The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

THE SUE, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 186 t. The London Scottish, steady and precise, repaid the trouble taken by Lord Elcho, while the London It is now four years since her Majesty held the first Volunteer review in Hyde Park. On that occasion only some 14,000 men were mustered, and it is no disparagement to them to say that their appearance then cave little indication of the solidity of drill and discipline at which, as all saw on Sa turday, the force has been destined to arrive- Dar ing the interval that has elapsed the Volunteer movement has taken deep root in every class of society, and nowhere more strongly than in the provincial towns. Comparatively short, therefore, as was the notice:given of the review of Saturday, it was sufficient to call together 22,000 disciplined troops :(there were 21,74 S rank and file on the ground), whose fine military a ppearance and per fect regularity of drill, as compared with their evo lutions before the Queen four years ago, literally astonished the spectators. Most of the London re• giments were ordered to parade at their mustering p l aces at 3.30. Long before that hour, however, grou ps of gentlemen in uniform had begun to draw together, and from groups to form c ompanies) and from companies to expand rank after rank into strong regiments, and from regiments to grow massive brigades. Long before that hour, also, it seemed as if half London was on the move to Hyde-park ; and the thoroughfares presented much the same sort of aspect as they would wear if the Volunteers took it into their heads to march to Epsom on a Derby-day. Indeed, the appearance of the Park itself reminded one very much indeed of the Derby. There wcre the same ricketty stands, improvised out of planks and ladders, on which the public were besought to risk their lives and limbs for charges which rose in proportion to the height and danger of the structure. A stand which only offered a fall of 3 feet when it gave way could be had for a shilling, but the more ambitious elevations on which it was little short of manslaughter to decoy people, were as costly as they were unsafe, and, doubtless, for both reasons fortunately re mained almost unoccupied. The review-ground, or rather the parade on which the troops were to as semble in line of contiguous columns, extended over the whole length of the Park from the Ride to the Bayswater-road, and even this apace was insufficient to permit of the alignment of the forces, which con sequently had to be formed up with their right wing, so to speak, considerably advanced and at right angles with the main body. The space for the privileged spectators, was a long en closure running parallel with Park-lane, and to this admission was only to be gained by tickets. The distribution of these admissions was unfo, tunately mismanaged, and was, in fact, a cause of considerable dissatisfaction throughout the day. The Board of Works had gone to the trouble of arranging the enclosure, and, having thus done their part, expected Sir Richard Mayne to do hie by providing a sufficient force of police to prevent its being occupied by those who had no right to admission. Sir Richard Mayne, however, de clined, it is stated, in the absence of the Sove reign, to draw upon the police for men to keep the ground. The result was that only some few additional constables were sent into the Parks, and as these were left without orders they became, in fact, a mere addition to the spectators. It was the refusal of Sir Richard Mayne to send police to keep the enclosure which led to the distribution of tickets being postponed until tray were valueless. The country and other corps only got their shares when they were actually marching to the ground, ann coud neither use thnn nor give them away. SAD after 4 o'clock some troops of Horse Guards, with a troop of Lancers, came upon the ground, and in a few moments quietly cleared the whole space allotted for the review, which formed a vast square, the line of which was thenceforward key,' only by a few sentries, but beyond whose bounds, until the review was over, the crowd never attempted to pass. It was nDt, however, from want of provo cation to break it that the line was kept, for the rule laid down by the Commander-in-Chief that officers in uniform were not to pass civilians within the lines without tickets was flagrantly set at naught. Every officer brought a large civilian party, and overhearing all remonstrance on the part of the sentries, insisted on placing them inside the lines, and this they repeated so often that at last a a perfect inner ciree was formed before the seated -visitors, between whom and those standing in front a constant altercation was going on. Sometimes the crowd of sitters were so loud and persistent in their cries of " Sit down in front I" that for very peace sake those who were obstructing their view were obliged to do so. But the concession was seldom made for long, so that at various points along the line the altercation was always going on, and no where with more vehemence or with worse effect than immediately round where the Prince and Prin cess were stationed, to which point of course all officers took their friends. There is a celebrated saying of a celebrated General, that we had not a General who could get 20,000 men out of Hyde Park. If this was ever true, - which we much doubt, it certainly shows what strides we have made in our military education Since it was uttered. On Satur day there were, including regulars, nearly 25,0P' d men on the ground , yet they all assembled the rej within an hour, and left the Park after th ie Review 'was over in even less time. This 'lapi not only that the Volunteers th„e rty proves betide a g reat wh ere their in numbers and effi - oioncy , but that their officers take pains tr.', make the necessary ar rangements beforehe e rd, they have also acquired considerable faciliey in the execution of combined movements. 7.0 many of those present it, no doubt, seemed a 'dimple matter to march to the Park, to stand for a couple of hours under arms, to take part in a general salute, to march past, and then to re tern in the same order in which they came. Three of course, f fourths of the m, -annied, in their secret hearts that it would have been getter to burn a little powder, or in some way tq "let them show what they could do." But Fa reality their united perfor mances were vastly more important than if each battalion had gone th r ough the manu a l an d platoon exercises wh" e n u nimpeachable accuracy. The con. centratii,n of the various Divisions from the several linire'cs of rendezvous was skilfully planned and ;successfully executed. The Cavalry arid Artillery Brigades, the place of assembly of which was at the east side of Grosvenor-place, the Prince of "Wales's Brigade, the rendezvous of which was at the west side of the Horse Guards' parade, and the first and second brigades of the First Division, which met respectively at the east end of the Horse Guards' parade and the east end of the Mall, all entered by the Hyde Park-gate. The third and fourth brigades of the First Division and the first brigade of the from Belg rave an d E a ton Second Division, coining S quares, found their way into the Enclosure through Albert -gate. The second brigade of the Second Division, the rendezvous of which was at Grosve nrr-Nuare, and the third brig a d e of the same Di v i s i o n, which had to m ake its way from Fi ns assed into the Perk th rough Circe.