The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-18 00:00:00

THE NAVAL REVIEW. divided itself, and the First Lord and Admiral Milne and Mr. Romaine and others hastened to do their duty to the Padishab, and Admiral Seymour, Mr. Ducane, and another section of naval authorities waited to receive the Viceroy. After several base less " alertes" the engine and carriage made their appearance in the Dockyard, and halted by a little platform, covered with red cloth, at which his High ness and suite, attended by Major-General Sey mour and officers attached to his suite, descended. The Mayor and Corporation immediately advanced to his Highness and began their address. The guard of honour of the 08th Regiment saluted, the band played an air which was intended to be in honour of the Viceroy, the small crowd of bystanders be longing to the various vessels at the jetties closed round the Corporation, and one of those watery scuds which came flitting over the crest of the Isle of Wight, as vedettes from the great army of rain and storm which no doubt was moving solemnly up the Channel, rushed with dreeping wings over the scene, and shortened the ceremony. No doubt the Viceroy's reply was very gracious, but the Victory, the Duke of Wellington, and the St. Vincent were calling attention to the fact that the Sultan had arrived and was on board the Osborne, and the Turkish ensign, enveloped in friendly smoke, was seen floating only too stiff and flat in the breeze on board the Victory. The time-worn adage that " man proposes and Providence disposes" received another exemplifica tion in what may almost be called the " intended" naval review in honour of the Sultan yesterday. There was a fleet of men-of-war such as has never hitherto been brought together ; there were fleets of yachts, fleets of pleasure boats, Royal and illus trious visitors in numbers. Nothing was wanted to insure success but fair winds and clear skies. Had the south-western coast been favoured with these all would have been well, and the Sultan would have seen a naval review on a scale of such magni tude as has never been attempted in England before. Fine weather only was essential to success, and it was exactly this essential that was wanting. To say that the weather was bad would hardly do jus tice to its inclemency. Bad weather in July is generally looked for at Spithead, and comes pretty nearly as regularly as the month itself. The time chosen on this occasion was above all full of evil portents, for it was the time of the spring tides and at the change of the moon. Nevertheless, even those best versed in the uncertainties of an English cli mate were not prepared for the storms of wind which swept over Spithead yesterday, and effectu ally put a stop to all the evolutions which compose a naval review. The morning, indeed, broke fine and clear, but with a wind violently high, and the sky and the horizon marked with that ominous grey, watery tint which always forebodes a summer gale, and sometimes a severe one. Everybody hoped against hope that it would at last clear up, but the mist only thickened as the wind freshened, with angry squalls of cold, biting rain. The sea came rolling in heavily on the beach at Southsea, where it broke in clouds of spray, and the ships in the heavy swell outside were dipping to their anchors in a way which showed it was impos sible for small boats to get off from or to come alongside the huge craft in the distance. From the moment these ominous appearances showed them selves all naval officers predicted that the review would be impossible; and, unfortunately, they were true prophets. Some minor evolutions of the gunboats were gone through, and the fleet itself manned yards and saluted as the Sultan passed, and saluted again as her Majesty came by, but this was nearly all. The fleet never raised their anchors, and the immense crowds of visitors who had flocked in from almost all parts of the kingdom to see the great naval review had not only the disappointment of seeing no review at all, but of passing an uncom fortable day on rough water in half a gale of wind. As we have said this was the more to be regret ted, for yesterday it was for the first time intended to have a real naval review and to put the fleet through complicated manoeuvres under steam and sail. The fleet, too, was one worthy of the occa sion. Though less numerous and less imposing in appearance than the fleets of three-deckers and fri gates which formed the naval displays of past years, it was in strength and armament probably the strongest fleet that has ever been brought together since ironclads were first designed. It is literally not saying too much that one of the long, low black hulls which formed part of the starboard line yes terday would have been a heavy overmatch for all the huge wooden line-of-battle ships, whose tiers of guns seemed almost to look down upon the decks of their invulnerable consorts beside them. The whole fleet was moored in two magnificent lines, the flag-ship of the port division being that most superb of all English three-deckers the Vic toria, and that of thestarboard the huge five-masted Minotaur, one of the great leviathans of our iron fleet. At equal distances from these came the rest of the fleet. The total strength of the whole fleet of vessels of war (exclusive of armed troop ships, &c.), 49, mounting 1,092 . guns, and having an aggregate horse-power of 22,500 horses and a burden of 102,000 tons. This in numbers exceeded the fleet that left for the Baltic under Sir Charles Napier in 1854. Both these fleets, however, were nothing in numbers to the tremendous armada which the Queen with the Prince Consort reviewed at Spit head in 1850. Then there were no less than 300 craft afloat of various kinds and sizes, including 20 screw line of battle ships and 90 first-class frigates. Then for the first time the rough uncouth precur sors of the ironclads were seen in the ironcased mortar batteries—the Glatton, Trusty, and the like —which had been specially built for service which they never saw against the Russian batteries. Great and imposing as this display was, however, it really fell short as an exhibition of naval power of the fleet of yesterday. Four or five vessels, dwarfed by the lofty three-deckers around them, were in themselves sufficient to sweep the ocean of nearly all the wooden ships that ever floated. The least noticed of these, but, perhaps, the most for midable—where all were formidable—was the Royal Sovereign turret-ship, which scarcely pre sented a mark the size of a target above the water. She lay full in front of our most beautiful screw liner, the Revenge, and, of course, the contrast only heightened the beauty of the latter. So also with the Minotaur, which faced the Victoria, where the advantage in stately majesty of appearance and seeming strength was all on the side of the wooden vessel. Yet, in fact, it was only in appearance, for the two iron ships we have mentioned could have cleared the roadstead of all the wooden fleet from Spithearl to Cowes. Yet the wooden vessels had it not all their own way on the side of beauty, for the Bellerophon, the Warrior, and Black Prince were there, and so, too, was the Achilles, all sitting on the water as lightly as so many mail boats, and with bows as fine as so many Cunarders. The little fleet of gunboats formed a separate squadron, moored higher up the roadstead, and therefore in the smoother water which they so much needed in such a swell. It was expected that the review would begin very early, and no man-of-war boats were to leave with visitors to the fleet later than 9.30 in the morning. Long before that time, however, it was almost im possible, as the wind freshened, for any boat to leave at all, and still more difficult to find people willing to face what was not only the discomfort, but even the positive risk, of going off in them. Even the steam launches, which we have copied from the French, but which in out service are made too heavy and far less handy than they should be, came in half full of water, and, once in, had to remain, for there was no going out again in the face of such a wind and sea. The spectators who were so fortu nate as to have eards for vessels in the Dockyard got off easily enough ; those who were dependent on the