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It is a consolation, and in that sense a happiness to think that the remains of CHARLES DICKENS have been buried in Westminster Abbey, and not as ori ginally intended in Rochester Cathedral. The national wish is thereby satisfied. To the honoured dust of the most beloved of English authors, the most suitable place of sepulture has been ac corded. There it will repose until the " crack of doom" in fitting company. At the head, HANDEL, at the foot, SHERIDAN, to the right, CUMBERLAND, to the left, MAcAuLAY—overlooked here by the statue of ADDISON, here by the bust of THACKERAY —hard by the graves of SAMUEL JOHNSON, and of DAVID GARRICK, in the midst of memorable inscrip tions, among various others, to GOLDSMITH, and GRAY, and MILTON, and SHAKSPERE. The sim plicity and privacy of the burial were in keeping with the whole character of the career of the illus trious dead. Throughout his lifetime he never affected to be anything else than what it was his pride and happiness to be, the author, the artist in words, the man of letters. He aspired to no social distinction. Often tempted to become a candidate to a seat in Parliament, he invariably declined to forsake his desk and his books for the Legislature. Himself one of the most brilliant and charming speakers of his time, he might readily have attained oratorical distinction, had he so pleased, within the walls of the House of Commons. The political contentions of party warfare, however, were alien to his nature and to his tastes. Through his writings, through his life-like creations, through his enthralling narratives, he influenced at once most subtly and most powerfully the thoughts and opinions of his generation. If, as Mr. DISRAELI has said in his " Life of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK I " Sir ROBERT PEEL, the great Sir ROBERT, could play upon the House of Commons like an old fiddle, CHARLES DICKENS could play upon the heart strings of his contemporaries like a PAGANINI. He had an equal mastery over our tears and our laughter exquisite tears and innocent laughter. His was always a reverent genius. The most squalid poverty, as in TOM-ALL-ALONE'S—the profoundest ignorance, as in poor benighted Jo, the crossing-sweeper— childhood as in Little PAUL-- girlhood as in Little NELL—boyhood as in OLIVER TwisT—idiotcy as in BARNABY RUDGE—the humblest surroundings as in those of Mrs. NUBBLES, the Washerwoman, or of cinderous TOODLES, the Stoker, or of JOE GARGERY, the Blacksmith, or of honest PEGGOTTY, the Yarmouth Fisherman—the lowliest, the least instructed, mere half-witted crea tures like Mr. DICK and poor MAGGY—aII were con secrated .by the humane and generous genius lighting up . and kindling into reality his airy imaginings. So true to life are the creatures of his fancy that they are, for one and all of us, like our own flesh and blood contemporaries. He himself, their creator, has breathed his last, and been buried in Poet's Corner, but they argil still living As, for that matter, in a nobler sense, the great author himself is, in the empyrean of our national literature, what though, as he him self said, with a mournful cadence in the utter ance of those pathetic words, still vibrating in our remembrance as though they had been but just now articulated, what though from these garish lights he - has vanished now for evermore ! THE first night of the debate in the House of Lords on the second reading of the Land Bill proved a great triumph for that energetic peer, Count Smoin- He had it all his own way. The Upper House is capable of great debating achievements, but for the performance of noble deeds an incentive is generally required, and this is lacking in the case of the Irish Land Bill. Their lordships are deeply interested in questions affecting " the rights of property ;" but here the Fates are against them ; they acknowledge that a mcasure must be passed, and they resign themselves to their present destiny, lest, in trying to avert it, a worse thing befall them. No great oratorical displays ' can be expected of a bill which both parties agree in passing, subject only to disputes on issues of de tail. When they come to the famous third clause we, may reasonably expect a fine explosion of patrician' fervour, but in wandering over the whole measure without an, object and without a guide, the great Conservative• Opposition does not cut a very credit able figure. The debate was dull, and for the most part uninstructive. This discussion Will, however, render one great service. It will teach the nation what a fine class of men landlords are, andhow irredeemably bad are the restof mankind, especially tenants. Once let a man own landed property, and his moral qualities are permanently set right; once let him rent landed property, and he is lost. Such at least is the moral enforced by the Duke of RICHMOND. He does not deny that the Irish cultivator is in the majority of cases entirely at the mercy of his landlord. But he assures us that no harm comes of it. Everything is going on well in Ire land. Landlords as a class treat their tenants properly, and do not either capriciously evict them or appropriate their