The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-04 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The fund for the relief of the widows, children, and relatives of those who perished in the wreck of the Orpheus already exceeds £BOO sterling, all re ceivad from private sources. The committee who have the management and distribution of the fund, at the Naval College in Portsmouth dockyard, are paying all allotments to widows and families for April as fast as their claims are received. The real value of this proceeding is best appreciated by those who know that ?Men news is received of a man's dbach in the service his pay is stopped, and the half pay sviiich his w if e an d children have received monthly for their support during his abserce from home is stopped at the same time. As a result of the measures taken by the committee, therefore, all to whom were allotted monthly payments have re ceived or will receive them for April as usual, the committee paying the amounts on this occasion in lieu of the Admiralty. The immediate wants of the families of the men bat will be thus promptly re lieved. To aid the good cause Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N., has issued a notice that be will deliver a lecture at Hirat's Portland hall, Southsea, on Wednesday evening next, " On the Principles of Revolving Shields and Ironclad Ships," Vice-Ad miral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., will take the chair. The proceeds of the lecture will be handed over to the " Orpheus Fond." Tne marine forts at Spithead—the Horse, No man, and Sturbridge—present the same appearance as yet that they have done through the winter. in each instance a score or so of wooden piles has been driven into the shoal, with a huge iron cylindrical pile in the centre, and the whole covered by a wooden staging, on which is erected a timber cabin, with a temporary lighthouse attached, to which some one from the staff of the contractor for the construction of the forts (Mr. Leather) is occasionahy sent to trim his lamps and keep watch that no drift runs foul of the staging. In Stokes Bay a substan tial pier has been run out by the contractor, and fitted with the necessary cranes and pur chases for receiving and discharging hea v y weights, while, at a convenient distance from the shore and the pier, a village of workshops has sprung up. Looking, therefore, at the preparations made by the contractor, the progress already made with the forts, and the penalties which would be incurred by their abandonment, there cannot be a doubt that when the question comes before the House of Com • mons it will be decided by a large majority to pro ceed with the two outer forts, the Noman and Horse, whatever may be otherwise decided upon with re gard to the Sturbridge, off Ryde. While the ques tion of marine foes for Spithead remains thus un decided and favourable weather for the construction of their foundations is beitg lost, the construction of new batteries, flanking the position of the forts on the Isle of Wight shore, and the strengthening of old batteries in a similar position on the Ports mouth shore, is being rapidly proceeded with by the Royal Engineers. Preparations have been nearly completed by the erection of temporary piers on the sea beach and deposit of materials for strengthening the Oinks and altogether altering the nature of the defences opposite the Spit buoy, now occupied by Southsea Castle. On the island shore the earth works of a large open redan at Popful Point are being rapidly developed. Popful Point is the most projecting portion of the coast line between Ryde and Seaview, and forms a portion of the Puckpool Estate, adjoining St. Clare, where the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse spent their honymoon. To obtain possession of the piece of land en which to erect the battery, it has been necessary to purchase the whole of the estate and residence. The work is being constructed for mounting guns of great cali bre and range, and will probably have mortar bat teries at its angles. The screw frigate Orlando, 46, 1,000 horse power, Capt. G. G. Randolph, steamed into Chatham har bour, from the West Indies, at noon on Saturday, attended by the Adder and Otter steamers, and was immediately afterwards placed in No. 3 dock to un dergo a thorough overhaul and repair. Owing to the Orlando's great draught of water, it was found necessary to lighten her considerably to enable her to pass over the sill of the dock, and accord ingly while at the Nore she had 400 tons of coal, all her heavy maindeck guns, the whole of her shot and shell, and about 70 tons of water taken out, which reduced her draught about 12in. As it was, however, there was barely sufficient water to allow of her being docked without dragging the bottom of the dock, the strong north-easterly wind having brought up the tide on Siturday much earlier than had been calculated upon. On entering the harbour her draught of water was found to be 19ft. bin. forward and 21ft. 4in. aft, and, as the depth of water in the dock was only a little over 21ft. on her entering, she slightly dragged while being placed on the blocks. She will undergo a thorough survey by the dockyard officials this morning in order to discover her defects, which are considered to be rather serious. During the time she is in dock the officers and crew will be berthed on board the Gloucester and the Diamond receiving ships in the harbour. Tne crew, 600 in number, are one of the finest disciplined bodies of men in the Queen's service, and the whole number, with their effects, &c., were conveyed on board the hulks on Satur day without the least confusion and with the most perfect order. The whole of the available hands that can now be spared from the dockyard are employed in completing the vessel and gunboats belonging to the fist division of the Chatham steam reserve in the Medw-ty in readiness for the naval review which will take place at the Nore on Whit Monday, on which day Vice-Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., will manoeuvre the fleet under his command at the Nore, prior to hauling down his flag. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. R. Pitman, to the Liverpool ; Lieut. the Hon. H. B. Hamilton, to the Leander; Lieut. H. C. A. Brand, to the Orontes ; the Marquis of Queensberry, midshipman, to the Emerald ; and A. N. Jones, clerk, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary. THE ARMY. The examination of candidates for direct corn roissione, before Major-Gen. Hamilton, Vice-Presi dent, and the members of the Council of Military Education, will commence to-day at theßoyal Hos pital, Chelsea, with the medical examination. The examinations will conclude on Saturday next. The Ist Regiment of Life Guards had their first field day on S aturday last at Wormwood Scrubbs. The regiment was under command of Col. the Hon. Dudley C. F. de Ros. The Deputy-Adjutant-General Col. C. Bingham, by command of his R oyal n es Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, has issuedh s a general regi mental order of the Royal Artillery, dated Horse Guards, 28th ult., which contains ;s;*; in formation :—Her Maje s ty h as approved following winggran; of 255. per diem conferred on the senior officer of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, whi c h became vacant by the death of Gen. J. W. Tobia, being awarded to Gen. Thomas J. Forbes, Colonel Commandant of the Bth Brigade ; and of the good-service pension of £lOO per annum relinquished by Major-Gen. Gor don, on his promotion to the rank of Col.-Comman dant, being conferred upon Major-Pester. The fol lowing appointments have been made :—To be Ad jutants—Second Capt. David Dalrymple Anderson, 31 Horse Brigade; Second Capt. Henry W.Lums den, 17th Brigade; Second Capt. James Smith Baird, 20th Brigade; and Second Capt. Gustavus Frederick Blair, 23d Brigade. To be Quartermas ters—Troop Quartermaster Robert Knox, 2d Horse Brigade; Serg.-Major David Cummings, 17th Brigade ; Quartermaster Serg. Bernard AsLbee 20th Brigade ;and Serg. James Wolfe, 23d Brigade. The undermentioned officers are raised to increased pay, viz:—Lieut.