The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-30 00:00:00

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. SATURDAY. The thirst for information which Mr. Osborne mocked hi his speech on the eve of the adjournment for the Easter holiday has waned now that we are on the Ove of the Whitsun holidays. This kind of thirst is always most intense in the cold weather, usually during the Erst or second week in February,; and as the days lengthen and the thermometer rises, it subsides. The result is that very few members now betake themselves to the fountain IA information, compared with the numbers who were to be seen panting and impatient three months ago. Every body knows almost everything, and so very few M.P.'s think it worth while to be present in the early part of the sitting. Yesterday the House presented a very forlorn appearance. The benches were but a third full, and the Peer's gallery for some time had not a single occupant, and afterwards only one. Sir George Grey, who is now seldom heard, did, indeed, ask Mr. Forster some questions respecting the Govern ment amendments to the Education Bill, and the answers ire listened to with much eagerness. Sir Massey Lopes pot the approval of the Premier so far as regarded the sit of his question respecting the extension of the bishops' Resignation Act to the beneficed clergy, although it appears that that measure cannot be extended, but a fresh one must be brought in. Mr. Whalley, who differs from the author of " Lothair," and believes that Fenianism is prompted by the Roman Catholics, instead of being utterly opposed to and abhorred by them, got some information out of Mr. Monsell respecting the ridiculous raid into Canada ; and Dr. Playfair extracted the satisfactory information that we are to have a halfpenny card-postage, such as has been already adopted in Germany. Then began the formal business of the evening. The first topic of discussion led to a really good debate. It was introduced by Lord Eustace Cecil, who made a speech of not much less than an hour's duration on adul terations of food and short weights. Lord Eustace is not like his brother, the Marquis of Salisbury, eloquent, but he has improved of late, and is now a tolerably fluent speaker. He described the way in which our tradesmen poison us—our dairymen, our bakers, our brewers, and above all, our grocers ; and he reminded the House that in former times rascals of this kind were put in the pillory. He spoke of those days with a wistful longing for_their revival. He called upon the Ministry, "the most powerful Government since the days of Sir Robert Peel," —not to shirk a question which they were strong enough to deal with. He was followed by " Tom Brown," now alas, bald-headed, and quite the middle-aged gentleman. He lost his seat for Lambeth because of his endeavours to put down a vice in which his constituents surpassed all other persons. He had brought this matter before three successive Ministries, but without effect. And yet so far as the suppression of short-weight is concerned, it was easy enough to cope with the evil. Publish the names of convicted offenders in the Gazette, and that will soon bring them to their senses, said Mr. Hughes. It was the best practicable substitute for Lord Eustace's pillory. Mr. Hughes was humorous about the various jurisdic tions in London, " annoyance juries," and the like, who are entrusted with the task of protecting us from cheating ,tradesmen.. Mr. Bruce made a joke—two jokes—an incident worthy of note. The basis of his argument was that though it was quite true the present Ministry was powerful, and that the Liberal party had cordially supported the Go vernment with regard to its Irish policy, yet such a measure as Mr. Hughes recommended would test the fidelity of Ministerialists too severely, for it would bring them into disagreeable relations with their constituents. He promised, however, that something should be done, that the " annoyance juries" and other absurd bodies should cease to annoy. Mr. Cave, the last Conservative Presi dent of the Board of Trade, followed. The right hon. gentleman, who looks far more like a militaire than a West Indian planter, read his speech from neatly-written notes—or were they printed proofs ? Under these circumstances, there was no hesitation, no awkward pauses. It might have been different, perhaps, had Mr. Cave trusted to his memory. As it was, it sounded as though he were reading a leading article. Mr. Muntz was a very different kind of speaker. Grey and grizzled, with a long thick beard and moustache that make his utterance indistinct, he spoke with much impromptu raciness. His descriptions of the adulterations practised were sometimes ludicrous, sometimes disgusting. Perhaps the most harmless of all adulterations, one that M. P.'s should be least inclined to check, is that of blue. pill. This, it appears, is made of slate filings and blue clay. Considering how many persons half ruin their constitutions by amateur dosinewith mercury, this revela tion should not excite much regret ; but when you come to coffee, and hear the noxious messes it is composed of, and the testimony of the Paris physicians, that gastric fever is its common sequent, the case is altered, and indignation takes the place of com placency. Sir Charles Adderley said a few words and then it was the turn for a Liberal, who appeared in the person of portly jovial Mr. Locke, a gentleman who can extract laughter out of a death's head and cross bones. He amused the house by his denunciation of permissive bills, and his declaration that a bill to put down adulteration was of more importance than the Education Bill. Mr. Sinnaird, who is also " funny," made the House laugh. Not that there was anything particularly humorous in his remarks, but be cause he is one of the official jesters, the House takes for granted that it ought to cachinnate directly he rises. Mr. Peek, the biscuit man, stood up in behalf of orna mental cakes (which had been attacked for being coated with chromate of lead), and Mr. Bass, amid much merri ment, defended beer as the purest and wholesomest article sold, and denounced the stories of nux vomica and cocculus indicus as all moonshine. It was now seven o'clock, the sacred hour of dinner, and such members as had any appetite left after the disclosures which had been made in the debate, being anxious to dine, Lord Eustace Cecil withdrew his amendment. Members rushed out, and left a nearly empty House to listen to Mr. Goldney's discourse about that disgraceful old topic, the Kirwee prize money, which, after thirteen years, is still unsettled. It was a long and wearisome debate, lasting for several hours, and I frankly confess that I had not the patience to sit it out, There was one member who must have thought that ft would never end Professor Fawcett, who having been twice counted out, had his motion about the employment of women and children down for yester day. Early in the evening he came in led by his fellow professor, Dr. Playfkir. But after a while he got weary, and some kindly Tory led the Radical M.P. for Brighton out. 'One thing was certain, if he had only the fortitude to sta up all night he was safe ; for Government wanted supply, and therefore the house was sure rots to be counted 04 till that had been granted, and notices of motion precede supply. "Everything comes at last to him who knows bow to wait," say the ' French, and so it was in Mr. Fawcett's case. He made his speech, and yet after all it was but an imperfect victory. The Professor has rather a liking for forlorn hopes, for leading a little select body of Radicals into the lobby in opposition to Mr. Gladstone, and though the result is only to skew how strong the Premier is, and how hopelessly small is the new party of Adullamites, the Professor seems to enjoy it, and as it does not hurt the Premier no harm is done. Last night we should have had another of these little farces, but the Speaker forbad. The motion white]; Mr. Fawcett wasgoing to put had been moved in substance before, and so he was compelled to be content with a speech from Mr. Bruce, a performance which is not usually very satisfying. Strange to say ministers did not take supply after all I suppose they found_ they could get on without tho money ; but I am rather inclined to think that Mr. Glyn was dodging. M.P.'s had felt so confident that the rest of the night would be occupied about the navy estimates, that 13, large number of them had gone home. Not so Mr. k.Towdegate. " Set a thief to catch a thief." His little