The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

lot —he only means of snppressingbribery and intimidation, and securing freedom and purity of election." (Cheers.) Mr. BERKELEY, who rose amid renewed cheering, to ac knowledge the toast, said he would not upon that occasion attempt to trespass at any length upon the time of the com pany. He believed that he should be doing very little jus tico to their intelligence if he were to doubt for a moment that they were already well acquainted with the merits of the question of the ballot. It was a question which had for the first time of late years boen taken up by Mr. Grote, with an eloquence and a logical arrangement of the argu ments in favour of the ballot which had never since been equalled. On the retirement of Mr. Grote it fell into the hands of Sir Henry Ward, by whom also it led bee thatn ar- he g ued with great ability ; and as it so happed (MI. Berkeley) had seconded Sir 11. Ward's motion, he had bean asked by that gentleman to act iu the mat embero pun s successor, pose vain soled f pose the aid of abler hands he bad yielded to that request• lfe believed the ballot would materially c:"ntribute to pro mote purity of el•ction, for although it was true that a candidate might still make a bargain with an elector for the purchase of his vote, it was not likely that one rascal would be much disposed to trust another. (Cheers and laughter.) The last time he brought that subject before the Hume of Commons he bad occasion to refer to certain transactions in that borough, and Mr. Onslovv, their mem bir, then stood faithfully by him and confirmed everything he had stated. 1f any one could show him a better instru ment than the ballot for preventing corruption and intimi dation at elections he should be prepared to adopt it ; but as he was as yet aware of no other remedy for those evils he should continuo to the best of his ability earnestly to advocate that measure. (Cheers.) A few other toasts, including " The Chairman" and "The Ladies" next followed, and the company afterwards separated at an advanced hour of 7 _ THEATRE' ItOYAL DRURY-LANE Sole Lessee and INlanager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton '1 HIS EVENING, FAUST. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. Ed mund l'hclps, W. Harrison, end Johnstone; Mrs. Hermann Venn, miss Poole, and Airs. II Vandenhoff. To uonedide with shakspere's EDY OF ERRORS. Brot h er s Dromio by the Brothers `Feb Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckehone, THIS EVENING, lIE OVEKLA.Ni) ROUTE. Messrs. Chai lei Mai hews, Buckstone, Coml. ton, Chippenc ale, Rogers, Clark, Braid. Gordon, White, &c. ; Alesdamts slathevvs, Chip pendale, Hill, A right, ,t c. Atter which, Uri BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. The Misses Healy. To be followed by THE CRI CIC. Me srs. C. Mathews, Compton, Rogers ; Mrs. t itzwilliam, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, BUUTUS ANu C..ESAII. Miss Ilearade. At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Ac's, THE LUNG STRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. New Scene - yby Mr. 'l. Greive and a ssistants. Mess. s. S E mer y , IL Wid ,Vitzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson, bewbound, Stanley. Loma s , Moreland, Andre vs, Reynotds, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL COAT. Toby Tweedleton, Mr. 11. Widdicomb ; and Miss Gratton Acting Manager, Mr. 11. Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-Office open daily from Tin till Five. TIIC LONG STRIKE.-ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT til,;,—Johany Reilly (au Irish Sailor), Mr. D. floucicault; Jane LearOy dVI Factory Girl), Airs. Bouci cault. At 7 o'ciock. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and aianager, Mr. Geo. Last Week but One of the "Huguenot Captain.'' Tins EVENING, a Comedy, in Three Acts, by John Oxeutord, Esq, entitled TILE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. Viiking, Mr. J. G. Shore; Miss K. _Rogers, Alias Neilson, and Dirs. buckingharn White. After which, at 9 o'clock, THE BJG UENOT CAPTAIN , by Watts Phillips. Esq. Airs. Stirling, Miss Neilson, Miss A. 'Thomson; :',lr..Forrester, Mr. G. Honey, and Mr. J. G. shore. Grand lsatlet of tio:leinians, in which MM. Flageolet, Clo doche, Comte, and Ziormande, will appear. Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds. TIIEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. o 1 e Proprietor and Manager, Mr. 13. Webster. TIM EVENING, at 7 precisely (1111 i time), ETHEL ; or, ONLY A LIFE. Miss Ewe Terry, Mn. Allred Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Emily Fitt ; Messrs..Billington, Stephen son, Ashley, Horn r, C. J. Smith, &c. To conclude with II LEN ; or, TAKEN FROII THE GREEK. Mrs. A. Mellon, 3liss Furtado, Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, It. Puiilips, 1. A. Shaw, Ashley, Eburne. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. TH. S LVLNING, L.kltlilNS' LOVE LETTERS. Mr. Balmore ; Miss U. Saunders. After which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Belmore, Blake, Garden,Vollane ; Meidarne F. Josephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, J. Fitidts. --- ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. swaulioruttgli. THIS EVENING. THE MARRIr.D BACHELOR. Messrs. Thorne and Price; Misses Johnstone anu 111: hea. I'o be followed by IN THE WRONG .BOX. . 4 .11.• r w d.di. will be prJduJel a Grand Burlesque ci I)E FREIsCiILTZ ; A G;;,(1 t 'or I'.ece. Messrs. [home, Jame-, and itobso.i ; 111Isdaw,0 borough, Raynnam, Jonnitone, and Ltu,hes. To conclude with WAIfING FOIL THE UNDER GROUND. ________------------.7_ acceded to the demands of Prussia at an earlier period we cannot see any force in it, because where is the gain of Hanover and other States, which have long been compelled to yield to the hard terms of their conquerors? The truth is, that the Berlin Government have been going on all this time, declaring that they only made war for the sake of advancing the cause of German unity, and yet with the greatest inconsistency we find that their real and sole object is to obtain posiession of as many places as they can seize for themselves. It is easy to make pretexts and offer excuses, but they all amount to the same thing at last. The least pos- Commence at Seven. rrHE "SUN" NEWSPAPER. - G. it. 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THIS DAY.—M6rning, 211. 30m.