The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

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To conclude with (2nd Line) the New and Original Operatic Bxtravaganza. by Mr. W. S. Gilbert, called LA VI VANDIERE; or, Till7E TO THE CORPS. The Scenery by Messrs. W. and T. Grieve, Johnson, and Assistants. Messrs. J. L. Toole, L. Brough, and Sanger; Misses P. Markham, F. Addison, Jordan, Montgomery, Heath, Sylvia, H. Everard, and H. Hodson. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, M. W. H. Liston. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, OLD SALT: Messrs. Emery, James, and Belford; Mesdames N. Moore and Gwynne. After which will be produced a Grand Christmas Operatic Oriental Extravaganza " THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD." Messrs. Thorne, James. Turner, Murray; Mesdames A. Swanborough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, Newton, To conclude with OUR DO3IE3TICS. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor attlManager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. 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Patterns gratis and post free, with Price List. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.--Morning, lb. 18m.—Afternoon, Ib. 40m, To-Monatow.-Morning, 2h. lm.—Afternoon, 2h. 20m, t I 25 1.7 f j g4l7-.1 % ,1r g 1. - ti CI A • 0.7.044. rt. 4.91, LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1868. A grand banquet was given last evening to her MAJESTY'S Ministers by the Bristol Conservative Association. Unfortunately the PREMIER and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER were prevented from attending, but a numerous and brilliant gathering appeared. The toast of the evening was received with the greatest enthusiasm, and Lord STANLEY responded to it in a speech distinguished by the common sense and clear-sightedness for which he is so remarkable. After returning thanks on behalf of himself and his colleague; absent and present, for the very cordial greeting which their names had received, the noble lord proceeded to touch upon some of thoze points of interest and irc, portance which are at present before the public. As he emphatically expressed it, "A political career in this country involves grave responsibilities, fre quent anxieties, occasional obloquy, and no incon- •iderable amount of labour." - This is perfectly true but, as Lord ZTANLEY said, no one is forced into the public service, only it must not be considered that it has no drawbacks, and for the most part few would devote themselves to it were it not for the hope that they might render some service to England, and also merit the goodwill and gratitude of their fellow-countrymen. Exaggera tion is.not at all in the line of the noble lord. Few public speakers can claim greater immunity from the charge, and certainly there is no false colouring in the remark here met with, that her MAJESTY'S Ministers have been passing through a period of peculiar trial and difficulty. More than " ordinary responsibility has, in truth, fallen to their lot, and hence any manifestation of ap proval, on the part of their countrymen, comes with peculiar appropriatness, and is appreciated accordingly. When they undertook to bring in the measure they believed would be the most conducive to the gain and good of the public, the Ministers did not think that all would agree with them, even among those whose political tendencies were in com mon on ordinary occasions. The majority, how ever, did, as we all know, accept the offer proposed to them." And Lord STANLEY speaks most earnestly of the manner in which their support was given. " Under these trying circumstances, the Conserva- tire party stood by those whom it had chosen for its leaders with a firm, a generous, and an unwearied confidence, which I, for one, shall never forget.'' This tribute is well merited, for the Conservative members of the House of Commons exhibited a patrioti,ni deserving of all honour, and that will long remain to their credit in the annals cf Parlia ment. The entertainment of last evening was another indication of the favour with which the country in general has regarded the efforts of her MAJESTY'S Government, for the zeal they displayed in the public service, and for what Lord STANLEY designates 4' the wise discretion they exercised in declining to place themselves in antagonism to the deliberately expressed wish of the nation." Of one thing we may be certain, that whether in or out of office we shall not be misled by Lord STANLEY'S speeches to mistake the position of affairs. He tells the truth however unpalatable it in taking a glance at the may be, and accordingly, situation last night, he admitted that the circum stances of the moment were not in all respects satisfactory. We have a war on our hands, if it is a little one ; we have commercial depression, dis tress severe and protracted among the working classes ; and we have discontent in Ireland. But it would have rendered all these evils much more in jurious if we had at the same time to encounter the just displeasure of a large part of the poorer papu- latiou for being deprived of their political ;ights . The noble lord admits that the change just effected is a serious one, but he dies not distrust the conse quences, though no one can possibly estimate them fully just at present. We would direct particular attention to that passage in Lord STANLEY'S speech iu which he dwells upon the errors people are prone to fall into about the changes of the Reform Bill. As for the country being entirely thrown into the power of the new voters, as he j'istly puts it, who can say that during the last thirty years the small tradesmen and tenant-farmers who have formed the majority of the constituencies have directed in a peculiar sense the making or administration of the laws. As to the argument that we shall become like the colonies, the noble lord says we are not a colony, but a country with old traditions and social habits, and " it is not likely that wealth fairly used, and culture, real as well as showy, ,will easily lose in England the influence which they at pre sent possess over the English people." How much truer is this definition than the notion of our " future masters" on one side and complete subversion of the existing order of things on the other. The fact is we are neither going to the bad nor yet