The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-11 00:00:00

The Irish International Exhibition. DUBLIN, MAY 10. When the late Lord Carlisle, on the 12th of June, 1863, laid the first stone of the Dublin Exhibition Palace, none of those who surrounded him, however sanguine in their expectations, could have anticipated a result so magnificent as that which was witnessed yesterday on the same site. On that occasion pos session was taken of a piece of rough neglected ground called the Coburg Fields, for the purpose of forming them into winter gardens. The weather was wet and chilling, and a few planks were placed upon the sod, and a tent or two erected, for the purpose of protecting the ladies and gentlemen pre sent from the effects of the cold and damp. The company had been formed to provide a place of rational amusement and instruction such as those with which other large cities are provided, but of which Dublin was singularly destitute--a winter garden, where in all weather horticultural exhibi tions might be held, where musical societies might meet, where concerts on a grand scale might take place ; a rendezvous to which the friends of social progress and the cultivated classes of society gene rally might resort ; a sort of terminus at which the various lines of intellectual progress might converge, where skilled industry might associate with high art ; a centre from which civilising and refining in fluences might emanate and be diffused over the whole land. There were to be galleries for the exhibition and sales of statuary and pictures, depart ments for the display of manufactures and useful arts, a polytechnic museum, a theatre for lectures on popular science, &c. The capital for this purpose was subscribed in good time by 600 shareholders, including many of the leading citizens of Dublin, led on and encouraged by the Duke of Leinster and Mr. Benjamin Lee Guinness, whose names repre sent all that is noblest and best in the aristocracy and the mercantile community of Ireland. Mr. Guinness, who had purchased the Coburg Gar dens, gave the ground to the company on easy terms, and with it the credit and influence attach ing to his character as the first and wealthiest of our merchants. Such was the origin of the Exhibition Palace, which has been created within two years. It occurred to the public-spirited originators that when the building was completed it might be fittingly and usefully inaugurated in connexion with an International Exhibition, and it was deemed essential to the success of this project that it should enjoy the patronage of the Queen ; but to obtain this it was necessary that it should be divested of the character of a commercial speculation, and ac cordingly a committee was formed, quite distinct from the company, exclusively for organising and conducting the International Exhibition, for the purposes of which the palace and the gardens were rented from the company at the sum of £15,000. The application for the Queen's patronage was earnestly supported by the Chief Secretary, Sir Robert Peel, who, in a letter to Sir C. Phipps, urged that " gracious compliance would not only be most valuable to the prospects of the Exhibition, but have the effect of giving a salutary impetus to the public spirit and loyalty of all who are interested in the welfare of this country." The Queen complied with the utmost cordiality, and Sir C. Phipps wrote :—" I have received the commands of her Majesty to say that she is happy to be able to accede to the request contained in your letter, and to sanc tion the announcement of the Dublin International Exhibition as under her Majesty's patronage. The Queen wishes the promoters of this patriotic under taking every success." Mr. Gilbert Sanders and Mr. Hercules M'Don nell were then commissioned to proceed to France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and other countries for the purpose of soliciting the co-operation of their Governments, and they everywhere met with the most encouraging success. At Turin a committee was at once formed for the purpose of affording in formation and organising the contributions of Italy. This committee consisted of the accomplished Pro fessor Matteucci, as president; Commander de Yin cenzi, of the Royal Museum of Industry of Turin ; the Hon. H. G. Elliot, British Ambassador ; Pro fessor Manna, formerly Minister of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce ; Chevaliers Tasca, Pre sident of the Chamber of Commerce, Pio Agodine, and Luigi Rey, the last three having been nomi nated as representatives from Turin. To this committee our countryman, Mr. G. P. Jervis, acted as secretary, and rendered efficient aid. Signor Topelli, Minister of Agriculture, Industry, and Com merce, also issued an official circular, addressed to the Chambers of Commerce throughout the dominions of King Victor Emmanuel, in which he said that the Dublin Exhibition "would offer a new field for exer tion, where the raw and manufactured products of Italy may be judged of, and where foreign nations will have the opportunity of appreciating the pro gress our country has made of late years, the increase of our wealth, and the development of our economic life.'i "It is highly desirable," he added, "as the International Exhibition will not be less important than former ones, that Italian industry should be represented. . . . I feel confident that in their own sphere of action the several Chambers of Com merce and Art of the kingdom will do everything to carry out the object." Besides the central com mittee in Turin there were established by Royal authority no less than 14 sub-committees in the principal . cities, and at the ports of Genoa, L eg h orn , Naples, Messina, and Palermo, where the principal shipments were made. The Italian arrangements, in fact, were made with systematic care and method, reflecting the highest credit upon the authorities. The King, to give further proof of the interest he takes in the Dublin Exhibition, has appointed a special commissioner; and Signor Marani, the Italian consul in Dublin, has been associated with him as commissary and inspector of the department. Mr. M'Donnell next visited Rome, where he received assurances from Cardinal Antonelli that Rome would be as well represented in Dublin in 1865 as in London in 1862. The presence in Rome at this period of Lord Talbot de Malahide conduced mate rially to the success of the application. The col lection of sculpture from Rome has been contri buted by the first artists in the world. Lord Tal bot de Malahide and Mr. John Lentaigne are the Roman commissioners to the Exhibition. Austria was next applied to with success, and subsequently Bavaria. A splendid collection of cartoons, never previously exhibited, have been sent from Munich. Every country in Southern Europe, in short, is re presented in the Exhibition. While those operations were being carried on in the south, Mr. Antonio Brady was engaged. with the Scandinavian nations, where he met with ready e neotragement. In London the agents of the Ex ecutive Committee received every assistance from the promoters of the Exhibition of 1862, from the Society of Arts, by whom a committee of advice was apPointed, and from her Majesty's Government. No less than 100 letters, were issued from the Foreign office to ambassadors and representatives of Great Britain abroad, enclosing copies of the prospectus, and authorising them to give the movement every aid intheir power. Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Chichester Fortescue brought the enterprise before the notice of the colonies, and Sir Ch ar l es Wood and Lord Wodehouse supported it so far as British India was concerned. The., co - operation of many of the mun i c ip a l bodies - of the United Ringd ora was cheer fully given, and artists and manufacturers generally lent a willing'aid. The success that has attended these various efforts in so short a time is something wonderful, and I do not think that there was a s i n gle person engaged in the undertaking, at what ever sacrifice of valuable time, who did not feel himself amply rewarded in the magnificent display witnessed yesterday with so much admiration and delight by nearly 10,000 spectators. There have been exhibitions of greater magnitude, but it may be questioned if anything altogether so exquisite as the picture presented yesterday to the view of the Prince of Wales and his illustrious com panions has yet been seen in Europe. In order that your readers may be able to form an adequate conception of this combination of all that pleases the taste and satisfies the understand ing it is necessary they should have some idea of the various departments of the Palace, the con tents of the Exhibition, and the arrangements by which the brilliant and triumphant effect has been produced. The building, as I stated in a former letter, is divided into two sections. The stone front looking on Earlfort-terrace has a fine effect, with its Doric pillars, Corinthian capitals, and a hand some colonnade, with windows designed in the Italian and Byzantine styles. By the principal en trance the visitor is admitted into an immense hall, having on either side a row of marble pillars, with beautifully carved capitals, and running the entire width of the structure. It opens on, the great nave, opposite the central apse. Marble statues are placed between the pillars, which support galleries, orna mented with pillars corresponding with those be neath, by which also the arched roof is sustained. In these galleries the paintings are exhibited, the light from the roof showing them to great advantage. On the left of the entrance-hall is the large concert room, intended to accommodate 3,000 persons. It is 130 feet long and 65 feet wide. Here a magnifi cent organhas been erected,and an orchestra capable of accommodating some hundreds of performers. This concert-room opens upon the apartment called the Great Hall, which is intended to be the " Winter Garden." It extends the whole length of the glass structure, looking out upon the pleasure-grounds, and having galleries all round. This hall, with the galleries, is occupied by the stalls of foreign exhibi tom, and presents a most brilliant appearance. Nearly in the centre of this great transept, facing the Concert-hall, was placed the dais of the Prince and the distinguished personages who accompanied him. This is the French Court, the largest and best situated in the building. Let the reader, then, imagine the great Concert-hall crowded with ladies and gentlemen, the Orchestra filled as closely as it could be packed with performers, mostly amateurs ; the Winter Garden, or great hall, crowded in like manner from end to end, the greater part being marked off for privileged persons ; the galleries at each side also crowded by persons of the same class, with large numbers of military and naval officers, lieutenants of counties and deputy lieutenants in brilliant uniforms, the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the corporation in their civic robes. Beyond this hall at either end and in all the smaller rooms and galleries were crowds of season ticketholders, occu - - pying the whole space of the building. The doors were opened at 11 o'clock, and the company con tinued to enter rapidly till half-past 1, when the doom were closed. Shortly after 2 o'clock the Prince arrived. He was received by the Reception Com mittee. His Royal Highness was conducted to the dais. The chair of State, with the seats for the Duke of Cambridge, the Lord-Lieutenant and Lady Wode house, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, were richly gilt and covered with blue tabinet. Above the dais was erected the canopy constructed for the Pasha of Egypt. This canopy is of oblong form, with draperies of maronc velvet, bordered with gold. The orchestra then performed the national an them with thrilling effect. It was followed by enthusiastic cheers. When the Prince had taken his seat, the Duke of Leinster read the following address : "May it please your Royal Highness,—For the distin guished honour of your royal highness's presence here this day, we, the Exhibition Committee, desire to offer our humble thanks. It is difficult for us to give expression to the feelings of joy and loyal satisfaction which fill the hearts of all who throng these halls to witness the inauguration of the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865 by your royal highness in the name and on behalf of our beloved Sove reign. In this mark of favour and approval we discern not alone the Queen's high appreciation of the interests of in dustry and art ; but especially her Majesty's gracious wish to promote the success of every enterprise which tends to advance the welfare of the Irish people. The act which your royal highness is about to perform cannot fail to re mind us of the enlightened encouragement which the illus trious and lamented Prince Consort bestowed upon every work of usefulness, and especially upon undertakings like the present. International Exhibitions, bringing together the various nations of the earth, and making each better acqtytinted with the wants and with the resources of the rest, directly tend to stimulate industrial energy and in crease commercial interchange, and thus binding all people together by the ties of mutual interest they become in no small degree the auxiliaries of peace and progress. The fine arts now occupy a prominent place in International Exhibitions. The display of the best works of renowned artists open up new sources of pleasure and delight, and forms a most important agent in the education of the people. We trust that the Exhibition, at whose commencement your royal highness so graciously presides, may prove not un productive of such beneficial results, and that it may justify the hopes of those who, in honest labour and in self-reliant enterprise, recognise the true sources of national prosperity. 'We cannot conclude without expressing our heartfelt wishes for the happiness of your royal highness's illustrious con sort ; whom the Irish people earnestly desire to see among them. 'Whenever circumstances may permit her royal highness the Princess of Wales to visit our shores, which we trust will be at no distant period, we venture to promise such an enthusiastic welcome as will convey to her Majesty and to your royal highness the fullest assurance of loyalty and devotion." His ROYAL HIGILNESS replied as follows : "My Lords and Gentlemen,---I thank you for your ad dress. It is a source of sincere pleasure to me to dischge the duties confided to me by her Majesty the Queen in thus inaugurating your Exhibition. It is not less in accordance with my own feelings than with those of her Majesty to assist in every measure calculated for the happiness and welfare of the Irish people. The example of my lamented and beloved parent will, I trust, ever be present to my mind as a stimulus in the encouragement of every work tending to advance international prosperity, and to develope the powers and resources of our own country. The cultivation of the fine arts, in itself so powerful an auxiliary in the civi lisation and refinement of the human race, has been an im portant object in these Exhibitions, and seems already to have produced most satisfactory results. Believe me very sensible of your kind wishes on behalf of the Princess of Wales. Her regret at being unable to accompany me equals my own, and you may rely upon her anxiety to come among you, assured of the welcome she will receive." Then from the grand organ and chorus burst forth the sublime and impressive music of the Hundredth Psalm, " With one consent let all the earth," pro ducing an effect on the vast assembly surpassing, perhaps, anything of the kind ever before witnessed in Dublin. When it concluded Mr. Gilbert Sanders, chairman of the Executive Committee, read a report giving a history of the Exhibition Palace, from which the following are extracts : " The space is about equally divided between the foreign exhibitors on the one hand, and those of the United King dom and the colonies on the other. The demands made upon us for space in the home sections were fivefold in ex cess of the quantity at our disposal. Hence the task of selec tion was difficult and embarrassing. We have remembered, however, that the Exhibition is international; and we have endeavoured, therefore, to secure what would best illus trate and represent the excellence of each country's produc tions. Accordingly, the preference has been given to the inventor, the producer, and manufacturer, over the agent or retailer. Under these circumstances, it is gratifying to notice how numerous are the Irish exhibitors in very many branches of laustry." "It is needless to state that for the favour with which the undertaking has been so generally received throughout the empire we are largely indebted to the