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BRIDOIL nAT —Morning, 11h. :Itn...—..Atternoot7,llk. s+►roaww—Moralac 04 om_ ..Aftenwoo, Oh. Om MOTICRFS 01 BIRTHS, MARR/AOILS, and We received 'WI It o'olock for tuertiou um* evening. Price. as. 6d. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, 111 PUBLISNID EVERY EVENING. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 18. EARL GREY. TUN saying that a man's worst enemy is him self applies with perfect truth to Earl GREY. He has not profited by his opportunities, or rather his opportunities have proved his bane. As the son of the chief among the aristocratic advocates of Reform he entered public life under circum stances of unusual promise. Natere had endowed him with abilities of no mean order. His education has been thor mgh, and his devotion to the serious duties of his station was alike marked and praise worthy. Even had his personal claims been less striking, his position ensured him a patient hearing Is the House of Commons. The eldest son of a prominent statesman has but to talk in a rational way to command attentive listeners. Hundreds see only too happy to remove from his path to fame the obstacles which a less favoured man must either surmount by his indomitable energy, or else conjure away by the magic of his genius. Doubtless, his abilities and his services merited recognition, but it was ability and party service, phis the accident of birth, which gave to Lord ElowioK at the age of twenty-eight, and after he had been for one year a member of Parliament, a place in the first administration of Earl City. But if it was not merit al o ne to which Lord HOWllillt was indebted for his promotion from the barren post of private member to a responsible office in the Government, he soon made it evident that he was something more than a parti san ; that he had opinions which he was anxious to uphold, and for which he was ready to suffer. He resigned the mbordinate office lie held under his father, because he could not conscientiously approve of the policy of the Cabinet. This testified to his independem.ce. It demon strated, also, that he was more of a politician than a minister. These tendencies prevailed with equal force when, after his elevation to the peerage, he became Secretary fur the Colonies. He entered into this office at .. critical moment. The West Indian planters were still embittered at the abolition of colonial slavery. Their estates bad diminished in value : their large incomes had dwindled down to beggarly pittances. It was thought their only hope lay in the oontine woe, if not the extension, of the system of pro tection which had enabled them $, dispose of their MC. - sugar at a profit to be reaped at the expease of the home consumer. To this, Bari Os= was sternly opposed. He had embraced without reservation the whole doctrine of free trade. The battle between protectionists and free traders I was fought over again on this question, and many who had voted for untaxed bread were disposed to make an exception in the special case of the sugar planters. Earl GREY did not flinch from his position, and the Government succeeded in passing the bill which, if it did not ruin the planters, ex cited their enmity towards the Colonial Secretary, whom they regarded as the author of all their calamities. Other colonists became exasperated in turn. In Canada there was disaffection. The rising colonies of Australia clamoured to obtain entire self-government, and to be freed from the incubus of an imported convict population. At the Cape, a bloody and costly war was raging between the Kaffir. and the imperial forces. Great delicacy of manipulation was required on • the part of him who had to deal with these diverse and complicated problems. Perfect tact was essential, in order to enforce sound principles. On the whole, Earl Grey was in the right. That he blundered in one case is certain, and it is creditable to him that he has acknowledged this. But public opinion condemned him, and he was unversed in the art of conciliating hostile critics. It was with a feeling of relief that the public heard of his refusal to become a member of the composite administration of Lord ABERDRIN. Yet it is possible that had he, and not the Duke of Nswcsirria, been Secretary at War, some of the disasters of the Crimean campaign might have been prevented. His distinguishing characteristic is firmness, awl it was the absence of this quality in high quarters to which many of the " horrible " and heartrending' . incidents of that campaign were attributable. In opposing the war with Russia, Earl GREY increased his character for eccentricity at the time ; but there are many who have since coincided with him, and have been in duced to think that the maintenance of the Ottoman empire is not the first duty of English statesmen. His position in the political hemisphere is that of an erratic comet rather than a fixed star. .He refuses to follow any leader, and he cannot per suade others to f ,1:ow him. The desire which has dominated him of late years has been to reform the representation of the people without unduly adding to their power. Democracy he dreads as much as Mr. ADDISLIT. A