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Designed to be used to the accom paniment of music, fit alike for the drawing-mom and the !midi , : hall ; with "Dumb-Bell Instructor," and the " Pangymnast.kon" —a 'valuable work on Physicalltiducation. With Three Hundred illustrations, price 3s. 6d., : cloth boards. Cost free for stamps. LIFEBOAT SERVIC S.—Durintt the storms of the past 17 months the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITU- T lON contributed to the saving of 1,592 lives from various ship wrecks and 43 vessels from destruction. It has now 220 Lifeboat Stations under its management. CONTRIBUTIONS for their support will ,be thankfully received by Messrs. Willis and Co , Coutts and Co., Herriesby all the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, RICHARD Linvis, Esq., at the Insti tution, 14, John-street, A delphi, London London—NV. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand. GEOLOGY MADE EASY. A Sheet shewing the various strata upon which London is built, commonly known as the London Basin. Shewing also the localities where the various strata come to the surface. The Diagram represents the various Epochs, Systems, and Characters of Rocks, from the Plutonic, through the whole Series, to the latest Alluvium, coloured so as to represent real specimens, with the organic remains to be found in each, and the localities in Great Britain where they severally occupy the surface. Being the most concise . aud instructive publication on the science that has ever been before the public. By Smith Evans, Esq., F.U.S. Price la. Lond.,n -W. TwEED:E. 27. St,r,ifl CAUTION.-P OPIJ LAR ERROR.-PRIC BENZODYNE, the newly-discovered Cure for Cough, tiron chitis, Consumption, and all wasting diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, &c., has nothing whatever to do with petroleum spirit, falsely called Benzoline, &c. This unique remedy may be obtained of all Chemists; and through the Proprietor, Mr. PRICE, Analytical Chemist, 2, Lower Seymour-street, London, W. Prices—is. lid., 2s. Pd., and 4s. ed per bottle. London- W. TNVEEDIE. 337. Strand. In royal Svo., handsomely bound in cloth, full gilt, gilt edges price 205., post free 21s. THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY of BRITISH MOTHS. By Edward Newman. F.L.S., I.Z.S. Giving a full description of the perfect insect from nature - i also a description of the Caterpillar, Chrysalis. Food Plant, Time of Appearance, and Localities where found. Each moth is drawn from nature by George Willis, and engraved in his beat style by John Kerchner. The figures are life-size of every species and if varieties require it, three, four; five, and even six figures are given The work Is complete in thirty-one monthly numbers ; at Gd. each. The work is also issuca in quarterly Parts, in covers, at Is. 6d, each part. l'art X. now ready, price 2s, Back numbers reprinted, and may be had. "We congratulate British entomologists on the completion and publication of this magnificent work."—Field. " Both to the beginner and the proficient in that study this work will be i nvaluable." —Deily Telegraph. " It is illustrated with life-size figures from nature of each species, and of the more striking varieties, and it possesses great advantages over all similar works, inasmuch as the caterpillar of each moth, with his habits and season, is described. This, to collectors, will be an immense boon, and by its means they will be enabled to obtain many rare specimens."—Standard. "The completion of Mr. Newman' work on the British Moths is a benefit to entomologists of all classes. It is at once a text-book by a high authority, most valuable for reference, and a handsome, taste folly got-up volume, which will be an ornament to any library or drawing-room table. It embodies the results of many years' earnest and intelligent work by one whose reputation as an ento mologist deservedly stands high. . , . . We notice also with satisfaction that Mr. Newman's descriptions, whilst thoroughly scientific and minute, are given in plain and unaffected English. with the help of these and the rely excellent woodcuts, even a very young collector may with ease identify any moth he may cap ture. The figures are so well drawn that there is no need of colour tb render them life-like. . . We unhesitatingly commend this volume to our readers. We regard it as a, very useful addition to our library." Land and Waler, Oct. 9. London—W. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand. W.C. Just published, price is 6d., by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addends, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising D EVE LATIONS OF QUACKS A_ 1) AL 'QUACKERY By D LTE(ITOR. Reprinted Urn, ihe "jiledical Circular." London: 11. Balliore, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday. Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. The Bishop of Peterborough has been presented with a pastoral staff by some of the laity of his diocese. Mr. J. C. M. Bellew is seriously unwell, and has been compelled to suspend - all his readings for the present. Poor Charles Dickens's name was posted up at the Union Club in the list of candidates to be balloted for on the 22nd inst. Mr. Tom Taylor is said to be engaged on a new play for Mrs. Rousby, in which the actress is to perso nate Joan of Arc. The report which has been circulated that the Earl of Perth had abandoned all claim to the Perth estates is without foundation. A second munificent donation of £l,OOO has been given by the Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair to the building fund of Kensington new parish church. It is stated on the best possible authority that Mr. Vernon Rigby has been engaged as principal tenor at the forthcoming Hereford and Birmingham Musical Festival. - - There is a rumour that Thomas Carlyle is going to America as soon as he has completed the revised edition of his works upon which he has been engaged for the last two years. Fifty Christ's Hospital boys are taught practical chemistry in the laboratory of St. Bartholomew's Hos pital. Periodical examinations are held, and indicate satisfactory general progress, and, in a few boys, extraor dinary proficiency in the subject. An ode fOr the installation of the Marquis of Salis bury as Chancellor of Oxford University, composed by the Rev. Sir F. G. Ouseley, is to be performed in the Shel donian Theatre, on the 22d instant, the commemoration day. 4 . • BATHING SEASON. QT. LAWRENCE-ON-SEA, ISLE OF THANET. - • Mr. W. CLEMSON begs to inform the nobility and gentry that he is now prepared to enter into arrangements for the forth coming season for the Private Houses attached to and served from (if required) the GRANVILLE HOTEL. Rents for the season, from £250 to £4OO. The above houses are being Fur nished from the most recent designs of E. Welbyyugin, Esq. N.B.—Ramsgate is the nearest station on both lines, THE OXFORD PROFESSOR'S "STINGLESS INSULTS." 41. r. Alfred B. Beaven sends the following letter to the edlitOr of the Timesi— Sir,—Allow me to call attention to the following pas sages, taken from a letter which was addiessed to the lieveltester Examiner in the mouth of March, 1868, and which bears • the signature " Goldwin Smith." "1. His triumph is a triumph over public morality, and over the self-respect of the nation." 2. He attained his present position by an in tri le, dexterous, if merely falsehood can merit the name of„t exterity, but as vile as any that sullies the annals of political faction." '3. Disraeli has risen by personal invective, by con spiracy, by using the arsenic which kills noble repu tations." " 4. He has made his way by serving the prejudices of aristocracy, and not only its prejudices, but its lowest passions in a way in which the very menials who stood at its portals would have scorned to do." " Neither his own principles nor the sight of a suffering and starving people could deter him from accepting the wages of political assassination." With the evidence of his own Billingsgate pen before him, I am astonished that even this foul-mouthed libeller cal-kave the audacity to complain of the manner in which hirleast odious characteristics have been sketched in the brilliant pages of " Lothair." 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EDMUND WYLD, Secretary. UT EST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith, W.—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on their useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS The University Tests Bill, the Stamp Duty on Leases Bill, and the Gun Licenses Bill will all be taken in com mittee to-day, and the Game Laws Amendment Bill and the Sligo and Cashel Disfranchisement Bill will to-day be brought forward for second reading. To-morrow Mr. Buxton will introduce his motion in favour of the appointment of a Royal, Commission to revise the Scriptures, instead of the work being left to a committee of Convocation. Colonel French will also move for a select committee to inquire into the increase of Taxation in Ireland during the last thirty-three years, and Mr. Gilpin intends to call attention to the unusually late hour to which sittings of the present Parliament are prolonged at night. Me will also point out the necessity of a check being put upon such proceedings. On the same day the Party Processions (Ireland) Bill, and the Clerical Disabilities Bill will be taken in committee. On the motion