ship's boats were for the time disappointed, but had ample reason to congratulate themselves on their escape before the day was over. Soon after 10 o'clock the wind freshened considerably, e grey drift of cloud s on the horizon mounted the grey drift o cloud, on the horizon mounted up with alarming rapidity, and the first of the long succession of squa ll s which continued with little intermission throughout the day broke over the harbour. The wind was so strong that at times there was almost no facing it, while clouds of blind ing rain came down almost with the force of small shot. Signals passed between the flagship and the rest of the fleet, which were generally interpreted as conveying the order that the ships were not to weigh or even man the yards. Dressing the ship was, of course, out of the question. No halyards would have held a mass of wet bunting in such a wind. So complete was the belief that there would he nothing worth seeing, that the dense crowds which had covered Southsea beach, and indeed all parts of the shore, began to disperse. The plea sure boat:3 and yachts came hurrying in, and the roadsteads, devoid of any sign of animation beyond the fleet itself, was left to the wind and the rain and the dirty-looking, cross seas which, ridged with white spray, came tumbling rank over rank before the gale It was really a miserable b eg i nn i ng to what afterwards proved a miserable day. Occa sionally little breaks would 'come in the scud, half rain, half mist, and raised delusive hopes that the day might even yet prove fine ; but it never did. It was cheerless and uncomfortable from first to last. The delay of the Viceroy's train in arriving at the jetty was rather distracting to those who were waiting to receive his Highness, for at a critical moment the gnus of the flagship announced the coming of the Sultan. And so the Board of Admiralty The Osborne was prepared with great elegance and luxury for the reception of his Majesty, nor w as the Helicon, on which the Viceroy of Egypt embarked, at all wanting in taste and care for his Highness's proper entertainment. As soon as the Corporation could get off to the Osborne their address was presented to the Sultan, who received it with proper consideration ; but the same for bearance was not exhibited by many who were im patient of the delay inside the waters of the Dock yard. It was too much to ask of those who had got up so early and who had come so far to comfort themselves with historical parallels while the Mayor and Corporation of Portsmouth were fulfilling their functions, or to reflect ou the wonderful changes since the Crescent and the Star indicated the pre sence of the enemies of civilisation and Christianity. The salute in honour of the Sultan was speedily fol lowed by that which welcomed his Lieutenant in the land of Egypt, and when the Mayor and Cor poration had subsided from the deck of the Osborne into their barge, and were rowed on shore, the pro cession of the Sultan and Viceroy was formed from the harbour, and with the wind whistling through the rigging, and a cold, leaden-coloured sea, flecked with white seahorses surging against their bows, the Osborne and Helicon stood out towards Spit head, followed by the Enchantress, flying the Ad miralty flag, the Tanjore, Ripon, Syria, and other vessels which were entitled to take part in the pageant, and by some non-official steamers. It needed a good deal of the philosophy which teaches that our cold, grey weather has a healthy influence on our race to reconcile even a native of the isle to the prospect before him. Near at hand were the hulls of the Victory, Duke of Wellington, and St. Vincent, with a white bordering of sailors above the hammock nettings, and a scarlet belt of marines I on the quarter-decks ; the training ship with its youthful, joyous crew, whose shrill voices rang through the pealing artillery and the cheers of the crowd on shore ; the granite walls with their dull pupilled embrasures, which hem the water ; on the left, masses of people clustering on every point, or bordering like a black selvage of rock the fretful line where tide and shingle strive together, all away from the Saluting Battery round by Southsea Castle to Fort Cumberland. As the yachts emerged from the harbour, the long array of the fleet stretching in double line between Sturbridge and the main came in view. They were seen as through a glass mottled with rain or sea mist, darkly and dimly set in a cheerless sea, reflecting the neutral tint of the hurrying clouds, which seemed to come for ever from the sea, and to have the Isle of Wight as a great fog bank resting at their base. So rude and rough was the day that veteran yachtsmen scarce cared to expose the fair visitors on board their craft to the spray and to the more substantial power of the sea which must be ex pected if they quitted the snug moorings in which they were nestled off Rhyde and Cowes, like flocks of clucks in some sheltered nook of a wind-swept lake. There were few yachts to be seen at sea as ' the Sultan and the Viceroy approached the fleet, and by that time the shore was almost shrouded from view by the scud which flew to leeward from the island. No small boats would venture out ; at least—for there is nothing a Portsmouth or Gosport boatman will not face in the way of a sea if he be paid for it—there were no people desperate enough to pay for the certainty of being wet and the great chance of being drowned. Before the Sultan left the harbour it was not be lieved possible that the men could man yards in such weather, but the life lines had been rove, and as the flags of the Osborne passed the embrasures of Block-house Fort the men of all the ships of war swarmed into the rigging, and kept together in black clusters near the masts till the order was given to lay out, when every yard in all the fleet was fringed with its tall even rows of sailors, facing gusts of wind and driving showers of rain with as much steadiness and apparent indifference as if they stood on deck. It must have been a trial for the crews, however, for hardly hal each ship executed this manceuvre with a rapidity and precision that were machine-like, when the scud hid almost every thing from view, and only the black hulls and tall spars could be seen through the mist, and every vessel looked as watery and unsubstantial as the Fla ing Dutchman. Up to the head of the fleet the Sultan's yacht came slowly, ploughing heavily through the swell, and with an amount of motion that might have been harassing to the feelings of a far more nautical body of visitors than the Turkish suite. Very few were visible on deck, however, and certainly all were wise in keeping as much under shelter as possible. Closely following the Osborne came the Viceroy's yacht Helicon, the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, the Tanjore, set apart for foreign Ministers and visitors of distinction, the , Syria with the members of the House of Lords, and the Ripon, with the representatives of the House of i Commons. flagships did the salute close ere w u a p upon some thing stately and magnificent in the style in which white smoke which, wreathed in clouds of curling simul taneously with each other, till the Channel was mounting higher and higher as the wind took it and hulls in its landward, shrouded alike spars thick mass—thicker even than the mists which had portion of the display while it preceded it. Thi s most eff ec ti ve part o f yesterday's proceedings. could be seen w as p r etty, and really constituted th e No matter how thick the smoke, the angry flushes from th e guns could always be seen cleaving the mass of vap our around them. The e ff ect of this combined with the terrific thunder of the explosions and the occasional glimpses caught as the fierce , wind parted ' the smoke and allowed portions of masts and yards covered with men to be seen for a moment, was really grand, and almost the only spectacle during the day that could be well seen or was well worth seeing. As a matter of course the firing only brought the rain more heavily th an be for pect e, and whenw the smoke did clear at last the as of whole roadstead was cheerless and wintry-looking in the extreme. The Sultan and the Viceroy had the great advan tage of seei ng the fleet from e n d to end