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Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Artery:bleb, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This Evr.srso, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment, lmmenSe Success of BARGE ULLTE. The Only Leon OBRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Faturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL !lAMB I? A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. la. Box-offict open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children tinder twelve, 6d J 4 1 4 7. D. ll4 l 7 jit ‘4lll,lta LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1869. The Historian of the French Empire has been re turned by an enormous majority as the arch foe, lead log, against the Imperial institutions of to-day, the more than doubled, the nearly trebled, ranks of the Parliamentary Opposition. This is the sharpest blow yet directed against the Government of NAPOLEON 111. Coming, as it does, with a sort of a political aplomb at the very close of the late General Election throughout France, it is a rather formidable augury of trouble, if not of failure, for the powers that be, or ought we not rather to say for the power that is or that was—seeing that is or has been concentrated within a single grasp yonder among our neighbours, mean ing, of course, within the grasp of the strong right hand of the SOVEREIGN who, more conspicuously than any reigning Sovereign in Europe, is the representa tive or incarnation of what is meant by Personal Government. The reigning EMPEROR has never yet had arrayed against lim so formidable a band of antagoniAs. The enetni, , s of his Government have bith. rto be( n glaringly outnumbered. They have tee❑ impetuous, impLeable, imperious—especially of late years—in their language towards the Imperial Government. But they have, ur til now, been in a minority so perfectly manifest that their posi-ion has been one of absolute helplessness. The tables are turned, now, however, or are turning. The dis proportion be.ween their numbers and the numbers on the side of the Imperialists cannot be regarded as in any way remarkable. And their intellectual strength is, if possible, more undeniable than ever. At the head of the Opposition, too, there is still, facile princeps, the ablest man of them all, aome- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1E69. time Prime Minister of - France, one of the orga nizers of the July Monarchy, Annalist of the Great Revolution, of the famous Consulate, of the First Empire, Orator, Historian, Statesman, Finan cier—in one word, TRIERS. The peril confronting the BOURBON Dynasty in 1789 lay in the tiers parti. The peril, now, in 1869, impending over the BoNA PARTE Dyasty may be said to lie in the TIILERS parti. Already the poignant grief experienced by M. TRIERS on the memorable night of the coup d'etat, when he found himself taken a prisoner by the armed emissa ries of the Prince President, and carried off from the bed iu which they had roused him from his slumbers to be taken in custody to the conciergerie— already the anguish he then endured on being thus completely, as it were, check-mated, M. TRIERS must have the consolation of feeling has been thoroughly avenged. Ile has long since resumed his place in the Legislative Assembly of his country as oue of the most illustrious of her representatives. He has long since taken anew, by right, his post in the Tribune in the Corps Legidatif, as among the first and foremost of the living Orators of France. For several years past he has been the most fearless of censors in regard alike to the home and the foreign policy of the Government of the Reigning Sovereign. And, the fact that he has been so, is in a very great measure a vindication of that Government from the guilt of being the despotic Government it is reported to be. Were personal Government so very repressive, so auto cratic, so absolutely suffocating or strangling in its influences upon the body politic as the sway of NAPOLEON 111. is described to be by his more virulent assailants—no such results as those we are now wit neSsing would or, for that matter, could have been in any way possible. The enhancement of the Opposi tion, the triumphant return of such men as M. TRIERS, the mere incident of the candidature of such a political firebrand as the editor of the notorious Lanterne, M. HENRI ROCHE FORT, could not have come about, supposing the Government of the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. were anything like what the foes of it have so long been declaring. It is all very well to talk about the grinding influence of Personal Government, about the necessity for greater freedom of speech and of writing. But, we should like to know what greater freedom of writing, or of speech could have been wished, than has within the recollection of us all been witnessed and heard, read in the columns of the newspapers, and listened to from several occupants of the Tribune during the last two or three years of this so-called intolerable embodiment of Personal Government. In point of fa It the freedom of speech manifested daring the late elections in the populous streets and quarters of Paris has, time and again, degenerated into the wild est license. Just as the red cap of Liberty has been carried through the great thoroughfares of Lodon, within our own very recant remembrance, by a dirty procession, conducted by men like FINLEN and his associates, bearing with them all the way from Clerk enwell to Hyde Park banners scrawled over with re publican and revolutionary devices and inscriptiona— precisely in the same way, within this last month, cries of an insurrectionary kind have been raised in the French capital during these last electioneering movements to the tune of 2r basl'Empire and to the choral chant of the Marsellaise. The military an I the mob came into collision in the streets of Paris, it may be said however. Well, but the military and the mob have come into collision since then, came into collision only the other day, amongst ourselves, down at Mold, in Flintshire. There are accidents and casualties even in families the best regulated. The position of the Imperial Government is no doubt very conspicuously altered, now that it has arrayed against it a larger Parliamentary opposition than any by which it has been yet confronted, led still, moreover, as it hai been during the last few years by an Orator as powerful, and indeed as formidable, as M. Tuie i s, the histo rian of the Consulate and the Empire. All this is undoubtedly noteworthy : but it augurs the revision, rather than the destruction, of NAPOLEON Hl.'d 14 . ) s tem of Personal, or, in other words, of Autocratic Government. IT is with much pleasure that we are able to announce the speedy termination of the apparently interminable negotiations in connection with the transfer of the telegraphs. The terms with the telegraph companies are concluded, and the necessary arrangements with the railway companies are pro gressing very favourably. The time when the telegraph wires of the United Kingdom will be handed over to the control of the State may be regarded as nigh at hand. We can confidently assure the dubious taxpayer that this great reform has been carried out examination l o ll f in the mo s t econom i ca l manner, an d th a t th e bargain i ytlatevneraytutgoodnature f thison e A very . slight ew transfer will sh that the price —twenty years' purchase—is not extra vagant. It