—.Afternoon, 21,.55,m. r J -MORROW. - M ornin g , 3h. 15n.. —Afternoon, 3h.36 /- - „ 0 :. • SUM LONDON, THURSDAI, CUT. 25, 1866. Perhaps, after all, there is more to regret than to wonder at in the hard terms forced upon Saxony. It is all of a piece with the conduct of Prussia from beginning to end, and more especially in consonance with her poli c y of the present year. As for saying that Saxony might have bad better terms had she sible claim can they advance, founded upon truth and justice, that they should thus seize on so many independent States. As for the idea that some perbist in, that it is necessary for the interests of Germany, we do not see it at all ; and the best rule to lay down in all matters, whether social or political, is the simple one that wrong can never be right. If the Prus sians and their friends and admirers are consoling themselves by their notion that they are doing evil in order that good may come out of it they will find themselves mistaken. The surest proof that all these changes of so sudden a character, and so startling a nature, are wrought for the sake of the gain of Prussia, may be seen in the persistency of Count BISMARCK to sink all considerations that respect for others might suggest. Thus we find that these unfortunate princes, who are despoiled of their possessions either virtually or in reality, are treated with the greatest contempt and indifference. Were they potentates of some remote region of the earth, whom the fortune of war had left at the mercy of the conqueror, we do not see how their present feelings or their future welfare could be matters of more absolute indifference to the Prussians than they are now when they are of the same race and country. If the new Germany that is to spring into exis tence in marvellous strength and splendour is to take root in oppression and to flourish in selfishness, we have no hope for its permanence or for its prosperity, and neither will it deserve to enjoy these blessings. The terms forced upon Saxony are very hard and harsh, and we do not wonder that the KING so long held out against these. The command of the fortress of Konigstein has been handed over to the Prussians, the Saxon troops are placed under the control of the new Governor, and the infantry go to Pilsitz. Now it is quite ridiculous in the face of this to talk of the clap-trap of unity, and the friendly desire of Prussia to join all states together for the common good. The fact is that in all these arrangements we can recognise a deep-seated purpose and a strategical power at work aiming at the ruin of all indepen dence and the loss of native influence. Of course it might have been better if the re-organisation of Germany could have been accomplished in a satis factory manner ; but it would be even infinitely preferable to let things stay as they were for some time rather than allow wrong to be done, injuries inflicted, and tyranny to flourish. Of one thing we are sure, the new regime cannot last. The present age is not one to sanction or tolerate tyranny under any form, and of what worth will be the unity of remodelled Ger many that only holds together by force and is ex pected to grow and flourish at the point of the bayonet ? A work of improvement that must take place, through the agency of an army of occupation, is likely to turn out a very sorry affair after all, and we do not recollect any man in the present day who has so completely outraged the opinion of Europe as Count BISMARCK has repeatedly done of late. lie has acted with the greatest contempt and in difference for all the rules which direct and restrain those who call themselves statesmen ; we find no respect for the chivalrous spirit that should animate a war among civilised communities, and no regard for the countries that should be shown in the ar rangements of peace. Beyond this there are many instances of treaties being faithlessly kept, pledges violated, and promises broken as if for the purpose. What became of the clause which was to have se cured to the Danish Schleswigers the right of re turning to their former allegiance ? It would really seem as if it had been insulted in the Treaty, for the sole purpose of showing with what contempt and indifference the magnates of Berlin could treat engagements which honourable men would have thought to be solemn and sacred. It has been so throughout the whole course of the proceedings that have taken place. We alluded yesterday to the extraordinary course pursued towards the King of lIOLLAND, and the barefaced manner in which facts were distorted to meet the purposes of the victors. In small matters the same sinister spirit is seen, and we find the most unnecessary restrictions inter posed; for instance, the former subjects of Denmark in the Duchies have been for bidden to give their little tribute to the Princess DAGMAR on her marriage. All these acts must have been committed with the approval of the Prussian people, or why is it that we find no pro testthe basis of th e structu 7 re . raised against them If, of G t e h r e m n a , n t h u e s n e i t a y r e w t e o s b e e e no chance of greatness, goodness, or glory, in the world. It is all on t h e principle that the cud a very d angerous one to a d opt sanctions the means, at any time, but especially mischievous when the interests of a great c ommun i ty are at stake. It is paying but a the e ir Geeormmpalnis ment to the intelligen ce o f collectively to think that they are to retrace their steps so completely, and offer to the world the strange spectacle of incapability which Count Bis- MARCK forces upon them. It is all very fine to talk of the desire experienced by the several States for annexation to Prussia ; but all we can say is, if the German feeling is so strong in this direction, it is very strange, indeed, that it is necessary for the Prussians to occupy all the fortresses and to take possession of the military power in those places. It looks very much as if the mild and benig nantWlLL]AM was forced sway of Ki n g upon them, and they were allowed ey w t e h dth l e il : o f d ree i - t free dom of choosing as to whether or not, but no peace or liberty beyond this. We have an instance of the feeling entertained in such quarters, at all events, with respect to the alliance with Prussia. We learn from Carlsruhe that at a prolonged sitting of the Chamber of Deputies it was debated whether or not certain propositions were expedient, and the paragraph relating to the pro posed alliance with Prussia was rejected by a large majority. Whether this may mean anything or not, eventually, at any rate, it shows what the state of feeling is there at present iu a very unmistak able manner. The Liberals apparently think it quite time that they should have some social gatherings on their own account, and not leave their adversaries in pos session of all the opportunities for speech-making during the recess. The hon. member for Birming ham has, we know, been actively engaged in en lightening the good folks of the North, and the good county of Surrey has just been the scene of a brilliant demonstration. The occasion was a public dinner, at which Mr. ONSLOW, one of the members for the borough, was entertained, and at which a piece of plate was presented to Mr. LONG, the un- 111 L SeN, Wisil ON, THIIRSOAY EV ENING, OCTOBER 25, 1866. ' , successful candidate, in token of his services to the Liberal cause. There was a numerous com- pally, and plenty of speakers, who had all, no doubt, something to say that was very well worth hearing 'by their immediate neighbours ; but the chief inte rest of the speeches to the general public was to be found in the addresses of Mr. BUXTON and Mr. _BERKELEY. Mr. LONG, to judge by his speech of 'Tuesday night, is no very great loss to the national councils. He is in favour of manhood suffrage— objecting even to the three years' condition, which is.of ten proposed as a condition of household suffrage. It is not this opinion, however, to which we take exception, since manhood suffrage is upheld by many useful members; but the comparison of the present condition of the English non-electors to Russian serfs and negro slaves. Gentlemen who talk like this seem to forget that there is something more in a free constitution than the election of mem bers of Parliament. It confers other privileges than those of walking to the hustings. Free