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FOR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONIS TS Jd E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their husir - ess: Tor trades and ad ilresses, see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. LI The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be form/ in every i - aticlo sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all classes, Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver- sified stock of materials. For th convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should i.e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not approved of will he cheer fully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude. variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakors, Woollendrapers, • Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES s.g : LON DON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MIN ORIES 155, IkTINORIES 157, MINOILIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGAT 85, ALDGATE BG, ALDGATI 87. 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The undersigned is directed by the Finance Committee of the Corporation of London, acting under an order of the Court of Common Council of the 17th of June, 1869, to DISPOSE OF CITY BONDS to the above amount, for the purpose of completing the purchase of lands and the execution of works connected with the Site and Approaches (other than the Western Approach, called Charter-house street), of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market at Smithfield. The Bonds will be issued, at par, under the common seal of the Corporation, for sums of £l,OOO, £5OO, or £lOO respectively, for a period of nine years, and bearing in terest, payable half-yearly by means of coupons, at the Bank of England, at the rate of .£-1 ss. per cent. per annum. Security. The Bonds, principal and interest, will be paid out of the moneys to be received by the Corporation from the rents and other payments of the tenants of the said Market (subject to existing chat ges) ; and in the event of those funds proving insufficient, then out of the general revenues of the Corporation. Parties desiring to tender for any of the said Bonds must make application at the Bank of England (Private Drawing Office), in the form annexed ; such applications to be accompanied by a payment or remittance to the said Bank of 10 per cent. upon the amount applied for. Appli cations will not be received later than three o'clock on WEDNESDAY, the 7th of July instant. Allotments will take place at this Office by J. T. Bed ford, Esq., the Chairman of the above Committee, with the undersigned, on Friday, the 9th of July ; and iu the event of an amount greater than the sum of £23-1,000 being offered, a rateable allotment (not less than £lOO in any case) will be made to each applicant. No application for a greater sum than .£50,000 will be received from any individual or firm. The balance of the amount allotted must be paid at this Office not later than Friday, the 23d July instant ; upon payment of the balance Scrip Receipts will be issued to parties producing their Letters of Allotment and Bank of England Deposit Receipts; such SCrip Receipts will be exchanged for Bonds, so soon as they shall have been pre pared and sealed by the Court of Common Council. Interest will commence from the dates of payment in full respectively. Printed Forms of Application will be furnished at this Office and at the Bank of England, BENJAMIN SCOTT, Chamberlain. Chamber of London, Guildhall, July 2, 18G9. FORM OF APPLICATION. LOAN £234,000. METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET (SITE AND APPROACHES). To the Chamberlain of the City of London. 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St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALTIA3fI3II A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. BOX-01nel open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL 0 &It DENS, Regent's-park. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Adhlission, ls.; on Mondays, Gd. Children under twelve, Gd_ • - , , • taiga, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1869. Although very quietly administered, the smartest, the sharpest, the most stinging rap over the knuckles he has ever had to endure, Mr. Lown received on Saturday evening. The ferule was wielded by the ex-Premier, the Leader of the Opposition. The occa sion was the annual Lamp-let given by the Cor poration of the Trinity House to her MAJESTY'S Ministera, and other persons of crstinction. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES—enrolled among the Elder Brethren immediately before the dinner— occupied the Chair, in lieu of his brother, the Duke of EDINBURGH, Master of the Ancient Cor • poration. Speaking facetiously on behalf of the House of Commons, in return for the latter portion of the toast of the two Houses of Parliament, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER touched upon somewhat delicate THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1869 ground when he referred, however euphemistically, to the great party question now actually matter of contention between the Lords and the Commons. The Deputy Master of the Trinity House took oc casion indeed immediately after Mr. LOWE had re sumed his seat to observe emphatically—" The Tri nity House is not a place for politics." Nevertheless, under the guise—it could hardly be called the dis guise—of a joke, of a very laboured joke, articulated with an extraordinary amount of circumlocution, Mr. LOWE, in wilful and flagrant defiance of all considerations of social etiquette, dragged in, as the homely idiom has it, by the head and shoulders, the very subject of all others about which not one word ought, in decency, either di rectly or indirectly, to have been uttered, particularly at a Banquet, presided over by the Heir Apparent to the Crown, and one at which, among the illustrious guests were the two great Leaders of Party, Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. DISRAELI, the present and the late First Lord of the Treasury. Ludicrously com paring the sensations of the House of Commons at this moment to those experienced by a Poet or a Painter while passing through the ordeal of adverse criticism, Mr. LOWE observed that the House of Commons is just now placed precisely in that position. "We flattered ourselves," said he, with a heavy-go light jocularity, "that we had done a great work. We traced a broad and clear outline—we laid-in what we be believed to be neutral tints—we took infinite pains and labour with our performance, and satisfied ourselves with its thoroughly