The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Atkins, Price, Garden, Arthur, Westland, Wilmott; Mesdames Heurade, Goodall, Lennox, and C. Saunders. After which, the Grand Comic Pantomime of VALENTINE AND ORSON; or, Harlequin the Big Bear and the Little Fairy. Mesdames Saunders, Goodall, White; Messrs. Garden, Odell, Arthur; :Mlle. Montero, Miss Ellis, Lupino, Green, and the Great Little Rowena. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. THIS EVENING, HEN AND CHICKENS: Messrs. Ashley, Stephenson, and G. Vincent; Mesdames L. Moore and Stirling. After which, USED UP: Messrs. R. Sontar,Vincent, Vaughan, and C. Mathews ; Miss E. Farren. To be followed by IF I HAD A THOUSAND A YEAR. To conclude with BETTY MARTIN: Mr. Geo. Vincent and lliga E. Farren. TH EATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING will be performed the Comedy of THE HYPOCRITE. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. Edmund Phelps. Charles Waffler, J. Rouse, W. C. Temple. F. Moreland; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mrs. 11. Vandenhoff, Miss Sate HArfteur. After which. the Drury Lane annual grand Christmas Pantomime, written by E L. Blanchard, Esq., entitled FAW FEE FO FUM ; or, Harlequin Jack the Giant Morning Performance every Wednesday and Satur day until Feb. 15. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BROKEN-HEARTED CLUB. Mr. Gordon, Mr. Braid, Mrs. Chippendale, &c. To be followed by A WIFE WELL WON. Messrs. Sothern, Blekstoue, Howe, Kendal, Rogers, Braid, Weathersby, &c., and It Nilson. After which, AN UTTER PERVERSION OF THE Blt IGAND. Messrs. Compton, Kendal, Rogers, Clark, Braid, ‘Veathcrsby, Johnson, &c.; Mesdames Burke, Wright, Dalton, r 11IEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. nL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. EVENING, UP FOR THE CATTLE SHOW. After which, at 8, NO THOROUGHFARE. Mr. Fechter (his ‘,6th appearance here), Mr. Billiugton, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin W I'mter: Miss Carlotta Leclercq (her ZGth appearance), Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. BilliCngmmence at ton, Mrs. H. 7. Lewis, &c. o ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Last Nights. THIS EVENING, Grand Combination of the Two Great Dramas, THE COLLEEN HAWN and THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mr. and Mrs. Dion 13oucicault as Myles na Coppaleen aud Eily O'Connor, and Mr. Vining as Badger. Messrs. Dominick Murray,Shore, G. F. Neville, H. For rester, 11. Mellon, R. Cathcart; Misses Elsworthy, E. Barnett, Ita':hel Sanger, and Mrs. Addie. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. N.B. —On Monday next, Feb. 10, " The Octoroon " and " Arrah na Pogue." QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, Feb. 5, HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. John Clayton. After which will be produced (25th Time in London) Mr. H J. l3yron's New and Original Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled DEARER THAN LIFE. Michael Garner, Mr. J. L. Toole. To conclude with (12th Time) the New and Original Operatic Extravaganza, by Mr. W. S. Gilbert, called LA VIVANDIERE; or, TRUE TO THE CORPS. The Scenery by Messrs. W. and T. Grieve, Johnson, and Assistants. Messrs. J. L. Toole, L. Br.mgla, and Sanger; Misses P. Markham, F. Addison, Jordan, Montgomery, Heath, Sylvia, H. Everard, and 11. Hodson. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. 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. 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Patterns_ gratis and post free, with Price List, 111G11 ;PATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.--MOrnittg, lob. 57m.—Afternoon, 11b. 38m, To -noiatow.-Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, Oh. 15m -5;1- • . ~ 2 •14 i 1 it 7 . 4 0 7 * ~., s +3 41) LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1868. pire." It was hardly to be expected that Mr. BRIGHT would allow the House of Commons to meet with out again edifying the public with one of his pro vincial speeches. These occasions furnish im with such delightful opportunities to say what he likes, and to be independent of criticism and free from responsibility, at least as be regards the matter. Last evening, at Birmingham, the hon. member delivered one of his thundering orations. It is to be premised, however, that some opposition was manifested at the outset of the affair, and that fur about twenty minutes Mr. BRIGHT found it impos sible to begin. This is certainly something new, and shows that all are not so eager to listen to these inflammatory harangues as has been supposed. Mr. BRlGHTplunged at once in nzediasres, and showed that the object of bis speech was to answer the remarks made by Lord SrANLEY a short time ago at Bristol. He confessed that from the first moment when he thought of coming to that meeting he felt that he must direct his attention to the Irish question, which he didactically explained as the question which will be the cause of the fall of Ministries, and the dissolution of Parliament. It is a matter of regret that as Mr. BRIGHT persists in discussing this question he cannot do so with some modera tion. But that is not his way at all, he abuses everything right and left, and as good as says that for all that has happened in Ireland the English Government are to blame, and must take the con sequences. One part that specially calls for notice in this speech is that while Mr. BRIGHT enters fully into the history and recounts the misdeeds of Feniauism, he scrupulously abstains from speaking of the conspiracy in the manner it deserves to be mentioned. In no place is it de nounced, but he mysteriously alludes to the violent outrages such as this country has for a long period been a stranger to. It is quite evident that the sound sense which distinguished Lord STANLEY'S speech has given great umbrage to Mr. BRIGHT, and he actually goes so far as to say that Cabinet Ministers who can offer no remedy have no right to speak in a defiant manner, and that they are the promoters of disaffection and separation. It ill becomes one, so apt to use extravagant expressions himself as the hon. member for Birmingham is, to find fault with others for being decided iu giving utterance to their opinions. We might search in the speech of Lord STANLEY in order to find any thing that is put forward to mAke an effect that cannot be substantiated by proof and stand the test of experience. How different is it in the discourses of the orator of Birmingham. He cannot speak of the Church and land in Ireland without declaring that these are much more than " questions of Parlia ment and controversy: they are questions on which may depend the duration or the decay of the Em- It is difficult to arrive at Mr. BRIGHT'S meaning, but if he intends to convey any definition, it must be that Feniansm is the result of a long course of war and oppression in cur government of Ireland, and that a change for the better must speedily take place, or peace and