The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-06 00:00:00

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John- s t ree t, trade Cork, beg- to announce that they are able to supply th e t with their celebrated Whiskies, In casks or cases, and to take ord ers in bond and for exprirtation, at their offices, 7, Printinz-house-square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupi ed by the " Times ." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies briny the hiewst prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as ma ybe observed b y reference to the " Journal of Commerce of Victoria," b y which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gailon and Is. per case over the next best, and Is. 6d per vallon and Ss. 6d a cum over the lowest quotation. Alway, on hand a iarrze supply of ye y old mellow whisky In the finest condition, matured in sherry caskts,reason ab unsurpale terms. ssable in quality and f lavour, supplied on th e Mos L_ RECEIVE AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum Theatre After Adeiphi Theatre After Olympic Theatre After Strand Theatre - E VANS' to SUP. After New [loyalty Theatre ...... EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Theatre....EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-garden, Vocal Entertainment at Eight K IN AHAN'S LL WHISKY. --DUBLIN EXH HUTTON, 1865. • This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Modal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole slaw. Sold in Bottles, 3s. 81., at the Retail Houses in London by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at R. GREAT wrsrnMlLL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red gel,l, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Rinallan's LL Whisky." COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, ant BUSIN F.SSES'. FUR' SS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertloa received until the 27th of the month at their AucrtoN AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5, Agar-street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. XTUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Inoorporytted by Aot of Parltament, MO), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of Security. Forms tree on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.—The AZTECS will leave for Italy on Monday next. No Complimentary Ti-kets will be received after Friday. En trance daily from Ole ti I Three, 55.; from Three till Five. 2s. dd. Histories, Is.; photographs, Is. TA PANES E.—FLORAL HALL, Covent garden.—The JAPANESE TROUPE Nvill have the honour to give their Gymnastic and other Performances EVERY EVENING (including SATURDAY) at Eight ; and WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY MORNINGS at Three. Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. Admission, ls. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office froin 10 till 5 ; also at Mr. Mitchell's, Old Bond-street; Austin's, St. James's Hall; and Keith, Prowse, and Co., Cheapside. N.B.—lt is re spectfully intimated that the Free List is suspended. T H X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. ILL TROVATO RE, in which Miss RUSSELL will ap pear. assisted by Misses Barrie and Fitz Henry; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Hulls, Fox. Husk, Evans. and Bury, with gxtra Band and Chorus ; produced and conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans On MOND VIC Nita r, THIRD TIME. the Classical Drama. The RUINS of ATHENS. Solo Cornet-a-Piston, Mr. REYNOLDS, of the Coldstream Gna-ds. COMEDY. by Messrs. HARRY SYDNEY, G. W. ROSS, and the celebrated JAPANESE JUGGLERS, the Brothers Bale, the Wonders of the World, at Ten o'clock this Even ing. lir. ROBT. FRASER, Comedian and Vocalist, will make his appearance THIS EVENING with his crop of comicalities and his new song, "THE BOY AT MITGBY." 3,IADAME B T A U K S E SA S U T D RE 'S E T. EXHIBITION, CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW ADDITIONS. —Life-size Models of the KINhIS and QUEENS of ENGLAND, from WILLIAM of NORMANDY to QUEEN VICTORIA Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, le. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra rooms, 6el. A RGYLL ROOMS. GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street. Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPIV EVEItY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Loot CURTL Manager, M. GLENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. WESTO N'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. Enthusiastic reception of the Grand Selection from Denizotti's favourite Opera of " LUCIA DI LAMMER MOOR." Principal vocalists —Edgard°, Mr. H. 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LUCIA DI LAIVIAIERMOOR at WESTON'S MUSIC lIALL.—The entire Press are of one opi nion that this Selection is the Greatest Hit of the season. Costumes by S. May, Bow-street. Free list suspended. Prices as usual. DUNVILLE'S V. R. OLD IRISH WHISKY BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. "V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4. BEA.UFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and sa f es t d r i n k i n t h e World."—Loadon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.U. , Wert the " Times." Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for 3 stamps, U-GLINESS and BEAUTY; bein g a Pamphlet the descriptive ot articles aryl means used Highm ing Liolborn, L aPpearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, onde, SPANISH FLY is the acting ingr, edient in ALEX. ROSS'S CAN FHA - RIDES 0 EL, which speedily rro cin oes whiskers and thickens hair, 3s 6d, 58 6d, and 1036 d 1;1"_ by post for 54, 84, and 141 st9.mps.— ALEX. ROSS, 248, `u2t. liothorn. London, and all Chemists. NVONDERFUL DISCOVERY.--Corns cured Thin Pre p aration one graduallyd uitna• ALEX. ROSS'S CEIEROPO. r e u ' rn " Preparation g dissolves the Corn in a few hours, ..- 2 4 710 9,* th+ , very root. Prim 1s; sent by post for 60 stamps. Holborn, London, and all Chemists. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 24 8 , Hi g h Holborn , London.—ALlCX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls ttadtes' or Gentlemen's hair immediately ft is spoiled. Sold t-1 4 r id, 5s 6d, and toe 6d ; sent free for 54, 81, and 144 stamps of all Chemists. t - .4- 11 Er HATE,.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE proiuoea a perfect colour t lr til . e liately It is nqed. It is ermsn , mt, and perfectly f a = al in effe t. Price 3s Ad, 5s 3d, and !o.i 6d; sent by post " t 54 , 81 and 141 stamps ; and all Cheml.ts. tfArR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, su Loadon.