The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT' OP TIIB PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, calling attention to the motion made by Lord Russell in the House of Commons in 1835, points out that Mr. Gladstone's resolution is almost identical with that of the Whig peer. Lord Russell moved, precisely thirty-three years ago, "That this House resolve itself into a committee of the whole House to consider the temporalities of the Church of Ireland ;" and a little before three o'clock in the morning of the following Satnrday,the motion was carried by 322 against 289 votes. On Monday, the 30th March, 1868, after more than the lifetime of a generation, Mr. Gladitone will rise to propose his motion. Once more the Irish Church will be made the subject of assault, and it is not a little remarkable that the leader of the attack on this occasion both voted and spoke against Lord Russell's earlier motion. Is there any reason, the Times asks, why Mr. Gladstone's proposal to go into committee on the Irish Church in 1868 should be less warmly supported than Lord John Russell's in 1835? 'There is one consider able reason, and, as it is the only one which appears to us of any force, it is right that it should be brought at once to the front and examined. If on examination it prove insuperable, the proposal to go into committee must fail., If it prove insufficient, the opposition fails, for no other reason can be adduced capable of successful advocacy. The single argument against Mr. Gladstone's proposal it that the success of 1835 led to nothing. Sir Robert"Peet quitted office, and the Melbourne Administration assumee the direction of affairs. But the promised reform of the Irish Establishment was never effected, and from that time to this its essential condition had remained unchanged. 14 may be remarked, however, that the failure in 1835 was, due to the action of the Upper House. The temper of the peers has now changed, and there is every reason to believe that they would consider this motion in a different spirit from their predecessors. The objection raised, there .fore, is untenable. The Post observes that the method adopted by the Government is extremely unusual. Whilst opposing the first step for bringing Mr. Gladstone's resolutions under the notice of the House, they do not ignore their tenour by simply meeting the motion thatthe Speaker leave the chair with a formal negative. Instead of doing so, they suggest the affirmation by the House of something in the nature of a resolution bearing a faint resemblance to those which they refuse to entertain. This, to say the least, is rather disingenuous. What possible object can be gained by asking the House solemnly to declare that under some possible circumstances, which are neither known nor defined, some particular legis lation equally unascertained may become expedient? As to the form, the Post is of opinion that Mr. Gladstone will move that the House do resolve itself into a committee for the parpose of considering the resolutions of which he has given notice, and Lord Stanley will thereupon move his amendment. On the issue thus raised a debate will follow, which will last the week, and in which the entire question of disestablishment will be thoroughly ventilateo. If the Government are victorious, the matter will then end. If, however, they are beaten, the discussion of the resolu tions in committee will take place after the recess. The Daily News declares that no language could be worse chosen than that of Lord Stanley's motion. What the House is called on to do is not, like a defaulting bank. rupt anxious to conceal the truth of his delinquencies, to admit somethim buk to express an opinion : not to make an admission which, when made. wilt amount to /*thing but idle words, bat tc declare its opinion a. to the con tinuance of tlie Irish Church. No doubt, says the Standard, Mr. Gladstone would lave been exceedingly gratified if the Government had elected to meet him with " a manly negative," which might have been construed as implying that it absolutely declined to recognise the necessity for instituting reforms in the Irish Church ; but that would have exposed Ministers to an unfair interpretation, seeing that they sedulously abstained from committing themselves to that extent. They are ready to proceed to legislate, when they have the warrant of the Royal Commission for doing so, and pending this they ask the House to declare that the violent action proposed by Mr. Gladstone is premature. It is the conviction that this amendment bits the blot in the programme of the Opposition chief ‘ and that it indicates a policy on the part of the Govern• meat which may fairly be expected to receive the support of moderate men of all parties, which dictates this out burst of Liberal spleen and vituperation. The Cave is being re-established, and the Tea-room party enlarged, and there is a fair prospect that by the co-operation of those Liberals who can afford to be independent, the chances of Mr. Gladstone and the office-seekers may be foiled, and the grand work of the session carried to a successful con summation. The party of faction is nervous, apprehensive : almost despairing. One can readily pardon the angry ill temper bred of disappointment and envenomed by the sense of coming defeat. THE NONCONFORMISTS AND MR. GLADSTONE'S MOTION. The English Independent contains a leader in which it says the blast has at length been sounded which summonses the Liberal party to assault the citadel of intolerance ; public opinion has decided that we inflict wrongs upon our countrymen across the channel which we would not petiently brook at home. Liberals who deserve the appel lation are united in the belief that the Irish Church must fall, and Mr. Gladstone could not have resisted giving effect to this conclusion without abdicating his position as leader of the party. The same paper goes on to say that the Government will no doubt be sorely pimled how to act ; there can be no threat of dissolution, for the nation would be indignant at the Minister who, for the sake of a few months' power, would compel the country to rush into the turmoil of a general election, and the threat of resignation would affect nobody. The Government must either stand at bay or lay down their arms, and either alternative is a desperate