thrice before the day w as over. The first salute was fired so judi ciously that the smoke had well nigh cleared off to leeward before the yachts entered the magnificent highway formed by the two lines of ships. Round ing the leading ship of the port division, the Vic toria, with the flag of Admiral Pasley, and passing between her and the Minotaur, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Warden, the Sultan and the Viceroy steamed down the broadpath, with ironclad g on one side and wooden ships on the other, towards Osborne, whence there came now and then distant thuds w hi c h gave rise to the hope that Her Majesty would brave the weather and em bark on board the Royal yacht ; and that there was any doubt on the subject is the best proof that could be given of the very unfavourable nature of the day. As the little squadron with the Turkish and Egyp tian ensigns flying and the Admiralty yachts in at tendance passed between the lines, the crews out on the yards —even on the topgallant yards, in spite of squalls which made the great line-of-battle ships heel over visibly—cheered with that deep yet ring ing resonance which pierces even through the thun ders of the cannon. One felt, in looking to the right and then to the left, as one would do who saw a race of beings beautiful, graceful, and glorious, yielding to the brute force of a new generation of ugly yet tremendous monsters. Impossible to deny the massive strength and rock-like force of these beaked monsters; impossible to refuse the praise due to the combination of strength and speed ex hibited in such models as the Warrior, Achilles, or Valiant. But turn to such a floating grandeur as the Victoria, or such a combination of gracefulness and power as even the Duncan, and we must admit that it needs much love of the sea for the sea's sake to make our people flock on board the "fleet of the future." As to the turret-ships, even the satisfaction of looking like men-of-war at all, and manning yards accordingly, was denied to them, for they had no yards to be manned ; but they exhibited formid able rows of sailors and marine artilleymen on their bulwarks, who looked like men sinking with all the honours at the end of a fight on board ships which had lost everything that could be shot away. As the yachts approached Osborne, the Royal yacht could he discerned through a fresh squall which wiped out a gleam of sunshine, but it was seen that the Royal Standard was flying, and soon afterwards it was an nounced by some keen-sighted person that the Queen was, indeed, on board—an announcement which created the liveliest gratification. There was a short delay off Osborne, during which the rain fell with considerable spirit, and the wind falsified the prognostications that the rain would beat it down. Soon the standard of the Turk and the • Royal standard of England flew together from the main of the Victoria and Albert, and proclaimed that - the Sultan was in the presence of the Sovereign under whOse sway there are almost as many fol lowers of the Prophet as under his own rule. The first signal made had put an end to all hope of naval manoeuvres, and obliterated the most eagerly looked for portion of the day's programme. It was " annul weighing." It was 140 when the Queen's Yacht moved slowly a head, preceded by the 1 rinity yacht as pilot and followed by the Osborne, Helicon, Enchantress, and other vessels at the dis boyf t visitors.be desire Arumour o f ber j r e a s n t from y, n o salute shi p to ship should P t b r e a fi a t, l red, and that the yards should not be manned as she steamed between the lines of the fleet. But whether this was a false alarm or a momentary lull in the weather caused a change in the Royal pur rease; the cer t l a e i a n d i i n t g i s v t e h s s a e t l t h o e f Victoria r a t n D d i A v e o r n t , d p r r e o w . c c r e s e d w i s n g of baeltlwtebeen men-of-war n e - D o f a - p w h a n r e wannrde thrownllrater w a i l t o ch ft , n t h t o e the shrouds, and first a gun from the Dane—the Poder Skram—followed by another from the Italian t c s rbv fleet, ette, s s e n e d m f e r d o ra t o s u b n i p l o t o o s e t h h i ep the muzzles fi r e of r t a h n e , B n o r i w storm,rising in or , d l y t i h n u a nd aw er a ing yin c a ra b s o h ar t s h e, rough rongb th m e nr a m ba n t r ing in the midst of an angry squall. The effect of the great masses of men in the shrouds was scarcely in ferior to that produced by their tapering ranks as we had seen them when they manned the yards. The Poder Skram, ignorant of our signals, sent her men aloft and laying out upon the yards. Bat the British sailors, as if determined to show that they had not in these days of ironclads lost their daring, though deprived by her Majesty's gracious consider tion of the opportunity of exhibiting themselves at the end of the royal yard-arms, insisted on decorat ing the trucks, and to the admiration of the specta tors as they passed now the Black Prince, now the Warrior, men were seen aloft waving their caps or flying pieces of bunting, and leading the cheers which were almost lost in the storm. Nor were the wooden ships behindhand in similar displays of animated mastheads, and the Vic toria offered three specimens of daring humanity which excited wonder as to the means by which they were enabled to exhibit such strong physical loyalty without any apparent means of securing tbemvlves from the effects of the very evident mo tion of her massive hull. The smoke of the salute had cleared away before the Royal yacht had well entered the path marked out by the lines of the fleet, and by the time her Majesty had cleared the Minotaur and the Victoria there was a profound silence from one extremity of the armada to the other. The Queen's yacht slowly rounded the Serapis, and then stood in towards the island, and in a nnr l se i ew t p t ae l a e rrfii en w r geth, to eng a ge veeenhnintgehaialnegtges gave signal en a t l ehn f le c l earedeemmw oy f s. r : o b fisov t cri l da i e e r ac A lel Scarcely impres sion —" t t b h e e of the tremendous force of our new armaments, was opened, and contin.:ed for nearly 20 minutes. With the background of a dense dark cloud, which seemed to stretch like a wall from the Isle of Wight to the mainland, and against which the hulls and rigging of the ships were sharply defined, there was at the commencement of the mock engagement a striking resemblance in the general effect to one of those grand pictures of a sea fight which Van dervelde has spread upon his canvasses. But as ! the grey bus were warmed up with the incessant flashes of fire, and the sound of the many can non forcing itself against the wind made the air heavy with its weight and grandeur, there I came upon one almost the influence which is pro ' duced by the very aspect of battle, and people forget for a time rain and spray and drizzling mist in con templating the scene before them. As the men were " at quarters" firing at discretion, and as fast as they could, it so happened that now and then there was such an outbreak that men peered through the smoke half apprehensive that some ship had blown up bodily. Then, again, came a long rattling roll, as though of some giant musketry in line, broken by a salvo, or melting into a slow, dropping fire, and again from all the line, as if gathering itself up to deliver an exterminating broadside, there came a rush of fire and smoke which made even the iron sides of the cuirassed vessels tremble at the sounds themselves had made. During this time the Victoria and Albert was at anchor, while the rest of the little squadron, much vexed by adventurous yachts, forged ahead and backed astern to keep their places. It was near 3 o'clock when the Queen's Yacht anchored, and the cannonade seemed to hare pro duced a desire to carry out as far as possible the rest of the programme. The Royal yacht accordingly signalled, "Is it possible for the gunboats to attack the forts?" The answer was " Yes," and the at tack was ordered by the signal " Weigh, and attack forts," and this was done at once, with a noisy good will which left nothing to be desired on the part of those who had come down to hear a cannonade. The gunboats, under the command of Capt. Hood, of the Excellent, began moving about like so many mosquitoes, and at once proceeded in two divisions to attack the Portsmouth defences, and to repre sent as far as could be done by such small fry an attempt to force the harbour. They were formed in two lines thus : STARBOARD DIVISION. 