improvements. There may he a few exceptions, yet even these are not landlords SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1870. proper, but novi homines, upstarts, purchasers under the Encumbered Estates Court. It is true that the Irish population has per suaded itself that it wants a change. The landlord, however, is in general such a good sort of person that he ought to be left to the exercise of his own high moral faculties, and interfered with as little as possible. The tenant is regarded by the Duke in a very different light. He objects to com p__ 2 ensation for eviction, because the owner can not under such a condition turn out an unsuitable occupant without loss. It is quite possible that a tenant may be " a bad farmer, an im moral man, and a pest to the country," or "the greatest blackguard in the whole country ;" yet lie cannot be evicted without a heavy fine. It never occurs to the Duke of RICHMOND that the same argu ment applies to the landlords. The Conservative leader desires to protect the landlord against an ex ceptionally bad tenant; he never imagines that the tenant needs protection against an exceptionally bad landlord. He is apparently unable to conceive of such a thing. Such, however, is the mainspring of this, and, we may add, of all legis lation. It is the nature of laws that they are directed against exceptions. In general, the Irish landlords do their duty ; but some flagrantly violate it, and it is to remedy the state of insecurity brought about by such as these that the Govern ment measure is designed. No good landlord can suffer from the bill, If he does not capriciously evict, he is safe.. If he has good cause for dis turbing his tenant, the compensation clauses provide that he escapes all payment. The " blackguards" and " pests " into whose clutches the Dnke of Ricri- MOND fears the poor helpless landlord will fall, are specially guarded against. The third clause stipu lates that if a tenant be arbitrarily expelled from his holding, a sum of money must be paid. If there be any just reason for expulsion, if the occupier be a " pest " or a " blackguard," nothing need be paid. The speech of the Marquis of SALISBURY, though brief, was to the point. The hope of the Conserva tive party is Liberal enough to believe in small pro perties. He is convinced that if there had been more peasant proprietors, there would have been no necessity for legislative inter ference. Hence he approves of Mr. BRIGHT'S plan of lending money to occupiers whose landlords are willing to sell—quite regardless of the consequences which may flow from such a precedent. Perhaps, however, this danger is not great, for there is no con sistency inParliamentary legislation. There is very little difference between lending money to Irish tenants to become proprietors, and lending money to English workmen to emigrate, except, perhaps, that the latter need it more. Yet Parliament consents to the one almost without discussion, and refuses the other altogether. Loans to tenants will no doubt be very serviceable in every way, and there fore the principle may be conceded;. but it is certainly much more " revolutionary " than the third clause to which the Marquis of SALISBURY sa strongly objects. In providing that the tenant who is expelled without cause shall be remunerated, the Legislature merely stipulates that the landlord shall not take unfair advantage of a bargain which is actually made--a less serious step than assisting the occupier to purchase some= thing that does not belong to him. The third clause is the key-stone of the measure.. The Ministry will commit a grievous error if they allow the Marquis of SALISBURY, or the whole Home of Lords, to disturb it. But of such a result there is no fear. Mn. WALTER BAGEHOT has written in the current number of the Fortnightly Review an article which should be read by all lawyers and all clients. In i he asks and answers the question, " Bad lawyers or good ?"--a question of no small importance to a very large number of persons. Undoubtedly the answer must be " bad," so far as concerns the great majority of present lawyers. Legal education is one of the most marvellous features of social life in England. The Inns of Court are little better than dining clubs, and, save that any gross breaches of professional etiquette are brought before them, they have scarcely more . influence on the legal profession than the Jockey Club. They do not really educate, they examine only in name, they simply absorb £570,00 a-year without returning it. As Mr. BAGEHOT says, " A greater abuse than the Inns of Court, or so great an abuse, probably does not now exist in England. They could only be endured in a country tenacious of ancient things, even the most lifeless. They figure in legal education, not because of their efficiency, but because of their ' size." We have said that they do not really educate. Until the last twenty years they did not even profess to do so. At the present time there are lectures given at the Inns, and examinations are held. But the grossly absurd arrangement prevails that those who attend the lectures need not be ex amined, and those who are examined need not have attended the lectures. A man who desires