The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times remarks that Mr. Forster, in the space of a short speech, has laid before the country a simple and forcible statement of his educational policy. Some of the principles he enunciates, especially with regard to the importance of religious influence, may win him con sideration in quarters from which he has most reason to fear opposition. He bases the interference of Parlia ment with educational institutions on a just founda tion when he observes that all endowments are practically entrusted to the State. Nothing but the authority of the State can insure the application of the founder's bequests to the uses he designed, and it is in reliance on this authority being duly exerted that en dowments grow up amid a settled civilisation. It becomes, therefore, not only the right of the State for its own inte rest, but its duty towards former public benefactors, to see that funds left for useful purposes are usefully and appropriately applied. The simple task which the Govern ment has undertaken is to modify the existing charters so as to render the schools serviceable once more, and this can doubtless be best done by introducing the study of those sciences which have come into existence within the last 200 years. There were once only three learned pro fessions, and the old grammar-school training was the best possible introduction to the study of them. There are now other professions, and a corresponding course of training needs to be provided. We have not the least doubt that it will be provided in answer to the demand, even if there were no endowments to foster it. Large funds, however, are lying idle, which cannot be more naturally applied than to this purpose. But the very revolution in knowledge which has rendered such inter ference necessary warns us against attempting a second time to stereotype any scheme of education or study. What we need is a system of free self-adjustment under careful supervision. The Standard alludes to Mr. Sumner's dialogue with the special correspondent of the New York Herald, and says that it confirms all it has said as to the true origin of the Alabama claims. It is now evident-from Mr. Sumner's own words (if we may suppose him to be correctly reported), that the rejection of the Alabama Treaty was due to the political circumstances of the Republican party. It was not rejected because of any fault of England, but because it was the work of President Johnson's Government. Mr. Sumner clearly implies this when he expresses his surprise that we should go on negotiating the treaty with Mr. Reverdy Johnson after General Grant had been elected President. As to the objection against Mr. Reverdy Johnson, what has England to do with that? How were we to suppose that he represented nothing, seeing that he had been appointed by the American President, and con firmed in his appointment by the unanimous voice of the American Senate? It is monstrous to expect that Eng land is to look behind the character of every ambassador who is sent to us from America—that we should inquire whether or not he represents anything, or how many he represents. We had no option but to accept, as the American representative, the individual who was sent over to ne in that character. And Mr. Sumner is guilty of a curious inconsistency in approving of one portion of the work which we did through Mr. Reverdy Johnson, and in rejecting another. Surely if Mr. Reverdy Johnson was not competent to arrange the terms of the Alabama negotiation, he was equally incompetent to settle the San Juan difficulty, or the naturalisation question. Having accepted those two treaties with England, negotiated through Mr. Reverdy Johnson, Mr. Sumner is clearly restrained from objecting to the character of his own agent, as a ground for the rejection of the Alabama Treaty. Upon no principle of interna tional or moral equity can this be fair, nor is it easy to see how even Mr. Bright can believe that it " serves us right" to have these new claims advanced against us merely be cause the Americans cant agree among themselves as to who should be their representative. The Daily News declares that Dr. IWN - eile attributes to Mr. Gladstone by insinu tion closed ears, a hardened heart, and a temper blindly elated by success. Dr. JSPNeile's dark forebodings as to Mr. Gladstone's mental and moral condition are at present only suspicions. They will become melancholy certainties when Mr. Gladstone shall have proved himself insensible to the remonstrances and reproofs of his ghostly adviser at Ripon, who is pro bably waiting with the utmost anxiety for the 31st of ,this month. Then it will be known whether his shot has taken effect. If on that day Mr. Gladstone rises, not to move the third reading of the Irish Church Bill, but to announce its withdrawal, to make profession of penitence and to read his recantation, Dr. APIS - elle will have made a notable convert. Should the Prime Minister Fioceed with the measure the explanation will be only too obvious. His mind is closed and his heart is darkened. If Dr. 111`Neile were a Christian confessor of the first century standing before some heathen magistrate who would be as likely as not to reply to his remonstrances with the summary sen- tence—Ad leoncs, his boldness would be respectable. But a courage so cheaply exercised as his scarcely palliates the rudeness with which it is accompanied. If Saint Paul had commenced his pleadings before Agrippa or Felix by attributing to Clem closed ears, h ardened hearts, and tempers elated by pride, it may be a question whether the one would have trembled, or the other have been almost persuaded to become a Christian. Mr. Gladstone is not precisely an Agrippa or a Felix ; and Dr. M'Neile is far enough from being a Saint Paul, in whom, setting aside more remarkable gifts and endowments, some critics have recognised the qualities of a perfect gentleman. The Irish Church Bill of Mr. Gladstone, in contributing to make the Irish people contented citizens of the United Kingdom, will do more than a thousand polemical letters to reduce to a minimum those evil influences of Roman Catholicism on which Dr. M`Neile monotonously insists. The Herald, in commenting upon the pastoral of Arch bishop Leahy, says that late as the exhortation comes, and odd as are the motives upon which the Archbishop bases his recommendation of the precept " Thou shalt do no murder," we welcome the pastoral with the heartiest and most unfeigned satisfaction. We must take it that the Archbishop knows the people with whom he has to deal, and that in pointing out to them that if they go on killing landlords they will cover their English Liberal friends with a certain amount of odium, and so destroy their chance of obtaining a satisfactory reform of the land laws, he presents to them the only argument which is likely to have the slightest effect, and we may hope that a repre sentation coming from such a quarter will convince the peasantry of Tipperary that they ought not to com mit murder in order to assert the right of the tenant as against the landlord. It is not, of course, very compli mentary to the Irish tenant that his spiritual advisers should deem it necessary to have recourse to such argu ments. Nothing that English writers and speakers have ever said of the Irish people has been half so offensive to them as these appeals to them by their natural leaders not to commit murder because the crime will probably preju dice their own objects ; but that is a question between the Archbishop and his flock, and we are too glad that he has stepped out to denounce murder at all, and too ready to admit his influence over the population, to examine very critically into the reasons which he gives for such a proceeding. Murder, in fact, says the revered Archbishop, is not only wrong, but, under present circumstances, it is extremely foolish, it will not pay. If you will only wait, tenants of Tipperary and other Irish counties, and trust to the great statesman now at the head of the English Government, a S amson yet unshorn by Delilah—let us hope that Rome may not prove Mr. Gladstone's Delilah—you will get all you want. You want for yourselves the property of your landlords, but you take a rude and awkward method of obtaining your object. Give up the notion of helping