The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-16 00:00:00

A NEW STEAMSHIP. One of those extraordinary inventions or designs which come to us in such numbers from America, and which occasionally create a perfect revolution among scientific trades, and. even among sciences themselves, is just now in process of being tried on the banks of the Thames, at Mr. Hepworth's ship building-yard, near Poplar. This is what is termed a " cigar ship"—that is, a yacht-steamer, the hull of which is immensely long, perfectly round, and which, in fact, precisely resembles, as its name implies, the shape of a &gar, with the ex ception that both ends are very finely pointed, instead of, as in a cigar, only one. The theories that have been advanced about the seagoing qua lities and immense speed of vessels built in this shape are plausible enough ; and, indeed, are so alluring and based on apparently such solid data _ _ that we are exceedingly glad to see that one way or the other they are likely to be theories no longer. The" cigar ship's" hull is nearly finished' and the " cigar snip" itself will be launched cam- . - pleted, and with her steam up, by the middle of August, so that we have not very long to wait be fore the problem is solved, and we are proved either to have been all in the dark as to shipbuilding from the days of Noah to this year of grace, or, on the other hand, ',Mr. Wienan's yacht is consigned to that place for good intentions, the paving of which must jest now be in e. state of pre-eminent repair. The vessel which is to set at rest these great doubts is being built as the private yacht of an American gentleman, who has designed everything connected with the ship, and who is having his designs exe cuted by Mr. Hepworth in the most perfect work manship of which wrought iron is capable. The hull is almost complete, and, as the hull of a ship, it looks one of the most extraordinary objects it is possible to imagine. It is so at variance with all our generally received notions of nautical beauty of form that one can only stare at it in mute surprise, though there is something about its long tapering lines so suggestive of immense speed that one feels rather ashamed such a simple idea should never have occurred to any one before. In justice to our own age, however, it must be said that such a vessel could only be imagined when iron ships were in use, and iron shipbuilding had reached its highest stages of development. Looking at her now, she appears to be nothing more than a gigantic iron mainyard for some vessel of the Great Eastern class, having a rather wide diameter in the middle, and tapered to a mere point of some ten inches at either end. Her length over all is 256 ft., and her greatest width and depth is in the middle, where the circle is 1611. diameter. Thus, then, her length is 16 times greater than her greatest width. She is built throughout of the finest boat plates, in some parts of steel, in some of Low Moor iron. To the water-line these plates are 5-Bths of an inch thick; above the water-line they are only 5 16ths. Her displacement will be about 600 tons, which gives her a little over 300 tons burden, ac cording to builders' measurement. She is built without any longitudinal stringers, but throughout her entire length she is divided by no less than 13 water-tight compartments, and in the engine and boiler rooms is further strengthened by inner rings of angle-iron seven inches deep, which are rivetted to the side, and placed as close as at intervals of aft apart. Underneath, instead of a keel, is a broad band of the best Low Moor iron, which runs almost from end to end, and which is about lin. thick by 3ft. wide, and meant to protect her in case of her taking the ground. Inside is an iron floor, which also runs from end to end, to be hereafter covered with wood, and form, in fact, the lower pas senger deck of the yacht. This floor amidships is only about six feet from the bottom of the cylinder, so that overhead there is a roomy cabin enough, much resembling in shape a small railway tunnel. The upper deck is 130 ft. long by 10 ft. broad, and is formed by holding for that length whet we may call a square flit topped cover on the top of the cylinder. This cosor or deck is 411. 10in. hieh altogether, of which the lower 2Ft. is of iron, rivetted to the top of the cylinder, and the other 2ft. 10in. of common light wooden bulwarks. She is to have two short funnels, and these and her little deck and a small part of the upper curve of the cylinder are all that will be seen out of water. So much for her external appearance, to which we nerd ally add that the rivets that fasten her are countersunk, so that she presents outwardly a per fectly smooth surface, while the workmanship of her joints is so perfect that even the touch fails to detect the slightest irregularity in her smoothness. So far, then, her form, length, and small midehip section will have a great deal to do with her speed, but when to these favourable conditions is added the immense pcave.r with which she is hoped to be driven, it is no wonder that such a rate of going as 26 knots, or nearly 30 miles, an hour, is confidently talked of by her designer and builder. Her engines are to be three-cylinder, driven at high pressure, turning one steel shaft (made by Mr. Krupp) which runs through the whole length of the vessel, projecting from the fine points at each end, where it carried a screw. These screws are to be four feet greater in diameter than the greatest diameter of the vessel—namely, 22 feet, and each is toehave eight blades, because the two points being only say a foot or so below the water, four of the blades of each screw will always be out as it revolves, while there will always be four of each immersed to do the work of propulsion. In fact, we cannot better describe the general shape of the ship and its mode of progression when at t,a than by likening it to a porpoise with a tail at each end. Under each screw is a rudder, and by steering with both the vessel can be ttnened as on a pivot. As the extreme points veui.a :he too fine to admit the passage of the screw shaft and its bear ings also, this difficulty is obviated by making 16ft of each end revolve with the shaft, and therefore form part of it, so that, with the increased diameter of the point at the end of the 16t. towards the mid ships, there is ample moat gained for both shaft and bearings. Her boilers, like all the rest about this vessel, are on a new plan. There are four of them on the locomotive principle, with vertical tubes. A blast fan is to give them draught, and they are to work at 1501 b. pressure. This is a great pressure, but, as the boilers are built far stronger than even locomotive boilers, it is asserted that they could be worked up to 1,0001 b„ or even 1,001 b., with ., safety. Th ere are 13 6 ft. of fire-bar surface, an d it is expected that with the aid of the blast fan each of these 136 ft. can he made to burn ioib of coal per hour. If the furnaces can accom plish this, then, according to the rules which give one n ominal horse p ower for every 211 b of coals consumed per hour, Mr. Wienan's yacht will be working at more than 2,500 horse power. For very fast ocean go i n g steamship s th e rate of horse power to tonnage is about 2 5 - tons to one nominal horse power ; that is to say, roughly, engines of 500 horse power for a fast steamship of 1,250 tons. But our best mail steamships on their fastest tripe fi n d it difficult to burn their 30 b. of coal per foot of Amber surface per hour. If Mr. Wienan's then can burn his 601 b., he will, as we have stated, be work ing up to nearly 2,500 horse power, or at the rate of eight indicated horse power to every ton burden of his vessel; and this, with her slender form, smooth surface, and very small midship section (only 100 ft), should give her extracedinary speed. We do not at say that all these results as to consumption of coal, are certain to be effected, as the principle is quite a new one. Th e vesse l , however, is bu il t t o acc omplish it, and on the part of the public, who will be the ultimate gainers, w e h ope she may. It is said also that, as regards motion at sea, rolling end pinching will be reduced to a minimum, and certainly her form seems to suggest that such a re sult will be acc omplished, With no top tramper in the way of masts and with all her weights well below the waterline she is certainly not likely t o roll. But if she does not pitch, but cuts through tae caster, she will take it over all, and in that case, with her upper deck so near the sea, it would be swept fore and aft. By