J$ttA POLIT ICAL ANDaft LIT ERARY llEVIEW. t r. ' The one Idea "which Hi3tory exhibits 33 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i3 the Idea of Humanity—-tiie iu)I>io endeavour to tturow down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-3idedview3 ; and, by setting aside the distinctions of Religion, ^Country, and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood, having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature."—Humboldt's Cosmos. . J ^

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" .: ." ::::::: 61? : COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS- GatK^rl^^ Y andi l ^osiUonin China liceCourts °- en« §"' . 613 Peloponnesus 618 TheGazette 621 lice courts 60S Moral Isolation of England.. .. 614 Mr. J. E. Reade'a Novel 618 Citv Intelliironno. M»rTiot,« jto «« YOL. IX. No. 431 ^" OE ] SATURDAY, JUNE 26^ 1858. Price {^ g^^ ;; :l^^ - the subject of the exportation of Coolies from the the concurrence of the .CirAN.CEi.LOB. of the Ex- IRttfeut nf tlj eM0> British settlement at Hong-Kong, and is to have chequer, that " the maintenance of the excise on them. In the comments of the French press on the paper as a permanent source of revenue would be THE Government of India Bill No. 3 is being communications -which have taken place between impolitic.*' Trom this result it follows, that when- pushed 'forward- with vigour, - . whether the task our Government and that of France with reference ever it shall be quite convenient for the Chancellor is grateful or not to Lord Derby's Cabinet. Part to M. Regis's scheme of free emigration, we have of the Exchequer—whoever he might be—to of one evening lias sufficed to get it over the second been freel y twitted with our own proceed ings in give up the 1,400,000/. which the Treasury draws reading, notwithstanding, the lengthy and s ingularly the matter of the Coolies ; and it begins to appear from this tax, the duty upon paper will be abolished. interesting and inappropriate speech of Mr. Biught. that we are a great deal to much open to the The advantage in the shape of cheapened books and But the fact is, that the object of all parties is to charges brought against us. The Earl of Carnar- newspapers are obvious enough; but there is pro get the bill into committee, when its details may be von frankly admitted that the papers when pro- mise of more direct satisfaction to be opened up to finally overhauled. The main principles of the duced will tell a very ugly story. In spite of the adventurous Chancellors of the Exchequer : it is measure have been already settled; nothing but the regulations under . which the Chinese were shipped that the extension of paper-making, which will in- details of the machinery remains to be determined, —or supposed to be shipped—to Cuba in English evitably result, Will, by increasing tlie means of a and it is only a waste of words and of energy to vessels, the rate of mortality between the years large body of workmen, lead to an increased con- labour at a discussion the proper moment for which 1S47' and 1857 was no less than fourteen and a half sumption of taxed commodities amply sxifficient to has not yet arrived. The organization of the per cent., while in special instances it had far ex- secure the revenue from loss. Council, with its mixture of elected and nominated ceeded , that frightful average. In these excep - Lord Gode rich's Registration of Partnerships members, -will, of course;, be the crowning point of tional cases, the Earl of Caunabvoi* explained, the Bill was .discussed on Wednesday afternoon, on the the discussion. According to the bill, eight mem- ships had cleared out of Hong-Kong after having motion for a second reading, and ' withdraw n, on the bers are to be nominated by the Crown, and seven complied with the necessary regulations, but understanding that the subject should be referred at first elected by the Court of Directors of the had surreptitiously increased the number of to a select committee next year. The measure East India Company from those who are of their the " emigrants" on board; and he said, "he proposes to remedy the evils, real or possible, in own body, or have been of it, the subsequent elec- was afraid that there was hardly a single dev ice cases where persons trade xmder assumed lur.ncs; tions to be by the Council itself. The salaries are .which 3iad not been resorted to to procure t he assumption being that, in such cases, purlies proposed to be fixed at 1200/. a year, with retiring these emigrants. They had been drugged with giving credit to the persons so trading arc dctiling . pensions of 500/. a year after ten years' service, opium, kidnapped, bribed, and openly bought." in the dark, and liable to be imposed upon ; ami I ho and 800/. a year after fifteen years' service. A pro- In one case, " the unfortunate Chinese who had been remedy proposed by the bill is compulsory registra- viso is to be inserted in the bill that the Council enticed on board under false pretences, were landed tion by every member of every trading firm. Tnulers shall meet once a week ; and with respect to on the beach if they fell sick, it being too expen- arc afraid that the measure will be inquisit o rial : matters requiring secrecy, the Minister is to have sive to treat them medically; they were left un- they dread the question, " Who is Co. /"' and s! ill the power of creating a secret committee. With cared for, and some were in fact devoured by dogs more the necessity to answer the question. regard to the finances, regular accounts are to be and swine, while many expired from sheer hunger." A very large majority in the House of Commons, periodicall y laid before the House. There is one Lord Brougham: says emphatically that there is on Tuesday evening, carr ied a resolution, moved by clause in the bill, empowering the Governor-General nothing to be done but to prohibit utterly the ex- Lord Hoxiiam, to the effect that it is against to appoint the Lieutenant-Governors, which the Go- portation of Coolies ; but if the traffic is so> profit- usage, and derogatory to the dignity of the House, vernment propose to submit to the free discussion able as to seduce British captains engaged in the " that any of its members should bring forward of , the committee, holding themselves at liberty to regulated conveyaucc of " emigrants " to resort to promote, or advocate in the House any proceeding abandon it if it be not liked. After all he ill a , t b is every sort of device for carry ing on a trade in or measure in wh ich he may have acted or been compromise, settled by all other parties as much as men under cover of their ostensible calling, prohi- concerned for by Ministers. or in consideration of any pecuniary bition will do nothing but " on horror's head hor- fee or reward." Lord Hoxham Another constitution 's motive in bring- is in suspense. The discus- rors accumulate," for nine-tenths of the miseries ing forward his resolution was above susp sion of the London Corporation icion of Regulation Bill has endured by the unhappy slave on his voyage are to personal bearing, however it bore upon the been adjourned , after a strong attemp legal t on the part be set down to the shifts and devices resorted to by members. The result of the inquiry into lite case of Mr. Holt to reopen the entire question by getting the slavers in order to escape detection. At any of Mr. Butt was accep it referred ted as the most satisfactory back to a select committee. His rate, the production of the promised papers will put that could have been arrived argument that "the revenues of the Cit at ; ami the resolution y are as much us face to face with the truth of one part at least now adop ted by the House " property" as the incomes of is a sufficici^^cjriio private estates, carried of the slave subject, and that will move us forward those wlio have been wont to uflinn /'^' f \ ^ * •' little weight ; and if we may jud ^ ^% ^ - , ge from the feeling one long step on the way t owards settlement. cacy of Members »e ^ . .{35 «$k/ l"' •of the House, the Corpora tion has a right to expect H^'st^^v &| '.. Mr. Milnek Gibson has erot the House of Co«» . va x'urjjnmcnt is bfflbT^^& "" ' no more than that Parlinment shall deal lonien f1 payment M r mons to express of a retaining fee. If ^/^l^l^o^Kijlrt'M £. with it. '"' a strong opinion on the subject of mentary agent docs exis ' tlic Duty on Paper : if t, it must ^\\imji^S^m^|IM \^ - The Bishop of Oxford has asked for papers it has not pledged itself to vcry diref ul. -l on ao away the impost oif hand r '^^> 1P ^ , it has decided , with According to Lord «1Sd^al A$$feT-&^)E ~ ^r^N'Hy " 602 _ ____JTj TE L JABJ^Jt!L______[-No. 431, June 26-1S58. of Oxfokd, the rapidity with which some of the tempt onmernf*from; the, other last—some hope that a remedy for the long ' House in try will be content to trust in his word. The tolerated intolerable evil will be earnestly sought tirte tb take-the seco.id'reading by the second week in dread of tliose who think with Lord Redesdalje and found, The proper drainage of London, with July—The Marquis of 1-ansdown e said he had asked and the ISishop of Oxfoiid is, the question only fro m a wish that the discussion should that the Court will the purification of the Thames, cannot much longer be delayed as little as possible. be subject to the impositions of remain a question of rival plans, or of more or fess —Earl Gran-viule and collusion if it adju- . Earl Grey concurred in the opinion that the course dicates too rapidly; but it was never pretended that expense. The cost of a new plague of London taken by the Government was very i would be considered much nconvenient; and the slo.vver procedure of the House of Lords greater than the three, might prevent the bill passing through the House of en- four, or five millions, of pounds which the necessary tirely secured it against collusion ; there is, there- Lords this sesssiori ; but they would not offer anv oppo- preventives are estimated to cost. And there must sition to the nnode of proceeding decided on by the Go^- fore, no new cause of alarm originated by the be no delay, if the next, Lord Mayor is to have the vernnient. practice of the new Court of ; Divorce. "We are honour of inviting Ministers to a banquet, in the STA NDING ORDERS. past the days of Eldon, when it was thought that Gity ; for there will he no-Ministers left; to invite if Lord Re»ksi>ax.b moved the ad-option of a standing order to the effect that, in the cas-e of Justice must be slow in learning her own mind. the foetid breathings of the Thames are permitted any claim to a quiet ly to poison them off. peerage in abeyance, all the expenses attending the The case of the Bloodhound, paddle-wheel steam- taking and printing of the evidence shall be borne by vessel, which has lately returned fro m tlieWest Coast the claimant, and shall be paid by him from time to Floods in Derbyshiris.^—•The extensive district time whenever the clerk of the of Africa to be paid off, illustrates the called the Peak of Derbyshire was visited Parliament shall deliver extreme , on the Thurs- to liim or to his agents an account of such' clity and Fiiilay of last week, by a succession of the charges, or difficulty of the duty which has to be performed by any portion of the same.^-The mo tion was agreed to. our slave-protecting.squadron. It appears that most violent storms ever witnessed ill that part of the , on country. The rain fell in torrents, appearing in some EMIGKATION FROur HOJJG-KON Q jiND CHI NA TO TIIK tlie 14th of September last, the Bloodhound was cases like sheets of water, and all the v alleys and low BRITISH WEST IN13IE8. riding at anchor olF Quilta, when a naked negro was grounds were more or less flooded by the sudden descent The Bishop of OxFoi«» moved for papers hearing on seen swimming towards her, and by the aid of a boat of immense volumes of water from the hills. At Kinder the exportation of coidies ' from" Hong-Kbrtg and . the? and Hayfield, in the Hi h eak Chinese Empire to the British Wes4 Indies was taken on g P , large trees were toin up , and to foreign board. The man's account of hiinselt by the rootsj and carried several miles away, and som e countries and their possessions. His Lordship said be •was, that he was u native of the ' brid ges were thrown down b feared that the slave-trade was growing up on -British settlement ¦ y 1 the flood current. the boider at Cape Coast Castle ; that he had The erops, also, suffered '' severely. ' . At Kinder Print- settlements of the colony of Natal, and that in ' Hon"-- been engaged to ! serve as steward on board an American works, the property of Mr. ; J. A. Turner, 31. P., Kong the traffic had assumed the form of a practical evil. ship called the reservoir overflowed and formed a current by the Ho referred to reports that had reached this country 5a the Thomas Watson, but that he had been smuggled side of the works, and washed away the old "carf-rou.d support of this statement, and trusted that the papers for on board the ship without the permit of the British and footpath. ' At Haylielcl Print-works, belonging which he asked would lie granted. They should now- be Governor being obtained ; and that while he to Messrs. J. Monteith and Co., the flood rose doubly careful that such a sin should not be- brought upon was on several feet above the - them. They should not board lie had heard from ground floor, bu t wit hout be rendered unable to argue the cook that the captain doing much damage to the works , or their con tents. with France, on the subject of the' slave-trade, by the had sold him as a slave to one of the passengers, a A small bridge was washed three-quarters of a mile fact of France being able to turn round upon them and Spaniard ,,one of the crew of a slaver which had been a-way from the place, and a little stream.-which sup- ask :—'* What have you been doing' yonxself in your lied tlie mill had its course dependency at Hong-Kong captured, and condemned ; and that, p completely reversed ?" after being by the level of . its bed being altered by the force flie Earl of Carnarvon said lie had no objection to flogged and bound for attempting to escape, he of the flood. Tlie laboratory and Icitchen gardens produce the papers. .The emigration from Hong-Kong had succeeded in were greatly damaged. The works at the Bircli-vale consisted of two branches—namel th er i reaching' the Bloodhound. The 3 y, e n gnition to commander of the Bloodhound went l rint-»nill were atopped by the flood , and many articles the British colonies, and the emigration to foreign pos- on board tho i n the were .washed into the river sessions. When the American vessel and claimed cs^blishment near coolies wero transported to a British the wages due to it. At 'flie village of.. Hayfield , the foundations and colony, every security was afforded them, and every pre- the negro. The American captain, after tempo- back walls of five of the ' houses were washed nwav, us paration made for their safety and comfort ; but , when rizing lor a day or two, refused to pay the money were also the pigsties and other outbuildings, and all they werb sent to foreign possessions; they could not afford them the claimed,, but demanded to have the the soil and produce of the gardens. The cottagers same protection, and instances' had negro returned raised screams for help, and the greater part of their occurred where they had been treated with great cruelty. as a deserter. The cpnirriander of the Bloodhound, furniture was lost or destroyed. The whole of the -weir, —Lord Bboughah considered that the «nly course to finding that there vas no chance of bringing the- mill-wheel, and framing of" Ned's Mill" were carried take was the absolute and instant prohibition of the traffic. American to tcrtns, ordered his ship to be taken to away, and not a vestige of them was afterwards to be seen. —The Earl of Clarendon suggested that, if th e papers Sierra Leone All the crops on the banks of the river Etherow have dating from 1863 were obtained, they would be exceed- ,ior the opinion of the Judge-Advocate. been -washed away ; large stones, many feet long and of ingly interesting.—-The Earl of Mamiksbuuy said that The decision of the judge was, that as the Thomas immense weight, havo also been dinlodged and carried there could be no objection to produce the papers ; and Watson' was an American ship, lie liad no authority off, and the rocky bed of the stream has been lowered the motion was agreed to. to about four feet by the force of the flood. Tlio House adjourned at ten minutes past sdven. inferferb in the matter. The Thomas "Watson Portbndio and AL.n R£i>A.—Some correapond,enco •she ca was, therefore, allowed to proceed to the port' of relativo to a convention recently entered into between 'ndace. In the House ok Commons, in answer to 1 Mr. GravK, her destination, and' on a representation^uulc by her Mnjesty arid the Emperor of the French, relative to Mr. IIknjlisv said it Portemlic and Albroda was true that this unlortnuute the American Coiisiil to live Commandcr-iii-Chicf , hus just been published by ordel* ¦tassel w'as rim dbWii by a 'Dutdi ship bound for liaia- of of tlic House of L(»rds. It refers to a petition from the - the stati6ii,'t1ie BlooAlibuiid was ordered home, The yia, and- that as many as seven pbVsdtis, including- tlio French merchants and traders applying for admission to captain, were Government, therefore, docs not' " the cons ting trace drowned. He was hifornned' thnt this sanction the Eng- , from point to point in the •Gambia jnattcr would and river the of which lias been granted. form tl»o subject of legal investigation, lish eornnVaiidcr's' vmtii ' to module uctwceu an , praye* The bill it was, therefore, ; not iht'ehtVe' to institute inquiryj by for modifying the. Customs Act of 'Ji'tfth and 17th cl American captain aud lus crew, or to act as a sort of Vic- thb Bbutd of Trad e, -ftrntclv ntufct bo Whs cothjil'tite tliuti fn- to)fu t.c«p. 107, bo as to maintain the convention intact, huh y by a court of!law. floating county court. was explained by tlio Secretary of State for the Colonies A further illustration'oT tlic bn Monday nighf, when the House of C6mmohs gave it THE AftWY. ! difficulty that besets ¦ every oiic oC our dbal\ng-a with the a second readme;. In answer to questions' front Gojonel Noivwii and' Ge- slave question neral VVyndham furnished by the cftso of tl' KfJHSiAif MuncANTiMi: Stkam F^bt.—The " Russian , General PiiEi.said it was hia intention is io Itegina Cceli, even Steam Trading and Navigation Company are rapidly thnt every class of ollicora who considered themselves ' " ¦ - j tlve facts of which arb' sb cbmMicatcd wi'tii'doubts incrensinft th'cu- lll'aclt Sea and' kcdit'drrarie'an flcot , iiggricvea by the vr^ri-aiu*of OcitoWr, IBM; sliouM' lirfv.; and contradictions; thaii it is jicxt io impossible to which -now numhet-h tirti'ty of forty fXtll ptowcrcd scrow an opportunity of having tljoir ca&ba conskJbnxl by t'hft come at' the MsbluM frutii. Tiie ex gtoanierB of.largo papncHy- . The . last ftdditiosi to this <;ominifiaion, and he understood fro m tho commisBioiicrs planation given Meet ha» just been that an immense been the French GbvevjirtYerit; lVnished on the Mersey, and -\\'n9 con* inass of documentary evidenco had by to tiotd MtakEsBijin: strueteil by Mr, John Laird at his new works at Birk'en- luid befoTe th6m. They dTd n'ot hrW nd1 to t'nko' rfny seems to make it appcrtr that tlie intcrfcrenco of he'iid. Slid ib rtamed tile EmpoVor Alexander, iihd' ig Verbal evidence ; but he thouglit, if thai Iron, anil gallant 1 ilfe Br%3h vessel wto illegal, jihd that th' tlio necond screw steumshlp of 1100 tons and 350-horse Colonel lookoort would be prc&tinttift nTmost ii^mcr- ^v^6, V6r^©o/^ emi'gr»; 'Knii>pccl Channel' ' 1 /^ witli the , haVing 6n boaVd" n full lortd, corislatUng of (J OO Uiat6ly. ft wite n«t intohqed to' sW»pond Iho oiioratJctn kh6We'a^B bO-hfe-Libcriah authorities. *on« df doad •wWght ,- MritU ¦rt'AWftttMlcs1 full «ha stoVca. of tlio warrantf. She attained ' Wp 4mvo 'iip'ard the last, it is' to bo hoped, not an average spood of thirteen and a quarter Tkm bououoh «^ nlti.*A6T. I^Wlls* *)ri about,fiftee n mlleq nn bout-, which , being' fu lly Reply ing to Mr. Maoart.nky htaU-d that oitlpof iho' yi'byeoulidba'ih connexion with 'tlio W- loaded, ia cpnaidcred , Lord Naas highly aatlef«c^ov3t. ^ho Government proposed, «u soon as poaflibli*, to issue n yo. 431; June 26, 1858.] THE LEADER, '—' " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ r ' _ ————_—_—_. , . 603

«3ammissit>n to inquire into the municipal affairs of Bel- supported by Mr. Salisbury and Mr. Aybtosl, who rflTE OATHS BrLTv. fast, both as regarded -4Me money -borrowed and the urged the inconsistency and injustice of many otffcfce ex- The Earl -of Malmksbuuy aad moaned the appointmentof expenditure wader the powers of the corporation, emptions fro m the tax. and suggested that a reduction a «omniitfee to state their Lordships' rea»«»i8 for akdher- also to report upon the taxation of the borough. of expenditure would furn ish a margin for its remission. iug to tiieir amendmenta-in the Oaths Bill, and-he would /ccnivuasuysa&RSwb : exhibition of- 1851 bill. —Mr. Cowan testified to the correctness of Mr.-Gibson's aleo propose to their Lordships on Thursday that'ttutie 'On the- House going into Committee on this bill, can- statement, that the duty interferes wi«h our export renBOns eluould be sent, down to the House of Commons. siderable discussion ensued. With reference to the trade in paper. He supported the resolution. I« consequence of Lord : Derby's illnesf, he askedl Ex>rd Ifirat clause, Mr. Aloock said he iwas dissatisfied -at The CuAirouEiLOR of tub Exchequer expressed his le also would postpone his bill until the «anie scheme were to be treafced. In the former case, in addi - paper duty is not the only part of our indirect taxes that day.—The motion was agreed to. tion to the capita], interest to the amount of 70.006?. requires revision ; and it would-be the duty of 4Jovern- •was to be ;paicl , making;,in all 3d e),G0Q/. H e was ready ment during the recess to take both .branches of the na- PUOBATt AND IMT EKS Of ATttUN ISTRATION ACT AMENDMEN T BILL. to show that the sum could be realised by the sale of tional imposts into consideration, and to offer some pro- On thes wotion for the surplus land, and lie thought therefore that the Chancel- position to the House. He hoped the Hoase would hot third reading, it was proposed hy Lord St. . Leonahds, that Instead of the property of lor of the Exchequer was bound to throw open Batter, hampea* Ministers by previously deciding in principle on nn intestate, sea-bridge toll free. . The land at Kensington is a giveti course, and that Mr. Gibson would be content on failure of heirs, being vested in the ¦worth Crown, as propot?ed by the bill, it showki be vested in the twice as much as it was same time jq^o, and he wiith having brought thequestion forward , and would not Judge Ordinary. -suggested that, as the commissioners are only to pay press bis motion to a division. —Tbe House divided on the proposition capital into the exchequer, they should take charge of Mr. Bright said that the paper tax inflicts pains tliat the property should be vested in tU'e Growa, when. lie Sheepshanks Collection. — Sir H. Willougiibv and penalties on three or four hundred persons engaged the numbers were found to be equal-^-22 on both sides.— tmoved an amendment clause, in carrying on The Lord Chakckllor then stated that the non- to »he to the effect that the business of manufacturing paper. We contents had it, and the Jjid the payment should Le made fcy the <3oinmissionei';s live in a free country ; at least, so we tell people abroad, ge-Advooate was.accordingly substituted ibr the Grown.—The bill vwas then read within e neighbourhood of Bir- I;ord . Redssdalb .censured the speed with ' which some Kensington Gore Estate.—The Chahcei.lor of nm ming luirn, who had told him that it cost him 120?. unopposed causes had been decided in the '- . -Court «tf Exchequkrsaid that the question was one of gravity,' a year .in .' .wages--to .men whose only business was to Divorce. Nine cases had been disposed of in one day, «nd the Government hart not lost sight of it. J3ut tie wait continuously, on the exciseman. \IZear , hear.)' At and one case only occupied the Court «leven minutes! ^question was not before them -whether it was desirable to the . .deputation to Lord Derby the other day, a paper Serious objections were made to the manner in wtlcli .procure a site for the purpose named. Wli at was before manufacturer from Yorkshire stated that, a little before this part of the business of the Court was conducted. them was this :—The Boyal Cooimissioners asked to be the leceut commercial panic, he was in London, making Ha hoped it would exercise more caution in future, as relieved from . their.,partnershi p, so as to be enabled to a contract for a quantity of paper. The paper cost «o cases ^ere more likely to involve collasion than carry out their original design, that of giving a complete 400/.; the duty on it \v;is 400/. ; making the total cost those which were unopposed.—-Lord Campbet-L -was industrial artistic education on the site in question.— 800/. The duty he had to pay in six weeks ; when he astonished Uiat Lord -Redesdale should have ao rasUly and ¦Mr. Wilson moved aa amendment that, in the event of sold thti paper, he took a bill at four months in pay- unadvisedly impeached the conduct of some of the "vorce, and could say that the cases were fully -exa- of the intervening .profrts.—Thesewords were added, and ment during the four months on the whole 8Q0l. ; and, mined, and justice done in each.—The Bishop of OXFORD the clause as amended was agreed to.—Other clauses during1 that period, the commercial hurricane swept over said that the.religious and thinking portion of th« com- having also been agreed to, the bill was reported to the the country. It -was an astonishing thing tiat any munity regarded with nppreliension tbe rapidity with House, which then resumed. trade could survive such a system ; and he would not -rthich the decisions of the Court had been given.r—Eavl 'TH5S PAPER J>tJTY. ask whether it was fair, but whether it was statesman- XtRanvillk thought Lord Redesdale should have givett On the motion for going into Committee of Supply like, tliat the Chancellor of the Exchequer should put a notioe of his intention to censure the Judges of the (Edacational Votes), Mr. Milnem Gibson moved as an million of tea duty or a million of sugar duty in com- OourU—Lord Cbanavorth and Lord St. Leonards amendment a reBointion, u That this House is of opinion parison with a million of tax on paper, which operates dononrred in stating: that the old mode of proceeding that the main tenance of the Excise on paper, as a per- ou ' a- great . trade in a manner so offensive and so de-. g«ivo no greater security against collusion than the neir manent source of revenue, would be impolitic, and that structive. (Hear, Jiectr.) When the duty is off, we cue.-r-Loird Campbex.l, on addressing the House a second such -financial arrangements ought to be made as will shall have paper made to a large extent from straw, time, was called to order, and, after some conversation enable Parliament to dispense with the tax." The paper and especiall y from oat . straw. Tn Ireland ihere is on this point, the bill was read a third time, and passed. plenty of water duty, argoed Mr. Gibson , is a. most penk'ious tax. power, there is an abundant population , BELAYS IN CHAN-CERT. During the lust twenty years, tiie paper mills in Eng- there is t\\\ abundance at least of oat straw, for the pur- The Loirn Chanckllou pose of making paper ; called the attention of th3 land haV3 diniinished fro m rive hundred and twenty-five and there could be no doubt Etmso to the delays in the office of the Chief Clerk of to three hundred and ninety-three, and the same effect has that Ireland offers a very admirable field for a;great e.\-i Chancery which had been complained tension of the paper trade. Mr. Brig of on a previous not been noted in other brandies of manufactures ; on " ht suggested that evening by Lord Lifford. There had , he admitted, been the contrary, an increase is apparent. ' . The duty docs ¦M r. Gibson should omit the latter part of his resolution , so as not to hamper some delay, but it was chiefly caused by one of the par- not press on expensive volumes ; it aifects those cheap the Government. ties in the c.ise not being prepared with certain necessary publications which ought to be encouraged by the Mr *j. \j. i^icwis thought it was objectionable for the evidence.—Lord St. Leonahds House to bind itself to any abstract and Lord CkanWortu Government, as diffusing information among the people. proposition. When pointed out certain difficulties which cause deluy in the It was first of all imposed in the time of Queen Anne, we have n surpl us revenue, it will be time to consider what tux has the office in question ; and from their statements it appears •with a view to checkir g the vivnci.y of the numerous first claim for abolition .—Mr. Puuai- that there is a want of good courts, with conrenienfc small publications whicti criticised the acts of the Minis- moxi) observed that simply repealing a tax, without pointing out chambers for the clerks.—Lord St. Lkonak.ds said he try. Alluding to the penny daily papers of the present any means of repairing the loss of revenue, would apply a remedy by removing the range of build- day, Mr. Gibson remarked that Sir Bulwer Lytton had was wronging tiie public.—Lord John Russell thought that the question ings now occupying the oast side of Slon e-buildinga, and recently spoken in favourable -term s of them. The of repealing this or that tax, should be erecting thereon courts for the Judges, with chainbors in Standard is said to have a circulation of fifty thousand left to the Government on a review of the whole of our connexion with them for the chief clerks. a day ; if so; it must pay a tax of 50/. a day. " The reaolt ; iiulLect. taxation. He hoped Mr. Gibson would embrace of this heavy impost is, that the cheap press is printed [ the offer of the Chancellor of tho Exchequer.