-Col. H. L. Gibbard, 4th Horse Brigade, vice Hatch, removed to the supernumerary list ; Li( ut. T. Walker, 18th Brigade, vice Tasker, Promoted ; Lieut. G. E. Hancock, 21st Brigade, vice Harcourt, p romo t e d ; and Lieut. F. C. H. Clark, 18th Brigade, vice Tanner, promoted. The following officers are appointed instructors in gun nery, from the Ist April :—Lieut. C. E. Elwyn, 3d Brigade ; Capt a i n C.H ope Johnstone, 6th A Brigade ; Lieutena n t F. Mant, 9th Brigade; and Lieutenant E. J. Tremlett, 13th Brigade. Commanding officers of brigades are requested to report to the Horse Guards from time to time any vacancies that may occur among the instructors and assistant instructors of gunnery in their brigades, and at the same time to send nominal returns of any individuals who may have qualified, and whom they may wish to recommend for the appointment. The establishment for each brigade is one instructor and two assistants, which is in no case to be exceeded. An exchange of batteries has been ordered between Second Capt. W. M. S. Wolfe, of the 6th Brigade, and Second Capt. C. Hope Johnstone, of the 7th Brigade. Exchanges have also been sanctioned between the following officers, viz., Second Capt. P. Keate, of the 3d Brigade, and Second Capt. A. L. K. Kaye, of the 13th Brigade; Lieut. E. H. Wick ham, 4h Brigade; and Lieut. D. N. Allan, 10th Brigade; Lieut. M. J. Sexton, 7th Brigade; and Lieut. J. S. Bridges, Depot Brigade. The following lieutenants are to join on the 12th inst. ; Lieut. Halliday, at Jersey; Lieut. Whateley, Lieut. Smyth, Lieut. Richmond, and Lieut. Buller, at Warley. The Inspector-General of Infantry, Major-Gen. R. Rumley, completed his three days' inspection of the infantry troops in the Chatham district on Satur day afternoon. The inspection was confined to the 31 lit pot Battalion, occupying the Hut Barracks, within the line of fortifi ;ations at Chatham. The depot composing the 3d battalion, comprising the Ist and 2d battalions of the 19th Regiment, the 51st (King's Own Light Infantry), 75th, 81st, 91st, and the 102 d (Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiments, was formed in tLe barrack-square at an early hour in the morning, under the command of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J J. Bourke. After giving the usual salute, the troops were formed in open columns of compa nies, when the Insp, ctor- General instituted a minute inspection of the uniforms, arms, kit, and accoutre ments of the non-commissioned officers and men of each depot. At the completion of this portion of the inspection the columns were re-formed, and the bat talion exercised in a few mancevres, to test the effi ciencyof the troops under arms. They were then put through the marnaal and platoon exercises by Capt. Barrett, Ist battalion, 19th Regiment, senior captain, and subsequently Major-Gen. Rumley inspecteil the non-commissioned officers and men, who went through the bayonet exercise under the direction of Capt. S. A. Cleeve, , 51at Regiment. The inspec tion was brought to a close by the battalion being exercised in a variety of field and other manoeuvres, which were carried out under the direction of Lieut. C. L. B. Hamilton, 51st Regiment, the senior subal tern officer, and Brevet-Major P. A. Brown, com manding the 102 d depot. The remainder of the day was devoted by Major-General Rumley to the inspection of the officers' quarters, mess-rooms, &c. Before quitting the garrison on Saturday, Major General Rumley conveyed to the commanding offi cers of the several battalions his satisfaction at the result of his inspection, and with the highly effi cient state both as regards discipline and steadi ness under arms in which he found the three bat talions at Chatham. The presentation of new colours to the 76th Hin dostan Regiment took place at Aldershott on Wednesday last, in the presence of a large number of spectators. After the Rev. N. Huleatt, principal chaplain of the Camp, had read prayers, Lieutenant- General Pennefather presented the colours to the regiment. In doing so he reminded the troops of the reputation their predecessors had won for them, and congratulated Colonel Smyth on the present state of the regiment, the gentlemanlike tone of the officers, the active, anxious, intelligent conduct of the sergeants, the manly bearing and admirable esprit de corps of the soldiers, On the conclusion of the General's speech Colonel Smyth briefly but earnestly thanked him for the honour conferred upon the regiment. After the ceremony the various companies dined together, and in the evening the non-commissioned officers gave a ball, at which 150 were present, including Col. Smyth, Col. Brewster, and Major Cater. Banquet at the Royal Academy, On Saturday evening the President and Council of the Royal Academy gave their anniversary entertainment to a distinguished assemblage at their rooms in Trafalgar •square The presence of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales gave great interest to the celebration. The company began to arrive soon after two o'clock, and spent the interval till dinner was announced in admiring the gems of British art which adorn the walls and form the exhibition for the year of the Royal Academy. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-General Knollys and Colonel Teesdale ; his Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain Wes terweller and Colonel Du Plat ; and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Macdonald, arrived at 20 minutes past six, and were received by Sir C. Eastlake, the President of the Royal Academy, who con ducted their Royal Highnesses to their seats at the banquet in the East-room, where covers were laid for 170 guests. Sir C. Eastlake presided, having on his right his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord President of the Council, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, the Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Secretary of State for India, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Speaker of the House of Commons ; and on the left hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of York, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Bristol, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Stanley, Earl Grey, Earl Powis, Lord Chelmsford, Earl of Carnarvon, Lord St. Leonardo, Earl of Cardigan, Earl Stanhope, Earl Grosvenor, Lord Monteagle, Lord Ravensworth, Sir J. Pakington, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Walpole. On the other side of the Pre sident's table sat the Bishop of Oxford, E srl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcasth, the Bishop of London, Lord Over stone, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Earl Somers, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Board of Trade, the Sec retary for the Horne Department, the Master of the Horse, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, and the Right Hon. William Cowper. Among the other distinguished guests were — Lieutenant-General Knollys, the Right Hon. Robt. Lowe, Viscount Newport, the Governor of the Bank of England, Colonel Macdonald, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the President of the Royal Society, the Chief Jus tice of the Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Baron, the Chair man of the Board of Customs, the Attorney-General, Major Teesdale, Mr. T. Baring, Mr. R. Monckton Wilms, the Rev. Dr. Whewell, Mr. G. Grote, Lord It. Cecil, Mr. G. Hardy, Lord Delamere, Lord De Tabley, Mr. W. Stirling, Sir John Lawrence, Lord Alfred Hervey, Capt. Wester weller, Col. Du Plat, Sir IL I. Murchison, Professor Owen, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Lord Elcho, Mr. A. H. Layard, Hon. A. Kinnaird, Viscount Bury, the Field Officer of Brigade in Waiting, Lord John Manners, Sir Hugh Cairns, Sir David Dundee, Lord Taunton, Lord Hardinge, Sir John Ramsden, Mr. W. H. Gregory, Mr. Ponder, Mr. C. Babbage, Mr. J. Kelk, Mr. J. T. Caird, Mr. A. W. Kinglake, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Danby Seymour, Mr. J. Haliburton, President of the College of Physicians, Presi dent of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Sir H. Holland, Hon. R. Cum m, Mr. Alderman Salomons, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Thackeray, &c. There was a very full attendance of members of the Academy. The PRESIDENT, in rising to propose the first toast, said— M a y it please your Royal Highnesses, ray Lord, and Gen tlemen, I have the honour to propose nurgorpaonsietos patronyon ''T o h l e t ll hi e s althof her Majesty the Queen "—the insti tution, the gracious promoter of those arts which can con tribute to confer refinement on nations, and add a lustre to the throne, which can dignify the enjoyments of prosperity, and harmonise with the earthly consolations of adversity; and which in their more special uses—in recalling the form and features of the great and good, and in illustrating their eminent qualPies—can subdue the force of sorrow by re kindling the admiration of departed excellence. (Cheers.) It is gratifying to know that by the offerings of the people and of their representatives means are provided for the erection of a suitable national memorial to his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort. (Cheers.) This tribute of sinenee and universal respect will, we trust, add to those sources of consolation which still surround her M a j es ty, an d of which not th e least is the devoted ' and affectionate loyalty of Thehrestuobajsetctws.as (Louddrunkwith al cheers.)l the honours. The PRESIDENT is ' , proposing the next toast, said— tpal h V ul ae h en e ecc n ,no aut t sh h ni ne e t nr overpoweringdyi s hi t ka i e n d g ta u hu i ns s t h ap e d r g is f snw e s t s :w t s s the wh o ite f eorhon rlt eaheseeßt Royal Roy a l agy a en l amdl A cadem bFI too e i l in h y e a ure o l i y n d s felt to render it su i ta b le, on that festive occasion, to pose a tribute to th e memory of his Royal flighnessPthoe Prince Consort. But now that his Royal Highness's quali ties and character, in all their importance and distinctness, are superseding the affecting personal reminiscences which were at first so absorbing, that tribute may be consistently and