going to have a Democratic millennium. As for the education of the people, it is satisfac tory to hear, on good authority, that the Conserva tive p - trty are not one whit behind their political opponents in desiring it, and in the power to deal with it. Lord DERBY was the founder of the system of national education still extant in Ireland, and Sir J. PAKINGTON long ago had to do with the English part of the question. The noble lord thinks that he can discern something like business in the aspect of affairs relating to this vital question. Then: is a disposition manifested to take what is given in a lair spirit. The secular system of 1850 is dyne for, and the Voluntaries are giving up their objections as to State interfer ence; so that, while difficulties still:remain, some of the most serious obstacles are vanished. The state of Ireland was alluded to at some length in this discourse, and it was truly designated THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1818. as painful, dangerous, and somewhat discreditable. Lord S FANLET speaks decidedly about the matter, and declares that there is every disposition on the. part of the people of this country to do all that can be done for the . Irish people. Meanwhile the material condition of Ireland is not bad, andl the general condition of the pea santry has g , :eatly improved during the last twenty years. Not! ling is wanted but " peace and secu rity" to permit the uncounted millions of British capital to pour into that country as it does into Scotland, and to colonies that are the length and breadth of the globe apart from us. The noble lord very truly said that there existed a party whom no concessions could satisfy. They aimed at the Repeal of the Union, and that could never be. The Fenian movement across the Atlantic also occasioned great evil, but that could not last long. Without jumping at conclusions and attaching too much importance to the detaih touched upon, we may fairly say that there is in the language of the noble lord a good indication of some measures be- ing introduced for Ireland that will tend to her benefit, and conduce to her improvement. " Ire land is the question of the hour," as he puts it truly, and don't let us call in quacks through impa tience and irritation at delays and dangers. Mr. G. HARDY made some interesting remarks in reply ing for the House of Commons, and spoke forcibly concerning the work that yet remained to be done. Class must not be set against class, but they must be blended together in influence if the prosperity of the country is sought to be obtained. On the whole, this banquet was a great success, and it is very satisfactory at this critical juncture to hear from those in office that there is no prevailing cause for anxiety, and that no difficulties are before us that faith and courage cannot surmount, and that even the stormy element of Fenianism has only served to call out the English spirit of loyalty and order. No one who serves his country can hope to be always a fair-weather statesman ; it is the pilot who weathers the storm who best deserves all confi dence and support, and the harder the struggle the greater the merit of those who overcome and suc ceed in bringing us to the haven of security and peace. _ The House of Representatives in Washington has already forgotten the lesson of the late elec tions. Its members are proceeding in as headlong and reckless a course as though the whole sym pathies of the country were with them, as though their past career had been as recognised a success as it has been a failure, as though they felt absolutely confident that they were in the right way to restore peace and prosperity to a troubled and embarrassed nation. The Atlantic cable, bringing us Tuesday evening's news from Washington, reports that the House of Representatives had on that day passed a bill declaring that there were no valid civil governments in the South, or, as they describe it, " in the late rebellious States ;" and the bill goes on to transfer all powers of appointment and removal under the Reconstruc tion Act from President JOHNSON to General GRANT as Commander-in -Chief. This bill—one of the most extravagant of the many extravagant acts of Cc:lngres—was passed by 125 against 45 votes, a majority which shows pretty clearly the relative strength of parties in the Lower House. The mea sure is absuo on the face of it, seeing that by the American Constitution the PRESIDENT is the head of the army, and is consequently above GRA NT himself in even a military point of view. General GRANT excused himself to his critics for accepting the vacant post of STANTON, on the plea that, according to military law, he was bound to obey the PRESIDENT'S orders; and it will be re membered that during the war ABRAHAM LINCOLN was always styled the head of the Federal armies. So well is this known that the Confederate Govern ment, founded in every respect on the model of its Federal prototype, recognised JEFFERSON DAVIS as chief of the national forces, even above so great a General as LEE or JACKSON. The proposal, then, to supersede JOHNSON by GRANT, besides being pre posterous in itself, is directly unconstitutional. It is plainly opposed to the spirit as well as to the letter of the Constitution, which intends that the PRESIDENT of the United States, during his tenure of office, should be virtually supreme. it has often been said that, during his limited term, he exercises a. much more extended and irrespon- sible authority than any constitutional sovereign can do. The check upon this was intended, by the framers of the Constitution, to be. found in the restriction on his lease of power. He is supposed to be a man in whom the majority of the people can place confidence ; and Congress also poi seises the power, lately so much abused, of overriding Lis veto, and passing a bill into law in opposition to him. Under another aspect this bill is equally misplaced and dangerous. It declares that there are no valid civil governments in the Southern States; or, in other words, it affirms the uncontrolled supremacy of military law. Mr. JOHNSON has already shown what the effect of an attempt to enforce such a doc trine must be upon the national exchequer. There can be no grounds for affirming that there are "no valid civil governments." The declaration can only be intended as a direct insult to the PRESIDENT, and