The Express. — London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

LITERATURE• L: 41:ii P - -- IMPILIIIIN IN Or BRIr SUBJECTS ABVISII4I . . . Yelped. , evening the i nn el l o this subject prc senteli,to t he House of Lo ia pursuance of their ealdreal, wens issued as a ' entary paper. The first &cement, dated Feb. 2, 1861, consists of the instructions to Captain Cameron, British consul at Massowah, upon his proceeding to his conantate, and a list of the presents which he was ordered to deliver to the King of Abyssinia. These instructions were very general. Captain Cameron was to make Maasowah his headquarters, inform himself of the political state of affairs in Abyssinia, with which her Majesty's government were imperfectly acquainted ; and ordered, if he found the civil war still going on, not to become the partizan of either side, but to promote amicable arrangements between the rival caudidatea for power. He was to keep her Majesty's government at home fully informed of all matters of interest, and, iu addition to concerns of a political or commercial nature, to pay particular attention to any traffic iu slaves which might be carried on within his district. The second paper is a short letter to Consul Cameron, dated November 13, in which Earl Russell states that the Queen having heard that the King of Abyssinia pail a ransom for I the late Mr. Consul Plowden, and being desirous 'of making some acknowledgment for that act of kindness, had directed that a suitable present should he sent to the King. A rifle and a pair of I revolver pistols accompanied this message, and Consul Cameron was to deliver them to the King as possibleB l. o n On su as tograpt let a t f e te r rofhtishearKritvoagl of A A b b y y ss run infa ia. to T h h er e next m e jes l eftytetrhies Queen,a ao, composit ion o itmipoas as foll ow s i : s a copy of Till BING OF ABYSSINIA TO nil QUM Or INGLAID. (Received February 12, 1863.) Ie the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, one God in Trinity, chosen by God, King of Kings, I I Tkeodoros of Ethiopia to her Majesty Victoria, Queen of I Eegland. I bops your Majesty is in good health. By the I power of God 1 out well. My fathers the Emperors having I I forgotten our Creator, be handed over their kingdom to the Galles and Turks. But God created me, lilted me out of 1 the dust, and restored this empire to my rule. He endowed me with power, sad enabled me to stand in the place of my lathers. By His power I drove away the Gallas. Bat for the Turks I have told them to leave the land of my an cestors. They refuse. I am now going to wrestle with them. Mr. Fiords!), and my late Grand Chamberlain, the Englishman Bell, used to tell me that them is a great ICerietiee Queen, who loves ell Christiana When they said to me ibis—" We are able to make you kaown to her, and to establish f r iendship between you," then is those times I was very glad. I gave them my love, thinking that I bad found your Majesty's goodwill. All men are subject to death, and my enemies, thinking to Injure me, killed theme my friends. But,by the power of God I have extermiusted those enemies, not leaving !me alive, though they were of my own family, that I may get, by the power of God, your friendship. I was prevented by the Turks occupying the see-coast from sending you as em bassy when I was in difficulty. Consul Cameron arrived with a letter, and presents of friendship. By the power of God I was very; glAd hearing of your welfare, sad boss assured of your amity. I have received jour present, and thank you much. 1 fear that if I seed ambassadors with presents of amity by Consul Cameron they may be arrested by the Turks. And now I wish that you may arrange for the safe pump of my ambassadors everywhere on the road. I wish to have as viewer to this letter by Comma Cameron, and that he may conduct my embeary to Ragland. Pee bow the Islam oppress the Christie& The 4th, sth, and 6th letters were dated respec tively April 22, August 13, and September 8, 1863, and express Earl Russell's disapprobation of Con sul Cameron's conduct in intermeddliug in the *Beira of Abyssiuia, and directing him to return to his post. The remaining papers consist chiefly of copies of lettters sent to the Foreign-office, con taining offers of assistance to obtain the liberation of the British subjects imprisoned in Abyssinia. On the 28th April, 1864, Dr. Charles Beke wrote to Earl Russell stating that a messenger from fromwithhflmet.terspr. Behe Euro n pe ee , o h f ad opn that fallenfnfo into the hauds of the King, who had ha d the letters Ili t i r , it o r us n e s u it l i w in t:e g a_ b d ' to effect upon the King of the letter from the office, directing Consul Cameron to leave the court and return to Massowab, would be most unfortunate, and expressed doubts whether the con sul would be permitted to take his departure. On Ithe 18th May in the same year Dr. Nike wrote to the Foreign-office, renewing the offer of his ser vices, observing that he had resided three years in Abyssiuia, visitiug its remotest provinces, and was familiar with its language and intimately acquainted with its political, religious, commercial, and social affairs. On the 4th June, 1864, Major Plowden, find cousin of the late consul, made a similar offer of his services. On the 4th June Mr. Henry I , Dalton, of Leeds, wrote to the Foreign-office, I stating that his sun, who had spent four months at the Abyssinian court, and bad had good oppor tunities of judging of King Theodore's character, was ready to be the bearer of a despatch from our guverument to his Abyssinian Majesty. An ex tract is also given from the Leeds Diteliigencer, in which Mr. Duf ton offers his views of the cause of the King's strange conduct. A memorandum by Bri gather-General W. M. Coghlan on the Abysainian difficulty and bow to get out of it, dated Feb. 8,1866, gives the opinion of that officer substantially itsol low& King Theodore is a parvenu, a powerful spot of high aspirations and strong will, but he is not a savage. The chief cause of his altered demeanour towards Captain Cameron is the long delay in re plying to the letter which he addressed to her Majesty in January, 1863. It is understood that his dignity is grievously wounded by this silence, which he accepts as an affront, and a sense of this injury, coupled with other circumstances, has led to the deplorable state of affairs now existing at Goudar. There is reason to believe that the King refuses the mission of Mr. Hu sain, the assistant resident at Aden, as not beiug of sufficient dignity, regarding Mr. Remain as a mere messenger and not an envoy. General Coghlan therefore recommends a military embassy, headed by an officer of rank, and including some members of a scientific oorps, as Theodore is known to attach great importance to military rank and to scientific men. The embassy should carry a Queen's letter indited in Oriental phrseeology, highly emblazoned and sealed , and oontaining compliments and excuses, but no mention of the captives,whose case is to be supposed to have become known to the envoy on his way out. At Cairo the envoy should endeavour to secure the services of two Abyssinian monks, who, if IRA pro curable there, might be got from