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

IIISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A FOREIGNER ON THE BUDGET. :M ..Leon Say, the well-known economist of the .Journal des Debats, has been criticising Mr. Lowe's „Midget with some severity. It contains, in his (opinion, only one remarkable feature—a kind of forced and disguised loan to cover the expenses of the .Abyssi pian war. M. Say accuses Mr. Lowe of the desire to ake a sensation by producing a Budget written like 0, novel. He shews an expenditure and income equally balanced, and calls himself poor, and then suddenly discovers £3,000,000 sterling, which he gives up at once to taxpayers. His French critic does not even allow him the merit of this fortunate discovery, for he traces it to M. Fould's Budget of 1862, in which the Treasury changed the dates when Rente holders were to receive the interest of their Rentes. The result of this change was that in the first year there were only three-quarters to be paid, instead of two half-years, which made 2f. 25c., instead of 3f. ; so that a quarter of the inte rest of the debt is carried over to the next year. Mr. Lowe has, so to speak, copied M. Fould. The present year will be richer by a quarter of the income tax than the preceding one, and will make the Treasury £3,000,000 sterling richer again, which -will be used to pay the ex p enses o f the Abyssinian war... This arrangement, accor di ng to M. Say, is artificial and theatrical. The Budget is a pantomimic drama, full of tricks and changes. Mr. Gladstone's .Budget shewed a g ran d er s i mp li c i ty. His successor in the Chancellorship does not replace him. TRADES UNIONS AND MR. HUGHES'S BILL. The Trades Unions Bill, introduced by Messrs. Hughes and Mundella, and supported by the Govern ment, has just been considered by the delegates of the several unions throughout the country. Mr. Hughes himself explained the measure to them. There was an undercurrent of grumbling that the bill did not give all that might be demanded ; but it being felt that moderation in this case was strength, a resolution was passed approving of it. Brought in by private members, supported by the Government, and opposed by such men as Lord Elcho, the bill has a fair chance of passing the Householders' Parlia )nent. CENTRALISATION OR LOCAL INDEPENDENCE. Mr. Goschen, as President of the Poor Law Board nas had to decide a question which his predecessorS found very difficult. Ile has seen guardians wasting public money, and knowing what a howl of indignant remonstrance is raised if there is the least " tyrannical interference of the Poor-law Board," has had to choose whether to let them continue, or to use his power. He told a deputation of guardians who recently waited upon him which he intended to do. They protested against the union of certain parishes. In reply, Mr. Goschen complained that he met with opposition when he tried to introduce economic changes. The guardians were spending too much money, and when told of it said they wanted to be left alone. But it was his duty to look at the danger of leaving them alone, for pauperism was increasing at the rate of 7.45 per cent. in three years. He would not undertake the responsibility of leaving them alone. He 16und that guardians did not mind spending a few thousands more on this or 'that object if they could keep it to themselves ; but in his view economy, combined with efficiency, should ,be•the foremost aim. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS. The furore which raged during the winter on The subject of our criminal classes has now subsided somewhat, but not before it has resulted in a bill to punish habitual criminals. A general sense that something must be done to put down the great evil now prevails. Those who advocate reformatory treatment have just held a two days' conference in London. The Right Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., the Earl of Lichfield, Mr. Baker, and others took part in it. It was urged that the Government ohould care more immediately for the reformatories And refuges. It is better to prevent than to cure. If the seeds of thievery can be removed ere they have :borne fruit, society will benefit. The best plan of working the schools was considered, but on this 4ifficult subject there was no general agreement. THE YOUGIIAL ELECTION. Judge O'Brien in delivering judgment on the Toughal election petition, unseated Mr. Weguelin, but said that he would report to the Speaker that corrupt practices did not extensively prevail at the election. ;One would like to know what the judges mean by :the adjective "extensively." Mr. Weguelin polled 127 votes, and these votes cost him, according to one account, £B,OOO, according to another, £12,000. , Taking the lower estimate, they cost sixty guineas a-piece, and as it does not appear that any large sums were paid to particular electors, we are com pelled to come to a different conclusion from Judge O'Brien's. The .fudges hitherto have certainly done ,little to make bribery a heinous offence. THE SUPREMACY OF THE CROWN. What is the ecclesiastical supremacy of tho Crown One makes it a mystical doctrine, involving :the representation of the Deity by the head of the Church ; another explains it as merely a title, carry ing with it the right of presenting bishops ; whilst another gives it as a merely civil supremacy, making the sovereign the first in rank, whether amongst laymen or clergymen. By some—by a great many Dissenters—the Queen is supposed to occupy the posi tion of a Pope; by others her ecclesiastical position is looked upon as a mere accident consequent on her civil supremacy. Mr. Hubbard would have it that ,she is not supreme head of the Church at all ; that she is merely a governor of the kingdom. " Angli canus," in a letter to the Times, takes another view. I" The Bishop of Capetown, Dr. I'usey, and others • - who are rejoicing in the supposed freedom which the Irish Chur c h, an d , if so b e, t h e English Church is hereafter to enjoy by separation from the control of 'the State, will find that, unless expressly excepted by an act of the Legislature, they will merely pass from the mixed tribunal of the Queen in Council to 'the purely lay tribunal of the Queen in Chancery." Anglicans " declares that until an Act be passed ;expressly forbidding the Imperial Legislature, or the great organs of the Stat e , t o i n t ervene i n ecclesias tical matters, and precluding all appeals from eccle ,eiastical bodies to the civil courts of the realm, the work of Henry VIII., of Edward VI., and of Elizabeth will not be entirely undone, nor the teach ring of Cranmer and Hooker entirely repudiated. TEE SPEAKER'S COMMENTARY. Is this long-delayed work really about to appear at last ? There are symptoms of it. We notice that the Speaker has just entertained at dinner a number of archbishops, bishops, and clergy, and among the latter we observe the name of "the Rev. Canon •Cook, editor." This looks as if the Commentary , were at least not abandoned. We doubt, however, if dinner parties are calculated to "hasten " the corn pletion of this prolonged project, however "slowly." AN OLD SOLDIER. ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES. Octogenarians art youngmennow-a-days. Veterans Well on towards 00 years of rsof age thi n k th emse l ves as m fully q ua lifi e d as only half their ye ars t o preside o ver a Cabinet, or a diocese, or a n army . Here is Sir John Burgoyne,for. .Ity years ago, wh o i s instance, who help e d to capture Malt a more than sixty now 87 years o ld, an d who has just publi s h e d a vigorous pamphl e t on " Our iN 7 ational Defences." The Field-Marshal does not believe th a t the millennium has come so far. He thinks it not at all improbable th a t we shall have to hoist the flag which has " braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze." He is evidently by no meanscertain if that " meteor flag " w ill " terrific burn." The whole art of war has altered since he bombarded Valetta and retreated under Sir John Moore. However firmly we may adhere to non-intervention, "there is no security from being bullied, plundered, and trampled upon, unless a country has means of guarding itself by force of ar ms ." lie does not believe that a navy, however powerful, would render ussafe against. invasion. He holds it t o b e " th e most dangerous' delusion into which a community can fall " that if an invader did land on our island he would be met' by such large numbers of armed, patriotic, . and determined men, as to b e una bl e t o advance against them. He considers that our condition is " very disheartening," and he goes on to consider how we can improve it. In the first place, we shall never have a sufficiency of regular troops to defend the country, and we must therefore make the militia our mainstay. But he is thoroughly dissa tisfied with the organisation and constitution of this force. He objects to the time allowed for training as insufficient to give the men " the knowledge, steadi ness, and habits of soldiers." The officers, as a body, from the army not being their profes4on, can hadly be expected to be thoroughly efficient, or capable of imparting that confidence to the men so essential to success; and the