The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-23 00:00:00

MISCEL LA NEO US N E WS. A FOREIGNER ON THE BUDGET. M. Leon Say, the well-known economist of the Jwtrnal des Velats, has been criticising Mr. Lowe 's Budget with some severity. It contains, hi his of inion, only one remarkablefeature—akind of forced and disgui se d l oan t o cover th e expenses of the \by ssi- luau war. 11. ay accuses Mr. Lowe of the desire to in..ke a sensation by producing a Budget written like a novel. He chews an expenditure and income equally balanced, and calls himself poor, and then amidenly discovers £3,000,000 sterling, which he gives up at once to taxpayers. his French critic does not even allow him the merit of this fortunate discovery, .for he traces it to M. Fould's Budget of 1302„ in - i4lrich the Treasury changed the dates when "Itente'lglders were to receive the interest of their Bentes. - The result of this change was that in the first year there were only three-quarters to be paid, instead of two half-years, which made 2f. 25c., instead of 3f. ; so that a quarter of the inte rest of the debt is carried over to the next year. Mr. Lowe has, so to speak, copied M. Fould. The present year will be. r i c h er b y a quarter of the income tax than the preceding one, and will make the Treasury £3,000,000 sterling richer again, which will be used to pay the expenses of the Abyssinian war. This arrangem en t, accor di ng t o M . S ay, i s artificial and theatrical. The Budget is a pantomimic drama, full of tricks and changes. Mr. Gladstone's I:dget shewed a grander simplicity. his successor in the Chancellorship dces not replace him. TRADES UNIONS AND MR. HUGHES'S BILL. The Trades Unions Bill, introduced by Messrs. B nghes and Mundella, and supported by the Govern ment, has just been considered by the delegates of the . several unions throughout the country. Mr. :Hughes himself explained the measure to them. There was an undercurrent of grumbling that the bill did not give all that might be demanded ' • but it being felt that mode ra ti on i n thi s case was strength, a resolution was passed approving of it. Brought in by private members, supported by the Government, and opposed by such men as Lord the bill b - s a fair chance of passing the Householders' Parlia ment. CENTRALISATION OR LOCAL INDEPENDENCE. Mr. Goschen, as President of the Poor Law Board, n s had to decide a questi on w hi c h hi s p re d ecessors found very difficult. He has seen guardians w, sting public money, and knowing what a howl of indignant remonstrance is raised if there is the least " tyrannical interference of the Poor-law Board," br:s had to choose whether to let them continue, or to use his power. Ile told a deputation of guardians who recently waited upon him which he intended to do. They protested against the union of certain parishes. In reply, Mr. Goschen complained that he met with opposition when he tried to introduce economic changes. The guardians were spending too much money, and when told of it said they wanted to be left alone. But it was his duty to look at the danger of leaving them alone, for pauper:sm was increasing at the rats of 7.45 per cent. in three He would not undertake the responsibility of letving them alone. He found that guardians did not mind spending a few thousands more on this or that object if they could keep it to themselves ; but in his view economy, combined with efficiency ; should be the foremost aim. REFORMATORY SCIIOOLS. The furore which raged during the winter en the subject of our criminal classes has now suh3Ll e d somewhat, but not before it has resulted in a b:il to punish habitual criminals. A g-neral sen. - ;t; that something must be done to put Ow:: ii the groat ev,l now prevails. Those wi - lo Lthoe-tte rdormatory treatment have just held a two days' conference in London. The night Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., the Earl of Lichfield, Mr. Baker, and others took pat in it. It was urged that the Government should care more immediately for the reformatorles and refuges. It is better to prevent than to cure. If the seeds of thievery can be-removed ere they have borne fruit, society will benefit. ..The best plait of werking the schools was considered, but on this d.Ullcult subject there was no general agreement. 'run TOT:GHAT. ELECTION. Judge O'Brien in delivering judgment on the Toughal election petition, unseated Mr. Wegu din, but said that lie would report to the `pecker that corrupt practices did not extensively previil at the election. One would like to• I.now what the judges ine : in by the adjecti ve " ex t ens i ve l y. " Mr. Atiuguelin polled 1:27 votes, and these votes cost him, according to one account, £B,OOO, according to another, 4.1 2,000. T:Lking the lower estimate, they cost sixty guineas a piece, and as it does not appear that any large sums were paid to particular electors, we are com pelled to come to a different conclusion from Judge O'Brien's. The judges hitherto have certainly done .little to make bribery a hoinous offence. TUE SUPREMACY OP THE CROWN. What is the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Grown One makes it a niystical doctrine, involving the representation of the Deity by the head of the Church ; another explains it as merely a title, carry ing with it the right of presenting bishos ; whilst another gives it as a merely . civil supremacy, making. the sovereign the first in rank, wheler amongst laymen or clergymen. Py some—by a great many ssentem—the Queen is supposed to occupy the posi tion of a Pope; by others her ecclesiastical position is looked upon as a mere accident conseinent on her civil supremacy. Mr. Hubbard would have it that she is not supreme head of the Church at all ; that she is merely a governor of the kingdom. " Angli ca:ms," in a letter to ,the Tires, takes another view. " - The Bishop of Capetown, I'usey, and others who are rej o ici n g i n the su ppo s ed f ree d om which the Irish Church, and, if so 116, the English Church is hereafter to envoy by separation from the control of the State, will find that, milesi expressly c:ceptel by an act of the Legislature, they will merely pass from the mixed tribunal of the Queen in Council to the purely lay tribunal of the Queen in Chancery." " Anglicanus " declares that until an Act be passed ex pressly forbidding the Imperial Legislature, or the groat organs of the State,.to intervene in eccles:as tical matters; and precluding all appeals from eceie siastical bodies to the civil courts of the realm, the work of Henry - VIII., of Edward VI., and. of Elizabeth will irot be entirely undone, nor the teach ing of Crammer and Hooker entk'rely repudiated. TILE SPEAKER'S COMNENTARY. Is this long-delayed work really about to appear at last ? There arc symptoms of it. We notice that the Speaker has just entertained at dinner a number of ar,thbishops, bishops, and clergy, and among the latter we observe the name of "the Rev. Canon Cook, editor." This looks as if the Commentary "ere at least not abandoned. We doubt, however, if . dinner parties ar e ca l cu l a t e d t o " h as t en " t h e com pletion of this prolonged project, however "slowly." AN OLD SOLDIER ON OUR NATIONAL DEFF.NCES. Octogenarians art young m en now - a -d ays. Veterans Well on towards 00 years of age think themselves as fully qualified as men o f on l y h alf their years to preside over a Cabinet, or a diocese, or an arm Here is Sir John Burgoy ne , f or i nstance, who help ed to capture Malta more than sixty years ago, who is now 87 years old, and who has lust published a vigorous pamphlet on " Our National Defences." The Field-Marshal does not • believe that the millennium has come so far. He thinks it not at all improbable that we shall have to hoist the flag which has "braved a thous; d yeara the battle and ti . e breeze." Ile is evidently by no means certain ii that " meteor flag " will " terrific burn." The whole art of war has altered since he bombarded aletta and retreated under Sir John Moore. however firmly we may adhere to non-interrention, "there is no security from being bullied, plundered,and trampled upon, unless a countiThes means of guarding itself by force of arms." He does not believe that a navy, however powerful, would render us safe against invasion. lie holds it to be " the most dangerous delusion into which a community can fall " that if an invader did land on our island he would be met by such large numbers of armed, patriotic, and determined men, as to be unable to advance against them. Ile considers that our condition is " very disheartening," and lie goes on to consider low we can improve it. In the first place, we shall never have a sufficiency of regular troops to defend the country, and we must therefore make the militia our mainstay. But he is thoroughly dissa tisfied with the organisation and constitution of this force. lle objects to the time alloWed for trainine , as insufficient to give the men " the knowledge, steadi ness, and habits of soldier s." The officers, as a body, from the army not being their profession, can hardly be exrectcd to be thoroughly efficient, or capable of imparting that confidence to the men so essential to success; and the non-commissioned officers would I.robably be found in a great measure inefficient. Ile pronounces emphatically for shcrt . terins of ser vice, in order chiefly to leave the militia v trained roen passed into it out of tine eregular regiments. Ile favours the idea of posting all the short service men to the militia, and of using the militia rather as an " army reserve " than as a "reserve army." That is, he would fill up the cadres of the regular corps to war strength from the militia. Ile attaches considerable importance to the volunteer force, and thinks that it would be most useful for " detached duties," and would form "admirable garrisons for our fortifications." Even when the troops to be recalled from the colonies this year have assembled in the kingdom, and have raised the home regular force to 00,000 men, Sir John Burgoyne calculates that unr.7er m) conditions could more than 40,000 regular infantry take the field. The mode he would adopt of increasing this to a respectable ii are is to stren r eahen each weak battalion of ;;CO men by I;oo.men dnLwn from the militia, by which means we should have 80,000 regular infantry. 