The Sun. — London, England, 1861-07-01 00:00:00

THE EIGHTY-FIFTH ANNIVER SARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. —A Public Breakfast will take place at the Royal Opera Colonade Ilotel, Charles street, St. James , on Thu rsda y , July 4, at Two o'clock. The Rev. Dr. Patten, of New York, in the Chair. Tickets 10the s., to be had at Messrs. Starr an d . Co., 158. pside, office of the " London American." 9,'Exetat theer-ch a above hotel.nge, Strand; Capt. Tinkee, 113, Fenchurch - str eet, and NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.- C F. HANCOCK, Jeweller and Silversmith to the Queen. U. Bruton-street. Bond-street, having been selected by the Cimmittee to make the " G BADE " to be worn by th e Members of the " National Rifle Association," he,7B respec tf u lly to inform t hem that it ma y be p ro c u red at his" Establishment, or on the grounds at Wimbledon, in S I L VER , price 7s. 6d. , and in GOLD ENAMELLED, price Th ree Guineas. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. ',ewe, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the nerforrnanneo will commence with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. After which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, ac.; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC by Mr. C. Mathews. And THE GALICIAN FETE. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris. ' THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Alisa M. Harris. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, (to. ; Misses Beath, Elsworthy, and It. Leclereq. ENV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL _LI • Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING (Ist time) MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne. Alter which (220th time), THE COLLEEN BAWD. Mr. D. Boucicauit, D. fisher, Billingdon, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Froward, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. (lANTERBURY - HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas, including , . 'Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced in England at this Establishment), .with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. GreTille, Mr. Herbert, Siznor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, by sir. Levy (the first performer of the day) ; the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); Continued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. the Comic Department comprises the following favourites: —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, 115 7 Blessrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. T H E O X F O R D, 8, OXFORD-STREET. This noble building being now completed, its architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus) from " Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschcra." both operas by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEvv—Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves) ' w. H. Wieland, E. Marshall , and W. Randall. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. ed. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 56m.—Afternoon, Bh. 20m. TO-MORROW.-Morning, Bh. 54►n.—Afternoon.' 9b. 26m. THE WEATHER.—.SUN OFFICE, JUNE 30, 1561. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 71—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 66—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.10 ; WlND—North -Westerly; fresh, with fine weather, but cloudy. JULY 1. THERMOMETER, IN TF SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. GS —this day at noon. BARomrrEu--30.22. WiNn--Weiiterly ; light, with fine weather. 44V 44 _ - • Y.9 . „91 -c - 7 4.1 , , 44. (•_“'. • • • - , r ,,_ , - • 51 - o 5, `~ THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1861. The Revenue Tables for the past year, but espe cially for the past quarter ending 30th June, 1861, reveal, upon calculation, a quotient in the highest degree satisfactory. Upon the receipts for the twelvemonth ending on Saturday, when compared with the year preceding, there is visible a net increase of £445,507. Upon the receipts for the quarter ending on Saturday, in the same way, there is visible a net increase of £1,578,420. Otherwise, in round numbers, an increase of nearly half a million in the reveisue for this last year, and of upwards of a million and a half sterling in the revenue for this last quarter. It is almost needless to add therefore that ample provision has been made for the receipts covering the expenditure. A gra tifying consideration in itself certainly —not a doubt of it. Though our exhilaration resulting from the knowledge of this is somewhat dinainished, it is true, by the reflection immediately afterwards that such ought assuredly in all conscience to be the result when it is remembered that the total sum raised during the twelvemonth last past through the pleasant medium of taxation, reaches the enormous amount of £71,862,094 ! A " tottle of the whole', that would have made poor JOE:IItatE stand aghast at such national extravagance in a time of peace nominally—a time actually, however, not so much of peace as of warlike preparation ! To our grand fathers, this aggregate amount of the receipts with in a single year, a year of soi disant European tran quillity —to our grandfathers, we say, this aggregate amount of the receipts of one single year attaining a sum so vast that it is really but by the trivial sum of £137,906 short of a round total of £72,000,000, would have been little else than incredible Gradually, however, We have come to be habituated to contemplate sums like these as mere matters of course sums that a generation or two back would, if syll a bl ed by any ambitious Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course of his financial statement, have instantly qualified him for a cell in St. Luke's. Our financier nowadays has to deal with such vast figures, the nation reflects now without much discom posure upon the fact that within this last year, ending 30th June, 1861, there have poured into the Treasury—X.23,399 ; ooo through the Customs — £9,492,000 through the Excise—close upon £12,000,000 from Stamps and Taxes-1:3,400,00 0 through the Post-office—£l2,423,ooo through the medium of the Property and Income Tax—and £1,551,921 under the heads of Crown Lands and Miscellaneous. Altogether, in other words, a revenue within the year of £71,862,094 ; or but a paltry £137,906 less than 572,000,000 within a single twelvemonth ! It is, at any rate, a consolation to remember that while we have to balance so stupendous a revenue against so enormous an expenditure, we have ccca sion at the same time to recognise the fact of an increase in the receipts both of the last year and of the last quarter—of the last quarter especially ! The Midsummer Quarter returns of 1861 show, in point of fact, a steady increase, as compared with the Mid summer Quarter returns of 1860, upon every item, with the solitary exception of the last vague item upon the list, entitled, for want of a more definite name, the Miscellaneous. There, however, under the head Miscellaneous, we find a decrease upon the quarter of a little less than £200,000 altogether—a decrease, in fact, of merely £192,745. But—how caused ? Why, simply by the circumstance that we had no such windfall to take into account as that dropping to us from the clouds somewhat unexpectedly last year, in the shape of