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It is, therefore, no mater of sun rise that he should enjoy the reputation of being a most dexterous and skilful maniptf ator with urethral instruments; and when it is remembered that the iamented Liston used to assert that the introduction of instruments through a stricture which had previously been impermeable to them was the most difficult in the whole ranee of surgical operations, it must be no slight source of gratification on Mr. 'ourtenay's part to have achieved the reputation he has in this res ect ; and for our part, with the knowledge we have of hiS exnetience. we know of fl i M^^ r^ ."^ . ^ r , re we would with greater connuence entrust she treatment of a severe case of of the urethra."—Medical Circa' ar. . . ALLSOPP'S EAST INDIA PALE ALE, as specially ordered for SCUTARI, recommended by BARON LIEBIG and the most eminent members of the medical profession, in Bottles and Casks (18 OFdlons and upwards), imperial measure. Address: HARRINGTON. 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R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL. , Oetavius Wigram, Esq., Governor. The'Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville, Sub-Governor. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Deputy-Governor. :TORS. DIREI James gtewart Hodgson, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. HOW RUSSIA otiom TO BE DEALT WITH, (From the Morn ing Chronicle of this day.) to the doctrine. Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart. Charles John ➢fanning, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esci. Edward Howley Palmer. Esq. Sir John Henry Polly, Bart. Abraham George Robarts, Esq. Charles Robinson, El q. William Soltau, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. William Wallace, E. Charles Baring Young,. Esq. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE NECESSITY FOR IMMEDIATE - ACTION IN THE CRIMEA. ( From the Times of this day.) If we now look back on the errors which have been committed in the course of this expedition we do not doubt that one of the gravest of them was the decision not to attack the enemy after the battle of Balaklava. Our fire had opened on the 17th of October, and the result had speedily shown that Sebastopol was not to be taken by the works and siege train then at the disposal of the allied' armies. The Russians, under Liprandi, embol dened by our want of success, hung about our rear on the 25th and 26th of October,.on which latter day they were defeated, mainly by the skil ful dispositions of General Evans and the courage of the Second .Division. Had the allied Generals decided at that moment to throw their whole force upon the Russian army—for we had still at that time the necessary supply of horses for the artillery —the results might have been decisive. Instead of that, they waited until the Russian reinforcements arrived, and on the sth of November our imper fect intrenchments were attacked by superior num bers, and we suffered the frightful carnage of In kerman. We allude to this incident now, because it offers some resemblance to the present position of the armies. There is great reason to suppose that the allied forces are about to repeat the attack of the 17th of Octeber, on a much more fotraidable scale. This intention has, at any rate; been constantly announced, and a great part of the toils and hard ships sustained by the army during the winter arose from the preparations.Ancessantly:.earried. on for this long-expeet.,,o .4.4-01... L....u34 assume, in . I ,lw tethe delays which have intervened, that the same intention still exists ; for, if it were otherwise, the perseverance of the commanders in prolonging these arduous siege operations would be wholly inexplicable. Nor can the moment be much longer deferred at which such an attack may still be practicable, for the enemy has already shown with what incredible activity and vigour he has found means to bring up his reinforcements against us. We will suppose, therefore that the attack by a prolonged cannonade is to be made, and to be made soon, and that if we succeed in silencing the fire of any of the fronts of t he p lace it will be followed by an immediate assault. God grant that such may be the case, and that while we are discussing the adverse as well as the favour able chances of the war some glorious and triumph ant achievement may terminate our uncertainty ! But it is not the less our duty to consider the other alternative, and to contemplate our position in the event of the failure of such an attack. That would indeed bring us back to the situation the armies were in on the eve of Balaklava and of Inkermann, with this difference, that we could no longer entertain hopes of success against the south ern side of Sebastopol by the means hitherto em ployed to reduce it, and that, instead of the ap proach of winter, which served to impede the move ments of the enemy, we must now prepare for the approach of summer, which exposes our troops to a mew class of dangers, and leaves our adversary in full possession of his resources. Such a state of affairs is at least so far possible that it ought to be provicied against, and we ought to foresee by what means I% ese difficulties may best be overcome and the ca nepaign successfully carried on. A multi tude of exoedients instantly suggest themselves to the mind, for the large naval force constantly at the disposal of the Generals, and the facilities offered for every sort of operation on the southern coast of tlw Crimea, might enable them to pro ceed by means which have not hitherto been at tempted. We abstain from mere speculations on this subject`, which would be valuless if they were unfoun cled, and might be injurious if they were correct. But we protest against the sup position that an Anglo-French army upwards of 100,000 strong' has done all that can be done for the attainment of our objects when it has suc ceeded in mai utaining an intrenched position against the enemy, and in opening a fire of great power but of doubtful effect upon the town. Such troops, handled by the Duke of Wellington, or by one of Napoleon's Marshals, would sweep the country before them ; and, though we despair of nothing when Nve see the courage they have on all occasions displayed, yet even that courage is wasted when it is not • goid ed by military genius in the chiefs of the army.. We are required to subscri. that, in considering the question of a peace wit MEDICAL REFEREE—SaMUeI Stilly, ESQ., F.R.S. Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed or payment of Vir a pre- Russia the sincerity of that Power is not a neces sary element of the dikeussion. The only guaran miums falling due at Lady-day will expire on the 9th of April. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration on advantageous terms. ) tee, we are told, for the permanency of such a The Assured are exempt from the liabilities of partnership,. and payment of their claims is guaranteed by a large invested cap it al- peace, is the power to enforce it I stock. If this be the view of her Majesty's Government v o e r r , s a ie t n le a w ry er ti P o r N em us ium oo s, w m i t t e ho p u o t li s a n ie c a h p n a aa rtic a l , p , a r tio g n d . 2 p ey . In to the ftts Life Department, assurances are granted with participat I, le we congratulate them on having arrived at the only The pro Re ' Cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 46 per cent. on the Life. 'II satisfactory solution of the question which now pa T h y Corp not exceeling 10,0001. may be assured en one Life. agitates the country. It is a remarkable fact, how- The Corporation bears the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees, ' ever, that no contradiction has yet appeared of I the very circumstantial statements that have been . and requires no entrance-money. The Assured are subject to no f, , üblisliecl, to the effect that a peace was at least in expense hut the Premium. No extra charge is 0 . 4 are granted on Life Polic'es to their full vieues. on. made for service in the et ,ntemplation which would almost wholly have left militia N w s ithin the United Kingdom. tee tial guaran- This Corporation affords all the.t of view those material and substan the stability of an office safely e advantares tl of modern practice, tested by the experience of fora 3." and Special Acts of Parliament, an o d ns t tuted under Royal Charier -. i which are provided by " the power to en nearly a century and half . T h e re /7 • • There are two kinds of " power to en withexistence. a is but one older life office In force —the one arising from the positive weakness o f ; Vi fur enemy, the other from your own supe riorft, yin strength. Between these two modes of prove '.t ling are in v w ca against future co ntin g encies the Allies called upon to choose. Evidently, if Sebas topol vere reduced to the rank of a•raere mercathen tile p c sit, and if the Ru ssian ships of war in w Black Sea were limited to a harmless number, the enei ould be created such a p ositive weakness in there would rL iceive an additional gua rantee. other ban On the •ny that the future indep endence of Turkey (d, if a treaty were concluded which left Sebastopo 1 l as it is, and permitted to Russia the means of a, Igmenting and concealing the extent of her naval p tv wer, it is equally clear, according to the doctrine to which we are required to subscrmaintai n that the Al li es would be compelled to 'ten• eighbourhood—or that Turkey would have in son to I 3orr esponding way to be p to au extentrotected % etpal to the means of an no y ance thus left at the d. ' k ei )osal of the enemy. To men of , ordinary common sense the qu. For estion important one of sincerity s, pp ears a very instance, sin pose we had a quarrel with the United States, and t hat it were arranged by treaty, should we entertain any doubt of the honour and integrity of our Ameri, ;an neighbours ? Should we think it necessary top rovide a force which should constantly be on the watt hto prevent infringements of solemn engagements ? Is there any Power in the civilised wor ld with red, pert to whom we should t hink it ne cessary to ado' it such precautions, after the signa ture of the Poe vier had once been appended to a treaty ? We w ill'• go farther. What is European international lap tr ? Much of it, no doubt, rests upon the letter o I treaties ; but how much more on the sense of how tit" and the national pride which pr mad fi •or a breaking engagements, lest they should find then Ile elves e xcluded from the family of nations ? Surely , in this view of the case , it cannot be s: tid that the question of sincerity is beyond the scopo of the al :gument. On the contrary, the , of such international a rran g ements Trigg ht and value depend upon thi ) mutual confidence of the various Sta,%es, and the r i Shame of each on the public honour of the other& Th ere aro ma my States in Europe whose inde rvived wars of conquest and of 'SO% o of them are so insignificant, in point of view, that they could net pro- Plaroeemovngdillei:tll.tilaicerf 18 xist en( e a year if they were not pro tected by the sine lerity with which greater States adhere to I ;heir m intual engagements to respect the neuti•ality of thei. r weaker brethren. The sincerity Nl 3 with vvlif a at. ,a St , enters into an engagem ent is the inducumc t to anti' ther State to propose it ; and England, moral law l more the . . a any other European P ower, to typhoid. this doctrine, because, if this has reason ~f - E ur ope were once set at naught, she would have, t o an indefinite extent, to augment to it enforce" any treaty to which she her " power might be apa r tY• h R us sia, we have to combat one r , In dealing N 'aordinary combinations of fraud of the most e. rt.. , hic,, hthe annals of mankind affor d and force of w is the fraud, the disciplined an example, r.i There, - itals, with all the organisa cunning, of the Oriea their cunning by- the he civilisation of Europe Lion of force w hie ,h t„ talc, we should ' laling with pure Euro lealing with pure Orien teaches. If we T rere k use of force—if vv .!' their force by tb t. hat international law esi , eid peons, we should exercise a 'rostrata e were di moral influence over which, by COM have shown Lb,l-tas been established • been indulged with hybrid raer,,, W among States-. I tre engaged with a ,e n act c i o o n n se o n f t, 9rcourse, and . who the better tcp k As it is, We the ctrart • hoofhdaivpelotmooatliocnignts a scheme of 'tks forms in order ! u t e t c h e e el o i n u l conquest to •Fri tick there would be 11 -0 only adopt ectua l ti.L N g limit but that which made .A lexander weep. It is quite " t mistake to suppose thal Lord John .0 NOTICE.--E. MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS will be CLOSED on MONDAY and TUESDAY, 9th and 10th April, re opening, as usual, on Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. JOHN A. HIGHA.M, Actuary and Secretary. 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J , ..... i( ..*".:., / j''..Ai -. 4 - . 0. - 11 • in- 4 , , - , 4 .-..4,; •, 44- I da , . , ---.. :..; 7r—, - ''' '' _ _ .. , ...,t o \ , ~. 4, ,;,, ~ . tr n, 0- -ok , ~ , ..,, i „, ! s.fi- , ; .. I iii , , ,-, t....,_, -t' --... c. ,- ._-.._. , :d 111 . '`7 ' '''' ~---- ' ' 4610 i ' ; ----.) -- ), .., ) 1 /4 ..„ ~-, ,---- wit . / .. ._ • + . ~... _ ~,,_: _ ,,..., , ,., , ,../8,e„.7 ), ,,3 7 ., , ,, 5 „ 1 : _,,,,„ i ..- : -,c,i,:,! ' 4. . , ,, f,!?,, !, , / „ . - ~- ::. , ..- - , : • . , 1 ,1--;.-^ - ;;,„, - , T .;,,,. , -.s. --, i:--,,T- --- -',-_ ' 5- :: .:. , 0..: , .