one, as in ' the former case the Government would go before the country with the battle - cry of Church and State, and the upholding of the Irish Church, or, in the latter case, to accept the orders of their adversaries would be the list humiliation. Mr. Disraeli would - swallow it easily and comfortably,, but the Independent does not think his party would. There only remains one course open, and that is, to refuse an opinion on the subject ; but that is impossible, except by the treachery of some Liberal members, and that cannot for a moment be anticipated. THE SCHOOLS INQUIRY COMMISSION. Yesterday was published Volumes 2 to 6 of the Report of the Schools Inquiry Commission. The first volume, as our readers know, has already been published. In the second a copy is given of the circular sent to certain gen tlemen, asking them to give their opinion on various matters referred to the commission. There are answers from the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., the Right Hon. T. Sotheron-Estcourt, the Rev. Dr. Angus, Mr. Montague Bernard (the Pro fessor of International Law at Oxford), the Rev. J. W. Blakely, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, the Right Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge, and from the Deans of Hereford, Norwich, and Salisbury, Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., and others. The same volume contains the intructions given to the Assistant Commissidiers, the ques tions addressed to each school, a report of the committee of the British Association, and a valuable digest of the 'evidence given before the commissioners. The third volume contains the reports relating respectively to Christ's Hospital ; St. Olave, .Southwark ; Dulwich College ; Birmingham, Manchester, Bedford, Tonbridge, and Monmouth Schools. The fourth and fifth volumes contain the evidence taken before the commis sioners from February 28, 1865, to April 24, 1866. The 6th volume consists of a report on certain burgh schools, and other schools of secondary education in Scotland, by Mr. D. R. Fearon, M.A., one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools ; a report on the system of education for the middle and upper classes in France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, by Mr. Matthew Arnold, M.A. ; and a communication on the condition of secondary education in the Netherlands, by Baron D. Mackay. The text of a bill has been published, the object of which is to relieve certain officers employed in the collection and management of her Majesty's revenues from any legal disability to vote at the election of mem bers to serve in Parliament. The bill has been prepared by Mr. Monk, Sir IL Verney, and Mr. Otway, who simply propose to effect the object in view by the repeal of existing enactments which disfranchise revenue officers. The late dispute between the colliery owners and their men in the West Yorkshire district has at last come to a termination by the whole of the colliers resuming work, some at the 10 per cent. reduction, but the majority having their wages reduced only 7i per cent. The men and their employers came to an amicable agreement with out the former being necessitated to give up their tools ; and the masters promised that when trade revived, and the demand for coal was greater, the miners' wages should be increased proportionately. FATAL OCCURRENCE AT ERITH. —The body of Mr. Edmund Bignell, coal merchant, Eritb, has been found by the railway crossing near Erith Church, with his neck dislocated. The deceased was last seen alive in a vehicle at the crossing, and when the body was found the horse and vehicle were proceeding unattended in the direc tion of Lessness•heath. Nothing certain can at present be positively stated as to how he came by his death. ROMAN AFFAIRS. ,From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette) ROME, March 21. The ceremonials connected with the creation of the new cardinals have overflowed into this week. The public consistory was held on Monday, in which the hats were conferred and the titles assigned ; they are, I think, identical with the list I sent yon before with one error, that instead of taking his title from the Pace, Cardinal Bonaparte snoceeds Cardinal Wise man at Sta. Pudenziana. The telegrams will doubtless have super seded the necessity of sending you, now so many days after, the names of the new bishops and new dioceses appointed; it suffices to allude to them to recall the fecundity of the present pontificate in spreading and multiplying the agency of the Church. In the afternoon the new proporati met at the Gesii, and, attended by an escort of dra goons went in state to visit the shrine of the apostles together. In the evening the hats were carried round to each in state, serving men with torches walking by the side of the carriage, and Mgr. Ricci, who delivered them, had to make an address at each presentation. To do honour to its reception the grandest of the three ricevimenti is always that given on this evening, and those of Monday were bril liant reunions, although the regulation of attending in court dress made them less crowded than when that restriction has not existed. Those at the Spanish and French Embassies were, from the fact of their being at ambassadors' palaces, of course, the most brilliant. Sefior de Castro, who received for Cardinal Moreno in his absence, displayed a truly Castilian state. That Cardinal Bona parte's was held at the palace of the Emperor's representation instead of at his own can only be ascribed to his modest and retiring habits, and his disinclination for the pomp his im perial cousin may have considered befitting the occasion. dread and final call whenever it might come, so that this token of a dignity he had so little merited might at least not have to rest upon the feretrum of a castaway. His language and his attitude have been scarcely less the subject of discussion than the words with which the Pope accompanied the conferring his cardinalitial berretta. Speaking of the high dignity newly bestowed, and the responsibilities it entailed in the influence ex ercised on other men, for good or evil, accord ing to the example set to those who wear it, he would borrow, he said, a comparison from a matter of modern industry. It was like a train borne along the rails by steam