The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

The Volunteer Review. On Saturday tho Volunteers were reviewed in Hyde Park in the presence of such a concourse of spectators as has seldom before assembled within its precincts. As a military demonstration it was, of its kind, one of the most important as a pageant it was one of the most brilliant it is possible to imagine. With the single slight and necessary , omission of the Royal salute at the close of the pro ceedings—a salute which it was impossible to give line with such a number of men in such a limited area of ground, the programme was rigidly adhered to, even as to time, and the whole display reflects the greatest credit both on Colonel M'Murdo and the War-office, who had its management, and the corps of Volunteers, who so perfectly carried out their instructions. It is now four years since her Majesty held the first Volunteer review in Hyde Park. On that occasion only some 14,000 men were mustered, and it is no disparagement to them to say that their appearance then gave little indication of the solidity of drill and discipline at which, as all saw on Sa turday, the force has been destined to arrive. Dur ing the interval that has elapsed the Volunteer movement has taken deep root in every class of society, and nowhere more strongly than in the provincial towns. Comparatively short, therefore, as was the notice:given of the review of Saturd ay, it was su ffi cient to call together 22,000 disciplined troops ;(there were 21,745 rank and file on the ground), whose fine military appearance and per fect regularity of drill, as compared with their evo lutions before the Queen four years ago, literally astonished the spectators. Most of the London re giments were ordered to parade at their mustering places at 3.30. Long before that hour, however, groups of gentlemen in uniform had begun to draw together, and from groups to form companies, and from companies to expand rank after rank into strong regiments, and from regiments to grow massive brigades. Long before that hour, also, it seemed as if half London was on the move to Hyde-park; and the thoroughfares presented much the same sort of aspect as they would wear if the Volunteers took it into their heads to march to Epsom on a Derby-day. Indeed, the appearance of the Park itself reminded one very much indeed of the Derby. There were the same ricketty stands, improvised out of planks and ladders, on which the public were besought to risk their lives and limbs for charges which rose in proportion to the height and danger of the structure. A stand which only offered a fall of 3 feet when it gave way could be had for a shilling, but the more ambitious elevations on which it was little short of manslaughter to decoy people, were as costly as they were unsafe, and, doubtless, for both reasons fortunately re mained almost unoccupied. The review-ground, or rather the parade on which the troops were to as semble in line of contiguous columns, extended over the whole length of the Park from the Ride to the Bayswater-road, and even this space was insufficient to permit of the alignment of the forces, which con sequently had to be formed up with their right wing, so to speak, considerably advanced and at right angles with the main body. The space for the privileged spectators was a long en closure running parallel with Park-lane, and to this admission was only to be gained by tickets. The distribati m of these admissions was unfoi tunately mismanaged, and was, in fact, a cause of considerable dissatisfaction throughout the day. The Board of Works had gone to the trouble of arranging the enclosure, and, having thus done their part, expected Sir Richard Mayne to do his by providing a sufficient force of police to prevent its being occupied by those who had no right to admission. Sir Richard Mayne, however, de clined, it is stated, in the absence of the Sove reign, to draw upon the police for men to keep the ground. The result was that only some few additional constables were sent into the Parks, and as these were left without orders they became, in fact, a mere addition to the speetatore. It was el se refusal of Sir Richard Mayne to send police 'os keep the enclosure which led to the dist ributior. of ticket.- being postponed until they were vP;ineless. The country and other corps only got Oneir shares when they were ectually marching to the ground, and could neither use them nor give them away. Soon after 4 o'clock soma troops of Horse Guards, with a troop of L oicsrs, came upon the ground, and in a few moments qaietly cleared the whole space allotted for the review, which formed a vast square, the line of which was thenceforward kept only by a few sentries, but beyond whose bounds, until the review was over, the crowd never attempted to pass. It was not, however, from want of provo cation to break it that the line was kept, for the rule laid down by the Commander-in-Chief that officers in uniform were not to pass civilians within the lines without tickets was flagrantly set at naught. Every officer brought a large civilian party, and overbearing all remonstrance on the part of the sentries, insisted on placing them inside the lines, and this they repeated so often that at last a a perfect inner circle was formed before the seated visitors, between whom and those standing in front a constant altercation was going on. Sometimes the crowd of sitters were so loud and persistent in their cries of " Sit down in front I" that for very peace sake those who were obstructing their view were obliged to do so. But the concession was seldom made for long, so that at various points along the line the altercation was always going on, and no where with more vehemence or with worse effect than immediately round where the Prince and Prin cess were stationed, to which point of course all officers took their friends. There is a celebrated saying of a celebrated General, that we had not a General who could get 20,000 men out of Hyde Park, If this was ever true, which we mach doubt, it certainly shows what strides we hale made in our military education since it was uttered. On Satur day there were, including regulars, nearly 25,000 men on the ground, yet they all assembled there within an hour, and left the Park after the Review was over il l even less time. This display proves , r a e not onw3y that the Volunteers hav e made a g r ea t advance in numbers and efficiency, but that where their officers take pains to make the necessary ar rangements beforehand, they have also acquired considerable facility in the execution of combined movements. To many of those present it, no der .aot, seemed a simple matter to march to the 'ark, to stand for a couple of hours under arty d, to take part in a general salute, to march De and then to re turn in the sumo ord er in -,, en e . ". s they came. 'Three fourtha of them, of -eourse, fancied in their secret hearts that it scald have been better to burn is little powder, or in some way to " let them show what, they cold do." Bat in reality their united perfor mances were vastly more important than if each battalion had gone through the manual and platoon exercises with uninape .chable accuracy. The con. centration of the various Divisions from the several joists of rendezvous was skilfully planned and successfully executed. The Cavalry and Artillery Brigades, the pletwe of assembly of which was at the east side of Goosvenor-place, the Prince of Wales's Brigade, Vas, rendezvous of which was at the west side of aaae gorse Guards' parade, and the first and sec°Std brigad es o f the First Division, which met aeepectively at the east end of the Horse Guards' p .rade and the east end of the Mall, all entered by the Hyde Park-gate. The third and fourth brigades of the First Division and the first brigade of the Second Division, coming from Beigrave and Eeton squares, found their wa y into the Enclosure through Albert-gate. The second brigade of the Second Division, the rendezvous of which was at Grosve nor-square, third bri ga d e nor-square, and of the same Division, which had to make its way from Pins• bury-square, passed into the Park through Gros venor-gate. The first brigade of the Third Division marching from Sussex-square, and the Second Division from Glocester-square, found a ready mode of access through Victoria-gate, and the two remains • ing brigades of the Third Division, approaching one from Russell-sqcare and the other from Portman square, entered the Park by Cumberland gate. Nearly the whole of the troops arrived at the time appointed, or very slightly after it, end the only fligrant deperture from the rules laid down was in the ease of a gallant but highly Erratic corps pro erlv belonging to the Second Division, which ap- . 