to master his profession goes to the chambers of a con veyancer, special pleader, and an equity draftsman. But he is not called to the bar by virtue of this, or because he has profited by it. Moreover, "reading law " with a. barrister is not, strictly speaking, reading at all. The barrister does not instruct the student, does not expound any text book. A heap of papers is set before the student, and he is expected to pre pare the document for which the papers were sent. He is told to "write wide," so as to give the barrister room to make any number of corrections, and the stu dent must find out for himself why they are made. In a special pleader's office there is an opportunity of pick ing up much valuable information, but it is disjointed and patchy. There is a want of correlativeness, an absence of principle. This deficiency is apparent in lamentable ways subsequently. For want of definite principles litigation becomes a lottery, the law becomes uncertain to a degree " glorious" for those who thrive by it, but ruinous to others. The barrister who has trusted entirely to prece dents, and has always looked upon principles with suspicion, is not likely to trouble him self with principles when he becomes a judge. Thus the judgment of the bench is too often a solemn tons-up, and if the decision should depend upon several judges, there is no possibility of fore telling on which side the majority will be. To un , - , certainty we must add downright ignorance in the case of minor judicial officials. There are a large number of posts tenable only by barristers, yet these inch may be, and too often are, absolutely ignorant of all law. Thus we fall into the absurdity of confining offices to a class because it is supposed to be compe tent, and yet take no care that this class is com petent. The first reform is abundantly indicated by what we have said. There must be a proper legal education, and a proper examination to test the knowledge of the student. The next reform is to abolish the distinction between barrister and attorney. It acts most unfairly to the client. The client goes to his attorney for advice; the attorney, not caring to have the responsibility of giving advice, takes counsel's opinion. Not a few counsel, knowing that they depend upon the favour of the attorney, and suspecting that he has a weakness for costs, recommend proceedings as a matter of course. Tie client has no means of ascertaining the counsel's reasons. It is not etiquette for the first to call upon the second and cross-question him. If the client ' loses his cause he has no remedy. It is useless for him to say " You advised me to sue. You told me I was going to win. I did sue, and yet you see I have lost." As Mr. BAGEHOT positively says, " The man you can scold did not advise you ; and the man who did advise you you cannot scold." There is no such arbitrary distinction between adviser and advo cate .on the Continent or in the rest of the world. It is impossible to imagine any reason satisfactory to the suitor why it should prevail in England. In fact we have already abolished it in our minor courts. An attorney may plead in a county court or a Court of Bankruptcy. There is no good cause why he should not plead at Westminster or in Lincoln's Inn. One result would be that good lawyers,without pecuni ary resources sufficient to enable them to sustain ten years' enforced idleness, would be able to practice as attorneys until they had established themselves to act as advocates. Thus the profession, no less than the public, would benefit by this reform. Nevertheless the present system has so many advantages for the established lawyers, and does to such a large extent increase their earnings, that it is not probable the desired change will be speedily brought about. Lawyers are also law-makers, and experience has shewn how very slow they are to forward legislation which, however desirable it may be for the public good, inflicts p ecuniary loss upon themselves. TOPICS OF THE DAY. is again under the consideration of the House of Commons. THE GRAND JTJRY LAWS. When Parliament has finally disposed of the Land Bill, it will probably be called upon to reconstruct the grand jury system of Ireland, a system which at present is said to materially retard the progress of the country. Although it is admitted that the existing grand jurors are a class of men who are generally intelligent and practical, and who appear to have an interest in low county rates and their economical application, still it is considered a serious abuse that they should be allowed to retain the power of disposing of vast and unlimited sums of money. The fiating 'of the presentments is the only check on such proceedings; and although it is salutary, it is highly inefficient. Over a million of money is raised in Ireland by grand juries, and it is thought very unreasonable that they should exercise an almost unlimited control over the expenditure of this sum. The chief evil of the sys tem, however, is that grand jurors are actually self-elected men. In Ireland it is argued that schemes of local government conducted on the prin ciple of representation are the most successful, no only in being the best mode of