The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

This great aquatic contest, which now regularly marks the opening of the London rowing season, was on Saturday won by the Oxford crew, after one of the best, and for a time one of the most doubt ful, struggles that have ever been seen on the Thames. Almost to the time of starting, and cer tainly for some two miles or so after they had started, Cambridge was the favourite, and at one period of the race it would have been difficult to find backers for Oxford at any odds at all. Yet in the end Oxford won with almost ease by about five boats' lengths. The Oxford crew came up with a reputation which at the outset made them the fa vourites, and it was not till they began to try their pace over the course that the self-styled " cogni scenti " of the river began their whispered doubts about success. There was apparently some show of reason for this change of faith, if we may so call it. In starting quickly and in maintaining the highest rate of speed for a short time the Cambridge crew was, beyond all doubt, superior to that of Oxford —just as it proved the Oxonians were superior to their antagonists in keeping up a high rate of speed for the longest . time. In short, for such a race as that of Saturday the Oxford crew were the better men ; and, though amateurs professed to think the chances equal, there was only one opinion among the professional watermen against whom the Oxo nians had rowed, which was that, barring accidents, Oxford was sure to win. To a certain extent there fore the event may be said to have justified both opinions —those who believed in the speed at which Cambridge was capable of going, and those who believed in the pace which Oxford was capable of maintaining,. The eagerness to witness this great race was in tense, and the day is not far distant when it will take its place among the greatest of London's spectacles—a race inferior only in importance to that of the Derby. It is 36 years since the first race was rowed, yet only 22 matches have been made, for at first so little interest attached to these trials of strength that there have been in tervals of two and three years during which no race was rowed at all, and indeed it is only since 1856 that they have regularly recurred. Now one 4. would as soon expect to hear of the Ascot Meeting being discontinued, or the Derby postponed, as the spring coming without the Oxford and Cambridge boat race. What as recently as ten years ago drew only a thin line of spectators to a few points on the river now commands an attendance which is certainly second only to that which flocks to Epsom. On Saturday the concourse was enor mous. From Putney to Mortlake, a distance of more than five miles, the river banks were thronged; the bridges, even to the railway bridge at Barnes, were covered with crowds ; the very trees, even the walls round distant villas, had their occupants. Not a spot from which the race could be seen was left unoccupied, while very many from which, as it turned out, nothing could be seen at all were almost equally crowded. The three great points of attrac tion were, of course, Putney, Hammersmith, and Mortlake ; at least it was at these places that the greatest mass of carriages and horsemen were to be found, and where the fair supporters of bright blue and dark blue mustered strongest. Nothing is more peculiar to this race than the interest which ladies evince in it, and the uncompromising devotion with which they adhere to their colours, winning or los ing. On Saturday only a few were to be seen who were not dressed more or less in light or dark blue. With some weak spirits the concession to popular feeling only went as far as ribands, but the majo rity, whether the shade was light or dark, were more or less blue from head to foot, with blue streamers on their homes, and blue rosettes upon their gloves. The start was fixed to take place at about 12, but long before that time it was evident that unless some order was taken with the crowd of steamers a race Year. Date. ' Winner. Won by. 1829 June 10 ... Oxford ... ... Easily. 1836 June 17 ... Cambridge... 1 minute. 1839 April 3 ... ... Cambridge... 1 min. 45 secs, 1840 April 15 ... Cambridge... of a length. 1841 April 14 ... ... Cambridge... 1 min. 4 secs. 1842 June 11 ... Oxford ... 13 secs. 1845 March 15 ... ... Cambridge... 30 secs. 1846 April 3 ... Cambridge... 2 lengths. 1849 March 29 ... ... Cambridge... Easily. 1849 Dec. 15 ... Oxford ... Foul. 1852 April 3 ... Oxford ... 27 secs. 1854 April 8 ... ... Oxford ... 11 strokes. 1856 March 15 ... ... Cambridge ... -of a length. 1857 April 4 ... ... Oxford ... 35 secs. 1858 March 27 Cambridge ... 22 secs. 1859 April 15 ... Oxford Camb. sank. 1860 March 31 ... ... Oxford ... 1 length. 1861 March 23 ... Oxford ... 43 secs. 1862 April 14 ... Oxford ... 30 sees. 1863 March 28 ... Oxford ... Easily. 1864 March 19 ... ... Oxford ... Easily. 1865 April 8 Oxford Easily. would be impossible. The whole river at Putney was covered with boats of every kind, from screw steam- tugs, swaying and reeling heavily from side to side with their overload of pssengcrs, down to cutters, wherries, and outriggers. Some of the lighter boats were beautifully manned, and flew in all directions over the water like summer flies, while others of the larger kind were so dangerously crowdedand ill-handled that it was painful to witness the peril to which their passengers were momentarily exposed. As on a Derby day one can see the best and worst -- - horses in the world, so on the occasion of the Uni vcrsity boat race can be seen the best and worst boats and the best and worst specimens of rowing ever to be witnessed on the Thames. Soon after 12 the Cambridge boat came out, and the Oxford almost immediately followed, both crews being greeted with loud cheers as they moved easily to the centre of the stream. They were well matched ap parently in weight and size. The crews were much above the average height, and seemed alike in per fect condition, as fine a set of young fellows as could well be brought together. Their names and weights are as follows : - OXFORD 1. Mr. R. T. Raikes, Merton ... 2. Mr. P. Senhouse, Christ Church 3. Mr. E. F. Henley, Oriel ... 4. Mr. G. G. Coventry, Pembroke... 5. Mr. A. Morrison, 8a11i01... 6. Mr. T. Wood, Pembroke ... 7. Mr. H. Schneider, Trinity ... 8. Mr. M. Brown, Trinity C. E. W. Tottenham, Ch. Ch (cox.) 7 13 CAMBRIDGE. st lb 1. Mr. H. Watney, St. John's 11 1 2. Mr. M. H. Beebee, St. John's... 11 0 3. Mr. E. V. Pigott, Corpus: ... 11 13 4. Mr. R. A. Kinglake, Trinity ... ... 12 8 5. Mr. D. F. Steavenson, Trinity Hall ... 12 5 6. Mr. G. H. Borthwick, Trinity 12 0 7. Mr. W. R. Griffiths, Trinity 11 8 8. Mr. C. B. Lawes, Trinity 11 7 Mr. .H. Archer, Corpus Christi (cox.) ... 7 3 Both crews took a short turn down the river before coming to the starting-point, but nothing could be judged from this preliminary effort, save that the Oxford stroke was long and beautifully regular. Of course, on the first tokens of the start being near at hand the crowds of steamers closed in before the boats on either side, so as to make it impossible the race could be begun, unless each crew were content to face the almost certainty of drowning. It was in vain that the Thames police interfered, and the spectators on the shore were driven into the most exasperated form of wordy remonstrance. The captains of the steamers were inexorable, and it was not till after a short consultation, during which both crews agreed not to start at all unless their course Was cleared, that the managers of the steamers would consent to let the boats have a fair chance. The misconduct of these steamers has long been complained of, and unless some better order is taken with them, their presence on these occasions must sooner or later result in some terrific accident. It is the knowledge of this, and the danger with which they al ways menace the competing crews, which is, we believe, now leading the University oarsmen to look about for some other water than the Thames on which they may compete fairly and in safety. st lb ... 11 1 ... 11 2 ... 12 13 ... 11 12 ... 12 6 ... 12 2 ... 11 11 ... 