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TWIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CIIERRy TOOTH PASTE is greatly snperior to any tooth powder; giv..B the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from dceiy, and impar t : i a pl..n7nt frazrarwe to the breath. Price ls. 6 d. — Red Bull Wharf, 83, Upp er Thames-street, London. _NOTHING I M POSSIB CITA .AITAIIFJ,LA rviitores the Titucan Ilait ‘.v., to ;r5, inaticir At V: I.:it AC , '• • iiAVe at 1e.n1.0), ttiqtt 11. - aid tient t 7 lietnists, Friectnn?ed II) Teziect !,••••ti:l it is now offered to.the in a 1r:or:3 ,on..rntratril form, and alt. sI. w r ! rico. • Sold in 1 °tilos, :is. ea 'L ; also Ls., 7s. kid., and 159. each incluliaw Red Buil V. J. vs/a hart, - strc,et T - - St t t;.i; o e, ttft, Upper 'rbtmes. ~n. I'., MACNIVEN & CAMEIZON'S RENOWNId) OWL .PICK WICK, and IVA V ETZIEY f AITfIET. Pr.N, ON A NEW ‘. The ' Owl' pen is sui!at !a for fine writing, and glides over the ap,.r in the tno,t easy and graceful manner. This is par tx4llc-nce: the lady's pen. The 'Pickwick,' from it; - ; flexibility, is well r.clapted for hu,liness purposes. The Wave.tley 'is surd to become a favourite : its flexi hi:ity is so great that it will cintire:v superse;2o the !Ise of quint', and 11 , professional insal:lab! , The Waverlby Barrel Pen' possesses the tame qualities as the toregoing."—COlat J ASCOT RACES.—CALLXGRAN'S RACE GLASSES will he found the best and cheapest.) 23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce comniodi' ies valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commi-sion 10 Tradesmen, Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants, &e. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street, Norwich. CLERICAL. MEDICAL. AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURAN I E SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME. steadily in'-easing. £220,000 ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, X 1,598,000 SPECIAL NOTICE. All Persons who effect Policies on the Particioating Settle before June 30th, 3869, will be entitled at the NEXT BoNts to one year's additional Share of Profits over later Entrants. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of GEORGE CUT( 'LIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St James's-square, London, S.W. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTIT Al, LIABILITY. NON-FOTIE. DIME romotEs by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETI E. ISII EQU I' I'A BLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street -place. Southwark Bridge, E.O NEW POLICIES IFSTED. New Policies In Wreks. iS tt, d I'6B :1 ... St; —.011,250 1868 ... 108 14,481 Excesl , 23 £4.2 1 In 52 weeks ending April ith, 1163 3.101 —£539,442 AW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet f street, London, E.C., May 31, 1869. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in conformity with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement. a GENE RAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life As surance Society will be 11-1,1 at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on THURSDAY, the 24th day of Juno next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, to elect an Auditor in the rocni of Philip Longrnore, Esq., who has res!gned; to elect six Directors and or.e other Auditor ; and for general purposes. The Directors and Auditor, who zo out of office by ro tation, will be proposed fur re-election. By order of the Directors, GRIFFITH DAVIES, Actuary. COMPENSATION IN C A.SE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KIN L.', may be secured by a Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An A nnual Payment of V to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, and en Allnwance at the rate of £6 per week for injury: RAILWAY ACCI , ENTS ALONE may be provided against sty Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 51, CORSIIILL and 10, REGENT TREET, LONDON.' WILLIAM J. WAN Secretary. TO ADMIRERS OF LIGHT CARRIAGES. —HART, 70, New Bond-street, has introduced some of the lightest. handsomest, and roomiest CARRIAGES that ever were seen. S. H. is still pr caressing with others on the light scale, the style of carriage which has sn ling been wanting in this country. as thousands of horses get bent over with their fore legs and knuckled over behind, and sore shoulders, through having a carriage 3 cwt. too heavy. Persons wanting a carrla.2 - e have only to describe the size of the horse. and one wilt be made suitable: the horse will go with ease and the riders with com fort, as he has introduced a sprinz only one inch wide, made of patent steel, not half the weigh' of the ordinary springs. A visit is solicited. Testimonials to be seen. See opinions of the Press —The Sun, Morning Post. Observer, Yell's Ire, Globe, New York rail, and Anglo-American Times. One on view at Crystal Palace. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Tills I , ,vENTNG, BLUE DY.ITI I S : Messrs. Hown, Bnekstone, ; ;us, F. '\'right. After which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &e. ; Mesdames Cavendish, HiP. cte FollowPd A REG ITLA '! FIX: •r. "othern. Conehnlinf.; with HIGFI LIFE BELOW STAIPS': Messrs. Euekstone, Howe, Kendal; Miss F. Wright, Mss F. Gwynn. THEATRE-I:OVAL ADELPH.T. 