as a further step towards the confiscation of the Southern lands. The Radicals seem desirous of op. pressing and irritating the whites beyond endurance. They can hardly believe that they will much longer submit to a Reconstruction policy, which virtually subordinates them to their former slaves, which deprives them of any interest in the Government, which gives them no voice in the representation, which renders their property insecure, and deprives them of all that stimulus of honourable ambition, whether political or social, which is so powerful for good in large and mixed communities. The people have hitherto been upheld by hope, and have trusted in the good-will of the PRESIDENT towards them, but they now see his term of office fast elapsing, while all remains in a most unsatisfactory condition. President JOHNSON has as yet taken no definite action with regard to the recent acts of Congress. We can hardly suppose that he will re main inactive. He will more probably adopt some decided measures which shall change the aspect of affairs, and remove the power they Lave so long abused out of the hands of these dangerous and un patriotic legislators. There is not much new concerning Fenianism ; but some details have been met with about the doings of the prisoners at Glasgow, which fully confirm the suspicions previously entertained. The conduct of BARRATT was most extraordinary, and quite inconsistent with that of an honest man. He purchased a revolver pistol, after making consider able fuss about the price and sending another man to negotiate in the affair. When these men were first apprehende I it was not supposed that they were connected with the outrage at Clerkeu well but afterwards suspicion wai excited, in consequence of BARRATT being unable to account for his whereabouts in November and December. The London police, upon hearing a full description of his personal appearance, soon comprehended the importauce of the matter, and directed that the greatest care should be taken of 1 the primer, and the mut Imo fully justified their belief. From Ireland we learn that Mr. TRAIN has been released after a long investigation had taken place, and he had given his assurance that he did not mean to promote Feniauism iu Ireland. This is as well, as he had done nothing to incrimi nate himself in this country, and we have nothing to do with the inflated language that ob tains favour across the Atlantic. It may be said, in reviewing the affair, that there were quite sufficient grounds for detaining Mr. TRAIN at first, and ample reason for setting him free at last. It is to be hoped that he may profit by this inconvenient episode to conduct himself with greater circumspection ; but if he seeks to make political capital out of his visit to Ireland, to better his chances for the Presidency, he will only have himself to thank for any mischief that may happen to him. Some interesting remarks were made by Mr. PAW SON, M.P., on the subject of Fenianism, with which he connected the state of feeling in Ulster. He said that he had the satisfaction of declaring that the " entire country " was possessed by a universal feeling of loyalty towards the Crown, and he advocated the propriety of their making these sentiments known. Let the broad, notorious fact go forth to the world that there exists in the north of Ireland a body of men powerful in num bers, influence, and character, who are determined to remain devoted subjects to the British Crown, ardent protestors against any proposed separation from it. It is very satisfactory at this juncture to meet with such indications of goodwill and loyalty, and the London Irish address to the men appears to be progressing in the right direction. It is time, indeed, that some change was made, and those who believe that Fenianism in any way represents the real Irish feeling, may learn their mistake when they find the numerous signatures that have been attached to this " muster-roll of Irish loyalists." LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Jan. 22, Evening. The Marquis Gualterio, who has been appointed Minister of the Royal Household, is expected here to-morrow to take possession of his new post. The Gazette d'ltalia confirms the previous intel ligence of the despatch of an Italian note to the Spanish Government relative to certain passages in the Queen's speech upon the opening of the Cortes, and states that this step has had a satisfactory re sult. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 23. The steamer Minnesota, which sailed hence on Jan. 7th for New York, put back to Queenstown last night, having lost her propeller. She is expected to proceed to-morrow. GALLE, Jan. 18. The Behar, from China, arrived on the 15th inst., and the Geelong from Australia to-day. The Nubia leaves for Suez to-day. Outward Mail of 20-29th October.—The Avoca arrived at Melbourne on the 16th and Sydney ou Dec. 18. Outward Mails of 4th December.—The Mongolia arrived at Gallo on Jan. 7. MALTA, Jan. 22. The Syria left at 8 a.►n. to-day for Marseilles, where she may be expected on the evening of the `24th lust. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 20. The Nyanza leaves at 11 a.m. to-day. She may be expected at Southampton on the eveuiug or the 24th, or morning of the 25th inst. FRAN CE. BOURSE, JAN. 22.-Transactions very moderate, yet prices well supported, and the main feature is a slight increase of confidence. • Three o'clock. —The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cent. End of month... Ital'an Loan 3 per Uent End of mouth_ 68 60 Mexican Loan ... 17 50 Credit Mobilier End of month... 170 Spanish Threes 37 25 Credit Foncier _1378 75 Home Debt End of m0uth...1372 50 Deferred Account Orleans ............................... 878-1- N orthera ............... . . ......... 1156 RAILWAYS. Lyons and Mediterranean BB2i Southern..... S4U Western 565 Eastern ............ . • 535 Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain 6U Saragossa Roman NORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE. ANNUAL MEETING. On Tuesday last the, annual general meeting of the proprietors of this important institution was held at the chief office, in surrey -street. Upwards of sixty proprietors were present, being a far larger number than had ever before been brought together on a similar occasion. The President (Mr. Chan cellor Evans) took the chair, and The SECRETARY (Sir Samuel Bignold) opened the proceedings, first remarking that he had been the artificer of this great and prosperous undertaking, and during the 46 yearly meetings that bad been held, it had fallen to his lot to unfold the events of the preceding year and their results, as he should do with such pride and gratifica.tiou this day ' • the divi dend determined upon by the Board of Directors amounting to 50 per cent. on the capital paid up in the year 1821. Sir Samuel expressed his belief that this was without example iu the annuls of any insurance office in the kingdom. The accounts were :- Ist. The cash account for the year ending 29th September last. 2d. The proprietors' fund account, showing its grand total, of which there existed as a reserve fund, wholly accumulated from past savings, .£110,905 Bs. 11d., which was available for the pro tection of the insuring public. 3d. The insurance—a trade fund account in which there was an item of £46,768—n0w available for returns to the insurers on their policies taken out in the last four years. The reading of these accounts elicited • the warmest plaudits of the meeting. The PRESIDENT rose and congratulated his fellow proprietors on the most successful year which had ever occurred in this, or, he believed, any other office, the fruits of which they would realise by a dividend of £l5 per share, causing a distribution of £33,000 amongst the 250 shareholders of whom the company was composed. The PRESIDENT invited criticism on the accounts, and generally on the conduct of the great business of this society, and several inquiries were made, which were most satisfactorily answered by the chairman and secretary, and eliciting from various members expressions of satisfaction at the past, and entire confidence in the future management of this splendid institution. The PRESIDENT concluded this part of the busi ness of the day by announcing that the dividend for the past year would be payable on and after Thursday, the 16th inst., at the bank of Gurneys and Co., in this city. The meeting then resolved itself specially to take into consideration, and, if approved, to adopt two resolutions agreed to at an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors. These were :- Ist. To establish a reserved fund for the special object of protection against casualties in the foreign business, such fund not to exceed £15,000. 2d. To sanction opening agencies at the city of Havannah ; also at Rio Janeiro. Resolutions carrying out these proposals were moved by DONALD DALRYMPLE, Esq. (who called attention to lithographed plans which were on the Board table of these seats of business), and seconded by R. J. HARVEY HARVEY, Esq., M.P., who warmly advocated the prosecution of foreign insurance, hut was decidedly in favour of creating the proposed reserved fund, which he believed would have a ten dency to equalise future dividends. Both proposals were affirmed by large majorities, and the meeting broke up, after a two hours' sit ting, with expressions of high satisfaction at the probable future of this great and vastly-spreading :nstitution. . It was elicited in the course of the morning that the total business on subsisting policies at the 29th September, 1867, amounted to 83 millions. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Jan. 22. Russia and Poland are subjects which, when Frenchmen have nothing else to occupy them, are sure to come to the front. Nothing can persuade Parisians that Russia is not preparing to make a sudden raid on the sick man's terri tory. An anonymous writer has just published a pamphlet, entitled "La Russie, La Turquie, et l'Europe," with the evident object of nourishing the anti-Russian sentiment. He wishes the Western Powers to warn the Czar that if Russia has forgotten the last struggle we have not, and " that Russian diplomacy will be met with the same veto as before." The writer blames the Allied Powers for the existence of the present state of affairs. They separated in the Crimea, at the moment when victory was theirs, without exacting enduring guarantees for the future. He goes on to argue that the peace and liberty of the world depend on the union of France and England. " France and England," he adds, " should never forget that the dream of the Russians is at the same time to settle accounts with the English in Calcutta, and to march by way of Con stantinople on Paris." With the mention of Russia we cannot forget Poland, and if we could, the Committee of Polish Emigrants in Paris will not allow it. They have just issued a notification, which I see in the Siecle, reminding the public of a few facts. The Russian Government, in its relentless persecution of the Polish nation, issued a decree some time ago confiscating the land of all the native landowners of Volhynia, the Ukraine, and Lithuania. These landowners were allowed to the 10th of December last to sell their property, and this not having been effected, the Government has now ordered it to be sold by auction. They have invited foreign capitalists to make purchases. Natives of Poland are forbidden to buy it, "no one being permitted "—I quote the committee's words—" to own a scrap of Polish soil except a Russian or a foreigner." The object of this edict is to extirpate the Poles from their own land. The committee remind those who may deem this a favourable opportunity for buying land, of a decree of the Polish National Government, which in 1863 anticipated measures like this by declaring that all purchases so effected would be regarded as null and void. The protest may he ineffective, but it is not inopportune. According to the " Correspondence from the North East," just published, the Poles are fleeing into Gallicia to escape the impending Russian conscription. Under pretext of preventing this exodus the Russian troops are massed on the frontier. The considerable improvement which has taken place in the Paris Bourse is due to the rumour that M. Magne's lo:n of 400 million francs will not see the light. Mean while his statement is anxiously expected. Among the countless rumours kept afloat about Italian affairs, the latest is that negotiations have been reopened lx...tween Paris and Florence on the subject of the recal (repatriement) of the expeditionary corps remaining on the Pontifical territory. The foundation of the rumour pro- bably is that the Italian Cabinet is