The Express. — London, England, 1860-03-08 00:00:00

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Owes; Wes Wrolhoo. 4 arriolli• TVI Mom. TRU INTUIT OT TRW WANDERS'S. Mom ag4.•noshrd; Who IL Ologgia Maw; •Ir. Olympeo lo am rprOrYe Whir Jowls—AM autuali 111011 MIL Mc BROM: KILL Lam 111. Tama MON WATS' £T LONDON SUDO& DAT-literMu, II -..--.-Allenme. rt. Os. w-41inia.. 3a. -....- -AArum. 31301 LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 8. THE British, as all the world knows well, are a fighting people, and have held their own, and some thing more, in the great decisive battles of the Christian era ; but they are not a military people in the professional sense, and we are not tempted even by the pomp and circumstance which took the town by storm yesterday to believe that they have changed their nature within the lest twelve months. We doubt if there be any English soldier alive who would pro- nounce war, apart from all justifying CREWS or necessities, as • valiant Frenchman pronounced it the other day, to be "the highest manifestation of t' the Divine will." The fumes of gunpowder have not infected our veins, nor has the steel entered into our souls so sobtilely and so potently ae to make us idolaters of blood and fire, though we do homage and pay forfeit once or twice • century to the God of Battles, and lay our costly sacrifice on his altars with a steadfast faith in duty and • stern reliance on the justice of our cause. We accept war with the serious and sober coofi deuce of • nation proud and certain of its destiny; but we do not go to war with the met of tigers /al the pastime of homicide, nor even with that feeds. and bounding suppleness, and that beetbseme joy which are the attributes of the seentnams of BULANGLIt. It is not in our lenges/re to string rhymes on plaint and victoirs, on isuriere and gurrriers, nor is it in our nature to seek in the heroism of carnage the see of national grandeur and the scarce of national selfeuupeet. If the intslligt sit foreigner was preen t la the body at the approaches to hi. James's Palen yesterday morning, or in the Floral Hall lest eight, we tied he never he a manent indulged the idea that the English were likely to cultivate the appetite he military glory with the taste foe; light red wines.' We trust the intelligent foreigner, with his native propensity to generalisation, was not betrayed by the novelty of a martial spectacle in this metropolis, and the unwonted excitement of our civic population, late the prophetic vision of • new English nation, fed from its youth up on drums and swerdsand nodding please, rejoicing in a conscriptioa, end achieving the see summation of human bassos 's ender a INOWIIed im personation of the Ample-Saida. We Metes to assure our observant friends over the water that the martial aspect of this capital on the 7th of March no more signifies a change in the character and dir position of the British people than the pireamseem of the tide rising to-morrow sixteen Weber higher than at any equinox in the present 'eatery, changes the character of the moon or the disposition of the ea. Any one who had an opportunity of looking a little closely into the composition of the gallant and somewhat miscellaneous officers who paned la review before her .MAJESTY must have been stru•k with the entirely sad peculiarly English character of the lastitotion which they repreeeeted. Among them you might have found the very pith and flower, the genius and substance of our English society of the nineteenth century ; men of the land and the farm, men of the factory and the oosatiorlienass men of tbs field, men of the study, men and liberal professions, mon of trading wen of art and science, men of ancient name and lineage, of hereditary title and ancestral honours, ' men from medieval castles and snug old manor howese, side by side with the home of a new aristo cracy of labour enriched with the spoils of in. diary, and with the busy wrestlers is the straggle of intellect, and the strife of will. Feresatert in the ranks of these Volunt-ors were not • tow indeed who had actu►lly " played at " soldiers" in the horrible game of positive war, who could speak of danger in the field and in the breach as comrades, and of wounds and death as familiar friends. Petty and purblind must have been the man in the crowd, who saw nothing in that animated and generous array of British hood but an idle bravery of green, grey, and scarlet _ . uniforms, or whose morbid eye could detect only here and there the shambling step, the slouching gait, and the narrow stooping shoulders upon which the costume of a soldier hung likes divnise. To vent small jokes upon the outward and visible accidents of a great national demonstration is cheap, and easy, sad ►arnlsee enosgh ; but we believe it to be fer sere worthy el say true lover of his country to seek eat and bring to light the inward spirit and purpose. Avid this we take to be nothing more nor less than the self-defensive anion in arms of a self-governing people. Neither foreign jealousy and malignity nor domestic folly and fanaticism ea• see in the Volun teer movement which yesterday was damped with the express favour and approval of the Crown, other thaa • purely and strictly defensive and domestic tone, et what we may without irreverence describe as special constables oo foreign ser vice that is, on guard against possible foreigners with strong geographical theories, and ugly interpretations of the decrees of Nature. This is a new and, no doubt an improved meaning et " foreign service," and of " special constables;" it has the merit of identifying unanimity at home with peace abroad, and belongs to • people who *hen a " conscription" like • plague, and have an Imperfect sympathy for standing armies. Are we 6 therefore, to honour our special eeeetables the lees bemuse they never sue their staves? Are we to respect Mr. BRAIDWOOD'S ponspioro only when we see theta rescuing a family from the fifth story of a house wrapt in flames P Nay, ought we net to feel for our Volunteers as