The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. _ o _____ _ RADNOR BOROUGHS. The election of a member for the Radnor Boroughs—viz., New Radnor, Knighton, Cefu llys, Knuckles, Rhayader, and Prosteign—in the room of the late Sir G. C. Lewis, took place at Now Radnor on Saturday. New Radnor, which is dignified with the title (it " town" is a small village in a retired situation among the Radnorshire hills and forests, within six miles of a railway and 20 miles of telegraphic communication with the rest of the world. The proceedings took place in a building called the Town-hall, where some 200 persons assembled. The returning officer is the Rev. G. R. Turner, who, in opening the proceedings of the day, necessarily alluded to the loss which the nation had sus tained in the death of the late Sir G. 0. Lewis, who, he said, had been recognised by all parties as a model statesman, while his kind and courteous de meanour had gained the respect of all, as was testi fied by the trib u t es w hi c h h a d b een pa id t o his me mory by the press, of all shades of opinion. After the usual preliminaries, Mr. PRICHARD nominated Mr. Richard Green Price, of Norton Manor, as a fit and proper person to represent the united boroughs in Parliament. In re-echoing all th a t h a d b een s aid by the high bailiff as to the late baronet, he said the sorrow which they felt in Radnorshire at his death was a sorrow felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. Mr. Price's politics were in accordance with those of their late lamented member. He would support the Government of which Sir George had been the brighest ornament, and would especially support that foreign policy which, under God's blessing, had saved us from the miseries of war. (Cheers.) Mr. C1731311NG seconded the nomination, and ex pressed an opinion that Mr. Price would be found to be a thorough Liberal, and therefore a worthy successor to their late member. If they elected him they would not be putting a round man into a square hole, nor a square man into a round hole, but would have the right man in the right place. No ether candidate being put in nomination, Mr. Price was declared duly elected amid cheering. Mr. PRICE then addressed the electors. He com menced his address by alluding to the great loss which the nation, and Radnorshire in particular, had sustained in the death of the late Sir G. C. Lewis. In deference to the feelings of the family at Harpton Court, he said he could have wished to defer the election of a successor, but the writ hav ing issued on Monday the election was bound to take place at once. The business of life must go on, and they were hurried on with it. The seat having been declared vacant, the next question was, who was to fill it. In some further allusions to the per sonal character of the late member, Mr. Price said he would be regarded hereafter as a great moral and political philosopher. He had been bred and born among them, and they might live ages before they saw his like again. He was a most exemplary landlord kind and amiable towards his tenantry and dependants ; and he had read in the newspapers that day that the highest lady in the land, our be loved Queen, who had herself suffered all the dis tressing bereavements which had fallen upon Lady Theresa Lewis, had communicated those feelings to her ladyship. (Hear, hear.) With regard to his (the speaker's) political opinions, he must say that on that point he had been met by the elsctors with one general feeling of trust and confidence. He had not had one refusal, nor had any one catechised him on the subject of his political principles. It might be supposed that he was a mere nominee—a politi cal locum tenens to uphold the Government, but he Was bound to say on that score that the censtitu ency of the Radnorshire Boroughs was as indepen dent as any in the land. They would have here after an opportunity of seeing what were his votes in Parliament, and whether, in fact, he was the Liberal man he professed to be. If he changed his colours they would know how to receive him when he came down again to visit them. He did not think that at the present moment it was worth while for him to enter upon any political question. He hoped he would soon be more alive to the sub jeets that would come before Parliament than he then was, but he might tell them that he had en joyed the confidence of their late lamented member, and that his opinions were, as his votes in Parlia ment would be, very much--nay, the very same as his. (Cheers.) As to the question of civil and re ligious liberty, when it was a question between the many and the few ho should vote for the many. He was a Liberal Conservative, as he had told them in his address, and he used the word Conservative in its strict sense. The verb " conserve" meant "to preserve," but it did not mean "to preserve every wrong in the constitution." (Hear, hear.) On the contrary, he would repair, improve, add to, or progrees. Why should the term be borrowed by those who seemed to obstruct rather than to im prove ? He had also told them in his address that he was a supporter of Lord Palmerston's Govern ment; but perhaps some people remark that that was not saying much, because they knew many re spectable men in the Opposition, strong Conserva tives, who were said to have a feeling towards Lord Palmerston. But he would go further, and say that he admired especially Lord Palmerston's foreign policy. And what was his foreign policy ? Liberty on the Continent. He was the friend of Poland, the friend of national liberty in Italy. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, the hon. member said he had received from the present ba rone t, Si r Gilb ert F ran kl an d Lewis, approval of his principles, and he added that, had it not been for the family of Lewis the Rad nor Borough would not now have a voice in Par liament, but would have been placed in Schedule A of the Reform Act. Thanks to the returning officer having been voted in the usual form, the proceedings termi❑ated. SHIP MAILS TO AMERICA. The following correspondence respecting the de spatch of letter: by private ships to Matmoras was issued on Saturday evening : No. 1. MR. HAMMOND TO MR. HILL. Foreign Office, April 16, 1863. Sir,—l am directed by Earl Russell to request that you will state to the Postmaster -General that it has been represented to his lordship by persons interested in vessels employed between this country and Matamoras, that the circumstance of those ves sels being obliged to carry a ship-letter mail may in many cases have an injurious effect on th e vessels if v i s i te d by United States ships of war, inasmuch as, although the persons interested in such vessel s and their cargoes may as far as matters are within their control, be well assured of the innocence of both, yet they can have no such assurance in regard to the contents of mails en trusted to them by the Post Office, which, for aught they know, may include correspondence to which the United States, as a belligerent Power, might fairly object. I am, therefore, to request that you will state to the Postmaster-General that Lord Russell is of opinion that, under the peculiar circumstances of the present time, vessels bound to Matamoras, either from ports in this country, or from ports in her Majesty's colonies and possessions, should be relieved from the obligation of carrying ship-letter mails; and if the Postmaster-General should con cur, Lord Russell would be glad to be informed of his doing so, in order that he may apprise the par ties by whom the representation was made to him. .--I am, &c., (Signed) E. lIA3imoND. No. 2. ME. HILL TO MR. 114111\101 , .TD. General Post-Office, April 17, 1863. Sir, —flaying laid before the Postmaster -Gene ral your letter of yesterday's date, I am directed by his lordship to request that you will state to Earl Russell that he sees no objection to the pro posal made in that letter, that, under the peculiar Circumstances of the present time, vessels bound to Alatamoras from this country should be relieved from the obligation of carrying ship-letter mails; , kr , a orders will immediately be given that, for the t;resent, no ship-letter mail be put on board any vesseconcurrence sailing for Matamoras, unless with the full of the comman d er. With reeespeq to vessels sailing from ports in her Majesty's colonies and possessions, the Post master-General would suggest that Earl Russell should communicate with the Secretary cf State for the Colonies, as, except at Malta tend Gib raltar, the management of the posts in the colonies is now entirely under local control. As bearing upon the present ques"on, I am to add that on the 2d inst. the brokers of a steam ves- Eel called the Sea Queen, bound for Matamoros, wrote to this office, stating that they should be glad to take a mail by her. But on the 11th instant a further letter was received from them, pointing out that, for reasons similar to those mentioned in your letter, the owners wished to decline taking the mails for which they had previously applied. Before the receipt, however, of that letter, three mails, containing eight letters and two newspa pers, had been put on board the ship at Gravesend, and the vessel had sailed. This circumstance was communicated to the brokers yesterday, but the Postmaster-General has now directed a further letter to be written to them, informing them that if they still desire that the mails should not be canied by the Sea Queen, and will instruct the commander to put them on shore at Falmcuth (where it is ur,derstood the vessel is to call), his lordship will authorise the postmaster at Falmouth, by means of the electric telegraph, to receive the mails and to return them to London.