The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

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HoWEL L, JAMS, and C 0., By Special Appointment to her Majesty the Queen. their Royal Highnesses the Prince and rrn.cess of Wales, and the principal Courts of Eueope, GOLDSMITHS, JEWELLERS, and SILVERSMITHS, 5, REGENT-STREET, PALL-MALL. LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXP . I 111 TTON, 1865. This e,,lehrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole s-m-10. Sold in Bottles, 3s. 81., at the Retail 'Houses in London "3" the Agents in the principal towns ip England ; or tylintenaln nt R GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Ohsnrvn thn Red Baal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Rinalian's LL Ithiskv." COUNTRY norELs, PUBLIC HOUSES, an i fIITSINKSSES. PURNTESS and KNER'S List on application. P artiellarg for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their Auorl6' AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5, A -Tar-street. S•rand, WC., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. • NI U TUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION ( Inclrporated by Act of Parliament. 1810). An*Rl7., /J. -STREET. OW NTT-GARDEN. LONDOY, ' tmeEi RONEY" unon Perslnal Security, Bills of Sale reehold or Leasehold Proaer y, for one, two, or three years, renaYable week y , monthly,or q uarterly . Bills promptly disco unted. Forms free ony; ecc ipt of stamp ed envelope. EDWARD EIARF;NR. Secretary. T E 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., TITE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. a fl tOnerett,, by J. Offenbach, entitled MR. AND MRS. Fitz Princi, al artistes. Misses Russell. Barrie, and llenry ; Mesrs. .. A St. Albyn, Fox, Husk, , a nd Evans Bur r. with Extra Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. v ongh-nan a a nSII MY. by Messrs . HARRY SYDNEY. LITTLE ...VILE. and b y Al 'rf INA, MARCUS WI EKINSON ; 244110. GERTRUDE and her Troupe of Performing Dogs. this Eve , ping. ROBT ERASER , CornNlian. with his new Entertain t, zs,stitied "NOTIONS OF THE BURLESQUE." A croba " t o CE appear THIS EVENING.. --The Bros. HANT.ON. the celebrated American will _ ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, TheBo Windmill -street Piccadilly. e•o de "R.knt *ad-Tropnlar Rnornia, havtnsr been - entirely re raied are now OPEN VY VNG IN for Concert and 1),„ `. EER EE GnEsE' r °ln Conductor, Signor LTIGI CURTL Manager, Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. EST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. EASTER FESTIVITIES. ' Grand Selection from Donizetti's favourite Opera of . . - •- tLUCI TA DI LAMMERMOOR." Principal vocalists— Regardo Mr. H.De Brenner; Arturo, Mr. DOuglas Mellon ; ;Sel4, Mr. P. Corn' Lucia, Miss Annie T rema ine. Also ection from Verdi's favourite Opera, "IL TROVA OD"R, ," at 9 o'clock. Principal vocalists —Manrico, Mr. gias 'Mellon; Conte di Luna, Mr. P. Corri ; Leonora, . '''S Annie Tremaine ; Azucena, Miss Ellen Read ; in costume RR at the opera. N a 4 I , IIT ITUR LLOYD, with all New Songs ; and Jolly 8, s u , Prank Ellmore, Jig Dancer ; Joan and Victor, the 1,.. nsation of London. First appearance of the PICCAN -IINT MINSTRELS, 12 in number, all under the ago of _ ft , including thoso Wonderful Children who played at the Panel RaYmarket Theatre as the " Living Minatures." nd of 30 first-class performers, and large Chorus chosen Masi ber Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. ,ssi.cal Director, Mr. P. Conn'. Gd r flees of admission —Stalls and Balcony, ls.• Promenade, (:),.; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured' at the Box wee, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open -Irery Evening at 7 o'clock. W E ASTER HOLIDAYS. DAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, A x ow BAKER-STREET. ia now Portrait Model of TIER MAJESTY the QUEE , I 4 I . teas e , a t ilded . Also, Portrait Models of th.ir Royal Mfg '- mike of c', Pnneesses H lone, Louise, and Beatrlce r ,..ch e e Pviire nt illnibrid", and Princess Mary. "mnr f a g " Ro u al 1ii4 11 , 1,88 le the Prince Consort. ttera iye o s 1 7 _ na k x h ibition a s s the oeginator and founder a Interna, o I , Adtallt • ance. le , , • children, under ten, half-price; extra ' %Ina Bd . . Open from 11 a.m till 10 p.m. AtrATXPIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per il-141- feetly pnre anl une , 4lonred. .To be had of a , l dealers 107, Strand ( tor Wholesale of JOHN BUttGES3 and SON. of Savoy -steps). London. t kli- DE-VlE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, of e, 0 18 3. Per zallon, is ' , cry superio- to recent importations te n , q , - ;flac. recom men d ed b y the med i cal pro f ess i on. and ex %e„ velv used in hospitals. I n b o ttl es . 33 8 . per dozen. or in C) 4 , 1 39s , railway carriame nal 1.-IIENItY Tirtmrr an 1 82 ob. 'eet, ~ l S.W. Purn Established e l ivors ntstiVry, 9 , and 30, Regent- RUIN OF THE FEW IS THE GAIN OF IRE MANY." lIIRE Panic of '6(3 awl its consequent depression TI ;?,t 0 tt . C A. 040 1 ! ,. 1 , 11 0 1% 0 1 T , r e r : e t t , 8E7,1)11 i t v `t m , . ct " VA.T.4 LisTyTTIA. deill'Ponntbi of Good Tie Tor 6s. 6d n can't he dear. oti r%o ‘ inpan I 's KAISO WS by the Glter Ships are really Great St. Ilelen's Chnrehysrd, Tllshopszate -___________ street. Jan'. t , ig67. re;rust published, 2d ; sent by the auth or f or I stamps, it - MESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet the d escriptive of articles and m eans used for improving Lo n Zearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, SPANISII FLY is the acti ng i ngred i ent in 'r" LEX, RO3B 'S CAN PTIA.RIDES 0 IL. which s p ee di ly nects whiske an d thickens hair, 38 51, 5s old, and Ins 64 ; etteruhttY Post for " 54,4, and 144 ips.— 8038 ' 248, °thorn. London, and all Chemists. -VVONDEItFUL DISCOVERY. —Corns cured Thi s in one day by usin2 ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. renThp.rearation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, ,c,,v.'„_ng` t he very root. Priee ; sent by post for 60 stamps. tilg,rh liolborn. London, and all Chemists. - AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, Lamel London.—ltLßX. ROSS'S CURLIN G FLUID earls or Deqtlenaen's hair immediatly it le epode& Sold 6d. 5s od, and 10s 6d ; sent free for e 51, 84, and 144 stamps ny' of all Chemists. e I ,REY HAIR.— -- 218, High Holb orn, L ondon. fi ALEX. ROSS'S lIAIR DYR produces a perfect colour il tinedlttely it is uged. It is pernainqnt, and pert :fly na tural in effe t. Price 3s Id. 5s Rd, and sos fld ; sent by post tor 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Chemt-ts. fIAIR DESTROYER.--248, High Holborn, Lonclon L.—A Fa. ROSS'S DEPELXT ORY removpa Ilt inerfinona hair from the fa' e, neck. and arms, xvilkhout effect to the akin. s. 