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 ceived from private sources. The committee who have the management and distribution of the at the Naval College in Portsmouth doellyard, are paying all allotments to widows and families for April as fast as their claims are received. The real value of this proceeding i, best appreciated by those who know that when news is received of a man's death in the service hi s pay is stopped, and the half pay which his wife and children have received monthly for their support during his absence from home is stopped at the same time. As a result of the measures taken by the committee, therefore, all to whom were all o tt e d mont h ly 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 lost will be thus promptly re lieved. To aid the good cause Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N., has issued a notice that he will deliver a lecture at Hirst's Portland hall, Southsea, on Wednesday evening nest, " 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 Fend." The 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 occasionally 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 heavy 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 Cora • mous 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 Sturbrid ge , off Ryd e . W h i le the ques tion of marine forts for Spithead remains thus un decided and favourable weather for the construction of their foundations is being 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 flanks 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 shoe 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 Saturday much earlier than had been calculated upon. On entering the harbour her draught of water was found to be 19ft. 6in. 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. The 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 first division of the Chatham steam reserve in the Medway 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, pier 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 Marq u i s o f Q ueens b erry, m id s hi pman, to the Emerald ; and A. N. Jones, clerk, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary, THE ARMY. The examination of candidates for direct com missions, 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 lst Regiment of Life Guards had their first field day on Saturday 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 Royal Highness Field-Marshal the Duke o f order of Cambr idge, th has issued a general regi mental Royal Artillery, dated Horse Guards, 28th ult. , la contains the following in formation :— Her Majestyhas approved the grant of 25a. per diem conferra on the senior officer of the Royal Regiment of ArtilwleryZch became vacant by the death of Gen. J. Colonel C o mmandant to Gen. Thomas J. Forbes , awarded of ceapension of the Bth Brigade ; and of the good- ser vic e ..cen. £lOO per annum relinquished by Gor don, on his promotion to the rank of Ma jor- Gen, dant, being conferred upon Major-Pester. °Tnih e fol man- lowing appointments have been made :—To be d jutants—Second Capt. David Dalrymple Anderson, 3i 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 Ashbee, 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; Lieut. T. Walker, 18th Brigade, vice Tasker, promoted ; Lieut. G. E. Hancock, 21st Brigade, vice Harcourt, promoted ; 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; . Captain C. Hope Johnstone, 6 th f i dC l4 .l l e ; Lieutenant F. A. Mant, 9th Brigade; MillAtimftut 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 go 'Lary in their brigades, and at the same tiro', to send nominal returns of any in dividuals . who may hate qualified, and whom they MY wish to recommend for the appointment. The establishment for each brigade is one instructor and two assistants, which is i❑ 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, 4th 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. Bailer, at Worley. 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 3d Depot Battalion, occupying the Hut Barracks, within the line of fortifications 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 the 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 ciency of the troops under arms. They were then put through the manual and platoon exercises by Capt. Barrett, Ist battalion, 19th Regiment, senior captain, and subsequently Major -Gen. Rumley inspected the non-commissioned officers and men, who went through the bayonet exercise under the direction of Capt. S. A. Cleeve, 51st Regiment. The inspec tion was brought to a close by the battalion being exercised in a variety of field and other manceuvres, 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 earne3tly 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 his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of York, the Duke of Rutland, the Dake 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. Leonards, 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, Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, 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 Home 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. Milnes, the Rev. Dr. Whewell, Mr. U. Grote, Lord R. 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 R. I. Murchison, Professor Owen, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Lord Elcho, Mr. A. 11. Layard, Hon. A. Kinnaird, Viscount Bury, the Field Officer of Brigade in Waiting, Lord John Manners, Sir Hugh Cairns, Sir David Dundas, Lord Taunton, Lord Hardinge, Sir John Ramsden, Mr. W. 11. 