manceuvre about the monastic institutions was still fresh in his memory, and warned him that other ersons might try the same trick ; and so it came to pass. Instead of the Navy Estimates the Burial Bill came on, and there was wrath and indignation among the Conservative M.P.'s, Colonel Barttelot, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Goldney, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Henley, Mr. Beresford, Hope and others made a gallant fight. Again and again they moved that the debate should be adjourned, and at last, about one o'clock this morning, 11/finisters gave way. Meanwhile poor Mr. Speaker had got cpliteinopked up. He had been compelled to go home during the stormy Committee on the Burials Bill, and when the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Public Schools Bill came on at past one o'clock, Mi. Podson was obliged to take the chair. That is also a bill which excites angry religious feeling, so after a little discussion the debate was adjourned. Surely new it was time for members to go home. Not at all, there was the Vaccina tion Bin. Yes, and a division on it at two o'clock in the morning. The division did not take long. There were but thirty members, including tellers, and so the House vas ipso facto counted out, and wearied senators retired to heir doWUY beds. ANTE OMNIA CIBUS. The John Bull says that the division on the University Tests Bill must be very disheartening to those who rely upon the Conservative party for the firm maintenance of religious teaching in the land. With every explanation of which it is capable, it yet remains a testimony to the apathy and coldness which, in the House of Commons, are opposed to the fervid earnestness and disciplined com bination of the supporters of the bill. The dinner-hour, which left but 68 Conservatives, found 193 Radicals at their post ; and it becomes more clear day by day that the former will dine, come what may, and with a.comfort and luxury which they do not obtain in the dining-rooms of the House of Commons. There were, no doubt, many pairs, but the outside world looks at the division list, and is apt to judge of the absent as at least indifferent. A heavy blow has been struck, and opposition in the House of Commons is stunned. Arguments have pre vailed which logically condemn the whole position of the Church of England, and so far as regards her Educational position, she is disestablished if the House of Commons is to prevail. Is it to do so ? The House of Lords has that great question to decide. There was a tone of regret —of willingness to amend—in Mr. Gladstone's speech ; but has he the power to modify the deadly work he has in hand? Upon one thing the Lords may fairly act viz., the profes sion of the promoters of the bill, that religious teaching is not meant to lose its pre-eminence, and that proper safe guards ought to exist. They are bound to see that the profession is made into practice, and to satisfy themselves what safeguards are really necessary. There are men in both universities who can supply such information, and without it Parliament is not in a position to insure the realisation of the preamble that tests should be removed only " under proper safeguards for the maintenance of religious instruction and worship in the universities and colleges and halls now subsisting therein." THE GOVERNMENT AMENDMENTS AND THE EDUCATION BILL. The Spectator thinks that the Government amendments to the Education Bill are carefully drawn, and very good so far as they go—but we think it a pity that they are limited practically to the points of the Time-table Con science Clause (to which Mr. Gladstone pledged himself on the second reading) and the vote by ballot for the school boards, and that so much is still left which the Dis senters will unquestionably think it their duty to fight for in Committee, possibly even at the expense of delaying the bill itself if the Government should not prove pliant. There does seem to us every reason for prohibiting the distinctive creeds and formularies in rate-built schools. For the perfect personal freedom of the masters in express• ing their own views, so far as they find that essential to their efficiency as teachers, we have always contended; without that the religious lesson would be a mockery. But there is every reason for putting strongly before the masters that the object of a religious lesson in a public school attended by the children of persons of all shades of opinion, should be to inculcate common prin ciples as much as possible, and disputed opinions as little as possible—to avoid every sign of the triumph of one faith over another—to unite, and not divide. Finally, we must express our earnest, we might almost say ardent, desire to see the determination to carry this bill override all minor considerations both with the Government and their critics. The Government might indeed, we think, have yielded more without renewed discussion ; but there is no sort of reason for supposing that they are going to draw the line here, and resist all further concessions. The Dissenters have certainly gained much, and they have this great motive for moderation,-- that they themselves are entirely unable to unite upon any programme, and may easily obtain now all that they really agree to ask. If the bill fails this year, one of two things will happen ; either it will succeed next year without any change that might not easily be secured now, solely because a longer consideration will tell in favour of the Govern ment—or legislation will be deferred for an indefinite period, till the Dissenters and the Secularists can really unite, which at present they are far from doing—and in the meantime, millions of children will grow up ignorant and helpless ATId dull and wicked, solely because English men cannot agree either to permit the schoolmaster to speak freely on religious subjects, or forbid him to speak on them at all. Can a worse reason be conceived for granting a new lease of life to the hideous uniformity of the ordinary English child's miserable and vacant infancy ? _ . 4. BILL ABOUT BORSERACING. The Economist disapproves of Mr. Hughes's Bill on several grounds, and asks what poncern the State has in such a matter, ,All laws restricting the trade in its management of horses, providing Queen's Plates and the like, are laws establishing bounties, and as we know by the experience gained in every other trade, are radically unwise. The dealer, if let alone, will breed the horse for which there is a demand much better than Government can teach him, and the single law we shouid propose upon the subject is one abrogating all that exist, and leaving the trade as free alike from restriction and from encour agement as the trade in cats. Mr. Hughes, among other things, wants to stop three-year-olds running for Queen's Plates ; but suppose five-year-olds only run, why should Parliament pay for the racing of five-year-olds any more than for the raking of donkeys on Hampstead Heath ? What is it to the State whether horses are swift or only sure ? With the second half of' Mr. Hughes's Bill we have a little more sympathy, though even on this side we are unable to go as far as he does. The temptation offered by lotteries, and therefore by betting-shops, which are, after all, nothing but lotteries in a new form, is a temptation tq primp of a very exceptional kind. The shopman who would net stern thinks he may borrow, and as he looks upon winning as apertainty, soothes his conscience as he empties flip till With the idea that he is benefiting himself without injuring his' master."" It was proved by the inquiry into the effect of letteries that this was their invariable consequenee—that an artificial temptation to theft was by this means placed before a community largely entrusted with other persons' money, and it was therefore, as we think, justifiably removed, It would be quite justifiable and very wise to prohibit horse-lotteries also, if we can only do it, but it is very hard to imagine a law which would fully accomplish the end, and which would have a chance of being carried'out. We can and do make it an offence to keep a betting-shop. We can and do refuse legal assistance towards the recovery of a bet. We might possibly, by a little more severity, and by punishing all newspaper proprietors and bill-stickers for advertising such places make the law more effective, but how we are to go farther we do not see. The evil of the existing system is undoubted, but it is one of those evils which we can at best only hope to restrict to those who are determined to indulge their taste. We can by prohibiting agencies and their advertisements make it difficult for a gambler to bet without personally seeking a person to bet with, and that would be something pined, perhaps much gained ; but to go further than that is only to add on;, pore to the long list of our inoperative laws. We can, as It warp, put up a hedge, which it will take the majority some trouble to break through ; but the few who will take the trouble must of necessity be let alone. Make betting in itself tin offence, and every bet will be rath4 more a matter of honeUr than it is at pre sent, yet short this we can 4 9 nothing, except close betting shops, as we aredoing now: The Vice-Chancellor of Ireland has sanctioned the sale of the Dublin Exhibition buildings to Sir Arthur Guinness and his brother for £51,000, to pay off the debts. THE ARMY AND NAVY.