4 first gate it came to, regardless of- the fact that it was eapeted in an opposite direction. By half- past five o'clock all were on the ground. The gene rally sombre colours of the Volunteers were here and there relieved by corps in red or lighter gray, and the density of the masses on the extreme right contrasted well with the open format:on of the Ar tillery on the extreme left. The muster of Artile lery was remarkably strong and creditable. Though only 26 guns were brought on the ground, yet the number of effective gunners that attended were more than equal to the serving of 100 pieces. The Volunteer Artillery deserve every praise, for their drill means double work—infantry drill and drill at the great guns—and the manner in which they went by on Saturday both in battalions and with their guns shows how admirably they must have attended to their twofold duty. Soon after six o'clock the boom of the guns and the cheering of the multitude proclaimed the arrival of the il lustrious party, and almost immediately after the Royal cortege, followed and preceded by a brilliant Staff, entered the enclosure, and with a quick, continued rattle the whole force pre sented arms, while the Honourable Artillery Com pany, the only Volunteers who possess colours, lowered them to the ground as the strains of the National Anthem marked the Royal salute. The Princess of Wales, dressed in deep black, was in an open carriage and four, with outriders in scarlet, and escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards. Seated by her Royal Highness, but not in mourn. ing, was the Princess Louis of Hesse. In the second carriage were the Countess of Morton and Mdlle. De Grancey, in attendance on their Royal Highnesses. The Prince of Wales, in the uniform of the Royal Artillery Company, rode by the side of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Louise of Hesse, both of whom were in full uniform also. Following the Royal party were the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Richard Airey, Sir G. Wetherell, General Knollys, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Aides-de-camp to the Prince of Wales, the Duke, and Prince Louis, the Deputy-Adjutant, and Quartermaster-General, &c. In the Royal suite, also, was Count d'Audigne, Attache to the French Embassy, who wore his uniform of the Imperial Guard. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied only by the Duke of Cambridge and the officers of their respective Staffs, at once rode along the line, making their inspection slowly as they went, and examining every corps with critical but evidently well-pleased glances. From this in spection his Royal Highness did not return to the saluting point, but at once rode off and took his position at the head of the fine brigade which was placed under hie orders for the marching past. The Royal carriages meanwhile had diem: up close to the flagstaff, and as they took their posie don his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accom panied by Major Elphinstone, R.E., came forward and joined the party. Shortly afterwards the Dake d'Aumale and two gentlemen by whom he was accompanied were perceived in the reserved seats by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. They were at once conducted within the enclosure, and, having paid their respects to the Princess of Wales, remained to witness the march past. First in order came the Hon. Artillery Company, a body which can trace its pedigree back to a time when there was no standing army in England, and whose ancestors, the old Train Bands, ranged themselves sometimes on the side of the Sovereign and some times against it, but always on the side t liberty. Next marched the representative corgis of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and +Ale brigade closed with a battalion raised from those distinguished civil servants who act as . ...me wheels on which our social machinery revives. The Prince, wearing the uniform of co l -onel of the Hon. Artillery Com pany, with t'Ae blue riband of the Garter, was warmly eteered as he rode past in advance of his brigad and, having gracefully saluted the Corn- I all:eder-in Chief, took up his post on the left of Gen. Pennefather, where he could be seen to advan tage by the different regiments as they passed. It is no new thing to say of the Hon. Artillery Com pany that they are hardly to be distinguished from the corps d'elite, to whose uniforms their own so narrowly approximate; but on Saturday, conscious of their added dignity, they put forth special efforts to justify their ancient renown. Oxford University came tripping along merrily to the music of " Faint"—a little short in the step, perhaps, but that may have been the fault of the band—with a somewhat novel look imparted to their ranks by the bright blue colour of their caps and stock ings. The Cambridge men enjoyed the advan tage, as far as appearance is concerned, of those knowing Zeuave gaiters, which ,on parade replace the " cardinal" stockings. In other respects the University corps were on a footing of perfect equality, and in every respect worthy to be in cluded in this new formation of Infantry of the Guard, Lord Bury, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Service Regiment, was warmly greeted—a tribute apparently persanal as well as complimen tary to the fine regiment under his command. The cavalry brigade, comprised of Ist Surrey Light Horse, the Ist Middlesex, and Ist Hertford Volun. tear Cavalry, formed in the aggregate a squadrot of nearly 100. The horses for the most part were exceedingly good, but many of them either had not been accustomed to march in line, or were discon certed by the music of the bands. Cavalry at pre• sent is scarcely one of the elements of strength in the Volunteer service, and it would be well if occa sionally means could be taken of enlisting the co operation of the Yeomanry. The military effect of Volunteer reviews would be much heightened by their presence. The Artillery display was very imposing. This has always been a favourite branch of the service ; but, in spite of their previous knowledge on the subject, the public were surprised to find how large a proportion the artillerists bore to the general force under arms. In addition to the six light guns which had gone past with the Hon, Artillery Company in the Prince of Wales's Br; gade, 20 others of heavier calibre were now - in charge of the Ist Administrative - Middlesex Artillery Volunteers Creed, and the 3d 11 , r • bearing of the me were highl conte- paraded _ Brigade, the „commanded by Col. —adleses Volunteers. The and their general equipments creditable to all concerned, and, not with mere efficiency, some of the batteries oorrowed a hint as to style from the Royal Horse Artillery, and horsed their guns exclusively with animals of one colour. In addition to what may be callod, for the sake of distinction, the service Artillery, there was a complete brigade of Artillery Volunteers armed with carbines only, numbering c l o se upon 2,000 men. When these had passed the infantry divisions came up, and continued to move along in unbroken o r d er for nearly an hour and a h a lf. The public are by this time such keen critics at Volunteer reviews, and the regiments themselves by the earnestness they threw into the movement at the outset have accustomed spectators to such a standard of efficiency, that anything in the nature of shortcoming is sure to be detected. It is there fore paying no small compliment to the force upon the ground to say that at the conclusion of the pro ceedings the general voice declared the display to have been attended with complete success. From first to last, as far as the Volunteers were concerned, there was not a single hitch ; on the contrary, th e improvement in discipline since the last great display i n Hyde-park is too palpable to admit of question. A fact to which attention cannot be too strongly pointed is that the battalions from various parts of the country takiag part in the review were, if any. thing, in advance of those in the metropolis, It has been the fashion to speak —not slightingly, for it was never possible to do that—but in a careless, off-hand manner of the performances of " eountry corps," and to assume that in 1864, as in 1860, London is still giving the tone to the provinces in all matters connected with Volunteering. But if the regiments sent up from Lancashire, Nottingham, Warwick, and Derbyshire are average specimens of those in other parts of England, the metropolis must look to its laurels, and that without delay. It is true that all the established favourites of the London Volunteer garrison were on the field on Saturday afternoon, and in no degree lessened their former high repute. The South 'Middlesex, for examp:e, were Present in large numbers, and the pertect evenness as to merit of the companies showed the good reAtt!ta of the internal i'uted in that corps. C:)IT4 