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILA.TORY removes to~puous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without eirect ah,,," 144 sf. skin. Price 3s ad 5s 64 ml of all Che l, mists.and 10s 6d; sent for 54, 'co/II:m-11 I CIMP LE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the Nr . t, akin are Improved by one dose of ALEX. ROS,'S GLE SK IN PILLS. They remove redness, 2s 9d 9d and 7s Sd ; or post for 40 and 100 at.tmos. rtiu'ta. ROSS, 243, 111 ;h Holborn, London, and all Che fs, - 1 11 4 1 1 , R COLOUR WASH.—By washing the ~1 . ten a e y a s i t v t i t :a i t r n ai rimessube t its 7 p i erfpmg sisal rem ins n colour, 1 108 411 tslonat os ACl)r;lgsennt al stai ' ps.—AL EX. 211 9 High Iloitorn, London, and all. Chemists. BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the l a th e ONDON HNICEOPAT MC HOSPITAL wish to ba attention oft heir friends t its position— A during the the ,Ye ar the beds have been a l mos t cons t an tly fill e d , an d gr at VL eei l ri on the resources of the Hosuital has conse . quentiy nincegrat. They trust, theretbre, that all the friends of ;hen), P a th, both in town and count-y, will rally round 1111 1 ,. ' , lid thus prevent the necessity of curtailing the use- Pl4,T:the Hospital by the admission of fewer patients res-;• 4 1 ) TIONS earnestly needed. Bankers Messrs. -"ltyff-Place, Regent- "'ad Co., Threldneedle-street ; and Union Bank, street, JOIIN R. WARREN, Clerk. 2 , Great Ormond-street, W.C. ......____ ( 9 1j i l t„ SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN and their "I 4 0 0 — 'RE WED WIDOWS and oitP HA NS. —Upwards •t Bros itsh th vselsish Is} es are annually wrecked, about 2,000 of e o Ilril I t AIMI,Ino part of the coast where the SHIPWRECKED ; is not represented by an Hon. cloihes (w j hen naked) and sends t.) their homes t ' l4 rie tsc `ce4 persans of all nations. and is the channel of its TheY to the bereaved widow.. and orphans of the drowned. naittee earnestly APPEAL for HELP. The die -44, year ways in The Voclety relieved 11,221 persons viz , ship aTeekcil men, widows, and orphans. milli, ions and subscriptions thankfully received by Messrs. ills, Deacon, and Co.; and by the undersigned, 4 ibe r FRANCIS E. Secretary. •ntuc hambere, London-bridge S.E. • 114 t RE SCITE SOCIETY wishes to add another ;!4o 'Zne to the 12 now o females pn. Lt elr nof r r w o e n r , Ittit 0; _Door, friendless, ln young. were rejected utt,, 41.1NDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have be n w 4;, In fire years. c Pl e n4. gh .,...? t rae the Committee wish to for m B wo . dld be for to 18, who b„;.'?,_ inmost children, from the age f 1, , j0,` I 6 .0 t astray from the path of virtue. b.±putiona will be received grittefully by ther Soudan , . okrmariel co o Per,o 85m,bud•e Qtteentree•otrt. eekCikeapside; Or by kietilrb 4144 C03 L No. 23,317. Now published at 3d., per post •id., • pAINLESS TOOTH. EXTRACTION ; or, Anmithesia Lowly Applied. By A. LL, , uraeOn-Delltl6t, Author of " Dent Li Surgery," " Pare Dentistry," 4.1. Simp .In, narsliall, and Co.; all booksellers ; or of the author, at his residence, 8, Grosvenor -street, Bond-street. • I'OHN GOF.'.NELL and CO.'S CHERRY .4 • Too 11l PASTE. is greatly enpeAor to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts s plemant fragrance to the breath Price Is, 64.—lied Bull Wharf. U 3, Upper Thames-street, London. THE SINGER, New Noiseless Lock-Stitch FAMILY SEWING MACHINES. Chief Office in the United Kingdom-147, Cheapside London. 3TANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per -11 fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. • EAU -DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 185. per gallon, is ry superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical protes4lon, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 3Ss. per dozen, or in a case 395., railway carriage paII.—HEN ItY BRE PT and CO., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1821 THOMSON'S "GL VE -FIT TI NG " co itsETs. An entirely new principle, with new Spring. Fastening.. Manuncturers of the " Prize Medal Crinolines." Trade 11,,rk, a " Crown." TEETH PAINLESSLY STOPPED, with per manent enamel cement of the natural colour. prevents unsightly patches, is equally durable, and for front teeth will be found invaluable. Mr. DAY, DENTIST, 291, Regent-street (3 doors from the Polytechnic). Many years with Mr. ESKELL, of 8, Grosvenor-street Bond-etret. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. REFRIES and SONS' • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS contain an entirely new an - I extensive Stock of TABLE GLASS, China, and Chau delier4.-147, Houndaditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIE-S and SONS' " NEW CITY SHOW Itoollli.—The w Oval-s hap ea ALEXANDRA DINNER. SERVICE, from £1 IBs. 6d.— 147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. 1 DEFRIES and SONS • NEW CITY SHOW ROO3IS.—BREA.EFAST and TEA. SERVICES in great variety, from £1 le. upwards.. 147, Floundsditch. NOTICE OP REHOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' J NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS contain a beautiful assor:ment of DESSERT SERVICES, from Zi Is. to 100 Er uinens. Creats and Monograms engraved on same. -147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. T DEFRIES and SONS ti • NEW din( SHO W ROO IfS.—CRYSTAL CHAN- D EWERS, New Designs for the Drawing-room. either for Gas or Candle, and to suit all kinds of Decorations. —ll7, Houndaditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. JDEFRIES and SONS' • hEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—RRONZi and OR MOLU CHANDELIERS in great variety. New Designs for the Dining-room-147, Houndsditeh. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SON S' t , • NEW CITY Si-LOW ROOMS.—The ALEXANDRA FLOWER VASE. This new and beautiful Vase can be E.e..n In great variety, from 33. to 30s. cach.-li7, Hounds ditch. NO ['ICE OF IMMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' eT• NEW CITY SIM Ar R,011.5. The NEW Jx - t , DINING ROME VASS. Registered designs, In great va•iety.—l47, ffouncl4clltch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. T DEF RIES ani SONS' cfi• NEW CITY SHOW ROOM?.—Ttio NEW PATENT ASTRA LAMP, for Petroleum ani M•neral Oils; also ;NYSTAL LA MPS an'l WALL LIULIT.S (registered) for Houndsditch. NOTICM OF ItEIIOVAL. JLEFRIES and SONS' • ISTRW CITY SHOW MOORS. TAVERN and HOTEL GLASS of the newest pa - terns and correct mea sure.-147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REROVAL. DEFRIESand SONS' .T. NEW crrY SHOW ROOMS. —ORNA AIENTAL CLOCKS for the DINING and DRAWING-RUOM.-117, lloundedlteh. NOTICE OF hEMOVAL: T DEFRIES a,nd SONS' t 1 • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.