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lOYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—TIio ANNUAL GENERAL lIEETING of this Institution will be held at the LUiN DON I'A • Bishopegate-street, on TUESDAY, the 15th instant, at Two o'clock precisely. His Grace the Duke .of NORTHUMBLII LAND, P. 0., President of the Institution, in the Chair. RICH ARD LEWIS, Secretary. 14, John-street, Adelphi, March 5. rrilEA fRE RO YAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F.D. Chattarton. THIS EVENING, at', PHOBUS FIX: the Vokes Family After which, at 7.4 , PEEP 0' DAY: Messrs J. B. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Barrett, J. Neville, F. Charles, C. Moore M•lntyre, W. F. Vokes, and F. Vokes • Mesdames Edith Stuart, Barrett, Michells, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosina Yokes • r HE ATIZE ROYAL, II A Y MAR KE'r. Solo Lesson. Mr. Buckstone. THIS F VENING, at 7, POPPING THE QUESTION. , After which. at 20 minutes to 8, t ,UR AMERICAN COUSIN; Characters by Mr Sothern, Mr Buckstnne, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr Rogers: Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, 31iss F. Gwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with DE .kF AS A POST: Mr Compton and Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPII Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER, . THIS EVENING. at Seven (C ; elOck, BLOW FOR BLOW: Mr Henry J. Byron ; Messrs J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirlinz, Stuart, C. 11. Stephenson; Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, Miss Eliza Johnstone, and Miss M. Harris. To be followed by, at Nine, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS TIE LOOKS: Mr. H. J. Byron: Mersrs J. I). Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, George Belmore, Miss Lavis, Mrs Leigh Murray, and Miss M. Hangs. _ Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking, Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager—Mr.Benjamin Wester. THIS EVEN:NO, at 7, FORMOSA: Messrs. J. Rouse, Rig• nold, Ashley, Taylor, Lin Rayne, Phillips, Leeson, Eburne, Romer, &c.; Vesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, M. Brennan, E, Barnett, L Grey, tie. With A FTER DARK; :Messrs Rignold, Ashley, Rouse, Lee. son, Phillips, Rayne; Misses R. Leclereq and Barnett. "LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management _kJ of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by MacTntosh). T HIS .F.VENING, at 7.30, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER: Messrs G. F. Neville, Odell, and Wilmott; Mesdames Rignold and Morgan. Aft r which, CHILP ERIC, by Herv4: Messrs M. Marius, G. Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Aynsley Cook, and )r. Herve : Mes dames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Romauelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. 1) OYAL STRAND THEAI'RE. I): Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE HEIR AT LAW: Mesrs. J, S. Clarke, D. Jame 3, Crouch; Mesdames Bufton and Claire. Followed by THE TODDLES: Mr Clarke. After which, INO; Messrs Thorne, James, Fenton, Turner ; Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. THE "SIN" NEWSPAPER-G. R. G.LENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connunght-terrace. 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( OLIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY JTOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.---Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. London. NOTIIING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect in;; this won 'dui liquid. It is now offered to the public to a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. UC. ROYAL PRINCISVS THEATRE. THIS EVENING, at 7, FORD OS 1.: Messrs J. Rouse, Rignold, Taylor, Philips. Leeson, Eburi e, &c. ; Mesd•imes Billington, K. Rodgers, Brennan, Barnett, Grey, tc. Followed by AFTER DARK: Messrs Rignolcl, Ashley, Rouse, &c.; Miss Roso Le clercq and Miss Barnett. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS E vr,NING, at Seven o'clock, BLOW FOR BLOW Mr Henry J. Byron, J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling, Stuart, C. H. Stephenson, Miss Furtado, Mss Lavis, Miss Eliza John stone, IT. At 9, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr Henry J. Byrons LYCEUM TTLEATIZE. Tim EVENING. at 7.30, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER And CHILPERIC: M. Marina, G Vincent, Odell, A. Cook, Lepierre, and M. nerve; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitz- Inman, Romanolli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE HEIR AT LAW: Mr Clarke. Mr James, Miss Bufton, &c. With THE TODDLES. Concluding with ISO. WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 5; Satnrday itox flings at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G &I:WENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays' 6d. Children nnder twelve, 6d. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open frorall to 4. 4,21,110 -r( 5- ra of- 4i LOA'DOW, SA7 URDAY, MARCH 5, 1870. TEE army and the navy policy of the Government are very much the same in object, but differ materially as to the means by which the end is to be attained. Each branch of the service costs more than is needful, more than is compatible with full efficiency; and the attention of the Government has been accord ingly directed towards bringing the estimates for both within reasonable limits. In the case of the navy, however, the work of retrenchment must he carried on almost entirely by savings on extravagant items. We cannot think of allowing the fleet to fall below its present strength. But that strength has hitherto been attained only by the most lavish and indiscriminate expenditure in every department; and it is the business of ' the AdMiralty to secure the same, or a better article for n smaller outlay. ~.The army, requires different THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVESING, MARCH 5, 1870. " TLIE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS TUE MAN.' BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, br all ages, all occa sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. An immense assortment of WINTER CLOTHING, innil tlto newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S. OVERCOATS from 19s. to .£5. BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10s. Gd. to 455. For the convenience of Ladies accom par,ying their Sons there is a separate de yartment for Boss' Clothing, and it is fur nished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for ail occasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-mensuro introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarhntee a faultless tit. Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the stoney will leturned. All Goods are marlced in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shots, is un aqualled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from as. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea cure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and ShGe Manufac turers, and General Outfitter for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENIIAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. FOREIGN and COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE), In Certificates of £lOO each, bearing 5 per cent. [lnterest. To bo issued at £BO. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. Lord Westbury. Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P. • Geo. Wolehouse Currie, Esq. G. M. W. Sandford, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. The success of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust, which was formed in May, 1868, has called for an extension of this mode of investment. During the last two years the Investors in the Trust have received at the rate of 7 per cent. upon their capital, free of income tax, and 235 Certificates have been drawn and pa'd off at par. The successful holders having thus received a bonus of £l5 per cent. in addition. The market value of the securities held by the• Trust is greatly in excess of the original purchase price, and its estimation by. the public is shown by the present quota tion of the Certificates, the issue price having I.): , en £B5. In compliance, therefore, with a general desire, it has been determined to open a subscription for a second issue not exceeding £600,000, in Certificates of £lOO, to bear 5 per cent. interest, to be issued at £BO. Tho object, which is now well understood, is to give to the Investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalist, in diminishing the risk of investing in Foreign and Colonial Government Stocks, by .spreading the investment over a number of different Stocks, and reserving a portion of the extra interest and the amounts received in redemption as a Sinking Fund to pay off the original capital ; and, in addition, to give to each Sub s?,riber a pro rata participation in the ultimate reversion in these different Stocks. which will remain when the return of the original capital has by these means been accom plished. The annual receipts by the Trustees will be first applied, after deducting the limited amount of expenses, in paying the interest upon the Certificates. The excess will be ap plied as a Sinking Fund in repaying the Certificates at par by annual drawings, to be made in the presence of a Notary Public in the month of May in each year. The securities representing the Second Issue will form a distinct and separate Trust, though identical in p: ineiple with that of the first, and under the control of the same Trustees and managed by the samo staff. The Trust of the Second Issue will last for twenty-five years, at the expiration of which time it is estimated that a largo proportion of the Certificates will, in all probabi lity, have been paid off, and that a largo proportion of the Stocks will still remain for distrilanion as a reversion ; accordingly the Trust will I e wound up as soon as all the Certificates have been drawn, or at the end of twenty-five years, whichever shall first happen, the remaining Stocks hiring then sold, and any Certificates not previously drawn being first paid off, after which the balance will form thi reversion to be distributed pro rata. All sums received will be placed to the credit of the Trustees, at the flanking House of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co. For each .CBO of the total amount subscribed will be issued a Ceitifieate of £lO9 with Coupons attached, bearing 5 per cont. interest, payable at the Thinking-house of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and ro. half yearly, on the 15th of January and the 15th of July, the first Coupon for the proportion of the half year falling duo on the 15th July next. In addition to the Interest Coupons, a Coupon, repre senting the share accruing to the Certificate-holder in the above reversion, will be attached to each Certificate. This Coupon of Reversion will be retained by the holder when the Certificate is drawn, and entitle him to a pro rata divi sion of the ultimate reversion. The advantages of the investment may be summed up as follows: 1. interest at £3s. bs. per cent. on the amount sub scribed. 2. A bonus of £2O per cent. by the repayment of capi tal at par. 3. A revel sion, eventually divisible among the holders of 'he Coupons of Reversion. Application to be made in the annexed Form, accom p tnied by a deposit of £lO per cent. Payments to be made as follows : On application £lo 0 0 On allotment 7O 0 0 £BO 0 0 Certificates, with Interest Coupons attached, and also the Coupons of Reversion, will be issued as soon as pos sible after the second payment, of which due notice will bo . _ A Draft of the Trust Deed, together x‘ ith forms of the Certificates and the contract as to the expenses, may be seon at the Offices of the Foreign and Colonial Govern ment Trust, No. 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, and Prospectus and Forms of Application may be ob tained of W. B. Rose, Esq., Secretary, and of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., Solicitors, at the same address; and of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., Bankers, Lombard-street, where all subscriptions must ba paid. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST. (SECOND ISSUE!. To the Trustees of the Fund (care of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, London). Having paid to Messrs. Glyn and Co., to the account of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust (Second Issue), the sum of £ , as a Deposit on Cer tificates of £lOO each in the said Trust, I request you to allot to me that number of Certificates, and I engage to pay the further Instalment of .£7O per Certificate upon that or any lesser number that you may allot to me at the time named in the letter of allotment, in default of which my previous payment will be liable to forfeiture. Name Address Description Signature THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY of ST. PATRICK. lestituted in the year 1784. Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Roya Highness the Prince of WALES. The EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY FES TIVAL of this Society will bo celebrated at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on ST. PATRICK'S DAY, the 17th March. 1870, His Grace the Duke of ABERCORN, K.G., :in the Chair VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Marquis of Lansdowne. The Marquis of Headfort, K.P. The Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P. The Earl of Egmont. The Earl of Clonmell. :The Earl Vane. TheiViscount Harberton. The Viscount Crichton, M.P. • The Lord A. Edwin Hill Trevor, M.P. The Lord Dunsany. The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, K.P.. K.C.B. The Eight llon. Chichester Fortescuo, M.P. STEIVA RD S. •The Right Hon. William Cowper-Temple, I.P. Colonel the lion. Pulley Fitzgerald do Ros. "['he Hon. Robert Harris Temple. Lieut.-General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, K.C.5.1., Sir George Frederick llarver, Captain Sir F. Leopold M.Clintock, R.N. Sir Edward Cory. John F. Corsearlen. Esq. James Courtmlay, Esq. Alexander Fiudlater, Esq. Thomas Greg, Eq. _lon Trant Hamilton, Esq., M.P. Robert M•Calmont, Esc. Morgan John O'Conncl!, Esq. ..To.seph Radeliff, Esq. C.'aptain II ugh de Grey Seymour, Mu,icd A rrangem , tits will lto under the dirurlion Land, of tl,:e Lor.d.in Glee am! 