power. If there was an obstruction on the metals the whole system was thrown out of its course with the most disastrous results. And then he alluded to some who troubled him thus ; and it has been thought he meant to imply that Cardinal d'Andrea is kept away from all the cappellas and cardinalitial functions by something more under his own control than the indisposition he alleges as the impediment; and to give the Emperor to understand that he was not likely to yield in the matter of making a cardinal of a certain favourite, and thus, perhaps, avoid further importunity in the matter. I was shown yesterday the Golden Rose which the Pope will bless on Sunday, the fourth of Lent. As one was sent lately to the Queen of Spain, that for this year is a new one, as, though the ceremony is always performed on Mid-Lent Sunday, it is not given away every year. There have been four given by the present Pope. One, made in the reign of Gregory XVI., to Maria Pia, daughter of Victor Emmanuel, at her baptism in 1847. One in 1849 to the late Queen of Naples, Maria Theresa, daughter of Archduke Charles of Austria, on the occasion of the baptism of her daughter, Maria delle Grazie Pia. The third to the Empress of the French at the baptism of the Prince Imperial ; and the fourth, this year, to her Catholic Majesty. That now about to be blessed represents a flowering shrub, seventeen or eighteen inches high, bearing on thorny stems many leaves, and thirteen blossoms and buds. The rose which surmounts the rest is made to open, and con tains scent inserted at the time of its bene diction. It is of twenty-two carat gold, and the workmanship is good, but it is made after a long-prevailing pattern of no very striking merit. Its value is about £l,OOO. The vase in which it will be inserted admits of greater variety of design. For to-morrow's ceremony it stands in one belonging perma nently to the Sacristy of St. Peter's ; but that in which it will ultimately be placed, before it is regalato, is designed by Vespiniani, and will be a very beautiful piece of work ; the stand will be adorned with lapis lazuli and other precious pietre dure. The body of the vase bears in relief two subjects treated with great care and, success—the Presentation of our Lady in the Temple and the Birth of our Lord. It is a labour of time, and it may well be a year before it is ready, though it may be longer still before it is wanted for use. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, mARca 30, 1868, writing on the subject of the Royal Army of France, says :—" It is not impossible that it was from this circumstance that the King adopted a banner powdered with flowers ; for the name of rose is typical of all flowers ; the lily was called by the ancients the rose of Juno, and I have seen the so-called golden rose of the Pope's bearing a form quite unlike that of a common rose, so that what Alexander gave to Louis the Young may very well have been that of the iris or present fleur-de-luce of France, and the Pope himself simply calls it fiorem aureum.' " In 1177 the same Pope, having appointed to meet and conclude terms of peace with Frederic I. at Venice, had occa sion thus to spend LaetareSunday of 1177 in that city. He performed the rite of blessing the golden rose in St. Mark's, and presented it afterwards to the Doge Sessano Ziani. It was preserved in the treasury of St. Mark's, with others subsequently received. Several perished in a fire. That which one now sees there is of much later date. Henry VIII. of England received three, the first from Julius 11., the second from Leo X., and the third, in 1524, from Clement VII. Paul 111. gave it to Queen Mary. After this time it would seem to have been more often given to women than previously. Urban VIII. sent it to Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I. The following is the form of conferring it on those to whom, on account of their absence from Rome, it has to be sent by proxy : " Receive this rose from our hand, who con sign it to thee under special commission, given us for this purpose by our Most Holy Father in Christ and Lord Pius IX., Pope by the pro vidence of God. It symbolizes to thee the joy of both the Jerusalems, that is the Church tri umphant and the Church militant, for which reason this flower is seen to be beautiful by all faithful Christian men, for it is the joy and the crown of the saints. Receive it, beloved daughter, who art, according to the measure of this world, powerful and noble, and adorned with many virtues, but that these be rather ennobled by every virtue in Christ, like unto a rose planted beside a fountain of running water. The Lord grant thee of His overflowing mercy, who is Three and One, world without end. Amen." The allusion made to the typical Jerusalem arose from the ceremony of the Pope bearing the rose in the public office of the Church, being in early times performed at the Basilica of Sta. Croce in Gerusalemme, in Rome. The present custom of blessing it within the Palace, as well as that of celebrating many other sacred functions in the Chapel of the Apos tolic Palace, arises from the sojourn of the Holy See at Avignon. St. Sisto, one of the stational churches this week, is remarkable for being that where St. Dominic commenced his labours of preaching, NVI - rence his' order derived its subsidiary title, and where be instituted the devotion of the Rosary ; also, as the resting-place of no less than seven canonized Popes—St. Sixtus, Secundus, Felix, Zephirinus, Auterus, Lucius, and Lucian-as. Several of the morning papers discuss the judgment of Sir Robert Phillimore in the matter of Martin v. Mackonochie. The Times observes that the most charac teristic innovations of the Ritualists are pronounced to be contrary to the law of the English Church. The signifi cance of such a decision is not to be measured merely by the number of acts condemned. These practices were the culminating points of the innovations. They were the outward expression of the peculiar doctrines of the party, and their condemnation amounts to an authoritatiVe decla ration that the characteristic doctrines of the Ritualists cannot receive their natural expression without con flicting with the law of the English Church. With regard to the issue of the appeal of which notice is given, the /Wing journal has no doubt, if the