non-commissioned officers would probably be found in a great measure inefficient He pronounces emphatically for short terms of ser- - vice, in order chiefly to leave the militia VS ith trained . men pissed into it out of the regular regiments. He favours the idea of posting all the shoil service men fo the militia, and of using the militia rather as an " army reserve'' than as a "reserve army." That is, he would fill up the caches cf the regular corps to war strength from the militia. He attaches considerable importance to the volunteer force, and thinks that it would be most useful fur " detached duties," and would form " admirable garrisons for our fortifications." Even when the troops to he recall e d from the colonies this year have assembled in the kingdom, end have raised *the home regular force to 00,000 men, Sir John Burgoyne calculates that under no ' conditions could more than 40,000 regular infantry take the fled. The mode he would adopt of increasing this to a respectable figure is to strengthen each weak battalion of 500 men by 500 men drawn from the militia, by which means we should have 80,000 regular infantry. To there he would add militia regiments to the extent of one-half, and L iana produce a T.ramceilYring for of 1 9 0,000. W fantry, besides cavalry and artillery." Nothing can be done with the cavalry at present, but Sir John is anxious, above all things, that we should reorganise the commissariat and transport departments. lie holds that we ought to have these in such a con dition that we might go to war to-morrow ; and there is no doubt that Prussia owed her success in 1866 greatly to the fact that she was thus prepared. ROYAL HOSPITALITY. The Duke of Cambridge appears to be fully im pressed with the fact that royal hospitality in this country is not what it ought to be. Speaking at a public dinner, he referred to the magnificent recep tion which had been given in Egypt to his cousins, the Prince and the Princess of Wales, and he added that this reception " proved a lesson to this enlightened empire when viewed in relation to the reception of distinguished persons visiting England." There is not a doubt of it ; the only doubt is whether royal personages will learn the lesson. The Commander-in-Chi e f h as se t an examp l e which we hope his relatives will follow. MR. DISRAELI. It is satisfactory to find that the " severe attack of the gout " which prevented Mr. Disraeli from being present in the house of Commons on Monday, when his friends received four severe defeats, did not pre vent him from giving a lirge dinner party to dis tinguished guests two evenings later. The world will hardly know whether to congratulate the ex- Premier more upon his very speedy recovery or upon the well-timed occurrence of his illness. MR. CIIII.DP.IIS. Some two or three months ago, in the first fervour of economy, it was announced that Mr. Childers had given up his official residence at the Admiralty for the public service, and the public duly applauded the patriotism which dictated this sacrifice. The papers now announce that " last evening (Wednesday) Mrs. Childers held an assembly at the official residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whitehall." It would seem, therefore, as if the patriotic instincts of the First Lord had yielded to the remonstrances of the First Lady of the Admiralty. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. The division list on Mr. T. Chambers's motion to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister presents a curious medley of names. The majority was composed mainly of Liberals, although many Conservatives voted in favour of the motion. Among these were Viscount Barrington, Mr. Ben finch - , Hon. R. Bourke, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Dick, Viscount Galway, Mr. Hick, Mr. Staveley Hill, Mr. Johnston (of Ballykilbeg), Mr. Kavanagh, Lord George Manners, and Mr. Sidebottom. Some of the Liberals who opposed the second reading were Mr. Aytoun, Mr. Blake, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Lord George Cavendish, Right Hon. \V. H. Cogan, Sir John Cole ridge, Mr. E. I 'enis9n, Mr. Dundas Sir John Esmonde, Mr. Crum-Ewing, Mr. Annie, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, Mr. Greville-Nugent, Mr. Grieve, Marquis of Lorne, Mr. M`Combie, Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. Mlagan, Mr. M'Laren, Sir A. G. Maitland,Mr. Matheson, Mr. Miller, Mr. Monsell, The O'Donoghne, Mr. Arthur Peel, Colonel Sykes, and Mr. Tomline. The Prime Minister did not vote, and Mr. Disraeli w as once more absent through illness. The tellers for the Ayes were Mr. T. Chambers and Viscount Bury, and for the Noes Mr. Sclater-Booth and Mr. O'Reilly. FOREIGN NOTES. THE ROYAL TOUR IN THE EAST. • The Prince and the Princess of Wales left a sum of £1,600 for the poor of Constantinople previous to their departure for the Crimea. Their Royal Highnesses, says a communication via Marseilles, declined to accept any present of great intrinsic value, though a diamond neck lace, worth 220,000, had been intended for the Princess. A NORTH GERMAN MINISTRY. The North German Parliament has defeatel Count Bismarck. In spite of all the efforts of the Chancellor and his supporters, the motion to attach a responsible Cabinet to the North German Chancellorship, and thus convert his Executive into a regular constitutional Govern ment, was carried by a majority of 111 to 100. We have already given Count Bismarck's argument against this change. Indeed, both parties used the same pleas, the Chancellor urging that the establishment of a North Ger man Ministry would frighten the Southern States, by giving too much power to a Cabinet in which Prussia will be so powerfully represented. A Ministry reponsible to the North German Parliament would infallibly infringe upon the liberties of the individual States, and thus deter the South from joining the North. But the supporters of the motion held that to substitute a Ministry for a series of irresponsible committees or departments was a Liberal movement, and by subjecting the Executive to the control of the North German Parlia ment would win, instead of repelling, the Southern States. The Times correspondent thinks the Federal Council will reject the motion, and that the Parliament in revenge will refuse a new loan and taxes demanded of it. Whatever may be the result, this proposition brought forward by Prus sian Liberals in opposition to the Government shews how thoroughly the mass of the nation has tet, its heart on German unity. THE NEW ITALIAN 3IINISTER AT LONDON. Signor Cadorna, who has just been appointed Italian Minister at the Court of St. James's, was twice President of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies, and twice Minis ter in the lesser kingdom. Ire was lately Minister of the Interior under General Menabrea, but he resigned, not agreeing with the domestic policy of his colleagues. He is of advanced age, broken health, and has never been a diplomatist before. He is of very liberal political opinions, but he has so far shorn no particular qualification for the post of Ambassador at London. His appointment has surprised everybody. But, in fact, it was very difficult to find a suitable ambassador. The Government has taken a year to make up its mind. The appointment was offered to the Marquis Pepoli, but he is Ambassador at Vienna, and so comfortable is his place, so excellent are the relations between Italy and Austria, that he declines to change. THE ITALIAN BUDGET. Count Cambray-Digny's financial statement fixes the total deficit at the end of the year 1868 at about twelve and a half millions sterling. The defcit of 1869 is three millions, to which must be added nine millions, swallowed up in advances to railway companies and in divers other ways, making a total of rather more than twenty-four and a half millions. This terrible balance on the wrong side will be met by loans and other expedients ; and an equili brium will, it is hoped, be gradually established by economy, and, principally, by the sale of the Church property. Mit as the Minister himself fixes 1875 as the earliest date at which the receipts and expenditure will be balanced,and as lie is naturally anxious to put things as favourably as possible, the financial state of the country may be con sidered practically hopeless. This Budget speech con tained another noticeable statement. The Italian Govern ment's confidence in the maintenance of peace is so strong, that certain expenses involved in the reorganisa tion of the army will be spread over a long series of years, and thus something will be gained in this way. SPAIN WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT. Throe elections which remained to be held at Saragossa, Tarragona, and Barcelona, have terminated in favour of the Republicans by large majorities. This was to be ex pected, for the Republican strength lies in the large towns. Nevertheless . the Indlpendance Beige says the lack of a monarchical candidate strengthens the chance of a republic each day. The position of the party is all the stronger since it has found a great leader in Castelar, decidedly the first orator in Spain. His recent speech on religious liberty has made an impression, says the correspondent of the Daily News, which will never be forgotten. It is not a little significant that this " glory of Spain," as be is called even by Minis terialists, was consulted by the Minister of Public Works before draiving up the text of the new law on public in struction. During the last few nights the municipal guard of Granada has obliged all passers•b to answer the question of "Who goes?" by "Long live the Re public !" CONTINENTAL STRIKES. Chronic discontent appears to have seized upon the working men of Europe. Two thousand of the Berlin car. penters have left work, whilst the strike in Belgium has assumed an alarming aspect. The workmen are quiet, but lhey refuse to go to work except with a considerable increase of wages. Large bodies of troops are qra.:tered inlhe malcontent districts, but it is hardly possible that ani force can prevent bread riots if the strike continues much longer. Already troops of men are patrolling the country demandinr: bread at the various farm-houses. THE WAR OF 18C6. The Nov Free Press publishes the text of a very imper _taut despatch sent by Count Bismarck to Count Von Goltz, Prussian Minister at Paris on the 20th of July . 