order cannot possibly be restored. We do not learn by what right he does so, but Mr. BRIGHT assumes to himself a perfect knowledge of the Irish cha racter, and informs his hearers that those who think this or that must believe that Ireland is nothing better than a huge lunatic asylum. He has, however, in his zeal and excitement to perfect his acquaintance with those on the other side of the Irish Channel, forgotten some of the characteristics of Englishmen ; they are not be threatened with a change of policy, and no matter how expedient or desirable a certain plan or scheme may be in it- self, it is not the way to declare that it must be speedily agreed to, or the consequences must be taken. After quoting BURKE, and going over the " sad story" of the land from the days of Queen ELIZABETH to those Of WILLIAM 111., Mr. BRIGHT falls back upon Prussia for a remedy. About a year ago, as will be remembered, the hon. member made a speech in Dublin, and be seeks to disarm criticism by admitting that he is repeating, in some measure, the remarks he then and there made, he has found that " true things, and right things, in this country require to be repeated a great many times. At that banquet he made a proposition or suggestion, which was misrepresented by some, misunderstood by others, and was chaffed at and ridiculed by many more." Mr. BRIGHT is is not going to be put out of conceit by anything like this, however, and he still recurs with pride and interest to the notion of a Parliamentary Com mission being instituted for the purpose of acting as the Rent Banks in Prussia. It is really a relief to meet with a scrap of fact amid all the fiction that pervades this discourse, and Mr.BRIGH.T's description of the House of Common's part of the subject is worthy of notice. There are, he says, a hundred and fifty members there that come from Ireland ; " they are divided like some other people, but the Irish members never act together, so far as I have seen, for the benefit of Ireland, and as a united body I never saw them act for the benefit of the United Kingdom•" Lord STANLEY'S notion of compensating tenants for _improvements will not do, Mr. BRIGHT asserts; and he enters into a long explanation which seems to make the matter hopeless unless they can have the compensation first and see about the improvements afterwards. Towards ,he close of his long address, Mr. BRIGHT indulges in a sort of prophetic strain of the good days that may yet be in store for us if we are wise enough to follow his advice, and sufficiently credu lous to put his theories into practice. When these long embittered questions have been rescued from what Lord STANLEY calls the field of Parliamentary controversy, and Irish members have united to work together for Ireland, and have also joined in unison with the members of Great Britain for the services of the United Kingdom, there will still re main this question, the national feelings of Ireland. It has been declared by some that there exists iu Ireland a craving, a positive hunger after the exis tence of a separate independent Irish Legis lature. Mr. BRIGHT does not agree with this altogether, but believed that the adoption of timely reforms would do away with all this idea on the part of the majority, and that as justice was seen and felt irritation and passion would depart, and the " union which is now one of mere parch ment would become a union of interest and senti ment between the two nations." The Irish and American press would also be with thflir sympathy for those who made Ireland their own, and it is worth while to look at the accuracy of their feel-. ings just now. "At present they look upon insur rection and conspiracy with a feeling that there is something or other a root of bitterness, which if it be not the justification, is at least the cause of it." If this be so they show themselves to be totally oblivious of the fact that two wrongs do not make one right. During the whole of this speech an under cur rent of bitterness is discernible, and Lord STANLEY, who is generally fortunate enough to find favour with Mr. BRIGHT, came in for no end of taunts and sarcasms. The reason of this appears at the close of these remarks, when the hon. member in dignantly exclaims—" You have been advised by a Cabinet Minister, the son of the Prime Minister, not to call in quacks for consultation." Thi s Mr. BRIGHT has taken to himself, and resents ac cordingly. Orthodox Ministers before now have sought to reap reputation by following his advice, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1868 and be gives the following astounding definition of his view► 3 ; he keeps •' his mind impartial on political questioi is, and his eye undimmed by prejudices which of )scure the vision." If Mr. BRIGHT could for a moment see himself as others see him, he might understand why his most impassioned words are powerless to impress and influence those of sober judgment and calm reflection, and when, to use his own expression, he urges upon the Government with a veheliement earnest the desirability of this or that change they do not regard as a warning or heed the counsel, but till that day arrives it is useless to expect that he will be more circum spect or more moderate, or even possess discrimination enough not to touch upon topics like that of Ireland in so inop portune a manner. How much better it would have been to say less of the wrongs of Ireland and more of the danger of giving way to excited pas sions? And if he had done so no cultivated states man but would have admired the eloquence which gave force to the language of wisdom and lent a charm to the voice of truth. The position of affairs in the Thames shipbuild- Lug yards has lately attracted a good deal of atten- tion. The distress and the destitution at the east end of London have spread so widely, and involved so many of the better classes in their range, that those_most indifferent to the sufferings of the poor can hardly pass them by unnoticed. With the poor rates in one parish at nine shillings in the pound matters, must be admitted to have assumed a serious aspect ; and public charity, however ready, is not well able to support a population larger than that of many provincial towns. The great complaint is slackness of work, and masters and men accuse one another of being the cause of the deficiency. The masters say it is impossible for them to take con tracts at the present rate of wages ; the men say that it is the masters' fault that they are idle, as they declare they have no orders. Into the details of the dispute, and the differences as to the manner of payment, it is not easy for the uninitiated to enter, but certainly on the face of it the masters' interest appears to be to keep the men fully employed. With their capital unemployed, and their machinery standing idle, they are losing money every day, though they may not, in the eyes of the men, be suffering from the badness of the times. The meet ing which was held a .few days since in Burdett Hall was very