The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

EWS PAPER 1 * tipAdiett p i c e l . . ( ""ii Ne. 5,659.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1864. [TWOPEN CE [Stamped, id. Additional.] ---- .O(•KWALL LINE of PACKETS. For , b , ! I • orRNE, PORT PHILLIP, Dtrect —Mesys. Green's s., . I 1 I.•LEV, 1,100 tons, Captain H. T. GIBIDN, will 1 • -t I, ,ILs Docks on the sth November, call at Ply ... I sorry an ezperlenced surgeon.—Apply to F. GREEN .. Cornhill, Re.—Puskncers by tlitsllne can proceed , , t, nto Plymouth at reduc v d fares by applying to ~.I Co. for tickets. ' TILE ORFORD and CANTERBURY HALL OOMPA2f Y T (Linnted‘. .HZ OXFORD. SELECTIONS from LA FAVORITE, La Trivial& Nahum, and the Two Gentlemen of Verona, by the whole of the talented connr e Dtrector— Mr. F. JONGHMANB. Comedy by Haworth, , H Nash, W. Randall. W. Burton, and Wile. Cavalho, otlebraW comedienne and rebate, EVERY EVENLY°. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. the mouths of heroes, sages, scholarly and noble women, and saintly and knightly men, we feel that our cumulative obligations to him are very great, and that his death must be a prominent incident of the time when it occurs, be the affairs of kingdoms and nations as engrossing as they may. FOURTH DEPARTAMNT.-ECONOMY AND TRADE. CHADWICK 112 the chair. A paper was reed by Mr. itawlinson, C.E., "On the public works being carried on in the manufacturing districts during the oottou famine," in which he spoke of the anti• tude of the factory operatives for the kind of employment which was afforded to them, sad stated his belief that there would be another winter of severe distress in•thoie districts ; but, on the other hand, it was sattafietory to know that there were eighty places where. the &agitate might be employed on works which bad be established, and that there was above a million of money available for paying thew. Full details were given of the system of works, which had been wider Mr. Itawlins.in's superinten dence. I:0M LIVERPOOL OR QITELNISTOWN TO NSW YORK. THE WIZARD of the NORTH.—TO-NIGHT. Ittrd appearance of lilas ANIPHRSON, the Second-eighted Sybil.--Secure your Stalls and Tickets at the Ticket-oil:ice, 28, Piccadilly. The circumstances which led to Landor's return to Florence a few years ago were publicly discussed at the time, and need not now be dwelt on. He died at Florence on the 17th instant. Ta t ; uvERPoOt: - liicv, YORK, and , I,IELPHLI, STRAII.PHIP COMPANe intend des * t, h , .'ir c t n a i llamw e4 =Cly .auL de-butla Iron easy titeadt•KßlPs. ;Ira" FROM trinrow. toe irzw YORK. • Wednesday, September 23. . ROO, Saturday. October 1. wastiINGTON, Wednesday, October 5. . every Wednesday and every altenuse Saturd.r. ~Ago by the mail steam."' With' every Wednesday, ,• , minced, aocon li ng to the accommodation. 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Tim saw -1 r ft/ RP from off the Tower every Manatee morning s, i.l and L 1 10a.— throotU r ares znre nder rai tr4: l l f .nthly time bMs. Apply to tt . r w 1111ILLITS, GRAVES, PILILLIPPS, and Co., A , INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited). .IIRE and NIARINE.) • • a art,.l estimated by the Individual list the ii:) maintained in every transaction. Agents EINCLI.LANE, or 7. WATERLOO-PLACE, rm.!, THDOBALD, Manager Fire Department. E LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE INSVtAFF cOIIPANY. Eatablisbed lg.fe. Empowered specially by Parliament. • v, wed Funds exceed 4:Z.OOOAV sterling. the teat Seselou of Parliament, the Globe • Insur .:et I: radon was amalgamated, u from the ttth • with:be Liverpool and London Company, sad the Act the tame ot the latter Company was • :Iv changed to the LIVERPOOL and LONDON aad •ULANCE COUPANY. i:000.000, of which imooo is tt,v. tted : and ill :...luVinn th ere ire ftlerVil 111111dl, . . . IK tolcbtly of the I.:ie Reserve. amount to L 1,200,000. • INSURANCE —The premiums in 1185 exceeded , • ..no were greater than those of any other company by • I s9okt.ooo. The position ii the duty return will be • ' inou the following statement : • aablished to 1710, collected duty in 1483.. V/15.000 Inr2 „ Lid,ooo and Lon- t 1P36 133.000 • 1.1,.1.e •. • .. ilter company collected as much as :' • IN 'CRAM-E.—The premium:a received in 19Z3 were • • :•• the annuities paid amounted to £33.550, The ,iilated to mset these liabilities Is 1i.100,000. The ..:! • 4 pauprietors is unlimited. SWINTON ROH'LT. Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident secretary. 1464. t. :.t Ut.f.ICIES falling due at Michaelmas should be I by the 14th of Octol.er. N iii:WICH UNION FIRE OFFICE. THE NOt:US YEAR. FIFTHS of the Pro9te of the Company are periodically ,sdsd as I bonus to parties insuring.. who have thus from ••• thus. received from the Society sums amounting is the ,stv to nearly £440,000. .t • I t REBER ➢ONUS of 452.0271 w nc•w been declared, and Is' p..i•l on the renewal of existing insurances at Itichaelm.ia and the three following quarters. • .tNIPI./ sOE PREMIUMS REDUCED BY THIS BONCP. of Po ller Sum Insured. ! Reic^cd Premium. !Premium for 1864. el. 222 4 4 63 0 0 35 14 0 7 10 0 - prsimuna are in no use higher than those charged • • r ;medial Whims gis ing to benne to their insurers. . Is made for the policy or stamp when the insurance or for inenratiers transferred from otter orates. • of the Company exceeds Seventy Iliatoni, • Liberality with which its engagements have been rapidly increasing. The duty paid to Government 1,r3 11,41 a:Ultra 110. At.; ; the amount Mauna on k was .e10.M3.27Y s •• rition Fire Office is the largest office making a • : • IMlttrell. clues apply to the Soctity's offices. te, Fleet•atreet, - :rrey-street, Norwich. h I 1:T ROPOLITA N LIFE ABBIJEADICE 9_ . Prfnoee•atreet, Bank, London, LC. .. ~;r, loafs alt William J. Leacher, Esq. Jas. Lloyd. Emq.. Binsinzham. I Lewin B. Motley. rag_ Liver !, 'shame. Esq. pool. Esq. I Joseph Pease. Esq., Darlington. George Pearce. Esi. mi.. Portsmouth. J. Ingrain Traver.. Esq. • us, Lay. I Ge-rge Vaughan. Lei. RI, liard s. q ilkuismi, Enz. rx-ranzi-ror.s. !i, g +haw, Esq. Sir Joseph Patton, Chatsworth; Henry Atari, Fag. .