is true that such terms might justly be deemed excessive in the case of all ordinary business. The purchase of the " goodwill" does not carry with it the plant, which is either retained or sold at a valuation. Moreover, the vendor is at liberty to start business again. But we need hardly say this purchase of the telegraphs is the purchase of a monopoly. Further, twenty years' purchase includes the plant, the value of 'which is very considerable. One company alone has laid out more than a million sterling in improvements, the plant being now worth its full original cost. The profits, too, of the various companies have increased—in one instance very con siderably. The estimates for the purchase, however, have been made on profits earned previously to this increase. Altogether, twenty years' purchase, though very large for a mere business, is but moderate when the plant, increased pro fits, and a monopoly are thrown into the bargain. In the case of the leading company to which we have referred, making due allowance for the plant, the real price to be paid by the Government is not more than eight or ten years' purchase. The net profit which the Government is to buy is equal to not more than five or six per cent. upon the total amount which the Government will have to pay for it. No exception can be taken to such terms. Whilst they equitably provide for the rights of the companies, it is not to be expected that such a reform could be carried out more cheaply. cotrenances;"tertain contempt - for etiqutte, which made him not a few enemies: The pettiness of their malignity may lie jndgeil"from the — fact that they have. been praising Lord Mayo's wine, and contrasting it with his predecessor's, whereas Lori Mayo bought Sir John Lawrence's remaining stock. The other long article (twenty-seven pages) on David Hume is full of interesting information about the fat Scotch sceptic. The strangest thing about him was his absolute contentedness with this world, his absolute indifference about anything beyond. He gave his body pleasant food, he offered his mind good entertainment, and, having done that, was content, and died as bravely and as calmly as the most devout believer in that future life which Hume never expected to behold. There would seem, says ' the reviewer, no reason why such a soul should not be gently extinguished on its exit from a world in which it had found all it desired. The article on " American Reasons for Peace " takes for its text Mr. Sumner's famous speech, and is worthy of the text. In these days of table-turning and spirit-rapping the account of "Ancient Magic and Astrology," in the Dublin University, is not without interest. Superstition in the nineteenth century may console itself for the ridi cule of contemporaries by the recollection that Octavius Cresar first learned that he was destined to wear the imperial purple from the astrologer Theogenes, and that in the houses of the great Roman families resident Indian and Chaldean astrologers were frequent appendages to the establishment. The dignity of such examples is, however, a little marred by the existence of medicine men among the American Indians, of obi men among the negroes, of piackes among the Caribbean Indians, of payout's among the Malays, and of clianzans among the Mongols. Much of the magic of the necromancers in more civilises countries was no doubt owing to their partial knowledge of the powers of science. The use of medicinal plants and herbs, of the fumes of drugs, of phosphorus and chemical preparations, and of mechanical contrivances, were not unknown to them. "Every schoolboy," to use the favourite phrase of the reviewer, now knows how to produce a flaming figure on the walls of a darkened room by the aid of phosphorus ; but in the days of the early magicians such an apparition was quite sufficient to establish a necromancer's reputation for supernatural powers. " There are," says the writer of this article, very few processes in charlatanism practised in our days either in Europe or America which were not known in ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and ancient Italy." Yet in the midst of all this ignorance and imposition we catch occasional glimpses of something higher and better. The Persians, though slaves to the supposed influence of the signs of the zodiac, still clung to the belief in a perpetual strife between the two opposing powers of Good and Evil, which, though obstinate, was not to be eternal, but should end in the triumph of the Good. More striking was the tradition, mingling with the superstitions of the Aryans, of the self-immolation of the divinity Loma, "who, for the,weal of the human race, allowed himself to be crushed in a mortar, and afterwards rose in glory." From these early traditions down to a very _recent date, when in Mor bihan, in Brittany, a piece of money was put in the hand of a corpse, commemorating the custom of paying Charon's fare, the ling record of human weakness and credulity extends, and we have ample evidence in this our high-wrought civilisation that the craving of the human soul for spiritual aid and direction can never be satisfied by intellect however brilliant, or science however abstruse. The sense that " there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy," is too strong and too subtle for the arguments of the logician, or the systems of the philosopher ; and the scepticism which holds itself proudly superior to the religion of faith and love, throngs the sjances of the medium and accepts the tricks of the conjuror as revelations from the unseen world. A very different phase of human life is revealed to us in the essay on the world-famous book attributed to Thomas's Kerripis—" De Imitatione Christi." The authorship has always been a matter of some doubt, and the question is hardly likely at this date to be ever set at rest. The essay before us examines very carefully into the evidence for and against the rival c!ain"ants to the production of this marvellous work ; but the writer, though lie goes through the whole of the controversy, finds himself unable to determine the point. This, however, he does not regret,hoping that the author. ship may never be more accurately known, since the knowledge might diminish the catholicity of the work, and, with some minds, lessen its influence. " The book has been instinctively adopted by men of all grades, countries, and creeds, and under a ll circumstances. It was one of the first books printed . in English, ordered by the mother of Henry VII., and executed by Wynkyn de Worde. Ignatius Loyola read it daily. Sir Charles Burrowes called it the world's consoler.' Sir 1 Thomas More, in his last moments, said that the book, if read, would secure the nation's happiness. Massillon advised a young aspirant after pulpit eloquence to study it next to the Scriptures. The sceptical Jean Jacques Rousseau wept over it ; Racine set it to verse ; Corneille paraphrased it ; Fontenelle declared it was the best book that ever came from the hands of man. Louis XVI. read it in the temple, and found consolati on i n i ts pages. J o h nson l o ved it ; , John Wesley published an edition of it. Whitfield read it, and appealed to it in sorrow 'and doubt. The influence of the Imitation' has not been confined to' the great, the mighty, or the intellectual. It has sanctified the contemplations of cloister cells; it has gone to the scaffold in the bosoms of martyrs and patriots. To the Celt, the Teuton, the Frank, and the Cossack it has been the adviser, the con soler, the guide—like the Gospel upon which it is founded, it adapts itself to the wants of every phase of humanity." " Put Yourself in His Place" is the chief subject of interest in the Cornhill of this month. The instalment is an eventful one, for the cause of the Unions prevails against Little, and he has to succumb, at least tempora rily, to their evil influence. He does not, however, quit Hillsborough, but revisits old scenes in a new character. A striking description is given of the various trades car ried on in the town, and the injurious effects they produce on the health of the operatives. The most surprising thing to notice is the dogged manner in which the victims accept their fate. "Their fathers had been ground out young, and why not they?