The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1864. Perkin l3 Extra Prize, Fourth Series—Whitworth. Rifle, £3B— Ross 2O Extra Prize, Fifth Series—Fair of Statuettes, £2l— Raiford, Leicester Telescope, All Comers, £2s—First Prize, £lo—Captain E. Storws R oss, 3d Cambridge ............ p • First rtze, £lOO (for breech lo aders)—Ran g e A, llli t Z, £lo—Sergeant Brook , 12th Middlesex (13 sho Ditto ..................... First Prize X 10 —Ensign Hughes , lyi s , e , 5 Henry Peek s , t irter (9 shots) ........ 10$--x25 10s—Private Bruce, 3d Kirkcudbright "Daily Telegraph"—e, -,,, ............ 18 Warwick ........ £5O--Lieutenant Burt, Ist Earl de Grey's Prize,l9 gip .. . rize,. .T. Turner ............. Lord Vernon-1,59 —Eden7l 20 " Volunteer Service Gazette'' —Z 4 Heaton, Manchester " Army and Navy G izAte"—.£2o—P .. ............. tarias - Al bert, Ist Stage—Range A, 1 5t .. .L . ci . z . e . ,.i .- ,o ***** ** Baker, I st Glocester .............. P vats Albert, Ist Stage—Range B, Ist Prize, £.io 1$ Colonel faker, 3il Cambridge ......... . Ist Stage—Range C, Ist P r i ze , . G ..* ** " 20 an, Ist Glocester Artillery ....... "'ler 2 1 s mg3 —Cup or monoy,t 100—H er; . .... s .. ' c ' s ' s * 20 Kale Albert, .......... 73 £2o—Privat,i Alrcocl.. 13 Stage—fianze B, Ist Prize, Irate Steyres ...... Alexandra, 2tl Stage—CuP or money, no —Private , - Parsons, Hon. Artillery Company lB Any Ititio Association Cup—Xso-11. M. Ashton, Liverpool Itlna Brigade .... 39 Enfield Association Cup—DsO—Sergeart 11. M. Ald ridae . 35 ................... Carbine Prizes —1 priz,, 4;10 —Lieut. king bes, th K ent 16 MrDillwyn's Prize—Cup, £2s—Rev. W. Brown, Ist Devon ........................................ 16 sex Earl Dudley's—Cup or Money, £5O His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge—First prize, £so—Captain E. Ross, 3d Cambridge His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales—Cup or money, £loo—Sergeant Dodd, Ist Hereford .. 46 Queen's Prize-Ist Stage—Silver medal, Whitworth rifle, and £so—L7o—Private Haward, Ist Suffolk.. 47 Queen's Prize, 2d Stage—Her Majesty's prize of £250 gold medal of the N.R.A., and Whitwort erne— , £277—Private Wyatt, London Rifle Brigade In connexion with the prize of £5O given by Mr. Henry Peek, Lord Elcho remarked that there was no better indication of the success of the Volunteer movement than this afforded. When the Associa tion first same to Wimbledon Mr. Peek was one of those who did not quite understand or like its objects. But now, so completely had he changed his mind, that he not only secured them this prize for seven years, but he was un derstood to contemplate a reference to it in his will. Newspapers, also, had supported the association very liberally. The example set by the Saturday _Review, Army and Navy Gazette, and Volunteer Service Gazette, was this year followed by the Daily Telegraph with a generous donation of £5O, and there were other papers, he thought, which might act on so good a precedent. Lieut.-Colonel Baker, of Cambridge University, on advancing to receive a prize of £5O won in the first stage of the Albert competition, was recommended to general favour as the maker of the highest score in the International match between England and Scotland; and of the members of the Ross family as they successively came forward to receive prizes which they had car ried off Lord Elcho justly observed that there was no occasion to tell any one who they were. The prize of £25, given by Mr Base, M.P., " well known to organ-grinders and others," was awarded to Col. Hutchinson, of the Bth Lancashire; and of the Bth Lancashire; and of the carbine prizes for artil lerymen it was predicted that in another year this class would probably need extension. The City of London prizes, Lord Elcho explained, were given out of a sum of £6OO collected by those two excel• lent shots and hearty Volunteers, Sergeant Martin Smith and Major Oxley, who went round among the bankers and merchants of London. In this manner they had entitled themselves to the thanks not only of the Association, but of all Volunteers, and he hoped their exertions might be looked on as perennial. Two of the young Harrovians marched off proudly with the Ashburton Challenge Shield, the second time that this has been won oy the school they represent; and Corporal Thornton, of Chel• tenham, as the best individual shot, and probably tallest, of all the Public School elevens, carried away the Spencer Cup. Of the volley firing, a new fea ture in the meeting, Lord Elcho spoke as having been very successful, 40 or 50 squads entering for the prize. Lord E:cho then gave place to Col. the Hon. C. Lindsay, who presented the St George's Challenge Cup, in the name of the battalion he represented, to Sergeant Penzer, of the sth Stafford, expressing his satisfaction that it went to a county which bad supported this par ticular competition so well. After payment of all expenses, Colonel Lindsay' stated that the balance remaining from the entrance fees of the competing battalions produced £lBO, which he had the satis faction of handing over in " dragon" sovereigns to the Association; the competitions in 1862 and 1863 producing £95 and £lO5 respectively. The beauti ful cup presented by the Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge for annual competition between the Uni versities was presented by Lady Elcho to the re presentatives of Cambridge ; after which Lord Elcho entered into a short detail of the circumstances con test for the Echo Shield. He said that it had twice been won by England, but now a turn in the tide of fortune had taken place, and he did not believe there was an Englishman present, whether he wore a black coat or a Volunteer uniform, who grudged Scotland her good luck. The English portion of the assembly loudly cheered this sentiment, and Lord Elea() went on to say that on one occasion Lady Elcho had declared the Scotch never would exert themselves to win the shield till it became a reality, The first year there was merely a chalk drawing ex hibited, without even a glass to protect it ; last year there was a plaster cast, and on both occasions Eng land won. But as soon as it appeared in substan tive iron Captain Ross and his seven Scotchmen exerted themselves, and they were now going to take the shield down to Edinburgh, to show what they had won. Lord Bury, the captain of the Eng. lish Eight, said that before the shield was carried away ho wished to ask all Englishmen present to join him in three cheers for Scotland. Any Scotch men who might be present he begged to reserve their cheers till Captain Roes asked for them next year in honour of the English victory. When the laughter and very cordial cheering which this ad dress elicited had subsided, Captain Horatio Ross, not only leader but father of an important section of the Scottish Eight, acknowledged the compliment, and, admitting that it had been hard work to get the shield down to Scotland, said that now they had got it they meant to keep it there. He in turn invited cheers for Lord Bury and the En g li s h Eight, which were warmly given. A voice pro ceeding from among the spectators tuggeated one cheer for Mr. Ross himself. Lord Elcho re. plied, " You had better have said for the Ross family,'" and the amendment so worded was carried unanimously. In the absence of any tangible symbol of victory, certificates were next presented to the 20 English winners in the Inter. national Enfield match, the members of which ex• changed reciprocal courtesies likewise. When the Wimbledon Cup was being handed to Mr. Martin Smith, Lord Elcho explained that the prize was substituted for the benefit of former prize winners. who were debarred from competing in the meeting of that year for many objects of value. Mr_ Smith not only proved himself the best shot by day, but also by night, having won the Owl prize, and when ever the promised silver owl, value £5O, came out of the ivy -bush it weuld be his property. The Dudley Prize, the Duke of Cambridge's Prize, and that given by the Prince of - Wales, were severally awarded, and then the last and greatest distinCtir was reached. Lord Elcho stated that the Cannel, this year felt the mse l ves j ustified, notwithstanding their large expen ses , i n giving a prize of £5O to the winner of the first or Enfield stage cf the Queen's Prize, who heretofore only gained a rifle and a silver medal. This announcement, which came by sur prise upon most of those present, was hailed with such general satisfaction that there can be no doabt it will do much, if that be p oss ibl e, to add tr: the popularity of this competition next ye :r, P r i vate Haward, lst Suffolk, unfortunately was not present to hear of his good fortreae, and the eyes of the spectators accordinto,y turned to Private Wyatt of Brigade, who, by making the the London IV* , highest sco-re in the second stage of the Queen's Prize, entitled himself to £250 