Jerusalem , who should be treated with liberal consideration, im pressed with the dignity of their mission, and in -1 duced to interest themselves in its ultimate object. One of them should be despatched from ' the coast to Gondar, carrying a letter from the envoy announcing his arrival bearing a letter from the Queen. Arrived at Gondar, the envoy might, as on his own responsibility, address the King on the subject of the captives, expreeslu the hope 1 that they had done nothing to incur his displeasure, and requesting that in any case they should be released, in order that the proposed interview might ' proceed on the most friendly footing. Supposing the British mission to be well received, and the captives to be released, there would then arise the more difficult task of obtaining from the King some apology as a reparation for the wrong committed on her Majesty's subjects. This would perhaps be the severest trial of the diplomatic skill of the li British embassy. There is, however, no reason to inhnadespairto mi ssio n f outlay, conduct, successnlweflli gr a tify ot moderate fi n e n the i contrary, nhietits demands,pe n:fmt constitution,t e eyen Kingtneliberaleeethat ho pe d abot ilf: bersomge. TH houisliams, Or ata li l t ub e rif 7 A , :: :5 I . = Door . ~,p sites ro . de l P ii m . c ra a i i D i • ar a a 1 6 7 M oote.,, i f . o rt aiii2 ,Mss. - yeses' he will make no difficulty in the matter of tendering with but gibs hopes of recovery. The deceased wee ye such apology as may be acceptable to her Majesty's I eldest son of Mr. Andrew Berkeley Drummeed, me g i wi t g.ivernment. General Coghlan believes that there ' Hon. Robe.. .._,,.._Te Dnueneli sixth I " c . f,,r..l lll jigg. e a is no alternative process open by which this object I Vimmst arrlsd in °7= reb, 8 ' 22, H wy E u.b e u t I/ woo ers, estai..„ can be obtained ; lie doubts the value of any waxlike . daughter of John Henry, fifth Duke of Berthed, b ver. aid to be obtained from Egypt, if even it could h u b, w h o min im him , be leaves hew a large Weft. be obtained at all ; and observes that Theodore is' eldest daughter, is married to Mr. A. Beffie alleged to have sworn to put all his prisoners to . Cochrane, 1L P. • and his second d aug hter is F o reeleaee f awai t death on any foreign invasion of his country to , rle a tto Li t t . .Eii o r t l i a Scar.b:::,, el..., T e h a na D Z a uj o . of wet effect their release. In April last Major H. A. ''''" an pleased i n l amm i ng b y th e se mi. Le of °C"apntnaionff.er:dnerob h is services the to n l9th eVtia lifty lth D e r. re ße lea l: TUIBDAT. JUNI 20 --Adlldados• AB veriest, 3,951 ; dies addressed a long communication to Earl Russell. hr mem tickers, 1,242 1 tekol. 5, 193 . CRYSTAL PALACZ..—ONI STULL'S° DAY.."' In his opinion it would not be oonsiatent with the dignity of the British nation to replace Mr. Rassam's mission by one on a larger and more magnificent scale. lie considers that it is well established that King Theodore's ill treatment of her Majesty's consul had been mainly caused by the altered policy of the British gover nment with respect to the relations between Sort and Abyssinia, sad that the King hopes to induce her Majesty's government to retrace their steps, and coutiuue to afford him material aid spiest his enemies as was virtually done when W. Consul Plowden was alive that officer having been an active partizan of the King, and having lost his life while bearing arms in his cause. This hops cannot be fulfilled, but Dr. Beke believes that it would not be difficult to make the Abyssinian monarch understand that by the policy now pro poaed to be pursued towards bim by the British government, and recommended foe his adop tion, be might eventually obtain the obits* he has so much at heart, inasmuch as by the cultivation of the arts of peace he would so aggrandize himself as to be able to cops effectually with his powerful neighbour. Dr. Beke enlarges upon this subject, and dwells upon the advantages which oould be pointed out to King Theodo e in the capabilities of his conntryin cotton growing, and its resources in coal and iron. He is of opinion also that the telegraphic communication between England and India should be effected by continuing the Egyptian line from Khartum across Abyssinia to the sea coast. Dr. Beke would support his arguments by presenting to the King specimens of articles of British manufacture capable of being made from the cotton of Abyssinia, and specimens of the infinite variety of articles that might be mean factured from the fine iron which the King's territo ries contain iu such abundance. •.. i .: THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EV ----s----- /tory of the Rix and In f luence of a s Spirit of aßaiOnaiiint us /furor. By IN. E. U. Luxe, M.A. Longman. In noticing a work of this kind with the ita con- desire o f conveying: s ome adequate impetrate' of tents, there is a difficulty, arisiug from its multi farious character --the difficulty of choosing from amongst the various point+ of view under which it may be regarded. The author modestly apolo gises for what he calls the meagreness with which he sketches out the importaut subjects of which he treats, and disclaims all preteustou to the ability and learning which a fuller treatment would re quire. But neither the disclaimer nor the apology was needed. The reader's thought is more likely to become confused with the embarrassment of riches than to desire a greater abundance. The a bility of the writer is unquestion abl uence His e. lie is gifted with a style of easy, natural eloq. manner of dealing with each separate top i c w hich he brings under discussion is clear and masterly. It is only in reviewing the entire work that a per tain defect of orde r and arrangemeut will be ceived, as though the author himself must have felt that be had more material to dispose of than he was able perfectly to manage. This is the only point of importance in regard to which this work compares uufavonrably with the great work of another author now unhappily deceased, the tradition of whose manner of thought and writing Mr. Lecky manifestly and worthily avoid con tinues. In reading him i t is impassible to thinking of the law Mr. Henry Buckle, if ouly because the labour of both writers has bee n em ployed over much of th e same grouud and irected to similar ends. The differences between them are considerable, but there are marked features of like ness ; and it is uo discredit to the living writer to say that his readers mig ht ver y often imagine em selves to be studying certain added chapters of the unfinished work of the great philosophic historian. Be refers in the meet graceful wanner to his pre decessor as "s great writer, whose untimely death has been one of the most serious misfortunes that has ever befallen Euglieh literature, and varied and whose s plendid genius, mature d by the most extensive scholarship, him cast a flood of light upon many of the subjects" of the present work. In regard to the principal subject of Mr. Lecky's difference with Mr. Buckle , he is in agreem " Histo ent with ry Dr. Draper, anot her living writer, whose of the Intellectual Development of Europe " goes also over somewhat of the same ground, and