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( ar.) ~ - 70 (~- ,$,-, ''Az-1 - ,5 - 4i. , „ • lA, „,,,, ""- ; , t..47.,iiiranarts 4t-- - V -* ------ ,- - ./ ,,,?. -,, 0 14. 7 , - er : * ..,,a , 1 , -1.t,‘ , . ..-" ,4'o'3p` 1 . t , „ ~.3 .,, , p 4,, , r '4lll " 4 - ' , rely .-A F _ •-„, . , . ^~ NAVAL AND MILITARY CLUB.— The COMMITTEE of this CLUB are desirous of RENT ING a COMMODIOUS HOUSE, in the neighbourhood of St. James's, capable of affording Temporary Club accommo dation to about 600 Members, Address, with full particulars, to R. Lomax, Esq., solicitor, at the Temporary Offices of the Club, Carlton Chambers, 8, Regent-street, Waterloo-place. Most of the guarantors were not merely wealthy men, but were more or less connected with indus try, with art, or with science —(hear)—and they coupled their guarantee with conditions of the most liberal description. (Hear, hear.) In fact, he believed that the commissioners were the only really despotic seeing that the guarantors powers over the entire ma nagement(Hear, and laughter.) g b a o v d e y t i h n en ef thet c h oefuowhole affair. At first it was the opinion even of some on whose opiniGn he was accustomed to rely, that they ought to carry out the idea on a very limited scale : but they felt that if done at all it must be done on a scale commensurate with the importance of the occasion ; and the guarantors then , selves felt that it was desir able to go in for a complete success. In doing so they had exercised the strictest economy in every possible way; for it was a private enterprise, and must be of an entirely self-supporting eharaeler. There had also been some criticisms as regarded the. building. Looked at from the north, it would ap pear that if the design of the architect had been carried out in its great central features, it would have been a much more imposing structure. (Hear.) But want of means prevented the execution of that idea. Still, from what he learned from persons of the highest intelligence in these matters, he felt jus rPapl effect tified in saying that if there were any Auguetuses present, either individually or collectively, who de sired to change the brick into marble, or even into the commoner material of stone, they would find the building full of grandeur and appropriateness. The edifice was marked by great simplicity, but he would not enter into details, as he hoped to meet them itfhethreeyindaiddaynootr admitt wo,an t d ha h t e f w or ou a l r d eh b i e te d e i t s u a and for decorations it was superior to any similar building, and that the whole effect was of a singu larly impressive character. It was impossible to speak too highly of the exertions of the foreign commis sioners. France had exhibited her usual felicity and exquisite taste in applying art to manufactures, and had exhibited great improvement in some practical departments. Germany and the Zollverein had entitled themselves to similar praise. Austria and Italy were engaged in a peaceful rivalry. Italy would show better than on any former occa sion. Russia, Spain, and Portugal would also show well ; and America was going to exhibit, in spite of her civil war. (Applause.) He must bear his testi mony to the courteous and conciliatory manner in which the foreign commissioners had discharged their duties; and in conclusion his lordship said that he trusted that the results of the Exhibition would justify the aspirations of the poet, and that they would CONTRACT FOR WASHING BEDDING AT THE TOWER OF LONDON. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Secretary of State for War is prepared to RECEIVE TENDERS, on or before the 6th May, 1862, for WASHING .BEDDING at the T ower o f London, from the Ist May, IS6?, to,the 31st March, 1864. $ specification of the work to be perfor me d may b e seen on 'cation to the Superintendent of Stores, at the Tower, Tenders must be made upon the proper printed form, which may be obtained on application to the Director of Contracts, War-office, Pall-mall, between the hours of 10 and 4. The Secretary of State reserves the right of rejecting any or all of the Tenders. THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts. War-office, April 24, 1862. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1862. N°. 21,788. PRICE..... .....4d. STAMPED ....sd. PUBLICATION,q. LITERATURE. the claws of the dragon or the clutches of vice, even the seemingly dead must be raised, and all good folks must be dismissed to a continual feast of contentedness. The locality of the tale in question is a cathedral town called Helstonleigh, containing a "King's school," the boys belonging to which figure largely in the story; and one aim of the authoress is to show the influence of early training on the manners and fortunes of youth as exempli fied in two families, the Yorkes and the Channings. The former having lost their father whilst young, and been indulged by their mother, are seliwilled, impulsive, and somewhat unscrupulous, though not wholly destitute of good nature, and their career is far from satisfactory. But the Channings, on the other hand, possessing both parents and being early imbued with good principles, bear the ordeal to which they are subjected with firmness, and come forth at the end triumphant. Nor are their trials trivial or few. " They come not single spies but in battalions." Thus the father is bed ridden with rheumatism, and is supposed incu rable. Then a law suit is lost upon which seemingly depended the fortunes of the fa mily, and in the hope of gaining which they had got in debt. The second son is now accused of stealing a bank note, and loses his situation. The eldest son is thought by time of the family to be the real thief, and is, moreover, suspected of falsifying his father's account book. The third son, in con sequence of his brother's disgrace, loses his post of senior at the school, and with it the chance of being sent to college. .The youngest son, after being scared out of hiswits one night by a sham ghost, falls into the river and is set down as drowned, whilst the eldest daughter is forced to go out as governess, and has to break off her marriage en gagement in consequence of these family disgraces and troubles. But ." the whirligig of time (and the third volume) brings about its revenges." The father is cured by a visit to some German baths. The two suspected thieves are exonerated and re compensed. The schoolboy gets his seniorship and Oxford Exhibition. The youngest son turns up after a time, only the worse for the loss of his hair (cut off during fever) ; and the daughter is married happily and settled comfortably. Thus substantial justice is done to the deserving, and the latter end of the family is more blessed than the beginning. Of the executive merit of the novel we can speak in very high terms. The interest of the plot is ad mirably sustained ; the characters are varied and real; whilst the narrative and dialogue are ex tremely animated and dramatic. The pictures of schoolboy life are especially good, and we can scarcely mark our approval more than by saying that we read it through from beginning to end without fatigue, and with pleasure. was so struck with his appearance and fascinated by his eloquence that he raised him to the highest dignity and made him his bosom friend. He now entered upon a series of reforms which have immor talised his memory, but his Method of carrying them out was haughty, rash, and impolitic." Look for instance at the following specimen of his rough and ready procedure as giten in Canon Stanley's work. carefully its own coasts and frontiers. There was no desire whatever for aggression on the part of this country (hear, hear), but while human pas sions were what they were, it was our duty to do honour to our army, our navy, and our volunteer corps. and to promote their efficiency. (Cheers.) He felt that such being our intentions, even in the presence of so many distinguished representatives of foreign Courts, this was a toast which might very properly be given (hear, hear), for our object was simply defence, and not defiance. (Hear, hear.) He should not enlarge upon this toast, but simply ask them to drink to the " Army, the Navy, and the Volunteer Corps," coupling with the toast the name of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief. MRS. S. C. HALL'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., The Book hunter. By John Hill Burton. Black wood and Sons. CAN WRONG BE RIGHT? By Mrs. S. C. HALL. "This excellent and interesting story is quite the best that Mrs. S. C. Hall has written."