and,the gold medal of the A ssociation. When he stepped forward the guard of honour came to " attention," the baud played " See the Conquering Hero," and Lord Echo expressed the pleasure which he felt in know ing that the grout prize of the year went to one of the steadiest shots in pee of the beat, if not the best, metropolitan regiment. Loud cheers for the sic c'-'seful competitor toliowed, as ho received a purse Lord from the hunch of Lady EICII O . T As sn nn as private ‘l,r s r A tt had retired, Bunt came forward, and said the proceed. ings o ug h t not to terminate without an acknow ledgment of th e gra ce f u l man ner in which Lady Elcho had distributed the prizes. Three of the very hearti est c h eers g iven during the day followed this request, and the band chimed p la ro w ce i e th din " g li s eorrstha healthe p r eaen t t o at a i l o l n go m od ay la b ss e es ta :P The ltenin strictness to have terminated at this point, a 9 Lady Eleho bowed and returned to her seat ; but they certainly would have been incomplete without the proposition made by Csptain Ross. Bearing brief bat emphatic testimony to the service rendered to the Volunteer movement by Lord Elcho, he asked Volunteers—English and Scotch—to join in a suit able act of recognition. Not merely Volunteers, but the spectators, of whom large numbers were present, acted so heartily on this suggestion that Lord Elcho was compelled to deliver quite a short address in reply. He assured those who heard him that he had not taken up the Volunteer movement from any idle fancy, but with the firm conviction expressed on that very spot by the Archbishop of York, that in every point of view—whether as regarded the safety of the State, the moral and physical good of the people, or the amusement of the youth of the coun• try—the Volunteer movement was one of the most happy and fortunate things which had occurred in the present generation. There was yet one act of _ ___.... i nstice to be done, and Captain Williams did not suffer the duty to remain unfulfilled. Calling for three cheers for " The man who had all the work o: the meeting to do, and who had done it well," the response, as soon as he mentioned the name of Capt. Page, must have been highly gratifying to that offi. cer and his friends. The approaches to the camp meanwhile had been enliven by the steady flow of Volunteer regiments. Some, in spite _ _ of heat and dust, marched the whole distance from London, and the manifest pleasure which their passage gave to what may be called the continuous village stretch ing from Chelsea to the confines of the com mon was in itself some compensation for the fatigue thus encountered. All ages and all sizes of spectators seemed bent on making holyday with the Volunteers, and among the eager crowd was that remarkable object, a Bluecoat boy on horseback. The view of the camp which is obtained from the edge of the common, when the hill leading from Putney has been ascended, is very striking. The broad level of heath and furze fading away into haze and woods and distant hills is only broken at one point by the enclo sure of the Association. Within this, tents and poles and flags cluster thickly, suggesting the idea of a fleet of yachts lying at anchor, an appearance strengthened by the white pier-like hoarding that surrounds their territory. As the regiments approached within a certain distance of the re view ground the bands were directed to cease playing, out of consideration for the wounded man, whom it was impos sible to move, and whose couch was not very far from the entrance gate. For the same reason the whole of the pro ceedings usual on such occasions were revolutionised. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with a brilliant staff, arrived shortly after five o'clock, and proceeded almost immediately to the hospital tent, whore he learnt from the medical attendants of Cooper that his state, far from being desperate, was such as to justify a hope, though still a faint one, of ultimate recovery, provided he could be kept ex tremely quiet. His Royal Highness therenpon directed that powder should be ignored in the review as completely as if it had no existence. The humanity and propriety of this order as soon as it became known were generally ac quiesced in ; and, though 8,000 or 10,000 Volunteers came there for no other purpose than to take part in a field day, and probably treble that number of spectators at tended to see the evolutions, they cheerfully gave up their own gratification and waited patiently to the end of the ceremony, necessarily tame, which was substituted for what they had expected. As regarded the spectators, the pro ceedings, but for the march past at the close, would have been monotonous in the highest degree. For the Volun teers, however, there have been few field-days of such real advantage to the different battalions. The Commander-in- Chief, abandoning the idea of strategic movements, set himself to give the whole force a good steady drill, a pro ceeding in which he is one of the greatest proficients in the service. Beginning with the artillery, which mustered in force, and was handled by itself for the best part of an hour, he then turned his attention to the cavalry, composed of the Light Horse of the hon. Artillery Company and the Surrey corps. Finally, the whole of the infantry force was, in military phraseology, "turned inside out" and made to execute several most trying manceuvres. One of these con sisted in forming a line from battalions moving en echellon, so that the line, when formed to the revenue flank, extended diagonally right across the common from near Robin Hood on one side, to the opposite corner of the enclosure. As far as could be seen from the point of view occupied by specta tors, the artillery appeared to be at once the most steady and most at home in their movements; but to the unpro fessional eye the whole force, though net moving as quickly as troops of the line, seemed to comprehend the orders which were received, and to carry them out very creditably. Until the march past at the close of the review, or rather inspec tion, the lookers•on had certainly a weary time of it. About 7 o'clock the march past commenced, and the brigades, commanded respectively by the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Donegal, Viscount Bury, Viscount Renelagh, Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, Colonel Luard, Lord Radatock, and Lieutenant •Colonel Bigge, passed the flagstaff in the following order : FIRST DlVlSlON—Commanded by Major-General Sir J. Y. Scarlctt—The Cavalry of the Hon. Artillery Company, under Major Robinson—the Horse Artillery, under Capt. Jay, with two light guns—and the Foot Artillery of the same corps, under Major Blockley, with four guns. The batteries of the 2d surrey Artillery, with four guns—the let Middlesex (Victories), under Major Greenhill-36th Middlesex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, the 19th Middlesex (WorkingMen'sCollege), Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes—the 23 Essex Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Davis-3d City of London, Major Richards—the sth Ad ministrative Battalion of Essex, Lieutenant-Colonel Capper —the sth Administrative Battalion of Middlesex, Colonel Grey—let Surrey, Lieutenant-Colonel M'Donald-15th and 18th Surrey—the 40th Middlesex (Central London), Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset—the London Irish, Major Verner-20th Middlesex, Captain and Adjutant Hotham —the 7th Surrey, Major Beresford—the St. George's, Colonel Lindsay—the West Middlesex, Captain Dear—the Ist Tower Hamlets Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant- Colonel Buxton—the 4th and Gth Tower Hamlets, Lieute nant-Colonel Money--the 12th Surrey, Colonel Cole—the 39th Finsbury, Colonel Penton. SECOND Divisfox—Commanded by Major• General RUM ley—The Ist Middlesek Artillery, Colonel Creed, six guns —3d Middlesex Artillem two batteries of six guns, the 2d, Bth, and 9th Tower Hamlets, Lieut.-Colonel Samuda -Ist Middlesea Engineers, Lieut.-Colonel M'Leod of M'Leod--the South Middlesex, Major Atherley—the North Middlesex (29th), Lieut.. Colonel Whitehad—the Civil Ser vice and the Artists, Viscount Bury—the 19th Surrey, the 4th Middlesex, Lord Truro—the 37th Middlesex (Blooms bury), Lieutenant-Colonel Corrie—the London Rifle Bri gade, Lieutenant-Colonel Warde—the 2d Administrative Battalion of Middle.3ex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson— London Scottish, Lord Elcho—the Queen's (Westminster), Lientenent-Colonels Lord Grosvenor and Lord Gerald Fitz gerald—the City of London and Tower Hamlets Artillery, Major 'Walmsley—the 48th Middlesex, 4th City (Foresters) the 2d City of London, Lieut.