11 4 Not till near one o'clock was the last and most obstructive of the st eamers, the Prince, got rid of and kept astern. Oxford, in the meantime, had won the toss for choice of places, and of course Middlesex side. At one o ' c l oc k , when thee took th e given at last, both boats got o ff we l l togethrd was bridge began with a rapid spu r t that dre.wCtah ir Cam_ boat ahead amid tremendous che ers f rom their sup_ e porters. Oxford for the moment seeme d takenb surprise, and their long, powerful stroke, which eventually saved their race, but which of all others is the hardest to keep to in the sudden excitement of a start, was for the time almost forgotten. The spurt of Cambridge, on the contrary, was even heightened by its success, and stroke after stroke, and foot by foot, they drew their boat ahead, till in a quarter of a mile they had its length almost clear of their opponents. To add to Oxford's difficulties they now got into the broken water of two steamers which had remained ahead, but which the immense pace of the racing boats had soon overtaken, and this misfortune threw them still more behind, till at the Crab Tree nearly two lengths separated the rival crews, and Cambridge even then seemed gaining every minute. Cheers for Cambridge came from every point, the ladies in light blue waved parasols and handkerchiefs, while, on the other hand, direction The Great Oxford and Cambridge Eight- entreaties, and expostulations were hoarsely poured oared Match, on Oxford from a thousand voi ces . They pulled manfully, bending to their work like machinery and ;s great aquatic contest, which now regularly sending their boat on with a visible spring at every `he opening of the London rowing season, stroke, but at this time all in vain. Their oppo turday won by the Oxford crew, after one nests were not only well ahead but right ahead, , nd for a time one of the most doubt- giving to Oxford all the trouble and disadvantage that have ever been seen on the of broken water. tto the time of starting, and cer- Hammersmith-bridge on Saturday was festooned TO miles or so after they had with human beings, and the great roar of cheers vas the favourite, and at one which greeted Cambridge at this point was wonder uld have been difficult to find ful to hear. The race was then considered over, v odds at all. Yet in the for the lead of light blue was nearly three lengths ' , lost ease by about five and seemed increasing. It was here that Cambridge ' crew came up with a again put on a quicker spurt and pulled a stroke made them the fa- that was distressingly rapid, considering how far began to try their they had still to - go. A thousand to one on Oxford styled " cogni- would then have found no takers, though in a few nered doubts minutes after Oxford began slowly but surely to win. me show of Without any quickening of stroke they were seen 9 call it. to be visibly diminishing their distance from their ;ghest antagonists. With every effort they came nearer -ew and nearer, and Cambridge made a desperate at- I tempt to keep the lead, rowing at least 40 strokes a minute. Still, in spite of all, the dark blue gained, till both boats were almost abreast, and the excite ment of the partisans of each became intense. It was a wonderful struggle as each for a short space held their own, neck and neck, and light blue and dark blue along the banks on either side or in the boats around-called out to each, " Pull, Cambridge, pull," " Pull, Oxford, pull." Every call or name that could be supposed on this occasion to stimulate men to do their utmost was used now. Gentlemen and ladies were equally earnest, and the sounds of " Pembroke" and " Trinity," " Henley," " Brown," Lawes," and " Pigott" could be heard even above the constant cry of " Pull, Pull !" It only lasted for a minute, for, amid all the uproar, whirl, and rush of the race, Oxford drew ahead at Chiswick Church. It was useless calling on Cambridge to " pull" then. Their pace had been too fast to last, and though they struggled nobly, dark blue still gained with every long deep regular stroke, and it was seen that the race was over. The crew which could regain the tremendous lead that Cambridge had possessed could do anything on_ the water, and amid the most enthusiastic cheers from the dark blues, ladies and gentlemen, Oxford passed under Barnes-bridge leading by two lengths. From this point, confident of their victory, they could afford to attend a little more to style, and the stroke with which they brought theirboat up to the winning-post was the admiration of all who saw it. They won by at least four or five lengths. The time occupied in the entire race was just a little over 21 minutes, — one of the fastest that has ever been rowed. The fifth victory in succession which was thus gained by Oxford was due mainly to their perseverance in the long stroke, which has been the tradition of the University, and to the admirable steering of Mr. Tottenham, who has now so often guided the Ox ford boat to victory. Many accidents occurred from the swell raised by the mass of steamers fol lowing the boats. As far as we could learn, how ever, no life was lost, though at one time two boats, each containing fivepersons, were swamped in deep water. Half an hour after the race Oxford rowed back to Putney in splendid style. The Cambridge crew were prevented accompanying them, as after the contest one of the steamers struck their boat and nearly cut it in two. The following is the state of the score as regards the success of the two Universi ties in these contests up to the present time : TIM DINNER. Both crews were in the evening entertained at dinner at Willis's Rooms by the Thames Subscription Club, the chair being occupied by the President of the club, Mr. Denman, M.P., who was supported by Mr. Carnegie, M.P., Mr. Law ton, M.P., Mr. J. W. Chitty, and by several past and present members of the rowing clubs of the two Universities. After dinner the toast of " Her Majesty the Queen" hav ing been given and duly honoured. The CHAIRMAN proposed "the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family," ob serving that his Royal Highness had been a member both of Oxford and Cambridge, and took a great interest in' their annual contest on the Thames, as was testified by his hav ing gone to witness it last year, and participated with evi dent satisfaction in all the excitement of the race. The roast was drank amid loud cheers, and the next toasts on the list, " The Army and Navy and Volunteers," to which Mr. Chitty responded, and " The House of Com mons," for which Mr. Carnegie returned thanks, having been disposed of, The CHAIRMAN rose and gave " the health of the Uni versity crews of Oxford and Cambridge." All who heard him (he said) had probably been spectators of the spirited contest which had that day taken place between those crews, whom he would not flatter by telling them they were the best crews he had ever seen, although he might say with truth that the race in which they had been engaged was as gallant and interesting a race as any at which he had ever been present. (Cheers.) That, no doubt, was owing in a great measure to the fact that among the Cambridge men it was strongly felt they must exert themselves, if possible, more than usual in order to retrieve the laurels which of late years they had lost, while Oxford was, of course, equally anxious to add another to a long list of glorious victories. Every effort, therefore, which could be made was made on both sides, under those difficulties which were always in the way, to leave no stone unturned to secure success, and the result was that 16 more gallant, 16 more stalwart, or 16 more honest men had never struggled for supremacy on any waters than the crews which had been sent out from Oxford and Cambridge this year. (Cheers.) Nor must praise be confined to the men themselves who rowed in the race. Mr. Morrison and Mr. Chambers were equally entitled to it, for never had there been a more striking display than that made by both those gentlemen in seeking to bring their respective crews to the utmost pitch of perfection, of all those qualities which went to constitute a painstaking and efficient trainer. (Cheers.) For his own part ho had unhappily that day been the victim of bitter disappointment. He had seen the Cambridge crew two miles from the starting point well ahead, and yet—for the first time, te believed, in the history of those races under such circumstances—they did not win. Ile was, of course, ready to admit that the Oxford crew were entitled to all the more credit for having so successfully surmounted the disadvantages arising from their being so long in the rear, while of both crews it could justly be said—as it might always be said of those who took part in such contests— that they were actuated by no other motive than a de sire to uphold the honour of their respective Universities, entirely uninfluenced by those paltry considerations of gain which operated in some cases in which betting took place to a large extent. (Hear, hear.) In that spirit the Oxford crew rowed what at one moment seemed to be a losing race, and in proposing their health he would couple with it the name of Mr. Morrison, who pulled No. 5 oar in the Oxford boat. (Cheers.) As