•k • rat:Ea OF ASSURING WITH THIS SOcIETY. • management, unpaid agents being employed in - country, and no Coolllllill4olt allowed. : • ~•.ion of the whole of the protlts to the reduction of of member, of Eve years standing or upwssfs. •-• !as, hinds In hand amoont to f 1.039,0• ., ,, being np. : : • per cent. of all the premiums rent. ed Irvin the tsnat to 30 per cent. of the entire liability for 'lder the policies to force. aisle's.: the Society has paid to a single instance of dispute.... .. ... . LS0:.000 'Sr,.,! to members In Irductlon of tl.eir :•=:-vi.i DMZ( S. 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" Come, r A. , ' t'o., 0, Dean.struit, Bohn. awl 33 . Roolti7. tNI PA lES ACT, 1862. The Books ws rVAnlittli under the above Aet, also all other .id • with every Stationery requisite for •• the Conntins-house, Se., supplied on the • hinting of every description. Engraving, Die. . • r.t. 42, rket-strett, EC., and Losdon.bridge, a. P. s ' 'os punt - Med. prim N. ed.. LUNG SEEING, HEARING, dc. . t:.y at the Ete-rnal ud Internal Senses: their ....h thr Mucous Bentham* lining the NoetrUs. . • their Mattes earl Treatmeat. By Dr. Dun -..swour.street, W. ..,0 sn..th and Co.. bt. Leageme, W.C. l), UNTER'S LETTERS on the LUNGS. . • tut-nded for there suffering from Pulmonary ' .1 at rice of plain practical letters on affections of - - membrane of the nose, throat, larynx, and lung. cg:u.s, and treatment of catarrh, Sore Eronchitia Consumption. and Asthma. By • 'RE. N. D late Editor of the . 4 New York Journal of •t I ..t tir . de. With a preface by J J. Mac u.t published, price fa ad.: by poet, —N.tcheU and Co., Bad Ws-court, rient•lins".• 12.000 8.3J0 L L d. 130 19 8.5 0 0 19 1G 8 4 0 QT. JAMES'S-HALL (entrances i n Regent s..., street and l't,ii.ny).—Protessor ANDERSON'S GRAND ENTERTAINMENT, the WORLD of MAGIC, and Miss ANDER SON'S extraordinary powers In SECOND SIGHT have made a success hitherto unparalleled la the annals of the art =gigue. EVERY EVENING. at 8. On Saturdays • fashionable juvenile day performance at 3 p.m. Doors open at 7 and Y o'clock. Stalls (dregs, numbered and strictly reserved). : balcony, 2.. : area and gallery, Is. Juvenile tickets for the stalls, 2s. Seats may be secured at tha Ticket-ofbce, Picemilily. H YAM and 00.'s CLOTHIN G ESTABLISHMENT, A 6 and Or, Orford-dreet. The attention of Gentlemen is particularly hinted to the fol. lowing arrangements Into which Hymn and Co.'a Eetablishment to latd oat for public aopmetodation : _u. 1. for lmmedW. WIIIM No. Y. Select Order Department. No. 3. Juvenile and Youths' Department. No. S. Hat and Hosiery Department. The most experienced cutters and work hands are engaged In the Tailoring branches, and the best and most lash. Juable Fabrics and tree economy are guaranteed. YAM and 00., ed and g 7. Oxford-street, Loudon 21, 11, and 23. New stmet, Birmingham: 42 Briglintes Leeds • add West gate, Dewsbury. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (..sin's sae-rmr., ITALY. TURLY. Sser. 26. This morning the city is tranquil. General Della Marmora and Signori Lanza, Sella, and Petitti, have taken possession of their respec tive ministries. PRUSSIA. BEELES Swr. 26. The semi-official Nay/deutsche Zeitung , referring to Herr von Bismarck's despatch of the 31st August in reply to the English note of the 20th, states that the former does not enter into the details of Earl Russell's note, but merely mentions that Prussia never called in question the rights of Christian IL, and could therefore demand his renunciation of those rights. With regard to the apprehensions expressed of possible disadvantages to the nationali ties of North Sleswig, Herr von Bismarck's despatch declares that they are unfounded, and says that the events which have transpired between the class of the London Conference and the con clusion of the preliminaries of peace have induced Prussia to return to her proposal of the 28th May. In conclusion, Herr von Bismarck expresses his satisfaction that England is now paying more atten tion to the wishes of the Duchies than she did at the Conference, and rejoices that in this respect at least there is an assimilation of the views of the two Cabinets. ARRIVAL OF SIR HENRY BULWER IN PARIS. PARIS, Sur. 26. Sir Henry Bulwer has arrived here, and dines this evening at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Queen Christina has set out for Spain, and will stay to-night at Bordeaux. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, Sarr. 26, 3.30 r.a. The Bourse has been Id. Renter closed at 65.90, or the same as on Saturday. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, /kn. 26. The Council of the States has unanimously re jected the appeal of the Genera Electoral Bureau again!' the Federal decision confirming the election of 31 lAenerik-e, and has accorded full powers to the ,feral (banal R this smitten It bag also comt : need the discussion of the Franco-Swiss treat . ) of commerce. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's (dike, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : lIIRSEILLES, Sm. 26. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived here at 10 a.m. to-day. The mails will leave for London at 1L 30 a.m. OntimarioNS.