mantici aybe said in some important particulars to have pated his conclusions. There is in both these writers less of the purely sceptical element,, and Mr. Lecky is laboriou sl y candid in his judgments. Re is not satisfied merely to describe or to denounce the persecutions and superstitions of past ages, but strives to enter into the mind of the time, and gives full weight and consideration to the circumstances which na turally produced them. Ile thus makes what we regard ceivable as the er rors and brutalities of p ast ages con according to their lower standards of civilisa tiersouson, while yet saving from utter con d e mnation the p who fell into them, and we are taught to be thankful for all modern enlightenment without too proudly arrogating to ourselves a claim of per sonal superiority over the men that have lived before us. It is an important point in Mr. Lecky'e historical philosophy to make much of the spirit of the successive past a ge s , of the " gene- ral intellectual tendencies " which " modify the character of the public mind." And though his notion of what this spirit is may sometimes be a little shadowy and vague, it yet enables him to , deal in a large-minded and charitable manner with I many to ns monstrous anomalies in the mental and' moral history of mankind. It will be remembered that Mr. Buckle intro- 1 duoed his work with a metaphysical argument, which gave rise to much discussion at the time, directed against the doctrine of free will in human actions, and aiming to reduce its apparent contin gencies to certain statisti cal laws. lie also uralndee valued, as many persons thought, the mo e menu in man's constitution, considered as an active civilising force. Mr. Lecky avoids these narrow , and extreme conc l us ious. He finds appropriate place for the action of law in harmony with a juster moral doctrine. With out formally opposing, or on this occasion even naming Mr. Buckle, he acoepts his statistical facts, but draws another inference I from them. Just as it would be wrong to infer' that the intellect has nothing to do with the forma , - tMn of opinions simply because of the many indu- I ences which combine , apa rt from logical reasoning, 1 to control the judgments of men, so " the fact," he I says, "that there is an order and sequence t o the history of vice, and that influences altogether in- dependent of human control contribute largely to 1 its course, in no degree destroys the freedom of I will, and the conclusion of the historian is perfectly 1 reconcilable with the principles of the moralist." I The power of struggle against desire possessed by the virtuous will is one force ; the desires them selves are another ; and these may exist together in all varieties of relative strength or weakness. Therefore, the will may readily in the ordinary mind lose ground in presence of any particular causes which give strength to desire. But if the moral element in human nature is almost the con stant element which Mr. Buckle represented to it to ' be, and which Mr. Lecky is hardl y prepared dis pute, yet, as he shows, i t s essential character re mains, which without freedom would be impossible. lie has further proved, throughout this work, that the moral element plays au important part in the development of civilization. If the in-' tellect is the nerve of motion, the moral ' sense is the nerve of feeling, without which the ut most activity would be spiritually lifeless, a play of , mind without the balance of motive, without design , or meaning. The growth of improvement in men's moral condition the author finds to be very slow, I and that " there are periods atu taw when, causes, certa the task in des o ires f being strengthened by n the will in opposing them is peculiarly arduous." Hence, whoever writes the history of moral changes is bound to take into account these deflecting cir cumstances. And the saute rule obtains in the study of opinions. No mild was ever altogether free from distorting in- , Samosa ; but in the 'Anne* between the woe and the affection which leads to truth, as in the straggle between the will and the desires which leads to virtue, every effort is crowned with a measure of soccer,end innumerable gra &titan of pretreat ere manifested. AU that we can rightly infer [from the easy bias with which prepossessioe or preju dice affects the jodgmeetl is, that the process of ramming Is mach more diffi c ultthan is commonly supposed ; and that to those who would investigate the causes ot existing opinions, the study of predispeeitions is much more im- 1 portent than the study of arguments. Thus the author clears the way for the theory upon which his book is written, ' that the opinions of a given period are mainly determined by the intellectual condition of society, and that every great change of opinion is the consequence of general causes." No philosophy of history could be constructed except upon some such basis. T hat was Mr . Buckle s idea, though his metaphysical and statistical theory needlessly narrowed the ground. Mr. Lecky's is the more difficult mode to build upon, but the work will therefore stand the onger. He secures what Mr. Buckle aimed at—a method of law ; but without the disadvantage under which that great man laboured, of being obliged by his theory to ignore some of the moat important i elements n the problem. That Mr. Lecky has complete hold of his own theory the reader will sitate to believe. He states and restates, and Ives to make it clear, but not al ways success ly. Instead of writing vaguely about the spirit" of any given age, and its ' intellectual odencies," as though the former were a kind of imething infectious in the air, said the latter a rat of contagious mania, he might have distinctly ipecified the chief coaspeneuta of the mind an d iabit of each period, and accounted more or leas for them all. To some extent he does this, but be vould have done it better if he could have kept leer of the barren illusive generalities referred to. After the long darkness of six hundred years, be ginning, the author reckons, from the sixth century of our era, in the twelfth the mind of Europe began to awake. Only " some faint traces," how ever he can find of the spirit of rationalien "in the ?teachings of Abased." nuns bad aeencred a 1 1 I it ll .l\ c, 1 ' q~ I! I ta , s ou:14 __,.....------..