largely attended, and efforts were made by Mr. BULLI villa and others interested in the welfare of the district to bring about a better understanding between masters and men. Mr. BrJLLIVANT then stated that he was empowered to offer payment at the rate of £5 per ton for the finished iron work of two ships. At this meeting, however, the men did not like those terms, but they have since declared that they did not quite understand the conditions on which they were offered, and they atfirm that they consider £5 per ton a good price, and would be glad to take any amount of work at that rate. At the conclusion of the Burdett Hall meeting a committee was ap pointed, composed of workmen of various grades, to confer with their fellows, and to arrive at some definite conclusion as to their wishes and their intentions. Yesterday the members of this Committee invited the masters to a conference in Mr. CARPENTER'S mis sion-house, Millwall, but from some unexplained reasons the masters, with few exceptions, were not present. Mr. H. GREEN, jun., of the firm of that name, one of the few employers who appeared, was called upon to preside ; but as the meeting was so thinly attended nothing definite was accom plished. It is very much to be regretted that more of the employers were not present, a t as some definite arrangement might have been t a h rr e iv c e harg dat e . men which has r b e e s e e n nt indignation b w r i o t u h g g h r t ea a t gainstt of driving the work away from the London yards. Some of the speakers yesterday protested emphati- tally against the idea that they would rather live on c harity than work for th e i r masters on fa i r terms. They said that from one end of the kingdom to the other there was now an impression that they were the cause of the depres sion in the Thames shipbuilding trade. They have, however, themselves to thank for this, for last year, when matters were not so bad as they are now, the men employed in the Thames yards deliberately de clined to work for less than 6s. 6d. a day, alleging the price of provisio ns as a reason for so doi nhighg . The same system w hi c h h as d r i ven a good , n to hasur m h e a e n n u f a a p c p t l u i r e i a n g o n b l y u s t i o n o e ss s u c over f utollytht toe building trades. The me n have acted upon dC t t h heo e canlst i ii d inoi e Pef a that their employ ers were their to w n r a e t s u t r a s l enemies, a and the great object h as b een much as possible from them, and to make as few concessions as they could. The antagonistic spirit existing between capital and labour has been under mining our commercia as l ieta p esr r o o n sp sa e w ri le t o y for some years s p u g dde c u o ly ur n un d fav n o e u w ra ' ble f s e e el the ef dp fu au l sl l tl' e a ff n e d c a ts of the evil. If the men had not given assumptionsthe when good work w reason as tom more emplain plentiful,o of their they would not now find themselves accused of prefer ringugaindualmf to too, has thoroughly the wages t of h honest ae n labour.the mutual f ' 'ragiftsdesunoisin confidence which ought to subsist between which no ar gumen t s or declarations restore. Yest er d ay , w h en mastersa nd men,will ill rightly gh and d the terms of Mr. BULLIVANT'S proposal were dis cussed, that gentleman proposed that the men should draw a certain sum daily, leaving the balance in the hands of their employers as a guarantee for the fulfilment of their part of the contract. Some of the men were pained and in dignant that such a precaution should :be t thought necessary, but, unhappily, it would be only too consistent with the ethics of Trades' unionism to force the masters to pay higher wages by sud denly leaving work in the middle. It does not do for employers to rely on the instances of good faith and high principle which they may have individually met with among their men, since they have to deal with them as a class and individual action is controlled by the laws of their unions. How many instances came out before the Sheffield Commission in which men had suddenly struck work in the middle of a contract. Mr. SAMUDA, the other day, in going over the experience of the last few years, stated that all the different grades of workmen had stopped work just as their part of the business became of the most importance. It is this sort of thing which alienates the :con fidence of employers, and checks,the sympathies of the public. There is no lack of feeling for the difficulties and drawbacks against which the men have to contend—there is no prejudice in favour of capital, there is no indifference to the sufferings of the wives and children of those who have trifled with their chances, but there is an impression that the shipwrights have overreached themselves, have driven away the work which might have supported their own families and those of the labourers, whose work depends on theirs, in comfort and independence. Mr. WHIT MORE, a Presbyterian clergyman, who has exerted himself greatly for the relief of the distress in Mill wall, spoke strongly to the men, and declared, from information which he possessed that orders for half a million sterling were pending in the market, and that if the men would come to terms with their masters the work might be executed on the Thames instead of elsewhere. In the face of such statements as these, and such offers as those made by Mr. BULLIVANT, offers and statements put forward by those who have only the interest of the men at heart, surely we may hope that a wiser and more conciliatory feeling will show itself among the shipbuilding trades. The masters, it is to be trusted, will meet the men half way, and not show any inclination to take an unfair advantage of the pressure of the times. As matters now stand all parties are losing, and everyday makes the problem more hopeless and more perplexing. It is some satisfaction to those interested (and who is not ?) in the story of the Clerkenwell suf ferers, to know that adequate funds have been sub scribed in relief of their present and future neces sities. Mr. MAGUIRE, the able and efficient chair man of the Relief Committee, and incumbent of Clerkenwell, has published an interesting though mournful statement of the case as it now stands. The total amount subscribed has been little under £lO,OOO, of which more than half has been set aside as the provision for those perman ently injured. Unfortunately this list is a very long one. One girl in weak health is now in Colney hatch in consequence of the stock. One child totally blind is to be provided for by the kindness of her MAJESTY in a blind asylum. Four other persons lost the sight of one eye, with, of course, some injury to the other. One poor child has a fractured knee, of which she is never likely to re cover the use. Another little girl, who was recovering from the scarlet fever, has died from nervous disease brought on by the shock. All those in the hospitals—and only- four have been dis charged—are likely, Mr. MAGUIRE tells us, to be maimed for life. A:terrible result this of a single act of desperate wickedness. The sufferings of the mothers of families have, in many instances, been frightful, and a great number of deaths among aged or infirm people have been hastened by the shock. Clerkenwell has, indeed, good rea son to remember the Fenians. It is some consola tion to the sufferers and their friends to know that hey are at least placed beyond the reach of want for the remainder of their days, and that such provision has not been made grudgingly or of necessity, but with that eager outpouring of na tional sympathy which would have given tenfold more if needed. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, Feb. 4. The Press Bill may be considered safe. The threat to withdraw it was never seconded by an intention, and it is now understood that it could have been carried out only by the sacrifice of MM. Rouher and Pinard, and by impeding seriously M. Magne's financial projects. No doubt the Arcadians knew what they were doing; it may be there was a veritable crisis, but most likely, as I think, the design was to reproach the Opposition Veith its thank lessness for favours received. M. 011ivier's amendment was of course rejected, though supported with a very elo quent and forcible speech in favour of the absolute liberty of the press. His argument was, that the evil of a free press corrects itself. There is no struggle, he argued, with liberty ; you have to struggle only with revolutions ; and, as Montesquien says : "Our histories are full Of civil wars without revolutions ; but in despotic States they are full of revolutions without civil wars." He quoted Benjamin Constant and Royer-Collard, for the principles on which a free press should be based— the right, namely, for every man to think and to express his thoughts without hit drance. He denied that journalists could exercise such influence as the writers of books—such influence as Urich Hutten, Erasmus, Voltaire, Montes quieu, Rousseau, B6ra,nger, Lamartine, or Thiers. He borrowed from Fiev6e the celebrated illustration, " The laws we make against the press are only like the straw you put before the windows of the sick ; they neither prevent the carriages to roll past nor the sick to die." Men speak of the dangers of party. But parties, really, said M. 011ivier, are only small minorities of men. The great bulk of a nation have no leisure for party. They are observers, and pass from one party to another. If they believe that order is compromised by the Progressist party, they revert to the Conservatives; in England they go to the Tories. Again : the more journals there are the less dangerous. An advocate in New York informed him that there were in the single State of New York 800 more newspapers than in the whole of Europe. But their power was nothing remarkable ; and why? Be cause, to use Girardin's phrase, there was la ponderation des libertes. One liberty is weighed against another. The freedom of . meeting neutralises the freedom of the press. *hen Bright and Cobden proclaimed free trade in corn, the Times said "No ;" but " the meetings were stronger than the Times. 011ivier did justice to the " magnanimous inspiration" of the 19th January, but in conclusion ho said : " I regret that the Emperor, who on the 19th January saw things with such an admirable clearness, should have allowed himself to hesitate and be turned aside ; that he should have obeyed narrow suggestions and fears unworthy of him ; that he did not reply to all those prophets and apostles of little. ness in the language, true and proud, of Cardinal de Retz : ' All great things, when not practised, appear impossible only to those who feel themselves incapable of great things.'" After this speech there was a suspension of the sitting for a few minutes. It was well delivered, though I regret to say M. 011ivier is still suffering from his recent fall. His face was a good deal scarred. M. Nogent Saint-Laurens replied. He maintained that 011ivier's theories were impracticable. He ran the gauntlet of the ages to show of what excesses the press had been guilty, and quoted Barante, Chateaubriard, Lamartine, and Senard as witnesses. Apropos of Chateaubriand, Belmontet, the next speaker—the Tyrtceua of the Second Empire—cor rected a little historical error of 011ivier's. It was not Louis Napoleon who took advice of Chateaubriand in Switzerland, but the latter sought out Queen Hortense, and, in addressing her, said, "Je viens saluter l'Avenir." Belmontet recalled a curious little fact, that when he in 1831 published his brochure in defence of the Napoleonic dynasty, M. Thiers, then Minister, threw him in prison for it. He recom mended entire liberty of the press, but his project fared no better than that of M. 011ivier. After M. 011ivier's speech, Emile de Girardin sent him a telegram, beginning thus : " My dear friend, telegrams not being interdicted, I send you one to declare that I have just read your speech. It is incomparably the finest you have ever delivered, and one of the most remarkable that has ever been uttered since the discourse of Royer- Collard against the law of September 1835," &c. In con clusion, he adds : " I retract and withdraw my article of 28th February, 1867." According to Girardin, 011ivier is again " the Minister of the Public Conscience." It appears that in the election at Lille there was a decided majority in the town for the Opposition candidate, but in the country districts he could hardly get a vote. The same thing takes place at Bordeaux, Brest, Avignon, and at other places—the rural communes swamp the towns. The latest from St. Petersburg is an extract from the jo/os, which runs thus : " It is as clear as the day that the reconciliation established between France and Prussia is tantamount to a declaration of war against Russia.' , The Golos doubts if Prussia will throw away the immense advantages of alliance with Russia. It is a great deal . more likely, I imagine, that Bismarck williuse Napolem and the Czar as he needs them. We have news from Madrid to the Ist instant. A private letter states that a tempest in the Philippine Islands has destroyed 4,265 houses. There is no political news of importance, beyond the rumour of continued Carlist conspiracies. The heir of Don Carlos, it is said, will pronounce shortly with the:English Constitution a la main. The nine brigands who stopped a train recently and were baulked of their expected booty, are in prison at. Burgos. We have an important telegram from Florence. It is vo the effect that the dispossessed Italian princes have held a meeting, at which Francis 11., late of Naples, presided, and have agreed on a common policy. Deaths from starvation among the Arabs in Algeria continue to occur. Many are so reduced that succour reaches them too late. The value of French fisheries last year was 50,731,920 f., an increase of 1,623,466 f. over the previous year. Alexander Dumas Pere is about to farm a literary journal, the D'Artagnan. The Austrian Red Book just published shews the ground lessness