—Athenaeum. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. i'-`IHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. The Original, A--) Well-known, and only CIIRISTY'S MINSTRELS are performing nightly to crowded houses at the POLYGRA PHIC lIALL, King William-street, Strand. Tickets to be had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.— Morninv Performance every Saturday at three o'clock.— W. P. COLLINS, Sole Proprietor. A RUSSIAN RUTORMER. First, it Is Impossible not to be struck by the savago spirit in which he fulfilled his task. We are not altogether unaccustomed to rough action and speech in Martin Luther and John Knoll; but we mast expect something more in the Scythian atmosphere of Russia. Again I refer to the journal of Archdeacon Paul. "He was," says the arch deacon, "a very butcher among the clergy. His Janis saries are perpetually going round the city ; and when they find any priest or monk in a state of intoxication, they carry him to prison, strip him, and scuttrgt him. His prisms are full of them, galled with heavy chains and loge of wood on their necks and legs, or they sift flour day and night In the bakehouse." The deserts of Siberia were filled with dissolute clergy, banished there with their wives and chil dren. An instance is recorded hardly credible, but too charatteristie to be omitted, perhaps not so much of his wild severity as of his barbarian humour. It was at one of the numerous banquets, attended by the patriarch of Antioch, that Nikon, partly to show off the wonders of his master's vast dominions, partly to satisfy the curiosity of his own inquisitive mind, called tefore him thirty chiefs of a distant Kalmuck tribe, called from the appearance of their physiognomies, the dog-faced tribe, or (as a euphe mism) the tribe of the dog-faced saint, St. Christopher. As soon as they entered, the whole assembly was Struck with horror. They burned their heads ' and bowed to the patriarch with great veneration, crouching to the ground all in a lump, like pigs. After various questions as to their mode of life, and travelling, and warfare, he said, " Is it really true that you eat the flesh of men ?" They laughed, and answered, " We eat our dead, and we eat dogs ; how, then, should we not eat men ?" He said, " How do you eat men ?" They replied, " When we have conquered a man, we cut away his nose and then carve him into pieces and eat him." He said, "I have a man here who deserves death ; 1 will send for him and present him to you, that you may eat him." Hereupon they began earnestly to entreat him, saying, " Good lord, whenever you have any men deserving of death, do not trouble yourself about their guilt, or their punishment; but give them us to eat, and you will do us a great kindness. _ _ _ Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, 30s. bound, 91HE LIFE OF EDWARD IRVING 1 Minister of the National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by his JOURNAL anti CORRESPONDENCE. By Mrs, OLIPIIANT. A RGYLL ROOMS,—Series of New Music, Valses, Quadrilles, and Polkas, by the unrivalled Band of 50 performers, under the sole direction of Mons. BouL CORT, Conductor and Composer. This gentleman will play every evening at 11 o'clock, until further notice, variations arranged by himself on the Cornet-a-Piston.---The free-list will be open for the profession by leaving their card at the door. By order of the Proprietor.—Manager, Mons. Grenet. Admission ls. "A full, detailed biography of Irving we have not seen till now. In Mrs. Oliphant's volumes we trace the history and mark the aspect, the joy and grief, and conflict of his life, as we have never before been able to do. Her work is ad• mirable, presenting a most living, consistent, vivid picture of Irving."— Macmillan's Magazine. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. —A fresh supply of the new Tale, by the Author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," " THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND," will be in the hands of all Book sellers in town and country on Friday next. Complete edi tion, handsomely bound, os. ; or in cheaper form, in two parts—partl., is. 6d. ; part 11., 2s. PHRENOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PHY SIOGNOMY. —Messrs. FOWLER and WELLS, from America, will LECTURE in EXETER HALL, May 1, on " How to Read Character ;" 2d, "Choice of Pursuits ;" 3d, "A Good Memo r y." R eserve d scats, 25.; unreserved, Is. Open at half past 7, commence at 8. Consultation Rooms, 147, Strand, W.C. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 47, Ludgate-hill, E.C. MR. CHARLES RENT'S NEW roEms. Just published. PRACTICAL GEOLOGY .- KING ' S COLLEGE, London.—Professor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a Course of LECTURES on WEDNESDAY morning, APRIL 30. at Nine o'clock, having* especial refe rence to te plication of GEOLOGY to , MINING, h AR ap ENGINEERING CHITECTURE, and AGRICULTURE. The Lectures will be continued on each succeeding Friday and Wednesday, at the same hour. Fee, £1 11s. 6d. • Dlt EA M LAN D. With other Poems. By W. CHARLES RENT, Barrister-at-Law. reap. Bvo., price sc. "Mr. Kent has undeniable merits—warm and high-toned feeling, a pleasant combination or grace and humour, and no small power to individualise.. Pope at Twickenham' is a cabinet picture. Marianne' will commend itself to all mothers by its gush of parental tenderness, and its acquaint ance with baby wiles and mysteries. Fructidor' shows what tDutch fidelity of word painting. the author can master When he tries. His fruit is as vivid and well characterised as if Lance had painted It."—Athenmum. .. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. N.B.—The class will be accompanied by the Professor to the British Museum, the Gre a t Exhibition, and to places of Geolcgical interest in the country. "The charm of Mr. Kent's poetry, as it is the first condi tion of success to all poets, is that he is in sympathy w ith hi s subject and not only with himself ; that he is truly poet and not egotist. Bnt it is by no means his only merit. He is a mas ter of versification. The flow 01 his verse is smooth and me lodious, and enriched with a copious and ornate vocabulary. Shelley at Marlow' is a painting exquisitely delicate. The vision of Shelley with which Mr. Kent presents us is almost perfect. 'DREAMLAND is a work conceived in a noble spirit, and executed with scholarly taste, frequently with flashes of true poetic inspiration, Ihe Dying Bridegroom' is distinguished by a genuine pathos, which leads us to be lieve that Mr. Kent would succeed eminently in some story of the affections."