the patient felt for his doctor, to whom he paid a handsome salary fume diu as bens gesserit t. . Tee Lane, the dinner, and the ball are so many pleasant testimonies to this great negative virtue of our citizen soldiers; and we can't believe that the most rapturous partner in that Floral Hall would desire bar young hero in the superb facings to display the more positive virtu of the military character in one of those strange and difficult positions which Sir ROBSZT Pam. amigos to Rifle Volunteers. Perhaps, indeed, it is not so much the direct u the indirect advantages of this' Volunteer organisation which even Sir Roam PAIL wilt learn to eoknow ledge. He may have little faith in the Muss of these seventy or eighty thousand Britons to "creep “on their bellies for miles," or to " remain "a whole night up a tree;" but he will hardly deny that a movement which draws together the separate and often severed classes of English society under the beeper of their common country is at least a soils and a spirit-stirring recreation. It is the Playing-fields that make Eton ; and it may be the Rifle Corps that will give bone and sinew to our rieketty counter jumpers, make trade honest and law chivalrous, and why not even create a BAYARD out of a sheriff's officer ? IF bc treurt. The Prise of Wales strived hos Oxford yesterday fort. secs @Seidel by Major-General the Hon. R. Bros sad Lisateasnt-Colonel Koppel, at Buckingham Paws. His Royal Highness W the Palms shortly before el: o'clock la the ettersorn, oa hie titan t the University of 0:foal. The Duch.« of Kest teok leave of the Cisme and kit the Palen about tory.. o'clock for Frogmen -haw, Windom, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. After the Volunteer Court et St. Jaw's, her klejesty held a Privy Couocil at Buckingham Palma. Present, the Prises Consort, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Romell, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke el Soassrset, the Dub of Newer*, the Sol ed Elgin, the Bight Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hem &r G. C. Lewis. the Right Hom C. P. VON*, the Eat of tit. Otwinsas, Viscount Sydney, tie Illegais of Aileehuly, Timm Ceetisetese, Viscount Bary. and Lord Pray. Tbe Hem. Wes. Bbilerset, Dark dabs Council, attended. Vireos* Temingtan and General Sir Edward Bowater wore Lord awl Omen in Wait*. Her Royal Meow the Boehm of Carabridp esiertehed $ Imp ache at Deese lest smelled, et her mei diem et et. lemsele Pelson. The circle comprised the Prig ors Mary. the Marchioness of Ely, the Berl sad Gnaws of Derby end Lady Emma &malort, the Bari mid Cognises Mathope. Lied cad Lady Lyndhurst, Lied sad Lay Chehmelad, Lied sad Lady CeleMs, Lad R. Montego, Lod Iteleriale, Lard J. Mianess, Lard P. Padre, Gomel tit R. Ahoy, red Oohed Purees. His Siesilimey the Swedish Minister sad the Contra Plates gave a greed eaterealmeat MA seesaw le bla Royal Ingham Prise Freelerice of the Notherhaele. The Mowing we leveled to meet his royal Mahone : Le times Highness Preece Itelwarel d flare-Weloar, hie laoelleevy the Mlaierer kr :be Notherkeede. his Iseetheey the Preeelaa Mieleter„ W Ixoefleoey the Iteeeles Meister, Meat Braimirobarg, Chevalier is Bel, Ilene lirebeehild, ha. Cope d& Napes meg IL Van Ottseise were Is snake on hie royal Memos. Teo .asatass Appooyi Ihoo laud owls for u ....ay cm Wedarday, the EA The Duke end Unease. of Argyll entertained a select circle et dissar radierday meta. et their reektinee ea Ciuspdia-lull. The Earl and Countess of Rosenberry have arrived at Air taillikaos la Piccadilly ham Niamey Pack, N.B. Lady Henniker had an nseembly last evening at bar milaass fa Orattaa•ahaat. The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his sixth par liamentary dicer yesterday iambi to tbe following:—Earl ham, Lord Wallin Graham Thema Peasery, Lad Toney, Sir Warta W. Wpm, Sir Montague Cholimley, Colored Bharat., Colossi Frew*, Major Windsor Parker, Messes. •issa• Ake* lbelaw, Benham Carter, Bristow, Dark Deism, Da Case, Chest Dar, Roderiana, Humber. Mak Leagstes, Jobs Lake, Q.C., Maguire, Matheson, Mlldney, Msab, Men Peal, Email (Lierariok), Stater- Beath. Mau Gawp Waidegme, end the Bev. Horsy Dewy. • large amber at soblasso eM gestiserres at. haled the right be.. geottmea's km. The abitaary of ibis ay *arks th• death of Sir itehwt C. Hill, CIL, mite ioneurniel the Mese In the Peninonier wee sad at Waterloo. lie was the bat war violas brother of the tint Lord HSI. Paw of tie heathen were lo the Peelartia sad at Watteloo—Noosral Lord HID, Mr Ist tO. Hill, Major•Cionsmsi Clemost Hill (died la command of the Mysore division of tie Madras army at Cheapen/a, Jae. 28, 1845), sod Sir floras Noel Hill. Sir RAM C. Hill sad his brother Clement wire both rase * wand et Waterloo. Sir Robert Hill did is the bore vim be wee bore, Protokoll, Shropshire. 0. Toseday the Berkeley Haat set st the Bleak snide. fespost !Leto.. sad • MI ef above 200 asisistiel; !wens, they led bet. Wirier dors cwt. Ilit Mamie, Ifiriaby we set poet, bat lb. Colossi ink ihe istakr dip la hi. .b.... Mr Modes, vs ewes to ash was Selespaptbsd for as lassatley to stAsod by brother, the His. Angsetas Blistarr, obi hos ass with a entre maddest la the huatiag held le berm The hasty paritcalsrs of this aseklest laselesi his triode that the hoe, and past gestlemes had assedoei • keglers of his ribs. , Nab ea TO TM" TIDTTOZ OP Tes slily, gm —It having occurred to me that a hunk goo tipple; narrative of the events of the 7th ol Marob, written at the moment, by one who may be excused for kelteg more than ordinary Interest lo them, would not be wmoceptable to et least oar 000ntry cousins, I have sextond to mad yea the following journal, which, so my City friends would my, b ban "posted op" every two hours—leavhag I am afraid a eaneillsreads balsam of vanity. I dare say sometlebig anticipracey of yetierany's ft= bed been devised la =ay exp. Bs this es it may, we West minster boy bed a dim= among earsolves, at Willies &rails, on Toeeday evening, to commemorate the presenta tion, end naturally my