—On Sunday last the Lord Bishop of Chester admitted the following gentlemen to holy orders : —Deacons : Joseph Ford SIMMIOISS, 8.A., Lincoln College, Oxford, to Christchurch, Southport ; Francis Cooper, RA., St. John's College. Cambridge, to At. Paul's. Southport ; Augustus Wise, Geo. Moors, BA., St. John's College, Cambridge, to Tar porky ; James Richards, B.A. Sydney Seism College, Cambridge, to Cheadle ; Cha rles Isaac Stephen, 8.A., Christ College, C•tobridge, to Frankby ; Henry Jones Alcoa, B. A., 'Trinity College, Debts, to St. Thomas', Emission ; George Harrison Robson, ILA., Trinity Co:lege, Dublin, to Vauxhall, Liverpool ; George Reed, RA., Trinity College, Dublin, to St. Mark's, LiverpooL Priests : Frederick Barker, BA., Braseoose Ccalege, Oxford; John Ashford Hartahoroe, ILA., Christ Church College. Oxford ; Matthew Pltterworth Moorbouse, M.A.. Queens College, Oxford; Jchn Ward, BA., Queens' College. Cam bridge ; Frederick Briedley, B A., Trinity College, Dublin ; John Jeetin Drearier, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; Thomas Meadows, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, Ito Trinity Church. Runcorn ; George Turner Birch, Lk. Theology. Bishop Hattield's Hall, Durham ; William Sheard Norris, I. ic. Theology, Bishop Hatfield's HaIL Durham; James Taylor, Lie. Theology, B:shop Hatfield's Hall, Dur hatu;James Vaugbao Crispin, Aseoc;ate. Kizig'sCollege, Lon don ; Charles Jones, Queen's College. Birmingham ; Samuel Literate. — Toe Armour Lirate.—Tbe Lord Bishop of Glonc,e , ter and Bristol, on Sunday last, held a general ordination in the Cathedral at Gloucester. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Jame. Davies, M.A., rector of A henhall and rural dean. At the conclusion of the sermon the following gen tians° were admitted into holy orders :—Deacons : Bed ford Hartnen. M.A.. St. Jobn's College, Cambridge ; Va. leotine Catherwted Knight, M.A., University College, Ox ford; Dui& Forbes Smith Marriott, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Baker Morrell, B. A., St. Johs's College, Oxford ; William Pinder Went, LL.B.. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Priests:—Hilton Bothamley, M.A., Trinity College Meredith Lane, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Alexander John Wcodfoede, licentiate in theology. Durham. Immediately after the ordination the Vahop licensed the following to caroms in the diocese : The Rev. Bedford Hannon. to St. Pleura, Cla tter ; the Rev. Valentine Catherwood Knight, 'to I.rdner ; the Rev. Hugh Forbes Marriott, to Chris tian Belford ; the Rev. Baker Mbrrell, to Bed miuster ; the Rev. William Pinder West, to St. John the Evangelist, Clifton. The Manchester ordination took place in the cathedral for the first time during the last 14 years. There was • very large congregation to witoess the ceremony. The Bishop of Worcester announces that for the future he will bold an ordination on the Sunday after the Ember days at each of the four HOMO' in every year. He wishes to have three months' notice from ell can. dilates for eleacoe's orders. THE TUBS-OCT AT MII.I,LESDOHOCC:H. This affair has led to some rather alarming symptoms. There has been a meeting, attended by between 4,000 end ".00; workmen, and altogether matters have looked so dangerous to the peace of the district, that a detachment of the Bth Human have been sent down from York ; and the rest of the regiment are held in readiness to follow by special train, if their services should unfortunately be required. Twenty three persons have been arrested. Sorni KENSINGTON MCSErM,--In accordance with the usual practice of the museum in receiving valuable works on loan, a collection of choice ell paintings of the Dutch school, 56 in number, has been lent for exhibition by Mr. John Walter, M.P., and is now arranged on the walls of the gallery from which the Mulready pictures were lately removed. The collection consists of works by Bereberu, Both, De Hoop, Du Judie, Gonzales Cirques, Hobbema, Maas, A. Ostade, T. Ostade, Paul Potter, Ruyadael, Via Stry, Wesel:, and other celebrated masters. The great age to which Mr. Landor attained affords some sort of presumption that certain at tributes of his by which he was best known to the multitude were qualities of style rather than of soul—we do not mean of literary style only, but style of expression by life and act, as well as by the pen. Contempt and bitterness are not condu cive to long life. As the ancients said, they dry up the vital juices. As we moderns say, they fret the brain and nerves, and intercept the complacent enjoyment of good humour and benevolence, which eminently promotes length of days. As Walter Savage Landor was born in 1775, and has only now departed, it seems that, after all, be bad not any fatal proportion of contempt or bitterness deep down in his nature ; and the ques tion remains bow he came to be so markedly known by as much as he had. The truth is, he had in him a strong faculty of admiration ; and a deep, pure, fresh current of tenderness and sweetness ran under the film of gall which nature unhappily shed over his existence at the fountain. This was one of the contradictions of which this paradoxical being was made up ; and it is, with the rest, wor thy of some contemplation ; not because paradoxi cal persons or the paradoxes they produce are choice objects of study in a striving and practical 'age like ours, but beanie LaMar actde►ed some things that were great, and many that were beau tiful, in spite of the paradoxical elements of his lite and character. The young of thirty years ago, to whom litera ture was an important pursuit and pleasure, were often seen in a transport of admiration, amazement, and anger, when rising from Landor's books. They were quite sure that nothing so noble, nothing so tender, nothing so musical was to be found in our language as the "Imaginary Conversations" be tween Pericles and filophocle., between Demosthenes and Eubulides, between Asthma and Lady Jaue Grey, and plenty more. The patriotism, the mag nanimity, and the sweet heroism of the sentiments call up the flush or the tear ; and the familiarity with the ancients, in their habit of mind and speech, enraptures the youthful scho lar. After a time, he relaxes in his reading of Landor—still declares, when he is talked of, that his is a grand and beautiful fragmentary mind, but he no longer reads his later volumes ; and at last, grows so weary of his Jacobin doctrines, his obtrusive spirit, and senteutious style, that when the well-known name in large letters appears in the newspaper, at the foot of a denunciatory letter, or a curse in stanzas, it is a signal to turn the leaf. The standard criticism of the country seems to have undergone something of the sante process as the