•,,,, fo. -, ~. ~ , ____„) LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1855. Russell went to Vienna—at least, in so far as his 1 mission bad the assent of the nation—for the mere purpose of !effecting a peace. He was despatched to the scene of the Conferences, rather to demon strate to all the Powers, and to the common enemy more especially, that the time for temporising was past, and the time for action come. Discussions, on the items of the seggested arrangement, were a mere secondary consideration, by comparison with the great question—whether Russia should or should not be permitted to pursue her plans of universal aggression. The " sincerity" of Russia was entirely out of the question. In one sense, indeed, the new doctrine to which we have referred is true—that she is so thoroughly insincere as to preclude the idea of adopting towards her, in treaty-making, any other principle of action than that of retaining the "power to enforce." If Se bastopol is of no importance, why is it attacked ? If it is of importance, why should the supporters of the_Gevernment here, and the enemies of the Government of France, show themselves so anxious , for the conclusion of a peace which would not in - I elude its dismantlement ? One great mistake appears to pervade all the arguments in favour of an unsatisfactory, and, therefore, a temporary peace. Russia is treated as if she were in the position of an ordinary European Power. Her past history and present attitude wholly belie this view. The majority of States— of those at: least with which we have from time to time to treat—have no design to aggrandise themselves at the expense of the territories of their neighbours. Russia, on the contrary, stands in the position in which France was under the first Re public and the firstEnaTire. Conquest is the law of her Eriirottrar, -- grnot of - her - Axistence as a mace. With a Power so situated, you cannot make arrangements as with one of the affiliated nations. The same law must be extended to her that was applied to propagandist or aggressive France. It is therefore that the power of doing mischief ought to be withdrawn from Russia—therefore, that Statesmen and publicists who desire a permanent peace insist on the dismantlement of Sebastopol, as an inevitable condition of the proposed settle ment. If her Majesty's Government—and we put the case hypothetically. only as a matter of form— if the present rulers of this country have permitted themselves, for the purpose of hushing up threat ening manifestations at home, to propose such a settlement, they will find that no amount of diplo matic logic or mystification will reconcile the com mon sense of the British people to so short-sighted a policy or to so suicidal a humiliation. sibility of keeping up the vicarage-house. This seems to have been in 1847, at which, time Dr. Griffiths was Romish Bishop of the " diocess," ac cording to the arrangements prevailing in the com munity. Six or eight months afterwards Dr. Griffiths was succeeded in this office by Dr. Wiseman, and things appear to have gone on in their usual course till 1850—the year, as will be well remembered, in which Dr. Wiseman threw the whole kingdom into agitation by his assumption of new titles and powers. In that year Mr. Boyle received a letter from his superior to the effect that he was to be superseded in his situation, though it does not seem that the proceeding was grounded on any direct complaint or any charge of miscenduct. Dr. Wiseman appears' simply to have alleged that, after full consideration, he had resolved upon making a " total change of men and system" at Islington, and hid accordingly ap pointed " two - fresh priests," one of whom proved to be the Rev. Mr. Oakley, a seceder, as will be , recolleCted, from the Church of England, and a gentleman of considerable property. Whether the Cardinal thought that a church with 3,000 or 4,000 sittings ought to be supplied with more than half as many attendants—whether he thought that a wealthy ,minister was better for the place than a poor one, or by what motives in particular he was influenced; is more than can be said ; but, at any rate, he decided that Mr. Boyle must be dismissed, though he offered him "an im pyriant mission at. Chichester,"—a proceeding which of itself would seem to show that no impu tation- attached ;to his character. Mr. Boyle, however, was by no means willing to leave Isling ton. His salary there, as curate, was " ss. a aiby," and this was raised by certain dues to 150(. or 1601. a-year. He seems, moreover, to have laid out 3001. or 4001. on the curate's resi dence, in farniture and repairs, having intended, as he deposed, to increase his income by " edu cating young gentlemen for the Universities,"—a design in which Cardinal Wiseman promised to assist him. According to his statement, he had expended his money on a distinct understanding with Dr. Griffiths as to the permanency of his position, but he had no written document in proof of such arrangement. "In our church," said he, upon - his _ cross-examination, "an inferior would not dare to ask for such a document from a superior. We are so much in their power and control that no priest would dare to say to his superior, ' Put this in black and white ;' be would not do it, but would most probably say, ' This is not the man for me.' " Neither did it appear on the trial that he was' unacceptable to his congregration, for one of its members deposed that when his removal was talked of a memorial in his faveur was signed in a very short time by 1,100 of his parishioners, —i.e., something like four-fifths of the whole. However, though he appears to have questioned Dr. Wiseman's power to remove him. he was nevertheless removed ; he took his furniture with him, and, in liquidation of the other demand which he made on the score of his disbursements, he re ceived only 601., of which 301. was due for arrears of salary, and 201. absorbed by the costs of re covering the debt. For this purpose he employed a solicitor, contrary to whose advice he reduced his original claim, in consequence, as he testified, of the Cardinal's " pleading poverty." It seems hard to discover in these transactions any great offence committed by Mr. Boyle, unless it be that of demurring to the will of his superior, in what ever way signified ; but we learn, notwithstanding, that some time afterwards the dismissed.curate wrote two " letters of apology" to the Cardinal, waited upon him at his " palace" in Golden-square, and there, in the "reception-room" of that establish ment, " went on his knees and asked him for par don and forgiveness." As long afterwards as May, 1854, occurred the circumstances out of which the trial in question arose. A Romish priest deposed in evidence that there were two parties in his church—" a loyal party and a party which was not," which remark able definition he presently corrected to " an ultra and a moderate party." One of these sections dis approved the Cardinal's conduct in the