yourselves and confide in the great leader of the English Liberal party. If you will only keep quiet, and not frighten his more timid followers, he will next year com plete the destruction of the upas tree by confiscating for your profit the property of the landlords, as he has this year confiscated for their benefit the property of the Church. The Telegraph says people still consider that a minister of religion is a man who holds himself commissioned by Divine authority to preach the Gospel and administer the rites of the Christian Church. Face to face with this still potent belief, we have the extraordinary fact that the sacred right is openly offered for sale ; that the greatest publican and sinner in the City of London may buy the next right of presentation to a living, and may exercise the power of appointment. The Church of England has a great task to accomplish. It has first to civilise, then to Christianise., the millions who live coarsely and brutishly in what we may call the back settlements of our rural districts, and yet more sinfully in the back lanes of our towns, with physical and moral foulness all around them. And how can the Church fulfil that ter rible task through the hands of men whose right to be the apostles of the Cross has been bought—literally bought in the market with hard money ? There arc in the Church as true soldiers of Christ as any that have been sent forth to preach ; why should such men, living exemplars of self denial and heroic labour, be classed and linked with the rectors who represent nothing but their own families or their fathers' cash ? Yet, when we have exhausted our indignant questions, we shall be asked, "Where is the remedy to be found The question unfolds a gigantic diffi culty ; but no trouble, no perplexity, can daunt the earnest heart or the clear intellect in such a cause. Stricter iales regarding the residence and work of incumbents—a larger license to the bishops to refuse the induction of very young clergymen —mere liberal laws as to the minimum salaries and personal rights of curates—would diminish the evil. And diminution would lead to more ; for we will not con ceal our conviction that eventually we must "reform it altogether." Such a hideous abuse—such a cynical confes sion, in the very act of the clergy, that scepticism is right, and the portals of Truth are kept by hypocritically dis guised mercenaries —is a wordly canker in the midst of the Church ; it converts the Temple into a mart ; it deadens and degrades the ministry, and makes the preachinz of the Gospel a mere official and pharisaical act. EIiIIGRATION FROM IBILAND. The special correspondent of the Daily News, who 14 investigating the agrarian outrages in Ireland, calla attention in his latest letter (dated from Cork) to the wholesale emigration which is still going on. " Standing on the quay of Cork, loaded with cattle, pigs, sheet', poultry, and butter for exportation, and pressed by crowds of emigrants, whose labour probably contributed to the wealth that was leaving the country with them, it was not possible to avoid asking oneself whether there was anything in the operation of the received doctrines of political economy, and of the legislation founded upon them, to account for the strange scene presented. There were firkins of butter being shipped off to various parts of the world ; cattle, sheep, and pigs to England ; a few horses for France. No doubt there were men who reared the animals, and women who helped to make the butter on the quay, going with the produce, and it may surely be asked, Is it not an anomaly that this labour power and this produce could not be brought into direct contact at home ? that the agricultural labourer and farmer's daughter could not eat their Tipperary and Cork butter in Tippe rary and Cork, but must do so in a foreign land? If we were left to the mere reasoning of common sense, it would seem to elnclude that the people of Ireland had the first lien on the products they made, and that only what was left after supplying their own wants should be exported in exchange for the products of other countries, not obtainable in Ireland. But here the producer and the product are mingled in a common mass of exportation, the former leaving home for the express purpose of obtaining his share of those very things which he has produced, and whVi are being carried with him over the wide sea. It may be said that they, or those they have left behind, have received the representative in money of the food that is leaving the country to feed foreign mouths; but I am afraid that the greater part of the money goes, like the cattle and people, across the sea, to supply the wants or minister to the pleasures of absentee proprietors. It is the business of statesmen to discover the cause of the truly affecting scenes which are taking place in this land every week. That over-population is the cause can hardly •be true, for I am told there is a real deficiency of labour in the country. lam told that in some of the poorest dis tricts agricultural labourers get 2s. 4d. to 2s. 6d. a day— ten shillings a week and food. It may be that what the farmers call scarcity of labour means a rise in the price of labour. But the two things are very different. If there be enough of labour to do the work at any price, it cannot properly be said that labour is scarce. Labour is then dear, not scarce. In the decade between 1851 and 1861 the population of Tipperary fell from 330,000 to 248,000, or 82,000. The emigration from Ireland in 1865 was 100,000 ; in 1866, 98,000 ; in 1867, 88,000 ; and I apprehend it will be greater in 1869, with a diminished population, than it has been for some years back. Surely this is not a sign of prosperity, and it is for statesmen, whose busi ness it is to know how wiLle the limits stand ' between a splendid and a happy land,' to staunch this perpetual drain of a nation's life blood. Whatever the outcry raised against Ireland for the number and atrocity of its agrarian erimes, it must be confessed that it presents no unfavourable contrast to either England or Scotland as regards ordinary crime. In 1867 there were 18,970 persons committed to prison in England, and 14,207 convicted. In Scotland 3,305 were com mitted, and 2,510 convicted ; in Ireland there were 1,561 committed, and 2,732 convicted. The offences against property with violence stand thus for the same year : England, 1,940; Scotland, 445; and Ireland, 245. Ireland, therefore, is not a country in which either life or property can be said to be insecure. But the life of a land lord who exercises his unquestionable legal rights to what is deemed the oppression of a tenant is not secure in Tipperary, for there is an unwritten code of laws in the hearts of the population that is in the teeth of the laws of the Statute-book." LAW AND POLICE. ---- THE POLICE AND THE BETTING-HOUSES.—At Guildhall, on Thursday, Charles Peck, landlord of the Red Lion Inn, Poppin's-court, Fleet-street, was summoned for using his house for the purposes of betting.—Another case of a similar character was heard at the same time. Richard of the Crown beerhouse, Deptford, was charged with using a room in the Green Man public house, Bucklers bury, for betting. The magistrate (Sir E. Carden) gave judgment on both together, and said Peck's offence was a very serious one, as he was x licensed victualler, and had nut unly allowed betting in his house, but had betted him self. lie had taken into consideration the fact that Peck would lose his license, and would therefore fine him £5O and five guineas costs, to be levied by distress warrant. was fined £2.5 and five guineas costs. Sill's fine was paid. DISHONEST SERVANTS.-At Marylebone Police-court, Dr! Thursday, two servants were brought to justice through the agency of a pawnbroker, who had given them :Alto custody when they came to pledge silver plat, on suspicion that it had been stolen from their employers. In one of the cases a footman in the service of Mr. Justice Hannen was the delinquent, and he was committed For trial. RAILWAY FARM-At Bow-street, on Thurs&y, a case some interest to railway travellers was heard. A traveller, from Wandsworth, took a return ticket from Waterloo to Carmen-street ; but instead of alighting at Wate,loo he rode on to Charing-cross, refusing to pay the difference of fare for the longer dis tance, as the return fares for both distances was the same. He was summoned for the extra threepence by the South-Eastern Company, who main tained that he was liable to a penalty of 40s. by their bye-laws, and that each ticket was stated to be only avail able for the station for which it was issued. The magis trate thought that in taking the ticket the passenger accepted its conditions, and inflicted a fine of is. and costs. EXTRAORDINARY ACTION AGAINST A SURGEON AND A POLICE INSPECTOR.