an odd half sterling honourably paid back to us by the Spaniards. Saving and ex cepting that falling off to the tune 0f_X192,745 in the Quarter's Miscellaneous returns, every other item of the returns for this last quarter looks favourably—shows an increase; An increase of £l,OOO through the Crown Lands—of £57,000 through Excise—of £87,223 through Customs — of £126,758 through Stamps and Taxes—of (here, however, comes the " haul" for Mr. GLADSTONE !) £1,499,181 through the Property and Income Tax ! Sooth to say—all but A MILLION AND A HALF increase upon the quarter—only £Bl6 short of £1,500,000 increase upon the quarter—through the Income Tax alone ! There is the fatal faci lity—so tempting to your " rough and ready" Financiers ! There is that all but irresistible temp tation to your ambitious Chancellors of the Ex chequer—inviting them to sweep off this and to sweep off that, to diminish here and to abrogate there—and to square all pleasantly, off-hand, by an odd penny of income, an odd penny yielding another odd £1,000,000. Taking the total increase within the quarter, we find it to be actually no less than £1,771,165 altogether. But—subtracting from that aggregate the falling off under the head of " Miscellaneous" to the extent of £192,745 —we find still a net increase of Revenue upon the quarter of more than a million and a half, of £1,578,420. It must again be born in mind, however, that of this net increase within the quarter to the tune of £1,578,420, almost the whole has been contributed by the proceeds of the Income-tax. Insomuch is this obviously the case, that deducting from the net increase upon the quarter (amounting, as we have seen altogether to £1,578,420), the increased proceeds of the quarter's returns of Income Tax (amounting to 1,499,184), there remains only an increase of £79,236 to be distributed among the other items enumerated. Or, supposing this to be regarded as in every way an unfair method of computation, namely, the deducting of the Income Tax increase upon the quarter from the total of the net increase upon all the items in the Revenue—Even when we subtract the Income Tax increase upon the quarter to the extent of £1,499,184 from the total of the increase (not of the net increase, but of the full increase generally) to the extent, as already seen, of £1,771,165, we find but £271,981 left to distri bute among all the other items of Crown Lands, Customs and Excise, Stamps and Taxes. Still recog nising this one alarming fact, that the Income Tax may be counted upon to fill up all the gaps that may be left by the most experienced Financier in the world—there are indications so auspicious in the yield of the returns generally during the past quarter, and generally, too, during the last year, that we are disposed to look hopefully to the diminution of that Burden when the spring of 1862 shall bring us within view and hearing of Mr. GLADSTONE'S next Financial Statement. The Federalist cause strengthens. In skirmishes the Southerns have had the best of it, but in more serious military operations the Northerns. The petty successes alluded to, seem to be due to the appointment of civilians to commands, instead of conferring them on trained officers, and the results might have been anticipated. They did not want courage, but skill to lead. General SCOTT finds his hands strengthened by these mishaps to demand that the educated military servants of the Union, the officers of the regular army, shall be promoted to the posts where they are needed. Besides the mismanaged affair at Great Bethel, another has oc curred at Vienna, a small town on the Virginian side of the Ohio; the commander of the troops managed to convey them in railway carriages to a point where some rebel artillery enfiladed the train ; they had to scramble out of the cars as best they could, with the loss of many killed and wounded. To set against these casualties, quite trivial in regard to the main objects of the strategy on either side, the North has to boast of its steady success on its grand line of the Potomac, we might add in Missouri also; There have indeed been panics in Washington itself, from rumours of large Southern forces approaching. Nothing indeed is more sin gular than the ignorance in the North of the mili tary strength and movements of the South in Vir ginia. It might have been supposed that tho iden tity of language, and the fact of many Unionists existing in the very heart of Virginia, would have kept the North fully informed of all that was going on within one or two hundred miles south of the Potomac. The reverse is the fact. The North knows no more of the positions and strength of the rebel troops south of the great river, than the Allies in the Crimea did of the Russians north of the Tcher naya. We incline to the opinion that they are not so numerous nor so well equipped as those of the North, certainly not strong enough to menace Washington, which is now well protected on Arlington Heights, south of the rivet ; and that they will have quite enough to do to defend their Virginian capital, Richmond, for any length of time, when once General SCOTT moves in earnest against them. It is evident that the successes of the South have been those of isolated encounters while General SCOTT has succeeded in the most masterly way, hitherto, in his main plan. We heard many bragging tales from the South of the impossibility of driving them from their strong position at Harper's Ferry —the General concentrated the movements of three bodies of troops, one a large one, towards the position, and they quickly found that if they did not run to their comrades eastwards in all haste, they would soon be in trap, to answer for feloniously and treasonably taking possession of Federal pro perty. The old General is thus forcing the Southern troops together to their Virginian Armageddon, at Richmond. It is not thought they will stand long at Manassas Junction, but , probably have to quit that as they did Harper's Ferry. Richmond they must fight for, if they £ght at all. Though not a fortified place, St. James's River on w hi c h it the hills on th e it is said that stands are favourable to fortifications, and that a vigorous resistance may be mad, there. In Mis souri, the Unionist Commander -General LYON seems to have acted with great and successful Ivigour. The Governor of that State iss ue d a pro clamation to raise 50,000 men ; General L- ToNs treated it not technically, but practically, regard ing it as manifest treason—attacked the Governor at once--drove him away from the capital Jeffer son, encountered the troops the General had with him, killed 300 of the rebels, mortally wounded their leader, took 600 prisoners, and sent Governor JACKSON to find distant quarters in doable quick time. It can but strike one that a little such deal- ing with facts as facts, in the first instance, might have prevented all the present difficulties. We should not be at all surprised if the cool strategy of General SCOTT put an end to the whole struggle without any great battle. The North intends, at any cost, to put forth its strength, and such strength as to render Southern resistance hopeless after the coming winter. We heard from the best authority of the damping effect on the South of the Northern awakening on the fall of Fort Sumter. How, at once, all talk of attacking Washington was abandoned, and the only demand was that the North would let them alone. A