proceedings of 1850 the other defended it, and the disputants appear to have advocated their respective opinions in two foreign journals—the Ami de la Religion and the Univers, the latter of which was alleged on the trial to be " under the inspiration" of the Cardinal himself. A certain article adverse to the views of the ultra party having appeared in the Arni de la Religion, the Cardinal seems at once to have attributed it in his own mind MISMANAGEMENT IN THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR (From the Daily News of this day.) There is a little episode connected with the War which should not be overlooked. Lord Raglan obtained authority from the Government, in De cember last, to send to India for two regiments of English cavalry, should he deem such an increase requisite for the army in the Crimea. His Lord ship did think the reinforcement necessary, and did send to India for the Dragoons—the Tenth Hussars and Twelfth Lancers—numbering 600 men and horses in each corps. The order arrived at Bombay for the former regiment to be despatched forthwith, via Egypt, to the seat of war. In an incredibly short time the corps was brought down from their up-country station—PoOna, nearly 100 miles from the Presidency—and embarked for Suez. Great credit is due to the officers of the Bombay Quartermaster-General's department for the quickness with which the embarkation was managed, and still more to Admiral Sir Henry Leeke for the admirable arrangements he made for the Hussars and their horses on board ship. With out any delay, the corps was started for its desti nation, and in due time arrived at Suez—accom plishing a sea voyage of nearly 1,500 miles, with the loss of but four horses out of six hundred. In Egypt every arrangement had been made for the transit of this great number of horses through the desert, and the regiment arrived at Cairo with out an accident of any kind, somewhere about the middle of February. Here they met an order from England directing them not to come ou to Alexandria until transports should be ready at that port to bring them on to the Crimea. The consequence is, that the regiment, after being hur ried away from India to Stiez, have now been up wards of a month at Cairo—one of the most un healthy towns in the world at this season for Europeans—doing nothing whatever. The latest advices from Balaklava, dated the 21st March, in timate that the Jason had just been despatched to Alexandria for the purpose of bringing over the 10th Hussars. But judging from the number of men and horses taken out last year in the Hima laya—a vessel more than one-third larger than the Jason—this latter steamer will not be able to bring more than 200 out of the 600 men belonging to the 10th Hussars now at Cairo ; so that 400 of that corps, and 600 of the 12th Lancers, who by this time have arrived at Suez, will be left for some weeks longer in Egypt, because no transports have been provided for them at Alexandria. And this, be it remarked, whilst Balaklava is full of ships and steamers of all sizes. Is the Home Go vernment or is Field-Marshal Lord Raglan to blame in this matter ? From strong presumptive evidence we should say the latter. The former gave his 'lordship permission to send to India for these troops, and, no doubt, left him to make his own arrangements for their transmission to the Crimea. The English authorities knew that Lord Raglan had at his disposal many more trans ports than were needed to bring twice the num ber of Dragoons now in Egypt to Balaklava, but either his lordship or his lordship's Quartermas ter-General—most likely both—seem not to be yet fully awake from the sleep they have been indulging in all the winter, and to have ima gined that the Indian authorities would be as di latory in sending the regiments from Bombay, as Lord Raglan and his Staff have been in everything connected with the campaign since the army ar rived before Sebastopol. If General Canrobert or his staff had been guilty of so flagrant a want of arrangement regarding the embarking of French troops, the delinquents would very soon find them selves at perfect liberty to walk about the Boule ; yards of Paris, and with very little chance of ever holding another command. But not so in Eng land. The very fact of being brother to a late and uncle to a present duke makes amends for a vast quantity of sin in this country. In military matters we don't apparently, as yet, accept the axiom that he who fails in an undertaking should be obliged to make way for a better man. The Czar of Russia fully understands this rule, and acts upon it ; but in England an officer, with a handle to his name and family interest to back him up, may succeed or not. If he does, he will be lauded to the skies, and honours of all sorts will be showered upon him. general But should he fail, it matters not. More money lt and another army will be forthcoming from where the will l b a e st fo w rg er o e tte f n ur w ni h s e h n ed t , he and even officer the fault u of ma king the nation a laughing-st oc k t o th e wor ld s a scion of a noble house. to the pen of Mr. Boyle, and in return himself indited an article in the Univers, signed with his own name, which contained the matter charged as libellous. In this statement Mr. Boyle's connection with the order of the Jesuits, his subse quent career at Islington, and his proceedings in the matter of his removal wore all so described that, although the plaintiff was not mentioned by name, there was no doubt as to the bearing of the allusions, and on these grounds the action for libel was brought and decided in the manner we have already related. The case first came on for trial last summer, but, the plaintiff having been nonsuited on that occasion, an application for a new trial was made and granted. Such is a compendious exposition of the facts in volved in the case of " Boyle v. Wiseman," and the reader will admit, we think, that they convey an edifying view of the discipline maintained in the Romish Church. Whatever may be the position of this community in other respects, it is at least plain that its interests are not likely to suffer from any want of power in its authorities, or any lack of rigour in its administration. These points, perhaps, are chiefly important to Papists them selves, but Englishmen may do well to observe and reflect upon the organisation of a church from the advances of which the interests of civil and religious liberty have at all times had so much to fear. THE ENGLISH MIDDLE CLASS. (Front the Daily News of this day.) The " middle class "—the phrase is exclusively English, and the thing is exclusively English. The bourgeoisie of the French, the Burgerstand of the Germans, and the synonyms of all the other conti nental languages, ha ve a muc h more li m i te d mean ing. The English " middle class " does not express burghers or townsmen as opposed