1866, just before the armistice was concluded with Austria. In this document, which •has hitherto been kept secret, the Prussian Minister states that King William ,had agreed to the armistice only out of regard fitr the Emperor Napoleon, and upon the Assurance of " important acquisitions to Prussia in North Germany." "The King . ' said Count Bismarck, "attaches less imrortance than I do to the establishment of a political confederation of the North. He is all for annexation, and I agree with him that the reform we Lave in view cannot be effected without some additions to I'russian territory." Hanover and Saxony were too large to be left independent consistently with. the-establishment of Prussian supremacy. The despatch adds that the King of Prussia wouldtAtter'andiCate than forego an important acquisition of territory. The mediation of the French Emperor would apply only to Austria. Prussia would make her own tutus with the North German States, And _ . . so lobs has. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1869. TILE " NATION" AND ITS CORRESPON DENTS ON 7HE ALABAMA CLAIMS. (From the Anglo-American Tinzes) There was a remark in the Saturday Review last week which strikingly illustrates its untruthfulness when writing on anything in the United States. The English public do not know the American press, whose leading papers even, are seldom to be met with at the great clubs and libraries of London. The Saturday Review can with impunity state the tone of that press as far as its own readers are con cerned, just as it might tell anything of the political principles and the moral depravities of the chief advi ser of the ruler of Timbuctoo. What it persistently states, and what we, writing for men who know these papers, persistently deny, k that the Ameri can press gives utterance to unrestrained malignity against England. Last week the Review, singling out the Nation as a journal intellectually on the foot ing of the best in Europe, says it can never allude to England without falling into hysterics. As these hysterics have all been reproduced in the Anglo ilmeriean Times, our readers have had the oppor tunity of judging for themselves, and as many of the class for which the Saturday Review writes, show an inclination to test the truth of its remarks on America by a reference to our columns, we will continue our summary of the controversy lately carried on in the Nation on the Alabama Claims, which will give them further means of ascertaining what the Saturday Review* considers Anglophobia in a New York paper. " America," in reply to the letters of " Integrity," and " M.," denounc ing the mode of reparation he advocated, says —" England may be assured that a large num ber of Americans, weary of her bad faith, quibbles, and delay, are prepared for exact retaliation, and ready to do, delay, permit, obstruct, foster, and abet belligerents against England, precisely as she delayed, permitted, obstructed, fostered, and abetted the proceedings of Mr. Laird." Belligerency once recognized, nothing could prevent the hostile use of American ships by the wearied holders of Alabama Claims, and it is a mis-statement to assert that an adequate proffered compensation had been refused, as England had never proffered it. " Ile pays twice," says America' " who pays quickly ; and a frank atonement from England for her wrong, would have been accepted with a friendly disposition to condone the irreparable injury. Hope defer red has made the heart sick ; and many Ameri cans are ready to say to England, unless she at once acts like the gallant old England of the first Lord St. Germain's times and temper :—' We were strong and you hated us ; we became weak and you in sulted and assailed us as the late United States of America.' You prematurely recognized our rebels, who by your own precedents in regard to Rochelle were your enemies on land and your pirates at sea, because they were such to us, a friendly power. Your hasty act of unfriendliness gave a maritime status to pirates and encouraged blockade running, prolonged a disastrous war, filled our homes with a hundred thousand more of dead, swept our com merce from the seas, and brought our flag under the deep humiliation of seeking British cover to avoid corsairs that your own loudly-cheered mem ber of Parliament had built. We were too much oppressed by a gigantic rebellion to do more than protest against your wrong doing. It might have been manly' and ' chivalric' to add you to our open enemies at your strongest, and our weakest hours. But this nation knew too much of war to court defeat." In the next number appeared a letter from 11. Lee Warner, from Rugby, England, in reply to " America's" first letter. He says the Washington Government proclaimed a blockade, and because England accepted the state of things thus declared America is angry. The Alabama Claims proper, England has consented to pay. Why, asks the Englishman, has the Senate rejected the Conven tion its accredited Minister was sent to England to negotiate. " Are we to receive him with open arms, as the representative of old friends and near rela tions from whom we have been temporarily estranged, or to say that we will not make a treaty with a man who obviously does not represent the real feeling of his country ? If the latter, we insult your representative ; if the former, we run the chance of being snubbed in our turn by the rejection of our treaty." 'lle was either America's Representative, and the Senate was bound to accept his act, or else to have recalled him during its operation, as he must have telegraphed for instructions, or he was not sent out in good faith, and the English who accepted his compliments as your Representative have been pur posely insulted. Then Mr. ',Varner puts the same, question to the Nation that the Pall Mall Gazette asked it last Monday. " Perhaps an illustration will help our mutual understanding. The United States are not only at peace with Spain, but have only quite recently expressed strong sympathy with its present Government. Yet before Spain pro claims the blockade of Cuba, you have hastened to promise recognition of belligerent rights to the rebels there. Is this justice? A long-lived nation can wait for ample justice,' as your correspondent says. But justice is not ample unless it is imme diate and con s i s t en t . " The editor, in reply, said n t ct h uioa a rtle t .ns t oo h t e Tnlifihu m eenah a tp i io n r proclamation o h n neloeafansti recognitionntei of obn o A m a e s r i t c h a a n t i i r t r i w t a n t s i o p t; n w l a n s -7as is blockade h u a e d d b b e e f e o u re re th ne e iv o e fti d - , or Lord Russell had had an opportunity of hearing Mr. Adams on the condition and prospects of the in surrection. " That the proclamation would have had to be issued eventually, we have ourselves no doubt, but the unprecedented haste iu issuing it was, or is taken as, a proof of animus; in other words, as an indication of unfriendly feeling." Americans recognize England's right to choose its time, but likewise claim the right to take offence if the time chosen be a manifest sign of hostility. 