artistic character." Then he went on to say, " But now we are subjected to an excruciating ordeal. We see our performance reviewed by no friendly eyes — criticised, altered, and remodelled according to the notions of our critics. The neutral tints disappear— [All this, we say, is very laboured joking—all this, as DOGBERRY has it, very tolerable and not to be endured.'] The neutral tints disappear and give place to the most violent lights and shades. The clear and definite outline we had drawn becomes blurred and indistinct. All sorts of, I will not say tricks and experiments, are tried on our perform ance, and we are compelled to stand by, our arms folded, to watch this excruciating pro cess without being allowed to interpose a word: , The heaviest and the most laboured jocularity—all this is, to our thinking. But—it is something more than laboured joking to our mind—it is in the worst possible taste, particularly under the circumstances. Mr. LOWE, for once, had on the cap and bells, how ever, and must needs continue to disport himself according to his own notions of facetiousness. He had lugged up a horse-collar from under the table-cloth, and must perforce grin through it so long as the jesting mood was on him. Revert ing to the comparison he had teen drawing with such tedious elaboration—" That," he exclaimed, " is, no doubt, a painful position for the House of Commons to be in. But the darkest night is nearest the dawn, and we console ourselves with the reflec tion that after these alterations have been made in our performance it will return to us, we shall have to give it the final touch ; and we are not without hope that we may be enabled to reform what has been blurred, restore the outline, and make the picture, if not exactly the same as before, yet so much the same at least as to be satisfactory in all points of view. That such may be the re sult of this very remarkable production I have no doubt you will join with me in anticipating." All this—at a non-political banquet, with the rival Leaders of Party sitting, there, almost cheek-by-jowl, and with the Heir Apparent to the Crown placed at the head of the board as Chairman ! All this--upon such an occasion—in reference to the Irish Church Bill, and the conflicting views of the Lords and Commons, and the Amendments already carried or preparing immediately to be taken, by the Lords' Committee, into s.:rious coaiideration. In su:h exe crably bad taste was the whole of this extraordinary exhibition on the part of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, that we cannot wonder in the least the display should elicit, before the evening had run out, the reprehensions—covert, yet overwhelming courtly, but excruciating—of a Master of Sarcasm as perfect as Mr. DISRAELI. Towards the close of the entertaintuent, the Deputy Master of the Trinity House having risen to propose the toast of " The Honorary Brethren," said—" I shall associate with this toast a name which is a household word"—adding, "By command of his Royal Highness, I associate with it the name of Mr. DISRAELI, and he will, by the same command, return thanks." Out of this royal command arose the ex-Premier's oppor tunity for an exceedingly gentle but cuttingly ironi cal reference to the display of ill-placed pleasan try on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Addressing himself with courtly frankness to " the Prince nearest the Throne," who was there presiding over the assembled guests as Chairman, Mr. DISRAELI —as will immediately be seen—with a distinct design in so doing, after congratulating his hearers upon their having just enrolled his Royal Highness's name on the ancient records of that old fraternity, observed to the PRINCE himself, "Nor can we doubt that, however numerous your engagements, you, Sir, will fulfil your duties in connexion with this corporation with the same cordial patriotism, the same happiness of manner, and the same felicity of feeling with which you have fulfilled all your other public duties, and which have obtained for you the kind feeling of your fellow-countrymen. Perhaps, Sir," added Mr. DISRAELI, still addressing himself person ally to the Prince of WALES, " Perhaps, Sir, in the execution of some of these duties you may at times experience cares and anxieties not less than those which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has, with so much tact and taste, recalled to our recollection—aud sure I am you will feel this—whatever may be your public duties, you may encounter them successfully with the temper and forbearance which generally in public affairs meet their due reward ; an d y ou w ill feel sure, in the transactions of public life, that there is no vise rule that it is more sedulously our duty to observe than this—that it is not unwise to in troduce difficult subjects upon which men may differ when it is unnecessary to obtrude them on public notice." Never did any Minister of the Crown receive a more richly deserved, a more publicly outspoken, or a more cutting reprimand in the presence and hear ing of the Heir of the SOVEREIGN. e si o F tuh n se r e FRIDAY h a bo r ef s d itt n h i f f g e e b r t's business en debe Legislature.thaas s t a e te in the i mthbeTlryhe: ti L suh oeohr House forcibly oewueosefen Common oothmeLin illus tratesotorwnd two w th i e th bes t t h s e p e a I rkiisrlhg c c l h u i r , in h t Bh jell world. ina t r The el y p r s r ta practical dealt fashion. Few set speeches were made after the measure had passed into committee. There were conflicts short and sharp, divisions fre quent and decisive, but there was no colli sion of principles. The vote of one night was strictly and logically in accordance with the vote of the preceding night. A certain duty had to be done, and all minor considerations were set aside in order to do it. The House of Lords has adopted the opposite course. It has debated this bill with surprising eloquence. No finer speeches have ever been heard in any Legislative Chamber than those which have been delivered in that splendid gilded room wherein our nobles sit. But when they have come to deal practically with this bill they have simply stultified it and them selves and have reduced everything to chaos. They began well. They accepted the fact that this measure was demanded by the nation, and would be extorted from them if they did not grant it freely. With true wisdom they recogn7ied the principle of the bill by reading it a second time; they then straightway set about altering it so that the principle is utterly lost, so that their amendments cannot possibly be accepted. See what happened on Friday. There were two propositions before the Peers. One was to