esprit sts mum will not permit me to give it the cold shouldar, albeit the dinner itself woe cold. Oar Woad, Lord Grosvenor (who, of wares, presided), folly =appealed, however, for the =dams of the repast by his freedoms from all frigidity, by the warmth of his reception, and the glow of his eloquence when be expatiated with (I think) Jest and becoming pride epos the promise of military excralenoe greedy pre sented by the battalion. We bed, besides, somas excelleat speedos Os already reported la your columns) by the Mer v& of Salisbury sad ties Depaty-Liralemeat, by Lord James Better sal by the DWI of Weenie= (oer chap lainiti =de some raryinsphatio snd impressive remarks. £ wet reeled hennas was =de by Mr. BIS= (their mem of the central inentaktee), so effective address by Sir Jelin Whaley (oar member), sad some most gellsat charges upon the attention of en annsusi e.toirable sod towards the end refractory audience by Mr. Oradell, the Hon. F. Syng, and other gentlemen. Towards the sad of the dinner, • little hilarious disorder sad shaost something Mks skirmishing took place. Certaisly • few sly shots were fired, bat (psi-kepi =Mg to the invisible grey of our uniform) the only "dead men" turned oat to be bottle green. So that • antra° baronet In soy future display of buffoonery will not be able to la sts= us among those volunteers who have tiontribaled to the chapter of accidents by their awkward shooting. AM now for the Wifelike of the memorable 7th of Much. The noognition, in the Queen's speech, .1 the patriotic feeling esanireeted in the volunteer 'screwiest gave general eithteetims. Still more gratify's', at Int, wee the sanounor mat that at so early a period of the IDOV , PO4II, • court would he held for the recieptio• of came& Wheat, however, it wee gamerelly nadenteed that preerniadam at this wart would act Goethe a premien* in anything heyoad, or Involve any of the pietism of prematation at an ordinary Ines, disappoint mat wee fait is Easy ginner*. It is certainly to be regret tad that inevitable camgarisone meet be made which will Is the eyes of may depths Me set of her Majesty of some of the granormen which it would have hone If the receptices could have ham unnerved sad aammtlitiegel. At the tame time, there ere many weighty name why It could aot be so. The knew of her Majesty are 'trimly overcrowded, and it meet he einfineed that there miaow of the volunteer officers is wheat the right of slanting admission at every foreign part could sanely be coateded. One's feelings on, let too candidly admit, first golog to evert" may, perhaps, be "more sadly knighted than de- ocribed." Notelthstaading the sort of rehearsal of wearing the sword end full skew mikes at the dinner on the tre ading evening, I own N having felt, I should imagine • hula SW • bashful young lady on the emaisg of her ins combig out." per Illample—ther• wee • alight uneasiness about the back heir. I had bran unaimustorned to the doss asp d le otiliteice, and thought it particularly unbecoming. Then the tailor had not given me the regulation member of ornaments. However, thinkingit unnecessary to specify the asset interval, suffice It to say that my person was at booth arrayed In all the chests splendour of palely grey and peg tops, polished book, Weeder gloves, sword, accoutrements, and kepi. Our colonel, Led Grosvenor, had kindly invited UM °Niers of his regiment to meet at Stafford Howe. Ao cordingly, at about krilf.past 12 **Mock, we were all assembled be the spacious and magnificent earths hall al that sommice. After partaking of • little risfrealunant supplied by our noble boat, we all walked round to the corridor Natrona of St. James's Palen. Over the court facing Marlboros& hones a very large awning had been emoted, to accommodate the unusual numbers impacted. Hare souse husked' of Ames were elmady assembled. Our comity of Middleman standing No. 2in the Amy List vs Would have to be presested at an early period of the evert; we, thinkers at owe entered the pima The diet klieg which striated nay iitimathe on escendieg the stairs ware, standing like so sassy earyetides, several immense Yeomen of the Guard, or so they me sommosly celled " beefeaters," with their frills and bakes, recallog the Illustrious relied another popular Qum. Th. Ant aprknoot entered Is a kind of srmoury saes—the meth is is apartment hung with old tapestry. As ries* peaked es posAde in these two mall apartments we waked sit heat as both. alternately EA:sated, or frozen with tbrouglite ben opals windows. How delicate ladies, with their tawdriness end thairmisline, ma stood the Workable crowd ing In these two rase lamat • Ices to brew We IMO sew Inhered by gentleinswin-waitlng throe& a door, saw tinelbd by gentlemen-et-arms (with their owrissely both mous Life Guard's COlllllOll and IMOiIIES balbseds) into the fine assembly salsas, known es Qum Athe's room--• (MI-length pertrelt of bar MoWsty decorates the end wall. Here we bed spin to a mp a bug time. Talking to • very nrtems elderly gentle man en Atha dth e Corps of Gantieuen at - Area, he told no the be mommiswed the presentation A the thientesr oaten In the the, el the Pint Napoleon, eind be sold that the empashes wr peally to our edvsetege. This he attri buted to the muck war ithrobsr of young Man among the preset sdeniere. Be this as it may the =Nome now geoereily Wisps& me usdoebtedly 6th muse useessedeg sad reessehiy end dada beocesleg. Is the pew d pesperoths he the prosentedes NOM telsedets apes the ressebeis netme of tba seise sold the 'mammy sleet to ticks pies' nelasolly ingesseed thenerdete. Here were am dress away comer of Gnat Britain, of almost way esermatkm and position, the great majority of when bad ask peat sad were prepared to make still greater esedises hue the pererstent Isaac of patriotism, from the basso coaled's that netheal diarist and disagree well Man kallabsiy greed/ evil then doe perereal Isommeehmee or even lass of kis or limb. Basil den for himself sal an osabeessior for some bandied ethers wee see net oily toddy delay hossege to the sagest