------------------ revival of o b f eli th ef e . studyiar.Buc kle of Lat modified the intellectual condit ion of Europe, _wild , so nesseraitated certain ultim ate change, ib O i i d n ated lite th ril e ture' eaj eldahninW g two centuries earlier, and though t that by the twelfth century the light might be said to have be► come general. Certainly by that time the sleep of eatiscilie ortlsodosy was broken. The spirit of in quiry had begun to struggle with the a s t nri c t i g o c u r i e t : c l i t ili w i t sot a u t u t t l ir towards awa awakening was o_ s ues o l t w the fourth cen tury from that period that Montaigne, the first great rationalist, unconsciously founded • school of thinkers which bas been ever since increasin or g in numbers aged in iufluen ce upon the 'lliad of the wld. What the author says of him will aptly explain the sense which the title of hia own work should bear. The date of lidontaigne's work was 158 ft. In an age whic h wu still spell-boned by the faesination s of the past. he applied to every questa= • judgment en tirely unclouded by the imagiestioes of theologiaos, r ad un shackled by the diatom of authority. His originality epeeists. not so much in his definite opiaioesor in hi. ergo ruents, as in the gees& toes end character of his mind. Be was the first French author who had Wifely emseci paled himself from the retrospective habits of thought that hod so loog been universal ; who ventured to judge ell questions by • Decoke standard, by the light of common genes, by the measure of probability which is fur nished by daily experience. • • . . While oatbolial, protestant', end deists were vying with each other in their adoration of the put, while the ambition of every scholar end of every theologian wu to form around his mind an atmosphere of thought that bore no relat the ion to the wor ld that was about him w hile knowledge was made beadalave of credulity, s a d those whose intellects were most shackled by prejudice, were regarded as the wisest of mankind, it was the merit of lioetaigne to rise, by the force of his masculine geeing, into the Meer world of reality ; to judge the opinions of his age with en intellect dto that was invi gorated, but not enslaved. by knowledge, so °maim plate the system of the put without being dazzled by the reverence that had surrounded them. He looked down upon the broad field of history, °pop its dow o clashing enthusiasm everchsegies s, its discordant systems, the ebb adf its belief, and he drew from the contemplation • lesson widely different from his 000tssuporarise• lie ion n it is true, fully recognise tboes moral pruciples which shine with an unchaegiog spleodour above the fluctuations of speculative °pintoes ; he did not discover the poetising of eternal liniment which preside over and direct the progress of belief, infuse order into the seeming chaos, and reveal in every ap pbarent aberration the traces of a euperiounpliog Y'rovideoes; ut he at least obtained an intense and ruined perception of the fallibility of the h uma n intellect ; • keen s ense of the absurdity of so absolute deference to the put, sod of the danger of punishing men with death on account of opinions mummies which we can have so little assurance. It may be remarked here that Mr. Lecky guards himself from being misconceived, as Mr. Buckle was, through his exclusive and peculiar use of the term scepticism, to express the awakened action of the human 'IAEA which accompanied the revival of letters in Europe. He dues not hesitate to employ the term proper occasion but his own term, on "the rationalisti c spirit," while lee s provocative of question, su ffi ciently expresses what both authors mean ; what also Dr. Draper understands by hi* phrase " iutellectual development" For doubt and unbelief, though, in relation to established errors, they come out in history into glaring promiuenoe, are not the only nor the most noteworthy charac- ' teristics of the true spirit of rationalism. It has its own strong faiths to rest upon, its own positive side of development, and especially what the author finely calls its gravitation toward; the moral inter pretation of the facts of human life which the laws of the conscience alike suggest and jus tify. If it denies certain opinious, it denies them upon grounds of moral reasoning. It values the love of truth more than correttnese of judg ment. In its frith it places the moral far above the dogmatic, and it estimates mankind by the dispositions displayed in their lives, and not by th e any gauge of either creed or speculation. This is tendency which the author finds to have steadily but certaiuly advanced iu Europe from at least the age of Descartes, two centuries and a half ago which has already profoundly affected the courses of theological opinion ; which has almost worked itself into triumphant ascendancy in history and ill I politics, is fast ac q uirin g power iu the direction of education and in the rules of social life, and must inevitably issue in that final establishment of the complete liberty of conscience which as yet we only I , hope for. This work may be regarded as a series of disser- tations, a form of writing in which the author shows great skill, and a command of clear and forcible expression. Thus he exhibits nut only the struggle of rationalism with credulity, b ut the origin and growth of the opinion's w which the sceptical spirit bad afterwards to con tend. If this method keeps his main argu ment often in suspense, and compels him sometimes to reiterate the terms of it, and even to remind himself by repetition of the proper aim of his whole work, it is a method which greatly adds to its his toric value, and one which enables the writer to manifest his power of historical appreciation, as well as hie perfect freedom from any merely ue structive spirit. The two clueing chapters of the I work are specially dissertational, and they treat of cipation of governments from prieetly control and influences. The other sets forth the powerful effect of industrial developments in freeing the human 1 aovnaer'iisetuypoofatothpeicstsecouflaczastidioeuraobilepopliretzztthineteemresant.- \ mind from the tyranny of exclusive and unenlight ened church systems. But the body of the work is devoted to a more specific exhibition of the cor roding force of rationalism upon certain faiths and forms of thought, which, though once universal, have now almost ceased to exist in all circles and countries where the modern culture prevails. The belief in supernatural wonders as matters of common experience and observation was anciently universal. Sometimes they were 'satanic, sometimes celestial visitations. Under both forms the tendency was not to question and doubt, but to expect them. Mr. Lecky calls this the prompt belief in the miraculous. Anothar word would have as well expressed it, and might have raised less discussion. But the facts were as he has stated them, and he has very fairly described the coutt of modern opinion with the old belief. It ro w an unloub triumph of rationalism that 'Men no longer believe in witchcraft, nor in any modern saintly miracles. Moreover, the spirit of religious persecution is clearly not in harmony with the public opinion of any modern civiliz ed community. Other changes of no less importance Mr. Lecky presents in the ideas, and moral estimates , and habits of our time. contrasted with those prevailing three centuries since ; and so great in some of them appears the difference that the reader might scarcely thei how universally and how unhesitatingly certain doctrines were once believed and acted upon, if the author had not collected factan overwhelming amou nt of proofs of the . Mr. Ledky notices as a remarkable circumstance that altliongh for many ages after the sixth century the belief Ittwitcheraft was stromg and universal, penal inflictions on account of it were compara tively rare. The circumstance is accounted for by the fact that throughout this period the terror of magical influences was kept under by a correspond ing faith in the power of ecclesiastical charms. But when heresies of various kinds arose, the