The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-02 00:00:00

• TITEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Leave, Mr. J. B. Backstone, tui3 EvENum, the performances will commence with A DUKE IN lIIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. HOWC, After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the orininal music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of [HE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7.i THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Two New Dramas.—Reappearance of Mr. John Drew, and 2d appearance of Miss Matilda Heron. THIS EVENING, THE TWO GREGORIES. Atter which, a new original comic drama, written by Saml. Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ' • or, Possession -Nine Points of the Law. Joh n D rew , J . J o h n ston, Forrester, J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c. To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or, The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas. Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron, Miss Willard, &c. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore, Meadows, am ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELP HI . - Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Great Attraction for the Itla , ter Ilolidays.-2d appearance this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly. THIS EVENING, a new drama (2d time) MAGLIORE, PRESTIDIGITA 7OR. Messrs. B. Webster, .J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, &c. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Miss Julia Daly. Doors open at half past fi—Commenee at 7. ---- CANTERBURY-tmlnster- HALL road CONCERTS!! wes. Proprietor ........C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other cou ntry, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charactise4 the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERT EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, P. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Txis DAY.—Morning, 6h. 44m.—Afternoon, 7h. 10m. To-xonuow.-Morning, 7h. 44m.—Afternoon, Bb. 26m. THE WEATHER.—Sux ()mom, APRIL 2, 1561. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest:this morning and daring the night. 51—this day at noon. • BAROMETER-39.73. WtND West-South-West--fresh; with dull squally weather, and showers of hail. Rain in the morning. ik 4 ,;,!---77•.1,''') 41. - - • • - ,et •:----:-. , , , • a...„... v _ ... :, E --- TO' f ,.......„_' lin: - -**,*>,.! •"" _, •-. THE SUN. LOIDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1881. For the general multitude of Holiday-makers it may be regarded as having been rather an un fortunate circumstance that yesterday was fixed upon as the grand day, the gala day, the fête day for the Volunteer Demonstration. For—as a matter of course, the Rifle Corps brought with them that wretchedly pluviose and lachrymose weather which is likely soon at this rate to gain for itself the distinctive title of the Volunteers' Weather ! Just as we have long talked of a Queen's Day —or, as the subjects of NAPOLEON the Great were wont to talk of, the Sun of Aus terlitz. Such at any rate was the doleful condition of the atmosphere both here and at Wimbledon, while upon the Sussex downs near Brighton the gallant participators in, and the motley spectators of, the Sham Fight enjoyed the most genial time of it that could well have been wished for. It is a privilege peculiar, therefore, we are left to suppose, to the rifle corps of the metropolis to have to contend, in the majority of instances, with these melancholy outpourings of rain, by way of compensation for the non-appearance of any more substantial antagonist. Of all the songs that could have been selected for a First of April morning, the one that might have been selected the most appropriately would, beyond a doubt, have been the famous serio-comic ditty sung so delightfully by that late inimitable droll Mr. HARLEY, as the Shaksperian Fool, the refrain of which is— " Heigho I the wind and the rain :" Notwithstanding all the cold water thrown upon yesterday's proceedings, those proceedings cannot but be regarded as having been, on the whole, eminently successful. The Volunteer movement, in truth, has long since passed that period, notice able at one time among the various phases of its development as the period in which it was beginning to live down ridicule, to be recognised as an earnest patriotic rising of the masses, in simple mat ter of fact terms, to be far and wide acknowledged and countenanced. Her MAJESTY set the seal of approval to it by her formal and reiterated recognition of the Volunteers. After the review in Hyde Park there died out, for once and for all, that preposterous taunt so often pre viously flung at the green-coated or grey coated volunteer as he trudged through our streets, the gibe of " Who shot the dog ? so often hurled at him by those dirty little gamins de Lon dres, the small cockney tatterdemallions ! So generally recognised has the Volunteer move ment been, ever since that Review in Hyde Park—followed up, not long afterwards, by that other magnificent review before her MAJESTY at the back of Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh —that ever afterwards, as a rule, among the customary toasts at our public dinners, when the army and navy are pledged the volunteers are invariably pledged with them. It was so yesterday in the Banauetting Hall at the Mansion House, when the toast of the Army and Navy and Volunteers was proposed to his assembled guests by the Lord Mayor of London—that civic personage, whose his toric office was immediately afterwards so grace fully, half in fun, half in earnest, eulogised by CHARLES DICKENS ! A delightfully consola tory incident, this, to such of our City magnates as may have had qualms of fear—qualms uncom fortably provocative of indigestion—by reason of the threatening inroads made of late in our municipal institutions inroads at times so I alarming as to augur even the total trans formatio n of our grand old metropolitan cor poration. In proposing yesterday at his Easter :Banquet, after the customary 103 al toasts, the Patriotic toast always so welcome to an assembly Of E nglishmen —to such rational persons, at least, in a n n— ut inbly of Englishmen as are not clad in drab, and prepared at all times to sit down eekly to the eating of humble pie—the Lord May or ( ei.7 _ ITT) last evening enforced this patriotic to ast upon the cordial acceptance of his guests by the following among other perti nent ohiervation s he asked, "could say what: would have been -the present condition of this county and of Europe if we had lost the a see pnrdesoefutthetwPoenin- battles of Tn.: falgar, of th e Ni le, H e was' happy to RUI2 ? 'ten who were acti ve l y dis tinguished gentiol. enga ge d in the proceedings of those eventf u l times. He company of Sir JOAN Bvx_ was honoured with th GOYNE, who was acla t owledged by all t o b e a military hero—and A.d miral COLLYER, who Wa s afloat in the last centt ir3", and served under NEL dern times, SON nend JERVIS. To c o o me down to mo THE SUN, L(,NDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1861. we had equal reason to be proud of the spirit of patriotism and of valour displayed in the Volun teer movement. It had given tranquillity to the minds of the people, and let the world see that Englishmen would not sub mit to the slightest approach to an in sult. The toast he had to propose was—` rhe Army, the Navy, and the Volunteers !" This toast, thus earnestly proposed, being also thus appropriately enforced with more than ordi nary earnestness upon that very day in 1861 (the year in which the peace of Europe is undeni ably felt and seems to be so very precarious) upon that very day in this year of anxiety (Easter Mon day) set apart for the Volunteer Demonstration, And the enforcement of the toast came, moreover, by no means ludicrously from one of those Lord Mayors of London, of whom looking back to them, as things were in the