The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-04 00:00:00

f! ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT trarrninos. THE ANNUAL GINEHAL lIIITINO this Institution nal be bred at the Lend= Tavern betnK co TtliaDAY meat, th e 10th tome= M I Delo= ib The Right Hon H. T. L COWIE, P., TIMI Lard a! the Admi ralty, le the Clair. RICILUID LEWIS. sitenoszy. 11, John-street, Adelpil, March L JOHN BROODER'S CLASSIC JEWELRY. pAais FIRST-CLASS SILVIR MEDAL,IB67. JOHN BBOGDANS 18 -carat GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN•S BRACELETS• JOHN BROGDEN'S BROOCHES• JOHN 3EOGDEN'S GEM and WEDDING JOHN BROGDEN'S NECKLA.CIB. JOHN BROGIDINR EARRING& ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. NO. 'l4, HINRIET igardes TA . -STREET, Covent- FRAUD. —CAUTION. —Order BRYANT and MAT'S PATENT SAFELY MATCHES. trade mark as Ark. and Waist epee having them. as Imitations are sometimes et erod that do not afford PROTRCIION FROM FIRM. HENRY BRETT and Co.'s "0. D. V." PURR BRANDY, Ine. pm Galles, recommended by the medical peofteelon. In • mec for the country Me., Includes of vidlway carna g e. —Hohmnehers, sod 20, Bollont-Etroet T RELOAR'S 0000 A NUT FIBRE RATTING, WARRANTED VIIBLICACHIRD. Letof Pri..ee free leyoef. Warehouse. 67. LVDOATR-RILL. Vie evartoo. MeV ItdI"I36IIENT9 must be forwarded to Hawn J. Y. JONI' *Ol And ?Wee, i, gatt►nreet. Holborn, and 51, Betlea garcleu, the **eke!, appointed Agents. KATI, ARKRT. Tn aVIDIFIO, TIR BROKRN-GRARYKD CLUB.—DAVID GARRICK. Maim Bottum Bankston,. angers, de. ; and Miss Robertson —BOX AND VOX. Mr. Buckstone and Mr. Compton. —And FAMILY JAM. Mr. Compton. PRINCIDINS. Tal Erestso, ARRAN NA POCH'S. Yr. and Mrs. D. Sou. eteault, klr Vldna, Mews. Dmulnlek Murray, Neville, A Shore; albs Sweet* & era Addis—Atter which TliK OCT. MOON. Mr. and Mrs. Swett:sulk Mr. J. S. Clarke. Mr. Vlniag,,tt %as Slams. IFTIAND. Tni F.vrtann, OLD SALT. Ileatn Lowy. Belford,* James: Miss :lolly Moore —FARM. OIL VIVA lAMPKIERK Mews. Jlllloeg, Thorne, Robson, and Fenton: Mesdames Awanbocooth. Harland, Johnstone. Holt, to.—And COAL AND COKL BRITANNIA. Tms Ennio. THI TPAliiiff nF TTOLEWOOD FOREST. News. Itepw3lo4, Chiultoe. Leslie. & Norwood : Mesdames Cosa emu, Comm,. & Hooth.—Mos Kate Ulnas ; Mrs. J. Y. &Wm; J W Liskard —And TH K DARK HOUSE MGR WATIE AT LONDON BRITIGIL nue DAM —Manilas. Olt. 7m.. ....Afternoon, Oh. r.27n. Tu-MORROW-41icesias, 1011 3: mu ..Attereuoo, 11A. 20m. ROTICLiOt DrATHA, are received soldi It o'clock *or hisertiou ante evening. rice, Sa. 114. LONDON,WEDNESDAY ,MARCH 4. THE PUZZLE FOR EXULTS!' PARENTS. Fe!a mix with growing sons may well be in a curious dilemma. However willing they may feel to give their boys a liberal education, however ready they may be to stint themselves in order that this groat end may at any cost be achieved, they know it is possible, some will say probable, that their money may be expended, and their sons' time 00. copied in vain, It is a sore bewilderment to a man if he is unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of three or four doctors, each of whom makes a different diagnosis and recommends differeilt ouursoof treatment. In that case, however, be may he led to leave all the remedies alone, and trust to the restorative power of nature. But the let alone system, often the best in medicine, will nut do in education. Some course must be clwseu ; and slime just now every course is pro nounced by some great authority to be bad, since the liberal education of yesterday may be a limited one to-day, and may be scarcely tolerated to morrow, how is a man to know amidst the din of discordant voices the one that carries moat weight, and to which he will do wisely to give bend A few years ago it was thought that the education of a boy at one of the great public schools, and of a young man at either of our two most venerable uni versities, left nothing to be desired. We are now told that the whole curriculum is little better than a delusion and a sham. Professor FARRAR comes forward at the Royal Institution and declares that the educational value of Latin and Greek has been extravagantly overrated ; that we lave taught enemies empirically ; that an average buy does not even gain from them what they are auppund to yield, while on all other subjects he is grossly ignorant ; that athleticism is preferred to study at our schools and universities—and no wonder either, since the present system of teach ing is " utterly degrading to all but the most " mechanical masters, and utterly wearisome " to all but the most sluggish-minded boy." Professor Sir J. SIMPSON utters the same complaint, and satirically suggests that it might be desirable to get rid of the entire race of pre sent schoolmasters. Professor Ilext.zi - says that the general result of a elastics' education is that after a dozen years of toil the sufferer loathes the sight of a Greek or Latin book, and he arrives at the conclusion that " the " best of our schools and the most complete of " our university trainings give but a narrow, one " sided and essentially illiberal education, while " the worst give what is really next to no educe " ton at all." Professor THOMPSON writes in the like strain, and he is specially severe upon the ten le.irned head masters who have lately issued an elementary grammar fell of terms to be learnt by boys which he finds it diffi cult to interpret himself. Moreover, the Commissioners, in their report recently published, testify to the same deficiencies, and from them we learn that our public school education is unsatisfactory and that the majority of private schools are bad. On the other hand men are not rare, who, like Mr. GLADSTONZ, defend the present system of classical education as " the complement of Christianity in the