to nobles and pea seants, or merchants and master-mechanics as op posed to nobles on the one hand, and a proletariat on the other. The " middle class " embraces all who do not enjoy the privileges of the peerage, and all who are not dependent on their precarious daily labour for their precarious daily bread. As early as the days of Chaucer the " middle class" was fully developed in England. The Pilgrims so gra phically described by Chaucer, belong, all of them, to the middle class. The Franklin, or, as he would be called in our days, the jolly, wealthy Squire ; the Knight, alike trusted in the council and the field ; the Monk, the accomplished, wealthy cler gyman ; the Serjeant-at-law, with his legal lore ; not oue of them i s no bl e an y more th an substantial Burgesses, the Reeve, the Friar, or the Miller. Superior culture and superior talent alone place any one of them above the rest. The poor Parson and the poor Clerk of Oxford are the equals of the Knight, Monk, and Franklin ; the Shipman, the Miller, and the Reeve acknowledge in them a per sonal superiority, but no superiority of rank. Even in that early day the English lawyers did not aspire to separate themselves from the rest of the . " middle clas s " as a " no bl esse d e ro b e ," as in France ; the prebendal stalls and abbies were not as in Germany, reserved exclusively for those who could show their sixteen quarterings. The untitled but substantial " middle class" comprehended land owners, merchants, master mechanics, and the learned professions ; its members felt that they were Englishmen, not mere members of a class or craft. After the wars of the Roses, when the old aristo cracy had almost realised the fable of the Kil kenny cats and eaten each other up, this " middle clas s " b ecame i n f act th e E ng li s h nation. Under the Tudors the remnants of the old Barons were few and almost constantly under proscription. A new nobility was gradually called into existence by Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, but their honours were too new and their numbers too limited to over awe the powerful middle class. The English no bility never co u ld b r i ng th emse l ves t o re cognise . the Stuarts as thei r super i ors; an d i n di gna nt at being jostled by swarms of new-created Irish and Scotch Peers, they f e ll o ff f rom t h e C our t an d identified themselves with the landed gentry and wealthy bur gesses. After the accession of the House of Hanover, the rich and powerful families which came forward as lead ers a t t h e Revolution held the re i ns o f Go vernment in the name of two successive monarchs, who could neither speak nor understand English. They came thus, as de facto rulers, to be more se parated from the " middle class" than previously. With Georg e 111, commenced a struggle between the King and th e great Whig Houses, in the course , of which each alt ernately courted the "middle class, but neither King nor nobles sincerely threw them selves upon the p eop l e. strong, At the p resen t moment the intelligent, class" of England has T HE REV. MR. DOYLE AND CARDINAL WISEMAN. (From the Times of this day.) It will have been seen from our assize reports lof yesterday that a verdict has been obtained against Cardinal Wiseman by a priest of his own persua sion in an action -for libel. As the authorship iof the libel was not denied, por any justification pleaded, the jury had simply to consider the amount of damages required, and these they set, at 1,000/. Into this part of the subject we shall not enter ; but the trial produced so many incidental illustrations of the discipline and usages of the Romish church that it would be unwise to pass it without notice. It is not every day that such' an insight is obtained into the doings of this commu nity, and we therefore recapitulate the leading par ticulars of the case for the benefit of our readers. The Rev. Mr. Boyle, the plaintiff in the action, is au Englishman, and was educated for the Romish church, partly in this country and partly abroad. In 1825 he joined the order of Jesuits, and in 1833 was ordained priest. In 1846 the " Pro vincial Master " of the Jesuits in England invited him to take " the last solemn vow "— a proceeding by which, it seems, he would have placed himself "at the disposal of the „Pope foi foreign missions ; " or, in other words, have become liable to be sent to any part of the world at the Pope's discretion. If he had refused to take this vow when formally called upon he would have been subjected to dismissal from the society, and this dismissal would have entailed loss of credit. forH o wuep v o e n r, , h h i e s s r u ep ec r e e e se d n ed tin i g n t e o se t a h p e i . n p g r t o h v e in d c i i ffi al cu th lt a y t: , o a u u ld d t p a e k r e m t i he ed vo t w o ci d ui c t o t rn h m e saonodieetyd, on doing p. . so, he was . released from Shortly after this he was ap athltehootbwlihgaltieiown pointed the whole number of Papists at Islington. Here he capable tohi s of o w holding estimate, iear," who lived found4,ooo p a e large rsous (though church, isi b aa u tdi t sof l ab , c i te o : o ‘rtii o os eu r tese l or , Plll s tdo o B 6 . ), and an aged.v 3,o°° was or r in the parish, accor n d e in st in lodgings because he would not incur the respon- -/ r PRICE SD. actually lessto say in the management of affairs than they had under Henry VIII. and Elizabeth. Henry employed the Pagets and Greshams : Elizabeth the Cecils, Walsinghams, Hattons, and Raleighs, all of them originally belonging to the " middle class." In those days the Government was in advance of the nation ; now that our noble or courtly families monopolise all civil appointments, the nation is in advance of the Government. Unless the Govern ment revert to the policy of the Tudor era, one of two results is inec itable : either the strength of our administrative system must dwindle for want of supplies of new vigorous talent, till it becomes utterly frivolous and incompetent ; or, the " mid dle class "—the great body of citizens whose talent have been developed by education or the pursuits of practical life—must take the management of affairs into their own hands. Neither the real aristocracy on the one hand, nor the proletariat on the other, have any cause to be jealous of this assertion of the claims of the " mid dle class." All the younger branches of every no ble family belong to this class. As good—some times better—blood pulses in the veins of the un titled class as those of the wearers of coronets. Again, with the diffusion of education and intelli gence, the circle of the " middle class " is con stantly extending. Of right the whole body of skilled artisans are comprehended in it, nor is their claim to be regarded as belonging to it seriously disputed by any one. All who by steady regulated industry achieve an independence, however mode