past, when viewed in the light thrown upon that past by English litera ture, Mr. DICKENS could speak thus last night, with a genial smile of pleasantry upon his lips, and yet with a hearty and earnest good-feel ing, too, in every word he uttered :—" The literature of English history, losing its Lord Mayors, would lose some of its most notable instances of the public spirit, the munificence, the personal bravery and prowess of the good old citizens on that side Temple Bar. The literature of English romance losing its Lord Mayors of London would lose at one blow its wealthiest London merchant, its most beautiful merchant's daughter, its crossest cook, its best known foreign adventurer, its most profitable investment on record, and its most wonderful cat. Similarly, English biography losing its Lord Mayors would lose some of its most notable examples of rewarded perseverance and integrity, and some of its highest illustrations of the nobility of self-made men." Yes: a nation of shopkeepers we shall be probably down to the end of the chapter—down to the end of the last chapter of our National History—but at any rate we shall ever be pre pared to defend our own as resolutely now when the world's weapons are the ARMSTRONG guns, when its men of war are steel-clad Warriors, when its messenger is the lightning—just as earnestly and resolutely now under these new and wholly different circumstances, as when our mis• siles were pebbles cast by the sling, or cloth yard shafts thrown by the tough yew bows of our Archers. With our gallant Army, whose fame comes down to us from the plains of Poictiers and of Waterloo—with our matchless Navy, whose glory yet remains untarnished and unapproached —with our National Guard, now numbering up in goodly array from 100,000 to 200,000 Rifle Volunteers —in a time not of Panic, but of Peace—England may now add to the other familiar mottoes upon her war standards scraper paratus, leaving " the rest'' now in Higher Hands : and none the less with humble trust at her brave heart, from the knowledge of the deep wisdom latent in that pro verbial truth—that GOD helps them who help themselves. On Thursday, the 7th of March, JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK, Esq., one of the honourable members for Sheffield, took the House of Commons quite by sur prise. It was on the second night of the debate on Italian affairs, originated by Mr. HENNESSY, and our readers will therefore well remember the gene. ral character of the speech. Mr. ROEBUCK has done many strange things in his time—his politi cal eccentricities and fits of waywardness are natu rally looked for once or twice in a session, but still there has been generally something in them in keeping with the general character of "The Uncon• trollable." What astonished the House on the 7th, and all England the next day, was, that the Radi cal, despot-hating member for Sheffield should come out not only as the defender, but almost as the lover of Austria. It may be remembered how he seemed to open pretty well; like other Englishmen he was for a united Italy, but he had scarcely uttered the words when he added " from the bottom of the Peninsula to the Mineio ."' Hardly had the suspense created by this short clause subsided, when he went on to show that a united and independent Italy, France being in the position she is, was impossible ; so by way, we suppose, of making her less dependent on France, he went on to show that Italy must not possess that famous military position—the Qua drilateral—whieh had been always the greatest difficulty of French invading armies, from the days of the first campaigns there of NAPOLEON I. to those of NAPOLEON 111. He solemnly warned our Government "of the danger of the course th . ey were pursuing in endeavouring to exclude Austria from her dominions in Venetia !" He affirmed that it was " our duty to Frevent the expulsion of Austria from Venetia at present !" And then, not content with thus standing up as stoutly in our senate as General BENEDEK would do in the field, for Austrian rule over those who, he acknowledged, hated it, he went on to praise the Austrian Government itself. Austria had " re pented and been converted." " The constitution she had granted to her people was as liberal as our own !" "On paper it was as liberal ;" "it was her interest to keep to it, and she would keep to it." " The house of Austria of the present time is not the Austria of the past." "All our interests are coincident with hers." She was our reliance against the alternative of " all Europe becoming Cossack." The Austrians are disposed to love us; " their children are brought up to esteem and love our literature. Every family which can afford it has an English teacher, and their love and admiration of our literature has created the desire for freedom and self-government which has arisen throughout the empire." Such was the tone of this astounding speech, on which the member for Brighton, almost to the equal surprise of many, remarked, that such a speech from him was expected among the know ing-ones of " the City"—" It had been proclaimed in the City that the hon. member for Sheffield would return to this country the eulogist of Austria j • because he was received in gild e d sa l oons by Arch dukes and Archduchesses ;—and—it was rumoured that the hon. member had come back from Vienna with a very lucrative contract in his pocket." We have briefly recalled the facts, as they might otherwise be imperfectly recollected, on which the hon. member for Sheffield and his constituency have now joined issue. Sheffield, surprised as much as the rest of England, and aggrieved more than any other place in England as • being in some sense responsible for her member's conduct —asks Mr. ROEBUCK to pay them a visit, and to dell them, and through them the country, what this all meant. Certainly, such a speech before the last election would have insured his losing it, and it was fair they should know why they were so grievously misrepresented. Yesterday Mr. ROE BUCK complied with their request, and interest enough was certainly felt in the question. Unfor tunately the Temperance Hall, adapted to hold rather more than a thousand, had been chosen for the meeting, yet three or four thousand persons contrived to squeeze themselves into the place, and thousands so crowded around the door that Mr. ROEBUCK had to stand in the rain for a consider able time amid the taunts and jeers of the mob. When an entry had been effected, the grand u Ptoar began. It was utterly impossible for Mr, ROEBUCK to make himself heard. The number of persons outside occasioned some noise at the doors, but it was soon evident that some bullies, who came for the purpose of alto gether obstructing the meeting, were the chief source of the disturbance; their noisy efforts being not a little aided by the close pressure and discomfort of the vast crowd squeezed into the room. The Mayor, the ex-Mayor, Mr. HADFIELD, and others, all tried in vain to gain Mr. ROEBUCK a hearing ; and after two short attempts he was com pelled to give up, and to promise to address them again on Thursday. Mr. HADFIELD even promised them to use the meeting, after Mr. ROEBUCK had finished, as a means of supporting Mr. BAINES' bill for adding 20,000 more electors to Sheffield, but no persuasion or argument could obtain silence. Whether that necessary boon to a speaker will be accorded on Thursday remains to be seen. The few intervals in which Mr. ROEBUCK was able to make himself heard by the reporters were occupied in asserting his independent position and denouncing . " base insinuations." He was able to advance so far as to deny that he had sold his con stituents when he gave his vote for keeping in the DERBY Ministry—he had never received a farthing from the Galway Company through which he had been said to be bribed to give that vote. But before he could come to his defence against the charge of selling them the second time for an Aus trian contract, the noise became too great to admit of his proceeding. On this subject