The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

Wimbledon Review and Prize Distribution, It is the wise practice of those charged with the conduct of affairs at Wimbledon to celebrate each year the close of their arduous undertaking by in viting metropolitan Volunteers and others from the adjoining counties to take part in a grand review held within the limits of their incloenre. Mutual benefits arise from this custom. Volunteers who have not leisure or inclination to compete for prizes, but who yet enjoy field days when opportunities present themselves, feel in going to Wimbledon that the National Rfl: Aszoolation is not for them R purely abstract body, and are much more likely to appreciate the mill of their comrades who do shoot when they traverse this enormous area in person, than when they merely read that Corporal Dash, of their own corps, made five bull's-eyes at 800 yards. The Association also gains, for not merely are Volunteers, who have once visited its ground and seen its arrangements, more likely to return in another year, but their presence in any large numbers is sure to attract a corresponding number of the public, whose shillings, halfcrowns, and half sovereigns —in the case of those with carriages— figure very attractively in the prize list for the fol lowing year. On Saturday the usual features of the Volunteer lieview were supplemented, or rather preceded, by the ceremonial of distributing prizes wen in all the principal contests of the meeting. Heretofore the rule was to devote a special day to this purpose at the Crystal Palace; but it was found that so many persons who could give up a fortnight tc, the objects of the meeting scrupled to break in upon a third week, that so many more were anxious on account of the time of year to leave town at once, and that others, whose co-operation was essential, honestly doubted whether the monster platform at Sydenham was the arena best fitted for conferring the degree in Rifle Shooting instituted by her Ma jesty and granted by the National Association, and it was determined in the present instance to act on a different plan. In the open air accordingly, and immediately in front of the marquees and lines of reserved seats erected for the accommodation of spectators of the review, the trophies won upon the field were dis trbated shortly after 3 o'clock. A large stand placed at the foot of the flagstaff and covered with blue cloth, supported a glittering collection of vases. cups, &c., which would have been even more nume rous but for the arrangement introduced by Capt. Mildmay, Secretary of the Association, enabling successful competitors from distant parts of the country to take home with them the prizes in money or in value which were gained in all the minor competitions. The prizemen stood about the table in a semicircle. In the midst of which were Lord and Lady Elcho, Lord Grosvenor, Col. North, and one or two other members of the council. The background was formed by a guard of honour fur nished by the London Rifle Brigade, the regiment carrying off the highest distinction of the year. The ceremonial was prefaced by some introductory observations on the part of Lord Eicho, who ex plained that Lords de Grey and Elienborough, having both been prevented from attending, Lady Eleho had been requested by the council to present the prizes, believing that it would be acceptable to the winners to receive them at the hands of a lady, who, though he said it that should not, was one of the heartiest and best supporters of the Volunteer mcvement in the kingdom. If the Council ever really did entertain a doubt whether men who have earned any distinction whatever would rather re ceive it from the hands of a lady than a gentleman it is the only tangible ground that has yet been advanced for reforming the Council. The response which followed the announcement certainly left no doubt in anyone's mind as to the satisfaction felt I both with the request itself and the gracious man ner in which it was acceded to. Lord Elcho ad verted briefly to the great success and prosperity of the meeting, which would, he said have been com plete but for the accident that occurred two days ago. Although most grievous in its character, it was still an accident, not traceable to any fault or mis arrangement on the part of the Council, and the deep sympathy felt for the pcor fellow lying over there in his tent was not confined to those upon the ground, for her 3lejesty that very morning had sent a tele gram inquiring anxiously after his condition, and requesting that a daily report of his state might be made to her. The Sargeon.Major of the Guards saw him that day, and an opinion was gaining ground that the poor man might recover from the severe wound he had received. With: this excep tion everything had gone on so smoothly that there was only one grumbler of whom he had heard. He had since won a prize ; they had shaken hands, and were now the best of friends. The Association had evidently struck its roots deep into the Wim bledon soil, ftr people came to see and interest themselves in the encampment and the shooting this year who had never done so before. Lord Elcho, in conclusion, assured Volnnteerß, to what ever part of the country they might belong, that the object of the Council was to do all in its power for their comfort, happiness, and amusement while at Wimbledon ; and, if they were only favoured with fine weather, he hoped and believed that Volunteers would go away from future meetings as well satisfied as they had done from the present. The extra prizes were first distributed. Of these many had already been taken away by gentlemen of whom it was humorously said that "they would not trust the Association." The Association, how ever, did not bear malice, for such of the Fin winners as answered to their name were duly pre. seated to Lady Elcho and congratulated by her, those who had already made sure of their trophies. being, if anything, more at their ease than some who appeared to feel the honour of shaking hands, enperadded to the care of a costly vase, rather more than they were prepared for at one and the same moment. In the class of extra prizes . Lord Echo made special reference to the valuable and unique volume of photographs presented by Mr. Herbert Watkins. As each Volunteer advanced to the table his name and the name of the corps to which he belonged were called out audibly, and accompanied with a slight running commentary of explanation, so that the spectators, with the aid of the cfaeial programme, in which the marks made by each com petitor were set out, were enabled thoroughly to follow and comprehend the scene. The following was the efficial list of the winners and their prizes Mrks. Extra Prize, First Series—A Bennett gold watch, value £3l 104—won by Captain Bevan, let Radnor .. 19 Extra Priz S ec ond Series—Mappin Tea Service, £52 104—Mr .;.101iller, Bristol 2O Extra Pr:z- Series—:Smith Rifle, £.lO—J. G Parkin 'Extra Prize, Fourth Series Whitworth Rifle, £ 3 B— 11,089 2O Extra Prize, Fifth Series —Pair o! Statuettes, £2l - Leicester Tel "elPe, All C omers , £2s—First P rize, £lo—Ca p tain E. R ° ll , 34. Cambridge Pr ize, £lOO (for breech loaders)—‘ , "Etange A, First Prize, (13 shots) . rgeant Brook, 12 th Middlesex 31 Ditto, Ran ... . Prize,Xlo—Ensign Hughes , 31 Manch ester (9 shots) .................. 24 Henry Peeks, £52 14—£25 10s—Pr ivate Bruce , 3d Kirkcudbright ..... 18 ... "Daily Telegraph"—Cup, ....... Z so —Lieutenant Buf,. lst . Warwick .................19 Earl do Grey's Prize, £so—Fi rst . £lo—Mr s T. Turner Lord Vernon—£•3o—Eden, Inns of Court 44 volunteer Service Gazatte"—Z2s—c aptain Heaton, Manchester " Army and Navy Gazette—£2o —Privat e Doe, vie- torus Albert, Ist Sage—Range A, Ist Priza, £so—p r i va l e . Biker, Ist Glocester Albcrt, Ist Stage—Range B, Ist Prize, £so—Lieut.- Colonel Baker, 3d Cambridge 2O Albert, Ist Stage—Range C, Ist Prize, £so—Gunner Hansom, Ist Glocester Artillery 2O Albert, 2d Stage--Cup or money,£ ioO—Hercales Roes, 6!li Kincardine Alexandra, let Stare—Barba A, £2o—Private Woad.. 18 Alexandra, lat Stage--Rang e Br Ist Prize, £2o—Pri lo vete Steynes Alexandra, 2d Stage—Cup or money, £so—Private Parsons, Hon. Artillery COraP 3n Y .. Any Rifle Association Cup— £5O-1-1. M. Ashton, Liverpool Rifle Brigade ........................ 39 Enfield Association Cup—Es4—Sergeand H. M. Ald ridge . ...................... 35 Carbine Prizes-1 prize, £lO —Lieut. Hughes., 6 th K ent 16 Mr Dillwyn's Prize—Cup, . C2s—Rev. W. Brown, Ist Devon Mr Bass's £25, Ist prize, £lo—Lieut.