The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-03 00:00:00

(Ne. 1.) 1 OX FO RD CREW-EIN and CLAPHAM AT KYICS' VERE-MORDAUNT OBITS. Mzuo.—Stop all pew rents and sixpenny rates on the waste of Clapham for my behalf-trust, under 14th Geo. 111., chap. 12, sec. 17, 29, 20—republished in 1825. let—Your deputy parish patron in 1829 is called Bowyer Atkins, in life-trust of the new church pews and waste in the Cubitt families, who have embraced the Calvinistic Paduan articles of the Church of England, as recorded 12 Cal. April 1857 of the Scotch Swiss-Brazilians, in 8 and 9 Will. tit., 1791 and '93 Acts. 2nd—At Oxford, on the occasion of the masonic ball, as identifying the Strasbourg papal bulls recognition of the Apollo lodge, as presided over by, in WALBs presence, Lieut.-CoI.P.G.M. ' Atkins Bowyer, in ensw-eian obit association with the monumental tablets 86 years hid in the MS. script vaults, belieing your forefathers' acts in parish waste relation. 3rd—Know then that by Art. 7 of 31st Geo. H e cap. 32, for the election of Roman Catholic franchised deputies to take oaths of office, all your elected, have been agents of a deputy church, and, in respect to the old church party wall enclosure, ye will now see, by reference to Burke's Extinct Baronetage, that the like illegal marrying, within the de grees of affinity of trust and blood, is the same in the case of the writer's brother (of Atkins Robert) and his wife, of the same Robert Atkins' sister Annabelle, in Fairfax offspring. 4th—Thus the same evil Calvinistio policy for frustrat ing the right of making a will, was the objectionable doctrine for getting Sir Richard Atkins to marry his own grand niece, Rebecca, Sir Wolstan 9 Dixie's daughter—thereby uniting without oath affinity of trust, interests nullifying his and Chamberlayne and wife Fairfax right to make a will, or to appoint Richard Bowyer and William Stonehouse, his wife's nephews, to bear the name of Atkins, as seen at Oxford. sth.—Therefore illegally mixing Agnes, (sister of Re becca), wife of Edward Atkins, son of Sir Robert, whose trustees of the Clapham estate were Sir Richard Piggott and Edward Atkyns. of Norfolk, by 13th Charles 1., re presenting linealy Vere-Monnox, Lord Mordaunt, in default of males in the elder female branch of Chamber layne Edgeombe Atkyns, of Crewe-Montague, for getting also the youngest offspring of Sir Robert Atkyns, second marriage through Anne, wife of Sir John Tracy, now re presented by Hamilton-Charteris-Keck, Lord Bich°, of Stanley, late of Swell-bowl watercourse. Whence the undersigned is the heir-at-law and life owner trustee of the Clapham waste by clauses 17, 2 4 , and 30 of the aforesaid act, whence a cause for his persecution for 42 years, on his refusal to break his magisterial oath of 1837. Such unusual circumstance showing clearly the necessity of parochial and City of London revision, since the sur render of the spiritualities by Papal a gents of the mixed Luther Calvinistic deputy church. ••• N.] Atkyns- Montague C. 04 ACXERLET, EX6O4 04 • • 1-2 W. Iv., N.. 54, Charoberlayne' Gie-sworn. ,te • PETER BAS Qum', Income - tax chief ( 1842 unpaid§ of . • China Nu/ wall circuit horizon of-'London, July 3. k a 1862) its Montezuma'd red flag of N. Ind.-Ns., not in Brant's power to give up IMP. China, lercy in 1793, and cause of the Captain's eleven years support. *The name of Atkins Bowyer under Sir Richard's will of 1756, as well as Fitts waste plot, becomes a legal non r.franity fiction. (See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & Tzmsa June 11.) tiF UN" EVERY WEEK. ONE PENNI'. CRYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW ,- O NE SHILLING.—OPEN at NINE.—BLONDIN on the :HIGH ItOFE over the FOUNTAINS at FOUR. o'Clock. BLONDIN WILL WHEEL PUNCH OVER THE FOUNTAINS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE at FOUR o'Clock TO-MORROW. One Shilling. BLONDIN.-TO-MORROW.-COME EARLY. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY.LANE. Dion Boucicanit, Lessee. TO-NIGHT, THURSDAY, Jul' 3, 188?, the performances will commence at 7, with the SPITALFIELDS WEAVER: Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson, Sara Stevins. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN: Messrs. Dion Boncicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste, Jessie M`Lean, Stevins. To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK : Messrs. Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan. Box-office open from 10 to 5. THEATRE -ROYAL HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Mr. Compton, Miss Caroline Hill, &c. Alter which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (165th'time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitmgl LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps do Ballet. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris, THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Miss M. Harris. After which, at Eight o'clock, Loms XL Mr. and Mrs C. Kean. Supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter, Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, dm. ; Miss Chapman, and Miss N. Chapman. To conclude wi MARRIED. henceCo at 7. No half-price. UOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.' Sole Lessee and Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 198th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. P?lces as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to OOMMOI2OB at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills. Commence a 7 NEW THRATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL-• Sole Pronrietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE INQUIRY: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Billington Miss K. Kelly and Miss K. Bland. To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs. D. Murray, Emery, D. Fisher, BillincYton, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer; Miss Agnes Burdett, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis. To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. CANTERBURY HALL. STECKEL, The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock Immense success of the Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera, "DON SERASTIEN," (Produced here for the first time in this country). Arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell and Signor Tivoli. The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth (the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other man "). Also the following array of Comic Talent, viz. : E. Marshall, J. G. Fordo, A. B. Hollingsworth, Miss Geor gina Smithson. and Joe Brown, the renowned Dancer. T H E O x .F OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET. "THE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES," a Cantata composed by H. LESLIE, Esq., an d written by A. MATTIIISON, Esq., in honour of the Marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, EVERY EVENING, in addition to the usual entertainments, which include operatic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band 'tt Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethiorian oddities of Rumsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the original " or any other man"), and the astounding feats of the miraculous :3T.ECKEL, Champion Trapezist. Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls , ls. ; Private 'Boxes, Its. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIG Dey.—Morning, sh. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. 58m. 70 -monnow.-Morning, 6h. 21m.—Afternoon, 6h. 42m. NOTICE. ,Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstand i ng de b ts d ue i n respect thereof. c 5 ' 1 1 4 Se 4 / kf, , Y * 1 ; 14:4 ' ate' L c . 13 I• 14 • TILE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1862. Oxford has not been slow in emulating the good example of Cambridge. It was only the other day that the latter University offered its tar d y tri butes of honour by robing with a scarlet gown, and crowning with a velvet cap, and endowing with the mystic initials of D.C.L. one of the most vener able and illustrious men now living, the ex-Chan cellor, Lord BROUGHAM. It was only yesterday that similar marks of respect were conferred at last by the former University upon our veteran Premier, Lord PALMERSTON. How ever it should have been left for Oxford thus only in 1862 to proffer her homage to Viscount PALMERSTON, and for Cam. bridge also thus only in 1362 to proffer her homage to Baron BROUGHAM, cannot but remain to us a matter of absolute astonishment. It seems so late in the day for either institution to recognise re spectively the genius and the civism of these re markable men — m „ whose names have been con spicuously emblazoned among the worthies of the last two generations, and whose achievements have cons tituted not the least notable items recorded among our national annals for the last half century ! Strange and unaccountable though this long oversight on the part of cam. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1862. down to the old, weary conviction respecting both the Whigs and Tories and their journalists, that— " He who's convinced against his will, Is of the same opinion still." Secrecy seems to be the great abhorrence of county and pocket-borough members, and of the journals who espouse their cause, till we have been inclined to ask with HUDIBIIAS, taking editorial license with a word or two— " What makes a secret vote a crime, The most notorious of the time— A secret vote, which Tory saints And sinning Whigs cry out against ?" We hardly know what to make of all this vague ad captandum declaration against secrecy, and in praise of publicity. Surely each is appropriate in its place ; the point being to show that secrecy is out of place in giving a vote. There may be, per haps, at the present day, a tendency to nude exhibition of what civilisation and modesty are supposed to prefer concealing. Our better print shops go a long way in this direction—and the procession of a living Lady GODIVA was quite a grand day for the railways to Coventry. The close fitting "flesh coloured silk" and the "rutty Bark," of some unknown damsel, were beauties in the eyes of many thousands, who doubtless wished they could have lived in the better days of PHRYNE. We need cnoontsttihtueerfo n e eie r s e , wonder andall much country that many ou consti tuencies,borgh are required to act the part of political Lady GODIVAS, and to make public their moral nudity without even the short petticoats or the silk, or even a girdle of fig-leaves. It is asserted that bribery, and still more overpowering landlord influence, there must be and will be. So, undress it—and let every county constituency unblushingly ride the Whig or the Tory horse provided by the county landlords—and let all the poor tenants at will expose the naked fact of their subjection to their landlords. On this moral nakedness depends the charter of our aristooracy, just as that of Coventry should depend on the physical nakedness of Madame GODIVA. The universal power of public opinion is appealed to as requiring public voting for its expression. The argument is, indeed, a curious one. Public opinion in free countries is the means, we are told, by which men climb to power. It becomes, there fore, so valuable that men will bribe and use un due influence to get possession of it—this influence and bribery are " the proofs of the reign of public opinion—but this cannot be done with secrecy, for publicity is the very soul of the system." To which we entirely assent. This bribery and undue influ ence are entirely due to the publicity. But surely so far as they go they destroy public opinion, and substitute for it the interests and ambition of those who purchase or coerce the voters. The advocates of the ballot desire nothing more than to give the fullest weight to public opinion. What they affirm, and what they prove from the experience of every country where there is a real ballot, is that it ren ders an appeal to the understanding, instead of one to the covetousness or fears, or low passions, of the voter necessary. If by public opinion be meant - the opinion of landlords and wealthy masters, of bankers and lawyers, of creditors and customers, then no doubt open voting collects it accurately enough. But if public opinion means the opinion of the electoral constituencies, assuredly a secret vote is its only guarantee. It is a perfectly just remark of Mr. BERKELEY'S that the "chief attribute of the Ballot is, that is the barrier against the usurpation of political power, whether by the aristocracy, the money ocracy, or a fierce democracy." As a means of taking votes in a free country, it is neither, pro perly speaking, a demoeratic nor an aristrocratic device—it is popular when the aristocracy oppress, it is aristocratic when the people oppress ; but everywhere it is conservative, if by conservative we mean the preservation of their political rights to those from whom some kind of violence or corrup tion would endeavour to filch them. At Notting ham and Longford it would have been found to neutralise the unfair influence of the mob and of the priests respectively. In an English county, in due time, it would neutralise landlord despotism. In corrupt boroughs it would double the difficulties of their corrupters. Everywhere it would liberate the timid and the dependent, in most places it would make a bribe of little worth. This, let the present possessors of undue influence rage as they will, is the true account of the working of the Ballot. The discussion coming on this evening in the House of Commons in reference to the sayings and doings, the sittings, and the report of the Thames Embankment Committee, must not on any account be slurred over. There is the evidence now in the hands of hon. members, and of the bear ing of that evidence they can, one and all of them, judge. Several days have elapsed since the blue book was published. It is ample enough in its detail of facts in all conscience. It is, in fast—for cynical readers especially—only too readable. As affording evidence unmistakeable of the weak nesses of human nature, it is almost