therefore the one which occasioned his being summoned to Sheffield,we must wait till Thursday for the defence of the accused man. We observe that he describes the " second occasion as one when he made a speech the other day in which he recommended Lord PAL MERSTON to be thoroughly a friend of non-inter vention, but at the same time to give the moral influence of England to thirty millions of people who are now striving for political power—namely, the Austrian nation." We hope Mr. ROEBUCK is here incorrectly re ported ; for, if not, he is about to plead to a false or or irrelevant issue. His constituents are as desirous as he is that our Foreign Secretary should do his utmost for the thirty millions of Austria in their demands for their rights. All England is notoriously eager to use the whole moral weight of this country on behalf of the ancient, loyal, but long subverted constitutional Govern ment of Hungary, and to do its best for the other nationalities also ; but what Mr. ROEBUCK'S friends in Sheffield want to know is, not even so much why he is in love with Austria herself, and believes in her very liberal paper constitutions, as why he can persuade himself to force on the poor Venetians the rule which he acknowledges they hate. He appealed in his speech to the House to the hatred Ireland once cherished for England; but the case is surely wholly different. Not to mention that we have really repented and done nobly for Ire land, nor that the treachery of her own sons gave us the country, Ireland is not the strongest military position of a whole nation distinct from England in race and language, and which has just emancipated itself from a clique of native despots. We are confident that were we the hated rulers of a small part of such a truly foreign kingdom, the general feeling in this country would be " let them join their brethren"— we should scorn to limit a real nation by any Mincio. The case of the lonian Islands is in point. So far as we know, the general language of English men, well as we confessedly treat them, is, if they do not like our Government let them go." We wait to see what defence Mr. ROEBUCK will offer for his 4ustrian SHYLOCK—who malignantly cuts the pound of flesh from Italy even to his own ruin. The Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and the Ladies Somerset have arrived at their residence in Hill street from Badminton. The Duchess of Richmond has arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, from London. Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess of Saxe-Weimar, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord Robert Montagu, M.P., and a selectpartyhave been among the guests of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle, during the past week. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Flahault entertained a select circle at din ner last evening at Coventry House. The Duke and Duchess of Athole have left the St. George's Hotel for Dunkeld, N.B. The Marquis of Lansdowne will leave town to morrow for Bowood, where the Earl and Countess of Shel burne are passing the recess. DEATH OF LADY CHARLOTTE BURY.—We regret to announce the death of Lady Charlotte Bury, .who ex pired on Sunday evening last, at an advanced age. Her ladyship was the youngest daughter of Field-Marshal John fifth Duke of Argyll, by Elizabeth Gunning, widow of the Duke of Hamilton, and consequently Lady Charlotte was aunt to the present Duke of Argyll and the Earl of Derby. In her youth Lady Charlotte was remarkable for personal beauty, and throughout life for the charm of her manners. Lady Charlotte Bury was twice married—first to Colonel J. Campbell, of Shawfield, and secondly to the Rey. Edward Bury. By her first marriage she had a nu merous family, two of whom only survive—Lady A. Lennox and Mrs. W. Russell. By her second marriage she had two daughters, one of whom, Mrs. Lyon, only is living. REAR-ADMIRAL KEPPEL.—In our impression of Saturday last it was stated that a rurtour prevailed to the effect that Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8., had made up his mind to return to England. We are now en abled to state that the Admiralty havo complied with Sir Henry's wish, and have superseded him. We believe his successor will be Rear-Admiral of the Blue Richard Laird Warren, who will proceed without delay to take command of her Majesty's ships on the south-east coast of America The Emerald, 51, at Devonport, will convey the new Ad miral, and then return with Sir Henry, the Forte continu ing to be the flagship on the Brazilian station.—Army and _Navy Gazette. There has been for the last few days a rumour in naval circles that Ministers have resolved, in conse quence of the recommendations made in the Report of the Royal Dockyard Commissioners, to proceed to the imme diate reconstruction of the Board of Admiralty; and among the anticipations expressed is one thst it is intended to model the future administrative body of the Navy upon the system which is now in existence with reference to the management of the Army.—Army and Navy Gazette. SHORT Tl➢iE FOR CARTERS.—On Saturday even ing a general meeting of the carters of Manchester and Sal ford took place to make arrangement for a fair trial of the short time system. Between 300 and 400 carters attended. There had been a previous meeting of delegates, represent. ing about 700, who are now formed into a society. On the recommendation of this meeting of delegates it was now re solved that, ox and after the 15th inst., the carters should cease working at 6 p.m. every day except Saturdays, when work should end at 1 p.m. The meeting was also pledged to support any carter thrown out of employment by adopt ing these rules. 1 t was stated that about 600 of the prin cipal merchants, warehousemen, and shippers of Manches ter had concurred in the movement. A deputation was appointed to wait upon the masters. HAIJGHTON-LE SKERNE RECTORY.—The Rev. E. Cheese, the new Rector of Haughton-le-Skerne, " read him self in" on Sunday, in presence of a crowded congregation. He tuok the entire duty, both morning and evening, the ordinary services being varied by the reading of the Thirty nine Articles, and a declaration on his part of his unfeigned "assent and consent" thereto, and to the Book of Common Prayer. In an address to his parishioners, which took the place of a sermon, he dwelt upon the solemnity and respon.- sibility of his office, and begged them to regard him as ore who had determined, by God's grace, to devote the best years of his life as a minister of the Gospel in Haughton le-Skerne. He also besought them to pray daily for their rector, that he might be enabled to open his mouth boldly to make known the mysteries of the Gospel. HOW TO KILL A CROCODILE.—The river Indus, in the East Indies, wag infested by a large old crocodile, who carried off twee or three natives, one of them being a woman. lts skin was so thick that no ball penetrated it, so some young artillery officers formed the following plan fer destroying it. They killed a sheep, and in it 3 body placed a bag filled with gunpowder and some other combus tible matter, to which a long wire was attached, with detonating powder at the end. Presently the crocodile saw the prey and seized it, and carried it to a hole which he was known to frequent. Time was allowed him to swallow the sheep, when the wire was pulled, the water then became violently agitated, a loud report was hea;d, and up came the crocodile dead, and his stomach blown IRON CASED SHIPS. M. de Rohan has addressed the following letter to a con- temporary : While agreeing with Captain Connolly in most of his remarks in your paper of to-day, there are one or two points on which I differ from him. It seems to me that it is, so far as yet ascertained, impos sible to combine wood with iron in constructing ships of war, by casing them with iron either externally or internally, or by intermediate bulk heads of iron between the outer and inner planking; first of all, from the fact of wooden seams requiring to