-Colonel Hutch inson, Bth Lancashire City et London £6oo—Range A, Ist prize, £2s—Ser geant Muat, 3d Ayrshire City of London--Range B, Ist prize, £2s—Private Banton, 21st Middlesex l9 Ashburton Shield (public schools)—£l4o—Harrow Earl Spencer—Cup, £ls—Corporal Thornton, Chel tenham...... (volley firing)—First prize 12 " Saturday Review" £ 5O £25-2d Administrative Battalion, Staffordshire St. George's Vase—Vase, gold jewel, and £6, £2so— Penzer, sth Staffird Chancellors' Plate—Cup, £loo—Cambridge Elcho Shield—Scotland International Enfield Match—England 1,016 Wimbledon Cup—£loo--Sergt. M. Smith, Ist Middle- sex 7O Earl Dudley's—Cup or Money, £5O His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge—First prize, £so—Captain E. Ross, 3d Cambridge His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales—Cup or money, £lOO--Sergeant Dodd, Ist Hereford - 46 Queen's Priza—lst Stage—Silver medal, Whitworth rifle, and £.so—L7o—Private Haward, Ist Suffolk 47 Queen's Prize, 2d Stage—Her Majesty's prize of £250 gold medal of the N.R.A., and Whitwort eifle— £277—Private Wyatt, London Rifle Brigade 6O In connexion with the prize of £5O given by Mr. Henry Peek, Lord Elcho remarked that there was no better indication of the success of the Volunteer movement than this afforded. When the Associa tion first Game to Wimbledon Mr. Peek was one of those who did not quite understand or like ita objects. But now, so completely had he changed his mind, that he not only secured them this prize for seven years, bat he was un derstood to contemplate a reference to it in his will. Newspapers, also, had supported the association very liberally. The example set by the Saturday Review, Army and .Navy Gazette, and Volunteer Service Gazette, was this year followed by the Daily Telegraph with a generous donation of £5O, and there were other papers, he thought, which might act on so good a precedent. Lieut.- Colonel Baker, of Cambridge University, on advancing to zeceive a prize of £5O won in the first stage of the Albert corr petition, was recommended to general favour as the maker of the highest score in the International match between England and Scotland; and of the members of the Ross family as they successively came forward to receive prizes which they had car ried off Lord Elcho justly observed that there was no occasion to tell any one who they were. The prize of £25, given by Mr Bass, M.P., " well known to organ-grinders and others," was awarded to Col. Hutchinson, of the Bth Lancashire; and of the Bth Lancashire; and of the carbine prizes for artil lerymen it was predicted that in another year this class would probably need extension. The City of London prizes, Lord Elcho explained, were given out of a sum of £6OO collected by those two excel lent shots and hearty Volunteers, Sergeant IMarti❑ Smith and Major Oxley, who went round among the bankers and merchants of London. In this manner they had entitled themselves to the thanks not only of the Association, but of all Volunteers, and he hoped their exertions might be looked on as perennial. Two of the young Harrovians marched off proudly with the Ashburton Challenge Shield, the second time that this has been won by the school they represent; and Corporal Thornton, of Chel• tenham, as the best individual shot, and probably tallest, of all the Public School elevens, carried away the Spencer Cup. Of the volley firing, a new fea- ture in the meeting, Lord Elcho spoke as having been very successful, 40 or 50 squads entering for the prize. Lord Echo then gave place to Col. the Hon. C. Lindsay, who presented the St George's Challenge Cup, in the name of the battalion he represented, to Sergeant Penzer, of the sth Stafford, expressing his satisfaction that it went to a county which had supported this par ticular competition so well. After payment of all expenses, Colonel Lindsay stated that the balance remaining from the entrance fees of the competing battalions produced £lBO, which he had the satis faction of handing over in " dragon" sovereigns to the Association ; the competitions in 1562 and 1863 producing £95 and £lO5 respectively. The beanti ful cup presented by the Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge for annual competition between the Uni versities was presented by Lady Elcho to the re presentatives of Cambridge; after which Lard Elcho entered into a short detail of the circumstances con test for the Echo Shield. He said that it had twice been won by England, but now a turn in the tide of fortune had taken place, and he did not believe there was an Englishman present, whether he wore a black coat or a Volunteer uniform, who grudged Scotland her good luck. The English portion of the assembly loudly cheered this sentiment, and Lord Elcho went on to say that on one occasion Lady Elcho had declared the Scotch never would exert themselves to win the shield till it became a reality, The first year there was merely a chalk drawing ex hibited, without even a glass to protect it ; last year there was a plaster cast, and on both occasions Eng land won. Bat as soon as it appeared in substan tive iron Captain Ross and his seven Scotchmen exerted themselves, and they were now going to take the shield down to Edinburgh, to show what they had won. Lord Bury, the captain of the Eng lish Eight, said that before the shield was carried away he wished to ask all Englishmen present to join him in three cheers for Scotland. Any Scotch men who might be present he begged to reserve their cheers till Captain Ross asked for them next year in honour of the English victory. When the laughter and very cordial cheering which this ad dress elicited had subsided, Captain Horatio Ross, not only leader but father of an important section of the Scottish Eight, acknowledged the compliment, and, admitting that it had been hard work to get the shield down to Scotland, said that now they had got it they meant to keep it there. He in turn invited cheers for Lord Bary and the English Eight, which were warmly given. A voice pro ceeding from among the spectators suggested one cheer for Mr. Ross himself. Lord Elcho re. plied, " Yeti had better have said 'for the Ross family,' " and the amendment so worded was carried unanimously. In the absence of any tangible symbol of victory, certificates were next presented to the 20 English winners in the Inter national Enfield match, the members of which ex changed reciprocal courtesies likewise. When the Wimbledon Cup was being handed to Mr. Martin Smith, Lerd Elam explained that the prize was substituted for the benefit of former prize winners, who were debarred from competing in the meeting of that year for many objects of value. Mr_ Smith not only proved himself the best shot by day, but also by night, having won the sew/ prize, and when ever the promised silver owl, value £5O, came out of the ivy -bush it would be his property. The Dudley Prize, the Dake of Cambridge's Prize, and that given by the Prince of 'Wales, were severally awarded, and then the last and greatest distinction was reached. Lord Elcho stated that the Council this year felt themselves justified, notwithstanding their large expenses, in giving a prize of £5O to the winner of the first or Enfield stage of the Queen's Prize, who heretofore only gained a rifle and a silver medal. This announcement, which came by sur prise upon most of those present, was hailed with such general satisfaction that there can be no doubt it wilt do much, if that bs possible, to add to the popularity of this competition next year. Private Heward, Ist Suffolk, unfortunately was not present to hear of his good fortune, and the eyes of the spectators aecordingly turned to Private Wyatt, of the London Rifle Brigade, who, by making the highest score in the, second stage of the Queen's Prize, entitled himself to £250 and,the gold medal of the Association. When he stepped forward the gnerd of honour came to " attention," the band played " See the Conquering Hero,", and Lord Elcho expressed the pleasure which he felt in know ing that the great prize of the year went to one of the steadiest shots in one of the best, if not the best, metropolitan regiment. Loud cheers for the suc cessfulcompetitorof followed, as he received a purse from the As £lOOll Lord BUR Y came forwar d , an d said the proceed . as Private - Wyatt h.ad retired, ings ought no t to terminate w i t h o ut an acknow ledgment of th e graceful manner i n which Lady Elcho had distributed the prizes. Three of the very heartiest cheers given during the day followed this request, and the band chimed in with " Here's a health to all good lasses." The proceedings of the presentation may bas taken in strictness to have terminated at this poiEtt, as Lady THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2,5, 1864. The Late Lieutenant-Colonel Brewster, On Wednesday last was buried, at the Bomptom Ceme tery, Lieut.