- bury-square, p venor-gate. The first brigade of the Thi r d Di vision marching from Sussex-square, and the Second Division from Glocester-square, found a ready mo d e of access through Victoria-gate, and the two remain. in g brigades of the Third Division, approaching one from Russell-eqcare and the other from Portman• square, entered the Park by Cumberland-gate. Nearly the whole of the troops arrived at the time appointed, or very slightly after it, and the only flegrant depertnre from the rules laid down Was in the ease Of a iz all.ant but hiely .rratic corps pro - erty belonging to the Seem,d wh;e:l sp 1 , 4111% 0, n pel tig a 7 first gate it came to, regardless of the fact that it was expected in an opposite direction. By half past five o'clock all were on the ground. The gene rally sombre colours of the Volunteers were here and there relieved by corps in red or lighter gray, and the density of the masses on the extreme right contrasted well with the open formation of the Ar tillery on the extreme left. The muster of Artile lery was remarkably strong and creditable. Though only 26 guns were brought on the ground, yet the number of effective gunners that attended were more than equal to the serving of 100 pieces. The Volunteer Artillery deserve every praise, for their drill means double work—infantry drill and drill at the great guns—and the manner in which they went by on Saturday both in battalions and with their guns shows how admirably they must have attended to their twofold duty. Soon after six o'clock the boom of the guns and the cheering of the multitude proclaimed the arrival of the il lustrious party, and almost immediately after the Royal cortege, followed and preceded by a brilliant Staff, entered the enclosure, and with a quick, continued rattle the whole farce pre sented arms, while the Honourable Artillery Com pany, the only Volunteers who possess colours, lowered them to the ground as the strains of the National Anthem marked the Royal salute. The Princess of Wales, dressed in deep black, was in an open carriage and four, with outriders in scarlet, and escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards. Seated by her Royal Highness, but not in mourns ing, was the Princess Louis of Hesse. In the second carriage were the Countess of Morton and Mdlle. De Grancey, in attendance on their Royal Highnesses. The Prince of Wales, in the uniform of the Royal Artillery Company, rode by the side of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Louise of Hesse, both of whom were in full uniform also. Following the Royal party were the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Richard Airey, Sir G. Wetherell, General Knollys, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Aides-de-camp - to the Prince of Wales, the Duke, and Prince Louis, the Deputy-Adjutant, and Quartermaster-General, &c. In the Royal suite, also, was Count d'Audigne, Attache to the French Embassy, who wore his uniform of the Imperial Guard. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied only by the Duke of Cambridge and the officers of their respective Staffs, at once rode along the line, making their inspection slowly as they went, and examining every corps with critical but evidently well-pleased glances. From this in spection his Royal Highness did not return to the saluting point, but at once rode off and took his position at the head of the fine brigade which was placed under his orders for the marching past. The Royal carriages meanwhile had dram, up close to the flagstaff, and as they took their posh- Lion his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accom panied by Major Elphinstone, R.E., came forward and joined the party. Shortly afterwards the Doke d'Aumale and two gentlemen by whom he was accompanied were perceived in the reserved seats by his Royal Highness the Dake of Cambridge. They were at once conducted within the enclosure, and, having paid their respects to the Princess of Wales, remained to witness the march past. First in order came the Hon. Artillery Company, a body which can trace its pe,itgree back to a time eve, e , there was no stanCng army in England, and, whose ancestors, the old Train Bands, ranged themselves sometimes on the side of the Sovereign and some. times against it, but always on the side of liberty, Nett marched the representative corps of ()afore and Cambridge Universities, and the brigade closed with a battalion raised from those distinguished civil servants who act as the wheels on which otr social machinery revolves. The Prince, weerirg the uniform of colonel of the Hon. Artillery Con.. pally, with the blue riband of the Garter, was warmly cheered as he rode past in advance of his brigade; and, haviog gracefully saluted the Cote riaander-in Chief, took up his post on the left of Gen. Pennefather, where he could be seen to adven tage by the different regiments as they passed. It is no new thing to say of the Hon. Artillery Com pany that they are hardly to be distinguished from the corps d'elite, to whose uniforms their own so narrowly approximate; but on Saturday, conscious of their added dignity, they put forth special dines to justify their ancient renown. Oxford University came tripping along merrily to the music of " Foust "—a little short in the step, perhaps, but that may have been the fault of the band—with a somewhat novel look imparted to their ranks by !he bright blue colour of their caps and stock ings. The Cambridge men enjoyed the advan tage, as far as appearance is concerned, of those knowing Zouave gaiters, which on parade replace the " cardinal" stockings. In other respects the University corps were on a footing of perfect equality, and in every respect worthy to be in cluded in this new forairttion of Infantry of the Guard. Lord Bury, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Service Regiment, was warmly greeted—a tribute apparently persanal as well as complimen tary to the fine regiment under his command. The navalry brigade, comprised of Ist Surrey Light Horse, the let Middlesex, and Ist Hertford Voluo. leer Cavalry, formed in the aggregate a squadron of nearly 100. The horses for the most part were exceedingly good, but many of them either had not been accustomed to march in line, or were discon certed by the music of the banes. Cavalry at prey sent is scarcely one of the elements of strength the Volunteer service, and it would be well occa sionally means could be taken o f enlisti enlistin g _ if co operation of the Yeomanry. Th e m il the ; :tary effect of Volunteer reviews would be mr ech heightened by their presence. The Artillee., display was very imposing. This has al way s been a favourite branch of the service ; b in spite of their previous knowledge on ..tie subject, the public were surprised to find ho - if to tbe , large a proportion the artillerists bore general force under arms. In addition to the _ex light guns which had gone past with the Hon. Artillery Company in the Prince of Wales's Bri gade, 20 others of heavier calibre were now paraded in charge of the Ist Administrative Brigade, the Middlesex Artillery Volunteers,commanded by Col. Creed, and the 3d Middlesex Volunteers. The bearing of the men and their general equipments were highly creditable to all concerned, and, not content with mere efficiency, some of the batteries borrowed a hint as to style from the Royal Horse Artillery, and horsed their guns exclusively with animals of one colour. In addition to what may be called, for the sake of distinction, the service Artillery, there was a complete brigade of Artillery Volunteer s armed with carbines only, numbering close upon 2,000 men. When these had passed the infantry divisio ns came up, and continued to move along in unbroken or d er for nearly an hour and a half. The public are by thia time such keen critics at Volunteer reviews, and the regiments themselves tby the earnestness they threw into the movement at the outset have accustomed spectators to such a standard of efficiency, that anything in the nature of shortcoming is sure to be detected. It is there fore pay i n g no small compliment to the force upon the ground to say that at the conclusion of the pro. ceedings the general voice declared the display to have been attended with complete suc cess. From first to last, as far as the Volunteers wer e concerned, there was no t a s ingle hitch; on the contrary, th e improvement in discipline since the last great displ a y in Hyde-park is too palpable to admit of q uest i on. A fact to which attention cannot be too stron g ly pointed is that the battalions from various parts of the country taking part in the review were, if any thing, in advance of those in the metropolis. It has been the fashion to speak—not slightingly, for it was never possible to do that—but in a careless, off-hand manner of the performances of " country corps," and to assume that in 1864, as in 1860, London is still giving the tone to the provinces in all matters connected with Volunteering. But if the regiments sent up from Lancashire, Nottingham, Warwick, and Derbyshire are average specimens of those in other parts of England, the metropolis must look to its laurels, and that without delay. It is true that all the established favourites of the London Volunteer garrison were on the field on Saturday afternoon, and in no degree lessened their former W e ll repute. The South Middlesex, for example, were present in large numbers, and thr perteet evenness as to merit of " cempeoies showed rue good reenhs of the in ere ir tiirnN insii It 1 • eimnr. Rifle Brigade, solid and sombre, upheld the credit of the city of London. The Inns of Court, neatly dressed and smartly handled, as Rifles should be, elicited frequent remarks of " We've not seen any like this yet," and from one old gentleman the plaintive soliloquy, " Fine fellows, very fine fel lows; what a pity there are such rogues among them !" The Victoria Rifles, under the Duke of Wellington, did credit to their long and careful training. But rating the merits of these and other corps as high as possible, the fact cannot be got rid of that, without exception, the finest