-- I am, &c., (Signed) F. HILL. No. 3. MR. HAMMOND TO MR. CRAWFORD, M.P. Foreign-office, Aprill7, 1863. Sir,—l am directed by Earl Russell to state to you, with reference to what passed at the interview which he had the pleasure of having with you yes terday, that he lost no time in suggesting to the Postmaster- General that, under the peculiar cir cumstances of the present time, vessels bound to Matamoras from ports in this country should be re lieved from the obligation of carrying ship-letter mails; and that he has been informed that in con sequence of his communication orders will be imme diately given that for the present no ship -letter mails shall be put on board any vessel sailing for Matamoras unless with the full concurrence of the commander.--I am, &c,, (Signed) E. HAMMOND. No. 4. MR. HAMMOND TO MR. SPENCE. Foreign-office, April 17, 1863. Sir,—l have laid before Earl Russell your letter of this day's date, requesting that instructions may be given for placing a Government mail agent in charge of the mail which has been put on board your vessel the Sea Queen, which is now at Falmouth ; and I am directed by his lordship to state to you in reply, that Lord Russell has been informed by the Postmaster-General that the brokers of the Sea Queen will be apprised that if they desire that the mails should not be carried by the Sea Queen, and will instruct the commander to put them on shore at Falmouth, his lordship will authorise the post master at Falmouth by telegraph to receive the mails and to return them to London. I am further to state to you, that at the recom mendation of Earl Russell, the Postmaster-General will immediately give orders that no ship letter mail be put on board any vessel sailing for IVlatamoras, unless with the full concurrence of the commander. —I am, &c. (Signed) E. ITAmmomp. 1 No. 5. MR. HAIIDIOND TO MESSRS. BENNETT AND WAKE. Foreign-office, April 18, 1863. Gentlemen,—l have laid before Earl Russell your letter of yesterday's date, requesting that instruc tions may be given for placing a Government mail agent on board the Sea Queen, which is now at Falmouth ; and I am directed to state to you, in re ply, that, at Lord Russell's recommendation, the Postmaster -General will for the present relieve vessels proceeding to Matamoras from the obliga tion of carrying ship letter mails.—l am, &c., (Signed) E. HAMMOND. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL, Lieutenant-General Grey has received the com mands of the Queen to acknowledge the receipt of the Report of the Committee appointed to give her Majesty their assistance in the consideration of questions relative to the National Memorial to the Prince Consort. Her Majesty has directed that her best thanks may be returned to the Committee for the valuable services which they have rendered and the advice which they have submitted to her Majesty. The Queen very fully participates in the regret expressed by the Committee that it has been found necessary to abandon, for the present, the idea of the Central Hall, which, combined with a personal Memorial, would have appeared to unite the tribute of national gratitude with the objects in which the great and good Prince took the strongest interest, and would also have for ever associated with the Memorial the recollections of the Exhibition of 1851. This regret is, however, modified by the ex pectation that whenever the Commissioners of 1851 may be in a position to appropriate the vacant space north of the conservatory in the Royal Horticultural Gardens to the purposes for which the estate was purchased a Hall may still form part of the build ings to be erected there. The personal Memorial to the Prince was always the first object, and the Queen never contemplated the combination of the Central Hall until that was adequately provided for. Under these circumstances the Queen is happy to see that the Committee have recommended for selec tion the design of Mr. Scott, to which her Majesty had already given the preference among the many beautiful designs submitted for her judgment. Windsor Castle, April 22, 1863, Sir Charles Eastlake. " THIRD REPORT OF THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. "To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " We, the members of the Committee appointed by your Majesty to consider the best means of giving effect to your Majesty's wishes in respect to a Memorial to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, humbly leg leave to report to your Majesty the result of our further proceedings with re ference to the matters committed to us. sign. " In our second report, dated the 27th of June, 1862, after referring to the difficulties which had compelled us to abandon the scheme of an obelisk, and to your Majesty's wish, communicated by a letter dated the 19th of April, 1862, from Lieut.-Gen. the lion. Charles Grey, that we should turn our attention to some other mode in which the great object in view might be more satisfactorily effected, we stated that, in reviewing the various suggestions that had been made, we had become aware that a large proportion of the public appeared to be desirous of connecting the in tended monument with some institution intimately associ ated with the Prince's name. We stated that a reference to hi s Royal Highness's recorded declarations and views had led us to conclude that there was nothing he had more at heart than the establishment of an institution for the pro motion, in a largely useful sense, of science and art as ap plied to productive industry. " In considering the question of the site and special pur.. applicable to such objects wepcaloBurihdlansecodt poses of a building of with funds opinionnodusrefthe Great that Exhibition the ground w ha n d ich al v r a e r e i d o y us h e e s e t n abl p is l h ae m ed en , tsuncodnernehctiesd i w t i e t y h .a a l r . t H an i d gh s n ci — e e e n ta i l e s auspices—would guidedhy the Prince's be th e w fi t t e t h es e ts,foareSecondand R still e. Re port of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, we came to the conclusion that the most appropriate structure such stated a in building; the lldl ng ; would be a Hall, forming a centre of action for men of science and art, where the results of their labours could be com munleated, while, to use the words of the Commissioners, it would at the same time afford ' the means of establishing the connexion between them and the public, which would secure permanent relations of reciprocal interest.' "In obedience to your Majesty's suggestion, communi -1 cated in General Grey's letter above referred to, we then sought the advice and assistance of some eminent architects. The following were those to whom we applied :—William Tite, Esq., M.P. ; Sydney Smirk; Esq., R.A. ; James Pennethorne, Esq., Philip C. Hardwicke, Esq., Thomas L. Donaldson, Esq., George Gilbert Scott, Esq., R.A., and Matthew Digby Wyatt, Esq. " Those architects, in a letter dated the sth of June, 1862, addressed through Sir Charles Eastlake to the Com mittee, expressed their opinion that the fittest site for the proposed flail of Science and art would be the vacant piece of ground at the northern boundary of the estate of the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851. We were our selves enabled to state that the Commissioners, on their part, were pleased to express their readiness to reserve, for a reasonable time, a suitable site for the Hall, of the extent required. ,* In the proposed general arrangements the effect of the , whole, as pointed out in our former report, would in a great measure depend on the straightening of the public road, in itself a considerable improvement, but which could onlybe effected by taking in a few feet from the Park. This object, trifling as is the proposed alteration, could only be obtained by an application to Parliament for its sanction. A reference to the subjoined plan will explain the nature and extent of the proposed alteration. "After consulting