'Madrigal Union. ' on table at Srv e n o'cl oc k punctually. ltis Festival affords to Irishmen in London the °,••• y of uniting the celebration of th e na ti ona l t : Phary, the committee earnestly hope for a numerous r uential meeting. 21s. each. to bo had at Willis's Rooms, and at .ols. in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road. inildren Dine, as uusal, on St. Patrick's Day, at 'tools, at One o'clock. ir THOMAS KIPPAX KING, Jun., Secretary. 4: THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY- L A NE. Aole Lessee and Manap•er, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7, PHOBUS' FIX: the Yokes Family. At 7.45, PEEP 0' DAY: Messrs. J. P. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Bar lett, eville, F. Charles, C. Moore, M'lntyre, W. F. Yokes, and Fred. Yokes; Mesdames E. Stnart, Barrett, Michelle, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosins, Yokes THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. EVENING, at 7 o'clock, POPPING THE QUESTION. After which, at 20 to 8, OUR AIIERICAN COUSIN; Messrs Sothern, Bnckatone, Chippendale, &c. ; Mrs Chippendale, Miss P. Wright, &c. Concluding vith DEAF AS A POST treatment. It presents, indeed, much scope fot economy of omy effi in ci d e e n t c a y f ils o c but th e minim in order tooseccousrett is maxi mumhe need ful also that there should be a re-arrangement and reconstruction of the force. Mr. Card• well has made a vigorous endeavour retrieve the pledges of the Ministry in both particu lars. lnere was no lack of opportunities for " cheese paring." Some of the doings in connection with the supply departments were on a par with the dockyard follies ; but owing to the system of more efficient con trol, which is duo to the last no less than to the present Ministry, this Hume of waste has been brought to an end. - It is chiefly, however, by a reduction in the number of troops that the saving of over one million sterling on the year's estimates has been effected. In two years the strength of the army has been diminished by 24,000 men, the reduction this year being half that number. The home force will remain much as it was; but the process of withdrawing the regiments from the colonies, and concentrating them at home—a policy which first originated with Mr. Arther Mills, a former representative of Taunton, and candidate for Exeter in 1868—has made rapid. progress of late years, and is now well-nigh complete. In a brief space there will be hardly a single regiment in the outlying provinces of the empire. Gibraltar, Malta, and other posts of like character, will retain a garrison, but the colonies proper must raise troops themselves or dispense with them. This policy is in every way just, and it is likely to be advantageous. It is just, because the principle of levying taxes upon the inha bitants of the United Kingdom in order to main tain permanent garrisons in distant colonies was utterly inequitable. The dependencies are quite able to provide for all likely emergencies. Whilst we were willinre to supply troops, of course they gave no further heed to the matter ; but now that they are left to their own resources, proper measures of protection are being set on foot. Canada, which most needs a defensive rorce, is rapidly organising an efficient army. If the other colonies do not follow the example, it is because they are so thoroughly out of danger that precaution would be superfluous. It was never intended, however, that any portion of the British Empire should be left without help in time of need. We concentrate the army in England, and in case of waf it would be sent out to fight to the last for any jeopardised dependency. There will thus be a colonial army and an Imperial army, ready to make war upon any enemy; whereas, had garri sons been left in the colonies, the former force would never have existed. The only question of doubt is whether these reduc tions have brought the army below a safe limit, whether the force is now so small as to be unequal to any duty which might suddenly befall it. This brings us from Mr. Card well's work of destruction to his scheme of construction. Whilst ho has been disbanding ex pensive soldiers, he designs to supply their place with a cheaper, though for British purposes equally ser viceable article. The army is to be reconstructed on a principle which has never been recog nised in England, but which is now in full practice on the Continent. The barrier between the military force and the civil population is to ho broken down. On the one side the regular soldiers will be taught trades, and allowed to spend their time in useful labour; and on the other, the Government now offer to admit the civil poptilation to the army on terms which will give a soldier a short period of useful training, and then let him return to ordinary work. Mon will be enlisted for twelve years, of which they will spend, under some circumstances, six, under others, three year 3 in active service. Those who choose, and whom the Government will accept, may re-engage for active service ; but the remainder, who must, of course, be the greater proportion, are to pass into the army of reserve. In this condition they will enjoy a retaining pension of 4d. a day on very easy conditions. The Govern ment will not call them into the field, unless there is - pressing need for their services. Their position is to correspond that of the Naval Reserve. They will not be subjected to long periols of drill, which would brcal: up their ordinary occupations, but will b 4 mustered now and thCn for a day, or in the evenings I:kc the volunteers. The advantages of this fine scheme are con. smerable. it ought to solve the long pending problem of establishing a reserve force which may be powerful and efficient, without imposing a great burden on the country. Many men, too, will doubt less be glad to take a short period of experience and training as a soldier, and then return to their ordi nary work. with tho help of their salary as reserve troops. Such training must have a good effect on our labouring population. Moreover, the plan may be confine within narrow limits of opera- tion, or it may be so extended as to furnish a reserve army of great magnitude. The Government are about to make an attempt also to consolidate the whole force of the country—regulars, reserve, and volunteers—by dividing the kingdom into military districts, the commanders of which will each have all three branches under his orders. A. step in the direction of abolishing the purchase system is a notable feature, besides several minor items, in Mr. Cardwell's programme. Altogether this year's state ni3nt of the War Minister is the most important of late years. It announces an extensive reduction in the annual cost of the nation's military resources, it carries to completion the new colonial policy, and it inaugurates a scheme of army reorgani sation /Thiel], if brought to its full development, will recong,rtfts The entire force. A. SERIES