of the alarms that sprung from the Salzburg Con ference. It is now evident that Austria had at that time resolved to abstain from political combinations, to reor ganise her institutions, and develope her resources. The progress of Hungary during the last nine months aas formed the subject of a report to King Francis Joseph by the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. It states that a plentiful harvest after several years of ailure led to an unparalleled export trade, and the funds coming back in return reanimated industrial and agri cultural enterprise. The proceeds of the Post Office excesided the estimate by 5 per cent., in spite of great reductions in the charges ; the telegraphs yielded 45 per cent. more than in the previous year ; the export of corn amounted to 16,500,000 cwt. ; of flour, 1,890,000 cwt. ; and that of other produce was in proportion. Credit and savings banks and insurance companies have been established, and a large number of industrial and commercial com panies organised. The iren industry has taken a new start, and the Minister calculates an export this year of 600,000 cwt. of raw iron. Steam flour mills arc among the chief industries of the country, and the export of flour will probably supersede that of grain. The Minister lays great stress on the agricultural schools of the country. A letter from Vienna states that Klapka and rerczel are organising a grand national banquet, to which Francis Joseph will be officially invited. He is becoming the most popular sovereign on the Continent. Russian correspondents continue to remark on toe severity of the preient' winter. One of the evils of the rigorous climate is the difficulty of keeping the telegraphs in order. The chief injury 'is done by the accumulation of ice round the wires, which look like cables of ice. The wires often break under the weight. These evils have to be contended against. The agent of an English company is now negotiating with the Russian Government for a telegraph to China and Japan, by way of the Amoor Valley. The Russian part of the line would terminate at Possiette harbour, in the Gulf of Tartary. By the time this line is completed there will be continuous telegraphic communication round the world. An alliance between Roumania and Servia is talked of at Pesth. These principalities contain five millions of people. While they depend upon Russia for protection against the Turk, they are anxious not to depend too much. As Louis XVI., after 1789, had constantly before him the fate of Charles I. of England, so- Prince Charles and Prince Michel remember the cost to Schleswig of the protection of Prussia. Prince Michel remarked the other day that Servia, might as easily come to be called Russia as the Save becomes the Danube, " unless we take care not to be too intimate with a very great Power." There is a rumour to the effect that in case of Sir Charles Selwyn being appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in the room of Sir John Rolt, the University of Cambridge have fixed upon Mr. Anthony Clea,sby, Q.C., as a candidate. The Conservatives have already spoken of Mr. Beresford Hope ; the Liberals of the Marquis of Hartington. If there is any truth in it, the partiality of our universities for those who are learned in the law will receive another illustration. Of the six members now returned by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, four are barristers. Oxford sends Mr. Gathorne Hardy, the Home Secretary ; Cambridge, Mr. Walpole and Sir C. Selwyn, the Solicitor-General ; and Dublin sends Mr. Warren, the Attorney-General for Ireland. Mr. Cleasby unsuccessfully contested East Surrey in the Conservative interest in 1852 and again in 1859. According to the Irish Times, the Treasury have granted £lOO,OOO for the purchase of the Exhibition Palace, the site for the Royal Irish Institute of Art ; also £lOO,OOO for the improvement of Cork Harbour ; and £lOO,OOO for the emstructioa of a harbour in Belfast Lough, THE DUDLEY GALLERY. [SECOND NOTICE.] The post of honour is assigned to Mr. H. S. Marks's "May Day in the Olden Time" (173). This is a picture in three divisions, and is of Considerable size, but has one subject, a May clay procession. The procession is led off by a youth beating a drum, and two men, the one blowing a bagpipe and the other a horn. A girl follows gaily dressed, and bearing a Maypole adorned with a pyramid of evergreens, flowers, and ribbons. Bullocks clad in tapestry draw a low cart, and therein are seated the Queen of the May and her consort, who might have been younger and better looking. Behind the pair are a man seated on a gaily-caparisoned horse, and another provided with a sea monster's tail, and representing Neptune. Young children follow his godship, and lead a hound who bears his honours and decorations meekly. The father and the mother walk next, as much impressed with the solemnity of the occa_ sion as the little ones in front of them. Men in scarlet and armour bring up the rear. The figures are well drawn, and there is an absence of stiffness not easy to attain in a processional picture. But Mr. Marks has no idea of dis tance nor of atmosphere. The mediaeval buildings in the background are as close to the spectator as the procession in the foreground. " Important News " (118), by the same artist, represents a messenger dressed in red, who has just brought a paper to the country parson decked out in wig and black gown, such as country parsons used to wear before the days of cassocks or M.B. waistcoats. The Rev. Mr. Pompous is reading the news with an air which shews that he is endeavouring to prevent the inte rest which he feels from compromising his dignity. "Waiting for Orders" (616) gives us :mother of Mr. Marks's favourite quaint figures in the brick-red costume which he never seems weary of painting. Of the same class as to subject is C. P. Slocombe's " The King's Pictures" (105) . On July 23, 1645, the House of Commons ordered that " all such pictures as are without any superstition shall be forthwith sold for the benefit of Ireland and the North." Ireland was even then a trouble to our statesmen, and they thought they could not do better than sell King Charles's pictures, and give the money to the perennial grumblers of the sister island. But, even to quiet them, there must be no dealings in idolatrous pictures. The Whalleys of that day 'were numerous, and Mr. Slocombe presents us with one in the shape of a long-visaged, sour-faced, cropped-haired Puritan, who inspects every picture with a ,contemptuous sneer, while a less acid companion, who looks as though he had caroused in merrier days, stoops down and hands up the pictures to his colleague. Mr. Rossiter's " Caught in the Act" (152) will compare with the two last-named pictures. He seems to have the same liking for red costume that Mr. Marks has. A red boy is up in an apple-tree, and a man with a red handker chief on his head is just about to use the birch lustily. The picture is comic, and not badly