thought, free speech, free individual action, and security of equal rights under the law, are, after all, the in alienable property of Englishmen, and it behoves us to be careful how we undervalue these blessings, lest In making too reckless or ill-considered changes we find we are risking the substance for the shadows. Mr. ONsLow is also in favour of manhood suffrage, and says the first tones of the voice of the people of Englaud were heard in Hyde-park. A Frenchman who was pre- sent told him he never saw "a more orderly riot," which Mr. ONSLOW regards as high praise ; but the hon. gentleman forgets that the French are more accustomed to emeutes and street disturbances than we are, and that in former days at least it was rather pleasant excitement for the Parisians to have the barricades up and the dynasty down at an hour's notice. We have been accustamed in this country to pride ourselves on our power of self-government without the aid of external force, and if our logic requires the aid of iron railings we fear our philo sophy is not improving. As for manhood suffrage Mr. ONSLOW said he was not in favour of it at one time, but that now he upheld it. He found that in other countries, as in America and Australia, every citizen was considered deserving of the suffrage, and he did not see why John Bull was not equally so. But judging from the present political condition of the United States the result is not very satisfactory. We see that such a system of wholesale election fails really to represent the intelligence and principle of the nation. We should be doing the Americans great injustice if we supposed that the virulent and vindic tive politicians who now dominate over Congress, and are ready to sacrifice everything to the main tenance of • their own power, are to be accepted as a standard of national feeling. The most noisy and unscrupulous are too apt to get to the front when it is necessary to push through a crowd and in the same way the most boisterous politicians are likely to obtain ascendancy with manhood suffrage. The men of intellect and refinement, who are best calculated to think over the problems of the day, and to exercise a beneficial influence on the conduct of public affairs, shrink from the contest, and thus in America the complaint is a common one that the best man will not be put forward. Mr. BUXTON'S speech, though strongly in favour of the late Government and of their Reform Bill, was remarkable for its moderation and for the firm ness with which he withstood the views which appeared to him mistaken. In the midst of an assembly in which Radical principles were prevalent, he did not shrink from saying that he believed the Liberal party was in a critical posi tion, and that if care were not taken it would become involved in hopeless and im practicable schemes that may alarm the country, and so retard not only Parliamentary Reform, but the progress of Liberal policy. " Mr. BRIGHT tells us, Said Mr. BUXTON," that out of 100 grown men only 16 have the suffrage. That is a striking fact, but it has two aspects. On the one hand, there is written on the face of the truth that a disproportion so flagrant cannot and must not be suffered to remain. On the other hand, it is not less obvious that a Reform Bill which would confer the suffrage on the remaining 84 per cent., or the greater part of them, belonging to the working class, would utterly overthrow the political sway of those who now possess it ; and what the result might be of a change so mighty no man can foretell." Mr. BUXTON went on to say that so sud den and violent a change could only be justified on the plea that England was worse governed than any other nation•—a fact which no one could believe who knew anything of history or politics. Mr. BUXTON'S straightforward and liberal views were listened to with respect and attention, although, as we have said, they were not in accordance with those of some of his hearers, a fact which reflected credit on the Surrey tone of fair play. Mr. BERKELEY, whose health was drank with de served honours as the champion of the ballot, asked very forcibly whether any better instrument for preventing corruption and intimidation could be found ? If it could, he would, he said, gladly adopt it, but as yet he knew of no other remedy for those great evils. It might not, he admitted, altogether prevent a candidate from making a bar gain with an elector ; but for his part he did not think it likely that one rascal would trust another. Neither bribers nor bribed would like such a defini tion ; but we are afraid that the fact which Mr. BERKELEY so roundly stated has a good deal to do with the opposition the Ballot has to encounter. Mr. BERKELEY has proved an able and consistent advocate of the cause, and we hope before long he will have the satisfaction of seeing it triumphant. AN EASY WAY TO PROPAGATE ROSES.—But we are most concerned now about the autumn propaga tion, and I have yet a good practical note to make, and it is for the special benefit of people who cannot now make up their beds and frames of cuttings, but who mayhap must wait till November or December to seta few cuttings going. I have remarked alcove that after October, cuttings in the open ground have a lessening prospect—or, if you prefer the term, a vanishing perspective of success—and every day's delay will tend to diminish the total number of those that will ultimately ma k e roots. It is a discovery cn which i n cocoanut t eh fibre enjoyment of a shelter, frame I set some value, th a t if l ate cuttings are heeled into a bed of w or it u h n a de li r tt a le st a a t g m e, o o sp r any whereatmospheric moisture to prevent shrivelling, they make a callus by about the end of February, and may then be potted separately, and be plunged in a cocoa-nut fib re b e d i n a frame, or may actually be plunged in the open groun d ; or they may be pushed with bottom-heat to make roots and growth at once. The rationale of this proceeding is not occult. The cocoa nut fibre has a preservative value ; it affords no encour agement to mildew, it prevents damping almost as effec tually as dry peat-dust or silver-sand, provided it is only reasonably moist ; it maintains a nearly uniform tempera ture, or at all events does not vary in temperature with every variation of the surrounding atmosphere; and for so me reason that I don't pretend to understand, it will coax almost any kind of cuttings or leaves to make roots ; it is wonderful in that respect , th ou g h so little able to feed r oots when they aro formed. But no matter about the philo sophy of the thing. In r espect of to those rose cutting it is as I say, and I commend this bit of practice who wish to mu ltiply their roses in t he safest and cheapest way.— Gardeners' Magazine. KING VICTOR E3IItIANUEL AND THE FREEDOM OF VENlCE.—General Revel having made known to King Victor Emmanuel that the national flag had been unfurled on the Place St. Mark, a nd that the population had witnessed it with joy, the Sing replied in the follow ing telegram: "To General Revel, at Venice.—A thou sand thanks, general. Happy am Ito s ee realised the aspirations of so many centuries. Italy is one and free. , Italians must now defend and keep it so.