esver.ign of an aspire white girdles the globe with he power end ladoesoa bat ash man wee also pledging to the highest marinated., of the 'boldest hem of governmett in the world—a cesidentkesal government, which has bass the growth sad which his the 'auction of the erperlesos of ogre. Above ell, seek man was likewise paying honour to the living reareates of the peeervetlos of ea; Airtime awl tits sak;ry of wir braas;. Hwy is as 'arrow *lm.; aad this pawls( Is sot soseliy kr the gratillostios of wlllar7 egotism ; bars is so swesaratis potion, swel ao her that this madras* gnarl will sour maws la oolliska with • werawsory sag ; ken, &rah is so last for segrapisa apse ma bandy* asigkbour, but air tits desks to arms a justifiable pedant of ilskses. How dithrsat all this from the meat dissoastraticeoltbs Preach wino& I se there My reiestlens were, however, ea sheet by the dived beiag glees I. "Ism four deep" rated toe well. Moving Is this forinettos slesily at, we arrived et the =tram of the wet spertneset, when lord-lieuments, gentlemen-hpwaiting, and ether olicials pieced as in aegis Me, the Mona sad chaplain aim bead, ezaaly is the order we were to pass Wore the • I was not • little and es Mice Me that • 'matte em, whoa I knew molest enough to remit only an abed% private of my minim enemy, was Moans one of the =edemas-tweak/se. TM sperm= we now shared We • rawilmely adjoined this preemie room, and was if *tautly meatless, with large vigil portraim Wise the windows. At tide the seams= of Maim the thremeneene, I ma ea knowledge • little =rename= to* pommies of me. I did sot bow teem ezperiesse lb. met formilles to be observed sus Mast premstades. I bad • dim recollesits el a reeMin seethed "dmpeelleg" myself cm nth an Needs% Men res in early boyhood by my dittoing miter, abs made • great point of this in his Isamu epos "dancing, Gerrie% and deportaenß" BO sling% sty boyhood (I whit yea anneal, to understand, my deer Mies) is not so eery nmeer, my poor Mob, muter could net oonceal his age with Ms most debases ant fr4l Moreover, se I remanbered this quaintly elf halos= person age ha& • greet =Aides to in.roduce di Mini ennui= la ear, I intspeoleit that his imlnetkes might be • legend remonly derived from the owl el he hat et mond George. Altogether, therein. I 001111. sawed It mei enin to trust to the de Illmpoues I (ages= htjaidees to " Ades-don " and " Yya PPM" Lad is the 'MA I raft mast de myself MINIM A say, Met in the ophebet of corepsteat judges, I sego/tad myself wiliest any ember* aid I de not Shish my comrades mild have bee shamed awe me. Th. id is Ihe prawn- IV simplest affair OTIS this was aaw . ve• ao - taking eg 4 glove, so basilic% ea' as kWh( of heed es al as ordisary levee. All the iemelity was the idieviag:—Aa the °seek el sash eimpap ap liiidield the Mama, be headed a cart% seataleigg Mau" man sad that of the Ileatiased sad amigo mespowier him le a gartismea is waiting, who passed 14 Om lona Chusterisie—tbis encessge standing immaillably le the right el the Qum The Lord Chasebsrlaia thin read the same of tee individul as he inlaid balm her Majesty. Tb Qum Asa greelously bowed, sad the cosM passed me, 'Venial the stgal emeasmasisa es peeshilly es ha might, sad also if be bed sallhisat peewee 4144, bowing to Primps Albert, *be sit to the left of her Mah•ty—the Prinos of Wake bag es the right. It was esesatiel, ht retiring hem Ibp royal pauses, to back a few poses Is order to doable riga the opposite aide of the thecae room, the path to be traversed being le the !sees of a horseshoe. I could act hip. far a moment, pitying her Majesty, when I remeen bend that she would have to replies two thouand °Moses— (the greatest unbar ever karmic et • 10110 MI been, I bellows, one thosessi)—the mere physical exertion of making two demand bows moat to Medially exhausting. The Frames Chamber wu, of course, filled with high court hactionariee and • number of patkeeen-atearms. Oa quitting this senotam sancteaus el royalty you had to ran the winded of the pse of the sass oi inkier. atiH weldsg, and • number of spectators. It was keriliallie that my pee eadvion was over at an early boar, bemuse it enabled me to gets Hula asselfal airing beim Waning home to write this, for notwithstisailas all I bed heard of the closeness .414 ihoonveaisace ed the salts of seesptios dates is M. _ _ lemee's Palace, le wee exonded by elle reality. alp time vie no dressing fee Ibe brew!, dean bevies bees releested *wpm is ibe urea trim me for ebe Nett. My 'geed genlie; Me, having plainly befriended me hitherto, behold is, aterting, with a good appetite, Des the peal bragging of the officers of the volun teer wrist Happily, I had made ea early spy& corm lee a Tearer for the banquet, and found myself monfertably Opera is • desirable part of Si. Junes Hall. It ma, however, en unfortunate eirorastanos ora sated with this pert of the festivities that a placenta:toady large ceeld sot be obtained to leave no room for doubting thee all the agora which might be expected could be corn ihriably sooommodated. On applying on Saturday for a veteran for a country friend, I was told by the secretary of the prepaid Volunteer Benin Club—to whom applications were le be Millie—tibSt sU the vouchers were diepoen of, and that r St. Janie' Hall would only seat about 530, he had already bra obliged to ran away nearly 300 applications. I was, however, hammed that to accommodate all a supple mental banquet, to be given in the basement part of Bt. James Hall, had been imprevised, at which Lord Ran. toga colonel dna Bluth Middlesex Volunteers, bad consented to preside. The committee of mesageznest, I was further infuenzed, had made an applration ter the re of her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, for the purpose, but it ap pears that lararmountehle diMoultles were preented by the coalitions alike buns Judge, thee, my extrpriet, after these ezplana.foos, on arriving at the hali to find that then Wee no sapplemeatal and innermost dinner, and no Lord Ranelagh, as the superior grins presiding over the