culture "of the human being," and scores of learned pundits may be found, ani this too is proved by the Commissioners' report, who adhere with vigorous pertinacity to the present system, and defend with eloquence and zeal the time-honoured usages of our public schools. Meanwhile our boys must be taught, and who shall decide bow ? One thing alone seems to us certain, that no education which does not comprehend science and English literature—the grandest literature the world has yet seen—is entitled to be called liberal, and that Latin and Greek are of little, if any, service unless they are properly taught and intelligently acquired. The boy who has spent his school days upon the classics and knows nothing about them after all, and lees than nothing about any thing else, inuat caanytodtr sop Irimeunati ill educated. Yet this is the predicament of the vast number of buys with average intelligence who The demolition of the Universal Exhibitioa in the Champ do Ken I. aew remedias far mere lordly than Were, sad it la alealated that by the malt d Kay not • vestige of the rest warld'a fair will be ltd r • farmer* of its fare aad parer. leave school at sixteen or seven No wonder, then, that English fathers y puzzled. Tes current number of Once a Wets 10 a useful article on street nomenclature. ag e when the old landmarks of London are b e i ng away on the rapid tide of improvement and change, it would be useful to identify localities belonging to history with the men who have made them famous. We have never been remarkable, as our contemporary points out, for attaching the names of distinguished men to our thorougfares, preferring Grub-street, BLowbladder-lane, Pys corner, or something equally ignoble and un meaning to making 13EACIIIPZARE, Caaucze, or Wreturrs the sponsor, of our streets. In Paris Pascal., Rousseau, La ForrAnts, BALue, Its 'Amass, and • host of other great names are attached to great thoroughfares, some of which have lately been supplied with inscribed names visible at night by an ingenious mode of illumination. When Rooms, the post, asked the policeman in Fetter lane to direct him to DAYDSN'S house he had for answer, " DILYDEN t Darrow t—is he backward in his " rent ?"—and the example set by France of in scribing on celebrated houses, " Here died the " author of ' Gil Bias ; " " Here lived Coe " xsu.r.z," is not likely to be extensively adopted here. But with new streets multiplying them selves in every direction it would be at least as easy to call them after some old English worthy ea to give them the name of a respectable but in glorious builder or owner. For example, BYHOH wrote " Lars," and M•carmar most of his history, in the Albany ; Vinare painted the " Rant Day" in Upper Portland-street ; HooARTI lived in Leicester-square ; HANDEL composed the Meoiali in Lower Brook-street ; JOHNSON compiled his dictionary in Gough-square ; Sir hew Newros lived and bad his Observatory l in St. Martin's-street ; and the first eleven letters in the alphabet supply nearly five hundred names of remarkable men and women who have been associated with particular localities in the metropolis. The question is who is to inaugurate a change of system f Is it expected that the refinement of the Board of Works, or the historical reverence and knowledge of specu lative contractors will be henceforth employed in the careful comparison and selection of street titles ? T/41 story of Mr. SPEICZN disappearance hence forth belongs to the past. Speculation is at end, when we have it on the authority of two eminent physicians that his "actions were beyond his " controL" It was perhaps natural if not altogether judicious for his relatives to in sist upon the evenly-balanced mind of the missing clergyman ; and the result only shows the impossibility of vouching for our poor humanity. The desire to separate himself from all to whom he was dear was no sudden impulse, but a strong, and at length an uncontrollable feel ing nursed in secret for two years, and the vari ous circumstances which seemed sopuzzling without this solution now appear as portions of an artfully concocted plan. Mr. SPLICE and his affairs now belong to his physicians and his family : and for the public silent commiseration and sympathy must take the place of outspoken annoy ance and conjecture. So long as this much•talked of disappearance contained ele ments affecting the common safety it was not merely a right but a duty to discuss it, not, as some idle people seemed to think, from every con ceivable point of view, but with the hope of fur nishing or following up a clue to the mystery. But after the formal statement of his physicians which appears in this morning's Times, to make the lately missing clergyman a text for future gossip would be an unwarrantable invasion of the sanctity of private life. Having heard that an entire change is prescribed for him ; that he is about to leave England for a time accompanied by a re lative ; and that a speedy restoration to health and return to duty are sanguinely looked for, it is but fair that the curtain should drop upon every thing connected with Mr. SrExes disappearance ,and return. Tux general conclusions at which the Schools Inquiry Commission have arrived scarcely indicate by themselves the wide soope of their inquiry, and the amount of time and thought which they have devoted to it. The commission, it i seems, thoroughly investigated the condition of nearly 800 endowed schools, and examined 147 witnesses, including several ladies. In addition, they have inquired, partly by written circulars, and partly by the direct inspection of the assistant commissioners, into the state of as many private and proprietary schools as were willing to give information. The questions in these cases were not sent to