'l'o these he would add militia regiments to the extent of one-half, ;aid thns produce a " manwuvring levee of 120.000 in- fantr3i, besides cavalry and artillery. - .7otliing can be done with the cavalry at present, but Sir John is anxious, above all things, that we should reorgm'se the commissar:at and transport departments. fie holds that we ought to have th e se in such a con dition that we might go to war to-morrow ; and there is no doubt that Prussia owed her success in 1866 greatly to the fact that she was thus prepared. ROYAL HOSPITALITY. The Duke of Cambridge appears to be fully im presred with the fact that royal hospitality in this country is not what it ought to be. Speaking at a public dinner, he referred to the magnificent recep tion which had been given in Egypt to his cousins, the Prince and the Princess of Wales, and he added that this reception " proved a lesson to this enlightened empire when viewed in relation to the reception of distinguished persons visiting England." There is not a doubt of it ; the only doubt is whether royal personages will learn the lesson. The Commander-in-Chief has set an example which we hope his relatives will follow. 3111. DISIIAELT. It is satisfactory to find that the " re: ere attack of the gout" which prevented Mr. Disraeli from being present in the House of Commons on Monday, when his friends received four severe defeats, did not pre vent him from giving a largo dinner party to dis tinguished guests two evenings later. The world will hardly know whether to congratulate the ex- Premier more upon his very speedy recovery or upon the well-timed occurrence of his illness. MR. CIIILDF./tS. Some two or three months ago, in the first fervour of economy, it was announced that Mr. Childers had given up his official residence at the Admiralty for the public service, and the public duly applauded the patriotism which dictated this sacrifice. The papers now announce that " last evening (Wednesday) Mrs. Childers held an assembly at the official residence of the First Lord of tile Admiralty, 'Whitehall." It would seem, therefore, a it tic patriotic instincts of the First Lord had yielded to the remonstrances of the First Lady of the Admiralty. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. The division list cn Mr. T. Chambers's motion to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister presents a curious medley of names. The majority was composed mainly of Liberals, although many Conservatives voted in favour of the motion. Among these were Viscount Barrington, Mr. Bentinck, Hon. R. Bourke, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Dick, Viscount Galway, Mr. Hick, Mr. Staveley Hill, Mr. Johnston (of Ballykilbeg), Mr. Kavanagh, Lori. George Manners, and Mr. Sidebottom. Some of the Liberals who opposed the second reading were Mr. Aytoun, Mr. Blake, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Lord George Cavendish, Right lion. W. H. Cogan, Sir John Cole ridge, 'Mr. E. relison, Air. Dundas, Sir John Esinentle, Mr. Crum-Ewing, Air. Finnic, Air. W. 11. Gladstone, Mr. GI-eville-Nugent, Mr. Grieve, Marquis. of Lorne, Mr. APCombie, Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. M'Lagan, Mr. APLaren, Sir - A. G. dtland,Mr. Matheson, Mr. Miller, Mr. Monsell, The O'Donogline, Mr. Arthur 1 3 ( el, Colonel Sykes, and Mr. Tomline. The Prime Minister did not vote, and Mr. Disraei was once more absent through illness. The tellers for the Ayes were Mr. T. Chambers and Viscount Bury, and for the Noes Mr. SAater-Booth and Mr. O'Reilly. F OREIGY NOTES. THE ROYAL TOUR IN THE EAST. The Prince and the Princess of Wales left a sum of £1,600 for the poor of Constantinople previous to their departure for the Crimea. Their loyal Highnesses, says a communication rid Marseilles, declined to accept any present of great intrinsic value, though a diamond neck :ace, worth 1i20,009, had been intcnded for the Princess. A NOIITII GERMAN MINISTRY. The North German Parliament has defeated Count Bismarck. In spite of all the efforts of the Chancellor and his supporters, the motion to attach a responsible Cabinet to the North German Chancellorship, and thus convert his Executive into a regular constitutional Govern. ment, was carried by a majority of 111 to 100. We have already given Count Bismarck's argument against this change. Indeed, both parties need the same pleas, the Chancellor urgiog, that the establishment of a North Ger man 'Ministry would frighten the Southern States, by giving too much power to a Cabinet in which Prussia will be so powerfully represented. A Ministry reponsible to the North German Parliament would infallibly infringe upon the liberties of time individual States, and thus deter the South from joining the North. But the supporters of the motion held that to substituta a Ministry for a 'series of irresponsible committees or departments was a Liberal movement, and by subjecting the Executive to the control of the North German Parlia ment would win, instead of repelling, the Southern States. The Times correspondent thinks the Federal Council will reject the motion, and that the Parliament in revenge will refuse a new loan and taxes demanded of it. Whatever may be the result, this proposition hronght forward by Prus sian Liberals in opposition to the Gov(rm e;it shows how thoroughly the mass of the nation Las e'; is heart on German unity. TIM NEW ITALIAN MINISTI LT LONDON. Signor Cadorna, wl,o Las just been appointed Italian Minister at the Court of St. James's, was twice President of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies, and twice Minis- ter in the lesser kingdom. He was lately Minister of the Interior under General Menabrea, but he resigned, not agreeing with the domestic policy of his colleagues. He is of advanced age, broken health, and has never been a diplomatist before. He is of very liberal political' . opinions, but he has so far shewn no particular qualification for the post of Ambassador at London. Ilis appointment has surprised everybody. But, in fact, it was very difficult to find a suitable ambassador. The Government has taken a, year to make up its mind. The appointment was offered to the Marquis Pepoli, but he is Ambassador at Vienna, and so comfort agile is his place, so excellent are the relations between Italy and Austria, that he declines to change. THE ITALIAN BUDGET. Count Cambray-lligny's financial statement fixes the total deficit at the end of the year 18€8 at about twelve and a half millions sterling. 'The def cit of 1860 is three millions, to which must be added nine millions, swallowed up in advances to railway companies and in divers other ways, making a total of rather more than twenty-four and a half millions. This terrible balance on the wrong side will be met by loans and other expedients ; and an equili brium will, it is Loped, be gradually established by economy, and, principally, by the sale of the Church property. Bat as the Minister himself fixes 1875 as the earliest date at which the receipts and expenditure will be balanced,and as he is naturally anxious to put things as favourably as possible, the financial state of the country may be con sidered practically hopeless. This Budget speech con tained another noticeable statement. The Italian Govern ment's confidence in the maintenance of peace is so strong, that certain expenses involved in the reorganisa tion of the army will be spread over a long series of years, and thus something will lie gained in this way. BrAIN WITHOUT A GOVEENMENT. Three elections which remained to be hell at Saragossa, Tarragona, and Parcelona, have terminated in favour of the Republicans by large majorities. This was to be ex pected, for the Republican strength lies in the large towns. Nevertheless the Independence Belie says the lack of a monarchical candidate strengthens the chance of a republic each day. The position of the party is all the stronger since it has found a great leader in Castelar, decidedly the first orator in Spain. His recent speech on religious liberty has made an impression, says the correspondent of the Dairy News, which will never be forgotten. It is not a little significant that this " glory of Spain," as lie is called even by Minis terialists, was consulted by the Minister of Public Works before drawing up the text of the new law on public in struction. During