drawn. Mr. Raymond Tucker is an admirer of Mr. Hook. If the sincerest flattery is imitation, the Academician ought to feel much flattered by seeing his green seas and high horizons and clear atmospheres and brown rocks, with which every visitor to Trafalgar-square is so well acquainted, repro duced here in the Dudley Gallery, with water-colours substituted for oils. Mr. Tucker has two pictures, " Waiting for a Bite" (166) and "A Good Catch" (185), A very remarkable piece is Mr. Trautschold's " Winter Scene" (146). It is well placed,and deserves to be ; none more so. A Northern pine forest has received its first coat of snow. It scarcely covers as yet the fallen leaves and the prostrate boughs. But a bear, the only sign of life, knows that Christmas is coming, and is sallying forth on a foraging expedition. If he had any doubt that King Frost was near at hand, he need only look behind him, and see how through the dark forest the sky burns with the gorgeous hues of the winter sun in frosty weather. Danby himself could not have surpassed this sunset. Another Northern scene, hung too far above the line for its merits, is Mr. Arthur Croft's " Rhuikan Fosse, Norway" (170), a really grand scene, with its foaming torrent rushing from the mountains in the background, and precipitating itself through the gorge that gives its name to the picture. Mr. Walter Storks has chosen a gloomy subject for his prin cipal picture. Macaulay has described it : " Now from the Rock Tarpeian Could the wan burghers spy The line of blazing villages Red in the midnight sky." Through the darkness of the night a group of terrified people stand on the famous rock looking across the black waste to the lurid horizon, where the flames and smoke are driven onward by the wind. The picture requires a strong light ; Mr. Holman Hunt's a stronger. This (266) is a very remarkable picture. The first time we saw it we could make nothing of it, for the sun was far down in the west. Coming to it a second time, when the light was full, we were able to make out'the subject. It is the Ponte Vecchio at Florence as seen at night ; surely a very dark night for so low alatitude. The Arno can be distinguished dimly beneath the bridge, and in it are reflected the house by means of a few faint lights that glimmer from the win dows. The colouring is eccentric ; all is sepia except the sky,which is a greenish black. It is Mr. Hunt's only con tribution. We ought to have spoken earlier of Mr. Ward's pictures, by virtue of that artist's R.A.-ship. But we must confess that we care little for either of his works. " A Votary "- (423) is tolerable ; but "A Reverie" (562) is wholly unlike the idea which the word suggests. Hair is made to assume wonderful forms now-a-days, but "A Reverie" suggests a mop of black frizzle (such as Mr. Ward presents us) as little as a chignon. The principal picture by Mr. Cooke, R.A., is " Catalan Bay, Gibraltar " (521), which gives us 'en a smaller scale and in water colours the same scene which Clarkson Stanfield painted for the Royal Academy two or three years ago. Mr. James Hallyar's " Mamma's Head Nurse " (201) is a. taking picture. " Mamma" is invisible. We see only the hand stretched out from the bed curtain, while to the bed draws nigh the " head nurse," in the shape of a little girl, carrying a basin of what people in health call slops. The drawing is very good. Mr. Jos. M. Jopling has one noticeable picture, " Mellissa" (243) " a sweet girl-graduate with the golden hair" that comes streaming from the violet college cap over the violet robe. The cap is set off with a gold tassel, which gives Mr. Jopling an opportunity, turned to good account, of con trasting the two golds—the gold of the tassel and the gold of the hair. Beneath the violet robe a slight glimpse of a red and green vest is seen, while in Mellissa's hand there is a clasped book, and in the hook a marker of brilliant sky-blue ; so that altogether the picture is a study of colour harmony very well worked out. If we were mentioning - the artists in their order of merit we should long ago have spoken of Mr. Arthur Ditchfield's pictures. He has done for green what Mr. Hunt has done for sepia and Mr. H. Marks for red. His two pictures, 250 and 251, are particularly good. His trees show close observation of nature, and while they are minute in detail they have a softness of atmosphere thrown over them which is very rarely seen in these days. Mr. J. C. Moore has two pictures—" The Tiber," three miles from Rome, and " The Shady Sadness of a Vale,"— which shew much careful drawing and finished execution. One of the best pictures in the exhibition is Mr. Vicat Cole's ‘ Evening Shadow" (283). The effect of the gleam of light striking across the country from the setting sun is perfect. A very different scene is Mr. George Hall's " Arran from the Sea" (258). The driving rain and the glimpse of the snowclad mountain through the rift are very fine. Mr. Williams's " White Cliff, Beer, Devon—Sea fog coming on" (424), is another clever bit of atmospheric representation. Mr. Oswald Brierly's large picture, "South Sea Whaling" (445), is boldly painted. It shews us the whaler's boats pulling for their livos.• as the wounded monster rises to the surface spouting forth streams of blood. Mr. J. G. Hodgson has a similar but less exciting scene, "Within the Arctic Circle" (311). Everybody will be glad to see the original sketch (624) of Mr. Poynter's " Israel in Egypt," which attracted so much attention at the Royal Academy last year. It is very small, and for a sketch highly finished. The same artist has " A Portrait " (278), which shews some very careful and painstaking work. the fruit and flower pieces are not so numerous as they generally are in water-colour exhibitions. We notice four pictures by Miss Caroline Eastlake, which shew that the love of art which her name suggests is shared by another generation of her family. Dn the Gth of last October there was a gale Off Labrador, which destroyed 80 vessels and numerous lives ; on the 29th there was a hurricane at St. Thomas, which destroyed nearly 100 vessels and nearly 1,000 lives ; on the 30th there was a hurricane at St. Domingo ; on November the Ist there was one at Hong Kong ; on the 2nd there was one at Calcutta, during which the loss of life and property was very great ; on the 3rd the eruption of Vesuvius commenced ; on the Bth there was a tornado at Matamoros, which did damage to the amount of a million sterling ; on the 20th there was a volcanic eruption in Nicaragua ; and also on the 20th there was an earth- quake felt at New York, Vermont, and Canada. Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., attended a ragged-school meeting in Manchester, and made some observations on the state of education amongst the poorest classes. lie said he was disposed to measure the civilisation of a country by the condition of its humblest inhabitants, and thought we had dazzled the world long enough with the munificence of men of large landed estates and of m e n who had made colossal fortunes. By the side of these there were no inconsiderable proportion of the people half clad, half fed, and totally uneducated. He did not see the necessity for a continuance of such a state of things ; nor did he see the continued necessity for the existence of ragged schools if those in whose hands the government of the country was placed looked closely into the sources of the mischief. Cie.