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In approaching consumption etr en, a are truly bene fi cial. Persons deprived of sleep, or 1 4 t ,y 'LIP', down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief W . f.edl7; minutes after taking it. Prepared only and , sold by eross Landon, Chemist, 8. King-Wam-street, 4,baring titre,' nodon, and by all druoTests, in bottles, 134 d., and enzr.,%,ibert's for / qnktitities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask . Asthmatic Balsam. The name and addressare --- ----.... v 2L1 nn ihs stamp. 9t "--"----- jl UN D R Ell and SIXTY-SEVEN the A."; STrITTFI ORPHANS are beimr, maintained in b zteah 4VlEttr ORPHAN Assrtusr. Collimmood Court, "11E, Surrey. FUNDS :meetly needed for their aupport. CHARLES A. WALKER, S ec tonk ces, C heapside. E.O. Ry-p ro p' s R ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie etnateer'• Slough, Bucks (f ormer ly at Clapham-rises. In i) " — Tie Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Secret thia Institution will be gladly received by the 41 7, at the Offices. No. 73, Cheapside, B.C. ENRY SYKES THORNTON, Treasurer. 110 nAS T ILSON, J.P hairman of the Board. E Rim') CATTLEY. non. Sec. P R /CD MACKENZIE, Secretary. n um r' fl im . l , 3 , o AßD of MANAGEMENT of the eft!' "ON HOMCEOPATHIC HOSPITAL wish to pa,. enion of their friends t its position—durmg the r the beds have been almost constantly filled, and N)n o f ,„. 41 a en the resources of the Hospital bas consequently E irtln ce r ';'' e at• They trust, therefore, that all the friends of llie rn, _Pathy, both in town and country, will rally round tllll O 4 ad thus prevent the recessity of curtailing the use- NSf. ( i )f th c Rosnital bv tl , e admission of fewer natlenis rea..ntttlPTlONS earnestly needed. Bankers Messrs. Itrgyn."Plnnac ,e, Regd Co, Thresneedle-street; and Union Bank, ent-street o. JOITN R. WARREN, Clerk. Great Ormond -street, W.C. (Pt S HIPWRECKED SEAMEN and their of it 14; A'V ED WIDO WS and ORP HANS. -Upwards 1,0 British vessels are annually wrecked, about 2,000 of are on the British Isle; ! I ), r &ItTNI I ' ," Dart ot the roast where the SHIPWRECKED 'rem. SOCIETY Is not represented by an Hon. )I . ' l lv'cit . el ° hes (when naked) and sends to their horres - lart t r -Pd Persons of all nations, and is the channel of its 1 , 1 .3 , to the bereaved widows and orphans of the drowned. treats C ommittee ea e 'lv APPEAr, f-r HELP. The tits - always Instant ... The vociety relieved 11,221 persons tast Year, vtz shipwrecked men. widows, and orphans. ~illtand subscriptions thankfully received by Messrs. "Is, Deacon, and Co.; and bv the undersigned, Ulber FRANCIS LEAN, Secretary L ita-c hambers, London-bridge S.E. RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another rn t zetne to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer *hot ~„knor. friendless oung females were rejecte heo t . ' uNDS and roomymaking a total of 3,087, who ave h,,tl.t. home et five years. oun:t! the Committee wish to form wogd is t:e w f h o o r ilav e ?„,g2 . l : l , almost children, from the age of 8 ...Coo t - At' "ad astray from the path of virtue. outions will be received gratefully by the Secretary. VarllaVel Cooper, 85, Queen -street, Ceapaide; or by )I@Bgb 4114 imabuditreet NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " CASTE." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 v 014., M Y SUN' S l By the Author of " caste," &o. I F E. "This novel Is a gool one, and will be a general favourite. There is great interest in the tale."—Observer. Hurst and Blacken, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY LADY BARRETT LENNARD. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., CONSTANCE RIVERS. By Lady BARRETT LENNARD. "My fondest—faintest—lat , st accents hear— Grief for the dead not Virtue can reprove; Then give me ali I ever asked —a tear, The first —last - sole reward of so much love I" . —THE CORSAIR. 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Strand, W EXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, IE4 who ADVERTISE in " THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at " Tho Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by lettor, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has -1- URGENT FUNDS. —Donations and Sub scriptions will be thankfully received by 3lLssrs. Dlrnsfiale and Co., 50, Cornliill ; Meesre. Drummond and Co., Ch tring cross ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Mews. anare, Fleet-street ; and by the undersigned, at the Hospit Li, CiIARLEs FINN, See. Liverpool -road, N., HELP for the DESTITUTE SICK.— METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. Devon shire-square, City. 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This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and diffioUlty of Governors' orders. is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions ands,4actes It affords relief to a large number of in-pa . IrntB, and, in addition to this, the averaae number of attendance of the lestitute sick ham for a oonsiderable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Corr mittce ear estly solicit the A.SSIeTANCE of the benecolcnt, az the pr mises of this Huspito— are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite muds to maintain them. Contributions are received by thtir bankers, DI essrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abehuroh-lane; also by Slew Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.;(liyu and Co. ; Denies find Co. ; Ransom and Co.; rrescolt, Grote, and Co.; Sinith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ;Williams,Deacon, and Co. ; Nimbet and Co.. 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Trains every half-hour to and from KEN SINGTON and the CITY. CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.—A Competitive Examindtien of Candidates will be held by the Civil Service Commissioners on March 31, 18G8, and following days. The Competition will bo open to all natural-born subjects of her Majesty who on the Ist of March next shall be over 17 and under 21 years of age, and of good health and character. CIVIL SERVICE OF INDlA.