'We were not angry, says the editor, because we were taken at our word, but because England did not wait to hear what our word was. The majority of the Senate and of the public think the Convention has the fatal defect of not providing proper ma chinery for the redress of what Americans consider, and Englishmen now acknowledge, to have been a great wrong. Mr. Lee Warner:is reminded that the dispatch of the Alabama from an English port was followed by years of pillage, accompanied by the ap plause of the English press and the most influential portion of English society, coupled with hearty abuse of the North. We bate to recall these things, adds the Editor ; but when pressed for an explana tion of American irritation we have to do it. No calm observer of the course pursued by leading Englishmen on this question, in the years 1862-3-4, but foresaw years of mutual hate and recrimina tion, and the "ignorant rant" of the Lairds, the Roebucks, the Times, and the Saturday Review are especially mentioned. Perhaps this is the hysterics to which the Saturday Review alludes. The Nation then contrasts the feteing of Mr. Johnson with the attitude of English society towards the American Representative five short years ago, and English- men must be sensible that the contrast is little to their advantage. Finally, Mr. Lee Warner assumes that belligerent rights have been promised to Cuban rebels, while no such promise has been made, nor is it likely to be made, until the Government are in possession of information which will justify such a course. In the next issue of the Nation, that is on the Ist April, the following letter appeared from Professor Goldwin Smith, with the Editor's remarks thereon :--. Sir,—lt is with unfeigned hesitation and diffidence that, as a stranger resident in this country, I say a word on any question connected with its public affairs. But lam moved to do E o by your reference to the impression pre valent among Americans, and apparently shared by you, thr.t the time chosen by the British Government for the recognition of the Conference as belligerents was a mani fest sign of hostility to the Union, and may be taken rs evidence of animus in interpreting the conduct of the same Government on other . occasions. That an irresponsible though largo and pow, rful party in England was actuated by the bitterest hostility to the Union of course cannot be denied. But I speak of the responsible Government of the country. As one of those who believed that the cause of English liberty was bound up with that of the Union, I jealously watched, in the interest of both causes, the actions of our Government. Though perfectly independ ent of it, and on many questions opposed to it, 1 had per- * " The Nation, which stands on the intellectual level of the best European periodicals, descends into a blind and hysterical fury whenever it refers to England."— Saturday Rake, April 10. sonally good opportunities of informing myself as to the real disposition of its members. And it is my firm con viction that its settled policy from the outset and through out the struggle was strict neutrality, practical as well as legal ; and that if it erred (as I am myself inclined to think that it did) in its choice of the time for the recognition of the Confederates as belligerents, the error was the result not of any sinister bias, but of misconception alone. Of this I assure you upon my honour. My testimony is that of r n Englishman. But it is that of an Englishman whose feeling on this subject was as keen as that of au American, and who has as little inducement as any American can have to defend against truth and right the conduct of the governing class of England.—l am your obedient servant, GOLDWIN SMITH. Cornell University, Ithaca, March 27. IWo did not ourselves believe that the hasty recogni tion of the Confederates was due to animus. We have always supposed that it was one of Lord Russell's little bursts of blundering impetuosity; but it can surprise no body that it should, when English society went over to the Confederate cause a year later, have been set down as the first expression of a prevalent feeling of hostility. Americans naturally, and iudeed inevitably, viewed the first official act of the Government in connection with its subsequent official acts, and viewed all acts of the Go vernment in connection with the state of public feeling, as revealed by the more influential portion of the press, and by the tone of conversat:on in society. As far as our own limited experience went the English public was in a state of doubt and bewilderment until the battle of Bull Run. By that time the despatches of Mr. Seward, and the articles of a portion of the New York press, showing first that slavery had nothing to do with the contest; and, secondly, that the right of the Federal Government to co erce was at least doubtful, coupled with the appearance of Mr. James Spence's " great work," showing the rotten ness of Northern society and the madness of the North ern enterprise—his statements, too, receiving a kind of confirmation from Federal reverses in the field—turned the scale against the North, and prepared the way for the insane demonstrations of hostility which marked the years 1862-3-4. Already in 1862 a man who ventured to main tain in most English circles that the cause of the North was a justifiable one, and would probably succeed, was apt to be set down as a mixture for the silly crea ture and low fellow. The best he could hope for was to be treated as an amiable enthusiast. Now, those who were on the spot, as Mr. Goldwin Smith was, and, above all, who enjoyed as he did exceptional opportunities of watching the various stages in the growth of English opinion about the war, and the influence of "society" on the Government in its dealings with the belligerents, can readily draw the line between the mistakes of the Go vernment and its wilful wrong-doing. But it is easy to see how and why the American public, looking on from a distance, saw in the whole course of the Government and people one transaction only, and found in the hasty re cognition of the state of war an explanation of the escape of the Alabama ; and in the enthusiasm for Semmes, and the toleration and even applause of Laird, and the monu ment-building to Stonewall Jackson (a foreign general fighting for slavery), support for the belief which to-day is as strong as ever, that the Alabama was employed by Liverpool merchants, with the connivance of the Govern ment, to sweep American shipping from the seas, and transfer the American carrying trade to English bottoms. A more maddening belief could hardly get into the heads of a commercial people, but there it is. Professor Goldwin Smith did his p ar t in fighting against the folly which put it there ; but wo doubt if he, or anybody else who has the faculty of seeing the two sides of a question, can think the present state of mind of the American public anything wonderful. It is not, we admit, the most exalted or philosophical or Christian frame of mind; but there is something thoroughly human about it, and, in our opinion, time will change it.—ED. Nationd As the Saturday Review has selected the Nation, we ask if there is any hysterical hatred of England in these remarks? And we honestly state that we have picked out the most severe that we have seen in that paper, after a careful perusal, almost from its start. UNITED STATES ORDNANCE. The following is the testimony of Norman Wiard before the Joint Committee on Ordnance in answer to a question by Senator Cameron. It bears out the Joint Committee of Congress in their recent Report on Ordnance, which we summarized. It must be accepted, we presume, as the testimony of a rival inventor ; but its value is shown by the Report of the Committee above alluded to, which will be found in our issue of March 27. "1 am familiar with the calibres of our guns ; and when I relate some of the facts within my knowledge, I think you will agree with me that our ordnance departments have got our small arms, Artillery, and guns into most reprehensible confusion, for want of uniformity in calibre and ammunition. The ordnance departments of France and England have no 3reater differences embodiedin the systems they have adopted than there is between the two branches of our service. The calibres, models, chambers, and ammunition of the navy are utterly unlike those adopted fer the army. The navy rifled 12-pounder boat howitzer has a calibre of 3 4-10 inches, while the army 12-pounder rifled gu ns are of the calbres of 3 inches, 3 2-10 inches, 3 67400 inches, and 3 80-100 inches. The navy 1 2-pounder has a parabolic form of chamber, while the army gun has either no chamber or it is cycloidal. The navy 12-pounder smooth-bore, although of the • same calibre as the army gun, has a different form of chamber. Apparently eachl of these chambers has been devised to prevent the use of navy ammu nition in the army gun or army ammunition in the navy gun. The models of the two guns are entirely dif ferent, and neither will go on the other's carriage, the army gun being furnished with trunnions and the navy gun having the loop and loop-bolt of the old* carronade. The sights are of an entirely different kind in the two guns, and so graduated as to make it impossible for a navy gunner to use an army gun, or an artillerist of the army to use a navy gun for an emergency —one being graduated to seconds of time, and the other to degrees of elevation. The 20-pounders and.3o-pounders of the navy are different from time army gunzeof the same kind, the navy guns having a shark's mouth for the breeching, which is not on the army guns. The navy Dahlgren 20-pounder, 30-pounder, and 50-pounder are of a different model, calibre, form of chamber, and kind of rilline• from any other gun in the navy or army, all purposely different, seemingly, to insure the use of a certain kind of projectile which Captain Dahlgren claimed to have invented, being essentially the same as the so-called Dyer projectile, but which was found latterly to have been used and patented by others long before. The Dahlgren, like the Dyer, was abandoned after large numbers of them had been produced. The Dahlgren 5 0-pounder has a calibre of 5 1-10th inches, as