the end of August all these doubts will be settled, for in the middle of that month she is to be launched, as we have said, from Mr. Hepworth's yard, and launched ready for sea with her steam up. As a bold trial of a new principle at the inventor's own expense and risk, she will at least deserve success, and Mr. Wienan has paid a compliment to our natianai spirit of progress arts desire for improvement in preferring to build his I first yacht here instead of in America ; so that we shall be, in either event, the Areftrgainers by the experiment. Important Applications of Guu Cotton, At the Royal Institution, on Friday evening, the recent improvements in gun cotton again formed the subject brought to notice, the lecturer on the occasion being Mr. Scott Russell. In the previous lecture on the subject, by Mr. Abel, the chemical history of gun cotton, and the Teature of the improve ments.in its manufacture recently made in Austria, were more especially dwelt on ; while Mr. Russell principally directed atten (ion to its uses. He stated that at a late meeting of the British Association committee was appointed, of which his was a mem. ber, to investigate the nature of the great improve. ments which it was known had been made in Aus tria on gun cotton by General Len; but which were kept a profound secret by the Austrian Go. vernment. One of the first things the committee did was to write to Gen. Leuz, to request him to come over and acquaint the committee in what his improvements consisted. This impudent request--- as Mr. Russell admitted it to have been—excited a commotion in Vienna, bat the young Emperor, against the advice of his councillors, consented to allow the secret to be known, and General Lenz came to this country and informed the come mitte whet it was. Th© object to be accomplished in the manufacture of gun cotton to render it appli cable, was to diminish the rapidity of its combus tion, and its liability to accidental explosion. These objects have been fully accomplished, as was pre viously stated by Mr. Abel, principally by spinning the cotton into yarn before it undergoes the process of conversion into gun cotton ; and it was shown by that gentleman that by mechanical alteration of the structure of the cotton fibre alone the explosive material may be placed under complete control, and that, as ho said, you may do what you like with it. What can be done with gun cotton, and what cannot be done with it and its merits, com pared, with gunpowder as an explosive agent, were ex2lained and illustrated by Mr. Scott Russell, who, though he commenced by mentioning some points of objection to gun cotton, finally removed them, and represented it to be in every respect superior to gunpowder, and to be capable of pro. clueing far more destructive effects. As an illus tration of the different degrees of rapidity of com bustion attainable with gun cotton, he first ignited a thick yarn of the substance which was suspended round the gallery of the lecture-room, which burned along at the rate of about one foot in a second. He next took a piece about a yard long which flashed in half a second ; and another similar length of the most explosive kind, exploded instantaneously. A remarkable property of gun cotton, which consti tutes an immense advantage in its uze compared with gunpowder is, that it leaves no products of 'combustion, behind, and produces very little smoke. Another important advantage is, that it is not in jured by moisture, and may be wetted and dried without impairing its power. This was shown by immersing a piece of gun cotton yarn in water, which was then squeezed out, and, though still damp, the outer surface rapidly ignited, and when the remainder was squeszsel the cotton again ig nited. This property is a great safeguard in the manufacture of gun cotton, for all the pro cesses may be conducted under water, and it is aftertyards dried. For ordinary practical purposh,, the rapidity of its explosion is reduced an equality with that of gunpowder, in wit, e h state one pound propels a projectile fre al a cannon with the same velocity as three pounds of gun powder. The recoil of the cannon when gun cotton is used is only two-thirds the amonut of recoil with gunpowder ; there is no fouling of the gun, which remains also comparatively cool; and the absence of smoke enables the gunners to continue firing in caeemated batteries and between the decks of ships without annoyance. As an explosive agent, gun cotton possesses some re markable peculiarities, the causes of which have not yet been ascertained. A piece of loose gun cotton fired on a balanced scale produces depression, the whole force going off into the atmosphere without any recoil, But if the gnu cotton be enclosed in a box or barrel, its explosive force in all directions is much greater than that of guncowder. Some im portant experiments on a large scale have been tried with gun cotton made by a mseufacturer of the eub stance in Suffolk. A palisade was formed with the trunks of a number of large trees fixed in the ground close together, and a small box filled with gun cotton was exploded near them. A large gap was instantly made, the trees having been cut asunder quite straight, though at the top of the fractures the wood was splintered into matches. Its destructive effect was tried on two wooden bridges, which were com pletely splintered ; but the most important experi ment was the blowing up of a ship of 400 tons burden by means of Cab of gun cotton enclosed in a barrel and placed under water at a distance of 20 feet. The ship, it,was stated, was completely blown to pieces. The force of gun cotton when applied to mining operations is equally effective. At the Clay Cross Collieries it has been found that a blast saith one ounce of gun cotton will remove from 60 to 80 cubic feet of e'ual, and it has been applied at the slate quarries in North Wales with equal succes, It is a great advantage in using gun cotton in min in - 6 . or tunnelling that the work i 3 not impeded by smoke, which is a serious inconvenience when blast ing with gunpowder. Mr Scott Russell attributed the remarkable diminution of recoil in explosions of gun cotton to the absence of solid matter in the products of combustion. In gunpowder the solid refuse amounts to about 60 per cent. of the weight of the powder, and the effort rtquired to biow may this " rubbish," ha considers, produces the additional amount of recoil. In gun cotton, on the contrary, there is scarcely any solid refuse, 25 per cent. of the products of combustion c , nsisting of water ; and he conceives that the expansion of this water into redhot steam by the ignited gases during their explosion is a main cause of the great explosive force of gun cotton. Mr. Russell ventured also to speculate that the lower degree of heat caused by the explosion of gun cotton may be owing to the subse quent condensation of the steam into water, He admitted, however, that the causes of these and of other peculiar properties of gun cotton are involved in doubt, , which he hoped the f ur th er i nves ti ga ti ons of the committee of the British Association would remove. He also mentioned that a commission had been appointed by the Government t , ) consider the application of gun cotton to artillery. Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly as borrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply at once and become members of Messrs. 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Barry du Barry and Co., No. 77, gegen also Fortnum and Mas on; an d all - grocers i; andstre e chemists Loudonitt ; every town of the United liingdom. [AnvEuTisEmENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— There is no question whatever that rheumatism, neuralgia, and such like painful maladies have been more rife this season than for some years psi'. The number of testimo nials of cures effected by Holloway's remedies is unprece dented, and should be enforced on the attention of all suf ferers from these complaints. The parts in pain should be .fomented for some minutes with warm brime dried, ard immediately well nibbed with the ointment. 