--nerehanti and the Trade supplied with PATTERN BOOKS FREE. 117, Houndeditch. Works—London, Birmingham, and Paris. Established 1803. R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip atm of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so pertectly rer , emb'e the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fro n the originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require toe extraction of roots, or any pain tul operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. THE BEST REMEDY 1 0 ,)It INDIGE aTION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which I+ the cause of nearly alt the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly crate fu' and beneficial, that it is with justice called the "Natural Strengthener of the human Stomach." "Norton's Pills " act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation, safe under any circumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to •he benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-iailing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 118, each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Re sure and ask for " NO PILLS," and do not be have sprung up persusdsd to p urchase any of the various imitations which CA3IO3IILE P ILLS. In , •onsequence of the success of NOILTUN'S R. scorrs LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—.A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre aired without any mercurial ingroltent, from the recipe of Dr. , cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all whc ~ffer from bilious and liver eomplaints, inligeatlen, wind. 41 ,4Rms, giddiness, Azainess of the eyes, &e. For habitua) ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier they Ore truly excellent; mild i n th e i r opera tioneful to The stomach, th ey create appetite, pro rivreptlon, and strengthen th e w h o l e nervous system. f the an b d lr x d t , P ra re t p e ared only and sold by W. Lambert, Chemist, q. King William-street, Charing - cross. London, and by moot drag and three times the quantity in one, ' to . i a lt s d k " for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The 2tla t 89 I g i c n n ß u be t x et. care s 2 r 2 a square greet; paokaae. with " William Lambert." evwravetl on the stamp. JOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and L 1 moatuaeful invention of the day, AGUkA.M Alt ELL a. news. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., lied Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous which Gradually restores tno human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarelia has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle. or in half bottles, 10s. 6.1. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. 0" HUNDRED and SIXTY-SEVEN DESTI PUTS ORPHANS are being maintained in the ALBERT' ORPHAN AST LUM, Collingwood Court, Bagshot, Surrey. FUNDS greatly needed for their support. CHARLES A. %TALKER, Sec. Offices, 06, Cheapside, E.C. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Volunt try Contributions. this Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was established at King's-cross in MO. Patients are admitted free. BANKERS —Messrs. Barnett, Ide+yds, and Co., GO, Lombard street; blesses. Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pall-mall. HON. SEC.—F. Smith, Esq. GEORGE REID, Sec. THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has -a- URGENT NEED of FUNDS. —Donations and Sub scriptions will be thankfully received by Aterisrm. D;rnsd a ,t e and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Metal's. Drummond and Co., Ch cross; hlesm•s. Coutts and Co.. Strand ; Aleut's. Hoare, Fleet-street; and by the undersigned, at the Hospital, Liverpool-raad, N., CHARLES FINN, Sec. pOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn- roa d, 4.) in the immediate violnity at the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, icing's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Xajesty the QUEEN. Vim-Patron—llls Royal lllgbHessthePrinceof WA LE q,ll 0 . President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUC El. K.U. This Hospital, founded in the year IS2S, the first to estab lish the principle of fru admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and t,4acies. It affords relief to a large number of in-pa It eta, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr 'nines of this Hospital are capable of containing several h‘ndred more beds had the Committee the requisite thuds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by rdesers. Contts and Co.; Drummond and Co.;• Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith , Payne, and Co. ; Barclay a n d C o . ; Willi ams , Deacon, an Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bizners-street : sad at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. BTAIVQ4I2 1914 Pat Oggetteh •- /) ~I T h :- • 21 14 t. ,4 I f . Sfr i "4. 1 _ - . . o , . \ - I -.,,, \ • , • - „., i -;--' o 7: o c \ k s :?lis • "'DIE c 'Afer.: — DROIT I d n •• THE SUN, LONDON, WEI).NESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1867. NOTICE. unity was maintained only by doing nothing. The " fatal fifth Resolution" slipped in among the thir teen, if not without the knowledge of sonic of the Cabinet, certainly without being understood by them. General Peel objected to it, but was tell that it was a matter of figures. It was not instil the 16th, or four days after the Resolutions ware laid on the table, that Lord Crauborne learnt the sense in which his colleagues interpreted it. He thcn believed it was abanloael ; but it appeared ag -in on the 19th, sup ported by statistical calculations, and from that time till late on Sunday evening Lord Cranborne studied them, finally arriving at the conclusion that he could not support the Resolution. Lord Carnarvon, we may suppose, arrived simultaneously at the same conviction ; and General Peel, finding two of his colleagues agreed with him, recurred to his original opinion. It is n o t creditable to any one that vital questions should be thus bandied about, at the very time that Parliament was amused with a show of action ; and the good -nature which prompted Lord Derby to give up the plan of Reform he thought best for the country in order to preserve his colleagues was criminal weakness. It is by such good-nature that Continents arelost, and Kingdoms reduced to the verge of civil war. Lord North's good-nature in carrying on the attempt to coerce the American colonies, and Mr. Pitt's good-nattire in sacrificing the Catholic claims to the prejudices of a king, are properly reckoned as blots on their fame as statesmen. Lord Cranborne himself declares that he thought from the first Lord Derby's good-nature was mistaken ; and the result shows that it only served to postpone a decision which was inevitable. The mischief has, however, been done; the mistake has been made,' has been repented of, and, as far as possible, has been corrected. That such an occur rence was possible may make us anxious for the future, by filling us with doubt whether a similar error may not at any moment be repeated ; but, ex cept as a warning against such a disaster, it is use less to dwell upon a transaction little to the credit of English sagacity or English statesmanship. THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE ON "Mn. BRIGHT S SPEECHES."