hand over the glebes and parsonages to the Irish clergy free of charge; the other was to make similar gifts to the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian clergy. To carry both amendments was not inconsistent with the object of the measure—religious equality; to carry either without the other was absolutely destructive of that object. Yet this is what the Lords did. By a majority of nearly three to one they decided that the Protestant clergy should have their parsonages. By a much smaller, but still a large, majo rity, they decided that the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian clergy should not have theirs. In other words, having first admitted, by a majority of thirty-three, the principle of the bill for establishing religious equality, they afterwards, by exactly the same majority, alter the bill so as to re-establish inequality. The first course was eminently statesmanlike, the second is not only unstatesmanlike, but childish. Nor do the arguments urged in defence the least mitigate the folly of it. The words of Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. BRIGHT, and the Duke of ARGLLL were quoted in order to shew that last year they did intend to give over the glebe lands and houses to their present occupants. But they expressed that intention in ignorance of a very im portant fact, that the property was subject to build ing charges which the Government has to take upon itself, If the laity wished to possess this property they could not do so without paying every shilling of the charges upon it. Yet it is given back to the laity for the benefit of their future ministers at a sum very much below what is charged on it as encumbrances, so that the Church gets more than it is entitled to in strict equity, not less, as the Marquis of SALISBURY implies. With regard to the proposed concurrent endow ment much was said that was seemingly contradic tory, but which is really susceptible of reconciliation. The Marquis of SALISBURY, for instance, declared that the old " No-Popery " bogy had lost much of its former influence, and that, therefore, the nation, if appealed to, would not now obj act to provid ing Roman Catholic priests with residences. On the other hand, the Earl of E:rmBERLEY, while personally approving the principle of that proposal, was convinced that the popular antipathy to it was so wide and deep that he felt bound to sacrifice his own predilections in obedience to what he believed to be the national will. Both peers are right, both are wrong. The objection to that particular form of endowment which the Duke of CLEVELAND proposed, and the Marquis of SALISBURY, the Bishop of Oxford, and the Archbishop of CAN TERBURY supported, is much weaker than it was. Men see clearly enough that it is absurd to endow a Church of the minority, and not to endow a Church of the majority. Exeter Hall may object to providing Roman Catholic priests with potatoes and cabbages, but the great bulk of the people do not. What these object to is any extension of State endowment of religion. The conviction is rapidly gaining ground that such endowment is mischievous, and that we ought rather to curtail than to extend. It is this alteration of public sentiment which has made the MURPHYS, the HARPERS, and the NEWDEGATES so powerless, while it has made the Liberation Society so strong. It is here that Mr. DISRAEI blundered so terribly ; here that Lord CAIRNS, faithfully representing his old chief, has just blundered again. They judged at first, and rightly, that the "No-Popery" spirit had died out, and they inferred, but wrongly, that they might endow the Roman Catholic religion. They were astonished at the vehemence with which levelling up was denounced. They then thought that they had been mistaken, that "No Popery " was still a power in politics, and they entered into an alliance with it, but only to be more signally betrayed than before. They are puzzled, baffled, bewildered. On the other hand, Mr. G GAD STONE has found the key to the mystery; has discovered that what the nation wants is neither anti-Papal legislation nor more State Churches. The Irish Establishment must go ; that all men admit. But there must not be in its stead half a dozen esta blishments. Lord CAIRNS sees the latter half of this truth, and he separated from a large number of his followers in order to defeat the D❑ke of CLEVELAND'S amendment. Ile does not, or will not, yet see the first half, and so it comes to pass that he is still seeking to maintain an ascendancy which both Houses of Parliament have declared must cease. It remains to be seen what Ministers will say to a measure that stands self-convicted of inconsis tency and absurdity. AT „,„„ L7,4e,AA, ' 140 t, it* teat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 4. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, Prince Leo pold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL GARDENS. A very gay assemblage gathered in the Royal Horticultural Gardens on Saturday afternoon to assist at the twelfth annual meeting of the Metro politan Schools. The gardens were in the height of midsummer bloom, and the all-important ele ment on the weather was quite propitious. The chorus, which was composed chiefly of school chil dren, w as distributed as follows:-1,750 first sopranos, 1,250 second sopranos, 1,000 tenors, and 1,000 basses; total, ' 5,000 voices. Mr. A. W. Martin, the founder and director of the National Choral So ciety was the conductor. The singers were arranged in front of the Conservatory, and the con cert took place in the open air—an arrangement which the weather favoured to the utmost, but which was calculated to secure the utmost effect on the music. The Crystal Palace, where there meet ings have been previously held, is a large area for a concert, but it is better than the open air. In some inst a nces th e c hild ren ' s vo i ces were a l mos t inaudible. The singi ng , however, was good, and evinced the most caref u l t ra i n i ng. Th e programm e opened with a choral e , " Awake, my Glory," com posed by the late Prince Consort, and the remain der of the concert was made up of sacred and secular music, chiefly popular airs, such as " Home, sweet Home," the " Spanish Chant," and the " Last Rose of Summer." Some of them, as we have said, were lost in the space ; but the singing of the mass was very effective. An enjoyable afternoon was spent. A " flying column," under the command of Major-General Sir A. Horsford, K.C.8., tinillleave Aldershott Camp, en route to Wimbledon, about the 14th instant. The column will consist of a de tachment of Royal Engineers ; E Battery C Bri . g.ade i Royal Horse Artillery ; D Battery, 11th Brigade, Royal Artillery ; 10th Hussar, ; 3d battalion: of the 3d Buffs ; 21 battalion of the 3d Buffs ; 2d 'bat talion of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; 3 4th Regiment ; and the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, with the requisite transport. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL ITAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growtl L it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists anti Pe rfurnOl 3 . Depot 266, High Holborn THE MAGAZINES. The readers of Blackwood will not this month find any unusual attractions in its table of contents, for the number is scarcely up to the average. Besides the inevitable article on the Irish Church Bill and the instal ments of two tales, we have a lengthened account of domestic life in the Fiji Islands, an essay on earthquakes and volcanoes, and two critical notices of recent works. The Fiji Islands, as the chronicler of their history reminds us, are likely to become before long of considerable importance to this country. We must hope that the English settlers, whose number is rapidly increasing in Western Polynesia, will im prove the Fijian standard of morals and manners. At present the records of their royal house read very much like a page from " Foxe's Book of Martyrs." The chief of Mbau,which is the foremost kingdom of Fiji,inaugurated his career when six years old by clubbing to death a boy of his own age who had been taken prisoner. At his father's death five of his wives were strangled, according to custom, the Prince helping to pull the cord. At his own formal inau guration as Vunivalu of Mbau, eighteen human beings were put to death and cooked—cannibalism having by no means gone out of fashion in Polynesia. It is, however, gratify ing to know that the persevering labours of the missionaries have not been without their reward, and this cannibal king has not only acknowledged the truth of Christianity and been publicly baptised, but he has forbidden the practice of cannibalism in his kingdom, and now sets his people a good example by his new mode of life. The recent extraor dinary freaks of the weather, which have confused all our ordinary notions of July and January, have not unnaturally been connected in the minds of the scientific with the volcanic disturbances so remarkable of late years. The earthquake in the West Indies which devastated St. Thomas was the first of a startling series of convulsions which reached their climax in the tremendous catastrophe of Peru and Ecuador. Even quiet England has been made sensibleof some subterranean commotion, though, happily, we have not seen our cities swallowed up, or our men-of war carried miles inland. In the article on Earthquakes and Volcanoes a new theory is put forth, in which a parallel is traced between the electrical phenomena in the earth and in the atmosphere ; and the origin of earth quakes, which are not inaptly termed " thunder storms in the earth," is found in the zone of electric action which the writer believes to exist underlying the earth's surface. Mr. Morris's poems are very fully and carefully criticised by one who cordially admires and appreciates them, placing the author, however, not among the " grand old masters," but with those " simple poets " whose " songs have power to quiet the restless pulse of care." It was not doubtful which side Maga would take in the great controversy in the Lords, and accordingly the bishops and archbishops who neglected to vote against the second reading of the Irish Church Bill are censured with uncompromising sternness. " What," it is asked, " are they placed in the House of Lords for if it be not to defend their Church's privileges ?'' a somewhat new reading of the code of public duty. The ecclesiastical dignitaries may, however, derive some consolation from the fact that they are not the only offenders. One hun dred and thirty lay peers were absent from the division, and by that virtual abdication of their functions mani fested timidity, indifference, or some other unworthy motive. It is fair to add that the conclusion of the article advises the Protestants of Ireland to be quiet and loyal, remembering " that there are limits to resistance, even when the resistance is to wrong," and that the law once enacted, all good citizens and subjects are bound to obey it. "Put Yourself in His Place " is continued at some length in the Cornhill, and this instalment is interesting, though perhaps not so eventful as its predecessor. Henry Little succeeds in his daring attempt to outwit the unions, and converts the sacred edifice to secular purposes in a manner that is anything but orthodox. While his business prospers, his acquaintance with Miss Carden languishes, and at last altogether ceases. The visit which Little pays to the Deuce family is a pleasing episode, and furnishes a refreshing contrast to the more sombre pas. sages of the narrative. An able article on " Andrew Marvell " is among the attractions of this number ; and it throws some light on the career of one worthy of respect. It is here said of him that he occupies a higher position than that of a poet, and it has been his fate " to stand out before the eyes of succeeding generations as an example of purity and integrity in a corrupt age, and the brightness of his virtues has in some degree outshone the lustre of his genius ; had he been less brilliant as a patriot he would have been more conspicuous as a poet." Five editions of Marvell's poems have been published ; the first is dated 1681, three years after his death ; and the last, 1857, was published in Boston. It is strange that his name has been so seldom mentioned by the writers of the last century, and that his poetry should not have been found among the collections and miscel lanies of that period. The coarseness of his political satires interfered with his fame as a poet in some degree, but those works on which his reputation must chiefly rest belong to a different time. He is distinguished among the poets of his time by his love for nature, which he seemed to delight in for its own sake, and not to regard in the spirit of his contemporaries, who merely respected it for furnishing them with ideas and illustrations. The paper on "Useless Knowledge" conveys some plain truths to the mind, in a pleasant style and an impressive manner. The chief point insisted on is that the human intellect is limited, and that to be useful in this world one must be restricted to a narrow field of labour. We have so many facts that we don't know what to do with them. "We want historians who can deduce some living prin ciples from history, and men of science who can reduce