—The Broad Arrow says, there is no likelihood of any official gazette conferring Bath appointments being published at this season. The Army and Navy Gazette, say that Sir Spencer Robinson, K.C.B. one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and the controller of the Navy, has arrived in London, and has given satisfactory accounts of the performances of the two turret-ships Captain and Monarch, but especially of those of the latter. The successor to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Symonds, K.C.8., commanding the Channel Squadron has not been as yet decidedly fixed upon. but Vice- Admiral E. G. Fanshawe is still the favourite at the pro fessional clubs.—Having in view the present state of Canadian affairs, it is hardly probable that the Ist Batta lion 60th Rifles will be withdrawn from Canada for the present. Rear -A clmi r al L or i n ,Y C. B. , has been nominated to succeed Rear-Admi ra l Xey, ° C.B., as Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard,—The appointment of District In spector of Musketry at Aldershot is vacant by the promo tion of Captain D. Thompson, 67th Foot, to a majority in his rcgiment.—The United Service Gazette says Captain E. D. Thelwail hag been appointed Gunnery Instructor to the Royal Marine Artillery vice M'Arthur, appointed Paymaster. . LAW AND POLICE. A CHURCH-RATE CASE.—In the Arches Court a Church-rate case has has been tried in respect of the parish church of Edgmond, Salop, in the diocese of Lich field. The suit was brought to pay off an advance by the Public Loan Commissioners for the repair of the church, and the sum in dispute was 10s. 9ad. at the rate of 2d. in the pound on the property of the defendant, a parishioner. The question in dispute was the validity of a poll taken at the vestry meeting, at which the application of the Loan Commissioners was resolved upon. It was con tended it should have been the poll of the parish, not of the vestry meeting. The Dean of Arches decided that the poll was regular, and left the rest of the case to be subsequently decided. THE UNITED SERVICE COMPANY.—The question whether it is competent for a company, by special resolution, to release persons who have subscribed the memorandum of association from the obligation of taking the number of shares set opposite to their names has been raised in the Rolls Court. The United Service Company (Limited) was started in 1865, when General Hall became one of the directors, and subscribed the memorandum of association for 500 shares, only 250 of which were allotted to him. Three years later the Board released him and other sub scribers from their liability in respect of shares subscribed for, but not allotted. The company has since been wound ' up, and the official liqudator has applied for the addition of :General Hall's name to the list of contributories, in respect of the 250 shares not allotted. Several other cases depended on this one. The Master of the Rolls decided that General Hall's name must be settled on the list in respect of the 250 shares subscribed for by him but not allotted. A PATENT CASE. —A case arising out of a dispute about a patent has been brought before Vice-Chancellor Manna. A person named Wright, who was the holder of a patent for making kitchen ranges, entered into an agreement with Mr. Hassall by which the latter was to be the sole manufacturer of the patented article. Wright afterwards entered into agreements with three iron manu facturers at Sheffield. Hassall having filed a bill to re strain them from manufacturing the ranges the defendants objected that the agreement with him had not been registered under the Patent Amendment Act.—The Vice- Chancellor was of opinion that the agreement did not require to be registered, and the defendants having had notice of it were bound by its. provisions. The objection was unsustainable in any case, as the agreement had now been registered, and the registration would date back to the time of filing. THE BOARD OF WORKS.—An application has been made in the Court of Exchequer to set aside an award of compensation made by an arbitrator between the owner of a house in Parliament-street, and the Board of Works. The claimant was a tailor who had been in business for many years and the arbitrator had awarded him a large sum as compensation for his house, and a further sum for the goodwill of his business. A rule was obtained last term on the ground that no compensation ought to have been given for goodwill, but the court held the compensation was properly awarded and discharged the rule. THE PROSECUTION OF Mn. BENNETT.—The Dean of Arches stated in'court that he gave Mr. Bennett, of Frome, leave to appeal on his decision, and he had received a letter from the Registrar of the Judicial Committee, telling him the case had been remitted to his Court. He had been informed that the promoter had taken no further proceedings, and accordingly notice must be given that the case should be at once proceeded with, or struck off the books of the Court. THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE ALTERATIONS IN THE IRISH LAND BILL. TH The Saturday Review considers that the alteration of the third clause of the Irish Land Bill, will completely alter its character. The bill will still be of great value to tenants who have made improvements, for they will get re-couped in a perfectly novel manner and to a very handsome extent for what they have done, and it will be of value to tenants under Ulster and other customs, for these customs will henceforth have a legal validity. But it is difficult to see of what use the bill will be to the mass of Irish tenants, who are poor men, and who will be just as much liable to be turned out without getting any compensation, if the landlord wants to raise their rent, as they are now. It is true that the bill will protect the tenant against eviction from mere caprice The landlord will not be able in future to turn a man out simply because he dislikes him or wishes to throw farms together without, having to pay for his act. But the bill now offers no protection to the tenant against eviction because in the excessive competition for land it Ireland some one offers to pay more than he pays. Mr. Gladstone originally offered him a most effectual protec tion against this ; he was to have a sum down for going out, and :hen the landlord would have to consider whether the increased rent he could get from some one els', would repay the outlay of the compensation to the outgoing tenant. This offer was then cut down to the proposal that he should have a sum—variable actor ding to many subtle calculations, but still something—for going out. Now he is to have nothing whatever for going out if he will not pay as rent what some one else offers to to pay. Wearied as Mr. Gladstone must bd with the details of the bill, and overawed as he is by the superiority of Six Roundell Palmer to his own law-officers, it is still difficult to conceive that he will let the bill stand as it now stands after the adoption of Sir Roundell Palmer's amendment. The other minor changes'of Thursday night can scarcely be allowed to pass into law in the shape sanctioned by the Government. The law of distress for non-payment of rent is far too important, and has far too many ramifications, to be swept away by a few hasty words ; and the clauses intended to provide cottages for the agricultural poor are now so ingeniously arranged that it will not be the interest of any one to build cottages at all. But mistakes of this sort can be rectified with a little card and patience ; while the whole character of the bill, so far as three out of every four Irish tenants are concerned, will