-Colonel Brewster, We of the Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers, who, to the deep sorrow of his family and friends, and to the heavy loss of the Volunteer service, has been cut off in the flower of life aftera few months' illness. His body was escorted to its last resting place by the regi ment which he so efficiently commanded, and all the simple and touching rites of a soldier's funeral were performed with affectionate respect over one who was in heart a soldier. If we m . ght venture to guess what would have been Colonel Brewster's wish, we should say that, as Providence fortade his finding a grave on the Crimeanbattlefields, he would have chosen the place and manner of interment which his friends adopted. Both in the church of Warwick-square, Pimlico, and at the Brompfon Cemetery, the ceremonial was faultless in arrangement and execution. The Burial Service of the Church only neetia to be read audibly and reverently to speak to every heart, and the " Dead March in Saul" is in another way equally impressive. After the last prayer had been read, a party of the Inns of Court Volunteers fired three volleys over the grave, ancl,haring quitted the cemetery, the corps marched homewards with its band playing a lively tune which was a special favorite of the deceased colonel. This is the usual practice of military funerals, and it is dictated by that reason— which still hath cried, From the first corpse till he that died to-day, This must be so. But, although other duties claim attention and other thoughts occupy the mind, itwill be long before the Inns of Court Rifles replace, and sill longer before they forget, their lamented colonel. He vas the model of an officer adapted to command a regimEnt of intelligent and educated voluntees, and the loss of Colonel Brewster will be felt throughout the volunteer service, and not merely by his own corps. He showed wild could be done in a short time towards making volinteers efficient, and the value of his assistance vas understood by Colonel M'Murdo, the Inspector-General of Volunteers, who was among the fiends who followed him to the grave. Colonel Brevster gave the impression of a man equal to any emergency of actual service, and for the training and leadership of the Inns of Court corps he pos sessed special advantages of birth and education, as well as the e pre-eminent qualification of thoroughly understanding the work he had to do. Being the son of Mr Brewster, Q.C., formerly Attorney-General for Ireland, he had an hereditary claim to the esteem of a corps of lawyers. Further, he had graduated at Oxford before entering the army, and thus he was well acquainted with the feelings of members of the universities, of whom he had many under his com mand. Twenty years ago the number of men who went to Oxford or Cambridge as a preparation for the army was even smaller than it is now. The advantage of such a preparation is indisputable, but unfortunately commissions are usually obtained before the age at which degrees are taken. It happened, however, that Colonel Brewster's youth fell on a time when applicants were kept waiting almost beyond endurance for commissions, and he turned this period, which is too often one of mental va cancy or weariness, to excellent account by reading for a degree at Oxford. And, besides reading for a degree, he acquired in various ways a reputation at Oxford which en sured his popularity with the Inns of Court of Volunteers, and inspired in that corps a well-founded belief of his great capacity as an officer. He was noted as an undergraduate at St. John's College for being good across country with hounds, and good upon a coach-box with four-in-hand, but it was as an oarsman that he gained his most enduring fame. In 1842 there was a boat race between Oxford and Cambridge over the old course from 'Westminster to Putney, which Oxford won, and No, 4 in the winning boat was Brewster of St. John's. Next year, at Henley, there were entered, for the Grand Challenge Cup, the Oxford University boat and the Cambridge Subscription Rooms' boat. On the day of the race, the stroke of the Oxford boat was taken ill, and as the Cambridge men ob jected, as in strictness they were entitled to do, to a substitute, the Oxonians started with seven oars, and won the race. Brewster at his old place, No. 4, bore his full share in achieving one of the most remarkable of aquatic victories. In 1816 he took his degree, and soon o f terwards entered the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He was made adjutant of the battalion in 1848, and in the same year went out to the Cape of Good Hope. ile served in the Kaffir war of 1852-3, and received a medal. The exposure to climate and hard ships which he underwent in these campaigns brought on severe attacks of rheumatic fever, and doubtless laid the foundation of the disease of which ho died. When the battalion of the Rifle Brigade to which he belonged was ordered to the Crimea, he marched with it as far as Portsmouth, hoping against hope that he might be permitted to display his military ability and experience upon a European field of warfare. He had the reputation of being one of the best adjutants of a regiment ever known. and his friends would have confidently expected to see him attain high distinction if Providence had allowed him to enjoy health and opportunity. But the decision of a medical board forbade his embarkation for the Crimea, and, although he continued to hope for improvement, he hoped in vain. The adjutancy of the battalion was kept open for him as long as there appeared any possibility of his satisfying medical requisitions, but ho was reluctantly compelled to abandon his life's most cherished hopes. A fm years a:remards ne determined to retire from a position which must be beyond expression irksome to one who feels intellectual capacity for service which his bodily health re strains from u:Aertaking. He is remembered in the Rifle Brigade as one of the most popular officers of his time. There was nothing that his men would not do for him or with him, and in bush-fighting against the Kaffirs he was very active in finding work for them. To all qualities which are deemed peculiarly soldier-like he added piety of heart and purity and sebiety of life. He left the army in 1858, having attained the rank of captain, cad he married a few weeks afterwards. The beginning of the volunteer movement found Mr. Brewster unemployed, having had ample experience of a kind of war well calculated to teach one who had the gift of learning how to discriminate between those parts of the English military system which are essential, and those which owe their existence to custom or caprice. Here was exactly the man to instruct volunteers in what they ought to do and how to do it, and besides he possessed special qualifications for managing the corps of which, by a fortune happy alike for commanded and commander, he became lieutenant-colonel, having no colonel over him. Under his direction, the Inns of Court Rifles took part in all the prin cipal reviews and field days of the volunteer force which have been held since its formation. Having good material to work upon, he soon produced a valuable result. His aim was rapidity of movement rather than that precision which is only likely to he attained by devoting to drill a much larger portion of time than volunteers generally can spare for it. Knowing from experience what war is, and having a mind capable of appreciating modern changes in its con ditions, he gave always a practical, business -like character nonse nse about Colon e l Brewster, and having learned to of his co r p s . Emphatically, the re was no t o o b3 t y he w tr h a i i l n e in l g earning to command, he po ssessed what mu st have been in the e y es o f the military au thorities no i ncons iderable merit, name l y, h e did what he was t o ld to do and gave no trouble. If he had his men out for a field day, he did not after one movement allow them to waste time in dressing their line, but immediately called upon them for another. On more than one occasion, competent observers have expressed astonishment at the number of evolutions which he put his corps through in a g iven tints, and it was truly said th a t he could turn that cor p s inside out, and do what els c h e lik e d w ith it. W hether it was a _ single battalion or a brigade that he com manded Col. Brew ster handled his fe rn with a firm and unerring grasp. His management of any comman d which left him a pretty wide discretion wa s a l ways su ch as to show that he tho roughly understood hi s b us i n ess ; and in partic ular his con duct of the force which r epresented the enemy at the Brighton reviews was admirable. He fully gained the w nfidellee of thou who had time to become acquainted with him, and even a body of men who wore suddenly placed unde r hi s orders wou ld have discov , red from his first look and word that C o l o nel Brewster knew what he was about. A nd this, a fter all, is the most valuable quality whi e a leader can p ossess. For we must always suppose it Possible that the Volunteers m:y one day be called upon to perform the duties for which they have undertaken to hold themselves prepared. That is a con