—The London Review. The unfortnnite victim with whom Nikon intended to play off this experiment was no less a person than the Metropolitan of Mira. It happened that, amidst other " odious deformities" of himself and his companions, on a recent visitto Moscow, they were found smoking tobacco, and all, except himself, were sent into banishment. Nikon was still, however, enraged against him ; "for," says the Syrian archdeacon, " no crime with him is ever forgiven ; and he now sent to have him brought to those savages that they might eat him; but he was not to be found, having hid himself," "Mr. Kent's poems come before the world with the advan tage, not only , of an author's name, but of a name already agreeably and musically known in the metrical literature of the day. His 'Aletheia was very favourably received by the public, and has no doubt been the companion of many thoughtful readers who will gladly welcome another volume from his pen. A series of portraits drawn with true poetic sympathy and veneration, The best of all, we think, is that of Scott. There is something in the lines that will remind the reader of the chime of Scott's own verse."—John Bull. The natural result of this line of conduct was that a powerful party formed against him. He lost the Czar's favour, was deprived of his dignities, exiled to a monastery, led the life of a hermit, and died in the odour of sanctity. The " Brief Literary Notices" at the end of the number are numerous and inte resting. The London Review--April. la. ) 1 'he 20 ,es; vas ler ere old. Illy eat. ood 10s, 34S at ,ten ,ats, lay, tin" r aer ten- 24 9 44s ►-0 43s ted, 63s ; sup: qr.; idy", Air., of g+ bill Fort Air 9 ilde, in let Sir ;•B's, Lista Connitatiouo daily tilll2 *me ",' 13 0Y AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Bliklesty the Queen. Pnr stotyr -Tice-Admiral his Gre2e the Duke of Northum berland, K. G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Bari - eg, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN —Thomas Chapman, 'Es q., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, during the past two y ears, the Institution has incurred expenses arnountng to £28,650 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Duri.ng the past two years the Life-boats of the National l 'ire-boat Institution have I eon instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Vessels:— Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone 6 Brig Pallas, of Shields .. . 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow . 9 Smack John 80, of Yarmouth .. .. • • 5 Schooner Cathetine, of Newry P• e• •• 4 Barque Niagara, of Shields .. 11 A Barge of Teignmouth Brig George and James, of London Brig Zephyr, of Whitby Coble Honour, of Cullercoats Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. ••• • • 7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Nrig,antine Nancy, of Teignmouth .• • • 9 Smack Wonder, 01 Teignmouth .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. 6 Sloop Three B ro th ers, o f Goole .. • • • • 5 , ScoopCbt'alotte, of Woodbridge .. • • RD Brig Ann, of Blyth •• • • • • • • - Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth •• • • 5 Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby .• •• •• 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. •• 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. •• 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn 3 Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough •• •• •• 7 Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .• • . 7 Brig Lovely Neily, of Seaham .• 6 Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. Schooner Prospect, of Berwick `,; Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives • • • • 3 ' Fishing-boo* A Ffshing-boat of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portnladoo Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris . 2 Schooner William, of Mo,:avambe . 5 Smack Gipsy, of Newry Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. 4 Brig New DrapG, of Whitehaven .. • . .. 8 Schooner of Liverpool .. •• 5 Lugger Ntnrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. .. • • • . 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. .. 4 Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. 19 Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. • • .. 10 Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide .. 2 Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna .. • • 8 French Brig La Jenne Mari e Th erese .. 6 Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough • • • 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast • • Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. .. 4 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 4 Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. 8 Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) . • .. 1 Schooner Burrell, of Penzance (Saved vessel and crew) . . 4 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) • • • • •• •• •• •• •• 6 Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. 1 Barque Peace, of London 2 Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft 11 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew of four hands) .. .. 4 Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. • . .. 7 Barque Undaunted, of Ab er d een 11 Wrecked boat on Bl ac k wa t er Bank, on the Irish coast, saved one man .• • . .. 1 Schooner Skylark, of Folk es t one .. • • .. 6 Brig Lively, of Clay, No r f o lk .. • .. 5 • Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland . 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth ... • . 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .. Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .. 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. . • • • S Gailiot Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. .. • 5 Total For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted £1,893 as rewards to the crews of the Lifeboats. It has also granted rewards amounting to £515 10s. for saving 173 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak ing a total of 871 persons saved from a watery grave during the last two years, The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is upwards of 12,2(0; for whit'n services 82 Gold Medals, 704 Silver Medals, and ;£15,2:;0 in cash have been granted as rewards. The Institu tio'n has also expended £57,200 on Life-boat Establishments. The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts atow being made by the Society to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions the Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man agement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough Efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. The Committee gratefulty acknowledge the following con tributions X s. d Tier Majesty the Queen .. annual 50 0 0 Clark, Mrs. .. annual 210 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. annual 1 1 0 Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. don. 25 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0 G W., Esq., Sherborne Castle .. annual 5 0 0 !laic, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. 2d don. 25 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0 Lambton, Messrs. W. 11. & Co., Bankers don. 21 0 0 Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0 - Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. . • •• .. don. 15 15 0 Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. anneal 5 0 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. annual 30 0 Stirling . , Cot Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0 Donations and Annual Su'lcriptions will be thankfully re reived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 78, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and CO., 59, Strand ; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. aames's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adolph', Lon don, W.C. Payments maybe made by Cheques or by Post-offie,e Orders (crossed), to Messrs. W ills, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre tary, Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post tree, ss. 6d., ( I N THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA ; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases Which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various Muds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. London: H. 