The London Scottish, steady and precise, repaid the trouble taken by _ Lord Elcho, while the London Rifle Brigade, solid and sombre, upheld the credit of the city of London. The Inns of Court, neatly dressed and smartly handled, as Rifles should be, elicited frequent remarks of " We've not seen any like this yet," and from one old gentleman the plaintive soliloquy, D Fine fellows, very fine fel lows; what a pity there are such rogues among them l" The Victoria Rifles, under the Duke of Wellington, did credit to their long and careful training. But rati ng th e mer it s o f th ese an d o th er corps as high a s possible, the fact cannot be got rid of that, without exception, the finest brigade upon the field was that commanded by Lord Grosvenor, .and composed exclusively of country corps. The 6th Lancashire, better known as the Ist Manches ter, led the van of this brigade, followed by the celebrated " Robin Hoods." The late Lord Her bert once coveted an Irish militia regiment so much that he almost infringed the rules of the service in the hope of transferring it bodily into the Queen's army. The Commander-in-Chief must be more than mortal or less than a soldier if he did not cast a longing eye on those serried files of Lincoln green. So great was the interest excited by their appear• ance that the Volunteer corps which had just made the circuit of the field and returned to their former positions cheered them enthusiastically again and again. The Birmingham. Derbyshire, and 2d Man cheater corps were almost as good ; they were cer tainly equal to any corps present, if the Notting ham men be deducted. Bearing in mind that most of these Volunteers had made a journey longer than that which metropolitan corps undertake when they go to Brighton, and that in the aggregate they coras posed a brigade of nearly 3,000 men—exclusive of the Somersetshire and Berkshire regiments, not less fficient, which were classed in other brigades— it will be manifest with what spirit drill must be pursued in the provinces. The march past began shortly after a quarter past 6, and terminated at 2 minutes past 8 o'clock. It was estimated that an hour and 40 minutes would be occupied in the pro ceedings from the time the troops were aet in motion, and it will be seen from this how accurately the volunteers must have carried out their instructions. The programme was adhered to with such literal fidelity that the occasion was almost devoid of inci dents. The directions as to equalizing the strength of companies had, en the whole, been very fairly attended to, bat there were still some instances in which blank files —say in a regiment of gray uni form, had been filled up with " casuals" dressed in green, inconsistencies which detract very much from the appearance of a regiment on parade, and ought not to be allowed by officers in command. More- , over, there is a manifest want of head somewhere when a mounted officer sits his horse as if it were an easy chair, and lounges past the flagstaff without giving himself the trouble to draw his sword; and when the tallest member of a cadet corps struts by in plain clothes and a " billycock" hat. Matters like these the Volunteers for their own credit will do well to keep their eyes upon, as they would never be tolerated in the military service to which it is their desire to approximate ea closely as possible. When the last corps had passed the flagstaff, and it became evident that the Prince and Princess of Wales were about to leave the ground, there was one general impulsive rush to see and cheer them. The carriage in which tae Princess sat was surrounded, swallowed up, and almost climbed into, by eager thousands, who bestowed upon her Royal Highness such a greeting as has not been heard since she passed through London on the day of her public entry. It was with the utmost difficulty that a way was at last cleared for the carriage to take its departure, but once it was in motion a troop of Lancers, form ing in rear, were enabled to check the pressure. Immediately that the royal party quitted the park the great, massive line of Volunteers whichstretched across it began slowly to disjoint itself, the brigades were disintegrated into regiments in a few minutes, and a general move made in various directions for the different outlets at all points of the compass. It was very picturesque, this breaking up of the force, and managed with admirable celerity and good order. The City of London Rifles were well on their way down Piccadilly with the first spectators, yet, early as they were out, the Inns of Court were level with them by a different route, though even they were not the first, for as " the Devil's Own" passed Regent-street the Cambridge Corps, which had pre ceded them and was waiting to disband, faced about and presented arms as the Inns filed past. While the City of London were being dismissed in Carl ton-gardens the City of London Engineers were marching down the Strand, and the strains of the band of a Surrey corps on its way dawn Parliament.. street to Westminster-bridge mingled with the music of another going north near the National Gallery. Whoever arranged the routes of depar ture deserves great credit, for hardly two took the same, and all seemed to progress with equal rapidity north and south, east or west. This quick and easy dispersion was all that was needed to perfect the success of a day which should long be remem bered with pride by all the Volunteers who have had the honour and satisfaction of sharing in it. TIIE MIN, LONDON, MONDAY tVENING, MAY 20, Mt THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, PLYMOUTH, Sunday. The Union Steam Shipping Company's mail ship Briton, Commander John Boxer, from Cape Town April 20, St. Helena April 29, and Ascension May 3, arrived in the Sound this morning. The cargo includes 90 tons of copper ore, 558 bales of I Rg eas ers are his wool, 46 bales of skins, 716 bundles of hid es , and 2. of ostrich feathers ; and among her 91 passer. • Excellency H. E. Savaren de Almeida, Ci,•- zambique ; Deputy Assistant Commie ,fernor of Mo • Lieut. Hare, 11th Regiment: r • _..dry General Sand ers; of the 96th ; and the R , —amts. Houghton and Morse, Sir P. WodP l- Woodrufte and Urquhart. Town o^ ,louse was to open Parliament in Graham's the 27th April. The revenue for last year fell ...ort of the expenditure by £170,000. The bill before Parliament in relation to the public roads will, if carried, relieve the Colonial Government of a charge amounting to £36,000 per annum. The stamps may add £25,000 and bank notes and suneession duty £14,000. These gains, if obtained, will scaroely meet the requirements of the Government. The continued intention of Sir P. Wolehonse to transfer a portion of the law courts, &c , to Graham's Town gives great annoyance to Cane Town, Opinion varies so much in regard to the different routes of proposed railroads that very little progress is expected to be made with the new projects in the present session. The Queen's consent has been given to the Wynberg to amalga mate with the Wellington Railway Company. Large stocks of grain are held in Cape Town—wheat, 168 to 19s, oats 6s, and barley 7s 9d. There is a great demand in the Eastern provinces for greased wool for North Ame rica, and as much as Stl and 9;d have been given to fill up cargoes. To England Id per lb is given for freight, hides 30s, and copper ore 55e. The paddlewheel steam sloop Salamander, 6, Commander Hon. John Carnegie, from Plymouth, arrived at the Cape on the 28th March en route for Australia, and sailed again on the 13th April. The screw steam corvette Pearl, Capt. John Borlase, C. 8., from China, called at Simon's Bay, and sailed on the 2d of April for England. The screw steam sloop Lyra, 9, Commander Robert A. Parr, from England, arrived on the 6th of April. The paddlewheel steam frigate Valorous, 16, Capt. C C. Forsyth, towing Li vingstone's steamer Pioneer, had arrived at Simon's Bay from the Mozambique. The Portuguese ship of war Anna Maria, from Mozam- bique, was refitting in Simon's Bay. The Confederate steamer Alabama arrived in Table Bay on the 20th of March, and left March 25 for a cruise. The Royal on mail the l2th of steamer April. barkfrom o England,es sof ar rived out Yar borough, from C ar diff for Shanghai, after calling at the Cambrian, The Countess Cape for supplies, had put back leaky. The transport Middlesex, Capt, J. Commel!, 74 days from Calcutta, for Portsmouth, arrived at St. Helena April 23. She has on board 173 men, women, and children be longing to various regiments, under the command of Capt. Martin 38th, and in medical charge of Dr. Boyle. Her Majesty's ships Rattlesnake and Meander were at Ascension, The gunboat Sparrow arrived there on the 33 of April to refit, ad left on the 23d for the West Coast of Africa. The Archer arrived also on the 3d, and left on the Bth. The Industry, from England, arrived on the 20th, and, having disembarked stores, sailed on the 30th for Rio ; azd the Pearl, from China for England, touched at the island on the 21st. The Briton has experienced a constant succession of head winds since crossing the Line. Dr. Murphy, R.N., one of the passengers from Cape Town, died at sea on the 28th of May. The Briton spoke, May 1, in lat. 12 4 S, long. 951 E, a bark, showing new code P.R.M.W.; and on the 16th, in lat. 25 10 N, long. 18 23 W., passed a screw steamship, stym , :.ed to be the Arhens, which left Plymouth for the i; icy o Gdtct flop i; on Lie S it of ,sday. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) NEW You, May 17. It turns out that Mr, Stanton in hie Otcial reports of the • progress and remit. c!. :Lie great contest in Virginia on more that die occasion has mistaken his wishes for facts. ttetieral Grant:has made no real progress whatever,and Ge neral Lee still confronts him at Spottsylvania Court-house. Both armies have suffered enormous losses, that of Grant an amount variously estimated in this tity between 60,000 and 80,000 men. Frederickshrg is literally crammed full of the wounded and the dying. Every house is a hospital, and every room of every house is no sooner 'emptied of the dead, than the dying are thrtht into it, to make way in their turn for fresh Vratims of the unhallowed struggle. The streets ate impassable for the wounded, who lie all day and Night forlorn and unattended to in their last agonies, not for want of pity and sympathy and the desire to show them every possible care and attention, but solely because their numbers are so many that there not surgeons and nurses to be obtained to look after a tithe of them. Wash ington is represented to be in a situation scarcely less de plorable. As anticipated in my last, both armies have been compelled by the weather and the state of the roads, as well as by the fearful losses which each have suffered, to pause for a while in their frightful conflict. Both are re ceiving reinforcements. Beauregard, leaving Richmond to its defences, and Gen. Butler to be dealt with hereafter, has succeeded in slipping from Petersburg and effecting a junc tion with Gen. Lee at Spottsylvania. The worst of the work thus remains to be done. if Richmond is to be taken, or Gen. Lee's army annihilated, or compeded to capitulate, it will not be until many battles have been fought, as obsti nate and bloody as those of last week. But people in the city who three days ago were sanguinehave had cause to change their opinion of the facility with which the end was to be attained, and are contented to adjourn the consummation, which they still believe to be inevitable, until the 4th cf July, a day on which they Seem to think possessed of a strange influence over the hands, heart, and head of every true Yankee. It is not every one, however, who is equally credulous. General Lee has not yet reached the point where he desires that his antagonist shall meet him for a decisive effort, and seems content in the meanwhile not only to lure him on to that position by such degrees as suit his purpose, but to inflict upon him at every mile or half mile of his progress an amount of slaughter that would demoralise any army less gallant than that cf the Potomac. While Grant, with characteristic energy and contempt of life, says he will " pile up his men and conquer at all hazards," Lee—with equal energy and heroism—dares him to come on, whatever may be his numbers—foils every attack which he cannot wholly repel—and on every occa sion inflicts at least ruble the damage which he receives. Were men of no more value than mosquitoes they could not be more ruthlessly sacrificed than they have been dur ing the past week, or as in all probability they will be again as soon as Grant makes another march against his enemy. Though his battalions are not engaged in fighting against a foreign nation led by a would-be conqueror, who would reduce them to subjection, but are lifting their fra tricidal hands against men of the same race and language, who have taken up arms in defence of that sacred principle of self-government on which the Federal Union must rest, if it rest upon anything, it is impossible for any one, what ever his opinion of the cause of quarrel may be, to with hold his admiration for the noble qualities it has displayed in this, the most tremendous struggle in which this army was ever engaged. And if admiration be extorted by the army of the North, shall it not be freely rendered to that nobler, because smaller, army of the South—which bears up so splendidly against difficulties that might well appear to be overwhelming, and which, dis daining the vulgar inducewents of bounty, does battle for home and independence — desiring nothing, asking nothing, expecting nothing from the hated Yankees but to be left alone to such Government as the suffrages of the Southern people shall elect and maintain? The great business of the war—all absorbing as it might be supposed at a moment when the fate of the Re public hangs upon a thread—has not interfered with the social, and scarcely with the political life of the people. In New York, as in London, May is the month of meetings, religious, philanthropic, moral, and it may be added, as far as New York is concerned, immoral. The foes of elaVetee of whiskey, and of marriage have each had their anniversary celebrations. Since General Grant crossed the Rapidan the supporters of Women's Rights, the believers in Spiritual ism, and of all the other " isms" that flourish in this land, as they flourish nowhere else, have followed the example —and brought oat their crotchets for discussion and "ven tilation," sometimes for the instruc`ion, en:legates for the amusement, and not unfrequently to the disgust of all sensible people. The Abolitionists, as might have been ex pected, are jubilant, for although, according to the procla mation of the President, slavery is still to be redoghized in the United States, provided that the alaveholders be loyal to the Government, the c'til thing has been abolished theo retically in every part of the once Great Republic, where his proclamations have no more validity , than those of the Xing of Dahomey. For this rcuson, and also because their party is in power, the Abolitionists were in excellent spirits at their anniversary—though they did not separate without a schism in their ranks, upon two gasstione of considerable interest—first, whether Mr. Lincoln was a wise man and a good President ; and second, whether Great Britain was a first or a second-rate Power. The balance of opinion on the first question was decidedly against the President; on the second, which was raised by Mr. Wendell Phillips, it was as decidedly against Great Britain. Mr. Phillips seems to consider that free countries in Europe cannot be great, for he admitted hone to stand in the first rank except Russia and France, and carried the sympathy and conviction of his audience along with him. The teetotallers and adeodates of the Maine liquor law have also had their annual gathering. They did not appear to be so well satisfied with things in general as their friends the abolitionists. They were quite ready to Make it a felony, punishable with fine and imprisonment, though not exactly with the gallows, to distil, to vend or to drink a glass of alcoholic liquors, except for medicinal purposes, on the pre scription of a properly qualified physician, but did not see their way very clearly to the happy consummation of their wi-hes. Neither did they seem to think that victory could reward the gallant exertions of the army of the Potomac Until it was commanded by a teetotaller, and Until every general of division or brigade eohilhed himself to tea and cold water. As General Grant and General Meade drink wine when they can get it, the prospect in this direction did not appear hopeful to these excellent philauthtopiste. The spiritualists have mustered in great strength, aPe parently with the desi g n o f p urg i ng the i r fa i t h o f a heresy that has grown into it, th e hereet of "free love," a s its friends call it, and of" n'eo lust," as it is designated by i ts opponents. -' m e l ue free lovers consider marriage to be sl aver y , the eravery of the woman to the man, and a thing as odious in its way as the slavery of the black man to the white; they therefore urge its abolition. The Spiritualists, who design to form a new religion, do not wish their faith to be encum bered with a notion so irreconcilably at varience with Chris tianity, with civilisation, with morality, and with the gene* ral opinion of all mankind, and are striving desperately to outset the "free lovers', from their communion. But they find the achievement more difficult than they imagined, and assert that evil spirits, and not good ones, instil such