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Ireland, said the PR= Mune- Tea, is peaceful and contented ; whereupon Ireland promptly provided him with a witness to the fact in the person of Mr. WiLmax SCULLY. It is true that to wound &landlord and kill two policemen isnot necessarily to commit a political crime ; but in Ireland the line of demarcation between political and social offences is very hard to draw. Of one thing, however, wemay be quite sure. Buchan event as this, taken in connection with all the circum stances, affords infinitely more encouragement to Fenianism than an attack on a police barrack or a raid upon a gunsmith's shop. It gives every Fenian agitator, whether in Ireland or in Ame rica, the exact text he is in search of. With him disaffection may be a matter of national senti ment or political fanaticism, but to commend it to the people at large it must be connected with some substantial grievance. He has to overcome all the passive resistance which is offered by the dread of unknown evils, and the feeling that, if they risk a change, it may be only for the worse ; and what weapon can serve his turn better than the cry of Mr. Sceux's tenants, " We might " as well be dead ae alive"? There the preacher of Fenianism recognises the state of mind which will give him all he wants. It is his object to make men reckless, and the work is as good as done when he find, them already dee pairing. Once take away hope from a people, and the chances are you have taken away fear also. " We might as well be dead as alive " marks a state of mind on which all the ordinary induce ments to peaceableness and loyalty have ceased to operate. And, consequently, if the Irish Church were already disestablished Mr. Dins= would still be an unfit minister for an empire of which Ireland is an integral part. Whether his auda cious optimism is the product of that good natured contempt in which he holds everything that can be reduced to a question of parliament ary tactics, or is me re l y assumed to give point to an after-dinner speech, matters nothing. In whichever light it is regarded it is equally fatal to all pretensions to statesmanship. From the days of thepropheta downwards to cry peace where there is no lease has been the mark of th • c'iarbean. The rician who reeognises the aever.ty II the dis,rth.r may be mistaken in the remedy he tire :, rites, but tben• is more to ix• hope.l from fl't en adviser than from one who denies that there is any thing which needs treatment, or who makes the exceptional character of the disease plea for depreciating its significance. No doubt such conduct as that of Mr. WILLIAM fleetLY is exceptional. But then it is these exceptions that bring to light the weak places of the rule. If every landlord was thoroughly anxious to promote the interests of his tenant, and every tenant thoroughly anxious to give his landlord his just due, there would be no room for a law of landlord and tenant. The law is meant to be a terror to them that do evil, and if it fails to discharge this function, it is no justification of its impotence that the occasions on which its aid is needed are few and far between. So long as the law affords no protec tion to the tenant against landlords of Mr. Setnix's type it will be regarded as the accom plice of his acts. Even the contented tenantry of whom we read yesterday can hardly help remem bering that, before Mr. WILLIAM Soardx bought the property the tenantry of Ballycohey were con tented too. The arguments which are now used against interfering between landlord and tenant in Ireland are all borrowed from the armoury of the advocates of slavery. Wherever the relations between master and slave-were what they should be there was no need for legislation ; and in their profound satisfaction with this argument its in ventors forgot to provide for the opposite possi bility. It is easy, no doubt, to blame Mr. SCULLY for his harshness. So might benevolent slave owners have blamed cruelty in their brother planters. But, after all, if he was doing nothing beyond what the law authorised the law must share the odium which his perverse inhumanity has provoked. rol\) 10 lt t•lrger\ THE I},XPRWA, :,11**Sititir• "M G. AU9ITSI E :20, 18684 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION THE men who minister to science most de votedly are the men to whom the world looks up with confidence and respect as its true guides and teachers in these days. Time was when the priest was almost the sole represen tative of intellectual power, and when tho multi tude were swayed and led even in things secular by their spiritual guides. The contrast between the public interest taken in the proceedings of the British Association, and, say, those of Convocation ; between the real work performed calmly and dis interestedly by real men, and the make-believe yet irritating discussions upon shadowy trivial ities to which our Church dignitaries are prone, is the measure of the difference between the darkness of the past. and the growing enlightenment of the present. To compare the inaugural address de livered yesterday by Dr. HooKER, the Presi dent for the year of the British Association, its range of topics and the vital human interests they embrace, with the last great speech or sermon of any of our ecclesiastical leaders, is to realise almost painfully the contrast