individual student. The Quarterly Beni* is once despised everybody who could stop to notice Landor's faults, and elo quently described the process of the eleva tion of his fame, till it should become transcendent among the worthies of England : but it may be questioned now whether the Quar terly ihrieu has any more expectation than the IT Ili that the writings of Landor will survive, except as curiosities iu literature. The fact seems to be that, with some of the attributes of genius, Landor fell just short of it. Belied not the large spirit and generous temper of genius. His egotism was extreme, but it was not that of genius. He has been called a prose Byron, and certainly he complailied abundantly of man and life, and ab horred tyrants, and lived long in Italy, and fought for liberty abroad, and especially, he was at once a Jaoobin or democrat in literature, and a man of family and fortune; bnt there the resemblance , seeps. !Moore Byron moaned., Lawlor &misled, Landor had no patience with royalty, or any rule but the popular, because it stood between men and their happiness ; whereas Byron looked upon tyranny as a mere symptom of huwau corruptness and misery, aud saw no happiness on the other sid e of it. Byron was an embodiment of the groaning spirit of his time, which uttered it6eli through him because his lips had been touched with fire ; but Landor's utterances were almost entirely personal and constitntional—expressed no prevalent senti ment or need—not being even tie utterance of a party in politics or literature, but the presentment of an unchanging egotism, undermajeatic or grace ful disguises furnished from the stores of his learn ing or the resources of his imagination. It is oce of the paradoxes about Lauder, hot that he should have but one style—for that might be expected ; but that that style should hav e been the dramatic. Well as he succeeded in hitting the mode of thought of many of his dis coursing r ersona g es, it was by means of his learn ing and not of his sympathies that he did so. They were all raised from the dead in their habits as they lived, but it was in order to be possessed by Lau doe in every case—his spirit speaking through their brains, perhaps, as well as through their lips—but always his spirit and no other. Hence his failures in the case of Milton, and partly, even in that of Cromwell, though there he might have been ex pected to succeed pre-eminently. Yet more modern English persouages fail more and more conspicu ously, in comparison with old Greeks, and nit:di:eve' Italians, and far away Spaniards, for the obvious reason that the former, living amidst modern associations and represented by a writer who is too much of an egotist and a mannerist to have genuine dramatic power, must be simply Landor himself, cramped and debilitated by the restraints of his disguise. These are the token. and proofs of his falling short of true genius. Yet there is so genuine a force of liberalism in his writings, so constant a vigilance against the encroachments of tyranny, as may neutralise a large admixture of self-love and self-will ; and it really is so rare to see theclaitus of the democracy so presented, amidst the music and the lights reverberated and reflected from the classic ages, that the man who Las done that service may be fairly considered an original of high mark, if be be too paradoxical, and too measured an egotist to be entitled to the high honours of genius. But paradox carries away others than the inven tors:and titterers ; and we have been commenting on the mind of the vigorous old man who is gone from us, before we have glanced at his life, which was, from first to last, as characteristic as his wri tings, as characteristic as his face and form, and everything pertaining to him. We may be called paradoxical ourselves if we say (but it is true), that never was anything more of a piece than the mind and life, the surroundings, the utterance and the acts of this wonderfully sane, yet thoroughly incon. sistent, being. His tall, broad, muscular, active frame was characteristic ; and so was his head, with the strange elevation of the eyebrows, which expresses self-will as strongly in some lisses as astonishment in others. Those eyebrois, mounting up till they compre- I bend good portion of the forehead, have been otaerved in many more paradoxical per sons than one. Then there was the retreating but broad forehead, showing the deficiency of reasoning and speculative power, with the preponderance of imagination, and a huge passion for destruction. The massive self-love and self-will carried up his head to something more than a dignified bearing— , even to one of arrogance. His vivid and quick eye, and the thoughtful mouth were fine, and his I whole air was that of a man, distinguished in his own eyes certainly, but also in those of others. Tradition reports that he was handsome in his youth. In age he was more. The first question about him usually was why, with his frame, and his courage, and his politics, and his social position, he was not in the army. One reply might be that he could neither obey nor co-operate ; another was that his godfather, General Powell, wished it ; and Lander, therefore, preferred something else. As for that something else—his father offered him 4001. a year to study law, and reside in the Temple for that purpose, whereas he would give him only 1501. if he would not ; and of course, he took the 1501., and went as far as he well could from the Temple ; that is, to Swansea. Warwick was his native place. He was born in the beet house in the city,- wins the Ana old garden. _with its noble elms and horse-chesnuts, might have influenced his imagination, so as to have something to do possibly with his subsequent abode in Italy. His mother was of the ancient family of Savage ; and hereditary estates lay about him in Staffordshire and Warwickshire, which had been in the possession of the family for nearly seven centuries. These he sold, to shift himself to Wales, and nowhere did his spirit of destructive waywardness break out