tingency which may be regarded with various feelings, according to the position in life, habits, and tastes of those who turn their minds towards it. Theoreticallb, we all desire that-. Every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace t o all his nei g hbours. But still it may b e suspected that among men of pacific life and conversation Zateat seintillula forean; and even in the depths of minds well-stored with legal rules and prece dents, and' penetrated with a sense of social and family obligations, there may yet lurk unconfessed a hankering men may ha ve th oug ht after an un tr i e d sensa tion, and a feeling that a taste — just one little . taste—of the certamini s gaudium would be very pleasant. Iu th e Inns of Court corps in past years some of such a day, with joy, and all certainly without faar ; and always the belief must have been universal, that if they had Colonel Brewster to com mand, and they were ready to obey, their blcod would not be spent in va:n. Thus far we have spoken of what we conceive to be a p ubli c less. But there were between seven and eight hun dred members of the Inns of Court Rifle Corps to whom the same event was the death of a dear friend. They will have thought many times during the past week of all that their late Colonel did for them, and of how he did it. Considerate of everybody but himself, always at his post, instructing, ad v i s i ng , and encouraging, knowing exactly under all circumstances what to do, prompt to repair the errors of subordinates and almost incapable himself of error, with a noble look and bearing, a light heart and a cheerful voice, he banished the sense of fatigue from others and seemed unable to feel fatigue himself. Such was, the commander whom the Inns of Court of Rifles, attended to his last resting-place in the Brompton Cemetery. The eight of the oak coffin recalled the memory of that stature which rose above every crowd, and of that length of limb which gave to one of the oars of the Oxford University boat a far-reaching and victorious sweep. The sward which rested upon the coffin, with the simple unplumed cap which was part of its late wearer's own conception of a dress suitable for a rifleman who meant business, recalled Echo bowed and returned to her seat ; but they certainly would have been incomplete without the proposition made by Captain Ross. Bearing brief but emphatic testimony to the service rendered to the Volunteer movement by Lord Elcho, he asked Volunteer.—English and Scotch—to join in a suit able act of recognition. Not merely Volunteers, but the spectators, of whom large numbers were present, acted so heartily on this suggestion that Lord Etch() was compelled to deliver quite a short address in reply. He assured these who heard him that he had not taken up the Volunteer movement from any idle fancy, bat with the firm conviction e7pres3sd on that very spot by the Archbishop of York, that in every point of view—whether as regarded the safety of the State, the moral and physical good of the popie, or the amusement of the youth of the coup• try—the Volunteer movement was one of the most happy and fortunate things which had occurred in the present generation. There was yet one act of justice to be done, and Captain Williams did not suffer the duty to remain unfulfilled. Calling for three cheers for' The man who had all the work of the meeting to do, and who had done it well," the response, as soon as he mentioned the name of Capt. Page, must have been highly gratifying to that offi. cer and his friends. The approaches to the camp mean while had been eniivenEd by the steady flow of Volunteer regiments. Some, in spite of heat and dust, marched the whole distance from London, and the manifest pleasure which their passage gave to what may be called the continuous village stretch ing from Chelsea to the confines of the com mon was in itself some compensation for the fatigue thus encountered. All ages and all sizes of spectators seemed bent on making holyday with the Volunteers, and among the eager crowd was that remarkable object, a Bluecoat boy on horseback. The view of the camp which is obtained from the edge of the common, when the hill leading from Putney has been ascended, is very striking. The broad level of heath and furze fading away into haze and woods and distant hills is only broken at one point by the enclo sure of the Association. Within this, tents and poles and flags cluster thickly, suggesting the idea of a fleet of yachts lying at anchor, an appearance strengthened by the white pier-like hoarding that surrounds their territory. As the regiments approached within a certain distance of the re view ground the bands were directed to cease playing, out of consideration for the wounded man, whom it was impos sible to move, and whose couch was not very far from the entrance gate. For the same reason the whole of the pro ceedings usual on such occasions were revolutionised. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with a brilliant staff, arrived shortly after fire o'clock, and proceeded almost immediately to the hospital tent, where he learnt from the medical attendants of Cooper that his state, far frqpa being desperate, was such as to justify a hope, though still a faint one, of ultimate recovery, provided he could be kept ex tremely quiet. His Royal Highness thereupon directed that powder should be ignored in the review as completely as if it 131,d no existence. The humanity and propriety of this order as soon as it became known were generally ac quiesced in; and, though 8,000 or 10,000 Volunteers came there for no other purpose than to take part in a field day, and probably treble that number of spectators at tonded to see the evolutions, they cheerfully gave up their own gratification and waited patiently to the end of the ceremony, necessarily tame, which was substituted for what they had expected. As regarded the spectators, the pro ceedings, but for the march past at the close, would have been monotonous in the highest degree. For the Volun teers, however, there have been few field-days of such real advantage to the different battalions. The Commander-in- Chief, abandoning the idea of strategic movements, set himself to give the whole force a good steady drill, a pro ceeding, in which he is one of the greatest proficients in the service. Beginning with the artillery, which mustered in force, and was handled by itself for the best part of an hour, he then turned his attention to the cavalry, composed of the Light Horse of the hon. Artillery Company and the Surrey corps. Finally, the whole of the infantry force was, in military phraseology, "turned inside out" and made to execute several most trying manceavres. One of these con sisted in forming a line from battalions moving en echellon, so that the line, when formed to the revenue flank, extended diagonally right across the common from near Robin Hood on one side, to the opposite corner of the enclosure. As far as could be seen from the point of view occupied by specta tors, the artillery appeared to be at once the most steady and most at home in their movements ; but to the unpro fessional eye the whole force, though not moving as quickly as troops of the line, seemed to comprehend the orders which were received, and to carry them out very creditably. Until the march past at the close of the review, or rather inspec tion, the lookers-on had certainly a weary time of it. About 7 o'clock the march past commenced, and ,the brigades, commanded respectively by the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Donegal, Viscount Bury, Viscount Ranelagh, Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, Colonel Lazard, Lord Radatcck, and Lieutenant •Colonel Bigge, passed the flagstaff in the following order : FIRST DlVlSlON—Commanded by Major- General Sir J. Y. Seal lett—The Cavalry of the Hon. Artillery Company, under Major Robinson—the Horse Artillery, under Capt. Jay, with two light guns—and the Foot Artillery of the same corps, under Major Blockley, with four guns. The batteries of the 2d Surrey Artillery, with tour guns—the Ist Middlesex (Victories), under Major Greenhill-36th Middlesex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, the 19th Middlesex (WorkingMen'eCollege), Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes—the 2d Essex Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Davis-33 City of London, Major Richards—the sth Ad ministrative Battalion of Essex, Lieutenant - Colonel Capper —the sth Administrative Battalion of Middlesex, Colonel Gray-Ist Surrey, Lieutenant-Colonel M`Donald-15th and 18th Surrey—the 40th Middlesex (Central London), Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset—the London Irish, Major Verner-20th Middlesex, Captain an 1 Adjutant Hotham —the 7th Surrey, Major Bereaford—the Sc. 