be caulked frequently, and the con sequent difficulty and expense of removing the casing to get at the wood, to say nothing of the damage caused by backing out rivets, and the necessity for increasing the diameter of the new fastening, so as to fill well the old rivet-hole, which has naturally become enlarged. Again, whether the casing lie directly on the wood or at some Lance off from it, the chemical action produced by contact of iron: with salt water must inevitably injure both the planking and the caulking. If fastened on to the wood, the iron plates will corrode the ends of the fastenings of the planking ; and if there be a space between the side and the casing, this space will be little better than a recep tacle for moist and very detrimental gases that will soon produce rot, to say nothing of the necessity which there will be of tearing the ship almost to pieces to recaulk her seams or effect repairs to her hull. There is also another objection, and an equally serious one, to be found, in the absolute necessity which exists for exposing wood work, as much as possible, under proper preservatives, to tke action of light and air. Even so thin and light a covering as paint must yield the palm to good oil or varnish as a preserver and nou risher of wood, for the oil used in forming paint soon washes or evaporates away, leaving merely the earthy or mineral part of its composition to do more harm than good by communicating moisture to the wood, and admitting of the action of neither light nor heat to facilitate its evaporation. We all know that it is far better to scrape wood-work of ships bright, before repainting, and to the old custom of varnishing do the Dutch owe the reputation for neatness and durability which their vessels enjoy. Again, any serious accident happening to an iron or iron-cased ship abroad involves almost either total abandon ment or a voyage home, probably from the An tipodes, to have repairs done, from the simple fact that the facilities out of England for boiler and engine work in general, al sea-ports, are very, very scanty. To illustrate, I know at this moment of five or six iron vessels belonging to the Italian navy, which have been for some months, and are yet, almost wholly useless for the want of repairs that could be done in a week or iten days here in England. For these and many other reasons that I could cite I submit that the question lies radically between the use of all iron or all wood, and that the joint employment of the two is inexpedient and impracticable from reasons of economy and durability ; if actions on water always happened under cicumstances where pre cision of aim was reduced to a theory and a certainty, well and good ; but when we know that hardly one shot in a hundred tells with any effect, it must be evident that after all we must rely on our old custom of carrying by boarding. The inventions and improvements of Captain Norton in shells and destructive missiles are beyond doubt of a won derful nature, and evidence great genius and great practical knowledge; but I hardly believe them suscepti ble of being brought into general or very advantageous use on board ship for many reasons —one, among others, thitt their very great destructive properties will necessarily in volve an increased amount of danger to vessels that carry them over the ordinary missiles ; the handling, stowage, and care of live shell requires very great circumspection, but not one-tenth of what would have to be bestowed on liquid fire-shells ; and I quite agree with Captain Connolly that "it will be a long time, if ever, before the present broadside gun and spherical projectile are entirely super seded." From the latter part of that gentleman's letter I differ in tot°, wherein he advocates the dispensing with spar deck batteries, making the deck bulwarks " sufficiently thick only to resist a rifle ball." My reasons I stated in the letter of March 25, which you published. In reference to the liability to catching fire in action, I have long wondered why some kind of pipe was not laid around the ship's frame, say under or beside the spar deck covering board, through which water might be thrown in case of emergency down through the timbers and frame, delaying the seat of the fire; stopcocks might be placed at intervals of every ten or twelve feet, by closing which the whole body of water in the pipe could be thrown down between the timbers at that particular spot, or by leaving them all open the water could be carried completely round the ship ; connecting pipes might also lead up behind the masts to a certain height. In conclusion, while agreeing cordially with Capt. Con nolly, " that we have not more to apprehend from the effects of shot' than did our forefathers of old," I think we should add, that even if we do have more fear of " shell," we must try and not have it, but must trust more to the pluck and cool intrepidity of our men, as they did, than to aught else ; therefore we should have, as I before said, low-sided, broad-beamed, fine-bottomed, single-decked frigates, of 16 to 40 guns, well manned, steaming an average of 12 or 14 knots, and we need fear no " casings," or no "liquid fire." With such, let a cool head, a quick eye, and a firm hand, deliver his broadside or two, and then, with a fall head of steam, sound the old charge of " boarders away 1" and the result would not long be doubtful. The officers of the navy are all right, as are also the men, both striving, as they ever do abroad, to maintain the honour of Old England ; but unless you give the right tools to werk with, and lot them work in the right way, you will soon discourage both officers and men, and the old wooden walls will soon be literally " to let." PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF CANDIDATES FOR HOLY ORDERS.—The universities had for ages sent forth men who had adorned the pulpit, the senate, the bar, and almost every branch of human knowledge, and one might well pause before presuming to suggest even a doubt that systems which had produced such great and varied excel lence could be deficient in one of the chief means for quali fying the student for any department of public life. AU this was readily admitted—the great value of classical and mathematical studies as disciplining the mind quite undis puted—and the universities defended against the popular cry of their not being equal to the requirements of the age. But still the warmest supporter of the existing order of things must, if candid, be compelled to grant that there existed some serious defect in any system of education which, while sending out a few brilliant stars, left the great mass of its men but very indifferent workers in those pur suits which were to be the business of their lives. Were it the special duty of our universities to produce classical and mathematical professors and teachers, possessing not merely a critical but a hypercritical knowledge of their subjects, the present system would seem admirably calculated to fulfil the end in view. When, however, it was remembered that nearly all the colleges bore some such designation as the "ancient and religious foundation of ," it was clear that they were intended by their founders as training schools for the clergy ; and when the universities recognised the fact that the education given was not simply prepara tory, but to a certain extent professional, by their institu tion of divinity professorships, and by requiring the attend ance of theological students not only at lectures but at examinations, it could not but l e felt as somewhat extraor dinary and inconsistent that no provision had been made for due training in that language in which the future clergy man was to address his flock for systematic instruction in the composition and delivery of sermons, and for distinct and unaffected reading of the Church service.—D' Orsey' s Lec ture at the Royal Institution. THE REVENUE.