more painfully than in the sale of those old estates, and his treatment of the new. He employed many scores of labourers on his Welsh estates, made roads and planted, and built a house whisk cost him 8,000/. He set his heart upon game-preserving (of all pursuits for a demo. cratic republican), and bad at times twenty keepers out upon the hills at night, watching his grouse ; 'nut, with 12,000 acres of land, he never saw a grouse on his table. His tenants cheated him, he declared, and destroyed his plantations ; and, taough he got rid of them, he left, not only Wales but Great Britain, in wrath. Then, the steward in charge of his house cheated him, when he not only got rid of the steward, but had his splendid new house pulled down—out of consideration, he declared, for his son's future ease and convenience, in being rid of so vexatious a property. His flat terers called this an act of characteristic indigna tion. To others it appeared that his republican and self-governing doctrines came rather strangely from one who could not rule his own affairs and his own people ; and who, finding his failure, could do nothing better than lay waste the whole scene. He had obtained some of Lis scholarship at Rugby, and somewhat more at Oxford, where, however, Lis stay was short. Having fired a gun in the quadrangle of his college, he was rusti cated, and, instead of returniug, published a volume of poems, when he was only eighteen. While at Swansea, he studied, and wrote " Gebir." On the invasion of Spaiu, Le determined to be a soldier on his own account, raised a small troop at his own ex pense, and was the first Englishman who landed in aid of the Spauiards. He was rewarded for this aid, and for a gift of money, by the thanks of the Supreme Junta, and by the rank of colonel on blare turn to England ; but he returned his commission and ,be record of thanks when Ferdinand set aside the constitution. Among many good political acts, perhaps none was better than this. At thirty six years of age he married a French lady of good family ; and a few years after, in 1818, fixed his residence is Italy,—first, in the Palazzo Medici, in Florence, and, when obliged to leave it, in a charming villa, two miles off. That villa Gherardesca was built by Michel Angelo. Few British travellers in Italy fail to go and see Fiesole ; and while Lander lived there he was the prey of lion hunters,—as be vehemently complained on occasion of the feud between him and N. P. Willis, the American, who lost a MS. confided to him for his opinion. Such a subordination of the full, ripe scholar and discourser to the shallow, flippant sketcher by the wayside, might seem to deserve such a result ; but it did not tend to recon cile Lauder to lion-hunters. While in Italy, he sent to English newspapers, and especially to the amines, frequent comments ou passing events in the political world, in the form of letters or of verse. He was collecting pictures all the while; and when he returned to England to pass the rest of his days, as he supposed, he left the bulk of his collection in his villa, for his son's benefit, bringing only a few gems wherewith to adorn such a modest residence as he now intended to have in his own country. That residence was in St. James's-square, Bath, where he became an octogenarian living for a while in peace and quiet—still commenting on men and measures through the liberal papers, and putting forth, in his eightieth year, the little volume called "Last Fruit from an Old Tree." The spectacle of a vigorous, vivid, undaunted old age, true to the aims and convictions of youth, is always a fine one ; and it was warmly felt to be so in Landor's case. His prejudices mattered less, when human affairs went on maturing themselves in spite of them ; and many of his complaints were silenced in the beat possible way—by the reform of the abuses he, with some unnecessary violence, denounced. He, for his part, talked less about killing kings ; and his steady assertion of the claims of the bumble fell in better with the spirit of the time, after years had inaugurated the works of peace. About many matters of political principle and practice he was right, while yet the majority of society were wrong ; and it would be too much to require that he should be wholly right in doctrine and fact, or very angelic in his way of enforcing his convictions. Nature did not make him a logician, and if we were ever disap pointed at not finding him one the fault was our own. She made him brave though wayward ;an egotist in his method, but with the good of mankind for his aim. He was passionate and prejudiced, but usually in some great cause, and on the right side of it. He was of aristocratic birth, fortune, and education, with democracy for his political aim, and poverty and helplessness for his clients. All this would have made Walter Savage Lander a remarkable man in his generation, apart from his services to literature ; but when we recal some of his works—such pictures as that of the English officershot at the Pyramids—such criticism as in his Pentameron—and discourses so elevating and so heart-moving as some which he has put into NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. YORK, II ossur, Sin. 26. The proceedings of the day commenced by a gene ral meeting of members of the association at the Festival Concert-mom ; Lord BROUGHAM in the chair. A special addrees was delivered by the President of the Eduatioa Department, the Archbishop of York. Lord Brougham proposed that the thanks of the meeting should be given to the archbishop for his admirable address, adding that in doing so the meeting did not bind itself to all the opinions which it expressed, although it gave its thanks for his having brought them before their notice. (Cheers.) Dr. Emerton, who rose in the body of the hall, said that nothing but a strong sense of public duty—duty to his lordship and duty to his grace, could have induced him, as a stranger to all, to come forward at this meeting and to speak on the present ocamaioo. Mr. Eiastinp—l rise to order. ("Hear, hear," and ap plause.) lam sorry to interrupt any member of the aro- Matto° but it is m y duty as the eneentive officer to remind Dr. Eilerton that Ink if 'not the preperplaiirleklesiessm preseion of any opinion regarding the address which ham just been delivered. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Emerton—As an Englishman. (Cries of "Chair," and " Order.") Al an Eagliall clergyman. (Cries of "Sit down," "Chair .") I appeal to tour lordship I appeal to the archbishop. (Cries of "order, chair," and "Sit down.") Mr. Hastings—l rise to order, and have a right to be first heard. (Hear, hear.) With the greatest personal courtesy towards Dr. Emerton, I must say that any ob servation he may have to make will be heard with the greatest pleasure in the proper place. The proper place for him to make any observation on education is in the education department. (liear, bear.) We have not met here for the purpose of discussing his gracegrace 's address ; and tbe business for which we are assembled is now at an end. ("Hear, hear," and applause.) Dr. Emerton —I am quite satisfied. (Applause.) The meeting then separated. The ordinary business of the departmeut was then corn. minced at the De Grey Rooms ; the Archbishop of York in the chair. The special question for discussion was, "What is the state of education in rural districts and small town populations, and how can the peculiar difficulties attending it be remedied ?" In the discussion which ensued Sir J. Pakington expressed an opinion that the present system adopted by the committee of council was not adequately adapted to the educational wants of the country, and he looked on the revised code and the subsequent minute as the first steps towards a complete adaptation of the system to the wants of the oountry. He dissented from the principles laid down by Canon 'heir.. raising as they did the question whether in the extension of education, the clergy of the church of England should assist in that process in an exclusive or a tolerant and com prehensive spirit ; and he differed with the rev. gentleman in hie estimate of the " conscience clauses" of the revised code, without which it was impossible to have one good school instead of several small bad ones in a single district. Although abstractly be was of opinion that in national schools the national religion should be taught, and that when it was practicable there should be separate schools for members of the established church and diluents:l, yet, as a member of the church of England. be feat it his daty to protest spinet the opinions enunciated by Canon Trevor. Is one point he agreed with that gentleman, namely, the scheme he propounded for uniting small parishes for the purpose of establishing one school. Canon Trevor replied, and said that his whole paper was intended as a protest against Sir J. Pakiagtoo's principles and public act. in reference to national education. He de fended himself against intolerance in the matter of educa tion, and declared that he had always in every school be bad had to do with endeavoured to bring children of all demminstiolui together. The discussion wee continued by the Rev. Mr. Melville. Rev. Mr. Sanford, one of the government inspectors of schools, who expressed as opinion in favour of an educa tional rate ; the Rev. Nash Stephenson. use of the more taxies of the deportment ; by Led Teignmoutli, who con firmed a statement of Mr. Sandford, that practimilly dis senters did not refuse to allow their children to be taught the Church Catechism in national schools, but this would probably be the ease when its istrodoetion was sot com pulsory ; Sir S. Northcote, who suggested that the object of the association being scientific, and its aim to collect fads and elicit priuclrlev, it was desirable to avoid controversial matter. He pointed oct that the educational movement in this country, which had its origin in a desire to meet the educational wants of the poorest classes, had risen to the level of the class above ; and when the government took up the matter, they found that in administering a large centralised system they moat be guided by rules which were fixed and unelastic, and this operated against the extension of education of the lowest dames. Much of this had been met bye new system of apportioning the education grants, and the question was whether it was not possible to make the new system of payment for results apply to the schools of the poorest class, and to this point he invited all those interested in education to apply their minds to the difficulties which stood in the warof this coosummation. He advocated a system of load management, and of local rating, although he doubted whether the time was come for adopting that system as yet. After some further dismission the department ad journed. It may be mentioned that this department attracts larger audiences than any other of those that are in opera. Sou. FIRQT DEPARTMENT.—JMISPHUDEVCE AND AHE : NDMENTI OF THE LAW. Lord Buorouri presiding. The special quwitiou for discussion was, " Whether any. and what, auselioratious could be introduced into the constitution and conduct of criminal prosecutions." A paper wee read on the point by e Robert Stuart. lA., in which he strongly advocated the sppoiotment of r public prosecutor, nod was of opinion that a private prosecutor could not bring to the conduct of criminal prosecutions that calm and unimpassioned spirit which might be ezpected to characterise apublic prosecutor. A discussion ensued, which was kept up with sufficient animation. REFORMATORY SECTION. This section sat under the presidency of Sir WALTZ* Cmurroti. . . Mr. Marshall teed • paper on "Discharged Prisoners," and dwelt on the forlorn condition of criminals when released from prison, and urged that all that could be done was to endeavour to remove obstacles in the way of their obtaining employment. One means of accomplishing this object would be to establish au institution for the reception of discharged prisoners who were willing to subject themselves to a short