brigade upon the field was that commanded by Lord Grosvenor, and composed exclusively of country corps. The 6th Lancashire, better known as the Ist Manches ter, led the van of this brigade, followed by the celebrated " Robin Hoods." The late Lord Her- bert once coveted an Irish militia regiment so much that he almost infringed the rules of the service in the hope of transferring it bodily into the Queen's army. The Comm ander-in- Chief must be more than mortal or less than a soldier if he did not cast a longing eye on those serried files of Lincoln green. So great was the interest excited by their appear ance that the Volunteer corps which had just made ,he circuit of the field and returned to their former positions cheered them enthusiastically again and again. The Birmingham. Derbyshire, and 2d Man chester corps were almost as good ; they were cer tainly equal to any corps present, if the Notting- ham men be deducted. Bearing in mind that mos of these Volunteers had made a journey longer than that which metropolitan corps undertake when they go to Brighton, and that in the aggregate they com• posed a brigade of nearly 3,000 men—exclusive of the Somersetshire and Berkshire regiments, not less efficient, which were classed in other brigades— it will be manifest with what spirit drill must be pursued in the provinces. The march past began shortly after a quarter past 6, and terminated at 2 minutes past 8 o'clock. It was estimated that an hour and 40 minutes would be occupied in the pro ceedings from the time the troops were let in motion, and it will be seen from this how accurately the volunteers must have carried out their instructions. Toe programme was adhered to with such liters fidelity that the occasion was almost devoid of inci• dents. The directions as to equalizing the strength of companies had, en the whole, been very fairly attended to, bat there were still some instances in which blank files —say in a regiment of gray uni form, had been filled up with " casuals" dressed in green, inconsistencies which detract very much from tha appearance of a regiment on parade, and ought not to be allowed by officers in command. More over, there is a manifest want of head somewhere when a mounted officer sits his horse as if it were d were a n giving easy himself chair, the t lounges rouble p t a o s t d the raw vhen the tallest member of a cadet co m p n cats by hisflagstaff s sword; o r withoutd in plain clothes and .a " hat. Matters iike these the Volunteers f their own credit will do well P iyea upon, as they would never be to tolerated keep their in 4 .ne military service to which it is rezimate as closely as PP;ssible. their desir e to app W i- aen the last corps had passed the flagstaff, and became evident that the Prince and Princeae of Wales were about to leave the ground, there was one general impulsive rush to see and cheer them. The carriage in which the Princess sat was surrounded, swallowed up, and almost climbed into, by eager thousands, who bestowed upon her Royal Highness such a greeting as has not been heard since shy, passed through London on the day of her public entry. It was with the utmost difficulty that a way was at last cleared for the carriage tS take its departure, but once it was in motion a troop of Lancers, form ing in rear, were enabled to check the pressure. Immediately that the royal party quitted the park the great, massive line of Volunteers whichetretched across it began slowly to disjoint itself, the brigades were disintegrated into regiments in a few minutes, and a general move made in various directions for the different outlets at all points of the compass. It was very picturesque, this breaking up of the force, and managed with admirable celerity and good order. The City of London Rifles were well on their way down Piccadilly with the first spectators, yet, early as they were out, the Inns of Court were level with them by a different route, though even they were not the first, for as "the Devil's Own" passed Regent-street the Cambridge Corps, which had pre ceded them and was waiting to disband, faced about and presented arms as the Inns filed past. While the City of London were being dismissed in Carl ton-gardens the City of London Engineers were marching down the Strand, and the strains of the band of a Surrey corps on its way down Parliament street to Westminster-bridge mingled with the music of another going north near the National Gallery. Whoever arranged the routes of depar ture deserves great credit, for hardly two took the same, and all seemed to progress with equal rapidity north and south, east or west. This quick and easy dispersion was all that was needed to perfect the success of a day which should long be remem bered with pride by all the Volunteers who have had the honour and satisfaction of sharing in it. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, S inday, The Union Steam Shipping Company's mail ship Briton, Commander John Boxer, from Cape Town April 20, St. Helena April 29, and Ascension May 3, arrived in the Sound this morning. The cargo includes 90 tons of copper ore, 558 bales o wool, 46 bales of skins, 716 bundles of hides, and 25 cases of ostrich feathers; and among her 91 passengers are his Excellency H. E. Savaren de Almeida, Governor of Mo zambique ; Deputy Assistant Commissary General Sanders; Lieut. Hare, 11th Regiment; Lieuts. Houghton and Morse, of the 96th; and the Revs. Woodrufte and Urquhart. Sir P. Wodehouse was to open Parliament in Graham's Town on the 27th April. The revenue for last year fell short of the expenditure by £170,000. The bill before Parliament in relation to the public roads will, if carried, relieve the Colonial Government of a charge amounting to £36,000 per annum. The stamps may add £25,000 and bank notes and succession duty £14,000. These gains, if obtained, will scarcely meet the requirements of the Government. The continued intention of Sir P. Wolehouse to transfer a portion of the law courts, &c., to Graham's Town gives great annoyance to Cane Town. Opinion varies so much in regard to the different routes of proposed railroads that very little progress is expected to be made with the new projects in the present session. The Queen's consent has been given to the Wynberg to amalga mate with the Wellington Railway Company. Large stocks of grain are held in Cape Town—wheat, 163 to 19s, oats 6s, and barley 7s 9d. There is a great demand in the Eastern provinces for greased wool for North Ame rica, and as much as f I and 9id have been given to fill up cargoes. To England id per lb ie given for freight, hides 30s, and copper ore 555. The paddlewheel steam sloop Salamander, 6, Commander Hon. John Carnegie, from Plymouth, arrived at the Cape on the 28th March en route for Australia, and sailed again on the 13th April. The screw steam corvette Pearl, Capt. John Borlase, C. 8., from China, called at Simon's Bay, and sailed on the 2d of April for England. The screw steam sloop Lyra, 9, Commander Robert A. Parr, from England, arrived on the 6th of April. The paddlewheel steam frizate Valorous, 16, Capt. C C. Forsyth, towing Li ringstone's steamer Pioneer, had arrived at Simon'a Bay from the Mczambique. The Portuguese ship of war Anna Maria, from Mozam bique, was refitting in Simon's Bay. The Confederate steamer Alabama arrived in Table Bay on the 20th of March, and left March 25 for a cruise. The Royal mail steamer Cambrian, from England, ar rived out on the 12th of April. The bark Countess of Yar borough, from Cardiff :for Shanghai, after calling at the Cape for supplies, had put back leaky. The transport Middlesex, Capt, J. Commel'., 74 days from Calcutta, for Portsmouth, arrived at St. Helena April 23. She has on board 173 men, women, and children be longing to various regiments, under the command of Capt. Martin 38th, and in medical charge of Dr. Boyle.. Her Majesty's ships Rattlesnake and Meander were at Ascension. The gunboat Sparrow arrived there on the 3d of April to refit, ad left on the 23d for the West Coast of Africa. The Archer arrived also on the 3d, and. left on the Bth. The Industry, from England, arrived on the 20th, and, having disembarked stores, sailed on the 30th for Rio; ar.d the Pearl, from China for England, touched at the island cn the 21st. The Briton has experienced a constant succession of head winds since crossing the Line. Dr. Murphy, R.N., one of the passengers from Cape Town, died at sea on the 28th of May. The Briton spoke, May 1, in let. 12 4 S, long. 9 51 E, a bark, showing new code P.R.M.W.; and on the 16th, in jat 25 13 N, long. 18 23 W., passed a screw steamship, suotsowd to be the Athens, which left Piytoeuth for the G .-d flope on the 6th of May. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORE., May 17. It turns out that Mr. Stanton in his official reports of the progress and results of the great contest in Virginia on more than one occasion has mistaken his wishes for facts. General Grant:has made no real progress whatever,and Ge neral Lee still confronts him at Spottsylvania Court-house. Both armies have suffered enormous losses, that of grant an amount variously estimated in this itY between 60,000 and 80,000 men. Fredericksburg is literally crammed full of the wounded and the dying. Every house is a hospital, and every room of every house is no sooner emptied of the dead, than the dying are thrust into it, to make way in their turn for fresh victims of the unhallowed struggle. The streets are impassable for the wounded, who lie all day and night forlorn and unatteuded to in their last agonies, not for want of pity and sympathy and the desire to show them every possible care and attention, but solely because their numbers are so many that there not surgeons and nurses to be obtained to look after a tithe of them. Wash- ington is represented to be in a situation scarcely less de plorable. As anticipated in my last, both armies have been compelled by the weather and the state of the roads, as well as by the fearful losses which each have suffered ) to pause for a while in their frightful conflict. Both are re ceiving reinforcements. Beauregard, leaving Richmond to its defences, and Gen. Butler to be dealt with hereafter, has succeeded in slipping from Petersburg and effecting a junc tion with Gen. Lee at Spottsylvania. The worst of the work thus remains to be done. If Richmond is to be taken, or Gen. Lee's army annihilated, or eempe:led to capitulate, it will not be until many battles have been fought, as obsti nate and bloody as those of last week. But people in the city who three days ago weresanguinehave had cause to change with which the end was to be tattained.heir opinionand n a f r e thefacility contented to adjourn the consummation, which they still believe to be inevitable, until the 4th cf y seem to think po ssesse d of a heart, and head of every J e turlayn,gae dinfluence h e i v c h e r t t h h e e hands, true Yankee. It is not every ctig, however, who is equalty credulous. General Lee has not yet reached tnt point where he desires that his antagonist shalt Meet him for a decisive effort, and seems content in the meanwhile not only to lure him on to that position by such degrees as suit his purpose, but to inflict upon him at every mile or half mile of his progress an amount of slaughter that would demoralise any army leas gallant than that cf the Potomac. While Grant. with characteristic energy and contempt of life, says he will " pile Up hi s men a nd conquer at alt hazards," Lee—with equal energy and heroism—dares him n h l o e e e e em a t n od n ree o u t hvwl value wholly the than ae r p am e g e l — 0 s a a w n uh d i eo o he n s h e t e n h e er r ye y e ec o io c vu c e a led - . to come on, whatever may be his nu m b ers —foils every attack i e Were r in l w i e h c n t i e s at e n f not be more ruthlessly sacrificed than they have been dur ing the past week, or as in all probability they will be again as soon as Grant makes another march against his enemy. Though his battalions are not engaged in fighting against a foreign nation led by a would-be conqueror, who would reduce them to subjection, but are lifting their fra tricidal hands against men of the matte race and language, who have taken up arms it tlefence of that sacred principle of self-government tt Fe w hi c h the a eaeral Union must rest, if it ever hreisst upon anYtit, g , it is i t apossihle for any dile,d wa hold b' ° P IP Lon of the cause of antartel may be, to with , -as admiration for the noble qualities it has displayed .a this, the most tremendous etenggle iii *hick this army was ever engaged, And if Katatitation be extorted by the army of the North, 'shall it not be freely rendered to that nobler, because smaller, army of the South—which bears up 80 splendidly against difficulties that might well ae t aker to be overwhelmingi and which, die ...ming the vulgar inducer...tenth of bounty, does battle for home and Independence—desiring nothing, asking nothing, expecting nothing from the hated Yankees but to be left alone to such Government as the suffrages of the Southern people shall elect and maintain? The great business of the war—all absorbing as it might be supposed at a moment when the fate of the Re public hangs upon a thread-atm not interfered with the social, and scarcely with the political life of the people. In New York, as in Lwidon, May is the month of meetings, religious, philanthropic, moral, and it may be added, as far as New York is concerned, immoral. The foes of slavery, of whiskey, and of marriage have each had their anniversary uelebrations. Since General Grant crossed the Rapiean the supporters of Women's Rights, the believers in Spiritual ism, and of all the other " isms" that flourish in this land, as they flourish nowhere else, have followed the example —and brought out their crotchets for discussion and " ven tilation," sometimes for the instruction, sometimes :for the amusement, and not unfrequently to the disgust of all sensible people. The Abolitionists, as might have been ex pected, are jubilant, for although, according to the procla mation of the President, slavery is still to be recognized in the United States, provided that the slaveholders be loyal to the Government, the evil thing has been abolished theo retically in every part of the once Great Repuolic, where his proclamations have no mere validity than those of the King of Dahomey. For this reason, and also because their party is in power, the Abolitionists were in excellent spirits at their anniversary—though they did not separate without a schism in their ranks, upon two questions of considerable interest—first, whether Mr. Lincoln was a wise man and a good President; and second, whether Great Britain was a first or a second-rate Power. The balance of opinion on the first question was decidedly against the President; on the second, which was raised by Mr. Wendell Phillips, it was as decidedly against Great Britain. Mr. Phillips seems to consider that free countries in Europe cannot be great, for he admitted none to stand in the first r ank except Russia and France, and carried the sympathy and conviction of his audience along with him. The teetotallers and advocates of the Maine liquor law have also had their annual gathering. They did not appear to be so well satisfied with things in general as their friends the abolitionists. They were quite ready to make it a felony, punishable with fine and imprisonment, though not exactly with the gallows, to distil, to vend or to drink a glass of alcoholic liquors, except for medicinal purposes, on the pre scription of a properly qualified physician, but did not see their way very clearly to the happy consummation of their wi-hes. Neither did they seem to think that victory could reward the gallant exertions of the army of the Potomac until it was commanded by a teetotaller, and until every general of division or brigade confined himself to tea and cold water. As General Grant and General Meade drink wine when they can get it, the prospect in this direction did not appear hopeful to these excellent philanthropists. The spiritualists have mustered in great strength, ap parently with the design of purging their faith of a heresy that has grown into it, the heresy of "free love," as its friends call it, and of " free lust," as it is designated by its opponents. The free lovers consider marriage to be slavery, the slavery of the woman to the man, and a thing as odious in its way as the slavery of the black man to the whits ; they therefore urge its abolition. Tho Spiritualists, who design to form a new religion, do not wish their faith to be encum bered with a notion so irreconcilably at varience with Chris tianity, with civilisation, with morality, and with the gene ral opinion of all mankind, and are striving desperately to outset the "free lovers" from their communion. But they find the achievement more difficult than they imagined, and assert that evil spirits, and not good ones, instil such indecent thoughts and such wicked heresy into the minds of harlots and of other worse people of the opposite sex. Of course the spirits had something to say of the war and of the progress of hostilities in Virginia. One set of spirits declared that General Grant would triumph over all obstacles, while an other set declared as confidently that Grant would be anni hilated. As there was no superior spirit to say which told the truth and which the lie, the matter remained in abey ance, and was not decided to any one's satisfaction, when, after sittings prolonged into the second week, the Conven tion adjourned. Less dreary than the gathering of these crazy fanatics was the meeting of the fair Ladies of the