—VICTOR /424- MI:WEL." L A TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Oct. 25. The King will receive a Venetian deputation at Turin on the 4th November, who will com municate to his Majesty the result of the PlebisCitum. On the evening of the following day his Majesty will set out for Venice, arriving in that city on the 7th November. The King will be accompanied by the Presidents of both Chambers of the Legislature, the Ministers, and his military household. Four hundred and nine Venetian residents in Florence voted for union w ith Italy. Only one negative vote was recorded. ST. NAZAIRE, OCt. 25. The steamer Washington has arrived here with the mails from the Pacific, 1,000,000 f. in specie, and 900 tons of merchandise. The health of all on board is good. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. CONSTANTINOPEE, Oct. 25. Prince Charles arrived here yesterday, and im mediately had an audience of the Sultan, by whom he was received with special attention and the highest honours. The Palace of Kutschuln has been placed at the disposal of the Prince during his stay in this city. CORRESPO . DM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. The following is the news contained in the bul- letin of the 111.9niteur of to-day : " The official Gazette of Florence of yesterday states that the accounts from various cities of Ve- netia speak of the enthusiasm with which in the towns and country the inhabitants took part in the plebiseitum. " The Opinione announces that Austria has made choice of M. Bruck, as charge d'affaires at the Ca binet of Florence, until the appointment of a Mi nister Plenipotentiary. The charge d'affaires of Italy at the Austrian Court is Count Bati Oppi zoni, who has arrived at Vienna." The papers discuss a subject of great importance, but I believe it is merely an hypothesis, whether it is desirable that there should be an answer to the Imperial Speech at the opening of the Chambers. I believe the Government has not the most remote idea of proposing the abolition of this time-honoured custom or formality. The Patrie and the Presse seem to desire a substitute for the usual answer to the address. In reply to their arguments the Siecle says : " The Speech from the Crown explains the gene ral position of the policy of the country since the end of last session. It expresses the opinion of the Executive power upon the questions which have occupied the public mind during the interval. There is nothing more logical than that there should be a reply to Legislative power, which should state its concurrence with or its disagreement from the appre ciation of the head of the State and the legal organs of public opinion." A letter from Koenigsberg, dated Oct. 19, says that the cattle disease has again manifested itself in Lithuania, in the environs of the town of Kowno. The Prussian authorities immediately took vigorous precautions to prevent the importation of diseased cattle. The accounts from Switzerland state that the disease is on the decline there. The lloniteur announces that the total amount of the subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations is 1,195,601 f. 52c. The Government has received a despatch from the Commandant of the Islands of St. Pierre and Mignelon, which announces that, on the 22d Sep tember, there was a terrible storm at the colony, which caused the loss of eleven ships and did much other damage. Among the vessels lost was the Abondance, a Government ship. Three of the crew were drowned. From 60 to 80 sailors belonging to different vessels perished during the storm. The French pickpockets are becoming at least as clever as the English thieves. At the races at La Marche they victimised a rich wino merchant, of Bercy, a desperate better, who is well known to have plenty of money in his pocket when he comes to the races. On this occasion he had 30,0001. in notes in his purse. When the races were over, just as he was about to leave the scene of pleasure a hand, not his own, intruded into his pocket. The business was done with less delay than there is in a flash of light ning. He seized the hand, but the purse was gone. The thief showed fight, but the gentleman was not to be intimidated, and he gave the intrusive hand and its owner into the custody of the police. The purse, no doubt, had been passed to an accomplice. The individual who played the little game, being an old acquaintance of the police, is detained in custoCy for the present. A real Cremona violin has been discovered by a musician at Tours. It has this inscription :—" An tonius Stradivarius Cremoniensis faciebat. Anno 1711." There is now no doubt that the mission of General Castelman to Mexico had for its object the arrange ment of measures with the Mexican Government to insure the return of the French troops to France with as little delay as possible. I have already informed you of the preparation of vessels for sea which are to bring back the troops. They will all leave almost at the same time. The last news re specting the Empress Charlotte of Mexico is ex tremely unfavourable. Her mental faculties decline rather than improve. Despatches having been sent to Brussels describing the lamentable condition of the Empress, it appears that her sister-in-law, the Queen of the Belgians, intends to repair to Mira mar without _delay, to pay her such attention as may be necessary. England has taken possession of the locality in the Champs de Mars, where the produce of English art and industry is to be exhibited at the Great Exhibition. At the south-eastern angle of the ter ritory there is a lofty mast, where floats the flag of England, which, " for a thousand years, has braved the battle and the breeze." Who could have fore told that the flag of England would have waved over the city of Paris during this goodly year of 1866 ? Duelling is no longer protected in France, as was once made a subject of boast. On the contrary, the Correctional Tribunal of the Seine has condemned M. Duvernois to two months' imprisonment, and Messrs. Arthur de Fonviella and Mr. Emile de Girardin, jun., to one month for being concerned in the duel which took place recently at Vinciennes, and of which I sent you au account. The seconds were sentenced to pay a fine of 100 f. The duel was between M. Sarcey, theatrical critic of l' Opinion Nationale, and M. Duvernois, editor of La Liberte. The latter journal may be said to be conspicuous from its obscurity. BT ts s ays ust w ill : shO The report is shortly enter the renewed The Jo t u h r a n t a ,i\di.esdeD Austrian Cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Although the Nouvelle Presse Libre seems to rely upon the news, we hesitate to believe that the Em peror of Austria would be so badly advised as to take a determination which would excite general discontent throughout the Austrian Empire, and at the same time render more difficult her relations with Prussia, which do not appear to be yet upon a very cordial footing." This latter phrase has its significance, when it is recollected that the Journal des Debats sometimes speaks from au thority. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—This evening the Lord Mayor entertained at dinner Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin. The guests numbered about fifty, and included all the Catholic judges of the law courts (with the exception of Judge Keogh), Dr. Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel, and seven or eight bishops ; Lord Bellow, Mr. Monsell, M.P., The O'Connor Don, M.P., The O'Donoghue, M.P., the Attorney-General, M.P., Mr. C. Barry, M.P., Sir James Power, Sir Percy Nugent, Sir John Ennis, and Major-General Sir Justin Sheil. " The Health of the Cardinal" was the only toast proposed; the proceedings were private. AN UNDERGRADUATE DROWNED AT OXFORD. — It is our painful duty to record another of those sad accidents which occasionally occur on the river at Oxford and Cambridge, the fatality in this instance happening on the Isis. It appears that the deceased, Mr. Bradley, of New College, formed one of a crew engaged in a scratch four oar race with other members of his college. Three crews had engaged in the contest, and which proceeded safely until Saunders-bridge had been reached, where deceased's and one of the other crew's oars came into contact, and deceased and his four partners were capsized. The acci dent attracted a crowd to the spot, and an inquiry from a spectator elicited the fact that they could all swim but Bradley. Upon this six or seven undergraduates plunged in, and the greatest confusion prevailed, the boat to which the deceased had been hanging having been turned over in the attempt to render assistance. A ballast boat near the spot and punts were immediately in attendance, but the deceased had disappeared from the surface. At this junc ture ono of the capsized crow reached the Oxfordshire shore and made towards Oxford, which led to the supposition that deceased had got out all right. That error having been detected, Mr. Willan, President of the Oxford University Boat Club, hastened to the spot, and was most untiring in his endeavours to recover deceased by diving, but as the water was very thick, his efforts were unavailing, as were those of Mr. Short, of New College, and other gownsmen who jumped into the river. It was some little time before the water bailiffs arrived, but the drags were effectually used by Thus (a servant of the Boat Club) and Bossom, who found the body of the deceased, about three quarters of an hour after the accident, at about 30 yards from the spot where the boat went over. The deceased was the brother of the Head Master of Marlborough College, and had only just gained . one of the open scholarships at New College. He was a fine young man of 19, and was Touch beloved. The overturning of a boat's crow on the Isis, either purposely or by accident, has generally been re garded as a good bit of fun, but the melancholy fate of Mr. Bradley may probably check that love of danger which is so deeply rooted in the undergraduate mind. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 24, Two o'clock.—Although the market opened with higher quotations, these imme diately fell, and sales have predominated. The daily primes have all been abandoned. French Threes, which were quoted at 69f. at the opening, are now doing at 68f. 90c., or the same as yesterday. Italian Fives, after touching 56f. 50c., are now at 56f. 5c., a loss of 45c. Credit Alobilier, after ad vancing 2f. 50c., to 635 f., have lost 3f. 75c., at 628 f. 75c. Credit Foncier are 2f. 50c. lower, at 1,372 f. 50c. Railway Shares are comparatively firm, and whilst some exhibit a slight decline others have obtained a similar advance. An active demand is being resumed or the General Ottoman Debt 5 per cent., which are doing at 30f. 25c. Three o'clock.—The market has continued bad, and closed as follows : per Cents 96 95 Do. end month — Bank Shares 3600 Italian Loan 55 90 Do. end month 55 80 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred r ANS. 3 per Cents. 6B 80 Do. end month 6B DO Credit Mobilier 625 Do. end month 627 50 Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1370 For Account. . 866 25 Orleans Northern llBO Lyons and Mediterranean 922 50 Southern 5BO ___ —_ _ Wes.ena . 557 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian . M 7 50 382 50 Lombard 417 50 North of Spain lO7 50 Saragossa 137 50 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman — MARKETS.---This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a full average supply of beasts on sale here to-day, partly the refuse of Monday. Prime breeds sup ported previous rates, but inferior stock was very dull, at barely stationary prices. The top figure was 5s per 81bs. Prime Down and half-bred sheep were in fair request, ou former terms. Long-woolled sheep were heavy, at Mon day's currency. The highest figure was 63 per Blbs. There was a fair demand for calves, at late rates, viz., from 4s 2d to 5s 2d per 81bs. The sale for pigs was very inac tive, yet prices were supported. Per 81b to sink the offal. 8 d s d s dad Urse & inf. beasts... 3 2 3 o Pme ors-wool sheep 5 2 5 0 Second quality do ..3 8 4 2 Prime 6'oi...town e 0.5 8 6 0 Prime large oxen ..4 4 4 8 La , ge coarse calvcs.4 2 4 8 Prime Bents, &c.... 4 0 5 e Prime small d0......4 to 5 2 Urse. and inf. sueep..i v 3 10 .Lare,e hags .3 10 4 3 Second quality do ..4 0-1 10 Small porkers ...4 6 5 Lamb....os Od to 0, Od. Suckling calves, 21s to 233; and quarter-old store pigs, 3 b 33s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Beasts 1,3:0 Cows. — Sheep and lambs G,O )0 Calves rigs 4.0 Foreign supply. Beasts ..... C0w5..... Sheep and 1 Jabs 1 5OO Ca vee 2OO ,Pigs l2O MEAT. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.—Prime meat is in fair re quest at the late decline in price ; otherwise, the trade is heavy. Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to Os Od ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s 6d per 81b by the carcase. HAY. SMITHFIELD. — Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 10s; clover, £4 15s to 15 15s Od ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 4s per load, Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 12s 6d; clover, £4 123 to £5 los ; and straw, £1 los to £2 5s per load. A moderate demand. WHITECHAPEL. — Meadow hay, £3los to £4 lOs ; clover, £4 15s to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 4s per load Trade inactive. NIGHT SIGNALS.—The difficulty of exchanging between two ships at sea, or between a ship and the coast, during the night, has long boon felt by mariners, and various devices have from time to time been suggested, in order to fulfil the various conditions of rapidity, distinct ness, and simplicity required for the purpose. We now learn that the French Government has at length adopted the system invented by Mrs. Martha Coston, of Washing ton, a system amply and successfully tested during the late American war, and now exclusively used by the United States navy. It was by the aid of these signals the attack ou Fort Fisher was conducted, and when the first monitor, the one that fought the Merrimac, was about to sink, it was by the use of the same signals many of the crew were saved. A large quantity of Mrs. Coston's night signals are now being manufactured in the Imperial arsenal of Toulon. The system is remarkable for its simplicity and handiness. A box made of tinfoil, and containing a composition which, when set fire to, will burn with great brilliancy, displaying two or three different colours in suc cession, is fixed on, to a handle held by a sea man, the tinfoil melting away as the combustion proceeds. This is all concerning the mere transmissioa of the signal; the other and more important part., viz., the expressing of a given number, is effected as follows :—A 'preparatory box P is first burnt by way of calling attention; as soon as au answer is returned by means of another sig nal A, the real business of telegraphing No. 726, for in stance begins. Tho box marked 7is put on .the handle, and burns away, giving a green light; then comes box No. 2, which will give first a white and then a green light ; and when that is:burnt away box No 6 will display first a red and then a green light. All that remains then to be done is to look for No. 726 in the code of signals. The fact of the French Government's adoption of this system is a sufficient proof of its efficacy. PHOTOGRAPHIE.