—Examination of March, 186 i. —Copies of the Re , rul divas may be had upon application to the Secretary, Civil Service Com mission, London, S.W. ENTRANTS IN 1867 PARTICIPATE IN FIFTH DIVISION OP PROFITS. MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY. PROFITS APPLIED SO AS TO MAKE POLICIES PAYABLE IN LIFETIME. AND SO AS TO RAISE SECOND CLASS LIVES, AFTER A DEFINED PERIOD, TO FIRST CLASS RATES. B RITISH. EQUITAB LE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 4, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. George Thomas Dale, Esq., Bayswater. Edmund Dunn, Esq., Croydon. William Gover, Esq., Blackheath. William Sutton Gover, Esq., 4, Queen-street-place. John Middleton Hare, Esq., Forest Hill. Fountain John Hartley, Esq., Dalston. John Smither, Esq., Wellclose-square. Joseph Warmington, Esq., Lee-grove, Blackheath. MANAGING DIRECTOR AND ACTUARY. illiam Sutton Gover, Esq., F.S.S., F.I.A. AUDITORS. Mr. Deputy Ohbard, Blackheath. Charles Brown, Esq., Waddon. William George Lemon, Esq., Blackheath BANKERS. Tho London and Westminster Bank. PHYSICIAN. • William Munk, Esq., M.D., F.S.A. (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London), 40, Finsbury-square. SURGEON. Thomas Carr Jackson, Esq. (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital, Kings-cross), 3, Weymouth-street, Portland-place. EXTRACTS FROM REPORT. In the past three years the New Policies effected were— Reported in 1865, 1,650, amounting to £270,736; 1866, 2,073, £353,700; 1867, 2,845, £5C1,175. Total Number, 6,568, amounting to £1,125,611. 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DIsitAELL—Mr. Gladstone's great defeat this day week, and Mr. Disrach's very remarkable and unexpectedly decisive victory, illustrat e very curi ously what observing politicians had begun t o , notice for two or three weeks previously—that the l eader of Opposition, whose tact, moderation, and firm ness had gained him a chorus of admiring praise i n the first six weeks of the session, has been steadily losing ground of late in the House, while the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, on the other hand, has, since the disruption of his Ministry and his f resh start on the present plan of Reform, been as steadily gaining ground with the . House, and is now, f or the present at least, master of the situation. What is the reason of this singular phenomena? It is not merely that Mr. Disraeli has luid the audacity to propose, as a Conservative measure, a scheme of Reform promising to be, in the end at least, far wider than that which be denounced as democratic last session ; for bad Mr. Gladstone advocated the same scheme by way of outbidding a really Con servative proposal of the present Government's, every one knows that he would havebeen condemned and abandoned by half his party, and scolded at from the other side of the House till the country would have really believed that he had done something wicked. Air. Disraeli has met nothing like the difficulty in trampling under foot his party'-8 principles, which Mr. Gladstone would have met with, even in an attempt to modify and enlarge the views of his patty. This may be due in some small degree to the nature of the two parties. Individual judgment and opinion are infinitely more active and discriminating among Liberals than amongst the Conservatives. There are still a great many left of such old Tory squires as Mr. Kendall, the member for East Cornwall, who candidly admitted to the house that he had told his constituents how ho was utterly opposed to all Reform, but how, if the Go vernment, who know so much better than be could do, the state of feeling in the country, decided upon a Reform Bill, they would find him certainly voting , for it. This sort of utter renunciation of individual judgment is very much rarer on the Liberal side of tile house. The Tory p Lay- has still something of 'lie compact nature of as avalanche about it, which " moveth altogether, if it move at all." The Tory " Cave," in spite of the spirit and weight of those who led it, was an utter f a ilure ; Lord Gran borne was the leafier of a bind of only six. Almost . 11 the rest stuck to their party and voted en masse. ['he advantage of having a mind, when your followers do not, as a rule, profess one, is evidently much greater than the advantage of having a mind when your followers do profess was and this Mr. Disraeli now feels. But pasta , reasons are not the only ones at the bottom of this remarkable ebb of Mr. Glad stone's tide and flow of Mr. Di-raeli's tide sinse the crisis in the Ministry. To some extent we believe that personal cau ses in relation to the tone and tem per of the house at large have limited Mr. Glad stone's influence over his own party, and lent Mr. Disraeli a sort of adventitious aid duo to the strong contrast of moral and intellectual qualities in which he stands—in general very much to his own disad vantage—with his opponent. There is something strict about Mr. Gladstone, • something of the "righteous and devout!' man who lives " in all good conscience before God," scrupulously serving the nation and his party, but never unscrupulous or au dacious, and prompt to rebuke the slightest levity, so far as he discerns it, in the political conversation of those around him. Indeed, he imparts moral scrupulosity and Moral indignation of tone into his most purely political arguments. Instead of using the regular party arguments, i ns t ea d of speak ing merely of mischief to the country, unfair partiality to this or that class, politic .1 disaster, and personal inconsistency, as connected with the course his opponents pursue, Mr. Gladstone in sinuates, and in' nide ales out of ten not without sufficient reason, a shade of moral disgust, into his manner, which, while in a Christian point of view it is often infinitely gentler than the regular party artillery, yet conveys a certain effect of moral cen sorship, and gives the impression of a holier politi cal nature than that of the House at large- -which the House is apt to regard as a sort of hitting below the waist. Mr. Disraeli once spoke of Mr. Glad stone's official oratory as " the sanctimonious elo quence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer," and as •it is certain that Mr. Gladstone's moral calibre has always been really higher and more scrupulous than that of the House of Commons, so it is certain that the House has always been sensitively alive to this difference, and conscious of the indications of this difference in Mr. Gladstone's own tone and man ner. Members have something of the feeling to wards him which the Athenians had towards Aris tides the Just. Far from being really dictatorial, Mr. Gladstone has recently, in more cases than one, consulted the wishes of his followers too much ; but in spite of this, there has been about his speeches the dictation, not of imperious will, but of sctupulous obedience to a more rigid code of 'distinctions, of stricter political piety, of more accurate observance of the whole law of political righteousness. This is what Mr. Disraeli alluded to when in the debate on the second reading of the Reform Bill he accused Mr. Gladstone of putting him " to the question," and addressing him " with the tone and air of a familiar of the Inquisition ;" adding, iu order to complete the caricature, " that really he had con gratulated himself on having a solid piece of furni ture between them." Now, no doubt, the strong apparent repulsion there is to this tone about Mr. Gladstone is due in large measure