any private school which was not included within an assiatant-oom- missioner's district. A good deal of misconception prevailed here as to the purpose of the questions ; but the conunimionen protest that they neve" , contemplated publishing any details in a way which could enable others than the master to identify the school concerned. In preparing their report they felt a satisfaction in being able to harmonise their recommendations for the most part with the reports of their assistants , as well as with the expressed opinions of others whom they thought it right to 1 1 consult "on account of their recognised authority " and experience, either as observers or as having " themselves been engaged in the work of instrue " tion." The noblemen and others constituting the commission were Lords Tactertne, Lrr "'ELTON, and STANLEY, Sir STErrOliD NORTH can, Dean Hoof, Dr. TEEPLE, Rev. A. W. MORALE, Mr. T. DYKE ACLAND, jUII., M.P., Mr. E. Balsas, ILP., Mr. W. E. FORSTER, M.P., Mr. P. Eli.; and J. %vans; M.D. Lord STANLEY and Sir STAT/O/D NORTHCOTZ, however, abstain from signing the report, partly on the ground that official duties have prevented them from attending the later meetings of the Commission, or studying with sufficient care the evidence produced ; "partly " also," they add, "because, as members of the " Exeontive, we think it better to reserve our " opinion of the points at issue until the time 1 " comes when action can be taken upon them." Tae INOLOSIIIS CONNIISION. --We lam from the twreett•third missal report el the 'nekton Commie growers, issued this reosales, that the surcber of &ppm time of ell Ida& vim the peat( et the 110 i/ hie hos 5,441. The weep of faelemes seelrieed define the came period is 506,016 ewes, sod of tire la propose, 136,332 awes. The seems expense of the Wham pre. seeding, es far as the sammissistiers' sass aftermill, up to the time of the moo. to the Salffildenal wan% 211- shading any osmium widel might her. attssidid these sweets, and which left the ease ready for periliwent te deal with, was W. 16s. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OUR CONTEMPORARIES. tit - ,o• .J . 40triz i : y a , . g oe •. : men , as ;glom , • to Woad 411 nesse to ossupy the polities! Sold. • sew it the nimbi endemeeat betneen Se' Wee WWII§ emsamities, as premed by Ind liesseli ; la meat of the Irish catholis clergy from the Viol, which almost every nateestan hes lisped to Ind pew eible ever dew Ms =doe ; and, thirdly. the leader - el the ehureh revenues to sme useful purpose is saber, mu sad above the present begs expendilure to Inked oat of the 00=11011 UMW Tbp mond plan might an alienate may eensenatin friends ; but the dimenters, who are se anmerous in this b lend as the Boman esthetics are in Ireland, have Meetly eneenasedin daft barna. the rosepeisa they mesa to give to son a praise. As fee the third scene nothing is loft for the Marsh moms' to de, sapping them re. bard for the purpose. Hire, thmt, an three sesten k bui net ass which does not threaten political hielelll.llllllllll/ as vibes, perhaps, as these which an to he remedied. It L an unlikely the Opposition my *Menge be decide the gonna by proposing some Doane of their owe. By se isle they may possibly displace the present government ; bet it is afro possible they may streagthea it. The only allusion which the Tines makes to the Let rid Is As remark that the new /Mader knows ben veneer he will strengthes his gonnmeat end the logidenno by a distributing the amok revenue ea the peiminiee se air strict justice. To the Pod it is mere* penile to means that Lord Cairns would have accepted the custody of the great' seal if Hr. Disraeli had given him to understand that the government proposed to put an end to the church min lalishment in Ireland. The Pod urges that the liberal party, before pitting their serength aping that of the I gorarament, should obtain mere unanimity asseept then selves. DENMARK. Ireethy aws--sint ellam tb• reilistrasemifikii. regime —was there seek • crowd armad the legisialbs. dumber. The moms lead* to *Abe& des Pas Perdue.. tb prirofts, *rem* sad Mims tbh quay leading to tia bridge were Ailed with 011thile spostaters. The deputies bead mask la istliag to tisk Sams, andialm, is is said, man set aide to get tame et all. linedds. rs bun, Ealleriss. sad tames was fall to oreelleadmi. The Inslabem of the Omsk sod Omura el Illats were per tssi is great aassbees. At 2 e'alosk Ir. da Kind tisk I is Moir, and IL Bark amended the tribune. Them irss rirofoaad allow for the atereent. The hen ntanbeir, end MUM of the &irk after having &Mined Lam W speak, stareely uttered • word, when to was Me by ea explosion of exelearations soak as " Itadwilyls " Order," " Corneal& the slumber," " What is this to air. It Haifa persevered. The shandrar persevered also. Tire President kriorrapte the spsakee ; are latter takes as notion ;Ire expostulates, reticule* tams towards the President sad samesin • eenvemblisa with him, of which not s word le heard. The some at this moment was Mo. scribabla. Pape, Gaiters, keys, sad the desk MIMI pew duos a miss foe wide I osa dad no estapariesa—it was aided ramie—yea Eighteen itWarper„elaiwithesed by 114;iioa sad - mesas of Saes hestammen . U. At length the tempest, which was es/oulated to esmiad ems of the Grrersalsiors de to Me., begs. be niorierate sad M. Mavis resesamenced his Omegas. Bat, alas, is.. poweefal that that of Neptune, the Bros epo lost its power in a mosesst, and Norm and Neese and the belner-eiselter so admirably described by Virgil had it all their ow% way. M. Hails sideghbed. seems doubtful whether 611 R• 111411 is the Whose or to ease down, bat after some Matta den he quietly lakes up his papers, leaves the tribune, sad is prossedikg to Ye plane, whim some