4 lt will pTss into the pores of the skin and give the greatest relief. :Slang v aluable lives a re annually lost which m i g ht b e s aved if :early recourse in illness were made to these remarkable emedies,which must necessarily prove benefilial, and can not do harm, TIM SUN, LONDON, MONDAY vv .. eivENING, MAY 10, 1864. Naval and Military Intelligence, THE ARMY. Rear-Admiral R. T S. Robison, Controller of the Navy, visited Portsmouth ...,ockyard on Saturday, and, accom panied by BP :ar-Admiral G. Elliott and other officials, went on boa:d the Royal Sovereign, cupola ship, in No. 10 dock, for the purpose of inquiry as to damage on her recent trial, and also to inspect the state of the vitreous sheathing on the ship's bottom, already referred to in The Sun of the 13th. Port Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, K,C.8., was con veyed on Saturday by the gunboat Tilbury from Devonport into the Sound, where he inspected the crew of the ironcased screw steam vessel Research, 4, Capt. Wilmshurst. The screw steamship Defence, 18, Capt. A. Phillimore, went on Saturday morning from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze, and was placed alongside the jetty at Devonport Dockyard, preparatory to going to-day into No. 1 dock to be examined, and to have her valves overhauled. For this purpose the paddlewheel steamsloop Geyser was removed from No. 1 dock on Saturday. When the tide rose the Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, followed the Defence, and was placed at moorings in Hamoaze, pre paratory to being put to-day into the Princess dock, in the dockyard, from which the gunboats Partridge, Gleaner, and Ferret were removed on Friday evening. Yesterday at noon the iron screw steamship Black Prince, 41, Capt. J. J. B. Wainwright, second in command of the Channel squadron, was navigated from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze for the purpose of being docked. Five steamtugs were inattendance. In order to expedite the operation in Woolwich Dock yard for the preparation of armour-plates for Mr. Reed's iron-cased ships, the Favourite and Pallas, the plate-bend ing shed has been considerably enlarged and the machinery increased by the addition of new machines for planing the edges of twisted, tapered, or curved plates. The machinery has been supplied by the firm of Messrs. Smith, Beacock, and Tannett, of Leeds, with modifications by Mr. Trickett, chief engineer and inspector of steam machinery at the dockyard, as also machines for boring slotting, Ake. One of the machines is on a powerful and magnificent scale, and was put into operation on Saturday to test its efficiency with three tools working at the same time. The result was highly satisfactory. The whole of the machines worked equally well. By the introduction of these improvements great progress is expected to be made. An untoward accident has happened on board the paddle wheel steamer Salamis, 4, 250-horse power, Commander F, G. Suttie, fitting as a look-out ship to be attached to the Channel Fleet. The Salamis had just returned from her trial trip at the Maplin Sands, with Capt. Hall, C,8,, and the other officials on board, and was steaming to her moor ings in the Medway, when, from some cause which at pre sent does not seem capable of explanation, the bottom of one of her cylinders was blown out. This accident will detain the Salamis for several woeks, as nearly the whole her ma chinery will require to be taken out. It is the more to be regretted as she was to have sailed on Saturday to join the Channel squadron, to which she was to act as "whipper-in." The following appointments and promotions have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander Douglas Walker to be an Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice Com mander Smithett, whose period of service has expired ; Lieut. IV. G. Annesley, to the Wolvercne ; J. Neil, chief engineer, to the Indus, for the St. Jean d'Acre ; Dovar Farrant, master, to the Cossack ; Dr. IV. Smith, surgeon superintendent, to the Merchantman convict ship; W. A. King cote, naval cadet, to the Wolverene ; IV. G. Carrow, naval cadet, to the Duncan; W. G. Atkinson, W. H. Adlam, G. Christie, Alfred Gibbons, J. S. Caveneagh, Francis C. Corbet (acting), T. M'G. Bridge, Samuel M. Spry, and Selwyn S. Lugnen, promoted to the rank of masters; J. P. M'Erven, second master to the Investigator; J. Riches and Arthur C. Dowdell, second masters, to the Dasher; James Fisher, second master, to the Sparrow; W. T. Tregidgo, second master, to the Caradoc ; Alfred S. Bradley, secon d master, to the Steady; and Percy C. Smith, ' do ti ng second master, to the Triton. The Albert Memorial, The works in connection with this national me morial were last week commenced by Mr. Kelk, to whom the execution of the entire contract has been intrusted. The site chosen for it is in Hyde Park, almost facing the'entrance to the Horticultural Gardens, and on this spot the excavations for the foundation are being made. Fram the great height (160 feet) and the immense solidity and massive ness of the memorial, the foundations have to be taken unusually deep, considering the excellent nature of the soil, which is all gravel. Under the centre part they are to be formed of 16 feet of con crete, and nowhere are they to be less than 10 feet. The base of the memorial is to consist of broad and lofty flights of steps that gave access to the work on four sides, and the work itself is to be no less than 130 feet square. The steps of grey granite are to be laid in a double flight, with a broad landing between the upper and lower tier. From this upper landing the memorial proper will rise, the basement being formed of a noble frieze in marble, tl.e figures on which will be in high relief and of life size. The cohimns which support the spire-like superstructure of the memorial are to con eist of groups of four red granite pillars, each 2ft in diameter. Their capitals are exceedingly rich, and will be surmounted with statues of heroic size. Te s spire, on if we so call it, which closes in the arch, eof map ay richest a n d mos t e l a b ora t e o f a ll i Mr. Scott's designs. It will be built of red and grey granite, and the rich white stone known as Darley Dale. The terminal and surmounting cross will bo of wrought copper gilt, and this portion of the work is to be executed by the Skidmore Art Company, whose rood screen in the transept of the last Exhibition excited such admiration for its exquisite finish. Beneath the groined arch will be placed the statue of the late Prince Consort. His Royal Highness is represented in robes of State, seated on a chair of state. The proportions of the figure are on a scale which, if the statute was represented standing would give it a height of 30ft. Too details of this figure and the other groups of statuary which will sur round the memorial are, however, still undecided, The whole work is expected to take four years in completion, and by the terms of his contract Mr Kelk has bound himself to complete it for the sum in hand—Xl2o,ooo. The laying of the foundation stone will he marked by a public ceremonial, at which the members of the Royal family will be pre sent. No date is fixed for this event, which, in deed, is net likely to take place till late in autumn. reduction to recommend. The army, he says, costs greatly too much, and there are 600,000 men on foot, but France has and will have 100,000 men abroad, including Algeria. 250,000 men are required for garrison duty, and she has therefore only 250,000 men available for foreign service. With that force, in his judgment; "she is, perhaps, the only Power in Europe on a peace footing," The inner network of railways will add a million - to the burden of the State, but they have been commenced, and must be finished. The civil expenditure has been enormously raised, but "intelligent officials must be placed on a level with the classes among whom they live." The marine requires reduction, but the ships are abroad, and redaction is impossible until they are at home again. And so it goes on, subject by sub. ject, till the orator acknowledges that the Empire has increased the annual expenses by thirty-two millions sterling a year, and bursts into a perora tion which will be accepted throughout France as a justification of the outlay. "I may ho told that this general increase of 500 or 600 millions causes alarm, but that all may explained by a closer scrutiny. Yes, all may be explained if every three or four years a great war undertakm without giving the country time to breathe. Such a war as the Crimean, undertaken for a definite object, or a war for an idea, such as a Polish war might have been, and the Italian war certainly was ; and then, in the interval, little petty wars, petty in their objects, great in their cost. Yes, in that way all is explained ; far we have a deficit every year, and thus we have arrived at an increase of 309 millions in the public debt ; all is made clear if it is wished at one and the same moment to add preset:go to the Government, to augment salaries, to demolish and