the last few nights the municipal guard of Granada has obliged all passers-by to answer the question of "Who goes?" by "Long live the Re• public !" CONTINENTAL STRIKES. Chronic discontent appears to have s2ized upon the working men of Europe. Two thousand of the Berlin car. penters have left work, whilst the strike in Belgium has assumed an alarming aspect. The workmen are quiet, but they refuse to go to work except with a considerable increase of wages. Large bodies of hoops rre quartered in the malcontent districts, but it is hardly possible that any force can prevent bread riots if the strike continues much longer. Already troops of men arc patrolling the country demanding bread at the va'•ii us farm-Louses. THE WAR OF 18(.76. The IVew Free Press publishes the text of a very impor taut despatch sent by Count Bismarck to Count Von Goltz, Prussian Minister at Paris on the 20th of July ISGG, just before the armistice was concluded with Austria. In this document, which has hitherto been kvpt secret, the Prussian Minister that _Mug William had agreed to the :umiak() on!y out of regard for the Emperor Napoleon, and upon the assurance of " important acquisitions to Prussia in North Germany." "The King" said Count Bismarck, "attaches Ices importance than I do to the establishment of a political confederation of the North. Ile is all for annexation, and I agree with him that the reform we have in view cannot he effected v itlieut some additic us to PThssian territory." _Hanover ad Saxony were too large to be left independent consisten;ly with the establishment of Prussian supremacy. The despatch adds that the King of Prussia would rather abdicate than forego an important acquisition of territory. The mediation of the French Emperor would apply only to Austria. Prussia would make her own terms with the North German States, Awl so she has. - • THE MTN, LONDON, FP IDA EVENING, APRIL 23, 1869. " NA 710 N" AND JTS' i7OI:IIFSPON DE..I7'S ON 7 lIE AL4BA MA CLAIMS. (Tram the American Times) There was a remark iu the Saturday Review last week which strikingly illustrates its untruthfulness when writing on anything in the United States. The English public do not know the American press, whc seleading papers even, are seldom to be met with at the great clubs and libraries of London. The Saturday Review can with impunity state the tone of that press as far as its own readers are con cerned, just as it might tell anything of the political principle - sand the moral depravities of the chief advi ser of the ruler of Timbuctoo. What it persistently states, and what we, writing for men who know these papers, persistently deny, is, that the Ameri can press gives utterance to unrestrained malignity against England. Last week the. Review, singling out the Nation as a journal intellectually on the foot.; ing of the best in Europe, says it can never allude to England without falling into hysterics. As these hysterics have all been ruproduced in the Anglo- American Times, our readers have had the oppor tunity of judging for themselves, and as many of the class for which the Saturday Review writes, show an inclination to test the truth of its remarks on America by a reference to our columns, we will continue our surninary_of the controversy lately carried on in the Nation on the Alabama Claims, which will give them further means of ascertaining what the Saturday Review* considers Anglophobia in a New York paper. " America," in reply to the letters of " Integrity," and "M ," denounc ing the mode of reparation he advocated, says —" England may be assured that a large num ber of Americans, weary of her bad faith, quibbles, and delay, are prepared for exact retaliation, and ready to do, delay, permit, obstruct, foster, and abet belligerents against England, precisely as she delayed, permitted, obstructed, fostered, and abetted the proceedings of Mr. Laird." Belligerency once recognized, nothing could prevent the hostile use of American ships by the wearied holders of Alabama Claims, an - 1 it is a mis-statement to assert that an adequate proffered compensation had been refused, as England had never proffered it. " Ile pays twice," says America' " who pays quickly ; and a frank atonement from England for her wrong, would have been accepted with a friendly disposition to condone the irreparable injury. Hope defer red has made the heart sick ; and many Ameri cans are ready to say to Eng!and, unless she at once acts like the gallant old England of the first Lord St. Germain's times and temper We were strong and you hated us ; we became weak and you in sulted and assailed us as the late United States of Ametica.' You prematurely recognized. our rebels, who by your own precedents in regard to Rochelle were your eeemies on land and sour pirates at sea, because they were such to us, a friendly power. Your hasty act of unfriendline:s gave a maritime status to pirates and encouraged blockade running, pre longed a disastrous war, filled cur Irom s with a hundred thousand more of deal, swept our com merce front the seas, mid' brought our flag under the deep humiliation of seeking British cover to avoid corsairs that your owa loudly-cheered mem her of Parliament had built. We were too much oppressed by a gigantic rebellion to do more than protest against your wrong doing. It might have been manly' and chivalric' to add you to our open enemies at your strongest, and our weakest hours. But this nation knew too much of war to court defeat." In the next number eppeared a letter from H. Lt e Warner, from Rugby, England, in eply to " America's" first letter. He says the Washington Government preclairned a blockade, and because Eegl end accepted the state of things thus declared America is angry. The Alabama Claims proper, England has consented to pay. Why, asks the Englishman, *has the Senate rejected the Conven tion its accredited Minister was sent to England to negotiate. "Are we to receive him with open arms, AS the representative of old friends an I near rela tions from whom we have been temporarily estranged, or to say that we will not make a treaty with a man who obviously does not represent the real feeling of his country? If the latter, we result ,your rei.resentative ; if the former, we run the chance of being seubbe 1 in our turn by the rejection of our treaty." He was either A:nerica's Representative, and the Senate was bound to accept his ac", or else to have teca:led him during its opera'ion, as he must have telegraphed for instructions, or i.e was not sent out in good faith, and the English whO accepted his compliments as your Representative have been pur posely insulted. Then Mr. Warner puts the same question to the Nation that the Pal Mull .7 - 'azelte peked it lait Monday. "Perhaps an iilus!ration will help our mutual understanding. The United States ate not only at peace with Spain, but have only quite recently expressed strong sympathy with its present Coverement. Yet before Spain pro claims the blockade of Cuba, you have hastened to promise recognition of belligerent rights to the rebels there. Is this justice? A long-lived nation can wait for ample justice,' as your correspondent says. But justice is not ample unless it is imme diate and consistent." The editor, iu reply,-said o o tr m ri fii t ic t e c a h tpi ort proclamation c e recognitionloafut,alit that the main reason of American irritation was c n t u j o i t t e as that it was prema iobrltow.,•kaasdisesiitaedd b b e e f e o n re re th ce e iv o e fli d - , or Lord Russell had had an opportunity of hearing Mr. Adams on the condition and prospects of the in surrection. " That the proclamation would have had to be issued eventually, we have ourselves no doubt, but the unprecedented haste iu issuing it was, or is taken as, a proof of animus; in other words, as an indication of unfriendly feeling." Americans recognize England's right to choose its time, but likewise claim the right to take offence if the time chosen be a manifest sign of hostility. We were not angry, says the editor, because we were taken at our word, but because England did not wait to hear what our word was. The majority of the Senate and of the public think the Convention has the fatal defect of not providing proper ma chinery for the redress of what Americans consider, and Englishmen now acknowledge, to have been a great wrong. Mr. Lee Warner is reminded that the dispatch of the Alabama from an English port was followed by years of pillage, accompanied by the ap plause of the English press and the most influential portion of English society, coupled with hearty abuse of the North. We hate to recall these things, adds the Editor ; but when pressed for an explana tion of American irritation we have to do it. No calm observer of the course pursued by leading Englishmen on this question, in the years 1862-3-4, but foresaw years of mutual hate and recrimina tion, and the "ignorant rant" of the Lairds, the Roebucks, the Times, and the Saturday Review are especially mentioned. Perhaps this is the hysterics to which the Saturday Review alludes. The Nation then contrasts the feteing of Mr. Johnson with the attitude of English society towards the American Representative five short years ago, and English men must be sensible that the contrast is little to their advantage. Finally, Mr. Lee Warner assumes that belligerent rights have been