strong exe cutive he loves as heartily as a disciple of Comm In his work on Reform many ingenious devices are advanced with a view to give effect to his theories. But they are liable to the objection to which the paper schemes of the projector of a machine for perpetual motion are fatally exposed. He for gets to make proper allowance for friction. He also fails to perceive that it is unwise to consider how to replace certain arrangements which have become obsolete, because, although these may appear easeitial to the smooth working of the Constitution, and may have proved indis peusabb in former times, they are yet no longer required, nor could they be restored without a dangerous shack to the existing order of things. Nomination boroughs were useful ; happily, we have outlived them. The direct control of the House of Commons over the Execqtive may be injurious, but that remains to be seen. The strong Governments of Lord NORTH and Mr. Prrr are more enviable when regarded retrospec tively than they would be if they existed in reality. We may groan under the Premiership of Mr. Disaarti, but even that is a minor infliction compared with the strong rule which Sir Rower WAtrotz owed to corruption, which Gamma Gaswvats, that incarnation of political imbe cility, owed to the favour of Gaoaos the THIRD when he was young and ambitious of using his royal influence for the furtherance of his private designs. Earl GREY'S recent letter on the Irish Church is the crowning testimony to his unfitness for the duties of practical states manship. He is still enamoured of the old Whig proposals to promote religious equality by a uni f-rni endowment of the diffetent sects. His mind is out of gear with the times. His sympathies are on the side of his order. He regards the people as a monster which strong men should bridle. It is his misfortune not to have mingled among his countrymen. Had he been less of a student and had his lines been cast in rougher places, he might have learned how to govern his fellows by pro viding for their real wants. He is a clever and well-meaning speculator, but an untrustworthy statesman. soireely too ro of iii. *Aiwa lima, it Mr. desire to poison the pubn, food, their influence althoug.. extended, would be confined within a limited sphere. Instead of affecting the English race all the world over, it would touch only the two or three thousand people present at the performance. The hurt might be more sensible in the one case than in the other, but it would not be more real, and it would be restrained, as we have said, within far narrower bounds. • The fact is that public opinion, by the punish ment that can be inflicted by the law, is the main safeguard against any open violation of morality. It is difficult to define in theory the point at which the liberty of free speech degenerates into license, but practically there is no difficulty whatever, and the author who is willing to debase his calling must resort to the secret dens of Holywell-street. An actor, on the contrary, at any respectable theatre, cannot do harm by stealth. What he does must inevit ably be done above board before the eyes of enemies as well as friends, and there can be no question that the manager's profits and good name would suffer upon any gross coarseness of expres sion or of representation. We say " respectable " theatre," because, as all the world knows, there are places which are neither respectable nor legal, where words are uttered and scenes enacted before ignorant and vicious people, which are a disgrace to any Christian country. But no argument in favour of an " examiner" can be adduced on this account. He pommies no power over performances such as these. They are not sanctioned by the community, and can be put down at any time, if discovered, by the strong arm of the magistrate. Penny gaffs, like Holywell street pictare-books, can last only so long u they are bidden from the public. Let in the light of day upon them and they will cease to exist. Indeed, one of the greatest securities against a violation of morality is publicity. Even vicious people object to sinning in the daylight. There was a time, and not so very long ago neither, when it was the fashion to issue Royal proclamations against vice and profaneness. There was a time, too, when if a man wrote or said the thing he would, he was liable to be placed in the stocks or in the pillory. All this was done with the best intentions in the world, and for tie interests of morality. We have given up these foolish bulletins, and have no longer any hope of being made better by a royal message. We have given up these foolish punishments, and do not find that religion or good order have suffered in consequence. The press is free, the pulpit is free, the power of free speech is un limited, and yet we continue to place the stage under a Load Chamberlain, and to intrust our drama to the mercies of an examiner. It is time to give up this childish restriction. We assert, then, that if a manager's conscience cannot always be relied upon, we may generally rely upon his pocket that if he be willing to pro duce an immoral play he will be restrained from doing so both from regard to his own interest