painfully ludi crous to contemplate, here and there. Some of the witnesses go upon their hands and knees, as it were, along one sacred portion of the 'mite, to wit, the river frontage of White hall-gardens. Yesterday we took occasion to afford our readers a taste of this, by presenting them with excerpts from the exemplary evidence elicited on behalf of his Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH from the lips of the Hon. CHARLES GORE, when that gentleman stood under a cross fire of ques tions before the Committee. An ample banquet of the like appetitizing tidbits the House has a fair prospect of enjoying now at its leisure this evening. In the enjoyment of it, however, let not the Com mons forget the heavy weight of responsibility that now devolves upon them in this matter of the Thames Embankment. The Government Commis sion has long ago pronounced its deliberate opinion up . = that subject of a Northern Thames Embank ment. Out of that deliberate opinion of the Com mission has come forth the Government Bill mark ing out the whole scheme, and defining it in all its details. The committee sat upon that scheme, upon the Bill, upon the recommendation of the Commis sioners, and we all know now with what result. At the eleventh hour all the arrangements are changed. The grandest of all our metropolitan improvements, has been marred to a very lamentable extent. And all this for the personal convenience of the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, and at a cost to the public of an outlay—here of £90,000, there of £300,000 additional. The House of Commons has the power to sweep away these shameful concessions to the Duke of BUCCLEUCH on the part of a subservient committee. Let the House, by promptly using that power, perfect the whole project of this Northern Embankment. It never rains but it pours—at Turin as elsewhere. Xing VICTOR EMMANUEL—if he is constrained to put down with a heavy hand the immature and, as his Ministers think, the premature move ments recently discovered to be in preparation on the part of certain Garib aldians—receives very notable auguries of success from remote and widely dif ferent directions, Imperial and Royal auguries of taneonsly from Lisbon success coming to him simul and from St. Petersburgh. The long looked-for recognition of the Kingdom of Italy by the Russian Autocrat is borne into his M.JESTY'S presence, at length, by the hands of a Mtscovite Ambassador. And simultaneously with the arrival of this Envoy Extraordinary from the Empror ALEXANDER IL, comes an Envoy also from tilt young King of POR TUGAL asking his MAJESTY of Italy to bestow upon that Monarch, in marriage, the youthful Princess MARIA PIA of Savoy. Hands of fellowship thus extended to VICTOR EMMANUIL from such opposite directions, and both of them on pleas so eminently gratifying in themselves, will tend, probably, to heartei the councils of His MAJESTY at Turin, in the development of a policy strangely compotnded of caution and audacity. Meanwhile Genaral GARIBALDI has nothing for it but to command his impatience and still more the impatience of his followers. How long the present state of trues in Italy may last it were difficult to predict. But in the meantime the Government of Turin is being ;lowly but appreciably strengthened ; while the notes of preparation for some new outbreak of war, tratapet notes so often sounded from Caprera fully hif it year since, are gradually, on the other hand, dying away in faint and fainter echoes. LATEST NEWS. WARSAW, JULY 2. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Constantine arrived here at 6.80 p.m. to-day, and were warmly cheered by crowds of people who awaited their arrival. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Alhambra, Captain J. D. Steward, arrived at 1 a.m., with mails in charge of Commander Bingham, R.N., naval mail agent, 14 passengers, £2,319 in specie, a box of precious stones, 12 boxes of machinery, 120 chests of oranges, 62 boxes of lemons, 5 boxes onions, 193 boxes of eggs, and 20 general merchandise. packages of This packet left Lisbon at 9 a.m. on the 27th ult., Oporto at 10 a.m. on the 28th, and Vigo at 7 a.m. on the 29th, and had fresh N. to N.E. winds, with overcast, hazy weather. Off Finisterre, on the 29th, the Alhambra spoke the Company's steamer Delta, bound south. There were no English vessels of war at Lisbon when the Alhambra left. The usual Portuguese squadron was lying in the Tagus. The exchanges this packet were, at three months. for London, 531 to 531 ; Paris, 530 to 532 . ; Hamburg, 48 ; Amsterdam, 42k ; Genoa, 527, Three per Cent. Stock, 461 to 46/. Bank of Portugal Shares, 558 to 560; Bank of Oporto Shares, 258 to 260. bridge, in regard to Lord BROUGHAM, and on the part of Oxford in regard to Lord PALMERSTON—the fact in each instance has been signalised unmistakeably by the very circumstance that these two veteran celebrities have at length been enrolled among the D.C.L.'s of a younger generation. Their reception by that younger generation, by those undergraduates who are the grandsons of the earlier contemporaries of Lord BROUGHAM and of Lord PALMERSTON, cannot possibly have been otherwise than productive to each of those eminent men of feelings of intense gratification. It must have assured them beyond any doubt of the fact that their fair fame has indeed, during the lapse of these years, so far from fading away, ripened and mellowed, and, so far as that might come to be the case, perfected. Both Lord PALMERSTON and Lord BROUGHAM have at any rate had proof positive brought to I their knowledge, in the ringing cheers that wel comed the one at Oxford and the other previously at Cambridge, that their careers are in truth ap preciated, and that their reputations are dear to their fellow countrymen. The ovation accorded to the Prime Minister yesterday in the old Sheldonian Theatre at Ox ford was—as such ovations necessarily are when thus tardily received—like an anticipation of the approval of posterity. It was a welcome nobly deserved, and one that we doubt not was tho roughly enjoyed by its recipient. As a sober sequel to the enthusiastic greeting of the undergraduates came the presentation of of the address to Lord PALMERSTON later on in the afternoon, at the Town Hall of the city of Oxford, by the Corporation. That address was of itself a most gratifying tribute, which declared, among other things, to Lord PALMERSTON—" As representatives of all classes of the citizens, and the blessings of n a ti ona l gratefully acknowledging peace and prosperity, we feel certain that we ex press the feelings of the whole country, that it is owing to the wisdom, vigour, and firmness which distinguish your lordship's administration that we have escaped a participation in those calamities and horrors with which other parts of the world have been afflicted, and at the same time have maintained unimpaired our relations with foreign Powers. It is the deep sense which we entertain of the obligation the whole nation is under to your lordship that has moved our Council, composed of all parties, to