—At the County Court at Hitchin, Herts, unusual interest was excited by the trial of a case in which a highly respectable family named Joyner were plaintiffs, and Mr. Shillitoe, a leading surgeon in the district, one of the defendants. It appeared that on the 3rd of November, 1868, a newly-born child was found abandoned on the steps of the Hitchin Infirmary, and near to plaintiffs' house. From certain rumours which reached the ears of Inspector Young, of the Herts con stabulary, he, in virtue of his office, entered the dwelling. house of the said Daniel Joyner in his absence, and proceeded to interrogate his wife as to her own and her daughter's health, and ultimately charged them with the offence. He then left the house in charge of a police. constable, and shortly afterwards returned in company of Mr. Shillitoe, who subsequently subjected wife and daughter to a surgical examination for the alleged purpose of ascertaining whether either of them had been recently delivered. In consequence of being compelled .to submit to this gross and needless indignity, the present actions were brought to vindicate their character and to recover compensation. The jury returned a verdict upon the two plaints before them for the plaintiffs ; damages £2O on Bach plaint. ROBBERY AT NEWCASTLE BARRACKS.—A man named Morgan has been charged at Newcastle with stealing £166, the property of officers of the 08th Regiment, at present stationed in the Newcastleßarracks. The prisoner was employed as a messman, and absconded on Saturday last. John Richardson, mess-sergeant, said that he employed the prisoner to clean his things. To the best of his belief he placed the purse, containing the money he had received from the officers, under his pill ow on S a t ur d a y n i g ht. On looking there next m orn i ng it was gone . Th e pr i soner h a d acces s to the ro om , and when apprehended at Sunderland some of the cheques were found upon him. He was remanded. TnE EARL AND COUNTESS PERCY.—There was A great demonstration at Alnwick a day or two ago in honour of the arrival of Earl Percy and his bride at the Castle from their wedding tour. Addresses were presea'ed to the Earl and Countess from the Chamberlains and Common Council an .1 the inhabitants of Alnwick, the Duke of Norththumberland's tenants, and others. There was a large procession, in which 230 mounted tenants, the Militia, and Volunteers took part; and afterwards the auspicious alliance of the Houses of Percy and Campbell was celebrated by II public dinner. TLIE EMPEROR. AND THE FRENCH ACADEMY.— The Emperor L-3 so highly displeased with the choice recently made by the French Academy in filling up vacan cies, that he has written to the perpetual secretary to say that he shall be glad to dispense with the usual ceremony of receiving the nex academicians. In truth both M. Larbier and M. d'ffaussonville havc never spared the Bonaparte. dynasty, and " the relations between the Church of Rome and the First Empire,' which the latter gentleman is now publishing, is a violent indictment brought against the Emperor Napoleon for his haughty and insolent dealings with Rome. A LOVING ROBIN. —A few days ago the son of Mr. G. J. Wood, of Wollaston-villas, was in the Chesnut Walks, when he discovered a h a lf-fl e d ge d thrush that h a d by some means fallen out of its nest. The lad carried the nestling home and placed it in a cage, with the intention of rearing it by hand, but soon afterwards a robin came tapping at the window with a morsel of food in its mouth for the young thruSh. The cage was then placed outside the window, and ever since the robin has continued to fly to and fro with food for the stray nestling. It brings worms and crumbs at frequent intervals, and when a piece of hard bread Las come lit; its way the robin has been seer to moisten it in the little pools of water collected in the yard.—Dorect County Chronicle. TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1869, 111,tir1;1 L4,\EHU,S NE IPS. The writer thinks" it is no wonder if such speeches as Bishop Thirlwall's, and several others, makes Radicals of us all." Tho alternative seems to be between dignified and useful bishops ; and though their lordships may prefer the first, the laity prefer the second. The laity would even welcome the exclusion of the bishops from the HouSe of Lords, if that would make them more available for their dioceses. India, there has been some little confusion about the rules of precedence at the Viceregal parties. These and all other blunders form topics of plentiful discussion in a country like India, where the ladies have so much idle time. The Keble College is now nearly completed. The principalship was offered to Mr. Liddon, but he declined it on the ground that his acceptance of the office might be supposed to identify the college too much with one party. This is the more self-denying upon Mr. Liddon's part, because he has been a very large contributor to the cost of erecting the college. Recently he has inherited a con siderable sum of money, and has devoted no small portion of it to the institution whose well-being he has so much at heart. In spite of the comparatively small success which attended the efforts made to decorate and beautify St. Paul's Cathedral during the lifetime of Dean Milman, a fresh attempt is to be made with the sanction of Dean Alansel. It is not very creditable to the inhabitants of the richest city in the world that they should have let their cathedral remain for 150 years in its present state, so far short of its architect's intention. City men, how ever, rarely enter the cathedral. It is the country cousins who most frequent it, and they are not always the most devout of visitors. Recently there was a rush of persons leaving the building as soon as the anthem was over. Canon Gregory, who had in the meanwhile ascended the pulpit, spoke some very plain words to the people, and told them that that was not a concert-room but the house of God. A few of them, abashed by his rebuke, remained for the sermon. For many years past an attempt has been made to widen the most frequented and one of the most narrow thoroughfares in London, but until now the attempt has been unsuccessful. There is still every day an almost permanent block of cabs and 'busses in the Poultry. Thus at the very heart of the capital there is a congestion which is really dangerous, not to say most annoying. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have for a long time stood in the way of any improvement, but at last, to the great delight of all concerned, the Bishop of London has sent word that he will not be an obstacle to a work of great public utility, and will sell the necessary frontage before St. Mildred's Church for £4,000. This sum the Corporation are willing to give, so that we may expect a change for the better very shortly. The battle about the law courts is still being waged with fierceness in the newspapers. Mr. Lowe and Mr. Layard have just received a powerful ally in the person of Sir Charles Trevelyan, who, after advocating the Embank ment site in opposition to that at Carey-street, has abandoned his project in favour of the Government plan. As Sir Charles is the chief author of the agitation against Carey-street, this alliance is the more valuable to the Government. But they will have a sharp battle to fight, none the less because it is intimated that some jobbers are very anxious to get hold of the waste near Temple Bar, and erect offices for lawyers thereon. This accusation was sure to be made, even if there were no foundation for it. Parliament is suspicious of jobs, which is not alto gether surprising, seeing how many of its members have been connected with "financing." There is, indeed, at this moment a rumour that certain prominent M.P.'s have been doing a little in this way, and