—Mr. cauJtcn icatiss. Milner Gjbsou A petition from tho Society of Friends praj-ing for on inferior paper. If the tax were removed, competition j consented to omit all the words of his rho abolition of church would oblige the conductors of cheap papers to give the resolution after " impolitic," and in tins form the resolu- rat«s Avas rejected because benefit to the public tion was agreed to. the word "humble" was omit led before " petition." in tiie shape of a better production. The Bishop of OxFonu said he had to present The paper ilnty is a fund withdrawn, SUPI'LY. THE KDXJCATION to> their from those wlio EST1BIAT -E. Lordships the " humble" peti tion (a laugh) of persons conduct papers. It tren ches on the author's* fund ; and The Houtc having gone into committee of supply, who prayed that it makes cheap literature Mr. AuDicitLKY their Lordships would not do avray bad literature. Could it be moved the Education Intimate, with church rates. The right rev. prelate presented possible that the school book of the village is taxed amounting to G63;000/., consisting of three classes, iand thirty per cent., while books used including the several other petitions to the aamo effect. —Similar, peti- nt the universities arc following items:—157 ,000/. for imiUling tions wero presented from places in the diocese of London exempted? A correspondence had recently tnken place and famishing .schools, 100,000/. for training various by the Bishop of Lon don. between a gentleman engaged exten sivel kinds of musters, and 57 y in the manu- ,000/. for the manngninent and Tlio Houao adjourned at a quarter to eight o'slo>clc. facture of puper and the Board of Inland Revenue. Tlic inspection of those schools. There was an inci*a«o >of At morning Bitting gentleman wais very anxious 83,000/. over tho Jtho of the Commons, tha House to promote education in vote of last year, which imiw t affatx X wont into committee on tho Local GovjcrnmicNt Bill, bis immediate neighbourhood , ami voluntary subscrip- unmixed satisfuction to Jill those w lio approv-o of lilic the object of which tions had been raised present of Mr. Audisuley admitted to be, to for a school. Application was sj'stcm. A million of money had t>een invested ^ct rid the existing Uoavd of IlealcU, and to toava made by this gentleman — Mr. Rawlins of ^yYcxhJlm— in buildings and furnitur o, which was equal .to an annual to the Inland looul attthoritiefl entire freedom in sanitary matters, under Kovenuo Office in th« present month to l)c churgo upon the Treasury of 00,000/. ; and, tuking tho tho guiduneo of the Secretary of State. permitted to me the cuttings of paper current expanses at 500 The clauses , free of duty, in ,000/. a year, tlio wholo a mn paid from 9 to 30, inclusive, wero agreed to, come witU -a few the'Bt'hool, -or to bo allowed a drawbac k on paper used by the trensury lor education would amount to 0 GO ,000/. verbal modifications. in tiro school and returned a yenr. lie —Tho Medical Pjiactitbonehs' to the mill. The answer to calculated that, by tho expenditure of that IJill was commit tod for tho introduction of a-incnd- thin was tha.t . the application could not be acceded to tiiun , »0O,O0O children arc educated.^—After bouio dis- ; It might bo sand that hm nonta and it was arranged that it should bo roptintod should suggest a substitute for cussion, and an amendment by Mr. Black, which was jiwl recouunitted on Thursday next week. this tax; but he protested against that doctrine. If 1u- siibsequontly withdrawn , to the oflR;ct that tho su m proved that tliis tax, forming only one sixty-lburth pnrt asked for should he reduced), tho vote was agreed to. STI&AM POSTAI - tnmAiu County Lxvi'ou ficient ; yet ho had nd doubt thut , if this duty wero ro- Palatine Jurisdiction Bill, and the PublicGrounus stated that tho Australian cafonias bad modo pculetl , the other sixty-three parts would amt> t'opcMud oo-inplauUB of the .iitregularity in tho poxfonn- swell out n«i| Pr.AYGROUNDH IJill, were both read a third time, rihco of cover tho deli<:k;ncy. The remission of the paper dut\ , t»nd pisssod ; other forniiil business wa8 got through ; nnd the atetim postal ecrvioo between 'fcbia country about a million a-yenr, would een expelled from the manded very great he did not think they should summaril dismiss a bill House for receiving thoug ht and contrivance , was under y bribes in the perform ance of their the consideration of the Government. -—The motion was so powerfull y backed by the commercial community ; duties. Mr. Aspinall -was expelled in 1667, and ^ in according ly withdrawn. but , on the other hand , they should not ta ke it for 1694, a predecessor of .the present Speaker -was ' ¦ ' expelled " ¦¦' ' ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦' ' • ' ; . - LUNATICS. . . • granted that the commercial community had made up for receiving - from the City of London a thousand gui- . v . their minds on the subject. The bill might be re- nea s for passing the Orp han Bill. In consequence of Mr. . Titk moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the laws relating to luuatics under the care of the fer re d to a select committee, and in this way its these proceedings , an order was passed making it a high probable effect , and the details by which the prin- class misdemeanour for any one to offer bribes to mem- Court of Chancery. There are 29,000 lunatics ; and t hey seem to have increase d of late years at the rat e of ciple was to be carried out , would be discussed. If bers of tlie House. The next resolution which he called upon to give a vote on. that occasion , he certainl y found on tbis subject was in 1830, when , in conse- 10O0 a year. The asylums are thirty-ei ght in number ; and he was happy to say that the ratio of cure is fourteen could not declare that secrecy was a pr inciple of quence of a member of that House havin g entered free trade, and he should therefore support the motion into partnershi p with another for the purpo se of per cent, annuall y. The lunatics under the care of the Cour t of Chancery are eight hundred in number , with for the second reading. " —-Mr. Henley considered that carr ying on business as a Parl iamentary agen t, a reso- they wanted information on: this subject before passing lution was passed condemn atory of the practice , and property to the amount of 240,000?., of which sum 160, 000/. are paid for their mainten ance , which is at the this measure , and this information was only to be ob- the partnershi p was dissolved hi consequence. Of late tained by an open inquiry before a committee of that years , appeals from India had become, year after year rat e of 200/. a year each. The two inspectors , one a bar- , r ister House. There were many difficulties in the details of matters of more frequent occurrence , and , in consequence, , and the other a medical man , are require d to visit the Chancery lunatics once a year. They have scarcel y the bill, and he hoped the noble Lord would not ask a practice had sprung up which he thought it the duty them , under existing circumstanc es, "to come to any de- of the House to put an end to. It had been publicly time to do this , scattered as tlie lunatics are over the land ; and they are paid the very inadequate salaries of cision upon the subject. —Lord Goderich having stated in India that the services of member s were ob- adopted the suggestion thus put forth , the motion and tainable by menus of money ; and would any one state 500?. a year each .—Sir A. H. Elton seconded the mo- tion. —The Solicitor-General hoped the motion would amendment were withdrawn , and the bill was dis- that this impression should be allowed to continue ? charged ;. {Hear, Item: ') It might be objected to his motion that not be pressed to a division , as there would be no time the ;existing resolution s at this period of the session for a full and amp le inquiry, ELKCTION COMMITTKKS SCRUTINY BILL. on the books of the Hou se Oa the order for the second reading of this bill, Mr. would meet such cases as those to which , he had re- to which the Government would oppose no ob- ferred ; but he stacle. —After some remarks by Mr. Dbummond (who Warren moved to defer the second reading for six contended tha t they had no legal righ t months , contending that the bill would derange the to> punish a member under the circumstances in question. urged the great importance of the subject , and suggested A change in the law that the terms of the motion shoul d be enlarged , so as whole machinery of the election law. —Mr. John Locke , is therefore requisite. —Mr. Divistt Mr. Stbuakt , and Mr. M'Mahon supported , and Mr. seconde d the rcsolu tiojj ^Mr. Boavyek said that unless to include the treatment and care of the luna tics in , Chancery), the motion was withdrawn for the present Barro "W and Mr. Gkeavks opposed , the bill.—Mr. the noble Lord atited distinctl y and explicitly what Wal pole inembers of the session. said that , if the bill passed in to law, nothing Teamed profession in the House he had but bribery or treating at an election could affect tin- alluded to, ,fli c motion would be highly objectionable , MISCELLANEOUS BU8LNKSS. because Lord JoiixV Russell moved for leave to bring in a bill votes of persons whose names appeared upon the barris- ifSvua a general proposition which cast an in- ter 's register. Did tho bill propose to do away witli ?im39tton over tho whole of the learned members who to amend and consolidate tho laws relating to Bankrupts and Insol vents. ~The ATTOKNKY-GKNKUALdid not oppose legal incapacities to vote ? If the provisions of the bill *icold seats in it. This would have its effect in the country , did not touch such cases, it would require considerable and it would have its effect abroad. If this propositi on the introd uction of the bill ; and , after some remarks by Mr. Headum (who thoug ht that the consolidation of alteration in committee. —Mr. Coxlins explaine d that were once to be carried , it ought to go further , and the object of the bill was to extend a princi ple already other persons—even includi ng the Att orney-General and the Winding-up-Acts should not be mixed up with the general improvement of tlie Bankruptcy Laws), leave in opera tion , and to provide a remed y for the conflicting Solicitor-Gen eral—oug ht to be excluded on princi ple. decisions at present given by the Election Committees. —M r. 'Wbiteshms thoug ht that these cases were not was given . Mr. Cowbett moved for a Select Committee to con- He thoug ht the character of the measure should induce parallel. The Attorney-General and Solicitor-General the House to allow it tp be read a second time, nnd , apeak avowedly as the law officers of the Government. sider the law and practice as regards tho taking of inquisitions ; the having obtained a decision upon the princi ple, he did not The motion app eared to him just and honourable , and appointment , duties , and remuneration of the officers employed ; and whether any and "what propose to press it further during the present session.— ho should support It. —Mr. Bouveuik moved the previous The House having the bill was lost by 125 to 87. question that -a alteration should be made in any such matters. —On the divided , , observing man -who is astute enough to PIERS ANI> IIARUOUKfl BILL . evade the existing rules would laugh at the resolution .— motion of tho Chance llor of the Exchequer , tli e deb ate wits adjourned. Mr. Paul l moved the second reading of this bill, the Sir John Pakinoton suggeste d that , if the House object of which is to savo tbo expense of app lying to should Adopt this resolution , the terms should ho general , Some other routine business was transacted ; the covering every person and J oint Stock Ban king Company's Bill was read a Parliamen t for priva te bills for piers and harbo urs . He thin g, and that the words , proposed that the sanction " in which ho may have acted or third time , and passed ; and the House adjourned at a when such bills had obta ined been concer ned ," of the Admiral ty, they should be considered as public bills, pointing to the logal profession , bo omitted , since they quarter to one o'clock, g and paid for at the public expense. —Mr . Warr en mi ht be a tra p to the consciences of members of the Wednesday, June 23rd. of bar , and , in possible cases, lead to seconded the motion , nnd believed the measur e was serious difficulties , as in UKGISTBATION OP PAUT NKRSIIirS MILL. great impor tance. that Ibo. Crown prosecutions. —Mr. Lajj ouohere hoped the House —Lord Lovain h suggested would not follo w the advice of Viueount Goniaucii moved the second reading of bill should be read a second time then, and with - Sir John Pakington , who this bill , and oxplained would deprive the resolution of any its object. It was proposed by dra wn , on account of the lateness of the season. —After meanin g, or dilute tho bill that all persons who na it into a mere tr uism.—The Soliojt or-Gk neral enter into partnership, some further discussion, tho second reading was affirme d ex- well aa all persons who tvado in any. other name thmi by 136 to was then pressed liis ' regret at the charge s implied in tho speeches 33.—A motion by Mr. Pauix thei r own , or under tho indefinite appellation of a com- agreed to, to tho effcot that the bill be committ ed tha t of Lord Hotham and Mr. Divett again st members of the pany, shoul d bo bar , and called for the ground of required to mak e known to the public day three months. those charges, for Avho und what they ar e ; and that for that purpose their which he believed there was no foundatio n whate ver MISCUIX.AN UOUS 1UISINKHS . . names should be entered upon a register open to tho in- On. the order for resuming tho debate upon the motion —Mr. Serjeant Dba sy, on the part of tho bar of Ire land , spection of full y concurre d with the Solicitor-General. nil those who desiro to obtain tho informa- for an address for a Royal Commission to inquir e int o —The Arr on- tion tha t such a. registry would afford. Ho dwel t upon t he , nky-Gbkkral considered tho motion both uncalled for system of businosB of the establishment at Wecdon and utmeceaaar y, * t he licccsHity for such a registry, as a means of apprising Colonel lioLi>icuo moved thut it should be dischar ged , and etato d that tho law officers of tho> the public of the Crown would bo pTovonted b real position of a firm before entering intending to bring tho subject forward on the next night y it from exercising thoirr into dealings with it duties in Parli ament. In regard to the Indian , and reminded tho House tliat, of Supp ly.—Dissatisfaction was expr essed by Mr * claims» through tho want of such information , frauds had which enme occasionall y before Parliament , member s been Nicola, and Mr. Conimgham , but ultimatel y the orde r ofF practis ed nnd losses had been incurred. Two instances was discharged. No. 431, Jtjxe 26, I858.J THE LEADER. 605 ¦ ^^^^^ " ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ ^ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ i ^ lHMi Mr. Housfall ob t ained leave to bring in a bill tc> Courts of Queen 's Bench and Common Pleas in Ireland , Government held themselv es make letters of credit transfer able. with free to alter this, if the resp ect to the defects in the form of the affidavits jud gment of the House should be against the clause. The remaining business having been disposed of, thei generall y adopted for reg istering judgments on. mor t- As to finances House adjourned at twent y , he had hear d nothing, read nothing, min utes past five o'clock. gages in Ireland ; and whethe r it was his intention to which had led him to believe that those bring whose fortunes Thursday, June 2£th. forw ard any legislative measure during the pr esent depend on the security of Indi an finance would have session in. consequence of such decisions. — Mr. White- their secur ity in the slightest degr ee THE SEIZURE OF THE REGITCA CCELI. side diminished. There In the House of Lords , the Earl of Malmesbur y, remarked that this was a very delicate question , was a provision in the bill to send out a commission to alluding to the former discussion on the seizure of the ; but he hoped to introduce a measure upon the subje ct investigate tbe finan cial state of India. He believed during the present session. Regina Cceli and massacre of the crew by the negro ^ this to be necessar y ; bu t, as it had excited great oppo- emigrants on board , read a French official report of the ! COMMISSIONED FOR EXHIBITION OF 185 1 B ILL. sition, he would withdra w the clause, and consult with transaction , and a letter from Captain Croft , of the s On the ord er for considering this bill as amended , a the Governor-General as to how th e investi gation could Ethiope stea mer, to Mr. Newnham , the English Consul discussion arose upon an amendment moved by Mr. best be made. " In conclusion, Lord Stanley remarked at Monrovia , describing the circumstances und er which Wilson with reference to a plot of land of twelve acres that, after all, the main adminis tration of Indi an affairs the Ethiope took possession of the Regina Coeli when in over which he thoug ht the Government should retain is in India , and that any such bill as that they were dis- the possession of tie negroes. It appeared from Cap- a contro l, for its appropriatio n to publ ic purposes not cussing is only a bill to provide bette r machinery for tain Croft 's statement that he considered the negroes as connected -with science or art. This amen dment , how- the control of the Indian Government. Therefore , he pirates , and that he claimed the vessel he rescued from ever, was ultimatel y negatived on a division , by 126 to did not pretend to say that this measure wo uld remove them as a prize to the Ethiope. The French commander 81, and the bill was ordered for the third reading. all abuses and grievances which have been complained of the Regina Cceli (Simon), who escaped the massacre of in connexion with Indi a, but he had proposed to by being on shore at the GOVE RNMENT OF INDIA (NO. 3) BILL. create a substitute for a provisional form of Gover n-, time of the outbreak , had never Lord Stanle y lost sight of his vessel, had made attempt s to retake her moved the second reading of this bill, ment—a Government carrie d on by a commercial com- -with the assistance of the local Militia and and observe d that , the genera l princi ples of tne bill pany which has ceased to be occupied with commerc e. some forty having been alread y sanctioned b Americans whom h-e had hired for the purpose , and had y Parliament , the de- Mr. Bri ght said he did not rise to oppose the bill, final ly established a kind of blockad e tails would be more appropriatel y discussed in com- which , if there were a division , he should support ; but of the vessel by mittee. u The Governmen t propose d means of row-boats. It was in this state of things tha t to accept the ¦he could not but thin k there were many imperfection s the Ethio pe, number of member s of the council which was affirmed in it, an d he hoped that , unless it were materiall which had been sent for by Mr. Newnham , b y the Consul , arr ived, and seized the Regin a y the committee the other day, namel y, fiftee n. The altered, the bill would be supersede d five years hence as Cceli as a present number of those engaged in the pri ze, against the pr otest of Captai n Simon , claim ing analogous posi- the bill of 1853 was then being;. What were the salvage for so doing. tion was eigh teen, and thoug h it would be very easy at changes required in the administration of our The insurgent Africans subse- any future time Indian quently plundered the cargo of the ship, and dispersed on to reduce the number propo sed, if ne- Empire ? "What is the condition of the people of shore. The Regina cessary, it "would not be consistent for them , if they re- India ? The greater number of them are in ;Cceli was taken from the Ethiope duced the number a state of by two French ships of war. Lord Malmesbury from eighteen to a much smaller extreme impoverishment , dejection , and suffering. In- added nu mber , to reverse that decision by increasing that Captain Simon. " protested again st being save d," or the num- dustry is neglected , and perjury prevails in the courts of being called on to pay salvage ber. It was proposed that seven out of the fifteen mem- justice. Public works have been neglected , as he had never lost bers of the council , and there are sight of his ship; and , unde r the circu mstances should be elected by the Court of more road s in a single English county than can be found , it was Directors , cut of those who were or had doubtful if any one had a right to take possession of been of their in the whole of India. The city of Manches ter has spent a her. -—After some remarks b own body. In this the Government were carry ing out larger sum in supplying the inhabit ants with vrater y Lord Brou gham and Earl a preceden t laid down in , than Gre y (who were both inclined to believe that the the Act of 1853, and consid er- the East India Compan y have spent in four teen years on ing the inconven ience of working new machinery negroes had been kidnapp ed, and , being virtuall y slaves, with public work s of every kind throughout their vast domi- ¦were justified in rising), the subject dropped . new men at the same time, the House would feel that it nions. " Was there any better test of a Government was desirab le that in the council there The order of the day for considerin g the report of should be a con- than the state of its finances ? and yet going back throu gh the reasons to siderable por tion of those who at present admi nister the all the pages of Mill , (they would find tha t be offered to the House of Commons for affairs the normal insisting on the amendments to the Oaths Bill of India. He proposed that the process of elec- condition of the Indian Government had been a con- , was tion in tins case should follow nomina tion postponed till the following Th ursday. —Lord B no ugham . ; that the dition of deficit and bankruptcy. If that -were so, he withdrew his Transfer of Real , election should take place within thirty days after the contended that the Government which rul ed. India was Estate Bill, hop ing passing of t he that some legislation on the subject -woul d be possible Act; and that t he nomina tion should a bad Governmen t. It had cost more to govern India next session.—Their Lordshi ps then adjourned. take place within fourteen days ; so that it would be than the Government had been able to extort from thfi left to the discretion of the Crown to see whether any T^VWTHTV' t~ *f\T*-T*fXT>ATHITklkX UTAUr 1 tiT/w t»*tt people by any system of taxation. It cost more than oiners rro m tne same Doay should ne selected as nomi- thirty millions a year to govern tha t country - The At the morning sitting of the House of Cobimons , nees of the Crown. This provision would also meet on the motion for going into committee on gross reven ue was about thirty millions. Tfiey got all this] bill, t he objection to placing so large an increase as fifteen thsy could Mr. Rolt moved, as an amendment , that the bill be' sen t from the population , but it was not enough new offices in the hands of the Crown. The patronage for the pur pose, and they had to borro w from them and back to the select committee , with the petition of the would be divided between , the Crown and the Com- Corpo ration of London, presented on the 28th of others to carr y on tbe government . There were last pan y. Vacancies , it was proposed , should be filled always May, and that the Corporation of London be heard by deficits to be made good by loans. The up. alternatel y by the Crown and the Company. debt amounted to sixty millions sterling , and was their counsel , age n ts, and witnesses , before the committee It was pr oposed that the council should on the allegations in such sit for life. constan tly increasing ; and , while it was increasin g, petition. He urged that the bill There were objections to a life tenure of the office ; but interfered with the ri ghts of propert y, by taking away their credit was failing, partl y because they had not the Gover nment thought the balance of advantages was treated the creditors on one or two. occasions from the corporation , without compensati on and without in its favouT. In order to avoid the evil of having very a hea r ing, dues which come within t he stric t definit ion very honour abl y (h ear , Aear), but chiefly on account of aged members in the council , it was propose d that , afte r the calamities which had happened. The gross revenue of " property. " A new and dangerous princi ple of legis- ten years ' service on a salary of 120021 lation was introduced , there should be was thirty m illions ; but , exclusive of the opium revenu e, into the measure —a princi ple a retiring pension of 5002. ; after fifteen years' service opposed to reason , law, and precedent. —The amendment , he had set it down at twenty-five millions. Let not the a retiring pension of 800J. And this pension should be House compare that revenue with the sixty millions was seconded by Mr. Crawford. —Sir Geor ge Gre y a matter n ot of fa vour but of ri ght. The Government revenue rais ed in England ; for twelve days of a man 's said that the argu ments adduced by. Mr. Rolt were thoug ht the business of Leadenhall-street and exactl y the same Cannon- labour in India was only equal to one in England. If a as those which had been dir ected xow should be amal gamated ; that the whole should against the Muni cipal Corporations Act be given sum, say twenty-five millions , were oxipended in , which no one divided into six departmen ts, -with two members of the purchasing now desires to see repealed . The question raised by labour , it would purchase as much as three counc il and. a secretary to each , from whom alterations hundred millions sterling would purcha se in Eng land . him could not be decided by a select committe e. There of policy shoul d be suggested , and fro m were two cour ses whom all corres- The taxation in Indi a had been oppressi ve ; and the open to him—either simpty to move pon dence should go b> the Minister. In committee he that the bill be com mitted that day three months , or, in Government which had imposed that taxati on, and had should supply an om ission in the bill by pro posing a not been able to rule that country, should bo put an end committee , to arg ue against the SGth clause. Im- clause providin g that the council should meet portant concessions had been at least to at once and for ever. How had this great expenditure made , and , if the bill once a week. Qffear , hear. )" Th e question had been put were deferred until next session, ho (Sir George) , been incurred ? The extravagance of the Government liow far would the council act as a check on the Minis- of India was notorious to all should hold himself absolved from his consent to them. ter. The who had ever examined its council would have a moral control only; the affairs. He believed there was not a service under the Mr. Rolt had alleged that the Corpora tion had not been Minister would act as now indepen dentl heard y; but the sun wh ich had been paid at so high a rate as the , whereas there had been a full hearing of all mat- council might state tlieir reasons for their recommenda - ters before the Commission. — Mr. Williams opposed the exclusive civil service of the Eaat Indi a Company. " t ions, and call on the Minister to state his reasons in (Jlear, hear. ) The Governor-General , ruling over amendment ; and Mr. Stuaux Wortle y suggested that ¦writing. As to the Indian army, this discussion mi the Governm ent an empire to -which those of the Emperor s of France gh t st an d over , and hoped tha t the Go- proposed that the civil service should rema in open to vernment would hol d out some hope of an arrange- and ltussia » property subjects in lengths of pestiferous black sludge ou th e sluxres StUr ;t would supervis ion should be extende d to Eritisti lazy aH-wnWachab le.title- for ninety years ,of they of the river at low water—lazy, at-least , to look at , w stat e Egypt. " ^. What «ould be.the thin g^a bu t very potent and active ia the venom t>f tlitir in- ZpZess ? CHINA. a» a* (and no ¦ and that it was the • vn& ot the Queen of Sir Kdiward Lugard enteted . Jugdes i|»re oa the 9tl», tions, of th« Thanu ;s. Tie spoke. .-parti cula rly of tShoee-ertevaiwes snouiu bb remwo™. • . JiMUn g KTcat nuiiftDets oi me reusi s, «iw, vu. h.c .«i«», the stench on leaving ou wor ic on uic evemug oi Mr. Bright of having swopt Corheld TVIr ^W»ra E8iDB-acoufled w**e flyiua south- A jintction with Colonel Thur sday week. He the n , took to-Ida bed» aud was a- light mann er subj ects present ing the utmost Sir Edward. A good deal of fightmg ¦rap stage of Asiatic cholera. Csam x) awnv ia land ten-ores ; waa eSfected l>y idly in the wor st diffie ttfcte ft—par ticular ly the quest ion of rebels ensued, and: tbe enemy were driven tremities set. in , and dea th on Sudiday re- of our Eastern- de- >with tho u in the ex Hw scheme for the government into the jungles, from which, however," says the lieved the poou man from his agonies. At tlte in- t ough no doubt in pemleney was altogether untena ble, h Foreign-office telegram, " it would be difficult to disr ques t (as we read in tlie daily pape r s)— — Inam- v instant ** of' annexat ion of territory there had waa examined , and deposed to her hus ^ At . the-same " The widwv Ateen ft want o* the princ iple of legality. •JlV Hugb- Rose halted on the 12th of May at band complaiai ng of a great nausea when.be came home a» general sweeping- censmes of the East India uttack, and on= the following dajr could not eat anything as time* good results Aramker, near C oiv Thursday evening- He Oompany Were repre hensible ; He augur ed marched on Etyal», three cosa from Calpee. lhe he said he.could not, , get the stench off Ms lungs. ^Mr. ifem tWe 'schemebefore the House*—M r. Pete r O BHien position iia his, front,, and had gentleman) said these was no doubt^ view insurgents, were in English (a medica l Kopeck that : religions- freed om would be kept in joined at Calpee by tlie Nabob of fienda and the had been br ought oil by lubahng had Vkrn on; Smith been that the attack , as-one of< the- grea test objects .—Mr. Kanee of Jhansi- They had made a bridge for air. Near Irongate- sUirs, where the deceased work ed, u l.il.. w. n^tn.Ki.'a smmaitidiiwhether India mich esea-pe-. across a!uw ' tiT...minin... . n » , a«unv^ rl ».«i»1-aail ' *»»^«»«^^aati>rh\ronv— ' "t.nfi empue s ltsexc uiuu uie u>='i «••*• •.•—.