further with the architects referred to, we decided that the memoral itself, with which the proposed hall was to be associated, should be placed opposite the centre of the area to be occupied by the hall, but en the higher ground north of the Kensington-road. "Having thus endeavoured to reconcile the original and primary object of a Memorial with the erection of a build ing in its immediate neighbourhood applicable to those especial objects which his Royal Highness the Prince Consort had been anxious to promote, we proposed, iu our second report, to invite a certain number of architects to furnish detailed designs for the Memorial, with sufficient indications (as we afterwards explained) of the relative position, extent, and character of the hall. "Your Majesty's entire and cordial approval' of the scheme above described, and of the course proposed to be adopted, was communicated in a letter dated the 18th of July, 1862, addressed as before, by General Grey to Sir Charles Eastlake. " The architects whom we invited to furnish designs were the same whom we had before consulted. Two of the number—Mr. Tite and Mr. Sinirke—having declined tho invitation, we addressed ourselves to Charles Barry and Edward M. Barry, Esquires. Those distinguished archi tects having accepted our conditions the proposed number of candidates remained unaltered. " The architects originally consulted by us did not omit to observe, in their letter dated the sth of June, 1862, that the sum available for the Memorial is supposed to amount to between £50,000 and £60,000, which probably would not be more than sufficient for a work of art worthy of the na tion, including the cost of forming a site to receive it. " On our part, in our invitation bearing date the 19th of July, 1862, to the seven architects, five of whom had affixed their names to the letter above quoted, we adverted to the same condition by reminding the candidates that one im portant consideration would be ' the amount of the fund which may be available for the cost of the memorial itself, for that of the proposed straightening of the public road, for the arrangement of the area in Hyde-park with its decorations, and, if possible, for the hall on the south side of the road.' " The various designs were submitted in February last to your Majesty's inspection. "The ability, ingenuity, and taste displayed in all the designs are such as to prove the wisdom of the course sug gested by your Majesty, and we trust that on future occa sions, in questions relating even more directly and exclu sively to sculpture, it will be found advisable to csnsult those whose studies and practice lead them to regard mo • numental works with reference to the site they are to oc cupy, and in relation to surrounding objects. "At the same time we are aware, on the one hand, that designs for statues or groups of sculpture by architects, can only be required to indicate the position and dimensions of such works, leaving the sculptors themselves uncontrolled in all other respects ; and, on the other, that the judgment ought not to he influenced by any defects of detail in such necessarily vague representations of sculptured forms. "In proceeding to the onerous duty of pointing out designs, one of which might, subject to your Majesty's ap proval, and with due modifications, be chosen for execution / we had to bear in mind the amount of the funds subscribed as compared with the estimates of the candidates. As re gards the Hall, we had, in our second Report, before referred to, stated that we could do no more than express our earnest hope that sufficient funds might be provided to insure its completion. What effect the announcement of a definite scheme and chosen design may produce we cannot anticipate, but we are bound to state that at this moment the amount subscribed barely exceeds £50,000. We have to add that the estimates which the candidates have sub mitted for the Memorial, irrespectively of the Hall, are with one exception, larger—in some instances considerably so— than that sum. " Before submitting our opinion on the relative fitness in other respects of the designs we prefer, it may be necessary to advert to the general question respecting the durability of statues in the open air in this country. We observe that those architects who propose that the principal sculpture they have introduced should be of white statuary marble have placed such works within a building. Bronze, with or without gilding, and in some cases Sicilian marble (which latter it is assumed is durable even when exposed to the atmosphere), are the materials selected for external decorations in sculpture. We are of opinion that in any case, even including architectural details, the surface of the Memorial and its accompanying decorations might require to be cleaned from time to time; and that, assuming bronze to be preferred, a light colour might be adopted, and by such precautions might probably be preserved. "Next to the apparently indispensable condition of an estimate for the Memorial within the means hitherto con tributed, we were disposed to consider the designs with reference to the important question of due connexion with the site and proposed structures on the opposite or south s fr id o e tn of th th e e so K ut e h n p si o n i g n t t O s n- ou r t oa a d. com T m h a e n g d r in ound g site gr fo a r du th a e llyrising Memo rial, and suggests a definite termination not only to the por tion of the site in. the Park, but to the whole area on the south side of the road, with the buildings now or hereafter to be comprehended in the estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. The Memorial, we conceive, should, in an architectural sense, be in intelligible relation and connection with that estate, in itself a monument of the Prince's efforts for the promotion of Science and Art; and, as occupying the highest point in the ground, considered as a whole, should, in its mere plan as well as in due eleva tion, have the character of a boundary adorned with a fit ting monument. " We are of opinion that, in its general conception, the design by Mr. Philip C. Hardwick exhibits an especial at tention to these requisites. "In considering the general character of the different designs for the Memorial we find admirable suggestions for structures partaking of the nature of a mausoleum. But we conceive that the Memorial in the neighbourhood of ins stitutions which, with regard to their present and proposed objects, exemplify the labours of the Prince for the public good, should rather convey the impression that it is a pub lic tribute to his great qualities; and that, while the pro posed Hall of Science and Art would represent in the most general form the useful objects which his Royal Highness promoted, the Memorial itself should be essentially a na tional testimonial. " We, therefore, recur to the idea, that has been promi nent at all times among civilized nations, of a statue in a conspicuous situation, sufficiently large to form, in refe rence to that situation, a commanding point of attraction, and with becoming accompaniments at different heights to enrich the mass and sustain the impression intended to be conveyed. " These conditions appear to us to have been carefully borne in mind by Mr. Hardwick; and, as regards the im portant question of expenditure, his is the only design ac cording to which the Memorial itself, irrespective of the Hall, could be executed at a cost within the amount sub- scribed. At the same time, we aro of opinion that the Hal forms so essential a feature of his general plan that its omission would greatly detract from the merits of his de- " We now proceed to notice, as especially worthy of your Majesty's favourable consideration, a magnificent design, by Mr, Scott, for a Gothic Cross, the statue being within the structure, but open to view, and, in a great measure, open to the air. " In the letter of the architects, in reply to our first in vitation that they would favour us with their advice, among various kinds of monuments which were by them considered objectionable the Gothic Cross, if approaching the slender proportions of an obelisk or column, was included. We advert to this only to remark that, in the first place, Mr. Scott's design does not come under that particular descrip tion of structure; and, secondly, that in a letter dated the 9th June, 1862, referring to the opinion above quoted, be claimed for himself perfect freedom of choice in the style of his design. " While admitting the somewhat sepulchral character of what are called Gothic Crosses, we cordially appreciate the feeling which led Mr. Scott to adopt in his design, to use his own words, the style . , of the most touching monu ments ever erected in this country to a Royal Consort,' and to give to an architectural structure the character of a vast