depend on whether their landlords are or are not to be allowed to turn them out without paying any compensation if they can get a higher rent from some one else. sUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1870. M. GAMBETTA AT BELLEVILLE. At a private meeting held at Belleville, M. Gambetta delivered a speech, in which he considered the results of the Plebiscite, and described the course which the Radical party should follow. He said that the Plebiscite had aggravated the situation for the Empire. What were they to think of a Power which, after declaring itself eternal, was compelled to appeal again to popular uffrage ? After affirming, in 1852, that the Plebiscite of that year would be its immoveable foundation, it comes before you in 1870 to ask you to give it another base. I assert that in a country where points of such importance are constantly called into question, there may be kings, and emperors, and reigning families, but not a monarchy. This figure of 1,500,000 votes attained by the Irreconcil ables has frightened our adversaries, so much that they do not know what to make of their victory. They are also analysing the character of their votes, which are chiefly composed of the bourgeois class. The bourgeoisie, which was formerly the friend of the people, has now made friendship with its bitter enemies. You must shew that you are not conspirators since you are opposed to the man whose fortune was made by three conspiracies. What do these seven.million of votes avail for the Em pire? They are so many creditors. The Emperor is ac cepted, but he is told, we wish to be governed, but not taken advantage of. The most important task that lies before us is to free the bourgeoisie and the provinces from that fear which has possessed them. They dread, lest having un-made a Government, no other can be put in its place. France is indifferent as to her ruler, provided she is well governed. The democratic party ought to have a discipline in itself. If Paris set the example of this, France would speedily be reassured, and confidence would return. Dis cipline is above all necessary on the fieid of battle, which is the Chamber. So far we have made progress, as a true Left exists, which is closed to all who are not Republican. If we exhibit this moderation and this discipline we shall secure unlimited confidence, and gain the respect of those whose hearts have long been with us, and have rendered justice to our lofty ideals and our excellent principles." THE DENHAM MURDERS. It was stated by the police at Denham on Friday evening that the further examination of Jones, which is fixed to take place at Slough on Tuesday will be con ducted within the prison walls, as the authorities cannot, without a greatly increased display of force, be answer able for his safety. The feeling against him in the district has reached an extraordinary pitch, and the large crowd which congregated before the inquest room on Friday openly avowed their intention of making a rush to seize the murderer, if he were brought up, and lynching him. It is said to , be the intention of the landlord to pull down the old cottage in which the massacre took place, and build another a few yards distant. _ _ More singular facts have come to light. It is thought that another person may be arrested on suspicion of being an accomplice before or after the crimes. A STORY ABOUT CAPTAIN WILLIAMS. The late Captain E. P. Williams, of the Oneida, was the commander of a detachment, the only one which landed, of the force detailed for the naval attack on Fort Sumter. The fort appeared to those on board of the ships to slope from the ground inwardly, like any ordinary heap of sand or •Jebris, and it was supposed that our gal lant _tars would find it easy to climb up the slope and carry the work by storm. But when the crews of the two or three boats which followed the lead of Captain Wil liams had landed, they found that the inclination was from the top inward, so that to climb it was physically impossible. They were directly under the fire of the muskets as well as the cannon of the garrison, and had no choice but to surrender or be uselessly but chered. They were treated with great kindness by the commander of the fort, Colonel Elliot, of Charleston a gentleman well known and esteemed in Boston, who permitted them to send for clothing and money, and carried his chivalrous courtesy so far as even to permit one of the officers in whose trunk had, by accident, come off the signal-book of the fleet to return it. The prisoners were soon after sent to Columbia, S. C., where the officers who were allowed to send for money as they needed it, were for the most part comfortable, but about this time i was determined by the confederates to hold Captain (then Lieutenant) Williams, and his friend and fellow-prisoner, Lieutenant Porter, as hostages for two officers of the confederate navy, then under detention or on trial for piracy in New York ; and the two former were removed from their fellow-officers, who were all in one room of the jail, and chained by the legs together in a small room adjoining the former, for a considerable period. While there an amusing incident occurred, well calculated to lighten their captivity. A surgeon, one of the prisoners' who had been released and had reached New York, sent to his friends from thence some large pack ages of such things as he well knew them chiefly to need, such as canned meats; and fruit, books, and the like. The two hostages took turns in peepin g through the keyh o l e and gloating over the treasures as their friends gradually brought them to light, and finally received as their share of the spoil some books and cans of quahaugs. These cans they at once proposed to return and ex change them for books, but their comrades obsti nately and to' them nnaccountably sent them back. They felt no special hankering for quahaugs, but they had plenty of time, whatever else they might lack, and Captain Williams soon took his jackknife and opened one of the cans. _ " Why, this is a Yankee trick," he at once exclaimed "there are no quahaugs here, nothing but some liquid." On with drawing his knife, however, he noticed the scent of that liquid and discovered it to be whiskey, which the two captives were sailors enough to appreciate. While at Fort Sumpter, Colonel Elliott took Captain Williams about the fort, and shewed him that there was but one place where a man could get in, even if unopposed, but at this point two or three men could successfully resist a host.—Boston, Advertiser. IlJessrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co. invited tenders for the erection of fifty new cottages at Thorn cliffe, when sixteen proposals came in, ranging from £5,420 to £2,421. The difference bet Ween the highest and lowest tenders was actually greater than the sum for which the work has been let. A "01.1.r:CQNDI7pTED REyOLUTIONTST.—A. droll incident is related by the Univrrs in connection with the recent military pronunciamento at Lisbon, When, at an early hour of the morning, Marshal Sqldanha, after his brief combat with the troops, who for a time resisted the forces, entered the Palace in full uniform, he was received by the King, who was awaiting_ him. His Majesty, in the first instance, begged the Marshal would not make any noise so as to awaken the Queen, who was asleep, and then he evinced a disposition to approve all that had been done. AUSTRIAN AFFAMS.—Accounts from Vienna state that the German party are appeased, and that they no longer fear MM. Beust and Potocki will compromise their rights for the sake of propitiating the Czechs. Some days ago a meeting of the chief members of the German party was held at Vienna to settle what course the party should pursue under existing circumstances. It was declared that unity should prevail among all the Germans of Austria,and that they should keep firm possession of the territory which was decreed to them by the fundamental laws of 1869. The Assembly objected to a Federal Constitution being given to the Empire, and disallowed the claim of the ohemian Crown. The examination of the Gallician question was to be deferred until the new Diet of Galicia had met. The complete abolition of the Concordat was called for, and a decrease in the army expenses ad vocated. LADYZUTISEMENT.I--Avoid Medicines—they always aggravate chronic coirtplaintB; but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalents . Mabica Food, wllicli pelcls three times the nourish mentof the best meat, saves 30 times its cost in other remedies and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex tract a few oat of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabic°. Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly,—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agopy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.---Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; Ilb 28 9d; 2 lb 48 6d; 51b lls.• 121 b 225; 24 lbs 4 s.— lso Dii BARRY'S REVALENTA Tunic& CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for It cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2cB cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 155 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins ore sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. — 'BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. A. NEW FRENCH POLITICAL PARTY. A new political party is being formed under the auspices of M. Ernest Picard. Thirteen members of the Left, in cluding K4ratry, Lefevre-Pontalis, Guizot, Montpayroux, assembled at M. Picard's house, and resolved to form a constitutional opposition. There was no necessity to break with the other deputies of the Left, which was, said M. Picard, a grand corps d'armee, of which they were the right wing. If their seventeen colleagues broke with them the responsibility would be theirs. It was determined that frequent meetings should be held, and that the party should not shrink from accepting office if they found they could do so consistently. The programme of the Constitutional Left, as the party is called, has been put forward since the meeting. It is signed by Ernest Picard, and declares that the policy of the party is very simple, and does not need six months of a session to fulfil it. The principle points are the sepa ration of powers, the constitution of an independent judicial power by the establishment of the jury, and of an independent legislative power by means of electoral liberty, and independent municipalities and a national military organisation which gives hostages to liberty. M. Picard continues—" We said to the Ministers of January 2nd : on this ground you will be invincible Make an effort in favour of electoral liberty, abolish frankly the system of official candidatures, and announce the dissolution of the Chamber, you will be the Ministers of the nation? They preferred to be Ministers of the Tuileries ! The task of their successors will now be much more difficult. All the time lost for liberty has been employed against her, but the crisis will not have been without profit. Let us no longer confound the image of liberty with those imitations of it which skilfully directed power has exhibited to a credulous crowd. We, ourselves, decide the national affairs; when we feel ourselves strong and fearless, and responsible, we shall then begin to be free. ERNEST PICARD." THE POPE AND THE FOREIGN VISITORS. The foreign visitors at Rome recently presented an address to Pius IX. Nearly. three hundred signatures were affixed, and it was presented at the Vatican by up wards of a hundred persons. Amongst the signatories were the Dukes of Modena and Parma, four princes, numerous other dukes, Lords Henry Kerr, Gainsborough, Clifford, Herries, Sir George Bowyer, the master of Herries, and many other Englishmen. The address offered the homage of those who signed it, their wishes for the full accomplishment of his designs, and their submission to the decrees upon which the Council may agree. The Pope returned the following reply :—" Divine Providence, who is all good ness, and who overrules and governs' all things, has per mitted that I should now see round me a circle of Catho lics of various nations, not only from Europe, but from regions beyond it, who have come to pay their tribute of devotion and filial affection to the Vicar of Jesus Christ, forcibly demonstrating the unity of the Catholic Church. Children are wont to offer flowers on the return of the anniversaries of their parent's birth ; soldiers present a sword to their General when he has led them on to victory, but the flowers fade and die, and the sword is an emblem of war; whereas you come to present the unfailing and loving offering of your hearts to the Holy See of Peter, to the Vicar of Christ. Thus you afford me support in my contest against exist ing evils, and you strengthen my hand as those of Moses were upheld when he contended for God's people. You have promised the entire submission of your hearts and intellects to all the decisions of the sacred Council of the Vatican in union with the Supreme Pontiff. May its efforts to benefit society and diffuse Christian truth be successful. I know how unworthy I am to fill the office of the Vicar of Christ. Yet I know that I am sustained by God in the course I am pursuing, because I feel it to be the right course, and the opposition which we now behold will not prevail. lam accusld of warring against modern society, which is untrue. The maxims of modern civiliza tion are with certain exceptions, false. To falsehood we must oppose truth. Christ is Truth. And it is the duty of all Christians, in whatever state of life, to maintain the truths which He has taught. This must be your individual line of action in your different countries. If after thus striving we fail in our endeavours to preserve modern society from self-destruction, we shall deplore the catastrophe but we shall know at least that we have clone all in our power to avert it. This much it has occurred to me to say to you, and in sign of paternal affection I now bestow upon yourselves, your families, your friends, and your countries the apostolic benediction 2 • may it support, help, and comfort you, and afford you strength and courage to contend against the manifold evils of the present age." THE STATE OF CUBA. A Cuban woman thus writes to a friend in New York : "If you could but see how I am now dressed! My cloth ing, if exhibited in a museum, would excite curiosity. There is not a beggar woman in the world who would wear it, but that is a matter of little consequence. I prefer to wear such rather than the far richer dresses which I wore before the war, if I can only be freed from Spanish dominion." "My children," wr it e s another lady, "have positively noth . ng t o cover their nakedness, and I do not see how I shall be able with the rags which I have to protect my person from expo sure." " When our boys kill a Spaniard," says another, " we cut his garments into pieces and use them as best we can for our clothing, and we are satisfied, even in th midst of all our sufferings, because at the end of the struggle we shall no longer be under Spanish rule." " Make haste," writes a girl, "to send us something to wear ; toll our friends from Havana and in New York to forward us goods, needles, threads, &c., because we are ashamed to be seen of any one." "Whatever clothing we see," says a Cuban soldier, writing to his friends in New York, "is what we take from the Spaniards, and this is required for the poor women and their children." "It is enough to make one weep," says another, "to see our women, formerly so well, so elegantly dressed, appear in Carnival season in tatters, but it is cheering to know that they accept tbe situation without murmur. As to clothing for tho soldiers of the Liberating army, that is out of the question." 