`l4A-44Y1- 'l.•*4 C. 61111 Enralibt HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 4. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Christian and Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein, and attended by the Duchess of Athole. Lord Alfred Paget was in attendance on horse back. Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur. THE PRESS IN FRANCE. The report of the discussion in the Corps Legis atif on the bill on the press, and mocking com mentaries on the subject of the Sixth Chamber, which conelemne I ten journals to fines of £4O each, continue to occupy the columns of the Paris journals. The Debats lea Is off with the following : —" Foreign journals will appreciate in full secu rity the speech delivered by M. Thies, in yester day's sitting of the Corps Legislatif. We do not enjoy the same privileges as the journals of Lon don, Berlin, and Vienna, and will not run the risk of saying whether in our opinion the orator was above or below himself on this occasion. We must refer the reader to the shorthand report of the Moniteur, with so much of an opinion, if it be allowed to us, that he will not regret the time and labour he de votes to reading it." The same journal coutains an article by John Lemoinne, in which that writer says :—" Now that we are dispensed from making speeches we dispense ourselves from reading them. We may, however, contemplate them in the sacred supplecsients of the Illoniteur. But since we can no longer occupy our selves with the dialogues of the living, let us seek in the dialogues of the dead soul.) reflections on the liberty of thinking, speaking, and writing." The writer then proceeds to quote from the well known epistle of Pliny the Younger to the Emperor Trajan, from Dr. Johnson, Royard-Collard, Milton, Pascal, and Swedenborg, and winds up by observ ing Truly, after having conversed wi h these, we can console ourselves at not having to read such and such an orator, whom the Sixth Chamber will not allow us to name. We prefer the ' Dialogues of the Dead.' " The Avenir National observes :—" To tell ra- tional beings—You have the right to discuss, but only ' within certain limits,' when it is impossible to define these limits ; to permit us to judge of a speech without being able to indicate its bearing ; to support or combat the opinion of a speaker with out being able`to say what that opinion is—is to out rage common sense and to get us into a net under the delusion of asserting our right." The Liberte remarks that the experience of the Governments which succeeded each other from 1789 to 1852 show that it is impossible to fetter the liberty of the press. " But," it adds, "in spite of evidence, in spite of history, which, it appears, have neither rays of light nor instruction for it, the Imperial Government persists in believing it can be done." The Temps commences an article thus :—" Yes- terday's sitting in the Corps Legislatif"--here it breaks off to speak of the proceedings in the Italian Parliament. The Union says :—" We must be mute. To be silent, to be silent again, to be silent always, this is what afflicts us ; not on our own account, but on account of the representatives of universal suf frage ; on account of the honour of our country." Even La France joins in as follows :—" But it would be dangerous to appreciate these speeches, to give the names of those who made them, to refer to the subject of which they treat, or to indicate the impression which they have produced. Our readers will supply our forced silence by turning to the re port of the sitting." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAM MUD az, Feb. 1. The Smith's prizes have been awarded to--Ist, Ds. Moulton, St. John's College ; 21, Ds. Darwin, Trinity College. In April next there will be open for competition at St. John's College four Minor Scholarships, two of the value of £7O per annum, and two of £5O per annum, besides the five following Exhibitions : Three of £5O per annum, tenable on the same terms as the Minor Scholarships; two of £5O per annum, tenable for three years. The examination of can didates will commence on Tuesday, the 21st of April, at nine a.m., and will be in mathematics and classics. Besides the nine Minor Scholarships or Eihibi dons above mentioned, there will be offered for competition an Exhibition of £5O per annum for proficiency in Natural Science, the Exhibition to be tenable for three years. The examination for this Exhibition will be in chemistry, electricity, heat, and light. Candidates may be examined in geology, anatomy, physiology, or botany, provided they give notice of the subjects in which they wish to be examined four weeks before the examination. Candidates must send their names to one of the tutors at least ten days before the commencement of the examination. The Minor Scholarships are open to all persons under 20 years of age who have not yet commenced residence in the University, or who are in the first term of their residence, and are tenable for two years, or until the scholar is elected to one of the 'oundation scholarships. The Exhibitions are not united in respect to the age of candidates. An examination will be held at Emmanuel College in the present Term for t wo open Foundation Scholar ships of £6O a-year each, tenable till B.A. (and with permission of the Master and Fellows till &t.A.) The examination will be held on March 31 and April 1, and will be open to all students under 20 years of age who have not commenced residence in the University. The classical examination will be general, but the mathematical examination will not extend beyond the following subjects :—Arithmetic, Euclid, algebra, geometrical conics, plane trigo4 nometry, plane co-ordinate geometry. The clas sical and mathematical parts of the examination will be carried on simultaneously, and are quite distinct, so that no candidate can enter for both classics and mathematics. It is intended, if competent candi dates present themselves, to award one scholarship by the result of each part. The successful candi dates will be required to come into residence next October. A certificate of baptism and a testimonial of good moral character by some Master of Arts of Oxford or Cambridge will be required from each candidate, and must be forwarded to the Rev. S. G. Phear, Tutor of Emmanuel College, be fore March 25. Four scholarships, tenable for three years—one of £6O, two of £l9, and one of £2O per annum— will be open to competition in April next at Mag dalene College. The examination will commence on Tuesday, April 21, and will he open to students of the College and to persons