'IBIS EVENING. pt 7. f OMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr nen Bel mo, e 9.11 , 1 Mrs Leigh Murray. At S. EVE: Mr Bensrou'rk Web to S. LIFE FOR LI E: Miss Neil•on. Mr. .%. St!rlin,7, Mr s:ter. Mr H. Nev lle. Miss Furn.Ao. Mrs Alfred Mellon. .re A tut Pin YoU EVER SEND WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. 0. Beimore. PRINCESS'S TH F.ATI: E. Sole Lessee and Manlzer, Mr. Ttt•s 3::N (3, at g, SHYLO. K: 6hylocy - , Herr Formes P;Julia, ilize Frances Boukerie. IIOYAT. STRAND TTIEATRE. Sole. Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Sn-Inboronah ais 7.30, FOX v. “0()SE. Messrs. ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN; OF A : Mesfrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdn.mes Goodall, I.ydia Maitland, Burton. To conclude with HUE AND DTE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EvnivlNG, at 7. IN AVAL ENGAGEMENTS. At Q.:30, the new bur' esqt; e T COES !CAN tOT I I ERS. A nd 1 tREA CII OF PROMISE. MesArs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tins Evil , iso, THE 3IINTTiES" 4 OF TTIE 'MILL. After which MONEY: Yr. Burly Sullivan, Yrs. Romani] Veziu, 111 r. o.lloney, 3: rs. C. Hursinin, &c. LOYALTY T EAT!: F.. Birder the Management of Miss If Oliver. .firts Er ENING. at 7.' , z0. IN FOR -A LIT) •Y. Followed by A BOVING COM %lISSION. And THE 31ILI rAlly BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PTITSCE OF WALES'S ROTA L THEATRE. Under the Management of N. isa Marie Wilton a'n Is E v}n: NG, SCITOOL: Messrs. IT;re, IT. 'l:Font:wile, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Puekingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This Evr•.Nrra, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARER ISLIIE. The Only Leon (IFIRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hail, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 8 and S all the year round. ROYAL AL !lAMB It A PALACE. THREE BALLET.; Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Be,gin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GAIIDENS, Bogert's-T.(1.1k, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mrndays, Ed. Children under twelve. (L 1 LO/VDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 180. The Historian of the French Empire has been re turned by an enormous majority as the arch foe, lead ing, 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 sot tof a political .!,p/G?:!!,' at the very close of the late General Election throughout France, it is a rather formi.lable 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 nf 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 hal arrayed against lint so formidable a band of antagonists. The coca is of L 6 Government have hitit , rto been glaringly outnumbered. They have I ecu impetuous, implaeahle, ---enecially of late years—in their language towa!ds the Tap vial Govcrutnent. Bat they h tve, ur iil now, been in a minority so perfectly manifest that their posilion has been one of absolute helpleauess. 'The tables are turned, now, however, or are turning. The dis propot Lion between their numbers and the numbers on the side of the Imperialists cannot be regarded as in any way remarkable. And their intellectual more undeniable' than ev e r. strength is, if possible, At the head of the Opposition, tco,itttere is still, facaelrireers, the. ablest man of them all, Borne . 1 1 FIE SUN, _LONDON, 'TUESDAY EVENING, J TIN E 8, L 69. time Prime Minister of France, one of the orga nizers of the July Monarchy, Annalist of the Great Revolntion, of the famous Consulate, of the First Empire, Orator, Historian, Statesman, Finan cier—in one word, TRIERS. The peril confronting the BouneoN 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 TRIERS 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 Presileut, and carried off from the bed in 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, checkmated, M. TRIERS must have the consola,qon of feeling has been thorceighly avenged. He has long since resumed his place in the Legislative Assembly of his country as one of the most illustrious of her representatives. He has long since taken anew, by right, his post in the Tribune in the Corps Legislatif, 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 des Abed 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 en'iancement 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 s'iould like to know what greater freedom of writing, or of spe ch 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 fact the freedom of speech manifested d iring 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 London, within our own very recent 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 inscriptions — 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 a basrEmpire and to the choral chant of the illarsellaise. The military and the mob came into collision in the streets of Paris, it may be said however. Wel, but the military and the mob hay.: come into collision since then, came