4 gentleman belonging to the division of Mo desto Dial writes :—" Po not ask fpr a particular friend or relative. All have had their throats put, or are left dead on the field of battle. The Spaniard has made the whole coun try a desert between Mansanilla and Bayamo. This last mentioned jurisdiction has been, as it were, almost wholly depopulated. The troops of Valmaseda have spared neither women nor children." THE CANADI 4N GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON EMIGRATION. A highly important letter on emigration, from Sir John Young, the Governor-General of Canada, has been pub lished. The immediate object of the letter is to discuss a plan proposed by Sir C. Trevelyan, to the effect that agricultural families should be sent over to Canada and placed on land, their land being made responsible for the repayment of the expenses incurred in their emigration and settlement. Sir John Young thinks that such a scheme would be met by grave difficulties. Emigrants from the old country are not fitted for the task of clearing land ; and scarcely any emigrant so placed would be able to live until he has raised a crop from his land. In many cases, too, there would be no chance of recovering payment of the sum advanced. Sir John continues : " The best plan for an emigrant from the old country is to work for wages till he has become accustomed to the work of the country, and has earned enough to subsist on land till he can raise a crop. In that case he would have no debt upon him but the cost of his passage ; but a the *Eia,rne tfte, donbt, those who sent him out would have no security for repayment of ex penses but his honour and gratitude, which would be but a slight security when the creditor is some public body or association with whom the debtor has no personal ties. It would, of course, be easy to take a bond for repay ment of the debt, but very difficult to enforce it. Even while the emigrant remained in Canada the expense and trouble of following him to enforce his bond would almost be conclusive against doing so, while, with the escape into the States so close at hand, it would always be in his power to evade his creditors. Some would pay and some would refuse, and it would be necessary to submit to the loss arising from the latter. But under such circum stances a ' reproductive ' emigration in its full meaning becomes impossible. Meanwhile, for emigrants able and willing to work Canada offers at present a very good prospect. The demand for agricultural labourers in Ontario during the present year is estimated at from 30,000 to 40,000, and an industrious man may expect to make about one dollar a day throughout the year if he is willing to turn his hand to clearing land, threshing, &c , during the winter. But it i s o f no use f or em igrants to' come here unless they make up their minds to take what ever employment offers itself most readily, without making difficulties because it is not that to which they have been accustomed, or which they prefer." NEW YORK SHIPPING MERCHANTS. It appears that the New York Shipping Merchants who remonstrate against the present effort to revive American commerce object only to the proposition granting subsidies. At least so we gather from the statement preceding the list published elsewhere. To such remonstance we have not the slightest objection. We join in it, whatever their motives may be, not because we do not wish American commerce revived at any cost, but because we do not believe that the granting of subsidies is a proper and effective mode of doing it. From that part of Mr. Lynch's argument we dissent, though with the objects which the bill seeks to attain we heartily sympathise. We believe that the proposed rebate of the duties on imported materials would be encouragement enough without the granting of any direct subsidies at all. Mr. Lynch's bill is now before the House, in which it is evidently to be thoroughly debated. There are also other bills, proposing subsidies to four steamship companies, still under consideration in other committees, but all of which will doubtless be introduced in a few days. We know little of the merits or demerits of these bills providing for individual interests, but our firmest faith lies in a bill which will offer encouragement to all classes of shipping merchants and all kinds of sailing craft. Our commerce is to be revived only by wise measures general in their application.—New York Tribune. THE COMMUNITY OF YELLOW SPRING S For the first few weeks all entered into the new system with a will. Service was the order of the day. Men who seldom or never before laboured with their hands, devoted themselves to agriculture and the mechanic arts, with a zeal which was at least commendable, though not always according to knowledge. Ministers of the gospel guided the plough ; called the swine to their corn, instead of sinners to repentance; and let patience have her perfect work over an unruly yoke of oxen. Merchants exchanged the yard-stick for the rake or pitchfork. All appeared to labour cheerfully for the common weal. Among the women there was even more apparent self-sacrifice. Ladies who had seldom seen the inside of their own kitchens, went into that of the common eating-house (formerly an hotel), and made themselves useful among pots and kettles ; and refined young ladies, who had all their lives been waited upon, took their turns in waiting upon others at the table. And several times a week all parties who chose mingled in the social dance in the great dining-hall. But notwithstanding the apparent hearti- ness and cordiality of this auspicious opening, it was in the social atmosphere of the community that the first cloud arose. Self-love was a spirit which would not be exorcised. It whispered to the lowly maidens, whose former position in society had cultivated the spirit of meekness—" You are as good as the formerly rich and fortunate ; insist upon your equality." It reminded the favourites of former society of their lost superiority ; and, in spite of all rules, tinctured their words and actions with the love of self. Similar thoughts and feelings soon arose among the men ; and, though not so soon exhibited, they were none the less deep and strong. It is unnecessary to descend to details; suffice it to say that at the end of three months—three months !—the leading minds in the community were compelled to acknowledge to each other that the social life of the community could not be bounded by a single circle. They therefore acquiesced, but reluc tantly, in its division into many little circles. Still they hoped, and many of them no doubt believed, that though social equality was a failure, community of property was not. But whether the law of mine and thine is natural or incidental in human character, it soon began to develop its sway. The industrious, the skilful, and the strong saw the products of their labour enjoyed by the indolent, the unskilled, and the improvident ; and self-love rose against benevolence. A band of musicians insisted that their brassy harmony was as necessary to the common happiness as bread and meat; and declined to enter the harvest-field or the workshop. A lecturer upon natural science insisted upon talking only, while others worked. Mechanics, whose day's labour brought two dollars into the common stock, insisted that they should, in justice, work only half as long as the agriculturist, whose day's work brought but one. For a while, of course, these jealousies were only felt; but they soon began to be spoken also. It was useless to remind all parties that the common labour of all ministered to the prosperity of the community. Individual happiness was the law of nature, and it could not be obliterated; and before a single year had passed this law had scattered the mem bers of that society, which had come together so ear nestly and under such favourable circumstances, back into the selfish world from which they came.—From " History of American Socialisms," by John Humphrey Noyes. BANK ROBBERIES. The burglars must soon give up breaking the banks of Maine as a bad job. Not that they find the vaults too strong, nor that they go to the work with less preparation nor that they usually fail to get hold of a plenty of booty, but that they run the very unpleasant risk of detection capture, and imprisonment in the lime district. We wonder that with the remembrance of the Bowdoinham robbery fresh in their minds the cracksmen who plun dered the Lime Rock Bank at Rockland last week should have ventured to undertake operations so near to Thomas ton where Sims and his confederates of the Bowdoinham a ffair are at work in the service of the State. Their in discretion will, however, be of value in several respects— in the workshops of the State prison, as a warning to burglars generally to steer wide of the country detectives of Maine, and possibly in giving a lesson to the profes sional thief-catchers in the larger cities. The story is short and simple. The Lime Rock National Bank was entered by five scientific cracksmen who adopted the popular expedient of getting at the vault through the wall of an adjoining apartment. They carried through the robbery successfully, escaped from the city, and, having buried their plunder, scattered in all directions to wait until the excitement about the affair should have passed. Before nightfall of the follow ing day two of the .gang were in limbo, together with several persons of Rockland who had aided, perhaps in nocently, the escape of the robbers. Shortly afterwards two more of the gallant party had been captured. The fifth escaped. The Portland detectives had been notified to be on the lookout for him but Portland is a city large enough to have a "ring " of detectives, and if common rumour be correct she may assume metropolitan airs in that