for going into com mittee on the latter, Mr. Beresford Hope will move that it be referred to a select committee. The Elementary Education Bill will be discussed in committee on Thurs day, and important amendments (one of which seeks to provide for the compulsory attendance of all children of school age at schools) will be moved by Mr. Vernon Har court,Mr. Cowper Temple,Mr. Henry Richard, and others. The Factories and Workshops Bill is fixed for the second reading, and the Mines Regula tion and Inspection Bill for consideration in committee on Friday. Lord George Hamilton will on the same evening ask the Under Secretary of State for India to place on the table any correspondence relating to the capture of the Myengon Prince, a rebel and refugee, son of the King of Burmah, at Rangoon,: in August, 1868. Mr. Torrens will also introduce the subject of the want of employment for the poor of the country, and will ask the House to give special consideration to it. THE REVIEWERS OF "LOTHAIR." The London correspondent of the Glasgow herald says the slashing criticism of Mr. Disraeli's book contained in this month's Blackwood has been written by Mr. Law rence Oliphant, author of the recent " Piccadilly Sketches," and a well-known contributor to the Tory magazine. Mr. Oliphant, who became known to fame by the record of his travels in connection with Lord Elgin's mission to China, entered Parliament as the representative of the Stirling Burghs, having been elected at the general election which took place immediately preceding Lord Palmerston's death. A sudden whim, partly occasioned perhaps by ill-health, caused him shortly after entering Parliament to resign his seat, and he departed for America, where he was next - heard of as one of the founders of a new sect, whose peculiar principles seem to have been a combination of religion and farming. Here he was for some time, entirely lost to high-class society, of which he had once been an influential member, and what little was heard of him merely revealed the fact that he was leading a life of traneemos....t. 3 . - dine - Romance." tie v%ras --- In o .e forgotten in England, wlien, at the commencement of the present year, his " Piccadilly Sketches " appeared and brought him more prominently before the public. They were very bitter and slashing in their tone, and, as they satirised the more glaring of our social evils, in the cynical vein of a man who, having probed their depths, and found them vanity, had retired into the wilderness, where he could rail at them with authority, the book became the town's talk, and was ex tremely popular at the fashionable libraries. One of the strangest features in connection with this publica tion, however, remains to be recorded. Having written, as it were, from -the heart of his solitude, in the most caustic and condemnatory terms, of modern fashionable society, Mr. Oliphant left America and came over to London to hear what that society which he had so strongly ridiculed had to say about his book. He has been haunting the clubs for some time since, and " Lothair" having been opportunely given to the world whilst he was idling, he had the opportunity of feeding fat his grudge, ancient and otherwise, upon Mr. Disraeli, and writing a review, which, at all events, has created a sensation. The Standard says :—" Some of our readers may recol lect that from the time the Peelite section purchased the Morning Chronicle apparently for the purpose of writing Mr. Disraeli down, there were published in that paper year after year invectives against that gentleman which far overstepped all the limits _ of political discussion. No one knew at the time who wrote them ; they were ascribed to various individuals • but at last it came out that the slashing writer was Goldwin Smith, then a man comparatively unknown outside the walls of Balliol. Surely the Oxford professor must have forgotten, in his irritation at the " venomless story " of " Lothair," for how many years he libelled Mr. Disraeli with impunity and anonymously. The Court Journal prints the following :—lt is said that the onslaught on "Lothair," in Blackuood, is by Colonel Hamley ; thearticle in Macmillan, whichmay be described asßlackwood and water, is by Mr. Hayward, the editor of the Quarterly Review; and the one in the Fortnighly, Mr. Kerrison's. In the forthcoming Edinburgh there is to be an article on "Lothair" by Lord Houghton. THE ARMY AND NAVY. The Broad Arrow says : His Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.8., Commander-in- Chief in India, has been suffering at Peshawur from a slight attack of fever, which has detained his lordship on the frontier longer than was intended.