and the interest of his company ; that if notwithstand ing he brings out an immoral drama, the law can be brought to bear against him as well as against the publisher of an immoral book, and that it is a disgrace to a respectable body of gentlemen to place them, however slightly, under the thumb of • licenser. If this irritating badge of servitude were removed, it is possible that • play might occa sionally appear upon the boards which is open to objection, but this does happen occasionally now, notwithstanding the imprimatur of an examiner, and we may safely aver that it would happen less frequently if the entire responsibility rested upon the manager. THERE seems little hope of making even the ablest and most enlightened among the supporters of the Irish Church Establishment understand the light in which the question of its abolition presents itself to liberal politicians. The article on the subject which appears in the number of the Quar terly Review, published to-day, finds great fault with Mr. GLADSTONE because he " proposes to take " money now devoted to one object, and to give " it to another, without stating what this other " object is, or whether it is a better one than " that on which the money is now spent." " Silence on this point," says the reviewer, "can only be justified on the supposition " that the object on which the money " is now spent is so bad, that anything would be " better." And then he asserts that, although this doctrine may be maintained by the extreme voluntaries, or by the Roman Catholic clergy, it is certainly not the opinion of the majority of the House of Commons, who think the work to which the money is now devoted a good one, and only complain " that the benefits "of it are limited to so few." By what pro oess the Quarterly reviewer has ascertained the opinion of the majority of the House of Com mons we do not know ; but for ourselves we do maintain unreservedly that any object to which we can conceive the revenues of the Irish State Church being diverted would be preferable to the present one. The ends to which these funds are now turned are principally three : the promotion of disaffection towards the imperial rule, grounded on an entire disbelief in the justice or the good will of Parliament; the maintenance in the minds of the Protestant popula tion of those traditions of superiority and ascen dancy which are incompatible with the good government of Ireland ; sad the embittering of every social relation between Irishmen of different creeds. The property of the establishment may hereafter be wasted on foolish or even mushroom objects, but at the very worst we are sure that it will never do one-tenth part of the harm which it does now. Consequently, without being either extreme voluntaries or Roman Catholic clergymen, we assert that the first thing to be done is to take away the money from its present uses. The determination of the uses to which it shall be applied hereafter is a subsequent, and, by com parison, a secondary question. " Has MAJ LIM will remain at Osborne for " about three weeks, and then return to Windsor " previous to leaving for Scotland." Accordin' to this reckoning the QUEEN will be in Scotland towards the end of May ; and from this it may, perhaps, be deduced that her Herrn , / expects a Ministerial crisis about that time. A truce suffi cient at least to allow passions to cool and hasty threats of resignation to be tacitly withdrawn may often be of great value in political warfare, and the Qunew's habit of passing the most important period of the session in the Highlands obviously tends to secure this benefit to her subjects. This year the practice may even give the Conservatives an extra week of office ; and no one who considers the heroic self-sacrifice—if a man's principles can be called his " self "—by which the party has hitherto kept THE CENSORSHIP OF THE DRAMA. NEARLY two hundred years have passed away since English literature ceased to be dependent upon the discrimination or the stupidity of • licenser. Muroar's noble treatise in favour of unlicensed printing, although unanswered, had been disregarded until, by a curious chance, the blunder of a bigoted man and the unprincipled conduct a wicked man freed our authors from the bondage to which they had hitherto been sub ject. This was in the reign of WILLIAM and MART, and there can be no doubt that this abro gation of a senseless law has been of essential ser vice not to letters only, but to the cause of mo rality also. No one now-a-days believes that our literature would be purer or more elevated in tone if every manuscript were, as GOLDSMITH said, " strained through a licenser" before being pre sented to the public ; no one doubts that the books published in the nineteenth century are more refined than the books produced in the seventeenth. Yet every man of letters is free to write what he thinks, and every publisher is at liberty to publish what he will, subject only to the force of public opinion and to the existing laws against blasphemy and immorality. But while literature is free the censorship of the Drams continues in full force. Every play has to be read and to be duly licensed before it is presented