indecent thoughts and such wicked heresy into the min ds of harlots and of other worse people of the opposite sex. O f course the spirits had something to say of the war and of the progress of hostilities in Virginia. One set of spirits declared that General Grant would triumph over all obstacles, while an other set declared as confidently that Grant would be anni hilated- As there was no superior spirit to sa y which the truth and which the lie, the matter remained in abey ance, and was not decided to any one's satisfaction, when, after sittings prolonged into the second week, the Conven tion adjourned. Less dreary than the gathering of these crater fanatics was the meeting of the fair Ladies of the Coienant, who assembled last night at the Cooper Institute to sign a pledge not to wear any article of foreign finery until the restoration of peace. Teo ladies are by no meant so enthusiastic in the cause as the ultra-patriots imagined. The young ones have awakened to the suspicion that the movement is a Yankee dodge, got up by the New tngland manufacturers of infee tier dry goods, to palm off upon them the ugly home-made article at a foreign price, and the old ones, especially those who have money in their pockets, axed like to look young, though youth may have departed —have come to a similar conclusion. The shafts of ridicule have been let fly against the whole movement, and especially against the leaders. It is asked if they are not the identical ladies who refused to drink tea or other imported beverages, in the days before George Washington became the fa ther of his country, and whether it is not time that such v enerable persons should retire into private life and leave the affairs of the world to of them--young or old—are not of the strong-minded order, a younger generation. It is also a sked whether the whole and whether it will not be fatal to the chances of marriage of any spinster or young widow if sho be seen among them, or to wear the badge of the order —a bee on the left shoulder. The inquiry is simultaneously made, whether the bee would not be more appropriately and suggestively worn in the bonnet. The principal speakers at the meeting we re the philanthropical and wealthy Peter Cooper, from whom the building in which it was held derived both its name and existence, and the Rev. Drs. King and Hitchcock. The last mentioned gentleman was especially severe on the tawdy and costly finery trailed through the streets of Broad way by the ill-dressed and vulgar rich women of New York ; and declared that their heartless extravagance in the hour of their country's peril, when the heroes of the army of the Potomac were dying by thousands on the bloody battlefield of Bpottseilvania, was indecent, unbefitting, unsympa thetic," and, in one word, gt a shame." But his remarks did not appear to receive mudh favour, and were received with as decorous a silence as if they had been uttered from the pulpit. The pledge which the ladies were to sign on becoming Covenanters was not a very stringent one, for it only bound them to refrain during the war or the rebellion from the purchase of imported articles of luxury for which these of home manutacture and production could be conve niently substituted. This weak mode of putting the case to the consciences of those who loved pleasant finery more than unpleasant duty, called forth the indignant reprobation of a Miss Swim B. Anthony, the only lady who mustered suf ficient courage to address the meeting, but who had not in- Anc , t.l to prtcuro the eeleteilut:ere o ill.' word "possibly" for the obnoxious word "conveniently." In consequence the whole affair very nearly miscarried, and the fair assemblage dispersed----the etronr-minded among them asserting that French milliners and Foreign importers had packed the hall; and the rest going home, strongly minded to wear what they pleased, if they could afford to purchase it, and to do all in their power to perpetuate the reputation which the gentle promenaders of Broadway have established, of being the worst and most expensively dressed women in the world, It is asserted in most Of the papers that Mrs Lincoln, who is not, hoWeVer, a leader of fashion; has refrained froth lending the countenance of her name to the movement " lest foreign Powers should take umbrage 1" A lady, who signs herself Jane G. Swisshelm, and is said to be one of tue female clerks emplo3ed in one of the public offices at Washington, says that not only Mrs. Lin coln, but the President is of this opinion, and in a letter to a western journal, to the columns of which she is a frequent contributor, takes credit to herself for letting the people know that the chief magistrate considers his foreign rela tions in so precaricus a state that the people must continue to buy more velvet and lace than they can afford, for fear of a rupture with their European customers. She raises her voice against such a scandal, and desires the " American people to know that their Government is afraid to decrease the amount of purchases of street silk mops, lest the thun der of French and English cannon should be heard on their shores." It would appear from the postscript of Mrs Swiss helm's epistle. teat the intormation of the President's no tions on this delicate subject was communicated to her in confidence, but that the honour of the country being at stake she declined to keep it secret. " Our officials," she says, "need not in future fear to express their sentiments fully, as no one will be likely to tell me anything that may not be published , but I do not imagine that President Lin coln had any objection to having the country know his opinions on this or any other question," But whatever be the cause—whether it bo the President's disapproval, or the ridicule of the male sex generally—the movement is not fashionable and cannot apparently be made so. MAY 18. Postscript—l have bat little time before the departure of the steamer to allude to the forged proclamation attributed to President Lincoln, which was published in two of the morning journals to-day and refused insertion in all the rest. In these days, when it is considered a good joke to forge official documents, and not discreditable in a Minister of Sato to give them currency, it was scarcely possible for any one to read the document without a suspicion that Mr. Lincoln never penned or published it, but that it was the invention of some unscrupulous Confederate, designed to injure the Federal cause, to turn the President into ridi cule, and to paralyse the arm of General Grant in face of the army. It appears that one of the morning journals had printed off about 20,000 copies of its ordinary issue when the attention of the editor or manager was drawn to this proclamation, and that he immediately ordered the sup pression of the whole number rather than give it currency. Everybody who read it was startled, Many were scan dalised, but the bulk of the public, if any opinion can be formed of the masses by the remarks made in public places, incline to believe that the document was genuine, that it told unmistakable truths in unmistakable language, and that it was eminently characteristic of the style and the mind of the President. To set the matter at rest, I telegraphed to Washington to know if anything had been heard of it in that city. The reply just received is that the proclamation is " bogus" and a " wicked forgery." It had the effect, however, during the short term in which it was believed, of sending up gold from 178 to 184, from which same people infer that it was concocted by speculators in this city. The forgery, however, is not likely to go un punished, if any clue can be obtained to its perpetrator. It nay be a joke to forge the name of Mr. Mallory, or of Lord Lyons and Mr. Jefferson Davis, but it is no joke to forge the name of the President and the Secretary of State to a document which, if it reached the army of the Potomac, might have have produced a very disastrous close of the campaign in Virginia, by the complete discouragement and demoralisation of the troops. So the forger, whoever he may be, may expect a short shrift and a long rope as the sentence of the drum-head court-martial before which he will indubitably be brought, if he is discovered. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE POPE'S HEALTH.