patronage of the Queen, and to the approval which her Majesty has been pleased to manifest to the Exhibition, not only by many valuable contributions from the royal collections, but also by the special recommendations with which the Exhibition has been officially introduced to the attention of the autho rities of the British colonies and of foreign governments by her Majesty's Secretaries of State. A large proportion of the colonies have responded to the appeal: and most of the sovereigns of Europe, emulating the example of her Majesty, have honoured the Exhibition by their counten ance, by becoming contributors and recommending their subjectS to avail, themselves of its advantages. It is but just to acknowledge that the Exhibition owes much of its attraction and its success to the cordial spirit in which Earl Russell advocated its claims to the enlightened sup port of foreign governments. Most of these governments have deputed special representatives to attend the Exhibi tion, to oversee the interests of the exhibitors from their respective countries, and to aid in the selection of the jurors, who will, it is hoped, proceed early in the month of June to adjudicate upon the merits of the produc tions which compete for the distinction of honorary medals." Mr. Gilbert Sanders then handed his royal high ness a splendidly bound copy of the Catalogue of the Exhibition, after which Mr. Parkinson handed the Prince the key of the building, when the orchestra and chorus again pealed forth Handel's grand com position of the Coronation Anthem. This majestic work was delivered superbly under the able conduct of Mr. J. Robinson, who kept the mass of vocal and instrumental sound in perfect accord. At its conclusion, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, in his robes of office, accompanied by members of the corpora tion, in their civic robes, presented an address from the corporation of the city of Dublin as follows " To his Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales, Earl of Dublin, &c., the humble Address of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin. "May it please your Royal Highness,—We, the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Dublin, take the earliest opportunity of welcoming most heartily your Royal High ness on your arrival in this city,and of conveying the assur ance of our undiminished loyalty to our most Gracious So vereign the Queen of Groat Britain and Ireland. While we have learnt with no little regret that the visit of your Royal Highness must at the present time be very limited, yet we hail the advent of your Royal Highness as an omen that this portion of the Queen's dominions may more frequently be honoured by the presence of royalty, and thus enable us to look forward to a period not, as we hope, far distant, when your Royal Highness may return in company with her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, who is still a stranger to Ireland except by fame. The occasion which induced your Royal Highness to revisit Ireland, the opening of the International Exhibition, is one which must be inte resting to your Royal Highnesses the son of the ever-to-be lamented Prince Consort, to whose wisdom, energy, and influence such exhibitions owe their origin. We trust that the undertaking which your Royal Highness will this day inaugurate may prove of special interest as a means of sti mulating the industry, developing the resources, and pro moting the abiding welfare of Ireland, so that when, in the far-off course of time, your Royal Highness shall no longer be a subject, you may reign over a happy and contented people." _ _ _ The Lord Mayor handed the address to his Royal Highness, who replied as follows :- 6 , My Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the City of Dublin,—l return you my hearty thanks for the kind welcome you have given me, and for your loyal expressions towards her Majesty the Queen. I regret that circum stances should prevent the extension of my visit to a longer period. It would have been very gratifying to the Princess had sho been able to accompany me, and I request that you be assured that we look forward to another occasion when she will have the opportunity of appreciating the hearty welcome which my own experience leads mo to anticipate for her. You justly ascribe to me a peculiar interest in this day's ceremony. As the son of that revered and lamented parent to whose wisdom„ energy, and influence you truly state exhibitions such as these owe their origin, I may well feel proud in being able to assist in the inauguration-of the one we are about to open. May your prayers bo granted that it will bo the means of producing the usual result at tending well-directed labour, and conduce to tho prosperity of Ireland and to the happiness of her people." When his Royal Highness resumed his seat, the orchestra gave " The Heavens are telling " from Haydn's " Creation." After this performance the procession, which was a leading feature in the cere monial, commenced and advanced from the centre of the nave in the following order : Contractor and Architects.—Messrs. Beardwood, T. A. Jones, and F. Barley. Superintendents of the various Departments.—Fine Arts, Mr. H. E. Doyle ; Indian, Captain Taylor and Dr. Wat son; Colonial, Mr. P. L. Lemons; British, Mr. T. A. Wright ; Agricultural, Mr. A. Corrigan. General Superintendent—Mr. J. F. Iselin. Secretary of Executive Committee—Mr. C. E. Bagot. Secretary of Exhibition—Mr. H. Parkinson. The Exhibition Committee—The Lord Chancellor of Ire land, the Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Meath, the Earl Charlemont, the Earl of Howth, the Earl of Rosso, F.R.S., the Marquis of Drogheda, the Earl of Clancarty, the Earl of Lucan, Viscount Gough, Viscount Powers court, Lord Talbot de Malahido, F.R.S., Lord Anally, the Marquis of Kildare, Sir Robert Shaw, Mr. Gilbert, Sanders, M.R.1.A., Mr. Francis W. Brady, Q.C., D.L., Sir Edward Grogan, M.P., Sir Percy Nugent, Sir J. J. Coghill, Mr. P. P. M`Swiney, ex-Lord Mayor ; Sir Thomas Deane, Sir Bernard Burke, Hon. Judge Berwick, Hon. St. John Butler, Hon. J. P. Vero ker, the Right Hon. Alexander Macdonnel, Right Hon. the Attorney-General for Ireland, Right Hon. Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Major-Gen. Colomb, Mr. J. E. Vernon, D.L., Mr. B. L. Guinness, D.L., Mr. Henry Andrews, Mr. William 3PKay, Mr. Catterson Smith, P.R.H.A., Mr. G. F. Mulvanny, Maj or-Gen. Sir Thomas Larcom, K.C.8., Sir Ralph Howard, Mr. Maurice Brooks, Mr. Wm. Dar gan, D.L., Mr. David Drummond, Mr. Win. Foot, J.P., Mr. John Fry, Sir Richard Griffith, Sir George F. J. Hod son, D.L., Sir Robert Kane, F.R.S., Mr.Wm.R. Le Fanu, C.E., Mr. J. Lentoigne, J.P., Mr. Thomas Pim, Mr. Wm. R. Stephens, Mr. John W. Switzer, Mr. Thomas Vance, J.P. Honorary Members—M. Geo. Livio, French Con sul ; Signor Aug. C. Marani, Italian Consul ; Mr. Wm. Garner, and Mr. Hercules Macdonnell. Foreign Commissioners and Representatives. Athlone Pursuivant of Arms. High Sheriff of the City of Dublin, J. Boyce, D.L. Lord Mayor of York. Mayors of Cork, Waterford, Liverpool, Londonderry, Manchester, Sunderland, and Salford. Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Lord Mayor of London. Gen. Sir George Browne, Commander of the Forces. Chief Secretary for Ireland. Knights of tho Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick. Dublin Cork Herald. Lord Chancellor. Herald. Lord Mayor of Dublin. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant's Household. Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King-at-Arms. Her Excellency Lady Wodehouse, His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness the Prince of 'Wales. Equerries and Aides-de-Camp. The Prince repeatedly stopped to admire the works of art which met his view in the different gal leries. When lie returned to the dais the orchestra gave with magnificent effect the opening chorus from Mendelssohn's " Hymn of Praise." When it concluded his Royal Highness rose and commanded Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King-at-Arms, to declare the Exhibition open. This was signalised by a flourish of trumpets and a rocket sent up from the building, which was answered by the firing of royal salutes from the Pigeon-house fort, the battery in the park, and the ships of war off Kingstown. r.Fhe grand " Hallelujah " chorus from the " Messiah " was then sung, and immediately after the National Anthem, specially arranged for the occasion by Mr. Joseph Robinson. It was followed by several rounds of enthusiastic cheering from all parts of the build ing. The photographic artists were busy all day ; but I do not think it possible that anything like justice can be clone to the tout ensenzble which then presented itself. The group around the Prince, how ever, as they stood during the singing of the National Anthem, was one which I hope will be faithfully and vividly photographed, and it will form a most striking historic picture. In the evening the Lord Mayor gave a ball in the Mansion-house in honour of the Prince of Wales, which was attended by the distinguished visitors who accompanied his Royal Highness, and a large number of the nobility and gentry—nearly 2,000 having accepted his lordship's invitation. The dancing took - place in the King's Room, which was inconveniently crowded, as well as all the other apartments thrown open on the occasion. It was a very brilliant assembly. The Prince of Wales arrived at the Mansion-house at half-past 11 o'clock, accompanied by the Lord-Lieutenant and Lady Wodehouse and suite. The Prince opened the ball with Lady Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse having for his partner the Marchioness of Drogheda ; the Duke of Cambridge, the Countess of Charlemont ; and the Lord Mayor, the Marchioness of Kildare. The Prince of Wales danced a good deal during the evening; he retired with the Viceregal party shortly after 2 o'clock. The dancing was kept up till a much later hour. A grand review of the troops in garrison in Dublin was held this afternoon on the Fifteen Acres, in the Phoenix Park. The Duke of Cambridge took the command of the troops. They were reviewed by the Prince of Wales and the Lord-Lieutenant; Lady Wodehouse, Mr. Edmund R. Wodehouse, the Hon. Ralph Harbord, and other members of the Viceregal Household accompanied the Royal party. The number of spectators on the ground was greater than on any similar occasion since the visit of the Queen in 1849. The Prince of Wales, who was attired in the uniform of the 10th Hussars, of which Regiment his Royal Highness is Colonel, was received with the greatest enthusiasm. On the arrival of the Prince, at a quarter past 3 o'clock, a Royal salute of 21 guns was fired, and the troops having been inspected the review at once com menced. It terminated at half-past 4 o'clock. BEDOUINS.—DIRTY, BUTPICTURESQUE!—Mr. Sala, as special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in Algeria during the Emperor's visit, says They are highly picturesque, these Bedouins, but the nastiest sot of animals you ever saw. Rags are worn en Arabesque, sem& with pathos ; legs au natured : papouches a la slipshod, or down at the heel ; and oh ! if you could see their toenails! There is not a child of the desert on the Place du Gouverne ment but who might dig his great-grandmother out of her giave with his pedal claws. I suppose that when Igo into the interior I shall see the Arab in all the nobility and dignity of primitive nature. I hope he will be' a little less ragged than the specimens—to the number of some hundreds—l have yet seen. Bat it is the old story. Take ever so copious a stock of illusions with you to the bright Orient, and within half an hour after landing you are as bankrupt as the Bank of Deposit. You see a lank, weedy screw, with a switch tail, blear eyes, and of the colour of a Danish carriage dog; that animal, you are told, is a full blooded Arab horse. That lumbering vicious, groaning, wheezing brute is the camel—the famous djemel, the ' ship of the desert,' th e offspring, as the Arabs poetically declare, !of the ostrich and the . gazelle. I'HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEAING, MAY 11, 186 a, Naval and Military Intelligence. Instructions have been received at the port of Plymouth by Mr. Luscombe, the vice-consul for Russia, to prepare for the temporary reception of the remains of the Czarewitch. The squadron in charge consists of the frigate Alexander Newsky, Capt. Fedowfsky, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Lessofsky, the frigate Ileg, Capt. Bironleff, the cor vette Witias, Capt. Krehmer, and the clipper Almas, Capt. Zeleuoy. The body is in charge of Gen. An nenkow, Aide-de-Camp-Gen. On arrival in the Sound the squadron will be received with flags hoistedhalf-mast high, and by Royal salutes of 21 guns, fired in slow time from the citadel at Ply mouth, and from the Royal Adelaide, 26, Capt. Frederick B. P. Seymour, C. 8., in Hamoaze, which bears the flag of Port-Admiral Sir Charles H. Free mantle, K.C.B. The Deputy Director of Works to the Admiralty, Mr. Scamp, has just conclnded an official visit to Portsmouth, during which he has been engaged in inspecting the lines which mark the sites of the docks, basins, &c., in the plan approved for the ex tension of Portsmouth dockyard. The soil where the excavations for the docks and basins will have to be made has been found most favourable, and the accuracy of the lines marked out having been tested by the Deputy Director of Works the details of con struction will, it is understood, be now prepared. Although the work as it is now to be carried out is only a part of Mr. Scamp's original design for the extension of the dockyard and the improvement of the harbour, it will take from the harbour many acres of its water space. In the elaborate report drawn up by Mr. Scamp on the condition of Ports mouth dockyard and the means he proposed for their extension and improvement, and in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons on the same subject, an ample compensating remedy is proposed for the loss of this water space by taking advantage of the flow of the tide from Chichester and Langston harbours into that of Portsmouth through the con necting channel in front of the Hilsea defensive lines on the north shore of Portsea Island. This is the point at which there is the only road communication between Portsmouth and its dockyard and the main land. The peculiar state of the tide in this connect ing channel between the harbours of Chichester and Langston and that of Portsmouth, which gives Mr. Scamp this means of compensation for any loss of water space in the latter harbour, is that the tides from Langston and Chichester flow through the connecting channel into Portsmouth harbour for two hours after the ebb has commenced at the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, on the west side of Portsea Island. It is evident, therefore, from this well-understood fact that by giving increased area and depth to the new chan nel which is now forming in front of the new defen sive works at Hilsea, and by the aid of retaining gates, to prevent the return of any portion of the tide from Portsmouth to the two feeding harbours, a vast volume of water may each day be added to the contents of Portsmouth harbour. This will give the ebb tide proportionate preponderance over the flood, and thus increase its " scour," thereby removing the singular shingle foundation in the centre of the har bour known as the " Ballast-bank," and also the shingle " bar" in the entrance channel. These latter results would not only render Portsmouth harbour and its channel of entrance perfect - in its interior com munication and approaches for ships of war between 30ft. and 40ft. draught of water, if we should ever determine to build such monsters, but they would also save a large annual expenditure under the head, as shown in the Naval Estimates, of " dredging." The defensive lines at Hilsea, commenced some five or six years since by the War Department, have been greatly delayed by the failure of successive contractors and other unavoidable causes, and the delay in the com pletion of these works has necessarily delayed the formation of the new harbours'-connecting channel; at the same time the old channel has been also prac tically stopped. Now, however, a fresh contract has been entered into to complete the last portion of the fortifications—the earthen ramparts and curtains that will connect the formidable flank casemated batteries, the battery earthwork coverings, the new roadway, and the harbours'-connecting channel ; the latter, it is understood, to be carried on the plan proposed by Mr. Scamp, and thus insure the elii- Ciency of Portsmouth harbour and its dockyard as Our chief naval station. The trial of the engines of the screw steam iron cased cupola ship Scorpion, 4, built by Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead, took place on Monday outside Ply mouth breakwater. She made eight runs at the mea sured mile, which gave a mean of 11.448 knots per hour. The circle was turned in 4 min. 31 sec. The Pembroke, 60, 200-horse power, Capt. J. 0. Johnson, flagship of Commodore A. F. Ryder, Con troller-General of the Coastguard, is ordered from Harwich to theNore, for the purpose of being taken into one of the vacant docks, either at Chatham or Sheerness, for the purpose of undergoing an over haul and refit. A party of riggers and labourers will at the same time be dispatched from the dockyard to Harwich, under the orders of Commander Hodges, the assistant master-attendant, to examine the Pem broke's moorings in 'Harwich harbour. The screw gunvessel Serpent, 4, 200-horse power, Commander Bullock, fitting at Sheerness for sur veying service in the Eastern Seas, is nearly com plete in her equipment, and awaits Admiralty order as to the date for her leaving the Nore. She takes out with her a large supply of hydrographical and surveying instruments, together with the neces sary appliances for carrying on the duties in which she will be engaged. The whole of her officers and crew have joined, and her guns ; shot, shell, &c., have been despatched to her from Chatham dock yard. The Serpent is expected to be absent from England several years. Yesterday the Racehorse, which has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of con victs to Western Australia, received on board 153 convicts from St. Mary's Prison, Chatham, who were conveyed from Chatham to the Nore in the paddlewheel steamer Adder, Master-Commander Blakey. The Racehorse will call in at Portsmouth and Portland for the remainder of the convicts, the total number she takes out being close upon 500. The guard is selected from old pensioners who are about to settle in Australia. The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded Mr. P. Thornton, the master shipbuilder at Chatham dockyard, a gratuity of £5O, in acknowledgment of their lordships' approbation of the unprecedentedly short time in which the ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1,000-horse power, was completed and launched. Their lordships, at the same time, 'express, in an Admiralty order addressed to the Captain Super intendent, the master shipwright, and the officers and workmen employed on that vessel, their satis faction at the great progress made in building the Bellerophon, which, as already noticed in The Sun, was launched exactly twelve months after she was commenced. The frigate is still alongside the dockyard putting in the heavy portions Hof her machinery and boilers, six of the latter and two lengths of shafting, together with a considerable amount of the machinery, having already been hoisted on board. According to existing arrange ments it is intended to dock the Bellerophon on the 22d inst., providing her iron masts, which are being manufactured by the Woodside Iron Company, Birkenhead, arrive in time, the paddle-wheel steamer Medusa, 312-horse power, Master Commander J. Allard, having been ordered to proceed round to the Mersey to convey them to Chatham. The state ments which have appeared from time to time in certain of the morning papers relative to the defec tive and leaky state of the vessel since her launching are incorrect. The following appointments were made yesterday , at the Admiralty - -Commander E. F. Kerby, Com mander J. W. Pike, Commander J. Z. Creasy, and Commander Josiah H. Hatehard, to be Inspecting Commanders in the Coastguard ; and Sidney J. Spark, paymaster, to be paymaster in the charge of the victualling establishment at Esquimault, Van couver's Island. The following appointment has been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :--To bo assist.-engineer of the second class, John Darroch. MEXlCO.—Matamoras papers of 'the 13th ultimo make no mention of the rumoured revolt of Cortinas. Companies of citizens and aliens had been formed there to preserve order. The consuls had organised the citizens of their respective nationalities. Royal Geographical Society. The 4 0th meeting of the present session of this society was held on Monday evening, at Burling ton-house--Sir R. I. Murchison, president, in the chair. The : irst paper was " On the specific gravity, temper; uture, and currents of the seas passed through "between England and India," by Captain Toynbee, R.N. The author, in this paper, recorded the princi "pal observations which he had made, with instrumet its supplied by the Board of Trade, during five voya l ;es to India, leaving England on the Ist July and returning about the middle of April. It was the constant recurrence of certain phenomena in the co , : ndition of the sea, in the same place and at the sf uue time of the year, that had led him to think th ey might be interesting to the public, as pointing to some important conclusions regarding the ph3 Tical geography of the sea. He found in the Atlanti c that the specific gravity of the sea de creased on approaching the equator—a result due to the rains falling between the north-east and south-e of trades ; and in the southern Indian Ocean, :in the rainy season (Jan. and Feb.), the whole ocean was, affected by the rains then falling south of the line. With regard to the temperature, his numel rolls observations during the five voyages (the chief results of which he had tabulated) in the first place threw some light on the cold current which swept in August northward along the West Coast a Africa. This, he found reason to conclude, curved sharply to the westward shortly after crossing the line i.n about 17 deg. W. long. The further to the east of this the colder was the water. Onoe, between 1 30 deg.. and 0 30 deg. N. lat., he found its tempe rature descended as low as 70 deg. (Fahrenheit), making the air quite cool and damp. In March this current is of a higher temperature, because it has then flowed from the south after the southern summer. The author confirmed the views of Tow son regarding the direction of the tracks of icebergs in the south Atlantic, and showed that the very low temperature of the sea in Table Bay (51 deg. in February)was due to the current setting from the ice-bearing sea, and that this was also the source of the great West African current. A few miles to the south-east of the Cape the sea greatly increases in warmth, and along the parallel of about 40 deg. running from the meridian of Greenwich to 50 E. there was found in each voyage a succession of lanes alternately of hot and cold water—the hot as high as 67 deg. (Fahrenheit), and the cold as low as 40 deg. Were it not for the rush of warm water down the Mozambique Channel the ice-streams travelling north-eastward would not be deflected as now to the south-east, but would go forward and render the passage round the Cape much more dangerous than it is. After giving further details on this im portant subject, the author concluded by recom mending outward-bound ships to delay crossing the 40th parallel till the longitude of 10 deg. E. is reached. As the sea on the Agulhas Bank is always several degrees colder than that to the eastward of it, the thermometer is a good guide to tell a ship when she is coming near the land. After some remarks from Admiral COLLINSON on the great importance of Captain Toynbee's observa tions, Commander DAVIS said that great errors in the observations made on the temperature and specific gravity of the sea arose from the fact that the water experimented upon was generally taken directly from the surface, which was likely to be acted upon by solar radiation, the descent of rain, and other purely local circumstances. More value would be attached to these observations if the water were taken from a depth of two or three fathoms. Captain TOYNBEE replied that he had taken water for experiment from various depths. He thought the observations contained in his paper were not liable to error from local and temporary conditions of the sea, as he had found the same phenomena repeated in pretty nearly the same parts of the ocean and at the same periods of the year during five successive voyages. ' Mr. F. GALTON bore witness to the accuracy of Capt. Toynbee's remarks about the cold current along the coast of Africa. He had himself experi enced the low temperature at the mouth of the Swakop river, in the height of the southern summer ; he and his men suffering keenly