reaction upon the faith of the time produced in it a stern ascetic and gloomy character, which was exhib it ed, Mr. L ecky shows, even in its works of art. Europe was also suffering from various political and social I occurrences, under " a sense of insecurity which engendered the dark imaginations and the wild and rebelliousthe 14th century, that awful scourg e, the " black death," which is reputed to have cut off a fourth part of the inhabitants of Europe, and which acted with dreadful force upon the excited mind of the time. During the next two centuries the terror reached its climax. inthe meantime persons accused of witchcraft had been exe cuted b y thousands in the most systematic manner. Nor did the Re formation allay the terror or the per secution. Until a com paratively late period people of all classes a nd of all degrees of cultivation believed that tempests might be raised by the satanic force of witchcraft, that it could inflict diseases, that witches were pos sessed of the power of taking the sha p es of animals, and of transporti n g themselves through the air for are ethetrn paaleoessetlya, concomitants." which noom ita in ut a c , Then superstitious caine, ate luandreda of miles in a few miautes. To doubt all this was atheism ; to reason against it blasphemy. Luther, Erasmus, Jewel, Sir Thomas Browne, More, Cudworth, and Bacon, were among the be fikeereirt *taw, andJantes I, paged sanguinary theinss Bader with the nag : lawslist& and all the teeding Areerippurit•irerd to an porticos fa Ole superst • eve. so laik an authority igaJohn W ey d that " the giving up wilidWelift is insiffect gvilesoitp,' th e Bible." Ot tihateepeara'a fallikea the stsh the author says that we owe to it that me anoboly picture of Joan of Arc , . which is, perhaps, the darkest blot upon his gentile." But perhaps the moat curious thing in con nesion with the belief in witches was, that one of the latest considerable efforts to hold " it was it y made by Glanvil, who by work o unp the Vanof Dogmatising," had gained for himself an honourable admission into the newly founded Royal Society. Yet he was one of the few who saw t h an to the inductive philosophy which was coming into vogue, that it would certainly change the pre . railing modes of thought, and with these the tone of the national theological belief ; and that the church must either adapt itself to the altered tone, or lose her influence over the English mind. He saw that a theologr which rested ultimately on autho rity which branded doubt as criminal, and which could is is the stroogest manner •every impartial investigation, could not long 00-ezist with a philosophy that encouraged the opposite habits of thought the vary bOgillofog of ase g iAm by appealing to the , „. ; beg la DIMS demential; and eon wee in mime salvetioa ant .. error. sU the first dawning , 1 toi ta the . 7 3 ; . • that rationalistic spi Iwh regr=trines si as the vehicles of morel as i 11 .815, end whiter lie. greatly diminishes their vein simplifies their character, sad lemmas their mumble. That the spirit of any given period is not th vague, inexplieshie thing which the author some times represents he makes clear in the presethe n , i nstan ce, not only in his f ull y accounting for seeming paradox of the persecuting practices of Christian men, but in his further development of 1 the idea that the more tolerant doctrine of rational jell' was no twithstanding, chiefly orig inated through the Reiormation. As Christianity destroyed the ancient slavery, not by direct attack but by und th mining the basis on which it rested, so did Reformation produce in men a habit of thought and of religions feeling which has successfully overborne the hard and cruel logic of persecution for religious beliefs. What remains of the practice has in these days to be carried on in obscurity and under sophis tical disguises. It is rarely justified upon the old theological grounds, but resort is made to the weak and wicked device of involving the obnoxious par ties in some moral reprobation, a homage which the bitter hypocrisy of modern sectarianism pays to the more humane enlightenment of our time. weeloni. That such a man should undertake an argument in favour of witchcraft seems almost incredible, especially as it had become with so many of his coutemporaries a mere subject of derisive scep ticism. Hr. Lecky shows that it was nut without souse grounds of reason that be so acted, however iudefeusible the cause proved to be. The sketch Yesterday a public meeting took place at Willie's be gave, in another work, of "an ideal church con- Room, King-street, Bt. James's, for th e purpose of further. struoted to meet the wanta of an iutellectual and Mg the interests of self-supporting public boarding-schools critical age may not be without even present mute rest. for 1,000 boys, in oconection with St. Nicholas College, rest. It reads oddly from a defender of the belief Sussex, at a charge for board and education of 14 guineas iu witchcraft , a year. The A r c hbisho p of Catrrsairoar presided, and in Its mud was to be framed on the most latitudioarian op ening the proceeding stated that be had received letters principles, because the doctrines that could be deleuded from lion Granville, Lord Devon, Mr. Bamford Hope, and with legitimate assurance were but few and simple. Is ministers were to be mach lose anxious to accumulate the others, esprossiog their regret that circurnstapore b pre triolitious of the past than to acquire " the felicity of clear vented them from being present on the occasion. H ad g and distinct thinking," and " • large compass in their then called upon Mr. Gladstone, M.P., to propose the first thoughts." They were to regard faith, not as the opposite luti and of reason, but as nos of its luanifestatious. Penetrated by re.° - ea ; the uses of human weakness, they were to rebuke the The CRANCULOII of the Excusuusit roes and said spirit of dogmatic confidence sod assertion, and were to that the task which devolved upon those who might . teach men that, so far from doubt being criminal, it was undertake to address the meeting was • very the duty of every man "to suspend his full and resolved , simp l e ow; brume if ever there was a cause I uproot to the doctrines be had been taught, till he had irn- ii which co aor to p could ff d lead for itself, and d' 1 ispense I partially considered and stamped them for himself." presence of those admirable advocates whose The principles on which Glanvil reasoned iu I with the mimes they had heard read, it was this. He appeared be favour of Satanic prodigien, the evidence of which , fore them for the purpose of bearing hearty testimony to he thought to be amply conclusive, ought to have led him to defend the catholic faith iu those cries- I the peat work goisg on in the midst of them, Rad which he had been described in all the advertisements re d wh ic h total wonders with which the lives of the early vailuthoud were filled. But the protesthnt church ' t h••• ith wa• It ha him written by Mr. Woodard ba d no temptat i on to acce d e to a b e li e f w hi c h ' l on the forehead of his undertaking—it was, he could not but be regarded by those who ; umlerateeds selfaupportiog education--aouad in