shrine expressive of the value attached to the statue which it protects. " We, therefore, do not dwell on the objection, likely to to be urged, of a certain want of originality in a monument of this kind, because we believe that the beauty of this example, if it could be carried into execution without sacri ficing the richness and completeness of its effect, would b l a , n , Icte will to o t b h e e r oia s t s. r e u r v c t e ur d e t s h c a o t m :l n abun dantly compensate fo r an y ac t ua l or i mag i ne d resem , of a Gothi c C rogs r g . S u ti c o d t e r r s th e denomination is proposed menu. ment not essentially connected with any present or pro posed buildings on the south side of the public road. But, inasmuch as it would correspond with the central line of area on that side—the statue, of course, fronting in that di rection—We conceive that tho required connection might be sufficiently attained by the arrangement of the ittitne diately surrounding ground ; and, although the isolated and independent character of the structure in itself would seem to fit it for any open situation, wa by no means consider such a circumstance of sufficient weight to open again the question of site. . _ "A Gothic monument in the position already assigned for the Memorial might, in the opinion of some judges, in _ . volve as a consequence that the hall, if ever to be built, should be similar in style to the Memorial, and consequently again dissimilar from the bindings already in existence on the estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, We think, however, that the intervening space might be a sufficient reason for some change of style, if desirable, in the hall. " Having noticed these - general but, as we consider. not insuperable diffi culties, we come to a much more formidable objection—th e cost of Mr. Scott's proposed Memorial, after reducing the height f rom 185 to 148 feet—an alternative proposed in his printed d escription —and not without some other changes, cannot, we fear, be estimated at much less than double the amount subscribed. " To this mast be added that no calculation is made for THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1863. the cost of laying out the ground (in this case an indispen • sable addition), nor for that of straightening the public road. " Under these circumstances we still think we are bound to submit our opinion, in the first place as to the relative merit of the designs. That opinion, after a careful and re peated comparison of those designs, considered irrespectively of cost, is in favour of that by Mr. Scott. The difficulties which present themselves in regard to the estimate can only be met, first, by abandoning for the present the project of a hall ; and, secondly, by such an addition to the present available amount as would secure the completion of Mr. Scott's monument wi thoutsacrificing its chief characteristics. " It is not without extreme regret that we regard, even as a possibility, the indefinite postponement of a project which H.R.H. the Prince Consort appeared so earnestly to contemplate. In relinquishing the objects of utility to science and art which the hall and its accompaniments woulu have unquestionably promoted, and in recommending the adop tion of Mr. Scott's design, we have the consolation of re flecting that we in some measure revert to your Majesty's original intention in propo ing the erection of a monument in the usual accepta'ion of the word, with groups of sta•, tuary round its base "But, wo repeat, even for the execution of such a monu ment alone the sum contributed will be insufficient. It would be unbecomieg on our part to offer any suggestion as to the means by which that sum might be augmented ; but we venture to think that the liberality of Parliament would not be appealed to in vain, and that by the aid of the House of Commons the monument would assume a elm rector in all respects national, and thus be worthy of the Prince to whose memory it will be dedicated. "We beg leave to recommend that all the designs should be submitted to the inspection of members of the Legislature, and ultimately to that of the public. "We humbly subjoin, as an appendix, various papers re ferred to in this report. " DERBY, " C. L. EASTLAKE, " CLA.RENDON, " WILLIAM CUBITT. " Westminster, 25th March, 1863," MINISTERIAL CHANGES. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SPECTATOR.—The vacancy created by the death of Sir C. Lewis has been filled up by the selection of Earl de Grey ; his appointment has been given to the Marquis of Hartington ; and his again has been accepted by Mr. Stansfeld, an independent Liberal. The arrangement, though accepted as inevitable, has not given uniform satisfaction. Earl de Grey has earned his promotion, but it is not usual or plea sant to see the heads of three great departments in the peers ; while the rapid promotion of the Afar quis,:of Hartington is an affront to all whom he supersedes—that is, to one third of the Liberal side of the house. Mr. Stansfeld's adhesion is a gain to the Government, and will be a great one, if his chiefs will only allow him a place in debate, often refused to subordinates. To himself his accept ance is most creditable, for he has, in fact, risked his career by accepting a post which silences him, but which will train him for others in which his ability may be of more direct service to the country. The Secretary for War, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and First Lord of the Admiralty, are now all peers. The three most i m portant departments of the State, possessing the la rg est patronage,exereising the widest influence, and expending one-half the revenue of the country, or three-fourths of all taxes not impropriated for the maintenance of national credit, :are now represented in the Commons by under-secretaries, men who can only utter what their absent chiefs may dictate. At a time when politics and foreign affairs are synonymous, when a European war seems imminent, when a maritime war may break out at any hour, and when the en tire fleet is under reconstruction, the representa tives of the people have not among them a Cabinet Minister who can sign a despatch, or 'raise a regi ment, or authorise the smallest change in dockyard administration. That is the only objection to the selection of Lord De Grey, but it is one of which were the house in a less quiescent humour, the Go vernment would yet hear enough. It is something to see a 'min under 36 appointed Secretary of State, to feel that England is not to be governed like Rome, by an endless succession of half-worn out capabilities. The men of 1815 have ruled them till Englishmen half forget that the greatest rulers of earth have been young, half fancy a man of 40 must be deficient in ripe experience, are half in clined to believe that the faculty of keeping alive is itself a proof of brain. If we were to have a peer, best of all Lord De Grey ; but the condition of ajairs which made him inevitable is by no means satisfactory. The House of Commons is sadly re duced when it is necessary to leave it without direct control over the three great departments, when it is actually wise to treat it as a body entitled to an initiative only in matters of trade and taxes. It is vain to say that the under-secretaries are as respell. Bible to the house as their chiefs. They cannot, to begin with, make promises, or even affect to " bow to the evident sense of the house." The will of Earl Russell individually affects the affairs of the continent, but who cares about the will of Mr. Layard, or what is the use of scolding Lord Har tington because a regiment has been destroyed by favouritism or the Cape flooded with needless troops ? It is not the fault of the Premier par ticularly. It is the fault of the party he leads, which, by persistent and dangerous negligence, is throwing executive power once again into the hands of the peers. The evil is not unavoidable, for the Tories do avoid it. They have men enough in the Commons, young men "coming on," posts for all who show the capacity which will help them up to power. If it were not that able men can seldom continue Tories—the only reason for the permanent failure of the Tory press—they, the party who do not need wisdom or eloquence, w ou ld swee p the house of its keenest brains and cleverest tongues, and leave their antagonists only the conviction of right they have not the power to explain. For the past twenty years whom have the great Whigs brought ,forward, except Mr. Lowe, and he c isp io r n. Butactically Asir. shelved by the p resen t super essStansfeld ? Lord Palmer ston desired, very wisely, to con c ili a t e th e inde pendent Liberals, who were ge tti ng visibly tired in of the cava li er s tyle however,su greatly too much for p Nv p o h r i t e againsthis so friends. etimes A anp se e a a t ls in to t h h i e s e c n a e b m in i e es t for people who " are to stick to the last," so, in defiance of the precedents which leave one of the three great department in the Commons, the only peer of the party is selected to fill the vacancy. That left the War-office still to b e represented in the Commons, and as that office is important not in itself, bat in the position it accide n t a ll y con f ers, i t is filled by a future duke only just received in the Government. And then the office he leaves, which represents nothing, and whose occupant ought to be overridden by the Parliamentary secretary, who himself is only a subordinate, is offered to Mr. Stansfeld, a man of twice Lord Hartington's Parlia mentary standing. There ought to be fair play on all sides, unity between the great sections of Libe rale, not a condescending patronage of one by the other. The Whigs must offer alliance, not simply chuck us a bone. Mr. Stansfeld is an acquisition, but he might have been a greater one, had Lord Palmerston been more careful to avoid the appear ance of slighting the very men whose alliance he asked, o r th row ing the balance of power so com pletely into the hands of the Peers. SATURDAY REVIEW.