'George's, Colonel Lindsay—the West Middlesex, Captain Dear—the let Tower Hamlets Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant- Colonel Buxton—the 4th and 6la Tower Hamlets, Lieute nant-Colonel Money—the 12th Surrey, Colonel Cole—the 39th Finsbury, Colonel Penton. SECOND DlVlSlON—Commanded by Major-General Rum ley—The Ist Middlesex Artillery, Colonel Creed, six guns —3d Middlesex Artillery, two batteries of six guns, the 2d, Bth, and 9th Tower Hamlets, Lieut.-Colonel Samuda -Ist Middlesex Engineers, Lieut.-Colonel M‘Leod of M‘Leod—the South Middlesex, Major Athrriey—the North Middlesex (29Ja), Lieat.-Colonel Whitehad—the Civil Ser vice and the Artists, Viscount Bury—the 19th Surrey, the 4th Middlesex, Lord Truro—the 37th Middlesex (Blooms bury), Lieutenant-Colonel Corrie—the London Rifle Bri gade, Lieutenant - Colonel Warde—the 2d Administrative Battalion of Middlesex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson — London Scottish, Lord Eicho—the Queen's (Westminster), Lieutenant-Colonels Lord Grosvenor and Lord Gerald Fitz gerald—the City of London and Tower Hamlets Artillery, Major Walmsley—the 43th Middlesex, 4th City (Fore sters) the 2d City of London, Lieut.-Col. Cruikahank and Major Spottiswood—and the 46th Middlesex, Sir J. Shelley, M.P. The march past occupied nearly an hour, although most of the regiments were but sparingly represented. The spec tators, however, would gladly have sat it out had it lasted much longer. The favourites were, as usual, loudly cheered, especially the Victorias and London Scottish ; but the Lon • don Rifle Brigade, every man of which had a laurel leaf in his shako in honour of his comrade's victory, was the most numerous and probably best appointed regiment on the ground. The ranks of the Queen's West minsters also looked very full by contrast with many of the other corps, and the fine average physique of the members of the regiment is a point which cannot be overlooked. The London Irish also must have had many of its tallest men present. In one or two other regiments, on the contrary, and especially in one with a green uniform, the members looked more like a cadet corps than a full-grown body of volunteers. The author of that useful little work, the " Volunteer's Book of Facts," which was in much request during the meeting, would do good service, in these days of siceilari!y of dress, if he en abled the public to distinguish at a glance between the uni forms of different regiments. MATTIE : A Stray. By the author of 4 ' Na Church," " 0 wen : Waif," &c. 3 vols.—" attie is a charming heroine. She and her life are painted after the life, with the minuteness of a Dutch picture. And is not the story itself full of interest at every page ? And is it not from the play of charae er, and the straggles of conflicting interests, as exciting as any sensation novel going? We can give our own experience and say, yes. For those readers who care to deal with real men and women, and not with fiae clothes and descriptions of the upholstery in boudoirs and drawing rooms, the characters in ' Mattie, a Stray,' will be full of interest. The working out of Mattie's own charac ter is very clever, and very true to human nature. Mettle, a Stray,' is a novel that ought to take a higher rank than that of an ephemeral work of fietion."—Ailtenceton. BLOCKADERUNNERS.—Instractions issued by the Secretary of th© Federal Navy, bearing date the 9th of May, relating to the disposal of persona found on board vessels seized for breach of blockade, direct that bone fide foreign subjects captured in neutral vessels aro not to be treated as prisoners of war unless guilty of belligerent acts, and are to be immediately released unless required as witnesses. Foreign subjects captured in vessels without papers or colours, or those sailing under the protection and flag of the insurgent Government, or employed in the service of that Government, are subject to treatment as prisoners of war ; but if passengers only having no interest in the vessel or cargo, and in no way connected with the insurgent Go vernment, they may be released. When there is reason to doubt that those who claim to be foreign subjects are in reality such, they are to be required to state on oath that they have never been naturalised in the states, have never exercised the privileges of a citizen thereof by voting or otherwise, and have never been in the pay or employment of the so-called Contederate Government, and then they may be released if there is no evidence of their having sworn fals. l e i t l y y o f W th h e e rye there o i r s f g o o r o b d e l ground ievin for g tha t d i o t u b ist i n e g n gtahgeendenin ) transporting supplies and munitions of war for the insur gent Government, foreign subjects captured in the vessel may be detained until its neutrality is satisfe,otorLy estab ' lished, the last public occasion on which he wore that sword and cap. It was the Volunteer Review at Wimbledon, which will be a year ago next Saturday. He raid that a ccl3 caught upon that day was the beginning of his illness. Deeply will his corps feel the want of him at the next of these annual reviews, and often and sadly will they think that he is gone, and the place which knew him shall know him no more. To say that Colonel Brewster died in the prime of life is almost equivalent to saying that he fell a victim to one of the valietbl of that terr:ble malady, consumption. It may be, although we would not willingly think so, that his con stitution suffered something by the gallant aquatic feats of his early years at Oxford. But he endured in Southern Africa enough of hardship and exposure to lay the seeds of the disease which in the 45th year of his age attained its fatal ripeness. He has died a soldier's death as much as if he had fallen by steel or shot, and because he was worthy, therefore was he so soon taken; for, as one of the warrior-poets of Greece has said 116Xcp.os civB l l EKWY aipEL rovripio. cIXXa 70VS x p q a.ra. ad. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE AMERICAN WAR,—The military operations in America are almost as confusing as the Federal finances. It seems at first eight almost paradoxical that General Grant should be summoning Petersburg to surren• der, while General Ewell is approaching Baltimore, after defeating the Federal army of Maryland. The correspondents and commentators of the Northern journals carefully abstain from any attempt to elu cidate the warlike movements which furnish them only with materials for triumph and congratula tion. Like preachers they make it their business not to exp).aiti their text, but to decorate or darken it by fluent expositions of their own preconceived opiaions. A careful and credulous study of their columns has probably convinced their indigenous readers that Grant was successively in the best positions on the Rapidan, at Spottsylvania, at White House, at Chickahominy, on the north bank of the James River, and at City Point. It is not impossible that the last conclusion may be acciden tally just, but observers at a distance would be grateful for more definite information, especially if some distinction were occasionally made between defeats and victories. The public instructors of New York are highly gratified with the success of General Wilson, who escaped with the loss of his trains, of his artillery, and of a largo portion of his force; and their enthusiasm is still More strongly excited by General Hunter's advance on Lynch burg, followed by his retreat with the loss of 83V9- ral guns, and involving the subsequent abandon. ment of Harper's Ferry, and the passage of the Potomac by the Confederates. Those who wish to understand in some degree the progress of the campaign must wholly disregard the ebullitions of sanguine patriotism. It is not even safe to assume that the Federal cause is hopeless because its supporters habitually disregard all truth and probability. General Grant is not a newspaper correspondent, and he is responsible for the safety of his army. His pertinacity in threatening Petersburg, and in disturbing the Southern commu nications of Richmond, implies his belief in the pos sibility of inflicting a heavy blow on the enemy, even if he ;ails to occupy the Confederate capital. The defences of Petersburg have been found too strong for assault ; but siege artillery will now be brought into play for the first time in the present campaign. Scarcely any fortifications are impreg nable, if they are regularly approached by a supes rior army. If Gen. Beauregard is conscious of his inability to encounter Grant in the field, he will probably, after prolonging the defence of Petersburg to the best of his ability, retire to some other posis tion. Gen. Lee has judged wisely in entrusting the command of the garrison to the best engineer in the Confederate service. The position of the Federal army, in some respects, resembles that of the French and English armies before Sebastopol. In both cases the