—Every day the telegrt.pA brings some intelligence ebotit the Pope's health. Sometimes he is a ii(tie worse, sometimes he is a little better. One day very unfavourable symptoms hate cat in ; he has lost his mind, his legs are givin g way, he wholly unfit for btiSine3s, Thn next day he is nearly well again ; he has receied the French Ambassador, he has given his assent to a new !clan, he has blessed thous a nds of people from a balcony The telegraph sends all these conflicting tnesitages bout him, we may he sure, because Europe takes a great interest in his heall h ; or because, in plainer language, a great many people think it to their interest that he should die, and a great many people think it to their interest that ha should live. It is expected that, when the Pope dies, some great change will take piece. No one says clearly what the change is to he, or why it should come; but still a change is expected, and even the possibility of change is enough at the present day to keep Europe on the quiver. And yet many reasons might be urged ter the opinion that this event, whenever it may take place, will not greatly alter the situation of afftire, It is absurd to suppose that a Pope will be chosen who will blindly obey the Emperor of the French, who :gill go out of Rome when he is told, and will be delighted to enter on immediate arrangements for the abandon ment of the temporal power. The Cardinal who would be of such a Mind does nut exist, and, if be did, he would be sere to b 3 vetoed by Spain or Austria, The Conclave is entirely under the direction of persons whose fidelity to the pre sent system is unquestionable, whose whole traditions, feclings, interests, and convictions lead them to determine that no compromise with the enemy shall be even thought of, and who will cling to the temporal power to the last. Prudence may dictate the choice of a moderate, or a silky, or even of an oily person—of a Pope who will not go out of his way to offend the great ones of the earth, and who, if ha curses at all, will be content to curse in a mild kind of ecclesiastical dos-Latin. But his mind' will be as firm as a rock, and his mind will be set on cleaving to the inheritance of his predeces sors, Nor can it be said that there is any conspi cuous change in the position of the powers which are most concerned in the affairs of Rome. It is true that the Italian Ministry has been able to teriounce to the Chamber that the negotiatious with France for the termination or modification of the temporal power which broke down two years ago, have been resumed. But that these negotiations will result in anything, no Italian Minister would venture to predict. It suits the Emperor to stay in Rome, and, so long as it suits him, he is not likely to be turned from his purpose by the diplomatic efforts of a country that is almost entirely under subjec tion to him. And if it suits him to keep his troops at Rome now, there appears to be no reason why this should not equally suit him although the pre sent Pope died and a new Pope appointed. A new Pope would do asPiuslX. has done,and if any threat of withdrawing the French troops from Rome were made, would simply eanounce his intention of leav ing Rome altogether. What the Emperor reason ably dreads is the spectacle of a wandering, exiled Pope, beating his lucrative martyrdom meekly, stirring ttp the hearts of the faithful, and manag ing to implicate the eldest son of the Church in the disgrace and crime of his humiliation. If the Pope cannot do without the Emperor, the Emperor cannot do without the Pope; and as the Papal Court is perfectly aware of this, it can take the same advantage of the necessities of the Emperor, whether one man is Pope or another. In Spain, which is the stronghold of thoroughgoing Catholicism, the determination to uphold the Pope seems as strong as ever, and the Spanish Ministry has just annotinco , .d that its vieste Bi to the temporal power remain Unaltered. it is true that Spain could not keep up the temporal power for a day if France chose to decree its termination ; bet Spain, if faith ful to the last; might ,have the honour and distinc• Lion of receiving the Pore in his exile, and thie is an honour which France would deCltletily grudge her. THE "EXAMINER" ON THE QUEEN Allitt THE WAR is little more th an a century i ;tnce the ac- cession of George 111,, the most wrong headea tee_ expensive sovereign whom this country has known since the Revolution. Exclusive of the period dur ing which the supreme functions of the State were vested in a regency, his reign lasted about 50 yeas; and mainly owing to his insane pride of kingcraft and recklessness in the shedding of blood,wars were carried on which cost us at least £500,000,000, and we fear to say how many thousand lives. Yet this is the man whom, in spite of crazy eloquence, Lord Ellenborough not only holds up as a model of Eng lish royalty, but indecently contrasts with the con stitutional, frugal, and peace loving monarch who now fills the throne. In his first speech to Parlia ment George 111. snatched at personal popularity by boasting that he had been born and bred in England, a boast which was no batter than a sneer at his Hanoverian kinsman who had preceded him. His illustrious granddaughter, under whom we are more fortunate to live, has never indulged in tawdry rhetoric when addressing her people, but then she has never squandered their treasure or spilt their blood for dynastin objects, or to enforce colonial tnisrul Georgelll• spent his life in raving against the liberties of the people, and in plotting against the Ministers whose advice he was bound to take. The Queen is the best example of loyalty in its highest sense, for she is loyal to the law by which she holds her crown, and loyal to the interest and freedom of her people. The testimony of Lord Russell, in her defence against the tirade of Lord Ellenboraugh, is s i m pl e , direct, and coac,hisive. Whatever advice the Cabinet may have collectively given to her M tiest v. she has i , lvaritably taken; end hough it would be unreasonable to expect that she should be insensible to the affections and the inflas encei of family, it is unjust and unmanly to seek to throw the blame of what may have been faulty in our foreign policy upon the Queen.: Ministers accept without reserve, as in all honour and conseieeee they are bound to do, the undivided responsibility o. what has been done and left undone ; and it only now remains for the Opposition to take up the glove which has been thus thrown down. Will they take it up It The shabby silence of Lord Derby and his colleagties in e±pectatiott, whene'er the question of peace or war has been raised; eonesinees us that they have no stomach for the parliamentary battle to which they have so often been provoked. They may cavil and criticise details ; they may find fault with one despatch for being too strong, and with another for not being strong enough, but they have not the pluck to say honestly what they would do—they are too poor in spirit to afford to keep a great principle of any sort. Lord Ellenborough found nobody to follow him in his mad rash, save Earl Grey, a most suitable Friday for such a Crusoe: In common honesty the country ought to be told, whenever this subject is discussed, for what England is expected to go to war. We were among the earliest to express our readiness to hazard some thing, nay to hazard much, in defence of the terri torial integrity of Denmark. We have always thought that on the highest priqciples of policy the maintenance of a free and Protestant State like that which existed up to the month of November last at the southern entrance of the Baltic was an object which the most cautious and peaceable statesman might well think worthy of great sacri fices and of great efforts. Bat it is a very different matter to go to war after all Europe has passively looked on and seen what was an ancient kingdom reduced by forcible dismemberment to the limits of a province and to the dignity of a tenth-rate prin cipality. Should the Conference fail to arrange the questions in dispute, as most people expect it will, and should our Government be urged to send a fleet to Copenhagen with orders, in certain eventualities to interpose, then we have a right to know definitely on what ground and for what objects we are expected to interfere. Is it with any hope of reinstating Schleswig and Holstein as integral portions of the Mulish realm, or is it only to preserve the phantom of regal state and dignity for the House of Glucksburg ? If the former, we need to be told by what meals such a restoration is considered possible. We are far from saying that it might not be accomplished; but ob viously it would require resort to measures of no ordinary vigour and comprehensiveness, and for these we know not what party in the country or in Parliament is prepared. The latter alternative is, we take it, not to be thought of. King Christian IX. may be a worthy gentleman of quality, whom accident has suddenly flung into a gilt chair of State; but that this country should, for the sake of his personal rights in contingent remainder, plunge into a European war, is out of the question. George 11. might have found Ministers to abet such a de sign, and the little bellicose man would have capered about in delight at the bead of an Anglo-Danish army, and gulped any amount of flattery offered him as grand protector of petty Continental sove reigns. George 111. was at all times ready for any folly of a similar kind. But times are changed, and happily royalty amongst us is changed with them. England, it is to be hoped, whenever she draws the sword again in a neighbour's qaurrel, will do so in defence of a wronged and deserving community, not for the sake of any crown or half-crown in Christen dom. THE " SPECTATOR" ON MARSHAL PELISSIER AND HIS CLASS.