Covenant, who assembled last night at the Cooper Institute to sign a pledge not to wear any article of foreign finery until the restoration of peace. The ladies are by no means so enthusiastic in the cause as the ultra-patriots imagined. The young ones have awakened to the suspicion that the movement is a Yankee dodge, got up by the New England manufacturers of infe nor dry goods, to palm off upon them the ugly home-made article at a foreign price, and the old ones, especially those who have money in their pockets, and like to look young, though youth may have departed —have come to a similar conclusion. The shafts of ridicule have been let fly against the whole movement, and especially against the leaders. It is alai ed if they are not the identical ladies who refused to drink tea or other imported beverages, in the days before George Washington became t h e father of his country, and whether it is not time that such venerable persons should retire into private life and leave the affairs of the world to a younger generation. It is also asked whether the whole of them--young or old—are net of the strong-minded order, and whether it will not be fatal to the chances of marriage of any spinster or young widow if she be seen among them, or to wear the badge of the order —a bee on the left shoulder. The inquiry is simultaneously made, whether the bee would not be more appropriately and suggestively worn in the bonnet. The principal speakers at the meeting were the philanthropical and wealthy Peter Cooper, from whom the building in which it was held derived both its name and existence. and the Rev. Drs. King and Hitchcock. The last mentioned gentleman was especially severe on the tawdy and costly finery trailed through the streets of Broad way by the ill-dressed and vulgar rich women of New York; and declared that their heartless extravagance in the hour of their country's peril, when the heroes of the army of the Potomac were dying by thousands on tha bloody battlefield of npottsylvania, " was indecent, unbefitting, unsympa thetic," and, hi one word, "a shame." But his le/narks did not appear to receive much favour, and were received with as decorous a silence as if they had been uttered from the pulpit. The pledge which the ladies were to sign on becoming Covenanters was not a very stringent one, for it only bound them to refrain during the war or the rebellion from the purchase of imported articles of luxury for which these of home manutacture and production could be conve niently substituted. This weak mode of putting the case to the consciences of those who loved pleasant finery more than unpleasant duty, called forth the indignant reprobation of a Miss Sus:an B. Anthony, the only lady who mustered Euf ficient courage to address the meeting, but who had not in. 11,1 ' :*P enough to procure the stabs itntioa of the word "possibly" for the obnoxious word "conveniently." In consequence the whole affair very nearly miscarried, ts,n4 the fair assemblage dispersed--tho strong-minded among them asserting that French milliners and Foreign importers had packed the hall ; and the rest going home, strongly minded to wear what they pleased, if they could afford to purchase it, and to do all in their power to . perpetuate the reputation which the gentle promenaders of Proarlway have established, of being the worst awl most expensively dressed women En the world, It is asserted in most of the papers that Mrs Lincoln, who is not, however, a leader of fashion, has refrained from lending the countenance of her name to the movement " lest foreign Powers should take umbrage 1" A lady, who signs herself Jane (. a wisshelm, Arid is said to he one cf thb female clerks employed in one of the public offices at Washington, says that not only Mrs. Lin coln, but the President is of this opinion, and in a letter to a western journal, to the columns of which she is a trequent contributor, takes credit to herself for letting the people know that the chief magistrate 'considers his foreign rela tienn ill eo precaricus a state that the people must continue to buy more velvet and lace than they can afford, for fear of a rupture with their European customers. She raises her voice against such a scandal, and desires the "American people to know that their Government is afraid to decrease the amount of purchases of street silk mops, lest the thun der of French and English cannon should be heard on their shores." It would appear from the postscript of Mrs Swiss helm's epistle. that the information of the President's no • tions on this delicate subject was communicated to her in confidence, but that the honour of the country being at stake she declined to keep it secret. "Our officials," she says, "need not in future fear to express their sentiments fully, as no one will be likely to tell me anything that may not be published , but I do not imagine that President Lin coln had any objection to having the country know his opinions on this or any other question," But whatever be the cause—whether it be the President's disapproval, or the ridicule of the male sex generally—the movement is not fashionable and cannot apparently be made MAY 18. Posts , ripl - -I. have but little time before the departure of the steamer to allude to the forged proclamation attributed to President Lincoln, which was published in two of the morning journals to-day and refused insertion in all the rest. In these days, when it is considered a good joke to forge official documents, and not discreditable in a ?minister of State to give them currency, it was scarcely possible for any one to read the document without a suspicion that Mr. Lincoln never penned or published it, but that it was the invention of some unscrupulous Confederate, designed to injure the Federal cause, to turn the President into ridi cule, and to paralyse the arm of General Grant in face of the army. It appears that one of the morning joarnals had printed off about 20,000 copies of its ordinary issue when the attention of the editor or manager was drawn to this proclamation, and that he immediately ordered the sup pression of the whole number rather than give it currency. Everybody Who read it was startled, Many were scan dalised, but the bulk of the public, if any opinion can be formed of the meees by the remarks made in public places, incline to believe that the document was genuine, that it told unmistakable truths in unmistakable language, and that it was eminently characteristic of the style and the mind of the President. To set the matter at rest, I telsg,raphed to Washington to know if anything had been heard of it in that city. The reply just received is that the proclamation is "bogus" and a "wicked forgery." It had the effect, however, during the short term in which it was believed, of sending np gold from 178 to 184, from which same people infer that it was concocted by speculators in this city. The forgery, however, is not likely to go un punished, if any clue can be obtained to its perpetrator. It may be a joke to forge the name of Mr. Mallory, or of Lord Lyons and Mr. Jefferson Davis, but it is no joke to forge the name of the President and the Secretary of State to a document which, if it reached the army of the Potomac, 'night have have produced a very disastrous close et the campaign in Virginia, by the complete discouragement and demoralisation of the troops. So the forger, whoever he may be, may expect a short shrift and a long rope as the sentence of the drum-head court-martial before which he will indubitably be brought, if he is discovered. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE POPE'S HEALTII.