—The conditions of oratory and speech making are, no doubt, very different in England at the present time from what they were in Athens in the days of. Demosthenes. But there is one thing in which there is little difference, and that is, the enthusiasm with which eloquence affects the audience that listens to it. Whether it is that Mr. Bright finds his hearers benevo lent or makes them so, it is certain that those who so frantically cheered him last autumn at the Town Hall of Birmingham, the Free Trade Hall of Manchester, and at the other great meetings that were closed by the most triumphant of all, that at St. James's Hall, on the 4th Decem ber, cannot at the moment have felt very differ ently from what the Athenian demos, felt in hear-: ing the oration on the peace or on the affairs of the Chersonesus. Mr. Bright's greatest oppon ents confess that he is one of the foremost of English orators. It may be worth while to try to find out what the character of his eloquence is, and to show how far he has a right to such high praise. With the cause he represents, we have nothing to do at present, except to state that, whatever may be its merits, it is at least not transparently immoral, and therefore it can be no bar to his being considered a great speaker. It is obvious to remark, at starting, that Mr. Bright speaks to the multitude. There are, how ever, two kinds of orators who speak to the multitude—those who wish the multitude to do something itself, and those who wish the mul titude to make some one else do something. In other words, there are speakers who try to make the people build up, and speakers who try to make them pull down. It is needless to say that the second class of orators has far the easier task. Caius Gracchus, when he urged the Roman plebs to demand their share of the public lands, found it less difficult to make an impression than Demosthenes when he pressed the Athenians to tax themselves and march against Philip. Mr Bright belongs, of course, to the second divi sion, and he seems to belong to it not merely by the accident of finding it.in his way to conduct a Reform agitation, but quite as much because it comes natural to him to pull down and get other people to pull down, and because it would require rather an artificial effort than otherwise for him to be'as vehement about building up. It is im possible to read these autumn speeches without coining to the -conclusion that they owe as much to the Tories, to Mr. Lowe, and to the present social state of England generally, as they do to their author, or even to their audience. It is unpleasant to think how much we should have lost in the way of withering denunciation, telling facts and catching sarcasm, if Lord Derby had continued a Radical, or if Mr. Lowe had never uttered his so-called slanders on the working class. No greater misfortune could have befallen the present literary season than the passim" of a satisfactory Reform bill last summer. Manches ter, Birmingham, and Glasgow would have been stagnant, not in trade, but in speech ; the Re form platforms in their great halls would have been packed away in pieces, like the French tri bune, and Mr. Bright would, perhaps, have gone to America and by this time have quite cor rupted his pure English evil communications with the House of Representatives. Happily for the interests of oratory, the wooden dragon against which it is his work to till is still erect in the temple of the Philistines, and his blows may still be heavy, straight and crushing, with the satisfactory feeling that they are not beating the air. It is no new thing to notice how a stout, hard-dying abuse benefits the knight-errant who attacks it. And the benefits that it confers are not at tended with many drawbacks. It is not neces sary that the champion put his neck or his for tune in danger, or that he betake himself to soli tude or asceticism. Abuses generally last by they have few open perso n al inherentfriends ; aod vitality ; any y reformer who can hit suffi ciently hard and aim sufficiently straight is sure to be backed both by those who want the abuse knocked down because it is an abuse, and those who, in a more artistic spirit, want it down merely because it happens to be up. Mr. Bright leads the way and shouts over his shoulder to animate his followers to the attack of the great Tory fortress of exclusiveness, and the few de fenders that show themselves on the walls either querulously expost u l a t e an d pro t est t h ey are coming down to op en t h e door, or i n di gnantly call the attention of neu t ral by-standers to the amount of dirt he throws b e t ween the i ntervals of flourish ing his mace. This is very safe work. He could only endanger himself by mere wantonness of provocation. But though safe it is glorious to a certain extent. Strength of any kind is sure to command admiration. People who admire Coeur de Lion crushing a Saracen giant, with the possibility of the Saracen giant's crush ing him, will also admire the man who carries six the franchise, and with the level and monotonous aspect of the tract of lan guage i n w hi c h these statistical plants grow. But a less superficial ex amination, and some little attempt to place one's self in the position of one of Mr. Bright's spe cial public, will show that such a judgment is r n i ot only unfair, but co n t rar y t o soun d; criticism. There is no argument that carries such conviction to the mind of a class unused to weigh argument of any kind as an argumen t f rom ar i t h met i c. Th e plainest truths of the me t a phy s i ca l or d er are slip pery in the grasp of the working man, and the facts of physic a l sc i ence h e di s b e li eves a lt oge th er if they are at all out of the way; but with plain figures there is no juggling and no escaping, and they carry a sort of cabalistic fascination with them, just because they are simple an d pl a i n . The working man cannot understand Mr. Mill on Representative Government, much less Mr. Disraeli on the representation of minorities ; but the argument that out of (every hundred Englishmen only sixteen have the franchise stirs him up better than any trope in all the old grammarians. Nearly every one of these speeches puts thi s f ac t i n a pro minent place ; indeed, it may be cons id ere d as M r Bright's wand with which he conjures and sum mons to his command the h a pl y - s l um b er i ng spirits that must do his work. But figures, like fire, when they get the upper hand of their master (and they. are very apt to do so) are sad tyrants. A bad speaker cannot handle figures ; like a pack of hounds with a new huntsman, they stray, they lag, they go on ahead, they fall out and snap at