1. The Stork, 2 guns, 60 horse power, 236 tons. 2. The Fancy, 2 guns, (30 horse power, 235 tons. 3. The Pigeon, 2 guns, GO horse power, 268 tons. 4. The Redwing, 2 guns, 60 horse power, 236 tons. 5. The Clinker, 2 guns, 60 horse power, 235 tons. 6. The Bullfrog, 2 guns, 60 horse power, 236 tons. 7. The Fervent, 2 guns, GO horse power, 233 tons. 8. The Orwell, 2 guns, 60 horse power, 2.1!8 tons. . _ PORT DIVISION. C. The Lop, 5 guns, 80 horse power, 431 tons. 10. The bLignet, 2 guns 60 horse power, 238 ,_ tons. 11. The Ellen-sant, 2 guns, CO horse power, 2 . 0 a tons. 12. Th e H yaena , 2 guns, GO h orse power, 236 tons. 13. The Surly, 2 guns, GO horse power, 236 tons. 11. Tho Sandtly, 2 guns, 60 horse power, 236 tons. 15. The llighlander, 1 gun, GO horse power, 233 tons. 16. The Speedy, 2 guns, GO horse power, 273 tons. Long before these pigmy assailants had made a hostile movement, Forts Monckton, Block House, King's Bastion, Portsmouth, Southsea Castle, the Lumps fort, and Eastney had made everything ready to give them a warm reception. All the guns in all the batteries were cast loose, and small de tachments of infantry were distributed in most of them. In all previous naval reviews where this attack and defence has been represented it has THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1867. generally formed one of the prettiest features of the day's proceedings. But yesterday nothing was pretty, because nothing could be seen without phy sical annoyance and discomfort. One division of the gunboats attacked Monckton, while the second attacked Southsea, the Lumps Fort, Eastney, &c. According to the programme it was arranged that the Southsea works should be silenced, and that then Blockhouse and Monckton with the main defences of Portsmouth should come to the relief and drive off the flotilla, and it was well that this was so, for the gunboats in the rough sea and heavy wind would have stood no chance against Southsea Castle alone. The fire from the boats was even better than could have been expected under the circumstances, while from the steady forts it was replied to with thunders of artillery. There were, of course, showers of rain and always heavy wind during the whole time of this sham battle, which in truth never raged very fiercely, and at last dwindled down into a mere drop ping fire, and the gunboats steamed back to their anchorage, leaving the victory to the forts. In this, as in all other portion of the day's proceedings, the weather spoilt everything„ and a large proportion of the visitors' vessels had returned to harbour before it was over. Before the gunboats had ceased their attack the Royal yacht weighed anchor and proceeded towards Osborne, saluted as usual as she passed. It was near 4 o'clock when her Majesty returned, and a race took place between all the vessels to keep pace with the Victoria and Albert. When the Royal yacht was slowly dropping down to her berth the Queen was risible on deck conversing with the Sultan, and it was seen with earnest satisfaction that his Ma jesty had received the Garter at the hands of our gracious Sovereign, and wore the blue riband over his shoulder. A quarter of an hour or more elapsed before the Queen went on board the Alberta from the Royal yacht, having taken formal leave of her Imperial guest, and the signal was made to salute the Sultan as he returned past the fleet to Clarence-yard. A guard of honour was in waiting at the private station, or rather siding in the Cla rence-yard, where the royal train was drawn up near the water's edge. By this train his Majesty left about 7 o'clock, and arrived at the private sta tion at Nine Elms soon after 9. A long cortege of royal carriages, with a royal escort, was in waiting, and his Majesty drove off amidst the cheers of an immense crowd which had collected to witness their arrival and departure. It would be ungracious and unfair to the Admi ralty, which had charge of this vast pageant, not to give a word of praise to the excellence and precision of all their arrangements for the accommodation of the numbers of the public who were enabled to be present at the spectacle. All the dockyard preparations for the visitors were admirable, and everything that could be done for their comfort was attended:to on board the vessels, which was all the more agreeable under such ad verse circumstances as were caused by the weather. The management of affairs by private bodies, such as railway companies, afforded a strong contrast to the Admiralty work. On Tuesday afternoon trains from Waterloo were hours behind time at Ports mouth. Yesterday the Viceroy was nearly an hour late in arriving at the dockyard. The Queen expressed the greatest satisfaction with the day's proceedings, although the weather had proved unfavourable, and the Sultan and Vice roy expressed the same feeling, but in still more for cible terms. The Victoria and Albert returned to Osborne after landing the Sultan. The fleet was illuminated at 9 o'clock, when the wind moderated, although it continued to blow in thick rain squalls. During the first part of the display the ships at Spithead were indistinctly seen. The Duke of Wel lington, St. Vincent, and Victory, in the harbour, presented a splendid appearance with their illumi nated tiers of ports and long lights. During the second part the weather cleared for a short time, and the fleet showed magnificently, covered in outline with long lights, the Minotaur being lit up with red fire over every spar aloft, and the Victoria in red and white. The general effect, and more particularly that of the discharges of rockets, was, however, greatly marred by the weather. MANNERS AT THE OPERA. Our neighbours often reproach us for being brusque and even brutal. We laugh it off, saying that they do not understand our insular freedom, either of speech or action,and we pride ourselves upon understanding in the fullest sense what we term " good breeding." I need not trouble the Owls with a specific definition of what this is, the more so as I purpose to narrate a pointed instance of what it is not. On Saturday the Viceroy of Egypt made, according public advertised visit His Highness with his suite were shown into the Royal B ox , w hi c h i s to Her t o r a ae n j n s o t u y n , s cement,theatre. now, I believe, like most Royal boxes, the Prince of Wales's. They had not, however, enjoyed the music or undergone the stares of the audience for long when a movement was made, and the Viceroy and his suite quitted their places to make their re appearance in Lord Dudley's box. It appears almost incredible, but it is nevertheless strictly true, that a very natural mistake having been maile by e bop recognize. They h a d t h e b ox given to en night, and on findi ng the Viceroy them t e t the er s, a party subsequently arr i ved, whom to see o there, instead of seeking other places, or appropri ating Lord Dudley's box, or going home, they actu ally turned his Highness out of the Royal box, and, in violation of all politeness and hospit a li ty, East ern or Western, the Viceroy of Egypt had t o vacate toAhipspaplraecnetiy at th makeeopera wayfor some p r i vate persons. the ordinary Englishman and Englishwoman no longer feel b oun d b y t h e same rules as distinguish his or her co n d uct i n so ciety. I have always believed th a t i t was incon sistent with good manners to stare persi s t ent l y and f to be in a box at th e t h eatre ; but still more I hold it to be an invari a bl e rule at all length ay happ o happen who ora m time at any illustrious pe rsonage theatres that no inhabitant of a box is allowed to crane his or her neck round the pillar, and either look behind or before the intervening curtain at the neighbouring occupant. Yet I, on this very occasion, perceived most flagrant infractions of these rules, and the unhappy object of this rude inquisitiveness had to take refuge in the back of the Dudley box. Icertainly will allow considerable licence to country cousins, or very young ladies, or gentlemen who have never been at the opera before; but these savage