—The Military Secretary will not hold a levee at the Horse Guards on Tuesday, the 14th inst.—The United Service Gazette Sys :—The First Lord of the Admiralty returned to Whitehall on Thursday. Mr. Baxter. M.P., the Finan cial Secretary to the Admiralty, is still absent from his official duties, and the date of his return is uncertain. — The Army and Navy Gazette says :—The post of a Naval Aide-de -Camp to the Queen has been placed at the dis posal of Mr. Childers by Captain Richards' advancement to flag rank. —Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock is now the senior officer for promotion to the Active List of Rear-Admirals. —Prince Arthur may be expected to arrive home from Canada with the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade in H.M.S. Crocodile about the second week in July.— Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Symonds, K.C.8., will, it is reported, resign the command of the Channel Squadron in about a fortnight. The name of his successor is not positively known, but that of Vice-Admiral E. G. Fanshawe has again been freely mentioned.—., Orders have been issued for the withdrawal of all the officers and subordinates of the army departments from Australasia. One officer will be left temporarily in each colony—viz., Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, and New Zealand, to settle all claims against the Government, and to make arrangements for the future payment of pensioners.—By the death of Major - General C. E. Wilkinson, Royal Engineers, Colonel G. Wynne becomes a major-general;_ Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel A. H. Freeling, a colonel; and Captain and Brevet-Major E. M. Grain a lieu tenant-colonel in the corps of Royal Engineers. — Major-General W. Munro, C. 8., who has been selected to succeed in the command of the troops in the West Indies, will leave England in the course of a few days for Jamaica to assume his command. There is every probability that Sir Hope Grant will be appointed to the command of the Aldershot Division on the retirement of Sir James Scarlett. Colonel W. A. Middleton, 0,13., Assistant Adjutant-General, will succeed Major-General Gloucester Gambier, C.B-, as Deputy Adjutant-General of Royal Artillery at the Horse Guards. Viscount Teippletown, G.C.8., will succeed Sir G. Buller, G.C.B. ' - as Lieu tenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Command ing-in-Chief of the Southern District. MR. JOHN BRIGHT, M.P.—lt is said that a great improvement is observed in Mr. Bright's appearance. He receives few or no visitors at Llandudno, as he wishes to avoid all exciting topics of conversation, and to enjoy as much repose as possible. THE INTERVIEW AT EMS.—It will be long before the elucidation of the Ems mystery takes place. A private despatch from Flensburg to a French paper de clares that the interview bore no relation to the affairs of Gallicia, but that the two sovereigns would have b^en more likely to discuss the question of North .Schlesu On the other hand, it is affirmed that the Emperor :In% King did not dwell on any particular subject, but merely touched upon all matters of public importance in a general JUNE 13, 1870. THE WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH. The New York ,Herald of May 31st publishes letters from the West Indies announcing that Sir Charles Bright and officers had arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, to make preparatory arrangements for the laying of the cables which are to unite the West India islands and the -South American Continent. with the United States and Europe. British operators and signal men were expected at Kingston, where a large portion of the cable had arrived on the 10th of May. Great preparations are being made by the press for the supply of telegrams. One proprietor proposes that in order to have telegraphic intelligence his subscribers must add five dollars to their subscriptions. The British steamer Suffold, which was expected with a por tion of the cable on board, was to remain on that station to visit the cables when neces sary. Her head-quarters will be at Kingston. Sir Charles subsequently left Kingston for St. Thomas, where he was awaiting the arrival of the Dacio, respecting whose fate such sinister rumours have been set afloat. It is anticipated that the telegraph line will be in working order by August. Other means of communication are being pushed forward in the West Indies. The Kingston correspondent says :—" It is cur rently reported that the :Pacific Mail Steam hip Com pany are willing to call at this port going to and returning from Aspinwall, if the. Government will pay a subsidy of £6,000 towards the expense. It is doubt ful if the proposition be accepted. It is stated that the