on the stage, and no manager is allowed to exercise his own judgment as to what is or is not fitted for the public eye. It may be said that this " tax upon wit," as Lord CHZITERFIELD called it, is necessary for the sake of public morality, but if an examiner of plays is required upon this ground why not a score of literary licensers also? What ever argument may apply in the one ease will apply equally in the other. Indeed, in the present age, when books are read by everyone, while the number of theatre goers is comparatively limited, the evil influence of a bad book is greater than the influence of a bad drama. There was a time when the theatre was the school of morals, or, as some may say, of immorality, but that tune is paced away, and the influence of a popu lar novelist is incomparably greater now than the influence of • popular actor. °solar Exam, Mr. T•OLLOYE, and Mr. Thews, have a con.rl :. over many kinds not in every town only but in every village through the country. Th?ir away is imperial, their empire is boundless ; if they were to use their power un advisedly and call evil good, or good evil, it is publishes, after • , T detestable American custom, a long report of a conversation just held with the PRESIDENT by a "correspondent of the Cincinuatti Commercial." ' We get in this not only Mr. JOHNSON'S remarks, but those of the writer, about which surely no one can care. The report is divided into paragraphs with descriptive headings. Thus, under the word " Intoxication " we find the PRESIDENT reported as saying "he was perfectly willing they should in " vestigate his condition on his celebrated tour. " The public had been led to believe that he was " intoxicated all the way, from the time he left " Washington till he got back. But let them take " the trouble to find out, and they would " discover that that was a great mistake." " They'll find out, at any rate, that I didn't " drink half as much as one or two others, about " whose condition nobody dares to say a word.'" Here the correspondent breaks in ; " I think I " can guess the name of one of them,' said f. " ' Didn't he go from Cleveland to Detroit, and " wasn't it announced with a great flourish of " ' trumpets that he had left your party in disgust ?' " Yes,' replied the PRESIDENT, he went to " Detroit ; but it wasn't because he was disgusted " with my politics at all. In fact, he wasn't in " a condition to know much about politics just " then.' " And Mr. JOHNSON goes on to com plain that " that some men will be abused like " the devil for drinking a glass of whisky and " water, while others in equally important " stations may almost roll in the gutters, " and not • word is said about it. It "is so of different men in Congress. Some of "them are abused as drunkards, it they are seen " drunk once, and others are drunk all the time, " and not a word is said about it. Bo it is with me." As not only the Nem York Times but all the New York papers publish the narrative, of which tho foregoing is a specimen, we must suppose the oon genius of opinion and taste at that city is in favour of such compositions. In European esteem they degrade all concerned, the Head of the State who allows himself to be turned to such purposes certainly not the least. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The London meeting of the defenders of the Irish church is treated by the Daily News as a signal failure, and as another proof that the public are satisfied that the interests of protestantism are not to be served by the Irish establishment. The Times °entreats the meeting unfavourably with the one of the evening before, and says there are morns Dogberrys who are bent upon writing them selves down by their proper names. It was Lord Russell and nobody on Thursday. Yesterday it was nobody with out Lord Russell. The Post takes a similar view; while the Herald confines itself to depreciatory remarks upon the gathering of Thursday. The Telegraph calls upon the electors of East Kent to show, by supporting Mr. Tufton in preference to Mr. Leigh Pemberton, that the feeling of the county is in behalf of progressive liberalism as against bigoted toryism. Will they vote, it asks, for the continuance of a system which has cursed Ireland with misery, and which exists purely for the benefit of a few hundred thousands of people? The real movers in the prosecution of the vicar of Frame, the Daily News states, are in this, as in the St. Alban's case, the Church Association, which has lately raised an enormous sum of money for this and similar pur poses. It does not appear that if the Bishop of London, in whose diocese the incriminated writings were published, ware to issue a commission, and that commission were to report that there were pried facie grounds for further proceedings, those proceedings would have to be taken in his diocese. In that case the report would be for warded to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, upon whom the responsibility of determining what ought next to be done would devolve. The only thing the Court of Queens Bench had to consider yesterday was whether the Bishop of London is bound by law to take oogaisanae of the matter brought before him. The