respectfully offered ; and, if so, nowhere more fitly than in an institution especially connected with the Fine Arts, which:he especially encouraged—(cheers) —or more worthily than on an occasion when the enlightened promoters of art honour its professors with their presence. (Cheers.) The toast which I have the honour to propose, and which will be drunk in silence, is " The Memory of the great and good Prince Consort." Drunk in silence. The PRESIDENT —The toast which I have now the honour to pr pose is The Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family." (Loud and continued cheering.) If names and titles ever possessed a spell, the mere mention of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales may be said to exercise a fascinating influence—(cheers)—and imagination for once corresponds with the sober certainty of reality, since every felicitous circumstance concurs to commend a union which has called forth the truly cordial congratulations of the people of this country—(cheers)—above all, since that auspicious union is a source of comfort and consolation to our honoured Queen. (Cheers.) In renewing our sincerest welcome to the illus trious Princess who now calls England her home, we there fore feel that we already owe her Royal Highness a debt of gratitude, for in adding to the happiness of her Majesty she found an immediate access to the hearts of her elajesty's subjects. (Cheers.) Her Royal Highness's winning presence more than confirmed that pleasing prepossession ; and the professors of the Fine Arts are privileged to extol the personal attractions and gracious manners which en hance the impression of her Royal Highness's amiable cha racter. (Loud cheers.) We have this day the honour of offering our respectful and heartfelt congratulations to his Royal Highness in person (cheers)—and we cannot but regard it as a propitious circumstance that the first occasion on which his Royal Highness has been pleased to honour a public festival with his presence is one connected with the interests of the Fine Arts, the promotion of which was so prominent an object with his Royal Highness's patriotic and enlightened father. (Loud cheers.) The toast is, "The Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family." The toast was drunk with all the honours. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, who spoke evi dently under deep emotion, but in a peculiarly clear and pleasing tone of voice, and with great impressiveness of manner, said—Sir Charles Eastlake, your Royal Highnesses, my Lords and Gentlemen—lt is with the most contending feelings of pleasure, pride, and sorrow that I rise to return you thanks, in the name of myself and the Royal Family, for the kind terms in which you, Sir Charles, have proposed our health, and for the very cordial way in which this dis tinguished assembly has received it. (Cheers.) I cannot on this occasion divest my mind of the associations con nected with my beloved and lamented father. His bright example cannot fail to stimulate my efforts to tread in his footsteps—(loud cheers) —and, whatever my shortcomings may be, I at least may presume to participate in the interest which he took in every lust itution which tended to encourage art and science in this country—(cheers)—but more espe cially in the prosperity of the Royal Academy. (Loud cheers ) Adverting to my marriage, I beg you to believe how grateful I feel fur, and I may be permitted to ad] how sincerely I appreciate the sentiments you have expresssd with reference to the Princess. (Loud cheers.) I know that I am only speaking her mind in joining her thoughts to mine on this occasion. (Loud cheers.) We neither of us can ever forget the manner in which our union lies been celebrated throughout the nation—(cheers)—aed I should be more than ungrateful if I did not retain the most lasting, as well as most pleasing recollection of the kind expres sions and reception which my attendance at your anniver sary meeting has evoked this evenieg, (Loud and con. tinned cheering.) The PRESIDENT—We are honoured on this occasion with the presence of his Royal Highness the Prince Louis of Hesse, who is closely connected with that Royal family which is the object of our heartfelt interest and 103 alty. (Cheers.) We have thus an opportunity of expressing to his Royal Highness our sincere congratulations on the safety of her Royal Highness the Princess Louis and on the fair promise of the infant Princess; and we have the honour to offer his Royal Highness a respectful and most cordial we'come. I beg to give " The Health of his Royal Highness the Prince Louis of Hesse." (Cheers.) His Royal Highness Prince Lours of HESSE said—Mr. President, your Royal Highnesses, my Lords and Gentle men,—l have been much flattered by your kind invitation, which has enab.ed me to spend this evening in so distin guished an assembly. Still more gratified have I been by the cordial way in which yon have welcomed me, and in which y u have drunk my health and that of the Princess. While I return my warmest thanks in both oar names, I take this opportunity of expressing my devotion and grati tude to your beloved Queen and her family, and my profound admiration of this great and noble country, to which I am most sincerely attached. (Cheers.) Various other toasts having been given and duly received, the " Health of Lord Palmerston" was proposed and drunk with the greatest enthusiasm. Viscount PALMERSTON, who on rising was loudly cheered, said—Mr President, your Royal Highnesses, my Lords, and Gentlemen,---I need not, lam certain, assure you that nothing can be more gratifying to the feelings of any man than to receive that compliment which you have been pleased to propose, and which this distinguished as sembly has been kind enough so favourably to entertain in the toast of his health. It is natural that any man who is engaged in public life should feel the greatest interest in the promotion of the fine arts. In fact, without a great cultivation of art no nation has ever arrived at any point of eminence. We have seen great warlike exploits performed by nations in a state, I won't say of comparative barbarism, but wanting comparative civilisation ; we have seen na tions amassing great wealth, but yet not standing thereby high in the estimation of the rest of the world ; but when great warlike achievements, great national prosperity, and h gh cultivation of the arts are all combined together, the nation in which those conditions are found may pride itself in holding that eminent position among the nations of the world which I am proud to say belongs to this country. (Loud cheers.) It is gratifying to have the honour of being invited to these periodical meetings, where we find assem bled within these rooms a greater amount of cultivation of mind, of natural genius, of everything which constitutes the development of human intellect than perhaps ever is assembled within the same space elsewhere. (Cheers.) And we have, besides, the gratification of seeing that in addition to those living examples of national genius the walls are covered with proofs that the national genius is capable of the most active and admirable development. (Cheers.) Upon the present occasion, Mr. President, every visitor must have reen with the greatest delight that by the side of the works of those whose names are familiar to all there are works of great ability brought hither by men who are still rising to fame; and therefore we have the satisfaction of feeling that this country will never be wanting in men distinguished in the practice of the fine arts. (Cheers.) One great merit of this Exhibition is that whatever may be the turn of a man's mind, whatever his position in life, he may at least during the period he is within these walls indulge the most pleasing illusions applicable to the wants his mind at that time may feel. A man who comes here shiver ing in one of those days which mark the severity of an Eng lish winter—(a laugh) —may imagine that he is basking in an African sun, and he may feel imaginary warmth from the representation of a tropical climate. (Laughter.) IF, on the uther hand, he is suffering under those exceptional miseries which one of the few hot days of an English summer is apt to create, he may imagine himself inhaling the fresh breezes of the seaside ; he may suppose himself reclining under'the cooling shade of the most luxuriant foliage; ha may for a time, in fancy, feel all the delights which the streets and pavements of London deny in reality—(cheers and laughter —and if he happens to be a young man, upon what is con- ventionally said to be his preferment, that is to say, looking out fur a partner for his life—(a laugh)—he may here study all kinds and descriptions of female beauty— (laughter and cheers)—he may satisfy his mind whether light hair or dark—(laughter)—blue eyes or black--(continued laughter) .