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. Curzon, 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— May it please your Roy a l Hi ghnesses, my Lord, and Gen tlemen, I have the honour t t o h p e r g o r p ac os i e ou to s y pa o t u re ' n 'T e h f e t H hi e s altho her Majesty the Queen , 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,land in illustrating their eminent qualities—can subdue the farce 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 sineure and universal respect will, we trust, add to those sources of consolation which still surround her Majesty, and of which not the least is the devoted and affectionate loyalty of her subjects. (Loud cheers.) The t oas t was drunk with all the honours. The PRESIDENT, in (proposing the next toast, said — When the distinguished guests of the Royal Academy, on a p n lac o e c , ca t s h io e n ov li e k rp e o t w h eg wereerinprezt,Which h ltaset Royal assem Family bled in a th n i d s the pi eolst e toa countryrterinbduethrea i d tt susta o ined m, o o v i a y s t h o t a t o . t f r e e st c i e v n e t o a e n e d as too severely toon, pro pose Royal Highness the 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 off ere d ; and, if so, nowhere more fitly than in an institution espec i ally connected with the Fine Arts, which:he especially encouraged—(cheers) —or more worthily than on an occasion wh en th e 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 THE SUN, LONDON, AIONDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1863. to pr pose is s 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 lelajesty'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 inst 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 f,,r, and I may be permitted to adl 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 has been celebrated throughout the nation—(cheers)—and 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 evenirg, (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 loyally. (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 welcome. 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 enabled me to spend this evening in so distin guished an assembly. Still more gratified have I been by the cordial way in which you have welcomed me, and in which yc.o have drunk my health and that of the Princess. While I return my warmest thanks in both our 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,—l 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 whim 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 seen with the greatest delight that by the side of the works of those whose names are familiar to all there are worki 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 wanta 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 ho is basking in an African sun, and he may feel imaginary warmth from the representation of a tropical climate. (Laughter.) If, on the other hind, 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 undeithe cooling shade of the most luxuriant foliage; he 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 for 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 will 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 discourse 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 don't, 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 these walls seeing two gentlemen, who evidently, from their remarks, were very good judge s o f h orses , l oo ki ng w ith th e greatest admiration upon the we ll-k nown pi c t ure o f L an d seer, the Horseshoein g 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 ) a t interestlVe Well, ge i n u t A l e r m t e ; n b , said e l t h t a h t a a t p t h it c h li c presentm an sake, don't go t oo near; he will kick you. " (Loud cheers ut must la t u ak gh e t g e r r e . Government has an 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 art is est Ware artem. 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 saving. (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— 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 found 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 carry with me to the end of my days. (Cheers.) If you wilt 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, the 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 prJef,sion, and I most cordially, respectfully, and sincerely return you my best acknowledg ments. (Cheers ) The PRESIDENT Lest gave "The Royal Society, and the Health of its excellent President, General Sabine," which having been duly honoured, Sir R. Muncicisox rose and said—Sir Charles Eastlake, your Royal Highnesses, my 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 cue 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 ol 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.) Same 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 Pi ince Louis of Hesse, then re tired, being conducted by Sir Charles Eastlake to the Middle-room, where an elegant service of tea and c3ffee 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 Bo'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, Dormer, Payne, Smith, Hughes, Eglinton, Llewellyn, and Merrifield, carpenters' societies; Mr. Murray, bootcloser ; Messrs. Osborne and Nieass) 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 have 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 P. 11 ,57 nartieularly that relating to slay ery—pursued by President Lirre.hs, s whouL tney 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 public questions, which I believe they might do with great advan tage to the public and profit to th emse l ves. Mr. CREMER (joiner, and secretary to the meeting) then read the addressawhich 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 