of reports by the Poor-law Inspectors on the existing relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland conies almost too late to be of service in forming opinion; but the information is worthy of notice a 3 strengthening and justifying the opinions that have been formed already. It is satisfactory in one sense to find that the Poor-law Inspectors have nothing new to tell us. Their facts have long ago been anticipated. Their descriptions in no material respect differ from these which have been circulated by independent but impartial observers; and it is reassuring to learn from those unquestionable authorities that English conclu sions touching this intricate and difficult problem have not been one-sided or prejudiced. The prac- tices of different districts vary considerably; but the general deduction of the Inspectors is that the tenant's rights and welfare are dependent upon his landlord's sense of justice, and that the former is at the mercy of the latter, even to a great extent in Ulster. The vast majority of holdings are very small, and of the small holdings very few are not tenancies-at-will. In most cases the cultivators struggle on pretty well under this spe cies of tenure. Its obvious and great disadvantages are modified in practice by various causes, chief of which are the indulgences granted by good land lords, and the force of custom, which prevails in every species of degree, from the excellent tenant right of Ulster to the vaguest traditions in the south era and western counties. But justice or injustice is entirely a matter of the landlord's choice; and instances of his failing to do his duty are not few. In this respect the Inspectors' reports, covering the whole country, present a specially valuable body of testimony. In Galway the tenants make all the improvements, and yet any works of the kind are often followed by a riot) of rent, "The instances in which tenants have lost the value of their iraprovoments 1)y reason of a disproportionate increase of rents aro very numerous." In Mayo the tenants, " in innumerable mstances,Thave similarly suffered, and often the action the Encumbered Estates Court has produced this effect. In Sligo things are much better, but some few instances of injustice are noted. In Leitrim a sort of tenant-right custom is acknowledged, but here again are cases of lost improvements. In Wex ford, Kilkenny, and the surrounding district, it is not usual to raise rents in consequence of tenants' improvements, nor do they lose the value through eviction. But here, too, there are exceptions, and in some districts injustice is not unfrequent. In many of the U 1 ter counties it is " certainly not " the practice to raise rents in conse quence of improvements; but in Donegal lands reclaimed by tenants are very often saddled with an increased charge, sometimes from the first year. In this county standingnotices to quit are frequent. InCork the farmers affirm that rent is often raised in consequence of im provements, whilst the landlords assert the contrary, but whatever statement be correct, it is certain that the occupier has no guarantee what ever. It is needless to quote further. It is unquestionably clear from abundant sources both that land in Ireland is held, for the most part, on no sufficient tenure, and that the instances of landlords taking an unfair advantage of this insecurity aro sufficiently numerous to demand redress. TOWN TALK o (From the Western Mail of this Morning.) FRIDAY EVENING. The Ministry—all powerful in the Commons— are confronted in the Lords by a more than ever formidable Opposition. It is not simply that the Government are thus in the hereditary branch of the Legislature overwhelmingly out-numbered. That is pretty much as it used to be, even in spite of the reckleSsly wholesale and almost unconstitu tional additions made to the peerage very recently by the Whigs. Coronets having been squandered among a crowd of mere nobodies, the Srni! hs, Browns, Joneses, and Robiusous, of political life, the majority in the House of Loris still remains, for all that, unmistakably with the• Conservatives. My allusion above, therefore, is not in reference to the numerical- preponderance on the side of the Opposition. I would direct attention simply, by my remark, to the admirable manner in which, in spite of countless difficulties, the serried masses of the Conservative Opposition in the House of Peers have been brought together. Jealousies and rival ries of all kinds have been scattered to the winds. D fferent sections of Cons , ?rvatism, heretofore holding more or less aloof from each other, have become so united, or, rather, blent into one disci plined phalanx, that they can act together hence forth harmoniously. Thanks to the amicable spirit in which the negotiations in regard to the leadership have been carried on from first to last, the scattered chiefs of the party have at length been placed side by side—like Highlanders, shoulder to shoulder— on the front bench of the Opposition. Declined summarily by the Earl of Derby, and the Marquis of Salisbury, the leadership has at last been accepted by the Duke of Richmond. The proposition that it should be offered to his grace was moved by Lord Salisbury and seconded by Lord Derby, with the unanimous approval of . all the Conservative peers who were in attendance at the Carlton on the oc casion of this momentous—and it would not he extravagant to say historical—meeting of the leading members of the Opposition. As the result of the whole deliberation, the comparatively feeble array of statesmen and orators now ranged on the Government front bench in the House of Lords is confronted by as formidable a row of antago nists as ever constituted the chiefs of au Opposition in either branch of the Legislature. There, seated on either side of the new Conservative leader, the Duke of Richmond, are the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Carnarvon, and the Earl of Derby, as well as Lord Cairns, and Lord Chelmsford, no less than the Earl of Maltnesbury and the Duke of Marlborough, together with others among the more prominent chiefs of the Opposition. The moving up to that front bench from the position they had both of them recently assumed below the gangway—the moving up to that front bench of both Lord Carnarvon and Lord Salisbury, cannot but be matter for very general satisfaction, if only out of regard for the mere fitness of things. By the time Lord Cairns shall have r,turned from his stay at Meutone, the reorganised party will, I doubt not, have been brought into good working order, under the guiding influence of the Duke of Richmond, aided and abetted, as his grace will be, by his mover and seconder, the Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Salisbury. Surely the feeblest joke that was ever perpetrated in a political cartoon is the one contributed to Punch this week by Tenniel. " Daerted" will more aptly apply to the wits of the great caricatu rist himself, rather than to the great party leader he Las caricatured, and who, in the midst of all these charges in the House of Lords, continues to be, in the House of Commons, as leader of the