— It is a well-known fact that a photograph taken in the ordinary way is by no means the exact representation of the person or object, but is, on the contrary, imperfect in those parts of the image of which was not, at the time of the sitting, in the exact fociis of the lens. This is why photographers are so parti cular about the sitter's posture, obliging him often to sit straight and stiff in his chair; to the great detri ment of the artistical beauty of the photograph ; be cause the greater the distance between the planes in which two different parts of the body or face are seen, the more want of proportion will there be in the re presentation of those parts. M. Claudet has been lately endeavouring to grapple with this difficulty in the art of photography, by starting from the principle that, in order to obtain a perfect representation of an object, each of its parts should be successively brought into the focus. If the image of the nose could bo taken first, and the focus were then shifted so as to get the eyes in, then again shifted to get in the ears, and if these three images could afterwards be made into ono, the portrait would bo perfect. This is the modus operandi M. Claudet has endeavoured to adopt by embodying an old invention of his, called the focimeter, by which the focus may be ascertained that a certain de gree of illumination requires. Now if the focussing screen be made to slide backwards or forwards, till, by the aid of focimeter, it reaches the exact spot where either the nose, eye, or ear is in the focus, the different planes of the face will each have been successively in the focus and out of it for a certain time, and the portrait will be so much nearer to perfection. The same result may be obtained in another way ; instead of sliding the focussing screen backwards and forwards, the object-glass may be composed of two lenses, which, by being brought nearer to or removed from each other, will make the common focus shift its place ac cording to the artist's desire. This operation would not in any case length the sitting, and the interposition of the common diaphragm would contribute to render the com pound images as clear as can be desired. LITERATURE. The Quarterly Review. No. 240. John Murray. The current October number of the Quarterly is hardly so attractive as usual. A remark having re ference mainly, however, to the mere themes selected by the reviewers. For the treatment of the eight papers making up the contents of the number is in almost every instance excellent—two amongst them, indeed, are especially, we would even • say, excep tionally remarkable, and this, at once, it should be added, in their respective themes and in their relative treatment. As to the less alluring articles, however, first of all. It will be obvious, as a matter of course, that but few of the general public can be supposed to care much for, " Dr. Badham and the Dutch School of Criticism"—and comparatively few for a resume of the " Ancient Literature of France"— even though that ancient literature leads off heroic ally with the Song of Roland and the Poetic His tory of the Beatified Emperor Charlemagne ! " Homes without Hands"—suggestive upon the in stant of the honey-making bee and of the dam-build ing beaver—has a charm of its own, for the notion of which (in the suggestive title of the paper that is) the reviewer, who treats upon the subject, is indebted to the Rev. J. G. Wood, the popular Naturalist. " Fergusson's History of Architecture" %has been selected by another contributor as the theme of an interesting and instructive treatise upon that, in one sense, first of the sciences—a professional criticism ren dered all the more interesting to the general reader from the interspersing among the ex planatory letterpress of a variety of illustrative woodcuts. " Operations of Modern War" is an article that lays Marshal Marmont, General Smith, Colonel Macdougall, Colonel Huxley, Capt. Chesney, and others under contribution for their opinions and experiences—carrying our thoughts off as we read, at eccentric tangents, now to the Ame rican Merrimacs, now to the Prussian Needle-guns, hither and thither, at every turn of the leaf, to some more terrible instrument of destruction than those preceding it, arms suggested may be by a Whitworth or an Armstrong, a Colt or a Snider, until the lines, and paragraphs, and pages of typography here con veying the writer's ideas to us through the medium of the Quarterly, one might almost at last imagine to be as suggestive of the deadly harmonies and deadlier discords of war as the Springfield Arsenal was in its day to the poet Longfellow— The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. " Central Asia" is the title of a politico-geogra phico-ethnological article —hung upon pegs as wide apart as (among others) the Invalide Russe and the Travels of Marco Polo ! Having enumerated which half-dozen papers in the present number of the Quarterly—we have now only to take into passing consideration the two remaining criticisms not yet specified, though already referred to as of excep tionally remarkable excellence. One of these, the more elaborate of the two--and no wonder, con sidering its " high argument," that it should be thus more highly elaborated—is theological, ethical, biblical, in its character. The other is political—the political article or manifesto, in fact, of th e Quarterly. First of all, however, as to the earlier of these two notable contributions—a paper simply but (in this age of Strausses, and Renans, and Colensos) significantly entitled " Life of 0 UR LORD." Turn by turn, the unbelieving, so-called philosophers are subjected to scrutiny, calmly and quite dis passionately by the reviewer. Strauss and Tholuck, and Ullmann, and Lange, and Riggenbach, and De Pressense—Olshausen, and Bleek, and Hilgenfeld, and Volkmar, and Boltzmann, and others, on and on, down even to now-a-days, to these days of Renan and of Colenso. The survey thus taken ex tends over more than thirty years, more than the thirty years last passed—the lifetime of a whole genera tion ! Of the drift of the argument which is there upon incidentally set forth by the Quarterly Re viewer, as deducible from the contention among themselves, of these quasi-sages, these soi-disant analysts and as such these would-be dissipators of the dream of Christianity, we need here do no more than adduce two or three passages, by way of illus trative or elucidatory quotation. For 'example— thus observes the writer, in reference to the ques tioned but irrefrag able— AUTHORITY OF THE RECORDS OF THE EVANGELISTS. Three great theologians, towards the close of the second century, at Lyons, Carthage, and Alexandria, Tremens, Tertullian, and Clement, boar witness to the fact that at that time our Gospels were universally received as canonical. The well-known " Muratorian Fragment," which belongs to the same time, bears the same testimony. These would not do much towards determining a question which be