making every effort to assure the Emperor that henceforth the Papal territory will be in no danger of invasion. The Etendard repeats the fact which I stated a fe ar days ago, of the circulation of an address to the ex king Francis 11. In the Unita Cattolica the address is given at length. The report that M. de Sartiges has quitted Rome fox Naples to report on the state of South Italy creates anxiety. We wait till it is confirmed. The death is announced, A Cannes, of the Due des Cars, a former peer of France, and one of the foremost leaders of the Legitimist party. He commanded a division at the taking of Algiers in 1830, but, after the events of July of the same year, he attended the exiled Charles X. to England. The Avenir National relieves the dull season by a goon joke. A pupil of one of the lye..es was twenty minute, late on Sunday evening. When reproved, he produced on the spot a certificate of the station-master that the train was so much en retard. " Oh, well," replied the tutor, " when a train is late you must take the one before." Pressing as poverty is in many parts of France, it is still more so across the Ilhine. The distress in the South-wee of Germany appears to be ,as lamentable as that in thi North-east of Prussia. The Mercury , of Suabia, reports tha, famine has attained an unparalleled intensity in that pro vince. Whole families are found dead in the open air, starvation. The poor peasants have had to sell their farm ing implements for bread. It is added that unless succom is at nand suon it will be too late. " C. B. 8.," an apparently well-informed correspoMten 4 the Times, states that till 1869 Russian armaments give no alarm. The Government of St. Petersburg made a number of contracts for the supply of breechloadei., in several countries of Europe and America, but the con• tractors are not required to deliver up the arms till the spring of 1869. It will be some time after that before the Russian hordes are prepared to use them. Within the past few days several M.P.'s, mindful of the fact that the session is rapidly approaching, have hastened to address their constituents. Mr. Corrance, one of the members for East Suffolk, in the conr.e of a lecture a; Ipswich, dealt fully with the relations between capital and labour, and advocated a full, fair, and calm treatment o that difficult question. One thing he feared, and that was, that trades unions promised more than they could possibly perform. They assured the working man that they could secure him constant level•work at a constant level price ; hut did they succeed in doing this? The hon. gentleman doubted whether strikes achieved the good which they were intended to effect, and whether long ones did not really lessen the competition for labour by clearing out of the labour market small capitalists, and so increasing the monopoly of the few. He did not think the trade out rages of which they had heard so much ought to be regarded as part of the question ; they were evidences of weakness and of crime, but they had nothing to do with the intrinsic merits of the case on either side. A meeting of the Cambridge Conservative Club was enlivened by the presence of three members of Parliament ---Mr. F. S. Powell, Mr. Gorst, and Lord Royston. The speeches of Messrs. Powell and Gorst, the representatives of Cambridge borough, were almost identical in tone. The conduct of the Government in dealing with the subject of Reform was defended. The education question was next dealt with. Both gentlemen "hoped to see wise changes made in connection with our ancient universities and in the management of our grammar schools." The time, however, had not come for compulsory education. Lord Royston is the eldest son of the Earl of Hardwicke, and the Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. His lordship handled rather severely the recent speech of Professor Fawcett on free trade in land. He knew something about political economy, but he never supposed that any professor of such a sciene could have propagated the scandalous opinions to whiels Professor Fawcett had given publicity. His lordship only wished he had the power and knowledge to deal with the sacrilegious tenets that the learned Professor had poured into the heads of his audience. Professor Fawcett said the great object to be sought now was to procure free trade in land. What the Professor had said on that qt.ustion was not true, and he either spoke falsely, or he was igno rant of his subject. The Professor had said the yeomen of England were swept away. That was a most untruth ful assertion. The Profess n. had also said that the getting rid of primogeniture and the law of entail would be the one saving measure for the country. This shewed the whole principle of Radicalism was to overturn the agri cultural power of this country. The Conservatives, on the contrary, wished to preserve it. Xt Portsmouth Mr. Stone and Mr. Serjeant Casein, the borough representatives, met with rather a warm than s- friendly reception. Mr. Stone's address consisted of a review of the political history of the country during the last two sessions of Parliament. With respect to the Conservative Reform measure of 1867, he strongly objected to the abolition of the compound house holder—an expression of opinion which gave much dissatisfaction to the Conservative element in the assembly. Serjeant Gaselee was received with cheers, laughter, and hisses. He justified the course which he had taken in going into the Tea-room last session, and main-. tained that his votes had materially contributed to the success of the Reform Bill. He was listened to with great impatience, and on a resolution of confidence in the mem bers having been moved, a bold Conservative proposed, as an amendment, that the meeting disapproved of Mr. Stone's factious conduct in opposing the Conservative Reform Bill, and of Mr. Serjeant Gaselee's repeated exhi bitions, which made Portsmouth the laughing-stock of the whole country. The resolution was, however, carried by a large majority. At Manchester, Mr. Graham, M.P. for Glasgow, in addressing a gathering of the Sunday School Union, spoke of the educational system as carried out in Scotland as a model which might well be followed in this country. Roman Catholic children went to Protestant schools there without being interfered with in religious matters, and if the same system were adopted here with