discipline, and then to procure them work. He described the operation of the Middlesex Society set up for this object The whole number of discharged prisoners during the last six mouths was 3,700, while those whom it had been thought proper to assist numbered only 160. Of discharged prisoners it was estimated that only 70 per cent. wen again heard of, and of that number only about 30 per cent. returned to crime. A paper by Mr. J. P. Organ, "On convicts without prison," stated that the reformation of crimicals was • work of the utmost difficulty, but one which ought never to he despaired of. Couvicta were • suspicious end suspec ted class, and it was most important that people should be disabused of their suspicions. He had ever found that the greatest obstacles in the way of reformation were intempe rance, immorality, and arersion to labour. Emigration, he thought, was the most efficacious means of disposing of the better class of dischareed prisoners. Is the course of a discussion which ensued, Sir Waltou Crofton observed that there appeared to be but one opinion that the sentences paused on prisoners, and the mode in which they were carried out.were not sufficieetly severe, but at the same time it seemed to be felt that the door of amendment should be thrown more widely open. He could point to hundreds of men who had been convicts who had been punning • career of honest labour for seven or eight years. Every facility should be given to discharged prisoners for obtaining employment, but employers should made acquainted with their previous history. Mr. Murray Brown gave an amount of the operations of the Middlesex Discharged Prisoners Society, which, al though it had been in existence only • few months, had been most successful, for since its institution it had been obliged to turn away • man for whom they could not god employment ; and only three of those persons they bad aided returned to crime. . . . The discussion wu coatusued until the close col the day's proosatiogs. THIRD DEPARTMENT.-HEALTH. Sir C. B AsTme.s, chairmen. The question discussed in this section waa the muses, and what are the 'mans for the prevention, of excessive Went mortality, ma which several papers ►ere reed. AGRICULTURAL SECTION. The agricultural section of this department met for the first time to-day, Mr. EDWARD HOLLAND. M.P., in the chair, who read a isaper on the social effects of steam machinery as apphed to agriculture, and elated that his own experience taught him that steam ploughmen and those connected with steam machinery were those who de- manded and obtained good cottages, and one of the most powerful influences in elevating the character of working men consisted in providing them with superior habitations, sod also by promoting respectability in dress. He pointed out that considerable improvement badtaken place in the cha racter and conduct of agricultural labourers ; and much of this was to be attributed to the improved methods of culti vation, which tended to evolve their facultie■ and created a better class of men. He had not found it necessary to employ a single engineer to superintend the working of his steam agricultural machinery, it having all peen managed by farm labourers. The agricultural pool:- lation had decreased in the last twenty years 2:10,000, and therefore the adoption of steam machi was well timed, as it formed a substitute for the deficie of manual labour which must have ensued. • Papers were read on " agricultural co-opestion" be Gordon, "on the obtaining of good places flr agricultural and the political mad metal M He sub rit,lT Mr. C. W. Strickland." and by the P.ev. Mr. Moe ris on " Cottage Investments," and a discussion took place until the hour of adjournment arrived. -- - - - - -- THE "BANTINO SYSTEM." Writing to the Times„ Mr. Beating says : "I have reason to believe, from the experience of my owe case and the reports of others, that quantity of food need only be ruled and governed by appetite, and that quality is the great question to he studied in calm of undue corpulence, like !aloe and other diseases for which di e t ar y may bee proper rem edy this will be proved by ventilating the question. One fact is very surprising, which I talc* leave to state : that in every case in which the system called 'Basting' has been adopted, and parties have carefully weighed themselves at starting (without any exception), the greatest amount of reduction has been nianife4 within the first 48 hours. I have many reports of from 4lb. to Rib. reduc tion of weight in that time, with great personal beeefit other wise. This fact can be proved by all who choose to try the system, and there can be little risk in the experiment ; but 1 have invariably advised all my correspondent' and readers to act advisedly under medical authority, to ascertain clearly the cause of their grievance or suffering before adopting any new system. Many reports have been cir culated, most painful and distressing to me, of ridicu lous interviews with exalted persons ; of iuy illness front adopting the system, and of my death in consequence ; bat all such reports are utterly false. I have little doubt that other painful and annoying reports of the Mem aod death of others are equally so ; but a very abort time will prove these facts, and those persons who have for some un warrantable reason, or possibly mercenary pretext, pat there forth will be conscience punished, if nos utterly ashamed. Ido not profess to have a grafts of know. ledge of the physiological reasons for the extraordinary re. sults of the system, nor can I presume to reason upon any point beyond my own individual experience, which alone is my sheet anchor, but am satisfied the system is not unworthy notice; that it is only yet it infancy, bet is on the fair road to maturity, and I believe fixed laws will be engendered to rule in many canes of affliction through proper dietary that will be truly heueficial to humanity. Another extraordinary fact I can confidently state from having proved it on three several occasion& it is that five ounces