The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

ALFRE D MELLON'S CONCER I'S once lost cannot be recalled. Perhaps we may dis- AL" EVERY E VENING, at Fight. cover the secret of the shortcomings of men in NOT L OPFa CA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING (CIO i i 1( lay), Mdlle. C. Patti, Mdlle. Krebs • office in the fact that their misdeeds are slurred r Patsy, and Alt Ben Sou-alie: over, and their measures supported at a pinch by Air. Levy, selection,,3ll'.(,i• C2ll i' M. Giovanni," &c. Operatic ol..„ ONEHUNDRED PERFORMERS. BAND c l o q ductor, N :r. ALFRED MELLON. the very men who should stand aloof if they sought O n Thursday next, Ar. . 25, a BEETHOVEN NIG H T. to be true to the policy they advocate, and the cong g be gi - ven of the repetition of th e M e ndes - stituents they represent. It is too bad to hear a D ue notica will Sohn Night. itheatr e Stalls, and Amphitheatre , One member of Parliament declare to his constituents Promenade, Amph Cs. Cd. ; Private Boxes, Li is. and Sh ill in g ; Dress Circle , that if we had gone to war we should have been 10s. ed. 'The Box Office is open f; um 10 till 5. beaten, " a war with all Germany on behalf of the • Danes would almost certainly have been a failure/ This i s an imputation on the English nation that is quite uncalled for. "All Germany" would have looked very foolish if the attempt had been made, and it is especially rid;culous to put forward such a statement when it is a fsct intent to the world that it was the love and not the fear of Germany that actuated our policy. Those in high places were too frightened of the harm we should inflict on that country, and consequently the Danes were sacrificed. :What, if in the pe ace-offering our national honour had to be immolated, the sacrifice was not deemed too great considering the occasion that called it ROYAL PRIN CESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Ma linger, Mr. Geo. Pining. THIS EVENING, BORN' TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Eafferty, Mr. Dominick M uvray. After which, THE sTRIILTS OF LONDON. Messrs. Ti l ling . , J. W. Ray, D. Fi h er. D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Forre,ter. IL Mellon ; firs. Henry Maiston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss F ,nny Gwyn ne. N , rI{EATEE-R!)YAL, ADELPI - 11.- - tole Pronritnor and Man & Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MAID. Vessrs. J. Toole, P. Bedford, It. Phillips, and. Mr . Alfred Mellon. After wnicb, MASKS AN D FAG, 4 IS. 3lessrs. B. Webster, Bedford, R. Pnillips, Billington, Stuart; Mrs. btirling, Airs. Billington. and Miss H. Simms.. o conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. Y J. Z,. Toole, P. Bed.ord, It. Philii,s, and Miss Woolg.a. Commence at 7. riEW BOWER OPERE r HOUSE.- Senora Georgi Cardinal, the e minent Spanish Come dienne, in Smyth Lee's new and eminently, tuccessfal Come diPtta, HER. ONLY FAILING wilica, together with CYMUN AND IPHIGENIA. CHA3IPAGNE and THE KISS AND THE ItOSE, will be repeat EVERY E YEN ING. forth. This is not the season that we usually associate with the sufferings of the poor. Want and suffer. ing there must be, we know, all the year round in more or less degree, especially when a sickly season or slackness of work increase the ordinary hard. ships of the lower classes. But winter is the time which poor folks dread, and in which their wants press most heavily. It is then that cold adds its numbing influence to hunger, that the system needs more food, more clothing, more warmth, just as the necessaries of life rise in price and be. come consequently more unattainable. It is in winter time that our workhouses fill, that our re lieving societies are in active operation, and that charitable associations of every kind appeal for increased help. During the gloomy winter months we are pained bat not surprised to bear sad tales of want and poverty even if they reach to the tragic point of absolute starvation, the frequency of whose recurrence in etre wealthy metropolis has set wise and conscientious men to work to devise some remedy. That such is needed is clearly proved by the fact that while the bright summer days are yet with us, while the reapers are busy, and before the harvest is fully gathered, in comes another mournful story of death from starvation in the midst of our London streets and squares. We may well feel surprised that such should be the case, even though the scene of its occurrence should be Bethnal green. The circumstances of the case were, too, of a particularly painful nature. The victim was a child of tender years, who naturally claims our pity more then an adult, whose own folly or imprudence may be supposed to have bad some share in his or her destitution. The father was a hardworking, labouring man, who had been laid aside from his work by illness, and therefore pre vented, by unavoidable causes, from properly sup- porting his family. He and his wife both appeared in court, where their emaciated and miserable looks excited deep commiseration. Indeed, they were still so weak from recent ill ness that the medical man who gave his evidence, said he thought they could hardly under stand what was going on. The sad story was soon told. The father, a labourer, earned halfaa-crown a day, but for the last fortnight had been unable to work from illness, typhus fever having attacked the whole family one by one, and reduced them to a state of the greatest weakness. The mother, who came into court with a❑ infant in her arms, could hardly speak from weakness. The poor child who died was eight years old, and was like the others recovering from the fever, when, of course, instead of diminished food, or rather no food at all, he required all the nourishment he could take. The doctor who made the post modem. examination said the child had died from cony means brought on by want of food, only half an ounce of gruel being found in his stomach. It will be naturally asked why application was not made to the parish au thorities, and the question is answered in the usual fashion. Two or three years ago the father, when in distress, applied to the workhouse for help, and was given a shilling a week and a loaf; bat after some time he was told that he and family must come into the house, or they should have nothing more. The man who, as we see, can earn, when in good health, half-a-crown a day, and has been able to maintain his family in the inter vening years, very naturally refused, and, therefore when this illness came on he would not ask again, expecting to be refused. Very probably, notwith standing their former experience, the father and mother would have made some effort on behalf of their starving child had they themselves been in a condition to understand the state of• the case, but prostrated by illness of the most terrible character they were unfit or unable to exert themselves. We have no reason to doubt that had the parish autho rities known of this instance they would have granted some relief, but the question remains whether there is not something very wrong in our social arrangements. The case before us is just one of those which parochial relief_ should be extended to; it is one which has an especial claim on thewell to-doeclasses of the community. The richest and wisest is liable at any time to be laid aside from his work, his profession, his