regard to the children of all creeds, there would be no de mand for secular education. If, however, people would have secular schools, by all means let them have them. Major My:es O'Reilly, M.P. for Longford, is publishing a series of letters in the Freeman's Journal on that fruitful theme of discussion, the Irish question. Mr. O'R,eilly objects to the proposed distribution of the Irish Church property. " Those who think with me," he observes, "are of opinion that we had better seek to have it applied to secular purposes of national utility, entirely disendowing the Anglican Establishment in Ireland, and thereby de stroying its ascendancy, and leaving the Catholic Church in Ireland in its present position as regards revenues, de pendent for its support on the free offerings of Catholics and such property as it has acquired and is yearly ac quiring by such free offerings." MR. LOWE ON EDUCATIO4, On Wednesday evening Mr. Lowe was present at tliv, annual dinner of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, Mr. P. H. Rathbone in the chair. In response to the toast of his health, _ _ Mr. LOWE dealt at some length with the question, how the middle class, which would not think of sending its chatiren to primary schools assisted by the State, and yet .was not in a positiofs to send its sons to the universities or the great public schools, was to be educated. The middle class, which until last year was the depository of political power in this country, had never done anything for itself in education. Ithad allowed the endowments designed for its own education to be filched from it by a class for which they were not intended. How was this? How was it that they had; without a remonstrance and a struggle, allowed political power to pass out of their hand ? He believed the reason was the want of a common culture ; the want of something which would have raised rhen's minds above the business of every-day life, made them take a more elevated view of their own position. What was wanted in the education of the middle class was not only something w 7 -ould be merely useful to them in the business of their life, but .found and good mental discipline—an education which should teach caution, observation, and the faculty of weigh• ing probabilities, and deciding soundly, judiciously, and pru• ilently. Ile denied that the education received by the uppez &asses either satisfied those classes themselves, or could be copied with any advantage by the middle class ; it was a simple accident of the times that made the Latin and Greek classics the leading educational features of collegiate edu cation, but Latin and Greek were mere mechanical exer cises of the faculty of memory. It was just as much a mis take to dose a boy with the " Eton Graf:Omar " before he knew five words of the language, as it was to lec ture a child on the vertebra and the anatomy of the limbs when it was learning to walk. Of what use' also as a mental discipline was moral phi losophy, when the conclusions of the science were perfectly evident before the student began ? Having cri ticised also the merits of logic and history, remarking with regard to the latter that no teacher could impart history to a boy better than he could learn it himself by reading, Mr. Lowe came to the sweets which he would recom rralnd for the education of the middle classes. First in would recommend a thorough study of the English lan guage—the language of Bacon and Shakespeare, Pitt, Chat ham, and Fox—the language of Byron and Scott. When he was at school ho was an idle boy; after he had got up enough. Greek and Latin, he spent his time in reading the works of the noble writers of the 16th and 17th centuries, and almost felt while doing so that he was playing truant. But all the success of his life he owed to the know redge of the English language which he acquired in thou stollm hours. English composition, too, was another neces sity of middle-class education. French, written and spoken. was a most desirable accomplishment, and if the boy had tasty fur languages, let him learn German, in which th. finest and closest translations of Lee ancient classics were to he found. To discipline the mind he recommended, not analytical mathematics beginning with algebra, but syuthetical mathematics argued out by diagrams, vhich afforded-as good instances of abstract reasoning as could be obtained. In his opinion nothing was so requisite ii' middle-class education as a study of the phenomena ci physical science. Physical science could not be learnt by rote. Its study was bracing to the mind, it taught us to observe closely, to compare, to think, to distrust our crude and first generalisations. It did not so much teach us science as it produced a scientific habit of mind tt correct by careful observation, such as produced that habit of mind which, carried into business, keeps us from bankruptcy. The study of nature preceded the study of books, which were not created. In a brilliant peroration Mr. Lowe p inted out that science was as yet nearly in its infancy, and that discoveries as yet unknown to this generation would be facts to the generation we have now to educate. As to the practical question, he suggested that while statesmen tried to recover for the middle classes their birthrights—endowed schools and the universities — they should combine and build schools for themselves, which they could easily do, as Mr. Woodward had proved. The right hon. gentleman, who spoke for upwards of hour, was often most enthusiastically applauded.. MI?. TRAIN IN PRISON. The Dublin correspondent of the Times writes The release of Mr. G. F. Train is almost a greater surprise than his arrest. He was discharged from custody yester day on an order from the Lord-Lieutenant, communicated by Mr. Hamilton, R.M., who attended at the county gac' for the purpose of communicating the intention of thi Government. It is stated that, as a condition precedent to his liberation, he gave an assurance that he had no intern tion of promoting Fenianism in this country. His object in returning to British soil is, it seems, less ambitious and possibly more practical than it has been thought—the furtherance, in fact, of his one dominant idea—tramways. During his confinement he conducted himself with exemplary obedience to the rules of the gaol. He was a model prisoner, whose example might be followed with advantage by