assailants were unable to invest the enemy's stronghold, and Gen. Grant's demonstrations on his left flank against the Confederate communications are perhaps as effective as the menaces of the allied fleets against the Russian line of supply by tha isthmus of Perekop. The Federal army has the great advantage of depending on the sea for its communications, and, since Gen. Grant has blocked the upper channel of the James River, City Point is as unassailable as Balaklava, The` Government, which he serves, notwithstanding its financial em barrassments, still possesses a vast superiority of wealth and material resources; and if it thinks fit to persevere in its enterprise, and if it can defend its own territory without recalling troops from Vir ginia, it may hold for an indefinite time the ground which its forces occupy on the James River. On the other hand, the Confederates are not, like the Russians, separated by hundreds of miles from their centres of operation. The seat of government is in the immediate neighbourhood of the scene of acteon, and Richmond is connected by railroads with every portion of the Confederacy. Their principal danger arises from their unaccount able weakness in cavalry, and from the consequent facility with which the Federal columns can disturb their communications. If the invader were strong enough to extend himself across the two principal lines of railway, General Lee might possibly be compelled to retire to the South-West, leaving Richmond in charge of a garrison. It is, per ) haps, partly fcr the purpose of sparing I his magazines that he has detached a considerable force througn the Shenandoah Valley to the coun try beyond the Potomac. If he could afford to diminish his own army in the presence o f G ran t, the expedition involved little difficulty or risk. The presence of Sigel at Herper's Ferry of itself invited attack. Trio unlucky German - leader is familiar with defeat, and in Western Virginia espe cially his troops resemble Hudibras's connoisseurs in suffering:— Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of, by the blow. Some have been kicked till they know whether A shoe's of Spanish or neat's leather. Sigel must be able to judge, as soon as skirmishing commences, whether Breckenridge or Longstreet or Ewell is about to administer the accustomed chas tisement. THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE LORD CHANCEL LOR'S SPEECH ON CONVOCATION.—No doubt a certain contemptuousncss, a certain cynical insolen. tia, has always been of the very essence of Lord Westbury's nature, so that the exuberant overflow of it in nis thoughts and speech can, in one sense, scarcely be said to be of that secondary and Merely auxilisry character which we have ascribed to all true unctuousness. It may be said, however, not-only of his recent outbreak against the clerical bench, but of his raillery in general, in the words of the Psalm, " The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart; his words were smoother than oil, yet be they very swords," and it is this power of summoning a milky manner to his aid in order to second the effect of his thrusts, this redundancy of soft phrase in which he sheathes the sting of his remarks,—this " saponaceous" slip periness of sentiment through which he lets his real drift glide like an electric eel,—that justly entitles him to the epithet" unctuous." No doubt the Lord Chancellor has in him all the qualifications for an unctuous preacher, if he needed to use them in that direction. We remember his address to the Young Men's Christian Association at Wolver hampton which showed very high capacity of that kind, and many of his official congratulatory speeches to Lord Mayors and others have disguised almost completely the scornful and cynical superio rity which just gleams for a moment and is gone. It is but fair, then, to conclude that if he now uses his great command of gentle phrase only to silver a dangerous weapon, he has all the capacity to use it for its own sake, if cues he Could feel that it would be of more use for its own sake than by way of contrast. He has been too successful to find any suppression of his own overbearing intellectual per sonality needful or desirable,—but not the less he shines pre-eminent in the capacity to tincture his speech with a rich fatly substance not properly either intellectual or moral, but expressing a sort of voluptuous desire to indulge unduly, and oven riot, in the mood of the moment. Instead of going straight to his object he contrives for himself, as all unctuous speakers de, opportunities of wallowing in the sentiment he is expressing; he whips up his thoughts upon it into a rich, creamy, saponaceous lather, and this none the less that his thoughts are now not at all the kind of Bishop-of Oxford thoughts he expressed to the Young Men's Christian Association at Wolverhampton, but rather of a directly opposite and even scoffing tendency. No thing could be more remarkable than the excessive indulgence of Lord Westbury in this sort of volup tuous enjoyment in his speech yesterday week in the House of Lords, which, by a sort of poetical justice, was directed against a master in the art, though on the other side of the art, the Bishop of Oxford. After describing in his peculiar lisp the "three modes" of dealing with Convocation, "first when they are harmlessly busy to take no notice of their proceedings; next, when they seem likely to get into mischief, to prorogue and put an end to their proceedings ; thirdly, when they have done something clearly beyond their powers to bring them before a Court of Justice, and punish them, and thus laid a good basis for the vitriolic lather, which he was about to mix. and apply with a leisurely but cruel hand-{Lord West bury entered fairly on the intemperate and almost sensual enjoyment of his speech. The mode in which he dilated upon applying the penalties of a pramunire to the episcopal bench—the gloating language in which he discussed the advantages to the Exchequer of sequestrating the incomes of all the bishops, deans, archdeacons, and other digni, Caries, who voted for the condemnation of "Essays j there is every reason to expect that within that in and Reviews," reminded one almost painfully of terval negotiations conducted directly between the another somewhat cruel person who had all Lord Northern Power on the one hand and Austria and Westbury's unctuous pleasure in giving pain, Mr. Prussia on the other, will convert the truce into a Whackford Squeers. " ' Here's flesh,lcried Squeers, treaty of peace. On what terms, and at what saori''' turning the boy about end indicating the plumpest flee, on the part of Denmark, a final arrangement parts of his figure with divers pokes and punches may be come to between the belligerents, it is use.' to the great discomposure of his son and heir. less to conjecture with our present means of knovr• Here's firmness, here's solidness; why, you can ledge. The neutral Powers have by their conduct hardly get up enough of him between your finger forfeited any right to be informed of what is going and thumb to pinch him anywhere. . . , You on, and they will have only themselves to blame if couldn't shut a bit of him in a door when he's had the result is one detrimental to their interests or in his dinner. Look at them tears, sir,' said Squeers, furiously affecting the balance of power. Although with a triumphant air, as Master Whackford wiped we know nothing positively, we are inclined to think his eyes with the cuff of his jacket, there's Dili- that Christian IX. has really made an offer to enter ness." Lord Westbury's proceedings with the the Germanic Confederation with the whole of Dew' bench of bishops, but more especially with the mark. Whether he is in earnest in such a proposie Bishop of Oxford, are painfully similar, He "pokes tion, or whether he has thrown it out merely with them and punches them in the plate-pest parts of a view of sowing dissension between the German their figure," he makes the Bishop of Oxford cry Powers and exciting the alarm of France, it is not wilt the pain, and then he says virtually in his easy to say ; but if the latter he his object, he has reply, with a triumphant air, "Look at those tears, probably succeeded es completely on one my Lords, there's oiliness." First he does his best point as he certainly hes on the other. Ause to hurt all the bishops, and observes in effect, tria may well look with favour on the accession of " Here's firmness, here's solidness," or in Lord West- Denmark to the Bund. For, while the strength Of bury's own words, "Imagine, my Lords, what an the whole body would be increased, the peculiar opportunity it would be for my right hon- influence of Prussia would be diminished by the onrable friend the Chancellor of the Exche- presence in North Germany of a state independent quer to spread his net, and in one haul take —to say