ordinary pursuits of what ever kind_ Illness is one of the ordinary visitations of humanity, and while it excites our feelings of sympathy and pity on behalf of the sufferer, it unquestionably exonerates him from any blame for inaction. The political economist may, indeed, contend that those who wholly depend upon their health and strength for maintenarce should lay by some provision for a rainy day,but we have yet to find the theory whose practical application will enable a Landon;labourer with half a crown a day to keep himself, his wife, and six children, to put by enough to maintain eight persons during a fortnight's com• pelled inaction. Threepence a day is not so large a sum for the support of a human being of whatever age at the present rate of prices that the most rigid of censors need blame, because rent and cloth• ing is all that can be saved cut of it. It is in fami. lies living like this that typhus finds so ready a prey. Their customary rate of living is only just enough to keep body and soul together, and then when a bad season comes fever sweeps them off, or an unusually cold winter mows them down by the hundred. Mendicancy is forbidden by law, small trades that had no capital, such as trucks and barrow selling, are discouraged by the police, the workhouse saddles their relief with the condition of going into the house—What are the in digent to do ? Our practice has for too long been entirely negative. We tell the people what they ought net to do, but no one can find out what course they ought to take except putting themselves under ground with the least possible delay. It is absurd as well as unjust to suppose that a man possessing all his limbs and faculties will voluntarily abandon himself to a pauper's life. That life entails total CrUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAI, of IteEr,e l VlT.et, have now in stock a variety of WASHING suitatle for the a nd at the c.earing-out pace of only .11" country and seaside , Li Hs. 6d. tile dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r'sen 15 per cent., and it will soon re,,o, a tar greater per-ceatae. Messrs. JAY, tnerefo,.e, invite their me nu -rlus Patrons to take advantage of the stock ha ve on hand, which they cm now dispose of on favour fitly able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b more Costly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 235. per ton. Double.. 20s. per ton. Top 0 2s. „ De, p .213. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, ,Ps.ddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Lgent. T" THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPURTING INTELLIGENCE, cluz,be had Every Evening of U. ft. GLhNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' siwpi!ed, as soon as published every Evening* by HENRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. "Ins DAs.—.Monaing, sh. 15 . 1 - L.—Afternoon, sh. 40m. o-,doaßow.-Mornizg, sta. 2m.—Afternoon, Ga. 24:n. mba, •=6.‘2llilt LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1864. Sir Joule TBELawNY has commenced in good time to address his constituents, and divulge his views on various subjects connected with the great political questions of the day. He soon began his strictures, for he commented on Lord PALMER STON'S remarks at Bradford. " The noble lord spoke in very flattering terms of the energy, ability, and capacity of the working classes of England." Now, from this, Sir JOHN not inaptly deduces that be need not be so reluctant to extend the franchise. This was quite a home thrust, but it is well known that the Premier can ba all things to all men just as it suits his turn, and no one who has attained much experience can be taken in by the specious remarks which the members of our Cabinet choose to make concerning important matters relating to home and foreign policy. But the member for Tavis- Link did not confine himself to these inuendoes— he went much further, and spoke of that most awkward subject of all, the question of Reform. Although some years have now passed since the great claptrap was made by Earl RUSSELL and his friends, it is as much to their disgrace now as then that they should have taken et:Bee under false pretences, and stooped to an unworthy subterfuge in order to oast their political opponents from office. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY uttered the exact words which the working classes might have said to the Administration as to their conduct of trickery and deceit—" You took office with the understanding that you were going to bring in a better reform bill than that introduced by Mr DISRAELI, and we supported you in the belief that we were going to receive that instalment of justice for which we have so long waited." It seems strange that such dupli city should not excite more indignation than it has chile, but in the pages of history none of these archedeceivers will escape the criticism they deserve. In this discourse we find a good humoured hint thrown out to the Government that they must be a little more zealous in the discharge of their duties. It is indeed not likely that this Cabinet will much longer survive the shocks it is continually receiving, bat at the same time the Liberal supporters have a right to complain in no measured terms upon the faineant policy which has been pursued for so long a period. It is given out that the Ministers are most capable men, eminent in ability, skilled in legislation, experienced in parliamentary tactics, and well versed in administrative affairs, and yet the result is aver the same. Such lame and impoe tent conclusions, after so much unseemly self lau dation and boastful parade of power, may well call forth the comment of vox et pretera nihtl. Sir JOAN TRELAWNY rather overpraised Lord PALMERSTON, bat still the Premier is so groat a favourite among many classes, that perhaps it was not to be wocderecl at, and doubtless many political adversaries might concur with the member for Tavistock, when he said that the noble lord was the first working man in office. "He has worked as hard as any hundred men—l was going to say, in the various offices he has held during fifty years or so, and be will probably remain in office till the end of his life : " Such may be all very well, but it is too much for patience when we pass on to cute giums upon Earl RUSSELL. To praise him for his management of our relations with America is indeed intolerable. Who has seen any evidence of that tact, courage, coolness, and calmness, whi c h are here spoken of, and as to the conciliation when proper, and the firmness when necessary, it must be imagined that the former refers to the lenity invariably shown to the Federals, and the latter to the constant enmity displayed to the Confederate cause. Neither does the Danif,h question appear satisfactorily treated in this speech; we hear the old ri g ma role of the Conse:vativo party not explaining their policy. T till is a vary convenient subterfuge, but as the Minister, and not the Opposition are re sponsible to the Roue and the country it would be bet!e:to scan their c ause a little mere scrutinisingly, an d t ou ch on their comm issions rather than specu late upon the " null iations of others. Sir JOHN proved, the badness of his cause by his feeble advo cacy, and the space that ha approp riated in his long discourse to this all absorbing tople_. Church 8, 71 ., are