Foreign Office in London will take the £2,000 subsidy from the Spanish company carrying the British mails between St. Thomas, Santiago de Cuba, ' and Habana and give it to the Royal Mail Company, if they will put on a steamer from Jamaica to Santiago de Cuba and Habana, and thence to New York in time to connect with the British mail packet going to Europe, and to this Al be added the subsidy contemplated by his Excellency Sir John Peter-Grant, governor of this island, for the encouragement' of the fruit trade and reduction in price of provisions. THE WEEKLY PRESS. MR. GOLDWIN SMITH AND MR. DISRAELI. Hoity-toity r What a row ! exclaims the Saturday Review. Mr. Disraeli has, so Mr. Goldwin Smith says, called Mr. Goldwin Smith " a social parasite," and Mr. Goldwin Smith by way of retort; calls Mr. Disraeli " a stingless coward." And we are informed that on some previous occasion Mr. Goldwin Smith saluted Mr. Dis raeli as " a statesman of easy virtue," whereupon Mr. Disraeli retorted by characterising his opponent as " that wild man." All this is very amusing—for people will be amused by gross personalities—to the world of bystanders, but by no means so amusing to the friends of these masters in polite literature, and in the art of unpolite vitupera tion. The friends both of Mr. Smith and Mr. Disraeli will mutter the old line— "Who would not weep if Atticus were he ?" There is not much to be sure of Atticus in either the ex- Cabinet Minister or in the ex-Oxford Professor, but there is much for those who value the reputation of public men to be ashamed of. Passing by their previous encounters — in which, as it seems, Mr. Goldwin Smith began the bad habit of calling names—there is this- to be said of the past, that both the Premier and the Professor put their names to their strong talk: On the present occasion the Right Honourable novelist fired the first shot, by stigmatising his old foe under the thin transparent veil of a scarcely disguised fiction. Up to last Tuesday everybody felt that Mr. Goldwin Smith had been treated in a very unbecoming way, but they knew also that it was not for Mr. G. Smith to vindi cate himself. Let others do it, as others had indeed done it amply. Mr. G. Smith ought by this' time to know that there is nothing so ridiculous as to fit on a fool's cap which a spiteful foe presents to you. Mr. Goldwin Smith made exactly that false move which Mr. Disraeli wanted him •to make. Mr. Disraeli was in the wrong—Mr. Goldwin Smith would not leave him there, and has put himself in a worse wrong. He says that Mr. Disraeli's affront is " sting less,' and then he shews that he has been stung to the : wi rweirtirttrgreat pain anti agony. 'huts more melancholy than all, he talks about " a coward," and about Mr. Disraeli " answering for his words." Mr. Goldwin Smith has not, we are sure, acclimatised himself to revolvers and the bowie-knife, and therefore we had ;rather think that he is talking nonsense than threatening ` pistols. Meanwhile, when in a very poor busin ess like this one party forgets what is due to good taste and the other what is due to good sense, the cynical world is apt to laugh with the one and at the other. In this case we may regret, but cannot wonder, which way the laugh goes. KING MAKING IN SPAIN. It would be difficult, says the Spectator, to imagine a political scene more bizarre, more nearly approaching the grotesque, than that which is now transactine , itself in Madrid. The representatives of the people of Spain are there trying to bind themsetues by law to evolve a king from the depths of their moral consciousness. The throne of Spain, once so great, has been rejected by prince after prince—by the experienced old politician Ferdinand of Coburg, by the boy Duke of Aosta, by the venerable old soldier General Espartero, and, it is believed, by the old bi..t not venerable - Regent'Serrano. Should ordinary ex perience prove any guide in Spain—and we frankly con fess it seldom or never does—it would follow that all candidates now before the public will be rejected, and that the election will fall either to somebody hitherto overlooked, or to some man bringing recommendations which overpower dislikes. Three solutions are possible : the King of Portugal, Marshal Prim, or the unknown prince; but of all, the most probable is the election of the dynasty of Braganza by a two-thirds' vote to the sove reignty of Iberia. It is not, in our judgment, the best solution ; but it is the one which may best pave the way towards the ultimate end, the reconstitution of the Penin sula in the form which its traditions, its manners, and its geography alike seem to suggest. THE CHURCH'S ALTERNATIVE. The John Bull thinks the National Society has a for