educating the rural population, but also of economically applying the county rate. It is to be hoped that when the agi tation which is now threatened on the subject in the sister island is made manifest, that a reform in the whole system of local administra tion over the United Kingdom will also be demanded. It is absurd and discreditable to say that England must wait till her farmers are better educated than they are. A. class of men who have raised agriculture to its present flourishing condition, and who have mul tiplied the agricultural resources of the country by combining science with practice, who have spared no expense in making improvements in every way possible, can hardly be considered incompetent to manage their own local affairs in the proper and most honourable way. TUE TUG OF WAR. The Educational contest in the House of Com mons will come on in earnest this evening. Upon the temper in which it will be commenced, the hope of practical legislation of any kind upon this most important question during the present session will be entirely dependent. An opposition to a certain extent strong, and in a great measure irritated is arrayed—out of doors—against the scheme advanced by Mr. Forster, in the name of the Government. How far that outer op position may be enabled to find supporters in the House among the more independent of the national representatives yet remains to be discovered. The principal difficulty still is in reference to the vitally important matter of religious instruction. Mr. Dixon proposes that . religious and secular in struction shall, at each school, be imparted in sepa rate apartments. At many schools, however, there will be only one apartment. I❑ which case— What then ? Mr. Forster would reply, no doubt, Why, then, the Time Table Conscience Clause will come into effect as a means for extrication from the dilemma! Those who are fearful that another year may be lost without the hope of legislation upon the matter at all, insist upon it, that rather than run that hazard, the bill, as it is, should be summarily passed, and amended afterwards. A proposition, to our mind, however, altogether too rash and venture some. Rather than this, say we, delay one year longer. NOT IP WE KNOW IT Again Mr. Ayrton, with a sneer on his lips and an air of truculent pertinacity, is to-night going to try it on once more—in regard to that wretched little job about the Hyde Park and Kensington High-road, A Select Committee, is what he is going to ask for. To what end ? Why, simply and coolly to the end that this said committee shall endeavour to reconcile the public at large (so likely !) to the cutting off from the south of Hyde Park of a goodly strip of that cherished grass-land, well planted with trees, wholly and solely for the convenience of a p rivate speculation of a quasi-artistic character. Of course Mr. Ayrton, as in duty bound, now that he sits on the Treasury bench as a right hon.—not below the gangway, as a thornin the side of a ministry and the maddening catechist of an administration —of course, we say Mr. Ayrton wishes he may get what he asks for, meaning the Select Committee, and hrough the Select Committee, the coveted slice of Flyde Park. So do not we. So—we are tolerably well satisfied—does not the House of Commons. THE CONSERVATIVE PEERS AND THE LAND BILL. The Conservative peers have wisely decided to consider the Irish Land Bill on its merits, and to ' offer no factious opposition to the great measure of the session. They will not, however, abnegate their duty of proposing such amendments as in their opinion may tend to enhance the value of a bill neces sary for the well-being of the country, and for the removal of those heart-burning disputes between landlord and tenant which have been the principal, if not the sole cause of the unhappy and unsatisfac tory condition of a country containing in itself so many essentials of material prosperity. At the meet ing which took place at the residence o f t he Duke of Richmond, the speakers were unanimous as to the course proposed to be taken in the House of Lords; and while it was insisted that no attempt should be made to alter the principle of the bill, amendments will be proposed in committee in order to render the details consistent and effective. THE MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL. That a Legislative Chamber should think itself capable of digesting a bill containing no fewer than BM clauses, and dealing with interests so vast in their magnitude as the Merchant Shipping, is one of those things which ordinary mortals cannot under stand. There is no doubt as to the urgent necessity of the Merchant Shipping Code Bill; but on the other hand hasty legislation must lead to crudeness and inefficiency. That this is the view of the Government is acknowledged by Mr. Gladstone, and the assent given to the measure by the House of Commons in reading the bill a second time, can only be understood as implying a recognition of its prin ciples. The great evil of modern legislation appears to be a disposition to undertake the working out of the details of principles, instead of confining itself to the principles themselves; and this departure from the essential