between old forms and a new and living faith. To the bulk of Englishmen Convocation seems a useless and dull formality, having the forms of debate without its power, and the right of passing laws which mankind may and often do neglect or ignore. But no sect or party can pass by the subjects of discourse at Norwich, or refuse attention to those lay preachers without suffering the penalty at tached to ignorance of Nature's laws. The As sociation, through its PRESIDENT, thus calls upon us all : Let each pursue the search for truth—the arclueologist into the physical, the religious teacher into the spiritual history and condition of mankind. It will be in vain that each regards the other's punelts from afar, and, turning the object-glass of his mind's telescope to his eye is con tent when he seee how small the other looks. To search out the whence and whither of existence is an unquench able instinct of the human mind ; to satisfy it man in every age and in every country has adopted creeds that embrace the history of his past and future, and has eagerly accepted scientific truths that support the creeds. And but for this unquenchable instinct I firmly believe that neither religion nor science would have advanced so far aa they have in the estimation of any people. Science has never in this search hindered the religious aspirations of good and ear nest men, nor have pulpit cautions, which are but ill-dis guised deterrents, ever turned inquiring minds from the revelations of science. A sea of time spreads its waters between that period to which the earliest traditions of our ancestors point, and that far earlier period when man first appeared upon the globe. For his track upon the sea man vainly questions his spiritual teachers. Along its hither shore, if not across it, science now offers to pilot him. Each fresh discovery concerning pre-historic man is as a pier built on some rock its tide has exposed, and from these piers will one day spring arches that will carry him further over its deeps. Science, it is true, may never sound the depths of that sea, may never buoy its shallows or span its narrowest creeks, but she will still build on every tide-washed rock, nor will she ever deem her mis sion fulfilled till she has sounded its profoundest depths and reached its further shore, or proved the one to be un fathomable and the other attainable only upon evidence net yet revealed to mankind. Science, moreover, appeals to us more familiarly by the practical and constant benefits she confers. The sound mind in the sound body; the ap pliances, the necessaries, the comforts, the refinements of life, are hers to give. The general community may not have the pure motives or the lofty aims of the enthu siastic pioneer, but it has a keen perception of what conduces to its own happiness, and, while acknowledging its debts to science, it counts con fidently on future benefits, and in this faith turns with profound and lively interest to such meetings as that which is being held this week at Norwich. SWISS OUIDES. Jr Britain preys upon the traveller at hotels, Switzerland makes him wince by the misconduct of her guides. The brigands of Europe seem to have discarded their romantic dress, and to have donned that of the simple mountaineer, to have substi tuted an Alpenstock for dagger and pistols, and cunning phrases for stern threats. They rob by chicanery instead of violence ; and they call them selves Swiss guides. The authorities of the Canton of Lucerne published a useful memorandum at the opening of the present season, admitting and deploring the predatory habits of the harpies who fasten upon travellers ; and giving useful in structions to the latter as to the readiest mode of obtaining redress. This example should be followed by the rest of Switzerland. It is not enough to devise a tariff and to draw up regula tions for the protection of the tourist. The glib assurance of the average guide soon degenerates into dogged hostility if his attempts at imposition are thwarted or exposed, and those employing him labour under the disadvantages of partial know ledge and a wish for peace. It is a serious thing to the tourist bent upon rest and change to have his holiday converted into a running tournament with unscrupulous adversaries ; and the fathers of the several cantons, if they wish to retain the steady flow of British gold, should devise some means of protecting visitors from the rapacity and rudeness of those who regard them as so much loot. The following experience, told in this ftiotning's /Vssaes, is • aff cepional only ip ' its culminating viclosace : • . ' Ou Friday last, Mt reaching the 111MantiGlacter HARI, on my docent horn the Orimael, abottill a.m., I applied to be booked by diligence to Brieg. I way informed that the gendarme (whose office adjoins the hotel) was the booking officer by the diliaele• if it pare. Upon ap plying to be bucked the gendarme informed me that ho could secure me " a place," but that he could not promiin the raga; as that might be full; that be would , take the money (12k.) for the eafp. , , and that if that was full he would return me the difference between the charge for the romp" sad " a place." When the easdpartor de le pate arrived I CR- plied to him for my place. He was far from civil, and stated that my name was not on his bill, and that there was no " place " for me. I