similar proceeding seems to be now before us. The Congress is to meet on the 4th. It is understood that the PRESIDENT will make the largest military and naval demands on the States, and that they are quite prepared to second them ; that he will assume the position that the Rebellion must be trampled out this year, or early in next, and that he will be vigorously supported in such a policy. Of soldiers and gunboats there is to be no stint. Half a mil lion of the former will render resistance useless, and one hundred and fifty gunboats and other vessels will completely take possession of the Southern sea board. To all this JEFFERSON DAVIS, meek and gentle man, responds by professions of love to the North, and desire for peace. He tells the Maryland Commissioners, who had visited him to confer with him on their misery in having to belong to the Union against their will, that he sympathises with the people of Maryland in their being " en listed with their whole hearts on the side of recon ciliation and peace." He tells them that the people of the Confederated States, notwithstanding their separation "from their late sister States," have not ceased to " feel deep solicitude for their welfare." Nor is that all ; he expresses the hope that one day the Northern States, " whose people, habits, and institutions are so closely assimilated to their own, will seek to unite their fate and fortunes with those of the Confederacy !" He approves, also, the suggestions of the Maryland Commissioners that there should be an armistice till Congress meets, that it may, " if possible, arrange for an adjustment of the existing troubles by means of negotiation rather than the sword !" And all this is, he tells us, almost a repetition of all he has ever said and done since the separation. His Gene ral, BEAT REGARD, however, makes up for Davis's readiness to hoist the white flag by a most ferocious proclamation ; the General no doubt feels himself equal to anything since his reduction of Fort Sumter; but of course his gasconading fury is not of the same weight as the cool replies of his civil superior to the Maryland Commissioners. It is, we think, quite within the range of possibility that the cool and cautious, but determined old veteran, SCOTT, may compel the whole of the Southern army in Virginia to follow the example of their comrades at Harper's Ferry. We can hardly expect a bloodless solution of the problem ; but the old General appears to be adopting the means most likely to bring it about. If, whether by strategy or a battle, he does suceeed in dispersing the Southern army now in Virginia, and thus in placing her in the same position in which Maryland now is, the Southern cause will be not worth fight ing for. All the Border States, in which the Unionists are as numerous, though they have not been so firm and turbulent as the Secessionists, will adhere to the Union, and the more Southern States will then be but a mouthful for the mighty North. It would be amusing, if it were not mischievous to see the foolish way in which the American press continues to write of England. The Herald, a journal edited, we understood, by Irish emigrants, shows at length what an easy thing it would be for the mighty Union to give England again a good flogging; such a one as the" Rapale" remnant would like to have given her, if they could have done it, and which it would, indeed, be gratifying if they could succeed in provoking the Yankees to attempt. We are sorry, however, to see that even such men as Mr. DALLAS and Mr. J. L. MOTLEY speak of the English Government as hostile to the North, though they set against it the friendly feeling of the whole people. Some of them have at last perceived that all the measures of the English Government are in reality favourable to the North ; but, when this is confined, it cannot be done with out attributing all the merit of it to the paper threats •f Mr. SEWARD! An able man Mr. SEWARD is, beyond doubt—an able talker to an American caucus, but a public man more ignorant of European affairs, or of smaller influence in European circles, it would be hard to find. He has great popularity in America, but the condition of American popu larity appears to be unfitness for civil intercourse with civilised nations. The account has gone forth in the shape of a formal prospectus—and we give it here gladly enough the benefit of our own circulation—that, on Thursday next, at two o'clock p.m., at the Royal Opera Colonnade, in Charles-street, St. James's, there will be given A Breakfast—(it is really quite refreshing for once not to real "A Dejeuner")— in honour of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Declaration of American Indepen• dente ! At all times and under all circum stances the recurrence of this ever-memorable anniversary has been a matter of profound interest not alone to the Americans themselves, but gene rally to the race from which they have sprung, to the whole Anglo-Saxon family scattered far and wide, north, south, east, and west through both hemispheres. How profound the interest, then, of its recurrence now—at this present time, under these present circumstances ! When American Inde pendence is almost, one might venture to say, jeopardised by the fratricidal war now raging in the great Transatlantic Republic —between the United States armies of the North and the Confederate States armies of the South— between: the United States men and the Seces sionists. Thursday being the Eighty-fifth Anniver sary of the Declaration of American Independence, comes to us as a painful reminder that a century has not been allowed to elapse since the period of that renowned event before the Great Republic born of that momentous Declaration has been compelled to cast its fortunes into the desperate lottery of Civil War. ' 11 LATEoT NEWS. .... .).- PARIS, MONDAY, The Noniteur of to-day contains an Imperial decree nominating M. de Talleyrand Perigord Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoteniary to the Court of Brussels. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 30. Namik Pasha is appointed Minister of War in the place of Riza Pasha, who is: disgraced. 500 Palace servants have been dismissed. Other reforms are expected. Mehemet Ali is in favour 'with the Sultan. The rate of exchange is falling. TURIN, JUNE 30. The discussion . on the Loan Bill was resumed to day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Musalino opposed the bill, and declared that he had no confi deuce in a Ministry that wished to maintain the alliance with France. He said, England is the true friend of Italy, and insisted that France should be compelled to cease the occupation of Rome. The Italians, he continued, cannot await for an indefi nite period the good pleasure of a foreign Power which, to speak candidly, defends the wickedness of the Roman Government. Signor Farini said that the statement of Signor Musalino respecting his journey to Chambcry was erroneous. He sup ported the alliance with France, " which," he said, " is the foundation and shield of popular right not only of Italy, but of all Europe. Italy is indebted to France and the Emperor for many blessings, the value of which history and ourselves will highly appreciate." (Loud applause.) JULY 1. The Turin journals announce that General Cial dini will replace General Durando in the command of the army of the Southern Provinces. NAPLES, JUNE 30. 