it has even been intimated that we shall shortly see some right honourables called to account. The Patriotic Fund is just now the scandal of the day. Many months ago I called attention to the mismanage ment which prevailed with respect to this fund. It is now admitted that there has been something more than mis management in one of the institutions connected there with, that there has been actual malversation. But this is the least serious feature. The really grave fact is that the•persons for whom the fund was intended are getting a most miserable disproportion of the money provided for them, while it is being spent in the most extravagant way on such institutions as the School at Wandsworth. Every effort is being made to keep the true state of things from Parliament ; but Mr. Locke King (who has given notice of inquiry into the matter) is not a man to be easily deterred from his purpose. It is only to be regretted that the affair was not investigated eighteen months ago. There is rather a good story told of Patti. I beg her pardon, the Marchioness de Caux. It is the etiquette when public singers are spending the evening out not to ask them to sing, unless their services are regularly engaged. On one such occasion the guests, hoping to hear the prima donna for nothing, pressed her to give them one piece. She refused steadfastly for some time ; but after a while, the pressure being great, she rose, went to the piano, and gratified her petitioners. They were enchanted ; would she favour them again ? She no longer hesitated, but gave three or four songs, and everybody, especially the hostess, was delighted. The next morning this satisfaction was somewhat damped by receiving a little note containing a charge of £l2O. After this your readers may form some idea of the cost of such a concert as that which Lady Dashwood gave last night to some 300 guests, in Grosvenor square, and at which s N an il g. sson, Gardoni, Sant:cy, and other leading vocalists. Rossini's " Messe Solennelle " was performed in England for the first time yesterday. It was the composer's last work. In fact, it is almost the only work which he wrote during the long interval of nearly forty years between the production of " Guillaume Tell " and his death. The chief singers , were 'Miens, Mongini, Santley, and Scalclii. 'There are fine passages in the Mass, but the gene ral ver dict.seems to be that the work will not add to Rossini's reputation, that, in fact, it is not really sacred music at all, for every one of the airs might be set to secular words without disadvantage. Many of these airs are very beautiful. An American visitor has just arrived in this country, who Is , sure to be well received. Mr. Charles Leland , author of , Hans Breitmann's Ballads," left New York on the Ist for England. Mr. Leland, who is a journalist by profes sion, intends taking a holiday of one or two years. M. L edru-Rollin, the w ell-known French Republic an, is livin g in St. John's-wood. His former colleague, M. Louis Blanc, is, I believe, now residing at Brighton. M. Esquiros, after remaining with us for many years, returns to France. Of literary news, the most important fact is the announcement that the Poet Laureate has a new volume ready, all except the title. But surely Alfred Tennyson need not be particular about that. The public would be sure to buy his volume, even though be called it "Heautontimoromenos." A popular edition of Mr. Hep worth Dixon's " New America" has just been brought out, making the extraordinary number of forty editions in less than two years. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, author of the " Life of Sterne," is bringing out a new novel called " The Fatal Zero." Mr. Morris, whose poem, " Jason," has had such a remarkable success, has joined with Mr. Mag nusson, translator of " Legends of Iceland," in translating an Icelandic tale, Grettir the Strong." Rivingtons are about to republish Newman's " Sermons on Subjects of the Day," in continuation of the series of parochial sermons. Messrs. Groombridge have just published the first part of " Our Rural Churches," by Sidney Corner, with painted illustrations. Dr. Page, the author of well-known students' manuals, has just written another, entitled " Chips and Chapters : a Book for Amateurs and Young Geologists." Mr. Donald Mitchell and Mrs. Beecher Stowe have started a new weekly magazine, d eth and Home.' On the day that Victor Hugo's new novel, " L'Homme Qui Bit," was published in Paris, the follow ing translations appeared :—Three in English, viz., one in London and one at Leipsic, and the other in New York ; one in German, at Berlin ; four in Spanish, viz., two in Madrid, one at the Havannab, and one in Paris ; two in Portuguese, viz., one in Lisbon, and the other at Rio Janeiro ; one in Rus sian, at St. Petersburg ; one in Polish, at Warsaw ; , one in Dutch, at Rotterdam ; and two in Greek, viz., one at Athens, and the other at Constantinople ; one in Hungarian, at Pesth ; one in Swedish, at Stockholm; and one in Czechian language, at Prague. Finally, there is some talk among certain literary Conservatives of getting up an opposition td etmjaonuf and the i n rt a l to e. L t li h t, e he r A ea fr t a l y t t e en Journal tf u r : t i lh : ,aewl Reader,hi s i c n h o , t th e n e t y cho s eu a y rca , ,rg d i it o ni e : P g s , nott h e t L r , e e a a to enterpri;e3 of this kir.d. The opplsition exhibition to the Royal Academy opens early in June, at 25, Old Bond•street, and will remain open until August 31. The committee includes several well-known names. Among them are Mr. Solly, Mr. Dutton Cook, Mr. Mark Lemon, Mr. Foley, Mr. G. A Sala, Mr. Walter Thornbury, Mr. Hollingshead, Mr: Walter Severn, Mr. Edwin Pettitt, Mr. F. Smallfield, and Mr. Henry Weekes. On the whole literature is more strongly represented than art. Mr. Moy Thomas is acting as secretary. Two 100-pounder steel muzzle-loading guns and two 6-pounder breech-loading steel guns, manufac tured by Messrs. J. 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A FLY-LEAF IN A LIFE. Once upon a time (no matter when), I was en gaged in a pursuit (no matter what), which could be transacted by myself alone ; in which I could have no help; which imposed a constant strai❑ on the attention, memory, observation, and physical powers ; and which involved an almost fabulous amount of change of place and rapid railway tra velling. I had followed this pursuit through an ex ceptionallytrying winter in an always trying climate, and had resumed it in England after but a brief re pose. Then it came to be prolongel until, at length, and as it seemed all of a sudden, it so wore me out that I could not rely, with my usual cheerful confi dence, upon myself to achieve thc constantly re curring task, and began to feel (for the first time in my life) giddy, jarred, shaken, faint, uncertain of voice and sight and tread and touch, and dull of spirit. The medical advice I sought within a few hours, was given in two words : " Instant rest.' Being accustomed to observe myself as curiously as if I were another man, and knowing the advice to meet my only need, I instantly halted in the pur suit of which I speak, and rested. My int ea tion was, to interpose, as it were, a fly-leaf in the book of my life, in which nothing should be written from without for a brief season of a few weeks. But some very singular experiences recorded them selves on this same fly-leaf, and I am going to re late them literally. I repeat the word : literally. My first odd experience was of the remarkable coin cidence between my case, in the general mind, and one Mr. Merdle's as I find it recorded in a work of fiction called 4 , Little Dorrit." To be sure, Mr. Merdle was a swindler, forger, and thief, and my calling had been of a less harmful (and less remu nerative) nature ; but it was all one for that. Here is Mr. Merdle's case : "At first, he was dead of all the diseases that ever were known, and of several bran new maladies invented with the speed of Light to meet the demand of the occasion. lie had concealed a dropsy from infancy, he had inherited a large estate of water on the chest from his grandfather, he had had an operation performed upon him every morning of his life for 18 years, he had been subject to the explosion of important veins in his body after the