Plural° banquet of the grams" beneath. Addithsal ramemodation, I was now told, had been obtained by placing tables on the orchestra duo. I knew that of crane meet would not like to go thwarters ; and this mkappreberaos, to my certain knowledge, kept away a great number, who, bad other arrangement" been made, would have bees present. Cards had, however, been issued for the balcoaies and galleries of the ball, far the reasentadatien rare parties lady of ladies; end, upon ernating, we bend theme the best idtratioss for simple observation. The view from the botany faring the Duke of Cambridge was especially striking. Mr. Owen Jones's decorationa eetteinly never told with better effect. The triple groove of flags at short inter vals all round the building, the galaxy of light like a starry firmament above, the long hue of retry tables, the silm wrier, the platonic glittering of the glees, the fruit-laden mitre prose and dpergnegg, and the animated men of Tarte grid snikems, together oconyosed a most brilliant assemble. The noble head of the Commander-In•Cbief, ma be eat in the throne at the end raised table, showed with princely effect, sad seemed to form as once the ape:, the axis, and the polestar of the whole. Unlike many public diners, a genial inirit became gene ral at •a early period of tho entertainment. And as all then► off their seem, and had made the oneseary adjust ment of their belts, opportunity was afforded for appreciating the extremely varied character of the eorocany. Hero, testieg the cleerneee of his part, is on raker retired from the lice bronzed with the sun of India; sad then, sipping hie nampagne, is • feir-faced real arlstotaatle " swell;" bar, pietist; Ms teeth, is • pale man el kenos; and them is a ruddy country squire who has not lost his appetite la Lon don smoke; here, whispering the waiter, is a cian-ehaved, comfortable-looking citizen; and there, with hie deep•eet eye peering through his hand raged like • telescope, is • ►irsute mein; here is a billow-looldng lawyer, with rather • parchment skin, still OM his phis, and, while grave him waif, kerang eL ith neighbours in a roar; and there, is an athletic young Walls( university ran, pining for " bear" end his " weed." Time fele me to enumerate all the varie ties, but ameneMy here, there, aid everywhere ere nature's true nobility. I will nod attempt, dr, to relate the admirable and eppro pride speed= made between mak *MIN bugle-mil by the grandese tt the atiatocrecy, the chuck the state, the army, the navy, and the law, seated at the keg table au the right and the loft of the Commander-in-Chid, this being a pro vince much better occupied by your extellant reporters. I mud, however, bear witness that ith repel highness appeared to aspeelal advantsge. Never were his wdeltatern geode manaka, good mass, and hoshiessiis goon compiesseely dis played. I may add, also, that the ammisseriat dopeteseat did their duty with rare said. Most et the items in the srsar were tempting, and the Mums more served with promptitude. tweelderbig the archer of gvans.. And now,_ las o'clock betni at Mal, though only mode rately charged, awl not at all ktaia4 yet my heel was all el the ball, Nail no I "mole ready," and want at direct to the 1111.4 W. Wards ha ina to ilsearibe the elect of Sir Chides &ivy's talletal glasii paha, with he brilliant impunity deco mine, at sus la the viol, imaged light of the ps.. Having thus nab • coespiele seesemoimara el the pos:- don, I shooed h tine to leastwo dospr Descasdisg, hasarrr, to the &mob( emu I boa to ley strew as. sepses I could met, is the threw which we mew .olestei la ail dtreetkae, roomy the isdy Ito aecougoodel net sad shoos I bad testgard es esterhig to sans of Ira friends. Narrower although I had, smug the 1,000 or so oho hod sow orrt;edosoogshed somas pirtioaluty sylph-lilto partnere, . . who looked sops bewitching in thero6sOle NOM dewed through the Wilding, I was math disappointed by lain spell forestalled by some (despite their showy mamma) ugly rivals Lastly, to complete my mislicratass, after re. ca elvtrifying tap from a fin, I fogad to my bathes it wee sot intended forms. However, roma:aba ft that acne bat a particular class of persons &sense the fair, I ones men charged the enemy, and this time sooreeded in surpriihor sad earning of a rich prise. But bow shall I describe this bewildering some, which now,wlth the crashing marital acossepaniment, la the whirl ing waits, sod tilted en the on aide by sprightly young ensigns, or Patio, on the other splint hart captains, be came a perloot phantaamegoria of dancing *Ma i sad Boat in/ flowers, sad glittering everpemm, and snowy pollaltsd thoolders, sad fleshing eyes, sad fairy past, and silken obese, sad polished satin, and kaleidoscope evictor ? How describe It? I saunas ; I most hold my breath. One o'clock being now at hand it was neoessary to recruit for supper, and I fortunately suaoseded in again enlisting my original partner, ad did my best to 'Withal twa intoall (I beg her garden I mean some) of the mysteries of the vietnelliag department I &Id est fora moment imagine that may pepper would be ebesinsble, bet to my surprise., owing to the excellent atheagmesate of Maws. Staples and the harnesses thee of the basement, I expcsienced say litUs difficulty. The size and elapses of the supper-rams, remembering tbdt it was atm vast escovetioe, was not the least cesuarkable haters of this unparalleled /Its listy sk, I must at last hang ire. I newt Mai ay jawed to be is *se far puss. In comehtelon, I venture Is 'sprees the wish that my valuables services may be found —I am, &a., ♦ 1118THINSTER (QUEEN'S) VOLUNTEER. Loot averring a prossotstioa at prises to art stu dents sad set vorloass, offered by the eoemnittre of the Arehltscearel Lamm. by the Hcsisslologiral ikocislY. sod Mr. Bseedeed Hope, LP., was held in the theatre of the %Mk Keashigtos KOMI& There was a large ettleidasee eirertist warlosett, sada merles of prime. rangier( la vela' from three ee eve pilaw, were peassietby Mop% wits sided, sad who delivered them to the aromessfal competitors aseesameied by some graceful critical directed= cm their merits. MAR 11860. E ... 