words of the Preridsut Mantel* that he bad left the tabus* of his own segord.indssea him to rousead and °bids a bearing. Bet a Meek shims, fresh interniptiess, and a sew burly burly Wail. his drunk again. PRFEELL AIM TEI SOUTH GERMAN ' • -STAMM. The I Annie National publishes the following, which,, it asp, it has received from s well-informed source : The nomination of the Prussian General Beyer to the functions of Minister of War at Carlarnhe will be followed immediately by that of the Prussian Gene ral Flies to the same functions a► Shallot& Two similar appointments are to follow—owe at Darmstadt, sad the other at Munich. Thesenaminatione as nosepon taboos. as of the royal initiative, but • eennegnesce of secret slipalatiam in the ofenelve and defensive treaties made bitween Prusda and the Beath German States. On the other hand the project of a South German bund is once more revived, and the recent meeting of the ministers of Bavaria and Wurtembarg is said to have been for the purpose of discussing it. Commissariat services are about to be established at Munich, Augsburg, Nurem berg, Wurtaberg, Ingoldstadt, and Ulm. anion,: , (urTia's TE.sosive.) ITALY. FLORENCE, 1142cre 4. . _ _ The King ham signed a decree instituting a new order, to be ogled the Crown of Italy. The Duchess d'Acata has arrived here, and left for Turin. The Earl of Clarendon ham arrived here. Cardinal Antocilli is still suffering greatly from gout. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Wawa 4. The semi-official South Gennan Prru of this morning says :—lt is not to be denied that nego tiations have taken place for the formation of a Southern Confederation, but the recent meeting of the Bavarian Minister of Commerce, Herr von Schlor, and Baron Varnbuler, the Wurtemberg Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Augsburg only took place for the discussion of questions relating to railways. King Louis has recovered from his indisposition. COPENRAGIN MARCH 4.- Herr Martin Levy, the Chief Secretary of the Finance Ministry, left this capital yesterday for Berlin commissioned by the Danish government to conclude a postal convention with the North German Confederation. attitude Probably will be pro- Bat ea of the be wiser In re- Legislatif why lhe government and the majority should have made such a great Feist at pfrevealiag M. Ravin frees :Win blond. it is inconceivable that they should wish luijustly and against all evidence to have it ;believed that the two journalist deputies were bribed by Prussia. But if convinced of their innomuce, it is equally difficult to imagine lily, with so much passion, they should have prevented the decision of the jury of honour (composed of members of the Chamber) from being placed upon record. The Prance—the conservative Pveatce—says : " W e fear yeeterd.sy's sitting will produce a bad effect on the public At the Bonne yesterday priors were fully main tained is the Beate, though the market was some what hesitating. Credit Fonder rose 10fr., and Idobilier, sfr. Italian was rather weaker. #4, , Ay. 7 E W S. , fm. . . its ii.. E.— .. 11 P ' 1 ? 14 f Illii:i /AY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1868. F 0 1 . 1 .1 , Li ) iii 4 , iii i Win tp , •• . eril 'MI 101 g papers . M • i. THE : 4CH . . 7 44 .2111i r , r . ..lids. proo s; RR. .0.- - itisl. •' . , • s Will not ; s . . . • •of th e Rdip at a anc . . , as prossouhat than before. os thus (Writes tin seer ia the Fame Corps 4sigia• f" ' . • the tumult in the Corps I es Wit ouffEsierefii - test conceive any reason OUR PARIS LETTER. (non oca owe conaserowucrr.) PARIS, Tummy Eveznem An ameedited wenios, which, if accepted, mon oils* the official statement that Primo Napoleon has gone to Germany without any mission with the fact that he has one of transoendent impor tance is that be goes se a "diplomatic volunteer." He had a very long interview with the Emperor before he left Paris, and told his Majesty, it M said, that if hi could speak confidentially *the King 'of Prams* he flattered, himself he maid ahow hit sufficient cense far not making an aflame with Rasp* The Emperor thought thee. ins no in letting his cousin try his hand, and meseilingly pre him leave to visit Berlin and all Sig Mar German courts. The Vienna papers " hcipp," but do net' " expect" that the prince will enessid. The Taws says of N. Noeigt Saint laurens's m ock the rarious auismarnents to the press 45111 n I sow samba will .na foe 6l lasqueft. .rookowisa igiiimbor *6l edema Z: libebili q rol with. iipl ray reduakit el llsmy tecti ; Els ppm el idelbendu depth, se Ibir alsollost • Sit odayMow within.,l64o • : 14 *Pa" ibAii•=gtf t eij.piyabe Ware aggreiediteic the 44 "Z i rlit4i5/144Nest. 1ed 711, 4 Myr 4Usirre;g4ietllluitthisLu *high it imp liposerilea pawing NM IlUalv Als hied semrtplly eititired manly Alit Mims from %reign governments; but Clymer s Oaseagnac with a lord" • span him to bring forward the blame which he says he possums. The , which, out of respect for the el• honour, did not consent at fiat, ~ reopen • question concluded by them, • sibei Pis it has not the WA objection to the . _ anything it likes. &oak* L Ousel who was alluded to by blur upekihi:t journal to publish withoulhii, the papers concerning him which it prellimobbilueli, The Pays, thus premed home, Olds . It persists in its libdbs imiiiiehimik pretends that the authorisaiimie W SIMI Ile evidence of its ars not 1 0110111* laand, sec cover, that until rearYbody bas absuimed wil/ gra** icit to _ 111 *OW 61410111111111. LETTER OF GENERAL GARIBALDI n. following letter from General Garibaldi, though rather old is de* is not without historical in terest, end as sash we repredueo it in the Express. It Is to be found in the documents communicated by the Baba government to the clamber: " On ►oatd the Foplorstore, Sept. 27, 1867. " Dear Crispi.