--The revenue accounts have created satisfaction, the apprehended deficiency being limited to about £900,000, and various further heavy arri vals of gold lead to the impression that the Bank rate of discount must speedily undergo a further reduction. It appears from the revenue table that the Government have sold £1,000,000 Exchequer-bills to the Bank to meet the principal part of the demand occasioned by £1,100,000 of the March descriptions having just been sent in for repay ment. It would also seem that of the £2,000,000 which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was empowered to raise by Exchequer-bonds the bank have taken £594,000, so that reckoning the £1,000,000 taken some months back by the savings banks, only £406,000 remains to be put out. The £200,000 raised in annuities on account of fortifications is believed to have been furnished by the savings banks. WRECK OF A LARGE PRUSSIAN EMIGRANT Suit ON THE ISLAND OF SANDAY, ORKNEY.—LITERPOOL, MOD, day.—The Orkney Islands have been shrouded in thick fog, with much rain, for a number of days. On the morning of Wednesday last, the 27th of March, the first intelligence of a large ship being on shore on Sanday spread through the island, and word of the catastrophe was instantly forwarded to Kirkwall. The following is all that had reached the Orcadian office on Saturday :—" The ship Johannes, Capt. D. von Pritzen, from Bremen for Baltimore, with 137 Ger man emigrants and a general cargo, stranded at Airaby, between Newark and Tressness, Sanday. She came on shore about 9 p.m., on Tuesday, the 26th inst., in a thick fog, and is likely to become a total wreck. Emigrants and crew landed safe, and hopes of the safety of the cargo are also entertained." FATAL JUMP FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Saturday evening a man named John Down took a ticket at the railway station at Plymouth for Tavistock, but by mistake got into a truck of an Exeter train. On finding out his error at the junction of the Tavistock and South Devon lines, about three miles from Plymouth, he jumped out of the truck while the train was in motion, and received such injuries that he died on Sunday evening. General Henry, Director General des Haras, has decided that all the draught horses henceforth purchased for the imperial stables must have been bred in France. This decision has been adopted in order to encourage the breed of horses throughout the provinces. A correspondent informs us (Army and Navy Gazette) that Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., is now visiting Magenta, Solferino, and the other cele brated battle-fields of the late campaign in Italy, with a view of reproducing the principal movements in the re views of the forthcoming season at the great camp of in strati= at Aldigshot, ~\ ri . •I‘ E TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. VIENNA, APRIL 2. The Ministerial crisis is over. The present Ministry remain provisionally in office. On Sunday evening last riotous assemblages took place in Agram. The windows of the police-office were smashed by the people, and the Imperial Eagle was torn down from the Government buildings. ROME, MARCH 30. Last night 40 waggons of the Sardinian army were observed near Rome, coming from Gaeta. Gen. Goyon ordered their immediate departure for Ferni, under an escort of gendarmes. The Municipality of Rome sent yesterday to General Lamoriciere a magnificent gold medal which had been struck in his honour. POSEN, MONDAY EVENING. Riots took place yesterday at Kalisch. A multitude of about 3,000 persons made a noisy and insulting demonstration (Katzenmusik) before the house of the Captain of the district. The windows of the house were smashed, and the Captain fled to the Cadet School, amid the shouts and yells of the people. His deputy was likewise insulted. Similar demonstrations afterwards took place before the houses of the President of the Tribunals and the Inspector of Schools. Order was re-established by the military. TURIN, APRIL 1. The official Gazette announces that a conspiracy has been discovered in Modena and the Romagna, in which some disbanded Volunteers from the army IA Southern Italy are implicated. The object of the conspiracy was to engage in a conflict with the Austrians. The Government of the King has taken precau- tionary measures. BERNE, APRIL 1. It is asserted here that a fresh order has been addressed by Garibaldi to his officers residing in Switzerland, requesting them to be ready to as semble at his summons within a fortnight hence. VIENNA, APRIL 1. The news of a landing of Garibaldians at Spezia is a mere invention. The insurgents in the Herzegovina have been repulsed by the Turish troops. The report that the greater number of the Ministers have tendered their resignation is still in circulation, but it is not stated whether it has been accepted. PASTH, APRIL 1. Count Apponyi, Judex Curie of Hungary, will return to Vienna to-morrow. The opening of the Diet will most probably take place on Saturday next. MADRID, MARCH 31 Three Kabyle chiefs, of the province of Riff, in Morocco, have revolted and refused to pay the taxes. Advices received here state that risings have taken place in several parts of Portugal under the pretext of the taxes being unequally distri buted. SPECIE FOR THE WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship La Plata, sailing to-day, takes out English gold coin, £3,800 : English silver coin, £5,800; English jewellery, &c., £365 ; French gold coin, £2,786 ; French jewellery, &c., £6,768. FRANCE. The treaty of commerce just concluded between France and Turkey contains 17 articles, the sub stance of which is as follows : "French subjects and vessels shall enjoy all the rights and immunities that are now or may be . granted to the subjects and vessels of any foreign power. All French sub jects trading in or exporting French products shall enjoy the benefit of Art. 2 of the treaty of 25th November, which abolished monopolies, and shall be liable to other obliga tions than those incumbent on the most favoured subjects of the Sultan engaged in the same trade. French mer chants, on exporting the produce of the Ottoman Empire, shall pay an ad valorem duty of 8 per cent., which is to be gradually reduced to 1 per cent. French produce and manufactures shall also be admitted in all the ports of Turkey at an ad valorem duty of 8 per cent., and, if re-exported within six months, 6 per cent. of that duty shall be returned. French mer chant vessels shall be liable to no tolls in the Dardanelles, the Bosphorus, or the Black Sea. The importation of tobacco and salt is prohibited, and French subjects dealing in those articles shall be liable to the same regulations as the most favoured Ottoman subjects engaged in the same trade. The importation of cannon, gunpowder, and muni tions of war is prohibited. All contraband goods are to be confiscated. All Turkish produce and manufactures im ported into France are to be treated the same as siiailar articles from the most favoured country." This treaty is to last 28 years, but may be modified every 10 years at the demand of either of the con tracting parties. Commissioners are to be appointed to fix the tariffs for all kinds of merchandise im ported into either country from the other. BOURSE, April I.—The settlement has gone on to-day without any difficulty, and the market has been firm, with a slight improvement on the closing rates of Saturday. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 85c. Railway Shares quiet, but firm. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 95 75 Credit Fancier 940 Do end month.... 95 70 ' Belgian 4f — 3 per Cents Do. end month..., 67 90 Roman Bank Shares 2890 Austrian Credit Mobilicr.... 660 —! Spanish Threes — Do. Account 662 50 ; Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1406 25 .. 1407 50 Northern 960 • .. 962 50 New ditto BB7 50 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 948 75 .. 917 50 Geneva 383 75 .. Southern 535 .. 536 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard REMARKABLE MARRIAGE CASE.