not to the self righteousness of the great Liberal statesman, but to the political unrightcousness of the present House of Commons, whose virtue may fairly and truly be said, without theological explanations, to be rather of the nature of filthy rags. We could have no better example of the kind of manner in which Mr. Glad stone's sincere,—and only relatively rigid—political conscience has convicted the house of sin to its own great discomfort, than the debate on the motion for removing Mr. Churchwarl from the Commission of the Peace in Dover, when four Liberal members of the House of Commons were included within the terms of the proposed penalty by Mr. Bentinck's amendment. It will be remembered that in answer to a sardonic question from Mr. Bogge, at the begin ning of the discussion, as to whether the four gentle men convicted of bribery of four specified elections, were the gentlemen of those names now members of the house of Commons, Mr. Disraeli had replied, with reprobate jocularity, that nothing had struck hirs as so startling as the frti vent cases of mistaken identity ; that the highly liberal tone of the gentle men in question in .condemning anything like Tory corruption was prima facie evilence that they could not be the same persons, and that it would be well to have a select committee to inquire. Mr. Glad stone was naturally shocked at the leader of the house thus openly assuming a cynical air, and turn ing the corruptness of the country into a joke. Ho withstood Mr. Disraeli td his face ; and the house, who secretly felt grateful to Mr. Disraeli for making light of their sins, fidgeted uneasily under the light but grave rebuke of Mr. Gladstone. "I do not sympathize," said Mr. Gladstone, with some solem nity, " with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's prac tice in attempting to g e t r id o f these subjects as if they were matters of great levity." And he re peated afterwards, amidst a scene of great excite ment, that " this house should take care as to the impression it creates out of doors with regard to the seriousness of its intention of strik ing at acts of bribery in high places." Now, the "seriousness" of the house's intentions on this subject is of a very questionable kind in deed, and it is apt to feel uncomfortable when Mr. Gladstone or any other prophet reasons before it of " righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come." It feels just as Felix felt when Paul indulged lore marks on these unpleasant subjects—fidgetty — and that prophets are jarring to the nerves. It prefers secretly Mr. Disraeli's bold heathenism. TILE " SATURDAY REVIEW" 0:4 MR. GLADSTONE'S RECENT DOINGS.—We must look to Mr. Gladstone for an account of the present state of things. And it will be found in his own remarkable character. In its littleness and greatness it is hardly appreciated. He is a man of the closet, not of the flea Demosthenes did not make much of it with his harness on. Nothing could be better than the fine patriotie ideal which Mr. Glad stone prescribed to himself at the beginning of the la id aside Party and party tactics were to be aside ; on the common altar of the. country all self seekingn was to be abandoned. E ve rybody had ample reason to bury the dead past ; it was on all sides a dreary retrospect of failures, inconsistencies,.- but friendly •crr and vain professions. A v igilant deism on det a il s it was th e duty of the Opposition to urge, but in a patriotic spirit. No ungenerous use was to be m a d e o f th e wea kness of the Govern ment. If Ministe r s cou ld an yhosy reconcile it to their own sense of pe rsona l h on our to bring in and pass a Reform Bill, it was not for Reformers, who themselves had failed often enough, to hinder or taunt them. Even if Mr. Gladstone despised the worms, it was not magnanimous to trample on them. Brave words—pious sentiments—amiable resolutions. Only they were nothing more than words, sentiments, and resolutions. When it came to practice his good purposes, Mr. Gladstone found that his way of displaying these virtues was not quite what was expected of him or them. He did not mean to be obstructive, only vigilant ; and his notion of practical vigilance was to suspect every thing and condemn everything by anticipa tion. He did not intend to be other than con ciliatory ; but he always took care to announce that his notion of conciliation was that every body should do as he told them. He was quite ready to give and take, but he must do all the giv ing and taking himself. And, to do them only justice, the Ministry scarcely winced at even this indignity. Night after night Mr. Gladstone rose with his questions, his suggestions, hi s announce ments, his instructions,.his ultimata, and the Trea sury Benchblandly smiled. It was not here that Mr. Gladstone failed. He got on well enough with the Government; he was provoking, they were long suffering. It was the Liberals whom he was alienating all the time. They could see well enough that their leader had pledged him self to a policy which he was intellectually, perhaps physically, incapable of carrying out. That policy toa to spirith m s ; physical torment was a policy of self-restraint, and Mr. Gladstone is incapable of self-restraint. Silence is an impossibi lityot°excwitltbulhe e w fi a s i r t ge is tic. If he cannot take counsel with the gods, he must exchange con fidences, compliments—talk anyhow—with even .Beales and Bradlatigh. And so, carried away by a noble irretention of speech, for six or sev en wee k s M r. Gladstone did nothing but interpose, iuterpellate, interfere, announce, dictate, and prescribe to every body about everything on every possible—and now and then, as with Beales, impossible—occasion. If it had only vexed his opponents we might have de murred to the taste and judgment of all this. But it told upon his own party more than on the Minis ters. Unable to appreciate the relations of time and occasion and persons, Mr. Gladstone showed himself equally lacking in the power to appreciate the relative importance of things. With so very earnest and sincere a person particles became* as important ae the structure of the epic. To Ef. very keen but microscopic eye a drop of water is as the Kostnos itself. It is as necessary to take your stand on the tall of a rubric as on the creed itself. The t n h e i x n t. g w i lci e ch ea is n f s o e r e t i h t e , and instant ail i b t e s fo co re ns Al n r: ieB la:1s . to b i t i l e t is fraught with the inter es t s o f t hi s world and the i this i l s half-hundred t a ei n e e d tr o r roast t danger,w e fence t he can see nothing else. Wh o k eows but that, if by some accident the whol e d ens it y o f t h e eart h were (t;oli i b t. e s i t l ( t ) c n re e a t s n e u d s b t g Y tar a i n' t i l d g t a i n n s a t l i wi sho ri uld all be chaos w ithi n ve minutes 9 