600 brigands have left Rome for the Neapolitan frontier. VIENNA, JULY 1. Another Cabinet Council was held yesterday evening, at which it was definitively resolved not to accept the address of the Hungarian Diet. The President of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, who was to present the address, returned to Pesth yesterday evening. This news is authentic. Other reports are cur rent, but are not to be relied on. NAPLES, JUNE 29. 500 muskets have been seized by the police. TURIN, /UNE 29. In to•day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies a very animated discussion took place on the budget for the last six months of 1861. The proposition of the Finance Committee to extend the war tax of a decline to the Southern pro vinces created an uproar in the Chamber. The majority of the Southern members strongly op posed the proposal. The discussion will be continued this evening. The discussion of the Loan Bill is suspended. JUNE 30. The Opinione of yesterday denies the report that the Minister of Finance has already entered into engagements in reference to the forthcoming national loan. The Chamber of Deputies has voted the budget for 1861. The discussion of the loan bill will be resumed tomorrow. VIENNA, JUNE 29. For the last four days conferences upon the Hun garian question and the acceptance of the address have been frequently held between the Emperor and the Ministry, and also with the Hungarian Ministers. These conferences have not, however, led to any result. BERLIN, JUNE 29. The judgment given in the affair of the late duel having been confirmed, Major-General Manteuffel was sent yesterday to Magdeburg to undergo his sentence of three months' imprisonment in the fortress. MADRID, JUNE 29. The Correspondencia Autografa of to-day says: "The Spanish Government has resolved to aban don its claims against Morocco, to declare Tetuan the property of Spain, to render it impregnable, and to colonise the territory." BERNE, JUNE 29. The Marquis do Torrearsa, who is shortly ex pected here from Turin on his way to Copenhagen, will officially notify to the Federal Council the elevation of Victor Emmanuel to the Sovereignty of Italy. THE BRAZIL MAIL. LISBON, JUNE 29. The royal mail steam-ship Oneida, with the above mail, has arrived here, and will leave for South ampton at noon to-day. She brings 102 passengers, £31,895 in specie, and 3,811 bags of coffee. At Rio Janeiro, on June 9, exchange on London was quoted 25 261. Coffee : good first, 4,300 (?) to 7,200 reis per arroba ; sales, 90,000 bags. At Bahia drafts on London for this mail have been negotiated at 26! 261 27. Sugar : brown, 2,100 ; white, 2,600 to 2,700 reis per arroba. Freight, 555. to 50s. At Pernambuco exchange on London was 26 to 261. Sugar—white, 4,200 to 4,400 ; brown, 2,500 to 2,600 reis, with limited sales. Freight for the Channel, 455. to 50s. QUEENSTOIVN, JUNE 30. The Royal Mail steamship Canada arrived here at :noon, embarked mails, passengers, and latest telegrams, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 4 p.m. All well. THE SONG OF JUNE. (From Eliza Cook's Poems.) Oh I come with me, whoever ye be, Come from the palace, and come from the cot ; The strong and the hale—the poor and the pale— Ah I sad is the spirit that follows me not. Old December lighted his pyre, And beckon'd ye in to the altar blaze ; He hung up his mistletoe over the fire, And press'd soft lips upon Christmas days. Ye welcomed him with his eyes so dim, But I know ye have more love for me, When I wander about, and whistle ye out With my blackbird pipers in every tree. Oh I come from the town, and let us go down To the rivulet's mossy and osier'd brink ; 'Tis pleasant to note the lily queen float ; The gadfly skim, and the dappled kine drink. Oh! let us away where the ringdoves play, By the skirts of the wood in the peaceful shade ; And there we can count the squirrels that mount, And the flocks that browse on the distant glade. And if we should stay till the farewell of day, Its parting shall be with such lingering smile, That the western li g h t, as it greeteth the night, Will be caught by the eastern ray peeping the while. Littlo ones come with your chattering hum, And the bee and the bird w ill b e jealous full soon For no music is heard like the echoing Wor d Of a child, as it treads 'mid the flowers of Juno. Ye who are born to be weary and worn With labour or sorrow, with passion or p a i n , Come out for an hour, there's balm in my bower, To lighten and burnish your tear-rusted chain. Oh I come with me, wherever you be, And beauty and love on your spirits shall fall ; The rich and the hale, the poor and the pale, For Lady June scatters her joys for all. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena, returned to Buckingham Palace at half. past ten o'clock on Saturday morning, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Colonel the lion, A. Liddell, and Colonel the lion. A. N, Rood, TURKEY. La Patrie has the following : "We are in receipt of despatches from Constan tinople to the 28th inst. " His Imperial Majesty the Sultan Abdul Aziz has ju3t adopted a general measure respecting the household of his brother the Sultan Abdul Medjid. "The civil employes belonging to the Palace are to be discharged, but will receive a pension in pro portion to their rank and time of service. The military officers and employes will be incorporated in the Ottoman army. All the women in the harem who have no children shall be married, and those who have children shall be suitably pro vided for ; the debts of the household will be paid ' out of the Imperial purse. " The Sultan has conferred upon his nephew Mehemmed Murad Effendi, eldest son of his brother Abdul Medjid, the title of Pasha, with a suitable appanage. He has done the same for the other sons of his brother, two of whom, at their own request, enter the Military School at Constantinople. " The civil list of the former Sultans provided by the State averaged from 70,000,000 f. to 75,000,000 f. The Sultan Abdul Aziz has decided that 12,000,0001. will suffice for the wants of himself and family, in. - 1861: dependently of the revenue arising from his own private property, which is very well managed. " It is not yet known whether he will inhabit the Palace on the Bosphorus or the magnificent Palace of Dolma-Bagtche, built by his brother, but as yet he has fixed his domicile in a very modest dwelling of the old Seraglio, close to the Golden Horn. " The same despatch informs us that Mehemet Ali Pasha, brother of the Viceroy of Egypt and son in-law of the late Sultan, had died suddenly at Constantinope from apoplexy. " His Excellency Vely Pasha, Ambassador of the Sublime Porte at Paris, has been accredited in the same quality to Madrid, and his Excellency Musurus Bey, Ambassador at London, has been accredited in the same quality to Brussels. Both will enter upon their new functions on and after the Ist of July." J FRANCE. The Patric of this evening says : " The English frigate Terrible anchored at Con stantinople on the 28th inst., after having obtained from the Porte the firman required by the conven tion relative to the States of the Dardanelles:' BOURSE, June 29,—The market has been ex tremely dull, with but little variation in prices. Threes opened at the closing prices of yesterday, and are now sc. lower. The following were the last quotations : Wper per Cents ... 96 70 Credit Fonder lO2O Do, end month.... 