—A remarkable trial has just terminated in the United States, by which a lady named Gain* after 30 years' litigat ion, has become ' the richest woman in America. One of the earliest settlers in Louisiana was Daniel Clark, who was at the bead of the monetary and social circle of that state on account of his great business talents, wealth, and agreeable person and manners. In 1802 he married secretly a beautiful French woman named Zulime Carriere. She had been married to a Jerome de Grange, who had represented himself as a nobleman, but who turned out to be a confectioner and likewise a bigamist. In 1896 Zulime had a daughter by Clark named Myra, the present Mrs. Gaines. Zulime went to New Orleans to obtain proofs of her first husband's rascality, in order to be enabled to have her marriage with Daniel Clark made public, and while she was gone Clark became enamoured with a Miss Caton, and was engaged to marry her. She however heard of hie marriage with Zulime Carriere, and the engagement was broken off. Miss Caton afterwards became Marchioness of Wellesley. Clark, in order to marry Miss Caton, had destroyed every documentary proof of his marriage with Zulime that he could lay hold of, and when she returned from New Orleans he abandoned her, destitute and helpless, with an infant child. A Dr. Gardette protected and married her. Clark afterwards repented and took his daughter, Mrs. Gaines, and had her educated. He died in 1813, and the immense fortune he amassed in Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, he left to his mother. His wife, Zulime Carriere, died a few years since at New Orleans, nearly 80 years of age. Myra, her daughter, married a Mr. Whitney, and afterwards General Gaines, and her whole life has been devoted is establishing the legitimacy of her birth, the honour of her mother, and her claims to the princely fortune of the millicalaire Clark, She has just succeeded in doing this, THE MAGAZI.NES Fraser's Magazine. A paper on the American quarrel is the first to meet the reader in this number. It discusses the question in its various aspects and probable termi nation. The writer greatly regrets the suicidal policy pursued by the Northern States in passing the new tariff, which, as he observes, has given an im mense moral advantage to the seceders. He expresses a hope, however, considering the embarrassed state of the Federal Treasury, N., Lich this ill-advised move is likely so gr ea tly t o i ncrease , th at i t w ill speedily be found impracticable and repealed as quickly as it was passed. The statistics given of the relative populations of the Southern States are worth consideration. Mr. Whyte Melville's story of " Good for Nothing" progresses considerably. Hints are given at the conclusion of this instalment that life is not going to flow so smoothly with the inhabitants of Verbena Villa, and the reader has grounds for suspecting that the shrewd and practical John Gordon is hovering on the borders of the world of romance. The incidental sketches of character which are introduced are as felicitous as usual. The merits and demerits of our public schools are discussed by a writer who finally arrives at the conclusion that in most cases the advantages outweigh the draw backs of such institutions. The pleasant essayist, A. K. H. 8., gives us another of his delightful papers, this time perhaps more melancholy in tone than usual, for he discourses " concerning" a sub ject which few after early youth can look at lightly. " Concerning Future Years," is the title of his essay, and though he does not take into con sideration the sudden vicissitudes or startling catastrophes that overwhelm some, he finds perhaps deeper pathos in the thought of all the smaller changes, in thought, habit, and feeling, in views and expectations, in those around us andbelonging to us, which, let our onward path be as smooth as it may, must inevitably come with advancing years. One anticipation on his own' part is at least prema ture. He looks forward to the day when his essays shall no longer find favour with the readers of Fraser ; but the wearied subscriber will fling it aside, exclaiming, " Here is that tiresome person again, with the four initials !" To dis cover signs of this alteration in himself and his readers in his present hour of well deserved success and popularity would be as rational as John Foster's horror at the sight of a buttercup, as the herald of a future winter. To slight the pleasures of the present, in eager con templation of the possible changes of the future, whether for good or evil, is unreasonable and wrong, and our author speaks justly on this sub ject in the passage headed " Taking short views." The second paper on the " Progress and Prospects of Astronomy " contains much matter for reflection and study. The story of " Ida Conway " is con tinued with interest. The heroine is recalled to herself by the dangerous illness of her neglected aunt Kitty, whose kindness and indulgence she had slighted while grieving over her unsatisfact or y l ove affairs. She is now punished for her self-absorption by her anxiety for her aunt, who happily recovers. A paper on " British Sculpture" does not take a very encouraging view of the prospects of the Art. The almost exclusive devotion of our sculptors to classical subjects the writer considers to be injuri ous in effect, and symptomatic of want of origi nality and vigour. Among the remaining contents is an article on Java, giving an account of the progress and development of the island since its restoration to the Dutch in 1816. Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. A work recently published in France, entitled "Les Moeurs de Notre Temps," is the subject of the opening paper, which takes a full survey of contemporaneous France in its political, social, literary, theatrical, and dramatic aspects. The interesting story of East Lynne is continued, and fresh complications arise in the plot. Mr. Carlyle is proposed as a candidate for the borough, and, to the amazement and indignation of the neighbour hood, Sir Francis Levison is put forward to oppose him. Lady Isabel is left in peril of detection, and it does not seem likely that she will much longer elude the keen eyes of Miss Cornelia. Sir Nathaniel, in his "Notes on Note-worthies," traces the labori ous and persevering career of Etienne Pasquier, a French forensic celebrity of the 16th century. The "Autobiography of Mrs. Piozzi" is the sub ject of a pleasant paper, which restricts itself 'to the consideration of the lady, as Mrs, Piozzi, and says little of her under her more famous appellation. The writer takes her part warmly, and succeeds in showing that her friends and asso ciates, and even the great Doctor, treated her with some severity. Mrs. Bushby's story of " The Shipwrecked Mariner's Treasure," translated from the Danish, is brought to a conclusion. The much talked of treasure, as is often the case, brought luck to none, but trouble and disaster on all con nected with it. " Granville de Vigne "is another tale, whose scene is laid in our English metropolis at the present day, and, being full of fashion and sentiment, will probably fascinate many readers. The poetical contributions are two iL number. The first being some musical verses, by Nicholas Michell, on the old but unexhausted subject, the coming of Spring ; and the other a " Stereoscopic Glimpse," by W. Charles Kent, showing us Dryden at Soho, which displays the accustomed skill of the writer in depicting the accessories of the old haunts of the poets. Colburn's United Service Magazine. This magazine opens with an article on the Army Estimates for 1861-62, in which the writer analyses each item, and censures them all 'more or less. He in particular condemns the waste of forage, in requiring, or sanctioning staff officers to keep an unnecessary number of horses ; for instance, the Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, whose duties probably require him to appear on horseback some half a dozen times during the year, is allowed five horses. It is remarked likewise that it is a curious fact that the expenses for the