referred him to the gendarme. MI do not speak German I could not understand the conversation between them, but I could see that the een. &Weir bad resolved not to give me a place. I then asked the gendarme to see his book, in order to ascertain the names of the passengers booked some time after me, and to discover whether they got places. My application to the landlord of the Rhone Glacier Hotel (who spoke Eng lish, and at whose house I had dined) was without effect, and I drew the conoltudon that it was intended to compel me to stay at the hotel With° morrow, or hire a carriage and pair tp Brieg.at the cost of 70fr. I went again to the ecoldpettur and informed him that ai my " place" had been guaranteed by the authorised booking officer, and I had paid my money, I insisted on being taken to Meg. I only obtained more incivility. When the time for start ing (2.30 p.m.) arrived, I perceived that several roittores and not the ordinary diligence were about to convey the passengers. As there were other carriages with horses ready to start, standing with these roiturea, I should not have been able to ascertain which of them were intended to take the mail passengers, if I had not marked the carriage two persons (whom I had heard say they had booked through to Brieg) entered. I was in the act of taking my " place" in this carriage (there were two an occupied) when the eondateur de la poste (a powerful fel low of some Eft. lin.) sprung at me hie a tiger, seized me by the arm and beard (tearing away a complete hand ful, and thrust me from the step of the carriage. There are few travellers in Switzerland who have not had difficulties of this kind. The men who let carriages on hire ; the hangers on at remote hotels, and the worst class of guides, are all in league against the tourist. Diligences are pronounced full, or to have any destination but the one re quired. Hack fares are made to double the legal tariff, and pourboires are gradually assuming the character of a wage rather than a gratuity. It is for the respectable guides and the authorities to coaleeoe against the horde which is giving Switzer land an rill name. If full publicity were given at all the hotels and posting stations to road tariffs and rules, and if summary punishment were certain to follow on extortion, such stories as the foregoing would cease, instead of becoming com moner year by year. LOW CLERICALISM. WE had always thought the right of private judgment was the special heritage of Protestant ism, and that in consequence perfect freedom of discussion was the privilege as well as the duty of Protestants. It seems, however, that we are mis taken. The Rock newspaper, an ultra-Evangelical and ultra-Protestant journal, informs its readers that it is a very improper thing for " an inter " meddling laity" to criticise sermons, and that " too many of our critics in their irreverence and " disrespect on this question seem to forget that " the clergy are set in authority to teach them, " and that they have no authority to teach " the clergy." This is High Church doctrine with a vengeance, this is an assertion which might be reasonably expected from Dr. Marmnso, but which coming from the Rock is very like an imperti nence. Ever since its commencement this journal has spent such ability as it possesses in an inquisi torial criticism of clergymen. If a man preaches in a surplice, if he intones the prayers, if he uses a hymn book in his church which has not received the imprimatur of the Rock, or if, as sometimes happens, he is of that honest few Who give the fiend himself hie due, he is forthwith denounced by this Low Church organ as a Romanising pervert, an infidel, or an atheist. The Rock uses language familiarly known as "Billingsgate" in its denunciations of the clergy, the .Rock criticises High Churchmen and Broad Churchmen without mercy, and yet the Bock is bold enough to declare in a leading article that the laity have no authority to criticise the clergy. The simple truth is that preaching is supposed to be the special forte of the Low Church clergy, and there fore to comment upon sermons is to criticise them. We may say what we like about Roman Catholics or " insidious and deceitful Ritualists," we may mare what suggestions we please as to the Jesuit ical purposes of High Churchmen, but to say that an Evangelical clergyman preaches his congrega tion into a bad temper is to trench on privileged ground, which no profane footsteps are permitted to tread. REPRODUCTIONS OF WORKS 'OF ART OP ALL COUNTRIES. The following correspondence between the Prince of Wales, president of her Majesty's Commis sioners for the Paris Exhibition, and the Duke of Marl borough, Lord President of the Council, has recently been laid before parliament in the 16th report of the Science and Art Department: " Marlborough House, March 12, 1888. "My dear Duke, — During the Paris Exhibition a con vention was entered into by several prinoes of the re • gn ing ' families of Europe, whereby they peed mutually to assist the museums of Europe in procuring casts and copies of national objects for the promotion of art. I cannot doubt that the museums in this country will derive benefit front this convention, and will be able to make a return to fo raga countries for the advantages which they may afford. I therefore transmit to your grace l as Lord President of the Council, copies of this convention, and I request that you will have the kindness to inform me whether you see any objection to the Lord 'President acting through the Science and Art Department in this country for theepur pose of giving effect to it so far as the United Kingdom is concerned. " Your grace will perceive that the object contem plated by the Convenbon is identical with that for which an annual grant of money has been made for many years by parliament to the Science and Art Department, and it is hoped that, by the aid of this Convention, far greater fit6l , ' will be obtained for the interchange of works of art between this and other countries than have hitherto existed.