this unanimous expression of our feelings." Town and Gown have thus, therefore, together, given an ovation to Lord PALMERSTON. It rather tends to enhance the value of the academic tribute of respect and admiration accorded in the earlier part of yesterday to our veteran Premier in the Sheldonian Theatre, that the roof beams there do annually echo back from the under graduates' gallery so many home truths, expressed in the homeliest vernacular, and upon subjects so various in their character ; wide as the poles asunder ; trivial and momentous ; ranging " from grave to gay, from lively to severe ;" jumping in many an odd and instantaneous step from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again ! Of these distinctive peculiarities of Commemoration-day down at Oxford, yesterday afforded those who assisted at it many an apt illustration. " Folly as it flies" was shot, there and then, unerringly by many a random shaft discharged from that noisy and hilarious throng of undergraduates. Popu larities and unpopularities were "ventilated" in rapid succession, and were each in turn greeted very much, indeed, as they deserved. It was noticeable thus, from the loyal cries that were the signals for the first display of anything like hearty enthu siasm—the names of " The QUEEN," of " The Prince of Wales," and of the fair young Bride of only the day before, " The Princess Alacz"— down through all that wonderful and motley catalogue which followed a catalogue of names renowned or notorious, eminent or ridiculous. " JEFF. DAVIS " appeared to be far higher in favour than old ABE " LINCOLN." General BUTLER'S name—a name henceforth to be associated with that of HAYNAU, the woman flogger—called forth, at the first whisper of it, a storm of groans and hisses. Even those preposte rous personages, my Lord DUNDREARY and "that comprehensive variety of the human species," as the reporter quaintly describes him, known as " Any Other Man" came in repectively for the youngsters' approbation. Absurd though the scene witnessed in the Sheldonian Theatre on the annual Commemoration Day, it has neverthe less its wholesome influence and its very express and readily appreciable significance. And seldom has there been afforded a more signal evidence of this than yesterday. The small Liberal minority and vast Tory majority performed their annual drill last night with their wonted precision. Even in the absence of Lord PALMERSTON, his lieutenant, Sir G. GREY, with the customary help of Mr. NEWDEGATE, beat the majority of the Liberals with ease by a majority of eighty-five. " And so the bill is lost" —the bill which no one would back to win in a Parliament, DERBY-DISRAELI, by election, but officered by Lord PALMERSTON. The atonement made last night to the sacred cause of bribery and " . undue influence," has, we observe, soothed the wrath of our great morning contemporary, and enabled it again to pour forth complacently its accustomed stream of contemptuous banter. We have, indeed, nothing to complain of. The Times never gave itself the trouble to understand the Ballot as a serious subject. Editors must have topics on which they can indulge in a little pleasantry, and it is quite fair that Mr. BRRKELEY, with his annual motion, should be the SISYPHUS and the TANTALUS of the times. Perhaps quite as fair, the whole business being but a jqke for our contemporary, that its arguments should resemble so strongly the Kilkenny cats. We should like ,however, our opponents to choose which of the self-devouring arguments they will adopt, We should recommend them to toss up for it. Say heads, for the argument that the Ballot will destroy the legitimate influence of property ; tails, for the opposite one, that it will not secure secrecy at all. Or, again, heads for the argu ment that it i s arand teiim a Democratical measure ; and tails for its pair, that the people will buerc ash se much as before fo l u idor We confess the at hands c o o ft e h s the thatvcte _pwe have sometimes, bet ween these conflicting arguments, as been urged e S ISYPHUS and TANTALUS. been We in h he d for some time completely destroy e d one of t v the arguments ` 7—i h ave h e the q uestion -- b uts just was h e ld with such pertinacity th at we thou g ht it to be the tu rn ing point of q as the victory was apparently in immediate prospect, the stone within a foot of the summit of the hill, the fruit or the water just touched by the lips, when away went the argument and our vict or y to g ether —" Oh, no, I obj ect to the Ballot f or j u st the oppo site reason to that I have urged hitherto, you must answer the contradictory of what I have all along maintained l" We brace ourselves to the new task —but, again, this is no sooner all but accomplished, when again the routed antagonist rejects his last, and picks up again his old argument ; till you settle THE FINE ART! CLUB. This distinguished associaticu gave last evening its concluding and most attuctive conversations when Miss Burdett Coutts, oneof its members, very kindly placed at its disposal the spacious and ele gant reception-rooms of her residence in Piccadilly. The club were accordingly enabled to issue invita tions to all the leading literery, artistic, and scien tific visitors of our capital, as well as to to most of the notabilities of our own fashionable and artistic circles, and the result was one of the most numerous and brilliant reunions of the season. The company began to assemble shortly after nine o'clock, and before eleven must have amounted to above a thou sand persons. The Fine Arts Club which, we may be allowed to mention, has no public aim what ever, but is simply a society of ladies and gentle men, which meets for the promotion of an artistic taste by discussing questions, and exhibiting specimens illustrative of art in general, fulfilled, it will be seen, on this occasion, a very graceful public duty, in placing itself in harmony with the immediate ,spirit of the time. tPerhaps, we ought rather to say, that, in so doing, it obeyed an impulse which was not more natural to it than praiseworthy. Art, which is cosmopolitan, cannot restrict itself on great occasions to any social limi tations. The love of the skilled and beautiful springs out of a general faith, which, however in may in quire in secret, always tends to worship openly. Whilst our religious and political systems have yet got to devise the syncretic scheme, which shall en fold, in one loving family, all parties and denomi nations, art, —humanity's great harmoniser, from the earliest hour that a sense of beauty dawned in the soul of Greek or Assyrian, has gently, persua sively, and increasingly woven the etherial mental bonds that unite the heart of man, as a preparation for his highest ties. Artistic clubs therefore, however private, must always indirectly exert some general influence. Each of their members; as he continues to enlarge his knowledge, and deepen his sympathies, becomes the centre of a refining action in less artistic circles than his own, which cannot fail, however, gradu ally to adjust others to his own