—For the efficient adminis tration of the War-office, the appointment of Lord de Grey is perhaps the best selection which could have been made, The new Minister enjoys the unusual advantage of understanding the business of his department from the first, instead of learning it by experience, or, in other words, by failure. His energy and practical capacity have been displayed in his management of the volunteer force, which has been from the first entrusted to his superintendence. His ability must have made an extraordinary im pression on the Prime Minister and on any of the colleagues whom ha may have consulted, when it was determined to entrust one of the highest offices of the State to a functionary still under 40. It had been supposed that Sir Charles Wood would be transplanted from the India-office to learn one of the few branches of public business which he has not yet enjoyed an official opportunity of mastering. Lord de Grey is one of the few who have asset ted the capacity of the generation below middle age to take a prominent part in public affairs. None of his contemporaries has thus far made a better use of great opportunities. At an early age, his vigour and sincerty in the ad vocacy of a slightly paradoxi cal Liberalism made hi m, w ith the assistance of a powerful family connecti on , m ember for the West Riding. If he had remained in the House of Com mons, ho would have become a political leader, and when he was excluded from the more active sense of contest by his removal to the House of Lords, he wisely took the first opportunity of acluiring ad ministrative experience. Neverthless, it is conveni ent that the House of Commons should exercise a certain censorship over the professional eccentricities of military managem en t ; a nd if the Minister knows his business, he will carefully keep his hold on Parliament for the purpose of counterbalancing, in case of need, the powe r of his less responsible colleague. The dignified supervision of the House of Lords produces a less wholesome impression than the irritable watchfulness of the Commons. Lord de Grey would probably have united all suffrages if he had still been member for the West Riding; but it is certainly inconvenient that the Govern ment should be weakened in the Lower House at a Harlington has s canty time when it h as li ttle strengt h t o s p are . L or d exper i enc e either in office or oi debate ; and alth oug h he has g i ven som e pr om i se of ability, he must f or t h e presen t re ly on the indul gence of the house and on the aid of more experienced colleagues. It is, perhaps, not unnatural that the dispensers of preferment should welcome the faintest prospect of an heir to the Whig succession. If Lord Hartington makes himself useful as Under- Secretary of the War office, he will find the doors of the Cabinet open, and perhaps he may hereafter be. come a political leader. The Reformers of 1832 scarcely foresaw the aristocratic results of a system which practically excludes from Parliament all but the sons of powerful families at the time of life when the trade of statesmanship is most easily learned. The younger nobility might almost rule the country if they were not early absorbed in the House of Lords. Lord Palmerston would have done well to make the vacancy in his Cabinet an occasion for more extensive changes. In the House of Com mons he now relies almost exclusively on himself and on the brilliant and dangerous support of Mr. Gladstone. Sir Charles Wood and Sir George Grey possess vast official experience, but, from various reasons, they have ceased to exercise any consider able influence in Parliament, and Government is injuriously affected by the weariness of the house, which has scarcely seen a new face on the Treasury Bench for half a generation. It may possibly be the fault of circumstances, and not of Lord Palmerston, that he has been singularly unfortunate in the se lection of younger colleagues. Lord Derby has trained a certain number of competent successors, but in the House of Commons there is no prominent supporter of the Government under the age of fifty. Sir Robert Peel has, after seversl years, only suc ceeded in establishing a reputation for a certain rhetorical skill, and Mr. F. Peel, who is useful in managing the details of office, has not secured the ear of the house. The appointment of Mr. Stansfeld to the vacant Lordship of the Admiralty is, ha wever, a creditable innovation on recent practice. Few of the younger members of the house have displayed equal rhetorical ability, and extreme opinions are advantageously tested or corrected by official expe rience. If Mr. Stansfeld succeeds in his new career, he may perhaps hereafter find his way within the mystic precincts which have seldom been violated by any alien intruder unconnected with the ruling caste. In the meantime, he is well employed in learning the details of business, and in accustoming himself to the indirect responsibility of enforced silence. OBSERvER.—The official arrangements rendered necessary through the lamented death of Sir G. Cornewall Lewis have been made in such a manner as to give general satisfaction to the country. Earl de Grey. who succeeds to the Secretary ship of State for War, has made himself master of the details of the department over which he will now preside as chief during his somewhat protracted, incumbency of the subordinate post of Under Secre tary. He is undoubtedly the first and foremost for special aptitude for the office he is called to fill whose name would rise to the lips; and he is, more over, by his possession of all requisite qualifications, fully entitled to become a Cabinet Minister. Earl de Grey brings with him to the higher position he now assumes an element of popularity deservedly gained by his conduct both as a politician and an administrator; in the latter capacity especially by the hearty support he has given to the development and organisation of the volunteer movement. The necessary representation of the War Office in the House of Commons is secured. by conferring the Under Secretaryship upon the Marquis of Harting ton ; and in filling up the junior lordship of the Admiralty thus vacated, there was an opportunity that it would have been unwise to pass by, of strengthening the popular element in the Govern ment. That opportunity could not have been better used than it has been, by offering the office to Mr. Stansfeld, an eloquent and able member of the advanced section of the Liberal party; and the honourable gentleman's acceptance of the offer is creditable to himself, and will give gratification to the public. Mr. Stansfeld last session made an attempt to check the undue increase of naval and military expenditure. In the office he has accepted the details of dockyard expenditure particularly will fall under his notice, and in all probability he will be able to show that in this direction large savings may be effected, without imparing in any way the efficiency or strength of the navy, which cannot in these times be trifled with. There have been tee many examples of professed, and doubt less sincere, economists, who have confined their efforts to limit the public expenditure to an occa sional participation in a debate, and have shrunk from the labour and responsibility of office, where they might have had the means of giving some practical effect to their views. As an inde pendent member of Parliament, Mr. Stansfeld has fully earned official position, and he deserves the public thanks for not having hesitated to take it. For the Government, the rearrangements strengthen its power in debate, and draw closer its relations with the broad Liberal party outside of the old family and exclusive influences. LONDON REVIEW.