each other, but it is seldom they kill anything. Mr. Bright is a master of his figures. Without saying that he is perfectly impartial using them, or denying that he sometimes uses only those he requires, no one can read the speech at Manchester, for instance, without feeling what eloquence can bring out of figures. The " con firmation." used to be an important part of a speech in the old masters ; and Mr. Bright's con firmation is often a bristling array of numbers that break the enemy's line like the wedged attack of the Theban phalanx. Next to this arithmetical feature, must be noticed the exceeding plainness and traightforwardness of the language. Speeches with so little strain in them are hardly to be named. There is no sentence that begins in the middle ; none that has to distort itself in order to get its feet on the ground again ; no barbarism of phrase caused by want of an apt word ; no in tricate systems of conjunctions to run the speaker out of breath. The last characteristic it is worth the reader's while to verify. If any one, groan ing under the tyranny of " since's " and " not withstanding's," feels curious to see how speeches of unusual power can be made with almost lite rally no assistance from these exacting servants of . all work, let him spend half an hour over Mr.kßright. He will rise refreshed, and, if he has to write or speak, so will his audience when they next meet him. To an unexperienced reader the limpid clearness and easy flow of Mr. Bright's oratory seems commonplace ; but the truth is that this perfect concealment of all effort is just one of those facts of genius that are the most un common things that happen. But patient and skilful repetition of argument and lucidity of language do not of themselves make a great ora tor. They are rather the tests that his work is good and honest than the qualities that raise it to the sublime or the beautiful. Without sacrific ing these necessary conditions, Mr. Bright goes far beyond them. To read one of his speeches•is like walking by the side of a • pleasant river and sud denly coming upon the thunder and majestic beauty of a rocky fall or cataract. You are startled and surprised into admiration ; yet when you look back it is evident how gradually nature has risen to her climax. If one or two passages in each of Mr. Bright's speeches were cut out the speech would not be greatly above the level of many others ; it might possibly pair off with one of Mr. Horsman's or Mr. Whiteside's. But it is just Mr. Bright's power of rising to a climax that makes his speeches what they are. A grand and elo quent passage, introduced in the right place, is far more than a mere ornament to be looked at by itself. It is the very life and soul of the previous context. It is the centre and the focus that gives meaning and vitality to everything. It is the spark of electricity that fires the powerful elements which argument has been silently evolving from the hearts of the listeners. It is the stroke of genius which turns calm admiration into f ran ti c enthusiasm, and makes an audience spring to their feet in a tempest of irrepressible cheering. Such is the now celebrated passage about the " vol cano," at St. James's Hall. Such are many of the passages which conclude the speeches. We will quote two, not perhaps the finest, but the most a h r a e nd eo y n ; preceding, and that it will not do to look at them bl reminding d t h s eu suppose a o d s e e r a , e h h o a w i n e v o e f r , that th e eloquencethey Birmingham in last August. He has been urging his hearers to union and energy, and he con cludes a powerful appeal thus : " The address which has been presented to me has re ferred to 1832. I remember that time well. My young heart then was stirred with the trumpet blast that sounded from your midst. There was no part of this kingdom where your voice was not heard. Let it sound again. Stretch out your hands to your countrymen in every part of the three kingdoms, and ask them to join you in a great and righteous effort on behalf of that freedom which has been so long the boast of English men, but which the majority of Englishmen have never yet possessed. I shall esteem it as afr honour which my words cannot describe, and which even in thought I cannot measure, if the population which I am permitted to represent should do its full duty in the great struggle which is before us. Remember the great object for which we strive. Care not for calumnies and lies. Our great object is this : to restore the British Constitution in all its fulness, with all its freedom, to the British people." At Glasgow, on the evening of the 16th October, Mr. Bright, after enlarging on the changes that social and political reform would work in dimin ishing ignorance and misery, concluded as fol lows : " I believe that ignorance and suffering might be les sened to an incalculable extent, and that many an Eden, beauteous in flowers and rich in fruits, might be raised up in the waste wilderness which spread before us. But no class can do that. The class which has hitherto ruled in this country has failed miserably. It revels in power and wealth, whilst at its feet a terrible peril for its future lies—the multitude which it has neglected. If a class has failed let us try the nation. That is our faith, that is our purpose, that is our cry —let us try the nation. This it is which has called together these countless numbers of the people to demand a change ; and, as I think of it, and of these gatherings, sublime in their vastness and in the resolution, I think I see, as it were, above the hill tops of time, the glimmerings of the dawn of a better and a nobler day for the country and for the people that I love so well." C. F. HANCOCK, SON,"& CO., JEWELLERS AND SILVERSMITHS TO THE QUEEN AXD PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, And by Special Appointment to the principal Sovereigns and Courts of Europe, Beg respectfully to state that their only Address is 33 & 39, BRIHON-STREET, CORNER OF BOND-STREET. AWARDED TO C. F. HANCOCK : Great Exhibition, 1851—Council Medal fur Originality and Taste. Paris Exhibition,lBss—Gold Medallic) d'Honnour. International Exhibition, 1862—Prize Medal, for great Excellence of Design and Manufacture. No doubt, other causes besides merely literary ones are to be counted among the re a s ons o f Mr. Bright's popularity. Verba placent, et vox, et quod corrumpere non est. He says what his audience like to hear, and his physical qualifica tions are eminent, and he is believed to be thor oughly honest. Unpalatable truth is not often cheered, and that is one reason why, it is gene rally uttered with such little heart ; for eloquence requires an audience as well as an orator. If Mr. Bright were to cast another,-and perhaps a more genuine, kind of pearls before the men to whom he is so fond of appealing, they would not impro bably turn upon him and