very we ll i n their place, R Ates, the B a llot, but their consideration may well be Po3tponed t o a m convenient period when question i s mooted which concerns the honour of the country. Next year or the year after might do for home reforms, but foreiga matters will cL t Wait. The great world meanwhile spies for ever down the ringing grooves of change, and the opportunity separation from his family, the sacrifice of all the little comforts of home, the surren der of his freedom of action for a very prison like existence, where every one re gards him as a burden. The stringency of the rules for admission is excu.ed on the ground that it is desirAble to keep people cff the rates and to discourage pauperism ca much as possible. How does this consist with the condition so often attached to succouring a poor family out of doors ? The real meaning is plain enough. As little as possible is to be done, and the poor are not to be encouraged to be troublesome. Bat we cannot so get rid of our social duties and obli gations, and e,o long as deaths from starvation recur in London, a heavy responsibility tests upon its citizens, A little temporary relief would have saved this child's life. Might not the neighbours have applied for it had they thought there was a chance of success ? The fact is that our whole system of levying ratss must be altered, if we wish to avoid this reproach ; for so long as each parish is compelled to bear its own burden, so long we shall reap the fruits of that unreasonable in. equality in death and distress among our labour. ing classes. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S ETLEGRA'AIS.) THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, PLYMOUTH, August 22. The screw steamer Indiana put in here this morning to land passengers and to coal. She left Calcutta May 19, Madras June 2, Cape of Good Hope July 13, and crossed the Equator July 23. The Indiana has 100 passengers, and 30 military invalids and time-expired men from India, with 10 passengers and a mail from the Cape. She had also a full general cargo, principally saltpetre, seeds, cotton, silk, and sugar. Her news from the Cape is three weeks later tha❑ that brought by the last mail stermer arrived. Trade at the Cipe was dull. The alarm raised on the frontier of an intention on the part of the Kreiis to cross the Bashes was proved to have been groundless. Efforts were being made to d'scover the author of the rumour. Traders and travellers passing through the Canda country represented the country along the whole coast line to be in a disturbed state. The tribes are said to be more insolent than usual, and several councils had been held amongst the chiefs. A war amongst the natives in that locality was expected. Sir Walter Currie he.d returned to Grahamstown from the Transkei. The embodiment of the irregular horse had been abandoned, and the conditions upon which grants of Transkeian territory were to be made were found to be too high, and were to be modified if the scheme was continued; but it was considered doubt ful whether the territory would be given out for occupation. Parliament was to be prorogued the day the Indiana sailed. Its removal to Graham's Town was considered unnecessary, and it was doubted that the experiment would be repeated. The pro posal of the Diamond Company to establish mail steam communication with Port Elizabeth was agreed to without a division, but only on its con taining a condition to call at Table or Simon's Bey also. The proposal of the Union Company to extend mail commuuication to the Maui itius was rejected. Her Majtsty's steamer Hornet left on the 11th Jnly for Portsmouth. The Indiana's mail has been landed and for warded from here by to-day's mail train. LISBON, AUG, 15. Don Eusebius Page, and Don Innocencio Roldan have arrived in Lisbon to treat on the part of the Spanish Government respecting the frontier points where junctions should be made between the Por tuguese and Spanish Railways. The Marquis de Tagliacarne has presented his credentials as representative of the Kin g o f I taly. The present charge d'affair.9, the Count do la Tour, will soon quit this capital. The Federal frigate Niagara is in thg Tagus. It said her mission is to intercept a steamer, bought at Liverpool, ostensibly f or th e. navigation between Lisbon and the Portuguese, possessions, but in reality for a Confederate err.,3er. The Portuguese papers further assert thr,t the steamer will not sail zs the intentions of 'f.he Federals have t ransp i re d. The rcolamation of the Spanish Government resPe - dring the capture of the ship Virgen del Re fr..gio is not likely to cause any serious difficulty (since announced by telegraph to have been set tled). It appears that this vessel was a slaver, and the proofs of her delinquencies were overwhelming, and she was captured within the Portu3usse waters, a point oa which no doubt exists. rnh SUN, LONDOIS!, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1864, THE EMP IRE OF MEXICO, (From the Times' Correspon.?ent.) MEXICO, July 10. On the 28th ult. General Buz tine gave a magnifi cent ball in honour of the Emperor and Empress ; 1,200 people, the elite of Mexico, comprising every political name, were present. It has been said " that more is sometimes gained by a ball than a battle," and such was certainly the case on the present occasion ; the unostentatious and affable manner in which their Majesties walked about the room, entering into conversation with every one, formed such a marvellous contrast to anything that had ever been witneseed in the days of a free re public, when dusty-coloured Presidents never moved without being surrounded by a body guard of still more dusty-coloured aide-decamps, that on the following morning the whole city of Mexico re sounded with their praises. " The Emperor spoke to me," said one. "So he did with me," said another, which was heard repeated at the corner of I almost every street, showed the value attached to every word which issued from the Imperial tip s and I will venture to assert that of ths, jiffi es or hundreds who had the honour of sin g noticed by the Emperor or Empress on '.nat eventful evening there is not one, be he reactionist or be he republi can, who has not treasured up in his memory and who cannot repeat with the most perfect accuracy every 'word that was addressed to him. Whether ail this is consistent with the opinion so industria ously circulated, .both here and elsewhere, that Mexicans were essentially republicans and abhorred a monarchy, may well be doubted; all I can say is that never in the same short space of time have I seen any two individuals attain the same amount of popularity. The Emperor, for the present, has taken up his abode in the castle of Chapultepec, about three miles from the city ; he drives in every morning in an open carriage attended by a single outrider, and returns in the afternoon, after having devoted the whole of the day to the business of the country. All the Ministerial departments are confided to sub -1 secretaries. His Majesty having very wisely deter mined to reserve to himself the direct supervision until he can find fit persons to fill the various posts. All the appointments he has yet made seem to meet with unqualified ataprobatiou, and it is fair to pre sume that, wit a little time and patience, he will succeed in raising up a moderate party