and untamed people should be careful always to have a keeper with them, in the shape of some dowager or resident London acquaint ance, who may warn them when they go beyond the bounds of legitimate curiosity, and deter them from the habit of eating ices b so loud that the a u di ence are obliged to hear their banal conversation i nstead of the strains of Nilsson between the acts, or talking or Titiens. These annoyances, however, of talking and staring are merely evidences of bad taste and rudeness; but the insult offered to the guest of the Queen and the nation calls for public condemnation, and requires specific apology. The affront offered to his Highness was so flagrant could have been surpr i sed had the Viceroy imme diately quitted th e h ouse. Like a true gentleman, however, he felt hi s own dignity to be above petty insult, and sub m i tted to be treated as his hosts that no one chose to treat him. The occurrence can hardly have failed to di m i n i sh his estimate of Engl i s h cour tesy, and is lik e l y to induce him to forbear from giving his entert a i ners a second o pportunity of treat ing him in like manner. —The Owl. iceforth no ono will doubt Invalids' and Infants' Food, [ADVEItTISEMENTT ---- ----- -- TT '----et the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabi ca it has already received from Invalids whose vosition had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. Wo quote from the " dazette du Midi," July 2.ith :—" Rome, Jul 3 21, 1866.—" The health of the Holy Father is excellent, espee r ially since, abandoning all sine to the thousands of blessings other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Dn Barry's Revalerlia Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful more than 68,000 cures: --Cure at every meal. It has and odueed a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a, few oat of de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wastin g away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sl eeplessness, and the most intolerable ner vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N 0.49,832 : " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, No. 58,216, -of the Marchioness asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, scasins, sickness ' and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness Important 0 44 Caution.— Beware of the many uns avoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without auth or i ty, Baron Licbig's name is most auda ciously attached. In tins at Is. 1 . 1 c 1 .; 1 lb., 2s. 9d. 2 lbs, 4s. 6(1.; 5 Ms., 12 lbs., 22a.; 21 lbs., 40 x. --BARRY Du BA.. aux- and Co., No. 77. Aegent-street, Lond on; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly; and at 61, Gra cec h urch-street; 4, Chea,pside; 63; MO, and us, 9z4.o:ppet i3O §tro o nd • ; , 1>;11 grino an erd She4. l . i §tf 3 '. ........ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NOTTINGHAM SUMMER MEETING.—WEDNESDAY. The Rufford Abbey Stakes of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, for two year olds ; colts, Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b; half a mile, straight. Marquis of Hastings's Cuckoo, by Buccaneer—Peggy Whitethroat, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1 Count Lagrange's Sarah, Bst (Challoner) 2 Betting —l3 to 8 on Sarah, who held a slight load to within the distance, where she was headed by the non-fa vourite, who won easily by three lengths. The Forest Plate of 50 soya (handicap); winners of any handicap after July 10 (at noon) 51b extra; half a mile. Capt. Hawlcsley's Mrs. Stratton, by Orlando— Catawba, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (inc. slb extra) (Loates) 1 Mr. Barber's Contract, 5 yrs, 7st 11h (inc. Sib cx.) dwe Mr. Mackenzie's Outcast, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (C (Graamaronll) 2 ) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Mrs. Stratton, 7to 2 agst Outcast, and Bto 1 agst Contract. Before the trio were dispatched Outcast ran the entire course. Contract on the outside held a slight lead of the favourite on the rails and Out cast in the centre, to the distance, where the latter was beaten, and Mrs. Stratton, headine•Contract, won easily by two lengthi ; Outcast was defeated by threo lengths. The Nottingham Nursery Plate (Handicap) of 100 sous; winners of any race after July 3 (at eight p.m.) 51b extra; half a mile, straight. Mr. G. Hodgman's Northern Star, by Cape Flyaway— Star of India, Est (Quince) 1 Mr. Payne's Dulcet, 7st 121 b (Parry) 2 Lord Bateman's The Returned, 7st 31b (inc. slb extra) Marquis of Hastings' s T rav i a t a, B st (C a nyon) ( 3 nnon) 4 Betting-2 to 1 each ags t Th e R eturned and Traviata, 3 to 1 agst Northern Star, and 100 to 15 agst Dulcet. A couple of false attempts preceded the actual start. The mo ment the flag was lowered Northern Star slipped his horses and cut out the work with a clear lead of Traviata and The Retur ne d, D u l cet b e i ng next the rails. 'Northern Star was never headed, and won easily by a length from Dulcet; The Returned was beaten three lengths from the second; and Traviata finished a length behind Lord Bate man's horse. The Chesterfield Handicap of 10 sous each h ft, with 50 added ; the second to save his stake ; the winner of the Nottingham Handicap 101 b, or of any handicap of the value of 200 sous after July 3 (at 8 p.m.) 51b extra ; one mile and a half ; 21 subs. Mr. G. Hodgman's Vici, by Pazzoletto, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (car. sst 131 b) (Quince) 1 Mr. H. Savile's Claverhouse, 4 yrs, E s t 71b (Kenyon) 3 Marquis of Hastings' Black Prince, 4 yrs Est (Jeffereys) 3 Mr. J. Dawson's Numa Pompilius, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (inc. 10ib extra) (Butler) 4 I3etting —6 to 4 agst Claverhouse, 5 to 2 agst Numa Pompilius, 4 to 1 agst Vici, and 100 to 15 agst Black Prince. Vici was fractious at the post, and broke away before the start was effected. Black Prince made the run ning, attended by Claverhouse and Numa Pompilius, Vici bringing up the rear. Passing the stand, Claverhouse dropped back, and Numa Pompilius closed with Black Prince, the pair side by side being fully a couple of lengths in advance of the favourite, Vici lying last, twice that distance in rear of Claverhouse as they traversed the back stretch. Rounding the Mansfield-road turn Black Prince took a decided lead, Claverhouse simultaneously drawing up to Numa Pompilius. At the turn into the straight Black Prince was beaten, and Numa Pompilius, in the centre of the course, held a slight advantage of Claver house, Vici gradually drawing up to the leaders. Numa Pompilius was in difficulties before reaching the distance, and Claverhouse appeared to have the race in hand, but Vici, coming out at the half-distance, won in a canter by half a length; three lengths separated second and third ; and a similar distance third and fourth. After the race 10 to . 1 was taken freely about Vici for the Goodwood Stakes. The Bunney Park Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 50 added, for 2 year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b; the winner of the Now Stakes at Ascot, July, or Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket 51b, of two of the above stakes 91b extra (extreme penalty), of any other, two year old stakes value 200 sovs 31b, 300 51b extra ; maiden two year olds, having started once allowed 31b, twice, 51b, thrice 71b; half a mile; 23 subs. Mr. Beadman's Orion, by Cramond—Beautiful Star, Bst 131 b (inc. 31b extra) (Clement) 1 Lord Stamford's Charnwood, Bst 101 b (J. Daley) 2 Mr. Hodgman's Vex, Bst 101 b (Parry) 3 Mr. Eastwood's The Sawyer, Bst 51b J. Doyle) 0 Betting-2 to lon Orion, 4to 1 agst Charnwood, and 7to 1 agst The Sawyer. The last-mentioned immediately the flag was lowered jumped the rails, and, succeeding in disposing of Doyle, fell, and afterwards bolted on the waste land. Tho jockey sustained no injury. Orion, next the rails, made nearly the whole of the running, and won cleverly by a length ; Charnwood was a neck only in front of Vex. The Grand Stand Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added ; two year olds 7st 31b, three Bst 111 b, four Oct 131 b, five lOst 51b, six and aged lOst 91b. Marquis of Hastings's Traviata, by Stockwell—Stray away, 2 yes, Gst (£4O) (Kenyon) 1 Mr. T. Sterou's Sunnyside, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (X 10) (Holland) 2 Betting-7 to 2on Traviata. The non-favourite made the running to outside the distance, where ho was headed by the favourite, who won in a cantor by a couple of lengths. Tim winner was bought in for 200 guineas. Tho Portland Plate of 40 sovs (handicap); winners of any handicap after the weights are published 51b extra; ono mile. Captain Machell's Plunder, by Buccaneer—Andover's dam, 3 yrs, 7st 81b ............................... (Jeffereys) 1 Mr. J. Barber's Bedford, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b ..... (Parry) 2 Mr. G. Hodgman's Vice Versa, 3 yrs, 6st 101b....