if the inventor, from pau city of ideas, could only produce a new diameter of calibre which no other person Lad thought of. The army 3-inch gun, it has been said, was rifled in a peculiar way to adapt it to the Dyer projectile, which, being condemned, it was happily found could be used with the Hotchkiss projectile. The navy have, then, a 60-pounder Parrott, adopted, as shown by th e l u cid explanation of Capt a i n W i se Chief of Ordnance, so as to have something between thes6-pounder and the 100-pounder; and no other reason is given for its adoption ! The navy has VIII inch, IX-inch, XI-inch, and VIII-inch smooth-bores, as if the navy chose odd numbers of inches for luck. The army smooth-bores are 6-inch (32 -pounders), 8-inch ( 64- pounders), and 10- inch (130-pounders). The navy chose the old Roman numerals to describe the calibre of their guns, probably because the army had some fanciful pre-emption right to the more common figures. In the guns adopted and actually issued to service, in the two branches of the ser vice, there is nut a single example of uniformity, in either rifle or smooth-bore, in 20-calibre adopted of those below the calibre of the 30-pounder. I append a t a b ulated state ment of calibre models, weights, ch am b ers, and charges. How long it has taken to complete organizations of ordnance officers, educated at the public expense, ex perimenting, with the Treasury of the United States to pay the bills ; what the cost of the effort has been in money; how much treasure has been wasted in fur nishing the arms to the extent to Which they have been supplied after they were adopted; how-m uc h - li fe of citi zen soldiers and honour of the nation have been misdi rected and wasted, it is not within my power to even esti mate. 1 am, however, confident that no example of such imbecility ( f invention and paucity of practical results ever before attended an effort conducted with so much flourish, on so grand and expensive a scale, with objects so im portant, and where the class of persons charged with so important a branch of the public service for so many critical years have brought their departments into such confusion. They are entitled to the execrations of every citizen, and would receive them, too, Were the facts known. The calibres of small-arms and the ammunition for them —although it would seem impossible, so minute must be the differences where the greatest is .70 of an inch—are as diverse as in the field, siege, and heavy guns, and similar want of uniformity exists. In order to find divisions for sufficient diversity, the dimensions of calibre are given in hundredths or thousandths of an inch, and our muskets and carbines alone range from .40 to .69. We have an Enfield rifle of .57 and a Springfield of .58, but no instru ments common in the hands of inspectors or soldiers for determining the difference. Hence, during the war, the army has frequently found itself on the field of battle facing the enemy with ammunition one-hundredth of an inch too large to be inserted in the gun. About 20 dif ferent calibres of ammunition were furnished the Burnside expedition, from .44 to .69 ; and, lest one transport carry ing all of one calib re s h ould be lost, each vessel had to be supplied with an assorted cargo made up of certain pro portions of the whole. It was the same with the Banks expedition, making it necessary to stow away the cargo with considerable skill, so that any of the various kinds could be got at up on the recurrence of an emergency —a prelithinary caution likely to be overlooked in the hurry of the embarkation of an army ; the consequences of neg lecting which —end no cautionary order by the Ordnance Department is given on such an occasion—are easy to con ceive. • A great many hundred thousands of Springfield muskets are now to be sacrificed to uniformity of calibre. The Ordnance Department in this, as in the question whether it was better to have breech or muzzle-loaders, were undecided during the war, o nly concluding their cogitations when th e emergency had: passed. In 1861, when every tyro knew that a breech-loader was best—in fact, nobody but an idiot of an officer of our Ordnance Depart ment would ever decide otherwise—the Chief of Ord nance of the United States held and advocated that " a Harper's Ferry smooth-bore muzzle -loading gun, with buck and ball, was the best arm that could be placed in the hands of a soldier ;" and asserted would have no such gun as a breech-loader in service, because it would re quire a male to carry the ammunition for each soldier—it would be shat away so fast! Now it is proposed to alter all the Springfield rifles on hand to breech-loaders; end in order to got uniformity of calibre. i.e., to have the musket conform to the calibre of the cal bine, the barrel is to be reamed out, another barrel insulted, the new lining is to bored out straightened, and rifled ; the breech of the barrel is t o be bedeviled by the insertion of a complication of parts, and thus a new gun is to be made. B u t, gent l emen, this will cost more th an t o ma k e a new gun ; and that is not all, for although it is an ap proach to uniformity of calibre, it brings no nearer to uniformity of ammunition than we were before, because the carbine charge is not sufficient for the musket; and when this improvement is adopted we shall have another slight diversity, as i n t h e case- of the Enfield of .57 and the Springfield of .58, for the chamber of the carbine is not long enough for the musket cartridge, and the car bine charge is not heavy enough for the breech-loading musket. METROPOLITAN GOSSlP.—Thursday. The Ministerialists preserve an unbroken phalanx. The prophecies so loudly, but perhaps not very confidently, made a few weeks ago, that the "unnatural coalition" between the Ultramontanes and the Nonconformists — between Cardinal _Cullen and Mr. Miall—would not last, have, so far, been completely falsified, nor is there the slightest prospect of their realisation. Night after night Liberal M.P.'s answer to the Whip with an alacrity which shews how determined they are that there shall he no repetition of the blunders of three years ago. On the other hand the Opposition are getting discouraged, and the natural result of discouragement—absence— follows. Mr. Disraeli was not present in the House on Monday. He was kept away, his friends said, by a severe attack of the gout. That inveterate foe of statesmen proved akind friend on the present occasion, for it spared the Con servative leader the pain of three overwhelming defeats in the course of one evening. The same foe shewed himself equally kind by taking his departure as soon as that humane purpose was served. Mr. Disraeli, the martyr to gout on Monday, was the genial host to a very distinguished circle of guests on We3nesday. But while all is going so well with the Government as regards its main business, there are murmurs of complaint scarcely faint with respect to other matters. Mr. Lowe's Budget does not improve upon closer acquaintance, and French journalists, whose liberalism is undoubted, are severely criticising the new Chancellor's coup de tla'atre. Our own M.P.'s are grumbling against him because of the way in which he treated them with regard to the site of the new law courts. They ask, and with some show of justice, why it was that at such a time as this, in which every night is of importance, he allowed a whole evening to be wasted in discussing the advantages and the dis advantages of the Carey-street site when the Government had fully determined to abandon that site. They say that these theatrical surprises can be bought too dear, and they hope that Mr. Lowe will not make fools of them again. Then there is perplexity, to use no stronger word, at the seemingly erratic way in which the Home Secretary counsels the exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy. Men cannot understand the recent numerous reprieves, especially that of Wiltshire, the atrocious monster who first violated a woman and then murdered her. The explanation which is to be asked for to-night by Sir George Jenkinson may perhaps prove satisfactory ; it is certainly expected with some anxiety by the friends of the Govern ment. But the most serious matter of all is the conduct of the Government with regard to the Irish land question. Even the Liberal journals, and especially the Times, have severely censured the Cabinet for not introducing a measure this session, or, failing that, adopting Lord Clanricarde's. It is asserted that delay in this matter is exceedingly dangerous, and that the Irish tenants and the peasantry are entertaining the wildest expectations of what the Government mean to do for them next year. Mean while these are resorting to agrarian murders in the hope that they may frighten Ministers into a scheme of whole sale confiscation, believing that it was the Fenian outrages which frightened them into disestablishing the Church. Clearly this is a very undesirable state of things, and ought not to be allowed to continue. I have still nothing definite to tell you with respect to the course which the Lords will take on the Irish Church Bill. The rumour gains ground that they will " transmogrify " it so effectually that the Commons will refuse to