-Col. Cruikshank and Major Spottiswood—and the 46th Middlesex, Sir J. Shelley, M.P. The march past occupied nearly an hour, although most of the regiments were but sparingly represented. The spec tators, however, would gladly have eat it out had it lasted much longer. The favourites were, as usual, loudly cheered, especially the 'Victories and London Scottish ; but the Lon. don Rifle Brigade, every man of which had a laurel leaf in his shako in honour of his comrade's victory, was the most numerous and probably best appointed regiment on the ground. The ranks of the Queen's West minsters also looked very full by contrast with many of the other corps, and the fine average physique of the members of the regiment is a point which cannot be overlooked. The London Irish also must have had many of its tallest men present. In one or two other regiments, on the contrary, and especially in one with a green uniform, the members looked more like a cadet corps than a full-grown body of volunteers. The author of that useful little work, the " Volunteer's Book of racts," which was In much request during the meeting, *souk" do good tervico, itt these days of similarity of dress, if he en abled the public to distinguish at a glance between the uni - forms of different regiments. on MATTIE : A Stray. By the author of " o t Church," " Owen: a Waif," &c. 3 vols.—'a Mattis is a charming heroine. She and her life are painted of ter this life, with the minuteness of a Dutch picture. And is not the story itself full of interest at every page ? And is it not from the play of character, and the straggles of conflicting interests, as exciting 2,i3 any sensation novel going ? We can give our own experience and say, yes. For those readers who c"..re to deal with real men and Women, and not with fine clothes and descriptions of the upholstery in boudoirs and drawing rooms, the characters in Mettle ) a Btiay, 3 will be full of interest-. The *ctklng out of Mattie's own charac ' ter is 'very ele'hr, and very true to human nature. Nettie, a Stray,' is a novel that ought to take a higher rank than that of an ephemeral work of fiction."—Aihenceton• BLOCKADERUNNERS.—Instructions issued by the Secretary of the Federal Navy, bearing date the 9th of May, relating to the disposal of persons found on board vessels seized for breach of blockade, direct that be;ia ,fide foreign subjects captured iu neutral vessels are not to be treated as prisoners of war unless guilty of belligerent acts, and are to be immediately released unless required as witnesses. Foreign subjects captured in vessels without papers or colours, or those sailing under the protection and flag of the insurgentGovcrnment, or employed in the service of that Government, are subject to treatment as prisoners of war; but if passengers only having no interest in the vessel r cargo, and is no way conilected with the insurgent Go vern:neat, they may be released. When there is reason to doubt that those who claim to be foreign subjects are ix reality such, they are to be required to state on oath that they have never been naturalised in the states, have never exercised the privileges of a citizen thereof by voting or otherwise, and have never been in the pay or e mployment t o r f a le po s r o t - in ca g lled Contederate Government, and then they fs m ael a ns y et byae. Government, Wheree e l r e n a smse supplies npti there thereerc is is g onood ground for of theirdoubting the eswnoeurn trality of the vessel, or for believin that it is engaged in t pli es foreignan d sub munitionsjectsof capturedwar for i the n the i v n e s s u s r e i I may bo detained Until its neutrality is eatisfactotily estab- I lished, The Late Lieutenant-Colonel Brewster, On Wednesday last was buried, at the Bomptom Ceme tery, Lieut.-Colonel Brewster, late of the Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers, who, to the deep sorrow of his family and friends, and to the heavy loss of the Volunteer service, has been cut off in the flower of life after a few months' illness. His body was escorted to its las; resting place by the regi ment which he so efficiently commanded, and all the simple and touching rites of a soldier's :uneral were performedevith affectionate respect over one who was in heart a soldier. If we might venture to guess whit would have been Colonel Brewster's wish, we should say that, as Providence forbade his finding a grave on the Crimem battlefields, he would have chosen the place and manner of interment which his friends adopted. Both in the church cf Warwick-square, Pimlico, and at the Brompton Cemeterytthe ceremonial was faultless in arm gement and execution. The Burial Service of the Church only needs to be read audibly and reverently to speak to every heart, and the " Dead March in Saul" is in another way equally impressive. After the last prayer had been read, a party of the Inns of 3ourt Volunteers fired three volleys over the grave, and,hering quitted the cemetery, the corps marched homewards wth its band playing a lively tune which was a special favotrite of the deceased colonel. This is the usual practice of military funerals, and it is dictated by that reason— teeeeet6 which still hath cried, From the first oorpse ill he that died to-day, This must be so. But, although other duties claim attention and other thoughts occupy the mind, i will be long before the Inns of Court Rifles replace, and sill longer before they forget, their lamented colonel. He vas the model of an officer adapted to command a regiment of intelligent and educated volunteer, and the loss of Colonel Brewster will be felt throughout the volunteer service, and not merely by his own corps. He showed whit could be done in a short time towards making vounteers efficient, and the value of his assistance was understood by Colonel M'Murdo, the Inspectoi.General of Volunteers, who was among the fiends who followed him to the grave. Colonel Brewster gave the impression of a man equal to any emergemy of actual service, and for the training and leadership of tle Inns of Court corps he pos sessed special advantages ofbirth and education, as well as the pre-eminent qualificatiot of thoroughly understanding the work he had to do. Beng the son of Mr Brewster, Q.C., formerly Attorney-General for Ireland, he had an hereditary claim to the esteemof a corps of lawyers. Further, he had graduated at Oxford before entering the army, and thus he was well acquainted with the feelings of members of the universities, of whom he had many under his com mand. Twenty years ago the number of men who went to Oxford or Cambridge as a preparation for the army was even smaller than it is now. The advantage of such a preparation is indisputable, but unfortunately commissions are usually obtained before the age at which degrees are taken. It happened, however, that Colonel Brewster's youth fell on a time when applicants were kept waiting almost beyond endurance for commissions, and he turned this period, which is too often one of mental va cancy or weariness, to excellent account by reading for a degree at Oxford. And, besides reading for a degree, he acquired in various ways a reputation at Oxford which en sured his popularity with the Inns of Court of Volunteers, and inspired in that corps a well-founded belief of his great capacity as an officer. He was noted as an undergraduate at St. John's College for being good across country with hounds, and good upon a coach-box with four-in-hand, but it was as an oarsman that he gained his most enduring fame. In 1842 there was a boat race between Oxford and Cambridge over the o!d coarse from Westminster to Putney, which Oxford won. and No, 4 in the winning boat was Brewster of St. jokes. Next year, at Henley, there were entered, for the Grand Challenge Cup, the Oxford University boat and the Cambridge Subscription Rooms' boat. On the day of the race, the stroke of the Oxford boat was taken ill, and as the Cambridge men ob jected, as in strictness they were entitled to do, to a substitute, the Oxonians started with seven oars, and won the race. Brewster at his old place, No. 4, bore his full share in achieving one of the most remarkable of aquatic victories. In 1816 he took his degree, and soon afterwards entered the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He was made adjutant of the battalion in 1848, and in the same year went out to the Cape of Good Hope. Reserved in the Kaffir war of 1852-3, and received a medal. The exposure to climate and hard ships which he underwent in these campaigns brought on severe attacks of rheumatic fever, and doubtless laid the foundation of the disease of which he died. When the battalion of the Rifle Brigade to which he belonged was ordered to the Crimea, he marched with it as far as Portsmouth, hoping against hope that he might be permitted to display his military ability and experience upon a European field of warfare. He had the reputation of being one of the best adjutants of a regiment ever known. and his friends would have confidently expected to see him attain high distinction if Providence had allowed him to enjoy health and