all held it as tending to the unquestioned It° branch") based upon the religion of the church of England, fo r the middloclasses of this men. credit of Itomaniem. Protestanta, therefore, have (Hear, hear.) If they ventu red to look back for half always drawn a care ful line between the miracles i try. ', a century, in reference to the progress of educ ation, they would find that there was provision for the education of the of the earlier an d those of later sainta. Still, it was not easy to say when the age of miracles ceased. . higher classes he meant in those old schools which coast-. At length, iu 1748, Dr. Mtddletou's " Free In -1 tuted perhaps not one of the least important of our national quit) , into the Miracles of the Primitive Church" all Those public schools, both good and bad, startled the faith of his time, and forced it to in tiultkm r • , perforineu at times a great and important work. Far be it retreat within the hues of sacreSrecord. And Mr. from him to dissemble their many faults sod shoresominp, Lecky remarks how greatly changed iu its views of some of which undoubtedly remained to the present day. probable extra-scriptural miracle the mind of . But, nevertheless, is their miginal idea and is their actual capabilities they were • noble and a worthy provision for Europe has become, siece at this day the prutestaut the highest closes in this country. Hese hear.) No doctrine even teuds to modify the couception of • doubt they might undoubtedly be said to haws ' been at the miracle in its interpretation of the Bible itself, t i c " th e o ral provision of the kind worthy of this country. while enlightened catholice make light of their an regard the lower glares, they had only the prior church's teaching reap acting the later saintly pro- , rudimentary efforts of educatioo, and those in the most i crude and defective forms. They passed from that digies, and the tractariau movement in this country time by a quarter of a century, mod then, under the ignored the subject altogether. Nothing need here auspices of the present archbishop's predecessor (L)r. be said upon the author's reasoning a. to the nature Howley), a great and powerful sod well-organieed and l and proper value of miraculous proof ; but since ' delibei ate movement was set on foot for the purpose of I , I tim term rationaliatu is usually limited in this ' arranging a worthy system of popular and national educe country to represent the system of thought which lion.- be fo re "id top not in dialmag'mrt °I those who had I repud ates all miracle whatever, it may Le desirable g on e denied i o e7l ; bu ts " I t l h . ehe educationapps A wl i /hat!: wiasennotwou Ito state MeLecky's view of it considered under that , vary partial in its cheracter, defective ing g i v en was I particular septet. defective in almost every point that constituted quality. The same getteral unity may be found among the various The system for the education of the lower claws I mo difications of protestant rationalism. Its central con- wee, as he bad said, meet imperfect. Besides the system of education for the higher classes, they had I I °option m the elevation of conscience into a position of sy stem of education for the lower supreme authority as the religious organ, a verifying faculty now also at work a discriminating between truth and error. It regards daises of the community. But between the two wide p . spread organisations he had mentioned a great gulf remained, 1 Christianity as designed to peeside over the moral develo meat of maokind, as • conception which was to become sod into that gulf Mr. Ward had thrown himself, like the old Roman hero, ba t ty th a better fate, for , self more and mote sublimated ands pintualised as the human n n e d passe d i nto new ph ... , an d was a bl e to b ear t h e destruction Mid not been the coosequerme ; and the re sult wee that be stood before the world enjoying the splendour of a more unclouded light. Religion it believes to be no exoeptioo to the general law of progress, but esteem and approval of his fellow-chnrclnen and fellow rather the highest form of ate manifestatioo, and its earlier countrymen. (Hear, hear.) They must not for a moment forget that an extensive provision had been made in systems bet the oeceesary 'tape( an imperfect development. in its ern t h e mon d element of Christianity i s iii th e inn i i , this country for the education which ought to be middle heaven and dogmatic systems are as the clouds that inter. clue education, he meant through the medium of the grammar schools bat still it might be observed opt an d: temper the exceeding brightness of its ray. The in- ancien t that the ancient grammar schools did not reach down so sect whose existence is but for a moment might well far as the efforts of Woodard were intended to reach down ; imagine that these were indeed eternal, that their majestic and there was this to be said, that although the grammar columns could never fail, and that their luminous folds schools bed been is many respects datingutshed through were the very source sod centre of light. And vet they the liberality of their endowment , and the energy of their shift and vary with each changing breeze ; they blend mad teachers. they could not flitter themselves ilea they were re p a ve*. ; they assume new forms d exhibit new dimes . in the most perfect 'Woof effi c i en cy. These schoole might an dons ; as the sun that is above them wagon more glorious in be said to have be en amon g the first fruits of the Reforms its power, they are permeated and at last absorbed by its were properly administered, they should not have to increasing spleodour ; they recede, and wither, and die- tioo. It was sometimes remarked that if all school funds appear, and the eve ranges far beyond the sphere they had occ upied into the infinity of g lor y that is above them. , su b m it themselves to taxation in order to meet th But e de mands of philanthropic gentlemen like Mr Woodard. Mr. Lecky observes and deplores the materialistic in this country it was an undoubted fact that all reform of tendency which is at present predominating among anc i e nt f aui ,detioca, e ll a tt e mpt. to mo d i fy, the rationalists. He regards it as " the shadow to reinvify, where the stiletto' state of things was iota. all attempt. I resting upon the otherwise brilliant picture" of the mats', and close mixed up, hand in hand with local feel inp, and %o f t he i other rpv h a n d with private ins interests--ail ew history of their triumph, because he naturally sees iodeentely that with utility as the ultimate principle of virtue, , P aton. gear, L a o They had seen within a very abort the logical consequence of that doctrine, heroism( time a messurs adopted for a careful inquiry into the condi and enthusiasms must cease from among men. Ilia lion of those foundations, and doubtless the measure was a prudent one: yet they must not be too sanguine sr own hope rests in the return to Christian spirt- wise and tualisin. Ito its early results. Even the labour of inquiry was great, and after the inquiry had been nude • long time might The history of !elf-sacrifice during the butt 1,800 years w ant . w ore t h ey °o dd see the pract i ca l await (Hear, They