duties of the House of Commons is well exemplified in the vain attempts made to perform work which is seldom done with that com pleteness and finality necessary to success. The remedy shadowed forth by Earl Grey would have the effect of releasing both Houses of Parliament from a vast deal of unnecessary detail, and, would thus allow the Legislature more time to devote to measures of exigency. The noble lord advocates "the greater use of subsidiary authorities, in order to propose measures of legislation." In the codifi t cation of laws, subsidiary authorities would be more ' likely to effect the intention of the Legislature than I . vain discussion in an unwieldly assembly. REF - RI:St NTATIO/st OF MINORITIES. A correspondent of the Times calls attention to the fact that the Constitutional Convention of Illi nois has just adopted, by a majority of four to one, the principle of the representation of minorities. The State is to be divided into districts, each returning three representatives. Each elector is to have as many votes as there are representatives to be elected, and may either vote distributively, or concentrate his votes upon one candidate. The committee which originated the proposal reported that the adoption of the principle would relieve the voter from the despotism of party caucuses, and would also enable the virtuous citizens to elect the ablest and purest men. It will be remembered that great dis satisfaction was manifested by the Liberals at the result of the elections in the City of London and Manchester immediately after the passing of the last Reform Bill, when Mr. Charles Bell and Mr. Hugh Birlev, both Conservatives, were respectively returned for those places. The action of the State of Illinois is interesting at the present time, when the question ➢IR. DISRAELI AND THE CRITICS. The Daily Ne2vs has found out the reason of the attack made by Blackwood on Mr. Disraeli's novel. The distinguished Conservative leader has, it seems, a resemblance in more than his political creed to Dr. Johnson, who hated, or fancied he hated, Scotland and Scotchmen with a distinctness which made itself apparent on every opportunity. Mr. Disraeli has scoffed at the United Presbyte rians, whose Church was invented by two Jesuit priests, with the design of bringing Protestantism into disrepute. The author of "Lothair" has not only sneered at the coarse abundance of Scotch country houses, but at the boorishness of Scotch peers and the awkwardness of their provincial daughters, and the writer in the northern magazine, with the clanishness which is the distinguishing characteristic of our canny countrymen, has taken up the cudgels on behalf of his affronted fellows. But the Scotch critic is not alone in his condemation of "Lothair," for M. Edmond Scherer, in reviewing the book in the Temos, is as severe in his judgment, and says that the subjects set forth in the novel are childish, the romantic interest of the story is feeble, and the dialogue can scarcely be called original. M. Scherer is of opinion that Mr. Disraeli was never a great writer, nor even a great novelist, and he also states that the only things to be found in " Lothair " are "little nothings," and " amusing scandals." The author of " Con ' ingsby," the best political novel in the English language, and " Henrietta Temple," a love story which has few equals of its kind, must be terribly exercised by the critics, the " gentlemen who have failed in literature." But perhaps there is a patriotic raison d'être in this assault of the French reviewer. Mr. Disraeli has sneered at the oat-meal eating ten dencies of the Scotch: does the Daity News know of a disquisition on frogs by the same gentleman ? OUR SPORTING PREMIER. The Premier at the Derby was a wonderful event; Mr. Gladstone offering to bet is more wonderful still. It is but a step, however. On June let the First Lord of the Treasury formed one of the great congregation on the turf ; on June 14, during a debate (of all others) on the revision of the authorised version of the Scripture the Premier invites Mr. Buxton to a wager. Facilis descensus Averni. If there should be any doubt on the subject, witness this passage in the Premier's reply to Mr. Buxton's motion on Tuesday night. "My hon. friend supported his argument by saying that in the 17th century £30,000 was the actual cost in money of that version, and he said he thought it could not be done for less now. It appears to me that that was a very safe declaration; at least with this one qua lification—it will certainly not be done for less now, if it be done by public authority, by means of funds voted from year to year by this House. If my hon. friend were disposed to bet, I think he might safely bet that the figure of £30,000 would not be found excessive in that view of the case." THE CLERGY IN PRISONS. Hitherto, as the public are no doubt well aware, the appointment of prison ministers other than those of the Established Church has been left to the dis cretion of the different prison authorities throughout the country. The effects of this system have been very dissatisfying, and differences of an exceedingly painful character have been fostered, not only be tween the