2 USDA! / Ili sU SDA! ,, so, VIE 7 1161114E1ikP88T1V164 4 IT ill 0171CNIII OW TEI rt. WOWS DITIMION ~/ ill C1171.31'11 (wampum) mammas. ' . - -PIPTII CIVIL 888 VICE CONNOSIONERS. 'Rife stersiog wee Wooed tke Fifth Report of her Majesty', Civil Berries Commbrionen (together with apprdiees).. . . OR previous ecations we have very folly explained the mods in which we were endeavouring to disoltarge the duties iinpesed tipon us by the order In mason under which we sot, and no alteration of importance has been introduced into oar system since the presentation of oar last repcet. At the setae time there are some Babied' on which, in the ordinary amuse of our proceedings, we should probably have thought It right to make some obeervaticna, and among those "ob jects we have especially to refer to—(1), the examination of lad July for the Civil Berries of India, eel the steps since taken with releases to the legal training of the candidates then selected as prohatketers ; (2), the examinations of can didate' for edmisaka to the dookyardi and steam factories which we have very recently conducted at the request of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty [the dockyard and factory examinations were held during the latter half of last month, and the results were communicated to the Ad miralty by latices of the 14th and 16th February] ; sad (3), the important question as to the best mode of filling Wirier situations,ralsed ln a correspondenne which hes paned between the authorities of the General Post °Massed this department. The recent resolution, however, of the House of Commons, under which a committee has bass appointed " to Invoke into the present mods of nominating and examining can- Mahe Ise junior appointments in the civil service, with • viesrto saosetabs whethargreater facility may not be alluded far the admission of properly qualified persona," appears to render it desirable that we should on the present occasion abstain from any legthesei diacuasioe, and ametent oeuvelves with laying before your Majesty the statistical and other details which it has been oar nand radios to appmd to our repute. We premise only the felowing abort notices of cow proessdings in saocessilve years : - The total camber of nominations to situations to which the order fa council has been applied was as follows:-1865-6 (19 scathe), 3,495; 1867, 2,189; 1858, 2,268; 1869, 2,918 [lnciedatg 391 pates who con:pond for sine writenhips In the India-office]. Total, 10,860. Of these nominations, the following wen nominations of one candidate °sly ;-1855-6 (19 months), 3,037; 1867, 1,838; 1869, 1,426; 1959, 1,739. Total, 8,039. The mantles of competitors and of the situation' for which they were to compete have been :-1855-6 (19 months), canpaitors, 468; mitsadons to be competed for, 109. 1657, competitors, 361, minutiae; 106. 1858, competitors, 833; situations, 258. 1869, competitors, 1,179 [including 391 person" who competed for nine writershipe in the India. ' office] • situations, 259. Total, competitors, 2,821; situ lions, 732. The oartitlartee end rejections have been:-1856-6 (19 erestbs), certificates, 1,686; rejections, 880. 1857, eartill cotes, 1,364; rejections, 490. 1868, certificates, 1,164; re jections, 292. 1819, ciertiticatee, 1,511; rejections, 310. Total, earthiest'', 6,705 ; rejections, 1,972. It wail, however, be wrong to infer that this &dine in the proportion of rejections to certificates is due altogether to en improvement in the attainments of candidates, the real canoes being the reduations which in some cams hays been made in the subjects of examinations, sod the intro duction of new chums of situations for whkh a very low standard has been flasd. The specific) grounds of rejection in the 319 oases of 1859 ars stated in the Appendix; but it may be worth while here to mention that out of the tgtal number of oesdidatse ro jecied (1,972), all but 106 have failed either in anthinstio or in spelling, Dom., of course, to other subjects also. The mum in which nominees have been considered ineligible In respect of age, health, and character have bem as fol lows :-1855-7, age, 218; health, 42; character, 35. 1868, sgs, 69; health, 63; chersotar, 20. 180, sge, 66; health, 16; character, 21. Total, age, 343 ; health, 88 ; charac ter, 76. The largest 'methadon conducted by to during the year 1869 wee one undertakes at the request of the late secretary of eters for India. In our hat report we gave the details of that examination at a length which we considered to be jus tified by the importance which attached to it se the first open competition for situations in the home MCI servico of the mown. We advert to it now principally because, owing to the large number of candidates who then competed, the average number of competitors ls ooneidersbly greeter, in proportion to the number of situations df.poeed of in 1859, than it otherwise would have been. Including the India office examination, the average proportion of competitors to vacancies is 1869 was 4 to 1, while excluding it the propor , tics was only It to 1. The number of competitive examinations conducted under our dhectioes during the year 1859 wea 98, and by those maraisaticess 268 appointments were disposed of. The total number of competitors examined wes 1,107 (as above men tioned), and of the 849 who were neaucossehtl, 710 were not considered to hays ceased examinations which would have entitled them to eartificates if they had presented themselves with skeelate nominations. With referencia to the number above stated es that of the competitive examinations held during the year, it should be ' mentioned that In several cuss we have thee requested I. specify the names of these candidates for whom, though un successful, we aboald be able to grant certificates of qualifi cation me vseanciee might error. This information having been obtained from as, applications for certificates have bees made immediately or after short intervals, so that the only prim really to be gained in the competition, wu a slight priority of ex ointment. It may be questioned whether these examinations ere with propriety clamed as competitions. We have mentioned in framer reports that It was our practice to permit candidata to seises, subject to our ap proval, in addition to the sabji eta preacribed by the depart mental authorities, ethers in which they might be examined. Where candidates have availed themselves of this option, oar rules have been the following That in the ease of those who pared in the prescribed sabjects and at gained themselves creditably In the extra subjects, honorary addition'', specifying the subjects and characterbieg in the Samoa which appeared appropriate the degree of peoGeleney displayed, should be meth the certificate of qua lification. 