standard. These remarks are naturally prompted by the reunion of last evening, whether in respect to the means it afforded for an exchange of thought and sympathy —so much in harmony with the Exhibition—or whether in reference to the evidence of the superior taste of the association as presented in their striking display of articles of vertu about the rooms. A more valuable or unique collection has rarely been submitted to inspection, Porcelain—Sevres, and Dresden, of the most exquisito colours and pattern, miniatures and enamels of the most perfect finish, and. cameos of the most striking eharpneee, together with antiques of various kinds, but all of the utmost value and rarity covered the tables, and raised the regret that so little time was afforded the visitor to do them the justice they demanded. We may refer to one specimen especially as a tolerable type of their worth and beauty—a magnificent cameo contributed by the Right Hon. W. Glad ' stone—an illustration of Jupiter and Thetis, which, whether in respect to the size of the figures, or the sharpness and clearness of their exe cution is one of the greatest triumphs of the kind which we have ever had the pleasure of seeing. La conclusion, we feel some acknowledgment is due from the visitors to the refined and hospitable hostess under whose roof they were enabled to assemble, and who, by the distinguished part she has taken in the leading movements of our time, religious, social, and artistic—nobly devoting her resources to the noblest of all ends, has done so much to elevate the character of Englishwomen in our day. We are unable to append a list of the eminent assemblage on this occasion, and can only supply the names of a few we were able to recog nise, viz., the French and Turkish Ambassadors, the Duke D'Aumale, the Marquis D'Azeg lio, the Marquis and Countess Dell Caretto, the Marquis and Coun tess Villamarina, the Count and Countess D'Audine, the Bishop of London, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Welling ton, Earl and Countess Grey, Earl and Countess Stanhope, Earl and Countess Egremont, Lord and Lady Manley, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Sir George Ellis, Sir Frederick Madden, Sir John and Lady Bowring, Sir Roderick Mur chison, Professor Owen, Professor Huxley, Mr. Layard, Sir Edwin Landseer, Messrs. Stanfield, Roberts, Ward, Millais, Frith, and other artists. DESPATCH OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAILS. —Yesterday the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of New York, Capt. Petrie, was despatched from Liverpool for New York, with mails for the United States, a large number of passengers, together with cargo, &c. To. day the Quebec and Montreal Royal mail steamer Norwegian will leave the Mersey for Quebec, with mails for Canada and the United States. On Satur day the Cunard Royal mail steamer Persia will be de spatched from Liverpool for New York with mails for the United States, British North America, Bahamas, and Havannah. THE OUTWARD WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. —SOUTHAMPTON, July 2.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato, Captain V* oolley, sailed hence to-day, at 3 o'clock, with "the fortnightly mails for the British and Foreign West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific, California, &c. She took out 119 passengers, including Sir B. Clarke and lady, Staff-Assistant Surgeon Ferguson, Ensign Allison, and Lieuts. Temple and Gavin, for Barbadoes ; Lieut.- Col. Peady, for Demerara; and Deputy-Commissary- General Edwards, for Jamaica. The Atrato took out on freight, English gold and silver coin, value £19,575; jewellery, &c., £972; French gold and silver coin, value £5,172 ; jewellery, &c., £6,975, and a general cargo of French and English merchandise. THE LATE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —Mr. Jay, the railway contractor, by the aid of a powerful pumping engine which he has had at work for the last few days, yesterday succeeded in clearing the water out of the railway works, and a large body of labourers were at once set to work to clear away the pieces of broken timber and brickwork, preparatory to the rebuilding of the buttery wall. Messrs. Dethick and Cooke, the contractor and sur veyor to the Board of Works, have also had a large pumping engine placed at the shaft of the sewer, immediately above where the fracture took place, and which, being kept con tinually in action, effectually presents any flow of the sewage into the railway, by turning it into the new cuttings or pipes. The effluvium arising from this open cutting is a great annoyance to the inhabitants in•the neighbourhood, and the above gentlemen are devising some measures by which this evil may be lessened, if not altogether removed. HORSE RAILWAYS IN SWITZERLAND. —The horse railway from Geneva to Carouge—the first section of the lines of horse railways to be constructed in the Canton of Geneva under the concession granted to Mr. Burn, C.E., was opened with the greatest success on Thursday, the 19th ult. The opening of the line was celebrated by a local fete at Carouge, when 7,000 people were carried from Geneva and back. The fares on this line are the lowest ever at tempted, and amount to a fraction more than id. per pas senger per mile. This is the first line of horse railway that has been laid down on the Continent on the American system. The rail used is a grooved rail of peculiar form, which presents no obstruction or inconvenience to the ordi nary traffic of the roads. AMERICA NEW YORK, JUNE 21. General M'Clellan's army before Richmond has been reinforced by the corps under General M'Dowell. The weather is fine, and the roads firm in Vir ginia. General Morgan, of the Federal army, re ports to the War Department, under date of the 18th inst., that he that day marched upon and occupied Cumberland Gap, which the enemy evacuated four hours before his arrival. Cumberland Gap is a pass in the Cumberland mountains at a point where the boundary lines of the States of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee converge. A telegram authorised by the Federal Govern ment, which stated some days ago that Little Rock the capital of Arkansas, had been occupied by a Federal force under General Curtis, is unfounded. That city still remains in the possession of the Con federates. No further intelligence that can be .depended upon has been received of the movements or posi tion of General Beauregard. Vicksburg still holds out against the Federal flotilla. The Confederates declare their intention to defend the city to the last extremity. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 2.—Business is still limited in amount, and the market heavy. Threes, for the end of the month, are now at 68f. 30c, Little doing in Railway Shares. The market closed as follows : 4t per Cents. 96 70 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 15 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 835 Do. end month 835 - RAIL, Bank Shares 3140 Credit koncier 1635 Piedmontesc Fives 73 20 Italian Loan 73 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes 51 Home Debt - AYS. Orleans Cash. Account. 