rate their means—all who cultivate the talents with which nature has endowed them, are now recog nised as members of tha - "middle chats: " _Tu amert the . claims ofthe wails:idle class" to participation in the managenient of state affairs, is simply to advise Government to make approved official aptitude the sole title for eligibility to office. The highest aristocrat, and the man sprung from the lowest ranks, would, under such a system, have a fair chance of employment, if they deserved it. Such a system would enable Government to avail itself of the full intellectual and moral power of the nation, instead of being obliged, as it present, to put up with the best talents that are to be had in a very limited class. It would impart to our administrative Government that power and persevering energy which is at present to be found only in our industrial and scientific walks of life. It would render our Government national, and worthy of the nation. (PROTEIESARY.) Half Whole premium premium First for R e 1 I Seven mainder Years. of Life. THE PANAMA FAIL WAY. (Flom the Journal des Debuts.) Of the two isthmuses, Suez and Panama, which have hitherto been the obstacles to a great mari _ time circulation, the first will shortly I.)e cut by a canal ; the negotiations are at least actively prose cuted to this end ; the second, at this present time, so to speak, exists no more. On the 28th of Ja nuary, 1855, the population of Panama awoke in agitation : an extraordinary, unaccustomed uproar was 'heard, and the inhabitants, by nature so calm and indolent, were all at once possessed with an ardent curiosity. It was the hissing of the first locomotive, and the hoarse growling of the first train, which, at full steam, had come for the first time hardily to cross the distance which separates the two oceans. Thanks to this double line of iron which American industry has managed to extend from the vicinity of Chaires, on the - great ocean to the shores of the Pacific, the isthmus was at length cut ; the genius of iron railways entered into possession and operated the approximation of two worlds. The Panama railway, which crosses the Cordillera by a double inclined plane, whose cul minating point is two hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea, measures about eighty kilo metres, and will have cost more than thirty-five millions and five years of labour—and what labour ! Nothing but the perseverance and the dauntless tenacity of Americans could surmount the unheard of difficulties which beset such an enterprise. Not that the numerous andconsiderable inequalities of the ground have been precisely overcome. On the I contrary, they have been complacently enough submitted to in the generality of cases, and the de clivities in consequence are often of an exceptional rapidity, which, it may be said in passing, does not count safety as the first virtue of the railway (the Americafis, as is known, do not look so closely as that). But it has been necessary to reconnect between themselves, by causeways of 12 to 1G metres on many points, the intervals which inter- vene between the thousand, mountains with which tho .oil of tho isthmus is encuraboi.od, nand that under a sun to produce tetanus, under torrential rains, and across shifting grounds and marshy plains the deleterious vapours of which devoured brigades of workmen every week. For the rest, the railway when scarcely commenced had already changed considerably the face of things ; the bay of Limon, , for example, at the base of one of the inclined planes, has its pestiferous marches replaced by a pleasant city, all of wood, it is true, which already possesses nearly 3,000 residents, and bears the name of the enterprising constructor of the railway, Aspinwall city. To subserve the movements of commerce, a railway is doubtless far from being so valuable as a way of communication as a canal, like that projected from Alexandria to Suez, which cannot fail to carry away from the Cape a large portion of its old maritime clientcy of India ; for the matter of importance for shipping is still less the shortness of voyages than the possibility of not breaking bulk, and not to lose time and money in transshipments ; but by Panama a canal would have encountered difficulties, which, it is said, there was no certainty of being able to surmount, and, more still, capitalists ordinarily so audacious with Ame ricans, have, on this occasion, recoiled before an expenditure estimated at not less than 150 millions. Perhaps, in respect of the great maritime commerce, this is to be regretted, perhaps a prejudice. How ever that be, here at length one grave obstacle to. the relations of humanity has been overcome ; ib is possible now to make commodiously a passage which, though not more than from 18 to 20 leagues, did not the less require from two to three days of the most fatiguing traverse, whether in pirogas or on the back of a mule across the abysses of which Spanish listlessness could accustom itself so well. Panama, at length, the route of the Eldo rado, the way of transit for the two worlds, opens henceforth a direct and relatively short passage for the flood of travellers and emigrants, and to the mass of valuable merchandise which, from New York and the ports of Europe, are sent to be dis persed in Peru, Bolivia, Chili, and California, with which Panama is in correspondence by regular steam vessels, and even in various archipelagos with which the Pacific Ocean is strewed, to the Phillipines and China. In this point of view, we conceive that a great future lies before the Panama railway. The port of this city on the Pacific is already in possession of a certain commercial im portance. In 1852, for example, it received 312 vessels, sailing and steaming as well, measuring 144,000 tons, and carrying 303 million tons of merchandise. With respect to the transit over the isthmus, it amounted for the precious metals to 281 millions of francs, and for pas sengers to 28,690. Perhaps it is not rash to predict that in a few more years the railway will have increased this movement of men and goods tenfold ; on one condition, however, and that is, that the company which has the concession shall lower its tariffs, which, according to the de tails recently published by the Journal du Havre, appear to us exorbitant. 