(Quince) 3 Black Prince, Anchorite, and Cornet also ran. Betting-9 to 4 agst Vice Versa, sto 2 agst Black Prince, 4to 1 agst Bedford, and sto 1 agst Plunder. An chorite was first away, but when they had fairly settled down to the work Plunder, on the inside, took up the run ning, followed by Black Prince, Vice Versa, and Cornet, Bedford bringing up the rear, and they ran thus round the Mansfield-road turn, at which point Bedford closed with his horses, and took second place when half-way in the straight. lie, however, failed to reach Plunder, who won in a cantor by four lengths. Three lengths separated second and third; Black Prince, pulling up, was a bad fourth. Anchorite and Cornet pulled up and did not pass the post. A Selling Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs; half a mile. Mr T. Stanley's Captain, by anal-notio n—Polly Peachum, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b ............................ 5.......... .(.(Butler) 1 Sir P. Johnstone's La Muette, 2 yrs, st 71b (Butler) 2 Betting-3 to lon La Muette, who ran the course before the flag fell. The non-favourite made tho whole of the running, and won inacantor by three lengths. The winner was not sold. The Donington Park Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, for two and three year olds, with 50 added by the Marquis of Hastings ; two year olds 7st, throe, Bst 121 b ; fillies and geldings, allowed 311) ; winners of any handicap or sweepstakes amounting to 400 sovs 81b, 200 51b, other winners of plates or sweepstakes amounting to 100 sovs 31b extra (weights not accumulative); maiden three year olds which have started three Limas allowed 51b, maiden two year olds if they have started twice 31b, half a mile, straight. Lord Stamford's Charnwood, by Newcastle, 2 yrs, 7st Marquis of Hastings's Cuckoo (Kenyon) 1 , 2 yrs, 7st (in. 31b extra) Betting-7 too on Charnwood (Butler) 2 , who made play through out, and won in a canter by throe-quarters of a length. her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs ; three year olds Bst 31b, four Oct 71b, five Oct 121 b, six and aged 9st 131 b; two miles. Marquis of Hastings's John Davis, 6 yrs, 9st 131 b _ . _ l'oi•dham) 1 mr. Payne's Safety, 3 yrs, Bst 31b ........... (T. Challoner) 2 Mr. Savile's Primrose, 3 yrs, Bst 31b ........... (H. Covey) 3 Lord Bateman's Anchorite, 3 yrs, Bst 31b • ( Morri) 0 Betting-5 to l on J o h n Davis, and Bto 1 agst P s rim rose. Tile last mentioned cut out the work, with a slight advantage of the favourite, Anchorite bringing up the rear for three quarters of a mile, when John Davis took up the running, Primrose going on second, slightly in advance of Safety, Anchorite now being beaten off. Within the straight Primrose was beaten, and Safety joined issue with the favourite, but, never quite getting up, she was defeated by a length. Primrose, ten lengths off, was third ; and Anchorite tailed off. HAYLING ISLAND RACES.—WEDNESDAY. A Hurdle Race (handicap) of 50 sous; winners of 50 sovs after July 3, at 10 a.m., 71b extra. About two miles, over six flights of hurdles. Mr. H. Marsh's Isabella, 4 yrs, lOst 91b...(Mr. Edwards) 1 Mr. Alwyn's Knight of Downe, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (H. J k Captain P ap ill on ' s Little Bob, aged, 9st (car. 9st 21b) n) 2 (G. Searle) 3 The following al s o ra n : —H ave l oc k, Nukuheva, Jassy, and Lady Lincoln. Betting -5 to 2 agst Isabella, 4to 1 agst Kni g ht o f Down; 5 to 1 each ags t Nukuheva and Havelock, and 6 to 1 apt Little Bob. Nukuheva ran cut at the first flight of hiirdles and was not afterwards persevered with. Lady Lincoln made the running nearly a mile and a half, when she gave wily, leaving Knight of Downe with the lead ; but at the last hurdles the favourite took up the running and won easily by four lengths. Little Bob was a bad third. The owner of the Knight of Downe objected to the winner, and the owner of Little Bob to both, but the ob jections were very properly over-ruled. The Stewards' Cup, value 50 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, 2 ft; threw year olds 7st 71b, four Bst 41b, five and upwards Bst 71b ; maw.; and geldings allowed 31b. Six furlong; straight. Mr. England's Prima Donna, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (inc. 71b ex) (Marsh) 1 Mr. Kribell's Imstor 5 yrs, ist 81b (R. I'Anson 2 Mr W. Treen's Duet, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b (inc 101 b extra (H. Jackson 3 Easton and Tycoon also ran. Betting— 6 to 4 on Prima Donna, 3 to 1 agst Duet, and sto 1 agst Impostor. The favourite made all the running to the stand, whore Impostor and Duet challenged, but Prima Donna won by a short head, a similar distance only separating the second and third. Easton was a bad fourth and Tycoon last, The winner was not gold. The Hayling Manor Plato (handicap of 50 sovs), for all ages. Six furlongs, straight. Captain Hornby's Sprig of Shillelagh (late Oulton Lowe), by Barbarian—Bridget, 6 yrs, 7st (11. Jackson) 1 Mr England's Prima Donna, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Marsh) 2 Mr. J. Dixon's Faint Heart, 4 yrs, Bst 91b ...(Goodwin) 3 Changeable, Sorrel, and Confection also ran. Betting---3 to 1 agst Sorrel, 4to 1 each agst Prima Donna, Changeable, and Faint Heart, and 5 to 1 agst Sprig of Shillelagh. Faint Heart made play till appraching the stand, where Sprig of Shillelagh and Prima Donna headed him, Capt. Hornby's horse winning easily by two lengths; a length separated second and third ; Changeable fourth ; Confection, beaten off, last. The Ladies' Cup(bandicap), value 30 sovs, with 30 adde;l, for two year olds ; winners after July 10, at 7p.m., 71b extra. Half a mile. Mr. 11. Wright's Judy M'Creo, by Drogheda—Miss Ted dington, 6st 71b • •• (Peppier) 1 Mr. Jones's Spiteful, Gst 71b ( \lonian) 2 Mr. J. Dixon's Purveyor, Bst Olb (Goodwin) 3 Holder, Miss Eleanor, and Shamrock also ran. Betting-5 to 2 agst Judy M'Cree, 3to 1 each agst Pur veyor and Spiteful. The favourite made all the running, and won easily by a length. A length and a half i❑ rear of Spiteful came Purveyor, who headed the others, widely scattered. The Portsmouth Stakes (handicap) of 10 sous each, 5 ft, and 2 only if declared, with 80 added. About ono mile and three-quarters. Mr. Clifford's Tomahawk, by King Tom—Mincemeat, 4 yrs, Bst (inc. 101 b extra) (It. PAnsou) 1 Mr. B. Ledger's Dayrell, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b (J. Smith) 2 Mr. R. Porter's Evergreen, 3 yrs, Gst 41b (Mordan) 3 Dutch Admiral, Lytham, Scavenger, and Duet also ran. _ _ _ Betting-6 to 2 agst Tomahawk, 7to 2 gst Duet, 4to 1 agst Dutch Admiral, and 5 to 1 each agst Evergreen and Scavenger. Evergreen made play, closely folio wed by Dutch Admiral and Scavenger for half a mile, when Duet held a slight lead, but Tomahawk took up the running the moment his jockey called upon him, ane won in the commonest of canters by eight lengths; two lengths be tween the second and third. Dutch Admiral was fourth ; and Duet pulling up last _ The Soutl;sea Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added ; two year-olds 7st, three Bst 121 b, four 9st 7th, five and aged 9st 101 b; mares and geldings allowed 3113; maidens that have run twice allowed 41b. Half a mils, straight. Mr. J. Gain's Variation, by Leamington Vexatious's dam, 3 yrs (E 25), Bst 21b. (Mordan) 0 1 Duke of Hamilton's Miss Elizabeth, 3 yrs (.£25), 7st 121 b (Hartley) 0 2 Mr. England's Canoe, 2 yrs (£25), Est 41b ...