opportunity. But the decision of a medical board forbade his embarkation for the Crimea, and, although he continued to hope for improvement, he hoped in vain. The adjutancy of the battalion was kept open for him as long as there appeared any possibility of his satisfying medical requisitions, but ho was reluctantly compelled to abandon his life's most cherished hopes. A few years afterwards he determined to retire from a position which must be beyond expression irksome to one who feels intellectual capacity for service which his bodily health re strains from undertaking. He is remembered in the Rifle Brigade as one of the most popular officers of his time. There was nothing that his men would not do for him or with him, and in bush-fighting against the Kaffirs he was very active in finding work for them. To all qualities which are deemed peculiarly soldier-like ha added piety of heart and purity and sobriety of life. He left the army in 1858, having attained the rank of captain, and he married a few weeks afterwards. The beginning of the volunteer movement found Mr. Brewster unemploved, having had ample experience of a kind of war well calculated to teach one who had the gift of learning how to discriminate between those parte of the English military system which are essential, and those which owe their existence to custom or caprice. Here was exactly the man to instruct volunteers in what they ought to do and how to do it, and besides he possessed special qualifications for managing the corps of which, by a fortune happy alike for commanded and commander, he became lieutenant-colonel, having no colonel over him. Under his direction, the Inns of Court Rifles took part in all the prin cipal reviews and field days of the volunteer force which have been held since its formation. Having good material to work upon, he soon produced a valuable result. His aim was rapidity of movement rather than that precision which is only likely to be attained by' devoting to drill a much larger portion of time than volunteers generally can spare for it. Knowing from experience what war is, and having a mind capable of appreciating modern changes in its con ditions, he gave alw a ys a practical business like character to the training of his co rps. E m ph a tically, there was no nonse nse about Colonel Brewster, and hav in g learned to obey while lea rnin g to command, he p ossessed what , - must have been in the eyes of the military authorities no inconsiderable merit, namely, he did what he was told to do and gave no trouble, If he had his men out for a field day, he did no t after on e movement a llow them to waste time in dressing their line, but immediately called upon them for another. On more than one occasion, competent observers have expressed astonishment at the number of evolutions which he put his corps through in. a g iven time, and it was truly sai d that he could tur n that corps inside out, and do what else he liked with it. Whether it was a single battalion or a brigade that he commanded Col. Brew ster handled his force with a firm and unerring grasp. His management of any command which left him a pretty w id e discretion was always such as to s how that he tho roughly understood his b us i ness ; an d in particul ar his con duct of the force which represented the enemy at the Brighton reviews Wee admirable. He fully gained the con fidence of those who had time to b ecome acquainted w ith him, and even a b o dy of well wh o were suddenly placed under his orders would hate disereeered from his first look and word that Colonel Brewster knew what he was about. And this, after all, is the most Valuable quality whui h a leader can possess. For we must always suppose it possible that the 'Volunteers may one day be called upon to perform the duties for which they have undertaken to hold themselves prepared. That is a con tingency which m a y be regarded with various feelings, according to the p os iti o n in life, ha bits, and tastes of those who turn their minds towards it. Theoreticallb, we all desire that— Every man shall eat in safety Under his aw n v i ne w h a t he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. But still it may b o suspec t e d that among men of pacific life and conversation l a t ea t s eintillula forma; and even in the depths of mind s we ll- s t o red with le g al rules and prece dents, and obligations' there may yet lurk unconfessed a hankering after an untried sens a tion, Penetrated with a F enn of social and family and a feeling that a taste—just one little: taste —of the certarninis gaudium would be very pleasant. In the Inns of Court corps in past years some men may have thought of such a day, with joy, and all certainly without fear ; and always the belief must have been universal, that if they had Colonel Brewster to com mand, and they were r eady to obey, their bleed would not be spent in vain. Thus far we have spoken of what wo conceive to be a public loss. But there were between seven and eight hun dred members of the Inns of Court Rifle Corps to whom the same event was the death of a dear friend. They will have thought many times during the past week of all that their late Colonel did for them, and of how he did it. Considerate of everybody but himself, always at his post, instructing, advising, and encouraging' knowing exactly under all circum s t ances what to d o, p rom p t to repair the error 3 of anlyallin a te s and almos t incapable himself of error, with a cheerful voice, h e b an i s hed the sen se of fatigue from others noble look and bearing, a light heart and a and seemed unable to f e el fatigue himself. Such was the commander whom the Tuns of Court of Rifles, attended to his last resting-place in the Brompton Cemetery. Th e sight of the oak coffin recalled the memory of that stature Iwhich rose above every crowd, and of that length of limb which gave to on o o f the oars of the Oxford University boat a far-reaching and. vietor:ous sweep. The sword which rested upon the coffin, with the simple unplumed cap which was part of its late wearer's own conception'of dress enitable for a rifleman who meant business, recalled the last public occasion on which he wore that sword and cap. It was the Volunteer Review at Wimbledon, which will be a year ago next Saturday. He said thhat a cold caught upon that day was the beginning of his illness. Deeply will his corps feel the want of him at the next of these annual reviews, and often and sadly will they think that he is gone, and the place which knew him shall know him no more. To say that Colonel Brewster died in the prime of life is almost equivalent to saying that h© fell a victim to one of the varieties of that terrible malady, consumption. It may be, although we would not willingly think so, that his con stitution suffered something by the gallant aquatic feats of his early years at Oxford. But he endured in Southern Africa enough of hardship and exposure to lay the seeds of the disease which in the 45th year of his age attained its fatal ripeness. He has died a soldier's death as much as if he had fallen by steel or shot, and because he was worthy, therefore was he so soon taken; for, as ene of the warrior-poets of Greece has said 116Xepos (ail; avSp e Kan, ape rovripOv, cIXX(I Toys . xpriaroi)s SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE AMERICAN WAR,—The military operations in America are almost as confusing as the Federal finances. It seems at first sight almost paradoxical that General Grant should be summoning Petersburg to surren der, while General Ewell is approaching Baltimore, after defeating the Federal army of Maryland. The correspondents and commentators of the Northern journals earefully abstain from any attempt to elu cidate the warlike movements which furnish them only with materials for triumph and congratula tion. Like preachers they make it their business not to explain their text, but to decorate or darken it by fluent expositions of their own preconceived opinions, A careful and credulous study of their columns has probably convinced their indigenous readers that Grant was successively in the best positions on the Rapidan, at Spottsylvania, at White House, at Chickahominy, on the north bank of the James River, and at City Point. It is not impossible that the last conclusion may be acciden tally just, but observers at a distance would be grateful for more definite information, especially if some distinction were occasionally made between defeats and victories. The public instructors of New 'York are highly gratified with the success of General Wilson, who escaped with the loss of his trains, of his artillery, and of a large portion of his force; and their enthusiasm is still more strongly excited by General Hunter's advance on Lynch burg, followed by his retreat with the loss of seve ral guns, and involving the subsequent abandon• meat of Harper's Ferry, and the passage of the Potomac