who intend to com mence residence at the University not later than the Michaelmas term following. The subjects for the examination will be Euclid, arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, and conic sections, treated geometri cally and algebraiclly, and passages from Greek and Latin authors for translation, together with com position in Greek and Latin prose and verse. Each candidate is requested to forward his name and age, together with a certificate of good cha racter from a Master of Arts of Oxford or Cam bridge, to the Rev. M. Bright, Tutor of Magdalene College, on or Lef ore Friday, April 3. Of those whose names recently appeared in the mathematical tripos, six wranglers, including the ienior, had previously obtained first-class honours in the local examinations of the University ; three ienior optimes and two junior optimes likewise had .rassed in the local examinations. It cannot, of 3ourse, be assumed that these would not have come o the University if they had not succeeded in the , ocal examination ; but it is probable that some of ',hem may have been influenced by their first success to try for further distinctiod at the University. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Feb. 5. The Moniteur of this morning in its bulletin says --" On the occasion of M. Benedetti, the French Ambassador, presenting his credentials as the re presentative of France to the North German Con federation, the King of Prussia said that he was happy to behold in that step a certain pledge of friendly relations between the two Governments. He also spoke of the remembrance he should always retain of the reception he met with at Paris from the Emperor and Empress of the French." The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Bucharest stating that three bands of armed individuals, each baud 450 strong, are assembled at different points of the Danubian Principalities. They appear to be under the command of foreign leaders, and are preparing to enter Bulgaria to set fire to the Turkish villages and renew the scenes of brigandage which were suppressed last year. The Roumain Government having been warned off their intention is preparing to disrm• these bands, and to prevent by every means at its command an expedi tion which would entail upon it so heavy a respon sibility. BOURSE, FEB. 4.—The market is not altogether satisfactory to-day. Three o'clock. —The market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month... Its Fan Loan 3 per Cent End of month 6B 45 Mexican Loan ... 16 50 Credit, Mobilier 176 25 Do. B onds ...... 128 75 End of month 175 Spanish Threes ... 37 50 Credit Foncier l3BO Home Debt...... ......... Deferred End of month 1371 25 Account Orleans ..... i BBO Northern ll6O Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 540 Western Eastern ............ .. 5371 Sardinian Austrian 520 Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Boman 47 RAILWA • THE IJNIVEP.SITY OF EDINBURGH AND AGRICUL- T URE.—We understand that a letter has been received from the Treasury stating that a sum of 4150 will be put on the estimates in support of the chair of agriculture at Edinburgh ; and that, in consideration of the liberality of passing degrees, n g the Highland Society, w hich also voted a like sum to aid the salary of tho professor , the Senatu s Acadernicus are now engaged in organising a de p artment of agriculture in the Faculty of Arts , un der which stude nts in agriculture students will be received into the U niversit y s y st ems of education in h through the in stead of being in a complete s t at e of isolation, as they have hi t h e rto been.—Scotsman. t ir e same curriculum manner in the as several other aeulti s REPRESENTATION OF BRIGHTON.---111 consequence of a rumour which has been extensively circulated that Lord Pelham, eldest son of the Earl of Chichester, Lord Lieutenant of the county, will be a candidate for Brighton at the next general election , his lordship has written to the Associati on d eny i ng th e circumstances will I en deavourss e ta c t r e e m t a e r 0; o f an tdh divideae d dl the al L L i b "Undere ibe ra r noLiberal party by standing against the present members for Brighton." THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE HOUSE OF COR RECTION'.—The prisoners injured ou the treadmill of the House of Correction on Monday last are in a satisfactory state. The man Mortimer, whose leg is broken, lies at present in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A Swede, named Johnson, one of whose fingers Was top off,. is being treated by Dr. Sniiles, the prison surgeon. Who other prisoners (eleven in number) who Were hurt only received slight injuries, and they are all recovered, or nearly so. HEALTH OF ENGLAND.—The mortality of 1867 was below the averag e i n almost every part o f th e king dom. The south-east ern di visio n , as usua l, stands first, with a mortality of o n l y 18 . 90 per thousan d f o r this whole , , section of the cou n t ry, taking both bad an d good. The south-western also, a s usual is next having a mortality of 19.13 per thousand; and then the eastern, 19.33. The several midland divisions follow—the north midland, . 20.31; the south midl and, 20 . 32 ; the west m idland, 20.70; and Monmouthshire an d W ales, 2u 68. The place of Lon don is next, the mor t a li ty of 1867 being as l o w as 22.98 ; Yorkshire, which has been commonly above London, is on this occasion below it, having a mortality of 23 64 per thousand. The northern division makes an extraordi nari y bad return of 24.73 per thousand ; but, now , as ever, the north-western di v i s i on (Lancashire and Cheshire) is lowest of all, having to return a mortality of 25.89 per thousand—a return which is a bad one even for this district. DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF CIILORODYNE.— An inquest was hold on Monday afternoon, at Bridgwater on the body of Mr. Samuel Selfe, aged 63, in the employ of the dock c ompany. It appeared from the evidence that the deceas e d f or several days pas t had been a great sufferer from t oo th ac h e. On Thurs d ay n ight last he re mained upon the s o f a i n hi s par l our, i ns tead of going to bed, and at sev en o ' c l oc k on the f o ll ow i ng morning, when his housekeeper came downstairs, ho appeased to be very ill. Upon the table she saw two bottles, one labelled " Laudanum Chlorodyne." He died that day, and a post mortem examination, made by Dr. Bent, showed that de ceased had taken opium and chlorodyne. The jury be lieved that he had taken an overdose of chlorodyne in his effort to relieve the toothache, and returned a verdict accordingly. MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.--A bottle was picked up on the Devon coast, about four miles from Barnstaple, on Friday night, cont a i n i ng a p i ece o f paper on which was written the following, in p enc il : —" S. S. Volle stine. We are now sinking fast off th e Smalle, and we are t akin g to the boat. Signed. William Kelly, was., 18, 1, 108."