to the Cambridge that their crew, everybody was aware that they had had great diffi culties to encounter. They had had to battle against the pre forht their opponents, and against t prestige which four succes h s e ive ge vi n c e to rai rie im s had impression won iont University had lost the art of rowing, while Oxford was i n possession of the secret. Cambridge, neverthe l ess , sent to the post a crew so carefully trained, and consisting of men at once so skilful and so gallant, that till towards the close of the race it appeared as if they were about to win. (Hear.) Nor could any man who took an interest in their success feel otherwise than proud of their performance. (Hoar.) But it should not be forgotten that before they icould be brought to that degree of perfection which they had evi -1 dontly attained a great amount of toil and self-sacrifice was necessary on th e had himself seen the Cambridge crew was gU ab P o e ll l. of tho se b y whom their training part not only of the men themselves but inviting and bitt er weather as any rowing one of their ordinarytrialsn a t e m n o d n e d t h . a li g o e on the Cam in as un tu'rned out ; but th ere in which men had ever was one man whose position was the boat, and that man wapsorMforr.llCiahnacme more uncomfortable still than that of those who were i f) : n rs d c e h n e d ers)—wa ence?evyoeurtohad to look on at their remedy those defects in it which his experienced dis covered. (Hear,- hear.) They knew what had been the result of his labours, and he felt sure that no Cambridge man would hold his head the lower, although he might feel his heart the heavier because of the contest of that day. (Cheers.) For himself, although now somewhat THE SVN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1865. a venerable member of that University—(a laugh)—for it was 23 years since he had pulled a Cambridge oar—he had felt the sense of defeat keenly at the moment ; but then, on reflection, he could not help thinking that the qualities dis played bythe Cambridge crew this year afforded an earnest of many victories to be won by Cambridge men in years to come. (Cheers.) 'With the latter part of the toast he begged to couple the name of Mr. Chambers. (Cheers.) Mr. MortnrsoN, who on rising to return thanks was loudly cheered, said he hoped that their chairman, who seemed to think he was fast becoming a venerable man, would become awfully venerable before he had seen his last University boat race. (Cheers.) As to the victory which the Oxford crew had that day achieved over their gallant opponents, he was of course naturally very proud of it, and he thought it was but right to say that he believed it to be mainly due to that slow stroke which Mr. Brown had had the courage to row. He could not of course expect the Cambridge crew to concur with him on that point, but he felt assured he should have their sympathy when he complained of the ever recurring inconvenience caused by the steamboats. (Hear.) But be that as it might, he felt very grateful to the Thames Subscription Club for the kindness which they had shown him and his crew, and he trusted he stood in his present position not for the last time. (Cheers.) Mr CHAMBERS, who was also very warmly greeted, said he felt some diffidence in rising to return thanks for the Cambridge crew, inasmuch astheir opponents had now been victorious on the Thames for five successive years. How that came to pass he could not tell, although some expla nation of the circumstance might be found in the fact that the Cambridge crow laboured under the disadvantage of having to go through the process of training on a river which was very narrow, and sometimes so devoid of water as to be almost a complete ditch. Then, again, Oxford was enabled to pick her men up to their fifth year at the Univer sity, while the choice of Cambridge was limited to four year men. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, however, no pains would be spared on the part of Cambridge to bring a winning crew to the post next year, when he hoped the captains of steamboats would behave better, for he quite concurred with Mr. Morrison in thinking that their conduct that day had been most shameful. (Cheers.) The health of "the Thames Subscription Club and its officers," "the Rowing Clubs of the United Kingdom," and one or two other toasts followed. The company broke up shortly after 11 o'clock. THE UNIVERSITIES' BILLIARD MATCHES. The annual billiard matches between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge were played on Saturday at St. James's-hall. The first contest was a double game of "500 up." The players on the part of Oxford were Mr. W. Stokes, of Queen's, and Mr. Watts Russell, of Christchurch. The representatives of Cambridge were Mr. A. G. Payne, of St. Peter's, and Mr. Arthur Smith, of Trinity. Upon the commencement of the play the Cambridge men led off, marking the first 100 to their opponents' 77, the latter scoring but slowly, and apparently not having as yet ac quired a knowledge of the table. During the next 100, how ever, Mr. Russell made some very pretty strokes, but either from over anxiety or some other cause did not suc ceed in scoring any very large numbers from a single break. Mr. Stokes also improved in his play, and with his partner obtained the lead at 203 to the Cantabs, 136. Mr. Payne by some excellent breaks managed to keep the score in the same relative positions, scoring 202 to their opponents 267. The play proceeded cautiously with few breaks of any length until the marker called " Cambridge 300 to Oxford 370." From this point the game proceeded very equally, Mr. Smith by bold play contriving to add considerably to the score. Mr. Russell vastly improved in his play, making some excellent breaks. Oxford marked 401 when Cambridge had obtained 364. The betting, which had begun at 7 to 4 on Oxford, and had during the progress of the game advanced to 3 to 1, was now almost any odds on Oxford : but Mr. Payne andhis partner, who had fought a losing game with great spirit, put forth additional ener gies, the former gentleman by some admirable play making two breaks of 20 and 16 respectively. Mr. Smith was for tunate, and assisted in bringing the game up until the marker called 459 all. The contest then became extremely exciting, and great caution was displayed on both sides. Mr. Stokes, by some beautiful cannons, and Mr. Smith, by bold and successful play, brought up their respective scores to 493 and 486 respectively. Mr. Smith, however, made at this point an unfortunate mistake, and afforded Mr. Stokes an opportunity of scoring the game, which, therefore, re sulted in favour of Oxford by 14 points. - The play occu pied 2h. 55 min. After an hour's interval the single match, "500 up," was begun, Mr. Stokes and Mr. Payne being the champions of the rival Universities ; the betting was 3 to 2 on Ox ford. The latter gentleman led off, and marked 101 in the first quarter of an hour, Mr. Stokes having mado 33. The play continued in the same manner, Mr. Payne scoring well and rapidly, and Mr. Stokes displaying a complete knowledge of the game, but not having the good fortune to secure good breaks. Oxford scored only 100 when Cambridge had marked 186. Mr. Payne, who was still playing very freely and making some very fine hazards, brought up his total to 200, but Mr. Stokes very speedily reduced the balance against him until he had to his credit 200 to his opponent's 217. Mr. Payne again led off, and in one magnificent break marked 29, until his score stood at 302 to Mr. Stokes's 258. The latter gentle man continued to play in the same calm, quiet manner that had distinguished him throughout, and obtaining a chance of paying the "spot stroke" made use of the opportunity. His play, however, was not seconded by what in the bil liardroom is known as "luck," the balls seldom breaking favourably for him. The betting had now fallen to even, but when Cambridge had 344 to the 301 of Oxford the latter again became the favourite. Mr. Payne continued to score his long hazards and made some excellent screws, but when the game was called " Cambridge 451, Oxford 401," a more cautious style of play was adopted by that gentleman. Mr. Stokes played a beautiful game considering the disadvantage under which he laboured from the judi cious tactics of his opponent, who by giving frequent misses availed himself of his majority to prevent any opening for continuous breaks. In this style the play proceeded, until Cambridge was called 497, and Oxford 474, when Mr. Payne secured a white losing hazard, making his score 499, and immediately played his own ball into the pocket, leaving the red ball fixed under the cushion, with little chance of scoring from it. Mr. Stokes played, and succeeded in placing both balls in a hopeless position for his opponent to score from. The latter then repeated his coup. Mr. Stokes again played at the red, succeeded in bringing it into baulk, but left his own ball between the middle pockets, which gave Mr. Payne the chance of making a losing hazard, and thus securing the game for Cambridge. The players were loudly cheered for their admirable play. The game occupied 2 hours 35 minutes. - - Naval and Military Intelligence. The Channel fleet, now lying at anchor in Port land roads, are ordered to sea on the 17th inst., and the Hector, iron frigate, Capt. G..W. Preedy, C. 8., now in dock at Portsmouth, will be un docked on the 13th inst. so as to be enabled to join the fleet prior to the departure from Portland. Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt. H. S. H. the Prince Leiningen, is ordered to be prepared at Portsmouth dockyard, to convey the Prince of Wales to Kingstown, Ireland ,on the occa sion of his visitito Dublin, to be present at the open ing of the Exhibition. The Victoria and Albert will leave Portsmouth about the 4th proximo, for Holy head, where his Royal Highness will embark for Dublin. The screw corvette Menai, 22, in frame at Chatham dockyard, but the work on which has been discontinued for some two years, is to be taken to pieces as soon as the required number of hands can be spared for the work. The frames will be used in the construction of the improved 4-gun ves sel Blanche, one of the Amazon class of ships, from the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, which will be com menced on the slip on which the ironcased frigate Lord Warden, 24, 1,000-horse: power, is building, as soon as the latter vessel is launched. The partly constructed wooden ships Belvidere, 51, 500-horse power, and the Reindeer, 17, 200-horse power, now on the stocks at Chatham dockyard, are also to be taken to pieces, and the timbers and frames used in the general service. A committee of naval officers--viz., Commodore Ryder, Capt. Sir J. Hay, M.P., Capt. E. Sotheby, C.B:, Capt. Englefield, Capt. T. Miller, Capt. D. Miller, and Mr. W. Hickman, has just been formed to collect a fund for a memorial to the late Admi ral Sir Henry Bruce, K.C.B. The memorial will take the shape of an endowment of one or more scholarships at some school or institution where the daughters of naval and marine officers are boarded and educated, and the scholarships will be called the " Bruce Scholarships." The Bristol, 35, 600 horse power, fitting for the first division of the Chatham Steam Reserve in the place of the Arethusa, 35, 400 horse power, intended for commission, has received her first instalment of the new pattern 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled Armstrong guns, from the Royal Gun Factory, together with a supply of the 110 pounder breech loading Armstrongs, which have been sent to her from the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, in lieu of eight of the 40-pounder Armstrongs previously ordered. The Undaunted, Newcastle, Arethusa, Forte, and other frigates of that class, are all to have the 110- pounder Armstrongs supplied them instead of the 40-pounders, which, it would appear, are to be gra dually withdrawn from the navy. The 75th Regiment will arrive at Portsmouth this morning from Aldershot. The headquarters of the regiment will be established in Fort Grange, one of the advanced forts west of Gosport, and a de tachment will be forwarded on Portsmouth to Wey mouth and Portland in her Majesty's screw troop ship Urgent, Capt. S. H. Henderson. The appointment of Sub-Lieut. E. R. Mathias was not to the Formidable, as stated in The Sun of Fri day, but to the Research ; that of Mr. Fredk. Bunn, paymaster, was not to the Adventure, but to the Mutine at Woolwich. The models and drawings for the new machinery, the invention of Mr. E. J. Reed, for working and training the large 12-ton 300-pounder Armstrong gun which the ironclad frigate Bellerophon, now building at Chatham, will mount, have been pre pared in readiness for the manufacture of the model at Chatham dockyard instead of at Woolwich dock yard, as previously ordered. The whole of the ma chinery will be placed on the lower deck, below the gun battery, and therefore securely protected from injury from shot or shell,, while the apparatus will be easily worked by a 'couple of men, the whole not being unlike the steering apparatus on board our ships of war. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Blake to the Mutine; Henry Bond, _master, to the Tribune ; Dr. Bernard, staff-surgeon, to the President ; Dr. Alex. Watson, staff-surg., to the Racehorse, convict ship ; Dr. George Moore, surg., to the Hast ings; Abraham J. Bolton, assist.-surg., to the Fre derick William ; Francis W. Raikes, second master, to the Fisgard ; Robert S. Evatt, second master, to the Orontes ; Robert M. Bryant, master's assistant, to the Black Prince; Henry Backler, master's assist., to the Mutine ; John B. Keast, master's assist., to the Sutlej ; George Kent., chief engineer, to the Mutine; Thomas G. Purmett, first-class assist.-en gineer, to the Mutine ;- Benjamin Carr, in the Blen heim,-promoted to engineer; George W. Robins, in the Gibraltar, promoted to acting engineer; Henry Meredith, acting first-class assist.-engineer, to the Mutine ; and Granville Fordham, second-class as sistant-engineer, to the Fisgard, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " LONDON REVIEW " ON DEATH IN THE SENATE. —A gloom overspread the House of Com mons at the hour of meeting on Monday. A " great man in Israel" had fallen, and there was a large at tendance drawn together, partly, perhaps, by a na tural desire to see the vacant place of a statesman so suddenly snatched away, and still more to hear words of generous sympathy from friends and foes befitting the dignity of the house, the eminent ser vices of the deceased, and the public sorrow for his loss. Mr. Cobden's personal friends thought and said to each other that the compliment of an ad journment which h a d b een pa id to Lord Campbell and Sir G. C. Lewis ought not to have been with held from one who left a stronger and deeper mark upon his age and time than either. It was whis pered, however, that the Prime Minister alleged, with some reason, the state of public business as his hustification for not mov i ng th e a dj ournmen t o f th e ouse. Monday is a Government night ; the Easter holidays had almost arrived ; and the Treasury were driven to ask for votes " on account" of the Civil Service Estimates. The Navy Estimates had only progressed as far as the second vote, and altogether Supply might be said to be a month later than usual. There was some force and truth in these suggestions ; yet they were not quite satisfactory, it was said, to the members accustomed to sit with Mr. Cobden on the benches below the gangway on the Ministerial side. Mr. Bright sat in the place which he usually ceded to his deceased friend when present, and occupied when he was absent. Around him were Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. Latham, Mr. Bazley, Mr. White, &c., with sadness on their faces, not unmixed with a shade of disappointment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Villiers, and Sir George Grey took their seats on the Treasury bench at the usual hour, but the Prime Minister did not enter the house until the preliminary business was over. The hum of con versation was arrest e d, an d th e house became hushed with solemn expectancy. The Clerk read the order of the day, a few members cried " Pal merston,"and the noble viscount rose, and delivered a noble tribute to the memory and services of the deceased. Remembering that Mr. Cobden was not a personal friend of the Premier's, and that it is not the habit of the stout old statesman to manifest much emotion on public occasions, it was sufficient that Lord Palmerston's sympathy was hearty and unaffected, that he spoke with emphasis, and that many passages were marked with pathos. The earnest attention and gathering feel ing of the house broke out in cheers, often renewed, at the close of each sen tence. But Mr. Disraeli's speech appeared to give even greater satisfacton to Mr. Bright and his friends below the gangway than that of the Prime Minister. The Opposition leader has often spoken more effectively and with less hesitation ; but his appreciation of -a politician from whom he differed so widely was so generous and so catholic, his eulogy was so discriminating, and there was such a cadence in his musical and eloquent sentences, that the plaudits of his hearers were as continuous as their gratification was unrestrained. The