--Alter a meet deliberate Gambian= st the situation, I see ►at one remedy whirl will give mans faction lathe nation sad the gwarrameat--to invade Rome with the Italian army, and that at sane. .. The geversment need sot expect to satisfyltaly in any other way. film may paid= her misery —not her degrada tion. It is net the Italie& nation only that sow feels itself insulted ; the army also feels insulted ; and it at Alazan dzie.vrhere I was cheered by the entire garrison, I uttered a Angie ward caleulaied to excite and stir them up to wipe out Ml's& shame, alone and men would have followed winnever I add to lead them. f; is for the government to weigh these oetuddeettions. Let them be convinced that a few days of energy will be enough to set everything right end plane the entire nation on their side, and if the foreigner should threaten to put as into irons we should all rise—even women and children —and the werid would surely me such national resolution as history affords no previous example of. darner at owe. —Always yours. " G. GARIBALDI." MR. GOLDWIN SMITH OS THE REVISION OP THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. (nor OUR snail. RIPORTZ.R.) BRIGHTON, VIRIDAT. This evening Mr. Goldwin Smith, late professor of history et the University of Oxford, addressed • crowded assemblage is the Town-ball. The meeting was celled as the instance al theßrighton Reform League, and the @abject of the lectors, as stated in the balls, was., "The Revision of thelfaglidi In•idtatteu," but from the meaner in which it was treated by the lecturer it resolved itself bite • polities! speech on the necessity of revising the con stitution. Mr. H. WuJArt eseapied the chair, and the platform was crowded with the friends of the league. Amos( them were the two members (Mr. Fawcett and Mr. White), Colonel Disko*, Dr. Rose, the Revs. A. Creek, H. Hasallien, and R. Itaglasel, Mr. Ooaingbam, the late mein her, Mr. C. Barrows, Mr. Merefield, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Wallace, ha. Msay ladies were present. Mr. Goldwin Smith, on entering the ball. was received with loud *beers. The CHAIZMAN, in introducing him to the meeting, premed hie regret that so dietingnished an Englishman wee shoat to Imre the eonntry, but Rejoiced that as he was obliged to /sow he WAI going to Americo, bemuse be was sure that he would prove a just representative of the feelinp of the British people towards the population of the United States. Ilr. G. Smith was now about to ad. dress them on the Revision of English Institutions. The word revision meant argument with the object of comm. Bon and reform, and though some might be so plemmitly situated as to think all change must be for the worse, he could liken England to orating so muc► as the image of the ancient Lar, whose head was gold, the belly and arms silver, the body bison, the lop of iron, and the feet of miry clay. Of the latter point sea doubt could be entertained when they found that nearly one in every twenty was a pauper. Anyone who, like Mr. G. Smith, devoted his time, talents, and thought to the improvement and education of the base of the social system earned for himself the title of a tree patriot. (Cheers.) Mr. OoLDwin Simvn, as coming forward, was greeted with renewed ebeering. Before entering on the subject of kb lseturs, he said that he bad been asked to deliver it in St. James's Hall, but, owing to same difficulties and complications which bad arisen between the Reform League and the National Reform Asecudstica, he had found himself unable to lecture in the cause of either in Loudon, bat be woe determined that nothing should prevent hiss from doing us in favour of tie Reform League in the provinces. No one was more averse than he was to political agitation, tat it had biome shealately neeenem7, and was distinctly absaingeli by the party who opposed reform. 'When Sir R. Peel changed his opinion on the subject of the corn laws be did so openly sad avowedly, and be frankly ex plsiasci that the pentega the great measure of reps./ was owing to the unadorned eleopienos of Richard Cobden • but tie present *miss were not so gesarods, for what; late to the day they adopted the principles of their apportion* they endeavoured to eoaccal their theft under sower el foal abaft. (Hear, hear.) Ty ' set formally a membersr of tbe Wpm he was head y to take his share of the shwa heaped by politicala apes saes who oaly did their day to their ....r: 6 2 was kiftiff to think that the real a. at ' sad lbs - *stif at side= polities' thought was shout asa lo f mai ex7 l l the ',mph, sad in riniewlse the pin e! the country his ablest was to see ;t=ssmoolleir they required to adapt Oen to proem* eirommstamoss aid Author velem. A reseal reetswer is 41664asf•wiy La awned that the simeelea tibia lag mall the 11011•11111 of the adtzege sprierld Whale sea seam bads& the seams, sad indeed there was In his (Mr. ems far peeler than say that had sad that was that this wee the 21: 14. transition from the sie of feudalism sad laritoriallos, to that of imiastry, .I . aid free_ *mkt. (Cheers.) Borers had at bees Impelled resift forward All ; alms emstra dr; the goveraiseat _of the people, . whereas by ts the shape el dessomtft perms or Is est ether say, was adoemdme _sad the 'Sloes that lloglamd was sot no at tbo head of the =it usolisesess she wee fossil:far Is advisee whims Is tads respect regard to the • ' sem el News, it vex plata that it mast to ia -ad probe* is ameadosirrosa r the omeaael h rt 41 .4. 17 . td.. la yrea ..- -- • sad 1 ~..., _______ -- Pdal ilig iblirsead-ais aaistikbpatomelk laia & ow * Mllll4lll. a. pll Ike la Issosars iber bad d aStted is thrtio ll =t dame s o l pw that mesa as irsashise was so easily . ... . 