the vast masses of observation to some general laws." The writer complains of the arrogance of those who copy the genuine leaders of thought, and descant upon subjects of which they understand but little. For this reason he rejoiced the other day to hear that the Gulf Stream was a delusion. The Gulf Stream had become almost as great a nuisance as Macaulay's New Zealander, and one could not mention the weather without someone clothing him self with a true scientific swagger, and hurlin g c , the Gulf Stream at your head. We are left in the hope that we may not be quite overwhelmed before same one arises to put things straight, "Sola" is the title of a new story, which is related in an interesting manner, and contains some good sketches of character. Pre-Reformation Shrines and Pilgrimages in England" are pointed out to the antiquarian reader in an instructive paper. Master .Thorpe was an instance of the danger of confronting the popular taste. He finished his days in prison for indulging in a tirade against the pilgrimages of the fifteenth century. "Friends in High Latitudes" contains an account of a visit to Greenland, where the free and easy life so "novel and so wild" can offer attractions to those who are wearied with the artifi cial forms of more civilised existence. The Art Journal declares of the present exhibition of the Royal Academy that it is " the finest known within living memory." This high praise is qualified by some severe fault-finding. Serious blunders have been com mitted. It is absolutely discreditable that some of the works now at the Supplementary Exhibition should have been excluded from the Academy, the more so because a large number of foreign works have been admitted which did not deserve admission. The Art Journal is especially severe upon the President, Mr. Richmond, and Mr. Knight for having sent twenty-four large portraits, and proposes that the maximum shall be redueed from eight to four, and even then admission to be dependent upon merit. On the other hand, Mr. Leighton is deservedly praised for the self-sacrifice he has shewn in hanging his own works so badly that they absolutely suffer seriously. Of the Sup plementary Exhibition the Art Journal says that while there are works in it whose exclusion from the Academy is altogether unpardonable, the great majority of the pictures could not have found entrance at Burlington House, had there been twice the space there was at the disposal of the Hanging Committee. The engravings in this month's number are Marcus Stone's " A Young Painter's First Lesson," Stanfield's "'Wreck off Dover," and Stodart's engraving of Crittenden's group, " Play." Mr. Dafforne writes about William Cave Thomas and the Uffizj Gallery at Florence. The Churchman's Shilling Magazine has among other good papers one particularly interesting by Mrs. Townshend Mayer. It is entitled "The English Le Sage," and is a biographical sketch of that most eccentric of men William Combe, author of the once immensely popular, but now almost forgotten, " Dr. Syntax." Combe was born in 1741, went to Eton, where he was the schoolfellow of Fox, and then to Oxford, where he lived so luxuriously that he earned the title of Count Combe. He was called to the Bar, but did not practise. Instead thereof, he frequented fashionable watering-places, and was the most popular of fops. Having spent all his money and something more, he enlisted in the army, and became as popular with his mates as Cole ridge was with his under similar circumstances. Combe soon abandoned arms, and set up as a professor of elocu tion, but was considered so dangerously fascinating that careful parents would not allow their children to go to him. His popularity was fatal to success in this line, so he crossed the Channel, and enlisted in the French army. His second acquaintance with Mars was as short as the first. He next entered a convent as a cook, and made such capital soup that the monks implored him to take the cowl. But the monastic life was as little to his mind as the military, and returning to England he became bookmaker. For many years he did a good deal of hack work, spending much of his time in the Debtor's Prison. In 1789 he received £2OO a year from Pitt to write. Then he went on the staff of the Times. It was not till he was over 60 years of age that he made his great hit—" Dr. Syntax "—which made the fortune of the maga zine in which it appeared. The " doctor " became all tb e rage, and Syntax coats and wigs were as much in fashion as Dundreary whiskers have been in recent times. From that time Combe continued to write for Ackermann, the pub- Esher of the magazine, who gave him money whenever he wanted it. A short time before his death he quarrelled with his adopted son for marrying Olivia Serres, who cl, - ..imed the style and title of the Princess Olive. To him he had left a huge pile of MSS., con taining his autobiography, but in his anger Combe ruthlessly destroyed them. For seven days the candle at which be burned them was not extinguished. Thus the world lost one of the most entertaining narra tives of a life that was ever written. Combe died in 1823, being then nearly 82 years old. A memoir of him has just been published by Mr. Rotten. The Rev. W. Baird takes his readers for a stroll through Columbia Market. Mr. Spender narrates, under the title of " Fjeld, Fjord, and Foss," his last year's experience in Norway. Mr. Ker tells a story which is both startling and true. Mrs. Broderip has some verses which are hardly up to her mark. The serial tales are continued, and Mr. Arnold's " A Lonely Life" contains some very good sketches of character. THE BANQUET OF THE TRINITY CORPORATION. There was a most distinguished gathering at the annual 1 banquet of the Trinity Corporation held in London on Saturday night. In the chair was the Prince of Wales, who represented his brother, the Duke of Edinburgh (the Master of the Corporation), and amongst those who were present were Prince Arthur, Prince Christian, the Prince of Teck, Prince Edward of Saxe•Weimar, and most of the members of the present and the late Governments. Mr. Cardwell responded for the Army, Mr. Childers for the Navy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer far the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone for her Majesty's Ministers, Mr. Bright for the Board of Trade, and Mr. Disraeli for the honorary members. Mr. CARDWELL said very little. He remarked that it was the province of the Corporation of Trinity House to guide and illumine the paths of commerce, and the privi lege of the two great services to protect them. He dwelt upon the successful trial of that body of men who had just been added to