11 , t e i his lt position isa i existingagainst this g d e a r ? danger in r danger, -it is an extant dart is a danger which is actually ready to crus h us now this very moment. The more he looks at anything the more it rises, swells, expands, and stretches• in size and grandeur. And so he is always vehement, al ways in a towering fit of e trnestness and vigour. He selects, as we have been reminded, the compound house holder. As soon azMr. Gladstone realised th ecom pound householder, all human destinies and duties centred themselves in the compound householder. On the compound householder he took his stand. Here he would give battle. On this point he would hear of no compromise; he just admitted the possible sin cerity of those who demurred to the stupendous mag nitude of the last notion which had suggested itself to Mr. Gladstone. With a mild and half-centemptuaus scorn he could understand Mr. Locke and Mr. Clay but listen to them, no never. He had drawn up his instruction, and he must force it down the craven throats Of his and all human kind's enemies. Only in delivering the assault he fell on his back. And now Mr. Gladstone is at the other end of the pole. From the heights of dictuion lie is floundering in the tags of despair. He confides his sorrows to the Guildford Reform Association. Who Mr. Brooks may be, and of whom the Guildford Reform Asso ciation consists, Mr. Gladstone, we suppose, knows as little as we do. The only rural branch of the League that we happen to be acquainted with has a jobbing tailor for Secretary. Mr. Brooks of Guild ford is, we dare say, a very distinguished politician. Anyhow he is goo I enough and great enough for Mr. Gladstone to spend his Sunday letters upon. And Mr. Gladstone writes to Mr. Brooks in a ter ribly wounded and depressed spirit. He is all amort. He is like Hamlet ; he has the task of setting all wrong things right, and he finds out his own weak ness and impotence. He is hurt; he is downcast; he has suffered. One would think that he was going to turn Trappist, and to condemn himself to perpetual silence. He is now, he finds, small and of no reputation. He has piped, and the children have not danced; nay, even his friends have forsaken him. He can hardly promise anything ; he is not sure that he can do anything, say anything, undertake any thing. His faith in himself, which never yet de serted him, is shaking and trembling. He is ready, it would almost seem, to sacrifice that leadership which. has only led his army to defeat. And all this the great leader of the great party confides to Mr. Brooks of Guildford. He who dictated to 240 a week ago, and at least reduced them to silence, now pours his sorrows into the heart of Brooks of Guild ford. To a man in this frame of mind the Easter holidays must do good. Jaded, disappointed, ener vated, Mr. Gladstone is very sore, and unfortunately shows how very sore he is. But let him take courage. There is plenty of work in him, and plenty of work to do. It only wants more temper and less talk, for the rest of the session. THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE " ON EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, THE VISIONARY OF EGYPT.—It is ex traordinary how much interest heresiarchs excite. The world makes heroes of them ; so does Mr. Carlyle. He glorifies Luther, and raises Knox to the stars. But Luther and Knox were sober men compared with Swedenborg. A wilder visionary never dreamed, and he has recorded his interviews with not fewer than sixty-seven personages in the spiritual world. Among them we find Popes, Em perors, Apostles, philosophers, and poets ; and, as a good deal of history is blended with Sweden borg's narrations, we may truly say that he relied on his memory for his dreams and on his imagination for his facts. About five years ago, M. Matter, in an elaborate life of him, brought his works under a sort of transcendental criticism, which, being that of a French Protestant, was scarcely less vague than that of the visionary whom he was criticizing. He looked upon Swed enborg as " the supernatural in the presence of the sceptic, the great'st - reconciliation ever attempted between the natural and the-supernatural, ale ra tional and the marvellous." For ourselves, we look in vain in Swedenborg for any such harmoni ous adjustment, and we think it worse than vain to seek it elsewhere than in the Catholic Church. Mr. White has given ' in the volumes before us, a still more detailed account of the seer • of Stockholm than M; Matter. The home of his boyhood, his first essays in authorship, his travels, his poems, fables, and scientific projects are all brought vividly before us. We see him appointed assessor of mines by the King of Sweden, engaged in engineering, and writing on tin-plate. We dip into his geological and chemical writings, and mark at every turn his rage for novelty, his daring speculation, and his tendency to build intellectual theories on a mate rial basis. He studies anatomy to discover the soul, and resolves to prove at the same time " that the soul is perfectly mechanical, and that it is immortal." He visits Rome in 1739, but is blind to the light of the Sacred City, and ob tains no blessing from the venerable and aged Clement XII. Some years later, when his visions were in rapid progress, he was more fortunate than when he visited the Vatican. He saw Clement XII. (Corsini) in the other world. The Pontiff had for some time " presided over the Papists" there, but had " abdicated of his own accord, and passed over to the reformed Christians," among whom "he enjoyed a blessed life !" lie informed Swedenborg that the invocation saints is vain and ridiculous, and that he had been very anxious to refo rm the Church during his popedom, but had found it impossible. The wise and devout Benedict XIV. (Lamberti *) had mnot been dead three weeks before he honoured Swedenborg with an audience. He listened to him with great politeness while he discoursed on the New Jerusalem, but soon returned to the cavern, where he persisted in keeping company with cunning and malicious devils. He confessed that while on earth he held the Bible in con tempt, and thought his own speeches in the Con sistory very superior. He loved the Jesuits, and when they were shown to be devils he still clung to them. He met one day in hell the most cunning of all the Popes who had died before him, and, wishing to put his own craftiness to the test, found that they were equals. Sixtus V. (the faueous Felix Ferretti) likewise favoured Swedenborg with many communications equally important. He assured him that the vicarship of the Popes was a human invention, and that, unlike Benedict XIV., he held the Scriptures to be divine and more holy than Papal edicts. St. Francis Xavier had become " quite idiotic " when Sweden borg met him in the world of spirits ; St. Ignatius