into collision only the other day, amongst ours dyes, down at Mold, in Flintshire. There are accidents and casualties even in families the best regulated. The position of the Imperial Government is uo doubt very conspicuously altered, now that it bas arrayed against it a larger Parliamentary opposition than any by which it has been yet confronted, led still, moreover, as it has been de; ing the last few years by an Orator as powe.ful, and indeed as forinidahle, as M. TittEirs, the histo rian of the Consulate arid the EnThire. All this is un kui,te lly noteworthy : bet it atignrs the revision, rather than the destruct ion, of NAPOLEON M.'s ti , s tern of Personal, or, in ether words, of Autsaratie Government. IT is with much pleasure that we arc 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 in the most economical manner, and that the bargain is really a very good one. A very slight examination of the nature of this transfer will shew 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 n ot ca r ry 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 more 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 tine 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 snore 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 b be expected that such a reform could be carried out more cheaply. convenances, certain contempt for etiqutte, which made him not a few enemies. The pettiness of their malignity may be judged from the fact that they have been praising Lord Mayo's wine, and contrasting it with his predecessor's, whereas Lord 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 Caesar 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 piaches among the Caribbean Indians, of payangs among the Malays, and of chamans =wig the Mongols. Much of the magic of the necromancers in more civilised 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 ph. ase of the reviewer, now knows how to produce a flaming figure on the walla 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. Moro 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 bilian, in Brittany, a piece of money was put in the hand of a corpse, commemorating the custom of paying Charon's fare, the long 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 arid 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 seances 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 Kempis—" 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 examfnes very carefully into the evidence for and against the rival claimants to the production of this marvellous work ' • but the writer, though h e goes th roug h th e 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 all 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 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 ; C orne ill e para ph rase d 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 consolation ill its pages. Johnson loved 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 3 o - ang, and why not they? Indifferent to life, health, and happiness, they conhi, nev er th e less, 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 attenn)t to - overcome the archenemy of triodes unionism, and this time he employs stratagem in place of open resistance. His old master, who unwillingly gave biln t.p, is only too glad to secure his services without actually compromising himself, and lends his aid with alacrity to the new plan. " Maisons de Santo" 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 suhjects. 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 men, 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 :of Police. These dreary dwel lings first played a part in .the government during the time of Napoleon 1., and the system was found too con venient to be given up. The Bastille and lcetres 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 ?liaison de sant% 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 are 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 sauté, 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" is well worthy of attention. The 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 he 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 au 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 Aracmillcuis on "International Copyright between Great Britain and America" makes a good point, which ought to tell with American men of letters. He skews that if American 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 mil -1 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 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 bad. Doubtless more might be done in the way of" work and less in the way of play ; but on the whole the Oxonian isimproving. For instance, he smokes less, and he is more tolerant. No man who does'not him self smoky 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 OD 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 llaffaelite 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 he 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 opinions, or of possessing any criterion of beauty, so that we may distinguish between the godlike and the devilish, is left aside