clergy of the different forms of religion themselves, but also between the inmates of the gaols, under their charge. Some time since a select com mittee was directed to inquire into the subject, and it will be looked upon generally as a happy result that they have now declared it highly impolitic that inequality in the working of the religious system of English prisons should be allowed to exist. Reli gious instruction, the Commissioners declare, should, as far as possible, be the same for Roman Catholic as for Protestant prisoners. They further recommend, in this report, that the authorities should be henceforth required by law to appoint Roman Catholic chaplains to institutions in which prisoners of their persuasion are confined. This is so in Ireland, and the plan has been attended with the best possible results. The mutual under standing between the ministers of both religions, who look upon each other as kindred labourers in the work of Christian reform,. and of propagating Christian living, does not fail to bring its due lesson home to the members of their respective flocks. VARIETIES OF PAUPENSNI. Superficial observers are in the habit of regarding paupers as all one class, whereas a little examination proves them to consist of a great many different classes. Some recently-published statistics supply us with instructive information on this point, The classes relieved are seven teen in number, and it is worth notice that in some unions men subject to fits or other temporary attacks are classed as able-bodied, though their ailments probably interfere with their getting their livelihood out of doors. The percentage of incapables in the Metropolitan workhouses is much larger than in the rural districts. In some of the former the number of able-bodied paupers is not more than sufficient to do the work of the house. By the return it appears that 31 per cent, of j the total out-door poor labour under old ago or permanent disability, 34 per cent. are women and children destitute from the death, absence, or desertion of husband or father, 34 per cent. are families, or single men destitute from sickness or want of work, and 0.8 per cent. are single women. The preponderance of pauper children in the metropolis is as melancholy as it is remarkable. It is attributed to the fact that there is less demand for their labour in London than in manu facturing towns or in the country. The sick paupers on the books of the metropolitan medical officers usually attain a per-centage varying from 32 to 48 per cent. of the total inmates of the workhouses. The actual able-bodied adults constitute, however, only 10 per cent., as the old people number 37 per cent., the children 8 per cent., and the imbeciles 0 per cent. Besides all these there are the children in district or separate schools, who add largely to the proportion of helpless pauperism. DEFAULTING COLLECTORS. Every ratepayer grumbles, not unreasonably, at the amount of poor rate which he is called upon to pay, but to know that not unfrequently such pay ments are made, not for the relief of the poor, but for the benefit of defaulting collectors, is certainly an aggravation of the evil. Yet we learn from the report of the Poor-law Board that several instances of the kind have occurred during the year among col lectors and assistant overseers, and in one case which occurred in Greenwich, where the rates are collected under a local Act, these defalcations reached a very serious amount. So large was the sum abstracted, indeed, that the Poor-law Board, not usually too active, was roused to inquire into the circumstances, when it appeared that the local Act, under which the collector had been appointed, did not provide sufficient checks. The defaulter was, accordingly, able, before the audit, to make up the deficiencies in the rate due, by receipts in respect of other rates which the auditor had no control over. It is at once apparent that if there be not an efficient system of checks and counter-checks, the collector has always the opportunity in dealing with sums so irregularly paid as the rates to balance one account against another, and escape detection by manoeuvring. The Poor Law report expresses a fear that until the col lection of all local rates is placed under the same responsible authority, it will be found extremely difficult, if not impossible, to prevent these frauds. The experience of Greenwich would be sufficient, we should imagine, to disenchant those districts ambitious of preserving the dignity of local acts. THE FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Latest accounts from Constantinople realise the worst anticipations regarding the loss of life and destruction of property at the great fire in that city, and in the vastness of the calamity the whole extent of evil wrought will in all probability never be fully known. The details, as they have come to us, how ever, are sufficiently harrowing. Upwards of a thousand dead bodies have already been discovered, and 2,400 are said to be missing. From seven to eight thousand houses have been re duced to ruins, an equal number of families rendered houseless and homeless, and the amount of property estimated to have been destroyed is