Co nservatives, quietly and passively master of the situation. On Monday and Tuesday the Commons locked vainly, immediately after prayers, at four of the clock, for the welcome apparition of the wise jester we have all been longing for, to rid the Rouse of its duln css. lEstead of Bernal Osborne taking his seat on either of these days—it was on Monday Sir John Lubbock who did so, and on Tuesday Mr. Sergeant Dowse, the Irish Solicitor-General, and with him the newly-elected member for Not tingham, the Hon. Aul eron Herbert, the Radi cal brother of the Ccnservative Earl of Car narvon. Sir John Lubbock's entrance passed unnoticed ; but the two others wire, in my hear greeted with hearty cheering by the Minis terialists. Of all the dreary cxhibitions in the shape of a Parliamentary exposition, commead me to the three Lours' speech of Mr. Childers on Mont3ay night, -when txplaining the various complications of his carefully-prepared Naval Estimates. Dur ing the whole of those three hours he talked in one dead level of a monotone. Since taking to high office as a Cabinet Minister the right hon. gen tleman has become, like Cowper's friend, "An honest man close-buttoned to the chia," allowing his beard at the same time to grow to any length. There he stood for three mortal hours at the table, carefully buttoned up to the throat, a la militaire, in his frock-coat, droning, no 1 I should rather say gabbling and jabbering figures in a man ner perfectly distracting, I should imagine, to the reporters, who must have been put to their wit's end to catch what he said—literally to catch it—it was " reeled " out £0 fast and so inarticulately. Few of us realise, I fancy, bow very much we have reason to feel indebted to thosa swift-fingered, keen-eared, vigilant, indefatigable gentlemen, the short-hand writers in the Reporters' Gallery, who are perpetually doing what Baron Justus Liebig is facetiously said to hare done often of late years-- reducing an ox to a lozenge. The flaccid, diffuse waunderings of the merest dullard in delivery, they are, time and again, - whenever the opportunity pre sents itself, in the habit (most beneficently for the outer public) of epitomising in a single sentence, or, at most, in a mere paragraph. A hardly expressible sense of relief has fallen upon London, within these last few days, through the cessation of that deplorable divorce case before Lord Penzance. During this present year, the first quarter of which has only two-thirds run out, one has often, thanks to two women—first of all, that wretched Mrs. Stowe, and immediately afterwards, this most unhappy Lady Mordaunt--one has often, thanks to those two women, had occasion to cry out, " 0, for au ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination!" Instead of letting " such things not i be so much as named amongst us,"accord to the Apostle's recommendation, we have had them sifted, examined under a microscope, scrutinized in open court, talked of by the hour, written of by the ream, printed by the column, read and discussed by the million. The investigation has, for a long while past, rendered the public newspapers un savoury. The close of the inquiry, therefore, came in every way most acceptably. The shop windows, by the way, are horridly crammed, here and there, with villanous photographs of the respondent her self, or of one or other of the co-respondents. A sheaf of these has actually appeared, among other places in the shopwindow of Mr. Churchwarden Westerton, of Knightsbridge—hard by the Alex andra Hotel, where, under the name of Farmer, Captain Farquhar was Posted as having been a sojourner. Turning over the brilliantly parti-coloured maga zines for March, I would especially commend to your notice a masterly paper on " Faraday," in Fs aser. It relates in little more than half-a-dozen radiant pages, the rise and development of tl:e genius of the most wonderful practical philosopher who ever lived ; beginning his career, though he did, as the son of a Macksznith, and having his first start in ife a 3 an errant boy, a news-boy, and a journey man bookbinder. The true theory of the " Mtn in the " Man in the Iron Mask," set fort!' in the Corn hill, I must b 3 permitted to pronounce by no means ,o acceptable as the apocryphal one hitherto in vogue ; according to which latter that mysterious prisoner was the twin-brother of Louis XIV. It reads almost like an admission of the deadly failure it is, that a fly-leaf notice is conspicuously prefixed to the current number of the Gentlenzan's Magazine, announcing (forgive bull), as a sort of grand negative attraction, that the " The version of Victor llugo's L'llowne qui Pit, published under the original title of ' By Order of the King.' will be completed iu the May number !" For the HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening SATURDAY. 10 min past 4 23 min past 4 SUNDAY 40 min past 4 55 min pa s t 4 . _ MONDAY • 7 min past 5 20 min past 5 TUSDAY. 4O min past • 54 min [ast 5 _ WEDNESDAY 10 min past 6, 20 min past 6 TituitsDAY 50 min past 6 10 min past 7 FitthaY ..30 min past 7 5 min past 8 PARLIAMENTARY STZF,TOFI. FRIDAY. " Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." How sick at heart I was yesterday when another day passed without the appearance of our Osborne, I would tell your readers were I not afraid of boring them. I begin to think that h 9 is unkind. There is this to be said for him, however, ho has had a very serious misadventure. In .escaping from the hotel in which he was stay ing, the newly-elected M.P. had to get away by the roof, the door being blocked by a shouting, yelling, blas pheming, " murtherin' " crowd of his constituents. 111, effecting his exit he descended by mistake into a large water tank, where he got exceedingly wet. Now our Osborne is not much given to .water-drinking, and I fear Cult this experience of his will hardlyinduce him to join the United Kingdom Alliance ; the less so as the owners of the said tank mistook him for a burglar, and were about to make even shorter work of him than his constituents would have made. Fortunately he was discovered to be an M.P• The kindness shown him must almost have compensated for his involuntary aquatics; must have made him even think that it was worth while to be M.P. for Waterford. 