as of little moment. If science were made the- foundation of education, instead of being, at most, stuck in as a cornice to the edifice, this state of things could not exist." Mrs. Crails'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 great poets, and weighing them in the balance finds both wanting. Not that he does not consider Tennyson a poet —a refined, cultured, neat poet—but lie denies , that he is a great poet.: T e nnyson 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 mountains; of cities not of wilds. To Byron the hum of human citi es was a torture ; Tennyson finds the garden that he loves not altogether in the busy world, nor yet beyond it. Tennyson, indeed, is readable without requiring any large amount of study, and he is therefore popular. Which is more than can be said of Browning. Talking by half words in philosophic slang, Browning Ileaves his reader to guess at what he means. And, according . tollio writer in Topple ear, lie does Pot moo , 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 " Cometh 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 thinks, 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 other social 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 cpposed 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 Las 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 provinces 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. T. 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" is 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 he done by one earnest worker, like Mrs. T , than by scores of would-be philanthrO , pists, who never enter into the real troubles and difficulties of the working classes. "Wet Sundays " are an acknowledged social grievance, but a writer in this magazine shews 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 paper by Dr. Vaughan, on "The Inter preter's House." )t 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 guiAa,nce and interpreta tion also, they Will hear his voice saying evermore, " What I do, thou knowesf, 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 be 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 tine progress of education has, in his opinion, produced a most beneficial influence on the Hindoos. The Bishop of Oxford con; tinues his portraits of the "Heroes of Hebrew Hist or y , and chooses the eventful life of the patriarch Jacob, which affords full scope for eloquent narrative and vigor ous teaching. Tine Dean of Canterbury discusses on " Right Views of Life" in a fearless 'and outspoken manlier, net 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 13 P 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 Essay o s," gives us, as usual , quaintly worded reflections on ur every-day life, s tewing keen powers of observation and sound common sen se. Some times these essays deal with very large subjects, as when they discuss the discrepancy often perceptible between tine civilisation of a nations and the grandeur of its r eli g ions 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 king s and queenis of modern times, that people will not regar d them asoeornder nary men and women. They are not onl y no l e t _e v hara o supposed to govern by Divine Eight , but neither ar b allowed the right to conduct their joys and sorroeps7tsiosnatnin.de same manner as other people. Very cct very suggestive is the paragraph on theta ssrble future little spare open to mankind, "if men could only time to look about them and to think , and if more persons could have greater freedom for o bservation a o n s d for effect thought." The statesman, says the writer, can. 1 .ths of much for his generation, not by what Inc does himself, but by the obstacles which be removes from t i ne , pa l others. " What would he not do for mankinc asks o t n l r e social philosopher, "if be could let loose some of tine thought which is now employed in preparation for war, in the interpretation of confused heaps of undigested law, in meeting the vexatious incidence of taxation, and generally in contending with needless difficulties created by men in the acquisition of the means of living ? This ought to be his main idea, how he can render life more facile to all the people helms to govern, ate ' so give 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 peculiarities are described at length by Dr. Tristram, wino includes their 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 familiar than 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 tine greater portion o f the Journal's space. But the biographical notices are continued, and this month's is given to Mr. Cope, ILA., w h o made his first appearance thirty-six years ago, and is now 58 years of age. The picture gallery review e d by Mr. Dafforne is the tfiGzj. The selected pictures are Ans ell's most charming "In the Pasture," Mis s Solomon's "Claim t Shelter," and Couvier Bellense's marble group " Entre den x 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 so much sought after. It is worthy of notice that with us the very poorest never sell their hair, and the bulk of the false hair 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 