—Every day the telegrepa brings s ome intelligence about the Pope's health. Sometimes he is a little worse, sometimes he is a little better. Oae day very unfavourable syteptonss have set in; he has lost his mind, his legs are giving way, he, is wholly unfit for business. The next day he is nearly well again ; he has receis ed the French Ambassador, he has given his assent to a new loan, he has blessed thousands of people from a balcony. The telegraph sends all these conflicting messages -bout him, we may he sure, because Europe takes a great interest in his health; or because, in plainer language, a great many people think it to their interest that he should die, and a great many people think it to their interest that he should live. It is expected that, when the Pope dies, some great change will take place. No one says clearly what the change is to be, or why it should come; but still a change is C2ipueled, uud even the I)o:3:Ability of change is enough at the present day to keep Europe on the quiver. And yet many reasons might be urged fur the opinion that this event, whenever it may tyke place, will not greatly alter the situation of affairs. It is absurd to suppose that a Pope will be chosen who will blindly obey the Emperor of the French, who will go out of Rome when he is told, and will he delighted to enter on immediate arrangements for the abandon ment of the temporal power. The Cardinal echo would be of such a mind does not eaitt , and, it he did, he would be sure to be vetoed by Spain or Austria. The Conclave is entirely under the direction of persons whose fidelity to the pre sent system is unquestionable, whose whole traditions, failings, interests, and convictions lead them to determine that no compromise with the enemy shall be even thought of , and who will clin g to the temporal power to the last. Prudence may dictate the choice of a modera te, or a silky, or even of an oily person—of a Pope who will not go out of his way to offend the great ones of the earth, and who, if ha curses at all, will be content to curse in a mild kind of ecclesiastical doet-Latin. But his mind will be as firm as a rock, and his mind will be set on cleaving to the inheritance of his predeces sors. Nor can it be said that there is any conspi cuous change in the position of the powers which are most concerned in the affairs of Rome. It is true that the Italian Ministry has been able to announce to the Chamber that the negotiations with France for the termination or modification of the temporal power which broke down two years ago, have been resumed. But that these negotiations will result in anything, no Italian Minister would venture to predict. It suits the Emperor to stay in Rome, and, so long as it suits him, he is not likely to be turned from his purpose by the diplomatic efforts of a country that is almost entirely under subjec tion to him. And if it suits him to keep his troops at Rome now, there appears to be no reason why this should not equally suit him although the pre sent Pope died and a new Pope appointed. A new Pope would do asPiuslX. has done,and if any threat of withdrawing the French troops from Rome were made, would simply aanounce his intention of leav ing Rome altogether. 'What the Emperor reason ably dreads is the spectacle of a wandering, exiled Pope, bearing his lucrative martyrdom meekly, stirring np the hearts of the faithful, and manag ing to implicate the eldest son of the Church in the disgrace and crime of his humiliation. If the Pope cannot do without the Emperor, the Emperor cannot do without the Pope; and as the Papal Court is perfectly aware of this, it can take the same advantage of the necessities of the Emperor, whether one man is Pope or another. In Spain, which is the stronghold of thoroughgoing Catholicism, the determination to uphold the Pope seems as strong as ever, and the Spanish Mini s t r y has just announced that its views as to the temporal power remain unaltered. It is true that Spain could not keep up the temporal power f or a d a y if F rance chose to decree its termination ; but Spain, if faith flrl to the last, might have th e h onour an d di st i nc • tion of receiving the Pope in his exile, and this is an honour which France would decidedly grudge her. THE ' 6 EXAMINEIt" ON TH E Q UEEN AN D THE WAlt.—lt is little more th an a century s i nce the ac cession of George III„ the mos t wrong h ea d e d and expensive sovereign wh o m thi s coun t r y h a s known since the Revolution. E xc l us i ve o f t h e period dur ing which the supreme functions of the State were vested in a regency, his reign lasted about 50 years; and mainly owing to his insane pride of kingcraft and reeklessncss in the shedding of blood,wars were carried on which cost us at least £500,000,000, and we fear to say how many thousand lives. Yet this is the man whom, in spite of crazy eloquence, Lord Ellenborough not only holds up as a model of Eng lish royalty, but indecently contrasts with the con stitutional, frugal, and peace loving monarch who now fills the throne. In his first speech to Parlia ment George 111. snatched at personal popularity by boasting that he had been born and bred in England, a boast which was no better than a sneer at, his Hanoverian kinsman who had preceded him. His illustrious granddaughter, under whom wa are more fortunate to live, has never indulged in tawdry rhetoric when addressing her people, but then she has never squandered their treasure or spilt their blood for dynastic objects, or to enforce colonial misrule. Georgelll• spent his life in ravi n g a g ainst the liberties of the people, and in p lottin g ag inst the Ministers whose advice he was bound to take. The Queen is the best example of loyalty in its highest sense, for she is loyal to t he law by which she holds her crown, and loyal to the interest and freedom of h er p e ople. The testimony of Lord Russell, in her defence against the tirade of Lord Ellenborougb is simple, direc t, and conclusive. Whatever advice the de'oioet may have eollectivsay given to her M jest's, she h a a inv sriebly r •ken ; •, r , ( l hone) it eroold he Unreasonable i 0 " ?act , 11:;•: - ;lie The Volunteer Review. On Saturday the Volunteers were reviewed 'in Hyde Park in the presence of such a concourse , of spectators as has seldom before assembled w ithi❑ its precincts. As a military demonstration it was, of its kind, one of the most important, as '4 pageant it was one of the most brilliant it is possible to imagine. With the single slight and necessary omission of the Royal salute at the close of the pro ceedings—a salute which it was impossible to give line with such a number of men in such a limited area of ground, the programme was rigidly adhered to, even as to time, and the whole display reflects the greatest credit both on Colonel M'Murdo and the War-office, who had its management, end the corps of Volunteers, who so perfectly carried out their instructions. the influ• 1 - --, i should be insensible to the al:factions an.,, - enc . aa of family, It is unjust and unmanly to Stet se throw the blame of what tts.ny hale been faulty in our foreign policy upon the Queen. Ministea accept without reserve, as in all honour and conscience they are bound to do, the undivided responsibility of what has been done, and left undon e ; an d it on ly n ow remains fete the Oppositien to take up the glove which has been thus thrown down. Wilt they take it up ? The shabby silence of Lord Derby and his colleagues in expectation, whenever the question of peace or war has been raised, convinces us that they have no stomach for the parliamentary battle to which they have so often been provoked. They may cavil and criticise details 7 they may find fault with one despatch for being too strong, and with another for not being strong enough, but they have not the pluck to say honestly what they would do—they are too poor iu spirit to afford to keep a great firinciple or any Sort. Lord Ellenborough found nobody to follow him in Lie teed rash, save Earl Grey, a most suitable Friday forsuch a Creme: In common honesty the country ought to be told, whenever this subject is discussed, for what England is eitpeeted to go to war: We were among the earliest to express our readiness to hazard some thing, nay to hazard much, in defence of the terri torial integrity of Denmark. We have always thought that on the highest principles of policy the maintenance of a free and Protestant State like that which existed up to the month of November last at the southern entrance of the Baltic was an object which the most cautious and peaceable statesman might well think worthy of great sacri fices and of great efforts. Bat it is a very different matter to ge to war after all Europe has passively looked'on and seen what was an ancient kingdom reduced by forcible dismerdberment to the limits of a province and to the dignity of a tenth-rate prin cipality. Should the Conference fail to arrange the questions in dispute, as most people expect it will, and should our Government be urged to send a fleet to Copenhagen with orders in certain eventualities to interpose, then we have a right to know definitely on what ground and for what objects we are expected to interfere. Is it with any hope of reinstating Schleswig and Holstein as integral portions of the Danish realm, or is it only to preserve the phantom of regal state and dignity for the House of Gluckeburg ? If the former, we need to be told by what means such a restoration is considered possible. We are far from saying that it might not be accomplished; but ob viously it would require resort to measures of no ordinary vigour and comprehensiveness, and for these we know not what party in the country or in Parliament is prepared. The latter alternative is, we take it, not to be thought of. King Christian IX. may be a worthy gentleman of quality, whom accident has suddenly flung into a gilt chair of State; but that this country should, for the sake of his personal rights in contingent remainder, plunge into a European war, is out of the question. George IL might have found Ministers to abet such a de sign, and the little bellicose man would have capered about in delight at the bead of an Anglo-Danish army, and gulped any amount of flattery offered him as grand protector of petty Continental sove reigns. George 111. was at all times ready for any folly of a similar kind. But times are changed, and happily royalty amongst us is changed with them. England, it is to be hoped, whenever she drawn the sword again in a neighbour's qaurrel, will do so in defence of a wronged and deserving community, not for the sake of any crown or half-crown in Christen dom. THE " SPECTATOR" ON MARSHAL PELIISSIER AND HIS CLASS.