manner of fireworks, he had had something the matter with his lungs, he had had something the matter with his heart, he had had something the matter with his brain. Five hundred people who sat down to break fast entirely uninformed on the whole sul)ject, be lieved before they had done breakfast, that they pri vately and personally knew Physician to Lave said to Mr. Merdle, " You must expect to go out, some day, like the snuff of a candle ;" and that they knew Mr. Merdle to have said to Physician, " A man can die but once." By about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, something the matter with the brain, became the favourite theory against the field ; and by twelve the something had been distinctly ascer tained to be ' Pressure.' Pressure was so entirely satisfactory to the public mind, and seemed to make every one so comforts :e, that it might have lasted all day but for Bars having taken the real state of the case into Court at half-past nine. Pressure, however, so far from being overthrown by the discovery, became a greater favourite than ever. There was a general moralising upon Pressure, in every street. All the people who had tried to make money and had not been able to do it said, There you were ! •You no sooner began to devote yourself to the pursuit of wealth, than you got Pressure. The idle people improved the occasion in a similar manner. See, said they, what you brought yourself to by work, work, work ! You persisted in working, you overdid it. Pressure came on, and you were done for ! This considera tion was very potent in many quarters, but nowhere More so than among the young clerks and partners who had never been in the slightest danger of overdoing it. These, one au•d all declared, quite piously, that they hoped they would never forget the warning as long as they lived, and that their con duct might be so regula•ed as to keep off Pressure, and preserve them, a comfort to their friends, for many years." Just my case—if 1 !tad only known it —when I was quietly basking in the sunshine in my Kentish meadow ! But while lso rested, thankfully recovering every hour, I had experiences more odd than this. I had experiences of spiritual conceit, for which, as giving me a new warning against that curse of mankind, I shall always feel grateful to the supposition that I was too far gone to prott.st against playing sick lion to any stray donkey with an itching hoof. All sorts of people seamed to be come vicariously religious at my expense. I received the most uncompromising warning that I was a Heathen ; on the conclusive authority of a field preacher, who, like the most of his ignorant and vain and daring class, could not construct a toler able sentence in his native tongue or pen a fair letter. This inspired individual called me to order roundly, and knew in the freest and easiest way where I was going to, and what would become of me if I failed to fashion myself on his bright example, and was on terms of blasphemous confidence with the Heavenly Host. lie was in the secrets of my heart, and in the lowest soundings of my soul—he ! --and could read the depths of my nature better than his A B C, and could turn me inside out, like his own clammy glove. But what is far more ex traordinary than this--for such dirty water as this could alone be drawn from such a shallow and muddy source—l found from the information of a beneficed clergyman, of whom I never heard and whom I never saw, that I had not, as I retina. supposed I had, lived a life of some reading, contemplation, and inquiry ; that I had not studied, as I rather supposed, to inculcate some Christian lessons in books ; that I had never tried, as I rather supposed I had, to turn a child or two tenderly towards the knowledge and love of our Saviour; that I had never had, as I rather supposed I had had, departed friends, or stood beside open graves ; but that I had lived a life of " uninterrupted prosperity," and that I needed this " check, overmuch," and that the way to turn it to account was to read these sermons and these poems, enclosed, and written and issued by my correspondent ! I beg it may be understood that I relate facts of my own uncommerical expe rience, and no vain imaginings. The documents in proof lie near my hand. Another odd entry on the fly-leaf, of a more entertaining character, was the wonderful persistency with which kind sympathisers assumed that I had injuriously coupled with the so suddenly relinquished pursuits, those personal habits of mine most obviously incompatible with it, and most plainly impossible of being main tained, along with it. As, all that exercise, all that cold bathing, all that wind and weather, all that uphill training—all that everything else, say, which is usually carried about by express trains in a portmanteau and hat-box, and partaken of under a flaming row of gaslights in the company of, two thousand people. This assuming of a whole case against all fact and likelihood, struck me as parti cularly droll, and was an oddity of which I cer tainly had had no adequate experience in life until I turned that curious fly-leaf. My old acquaint ances the begging-letter writers came out on the fly-leaf, very piously indeed. They were glad, at such a serious crisis, to afford another opportunity of sending that Post-office order. I needn't make it a pound, aspreviously insisted on; ten shillings might ease my mind. And heaven forbid that they should refuse, at such an insignificant figure, to take a weight off the memory of an erring fellow creature ! One gentleman, of an artistic turn (and copiously illustrating the books of the Mendicity Society), thought it might soothe my conscienc.! in the tender respect of gifts misused, if I would im mediately cash up in aid of his lowly talent for original design—as a specimen of which he enclosed me a work of art which I recognised as a tracing from a woodcut originally published in the late Mrs. Trollope's book on America, forty or fifty years ago. The number of people who were pre pared to live long years after me, untiring benefac tors to their species, for fifty pounds a piece d .wn, was astonishing. Also, of those who wanted bank note 3 for stiff penitential amounts, to give away : not to keep, on acy account. Divers wonderful medicines and machines iniiinuated recommenda tions of themselves into the fly-leaf that was to have been so blank. It was specially obseivable TITS LORDS AND 'TILL DILL. The Pccar,/ believes that the Alm Bull has been misinformed respecting the alleged decision of Lord Derby to oppose the Irish Church Bill. Our contem porary refers to the circumstances which we have already pointed out as disproving that annou ncem en t— the hesitation of the Irish Church Conference, and the summoning of a meeting of Conservative Peers after Whitsuntide. The Record goes on to urge that a rejection of the bill would probably be attended with serious consequences to the Constitution. " The ultra-Radicals would rejoice in the opportunity of throwing fifty or sixty or even a hundred new peers into the Upper House. It may, therefore, prove a safe and a wise policy to receive the bill and modify its provisions. Or it may be still better altogether to evade a decision by adopting Lord Westbury's suggestion—that the House should refuse to take into consideration the bill during the present session until it has had an opportunity of understanding the general scheme of policy as to Ireland, whether as to the questions of the Church or the land tenure." It is a vain imagination, adds our contemporary, to expect that the House of Lords can long resist a measure pushed forward by a great majority in the House of Commons. A second appeal to the country would probably be attended with irreparable mischief both to the Con stitution and the Church. It is to a Fabian policy that the defenders of the Church must resort, in the hope that the country will cool down. The Record hopes something from Earl Russell's opposition, and seems disposed even to accept his levelling-up policy, the endowment of the " man of sin," if thereby the revenues of the Irish Church can be preserved intact. With Lord Russell and Lord Westbury fractious, something ought t) turn up for the benefit of the Conservative party. IRELAND. The discussion on the Irish land question is fast taking the place of