house cheered loudly, but the warmest cheers came from below the gangway. All eyes were turned with sympathy to Mr. Bright, who rose to utter a few broken words of sorrow. The tones of his voice he mastered, but there were pauses in which a sob was audible, and then the hand was raised to the brow, the speaker became overpowered by his recollections, and the strong man sat down and wept like a child. It would have been well if the house had passed to no other business, and had adjourned to another day. But it had been otherwise determined, and it was like a note " jangled and out of tune" to hear one of Mr. Cobden's friends and admirers compelled to discuss the constitution of the Board of Admiralty. The reaction was too much. The house rapidly thinned, and general regrets were heard that the opportunity had been lost of paying a just compli ment to one of the most . distinguished mem b ers o f the Senate. Mr. Disraeli alluded to the mournful obituary annals of the present Parliament. " When we remember how many of our most eminent and valuable public men we have lost," he said, " I cannot refer to the history of any Parliament which will bear to posterity so fatal a record." This is certainly true. In 1859, after the new Parliament met, we lost the great engineer, Robert Stephenson, The year 1860 was saddened by the loss of Lord Macaulay; the Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., the late Prime Minister; the Marquis of Dalhousie, one of the ablest Governor-Generals that India ever had; Admiral Sir C. Napier; the learned an d most R ev. Dr. Musgrove, Archbishop of York ; the veteran diplomatist Lord Heytesbury ; the pious and charit able Duke of Norfolk ; the gallant Field Marshal Earl of Strafford ; Lord Elphinstone, late Governor of Bombay; the. Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P. for Leeds, late President of the Poor-law Board ; the somewhat eccentric but intellectual and accom plished Henry Drummond, M.P. for West Surrey; Mr. Wilson, Finance Minister of India ; Mr. H. Ingram, M.P. for Boston; Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., the civil engineer, &c. Death was more than usually busy in 1860 in the ranks of politicians. In 1861 the Queen and the nation suffered a sudden and terrible blow in the death of the Prince Con sort, nor have we yet fully appreciated the magni tude of the loss we sustained. In the same year Lord Chancellor Campbell passed suddenly away in the morning, after attending a Cabinet Council the previous day, and entertaining a dinner party at eight. In Lord Herbert we lost one whom tature had intended for a Prime Minister ; and in Sir James Graham, one who stood in the first rank of our politicians and orators. That year was also fatal to the Duke of Bedford (brother to Earl Rus sell), the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Abinger, the Duke of Buckingham, the Right Rev. Dr. Villiers, Bishop of Durham ; Earl Fortescue, the popular Earl of Eglinton, ex-Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; Major Sibthorp, M.P. for Lincoln : Mr. Tom Dun combe, M.P. for Finsbury ; Mr. J. H. Foley, M.P. for East Worcestershire; Dr. Noble, M.P. for Lei cester; Mr. G. G. Harcourt, M.P. for Oxfordshire; Lord Braybrooke, &c. In 1862, Sir Charles Bur rell, father of the House of Commons, began the list of conspicuous deaths, which was by comparison unusually scanty. Lord Canning fell a victim to the Indian climate shortly after his return to Eng lan 3 ; the Most Rev. Dr. Bird Sumner, the good Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord J. G. Beres ford, the princely and apostolic Primate of Ireland, were gathered to their rest that year. The benevo lent Mr. Slaney, M.P. for Shrewsbury, met his death by an accident at the opening of the Great Exhibition. Mr. J. L. Ricardo, M.P. for Stokes, Mr. Deedes, M.P. for East Kent, Mr. Cayley, M.P. for North Ridin g , M r . H. B. Coles, M.P., Mr. J. Boyd, M.P., C o l one l W ynne, M.P., Mr. Wilcox, M.P., the Ea r l of_ Gifford, M.P., and the Earl of Yarborough, were amo ng th e losses of 1862. . In 1863 the Marqui s o f L ans d owne, one o f th e rapidly lessening links whi c h connec t e d th e s t a t esmans h i p of the last century with that of the present, was taken from the House of Lords. Sir George Corm wall Lewis, the Minister of War, died suddenly at his family seal in Herefordshire, and the House transacted no public business on the day the sad news arrived. Lord Clyde, whose military achieve ments spanned half a century, and whose last services shed a new lustre over her Majesty's arms and consolidated her Indian empire, slept in peace by the side of Lord Canning and Sir James Outram in Westminster Abbey. The ex-Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst died in his 92d year. The Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of India, fell at his post, as a soldier falls in the trenches or on a field of battle. The once liberal Marquis of Nor mandy died, and Lord Seaton and Lord Hatherton also passed away, to the regret of the elder genera tion that knew them. Lord Sinclair, aged 95, father of the House of Peers, the Earl of Claremont, Earl Beauchamp ; the ancient Whig Nestor, Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., Mr. Western Wood, M.P. Mr. Ald. Cubitt, M.P., the Marquis o f Townshend, Lord Sandys (better known to the House of Commons as Lord Marcus Hill), and Mr. H. T. Hope were car ried away. Dr. Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, was also among the not least distinguished dead of a year saddened and rendered memorable by the loss of so many eminent statesmen, soldiers, and divines. In 1864, the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, followed his friend Lord Herbert to a premature tomb. The Earl of Carlisle, late Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, a worthy representative of the highest type of English aristocracy ; Sir W. Atherton, 11.1. P., late Attorney- General ; Mr. Richard Spooner, who earned so much celebrity by his at tacks on the endowment of Maynooth, and whose fair fame has since been clouded by the failure of the bank at Birmingham ; Mr. W. J. Fox, one of Mr. Cobden's most eloquent colleagues in the agita tion for Free Trade ; Mr. Puller and Mr. Ker Sey mer, two valuable and respected members, who were lost to the House in 1864 ; Lord Ashburton, Lord Aberdeen, and the Earl of Cadogan fell before the sickle of the great reaper last year. The Easter of 1865 has not yet arrived, but we have already lost Field-Marshal Lord Combermere, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord Great Chamberlain, the princely and benevolent Duke of Northumberland, the Earl of Bradford, Mr.Gregson, Chairman of Committees on Public Petitions ; Sir Henry Willoughby, one of the few amateur financiers of the House, &c. ; and, lastly, Mr. Cobden. The " dance of death" has thus been unusually active in the British Senate during the present Parliament. Yet it would not be easy to point out the name of a single statesman in the fatal roll who has conferred such solid and enduring benefits upon his country, or who has set an example of more singular modesty and disin terestedness, than the great man whose remains have been committed to the grave in a quiet rural churchyard in Sussex. THE " EXAMINER" ON RICHARD COBDEN.--No loss has been in our time more truly or deeply de plored by the industrial heart of England than that which it is our painful duty to record to-day. Richard Cobden was, above and beyond all other men of his day, the man of his order. Sprung from a yeoman's stock, trained in the discipline of com merce, and early raised to a position of indepen dence and influence as a manufacturer by his own sagacity and energy, he laid aside the pursuit of pri vate wealth while yet in his prime, to enforce the adoption of a change in national policy which has been of inestimable benefit'to all who live by labour. Philosophers had preached free trade as a theory, and statesmen had timidly and tentatively taken up the cause when it seemed to suit the occasion of the hour. But with the friend whose death we mourn it was not merely a conviction, but a faith—a faith which never slept and never faltered until it had seen the realization of things hoped for, and the evi dence of things unseen. It was in no random mood that he forsook the honourable pursuit of wealth as a merchant, and devoted all his energies to what many deemed the desperate enterprise of reversing the traditional policy of Protection. Even those of us who were old enough in 1841 to comprehend the strength of the hold that policy had upon the govern ing classes of the nation, find it difficult to recall fully the