The Sun. — London, England, 1854-07-14 00:00:00

cks of steamers to see a British squadron lying peaceably at its moorings, prepared to take on board 10,000 French troops to act in concert with their forces. The national animosities and the disastrous features of the past may well be forgotten and for given, in the presence of an act so pleasing and so unique as that which will be witnessed at Calais to day, and other medals, more truthful than those struck by the first Napoleon, and which bore the inscription, " Descente en Angleterre, frappe Londres, 1804," might fairly commemorate this pleasing instance of the close alliance of the two nations. The proclamation of the Emperor to the troops ordered for embarkation for the Baltic was yeter day almost the only subject of conversation. The general opinion is certainly in its favour, as saying all that was sufficient, without using a word use lessly. This document was issued after the grand review of the troops. A copy of the proclamation was immediately afterwards distributed to each of the soldiers. The troops then filed off, and marched towards Calais and the neighbouring villages, to be ready for embarkation. Copies of the proclama tion were yesterday morning placarded on the walls in all parts of Paris, and were read with uni versal interest. 40,000 troops are spoken of for the northern ex pedition. It is probable they will be employed to occupy and to defend Sweden, if necessary, from any attack of Russia during the winter, and the co-operation of Sweden seems to he made sure of. Persons in office appear now extremely well pleased with Austria, about which there were some shades of doubt, and some slight dissatisfaction. Now, however, the moral atmosphere is like the sky—. the clouds have cleared away and the sun shines out gloriously. At the reception at the Foreign office it was remarked that M. Drouyn de Lhuys was in the highest spirits while conversing with M. Hubner, the Austrian Minister. THE CAMP AT BOULOGNE. The site occupied by the present camp, or rather series of camps, extends along the coast for a dis tance of nearly six miles from the town of Bou logne—from the Fort de la Grace to Honvault and Vimereux. The force at present encamped con sists of the 12th, 13th, 15th, and 41st light and Tine regiments of battalions,_ and some companies of engineers. On each side of the village of Vimereux the line of tents and huts extends for about an equal distance. When the huts are com pleted, a division of not less than 30,000 men may be accommodated. The framework of the huts is formed of short poles, securely planted in the ground, and rising two or three feet above the sur face. Upon these are placed other poles, so as to form a ridge roof, which is neatly thatched with straw. The ends are built up of walls of clay, in which straw chopped short is mixed. At one end la a small square window, and at the other the door. The huts are about 14 feet square ; they are placed in rows of four and five deep, and extend a length of more than two miles. The tents are square, similar to those in general use in the French army, and accommodate from 14 to 16 men each. The Three per Cents. closed . yesterday at 70f. 6 5c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. closed at 97f. ; and the New Loan at 70f. 75c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,147 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,005 f. ; Havre, 570 f. ; Great Northern, 80 8 f. 75c. ; Strasburg, 772 f. 50c. ; New Shares, 617 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 922 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 827 f. 50c. ' • Western of France, 640 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 592 f. 50c. ; Great Cen tral of France, 490 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, 500 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 695 f. SPAIN. THE INSURRECTION.-DEFEAT OF THE INSURGENTS. The Moniteur of this day publishes a despatch from Madrid, of the 12th, to the effect that an en gagement had taken place in Valencia, between the insurgents and the Queen's troops, in which ;b4 prisoners had been taken, and the chief of the in surgents killed. MARKET - NE IVS-4T HIS DAY,. CORN EXCHANGE. The quantity of English wheat received up to our mar ket this week coastwise has amounted to 1,230 quarters. Fresh up to-day the receipts were scanty, and the show of samples was limited, yet the demand for all kinds was confined to immediate wants, at Monday's currency. ' With foreign wheat we were heavily supplied, and we have to report a fresh arrival, amounting to nearly 17,000 quarters. The trade for all descriptions was heavy, but we have no actual change to notice iu prices. In floating cargoes next to nothing was doing. The show of barley was moderate, whilst the sale for best kinds was inactive, on former terms. The malt trade was very dull, and prices showed a ten dency to decline. The oat trade was dull, and the quotations wore rather easier. Beans, peas, and flour commanded very little attention. Wheat. 1,130 ARRIVALS TUIB WEEK. Barley. Malt. 1 Oats. Flour. 193 3,170 1,380 450 780 21,570 1.590R1ts 4,880br1 English .. Irish •• • • Foreign .. 16,96 - 0 I 3,520 SMITHFIELD. To-day's market was well supplied with beasts as to number but their general quality was inferior. For m ost breed s we had a fair demand, at .11onday's prices. Sheep, the number of which was tolerably good, moved off steadily, at full quotations. There was a slight falling off in the sale for lambs, but no change took place in their value. Prime small calves sold freely, at extreme rates. Other wise the veal trade was rather dull. The supply was ex tensive. Pigs sold on former terms. Mulch cows were rather dull, at from 14t. to 191. Os. each, including their small calf. Per fllbs to sink the offals. s. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Prime Sonthdowu 410 5 0 Second quality.... 3 8 4 0 Largo crse. calves 3 4 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 2 .4 8 Prime small d 0... 4 6 410 Prime Scots, (to. 410 5 0 Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 Small porkers 4 4 4 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 2 Sucklingcalves ..22 0 29 0 Primo crse.-wlled.4 4 4 8 4 Quarter old pigs 21 0 28 0 Lambs 4s 8d to 5s 10d. TOTAL SUPPLE. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep Calves .• •• .. 500 Calves,.... ...... 420 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The general demand ruled steady, and prices were well supported. Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. I __ 8. d. 8. d. Beef, inferior 3 2 3 4 I Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 I Do., middling 3 8 4 2 Do., prime large .3 10 4 2 Do., prime 4 4 4 8 Do do. small .... 4 4 4 8 ! Veal 3 4 4 8 Pork, large 3 4 4 0 Pork, small 4 2 4 10 Lamb 4B 6d to 5s Bd. BORO UGH HOP. --- - The very unfavourable accounts from the plantations have produced considerable firmness in our market to-day, and prices have adv ance d f u ll y 20 s per' cwt. The duty fluctuates between 45,0001. and 55,0001. The imports are only 24 bales from Hamburgh. Prices .were as follows :—Mid and East Kent pockets, 10/. 10s to 131. 13s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 91. lOs to 11/. lle ; Sussex ditto, 91. 5s to 111. Os per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, July 14.—Wind this day at Noon, Westerly ; light breeze, and cloudy, with rain. SHEERNESS, July 13.—Wind, N.W. %Arrived—Alex ander, from Memel. RAMSGATE, July 13.—Wind, S.S.W. Sailed—Capella, for Batavia. OFF DOYAR, July 12.—Arrived—Minerva, from New castle, for Malta; Karen and Marthea, Lubea, for Spit head; Henrietta, for Bombay. PORTSMOUTH, July 13.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Jason (s s), from Constantinople ; Betsy, Cadiz ; Mooltan, Lon don, for Hobart Town, and proceeded for Southampton ; Margaret Evans do. for for New York ; Ottom a n, L on d on ; Sybel, do. ; Phantom,. do., all three for Varna. Sailed— Her Majesty's steamer Stromboli, for the Downs. FALMOUTH, July 13.—Wind, N. Arrived—Buen Jesus, from Havannah ; Jane, Oran ; Agile, Zante ; Swea, Odessa. S ailed—Apame, for Barcelona. Off Port—Orient, from Girgenti, and sailed for Newcastle. PLYMOUTH, July 13.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Apel line, from London, for Melbourne; Louisa Shelbourne, do., for Belize. SOUTHAMPTON, July 13.—Arrived—Iberia (s), from Gibraltar. CWlts July 13.—Wind, W. Arrived—F or t una, f rom Rio Janeiro, and sailed for. Bremen. HULL, July 13.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Barone Kulmer, from C ons t an ti nop l e; S un d er l an d ( s ) , R otterdam; Norfolk, do. PooLE, July 13.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Se cre t, f or Newfoundland. MEMEL, July B.—The Benhard, of Papenburg, from Lond on to Cronstadt and the two Courland-decked boats which w ere brought into the roadstead 3d July, as prizes to H.M. steamer Conflict, came into the harbour yesterday. ELsiNoau, July 9.—An English steam frigate passed this morning to the southward, but did not communicate with the land. GIIIRALTAR, July 2.