midable alternative to face at its annual meeting on Wednesday. In Ireland the Church was disestablished and disendowed without quarter asked or offered. In England it would seem to be the policy to invite her to purchase temporary toleration by the surrender of the prin ciple for which alone the Church really exists. A Church without a faith is a monster which has no right to live. As Churchmen, we have ever found the annual meeting of the national society rise alike above party feeling and diplomatic leading to stand simply and firmly on the principles of their charter and their Church. May it be so again ! One thing is clear. If the charter is to be vio lated, it had better be surrendered; let the society dis solve itself and cumber the ground no more. It may live and do good service to God and man without Parlia mentary grants, but it cannot live to any good purpose, it can never be other than a name of hissing and con tempt, if after fifty years devotion to " promoting the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church," it shall now accept a bribe to vote that no child shall be required to receive any religious in struction in school or elsewhere. If we must fall, let us fall with our principles untarnished, our arms in our hands, and our 'banner over our heads. Happily, men of this spirit are a long time in falling. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. The Economist observes that now, little as success in a competitive examination may shew, it does shew, we submit, more of probable efficiency for work than any social influence exercised in a candidate's favour. This is not saying much for it, but it is saying quite enough. If you get a mode of selection which in the long run will secure a greater number of good servants from whom to choose than you would have got by leaving the nomina tions to the pressure of social influences, there is nothing further to be urged for the nomination system. Moreover, the new order in Council does not leave the matter wholly even to this test. It imposes a six months' trial in the duties of the office, after which the chief of the department is to certify, if he can, the candidate's practical efficiency before it confers the office at all. We trust this probation will at least to some extent be real, and not too nominal. The six months' probation is an exceedingly good qualifi cation of the purely intellectual test, and with it we need not fear but that the new civil servants will soon become a far more workmanlike set than we have ever yet had in the same offices. It is not a small matter that the Govern ment have achieved in establishing the Civil Service on a thoroughly popular basis, and yet on one which will secure the members of it consideration at the hands of the nation, respect from their own superiors, and a high average of practical as well as intellectual ability. The Civil Service Gazette understands . that Mr Pulley, the author of " Illusions," the new comedy now being played at the Charing-cross Theatre, and also the joint author of one of the T. P. Cooke prize dramas, is a member of her Majesty's Civil Service. Nature regrets to learn that Baron Liebeg conti nues dangerously ill. He has recently submitted to two operations for a very painful abscess in the shoulder, and continues very weak, but perfectly clear and cheerful. although believing that death is near. REVOLTING CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—At Wol verhampton, on Friday, a sweep, named John Smith, and his wife were committed for trial, upon the coroner's warrant, charged with the manslaughter of a child named Sarah King, aged three years and nine months, the daughter of the female prisoner. The evidence of the neighbours proved that the prisoners had beaten and starved the child, and one witness stated that when the child was dying the female prisoner was seen " shaking it to keep it alive." The body of the child was found to be shockingly emaciated, weighing only 181bs. During the inquest the people living near the prisoners became greatly excited against them and endeavoured to lynch them. The windows of their , house were all smashed, and ' but for the arrival of the police, the building would have been pulled down. PRICE 1 d STAMPED 2d. TO W N TALL (From the Western Mail of Saturday.) LONDON, Friday Evening. A pair of white gloves was never more completely out of the reach of one of our Judges than it was out of the reach of Chief Justice Bovill this session at the Criminal Court. The catalogue of the accused was something appalling. The Recorder must have shuddered on unfolding it—feel ing himself, as he did so, as though there had devolved upon him the duties far rather of a