11.. lo dl ..7.tiv=tiA=R2!) Til• ' ' atossuily sad bassagh ass at ' '' . whoa ''_- ia las posaut thee, sod =l lr b ia o W iptiselisa was : die ssalles " big dletteetly the feudal sad olesseat, and -the Worm the damalsratio-101 &Woods. hail las esidelseksad tbe adoplitst id agates awl lasi oiatesais at digitate. *Mad tt ib eisaW s Mbismillall• a V i na suillradit mid • si*.ib illt ‘2 ll. Wit " y haw as lieges riled Of task s :it lis Padua i t= s t ilap esaatry. Ewa aindaaties of lbw vase by maim deosissal upon the -acsorlbam-H taro the social daisy et leads( - asstety war elate lett to Um Ihrrervies, s.d it was . la Ilse postormaeo et Mat duty that ear pasts Saab rasa had sot so Iciest sad howdah.' 11" - Mom) Tlia tale that, to • ii — gW,ll:kia astir lii -~ sr! , •." PORTION CATTLP NARZZT BILL. The Daly Newt taxes the agricultural lenders with en deavouring to make the atone& moos their howls the pretext fee arrsageateans which shell mower the purpose of a tauiff, dissrimiasiting optima the breignor. The above bill, which must he regarded as a goverment mea sure, is opposed to the interest of every man, woman, and child in England who is not connected with the breeding and paring of stock. Restricted supply and high prices would follow it. The necessity of slaughtering foreign cattle as the binding places, involving a loss of 30a. a head as exam, would discowngs foreign importation, to which Lambe owes is 'Whiny times half its meat. Mr. Clare Read, indeed, so far from bsiag daunted by these oonsiderstkos, thinks the bill doss sot go far enough, gad is anxious that the foreign trade is live meat should be put a stop to throughout ;instead. The Day New. trusts that the House of Commons will see through this transparent artifiee, and reject a measure whist which, in 1886, a select imannittee reported as tending to hamper trade, diminish importable, races the price to the con sumer, sod give ea nab& advantage to OW/lirl of English stook. The time for owlet* a monopoly in the food of the nation has long aistoe passed away. WISCILLAPISOUS TOPICS. The Timm gives a modified rapport to the scheme of Mr. Hare, w►ih it describes as neither more nor less than the cumulative vote ; with the proviso allowing rotors to declarer that, if their rotas are not wanted for A, they may be transferred to Bor to 0, the idea is the same. It is impossible to farekdl when our 'Jesters' machinery may be vale revised. but h le evident that the interval of net will be shortened. Mush may, however, be learnt before the time for reform arrives. The Times Lee aot suppose the adoption of Hr. Hare's &shame to the wide extent he himself resommends will ever be seriously eon• templated ; but its principle offers II 111.411/1 of reconciling the idea of equality with the maintenance of representative government, aed it is not impaseible that, with aerials modifications, it may be tentatively applied within the area of each 410107 or other considerable electoral district The Mandan' is strongly opposed to the plea. The scheme, it argues, would overthrow every single priadple of representation Middle is in accordance with lash ideas, and obliterate all local feeling under the iroa role of • cold and rigorous arithmetic. All that is really good and de/treble in the system is °Weaned already in &gland in a much healthier and more rational way by our ancient and national principle of unequal electoral districts, which in practice affords all the protection that is desirable against the tyranny of numbers. The Star enures the prophets of midortune in America that if the eeeseitational laws of the United States and the voice of Congress are against Mr. Johnson, he will be as certainly and a• quietly put 'aide in the end as though he were only an offending clerk in the War-sties. A groat emastitulional crisis is decidedly at hand, but • easy driest aeoomplisimed by • chief magistrate is an event for Paris, and not for Washington. The TdegrepA takes just the opposite view, and says the . mere the subject is eomaidered the more desperate mama the difilmillies. It adheres to the °plaices that Mr. John ston will even yet remain President until the next else- Man. The gatetiones is dispute between the British tendon in °ohm end the Ookaisiolles are. lays the DadY Ann, about to be Innidened to the House of °ominous ; their prayer for redress laving been treated with contempt. The chief potion epee which the agitatioa turns is the power to be attributed to the lo 'Waive Come over the expenditure of the colony. Oeyiese is a pentodes ef the crown ; the planters and merchants who are making all this fees were admitted be the enjoyment of its imams* manual advantages without price, and under the prolestion of Britt& power. That pronetion we moot withdrew, and the chirp it entails ought to be paid oat of the revenues of the eolooy, and not out of the taxation of the United Kingdom. Wks esurt. OSBORNE, Itasca & The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, 'Mended by dr Amebae et Abbas. Primers imam drove out, ettssded by Min Stopford. Prises Leopold west out, attended by Yr. Duckworth. The Queen west out driving this morales, easompamied y Primates Leaks sad Primes Beatrice. Prime Leopold walked eat. WINDSOR CAME, Kama 3. The Quiet. meorepanied by Primer Lein, Priem► BeegWee, sad Priem Leopold. lett Worm SI& whew. at 3 Vele*, and wired at Mauer Camas ehertly shar4; Her Itaieety etemed over le Gaped is the Royal Talk Aber* Caplan the Trims et Waimea. Im steeedesee were the Dewier Dear= of Mhsk the H. Resets Stepteri, the Hob. C. H. Ltalley L Wesel t►e Rea D. C. 1. de Bee, Hr. Deekwork Yr. Bahl Vieth=les Olifitha las otheeseled the Dowager et Athol, ea hay in eueththg. _ _ Tim Has. Re;det Mine bee arrived M the Omer