—Believe me, my dear duke, very sincerely yours, " ALBEST Enwrap, P. " His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Lord President of the Council." The Duke of Marlborough, in his reply, . dated 10, St. James's-square, March 14, 1068, after reci ting the object of his royal highness's inquiry, says :—" I be lE s a n y i : to inform your royal highness that I sh a ll h ave i n acting in the manner proposed so f ar as the institutions under the Science and Art Department are concerned, and that when called upon I shall be ready to communi cate with other authorities having charge of objects of art in the United Kingdom, with the view of obtaining any tries facilities which may be required by foreign coun ." The following princes have already signed the Con. vention : Great Britain and Ireland.—Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Promia. —Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia. Here.—Louis, Prince of Here. Saxony.—Albert, Prince Royal of Saxony. Prance.—Prinoe Napoleon (Jerome). Belgium.—Philippe, Comte de Flandre. Enema. The Ceearewitch ; Nicolas, Due de Leuchtenberg. Sweden and Norway.—Oscar, Prince of Sweden and Norway. Italy.—Humbert, Prince Royal of Italy; Amadeus, Duke of Aorta._ _ _ _ Austria. Charles-Louis, Archduke of Austria Rainer, Archduke of Austria. Denmark.—Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark. General Lord Napier of Magdala, accompanied by his son and Colonel Dillon, have arrived at the Hotel Bristol from the Camp of Chalons. " •r. OULAONTEMPOItAIVES. OBIS DAO. THY OPPOIIMON WOMBS IN PRANK. Referring to the success of M. Ori'vy's candida ture for meddle:tricot of the Jura, the Times remarks that although ht,,Cleivy may not be anti-dynastic, be is the determined adversary of imperialism, and as snob his victory may almost be described as portentous. The fact, says the IMity sew, that in the departmentof the Jura the Opposition—or, as the Comet i itttiennel insists upon calling him, the Antidynastic—candidate has polled two votes to every one given to the nominee of the govern ment would be very remarkable, and call for elaborate explanation, if it were true, as M. Magna would have us believe, that everybody who subscribed to the recent loan thereby gave a practical vote in favour of the Emperor. There is no reason to suppose that the in habitants of the department of the Jura were lees for ward than other Frenchmen to seize the advantages of the imperial loan. The security was good, being that of France herself, and the interest much more than could he got elsewhere, and amongst prudent investors these two considerations take precedence of all others. There _ _ _ is no reason why a tradesman of D6le or Poligny should miss a profitable outlay in one week, because in the next he was going to iota against Riot. The Bter infers from this and other ebullitions of the public mind, that pokitioal feeling in !ranee is alive, and that its manifestations are bolder and more striking than usual. Whatever changes may be impending, the Sear cannot overlook the extraordinary success of the loan, but thinks that the confidante it exhibits is in France itself rather than in any ruler or form of government. 111 IRELAND. Remarking upon the striking difference of feeling mani fested towards Mr. Scully and Mr. Pigott respectively by their Irish tenants, the Daily New contends that the most absurd explanation of the difference which could be offered is that which the theory of race supplies ; the sim plest, nearest, and most obvious is, that the difference is lather in the landlords than in the tenants. It is univer sally admitted that Mr. Scully's case is an exceptional one. lie had treated his tenants not only with harshness, but with a wild inconsiderateness which even Irish experience can scarcely parallel. Mr. Pigott, on the contrary, is an exceptionally good landlord, and sudden evictions are un known on his estates. The Time* insists that these Tipperary outrages must be ascribed to exceptional causes, and not be taken as hearing in any way upon the general relations of land lords and tenants. The immediate occasion of the crime in the present instance is certainly an outrage on all reason, equity, and good feeling. Mr. ecully proposed for the acceptance of all his tenants a new form of lease, which would certainly have defined the relations of land lord and tenant, but which would have attained this simplicity by abolishing every right or privilege of the tenant. The consequence was that a long-standing personal animosity was inflamed to passionate hatred, and hatred, at an unhappy opportunity, broke into murder. BASLWA.Ir YIBIKANAOLICENT. The Pest submits