96 80 Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 65 Roman Bank Shares 2855 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 688 75 1 Spanish Threes..., 50 Do. Account 690 —; Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1358 75 .. 1360 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 943 75 .. 945 Geneva 390 391 25 Southern 572 50 .. 572 50 Western Eastern Sardinian .. 372 50 .. 373 75 Austrian Lombard 4BB 75 .. 490 THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood's Maganne. There is an article called " The Epic of the Budget," which is written in an effective style. There is much truth in the epitome thus given— " As patriots, hardly anybody is satisfied ; as parti sans, nearly everybody is pleased." The writer of this sketch takes a very hopeful view of the future prospects of the Conservative party, and declares their advent to power may soon be expected through the disruption of the ranks of their adversaries, who are gradually failing through their own mismanage ment. All lookers-on at the momentous game of polities must know the truth that exists in the following statement, although of course many would not own it, and some for party purposes would deny it :—The Whigs, from a long enjoyment of the spoils of office, cannot bear to be deprived of what they regard as their perquisite, and conduct their opposition with unusual virulence--by foul means if not fair, by calumnies, by unnatural coali tions, they will move heaven and earth to get back their places. We know of few things more dis graceful than the manner in which the opposition to Lord Derby's first and second Administra tions was carried on." After criticising Mr. Gladstone as a hazardous Chancellor of the Exchequer, and alluding to the arrogance of his tone in debates and the " paroxysm of passion" which he displayed when his measure was threat ened with defeat, this article concludes with a brief resume of the unsuccessful results to the Ministers of the Parliamentary campaign—" It is the fate of a weak Government to grow in weakness, and of a strong opposition to grow in strength. We do not know whether in the records of any session of Par liament a Government was known to have sustained so many and so hurailiating defeats as the present are. The decision on the Galway Contract was not that of a particular minister, it was a decision re viewed and confirmed by the Cabinet. They adopted it in all its force, yet a few nights after the repeal of the paper duties had been decreed by the House of Commons, the Government were forced to eat their leek and to accede to the motion of Mr. Gre gory, that a select committee should be appointed to inquire into the wisdom of the decision at which Ministers had arrived. Mr. Disraeli did not miss the opportunity, but distinctly pointed out that here was a question of confidence, andyet the Govern ment meekly conceded to let a select committee ques tion its decision and override its policy. It was a just retribution, and a symptom of inevitable decay. It was the former, for it amounted to a confession that after all their calumnies there was a case for inquiry that the Tories might not have been so very far wrong, nor the Whigs so rigidly correct as had been imagined." Those who desire the most to uphold the conduct of the Ministers must have felt that they were either too hasty at the beginning or too wavering at the end of this dispute, and cer tainly no one ever damaged the consistency of a cause more than Lord Palmerston, by purposely going out of his way to boast of having annulled the contract, and then turning round to agree to a re-consideration of the entire question. If it was the duty of the Cabinet to make a departure from established custom and disavow the promises of their predecessors it was still more their duty to stand by that decision, and boldly explain why they had done so, and then take the risk as they had before taken the responsibility of the af f air. However, public objects of interest are made the rise and fall to suit party motives. " Norman Sinclair" is approaching its termination, and in this instalment some of the characters are withdrawn. It was rather heavy at the outset, but for some time past it has improved in animation, and been an object of interest to the readers of this magazine. " The Barbarisms of Civilisation" is a very amusing article, that satirizes the many so called improvements of the day. It is written in a very humorous style, and cannot fail to attract even where the reader may not altogether agree with some of the diatribes launched against the innova tion of the social system. It is said, " There are a great many inventions amongst us of which neces sity was never the mother, and which we should be a great deal more comfortable without." A very ludicrous summary is given of the various plans that have been made in the domestic arrangements by the untiring energy of these ruthless inventors ; they are here stigmatised as "justifying any amount of persecution that could have been brought to bear upon them in the ages which we call barbarous, and which do seem to come direct from the fountain of evil." This smart sketch will be found very well worth perusing, mid no one can fail to be amused with its sallies and witticisms. " The Bookhunter Again" is a continuation of the subject that was before considered in these pages. It is a very sug gestive subject, and will doubtless be studied with satisfaction by the erudite reader. "The Orleans Manifesto" is a brief analysis of 'the celebrated letter. It observes that the French ministers were most impolitic in resorting to such violent measures, as they thus spread the evil they wished to sup press. " Here it is, in our hands, in a Berlin reprint, and it exists also in a German trans lation." " Judicial Puzzles" in this number refers to Spencer Cowper's case. It was a very sing u l ar one, and additional importance is given to it from the fact that Lord Macaulay has made mention of it in his last volume of history. It is observed that " the opportunity of a double fling at Quakers and Tories has been too great a temptation." There are some verses entitled, " The Farewell of the Seal," which refer to a tradition of Shetland, which is very curious, and the lines are written in a sowing measure, and without being remarkable for merit they are pleasing. "The Demise of the Indian Army" take a lugubrius view of affairs in that country, but concludes with a hope that the fears of the writer may not be fulfilled in the future, he not being of the number of those who— " Would rather that the Dean should die, Than their prediction prove a lie." " The Disruption of the Union," is a sensible article on affairs across the Atlantic. It states that the present outcry against England is unreasonable beyond all precedent. This difficult subject is very fairly treated in these pages, " Hook's Archbishops of Canterbury," are criticised in the opening paper. It is observed that his promotion to the Deanery will have been of service, if only to furnish us with a readable History of the English Church. "It was much wanted, for drier food than was usually presented to the reader under that title can hardly be imagined." Altogether, there is much to fur nish the reader with interest and information in the contents of this number of Maya. Fraser's Magazine. The opening article in this number is founded on Lord Stanhope's Life of