appearingin borrowed plumes. After reading the entertaining article )n 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 £8,177,81.2 annually. When the cultivation of smoking as a fine art is taken into account, the cost of smoking must be set down 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 be 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" contains some suggestive thoughts on various topics of social interest. The a' rchinan's Shilling _Magazine continues its two serial tales—Mr. Mayer's " Trials of Margaret' Brand retb," and Mr. Stanley Arnold'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, rea , ls like a sermon, but is a good one. Miss Leslie's "Daybreak in Italy" is half history, half fiction, and is a rather vivid representation 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 to what the great Italian statesman's opinions were on the chief topic of 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 Ar,,Glo-Indian, after having fought in the Burmese war, sailed from Devonport in 1838 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'ecattered t 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 he was made a 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 grapeswill then besour 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. THE GENERAL ELECTION IN FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. Electioneering has apparently lost none of its interest for the Parisians. The polling lust about to terminate ha's 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 complain of indifference to their interests; every elector seemed anxious to exercise his right, and some persons who have watchel t':e polling all day express the op'nion 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 variou3 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'rctfars rd 'res3:l to the electors by the Liberal candid Lte have been un 'n'y detained at the Post Otfice. Up to the time that I write, the utmost traulnillity compatible with a la Ic crowd prevails throughout Paris. [BY SPECIAL AND ORDINARY TELEGRAMS.] PARTS, TUESDAY MORNING. - So far as the results of the elections are known, they are 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 Pag'cs, has overcome the Red Raspail by nearly 5,000 votes, probably owing to the fact that the latter candidate has already been elected for Lyons ; and Thiers 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 seats at Marseilles, Gambetta defeating M. de Lesseps, 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. Gudpin, the Liberal, 11,679 ; and two other Liberals more than 7,000 votes between them. As these two last retired in favour of M. Gu6pin, it was expected that he would be returned, but M. Gaudin has won by 2,330 votes. In the Loire, at the first ballot, the official candidate received 12,609 votes, and the three candidates of the Opposition more than 14,500. It was calculated that the single 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 ca ididate has, nevertheless, been returned. In the Puy-de-Doma, 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 at; 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, lierault ; 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-dozen 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 clearly reactionary to a certain extent. The number of electors polling all through the country has been ve'y large, in most cases considerably greater than at the first balloting. Score of the contests were very sharp. A great concourse of people assembled on the boulevards after the announcement of Cie 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 be held at his own resdance on Wednesday. A Fermanagh paper states that the Right lion. Henry Corry is about to retire from the representation of the county of Tyrone. it adds that his son will be nominated in his room. The latest rumour in connection wit 'l the repre sentation of Nottingham is to the effect that Mr. Dig , y Seymour, Q C., Recorder of Newcas . le-on-Tynr, ias teen asked by " the Indepondentb" (the party Tehom tie late Sir Robert Clifton represented) to contest the borougt,. --- - A respectable maltster, named Samuel Russell, of Norton, near Ponte fract, has been taken into cust ody on a an acceptance of a bill of exchan ge f cr t h e and another for £350, with i n t en t t o d e . c p h a y ar m g e e n o t f o f f o rLionog, fraud Messrs. Thomas Seaton and Co., brewers, Doncaster. Ile was topgo ,V9l9re amagistrates ate Weatbridge qu GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGR4IO Endeavours have been made on the part of proPriell . . of provincial journals to obtain interviews with 11'' Postmaster-General and the Chancellor of the Exchequ er° to urge upon them the inconvenience of any further dell in the State purchase of the telegraphs. The Marq ue Hartington has consented to receive a deputation thlo week. Mr. Lowe has returned a reply that he think s s ucli . a deputation would be premature. When he is i ll , - position to declare the intentions of the Government' will be happy to return a reply. He is not yet in OP position. THE HUSH CHURCH.