—It is certainly not to the credit of the party which acknowledges Lord Pal merston as its chief, that no one could be found in the House of Commons fit to assume the place of the late Sir Cornewall Lewis. The Prime Minister is notorious for his aristocratic predilections; but seeing that the Foreign Secretary, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the President of the Council, are all members of the House of Lords, it is difficult to believe that L or d P a l merston can have had any other reason for placing Lord de Grey at the head of the War Department, except that in his opinion no man could be found in the House of Commons capable of filling that office. Even in despotic countries, where it is thought expedient to establish the forms of constitutional government, it seems to be considered essential that the responsible Minister should have the opportunity of explaining his views to the assembly which is called upon to sanction his measures. It must be remembered that the army and navy absorb some three millions of the annual revenue. The House of Commons is alone respon sible for this enormous estimate. It is therefore not unreasonable to insist that the Ministers upon whose responsibility they are voted should be in a position to explain the grounds upon which the public are called upon to contribute so largely. It is no doubt true that during the reign of the late lamented Minister, Lord de Grey did all the work. It is notorious that Sir C. Lewis took little inte rest in the department over which he presided ; its duties were not congenial to him, and he was, there fore, content to leave them to be discharged by his subordinates: Notwithstanding this, however, it seems to be admitted that the late War Minister efficiently performed the functions attached to his office; and therefore the conclusion would appear to follow inevitably that a single Minister is quite competent to discharge the duties of the War-office without the aid of an Under-Secretary. If Lord de Grey as Under-Secretary, could conduct the affairs of the War Department without the active co-ope ration of so able a man as Sir Cornewall Lewis, it is difficult to understand the public advantage of en cumbering the department with an Under-Secre tary. If, on the other hand, Lord De Grey has of late been overworked, and some of the duties of the War-office have been neglected, it is equally diffi cult to understand how the Minister's hands will be strenthened by those of the Marquis of Hartington. The rapid promotion of this young and ardent noble man is one of the mysteries of the day. The world acknowledges the j us ti c e of putting the young en gineer officer who saves a fortress, or an orator who defends a Minister with brilliant effect in Parlia ment, over the heads of others. But what has Lcrd Hartington done to justify his advancement ? He cannot be said to be unknown in Parliament, for he brought forward the motion which was the occa sion of bringing in the present Ministry; but since that period he has taken little part in public busi ness. However, wealth, rank, and leisure are dan gerous ; and possibly the most useful purpose to which such offices as Junior Lordships of the Admi ralty and Under-Secretaryships can be applied, is to furnish some employment for gay young noble men of tolerable ability. EXAMINER.—The Ministry has this sign of a good constitution, that its wounds heal kindly, In some respects a successor of the lamented Sir G Lewis cannot be found, but it is not as a War Minister that this loss is irreparable, indeed that of his predecessor was far greater, and the interests of the service have been well consulted in the appoint ment of Lord de Grey, who has excellently proved his efficiency in the department, and obtained the confidence and liking of the army. The only ob jection to the arrangement is Parliamentary, that it places another Secretary of State in the House of Lords. It is understood, that to avoid so overload ing the Lords, and undermanning the official bench of the Commons, and at the same time to give a thoroughly efficient, hardworking Minister to the War Office, the place was offered to Mr. Cardwell, but declined for reasons sufficing to himself. We believe that he is the only man who could have any doubt of his own fitness for any important office re quiring industry, judgment, and firmness. It is satisfactory, however, that the offer was made, as it shows the appreciation of a statesman who has risen high in the public confidence by sheer modest merit. For the ke both of himself and the public service, it is well that Lord Hartington's abilities should have employment as Under Secretary of War. Mr. Stansfeld will not have much range for his talents in the Admiralty, but he will bring an ac cession of debating power to the Treasury bench which is wanted, for too much of the stress falls on Lord Palmerston. The choice of Mr. Stansfeld is good in otherorespects more important than clever speaking. He holds opinions liberal, we believe we may say, to Radicalism, and is for the economy which grudges the fair price for nothing really wanted, and consents to nothing unnecessary, cheap or dear. Al'ogether the arrangements have given very general saAsfaction ! Even party opponents have admitted there is nothing to object, and that Lord Palmerston has done well in compounding for some Parliamentary inconvenience in order to give', the most experienced, efficient, and professionally popular head to the War Department. THE PRESS.—Perhaps the individual who feels most aggrieved by the appointment of Earl de Grey and Ripon to the seat in the Cabinet rendered vacant by the lamented death of Sir G. C. Lewis is the un fortunate Mr. Lowe, who believes that his claim to enter that charmed circle stood second to none. Our principal objection to the appoint men t i s th at another Secretaryship of State is thereby tempora rily lost to the House of Commons. In the present state of affairs this cannot fail to create dissatis• faction. The War Department is represented in the Lower House by a Marquis whose chief merit con sists in political services render ed to a party the influence of which is on the decline ; the Foreign Department is represented by a time-serving poli tician who first obtained notoriety by repeated at tacks upon Lord Palmerston's foreign policy, which it is now his mission to defend and eulogise ; and the Colonies are represented by Mr. Chichester For tescue, whose connections, rather than commanding abilities, secured his elevation to this post. To say the least of it, this is not treating the faithful Com mons with due respect; and we are not surprised that on Tuesday last this view of the question was discussed. To the elevation of the Eari De Grey and Ripon we have no particular objection. Though not by any means a statesman, he has hitherto shown himself diligent in the discharge of his duties, and moreover enjoys the advantage which his fellow Cabinet Ministers, if the Premier be excepted, cer tainly do not share with him, of being popular with the service over which he is called upon to preside. The appointment of the ultra-Radi cal Mr. Stansfeid to be a junior Lord of the Admiralty, we commend to the attention of those Conservatives who give a qualified support to the Administration, because they consider its policy Conservative. Lord Palmerston is skilful at uniting extremes. He has induced Sir _Roundell Palmer to act with such men as Messrs. Layard and Stans feid, and no one will deny that did politicians pay the least regard to their professions or manifest the slightest allegiance to their principles, this would be no ordinary achievement. The appointment of Mr. Stansfeld is perhaps not so difficult of explana tion. As the Government-have adopted all the finan cial reformsrecommended by the Conservative party, the enforcement of which, when brought forward by Mr. Walpole last session, the Premier declared would be fatal to his Administration, they could scarcely do less than reward the politician who created the opportunity. Last session Mr. Stansfeld advocated a reduction which no Government could adopt, and since Ministers have followed the course urged upon them by the Conservatives, who assisted them in defeating Mr. Stansfeld's motion, they this session reward the last-mentioned gentleman by making him a Lord of the Admiralty. They hold his principles in abhorrence, but, fearing the man, they endeavour to load him with what Byron terms " splendid chairs," and thus render him a political nonentity. 4 * It is particularly noticeable that in the long string of names given in the Times of to-day, no less than in the Morning Post, under the heading of "Lady Palmerston's Assembly," among the names of the many distinguished guests received on Saturday at the Prime Minister's residence, in Pic cadilly, appear those of the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe. THE QUEEN.