- Indifferent to life, health, and happiness, they could,, nevertheless, be inflamed about sixpence a week. In other words, the money-price of their labour was everything to- them, the blood-price nothing." After a short- time Little makes another attempt to overcome the archenemy of trades unionism, and this time he employs stratagem in place of open resistance. His old master, who unwillingly gave him IT, is only too glad to secure his services without actually compromising himself, and lends his aid with alacrity to the new plan. " Maisons de Sant6 " is a melancholy sketch that may well disenchant the admirer of conti nental customs and cause him to regard with increased respect the rights and privileges of English subjects. The visitor to Paris found that besides those houses which were mere asylums, there was another class, bearing the same name, but possessing a very different meaning. In these dismal abodes mop, who are neither mad nor culprits, are confined for weeks, months, and even years with idiots and lunatics, the cause of their incarceration being a quarrel with influential friends, or bringing them selves by a too candid expression of political feeling under the notice of the Prefect fof Police. These dreary dwel lings first played a part in the gov ernmen t during the time of Napoleon 1., and the eystem was found too con venient to be given up. The Bastille and lettres de cachet have not been so unrepresented as some may have imagined who have been proud of the progress and gloried in the triumphs of modern days. At any rate, the peep behind the scenes of a niaison de sante may reveal some startling facts, and shew the necessity for a sweeping reform in this respect. The writer forcibly remarks in conclusion, that the French a r e proud of their Revolution of 1789, which overthrew much that was evil. But who knows that it may not need similar efforts to " work a solid and salutary reform in the organisation of maisons de sante, and to limit private madhouses to their true and exclusive destination, that of retreats for those who are really and unquestionably insane." The article on " Idolatry " we ll worthy of att en ti on . Th e hero worshipper is advised to find out what part of his idol is made of true metal and what part of clay. He cannot know what his work is worth till lie has compared it with that of other men, and criticised instead of worshipped. " The Courtyard of the Ours d'Or " is a charming little sketch of some scenes that took place in a quaint old Flemish city. " Military Signalling and Telegraphing" is a paper that seems to take a comprehensive view of the question referred to. A second part of " Wallenstein and his Times " is an interesting chronicle of those eventful days; and "The Alchemists" is an article that the studious reader can peruse with profit. The author of a letter in Macmillan's on "International Copyright between Great Britain and America" makes a good point, which ought to tell with American men of letters. He shews that if Anierican publishers can get for nothing works on a certain subject written byEnglish men, they are not likely to run any risk by publishing the works of American writers. Consequently, as English books are more read on the other side of the Atlantic than American books are on this side, American authors are likely to have a poor time of it. Mr. Edward Dicey gives a more favourable account of " The Italy of To day" than other recent travellers in that country with whom I have conversed. He compares to-day with ten years ago, and finds great improvements, new rail ways, new roads, increased education, and so forth. But how about the taxes, how about the relations of the people to the reigning house? Is :it -not a fact that -the Galantuomo Be is just now as unpopular as any sovereign in Europe? "Oxford Reform" deals not with colleges and tests, but with the social life of Oxford. Altogether that life is not so bade Doubtless more might be done in the way of work and- less in the way of play ; but on the whole the Oxonian is improving; For instance, he smokes less, and he is more tolerant. No man who does not him self smoke is expected to keep cigars for his friends. No man is tabooed for his political or religious opinions. It may be added that no one now sacrifices the body to the mind ; the tendency is rather to sacrifice the mind to the body at the gymnasium and on the river. Mr. Burnell Payne has a capital article on English Art, in which he describes, the causes which led to the rise and the decline of the pre- Raffaelite school. But though it has declined, its influence is still felt, so far as it was a wholesome influence. The International Exhibition of 1862 Mr. Payne considers a most important epoch in English art. How it has worked lie will shew in a future article. ,Victor Hugo's new romance is most severely handled. " Our National Insurance" is the title of an article on army reform. Mr. Huxley sends his speech on Scientific Education.which he made at Liverpool. He advocates-science as a part of education because it would relieve us from the wretched system now in force, whereby education is " almost entirely devoted to the cultivation of the power of expres sion and of the sense of literary beauty. The matter of having anything to say beyond a hash of other people's lt a opinions, or of possessing any criterion of beauty, so that we may distinguish between the godlike and t he devilish' is left aside as of little moment. If scie nce were made the foundation of education, instead of being, at mpst, stuck in as a cornice to the edifice, this state of things could not exist." Mrs. Craik's (Miss Mulock's) new tale, "A Brave Lady," is begun ; and Miss Olney's "Estelle Russell" is evidently drawing to a close. Temple Bar has deVoted several of its pages this month and last to the discussion of "The Poetry of the Period. The writer discusses the claims of Tennyson and Browning to be considered gre at poets, and weig hin g them in the bal ance fi n d s both wanting. Not that he does not consider Tennyson a poet —a refined, cultured, neat poet-rebut be denies that he is a great poet. Tennyson says pretty things in a pretty way, gives us some beautiful songs, but nothing grand. He talks of gardens, not of forests ; of rocks, not of moentains; of cities, not of wilds. T o Byron the hum of human citi es was a torture ; Tennyson finds the garden , that he loves n o t altogether in the b us y world, nor yet '2 beyond it. I 2 nprien, indeed, is readable without requiring any large amount of study, and hp is therefore popular. Which is more than can be said of Browning. Talking by half words, in philosophic slang, Browning leaves his readertoguessatwhat be