prosecutions are judi ciously conducted: If our Articles will not restrain Romish doctrines and Romish ceremonial, it can only be concluded that all legal restrictions are worthless. The Articles were drawn up for this purpose, and can scarcely fail to fulfil it. If the result should be otherwise, we must adapt ourselves to it as best we may. We all stand upon law in public matters, and to abide by it is the only secu rity for peace. We cannot share the horror which is sometimes expressed at ecclqjastical prosecutions, fo• experience has shown that the final decision of the Judi cial Committee, however unwelcome at first, has in the end always allayed theological animosity. ft may, perhaps, says the Daily News, help t' a clearer understanding of what this judgment really effects—sup posing, of course, that it is not appealed against by either party—if we consider what changes will be noticed at the " high celebration " at St. Alban's, Holborn, next Easter Sunday by a spectator familiar with the general aspect which the church presented on the same day last year. He would probably, if unaccustomed to the ceremonial adopted in Ritualist churches, have been struck on first entering with the decorations of the altar and the unusual colour of its coverings. In this respect there will be no chat whatever. On either side of the cross, stuictl vied by the same authority stood last Letter two liebted candles. Under Sir Robert Phil limore's judgment they will stand there next Easter too. When the officiating clergy entered the church, our imaginary observer would have noticed the peculiar shape and hue of their vestments. This species of ornament is so obviously within the law that the promoters of the late suit were not advised to dis -1)14-, it. As the service proceeded he would have been ce , l-eious of the presence of incense ; but on this point, a6.ei, the judgment of the Court of Arcnes makes no actual change, for the practice of " tensing persons and things," which is much more than the use of incense in worship, and which was alone charged in the Articles, his been abandoned since the close of 1866. So, too, with regard to the elevation of the consecrated elements. One leparture, however, from the usages hitherto adopted at St. Alban's there will be. Formerly, when the wine was po-,,L ed into the chalice, just before the Prayer for the .Jhurch Militant, a few drops of water were poured in first. This is now declared illegal, and if the observer's eye is very keen and his attention very fixed he will doubtless detect the omission. Up to the present time this is the whole appreciable result of the prosecution of Mackonochie. The Telegraph Passes what can hardly be called a culogium on the late Earl of Cardigan, or, as he was called before his elevation to the peerage, Lord Brudenell. Handsome in person, a splendid horseman, eager to dis tinguish himself, Lord Brudenell would probably have become a castrate cavalry leader had he not possessed a painful defect—a temper which he had not been trained to control, and a manner harsh and overbearing. No sooner had fortune presented him with the command of a regi ment, than his imperious nature broke out. He quar relled with Major Wathen upon a point of regimental etiquette ; a court-martial followed ; Lord Brudenell was censured and placed on half pay. In less than two yea rs after his disgrace he found means to get himself replaced on full pay, and restored to the command of a regiment, the 11th Hussars, then in India. Thither he proceeded in 1332, and apparently the officers of the 11th were prejudiced against their commander, and the foundation was laid for those quarrels which broke out so violently when the regal:l:ClA returned home. When he had brought the regiment home the whole country rang with his name and his doings. Within two years he had insulted one captairl'; by reprimanding him for the grave delinquency of introducing Rhine wine in a "blaclz bottle " at a grand mess banquet ; he had provoked another into a breach of discipline, which ended hi the expulsion of the injured man from the service ; he had fought a duel with a third, and had been tried for felony by his peers ; and, fresh from this ordeal, so little did he care for public opinion, he had flogged a man at Hounslow Barracks after parade on a Sunday afternoon ! The best that could be said of him was that he erred through excess of zeal ; the worst, that he yielded to the promptings of an arrogant and despotic temper. RETURN OF TIM QUEEN TO THE METROPOLIS.--• Her Majesty the Queen, with the junior members of the Royal Family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, will, it is expected, according to - the latest arrangements, leave Windsor Castle on Monday, or the commencement of the week, for Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, it is understood, will remain about a week in the metropolis. BILLIARD ROOMS IN BARRACKS.—The members who voted in the minority for disallowing the item of £.3,000 for billiard rooms in barracks, were Messrs. Allen, Ayrton, Bazley, Berkeley, Colvile, Cowen, Dillwyn, Gaselee, Gilpin, Greville-Nugent, Hadfield, Harris, Lee, M`Laren, J. S. Mill, Otway, Potter (E.), Robertson, Sheridan, Sykes, Taylor, Winterbotham, Young, and Sir John Gray. The majority was composed nearly equally of Ministerialists and members of the Opposition. We believe that, although it is quite true that various efforts have been made for the establishment of a new bishopric for British congregations in South America, nothing has yet been settled, and no appointment formally proposed. The endowment of the see is not yet forth coming, and it is doubtful whether there will be any ex tension of the colonial episcopate until the legal questions Involved in the Natal case are finally settled. Meanwhil, active measures are being taken with regard to Mada• gascar, and owing to the resignation of Bishop Ryan an arrangement in this case may probably be effected. Strenuous efforts are also being made to secure episcopal superintendence for Northern Europe, with Heligoland as the see.—Herald. • THE EASTER VOLUNTEER REVIEW.