tear him. As to hon esty, it may be remarked that people who wear and walk 'about in the shaggy coat of rough vituperation often get an easy reputation for being honest, as long as there is nothing to do but denounce, and as long as their honesty confines itself to being very candid about the failings of their audience's opponents. Perhaps Mr. Lowe's opinion of Mr. Bright's singleness of purpose, and uncoloured veracity of assertion, . would not be .so flattering as that of his admirers at Man chester and Birmingham. But whatever may be said of his matter and his honesty, there is no question about his elocution. If it be a physical pleasure to listen to a good voice even with the drawback of moral pain from the conviction that it is uttering nonsense, what must it be to listen to such a voice as Mr. Bright's rolling in the full sweep of one of his magnificent perorations? No wonder that people go to Reform meetings " to hear Bright ?" Beaks, strong in academical ,hon ours,Th Dickson, used to command men, even e O'Donogliue, full of native fire, must yield the palm, like old Timothcus, for whatever feats they may perform in raising their fellow-mortals to the skies, none but Mr. Bright can draw down visita tions of honour from the divinities of the floor and the galleries, and from the rather surly angels of the literary press. It would be advisable that when Mr. Bright speaks no other bark should be heard ; much less that, according to recent prece dent, three or four speakers should hold forth simultaneously with him in the same room. In order to deter Mr. Beales or Mr. Potter frombeing so imprudent as to try this in their next pro- ; gramme, we recommend to their notice an an ecdote from Quinctilian :—" When Trachallus spoke ha seemed to tower above all competi tors ; his height was great, his eye glanced with fire, his presence was commanding, his ges tures admirable, and his voice not, as Cicero wished, equal to tragedian's, but better than. any other men on his back, with no danger except, perhaps, to his burthen. In a crowd of would-be competitors, Mr. Bright shoots with a bow that few can bend except himself, and, though there is no danger of anything serious being shot back, peo ple undeniably admire the shooting an d go t o see it. Something to pull down, and sa f e t y t o ac complish the p oratory lishit,s seem mofth be the fa voura bl e cond i t i ons for a demagogue. Not but what there are plenty of examples of demagogues throw ing consequences to -the winds and running the most momentous risks ; but this is generally when there are two demagogues in the field, and the question is, which is to be sacrificed. As a rule, the demagogue who forgets the great rule of pulling down, or the great postulate of safety . , either loses his public or disappears him self with more or less violence. Cleon, prince and prototype of demagogues, got on well enough until he unluckily involved himself in an engage ment to do something better than some one else. He had been abusing the military authorities, and imprudently uttered the gratuitous bounce that he could handle an army better himself. Nicias, the general, took him at his word ; what was worse, the Athenian people, incorrigibly fond of a joke, took him at his word also; and Cleon, after an ineffectual attempt to shuffle out of it, had to begin military life as commander-in-chief. The consequence was that, after encountering some little blind good-luck, he got miserably de feated and lost his life. Let this be an awful warning to Mr. Bright Let him never pledge himself to conduct a Reform Bill, or to carry a scheme of tenant-right. If he does, he might possibly be taken at his word, and then, in the perils and anxieties of construction, he will sigh for the pleasant days of safety and demolition. The reader who takes up these sp eec h es w i t h t h e eloquence expectation ofwill revelling probably in passages of exciting be disappoint e d. E ven after making due allowance for the difference between Mr. Bright in print and Mr. Bright on the platform, he will be inclined to rate them as possessing no higher claims to oratory than a fluent arrangement of figures, not of speech, but of arithmetic. He will be bored by a continual repetition of calculations as to how many of the 11010 any of Englaud'A tutizAuf4 • An without • - .....--- 7 • ,ct 4 te.:. ... : k. j.. \-47 Vre.`,. • 0 .3' *FCPCi - ?' , -,, ,,,tte - 0 :: 4 . ~.....gir; / ai 7 " ----''') ' ' - i'..r dpi ' 11.1.; , - - -_ - ; ) / / t / - t.. afaelnalVlAgelECWeeipt of your letter of yosteikly's Op, S - requesting his Excellency to bring under the notice of their -......._____80yal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales proposed cattle and horse show of Ireland, in the hope .... that theirßoyalHighnesses might be induced to be present on the occasion. " His Excellency desires me to state, in reply, that it will afford him groat pleasure to accede to your lordship's request, and that he will not fail to submit the matter in due form to his loyal Highness. " I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant, • "G. Dusos. " The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." Shortly after 11 yesterday the various regimentsof the gt r riso n , under the command of their res,,ec tive colonels, were marched to the Fifteen Acres, for the purposl of being r,:viewed by General Cunyngliaute. Several thousand persons hail as sembled. The Lord Lieutenant was present, wish Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Ladies Maud, Al.. bertha, and Georgina Hamilton (on horseback), attended by Lieuts. Wodehouse and Oswald, Aides de-Canis. The Marchioness of Abercorn, Lord. and Lady Alexander Russell, and Mrs. Willis were in two carriages, with four horses and outriders. . The Vartry reservoi r h as b een comp l ete l y emptied, without any inconvenience. The engineers will soon find the cause of the leakage. General Massey, of the United States army, said to be commander-in-chi e f of the army of the Irish Republic, was arrested yesterday at the Limerick Junction, and brought to Dublin. Troops have been concentrated at the Limerick Junction. Chests sufficient to fill ten large floats arrived by steamer to-day, containing breech-loading guns. JacEson, lately arrested in a collier, is Captain M'Cafferty, who was to lead the Fenian army. 1 he Government gets information of every move ment. /' ~ 7% - > / / PRICF 4d. STAMPED sd. tragedian's I ever heard. Ile was once pleading in the Julian Hall ; four cases were going on at once in different parts of the building, and there was a great noise ; but I well remember that all the foul' audiences heard, understood / and ap plauded him, to the grea t di sgust of the other speakers. 