means. And, according , to the writer in Temple Bar, he does not mean, or at any rate does not produce, poetry at all. He analyses and dissects a character, a mind, well ; but when he has to reconstruct, he makes his subject another Browning, who talks and does just as Browning would talk and and do under similar circumstances. The articles are worthy of attention, the more so as many of the opinions expressed are evidently the result of long study of those who are criticised. For the rest, Temple Bar has abandoned itself hopelessly to fiction. "Red as a Rose is She," by the author of " Conieth'up as a Flower," occupies the place of honour, and is written in the half-dashing style which hardly likes to be boldly naughty, and yet does not altogether degenerate to the weakly foolish. There is much to condemn in it, but it is undeniably amusing, and gives room for some good parts as it proceeds. In the Contemporary Review Dr. Hannah adds another trouble to the uncomfortable existence of that wretched individual—Primeval Man. On this subject Archbishop Whateley and Sir John Lubbock have taken different sides. The former holds that as no savage nation had ever been known to raise itself without external assistance, the germ must have been introduced by a supernatural agent—the birth of civilisation must have been due not to man. but to God. Sir John Lubbock takes issue on the question of fact, endeavouring to shew that there are indi cations of progress even among savages, and that among the most civilised nations there are traces of barbarism. A third writer, the Duke of Argyll, takes a medium course between these two, avoiding the errors into which the Archbishop has fallen, but supporting in the main his theory of divine intervention. Dr. Hannah believes that the Duke has rendered good service in this branch of philosophy. He has "lifted the entire subject into a much higher range of thought ; and by the help of a few skilful definitions and distinctions has brought it under a clearer and more searching light." This is very high praise. Seldom, indeed, can a nobleman attain such literary distinction, and still more rarely is philosophy the branch of learning in which the aristocracy excel. The chief conclusion at which the Duke of Argyll arrives, and in which Dr. Hannah agrees with him, is that there are races who were never savage—the Jews, for instance, "of whom we may affirm with confidence that they never rose from so debased a state to the moral and spiritual civilisation which brightens the whole course of their chequered history." Other tribes which may be called barbarians have shewn a respect for moral and religious obligation and a vigorous aptitude for war and conquest which lift them far above the level of savage life. These distinc tions, in Dr. Hannah's opinion, shut out the theory that man originally rose froma dead level of brutality. The Revision of the Lectionary is a subject which has been under discussion for years, and the prospect of a practical solution is as remote as ever. Dr. Hessey, however, once more broaches this unpro mising topic. He is the advocate of thorough revision, .holding that no mere rearrangement of the daily and special lessons, or of the latter only, will meet the case. Amongst other changes, some of the chapters, he tfiinks, ought to be shortened, ethers omitted altogether, and even some whole books in the Apocrypha ought to be left out. Finally, Dr. Hessey goes so far as to demand the entire retranslation of the Bible as an indispensable accompaniment of lectionary revision. This is no doubt a great desideratum, but to make it an essential part of lectionary revision is only to mix one reform with another. The Rev. J. B. Mayor, in an article on "The Cry of the Women," draws out a scheme by which the problem of opening a career to unmarried ladies may be solved. He proposes a home in which single women who have no oth er soc i a l ties might live together economically, and enjoy each other's companionship. This home should be by no means a convent, but should allow as much freedom as is compatible with social life. Educational, charitable, or artistic work should be undertaken by those who enter the home. Mr. Arthur Mills contributes a very good article on " Our Colonial Policy." Mr. Mills investigates the subject very carefully, and comes to the general conclusion that the colonies will continue their connection with the mother country only so long as it is advantageous to them. He is likewise opposed to the notion that the various pro vinces will naturally coalesce into confederations. This isolated-independence theory may, however, be carried too far. Mr. Mills errs in thinking that the provinces of the Canadian Dominion may probably break up the confede ration iu which they are now bound together. It is not easy for any isolated member of a confederation which has once been formed to free itself from the rest, as witness the case of the South. Moreover these States are bound together by mutual interest. What one has not, the other supplies. Canada has fine soil, but no harbours or mines; the coast proviuces have splendid harbours, plentiful mines, but no corn-growing territory. Professor Huxley's famous article on the " Physical Basis of Life," is examined in a good paper by the author of " The Christ of History." Sir J. 'l'. Coleridge's book furnishes the text for another epitome of the life of Keble ; and lastly comes an appreciative notice of Mr. Lecky's clever "History of Morals." • _ _ Some of the papers in the Sunday Magazine are instruc tive and interesting. "The Phenomena of Growth," by the Rev. S. Cox, is a suggestive article that calls attention to the Parable of the Seed in St. Mark's Gospel. Many blunders have been made by the readers of the New Testament respecting this parable, and yet it is one which may be studied with advantage by all. The object of this paper is to trace the phenomena of the parable in the history of the Divine Kingdom in the world. It is impressively said at the conclusion that we should re member the seed grows mainly in the night, and so "learn to take thankfully whatever darkness or sorrows the Great Husbandman may send, knowing that His will and purpose are that we should bring forth fruit and bring it forth more abundantly." " A Quiet Charity" i s a little sketch by a City Man that may be appropriately studied by those who wish to serve their poorer brethren. More real good may be done by one earnest worker, like Mrs. T - , than by scores of would-be philanthro pists, who never enter into the real troubles an d difficulties of the working classes. " Wet Sundays " are an acknowledged social grievance, but a writer in this magazine spews how they may be turned to account in various ways. He adds, truly enough, that the inconvenience and risk of going abroad on a wet Sunday loom larger in the imagination than they are really found to be when actually encountered. A translation of " Three French Hymns" includes one by Adolphe Monod, and was the only hymn he ever wrote. "Earnest Words for Earnest Men" con tains a well-written pa per by Dr. Vaughan, on "The Inter preter's House." It is said that Christ is the expounder and interpreter of His people, and if they place themselves in His hands, and look to Him for guidance and interpreta tion also, they will hear his voice saying evermore, "What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know here after." Although it has failed to secure the favour of the more