1 13 owners of the tank took in the half-drowned senator, changed his clothes for him, put him before the fire until he was half-burnt, and as the free and independent electors were raging . more furiously than ever, and were threatening to force their way into the house, the inmates would have hid him away in a drawer, only that the drawer was too small for him. However, the assailants (compared with whom Mr. Osborne's former constituents, the Nottingham lambs, are really Jamblike) did not effect an entrance, and the object of their search remained perdu until the city began to resume a more tranquil aspect. H° was then wrapped in a great coat, and thus, half disguised, clambered back over the roof (avoiding the tank this time), and re-entered the hotel, where for aught I know, he may still be confined, and pa - ssing the time of his imprisonment by diluting the tank water with waters of a more potent character, such as an frishman loves. I live in hope that he will make his appearance on Monday- It is the day fixed for the second reading of the Land Bill, and all Irish M.P.'s are bound to be in their place. Moreover, on Friday Mr. Bruce unfolds his liquor Bill, and our Osborne will have to be present, in order to watch over the interests of his especial friends, the liquor-sellers. He is sure to be here next week ! But though he did not appear last night, another nota bility (lid. Shortly after prayers Mr. Disraeli's " sham Fenian " entered the House. There were very few mem bers present, and instead of the applause usually given on one side or the other to a new M.P. who has won his seat after a hard fight; especially after two such fights as Mr. Heron has fought, there was silence. I believe that most persons were not even aware that the learned gentleman had entered. By half-past four the House was very full, and almost every seat on the Minis terial side was occupied. On the Treasury bench I was glad to see the Attorney-General, recovered from his wounds, and on the anti-Treasury bench I was no less glad to see Mr. Disraeli recovered from his bronchitis.. Then catechising began. Mr. Charles Reed obtained the satisfaCtory information that the Metropolitan railways are making arrangements to run workmen's trains at low rates and convenient hours. The House cheered as vehemently as though every member of it belonged to the diplomatic service when, in reply to Mr. Rylands, Mr. Otway said that the system of Foreign office agencies would be abolished at an early date ; for which good deed let Mr., Murray, of Queen's Messenger notoriety, and the Pall Mall Gaxtte of better report, have due praise. Then, in reply to a long question from a gentleman far away under the right hand gallery, Mr. Stacpoole to wit, Mr. Gladstone said the Government were not at all " shy " of any inquiry into the treatment of Fenian prisoners, for the treatment was particularly good. So good was it that when Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa lately called to see her husband she was able to congratulate him upon his good looks. At this there was a shout of laughter, again and again renewed. I dare say your readers will not be able to discern anything very comic in it. Nor can I. The excessive cachinnation only chews how terribly hard up the House is for a joke, and (if you will pardon me for reverting to the old topic) how sorely it needs its Osborne. Even less funny was Sir Robert Collier's reply to bald-headed Colonel Stuart Knox's question as to who would pay the counsel engaged to prosecute the Beverley, Nor with, and Bridgwater bribers. Yet the House laughed at it. It laughed again with better reason whet? Ms. Otway, after acknowledging Mr. Munzinger's ser vices in Abyssinia, stated, among other reasons for not giving him the money he wanted, that the Queen had been graciously pleased to bestow upon him the Order of the Bath. It was a thorough anti-climax, as thorough as the bath of the newly-elected M.P. for Waterford ; and I fear neither Mr. Munzinger nor Mr. Osborne duly appre ciates the distinction. Mr. Fawcett, I need hardlY say, is very anxious to get University Tests abo- ILl:ad, and is not a little nettled because the Government does not manifest quite the alacrity in the matter which the Professor wishes to see. So he put a question intended to nail the Government to a definite announcement. But he did not succeed. All that he could get out of Mr. Gladstone was that Ministers did not think it would be wise to introduce the measure unless they saw a good chance of carrying it ; nor did a second question, still more precise, elicit a less vague reply. I fear the Professor, who thereupon left the House, was not in good humour with her Majesty's advisers. I confess that I, too, am puzzled by their "backwardness in comia forward " on this question. ----- Then came the question of questions, that which had evidently brought hon. members down in such great force, for the House was now fuller than ever. This interroga tory was put by Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, who Was compelled to flee from Taunton to take refuge at Whitehaven under the protecting wing of Lord Lonsdale. Had the First Lord of the Treasury read the charges of Chief Justice Monahan and Lord Chief Justice Whiteside, and, if so, were her Majesty's Ministers pre pared to take more effectual means for the preservation of life and property in Ireland ? Mr. Gladstone had read the charges, and he aroused some laughter by quoting 0 ' passage which Mr. Bentinck had not read. Then assuming a graver tone, the Premier went on to say that he and his colleagues were fully aware of their responsibility for what they did, and for what they did not do, that he could hardly be expected to expound the ministerial intentions in reply to a private member, - but that their policy WO now under consideration, was quite in accordance with the speech from the Throne, and would shortly be announced. Colonel Stuart Knox, who must have a finger in every pie, wanted Mr. Gladstone to have the Judges' charges printed and laid upon the table, and ' also wished to know in what paper he had read the charge. The House laughed at this unnecessary minuteness of curiosity, and then the matter dropped, not altogether satisfactorily, I suspect, to either side of the House. Then Mr. Gladstone rose to ask if hon. members who had notices on ping into supply, would postpone them in order to allow Mr. Cardwell to make his statement on the Army Estimates, which he was sure the House wished to hear. Mr. Hanbury Tracy, as a Ministerialist, was bound to comply. Not so Sir John Hay. He is rapidly overtaking Sir George Jenkinson and Mr. Newdegatel who hitherto have been the chief bores of the House, Bug he was not going to lose this opportunity of getting a fall audience for his discourse about smooth bores and rifle bores, and himself the greatest bore of aIL But if one man can lead a horse to water twenty men cannot make hill' drink; and if one M. P. will talk to the House, twenty M. r's cannot make the House listen. So when the ex-Lord of the Admiralty rose, members too rose and left the House en masse. If they had any desire to hear the navy estimates unfolded, they dissembled that desire ; for when at length boredom had finished, and Mr. Cardwell got u p, there was a beggarly array of empty benches ; and though it was still only twenty minutes to six, etni i two hours from dinner-time, M.P.'s did no t re t urn , and throughout a speech, involving the reconstruction . of the army and an expenditure of nearly 12 millions, our guar dians of the public purse were conspicuous by their absence. The fault was not all theirs. It was partly Mr. Childers's. M.P.'s dreaded another heroic speeel of more than three hours, such as the First - Lora of the Admiralty gave them. Moreover, Mr. Card' well is no orator. He is pleasant to look at" but rather dreary to hear. Many times throughout h:1 address he was told to "speak up," and if he had followed Mr. Childers's example, by turning his back upon us, No should