2. That in the ass of thou who either failed in the prescribed sublects or did not show any ►cgcaittance deserving commended= with those selected by themselves, eta notice should be taken of the voluntary portion of the saamteation. The numbers of Imetesury certiflcetes granted In successive rim Pave bum ILI bikers :-1866-6 (19 months), 243; 111117, 169; 18611, 174; 1960,182. Total, 743. MR. COBDZN AND HIS CONBTITTIENTB. The following letter from Mr. Cobden, M.P., wu yesterday received by Mr. Mellor, town-clerk of Cimino, Pram, Much 3, 1860. Der dr,—Your letter, addressed to the Howe of Com mons, did not reach me, and I have only to-day received your favour of the Sth ult., enclosing the resolutions pseud by the town council of Rochdale, cad the public meeting of the Inhabitants of the borough, approving the conduct of their repreesatative to relation to the negotiation of the treaty of oommeres with France. I regret that I should thus have been accidentally pre vented from tendering to my oonstituenta a more prompt ex pression of my gratitude for this mark of their confidence and kindness; and the more so because ft would have given to me an opportunity of explaining to them the cause of my absence from the Hones of Commons. In compliance with the advice of my medfeal attendant at Pei., I have paid a visit to this temperate region, to scold the severe weather and the lets boars incidental to London parliamentary life in the months of February and March. It is. however, my Intention to return te my post the first week in April ; sad I used hardly add how much I regret my absence from the house daring the recent discussions.— I remain, dear sir► yews truly, Mean. Conalsr. Zilch. Manse, geq.. Town-clerk, RoolsdaJe. The Herald lays We are authorised to state that en Maras. which wee bead to the electors of the money of Cork during the late election, purporting to beer Vimeant Compdee's signature, wee not put forth by his bmffship, and that he wee not cognimat of it till it appeared in print. We believe that his lordship immediately wrote ID this effect to the charms* of the committee appointed to ewer the AttorusrOmeral's return." The unseated member for Roscommon (Captain Goff) bee lowed earldom to the oonstituency. mutating flee to transfer Mohr favour and affection to his brother, a s affear in the led Light Dragoons. at present stationed in Xr. Tinian, the whig Ganadale, and ligament ef the county, who Opel as the Lot coo/MN withdraws his claims for the pram% to order to pretest say divitioa to the ranks of the liberals. This being the policy of the party, it is likely that the O'Coesor Dot will carry the day. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, WIDWUDAY. The journey made on Saturday last by Prime Charles (brother of the Prince Regent) to the Dowager Emma of Ramie at Nioe, had no political object, being undertaken merely upon private family affairs. It is stated in reliable quarters that Russia still continues her passive policy, and that it is untrue that she has entered into negotiations with Austria, TUSCANY. FLORENCE, Tyra 81:47*. A government ordiaanoe has been issued to-day suppressing all former decrees which might tend to modify or restrain the liberty of the press on poli tical matters. . THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, ViLDNLIDLY, The Bourse remains dull, and prime tend down ward. Rents close at 67.85, or lower then yesterday. TURKEY. Letters from Constantinople of the 29th ult. are unanimous in stating that a misunderstanding exists amongst the ministers, and that a change in the ministry is expected shortly. The Europeans have protested against the tax on house rents and the penalties imposed on their communities. - It is certain that the Porte, besides calling out th• redifs, his ordered a double enlistment, u a pre cautionary measure. A body of ulemas have secretly protested to the Sultan against the taking of Tetuan, and have obtained a letter of encouragement and subsidies for Morocco. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, WIDNIIIDAT NIGHT. The Montreal Ocean steam-ehip Bohemian, from Portland ea the 25th ult., has arrived at this port. Her aura has bees antthipmted rid Quisustown. The Now Orleans oorrespondent of the New York Herald gives ea oatlhre of a scheme for the acquisition of Mexico, sad mtatem aa probable that General Houston ia now en route for Rio Grand*, booked by a large force of Texans, to any the scheme iota execution. Great excitement prevailed at Lyim, llassachuastte, aria. beg rat of a shoemakers strike. The ringleaders had beat arrested. ♦ hurricane at Orleans had dons serious damage to ship ping end buildings. Nair Oaxmaxe, Fan. 24.