—The arrange ments for the review at Portsmouth are now approaching completion. A good idea, by Which a great relief to the pressure on the roads leading to the space where the battle will take place, has been decided on by the conversion of a footpath from Stainshaw to Hillsea lines. Over this ground 7,000 or 8,000 troops will march to the scene of action, and a consequent sensible relief to the passage of the troops on the main turnpike-road will be afforded. A noticeable novelty for the sight-seers will be a grand night attack on the shore defences of the garrison. Public meetings are being held at all•the neighbouring towns of Portsmouth, and cordial assistance is given to the execu tive, which bids well for the general success of the day's proceedings. HORSES AT RAILWAY BRIDGES.—An inquest has been held on the body of a gentleman who was killed in consequence of his horse taking fright at the whistling of an engine as it passed over the Camden-street bridge of the North London Railway. The deceased, it appeared, was riding a spirited horse which had before exhibited signs of impatience. He had recovered his control over it, however, when suddenly a train rushed across the bridge with the whistle blowing, upon which the horse bolted off, and in its headlong course stumbled and fell with its rider under it. The unfortunate man was picked up in a state of insensibility, and died from frac ture of the skull. The bridge parapet was said to be so low as to permit the handles of the carriage-doors to be seen from the street. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a special finding as to the unsatis factory state of the bridge. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AND Loss OF FOUR LIVES. —A lamentable boat accident has occurred in Poole har bour, by which it is beyond doubt that four lives were lost. It appears that a clay-cutter named Thomas Fry, 50 years of age, left the quay at Poole in a canoe, for Middlesborough, near Wareham, about six miles from Poole Quay. He had with him in the boat his son, about five or six years of age, a girl named Mary Ann Green, aged 16, and hei sister, Emily Green, aged between two and three, the daughters of John Green, of Middles borough. Fry had also in the boat a sack of grass seed and various other things which took up room and un doubtedly tended to overload it. Tho canoe also, it appears, was an old one, and leaky. Fry was sober, and as the night was calm, those standing near the landing steps on the quay did not think any danger was to be ap prehended. The boat, however, never reached its desti nation, ane the next time it was seen was about nine o'clock on Thursday morning, when it was found by two men who were " eel peeking " in Wareham Channel. Pre viously to discovering the boat, which was found bottom upwards, they found the dead body of the little girl Emily Green floating on the water. They brought the body to Poole, and placed it in the care of the police, and steps were promptly taken to find, if possible, the bodies of Fry and his son, and Mary Ann Green, who, there is no doubt, were drowned, but these efforts have as yet been in vain. An inquest was held on Thursday, by Mr. G. B. Aldridge, coroner, on the body of the child, Emily Green, when all the evidence procurable was given. Nothing, of course, was known as to the manner in which the accident occurred, and the jury returned an (wen verdict of r Found drowned.", Some Italian papers have written silly things about the gold-coloured sand strewn before the embassy, as if it had been ostentatiously done as a presage of the exalted expectations in that quarter, but though it is true gold coloured sand. marks the line of the Pope's pro gress on all occasions of state, it is certainly not confined to his use, And is frequently thrown down for the commonest purposes, such as when the streets are slippery, probably because yellow sand is the easiest to obtain in the neighbourhood. On the evening in ques tion, however, it was certainly not confined to the Piazza of the Dodici Apostoli. I rather think it was laid down at the localities of all the ricevimenti to dull the sound of the car riages on the pavement, but I can, at all events, testify to its being abundantly used at the Propaganda, where Mgr. Capalti, and Gonella presided, as well as at the Spanish Embassy. The Times has, I see, drawn similiar infer ences from premises which warrant them no more.. The writer of its article on the Con sistory infers that because Cardinal Bonaparte was created separately from the other cardi nals, he will, therefore, certainly succeed to the Apostolic See. Without touching on the pro. babilities of that idea, I may remark that it has always been the custom here,. in con ferring the cardinalitial dignity on members of a royal or imperial family, to make them the subject of a distinct and special ceremony of creation, generally at an interval of some weeks, at least, from any other. I understand that in the present instance the precedent was departed from out of regard to the wishes of the prelate in question, who shrank from the special honour. So that though it was com muted into a separate repetition of the creative formula, it was certainly not by any means an extraordinary homage, but the contrary. Perhaps here, while commenting on those little inaccuracies in the correspondence of other papers, I may be allowed to say a word with reference to some comments on my own. I have not seen the attack, but I am told the Weekly Register had some weeks back an angry remark because, at the time the Con sistory was first announced, I mentioned that the name of the Archbishop of Westminster was spoken of among those likely to be among the new eminentissimi. Now, I know there are correspondents who claim a sort of gift of omniscience, and write as if they wanted people to think they had private supernatural intuitions as to the future, but I hold all such pretension ridiculous, and consider it one's province only to chronicle judiciously the most probable of the countless statements which are discussed in various circles around one, and to cull from the multitude of reports those likely to be interesting to one's readers. As in any competition, the name of the proxime accessist is looked for with equal interest to that of the winner, for there must be but the faintest shade of difference between the ultimately de cided for, and the reluctantly decided against, just so it seemed to me that readers at home would find as much pleasure in finding those they