not have heard a word. Fortunately he did not do that ; fortunately, too, he was more considerate than gr. Childers, and spoke for only two hours and ten minutes, which is moderation itself when every Minister feels bound to follow the example of his chief by orations of portentous length without his eloquence. It is not my place to discuss the estimates nor the discussion upon them. Suffice it to say that there was plenty of criticism , and that it wasnot always complimentary. I will conclude with a question which I should be glad if your reader can answer. Mr. Childers wears a beard, and beards are permitted in the navy ; Mr. Cardwell wears no beard, and beards are forbidden in the army. Is there any con nection of cause and effect in the two parts of these Pr () " positions? If so, wouLl it not be well for our gallant soldiers to club to , eth;:r a sum of money for the puipose of bribing Mr. Card we ll' s va l e t t o hid e hi s m aster'il razors? The Coastguard retirement pension of £2O a year, vacant by the death of Commander W. p ar' sons, has been awarded to Commander T. S. COP' pinger. 03pt. J. M. Maitland, Royal E.lgincers, ha s taken over the command of the 30th Company; Royal Engineers, at Woolwich, recently returned from Gibraltar under the command as of Captain C : A. Law d e Montmorency, who h been gr anted leave. '1 he President of the Board of Trade, who remains at Norwood, continues to progress favourably. - - The marriage of the Marchioness of Hastings to Sir Geargo Ohetwynd is to come off immediately after the baronet attains his majority iu May next. THE IRISH LAND BILL. It is stated that Mr. Disraeli will open the de bate on Monday, but will not oppose the second reading. Mr. George L. Bryan, the Liberal mem ber for Kilkenny o)unty, has given notice that he will move that the bill be read a second time that day six months. THE OPERA SEASON. There is no longer any question as to the opening of Her Majesty's Theatre next season. Mr. Maple sou's lease expired at the end of February, and the building is now at Lord Dudley's disposal. THE CHANGES IN THE ARMY. It is said to be contemplated to hold a large meeting of officers on an early day at one of the service clubs, with the view of petitioning the Crown and Parliament against the abolition of prices paid over regulation for commissions without compen sation to their holders. THE FLICIN G SQUADRON. It has been decided that in consequence of the satisfactory nature of the present cruise of the Flying Squrdron, another will be despatched early in the ensuing summer. THE GREAT ROWING MATCH. It is reported that the eight-oared race between the two Universities has been definitively fixed for Wednesday, April 6. According to the tide table it will not be high water at Putney on that dziy until a few minutes past 6 p.m., but arrangements have been made for the start to take place shortly after four o'clock. THE NEW POOR BILL. Mr. Goschen's Bill to provide for the equal dis• tribution over the Metropolis of a further portion of the charge for the relief of the poor, seeks to throw the charge for the maintenance of the in-door upon the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund. cvit,4o7 elf left vQ: J CIV :c5-\--T:tr-Vl4l-44v... 'atm Ar HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 4. Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold also went out. LATEST II TELL MENOE (REUmER'S TELEGRAMS.) F RANGE. PARIS, March 4. It is expected that the suit brought by the ex- King of Spain against Queen Isabella will not take place, but that an amicable understanding will be arrived at. The French Government have taken measures at Bayonne to restraia the Carlists who refuse to be interned. Gener.,l Ellio has been reconducted to the lute- nor of France. PARIS, March 5. An Irnperiid decree, dated the 2 8th ult., approves of the Convention concluded jointly by the Minis triesofbe- eof Interior and of War with the firm of t A w L ee A n l. F B r r a e n it e na a y n e d r fo E r g t 3 h p e t, la th y Algeria. The Convention stipulates that under no condi tion whatsoever shall the lines of the new cable on its course from France to Algeria cross the cable previously conceded to the firm of M. M. Erlanger and Co. The concession granted to the firm, Breitmayer, confers no exclusive privilege. Th e tariff for a message from France to Egypt by the new line is fixed at 25 francs for 20 words. The Gazette des Tribunaux states that of the 530 prisoners, arrested during the late disturbances, only 74 remain in custody, and these are charged with conspiracy. Their trial has commenced, and serious indictments have been made out against all of them. The paper adds that the greater number decline to answer the interrogations. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 4. An Imperial decree has been issued authorising merchant vessels to pass by night through the Bosphorus and the Straits of the Dardanelles, and all entrance dues have been abolished. ITALY. ROME, March 3. The Pope suspended last Sunday the issue of the Ossercatore Romano, for publishing among other matters, without regarding the corrections of the Censorship, a telegraphic despatch announcing the meeting of Don Carlos and the ex-Duke of Modena. It is believed that the journal will reappear on Monday next. AMERICA. The fall in gold is generally ascribed to the fa vourable half-yearly statement of imports and ex ports, showing a balance of the foreign trade against the country of only three millions of dollars. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 4. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 114 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 114 ; the lowest, 1l 28. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll2k. " 1885 lll. " 1867 llOl. ' 10-10 t c Illinois l3Bl. Erie Cotton upland 22le. Petroleutn—Staudard White 2Bc. Flour, extra state, $4.90e. to $5.50e. Corn, old mixed, sl.2c. THE INDIAN TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION. The following telegram has been received by the Telegram Construction and Maintenance Company this morning, March sth : "HALPIN TO OSBORN. " ADEN, March 3. " The Hibernia arrived this morning. All well, We will all leave az.; soon as ready, probably on the 6th inst. readers of SylVanus Urban, that May instalment of " The Order of the King" will be an Order of De liverance ! Never did a great genius perpetrate a more monstrous absurdity. The Month is interest ing, as containing a foretaste of Dr. Newman's last and profoundest work, namely, his " Essay towards the formation of a Grammar of Assent." A minor story, complete in itself, is contributed by Miss Braddon to the Belgravia for March ; appa rently for no better reason than to authenticate the announcement (very welcome to all her friends) that she is sufficiently recovered to commence, in the next number of her periodical, a new serial tale --the eighteenth or nineteenth, by the way, which her rapid pen has already produced. The Court Circular, mentioned in my last in connection with the Sonderburg-Glucksburg rumour, has recently, I find, passed into the hands of a new proprietary. Among the