others. He manifested in hi; adherence to discipline a stern, self-denying virtue, even refusing to accept any other than the ordinary dietary of the prison. It was not because he resigned himself to grief and would net be comforted— he is one of the last who would be likely to do so—but, if rumour be correct, he adopted this course with the intention of demanding full reparation from the Government for an insult and injury which with this object in view it was not, for his interest to have mitigated. The police on arresting Mr. Train took possession of some newspapers which were found in his carpet-bag. Among them was the Fenian Volunteer, which contained an article extolling him for his advocacy of the Irish race. There were numerous pam phlets, including his address to 500 Fenian Centres, before 6,000 Fenians, at the great Fenian Congress hi Philp delphia, in 1865. On being asked for h is autograph in the police-station, he wrote, in the presence of the police : " ' Whether on the gallows high Or in the battle's The fittest place for man to die Is when he dies for man.' Another applicant was favoured with the following :--• Hitay the Alabama claims, or fight. Release American citizens in English gaols, or war is certain.' It is stated however, that ho was never a member of the Fenian con federacy." The Cork correspondent of the Daily News says Immediately after his release, Mr. Train drove to the Imperial Hotel, sent for the American consul, Mr. East man, and, before ordering breakfast, prepared and for warded to Downing-street a claim for £lOO,OOO compensa don for the outrage he had suffered. The specific grounds far this claim are that Mr. Train has been damaged in his genera l commercial reputation, and especially in his capacity as chairman of the Credit Foncier of America-- a company of which he states he is the creator anti guiding mind. Mr. Train has also addressed the American Minister, Mr. Adams, whom he expects to endorse and insist upon his demand. He says that ho will make the British Government pay and apologise also for the insult offered through him te. American citizenship. At a later hour in the day Mr. Train gave interviews to the reporters of the leading local journals, to whom he was most communicative, furnishing them with full details of his speculations and political prospects in the United States, his business in Europe, and his intentions as regards his future proceed ings. Mr. Train denies—and is in this borne out by other testimony—that any papers of a compromising character were found in his possession on his arrest. He had nothing about him to excite suspicion but a bundle of American papers—the Boston Pilot, New York Freeman': Journal, the World, and other journals, containing re ports of his speeches on various topics. In some of these speeches England is soundly rated, and Fenianism lauded to the skies, but he asserts that, as an Ame rican citizen, he had a perfect right, in America, to express his opinions of England in whatever language he chose. In his interview with the reporters he complained of his arrest as a most ungenerous as well as unconstitutional act upon the part of the British Government. `I have abused England, and the moment I put my foot on British terri tory the Government arrests me. Is this generous ?" One of the documents amongst Mr. Train's papers was a printed slip, headed The Revolution: clear the way ; the Train is coming,' a title which probably aroused the sus picions of the detectives. It is, however, a very harmless matter, merely containing select extracts from his letters and speeches, and a few of his epigrams. Mr. Train's arrest has made him a sort of popular hero here, and with true Yankee 'cuteness he intends to turn his popu- larity to account, and to make money by it. He pro poses to stump' the country—that is, to give a series of lectures in various places, beginning with Cork. The discipline of the gaol excited the strongest feelings of dis gust in the mind of the captive. He was greatly astonished to find himself deprived of books and papers ; forbidden to send out letters without the permission of the governor ; deprived of light after a certain hour ; com pelled to live on gaol diet, and, in short, to conform to the rigid and irksome rules to which political prisoners are subjected. His leisure was occupied chiefly in writing a series of protests against his detention, and letters to a friend of his—Mr. George Bernie, of New York —com plaining of the hardships which he was made to endure. In one of these he waxes pathetic : ' Make no effort for my release,' he says ; let me die here. What matters one life ?' " Mr. Alfred Tennyson regrets that it is no longer possible for him to answer the innumerable letters, or to acknowledge the MS. verses, which ho is in the habit of receiving from strangers. CgZ,Js.:O ~,., ~ I 1 ,e 1,4,. ~. ,3,„ , . 1 4.. r......„ , .).„. .:, •h, ~ HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 22. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at tended by the Duchess of Roxburghe and the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Colonel Ponsonby being in attend ance upon horseback ; and her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatri ce. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold also went out. LITEBATURE. NEW N OVELS. Jeanie's Quiet Life. Olave's." 3 Vols. By tho Author of " St. Hurst and Blackett. Avoiding the stonily regions dear to the senss.