that will more than counterbalance the two extremes which oy turns have ruled and ruined the country. The commission to report upon the finances of the country is to meet on the Ist of next month; it is to be composed of persons inhabitants of the city of Mexico (foreigners as well as Mexicans, to be named by the Emperor), and of delegates from the depart ments rePreen'.ing the different classes of the popu lation. T l ete commission is to be subdivided into sections or sub-commissions, to report on the diffe rent matters submitted to their consideration. The duties on imports and exports, the value of public lands, and the best mode of rendering them profit able to the State, colonisation, the debts and indeme nite;es due to citizens of foreign countries, railroads, public works, the currency, taxation, weights and measures, and, in fact, everything having the slightest reference to the finances of the country, are all to form subjects of discussion. IheEmperor, of course, reserves to himself the right of adopting or modifying the reports made by the various sec tions. The field is a wide one, and it may fairly be doubted whether there are men competent to arrive at just conclusions upon subjects s) various and important; still, much valuable information must necessarily be elicited, which will serve to form the groundwork for future legislation. Hitherto there has been no regular system of tax■ ation in this country, and this is scarcely to be wondered at, changes of Government having fol lowed one another in such rapid succession that any President who might have been willing or able to form one would certainly not have had time to carry it out. The consequence has been that the revenues of the ports have generally been seized by the Governors of the States in which those ports were situated, and the Central Government has been obliged to live as best it could by forced loans and c Attributions levied upon the inhabitants of those cities which for the time being acknowledged its sway. Santa Anna (I think it was in the year 1844) proposed a system of taxation which, far from being ezcessive, would still have produced about 30,000,000 dole. annually. Such a revenue would be more than sufficient to meet all the requirements of the present Government, and I certainly see no rea son why, if such a sum could have been raised then, it should not be raised now. An honest collection at the ports will at once double, if not treble, the receipts; from this sourco of revenue alone the Ime perial Government may rely upon 16,000,000 dols. to 18,000,000 dots. annually, leaving only 12,000,000 dole. or 14,000,000 dols., as the case may be, to be collected by other means. As a remarkable instance of what an honest collection will effect I may men tion that the duties levied in the Customhouse of this city alone have during the last six months rea lised the enormous sum of 5,000,000 dols.; in ordi nary times they produced at the very outside 4,000,000 dols. annually. Of course, the sane sys• tem of robbery and plunder has been going on at Guadalajara, Guanaxuato, San Luis, and all other cities of the empire, and it can no longer be a mat ter for surprise that each succeeding President, however short his time of office might have been, always retired with a princely fortune. Another commission will shortly be named to re• vise the laws and provide for the proper adminis tration of justice. This will be a Herculean task, for of all the countries in the world there is none in which justice has been so scandalously administered as in Mexico. The first thing to be considered now upon the institution of a suit is, not whether you have justice on your side, but whether you can afford to outbid your opponent. Venality among the judges has been universal, and I could give you instances, and will do so upon some future occasion, which will make the hair of English lawyers stand on end. The remedy is clear enough,--pay the judges well, do away with written pleadings (at present there is nothing else), examine the witnesses viva voce, open all courts to the public, have all the cases accurately reported, and punish most severely any judge who, from interested or other motives, is caught tripping. The military commission will commence its la bours in the course of a few days, and a plan of campaign for the interior has been decided upon; in fact, everything is going on as well as the most sanguine monarchist could desire, and it would really seem as if a great and glorious future were about to dawn upon this hitherto unfortunate Country. Frotia the interior there is nothing of importance. The most perfect tranquillityfreigns in all towns occupied by the French. The arrival of their imperial Majestiep has been hailed in San Luis Guanaxuato, and other towns with the utmost de- monstration of joy. Gonzales Ortega is said to be closely pursued by the French, who are not very likely to catch him; and Uraga is still disposed to join the intervention as soon as ho can do so with perfect safety to himself, DEATH OF LORD RODNEY.—On Friday Lord Rodney expired at his seat at Barrington, near Leominster. Lord Rodney, Rho was in his 46th year, was the great grandson of the famous Rodney. He leaves three children, one of whom succeeds to the title. THE POPUL 4R STREET "MOT" IN PARIS—" As to VU Lambert ?'—Speaking of this sudden and all but universal eccentricity of the streets of the French capital, the Spectator of Saturday remarks that during the File Napoleon the Parisians appeared to have invented a new amusement, which consisted in asking their friends, and the passengers, and everybody at all conspicuous, " As tu vu Lambert ?" The word was repeated everywhere, the Emperor himself being saluted with "give Lambert, viva Madame Lambert, vivo le petit Lambert l" the popu lace applying the name with a pertinacity which proved that they saw a joke somewhere. The police were begin ning to think of Cayenne or the necessity for calling out the military, when it was discovered that a farmer's wife losing her husband, had been going about asking for "Lambert." The Parisians, struck with the idea of a woman imagining that everybody must know her particular lord, took up the cry, and as the Emperor is the only man known to everybody applied the name to him with appre ciative unanimity. The minds of the police gradually calmed down, and in consideration of the fits nobody was so much as arrested, • PUBLIC HONOURS, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIN. Sin,—The remarkable man who now rules in Franco follows the good example of his illustrious uncle in the con ferring of decorations upon persons who have done good service to the State, whether their acts be military, social, or of an artistic character. But in Britain the martialists certainly have an advantage with respect to pecuniary and social benefits. A peerage was once talked of for the late Sir B. Brodie, but I believe that the idea was not favour ably received ; at any rate, he did not receive peerage; nor am I aware of any medical man, however eminent he may have been, who has been raised to the peerage, although soldiers, sailors, and lawyers, as well as divines, have been received favourably in the Upper Chamber. There, also, wo may look in vain for the elevation of our eminent authors and artists. I observed, recently, in The Sun, a printed statement