—We do not know that the death of Marshal Pelissier is of much Foropean importance, for France has soldiers as brave and marshals much more able, but it deserves for another reason more than a passing comment. The Marshal was in many respects the representative of the new soldiery whom the Continental system of government is fast be getting, and whom we take to form one of the most dangerous classes which have ever appeared in the world. They are not soldiers of fortune by any means—bear, indeed, very little affinity with men of the stamp of the Duke of Berwick or any other speoiment of the high-class Dugald Dalgetty. They do not care greatly about money, certainly do not fight for its sake; never enter ranks other than those of their own land, and manifest in most, if not in all, cases a strong though peculiar sense of patriotic duty. The Sovereign who offered Pelis sir.-- or Radetsky, or von Wrangel, a command pis own country would only receive an ins. against a which endeavoured to engage him suit, the State: Id elicit a cold refusal. Such for its service woe s . but men infected with the men are not mercenaries, .need as "militarism," disease which Garibaldi deno: tai Kings_ They a complaint chronic with Confine.: are men who, having originally a geb:line taw() for military life, have risen in some great arC2v, have gradually confined their hopes , and sympathies,and connections to that army, and have at last come io regard it as their country, its ideas as their guiding opinion, its morality as the ultimate divinelaw. The process is facilitated when the officer springs, as in Pelissier's case, from among the peasantry, when all he has of social dignity is derived from his span lette3, when his only notion of power is his military grade, when the army is to him, in short, not so much an instrument for the defence of his country as the supreme organisation to feed which the coun try itself exists. Such men when unsuccessful are apt to contract a bitter distate for civil life and civi lians, to revenge themselves, as it were, on society by denying that it contains elements equal to that to which the discontented belong ; when successful, they become the dangerous instruments of tyranny. Not that they are necessarily tyrannical by tempe rament ; on the contrary, they are often genial, but when in movement they can only move in the mili tary groove, only attain objects by the direct em ployment of force increasing always in severity until the end is attained. Marshal Pelissiee was no fiend, but when he wanted 5'2,0 Arabs to come out of the cave of Abd-el-Riah, and they would not come, he employed force in the only way he saw practicable, and smoked 500 human beings to death. If they had come he would not have slaughtered them except to gain an end. Marshal von Wrangel probably never realises the fearful individual misery inflicted by hie requisitions ; he thinks only of the value of terror to secure certain ends, and employs it as he would employ the halberds in a regiment inclined to mutiny. Convince him teat he was violating the code of his own army, or even offend ing against its opinion, and he would probably be shocked ; but to talk of external opinion, or foreign opinion, or the laws of humanity, or moral laws, or any rules of action whatever except the laws of war, is so much argument thrown away. AS well speak of feeling to a sheriff's officer or moral cer tainty to a solicitor hunting for legal evidence 11s is the unscrupulous readiness to apply military law —of necessity an extreme law—as if it were a just and general code, as indeed it appears to them to be, which makes these men so cruel. Marshal Pelissier had a bonhommie of his own, but if his dearest friend in the camp had hesitated at an order he would have had him shot with perfect indifference ; if his greatest benefactor had thrown at him a hasty word he would have challenged him to fight to the death. To such wen the death of others is not a question involving moral considerations, but simply au incident, like the death of an animal, to be caused or prevented by consi derations of expediency alone. If Milanese will not obey orders, feels as well as says Radetsky, Milanese must be shot, yet it is probable that the Bohemian Marshal was not a cruel man. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON A PHILOSOPHER ON STREET MUSIC.—Mr. Babbage has appeared in print at last, and taken an awful literary revenge on the organs, bagpipes, penny-whistles, and other instruments of torture that for so many years have interrupted his,studies. What Cicero said of philo sophy, Mr. Babbage can say of the hurdy-gurdy— Pernoctat nobiscum peregrinatur rusticatur. It knocks him up at night at the most unseasonable hours, it follows him whenever he takes his walks abroad, and he has before now met in the long vacation a familiar London hurdy.gurdy very near to Land's Eud. There is hardly anything that Mr. Babbage has not done to get rid of the infliction. He has summoned the police in vain—in vain he - none before the police magistrate—in vain he ha. , - o Sir G. Grey, The police have gene has written .t. - in accordance with that higher rally been wanting, _ -Ps of them every where law which always dispee_ The police magis except where they are ne eded. - symptter to athised - trate, deserting his duty , has actually ~ with the grinders of org ans. As for the h o' Sir G. Grey, it was p osted about the middle c August. Mr. Babbage waited patiently for a reply till December 17 ; then he wrote again, and obtained from Sir G. Grey's private secretary the valuable admission that his first note had been received. His comment on Sir G. Grey betrays an aggrieved and wounded spirit, and is not calculated to increase Mr. Bebbage's popularity at the Home Office :—" 1 confess that this event based all my calculations. I had observed that high officials, distinguished by their intellectual powers, were occasionally oblivious on minor points; but that high officials, distinguished only by the office they hold, were usually most rigidly courteous and exact. The wind instruments of which Mr. Babbage com plains may be classed, for the sake of simplicity, under the title of organs ; but their zeal name is legion. They go as high as brass bands ; they sink as low- as pe nn y t rum pets. A workman inhabitine an attic that c o mmanded Mr. Babbage's garden, by way of annoying Mr. Babbage, went lower still, and took up a regular coarse of " penny ti es : , When he calm , h ome to dinner, it was his wont to open his, window, teed to blew a " penny tin" tor 1 The spec aof half an hour in the direction of Mr. BAebege ts gqrden. " I simply noted the fact in a teameeee e laese-heals," zee:, e Mr, Fighb9ge. "ant then employed the time he thought he was destroying i taking my daily exercise." It is a terrible re . ffect. tion to think that we are at the mercy of things EO , insignificant as a " penny tin," and that one of the most philosophical mathematicians living is obliged to !Niter his hours of exercise to escape it. But Mr. Babbage s rot surrounded with music that is in strumental only. He is equally experienced about the human voice in its various forms. He dividee, ,he human voice into three heads, First, there ,he human voice shouting out objects for sale ; them there is the human voice engaged in religious wor ship, in conjunction and in unison with the human nose i then, lastly, there is psalm singing. All these interfere with Mr. Babbage, and distract his workmen while they ate engaged in attending to the famous analytical engine. They drive him wild with mental agony, and affect injuriously hie mode of life. Three or four times a day Mr. B.bbage rushes down stairs from the middle of the moat complicated calculation that ever perplexed a senior wrangler, to beg the organs and the human voices to move of. Their triumph over his nerves and his good nature aught, indeed, to rank as one of the glories of St. Cecilia's day. Of the divine Cecilia — the " inventress of the vocal frame"—the poet says, that " she drew an angel down." It is what the organs outside accomplish most days of the year with Mr. Babbage. Down he comes, almost by clockwork, an angelic visitant, who, as the organ-grinders soon discover, is not always in an angelic temper. It is easy to understand who it i 5 that dislikes harmonies so constant and so noisy.. An