Loyola was looking down with horror. on his own 'followers, and, like • all the other Catholic saints, was highly offended at being invoked. It is incon ceivable how such drivelling nonsense, such paltry and perverted imitation of Dante's poetic visions, could ever have been accepted by any men, or women either as the voice of wisdom and in us that in spiration. Yet his biographer assures _ " Swedenborg's true glory consists in a new defini tion of the relations between the Creato r and the creature," and that " his other world experiences arc altogether subsidiary to the illustration of these relations." That the poor man w as demented there cannot be a doubt, and if we are to judge by the New Jerusalem Magazine and the New Jer usalem Messenger, published respectively in Boston and New York, we must pronounce the same judgment on those who still honour him as the founder of their sect. Every one who has read Molder's " Symbolism " knows what his doctrines were, and what view the " Pillar and Ground of the Truth " takes of them. He maintained a Trinity of principles, not of persons ; that the Holy Spirit "is not a person separate from the Lord ;" and that Christ is in Himself the Di vine Trinity. He was constantly battling with the Lutherans on the one hand, and with Catho lics on the other. He consigned both to perdition if they adhered to their standard. He contended for justification by works and not by faith, but he accepted baptism and the Lord's Supper as signs only, devoid of any spiritual efficacy. In his " Apocalypsis Revelata " (or "Revelation Re vealed"), and also in his " Vera Christiana Re ligio," he says, " With regard to Purgatory, I can aver that it is a pure Babylonish fiction, invented for the sake of gain, and that no such place does or can exist." In short, this crazy dreamer, in his accept ance and rejection of Catholic doctrine, appears to have been actuated by no fixed principle, and to have yielded his judgment entirely to the guid ance of his fancy. His rhapsodies about the plan ets which he visited remind one of the Koran and the Book of Mormon. The only excuse we can make for him is that he had never been instructed in the Catholic faith. He was a sectarian, sprung from a sect, and being a layman, he had not even that scanty measure of theological learning which a Swedish pastor may be supposed to possess. Never since the world began was there a man less fitted to guide the consciences of others. lle carried the Protestant principle of private judg ment,. to its utmost extent, and affirmed his own fancies and visions as divine revelations. While he protested against Papal infallibility, he main tained Swedenborgian. He alone was appointed by Heaven to explain the inner sense of Scripture, and he tossed about the moral commandmehts of the New Law as wildly as its articles of faith. Thus he taught both by example and precept that chastity is not necessary, and certainly not to be expected in all cases. His praise of marriage rose no higher than this, that it is better than un married contracts. He was never married himself, but there were two persons at least who at different times stood in the place of a wife to him. Mr. White does not hold with this part of his reli gious system, if system it can be called. He ob jects to it very properly as involving the degradation of woman, but Catholics repudiate it on higher grounds. As there are still many persons who, like Mr. White and M. Matter, in spite of Swedenborg's absurdities, try to invest him with the attributes of a Christian philosopher, it may be worth while to show to what extent his ignorance and fatuity sometimes reached. He pretended, or fancied, that he saw and conversed with Louis XIV. in the other world, "about 8 o'clock p.m., December 13th, 1759. His Majesty appeared desce n ding by ladders (of the Jacob build, no doubt), a n d seem ed to himself to be again at Versailles." Ti e was silent for half an hour—rather a ion.- patTA- even for Louis Quatorze—and then, condescending tt) give utterance to his regal sentiments, declared " that he had spoken with the King of France (Louis XV), his grandson, concerning the Bull Unigenitus, advising him to desist from his former design, and not to accept it, because it was detri mental to the French nation." Now Louis XV. was not the grand-son of Louis XIV., but his great grandson. This is blunder the first. The Bull Uni genitus, which condemned the doctrines of Janse nius, was promulgated in Louis XlV.'s own reign. It was issued by Clement XI. in 1713 ; Louis XIV. died in 1715. It was published by the Holy Father at the request of the French bishops. Benedict XIII. confirmed it in Council in 1725, and issued another Bull called Pretiosus to explain the former document. Cardinal de Noailles, Arch bishop of Paris, gave currency to the Unigenitus in France (1725). The five propositions of Janse nius had been formally condemned by Innocent X. in 1653, and Alexander VII. renewed the condem nation in 1665. To this last act the French eccle siastics one and all adhered, and Louis XIV. allowed no one, under heavy penalties, to resist the adhesion. Thus the Bull, which, according to Swedenborg, Louis XV. was " advised" by his (great) grandfather " not to accept " in France, had been accepted there in fact during forty-six years, and in principle during a much longer pe riod. This is Swedenborg's blunder the second in one vision only. Mr. White may well say "he seems to be in a maze here." Ile was in a maze everywhere and at all times. History fares' o better than theology in his hands, and his bio grapher allows that " he dealt with such matters as an amateur ; his theological reading was practi cally nil." Mr. White accepts his mission with some reserve. He believes, indeed, that Sweden borg " entered into acquaintance with angels, spirits, and devils, and that the Lord within vivi fied his new experience into wisdom," yet he, "by no means accepts all Swedenborg has to relate concerning the spiritual world as true." He has " no confidence whatever that any spirit he testi fies he saw was the real person." "He disliked David and he disliked Paul." "I do not," he says, " accuse him of any conscious humbug in these stories (about Elizabeth of Russia, Louis XIV., and our own George H.) ; I only adduce them to prove that he was liable to see what he wished to see." _ . We cannot congratulate Mr. White on having added much to the stock of 'useful literature by the present volumes. That there are several dra matic and interesting passages in Swedenborg's career, we do not deny, nor that two or three of the phenomena which his history presints are curious, and deserve to be examined.; but we think it clear that he led those Protestants who were deluded enough to follow him further away from the truth than they were before, and that his pretensions to be