Pitt, and pays a high tri bute to the genius, resolution, and public spirit of the great Minister. It is remarked that he has been, until the present year, without a Hograpber, in the true meaning of the word, as the memoirs hitherto published have been little more than chro nicles of his public acts and sayings. The article is chiefly devoted to the earlier portion of Pitt 's career and his startling entry into public life. In commenting upon his immediate success in that art of Parliamentary debating, which it usually requrequir es i long years of study and experience to mature, t is justly said, that although his father's fame and h is own academical reputation secured him a favour reception, they only made the trial more severe, since he had to fulfil great expectations. Much of ' the readiness and confidence which were remark able in so young an orator was, doubtless, due to Lord Chatham's skilful training,and it must always be matter of regret to his admirers that he did not live to witness his care so worthily repaid. Of course, in the limits of a brief paper like the present, it is impossible to do more than touch upon the chief points in Pitt's official career. It is justly observed that he had many difficulties to contend against, from which modern statesmen are exempt. Among these are reckoned the interference of the King, the insolence of his own Chancellor, the separate Parliament of Ireland, the,prejudices against want of pedigree and the intense acerbity of political an tagonism in those days. The greater diffusion of general knowledge, the higher character rand in creased force of public opinion, and the extension of the fourth estate have all combined, the writer considers, to lighten the task of our legislators. " Under all aspects, therefore," he remarks, " even the ordinary difficulties of ruling the State would seem to have been greater in Pitt's time than in our own, and astonishment at his character is vastly increased when to all these there comes to be added the immense and extraordinary weight of responsi bility which was singly thrown upon him from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the close of his life." The present instalment of " Good for Nothing" brings us to a startling event in the life of poor Gilbert Orme. In his rambles in Australia he discovers the long absent Latimer, Ada's hus band, who was believed to be dead, and whose sud den re-appearance annihilates all his castles in the air. The other story, " Ida Conway" also chronicles important events—the elopement of Countess Doro thea with the Pole, and another addition to Ida's admirers. A criticism on Mr. Theodore Martin's translation of Catullus speaks of the recent emenda tions and abstractions which have transformed the ancient versions of the Latin poet. Another paper treats of another poet of the same sunny clime, but belonging to a very different age. " Petrarch and his Times" are discussed by the same author who recently gave us an essay on the greater and sterner Dante. It is remarked in the opening passages that the two great men who gave the first impulse to the literary renown of their country were also intimately connected with its troublous vicisstude. If Dante's life was darkened by the fierce contests of the Neri and Bianchi, Petrach was saddened by the Papal abandonment of the seven-hilled city for the undignified retirement of Avignon. But in outward circumstances, Petrach was by far the most favoured. "He was the minister of Popes and Emperors, the chosen envoy of States, the cherished friend and counsellor of warlike and astute chieftains ; while, at the same time, he was the pride and admiration of his humbler compatriots, the oracle of the learned over all the civilised world. If the consciousness of unbounded fame and universal respect are the most valued rewards of genius, Petrarch enjoyed a happiness which Dante and Shakspeare might well have envied." The clever and eloquent writer who assumes the pseudonym of " Shirley" contri butes an able and thoughtful paper on "The Im potence of History." He entitles it "Tile Sphynx," an I enforces his arguments by some remarkable illustrations. There is undoubtedly much truth in his observations, and it is to be hoped that they will serve to caution his readers against that hasty and decisive judgment of motives to which we are all so prone, and by which we compensate for our cautious scepticism on other points. " Saint Saturday" is a very just and sen sible article which enters fully into those prac tical difficulties which beset the artisan in the ra tional employment of his holiday, and which theo retical philanthropists so often refuse to recognise. The plan which has been adopted with such signal success at Derby, Chester, and other places seems to meet the difficulty admirably. It consisted of Sa turday evening entertainments, composed of vocal and instrumental music, and short readings of prose and verse. The programme was carefully selected and judiciously varied, and the proceedings only extended over two hours. The success of these ex periments has been remarkable, and it is observed that in all cases they paid their way, " which cannot often be said of philanthropic ventures." At Derby "the campaigns of three winters proclaim the experiment a complete success." On fifty Sa. turday nights the hall has been opened, and there have been audiences every night, in all weathers ranging from 200 to 300 when the programme was dull and the night unfavourable, to 1,200, with numbers turned from the doors, when there has been some special feature of interest. Surely it would be worth the while of our active social re formers to inaugurate some entertainment of this kind in the metropolis when the long dark evenings set in, which drive the workingman on his Satur day half holiday to the one comfortless, crowded room, probably undergoing tne weekly cleaning, or to the too attractive gin . palace. B e f ore creating a want it is wise to find a supply and it is useless to give so much spare time without the means of spending it. It is very well to talk of mental cultivation, but men who have been hard at work all the week, and can scarcely perhaps read or write without an effort, are not very likely to acquire much of science or literature through the medium of solitary study. If few among the educated classes would care to spend a leisure evening over solid works of instruction we may very much doubt the probability of those whose bodies are more trained to exertion than their minds, resisting all temptations and forsaking the public house for solitary reading. An entertain. ment of the kind alluded to is a very different thing and would go much further towards cultivating the higher faculties, besides having the beneficial 'effect of " uncanonizing Saint Monday," whose place in the workman's calendar would be well supplied by a rational " Saint Saturday." Bentley's Miscellany. As the publication of Harrison Ainsworth s new historical romance, in its entirety, is announced by the Messrs. Chapman and Hall as immediately forth coming, we presume that the story in its piecemeal form or periodical issue from month to month in Bentley's Miscellany is now fast approaching its termination. By the readers of the Miscellany the intimation that it is so will be heartily regretted. For " The Const a bl e o f th e T ower " h as now been so largely growing upon their