knew and revered among the latter as in reading the bare names of comparatively strangers among the former. The only ques tion as to the right to make the report had to be decided by the weight of the authority from which it was received, and I take this opportunity, therefore, of affirming that, while I am never very indiscriminate in the selec tion of proofs, I had the most excellent grounds for what I said on this occasion. To return to Cardinal Bonaparte. I would not have it understood, by anything I have said above, that I by any means mean to deny that he is made the subject of more frequent and more animated discussion just now than a ny of his colleagues. It could not be other wise. The circumstances of his family and position afford reasons for special interest and curiosity. He has undoubtedly been received very graciously in high quarters here. His father's base ingratitude in getting himself made President of the Constituent Assembly . of 1849, and then proclaiming a Roman. Re public and the abrogation of the Temporal Power, has been put out of sight, and only his own and his mother's virtues remembered ; while individually he has not afforded oppor tunity for one unfavourable comment. Then in person and in manner he is winning. When he speaks he is dignified, without self-asser tion, and when he abstains from speaking it seems to be from a certain sad, soft mistrust of himself, which has a charm in one so high placed, and not from hauteur. He has the fine massive forehead of the first Napoleon, with a still greater likeness to the well-known bust of young Augustus Caesar, while he de cidedly has the advantage over him in height. In replying to Mgr. Ricci's address on Monday night his words were felt to go beyond mere set phrases. Though it was one of those occa sionA of ceremony in which a man cannot help feeling that what he has to say is so nearly identical with what must have been said thou sands of times before ; that, while no formula is prescribed, it is yet hardly possible to avoid falling into a fortuitous one—the honour is great—the Pope is good—the recipient is un worthy—he can but trust to the grace of God to make him a not unfit representative of the dignities of Holy Church, &e. ; yet it was felt that there was a depth in his utterances which deprived them of conventionality, and men who have such expressions by heart, from hav ing to hear them often on such occasions through the course of their lives, were inti mately touched by his earnestness. It seemed as if the symbol of high rank only recalled to him a perception of the end of all dignities, and that as it was placed on the table before him there came under his mind's eye a vision of the day when by Roman custom that very galerum rubrum would be laid on a sable bier, surrounded as now by the rank of Rome, while he himself, instead of standing erect to receive it, would be laid low beneath the pall, and his soul already gone to its account. In a tone suggestive of some such impression he falter ingly expressed his desire that the Holy Father's benediction might procure for him the inestimable blessing of being ready for the The Golde - A Rose has so long , been associated with Mid Lent gunday that its oriain can now no longer be traced with certainty Cartari, who was keeper of the Apostolic archives about two hundred years ago, busied himself and exhausted the appropriate means at his com mand in the investigation in vain. But his researches proved that many were in error who had previously ascribed its first use to Innocent IV., and he re-published at the time a sermon of Innocent 111., in which he speaks of it as an ancient observance even in his time—at the end of the twelfth century. And Torregio, in his " Grotte Vatican," traces the distinct re cord of it up to the year 1130. Lonigo, who was Master of the Ceremonies in the Pontifical chapel to Urban VIII., also took great pains to investigate the matter, and the earliest record he could discover of it was, that about 1050 Leo IX. having built a convent at Bamberg (Bamberg at that time belonged to the Popes and was subsequently exchanged for Bene vento), and conferred a great many privileges and exemptions on the nuns, required of them as a sort of tribute that they should provide a golden rose every year, or gold enough from which it might be made. There is no reason, however, to imagine this to have been the origin of the custom : it points rather to its having been long in use. A MS. preserved in the library of the Monastery of Sta. Croce in Gerusalemme, gives a sermon preached there by Pope Honorius 111., in 1216, on the occasion of blessing the golden rose; in which he clearly ascribes its origin to the date of S. Gregory I. Though many conjectures have been offered, there appears no very satisfactory derivation either for the symbolical meaning it was to convey. It would seem to have been simply part of the general intention of Mid- Lent Sunday--a break in the long and weary fast. The glad words of the Introit gave it its cheering title " Laetare," the Gospel re minding us of Christ's power to feed those who call upon T - Tim even in the wilderness, and the Pope, in the procession to the great function of the day, bore in his hand a golden rose as a token of rejoicing. The custom of making it a congra tulatory present seems to have been an after growth. It consisted thus at first of a single rose in its stem with a spray of 'leaves. For some centuries it was the custom always to give it to the Prefect of Rome, who bore it in his hand on certain occasions of State. He had for a bearing on his coat of arms a golden rose held in one of the claws of a crowned eagle ; and in this it appears of one single flower. The only exception was in the year of the Em peror's coronation, when it was reserved for him. In process of time, however, the import ance and beauty of the design was increased, and the sphere of its destination extended. Thus, in the reign of Martin V., one is men tioned of the year 1417, in MSS. of the time, consisting of one rose still, but with the addi tion of a greater number of leaves ; and another year the gift of one to the city of Florence is recorded, which consisted of nine flowers with sparkling sapphires for stamens, and within the blossom balsam and myrrh contained in a cunningly enclosed