the effective reserve of the navy, and upon the volunteer spirit, as proofs that the same loyalty and the same zeal to devote their energies to the protec tion of the country still as ever animated the people, while complete security was thus given throughout the kingdom, not only against danger itself, but against the fear of danger. Mr. CHILDERS referred to the doctrine that in warfare force must yield to the great improvements of the day. Mr. Childers said he did not think it was possible to' over rate those improvements at the present time, and that there was nothing in which the navy so much excelled as in the application of great principles in matters of scientific improvement. It was now more powerful than it had ever been in the history of the country, and we might well be proud of it. The Prince of WALES proposed "Prosperity to the Cor poration of Trinity House." "It would be almost super fluous (he said) to make any remarks on the corporation or its present or future development. It has existed since the time of Henry VIII., and ever 'since that time to the ?resent the community has taken the deepest interest in its prosperity. It has also been connected through its honorary brethren with some of the most distinguished men, and many of those honorary brethren are present here this evening. Its object is to protect our ships and our sailors, and that object is never forgotten. As the First Lord of the Admiralty has just said, while the navy is called upon to protect our commerce, the Cor poration of Trinity House is called upon to protect our tailors and our ships. The first :electric light put up in this country was that at Dungeness ; and the great Wolf Rock, which was long the terror of our sailors, will before long cease to be so. This will shew you that the Trinity House authorities are anxious to do their duty, and to maintain their great name, which I am sure is honoured here and in other countries." His Royal Highness added to the toast the name of Sir Frederick Arrow, the Deputy Master of the Corporttion, who, returning thanks, proposed the Houses of Lords and Commons. For the former Lord de Ros responded, for the latter Mr. Lowe. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEC,YER, adverting to the duties of the corporation, said :—" I only wish some similar institution could be devised for buoying and lighting the channels of political life. If Sir Frederick Arrow could only see his way to put certain marks upon the rocks and shoals and difficulties that beset:us on every side, Jean assure you he would well deserve the gratitude of the political just as much as he deserves the gratitude of the nautical world at this moment. I will say this for the House of Com mons—that I believe they are actuated by a sincere desire to do their duty ; and if I find any fault with them it is that they are so anxious to expound the grievances under which their constituents labour that they will not, without the greatest difficulty, allow the House to do what is most essential to the public ser% ice, namely, to adjust the estimates for the year. I think the House of Commons is entitled to your sympathy as a suffering body at the present moment. We are like artists being criti cised. We had flattered ourselves that we had done a great work. We traced a broad and clear outline—we laid in what we believed to be neutral tints. We took infinite pains and labour with our performance, and satisfied ourselves with its thoroughly artistic character. Bot now we are subjected to an excruciating ordeal. We see our performances reviewed by no friendly eyes, criticised, altered, and remodelled according to the notions of our critics. The neutral tints disappear and give place to the most violent lights and shades. The clear and definite outline we had drawn becomes blurred and indistinct-- all sorts of, I will not say tricks and experiments, are tried on our performance, and we are compelled to stand by, our arms folded, to watch this excruciating process without being allowed to interpose a word. That is no doubt a painful position for the House of Commons to be in ; but the darkest night is nearest the dawn, and we console ourselves with the reflection that after these alterations haA been made in our performance it will return to ns, and we shall have to give it the final touch ; and we are not without hope that we may be enabled to reform what has been blurred, to restore the outline, and make the picture, if not exactly the same as before, yet so much the same at least as satisfactory in all points of view. That such may be the result of this very remark able production I have no doubt you will join with me in anticipating. On behalf of the House of Commons I beg again to thank you. Mr. GLADSTONE commenced his speech by remarking inat this was not an occasion for political division and strife. He therefore confined himself to the Trinity House itself, and paid the corporation a handsome com pliment. " I beg to say, so far as the opportunity of mixing pretty largely with the world enables me, that so far as I am aware there is no institution whose labours are more thoroughly appreciated by the community at large than those of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, although it is a very common observation, and, I think, a very true observation, that a corporation, an ancient cor. poration, a self-elected corporation, is thought in the course of time to acquire a narrow and exclusive spirit, and an incapacity of adapting itself to altered circum stances, and to meet the demands of opinions ; yet looking back on what has happened in our own times—the reforms freely and frankly admitted into the constitution of the Trinity House—l must say I think they have known how to recognise the wants of the period in which we live, and meet its just demands, and establish themselves in the good opinion of the country." Mr. BRIGHT was next toasted. In his reply—after referring to the difficulties of his position that evening— the President of the Board of Trade went on to dilate on the greatness of our commerce. He remarked that "ate' struggles we have succeeded at length in establishing this principle—that whatever comes into this country from foreign countries shall pay only the duties deemed neces sary for revenue—that no duties shall be paid for the purpose of bestowing on any section of the people any privilege or any exclusive advantage. That I take to be a principle of immense service to the country ; and if we could only imagine that it was adopted by every other mercantile and commercial country in the world it is impossible to conceive how much the face of the world would be changed, and