—the tender or the serious, the gay or the sentimental, are the most likely to contribute to the happiness of his future life. (Cheers.) And, without exposing himself to any of those embarrassing questions as to his intentions—(a laugh)—which sometimes too inquisitive a scrutiny may bring—(much laughter)—without creating disappointment, or breaking any hearts, or being referred to any paternal authority which he may not desire to consult—(laughter) —he may go and apply to practical selections those prin ciplis of choice which wilt result from the study within these walls. (Loud cheers and laughter.) Then those of a more serious turn of mind, who direct their thoughts to State affairs, and who wish to know what that august assembly, the House of Commons, is composed of, may here (pointing to Phillips's picture behind the chair), without the trouble of asking an order for the gallery—(a laugh)—without waiting in Westminster-hall till a seat be vacant, without passing hours in a hot gallery, listening perhaps to dull disccurse in an uninteresting debate— they may here see what kind of thing the House of Commons is, and go back edified by the sight, without being bored by dull speeches. (Cheers and laughter.) Now do‘vt, gentlemen, imagine that I am romancing when I attribute this virtue to ocular demonstration—don't ima gine that that which enters the eye does not sometimes penetrate to the mind and to the feelings. I will give you an instance to the contrary, I remember within theca walla seeing two gentlemen, who evidently, from their remarks, were very good judges of horses, looking with the greatest admiration upon the well-known picture of Landseer, the " Horseshoeing at the Blacksmith's," and after they had looked at it for some time one was approaching nearer, when the other, in an agony of enthusiasm, said, "For Heaven's sake, don't go too near; he will kick you." (Loud cheers and laughter.) Well, gentlemen, I said that a public man must take great interest in Art; but I feel that the present Government has en apology to make to one department of art, and that is to the sculptors ; for there is an old maxim denoting one of the high functions of art, which is artis eat celare artenz. Now, there was a cellar— (much laughter)— in which the art of the most distinguished sculptors was concealed to the utmost extent of the application of that saying. (A laugh.) We have brought them comparatively into light—(cheers) —and if the sculptors will excuse us for having departed from that sage and ancient maxim, I am sure the public will thank us for having given them an op portunity of seeing; those beautiful works of men of whom it may be said-- " vino!' ducunt do marmore vultus." (Cheers.) I trust, therefore, the sculptors will excuse us for having done not, perhaps, the best they might have wished, but, at least, for having relieved them a little from the darkness of that Cynaraerian cellar in which their works were hid. (Cheers.) I beg again to thank you, gentlemen, for the honour you have done me in drinking my health. (Loud cheers.) The next toast was, " The Interests of Literature," in TRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1863. connection with which the President, after some com plimentary remarks, proposed the health of Mr. Thackeray. Mr. THACKERAY, in acknowledging the toast said,—Mr. President, your Royal Highnesses, my Lords, and Gentle men,—l trust that in this room the toast of " Literature and the Fine Arts" will long continue to be given, and that the two will always be considered as a united service. (Cheers.) As for the artists, we see their achievemen's be fore us ; and on the part of those of us who pursue litera ture, I think we have been, and I hope we always shall he, their friends. (Cheers ) All my life I have fund the greatest delight in their society. I have rusticated with them, travelled with them, and enjoyed their society under various circumstances. I have mada many friendships among them which I hope to curry with me to the end of my days. (Cheers.) If you will permit me to say so, I have often tried to make a drawing as the exhibition came round and always failed. (Cheers.) But if I have not succeeded in that, I could never fail to admire the intellect, power, and genius, tf.e steadiness, skill, and labour of those artists, those friends whose works I see around me. (Cheers.) I thank you, Sir Charles, for having mentioned my name in connection with our mutual profession, and I most cordially, rc .ipectfully, and sincerely return you my best acknowledg ments. (Cheers ) The PRESIDENT next gave "The Royal Society, and the Health of its excellent President, General Sabine," which having been duly honoured, Sir R. MURCHISON rose and said—Sir Charles Eastlake, your Royal Highnesses, ray Lords, and Gentlemen,—The President of the Royal Society, on leaving the room, in order to receive the company invited to Burlington-house, devolved on rue the task of responding to this toast. Pro fessing to be attached to only two branches of science, geo logy and geography, I venture to say that these are mote intimately connected with the pursuits of the Royal Aca demy than any other branches of science. I should not have adverted to this, if 1 had not been perpetually struck in attending this anniversary and in looking round these walls, with the perfection you have attained in that great and important branch of your art—l mean landscape painting—a branch in which you excel all other nations. (Cheers.) As a geologist, too, I have been similarly im pressed with many exhibitions, but to one I wish particu larly to allude:on this occasion. A great many years ago, when a young officer, returning from the Mediterranean to go to the siege of Cadiz, I had an opportunity of stopping some time at the Rock of Gibraltar; and on that occasion I especially admired the old weather-beaten Pass d'Assucar, which the picture of Mr. Edward Cooke in the next room so admirably delineates, combining some of the grandest features in which a student of geological science would wish to expose. (Cheers.) I have particular pleasure in speaking of this, because, as a man of science, I am proud that my associates have but a few days ago elected, or, I should rather say, selected from your members that distinguished man Mr. Edward Cooke as a fellow of the Royal Society of London. (Cheers.) I think art and science are well com bined, and I beg again to thank you for the toast you have just drunk. (Cheers.) Some of the usual toasts having been omitted to enable his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to fu fil other en gagements, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, ac companied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and his Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, then re tired, being conducted by Sir Charles Eastlake to the Middle-room, where an elegant service of tea and c ,flee was provided. The prince remained some time in visiting the pictures, and conversing in the most affable manner with many of the distinguished guests. The company then broke up at 10 o'clock. TRADES' UNION DEMONSTRATION TO THE AMERICAN MINISTER. On Saturday evening, at 8 o'clock, a deputation of trades' unionists attended at the residence of Mr. Adams, the American Minister, in Portland-place, for the purpose of placing in the hands of his Excellency the address to Presi dent Lincoln, adopted at the late Trades' Union Emanci pation meeting at St. James's-hall, over which Mr. John Bright presided. The deputation consisted of the following members and officers of the Trades' Union ;—Messrs. G. Potter, Richards, Garland, Fast, Petherbridge, Burgess, Mildred, Cremer, Graham, D miler, Payne, Smith, Hughes, Eglinton, Llewellyn, and Merrifield, carpenters' societies ; Mr. Murray, bootcloser ; Messrs. Osborne and Nieasst plasterers ; Mr. Nelson, wire-worker ; Messrs. French and Dawson, bricklayers; Mr. Shave, plumber; Messrs. Dod shon, Odgers, and Richardson, boot and shoemakers; Mr. Fast, zinc-worker ; Mr. Facey, painter ; Messrs. Grey, Connolly, and Gibson, stonemasons ; Mr. Martin, cigar maker; and Mr. Butler, tin-plate worker. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. E. S. Beasley, Professor of Political Economy at the University College. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., having introduced the deputation to Mr. Adams, said,—Your Excellency, the deputation I havo the honour of introducing before you is one appointed at a meeting of trades' unionists, held in St. James's-hall, on the 26th of April last, over which I had the honour and pleasure to preside, for the purpose of expressing their ab horrence of the American institution of slavery, their dis approbation of the rebellion of the Southern States of that country, their sympathy with the North in its efforts to put down that rebellion, and their admiration of the general policy —more particularly that relating to slay ery—pursued by President Lincoln, to whom they have adopted an ad dress of sympathy and congratulation, which they now desire to place in the hands of your Excellency for trans mission to Mr. Lincoln, The trades' unions are not political bodies; they are bodies of operatives united together to promote their social interests. I believe this is the first occasion on which they have come out as a united body to publicly express an opinion on a political question, and it therefore proves how deep an Interest they must have felt in it. (Hear.) I think it a pity that these important bodies do not more frequently interest themselves in great publio questions, which I believe they might do with great advan tage to the public and profit to themselves. Mr. CREMER (joiner, and secretary to the meeting) then read the address,lwhich assured President Lincoln that the sympathy of the great bulk of the working men of England lay with the North, and expressed a hope that his efforts to put down the rebellion of the Southern slaveholders might be crowned with success. Mr. Cremer having explained the cause of the delay in presenting the address, which was unavoidable, said the working men of this country_felt an especial interest in America, as it was the only country where working men had the free use of the franchise. Their own societies were based on broad democratic principles, every member having a voice in making the laws by which he was governed; they wore, in fact, so many small Repub lics and feeling sympathisers with the large Republic across the Atlantic, which he hoped would never be broken up. Mr. CONOLLY (mason) trusted his excellency would use all the influence he possessed to prevent a war between this country and America, which he believed would be one of the greatest calamities of modern times. It would throw back the cause of freedom for many years. This war feel ing was fostered by a portion of the press and mercantile classes in both countries for their own selfish purposes ; but he hoped the good sense of the people and Governments would prevent any such fratricidal act. He could assure his excellency that a war with America would, as far as the working classes were concerned, be the most unpopular war that ever existed. Mr. POTTER (joiner, and manager of the Beehive, trades' newspaper), desired to assure his Excellency that it was principally among the upper and a certain portions of the mercantile classes that Southern sympathies existed; a small section only among the working masses of England held those opinions, the vast majority of whom would only be too happy to see President Lincoln crush the rebellion and extinguish slavery. A portion of the press of this country were doing their best to mislead the public and embroil the two countries in a sanguinary war. This would be pre vented by the people of America being made acquainted with the sentiments of the great mass of the Engli,h people, and he hoped his Excellency would cause those opinions to become known among his countrymen. He and those who acted with him were not blind to the shortcomings of the North while giving it their sympathy. Should our Govern ment be forced into a war with America by the pressure of the Southern sympathisers in Parliament, the whole power of the masses would be brought to bear against such a war, which would be undertaken in the cause of slavery. Mr. Odgers (shoemaker), Mr. Petherbridge (joiner), Mr. Facey (painter), Mr. Grey (stonemason), and Mr. Nieass (plas terer) also addressed his Excellency in terms approving the policy of Mr. Lincoln, who they believed had acted strictly —too strictly for his own success— within the pale of the constitution. They deprecated a war with America as fra tricidal and injurious to both countries, and thought that the people of each country should, to avoid such a calamity, show the greatest amount of forbearance towards each other. Neither Government would take the responsibility of enter ing upon war against the expressed opposition of the people. Professor BEASLEY thought if war did ensue it would be the result of misunderstanding, He had no doubt our Go vernment was fully alive to its responsibility on this point. It had been feared that the pressure put on the Government by the Southern sympathisers in high quarters would force them into war. Judging from the past conduct of the Go vernment on the American question he did not think they were likely to be so influenced. The Southern sympathisers might be noisy and demonstrative, but the Governmentknew that those who sympathised with the North were far more numerous and far more strong, as the public meetings on in En g l an d known to the American the subject certified. He th oug ht it very important that his Excellency s h ou ld take all necessary steps to make the rea state of public o pini o n reople ; this w ou ld b e the best preventive o f war. H e saw that the New York Herald had not taken the slightest no.. Lice of the Unionist rneeLin3 at St. James's-hall. Mr. BRIGIIT —The Aew York Tribune contained a report. Mr. ADAMS, having expressed the pleasure he felt at see ing so numerous a deputation of working men before him, said, Gentlemen,—.l accept with pleasure the duty you have imposed upon me i n rece i ving your address t o M r . L inco l n . Representing, a s I d o, my country in England, you must be aware that I st an d outs i de all local ques ti ons ; the re f ore it is not my province to express dissatisfaction or satisfac tion with those persons or parties in England who express their opinions upon America. If there are any in this cowl.• try who put a harsh construction on the conduct of the American Government it i, not my place to find fault or my right to criticise. It is however my duty to accept from the representatives of any body of Englishmen th favourable sentiments towards the Government I represent. and to re ciprocate the frank, manly, and independent spirit in which they have been tendered. I understand, gentlemen, yrJu at tend here as representing large bodies of workie , g men, who advocate and uphold the rights of labour, and it is there fore but natural you should look with dislike upon any parties, in whatever country they may exist, who infiinge on those rights. You perceive that in the struggle now go ing on an attempt is made to establish a Government on the destruction of the rights of labour—a Government of physical power, to faire away the rights of labour. It is a question above all local right ; it is a general principle, and therefore, though taking place in a foreign country, you have a right to express your opinion thereon. I accept the duty you impose upon me with great pleasure, the more so as you have taken advantage of the occasion to speak on the question of war. I agree with your views. With two nations of the same lace, of the same high stirit, both feeling proud of their superiority on the ocean, under present circum stances it would be indeed suprising if something should not spring up on that ocean which might occasion collision. I concur with you gentlemen, as to the great forbearance which ought to be exhibited, by both countries in construing the actions of each other. I trust that in spite of all that has occurred there is in the Government of each country a sufficient sense of responsibility which will induce them to maintain friendly relations with each other. There must naturally be a feeling of pride, of fear lest one nation should appear to refrain from properly resenting what it might deem to be an offence, and in this lies the great danger. I feel confident, however, that if the two peoples, if the two Governments would speak together in the same sense,in the same frank and unreserved terms as you have spoken to me this evening, all fear of any collision would be at an end. (Hear, hear.) I can assure you that, notwithstanding the speeches of some of my countrymen, notwithstanding the writings in some American journals, there is no nation under the sun for which America entertains a greater regard than England, and if the real sentiments of the people of each country can be clearly established to each other I shall have no fear of their coming into collision. (Cheers.) I believe, gentlemen, you have taken the right course to produce this desirable understanding, and I shall undertake with great pleasure the duty of at once transmit.. ting your address to President Lincoln, (Cheers.) The deputation having thanked his Excellency for their courteous reception, and Mr. Bright for his kindness in at. tending, then retired. SPIRIT OF. THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, SATURDAY REVIEW.