the least—of the influence of the Court of in £30,000 from the highest dignitary, not to Berlin. Fur that very reason M. von Bismarck will speak of the of voXXot, the Bishops, Deans, Arch- probably set himself against the scheme attributed deacons, Canons, Wears" (and observe the artistic to the new Danish Ministry ; and in this he will incidental poke of calling such dignitaries the have the support of Russia, which can hardly view of. eroXXot " the mob"), " all included in one common with indifference so marked an addition to the crime, all subject to oue common penalty"—and then strength of Germany on the Baltic. How France after these more distributed and general tweaks and regards such a combination we are at no loss to twinges, he applies himself more especially to his conjecture. The official organs, no doubt under the own chosen adversary, Bishop Wilberforce. " I airs immediate inspiration ,of the Foreign Office, have extremely anxious to know what the thing is, called been denouncing it during the past week in terms a synodical judgment. . . . Assuming that the re- which sufficiently indicate the irritation and alert/ 2 port of the judgment I have read is a correct one, I which it has excited in the mind of their imperial lam happy to tell your lordships that what is called master. Beneath their affectation of disbelief that a synodical judgment is simply a series of well- any proposition of the kind has been made, one can lubricated terms, a sentence so oily and so sapona- readily perceive a very substantial uneasiness lest ceous that no one could grasp it. Like an eel it slips in some form or other it should be accepted. It is through your fingers—it is simply nothing, and I not impossible that by this time the Emperor is am happy to tell my noble friend (Lord Houghton) convinced that he has made a mistake in leaving that it is literally no judgment at all." This is what Denmark to her fate; and that even at the last we call positively rioting in the indulgence of pinch- moment his interposition may somewhat soften her ing, like Mr Squeers, rich and high-fed natures, the fall. But we cannot pretend to calculate upon the more so that we do not know that there was any action of any of the Powers with whom the decision particular reason for referring the wording of the of the question now rests. Having no real basis for sentence of condemnation to the Bishop of Oxford, the formation of an opinion it is better not to ex" beyond the Lord Chancellor's quick perception of the press one. Considering the conduct of her Majes opportunity he should thus gain of giving a little tv's Government, which has now by the vote of the additional pain by these playful allusions to that House of Commons become that of the country, few prelate's well known soubriquet. Towards the end Englishmen will desire to say more than of his speech, Lord Westbury even ventured so far is absolutely necessary on a subject so fraught with as to affect the solemnity of clerical warning and painful and self-accusing reflections. illustration, in a way that assures us , n o l es s than his THE " TABLET" ON THE HOPLEY CASE.—Since more serious efforts in the same line, th a t had he Canning wrote the parody on Martha Browning, entered the Church he might easily have be- Who whipped two female prentices to death come a " most reverend" prelate, if he could And hid them in the coal hole ; for her mind but so far have subdued his native arrogance of Framed schemes of sagest discipline. . . . mind as to persuade himself to act through life there has been nothing like Sir James Wildilig a part that he can easily assume to perfection either euphuistic allusion to Mr Hopley's peccadillo Or ' for a light or serious purpose. When he earnestly ads which he was sentenced to four years of penal Ser,', vised the bishops and other members of Convocation vitude. "It was a prominent fact in the case, that "if there be any attempt to carry Convocation said Sir James, " that in 1860 the respondent con' beyond its proper limits, their best plan will be, mitted some act which brought him within the after protesting, to gather up their garments and grasp of the law." [He only beat one of his pupil* leave the place—remembering, the pillar of salt, and the poor boy Cancellor, to death. 7 ant pis pod! resolving not to cast a look behind," he carried the ‘Cancellor " and very heavily," contained St r , mock solemnity of his allusions beyond the verge of James, " did the hand of the law fall on him; and decorum, and almost lett some of his cruel advan- a man of education and refinement" (so refined al tage by this open display of his feelings towards to collect a large amount of saliva in his month an d the Bible. It must have been a triumphant moment spit in his wife's face for beckoning her children in for Lord Westbury when th e Bi s h o p o f Oxford g a ve upon a cold snowy day), "of great natural ability, vent to the cry of pain which Lord Westbnry's tor- and with a great many noble though visionary ( I B ' ture extracted. The Bishop directly admitted that pirations, was taken from his home and ieoprison eu Lord Westbury's words had blistered those on for three years." No man, said Sir James, "0e Lord whom they fell, and consoled himself by explaining had heard Mr Hopley, could say he was wanting to the House of Lords what he should have felt on in warm affection and in proper religious feeling s ` his deathbed if he had not laid himself open to this but he was plainly a man whose opinion was P e persecution. Lord Westbury's delight was evidently in harmony with the rest of the world, an d thal unbounded. "The right reverend prelate," ho says, want of harmony was likely to produce a continu a " has in that excited manner which characterised jangle—and he had thought so much on certa in the greater portion of his speech—and at which, I subjects, particularly that of the bringing uP °,„ beg to say, that I was not at all surprised—with young children that he was extravagant, not to la much licence of language, charged me with misre- more, in many of his views. The husband ev 00 , 4 presenting a passage in an act of Parliament. His no doubt learn a lesson from this case, and m apology, I think, must be that he himself does not would know that if he ever lifted his hand aga inst . o . quite understand it." Squeers' triumphant e.rcla- her she would be entitled to protection. If they nation when Master Whackford wiped his eyes were separated the children must be depriv e with the cuff of his jacket, "Look at them tears, either of a father or a mother. If they lived togs: sir—there's oiliness !" was humanity itself compared thee again there might be better things in stor e 1° : with the exultation of Lord Westbury. As a mere them. The husband had hitherto been ie literary effect no doubt the unctuous style has ranch wrong-headed man, but seeing how other peoPt, mare to recommend it when it just gilds the Intel- viewed his conduct, he might surre nde ; lectual cruelty of such cold vivisection as Lord West- .some of his opinions. His wife had taken hive f e bury, but we wish it were wholly left to those better or worse. Even if a decree were granted, b° whose words, though " softer than butter," speak doubted whether that devoted woman would be O n : the " war in their heart," and strike like swords tent to settle down with her children and her ot though they be " smoother than oil." The family, and see her husband struggling with th e Psalmist who wrote those words was a very different world apart from them" We have given these elr" man, we take it, from the Bishop of Oxford, but we tracts from the leained judge's summing up, Detail feel sure he had some adversary who was the anti- a correct summary or abridgment of it, for ther e type of Lord Westbury. was much more of which no one could complain:: THE " EXAMINER" ON BISMARK,—The offer, said and we think that few will differ from the tag_ and jury in holding, both that Mr. Hopley h a d bee: to have been made by Prince John of Glucksburg, of Denmark's joining the German Confederation, guilty of cruelty, and also that the wife's condone; was a derisiee one. The great monarchs of Vienna tion of that cruelty was clearly shown. The learn 4: an d judge told the jury that unless they believed N ot, and Berlin do not want a democratic associate, Denmark can be no other than democratic. Its Hopley to have perjured herself which he did y % aristocracy has died away, and the last monarch of her husband had undoubtedly been guilty of g re be Denmark, quite a Jacobin in his line, helped the cruelty, and they should say so; still if they thn t u f n i g remains of the national noblesse to extinction. We that condonation had been proved (and he did IP T he have heard a good deal of the hardship of German that it had) they were also bound to say so. b e e SehleswigtHolsteiners being ruled by Danes. But