reconstruct cities, to organise the army in the most costly manner, to add to the obligatory expense of transforming our marine that of distant expeditions to found em pires, to confer now and then a crown, in that way, I repeat, all is explained." What Frenchman alive, knowing that he is armed to fight for an idea, that the official world he hopes to enter is powerful and well paid, that the Government is reconstructing cities, founding empires, transforming armaments, giving away crowns, will not except that position as compensation for high taxes and higher rents ? We believe, as a matter of fact, that the indirect teaching of the speech is more correct than its pro fessed object, that France has earned its penny• worth for its penny, that as far as material civilisa tion and external power are concerned the Empire has given full value for all it has exacted. Napoleon has broken up the old coalition of Europe, has raised France again to her natural position as leader of the Continent, has so increased the facilities of commu nication, the inducements to trade, the habit of speculation, and the actual produce of the country —for example, the vineyards and the mines—that France pays 80 millions a year more easily than she paid fifty. But then what kind of statesman ship is it which detesting the paginte for other reasons attacks it on its strongest side ? The Liberals of France deplore the awful " coreee of blood," the 100,000 youths exacted year by year, and M. Thiers says France is the only Power which has no need to disarm ; they rage at the power of sending untried men to Cayenne, and he talks of the cost of the police ' • they mourn the decay of intellectual vigour, and he hesitates about railways which are equalising advantages throughout the country ; they lament the surrender of education to priests, and he objects to a rise of schoolmasters' salaries • they sigh ror freedom to guide and regus late all this fierce activity, and he questions whether activity be of itself a good. His speech is answered as it is spoken ; for he enumerates the purchasers, and forgets all of the price not expressed in money. It is us if an invalid officer should say, " I spent a thcusand pounds in buying this pension for life, and the cost was great," forgetting that he has also spent a lifetime and a leg. Once, and once only, did M. Thiers rice to the level of his position. He wante I to say that the cure for expenditure was Parliameu tary control, a dangerous topic for any other man in France. N. 'Tiers, however, though Bonas partist by instinct, was trained in a school other than that of the Empire, and has the tact of speech which is not given to men who are never contra dicted. M. Foald, he says, advised the relinquish. ment of the right to order supplementary credits, and the prerogative was resigned. " Had I been then in his Majesty's councils, I should have said, with the profound respect due to his august per son and high dignity, Sire, do not renounce the right of decreeing supplementary credits ; it is impossible to foresee that they may not be re quired in the course of the year; and then it would he necessary to violate the law, an act always to be deplored. I should have added—' instead of depriving us of this valuable faculty, allow me to venture a criticise on your policy, and to this end restore the relations between myself and my colleagues, and then bet wean them and the Cly.am hers. That introduction of a demand for the responsibility of l'slinisters into the Corps Legislatif without reproof from Imperialists is admirably done, but even in this M. Thiers dieplays his secret in. stinets, He does not ask that the greatest right of despotism, that of spending national money with out the nation's consent, should be abolished or re streinerh He would retain it le full, but make the power beneficial and transfer it to himself. If these are the criticisms to which the Empire is to be submitted in the annual deb tte it will add to its many victories one in the tribune: The Empire has crushed out freedein and impaired intellectual vigour, placed the thinkers under the heel of the peasants, and statesmen be,:eath the soldiery, stopped the progress of popul a tion tte-d des French the security of social intercourse, turned na men into gamblers and destroyed all belief in . pte._ cal morality, made of every savan a courtier and rendered every politician liable to Cayenne, and then M.Thiers declares that its vice is an expendi ture which, as every Frenchman sees, has some thing like a fivefold return. Napoleon gives France a stone for bread, and the great Ofleanist only grumbles that the stone was paid for. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE ROYAL PRE ROGATIVE.—These high authorities (the writer has been quoting from the "Lord's Journals and from Hallam's "'Constitutional History") establish that, while foreign treaties and wars are by theory subject to the Sovereign's despotic will, they are matters for which Ministers can be celled:to account and punished by the severest penalties, under the principle that it is only by them that the Sovereign acts. And this being the undoubted law, there must follow the rule, as clearly in foreign as in home affairs, that the Sovereign is not justified by the Constitution in acting against the advice of Ministers, who must thus bear the responsibility; and that Parliament is entitled to act by previous discussion as amply us by subsequent impeachment. Nor has this implied rule been departed from since the date of the remonstrance which established it. If, on any occasion, treaties have been concluded, or wars declared, for which the previous sanction of Parliament, expressed in unmistakeable votes, has not been given, it has been because Parliament has virtually committed to the Government for the time the power of negotiation. No instance in modern history can be quoted where it has for a moment passed by the Ministry either to confer on the Sove reign alone such powers, or to acquiesce in his exercise of such powers in contravention of Minis terial advice. Blest as this nation has been for a quarter of a century with a Sovereign whose exem plary private life has been equalled by her strict adherence to constitutional principles in home poli tics, it has had no inclination to inquire critically into her relations with her responsible Minister's, or to suspect that in this age there could be danger of an extension of the Royal prerogative. Yet it may perhaps seem, to the cairn observer of human nature, scarcely possible that in a female reign some ; such questions should not arise. Those peculiari ties of disposition and temperament which make a woman most loveable and,most sacred, are precisely those which tend to urge her, in such a position, to the exercise of forbidden powers. It would be almost unnatural if such au one should not be moved by family feeling and by tender memories, should not struggle to support her wishes by her authority, and should be able to weigh against these motives the policy of States and the unwritten restraints of the Constitution. But unhappily that which tends to the overstepping of the constitution makes the transgression doubly dangerous. Personal go vernment, in the hands of a man so wary, so expe rienced, so impassive, as the Emperor of the French, may, during one generation, be successful ; but personal government, virtual or avowed, exercised by a woman's intellect, deprived of the masculine support on which for 20 years it avowedly leant, guided by a woman's knowledge, and inspired by a woman's feelings, can neither represent the interests of the nation, nor ceps with the astuteness of foreign diplomacy. For these reasons, we have thought it right to recall to attention that in foreign policy, as well as in domestic rule, the constitution subjects the sovereign, nominally supreme, to the same re straints. It removes the responsibility from her to her Ministers, by assigning to them, not to her, the tight to act, And if they lightly reckon such re sponsibility, we dare not. For we, too, every one of us, are responsible to God for our share in the nation's deeds. We can, if we will, do what is right; we can, if we choose, take arms against op pression, and beat back in time the advance of vio lence and anarchy in Europe. And if this be our power, our duty goes with it. If we fail in its per. formance, the penalty will lie on us and on our chil dren ; for thee constitution tells us that the Queen Senn do no wrong, and reason tell us as plainly that whatever wrong is done by this nation is not done by its head but by its members. THE " Ex UtINER " ON PARLIAMENTARY LYNCH LAW.