(Peppler) 3 The following also ran : Desire filly, Confusion, Dunoon, and Spasm filly. Betting—Even on Variation, 3 to 1 agst Miss Elizabeth, 4to 1 agst The Desire filly, and sto 1 agst Canoe. The favourite made nearly all the running to the Stand, where Miss Elizabeth challenged and made a dead heat of it. Two lengths from the deadheaters came Canoe. Mordan objected to Miss Elizabeth for a " cannon," but it was overruled. Deciding Heat-5 to 4on Variation, who won by a short head. The winner was sold to Mr. Potter for 55 guineas. The Visitors' Plate (handicap) of 40 sovs ; winners aftctr publication of the weights 71b extra. Six furlongs. Mr. IL Wright's Hopvine, by Warlock—lioppicker, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Popplor) 1 Captain Ifornby's Sprig of Shillelagh, 6 yrs, Bst 91b (in. 71b ex .) (Jackson) 2 Mr. Cannynge's Easton, 4 yrs, 7st 71b ............(Curtis) 3 Miss Fanny and Monmouthshire Lass also ran. Betting —Even on Hopvine, 2 to 1 agst Sprig of Shille lagh, and 4to 1 agst Miss Fanny. The favourite made all the running, and won by a length and a half ; a similar distance separated second and third. The winner was bought in for 55 guineas. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TimEs.--It has been hitherto assumed, perhaps too confidently, that any Reform Bill proposed by Lord Derby's Government will be accepted with little edification by the House of Lords. The brief speech of Lord Grey on Tuesday night is calcu lated to dispel the impression. Though he dis claims the intention of opposing the second reading, he significantly deprecates haste, and gives notice of a resolution upon which amendments may be founded in committee. No one knows the history of the Reform Act better than Lord Grey ; nor can they have overlooked the obvious parallel be tween the course he contemplates and that taken by Lord Lyndhurst in 1832. The bill framed by his own father had passed the Commons on the 23d of March, and the second reading had been carried b y a majority of nine in the House of Lords o n t h e 14th of April. On May 7, when the first section came on for discussion in committee, Lord Lyndhurst succeeded in persuading the House to postpone the consideration of the disfranchising clauses till the new franchises should have been discussed. What followed must be fresh in the memory of many still living, and Lord Grey is the last man to provoke a second collision between the two branches of the Legislature and their repre sentatives. The resolution which he intends to move will doubtless be moderate and general, but if it is to have any meaning or effect, it must purport to pledge the House to a certain policy in the com mittee. If pressed to a division and adopted, it will inevitably involve the reopening of questions debated for two sessions in the Lower House, and supposed to have been determined. Such, in fact, is Lord Grey's avowed object, and, though pru dence might induce him to waive many personal objections to the bill as it stands, we know from his published treatise on Reform how seriously it conflicts with his own convictions. Mr. Lowe himself has not protested more emphatically than Lord Grey against " a transfer of political power," an addition of strength to the democratic ele ment in the nation, or a reconstruction of our institutions upon the American model. Nothing short of the restoration of those- safeguards which Mr. Disraeli has abandoned, with the tacit consent of Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Hardy, can satisfy Lord Grey's theory of a safe Reform Bill, whatever practical alternative he may be pre pared to accept. It, therefore, behoves independent members of the Upper House to pause before com mitting themselves, under his guidance, to a dis turbance of the settleme n t e ff ected in the Commons. The constitutional right of the Upper House to reject or modify a bill of this nature is, of course, beyond dispute. At the same time it is a right which, upon every ground, ought to be exercised with much reserve. The very fact of the Peers being, in contemplation of law, a co-ordinate estate of the realm, superior in dignity and equal in legislative power to the Commons, suggests a good reason why they should abstain from anything like an obstructive resistance to Parliamentary Reform. The qualifi cations of electors and the distribution of constituen cies are matters which directly concern the popular branch of the Legislature, just as the creation of life-peerages directly concerns the hereditary branch. Th e private interest which members of the Peerage may have in such affairs is, to say the least, not recog nised by the Constitution, while the Lower House must be presumed to be the best judge of changes de signed to promote its own representative efficiency. • In 1831-2 the opponents of Reform in the Lords had an excuse which is now wanting. Many of them were the absolute owners of boroughs threatened with disfranchisement, and regarded that process as nothing less than a confiscation of their property. No one now vent arcs to assert a proprietary claim on any constituency, and of those to be deprived of one member each there are not above four or five which are even reputed to be pocket boroughs. In other respects the sacrifice, if it be a sacrifice, now demanded of the Lords is trifling, indeed, compared with that demanded of their fathers. They were then felt, and felt themselves, to be resigning for ever the control of English politics, and few be lieved that it would be possible for them to retain the degree of influence which still belongs to them. They are now invited to sanction an extension of power to the working classes at the expense of the middle classes, rather than of their own order. It is far more probable that Mr. Disraeli's Reform Bill will " swamp" the £lO householders than it is that it will "swamp" the nobility. That such is the purpose of its author is no secret, and we have never concealed the belief that a grand opportunity of winning by legitimate means the political leadership of the country is offered by it to the aristocracy of birth and education. The House of Lords, then, has no selfish ends to serve by throwing out or muti lating the bill, while the consequence of their doing so would be deplorable. So manifest and urgent is this consideration that no material amendment is likely to be proposed, except in concert with an in fluential party in the Commons. It is rumoured that attempts may yet be made to strike out the lodger franchise, to revive the cumulative vote, to engraft upon section 7 Mr. Poulett Scrope's plan for disposing of the compound householder, to re strict the boundaries of agricultural boroughs —in short, to introduce organic changes into the struc ture of the bill. There is much to be said, as, in deed, much has already beenu must td r said,previous oi f nu o es r t question every tei oronan again has ai o ns f these alterations, b u t we m upon their mer it s b e f ore a p been answered. That question is —whether there is any reasonable prospect of these amendments being ultimately adopted by the House of Commons and the nation. If so, the House of Lords may do good service by debatin g them afresh; if not, i t can do nothing b u t m i sc hi e f. Now, we ventu re t o say that it would be a great mistake to presume upon the readiness of the Commons to abandon 'decisions on important points, h ow ever narrow the m a j or i ty by which th e y ma y have been carried. The Reform Bill, in its present shape, is well understood by all parties to be a compromise, and Lord Grey himself has recorded his opinion that no permanent Reform Bill can ever be carried except by a compromise. It has not, it is true, been drawn up as he recommended by a Committee of the Privy Council and approved beforehand in a conference between the Liberal reallybut the product of mutual concession as if it had been so matured. Nor is this all. It cannot be forgotten, though it need not be proclaimed on the housetops, that it has been purchased at a cost of political morality without precedent in our own times. Nothing but assured success in a great enterprise will reconcile the Government, the House of Com mons, or the public to a retrospect of this session, and success would be greatly imperilled by any con siderable mutilation of the bill. It is easy to revise a provisional arrangement, but it is dangerous to meddle with the articles