countryifelt 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 were, 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 fur 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 English 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. Nioass (plas terer) also addressed his Excellency in terms approving the policy of Mr. Lincoln, who they believed had acted strictly —too strict'y 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, lie 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 mere strong, as the public meetings on the subject certified. He thought it very important that his Excellency should take all necessary steps to make the rea state of public opinion in England known to the American people; this would be the best preventive of war. He saw that the New York Herald had not taken the slightest no tice of the 'Unionist rneeLing at St. James's-hall. Mr. BRIGHT --Th e A ew 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 in receiving your address to Mr. Lincoln. Representing, as I do, my country in England, you must be aware that I stand outside all local questions; therefore , it is not my province toex;essdisSatiefaction or satisfac- tion with those persons or parties in England who express their opinions u p on America. If there are any in this coun try who put a h arsh construction on th o conduct of th e American Governm en t it i s no t m y place to find fault or my right to criticise. It is however my duty to accept from the repre4entatives of a ny b o d y o f Eugliehialeu their 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, you at tend here as representing large bodies of working 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 infringe 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 take 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 du , y you impose upon the 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 race, of the same high spirit, 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 OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, SATURDAY REVIEW.—The only thing approach ing to a novelty that was discoverable in the debate of Wednesday 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 ono 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 paper, 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 the t, in doing so, he has made no 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 be, 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 ehou id retain the privilege of meeting at Berlin, and shoula 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 au 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. TILE 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 beyond 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 fcr 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 been 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 ironeads 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 et discretion. The Washington Government had, however, mistaken the strength of its ironclads. The vessels steamed badly, steered worse, and were not iti.pervious at all. All along the deep lagoon running up four miles into the land the Confede 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 har bour 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 half an hour were proved unequal to the test. The in vulnerable boats were riddled. EXAMINER.—The Orleanists and ex-stateEmen of the last French reign have planned to make an irruption into the Legislative body. The E mperor, in return, purposes t o 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. lie has certainly as good a claim to be there as M. do Came or Bishop Dupanloup. 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 (mg the Artiste frowned, the great majority of them, upon the Emperor, and refused to pay high homage. It cer tainly does honour to France and rrenehmen to mark how few were the first converts, end hot; slowly and gradually their numbers have been in creased. 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 persons 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 Emperor's political principles must soon be 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 thejudgment 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 Ciesardora 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 Thiers or Montaiembert 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 conduct, and admit the gradual extension of French liberty of speech and action. These are curious problems, which no doubt 1864 wilt 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 be dealt with as summarily es 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 ? Is 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 battm 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 offiee 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. Cos and Mr. I - ladfield 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 Swivellet]—never have they trained him up to cheer them with his glad bright eye, but when he came 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 short interval they used to re-appear on the other aide of the wall, radiant with new found 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 ang e l came f or Ch r i s ti an 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 tco 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 limes 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 par of the Halifax audience to feel the conviction creep ing on them as he spoke, that the white feathers of office might already be seen growing on the new• fledged official swan. Snort as was the interva. 