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" The Post-office Turkish Bath., 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. —Dr. Culverwell has already established the reputation of an able physician; he has now proved himself to be a worthy Dhilanthropist, in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very of modern days, goes nearer the abolition of the practice of physic, than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. . . Our object being merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fact that they possess one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, Which the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up his baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, Which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire has been_ obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . . 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And it is pretty clear from Mr. Burton's amusing revelations of the mys teries of his craft, that literary merit is, generally, the very last quality that causes it to bring a high price in the market. Thus book collectors must by no means be confounded with scholars, though they may number scholars in their ranks; they consist rather of men with means, leisure, and largely-de veloped organs of acquisitiveness, whose energies have been directed into this particular channel ; and, once commenced, the practice would seem to be like that of gambling, beyond the reach of remedy. Treating his subject systematically, Mr. Burton divides it into four parts ; the first discuss ing the " nature" of the book-hunter, the second his " functions," the third his " club," and the fourth " book-olub literature," these being again elabo rately subdivided. Thus, under the head of " Mighty Book-hunters," he gives us clever sketches of some of the Tritons of the race ; and under that of " Classification," some of the points upon which collectors lavish their regard, are ex plained to us thus :—" Some collectors may be styled Rabricists,being nfluenced by a sacred rage for books having the contents and marginal references printed in red ink. Some "go at" flowered capitals, others at "broad margins;" again,"collectors there have been, not unimportant for number and zeal, whose mis sion it is to purchase books marked by peculiar mistakes or errors of the press. The celebrated Elzevir Cesar,' of 1635, is known by this, that the number of the 149th page is misprinted 153." To collectors of this class an accident which occurred to the recent work known as The Men of the lime, is a godsend. It sometimes happens in a printing office that some of the types, perhaps a printed line or two, fall oat of "the forme." Those in whose hands the accident occurs generally try to put things to rights as well as they can, and may be very successful in restoring appearances with the most deplorable results to the sense. It happened thus in the instance referred to. A few lines drop ping out of the " Life of Robert Owen," the paral lelogram communist, were hustled, as the nearest place of refuge, into the biography of his closest alphabetical neighbour—" Oxford, Bishop of." The consequence is, that the article begins as follows : " Oyford, The Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of, was born in 1805. A more kind-hearted and truly benevolent man does not exist. A sceptic as regards religious revelation, he is nevertheless an out-and-out be liever in spirit movements." Whenever this blunder was discovered, the leaf was cancelled : but a few copies of the book had got into circulation, which some day or other may be very valuable. Diverging then to book sales, the writer mentions some of the most memorable, among which that of the Duke of Roxburghe takes the lead. It lasted two and forty days, the books comprising ten thousand lots, and being all of rarity and value; but the great bone of contention was the Venetian Boccaccio which the Duke's father had bought for £lOO. The competitors on this occasion were the Marquis of Blandford and Earl Spencer, and after a " spirited competition" it was secured by the former for £2,260. The largest sale, however, on record, was that of Mr. Heber's collection ; the fol lowing will give some idea of its extent. " Some years ago," says the writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, " he built a new library at his house at Hodnet, which is said to be full. His residence at Pimlico, where he died, is filled, like Magliabechi's at Florence, with books, from the top to the bottom —every chair, every table,' every passage contain ing piles of erudition. He bad another house in York-street, leading to Great James-street, West minster, laden from the ground-floor to the garret with curious books. He had a library in the High street, Oxford, an immense library at Paris, another at Antwerp, another at Brussels, another at Ghent, and at other places in the Low Countries and in Germany." Surely the lust of accumulation could no further go! But one of the most amusing sec tions of the book is that called " The Gleaner and his Harvest," which turns on the strange titles and stranger contents by which some works are cha racterised. Those by natives of the Emerald Isle furnish some good specimens, thus—" The Irish Statute-book" opens characteristically 'with " An act that the King's Officers may travel by sea from one place to another within the land of Ire land." And further on we have a whole series of acts, with a conjunction of epithets in their titles which at the present day sounds rather startling, " for the better suppressing Tories, Robbers, and Rapparees, and for preventing robberies, burglaries and other heinous crimes." A curious fact con nected with books is their comparative non-inflam mability. "In the days when heretical books were burned, it was necessary to place them on large wooden stages, and after all the pains taken to de molish them, considerable readable masses were sometimes found in the embers; whence it was sup posed that the devil, conversant in fire and its effects, gave them his special protection. In the end it was found easier and cheaper to burn the . heretics themselves than their books." Famous librarians are then mentioned, and the origin and function of book clubs commented on. A discussion on "Early Northern Saints and their Miracles," succeeds, and the volume concludes with a few words on Ancient Sculptured Stones. The ground covered by the author is thus tolerably extensive. Few topics directly or indirectly connected with books escape his notice. His handling is light and agreeable, and he has produced a very readable volume. Vie Channtngs. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 3 vols. Bentley. This is, upon the whole, an excellent novel, reli gious in tone, and a reprint (with slight variations) from the pages of the " Quiver." " The Theme," a very old one, is of the trials and triumphs of virtue, and the key to the work is contained in the verse with which the last chapter concludes—" I have been young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread." Thus the doctrine inculcated, that of material reward of virtue, is more akin to the teaching of the Old Testament than of the New, and is scarcely borne out by the experience of life. That virtue deserves (and gets) a reward, is true ; but it does not often consist in " fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses," as in Job's case, or in marrying the idol of one's heart, finding a long lost parent, and being declared rightful heir to a large estate, as in that of the hero of a Victoria melo drama. Virtue must be loved for itself. In Tenny son's words— " To live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right, Wore wisdom in the scorn of consequence." The true reading of the matter is contained in the old adage, " Virtue is Its own reward." If other rewards are added to it well and good, but it ought not to be made th e pre t ex t f or ex p ec ting them. Consider Shaksper e ' s h an dli ng o f th e su bject. Vir tue, with him (as in life) often meets no better fate than vice, whilst mediocrity steps in and gains the prize. The noble Othello, the divine Desdemona, and the execrab le lago are a lik e cu t o ff, w hilst the careless Cassio is ma de Governor of Cyprus. Ham let dies like the caitiff King, whilst to the young Fortinbras falls the crown of Denmark. The end of Cordelia is untimely, as that of Goneril and Albany, in England, reigns supreme. True, Shaks pere's motive is never paraded on th e sur f ace . He was a consummate a rt i st, not a p reac h er . Y e t never do we meet with aught in him to shake our faith in good, or cause us to rejoice in evil. Virtue and innocence with him aro always fresh, always we feel that t l o h v o e y l y a r , e a s n u d r e if o f h er theire th r e e y w a a r r e d i u n n a h n a o p t h p e y r , and brighter world, where weeping sh all be no m ore , ne ith er shall the voice of lamentation be heard, " where the wicked shall cease from troubling, and the w eary shall have rest." A world which the heathen saw faintly, and afar off, in their land of Lotos eaters, and shadowy Elysian fields—one to which the struggle with the powers of evil shall not reach— where no bitter frost shall nip goodness in the bud, but in which beauty, order, purity, and harmony shall reign undisturbed for ever. But if, as we think, the authoress takes a somewhat superficial view of existence. If she rather impl ies that we must be bribed to be good, that we want sugar after the bitter draught, and insists somewhat strongly in special providences in favour of the de serving. This will in no way damage the popu larity of her work. People nowadays, thoug h they like "sensation," can't bear their feelings harrowed beyond a certain point. Woe, with them, if too real, loses its luxury. At the right time the deli verer, whether errant knight or Jack Tar, must arise, the distressed damsel MUSt, be rescued from By no means favourable to the Broad Church Party, this number opens with a severe rebuke to Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, for the views ex pressed by him in his recent work, " St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans ; newly . translated and ex plained from a missionary point of view." The writer styles him a " most rash and confused thinker," but ho makes Messrs. Maurice and Kingsley row in the same boat, and raps Tenny son's knuckles after this fashion : THEOLOGY OF TENNYSON. We were willing to hope that the bishop had misun derstood the Poet Laureate, or made an unfair use of his words. But on tut ning over the volume again, we find what fully justifies his quotation. How can it be suffi ciently regretted that so fine a work as " In Memoriam" should be used as a vehicle for the promulgation of anti- Christian opinion? The refinement of feeling, the strength of affection, the felicity of delineation, the purity of diction, the subtlety of thought, the elevation of sentiment, which we recognise with so much pleasure on a renewed exami nation, only lead us to indulge a deep sorrow at the author's ignorance or perversion of evangelical truth. Air. Tenny son invokes the Son of God, and contradicts him on the same dedicatory page. He yearns after " the Christ that is to be," and virtually ignores " Him that liveth, and was dead, and is alive for evermore." But if He has indeed overcome the sharpness of death, and opened the king dom of heaven to all believers, why these complaints about the darkness and uncertainty of the future ? What need is there to fall upon the great worlds altar stairs, — "That slope through darkness up to God," , a hen our Saviour has said, " I am the light of the world he that followeth Ale shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." If He has pronounced a special blessing on " those who have not seen and yet have be lieved," why complain that "We have but faith, we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we Pee ?" This faith that teaches nothing, and leaves its votaries as ignorant and as much perplexed as the heathen, is certainly not the faith of God's elect ;" and if we are to take the Laureate's confessions as the praetioat embodiment of the teaching of Dr. Colenso and Mr. Maurice, it is very plainly seen that this "other Gospel is not another," but, as said above, no good news at all. Instead of walking in the light, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, its votaries are infants "crying in the night," and ' for a light," " and with no language but a cry." Instead of having a hope entering within the veil, sure and steadfast, as an anchor of the soul, they ask, " What hope of answer or redress behind the veil ?" and cry out in vain to their deceased friends to tell them something. They "faintly trust," even to the realisation of their own expectations. Where the true Gospel provides certainty, they aro unable to rise beyond the vaguest and most ill-defined expectations. They " trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill ;" but beyond this they cannot rise. "Behold, we know not anything, I can but trust that good shall fall; At last—far off—at last to all, And every winter change to spring." And is this the most accomplished poet of the nineteenth century in Christian England ? Have the ages brought us nothing better than this? Do Tennyson maundering, and Byron scoffing, and Maurice arguing, and Colenso ex pounding, all meet at a point ? Is the consummation of all our labours a possibility of one day "sitting down with" Lucifer "in the kingdom of God ?" Truly the Laureate has "groped," and gathered "dust and chaff," to good purpose at last. The article on " Modern Sacred Art in England," glorifies the Pre-Raphalites and highly eulogises their apostle, Ruskin. In " High Church Litera ture for the People," we find a very just condemna tion of the bad habit to which religious novelists are addicted of twisting historical facts and distorting characters to serve some special end. But among the most generally interesting articles are those on " Stephen Grellet, the Quaker Evangelist," and on 0 The Patriarch Nikon." The character of Grellet is thus described— " Verses, many of them extremely tender and harmonious, and all indicating a mind carefully cultured and imbued with elegant tastes."—Daily News. • " Poems of very considerable excellence. Fructidor 'is a very close and vigorous word-painting of an orchard. 