Times does not wonder, considering the annoyances and expellee which a prosecution entails, that the Bishop of London declines exercising such duty, unless legally compelled. The substantial question involved, which is that of tr►nsubstantiation, is of the highest importance. Mr. Bennett does not hesitate to declare his belief in "the real, actual, and visible presence of Oar Lord upon the altars of our churches." It is certainly desirable that it should be definitely ascertained whether a clergyman of the church of England is justified in using such language. j :1111 • t WU !, i " 1' ' . APRIL A / 0 • in o say thatithe apfitt • no grudge it that be affeilted. Os 9th • • &deli . ' rinmpb. MR 1124 Mr. Pus , • 1,07 \ public mind with ttuw . .me Tin New Turk Times, of the Btb, under ice although grunt, as tae as it tilde al " A Presidential Talk," publishes, alb SI,. onnfinwi within a limitwl - _ _ mfflonimmiiiminummommis . THE WEEKLY PRESS. The " Maunday Thursday" letter of the Premier leads the Spedaror to exclaim, " Was ever such a comedy enacted before!" Liberals can have no objection to see Mr. Disraeli thus break his own party into fragments, bat as Englishmen they protest against the first minister of the crown bringing his office into discredit. Even Titus Oates did not wink at the judges as he swore away men'. lives. The Saturday Review regards the letter as one of a continuous series et blunders which have ahersetariaed Mr. Disraeli's Premiership. It Nu often been said that Mr. Disraeli knows the House of Commons wonderfully well, but that be knows astonishingly little of the country ; but no one could have expected that he would give so signal a proof his ignorance. Probably no Prime Minister ever understood England so little. The Exastiver looks upon the new Marquis of Salisbury as the future leader of the torien With the single map- Lion of Lord Cairns, government have not a man capable of defending their measures from criticism or attack. As one of the whig peen lately expressed it in conversation : " Fight is impossible, fur it is like beating children." The ex-Rearetary of State for India, booked as be will be by Lord Cameroon and others, will inevitably exercise a great and growing influence as the real leader of the tory peers ; and nothing can prevent him from speedily taking the plies so long occupied by Lord Derby. The Satsedsy Review thinks it unlikely that any future conservative ministry will be formed which does not in clude Lord Cralaborne ; and an far it will make no dif ference to him in which home ha its. Those who know India best will most earnestly hope that be may live to preside once more over the Indian government; and it will be a consolation to him, now that he is tom emned to a life of tame grandeur, to know that by general man* he is thought capable of serving his country well if another opportunity of serving her is offered bin.. The Spectator, under the heading "The Ap theme's of Lord Cranborne," quotes as an illustration of the altered position of the peers the general companion felt by the mintry with Lord Cambers, on hie elemtim to the Upper Howe. To disappear so early, with his career but just begun, his high qualities scarcely developed, hie grand capacities for usefulness to the country as yet without per manent or visible remits 1 If, indeed, Lord Salisbury addresses himself to reforming the House of Lords, for which task he is peculiarly fitted by his altareater sad position, he may save himself from political guffaw Ilion. If the two houses could agree that any =same rejested by tie loads should be vetraged batik to the Com mons at ease, sad than, if weld by a two-lbarde vote, be low, half the odium of independents meal direwpsor; while a emend prestos, that a minsare pinlid to two Par liaments by the Commons suet be eesepted by the Lords, would prevent the essetant pelestisei at awwwlta REP ported by a bare majority of the Lower BOWL. NOM,' of these moistures would cost the poses mos beetles of i , their real power, the power, that is, they car really ex- I I erase; while both together would restore their indepen- ewe by revealing to the nation that its own authority Is fully reeopised, but No own opinieu not yet nearly unanimous. The A thageuen is told that Mille. Theresa medi a's@ tie iavalioa a Basks& s l4olio. Via Erin. : . 'WO CANTLE, Ana It. Ole ffueen, asocrapanied by Princess Beatrice, westast be tl • (meads yesterday ettersoca, mid bar Majesty walked is the was& this mccaing, sod drove, aceocupenied by P.a. one Lodes, I rhea opal, sad Princess Beatrice. The Queen, Pr:nocre Louise, Prime leopold, and Pruner Beatrice, left the Oastle this afternoon at five MaDatee before three o'clock for Osborne. Lady Water park, the HOD. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Horstla !Hayford, Lisutenant•Oenerel Hon. 0. Orey, Major•Oeaeral F. H. Seymour, Coloud H. Poncnly, Mr. Duckw‘rth, and Mr. Bahl were in ens:Wanes. Print* and Price se eh:l4Jan, atten'e I by Lisutesewt- Colonel and Mn. G. Gordan, met her Majesty at the r way station in Windsor, and travelled with the Qaan Osborne. Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and PriLoollllLonise of Wales and Phnom Christian Victor, attended by the Hpn. Mrs. William Grey, Sir John Cowell, and Dr. Hoff. nester, left Windsor this morning for Osborne. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial ofßee from the Governor of the Natuitiaa Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon Hong Kong, Lassa, the Straits Settlements, and the Australian colonies. Early in the week information was received at Frogroore from Watteredo, ff of the serious indisposition of the father of His Royal Highness Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. A special train was at once rrepared at the Windsor station of the South Western Railway, and preparations made for the immediate departure of his royal highness for the continent. A telegram, however, announced that the patient was better, and the journey was accordingly given up. Recent advice@ received by their Royal Highnesaes the Prince and Princess Christian announce the recovery of the royal patient. The Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar left town yesterday, accompanied by Lord and Lady Alexander Gordon Lennox, for Holcombe, Sussex, where the Princess will remain till after Prince Edward is relieved from his military duties in Dublin. The Marquis of Hastings hls left the St. Georges HoteL The Earl of Derby is so much improved in health th►t he wu able yesterday to attend the Exhibition of National Portraits at the South Kensington Museum. His lordship was accompanied by the countess. The Herald contradicts the statement that the Queen had intimated her intention of honouring the Earl of Derby with a visit at Knowsley in the course of the ensuing mouth. There is not the slightest foundation for the report. The Duchess of Sutherland (says the Staffuni shirr Admliser) arrived at Trentham yesterday, and the Duke is expected to join her grace os Monday next. The return of Mr. Paget for South Leicester shire ba• been celebrated at Market Harborough by • public banquet. The proceedings were of a very enthusi astic character. Two friends have each promised a hundred pounds towards the erection of the proposed new class rooms, in connexion with the Working Men's College, if eight other persons will give a similar sum. A correspondent of the Athenteum wishes to know when the statue of Cobden is to be erected on the pedestal which bas long stood unoccupied near Morning ton-crescent, Camden-town. General Sabine's second Conrersazione for the present season will take place next Saturday (April 25) at Burlington House. The Early English Text Society has nearly ready for issue its second set of texts for this year, namely, for the Original Series, " Old English Homilies and Homilectic Treatises of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries," edited by Mr. Richard Morris ; and "Sir David Lyndesay's Historie and Test►- ment of Squire Meldrum," edited by Dr. F. Hall. For the Extra Series," The Romance of William of Paleme (or Wil liam and the Woman with a fragment of an Alliterative Romance of Alexander," edited by the Rev. W.W. Skeet ; and " Caxton's Book of Courtesy," with two manuscript texts of the same treatise from the libraries of Oriel and Ballot Collette, tithed, edited by Mr. F. J. FurnivalL On the departure of the Prince of Wales from Ireland the Channel Squadron will probably proceed from Dublin to Portland, calling at Plymouth. THE FATE OF Da. LIVINGSTONE.—We (Field) extract the following from a private letter, dated the 9th inst. :—" My sister bas just received a letter from Dr. Kirk, Consul at Zanzibar, to say that letters from Dr. Livingstone have reached him ; that the doctor is quite well, and will shortly arrive at Cairo ; and that be sends • letter from Dr. Livingstone himself to Mr. —. This letter has not yet arrived. Livingrtone's sepoys and niggers all deserted him, and killed him baggage animals ; but be went on alone, and has got through the part of the country he wanted to visit by himself." _ _ _ It is understood in political circles in Paris that it wu in oonsequence of an expression of opinion of his Imperial muter, that the Barron de Bodburg sought and obtained latidaction from the Baron Meyendortf. THE LATE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.—In private life Lord Salisbury exhibited the virtues, affections, and demeanour which grace • noble name. He was courteous and kind—always • gentleman; eminently social, delighting to gather troops of friends around him to share the splendid hospitalities of Hatiltdd Hesse. Often wu the great ancestral home of the Cecile —bright always, as it seemed to us, in the sunlight which fell upon the vast pile of well-proportioned brick, and on the terraced gardens and the stately trees—made brighter still by the presence of almost multitudinous guests. Long years ago the stately halls were decorated in • manner which showed that the taste of their possessor, now passed from us, was equal to his munificence • and we have seen them prepared for the reoeption of aroialgueest in &manner worthy of the greathowewhrahthedeosasedlordrspee.crated. His children regarded him with the affection which pride arid caprice cannot inspire ; and his servants were devotedly attached to