arid et harm le yeah.. Lord &got aed Oeteasi du ?Like's also ardveiel46o, Camas as lord sad 'gamy is The Deleeuw Driers or Miele neseisse M tie Oaelk Inza Mango" imbed ei Yee Cantle hem Oellselsekylai bar Majesty, amiable remiss at tie Castle oil • Alit , , A Carnet Conseil was held yesterday at ell of loial residence of the First Lord of the Tres miry, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Maribor , the Berl of Malmeebury, the Bight Hai. Hatboro, Hardy Lord Stanley, the Doke of Biseldnghein Chandoe, Sir John ' , Sir S. N the Chancellor of the ner, th7 tl = Hon. H. T. L Carry, the of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Earl of Mayo. The Prime et War rode an yummier %moon, at triclioi try Moan Ms. The Primers el Wales drove out, stteadad by tie Ore te. if Mortis. La eammequsuca al the lamented death of the Brea Beeline, Minimise front his Majesty the Eias d the Netherlands, Monsieur Ererwyn, 'to Legation, was unable to • the f3earitary to the levee yesterday. attend ovisioace it. aUesatiaits, NAOS .111 ms lefer roil , • r . J.:. .4 • "411 Sow .13...111.. Kaaiwommisi=VA SfiaMlNuNMkatiMilaMgii ,_, _ .~~- bet parati Thin nly tM or w ree s t ni" sat erittiareiglig doss l a ft. g ermud"" u m e.. ll " . all reigned. and so did Ant a lt n out of mein lie* and caprice, dismissed ewe eat of and brought in another. George I. who came ever here • usable to 'peak the langveme, was the first constitutional Ir azth l. indeed' andtriedG"rigeto IL trod tu b' his well h""e as re need a n t"; some extent he did, so that strictly speaking oonsktutional monarchy only dated from his time. Two parties we re anxious he spa, the mown mere plower the mg. Oho looked back With Isla regrets to the day s o f R e fii . broke, and who admired Geary 111., and the admirers of democratic imperialism. I.ooktwg , however, to the when Minas of rope wove scald she* ant the oonvistion that Tinge at monarchy were dead. (Chees e. ) of the right of • particular family or nation is reign and the poetical but irrational primitive feeling le its favour were gone, and could not be revived. The o nf ides of monarchy had passed awa y, sa d the fe i :l o f a g e tics towards her Majesty wan • p ure ly perz cos. It was plain that in this country monarchy, apart from •t g gestate/4mM, rested en • vary weak foundation. Th u question was them, ought there to be an elective mce_areby ; and be isonfeesed that upon that po ut the example of the United Stales bad not been favourable. Hs believed that the tendency of the modern world wa g becoming more and more pronounced in favor of p rem . moot by stational fennel He then to eland,* the house of pours, reeserking,en =ti d e the element inf into it by life peenges. It w as 2; d ! z u , the reign of Henry VIII., after the confiscation of th e monasteries, that it assumed its present position as sa assemblage of great landed nobles, sad the consequenc e tiss that it had 0003 c to treat the possession of land as the great qualification for a seat, absolutely refuting life peerages except where the recipient was childless.childless.The consequence was that with the exception of a few mein, full lawyers it had ceased to represent the people is my way, or to take any position of interest in the eyes of th e public. It stood condemned in every way, and unless it est &boat speedily to remedy its constitution by a larg e infamies et new blood in the shape of life lea. gee it would go on accumulating evils uo a i l eery were dispersed by a very violent remedy. As to the House of Coatisoos it had degenerated from its position of • were legislative assembly and bad easumed—and its tendeney was more and more to annume—the powers and tunctiow of an executive government. That course was en. cauraged by the present ministry, who threw the Reform Bill on the table and plainly told the house to do what they liked with it, and in all measures they were prepared to pump the House of Commons, end bring in their bills ta such form only as would secure their passing. That els an abandonment of the duties of government. The house was never intended to be the supreme government of the country; its functions in the first instance being merely to grant taxes, aid the only way it obtained power se.4 be. cause it refused to grant the money until its peti. time in the words of the request were granted. He complained that there was really no deli. benrtion in the proceedings of the house, and that the speeches of members read like so many earn. phlete of more or less ability. It was in fact governed by party, and subject to all the immoralities and corruptions of party. The Cabinet wee the incarnation of party, and all the rewards were 'wen for party services ; the elf eet was to foster penomal ambition. The liberal party was the better of the two, because the very fact of its want of unity showed greater freedom of thought end indepee. • deuce of action. The result was that the supreme power rested in the Cabinet which was most objectionable, be. cause it might at any time plunge the country into war without the cognisance or consent of parliament. The Luxemburg guarantee might hereafter plunge us into a war in the mole way as the Scheldt guarantee involved us in the great French revolutionary war. It seemed to hint that one of the great reforms wanted was that the government should be stripped of the power of plunging the country into war without first obtaining the enaction of parliament. He also complained of the manifest desire to maintain the unconstitutional powerof the Hone Guards as • power under the control of the exectn five, instead of under that of the House of Commits. After touching upon other points in the constitution, such as the present mode of appointing the magistracy, the