respecting large sums of public money still paid out of the Exchequer to sinecurists, to the extent of many thousands a year, while eminent literati and artists can obtain with difficulty a small pension from Government —the amount of money for this purpose being about 3c.',1,200 per annum I A fair sum of money was awarded during the last session by the House of Commons to some eminent painter, which act, I hope, augurs well for the future, for certainly an improvement is desirable. In my opinion, so far as concerns secular honour, the appointment of a new decoration for civilians only—the ALBERT CROSS—as sug • gested in [he Sun a few months since, would be attended with public advantage, and this new decoration would place civilians upon a par with military men with respect to pub lic position. I am, Sir, yours obediently, Aug, 20. CHursEr.. CooK, Reaping Machines, On Saturday an extensive trial of reaping ma chines took place under the auspices of the United Agricultural Society of East Lothian. The com petition took place on the farm of Athelstaneford, near Drem, where Douglas, the famed breeder of farm stock, had provided a field of 65 acres of bars• ley, divided off into lots of about 11 acres, and a field of oats of 40 acres, divided into lots of nearly an acre each. The weather was extremely favourable for the competition, and the crop was cut in capital conditien, The barley was on a nearly level field, and was a full average crop; the oats, which were in a field with a gentle slope, were light in the straw, bat fully up to the average oat crop of the season. Upwards of CO machines were en+ tered for the competition, but several were with. drawn ; Several more were not brought forward, some of them, owing to the machines having been missent or delayed by the railway company. There were complaints on the ground as to the con duct of the railway in the matter, and the com petition was delayed fully an hour later than the time announced for its beginning. Eighteen machines in all took part in the competition, dis playing fully the different principles of construc tion and working of those now in the market. Four were on the self-delivering principle —namely, Samuelson and Co.'s two-horse machine, Brigham and Bickerton's two-horse and one-horse reapers ; and M'Cormick's sheaf-delivering machine, the latter exhibited by Mr Todd, of Castlemain. The manual delivery reapers were—two by Mr day, of Haddington ; two by Mr Wallace, Al, exttn .. dria, Dumbartonshire; two by Pixley, S:dths, and Co.; one Pixley machine exhibited by Mr H ume , Coldstream ; a tw o -h orse band deli:eery reaper, by Mr Gray, of Brow nr i gg; a tw e-horse re a p er, b y Brigham and Bi c k er t on; a " B uc k eye " combined reaper and mower, by the same firm ; a G ar d ner and Ainslie machi ne , ;g own by Mr Reid ; an d a new two-horse reap er , by Messrs. G. and W. Por. teous, of Haddinraton. There were also one of the Eclipse" on machines of Samuelson, and a one-horse " Excelsior" of Brigham and Bickerton, The extent of the competition brought together a large number of the leading agriculturists of Scot hired, and the beauty of the weather brooght out a considerable number of ladies and gentlemen to witness the interesting eight. Among those on the ground were the Marquis of Tweeddale, the Earl of Wemyss, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Chelms ford, Lord Elcho, M.P. for the county, Lord Walden, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir George Grant Suttie, &c. The judges were the Marquis of Tweeddale, Mr Henderson, Byres ; Mr Smith, Stevenston Mains ; Mr Wyllie, Bolton ; and Mr Russell, Coalstonemains. The reaping be gan on the firing of a gun shortly aften eleven, and concluded about five in the afternoon, an interval taking place between the cutting of the barley and the oats, during which time a large party of gentle- men dined in the tent, when the chair was taken by the Marquis of Tweeddale. After the allotted spaces in the two fields had been cut the judges went mi nutely over the work, and also inspected the mechanism of most of the machines. They then selected a few for a further trial under their o wn immediate view, and after consideration ',gave the following awards—For manu a l delivery machines —Frst prize, Halliday, Haddi ngte:d ; second ditto, w Brigham and Biekerstos " B•dek eye ; " third ditto, Halliday, Haddington ; fe-fi rt h ditto, Wallace, Dum bartonshire; fifth dir, 0, Humes, Pixley ; sixth ditto, Wallace, Damirertonslaire. For self-delivering ma. chines-6 rs`., prize, Samuelson and Co.; second ditto Brigha':4 and Bickerston's two horse. For the bet A reaper in the field, Mr Halliday, Had dington. The machine placed first is the same as that with which Mr Halliday took the first prize at Yester in the same district in 1861, but with con siderable improvement. It differs from the machine placed third in having a compound acting guiding wheel, by which the machine is easily turned, and which has the merit of considerable importance on a grass bottom —.of not cutting up the soil however sharply it ',nay be turned. Both Halliday's ma chines :re provided with a very simple arrangement by Which one lever throws the machine out of gear and at the same time lifts the knives out of the ground. This is by many deemed an advantage, though it has been objected that, as the knives can not be lifted without stopping the cutting, there is not the same facility for clearing obstructions, such as stones, as is given in reapers where the actions are not conjoined. The beautiful balance arrange ment for lifting the knives in Samuelson and Cce's one-horse machine was very much admired. There were, however, no prizes given for one-horse reapers. Brigham and Bickerton's ma chines, of which 5 were in the ground, took both the second prizes. The "Buckeye " is a strong and rapid working machine, and gave great satisfac tion. Mr Wallace's reapers, which stood fourth and sixth, differed from each other its the arrangement of the wheels—one of them having two large wheels, while the other was constructed with only one. The Pixley machine, shown by Mr Hume, started very late, owing to its detention on the railway, but suc ceeded in taking its place in the prize list. The easy draught and excellent working of Samuelson's Self-delivery machine won it the first place in that class. Its light draught is materially assisted by the action of the teeth, which pass through two fingers at each revolution, thus lessening the num• ber of revolutions necessary to give speed to the eatters. The same arrangement is used in the Eclipse machine. The hand delivery machine of Mr Gray excited considerable attention by its novelty. In it a girl follows the machine, placing a " vvhippie," or binding stray on the tilt board after each sheaf is delivered. The band is thus found lying beneath each sheaf on the ground. In every respect the competition went off well, and the work done was throughout good. So mob was this the case that the opinion was freely expressed that with any of the machines on the ground a far% leer would be well served. VOLUNTEERS, THE GRAND VOLUNTEER REVIEW AND SHAM FIGHT AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, Saturday. Liverpool has to-day presented an unusual scene of animation end gaiety consequent on a splendid volunteer review and sham fight on the race course at Aintree ; his worship the mayor having invited all the volunteer corps in Liverpool to take part in the interesting proceedings. From the moment his worship announced his liberal intention, the idea was taken up by all classes of the inhabitants, and to-day the town is marked by a holiday almost general, the offices, ehops, and other general places of business having been closed at one o'clock this afternoon. The various corps, which consisted of the Ist Administrative Brigade of Lancashire Artil lery Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Sir William Richmond Brown, Bart. ; the 4th Bri gade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, Major Melly ; Bth Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volun teers, Lieut.