1250 .. 1260 -- Northern .. •. . lO3O 1047 50 New ditto . 992 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 1073 76 .. 1080 Geneva .. Southern B3S 75 836 25 Western Eastern Sardinian .. Austrian Lombard 606 50 .. 601 25 JURYMEN'S GRIEVANCES. EMIGRATION 70 THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES. The report of the emigration during the past year to our North American colonies has just been pub lished, and shows that they have benefited in this respect by the American war. The number of per sons landed at Quebec during the season was 19,923 or 9,733 more than in the previous year. There were also 4,664 arrivals in Canada by the American route. At all times, however, a large proportion of those who sail hence for the St. Lawrence intend to proceed to the United States, and on the present occasion the total was 10,700, so that out of 24,587 arrivals in the province the aggregate that actually remained was 13,887. The number of vessels en gaged in the conveyance of the 19,923 emigrants to Quebec was 147, of which 40 were steamers and 107 sailing ships. The former had an average pas sage of 12 days and the latter 381 days from ports in the United Kingdom, and 50 from the Continent. The proportion from the United Kingdom was 9,305, from Germany 1,318, and from Norway 8,620. The latter were chiefly the parties who proceeded to the United States, where they have large settlements in Illinois and Wisconsin. The emigration from the United Kingdom was particularly healthy, but four deaths having occurred during the passage — one female adult and three children, two of whom were infants ; but in the German and Norwegian emigration there was the heavy mortality of between two and three per cent., owing to the absence of that medical inspection which is enforced in emi grant ships sailing from British ports. Small-pox and measles are ascertained to have prevailed among them previous to embarkation. The nationality of of the emigrants of last year and of 1860 is stated as follows : English Irish Scotch Germans Norwegians Danes French Americans .. Colonists .. Total .. 1860. 1861. .. 2,491 .. 3,574 .. 2,831 .. 3,180 .. 1,850 .. 2,015 .. 725 .. 2,040 .. 1,809 .. 8,668 .. 74 .. 54 4 .. 366 .. .. 10,150 .. 19,923 The increase appears chiefly in the foreign emi grants, which amounts to 8,154, or equal to over 360 per cent. From the United Kingdom the in crease was 1,597, or 21* per cent. Of the emigrants from the United Kingdom, a large proportion were persons possessing means, who came out with the intention of occupying the free grant lots offered by the Government. As regards the trades or call ings of the adult emigrants, of whom the total number embarked was 7,464, it appears that they were classed as follows, showing that the majority from the United Kingdom were labourers and me chanics, while from the Continent they were mostly farmers Total. British. Foreign. Farmers .. .. 3,865 .. 993 .. 2,872 Labourers .. .. 2,227 .. 1,737 .. 496 Mechanics .. .. 846 .. 651 .. 189 Professional men .. 39 .. 35 .. 4 Servants (male) .. 31 .. 30 .. 1 Clerks and traders .. 300 .. 300 .. Miscellaneous and un enumerated .. .. 156 .. 94 .. Total .. .. 7,646 .. 3,840 .. 3,624 Nearly all the emigrants who arrived are stated to have readily found employment at fair wages, and it is added that the prospects for the present year are upon the whole favourable. From reports re ceived from foreign sources, a large influx of emi grants is expected this season from Germany and Norway. Ireland is now being canvassed by the agents of the Provincial Government, and maps, pamphlets, &c., containing the fullest information, have been circulated throughout Great Britain. Information recently elicited by the Bureau of Agriculture, in reply to questions addressed by them to the municipal authorities throughout Canada, shows that the following number and classes of emigrants are required in various parts of the country : Farm labourers .. .. 4,916 Female servants • • Boys over 13 years .. Girls nver ditto .. .. Mechanics .. .. .. 3,342 .. 2,486 .. 2,259 .. 2,610 15,613 In concluding his report to the Governor-Genera], Mr. Buchanan, the chief emigration agent, ob serves :—" The continuance of hostilities in the United States has been the occasion of directing the attention of many persons in that country to advantages which Canada offers; and I have re ceived numerous inquiries from residents there re specting the Crown lends open for sale in this pro vince. A large number of French Canadians have returned from the States during the last year, some to their native places, and others to settle on the Crown lands in the Ottawa, where they had every prospect of doing well." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. SlR,—The remarks of the press on the above subject will, it is to be hoped, receive that attention at the hands of the Legislature which its import ance demands ; and the sooner the better, because the errors of the present system have long been felt as rather unsatisfactory and a little unfair. The attendance of both special and common jurymen is, very properly, strictly enforced, and in cases of non-attendance they are equally liable to such fine as the judge may think proper to impose. Such being the case, and as they each alike incur the responsibility of neglect, it is but right that the rate of remuneration should not be so widely diffe rent as it is at present. The special juror receives a guinea a time, and the common juror Bd.—an ab surdly small sum for similar duties. The common juror ought to have ss. a time, and no reasonable person will say that is too much. The special jurors are also subjected to great in convenience; they have very often to wait days for a case, which, after all, is withdrawn, and they are dismissed without receiving a farthing. This is glaringly unjust. Because the litigants choose and demand a special jury, and if they withdraw the case, the jury in attendance have as much right to be paid as the counsel and attorneys; and if you, Sir, think that the cause will be aided by the pub lication of this letter, its insertion will greatly oblige Your most obedient servant, GEORGE ELLIS. July 2, 1862. PARLIAMENTABY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS —YESTERDAY. THE BALLOT , The following members voted in favour of the second reading of the Ballot Bill : Acton, Sir J. Gavin , M a j or O'Reilly, M. Sir H. Adair, H. E. Gibson , T. M. Owen, Adam, W. P. Gilpin , C . Pa a dmore, R. Alcock, T. Gol damid, Sir F. Pgettt, Francis C. Atherton, Sir W. Gower, F. L. Pigo, Greene, Capt. J. Pilicington, James Ayrton, A. S. Ponsonby, A. Baines, E. Gregson, S. Potter, E. Barnes, Thomas Hadfield, Geo. ir J. Potts, George Bellew, R. M. Hanmer, SHeadlam, Thos. E Ricardo, O. Berkeley, Col. Henley, Lord Russell, A. J. E. Berkeley, C. ne ssy, J. P. Russell, Sir Win Biddulpb,;Col. R. nen ".