convey ance of troops increases as their number diminishes, and that the allowance for the clerks and servants ' of the officers of the medical staff decreases as the number of the ,members of the staff is increased, and that the truth is that the pruning knife is applied on every occasion to clerks and other subordinates, while in higher quarters, where re form and economy is most required, no retrench ment is made. Under the head of " Select Com mittee on Naval Reform," we have an account of the chase after Sir Baldwin Walker, in which it is shown how impossible it was for the Avon to inter• mat the Narcissus, and how easy it would have been to have dispatched the Jason, one of the fastest of our screw corvettes, which was at the time lying in the Sound, to have overtaken her. The neglect of the scheme to carry out promotion by selection, or according to merit, is considered at some length, and the author of the paper on this subject remarks as follows : THE RIGHT SORT AND THE WRONG SORT. Regiments taken as collective bodies are quite alive to the great importance of having a good commanding officer ; they suffer too severely from defects in such a quarter not to take a keen interest in such appointments, but of this the discipline of the service, and the known uselessness of taking thought on the subject, suppresses all outward manifestations. The general public, on the other hand, has never realised the serious responsibilities of the position, or the irreparable mischief which might arise even to the greatest interests of the country from the inca pacity of the colonel of a marching regiment. People take up the " Gazette" and read such appointments without fan cying they can even be of any consequence, though the details of the Indian mutiny ought for ever to have dis abused them of such an impression. There we saw the lives of our men, the honour of our women, the giving of towns to the flames, and the disgrace of ournation all hang ing on the judgment, energy, and decision of officers, who had been appcinted to commands, without the slightest re ference to their possession of any such qualities. A. Hewitt, instead of trampling under foot the banner of re bellion ere it had time to spread its ensanguined folds to the breeze, and give the signal for outbreak far and wide, instead of quenching its incendiary fire in the blood of the villains who kindled it, as he had ample means to do, allowed the fiery cross to be borne off in safety to summon a mighty army to mutiny, and thereby cauPe d the loss of thousands of lives and millions of money. Many adesolate hearth has reason to curse his memory, and yet who thought it any crime to ,appoint an old worn out harmless commandwro wrong t A o l e b e e ru d t o 2 n e by Who appfoin t s i a n w g a h n e y i p l evil ess o m r a c n on t s o id th er e edany and headless old Lloyd to the charge of the Dinapore Divi sion ? " Poor old gentleman," it would have been said had any one objected, " how unfair to refuse them their turn of staff employment after waiting so long for it; they have a just right to it by the regulations of the service," A thousand English soldiers properly handled have ere now decided the fate of empires. Clive had not nearly so many when he virtually transferred the sovereignty of India on the field of Plassy ; and Hewitt had a considerably greater number when he allowed three native regiments to imperil it by their mutiny at Meerut. The lamented Neil, with hardly one-third of that number, saved Benares and Allatiabad, the less of which would have been utter ruin, and the very different management of a colonel at the head of his regiment opposed to the tribes of New Zealand, has just involved the colonists in partial destruction, and saddled the mother country with the expense of a small army. Should then the command of an English regiment be bestowed blindly on any major belonging to it, of whom it can only be said, " Why, here is nothing against him, and his money is lodged !" Yet this is what is being done every week, and we are told there is no help for it, com manding officers cannot be selected I Sad and l tment able confession 1 There is an interesting paper on the regulations respecting the naval cadets in the Britannia training ship. " Our own Correspondent," on the American navy and army gives an account of several court martials, the result of disunion of the Northern and Southern States. Under the head of Justice to the Navy, an epitome of the discussion in Parliament on the fifth of last month on Sir J. 11. Elphinstone's motion for a select committee " to consider the pre sent system of promotion and retirement in the Royal Navy, and the present pay and position of the several classes of naval officers is given." A paper on " The Defence of our Colonies," after considering the position of Great Britain as regards her colonial possessions, and the cost of their defence, concludes as follows : We rejoice that the volunteer ardour has been en kindled in our colonies, for when we speak of that move ment we speak of an institution—such it has become—of which Englishmen all over the world may be justly proud, as the distinguishing glory of this age, belonging to this kingdom, or rather to this empire, alone. It is, indeed, one of those events prominent in the histories of all civilised countries, to which, after generations, extending through centuries, are wont to lock back with a highly moralising pride—a pride that will not suffer them to fall below the national virtue of the progenitors, but greatiy incites them to surpass it. Of such events, thank God, English history is full, and that of which we now speak, the most illustrious of them all, arising out of no political convulsions, no party contentions, no popular commotions—the usual concomi tants of events which mark epochs—but calmly, deliberately , and energetically out of the spontaneously expressed will of this whole nation, constitutes the purest and grandest dis play of civic liberty in full action mankind has eTer wit nessed. This manifestation of unchecked citizen patriotism, embracing all classes of our population, is a spectacle which no other state in Europe would dare to furnish ; it is pecu liarly English, and in the history of the world has no pa' rallel. Such a rising in all other . European countries would be synonymous with confusion, revolution, and anarchy; here it guarantees security, order, and peace. What our Government encourages, all continental Governments would, if not immediately absorbed by themselves, at once suppress as rebellion, as an overt attack on their very exis tence ; and if called upon to pointout by a single broad fact the immense distance that separates constitutional freedom from despotism, one could not hesitate in exclaiming " Look at the volunteer rifle army of Great Britain I—hold far removed are every people under despotic rule from that I" The careful study of maps is strongly recommended to all officers, to the end that they may become conversant with the boundaries of countries and the courses of rivers. In a chapter on "Naval Coast Volunteers and Volunteer Artillery," some useful hints are thrown out for the improvement of our marine reserve, and the better defence of our eoast. " The Bahamas; or, Lucayos Islands," by Lieute nant J R. O'M. M'Lawlor, is continued; the "New Works at Milford Haven," and the "Edi tor's Portfolio," containing notices of new works, and the general naval and military information for the month, are the remaining contents. The Cornhill lifagaz4ne. "Framley Parsonage"—one of the most charming fictions from the prolific pen of Anthony Trollope-- is concluded this month, and the denouement is entirely satisfactory. Lady Lufton at last gives way, and does so in a manner, worthy of herself— she gives way nobly, entirely and cordially. Lucy is brought back in triumph from Hogglestock, and this time Puck, the pony, is not beaten by the way. We leave the precincts of Framley Court and Framley Parsonage with regret, and enter tain a