-DIPUTATIOft THE EARL OF DERBY. On Monday a deputation representing 104 of the C° 11• servative associations in the principal towns of Englir in connection with the National Union of Conserral Constitutional Associations waited upon the Earl Derby to urge the rejection by the Souse ° Lords of Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill. The del °. tion was attended by Sir Thomas Gladstone, of the tish Conservative Association, Lord Colchester, Skelmersdale, and Mr. Raikes, MP. Lord SKELMERSDALE having introduced the deputatioef an address was read by the secretary. Li s INIT. EAMES, M.P., and Mr. B EN NET T assured lordship of the unanimous feeling which prevaile! amongst the various Conservative associations in 01,05 t. tion to Mr. Gladstone's bill. The Earl of DERBY, in replying, adverted to the rae e ; ing of peers held last Saturday at the Duke of ger. borough's, reports of which, more or less correct, ba d peared in the daily papers. He desired to be understee; as speaking entirely in the capacity of an indivi cl : , u member of the Upper House, and without of to influence the minds or fetter the actions others he might remind them that during a parliaraell.tarja career of forty-five years he had consistently opposeatild, disestablishment of the Protestant Church in k While he was prepared to admit this ere; were many attached friends of the Irish C 111 1 ,14 who would prefer the amendment rather than asit "" rejection of the bill. He himself was persuade d 7 4 the latter was the proper course to be :Olt He thought when the measure came 0 0 na l the second reading, it would be thrown - by an adequate majority. With so reT i ; tionary a bill as Mr. Gladstone's he was of o pinion ji the boldest was the safest course. It was with satisfaction that he found that the Peers would be 141 4 ported by the members of the associations repreS e _ dr ll before him, and he trusted that in carrying out thei r ;le lutions, and in any further attempt that might be °Io to coerce the consciences of the Peers, that suppor t vr , ° -,s be continued and increased. Amongst the deput''-, represented were those from Shipley, Great To rrir, 4, Exeter, Tynemouth, Huddersfield, Penryn, St. 11 e ,, 1e12 ,4 t York, Torquay, Holbeck, Cleckheaton, DeO uli- and _Liverpool. 111 E MAGAZINES. Blackwood 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 be left India he hail convinced the Afghans of our sincerity, and we have receiv on e i c s l eis t e h s e rit:eue-ardirot a t ir ie tine e n n e t e a , ng i l l e o l t nen i t r a i ( I ) ; r l' l", ": f 4 gliari politics, but in having secured an inanegtial ally in the event of Russian encroach ment. The late Viceroy's land policy in Otulli is elabo rately explained and . defended. His irrigation works were pushed on with the utmost vigour in the full consciousness that they alonY 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-goverm , r, even that calamity might have been avoided. He has promoted the construction of railways and roads, and of airy barracks fur 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 awkwardheases of manner, certath, - forgetkenesseo of the THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. A large meeting of citizens of London, and othei" l 4 o. held in the great ball of the Cannon-street Hotel, i n %; i l. sition to the Irish Church Bill, on Monday Al John Chubb, Esq., presided, and was supported " it following gentlemen :—Viscount Crichton, ALFI3It , William Rose, Sir W. Carden, Mr. Morgan How a lt"o Charley, M.P., Mr. C. B. King, Mr. R. C. L. 33e. Mr. J. 0. Allcroft, Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, &c. meeting Wit l/ The Rev. Mr. DARLING opened the meet ing prayer. The CHAIRMAN, who was loudly applauded 0111 : e it said this was in a very small sense a party meetin g was a meeting of Protestants of England to Li — sti against the further progress of the Irish Church /10. being dishonourable to Almighty God, Ana of trary to the best interests of the Pe° l l Ireland, and as injurious to the Throne °lose Commonwealth of this realm. Unless the li o gg of Lords was a mere chamber for endorsing the pr ocee ore of the House of Commons, there never was II) tbo which demanded their serious attention so much 9A ,, 0 p1e He undertook to say that the great majority of the Ps' the of England were against it. The whole ° f t it, Protestant population, with rare exceptions, was a g ail lo t The sting of the measure was that it gave a perl33ll al 3 endowment to Popery. He, as a Nonconformisteic°tl36 ask his Nonconformist brethren how, the Irish Church were disestablished and di sen doWou o ' at work of God could be carried on in Ire :y. o None of the dissenting bodies could carry on the r f t UiS Ireland without money aid from this count* " c i oe bill were allowed to pass, it would lead to an Lotd e the Church of England. Stand by the House 0 ‘ in the coming struggle, and may God defend the rig'tet- Mr. A. GIBBONS moved the first resolution, 1? s tets ing against the bill as a severance of th e ni ',c from religion, as prejudicial to the solletTolio endowingof the