the worn-out, wearisome Church question, and already the party journals are recrimi nating upon one another with energetic vitupe rations. There are three parties. There are those who 'deny the existence of a land question. The tenant farmers, they say, are well off enough. Those with whom it is necessary to deal are the poorer dwellers in and around towns. They should be got rid of by emigration, and placed in a locality where they will rise. On the other extreme are the Nationalists, who call the landowners robbers and tyrants, and want to have the land con fiscated for the benefit of the tenants. Between these conflicting parties lie the opinions of by far the greater portion of the kingdom. The critical position is recognised, but no definite plan is agreed upon. Indeed, Mr. Bright's plan—a royal commission buying up land from great land lords above their market price, and selling them at a moderate price and on easy terms to tenants—is the only one before the country. The papers, of course, are full of correspondence on the subject, and the tenants meanwhile are living in hope. Their hopes, too, are not of the most moderate. But (as the cor respondent of the Daily _Yews puts it) they would accept a temporary settlement, such as a tolerably long lease, for " something may happen" before long. DR. WNEILE'S LETTER. The letter of the Dean of Ripon to the Times has called forth two very energetic protests—the one from Sir George Bowyer, a Roman Catholic, the other from " A Protestant." Sir George charac terises Dr. 11.1• Neile's letter as a series of incorrect statements. The Doctor professes to quote the canon law, but really quotes St. Thomas Aquinas. What St. Thomas says does not 1)r. M‘Neile believe ? That which is taken in injustice olght certainly to be restored; but as to the Beformati9n being an unjust war, the Doctor will find no definition of an unjust war in the canon law. Sir George indignantly the . iNinth Com denies the truth of the statement that th e man in a Church would allow the use . of dupli c ity, —C., and 0 1 Lls s c e h s letter his pe perjury, by quoting Com mandment. believea dm e i n t t . Protestant t a a n n t " e d w e r e i a t t e e s d, " 1 : did not high position could hold, much less publish, opinions possible worthy of the darkest ages. I protest against this disgraceful libel on milhons9f ons fellow-subj eels going forth to Europe as the opinion of English Pro testants. I protest against the idea that we look upon our Catholic .neighbours as conspirators, perjurers, and assassins. It makes me melancholy to think that there can still be found ' enlightened Christian men' who make it their duty not only to keep up, but to inflame, that feeling of rabid, narrow-minded intolerance which is a disgrace to a civilised nation like England." ELECTORAL STATISTICS. The Standard publishes some electoral statistics to explain the gain of the Liberals at the late elec tions. Assuming that the figures are correctly given, the late Reform Bill, or the " Redistribution Bill," as the Standard calls it, gave 20 seats to " places where the return of a Liberal was almost a moral certainty." The minority clause deprived the Con servatives of three county seats, making 29, while that clause gave four seats to the Conservatives, making a net gain to the Liberals of 25. The Liberals, however, lost one seat more than the Conservatives by the disfranchisement of small boroughs. The Standard goes on to point out that the great Liberal strongholds are tl:e metropolis, where the Liberals hold 26 seats out of 28 ; the Black Country, where the Liberals hold all, 11; the West Riding, where they hold 15 out of 19 ; and the country between tho Tyne and the Tees, where they hold 17 out of 20. To this Scotland should surely be added. It is diffi cult to understand what purpose these statistics are intended to serve. If they mean anything, they mean that, while the small boroughs supported Con serv,tism, the large centres of population support Liberalism ; and it must be remembered that the transference of political power from the first to the second was made in a Reform Bill introduced and carried while a Conservative Government was in office, so that there can hardly be rcom for the sus picion that the change was made merely to benefit the Liberals, as was too often the case in the firsaf Reform Bill. The Standard gives the following as the result of the last four general elections ;-1857—Lib., 400; Con., 254; Lib. majority, 146. 1850—Lib., 364; Con., 290 ; Lib. majority, 74. 1865—Lib., 369 ; Con., 289; Lib. majority, 80. 1868—Lib., 386; Con., 273; Lib. majority, 113. These figures are not trustworthy. The so-called "Liberal" majority of 1857, for instance, was composed largely of Conservatives, who supported Lord Palmer ston on. - the- Chinese war in opposition to the Manchester party, as tho advanced Liberals were then called. This majority entirely disappeared within ten months ; for as soon as the Conservatives had an opportunity of obtaining office, those who had supported Lord Palmerston on the hustings opposed him in the lobby. The Liberal majority of 74 in 1859 is a stupendous mistake. Immediately after the general election the Marquis of Hartington moved a vote of "no confidence" in the Derby- Disraeli Cabinet, and although almost every member voted, the majority against the Government was only 13, just one-fifth of that mentioned by the Standard. The majority in favour of Lord Palmerston in 1865 is put at least ten too high. That gained at the last election is the only one correctly stated. ELECTION PETITIONS. The costly luxury of an election petition under the new Act does not deter petitioners. Under the old Act each party had to pay its own costs, whichever won. But now the loser has to pay for both sides; so that a petition is a lottery in which the petitioner may win a seat or lose 810,000. There are now two petitions presented against members elected in consequence of the unseating of the old members. Mr. Weguelin lost his seat at Youghal, and was succeeded by Mr. Guest, who now has to go through the ordeal which proved fatal to his predecessor ; and Lord Hyde, who succeeded Mr. Gwyn at Brecon, under similar circumstances, has to submit to the same crucial investigation. Probably if the whole truth were known, both the Irish and the Welsh borough would be disfranchised. As they are not, we see no reason why they should not be in a state of perpetual petition. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. The proposal made by Mr. P. Taylor, M.P. for Leicester, a little while ago, that M.P.'s should receive payment, has attracted the notice of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse. This able journal supports Mr. Taylor's proposition, and points out that it is in accordance with the principle already adopted by Switzerland, Belgium, some of the smaller German States, and the United States of America. Our contemporary thinks it strange that we who pay our Ministers handsomely, and who give the Spealier £6,000 year, should -so strongly object to pay intelligent politicians, who have the ability to serve their country, but are unable from want of means to give themselves up to political life. THE EXTENSION OF TEE EPISCOPATE. " 11. E. T." writes to the Guardian, pointing out that nothing is to be expected from the House of Lords in the way of escape from the present unsatis factory state of the Episcopate : , 6 A alekly infant has about as much chance of escaping save trout a - oaoy-taming- ebtainisinneuc, us uu real measure for the extension of the Episcopate would have from the tend r mercies of our spiritual peers. It is but too painfully clear that the cause has everything to fear and nothing to hope from its injustm IiOVCITa" on the bench. With two honourable exceptions, secured to us by the Episcopal appointments of the last two years, our spiritual fathers seem unable to separate, even in thought, the Bishop from the Peer. The increased usefulness of their order seems to weigh for nothing with them, so long as a possible curtailment of its dignity is supposed to lurk behind. "'Let `order' cease; let supervisio., ' die; But leave us sti!l our Such seems the deplorable policy to which the bishops have once more committed themselves, and, in which, doubtless, the House of Lords