a variety of mili- tary, and commercial—why the railway system of Great Britain should be transferred to the direct management of the state. Such an arrangement, with other collateral advantages, would be a step in advance which might prove of equal or even greater importance than the adoption of the penny postage. The 21 , 1egraph says that, in penning his remarkable ad dress to his constituents, Lord Elcho forgot the French proverb, gui e'rxrues s'aemse. His elaborate apology for steadily voting with Mr. Disraeli, while sitting on the side of Mr. Gladstone, is, perhaps, the most original manifesta tion yet received of a painfully original intellect. But he had to perform a difficult task. He had to show that though appearances were against him he was perfectly justified in what be bad done. The Telegraph, however, thinks it would have been better to have put a bold face on the matter, said nothing about the past, promised nothing for the future, and simply claimed re-election as a matter of course. But his lordship has not a talent for silence, and he has damned himself by a vindication. THE POLISH MONUMENT. The inauguration of the Polish monument at Rapperschwyl, in the canton of St. Gall, took place on the 16th inst. The proceedings were opened with an elo quent addrees by Count Plater. The Chairman of the Municipal Council of Rapperschwyl, the Landman of St. Gall, Herr Kinkel, and M. Anatole de la Forge, of the Slick, also spoke. At the dinner in the evening, at which there were three hundred present, Count Plater read letters from eminent men in all parts of Europe, wishing well to the cause of Poland. Communications were also received from the working men's associations of England, Belgium Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, and Holland. Speec hes were delivered by General Perusal, M. Henri Martin, the French historian, Herr Kinkel, and the American consul at Zurich. There was enthusiastic applause when the consul protested against any oppressive alliance between the United States and the persecuting government of Russia. The following is an extract from Count Plater's opening address :—" The international character of this day's celebration which is intended to perpetuate, by a monu ment, the memory of Poland's long-continued struggle, and the presence of so many eminent men of different countries and of representatives of Poland, give great significance to this decimated, despoiled, blood- et ai tonatzation. Poland to-day as it wan a hundred years back, only awaits an opportunity to enforce her right, for right is the basis of modern societies. What would become of Europe if the Mongol-Musoovite Was were substituted for European ideas, that is to say, if the right of the strongest were substituted for that by virtue of which peoples preserve their traditional nationality and independence r The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria yes terday accomplished his 38th year, having been born on the 18th August, 1830. Prince Napoleon has proceeded from Havre in his yacht to Boulogne. A communication from Gotha in the Incllpaul atlCl Belga eaye:—" The news has been received here that on the 23rd June the German expedition to the North Pole on board the Germania had got free of the ice. The vassal was ut degrees north latitude, and 15 of the west longi tude; proceeding north." It is said that M. Thiere is occupied in the com position of a "History of the Restoration," in ten vote., which will form a sequel to his "History of the tlmpire." The Cancan is being danced every night at Florence with great success. A Florentine feuilletonist says :— „ The dancers and the dance are very amusing, but it ought to be performed with closed doors." An Exhibition of Bees has just been opened at Moscow, under the auspices of the Acclimatization Society of that city. It comprises aenUedion of hivesof all times and all countries, of instruments and utensils employed in api. culture, and of the perfumed honey furnished by the bees which suck the plants known popularly by the names of Ivan-tchai and Koporski.tchai. The honey and the wax are shown in all their stages, from their appearance in the comb to that which they present when variously prepared for commerce. The once famous tenor Roger has written to the Paris journals to announce his return on the French stage ; be has, however, he declares, abandoned opera for the drama, and will make his reappearance at the Porte Saint-Martin in Mme. George Sand's new play of Cads°, which is to be read on the 24th and at once diexibuted. M. Pasdeloup has become the manager of the Theitre Lyrique. The Company of the Theatre Francais arrived in Paris from Marseilles two days before the Emperor's Me, having completed its month's tour. During that period it played 23 times ; at Dijon, Lyons, Toulon, Nice, and Marseilles. Those performances produced 3,0001., or on an average, more than 120/. each time. The reception at Dijon was exceedingly warm; at Lyons and Toulon somewhat less so; at Nioe, again most cordial ; but at Marseilles it was enthusiastic. This first campaign was only an experiment, and will probably be repeated next year. At Cologne, Hamburg, and Leipsic M. Am bruise Thomas' Henekt is in preparation, and will follow Mignon. Those two operas are about to be represented in all the principal theatres in Germany. At the Politeama Theatre of Florence has just been produced the Fills dells 6doe. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY., RUSSIA, PRUSSIA. AND THE EAST. According to the German journals the interview between the Czar and the King of Prussia was to have taken place in September, but in conse quence of intelligence from Paris the Czar, in an autograph letter to King William, requested an immediate interview at Schwalbach. The interview was so confidential that neither mon arch required the presence of his foreign minister. According to the North-East Correspondence, the Emperor offered the King his alliance, and his efforts to bring the states of South Germany into a more complete union with the Northern Confederation in exchange for the King's support on the Eastern question. Several of the continental journals persist in ex pressing their belief that Admiral Farragut is in structed to demand from Turkey the free naviga tion of the Dardanelles in accordance with the recent vote ofiCongress, and that ha will be sup. ported in his demand by Russia. Constantinople letters of the 12th announce that the Grand Vizier has issued instructions to the go vernor of Albania to act with energy in sup pressing every attempt at disturbance. OUR PARIS LETTER. (moat oua OWN ooaasepoinuorr.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVANINO. The opposition journals, and it is not wonderful, now swear by the Jura. The example set in that agricultural department of the defeat of a govern ment candidate by a larger majority than is yet on record, even in Paris, raises hopes of the most en thusiastic kind for the next general elections. The effect of the news at Fontainebleau was not to hasten the general elections but, while leaving the period when they are to take place in all the uncertainty so much complained of, to try another experiment at once by issuing writs to fill up the three vacancies in the Var, the Moselle, and the Nievre. These seats have only just become vacant, the first by the death of Viscount de Eerveguen, and the other two by the elevation to the Senate of Baron de Geiger and M. de Montjoyeux. The government might, in its discretion, have deferred the elections for six months. If it should gain the three seats—an event which, notwithstanding the jubilant tone of the opposition, cannot be considered very impro bable, there will be a ground for saying that the vast majority of the country is yet impressed with the wisdom of the Emperor's go vernment. But another departmental defeat would be disastrous, and the democratic party has great hopes of the Moselle. The municipal council of Bordeaux has passed a very important resolution, remonstrating with the government against the palpably unfair way in which their city (like many other great towns for that matter) has been cut up into electoral dis tricts, devised for • the very purpose of preventing a true and effectual representation. Bordeaux has 200,000 inhabitants. The law says that every 35,000 electors are entitled to return a member. But the government has cut up Bor deaux into three divisions, each of which are made to vote with agricultural districts in curiously re mote corners of the department of the Gironde. The mayor and adjoint (both the Emperor's no minees) struggled against the resolution as illegal, the adjoint, however, feeling compelled to admit that the grievance was well founded. The town councillors, however, insisted that the matter was a local one essentially within their jurisdiction, and the resolution was carried by 14 votes to 5. This is another very important symptom of the set of the political tide. The appointment of Viscount de la Gueron- Mere, editor of La France, to the post of French Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels, which has long been talked of, has now been signed. He is a plastic man of hardly any opinions, with a facile pen, and is much esteemed by private friends of all parties. He was an ardent republican in 1848 and up to December 2, 1851. For a long time he was on the staff of M. de Lamartine's journal, the Pays. He soon rallied to the Empire; was made censor of the press, then senator, and was em ployed by the Emperor to write the pamphlet which preceded the Italian war. After that he was for some time in a state of semi-disgrace, and he founded the journal La France on principles— to use one of the antithetic phrases which are characteristic of his style—" at once devoted and independent." The proportion of devotion to independence is in some such ratio as that of Mynheer Van Dunk's brandy to the Zuyder-Zee water—three quarta of the first to a pint of the latter. However, the France does sometimes endeavour to vary the monotonous praises of the Constitutionnei and Pays, by a little mild criticism and humble advice. For instance, in to-day's number it admits that the government should team a lesson from the ballot in the Jura, and " understand that the days of facile elections are `over, and that a struggle has commenced." It is said that M. de la Gkieronniere will not think it inconsistent with his diplomatic functions at Brussels to continue ostensiblyto direct La France. A remark on the appointment by one of the Boulevard wits is worth repeating :—" Belgium "likes liberalism. She also likes centre/ace's (noun " terfeit goods), and we are sending her some." Dr. Nelaton, just