Sovereign, and as the Roman I ` . ,po' College of Maynooth. He said this bill was bTOUgbt %0051 party question and was intended to aggrandise a few ri.fficc• especially one, who could not bear to be out of ;c i d The Church of Ireland was a part of the r.staii; Church of the United Kingdom, and the passag e , ° ,,, o ult f bill would only increase strife. Ile hoped the Lerus throw out the bill by a large majority. Arr. HENRY MASTERMAN seconded the resolution.ooe The resolution was then put to the m eeting: es a nd were a few dissentients, who were greeted with 11'55rit. groans, and the motion was carried by a large 1:03J°4 the Another resolution urged the Lords to WO bill, and was carried with Kentish fire. Her Majesty the Princess Louise, Princ Q e ti L e e e o n Po l t d h , - p g seg suite will leave Balmoral for Windsor, according to I' l __, ( 1,0 arrangements, on either Tuesday, the 15th, or Tilui' e l i frin ß c o a y s al n i l ea i t g ri b c ; s ; o l3 o l the 17th inst. bor e sre The Ilf anchester Courier announces that t" - e or 3 reports ud of the creation of now peers. Lord Plartiogtfill y e, Lord Amberley, and other eldest eons Of V eer : pi ‘ b ° go ha to the 'Upper House; also Irish and Scotch P eer- 'O 4 ve not seats in the Lords. The rumour pr° 131)1) ;r 1° out of the anticipated rejection of the Irish Church D.-I'*oo, the Premie r not altogether impossible creation of now Pe er° 11 to ensure its acceptance on another occasi°B' 1 0 0 InSunday a street row which occurred in Lis'cleolea morning, one of the borough police-off ice Irvine, a Roman, was stabbed in five places, principally in 0,1"-opre' named Ann Quinn, who was subsequeotlinso'ffelt bonded, ap' together with two men named Looney an d '';' ar who suing w t e h r e eeng engaged in the raw. Another officer 'w l ' i. „ - P ool d disturbers was tripped up d oP ° "' 'a and trod d 0 .51 . 1 0 83 had ono of his fingers crushed. The po li ce man a dangerous state. , gold. Another death has rcs -It' tau - of from ILO : 10 d ye The most recent • • 4 eci victim is a womannamed 300e 8, - bet' one of the ringleaders in the disturbance, _ a _ she . in Which ' ~,r ill: self took an a • ctive part by thegathering nee ."" • of sto a JO combatants. She was shot b • 611 II y the sOldierS, A v on Friday • night from the .inju I`Tex: t ', 6 'itis ti ' coroner flab held an inquest, and rya. verdict 0 , ' t o o le homicide was returned, as in the other caSo ; hat theinquiry. was made as t) the origin of the fight, or If ie esr" Riot Act had been read heforo the soldiers ic e ' 0 . to ployed in aiding the civilpower. Thesoldiers te e j 0 .bo le , 4 hive suffered severe them. and twenty-throe of them are now and 5 treatment at Che:ter. folloWi"g .-- An American paper contains the rio ter/ a practical I ) ; ~ A advertisement:—" Wants a situation, w . is competent to take charge of any dePa rtrncli fes si °;‘ shipprinting and publishing house. Would accept a 1 1° , c ow in any of the academies. Has no objection to te 3cP ple trY o a m n e d ntal painting and penmanship, geometrY, lrig(fil°,t as 8 many other sciences. Is particularly suited to ° o ber , pastor to a small evangelical church, or as a local P r t e se lee He would have no objection to form a sw an lih• beet class of interesting young ladies to instruct in the -f a Le branches. To a dentist or a chiropodist 118 1 1 li e. -invaluable, as he can do almost an 'tliin • ;"*- c 1: 011. ; fully accept a position as a bass or 3 g.. r -11 a c 11° tenor slog ° , Would board with a family, if decidedly piolls. further particulars inquire at Brown's Saloon." or. SIR ROBERT CLIFTON.—The following !, t i l' '' ,°t. dinary anecdote was (says the local Express) Oa ',, late tingham on Saturday by an intimate friend of t h e oti ci bhaeronet. In the year 1854 Sir Robert wash rg is ' s a, .. a . „, o fe6 __ there became accidently acquainted wi: r OO o f tni divinator of the future, rsorhtfotrtune-tellen ror—ovvint:i one , gO t O f t , p say si e t r io h n ad and of competent means. 'This Parisiao B,°o:t great reputation in his art, and it arreBr;fter he exercis a __ n _ rr,. ed his skill upon Sir Robert spontaneouslY ld t d_i ie l l o with the latter one day. On that occasion here of l ate owner of Clifton that, though he was tins under thehisfact, he (the baronet) had great mineral Wealth °woo est ate ; but the prognosticator went on t° 00 0 Sir Robert that whenever he got to coal be 11 ,11er also get to the end of his own career. The fortuoe'v-, J further said that Sir Robert was frequently einbarril cps by pecuniary difficulties, but he assured him ths b , 1 re cl would accept a red bag, which the fortune-teller otlerio him, carry it always with him, and look at it wheneceog, was in financial trouble, he would find means of e xtric ',,,,;, himself from his perplexity. The person who relate trea remarkable reminiscence added that Sir Robert Or: be this red bag with him up to his last illness, and undertili' , I had frequently declared that whenever he was ato pressure and gazed upon his talisman he felt nerved renewed gnergy, and experienced an instinctiva...' that he should stirraotintkitil '