accept it, and that then all the labour of this session will have to be repeated next year. The large and sustained majorities in the Lower House are scarcely likely to encourage the Peers to such a course. More probable is the supposition that amendments will be made which the more Conservative Liberals will accept rather than bring about a collision between the two Houses. Much will depend upon the conduct of a few Whig peers like Lords Russell, Grey, and Westbury. .All three of these, it is pretty well known, are favourable to a concurrent endowment of the three Churches. But it is early yet to talk of what the Lords will do. The bill is not nearly through the Commons, and as there are no fewer than fifteen printed folios of amendment notices, it is clear that the Lower House has plenty of work cut out for it. There is a rumour that Mr. Gladstone will knock off the Whit sun holidays if these amendments are not quickly dis posed of. We are now in the first spring of the picture season. Almost every day there is some fresh exhibition either of a single picture or of a collection. Among the first is " The Last Supper," by Bonifacio, of Venice. It is a very fine work, originally painted for the high altar at St. Mark's Cathe dral, more than 300 years ago. When Napoleon took to ravaging the galleries and churches at the beginning of the century this work was stowed away, and after the conclusion o f th e great war was discovered rolled up in a place of safety. It was then bought by an Englishman, and remained in his possession until his death, which has taken place quite recently. The pictire is now for sale. It is in wonderful preservation, and, with the exception of a few minor details, the colouring is Its fresh and brilliant as though the work had been painted but fifty years. To-morrow I go to the private view of a painting which is likely to cause no small sensation, " The Death of Rossini," by Gustave Dora. Friends who have seen the work in the artist's" studio at Paris, speak in the highest terms of it, and consider it his masterpiece. Saturday is the private view ( f the Old Water Colour Society. On Monday the National Gallery reopens, after having been closed two months for extensive alterations, caused by the removal of the Royal Academy to Burling ton House. On the following Saturday the Royal Academy dinner takes place ; and on the Monday after wards all the world will be thronging to Piccadilly to see the Academicians in their new quarters. The Institute of Water Colours had its private view on Saturday. The collection is a good average; but there are few striking pictures. Mr. Corbould is nowhere this year, and his "Joan of Arc " is one of his least satisfac tory works. Carl Werner has but few of his striking Eastern interiors. Mr. Vacher has been in Italy and the Tyrol, and his picture of Desenzano, on the Lago di Garda, is a fine view of one of the most beautiful spots in Italy. Mr. Tidy has but one, and that a not important work. Mr. Prout has a few exteriors of Norman and Breton churches, and Mr. Haghe some fine ecclesiastical interiors. Mr. Philip Mitchell is better than usual, and his various moorland pieces spew that land rather than water is his proper element. Mr. Henry Warren's chief contribution is a fine study of Eastern life, representing Abra ham's purchase of the Cave of Machpela - .1. Mr. . . Edmund Warren has four works, two of them harvest scenes, one of them a study of beeches, for which he is renowned, and the fourth sheep-washing. But undoubtedly the gems of the exhibition are Guido Bach's studies of heads, which are marvellously fine, and Hine's landscapes, which are absolutely perfect in their atmosphere. Mr. Mogford follows hard upon Mr. Hine's heels. I must also notice Mr. Kilburne's clever picture of " Enoch Arden," and Mr. Hayes's " Commencement of a Gale," which is redolent of the sea. The last flower show at the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, in South Kensington, was unusually poor. The attendance was small, and the people seemed more bent in mobbing, after a genteel fashion, a young Indian girl, dressed in gorgeous costume, than in listening to the music or looking at the flowers. Loyalty, of the old-fashioned . demonstrative kind, has disappeared from the capital simultaneously with the Court. When the " National Anthem " was played only about three bald headed old gentlemen, evidently of the straitest sect of the Tories, uncovered. The rest of the people took no notice. I suppose it is a case of out of sight, out of mind though one would have thought that there, if anywhere on that spot which is known as Albertland, and which has been specially favoured by the Queen, the old marks of homage to royalty would have been preserved. Close _ . behind the great conservatory rises the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences, a building something like the Colisseum at Rome, and not quite so useful. It is intended, I believe, to give lectures in it on art and science, but the lecturer will simply be inaudible in a space as large as the transept o 1 the Crystal Palace. Behind the hall rises Mr. Gilbert Scott's great Gothic cross to the memory of " the great and good," which has now attained its full height. It is still very far from completion, for though a few coloured marbles have been introduced, the greater part of the decoration remains to be done. The presiding genius is, of course, King Cole, C.B. He intends to remove, if he can, all the Government departments of science and art to this district. " Even the School of Mines will go there in time, and the artisans of East London will have to find their way to the extreme South-West. King Cole is not a man to be baffled. Between him, on the one hand, and Mr. Beresford Hope and the late Mr. Cook, on the other, there was personally no love lost, and the Saturday .Revictv was almost ferocious in its attacks upon him. The Review put a stop to the precious scheme by which some three or four thousand pounds were to be paid by the nation to the proprietors of the Times for advertising his Majesty's art catalogue. But the irrepressible monarch is now quietly advertising it in Notes and Queries, and as few persons see that publication, no one has called attention to the matter. One good thing the King has done. Ile has promoted a series of lectures for ladies, which are now being delivered at the South Kensington Museum by really first-class men. The fee charged is small, and more than 100 ladies at once joined the classes. It is better for them to be hearing science in the Museum than playing at Mumbo -Jumbo in the Gardens. I have referred to the School of Mines. One of the most gratifying features of this institution is the eagerness with which working men attend lectures given by Professors Huxley, Tyndall, Mr. Etheridge, and the other lecturers attached to the institution. The room is crammed every week with an attendance twice as large as that which it will comfortably hold, So great is the rush for tickets when they are given out on Monday morning that policemen have to guard the doors. lam sorry to say that this is not the only duty which the police have to perform. There have been some serious robberies from the Museum in Jermyn-street lately. In some instances the thefts have been serious, for the articles stolen have been not only intrinsically valuable, but absolutely irreplaceable. Among these is an ancient gold chain, worth as old gold £2OO, but as an antiquity far more. Quite recently, on one of the working men's evenings, a beautiful tazza of some rare material was stolen while the policeman did but turn his head. It was impossible to search six or seven hundred men, and so nothing could be done. This conduct is very disheartening to those who are labouring for the improvement of the working classes, and who give them their time and thought without the smallest remuneration. I paid a visit last Sunday to a district of London which is little known to us in the West-end, but which is well worth visiting. It is called Haggerston, and has a popu lation as large as that of many an important town. Ad jacent to it, but actually within the region of Bethnal Green, I passed a striking group of Gothic buildings, and on asking what they were, learnt that they were a church, a model lodging-house, and a public library, all built by Miss Burdett Coutts. The last building is a magnificent structure, quite putting to shame the library in the Temple Gardens. A little further on I came to a lofty brick church • this was known as St. Chad's, and was to be consecrated on the following day. This is one of four churches built for districts carried out of the old parish of Haggerston. One London merchant has contributed £lO,OOO towards the erection of them. I then went to the mother church, a quasi-Gothic structure erected some forty years ago, and at the time without chancel, but with galleries. The present rector, Mr Ross, has completely transformed the building. He has pulled down the galleries, erected a very handsome chancel and a reredos of costly and beautiful marble, and has filled the windows with beautiful stained glass. He has abolished the pews, and adopted the weekly offertory, established a capital choir, has daily