-~«- . any Gover nor * a large sewer not be divided into presiden cies, with out road from Jh anai. to prevent the passage of artillery . via arising from it -waa most oflfensive. Several of the Genera l was wort hy of considerati on. Still , he- thought h Rose is reported to bave attacke d them on pre sent dangerous condition of the i numfeer Sir lliig Ue jury alluded to the temer central autho rity would be requ ired. The ult. ; hu ^ no. taii s are yet given. CSt. Katherine and Londo n) in that would be the WtU river and tli e dock s of'counciHow proposed by the bill (Bfteen) Some important items of news are thus , given by the hasins of wluch could ouly be com- indeed , pro vided- a neighbou rhood , eumbrous - an * inconveni ent: the bill, ihe< Times Alexan drian corr espondeafc :— ; pared to large cesspools. The water was as black as Ott- tlve whole, however ^he was th in General Hbp ;e Grant s the sort - 06 shorn responsib ility. ^ Luekno w ceutened , ink , and emitted a most poisonous vapo ur over cwdraHy suppo rted the, bttP, which only differ ed slightl y , by 2&,0O0 men under the Begum. a reproac h to the larg e dock that , absen ce sonthwar d whol e distri ct. It was from Ltod FWrnersto n's.—Colonel Svkes suggest ed 16tb Sir Colin. Camp bell, leaving a strong , force they had not done someth ing toward s should consist of Oa the v companies tha t if tne Hou se decided that the council under General WaJ pole. mawhed for Fufctebg hur , where remedvinsr this state of thin gs, -which eiidangered the oe cuvKiea mw suree fifteen members , tlie num bershoul d. he¦ waa on the 18tU. lives of the whole populat ion 5u the district. Mr ,- Eng- committee s/ and - also expressed hw hope that a provision . is re ported with the enemy undei - the forema n, said there , was no doubt for *' A sUlrm isb lish, in answer to tbe twrafel be- inserted 'in the- bill' giving th e Minister 5000 cavalry and 60QO; infcuitry , lay be- condition of the. water in the docka was very of India. —^Mr Moolviei t he present Itoliei some control - over- the finances tweea th e, Gomrnande r-inrChief : a»d Mobutady * On the detrimental to the publ ic health. The air was charg ed Ito uBtx ; saM< lie underst ood that a very important .eonn ex-pected next day, the «neiny This was the first case of of Dwee- arr iva l of- reia^cceiaen ta *. with a noxious vap our. nwrnicfttion had been addresse d by the Cdurt as,to. fee dj ri\-«a. from Mobundy . Si».Colin Campbell that had occurred in the neigh bourhood . subject of tow bill j w Asiatic cholera tow to" the ' Gover nment upon the had ;crossed , the Gaogea . Theilueat waa. inten se^.and the The coroner observed there could be no di.ubt us to the attd We wished to know whether there wuld be any unhealt hy. The garxiaon waa reduced being prejudicia l to the this docu- troo pa ntLucknovw ! state , of the rive r and the docks objection to lay before the House a: copy oT 2*0jft inf«itttr.y. and it was to be hoped tha t every possible of her M»jest yV Govern- to public health , ment ' together with the reply- " KJum . BaWadoor and . Uana Suhib had atta cked precaution would bra taken to mitigate the evil. A ju ror to it.—Mr. Bokbock dfented 'th * bill alto gether, Sliahje hanpore , but were , re- a, warning .to the ment , General Jones's poaitiott at trusted that this case would operate as uropheried ' that the- state of thing s it• institute d loss: of Forster. aid«-d«rcarop» it is to protect th e pub lic and. would pulsed, with tho proper authori ties whoso duty wowM 'aoon tumble to pieces, and tte.t the count ry Sin gh had , crossed the Ga»ge9, and men aced then retur ned a ver dict , ' t liat tho proposition - for go- " Ome* health. The .jury tt the tsn d be obliged to revert to his the.Botnbay route from Allvghu r. Qo.tho l»tl» Colone l the effect of an attac k of Asiatw unhampered' bv any Counc lL deceased died from vemio s India by a Minister Lishtfoot , whoi ha«L been left at Jug deapore , was1 cholera , broug ht ou by inhaling the noxious vapou r of anu nr ing cuuw ue - nearu *. «w«ai ««g»» ¦ -a time; yielded attacKed, the Thames. L, . ffirretl' to «eo regislatfon for-India -tialt • for intended moving; hack on J ugdcsporo. Gurney has addressed a letter to the fopeaker that legislation should proceed: Mr. tothe Wfch of tab H6n» e " A conspiracy has boea discovej odr ia a wing of the of the. House of Coinmons, to say that ho can no He t»reftr red the presertt bill to the previous bills. Native , Laiantry in the Pui\jftb. The consp ira- health of the House, arid the- cont- Fourth. longer be responsible for the The bill was then read a- second time ; toms. were hanged , and the. wing at once- marched to the stencil having made rapid advances witli m two mittee -was appointed for the folio wing day. of Shunda , in Nagpove , on the, which had lniherto was read a Jullunclu r. The. Raja h days. Even tho Star Chamber, The Nist Pnius Ootm -r (iRRfc awd) Bil* 1 Hj'derabad fcontiar , has.broken into open re bellion. been com paratively free from the malaria, has. now thrrd timci awl passed ; and; other bills having been ad- import.ma rket , has slightl y improved. of the clerks have been 'clock; " Toe Calcutta become intolerable. Several vanced! a »ta ge»the House adjourn ed at one o Produc e continued dull. The money marke t is un- forced to get up and leave their rooms in tlio "'g"r - uunujj ^u. looking out on-we TMR OltlE^X. THB PCNJ AB. aicrosa the windows of the House y part of May, greet apprehension was bu t this mitigat ion of tho evil is iw , 1 In tl»e-earl Thames ; as EGYPTi felt at Meean Meer that nnother revolt would burst slight. Meanwh ile, peop le crowd tlie steamb oats , We learn (says .the Mbminff SUt- *); by papers furnished 1 Sepoys at that stntion, aa n comment s are utter ed uy - and | out amoxig -the H8j that a petitl6 n> signed "b y lord Henry Scott , modaot ceUbmtinar thts first anniversary of the rising. the nassenirers. We henrd a portl y policeman , yea- leuatng -mercantile ano uan King tirmre, \ , afcxty-three ©rthe AIL th command with the sewago of the metropolis:— tnl n police regulatio ns recentl paraded , on the morning: of to constru ct cm- Government , which would subject thorn to I atationj had tbe Sepoy & " Tho prop osition now submitted i3, Egyptia n tl«)i 7th of May, when they were searched , nnd a few bankir.cata detached fro m the shore , in . the form o Mohamme dan jur isdiction , Instead of the Consulate I bui anna were , discovered on thorn. Some of the men ndvanccd terracee , continuo us on the surfa ces, turladlctl on under whifth exclusively, ns they contend , aut4iosit iea the >"«cr between tho Subltme P^>rte and tier I were taken i parisodacra; bat the military \flbrdin g-, at convenient distances , entran ces to accordin g to treaties have rat lier endeav oured to hush the mat ttr up. by the Coinniw- Miriest v. all such police matter s should 'fall. The Paoha basins , «>n the principle reeommonded 8ionor8 oi Metropolis improvem ent , in uivu ^i-v - - lias issued ' n genoral' ordinance establis hing a central ' MR. RUSSELL. emban kment , Alexandria lor these purp oses, with a dir ector of The Ttmea of yesterday has the subjoine d grati fy- 18-14. In tho interior of tlieBO lengths of office at a. scries of separate reservoir s would bo focoicd i nto poKce, an " adjoin ^" iind a " snmcient number of iijispisc- ing annou ncement: ;— ^ »«w J " The directors " will have the ' " Our reactors will participate in the satisfaction with whic h the whole of tho sewers of tho , metro itoW s tbw and Rhvasses . would Imvc their ofcertu pertuteiMlence of tho office of police of foreigners ," which we announce, the receipt , of intelligence this discharg ing directl y into . tli e Thamea recovery from outfall . The solid matters would there be separate d nil" and w.rrh the newly cwited force ho is to Irave power to morning * by telegraph of Mr. KusselTa deodoriz- vUlta aml eoarc Mea in hotels and fnrni ihed houses the aun-atrok o by which he had been id osjtrate d on the precipita -t ed, nnd Jthe liquid treated with some Eake ing- agent before diachargo. . spt by fKreVgnera. Then follow rulos concern raK the njarctv from Futte ^hur to Bareillj with the column tnp establishments tlie latest date 44 Intercept ing sewers ; would cut off the whrolo of arriva l of •ftnrei i(ner» , .their resid ence and , under Sir Co)tn Campbell. At , ho wits oour co tBiitifoa ld 'db credir' to B riwlghbt»urltt ft prerfecttire: rPhto 'at Fotteghur j and * which itself belongs. wroukl. reuwttt at res t a sufficient length of tinve to depo- Mr. W. W. Buere toit, Q.C., of the Munster Circuit , J) a . Arnold. the. liquid being regularly ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦ sit its: suspeuded matte *, has been appoint ed to the Assistant-liam sfcershi p of . ; . . FRANX3E. discljj arged except in tisae of flood , during ebb tide , and Ker py, vacate d by Mr. Macd erntott—a post to which , ^ ia | The super cession of General Esp inasse by M. Delmele below low-water level. attached an income of 11O0J. a year. as Min ister of the ^E ngiflaipower would be provided capable of raising Int erior w ill lead to some other Pkinck At.fked ik Cork. —The Admiralty stenm- changes . The post of Secretar y-Gener al of the.Miuistrv into , these terrace- reservoirs* fro m the- low-level districts , yacht Black Eayle entere d Cork is to be abolished ibe,-itmeimatnt,flaw of sewage together with rain fall at harbouu>oi * the inorning , and vari ous chan ges are to- bo made , of Friday ' week , with his ltoyal High ness Prince Alfred among the Prefects and sub-Prefec ts. th» rate.of cue inch in depth in twentj '-four liours , but on board . He was ' A project is bein- tfca-«apae ity of the reservoirs -would be sufficient to receive /attended by tlie Rev. Mr. Jolly ,. talked of for cutting a latera l canal Royal Navy ; Dr. Wint ei*, an d Lieutenant Co well, K.E. m connexion with the river Rhone. Beginning at the even a lavg/tr aoaount by gravitation from the high-level Ar dechC j ugrbfiS/ districts , a»d to retain The vessel steamed up the river as far as Passage , where it will condu ct the waters , of th at. T!ueam by it long enough to- ensure she was put about an d returning to the various valley th« separation of the immen se, quantities of offensive , harbour be- s as far as Aij-ues- Moitea. Er»m that - sejkl matter , tween twelve and- one o'clock, proceeded to> sea. The point to . the sqa, it is to be of sufBcient depth to, onea an . brought dowu fiton* the. sewers du ring heavy Prince oa Wednesday , easy communication rains. It ; is rarely on more thai t two or three days ia a visited Valencia , where he is to with the Mediterrauea jj . ye tkat a faH of raitt exceeds, remain for a day or two, and where he has visited " On June 12th/' says the Dully News Paris , corre- a* tie dept h of an inch, Derrynan e Abbey, the jseat spondent a»d. the excess which , would be directl discharged from of the late Daniel O' Connell. , " an individual named Dassaud de Ne\ reje, y 1 belongino; to the tiks- sewers 011 such occasions-w-ould caus e no appreciable T»e EaKL OF EGLINTO- tTN AT THE NATIONAL BbAIiD. unfortun ate categ ory of ' pai-doned pollution of the- river. —The Earl of Eglrntoun paid a second visit on Monday political offenders ,' was sc-nteneed to six . nwHrths ' im- u The solid matters preci pitated in the reservo irs to the model schools of the National Board of Education , prisonm ent and a fine of 500f. for speakin g evil of tlie would , Emperor. A man be pumped away in the form of slud ge through pi es in and ; having attentivel y listened to the examination ofc' named Lcger Ferre ", carpen ter and p poet, has also connexion -with , the -wbo-l& ©f' the rcserroirs , and carried the children in the several branches of education ,, been tried for au insult to. the. Emperor . out to sea, if no- opportunity should arise for the bene- addressed the pupils in a few kind and sensible words. On- Easte r Monda yi he accompan ied the. fra ternity of ticiaJ. employment of thb material. That this compara- Law Appointjients.—It is announced that Mr. lio- carpe nters of Ghartres in a pro cession, which it Ls their wout to hold on tively saia j l proportion of the. , whulet, sewage of the me- bert Long and Mr . Yelverton O'Keefe having resi gne d! t h at day, and after dinBe*-; he aan g a .may the- offiices of Registrars ribald song of his own comppsitioa, entiUad ' Gomfes- trop ^iis. he profitably employed-,, however, upon , of the Court of Chancery ', th«i sions exteasive tracts-of batten land especially fitted , to receive- Hon. Hen ry Sugden becomes Registrar , and Mr. Wil- of the Emperor to the Archbi alaop of- Pju-j^' It manuce ia so convenieat a focm tkere ctiu belittle doubt ; liam I>wyer Ferguso n , LL.D., was moreover proved t hat Uq oppeared in the stree ts with ¦ is appointed Joint Re- a red cockade ub i.^jf' the/ heavy expense * of the. puecipjtati ug and deo- gistrar } Mr. "William Drury, b-arrisier-at- law , is ap- in his hat , and cried ' Vive la B^p l ique !' iLojastiag. ,, poiHted Assistant For these offences the Chartres tribunal sentenc ed wor ks and «f transmission , of the nxanuie to. the Registrar. Mr. Ferguson 's office 5s * hitn Luid wUich it' tell worih 1500/.,. and Mr. Drtny ' to three months impri sonment. The Government , not ^ j. such exp^nsa oa.th e.cons umer , as be- s lOOOi. per annum * The thinki ng iwre ^ poiuted out, would, ill: all., ordinary cases pr event any new appointmen ts are pop ular. the punishm ent severe enough,, appe aled a yrO jStable. re,lu.ro,, would,here.have , feeea alread y incurred ; Cjhak gi; minima , and has obta ined a jud gment of twelvemonths " Sisuious against a Militia Officer. —The. The Mdmonat ¦oa behalii ef the,. public The.value of this, sludge ma- ing' des Pyrenees of J une 17th gave tlie K s County Quarter Sessions grand jury have foun d; following account of an nure , wraxld b^ very great , and there would remain only true bi lls of indict ment against Mr. extr aordinary attac k upon several Charl es Clavering public functi onaries at Orthez:—- tA be. deduct ed from that value the cost of arrangeraeats Wardte , late a lieuten ant in the Lanark Militia , for ob- " Gn June i4t.li at oa tWlaud itself for disirth mion oii the manure. . . . :.. about eleven in the evening, t he Sub-P refect of vhe' ar- tainin ", when on detachment at Phili pstown , 1 7?. ftora ron dissement , the Pre sident "** These.iiopffovements may appea r to-be on too gigaa-r Mrs. Elieu Quiun a shopkeeper in that town of the Tribun al, the Pro cu- ^ , on the 8th re ur-Imp erial , the Mayor of Orthez tic a scahvto allow ofi any hope oE th air realis ation. A of Marc h, under false pretences , by giving her an order and his assistan ts liber ^U.estimate ^, however, shows that anil some other persons , eleven in all, left the Chat eau , exclusive of the on Messrs . Armitt and: Boroug h, who returned the order d Argagnoit . jpurc Uass,of properties for the new lines of streets and : dishonoured. TLe They had not pro ceeded far when their * accused not being in custo dy, a carriage s were assai led b tho :w»rkin g: expenses of dealing with, the sewage,, they beoch warrant w as ordered to issue for his arrest. y a party of twent y meii, who way ho exeoat ed. fijr 3j25Q , thre w stones and utter ed menacing cries. The windows ,0O0t sterling , ; and that the of the -total,c©st. for the whole scheme including working , ex- carr iages were broken , and some of the inmate s ^ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' were \hur t—one :: ¦ ¦ ' y ¦' ¦ of them , it appe ars , serious ly. poses and making no .allowance for any return , would - : ¦ ¦ - ¦/• The men * : - - - . , ; AMERICA. . ; got talL far hel«B;. thft aaicuimt estimated aa required for toe< :. clear off ivithou t heing recognized ; but a dog be- worka. hitherto , contemp lated siiap-ly foe > conveying the The excitement on the subject of the English aggre s- longi ng to one of them- was seized, and will doubtless sewagstof. the, metropolis to. Seat K»ae b." sk>B8 o«n American shi ps is gra du ally dying out. On afford a clue to the discover y of the rurffllba. We are entirel y at a loss the 7tb inst., an amend oient in the Senate providin g ¦ ¦ to account for this outrage. " The sickening exhaLatiot *a have, likewise invaded ¦ The ^-Ao t/e ^'^^ajonrnal the courts of law and almost beaten jud fbr the- construction- of ten steam sloops of war , was lost of the Haut-Rbin , gives , ges, jury, the following as an anal ysis of the And. eou*seL out of dooj 5. Oa. Wedu«scl ay> .Lord by a majority of four. Subsequently, an amendmo nt wilt of the late authorizing tho construction of five propellers and one Duches s of Orleans: — " Her Royal High ness place» Campbell in< the Court of Queeu's Bench, aud the two childr e her Lo»«i Chi«Jt 'l5au-Qttia )the side-wlieel steamer-for the China soas was carrie d, by a n under the protectio n of the Queen Maria Court of Kxcueq ^er, spoke Amelio and their uncles; of the iatoleca itle nuisatace of: the river * A. medical , majority of ons. An amendment giving tho Presidani j expresses a wish tha t tha pow er to issue letters of marque in certain cases was Comte de Pa ris shall be declare d of age and pray s ge&vtem&n ia th e fosiu«r coturc g.avo it,as his opinion de- Quee , the th»fc ; feated by a imvjority of thi rty-fouri A bill making n to be the guardian of the Due de Chartres. Ad- it was dangero.ua to> bireatlie the atiuo& phere as, ; dressi ng her sons it then was.. Malaria , appropriations for the Transatlantic mail service has , the Duch ess exhor ts them to take for uud perhaps- typhus fever ,, then- model the pru dence of migfeo eeurnev Lurd,Usinmbeli accordingly ott esed to. bee n reported. Unusual activity is reported to pr evail their gran dfather and tlie in thB> Navy-yanl , Brookl yn. chivalrous virtues of their fath er, and expre sses a hope •ttd tjourifc thei court , if the jury pteasod ;. but. they that they will never dtaete d to reuuiijaL A strange report is mentioned by the Ncto York a bandon the political prinei. lea; of q£ Herald thei r house, which fheir grandfather maintained dur ing A^itbitt <; thei laat caution. That journal says:— years he was on the throne , and w hich few days, fish takea , by the: " Startling developments their lat her , as pro ved iiaml out oi tse river ivt»v the new ClHilsea-rbrut are qu. the eve . of being, made of tho intention s of tho by his will, energctic aJlv pro- ge.: fessed. After a few touching word s of lTwot aj ro atupiiie d by tbe pow«#n t but , on being .European. Powers to aid in the formation of a Centr al adieu to l'Vance, the Prin cess divides the bulk of her fort une equall y jtattfidr. io. a buefcfitt of- jMtre wale»> they revive. AnNjrican Confederacy, having Costa Rica as the leadt tween h be- ing. State and inuilejia around which is to er two sons. Her Royal Highness also leaves , bo combined , legacies to members throug h the- powfcv of niouoy and other means , a bu rriisi! of her family in GetrmaH v and to, paiiHion a to old servants ." The Conoto de Cliambord tho extension of the area , and influen ce, of the United has wr it IREIiANJD. Statjia. AU tho. Isthmus routes arc to bo purchased. ten « letter of con*k»lanca tot Qiteem Mj uae Costa Itica is A melw oa the occasion of tlio. death , of th e. Duuhasa cf Tas IiiDSAirEMnRB, wliich -\vass». nearl y wrecked last to oftVir apparentl y equal terms as to tho Orkun s. vraeh-, sailed from Gulwray for America last Saturday. transit to all the world. Fr ance and Englnud are to The- opinion in Gal way Ls, that the pilots purposel y led join ia a guaran tee, and the United States will have the " Tlie Lionnes Pmtvre * of M. Emilo Augier," says the. vessel into- daagur on tha previo us Tuesday, offi'r of a partic ipation. The ofter itself would be a de- t he Times Paris correapon dent , "has just been pub- and lished. It that they are ; it*,the pay of certain partie s in Liverpool , ception i its acceptance tho abrog ation of. the pri ncip le is dodicuted toPrlneo Napol eon, wiMtou t whose who look with jealou jy om.the contemplated design of of tliQ Monroe doctrine. " inter venti on it would never have been performe d, and is vaakmg ' Galway a pack Qt-at *tio*i for New Turk. At Tito Senate Committee on Finance having preceded by a preface which makes some amusin g reve- resolved to lationa respecting ps«eeut r howoverv them ia no evidence calculated to cou- change the. terminus of the Collins lino of steamer * from the dramati c censorshi p. Among other things , it is said trrau suehr a saapioion ; but tba. twa pilots huve been Liverpool to South ampton *, its service will bo coin-, tha t the author made ajhnnte da aentated. andi committcd for trial.. inanc ud. again , immediatel y. chambr e aay to Muda me Pommoau , the lionne pauvr e : Anitwim Muiuxkkv — ' I hear Monsieur Ponimenu ; run to u imiau him :' Mr. Danielof IVIatliat , a, Scotch TUo Mormo jia are said to havo given up all idea of and geatlenuart holding a. lar ^« amount landed property fighting ; but tho. reports from the Suit Lalco tlie censor ship wrote ii» tho m.irK in , » Tlik» ia indocent. ' distr ict Aftop the- p aboat fiiur ntl«a from- U^aUiaasloo, baa been ali«t by one are vory comradlctory . The story that Captuiu Murcy 's hrase , ' Ask for a week's delay—there is no ••jf baa lahou tun while riding :. o.ver hia proper ty. The tr ain, hud boon, cut oil' is coutrudi ctcd. Eng lishman so much an Ara b as ,' t he censors hip wrot e, An wouWhJw * assassin was crouithed bohiad a dit«:h v undoi - " The New York papers ," says tho Tim es, " continue ' utta ck oa the alliance.' After tlie phraac , •cotwi of. a suiaU haa el buah ; and , having discha rged to dUcuss tho attitude ot' tho Uuited States towards ' Thes« turpi tudes ar« ho- secret to Punaf t,' was written hia gua , he. at once left and- proceeded , to his cottag e. Hicmngua and the other potty the remark , ' I3ad taste. ' 'At all the stages of society, 1 republics of Centra l t hey Mr. Mutlxar (though awewjly womul«d) shouted to America. Tho mission of M. VeUx. lielk-y to. those ro- -w rote , ' Dangero us.' M. Augier adds: — 'I ask some of hid lahquvera to, give tlkd alarm ; but they g ioiiH , and the nsuiuiiption that hu came aa special agent par don of the censorn for violating tho socrot of tlieir jrafused all aaaistance, and. saW. Hi»y did not know o£ tlio Kinporoi cf tho iwuch charged to n deliber ations , but they havo aot tho examp le by not tho l^ , ygotiaio , for keeping wh^ao; poUce barra efca \v«re. All the imnatea of the tho establishment of a IVvuc U protectora te, hud givun a it themHel vea. One of them even a in used him- «oU«gtt Sw« ta tho ohiWreu , kopt close in. doora j now interest to tlio question , it does self by going about proclaimi ng evorywhoro tha t our l>ut not appear , how- pieco o»o Pa * Colohan has be«n art eaUd on. tlio infoeinntion ever , to havo titinnp ire d. ut Now York that ho had >vaa a turpi tude!* " ofiMkr . Mather. Ho had been smumomi d by.t liat.yeu- actuall y obtained from Nicarug .ua. and Coat a liku, a Tho Memorial de LiOis says that Lieutenants Courtfol , tlaman «8>» tre&pausar for retainin if iioasottsion «f a houao ; couco&aion for cutting tho contemplated Ocsuuiu Canal , Rogd, and llyenno will shortl y bo tried by one of tho and Ur: Mathe r had : «luo evicted somct two permanent *N- It of hia smaU to- Whfin tlii« news ahull have been r(iceiv«(« , the feeling on court s-martial of tho 3rd mititury divi- —^ o«a *^ instated however, tkak . he treated thvin witli the subjec t will doubtless be propurtiooabl incr «us«d sion sitting at Lille, for tho purt they took in tlio dual mkunHky * y , aaiLi lUadua ss,. si net) for years past it luis been understoo d that , in tho with M. de Peno. Tuufi CnL iM* Rton pjLTrDuiiuM.—Tho Qmnd Jur y, constr uction of tluit or auy other woxk for faciUtuting The aft»r an long: Paxia Cooference boa been temporaril y suspon ^d, ucoinit MiUaa o£ witiiMacs. on tltcr bilk pr e- tha. postage acvoas. N icaragMa , American citizens have owiiuj to, tha illness, of tho Turkish p ienip^tittutiary. ¦mcM. •gUMt ^oloiwl Bmkwm »ud. th«. policy atun *tinto , iWMnp Aivo, if not u[> " wfic, tUiUta. . M* V*>'rdViimt tW -Tine- CRIMINAL RECORD. .ever intended or desired , directl y or indirectl y, to coun- gating. Moa t of the order would have been off to MuitDicns my Maniacs. —A man named Henry Arnold , tenance or encourage tho crime of assassination , and Crcmorno with tho golden waif, an escaped pauper lunatic fro m the Iloxton Asylum, has that he is rea dy to expre ss, his regret that such a con- The great libel cose of Gough v. Lees waa tried on killed a Miss Saru h Jane Butler , a young- lady aged Btruction can have been put on any publica tion to which Monday in tho Cou rt of Exchequer. Dr. Loos, a tcin- twenty-five , residing near Chcshunt in Hertfo rdshire. he has been a party . I understand that my learne d perunco lecture Sho and her siater wcro walk ing out about half-past frie nd r, had (in a private letter) accused Mr . , Mr. Jam es, u read y to offer to you and to my Gou.ru , the well-known teetotal advocate , of being ; re- eight o' clock in tho evening, when they saw Arnold »p- TtBC B LEAD BR. [ISTo. ^gl, yuNE g0, 1858, V® ' the apartment. An inquest was her Majesty 's ship Excellent ; Captain . Jerning ham, if ^ --— close atmos phere of 's ship Cambrid ge ; and Commander bodies and the jury returned a verdict of her Maj esty M'Ken - held on the , of her Majesty 's shi p Excellent, sit dail y a' Wilful" Murder " against Mad ame Brand widska , and of zie, t the SZXar repUto that be «, " herself. Koyal Naval College, Portsmo uth, to revise the book of t^ZZX no "--alarmed. Th« Telo desei as app lied to the destruction of gunne ry arid r^that there was necessity Tra gedy.—A ter rible story came out in instruc tions for naval to take into con- ' them he began beating- A Domest ic siderat ion several other important matters nrn nent the rtaa approac hed on Monday before the Worship-st reet . magis- connected face and head w»th a bludgeon , evidence with the efficie ncy of the naval service in that and Sisa Butler about the trate . Charlo tte Morr is, a woman of thirty, who ap- fell senseless, when he walke d away. Mrs , char ged w*th similar branches. win -she ra ise any peared in a state of wild excitemen t , was Bwve was bo terr ified tha t she could not attempting suicide. She had Reinforc ements for Ihdia. —Orders were issued: on of a cottage aMn.e makin " a disturba nce arid reinf orcements , . givipg aWm ; but a man who came out time past in the habit of going, whfle Tu esday for an aggregate of the maniac , accompa nied by-a been for some men of ,all ranks , to ormbark for Indi a. Other re- iini« went in pur suit of intoxica ted , to the lodgings of her mother , who refuses 5000 , mliceman. When taken to the police stati on at Upd- nuisan ce at inforcem ents have also been ordered. , and to see her, and creating a great noise. The tfesden, Arnold seemed quite calm and collected that the owner of the Coukt Martia l.—-Mr. Jonathan "Tanner Sparke , woman about tbe length grew to so great a bead steam-sloop Hecate , sai d he-knew he had been hitting - a woman into custody. While in paymast er of the was tried bycourt hurt liter. The poor youn g house gave the young Tuesday , on board the flagshi p Water loo, bead , but hoied he had not police-cell duri ng the night , she made four attempts martia l on at night. An inque st w^s held on the Sheer ness, for dru nkenness and insubordination . The lady died the same to stra ngle herself with portio ns of her clothing, and week, when a verdict of Wilful Murder was re- ¦ ht before charges were declared to ho proved ; but , in consider a- Friday but «t nearl y succeeded in doing so. On being broug turned , in order that the case may go for trial y her : " What is tio n of the high testimonials produced in favour of the the ground of in- 'Mr. D'Eyn court , the magistrate asked adjud coarse Arnold will be Acquitted on lied, looking fixedly at the prisoner , ho was only ged to be dismissed the of Mr. Armstrong:^ s, the meanin g of this ?" She rep sanit y.— Robe rt Powell, an inmate Itmeans that I will destrroy myself. ±sut service. High-stre et, Peckham , has murde red magistrate: " Duke of Cambrid ge inspected , the troops for X«n»iic Asylum, ," from wbat motive?" Pris oner (bitt erly): "Iwas taken The Another of Ihe inmates— a boy twelve years of age—an gentleman— no, no, man , India at Chatham , on Thursday, after which he rnircutel y lad was found an [ I away from my husband by a sudde n access of fury. The poor gentleman he was not—who ran away examined the arrangem ents of the camp. On the * with bis skull fractured. Powell[ I mean , for a Major-Genera l the Hon. Sir James Yorke one of th e cup boards with and then abandone d me, and I am now res olved to same day bad pr eviously been much attacted to him ; and , on will explain Scarlett , K.C.B., commanding the South-west district , boy, rep lied, " It'si destroy myself." Sergea n t Heath: "I beingTasked wby he had killed tlie months ago, a pers on named had a gra nd lield day at Ports mouth , comprising a mock s an angel coining from Heaven what she means , Sir. Some all right , doctor ; there ' with this -woman from the house of hex siege of that fortress. for me." The coroner 's jury, as in tlie , Best ra -n away Williams and the officers of with 10,000*. [ husband , and Best deserted his own -wife to enab le him General. Sik W. F. other case, brought in a formal verdict of Wilful battery entertained on Thursday night Major- ¦ ¦ subsequentl y brought here foi the Royal ' ¦ - : /¦• ¦ ¦ ¦ to do bo. Best was , • • ¦/;.. , \ . . • - - • , Wilson at a ban quet at their mess- Hurder. . abandonwg his wife, and sentenced for that offence to e General Sir Archdale " JiiDDtEs ex. Sessions .—A rather singular case ofioT>- i} room at Woolwich . There was also a review on the on Monday month' s impriso nm ent , and durin g his incarcera tio r ¦fcery was tried at the Middles ex Sessions ' herself with poison.'' common , and a saam battle. »v-»«- I¦ Best's wife, in her grief, destroyed _JPJHJ ¦UlUfiv ^V^'* ¥¥<*O «* *»\»V.»*<-»^*-* » — — - y —• -— — — • — — —- j yhcourt : What is the prisoner s husban d? «n whose premises in St. John-street , Clerkemwell , a fire Mr. P'E " I Prisoner : " He is a clerk in Chancery-lan e." Ser- MISCELLA^EOTI S. broke out on the night of the 31st. Latchford , the pii- ] Oouro j .—The Duke and Duchesa of Braban t went pretended to assist in j geant Heath : " The prisoner , I believe, Sir, is now The goner , who. was one of the crowd , anything more last Saturd ay rnojning to the Tower of London. The the and , suddenl y.seizing' .'hold of Tfix. j without a home, as Best refuses to have ^stingu i»hin ig fire , was remanded for a week. Duke afterwa rds inspected the Eas t India Docks and the a hand he wrench ed a gold rin g off the little to say to her." She Duchess 3haw' , Attem pt to Poison .