named a Senator, is, I believe, the first physician who in that character was ever called to the Luxembourg Palace. Dupuytren, though made a baron under the Restoration, was not thought sufficiently purged from his profession to be elevated to the peerage, and his nephew was created in his place. Louis Philippe offered a peerage to his physician, Dr. Double, but on condition that he should leave off practice. Dr. Double, who had made a fortune which would have enabled him to retire, would not cast a slur on the dignity of his profession by accepting the King's terms, and his patent was never signed. Dr. Nelaton takes his scat in the Senate without conditions. The Bourse was a good deal weaker, in conse quence of sales to realise profits on the loan. Rente was done, at one moment, as low as 70fr. 373 c., and finally closed at 70fr. 45c. for cash, and 70fr. 524 c. for account, with a fall of 15c. and 7ic. Italian fell 40c. ; Mobilier, 2fr. 30c.; and Credit Fonder, 3fr. 75c. M. Mabenech has announced his intention of bringing out a new political journal at Rochefort under the title of Th. Taxpayer. "Nowhere," he writes, "is a journal more necessary than where long and complete silence has prevailed." Telegrams which have arrived at the Paris ter minus of the Orleans Railway announce that • water spout bad fallen upon the hue. The entrance to the tunnel at Lauriere was quite inundated, and the beim were delayed nearly an hour and a half. In the neighbour hood of Pfrignsnx also the water submerged the line and caused some goods' trains to leave the rails, but without further damage. At Capdensc a violent blast of wind carried off the roof of the goods station and lauded it at a considerable distance. - FIRE Al' NORTIIUMBEIII.AND_Ifoy Last night., betwven 11 mil 12 ~..1 Northumberland-homie, the town resit, of Northumberland, was diseovood ti some minutes it was thought the li:e Craig's-court, as the wind from lb.. wafted the smoke over the hrmvs Sr WOOL it was at length atieertained that the I, , n I. *. ducal house was on tire. We are sorry to siy G third of the mansion has fallen a prey to the fi fire brokoout intheball-room, a spaciousand miantt decorated apartment forming the en ti re w i eu of sion on the west side of the garden front. II w believe, originally part of the historic linitlin z , added about seventy or eighty years a g ,,. 1, p er bly decorated, the elaborate wood sive and richly gilt. The room was decorated A of several thousands of pounds by Hugh, Northumberland. His two successors to the added nothing to the rich embellishment,, informed that some workmen had beets .] the day in cleaning the gilt work, and it ii fire which has led to the partial destruction of 1., ing must have originated from caridessues, The fire seems to have commenced in the cent, room, for when the flames broke forth the c,nt r , • roof was the first part to give way, and at lint the were comfinedto both ends of the room, the furtli , r, end, the limit of the building, and the ~1 leading teat oorridor, which extends the whot.l,r,„, of the building, from west to east. For a loo g was a scarcity of water, but when the firetneti oli „„, supply they soon obtained mastery over the fire nately the drawing-rooms, dining-room, mathie sod upper suite of saloons, and the rilu have escaped destruction. A superb N•vr,... vase, about three feet high, valued the gift of Charles X. of France to t! Duke Hugh of Northumberland, who w, extraordinary from the Court ot at the coronation of that monarch, and 1. 17: • , p , n frescos from the antique which adorned the s _ course, been destroyed. It is very fortueah , discovered so early, otherwise the entire have been burnt down. All danger of a f0r!,,., of the fire was over shortly after one o', 6. Ic. •,. time the ball-room, now destroyed, was thr,, m ducal hospitality was when their Royal Prince and Princess of Wales honoured tl,” and his duchess Eleanor with their pO-ielic, banquet and Fte about four years ago. LATEST PARTICULARS.-(TH I) y The following is s copy of the ofiir .1 1 r.spe, the fire at Northumberland-house last night. wh:.h L. been laid before the Board of Works: 11.16 p.m.—A tire took place at Northurulwrhoid,... Strand, the property of his Grace tho Duke of N berland. Cause of fire, workmen working on r.. 4. room, 120 feet by 30 feet, roof burnt oil, e j furniture in ditto severely damaged by tir, water; tapestry-room adjoining, and content., .., tents in stores and confectionery-rooms ;leder, by water and removal. Insured in the We , tmir.,....7 London, and Liverpool and Globe office-N.,.. ; Craig's-court, Messrs. Cox and Co., army slightly damaged by breakage; stairs, landin g , tents of ditto by water and removal. During the morning a very searching inquiry w. with a view of learning how the fire ocrurr..,l. result left little doubt that the men who 111.1b- , c work on the roof had been the innocent ew;... ‘.t mischief, for the lire began over the ceiling or room, and before it was discovered it bad gaited pee,. sin of the roof. KOBE EXTENSIVE FIRES.