—The market for cotton is firm. and the saes to-day have been 12,000 bales, at lop. to 11d. for taiddliag. The receipts continua on a liberal wale, and thesitaras at all as Southern ports ever the same date last year now amounts to 1304,200 bales. The exports of this mat from tide plea have been 88,000 bales. The quota. dose for sterling exchaage range from 8 to 8d per cent. prem. THE FOREIGN MAILS. Neither the letter of our Paris correspondent, dated yesterday (Wednesday) evening, nor the Ger man =Mb, had arrived when we went to press. CENTRAL ITALY. The fpllowinq is the text of the decree issued by the Governor-General of the Xmilian provinces in reference to the new vote to be taken on Sunday and Monday next : In the Silva of hls Majesty Viola Emmanuel The Governors-General of the Royal PIOViIIONI of the In view of the dictatorial 7Leftell by which the constitn don and electoral law of the kingdom of Sardinia have beta promulgated In the Modeller.), Parmesan, and limnagnol ric v t i o s r e l d niaran d ut l i l e . w d o a t tel e the decTis o 'f f Fehbis Majesty the electoral colleges of the kingdom were convened for the election of deputies to the national parliament: Considering that it is necessary that, before the meeting of parliament, these provinces should obtain a &Muftis. settls m®t ; considering that the messiblies convened at Modems. at Parma, and at Bologna have resolved, by their 101131b11061 votes, upon the annexation of them provinces to the cone& tuneful monarchy of the House of Savoy ; but conaldering that it may not be advantageous to consult the r= directly, with the utmost plenitude of legal upon this, and piecing it also in oomperlson with soother proposition which is being discussed In Europe; tebtht essuranos exists that the popular vote, whatever it may be, will be respected and maintained in respell; coneklwing that, by this means, all doubt is removed throughout Europa as to the lathe liberty of the preceding votes, and as to the min =By and constancy of the national will : By virtue of the full powers conferred upon him by the Ametnbliee, the Governor therefore decrees as follows: ArT.l. The people of these provinces are to be eolwattli coevals& in their comitil on the 11th and 12th days of Itereh. 1860, in order to declare their will upon the two, foie lowing proproltione : 1. Annexaties to the oonatltatkaal monarchy of King Victor Emtemmel... 2. Ora separate kingdom. Art. 11. All citizens who have completed 21 years of age, she who are in the enjoyment of their civil rights, era sum moned to give their vete.. Art. 111. The ayndtos or heeds of the commune, and the communal juntas or administrative bodies, ere, previously to the 11th inst., to add to the already existing lista of oom. round electors the tames of those citizen. who ere not coin. primed therein, end who have been domiciled within the imm inent, for six months past, or who have their occupation them Art. IV. Those persons not inscribed in the list who sea revs that they poems. the conditions which are contemplated by the above snicks, shall be admitted to vote. Art. V. Officers, sub-officers. and soleters shall vote ander the peesideoey of the superior Ligbest in rank at the place where they are stationed at the time of voting. The result of their ballot shall Immediately be notified to the hatandento general of the province. Art VI. The suffrages shall be given by a ticket being deposited in the way of motet ballot. Art. VII. The bellotahall be opined in the chief Moos of each eommuos on tee two days aforesaid, the 11th and 12th of March, from eight e'clock in the morning till five o'clock in the afternoon. Art. VIII. In those communes which have mom then 1,000 electors, the bred, of the commune and the 00€13312111161 administration may, for the greater convenience of the voters, divide them into sections of not hoe than 509. Art. IX. The communal administration eball depute eye members of the communal council to preside in mob of the sections. Three, at least, of theme shell always be present during the voting. They may be assisted by eecreterks their own appointment. Art. X. Every voter shall deposit in the urn provided for that parpose a printed or manuscript ticket, expire= will by this formula 1—" Annexation the Conant Monarchy of King Victor Emanuel 11. ;" or elm by this other formula—. Separate Kingdom." Any tickets bearing smother toscription, whatever it be, ere nue. Art. XI. The voter, before he deposits his ticket in the an, must declare his name and surname, which shall be recorded by one of the count Wats who hold the mission, or by the, eseretary. Art. XII. At five o'clock in the day of the 11th, the ma shall be publicly sealed up by the munition prvsont at the meeting, end they are responaible for its cue y and f,r the leviolability albs seals. Art. XIII. When the balloting bas been closed en the 12th, the urns, sealed up an they are, shall be carried, by two at lease of the councillors, to the chief place of the govern mental district, and or Deigned to the judge, the evertor. or the district government, who then, acting together with them, and in public, is to empty the urns. Art. XIV. The judge", printer", or district government attorneys, shall immediately trounnit the pryers verbal. signed by Meat, attesting the result of the voting to the intendant-general of the marines. Art. XV. Oa the 14th inst. the Courts of Amid and Tribunals et Revision at Bologna, Modena, ma Pangs, having teealvd from the Intendmits-general of the provinces within their respective jurisdiction, the prates vorbasar, showing the results of the several balloting., shell open them altogether at a public sitting, and shall transmit them to the Master of One, and Justice. Art. XVI. The laws and errsogements which the electoral proceedings for the return of communal provincial ooundliare, with a view to 'scum good order sad liberty of voting, are applicable to the present convoostioe. Bologna, March 1, le6o. According to some of the private letters from Neacisester, quoted by the Times, the profits of that city castings on an unprecedented stele, and are expected for the fates, nadir the onamerelal treaty, sod the simplified tariff, to Wrenn even at • still greater pace, supposing the con. tingescy of a ammo failure to be avoided. Three individuals ere seek said to have remstly returned 100,001. to the in. come tax, and the general gains of the cotton trade at preeset are roughly estimated at 1,000,0031. secants per month. During January and February the deposits at the Mau• Chester Ravings Beak slam were 37,000/. r