—A serva nt girl, fourteen years Roy al Mint. In the afterno on , the Duke and linger , with so much violence as to give great pain. Mr. , visited the Duke of age, has:been examined before a bench of magistrates of Bra ban t Land the Count of Flanders IShaw called out; and a policeman stopped Latchford , Duche ss of Sutherland ut Stafford House. —The ch was then picked up and at Leeds on a charge of atte mpting; to murder her mis- and %h6 : dr opped the rin g, whi her in a cup of tea. Prince. Consort went in the afternoon of Wednesday to the owner. The accused was found Guilty. tress by administeri ng arsenic to restored to in revenge for hex mistress charging the Licensed Yietuallerd' Aaylum , Aaylum-roa d, Old Ex-Inspector -Bren nan pr oved that in .1848 the prisoner The act was done foundatioa- her with a theft . The girl has been committed for Kent-road , for the purpose of laying the and sentenced to twelve ' burg lary, ¦ ' ' ' was convicted of ' ' ¦ ¦ : ¦ ' hab it ations on the ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦; ¦ erection of addit ional : ¦ ¦: /:- - . stone for the he had been suni- trial.: ... : _; ...... , month s' bard labour. Since then , cronnd s of the institut ion to be styled the " Albert ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ paa Deen ia cuaiouy ior Buauujg** ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ maial y conviptea , ana. "/ ¦:¦ - ¦ ¦: . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦Win g...... cab and horse. He was a regular and constant ass-o- OBITUARY. Portrai t Galler y.—The first re- that he though t it Me, Jab jodie, G E., is dead . He introduced the The National piate of thieves. The witness added , James port of the tr ustees of the new Natio nal Portrait G allery -lwrt . just to the prisoner to add that he had been of Crawley water into Edinburg h, constructed the Union on Monday , ¦w Dalkeith Railway, and to t he Lords of tlie Trea sury, w;as published assista nce to him on several occasions ./. . ith- respect I Canal , was the engineer of the Parlia ment. The donation s include afterwards stated to Leven. He was bom in 1786 at Apple- by command of io other persons. Latchford drained Loch port raits of Shakspeare (the Chandos picture in the the court (which was very unwillin g to hear him) the gart h, in Dumfriess hire. presented by Lord EUesmere ; William to Brennan. That officer , Eajrl, of 'Glenoa ll died on Tuesday morning, Stowe collection J , nature of the services rende red The Wilbtrforce , Lord Sidmouth , Mr. P-erceval (the assas- lie said , gave him a shilling to go with anotler convicted rather suddenl y, at Cowes, Isle of Wight. He was tbe Mar- Irish Tutor , and sinated Ministe r), Thomson , the poet; Fox, i man to dr ink at a public-ho use, and then he had the the author of the popul ar farce of tUe of Derby , Sir Fra ncis 'denied tyrologist ; Nollekens, Wrig ht, land lord up. for it. This, however , was by Bren- other dramatic works. Chan cellor Talbot , and Mr. T. Stoth ard , ge refused to bear anything The Hon. Arthu r THELX.USSON , youngest and last Burdett , Lord nan , arid tne Assistant- Jud the Royal Acad emician. The. purchased pictures include more of the affair. —Pre vious to a case of the ft from a surviving son of the late Lord Rendlesham , died a few , A. Mur phy, year of his age. portraits of Raleigh, Handel , Dr. Parr militiaman , tried on Tuesday, the prosecutor , another days ago at Bath , in the fifty- eighth Tooke, Dr. Mead , Robe rt Tni iifiama-n twn Rn»n1 - jiad iers w«re in court some time before the evidence was NAVAL AND MILITARY. Cunvberlarid , " La Belle Ha- being requested fcy the crier to take off Earl of Cadoga n, Richard ta ken, and -, •on —On the 14th of last September , as milton ," Mr. Hus lusson Archb ishop Wake, Bishop £heir caps , they refused , under tlie direction of the aer- The StMTEi Tr ade. , the Bloodhound , padd le-wheel steamer , Lientenaht Com- Warburton , Sharp, the engraver ; Capta in Cook , Cha m- ,geant, to do so, that officer stat ing that it was contrary Carter , Bishop Hoad ley, - regula tions for soldiers to uncover before a mander Charles R. Roijson , was riding at anchor in bers , tlve architect ; Elizabeth to military . on? Quilta a bl ack man was observed Cardinal Wolsey, and Ireton. The cost of the purchases . jj ivjl tribunal. This having been commnnicated to ihe British water , . 1 Bwimming towa rds the vessel. A boat with four hands is not stated. £encb , tte Chamnaa ordered the soldiers to remove bells for the several of them were was Bent ont toward s him, as tlie water was full of The Westm inster 'Bj blls.—AH the thei r cups or leave the court. "As Houses ©f. "Parliam ent have *' , observed " they would bo called in, and , shark s at the time ; and , on being brought on board , the Clock Tower of the new /witnesses, he , that he was a their place of destina tion. Big Ben ar rived if the n they refused to remove their caps , ho should negro said that his name was Johnson , been sent to -native of Cape Coast Castle (a British settlement), that some few weeks ago, and the four .quarter bells were commit them to prison for contempt of court. " The i« _ _ _ _i tTr.. .» M A /\f fhn irom snore oy vapi am v>uuseua , •* i ma ^™ » i f 1* a P*»rtf ToWCC soldiers thien went outside , refusing: to uncove r ; but , on he nact ueen smuggiea of, . of trie American barque Thomas "Watson , that he had on Friday week. All tho . bells are highly approv ed JbVurg i flgNun. .called, in, they complied with the directions. be recust. rn ^i , landed in the heard the captiiin sell him as a slave, and that he had except the thin d or E bell, which will in —The Grand. Jury, on being discharged -few weik^ and ttie mean- (iresentment , some bills on the s ubject alluded been beaten and otherwise ill-treated on asking to go on however , will only tak e a. following ing. Having made hoisting of the others will be proceed ed with. ;io having been . preferred befo re , them:— " The Grand shore , until he had resolved on escap whilo the ' back was examined , and A Fortu nate Pubcua jm:.—A lew weeks since, a fur- ..jjj ur,y oaimot separate with out expressing to the court this statement , the negro s drawe rs. marks of ill-treatment were discovered. Commander niture dealer at Str utford disposed of a chest of >heir diajjuat at the means taken by par ish authorities to search ing tho the keepers of disorderly Robso n and one of'his officers according ly went on board The purchaser , some days after , in d™"™ " ^ .ensure convictions against And -satisfaction a \v\)i. iousea. They believe tha t engag ing a man for a paltry the Thomns Watson ,.the captain of which at frrs t con- discovered to fcis great surprise but on the land not e. During tlie last fortn igtit , tne .Mlpend to come Forward and swear that he has person- sented to pay Johnson the wages-due to him , Bonk of Eng samc ¦following morning refus ed , and dem anded that 'Johnson person who suriorrn tetfda the .sklo departm ent at, tho .irfl y vi&ited tbo house with a woman is unnece ssary as it est. lra Tei I shoul d be returned. Of course , Commande r Robson place of busine ss discovete d in anoth er ch °£ior ! ? Ib revolting.to.iho feelings of those who aro obliged to AM j l i a j x_ .j A *.l» * . _ M . l AM rkrl 4tiat »p SuiqiOE yx A PoLuqj Xa»t.—The that , had slie been a Spanish or Portuguese shi p, tho and -was in the h abit of depositing money different. The Thoma s Wat places abont the lionsc.—CTiWn uf/brrf Chroni cle. .widow of a 1?olwh refugee , earned Mary Ann Bruncl- cubo might have boon * of »«»s- .ftida ka , has put a period to h-er own and her son's life eon was then allowed to proceed to her port of destina- The KKNsrsGTon M.xrmxrn~Tho Marquis by the Ameri can as Lord President of the Council , held ft «>" " /lp.' a v«ry horrible manner. Her husband bad forrp erl y tion. On a -representation being mad e bury, ia-t %een awl officer in the Polish army, but lie died an oxile Consul to tho Commander-in ^Chief , the Bloodho und was .vorsaziono at tho Sou th Kensingto n Museum r PI%n nv ln. , +« «hn CinD c[ 8 ' \jjd Londo n about four years ago, since .which time his SV«»rf A**n/1 IvAtwa +*-v I>a *^ nwl <-wA? oiiniirnilVrC/ ^ I if tllft C,t ,I ^ n,-nr , -.uUIoi. xvlinl n ^yldow, though .a highly educated nnd accomplished lad y, Thomas Watson was a Portugnoao , nnd slio had na pns- of both Houses of Parliament were specially invit ed- W»x reduced almost to a suite of beggary , and com- son.gers tho crews of two slavers which had been con- was very numerousl y attend ed. Severa l largo fire nncVseriou s conl'ngrn- pelled to cam a minernbl o sub sistence Tor hersel f and her demned , both Bailing under American colours. Fiiti cs.—An unusuall y ot.- child by doing needlework. Durin g the last fow mouths , Americans , were tnken in each of the alavers , with Por- tion burs t out at LimohoiiHe last Satu rday nifi lit. It 's shop in th« nui gnn on tho |ircmises known ns tholife-b o«t inan urn ctoi) ishe had lodged at a bake r ghbowrhood tuguese and Spaniards. e) of Iho Gray 's Inn-road ; but for several days bIio and Major-Genkrai , Viscount M kxviixk, K.C.IV , tho of Messrs. Forrest nnd Co., situnted fcctwreii tho Stop " her ctiilrt wore mi«seil, in coiisccjucuco of which tl»o General Commandin R tho troops in 'Scotlnnd , and Gover- and Limchouso Btationn of tho Blnckwall Itiul way - appitinted Coloncl - timb er was hero stotved a\v!»y '•' "' _ " people «.if the house at lust burst opon the door of her nor of Edinbnrg h Castle , hns buun lurge amount of men. room , and found both the mother and son ly in-Chief of tho 100th (or Priwce of Wnles 'a Roy al buiidings resting on brick walls nnd piers ; and the ing dead , tnn ', upon the floor. ' The bodies -were quite black , aud in a Canadian) Regiment , recentl y ad ded to th« rogiinon ts of covered by thm burning muss in estimntod nt moro very putrid and decomposed state. A pan of b urn t the line. four acres. Another timber yard bounde d th« pr eniiscs charcoal was likewise- found in the room , which commission , consisting of Renr- of Mossrrt. Forrest on tho oust nnd tho oak tir nbor lying waa Navat. GuNNEitv. —A , con- tfloao etiut up, and it appears thnt tho woman luul de- Admirnl Sir Tliomas Muitlnnd , C. B., Rear-Adminil ; nbont there frpcedil y caug ht lire from the adjo ining 'ttbora tely smotlierod herself nnd her son In tho hot nnd George EUiot , C.B., Cnptnin R. 11. Hewlett , C.B., of flagration . The nlnrm 6f fire Vns firs t given nt ten ; KOi 431» JTEffB 26, 1858.] T H E Ij WA D E K. 611 o'clock at night ; by eleven, the flames had extended'to flat , and a naw Overture by Joachim, -will be amongst the northern side of the the princi Blackwall Railway ; several of pal features of the evening's performance, ¦ ¦ ¦ the neighbouring premises were involved in the' fiery With. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Sfeabbach ,. Mr. Ifontem .;^asfscn{rfe . : destruction ; and it was not until three o'clock on Sun- Sfmithj Mr. Charles¦ 11 all6, and a band and chorus of 400 day morning that the flames -were entirely' subdued, performers. ' Leai>kr Ofi-ice, Saturday, June 2.6th. though, several engines were play ing upon them. No Results op- the Science and Art Department lives were lost ; but one man-was pulled through a win- for 1857. -— Summing up the general results of the dow of Messrs. Forrest's factory after the fire had got a action of the Department during 1857, it has - been LAST NIGHT'S MRLIAMENT . complete hold , of the premises.—Between seven and shown that the various metropolitan museums and exhi- HOUSE OF LORDS. eight o 1 'clock on Monday morning, another fire took bitions in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh have been ON the1 motion of tire Earl oF Albesta-rle place on even , a message a larger scale than the preceding-. It visited by 553,853 persons, being an increase of as many was-sent to the Commons for a copy of the Report of burst out on Fresh Wharf, Lower Thatnes-etreetj close; &s 186,915 persons on 1856. The visitors to the Bo- on- v to London the Ootnmlttee-of'the House the su.bject of the colo> Bridge. The premises cover an immense tanical and Zoological Gardens irt Dublfiv have been nisatfon and settlement in Ihcliav on- wfalch-attention -wa» space of ground, on which, stood a great number of lofty 168,098, showing an increase of 10 warehouses ,222 persons on 1856. called' tO" the importance- of" a system-of emigration of , containing 3u the whole-property valued at The circulating Art' Museum has been' sent to Stour- lish- born subjects to that*country. more than 1 000 Eng , ,000£ sterling/. That part of the pre- bridge, "VVercester, Liverpool, Glasgow; Paisley, and mises in which the misfortune THE THAMES. commenced was on the Dundee, and 36,024 persons have consulted it. The (jke op north side, nearest Thames-street, and formed a blook TiaiE I> B occu&vctt brought forward tte qtteer- various Schools of Science and courses of public scientific tion of! the state of the Thames, on which a discussion of three warehouses about one hundred and thirty feet lectures have been attended by 10,372 students. The - in width, and nearly eighty feet high, each having six followed, but it was finally arranged that a more formal' total number 'of students connected with the Schools of debate should take place oh. the subject next, week. stories. The fire commenced from some unexplained Art, cause in or under inspection, has been 43,212, being an in- The House adjourned shortly after seven o'clock. the middle floor of the centre wareh ouse. This crease of twenty-five per cent, on the numbers returned building was divided into sundry stores : the first floor HOUSE. OF COMMONS. in June, 1856; whilst the cost of the State assistance, 1 was for depositing dry fruits as they arrived from from being an average of 3/. 2s. 4d. per The House held a morning sitting, and- made some abroad the student in 1851, ; second floor was used as the receiving before the reform of the Schools of Design, has been re- progress in committee - with the Scoumsh UNiVBasi^ depot ; the third floor was assigned to the stowage TlBB.Blhl. of silks and duced to an average of 13s- Ifd. per student, the satins ; and the other floors -were appro- instruction at the same time having greatly improved, SALE OF COMMISSIONS. priated to the Customs examining rooms and to and the means for At the- evening sitting,-. Colonel. Nohth begged to'- the stowage study largely in creased. The num- of miscellaneous goods. A vast ber of students in the Art Training School at Maryborough ask» the Secretary of State for War-whether the sale of amount of water was thrown on the flames fro m several House during the commissions- for the benefit of widows and cliildreu; , engines ; session ending ! February, 1 856, was and at noon all danger of the further exten- 292. The number in the month of last M arch at South urtdor tb.e sole authority of the Commander-in-Chief, sion of tlra fire seemed over. Some of the engines were Kensington was 4.07. The visitors to the Museum in has-been di»contiuued since' the- year 18^5. —General accordingl y sent home, when, large bodies of smoke less than ten months have amounted to 439,997 per- Pkel aaid there could be no doubt oii- the subject Ther were seen to issue from, the six-story warehouse at the sons, being nearly live times the average numbers practioe had been abolished in 1825. south-eastern end of the wharf adjoining the centre one annually that attended Mnrlborough House.—From the BILLS OF EKCHANGB, / in which the iire commenced. The flames again rose to Lord Pres ident's Annual Report. Mf. Bass begged to ask the-Attorn«y General whether an enormous height, arid it was a long time before they A Danger at Sea.—A correspondent of the Times he contemplates proposing any changes uv the law affect- were subdued. Fortanately, however, the conflagration ing accommodation bills of exchange.—The AxFORiwi^1 did not reach, calls attention to the danger arising from the spon- - those parts of the wharf in which the taneous Gknerai. said some provisions on the' subject had been spirits, tinctures, &c., are deposited. combustion at sea of oilskins or waterproof macintoshes. He mentions a case in point. ' introduced into some bills in progress on bankruptcy and East Norfolk Election.— Sir Henry Straey, the The ship " Royal Charter, on board which he was a passenger, insolvency. Derbyite candidate, and Mitjor the Hon. Wenman Coke, ¦ FAIR AT HO UNDSDrrC R* the Liberal C caught fire in this way in lat. 19.35 N., longitude 24.41 andidate, for East Norfolk, addressed the "W., on the 24th. Mr. Kkr Seymkii- called attention to? the existenoe electors in, the Corn Exchange at Norwich last Saturday of last January, and the flames were only extinguished by great exertions. of a- Sunday fair at Hoandeditcb, at which 14^00^ afternoon. Very little of their addresses was heard, The East India Company.—The usual quarterl or 16,000 persons assembled to buy and sell, and owing to the noise-; but Sir Henry Stracey expressed his y plunder; belie Court of Proprietors was held on Wednesday at the a number of thieves to This appeared from- Or f that the Premier would bring in a genuine Keform case brought before the Lord Mayor last week- He dlft Bill ; for'" Who ever lieard of Lord Derby's promising East India House. The chairman was Sir JF. Currie, ' who moved the confirmation of the annuity of 2000/. a not wish to open the question of Sunday marketing, but anything; either in- private or public life, which he did this was clearly not a not perform:?" ' year, which had been awarded by the Court of Directors case whicli should be allowed. " to Sir Colin Campbell. To this an amendment; was Such a proceeding ought to be put down by the police. Suicide.—-A. Mr. Henry Matthew Witt has com- He> asked the Home Secretnrv if any stops would- be mitted suicide at the Museum-of Geology, Jermyn-street. moved by Mr. Crawshay, declaring the impolicy of re- 1 warding officers engaged in. the operations against Oude taken f«rits suppressitm.—Sir Robert Garden- said, a# He was found by two porters in a closet on the third , Lord Mayor a; which were unjust and unnecessary. However, this , his attention had been drawn to the floo r, in sitting posture,, and' it was soon discovered abominatioria of Houmlxdibch on Sunday. He h&&: that he had taken a dose of nicotine. On the body being amendment was not pressed to a division. A similar op- position was made by Mr. Malcom Lewin to:the motion visited tlie scene,.and could bear bis testimony to the searched, there were found in the pockets three 5/ Bank existence of the evil. There-was a difficulty withVregaWfc of England notes, 67. 10s. in gol d, rings, &c, and some for conferring an annuity of 1000?. on Sir James Outran*. On a division, the amendment was lost by a large ma- to the police, as one- side of the locality w«s in tbJr letters, on the envelope of one of which was the remark, county and the other in the City, and Sir Richard "I have adopted a profession beyond my capabilities jority ; and Dr. Beattie then moved to continue General * Outram's pension to his son. The amendment ¦ was Mayne had told him that:-ue did not- see his way to. and means." Mr. Witt, who was about twenty-eight assist him in putting the nuisance down. There wore years of n ge, -w as an able man, and much respected by ultimately withdrawn-; but Dr. Beattie gave notice that he should renew* his attempt at the next meeting, a great many other localities - iiv London wtiere thes« all persons connected with the Museum. A Sunday fairs were held. Royat, Botanic Sociktt. -—The last exhibition of discussion then ensued on India Bill No. 3, which was a this season took place on Wednesday in the ga rdens of good deal condemned ; and dually it was agreed that it THE RIVEU THAM EB. the Regent's Park, should be more fully debated at the next meeting. Mr. Owen Stanley called the attention of the Houee- The Heat last week was so great at Romford, Essex, Ministerial Banquet at the Mansion House.—- to tho putrid state of the Kiver Thames, and suggested. that fourteen- pigs, five calves, a bullock, and a sheep, Tho Lord-M ayor 1 gave a banquet on< Wednesday, at 1 the that a commission, be appointed by the Crown to carry died from its effects. Mansion House, to the Ministers. Owing; to Lord Derby out the embankrnent of the Rives '.Thames, and tho pre- vention of tho sewage J enny Lind:—Madame1 Jenny Lihd-Gf oWschnridt re- and:Mr. Disraeli-being, absent,.on account of iudisposi- of the metropolis from flowing solved, as is well knovirn, a J16ng- time agoy aft^ r she-had- tion, the chief speech of the evening was that of the into the river within tho tidal-limits ot reflux ; and that Lord Chancellor a bill bo; introduced by the Government this session to given up her projected journvy tn > Russia,' ,to < leave ; her , . who at great length" set forth, tlio present residence, Dresden, and.settle in. England.: This services which ha-asserted'the present Government had repxwl so much of tho Act 18 and IS Vic, c. 120, us gave intention she has rendered to the country. Tho Turkish Minister/responddd: powers to the Metropolitan Board to embank the Kiv«r now carried out.. After all her fur- Thames niture in.Dres list of 1 pavt of an entire thirty-sixth tim Houses- of Purliimnunt ? how. largei an area of. slmro in-tho adventurers' moiety of the New ItiverCdin- thirty-rtino places that required improvement in various London is druinod into is particulars. T!ieN mortality1 returns' for the previous the Viator i«.-.8tTect fi«w«r?aiHl pnnyj thfe'aimual inxjotne on ^fhicH 1401. 6s. 8d: ; being howmucU money has tlie V ictoria-street 6«w«r cost (rota on an' omiie' share, as1 declared at Clirlsfcmns last, 896£. week awe a little above the average; but they do not its construction to tho indicate an iniBatiafuctory state of the public heal th present day ? —Mr. Tirmur^ed that Tuo ent u*»< property is divided: into only seventy;-two * , tho Government w«a responsible for the puritic»ttoibo£.tbtG shares; Tho lotsi soM tot' 3500/: ; and a similar one- because the cxccsbuii ihe number of deaths in due to the Thames, into whicli siJtth , addi tion of the coroner's returns of inqucnts for uoin c ninotymUlion gullona of aowutjowora . • nha*o was taken' by. thoi . purchaser at the samo daily, injected wliilo the proportion. -water which, price, making tho weeks past, and which ought to bcr distributed over tltiit ^ -of pureos vblue of an. entire share to bb 19,800/. flowed into it was by no means aa .^cent wa« nocossary* A Royal, Complimkiw.—'Her Majesty waa^so much, time. The total number of deaths was G3, and tlifo, —Tho most ' minus tho inquests, is about tho averag fur tins season olFensive pnrt of tho river wa* at tho London ploaaed with ttote beauty of tho glass which was. set on e Doekft , whioh could bo remediod. Tho great uituculty tho table ut tho.luncheon at Aston Hall bv tho Mesar.s. of tho year. Tho chief cuuaos of death were diseases wu8 of a chronic character mul, if we except two deaths , tha t the- tidal aciioii of tho river brought book ail Osier, of Broad-street, Birmingham, that through one of , tho sownge after it had fli>wcd down to the sea. Ha her suite she asked those gcntlomen to from fflver, and Jive from measles and whooping-cough, allow her to sugge.st(! thu any manufacturer. Wo need not add that the request was river which I md' becn pointca out, in I lie pin us of several gladly complied' with'; nnI1 nil the , on W-ednofldsiy evening next , Ju ne :lOtlu 1' itlNCic -AiAtium lift Vulonoia-at aou«»rly. hour yester- lora.—Mr. Ki«:ni).\ i >, aa ctiuinmn of thc Cmninittoo ofttc Mendelssohn'a Hymn of Piaiso, Mozart'a Concerto in 11 day, raomiug. IIomso appointed to inquire into tlio HtjUo of tlio Tliamo»," _6^j ______THE IiEADEB. [~Ko» 431 ; Jtimb 26, 1858. urged that the Government would take the matter into di their bands , and act on any report th.e Committee might NOTICES TO COttttESP ON-bENTS. plomacy, anxiety to learn what the peoples Masql.es said this was 3 money No notice can be taken of anonym ous correspondence . subjected to the several Govern ma ke.—Mr. question, Wha tereris intended Toy insertion must be authenticated ments desire whether the expense should be borne by the pari shes of by the name and addr ess of the writer ; not necessarily and want, readiness to investigate the facts the me *?™olis or ty tne imperial Government. It was for publication ,but as a guar antee of his good faith . are rapidly growing to be the princi Metropolis alone which was Ibis impossible to ackn owledge the mass of letter 's we re- ples upoii not tbe business of the ceive. Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press which English politicians are united concerned , but the whole realm. of matter ; and when omitted , it is freque ntl y from rea- - Lord Jo hn Manners said that he had nothing to do sons quitemdependent of the merits of the communica - and the movement, this session, to place the' 'the Victor ia sewer, but he bad received from tbe tion . diplomatic service under the control with We cannot undertake to return rejected communications of Par- Metrop olitan Board of "Works information which liament, is only the first step which has showed tlmt the sewer -was defective aud did not alarmed old-fashioned diplomatists answer its intended purpose. It was stated that steps ,and shown would be taken to deodorize the sewage f rom the Vic- the advance of the new school. toria sewer. He did not think any very practic al sug- Turn to another; field. Our principle has gestion had been, made as to what -was to be done. The always been that, in religious matters, man- Govern ment could not under take the task which kind instinctively bowed to the overruling same gentlemen wished to throw upon them , as they had no power by law to do so. The matter was by law entirel y Power of the universe ; that ideas on the in tbe hands of the Metropolitan Board of "Works. The subject become enlarged, and developed , and -Government could not take on itself an expenditure the SATUEBAT, JUNE 26, 1858. clear in proportion to the expansion of the extent of which, no man could, foresee. Nevertheless , human mind ; that the dealing with the sub- the question was occupy ing- the attention of the Govern- ject in a spirit of veneration ment , and they would produce a measure this session , while labouring giving powers to some body which would settle the so- ^itlrltr Iffium to defend the freedom of discussion, con- lution of this question. Hie knew that a syste m of de- tributes to aiake men fiud how far they are odorization had been most successfull y carried out at There is nothing so revolut ionary , because there is of accord, and thus to neutralize, dissipate. Leicester. nothing so unnat ural and convulsiv e , a3 the scram and annihilate those sectarian Several members having spoken , Mr. Diskaem said to keep things fixed when allthe vrorld ia by they ery differences he th ought that the discussion could not "be law of its creationin eternal pr ogress. —Db.A.kkom> which are the manufacture of ignorance and without ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ + " ¦ - ¦ ¦ . ¦ profit and advantage. Alth ough the Governmen t was ; . . presumption. On these and other subjects, not legally liable in this , there -was a moral responsi- THE SLU MBER O¥ POLITICS—AND THE at a very early stage in our own career, we bility "upon them from which they could not skrink , and ^ AWAXING! relied upon, the readiness of this country at their attention was seriousl y turned to the matter , and lie believed that the time had come for action —and it Everything except the pestilential energy least to accept the principle of perfect freedom was necessary to consider whether some addition al of the Thames seems to have come to a dead- of discussion. One of the earliest difficulties powers ought not to be given to the Metropolitan Board lock, and society is perfectly lost iu the one which we at so early a stage had to con- of . .Works.; to enable them to raise funds to carry out work of lavishing smiling sarcasms on its own tend with was, that pur own principle al- their .objects * : ¦¦ ; . most ceased to be distinctive ; other jour - " . v - , tenan ts' compbnsation (ibeijusd bill,). apathy and paasiveness. Nothing can be Mr. P. O'Bkiem having asked a question of the Go- done 'abroad or at home except to yield to cir- nals soon saw the safety which we had vernment as to their inten tions with respect to Tenants ' cumstances, the circumstances sometimes assumed, and proved ; and we may point at Compensation in .Ireland , a warm personal discussion being of the worst. In Xondon, for example, the present day to the immense enlargement ensued between the hon. member and Mr. M'Maouike , we have the Thames miaanna ; in Belgravia which has been given to liberty of thought which, was stopped by the interference of the Speaker. and expression accompanied as it Tbe House then went Into Committee on the Govern- they; have a " confessional" and a Baring ; , has been ment of Imdia Biix,, -which chiefly oecu pied the re- in Paris, they have the Conference pretending by a positive increase of religions feeling, mainde r of the sitting. to confer, - \yliile . reselling every substantial and a marked tendency to substitute accord point ; and if we have the Thames here, there for discord. Even the latest struggles of THE CONTINENT. have they not the Imperial Court ? If sect are provoked to a great degree by the A Ministry of Algeria and of the Colonies has been at home Toryism is dead, a Keform Bill instinctive perception that in all " persua- create d, and Prince Napoleon is appoin ted Minister. has grown to be a nightmare joke, the sions" the" Broad Church" is gaining ground; ftl. Delang le seems determined to make his rule a3 measure threatening to come from all quarters, to the loss of sect, and to the profit of that popular as circumstances will permit. It is said which is the broadest that the embargo laid on the Independunce Beige by but never coming. On the Continent, bureau- church—-the all-easen- General Espiuasse will be forthwith removed , and the cracy is rampant. All is dead. , Nothing to tial soul w hich resides in every church. It seizures of English papers have alread y fallen to a very be done in commerce. Nothing to be done is this improved feeling which has elevated f e\r. M. Delangle has also determined to abolish the in politics. Nothing; in forei gn policy, except