-Col. Clay; 11th Lancashire Volunteers, 2d Administrative Brigade ditto, Ist Battalion of Lancashire Engineer Volunteers, 2d ditto, and lst, 13th, 54th, sth, 42d, Mb, 51st, 64th, and 80th Battalions of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, began moving through the town, headed by their bands, to the Exchange station of the Lancashire and York shire Railway, from whence they were all conveyed to the Aintree Racecourse, where the review and sham fight were to take place, at the sole expense of his worship the mayor. About four o'clock all the men had assembled on the ground, to the num ber of between 4000 and 4500, and were.distributed into three brigades, the first being under the com mand of Lieut.-Col, Sir W. R. Brown, Bart.; the the second brigade under the command of Lieut.. Col. M'lver ; and the third brigade under the com mand of Lieut.-Col. Tinley. The day being delightfully fine the attendance was very numero us , Li verpool pour i ng ou t i ts thousands of all cl asses. T he approaches to the railway station were most inconveniently crowded, whilst every style of vehicle appeared to have been brought into requisition to convey the multitude who ch ose t o t rave l by the ordinary high way. About fo ur o ' c l oc k th e course at Ai ntree presented a mo s t b r illi ant appearan ce. Th e G ran d Stand was den se l y crow d ed w i t h a most fashionable attendance of ladies and gentlemen, whilst the mis cellaneous company in different parts of the course could be counted by thousands. Sir Charles Wetherell and Col. M c Murdo, the reviewing officers, attended by their staff, on com ing on to the ground were met by the usual military salute. The review then commenced, followed by the sham fight, whi c h was o f an exceedingly inte resting chara c t er . A t the close of the proceedi ngs the variou s corps marched off the course to Li ver pool, accozpanitd by their bands.—Observer. BOURSE,,Aug. 20.—The market was heavy at th e PRANCE. commen cement of business, but has since improved. Threes, for the account, after standing for a time at 66fr. 3 5a., are now quoted at 66fr. 45e. Mobilier sho w a slight advanze, the present price being 1,020 fr, Railway Market quitt, but in general firm. The market closed ns follows per Cents.. 94 75 Do. end month 3 per Cents 66 35 Do. end m onth 66 25 Credit Mobilier.... 191 S 75 Do, end m0nth....1017 50 Bank Shares ...... 3370 Credit koncier 1220 Roman .......... 75 50 Italian Loan 6B 10 Do. end month GS 10 Ditto Threes Nov Mexican Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 49 25 Home Debt .. 4B 25 Deferrel rays. Cash. Account. Orleans - BB7 60 .. 891 25 Northern 985 .. 990 Lyons and Mediterranean 930 •. 930 Southern 7s 640 .. 643 Western Eastern ..... Sardinian 350 „ 350 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 607 60 .. 505 Ditto to Barcelona..,, -- .• 3 3 2 40 RILL LITERATURE. Tales and Traits of Sporting Life. By Henry Corbet. One Vol. Pp. 202. Rogerson and Texford, 246, Strand. • Since Charles Apperley, the famous .Nimrod, and Charles Bindley, the hilarious Harry ifieover, we have had no such sporting writer as Henry Corbet t the writer of this most exhilarating book of Turf Sketches. " Tales and Traits of Sporting Life" as he calls them, these sketches have been collected together from the pages of Bell's Life in London, of the sporting magazines generally, and of Dickens's All the Year Round in particular. Let U 9 premise, at once, while drawing attention thus pointedly to what we have found to be so really delightful a volume of Sporting Sketches, that the writer of it—Mr Corbet—is to us a mere name Peiaon a title-page. And, what is yet more to the point, let us add, to this acknowledgment of ours, that, until now, we were wholely unacquainted with him, with his mere name, that is, as a sport ing writer, although among these " Tales and Traits" of his, we have, to our exceeding satisfac tion, recognised one or two papers reed by us when they were first published (anonymously) in one or other of the periodicals already mentioned— in Bell's Life, if we remember rightly, or it may have been in All the Year Round. We have now recognised, we say, one or two papers so read by us, without any knowledge then on our part as to their authorship —papers so delightful in their way, so entirely to our own liking, at least, that we possess to this day clippings from them, clippings carefully preserved among our collection of News paper paragraphs. To be plain, we find that we have thus, for example, already set apart, now, two or three years ago, for pleasant reference to after wards, whenever we might so list to refer them— fragmentary extracts from Henry Corbet's wonder fully graphic description of the late Fulwar Craven, one dubbed by the writer of it " A Bit of a Cha racter !" A description that we had no notion (until now) was Henry Corbet's when it chanced to be first read by us—was it not in Bells Life in Lon don? Again we say of this sketch in particular —now, upon our reperusal of it—a wonderfully graphic description ! As graphic even as E. Cor bet's marvellous little coloured vignette portraiture of "Fulwar Craven" himself—out upon the Downs (with Fly-by-night, we may suppose, or Long waist, visible in the distance)—talking with a red , cloaked gipsy-woman. Nay, to our " mind's eye" —having often seen the man himself, and that, too, In the days of his glory,when he was, indeed,in every sense of the phrase, "A Bit of a Character"—H. Corbet's pen-and-init sketch of Ful war Craven is more vividly realistic as a life-like sketch than E. Corbet's coloured vignette sketch of him, but just now mentioned. Never were Lord Byron's words, from the famous slang stanza in "Don Juan," so aptly quoted as they are here by our author, as directly applying to Fulwar Craven-- "So prime, so flash, so nutty, and so knowing 1" Yonder is the very man before us, with, as Mr Corbet expresses it, that " slang delllnt yet some how thoroughly sportsman's air about him!" "Character"—as our Younger Nimrod has it —even, as it were, "in the careless cock of his (Fulwar Craven's) battered white hat—in the wisp -tie of his crimson bandana, in the half-open striped waistcoat, and the loose cut of his brass-buttoned brown coat, with another fogle flying from the pocket of it I" Almost equally decisive, it is added, were his drab breeches and gaiters—" emphasised," as the latter were, "by being carefully pulled down at the back to show some inches of pink silk stocking I" And so, too —in this wonderfully lifeslike sketch—in regard to the mention made of the big brooch in the shirt, the