—We do not know that the death of Marshal Pelissier is of much European importance, for France has soldiers as brave and marshals much more aWe, but it deserves for another reason more than a passing comment. The Marshal was in many respects the representative of the new soldiery whom the Continental system of government is fast be getting, and whom we take to form one of the most dangerous classes which have ever appeared in the world. They are not soldiers of fortune by any means—bear, indeed, very little affinity with men of the stamp of the Duke of Berwick or any other speaiment of the high-class Dugald Dalgetty. They do not care greatly about money, certainly do not fight for its sake; never enter ranks other than t hose of their own land, and manifest in most, it not in ail, cases a strong though peculiar sense of patriotic duty. The Sovereign who offered Pelis sier, or Radetsky, or von Wrangel, a command ga i2st his own country would only receive an ine salt, t h e gtate which endeavoured to engage him would elicit a cold refusal. Such for its service ries, but men infected with the men are not mei-ma' ,Ilenounced as " militarism," disc use which Garibaldi tinental Kings. They a complaint chronic with Co.. z are men who, having originally enuine taste for military life, have risen in some greht army, have g radually confined their hopes, and sympathies, and connectiona to that army, and have at last c ome to regard it as their country, its ideas as their guidieig opition, its morality aa the ultimate divinelaw. The proaeas is facilitated when the officer springs, as in Pelissier'e case, from among the peasantry, when all he has of social dignity is derived from his epau lettes, when his only notion of ' s ower is his military grade, when the army is to bins, in short, not 50 much an instrument for the defence of his country as the supreme organisation to feed which the coun try itself exists. Such men when unsuccessful are apt to contract a bitter distate for civil life and civi lians, to revenge themselves, as it were, on society by denying that it contains elements equal to that to which the discontented bel on g ; when successful, they become the dangerous instruments of tyranny. Not that they are neeetearily tyrannical by tempe rament ; on the contrary, they are often genial, but when in movement they can only move in the mili tary groove, only attain objects by the direct em ployment of force increasing always in severity until the end is attained. Marshal Pelissier was no fiend, but when he wanted 5'.:0 Arabs to come out of the cave of Abel-el-Riah, and they would not come, he employed force in the only way he saw practicable, and smoked 500 human beings to death. If they had come he would not have slaughtered them except to gain an end. Marshal von Wrangel probably never realises the fearful individual misery inflicted by his requisitions ; he thinks only of the value of terror to secure certain ends, and employs it as he would employ the halberds in a regiment inclined to mutiny. Convince him foe he was violating the code of his own army, or even offend ieg against its opinion, end he would probably be shocked ; but to talk of external opinion, or foreign opinion, or the laws of humanlty, or moral laws, or any rules of action whatever except the laws of war, is so much argument thrown away. As well speak of feeling to a sheriff's officer or moral cer tainty to a solicitor hunting for legal evidence j It is the unscrupulous readiness to apply military law —of necessity an extreme law—as if it were a just and general code, as indeed it appears to them to be, which makes these men so cruel. Marshal Pelissier had a bonhommie of his own, but if his dearest friend in the camp had hesitated at an order he would have had him shot with perfect indifference; if his greatest benefactor had thrown at him a hasty word he would have challenged him to fight to the death. To such men the death of others is not a question involving moral considerations, but simply an incident, like the death of an animal, to be caused or prevented by consi derations of expediency alone. If Milanese will not obey orders, feels as well as says Radetsky, Milanese must be shot, yet it is probable that the Bohemian Marshal vas not a cruel man. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON A PHILOSOPHER ON STREET MUSIC.—Mr. Babbage has appeared in print at last, and waken an awful literary revenge on the organs, bagpipes., penny-whistles, and other instruments of torture that fo;.• 80 many years have interrupted his studies. What Cicero said of O philo sophy, Mr. Babbage can say of le hurdy-gurdy— rusticatur. It Pernoctat nobiscum pereyrin atur unseasonable knocks him up at night at the MOS! ' hours, it follows him whenever he takes his walks abroad, and he has before now met in :.he long vacation a familiar London hurdy gurdy very near to Laud's End. There is hardly anything that Mr. Babbage has not done to get rid of the infliction. He has summoned the police in vain—in vain he has gone before the police magistrate—in vain he has written to Sir G. Grey, Tae police have gene rally been wanting, in accordance with that higher law which always disposes of them every where except where they are needed. The police magis trate, deserting his duty, has actually sympathised with the grinders of organs. As for tne letter to was posted about the middle of Sir G. Grey, it August. Mr. Babbage waited patiently for a reply till December 17 ; then he wrote again, an d obtained from Sir G. Grey's private secretary the valuable admission that his first note had been received. His comment on Sir G. Grey betrays an ag grieved and wounded spirit, and is not calculated to increase Mr. Babbage's popularity at the Home Office :—" 1 confess that this event baffled all my calculations. I bad observed that high officials, distinguished by their intellectual powers, were occasionally oblivious on minor points; but that high officials, distinguished only by the office they hold, were usually most rigidly courteous and exact." The wind instruments of which Mr. Babbage com plains may be classed, for the sake of simplicity, under the title of organs ; but their real name is legion. They go as high as brass bands ; they sink as low as penny trumpets. A workman inhabiting an attic that commanded Mr. Babbage's garden, by way of annoying Mr. Babbage, went lower still, and took up a regular course of " penny tins." When he came home to dinner, it was his wont to open his window, and to bl. A ;allay tin" tor the space of half an hoar in the direction of M. B!_laaage's ,zarcien. •• I sifn noted the feet l l'hb 7 +ges and a 1... taking my daily e xerc i se ." employed the tim e h e th oug h t h e was d es t ro yi n g in: It is a terrible refleca - think that Lion , we ar e a t th e merc y o f things 5D insignificant b - : a " penny tin,'' and that one of the most philosophical mathematicians li - ring is obliged to alter his burn of exercise to escape it. But Mr. Babbage is not surrounded with music that is in strumental only. He is equally experienced about the human voice in its various forms. He divides, the hnroan voice into three heads. First, there is. the human voice shouting out objects for ma's ; them there is the human voice engaged in religious wor- ship, in coojunc!ion and in unison with the human nose then, lastly, there is psalm aiming. All these interfere with Mr. Babbage, and distract his workmen while they are engaged in attending tab the famous analytical engine. They drive him wil6 with mental agony, end affect injuriously his mode of lift.. Three or four times a day Mr. Babbagc rushes d677n stairs from the middle of the most complicated calculation that ever perplexed a senior wrangler, to beg the organs and the human voices to ino - tte off. Their triumph over his nerves and hie good nature ought, indeed, to rank as one of the glories of St. Cecilia's day. Of the divine Cecilia- - the " invehtress of the vocal frame"—the poet• says, that " she drew an angel down." It is what the organs outside accomplish most days of the year with Mr. Babbage. Down he comes, almost by clockwork, an angelic visitant, who, as