the conflict in Belgravia above the vulgar distinction hitherto made between Government and in- treatment that it -would have once received dependent journals .in regard to being sold in the streets. to squabble first and concede afterwards. , The sale of all will be equally permitted . Such a, state of tilings cannot last, and the and has rebuked sect when it has professed M. Devienne , hitherto Pre sident of the Imperial Court question is, what will be the next form of to speak in the name of Freedom, but has at Lyons, has been appointed to succeed M. Delangle as general action ? resorted to unfair measures and to tricks of l'irst President of the Imperial Court at Paris. A We are o among party. league is being formed in Naples and the States of the n t the despondent, least Church lor abstaining from the consumption of any of all have We of the Leader cause to com- When so much has been done, we neither English or French produce , to show the resentmen t of plain. If we cared to cast up the accounts wonder nor repine at a period of repose ; but the Italians ngainst the "Western Powers for their inter- during the last seven or eight years, we in proportion to the endurance of the repose ference in their affairs. . might find that, upon the whole must be the action that follows it. In pro- Sami Pacha , Minister of Public Instruc tion , is ap- , the world pointed Governor of Candia , in the place of "Vely had come m ore to our standard than we had portion as men have become indifferent to Pacha , recalled. Four more battalions have left for conceded eyen of tlie ideal which we had paltry subjects must be the readiness to re- Herzegovina. set up. "When we began, ifc would have been ceive larger questions than those which have, a proof of extreme democracy to talk of perhaps, during the decade now waning, THE UNITED STATE S. abolishing the Property Qualification for busied the faculties of professed politicians. Advices received at Washington from Lieuten an t Members of Parliament ; yet this session the H odgers state that Lieuten ant Pym, of the Jasper , had Queen has given her assent to tbe measure informed him tha t ho liad orders from the Admir alty to during a Tory OUll BELATIONS WITH AMERICA. search for the Styx, and stop her high-handed proceed * Government. One of the ings, and that the Devast ation -was at Hovannah for the 8ix points of the Charter has been carried, The understanding between this country and the snine purpo se. Lieutenan t Pym expressed the greates t and if the other five have not yet been em- United States appears to have been re-established surprise thnt the course of the British cruisers had bodied in measures to be carried, they are all exactly upon, its proper footing. It is perhaps in- cdnsed any irritation in the United States, and infor med in actual contemplation short onl accurate to represent it as having been effected by Lieutenan t Rodgera that they " were acting under no , y of " uni- concessions on the part of England. Official con- new orders , but only carry ing out those issued in 1849. versal " suffrage. For every extensive circle cessions there may nave been, if our Ministers took The new s by the Asia of the Derby G overnment of Liberal politicians has at last agreed that up a position not justified by the facts; but a con- having sent out orders to the West India fleet to Btop tbe suffrage , to he beneficially extended, cession of any right which this country could claim tlio visits to American vessels has created a favoura ble must be coincident or exercise has not been impressi on in New York , and the difficulty was con- with rate-paying, with not been granted, for it has sidered nt an end. The Mormon " war " has also come to residence, with buTgess-ahip, with scot-and- asked. The danger waa one entirely of what is pro- a conclusion. Governor Cumming has entered the Salt lot, or with some other form of qualification, perly called " nusunderstandinff." and it was met Lake city, and been dul y installed. The Mormon settle - which amounts to saying, that everybody by the precisely fitting corrective, a thorough un- ments are broken up, and the inhabi tants havo moved shall have the derstanding of the pomt3 at issue, with a candid south in the direction of Sonorn. suffrage who can point to a disposition on both sides to let the facts them- permanent home and its responsibilities. selves dictate the jud Take an other gment. The l)-\tii ;NJiAxi Mum >Kit ,—Just twelve years ago test. What has been our In glancing at the Leader' s share in this long and great agitation was caused in the public mind by the constant principle* in foreign policy ? It has variea controversy, we cannot but feel great satis- inurder of a policeman on his beat at Dagenhn m, in been to seek the interest, and when it is pos- faction at the consistency of our own course with ICssex. No clue could bo had to the murderers ; but a sible, the j udgmont of tbe peoples as distinct itsolf, at tho corroboration whioh we have had -woman living on the spot recentl y mndo a stateme nt on from from tho practical results, admis- the subject , which the Courts. It is true that the foreign and from tho ha * led to the arrest of a man named potentates, sions evc»i of our opponents. Throughout the George Blewett , wUo, together with the woman hers elf, who are propped up by diplomacy there and four others , committed ti10 nnd. armies, whole course of our existence, during which muraer t according to the and fed upon the industry of have been several active discussions between the statement alluded to. The man has been examine d be- their populations, have not adopted our prin- foro the ittr.gtatrutos. ci Governments of England and of the United States, ple ; but indignation at the secrecies of wo have uniformly rested upon the same principle. No; 431, June 26, 1858> ] T U E irB A. D E R. 61B We have treated the people of the two countries aa foreign countries without committing ourselves to whole Council. But the Minister will be the final belonging to the same family though divided ; as consequences that we most powerful communities against each other, introduced into Parliament, read three times and The Clayton-Bulwer treaty attained to no ulti- have forced their Governments to continue in passed, or defeated ? Is the Secretary of State in mate results, because it was a compromise where partnership, for the benefit of mankind, and have Council at home to regulate the revenue system ? each side endeavoured to make reserves. Xhe preserved unimpaired the opportunity of the two or is the Govern6r-General in Council to do as Britislr representative in particular strove to main- great Anglo-Saxon families to direct the future of he pleases ? We are to have a new ¦ go- tain privileges which this country had never strictly the civilized world. vernment for India, but what it is practically to acquired, without either openly asserting these be no one has the most remote conception. privileges or frankly compromising tliem. "While Parliament is legislating in a hurry,,and for the sake t he quarrel was in issue, we sought to explain that INDIA BILL KUMBER THREE. of an India Bill carrying credit to toe session of the treaty was defective : it has been necessarily Tub Government has not too much confidence in 1858, it is likely to multiply rather that to diminish dropped, and the agents of the two countries have the second India Bill. It submits some of the embarrassnients. Of course, it' is fair to suppose to begin again, if we are to establish a thorough clauses in the expectation that Parliament will that many improvements will be introduced as the understanding in Central America. reject them, and the whole measure in the full measure passes through committee 5 but, we re- .During the recent dispute, without advancing any belief that it is no more than provisional. If the peat, this India Bill, if passed, will be but a tem- cluim on the side of the Republic, we have simply pceseRt session is really to bear Indian fruit, we porary measure—the groundwork of future legis- endeavoured to explain in what manner British shall certainly have an "unripe reform ; but the lation—for if Parliament intends to frame permanent officers have exceeded their duty, and most proba- Legislature appears to have set its mind upon laws for the interests of our vast Indian Empire, bly their instructions. Without abandoning any doing something, and the latest plea of the Cabinet it must be upon principles far more comprehensive, lights which this country has acquired, the present is that, defective as their scheme may be, it will and, at the same time, far more precise. Government has confessed the fact that, in all pro- serve a temporary purpose. Mr. Bright fixes the bribility,. duty and instructions have been exceeded. year 1863 as that in which a fresh Bill will be drawn ; It has offered redress where injury shall be estab- but without rashness, we may assume that the OUR POSITION IN CHINA. lished, and the dispute only awaits settlement in clumsy parts of the machine will immediately work From the private correspon dence we have published, detail. Officials or officers would now lie under a for evil while the - more finished parts are working dated Hong-Kong, our readers will have perceived very serious responsibility if they were to drag the for good, and that the very next session will be that European affairs in China are by no means in two countries into dispute, for the general merits of one of extensive repairs. Accepting Lord Stan- a satisfactory condition. We are in a state neither the question are understood on both sides. Public ley's plan, therefore, with the modifications that of peace nor of war in that country. Our merchants opinion is watching the progress of events, and ad- appear inevitable, it is unquestionably an im- are afraid to speculate, our commanders are doing ministrative responsi bility is morally secured. mense improvement upon that of Lord Ellen- nothing, ou.r plenipotentiary wavers between Canton Dangerous, and to a certain extent heated, as the borough, whose retirement the Lord Chancellor and the capital ; the troops are at Canton, the gun- discussion has been, on the most recent of these touclnngly respects, but who has suffered some boats in the Pearl river ; the small force working questions, the sequel may be generally advantageous hard hits from bis successor at the Board of Con- its way northwards is scarcely more than a body- to both countries. Most minds in England and trol. Many of his complications have been set guard for Lord Elgin; and our diplomacy, like our A.merica are equally adverse to any extension or aside, especially his mixed constituencies, made up squadron, appears to hang fire. In. the meantime, even perpetuation of Slavery, for any race or in any from all sorts of places—fr om Cheltenham to the the British community at Honpr-Konir are at a loss form. The difficulties of the sudden abolition of an Strand, from cool verandahs in Canara to fierce to conceive what the British policy is, and repre- institution which we planted on the Western shore outposts on the North-West frontier, and hidden sentations are sent home to the effect that trade at of the Atlantic are more present to an American bungalows in Assam. In fact, the new bill is not the five ports is all but suspended, because no one experience than to English, and it is we English who an absurdity, and that is what we have gained by comprehends the actual state of European relations have been most impatient to consummate emancipa- restoring Lord EUenborough to independence and with the Chinese Empire. It would almost seem tion for our neighbours as well as ourselves. In irresponsibility. that, having obtained possession of Canton, we proportion, however, as commercial intercourse be- The Council, however, as constituted by Lord are perplexed to know not only how to- turn tween all parts of tlie- world has increased, as our Stanley, will surprise us if it works well. It is the capture to advantage, but how to order armed cruisers, like the slavers that thev nursue. too large. Twelve advisers would have been suffi- the government of the city while it remains upon cross the paths of regular commerce, the conflict cient to facilitate a minister of the Crown in the our liands. The native authorities, according to hus become entangled with the movements of trade : discharge of Ins duties. Lord Stanley objects that most accounts, still exercise the jurisdiction of mistakes have been commensurately embarrassing. there will lie a prodigious accumulation of business ; savages over the people; and the Pilikwai has seized Our own eudcavours to replace the labour ab- but the Council is not an executive, and the and tortured a number of the British Coolie corps. stracted from our colonies by free emigrants have argument used by the President of the Board Thus there aro two administrations at Canton— been parodied by France and Spain, and strangely of Control, added to his explanations, points the civil, retained by the Cliineac, the military, enough it is the United States who stand out to that which will prove, we fear, the radical vice ol' assumed by the allied troops in occupation ; and in against the adoption of that plan, as being counter the reformed system. The government of India is spite of this twofold pressure, tlie population to the spirit and letter of existing treaties as well still to be a government of despatches. Six com- chafes and conspires, with, there is little reason to as the law of the Union. The lesson has not been mittees, each with its clerk, will be incessantly doubt, the connivance of the Mantchu officials. lost upon the people of this country. Wo have dis- originating " correspondence," to be laid before the The truth is, that the French aud British arc not covered that we ctumot legislate and administer for Secretary of State, and, if necessary, before the in exclusive possession of the town ; they hold a m&r ' THE LEAP EB; [GSTo. 431^, Jt jnb \2fy 1658, position withi* the walls/ -they," mount - guard on or Austria, Turkey or Satdinia. We may undertake vre create or set them on. This is a mistake; of the fortifications, they command the gates, and some common work with Russia by-and-by. But - viauity. They do not see that theie own impru- patrol some of the principal streets, but we have no real.friend—at least ou the continent of dence makes them enemies, and iC those even ¦ ' ¦ enemies yrhilai proclamation* are . posted up3 offer ing Europe. . _ .. blehiive in a gallant- and generous maaneri or suffer rewards , for the bodies of foreigners, dead or : Whatever silly French • and German writers may I gjreat and disproportionate punishment, aU inhabit- ' alive3 and: coispensa^ioiLvto. patriot& wounded in say .this state of things has not been brought about by ahts of free countries.must* reel au interest in them. o£; cutting; off '^the . barbarians," it any grievous misconduct on our part. Doubtless, we We advise; therefore, the rW>rk. . . our in the adoption . q£ less arbitrary maj" be q^flsfeiOBfi d whether operations that have done eviL deeds, in the teeth of our Puritanism, measures ; ttut we win.nofc> be st> hjiipocritloalas to quarter have<. been., so- triumphant as they were and foolish deeds, regardless of our reputation as dis- insinuate that we believe bur advice- will bo ;taken. originalJj ? deseribedv N"oithefc cxar naval lior our mili- ciples of Machiavelli. But to be candid, our general All we can say is,, therefore, that , ^ it w proper for tary fftrcc upon that coast is r ovterwhelmmjr.; even in political behaviour will stand comparison with that Englandrto rem&iaaionej.watchful and .armed, until " comparison;with. Chinese meaas- oC opposition, and of any other great State ; and, although foreigners the vast frozen expanse- of despotisoi.which stretches it is evident that unless, our pleni potentiary fee and Irishmen, contriving to smuggle their virulence almost withbut a; break'eastward from our shores backer by. &.K»r0 powerful material demonstration, into this country under an English garb, dilate every 1 to at begins to thaw and to break up. W*e may then he wi}l .l^ enabled prfesS'Uo demands all satis- day with so inucli relish ana unction on . " British make discovery of lands with which we shall be factory to^ British coinmereiai interests.1 Indeed, brutality," they do not succeed in finding a very glad to enter^ into Commuuication. we findat,stated-ioJOtuv special letters from Hong- extensive hearing. The public is reminded of the Kon^j.that the Imperial Government declares its story of the ]ceen-sighted thief who intruded him- resolution, t«> iAake no alterations in existing trea- self into the society of a set of blind honest men, StR JAMES BRiOOKE IN BQ(KNE30: ties. Ar method must be. found of changing its and, having led to their arrest, exclaimed to the The Eaxl of Kingston has been making himself a temper andi ectcyj week of deky will render the judge :—" Beat us; for we are alL rogues." Nobody, nuisance in the House- of PeetSi by. a series of task more,^ difficult, We have been annedi in those either abroad or at home, pays attention to these personal attacks directed against Sir James Brooke. watens= fop; upwards o€ a-year"j we< ha*e achieved sham self-accusations, precisely because they are He caunot endure the ligJit of that> man's reputa- successes, of course, but nbb sach as to awe the Em- seen at once to be sham. When Englishmen dis- tion. Tliere are some lew persons who agyee with peroH. or the' Mandarins,* who believe naturally cover their countrymen, to be doing wrong, they ciy Tjord Kingston ; but. since, his: return to Eng- enou*by. that we ; haw6 : exhausted our powers of out against them as individuals ; but it never enters land, tlie Sarawaki Itajah must have been con- attafikw. "We dp; not Hocltade their harbours, or cut into their minds to make this an opportunity of vinced that publio opinion regards him as one of off ; thteir ctfasting; tyade-i -we levy- iw> duties at cursing aald^ abusing their country. As to- the the most distinguished civilizers that ever left Cannon-s,rwe assemble no additional; ships or regi- general mass of foreigners—we > speak of the tole- behind him the pleasures of cultured society; to ment&j we intimate by?no- sigiv . that ^we^ have the rably enliahtened>—it us quite a mistake* to imagine labour with unselfish devotion for the welfare of his inten fcion' or the strength to establish ourselves at that they lielieve one tenth part of the accusations: . fellow-beings. Nevertheless,; a cuaiom misstat-e- Peking, where our influence must be- felt, if ifc is to which they suffer to circulate against us, No one ment has received a limited circuiationr to the effect be ieltiat all. who has seen anything of good society abroad can that Sir James Brooke went out to the: East with Tbiisj-thert, is- the state of affairsi which we must doubt that the ideas of' honour and' uprightness are avaricious views, and.that he has amaBsed a fortune regaard as unsatisfactory. N'or does-- there seem peculiarly-connected with an Englishman. Even ia by his adventures. Now, tliis is. absoiafrely the ground for-hopingKc acts of a nation of vernment be disposed partially to reimburse him, th^ ; Chinese, policy' of. the new Cabinet. It is sceptics, debauchees, blacklegs, flunkeys, and he would willingly accept its offer; but it must be pledged against-the principles upon w^hich the late slaves ? emphati cally understood that Sir James Brooke is operations have been carried on, aJid which are Still, though we aie respected because we are not iiv England to obtain a grant f^omthe Treasury. represented by the British plenipo^tiary/ It respectable—by comparison in this- wicked world— Such an interpretation,or can only have one of two may; be expected, then,. that the objects proposed we fiud ouTselvesi to a very great degree, alone in origins—jealousy^ ignorance. We are not bound by the late. Ministry will be, abandoned, unless the Europe. Let us remain so. No statesman could to show what his communications witlv the Cabinet Hou»e of Commons, vrhvcl> ought, at least, to do a/ greater disservice to the reputation of this have been, 01? to euter into, details, concem.- be consistent -with respect to Chinese affairs, country than to endeavour to tighten bonds which ing bis private proceedings in Saruwak ; but should check the tendencies, of l^ord Malmesbury to circumstances have loosened, and to seek for part- we. regret thafc statements, deformed, as we have compromise. The matter involved is not a.diplo- ners in; any new political adventure. Oar loneliness said, either by iguorance' ot by malice, should be matic punctilio, or, the indemnification of one or is a homage to the peculiar nature of our principles. put forth, with a-repetition of the exploded libels nnoro -British subjects ; it is*the basis of. an important Although some small states have endeavoured to with reference to Sir James Brooke's acquisition of trade-; it relates to the- intercourse*between Great imitate us, .witt more or less success; it must be his Raj. If particular individuals entertain preju- Britain and a vast nation, of" the Easfc.; it tcmehes adttiitted that our example-lias not acted with any dices which they cannot overcome, it is at least due our position as an empire in relation to the other veryrgr.eafc i effect upon Europe. Representative in- to an.Englishman nob to impeach him as a pirate- competing empires of the world ; and nothing is fur - stitutions - are> every where- at a'. discount.. A. free; and. murderer simply becaase . he opens a generous ther from thte^sheSoHlie'^iisfrcotameroial com- press—their necessary accompaniment—nowhere negotiation for,the tawteCcr of. his ppincely. rig^it to muteity tMau that- Mrs Disraeli should, rise in; the existsj, save in this island. Our maMne»3i our laws ; the- Crown. It is. not always that these calumnies House of Comntona and announce, amid Conserva- ou*^ modoB of thouplrt < are the very opposite, of the* are so" completely) self-refuted, as- when they come tive olieere, pence* and. goodwill ini.China, uraleBS manners, laws, and modes of Wiought which prevail fron* the li ps of Lord Kingston; "When Sir James semjo substantial reforms fare ofl'ected. in the impe- everyvirjiere elae;.- And there is; at present, no Brooke liad'boen for aometyearscotisp icuously, before. rial*, methods-of) transacting international business. tendency, to JoBsen-tliia dissimilarity. On the con* tho public eye,, his old agent, Henry Wise, alter lV«r< hbve> had < ttkore;- than . enough^ of premature traryi, uutiL soinoi convulsion comes* abroad we can beco ming his. enemy, complained, that, so far from conwentipnft'> signed, at-. Peking and. of miserable: only.vbfecoine.more a.ftd.more.unlike our neighbours. having been remunerated: foe his- labours, lie had indemnities. granted at the , cannonsr mouth. , Alfchougjtoj because.we have the sea for a- moat, eveft paid his own cab -lure. We would suggest to TWw*r is- nowv ^ wanted is anv explicit u«der»tand- this isolation has not yetiled to any very disagreeable a noble Lord-r-Go thou and do. likewise ! Tiiexe ingy With tfcb EmpdWM? . and the- Mandarins, consequences, it - cannob b& denied that it has its wou Id. then 1)0 less necessity; for Lord B'roughaia's under indefeasible. guarantees ; securing! ingress i disadvantages^ However.: high a-nation may stand' Bill for . securing: tire dignity and indcpcndcnco of mto-fthe- em«rer*-undet reasonable, restriction^, momUyaad iiuellectually, it is not goodTor it to bo members.of Parliament, of- . cowse—-thty . natfi«a*tou of. tike? are at < inland ! aloiift .. Accbrdihgly, whilst eaoh sucoessivo Go- The.latest private aocounts>from Sarawak amply wa*«i»,vtiii9ntlvoro^h fie. or mata new friotida, if. ^conciliation cannot be- llajjiili.. Brookcfs pplicy. Many of tlie phatical the,Q|E8wo«.o£-(0l)U»afeia!perpetA»i^ Unless theaei brought , him settled beueUtoij aboub. with old ones, by means of comu tri&es formerly a^ w«u:»with have down or.benafitBireeeaiijlinte; tlranttt acOrua from mercial-and political treaties, royal marriages, and to peaceful , industry-under the. administrations of thfr- natftwi. wMi -wwgad dnfruigti th«< lb«i> Wrelvo so fort hv ther-Engh'ali. their mottths.agftinsf the; public, or, to use a» less vaguer his agents, The- people ore impatient for Chins*, OBttnttatioua damonstrari • expression, a very large body of liberal thinkers English ruler to return. Commerce thrives. The tion of the four Powers will. have.beenwiimpoa, have ado pi od.quite- an independent * disaster tuw»;., our> cxponditute u.pon a, policy. It seeks community.has.recovered from the Chinese squadron- and. an' ita i friends!not.amoug sovereigns, , but among the. of last year. Sir James 'Brooke is the only person army; will have been) thrown away ; Lord. Elgin's! nations ; ,aud .as it has learned miBpi(M»,;wiU' have & diplomatic that most of these whose lossesi ha>vo been irreparable. collapse; and the Bri- nations unwillingly obey tho individuals who usually His objeot hi residing for a, few months in -Kng- tish flag: will have been dragged in Chineso dust 8p , u j ln iheir 11ftn)ei ifc sympathizes with what. is land i s not, to redeem tl icso or any other losses. If ihc called, tl 10 revolutionary or rebellious spirit abroad . Bri tisli Government be disinclined to. do justice, he No. in itfORAL ISOLATION OF KKGLA.NB. surrection, against imy established authority nskst hemto take Sarawak nsa free gif t under the pro- pBSjHTK fails to (hid partisans hero. This is quite natural. tectorate of the Crown. His rcasons arc self-evident. .tf he activ ity,,of- di plomatists, tliis qountry ; We am in search of -we " is.ffiaduaUy. gptUng intD a stal-o of moral friends ; and as find nearly Wlien . ho. wlio crcivtocl the settlement., pacified tlie isolation every orRaniwd.pplity hostile or indi ftcrent , We,,of coast ,' attracted .thd immense concourse of iniluslri- whicu armu»L bo. regarded ae eminentl y wholesome course Th^re e fd\w nations , aro glad to seencw arrangements attempiud ouai natives, and civilized the province, ceases to cx- , iC any» ready to beco«»e.our by. whioh our doai ros may bft accomplished. ft ant«gomats.j,,bat . there. at©, still fewer ready to act orciso that connn imml. a protectorate, Sir Ik this dbpawmeni. as all opinions , hotevib bxtrbub , amb accept from Holland, but which it is the clear policy pounds sterling. all owed an kj &mckssio.n , the edirob mjsces2ak1l.y xoi.us uim- of this country to concede. The north-west of Borneo It may be useful to recal the objects of the 8ELF UE8FOnai£IJC VOK ^MOKK. ] ' with ^wxmld firmly connect our Straits settlements committee :— There is rto< learned man but will confess ite hath Cliina, and if, as we believe, it be contemplated to 1. (a.)—The extension of the Borough Franchise in much, profited by reading controversies, his senses treat ^Iiabuan as Balambangan was formerly treated, arwaloened, and Jiis.j>-udRineBLt3iiarpexied. It, the s is England and "Wales to " every male person be profitable for him to read, why should it not, at antfd abandon it " as an unprofi table station.—^an act of full age and not subject to any legal least.betolerableforMsadreraarytawrxtet—MitTOH". wMch would be of material injury to our influence .¦ incapacity," who shall occupy, as owner or and. interests in the Indian Ocean—unless Sir James tenant in part or whole, any premises within Brooke's proposals were adopted, we should hold . the Borough which are rated for the relief THE 'KOYAXi MA£BIA6£ ACT. not a foot of territory between Singapore and Hong- of the poor ; (To the Editor *f the LwuUr.y Kong. The great and crowded water way to China (b.~)—the extension of the County Franchise in London , June 21, 1858. ^would. be exclusively in- the hands of the Spaniards England and Wales to all 101. occupiers Sib,—Nearly a century ago, the then new King of and the Dutch, who, sunken and dwindled as . may at least ; . , Engl and .uttered the famous wor ds, " Born and edu- be their power in ISurope, are far from insignificant (c.)—the assimilation, as far as possible, of the Fran- cated in this count ry, I glory in the name of in the vast and rich Malayan Archipelago. "With- chises in Scotland and Ireland to those of Briton. " Englan d and Wales. For forty-six years before these words were out affirming, therefore, that the present Govern- spok en Englishmen .had been content to submit to ment will adopt the policy recommended by the 2. — Protection to the Voter by the Ballot; on apian th e less of two evils, and to prefer the enjoyment of Rajah of Sarawak, we may express a hope l hat . similar to that adopted in the Australian tlieir constitutional liberties under a fore ign sove- it -will recognize the wisdom of a course which, colonies. . r eign t o the arbitrary dominion of an Eng lish prince. besides securing the large English principality in 3. — A re-apportionment of seats, that shall make But now ;the new sovereign was an Englishman by- Borneo against the hazard of a relapse to barbarism, such an approach to an equalization of con- birth and education we were to enjoy old English would act beneficially upon pur Chinese trade, extend stituencies as shall give, in ' the United freedom at home, and. to be independent of forei gn our commerce among the islanders, who number Kingdom, a majority of members to a ma- connexions. millions, check the Dutch—the persistent enemies jority of electors. . Hav e thes e hopes been realized to anythin g like of our flag in the Indian, seas, serve the general 4. — Abolition of property qualification for members. their full extent ? Is the royal family of this coun- ¦ eyery try free from dynastic entangl ements ? And if not, cause of civilization, and render Justice to -a man 5. -— The calling of a new¦ Parliament three ¦: : ¦ ' " " ¦ why not 7 Not merely did the king who gloried in . years. . . ' ...... \ of whom this country and this age have the highest the name of Briton Select hi* own wife from among reason to be proud. TVe are har>py to know that The fourth point has been gained. The others are the minor courts of German y, but he caused an Act tlie Rajah Brooke is supported by powerful in- making way ; but the work stiU. to be done will hot to be passed which renders it all but impossible for fluen ces, on the part of the commercial and religious be accomplished without sustained and extended any of the descendants of G«orge^II. to do other wise. communities, and with the cordial approval of a efforts. It is not necessary he re to go into the Bcandal s of yasit majority of his countrymen, he may survive which this Act was the origin, nor to endeavour to whatever is uttered from beneath the battered estimate the amount of misery which it caused to coronet of a Kingston, and the acrimony of a private St. Paul's Cathedral,.