subject of education, and the church, the position assumed by which woe no longer tenable, pointing out that the recent pan• Anglican conference wee a plain confession on the part of the Primate that the end of the Establishment was drawing near—he proceeded to &Scum the question of Ireland, upon which his views are well known , and have been frequently reported by us. Turning to the colonial establishment and our Indian possessions he expressed an opinion that in the course of time our colonies and India would alike have to be given up, and that their pessesaion even now were no advantage whatever to this country. Indeed one of the arguments urged in defence of the Abyssinian war was that it would injure the prestige of England in India if some pilgrim. from Mecca were in • position to whisper to sons* fakir of Hawes that King Theodore had been able to set this country at defiance, and would not surrender the prisoners, beside which it was well known that we entered the Crimean war for the peewee of curbing the advances of Kuria upon Indio. He ooneluded an eloquent address, which lasted ready two hours, by reminding his hearers that the revision of old institutions meant the adoption of new, that the old phases of the world were panting away, and we nem entering a new era ; finally, that although much of what he said might snow revolutionary, and opposed to their traditional feelings of loyalty, yet if they rested future government upon the principles alone of reason aid justice, they would obtain an allegiance more fervent and constant than the most primitive people had paid to the most adored of monarchs. On resuming his seat he was I again loudly cheered. Mr. WHITE, in moving a vote of thanks, expressed his opinion that the most practicable way of revising our institutions was by repealing and altering objectionable I enactments ; and that se long as the House of Commons were so usefully employed, so long would they coutinue to confer benefies upon the nation. The motion was seconded by Mr. Fawcrrr, who con dial ly concurred with the sentiments of the lecturer, whew. words, he said, would afford them matter for thought and study for a long time to come. Mr. GOLUWIN SHITH, having briefly acknowledged the compliment, proposed • vote of thanks to the chairman. which was acknowledgedby Mr. WiLtrrr, and the pro ceedinp terminated. THi PRINCE OF WALTZ AT BA LIWINToN —A weekly contemporary having made some caustic obterra• tinge on the assumption that the grand hunt, at which the Prince of Wales was present, took place at Badminton on Ash Wednesday, and the paragraph embodying the observations having been extensively copied, we feel it right to state that there is no truth in the statement originally made, as the great meet took place on Thursday last, and not ea Wedneeday.—Post. The Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the Duke and Duchies of Sutherland with their presence at dinner last evening, at Stafford House, Sc. James's. Among the company who bad the honour to meet their royal highnesses *ere the Marquis of Lorn, the Earl mid Nantes' Vane, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl of Clanwilliam, the Countess of Westmoreland. Dr. gait', ke. After dinner her grim had a concert. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady 'Ugly Villiers are at present staying at Florewe, and are mrpsossel ia town cm or about the 15th inst. Lord Lena was yesterday elected M. P. for Argyle shire. There was a considerable gathering of electors• The proosedinp only occupied half an hour. Lord Derby, the Owl states, has recommended to her Majesty the names of several gentlemen to be raised to the Home of Peers. Mr. Gerard Start, the member for Donetabire, and Lord Barrington, member for Eye, are among the number. The same paper has reason to believe AM the government are prepared to assent to the mond reading of Mr. hClivoy's bill for the repeal of the lbeieslastleal Titles Act of Bari Russell, on the under standing that amendments are to be introduced in com mittee the effect of which will be to place the prelates of lee Roman ontholic chalet' in the United Kingdom on the mom footing as to the recognition by the state of their lit mks and titles es sbe eatholie hissershy of Canada and of Misr BRUM weenies, This compromise will be violently opposed by the Meter members, who will take the sense of the hear en the OSOCed reading. Atenording to the Otoi, "It has been arranged et tb somestioe of Kr. Gladstone, moss the leading mobs of the Oppedden, that, is the rent of Mirth , &sham their desire to modem dealing with the Irith °Mush glottal early is the remerebled parliament, a merins of the entire tided party shall be orerened at Gadaminramterreos, sad their support be asked to • re. Amanda beamed with a dew to immediate disestablish' meal The dinar to Kr. Brand at Willis's Room is to be the ormides of a remittals of the discordant elemeata of the bird parr. It will asubliese be se gratifying •• the light yes. pentleman ea the desseseratioa And, that it dead be used for the re.eetabliebaseet of the party be as imes worked fur." • parliamentary return has been imued, at the istreare of Kr. Aidersen Lusk, cf de umber of Judd nuiressed mg sworn ia the yeas INS and 181/1 is Begiund sad Walden In the whole year ad the samba of Arise SWIM Ia Leaden wee Mk whist' would ievelm the aneeedenee of ray 1,220 moms, and, as the number of Are on the lime deg& ter the dub *via ender the peered reetrieted system b Men 4,000 b 4,500, the roe preen might not to be liable to be eummeed mere than ewe is twe mem la the meaty of Middle/ ex 16 um" If Modal lords weir liiindorkith would Mama 1,512 pawns, mg se the-mmiew etiylble ie =P itman to be at haat 8,000 at Mr& 141, ditty reab• ass •r--- r