
and England—and allow the United States and Spain
to fight it out, there can be little doubt of the result
of the contest. In less than six months all the au-
thority of Spain in Cuba and Porto Rico would be
entirely annulled and set aside. A great deal of dan-
ger and damage, however, would ensue, in the mean-
time to the commerce of this country, which is scat-
tered over every sea and ocean in the world. In the
opinion of the Cabinet of Washington this might be
compensated by keeping them in power. After all,
however, this may be only another of the curious,
sudden, and extraordinary movements which charac-
terized Mr. Clayton during the past year, and on a
par with that in connexio❑ with France. We were
on the eve of a war with that country for a whole
week, in consequence of the quarrel between him
and M. Poussin, and this pronounciamento, through
the Cabinet organ, may be a repetition of the farce.