-—A correspondence has taken the children of its deviser. Let us rat her strive to cabal, which exists only by virtue of the principle place between the Bishop of London and the Dean and avert such evils for the futu re, to al low the members tlat converts some ; men's animosity into an un- Chapter of St. Pant's on the subject of adapting the of the royal family a rea sonable pros pect of domestic dying passion. : dome area of the cathedral to the purposes of Divine happiness , and to m aintain a proper independence of service, which has resulted in a mutual consent between continental connexions. ^ those authorities and an appeal to the .public ¦to, assist by This pernicious Act is hot even a venerab le abuse. REFORM PROGRESS. 'subscriptions- , the object which they have in view. I*ord Eldon conld well hav« rerneni bere d its ennct- !&ms Independent Liberal party in. the House of Although this circumstance lias'not yet become generally tnent. What can be said for it, but that families con- Commons has not been dumb or inactive this known, and the subscriptions have hitherto emanated nected with the Crown by marriage would get an session. Relieved from. Lord Palmerston they from only a few private individuals, the amount has undu e shn re of the loaves and fishes do? ButweJ cnow reached nearly 3000Z.! The sum actually required for very ^ well that some great families get a liberal have discovered that they, the Reformers, hold the increased accommodation for persons attending an extra shar e of places of power *nd emolument without balance, that they can coerce the Tories and im- evening service would be only 1000J., but the Dean has being connected with the Crowu , and would scarcely pose stipulations upon the Whigs. Already they suggested that efforts should be made to extend this get more if sucli were the case. .It is true that some have gained something, and, by managing their fund to 11,000/. or 12,000/., whereby not only would three hundred and eighty years bac k the marria ge influence wisely next year, the work will go increased accornrnodation be given for an extra service of the then King of England was a good thing; tor the gallantly on. The Derby Government is competent in the evening upon the same principle as the service in Greys; but thoug h it is three centuries since any one enough ais an administration, and, in point of general Westminster Abbey, but something; vrould be done bearing that auspicious name has become a member (policy, we have certainly lost nothing, but rather towards the general adornment of the cathedral.:— by affinity of the royal family, some few of the name gained, by the deposition' of Lord Palmerston. Times. have had their share of place and power for the last Firstly, we have gained the Abolition of the The Regina CoEt,i.—The owner of this vessel has quarter of a century. ^ addressed the follo-vring letter, dated Nantes, June 14th Now is the opportunity for repealing this unnatu- Property Qualificat ion, upon the motion of Mr. ur , ral Act. If this occasion be let slip, we may look for Iiockc King, who deserves the highest credit for to the Union Bretonne;— Fhe journals of our town have inserted in their columns different-articles relative a renewal of the evils which have been caused in his spirit ed and persevering conduct of the attack. former years by its operation. Englishmen boast One point " of The People's Charter is uncon- to the deplorable events which occurred on board the " " " Regina Coeli, which vessel was sent by my house to the tliat they are lovers of liberty—wi ll they refuse that ditional ly conceded by Lords as well as Commons, western coast of Africa for the purpose of recruiting f ree boon to their princes and princesses ? and awaits only the formality of a Royal assent. labourers for Hc*union in virtue of , an authorization I am , sir, To Mr. Locke King also belongs the honour of granted to Captain Simon by the Minister of Marine. Your obedient servant , vh&ving passed through a second reading m the The Parisiand Nantes journal s have also copied several E. T. S. House of Commons, by a large majority, a bill for articles from the English press, and among others a ¦¦ ¦¦ j* 4» *« ^ *^ w^^ *^ n v j m k*^% mbw k% m ¦ 'i ft^ ¦ ^L*\^ «^ ^b ^h ^^ A.— - —^ ^~ ^ L- -m^ ¦ .1 -*.1-P^__ l/Uls \y..'\.'Ul'!AQlvJAl VI buu bUUUl>V AX CUlts-LllOlj UU U^lJ.-J kJV *UUVI. BLULuuieiii' uioivii ujj uy ikuc uapim. il 01 lUB 'JCjIUIo pe shareholders. steamer. I have before me a number of documents Model , op Sevasto pol.—The large room of tbe ' The forty-shilling freehold vote for Scotland was which -completely invalidate all the allegations of the United Service Institution , in which Cap tain Siborne 'a n'6t conceded, but the minority in its favour was English journals -And the statement above alluded to. well-'known plan of the Battle of Waterloo has long been powerful. The French Consul spoken of is no other than van Eng- exhibited, iha3 jjuat -received.« model of Sebaatopol ,. the The Ballot Division, was the most lishman who exercises at Monrovia the functions of moat important -hitherto produced. Tlie model, , which successful consul, and who appears to be at the same time charged has been < onstructed expressl y for tho institution by B,pon record, and the debate was far superior to with the oare of French interests. Without entering Colonel Hamilton , C.B., of 1he Grenadier Guards , ia t|iat of last year. Mr. Berkeley brought up his into any long details, but reserving to myself the right based ch iefly upon the surveys of ;tbe. officers of tho supporters vigorously, and the Government and to do so at the proper tiinp, I will merely say that Cap- Royal Bngioeets, jtnd the ftuartocmaslferrGeneral Ts de- eilaer W higs were compelled to whip-up with ex- tain Simon had effected his engagement of negrccs in a portmen t, while a portion is baaed upon the plans of tho traordinary energy to resist the motion. manner conformable to every feeling of humanity and Sardinian arid Russi an armies: ft may, therefore , be pro- A.' bill for shortening the durations of parlia- justice, and under the superintendence of an assistant- nounced the orrty accurate ¦ro pwaott Uttiaif of the aeat of the ments was introduced ijy Mr. Cox, the Fhisbury commissary of marine ; that ho never imade any com- iatetw ar.cn tho Crimea. . Tho country .represented extends anembcr. in a speech which Mr. Walnole. altlioue'h plaints in his letters of the conduct of the men ,whom ho north and aouth fourteen miles from tlio rive r Belbec to Jie heard only half of it,—thought it easy to refute. had engaged, who, on the contrary, expressed the Balakiavn , and east and west sixteen .miles and a half 'We have no doubt but that Mr. Cox will largely greatest friendship for him, and called him their ' father;' from the Chersonese lighthouse to the Mackcnssie Farm increase his following on this question next year. .that he liad no instruments of repression on board 'be- and Varmatka 'Valley, on a scale of eleven inclios to the When ho broug yond what are carried by all French merchant vessels mile. It comprises and distinctl y shows tho sites of the ht forward his measure an accidental for the punishment of the disobedient; that Hank marc h of the allied armies towards Dalukluva on misunderstanding deprived him of considerable sup- the letters port,. received nt Nantes from the crew malco no mention of tho 25th September , 1854 ; tlie general position of the any bad feelings on tho part of the natives engaged ; that Russians in their advance to the battl o of Baluklnv ji, and Thus, we liavc had organization , action , and tho revolt which broke out on board Imd no other cause t he position occup ied by tho allies on tho 25th Novem- success, in Parliament , and it is proper to ment ion tlinn a disputes whicli arose between the cook anil one of ber , 1854 ; tho advance of tkio Russians on tho 5th of that the Parliamentary Reform Committee, wi t h thu blacks ; that tho , struggle between theso two men November , 1854, to tho battlu of Inh erniann , and the iua jiuiiu-quaricrs iu lving-sirccT., unonpsiUe, lias acquired the untoi tunato proportiom with whicli wo are position taken by the allies on that auy ; at»o ino laboured assiduously to ensure support to every alread y acquainted , and that a number of tho blacks, at advunco of tho Russians on tbe lGth of August, JL865, to motion brought forward iu the flouso of-Common's tho coivtmcnuemunt of tho combat , cried out 'Stop 1 stop ! tbo attack of tho French troops on the i'odurki no heights, on the subject; of Parliament nrv reform . tho father is coming and all will bo settled.' Thin, in a and the movement of the Bri tish and Sardinian armies It has Biego worlc-s of tho been enabled to act wit h energy," by a subscri ptio n few wordtf , is what rcl tcs to the bhieks who had been to tho support of t heir allies ; the almost, of a private nature. engaged I cannot refrain from fl«ying that «1Hg3 against SobnHtopol , and the Russian defenres up to the officers of the navy who took tho vessel out of tho tho capture of tho town on September 8th, 1855. TJie Is no t the time como for a more public move- by . hands of those who hud possession of iicr expressed great United Service Institution was visited on M onday ment. ? Thousands would willing ly contribute to the indi^nntion at tha conduct of tho cup tain of the ian princes lior guc-HtH. — Daily effi cacy " Ethiopo the Quocn and tho Belg , of an association which has reall y pro v ed on tho occasion." ATeio.v. j 616 THE LEADii v. [No. 431, Jtoe 26, 1858. moral insiglit, and cultured taste of the other. What is most interesting in Ktitxtim. these Sermons, however, as coining from Scotland—the land of intolerant pieto ¦ ¦ ¦ and severe theologj—is the genial character of the plea 'W - they urge. Mr Critics ar e not thelegia latora but the judges and police of literature. Th ey do not Caird appeals not to the terrors of an ill-defined and doubtful law., not to the maXelaws—they interpret^ and tiy.to enforce them.—Edinbur gh Jterietc. weak fears or selfish instincts of his hearers, but to their religious ¦ ¦ ' ' ' ¦ ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ consciousness ¦ ¦ • • ¦ ¦ • ¦ ¦ . - ¦ . — ¦— ? . - . . . to the convictions and aspirations of their moral nature, to the actual facts and Three books remaining. on our table for notice must be dismissed in a few every-day experience of life. There is scarcely a trace of a theological system, words. The first is a second series of Letterson the Philosophy of the Human not a single doctrinal discourse in the whole volume. This is a remarkable feature Mind, by Mr. Samuel Bailey. Many of our readers already know Mr. in the sermons of a preacher who is followed by admiring crowds in the land Bailey through his previous contributions to mental science, and most of of Calviuists and Covenanters. The singularity, however, is confined to the them will be familiar with his merits as a thinker and -writer. He is a good inclement regions north of the Tweed. The advanced parties in every church, representative of the English school of philosophizing—sober, shrewd, and in- iu every religious sect or body south of that barrier line, show still more de- dependent, comparatively careless of scientific form, but zealous for the preser- cisively the same tendency. "Where life, and earnestness, and reality prevail, tke vation, of the' reality in its fulness and integrity, indifferent to theories^ but a appeal is on all hands growingly made, not simply to the written law in aay great stickler for facts. The perfection of form and epigrammatic terseness of book, however sacred , but rather to the living law written on the heart and expression that would attraxt many inquirers, only repel him. He has a natural conscience of men—in a word, to " the divinity that stirs within us." suspicion of well-balanced epithets, sharp diversions, and symmetrical systems. This change is due not so much to the labours of clergy men and divines, but He abJiors personification as the very f ather of lies, and looks upon a metaphor ra ther " to the persevering efforts of secular thinkers and lay theologians, and as the true root of all philosophic evil. The greater part of the present volume, especiall y to the regular action of the press, which presents the results of like the previous one, is devoted to tracking the windings of this Protean evil, current speculation in the most concentrated and popular form. The press which, like the serpent in Paradise, still haunts the tree of knowledge. In now discharges many of the function s of the pulpit—the pulpit, "by universal Mr. Bailey's view, the omnipresent vice of personification vitiates not admission, having fallen behind the requirements of the day. The press has, only the phraseology, but the philosophy of almost all, and amongst them the in consequence , been called by Mr. Carlyle the " lay pulpit." That is, indeed, most illustrious thinkers both, in ancient and modern times. "We cannot quite its true character. We have weekly to deliver our homilies, to " improve " agree with him in this, and think that his praiseworthy zeal for the literality current events, to look the facts of life in the face, and speak the of philosophic expression sometimes carries him to an extreme that is really truth to the best of our ability;—truth not always pleasant to speak or popular unjust in his criticism of fi gurative language. The " faculties," for instance, when heard. And if we may be allowed for a moment to refer to ourselves, which he denounces as fictitious entities, are, in the mouths of most modern we have taken our part in tliis lay preaching, honestly, without fear or favour. ¦writers, not entities or even distinct powers at all, but simply names for And looking back on our effor ts, we may venture to hope that we have, to different classes of mentaL operations. This applies also to his strictures on the some extent, at alL events, helped to produce the change above referred to. word " Consciousness/' as used by Sir W. Hamilton. That distinguished The Leader closes to-day the second period in its history. Its motto from the thinker does not dream of making consciousness a separate power or entity, f irst has been " pr ogress "—the advancement of our common humanity through nor does his language in any case require such an interpretation. The doctrine the " free development of our spiritual nature." The condition, of progress criticized is identical with that of the critic himself, but in this, as in other cases, is conflict—the constant criticism of the old, and the investigation of Mr. Bauoby opposes where there is really nothing to fight against, an d makes the new. In the defence of free thought, free inquiry, free speech, we have distinctions where there is no difference. In tilting against the peculiar phraseo- had to f ight many battles, and oppos e not only avowed enemies, but professed logy of modern German writers he is more successful. Though evidently igno- and real, but mistaken friends. At first the battles were fought with something rant of the systems of Schelling and Hegel, he shows the absurdity and con- of the recklessness and daring of youth, but never, we believe, in forgetful- tradiction latent in the favourite formulas of the one and the figurative language ness of the object in view, or in a spirit inconsistent with its attainment. With of the other. 31r . Bailey's exposition of his own views is, however, more an assured position came naturally a calmer tone. Of late this has been interesting and important than his criticism of his opponents'- A sincere love less distinctive in the character of the paper, because its aims were so of truth animates his discussions, and naturally inspires respect even when the far attained that its position ceased to be singular. The tone of jour- reasoning fails to produce conviction. The volume is pervaded too by a spirit of nalism general ly has changed. We have pursued the same course from the first. fairness, which is the more honourable, as Mr. Bailey tends to emphasize his While reverencing religion and respecting every form of conscientious belief, own claims to originality. "While doing full justice to himself, however, he is we have protested against the narrowness of creeds and the bigotry of sects. evidently anxious not to overlook the claims of others. We need scarcely add We have continually exposed the prac tical infideli ty of much noisy religion, that the volume merits tlje attention of philosophic students, and is through- the practical viciousness of much conventional morality. But we have done this, out well worth reading. we hope , in a spirit of sincere loyalty to the higher truth—the central principles We advance from philosojphy to theology, from letters to sermons ; the re. both of religion and morality. That we have accomplished all we wished it maining volumes being Preachers and Preachingt by the Bev. H. Cumstmas, would be presumption to assert, but, on a review of the pas t, we fed that some- and Sermons, by the Rev. John Caibd. The aim of Mr. Chkistmas's little thing has been done ; we have not laboured altogether in vain. The fut ure book is to give a kind of history of preaching in England, and were his design must speak for itself. well carried out, it would be a valuable addition, not only to theological but to historical literature. The true history of preaching would be a condensed and graphic outline of the various internal conflicts that have at different The death of Mr. Henry Matthew Witt, at the Museum of Practical periods agitated the Cliujch. Almost every period of struggle has developed Geology, is a repetition of the sad case of Hugh Miller. It is the old story, indeed : an a new kind of preaching-, each party having naturally employed this living over-strained intellect snapping with a recoil the more dreadful appeal to the people as one of its chief instruments both of attack and defence. because of that intellect's very magnitude and elastic force. Poor Witt was The volume before us, however, is very slight and superficial, giving in. a meagre hut twenty-five years of age, and, with undoubted talent, possessed the addi- outline only such facts as most readers alreadv know. The extracts, too, are tional advantages of high spirit, capacity for work, a position consequent upon able and willing to forward in most instances hackneyed quotations from common handbooks, by no a successful start in life, ample means , and frie nds loomy forebodings , utterly means the best specimens that might be given of their respective authors. his most ambitious objects. Morbid fears and g without foundation in reason or fact, had been man ifested by him for some Mr. Cairo's Sermomare just such as we might expect from the author of Religion in Common Life. weeks. With respect to his pecuniary affairs, lie entertained a delusion Indeed, they more than fulfil the promise of that his intimate acquaintance, and had even widely-circulated discourse, which which was palpable to many among , notwithstanding its practical earnestness feel anxious for the state of his mind. This and rhetorical power, is- often crude in thoug caused one or two of them to ht, cold in feeling, and pedantic delusion was accompanied by an incessant idea of breaking-down or being in expression. The maj ority of the sermons in the present volume are certainly superior to the more celebrated behindhand with literary work ; and the conviction of failure at length over- one—more matured and finished, both in perceive by those last tragic words he wrote with thought and style. In general character, Mr. Caied whelmed him, as we 's sermons occupy a middle pencil on a scrap of note-paper : " I have entered on a profession, without capa- position between the two kinds of preaching most popular south of the Tweed. We said just now thai every struggle in city or means." It is difficult to offer consolation to the mourners of this the Churcli has developed a young man ; but at least we may venture to assert our firm belief that lie was new style of preaching. Thia is true of the last great conflict. Puseyku not morally accountable for the act which terminated a valuable existence. has produced a stylo of preaching peculiarly its own—didactic in style, ascetic in spirit, subdued in tone—sermons wholly unimpassioned or at most only flushed for a moment with the hectic hue of a morbid religious The -writer of the criticism on Miss Piiocteu's Legends and1 Lyrics, in the life. The active development of such a severe typo of pulpit-eloquence Leader of last week, fears that, in the hasty wording of a passage towards the naturally quickened into new life the opposite extreme, and Mr. commencement of it, the comparative truthfulness of other contributors of Spuboeon is the result. The sermons most generally read and admired poetry to Household Words might seem to bo called in question. This neither m this country just now are the late Archdeacon Maying's and Mr was, nor could be, in the least say Spukgeon . degree his intention. He merely meant to> 's. Mr. Caird combines some of the characteristic qualities of that, the prevailing character of Miss Phoctek s poetry more than both ; the ' being graphio appeal in illustration to the objects, events, and f eelings usually subjective, the personal truthfulness of her nature came proportion- «f common life of tl*e one, the subdued religious enthusiasm, delicate ately the more in view. No. 431, June 26, 1858/] TSE LEADEH. 617 THE LIBERAL CAUSE IN TRANCE. the place of the men of genius who once rendered the French press so Le$Droits de I 'Homme. Par Eugfene Pelletan. 1858. Paris : Pagnerre. brilliant. We are often inclined, incited by an indignation that can easily The publication of any work of this class at the present moment in France be understood, to speak harshly of France as a nation, and to take credit to is an act of courage. We are not surprised to learn, therefore, that this ourselves for vastly superior political morality. At such times we forget one eloquent and fervent volume has only just kept beyond the grasp of the very remarkable fact, •which has not been sufficiently attended to, namely, police, arid that whilst it has produced a deep sensation amongst all thinking that although for eight years the Empire has disposed of all the resources classes, few critics have ventured even to allude to its existence. M. Eugene of a country in which literature as well as art has been accustomed to have Pelletan is one of the boldest thinkers and most poetical writers that the its budget, in which scarcely any public man can hold a position without in republican party possesses—scarcely any other party possesses writers of some way deriving support from the state, it has been found impossible to any kind ;—but his boldness is not extravagant, and his poetry never leads purchase or corrupt in anyway the leading and master minds. They have him out of the limits of common sense. The present volume is at once an been defeated partly in consequence of their own imperfections, but chiefly arden t pleading in favour of libert y, and a criticism of all the important in consequence of the sudden disturbance of the political balance, which, doctrines and systems which are now before the public. It is, sit the same they assisted in but could not divert. But they have not rallied around the time, a pleading and a study. The only objection which we can find to it new regime, and have preferred to stand aside in obscurity, and many of them is a certain vagueness of form ; but this, which is a fault in a -work of art, in the deepest poverty, rather than stain the reputation which they had ac- is in reality;, under actual circumstances, an exhibition of ingenuity. The quired. writer escapes from official criticism when he is touching on the most dan- We could mention many names to which public opinion takes off its hat, gerous topics under a cloud of glittering words. He knows that his mean- of men who have refused the most tempting oilers to write in Government ing will be perfectly "well understood by those whom he addresses—th e young organs even on mere literary subjects, and who yet scarcely know where to generation which has inherited, as it were, the key to this kind of writing ; lay their heads. We know one case of a most distinguished writer, who and he sometimes, therefore, makes a literary sacrifice in order to obtain a slept for months on a bench in the anteroom of a newspaper office, where political end. he waited with calm philosophical indifference for better times, and received M. Pelletan is, perhaps, not sufficiently well known in this country. If his friends as cheerfully as if he had been in a mansion. It must be con- he; were more read, niauy of the strange prejudices which still exist in cer- fessed that this is an admirable sign. No matter what mistakes such men tain quarters as to the ferocious intentions and doctrines of the Repub- have made, they have purchased an indemnity from public opinion. M. lican party might be done away with. There is nothing, for example, in Eugene Pelletan, though in a worldly point of view he may be a little more the present volume which is likely to alarm even a staunch English Con - fortunate than some of his colleagues, belongs to the same class, and we servative. He might refuse to accept all its doctrines, but he could not are glad of this opportunity of assuring him of the respect we feel for him, refuse a certain amount of admiration and even of affection to the writer. both as a literary and as a public man. It has riot often been publicly admitted, but we feel bound to admit that there exists a small class of Frenchmen who have not been utterly dispersed during recent disastrous events, and who form, we might almost say, the JOHN WEBSTER. intellectual summit of Europe. We do not intend to make any invidious The Works of John Webster. With Some Account of the Author, and Notes. By comparison with the -writers of other countries; but at this moment it is the Rev. Alexander Dycc. A New Edition, Revised an4 Corrected. Moxon. both graceful and necessary to make this admission. If such, indeed, were Since this excellent edition of Webster was issued (for the pressure of not the case, how could we explain the deep and persistent sympathy which books of more immediate interest has delayed our notice), its enterprising exists in all generous minds f or France ? There is surely nothing in the publisher has passed from among us, leaving a name which will always be Government of that unhappy country to account for this sympathy. It held in regard by literary students and lovers both of our> old and of bur would be impossible for a man deprived of all the lofty characteristics which living poets- Mr. Moxon was not only one of the chief publishers of con- our nature in its best developments displays, a man without soul as without temporary verse-men, but was the means of giving a wider circulation to heart, to invent a more degrading and material system than that which the writings of the gTeat, but little known, wits of the sixteenth and seven- holds sway in France. . There is something repulsive in the whole aspect of teenth centuries. In handsome, compact volumes, carefully printed and society there. On whichever side -we look, we note the absence of soul. judiciously edited, he presented to the English public the works of Beau- There is no faith, no hope anywhere to be discovered, except ,in those mont and Fletcher, 13eri Jonson, Massinger and Ford, Wjcherley, Con- studious corners, to which have retired the men to whom, we allude. Those greve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, Chaucer, Spenser, and Dryden. The last very men will agree -W ith us when we say that, throughout all the stages of of his publications of this kind is the one betbre us ; and we regret that in society, material doctrines of the grossest and tnost offensive description are' noticin g ft we Should bave 10 record the JontU of il.o ^ont.lpman fmm tohema beginning to prevail. This is because the worst classes have obtained the establishment it has issued. victory, and have thrust themselves forward into the public view. Virtue, It was in 1830 that Mr. Dyce first collected and edited the works o# the name of which excites a smile even in our highly civilized country3 has Webster. Until then , the writings of this singular dramatist had remained no place whatever in France. It is compelled to stand aside and see the in a scattered form, and were only to be obtained by a few bookwormi business of the country, political, literary, and even artistic, transacted upon such as Charles Lamb. The edition of 1830 is now reissued with con- principles for which it is very difficult in any moderate vocabulary to find a siderable alterations, both in the text and notes, and "with some slight addi name. tions to the memoir of the poet. Mr. Dyce has excluded fro m the present If we do not despair of France, it is because we know that, after all, human volume a drama called The T/iracia/i Wonder, formerly attributed to Webste* nature is a tiling which submits to be led, and that as if a f ew corrupt men are and William Rowley, which the editor says he had " too hastily admitted' put forward by circumstances the whole tone of a nation may become appa- into the previous . collected edition. He now decides peremptorily, from rently corrupt, so when the natural chiefs resume their position respectable internal evidence, that the play is not Webster's at all ; and, granting that sentiments gradually get the upper hand. The homage of vice to virtue is his judgment of the internal evidence is correct, his sentence of banishment not a useless homage. "We cannot have a nation of heroes, but the habit is of course a wise one. The notes to this reissue exhibit tlie antiquariam of good manners and the fear of giving utterance to base thoughts is the intelligence and learning for which Mr. Dyce is famous, and the memoir of beginning of an excellent education. Were such men as Eugene Pelletan the dramatist shows the pains he has been at to throw some light upon a placed in a conspicuous situation as public teachers, in the press or else- most obscure career ; but, with respect to the latter editorial production, we