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A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike •o Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., 'which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity. and premature heath ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob , ervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., b, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. Among the most characteristic and remarkable men con nected with this people, at least during the present century, was Etienne de Grellet du Mabillier—Anglicised into Stephen Grellet. A Frenchman and a Catholic, nearly allied by birth and education to the old nobility of France— an officer in the army of the princes—a refugee in the West Indies, and a disciple of Voltaire—an authorised mi nister of the Society of Friends—a missionary of no com mon type, traversing the unsettled wilds of the new terri tories of the United States, the prairies of the Indian, the forests of Canada, and the mountain valleys of St. Domingo—crossing the Atlantic eight times in the exercise of his ministry, planting societies in Norway and Sweden, preaching the Gospel throughout the Russian empire, from Abo to Odessa, visiting in the service of the Gospel every country inEurope —securing private personal interviews with its monarchs and statesmen, to utter to them his testimony for his Master-- closeted on direct religious service with the heads of thai reek Church at Petersburg and Constantinople, and with the Pope himself at Rome—threatened with death, by the forest on fire, by shipwreck, by poison, by fever, by earthquake—heralded by a royal ordonnance throughout the kingdom of Spain—without a shilling of fortune, yet paying all the expenses of his numerous and distant jour neys—sustained throughout them all by a firm faith in his Divine call, and by a persuasion which never left him, that the Master's own hand directed each step, and guided him, Abraham-like, to places that he knew not, but where his " dear Master" had work for him to do—tried and exercised in a way that stirred his being to its inmost depths—en couraged by answers to prayer, and by interpositions of Providence, so frequent and so singular, as to be suffi cient of themselves to form a chapter of marvels; such was the man, of whose laborious and varied life it is only the briefest sketch that can be attempted here. Our full recognition is duo to such a man as a true minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not the less a true minister, because he never wore a black coat, never received a salary, and never was placed in charge of a congregation. It is not desirable that our views of that great institution of Christ, the ministry of His Gospel, should be formed ex clusively from the circumstances of our own day or Church, or should be limited by the conventionalities of the moment • conventionalities as to dress and the like, which may be harmless enough, and even becoming, as the taste of the day goes, and which no one would dream of violently inter fering with, yet which bear no higher relation to the reali ties of the ministry itself than the epaulettes upon a gene ral's shoulder bear to his commission, or to his dispositions in the field. Garibaldi was not the less a general, because he chose to wear a wide• awake hat and corduroy trowsers, nor, on the other hand, did this unsoldierlike attire add anything either to his skill or to his achievements. Nor does the costume in which friend Gellett studiously pre sents himself—the plain brown coat and hat on, in every company—either add to or detract from his office as a minister of Jesus Christ. Unimportant in one sense, these peculiarities of the Friend have their own importance and significance. They ace a visible witness to the truth that what is merely external is not to be confounded with what is essential. Were these peculiarities imposed upon the whole Church, they would not only lose all their signifi cance, but would become a grievous yoke of formality ; but, adopted by a few, they recall to our minds a truth of which we are too liable to lose sight. And for ourselves, we con fess to a lingering regret at the disappearance of such a tes timony from amongst us; although it must be acknowledged that in this age of unprecedented display, it would require more than human courage to uphold it. Nikon was a man of a different stamp. Born in Russia in the beginning of the 17th century, of gi gantic stature, (he was seven feet high), of indomi table energy, and of powerful intellect, he embraced a monastic life, astonished the religious orders of the time by his asceticism, and was consecrated Prior. Meeting at length, with the Czar Alexia the latter THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBI7ION. BANQUET TO THE COMMISSIONERS AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. Last night the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress entertained a very numerous and distinguished com pany at the Mansion-house, to meet H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge and her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition of 1862. After the cloth had been removed, and grace bad been sung, The LORD MAYOR gave the " Health of the Queen"—the first toast, he said, in every assemblage of Englishmen—and the toast was most enthusias tically received. They were, he thought, particu larly bound to do honour to this toast on such an occasion, seeing that her Majesty had exhibited the deepest solicitude in reference to this great national co-operative undertaking. The event, as they might well imagine, would re-open that deep grief which had now for some time pressed so heavily upon the heart of our Queen. (Hear, hear.) Nor could they be unmindful of the great loss which the enterprize itself had suffered, by reason of the calamity which had befallen her Majesty. (Hear.) The reign of Victoria had been beneficial, not only to our own happy country, but it had also contributed materi ally to the advancement of other nations. Her reign had bceu such that every one present must cordially unite in the fervent hope that the beloved Sovereign of these realms might, by God's favour, long be spared to continue to fill the exalted position which she at present occupied, and in which it had been His pleasure to place her, (Applause.) The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm, in which the foreign guests seemed most sincerely to unite. " His Royal Highness the Prince of "Wales and the rest of the Royal Family" was the next toast, and it met with an almost equally flattering re ception. The LORD MAYOR, in rising to propose the next toast, referred to the unusually complete represen tation of foreign powers which honoured the occa sion. He rejoiced to see thesedistinguished gentlemen around him, and he hailed them as the ambassadors of peace. (Loud applause.) It was to promote peace and prevent strife that these gentlemen exer cised their functions; and the success which had crowned their labours would be seen in the fact that for half a century this country had not been engaged in war near at home. (Laud cheers.) The science of diplomacy had, in fact, made such ad vances, that they might now look forward to the day when they might hope altogether to escape the frightful results which war occasioned. (Hear, hear.) He had to associate with this toast the name of his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador ; and without attempting to enumerate the names of the other Ambassadors present, for a list of whom he would refer the company to the daily papers of the next morning, he would simply congratulate himself and them upon the presence of so many of them, and ask them to drink to " The health of the Diplomatic Corps," coupling with the toast the name of M. Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador. The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. M. Mvsußus said—My Lord Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen—l have the honour to return thanks to you on behalf of my colleagues and myself, for the kindly manner in which you have received the toast just proposed by his lordship. Nothing is more agreeable to the diplomatic body than to be present at such a splen did meeting as this, and which is the prelude to the grand International Exhibition, of which we shall soon have to witness the opening. In fact, there can be nothing more in accordance with the wishes of the diplomatic body than to view the emulation which has always existed between na tions, and which has too often been the source of great evils, now directed on an arena where each must appear only under the head of auspices, and through the works of peace, and where different people will learn mutual esteem, to regard each as brothers, to each perfect themselves by the exchange of ideas, in industry, science, and art, and thus to promote their common well-being. (Cheers.) It is to England that belongs the glory of having been the first to assemble the nations at these modern Olympian games where the prize is awarded, not to the strongest, nor to the swiftest, but to those most industrious and most useful to mankind; and this great metropolis ought to be proud of offering for a second time its hospitality to the representatives of the industry and genius of other countries. (Hear.) But alas ! a veil of gloom is thrown over these festivities by the ever-to-be regretted absence of the August Prince who, among other humanitarian institutions of which he was the promoter, could conceive and is justly entitled to be considered the founder of a work to which other States have warmly lent their co-operation. Through that, therefore, he has acquired an incontestable right to the gratitude of all nations, who will preserve for his memory the same sentiments of esteem and admiration as the English people. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, the more we desire to honour the memory of this great and illustrious Prince, the more we ought to con form to his generous views, by devoting our cares to the success of his work, and by endeavouring to render its results more and more profitable to the human race. (Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR said—Till the triumphs of the science of diplomacy should have superseded the necessity of studying the art of war, it , behoved every country in the world to guard The toast was honoured with great enthusiasm. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in acknowledging the compliment, said he was duly sensible of the great honour conferred by the Lord Mayor upon the army, over which it was at present his privilege to preside. Though the present meeting was purely pacific in its objects and its tendencies, that com pliment would be none the less grateful to our soldiers, our sailors, and our volunteers. (Cheers.) They might, without the slightest offence, and without even indiscretion, show to their foreign friends the sense entertained by this great commer cial city of the very great services which those forces had rendered, and were capable of rendering. (Cheers.) In this city the arts of peace reigned triumphant, and certainly not the art of war ; and in this respect the city of London faithfully repre sented the whole of this great country in its earnest desire for the maintenance of peace. (Hear, hear.) The fact was, that the city honoured these services because, when efficiently maintained, they were cal culated to preserve peace (cheers), and the compli ment thus paid to them was one which they eonld cheerfully accept. He would venture to take that opportunity of calling attention to the compli ment which on that occasion had been paid to his lordship, and, through his lordship to the city of London, by the presence of so man repre sentatives of foreign powers. (Cheers.) It seemed singularly appropriate that the chief Magistrate of the city of London should have taken that the earliest opportunity of assembling together so distinguished a body of those foreign gentlemen at his hospitable board, in order to give them that thoroughly English welcome which he was sure every Englishman was desirous of according to them. (Cheers.) But although this meeting had been of a pacific and joyous character, they could not over look the fact, that the pleasure had been sadly marred by the severe and irreparable loss which their Queen and their country had recently sus tained. (Hear.) He felt all the more grieved for this loss owing to the fact that as it was from the late illustrious Prince that the idea of these international exhibitions emanated, he had not lived to see this second realisation of his anxious desires and earnest anxietyhopes. f (H m e i a n r d , a h t e t a e r n . d ) an T t h u e p y o nm g h i h e a t f g ea r r e a that d t e h r e . takings had in no small degree contributed to shorten that life which was so valuable to his coun try, and the abrupt termination of which the whole nation so sincerely deplored. (Hear, hear.) The success of the Exhibition of 1851 was largely attri butable to the exertions of the late illustrious Prince. Many at first doubted the expediency and practica bility of the undertaking, but his Royal Highness persevered, and the result was a success beyond what any one expected. Now that this second at tempt was about to be made his Royal Highness was no longer amongst them to share their joys and triumphs. (Hear, hear.) The Lord Mayor had ex pressed the hope that the result of this second gathering would be to promote peace between the nations, and he (the Duke of Cambridge) sincerely trusted that the Lord M sytg's wishes in this respect might be happily realised. (Applause.) He was sure that the cordiality and hospitality with which their foreign friends had been received by the Lord Mayor on that occasion must contribute materially to such a result. (Applause.) Captain MAY briefly returned thanks on behalf of the Royal Navy, and Colonel Ward, of the Ist London Rifles, acknowledged the compliment on behalf of the volunteer corps. The next toast was " The Church and the Health of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury," which having been duly honoured, was appropriately ac knowledged by his Grace, who expressed his admi ration of these industrial exhibitions, as calculated to promote peace between nations. He hoped that it would be found impossible for those who had been thus associated in promoting national industry to resort to the destructive arts of war. [We may ob serve that his Grace, whose brief observations were exceedingly well received, appeared to justify the gratifying announcements which have recently been put forth respecting his restored health.] The next toast was " The Health of the Royal Commissioners of 1862 ;" in proposing which the LORD MAYOR took occasion to eulogise those noble men and gentlemen for the able manner in which they had discharged their duties, and he coupled with the toast the health of the Right Hon. Earl Granville. The toast was drunk with great cordiality. Earl GRANVILLE returned thanks. He said that although the loss of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort had somewhat diminished their interest, and damped their pleasure, yet they felt it to be a sacred duty to work with all the more activity, in order to secure the success of that undertaking which the Prince Consort considered necessary to bring to perfection his first great work—the concep• tion of his own mind—in which he was aided by the distinguished persons who surrounded him—and to make a real success of what his late Royal High ness was pleased to call a mere temporary triumph of the time. (Cheers.) They