jury found accordingly, and, so far, no injustice we the Danes had similar objections to being ruled by been done. But how did those passages wh i t eli b e ir Schleswig-Holsteiners. The latter have a noblesse, have quoted and of which we complain, fir' l il a nay, a 'feudal noblesse, just the stuff of which way into the summing up which they so grievo uid M nisters are made. And King Christian has disfigure P In the mouth of an advocate they v , r° oll nominated one of them, Count Moltke, a Holsteiner, be understood, as instances of the rhetoric al to be Prime Minister of Denmark. He may use- with which a lawyer often seeks to work uPes If "d fully serve to drive the nail, in other words, con- jury,, by the introducti on o f i rre l evan t topics, elude a peace. But he could not long govern Den- by appealing to sentiment instead of to reason• bo a mark as it was, much less as it is, in that feudal the p revailin g f eeling in Sir Jame Wilde's inin, a d oia d an d reactionary manner which it seems that Bis- been, this man i s a great brute and a savage, h al ' o f mark and Rechberg require. The attempt to with pride and pedantry, fanatical theories, o w will produce the inevitable result of a popular in govern in Copenhagen according to their behests reli g ious c an t a nd fulsome self - conceit, and n ot e t ity capable of, but actually guilty o f, s h oc k ing barb.° his surrection. The efforts of the two worthies, to a woman who is his own wife, to a baby evil ° s till Rechberg and Bismark, in Schleswig-Holsteiv, are own child, to a schoolboy who was his pupil ;oft of the Same tendency, and will produce similar justice is justice, and l a w i s l aw , an d d u ty le jos results. They refuse to recognise the Duke of and he is entitled to his rights, an d it is my hn e n t he Augustenburg, because he declares that, owing to influence the jury to find a verdict for hiln,eitt of a ds n his success to the attachment and choice of the Plea of condonation, no body cou ld h ave corarte people of these Duchies, he must impart Bu t in that case the summing up would surelYttia to them a liberal constitution. In that case have contained the passages which we have ql.loo' you shall not be Duke, said Bismark. The King of Prussia looks to the Sultan of North Ger many, as the Emperor of Austria is to be the Sul tan of South Germany, and minor Powers must consent to occupy the position of Hospodars. We need not say that the pretension excites the utmost resentment and disgust. The minor Powers and Princes of Germany, excluded from the negotia tions at Vienna, will meet at Frankfort or elsewhere, when a formidable schism will be the consequence, with the Confederation of the Rhine looming in the distance. There are, however, certain complica tions, as all the minor Powers are not liberal, and do not favour liberal constitutions. And Napoleon himself, however ready to patronise a Confederation of minor Powers against Austria and Prussia, does not like constitutions after the English fashion— that is, with liberty of representation, of speech, and of printing. A prince therefore must be found, and the Duke of Oldenburg has been pitched upon by Prussia, less with the idea of installing him than of forcing the Diet to consent to the terms of Prus sia. The Duke of Oldenburg, however, has not the shadow of a rightful claim. If he had, we should have heard of it, and have seen it expounded before now. Prussian bayonets have held Slesvig, and Prussian bayonets may undertake to dispose of it. If so, there will be an insurrection there too. And if Bismark 'turn his bayonets on the Slesvig- Holsteiners, what will Fatherland get next from the absolutism of a statesman who seems to have undertaken the task of rendering Prussia in everything the antagonist of Germany ? The worst of Bismark's policy is that he loves to weave schemes, and he has by some underhand policy induced the cautious Austrian Government to adopt, in this respect, his views. He pushed the war with Denmark to the verge of war with Eng land. And having succeeded in carrying his point without incurring the dangerous alternative, he is now bold enough for anything. And his aim seems to be now co provoke the Liberal party in Germany to insurrection. He is convinced that he will get the better of it by bayonets, and that lie can do minate not only to Prussia, but North Germany. Perhaps, if the German people were to be let alone in this agitation, the military • ht mg prevail. Bat there is another potentate who certainly will have his finger in the pie, and thatthe French Em. peror. Nor are we prepared to blame him. He cannot allow a military power like Prussia to ag grandise herself as to become his equal. The pros pect is that a German insur might rect on make a war undertaken by France necessary to aid the popular party. This is the Italian campaign over again, fought on the Rhine and Elbe, not the Po. Austrian despots, we presume, ma y red:gain neutral. Who can doubt that the enormous aggrandisement of France would follow tb t such an on urs this is what Bismark is • Is • ;4 ' * gran ~,ousiy risking, by keeping the qnestion -ffl • striving to - • et the Duchies open, and extract some perso n al advantage out of it. King L eopold has underta k en t h e task of re presenting the danger of Bismark's madness to the Emperor at Vichy. But often that potentate seems to be so amused and tickled by the Prussian statesman's frenzy that he is almost inclined to patronise it. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE DANISH WAR. --The war between Denmark and Germany is over. A suspe isien of hostilities by land and sea, from the 26th to the 31st instant, tea been agreed,upon, and COUNTRY MARKET& NOTTINGHAM --SATURDAY. 0 0 A moderate show of wh ea t t o -d ay, w i t h a h e althy “e ra at is per qr ov e r l a t e p r i ces . B ar l ey very limited supP ic e , and late prices were s u pp or t e d. Beans is higher in Po. —White wheat, from 45s to 50s ; red wheat, sg s to a t., Barley—malting, 30s to 37 8 ; gr i n di ng, 27s to 295. SP old, at 24s to 30s Od ; ne w , 19 s t o 25 5 . B eans 50 1 d 0" to 42s per qr, ; new, 358 to 38s. Flour, fine, 328 to 340; super, 3Gs to 38s per 20 sWile. NORWICH—SATITRDAY. There was a tolerably large supply of wheat to dal'tbel last week's prices mus t b e cons i dered as current. Iu n articles little passing. White wheat. 46 s t o 47s 1 Red wheat ....... 4,2 to „ Malting barley ...Ms to 36s 1 Chevalier barley. ' to Distilling d 0... 29s to 30s I 0at5.......... "irt — er. Flour, 28s Od to — s Od p er sac k fr om the IV"- RK-- SATURAY. 11 A small supply of YO wheat on offer D from the farraer n s c ltlia a small advance was made. Barley very scatter. ° betle f trade good, at rather over late rates. Beans were ill demand at fully as much money. w 2 0 Wheat, red 3Bs to 43s Oats.... 2OO SS; White do .42s to 47s Beans sos to ~., 0 —" Barley .24s to 28 s P eas .--0 to s o , Malt, 58s to 60s per q r . • rye, 32s per qr. , • flour , to 345, per sack. LEICESTER--SATURDAY. 61 16 111 A tolerable sh ow o f w h eat, and a firm bus- nesetato 0 11 is per qr ad vance on l ast week ' s rates. Barley 5 -„, ver 36 —New whit e w h eat , 45 s to 40s; red, 43s to stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, '", d otol new, 33s to 35s p e r qr . ; gr i n di ng, 26s to 288, 0; 130. - 27s to 295; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone' n o t,t e ' old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; dour, 25s to 30s Perf„.. Births. is BARRON.—Onthe 23d inst., a t 10 , Devonshire Esq., ° Hyde-park, the wife of Richard Bankes Barrr on ' a daughter. Li e Davies, DAVIES.—On the 19th i ns t., C atherine, wife o f 1 41- Davies, of Withersclaize House, Wye, Kent. 1 4°1. ) WETHERALL.—On th e 19 t h inst, at . at Lodding t l i to thamptonshire, the wif e o f Captain T. Wether allf Dragoons, of a daughter, Marriages. no. diger° d o GIBRINGS.—BUCKLEY.—On the 20th inst., i",7, s t 113 # 10 Lieut.. Colon e l T homas Gibbings, late of 2d " te r of Regt., of c oun t y C ork, to Frances Mary, daug—h f' late Joseph B uc kl ey, Esq., of Lancashire. , fono ve 0 ,0 RIMINQTON— ABEILOROMBY.—At St. George 5, is to 1 0' square, John Wilson Rimington, son of tnej hire, to *4l Remington, Esq,, of Brootnhead Hall, Yor i ',, s ' t cr( o " A. Adelaide, daughter of the late Sir R. Aber Bart. 10. , of 35 Deaths. BELL.--On the 23d inst William Bell, "- George-str ee t, Hanover-square." Dray s 4 DRANE.—On the 17th i ns t., a t T or quay, Thomas t Esq,, aged 71 , scl'P DANIELS.—On the 20th inst., Abraham Danie ls, 2, Modena-terrac e , Pecichara. GARDNER.—On the 21st inst., at Bognor, Thos. 6°lllei' ° Esq , formerly of Stonehouse, aged 82. oc iteg 11.tILEL—On the 21st inst., at 15, PittvilleLaw l3 . ., u •, 1,0.° ham, Lieut.-Colonel Jobn: Mites, late of the 0--- aged 72. 0 . 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