respect and boast a ring that in all its more marked characteristics cannot be excelled in any city of the country. However that may be, the burglar escaped arrest, although he was known to be a party in the rob bery, and was also known to be on the Portland boat. With this exception the success of the officers of justice was complete. The robbers were captured and the stolen property was recovered, There is no loophole in the laws of Maine or in the administration of justice in that State, so far as we know, to lead to the belief that the case will not be followed up by prompt trial and conviction, and by the sentence of the criminals to terms of wholesome duration in the State prison. We manage these things differently. Everything is done by rule. When the robbery has been discovered the case is put in the hands of detectives. The reward to be offered for the money, not for the thipves, must be arranged first of all, and the zeal with which the case shall be followed up is exactly proportioned to the pecu niary inducement to activity. The shrewd detectives then take a great deal of pains to place an embargo on the news, lest the intelligence that a robbery has been committed should cone to the ears of the burglars.. An air of mystery is thrown about the affair, and the news papers are requested to give publicity to supposed facts, so as to mislead some one, it matters little whom. In a week or two the affair has been partially forgotten. The losers by the robbery assume more cheerful countenances as though they had recovered a part of their property, the detectives become more mysterious and reticent than ever, and the public is only prevented from forgetting the whole affair by the marplots of the newspapers who per sist in inquiring occasionally what is to be done about the robbery. In a month we are ready for a new case. We need not specify any particular instances for our readers to recognize the above as a true history. The new ad ministration of our city police has had no opportunity to shew its vigilance and pluck, but for a long time past our sketch of what might happen would stand for the story of any one of a dozen great burglaries. Even in cases like the last famous robbery, where the shrewdness of an ordinary business man would tell him whom to suspect and arrest at once, the effort has invariably been to make a plain matter very mysterious, either with the hope of increasing the share of the booty to go to the detective force, or to furnish an excuse for the inaction or absurd action of the officers. We commend the country method which, if not scien tific, yet results in the capture and punishment of the guilty persons, and net unfrequently in the recovery of m the money be,sides. The dete c ti ves h ave th consusness of performing their duty anct of receiving . L e Applause of all good citizens, which, if 'not of so much value in a mercenary point of view, is an object worth striving for, to say the least. The losers do not always get even a dividend on their losses. We suppose that their love of money is as strong as it is in other people. But they labour under an impression, well or ill-founded, that the surest way to put an end to burglary is to make it unprofitable. When it has become a settled thing, that once in so many years bank depositors must divide their property with those who would rather take it by force than earn it honestly, the fraternity of burglars will become a recognised class, much larger than it is now, and very likely more respectable. They may even aspire to the protection of the laws against such arbitrary action as that the Maine detectives have been guilty of. An order was introduced in the Legislature this winter to direct in quiry into the possibility of more stringent laws against the compounding of felonies. The lawyers have examined the statutes and find that they are strong enough. "The diffi culty is about enforcing them. So long as the robbed are contented to forego the natural desire to see the criminals punished, so that they get their money , or a part of it back again, and so long as the officers appointed to prevent violation of the laws and to arrest and punish the violators care more about their private gains than about the en forcement of the law, the present system will continue. The remedy is in public sentiment and in a stern and un yielding demand that the first aim be to seize, ebnvict, and imprison offenders. This remedy ought to' be, can be, and we are hopef u l w ill be applied.--Ikstan Advertiser. THE GROWING CROPS. WASHINGTON, May 9• The monthly report of the Department of Agriculture will contain full returns from all sections of the count*" relative to the appearance of the Winter grains with the opening of Spring. They picture a small and slog growth, thinned in places by Winter-killing, weak and unthrifty in spots from loss of vitality by long exposur e under ice or to freezing winds ; but with these exceptions/ vigorous, of good colour, and ready to start under the influence of a genial Spring., into luxuriant and healthful growth. These blemishes are neither general nor very marked in locations where they appear, with occasional exceptions of severe freezing. While the appearance of wheat is by no means as promising as it was last year, the difference is due more to backwardness of growth , caused by late sowing, followed by an early Winter , which allowed of little more than germination before cold weather set in, than to injuries by freezing. In th e northern part of New England on the Ist of April the winter grain was lying under two feet of snow, and a nother month will better determine how it endures the vicissii tudes of early spring. The winter to that date has been generally favourable. New England, however, produces but a small amount of the cereals, and mostly spring grain. In New York more than half the counties report a favourable prospect for a crop. The same is true in regard to New Jersey, whence correspondents repor t that the sowing season was dry : cold weather came early and the winter was changeable, but the extremes of tem perature were not great, nor the winter killing either general or severe. In Pennsylvania a majority of th e counties report wheat and rye below =average, from late germination and unfavourable conditions for growth before the winter sets in. In Delaware wheat is small, but looks well ; in Maryland backward and thin, and in sone level clay soils it was drowned or frozen out. Fort}' tw.o counties in Virginia report a generally favour able condition of winter grains, while but four of the forty-two reporting, rate the condition of wheat below O average. Forty counties of Georgia report, but six of which represent the crop as unpropitious in appearance' Comparatively little wheat is grown in Alabama, Missis sippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. Few counties ill Tennessee fail to send a favourable report on winter grain' and but little complaint is made in the reports of upw 3 r of forty counties of Kentucky. A majority of the cowl ties of Ohio reporting represent wheat and rye as " 111 r promising in appearance, " below an average," or "not so good as last year." The injury, however, is of such 5 character generally, as to be remedied by the favourable weather of April and May, and the later reports indicat, that April has brought much of recuperation in its genic l weather. More than half the counties of Michigan r e ' port favourably, though injury was done by freezing ar' d thawing. In some sections of the State the grain was under three feet of snow on the Ist of April. The return 3 from Indiana indicate a condition below the average in majority of the counties, but the injuries 1333 . i generally be repaired by, favourable spring vie t !i then In Illinois the sowing was late, the group' generally prepared, and the winter comin ,, earlier than usual, a poor shew of weak plants too often resulteai. The freezing and thawing of a comparatively open wiut L e was therefore disastrous. Yet there were farmers 11 got in their winter grain early on well-prepared land, a% the result, despite the changes of an open winter, is se!A in green and vigorous wheat : fields that were manur7, were also exempt from the ravages of the frost. Th es i suggestive facts appear year by year, and it is a pity Oa such hints are not more generally taken by the fanner s ' Later accounts indicate an improving condition, a nd ai l average crop is yet possible in the State. Little win ter wheat is sown in Wisconsin, but that little is