- The Mary , arrived here last night from M arseilles, reports that, on the morning of the 30th June, being towards carried by the current during calm weather Tres Foreas, the acc'harBit of Riff, about 20 miles west of Cape g, aPparently loaded, was ,ibserved to be attackediby several Riffian boats and a fire of musketry was kept up for a time, which, is doubt, ended in the capture of the mercha n t man. The wind getting up that some oth er y shortly, the Mar was enabled t o escape, but it is feared coast, may hav e f allen i vessels, which were also near the Riff nto the hands of the pirates. July 4.—The Veronica (rh schooner lately wrecked on the b ar of Lara ß che iti ; s ew re saved ) , and s arrived here. H.M. steam -sloop Prometheus steamed for the . coast of Riff 3d J u l y, in order to rescue another vessel. taken by the Riff pirates. OF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday, •10 a m • Wind W.N.W., and c l ou d y. Arrived—lsAella Scott, from Para; Racehors e , Leg horn; Talfen, Christiana; Paul, Danzig • Q Aulatordana ;. Margaret (a.), H avre; Mine Is.), uatro Bras, Oporto. OTHER BUSINESS DONE. LINES LEASED.—London and, Greenwich, 121 ; Man chester, Buxton, and Matlock, 21 ; Royston, Hitchin, and Shepreth Stock, 133; Wear Valley, guaranteed 6 per cent., 29130. j. PREFERENCE SHARES.—Eastern Counties Extension, i; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 107, MlNES.—Brazilian St. John del Rey, 23 ; Santiago de Cuba, 4t JOINT STOCK BANKS. — Australasia, 814 ; London Char tered Bank, 20 ; Oriental Bank Corporation, 47i. MISCELLANEOUS.—CanatIa, Government 6 per cent., 107; Crystal Palace, 413 54/ ; Do. New B shares, 34 ; E'ectric Telegraph, 204 ; General Steam Navigation, 25; North British Australasian, / ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 51j ; do., do., 434 ; TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS AND OUTCASTS.--At the Court of Common Council, yesterday, a recommendation of the Corn, Coal, and Finance Committee for a grant of 1051. to the Metropolitan Industrial Refuge for Cri minals and Outcasts was discussed. The proposal was strongly opposed by Mr. Deputy Elliott, who said that to encourage such a proposition in favour of criminals — g enerally an able-bodied class, as well able to fight as to break the laws—at a time when soldiers and sailors were required for service, was wholly unworthy the cor poration. This sentimental system was one of the grand humbugs of the day, and to encourage it was only to hold out a temptation to dishonesty. The grant was, however, carried by a large majority. SCOTTISH CENTRAL R AlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending July 9, 1854 £3,118 18 0 Corresponding week last year 3,041 2 11 a SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS, Closing Prices this day. Business done this day. Aberdeen. Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh k Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh d► Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20►.. . Blyth &Tyne origina. £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall erica' Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New I East Anglian Do., (XlB E Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock De B. Stock _ _ Do.; New A, East Lancashiro Edinburgh& Glasgow Ediub. and Peebles Edin. Pith &Dundee Forth & Clyde June. ‘=l,l.asgow & S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock , Do., B. Stock. Gt.Sth.&West.(lre.) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Etaneaster &Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. Now Thirds Lanuash.audYorksh Do., Fifths D ). , Wst. Riding Diu Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwal Lond. Mb. &Sthend. Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh., DUD._ Do. Eighth 5......... LondonandS. Westu. Do., £5O Do., £4O Lnndrryd:Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Aanch.Shef.& Lineln Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. l3irmng. &Derby Miclld. G. West. (I re.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket 5i Do., Bury Extension. 19 Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd. 7i Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevur., .00 Norfolk .. Northn.Counties Un, North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 tt A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North London IDo. New £lO N. &S.Wstrn. ,Hamp. stead, and City Ju., North Staffordshire , North Western N.& S. Westru. June, Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth 'Scottish Central (Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Bi i tug. Do. L. & N. 'Western Guaranteed St cc.k Shrewsby. & Hetofd Shrewsby. & Closte: (N. W. Min,;,, Do. Halves, c.. Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do, A, B, C,& D,fully Mpaid up at per cent outh Devou ISouth Eastern.. South Wales . S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darliug Stockton & Hartlepl Taff Vale Do. £lO shares... Do. Pref., No, 1, Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerieb: West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn & Croydon' York Newetl.&Berw.i Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase, York& N. Midland FOR. Antwerp& Rotterdam Belgian Eastu. Juno. lieziors to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda,aud Central I n dia,Serip Central of Italy Charleroi St Erqueliu Demerara Lyon and Besancon luteh Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Junct. of France Grd. Trunk of Cans& Do. Debentures Do. do (it. Central of France Gt. Western of Canal. Shares . . Do. Bands (Ist is.)'s7 Hamilton & Toronto o. 6 per cent. 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THE SUN', LONDOV, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1854. LITERATURE. the Iron Cousin • or, Mutual Influence. By Mary Cowden Clarke, Author of " The Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines," &c. Routledge. This is a very interesting story. The incidents are ingeniously narrated, and the events occur in a natural and truth-like manner. The Squire, with his good-natured, easy character, was just the sort of person to go on heedlessly from day to day, un thinking of the morrow, and unmindful of the exi gencies of future demands. Kate Ireton, the heroine, is a delightful being, full of enthusiasm, energy, and intelligence. In the delineation of this truly natural disposition the authoress has been eminently successful. We meet with no sen timental maiden and no romantic damsel, but a genuine woman. Her great fault was wilfulness, but it was one easily accounted for and readily ex cused under her circumstances. Her uncle, the good old Squire, thought of nothing else in the world before his niece. He wished her to be happy, supremely happy, and he erred in judgment, not in feeling. Kate was happy for a time, but not with the joy that lasts. She amused herself with the eager excitement of a young and ardent nature, impatient of remonstrance and indignant at con trol. The only person who did not yield a ready compliance to her wishes was Fermor Worthington —" the Iron Cousin," as Kate playfully styled him, in consequence of their relationship and his being of a lofty and commanding temper. With this latter individual the young heroine kept up a perpetual skirinish. After many misunderstand ings and mistakes on all sides, Fermor went abroad. During his absence the Squire, Heathcote, died suddenly. As he had left no will of his personal property, all went to the heir in entail, and the unfortunate object of his solicitude in life was by his death reduced to beggary. Kato Ireton, how ever, possessed a spirit which, although overbear ing in prosperity, was strong in adversity. She supported herself, and was as calm and collected in trouble as she had been sportive and fearless in gayer hours. After great troubles and hindrances, she was enabled to establish herself in a small com petency in the village near which she had once re sided in a style of princely magnificence. Fermor Worthington returned to find his valued cousin as nertrly perfect as seemed possible. Trial had re moved the only unworthy attributes of her noble character. Solitude and reflection had taught her wisdom that all her uncle's wealth could never have procured her. Fermor Worthington himself had somewhat softened down in the interim. His manner had lost that sternness and harshness which had before been its chief defects. A more attractive heroine than Kate Ireton can hardly be imagined, and it is therefore with pleasurable feel ings that the reader beholds a brighter future rise before her at the conclusion of the story. The " Iron Cousin" may well sustain the fame of the authoress by the elevation of its sentiments, the ability of its descriptions, and the charm of its pathos and expression. I Philip _Rollo ; or, the Scottish Musketeers. By James Grant, Author of the " Romance of War," "Jane Seton," &c. 2 vols. Routledge. This novel is of the romantic style in incident and personages. The hero is neglected by his family, and accordingly abandons his home and country, and sets out with a cousin to join the Scottish forces, then abroad assisting Christian, king of Denmark. He met with a variety of re markable adventures, and when made prisoner by the enemy's forces on one occasion he was taken to the mansion of a Count, whose acquaintance he had previously made during the war. He was here introduced to his host's daughters Ernestine and Gabrielle. He contrived to escape, and, the tide of fortune changing, the fair sisters were afterwards made captive by Rollo's friends. Philip was soli citous to return them the