prayer and weekly communion, and gets his church thronged with the working classes. All this energy is the more praiseworthy because he has powerful attractions elsewhere in the shape of a pleasant country seat. He has refused preferment, and labours among the poor of this squalid part of London with an energy that deserves all praise. He has avoided the mistake of adopting ex cessive Ritual, such as, unfortunately, has been adopted in some of the district churches, with the result of almost empty benches. The incumbent of St. Chad's, for instance, intended to have introduced a second altar for low celebrations, and the sanctus bell; but the Bishop absolutely forbade these novelties. The arrangements for the new civil Service Journal, which I mentioned in a former letter, are progressing very favourably. The promoters certainly may say with reason that they intend to supply an acknowledged want. It is really surprising that so powerful, influential, and numerous a class should not before this have established a journal which will give them the latest information in their departments. The new journal will be owned and conducted by gentlemen in the Government offices, and will, therefore, have the earliest information of the changes which are constantly occurring in the service. It will also he a newspaper for the general reader. We are to have another new theatre—the Royal Charing Cross, in King William-street, Strand. It will be ready in May. Her Majesty's will not be used for opera in future. The Lyceum will open with operatic per formances on Monday week. The parks are now thronged every afternoon, and, though in saying so I may seem a Cockney to your readers, I affirm that they are really beautiful in their fresh and varied spring tints. Alas that the smoke should make their beauty so short lived ! An addition has been made to Rotten-row: The new Row starts from Albert-gate and runs beside the carriage drive to Queen's-gate, where a loop joins it to the old Row. This ride will form a delightful lounge under the trees in summer evenings. But why is it that the loungers persist in the heresy of preferring to gaze upon the houses in Knights bridge instead of on the Serpentine? I have no literary news this week, except that Mr. Walter Thornbury is writing a novel on Wiltshire life, entitled " A Vicar's Courtship ;" that Mr. W. B. Scott is writing an account of Albert Diirer and his works; and that an addition is to be made to the numerous exist ing Christologies by Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, who has just written a Life of Christ. NEWSPAPERS IN CHANCERY. On Thursday, before Vice-Chancellor Malins, Mr. toof the commitßast Mr.em Morning William erning H iv u el i t i .s t, a t n h d e p Hull Advertiser, f or a contempt of court in having printed G r l i a n s t s e e r , Qn a . d C. p' u movedb she r and published in a certain number of the said newspaper an article commenting upon the conduct of Miss Saurin, the plaintiff in th e H u ll C onvent case, which article con sisted of a reprint from the Weekly Register, against which paper the same proce e di ngs were taken, but were discontinued on the counsel representing that journal may costs. i . " an apology in court and consenting to pay the c Mr. Glasse was about to o p en th e case against Mr. Hunt with a statement of the facts, w h en Mr. Martineau, who appe are d f or the defendant, inti mated that he was prep are d on the part of Mr. Hunt to make proper submission to the court and to offer an apology, as he had already done in his paper, to Miss Saurin for the paragraph in question having been inadvertently inserted from the Weekly Register. He argued that havi ng d one this, if the dictum of Lord Hatherley in the Tichborne case was to be followed, Mr. Hunt ought not to be liable for the costs. An affidavit, made by Mr. Hunt giving his version of the matter, had been prepared. Mr. Glasse complained that Mr. Martineau's client had asked for copies of affidavits on the other side, after the statement referred to had been inserted in the paper. The Vice-Chancellor said, looking at the case that had been alluded to before Lord Hatherley, he thought it was rather by consent that costs were not pressed for. His Honour went on to intimate that he was of opinion that the case might be settled by its being arranged that there should be no costs paid by the defendant after the time of applying for the affidavits. Mr. Martineau said he would be satisfied with that arrangement. In reply to the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. M ar ti neau stated that as soon as co mp l a i nt was made about the paragraph an apology was published. Mr. Glasse disputed this, and proceeded to say that on the same day on which the so-called apology was inserted in the paper the solicitors of his client rece i ve letters, one fro m Mr. Hunt himse, and one from his solicitors. The l e tt er of the latter as lf ked for copies of the affidavits in the case, and offered t o pay for them. Upon receipt of this, the learned counsel said, Mr. Roberts (of the firm of England, Saxelbye Roberts, and Sharp), h a d a consultation with Mr. Wright, and would have agreed to settle the matter, but on the same day Mr. Hunt's ment, letter, was received. which it was said repudiated th e proposed arrange- Mr. Martineau here intimated that Mr. Hunt's letter had reference to another action altogether. Mr. Glasse contended that the result of the paragraph in the Eastern Worming .News, stating as it did that Miss Saurin was actuated in the proceedings she had taken by motives of malice, and by a wish to injure Catholicism in Hull, would materially increase her difficulty in getting wit nesses when the casecarne on forbearing. Mr. Hunt having thought fit to put the plaintiff at arm's length, ought to pay the costs. The Vice-Chancellor : Do you press for costs? Mr. Glasse replied that he did. In answer to the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Martineau stated that an apology had been published at the earliest possible moment, in the most conspicuous part of the paper, and in large type. It w ou ld b e seen by reference to thei news paper that it contained paragraphs both in favour of and against the plaintiff, Its extracts were impartial. The Vice-Chancellor thought it was hardly worth while to prolong the matter. Mr. Glasse, however, urged his Honour to look at the paper containing the paragraph complained of. It was put, he said, in a conspicuous position, and it was printed in large type and was headed, "Miss Saurin and the Hull Convent." His Honour would observe that other para graphs quoted from other papers, under the title of "Spirit of the Press," appeared in a very different type. The learned counsel complained that after the injury likely to be inflicted on the plaintiff had been pointed out, the defendant had set his lawyers to work in the matter. Mr. Martineau said the other side offered their MB; davits. The Vice-Chancellor again expressed the opinion that the matter had better end. The defendant seemed to have done all that he could to reznedy any injury th a t m i ght have been i n fli c t e d on the plaintiff. The apology was published in the same paper and in the same type as the objectionable paragraph. Mr. Martineau reminded his Honour that LordHatherley, in the case before ought not to p ress for refercosts.red to, had th oug h t that the plaintiff The Vice-Chancellor remarked that that was what he was rather inclined to say. Mr. Glasse then called attention to a case which had recently been heard of a kind somewhat similar to the present, t, but his Honour i n ti mated.(though it was not assente to by Mr. Glasse) that in that instance, at all events as regarded one of the papers implicated, certain comments had been made upon the case which was before the court, as well as documents, likely to prove detrimental, published. Mr. Glasse proceeded to argue as an additional ae reason that th e d e f endant should be made to pay the costs that on th e same day on which he published the apology his soli c it ors wrote asking for affidavits on the other side. It must h ave b een known to Mr. Hunt, he contended, that th e paragraph in the Weekly Register was one that ought not t o h ave b een i nserted ; and the type in lil it was p r i n t e d proved that it was intended tocallspecial attention to it. thng of the first ar ti c l e pointed out that hisclient knew no i Mr. W.Naughten who appeared with Mr. Glasse, (there were two on the same subject) - which appeared] ili the Weekly Register, until the second one appear e d i n th e Eastern M orn i ng News, when attention was directed to it. The Weekly Register was a high-priced Catholic paper, pub lished in London, and having only a small circulation in the provinces. The Eastern Morning News was a penny paper, having a large circulation in Hull. Than the tone of the libel contained in the paragraph copied nothing could be more objectionable. Mr. Martineau, in addressing the court in opposition to the application for costs, pointed out that the cases to which Mr. Glasse had called attention were clearly dis tinguishable from the present. In the Cheltenham Waggon case, the article upon which th e mo ti on to commit waalaaeed wag an original one, and not amen extract, and the court court thought its publication a direct act of contemßt_ In the Tichborne case, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Morning Post were condemned in the costs of the motion 1 . 