- tionalist, the author of " St. Olive's" pursues " the noiseless tenour of her way" along the quiet bye paths. We cannot but think, however, that in a laudable endeavour to avoid all un natural excitement the recorder of " Jeanie's Quiet Life" has fallen into the opposite extreme. In a former work by the same hand, published some two or three seasons back, " Janita's Cross," the happy medium was very successfully at tained. The simple history of Janita's sorrows and struggles was full of interest, while it preserved throughout the quiet manner and natural style in which the author of " St. Olave's" especially ex cels. Her later works, however, are deterio• rating from simplicity into monotony. In avoiding over-excitement the authoress runs the risk of ceasing to arouse the interest of her reader. "Alec's Bride" had a certain resemblance to the fa mous story or no-story of Canning's Knife Grinder. "Jeanie's Quiet Life," the new work now before us, is somewhat more eventful than " Alec's Bride," but is far inferior in interest to " Janita's Cross." We are more anxious to notice these deficiencies in the matter, because in the manner .of her stories this writer is worthy of all commendation. The style is simple and graceful, and many beautiful thoughts are scattered over her pages. Let us take one at hazard as an anti dote to our doubtful commendation of " Jeanie's Quiet Life :" " No past need be counted altogether unhappy which has turned dreaming into doing thought into action—into every life work which God has given there may be brought an earnest purpose, and a noble consecration which shall make it great ; that for those who love it worthily, even disappointment may be a rich inheritance--a pre cious gift, though one which asks no thanks." Per vaded by such sentiments, " Jeanie's Quiet Life" cannot fail with all its shortcomings to gratify many readers. Time Will Tell. A Story of Society. By. S. W. Fullotn. 3 vols. Richard Bentley. Very different from the quiet life above referred to is the rattling, dashing, adventurous existence which Mr. Fulimn exhibits to us as a picture of society. The Great Highway, according to his ideas, appears to be indeed the scene of perpetual motion. We have hardly time to take breath after escaping from one misadventure, when lo and be hold we are in the midst of a new bewilderment from which, with a wonderful good fortune, we again escape, to be again overwhelmed with fresh misadventures. While condemning the utter ex travagance of these events, the reader is perforce amused by contemplating them for the moment. Such a record holds a place among novels somewhat akin to that of the laughable after-piece at the theatre. We should be inclined to think that the author of this book would be likely to excel in dramatic pieces of that description. There is so much vivacity in his style, and so much audacity (there is no better word for it) in the combina tion of surprising events, in which the various . personages of the story appear to be enacting 'a perpetual game of " catch as catch can," to the bewilderment of all beholders. The character of Mr. Mullet, among others, is capitally described. This unhappy gentleman is the victim of a con tinual succession ot i mistakes, such as voting for the Tory candidate when he should vote for the Whig, going by one train when he is due in an opposite direction. These mistakes, by his owa showing, being always the result of some good- natured friend's mismanagement, and never by any chance of his own . illynchin. A Novel. 3 vols. Saunders, Utley, and Co. The opening chapter of this story will favourably impress the reader. There is a freshness and ori ginality both in the description and the characters. The author has been unfortunate in the s3lection of his hero. Gascon Knollys is a character rarely, if ever, met with in actual life. Very fortunately say we, after perusing the record of his strange his tory. "He possessed," we are told, " a strong, irresponsible will, an impulsively selfish nature, and immense moral audacity—a combination of qualities which is fortunately extremely rare; but whether met with in social or political life will always be a disturbing force." G tscon Knollys recognised no authority but his own will, and exercised in his own behalf " a kind of special pleading which led him far away from the common track of morality." At the very commencement of the tale we find Mr. Knollys returning from abroad to his country seat, and on his arrival a monumental tablet is erected in the family pew, recording the death of Margaret Knollys, the Squire's wife, at Rome, a year previously. We learn soon after wards that Gascon Knollys had indeed left his wife at Rome, but not in her grave. Having, as he deemed, discovered cause for putting her away, he had provided for her in a convent, and given out that she was dead. This, of course, in the case of such an irresponsible being does not prevent Mr. Knollys from contracting a second marriage. The popular agitation which preceded the passing of the Reform Bill occupies a prominent place in this story, and the effects of the excitement on some characters and temperaments are powerfully described. John Homfrey, the father of the heroine, is a type of a thorough political enthusiast, of one " who loves not wisely, but too well." Grace, the heroine, is a very charming creation ; and James Barry, the practical and prudent man of business, but withal tender-hearted and devoted as any knight of chivalry, is very admirably portrayed, and contrasts happily with the peculiar and repulsive character of Gascon Knollys. Piebald. A Novel. By R. F. Boyle. Two Vole. Chapman and Hall. We cannot say we admire the title of this romance, Taut the story itself is singularly interesting, and 1 0 narrated in a very attractive manner. The name refers to the colour of a horse, and an old legend, in which a ghostly horseman mounted upon a steed of that colour appears as a forerunner of disaster. The incidents of the tale are written in a very lively and pleasant man ner, and we are hardly prepared for the melancholy catastrophe at the close, in which Mince Pie, the t'iebald steed of the dashing and adventurous Kttiae, has " her last fall over timber." We must not reveal the terrible result. A story with a sad end )as always a peculiar attraction, from " The Babel in the Wood" to " The Bride of Lammermoor• We shall look with interest to the next work from the author of" Piebald." ANTI-FENIAN PRECAUTIONS IN LONDON.—A very snsible precaution is just being taken in the metropolis gainst any demonstrative action on the part of the Fenians. Wherever colonies of Irish exist—and there are ,any such iu Loudon—the police are at present engag ed n making inquiries as to the amount of accommodat ion .vhich licensed victuallers can give to the military, ' 9l. -other they are at this moment giving warning to publicaee ,iat very probably it may be found necessary to bille t ',diners upon them. It need scarcely be added that tbi ei itimation on the part of the authorities has caused sou l° . ittle agi' ation amongst the fraternity of licensed victual; ,re, and no slight curiosity on the part of the p ublic -arge. mai 'tier clas 92i due; Ctl.l Tie] pre] 5-2( LEE have gag' and don th's ti Back Were returi D o 0 0. j bp . 1