from the relative Cold compared with what they had experienced in the interior. The next paper was " On the Rovuma River, East Africa," by Dr. Kirk. The author stated that this river was of interest to the English public as being the first of any importance on the 600 miles of coast north of the Zambesi, and opposite that blank on the map where the great problem in African geography remains to be solved, and the head waters of the Nile, Congo, and Zambesi yet de fined. It lies within the jurisdiction of the Sultan of Zanzibar, and is accessible to small vessels, hav ing no bar. He accompanied Dr. Livingstone on two journeys up the river in 1861 and 1862 in the second he reached the rapids which limit naviga tion, a little more than 100 miles from the coast and halfway to the east bank of Lake Nyassa. A little beyond this point the river is joined by the Niende, flowing from the south-west, but the main stream comes from the north-west, and none of the natives seemed to have any knowledge of its course. The PRESIDENT stated that the Rovuma was the entrance by which Dr. Livingstone, who had recently received the appointment of Consul to the independent chief of Central Africa, and was about to start on his third journey of exploration, in tended to penetrate the great unknown interior. He would endeavour to proceed up the north western branch, which would enable him to pass all those obstacles offered by tribes nearer the coast connected with the slave traffic. His chief object on reaching the interior would be to solve the great problem of the watershed of Central Africa, by as- . certaining the nature of the connection (if any) be tween the great lakes, whichthemselve,s are still im perfectly known. Should it be the doctor's good fortune to reach the northern end of Lake Tangan yika, he would be able to determine the great ques tion of the ultimate source of the Nile. A thirdpaper was " On a visit to unexplored parts of North Madagascar," by Dr. Gunst. This was an account of a journey which the author had re cently performed in the first place from Tamatave to Tananarivo and back, and thence along the east coast northward to Vobemaro, touching on the way at the port of Agouzy. Being furnished with letters fromKingßadama he was allowed to travel in the in terior from this place, and visited mountain ranges to examine them for traces of metals. He dis covered here tin ore, gold, and traces of copper, and saw an abundance of copal trees in the forest. His explorations came to an end by his being seized by a party of Hova soldiers in the interior, robbed of all he possessed, bound with cords, and dragged for a long distance over the ground. The news of the outrage reached the French commander at St. Mary, who sent a vessel to bring him away, soon after which he returned to the Island of Bourbon, and thence to Europe. Before the adjournment of the meeting, the Pre sident announced that a telegram had that day been received from Colonel Pelly, stating that he had returned in safety to Bushire, after leading his party to the Wahabite capital, in the interior of Arabia, and back. We might now hope to have shortly much new geographical information regarding this little-known country. The anniversary meeting and dinner of the society were announced as to take place on Monday, May 22.. THE TURNPIKE ABOLITION MOVEMEGT.—The second reading of the bill for the abolition of tolls, intro duced by Mr. Whalley, is fixed for the 17th inst., before which day petitions in suppoet of that object should be forwarded. In accordance with the recommendation of the committee of the Turnpike Abolition Society, the bill proposes to abolish turnpike tolls throughout the king dom by voluntary acceptance on the part of the parir,hes interested. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—The Grand Re quisites.—Nobody will deny the assertion that for man's comfort and happiness pure blood and a sound stomach rank among the first requirements. Both may be safely and inexpensively secured by these admirable pills, which act gently on the weakest frames, and cause no violent shock to the most sensitive system. Holloway's pills have proved themselves competent to deal constitutionally with those infirmities which descend from parent to offspring, whioh often mar the brightest prospects and throw a con stant gloom over youth. These pills purify both the solids and the fluids of the body, and by that salutary process rouse every organ to perform naturally its proper function and et•rengthen every nerve for its proper duty. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Mr. Beecher was well chosen as the na tional orator at Fort Sumter. He is eloquent and enthusiastic, and he represents, too, exactly that element in the civil strife which has predominated and triumphed. One thing beyond all doubt has been decided by the American war, and that is the fate of slavery. This result did not appear probable at first. It was perfectly clea r th a t th e N or th va l ue d something far more highly than the abolition of slavery. Whether that something be called Union, or empire, or integrity of territory, matters little. There it was, preferred by the great body of the Northern people to every other object, and for its sake it seemed as if almost anything.the Slave States could ask would be willingly conceded. Yet in the end, after the vicissitudes of four eventful years, the emancipation of the negro is the one great result be fore us. It is certain that slavery is doomed, and that its extinction, indeed, has been half accomplished already. Mr. Beecher and his friends are entitled to triumph at the success of their principles—the more so as it is a success at which everybody can rejoice. But Mr. Beecher was not content with this triumph. As he stood on Fort Sumter and delivered the ad dress which he was commissi one d t o g i ve , h e expa tiated with singular ability and force upon topics far more obscure and difficult. He wished to show not only that America had been purged of the crime of slavery, but that the cure, terrible as it was, had been beneficial in its very process. He argued that war, war in itself, even a p ar t f rom it s o bj ect or i ts justice, was attended with advantages and blessings of its own ; that it was a species of national educa tion ; that it led a people from infancy to man hood ; that it filled them with a belief in their own convictions and a knowledge of their own strength ; that it proved their patriotism and zeal, and that it left them all the better for the ordeal. These are not new arguments. The ennobling effects of war have often been discoursed upon by philosophers and historians, and perhaps the national character of Mr. Beecher's country men was peculiarly open to the improvement which such stern teaching might bring. That this charac ter was Actually affected by the war as it proceeded was a subject of common remark, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Beecher's prognostications of the result may be verified by experience. But the future is a mystery. America is changed, and that is all we know.. The transformation may be political, social, and national all at once. Mr. Beecher him self answers for the social metamorphosis, and al ready there are many symptoms of national and con stitutional transition. One great and powerful ele ment in American character is probably extinguished. The spirit of the South will no longer shape the na tional counsels or stamp the national policy. Mr. Beecher thinks this is all for the best. He tells us that all we misliked or mistrusted in Americans pro ceeded from the South. " All the arrogant attitudes of this nation, so offensive to foreign Governments, were inspired by slavery and under the administra tion of its minions." This, in the main, is true. The influence of the South usually predominated in the Government of the old Union, and it was the im pending decline of this influence which served as the signal for Secession. But there was much in the Southern spirit, for all that, which went to the making of a nation. The Northern people looked up to the people of the South. They were proud of their Southern countrymen as more purely national, and perhaps as more aristocratic than themselves. Southern boys took the lead in schools and colleges, just as Southern statesmen did in Congress, and the world has seen what Southern soldiers could do in war. Mr. Beecher must not