-(TOIS 10.1 Soon after the brigade had succeeded in , toppin. , , the progress of the tire at Northumberland-lesoe, fleetwn of another serious fire over the south es 4 Nina of London called them thither. It commenced in the et. tensive patent rope manufactories, carried 00 by Frost Brothers, in Blue Anchor-road, Itotherhits... fire originated in tho jute mill and stores sad corrug.ii , - , 1 iron buildings of one floor 150 feet long by 30 brood, ail made such rapid progress that by the time the enginen ar rived, the fire had travelled completely through the 1,401.1. ing. The firemen were unable to obtain mastery user the flames until the mill was most seriously damaged, the al• joining premises being also damaged by water. A fire also broke out on the premises known as Elid House, Brixton, and the damage done is thus desmb. , ; in the official report:—" Elder-house. Brixton-road, intl: joint occupation of Messrs.'. Maxwell and Sons, buiklrr W. Pratt and J. Powell's Mahlon ; timber building of tr. floors (used as workshops and stables), 60ft. long by 30: broad, burned out and roof off ; first floor, occupit.l Mr. J. Mangan, coachbnikler: workshop and eon t.• s . damaged by fire and water ; Mr. Stevens, damaged; N Thornton-street, Brixton, in the occupation of Mr. R Phillips, contents damaged by water; No. 8, Mr. B. t. smith, end No. 9 Mr. W. Bonsey, fences damaged by and breakage. 'Floe property destroyed is only pa insured. FOUR NURDERS AND A SUICIDE FR" . W DISTRESS. The widow of a railway employe.% name.l committed suicide in Vienna a few days back by swan., ing cyanide of potassium ; and she also put to death 1 1 the same means her young children, Rudolph. czol • Gustave, 7; Rildugarde, 2; and her aged mother, 70. 1 , 7 • of her little boys, Armin, 5 years of age, refused to take cup of Uri containing the poison. and so raeaped. 11.• motive which drove the woman to this terrible aet w,. r:. deepest poverty. 42 TEMPT TO 808 A RAILWAY TIMM oF ; TWO THOUSAND FOUNDS. A daring attempt at robbery ha.; ju.vt been at Madrid. A train was leaving that city Or Alicante, when two men stepped from the platform into the Iliggaite van, in which vcas a boa containing 2,000 1 . in 0,01 d., under the care of the guard and a porter; the thieves wind of the former to bind him, but the latter jumped out, and gave notice. of the occurrence to the statiou-raa.t.l. A looomotive with several men was at once wnt in pur suit, and overtook the train at Oetate ; when the thiev', finding themselves in danger of being captured, three thi boa on the line, and then leapt from the van at the net of being killed. They, however, *leaped unhurt. and zot clear off. The train being stopped, the guard bound, and the treasure recovered, less a sum of which bad been taken. The appointment of Sir M. H. Beach, M.P., t ) the Under-Secretaryship of the Home Depart ment p los the office of Parliamentary Secretary to the Peer Lit Board at the premier's disposal. The promotion does asl vacate the hon. baronet's emit in the House of Comm for independently of the clause in the Reform Act wild . ing that there should be no re-election on a mere chug , of office, an Mules-secretaryship is not oonsidered s so 4 held under the crown but is looked upon as the gift oi ths Secretary of State. ' Mr. F. Stanley, who has bees are pointed to the civil lordship of the Admiralty , will find necessary to appeal to his constituents for re-election The Standard is authorised to state that there is no foundation whatever for the supposition which tu' been made the subject of leading articles in newslars that the Board of Admiralty decided on sudtume. turret ship for one of the broadside ships ordered t‘ , ..!' built, but abandoned its intention in consequence of 31 ' Reed having threatened to resign if the original Pr gramme were altared. HEALTH OF THE REV. DR. COOKE. It giv'' us great pleasure to state that, according to the latest .1' counts from Harrogate the hea lth of the worthy Dr.O.rat, was much improved, and it is hoped he will be able t. , turn to Belfast in the course of the week.— Bel.fest 3 ' • Lefler. THE TißillsH ASSOCIATION.—Dr. Hooker president of the British Association for the ',relent yor . delivered his address at Norwich last night hei" r " crowded and a brilliant assembly. He first described th action which the council had taken in several matttoer t4'' importance during the year,referring especially efforts which had been made to induce the government t place thenatsmal history collections of the British Mueeo under the control of a single o ffi cer, ✓ who should ''i" directly responsible to a minister of the crown. 11'"' passing on to notice the which had been c is e its the different scienoes, Dr. ooker went o n to speak o advances in the departments of fOBl , ll botany and vet': table physiology, and criticised at some length Darwin theory as to the origin of species by natural selection. THE NNW JUDICIAL OATH.—In the new Ap just issued, the following concise judicial oath is flow to taken by the new j u dges:—" I (giving the name ) , I swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign 1,51 Queen Victoria in the office of (repeating the name) , a', I will do right to all manner of pe o p le after the lairs aro noshes of this realm, without fear or favour, affection,* ill-will. So help me God." swill a b t.7 . 24 N e be Ellm i Se co W c h ina c L e sth t o rn ni n n u ted od t e @ l i i i g e eel, 22n BC : Laf lidlAHnToyufinrstpiLthOc:etowel:fhcaeluretn. dal ;Th nan at eiv irgo e d nu echonl. t s t iii : u neo ßocui f on °18 :m 1 T 1 r; Junction. The main quadrangle will beer the name ,s the late Bishop Lonsdale.