recording demon than of a recording Angel. Instead of white gloves for the Judges, a larger nosegay than ever for the comforting of the nostrils of each—a more plentiful supply of sweet herbs to strew before the accused—as a preservative against the gaol fever ! " There's rue for you," he might have said to any of those arraigned at the bar, "and there's some for me; you may wear your rue with a difference !" Or—after he had gone through his abhorrent list, echoing rather the Wotde of Lear than of Ophelia— . . . . there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit ; burning, scalding, stench, Consumption. Fie, fie, lie! r6h 1 pah Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, To sweeten my ima illation. It is the most appalling catalogue of crime that has ever, perhaps, come together under consideration at the Old Bailey—murder red-thanded, murder most foul, base, and unnatural, forgery, perjury, and abominations too horrible and revolting in their character to particularize anywhere but in open oourt in the formal arraignment of the accused. Wonderful to tell, however, the list was within a hair's-breath, as one may say, of having added to it another atrocity of portentous magnitude—meaning the wholesale butchery of the poor, honest blacksmith's family at Denham, near Uxbridge ; that ghastly massacre having-been perpetrated only just outside the limits that would have brought it within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court of Middlesex. The Uxbridge tragedy, as it is called, seems to me in its surroundings as though the characters, and incidents, and localities, described in " Great Expectatitms " had somehow got horribly jumbled up together—as though Igagwitch and Orlick were one and the same person, by whose homicidal hand Joe Gar gery had been struck down at his forge, and, together with Joe Gargery, a whole family of little ones like Pip, with their aunt, the mother, and the grandmother. As it is, the sessional labours just commencing at the Central Criminal Court present to view a double murder, so ter rible of its kind as to resemble nothing less ghastly than one of the most morbid imaginings of the diseased fancy of Edgar Allan Poe, meaning the story, entitled, " Thou art the man !" in which the lid of the box is burst open by the doubled-up corpse of the victim, just as the lid of that dreadful green box in the kitchen of poor old 4r. Heulin's house was raised by the murdered remains of his unfortu nate housekeeper: Londoners, during this next week or two, will have certainly the wherewithal now only to sup on horrors, but to breakfast and dine upon them as well, if they are so ghoul-minded in' i the devouring of their news- Papers. Immediately before the re-assembling of the two Houses at the close of the Whitsuntide holidays, attention is dis tracted from the onslaught made by Blackwood on the ex-Premier, through that cut-and-thrust critique upon " Lothair "—which is attributed by some to Mr. Paget, and by others to Colonel Hamley—by the deliciously ridiculous, and yet outrageously insolent, missive addressed to the member for Bucks by Mr. Smith, of England and America—Mr. Goldwin Smith, that is to say, formerly of Oxford, and now of Ithaca, in the United States. The laugh against him all through town now is, that he has himself fitted the cap on his own head, or, rather, it should be said at once and henceforth, the cap and bells. Never, it may be safely averred, has a clever man (in his way) made a more ludicrous, or, at the same time, a more brutal blunder. The " wild man" of Mr. Disraeli certainly makes a charming pendant to the " noble savage" of Mr. Osborne. Under the companion pictures, the trite Horatian motto, Par nobile fratrum, might for once be inscribed appropriately. nalbe La Lv eVti .h. 0.441 ;,E pa both bankrupt, Lord Arthur Clinton is now " wanted" in one or two directions, under a warrant from Bow-street, on the charge of bilking a cabman of twenty shillings ; under a warrant from the Central Criminal Court for certain (to speak of them in the mildest possible terms) disreputable associations. Men of letters and politicians are alike eagerly on the watch just at this later ttirning-point in the parliamentary session for the publication at last of their long-promised biography of Lord Palmerston, by his friend and colleague in the subtle art (or science, shall I call it ?) of diplomacy, Sir Henry Buiwer. If the work should not be issued from the press until of ter the double close of the session and of the season, it will, most assuredly, be a matter of very general regret and disappointment. As a reminder that the period of the year when London will be flitting hither and thither on the holiday