will continue to abet them." WOMEN'S RIGHTS. A rather singular meeting has just taken place in Hanover-square Rooms. The lady believers in women's rights invited several gentlemen to discuss the matter with them. First a paper was read by a lady, setting forth the well-known instances of strong-minded women of ancient and modern times, and arguing that women were as well fitted as men to enter the learned professions. Ladies, it was declared, could preach, plead, and practice as well as men. The gentlemen, however, did not quite agree with this. They thought the education of women might be much improved, but did not believe that everything in the position of women was due to defective education. Women might enter certain professions, but could hardly grasp them well. They might be accoucheurs, not doctors ; they might help men in their work, but would hardly be fitted to take the whole burden upon themselves. The reporters assure us that the ladies who took part in this meeting were not according to the caricature ; there were many owners of pretty faces present. THE CONT.TEESION OF TIIE JEWS. It has been repeatedly asserted that it costs 210,000 to convert a Jew, and that when converted he almost invariably relapses. This statement is just now giving rise to a lively discussion in the Daily News. The originators of the discussion assert that the Society for the Conversion of the Jews is one of the greatest shams of the age, and they challenge the officers of the society, who have recently claimed seventy converts within the last twelve months, to produce ten well-educated Jews who have been con converted without a material improvement in their worldly circumstances. In other words, the charge is that the converts belong to the lowest class, who would take up with any religion provided they found it had the promise, likewise the fulfilment, of the life which now is. EMIGRANTS WANTED. The latest inducement to encourage emigration is marriage. The servant girls of this country are implored to go to Canada, they will have a good chance of marrying there. No matter that they are comfortable here, no matter that they are getting high wages; these considerations of course are nothing in comparison with the " chance" of obtaining husbands in Canada. The chief emigration agent at Toronto writes that he has had no less than nine girls married out of his own house in five years to farmers' sons, and all of them are now doing well. So let all young women who have as yet failed to obtain constant admirers in this country betake themselves to Canada, where they may cast their lines in more pleasant places. THE COUNTESS D'ALTEYEAC. Mr. J. Wilson Nicholson, writing to the Times, denies emphatically the charges brought against Lord Willoughby d'Eresby in the Bankruptcy Court, relative to his treatment of the Countess d'Altevrac. it Was stated that of the money awarded by Mr. Vernon Harcourt to the Countess GCS 200 in all) only C:500 had been paid by the Lord High Chamberlain, and that his lordship was living in a house belonging to her, of which he refused to yield possession. Mr. Nicholson declares both of these statements to be entirely false. All the money, he says, has been paid to the last farthing„ and the house belongs to Lord Willoughby. The original statements, we believe, were made on oath. has the Countess ii Alteyrac, then, perjured herself ? ME] ROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Thursday. It may, I think, be taken for granted that the Conserva tive party have not made up their minds to move the rejection of the Irish Church Bill in the House of Lords, nor have they made up their minds as to any course at present. Mr. Holt, who beat Mr. W. J. Kay Shuttleworth, as candidate for North• East Lancashire at the general election, means to move the rejection of the bill on its third reading in the House of Commons. But that is a very different matter from moving the rejection in the House of Lords. The Conservatives know that they will he beaten in the first, •and that, therefore, they run no danger of bringing about a popular agitation and a civil war in Ireland by going to a division ; but they know that they will win the second, and that if they determine to win they must be prepared to face a political storm compared with which the Hyde Park riots of three years ago were mere play. It is rather hard upon them that they should not venture to put forth their strength in the assembly where they are strongest, and should have to display their weakness where they are weakest. But that is the inevitable result of Mr. Disraeli's Reform Bill, Which has given the people so much political power that when they once pronounce decisively for a certain policy that policy must be adopted. The risk of rejecting the bill is too great for even Lord Derby lightly to incur it. It is no secret that Mr. Gladstone has full power from the Queen to make sufficient new peers to carry the bill over the heads of the Conservative peers, and the fear that this power will be exercised is likely to have the same deter rent effect that it had this time . thirty-seven years. The Conservative peers will hope rather to profit by Liberal dissensions, and to get rid of the bill on a side issue. In fact, the policy adopted by the Adullamites in the House of Commons with regard to Reform in 1866 is to be adopted now in the House of Lords with regard to the Irish Church. Just as Mr. Lowe, Earl Grosvenor, and the rest said that Ministers ought not to bring in a fran chise without a redistribution bill, so Lords Russell and Westbury will, it is expected, contend that Ministers ought not to bring in a Church without a Land bill. This will avoid a direct rejection of the former measure, and will, it is supposed, give the people time to cool down. Past experience leads to the opposite pre sumption—leads to the belief that the people will rather warm up. In that case the land question, awkward as it is now, will be very much more serious, and we must look for nothing less than an agrarian revolution. I may add, while on this matter, that the third reading of the Church bill is fixed for the 31st inst, the division, in all probability, taking place the same night, and that the second reading in the Lords will probably be moved by Earl Granville on June 14. The debate will very likely occupy four nights. The Government have taken a very wise step in appeal ing to the good offices of the Papal Government on behalf of Ireland. Between the Irish bishops and that Govern. ment the relations are intimate, the communications are frequent, and there is probably no country in Europe where the Pope and his counsellors have more personal influence than in Ireland. The Roman Catholic clergy dread Ribaudism as much as the Irish landlords. The first are as much interested as the second in putting down the dangerous communistic doctrines of the Reds. Hence our Government had good reason to ask the assistance of the Roman hierarchy ; hence it has been granted, and there is little doubt that Archbishop Leahy's recent pastoral is due to the influence of Cardinal Antonelli, exerted in reply to communications made from our Government through Mr. Odo Russell. This circum stance chews, as much as anything can do, the absurdity of our objection to the same diplomatic intercourse with the Court of Rome which is carried on by other States, Protestant as well as Catholic. The American question has somewhat improved since my last. All the letters from the other side confirm the idea that the States have no intention of going to war. In fact, they are, as the Times points out to-day, like our selves, bound over in a very substantial amount to keep the peace. It costs them thirty millions a year to pay the interest on their national debt, and we have to pay not very much less. I suspect, if the truth were told, that the Clarendon-Johnson treaty would have been accepted as fully satisfactory if it had not been that the Americans were thoroughly disgusted with the fulsome way in which Mr. Johnson flattered us. They had intended him to assume an air of offended dignity and reserve, and straightway he was so effusive that even we thought the thing overdone. Mr. Motley will now adopt the tone which Mr. Johnson shduld have adopted, and we may hope that after American dignity has been