of loaf sugar spread over seven days' consumption will increase my weight above llb. at the end of that week ; and I have therefore great reason to believe that sugar and saccharine matters are the main causes of endue corpu. lens. I neither ask, claim, nor expect anything for my perseverance in this cause. My only aim is to elicit thorough ventilation of what I believe an important sub. ject for the benefit of humanity, and believe none so fit and proper as the medical faculty to work out the problem hitherto rather slighted and overlooked." THE A DOLITION OF THE LONDON TOLL HA RS. —The St. Panrraa News states that the recent act has had the effect of throwing an additional tax of :id. in the pound ma the inhabitants of that parish, where the maintenance of 7i miles of road has been transferred to the rates. HERNE BAY. VISITORS EXTRAORDINARY. Never has such a large influx of visitors entered this tows as on Tuesday bud, on which oontairm a speculator residing is the the Larders. Chatham arid Dover Railway ft aqtreliplialgallial= ANL— -"• • London and return tots. fedper bead. At about noon trains packed with living freights continued to arrive, and the number of eacnnicsista safely Waled at the station per railway numbered 9,000. To this number must be added those who came from other parts, Canterbury, Rams gate. Whitstable, which would give a grand total of about 18,000 visitor.. As might be guessed, considering the low rate charged from Loudon, the arrival were not of the highest order ;_ indeed, it is to be feared that many were characters of the worst class. Some rough sports were pro vided by the local speculator, and the weather being tue, the numerous party appeared to enjoy the amusements amazingly. Although the precaution wee taken to com mence the despatch of the return trains early in the even ing, it wee half-past 1 o'clock before the last hatch of erect similes quitted the railway station. Several fellows were apprehended for card-sharping and practising other illegal games, and were punished by the magistrates. —south Ea "Irrn Ga:dte. THE HON.—The hop picking has finished in many parishes in Sussex and Kent, and • few days more will probably bring it to a close in most gardens. The amounts of the crop have been, if not conflicting. at least very various. In some plantations both the quantity and quality have been satisfactory--in others there bre been • large bulk, but the character has not been first rate, whilst in some grounds disappointment has been ex perienced in both respects. We have sevemltinies pointed to this " unevenness" as a striking feature of the crop of DM, sad now that the results of the picking have been aseertained, the anticipations formed is to the vari►tion in both the bulk and the character of the growth have been fully borne out. Really fine samples are oomparittively scene, and the fortheate holders of such hope need be is no hurry to eel% as they will be pretty certain to find purchasers at stiff pricer. Our market reports speak very unhesitatingly on this point. The growers of second qua lities may also congratulate themselves on the prospect of remunerative prices. It is now generally admitted that the entire growth is not a large one, and this fact, coupled with the known clearance which had been mad* of good hops of lsl3 and 18 , 12 growths, and the active demand going on, will naturally place the Englith grower in a satisfactory position. On the Cont inent the hop crop has. as a whole, by no means turned out well. and when we hear of business being so brisk at Prague that good hope comiusoded 10/. to 12/. (Felina currency) per cwt., there would not appear to be much ground of alarm is to " the foreigner " undies over to Esgland and " flooding" the markets with foreign hope. —Sussex ddrertieer. _ _ WHAT AUE Qt ALL A VOTER.—As already stated in these columns, the revising barrister at Leeds lately decided that a voter moat be 21 before his name could be inserted on the register, so that a person must be at least 22 before he could exercise the franchise. At Kidderminster on Saturday the sitting barrister gave an exactly opposite decision, ruling that a man was entitled to vote if he was of age when his year of qualification expired. CHISWINEY FAlR.—This great Michaelmas fair, for the sale of geese, cattle, and onions, was opened yester day morning. In the cattle market little business way trantactod, except in eows. There was a large attendance of buyers. The fair opened with Juba s, and little business west:enacted until ten o'clock, when the market assumed more briskness. Some sales of large beasts were effected at prices varying from 121. to 15/. ; interior ditto, 10/. to 13/. • small ditto and Welsh cattle, 71. to 101. Cows in full 171. to 23/. • cows with calves by their aides. W. to 251. ; cows in calf, 11/. to 18/. In the goose market business wan extremely brisk. Several flocks of fat geese were sold, realising from ss. to 7s. each ; inferior birds averaged about 4s. each, and young geese and goalies, from as. to se. each. The onion market was well supplied. and moderate rates wets obtained. AN Ex pars TRAIN ores THE anxiety was mused in Liverpool yesterday, in consequence of • rumour that an accident of a very alarming kind had occurred that morning to the London express due in Liverpool at 12.30 p.m. It appears that the down London express to Liverpool had run off the rails at or near Weida& stetion, but that no person had been injured. After some delay the segue and train were replaced on the line, and arrived at Liverpool after • delay of a couple of hours. In oonerqueace of this, there was also • corresponding delay in the delivery of the mid-day mail. THE EARTERN Fissintict —The herring fishery, commenced early this month, continues to make good Fro- grit, and a prosperous season is anticipated. The delive• ries have been considerable at Great Yarmouth. and dean shotten fish of the best quality have made from 101. 10e. to 231. per last. Large supplies of feeti have also been landed sA Lowestoft. w, ~~i 1 I . 411 IA