had recently seen in the case of their public has been mainly the history of the action of Christianity he,',i.) upon the world. Ignorance and error have, no doubt, schools an inquiry of the most 'eldest character, but even ofteo directed the heroic spirit into wrong channels, and in that, although the report of the commissioners bad been have sometimes even made it a cause of great evil to man* made public, no great practical result had yet followed, kind ; but it is the moral type and beauty, the enlarged . no very great progress had yet been made towards de fi nite ' legislatiou upon the subject. (Hear, hear.) It wee nowise, conceptioos sod persuasive power of the Christian kith, that have ebiefir called it into being, and it is by their I n:mane ,. t , rac k., upon spee d y resu l t . ; and thanfaya is influence alone that it can be permseen tly snot/tine& The Wen that Mr. Woodard deserved the greatest encoursge power of Christianity in this respect can only emu with meat it. his praiseworthy exertions. It was needless to the annihilation of the moral nano* of Manilina. ; dilate in this country upon the vast importance of edam- Believers iu Comte and Buchner, as Mr. Lecky of tiro to the middle clime*, because it war the fashion of ! the day, and perhaps he might venture to say the view of course expects, will reclaim against these disparag i the deybttshwoiwthosutchisspoteioghmostidteog idoline.thecomaid.dle ing estimates of their school, and especially as they proceed from au author whq , is not prepared to i 011000 to the ideas of those who show distisetione ree v between follow their example in casting aside coutomp- ; the needless Mews of this count to thry sod the l other capaciti classes tuously the religious reverences of mankind. His ', of the country, in respect eir generaes to I fill honourably the sphere in which Providence bad utterances of warning will be painful to their self- I pieced them. There wes no doubt that the existence of a satisfaction. He should not grieve too heavily on 1 great and powerful middle dam had for meaty generations that account. A man may be a believer, and yet b.,„ one o f the principal ehanet„fsties o f E,i I lb so oi,ty . reverence the laws of reason ; and it simply cannot I and am of the principal means for securthe political be the proper issue of ail research to shut up the ' and social equilibrium of the country. It was also, he ap mind within the narrow limita of material know- prehended, beyond doubt that, until a very recent period, ledge. There are reasonable people who assure 11 trtreew:hienloittree utthirg, --purcP:l9l:rostatulttuhree themselves that, once this phase of positivist i were, in any respect, behind the means wormed by other dreaming over, the civilised mind will thirst classes, so as to place them is any degree of relative dire again for the Wholesome refreshment of a superua- I ability. (Hear, hear.) But unquestioeably something total faith conceived in a grand manner, c owar ds ;of the kind had appeared of late. A large and liberal which the triumphant rationalism which this work ineVilibb Dad been aide h y seeemelee g e. r hmeete for the purpose of promot ing popular oollectele, and celebrates is only now feeling its way. these means had ambled t h e most intelligene per- The sectiou of this wr it ooh treats of perse- lion of the labouring chums to place themselves cution for religion is written with candour, force, is such a position that it might be said that they trod upon the heels of the middle clams, snd if the middle classes and completeness. The opening sentence illustrates were to keep their position it could only be done by means the view in which this subject is considered : of new sod extended efforts such as that which their friend When it is remembered that the Founder of Christianity hr. Wooderd had been the happy inatrasseet of neestab slimmed up human duties in the two precepts of love to lishiog. (Hear, bear.) It might have been supposed that Gled sod love to MM. and illustrated the second precept by this class could take °arse, itself, bu :balkld be a nos a•parable represestisii the sentiment of a common hums- take, especially in the beginning of f this tied. pity destroying all the animosities of sectarianism, the his. If they 'looked to th e highest class they would sse that the tory of persecution in the Christian church appears as Mee r same observation would apply. It was not each parent in Bog as it is painful. his sphere that had made provision for himself in respect to Yet was perseoution, along with much besides of education. It bad been by mociatioss like that at Marl moral obliquity in church practioe, not without its litammigbadt,y.,Partice appeal, by t) ra ffo t r h t : prow of b °° °T° l t e a l t. die ! natural COMM and is apparent justification in ...wed, ...a that with regime to the cuss w hich, o f a ll ' certain doctrines which rue church maintained, ethos, might have been thought could most easily dispense especially, as the author shows, in the doctrines of with it sod provide for themselves- I. the woe liberal exclusive salvation , and of the moral g uilt of tr. pniotttotiLlberpellsbeetn.t them be peeP i:s e gii t i o i " tr ed in ! I emneous belief. If the severe arm of the law be beyon d the ma, ad bend of argument Then ap peared coins rescue souls from perdition by repressing e meteisg contagious in genuine humour sna en . heresy, ita most cruel inflictions could even be made thulium, and enthuilasin sash as that which Ito appear deeds of mercy. Protestants, so judging, bad been shows bY, Mr- Weed ought to rouse ' have therefore but too closely followed in this re- tittoldtwa the loftiest pri nciple e • mit who bad been ma ' spect the terrible example of the Church of Rome. t t i„, a - T y e t h e b a d ne I It is the sputa evil of iatoleranoe that it entwines with its practical operations as represented try its financier Itself around the holiest parts of our nature, and becomes —(hear, hear) —by the 1. s. d. It would be remarkable I atfinelaalyt eo said b , len . d ..o6.6.oo., ed with the se whi lis c e h of rast.o. duty, thate,vasouhasothbeenn amongstuithaeyphanilanuttdri:ictskineffgortewhorichthooemprzelat d i a ti;u y , and vice, becomes the ermeeter here." . . . Feestion. the notice of all wbo were interested in the important ou r smog tbe early protestaate was a distioct sad subject of educating. (Loud applause.) The right hon. definite doctrine, dated into elaborate treatiau, gentleman concluded by proposing the first resolution — fob indissolubly comeoted wtth a large parties of the received That the growth of intelligence among the l owe r ( teseleey, developed by thelliOn earightesed end faroeeing clams, owing to the impulse gives of late ears to itesem, sod *pierced against the moat inoffensive as education. the establishment of public boarding solaria foe against the most formidable pacts. It was the docti i.re of neap education of the lower middle °lessee, which may be ttroesPelwhoesartedjanstlye ydesteePet:deftethenn.grealtegeweet of its leade n . Tbeaßeisdh7pll4ol°Powreirroann'eaci of the e e et mot ieeel i im , which war ac. ' " ilt was manifested mart clearly is them classes which were 'spooled by the Hey. Mr. Woodard, sod W IFYI to. ly imbeed with its ASPIStic teach*. The Bpi,- fi e eera G em reso latices b anm • b m ,mom generellyjagi fi ed it !gammas( to St. Augustan ; Ames& - - P. lBll the meeting THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER ON IDDLE CLASS EDUCATION. 