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 Lancelot 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 a l most invariably in collision with somebody; and the late Sir James Graham and Mr. Cobdeu especially were the objects of the hon. gentle man ' s attacks. He used to make the most serious charges again s t th ose t wo 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. Fer rand became legislatively extinguished, and he ceased to ba 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 Davenport, 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 not 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 that long oratorical effort he rambled through a story, the contents of which might have been well told by a skilful speaker in half an hour. The House wag full when Mr. Ferranti_ began, but it becanlo ially to see what st ß e u r l y vr atl er tt long hadco b ni e e fo d r o e w h n e s h p a e d e concluded. Sir in the Ferrand exhibition , might possibly turn up fa la y 1 I t a t l on d man. able Member. The right hono urable novelist half, but "sr and he took his seat immediately u nder the honour able sat out the ordeal for an hour and a he was not ' a i— s we have said the attendance he walked away, ant -7 9°f against a further infliction , a nd so very rapidly thinned down. ATFIEN/EUM —A little more than a century ago, the old " Jarvey" began to die La— the cart was glorified because the old Merovingian kings had nothing better to move about in, so has the hackney-coach had its glories and its day. In itself) it was a melancholy and fallen greatness. Ta d s vehicle full of its cite had once been the carriage P , `• a peer, but had come to grief. It sometimes came to worse than that, and in Charles the Second's time it was found convenient for the commission of murder. 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 ans 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 drove by in their own carriages. Who forgets the story how Harle quin Rich leaped out of one into a coffee-room tied back again after the driver had looked for him in vain ? and how Jehu ultimately refused his fare, shrewdly suspecting that the gentleman was the devil ? In the old prize-money days, it was the favourite joke of halt a-dozen sailors to ride in a dozen and a half of hackney-coaches. They were almost as capacious as a man-of-war, and Fountayne Wilson, M P. for Yorkshire, using one as a dressing room, on going from the house to dinner, broke down opposite the Horse Guards, where the hilari ous mob, on rushing to his rescue, foetid that eccees trio and rarely-washed gentleman with two pairs of pantaloons and neither of them on ! But the glory of the cld hackney -coach consisted in the fact that for many years the regalia of England, crown, sceptre, and other finery, thrust into blue bags, were brought from the Tower to the Parliament 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 g lory culminated when the Princess Charlotte ran away in one, from Warwick House, to her mother, in Connaught-place. When the number of that happy carriage was known, all the foolish part of London wanted to ride iu 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 tribe deposited at the Hackney-coach Office in Essex' street a bundle of bank-notes which had been left in his conveyance, his name, address, and number were published abroad, as making in the aggregat e something marvellous and worthy of remembranc e. The French cabriolet, which had just previous' , " been introduced—a covered gig with the driver sit ting at your side—was an odious invention ; but it was the forerunner of that cab which we now Pee" SEM, and which conveys blushing brides to church , fevered babies to the grave, smitten paupers to th e small-pox hospital, and bevies of children to pan' tomimes. In no other civilised country is such it horrible state of things permitted by the Govern' men t ; and the disease and death thereby engendere d make the modern cab as dreadful a machine to our selves as ever the old British chariots of Cassivelaw nus were to the invaders. Considering what th e cab has fallen to, with its driver, we rejoice to hea r that we are to have new and elegant vehicles, fin e horses, courteous drivers, and low fares. All this tg' at least, promised in the prospectus of a new tom' , 1 pany ; and we hail th e h a l c y on d a y s w hi c h a re said to be approaching, when we may enter a handsome carriage with complacency. THE CRITIC.—The reputation of Mr. John Stuar t Mill is quite equal to his merits; perhaps some , even of his admirers, m a y thi n k th a t it i s s lightly beyond them. A cu t e , l uc id, l og i ca l t o a no table degree, Mr. Mill is seldom suggestive, never pro, found. We admit him to be one of the great roll ters of modern thought, w hil e d eny i ng him E l l claim to genius. He is a master of language as We' as of thought—so far as language is a pure, WO' loured medium. But we generally yearn for la il guage to be something more th an thi s — to hale warmth and colour. The extreme transparency Mr. Mill's speech charms for a page or two ; b u afterwards it grows wearisome, f or , lik e a broo x wandering slowly through a m ea d ow , it ne ver ris es above, or falls below the dead l eve l o f th e c l ea rest e; position. We can never mistake Mr. Mill s ' meanly:'' but then the meaning is rarely w e i g hty. As - „ 0 intellectual discipline, Mr. Mill' s bo o k s have - 0 ordinary worth; but woe to him who expects W il l them one single minutest particle of intellects food. Mr. Mill has carefully cultivated his nod a mind, and all his productions are fi n i s