by the Confederates. Those who wish to understand in some degree the progress of the campaign must wholly disregard the ebullitions of sanguine patriotism. It is not even safe to assume that the Federal cause is hopeless because its supporters habitually disregard all truth and probaiility. General Grant is not a newspaper correspondent, and he is responsible for the safety of his army. His pertinacity in threatening Petersburg, and in disturbing the Southern commu nications of Richmond, implies his belief in the pos• sibility of inflicting a heavy blow on the enemy, even if he fails to occupy the Confederate capital. The defences of Petersburg have been found too strong for assault ; but siege artillery will now be brought into play for the first time in the present campaign. Scarcely any fortifications aro impreg nable, if they are regularly approached by a supes rior army. If Gen. Beauregard is conscious of his inability to encounter Grant in the field, he will probably, after prolonging the defence of Petersburg to the best of his ability, retire to some other poste' tion. Gen. Lee has judged wisely in entrusting the command of the garrison to the best engineer in the Confederate service. The position of the Federal army, in some respects, resembles that of the French and English armies before Sebastopol. In both cases the assailants were unable to invest the enemy's stronghold, and Gen. Grant's demonstrations on his left flank against the Confederate communications aro perhaps as effective as the menaces of the allied fleets against the Russsian line of supply by the isthmus of Perekop. The Federal army has the great advantage of depending on the sea for its communications, and, since Gen. Grant has blocked the upper channel of the James River, City Point is as unassailable as Balaklava, The:Government which he serves, notwithstanding its financial em barrassments, still possesses a vast superiority of wealth and material resources; and if it thinks fit to persevere in its enterprise, and if it can defend its own territory without recalling troops from Vir ginia, it may hold for an indefinite time the ground which its forces occupy on the James River. On the other hand, the Confederates are not, like the Russians, separated by hundreds of miles from their centres of operation. The seat of government is in the immediate neighbourhood of the scene of action, and Richmond is connected by railroads with every portion of the Confederacy. Their principal danger arises from their unaccount able weakness in cevairy, and from the consequent facility with which the Federal columns can disturb their communications. If the invader were strong enough to extend himself across the two principal lines of railway, General Lee might possibly be compelled to retire to the South-West, leaving Richmond in charge of a garrison. It is, per haps, partly for the purpose of sparing his magazines that he has detached a considerable force througn the Shenandoah Valley to the coun try beyond the Potomac. If he could afford to diminish his own army in the presence of Grant, the expedition involved little difficulty or risk. The presence of Sigel at Harper's Ferry of itself invited attack. The unlucky German leader is familiar with defeat, and in Western Virgitaia espee cially his troops resemble Hudibras's connoisseurs in suffering : Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of, by the blow. Some have been kicked till they know whether A shoe's of Spanish or neat's leather. Sigel must be able to judge, as soon as skirmishing commences, whether Breckenridge or Longstreet or Ewell is about to administer the accustomed chas tisement. THE SPECTATOR" ON THE LORD CHANCEL LOR'S SPEECH ON CONVOCATION,—No doubt a certain contemptuousness, a certain cynical insolen ha, has always been of the very essence of Lord We stbury's nature, so that the ex u b e r a nt overflow of itin his thoughts and speech can, in one sense, scarcely be said to be of that secondary end merely auxiliary character which we have ascribed to all true unctuousness, It may be said, however, not only of his recent outbreak against the clerical bench, but of his raillery in general, in the words of the Psalm, " The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart ; his words were smoother than oil, yet be they very swords," and it re this power of summoning a milky manner to his aid in order to second the effect of his thrusts, this redundancy of soft phrase in which he sheathes the sting of his remarks,—this " saponaceous" slip periness of sentiment through which he lets his real drift glide like an electric eel,—that justly entitles him to the epithet " unctuous." No doubt the Lord Chancellor has in him all the qualifications for an unctuous preacher, if he needed to use them in that direction. We remember his address to the Young Men's Christian Association at Wolver hampton which showed very high capacity of that kind, and many of his official congratulatory speeches to turd Mayors arid others have disguised almost completely the scornful and cynical superio rity which just gleams fe it moment and is gone. It is but fair, then, to conclude that if he now uses his great command of gentle phrase only to silver a dangerous weapon, he has all the capacity to use it for its own sake, if once he could feel that it would b e o f more use for its own sake than by way of Contrast. He has been too eucceseful to find tine' suppecesion of itte own overbearing intellectual per sonality needful or desirable,—but not the less he shines pre-eminent in the capacity to tincture his speech with a rich fatty substance not properly either intellectual or moral, but expressing a sort of voluptuous desire to indulge unduly, and eiier3 riot, in the mood of the moment. Instead of going straight to his object he contrives for himself, as all unctuous speakers do, opportunities of wallowing in the sentiment he is expressing ; he whips up his thoughts upon it into a rich, creamy, saponaceous lather, and this none the less that his thoughts are now not at all the kind of Bishop-of Oxford thoughts he expressed to the Young Men's Christian Association at Wolverhampton, but rather of a directly opposite and even scoffing tendency. No thing could be more remarkable than the excessive indulgence of Lord Westbury in this sort of volup tuous enjoyment in his speech yesterday week in the House of Lords, which, by a sort of poetical justice, was directed against a master in the art,. though on the other side of the art, the Bishop of Oxford. After describing in his peculiar lisp the " three modes" of dealing with Convocation, " first when they are har;nleesly busy to iake no notice of their proceedings; next, when they sem likely to get into mischief, to prorogue :and put en end to their proceedings; thirdly, when they have done something clearly beyond their powers to bring them before a Court of Justice, and punish them, and thus laid a good basis for the vitriolic lather, which he was about to mix, and apply with a leisurely but cruel hand bur West bury entered fairly on the intemperat e and almost sensuel enjoyment of his speech. The mode in which he diluted upon applying the penaltws of preeinunirc to the episcopal bench —the gloating language in which he discussed the advantages to the Exchequer of sequestrating the incomes of all the bishops, deans, arch;h9.conl, and other ought, •••••••• ,111.... Wiml Ile( ion Review and Prize Distribution, It is le wise practice of those charged with the conduct of affairs at Wimbledon to celebrate each year th e close of their arduous undertaking by in viting r ietropolitan Volunteers and others from the adjoinii ig counties to take part in a grand review held w: Thin the limits of their inclosure. Mutual benefit s arise from this custom. Volunteers who have r ,ot leisure or inclination to compete for prizes, but w ho yet enjoy field days when opportunities prese ut themselves, feel in going to 'Wimbledon that the National Rifle Association is not for them a purely abstract body, and are much more likely to ' ap preciata the skill of their comrades who do shoot w nen the y traverse this enormous area in person, than when they merely read that Corporal Dash, of their own corps, made five bull's-eyes at 800 yards. The Association also gains, for not merely are Volunteers, who have once visited its ground and seen its arrangements, more likely to return in another year, but their presence in any large numbers is sure to attract a corresponding number of the public, whose shillings, halfcrowns, and half sovereigns —in the case of those with carriages— figure very attractively in the prize list for the fol lowing year. On Saturday the usual features of the Volunteer lteview were supplemented, or rather Preceded, by the ceremonial of distributing prizes 39 on in ail the principal contests of the meeting. Heretofore the rule was to devote a special day