the organ-grinders soon discover, is not always in an► angelic temper. it is easy to understand who it ie that dislikes harmonies so constant and so noisy- An astute magistrate once asked Mr. Babbage whether las believed that a man's brains would be injured by listening to a street organ. Mr. Bab. , bage replied, " Certainly not ;" for that no man with a brain over listened to street music. Those who confine themselves like Mr. Babbage to philo- sophy and to the music of the spheres, have no ear for the tom-tom and the flageolet. It is far harder to make out who it is that likes them. Mr. Bab bage has drawn up in a masterly manner two tho roughly exhaustive tables, which he thinks embrace all the admirers of that description of music which may be said to be made up chiefly of sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. There is something slightly acrimonious in the composition of the list, but in Mr. Babbage's state of mind we cannot wonder at it. In the first column we have tavern keepers, gin shops, coffee shops, servants, children, and visitors from the country. It is evident what Mr. Babbage thinks of his college friends and of his country cousins. It is an uncomfortable thing to be tabulated by the side of coffee shops and gin shops, and Mr. Babbage can only have done it to his country visitors as a solemn retaliation. On the other column he places, first and foremost, ladies of doubtful virtue. He conceives evidently of Jezebel,as of a young per son who was in the habit of looking out of upper windows, and encouraging hurdy-gurdies. Next in the list come (" occasionally") "titled ladies;" " but these," adds Mr. Babbage, " are almost inva riably of recent elevation, and deficient in that taste which their sex usually possess." This is decidedly' a fact for Mr. Dod. It is only those who have been recently raked to the peerage who care for brass bands. The reason, we imagine, must be, that it io only a parvenue peeress who is to blow her own trumpet. Nobody who came owl. with the Con' quest ever encouraged street music. Thus we have on one side gin-shops, and Mr. Babbage's visitors frog the country, and Anonyma, and a growing Brun; magem nobility. On the other are Virtue, and Modesty, and the Analytical Engine, and the Plan tagen,?.ts cf Plantagenet Castle. Between such or posite Hsi:3 it is difficult to hesitate a moment about choosing, and any man of refinement, or woman of character, will at once pronounce for Mr. Babbag e and for the suppression of all wandering meledistE. The real moral to be drawn from the annoyances to which Mr. Babbage is subjected, is, how much better it would be in large towns if man Wag an analytical engine. Mr. Babbage's calculating machine has no sorrows ; no journeyman or mechanic has the power of putting it out by a constant Per formance upon " penny tins." It grinds swat' through Verdi and a hundred organs. Italians Nvit 4 , monkeys cracking nuts to slow music have no effect upon the quantity or the quality of it's work. It ° internal organiaation enables it to calculate wit' rithms totally irrespective of a piano next door ,or tbe . German flute with window open across the way: 111 ' is therefore a great thing to be an analytical engin e ' Mr. Babbage tells us that during the last doze n years of his life, at least one-fourth of his working. power has been destroyed by the nuisance of streo music. He thinks that 25 per cent. is a largelntel_ lectual to be levied upon the brain of t he lectual workers of the country for the sake of brass bands. Mr. Babbage's brain is probably extract' dinarily sensitive; but it is certainly a loss to science that he should have to labour under such difficul ties, nor can we conceive a more real penance to a E tive brain than the pemoice which the present reg ll4 lations of the police comp,sl him to undergo. COUNTRY RIARKETS. YORK—SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat at market to,dafr late rates were with difficulty made. Wheat, red 37s to 39s I Oats ISs to 35' White do .40s to 44s 1 Beans.... Barley .26s to ,30s 1 Peas s to ola Malt, 5Ss to 60s per qr.; rye, 28s per qr.; flour, to 29s per sack. ..........._33, to ......3,5; GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Old white: wheat,;42s to 44s • red, 37s to 40 s per 36st'; new white, 425,t0 44s ; red, 388 ba to 408. Ling l; 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oat I , old, 23 6 26s ; new, 20s to24s; beans, 313 to 36s ; peas, 3 is to 36s* LEICESTER—SATURDAY. an There was a fair show of wheat at market to -day' a, prices about the same as last week, with a limited I,usiDl6 —New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; red, 38s t. 41s PeF ro stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, wait' oat-`, new, 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; el al 4 288 to 30s; new oats, 21s to 24 s per 24 stone. -r,n old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour , 26 s to 31 s per ow NORWICH-SATURDAY. - • --- There was a rather liboral supply of wheat to-clan t i Tot prices were the same as on this day se'nnight, its th e heavy qualities an advance of 6d per qr was ta a d ulls some some it, stances. Beans, barley, peas, and oats ruled at formet' rates. A .QJ White wheaten. 42s to 44s 1 Red wheat Malting bark'v ...3;5s to 36s 1 Chevalier barley. • 3338: fro Distilling do.. • —29 s to 30s 1 Oats 24s to Flour, 25s 9d to 26s Od per sack from the miller- ,NAM-SATURDAY. 0 1 ' A limited show NOTTI ef wh,• G at H to-day, with a moderate de n 3 8. and and late prices were fully - supported. No change ill 390. —White wheat, from 378 ti 40s ; red wheat, 368 Barley—malting, 308 to 378 ; grinding , 278 to 295. s-13,51 old, at 24s to 30s Od; new, lbo to 255. Beans sold 51" to 42sjper qr. ; new, 35s to 378. DUBLIN—Fn.IDAY. ;„ se, The attendance to-day was good. No change ',;^ oe article of Irish grain. Foreign wheat - in f a ir demen„9 01. unaltered in price. A slow trade for 'lour and (0 01 '" Prime qualities in maize sought after. s. (I, s. d. s. d. s. d. ,3 0 Wheat, white.. 21 0 to 26 6 0atmea1...... 10 oto J._ p Do., red .. 21 6to 24 0 Beane.. ..... ---- oto 0 Do., new .... oto 0 Bere . •.. oto - 0 Barley - - 20 - Oats - 14 oto ~ 0 27 0 to V Do., black — oto 0 Indian corn .. , oto-- 0 _.- Pills [ADTERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment a.nd 1l Given to Save,—The curative powers of these ni ble 0 1 '4 cements have been tested by the experience and practl°, for the profession and the public, both at hom e and abrosei.;„o the third of a century. Holloway's Ointment and have worked their way to fam e a g ainst vested Intel vbffi and have established a name for curin g sores, wound legs, ulcers, scrofula, and skin diseases, which no ?,, er fr di scover y can boast. Alt affections of musc l es , gaw o o joints, and glands may be essentiall y benefited by tbefoe° of these puritying remedies. T hose strurnous conetittl:3olo which are old in their youth, and doomed to die in ri; s e a ge, are earnestly invited to study the " instructioo s' „heo com panying Holloway's preparations, and to use accordingly. Births. LONG—On the 27th inst., at Dolforgan, the wife of Long, Esq., M.P,, of a daughter. t t ile MEYBOROUGH—On the 25th i n st. at 33, Dover4- -e° Countess of Me/thorough, of a daughter. r oe, MILES—On the 28th inst. at 15, Upper Hamilton -ter the wife of F re d er i c k Mil es , E sq ., of a daughter' ,„ s er TYRRELL—On the 28th inst., at 7, Hanley-road• klen'it. road, the wife of H. Tyrrell, Esq., solicitor, of a '- Marriages. Ore FAIREAIRN—BIRLEY—On the 26th inst., at the ;11 0 church, Eccles, W. A. Fairbairn, Esq., of Surot°; j 3iflel ° Pendleton, to Helen, eldest daughter of Richaf" t. rP 4 Et.q., of Manchester 26th inst., at St. Oswald's Cohnrotc; Chester Cathedral, the Rev. Ferdinand Cecil Holi e .A , ' t 8.A.. younger son of Francis Grant, E F T , T pt ° ; Franc,s Maria, youngest daughter of the Rev. t.sie° Canon Residentiary of Chester, and rector ci Eirby. Deaths. ~dare ., ANDERSON. — On the 27th inst., at 9, Thur10e"....4,i-(107 Major-General T. Anderson, 'olone of the 3d Iti' Cavalry. 4 rel' i . , St. : ARCHER — On the morning of the 25th inst., at 13,;gel1P dence, 31, Oakley-square, Pancras, John ,' J Archer, Esq., aged 63. w elt BROWNE.—On the 27th inst , at is, Upper Mb tL9Y ; lo°°l ' Regent's - park, Thomas irowne, l'.. isq - , late of L ice " agad 76. i' Ca de CARTER—On the 24th inst., at Bruges, Marion Carter, aged 29. A De EATON.—On the 26th inst., at Lansdowne-I'o'B' abliet water, Benjamin Eaton, sc' , late of the city ot -'-'-- ear I°l.l. 1' aged 85. n HETHERINGTON —On the 25th inst., at Oak shade Penge, Surrey, Wilson Hetheri ng t o n, Esq ., at-law, aged 59. London: Prluz..td and l'rt,nshe WILLI.A.,II of No `11:. Straw', Prlaw, at THE .0 •Sztvt)Y. t " ^ .:>eN 4-- Kondiy. May 30,,18a4, e