kindness they had pre viously shown to him in trouble, but the impru dent maidens left his protection, and set off to seek their father, whom thoy believed dying. A very interesting scene takes place when Ernestine, the most spirited of the two, contrives to make the brigand who had betrayed them swallow the drug he had prepared for her. She then escaped, and soon made her way back to her captors, but also her'friends. Poor Gabrielle, the other victim, was not so fortunate. She was murdered by the wretch who had devised the scheme of getting the sisters away to fulfil his own purposes of self-aggrandise ment. The termination is more satisfactory than the reader expects, for Ernestine, who is reported dead from cholera, to the great joy of her father, and Philip Rollo recovers suddenly, having only fallen into a stupor. The party returned to Scot land, where, in their native land, they endeavoured to forget the stormy scenes they had passed through in foreign countries. My Friends and Acquaintance. By P. G. Pat more, Author of " Chatsworth," &c., 3 vols. Saunders and Otley. These volumes belong to a class of works which has lately increased in number. Some critics ob ject, and perhaps with reason, to their publication, on principle. It is demurred that literary men will never be able to indulge in social uureserve with their friends, if their words and peculiarities are treasured up for the subsequent information of the public. Others affirm that authors are public cha racters, and that every detail of their life and con versation is the privilege of their admirers or critics. Setting aside this disputed point, few will deny that the present work is written in a suffi ciently impartial spirit, and that it contains many interesting remarks and anecdotes. It professes to be a collection of " memorials, mind-portraits, and personal recollections of deceased celebrities of the nineteenth century, with selections from their unpublished letters." Among these memorials we find many well-known names. The following is a list of the chief sketches :--Charles Lamb, Camp bell, Lady Blessington, Plumer Ward, H. and J. Smith, William Hazlitt, and Laman Blanchard, with some recollections of Richard Brinsley Sheri dan. The latter include some selections from un published papers, which do not seem likely to en hance the author's reputation. Among some curious incidents mentioned is the fact that the famous Rejected Addresses really deserved their title, having been rejected by several publishers successively, "not one being willing to take upon himself the risk of publishing, amounting to some twenty th r o o r u g t h h i s r o t i y n e t pn h o i u ng d pounds k w e h a e reas, dozen a e f d te i r t o i had n t s ,its gone fortunate eopyrig ut authors l a r s g o l e d s t u h m e o f remaining money, t le r b m e l of the fe v ea thousand thirty-first po edition."und pounds, ati the Perhapsvolnm volume th is ss notsince generally reached a known that the last novel of Mr. P lumer Ward Ward, " De Clifford ; or, the Constant Man," was written when he was between seventy-five and seventy-six years of age. It must be remembered that it was published in four thickly-printed volumes, equal, it is observed, to mole than two ordinary novels of the present day. Many such anecdotes or pieces of information will be found in these volumes, which, if not possessing the highest qualities of style or subject, will afford the reader much enter tainment, and serve to occupy agreeably an idle hour. Ambrose the Sculptor. An Autobiography of Artist Life. By Mrs. Cartwright, Author of " Christa belle." Two vols. Smith and Elder. This work is not, as its title would lead us to suppose, entirely devoted to art. It partakes more of the character of a romance, as may be judged from the motto, which is—" Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm ; for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which lath a most vehement flame." Ambrose Arnold, the autobiographer, is born in Italy, his father a reck less genius, his mother a virtuous and devoted parent, who, nevertheless , is the cause of great un happiness to her son. He inherits his father's rgeniusel hu s f t o u r d s i e c s u l a p t i u the r e, houseand a f o t f e r vi histe deathVitelli, an old friendqtiar ina and distinguished teacher. He becomes attached to Carmen Vitelli, his master's only daughter, a prima donna at the Opera. Before he has con fessed his feelings, Carmen becomes seriously ill, and Ambrose is summoned by his mother to accom pany her to England. She is of an old Welsh family, and her only brother has at last forgiven her imprudent marriage, and invited her and her son to come and live with him. They accordingly depart, to the great mortification of Ambrose, and Carmen, who has lost her voice from illness, accom panies her father to Havana. There they are both seized with yellow fever, and the father dies. Car men is also reported to be dead. Meanwhile, Am brose hearing this report is persuaded by his mother on her deathbed to marry his cousin Lilith, his uncle's only child and heiress. On the eve o f the wedding-day he discovers that Carmen lives ; and feeling himself committed to her from a letter be bad written to her father, the unhappy sculptor is placed in a most awkward position. Lilith ex tricates him from it by assuring him that he is in honour bound to Carmen, who, poor and destitute, has arrived in Europe. To the indignation of his uncle lie breaks off the engagement with Lilith, departs from Wales, and marries Carmen. They live happily for some time, but doubts, jealousies, and misfortunes arise, and they emigrate to Ame rica. After some years they return, and after many complicated events Carmen poisons herself from jealousy of Lilith. Ambrose subsequently rises to eminence in his profession, and at length ends his career full of honours. _ It will thus be seen that those who expect to find in this work a record of the toils and triumphs, the sufferings and successes of the artist, will be disappointed. It does not trace the variations of temperament, the high aspirations, the struggles of the sensitive spirit and inspired mind with a pre judiced and calculating world. It will be, there , fore more :‘ttractive to the lover of romance than to the student of art, to the novel reader rather than to the psychologist. Most readers wilt agree iu preferring the gentle yet high-principled Lilith to the passionate and imperious Carmen, whose suicide extinguishes the pity that might otherwise be felt for her. At least the author spares the reader the marriage of Ambrose and Lilith at the conclusion, whi c h i s b u t too genera l a termination to such tales. The authoress has, however, had sufficient good taste And discernment to avoid this, for which she is highly commendable. The following extract is from the introduction, in which the position of art and artists is con sidered;:— " Are such gifted men, then, to be honoured amongst us ? Have such men not in every age been found worthy of all honour ? Do not the names of Apelles, Phidias, Ra phael, M. Angelo, Bramante, Wren, and many others, attest it ? In old times : but are they now so honoured, especially in England ? The question is not new, and has been answered, Yes, and No. " Art is great, intrinsically great, It may advance from rude beginnings—develop e itself from simple germs—im prove in its scope and in its details—may become sta tionary, retrograde, degenerate , and recover itself again. "Art is a life, not of one man but of generations : it is a history of mind and men. But one man can embrace in his career but a small portion of the long progress of art. Every artist must begin, and it is long before he can reach oven the outskirts of high art. Can the patronage, the honour which is willingly and deservedly bestowed on the profession and the highest names in it, be indiscriminately lavished on the working majority ere they have attained the eminence of fame ? It is impossible : general patronage is all the majority can look to until the celebrity of some work raises the name of its author to public notoriety. Now, this working part of his career is of necessity the greater part of the life of the Artist—and if he meets due honour in the latter half of his career, it is unreasonable to complain of neglect in the former portion when the pinnacles of fame were occupied by an older race. "It may be disheartening, but it is not cruel : it can hardly be ordered otherwise. The man who shows most mental courage in persevering through long yeah of severe training, and whose strong heart braves the suffering of disappointment and delay, has already proved that force of mind which is the highest moral qua!ification of an sO4- co mplished Artist." Terningham : a Story._ 2 vols. Chapman and Hall. This novel has every appearance of being a first work. It has all the energy, vigour, and diversity of a new author, and, we must also add, some of the faults usually to be attributed to inexperience. Suc h some a s r t e i ,. k a i ng a n tof improbabilities connection o t he the incidents, plot, and w hie h mar the effect of a great variety of characters and events. It opens with the christening of the only child of Mr. Jerningham, a landed proprietor. A. large circle of friends are met to celebrate the joy ful occasion, and the gay party go in great state to the old church, where