receptacle. Sixtus IV. made a singular variation, on one occasion, at least, by substituting for the rose a sprig of oak. His name was della Rovere, and a sprig of oak his armorial bearing. Under Calistus 111., that of the year 1456 had only one flower, and. it was ornamented with twelve pearls. From the time of Alexander VI., however, it was always of more or less ornamental design; those of his reign would seem to have been more elaborate than those of any of his prede cessors, as might be expected from the splen dour of his habits. In a little church here, called Sta. Lucia del Gonfalone, there is a picture in which Clement VII. is represented kneeling before an image of our Lady, and by his side is the golden rose of the year 1526. It is an oval vase resting on three lions' claws, and from the stem sprout ten roses. It was when the Papal Court was removed to Avignon that it ceased to be reserved for the Emperors and the Prefects of Rome. At Avignon it was given to the most worthy prince who happened to be present at Court on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On the return of the Popes to Rome this custom was continued, and when there happened to be no one worthy of it in residence, it was sent, as at present, with some 'ceremony, to some one at a distance on whom the Pope and Cardinals decided to ad judge it. There were, however, some few early ex ceptions to the rule of reserving it for the Pre fects of Rome. Thus Urban 11., after the Council of Tours in 1096, in which the first crusade was deliberated, presented Fulke, Count of Augers, with the golden rose which he had borne in procession from the church of St. Maurice to that of St. Martha in that city, where he had been labouring to stir the people up to take the cross. Again, Alexander 111. being in Paris on Laetare-Sunday, 1163, gave it to Louis VII., who is consequently represented on all his seals with a flower in' his hand ; and Menestrier, A curious tradition attaches to another church, to which the station is assigned on the same clay—SS. Nereo e Achilleo : that at the spot on which it stands a linen bandage, which SS. Processus and Martinianno, the gaolers, had bound round St. Peter's leg to ease the galling from his chains, which, on the occasion of his escape with St. Paul from the Mamertine prisons, fell off in the haste with which they journeyed, whence there attached to it the title del fasciola. Yesterday it was at St. Lorenzo in Lucina, one of the occasions on which Guido's magni ficent crucifixion is uncovered, recalling the good service rendered by the Zouaves in rescu mg it from a fire which threatened the church some months ago. The English Zouaves have just borne off another peaceful victory in the cricket-field. A short match between them and the English residents came off on Thursday, in which they carried the day, though their two best players were laid up with Roman fever. A wet after • noon again thinned the number of lookers-on, but many braved the rain to show their interest in Zouave sports, and among them their colonel and lieutenant-colonel. There is some talk of forming three camps for practising the army in campaigning ; the last formed battalion of Zouaves is diligently exercising in manoeuvres preparatory for a promised field-day. The artillery, which has as yet had the least work, is practised every day at Tor di Valle, a little way out of Rome. The Hungarian cavalry are expected by the end of the month. They will wear a kind of Hussar uniform, preserving their national characteristics ; at least so it is said by those who from their position ought to know ; but I believe all preliminary difficulties have not yet been arranged. I have not heard it said so, but I should - imagine a subordinate one might arise from the fact of the National Hun garian colours being the same as the Italian. For though arranged in different order (green, white, and red, instead of red, white, and green), to a casual observer they would look much like it. It is a matter which would certainly attract notice here, because the young Italianissimi affect to wear their badge, dis played even in the arrangement of their shirts and neckties. On the other hand, many of the Papalini have lately shown their contempt for such petty distinctions by themselves adopting red or green scarfs, indiscriminately so—the flag of the Hungarian horsemen might be treated in the same light. The Canadian Contingent was received in a special audience by the Pope on Monday. St. Joseph's Day, a fester of obligation here, and which has sometimes been made the occa sion of a demonstration, being the nameday of Garibaldi and Mazzini, passed very quietly. The lesson of Mentana is felt still. It is very commonly believed—l do not know on what foundation, however—that Garibaldi came into Rome in the disguise of a monk, a week before, with the double view of getting up a demonstration, in which he failed, and of taking a survey of the fortifications in pro gress. The Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture in the little gallery opposite Sta. Maria del Popolo, is again open this year. An exhibi tion on the paying principle, however, does not seem to find favour in a city of studios all thrown open to the free entrance of the appre ciative, so that the exhibitors are few and the greatest geniuses are not represented. It is impossible not to be struck with the liberality, not only of this arrangement, but of the tone with which visitors are received in them. I have often wondered how artists in great re quest, to whom every moment of daylight is, to use a Hibernianism, worth its weight in gold —will get leave of their easel or estrade to welcome and attend to the inquiries of quite unimportant people, and who do not look at all likely to be patrons of art. But the in terest to be derived from such a visit where the favourite works of the artist are placed in their truest light, and his own glowing words tell of some incident which, moulded or modi fied their conception, is of an altogether higher order than that which any promiscuous col lection of competitive canvases can afford. At the same time the Exhibition to which I allude has many meritorious works well worth the small entrance fee demanded. And in the first place, to the English mind, in which the very word exhibition, calls