interests, that its dis appearance from the magazine will come upon them as nothing less than a positive deprivation. It has been a pleasaht reminder to the readers of Bentley of the palmy days of that periodical—when those delightful little boys of Cruikshank blowing pi a . mater bubbles and scattering flowers through all the merry dozen of months making up the year from January to December, introduced to us—now the Parish Boy, Oliver Twist, now the daring housebreaker, Jack Shepherd. Rather, perhaps, it should be said that the Constable's ap parition in Bentley's Miscellany has come to us more agreeably by reason of its introducing us again into the Tower of London under the guid ance of that accomplished master of the romantic, William Harrison Ainsworth, author of " Rook wood" and of " The Merchant's Daughter." The instalment of " The Constable" for July presents the readers of Bentley with no less than nine chapters of the third Book—that third book being signifi cantly entitled "Plot and Counterplot." In theselast chapters the Admiral and the Protector are contend. ing fiercely far the mastery. As yet with the advan tage altogether upon the side of the latter. Chapter L relates very cleverly a momentous interview be tween the Admiral and the Master of the Mint at Bristol—Sir William Sherrington. The seventh chapter revealing the last-mentioned unfortunate subjected to the torture under the Council's exami nation. It is not only, however, that the " crea ture" of Seymour falls a prey to the superior ad dress of the Lord Protector—the Lord High Admiral himself is by his puissant elder Brother made a state prisoner in the Tower, in defiance of the wishes of his loving nephew, the Sovereign. The conclusion of the ninth or final chapter of this present instalment is full of breathless interest— leaving the readers in eager expectation of the denouement. Edward the Sixth insists upon the release of the Lord High Admiral in opposition to the mandates of the Protector and the authority of the Council—THE CONSTABLE of the Royal Prison and Palace, yielding obedience at length to the peremptory commands of his Majesty, being heartened to the venture by the presentation t 3 him of the signet ring of the young monarch. The antechamber being at the moment strictly guarded, Seymour escapes from durance through a secret door or sliding pannel under the arras in the apartment in which the King, the Admiral, and the Con stable arc conferring together. Scarcely has Sey mour passed from view when the villain of the story, t3 his Italian Esquire, Hugo Harrington, upon his track like a bloodhound. And so the July e instal o- by an very merit is brought to a most tantalising close ingenious contrivance to thatend by the the earlier story master hand of our romancist. Among scenes depicted in this portion of the of "The Constable," two are especially note w orthy— one, the description of a locality; one, the record of an event. The locality—Sedley Castle, clos e by the quaint old towe r of Winchconab e . T he event—the death of Catherine Parr. s u di ey Castle being now a beautiful and picturesque ruin crumbling w i t h age, overgrown with mantling ivy —a lovely spot perfectly familiar to ourselves as it is in its present condition—formerly (at the period of which Mr. Ainsworth writes) a noble edifier, not unworthy of being the home of on e asp i ring to wield the sceptre of these realms. Here is Hari ison Ainsworth's brilliant description of this pa latial/ residence of the handsome and ambitious Seymour and of his Queen-wife Catherine Parr : Pursuing the plan he had recommended to Dorset, Sey mour spent a portion of his time at Sudley Castle, in Glou cestershire, whore he kept up a princely establishment, and by his hearty an d engag i ng manner won the good opinion of all the yeomen and franklins in the neighbourhood. Situated about a mile fi om Winelicombe, amid the beauti ful hills of Gloucestershire, this magnificent castle was erected by Lord Boteler, who subsequently assumed the title of Sudley, in the reign of Henry VI., on the site of a still more ancient edifice, constructed by Radulphus, Earl of Hereford, at the time of the Conquest. " The Lord Sudley who builded the castle," says old Leland, " was a famous man of war in King Henry V. and VI th's days, and was an Ad m i ra l as I h ave heard on sea; whereupon it. was supposed an d s p o k en, t h at it was partly builded ea spoliis Galloruni ; and some speak of a tower in it called Portmare's Tower, that it should be made of a ransom of his. One thing was to be noted in this castle, that part of the windows of it were glazed with beryls. King Edward IV. bore no good will to the Lord Sudley, as a man sus pected to be in heart devoted to King Henry VI., where , upon, by complaints he was attached, and goinfl, up to London, he looked from the hill budley, and said, Castle of Sudley, thou art the traitor, not I 1' Afterwards, he made . an honest declaration, and sold his castle to King Edward IV." This splendid structure, described by another quaint old writer, Fuller, as "of subjects' castles the most handsome habitation, and of subjects' habitations the strongest castle," continued in the possession of the Crown till the accessioit of Edward VI., when it was bestowed, as we have seen? upon Lord Seymour. Larg e sums were expended by the Admiral upon its enlargement and improvement, and, while heightening its beauty, he contrived, at the same time, materially to increase its strength. It conta i ned many noble apartments, all of which were furnished with the gorgeous taste characteristic of its possessor. The chapel attached to the castle was exquisitely beautiful ; the windows of the lovely fare, as mentioned by Leland, being filled with; beryls. Sudley Castle, as we have just stated, was within a mire of the ancient and picturesque town of Winchcombe, which up to the time of Henry VIII. had boasted a mitrrd abbey. Its domains were watered by the little river Isborne. Sur rounded by lovely hills, and embosomed in stately groves, from the midst of which sprang its lofty towers, the princely edifice commanded enchanting prospects. Its size, strength, and the richness and beauty of its architecture, rendered rt , one of the noblest specimens of a castellated mansion to be met with in the kingdom. Unluckily, but few remains of its former grandeur are left. Taken by the Republican party in 1642, it was partially destroyed by them, its halls dismantled, its beautiful chapel unroofed, the windows of the fane rifled of their beryls, and the repose of the dead, lying within its w a ll s p ro f ane d . Still, though the castle Is now but a ruin, and the stars look down into the roofless aisles of the desecrated chapel, enough is left to attest its former grandeur and magnificence ; while a glorious western window, with a canopied niche on either side, shows what the chapel must have been when beautified by Lord Seymour. And here it is that the Lord High Admiral becomes a widower—death laying low in childbed the: beautiful and haughty Catherine. There it is, moreover, still to this day, among those pic turesque ruins of old Sudley Castle, that the dust of the last of Henry's six wives--his widow —reposes, under a mouldering, shapeless, block of white marble. Quitting but for a few weeks: longer Mr. Ainsworth's enthralling narrative. of the Constable, we must but now very briefly note the other contents