deterring influences of the time and the diversity and magnitude of the impediments that stood in the way. And by those who were then too young for much personal knowledge of them, it would be hardly possible to make their nature or their multiplicity well understood. From the Whig Prime Minister who was with difficulty persuaded to sanction the proposal of an Bs. duty on corn and a modified differential tariff for timber and sugar, as the extreme of conces sion to commercial needs, to the Tory parson who used to denounce from the pulpit the cry of cheap food as incendiarism and sedition, all that esteemed itself polite in England, with exceptions, few in number though not of small mark, believed absolute free trade to be a fantastic dream. It was vile and vicious in the opinion of Conservatives ; vain and vulgar in the judment of the Whigs. Even many of the Radicals,. while they voted for it, feared that its attainment was impracticable. Even the work ing classes, who ought to have been its readiest ad vocates, at first threw difficulties in the way, and never cordially lent their aid. Richard Cobden began his life-toil for their . good and that of their employers with being scoffed at and ridiculed as an upstart by his neighbours, and being hooted and pelted by the mob at Manchester. But this was a man who did not work for mere popularity. his true reward, the only true reward of a t rue na t ure , was within lifm,—the hope of being able to accom plish a good work, while it was doing, and the calm satisfaction of having accomplished it, when it was done. A more courageous and a more modest spirit never dignified the frail tenement of clay. Nobody ever heard him in the early days of the warfare he led against Protection sigh over his want of advan tages or:ack of odds. Nobody when the battle was won, and Ministers and mobs concurred in paying homage to his worth, ever heard him descend to the utterance of a syllable of self-laudation. There never was a man so thoroughly self-centred and self-reliant for all good uses and good purposes, so thoroughly free in private and in public life from egotism. His faults, such as they were, had their root in the temper whence his virtue sprang. He was too single-minded himself, and went too straight to the aim he believed to be just, to make sufficient allowance for the not dishonest pliability of others, and for the purity and earnestness of convictions that distinctly differed from his own. Not that he was uncharitable or ready to ascribe base motives : quite the contrary. No man was more ready to for bear, to forgive, and to forget. But he could not imagine his antagonists to be beyond the reach of a logic to which on more than one •great occasion he had found them yield after a certain amount of resistance ; and he some times betrayed impatience amounting almost to petulance at the manifestation of obstinacy which he could not regard as other than a waste of time. He had seen ponderous and portentous systems of error crumble down before his persistent attack, till he grew sceptical as to the durability of anything that he had persuaded himself was unsound. But what is this except to say that he was human, and that humanity is liable to err ? It would be well for us if all our public men were as unselfish in their objects, or as indefatigable in the service of their country, as that most honest servant of the truth by whose new-made grave his friends stood yesterday. It is not necessary for us here to dis claim assent to some of the opinions recently put forward by Mr. Cobden ; but this is the place per haps, and this the time, to say how sorely against the grain has been for us the task of differing from him when we have thought it our duty to differ. We have never done so, we say frankly, without many misgivings, because we knew the value of the man as a fixed quantity in English political life ; and because we shrank instinctively from saying a word that, however intrinsically true, might have the effect for a moment of detracting from that value in the eyes of men. He was so careless in this as in other respects of all that related to him self, so outspoken, so unreserved, so plain, that we flinched from the necessity of sometimes separating ourselves from him. But all the more carefully and cordially do we join in acknowledging his pre eminent worth, not merely as an economist, a negotiator, a senator, or a tribune of the people, but as one whose stainless life and character has left us an example priceless and inestimable. We feel with the eloquent leader of the party to whom he was opposed in Parliament, that we are bound to refuse to regard his spirit as having passed away from amongst us. Mr. Disraeli has done himself true honour by the manner in which he has borne his testimony on the present occasion to the worth of a man who, like himself, owed nothing to the accidents of fortune, but everything to thepersistent courage of his own nature. There is,peeper down than any voice of party conflict can reach, a sym pathy of noble ambition which it is well should find speech on occasions like this. The qualities on which an Englishman most prides himself were united in the man for whom by the whole country party distinctions are forgotten and all grudges laid aside when respect is paid to hismemory by a unani mous Commons. Nor is it less affecting or instruc tive to observe how the event of the week has been received in France, where, with almost as general an accord as in England, the death of Mr. Cobden has drawn forth the warmest expressions of admi ration for his character, and regret for the untimely loss of his most wholesome influence in the affairs of men. THE " SPECTATOR" ON MRS. THISTLETHWAITE.-- ' WC have not yet been fortunate enough to meet with George Eliot's " Dinah," or anything at all like her. Twice the present writer has heard a woman preach--once as a boy, when an amiable old Quaker lady accustomed to address assemblies got herself unfortunately into a pulpit, and was so put out by that novel position that she lost, we will not say the idea (for there was none), but the state of mind, whatever that was, which was essential to the production of hortatory periods, and her husband had to:ascend visibly into the pulpit before the eyes of the congregation to extricate her by comfortable assurances of conjugal affection from that intellectual or unintellectual dilemma. Again, last Sunday we had the privilege of witnessing ap- parently a much less unsuccessful specimen of femi nine eloquence in which no vir ex machind was called in to assist at the tying together of a broken clue. But the experiment, smoothly as it ran, rather confirmed our boyish impression of the dis qualification of women as preachers, only substitu ting sincere regret at w h a t seemed an unfortunate and mistaken display of religioun for the cruel glee with which thoughtless schoolboys are too apt to gloat over a visible moral catastrophe to their fel low-creatures. We should be the last to deny to women who possess any unique power of touching the hearts of others the right to sacrifice private feelings to the appeal of duty. But Mrs. Thistle thwaite does not, as far as we could judge, exercise any such power at all. Being a woman, and a pretty woman, and certainly in her own way very much in earnest, of course she " draws" much better than a man of the same mental qualifications as herself. The little lecture-room which calls itself the Marylebone Institute was crowded to excess half an hour before Mrs. Thistlethwaite began, and a motley assemblage, chiefly, we should say, of the shopkeepers of the neighbourhood --not consisting more of men than of women—struggled their way into the bad air and bare standing-room of the place as if they looked forward to receiving a spiritual influence of no small power. Mrs. Thistlethwaite is, we need scarcely say, a very Darrow Evangelical. She explained in her introduc tory prayer that if there were any there led thither by an idle curiosity to see a poor lost soul on whom God had taken mercy, she trusted that idle curiosity might be " solemnised" into a deeper feeling before the service was ove r . Thi s was th e first stroke on that chord, but it was by no means the last ; there was throughout, that painful harping on a thin string, that vibrating eagerness without force or breadth, that flickering impetuosity, that chain of vagrant associations sending off branches allusively in all directions from the one reiterated entreaty to abandon self-righteousness and accept the atoning blood of Christ but ever returning to the same point without finishing the other train of suggestion—in a word, that reedy wail of conscientious spiritual