where, a loftier tone would soon begin to prevail. We should soon see even should have been better satisfied if the materials, consisting of parish the heartless arrangers of phrnses, -who now every day pour forth their registers, old documents, extracts from Henslowe's Diary, &c, had been ignoble columns, attempting, at least, to earn the respect of their readers fused into a condensed and readable narrative. It is rather hard work to by simulating honesty. As it is, nearly sill French publicists who can find piece these shreds of biography together, and one expects an editor to take a hearing seem to vie with^ one another in assuming a cynical tone, and in the trouble upon himself. Still, it may be urged that the authorities are deciding upon the question submitted to their appreciation with as little valuable. - regard as possible to ideas of morality. The heavy and discoloured style in There are few writers even of the Elizabethan age of whom we know so which they write protects them to a certain extent from foreign criticism. little as we know of Webster. When he was born, and wben he died, are Few persons who can procure any other intellect ual food wade through facts as entirely buried in obscurity as any of the intermediate events of his their lucubrations, which only acquire a meaning, as illustrative of the existence. We find him in the thick of London life, living, it is thought, in moral character of official France, when we h ear the coarae commentaries Holy well-street (perhaps in one of the old houses still standing there), made on the same theme in private. We have often had occasion to hear writing plays, sometimes by himself, sometimes in conjunction with others, from the mouths of young men who, eager in the search after immediate and dedicating his works to the noblemen and gentry of the time, in the fortune,_ have rallied to the Empire, the naive confession of their convictions hope, probably, or obtaining their patronage ; and that is the sum. of our and their aspirations. Not one of them even affects enthusiasm for the cause knowledge, with the exception of the dates of his works, and the fact that he serves. They have all got hold of the theory, wltich they develop with he was born free of the Merchant Tailora' Company. Gildon, a writer at surprising fli ppancy and ease, that there is no such thing as morality in the close of the seventeenth century, eays that he was clerk of St. Andrew's, politics. We remember meeting in a bookseller's shop one of these notable llolborn ; but Mr. Dyce has searched the registers of that church for his individuals, who happened to take up a volume by Mr. Emerson. His eye name without success. He also examined the MSS. belonging to the Parish- fell upon a note in which it was hinted that it was not estimable for the Clerks' Hall in Wood-street, but with no.result. The story, therefore, is English people, who make so ninny pretensions to honesty, to pursue the doubtful ; but, if the poet ever did hold such a post, and combined with it carnage of Napoleon III. with shouts of frantic servility. He laid down the office of sexton (as formerly was often the case), a curious light would the volume. He bad judged the man at once. Thin is a fool, said he. He be let in on the nature and tendencies of Webster's genius, which hud in it thinks that princes are subject to the same ethical rules as other men. He something; very earthy and sepulchral. That a man officiall y familiar with does not know that power sanctifies, and so forth. The same individual, graves should issue forth into a fine dramatic poet, is no more singular than we may remark, by-the-by, not having been able to bring his talents that Ben Jonson should have worked as a bricklayer, with his trowel in one to a good market, not having become powerful indeed, made the mis- hand and his Horace in another. The age was full of such dramatic con- take, a snort time afterwards, of writing a volume in which he permitted trasts, which, indeed, gave a picturesque richness to life, and contributed not himself to be as unscrupulous as any prince, and, despite his de- a little to the wonderful triage literature of the time. votion to the Empire, was necessarily condemned to fine and im- W hatever the humbleness of Webster's early avocations (supposing thorn prisonment for having outraged public decency. Ho is but the type of to have been humble, which, as we have seen, is questionable), there is no a class—the class which supplies nil the third-rate ivritera who h avo taken doubt that he was a scholar, even to the extent ot pedantry. Ho was also THB LEAD1B. [Nck 43 1, Jtjne 26, 185 8 / 618 ^ „:(,«. tl»e-prefiice towinged ti\&.WAUe Ddoil, he confesses that well-filled with quotations—though/ not from some authorities which he di i»-: . forZ*h ir» 1 mi have consulted—he discourses at hi& own free will t ^°J^S%t« T^o^quill with tuea feather^-ish, ' and inti- ght wisely , and with, we could a facility occasionally sur prising, upon topics which, to say the least, are *£S ffii££!£^^of ™* time discussed. This contempt of his I^SSTjiiswopkft hear siijns this carefulness ; but, vith all their wonder!ul not now for the first reader's doubts they are sadly irregular. It is. thought: that Webster was breaks forth in numerous passages like the following :— " The most pic- nSrar«ndJgeiHiiSv poets was a Scotchman and a writer to the signet SiactoBi.asfwell.asa.iwMter of plays4 though,thi* is by no xiwans certain. turesque of ;" a phrase bmjheenimade: to show that John,Webster* the dramatist, was which will seriously diminish the respect of most persons for the powers of An Atteinpi Criticism ' attributable to Mr. Clark. With the proviso, however, tfce ;«»me,ma»*!»a certain. John. WtsbstPr,. at one time; a chaplain in the that Ms highly sanctimonious notes of study and travel challenge frequent pretest, and that his ' argument armrvw*i<>. l«fcQ»' M» *bAJ8fi*eaiifc€e«tl1 century, wrote some ppant and inconclusive worka;;:bufewft are hapjynto find that the Rev. Mr.. Dyee is enabled is often, even in its erudition , fli , we must say that seKffiotta did not into we have read this volume with eagerness and pleasure. It is t» show; beyoad doubt tbnt tbe dramatb^ degenerate the a welcome « > We have one such hmniliating instance addition to a too-limited¦¦literature. All are but gleaners, the author con- ti»Jl and.fanatkail' ser»oni8er. Colonel Lenke, who has rendered services tU^pweeni day, and are glad ta be spared anotber in v coanexion with a fesses, in the steps of to Greek iw ¦ ¦ ¦ and literat ure, similar in extent to • ¦ -: ' ¦ " ' ' - ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ " ' geography, archaeology, those of . the "his- 0rM£er> time. . : - . - . : manners and customs, in whose Websterihad, m, him . some: of the finest elements, for- a dramatic poet torian of ancient Grecian work the entire deficient in. some others no less literature of Greek anti quity is condens ed, and formed into a series of pictures. ever possessed by any writer ; but he was the -views of the princi , and, bis vrojkasuUer firom the dootblefault oi' excess of pow«r in Mr. Clark, however, lias examined pal writers who have impooiant preceded him, and, while holding independent opinions which he generall aow«.'paete» aad w«nt of po»er in other parts. His passioa and pathos: were y at- never;surpassed ; but he wanted tempts to justify by reference and analysis, furnishes an ample' though sketchy arodedou»; his sense of terror and. gloom it is, .with- interesting perception,of l tb« fin«r aad . nuor© delicate, shades of- character, and his account of the Peloponnesus as .disquisitions on the ai geo raphy of Homer, his descriptions having been written, in im-st mmbt~ -w«i8faoaM»^iB*e»'alcttosb bjftttal . in its. reckless defiance; of nature and g cases, iakemoat of the^ pradiietioMi of; hia; eonteinporaries, his works are upon the spot, with little modification afterwards. Following Leake and ia& Penrose, "Wordsworth and Stanley, tie is an entertaining and informing, dafivient as.entHetiesvan«lrastound one mora in the shape.-.of extracts tU&n ^ if a ^riien r^idr&oniitbei b^icudngto, - the end. "Webster probably wrot« to dogmatic and somewhat impetuous inquirer. Prom Athens, Mr. Clark proceeded to Megara, passing of course b meet the ^necessitiaaf .of tb« mnuvaotj though ihe w/rota slowly; and he appears ^ y way to havaLthought too much, of the effect ta be prodaeed oa has> audience. of Eleusis and its dwindled stream, and Over the site of the obliterated long Indeed,,iBJonetof biaipreiUoasvibAconfeaatsbtbat: he.wa&tuMlfir ' that> necea^ walls. Hence, across the neck of the peninsula, he reached Corinth , where shjn ; Stilli.it is nutratelioasthat;jaj na*a wbo t could -writ© sa grandly a-s he the field of his Peloponnesan researches opened, and whence, at. every point often did should also have sunk into, such drearyrflata and sandy reaches of of interest on the road, he discusses antiquarian topics with Colonel Leake vague, dull, fantastical talk ; should so frequently have overwrought and and others among the more authoritative of his predecessors. From the coarsely coloured his characters ; should have wasted so much of his ink in Corinthian rock he traced a panorama of Grecian scenery which may per- the poorest ribaldry of the famir«a jv and sl>Duld. have constructed his plots haps send -wanderers from the Italian lakes to compare their beauty with the ^ the jE'tolian hills, the Saronic Gulf M»th sa littlewos regard ta the consistent unfoldingare. of ayents. Occasional pas- beauty of Helicon and , and the tills the. roagnificent poetry; found,inWehster but, asi a"b6ut Nemell. All this part of the journey lay through regions crowded ¦aa^e^of fc to be ^ ¦ '¦a he.is t poeticaJ. His blank veraeri* choppy, and hialyrica genexrally with histor ical associations, with Homeric allusions, arid with the traces of rMle*. ^o. an art ages ago extinct. Mr. Clark, in his traject of the peninsula, visited -wantnpiuaic and itajnilge^though one of them* eulogised by Lamb (a dirgti fn 1$& i^Stif&^w^ooimmencing.*• CaU for tl»e robin redbreast and the wr^n'^.( Argos, descending thence to. Sparta, and taking . within, his ranjje the entire Peloponnesus, quitted it at/ Corinth , reached by way, of Sicyon. This t& uijdaubtedly.very fineV The reason of this lyricalof deficiency we. tater tt> . wantedT the exaltation perception beauty, belief; am[: volume, th erefore, marks a line by -which the future tourist,, with a suggestive tte tbat Welter, u^uv iiuui v/&«ut those, more social progress, and: the moral and intellectual developments of their clergy. .gmjuitic^ vices., Jtemoraeless mea and shameless women:; palaces reddened Regarded as a nation the modern Greeks he thinks, stand low in the s«aTe, with homicrdal crimes; charnel-houses, and " talk fit fori a charnel" (the in a physical no less than in a moral and ^intellectual sense. Many English r «irA -p¥•*a rvisn and nt urKf ctanil oa a mn st+.i.rw fn li ic urrki ^ lreX * ill vouths. he affirms, would suddIv better models to sculnturu. as Anollos. dxiw^ia sepwlchres,, yew-treea» and ouunaus relics of the. tomb ;, troaaon. than the flower of Greece, a proposition in which Mr. Clark is not supported texeailedm ghastly,metaphors and fatal, pageants echoes Avith a.meaning by all the travellers upon -whose testimony we are disposed to rely. " Mo- ^ ^ dern Greece,'* he adds, has produced no great artist, nor statesman,.nor mthea>1(,baunting,old, decayiUvg, churchyards i, tortoi*ev madness, fratricide, " v poispnQtl:njrcitures(to kiss which is death), unholy , conj urations,, and super- general, nor poet, nor philosopherV an assertion .which may . provoke a zuiktucal' visitants ;-r-6Uch . are, the . chi^f materiala of Webster's tragedies. challengfe frcm the panegyrists of Soutzos, and Spiridion Trikoupi, but 3^,JfaiM* a?id> Kirgi#ici, however, is an exception to the rule. That, which we believe to be substantially justi fiable. The literature of" the %hie6et uiatejrials. poaseasr an iiumense fascination itt, such hands aa>3iis b, modern Greeks is ornate and shallow ; their language lias been indescribably unc^iiesfcloniibl^ v< but the power is not of the highest kind because itiis not; corrupted; their sculpture 5s far from comparable with that of Germany, of"! tb%; healthiest:^ Yet, with all, drawbacks, it, must ^be admitted, that and, though the journalism of Athens is respectable, it claims no high Tank, T^eh^ter's was a gpeat though an irregulaiv genius. Sl»akspeare hitcself and, indeed, could scarcely be expected to be more than an advance upon &aanothing finer.tUan, some^ of Ins gusty fliiws , of passion ; and he often Ottoman muteness and insensibility. waavh,eathe ve?y, fountain-head cf tears. Of his comedies it is not so easy Mr. Clarke's volume of notes and studies, though it may offend some ta^u.ftak»,be«auae they were written iii. conjunction with other writers, and minda—as it probably will by its laconic assumptions—is one which scholars ifc.ujjiflpoasible , tu.determine AV«bster's precise share, will read wilh delight, and ordinary readers with pleasure. It is the work Tbe edition of. the old dramatist now. before us is handsomely, printed in of a highly-cultivated and observant writer, the delicacy of whose taste led a aingle vohame,, with, double columns, and will prove a great, boon to the him to Greece, and the extent of whose knowledge enabled him thor<> "ghly lovers of tbet Jing|Iah drama. to " travel'* in a country wLere " travel," iiv the strict sense of the term, is impossible except to the r«fLned aud largely informed. PELOPONNESUS. Pdoponne3U8 : Notes of Study and Travel. By William George Clark, M.A. MR. J. E. EEABE'S NOVEL. 1 J. W. Parker and Son. The. Light of Other Days. By John Edmund Rendo. 3 vols. Hurst anil Blackctt. CB^onBCE lias been neglected.by ordinary tourists, and the reason is, that the It would be a mistake and an injustice to confound this with the ord inary cmjotry w not one for unlearned travellers. Eustace found every step in novels of the season. Mr. lteado has not written down to the circulating Italy-; classical, but thousands, may follow himr without a fraction of hisi libraries. But, on the other hand, h o has produced a story which lurea the and scholarship yet deHght in tlie monuments of Rome and the palaces of reader on, although through strunge scenes and abrupt windings«il.i#»i»from iiiht.Knitlm first ti\ f*.liik liiaf" . r\n ivn Tri t-li' «k «uK^\l^ k tiviq,sr/ki »-v w.a^v *<«u.' w.*j i|^ k^ a ^a*. «>.^* vi«a-v#.^^ ^ Vf 11? HvbUlU!; LUU4IUUU I^ HIui • «»#-»»».»-q rocli and water landscape* and j canfracture*!'hei ghts of architecture, but the conventional. The book is not, as might have been expected , a proso poem; mind! ofno lincuHureu^ mart thoTougHly eniioy a journey in Greece, it is singularly free from figures of speech and exuberances of language. Mr. tM«i rtelbponnesus. especially. To .him Peneus' nnd, the Styx are mere names, Xieade, having, a tide to tell, wlkich ahuost seems a disclosure of a dMr aMim«r distant Wends; Otympia arid Mycene are unmeaning : the family hist ory, develops it in a style vailing -with the nature of the Albheua and the; Stymphalic lake belong only to halfcremeinbered poems ¦ scenes, especially ' and incidents are so familiar as to take ua by surprise, tte. rouieroberB no games of; Sicyon, and at Argos; sees little more than the when we remember that it is imputed to him, as a poet, that he has a eon- composite caatle; .Therefore- the pleasant paths of Greece are forsaken, stunt tendency to the recon dite and the obscure. His princi pal fault as a and although the regntfn itself abounds . in beauty, as wayfarers and artists novelist ia that novel writing is apparently new to him. lie has bestowed ltfWteatiHeu\this is by no means unintelligible, ftp whatever the land may ex- ttav4) its amj little pains upon the construction of bin plot ; his dramatic contrasts are . been iri palmy t it is. probable that, even in picturesquoness, it cessive : he leaves it to the reader to infer much that he doea not explain , and has frir deteriorated'. 1 lire mountains of Peloponnesus were not always so some of the maim events, although peculiarl themselves, di> not batfe ua now ; there -was a time when they y striking, in waved with woods* and when the appear essential to the conduct of tlie story. It seems, to us. a defective art aprings gushed'more ptenteousty into more ornamental streams, it may bo when any claborutel y startling situation is produced without as^tiug tUe real »u» m ««e» >u« «uu» nmovnwj raa inM-Bu, unu aepenueu tor theu etluct in movement ot the narrative. Mr. Uoude,, hovyavor, has publiahed no novels tHV lawtacawi upon ttfejr foliage no l'osa than upon the tinted surface and revious to this, and to all it is «trang«outWne of their rocks; p appearance had r«iud few, except the best ; Mr. OtarK , is ©fa contrary obinion. and. he evident that he is studying no model, that lie bus an, idea, and i working it ls c^rtainty right in rebuking; those pwat* who convert the islands * i of the out. Another advantage) ho enjoys , is tha ^l5!!LBUroEh 'I**!?11*1* oFJIiiwftla and Hbnololu, with »ll their and acquaintance with all sorts imd conditions, ot men. The reault is a Vtfm* anu. u»#ew; lihrtt he w u posmVo writer and having novel totall ^ a portfolio y out of the cocnuaon,, sneculutjiyet.witUouL beingiduili admirably ' .^e> 4S'l, ^jaff^ . ..1? l ,a LEIBEI. >6^9 Trriften, and'full'tfrf otewattter. It -would be nothing to sa y that fyke Ligiit of 'ilie sight of & -y.eUow-footed kite' wlietfiJDg >yith -airy ^circlesthigh in ,the Otker 'is intecesting story, Af it did not i nterest in «. manner-that-sets *den Lamheth-causeway. ConuorHiiits, ibetrnacloa, and tjveryjyear. " wjrlde:S!\vaiifttJs" wilL not soar above tli<3-iwreats jof MUists in .tine "pool ,")to '^'e -wiU point 'to > some •<#'the details which mark the experimental ctaa - Jave their pinions in tSbat bkek tuid fetid etreHm above !Westuiinstef , whica i'flcter of Mt, 'Readers novel. '.Five first volura-e opens fuH :upon -ft cruninal erst -was the "-.silver Thames," So rare is the,bustard become, thait ai soli- <:oui t, where a young lady of birth and position is -stemding her trial for itary spucitueii seen anywhere at the present &iy, even fclie ¦ ' -hv central wastes amirder; .-.all -here is •¦vague, •jind 1the >"view dissolves dimly, bringing' two of of Salisbury Plain, would sumiuon(to bus destrwciion - ;e>very " band gonne" tire personages cone-emed-upon another scene, ^ay with .the - levity'of unac- in the cou nty of Wilte.; and tbe-.Hengist?s dismissal 'fi-oni his A *iood deal of tlie best portion of JVIr. Tanswell's book is devot-ed to the ¦home ; but here "Sir. lleade dwells >\vibh an emphasis of doubtful -eftest upon .ep^copal palace, founded by.t he Italian ArcJibish«jp lionifciice, in !i-2(>2 as t\i o possibility of a personal mortal conflict betwe«n aVfather and his son. im expiatory-ofiering. During a visit to the Priory ofiSfc. Jiavtho-loiuew; ia JBLaiv.eveiy.this is a part of his. plan, and if the execution be adequate, the SanthiieLd, lie was,so- exasperatfed by a.cerutin reply of;tlte sub-prior, that ¦conception does not degrade the work. Two other criticisms we will ven- he smote him on the face, saying, "Indeed, indeed,,doth it ibu come you ture. We do not like to meet in any author quotations from his own English traitors to answer me ?" Thus raging, and with oaths not to be works, but it must be added.that Mr. lieade is generous in this respect, and repeated, he rent iii pieces;tlie . rich .Cifpe . of.tlje subtprior, trod it under his scatters words of ample courtesy to his contemporaries. Again; it was per- feet, and thrust him against a pillar of the chancel-wiith such violemie Uiat he haps inevitsible that such a writer should create literary heroes ami heroineB •%lfp &st killed him. But the canons, seeing their sub-prior thus almost slain , who will discourse on books and authors ; but. there is an occasional redun- ciune and pLucked off* the archbishop with-such force, tliattUey qverf;lji»eMr.hiEa -ilanee '6f'Ins eviikjul 'dialogue, and -it is questJotwibJe -whether Bulwer, backwards, whereby they might see he. was armedand.prepared' toj\g] itj The IDifekens, ©isradi, rund .other ditanacy . men of our jowa &»y ought -,to be canons,.getting away xis well as they could, ran, bLoody ajid Bury,.rent and roslae;nedinto €Bn uaeludexLia^.the same ^circle with themselves. pi-etty an aicliieipiscopal set-to as.the reader would desire to see of ii .suui- (Lastly,, JvLr. J.ie&de attacks his critics . too vehemently.,. Jle.ibices long mer's day. It remin-ds us forcibly of the doings of a. certain 'Bushp p af Wip.- AQlloouuiS on .the bile, gall, -.ribaldry., .and /cowardice ~iof anonymous re- clvester, -\Thom Slpiikspeare introduces picking a cj[u«irrel with H*uupUrey viewers^ .; hs talks of blooilless .'.tyrannies ; he impeaches " the ru'llian of the Duke of Gloucester, about the fli ght of a falcon : " Down at the old oak,3' jjeri" whose " serpentine .and malignant nature'' proinpts him to attack a whispers tlie pugnacious prelate, for the king was within earslxot, " and "ixother aiutlxar. • Ajguinst this sort of invective introduded into a novel, we bring with the thy two-handed swonl." ,,jjiU8t protest. Jt .may 4Mhl a spice to Mr. lieade's volumes.; but it'.is -sus- The great hall of Lambeth,Palace, restored by.Juxoii %after jtlte Bestora- (paoiiMU^ly QHt of pkice. ,Mr. *Ht»ide should Jcuow. that ribald and.slanderous tion, has often beeox the scene of a princely genial bogpitality. Bishop ow2-lelae need .-cave, ,aud ;that constantly, attendant*, with a large body of clergymen, sat at long tables ^xtendii\jg the iwhen » "ui»alig^attt-rjeview'' -:i8 attributed to a-.fEieitti , itihas ibmen a fchank- ¦entire length of the ball, profusely^ covered with every kind ,af tteUcate and 'I«bs •¦w©rk.<©f 'censeicnee |y food Whe'MMt"Qf Oi/ier lBaw,»Ti&henrtily 'recommend-it. to hundred! of poor;men and women, who, at-...an appointed koin,Y.assembled respectful¦ ly around the, palace-gate. Such, two centuries AgQ, was iixe "old 'THE ^HISTORY 5£OT ANTIQUITIES 0F LAMBETH. ; world" ¦hosp itality, of an English PrixMate. The hall, idf. .Taa&welL sjiyij^ is .S'he 'flistory anil Antiquities ^f-Lathbtth. By-John ' Tanswell, - of- tlie Inner Temple now . used as a library, rich in MSS valuable to : / , M the tajMigrapher, the iMLembier of the Surrey ArchaJological^ociety, Camden^fcSociety, &c. Pitikton. Biblical student, tUe. genealogist, the general antiquary, JScc. &c. Amongst them is a superb i'Satxou.chroniclers derive the.nauie.of this parish from two words, signifying, cqpy of the Koran, .taken fcom TippofO^uitanjat.' ¦ ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' " Seringa¦" ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ 4 ¦w . , ¦/. . :¦ . - . . ¦;. . . VJ3irt Hivven." Strfcce. it is spelt nine distinct ays in ancient,records, .will patam. ; : .. \ . to i^r."^Eurv»vv«lL sanctiontOuisaseeivc .a.-still higher antiquity ? "In "X)cjmes- :On 'the jgrpun'd-floor of the X«jllard?s' Tower, that theatre .of tjhidoely's , bafbarouspersecufion of the heretical follo\versvof tiif^"\the:6nsfe-.syiUbte i& \vx\tx<£ntla?i. Mny net .Uus.ia n.-$liglittcori'tjption. c ^r.Johrt Oqbba m, isi;He oof Ytiie iamcient 'British ->vroviia, ilJiwi, a Saint, >and beth, .h -.gnave-r^l^.the ' * Posthook/' so nsimefl from ar pillar ,to which they were btoiuwl ' wlitta ^3ib___ _ "•¦^ Saintfs-¦grave.'"' A»k-«aDy ' Welsh dwsbic.tor a .translation:of tluitjei frwoiEng- jected to .the .torture of the 1ash. Above is the JLolhjrd's .prison. Eight ; 3 nvor«b "bis -native or»«Me be will -sit >'onceir«pl¦ ¦ y, Saint s¦ ihuge iron rings attest the number of its victims, and the 'lifelv 'into ' 't ' , ' ' ¦ " ¦' -grave¦ P rjgidnetsjs.of.tjieir.in- B ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . : ¦ ¦ ;¦ ¦ ~LLw *etlu - - - . . : ;; caroeration. On the wainscot, iuiperfect sentences and.initials.sxxe ' m sriiiely 315ut whatever tnay beihe'true dei'ivAiion5ithis portion of the southern . scratched . They are all nearly illegible. " Could we but.Jkjiow,"..saj5s the ''bank of M3rd'EatueV Thames is invq^ted vritb the hjgliest historical assoxaa- l author, '' all the separate histories at" the men whose liaridwritin^iies otu tlie JiuonsTrp-ni'lheing the iu.et»'op.oUtan resi'deiVce of Englaud'-s Priaiate. Ti*ue it ' -wall of this strange-looking room, what glorious i^velutions into^the T a Qorinthian jable.thwa tUpse they have idelivertjd tor tlueai. VV iliiiua 'Jiiilomrj *as .eon- ; filled in *a11 tke vdhtJisksu tiiat >Btcew i tiie s*ind3.of Iv^ypt seeniiin/their ¦ the I-ollard's prison by Ai-chi>ishop Ghiehejy for pr«*cliihj{ that 'oyes1 lese intepesti-ng itba«;th^ scuiptured-.uoarhle tlmi axioms .their domestic prayer,aught to be addressed tOiGod only.; anjd tuait'the iv^rsJj ip ot'jany ¦feeartli. Xfet¦• not1t4ieBeje»atMpitfs,1however, doter-tho «nthusias(icworBhipper .created btiiiig^vasmere idolatry. •0'f^rt'iroin preserving-therpurity df4tis faftlt. ^Wheii in pursuit ofihis daily: _ Lambeth .faUce is situated amidst delightful.gardens und paHk laid out comnxercial avocations i»e 'hurries through the densely ^packed streets of with all the taste that nioderan. horticultural: aoience ca^supjily^ -and tiigother 'Southvvark, 'he nvay spare a glance at the stately tower and crjiinblhiK comprise an area of full eighteen acres,.seehided. ii'Ottk.popLilari-intiiusiou.bv (glories. through its -tortuous streets and by- writh a nhort interval, which hus been iillud up by a. number of interesting "ways, -witli 'Mr. 'tanswell'a book as Uia guido, the explorer, be he parochial Itstters from Mixs Dick6on, Sir Henry Havelock, or tlio.oflflcpra xWBry.kjud itf , game and_ .animal of, chase. Audu«w .l^me, D.D., Duun ot And men uadtr their - command, to dispara ge tAm ^Military conduct of the Ely,K hiid.li«oneo to appoint one, of his servants, by .special numu, to »hoot ( Sepopi. (It itf tnuoithat their numbers were-orverwh«lming, but thuir rushes ^lierentvilh.any. eroflBJboTC.-Aiiuulcgonne, &c., At i^Ll u«iijn*!i- .of deud murks, .aguinetitho ibrttficd lieaidenoy w-erc charaefcerhsed by a vulour 'amounting t«r«tw(j,i con«o«wU«,Jcyten, and suoli Jiku ; .bustaruls t- ) * ^ w^ldbwuua, L«rnacl*M;' i uhut)at>to fronjoy . 'So honeleaB did the garrison grow, that oncosts Mrs. teal, ducks, cootrt, fen-fowls, wild dovea, small binds,.&c. ;,und jitall manner Cnac relates, a council of Indies was held to deliberate oipon -tUtt'beJrt of vleure, red pursue should 'thy enenny (owns their way in. Some then tohl their ooiup«miojas howr \tlioy • <>- 431, June 26, lggg. tragedy short, and spare ' themselves from the tortures and humiliations of Selmann, translated from the sixth German edition and published by Hamil- Cawnpore. Sir Henry Havelock himself; aware of the Sepoy character, ton, Adams, and Co., are works of which we can only quote the titles wrote emphatic instructions to the Commander at Lucknow never to sur- An important work has this week been issued by Messrs. Longman and render, but to perish by the sword rather than negotiate with the enemy. Go.—History of the Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington. From the French of Of course it would have been' necessary, had that dreadful alternative M. Brialmont. With emendations and additions by the Rev. G. JR. Gleig arrived, to find some death for the women in the Residency, and the Indian —It will occupy three volumes, of which two are now before us. This week races would then have seen that a British garrison could perform their rite •we simply announce the publication. of johar and die the Rajpoot death, to disappoint the passions of an enemy We have also received, and reserve, The Defence of Cawnpore by the Troons governed b no principle of civilized warfare. Mrs. Case, as she left the tinder the Orders of Major-General Charles A* Windham , in November y of , 1857 *. town, after its final relief^ saw the bodies two young girls newly killed in Written by Lieutenant-Colonel John A dye, C.B., published by Messrs one of the principal streets. They had been prisoners probably, murdered Longman and Co. to revenge Sir Colin Campbell's victory. It will be found by those who Messrs. Bosworth and Harrison send us a translation from the French of peruse this heart-stirring diary that it adds many minute but interesting The Art of Extempore Speaking—Hints for the Pulpit, Me< Senate, and the Bar particulars to the narratives already published, and that Mrs. Case, an by M. Bautain, Vicar-General and Professor at the Sorbonne, a volume full intimate friend and associate of Lady Inglis, was a close spectator of all of interesting hints and illustrations. that passed between the Sepoy investment of Lucknow and its rescue by the British columns. THE HOUSE OP CAMELOT. The House of Camelot. A Tale of the Olden time. By Mary Linwood. . 2 vols. " Hope and Co. CONCERTS. This is a tale of the very olden time, being laid among the Druids , whose manners and ceremonies deepen the colour of the romance. Miss Linwood The Concert epidemic has of late been raging with solstitial severi ty in this has contri ved an entertaining story, with exciting situations and mysteries , metropolis. Where all tlie audiences come from , and , we may add , all the part ly borrowed from legendary lore. The House of Camelot comes to us as celebrities , vocal and instrumental , engaged in these annual campai gns, an agreeable variation amon g the novels which deal with Paris and Bel- is a question we have never been able to solve. The Parisi ans Concert epidemic at its height, and it has certainl y been a Veek distinguish ed beyond all rational expectation, and the result is a book of agreeable and by the best concerts of the season. On Monday Mr. Benedict 's concert , one of amusing anecdote and incident, held together by a slight romantic plot. the two great musical events (or, as our lively neighbours would say, " so- Hartley Hall. A Novel. By James Hastings. (James Blackwood.)