promised to Cuban rebels, while no such promise has been made, nor is it likely to be made, until the Government are in possession of information which vt ill justify such a course. In the next issue of the Nation, that is on the Ist April, the following letter appeared from Professor Goldwin Smith, with the Editor's remarks thereon : Sir,—lt is with unfeigned hesitaticn and diffidence that, as a strtnger resident in this country, I say a word on any question connected with its public affairs. But lam moved to io so by your reterex.ct - i to the impression pre valent am..ng Americans, and apparently shared by you, that the ti ae choser by the British Government for the recognition of the Conference as belligerents was a mani fest sign of hostility to the Union, and may be taken as evidence of animus in interpreting the conduct of the same Government on other occasions. That an irresponsible though large and pov erful party in England was actuated by the bitterest hostility to the Union of course cannot be denied. But I speak of the responsible Government of the country. As one of those who believed that the cause of English liberty was bound up with that of the Union, I jealously watched, in the interest of both causes, the actions of our Government. Though perfectly independ ent of it. and on many questions opposed to it, 1 had per- * " Tho Natton, which stands on the intellectual level of the best Europt an periodicals, descends into a blind sind hysterical fury whenever it refers to England."— .Saturclv lericir, April 10. sonally. goo' opportunities of informing myself as to Um real disposition of its members. And it is my firm con, viet!on that its settled policy from the outset and through out the struggle was strict neutrality, practical as well as legal ; and that if it erred (as I am myself inclined to think that it did) in its choice of the time for the recognition of the Confederates as belligerents, .the error was the result not of any sinister bias, but of misconception alone. Of this I assure you upon my honour. My testimony is that of s-t Englishman. But it is that of an Englishman whose feeling on this subject was as keen as that of an American, and who has as little inducement as any American can have to defend against truth and right the conduct of the gavern:ng class of England.--I am your obedient servant, GOLDWIN Cornell University, Ithaca, March 27. rwe did not ourselves believe that the hasty recogni tion of the Confederates was duo to animus. We have always supposed that it was one of Lord Russell's little bursts of blundering impetuosity; but it can surprise no body that it should, when English society went over to the Confederate cause a year later, have been set down as the first expression of a prevalent feeling of hostility. Americana naturally, and indeed inevitably, viewed the fleet official act of the Government in connection with its subsequent official acts, and viewed all acts of the Go vernment in connection with the state of public feeling, as revealed by the more influential portion of the press, and by the tone of conversation in society. As far as our own limited experience went the English public was in a state of doubt and bewilderment until the battle of Bull Run. By that . time tho despatches of Mr. Seward, and the articles of a portion of the New York press, showing first that slavery had nothing to do with the contest ; and, secondly, that the right of the Federal Government to co erce was at least doubtful, coupled with the appearance of Mr. James Spence's "great work," showing the rotten ness of Northern society and the madness of the North ern enterprise—his statements, too, receiving a kind of confirmation from Federal reverses_ in the field--turned the scale against the North, an I prepared the way for the insane demonstrations of hostility which marked the years 1862-3-4. Already in 1862 a man who veuture:l to main tain in most English circles that the cause of the North was a justifiable one, and would probably succeed, was apt to be set down as a mixture for the silly crea ture and low fellow. The best ho e,ould hope for was to be treated as an nntiablei eethusiast. Now, thostewho were on the spot, as Mr. Goldwin &pith was, and, above all, who enjoyed as he did exceptional opportunities of watching the various stages in the growth of English opinion about the war, and the influence of "society" on the Government in its dealings with the belligerents, can readily draw the lino between the mistakes of the Go vernment and its wilful wrong-doing. But. it is easy to see how and why the American public, looking on from a distance, saw in the whole course of the Government and people one transaction only, an I found in the IThsty- re cognition of the slate of war an explanation of the escape of the Alabama; end in the enthusiasm for Semmes, and the toleration and even app'ause of Laird, and the monu ment-building to Stonewall e - ackson (a foreign general fighting for slavery), support for the belief which to-day is as strong as ever, that the Alabama was employed by Liverpool merchants, with the connivance of the Govern ment, to sweep American shipping from the seas, and transfer the American carrying trade to English bottoms. A more maddening belief could hardly get into . the heads of a commercial people, but there it is. Professor Goldwin Smith did his part in fighting against the folly which put it there ; but we doubt if he, or anybody else who has the faculty of seeing the two sides of a question, can th:nk the prese•nt state of mini of the American public anything wonderful. It is nor, we almit, the most exalted or philosephical or Christiaa frame of mind; but there is something thoroughly human about it, and, in our opinion, time will change it.- En. _Natio/Li As the Saturday Ikviac has selected the Nation, we ask if there is any hysteric tl hatred of England in these remarks? Ant we honestly state that we have picked out the mo:t severe that we have seen in that paper, after a careful perusal, almost from its start. METROPOLITAN GOSSlP.—Thursday. The Ministerialists preserve an unbroken phalanx. The prophecies so loudly, but perhaps not very confidently, made a few weeks ago, that the "unnatural coalition" between the Ultramontanes and the Nonconformists — between Cardinal Cullen and Mr. Miall—would not last, have, so far, been completely falsified, nor is there the slightest prospect of their realisation. Night after night Liberal M.P.'s answer to the Whip with an alacrity which skews how determined they are that there shall be no repetition of the blunders of three years ago. On the other hand the Opposition are getting discouraged, and the natural result of discouragement—absence— follows. Mr. Disraeli was not present in the House on Monday. He was kept away, his friends said, by a severe attack of the gout. That inveterate foe of statesmen proved akind friend on the present occasion, for it spared the Con servative leader the pain of three overwhelming defeats in the course of one evening. The same foe she wed himself equally kind by taking his departure as soon as that humane purpose was served. Mr. Disrael;, the martyr to gout on Monday, was the genial host to a very distinguished circle of guests on Wednesday. But while all is going so well with the Government as regards its main business, there are murmurs of complaint scarcely faint with respect to other matters. Mr. Lowe's Budget does not improve upon closer acquaintance, and French journalists, whose liberalism is undoubted, are severely criticising the new Chancellor's coup de theiltre. Our own M.P.'s are . grumbling against him because of the way in which he treated them with regard to the site of the new law courts. They ask, and with some show of justice, why it was that at such a time as this, in which every night is of importance, lie allowed a whole evening to be wasted iu discussing the advantages and the dis advantages of the Carey-street site when the Government had fully determined to abandon that site. They say that these theatrical surprises can be bought too dear, and they hope that Mr. Lowe will not make fools of them again. Then there is perplexity, to use no stronger word, at the seemingly erratic way in which the Home secretary counsels the exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy. Men cannot understand the recent numerous reprieves, especially that of Wiltshire, the atrocious monster who first violated a woman and then murdered her. The explanation which is to be asked for to-night by Sir George Jenkinson may perhaps prove satisfactory; it is certainly expected with some anxiety by the friends of the Govern ment. But the most serious matter of all is the conduct of the Government with regard to the Irish land question. Even the Liberal journals, and especially the Times, have severely censured the Cabinet for not introducing a measure this session, or, failing that, ad o pti ng L or d Clanricardes. It is asserted that delay in this matter is exceedingly dangerous, and that the Irish tenants and the peasantry are entertaining the wildest expectations of what the Government mean to do for them next year. Mean while these are resorting to agrarian murders in the hope that they may frighten Ministers into a scheme of whole sale confiscation, believing that it was the Fenian