'But this,' concludes the Roman critic, aimiriagly ; this is a thing to dream of, and one hasn't often such ruck." It is quite possible, however, that Mr. Bright might have it. So let the League be warned,in time! The Clerkeuwell Casual Wards. Last evening the guardians of Clerkenwell were engaged in another investigation with regard to the management of the casual wards, when some facts of public interest were detailed. Complaints have been made from time to time of the refusal of the persons placed in charge of these words to carry out the law by admitting the applicants for relief, and the reply given on nearly all occasions has been that the casuals have been intoxicated, and the persons interceding for the casuals have been insulted. The present complaint was made by Mr. Bassinger, a parishioner of Clerkenwell, who stated that on pass ing the wards one wet evening, about 9 o'clock, he saw a woman outside, to whom the superintendent, Runciman by name, was refusing admission. Mr. Bassinger and other persons applied to the superin tendent to admit the woman, but Runcimau told them to go away, accompanying his demand by the assertion that they were costermongers and crimi nals, acting, so the witness described, in a filthy manner towards Mr. Bassinger's son. This led to high words, in the midst of which some of the guar dians came up, one of whom afterwards said the woman was not intoxicated, and she was then taken into the wards. The evidence of Mr. Bassinger was corroborated by Mr. Dalton, a person residing in the neighbourhood, who said he was in the habit of passing by these wards and had often seen persons refused re, lief, and hadseen disturbances there. The woman, he said, was not intoxicated, and hefelt very indignant to think that a woman should be kept out on the wet stones. It was elicited by Runciman himself that he had been heard by the witness using shameful lan guage to the casuals. Mrs. Gibbs, a resident in Clerkenwell-close, near the casual wards, also de posed to hearing the bad language used by Rand man. She deposed to Runciman's violent and in sulting behaviour towards herself on more than one occasion, and then proceeded to give a remarkable piece of testimony, from which it was gathered, to the evident astonishment of the guardians, that the casuals had to pass naked through an open yard in therear, where they could be seen by the neighbours, and she had had to move in consequence, as she had a growing family. The guardians, from some re marks which were made, seemed to wish it should be inferred that this degrading and cruel custom was not now practised. Runciman brought as his witnesses the porter William Taylor and a police-constable named Walter Colby. Both thes3 denied hearing any bad language used by Runciman, but the former was not present the whole time, and the latter gave his evidence in such a manner that the guardians said they had heard enough. Runciman then de clared solemnly that he had not used the words at tributed to him, and afterwards that he did not be lieve he used them. He declared also that the woman was " beastly drunk," Mr. Glover moved that Runciman and his wife should be immediately dis missed, and expressed himself shocked with the evi dence which had been brought forward by Runci man. Mr. Drayton seconded the motion, which was supported by Mr. Croucher and Mr. Poley. At the request of several guardians the motion was altered to one calling upon Ruuciman and his wife to resign immediately, and this was carried unani mously. A resolution was also moved that Taylor should be reprimanded for the manner in which he had given his evidence, but this was lost on a show of hands, the guar dians desiring to proceed to the next business. At one stage of the proceedings an endeavour was made to close the proceedings to the reporters, a motion being made by Mr. J. W. Hopkins that the inquiry should be conducted in committee. This was not seconded. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty has been pleased by an Order in Council, dated Feb. 26 last, to authorise time served as mate or as sub-lieutenant to count towards the period of service required,to qualify captains, com manders, and lieutenants for naval and Greenwich Hospital pensions. Yesterdayan order was received at Chatham from the Admiralty, countermanding that previously given for the ironclad ship Northumberland, 26, 6,620 tons, 1,350 horse power (nominal), to pro ceed this morning to Devonport, the paddlewheel steamer Medusa, Master-Commander T. 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More than twenty years have elapsed since England has witnessed a similar convulsion of par ties and conflict of opinions. The past twelve months haVe been a time of growth and expansion of ideas. Legislation that was thought uncalled for and unne cessary is now confessed to be inevitable, and as a great change of our electoral organisation is immi nent, many, who would willingly have put off the task of Reform altogether, believe the truest patriot ism and soundest Conservatism recommend a broad and generous act of enfranchisement, which will stay agitation, rather' than a niggardly concession, which will prolong discontent by irritating those who are still excluded. If this be a true descrip tion of the state of affairs, it is plain that acri monious invectives and personal recriminations are out of place. At any rate, it is to the last degree undesirable that the Government should be assailed for what it is about to propose, until something is known of what it is to be; and Lord Stanley only recalled the House of Commons to a consideration of simple justice when lie asked that the measure should not be condemned before its provisions had been explained. Some explanation of the retirement of Lord Cranborne and General Peel was, of course, due to the House of Commons, especially after the revelations with which the House of Lords had been favoured on Monday night ; nor is it possible to avoid many painful re flections on the picture the retiring Ministers give us of the Cabinet they have left. The gallant con fession of regret made by General Peel for his hasty expressions of last year was the only bright point in the retrospect. It is too evident that the Ministry became divided immediately the necessity for deci iii924 Arose, and that the appearance c peace and IRELAND. DUBLIN, March 4. Sir It. Blennerhasset, foreman of the Kerry grand jury, addressed his brethren on Thursday on the sub ject of the Fenian conspiracy, and the prompt action of the Government in putting down the recent at tempt at insurrection. He appealed to every Irish man, be he a Fenian or a Fenian sympathiser, whether he considered he was really doing any ser vice to his country by helping this movement—a movement which could do nothing else but bring strife and confusion into Ireland. The whole effect of it must b.) to hinder the development of our com merce, paralyse our trade, and even affect seriously the national credit; and therefore, putting it upon the mere