him. Bat Lord Salisbury exacted deference to his own views. He was not • man who could tolerate resistance to his will—eartainly not in matters poll tioal. The deceased lord had from a very early age shown a temaiderable capacity for business ; and, when be tams into possession of the estates, he undertook their management —examining anomie, signing cheeks, planning and superintending works, and in some oases making pur chases of things which were required. Sometimes his plats were protested against by the persons he employed, but he never gave them up until failure showed that his science was at fault ; and even then he was not cured of the passion for making experiments. Many characteristic anecdotes are related of his building projects, and pur cheese, and some he used himself to ten enfoyingly. No doubt he was often oat of pocket, as the result of being his own architect, but his estates ware, nevertheless, well managed. Lord Salisbury bad one put sorrow in his life. Thirty-three years ago, on the 27th of November, 1836, the west wing of Hatfield-house, in which wen the apartments of his mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, caught fire, and her ladyship was burnt to death. When the alarm was given. his lordship rushed to his mother's room for the purpose of saving her and though the smoke anti tisanes which come from it for. bade approach, and showed the danger and neelemseas of it, he kept on his way, and was oak" tea forms from on to meet his death. Med at thin peint,he attempted to reach the room by another stair case, and had again to be prevented front risking hie life. —Hertford Herevry. DISILLILI AND SIR ROBERT PzeL.—The new number of the Edialonyrk Review contains the follow =statement :—" It was not until the t schism had plus in the terry party on the of the corn laws that 31r. Disraeli can be said to have influenced a party in the Howie el Commons. A distinguished observer of the events of that time has recorded an anecdote, which we do not remember to have seen in print, but which throws a singular light on the origin of Mr. Disraeli's relations with his future adherents. It was early in the session of 1846, when a knot of ardent protectionists, Wiling over with a rancour and resentment they bad net words to express, addressed themselves to Mr. Disraeli. They proposed to him that he should undertake to direct systsmatioilly and at short intervals the whole battery of his vitapsnitive powers against Sir Robert Peel. On their pert they engaged to be resist en Nam* on these osessicess, sad to support thok mouthpirsee by vociferous cheering. The interview was a curious cue. We have seen an amount of it by one wbo knew all that passed cm the easesices. Mr. Diemen requeled to have twenty minutes to esasider the peopual. At the end of that time be accepted it. The loorgais was kept by both parties. Mr. Disraeli spoke ; the belies sheered. They eanoidered him their Bernet ; bat fa cod wets* there wasthe voices of • master. It hed prebehlp usarred to Mr. Disraeli in those twenty miastss• - or beer* that the man who spoke for them, who thought fee them, who was =tact fort hE se n d who meanded. to be the be ef their sal* pruldas,arialet cheered se testily blind hawiess. - timitierf would at last dissever tiler had trailed hies into absolute power over their party and tisesteekees." FOREIGS. (THIS DAY.) THE ABSAH3INATION OF Mil, D'AlitY )143EL We have now received full details of the ahoy, murder. A despatch from Ottawa, Ontario, cia tk ,j the 7th, says : At half.past 2 o'clock this morning the Hoe, D'A rcy M'Oes was shot dead by an unknown assassin as he ie„ entering the house of Mrs. Trotter, where he lodged, 04 Sparks-street. The ball paused through his head and lodged in the door which Mr, fit , o" in the act of opening. A son of Mrs. Trotter who is one of the parliament pages, was return. Mg home, and was some dimance from the house when he heard the shot. On reaching his mother's don he found Mr. M'Ose dead on the pavement. He saw no per. son in the neighbourhood and heard no footstep,. Th e night wee bright and clear, and the assassin roust have been either concealed behind the fence of a vacant lot opposite, or made a very hasty retreat immediately on firing the shot. Mr. lll'Oee had just left the Par. Lament House, and bad a cigar in his :nouth whet he was killed. His brains exuded from the wound and the sidewalk was covered with his blood. This fact, in cot flexion with that of the ball lodging in the door vat, seems to indicate that the weapon was held close to h,s bead when fired, There have been as yet no trace what. ever of the assassin's disoovery. The murder excites universal horror here and throw. out the country. The authorities have taken every mate ha their power to seems the murderer, and a numlar of arrests have been made, but as yt t no definite cla•• has been obtained. An inquest wire Opened at 7 o'clock this morning, but adjourned, without taking evidence. until 7 o'clock this evening. The jurymen, in the men. time, attended the House of Commons in a body to btu the eulogies on the deceased. The government of Canada offer 5,000 dole., the germ, meat of Ontario and Quebec 5,000 