—The Budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is exciting some attention. The diminution of the Income-tax upon all incomes up to £l5O is perhaps the only real public boon that results from the surplus. The removal of the five pence on tea has received a practical comment by the immediat e r i se i n th e pr i ce o f t ea i n Mincing lane, whilst the retail g rocers are b us ily advertising tea at two shlllings the pound. Save us from such tea! Experience teaches that no fiscal reduc tion on articles of consumption is to the ad vantage of the consumer. Such reductions are purely a bribe to the shopkeeper, who takes advantage of the altered duty to adulterate a little more la vishly than before, and then pretends to give the consumer the benefit cf the alteration. But what shall we say of the tax upon clubs ? Taking the country all over, it is estimated that the tax of I:17 upon a private club will not amount to more than £3,000 a-year to the Exchequer. It cannot be the ' hope of profit, then, that has inspired Mr. Glad stone. What then ? There is no logical reason for the tax; for cl u b s d o not stand in the same category as publ ic -houses. Public-houses are shops for the sale of liquor at a profit, such profit to bent-fir the shopkeeper. Clubs are nothing o f th e ki n d. Th e y supply provisions and accommodation at a loss, and the deficit has t o b e made up out of the subscrip tions of the members. We must coefess that it passes us to conceive what Mr. Gladstone may mean by this fantastical alteration. Some say that it is a mere specimen of his favomite hair-splitting; others, that it is a scheme to bring the clubs under the supervision of , he police ; but the latter sugges tion is met by Mr. Gladstone's very peculiar decla ration that the tax was not to be accompanied by "any annoying consequences, such as the liability to police visitation?' This, from a minister, is cer tainly un peu fort. If the visitations of the police are merely "annoying," we do not see why those who use public-houses should be subjected to them any more than the frequenters of the club smoking rooms. COURT JOURNAL.—The policy of the English Government at the present moment seems unac countable, for they have had more than ten times the period sufficient for deliberation, or for ascer taining the opinions of the law o ffi cers. We are glad that, in spite of the opposition offered by the " peace at any price" party, and the obvious unwil lingness of the Premier to meet the direct question which two days before he had promised to answer, Mr. Roebuck persevered with his interrogation, and though there is no doubt that h e did not measure his words in a diplom a ti c manner, yet their severity was not altogether un called for, and certainly has a doubly telling effect when coming from a man whom ex perience has taught a very diff erent lesson to the ideas of his former political life. There was at one time no more ardent p o li tic i an than Mr. Roebuck, and his ent'nusiaam was, above all, great for the illustrious modern Republican institutions, which were apparently productive of anything but perfect freedom. As in many other things, so in this, has Mr. Roebuck li ve d to w i tness the destruct i on of those notions and principles which in his younger days he so eagerly espoused, We may well pardon the bitterness of his words, for we thoroughly know that they would never have been uttered had not the fullest cause been given for them on the part of the nation against whom they were directed. We trust that Mr. Roebuck's spirited remonstrance, together with the undoubtedly strong feeling on the subject entertained not only by the Houses of Lords and Commons, but by the entire country, will in duce the Government to vindicate the honour of England, and to protect her interests as efficiently and boldly in this case as they did in the parallel eircumstances connected with the seizure of the Trent. THE LAW TIMES.—The decision of the Full Court in the case of Campbell against the Saturday Re view is of very grave importance. There can be no doubt that it has seriously curtailed the liberty of the press. As defined by the Court of Queen's Bench, the right of free commentary upon the pub lic conduct of public men is practically destroyed. The ruie as now laid down may be thus briefly stated : you may criticise the public acts of public men, but you may not impute motives. This seems as first sight a rule as reasonable as it is simple; but all who have had any experience in writing articles for newspapers on men and things, which must be treated of with a rapid pen and Ino time allowed for deliberation, will know the almost impossibility of observing the distinction between acts and motives, so that it shall not be a question for the caprice or prejudices of a jury. Extreme cases illustrate the insufficiency of rules. Let us see how this alarming one would work when stretched to its limits. According to th e new decision, you may say that Palmer killed C oo k e , b ut you must not say that he murdered him, unless you are prepared to prove by positive evidence that it was a murder. You may say that B. broke into a house, but not that he did so with intent to steal. You might say of Sir John Dean Paul that he sold the debentures intrusted to him, but not that he did so wrongfully, because that would be to impute a motive, which is a libel. You may say that a mini ster gave a good place to an M.P., whoiimmediately thereupon crossed the floor of the House, and from being an opponent became a supporter of the Minis try ; but if you say that the place and the change of party were cause and effect, you impute a corrupt motive, and that would be a libel, unless you can prove the existence of the motive, which is of course impossible. If the law is to be as it is now inter preted, the words " job," " corruption," " bribery," and indeed the entire list of political offences, must be banished from the political dictionary ; no news paper will dare to risk them, however gross the offence, or great the public interest in the denuncia tion of it. Not the least of the unhappy conse quences of this decision is, that it will restore the detestable practice of criticism by inuendo. named picture, one of the very few wholly satisfactory works:resulting:from the infinite labours of the Royal Commission of Fine Arts. It will scarcely be believed that this noble painting, upon which the artist has expended several of the best years of his life, has been actually covered up with clothe, in order that its colouring may not mar the effect of the architectural designs! Thus it has been for some weeks, and thus it is proposed to be for some weeks to come. On Saturdays the pubito is admitted to see the paintings in the houses, while now the most important of them is covered up. Good taste and respect for the artist should have prevented this thing. Independent of the slight thus offered to him, a serious annoyance must be inflicted upon Mr. Maclise, if the designs are ex hibited as arranged, by bringing crowds of persona and their accompaniments of dust and noise, for weeks together into an apartment which is actually his studio, where he is working for the nation daily and all day long. The authorities ought to remove the designs into Westminster Hall or Burlington House. THE BOMBAY MAILS. The Peninsular and Orient7l Company's screw steamship Pera, ,Captain T. Jameson, arrived at Southampton on Saturday, at 6.30 p.m., with the heavy portion of these mails in cbarge of Mr. F.White, of the General Post.office. She t rought 169 passengers (viz,, 40 first class, 38 second class and servants, 16 tthildren, and 15 deck), among whom were Commander Forsyth, R.N., Lieut. Semple, R.N., Major and Mrs. Shakspearo, Gen. Farrell, Colonel Cooke, Colonel and Mrs. Blunt, Captain Tupper, and Captain and Mrs Francis. On freight she had £lOO in specie, 23 pack ages of elephants' teeth, 47 cases of shawls, 10 cases of bloodstones, seven cask of wine, a horse and six dogs, 181 empty casks, and 119 packages of general merchandise. The Pera left Alexandria on the 13th inst , Malta on the 16th, and Gibraltar on the 20th. She had fine weather as far as (iibraltar, strong northerly winds along the coast of Portugal,and north. easterly winds across the Bay of Biscay. The following vessels were spoken on the passage ;—April 17th, at 6 a.m., off Pantellaria, the steamship Arabian steering S.E.; 23d, at 4 a.m, off Finisterro, the Peninsular and Oriental Compan y's steamer Poona, steering S.W. ; same day, in lat. 44 10 N., long. 9 W., exchanged signals with a British ship showing numeral pendant 6,078 bound for San Francisco ; and in