excursions of those who have either summer or autumnal leisure, a luxury hardly known to the unhappy journalist, there come into my hands two very different, but two very charming works ; one a thin octavo, by Edward Spender, the other a couple of portly volumes, by Walter Thornbury ; the former entitled " Fjord, Isle and Tor," being descriptive of the Land's End, the Channel Islands, and Norway ; the latter, that is Walter Thornbury's book, re-christened now " A. Journey Round England," being, in point of fact, the long since tolerably well-known "As the Crow Flies " series of papers appearing from week to week in the double columned pages of All the Year Round. Why the title should ever have been altered I cannot conjecture. There are two illustrated publications, strictly new and intensely true, upon the very verge of their appearance— " London," pencilled by Gustave Dor6, and penned by Blanchard Jerrold—England in the Nineteenth Century, edited, conducted, or however else you may please to term it, by G. A. S.— light and daylight, otherwise by George Augustus Sala. Do any of your readers down at Cardiff and its surroundings, who happened some twenty years ago—namely, in the month of May, 1851—to be in Lon don, with all the rest of the world from the ends of the earth, to witness the then novel wonders of the first great International Exhibition, Prince Albert's, Sir Joseph Paxton's, England's, Europe's, the two hemispheres'—do any of you readers, I wonder, chance to bear in their recollection, as vividly as I do myself, a certain wonderful, Whimsical, fantastic, multitudinous caricature, or rather wandering wilderness of caricatures, pencilled with a most facile hand on the walls bordering the grand staircase, winding its way up the centre of the late Countess of Blessington's some time residence of Gore House at Ken sington, then, in 1851, a sort of mammoth restaurant, the chef of which was the sublime Alexis Soyer ? If they do recall to mind that - drawing in bizarre outlines of all the celebrities or notorieties of the day and of the night, they will bear in their recollection the first displayof that since pro lific genius for droll conceits, George Augustus Sala, artist, man of letters, contributor to the periodicals, newspaper correspondent, polyglot-sensational-last-leader- writer in the Daily Telegraph, who is now going to tell the later half of the nineteenth century ail about itself, in so far as relates to this our England. A goodly staff is understood to have already gathered about Mr. Sala, who himself has shown that he can wield the pen of a ready writer allur ingly enough ever since he openedupon the world through his'very first article in Household Words—opened upon it how, or with what ? With " The Key of the Street," — the capital title of that brilliant first article of Sala's, which may be turned to by those who list, and which is worth turning to, I promise you, in No. 76, at p. 565 of the third volume of our dear lamented Charles Dickens's Household Words. " The Key of the Street," in point of fact, is in some sort the seed-germ of Sala's larger, but kindred, work, called " Twice Round the Clock." It showed, at any rate, by going once round the clock through the darker hours, if not what was the time of day, at any rate what was the time of night among the sleep ing, boosing, thieving, reeling, roystering, miserable, I watched or watching world of Londoners. Sala's obser vant glance now will turn from London to England from the twelve or the twenty-four hours to the century. Have you realised the result of the decision arrived at the other day by the Queen in Council at Balmoral ? According to the significance of the announcement of it, as since then officially published in the Gazette, there is an end thenceforth for ever to what has been known, and sought, and bestowed hitherto under the name, style, and title of ministerial patronage. Everything—that is all the good things—big and little, in the civil service (barring the judgeships) can be obtained by the mob of aspirant, only and solely through the ordeal of open competitions Snug berths, cushions plumped out with bank notes. small allotments on Tom Tiddler's ground, sacred to that pleasant pastime described by Mr. Alfred Mantalini "picking up the demnition gold and silver"—all these luscious tidbits, the ortolans of official life—the truffles of political existence, are, by this one sweep of the pen, by one sign manual f the sovereign, dissipated into thin air, and are henceforth as the mere golden day-dreams of the place-hunter's excited and ecstatic imagination, nt in asing lead al at Lcter. veek, mself )e on trip letec- ersey 'hart, Ler to was )Si- r is eas od, !ed ess