dol•., and the Mayor of Ottawa 4,000 dole, reward for the apprehension of 0, guilty party. The authorities at all points have be t directed to use their best diligence in hunting up 0.7 murderer, and to arrest all suepic• • ous person Business is almost entirely suspended. and are flying at half-mast. Preparsti• no ore be t , made for the removal of the body to Montreal I, morrow. All the members of the cabinet are taking a dap interest in the matter. Great crowds are in the stnetr. and expressions of sympathy with the deceased ;ter load and frequent. In the house last night, a couple of lams before the assassination. Mr. M`Gee delivered an av, speech on the position of Nova Scotia. It is mid to b,r. been one of the most eloquent effects of his ahole :de HUNGARY. THE PEOPLE FIRED ON. The Hungarian Lloyd says : The agitation of the democrats has begun to fied The delegates of the democratic club met vn Gtff Sunday at Felegyhaca where IL Antal° delivered cendiary speech. The town-captain had him arrt.tad. On Monday an excited crowd assembled, and assumed sa c ; proportions that the municipal authorities as nt for, bat talion of chwenrs. The latter marched to the Toand.si.e where the crowd were demanding the libvtai..r. of Antal°. To prevent a conflict between the is ople and tho troops the magistrate ordered the latter ice the court-yard of the Town-house. But the people k J to to increase, and at noon they attacked the building. The gat. was forced, and the people poured into the court-y.ad. The troops then fired. One man wa. killed. and twosv adei. The people then dispersed. (IWITITIC3 TILEGILAMS.) PEBTH, Arm. IT, FA ES:N.. The trial of M. Mesniros, a newspaper editor. fit publishing an article defamatory of the Ministry of War, was concluded to-day. The defendam Li found guilty by the jury, and sentenced to year's imprisonment. The avowals made by M. Aaztalo are mij. , compromise many deputies of the extreme left. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aram L. The Austrian Archdukes Rainer Ernest and Charles Ferdinand are expected to arrive here t day on a visit to this capital. _ _ General Ignatieff, the Russian ambassador. wit have an official audience of the Sultan to-daj. t. present his Majesty with an autograph letter fr.n. the Emperor of Russia. MALTA, VALETTA, Aran. 1;. Five of the eight electedrnembers of the Govere• ment Council have resigned on account of the ii. creased salary voted to the Auditor-General be the official members contrary to the rule laid down by Mr. Cardwell. The other members have also voteJ against the measure, but retain their seats to inks on redress. The transport ship Serapis has arrived here from Alexandria, and has left for Portsmouth with 9*Jil men brought from India by the Jumns. Admiral Lord Paget has sailed with the Mediter• ranee& squadron for the coast of Syria. Admiral Farragut leaves to-morrow for Lisbon. OUR PARIS LETTER. trawl ova OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY Evutso. The Petrie and France continue to maintain the there is not a word of truth in the news that uego• tistions for a disarmament have been going on between Paris and Berlin. I look on this semi official contradiction as rather a favourable symp tom than otherwise, because nothing is so likely w lead to a breach between nations as discussion ot a question of disarmament. The correctional tribunal presided by M. Bele* vaux this day tried an action brought by M. Ernest Feydeau, the author of " Fanny," for a libel upon his wife, who had been charged with shop-lifting by the great establishment the Bon Marclui, of the Rue du Bac. It appeared in evidence that Madame Feydeau some weeks ago purchased at the Boa March 6 some lace flounces at they price of 6001 e, and at the same time left at the shop a very expensive embroidered pocket-handkerchief to be repaired. A few days afterwards M. Boucicaut, the proprietor of the Bon Marchi, accompanied by one of his shopmen, called mysteriously on Madame Feydeau at a time when they had calculated that her husband would be absent, and asked her what had become of a berthe worth 1,50*. a hich matched the flounces she had bought. She replied at once that she bad inquired for the berthe, and was told that it had been sent to Belgium to be repaired. An altercation ensued, in the course of which the proprietor of the Bon Marche alleged that the hand kerchief had been stolen from a shop in the Rue de la Paix. Madame Feydeau mentioned the name of the person from whom she had bought it. Herhus band came in before the altercation was over, and he made the tradesmen withdraw the charge. It was, however, repeated in the Epoque, and, therefore, both that journal and the Bon Marche were proseonted. The court dismissed the case as against the Bon Marcheon the ground that the apology which had been accepted by M. Feydeau was sufficient. As to the Epre, its statement was clearly an attack upon th e honour and consideration of the plainti ff 's wife. But inearnuch as the plaintiff only demanded costa of suit in lieu of damages, and the insertion of the juslcment in the papers, the court decreed accordingly. The annual ball in aid of the British Charitable MP ~~ ~.