satisfied by keeping . the Alabama question open a sufficiently long time, the matter will at length be settled peaceably, as it might be now, but for a rather foolish piece of sentiment. By the way, Mr. Sumner, in a conversation which he is said to have had with the reporter of the New York Herald, complained that the Times of the 15th, 16th, or 17th of April did not announce the fact of the rejection of the Alabama Treaty. This is perfectly true ; but if Mr. Sumner had gone back a little farther, he would have found the statement in the Times of the 14th of April. If Mr. Sumner will examine his claims against England a little farther, he will find them to be as un founded as his charge against the Times. Private letters from India tell me that Lord Mayo is carrying ceremonial to an extreme. In this respect he is the very opposite to his predecessor, who was just as extremely neglectful of viceregal etiquette. Lord Mayo is personally unlike Lord Lawrence, being a fine, hand some man. Ins style of living is magnificent. Describing one of his State dinners, my informant says every thing, even the plates from which the guests ate, Wei solid silver, and in the middle of the table stood a magnificent gold centre-piece. The food was worthy of the material upon which it was served, and of the French cooks who prepared it. Lady Mayo is stately, and does not condescend to do much of the talking, and the aides de cimp do not atone for her lack of conversational power. Lord Mayo, however, is a very agreeable talker. As the Viceroy 'lnd all his principal secretaries are new to that every prescriber, whether in a moral or Or sical direction, knew me thoroughly—knew °e from head to heel, in and out, through and throng ! '' upside down. I was a glass piece of general Plf perty, and everybody was on the most surPrisiog 4 , intimate terms with me. A fe w pubic institut ioP° had complimentary perceptions or corners in 1111 mind, of which, after considerable self-exami n : tion, I have not discovered any indiellt i° l Neat little printed forms were addressed to tlwr j ' corners, beginning with the words, " I give 3 , : f . bequeath." Will it seem exagger a ti ve t o ;,tal e 7;1 belief that the most honest, the most m odest, a . the least vain-glorious of all the records Igoe t strange fly-leaf, was a letter from the self-dec eiv discoverer of the recondite secret " how to live f °i or live hundred years ?" Doubtle s s it w ill seol l ' e. , yet the statement is not exaggerative by any n' e r: but is made in my serious an d. sincere convic t f; With this, and with a laugh at the rest that not be cynical, I turn the fly-leaf, and go on al —Dickens's "All the Year Round." NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEIV Yesterday the Field-Marshal Commanding'," Chief visited Aldershott Camp, and exercised; division in field movements. At h a lf-p as t 9 O . the whole of the infantry was formed up in li lje , contiguous columns, facing west, on the Qu e ; Parade, North Camp. Shortly before 10 d e , the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Herbert, C. 8., assistant- Adjutant. General , Col. the Hon. R. W. P. Curzon, C. 8., Camp, arrived on the ground, and was red' with the Royal salute, while the bands played °. ral bars of the National Anthem. The Duk e spected the ranks very closely, and then pro d , to the saluting base and saw the troops march in grand divisions in quick time. 113 c passed the,base, they reve rse d f ront, and rle3r., past en masse of columns .at quarter distanc e : bands, drums, and pioneers on the reverse n and preceded by the generals of brigade, staff, field-officers. They next went past from the f ginal flank in brigade of column s , an d agail l the reverse flank in the same order as before, ceded by bands, drums, pioneers, st a ff, ad l and field-officers. After the executio n these movements the infantry returne i t i, quarters, and. Royal Highness, 15 : it i of brilliant staff, proceeded to the Long . 1 40 where the cavalry and artillery bad formed up since ten o'clock. The Duke havia received with the Royal salute, inspected the Dragoon Guards, under Colonel the Hoe. 0 0, Thesiger, and the 10th (Prince of Wales's / Hussars, under Colonel V. Baker, who al'°s / u 1 manded a brigade. C, D, a n d E B a tterie 3r e tio Horse Artillery, under Colonel S m yth, a nd tb grey batteries of the 11th Brigade, 8,.A.1 il Colonel Tupper, having marched past 11 0: „ 5 " rons and batteries at a walk, a n d by wiovr, trotted past by sections of fours, they 0 0 / through a s~rie3 of highly interesting tie:dold vents, lasting about two hours, after whi c i , returned to quarters, %%inch were reached 5 0 o'clock. Mr. Cardwell, Secretary of State for W; , :tf companied by Major-General Lefroy, 1) ,, i 1 General of Ordnance ; Col. Jervois, C. 8., '," of Fortifications; and the Hon. Captain ,„i arrived on Wednesday evening at Pcarce's Hotel, Plymouth. Yesterday morning, tdi e l by Colonel Westmacott, eotnmanding Eng ill i the western district, and Capt. Durnford, Ass o i Engineer, they l e ft th e Royal H ote l a t 10 i f nd, crossing Ilamoaze by the steam ferry y point, procecled to inspect th e forts at Ire d ! and Screasden, in C ornwa ll, an d t h e batt er gt Picklecombe and Cawsand, where Captaio r / min, in the paddlewh e el ste am tender Vt? Alice was to be in attendance to 6009 to the Shovel Rock Fort, Plymouth BOO) and probably to Bovisland and Drake's ll They dined last evening at the Royal lio tel l day the Commissioners will visit the north -ell P tificatious at Knackersknowle, St. BudO l Y and aftewards inspect the gun-wharf an c t ef f Wise, at Devonport. It i s un d ersto od t P i i , leave Plymouth this af t er n o on f or Portstuo llt li The screw frigate Endymion, 21, "), Wake, was insp ec t e d y es t er d ay a t Portstii ° l l ' Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.8., C °3 . 1 2 der-in-Chief, and will be paid out of col:( to-day. She is in most excellent order, 59 0 , ready for sea, the present crew having b e d; ployed since her return from the Medit el. ', on the Ist of January, in refitting her 10r 1L commission, Captain E. Lacey having bee° c i t o appointed to her to form one of the Flyil l g 0 ron. The Endymion was commissioned ill o il t o Wake on the 24th of September, 18 66, r iot) shortly after for the Mediterranean. P to *, year 1867 the was employed from January o fe in laying down the cable from M a lta to A le if iti o , and from August to November cruisiogi o joilf squadron off the coast of Italy. On the ' o cify vember she embarked at Leghorn the P o ./ penal of Japan and suite for passage, e Ore where he remained a week the guest of t ; 41 nor, and on leaving specially requeste d . ll'' Endymion should take him to Marseilles: e f f ol the voyage her engines broke down, but silderli, Marseilles in five days under sail, and c ' o ca t f io turn to Malta she performed the di ° I)i' miles) in 72 hours under canvas ooll' i je 1 11 1868 she was employed cruising with t t i l e 0 , ron ; from April to June they visite d e bify of Syria and the islands of the 141 013 09' and from July to September all t b ile :4l the Adriatic. She was detached foal t e Mi ron on the 17th of September, an d 10 1 0 4 in laying down the new cable between '' o be Alexandria ; on the 19th of Noverub ef ,„o o / barked at Brindisi. Lord Napi er o f marvv suite for Alexandria, returni ng t o Mal° ~, to' 44 ber. From January, 1869, till her rete i. ' W t ie, land she was employed cruising betvie e° 0 0° 11 Gibraltar, and Cadiz on account of til o or t ir d state of affairs in Spain. The Endymio n et a herself an exceedingly usef u l ship uncl e * i. 07 4 with engines of a better class and more P ° 0 , 0 51 ,i, be one of the most efficient ships of he r : o o l V envy. During the time she has been ie be o (two years and eight months) she has 323 days, and has gone 27,775 miles. to/ i 'o' Chat,, t A Turner festival will-be held aOl :1 ,4 0 Tennessee, by the Turner Societies of tilst;hel,o bouring cities, May 16, 17, and 18. Ti 1e .,.0:, German prize essay on that occasion Will 13 % eV „(0" be done in order to give the current of Ger r #li, to the West a Southern direction? C° 1) l1 [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills.' 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