—Ther,?, are things which get such a twist of error at first that they never can be got straight and right again. As the French phrase it, the erase has taken and cannot be effaced. Of this class is the case of Mr Lowe, the victim of Parliamentary Lynch law. A resolution of the House war. levelled at him, which applied to him was wholly false. It served, however, to drive him from office, and n ew stands on the records of the house to be fitted to the case of some other, any other, officer of the Council-office. This Lord R. Cecil distinctly states. It is the old story of the wolf and the lamb, little as Mr. Lowe resembles the helpless animal, "If it was not you, it was one of your family." The mutila tion of reports is charged in the resolution, and triumphantly, says Lord Robert Cecil, a line in the report of a Mr. Morell has been suppressed ! The single swallow proves the summer. It was said the resolution had not a leg to stand upon. It is false, answers Lord Robert, here is its leg, the words, " considering how recently the present teachers have been in charge," struck out of Mr. Morell's report. There is the one leg, and such a leg ! The line was not struck out by Mr. Lowe, but by Mr. Lingen. But what of that ? There is a consistency in aoint. Mr Lowe was convicted first and tried a f icrwm . ds. The resolution aimed at him as passed but after it was put on the was entireiy gronue' lles° ! journals of the honourat.L house a ground has been ° discovered for it—a very Ml,' ground certainly, and perhaps rotten, hut such as it is th: afterthought and if Mr. Lingen should finally lse acquitted, like Mr. Lowe, the resolution will nevertheless ts:and good to have a shot at some one else in the Council office. And all this comes of Education, the most fruitful source of strife of our contentious times. The truth is clear enough that the resolution ought to have been rescinded. It was founded on mistaken evidence, and passed, as Mr. Osborne says, when the Homeric rage of hunger was superadded to the pass sion of party. Oue thing is but too certain, that Mr. Lowe has been treated with great injustice, and an injustice which cannot be repaired. As re gards him, what can a committee of inquiry ascer tain that has not already been confessed, that he is blameless ? The only question is whether he was run down by his enemies or abandoned by his friends ; perhaps a delectable mixture of both. The puzzle to the public is something like the dilemma in which ttie old schoolmen put the character of Lucretia. Si casta quare trucidata , si non quare, laudata ? If blameless, why is Mr. Lowe out of office ; if not blameless, why universally acquitted ? Has he, indeed, like Lucretia, to whom he bears so many points of resemblance, been more tenacious at fame than of reality ? Be that as it, may, it is something for him to have to boast, as he may safely do, that he is the worst usedtman of his day. But his time will come, for talents such as his, once known and appreciated, proved and approved, cannot be lost to the public service ; and there is that in him which will never let it be forgotten that he is not where he ought to be and has a right to be, by title of intellectual merit. THE " JOHN BULL" ON THE ETHICS OF Go , VERNIU.ENT.—Ia the ancient monarchies and repub lics it was deemed the highest function a cid most important duty of Government to make met; vir tuous. The greatest statesman was be who eouio. by positive enactments do most to accomplish this end, and the best-ordered commonwealth was that which most readily accepted such laws and moat strenuously enforced them Si quatrit Pater Urbium Inscribi statuis, indomitam audeat Rear asnare licentiam. But the lawgiver of old had to supply his citizens with a religion as well as law in the modern sense of the word—be had to train their spiritual life as well as their social life. We, living under the Gospel, have gradually learned that Christianity is a better agent for making men virtuous than muni cipal law can be. The State is acquiring the habit of leaving such matters to the Church, and the Church, though she has still at times a han kering after the help of the civil sword to enforce her sanctions, finds that on the whole she is more potent without such auxiliaries. Nevertheless there is still in Parliament a great deal of legislation which is proposed or accomplished with the view, generally a very honest and sincere one, of "making men virtuous by statute." And the same principle constantly crops out in the incidental discussions which arise in Parliament on points of govern ment or legislation. Thus on Thursday night last, when Sir Edward Bering suggested to the autho rities of the Woods and Forests that it would be a reasonable and cheap kindness to put up two or three sheds in the vicinity of Rotten-row so as to furnish the fair equestrians of that spot with a place of refuge when a sudden shower cf rain might come on, Mr. Scully was amusingly sarcastic et the notion of Parliament spending any time or money for the comfort of Anonyma and her tribe of " pretty horsebreakers." Sir Edward Daring, with the legitimate indignation of a father of a family and a county member, protested against the assumption that he had referred to " that class of ladies." But seriously we do not see, when a little matter of public convenience of this sort is in ques. tion, that our legislators have any right to speculate as to the class of ladies that will avail themselves of it. Rein falls on the evil and the good, and virtue looks to higher rewards than an umbrella at the public cost. Some years ago there was a cry to remove the colonnade in the Quadrant, on the ground that when the weather was bad people tcok refuge there who had much better have been at one of the " midnight meetings." So whenever an arcade is projected protests are immediately entered against the plan on the like ground. We think this sort of thing carries State supervision a little too far. If the thing is needed for general conve nience the Legislature has no right to be curious as to the undeserving people who may partake tothe benefits of it, or even abuse them. On -and (though we certainly do not subscribe to this gret et a ; angry and uncharitable denuncia- Mr. Roebne_ hen) we were glad that the House lions on the subjet Mr. Somes's Bill on Friday of Commons rejected se. ,t S un d ay o b servance week. We fully grant tee an exception to constitutes (at first sight at learn, . , n contending, the principle for which we have b e, that the State has no right to control us to matters ' of morality unless these matte rs can be se:Own . to have a direct connection' with • our s ocial duties. Legislation on the subject of Sunday is necessary tia guard the interests of those who would unduly suffer by observing the day, if others were left at liberty to desecrate it.' In all such cases no doubt a strong claim ought- to be made out by those who feel themselves aggrieved. We cannot think that any argument of this kind could have been urged is behalf of Mr. Somes's measure. People must eat and drink on Sundays as well as on week-days, and other people must perforce work in the culinary duties required for the purpose. This sort of 'work will probably on the whole be considerably increased by lightening the weekly labours of Maritornes and other functionaries whom Mr. Somes may profess to consider his clients. To the general public it is a great accomoda tion to be able to obtain reasonable refreshment at these places on Sundays ; and if some people abuse the accommodation by eating or drinking too much, or by making an unseemly noise over their viands and liquors, that is no reason why the well-disposed part of the community should be mulcted of their freedom in the matter. We will say the same of whet we may call Sir George Grey's Curfew Bill. He proposes that the State shall do its best to curb the licence of those who propose to themselves not to "go home till morning" by providing that no one shall keep a house of entertainment open be tween the hours cf 1 and 4 a.m. Now it may be very proper that we should ail be in bed by one o'clock. But we do net like that the State should see us to bed and take away our candle—more especially when it is done for our own good ; end this, we presume, is the motive of Sir George Grey's action in the matter. No doubt there are houses of this kind where disreputable and lawless people congregate; turning night into day, and making a very ill-spent day of it. But, on the other hand, there are a great many of us who, though