h e d and eh"' rate. Yet the absolute lack of s p on t aneo usness a ll ss imagination irresistibly rep e l s us . I n th e abseny; of the creative, Mr. Mill has a species of organisil faculty. But though the organism i s s y mese trie e s enough, Mr. Mill cannot breathe into it the breat's of life. Brought up by on a bl e f at h er , uncl (3 ` Benthareite influences, Mr. Mill remains esseetial l { a Benthateite apostle. It is therefore fisting ttl a d he snould expound and vindicate more hill sn ts fervently than he h as , e t d one th e Benthanl i d , evangel. The essay on Utilit ar i an i sm h as alrel l 4 appeared in Fraser's M agaz i ne. an d d ou btless lu s , Mill's name will gain for i t d ue attent i o n. P i ss cussion it is not likely to p rovo k e ; part ly becau e , it is not characterised by any novelty, p ar tly becan to Mr. Mill is at once too judicial and too judicious se annoy or to excite opponents; and partly beea u t i the interest in phil osop hi ca l su bj ects, neve r T e o strong in England, is, for the moment, feebler ti? o r usual. U t ilit ar i an i sm i s con f esse dl y a revivo' o Epicureanism; a revival without, so f ar a s we et see, being an improvement. Epicurus tauf os metaphysical as well as moral principle; and it l i st a metaphysical as well as mora l sys t e m Epicureanism must be judged. But Benthanl Hof equally destitute of metaphysical insight 613 o re poetical inspiration. M r . Mill h as not much Lti of either than the founder of utilitarianism. auarter of r. If COUNTRY MARKETS. , b , NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. heat" This corn market t o -d a y was poor l y supp li e d w ith 'iv; qt but there was a fair demand, and piices were 10 P h c : r iel higher than heret o f ore , O n l y a samp l e or two of ',oe. offering, which rea li se d a b out l ate rates. O ats a l s o sc' 4 9o, White wheat, from 43s to 53s ; red wheat, 4 2 s to Onto Barley—malting, 32s to 41s ; grinding, 27s to 29 5• t 410 old, at 2.5 s to 31s Od; n ew , 22 s t o 28 s . B eans sold to 45s per gr, Flour, 31s to 40s. YORK—SATURDAY. The show of wheat was limited to-day, a nd sales WO readily made at is p er qr a d vance on last week. B ali fil scarce, with a steady d eman d, an d pr i ce s as of late. ' oats, beans, and p eas littl e d o i ng . 24/ Wheat, red 42s to 45s Oats.... 2os to 40 White do .459 to 508 Beans ... 38 , to A Barley .29s to 35s Peas ........„ to ssi Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; rye, 34s per qr ; flou r ' to 36s per sack. GR ANTHAM —SATURDAY. ,63t.; New white wheat, 48s to 51s; red, 45s to 48s Per,: 300 i b maltino• barley, 38 s to 43s per qr ; grinding, 28s old oats, 23s to26s; beans, 358 to 38s; peas, 34s to 37 LEICESTER—SATURDAY. 3 6 Old white wh ea t, — s to —3 ; new, 44s to 5 0 s Mgri stone. Old red,,4Bs to 52s per 36 stone. Barley, is oa t _t new, 34s to 39 s p er qr . ; grinding , 27s to 30s; 0- veal 27s to 30 s; new oa t s , 22 s to 28s per 24 stone. new, 35s to 39e; old, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. NORWICH—SATUUDAY. , , There was a less supply of wheat to-day, but 'nand at the full price, of last week; in some install bar deed, quotations were 6d to is higher. The suPPI) ° ley is nearly exhausted, at f ormer ra t es. 46 White wheat. 46s to 48, 1 Red wheat ,:toto a °', Malting barley ...38s to 40 s 1 Ch eval i er barley 'T to Distilling d 0..... 33s io 35 s I O a t s.. 2 Flour, 32s 6d to 33s Od per sack from the raille> Births. MELVILLE.—On the 30th ult., at Branston Recto r Y' colnshire, the Hon. Mrs. A. S. Leslie Melville' daughter. (10013leg° SOUTTIESK.— On the 29th ult., at Edinburgh, the of Southesk, of a daughter. e Wife WAKE.—On the Ist inst., at 2, James-street, W., of H. Wake, Esq., of a son. Marriages. CHEESMAN—MICROLSON.— O n th e I s t i ns t., East Moulsey, Frank, only son o f t h e late 11• s ,-Ve3P of Esq., of the Faulkeners, H a dl ow , K en t, to Ellz - v 6 q., - second daughter of the late J ose ph Mi c holsooy "- London. Cla lir PILTER—WILSON- On 29th ult., at Jesinon-,liiabe Wm. Fred. Filter, E sq ., o f N or th Shi e lds. to .v. l fA , Fanny, only daughter of the late Ralph Wi l6°l3 ' of North Shields. " - vivos ducunt de marmore vultus." (Cheers.) I trust, therefore, the sculptors will excuse us for having d one no t , per h aps, t h e b est they m i g h t h ave wished, b u t, at l east, for having relieved them a little from the darkn ess o f t h at Cymmerian cellar in which their works were hid. (Ch eers.) I beg again to thank you, gentlemen, for the h onour you have done me in drinking my health. (Loud chee rs .) The next to a d wee, 44 The Interests of Literatue," in Deaths. wilii 9° AYItE.—On the Ist inst. , at St. Leonard's-on -S "' Ayre, Esq., of Hull, aged 63.. g rYn Pe' DESANGES.—On the Ist l as t , at Nice, Louis - 8 sanges, Esq., aged 73. t, a or. ~"g e d 7 6 ' e GARDINER.—On the I s t ir.st.. at 22 Gordon-'t don-square, R awson B o dd am G ar di n er, EA , ' .-. C 110 1. a PRYCE.—On the 29th ult. at 15, Oxford-terrace: ,ec i 80. Pryce, Esq., of Abbey Lodge, Morton, 5 11, ' n t 0 DO' PONSONBY.—On the Ist inst , in Londou, Chan' r 'llf bazon Punsonby, Esq. . , 33 ark - W e TusLEY.---On the 2d inst , at his residence, Den - i a ti el ,-- ' Hugh Tilsley, Esq , Assistant Solicitor of In. 3 1 01 venue, aged 68. . WAuD.—On the 30th ult., suddenly, Christeovil:N% Esq., of Claremont •terrace, reiavill e ) Bgc n itE o ' .- ic..- l ig, London : Printed and Published by WILLIA-14 ll' e, isTo. Cr of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN o ,e c ol ipti v Strand, in the Precinct of, the Savoy, 111 t' Middlesex.—ktpuday, Uay_4, 101