the infant heir receives the rite "with the priest before and the dead around." All these festivities are, however, soon stopped by the sudden death of Mr. Jernin g h am ; hi s w i fe sinks under the shock, and the her o i s l e ft an orphan. We next meet him running away from a school where he had been placed by his guar dian, Lord Haverdale. After Mr. Jerning ham's death it was discovered that owing to a pas.sion for gambling his entire fortune had gone, and the old family estate was lost. Jerningham comes to London to try his fortune as an author, and makes many strange acquaintances, one of the strangest being a young girl named Marie , who lives alone in an old house. Jerningham under takes her education, and she subsequently becomes an actress. They are much attached to each other, but Lord Haverdale refusing to sanction their union, Marie, unwilling to interfere with Jerning ham's prospects, becomes the wife of a rich baronet. , After some years he di es , but Jerningham refuses to be reconciled. H e h a s meanwhile, advanced in his professi on , an d i s a s uccessful author. At length he overcomes his anger and they are mar ried, and, like the good old fairy tales, " live happily ever after." But this romantic history does not occupy all the volumes. It is a sufficient proof that the author is not wanting in invention, as the above plot would be sufficient for many three volume novels. Many literary characters are introduced, some of them evidently being meant for portraits. There are also many exciting scenes respecting French politics about the year 1820. Jerningham accompanies Lord Haverdale to Paris, and becomes engaged in secret meetings and plots. The murder o f th Due de Berri is described, and many other striking events of that period, together with an attempted insurrection, which fails. The least agreeable part of the story is unquestionably that relating to Lord Haverdale, who does not win either admiration or interest. The episode of Ayesha, the Gipsy Girl, is one of the unlikely incidents to which we have alluded. The writer, however, is evidently possessed of talent and infor mation, and much inventive power ; and if he will be more careful in the construction of his plot, and avoid the improbabilities, we might even say improprieties, which at present interfere with the other parts of his narrative, we may ex pect from him a much higher production than "Jerningham." IMPERIAL P RLIAATENT. HOUSE OF LORD 6—( YESTERDAY.). BANKRUPTCY BILL. This bill passed through coimnittee. CONSOLIDATED FUND CHARGES BILL. Lord BROUGHAM objected to this bill being read a third time, till they had fairly and calmly considered in committee what officers should be exempted from schedule B, so that they would not have to depend for their salaries on the annual vote of the House of Com mons. Lord CAMPBELL expressed his satisfaction that the Masters of the Common Law Courts were to be ex empted from the operation of the bill. But there were others who should also have been exempted, as the Coin missioners of Lunacy. Lord LYNDHURST said that a minute inquiry would be necessary to ascertain what particular officers should be exempted. Earl GRANVILLE said, that if such was the feeling of the house, he would consent to postpone the third reading till Monday. Lord MONTEAGLE said that lie hoped then the Lords would be summoned for Monday, as the measure was a most important one. He would on Monday move that the bill be referred to a select committee. The bill was then postponed. OXFORD UNIVERSITY BILL. On the motion for the third reading of the bill, The Earl of CARLISLE said that oh a former occa sion he said that the private halls would be "retreats" for Dissenters. His wish was that the Dissenters should be fused with the general body of students in the univer sity. But if they were excluded from that by the impo sition of conditions which they considered to be incom patible with their religious belief, he said he hoped, and he did not shrink from the word, that the now private halls would be "retreats" for the Dissenters themselves. The bill was then read a third time and passed. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. IRISH LAND BILLS. The Earl of MALMES BURY rose for the purpose of calling the attention of the house to the conduct of the Government in reference to the Landlord and tenant, the Leasing Powers, and the Compensation for Im proveinent Bills—all of which referred to Ireland. These bills were introduced by the late Government, and when that Government left office they were re ferred to a select committee of their lordships' house. That commitee, of which the noble duke, the Lord Privy Seal, was a member, and who was considered to represent the Government in respect to these bills, recommended legislation with respect to the two former bills, but they did not think legislation was ad visable with respect to the third. He understood the noble duke to say that he did not think it necessary to press the passing of the Compensation Bill. The noble duke, the Secretary for War, said the Government took upon themselves the responsibility of the two former bills. An opposition was raised to them in the House of Commons on the part of a certain portion of the Irish members, which the Government ought to have treated in a manly way. He thought those bills would have passed in the present session, but he was awakened out of that delusion the day before yesterday, when the Secretary for Ireland announced that the Government would not press them this session. He had first repu• chated them as Government bills, and then expressed an opinion entirely at variance with that of the noble duke, that there was no absolute necessity for the mea sures. From subsequent communication with the noble duke, he learnt that he knew nothing of what was about to be done. This was a gross instance of insubordination on the part of an inferior officer of the Crown. Sir J. Young said there was no time to go on with the bills; but the delay, if any, must have been in the other house. He wished to know from the Government if it were true that these bills were to be abandoned, and why, and why Sir J. Young had taken upon himself to do this in contradictio❑ of other members of the Goverment. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said the noble earl had signally failed in making out any charge against t`►e Government in reference to these bills, great as was the ingenuity he usually displayed in getting up such charges. He had misrepresented what took place last session on those bills. When the bills came from the other house, he agreed to take them up, not as Govern ment bills, but as measures of which he approved. He had consented to do this at the request of Mr. Napier, understanding that there was little or no opposition to the bills ; but when they went into the select committee the opposition was so great that it was necessary to withdraw the bills In fulfilment of his pledge, he had brought in the three bills this session, in precisely the same forms•—not as Government bills, but in fulfilment of the pledge be had given in the last session. Now it was said the whole responsibility rested on the Govern ment, because the bills were introduced as Government bills. This was not so. They were referred to a select committee, presided over by the Duke of Argyle ; and on his representation that the bills were good bills, the Government had taken on themselves the responsibility of sending the bills down 'to the other house. But there they were taken charge of by Mr. Napier, who would not allow the Government the credit of them, so long as they were thought good bills, and likely to pass. They continued his bills up to Tuesday, when the dis cussion in committee came on. It was said they had gone down to the other house earlier than they came to this house last year, and that they had been thorougly sifted by their lordships. But the House of Commons could take no cognisance of that ; they must make their own investigation, the same as their lordships did. Down to the very last stage Mr. Napier had charge of the bills, and had actually given notice of eight pages of amendment, no less than two hundred in number. It was said the bills had been withdrawn ,by the Government. This was not so ; Mr. Napier would not allow the Government to withdraw his bill. They were still in the House of Commons, and were probably then under discussion. All that Sir J. Young did was to state that if the bills had been in his charge he should not, after the view expressed by the house, have pressed them further. He was of opinion that the bills, though good in themselves, could not be carried this session, and that to the present state of Ireland they were not abso lute!y necessary. He (the Duke of Newcastle) believed them to be good hills, and should regret if they did not pass this year. After a few words from several noble lords, the sub ject dropped, and the house adjourned at a few minutes past nine. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) The house resumed at six o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. ASSISTANT-SURGEONS IN THI NAVY.