—The only thing approach ing to a novelty that was discoverable in the debate of Wedn( sday last was the formal introduction of Lord Ebury's compromise to the consideration of the House of Commons. Amid the enormous crop of suggestions that have been made for settling this dispute, more attention appears to have been paid to this one than to any other, chiefly, it should seem, because of the assurance with which it was offered. Lord Ebury gave to it the name of the "Only possible compromise upon church-rates." It is simple—almost as simple as Sir J. Trelawny's total abolition. It merely provides that no rate shall be leviable by legal process. It is left open to the incumbent and his churchwardens, if they like, to go through all the preliminary steps which now termi nate in the legal levy of a rate. They may hold a make-believe vestry, and pass a mock rate, and issue a fictitious wiper, upon which they may, if they like, designate by the misnomer of rate the voluntary subscription for which they may think fit to beg from each person. Lord Ebury con cedes to every parish the liberty of going through this farce; and he appears to think that, in doing so, he has made so valuable a concession that he is entitled to give the name of compromise to total abolition enacted upon these terms. This may possibly be the solution to which the Church rate controversy will ultimately come. But it will not be a compromise. It will be an unconditional surrender. Lord Ebury's impression appears to he, that the formalities of the vestry and the printing of a rate-paper are in themselves operations so full of delight that clergy and laity will desire to prac tise them simply as a parochial recreation. It has not occurred to him that they are now practised solely with the prosaic object of doing that which is legally necessary in order to raise a tax. But the employment would lose whatever fascinations it now possesses if those who assembled in vestry were pre viously informed that, do what they would, they could not raise the tax. Under those circumstances, it is probable that their gratitude to Lord Ebury for enabling them to keep up the pretence to a power of which they had been deprived would be very limited indeed. It is easy to appreciate the value of Lord Ebury's compromise by applying it over a somewhat larger area. The King of Prussia and his Chambers are involved in bitter controversy at this moment. What would the Chambers think if some member of the Junker party were to propose to them, as a compromise, that the Chambers should retain the privilege of meeting at Berlin, and should be allowed to pass as many laws as they thought fit, but that no legal penalty should be inflicted on those who treated their enactments with disregard? Lord Ebury might be at this moment advantage ously employed as an ambassador to mediate be tween the North and South in America. A proposal that the Washington Government should be privi leged to give as many orders and pass as many laws as they pleased, but that no one beyond the Poto mac should be bound to obey them, might in all probability be a "possible compromise" as far as the South were concerned. THE SPECTATOR.--The repulse before Charleston is one of the heaviest blows the Federal Govern ment has yet sustained. The actual loss, it is true, is comparatively insignificant —only two ships, re presenting £150,000, and some 20 or 30 men, But the value of victories is not measured in blood, and by every other reckoning the defeat is of the most disastrous kind. It breaks the left arm of the North. The ironclad fleet which was to give them the command of the coast has proved a delusion, and the Confederates are encouraged to believe their ports bey on d the range of attack by sea. That conviction alone will release whole armies, and ter minate the inclination, so visible for example in Georgia, to keep all men in the seaboard States at home to resist invasion. All that is now required for defence of Charleston, Savannah, and Mobile, is a strong body of artillerists, and men of all na tions are very soon trained to work guns in posi tion, and fight behind walls and earthworks. The experiment was as decisive in one way as it could possibly be made. The management which left the fleet unsupported save by a trumpery force of 7.000 men, who never advanced, and never could have been expected to advance within twelve miles of the city, may, it is true, be condemned, but we must not forget the American theory. The Go vernment believed that the iron-clads were simply ships impervious to shot, and expected them, even if powerless, to suffer as little as the first Monitor did in her contest with the Merrimac, Under that belief, which, had the ships really beep Covered with solid iron, instead of with iron plates, each an inch thick and clamped together, might have proved sound, Admiral Dupont-was ordered to enter the water cul de sac, at the 'end of which Charleston stands. He could not' have occupied the city in any case until the arrival of the army, but he could, had he reached it, have destroyed it, or held it as completely under command as the fleet holds New Orleans. Had the theory only been sound, the ironc'ads would have inevitably destroyed Sumter, silenced or passed the batteries on shore, and anchored as floating batteries right against the town. Even the people of Charleston—the fieriest class in the South—would have been powerless against floating batteries in such a position, and must either have evacuated their city or surrendered at discretion. The Washington Government had, however, mistaken the strength of its ironclads. The vessels steamed badly, steered worse, and were not impervious at all. All along the deep lagoon running up four miles into the land the Coot de rates had erected batteries armed with the heaviest guns in their possession --guns which, if not Mr. Whitworth's, were at least constructed upon his principle, provided with steel-headed shot, and fired by gunners who understood that impact depends on velocity at least as much as on weight of metal. With the singular inventiveness which the South erners share with the people of New England, the defenders had multiplied obstacles within the bar hour against which the weight and speed of the steamers were alike powerless. Among them were heavy cables stretched upon floating and unfastened buoys, which of course fouled the screws. But for the readiness of the captain of the Weehawken, who backed the instant he perceived this obstacle, the fleet might have been crippled by this device alone. The cables could have been removed by boats quickly enough ; but then the very principle of these ironclads is that the men are never to be exposed, and every delay left them within what Americans oddly call "concentric range." Thus stopped, the ironclads were exposed to a fire which, without endorsing the magniloquence of men who never witnessed a naval engagement, we may be lieve to have been unusually severe, and within hilt an hour were proved unequal to the test. The in vulnerable boats were riddled. EXAMINER.—The Orleanists and ex-statesmen of the last French reign have planned to make an irruption into the Legislative body. The Emperor, in return, purposes to walk himself into the literary Parliament of the institute, where his opponents have hitherto held undisputed sway. With the " Life of Caesar" in his hand, Napoleon the Third claims to be a member of the National Literary and Scientific Body. He has certainly as good a claim to be there as M. do Carne or Bishop Dupaoloup. The Emperor has had a long, an arduous, and a patient struggle with that class of the nation who were eminent as civilians before his time. The politicans, the journalists, the lawyers, the poets, the orators, the authors, and even the artists • frowned, the great majority of them, upon the Emperor, and refused to pay him homage. Ic cer tainly does honour to France and Frenchmen to m irk how few were the first converts, and how ,:lowly and gradually their numbers have been in ert; aged. The Emperor is outliving opposition of this kind, which he has faced and borne with more patience, we repeat, than most autocrats would have shown. No persoes showed more inveterate repug nance to him than the members of the institute, yet he has always received them blandly, and has neither frowned upon them nor prosecuted them. On the contrary, he has increased their annual allowance. And except in the way of stifling the exhibition of their political bile through the diurnal press, he has given them little to complain of. The EmperoL's political principles must soon he better known and more frankly avowed. There is, first of all, the "Life of Caesar" coming out. It surely cannot be a work purely military, and must contain the judgment of the writer on the political acts and errand of the Empire. Will he take Caesar as a hero in the Senate House as well as in the fields, or be the admirer of evegardom mitigated? If it be possible to publish such a work without the manifestation of political opinion, equally difficult will it be to meet a new Legislative Body in the same taciturn way in which the present has been managed by the French Government. It will be impossible to keep such members as 'niers or Mon talembert from em barking on constitutional questions, and demanding or making for themselves a liberty of speech hitherto unallowed. Can the Speaker chosen by the Em peror continue to bully them, as he does inferior men ? or must not the Legislative Body be gratified, at length, with the liberty and latitude of a real Parliament ? This remains to be seen. Hitherto the Emperor has shown great repugnance to quarrel with the representative assembly. He has yielded very important points rather than do so. And in this he is evidently more cautious and tolerant than many of his Ministers. It remains to be seen whether he will persevere in this wise copduct, and admit the gradual extension of French liberty of speech and action. These are curious problems, which no doubt 1864 will solve. THE LAW TIMES.