promising' Minnesota grows, too, but little winter wheat to spealcc!! while not more than one-tenth of th e cro p o f lowa', I ; sown in the fall. Same winter-killi ng i n Mi sso uri, IT, the appearance of th e pl an t s i s i m p rov i ng w ith tP; advancing spring. No State sends more encourAt° news than Kansas, scarcely a complai n t com ing any county. Nebraska s ows s p r i ng w h ea t c hieur t There is a fine prospect of another good crop in the gr ey wheat-prOdueing State of California, and the returns frau Oregon are generally favourable, as are a l so th e repo rt 5 14 , from such portions of the territories as p ro d uce win" - grain. —Newark Advertiser. DR. RIMIER'S ART SCHOOL. A New York paper of recent date, of which I h a ve scen,: slip, says that immediately on the exhibition of t r. Rinune . ,. o f great picture of ":Venus List en i ng t o C u pid' s A cco unt O! his Exploits," it was bought by a connoisseur for slo,ou k I am not at all surprised; for though e I saw the picture ' i t , fore it was quite finished, felt it was a master-piece, P u g , Wig Dr. Rimmer in rank with th e o ld masters o f pa in as his "Fighting Gladiator Wounded' . put him high ano`"; ( ' the masters of sculpture. I hope the connoisseur will all to the picture to be exhibited in Boston, before it is pet his gallery ; for even the admirers of Dr. Rimmer's sou ture here will be surprised to see how great a painter 1 3 °, 1 ; We hope that the i n ti ma ti on th a t h e i sa b out to a b an d o n `, l , ; f position as director of th e C ooper I nst i tu t e o f D es ign 1 1 .1 Women has no found a ti on i n f act, f or th i s sc h oo l of ' at justifies the su gges ti on o f an E ngl i sh cr i t i c and greto admirer of his fighting and wounded Gladiator, 5 , whom was told his me th od o f t each i ng a class i n ton—" he could make the greatest school of art in; t 0 world; for in no European school aro the pupils taugh"At draw from knowledge, but always from dead models." 11 0 the Cooper Institute he is th e so l e di rector and teacher, 9,4 t it is very wonderful to go into th a t l ong su i te o f roo ms f!o' l g see all the variety of works ; in one on l y i s any dran o from casts. The lessons in drawing are rece i ve d by t 1,5, claSses, who go into the lecture room with their sketch boo while he stands at the blackboard, and, with chalk in b" %i l illustrates to the eye all the inward machi ner y o f mu scle ad nerve that affects the outline, as it varies with the action "0 expression. He then gives them problems to solve ' o ° llo their lines, how to draw tbo back, f or i ns t ance , o f a man 11) is twisting a branch from a tree, or hauling a bucket fr gde a well, etc., etc.; and then criticising the drawings by caricaturing the errors in his own copy, and dra ss i be the inward parts within the outline to show io l, contradiction of truth made by the f a l se li nes . In gen'De teaching to draw is merely setting the pupil to draw by, 0 eye, and at the best pointing out the mist a k es ma de is like teaching music, by the ear, instead of by scieu,'o method. But Dr. Rimmer shows his pupil why the nlis' ef e is one, and supplies the specific knowled ge t o th e very ti d as well as mind, that will prevent a recurrence of it 013 ensure the right lines. Another exercise is to presen, ii , object of nature or art, and let it be studied very thoronP ri , and then to remove it and let each draw it f ro m mere te and still another is to give a mere glance at an object t i e r reproduced from memory. He also proposes that at a 00 1, tain stage of progress some should, on their way to solij observe some man or animal in a moment of action, , s e then attempt to reproduce it from memory. Ile showe' s e on the blackboards of one room, where these exercises .0,1 made, several }wises, boys, men, dogs, i n a ttit u d es that l e r , needs have been momentary ; and they were sv oo ful. In some rooms were young ladies with sitter „Di their portrait , to be taken in crayon or oils, and e ta liikenesses were excellent. In anothe r room ladies . ; i 0 paintng the most lovely groups of flowers, whose 11 tbe if prototypes were before them, arranged accor di n g to 0 0 own taste. I saw no poor work of this or any kind. ~o ec l young lady was finishing quite an elaborate picture, T OO . the trial of St. Stephen, which was her own eorn posti v i er il and, in the thronged sculpture room, there were 6 , e dieo' statues, which were original works of the young " 3 yoi Thus were going on at once crayon drawing, water-c?,_ o f painting, oil painting of historical and ideal subjecT portraits, flower painting, and sculpture, and it seem s me that the work was of singularly high order in all j:1! kinds. Dr. Rimmer is present from nine till one everfol in the week, and visitors are admitted only on F:, ef eo except by special permission of Dr. Rimmer. On du 00 days he takes into the lecture room different classeVe special points, and 3very day from twelve till one theii" school listens to a lecture. The 150 lectures o ' o ol course take up the general principles of art, ancl., t ott subject that it behoves an artist to be familiar w ith-0 011, costumes, manners and customs, forms of arcbltr, 1 ,11 and manufactures, ethnology, the mythology nations, and, in short, whatever cultivates w et imagination or defines the limitati ons o f ns'or It would take a half dozen different men together t° ply Dr Rimmer's place; and eve n if h e cou ld , b' by giv ;9 f , W o ' teaching, bestow on hi s coun t ry severa l more- lv r ,al). art, as great as his Gladiator and his Venus, it Wow 00 be doing so much, after all, for American art ae 09! school is doing, under his direction, and which n ° person excepting himself could direct. For to ogle method, which others might and doubtless v . t ico , , adopt, he adds a personal power of illust! i ft i v , ; that is only possible to original genius. "They Is ?, tic, draw an outline after," be said, "when my outline 1 4 0, full of a life that I can only give by exertions that coy ro e l with perspiration and make my heart beat. I cannot it ie face expressing anger that they will feel and eopY ' w , s elr o for the time being in imaginary experience angry in. 7 f i p e "j Luckily Dr. Rimmer is at the age when he is more than of an individual ; and personal ambition is syq f i e tl ll ,l up in the higher sentime n t whi c h i s b e tt er gran making living artists than any work of art which reproduce itself.—Boston Advertiser. An extraordinary scene was witnessed in A private of the sth' pra g oon Guards, named Ell"' 5e r; had been tried by court -;partial and was awaiting I'4 tence for having'absented himself without leave °l.,_ V:# to Barnsley,pretending that he was sent to make arrangements there, while being removed by a rt; away, and fled for a conside r abl e di s t ance f ro m t" - pti° racks. He was pursuedby th e so ldi ers , an d was fir and was at last caught and taken back. BIRTHS. On the 26th inst., at 33, Hill-street, Berkeley-squa re ' Eustace Wilson Patten, of a daughter. oVie of On the 27th inst.. at Ditchleys, Brentwood, tha ". Albert Deacon, of a son. MARRIAGES. . (0 03 0 3 On the 25th inst., at St. Peter's. Phie,u, s , o are, "„, 1 0" Burnett, Esq., to Fanny Atlol4-19,. daughter of Gilpin, Esq., o Cannock, Aa e j, On Ascension Day, at 4he Church of St. Mary of t- 6 0 1- 4 Bayswater, s f•• td,'Brien to Henrietta Caroline, Or daughter of k. J. Meyers, Esq., of Westhourne-par k Bayswater. DEATHS: bi fr On the 26th inst., a t Cl ap t on, Edward Boulger, a aged 53.. On the 26th i ns t., at Abbotsfo r d Nro irr , Highbury y Henry Turper, aged 71. f;:f 0 1 '1$1 London : Printed and P u bli s h ed b yWILLIANE AND SG. of No. 112, Strand, P r i nter, at THE SUN Office,,,Aot) Strand, in the Pre c i nc t of the Savoy,. in the Aliddlostqc.—Monday, Alay SD, 1870. :~,~~ No. INA 0 t , erv3 t " a ;," 1 rl-11is cel€ .rize pqa I Pure ‘ , 1(1 1 , ,_, Agorita ( Al ra RIJ: , h ANCE: a b,' or Lea MR 11 t oo a,ni "6 L I EGI atu r d a ',Pared y) far • n° b n ' s hin" at hfit b I'f 1 , 48 1e-se - H et ' nz, One, 1 ROYA. T be f.tr•itt eon BROT GYinut a item ] on 9 arming t 7 . 11:_ les t ( - 1 LE s p, ,utst s pa th-I)l7,lkiessr —e l , ouse Tv . ' ttI, ATE el RS ODNG, IG '-ell eStra ,ttairrnan Phil Ec, barn This°ll,:l. 11 ADA Bake Siral •‘2 e ( 4l) itatio lu n ~ Perso to cop y ( °)118 , 6d. Gyi T he nr th extra( th e a Shad Pat electri c 1 4 it, e 114 le Select tflo ß 6 t h ad t 1 zel e b r artens Ch er c iNDR . 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