longs to an earlier time, unless their evidence were in some measure retrospective. But it is retrospective. For example, Tremens indulges in fanciful analogies about the number four : there must be four Gospels, neither more nor less, because the Gospel is to go throughout the world, and there are four quarters of the world ; the Gospel is the breath of life, and there are four winds of heaven ; the cherubim, on whom the creating Word is enthroned, have four faces. All this is bad reasoning to establish the num ber four, but it affords a pretty good argument that the Church had by this time become accustomed to that num ber of Gospels. Tremens also reminds one Florinus that when he was yot aboy he sat at the feet of Polycarp, and that with the vivid memory which one has for the events of childhood he could recall the very look, and gait, and manner of Polycarp, who gave accounts of his frequent intercourse with St. John and with others who had seen the Lord ; and Traumas says further that Polycarp's ac count of the doctrine and miracles of the Lord were all " consonant with the Scriptures." Ho also tolls us else where that the followers of Valentinus made a free use of St. John's Gospel. Now all this, written about the year 185; does much more than prove that Tremens knew the four Gospels. When we are asked to believe, by one of the latest writers, Volkmar, that the Gospel of St. John was written about the year 155, we must assume that when Tremens was now a man, and when the three other Gos pels (even on Volkmar's estimate) had been in use for full 50 years, a new Gospel, attributed to one of most eminent name, appeared and obtained its position suddenly and with out challenge, with miracles recorded in no other Gospel, with new and momentous discourses of the Lord. Perhaps it is conceivable that this should have taken place ; but even if we had no testimony save that of Irenueus, it is in the highest 'degree unlikely. But Tremens is only one of many. Two attempts at Harmonies of the four Gospels had been made about the same time. Justin, who wrote at latest in A.D. 147, quotes three Gospels, and criticism is hard pressed to explain away allusions to the fourth. Tischen dorf makes good use of the argument from heretical writ ers; Hippolytus tells us that Valentinus relied on a pas sage in St. John (x. 8); and the like is said of Basilides ; if so, this Gospel was Well known in the first half of the second century. The Montanists probably borrowed from John their, view of the Paraclete. It is clear from two passages of Tertullian that Marcion began by believing the four Gospels, as known to us, and that after wards, thinking them tinctured with Judaism, he undertook to amend or alter the Gospel for himself : the date of this amended Gospel, founded on St. Luke, is about 138. Celsus knew the four Gospels, writing about the year 160. All this testimony, :and much more that Tis chendorf and others have adduced, tends to carry us back ward to the early part of the second century. Before a distinct and general recognition of the Gospels could take place—before they could have been winnowed out clear from all the apocryphal literature that at first hung about them—some time must have elapsed. It is scarcely con ceivable, moreover, that a new Gospel should take its place as an authority to be quoted in a controversy without some discussion on the question of genuineness arising. This difficulty will always cleave to any theory save the obvious one of adhering to external testimony. Speaking of the " confusion worse confounded " that has prevailed all along among the followers of Strauss, the Reviewer puts the subjoined question, upon which, it will be seen, he himself comments immediately afterwards very wittily : But whit kind of evidence is that which in the hands of Griesbach, Do Wette, Baur, and Kosdin, gives us the order of Matthew, Luke, and Mark, and in the hands of Wilke and Volkmar exactly reverses this order, and places Mark at the beginning, with Luko making use of his Gos pel, and Matthew beholden to both ? The time is come for admitting that all the ingenuity that has been spent on the subject has sufficed to bring out into strong light many great and deeply interesting questions which belong to the inspired records of our faith, but has not produced any approach to a solution of them. Some future mythical philosopher pondering this page of literary history, may doubt that such difference could have occurred; he may argue that it is a myth in which. the "consciousness" of the 19th century has reproduced the story of the Tower of Babel ; a "re forming criticism" was built up high above all past dogma and doubt, but amidst a welter of confused and contradic tory speech, such as never could. have been historically possible for rational men, the work was abandoned. Summing up, at the close of his own impartial argu ment, however, the results of this stupendous and momentous controversy, the Reviewer remarks, r ,~" more than merely eloquently, more than im sively—remarks most affectingly—as follows : Criticism has said its last word upon the subject, and Ho impression, brought to the proof, turns out to be un founded. Tho more exact the research the more remark- able the contrast between the riches of Christ, His precious doctrine and character, and the sheer bareness, littleness' narrowness of the Juthean culture out of which He came• Moreover, the true human nature of Christ was somewhat lost sight of in the Church. Gazing up into heaven upon the risen Lord, with the glory of eternity and of the Divine presence about His head, we have a little forgotten that our Master was ono who walked through this pilgrimage of life as we are walking, with feet sore with ravel, with a heart oppressed by misapprehen - And when truth wanes moral activity de clines. We have boen forced, by rude shocks o doubt, to look at His true human side again: They say that M. Renan's book has caused a great demand for copies of the Gospels in a country where these were not so accessible as they are to us. We may do well to return 4. our Gospels, and know in Christ the true human friend and guide, leader, pattern. We should hear his discourses us new teaching, wo should watch Him tried with all kinds of hate and stupid misunderstanding; we should stand very near the cross. If suffering is human, if love and pity are human, then His sacred history is intensely human. Nevertheless, when we turn the last page, and let our honest conviction speak, we shall find the human has re vealed to us the divine, "Truly this man was the Son of God." Having said thus much upon the seven preceding papers, it remains for us now only to comment upon the closing article in this new number of the Quarterly —the Political—and yet more than simply political— the eminently Patriotic article in which, if ro dis tinct or definite policy is defined, the nobler ambi- ion inspiring the breasts of the leaders of the Great Conservative Party is far too clearly indicated alto gether to escape the popular apprehension. A will ingness, if it should prove necessary, or evert if it should prove merely advisable, to consider the vexed Question of Parliamentary Reform, with a view to its satisfactory settlement upon some rational basis —an eagerness to set on foot a whole system of social reforms very sorely needed especially down in the lower strata of the population—a strenu ous