lat. 44 20 N. long. 8 50 VT', exchanged signals with the British ship Tinto, standing S.W.; wished to be reported, all well. The usual Egyptian fleet, the Sultan's yacht Faid Gihaadt a Turkish man of-war, and a French frigate were lying at Alexandria. The French Imperial yacht Jerome Napoleon, Capt. de Buisson, arrived at Gibraltar on the 14th, from Havre, and left at 1,30 p.m. on the 15th for Marseilles, where she is to remain at Prince Jerome's disposal. The French Govern' ment steamer Phoenix, Capt. Peralo, from Cadiz and Tao" gier, arrived at Gibraltar on the 15th, and left again at 6 a.m. on the 16,h. The following British merchant steamers had arrived e Gibraltar:—April 17, the Delta, Capt. J. W ee k s , 5 days s hours from Southampton, and proce e d e d f or M a lta an d Alexandria, Alexandria, after exchanging mails, &c. ; 18th. the Slr James Duke, Capt J. Greig, 20 days f r o m C ar diff and from Havre, for Malta and Alexandria; 19th, the Calf° Capt. H. Bonfellow, 6 days from Liverpool, for Genoa, 10'; the Britannia, Capt. J. Mullett, 7 days from London; the Dom Pedro, Capt. H. Hardie, 13 days from Glasgow an 2 from Lisbon, fur Valcncit4; and the steamtug Czar, Cie' R. Hudson, 13 days from London and 2 trom Lisbon, ill ballast, for Galata. The British ship Maid of Glasgow, westward bound, Wa s spoken off Tarifa on the 16th inst., by the Lion Beige; th e bark Dorothy, 50 day s ou t, f rom C onstant i nop l e, f or Blig , land, all well, on the 16th, off Europa Point, by the ga ll Hughes ; and the schooner Morton, on the 9.h, 90 W l°l east of Cape de Gatte, by the screw steamer Neptune. Exchanges at Gibraltar were as follow on the 18th London, 90 days' date, 50i ; Paris, ditto, 5f 30c; 1 ‘ 18 ,, t ; seines, ditto, 5f 31c; Ge noa , ditt o , 5f 32c; Madrid, e ight days' sight, pm.; Cadiz, ditto, to die.; Seville, ditWt I die.; Malaga, ditto, par; Barcelona, ditto, pm. COUNTRY MARKETS. , NORWICH—SATURDAY. de 4 There was a fair supply o f w h ea t t o -d a y, an d the a 1.,. was firm, at the prices of last wee k ; i n some i ns t an ces / l' deed, quotations were a shade hi g h er . O n l y a sample or two of barley offering, and priees nominal. In beans,.P B and oats little doing, at former rates. White wheat. 45s to 46i Red wheat 41s to 3 4 7 9 Mal 0 ting barley ...38s to 408 Chevalier barley 3 68 to a , Distilling d 0..... 33s to 35s 1 Oats.. Flour, 32s 6d to 33 8 Od per sack from the miller. 1 GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. t.; New white wheat, 48 s t o 51 s; red, 45s to 48s per 365„,; malting barley, 38 s t o 43 s per qr ; gr i nd i ng, 28s t o 3 v old oats, 23s to26s; beans, 35s to 388; peas, 34s to 37 0 . NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. whe at ' r This corn market to-day was fairly supplied with w— c ce . which realised about late rates. Barley was very scil 9o , —White wheat, from 43s to 535; red wheat, 42s to ti Barley—malting, 32s to 41s ; grinding, 27s to 295. °„ s Qs old, at 258 t o 31 s Od ; new, 22s to 278. Beans sol d a t ov to 458 per qr. Flour, 31s to 40s. YORK— SATURDAY. 2 4° Wheat, red 40s to 448 Oats.... ........ 20s to jog White do .46s to 50s Beans 33s to 4 Barley .28s to 36s Peas to 04.1 Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; r y e , 34 5 per qr, ; flour, to 38s per sack. LEICESTER--SAnnDAY. 36 Old white wheat, —s to —s ; new, 44s to 50e Pe! wa i_ o ty stone. Old red,.4Bs t o 52 s * per 36 stone. Barley, 10, new, _34s to 39s pe r qr . ; grinding, 27s to 30s; old , 27s to 30s; ne w oa t s, 22s to 28s per 24 stone. Beat new, 35s to 39s ;:old, 42s to 448 per 38 stone. NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY. 280 New wheat, 45 s t o - 50 s ; re d , 42s to 465. B ar ley, o p to 40s per qr. New oats quoted at 20s to 28e ; 010/ bo to 30s per 24 s t one. Beans, .old, 35s .to 38s ; new, 3*s 365. Peas, 33s to 44s per qr. A plls.'" [ADVERTISEMENT]. -- Holloway ' s Ointment an d - The scrofulous and consumptiv,3 will find in these ilf ic o remedies the means t .f ca s tin g o u t th e b a d h umo urs B " eli t originate and prolong their sufferings. The Oiatif ie st should be well rubbed t w i ce a d ay upon th e skin, Oro; as possible to the p a rt a ff ec t e d. I t w ill penetrate all"ija, most wholesomely and ene rge ti ca lly on t h e diseased snoto ture. It manifests a wonde r f u l p ower i n removing all t i lt ' of from the blood, and conseq uen tl y i n curb g a niu ltituu e ;, lo , chronic ailments which seemed to be almost In all constitutional complaints, Holloway's purifylng-p to di should be taken, whil e hi s Oi ntment i s b eing used. ~nt• remedies will r a pidl y b r i ng a b out a cure of scrofula, ' butic eruptions, and ulcerations. Births. 54 . ref , MooN.—On the 22d inst., at Fetch= Rectory, the wife of the Rev. E. Graham Moon, of a dallgh . „. l 7:do• PAINE.—On the 23d inst, at 36, Gloucester-crescentlw park, Mrs. Paine, of a son. fo r ' PARR.—On the 23d inst., at Clifton, the wife of -• Esq., of a son. tb° SMVEII.—On the 23d inst., at 9, Church-road, Briitolli wife of T. E. Smith, Esq., of a son. Marriages. Ahtir °4 NELSON—BURRARD.—On the 21st inst , at LY II- Tc - 03 i192 the Hon. Horatio Nelson, Commander inst., fourth daughter of Vice-dmiral Sir Chariesl3°- Bart., of Ilohnefield, Lyndhurst, Hampshire. 0 o 'B, THESIGER— HANDCOCK—On the 23d inst., at St ,9;?, - , r jge, 6 Hanover -square, Major the Hon. Charles W j• --- s fori" Inniskilling Dragoons, second son of Lord Cbeiwdeoclft to Charlotte, eld es t d aug ht er o f th e Hon. G. 11141 of Merrion-square, Dublin. Deaths. Moth ASHTON.—On the 22d in s t., Alexander Fredle„ ii " s Esq., of 2, Pelham- crescen t, Brompton, aged 4 ' Douai' BOURN.--On the 21st inst. at Bristol, Cha. Jar n so, E q., C.E., of Pendleton, South Carolina, age d " Fie/ 00 FIELD.—On the 24th i ns t., at Lewisham, William Esq., aged 68. to, HARPER.—On the 25th inst. at 12, Hyde-P r a ag — Kensington, Eliza, wife of , Lieut.-Colonel Harp° 0 64. or ert PARKER.—On the 22d inst., at Plymouth, LaJ t . 13 044 widow of Captain Sir William George Pari'm" R.N. icha ATHENEUII,—A remonstrance should be made against exhibiting the designs for the Albert Memo rial in the Royal Gallery of the Houses of Parlia ment. Entering this hall, on one side of which Mr. Maclise has painted the "Interview between Wel lington and Blucher after Waterloo," while on the other he is now engaged with " The Death of — Nelson," we found it blockaded by screens i n- London :Printed and Published by WILLIAD a So. 4 " nos t 9 ° f tended to hold the designs in question during their of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SubT r . u p public exhibition. Behind these rises the first. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ill th e Aikidleom —Monday, April 27, 1463, ft- PENN.—On the 21 s t i ns t., a t Ri c h mon d, SurreY , 4 rev — Penn, Esq., great gran d son o f William Peon) u Sylvania, aged 80. Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Queen, Hibernia, Ma gicienne, Edgar, Shannon, St. George, and Cradoc were at Malta on the 16th inst., and the Virago, Trident, Preens, and Redpole at Gibraltar on the 20th. The Trident, Com mander Balfour, arrived on the 12th from Casa Bianca. The Virago, Commander Johnstone, six and a half days from Plymouth, arrived out on the 14th, having been sent to that station by the Admiralty upon the receipt of intelligence of the troubles in the vicinity of Dar-el-Baida, in order that the protection of British interests on the Barbary coast might under any circumstances be effectually provided for. Advices had been received at Gibraltar from Dar-el-Baida to the 17th inst., which happily report a cessation of the hostilities that have been so long waged among the tribes in the vicinity. After some negotiations an arrangement was come to on the 17th, and it was expected that the Medioone tribe would decamp from the neighbourhood of Dar-el'" Baida the same night. The reconciliation of the belligerents was a source of great rejoicing to the inhabitants of the town, and corn and water, of which there had been great scarcity, were again brought in in abundance. Previous ee' counts reported the presence off the coast of the Spanish steam frigate Berenguela, the Portuguese steamer Sada Bandeira, and the English ship Trident; but the two former returned to Tangier and the latter to Gibraltar• While lying off Dar-el-Baida a boat of her Majesty's shiP Trident was upset in the surf with 14 hands on board, officers and crew, but fortunately no loss of life attended the accident. The Sada Bandeira saluted the garrison at Gib' raltar with 21 guns at 10 a.m. on the 20th, which compli ment was returned from the saluting battery. The Berer guela, Capt. A. Franco, arrived at Cadiz on the 17th. The Spanish screw sloop Concordia, 2, Lieutenant G. do Campo, put to sea from Cadiz on the 12th.