regarded as a prophet and a seer are worthy of no more serious answer than such as may be found in a copy of satirical verses. It is a pity that Canning auji Frere did not take Swedenborg in hand, and do by him as they did by Darwin in their " Loves of the Triangles." It is but fair to say that Mr. White's composition is that of a man of cultivated mind, and that the passages which he places by the side of his extracts from Swedenborg are, in general, very apposite. The Volunteer Review at Dover. The ground chosen for the scene of the mimic fight was the open space of Downs to the north and east of Dover Castle. At the top of the Castle Hill, the visitor will remember there stands a turnpike at the junction of the Deal and Guston roads, where they unite then to wind round the steep green glacis of the Castle by the Castle-hill road down into the town. The Deal road turns, by this turnpike, sharply round to the eastward, across Downs culti vated like a garden, but with this favourable feature for the purposes of the review, that there are no hedgerows to interfere with the movement of the troops. At the Castle the space between the Deal road and the edge of the cliffs is not more than a quarter of a mile ; but as the coast line trends to the southward of east, and the road to the northward of the same cardinal point, the area gradually enlarges, until, at a distance of a mile and a half from the Castle, where a cross road runs from Guston to the edge of the cliff, the distance from the Deal road to the sea is considerably over a mile. In the triangu lar space contained within these boundaries of the coast line, the Deal road and the cross road to Gas ton is a ravine, or ,rather a steep valley, running from the Deal road in the direction of the cliffs, and there is a shallower valley parallel nearer to the Castle. Down nearly in the lowest part of the deeper of these valleys is a farm and outbuildings, called Broad Lees Farm. 'This farm-house was the very centre of the force in the first position occupied before the action began. As the head of the column passed the saluting base, it proceeded at once to the position allotted to it. The plan of manoeuvres sup posed an invading force to have landed under the guns of their fleet at the favourable position between Deal and Walmer, and to have advanced, covered on their left by the fleet along the Deal road and the intervening land, for the purpose of eecuring Dover as a base of communication for their army. The garrison of Dover, however, has been sufficiently reinforced to justify them in sallying forth, under cover of the guns of the fortress, to give battle to the invading enemy. The spot chosen for the purpose was along the brow of the ridge in rear of Broad Lees Farm, the left crossing the Deal road, and extending in front of the new Castle Hill fort; the right stretching far away nearly to the edge of the cliff. The defenders were strongly posted, with the 4th trigade of field batteries in line on their left, commanding the De;,l road, and entirely blocking up all access in that direction. The troops composing the first line of the defenders, consisting of the 3d division of infan try, deployed with skirmishers in front ; the 4th division of infantry being in reserve, with the whole force of cavalry and the 3d brigade of field batteries, near the right wing of the deployed infantry, ready to be brought into play immediately on any emer gency. The enemy's position was along the opposite ridge parallel to that of the defenders, and facing towards Dover, the lst division, deployed with skirmishers, covering the front ; the flanks strongly guarded on the right by the two field batteries Of Royal Artil lery, and the left by the volunteer field batteries. In this position the contending forces remained, the only change being that the deployed line of charm de fenders advanced down the hil l nearly to the F House, while the line of skirmishers came forward some distance up the opposite slope tomeet the skir mishers. For a few minutes matters continued thus in grim suspense, the opposing forces watching each other across the two lines of 'skirmishers separated by not more than 304 yards. At 1 . 40 p.m. the nal for action-wae 'yen by a gun fro m th e C astle keep. As the deep boom of the heavy ordnance rolled before the fresh westerly breeze over hill and valley, the skirmishers of the defenders commenced the action by opening a smart, well-sustained fire from the centre of the position. Their example was followed right and left, and soon the fusilade ex tended along the whole length of the line. The skirmishers of the enemy, nothing loth, promptly responded, and for some time a smart combat was maintained between them. The enemy's field batteries, on this extreme right, took up the war like theme, and soon the sharp report of the breech-loading Armstrong of the Royal Artill , xy intermingled with the rattle of the skirmishers. The field batteries of the defenders on their left were speedily unlimbered and brought into action, and for a time a deadly duel of artillery raged to tho north of the Deal road. Perceiving signs of waver ing on the part of the enemy the defenders' skir inishers on their left pressed on in advance,. firing as they moved, and making a capital position and dressing. The line in their rear conformed to the movement, and swept forward in the direction of• the enemy's left. The corps engaged deserve credit for the excellent way in which they advanced over the rough ploud land without losing their for mation. While this was in progress a movement took place unnoticed by the enemy which wa g destined to have a marked influence on the future fortunes of the fight. The second brigade of the fourth division, covered by the advance of the skirmishers and the line, took ground to the right towards the sea, and lay hidden from the enemy beneath a projecting wing of the ridge on which be himself vas posted. Meanwhile the reserve of the defenders moved also to the right towards the sea to support the operation that was in progress. To cover their change of position from the enemy, the field artillery posted on the left %ingot thedefersleca opened fire against the deployed line of Vie enemy. The skirmishers of the invaders, pressed by their opponents, yielded ground slowly, firing as they went. At the same time the guns of the Castle opened, and being replied to by the guns of the . enemy's left wing, the artillery fight at either end of the line became general. As gun after gun followed each other in rapid succession, the smoke borne before the strong westerly wind swept in dense masses over the valley, obscuring for a time the position of the attacking forces. As the fleecy cloud lifted, the skirmishers of the enemy, on the signal of a bugle from within their lines, closed to the wings of battalions, and retired at