--By Mr. C. P VILLIERS, from the medical profession, to improve the po sition of junior assistant surgeons in the navy. BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—By Mr. HORSFALL, from the notaries of Liverpool, against the re-enactment of a clause in Bills of Exchange Bill, giving attorneys the privilege of notaries. PRESENCE OF ALIEN ENEMIES IN ENGLAND. Mr. I. BUTT gave notice that on going into committee of supply, he should submit a motion that this house con siders it necessary to declare that to encourage. the presence of an alien enemy of the realm, except with the license and safe conduct of her Majesty, is inconsistent with the spirit of the law and dangerous to the security of her Majesty's dominions. (Cries of " Oh.") BLOCKADING OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA. Mr. Hurl' asked the Lord President of the Council what was the actual state of the blockading operations un dertaken by the British Government in the Black Sea, and whether the Government contemplated an immediate blockade of all the ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoft ? Lord J. RUSSELL—In respect to the first question of my hon. friend the answer I have to give is, that there is au effective blockade of the mouths of the Danube, which has been regularly notified : but with regard to the second question, namely, what are the intentions of the Govern ment with regard to an immediate blockade of all the ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff, I am obliged to speak with reserve. Admiral Dundas came to an agree ment with Admiral Hamelin on this subject, but it was necessary that the proposition should be submitted at Constantinople and at Paris, as well as here, for the purpose of coming to au agreement on the subject. On the arrival of the proposition at Constantinople, Lord Stratford had some doubt whether the propo sition as made by the two admirals was in strict confor mity with the law of nations, and he thought it necessary to refer it to this country. .My noble friend, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has taken an opinion on the subject which is now being transmitted to Constantinople, and after that the intentions of the Government will be declared. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-July 13. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ARRIVED.-July 6.—Fancy, schooner, Rev. R. P. Hartopp, from the Channel Islands. B.—Camilla, schooner, J. E. W. Rolls ' Esq., from Portsmouth. 9. —Stormfinch, schooner, Lieut.-Colonel Brown, C.R., Eastward. 10.—Ione, schooner, Sir H. Oglander, Bart., Western Ports and Guernsey. 12. Julia, cutter, Wm. Peareth, Esq., Ireland and Greenock ; Stella, cutter, Rd. Frankland, Esq., Cherbourg ; Plover, yawl, Lieut.-Colonel Brown, Gravesend. 13. —Brilliant, schooner, G. H. Ackers, Req., South ampton. SAILED.—JuIy 7.—Stella, cutter, Rd. Frankland, Esq., for the Coast of France. 10.—Irene, schooner, Jos. Reynolds, Esq., London river. 11.-- Fancy, schooner, Rev. R. P. Hartopp, Western Ports and Ire land. 13.--Susan, yawl, Earl of Hardwick, Downs ; Titania, schooner, R. Stephenson, Esq., M.P., Lowe stoft ; *Shark, schooner, Wm. Curling, Esq., Lowestoft. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THS STATION.—AIarm, Zaza, Amazon, Fairy, Lavrock, Camilla, Spider, Cygnet, Dryad, Ripple , Titania, Osprey, Caprice, Enchantress, Lancashire Witch, Sultana, Geneva, Stormfinch, Julia, Stella, Plover, Shark, and Brilliant. EASTERN ARCRIPELAGO COMPANY. H. . ap per rdLoa iphntader sd e ; y ) company, At and a nd meeting bonus of of tilijls, fairlyde n d report was unanimou s l yu net revenue s is derived divisible from . hwee was st y wd e s t a a os t l e ae r r a xe a pd y i a, and explained eddd theivbiy t Wise,h e chairmanthefo ( u M nd r er the h have intahkee company, i calls, p a n t s h foy a ,t t baoe s sfy k tao oaprne,bruarminrnhebdgadertrebtehaxoi the e t i h i e ar b e o s n w u ble ' ofthrough a free gift made by Mr. beenthe realised. It is considered p edie n t lb , oodl h . oa n v lo e nw v o e u r tn , ot to make therefore proposed that to 30/, per share ; and it was 4f6u,t3u4rsel.period. consists of ca l ls proprietors should consent distributed being appropriated in st p : a b i t: t icle p ri ayment of these calls,l'hhae st ead leundertak in g , a vin paid s.per share to be present capital is 76,3451., quatel nadivtawncaes. stated into y ith the Peninsular and r e e n g n a t r r d an t t o b t a h s e p b r e o e g n r e es n s te o r f ed t a d de to the Y increase , and that a P t P h l e Y them with further quan- Pothfaiawdthatihteehacoal raised shows produce oi from the mines of Oriental Company to suppl y l d bate f e or smelting cheeko will shortly reach quan tities. t a i b e s u . a .! t- a i n s d e estimated a n t , : di main lhaantd of with this increase ftlrbsoe,lonooa requirementst scarcity o n tons pe r ofo f labour,t h month , e E nnaogniidslit,ha being apprehended Dutch, Spanish, and provided. Ship mentsdnrset, ei can imin pn coast of the Pacific accountng and other ' is the revenue . for the year opera ending the 30th of June, 1854 . t A o m m e e r e i e t aar t ne h e aslt l se a oa r l y ici e : To export charges on coal, freight s • &c.,,,,, To portion of expenses , estimated atlos. l / 15,177 16 9 Per ton, for r asing 22,400 tons of c0a1....... 11,220 0 0 To portion of prelimin ar y ex p ens es written a off for the past year' To profit carried down 100 0 0 11,470 6 2 11 By amount to credit for coal raised and £37 ' 968 2 sold to thi.; date ........................... £37,334 9 1 By earnings of schooner Sy dn ey , after de ducting outfit, &c... By interest receivable ••• 557 15 7 75 18 3 £37,98"8 2 11 Highness is repre sented of th e most costly M ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—Among the latest additions to this popular p lace of i nstruction and amuse oewivie,KincihTeigngtd:Traetlisst'earcsoteßmopayond jud gment has been went is A likenes-; of our m ost g ra cious Queen's moth er , materials, e a s in s n displayed. This portrait model will nearly complete the figures of our present Royal Family, and is one that will become popular, and attract much attention from the visitors. A WOMAN ROBBED Or 1101. IN EruLL.—On Thursday night, as Mrs. Cass, wife of a commercial traveller in Hull, was landing on the Corporation-pier from the New Holland packet, her pocket was picked of a long brown silk purse, containing 50 sovereigns, one 10/. Bank of England note, 501. in local notes, 15s, in half-crowns, and ls. The money was in a pocket under her dress, and the thief lifted up the dress to get at it. The boy who committed the robbery was seen to run away di rectly, but though pursued contrived to evade detection. He did not appear to be more than 14 years of age, and was seen just before the robbery talking to two men, of whom an accurate description has been obtained. have TlinocoDuirarexd among Go— vB t R h . re emigrants oo, july 13.—N 0 d ea th s since yesterday morning. A favouralde change has taken place in those who yesterday were reported dangerously ill, and hopes Li are entertained that they will all recover. The owners (Messrs. Coitart and Co.) have used the most praise worthy exertions to mitigate the sufferings of the un fortunate emigrants. - BLOCKADE OF THE WHITE SEA. Mr. HUTT then asked what were the intentions of Government with respect to the blockade of Archangel and the other ports in the White Sea. Sir J. GRAHAM said by arrangement with the French Government orders had beon transmitted to institute a blockade of the ports in the White Sea to commence on the Ist of August. ENFORCEMENT OF CONTRACTS BY NEUTRALS. Mr. It. PHILLIMORE asked the First Lord of the Ad miralty whether her Majesty's Government had received any information upon the subject of the Tribunal of Com merce at Hamburg having proceeded to enforce the fulfil ment of contracts entered into by neutrals before the breaking out of the war, for the purchase and carrying away of goods from the ports of Russia at present block aded by the allied fleets of Great Britain and France. Sir J. GRAHAM said since the hon. and learned gentle man gave notice of this question he had had no opportu nity of askin ,, his noble friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he *was cognisant of any such judgment. Ho (Sir J. Graham) had no official knowledge of it what ever. He had seen a report of it in the newspapers, but he confessed he did not believe it. If any such decision had been come to, it would appear to him to e entirely inconsistent with justice, and utterly s ubversive of the law of nations. CRIME AND OUTRAGE ACT. Mr. I. BUTT asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, whether it is the intention of the Government to permit the Crime and Outrage Act, to expire on the Met day of August, or to bring iu any bill to continue the provisions relating to arms contained in that act, or to renew the act. Sir J. YOUNG—Yes. CLOTHING IN THE ARMY. Col. KNOX asked the Secretary at War whether the change of clothing in the army was decided upon, because if it was made known the information might save officers who had just rec3ivwlBitr said the theirconc n. issaionn,lnsgooalwllannm gallan t officerre t e xpense.ha than hadb e Mr. S. HERE the advantage of him, he appeared to did. The new patterns for clothing were to be submitted to her Majesty to-morrow. LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BILL. Th e house then went into committee on t hi s bill . Ou clause 1, Mr. NAPIER said he wished to make some observations in reply to the extraor dinary statements of the right hon. baronet