determination to secure once more to this country other allies besides the one solitary ally (France) now alone left to us among the nations of Christendom, thanks to the allienating influence of our late Whig administrators, under the super - cilious but irritating direction of their Foreign Policy by Earl Russell—above all, an ardent resolve to do everything towards consolidating rather than towards loosening the grand political structure of " England and her Institutions"—such are theprin cipal designs, such are the leading resolutions, such, in plain terms, are among the broad outlines of the policy set forth here, evidently by a master-hand, as now held in view by the Conservative Party, and ae now quickening in the councils of the Conservative Government. Scattered abundantly among the run ning ripples of the argument put forth in this well' compacted, yet comprehensive, treatise upon the _ _ political situation, are opinions, sentences, occasion ally mere phrases, that are eminently worthy Of remembrance—radiant sometimes with wit, mostly with wisdom. Thus, par exeinple, when scouting the notion suggested of late by some would-be re organisers of our military power, to graft upon England the Prussian system, the reviewer says, simply enough, but crushingly, " Eng land can best guard herself by remaining Eng lish." Emphatically summing up the whole of the magnanimous policy of the French Emperor towards this country the critic remarks in a single sentence—" Never has Sovereign or people had a more frank aad loyal ally than France, under the empire of Napoleon 111., has proved to the Crown and people of England." Again, take the follow ing pregnant sentences as indicative of the artistic force and practical suggestiveness of the writer's thoroughly well-thought-out argument. Ile is speaking of what is really and in truth just now the most urgently required at the hands of our ad ministrators, be they who they may, and he says thereupon : France has not left herself without other friendships than that of England—England should not leave herself out other friendships than that of France. It is her more immediate object to remove all differences between herself and the United States of America ; to heal the sores which yet rankle in the mind of the Germanic peoples; and while quietly engaged in this task, so to mature and consolidat e her own maritime power, that, while she invites friend ship, she does not supplicate for assistance. Our strength , defensivo or aggressive, is in our navy. No pains and no c ost are too great to render that navy perfect. If England ever be conquered, it must be at sea. Misfortune enough l ° our commerce and our honour if conquered there. As t ° invasion of our soil, we do not think M. Espuiros takes too flattering a view of our security when he sums up the re view of our warlike defences to this effect, Any Conti nental nation, no matter which, that wished to come lilt ° collision with Great Britain, ought to think twice of it. . . . She will find before her the ships that hay ° hitherto covered the coast with an impenetrable bulwark behind the ships the soldiers ; behind the soldiers a coal" try in arms." It is not to be denied that the incapacity of recent ad ministrations has left much for their suocessors to do. 111 ' e most pressing of all reforms is that of the Board of .Achlu" rally, with all its collateral departments. Referring to the late Government's abortive Re' form Bill, the Quarterly Reviewer says quite truly that the objection was " not as against its mogul" tude, but as against its unfairness." Nothing could well be happier, again, as an apt quotation Iron Mignet in reference to the wilder vagaries recently indulged in by Messrs. Beales and Bright, than the echoing here of the French historian's words " There are times when the most unpopular of a ll parties is the party that calls itself popular I" obviously undeniable, moreover, if we only abstract Mr. Bright's name from the roll of the Refer °. League, is the accuracy of the writer's assertion in respect to the present doings of that Lenn ie where he says that—" No agitation equally claul° l rous was ever before so significantly dive st ' of aid from men of social position and 13(31,i: I tical renowa." Drawing the whole difficulty ' a point, he puts before us thus e pi gr a m matical l y this most agreeable alternative—" It has becom e question," he says, " whether we are to exchange the genius of this ancient monarchy for a miserable cell of democratic America." No where have we seen more terse or a more forcible declaration of the efficiency of Lord Derby and his colleagues during their last brief tenure of office, eight years ago, than is conveyed by the subjoined epitome of their Wst conspicuous achievements : Short-lived as was the last Government of Lord Derq ii and occupied as it was with the framing of a Reform $31,,.. on which its existence was staked, Liberals the most ads vanced admitted the new life and energy it infu sed the several departments. Then was adopted an d consul l e dated into' practical form the defensive syste m of the Volunteer force—then was commenced the reco nstructio± of our naval power —then was abolished the liceo,.c°o by which the Hudson Bay Company retained 1 ) d , w ild er ness of a hunting-ground, the fines t Pr vinces of British America—and then were ad d ,ii e to the empire the only two colonies, Britis h Co l ti `f bia and Queensland, which, not only paying their own p a uses, have within a half dozen years enriched the trauto of the mother country to an amount rapidly swelling j t ._ m illions. Nor did we ever meet a Radical member of 12:'; liatuent who did not contrast the ready f u ll ness of iii` °- ; Illation on any departmental subject, the courteous ac ees do and promptitude of decision which characterised the 11° „ h ,, of departments in that short-lived Government, Wi th of scanty and begrudged replies, the supercilious arroga°c-ttio manner, and the slothful procrastination, which We re i ,ss ge neral characteristics of predecessors who had eve n e ii respect for their followers, than they showed to t opponents. e ver, As a crowning and concluding excerpt, he w- I , e r from this political article in the current Oacto number of the Quarterly, let us content oursoilea with the following delightful sarcasm, dire against one--by whom, unfortunately, it is buy i jo g well deserved—meaning the once philosophic,b ut ce cl demagogic, M.P. for Westminster. " Did we 13 . , 0 r proof," says the Quarterly Writer, " of the tyra' tb , with which democratic constituencies reduce e l minds of their own representatives to their owl', that of thought, we might find that illustration nuagio. proof in the present political position of Mr' c 1 to The electors of Westminster, no doubt, returu.ver. Parliament a very illustrious and origina l thlu'aoa Once returned to Parliament, the illustriou s . , t o original thinker vanishes ; and on gazing °licf member for Westminster, we are startled to qee aote tl like he .has grown to Mr. Beales." Having q ill to which, we close the Quarterly —leaving M r " ,1 r of ° the inextinguishable laughter of all except 111% infatuated admirers—the majority of whol,l_f, suspect, have never read one whole chapter u jot ,. one of his books, or, if they have, have been pable of understanding it. wes- sion. 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