how much blessing and advantage it would bring to all the people of all countries." Mr. Bright drew a vivid picture of all the nations of the world preparing to send their produce to England, and dilated on the dangers of the sea. " Whatever may be said of self-election or antiquated institutions or the slow ness with which old institutions come up to the wants of the time, little of that I believe can truly be said of this cor poration. But whatever may be said, we will all join in this, that there is nothing more beneficent, nothing more Christian, nothing more divine, than the works of mercy which this corporation exists to perform. The system of establishing buoys, beacons, and lighthouses to provide for the safety of mariners could not but meet with sympathy. For myself, I never could compre hend why such great navies should be kept up. I should forego all the luxuries of life rather than be tempted to see them by crossing the sea. Such are the perils of the deep, that I confess I never hear the wind howling, or see the . storm raging, or the clouds drifting, bat I think of my countrymen on stormy seas. Therefore 1 have a strong sympathy with the life-boat system, and no less sympathy with the great and benign objects of this cor poration. I know not what may be the fate of this cor poration. I hope it may so come up with the require ments of the times, and keep up with them, that it will never require tobe eitherdisendowed ordisestablished. The subject to which I have referred leads me to hope that the industry of our country may he sustained ; that its com merce may be wider and wider diffused; that with an economical Government—it is long since we had one— that with an economical Government, and the efforts that, I trust, will, before long, be made, to support a general and universal education among the people. I hope that our people may grow in all that is good, and that our country, great and glorious as she is, will be destined for long gen era ti ons an d cen t ur i es t o hold her place among the nations. I thank you all for the kindness you have paid me. Mr. DISRAELI, replying on behalf of the honorary mem bers, thanked the corporation for the honour done. " At all times it is an honour of which they are sensible, but it must be especially so to-day in the circum stances under which we meet, when, before our banquet, we held a court in which the greatest subject of our Sovereign and the Prince nearest the Throne came to inscribe his name on the ancient records of this old fraternity. Nor can we doubt that however numerous your engagements you, sir, will fulfill your duties in con nection with this corporation with the same cordial patriotism, the same happiness of manner, and the same felicity of feeling with which you have fulfilled all your other public duties, and which have obtained for you the kind feeling of your fellow countrymen. Perhaps, sir, in the execution of some of these duties you may at times experience cares and anxieties not less than those which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has with so much tact and taste recalled to our recollection ; and sure I am you will feel this, whatever may be your public duties, you may encounter them successfully with the temper and for. bearance which generally in public affairs meet their due reward, and you will feel sure in the transactions of public life that there is no wise rule that it is more sedulously our duty to observe than this, that it is unwise to introduce difficult subjects "u on Which 'you may differ when it in unnecessary tyia.oyalia public ADDRESS TO LORD DERBY. An address congratulating the Earl of Derby on his con: duct in the late debate is being largely signed by the work ing men in Lancashire. The address concludes as follows : " In the late parliamentary debates the upholders of our ancient Constitution have suffered a disastrous defeat, and have seen its fundamental principles subverted. We congratulate your lordship that, so far as unanswerable argument and moving eloquence could avail, you strove to avert that calamity ; and while we recognise in that reverse the chastising hand of an all-wise Providence, we desire to offer to your lordship cur poor tribute of honour or the solemn and pathetic protest you have put on record, against the ' moral turpitude and political folly' of that course which the Parliament of England seems bent on pursuing." THE PI?OPOSED ,STATB-SECRETARYSHIP FOR SCOTLAND. The question of a Secretaryship for Scotland has entered upon a new phase. We stated last week that an arrangement was in contemplation to raise the Lord- Advocate to the post of Parliamentary Secretary, leaving the legal business hi the bands of the Solicitor-General. It now appears that this settlement of the question is not at all to the taste of the bulk of the Scottish members, who will be satisfied with nothing less than that the office shall be made one that a layman may hold, while the legal func tionaries are left as hitherto to their legal duties. It is said that Mr. Gladstone is in favour of this new arrange. ment, and that it will soon be carried out. Some of our contemporaries have even gone so far as to designate Mr. Baxter as the first secretary. But this is certainly premature. Mr. Baxter has busied himself much about the question, and he has made a greater mark in the House than any of the other younger Scotch members. It is not improbable, therefore, that if the office were once created Mr. Baxter world have the offer of it, and if so, we may be sure he would accept it. But the office is not yet created. Its duties and its powers are not yet defined. When the office is created, it will be time enough to talk of the man who is to fill it.