over five millions in value. k faint idea of the desolation may be gathered from the fact that it covers not less than two square wiles. Some of the tales of woo related are most pitiful, especially with regard to the burning of little children, one instance being recorded where twelve poor little orphans in an Armenian school perished in the flames. The destruction of the palace of the British Embassy is said to have been through bad management, neither the engines nor the apparatus attached being in working order. Out of all this misery, however, comes the one redeeming feature, that nothing could exceed the generous efforts of the Moslem people to mitigate the suffer" ings of their Christian brethren. THE WEATHER ON THE CONTINENT. As in England, the long period of dry weather is beginning to cause serious apprehensions on the continent. The critical time at which moisture is required for the nourishment of the vines and wheat is almost passed, and in the majority of the French and German towns no " gentle rain" has fallen. The prolonged drought in the North of France has caused the ears of barley and wheat to shrivel up, and the straw this year will be only about half its usual length. Skilled agriculturists, moreover, fear that much of the grain crops have been baked at their roots. The potatoes have not yet suffered to any extent, but the turnip s have been visited by a plague of midges, brought into existence by the heat, which are eating up the crop everywhere. On pasture grounds not a fresh looking blade of grass shews above the ground, and old hay has assumed a fabulous price in the market. These remarks chiefly apply to the centre and northern portions of France. In the south things have been different. In the departments of the Bouches-du-Rhone, Vaucluse, Ildrault, and Alpes - Maritimes, showers have fallen within the past fe' days. The same change in the weather has also taken place in Western Italy. In these favoured places hopes are still cherished that all growing crops may yet be saved. Curious to say the harvest in Austria and Hungary, according to the report of the Austrian Minister of Commerce, is not threatened with any blight whatever. The weather has been satisfactory , and in Galicia and Bohemia, the yield promised 10 even said to be such as may lead to a very larg e export trade. M. OLIVIER'S OPINIONS. The Paris correspondent of the Independance Beig e says that M. Olivier begins to recognise the mistaßo he has made in oscillating from the Left to th e Right, instead of relying on the Left Centre, and 111 case of necessity on the Left. He has expressed JJIOI self in this fashion to Prince Napoleon, and an: nounced his determination of resuming more libera l ways. Ho even added that he would procure I ' o amnesty for the offences of the press. THE ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY. st The Paris papers are commenting upon the g re enterprise of a railway across the Gothard Pass, an d the question is to be discussed in the Corps Legis latif as to how far the interests of France null b° affected by an independent communication between Prussia and Italy. The French Government hag en' deavoured to allay these fears by publishing stat e ; ments in the Agence Havas and the semi - o fficial journals. There seems no reason to apprehend any serious consequences to the peace of Europe from th e construction of this line, while its importance asregard f ; commercial interests is very great. The proposea line is to run through Swiss territory, but as the expenses of its construction will be heavy, those collo' tries which will benefit by its working are to guaran tee the funds necessary for the project. The Swis s Minister at Berlin has been empowered to sign a convention with Count Bismarck, by which ,0 North German Confederation grants a subvention a' ten million francs to the St. Gothard Railway. 111 : French Government appear to have felt that Oi se question, being one of public right, gave them no c all a for interference, except so far as the neutrality Switzerland was concerned. -.,•.,,,_ . • . . ‘ . f., r .:;,,1, r - i •;*• - t'*;;"'l 7; ;P : Z q anal' -- - --- ' 4 ' 47 ) 3. , HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, A:10 orcl s J The Queen, with Princess Beatrioe, wont out Seat morning. `vent In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princes s Louise, out, attended by the lion. Eva Macdonald. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-W. The Cup Day at Ascot. The 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars' annual dinner, at the St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly. The M.C.C. and Ground v. Civil Service grand cricket match, at Lord's ground. SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS TO-DAY. The Numismatic Society's annueeting, at p.m. The Linnean Societs, at 8 p.m al m ., when Mr. J. T. Is-`" 4 : gridge will read a p a per on " Two Species of SeraPia'ai which occasionally present Semi-labelliform fater Sepals. The Royal Society's, at 8.30, p.m. The Society of Antiquaries, at 8.30, p.m. IM] Th e o'clock. The( Bristol not dul should Riote r ( raodati ventila REpi/ M x . lie sot of the of pars rural apeaki the r„.