curiosities of literature, recently pub lished, I would particularize a little book lately issued from the press by Mes:rs. Sampson Low ; a translation it is (and the work has been exqui sitely got up by the Anglo-American publishers from whom it emanates), descriptive of " The Bottom of the Sea," and of the many wonders there lyilig perdu. Shakspere hit the notion off exactly (as he has done most thing's, for that matter, by the intuition of his orbicular genius), where he speaks of the riches of the great deep, " with sunken wreck and sunless treasury." Query, by the way, " sunless" or " sumless ?" - Let me submit the alternative (as a new nut to crack) to . the com mentators. The passage referred to might not inaptly ha% e been selected as a motto for the title page of this curious little book, De Profundis. • Several of the wonderfully illustrated works of George Cruikshank have,during the last few months, been re-issued from the press, after having been long out of print. One only of them I have seen, but it is one of the best, " Cruikshank's Omnibus,' a world of grotesque humour and of exquisite etch ings from the hand that has wielded the most mar vellous etching-needle that ever scratched varnish off copper-plate. The " Table Book," " Life in London," " The Fairy Library," and " Lord Bate man," are also announced as having been recently re-published. They certainly deserve the welcome always due to the works of a really great artist, and one, in this instance, whose genius is marked by a splendid originality. On Saturday I attendel the private view, at 16S, New Bond-street, of a small, but very choice selec tion of pictures by living Italian artists; a collec tion numbering cnly thirty-eight paintings altoge ther. Several of them, however, are very remark able. The place of honour is awarded to No. 27, a powerful, but rather melodramatic rendering, by S. Martini, of an incident in Byron's " Prisoner of Chillon." What charmed me especially in the ex hibition were two drawings by L. Fischetti (16 and 34), the " House of the Faun at Pompeii," as it is at present, and the same restored. Three irroa-ths ago I was standing in that house of the Faun at Pompeii, and can, therefore, vouch for the wonderful accuracy of the delineation. " Bad News" (11) is certainly undiscoverable in the face of the lady who is supposed to have just received it. The "Evening" light in 15 is admirable, as also is the effect of colour in (7) the " Little Pompeian Gladiator." German, French, and Flemish exhibi tions have long been popularized in London, where it is a satisfaction at last to see open to view a col lection, no matter how small to begin with, of pic tures by Italian contemporaries. Sir William Jones's translation of the Indian drama by Calidas, " Sacontala, or the Fatal Ring,' , which, you may remember, I announced to you as almost immediately forthcoming, reaches me (just as I am closing this) from the new publishing house opened at 21, Northumberland- street, Strand, by Captain Charlton Tucker. A little poem, called " Northward to Babylon," accompanies it. There also just now comes to me, from another quarter, a queer little " manuscript musical magazine," called The Semiquaver. LITERATURE. Plumptre's Lectures on Elccut on. A decade has elapsed since Mr. Charles John Plumptre's reputation t,s an elocutionist was firmly established. Fully te❑ years rgo he was lecturing upon the elements cf elocution before the members of the University of Oxford, uc.dec the sanction of the Vice-Chancellor. Prior to that, before he was a Professor of Elocution, when he was known simply in his professioial capacity as a barrister of Gray's Inn, he had, acquired for himself considerable dis tinction in the metropolis as one of the most ac complished Read'ers, whether of Prose or Verse, iu an age when Reading has risen almost to the dignity of a Fine Art. Since then—that is to say, since the completion of Mr. Plumptre's comparatively brief but brilliant career as an elocutionary lecturer at Oxford—he has to the fullest possible extent fulfilled and justified the very high expectation raised in his regard when, following the bent of his inclinations, or, as we may say, yielding to the instinct of his genius, he deliberately resolved upon leaving the bar and betaking himself perma nently to the edncation of, so far as he might find the opportunity for so doing, the aspirants to dis tinction, whether as forensic or as pulpit orators, who might submit themselves to his guidance, as— what he certainly is—a Master-Elocutionist. Com pleting his career at Oxford, Mr. Plumptre has now for several years fulfilled with signal ability the duties devolving upon him as the Lecturer cn Public Reading and Speaking at King's College, London, in the Evening Classes Department. Happily he has afforded us, one and all, the oppor tunity for judging of him, not merely by hearsay— of estimating him not simply by the range or scope of his reputation. Ile has now given to the outer public the means of weighing in the balance, his various capabilities as an instruc tor in Elocution. He has, in the shape of a goodly volume of 200 pages octavo, presented to every one who lists a series of fourteen of these famous King's College Lectures of his on Elocution —fourteen subdivisions of a most instructive and comprehensive theme—the substance of the intro ductory Course of Lectures and Practical In struction he has now for some time past been annually deliveri❑g. The book is Dedicated, by Permission, to the Prince of Wales. It is followed by two very remarkable appendices— one of them singularly instructive, the other very curiously interesting. So far as any merely printed book on Elocution could accomplish its object, this o❑e by Mr. Plumptre is entitled to our highest com mendation. The eye, the face, the voice, the gesture are, of course, all wanting, but the argu ment throughout is so lucid in itself, while the illustrations of that argument are so animated and so singularly felicitous, that reading the work at tentively, page by page and lecture by lecture, is the'next best thing to seeing and hearing the gifted Professor himself, when, with his lips and looks of rarest eloquence, he is in himself, in his own per son, exemplifying the manifold and ever-varying charms of the all-conquering art of the Rhetorician and Elocutionist. JUNIOR CARLTON CLUB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —ln the column headed " Metropolitan Gossip," in your edition of this evening, a mistake occurs regarding the amount spent by the above Club before taking possession of their " splendid premises in Pall-mall." The sum named should have been £140,t00, as the amount mentioned in your paper being £BO,OOO was merely the cost of the site.—Yours, &c., A CONSERVATIVE. London, March 4. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messis. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gainetl a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called The Royal Irish Distillery." ditt du e tx( `) atii Ce► G 9 ; 82 ditt 88i 21. spy, 110 £1( ri ot tars Wa3 l'et ch e 2;.' Yo] low but due vi o% Novi ,a , b,i tate 0 qat ~ 0 1)%,