rigid members of the Scotch Kirk, Good Words is not likely to lose its prestige with the public. In the June number I find some very interesting articles, among which must of course be included the editor's " Peeps at the Far East." In the sixth part he discusses the Chris tian missions in South India. especially at Conjeveram. Dr. Macleod takes a survey of the whole history of Indian missions, and it is encouraging to find that the progress of education has, in his opinion, produced a most beneficial influencen on the Hindoos. The Bi s hop of Oxford co tinues his portraits of the " Heroes'of Hebrew History," and chooses the eventful life of the patriarch Jacob, which affords full scope for eloquent narrative and vigorous teaching. The Dean of Canterbury discusses on " Right Views of Life" in a fearless 'and outspoken manner, not shrinking from facing painful truths, or from pointing his moral with the political incidents of the day. His cen sures upon the want of charity, which is the besetting sin of the religious press, are certainly not undeserved, though they are unsparing. "It may be doubted," says the Dean, " whether the whole annals of the Church can pro duce anything so definitely and purely unchristian as the files of certain newspapers now current amongst us." Further on he exclaims, in a paroxysm of indignation, " Talk of the thunders of the Vatican ! All are but pop guns compared to the fulminations which daily go up from Protestant England. Protestant truly, in a sense little hitherto deemed of ; all vigorously protesting one against another." The author of "Friends in Council," in his " Short Essays," gives us, as usual, quaintly worded reflections on our every-day life, shewing keen powers of observation and sound common sense. Some times these essays deal with very large subjects, as when they discuss the discrepancy often perceptible between the civilisation of a nation and the grandeur of its religious ideas. This discrepancy was strongly marked among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans—the three most civilised nations of antiquity. Sometimes Mr. Helps's subjects are evidently suggested by the topics of the day, as when he complains, on behalf of the kings and queens of modern times, that people will not regard the m as ordi nary men and women. They are not only no longer supposed to govern by Divine Right, but neither are they allowed the right to conduct their joys and sorrows in the same manner as other people. Very characteristic and very suggestive is the paragraph on the possible future open to mankind, "if men could only get a little spare time to look about them and to think, and if more persons could have greater freedom for observation and for thought." The statesman, says the writer, can thus effect much for his generation, not by what he doe s himself, but by the obstacles which he removes from the paths_ of others. " What would he not do for mankind," asks our social philosopher, "if he could let loose. some of the thought which is now employed in preparation for war, in the interpretation of confused he a p s of undigested law, in meeting the vexatious incidence of taxation, and generally in contending with needless difficulties . cre , ated by men in the acquisition of the means of living . I his ought to be his main idea, how he can render life more facile to all the people he has to govern, an d so g ive them more time for thought, for enjoyment, and for discovery." In Good Words for the Young most of the old contri butors are to be found this month. George Macdonald takes his little hero through some more mystical adven tures " At the Back of the North Wind;" and Charles Kingsley introduces us to " Madam How's Two Grand sons," whom he styles Analysis and Synthesis. As usual, grown folks may find a good deal that is new to them in this part of the contents, for in spite of the progress of modern education it may be questioned whether the com ponent parts of the mud of the Atlantic floor, or .the differences between Foraminifera and Pteropods, are very familiar to the general reader, even though his schooldays be left far behind. Rooks have often been the subject of pleasant discussion, and some of their peculiariti es are described at length by Dr. Tristram, who includ es th e i r whole genealogy—ravens, jackdaws, and carrion crows— in his account. The picture of an Australian flood given by "The Boy in the Bush," presents us with a phase of life at the Antipodes which is less familia r th an the drought. The editor of the Art Journal is well pleased with the new buildings•of the Royal Academy, albeit cynical per sons declare that everything has been sacrificed to the object of giving the academicians a good banquet room. It appears that the number of new works which actually sought exhibition was 4,600, and that not quite a fifth have obtained admission. The editor is quite pathetic over the crushed hopes of rising artists, and finds conso lation only in the fact that the standard has been main tained. The criticisms upon this and the other principal exhibitions occupy the greater portion of the Journals space. But the biographical notices are continued, and this month's is given to Mr. Cope, R. A., who made his first appearance thirty-six years ago, and is now 58 years of age. The picture gall er y rev i ewe d b y Mr. Dafforne is the Utilzj. The selected pictures are Ansdell's most charming "In the Pasture," Miss Solomon's " Claim for Shelter," and Couvier Belleuse's marble group " Entre deux Amours." "Oxford before Commemoration," is the first subject met with in London Society. It is written in a pleasant style, and furnishes a good deal of information to those who may not have visited the academical city. Those who meditate a trip to the old university town are advised to time their visit so as to escape the " consummate boredom " of the great annual academical carnival. " The Trade in Locks," does not refer to the patents of Chubb, or Bramah, but to the borrowed tresses which are now co much sought after. It is worthy of notice that with us the very poorest never sell their hair, and the bulk o f the f a l se h a i r ' worn in England is imported from France, which sends us about 60,0001 b. annually. In following the descriptions of this trade in locks one may notice some striking contrasts—from the peasant girl, who sacrifices her wealth of tresses for a trifle, to the fashionable customer in Paris, who pays a fabulous sum for the supposed advantage of appearing in borrowed plumes. After reading the entertaining article an the "Cost, Joys, and Woes of Smoking," it requires the philosophy of the most inveterate smoker to regard with complacency the prodigious expenditure this habit entails on the community. The probable cost of tobacco, as sold to the public, is about £8,177,812 annually. When the cultivation of smoking as a line art is taken into account, the cost of smoking - must be set clown at not less than ten millions sterling per annum. It is mentioned as a strange fact in connection with the history of tobacco, that while civilisation advances so slowly, "a fetid herb conquered the world in less than two centuries." The writer of this article sums up the various opinions that have been given by well-qualified judges on the evils of smoking, but he arrives at the conclusion that in this, as in all other cases, the poison clings too closely to the sweet to admit of a separation. Besides, if our population give up smoking, what