outages which frightened them into disestablishing the Church. Clearly this is a very undesirable state of things, and ought not to be allowed to continue. I have still nothing definite to tell you with respect to the course which the Lords will take on the Irish Church Bill. The rumour gains ground that they will " transmogrify " it so effectually that the Commons will refuse to accept it, and that when all the lab. ur of this session will have to be repeated next year. The large and sustained majorities in the Lower House are scarcely likely to encourage the Peers to such a course. More probable is the supposition that amendments will be made which the more Conservative Liberals will accept rather than bring about a collision b e tw een th e two Homes. Mu c h will depend upon the conduct of a f ew whig p eers lik e Lords Russell, Grey, and Westbury. All three of these, it is pretty well known, are favourable to a concurrent endowment of the three Church es . •But it is ea r ly y et to talk of what - tl,e Lords will do.. The bill is not nearly through the Commons, and as there are no fewer than fifteen printed folios of amendment notices, it is clear that the Lower House has plenty of work cut out for it. There is a rumour that Mr. Gladstone will knock off the Whit sun holidays if these amendments are not quickly dis posed of. We are now in the first spring of the picture season. Almost every day there is some fresh exhibition either of a single picture or of a collection. Among the first is " The Last Supper," by Bonifacio; of Venice. It is a very fine work, originally painted for the Ligh altar at St. Mark's Cathe dral, more than WO years ago. When Napoleon took to ravaging the galleries and churches at the beginning of the century this work was stowed away, and after the conclusion of the great war was discovered rolled up in a place of safety. It was thenmbought by an Englishman, and remained in his possession until his death, which has taken place quite recently. The pict-are is now for sale. It is in wonderful preservation, and, with the exception of a few minor details, the colouring is as fresh and brilliant as though the work had been painted but fifty years. To-morrow I go to the private view of a painting which is likely to cause no small sensation, " The Death of Rossini," by Gustave Dora. Friends who have seen the work in the artist's - studio at Taris, speak in the highest terms of it, and consider it his masterpiece. Saturday is the private iew ( f the Old Waft'. Colour Society. On Monday the National Gallery reopens, after having been closed two months fur extensive alterations, caused by the removal of tie Royal ACademy to Burling ton House. On the following Saturday the Royal Academy dinner takes place ; and on the Monday after wards all the world will be thronging to Piccadilly to see the Academicians in their new quarters. The Institute of Water Colours had its private view on Saturday. The collection is a good average; but there are few striking pictures. Mr. Corbould is nowhere this year, and his " Joan of Arc " is one of his least satisfac tory 'works. Carl Werner has but few of his striking Eastern interiors. Mr. Vacher has been in Italy and the Tyrol, and his picture of Desenzano, on the Lago di Garda, is a fine view of one of the most beautiful spots in Italy. Mr. Tidy has but'ime, and that a not important work. Mr. Prout has a few exteriors of Norman and Breton churches, and Mr. Haglee some fine ecclesiastical interiors. Mr. Philip Mitchell is better than usual, and his various moorland pieces shew that land rather than water is his proper element. Mr. Henry Warren's chief contribution is a fine study of Eastern life, representing Abra ham's purchase of the Cave of Machpelach. Mr. Edmund Warren has four works, two of them harvest scenes, one of them a study of beeches, for which he is renowned, and the fourth sheep-washing. But undoubtedly the gems of the exhibition are Guido Bach's studies of heads, which are marvellously fine, and Hine's landscapes, which are absolutely perfect in their atmosphere. Mr. Mogford follows hard upon Mr. Hine's heels. I must also notice Mr. ICilburne's clever picture of " Enoch Arden," and Mr. Hayes's " Commencement of a Gale," which is redolent of the sea. The last flower show at the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, in South Kensington, was unusually poor. The attendance was small, and the people seemed more bent in mobbing, after a genteel fashion, a young Indian girl, dressed in gorgeous costume, than in listening to the music or looking at the flowers. Loyalty, of the old-fashioned demonstrative kind, has disappeared from the capital simultaneously with the Court. When the "National Anthem " was played only about three bald headed old gentlemen, evidently of the straitest sect of the Tories, uncovered. The rest of the people took no notice. I suppose it is a case of out of sight, out of mind, though one would have thought that there, if anywhere, on that spot which is known as Albertland, and which has been specially favoured by the Queen, the old marks of homage to royalty would have been preserved. Close behind the great conservatoryrises the Central Hallof Arts and Sciences, a building something like the Colisseum at Rome, and not quite so useful. It is intended, I believe, to give lectures in it on art and science, but the lecturer will simply be inaudible in a space as large as the transept of the Crystal Palace. Behind the hall rises Mr. Gilbert Scott's great Gothic cross to the memory of " the great and good," which has now attained its full height. It is still very far from completion, for though a few coloured marbles have been introduced, the greater part of the decoration remains to be done. The presiding genius is, of course,' King Cole, C.B. He intends to remove, if ho can, all the Government departments of science and art to this district. Even the School of Mines will go there in time, and the artisans of East London will have to find their way to the extreme South-West. King Cole is not a man to be baffled. Between him, on the one hand, and Mr. Beresford Hope and the late Mr. Cook, almost tnhar et ieo f n e o r rt o o c f i ot o il u ipr s -review e l paid i r iN t c l l some Isnbgy tle on the other, there was personally no love lost, and the Saturday in its attacks upon him. The Reritlo put a stop to thousand' 0 thetla proprietorsndp r p e c oof l u nt s db se scheme ees t foro by ba ed which his Majesty's art e quietly a c a d t v a e l r o t g i s u i e n . g. B t t in N t h o e te irrepressible es zn , a o n n d a r a c s h fe i s w n o w that publication, no one h as ca ll e d atte n tion to the m on a s tt s e e r e . One good thing the King has done. He has promoted a series of lectures for ladies, which are now being delivered ,ja,thte feehe S charged outhKens i i s m ng s ton al l‘ l Museum s m eum m b o y re hretallaynfiroo l t - cla aie s d sm s e a n t . once joined the classes. It is better for them to be hearing ; science in the Museum than playing at Mumbo -Jumbo in the I have Gardens, reierred to the School of Dunes. One of the m ea t I gratifying features of this institution is i th . e eagerness which iiuxiev7o;kyinndgailz Mr. attend Etheridge,lectur lectures s nd gl the en other bPro l e ectu ss r ° ers rs 1 attached to the i ns tit u ti on. The room , crammed ; every week with an attendanc e t wice as l arge as that it will comfortably 1.0 1 .1 So great is the rush for tickets when they are given out on Monday morning that policemen have to guard the doors. lam sorry to say that this is not the only duty which the police have to perform. There have been some serious robberies from the Museum in Jermyn•street lately. In some instances the thefts have been serious, for the articles stolen have been not only intrinsically valuable, but absolutely irreplaceable. Among these is an ancient gold chain, worth as old gold £2OO, but as an antiquity far more. Quite recently, on one of the working men's evenings, a beautiful tazza of some rare material was stolen while the policeman did but turn his head. It was impossible to search six or seven hundred men, and so nothing could be done. This conduct is.very disheartening to those who are labouring for the improVement of the working classes, and who give them their time and thought without the smallest remuneration. I paid a visit last Sunday to a district of London which is little known to us in the West-end, but which is well worth visiting. It is called Haggerston, and has a popu lation as large as that of many an important town. Ad jacent to it, but actually within the region of Bethnal Green, I passed a striking group of Gothic buildings, and on asking what they were, learnt that they were a church, a model lodging-house, and a public library, all built by Miss Burdett Coutts. The last building is a magnificent structure, quite putting to shame the library in the Temple Gardens. A little further on I came to a lofty brick church • this was known as St. Chad's, and was to be consecrated on the following day. This is one of four churches built for districts carried out of the old parish of Haggerston. One London merchant has contributed #lO,OOO to sards the erection of them. • I then went to the mother church, a quasi -Gothic structure erected some forty years ago, and