purple jacket in the hand (together with the orange cap, Fulwar Craven's jockey-colours on the race-course), the roving glance—" a deal of devil in the eye, a life's story in his very walk and bearing" —et voila ! the owner of Deception ! the swell ex. Captain Craven ! the Game Evergreen ! as ready, says Mr Corbet—in this inimitable portraiture of his, of Fulwar Craven when in his prime—" as ready still as any of you for a bout, a lark, or a drink I" Here, already—even while quoting thus fragmentarily from there "Tales and fraits of Sporting Life"—we rest assured that we have given our readers a flavourous taste of our au thorns quality ! And equally satisfied are we, that even brief extracts like the foregoing will be recog. nized by the more discerning, as affording the amplest justification of the commendatory words already pro. flounced by us upon the radiant, animated, capital style in which Henry Corbet handles the pen as a Sporting Writer. If he handles the ribbons only but one half as well, he must be a splendid Whip I How. ever that may be, it appears to us perfectly manifest —estimating our author's capabilities from the mere manner of the man—that he is, to the backbone, a thorough sportsman ! One ready alike—according to the mere chance of the opportunity —to throw a fly, to wing a partridge, or to clear a five-barred gate —equally at home, as he must surely be, in the saddle, among the stubble, or by the weedy margin of the trout-stream. Those who turn to his pages for amusement, will find ample store of that same, closely compacted into this exhilarating little half-crown volume, in which he sketches off, besides Fulwar Craven, divers other dead and gone glories of the turf, men as well known in their time as "John Gully," Pugilist and Membar of Parlia- ccent—as " Old John Day," of his kind A. 1 among ockeys and trainers —Or as that other wearer of the peaked skull cap and the silk jacket, " The Last of the Chifneys 1" Commend us, too—for capital bits of fun—to our author's reoord, here, of " The Love Bird" and "The Hard-up," of "A Second Fox." and " The Belles of Swindon," Such capital Talcs and Traits they are— these Sketches of Sport ing Life by Henry Corbet—i hat all sporting readers who know them not already, will have reason to thank us, after a perusal of them, for having thus heartily commended these sane Sketches to their consideration. BROTHER OF GENERAL LEE.—Rumour has it that Captain Lee, a brother of the great Confederate gene. ral of that name, is presently enjoying the fishing at Glen elg, in the West Highlands. He will find the prosecution of the piscatorial art in a quiet Higland glen far more plea sant work than that in which his illustrious brother is engaged at Petersburg.—Etyin Courant, A RIGMAROLE APOLOGUE I—related (apparently by the Ghost of Mr Roundabout) in the Saturday Review,—A lawyer with a taste for casuistical speculations was one day walking over a common. He heard a noise by th e road s ide, which appeared on examination to proceed rem a battle between a rabbit and a weasel. The wease had the rabbit by the throat, and it was drumming furiously on the weasel's back with its forepaws. The lawyer began to doubt whether he should interfere or not. By interfering ho would save the rabbit's life; but ho would aloe deprive the weasel of his dinner, which he was earning in the natural way of his business. By not interfering, he would neglect to save the life of the rabbit, which, a s compared with de priving the weasel of hi s di nner , would produce a balance of pain. It appeared to the lawyer, who was a practical man as well as a casuist, that under these circumstance the rabbit ought to have the benefit of the doubt; and in stead of following the advice, of one of his own profession who, wheu a notorious rogue was defended by an ingenious quibble, proposed to "hang the man and save the point," he saved the rabbit's life from his antagonist, and ale o saved the point whether he had done right for further con sideration. Upon reflection, he arrived at the satisfactory conclusion that he had done right, on the ground that the individual act produced more pleasure than pain, and that it did not, and from the nature of the case could not, tend to establish an injurious precedent. If, in order to save the lifa of the individual rabbit, it had been necessary to lay down the general principle that all rabbits ought to have their lives protected against all weasels, ho would have been wrong; for, to affirm such a principle would have been to interfere with the established order of nature whereby it is ordained that rabbits should be the prey of weasels. Bu t the particular act had no such meaning. The lawyer had not the remotest intention of becoming a knight-errant on the part of rabbits in general against weasels, nor did he even intend to set up a company for that purpose . His connexion with the subjeci:oegan and ended with that par ticular interference, the plain result of which was life to the rabbit, and a countermand of dinner to the weasel ; and it was hundreds, perhaps thousands to one that he would never see such a sight again as long as he lived. WHALES.—WhiIe the Berwick clipper the Tweed was lying becalmed off the Ferns Islands on. Sunday and Monday, it was surrounded during these days by as la rge a shoal of w h a l es as has been seen off our shores at this season for many years. The sailors deplore they had no harpoon on board, as they might possibly have bagged some of these monsters of the deep. The presence of whales is generally a sign of great shoals of herrings.—Beratick, 1101,131 Ord I fr 4 Jll HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 20. The Qaeen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove ont..yesterday afternoon. AUGUST 21. The Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Port man and Lieut. Colonel J)u Plat. The Lord Chancellor arrived at Osborne and had the honcur of dining with the Queen and roll family. Divine service was performed at Osborne this morning by the Rev. G. Prothero before herll,la jesty, their Royal Hi g h nesses P r i nc ess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Leuisel and Prince Leopold. The Prince and Princess of Wales ill Scotland. On Alonday the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Hamilton, Col. Curzon, and Me' jor Teesdale went t o th e moors, and made g oo d bags. The Prince shot 25 brace, the Duke of Cao 2 ° bridge 33, and Lord Hamilton and Colonel Carzg who shot in company, bagged 68 brace, 2 fin iP e and 1 hare. On Tuesday morning the Duke of Cambridge and Cal. Curzon left for Brechin Castle , and the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prill e°9 Mary of Cambridge, and the other ladies and gen' tlemen of the suite went to Lochmuich to t he . e fishing, re t urn i ng i n t h e even i ng b y Bi r k a ll. Princess enjoys her usual walks and drives. grand ball was to be given by their Royal nesses at the Castle on Friday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse will take leave of her Majesty on Saturday afternoon on their return to Germany. Their royal WO' nesses will embark either at Woolwich or Gravesend. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh and the 3D 113. ranee are expected to arrive at his highness's e state, Elveden, near Thetford, Norfolk, in the course of nett month. His Excellency Count Von Bernstorff is residing at Carlsbad, where he will remain some weeks for the bens' fit of the waters. During his excellency's absence Nth London the business cf the embassy will be conducted by M. liatte, the first secretary. His Excellency Prince de Latour d'Auvergne is still residing at Vichy, where he will remain until the Sib Sept., when he will proceed to the department of Vienne , and preside at the council general. Tee Dake and D ac h ess o f B acc leuch left their residence in Belgrave-square on Saturday last for Dalkcith Palace, near Edinburgh, on th e i r wa y toDrumlanrig. Th e Lldies Victoria and Margaret Scott had previously left town for Scotland. The Duchess of Hamilton is residing at Baden‘ welter, a small watering-place on the Upper Rhine. Grace was h o n oure d by a v i s it f rom th e Queen of Prussia on Wednesday last. It is stated that th e E ar l o f Coventry i s about to be married to Lady Bl anc h e C raven, third daughter of the Earl and Countes s C raven . Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Mis ses Jocelyn have left town for the Conti nen t. Her Count and Countess Gurowski de Wezele have left Eaton-square for Scotland. Lord Aveland and the Hon. Miss Ileathcote have arrived at the Portland Hotel, Southsea, from Beigrav e square. Germany and the Duchies. A Prussian commission sent to examine the con• dition and capabilities of the harbour of Dant" has reported that its situation is ineligible, and that, on account of the shallowness of water and want of space. is not adapted for the Prussian navy. "The fleet" will consequently be stationed at S wine munde for the present, Meetings in favour of the candidature of the Prindo of Augustenbhrg have been held in several towns in the duchies, and resolutions have been passed to the Abet that no other claimant shall have the support of the inhabitants. The following resolutions were passed at Husum in Schleswig Constrained by our manly word voluntarily given, and by our most innate conviction, under all circumstances we will remain true and steadfast to our legitimate prince, rake Frederic VIII. Every other pretension to the throne of Schleswig-Hol stein, come from whatever side it may, we will reject with indignation. We will oppose it with all possible means and expect that the whole of the German people will do likewise. Each interim Government we look upon as dangerous to the cause of our country. We hereby express to the Governments of Austria and Prussia our warmest and most deeply felt thanks for the liberation frcm our hereditary foes, the Danes, and are ready and willing to approve of any concession which the interest of Germany may require, but we confidently ex pect from the exalted sense of justice of the Sovereigns of Austria and Prussia, that now, without delay, Schleswig- Holstein will be reconstituted as an independent State under our legitimate ruler Frederic VIII. Only when this is done. when a legally-constituted assemb y legislates for us, when a Schleswig-Holstein army is formed, can we consider our liberation to be an accompllished fact." Similar resolutions have been passed at other places. A Frankfort letter of the 18th says : At Berlin, as well as at Vienna, public opinion is declar - ing itself more and more against the Austro-Prussian all' - ance. Prussia finds it an impediment to the Establishmor.. t of her supremacy in Germany, to the accomplishment of Federal reform, and, above all, to the realisation of 1 Ler personal views. The Duchies are, in fact, looked upon in Prussia as a territory conquered by the army of ti iat country, and by that army alone. Besides, the question asked, what is to be done with the Duch ies? if they are to form a new State of the Confeder ation, the result W. mid only be to increase the evil dreated in 1815, and consoli ,late a situation which by turns the Nationalverein , the Paa ment, the Assembly of Delegates, and the Congress of Princes, have each desired to modify or put an end to. The Duchies were not conquered by the old Germany of the Diet; those provinces ought therefore to belong to the new Germany which is now consulting itself. The Duchies without an army and fleet, and exposed at every moment to attacks from Denmark, could not form an inde pendent state. They therefore require protection, and they cannot expect it from one of the secondary States of Ger many, which themselves only exist (in consequeace of the present state of as Confederation) by the support of the two great Powers. Prussia is therefore alone celled on to exercise that protection over the Duchies whioh have l i d en ti c al military and commercial interests. The p rincipo ()eject of those ob servations _ which are spread amozig tn° d oc ile public is to show the ne cessit y of g iving an organl' e sation to the Duchies b efore settling the question of tb succession. Consequently there is an increased desir e to establish a Provisional G overnment in the DLchies, to con: voice the Chambers ( of course in p resence of the arn 3 Y L occu pation), and to obtain the adoption by those asserabile:s o f measures and laws which would overthrow t he Cons at of 1848, and establish that friendly union v/V e ., 13. A f t Berlin is represented as indispensable to the we Schleswig - Holstein. The Kreutz Zeitung, referring to the fall of :1!"l E- g Otho when speaking of the dismemberment of Ve" mark, sees the finger of God in the misfortunes which have befallen Christian IX., and s ays:- - There are still persons at Copenhagen who hope for an intervention of Earope in favour of Denmark ; they c Lnnot resign themselves to such great losses. They say that King Christian is convinced that sooner or later the Duchies will rct rn to him, in conformity with the treaty of London . And Zing Otho, will he recover Greece sooner or later in virtue of s u 'ree treaty ? Was not Greece more solemnly guaranteed to ti that the German Duchies to K ik Christian ? And w hat 'at iiiuhatgright had King George to the throt) of Greece. Have „ an t the victories of Duppel and ,Mseri g i ve n the answe r of the living God to the Cavourist policy" of King Christian at Athens Ho yielded to the counsels and power of England to comtoit a bad action in Greece, an d wa s abandoned by the counsei,q and power of Englan d at home. NV e are, of course, not at all inclines to rejoice, at the misfortunes of others; but we seek the finger of God in history that we may be guideil thereby. THE EXPRESSION OF I)REo.—Women are wore like flowers than We think. ln their dress and' adornment they express their nature, a s the flowers do br their petals and colours. Some women are like thanoccle9t escd th ill ey a o m an " fl ni a n m g e w ou r daisiesdressed and violets—they never look or feel cetter th when unless t he tuliP or bush rose. Who has not seen women just like whin) like lilies? We know several double 111 arig o 1 d 8 an d PoPPirs' There are women fit only for velvets, like the flaidi a ' s atloillnegnorgOeothuesrsdyaerse, not themselves an d then others are graceful and airy, like szileas. N°N v omen ar e ire? you see hollyhocks and sunflowers. When W and not limits to dress es the like, uncontrolled by others, express their by their circumstances, they do not fail to t r ue c h ara cters, and dress becomes a form of expro ilio til sion very gcuine and use:al.—G( o7 'v ilterraith.s L .Eng. land.'