will be the consequences to our revenue? That is the problem which floors a writer who is evidently not a political economist. The story, "M. or N.," is continued at some length ; it is as exciting as heretofore, and its denouement bids fair to he a sensational one. "De Verney's Eton Days!' is a pleasing sketch, and " Piccadilly Papers" contains some suggestive thoughts on various topics of social interest. The Churchman's Shilling Magazine continues its two serial tales—Mr. Mayer's " Trials of Margaret Brand reth," and Mr. Stanl e y A rno ld' s " A Lonely. Life." The first is the exciting, the second the quiet tale, so that both classes of readers have their tastes consulted. " Every day Work," by Mr. Hickey, reads like a sermon, but is a, good one. Miss Leslie's "D a yb rea k i n I ta l y " i s h a l f history, half fiction, and is a ra th er v i v id representat i on of the short-lived Reformation in Italy. Captain Archer in an article headed " Count Cavour on Ireland and the Irish Church Question," gives very little of Count Cavour and a great deal of Captain Archer; so that we really can hardly form any idea as t o w h a t th e great Ital i an statesman's opinions were on th e c hi e f t op i c o f our day, though possibly some persons might have thought them more valuable than his critic's. Captain Archer, however, is moderate in his ideas, and though he is decidedly op posed to the Irish Church Bill, it is pleasant to read his arguments instead of the declamation with which we have been flooded lately. "The Career of Rajah Brooke" tells how that eminent Arglo-Indian, after having fought in the Burmese war, sailed from Devonport in 18;38 in his yacht Royalist, with a picked crew of twenty men and two or three scientific assistants, for Singapore, and how, after staying there a little while, he pushed on to Sarawak, where he ultimately took up his abode. On his first landing he and his companions pushed into the interior of Borneo, and were delighted with the scenery, but painfully impressed by the social condition of the people. The pirates who infested the coast had contrived' to effect a settlement inland, but Brooke soon scattered them. They had been a terror to the natives for years ; Brooke got rid of them in as many days. In that short conflict he gained the confidence of the Dyaks. They came to him in their sore troubles, when perishing of famine, and he fed them to the utmost of his resources. At last the Raj of Sarawak was made over to him, and under an agreement with the Prince of Borneo the English Government also was induced to co-operate in the work of pirate suppression. For his success in this work lie was made a K.C.8.; and Oxford made him a D.C.L., and Cambridge an LL.D. He had worries. He was accused of cruelty and unnecessary bloodshed, but the charge was wholly disproved. He returned to England. and the friend to whom he entrusted the management of his affairs abused his confidence, and involved him in heavy pecuniary losses. Occasionally he paid short visits to his old dominion, but he considered the residence which he had bought in South Devon as his permanent abode, and there he died a year ago at the age of 65. The Rev. R. Adams has a paper on " Episcopal Epitaphs," which contain some curious information. Bishop Wilson, of Sodor and Man, was a humble-minded prelate, and ordered that no laudatory inscription should be placed upon his tomb. His son obeyed the injunction in the letter but violated it in the spirit, by writing that in accordance with the express commands of his father he said nothing in his praise ; but added, "let the island speak the rest." " A Day in a Cambridge College" will contain some information for lads who have not yet developed into freshmen. We, however, do not remember the following joke. An unfortunate "man "was undergoing the trials of the little - go, and was asked if he could tell anything about Garibaldi. He seemed never to have heard of the great Italian, but, on being hard pressed, a happy thought flashed upon him. "It is the place where the red shirts come from," he replied. In the Gardener, Mr. Hole continues his notes on Roses, Mr. M`Millan his on the Cultivation of Hardy Fruits, and Mr. Thomson his on the Grape Vine. In this last paper there are cautions against allowing a vine to bear too much fruit, as the grapes will then be sour Dr. Johnson's saying that "of all the flowers in the garden the cauliflower is the best," introduces a very useful article on that useful vegetable. "A Word to Young Gardeners" on their difficulties is well worth reading. TH.E GENERAL ELECTION IN FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. Electioneering has apparently lost none of its interest for the Parisians. The polling just about to terminate haS been very brisk all day. From the first opening of the polling booths to the time of closing the, stream of voters has flowed incessantly. Certainly, none of the candidates can co:np'ain of indifference to their interests; every elector seemed anxious to exercise his right, and some persons who have watched C'e polling all day express the opinion that the number voting this time will be even greater than at the first ballot. Undoubtedly the utmost interest has been manifested in the contest. There are various rumours of the Unfair interven tion of the authorities. At several places the placards of the Opposition candidates have been torn down all over the circumscription. From Besancon comes a serious complaint, that the c:reula-s ad 'ress 3d to the electors by the Liberal candidate have been un Itfy detained at the Post 011 ice. Up to the time that I write, the utmost tranquillity compatible with a la-z,e crowd prevails Viroughout Parir. THE MAGAZINES. Mack/Nod has some formidably long articles, which would have suited a quarterly better than a monthly periodical. Nevertheless the longest of them, the third part (occupying thirty-six pages) of the elaborate eulogy upon the career of Sir John Lawrence is as interesting as it is lengthy. It confirms the estimate I had formed of him from the accounts sent byAnglo-Indian friends. His policy in Afghanistan has already received the sanction of success. Three years ago the Amir whom Lord Mayo has just received so magnificently was a fugitive from his kingdom, and the greatest pressure was put upon Lord Lawrence to recognise the Amir's rival. But he would not. Until the end he remained unmoved by entreaties, by enticements, and, above all, by threats of Russian invasion. The result was that at the time he left India he had convinced the Afghans of our sincerity, and we have received the reward of abstinence, not in keeping ourselves free from the entanglements of Afghan politics, but in having secured an influential ally in the event of Russian encroach ment. The late Viceroy's land policy in Oudli is elabo rately explained and defended. his irrigation works were pushed on with the utmost vigour in the full consciousness that they alone can save India from a repetition of such calamities as the Orissa famine. Had he but acted upon his own instincts instead of trusting to the representations of his lieutenant-governor, even that calamity might have been avoided. Helms promoted the construction of railways and roads, and of airy barracks for our troops instead of the frightfully unhealthy buildings in which they used to die. He has inaugurated a system of female education, reorganised the police, developed the cotton plantations, and saved the poor