to this purpose at the Crystal Palace; but it was found that so many persons who could give up a fo r t n i g ht to the objects of the meeting scrupled to break in upon a third week, that so many more were anxious on account of the time of year to leave town at once, and that other& whose cooperation was essential, h one stly doubted whether the monster platform at sydenham was the arena best fitted for conferring the degree in Rifle Shooting instituted by her Ma jesty and granted by the National Association, and et was determined in the present instance to act on a different plan. In the open air accordingly, and immediately in front of the marquees and lines of reserved seats erected for the accommodation of spectators of the review, the trophies won upon the field were dis trbuted shortly after 3 o'clock. A large stand placed at the foot of the flagstaff and covered with blue cloth, supported a glittering collection of vases. cups, &c., which would have been even more nume rous but for the arrangement introduced by Capt. Mildmay, Secretary of the Association, enabling successful competitors from distant parts of the country to take home with them the prizes in money or in value which were gained in all the minor competitions. The prizemen stood about the table in a semicircle. In the midst of which were Lord and Lady Echo, Lord Grosvenor, Col. North, and one or two other members of the council. The background was formed by a guard of honour fur nished by the London Rifle Brigade, the regiment carrying off the highest distinction of the year. The ceremonial was prefaced by some introductory observations en the part of Lord Elcho, who ex plaihed that Lords de Grey and Ellenborough, having both been prevented from attending, Lady Elcho had been requested by the council to present the prizes, believing that it would be acceptable to the winners to receive them at the hands of a lady, who, though he said it that should not, was one of the heartiest and best supporters of the Volunteer movement in the kingdom. If the Council ever really did entertain a doubt whether men who have earned any distinction whatever would rather re ceive it from the hands of a lady than a gentleman it is the only tangible ground that has yet been advanced for reforming the Council. The response which followed the announcement certainly left no doubt in anyone's mind as to the satisfaction felt both with the request itself and the gracious man. nor in which it was acceded to. Lord Elcho ad verted briefly to the great success and prosperity of the meeting, which would, he said have been com plete but for the accident that occurred two days ago. Although most grievous in its character, it was still an accident, not traceable to any fault or mis arrangement on the part of the Council, and the deep sympathy felt for the poor fellow lying over there in his tent was not confined to those upon the ground, for her 3lejesty that very morning had sent a tele gram inquiring anxiously after his condition, and requesting that a daily report of his state might be made to her. The Surgeon-Major of the Guards saw him that day, and an opinion was gaining ground that the poor man might recover from the severe wound ha had received. With this excep tion everything had gone on so smoothly that there was only one grumbler of whom he had heard. He ha a since 'won a prize ; they had shaken hands, and were now the best of friends. The Association had evidently struck its roots deep into the Wim bledon soil, fee people came to see and interest themselves in the encampment and the shooting this year who had never done so before. Lord Elcho, in conclusion, assured Volunteers, to what ever part of the country they might belong, that the object of the Council was to do all in its power for their comfort, happiness, and amusement while at Wimbledon ; and, if they were only favoured with fine weather, he hoped and believed that Volunteers would go away from future meetings as Well satisfied as they had done from the present. The extra prizes were first distributed. Of these many had already been taken away by gentlemen of whom it was humorously said that "they would not trust the Association." The Association, how ever, did not bear malice, for such of the prize winners as answered to their name were duly pre milted to Lady Elcho and congratulated by her, those who had already made sure of their trophies being, if anything, more at their ease than some who appeared to feel the honour of shaking hands,. supe"added to the care of a costly vase, rather more then they were prepared for at one and the same moment. In the class of extra prizes Lord Elcho made special reference to the valuable and unique volume of photographs presented by Mr. Herbert Watkins. As each Volunteer advanced to the table his name and the name of the corps to which he belonged were called out audibly, and accompanied with a slight running commentary of explanation, so that the spectators, with the aid of the official programme, in which the marks made by each com petitor were set out, were enabled thoroughly to follow and comprehend the scene. The following was the official list of the winners and their prizes Mrks. Extra 'Prize, First Series—A. Bennett gold watch, value ~-€:3l 10s—won by Captain Bevan, Ist Radnor l9 Extra Prize, Second Series —llappin Toa Service, f.. 52 10s—Mr Miller, Bristol 2O Extra Prizo, Third Series—Smith Rifle, £4O—J. G Ales Mr Bass's £25, Ist prize, £lo—Lieut.-Colonel Hutch inson, Bth Lancashire City of London £6oo—Range A, Ist prize, £2s—Ser geant Mint, 3d Ayrshire ........ City of London—Range B, Ist prize, £2s—Private Banton, 21st Middlesex.... Ashburton Shield (public s chools)—£l4o—Harrow Earl Spencer—Cup, £15 --Corporal Thornton, Chel tenham .... " Saturday Review" £5O (volley firing)—First prize £25-2d Administrative Battalion, Staffordshire .. 144 St. George's Vase—Vase, gold jewel, and £6, £2so— Penzff, sth Stafford Ch ance ll or s' Plare—Cup, £loo—Cambridge Elcho Shield—Scotland International Enfield Match—England 1,016 Wimbledon Cup—£loo—Sergt. M. Smith, Ist Middle- taries, who voted for the condemnation of "Essays and Reviews," reminded one almost painfully of another somewhat cruel person who had all Lord Westbury's unctuous pleasure in giving pain, Mr. Whackford Squeers. "' Here's fleshAcried Squeers, turning the boy about end indicating the plumpest parts of his figure with divers pokes and punches to the great discomposure of his son and heir. Here's firmness, here's solidness ; why, you can hardly get up enough of him between your finger and thumb to pinch him anywhere. . . , You couldn't shut a bit of him in a door when he's had his dinner. Look at them tears, sir,' said Squeers, with a triumphant air, as Master Whackford wiped his eyes with the cuff of his jacket, there's °His ness.'" Lord "Westbury's proceedings with the bench of bishops, but more especially with the Bishop of Oxford, are painfully similar, Ho "pokes them and punches them in the plumpest parts of their figure," he makes the Bishop of Oxford cry with the pain, and then he says virtually in his reply, with a triumphant air, " Look at those tears, my Lords, there's oiliness." First he does his best to hurt all the bishops, and observes in effect, " Here's firmness, here's solidness," or in Lord West bury's own words, " Imagine, my Lords, what an opportunity it would be for my right hon ourable friend the Chancellor of the Exche quer to spread his net, and in one haul take in £30,000 from the highest dignitary, not to speak of the of roXXOt, the Bishops, Deans, Arch deacons, Canons, Vicars" (and observe the artistic incidental poke of calling such dignitaries the 01, roXAot " the mob"), " all included in one common crime, all subject to one common penalty"—and then after these more distributed and general tweaks and twinges, he applies himself more especially to his own chosen adversary, Bishop Wilberforce. " lam extremely anxious to know what the thing is, called a synodieal judgment. . . . Assuming that the re port of the judgment I have read is a correct one, I am happy to tell your lordships that what is called a synodical judgment is simply a series of well lubricated terms, a sentence so oily and so sapona ceous that no one could grasp it. Like an eel it slips through your fingers—it is simply nothing, and I am happy to tell my noble friend (Lord Houghton) that it is literally no judgment at all." This is what we call positively rioting in the indulgence of pinch ing, like Mr Squeers, rich and high-fed natures, the more so that we do not know that there was any particular reason for referring the wording of the sentence of condemnation to the Bishop of Oxford, beyond the Lord Chancellor's quick perception of the opportunity he should thus gain of giving a little additional pain by these playful allusions to that prelate's well known soubriquet. Towards the end of his speech, Lord