—The Law Amendment Society has been entreating the Lord Chancellor to sanction some wild views of a section of its members on the subject of law reporting, but the sagacious Chan cellor told them that the subject was beset with difficulties, that large interests were involved, and that it could not he dealt with as summarily as the memorialists imagined. He therefore declined to promise them the commission they asked for. This was the answer of a practical man to a party of visionaries. What do they want ? An official report of the courts, taken and printed at the public cost ? This seems easy, and not irrational, but the difficulties are apparent when a definite scheme is attempted. In the first place, what is to be re ported . ls it to be a shorthand note ? In such case every word of every argument and judgment must be taken and printed verbatim. If not a ver batzm report, there must be selection and revision. But if it is to be left to the judgment of any person what shall be reported and how it shall be reported, there is no reason whatever why a reporter paid by the country should perform that task better than a reporter paid by a publisher. No advantage would be gained in correctness, certainly, and nothing either in speed of publication or in cost to buyers. If the reports could not be better nor cheaper than the present ones, what advantage is to be gained in return for the burden thus imposed upon the public purse ? Only this, that there would be fewer of them. We admit that the existing number of re ports is needless and inconvenient; but the compe tition is far more noxious to the proprietors than to anybody beside. One of each class of reports—that is to say, the speedy report, the omnibus report, and the regular report—would amply suffice for all the needs of the Profession. The Law Amend ment Society could not, by any expenditure, pro vide better reports than these three, and the success of all of them proves that they supply a want. The question is, not if they are perfect, but could better reports be supplied by officials? We think not. A Government monopoly of reporting would soon come to exhibit the vices of all monopolies; and, relieved from rivalry, the new reporters would study ease, under the pretence of carefulness and caution. LONDON REVIEW.—There is nothing so wearing to the spirits and aggravating to the temper of the truly Radical Reformer, as the continual tendency of his most cherished friends to accept office under Government. It is not as if the accident happened only once or twice. Like Mr. Pickwick's sufferings, [the writer here evidently means Mr. Pecksniff's] this kind of misfortune is chronic. Never have Mr. Cox and Mr. Medfield loved a young gazelle [here the writer spoils by a feebler application of the joke the most comical of all the comic sallies of Dick Swiveller]—never have they trained him up to cheer them with his glad bright eye, but when he c fine to know them well, and love them, he was sure to be carried off by Lord Palmerston to the ministerial benches. This it is that makes political life unutterably trying to the people's friend. It is one long course of disappointment. By some curi ous fatality, he finds that it is invariably the Admi ralty which exercises this fatal fascination on his companions. Perhaps it may be, that the unhappy Government department in question is managed in a way to attract the especial notice of a patriot-- who, however, little knows where he may expect to go to when he looks up the subject of marine re trenchment for the first time. Perhaps, occasional promotion is only Lord Palmerston's way of cutting off the heads of the tallest Liberal poppies. At all events, the thing occurs too often to be merely a coincidence. It happened to Lord Clarence Paget. It used to be always happening to poor Mr. Bernal Osborne. No sooner had they laid their guns for an assault upon the Administration trenches, than they were picked off by some ministerial rifleman. After a snort interval they used to re-appear on the other side of the wall, radiant with new fcund glory, very much as Romulus appeared to his astonished countrymen after his deification. From their new position these transfigured heroes used to waft the fondest messages back to their old associates. Mr. Layard's fate,:though slightly different, was equally distressing. Cruel destiny had marked him out for one of those Government offices of which he had spoken slightingly so often. It is Mr. Stansfeld's turn at last. Lord Palmerston has come for the Radical pilgrim, as the angel came for Christian in the "Pilgrim's Progress;" and Mr. Stansfeld has taken leave of his friends at Halifax in the same touching spirit of mingled resignation and hope. Mr. Stansfeld is too clever a man not to know where he is going to be taken. As Julius Peregrinus was " banished into the Senate," Mr. Stansfeld feels evidently that in ac cepting office he is banishing himself to the Ministerial benches. The erratum which Mr. Stansfeld is so anxious to correct in the l imes really is of no consequence. Whether he was "kicked out" of the Liberal camp or " picked out," is all the same in its results. The virtuous Cox will think nothing of him now. In time, Mr. Bright will come to denounce him together with the rest of the bloated oligarchs. The distressed Poles are already beginning to give him up. The champions of the runaway negroes seem to gaze after him more in sorrow than in anger. They have taken a kindly farewell of him, and they are good enough to say that they think it right of him to go. But he can no longer sincerely flatter himself that he belongs to that bright baud. It must have been a harrow. ing thought to any of the number who formed part of the Halifax audience to feel the conviction creep. leg on them as he spoke, that the white feathers of office might already be seen growing on the new fledged official swan. Short as was the interval that had elapsed, Mr. Stansfeld, by the , time he got to Halifax, had begun to look on the Admiralty as a rather ill-used public body. It was a great mis take to regard that excellent branch of the public service as a mere Augean stall. When the Halifax reformers saw their representative assuming the part of charity, and hoping all things and believing all things of the Admiralty board, they may well have moaned in spirit, and thought that the world was out of joint. Was this the LanceOt of debate, who had so often shot like a star before the eyes of lords and ladies in tournament at Westminster? THE QUEEN.—Twenty years ago the gentleman who represented Knaresborough was considered to be the most violent man in the House of Commons. He was perpetually in hot water; he was almost invariably in collision with somebody; and the late Sir James Graham and Mr. Cobdeu especially were the objects of the hon. gentleman's attacks. He used to make the most serious charges against those two members in particular, and against the liberal party generally —or rather that section of it of which Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright were the centre. When the free trade measures of Sir Robert Peel were adopted by Parliament and the country, Mr. Fcr rand beeeme legislatively extinguished, and he ceased to be a member of the House of Commons. For nearly 20 years nothing was thought of him, and his name was never heard; but a month or so ago he unexpectedly defeated a Government candi- date at Devon pert, and he is once more a member of the House of Commons, and it is worthy of remark that in the very first observations he offered to the House on the subject of the distress in the cotton manufacturing districts, he referred to his almost forgotten bete noire of " Devil's Dust." He had ❑ot. been in the House a week before he gave notice of a motion on the subject of the cotton distress, and this motion came on for discussion on Monday last. For two hours and 20 minutes, in a tone of voice that made the very roof ring again, he opened out his indictment against the manufacturing interest, and during thatlong oratorical effort be rambled through a story, the contents of which might have been well told by a skilful speaker in half an hour. The House was full when Mr. Ferrand began, but it became _ very attenuated long before ho bad concluded. Sir Bulwer Lytton had come down specially to see what might possibly turn up in the Ferrand exhibition, and he took his seat immediately under the honour able member. The right honourable novelist man' fully sat out the ordeal for an hour and a half, but he was not proof against a further infliction, and so he walked away, and as we have said the attendance very rapidly thinned down. ATHEN2Eum —A little more than a quarter of century ago, the old "Jarvey" began to die out. 11 the cart was glorified because the old Merovingian kings had nothing better to move about in,so has th e hackney-coach had its glories and its day. In itself, it was a melancholy and fallen greatness. Th e , vehicle full of its eits had once been the carriage al a peer, but had come to grief. It sometimes came ta worse than that, and in Charles the Second's time it was found convenient for the commission of m urder. Then a dead duellist was occasionally cast into one, and sent home to his family. In William the Third's reign, the hackney took to disreputable ways of an' other sort, and lost for ever the privilege of driving in the Park, because crowds of painted hussies therein used to hoot the ladies