from the burden of excessive taxation. On the other side of the account are certain awkwardnesses of manner, certain furgetfulnesses of the [BY SPECIAL AND ORDINARY TELEGRAMS.] PAR ES, TUE3DAY MORNING. So far as the results of the elections are known, they aro favourable to the Opp , s'tion, but not so decisively as was expected. In Paris the com paratively moderate men have been returned. Jules Favre has defeated Rochefort by 3,600 votes. The Republican, Gamier Paris, has overcome the Red Easpail by nearly 5,000 votes, probably owing to the fact that the latter candidate has already been elected for Lyons ; and Thiess has won easily, his two competitors, the official candidate and the Red, receiving less votes than on the previous occasion. M. Ju'es Ferry, the Red, has defeated the official, M. Cochin. Thus the Liberals have carried the whole of the nine seats for Paris. In the departments, the Opposition has carried two scats at Marseilles, Gambetta defeating M. do Lessees, one at Rouen, and one in the Nord. But several seats which the Opposition might have been expected to gain have been won by the Government. At Nantes, for instance, at the first ballot, the official candidate received 12,001; M. Gu6pin, the Liberal, 11,679 ; and two other Liberals more than 7,000 votes between them. As these two last retired in favour of M. Gudpin, it was expected that he would be returned, but M. Gaudin has won by 2,300 votes. In the Loire, at the first ballot, the official candidate received 12,603 votes, and the three candidates of the Opposition more than 14,500. It was calculated that the sing'e Liberal at the second ballot would get in, but he has lost by a few hundred votes. A similar issue has been experienced at Lyons, where M. Ferras has defeated the Republican, Esquiros, who, however, is returned for Marseilles. The returns from the two circumscriptions of the Seine Inferibure are very confused, but it appears that th two Opposition deputies have been elected. Later returns are still less favourable to the Opposition. In the Finisterre, where the total Opposition votes at the last ballot were above 16,000 against 14,100, the official candidate has, nevertheless, been returned. In the Puy-de-Dome, on the other hand, the Opposition has gained an unexpected victory. In the Gard, the Opposition votes a fortnight ago out numbered those of the Government, and still the official candidate has won. In the Pas de Calais, the official candidate has likewise been returned. At Auxerre, Limoges, in the Vosges, the Haute Saone, and as Orleans the Opposition has been successful. The Govern. ment have carried, in some cases much to the astonish. ment of the Liberals, the sth Finisterre circumscription, Herau!t ; 2nd circumscription of the Loiret, Bourges, and Grenoble. The official returns state that up to the present time twenty-five Liberals of different shades and nineteen Opposition candidates have been returned. Full reliance is not to be placed on this statement ; but it is quite certain that the Opposition has not carried so many seats as was expected. It was hoped that the official candidates would not be successful in half a-doz en instances. These second ballotings shew that the authorities have exerted themselves to the utmost to retrieve the losses they sustained a fortnight ago. The result is clear'y reactionary to a certain extent. The number of electors polling all through the country has been ye. y larg in most cases considerably greater than at the fiest balloting. Same of the contests were very share. A great conc„urse of people assembled on the boulevards after the announcement of the polling. Some disturbances are announced, and it is said that 12) persons have bees arrested. Lord Cairns is stated to have convened a confer ence of leading Opposition peers (fifteen is the number given), to bo hold at his own res . d.:r.ce on Wednes.lay. A Fermanagh paper states that the Right llon. Henry Corry is about to retire from the representitiou of the county of Tyrone. it aide tut hi 3 son will be notniinted in his room. The latest rumour in connection will the repre sentation of Nottingham is to the ()MIA flit Mr. y Seymour, Q. 0., Recorder of Neweas.lo-on-TynP, as leen asked by " the Independmits" (the party whom tl.e Sir Robert Clifton represented) to contest the borough A respectable =lister, named Samuel Russell, of Norton, near Pontefract, has been taken into custody on a charge of forging an acceptance of a bill of exchange fc r he payment of £2OO, and another for .C 350, with intent to dc. fraud Messrs. Thomas Seaton and Co., brewers, Doncaster. Jae was taken before the magistrates at \Yentbridge on AtendaY. - - GOTit.RNMEN7' AND THE TELEGRAPH. Endeavours have been made on the part of proprietors of provincial journals to obtain interviews with the Postmaster-General and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to urge upon them the inconvenience of any further dela/ in the State purchase of the telegraphs. The Marquis of llartington has consented to receive a deputation this week. Mr. Lowe has returned a reply that he thinks suc h a deputation would be premature. When he ism a position to declare the intentions of the Government he will be happy to return a reply. He is not vet in suglkib nosition. THE IRISH CHUI?CH.-D.EPUTATIOII,- T.ELB EARL OF DERBY. On Monday a deputation representing 104 of the Con' servative associations in the principal towns of England in connection with the National Union of ConservatiO Constitutional Associations waited upon the Earl of Derby to urge the rejection by the House ° I Lords of Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill. The depot' tion was attended by Sir Thomas Gladstone, of the Scot" tish Conservative Association, Lord Colchester, Lord Skelmersdale, and Mr. Raikes, MP. . _ Lord SKELDIERSDALE having introduced the deputation, an address was read by the secretary. Mr. RAIKES, M.P., and Mr. BENNETT assured his lordship of the unanimous feeling which prevaile d amongst the various Conservative associations in oppos e tion to Mr. Gladstone's bill. The Earl of DERBY, in replying, adverted to the meet• ing of peers held last Saturday at the Duke of Marl' borough's, reports of which, snore or less correct, bad ar peared in the daily papers. He desired to be understood as speaking entirely in the capacity of an individual member of the Upper House, and without wishing, to influence the minds or fetter the actions 01 others he might remind them that during a parliamentary career of forty-five years he bad consistently opposed the disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Irelan d ' While he was prepared to admit this tile re were many attached friends of the Irish Churn° who would prefer the amendment rather than th e rejection of th e bill. H e hi mse lf was persua d e d that the latter was the proper course to be a dopted. He thought when the measure came on f 4 the second reading, it would be thrown o ut by an adequate majority. With so revoln' tionary a bill as Mr. Gladstone's he was of opinion that the boldest was the safest course. It was with lively satisfaction that he found that the Peers would be sup' , ported by the members of the associations represento before him, and he trusted that in carrying out their relo' lutions, and in any further attempt that might be 1 14 : to coerce the consciences of the Peers, that support would be continued and increased. Amongst the deputations represented were those from Shipley, Great Torrington' Exeter, Tynemouth, Huddersfield, Penryn, St. Ilelen% York, Torquay, Holbeck, Cleckheaton, Dewsburf, and _Liverpool. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. A large meeting of citizens of London, and others, held in the great hall of the Cannon-street Hotel, in oPP °. sition to the Irish Church Bill, on Monday afternO ri i John Chubb, Esq., presided, and was supported by fir following gen tl emen : —Vi scount C r i c h ton, M.P., SLf William Rose, Sir W. C ar d en , M r . M organ H ow ard,lu r. Charley, M.P., Mr. C. E. King, Mr. R. C. L. Bevan' Mr. J. 0. Allcroft, Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, &c. The Rev. Mr. DARLI NG o p ene d th e m e e ting ' Oll3l prayer. The CHAIRMAN, who was loudly applauded on risi't said this was i n a ver y sma ll sense a p ar t y me eting ; 1 : was a meeting- of Protestants of England to prat's' against the further progress of the Irish Church Bill , $1 being dishonourable to Almighty God, and Of f trary to the best interests of the people Ireland, and as i n j ur i ous t o th e Th rone and 11'''. Commonwealth of thi s r ea l m . U n l ess the '_ ma , of Lords was a m ere c h am b er f or en d ors i ng th e p r oceedior of the House o f C ommons , th ere never was a i neasur which demanded their serious attention so much as thi t He undertook to s a y th a t th e grea t ma j or ity o f the peoP w of England were against it. The whole of t he Protestant population, with rare exceptions, was agaiii 4 t ; The sting of the measure was th a t it gave a perrasol l a endowMent to Popery. He, as a Nonconformist, lo u t if OW ask his Nonconformist brethren how, Irish Church were disestablished and disendoweJ , t r, work of God could be carried on in Irelar lu .. None of the dissenting bodies could carry on the work 1 . 11 , Ireland without money aid from this country. I f thi p bill were allowed to pass, it would lead to an attac k.° the Church of England. Stand by the House of 1 09 in the coming struggle, and may God defend the rigbt• Mr. A. GIBBONS moved the first resolution, pro tes t ; ing against the bill as a severance o f the sts4;, from religion, as prejudicial to the au praesi c ! of the Sovereign, and as endowing the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth. He said thi s bill was b roug ht °na g° party question ,and was intended to aggrandise a feurpers °° ' especially one, who could not bear to be out of officei The Church of Ireland was a part of the Establl obe io Church of the United Kingdom, and the passage of t h ia bill would only increase strife. He hoped the Lords w l7° throw out the bill by .a large majority. Mr. HENRY MASTERMAN seconded the resolution. re The resolution was then put to the meeting. 113 ... were a few dissentients, who were greeted with hisses'- groans, and the motion was carried by a large maior it ib. Another resolution urged the Lords to throw out t bill, and was carried with Kentish fire. Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highn - a 6 Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Prin cess Beatrice, „ suite will leave Balmoral for Windsor, according to P re A s fy, arrangements, on either Tuesday, th e 15th, o r Thio' the 17th inst. The Manchester Courier announces that there ° l. ci o reports of the creation of now peers. Lord Hartington , Hyde, Lord Amberley, and other eldest sons of peers 'l l ,O go to the Upper House; also Irish and Scotch peers 1° have not seats in the Lords. The rumour probably out of the anticipated rejection of the Irish Church Bill, %0 the not altogether impossible creation of new peers by t Premier to ensure its acceptance on another occasion. In a street row which occurred in Liverpool ea Sunday morning, ono of the borough police-officers, ea by Irvine, was stabbed in five places, principally in the bead, re, a woman, named Ann Quinn, who was subsequently aPP headed, together with two men named Looney and Du ffe ' who were engaged in the raw. Another officer whi le 131 :1 suing the disturbers was tripped up and trodden upo n, had one of his fingers crushed. The policeman Irvine t°l a dangerous state. Another death has resulted from th e r i o t at old f The most recent victim is a woma n named Jones,° • one of the ringleaders in the di s t ur b ance, i n whic h she "et; self took an active part by th e gathering of stones for‘ifi combatants. She wa s s h o t b y the soldiers, and tith e on Friday night f rom the injury. Next del t 4ile til l. coroner held an i nques t , and a ver di c t of J i ." - o fiablo homicid e was re t urne d , as in the other case ; hr inquiry was made as to the origin of the fight, or wl le- m e .. the Riot Act had been read before the soldiers vrer e . : to ployed in aidin g th e civil power. The soldiers aPP eP. hive suffered severe injuries from the missiles h urled ic I them. and twenty-three of th e m are now under sill' treatment at Chester. An American paper contains the folloWilirs advertisement :—" Wants a situation, a practical Pril'ti:; who is competent to take charge of any departm ent printing and publishing house. Would accept a Po f l ia -° A. ship in any of the academies. Has no objection to teach mental painting and penmanship, geometry, trigonoine`'as ; and many other sciences. Is particularly suited to aCt pastor to a small evangelical church, or as a local preacP" t He would have no objection to form a small lint,%elechest class of interesting young ladies to instruct in the ll i g; l ) branches. To a dentist or a chiropodist he w°131,-„er. invaluable, as he can do almost anything. Would fully accept a position as a bass or tenor singer, in cb ;:or Would board with a family, if decidedly pious. further particulars inquire at Brown's Saloon." SIR ROBERT CLIFTON.—The following e tr .,, T 3° ; Bi n ary anecdote was (says the local Express) told in to tingham on Saturday by an intimate friend of th e baronet. In the year 1854 Sir Robert was in Pari°' -13 d -he there became accidently acquainted with divinator of the future, or fortune t 11 r— not one 01 tb a low tribe of card palmers, but a man e emOllllY, in a g e t ° h position and of competent means. This Parisian° 07-.0 sayer bad a great reputation in his art, and it apP Ol.5 he exercised his skill upon Sir Robert'sponta,ncouslY a.`"4 dining with the latter one da On that occasion he f the late owner of Clifton that, "3' ti unsw 3re : 4 the fact, he (the baronet) had grCao't'z'miiiiieer‘a\l' wealth ulle-0 his estate ; but the prognosticator went on to w 3 ia Sir Robert that whenever he got to coal he w ° ' a Professe also get to the end of his own career. The fortune" ea further said that Sir Robert was frequently ernbarra.ss.oo by pecuniary difficulties, but he assured him that if would accept a red bag, which the fortune-teller offer him, it always with him, and look at it whenever. 3 was in financial trouble, he would find means of extricatihl; himself from his perplexity. The person who relates t. remarkable reminiscence added that Sir Robert the no , a tha t this red bag with him up to his last illness, had frequently declared that whenever he was wi cie , r tc , pressure and gazed upon his talisman he felt nervect renewed energy, and experienced an instinctive cpPvlctoik. §liza swn embarkgswePti TIONI COMMER to-da ditto, for Ac A dueed, 921 ; Red Sea Teleg --; ditto £lOl England Stock, India Stock, ditto 5 per Cent Cent., Oct., lE per Cent., 22 Bonds £l,OOO, 5 preni. 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