kindly remembrance of the acquaintances we have made there. Mark Roberts, the parson, is the least interesting member of the circle, and is not at all deserving of such a dear, deli g htf u l wife as Fanny, and of such a very charming sister as Lucy, the new Lady Lufton. Mrs. Prondie preserves her important identity to the last, and we doubt not we shall again meet with her in some of Mr. Trol lope's pages—pages to which a world of ad mirers can turn with delight, because they are life-like and natural, written with a charming ease and endued with a dramatic interest, added to which also they are characterised by no small amount of common sense. " Horace Saltoun," a story of vivid and gloomy interest, is also finished this month. The current interest of the Cornhill is now concentrated upon " Philip on his way through the world," and well able is Philip to sustain the weight. Among many other happy hits, Mr. Thackeray's remarks on " Virtuous People " are in the true spirit of the author of " Vanity Fair." Among the artists we are glad to recognise Doyle, who gives us a sketch of an "At Home," we ll worthy of the illustrators of "Ye Manners and Customs of ye English." Bally's Sporting Magazine. This number contains a portrait of Mr. James Merry, M.P., as also a biography of that gentleman, who is, we believe, the first Sootchman who has carried off the "blue ribbon:of the turf." We cannot agree with Admiral Rous in his view of the advan tage to be derived from the use of Roman vapour baths in getting race horses into condition. In certain cases, no doubt, its application may be highly beneficial, but for pugilist, race horse, or hunter, hard work is re qu i re d t o d eve l o p the muscles and sinews. In " School Life, its spo . rts and Pastimes," the Gentleman in Black eulogises the rough sports of the youths of England. Sem tator's remarks on the treatment of hunters in and out of season are sensible, and their perusal would do good to many who act unjustly to their horses from want of knowing better. He censures, 'very properly, the absurd practice of stinting horses in water which causes them to drink to excess when they have the chance, whereas if water were always within reach they would never drink more than was good for them. "Wild Life" is continued, and is as interesting as of old, and we are this month introduced to Cali fornian Bull and Bear Fights. The contest being original we quote a portion of the description : The arena is again cleared, and a light waggon is wheeled in, surmounted by a cage, containing a newly-trapped grizzly bear, a monster of 15 or 20 hundredweight. Ima gine, if you can, a ton of bear not one of those playful, kindly little fellows that eat plum buns from the end of a stick, held by your first-born, at Regent's Park ; nor the fat brown lazy brute that wallows about good-naturedly ort his back there, and is twice as big as his cage ; nor like the white ones that eat captains' biscuit, and only wish it was the captain himself : but the grizzly bear is ferocious and savage beyond description ; thi s one i s manac l e d b y t he hind leg with a heavy chain twenty feet long, the en d of which is passed under the door of his cage, and then s magnificent wild Vull bursts into the arena, and is imme diately lassoed and thrown down by mounted Mexicana- To the foreleg of the bull is attached the other end of the chain, and by a sudden co-operative movement he is released from the lasso, and the cage door of the bear is opened, and if he does not make haste it is likely in the bull's first rush he will come out "with a run." The cage is now with drawn, and the two combatants stand in the lists. Alas, for that noble bull I his pride of life is to be Mira" bled, and in humiliation he must yield to the fearful claw' of his dread enemy, but no fear of his fate stills his boned prowess I• A paw of the earth, a bellow, and with an amazing speed he dashes the bear prostrate; but,i vengefully rising, Bruin, tears open the bull's side, and scores his flanks until pieces of flesh hang quivering. Dauntless the bull rushes at him, and this time drives his horns into his opponent's chest; but the bear rising maddened, with a terrific growl, strikes him repeatedly, until heavy drops of blood speckle the earth ; and torn, and bewildered for the moment, he drags after him the bear by the chain, which the latter impotently gnaws, until, coming to close quarters, the bull pins down his assailant by a sudden onslaught, and rises with blood on his horns. Again and again does the bull charge, and the stubborn bear stands the full force of his butt, and repays him savagely with teeth and claws. Several times more the bull gores his opponent, and casts him at his feet, butßrum tears him again and again, and so they fight on for nearly an hour. Bruin now sits up suddenly, and soon to him comes the ill-fated bull, whom he receives in his dreadful arms, and having fixed them round his neck, on his next faint struggle, gnaws his frontal bones and nose, until the very crackle is heard throughout the house ! Bull, not yet beaten, plunges madly, and drives a horn far into the bear's side, until both roll over in a ghastly s t rugg l e; w h en t h e b ear, biting open his throat, and tearing asunder his entrails, lies down helpless to watch his game antagonist die ! People now enter, release the carcase of the bull, and passing the chain through the cage, drag back by sheer force the gored and wretched animal, who will be reserved for another fete and fate. Father Thames gives a very good account of the late University boat race, but he is wrong when he states that last year's race was a close one, for, although the Cambridge crew of that year did not excel their opponents as 'much as the Oxonians did in the late encounter ; yet after Hammersmith Bridge the Cantabs had it all their own way, and won easy. "The experiences of Sydney Godolphin Yahoo" are brought to an abrupt termination. Of course ho marries Ethel, but th e t a l e i s prema turely concluded, and its chief re commen d at i on i 9 the animated description of Highl an d sports, there being little or no romance in the story. THE WESTMINSTER CLOCK AND BELLS.—Yes terday morning the bells of the new Palace of Westminster played some strange vagaries. At one o'clock—that is, in the dead of the night—instead of contenting themselie° with giving forth the single one, they struck 37. At tale o'clock and three o'clock the bells gave forth the righ t numbers, but at four o'clock they were again erratic and struck 39. On both occasions when these extravagant numbers were given, the striking of the hours commence d before the ordinary quarter chimes, these coming in to. wards its close. The same curious circumstance with re gard to these bells happened on the day on which he r Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent died, and thereupon some curious suggestions were offered in reference to simi lar strange proceedings on the part of the bells of St. Paul's, and which it was said had been generally found to precede the death of royalty. CHANCELLORSHIP OF ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY' —We understand on good authority that the Duke of Rich mond is to be put in nomination for the office of Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, and that, though his Grac e was ono of the petitioners against the ordinances when the! were discussed last year under appeal to the Queen in council, he has declared his opinion to be now decidedly unfavourable to any attempt to reverse the decision that was then pronounced. It may be remembered that the main body of the appellants contended for the maintenanc e of two colleges, or at least of duplicate professorships in the faculty of arts; but a section of them desired only the transfer of the united classes from the Universitybuildings of King's College to those of Marischal College, an object which it appeared had been aimed at by oth ers in a diffe rent way. 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