25 dollars (125 f.) for the passage of the isthraus, that is, for a course of 80 kilometres, is, it must be agreed, of an exceptional dearness, and, a more serious consideration, the transport of merchandise is still more costly ; ac cording to the classification it is 1,2, 3 cents per English pound—that is to say, 11, 23, and 33 or 34 centimes per kilogramme, so that a metrical ton of objects of value, such as wines, cigars, tissues, must pay the railway 330 francs. So to burdon merchandise is assuredly not the way to draw a great commercial current. geatn-zhip THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, WE DNESDAY, A p ri l 4 . - _ The Peninsular and Oriental Company B Tagus, Captain T. K. Joy , took her de parture th's India, out 64 passenger., Chii.a, a n d Mediter ranean afternoon for Gibraltar, Ma,!ta, and Alexand r i a, w i th t h e l r i a e n a e v a y n po m rt a io n n s. of The e e T E ag as u t s among whom are Commander Fortescue for Hongkong, the Count van Linnden, the Baron von Heidenbrook, and Captain Fabius, for Singapore • Major Powys, fur Madras ; the Hon. Miss Abercrombie and Capt. Coch rane for Malta ; Captain K ea t s , f or Gib ra ltar, &c. On freight the Tagus takes specie value 157,8921. 16s. 4d. sterling, of which 153,3101. Os. 4d. is for India and China, and 4,5821. 10s, for Alexandria. The Moniteur of yesterday has the following : "At the request of his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon, and conformably to the instructions of the Government of the Emperor, the Minister of France placed on the 22d of last month in the hands of the Minister of Fo reign Affairs of Belgium an official complaint against the editor of the pamphlet published at Brussels on the expedition to the Crimea, and .calumniously entitled Meneoire adreme au Gouvernement de Sa Majeste L'Em pereur Napoleon 111., par un Ofilcier General. This complaint was immediately brought before'the judicial authorities." G~~-2- ~--~" / 2 'G_ z_-~....._...._ ? '2. : DEATEI OP ROBERT ivALLAciv ii rotk •-• - LATE OF KELLY. till"; cC fiat* We mentioned a f ew d a y s ago ( sa ys the GOVAN' - Mail) that Mr. Wallace, the veteran reformdr,- s l crovi - rnerly member for Greenock, was labouring under aliede., 4 den attack of bronchitis, which was alarming his friends. is now our melancholy duty to announce the fatal issue of that attack. Mr. Wallace died at his residence, Seafield Cottage, near Greenock, early on the morning of Sunday last, at the patriarchal age of 82 years. Mr. Wallace was the first member for Greenock in the re formed Parliament, and it was ample evidence of the sal tisfaction of his constituents with his services that they 4eturned him at four successive elections free of expense, nously. He en t ere d P ar li ament i n 1833, end u all dqeu 13 ye ars ' f a ithf u l an d l a b or i ous ser distinguished hi mse lf f rom th e ieu t• i ti b ti u tne t duni it, 1845. n afterit n He e set in attempting to break down the monopoly of the who h a d hi t h erto reserve d to _ Ministers themselves o f th th e e pr Cw iv r i o leg n e , of introducing public measures - in Wall ace ' s l a b ours i n con nection nf Mr. post offi ce abuses, h ow ever, and in procurine. penn y postage, Whi ch especially entitle to Parliament. with ith te reform him to notice. procuring laboured long and assid uous l y i n t hi s cause, and it was while doing so that M r . R. Hill stepped in with his scheme of penny posta ge. That gen• tleman frankly admitted that it was Mr. Wallace's expo sures that led him to take up the subject at all, and that it was his indomitable and persevering energy i n and out of Parliament which obtained the inestimable mes. sure of penny postage to the country. Mr. Hill wrote—. "By four years of incessant attacks, Mr. Wallace de stroyed the prestige once enjoyed by the Post-office, and exposed it to the whol esome i n flue n ce of public opinim That Mr. Wallace was confessedly the author of such a national blessing as the penny postage was a distinction of which he had great reason to be proud, and which, now that he has passed away, entitles his memory to place in the regards of not merely a section of the people, or of a district of the country, but of the world at large. Mr. Wallace's great services to the country in connexion with Post-office reform were universally appreciated. He had honours showered upon him sit& ' 'Meta to satisfy any man of ordinary ambition. He re ceived the freedom of the city of Glasgow, of Aberdeen, f Paisley, Perth, Dingwall, Inverness, and of Dornocb. e was presented with an address, by the inhabitants of Kilmarnock, and a beautifully written communication kom the Postmaster-General of France, complimenthig- Isim on - tire reforms he bad .w....fiod in thaTaigr 7 . 43 '"' besides comraiw. uta and addresses innumerable from other quarters. Our brief tribute to Mr. Wallace would be incomplete lwere we to omit mentioning that his quitting Perna talent in 1845 was the result of certain reverses of L3r. tune, of which it is not here necessary more fully ';o ;speak. It was then that the aid of political and per. 'sonal friends was delicately exercised in a way not to offend the good and faithful servant, then bordering on fourscore years. A. public testimonial realised (between three and four thousand pounds, w hi c h sum 'was invested in the purchase of an annuity of . jabout 5001. a-year. We - are far from, admitting that this was commensurate with the claims of a faithful !public servant, who had done so much in such a short period to benefit his fellow-men ; but it was sufficient to maintain Mr. Wallace in a position among his old friends to his own satisfaction, and he acknowledged the boon with becoming gratitude. Scarcely four years have elapsed since this arrangement was completed, and during that period Mr. Wallace has enjoyed the associa• tion of a wide circle of friends, who cannot but regret that the intercourse has been so soon closed for ever. Mr. Wallace used to boast of his descent from Sir Liam Wallace, a name which, he said, he was proud of, and which he hoped he had never done anything to sully. SIR ROBERT PEEL AT THE MARYLE BONE LITERARY INSTITUTION. A very crowded and fashionable audience filled the lecture-room of the above institution yesterday evening, attracted by the announcement that Sir Robert Peel had invited them to spent an evening with him and ;the poets. Such an invitation coming from a baronet and a bachelor was sure to be promptly responded to by the ladies, and accordingly we were not surprised to find all the reserved seats occupied at an early hour by the fairer portion of creation. The members of the institu tion also mustered in great force, and to all who at tended, the lecture of the hon. baronet evidently. afforded high and sustained gratification. He began by pointing out the connection between the poetry and prosperity of a nation. When the sense of inde.: pendence was strong, the poetic feeling was high, and there was nothing that excited people to such daring deeds as a spirit•stirring ode or war song. From poetry in general, Sir Robert soon came to that of England in particular, starting from Shakspere, of whom his admira tion was of course unbounded. The naturalness, creative power, and peculiar beauty of the language of " fancy's sweetest child," were pointed out in a few judicious ob servations, and several well-known passages were recited " with