spending the night in a manner comparativsey re spectable, have still a fancy for "hearing the chimes at midnight" and something more. Are these people—perhaps very exceptional in their dissipa tior —to be cut short in their nocturnal festivi ties ? Is Maivolio to pat on a policeman's garb and to come upon us with the Queen's authority ? Because Sir George Grey is virtuous —the quotation is something musty: All such nights are not necessarily demoralising. Has Sir George Grey never looked in at the festive halls of Mr Patrick Green in Covent garde'', and ob served what that worthy sntertainer has done to provide a pleasant and respectable gathering for the young lawyers, medical students, and other care less spirits who are looking about for amusement after the theatres ? Yet Mr. Green's house will, we suppose, be closed under Sir George Grey's legislation when the clock strikes one, and his audi ence dispersed to roam the streets. These are the classes which. are out for pleasure ; the bill perhaps will fall still more hardly on carters who come to Covent-garden market at three o'clock in the morn ing and find the houses closed where they met to seek their early refreshment. We do not suppose that the Home Secretary's Bill will pass, but the failure of such schemes has frequently a bad effect in itself. THE THREE HEROIC BROTHERS, THE NAPIERS, AT THE BATTLE OF BUSACO.—Charles Napier, "advancing on the 4th of March, 1811, met a litter of branches borne by soldiers, and covered with a blanket. What wounded ocific,v is that?' ' Captain Napier (George), of the 52d—a broken limb.' Another litter fol lowed. Who is that ?' Captain Napier (William), of the 43d, mortally wounded.' Charles Napier looked at them, and passed onto the fight in front," TP E NAVY. The half-yearly ilts.pmtiion; at con tinued Jershott have been con past week, in every instance with the most fir '...tr:lble results. On Monday the Ist battalion Gth ( -1 - i ' d al) Regiment was inspected by Major-General Taylor, commanding the Ist infantry brigade ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the 59th and 37th Regiments and the Commissariat Staff Corps by the same brigadier; and the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers by Major.. Gen. Bates. The re giments were put through the manual, platoon, and bayonet exercises, as well as a number of field movements, such as advancing in line, retiring by fours from the right of com panies; firing one round by companies from the right; firing one round by wings; retiring by double column of subdivisions, and a variety of other exercises calculated to test the efficiency of the troops to the utmost. On the conclusion of each inspection the regiments were formed into square, and the General addressed the officers, non- i commissioned officers, and men, expressing their high ap- • proval of the manner in which the manoeuvres had been peformed. The regimental and companies' books, the men's dinners, kits, the married quarters, &c., were also inspected, and pronounced satisfactory in every particular. The Aldershott Camp athletic sports and font races, under the patronage of Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Pennefather, commanding the division, and the Brigadier-Generals com manding brigades will take place on the Royal Pavilion Cricket-ground on the of June. Only officers and Men belonging to the Aklershott division will be allowed to enter. The head-quarters of the 14th Hussars, unkr the emi mand of Col. Thomson, including Cept, Travers, Captain Chadwick, Lieut. Bradley, Lieut. and Adjt. Newton, 11Lajor Featherstonhaugh (paymaster), Surgeon-.1.1!j0r Arden, Quartermasor Clark, Veterinary Surgeon Dawson, with 8 sergeants, 7 trumpeters, and 10G rank and filled, arrived at the North Carap, Aldershott, on Friday, and are stationed in I and K lines. A. detachment of the Commissariat Staff Corps left the North Camp, Aldershott, on Thursday morning for Bristol, en route for Ireland. Twenty-lour of the non-commissioned officers and men are ordered to Dublin, and will form the first commissariat establishment at that station ; and 20, under the command of Deputy-Assist.-Commissary-Gen. Porter (76th Regiment), will proceed to the Curragh. The following companies of Royal Engineers, now serving in the Mediterranean, will bo relieved during the present year—viz , the 28th company, now serving at Malta, and the 29th company, employed in the destruction of the fortifi cations, &e., in the island of Corfu, prior to its evacuation by the British forces. The 2bih company, now serving in the Mauritius, will also rejoin head-quarters at Chatham during the present year. A detachment of Royal Marines, consisting of one officer tid nice gunners of the Royal Marine Artillery, and two sergeants, two corporals, one drummer, and 27 privates of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, were on Saturday played down to the dockyard at Woolwich by the full band of the division, and embarked for foreign service on board her Majesty's gun corvette Wolverine, 21, commissioned by Capt, Algernon F. H. de Honey. She is under orders to go down to the Royal Arsenal this morning, and take in her guns and ammunition, and will first proceed to the west, to join the Channel fleet. Her crew consists of 280 of all ranks. The military invalids from Bombay in the Gosforth wire removed to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, by Go vernment tug steamer on Saturday, and the time-expired men and military prisoners landed at the dockyard, Ports mouth. The latter were immediately sent to prison under military escort, and the former forwarded to the depots of their respective regiments. The Gosforth left in the after noon for London. Dr, Newman on Dr. Whately. I owe him a great deal. He was a man of generous and warm heart. He was particularly loyal to his friends, and, to use the common phrase, "all his geese were swans." While I was still awkward ana timid in 1821, he took me by the hand, and acted the part to me of a gentle and en • couraging instructor. He, emphatically, opened my mind, and taught me to think and to use my reason. After being first noticed by him in 1522, I became very intimate with him in 1825, when I was V ice-Principal at Alban Hall, I gave up that office in 1826, when I became tutor of my col lege, and his hold upon me gradually relaxed. He had done his work towards me or nearly so, when he had taught me to:see with my own eyes and to walk with my own feet. Not that I had not a gcod deal to learn from others still, but I influenced them as well b s they me, and co-operated rather than merely concurred with them. As to Dr. Whately, his mind was too different from mine for us to remain long on one line. I recollect how dissatisfied ho was with an article of mine in the _London Review, which BlancoWhite, good humouredly only, called Platonic. When I was diverging from him (which he did not like), I thought cf dedicating my first book to him, in words to the effect that he had not only taught me to think, but to think for myself. He left Oxford in 1831 ; after that, as far as I can recollect, I never saw him but twice—when he visited the University; once in the street, once in a room. From the time that he left I have always felt a real affection for what I must call his memory; for thenceforwar•l he made himself dead to me. My reason told me that it was impossible that we ci,uhl have gut on together longer; Yet I loved hint too much to bid him farewell without pain. After a few years had passed, I began to believe that his influence on me in a higher re spect than intellectual advance (I will not say through his fault), had not been satisfactory. I believe that he has in serted sharp things in his later works about me. They have never come in my way, and have not thought it ne cessary to seek out what would pain mo so much in the reading. What he did for me in point of religious opinion, was first to teach see the existence of the Church, as a sub stantive body or corporation ; nest to fix in me thoso anti- Erastian views of Church polity, which were one of the most prominent features of the Tractarian movement.— Apologia pro vice sua. HICCUPPING.-_A gentleman, at whose house Swift was dining in Ireland, after dinner intro duced remarkably small hock glasses, and at length turning to Swift addressed him,—" Mr. Dean, I shall be happy to take a glass of hie, Ilabc, hoc, with you."—" Sir," rejoined the doctor, "I shell be happy to comply, but it must be out of a hujue glass. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW' ON PROFESSIONAL SPOUTERS.