- Hibbert, J. Seely, C. • Black, AI Adam Holland, E. Seymour, Sir AL Blake, J. A.Shafto, R. D. B on ham Carter, J. Butt gyp., Jackson, W. Shelley, Sir J. P. Bright, J. Kershaw, J. Sheridan, H. B. Buchanan, W. King, Hon. P. Sidney, Thomas Buller, Sir A. Kinglake, A. W. Smith, J . B . Butler, C. S. Buxton, C. Kinglake, Serj. J. Som erv ill e, Sir W. Hon, Langton, H. G. Stanley, H Lanigan, J. . O. Caird, James Stansfeld, J. Clay, James Lawson, W. Clifford, C. C. Stuart, Col. Layard, A. H. Clifton, Sir R. Sullivan, M. Leatham, E. Clive, George Tollem h Taylor, P. A. Cobden, R. Lee, W. W in . Lewis, Harvey Tite, m. Coning,ham, Copeland, Ald. Locke, John: an e, Hon.F. Corbany, M. E. M`Cann, J. Trelawny, Sir J. $' Cox, W. McEvoy, E. Villiers, lit. Hon. C. Vivian,' 0 fE.H. J Maguire, J. p . an, 11. H. ~.,rau , Crossley, Frank Martin, P. liv. Warner, Edward Watkin Jr L• V Dalglish, Robert Massey, W. N, Ur s, J. L. V. Dillwyn, Lewis L. 3.lerry, James ~ emyss, J. Douglas, Sir C. Mills, J. R. Westhead, J. Poulton, F. White, Jas Mitchell, T. A. . Drax, J. E. Wickham' H. W Monsen, Rt. H 1 ' W. Duff, M. E. .reir Willcox B. M. Monson, w 11 ' ' Duke, Sir James Morris 15 •j. Williams, W. Evans, Sir De L. Mo rrison ' • Wood, W. w Wyld, James Ewing, H. B. C. O'Brien • Foley, Hon. H. W. O'Con n ' r• TELLERS. Freeland, H. W. _ ot Don, The Berkeley, Ho n . H . onslo '• w, Gtuldford Fermoy, Lord CRYSLAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY.-- GREAT FOU NTAINS,.-W ED NESDAY, FOU NTAINS,.-W ED NESDAY,JULY 2.—Ad m i ss i ons on payment, 10,172 ; ditto by season tickets, 982; total 11,154. who has been f requently The Abbe Ri c h ar d, mentioned for his skill in discovering water springs, has lately in Hungary been exceedingly successful. At De breczin, about 70 miles from Pesth, he pointed out several places were springs existed, and in one instance a boring was made in his presence, at a place where he said water would be reached at a depth of 25 feet; the 24th was hardly reached when water rushed out and rose to a height of 21 feet, ANONYMA. A writer in a contemporary says—Early in the season of 1861 a young lady, whom I must call Anonyma, for I have never been able to learn her name, made her appearance in Hyde-park. She was a charming creature, beautifully dressed, and she drove with ease and spirit two of the hand somest brown ponies eye ever beheld. Nobody in society had seen her before ; nobody in society knew her name, or to whom she be longed ; but there she was, prettier, better dressed, and sitting more gracefully in her carriage than any of the fine ladies who envied her her looks, her skill, or her equipage. A good many young gentlemen seemed to be acquainted with her ; but their recognition was generally limited to a respectful. bow as she passed by, or to a few friendly words slily interchanged on the step of her pony-carriage when she drew up in some remote corner of the Park. Anonyma seemed at first to be rather a shy dam sel. She is somewhat bolder now. Last year she avoided crowds, and affected unfrequented roads, where she could more freely exhibit her ponies' marvellous action, and talk to her male acquain tances with becoming privacy. When all th e fashionable world were sauntering on foot, on horse back, and in carriages along the Ladies' Mile by the side of the Serpentine, Anonyma used to betake herself to the deserted thoroughfare leading from Apßsulety, asll o th u e se f t a o m K e e o n f s h in e g r t b o e n a . uty and her equipage spread, this privacy became impossible to her. The fashionable world eagerly migrated in search of her from the Ladies' Mile to the Kensington-road. The highest ladies in the land enlisted themselves as her disciples. Driving became the rage. Three, four, five, six hundred guineas were freely given for pairs of ponies, on the simple condition that they should show as much breeding as Anonyma's. If she wore a :pork-pie hat, they wore pork-pie hats; if her paletot was made by Poole, their paletots were made by Poole.; if she reverted to more femi nine attire, they reverted to it also. Where she drove, they followed ; and I must confess that, as yet, Anonyma has fairly distanced her fair compe titors. They can none of them sit, dress, drive, or look as well as she does ; nor can any of them procure for money such ponies as Anonyma con trives to get—for love. But the result of all this pretty play causes a great public nui sance, and it is on that ac count, and not at all on account of my admiration for _ A nonyma and h er stepp i ng pon i es, t h a t I now ad dress you. I have said that up to tho beginning the Ladies' the fashionable world chiefly affected) roughfare from Mile in the Park, and that the of last year thor ou g hfare un- Apsley-house to Kensington was " But this year, when frequented, save by AD (tors to the Exhibition, it for the convenience ohfv;ashionable carriages —from that road is more especially required to be kept open is daily choked i w o i n t account of Anonyms. Chairs five to seven--al it on either side; the best partis are placed along knows, m, the toadies who cli ng t o th e sit there , watchin g d ho copy them—all t t h h e at s E n n ob g s la w England for Anor l Y About 6 p.m. a rumour ar i s e s that Anonyn3a is coming . Exp ec t at i on i s ra i se d to it s highest pitch; a handsome w oman drives rapidly by na. in a carriage drawn by thoroughbred ponies of sur., passing shape and action; the driver is attired in the pork-pie hat and the Poole paletot introduced by Anonyma; but, alas ! she causes no effect at all, for she is not Anonyma ; she is only the Duchess of A—, the Marchioness of B—, the Countess of C—, or some other of Anonyma's many eager imitators. The crowd, disappointed, reseat themselves, and wait. Another pony carriage succeeds—and another—wi th the same depressing result. At last their patience is rewarded. Anonyma and her ponies appear, and they are satisfied. She threads her way dextßrously, with an unconscious air, through the throng, com mented upon by hundreds who admire and, hun dreds who envy her. She pulls up her ponies to speak to an acquaintance, and her carriage is in stantly surrounded by a multitude; she turns and drives back again towards Apsley-house, and then —away into the unknown world, nobody knows whither. Meantime, thousands returning from the Exhibition are intolerably delayed by the crowd collected to gaze on this pretty creature and her pretty ponies, and the efforts of Sir Richard Mayn e and his police to keep the thoroughfare open are utterly frustrated. Could not you, sir, whose business it is to know everything and everybody, and who possibly, there fore, may know Anonyma herself, prevail on her to drive in some other portion of the Park as long as the Exhibition lasts ? If she will but consent to do this, the fashionable crowd will certainly follow her, and the road to the Exhibition will be set free for the use of the public. LORD PALMERSTON AT OXFORD. 