the Secretary for Ireland, on Tuesday, in refer ence to this bill, and the Leasing Powers Bill, and which he had not at the time an opportunity of replying to. Those observations took him entirely by surprise, and it was with the greatest pain that he felt bound to ask the attention of the committee to the subject on which he was now about to tt,idres, them. The right hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to read Sir John Young's speech on the occasion in question, to the effect that if these had been Government bills they would not have been proposed at this late period of the session; that nothing could be fairer or more courteous to him (Mr. Napier) than the course taken by the Government on these bills ; that these bills had passed the House of Lords, but the Tenants' Compensation Bill, for which he was responsible, had not passed that house ; that these bills were good bills of them selves, but that without the Tenants' Compensation Bill he did not think they would be acceptable as a code of landlord and tenant law. The right hon. and learned gen tletnan proceeded to say, that it was perfectly true that he had been treated by the Government up to the end of Tuesday with the greatest courtesy, and till then he had not a doubt on his mind that he was acting in full co operation with Government, and that they would use every effort to pass the bills. The rigs: t hon. baronet said these were not Government bills, and as the Tenants' Com pensation Bill had not passed the House of Lords, he did not think it right to go on with these bills. Now, in the House of Lords, within an hour after the right hon. baronet had made that statement, the Duke of Newcastle said it had been always intended to persevere with the two bills, if the circumstances of the session permitted, but at the present period of the session, considering the lengthened discussions which would probably take place upon them, it was quite impossible to go on with them ; and that though these bills were not Government bills, Government had adopted them in their substance. Nothing could be more fair than that. If the right honourable baronet had said that from opposition raised which he could not put dow, the bills could not be proceeded with, of course he (Mr. Napier) could have h a d no thi ng to say, but the right hon. baronet's ground was that the Tenants' Compensation Bill which passed this house last session, had not passed the House of Lords this session. He had been in communica tion in the most friendly spirit with the members of the Go vernment respecting these bills, and he understood the in tention of the Government was to pass the bills as they had come from the select committee of the House of Lords, but he never had the slightest intimation that the Tenants' Compensation Bill having been rejected by the select com mittee of the House of Lords was to be a reason for not pressing forward these bills. That bill had been unani mously rejected, but the other two had been adopted as a fair settlement of the question. They were sent down to this house by their lordships, and he could not possibly have thought from anything that has fallen from the Government that they had not had throughout a real and bona fide in tention of passing them; but now, at the last hour, and for the very first time he was told, that in consequence of the rejection of the Tenants' Compensation Bill, the other two bills ought not to be proceeded with. Ho could easily have understood the case of the Government if they had from the outset declared that the third bill was, in their judgment, necessary to a fair settlement of the question ; but they had never given him the slightest intimation that such was their view. (Hear.) Mr. Napier then copiously quoted Hansard, to show that the bills had been unreservedly ac cepted by the Government. Nay, even on Tuesday night, he had received a letter from the right hon. baronet, con taining a suggestion regarding one of them. (Hear, hear.) He would submit these facts to the house and the country, and leave them to judge whether he had been fairly treated. He would appeal to the honourable feeling of the nobl e lord himself (Lord J. Russell) whether he had deserved the manner in which'his exertions had been met? (Hear, hear.) There had been no time or labour which he had not freely given to the bill. Nay, if he had been the Go vernment's own law officer, he could have done no more. 'Cheers.) He knew that the question was one of the most mportant that could be conceived for the best interests of Ireland, and that almost any settlement of it would have been better than leaving it as it was. Yet after years of labour, and after having been led to believe that the Go vernment really intended to pass the biils, he had now tho mortification of perceiving that things were now in a worse position than they had ever been in before. (Hear.) Ho owned that he had expected that a high-minded go vernment, and that high-minded gentlemen in every part of the house, would have rallied round a measure which the cabinet had acknowledged as their own. He would freely admit that it was probably not all they would have desired. Nay, it was not at all that he could have wished himself. He would have gone much further if he had been able . but in a representative assembly, and under a constitutional government, consisting of two houses, it would be presumption for any individual to expect to carry out all his views. Yet looking at the difficulties of the case, he did think that the bills would have been a fair settlement of the case ,• and of one thing he was sure, that but for the singular ability of the Duke of Argyll, who presided over the committee of the Lords, no measure so liberal would have been obtained. But ro ference had been made to what occurred on Tuesday. Well' he owned that what had occurred was exactly what he' had expected. He could not expect that the measure would have been accepted by all the Irish members. On the contrary, the settlement of the question would be ruin to some people. (Laughter.) But he had found on the paper so long ago as the 15th June a notice given by the learned serjeant (Serjeant Shee) of an obstructive character; and the right hon. baronet had therefore no right to advance the opposition of the learned serjeant as an argument for the course he had taken. As for the debate on Tuesday, ho could really have thought that he had been sitting all the morning at Nisi Prins. He heard a good deal of abuse from the learned serjeant, but to that he was accustomed. Indeed, he might say with Dean Swift— " When dunces on me are satyric, I take it all for panegyric." (Loud laughter.) The learned serjeant said he would not trust him out of his sight. Nor did he desire him to do so. He had no sympathy with the learned serjeant, and did not wish for his confidence. (Hear.) Something, again, had been said regarding the long list of amendments he had put upon the paper. But those amendments were, with a single exception, all mere matters of verbal aecn racy. He had asked to have the bill re-committed pro forma, in order to make those corrections ; bat that rea sonable proposal had been refused. Then it was that he had sat down and spent nearly a whole day in making the list which had been complained of. As for the amendments themselves, if they had been really objected to, he should not have cared about pressing them. He must really protest against the learned serjeant turning on him and charging him with having taken up the question from mere political motives. He had done so at the request of the two right hon. boronets opposite (Sir J. Graham and Sir J. Young) ; and he did not think that he was justly open to any personal imputations on the score of his connection with these bills. (Hear.) With regard to the bills themselves, he believed as a mat ter of principle, tenants were entitled to compensation for any improvements they had made, if the improvements could be ascertained and valued, but there was the diffi culty. What machinery could they establish to obtain that information ? As far as they went, these bills made a successful attempt to remove the difficulty, and he must repeat his regret that they were not to be persevered with this session. They were a fair settlement of the question, and government having taken them up, and indorsed them with their sanction, he must say he was never more sur prised than when he heard they were to be abandoned. He was not responsible for their abandonment, and he ap pealed, fearlessly, to the country, to decide between him and the government as to who had been the most anxious to pass these bills into a law, and set the landlord and tenant question in Ireland at rest for ever. (Hear.) Sir J. YOUNG said before he attempted to place before the committee the view he took of tide matter, he must observe that the right hon. gentleman placed his complaint upon two grounds ; first, he said he had not been treated with fairness and courtesy ; and, secondly, he said the go vernment were highly censurable for abandoning these bills. Now, if he had been guilty of any want of courtesy to the right hon. gentleman, he was sorry for it, but he really was not conscious of having been guilty of anything of the sort. With regard to the latter ground of com plaint he must remind the committee of what oc curred on Tuesday. A. month ago he had no id ea o f the