effort, desiring to feel itself divinely authorised, and not quite succeeding in the attempt, which must have made every one sad who listened thoughtfully. To be conscious of a voluble flow of weak entreaty, and to recognise the impossibility of meeting it half way by any act of will, is one of the most melancholy of human experiences. At the end of her sermon Mrs. Thistlethwaite gave out a hymn beginning, " I do believe, I will believe," with spasmodic accentua tion of the " do" and " will," in which she entreated all her audience with almost feverish eagerness to join, evidently under a helpless kind of impression that it was an " easy lesson" in belief, that if we would only repeat the words with sufficient empha sis, we should manage the act of belief in time. And this was expressive of the whole service. Mrs. Thistlethwaite impressed us as entirely destitute of any power to reach the deeper springs of faith in the human heart, and as compelled , to make up for that deficiency by nagging at the souls of her audience. The truth is, that a woman, in order to exercise any great religious influence, must, we take it, have much of the mystic in her as well as a rare simplicity of nature. Mrs. Thistlethwaite has nothing of the mys tic in her, and, though sincere enough, has not a rare simplicity of nature. She is a little of an actress in her elocution, and in reading the hymn gave the note of admiration after "ashamed of Jesus !"with something that we almost felt to be a pert pitch of indignation, and when she came to the end of the hymn where the prayer is breathed that Christ be not ashamed of me I' she sank her voice to a theatric whisper, and disappeared behind some one else during the sing ing with too dramatic an effect. We felt imme diately that there was none of that dreaminess about her nature which alone could completely save a woman in such a position from awkward self-con sciousness, and so it certainly proved. Even in prayer she could not help citing her authority to prove to God her familiarity with His word—" as Thou has told us in the 17th Psalm" she said, in speaking of "awaking up after God's likeness"—and this was only one of many indications how little she ever lost herself in the thoughts of the Bible, how intent she was upon correct citation. The heavy, drooping eyelids, the small, flexible, almost laugh ing mouth, and the quick, tossy movement of her head, all told of a nature sufficiently excitable, but not in the direction of either quietism or mysticism. Subsequently the whole of the sermon showed that Mrs. Thistlethwaite belongs to the school which de lights in theology only so far as it reveals a myste rious and gigantic transaction by which the soul is extricated from an apparently hopeless dilemma at great price. She did not dwell on the divine love in its daily communion with human weakness—she gloated over the " fountain filled with blood from Immanuel's veins," according to the revolting phraseology of one of her hymns, till the healing of the great Physician sounded almost like a physiolo gical rather than a spiritual process, and the whole air was filled with arterial and ensanguined images. The preacher took a long passage out of Luke end ing with the parable of the Good Samaritan as her text, so that we had at first some hope we might be spared the usual caricature and distortion current amongst the school of St. Paul's doctrine of the Atonement, but it was soon evident that she re garded the whole passage as bearing directly on the dogma inquestion. Shebegan at once by stating that all are equally sinful, the baby just born as sinful as the worst sinner, and all equally in need of redemption. If we asked how this could be just, she replied that God needed no justification for what He did. When the Queen writes a letter about railways, do we ex pect her to justify her course ? We fear we do, and if not, we fear Mrs. Thistlethwaite's argument would only prove that God is not naturally the object of love for any better reason than because He is so powerful, and so cut the whole ground of faith from under her feet. However, that conceded, she pro ceeded to lay down that as God has willed it so, we all need redemption, and no works or fame of our own, not even the mightiest works of the mightiest writers, " like Macaulay's, for instance," will be of any use to the soul that is not saved by Christ's blood. Here was the mystery of redemption, the " things hid from the wise and prudent"—like Macaulay—" and revealed unto babes." Then fol lowed the question of the lawyer who stood up and " tempted" or tried Christ, asking, " Master, what shall Ido to be saved ?" Mrs. Thistlethwaite was very hard upon this lawyer and knew all about him —much more than the Evangelist appeared to know. It was a matter of "perfect indifference to him, PERFECT indifference," she reiterated, what answer Christ would make ; he only put the question in the vanity of indolent curiosity. She appeared to draw this large inference from his calling Christ master' only, remarking that Judas called Him master and never ' Lord,' and she called atten tion to the more reverential address of good master' of the rich young man whom Jesus loved. This was hard upon the lawyer, and she was yet harder upon him before she had done with him. His What shall Ido ?' was self-righteousness—he supposed he could do something to save himself. Our Lord answered him so fully in order, said Mrs. Thistlethwaite glibly, that He might " damn him out of his own mouth"—which is surely introducing hypothetical and supererogatory damnation into the Bible very gratuitously indeed. Could she, we thought, be really so anxious about our souls, when she was so willing to damn—altogether hypotheti cally—this unfortunate lawyer about whom we know nothing, and, in doing so, to attribute a purely fanciful harshness to our Lord? Perhaps she was after all ; but had in her own mind identified this lawyer on account of the equivocal word " tempt" with something very evil indeed. Then she com mented with great severity on his " willingness to justify himself" in asking "Who is my neighbour?" and told an irrelevant story of a young man, an acquaintance of hers, who maintained he had ful filled the whole Law, and' who afterwards, as she recounted eagerly—not cruelly, but with dogmatic eagerness—showed what his self-righteousness was worth by falling into open sin. And then she gave her interpretation of the story of the good Samaritan. The good Samaritan was not a Samaritan after all, he was only a form of our Lord Himself, because the Jews had taunted Him with being a Samaritan, and having a devil. The robbed traveller was the lost soul of man, whom the ministers of the law, the priest and Levite, would and could not aid. The good Samaritah was Christ, who poured in the oil and wine of His own blood, and provided for the saved soul afterwards at His own cost. Nothing good could have been done by any human being. The goon Samaritan was meant to be a type of real good ness, and therefore was not a human being, but the incarnate Son of God. The "go and do likewise" to the lawyer was pure irony in Christ—meant to show the absolute impossibility of man's doing like wise without being first redeemed—they were the words which " damned the lawyer out of his own mouth." A shocking parody, as it seemed to us, of the most beautiful of our Lord's parables ! Such, illustrated with many readings out of the Epistle to the Romans, was Mrs.Thistlethwaite's sermon. It was not eloquent, it was wholly devoid of tender ness, and, as we have shown, full of harsh unfeminine constructions of the Gospel. It was very far from powerful. It was fluent, eager, excitable, variable, diverging occasionally into sharp, thin controver sialism, as when she denounced our Church for hanging up the tables of the Law over the altar as if they could save any man, and explained that she must do so whether it gave offence or not, nay, even "if a hundred cannons were pointed at me,"—a very wild supposition indeed, Mrs. Thistlethwaite. But, on the whole, though an expression of the religion of those who love strong excitements, who have been saved themselves " so as by fire," the ser vice was not exciting, but melancholy —sincere enough, but a thin, conscious, treble of appeal, full of a woman's weakness and a woman's logic, yet without a woman's religious tenderness and warmth of feeling. Spanish Finance. MADRID, April 4. In yesterday's sitting of the Senate Senor Castro, Minister of Finance, replying to a speech of Senor Pastor, said : " Referring to the most important part of Senor Pastor's speech, wherein he states that the question of the Passive Debt and of the coupons must be fully