— lemnities") of the summer (Mrs . Anderson 's concert is the other ), took place It has been the aim of Mr. James Hastings to harrow up the hearts of his at Her Majesty's Theatre. The audience and the performance were equally - •readers." At times he indulges in the pastime of humorous romance ; but worthy of the high reputation of tlie justl y .admired composer and professor , and the tendency of his drama is tragic. In contrast with tlie fi gure of the well-esteemed gentleman who was. the giver of the feast on the occasion. The maiden schoolmistress putting on her thimble before she whips her pupils, aspect of the aristocratic theatre , thronged from floor to ceiling with a bril - stand many dark images, and there are horrid stains of liant display of beauty such as only London at the height of the season can blood upon the most show elaborate scenes, besides death-dances and comparisons of living women , arrayed in all tlie pan oply of bewitching bonnets and muslins as with gibbeted felons. Mr. Hastings has been many-colou red as azaleas , was a gratifying tribut e to the beneficiary, of which. deceived by his belief in the Mr. Benedict may well be proud . But it is fair to say that he had provided % necessity of " startling effects," upon which he appears mainly to rely. banquet unsur passable in variety and excellence. Not only the entire company - attached to Her Majesty's Theatre (with the exception of BELTJE irr , absent PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS. from illness) assisted in the performance , hut Madame Viard op and Here Joachim , amongst others , increased the attractions Mb. J. W. Parker has this week published the second volume to be of the programme a hun- shortljr followed b dredfold. One entire portion of the concert was dramatic. Madlle. Titiens y the third—of Mr. Massey's History of England during sang a scena from Webeb 's Oberon, and has not yet been heard , in England , in the JRetj/n of George the Third. It includes the period from J 770 to 1780, music so well adapted to her noble voice and style; Herr Pisohek , the vocal lion the second decade of the reign. This volume contains an interesting sketch of some years since, contributed a powerful scena fro m an opera of Mr. Bene- of the_ history of manners in England preceding a full picture^of the dict's; and a delicious operetta of Paksikli ,o*s, LaServa Padrona , enabled many Georgian—by its flat terers called the English Augustan—era. We have laid among the audience (whose religious scruples forbid them to attend the theatre the book aside for more ample notice. proper ) to discover Madlle. Piccolomini dressed a la Watteau , warbling very Di\ Asa Gray,mu an of American naturalist of eminence, has published (Triibner pr ettily, in music happily within the compass of her bird-like voice, and , we need man botany for young scarcely add , coquetting with the audience most unmer cifully. The whole concert zr »J'^ * people and common schools, entitled How Plants Grow : a Simple Introduction to was remarkabl e for the selection of pieces, and was incomparabl y successful. On Structura l JSotany, with a Popular the same evening, the sixth and last concert of the Philharmoni c I 'lora. The volume is remarkably meritorious in its classification of sub- Society was jects, and its exp honoured by the presence of Her Majestt , the Prince Consort , and the lanations, clear and precise in themselves, are assisted by Royal Famil upwards of five hundred illustrative woodcuts y of Belgium. Hcrr Joachim was the instrumental soliat , and An Miss Louisa Pvne and her sister were the singers engaged. On Tuesday, Introduction to English Etymology (Sutherland and Knox) is a volume at the " Musical Union ," in St. James 's Hall , Rubinstein and Joachim ot more ample scope thnn such elementar y text-books customari ly are. were again found in harmonious conjunction , and Herr Paver played with the It. has been jomtl y compiled by Mr. Robert Armstrong, of Madra s College, great Russian pianist a duet by Schumann. On Wednesday, Hub Majesty bt. Andrew s, and Mr . Thomas Armstr ong, of Heriot Foundatio n School , and the Court , surrounded by a bevy of Ladies-Patronesses (who had contende d hdinb urg h To students of the Eng liah language it will be of peculiar for th e best seats with alL the vivacity and eagerness of humble folk), preside d value , the plan being new, and the scholarshi p ri pe and at a " Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert for the benefit of the Royal critical " Of course the presence of Koyalty, A new edition ," revised and enlar ged, of Mrs. Slater 's wonderfully - Academy of Music. almost in State , and ingenious little book , Sentential Chronolog ic^ published the solicitations of noble Ladies-Pa tr onesses would have been sufficient to attract by Messrs. Longman a splendid company even if a Mass by the Earl of Westmohelawd had not and Co., needs but to be mentioned . It pr esents " a complete ancient system of occup ied the whole of the first part of the programme. A Mass by a noble and modern chronol ogy contained in familiar eentence s," and is a a sometime Ambassador curiosity as well as a treasure of it8 class Earl , a General in the Army, and Plenipotentiary, is a Messrs. musical treat of no common order. Onl y think of a Brit ish Earl (G.C.B., and Longman m London and M essrs. Galignani in Paris have pub- half the Alphabet besides) soiling his soul with the vulgar art of » lished a third issue and the tenth thousand of their Practical Ueethoven or a Mozaiit. Let us admit however , a Complete Itinerary Su>i^G^tdtI , to the credit of the noble of Switzerland, Savoy, Piedmont, North and Northern Earl , that he has not disdained to walk in the steps of his untitled pr edecessor s, and that his Maes display s something more than a mere bowing acquaintance with their works. The second part of the concert was miscellaneous , and was a^^fe-AW ^J Masass felt by the audience , albeit aristocraticall y and exclusively composed , to be a relict to the Kyrie Elceions of the noble Earl. Mr. Costa conducted with even more than his usual zeal, and Messrs. Saimton and BrAonove led an orchest ra which ren- dered the Mass of the noble—beneficiary we were about to say, forgettin g the i. but » Royal Academy of Music—quite i mposing. Shall we be considered an enfant sp^pTiSESSSSworthless piece of patchwork. The naruSS rative of Juoui.SH: ffioiw acce«u oa to tb« th rone contai n* not (he l ! terrib le if we ven ture to *sk what is this Koynl Academy of Musi c, in behalf of ea»t alludon to the Coun d'Etat which all the machinery of Koyalty und .Ladies -Patronesses , and a Mass by a, noble Ear l, were bo elaboratel y set in motion? Almost in the words ot Thomas Hood , ve arc tempted to atk— Wh o is its father? who is its moth«r t Una it a sister ? bat it ft brother? — Ko. 431, June 26, 1858.] TH E LEADEB. 621 in sober prose, What has it done? what is it doing ? what is it likely to do for and rejoicing in the presence of a distinguished and delighted assemblage. On musical art in this country ? A mouldy old house in a forgotten street, resem- Friday Madame Szarvai>y's third and l ast Matinee fill ed Willis's Kooms with bling nothing so much as an asylum for decayed undertakers, alone gives it a beauty, and the fair and fascinating pianiste played, as no one else can play, local habitation and a name. Let us hope that the ample and generous pro- those wild and way ward compositions of Chopin and Stjsthen Heller, which ceeds of the concert at St. James's Haix will make the lloyal Academy of have something so shattered and so piercing in their melancholy grace that Music something more real than the Mrs. Harris of British musical circles. only the most finely an of Trade Returns for the past month all American securities. Illinois Central, once at 30 premium , are now at 24 discount New York and Erie shares have HER MAJESTY 'S THE AT HE. -were issued on Thursday morning, and again show a receded to 16-17, a fall of 80 per cent, since the winter. Titions . Alboni, Piccolomini , Bellett i, Benoventa no heavy falling off in the declared value of our exporfca- There lias been some demand in Laud shares , Canada and Vialetti , Aldighieri , and Giugliui. tions, the difference as compared with the corresponding' Australian , this week. Joint-Stock Bank shares are better The following arrangements havo been, made -.-— month of the past year, being 1,117 ,556/. The heaviest thought of. Mining and miscellaneous shares remain with On Tuesday . June 29. LUISA MILLER. And a Diver- no great or marked feature. tissement from Aumer 's admired Ballet LA SONNAM- reduction has been in -woollen goods and metals, espe- BULA , in which Mdile. Rosati will make her firs t appear- ciall y iron , chiefly from the stagnation of the American Blackburn , 10, 11; Caledonian, 75, 7G ; Cheater and Holy- ance. and colonial trade. Cottons have been rather largely head , 33, 35; Eastern Counties, 60 .61 ; Great Northern , On Thursday, July I. Extra Night. IL TROVATORE taken owing to the better character of the Eastern 100, 101; G reat Southern and Western (Ireland ,) , 103, 104 . and a Divertissement , with Mdfle. Rosati and Mdlle , de- Great Western , 494, 49J ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 89,' Pocchini. mand ; but tbe large majority of articles are on the un- 89i ; London and Black wall , 51, 61; London. Brighton , The Opera commences at 8 o'clock. favourable side, and the retain indicates that the opinions and South Coast , 107 , 108 ; Londo n and North -Western , 893. Applications to be made at th e Box-office at tbe Theatre. occasionally expressed that some general revival of 914 ; London and South - Western , 92, 93; Midland , 92, 91i ; Worth-Eastern (Berwick) , 894, 901 ; South-Eastern , activity was "taking place was unfounded. The total of (Dover) , 67i, 67$ ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 5|, 5J ; ;Dutcli ISS KEMBLE has tbe honour to announce our exports for the first five months of the year has been tthuuish , 5i, 4| dis. ; Eastern of France (Paris and Stra s- M that , by the kind permission of the Righ t Hon. the 43,226,371?., showing a decrease of 6,969,170/., or bourg) , 25, 251 : Great Centra l of France , ; Great Earl of Ellesmere . her MOKNING CONCEllX will take nearly fifteen per cent. As compared -with the corre- Luxembourg, 7J, 7J; Northern of France , 87t, 371 ; Paris place in the Gallery of Bridge water House , on WBDN ESDA T sponding fi months of 1856 and Lyons, 30£. 30J ; Royal Danish , —— ; Royal next , June 30, oa which occasion she will bu assisted by the ve , the reduction has been Swedish ; Sambre and Meuse ,7S, 7J . following eininont artists :—Madame Viardot Garcia, Mr- only 80,958/. With regard to imported commodities, a Santley, Signor Mario (his oa y appearance at any concert large increase in the arrivals of wheat, flour , and otter BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK. this season) ; Mr. Chas. Halle. Biguor Piatti , and Herr grain, is the chief feature. The supplies of tea have (Ctoaw o Pbices.) Joachim. —Tickets , One Guinea each , to be obtained at Mr. been considerable, and there has also been an increase in Mitchell' s Royal Library, S3, Old Uond-street ; and at the \ Sat. S£on. Tv.es. \ Wed. \ Thur.! Frid. principal Musicscllers. the -quantity taken into use. The consumption of cocoa, Bank Stock ..... I 221 ...... 221 221 ; 220 221^ tobacco,-fruits, and spices, likewise shows an augmenta- 3 per Cent. Red 95i 95i 98 9GJ ' 96 05i ARABELLA GODDARD'S tion while in that of coffee, sugar wines and spirits 3 per Cent. Con. An...... 96 96 96 96 MISS MATINEE , , , , Consols for Account ...... 95i 95J 95J 95| 9ftf MUSICAlI jE will talce place at Willis's Rooms, on there has again been a falling off.—Times. Now Sper Cent. An. 95J 95» 96 96 9iii 95i Saturday, June 26th. To commeiice at Thr ee o'clock pre- The Paper Duty.— A meeting to advocate the New 2J per Cents...... ;...... cisely, when she will be assisted by Herr Joseph Joachim . repeal of the paper duty took place on Thursday ; 3Ir. Long Ans. 1885 ...... 18l 181 ...... -. Herr Goffrie . aad Siguor Piatt i. The Program s wul include India Stock...... Schubert' s Sonata in B minor (Op. 42), TusseTt 's Quartett Milner Gibson, M.P., in the chair. Several resolutions Ditto Bonds . £1000 16 p 17 p ;...... 17 p ...... in E flat , J. S. Bach's Suites in D major , Theme with were carried, including one for opening a subscription Ditto , under £1000 ...... 17 p 21 p variations for Pian o and Viola, and Beethoveu 's Grand to aid in the agitation of the subject. Ex. Bills, jeiOOO ...... 30s. SI p 32 p 32 p 36 p ...... Sonata (dedicated to Kreutzer). Reserved seats , 10s. 6d. j Ditto ,£500...... 20p 22p 18 p 22 p 33 p 83 p unreserved, 7s. To be had of Miss A.. Goddard , 47, Welbeck ' Mr. Bail/uk, the present Solicitor-General for Scot- Ditto , Small...... 22 p ...... 23 -p 23 p 33 p street ; and at the prin cipal Musicsellers. land, will succeed Mr. Inglis as Lord-Advocate, and doubtless as- M. P. for Stamford. FOREIGN FUNDS. (LA8XOPPlClA. I. (iUOTATIOlr DURING xnE ^VBKKEirBIMa LAST WEEK OE MONT BLAKC-IR Tnivxx Evenin g.) ALB ERT SMITH'S VESUVIUS, NAPLE S, POM ' PEII .and MONT BLANC will close ou Tues4ay Eveuing BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Brazilian Bonds...... Portuguese 4 perCents . ... Jul y Cth . BIRTHS. Buenos Ayres 6 p. Cents ... Russian Bond s, 5 per 0RAWSHA.TT. —On the 15th inst , at Fourchambault. Nievre, Ch ilian 6 per Cents...... Cents ,...... ;...... France , the wife of "Walter Crawshay, Esq. : a daughter. Chilian 3 per Cent s...... Russian 43 per Cents. ... 1O2J ¦p^R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL AND PA- SHUBRICK. —On the 17th inst., at Bay's-hill Lawn, Chel- Dutch 2y Glasgow brinks of being moro partic ular in their folk , builder— John Tonks , Birmin gham , printer. lls., free by post Is. 8d. extra to any part of tho United advance s on railway property is forcing stock into tho SCOTCH SEQUES'i'ltATlONS .-RopKnr Kay, lately re- Kingdom , or four cases in one for 33s., by post , 3a. 2d. extr a, market. siding at Balbirnio Ootta go, M nrkinch , duc«ased , woolapin- which snveslls. ; and in 6/. casus, whoroby there isasaving In tho heavy share market , Great Wester ns havo been at noT— Thomas Irkland , somotimo of Nothor Urquliart , of it. 12s,; divided into separate clones , ns administered by 1SJ , but hav e recovere d l por cent. Midlands show tho File, docooscd— William Munuo , Haughs or "Wardwoll , Valpeau , LnHonmnd ,Roux , &c. Sold by D.Church ,78,G race- best trn tflc; oven they at 91 are doar enough. 11 id inn gua- Banffrthiro , farmer—GBonau Uowatt , "Woodhoad of Alich- church -stro ct ; Bnrtlett Iloojiur , 43. King AVillinm-utrcot: ranteed share s aro very little in demand , and aUhou gh ingoul , Banffshiro , fanner— James Guay , jun., Glasgow, «. F. Wat ts , 17, Strand -, Prout . '^S), Strand ; llannay, 03, J rcnch aud foreign railway shares arc sllRhtl y (Inn er , there morclmnt— Victoh Jameb Assoi.m« , Glasgow, professor of Oxford-stre et ) Sangor , 100, Oxford-street , London ) It. 11. is no amo-imt of business doing Hkoly to force thorn much modern languag es— Ro bjkbt Kay and Son, Markincli , -wool- Inghani , Markot-strcot , Manohostor and Powell ,16, Wo»t- higher . Canadian aliarca rule lint , and thin may be- said ol Bninnors , moreland -str« Qt , Dublin. isss itheb lceja iib^bi p^^ ^333, ^ 1^^; em S- ^ Tt BA]M M'MSR BEVBltA^audKSi—A tnbles|>o»»nfal AiDIHS' KhAS'WC SUBPORTING D8, |^A.T H AsND' 'ITOILET TB W-A lfrM S«J JUJ far Use befora aud after Accowcliemont, admirably WIIililAAI & BUBTQH has. ONB ^T iV,y££?W/si sWNeBira^ fruit.'essences _£> EAEGE S«n ^W " ohoice fruits! containing no chemical adapted' for giving effi cient support. with. OEX.TB 'BMKXiGHT . BO OM- devoted exclusively tost the otdibp lav of fDM ^e^ftSn ' SEss—a point little attended WA-RE. The ock lI RVTH ^ * ifiroiH nK wbat ever). mixed, with an ord inary tumblerful to in the comparatively clumsy ^ILETTE S atS rwttl ' fornr a delicious beverage. — 176 aud the mapui'actiirers and inven- ha.ve tended to raako this- establishmen t ' ' the* moat dLv! ^ tors. POP B and P.LAN iE« -i, Waterloo-p laee. PallrMall , Kuishcd in this country. Porta -bic Khowen Sn? * •E>tJRE BRANDY:, 16s: PEIfc GAliliON.— -'Lbnd6n. S.W. " 7s fl?- of Showers, 51. to 5f. ; Nurse ry, 153. to 32s : ponJrinn ^i^K _E7 PaJ e-or ^W)w6'EjaU-DU.VIE exquisite flavour and 32s. Hip, 14s. to ^U 6d ; A la«e assor tnTe ^t o> ^ s PuK gxeaV puritv , iden tical, iiwlei'd, in ever y, respect with those ac s H t a di ld ' v1 r fip0Ur and roduc tions - of the Cognac district which are now OYDENHAM ALPA'CA OVERCOATS fbr « ' r? ., !\ S? ^ " K°v ^ . ' catnp Showed cooice p : , Buths.^ Toilette Ware 111.groat var iety, Jr om.lSs-. Od 10 d#frictm tb procure at any price , S5s. per dozen , Fr ench O Summer Wear: Admirably ad apted for the Parks . Day the set of t ir«>p_ ' "^ . to 4984is^T oattfes ando sise incl uded ,f or 16s. per gallon. ^Festivals , R*ce^C ourses , Couatry , Rambles; Daily :' Town HENRY BRETT j and Co.,, (ild FiirnivaVs Bistllterj i Wear, or the Sea^Sfdc, a*rd usually couvcuient for travelling q^H-E BEST SHOW of IKON EETDSTEATTC Holboriu . in-hot dry; weather- fron ^ tho- protection ¦whicli they afford t in tho KTNGDOH is WIL -UAM S. ETJR TO\4 nl against dust , without the oucuinbranca of weight , or the Kas POUR LARGE ROOMS "devoted to tlicToxclOsi" ve sW 1 res traint of transpiration. Thtse goods arc made with a or iron. and Bi-tss Bedsteads aitd . Ohildt en's Cot TrTNgOP HrSTICATEl) GENEVA, of the true DPopriatc ' .Beddiiw and Bed HangiiiK g, «u*}£? %LJ " j/miper flavour , and precisely as'it runs from the still , decree of care hitherto unprecedented: Sydoiilram . Port able Poldu k Tro users of fine light cloth , 17s. 6d ; Waistcoat to match , 'Bedsteads ,. . from Us. ; Patent Iron Bedste ads, fitted with witho ut the addition of sugar or any ingredient whatever. ) dovetail joints and patent sacking; Im perial gallons ' 133. ; or in one dozen cases; 2»s. each , 8s. 6d. ; B\isiness or> ark Coat; 17s. 6d. ; Sydenham Summer from 14s Gd • iuQ OotR Overcoa ts of Melton Cloth , 21s. j Completo Suits for Boys, from 15*. 6d. encli : handsome - ornament aJ Iro n' antrnVn«n pscknrn included. Bedsteads in ^reat Variety, froaa 2/. 18s. to HKNRY BRETT : and Co., Old FurrriWs ^ Distillery ! 24s. ; Gentlemen 's complete Evening" Dress or Opera Suir , 6d^ 2QL 63s. TJie S.vdenham construction as is ' now well'kiiown is WILUiAJVL S; Holboro. . effecUialli'directed to secure tlio most perfect retentive and BUHTOWS GENERAL VV PXI RNISH1 N& IBOHMO2JGE RY- .OATAIi OWBB : easy h't in all positions ot the body. Made only by the may be had gratis, awd WENfi NO LON&Bft- AN* EXPENSIVE LUXURY ^ Inventorss , SAMUEL. BROTHERS , 29. Lud gate-hill. frcO 'hy,post. It contai ns utnv -ird * , MARSALA, of 400 Illustration * of his iiHmited - Stoelt of Electro iml ORT, SHERRY MADEIRA, ¦T SheHield Plate, Nicke l SHrcr and BJPi: aniiia - Metal - Hodd? P •&c, TWENTY SHLLL1.VGS PER DOZEN. ,-im- AWRENCE H;YAM, MKUCHANT D.sh Covers and- Hotwater. Dishes,, Stoves, : 1.11* CLOTH IER AND MANUFACTURER, S6, Grace- - ft S ported by us. from the Cape of Good Hope, and only .Mai-ble. Man telpieces.. Kittdioa Rang es, Lan.nsj Gase citarfned lialtf the usual duty by her Majest y' s Custom s. church-B treot , City , London , solicits public attention to the Hers, Te& Urns and Kettl es. Tea Tr ays , CJo ck s, "I iind it to be pure and unadulterated , and I have immense variety in style and pattern .of Meu aud- Youths? Tal ' e Gut. no lery. Baths Jmcr Toilet Ware . 'Wrn eTO in>ii «id -Brais Bat doubk iof its beiiiR for more wholettoni e than , the artificial Clothing, uianu factured by him expressly for. the present steads * Bck.^!h«, Bfed'Wnn #n|f, &c; to5; ,w ith mixtur es -too often bo l? effected rendt-rs it important and enti tles putation for oh««pues» and .firbt -rate qua -lity. Cftrtchod Pviars, Mark-lane. it to great consideration in lsu-ge famUies . The stock it most extensive aiid complete , includin g the finest tvans- THE ORDERE L) DEP ARTMENT offers also peculiar pareut lvtiry HaudloB at 32s. per dozen , choice ditto Balance WINES. — H. R. WILLIAMS, advai»tas«B,- the artistes being , men of celebrity and the Handles f rotu 2-2*'. per daaen , medium ditto Balance Ha n- CAPE material the best. dles (an exceedinKly cheap 1 and serviceable faniuy orti«sl o) 112, BISHOPSG.VTE STREET WITHIN. ; r Two doord -fronvtlie Plo\ver Pofc. ClimiCA L and PR OFESSIONAL men are specially 16s..per dozens also Bone, H orn , Stag, aiul.ev ery, variety of mounting' , all warranted. Plated 'Dessert Khivesawd Forks EXPORTER OF COLONIAL. AND¦ FOR EIGN WINES. invi ted, the black and mixture cloths toeing of a fast' dye, South African Port and Sherry. ... ¦.. .' ... 20s. pcr>doz eu and warranted Tor durability. An ordered suit of black for with Silver , Pearl , Ivory, and Plated H andles , in cases of South African Mar sola;and Madeira- ...... 20s,. „ 32. 3s-.; also the celebrated 17s. trousers in great variety. 12, 18; or 24 pairs ,.also plat ed Eftuveating - Kniv es from -42?. per dozen. Silver nnd Plat ed Eish Superior qualities , ...... 24s, „ LAWR U WCE HY AM, Merch ant Clothier and Manufac- Carve rs ^of t ire newest and most elegant designs always in stock. —London aKents Simtih African Amontillado ...... 24a. „ turer , 36, G racechurfth-street , City, London. ' Sftutu African Bueellas ...... 24s. ,, ior Messrs. J oseph Rodgers and Sons' celebra ted cutlery. D13A!N-li and Cov' s General Fmrnishhv K. Irounion ^ory These Miims lwvvo undergone « very careful analysis , are GREAT EA-LTj . . IN THE PRICE OF "W arehouses (opening to the Honument)! Londcui Bridee. quite free from acidity, and oati bn highly recommen ded for A PERilANENT BLACK; TTRO OK AND- DRES S Established a IV. 170O. . their puj-ity and wholesome character ; and thev ar e espe- COATS, 42s. The best fitting tttousw * in London , 16s.—• cially suited for Dinner , Dessert , Supner, arid ;Family use. Ol)serve , J. SMITH , 38, Lomba ril4s«-eet. ' Delivered free to any London Railway Terminus. :W PEGTACL'BS. — Sight and Hearing. — ¦ . H. Rv WdliLIAMS, "W itie and Sntrit lorper term - O Di'a fness.—A newly-invetited Inst rument lor extremc ite BI ^OPSG.\T#.STREET WIT HIN, LONDON. 1 An Ann gustomeh-s wanted. eases of Deafness , called thoSOUND MACtNIEIlS It ,Organ ic Bitrhctrfrom Private 1 Letter* IUV VVU — SAUWDERS BUOTHERS' STA- 'Vibrator , and invisible Voice Conductor. It (its so into the :^ " Having used Cape wine 5 ' at sth'eCape, Tart able to state that the winesso-ld by you TION13KY is the BEST and CHEAPEST to be ebtaine d. tear as not to be in the least perceptible ; the unpleasant ¦ ' ' ' ' ; sensation of singing noises in ' ' " ' ' ' ¦ ¦ : " " the head ia entirel y l-omovccl . sure genu ine aud Rood." ' - 8* rl - ¦ " ¦ ¦ '¦ ' ¦ 2 , - . s. ,d.. It affords instant relief to the deafest persons , and enables Cream-lai d note...2 0 per rm. Cream-lai d adhe- Thick da them to liear distinctly at chur ch and at public assemblies. ¦p> I B S>' SvE A "NT D £ IT B I N- ' . S ...... 4 0 „ sive envelopes...3 0 pr 1000. Messrs. SOLOMONS hav e invented spectacle lenses of tlic Bordere d note ...4 0 „ Large commercial greatest transparent A FRA 'trefTPANNI- PfcttinmB , 29;«a. Straw paper ...;..2 - power. The valuable advantage do- 6 „ ciivelopes-i...... 4. 0 „ lived from this invention is, that vision becomes proscrvod Frangipanni Sachet,is. 6d. Blue commer cial - L arge American and strengthened note 8 0 : very a«ed iiersons are enabled to empby - Fbansipanui Soap, is* „ buff envelopes.^, 0 „ their sight at the most minute occupation , can see with Fbamgipanni Pomade,2s. Ditto , lettersizt >..6 0 „ Foolscap paper ...7. 0 per rm. these lenses of a much F«ANGI *ANK t"IirCtNSB, Is. 6tJ . berm on paper less magnifying jower , and they do (Sold by-all fatsHibnaWle-Perfumers and Dr uggists. ...4. S „ Commercial pens. l O pr gross. not require the frequent changes to tho dangerous clfccta Be suro ttx ask for PIES&E and LVUBIN'S FRA'NGI- A SAMPLE PACKET of STATIONERY (Sixty descri p- of further -powerful assistanc e. ~ 36, Albemarle-stro < t , RANWI) there are-nMnTeroas-imitations. tions , priced and numbered ) sent tree , together with a Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel . LABORATORY! OFl'LOWBRS, price list, 011 recei pt of lour stamps. NO CHARGE made , a NliW BON D-STREET, LONDON for stamping; ' ann a , crests , initials , &c M on either pap er or r PO INVALIDS, Merchants, and others. —The envelopes . CA RltlAG E PAID on all orders over 203.— iJL PATE NT ALBERT PORTABLE LOUNGING SKIN SOAP, recommended SAUND15RS B ltO l'H URS, Manufacturin g Stationers , C H AIR , the most luxurious aud cheapest' evor manulao- BRfiCKNEIwt'S* 05 and.104, London-wall , Lond on , E.G. tiircd. Sell-propelling, Batli , Brightoai , and every other . . a» the best.for producing a cicar and lfealthy skin, being, description of chair for in and cut-door uso. Mechanical the old yellow-soap, .made expressl y for. tfce parposa , chairs and beds of.ovo o£t.ho bes* materials , and not scented. — Sold only hv One MAEiWS DRESSING- GAS ES AND ; ry description , perambulators , Scv. kets,of (the largest assortment in tiie world), silways 011 hand for S»illu*e: pac either , four rounded , tablets or eight TRAVELLI NG BAGS. gale or hire. AKeuts .-—-Messrs. and , eduares , and extr a large-7 ttiblets Sixpence eaclu BREHK.- Smith, Taylor, Co., Ni$I,L MAPPIN BROT HERS , Manufacturers by Special Ap- Bombay , Bat avia , Si n gapore , and Samarang ; Messrs. P. W- , TURNER, and SQN6j Wax and Tallow Chandlers , pointment to the Queen , iBrowiio and Co., Calcutta. Sole patentee and mau n facturci , Soap and Oil Merchants , &o.';,tq; her Majesty, Beehive; 31, aro the only Sheffield Makers who supply the Consumer in London . Their London Show J. WARD, 5 and 0. Leicustor ^quare , W;C. Estaulishcd 00 Haymai ket, London. Please observe tliat each tablet anc Rooms, 07 and 68, years. square is stampe d "Brecknell' s Skin Soap." KIN G WltiLIAM ^STREiST, Londo n - brid Ro, contain by far tho lar gest • STOCK' of DRESSING * CAS liS, and Ladies' and Gen tlemen's TRAVELLIN G MAPPIN'S SHILLING RAZQB, sold every- URGESS'S celebrated Bandoline for fixing BAGS in the World , each Article being nianufactLtredu nder where, warranted good , by the Makers, MAPPi-N B L«wliea' Hair or Gen tl«men 'a Whi skers and Mous- their own superintendence . iHROTtitiRS, Queen 's Cutlery Works ^ Sliotiiold , and 07 and taches , without dr ying not being a liquid as most others. MAPPIN 'S Guine a DRESSING CASE , for Gentlem en. GS, Kinis William-street , City , London , wliorxs tho largo a Ift! bottics -from iIbj to/10b . Od. Pre pared at .R.,BU RGE Ski'S MAPPll Btock oi Cutlery iu tho world.ia.kept . Hair. Cu ttiu ® and Brushing Establishment. Bosd Washing Sf'S Two Guinea DRESSIOKG CASE , in solid ¦ on, the approved Oyi-LaVntor # system. ¦ iLeatlrer. Ladies' TRAVELLING- and DRES SING BA«S, from \/| APPIN'S SUPERIOR TABLE-KNIVES Nbs. 14,. 16,, and , 10, Boyai Opera. Arcade , Charle s-strcot , ' -L* JL mainta in thcir uurivftlled Hiiporioi -ity. Hk»n mrk ct,. S. 21. 1 2n. to Wi)L oucrh. Handles can - \V. Agents, . Birch , Molesworth-strect , ' not possibly bocoino loose; the blauut ; are all of the very DUblwi ; < rea «a»n, Kln ^stroet, ,, Jersey ; Apothec aries' . H Gett tlbmen u-do. do., from ' 31. 12a. to 8ft?, all, JAtoi&tK. Ma ppim- invite Inspe ction lU'st quality , bein g their owuiShollloldjatanuriicturo. Glaag ow^ and -liudwig , 33,iChnrloii ten-Strasse« i Berlin. , of tlioir oxtonsi ve Stock , which- is oomplot e with every Yariety v ofi Style and Tblo. Kns..Dst. Idas. Cm-vore . Pri oo^ : ¦ per Doz. per Doe. per Pair. WHEN YOU ASK FOR A- oo«tly BoAte of EtiRntvivrgs, with. Prices attached , Ivory 3g in. Handle, balanced.. 20s. His. 0s. Iiffi .Wr-F'I-ffiK tf FAfENT STARCH, foTWWitod 'by poot 'Oii mompt 'Ot'- l 2'St-a:rup9. Do. 4. in. do. .. 25s.. 18s. 0s.' ££ MAPPIN BROTHERS , OT ntid 'Ca VX SETS TttAT'YO'U GElMa\, 1 ; KlttK * ^.IlIirAM- < A8.dk>aYVj>fttManbutif utetU MTREJST; ClTfY , LON 'JJON: MAPPIN'S SILVER-PLATED DESSER T Manufa ctory— Quebn 's CuTxmaxW-o&Kn. Suespibld. KNIVE S and FORKS,-in Maho gany Cases. TO THE NTSRrVOUS•A3N-U - DEBILITATED. 12 Pn irfatKnives and Eorha , Jvor y.Handle s, in Caso...... 8«') s. WOI »TURB»-—BY ItOYAi/ .LUTTB-RS ' PA*EN -tttV ^Mcdifeal 'Sbtrt wtlto fonrrnxE's rioc -main- Q*rr WB-Metttl»i ^ itbucit , and ' y lever truss u - »feW «tt »i«l»Ilfe»lttent lBr5BWfau.t t»tnt r , T allowed by upwardo of 200 Medical -Gonblomeniift ) bs Tt/TAPPIN'S JB LJEbTKO.SILVER;JPi^lTE A BtedStfr ct Dlap olu by — y*«7v'Alf^-plfc ^ ; BWord ^««jftioJ Ctoi& j r,. coittinu «» t8 blio moat oifeutivu iuvoiitiom 111 ' the curative treatment of JLTX MAPPIN . BBjO'AH IS US^ Maunrradiarfwa . Hjimal ^ M'x^tecjh >V> i Henna. Tile use. of ¦pr hwc hunt tlul in its he, i ^^ r or> Mx' 6ttinii>»;/' Tj ate' ' am Dlil -JCO OB^P n\ steel (t>o > Appointment to t Queen, nro. thoiouly Bhednokl niiUcors Cluieto) iaiiuoro avoided, a aof t Bantia «o l)oin«wor»» , voundiUio who supi)ljr tho,oonuiiniera in iondon, Tiwin LDNJiOitf dy nilu th<3 rcqutaitx * rooistiu K-uowcar la sunp licdrby. tko SHOW KOOMSi. G7, au d ca,.Kin *,Willi VPIVloo-M«au.'.V am *tiwct,.London IMv WJf MwhVlhWhw Wte - Utflb wrk Twr the Advicelm givo* PndlaiMi Par ent Laveivfttti nK w itlvHO luuoh oaao UridKO , contain by Tar tho largeat , S'I*O QKiOl ' UliliCTllO- on n»rtflWHiindl dll»«\wroflfcets miwti credit upon hLm aa & andiel68 onea aithMt - itfaunot.be detocteel; awd mny- b» wona B ILV1S R PIiATi 'J intho World, wiiiohiiB .tr auuiiltted direct BOMnd arecMb ^l'ijliHiwotthor ^'i-CWite. durinBi Bloen. . Ai doaon iuUVB oinoular nMy. Ueihnia . and the from thoin Mrunufaotoi- yi,Auoonfftliutlo ny'Wtorka wro aruna ,'(wtnoh «)vuuo , SholllukU tiirM l (to 16' 0 £H TV 0' .-C3 0 0 la 1'nblofctpoonn W offa Bln8lo,txuaa , best quality , 11 10 0' 2']!» 0' !5 0 0 ¦n w? ^ 1,,lilSn 208., 28a, 0d., and. 3Wi fld.— 12 Dessert Fork s, host 'qua- «JBY 24A iRf W'y« •• 1 70 2 0 0 2-10 H1AI0EI, High HoHwm- &m D«te Doubto Troae ^ Qd.,.42ai . and B2a. Cd:—Posta ge la. ,8d- 12., ^ P Ui ubilical 'Diu» M > Dossort SpooiiB, bcst< qua- WW' Day«)wl M:(trMii:i»)i AbOTt. RdBS 's-Hrrti -Uyo is oasllv ¦ J ,.4B*. ft«id 5a».,(id. Oflta BO Is. lOd. •¦ MMltbd , pTm>:J 9o oa: Brld so' t MamUVurtory, , Qnctcrt' B Cutlery . WurM», J O JI N WUl'l 'M Manufacturer , 228, Piccadill y, London. fe?"oheiliolu..^ "? . ««Oi- -U:UJN J!i ¦ £i\f XOUO. J_ XX. JCI J.VU , . ,. y J JLJ JC i J\.U ill ±L . 623? THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON EIRE THE NATI ONS GrALLE&Y " COMPaOJ QSED.'.' AND - MM ? ' .INSU RATfCB CO3IPANY i . Established 1886. INVESTED FUNDS-ONE MILLION STE RLVINGi The Premiums received on Fjro Idsnrances in the year THE 1857; am ounted tb : upwards- of 2Si>;OO0? Insurances - are ART-JOURNAL FOB JULY effected ,-at hotneand abroad , on Property of every descrip- tiMi—the Hreaiiunis are moderate, the settloment af claims - liberal and prompt- . . 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