of a treaty of peace. The Trades' Union Commission. MIL ROEBUCK V. MR. CONNOLLY. A special meeting of the delegates representing the London trades societies at the late Conference at St. Martin's Hall was held last evening at the Sussex Hall, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the course to be pursued by the trades towards the Commission, consequent upon the exclusion of the trades' representative, Mr. Connolly, from the sittings of the Commission for having made certain remarks upon the public con duct of Mr. Roebuck, M.P. Mr. George Potter occupied the chair. The CHAIR3IIN, in opening the proceedings, said he considered the conduct pursued by the Commis sion towards Mr. Connolly a gross act of tyranny, and an unwarrantable interference with the freedom of speech. (Hear.) Had Mr. Connolly spoken of Mr. Roebuck as a member of the Commission, there might have been some ground for the interference of the commissioners in their official capacity ; but Mr. Connolly referred to Mr. Roebuck only as a member of Parliament. Mr. Roebuck might or might not be what Mr. Connolly described him to be, but in either case the Commission had exceeded its powers' in making itself a partisan on either side. The SECRETARY read a le' ter from Mr. M'Donald, president of the Miners' Association, recommend ing that all further communication between the trades and the Commission should cease until the resolution of expulsion was rescinded. He also read a letter from the committee of the London Compositors' Society strongly condemna tory of the Commission. Mr. CONNOLLY then rose, amidst loud cheers, and gave a detailed report of the proceedings at the Commission, resulting in his exclusion. All that he had said about Mr. Roebuck he was prepared to re peat. Mr. PACKER (turner) then moved a resolution, describing Mr. Connolly's exclusion as an act of tyranny calling for the strongest condemnation. Mr. PARISH (brushmaker) seconded the resolu tion, which, having been supported by several other delegates, was carried unanimously. It was agreed to discuss at a future meeting the propriety of marking their sense of the conduct of th 6 commissioners in this matter, by abstaining from any further communication with them. The proceedings then adjourned. COUNTRY MARKETS. SALISBURY.-TUESDAY. The attendance at market to-day was equal to last week. Wheat small supply, and 2s per qr. dearer. Grinding bar ley dearer, but oats, beans, and peas were dealt in at pre vious quotations. _ The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fronl 58s to 72s ; barley, 31s to 375; oats, 26s to 33s ; beans, 464 to 565; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Tares, from 5s Gd to 7s Gd per bushel ; Best bread, 16d ; household ditto, 15 1 per 81b loaf. Flour, 46s to 50s per sack. HULL.-T UESDAY. At our market to-day very little English wheat offered, and farmers asked an advance of 2s to 3s per qr., which needy millers paid. Foreign advanced is per qr. English white wheat, G4s to 68s; red, 62s to 65s ; Dant sic and Konigsberg, 65s to 71s ; Baltic red, 62s to 655; Danish and Hamburg, GO s t o 63 s ; Russian, 60s to 645. Barley, English, 36s to 495; grinding, Mediterranean, 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, now English, 26s to 28s; Russian, 2Gs to 275. Beans, old English, 58s to 60s; foreign, 43s to 445. Peas, English blue, 42; to 44s Od ; foreign white, 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 41s Od per qr. LYNN-TUESDAY. At to• day's market the supply of wheat was limited, the best qualities readily made is per qr. more money ; other descriptions as l as t wee k . Beans and peas fully as dear . grinding barley 6d to is per qr. higher. New wheat, 68s to 72s ; new red, 62s to 668; old white, —s to —s; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 47s to 51s ; secondary, 42s to 455. Oats, new, 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 48s. "'east 40s to 42s per 28 stone. MONMOUTHSHIRE —TUESDAY. There has been a good inquiry for barley, which has sold at an advance on late rates. The oat trade has remained firm. Beaus commanded high rates, but sales wore limited. Foreign wheat advanced Gd per qr. The following are the average quotations:—Wheat, rod, s 3d to 7s Gd p er b us h el ; white, 7s 6d to 8s 3d ; inferior, Gs ed to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 40s to 44s per qr ; grind ing ditto, 34s to 36s Od; beans, 43s to 458 ; white oats, 278 Gd to 20s Gd ; black ditto, 2Gs Od to 27s Od. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. s , d• s. d. H Aton Lyons —.. • ...18 0 . West Ilartley Walls End ll ° etton ... 20 6 E ast H artlepool Wylam Holywell Main....,,,,. 16 9 Ships at market, B—sold, 8. Foreign Nail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton•••• • July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles ....... . - -. Ditto, via Panama ' ...July .••• • Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and M onte Video . • • Aug• 5. Ditto, by French packet July ",7 Cape Verde. by Brazil packet . Aug. 5. :Ape of Good Hope. A6oollBioll. and St. Helena July 23, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Soathampton.,July 20. Ditto, via Manetllcs .. . ..... .. July.-. Falkland Islands ilibraltar, via Southampton July 22. India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es July 22. Malta, Egypt, &e July 20. Ditto, Marseilles July —. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton. July 20. Ditto, via 3larsei les Julyi--. Newfoundland .July 31. Portugal Aug. 0. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto .. Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, Ace., by British packet July :5. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet July 26. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerif£ • July 17. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baba- __.... mas) __ July 29. Cub i and Mexico July 29. Bahamas, via" New York ...July '-5. Bermuda, via ditto [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—Enjoyment Of Life.—When the blood is pure, its circulation perfect, and the nerves in good order, we aro well. The pills possess a marvellous power in securing these great secrets Of health by purifying, regulating, and strengthening fluids and solids. Holloway's pills can be confidently recom mended to all persons suffering from disordered digestion or worried t y nervous fancies or neuralgic pains. They correct acidity or heartburn, dispel sick headache, quicken the action of the liver, and act as alteratives and gentle aperients. The weak and delicate may take them without fear. Holloway's pills are eminently serviceable to inva lids of irritable constitutions; they raiso the action Of every organ to its natural standard, and universally exer cise a calming and sedative influence. Births. GODDEN—On the 17th inst., at Surbiton, Mrs. William Godden, of a daughter. MunnAy—On the 16th inst., at Taymount, Perthshire, Lady Adelaide Murray, of a son. MitixoLmsox—On the 17th inst., at 1, Hyde-park-square, the wife of George F. Malcolmson, EsT, of a daughter. Marriages. 13 YRON - JEFFREYS —On the 16th inst., at All Saints' Church, Margaret-stroet, Edmund Byrz,n, Esq., of Conls don Court, Surrey, to Charlotte Emily, only daughter of Col. Jeffreys, C. 8., Parkhurst; Isle of Wight. WlLBEttroucE -DENMAN - On the 16th inst., at Lavingtont Susses, Reginald G. Wilberforce, eldest sou of the Bishop of Oxfoi (I, to Anna Maria, third daughter of the lion. B• Denman. Deaths. BUCKINGHAM—On the 15th inst., at Margate, Leicester Buckingham, youngest son of the late J. 8. Buckingham , aged 42. DEANS —On the 15th inst., at Cheltenham, Vice-Admira l Deans, aged 75. DreKEN—On the 12th inst., at Exeter, Henry W. Dicker , ' Lieutenant Royal Artillery, aged 28. HILLyAn- On the 11th inst., at Homme Lodge, Ross , Hereford s hi re, Vice-Admiral Wm. Hillyar, aged 79. MEACHAM—On the 12th inst., T. Meacham, Esq., of 1, Circus, Greenwich, and London-chambers, Fenchurch street, London, E.C. ItoinNsox—On the 28th ult., Slicffiagton Robinson, Esq.? aged 83. London Printed and Published by WILLIMI ANDREW S • of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE BUN Oftice, No. 1121 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Count? MicicileNx. - _-_-Thuriday, July 18,1867,