—At the Primrose-hill meeting there were comparatively few who looked at all like those to whom, in business and the affairs of ordinary life the title " working man" would be applied. Cond.- deeing its object and nature, the number of boys who had felt their duty to attend was remarkable. N considerable fraction, perhaps even a fifth, seemed to be under the age of 20. This perhaps was owing to a lurking hope in the breasts of these young champions of liberty that there was going to be a row. To the lively imagination of youth, the glazed • hat of a policeman is as typical of tyranny as that of Gesler, and the chance of dancing on it in a melee would naturally prove a strong attrac tion. Their enthusiasm, however, cost them dear, at least sornu of the smaller ones wleo got embedded in the crowd. It was touching, when there was any allusion—as there was frequently—to Denmark crushed to death be tween Austen and Plu-sia, or to Poland trampled under foot by the iron heel of the depost, to hear these small friends of freedom shrilly crying "'ear, 'ear." They, at any rate, fully sympathised with Denmark and Poland. Another remarkable feature ev , s the number of unattached spoutere who, as their names were not in the programme for the evening, were arx7ous to get an innings before the' regulars began. One poor man had been at the pains to write out his sentiments in a good stout manuscript-'book, which he endeavoured to read. But the crowd apparently did not consider it re. spectfui to eddress them out of a written document, and treated his arguments with ridicule, putting questions to him which more frequently referred to his mother than to the right of public meeting; and he was lett addressing empty daisies—or what is the equivalent for benches in the case of an open air discussion—the moment the real Simon Pares appeared on the scene, which they did arm-in-arm. Why do committee-men proceeding to business always walk arm in arm? Is it meant to symbolis, perfect unanimity ? If so, the Committee (or the Comity, as the persons who cleared the way in aisted on calling them) were as unanirnoue a body as could be &ailed. As we have already said that real working men were not very plenty, it is only fair to sta'e that these gentlemen did their best to point out the distinctive character of the meeting by putting an instance of severe physical labour in the van of the procession. 'This . was a member carry ing the Italian tricolor. The flagstaff was heavy, the evening werm, the ascent steep, and he perspired freely. The sutject of these irregulars and of the re gulars who followed them was the same, and the style very similar. Any one who h a d ever listened for five minutes to a debate in the Discussion Forum or any similar school of oratory might have easily recognised the tone of the professional spouter. Beginning by dilating on his own grie vances—the tyrannical ewrduct of his employer, for his compotators as a " fellow that has the gift of the gab;" then, trying a higher flight, he seeks the bubble reputation even in Gager's Hail, and perhaps gains it to an extent that makes it worth the land lord's while to enter into an arrangement with him relative to refreshment on advantageous terms, and so by degrees comes to be a confirmed public deliverer of well, rounded platitudes. It is easy to conceive gentlemen of this sort being driven to the verge of desperation by the grievance-famine wider which they have suf fered for a long time. There has been such a total want of any good subject for jaw that but for. Gari baldi they must have burst. We do net for emollient mean to say that the speakers deputed to address themeeting on Primrose-hill were necessarily per sons who had received their oratorical education in this way. We wish heartily that it had been so, because, however pardonable in a potheuse Cicero, it is painful when as man of education talks blatant bunkum to a crowd of people less qualified to dise tinguish between right and wrong than himself. As to Mr. Washington Wilks, we have nothing to eay. A man with such a name can hardly help himself; he may be almost considered as having been predestined to a career of declamation. But there was no reason why Mr. Beales should in sinuate that there was a desire on any one's part to inter fere with the privilege of free discussion, or why he should invite a crowd of uneducated, or at least slightly educated men to i; a llow no profane hand to be stretched out against this ark of na tional liberty." He knew perfectly well that it was no question of the ark of national liberty— that nobody wanted to profane it. He knew that the only question was whether the ark aforesaid was to he carri e d a b ou t by any self - constituted David and set d own i n any p l ac e where he might think fit to dance b e f ore it i‘ as one of the vain fel lows," with m ore or l ess indecency and disregard of the 'public c om f or t. • Nobody wants to interfere with the right o f M r . Beales's " people" to hold open-air m e e t i ngs; but, un fortunately, Mr Beales's people want, or at least he . says they do, to inter fere with the ri g ht s of the peop le in general in the Parks, U n l ess listening to a speech of M r Beales's can b e f a i r l y d es cribed as public recreation, the Park s are no t k e pt up for him to address meet ings r in. Nor is it a quest ion of law, in the sense in which M r . B ea l es w ould have it understood, It d e s conveniencet i o n of orde r . of t he i rn It is a question of the co ifs a t a question public which the Govern ment, as trustee for the public, is bound to preserve by such means as may be necessary. There is no positive law against bathing at noon-day in the Ser pentine, but Mr. Beales and his friends could hardly compl a i n if Mr. Cowper took steps to prevent their c o ming en I ncase, and going thro ug h an operation, healthful a nd invigorating in its e lf, and in its proper place h i g hl y commendable, but, under suc h c ircumstances, quite out of pl ace . The comparison is not on extreme one. If Mr. Beales and hi s f r i e nds . are to hold meetings about 9aribaldi in Hyde-Park, there is, of course, n o rea son why the admirers of the Pope should not also l as ta se lien mb . le T t h o e th disc ee u t s i s e is the Celtic the affairs of that other e mi nen t tempera ment—might happen to come off simulta neous l y, and, in that caeca we think meet of the quiet fre quenters of thee park would much prefer the spec tthaceleeeoefte lkmlre.elf3neaalteesre, to and the treat which his anx i ety a bevy of working m en i n in the Cause of public speaking had provided for them. THE " SPECTATOR " ON M. THIERIA' GREAT SPEECIL—His magnificent speech, upon the Budget, magnificent because, like Mr. Gladstone , h e ma k es long columns of figures as interesting as a dis. eourse upon foreign policy or internal reform, is a mere flash in the pan. He depicts the enormous expenditure of the empire in colours which might make an economist shudder but then he has no A Horrible Story of Revenge, At a large school in the country a rebellion took place among the boys ; the master, very anxious to know the name of the ringleader, at length, either by threats or bribes, or both, induced one of the boys to disclose the name of a 1)(1 . n ame d Davison. He was, of course, severely punished and. expelled, carrying away with him sentiments of deadly hate instead of fiae affection he had formerly felt for his school fellow, m an i , years intervened, during which they never had the least intercourse. The young man who ha peached went te- ihe East Indies, He returned, and landed on the coast of DaVonshire. Stopping to dine at a small. inn, he inquired of the waiter what 'gentleman lived in the neighbourhood, and heari,lg that the squire of the parish was a Mr. Davison, the flan; e struck him ; he thought he. recollected that his former schoolfellow used to talk of his home in Devonshire, and while his t anner was getting ready he determined to go to the squire's h o use, A maidservant opened the door, and he sent in his na , me, saying that, if Mr. Davison had been ekucated at such a Cchool, he would recollect it. Ho was introduced, and naas t cordially received by his schoolfellow, whom he found kit,' up with a fit of the gout, and was pressed to dine, wilt' many apologies for bad fare, &c., &c., Mr. Davison having unfor tunately given ,permission to all his servants to go to a. neighbouring place, and having kept only the woman who was his nurse. Mr. Davison appeared so rejoiced in talking over old stories with his friend, and pressed him ;o strongly to be charitable enough to pass another day with him, that at last to consented. Next morning the unfortna nate guest was found, with his throat cut from ear to ear.. t course, the maidsera,ant was taken up on suspicion—in deed, as it seemed impossible from "its nature that the wound should have been sei.