1 r 11. beaii Aril full] '4 i r i too . . k i 1 B i c aom aort spe hab for I; ,`. woi , .41 del 1, .4 gin I, of, E ' bei OVI thl : fr, . . • • JUNE 21, 181 UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Juni 19. FINAL ZXAMINATION.—LAW AND MODERN HIS. TORT CLASS LIST.—The examiaers in the law and modern history (W. fimbhs, S. T. Owen. It. E. Digby) halm to-day issued their award of claims Si follows : Class 1. —Egerton Hubbard, Christ Church ; and Edward Bleir-Demy Michell, Magdalen College. Chile 2.—Cbarlee Hoary Edward Carmichael, Trinity College ; Vim:moot Downs, Christ Church ; Eduard Charles Follett, Baikal College ; and Thomas Taylor, Corpus Christi College. Class 3. —Stephen Brown Bathe, Baliiol College; Edmond Byron, Christ Church; and Constantine Meynisr Smith. Balliol College. Class 4. —John Gillam, St. Mary Hall ; Spencer F. Arthur Smith, University College ; and Robert B. Webb. Pembroke College, CILAV6II &HOLM/SHIM —Tim examiners for the Craves fiehohirships have notified to the Viee•Chaneellor that they have awarded them as follows:—John B. Leortht junior student, Christ Church ; and William Hwy %mos, fellow Queen's College—squid. OXFORD, JUNI 20. PUSSY AND ELLINTON, AND KINNICOTT Hinalw Soso. LASBHIPS.—The examiners for thee* scholarships have to day notified to the Vice-Chancellor that they have awarded them as follows : Kcioricorr SonoLauinip.—John Purvey, as., and Ex. hibitiorier, Balliol Collet*. PURR AND ELLIIITOIS SCHOLLBSW.—A. G. WWI., Christ Church. HOSOWIT Dtmoina.—The following list of distinguished persons on whom the honorary degree of D.C.L. is pre poied to be conferred to-morrow (Wedueada)) has to-day been issued by the Vine-Chancellor :—Tae Right Hos. Lord Lyons, /IL A.. Christ Church, G.C.8., her Majesty's late Minister at Washington ; Lieut-General Sir Hugh H. Rees, GALS., lE.S.L. late Commander-in-Chial in India; Coast Melchior' lks Vogfif, member of the Imperial Society of of AN tiquaries, correspondent of the Archwdogical Institute Rome, fir- ; the Has. John A lexander Macdonald, Executive Councillor in Canada, and Attoreeyaimeral of Upper Canada ; Henry James Sumner Mains , L L . D., Visit? Hall. Cambridge, So., Legislative member of the Supreme Coated of fedi*. late Regius Professor of Laws in the Universitate& al Cambridge ; R o b er t Christians, M.D., Prof smog of M Medics, Edioburgh ; William Stokes, M.D., Regius Pro fessor of Physic, Trinity College, Dublin. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, Julia 19.—Anoummir1s. —Mid. shipmeo H. J. Wodehonse, to the Terrible ; G. S. Dewey to the Constance. Apilibitiair ; JUNE 20.--AProurrmairrs. -- Capt. T. B. Lethbridge. to be acting captain of the Himalaya during the absence from illness of Captain Lacy. Amistont Clerk : J. Taylor, edditiocal to the Blenheim' Nerd Cadet H. G. Grey (noorinatid). FinSeless Asaistent•EoginserMcLean, to the Om. stance, in lien of a chief stoker. Acting Yosistantinew W. Brims:min, to the Coe. boos, in lieu of a chW stoker. A SHIP'S Nacamasna. —it the Admiralty Court yesterday, in the case of the Fla do Funchal, a question ma raised as to necessaries for a ship. A claim wee made by s broker to be paid in preference to s bottomry boodholder. The court had decreed payment for wages, sad as the broker bed paid for 11110111111161 4 , it was °outmoded that be had a prior claim. Dr. Lushiegton held that where the party who had actually supplied the Deassazies sought to recover he had a prior claim, but not where the bulbar had paid the mosey. The wages would be flret paid. ea& thee the boa-Welder as far as the pewee& would mow. Order emordingly. ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW-CROSS. The annual &weld of cadetships and distribution of medals sad prises took place at this establishment yea Creasy, before a summons concourse of ladies and gentle men ; the President, Admiral Sir William Bowles, K.C.8.. in the chair. The peat school-room, in which the oda may took place, was tastefully decorated by the pails with overpass, and floral devices, the council bag indebted for the use of the flop, Ise., to Captain Cron% R.N., Messrs. Green and Co., Mears. J. and T. 130alak sea E. F. Lake, Ea. A lorge wan covered with civil and military drawings by the pupils also formed an ornamoutal feature, and related credit upon Mr. E. A. Goodall. Ms able drawing-muter of the inatitutioo. The chearman, ia • few preliminary remarks. referred to the highly waded/off reports of the examiners—viz., the Rev. 1)r. Major, d Kiog's College, in clamed ; •the Rev. F. W. Vetter, of tin Royal Military College, Saadhunt, in mathematics • the Be'. T. Mardals, examiner at Eton, in French; Da 0. A. Winder, of Kip& College, and examiner at ear in German. Mr. Alfred Eames, the secretary, hang reads reports, the chairman distributed the prima :—The Marino Commiesion : J. Le C. Robi ll iard. Admiral the Hoe. Sr F. Grey's Naval Cadetship : T. F. Ptliloo. Clerk's Aar tant, Royal Navy :F. B. Mathias. The Vellum Medallion Certificate and extra prise of books to the value of J. S. Gamble. The Gold Medal The Alla. The Modal Silver Medal : Pilkington. M a thematical Saar Medal: J. Le C. Robilliard. The Cockney Silver Medals for industry and good conduct, to R. Doesiesoe, H. 8. Bakerville, and T. K. Belem. Valcable books, he., were awarded to Noble, 1; Herbert, 1 ; Healey, stab" Wright, Wylie% 2 ; Polled!, Lene, 1 ; Moors, tbsks. McKeohaie, PdirMghora, Shepherd. Bever. A. ; Jobastos, 1; Condos, Davis, E. • Harwood, 1; lindel. Bower, Grist, 1 Clfacertney, 2 ; Jeffood. BMA. 2 ; Bs akerville, 2 ; Ramsay, Campbell, Daddsoo, Hatms•Ha -1 ; Robillisrd, 2 ; Fasting, 2 ; Fry, Humphrev, 2 ; thorn, 2 ; Fenwiok, Norcock. 2 ; Robineou. - Hatourahle meats= : Choker Mathias, Clarke, Davis, P. ; Balder, Smith, F. ; Niedhstri, Waage, Donaldson, Peak Cleveland, Sad a, !Chivas. Boxer, A. •; Hatchdoes. Hall, 1; FAUNS, Watts, Fasting. 1 ; Materinfli 1 ; Edwerdn. Dyer, ; Lane, Seism, Tod, Chiloott, Scat, E. B. ; Evan. 1 ; 1N1G•6 1,1 4 Julia, 1; 1; Harwood, 2 • Beaming. Whiting. ler, Fitsmouries, Bella, 1; Woo druff,i Brad, Limbed. 2: Dummli , Smell. Ware, Low* gad Pouf_ „old, 1 •• Drawing Prises :—Pilkingtar, Saunders, Gamble. Hare. Butcher, 2 ; Featiog, 1; Ellis, A.B. sad Nona:l4l. Deesad Poses : A r les and Gamble. The first ravel cadetship Yarborough scholarship, and the second naval casts* with a valuable sextant. kindly presented by ALL Two. Wire, are not yet awarded. Luncheon was served to tbe visitors is the ma sa= The sicallest bead of the Oda wish schools woe prevented from atteading owings wed to the Admiralty inspection taking plea at Grenada I bis The annual competition in the athletic and swimming spnflo took place on the 7th inst., when vises were distribute' br Lady Havelock to the following, vie.. Brand, Allen, Mooch ney, 1; Dourildson, Madders, Ilsoutay, 2 ; B. Sherwood. Camden, Scott, T., Thomas, Dyer, nall: "`yerigh, Palk*, Fry, Robllidrd, 1 ; Polkinghores, F. ~~ T