opposition that was lik e ly t o be raised to the bills, and he certainly did hold out hopes to the right hon. gentleman of being able to get them through this ses sion. On Tuesday, however, he was undeceived upon that point ; it became quite plain that the opposition would be of so formidable and protracted a character that it was perfectly hopeless to persevere with the bills at this late period of the session. Besides, the Irish sup porters of the Government had almost to a man requested him to let the question stand over until next year, so that the tenant class in Ireland might have an opportunity of considering the proposals which bad come down from the Lords ' • and that being so, what alternative had he but to consent to a postponement ? Either the bills were the bills of the Government or the bills of the right hon. gentle man ; but, no matter whether they were the one or the other, he thought he had acted wisely in recommending that they should be withdrawn. That was the best course which could be taken to bring about a speedy settlement of the question ; but parties of influence in Ireland had repre sented to him that if a postponement took place a compro mise might be arrived at before next session, which should prove satisfactory to all parties. What folly it would have been, then, to proceed with the bills now at the risk of alienating that feeling and with the prospect of a bitter opposition ! Under those circumstances he did not know that he could say anything more in reply to the right hon. gentleman further than repeat his belief that if they were to press these bills the question would be placed in a worse position than ever. If they were Government bills in manner na n hd n ve e edo r 7a w n g h bt oh i t which r h e n a t l iitfy they h e should were not,hav have no ot hesitation were th e billsi nwithdrawing right hon. n gentleman, he could only recommend him to the same course, with the view of reviving them early next session, and then finally settling the question in a should be satisfactory hear.) to theN o d o landlord ohto n a e n d o f tenant theee class of Ireland. bills,hi; butta taken (lens fora s committee of the a the ae T n e s he thought • no other,it was advisable that if there was should be postponed. whether it was at al n l oal a indta p at' r iC a o c en ric mp a e l enas m aau e trei a e ;u w re a , that the whole question ( He ar.) t t h t th e h he e e other Gov eervnemnienngtthhaet paper for to-night. hon. gentleman the It was this : the right. h Lord J. RUSSELL must gfia r rs e get n i taaito i n n ensd d t man the member for the hu. r reason his University s w gi consented, as well out of regard to the right hon. r th o yy u ° ls t fhd Rh for eahb l a nl charge sWavoidn gentle man himself, as not wishing to let th e Government rem • under an imputation, to allow his statement to be made the first thing to-night, at the risk of delay ing th of the Bribery Bill. He submitt e d no w h e progress owever, to the committee, that as the r i g ht hon. and ' learned gentleman had fully gone into his charge, and the right baronet, the Secretary for Ireland, havinghon. made his explanation in reply, they ought not to allow this matter to proceed any further. (Mr. Whiteside—No no.) He (Lord .Russell) could not prevent th e hon. andC learned gentleman from continuing the debate, but his doing so might prevent him from showing on future occasions. (Hear, hear.) However, he would move that the chairman should report progress, and then the bills would be restored to their original position, which would hive the right hon. and learned gentleman an oppor tunity of bringing them on again if he should so think fit. (Hear, hear.) He could not help feeling that this misun derstanding had arisen from a mistake in a word ; his right hon. friend, the Secretary for Ireland, did not say that Government could not "propose" these bills, because that would have been inconsistent with his and their previous conduct ; but what he did say was that if they had charge of them they would not think it advisable to press them at this late period of the session. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WHITESIDE said it was quite evident to him that there had been some complicity in this matter between the Government and the hon. and learned serjeant the member for Kilkenny, for when he entered the house on Tuesday the by-play going on was of so glaring a character as to in duce an old and practised member of the house to assure him that the Government meditated sacrificing these bills. (Hear, hear.) What had occurred to-night only strength ened that impression, because the right hon. baronet, the Secretary for Ireland, told them the reason he couldnot permit these bills to pass into a law was the absence of an other bill, which the Lords had thrown out. Now, would ~~rn i y ~ 1 n! }"_~ t 'SPap the committee believe that this ve4 it hillaiiite rn in the L or d s t h rough the instruen the Gov ernmen t ? (H ear.) The re d ,fat there w as no d eny i ng it, that these bills hgchbe by the right hon. baronet the Secretary f 0.1: support in that house, and he, as well as of around him, were as much astonished to hear the speech of the right hon. baronet on Tuesday as they were pained by it. (Hear.) On Tuesday the right hon. gentleman dis tinctly stated that these were not Government hills, though turning to the language held in the other house by the re presentatives of the Government, they found them de claring them to be accepted as Government measures. There was proof in these proceedings, if proof were needed, that the present coalition Cabinet was without consistency and without a policy. The hon. and learned gentleman (Serjeant Shee) might congratulate himself that with the assistance of the Secretary for Ireland he had succeeded in defeating two most useful bills, and given an additional impetus to agitation in Ireland. Mr. J. FITZGERALD reminded the hon. and learned gentleman, that the opposition to these bills on Tuesday came from the Irish members on the other side of the house, and not from those who were the habitual supp or t e r s of the Government. That imputation of obstructing progress must refer to the members of the Tenant League who sat on the Opposition, and not on the Government side of the house. The bills as that they was came go od, w from the Lorot have ds,th been a, oughssato containinge much ry,and in stead of suppressing agitation would have encouraged it, and the Government were, therefore, fully justi fied in recommending their postponement, especially g a e s n t a l n e maepnp whoeal had were been t s t ia t o d e hteo 100 t h k e en(ai uponb y r e h p on. seating Ireland, that now the measure for currying recommendation of the Devon commission, the Tenants' Compensation Bill, which w a s out the the most important of them all, was no longer a part of them, not to press them during the present session. Mr. LUCAS denied that there had been any obstruc tion offered to the measures by the Irish members on the opposition side. There had been no discussion on them but once this session, and that was accidental, on a ma Lion for reporting progress, and in the last session he had been thanked with others, both by the right hon. .and learned gentleman (Mr. Napier) and by the Solicitor- General for Ireland, for the facilities they had afforded in the preparation of the bills. Where then was the obstruc tion of which the right hon. the Secretary for Ireland complained ? The right hon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Napier) had said that if - these measures passed, the poli tical capital of those Irish members who opposed them would be destroyed. He would tell that right hon. and learned gentleman that they would have no deficiency of political capital while he continued to display that bigotry and fanaticism for which he was so distinguished. (Cheers, and " Oh, oh.") Let the Landlord and Tenant Bill pass to-morrow, the right hon. gentleman and his friends would provide employment for the representatives of the Irish people every week of the session in opposing that bigoted and unjust aggression with which the religion of the people was continually assailed. (Oh, and cheers.) The hon. and learned member for Ennis had said that as no member of the Tenant League sat on the ministerial side of the house, the imputation of obstruction must rest entirely upon those Irish members who eat on the opposi tion benches. He wpuld tell that hon. and learned gentle. man that there was one Irish member who sat on the mi. o r o e f r p. position ben c he s )— w h o se name was on the back of Mr. theo nisterial side above the gangway, and who was in the re ceipt of salary from the Stete as oneof the law advi sers councilof the C o r o f w the n, Tenant a f n o t r L a e a l g n e g_period League—(Cheers fro wasa mthe Sharman Crawford's bill, and who in repeated speeches declared that he would never accept office, so help his God, under any Government tha twonld not agree to make that bill a cabinet question, and who, having traded upon that bill and made political capital out of it, had re. canted his professions and swallowed his oaths—(more cheering from the same quarter, and cries of Oh, oh, and " Question" from other parts of the house)—and who was at this moment taking the wages of the most extraor dinary apostacy. (Oh, cheers, and laughter.) He