4 OXFORD, JULY 2. The annual commemoration of the founders and benefactors of the Oxford University took place in the Sheldonian Theatre this morning. The proceed ings were rendered more than usually interestiog by the announcement that, on this occasion, the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law would be conferred, among other personages of distinction, on Lord Palmerston. The doors of the theatre wer e opened at ten o'clock, and in a short time the build" ing was completely packed, th e ga ll ery being filled by undergraduates, the semi-circle by ladies, an d the area by masters of arts and the general public. No sooner was the theatre filled than the usual cries began, cheers being given for those who were wes t in favour, varied by groans and hisses for these whose popularity was not great among the under' graduates. The most enthusiastic cheers were given for the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alic e ', Lord Palmerston, the L or d Ch ance ll or , the Earl a Derby, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Disraeli. The re ception accorded to the name of Earl Russell Wag not very enthusiastic, while mingled cheers an d groans were given for Mr. Bright, Dr. Lushingt °l3 ' and others. Opinions in reference to foreign o at. tern were expressed in chee rs f or G ar ib a ldi, a nd th e Confederate States of America. Cheers and go alie for the Emperor of the French and General Butl er : Nor was the University fo rgo tt en , th e p r octors n ot being very warmly received, while the University Rifle Corps and the University Eight received d ue hon ours. In the midst of the noise occasioned by these pro ceedings, the doors were thrown open and the pr o ' cession appeared, headed by the Vice-Chancellor and several of the most distinguished visitors, svo n g whom were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Archdeaeori Clerke, &c., followed by the heads of colleges , Pro fessors, &c. The proceedings were then gone through in the customary form, the degree of D.C.L. being Con ferred on Lord Palm ers t on ; hi s ExcExcelle ncy Cora. Francisco Ign ac i o d e C arva lh o M o reire, Envoy Extraordina r y an d Mi n i ster Plenipoten tiary from the Emp eror o f th e B raz il s; the Rig ° , Hon. Sir Edmund W a lk er H ea d ; Li e ut.-Gene ral Sir James Outram ; Si r R oun d e ll P a lmer, NO,' ; the Rev. S. A. Je rem i e ; P ro f essor Wheatstone ; Watson, Esq., Pr es id en t o f th e Royal Colleg e °' Physicians ; and H. Taylor, Esq. • the On the termination a the proceedings al theatre, the greater portion of the company repair! e to the Town Hall for the purpose of witnessing !:11 presentation of an address to Lord Palmerfn from the corporation of Oxford. The hall way crowded, and Lord Palmerston, on entering the room, accompanied by the Mayor of Oxford, the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Cardwell, m.p., and aldermen and other members of the cor poration, was loudl y cheered. Th e address having been presented, Lord PALMERSTON rose amid loud cheers and said ---Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen of the Corpora tion, I can assure you I feel highly gratified and extremely proud to receive this testimony of good will from the corporation of this ancient city—a city famous in history—famous in some of the most remarkable periods of our story, and always distinguished by unshaken loyalty to the Crown of these realms. I appear before you, I hope, an emblem of that harmony which ought always to prevail in cities which are the seats of education for the youth of the realm ; for I COM° before you in a garb which denotes that I have had the honour of becoming a member of the University of Oxford—(cheers)—and I also meet with a most cordial reception from the corporation of the city. There have occasionally in some seats of learning been dissensions between " town" and "gown." trust that the dissension of town with gown maY be perpetually the benefit of both. (Cheers.) You have been pleased to express your approbation as to the manner in which the Government of the country have succeeded in steering an even course, preserving on the one hand peace to the country, and on the other maintaining unimpaired the righto, the honour, and dignity of this empire. (Cheers.) Well, gentl emen , t h e mer i t i s d ue to t h a t body G: able men who w ere pl ace d a t th e h ea d of the dif ferent dep ar t men t s o f th e S ta t e . I h av e had the good fortune to be associated with some of the most able and distinguished statesmen whom this country at present produces ; and when you 0 0 9 that the nation ought to feel thankful for the cou rse , which has been pursued, I may, in return, say that this nation ought to be grateful to the City and University of Oxford for having contributed to that . _ Administration whose actions have obtained the approbation of the country for two of its most dis tinguished members—the one my right hon. friend whom I have the pleasure of seeing present on this occasion (Mr. Cardwell), who represents the tow 9 and the other my friend the Chancellor ofnitvheersEitz; Ex chequer, who so worthily represents the u be the anxious study of her Majesty's (Cheers.) I can assure you, gentlemen 6 t o h v a e t rnni itw en il t l to pursue that course of policy which I am m ay differ as per suaded is the desire of , all parties in this country; for however various political par to some particular questionfsof internal and domes tic policy, it is the pride o this co untry that when great interests of the nation ofStates—questions England —come questions touching the honour differences vanish before to be discussed, all party i t n ouc i h ts ing re t l h a e tions of the matter, and all parties unite endeavour to maintain unimpaired in one commonwith an foreigndigdignity and to preserve uninjured those inte rests.that dignity, (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg to assure you the importance that I feel proud of the honour which you have con upon me by the address which h as b een pre sented, and that I shall ever prese rve i n my memor y sfrn th ee e rted pleasure e which I have received, and the honour which has been done me this day, both in respect of the gown which I now have the honour to wear, and the address which you have as just been so kind to present me. Cheers were then given for Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, an d M r. Cardwell, and the pro ceedings were brought to a close. The members of the Apollo University Masonic Lodge gave a gran d b all at the Town Hall las , for night, under th e patronage of the Prov. G. Oxfordshire, Lieut.-Col. Atkins Bowyer. ----- Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse's bridal dress was of crystalline silk, with a deep fl ou nce of Honiton guipure lace, trimmed at th® bottom w ith orange blossom and myrtle. The veil of Honiton guipure a nd a wreath of orange Rowers and myrtle. His Royal Hig hness Prince Louis was dressed in plain clothes, w ith the riban d and star of the Order de Louis. Their Royal Highnes ses the Prince ss Helena, Louise, Beatrice, a nd princess A nna of Hesse w ore dresses of spotted net over r i c h white glac e silk, trimmed with ruches of grey riband ; bead dresses 0 correopozid, ~:w~~'~I A