Westbury even ventured so far as to affect the solemnity of clerical warning and illustration, in a way that assures us, no less than his more serious efforts in the same line, that had he entered the Church he might easily have be come a " most reverend" prelate, if he could but so far have subdued his native arrogance of mind as to persuade himself to act through life a part that he can easily assume to perfection either for a light or serious purpose. When he earnestly ad vised the bishops and other members of Convocation that "if there be any attempt to carry Convocation beyond its proper limits, their best plan will be, after protesting, to gather up their garments and leave the place—remembering, the pillar of salt, and resolving not to cast a look behind," he carried the mock solemnity of his allusions beyond the verge of decorum, and almost lost some of his cruel advan tage by this open display of his feelings t owards the Bible. It must have been a triumph ant moment for Lord Westbury when the Bishop of Oxford gave vent to the cry of pain which Lord Westbury's tor ture extracted. The Bishop directly admitted that Lord Westbury's words had blistered those on whom they fell, and consoled himself by explaining to the House of Lords what he should have felt on his deathbed if ho had not laid himself open to this persecution. Lord Westbury's delight was evidently unbounded. "The right reverend prelate," he says, " has in that excited manner which characterised the greater portion of his speech—and at which, I beg to say, that I was not at all surprised—with much licence of language, charged me with misre presenting a passage in an act of Parliament. His apology, I think, must be that he himself does not quite understand it." Squeers' triumphant excla mation when Master Whackford wiped his eyes with the cuff of his jacket, "Look at them tears, sir—there's oiliness !" was humanity itself compared with the exultation of Lord Westbury. As a mere literary effect no doubt the unctuous style has much mere to recommend it when it just gilds the intel lectual cruelty of such cold vivisection as Lord West bury, but we wish it were wholly left to those whosa words, though " softer than butter," speak the " war in their heart," and strike like swords though they be " smoother than oil." The Psalmist who wrote these words was a very different man, we take it, from the Bishop of Oxford, but we feel sure he had some adversary who was the anti type of Lord Westbury. THE "EXAMINER." ON BISMARK,—The offer, said to have been made by Prince John of Giucksburg, of Denmark's joining the German Confederation, was a cierisiNe one. The great monarchs of Vienna and Berlin do not want a democratic associate, and Denmark can be no other than democratic. its aristocracy Ir:s died away, and the last monarch of Denmark, quite a Jacobin in his line, helped the remains of the national noblesse to extinction. We have heard a good deal of the hardship of German Schleswig-Holeteiners being ruled by Danes. But the Dams had similar objections to being ruled by Schleswig-Holsteiners. The latter have a noblesse, nay, a feudal noblesse, just the stuff of which Mdlisters are made. And King Christian has nominated one of them, Count Moltke. a Holsteiner, to be Prime Minister of Denmark. He may use fully serve to drive the nail, in other words, con clude a peace. But he could not long govern Den mark as it was, much less as it is, in that feudal and reactionary manner which it seems that Bis mark and Rechberg require. The attempt to govern in Copenbegen according to their behests will produce the inevitable result of a popular in surrection. The efforts of the two worthies, Rechberg and Bismark, in Schleswig-Holstein, are of the same tendency, and will produce similar results. They refuse to recognise the Duke of Augustenburg, because he declares that, owing his SUCCCi33 to the attachment and choice of the people of these Duchies, ho must impart to them a liberal constitution. In that case you shall not be Duke, said Bismark. The Log of Prussia looks to the Sultan of North Ger many, as the Emperor of Austria is to be the Sul tan of South Germany, and minor Powers must consent to occupy the position of Hospodars. We need not say that the pretension excites the utmost resentment and disgust. The minor Powers and Princes of Germany, excluded from the negotia tions at Vienna, will meet at Frankfort cr elsewhere, when a formidable schism will be the consequence, with the Confederation of the Rhino looming in the distance. There are, however, certain complica tions, as all the minor Powers are not liberal, and do not favour liberal constitutions. And Napoleon himself, however ready to patronise a Confederation of minor Powers against Austria and Prussia, does not like constitutions after the English fashion — that is, with liberty of representation, of speech, and of printing. A prince therefore must be found, and the Duke of Oldenburg has been pitched upon by Prussia, less with the idea of installing him than of forcing the Diet to consent to the terms of Prus sia. The Duke of Oldenburg, however, has not the shadow of a rightful claim. If he had, we should have heard of it, and have seen it expounded before now. Prussian bayonets have held Slesvig, and Prussian bayonets may undertake to dispose of it. If So, there will be an insurrection there too. And if Bismark turn his bayonets on the Slesvig- Holsteinere, what will Fatherland get next from the absolutism of a statesman who seems to have undertaken the task of rendering Prussia in everything the antagonist of Germany The worst of Bismark's policy is that ho loves to weave schemes, and he has by some underhand policy induced the cautious Austrian Government to adopt, in this respect, his views. He pushed the war with Denmark to the verge of war with Eng land. And having succeeded in carrying his point yhing. And s im seems without incurring the dan g erous alternative, he is ntoowbo d n fookreatnhet Liberal party hi in a Germany b n o o l w e to o u pgr o h v to insurrection. He is convinced that he will get the better of it by bayonets, and that he can do minate not only to Prussia, but North Germany. Perhaps, if the German people were to be let alone in this agitation, the military might prevail. But there is another potentate who certainly will have hi s finger in the pie, and that is the French Em peror. Nor are we prepared to blame him. He cannot allow a military power like Prussia to ag grandise herself as to become his equal. The pros pect is that a German insurrection might make a war undertaken by France necessary to aid the popular party. This is the Italian campaign over again, fought on the Rhine and Elbe, not the Po. Austrian &sleets, we presume, may remain neutral. Who can doubt that the enormous aggrandisement of Franco would follow such an outburst ? And this is what Bismark is risking, gratuitously risking, by keeping the question of the Duchies open, and striving to extract, some personal advantage out of it. King Leopold has undertaken the task of re presenting the danger of Bisnaark's madness to the Emperor at Vicay. But often that potentate seems to be so amueed and tickled by the Prussian statesman's frenzy that lie is almost inclined to patronise it. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE DANISH WAR. — The war between Denmark and Germany is over. A suspension el: hostilities by land and sea, from the 26t1.1 to the 31. et, instant, hen becu ograti]upoc, and ----e there is every reason to expect that within that in terval negotiations conducted directly between the Northern Power on the one hand and Austria and Prussia on the other, will convert the truce into B. treaty of peace. On what terms, and at what sacri fice, on the part of Denmark, a final arrangement may be come to between the belligerents, it is use less to conjecture with our present means of know ledge. The neutral Powers have by their conduct forfeited any right to be informed of what is going on, and they will have only themselves to blame if the result is one detrimental to their interests or in juriously affecting the balance of power. Although we know nothing positively, we are inclined to think that Christian IX. has really made an offer to enter the Germanic Confederation with the whole of Den. mark. Whether he is in earnest in such a proposi tion, or whether he has thrown it out merely with a view of sowing dissension between the German Powers and exciting the alarm of France, it is riot easy to say ; but if the latter he his object, he has probably succeeded as completely on one point as he certainly hes on the other. Aus tria may well look with favour on the accession of Denmark to the Band. For, while the strength of the whole body would be increased, the peculiar influence of Prussia would be diminished by the presence in North Germany of a state independent —to say the least—of the