entered into without delay, I may observe that, although my position renders it difficult for me to express myself as freely as another might do, yet I feel bound to give my opinion on the subject to that gentleman and to the Senate. I will not now in vestigate the reasons of expediency, justice, and equity pointing to the advisability of passing a re solution, but this it is my wish to anticipate as much as possible, as I do not believe that a nation belonging to the European concert can prolong in definitely this species of money-market blockade, which is more and more serious and prejudicial to the interests of the country every day. Nevertheless, I must add that, so long as the blockade continues, at least in the form in which it has hitherto existed, the Spanish nation has no means of yielding, compro mising, or arranging the matter. lam well aware that the honour and dignity of a nation are not to be measured by the strict standard of the same attributes in individuals, and that the Government represent ing a nation shou t ld not be so ready to exaggerate points of honour; but after all national honour does exist, and I cannot do less than repeat here what I have constantly said ever since I assumed office. Spain is about to apply to European capitalists for the purpose of inviting them to participate in our credit operations. We shall see whether they will now come to an understanding with us. If, as I hope, they are unwilling to prolong a position which even our want of confidence would resist, I believe the Spanish nation, which can and ought to do something more than in 1851, is now in a position to do it, but then it will be necessary that both me naces and necessity should disappear. As I think we shall have to treat this point anew, I will give every explanation that may be necessary, the only decla ration I will now make being that I am resolved to proceed to the complete solution of this affair as speedily as possible, and that we are now, I am happy to say, on the eve of a settlement." COUNTRY MARKETS NORWICH-SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was fair, and late rates were maintained for all good qualities. Little done in barley, most of the buyers being well in stock, and good malting sorts may bo quoted the same as of late. In other articles little doing. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 44s to 45s ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 38s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 37s to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; flour, 25s to 25s Gd per sack. • Averages :—Wheat, 2,507 qrs, 39s 2d ; barley, 2,234 qrs., 29s 6d ; oats, qrs, —s Od. YORK-SATURDAY. The attendance of the trade at our corn market was good, and the show of grain was only moderate. Trade slow, and prices scarcely equal to last week. New white wheat, 40s to 455; new red, 37s to 39s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 28s to 30s per qr ; grinding, 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 20s to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28s per qr. Flour, 28s per sack of 2801 b. NO T TINGHAM-SATuRDAY. Old white wheat, 42s to 46s ; old red, 38s to 42s ; new white, 42s to 46s ; now red, 37s to 41s per 36 stone. Bar ley, new malting, 28s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 26s to 27s ; new, 25s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 30s ; new, 22s to 25s ; old foreign, 24s to 26s per stone. Beans, old, 40s to 43s ; new, 37s to 40s per 38 stone. LEICES TER-SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 42s to 45s ; old red, 37s to 41s ; new white, 40s to 43s ; new red, 36s to 39s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 31s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 24s to 27s ; new, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. * DUBLIN.-FRIDAY. Currencies :—White wheat, 22s 6d to 24s 6d ; red do., 20s 6d to 22s Od ; grinding barley, 12s Od to 13s Od; malt ing do., 13s to 14s 6d; white oats, lls to 12s; black do. 10s Od to lls Od. CORK-FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 7s Gd to Os Od ; white, 8s 8d to Os Od ; barley, 6s Od to 7s Od ; oats, 5s 3d to Gs 8d ; black oats, 6s 4d to 6s 6d ; bore, Os Od. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April 18. Ditto, via Marseilles April 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet May 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 23. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 18. Ditto, via Marseilles April 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 18. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. April 11. Ditto, via Marseilles .. April 20. Mauritius, via Southampton April 11. Ditto, via Marseil e+ May, 6. Newfoundland April 12. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet .. ....April 11 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via C..rk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry. .April 14. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tcneriffe April 12. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico April 13. Bahamas, via New York. Aprit 6. Bermuda, ditto April 12. Cuba and Mexico April 23. THE CASE OF O'KANE V. O'KANE AND PALMER STON.—We understand that this remarkable case, which excited so much public interest when before the Divorce Court at the beginning of last year, will occupy the atten tion of the judges of one of the superior courts at West minster shortly. On this occasion it will come before the p - üblic in a form which will once more raise the question of the culpability of the noble lord. Some curious revela tions will, we understand, be made, and an extraordinary correspondence made public.—Comet. THE CHANNEL FLEET is under orders to pro ceed to sea on the 17th inst.—Army and Navy Gazette. [ ADVE RTISEMENT.]—Medicine for the Spring.—Diseases latent in the system throughout the winter will manifest themselves on the approach of warmer weather unless the blood be freed from impurities, and the body generally from noxious matters. Holloway's pills have long since established the highest reputation for the full and efficient manner in which they accomplish this purifying purpose. These excellent pills search every organ, pervade every tissue, and successfully grapple with all deleterious sub stances, either by neutralizing them or extruding them. Holloway's medicine promotes comfort, cheerfulness, health and strength. A medicine so safe, ceitain, and universally useful is an acquisition which every - householder should have in possession. By its means he will unconsciously prevent trifling disorders becoming serious diseases. Births. KILDARE.—On the sth inst., at Kilkea Castle, the Mar chioness of Kildare, of a daughter. TOWNSEND.—On the 6th inst., at Lona, Weston-super- Mare, the wifo of Lieut. John Townsend, R.N . ., of a daughter. MINT.—On the 7th inst, at Farm-hill Park, Stoud, Glou cestershire, the wife of Capt. D. Hunt, of a daughter. BARBEL—On the 7th inst., at Tulse-hill, the wife of Ed ward Barber, Esq., of a son. Marriages. SUMPTER—ROBINSON.—On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Herbert Sumpter, Esq., of Whetstone, to Cecilia Ludlam, third daughter of B. J. Robinson, Esq., of Finchley, Middlesex. LOCKILART — BRETT.—On the Bth inst., at St. Pancras Church, Mr. Edward Lockhart, jun., of Chelmsford, second son of Edw ar d Lockhart, Esq., of Dunstable, to Harriet Anne, eldest daughter of the late John Brett, Esq., of The Deanery Farm, Chatham, Kent. Deaths. - ANDREWS.—On the 3d inst., at Braehead, Kilmarnock, D. R. Andrews, Esq., writer, aged 74. BAIN.—On the sth inst., in London, Donald Bain, Esq., formerly accountant in Edinburgh, aged 78. COLLARD.—On the Bth inst., at Mansfield House, Clifton gardens, Charles W. Collard, oldest surviving son of Charles L. Collard. EDE.—On the 3d inst. at Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, Michael Ede, aged 74. HEGAN.—On the sth inst., at Pau, in the Pyrenees, Joseph Regan, Esq., of Dawpool, Cheshire, aged 70. HALL.—On the 6th inst., at Saffron Walden, Essex, Lieut.- Col. Henry Hall, late of the Madras Army, aged 65. SmiTlL—On the 7th inst., at her residence, in Cavendish place, Brighton, Sophia, widow of the late Horace Smith, Esq., aged 75. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRAWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office, No 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the County of Middlesex.—Monday, April 10, 1885. W iiiaTi ! Ki This FREI'S It ig Sold the Ae It Obsc Px Ipart f , l liundr roo - r:s —Tabl Rooms Convey and otl rce ive Mira qx CI ISS In to all I Office d speak!! 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