of Bentley's Mis cellany for July. A Fourth Chapter anent France, by Frederick Marshall, gives us a most suggestive store of statistics as to the state of Crime among the French population. Monkshood, in continua tion of an excellent theme, places before us a third section apropos of " Town and Country." There are two more sparkling chapters of Dudley Cos tello's amusing record of L orn L or i ot ' s Adventures. Count Cavour is not forgotten as a great man re cently deceased, and em i nently worthy of comme moration. And to complete the number most en tertainingly, Ouida, with his vivacious—all but witty—pen, relates the particulars of Beatrice Boville's Revenge, in the form of a narrative, en titled " The Taming of the Pythoness." Nacmillax's Magazine. This magazine contains a rather long paper on Mr. Buckle's doctrine as to the Scotch and their history. " Tom Brown at Oxford" is brought to a conclusion. Of course, all ends as it should do, but Tom owes his success in a great measure to his quondam friend, Drysdale, who at Oxford got him into trouble with the Jew money lender. St, Cloud having a personal dislike to Tom, and a strong desire to obtain the hand of Mary, con trived to influence her father to the injury of Tom Brown. Drysdale, although a man of little or no character, by chance overheard a conversa tion between St. Cloud and old Mr. Porter, and at once came to the rescue and told the whole truth and cleared his friend's character. And yet he did a good turn for the sake of doing an ill one. " It is very kind of you, Drysdale, to take so much trouble," said Tom. " Trouble," returned the other, "I'd go from here to Jericho to be even with our fine friend. I never forget a bad turn. I met him in the cloak room after wards, and went out of the door close after hint to give him a chance if he wanted to say anything- I only wish he would." Mary comes out in her true colours in the last few pages, and explains to Toni that it was not fr om any early associations that she first took an interest in him, but from his bold and, manly conduct in later times in maintaining his own opinions in defiance of general condemnation. Mr. J. M. Ludlow in a paper on the " New Indian. Budget" furnishes a few hints as to men and things. Ravenshoe increases in interest. Densil Ravenshoe is dead, and the hour of Father Maekworth's triumph over Charles is at hand, but the holy father meets with a complete defeat from old Lord. Guthrie, who tells him a few plain:truths, which he little expected. The number is completed by a chapter on the " Oriental Pearl," and one on the " Boundaries of Science." Temple Bar. " For Better, for Worse" is continued at some length, and the story makes considerable progres s, as several years elaps e d ur i ng t hi s di v i sion. It i s a very melancholy one, as there seems no prospect of any better understanding being come to by Philip and Ethel. The latter does not improve on our acquaintance, since disappointment seems to have rendered her hard and worldly, i nd ifferent to her children, and altogether spoiled from the graceful, gentle maiden we first knew her. " The Seven. Sons of Mammon" is very so m b re i n its details in the present series, and th e un h appy, Hugh seems about to d ie at the last p age that i s here met with. Ther e is somewhat too much of the dreadful in this s t ory to suit many tastes, the de— scriptions ar e very cleverly done, and exhibit a great amount of knowledge of men and manners. " Holy Mr. H er b ert " i s an interesting paper,.con c erning the lif e o f a very eminent man, of whom it is desirable to learn all we can, which no one is likely to do in all the overwhelming increase of literature, unless specially singled out and brought under notice, as is the case before us. In intro ducing this subject, it is said " I have now to deal reverently with the memory of a man, who in life was admired by th e rich a n d b e l ove d b y the poor, while virtually be longing to both—a complete parson, a practical Christian, an apt scholar, and a deep-thinking poet. 6' Christe's love and his apostles twelve He taught, but first he followed it hirnselve." " London Poems" has for title a City Preacher. It is well written, and contains some valuable advice and solemn warnings to those who undertake that arduous vocation. " Chalk" is another of the scientific articles that have appeared in these pages. It furnishes a useful addition to the contents. There are several other sketches of various subjects to be met with, and this number does not dete riorate from its predecessors. Orley Farm. Part 5. The tale does not advance touch this month, but some of the events narrated are very cleverly de scribed. Several new characters are introduced; Von Bauh r , th e G erman lawyer, Who delivers speech of three hours' duration to a meeting at Bir mingham in a language which the majority do not understand, is a fine character, his ideas of refo rm i ng the laws of all n a ti ons a l t h oug h visionary are good in conception, and free to a great extent from a ll feeling of perso na l b ene fit in this life. pipein bedroom,hhuisngfrem oiurig btavele dro " p A pe s d hedown ;a t by t there, solitary isdoel: thisary his mouth on his hands , to his breast, and his eyes, turned up to the ceiling, were Y, Felix Graham, lighted almost with inspiration . _ Men there at the con , as an impersonation of dul ness ; but through his mind and brain, as he sat there ' wrapped in his old drpssing-gown, there ran thoughts which seemed to lift him lightly from the earth into an f justice and me re ,. A , elysium o J • ...nu at the end of this elysiumi which was not wild in its bea t b tt • u y u rim and orderly in its gracefulness -88 mi ht b ' g e a beer-garden at Munich—there stood amon g flowers and vases a pedestal, grand above all other pedestals •in that garden ; and on this ere was a bust with an i who reformed th e l aws of na n ti scriptio n :—‘ To Von Bauhr, ons.' It was a grand thought; and though th ere was i n it much of hu man conceitpi effo thropy, If a , there was in it also m uc h o f h uma n reign of justice could be i °Sto re d th roug h his rts— throueh tho day he had been enabledse to efforts e in which on this hallow e e w beautiful would it be I thenAnclmso greata pro gresswbi— h as he sat there, e the smoke still curled from his unconscious nostrils, ho felt that b e l oved all Germans, al]. Englishmen, even all French men, in hi s very heart of hearts, and especially those who had travelled wearily to this English town that they might listen to the results of his wisdom. Ile said to himself, and said truly, that he loved the world, and that he would will ingly spend himself in these great endeavours for the ame lioration of its laws and the perfection of its judicial pro ceedings. And then he betook himself to bed in a frame of mind that was not unenviable. "I am inclined myself to agree with Felix Graham that such efforts are seldom absolutely wasted. A man who strives honestly to do good will generally go good, though seldom perhaps as much as ho has himself anticipated. Let Von Bauhr have his pedestal among the flowers even though it be small and humble." , Felix Graham is a somewhat similar character. The interview between Lucius Mason and Dock wrath shows the lawyer in his true colours, and his subsequent meeting with Mr. Furnival, in which the old barrister takes the young gentleman down