at the time without chancel, but with galleries. The present rector, Mr Ross, has completely transformed the building. He has pulled down the galleries, erected a very handsome chancel and a reredos of costly and beautiful marble, and has filled the windows with beautiful stained glass. He has abolished the pews, and adopted the weekly offertory, established a capital choir, has daily prayer and weekly communion, and gets his church thronged with the working classes. All this energy is the more praiseworthy because he has powerful attractions elsewhere in the shape of a pleasant country seat. He has refused preferment, and labours among the poor of this squalid part of London with an energy that deserves all praise. He has avoided the mistake of adopting ex cessive Ritual, such as, unfortunately, has been adopted in some of the district churches, with the result of almost empty benches. The incumbent of St. Chad's, for instance, intended to have introduced a second altar for low celebrations, and the sanctus bell; but the Bishop absolutely forbade these novelties. The arrangements for the new civil Service Journal, which I mentioned in a former letter, are progressing very favourably. The promoters certainly may say with reason that they intend to supply an acknowledged want. It is really surprising that so powerful, influential, and numerous a class should not before this have established a journal which will give them the latest information in their departments. The new journal will be owned and conducted by gentlemen in the Government offices, and will, therefore, have the earliest information of the changes which are constantly occurring in the service. It will also i.e rinewspaper for the general reader. We are to have another new theatre—the Royal Charing Cross, in King William street, Strand. It will be ready in May. Her Majesty's will not be used for opera in future. The Lyceum will open with operatic per formances on Monday week. The parks are now thronged every afternoon, and, though in saying so I may seem a Cockney to your readers, I affirm that they are really beautiful in their fresh and varied spring tints. Alas that the smoke should make their beauty so short lived ! An addition has been inade to Rotten-row. The new Row starts from Albert-gate "and runs beside the carriage drive to Queen's-gate, where a loop joins it to the old Row. This ride will form a delightful lounge under the trees in summer evenings. But why is it that the loungers persist in the heresy of preferring to gaze upon the houses in Knights bridge instead of on the Serpentine ? I have no literary news this week, except that Mr. Walter Thornbury is writing a novel on Wiltshire life, entitled "A Vicar's Courtship ;" that Mr. W. B. Scott is writing an account of Albert Diirer and his works; and that an addition is to be made to the numerous exist ing Christologies by Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, who has just written a Life of Christ. UNITED STATE,S . ORDNANCE. The following is the testimony of Norman Wiard before the Joint Committee on Ordnance in answer to a question by Senator Cameron. It bears out the Joint .Committee of Coo 0 - res in' their recent • • t, Report on (-)rdnane e , w hi c h We k uttunarizA. It must be accept e d , we presume, as the testimony of a rival inventor; but its value is shown by the Report of the Committee above alluded to, which will be found in our iksue of March 27. ". 1 am familiar with the calibres of our guns; and when I relate some of the facts within my knowledge, I think you will agree with me that our ordnance departments have got our small arms, artillery, and guns into most reprehensible confusion, for want of uniformity in calibre and ammunition. The ordnance departments of France and England have no greater diff..rences embodied in the systems they have adopted than there is between the two branches of our service. The calibres, models, chambers, and ammunition of the navy are utterly unlike those adopted for the army. The nave rifled 12-pounder boat howitzer has a calibre of 3 4-10 inches, while the army 12-peunder rifled guns are of the calibres of 3 inches, 3 2-10 inches, 3 67-100 inches, and 3 81-10 U inches. The navy 12-pounder has a parabolic form of chamber, while the army gun has either no chamb e r e r it is e y e isidal. The navy 12-pounder sinooth-bore.. although of the same calibre as the army gun, hes a different form of chamber. Apparently each of these chambers has been devsed to prevent the us of 'navy ammu nition in the army sun or army aininnnition in the navy gun. The inoTlels of the two guns are entirely dif ferent. and neither will go on the other's carriage, the army gun being fionisheo with trunnions and the navy gun having the loop and loop-holt of the ()A earronade. The sights aro of an entirely different kind in the two guns, and so graduated as to make it impossib!e for a navy gunner to use an army gun, or an artillerist of the for an emergency—one bring army to use a navy gun graduated to seconds of time, and the other to degrees of elevation. The 20-pounders and 30 -pounders Of the:navy are different' from the army guns of the same kind, the a shark's mouth for the breeehing, navy guns having wlCelt is not on the army guns. The navy Dahlgren 20 pounder, 60-p - moder, tied 511 -pound e r are of a different model, calibre, form of ellatnbsr, and kind of ritlina from any other gun in the navy or army, a lt p ur p ose ly different, 5t,,,i43-, to insure the use of it• certain kind of projectile which Captain Dahlgren c l a i me d to h ave invented, being essent - aily the saute as th e so-ealled Dyer projectile, but which was found l asted) , to have been used and patented by others long before. The Dahlgren, like the Dyer, was ebandoned after large numbers of them had been produced. The Dahlgren 50-pounder has • a calibre of 5 1-10th inches, as if the invsntor, from pau city of ideas, could only.produce a new diameter of calibre hieh no other person had thought of. 'rho army 3-inch gun, it has been said, was rifled in a peculiar way to adapt it to the Dyer projectile, which, being condemned, it was happily found could be us -el with the Hotchkiss projectile. The navy _haves than, a GO-pounder Parrott, adopted, as shown by the lucid explanation of Captain \Vise, Chief of Ordnance, so as to have sonisthing between the Z:0-pounder and the 100-pounder; and no other reason is given for its adoption ! The navy has VIII inch, IXsinch, XI-inch, and XIII-inch smooth-bores, as if the navy chose odd numbers of inches for luck. The army smooth-bores are 6-inch (32 -pounders), 8-inch (64- pounders , h and 10- inch (130-pounders). The navy chos e th e o ld R oman numerals to describe the calibre of their guns, probably bemuse the army had some fanciful pre-emption right to the more common figures. In th e guns adopted and actually issued to service, in the two 'branchee of the ser vice, there is not a single example of uniformity, in either rifle or smooth-bore, in 20-calibre adopted of those below the calibre of the 30-pounder. 'append a tabulated state ment of calibre models, weights, chambers and charges. How long it has taken to complete organizations of ordnance officers, educated at the public expense, ex perimenting, with the Treasury of the United States to pay the bills ; what .the cost of the effort has been in money ; bow much trcesure has been wasted in fur nishing the arms to the ext nt to which they have been supplied after they were adopted; how much - life of citi zen soldiers and honour of the nation have been misdi rected and wasted, it is not within my power to even esti mate. 1 am, however, confident that no example of such imbecility of invention and paucity of practical results ever before attended an effort conducted with so much flourish, on so grand and expensive a scale, with objects so im portant, and where the class of persons charged with so important a branch of the public service for so many critical years have brought their departments into such confusion. They are entitled to the execrations of every citizen, and would receive them, foe, were the facts known. The calibres of small-arms and the ammunition for them —although it would seem impossible, so minute must be the differences where the greatest is . .70 of an inch—are as diverse as in the field, siege; and heavy guns, and similar want of uniformity exists. lii order to find divisions for sufficient diversity, the dimensions of calibre aro given in hundredths or thousandths of an inch, and outsinuskets and carbines alone range from .40 to .69. We have an Enfield rifle of .57 and a Springfield of .58, but Ms instru ments common in the hands of inspectors or soldiers for determining the difference: Hence, during the war, the army has frequently •ound• itself on the field of battle facing the enemy with ammunition one e hundredth of an inch too large to be inserted in the gem. About 20 dif ferent calibres of ammunition were furnished the Burnside expedition, from .44 to .69 ; and, lest one transport carry ing all of one ca lib re should be lost, each vessel had to be supplied with an assorted cat go made up of certain pro portions of the whole. It was the same . . with the Banks expedition, making it necessary to stow away -the cargo with consider;►blo skill, so that any of