`-ineicted, and as she was the only creature in the house exaePting her master, who was unable to move, there did not seal," a doubt. The trial came on—Mr. Davison appeared as p r osecutor —Lord Rosslyn was his counsel. In spite of the po t , , r girl's protestations of innocence, the case seemed nearly decided, when Mr. Davison sent a note to his counsel, desirinj him to ask the girl whether she heard any noise in the night. Lord Rosa lyn objected—but his client insisted. This seenas to have been one of those strange perversions of intellect by which guilt is ordained to betray itself when all the artifice which had accompanied it is lulled to sleep. What coula have been the object of this inquiry does not appear ; its effect. was fatal. The girl replied that she recollected hearing a noise along the passage, which had awakened her—but that, having been much fatigued during the day, she vii .% too sleepy to get up to inquire the cause. More questions.: were asked, the noises and various other circumstances de-- scribed; suspicions arose against Mr. Davison, and the: business ended in his avowing himself the murderer. He said that, from the moment in which he first beheld the face of his old schoolfellow, he had determined upon re• venging his ancient quarrel by the death of the offender,. He had crawled on hands and knees from [his own room to, that of his unfortunate guest, and, unable to support him self without the use of his hands, had found great diffi culty in opening the door; but, helping himself by his teeth, had at last achieved it, reached the bed, and perpe trated the horrid deed ; he had then crawled back, and had contrived to free himself from all bloodstains before he got into his bed. It was the extraordinary noise made by his crawling which had disturbed the maidservant, and at last :ed to his detection.—Diaries of a Lady of Fashion, re- I ceniiY Published by Messrs Longman and Co. COUNTRi MARKETS. YORK-SATVRDAY. --- There was only a moderate supply of wheat at market to-day, with an inactive demand, and recent rates difficult to support. Barley scarce. Beans in fair demand, and at rather more money. Oats firm. Wheat, red 37s to 39s Oats.... to 203 White do .40s to 44s Beans '32,_ to 344 Barley .26s to 31s j Peas to —4 Malt, 58s to 60s per qr. ; rye, 28s pros qr ; flour, 27s to 29s per sack. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 41s to 45s ; red, 40s to 41s per 36st. ; new white, 40s to 445; red, 38s to 40s. Malting barley, 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, old, 23. s t) 265; new, 20s to24s; beaos, 34s to 365; peas, 34s to 365. i.EICESTERt-SATURDAY. We have again to report another week of fine growing' weather. There was a scarce show of wheat at market to— day, and prices slightly declined, with a limited business.. —New white wheat, 42s to 455; red,' 39s to 41s per 36 stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; old oats, ' 28s to 30s; new oats, 21s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 26s to 31s per 20 atone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a large supply of wheat to-day, and prices were the same as on this day se'nnight. The demand ruled dull. Beaus, barley, peas, and oats were at former rates, with a slow trade, White wheat. 42s to 443 Red wheat .. 38s to 40s Malting barley ...35a to 368 1 Chevalier bar1e7...33s to 34s Distilling do 29s to 30s I Oats. ..24R to 2t' Flour, 25s Od to 26s Od per sack from the miller NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. A fair show of wheat to-day, with a moderate attendance of the trade. The demand was inactive, and prices wag' is lower than last week. The show of barley was small, and little business was transacted. Oats at the rates of last Saturday, with a lair business. Beans a ready sale. —White wheat, from 39s to 46s ; red wheat, 378 to 4 25 • Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 30s. Oats old, at 24s to 30s Od ; new, 19s to 265. Beans sold at J to 42s'per qr, ; new, 34s to 86s. klour, fine, 27s to 30s ; super, 32s to 37s per 20 stone. DUBLIN—FRIDA.Y. Irish wheat and barley unaltered. A slow trade, and the prices of last week were realised. Oats were 3d per barrel lower. Oatmeal dull. Ficur steady. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats . 9 0 to 12 0 Do., black.... 0 to - - 0 s. d. s. d• Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. Bere Rapeseed - Bakers' flour Indian corn Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton....... May 19. via Marseilles .. May 1 3 4 drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. June 5• Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. May 2 9 • Uhina) Penang, and ?Singapore, via Southampton. May 19. via Marseilles ...May 27. Falkland Islands t 2ibraltar, via SouthamptGn May 19. Ine.,a (Calcutta), and Ceyloo, via Southampton May 19. via Ilarseillel May 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. May 21. via Marseilles May 21. Portugal...... - Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southarn oton M a y 19. via MarseillCa May 2 1 ' gewfourailand Oporto and Vigo .. .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. pac.ket.... May 1 9 ' -- by 'U.S. pa.cVet.... by Canadian packet. May W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritie ..... June 1 01 Bahamas, via N e w York '2 i‘h,xico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, k May i 4 California. and British Columbia.. MR. DISRAELI'S REVOLUTIONARY APICV".. Taunted by many critics, who were con fessedif quoting his poem at second-hand, Mr. Disraeli has repulr lished, through Messrs. Longman, " The Revolutiona ry Erick." In a brief preface, Mr. Disraeli speaks of h avit l given up literature for politics, and finding it improba bl6 e ., that he should ever publish another book, has tiometirue' regretted that he could not avail himself of the graceful privilege of a writer—that of dedicating a volume to fi° friend. Lord Stanley is the friend in this case, and to 1 3 . 0 the revolutionary poem is now inscribed. Very o ° l , l sounds the prosaic line of this new preface compared vilwa. that of the old :—" It was on the plains of Troy that I firs : conceived the idea of this work," it begins. "It flotteu' across my mind like the lightning that was then plar .ing over Ida For me remains the Revolutiona Epick." Readers will smile over this youthful work of °' m an of genius: but which of us would like to be judge d t° 40 or 50 by the tragedies and epics which we wrote at 19 ' -' Athenawm. -04 de f * it Births. FITZGERALD.—On the 13th inst., at Merrion-5q 11 ,, 1 1 Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald, wife of the Right JO J. D. Fitzgerald, of a son. go . HILLS.—On the 11th inst., at The Bank, Cranbro ok s wife of Edwin Hills, Esq., of a son. t MITFORD.—On the 13th inst., the wife of John M it-f a Esq., of 26, Palace-gardens, Kensington, of a son- jo y LINTON.—On the 13th inst., at Watford, the wife of 1° Linton, Esq,, of a daughter. Marriages. alof PAUL—FREEMAN:--On the 12th inst., at Saint Ts ui- 0. Plymouth, Arthur Paul, Esq., Winchester, to Itlar!,, gt ots Freeman, second daughter of the late Richard FrceP" M.D., of Plymouth. WOODWARD—HAYES.— On the 10th inst., at Ilalesd/ George Gower Woodward, Esq., of the Manor W i t c h e s; ruxton, nea r Kidderminster, to Matilda Louisa, c' ' surviving daughter of the late George Hayes, IY (11 Halesowen. Deaths. • BULLAR.—On the 13th inst., at Basset Wood, near S° utli anipton, John Bul ar, Esq., aged 87. CnooK.—On the 13th inst., at 23, Dorchester-plaoss '- ford -square, Miss Eliza Crook, aged 72. FRASER.—At Portobello, N. 8., John C. Fraser , - C.A., General Re g ister House, Edinburgh. „job IREDELL.—On the 13:h inst, at Pelham-crescent, 11 38 '0' Lestock Wilson I re d e ll, Esq., late of Manor-110g)" . bury, Essex, aged 65. O S° MOFFAT.—On the 11th inst., at 36, Cravan-hill - Pa r James Douglas Moffat, Esq., of Harperton, an d '"-i -trif ridge Hall, Roxburghshire, late Major Bengal W aged 52. n itir WHATELY.—On the 10th inst., at Brook Lodge. Sul:l,-0d hill, the Rev. Thomas Whately, rector of Ch Shropshire, aged 91. „-0 6 ,1 1 ' London: ritilshed by Printed and WILLIAM AN'" - ,,,J c 11' 1 , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tea sin,/ °Mee ‘ 4l Strand, in the Precinct 01 the Savoy, :n the COO May 16, 1864.