the double, reforming as they reached the rear of their advanced line. Brought thus face to face with an overwhelming force of their opponents, the skirmishers of the defence followed the example that had been set them, and retired at the double to the shelter of their own line. Shattered by the steady file fire, they retreated in some disorder, but soon were reformed as they reached the welcome shelter. Now carne the tug of war between the two lines. Both core. menced file firing from the right of companies, and admirably on both sides was the fusilade maintained. The example first set on the right of the defenders was speedily followed all along the lines, and the action became general. The whole of the heavy • guns on the eastern ramparts of the castle joined in. the battle, which soon waxed fast and furious. At the same time it became evident that the object of ,he defenders was to press the invading army most severely on his extreme left. For this purpose bat teries of field artillery in reserve dashed to the front, and were brought into action to crush the exposed brigade on his left. While these were firing grape from the extreme right of the defenders' position, their line advanced in echellon of brigades from the right to close with the enemy. Here the battle became fierce and obstinate. Three times the right of the defenders essayed to drive the op posing line of the enemy from their post of vantage. At each fresh attack the enemy's line was strengthened by fresh battalions ani field batteries hurriedly brought to the front. Before this continually accu mulating force the tight wing of the defence finally recoiled, shattered and disheartened. There was nothing, however, disorderly in their retreat. Though unable to make head against the withering fire by which they were assailed, they scorned to yield the enemy any greater triumph than to retire by fours from the right of companies,,not covered even by such poor shelter as a line of skirmishers would have given. This retreat for a time caused a lull on the left of the defence ; but the action knew no cessation on the other extremity of the line. There the artillery duel raged with redoubled fury, and was very creditably supported by the in fantry on both sides. As the echellon of the defenders retired the brigades in reserve deployed and ad vanced down the hill in splendid style to their sup port, wheeling back sections to allow them to retire. The discomfited but far from disgraced first line reached the rear, and immediately reformed their shattered ranks. The reserve, which had now become the first line of the defence, advanced as if on parade against the position of the enemy to avenge the de feat inflicted on their comrades. They were soon engaged, and again a tremendous file fire played along the entire length of the opposing lines. While this second fight was raging, the quick reports of heavy artillery out at sea told that the fleet of the enemy had come into a ction. The squadron of men of-war had been hugging the shore in support of the enemy's troops, and now, on rounding a little head land, came in full view of the brigade of the defen ders, which had been detached from the main body to turn the left flank of their forces. Every ship at once opened fire on the advancing brigades, and their continuous broadsides, replied to promptly by the sea face of the castle, the citadel, and the Guild ford battery, sounded like the continuous pealing of a heavy thunder storm. The fire of the shipping failed to stop the advancing brigade of the defen ders. Seeing this the fleet turned its attention ex clusively to the fortifications, steaming in circles and delivering a broadside at each turn. The for tifications, manned mainly by volunteers, replied with admirable effect, and the battle by sea and land raged simultaneously. The reserve line of the defenders had been for SOlll3 time fiercely engaging the enemy, when the critical movement in the battle occurred. Undeterred by the fire of the fleet the detached second brigade of the fourth division made its way resolutely along the edge of the cliff, supported by batteries of field artillery. Mounting the steep hill that concealed them from the enemy, they deployed, and suddenly appeared overlapping and partially surrounding his left wing. The sup porting field batteries at once unlimbered and opened at the same time that the brigade commenced file firing. Being already severely pressed in front, this fresh attempt was too much for the enemy. Immediate preparations were made for the retreat. Communication had been effectually cut off with the fleet, and to stay longer would have been to be mowed down by . an enfilading fire of ar tillery and infantry. The engaged line of the in vaders, therefore, at once wheeled in column, moved up their reserves who deployed and en gaged the victorious defenders,' and then retreated rapidly, but in good order, in oblique echellon of battalions from their left, in the direction oflthee Deal-road. As each ba ttalion retired it s wa s supplied by a battalion from thelienneemays'spol7cy serve. These being deployed inito advanced, held the defenders in ..iielocikp,w di hile their lighting aliscvmn ted comrades eseapeA. the enemy found with determined p erseverance, that the garrison h ad such an ov ass e w d h onmiii m ig.force, both of infantry and artillery, m t te lelt, that the position was no longer tenable. Throwing out a line of skirmishers, and posting artillery on an elevated brow in the line of retreat, to cover the movem ent, they, under shelter of its fire, formed column and retired from the left. Their opponents pressed on in pursuit, -but were held effectually in check by the field batteries of the 3d Middlesex and of the Royal Artillery, who vied with each other, holding every tenable position to the last moment, and retre a ti ng at a ga ll op to a fresh point. The course of the enemy was now fully developed. It was seen that h e meant to change front to the left, left thrown back, so as to occupy a new posi tion parallel to the Deal-road. The defenders con formed to the movement by throwing their right forward. having reached the cross-road running from the Cliff to Guston and crossing the Deal road at the Swiug Gate lon, the battalions of the NEW WORK BY TILE MARQUIS OF LORNE. Now ready, in one vol. Bvo, with Illustrations, 158., tA I TRIP TO THE TROPICS; AND HOME THROUGH AMERICA. By tlte Marquis of LORNE. F ,- om the Times, April itt.—"The tone of T.nrd Lorne's bo.,k is thoroughly healthy and vigorou.., 2,nd his rrmar is urn' men and things aro g. nerelly well reasoned and acute. As records of the ire-11 impre-etnns ton the mind of a young - tourit4 who saw much and ran give a pl-asant, intel ligent account of what he saw, the book is in every way s ttistactory." Hurst and Blackctt, 13, Grelt MariborouFh-street.