—London Scotsman. METROPOLITAN "ON BITS." Mr. Lushington is likely to have a well-known literary man as his successor in the office of Deputy Judge Advo. cate General. The gentleman in question is also a barrister, and has written on military subjects. The post is worth £l,lOO a year. It is believed that the Prince of Wales has declined the Pasha's invitation to be present at the opening of the Suez Canal. A very competent authority has declared that it cannot be opened by November, and that it will cost £4,000,000 more to make it navigable. The famous suit "Cadogan v. Piper" is likely to come on again for trial, and in a new for m—a very much more serious form for the plaintiff. Mr. Cladstone's new book, " Juventus Mundi," was published on'Saturcla,y morning. It contains acoloured map of the outer geography of the Odyssey, and the form of the earth according to Homer ; a nice little piece of recreation for an idle statesman. What would our noble pigeon-slayers say to it ? WIMBLEDON PRIZE MEETING. Throughout the whole of Saturday large auditions were made to the number of volunteers who intend to pass a fortnight in camp at Wimbledon, for the purpose of taking part in the meeting of the National Rifle Associa tion, which commences this morning. This year's gathering of citizen soldiers bids fair to be eminently suc cessful if the weather be propitious. In the camp itself several improvements have been made. Over the Putney entrance a handsome tower has been erected, a substantial building has also been put up for the use of the officials of the association, and Messrs. Spiers and ?ond have appropriated to them a restaurant, which is infinitely superior to the old refresh ment-rurn. The tramway has a station at either end, and one midway along the line in the vicinity of the 1,000 yards firing points. Amongst the new occupants of the camp are the 19th Surrey, the 7th Surrey, and the London Irish. The tents of the country volunteers, and the quarters of the officers on duty in the camp, occupy their usual position, close under the palings to the left. It has been ordered by Colonel Colville that " reveill6e " shall sound at 6 a.m. each day, " orders " at 10.45 a.m., " tattoo " at 10.30 p.m., and " last post " at 11 p.m., " lie down " being sounded at 11.10 p.m. Certain officers will be allowed lights for a quarter of an hour after the latter time, but for a quarter of an hour only. Without express permission no entertainments will be permitted in camp after eight o'clock. It having been found, in previous years, that the camp on Sundays was inconveniently crowded by A not too orderly concourse of visitors, it has beenthis year letermined that no one shall be admitted within the enclosure without a member's pass, a residential pass, or a. sixpenny refreshment ticket. Shooting at 600 yards for the Alexandia Priz , 3 will commence at 9.15 on Monday morning, The following are the names of the English twenty who have been selected to compete with the !:rish and Scotch twenties for the International Enfield Trophy, which, shot for in Scotland last year, will be competed for at Wimbledon this year. English Twenty, 1869—Private J. Baker, Ist Gloucester (Bristol) ; Sergeant George Barnes, Queen's (Edinburgh) Rifle Volunteers ; Sergeant Bingham, Ist Gloucester (Bristol) ; W. Brookes, Leicester ; Captain T. C. Burt, Ist Warwick ; Private C ortis, Ist Sussex ; Captain Dear, West Middlesex ; Private George Dighton, 12th Middlesex ; Private J. H. Doe, Victoria Rifles : Private H. Fowkes, 33rd Lancashire (Manchester); Cor poral Hepplestone, Ist Manchester ; Sergeant T. Kirk, lst East York (Hull) ; Sergeant H. Lane, Ist Gloucester (Bristol) ; Sergeant J. Pace, 26th Kent (Woolwich' Corporal George Peake, Ist Manchester ; Corporal A. Rumball, 3rd Herts; Sergeant Snelus, 2nd Glamorgan ; Sergeant West, 47th Lancashire (St. Helens) ; Lieutenant J. Winn, 12th North York Captain W. Wright, 30th Cheshire. Reserve — Ensign Millard, West Middlesex; Corporal Coulson, Ist Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Corporal T. Andrews, 26th Kent; Sergeant Holmes, Ist Manchester ; A. Penney, St. George's Rifle Volunteers; Sergeant J. Adams, Ist Hereford; Colour-Sergeant Westlake, 18th Devon. Her Majesty will probably pay a visit to the Camp at Wimbledon during the rifle contests, and may also be present at the presentation of prizes and review. The order charging for entrance to the grounds on Sunday has been countermanded. The inhabitants of Wimbledon held that the ground was common, and that no one had right to appropriate it. A deputation waited on Lord Elcho, and represented the case, adding that the right would he tried if needs be, and his lordship acceded to their demands. On Saturday next the Queen, 'with the Royal Family at the Castle, and Prince and Princess Christian , will leave for Osborne, and remain there till the middle of August. The Queen will then pay a second visit to Bal moral, and will not return to London before the last week of October or first week in November. USE IS SECOND NATURE.—At a parish church in Essex lately, the clerk feeling unwell, asked his friend. a railway porter, to take his place for a Sunday. He did so, but being worn out with night-work, fell asleep, When the hymn was announced a neighbour gave him 9 nudge, upon which he started up, rubbing his eyes, and called out, " Change here for Elmswell, Thurston, and Bury." The Court of Arbitration in the "Edmunds Scan , dal" case is now constituted ; and the two arbitrators and the umpire agreed upon. The three leatned gentlemen, sitting together, will open their court in the Court of Cora• mon Pleas, Westminster Hall, on Saturday next, the lOtt inst., at eleven o'clock. The inquiry is to be in public, and all points at issue between Mr. Edmunds and the Crown ail to be heard and determined "on legal and moral grounds.", The Rev. A. Mackonochie, vicar of St. Alban's, addressed a meeting of the English Church Union at Man , Chester. The Union, he said, took its rise out of the riots in St. Georges's-in-the-East. Ho believed that the present time was one when it was their duty to protect themselves against the attacks of such as hindered them, and it was only a body such as the Church Union which could effectually protect them. DEATH THROUGH TOOTH EXTRACTION. —AY inquest was held at Whitefield last week on the body of a youth named William Hilton, aged 74. Deceased wen/ to the surgery of Dr. Birnie to have two teeth extracted and immediately after the operation had been performel he fell back in a fit of epilepsy, from the shock to the . system. Every means possible was used to restore biro: but in Hain. Dr. Birnie did not know the name 0f deceased, and it was seven hours before his parents e'en communicated with. Verdict, " Accidental Deall." AN OLD TRICK ON A NEW 'TODDY. —The veloci" pedists of Paris have chosen certain spots for the purpose of exercising, such as the Place de la, Bourse, the Avent l6 de la Grande Arm6e, and the Jardin du Luxera` bourg. Each evening persons of all classes assembl i at these rendezvous, some for the purpose of prac` tising, and others who are engaged in selling. The other evening a young man accosted a vendor, and stated that he required a good machine, as he was s l aspirant for the principal prize atthe velocipede races. ff g mounted the machine, and displayed much ability it managing it, the vendor being loud in his praises, an c drawing the attention of bystanders to its excellent O P ; lilies. Meanwhile the speed of the velocipede increase every minute, and the velocipedist disappeared is the distance. never t 9 return, NV