influence of the Court of Berlin. For that very reason M. von Bismarck will probably set himself against the scheme attributed to the new Danish Ministry ; and in this he will have the support of Russia, which can hardly view with indifference so marked an addition to the strength of Germany on the Baltic. How France regards such a combination we are at no loss to conjecture. The official organs, no doubt under the immediate inspiration of the Foreign Office, have been denouncing it during the past week in terms which sufficiently indicate the irritation and alarm which it has excited in the mind of their imperial master. Beneath their affectation of disbelief that any proposition of the kind has been made, one can readily perceive a very substantial uneasiness lest in some form or other it should be accepted. It is not impcssible that by this time the Emperor is convinced that he has made a mistake in leaving Denmark to her fate ; and that even at the lass moment his interposition may somewhat soften her fall. But we cannot pretend to calculate upon the action of any of the Powers with whom the decision of the question now rests. Having no real basis for the formation of an opinion it is better not to ex press one. Considering the conduct of her Majes ty's Government, which has now by the vote of the House of Commons become that of the country, foe Englishmen will desire to say more than is absolutely necessary on a subject so fraught with painful and self-accusing reflections. THE " TABLET" ON THE HOPLEY CASE.—Since Canning wrote the parody on Martha Browning, Who whipped two female prentices to death And hid them in the coal hole ; for her mind Framed schemes of sagest discipline. . . . there has been nothing like Sir James Wilde's euphuistic allusion to Mr Hopley's peccadillo for which he was sentenced to four years of penal ser vitude. "It was a prominent fact in the case," said Sir James, " that in 1860 the respondent com mitted some act which brought him within the grasp of the law." [He only beat one of his pupils, the poor boy Canceller, to death. lant pis pour Cancellor!] "and very heavily," continued Sir James, " did the hand of the law fall on him; and a man of education and refinement" (so refined as to collect a large amount of saliva in his month and spit in his wife's face for beckoning her children in upon a cold snowy day), " of great natural ability, and with a great many noble though visionary as pirations, was taken from his home and imprisoned for three years." No man, said Sir James, " who had heard Mr Hopley, could say he was wanting' in warm affection and in proper religious feelings, but he was plainly a man whose opinion was not in harmony with the rest of the world, and that want of harmony was likely to produce a continual jangle—and he had thought so much on certain subjects, particularly that of the bringing up of young children that he was extravagant, not to say more, in many of his views. The husband would no doubt learn a lesson from this case, and be would know that if he ever lifted his hand against her she would be entitled to protection. If they were separated the children must be deprived either of a father or a mother. If they lived toge ther again there might be better things in store for them. The husband had hitherto been wrong-headed man, but seeing how other people, viewed his conduct, he might surrender some of his opinions. His wife had taken him for better or worse. Even if a decree were granted, he doubted whether that devoted woman would be cone tent to sett le down with her children and her own family, and see her husband struggling with the world apart from them" We have given these ex tracts from the learned judge's summing up, notes . a correct summary or abridgment of it, for there was much more of which no one could complain ; and we think that few will differ from the judge and jury in holding, both that Mr.Hopley had been guilty of cruelty, and also that the wife's condone" tion of that cruelty was clearly shown. The learne d judge told the jury that unless they believed M rs.. Hopley to have perjured herself which be d id not,• her husband had undoubtedly been guilty of g reat cruelty, and they should say so; still if they th ou g ht that condonation had been proved (and he did thiDt that it had) they were also bound to say so. The jury found accordingly, and, so far, no injustice bah been done. But how did those passages which we have quoted and of which we complain, find their way into the summing up which they so grievously disfigure P In the mouth of an advocate they would be understood, as instances of the rhetorical skill with which a lawyer often seeks to work upon I n ' jury, by the introduction of irrelevent topics, cnar by appealing to sentiment instead of to reason. , the prevailing feeling in Sir Jame Wilde's mind h o t been, this man is a great brute and a savage, half ma' with pride and pedantry, fanatical theories, full of religious cant and fulsome self-conceit, and not on l y capable of, but actually guilty of, shocking barbarity to a woman who is his own wife, to a baby who is his own child, to a schoolboy who was his pupil ; still justice is justice, and law is law, and duty is duty', and he is entitled to his rights, and it is my business to influence the jury to find a verdict for him on tie . plea of condonation, no body , could have complai nee _ But in that case the summing up would surely root have contained the passages which we have quoted COUNTRY MARKETS. NOTTINGHAM—SATUBDA.T. A moderate show of wheat to-day, with a healthy demand at is per qr over late prices. Barley very limited in supplY , and late prices were supported. Beans is hig her in pric e. —White wheat, from 45s to 50s ; red wheat , 398 to 42e. Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27 s t o 295. Oats, old, at 24s to 30s Od ; new, 19s to 25 5. Bea ns sold a t 385 to 42s'per qr. ; new, 35s to 38s. Flour, fine, 32s to 34s ; super, 36s to 38s per 20 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a tolerably large supply of wheat to day. 01 last week's prices must be considered as current. In other articles little passing. White wheat. 46s to 476 Red wheat Ito 3 42s to 44° 4s Malting barley ...Ms to 36s Chevalier bar1ey...3 30 -- 0e Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s Oats. 2 48 t o 2 Flour, 28s Od to —s Od per sack from the miler. YORK—SATURDAY. 1. 4 A small supply of wheat on offer from the fanners, Am a small advance was made. Barley very scarce, arld,,er trade good, at rather over late ratea. Beans wer e in demand at fully as much money. Wheat, red 38s to 43s 1 Oats.... 2os t° 2 2 :: White do .42s to 47s Beans 35 a to - --- 0 Barley .24s to 28s Peas .. ......, 9 to 42 , Malt, 58s to 60s per qr .; rye, 32s per qr ; flour , ' to 34sser sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. at A. tolerable show of wheat, and a firm business ( I ° ll- r y• is per qr a&vance on last week's rates. parley stationo r 3 6 --New white wheat, 4,5 s to 40s ; red, 43s to 460 Pegg, stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, o tot new, 33s to 35s per qr.; grinding, 26s to 28s; o.d eg at 27s to 295; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. t o o. old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 25s to 30s per 20 Births. aeM r BARRON.—On the 2 3 d inst. , at 10, Devonshire-,,te r r , of Hyde-park, the wife of Richard Bankes Barrron, 4'4 a daughter. COl' DAVIES.—On the 19 th inst. , Catherine, wife of L ietim. Davies, of Withersdane House, 'Wye, Kent. "Toe WETHERALL.—On the 19th inst., at Loddingtonl, a otl t h amptons hire, the wife of Captain T. W e th e rall, lo w Dragoons, of a daughter. Marriages. , 0 5CP GIBISINGS. — BUCKLEY.--On the 20th inst., at Gli ° 'l, 3 o :Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Gibbiugs, late of 2d Wes t o f 0 3e llogt., of county Cork, to Frances Mary, datir;lite r late Joseph Buckley, Esq., of Lancashire. RIMINGTON — ABEItCROMBY.—At St. George's, ." -- "J a toe, - square, John Wilson Eimington, son of the 1 10 9 e to "‘ Runington, Emil., of Broon.head Hall, A. Adelaide, daughter of the late Sir R. A.bere` Bart. Deaths. ,f 33 , -r, BELT.,--On the 23d inst., William Bell, Ni'' '9 o George- s t ree t, Hanover-square. Dril /let DRANE.--On the 17th inst., at Torquay, Thomas Esq„ aged 71. at el. , DANIELs.—On the 20th inst., A b ra h am Daniels , 2, Modena-t errace , Pecahani. naral ier akILDNER.—On. the 21st inst., at Bognor, Tb.os. Esq , formerly of Stonehouse, aged 32. ma O a HAIL Ls.--On the 21st inst., at 15, rittvilleLawn, nee.s.l ham, Lieut.-Colonel JohL. Hailer, late of the ll•S''' aged 72. .... _-----------;-:-.:0 • London: Prinzed and Pr.l o .lshed by WILL rAlt As 1: „:10. }ii i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THU SUN OfaCe ... i g 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, qi the C"' - AlicitliPpo4,--Mouda , y, July 25,1664.