1 because they p u bli s h e d or i g i na l art i c l es com bined comments. The Times and Morning Advertiser only Pint lished extracts, and Lord Hatherley made no order up? . n .. them as to costs. Thi s arrangemen t was no t c ome to °Y the consent of th e p ar ti es but was the resu lt .V! of a long arg umen t before his lordship. The Eastern Morning News had done what w as no t done either by xu_ . ' Times or the Morning Ad ver ti ser , f or th e i ns t an t that lur Hunt learnt th a t th e p aragrap h was comp l a i ne d o f he pre pared and published the apology. In answer to th e Vi ce -Ch ance ll or, it was stated that the affidavits on th e pl a i n tiff' s s id e were sworn at Hu"; and sent to London on the 17th, the apology appearing o n the 19th. Mr. Martineau stated that the editor of the paper ; had prepared an a ffid av it , w hi c h , h owever, was no t file. but would be, in w hi c h h e s t a t e d th at h e h a d inserted the paragraph i n ques ti on i na d ver t en l y f rom th e Weal! Register, that the name of the paper whence the extract was male appeared at the bottom, and that what he 1„'; done was constantly done by all newspaper editors. !i n , had no intention to injure Miss Saurin, and had no feeling either in her favour or against her. No complaint, con. tinned Mr. Martineau, had been made about the pars' graph Wa s graph until Saturday, the 17th, when Mr. Hun served with a n o ti ce o f th e presen t mot i on b y a c l er k from the office of th e pl a i n tiff' s so li c it ors. Th at was the firs t On intimati o n h e h a d o f th e gr i evance comp l a i ne d o f. the 19th Mr. Hunt inserted a full apology. The Vice-Chancellor asked why, when the article did not on the 13th o f Ap r il, th e p l a i nt iff' s so li c itors l'" not write to complain. An apology might have been obtained at once. Mr. Glasse said that would not have been enough. Mr. Martineau asked what more could Mr. Hunt liav (lone than he h a d ? O n th e 17th a comp l a i n t was mad e „ to him abo u t th e p aragrap h , an d on t h e 19t h he pu bli s h e d 0 3 expression of his regret that the paragraph in question hat been all owe d t o appear i n hi s paper. M r. Hun b bad made an affidavit, in which he said that the paragraP headed " Miss Saurin and the Hull Convent" complain ed of by the plaintiff in this suit was published in his new s. paper, called the Eastern Morning News and Hull Adver tiser, inadvertently and without comment, having Pr . viously appeared as a leading article in the Week% Register. Th a t th e name o f t h e newspaper from which the paragraph was extracted was attached to the para graph, when so republished in the Eastern Morning Ne w ' and Hull Advertiser. That a practice prevails univer sally in newspaper offices of so republishing matter which has appeared in other journals, and that opinions of th e press in favour of plaintiff in the action brought by her in the Court of Queen's Bench have been inserted by him in the Eastern Morning News and Hull Advertiser . d The affidavit continued :—" In republishing the sa' paragraph, I had no intention or desire whatever to interfere with the course of justice in this suit, or to create a prejudice against the plaintiff, or to prevent he r obtaining evide nce i n support o f h er case, or to d o her any injury whatever ; and I entertai n no feeling's whatever f o r or against the plaintiff in th e said suit- That no complaint was made to me, or to any person in mY employ, of the publication of the paragraph in question until Saturday, the 17th day of April, 1869, on which day, I was personally serve d b y a c l er k f rom t h e o ffi c e 01 Messrs. England, Saxelbye, Roberts, and Sharp, th e plaintiff's solicitors, with a notice of motion to commit me to prison for contempt of court, and that I should pay ° e t costs of the said motion; and that the said notice was the firs intimation I receiv e d th a t th e pl a i n tiff f e lt herself aggrieved by th e p u bli ca ti on o f t h e sa id paragi nPu; On Monday, the 19th d a y o f A pr il , 1869 , t h e next day on which the said newspaper, called the Ecistell Morning News and Hull Advertiser, was published, inserted i n l arge t y p e an d i n t h e most prominent position in the said newspaper an apology and expression ff . regret for the publication of the said paragraP th It is not s t r i c tl y true, as stated in e affidavit of George Christopher Roberts and Thomas Rhodes Till, filed in-this cause, that the said.newspa ep r, called the Ea s t ern Morning News and Hull Advertiser, il l now conducted as an ama l gamation of two newspape rs formerly published in Hull, the one called the Eastern' Morning News and the other called the Hull Advertiser , the facts being as follows viz. :—That upon the said „ ' newspaper- called the Hull Advertiser, ceasing to ~."„" published, the copyri g ht o f th e sa id paper, which was t"`" oldest established newspaper in Hull, and which had bee n . established for many years pr i or to the establishment f! the Eastern M orn i ng News, the copyright of the Sala Hull Advertiser was purchased by me at a nominal price. in order t o ena bl e me to use the name of the R i d ` Advertiser as such old-established paper, and for that purpose only, and that such name is used subor dinately to that of the Eastern Morning New s ' That no member of the staff of the said Hull Advertiser was transferred with the copyright of the said Hu ll Advertiser, and th a t on l y two of the subscribers to the said Hull Advertiser are now subscribers to the Eastern, Morning News. I am a member .of the Church of England, and no member of the Roman Catholic faith is, to the best of m y hnoW ledge and, belief engaged in or employed in any capacity upon the said newspaper, called the Eastern 111ornin 9 News and Hull Advertiser ; and the said newspape r is conducted upon the principles of the Church of Ea' land. It is not, to the best of my kn° lv. ledge and belief, true, as stated in the affidavit of the said G. C. Roberts, and T. R. Till, that th e said newspaper, call e d th e Eastern Morning News an d Hull Advertiser, has a large or any special circulatio n whatever amongst the Roman Catholics of the town and neighbourhood of Hull. I entirely disavow the said paragraph of which the plaintiff corn' plains, and which was originally published in the Weekly Register and reprinted as an extract in the Eastern, Morning News and Hull Advertiser, as aforesaid, and the sentiments therein explained ; and I express to this honourable court and to Miss Saurin, in the most aniPl e manner, my regret at having republished it, and apologlse and make my humble submission to this honourable court for any contempt which I have inadvertently committed. The learned counsel in referring to the charge made on the other side, that an application had been made for affidavits, contended that until his client's solicitors bad seen these affidavits ; it was impossible for him t o know fully what case he had to answer, and he could not, until he ascertained that, know if the apology lie had insetted would meet the requirements of the case. He stronglY urged that the defendant should not be held liable for the costs. The Vice-Chancellor said that the article in question , which originally appeared in the Weekly Register, and wos copied into the Eastern Morning News, was clearly of t _a most serious Character, and was entirely unjustifiable. one paper brou g ht b e f ore hi m, v i z.,the Weekly Register, ha felt this, and had made submission to the court and apolo - to Miss Sarnia, and would pay the costs of the motion- With regard to the proprietor of the Eastern Olorning News, he was in a very different position. He had only inserted the article as a reprint from the Weekly Register' in accordance with the practice which prevailed in London and the provinces of giving as extracts from other papers such items as were of special or general interest. It was, however; right that editors of newspapers should know that they conic' not insert in their papers articles which it was improper should appear in the first instance, except at their own risk . : In the present c ase M r . H unt had not been actuat e d by an y improper motives, and when the matter complained of Was brought to his notice had acted in a manner highly becoming a gentleman, though in publishing the pal?" graph from the 'Weekly Register, headed "Miss Saurnl and the Hull Convent," he had used less discretion than be should have done. He should therefore make 5 10 order against Mr. Hunt, except that the respondent ( 1 ° pay costs of applicati on o th er t h an costs of any affi davits sworn since Saturday, the 17th of April, 1869. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25f. 171 c. per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 tia.loo. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold at the above price is of abut the same value in Lon' don and Paris. 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