who dr ove by in their own carriages. Who forgets the story how Harle‘ quin Rich leaped out of one into a coffee -room and back again after the driver had looked for bini in vain ? and how Jehu ultimately refused his fare/ shrewdly suspecting 01.4 the gentleman was th e devil P Is the old prize -money days, it was the favourite joke of half-a-dozen sailors to ride in a dozen and a half of hackney-coaches. They wer e almost as capacious as a man-of-war, and Fountayue Wilson, M P. for Yorkshire, using one as a dressing room, on going from the house to dinner, broke down opposite the Horse G uar d s , w h ere t h e hilarl' ous mob, on rushing to his rescue, found that eceel 3 ; trio and rarely-washed gentleman with two pairs of pantaloons and neither of them on ! But the glory ' of the old hackney-coach consisted in the fact that for many years the regalia of England, crown , sceptre, and other finery, thrust into blue beget were brought from the Tower to the Parliamen t House in a hackney. coach, whenever the monarch required their aid in helping-him to show a kingly face in presence of the Legislature. The glory culminated when the Princess Charlotte ran away in one, from Warwick House, to her mother, la Connaught-place. When the number of dial, happy carriage was known, all th e f oo li s h part of London wanted to ride in it. It is a sad thing to add, that the glory of the conveyance did not honestly influence the character of the drivers. These were so notoriously brigands of a peculiar class, that when, in 1826, a Jehu of this trib e deposited at the Hackney-coach Office in EsseS,: street a bundle of bank- n ot es w hi c h h a d b e en le" in his conveyance, his name, address, and n umber were published abroad, as making in the aggregat e something marvellous and worthy of remembran ce ' The French cabriolet, which had just previous l Y been introduced—a covered gig with the driver sit ting at your side — was an odious invention ; but 11 ' was the forerunner of that cab which we now pr' sass, and which conveys blushing brides to church , fevered babies to the grave, smitten paupers to 1138 small-pox hospital, and bevies of children to pa n : tomimes. In no other civilised country is such horrible state of things permitted by the Govern went; and the disease and death thereby engender e d make the mod ern ca b as d rea df u l a mach i ne t o our selves as ever the old British chariots of Cassivelaa: nus were to the invaders. Considering what th e cab has fall en t o , w i t h i ts d r i ver, we re j o i ce to hear that we are t o h ave new an d e l egant veh i c l es , file horses, courteous drivers, and low fares. All this ' s at least, promised in the prospectus of a new 0° 13 . 3 i pany ; and we h a il th e h a l cyon d ays w hi c h are sa id to be approachi ng , w h en we may enter a han d s oale carriage with complacency. THE CRITIC.—The reputation of Mr. John Stuart Mill is quite equal to his merits; perhaps soa l i e ; even of his admirers, m a y t hi n k t h at i t is slighi beyond them. Acute, lucid, logical to a note' degree, Mr. Mill is seldom suggestive, never P r° :, found. We admit him to be one of the great O ll il ters of modern thought, w hil e aenying hint 0 claim to genius. He is a mas t er of language s cre , as of thought —so f ar as l anguage i s a pure, Ithe: loured medium. But we generally yearn for . 18 ; guage to be something more th an t hi s —to ha' o f warmth and colour. Th e ext reme transparenoi t Mr. Mill's speech ch arms f or a page or two ; but afterwards it grows wearis ome , f or , l i k e a br? o , ; wandering slowly throu g h a mea d ow , i t nev er ris es above, or falls below the dead level of the clearest e% position. We can never mistake Mr. Mills' meaning o / but then the meaning is rarely weighty. A s : 0 intellectual di s cipli ne , M r . Mill' s b oo k s have: o ordinary worth; but woe to him who expects fr" them one single minutest particle of intellect° food. Mr. Mill h a s care f u ll y cu l t i vated hie °lv , mind, and all his productions are finished and elab(); rate. Yet the absolute lack of spontaneousness all; imagination irresistibly repe l s us. In the a bsenc e of the creative, M r . Mill has a species of orga nising facuity. But though the organism is syn3n3etricili enough, Mr. Mill cannot b reat h e i nto i t t h e breat of life. B roug h t up b y an able father, unde r ~ Bentharnite influences, Mr. Mill rema i ns ess ential a Ben thamit e a p os tl e . I t i s therefore fitting thild he should expound and vindicate more fully e ta fervently than he has yet done the Benthall evangel. The essa y on U t ili tar i anism has a l r ea , appeared in F raser ' s M agazine. and doubt less,l‘;, Mill's name w ill ga i n for i t due attention. Ifieje cussion it i s not lik e l y to provoke ; partly because ' it is not characterised by any novelty, partly beca ll to Mr. Mill is at once too judicial and too judicious 0 annoy or to excite opponents; and partly bee all the interest, in philosophical su bj ects , neve r Te o r f , strong in England, is, f or th e moment, fee bl e r tilit usual. Utilitarianism i s con f esse d ly a revival .° 7 Epicureanism; a re v i va l w i t h out, so far as we see, being an improvement. Epicurus taub o metaphysical as well as moral principle; and it is at a metaphysical as we ll as moral system °lto Epicureanism must be judged. But Bentham f a ( equally destitut e o f metaphys i cal insight 6" re poetical inspiration. Mr. Mid has not much lu e of either than the founder of utilitarianism. COUNTRY MARKETS. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. tt This corn market t o -d ay was poorly supplie d w ith wheat but there was a f a i r demand, and prices were is per sx, higher ihan he re t o f ore. Only a sample or two of ba rld offering, which realised about late rates. Oats also scar; White wheat, from 43s to 53 8 ; red wheat, 42s to 4 to Barley—malting, 32s to 41s ; grinding, 278 to 298. old, at 25s to 31s Od; new, 22s to 28s. Beans sold at' to 45s per qr, Flour, 31s to 40s. YORK— SATURDAY. - The show of wheat was li m it e d t o -d ay, and sales we r e ei readily made at is per qr a d vance on last week. u -.' ar 1 10 scarce, with a steady demand, and priees as of late. oats, beans, and peas little doin 2 g. ' Wheat, red 42s to 45s e ats . 20 8 t ° A N White do .45 s to 5 0sBeans 386 t o il - I B arley .298 to 35s Peas ,:, to ..-- Malt, 62s to 64s per qr.; rye, 34s per qr ; flour , to 36s per sack. GRANTHAM —SATURDAY. st. 2 New whit e w h eat, 48s to 51.5; red, 45s to 48s per -61 malting barley, 38 s t o 43 s per qr ; grinding, 2 8 3 to old oats, 23s t o 26 s ; b eans, 35 s to 3 8s ; peas, 34s to 3i,,, '- s* LEICESTER —SATURDAY. Old white wheat, — s t o j sew, 44s to 50s P e . r 2f 6 t stone. Old red, 48s t o 52 s per 36 stone. Barley, Wal7tris• new, 34s to 39s p er qr . ; gr i n di ng, 27s to 30s ; oldho 27s to 308; new oats, 228 to 28s per 24 stone. new, 35s to 395; old, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. r f ' an' There was a less supp l y o f wheat to-day, but a - ° „ l ,, Or wand, at the full price, of last week ; i n some insta"Thar deed, quotatio ns were 6d to is higher. The supply ° 6' to ley is nearly ex h austed, at former rates, White wheat. 46 s to 48 • I R e d wheat 42$ 310 Malting b ar l ey ... 38 s to 40s 1 Chevalier barley. • •,• Qg '' to .4. Distilling d 0..... 33 s i o ;i6 s 1 O a t s.. 2 4- t° Flour, 32s 6d to 33s Od per sack from the aillee Births. Or r MELVILLE.—On the 30th nit., Branston Rectory', „f colnshire, the Hon. Mrs. A. S. Leslie Melville/ " daughter. „ te o SOUTHESIL—On the 29th ult , at Edinburgh, the '-' °Jl of Southesk, of a d aug ht er : i t° K the of the I s t i ns t., at 2 , James-street, W. v ---° ot H. Wake, Esq., of a son. Marriages. , Paulus, CHEESMAN—MICHOLSON.—Oa the Ist inst ,at ,v• oat East Moulsey, Frank, only son of the late H• "Tool Esq., of the Faulkeners, Iladlovv, Kent, to El)"-v7.,a second daughter of the late Joseph Micholson , '""" London. „ lo ch, P ILTER — WILSON— On the 29th u lt. a t Jesgtood EL'"liz4 bed). Wm. Fr e d. Pilt er, E sq., of North' Shi e lds, to Fanny, only daughter of the late Ralph W lls°l3 ' of North Shields. Deaths. Wi lli° AYRE.—On the let hist , at St. L eonar d's-on-S ca y Ayre, Esq., of Hull, aged 63. HenryDe' DESANGES.—On the let inst , at Nice, Louis sanges, Esq , aged 79. . 8 o'e: e t a S r GARDINER.—On the Ist irst.. at 22, Gordon don-square, Rawson Boddam Gardiner, B'Cl.' av- pdsVa ra PRYCE,—On the 29th ult. at 15, Oxford-terrace, -- eci 80. Pryce, Esq., of Abbey L i odge, Merton, Surre3ry, s. l4 _ Dot' PONSONEY.—On the Ist inst. in London, Chanoi' , hill, baton Ponsonby, Esq. o a" - , . TILSLUY.—On the 2d inst. at his residence, Den_ ian el P e %Y E A s u q p . Hugh Tileley , Esq., Assistant Solicitor of lii woo, venue, aged 68. ; T f O c n ia t r h e e m 3 o o n th t . terrace, e u r l r t z e, suddenly, ttol ii C i e h , raisgteocip_ll7. _ - D VS, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM i-- g 1 : To 10 , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE Sur( Offic e ' -- iv o . f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the Couil Middlesex. —Monday, May 4, /M.