the various kinds could be got at upon the recurrence of an emergency —a preliminary caution likely to be overlooked in the hurry of the embarkation of an army ; the consequences of neg lecting which —end ne cautionary order by the Ordnance Department is given on such an occasion—are easy to con ceive. A great many hundred thousands of Springfield musket are now to be sacrificed to uniformity of calibre. The Ordnance Department in this, as in the question whether it was better to have breech or muzzle-loaders, were undecided during the war, only concluding their cogitations when th e emergency had passed. In 1861, when every tyro kne w th at a breech-loader was best—in fact, nobcdy but a - n idiot of an calor of our Ordnance Depart ment would: _ever decid e otherwise—ethe thief of old fleece Of the Unitsd States held and advocated that " a ll "p u 's Ferry smooth-bore muzzle -loading gun, with buck and bell; w "s'ille best arm that could be placed in the hands of a: soldier ;" and asserted would have no such gun as a breech-loader in serv ice, because' it would re quire a mule to carry the ammunition for each soldier—it would be shot away so fast! Now it is proposed to alter all the Springfield rifles on hand to breech-loaders ; and in order to get .uniformity of calibre. i.e., to have the musket conform to the calibre of the carbine, the barrel is to be reamed out, another barrel instated, the new lhmnn it to bored out, straightened, and rifled; the breech of the b arre l i s to be bedeviled by the insertion of a complication of parts, . an d thus a new gun is to be mad.: But, gentlemen, this will cost more than to make a new gun ; and that is not ail, for although it is an ap proach to uniformity of calibre, it brings no nearer to uniformity of ammunition than W 43 were before, because the carbine charge is not •sufficient for the musket; and when-this improvement is adopted wo shall have another slight diversity, as in the case of the Enfield of .57 and the Springfield of .58, for the chamber of the carbine is not long enough for the musket cartridge, and the car bine charge i s no t L eavy enough for the breech-I.oading musket. NEWSPAPERS IN CHANCERY. On Thursday, before Vice-Chancellor Matins, Mr. Glasse, Q.C., moved to commit Mr. William Hunt, the printer and publisher of the Eastern Morning News and Hall Advertiser, for a contempt of court in having printed and published in a certain number of _the said newspaper an article commenting upon the conduct of MissSaurin, the plaintiff in the Hull Convent case, whi c h ar ti c l e con sisted of a reprint , from the Wcekly Register, ag a i ns t w hi c h paper the same proceedings were taken, but were discontinued on the coun se l representing that journal I ing an apology in court and consenting to pay the costs. Mr. Glasse was about to open the case against Mr. Hunt ' with a statement of the facts, when Mr. Martineau, who appeared for the defendant, inti mated that he was prepared on the part of Mr. Hunt to make proper submission to the court and to offer an apology, as he had already done in his paper, to Miss. Saurin for the paragraph in question having been inadvertently inserted from the Weekly Register. He argued that having done this, if the dictum of Lord Hatherley in th e Ti c hb orne case was to be followed, Mr. 'Hunt ought not to be liable for the costs. An affidavit, made by Mr. Hunt giving his version of the matter, had been prepared. Mr. Glasse complained that Mr. Martineau's client had asked for copies of affidavits on the other side, after the statement referred to had been inserted in the paper. The Vice-Chancellor said, looking at the case that had been alluded to before Lord Hatherley, he thought it was rather by consent that costs were not pressed for. His Honour went on to intimate that he was of opinion that the case might be settled by its being arranged that there should be no costa paid by the defendant after the time of applying for the affidavits. Mr. Martineau said he would be satisfied with that arrangement. In reply to the V ice - Chancellor, Mr. Martineau stated that as soon as complaint was made about the paragraph an apology was published. Mr. Glasse disputed this, and proceeded to say that on the same day on which the so-called apology was inserted in the paper the solicitors of his client received two letters, one from Mr. Hunt himself, and one from his solicitors. The letter of. the latter asked for copies of the affidavits in the case, and offered to pay for them. Upon receipt of this, the learned counsel said, Mr. Robert s ( o f the firm of Engla n d, Saxelbye, Roberts, and Sharp), bad a consultation with Mr. 'Wright, and would have agreed to settle the matter, but on the same day Mr. Hunt's letter, which it was said repudiated the proposed arrange ment, was received. Mr. Martineau here intimated that Mr. Hunt's letter had reference to another action altogether. •Mr. Glasse contended that the result of the paragraph in the Eastern Vorning News, stating :wit did that Miss Saurin was actuated in the proceedings she had taken by motives of malice, and by a wish to injure Catholicism in Hull, would materially increase her difficulty in getting wit nesses when the case came on forbearing. Mr. Hunthaving thought fit to put the plaintiff at arm's length, ought to pay the costs. The Vice-Chancellor : Do you press for costs? Mr. Glasse replied that he did. In answer to the Vice-Chancellor,Mr. Martineau stated that an apology had been published at the earliest possible moment, in the most conspicuous part of the paper, and in large type. It would be seen by reference to the news paper that it contained paragraphs both in favour of and against the plaintiff, Its extracts were impartial. The Vice-Chancellor thought it was hardly worth while to prolong the matter. Mr. Glasse : however, urged his Honour to look at the paper containing the paragraph complained of. It was :.put, he said, in a conspicuous position, and it was printed in large type and was headed, " Miss Saurin and the Hull Convent. His Honour would observe that other para graphs quoted from other paperS, under thetitle of "Spirit of the Press," appeared in a very different type. The learned counsel complained that after the injury likely to be inflicted on the plaintiff had been pointed out, the defendant had set his lawyers to work in the matter. Mr. Martineau said the other side offered their affi davits. The Vice-Chancellor again expressed the opinion that the matter had better end. The defendant seemed to have done all that he could to reniedy• any injury that might have been inflicted on the plaintiff. The apology was published in the same paper and in the same t objectionable para-graph. ype as the Mr. Martineau reminded his Honour that LordHatherl ey, in the case before referred to, had thought that the plaintiff ought not to press for costs. The Vice-Chancellor remarked that that was what he was rather inclined to say. Mr. Glasse then called attention to a case which had recently been beard of a kind somewhat similar to the present, but his Honour intimated (though it was not assented to by Mr. Glasse) that in that instance, at all events as regarded one of the papers implicated, certain comments had been made upon the case which was before the court, as well as documents, likely to prove detrimental, published. Mr. Glasse proceeded to argue as an additional reason that the defendant should be made to pay the costs that on the same day on which he published the apology his solicitors wrote asking for allidavits on the other side. It must hav e b een k nown t o M r . H un t, h e con t en d e d , that the paragraph in the Weekly Register was onethat ought not to have been inserted; and the type inwhich it was printed proved that it was intended to call special attention to it. Mr. M`Naughten, who appeared with Mr. Glasse, pointed out that his client knew nothing of the first article (there were two on the same subject) which appeared in the Weekly Register, until the second one appeared in the Eastern Morning News, when attention was directed to it. The Wcekly Register was a high•priced Catholic paper, pub. lished in London, and having only a Small circulation in the provinces. The Eastern Morning News was a penny paper, having a large circulation in Hull. Than the tone of the libel contained in . the paragraph copied nailing could be more objectionable. Mr. Martineau, in addressing the court in opposition to the application for costs, pointed out that the cases to which .Mr. Glasse had called attention were clearly dis tinguishable from the present. In the Cheltenham Waggon case, the article upon which the motion to commit was based was an original one, and not a mere extract, and the court thought its publication a direct act of contempt' In the Tichborne case, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Morning Post were condemned in the costs of the motion because they published original articles combined with comments. The Times and Morning Advertiser only pu b ' lished extracts, and Lord Hatherley made no order 111 3 ° 3 bY them as to costs. This ar r a ngemen t was no t come - to t the consent of the 'parties but was the r esu l t of a long argument before his lordship. The Rote? Morning News had clone what was not done either by the Times or the Morning Advertise