thought, under these circumstances, that it would have been decent if the right hon. gentleman, Sir J. Young, had refrained from throwing out imputations which could apply to no one but his own colleagues. (Oh, and question.) The pith of this debate, however, apart from the personal mat ter, was this. They knew that these bills were now aban doned—that all legislation upon the subject for the present session was at an end. The past they knew—what they were now interested in was the future, and though he had listened attentively in the hope of ascertaining what the intentions of the Government were in this respect, he had failed to collect them. (Hear.) They had, he contended, a right to call upon the Government to declare what their intentions for the future were. (Hear, hear.) Did they intend to take up the question in the next session, with the view of arriving at a final and satisfactory settlement? (Hear, hear.) Did they mean to bring in the right hon. and learned gentleman's two bills, and to make a final settlement of the question of tenants' compensation, upon the principl e w hi c h th ey h a d themselves sanctioned and the house had affirmed ? (Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL had no intention of entering into the personal question, or attempting to correct the mis apprehensions of the hon. gentleman who had just sat down, by explaining the words he had imputed most un foundedly to hie right hon. friend (Sir J. Young)—but with regard to the question he had put as to the intention of the Government on this important question, though it did not require any detailed answer, he thought it deserved some notice. (Hear, hear.) It had always appeared to hint that this question was one of the utmost difficulty, so far as devising a satisfactory settlement was concerned—(hear, hear)—and he could n o t b u t re f er t o th e course he had taken himself, and which he was sorry to find come now to be almost repeated three years afterwards. His right hon. friend Sir W. Somerville, when Chief Secretary for Ireland, was sanguine as to the possibility of arriving at a settlement of this landlord and tenant question in Ireland, and he in• troduced a bill for that purpose. The bill was referred to a select *committee who paid great attention to it, and went through all the clauses with great care, and when it came out of the committee his right hon. friend fondly hoped that it might be the means of settling the question, which had caused so much heart-burning and stood in the way of so much of material improvement. But what was the result ? Large deputations came over from Ireland immediately some of whom he (Lord John Russell) saw himself), and they stated that the remedies proposed were so complicated in their nature that it world be useless to them as tenants to endeavour to take advantage of it, and they requested that the bill might be abandoned. On ex amining that bill he could not but see that there was great justice in their observations ; but ho confessed that con viction induced a despondency in his mind as to the prao ticability of arriving at any satisfactory settlement by mere legislation. (Hear.) For they were between these two dangers. If they made the bills simple, they would depart from the course of justice in imposing upon the tenants and landlords burdeus which they had no right to inflict—they would either interfere with contracts between the one and the other in a way which they ought not by legislation to do, and deprive the proprietors of the land of the power of exercising their legitimate rights as pros prietors, or give to the tenant a very insufficient and illu sory remedy—and if, on the other hand, they made the measure exceedingly complicated, they would then, as the deputations urged, make the process so difficult and so dilatory that they would not be likely to take advantage of it. He came, therefore, to the conclusion which he stated on a previoui occasion, that it was useless to endeavour to fix by legislation the precise mode of a contract which was only likely to be beneficial if it was carried into Affect in good faith, confidence, and liberality on the side of both landlord and tenant. (Hear.) That was to say, if they proceeded upon the presumption that on the one hand the landlord would use all the powers which the law gave him as landlord to oppress the tenant, and on the other that the tenant would be always endeavouring as much as possible to cheat his landlord out of his rights; if they went upon that supposition they would never arrive at a satisfactory settlement. Others, however, were more confident. His right hon. friend who sat near him was exceedingly con fident as to the possibility of making a settlement, and the hon. and learned gentleman opposite who had brought for ward the complaint to-night was also very sanguine, and took great pains and trouble, for which he deserved the highest praise, in framing the measure which he had sub mitted to the house. He (Lord John) confessed when he heard the hon, and learned gentleman's explanation , in stead of thinking he did not go far enough he liste nedto some of that trepidation which his noble f and l learn ed friend he was some of the hon. and learned gentleman's proposals _ w ith od ' which it approaching too near to those Socialist princip les friend the Lord Chancellor had spoken o was dangerous to introduce into any act of Parl ia ment. . a fair one. That the hon. and learned gentleman's measure to a select committee, and by the (Hear, heat.) Upon the whole, however, he considered measure was referred advice of his right hon. friend certain other proposals and stipulations were adopted as to the relation of landlord and tenant when the bill went to the House of Lords, and in reference to that part of the measure which wasin tended for the benefit of the tenant it gave certain rights which were not usually given to tenants in this country. These provisions were strongly objected to by the landed proprietors in the House of Lords, as well as by the great law lords—the lights of the house—who were most un willing to consent to that part of the bill. This year, however, that house (the Lords) had passed a bill con taining something favourable to those who entertained the views which were put forwarded by the Irish Tenant League—not perhaps to the full extent to which those per. sons would desire to go, and therefore not unnaturally he thought that when the bill came down to the House of Commons it excited discontent and dissatisfaction amongst those who favoured the extreme views propounded in Ireland on this question. (Hear, hear.) When he spoke of extreme views he altogether disavowed the imputation thrown from either side upon those who entertained views which might be regarded as even most extreme. There was one hon. gentleman whose integrity and honesty of purpose no one could question. He alluded to Mr. Sharman Crawford, who he saw had lately arrived in London for some purpose, and who expressed great despondency as to the fate of those bills. The sincerity of that gentleman's views on this question no one would for a moment deny. (Hear, hear.) He dared say, that in every party, political or religions, of whatever opinions, there would be some' who looked only to their own se/Ash advantage while promoting the views of that party, sad doubtless there might be some such in connexion with Lle agitation on this question ; but so far as he knew, he was disposed to give full credit to th ose wh o professed tl and views of the tenant league party for being sincerely impressed with the correctness of the . ~ professed. (Hear.) Then what was more ns i turtZ,rn a bill came down from the House of !Jort_rfmiS honesty they f to be a settlement of this question, an d whicht contain provisions which they co nsid er ed ~r7H w e ara , , settlement, that they should protest against " hear.) Though he did not agree therefore in the extreme views of those persons, he thought nothing was more na tural or consistent than th e co ur se they had takee. (Hear.) If there had been p l enty of time, he thought it amended and the clauses so altered, that a bill might ha ve been sent back to the other ho use, w hich would have gone very possible that one of the se bills mi g ht have been some way at least towards a settlement, and which mi g ht perhaps have given satisfacti on g en erally in Ireland. The H of Lords, had the re been t ime to consider it, might have rejected or embraced that measure , and th e H ouse of Commons migh t have g one o n with the consideration of these bills. at the immense n um b er of clauses, and the enormous nu m ber of amendments t o b e proposed— one hon. and learned gentleman h av i ng g i ven not i ce o f no less than 2 0 0—the discus s i on to which those amend smeon _ e But it was obvious th a t at this period of the men t s would necessarily gi ve r i se—looking, too, at the votes supply yet remaining to be passed, and the numerous other business before the house, that it was impossible to proceed with them. He, therefore, had come to the conclusion, unwillingly, he must say (for he admitted it would be desirable to pass these bills), that it was hopeless, unless they had two or three months still before them to attempt during the present session to come to a settlement of this important question. (Hear, hear.) 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