had little more to do than apply those precedents and those rules which had been the subject of so much consideration at the time, and in a few cases only, where altered circum stances had required it, had those rules been at all modified. This, however, had been done in cases where there was a great contrast between the cir cumstances of 1851 and of 1862. On both occasions they had experienced the greatest kindness and encouragement from the municipal authorities of the city of London. (Cheers.) The Lord Mayor had given them a splendid banquet, to convey to the distinguished foreigners in attendance an idea of the cordiality of the feelings which the English people entertained towards them. In 1851 the idea was no new that there was hardly any sort of panic and alarm which did not exist as to the conse quences of the Exhibition. (Hear.) There was a strong feeling of opposition at the movement, although a reaction of equal strength set in at the moment it was opened. (Hear.) There was no opposition now—there were no breathers of ill nature or of ill-will—they had encountered criti cism, but not more than was necessary to keep them up to the mark—in fact it was a criticism without which no possible enterprise of the slightest importance had a chance of succeeding. (Hear.) First there was a feeling—in which many large producers joined, and of which he could not com plain, for he felt it himself—that this second attempt was being made too soon. But what had taken place was the best answer to that objection. The desire of exhibitors was such that while the present building was one-third larger than the building of 1851, they had been obliged to reject six-sevenths of the articles tendered for exhibition, and yet he really believed that the chief fault which would be found with what they had done was that the edifice was too crowded—not crowded with rubbish, as they would be ready to admit when they had seen it—but with articles which would form a very fa vourable contrast to any previous exhibition. When they commenced their task the commissioners were in a state of complete pauperism. (Laughter.) Although one of their number, Mr. Baring, was not without great credit in the City, yet the Bank of England at first declined to advance them 4200 Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet, In that wide hall with earth's inventions' stored, And praise th' invisible universal Lord, Who let once more in peace the nations meet, Where Science, Art, and Labour had outpour'd Their myriad horns of plenty at their feet." (Loud applause.) " The House of Peers and the Lord Chancellor" was the next toast, which was duly honoured. The LORD CHANCELLOR returned thanks, and said that one of the characteristics of the House of Lords, of which he was the unworthy representa tive, was that though it was an hereditary assem bly, it was recruited from the ranks of the people, and his own case was an illustration of the fact that the humblest individual, if found worthy, would be elevated to that distinguished honour. The House of Peers recruited its ranks from the bar, from the army, from the navy, and, in the case of a recent illustrious individual, from literature. (Hear.) The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The House of Commons, with which he coupled the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer." The toast was duly honoured, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER returned thanks, and said that as elected by the suffrages of their fellow. countrymen, it must always be a plea sure to members of the House of Commons to par take, according to ancient usage, of the splendid hospitalities of the Lord Mayor. In such cases as this Exhibition, the House of Commons felt that there ought not to be any necessity for what Sir R. Peel called the " vulgar expedient of resorting to the Consolidated Fund," but the house saw the im portance of the movement, and lent its aid cheerfully to the supplementary measures for acquiring the estate on which the present building was erected. (Hear.) . . . " The Lord Mayor" was the next toast, proposed by his Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and duly honoured. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. He said it was his good fortune to have had great opportuni ties during his mayoralty, which he had endea voured to turn to good account, and such expres sions of thanks as these were to him a great and gratifying reward. (Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The Commis sioners of the Exhibition of 1851," whom he eulo gised in the warmest terms for their care and judg ment, which had materially lessened the difficulties of securing a suitable site for the Exhibition of 1862. With this toast he associated the name of " The Right Hon. 13. Disraeli, M.P." Mr. DISRAELI, who was received with applause, returned thanks. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was a great lesson, taught by a wise master, to people in whom he had confidence. There was no doubt that in that concurrence of the industry and invention of the world England learnt many things of which she was before ignorant, and unlearned some things which perhaps she had practised too long. (Hear.) The verdict of posterity with regard to the Exhibition of 1851 had been, that it had stimulated the invention and refined the taste of Europe. (Hear.) Another Exhibition had now become a necessity, and the question was when it should take place. The decennial interval hpd been thought the best. After a touching allusion to his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the right hon. gentleman said this Exhibition would be the best memorial to his memory, being the consumma tion of what he most desired. Of old it was the custom on the tombs of heroes to celebrate rites and sacrifices, sometimes fantastic, sometimes gloomy and terrible, but to their hero they offered oblations of peace and of industry stimulated, of invention refined, of taste elevated. These wore our offerings to the memory of that serene and sagacious spirit. The health of " The Lady Mayoress" Was next drunk, and the proceedings terminated. 2'IIE NAVY. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieutenant Mervyn B, Medlycott, to the Britannia ; Surgeon Edward T. Mortimer (promoted); Master's Assistant Augustus Fane, to the Emerald; Midshipman 'William Neil son, to the Warrior, the complement being incom plete ; Naval Cadets—William Manach, Richard P. Humpage, and Henry J. Godfrey, to the War rior; Engineer C. A. Stratford (confirmed), to the Medea ; Acting Second• class Assistant Engineer-- Henry White (B), to the Asia, as supernumerary, The Tribune, 31, screw frigate, got under weigh yesterday morning from Spithead, and made a trial of her machinery after repairs. The arrangements were under the superintendence of Captain Broad, head, commanding the steam reserve. We urlder , stand that the macninery worked most satisfactorily. The ship will leave for the American coast at or , e o'clock this day. The Meg ura, 6, iron screw steam troop ship, Commander Samuel IL Henderson, was taken out of No. 2 dock at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon to complete her repairs. The Severn 51, screw steamship of 500-horse power, proceeded yesterday on a trial of her engines to the Maplin Sands. THE ARMY. Lieutenant James Bell, Ist battalion 16th Foot in command of 2 sergeants, and 64 rank and file, arrived at Chatham from Templemore yesterday t o join the 83d Regiment. It has been officially announced at St. Petersburg that the Russian Government have sanctioned the estab lishment of a magnetic and raeteorologica,l observatory at Peking