r , f or th e i ns tant that M r. Hunt learnt that the paragraph was complained of he pre pared and published the apology. In answer to the ,Vice-Chan ce ll or , it was stated that the affidavits on the plaintiff' s s id e were sw orn at Bull and sent to London on the 17th, th e a p o l og y appearing. o n the 19th. Mr. Martineau stated that the editor of the PaP e ; had prepared an a ffi davit, which, how ever , was not filead but would be, in which he stated that he had inserts. the paragraph in question inadvertenly from the Weal!! Register, that the name of the paper whence the extract was made appeared at the b o tt om , an d th a t what he II; ' clone was constantly don e by a ll news p a p er e ditors. had no intention to injure Miss Saurin, and had no either in her favour or against her. No complaint, con tinned Mr. Martineau, had been made about the par , graph until Saturday, the 17th, when Mr. Hunt W 3 served with a notice of the pres e nt m o tion by a clerk fro ll ! the office of the plaintiff's solicitors. That was the iir_r intimation he had of the grievance complained of. the 19th Mr. Hunt inserted a full apology. The Vice-Chancellor asked why, when the article appeared on. the 13th of April, the plaintiff's solicitors did not write to complain. An apology might have been obtained at once. Mr. Glasse said that would not have been enou4h. „ Mr. Martineau asked wh a t m ore cou ld M r . Hunt hay, done than he had ? On the 17th a complaint was m a i ; to him about the paragraph , a nd o n th e 19th lie published t 1 expression of his regret that the parag r aph.in question 113 `,. been allowed to appear in his pap e r. Mr. WM," bad made an affidavit, in which he said that the paragraN headed " Miss Saurin and the Hull Convent" co mplaine d of by the plaintiff in this suit w as p u bli s h e d i n his new s• called the Eastern Morning News and _Hull Adver• tiser, inadvertently and without comment, having Pre viously appeared as a l e adi n g ar ti c l e i n the iVeely Register. That the name of the newspaper from Nvm"'„, the paragraph was extra c t e d was a tt ac h e d t o the Par; graph, when so republi s h e d i n th e Eastern illorning A r et. and Hull Advertiser. Th a t a p rac ti ce p reva ils univel sally in newspaper offices of so republishing matter vv lll . l has appeared in othe r j our n a l s , an d th a t op i n i o ns of t he press in favour of plaintiff in the action brought by her , 111 the Court of Queen' s B enc h h ave b een i nserte d by him 111 the Eastern Morning News and Hull Advertisq The affidavit continued :—" In re p u bli s hi ng the sa 3 paragraph, I had no intention or desire whatever to intertere with the course of justice in this suit, or to create a prejudice against the plaintiff, or to prevent he r .. obtaining evidence in supp or t o f h er case , or t o do her any injury whatever ; and I en t er t a i n no feelin.ls . whatever for or agai ns t th e pl a i n tiff i n th e s aid stn That no complaint was made to me, or to any person in in 9 employ, of the publication of the paragraph in questiol_ until Saturday, the 17th day of April, 1869, on which da:f, I was personally served by a clerk from the office Messrs. England, Saxelbye, Roberts, and Sharp, the plaintiff's solicitors, with a notice of motion to commit 1 1 4 to prison for contempt of court, and that should paY costs of the said motion; and that the said notice was the T: intimation I received that the plaintiff f e lt hers aggrieved by the publication of the s aid paragralla t On Monday, the 19th day of April, 1869, the ne x ... day on which the sa id news p a p er , ca ll e d th e Easteil i t Morning News and Hull Advertiser, was published: insei ted in large type and in the most prominent positio n in the said news p a p er an apo l ogy an d expression 2f regret for the p u bli ca ti on o f t h e sa id paragraph® It is not st ric tly true, as stated in affidavit of George Christopher Roberts and Thonills Rhodes Till, filed in this cause, that the said newspaper' called the Eastern Morning News and Hull Advertiser , 1 ; now conducted as a u ama l gama ti on o f two newspapers formerly published in Bull, the one called the Easte r 'Morning News and th e other called the Hull Advertisq .4 the facts being as follows,. viz. :—Th a t u pe n the sat e newspaper, called the Hull Advertiser, ceasing to published, the copyright o f th e sa id paper, which was the oldest established newspaper in Hull, and which had been established for many years prior to the establishment f' a the Eastern. Morning News, the copyright of the Hull Adrertiser was purchased by me at a nominal priced in order to enable me to use the name of the If ° Advertiser as such old-established paper, and for Oar! purpose only, and that such name is used 5.,. 111)° 5. dinately to that of the Eastern Morning ive le That no member of the staff of the said Hull Adrertiser • l 1 was transferred with th e copyr i g h t o f t h e sau l il 1 1 Advertiser, and that on ly t wo o f t h e su b scr ib er s to tl . l e said Kull Advertiser are now su b scr ib ers to t h e Fastei Morning News. I am a mem b er of t h e Churc h of England, and no member of the Roma° . Catholic faith is, to the best of my ki l l; ledge and, belief engaged in or employed in any caPa cl ' upon the said newspaper, called the Eastern Morning r News and Hull Aclrertiser ; and the said newspaP e . is conducted upon the pri nc ipl es o f t h e Ch urc h o f El' land. It is not, to th e b es t o f my kil°l.:t ledge and belief, true, as stated in the affidavi t of the said G. C. Roberts, and T. R. Till, that the said newspaper, called the Eastern Morning News aa_. Hull Advertiser, has a large or any sp ec ial c irculatio a whatever amongst the Roman C a th o li cs o f the tow and neighbourhood of Hull. I entirely disaY" w the said paragraph of which the plaintiff el; plains, and which was originally published in t' Weekly Register and reprinted as an extract in the Essl l l e Morning News and Hull Advertiser, as aforesaid, and sentiments therein explained ; and I express to this honourable court and to Miss Saurin, in the most manner, my regret at having republished it, and apologl humble make my mnble submission to this honourable col;',, for any contempt which I have inadvertently c ommitteui The learned counsel in ref err i ng t o th e char.-0 made on t € I , e . other side, that an appli ca ti on had been made I ° Li affidavits, contended that until his client's solicitors b, seen these affidavits, it was i m p oss ibl e f or h i m to kri°;:i fully what case he had t o answer, and he could not, 1 ,111, "a he ascertained that, know if the apology he had inseit e would meet the requirements of th e case. He s tronalY urged that the def en d a nt s h ou ld not b e h e ld li a bl e f o r al e costs. The Vice Chancellor said that the article in questior; which orginally appeared in the Wally Register, and V, copied into the Eastern Morning- News, was clearly (1, 1 . 10 most serious character, and w as en ti re ly un j us tifiable. -1 ,0 one paper brought before him, v i z . ,th e W ee kly Register, 0 1 0 felt this, and had made submi ss i on t o th e cour t an d are' gised to Miss Saurin, and would pay the cost s of the I not 1 ? 1 1. With regard to the p ro p r i e t or o f th e E as t ern Morni n g .Arcw.R, be was in a very different position. He had 011 . inserted the arti c l e as a repr i nt f rom t h e W ee kl y Regist e 4 ;, in accordance with the practice which prevailed in Lonu'h and the provinces of givi ng as extracts from other papers s' or , items a s were of special or gene ra l i n t eres t . I t was, howevja right that editors of new s p a p ers s h ou ld k now that they N u t not insert in their papers ar ti c l es w hi c h i t was irnproPt should appear in th e first instance, except a t th e i r o wn rie" . In the present case Mr. Hunt had not been actuated bya v 's improper motives, and w h en th e matter compla i ne d o f 'll i brought to his notice had acted in a manner becoming a gentleman, though in publishing the Pa.., 1. 11 graph from the Weekly R eg i s t er, h ea d e d " Mi ss Sallv o and the Hull Convent," he had used less discretion than he should have done. He should therefore make / ( 1 1 0 order against Mr. Hunt, ex ce pt th a t th e respon dent f o. pay costs of application oth er th an costs o f an y a davits sworn since Saturday, the 17th of April, 1869. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, 11114 the short exchange on London is 251. 171 c. per £1 sterna': Onconiparing these rates with the English Mint price 01 £3 lia. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold at the above price is of about the same vslue in Lon' don and Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at CO days' sight was on the last date about 1 8 per ceo d t At this rate there is no profit on the importation of V I from the Uni cd ?tates. rADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway'S Ointment and PiVS.. Biliousness—Dyspepsia—There is no oan in the hum an body so liable to der angemen t as tho liver; food, fatigue, climate, and anxiety all disorder its action and render Its secretion —the bile —more or less dept . :wed, superabundan t or scanty. The fi rs t symptoms should receive atten tiou . 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