due emphasis and discretion." Hamlet's advice to the players 'quite brought down the house ; and there were several other quotations which were only less at tractive. Milton, who came next, was rapidly sketched, not forgetting the munificent price paid for " Paradise Lost," well-named one of the six epics written since the creation of the world. The lecturer critically remarked that Milton was, of all the poets, Christian or pagan, the only one who represented God otherwise than as a tyrant. It was the blind poet's beautiful peculiarity to paint the deity as a father, and a judge who tempered justice with mercy. Addison's criticisms were then mentioned, as placing Milton on his proper pedestal, and then he took leave of epic, and hurried to the poetic satirists. Under this head Dryden's well known sketch of Buckingham was given with wonderful fire, and was loudly and deservedly applauded. Polie and John• son were ti - _en glanced at, with appropriate quotations f:oin each, and the audience next found themselves deeply interested with the poets of their own time. o The name of Campbell b roug ht up rem i n i scences of Poland, of on Russia Polands causes. nosue. There gshtup were ßuss some aned little e name nalur and it red the lectu rer i n t o a sem i- po liti ca l episode th s s e ai wda disapprobation evinced at this portion of the proceedings, but whether it was that the diss en ti ents thought politico out of place, or that there is a concealed Russian party in Marylebone, we were not able to ascertain. Sir Robert pointed out that this was the first time an English army had invaded the Russian territory, although it was 302 years since our ships first visited the country for the pur poses of trade. Now we invaded Russia to put an end to the imposture of fifty years, and to teach that pow sr that she was about to receive at the hands of civilisation the retribution her crimes deserved. A well-merited eulogium on the late Lord Dudley Stuart closed thin part of the lecture, and a few not very novel but exceed ingly well-delivered recitations introduced the topic of shipwrecks generally ; and, apropos of shipwrecks, the lecturer, amid the most profound attention on the part of the audience, detailed his own escape from that dire calamity in the spring of last year. They left Genoa, he said, on the 24th April, 1854, a happy party, of whom the only survivors were himself and a gentleman who was at that moment one of his auditory. They started at mid-day, with full crew, and full passengers, 90 in all, and, singular to say, there was a presentiment of coming dan ger in the minds of every one on board. At about seven in the evening they could just see the land, and then the clouds gathered. Shortly after they broke, and the pale moon cast her silver light on everything. The wind whistled sullenly through the tackle, but what did they care, the word was passed, " All's well," and they were sure to reach Marseilles on the morrow. But hark ! hush ! what sound was that ? The wind had been gradually lulling, when the man at the wheel was heard to shout frantically—" Ease her " " Stop her " " Back her "—then a horrible crash—they had come into collision with another vessel. He (Sir Robert) was on deck in his carriage, awl by a miracle escaped the first crush ; then he saw numbers of his fellow-passen gers engulphed, and knew that several more were en tombed alive in the cabin, by the accidental closing up of the companion passage. He could hear their stifled cries for help, as the vessel went down, and the next moment he was in the sea swimming for his life. He swam strongly, and was sufficiently collected to turn round and watch the last of the sinking vessel. He soon grasped a floating mast, and was quickly joined by three other persons. One by one, he saw those three drop off, feeble and benumbed, and he was himself beginning to despair, when suddenly he saw a light upon the w ater, then he heard the sound of oars, and in the next moment he was saved. " Oh," exclaimed the lecturer amid the deep silenee of his audience, "If any of my hearers knows what it is to be saved from imminent death, he can imagine what my sensations were on finding myself in that little boat." He bad often, he added, been in great danger—once before of being drownedoff Bar ce l ona, and twice of being shot as a revolu tion ist—on ce so near as to have had fourteen muskets p ointed at hi s b reast ; but never did he feel himself so near what Carlyle called the "conflux of eternity" as on the terrible occasion descr. which he had attempted to As soon as the cheering which ibe greeted the termination of this little narrative had subsided, th e h on . b arone t ex h o rting the concluded by young men of the institution to improve their leisure by the diligent cultivation of their intellec t an d th e careful perusal of the best English authors. N J,. Jacob Bell, who presided, proposed a vote of t h a nks to Sir Robert Peel, which was rapturously re• voided to, and the proceedings terminated. HOLYROOD-PARS.—A large addition has just been made to the public park at Holyrood, by embracing within it a field of about 13 acres, situated north of the Duke's walk, acid east of the ground used for military, exerciser, and parade. This field was purchased by the Board of Works some years ago ; but, the lease having just ex pired, it is only now available for conjunction with the pasturage of the Royal park. The rectangular wall which formerly cut it off has been removed, and the public park has thus been extended to its natural bon - dary loomed by the Old Portobello-read. The addition will undoubtedly enhance the beauty as well as the utility of this portion of the park. From the summit.. 4 a gentle rise in the ground lately enclosed, an d whirl may now be reached by a slight divergence from the •e• dinary path, a beautiful view on all sides may be et,. taMed ; while the removal of the wall opens up the out. lines of the ground in such a manner as greatly to improve its appearance, not only from the Duke's-walk, but from the Palace of Holyrood itself.—Scottisli. Pres., A letter in the lndependance Belge states that Lora John Russell was on the point of leaving Vienna far England, when the telegraph informed him of the app proaching visit of M. Drouyn de l'Huye. The swam letter states that France and England have insisted that the last symptoms of animosity between Austriar and Piedmont shall disappear, and that M. Buol, after =flat hesitation, has promised that the sequestration of' the property of Lombard refugees naturalised in Piedm ont shall be annulled. The writer thinks, however, tUi Austrian promisee are not invariably kept. ~~:ti , • ET- J'aY 24 April 1 1 Y \p: it l RIL 4 . Ler. ..- spi'' i° cier ici hol o 1 p late [ , l eili‘ eco a C 3 ' ls , see ,lt of )I ,ollt 10'11' ' o r rl 3 ' , 3. .ov nal" rr" 11 , t L 1 ° 'S