point of patriotism, it was a most criminal and a most un-Irish thing for these persons to con tinue in the line they have taken up. As regards the Government itself, it is the first Irish Government they have had for a long time. Numbers of its members are Irishmen, and certainly in the com mencement of their career they have acted in the most generous manner, and decidedly with mercy. There would be no opposition to this resolution, thanking the Government for the prompt and ener getic manner in which they acted at so critical a moment. The Knight of Kerry, in seconding the resolution, asked what they would think if the Go vernment put one million of fresh taxation upon them, and whether they thought £1,000,000 would represent the loss which the country had sustained by the Fenian movement. He mentioned the case of an English commercial traveller who came expecting his usual orders, amounting to £2,000, but he could not getorders amounting to £lO. They could not too heartily thank the Government for its exertions. He wished he could believe the movement was less serious than it is. But they had reason to think it was sympathised with to an extent that was very unpleasant. He expressed his great admiration for the address of Bishop Moriarty, who had put the saddle ou the right horse, condemning not only the Fenians, bat those who had encouraged that most injurious conspiracy. Mr. Coltsman next addressed the grand jury. He said the objects of the Fenians were communistic—to level all ranks of society, and destroy property. He was sorry to say that the conspiracy was far more extended than people imagined, but he trusted that Irishmen would see the fruitlessness of attempts at rebellion, and when they did, the inevitable result would be the prosperity, welfare, and happiness of their coun try. The resolution passed unanimously. A letter from Cork states that Michael J. O'Sulli van, a national teacher, who had been traced by the police since January, 1860, was arrested on Satur day at Donoughniore station on a charge of treason felony. Arrests continue to be made from time to time of suspicious -looking persons who arrive here from Liverpool, a detachment of the constabulary being constantly posted at the wharf. A young man named Carey was arrested iu Fa:lard on Wednesday last by Mr. Monahan, 5.1., under a warrant transmitted by the Lord Lieutenant, and conveyed on the same day to Clonmel Gaol. lie is charged with being implicated in the Fenian movement. In reference to the Crown Solicitorship, vacant by the death of Mr. Maxwell Hamilton, and said to be worth £2,000 a year, the Daily Express observes that the North East Circuit will be divided into three districts, and adds its earnest hope that the Government will, in making their appointments, act on the principle of rewarding those who have laboured for them in adversity, and not of purchas ing the adherence of that class of doubtful followers who are willing enough to share the fruits of pro sperity. It is not often that an opportunity has been affcrded to a Conservative Government of re warding, to some extent, the services they have te ceived from the attorneys and solicitors of Ireland at many a hard-fought fight, and that now pre- rented must not be allowed to pass unimproved: The troops in garrison assembled at 11 o'clock on the 4th on th 3 Fifteen Acres, Phoenix Park, for review under General Cunynghame. It is under- stood that orders have been given to complete the 92d _Highlanders to a strength of 950 non-commis sioned officers and men by the Ist of April next, the regiment being intended for foreign service during the summer. General M'Alurdo made an inspection of the 83d Foot in Richmond Barracks on Saturday. This regiment is expected to leave Dublin for Gibraltar about the end of this month. The 83d Regiment made the highest score for the silver cup last week, and won the prize by several points. Orders have been sent to the several regi ments on home service to hold in readiness the armourers of each corps for proceeding to the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield for instruction in the mechanism of the converted Enfield Snider rifles. DUBLIN, March 5. The commission for the county of Waterford was opened yesterday by the Right Hon. Mr. Justice O'Hagan. There were only seven cases in the calen dar. Of these, two arose out of the recent election for the county —one being a case in which a mob rescued from a body of soldiers a number of con victed prisoners under the impression that they were voters, and the other au organised attack upon troops who were escorting voters. Such attempts, said his lordship, to hinder the free exercise of the I franchise must be repressed. lie regretted to find that, out of the largo number of 38 offences com mitted since last assizes, in 23 cases the offenders had not been made amenable. He regretted that the Crown had determined not to send up bills in regard to the loss of the two lives at Dungarvan during the late election, as by so doing they would have set in motion an inquiry which might have elucidated the circumstances connected with that unfortunate occurrence. Chief Justice Monahan, who opened the assizes at Mullingar yesterday, found Westmeath in a very unsatisfactory state, a great many crimes having been committed with impunity. Recently an agra rian outrage bad been committed, but such was the state of terrorism existing that the victim, who had been almost murdered, declined to furnish any in formation. Cases of malicious burning and sending threatening letters had also occurred without any person being made amenable. Ile did not attribute this to any want of vigilance on the part of the con stabulary; but he must add that the state of the county required the serious attention of the grand jurors. There was no civil business of any kind for trial. The grand jury of Kerry, on the motion of Mr. Coltsman, seconded by the Knight of Kerry, have resolved unanimously to raise a subscription for a testimonial to Constable Duggan, whose heroic con duct they praised very warmly. They passed a vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Magin, who re monstrated with the insurgents, and gave warning to the police. The magistrates of Killarney were like wise thanked for their energetic conduct in connexion with the late outbreak. William Walsh, alias Dono van, and Patrick Ludd, the two men arrested recently in Passage by Head-constable Hoare, suspected of complicity in Penianism, were brought up on a second remand, at the Tuckey-street Police-station, Cork, on Saturday last, where a private investi gation was held into the charges against them. They were again remanded. The following letter has been published : '""Dublin Castle, March "My Lord—l am directed by the Jorcl Lieutenant to 7 oc_ NEW NOVEL BY LADY CHARLES TIIYNNE. 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