forget, when he says that the last four years have given America a his tory, how much of this history has been contributed by the South. The most famous city in all America will be Richmond, and Americans of all parts will probably be of one mind in so regarding it. But the change will not stop here. There were two great parties in America independently of slavery. Probably, though they both bore de mocratic designations, they expressed that inter nal conflict of opinion between Conservatism and Liberalism which is to be found everywhere and at all times. One of these has been worsted in this struggle, and the other is in the ascendant. There are people in America who look at its political divi sions and institutions much as Mr. Baines and his friends look at our electoral constituencies. They are jealous of State rights, and of all the peculiar and independent administrations which stand in the way of popular will. They are discontented even with the Union itself as it formerly existed. It is not Union enough for them. They desire to see in the place of the " United States" a great nation of Americans, " one and indivisible," in which the will of the majority shall be law. The party holding these opinions has been strengthened by the war, and it is surmised that the new President may in cline to their views. Certainly in one of his ad dresses he spoke as if he thought the Constitution needed reform, and as if certain guarantees for popular principles, hitherto absent, ought now to be introduced. Mr. Beecher himself anticipates some species of revolution, if not in organic institu tions, at any rate in the policy of the nation as in sensibly resulting: He thinks it will be a beneficial change, and that the policy of Annerican.Governments will serve as a model to other countries of the world. In his opinion, the hopes which were expressed in our Parliament on a recent occasion will actually be fulfilled. That future which Mr. Disraeli desired for the American nation is the future which Mr. Beecher prognosticates. It may be observed that even the orator himself did not pretend that the Civil War, on the part of the North, was a war ex clusively for emancipation. He owns frankly that they fought for "territory," and argues that we, cramped as we are within our narrow confines, have no idea what " territory" means, or of how far it is necessary to a nation's development. We cannot un derstand the object, and therefore we have " miscon ceived" the conflict. We dare say there is truth in this. The passion of Americans for territory has always been extraordinary. It was said, we remember, at the be ginning of the war that no citizen of the North could ever possibly reconcile himself to such a consum mation as the claims of the South pretended. If Virginia were to be carried off by a new Republic in the South, there would actually be a spot in the old Republic where the United States were not fifty miles wide, and that, it was declared, no American could ever endure. But if we look without sym pathy on these speculations it is because we have no experience to guide us. Ii all history there is no example of such a State as the Americans expect to become. China makes the nearest approach to it. In that Empire the population is counted by hundreds of millions, and they have been united for ages, but they, are governed by a foreign race, and they are incessantly exposed to civil war. At pre ' sent the Americans have barely' reached a census of 30,000,000, and yet they could not live together in unity. How will it be when these 30,000,000 become 60,000,000 or 100,000,000 ? Americans think the problem easy, and the issue sure. We can but say that there is no precedent for such a consummation, but if Mr. Beecher's picture of the future be correct we have no reason to deprecate it. The Americans have conceived their own destiny, and are working it out in their own manner ; but they have now, at least, learnt this,—that Europe, whatever may be its speculations or sympathies, will never interfere to disturb them. HERALD.—The debate in the Lords on Tuesday night was by no means the least interesting episode in the history of the unended and almost unending Edmunds scandal. The attendance was unusually large and the number of speakers was above the average ; the proceedings were of an exceptionally animated character, and the language employed by several speakers was more forcible than is commonly heard in the decorous and dignified Upper Chamber. Nor were these incidents of the debate at all sur prising. The Peers must by this time have had more than enough of their late reading clerk and of their present Speaker. We believe that they are heartily disgusted, both with the delinquencies of the one and the " errors" of the other. Even more intensely than the public, the Lords must wish that the mischief, which began at the Patent Office and ended in their own house, could be decently buried out of sight, or, better still, that such things had never been. But, unluckily, those wishes are not to be realised. The unsavoury subject comes up again and again, with the persistency of an uneasy ghost or an importunate creditor. It will not be got rid of. Put out of sight it will not be ; put out of mind it cannot be. It is not to be burked m a com mittee room or buried in a blue book. It has brought the Patent Office into disrepute, the public audit into discredit, the Lord Chancellor to disgrace, and Mr. Edmunds to ruin. But still the public is not satisfied, for every one feels that the chief delinquent has escaped, and that even-handed justice has not been done. It was only natural that Lord Redes dale should share this general discontent. His lord ship thought that the report of the select committee cast an implied censure on himself and the other members of the pension committee, and he therefore brought under the notice of the house the passage by which that censure was conveyed. Lord Redes dales presented the case of himself and of his col leagues in a very effective and perspicuous manner. The members of the pension committee say that they felt themselves limited by their instructions. They were ordered to inquire into the amount of pension to which Mr. Edmunds might, by former practice, be deemed entitled. They had no official knowledge of any charge against him, and any in formation they had obtained respecting it was from vague and uncertain rumours, of which the other members of the house were as cognisant as them selves. When they entered upon their labours Mr. Edmunds's resignationlhad been accepted, and after they had made their report a week elapsed before the house formally agreed to its recommendations. They say, therefore, that looking to the nature of their , instructions, they would have been acting ultra vires had they extended their inquiries to matters uncon nected with Mr. Edmunds's duties in the House of Lords. They say further, that even if they had failed in their duty by passing such matters over, the house had the opportunity of rectify ing the mistake and supplying the omission. We must own that we are rather inclined to agree with Lord Redesdale. His view of the func tion of the pension committee may, perhaps, be rather technical ; but it should be remembered that, as chairman of committees, he has had peculiar opportunities of judging how much discretion the forms of the house allow in such cases, and that his opinion of the committee's powers was supported by Lord Eversley, a former Speaker of the House of Commons. Lord Redesdale also protests that when joining in the pension report he did net know that Mr. Edmunds had resigned upon compulsion. The members of the committee had some conversation about the money which he had been called upon to pay, but their belief then was that he had actually paid more than the amount with which he believed himself chargeable. It may be, on the other hand, that Lord De'rby's view of the committee's duty is the correct one ; that it was perfectly competent to: the committee to inquire into any circumstance that had come to their knowledge, and to settle not only the amount of Mr. Edmunds's pension, but whether he was worthy to receive a pension at all. The point, however, may well be left in dubio. It is one • of the matters on which men equally upright and punctilious will arrive at directly opposite conclu sions. Any intention to censure the pension com mittee has been distinctly disclaimed, and