astute magistrate once asked Mr. Babbage whether he believed that a man's brains would be injured by listening to a street organ. Mr. Bab-. bage replied, " Certainly not ;" for that no mars with a brain ever listened to street music. Those who confine themselves like Mr_ Babbage to philo sophy and to the music of the spheres, have no ear for the tom-tom and the flageolet. It is far harder to make out who it is that likes them. Mr. Bab bage has drawn up in a masterly manner two tho roughly exhaustive tables, which he thinks embrace all the admirers of that description of music which may be said to be made up chiefly of sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. There is something slightly acrimonious in the composition of the list, but in Mr. Babbage's state of mind we cannot wonder at it. In the first column we have tavern keepers,. gin shops, coffee shops, servants, children, and visitors from the country. It is evident what Mr. Babbage thinks of his college friends and of his country cousins. It is an uncomfortable thing to be tabulated by the side of coffee shops end gin shops, and Mr. Babbage can only have done it to his country visitors as a solemn retaliation. On the other column he places, first and foremost, ladies of doubtful virtue. He conceives evidently of Jezebel,as of a young per son who was in the habit of looking out of upper windows, and encouraging hurdy-gurdies. Next in the list come (" occasionally") "titled ladies " but these," adds Mr. Babbage, "are almost inva riably of recent elevation, and deficient in that taste which their sex usually possess." This is decidedly' a fact for Mr. Dod. It is only those who have been. recently raised to the peerage who care for brass bands. The reason, we imagine, must be, that it is only a parvenue peeress who is to blow her ONVII trumpet. Nobody who came over with the Con+ quest ever encouraged street music. Thus we have on one side gin-shops, and Mr. Babbage's visitors from. the country, and Anonyms, and a growing Brum magem nobility. On the other are Virtue, and Modesty, and the Analytical E,tigine, and the Plan tagenets cf Plantagenet Castle. Between such op posite lists it is difficult to hesitate a moment about choosing, and any man of refinement, or woman of character, will at once pronounce' for Mr. Babbage and for the suppression of all wandering melodists. The real moral to be drawn from annoyances to which Mr. Babbage is subjected, is, how much better it would be in laige tow ns if man was an analytical engine. Mr. Babbace's calculating machine has no sorrows ; no journeym, an or mechanic has the power of putting it out by a constant per formance upon " peony tins." It i -frinds away through Verdi and a hundred organs. ,(talians with monkeys cracking nuts to slow music hi ive no effect upon the quantity or the quality of its work. Its internal organiaation enables it to calculate loga rithms totally irrespective of a piano next door,or the German flute with window open across a e way : It is therefore a great thing to be an analytic al engine. Mr. Babbage tells us that during the h ist dozen years of his life, at least one-fourth of his working power has been destroyed by the nuisance of street music. He thinks that 25 per cent. is a I arge in come-tax to be levied upon the brain of tt a intel lectual workers of the country for the sake of brass bands. Mr. Babbage's brain is probably extraor dinarily sensitive; but it is certainly a loss tt ► science that he should have to labour under such difliculties, nor can we conceive a more real penance to a sensim tive brain than the penance which the press tit regu lations of the police compel him to undergo.. COUNTRY MARKETS. YORK— SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat at mark et to-dais late rates were with difficulty made. Wheat, red 37e to 39s Oats . lBB to 35A White do .40s to 44s Beans ' , 3, to 353 Barley .26s to 30s Peas ..... ...-s to -- 9 Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; rye, 28s per qr ; i lour, 27 ' to 29s per sack. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Old white: wheat,2s to 448 ; red, 37s to 40s / ler 365 t.; new white, 425,t0 44s ; red, 38s to 40s. Malting • barleY, 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, old, 236 0 26s ; new, 20s to 245; beans, 34s to 36s ; peas, 34s b 368. LEI CE STER—SATURDAY. There was a fair show of wheat at market to.d ay, an d prices about the same as last week, with a limited ip usinesa• —New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; red, 38s to 411 4 per 36 stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, i nailing , new, 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; o Id oats, 28s to 30s ; new oats, 21s to 24s per 24 stone. 13ea 1199 old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 26s to 31s per 20 stoaa• NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a rather libsral supply of wheat to-d ay) an prices were the same as on this day se'nnight, but for fine heavy qualities an advance of 6d per qr was t 'wide la some instances. Beans, barley, peas, and oats rul e d dull, at former rates. White wheat. 42s to 44s 1 Red wheat 3E 43 to 40 4 Malting barley ...35s to 36s 1 Chevalier barley 3Z .5 to 34 ' 1 Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s Oats.. 24 sto 2 64 Flour, 25s Od to 26s Od per sack from the mil ter NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. A limited show of wheat to-day, with a moderate i lerasn a, and late prices were fully supported. No change in oat' —White wheat' from 37s to 40s; red wheat, 3tis to 39 " Barley—malting., 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 29s . old, at 24s to 30 s Oti • new, 19s to 255. Beans sot d A ,)" to 42s.per qr. ; new, to 375. DUBLIN. — FRIDAY. The attendance to-day was gPod. No change ill a l l article of Irish grain. foreign wLeat in fair demand. , 01 ,.,_ ' unaltered in prico. A slow trade for flour and eatiole' Prime qualities in maize sought after. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red .. 21 6 to 24 0 Do., new .... 0 to Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 s. d. s• d ' Oatmeal lO 0 t , ) 13 0 ° Beans.. 0 t. ) Bere .... 0 ) Rapeseed —ot. ) v Bakers' flour .. 14 0 t„ p 20 0 Indian corn 27 ot , 28 0 [ADYERTISETIENT.] — HoIIoway's Ointment and inlser Given to Save.—The curative powers of these noble Fdi; cements have been tested by the experien ce and practice the profession and the public , both at home and abrc ad, for the third of a century. Hollow a y' s Ointment an, i Filll4 have worked their way to tame against vested int erestSt and have established a name for curing sores, wouni is, O ct legs, ulcers, scrofula, and skin diseases, which no °tile r discovery can boast. All affections of muscles, g u iderg, joints, and glands may be essentially benefited by t 119 ! of these purifying remedies , Thos e strumous constit.utiopo which are old in . their youth, and doomed t o c ,li e in mid ° age, are earnestly invited to study the " in s t rn ctions' % L C' compailying Holloway's preparations, a n d t o use tb e " - accordingly. Births. LONG—On the 27th i ns t,, at D o lf organ , th e w ifo of R. P. Long, Esq., M.P,, of a daughter. the MEYBOROUGH—On the 25th inst., at 33, D o ver- s t r eet, Countess of Meab oroug h, o f a daughter. tee, MILES—On the 28th i ns t. at 15, Upper Hamilton ' the wife of F re d er i c k Miles, Esq., of a daughter. tc . TYRRELL—On the 28th inst., at 7, Hanley-road, Horne`" road, the wife of H. Tyrrell, Esq., solicitor, of a sou. Marriage& rish FAIRIIIIRN—BIRLET—On the 26th inst., at the church, Eccles, W. A. Fairbairn, Esq.. of Summer Pendleton, to Helen, eldest daughter of Richard Bl r Esq., of Manchester 0 14 GRANT —EATON—On 26th inst., at St. Oswald's C„h il `heater Cathedral, the Rev. Ferdinand Cecil Hope '-" r to 8.A.: younger son of Francis Grant, EHri., yr France ,. Maria, youngest daughter of the Rev. • xtko% Canon Rciidentiary of Chester, and rector of Kirby. Deaths. ANDERSON. --On the 27th inst., at 9, Thurloe-Er;', l ' ,1 Major-General T. Anderson , Co lon e l of the 3d D.Law Cavalry. ARCHER On the morning of the 25th inst., at his reap denee, 31, Oakley-square, St. Pancras, John NiTykl/11j- Archer, Esq., aged 58. , el, BROWNE.—On the 27th inst., at 18, Upper AlbanY' F ' Regent's-park, Thomas Browne, Esq., late of Liver Ho ch aged 76. CARTER—On the 24th inst., at Bruges, Marion Cart leo' Carter, aged 29. EATON.—On the 26 th inst., at Lansdowne-road. B; water, Benjamin Eaton, Esq , late of the city 019th aged 85. shole, l b HETHERINGTON —On the 25th inst., at Oak Penge, Surrey, Wilson Hetherington, _Esq., bilal at-law, aged 59. London: Printed and Prbllahed oy IVILLIAMANPIe:, of No. 112, Strand, Printe r, at THE SUN Oittne of Strand, .n the Precinct of the layoy, n the Cou n Mildiesea —Monday. May 30, 18t