the dis claimer has been accepted as satisfactory by those whom that censure would have affected. The discus sion, however, showed how keenly anything like an amputation of breach of duty was felt on both . sides of the house ; hoW anxious every peer on the benches was to vindicate himself from the charge of neglecting to do anything required of him by regard for the public interest and for his own re putation. We have written advisedly the sentences • immediately preceding. When we speak of both sides of the house we say nothing about its centre. From the peers on the benches we expressly ex elude the lord upon the woolsack. In the remon strances of Lord Redesdale, the apologies of Earl Granville, the complaints of Lord Hardwicke, the arguments of Lord Derby, the excuses of Earl Russell, and the retorts of the Marquis of Bath, there was at least one point of resemblance. Every noble lord who took part in the debate recognised the gravity of the situation, and seemed to feel it incumbent upon him to disclaim the very smallest participation in the scandal. But presiding over the assembly, officially regulating the debate, was the man who had caused all the mischief. Again and again did the speakers on either side refer to what the Lord Chancellor had done, or had failed to do t • again and again did expectation stand on tiptoe to hear him speak in his own vindication, to hear him express something like regret for an " error which had involved such serious consequences. But the expectation was not to be realised. The Lords waited in vain. The calm impudence which sustained Sir Richard Bethell, when, an advocate at the bar, he insulted judges upon the bench, did not desert him when, a parvenu among the Peers, he had brought the house into a difficulty and his office into discredit. As; in the one case, he spok e where he should have been silent, so in the other he was silent when he should have spoken. " The least said the soonest mended," says the old saw, and Lord Westbury on the woolsack, listening to the debate on Lord Redesdale's resolutions, was its most moderns instance. " Having known Mr. Edmunds for many years in connection with the House of Lords," said Lord Redesdale, " and having found him in all respects a gentleman and an honourable man, I was not likely to take up the charges brought against him in a loose manner without knowing something on the subject." Why did not Lord Redesdale know "something on the subject?" Through the default, the great and grievous default , of Lord Westbury. He knew officially what the pension committee had not heard at all, or had heard only "in a loose manner." Of the extent of Ed munds's defalcations he was well aware, and that he had brought himself within the criminal law the Chancellor was only too certain. How, knowing all this, he could conceal his knowledge, suppress the facts, hoodwink the committee, and help a. man, guilty of grave delinquencies, to the rewar d of faithful servi,-zes must remain among the "things hard to be understood" on any supposition consis tent with public decency or the Chancellor's integ rity. But the debate on Tuesday night has fur nished us with something still more extraordinary . It has shown us how a highly-paid official can re main unmoved while on every hand he is re proached with grievous improprieties. How the, chief equity judge eau sit silent while the assemble d Peers of England, in effect, charge him with breach of trust ; how he who should, like Caesar's wife, be, above suspicion, can( practically confess himse lf beyond the power of vindication. So long as he can hold office and draii , Ws salary, so long as he can see his son fill the place from which Mr. Edmunds has been thrust, it would seen). that the Chancellor cares for none of these things. His lordship may have his own standard of what is proper, his own esti - • mate of what is becoming ; but if the Ministry, the Lords or the Commons, have a proper regard for their personal character, their traditional reputation, or their public duty, they will not allow the matter to rest where it is, merely because the Chancellor thinks he can afford to treat the outraged feelings of the nation with supercilious indifference or con temptuous insolence. COUNTRY MAREBTS .~_ _.. _w,rt..~ __ ~ ___. HULL: TUESDAY. A somewhat limited' business has been done in the Corn trade during• the past week. Foreign -wheat has sold in retail at 41s per qr. for Hamburg red, and 48s for whit e Dantzic. At our mark e t t o -d ay th ere was a fair supply of English wheat, which met a ready sale at fully last week's prices ; and choice samples of fresh thrashed red brought an advance of is per qr. The prices paid were from 40s to 42s per qr. Foreign wheat also sold more readily. Barley met a fair sale at 26s to 26s 6d per qr. Beans and peas at fully late rates. Oats advanced 1s per qr. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a small supply of ;v lO l A good demand was experienced at an advance of is to 6 on English, and at the extreme rates of this day week fort foreign. Barley, beans, and peas were unchanged. g al was slow. Oats were 6d to is per qr. dearer, and flour 1 0 per sack less. The following are present prices :—Wheat realised froni 36s to 42s ; barley, 23s to 29s ; oats, 19s to 28s ; beans, 400 to 465; and peas, 34s to 48s per qr. Winter tares, frona to lls per bushel ; Best bread, 10d ; h ouse hold ditto, 9 ' I per 81b loaf. NEWCAS TLE-ON-TYNE.—TIIESDAT. At this market there was rather an increased attendal of farmers, millers, and dealers. A moderate supplY ° wheat was offered, and prices realised this day week tirroli maintained. In malting barley there was nothing doilig* Grinding samples made about previous values, and 0,01 t at former currencies. Beans and peas met a slow sale, 1 1 0 no cheaper: For flour the prices were 265, 295, and 5 per sack. Northumberland wheat sold from 328 to 445, Norfolklll'a Suffolk, 39s to 45s • Dantsic, 39s to 46s ; oats, 21s to 26. V barley, 26s to 31s ; ' beans, 36s to 40s ; rye, 27s to 368 ; nid` L " 51s to 62s per qr. ; flour, 26s to 28s per sack. LYNN.—TUESDAY. New wheat, 45s to 47s ; new red, 41s to 48s • old Nvilip, 42s to 43s ; old red, 38s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley 80 malting, 33s to 355; secondary, 30s ; ordinary, 26s to 3 0 per qr. Oats, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, largo? to 36s ; small, 37s to 40s per 38 stone. The averages were—wheat, 38s lid; barley, 290 bi d; oats, 22s 3 d ; and beans, 38s sid per quarter. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TIIESDAY• 3 6 New white wheat, 43s to 46s ; new red, 37s to 38s Pe5,,,, stone. Barley, fine, 338; other kinds, 26s to 2 8 s P el _?j, Oats, new, 18s to 23s ; old, 25s to 28s per qr. Beans; 40s to 425; new, 34s to 38s per qr. Births. ---- ALLNUTT.—On the Bth inst., at Charles-street, Bork eler square, the wife of John Allnutt, Esq., of a son. e of PAYNE.—On the 9th i ns t., a t R e i ga t e, M rs . J o h n Payn e ' a daughter. NV* ScoBELL.—On the 4th inst at Anerley, Mrs. Rober t Seobeli, of a son. Marriages. FOIE—BUCHANAN.—On the Bth inst., at St. Paul's, l )3igb a t h: bridge, Commander Maxwell Fox R.N., of Amager more, King's County, to Fl orence Jane, el d es t daugi-L Amager more, the Right lion. Sir Andrew Buchanan, S.C.B: J. POTTLE—LAKE.-011 the 9th inst., at St. Margarebs2,l--F43,.. Robert John, only son of M r . R. P o ttl e , o f the Rog n on change, to Mary Lake, niece of Mr. C. Game, Of C an street, city. Deaths. Bucxiv.—On the 9th inst., at the Vicarage, the no r- AI- L. Buckle, vicar of Banstead, Surrey, and rector Of well, Oxon, aged 74. c , i 110 1 ELLIMAN.—On the Bth inst., at Tring, Ilerts, Alr• Elliman, aged 61. „, r ,.oro t KLRKMAN.—On the 9th inst., at Richmond, Miss Kirkman, aged 75. 1 - • t it. - LASCELLEB.—On the 6th inst., at Twickenham, Bt . "' L ' ie Colonel F. G. J. Lascelles aged 54. r ba t LEVERINGTON.—On the Bth inst., at Islington, 31 - - • 11° Leverington. MUGGFIDGE.—At Streatham-common, Lady Atugg e '' ° aged 41. SURREY.—On the 9th inst., at Brompton, S.W., M r ' Cilris topher Surrey, aged 71. S e lina WILLIAMS.—On the 9th inst., at Sydenham, Mis s Williams, aged 71. o.3.vcs London : Printed and Published by WIL LIAM . 6 - 119 1 ,1 0 11 , of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at THE SUN Office , — tu ut Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coan Middiesex.—Thursday, May 11, 1805.