up a recollection of long days of weariness and bewilderment spent within certain crowded precincts in Pall Mall and Trafalgar-squafe, the sight of a dimly lighted room which only demands your atten tion to serve twenty or thirty pieces of sculp ture, and from which you pass through a prettily planted cortile to another sala, where a scarcely larger number of pictures have to be scrutinized—conveys a positive sense of repose and induces an indulgent tone of judg ment. The centre of the sculpture room is occupied by an imposing baldachino for Boulogne Cathe dral—the third, I believe, which has been ordered here by different individuals for the however, the whole figure is weak and want ing in originality. Baratta, of Modena, sends his colossal heads of Judith and Holofernes, showing, especially the latter, great power of conception; and Majoli, of Ravenna, a cha racteristic bust of Bernini ; a Florentine artist, whose name I forget, has a very neat statuette of a Roman peasant in the dress of the Cam pagna. The most striking piece in the collec tion, however, is undoubtedly Bizzi's Idle Boy. The hair, rough and shaggy as the pillow made it, falls over his half-opened drowsy eyes, and the whole face is distorted, but not unpleasantly, in the drollest and most natural of yawns. Every . muscle of the little fellow's frame is contorted in a luxurious stretch, and the shirt which he shrinks from putting on, as the token that his pleasant sleep is over for that day, is twisted into a hundred folds over his head. It is a grotesque fancy, executed with so much truth and vigour, that it forms a pleasing spe cimen of originality, out of the usual line of subjects from the regions of religion ; mytho logy, history, and romance. In the painting the English eye at once notices, though pretty well trained to it by residence of any time in Rome, the absence of 'perseverance in water colour. There are not half-a-dozen specimens here, and the author of two, at least, is a German. These are heads of the inevitable Stella and Giovannina i whose oft-repeated portraits are so familiar as almost to tire one of their exceeding beauty ; the only thing original in the treatment of these is the introduction of an almost gold-coloured back ground, which suits them remarkably well. Bisco sends several excellent studies of lions dal vero, and Pio Jorio has one sketch, a charm ing bit of woodland scenery, with a foreground figure, showing that if Romans would lay aside their disdain for water colour, they need have no fear of excelling. Desimoni exhibits a marvellous work of patience and dexterity, a head of St. Peter behind a labyrinth of lace work tracing, all executed with the pen, one of those tours de force, which in their patient and toilful elaboration never fail to raise a feeling of mournful interest in the producer. The collection is contributed to by almost as many nationalities as there are pictures, and affords another token that in art, as in religion, Rome has gathered all men unto her. Broni coff, a Russian, sends a very ambitious picture, which, though not equal to itself throughout, has some very pleasing sunny effects, and most interesting suggestions, of the interior life of Romans of the time of Horace ; also a very delicately conceived Adelgisa, a less successful attempt at the burlesque in the depiction of an ancient Parisian beau, whose poodle, however, is inimitable. Rautch, a Swiss, has a clever little Lenten episode, peasants kneeling before the Grand Pe n itentia r y. Maes, a Belgian by descent, but long Romanized, has an evening view of the lake of Albano with the shades of night already fallen on the foreground shrubs, and the sun's last glow yet i lingering on the fleecy clouds round the horizon, and shedding a pale gilding over the enamelled sky. Rocio, a Neapolitan ' also sends a clever land and water piece, and of Romans proper, the palm must be given to Guiseppe Toeschi, whose Pasquino is grouped in masterly style, and tells its story perfectly. Berzzari and Sartori also deserve " honourable mention," as well as a lady artist, Virginia Mariani, who gives us the interior of a Roman cottage. Cherubini has two clever pieces, the one showing the every day gear of the Roman peasants' dining-table, the other displaying with great perfection the plumage of some of the birds of the Campagna, the pizzardone, pica cardinale, and tarabusp. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, March 26. At a period when the opening of the Great National Maritime Exposition at Havre is so near, which will afford not only a new field of instruc tion with regard to the sea and all that therein is, but furnish new bases of progress in respect to all matters directly or indirectly appertaining thereto, it may not be irrelevant to speak of a company which is now organizing in France with a view to develop its fisheries in the Northern Seas, which will probably exert a beneficial influence not only in regard to the industrial resources of France, but upon the commercial interests of the Continent at large. The special operations of the company will consist in fishing for and commerce in cod, herrings, &c., the purchase, preparation, and sale of the roe, which forms so important an element in the Sardine Fisheries as a bait ; the preparation and sale of the various fish oils used in medicine by tanners and others; the fabrication and importa tion of guano prepared from fish and the offal of fish ; the exportation of salt to the great fisheries ; and, in short, the treatment of all commercial ope rations relating to fisheries conducted upon a grand scale. Amongst the inducements which have given rise to this undertaking are the following :—The fact that since the loss by France of her North American Colonies her fisheries have declined in importance, and her commerce, industry, and agri culture are tributary to foreign fisheries for the supply of articles of the last importance and of uni versal consumption —a state of affairs requiring remedy ; whilst the fact that, even under present circumstances, employment is afforded to no less than 500 ships and 20,000 sailors, offers itself as a base for more extended operations, in proof of which are found the facts that, whilst the Sardine fisheries on the coasts of Bretagne and La Vendde afford employment to 10,000 seamen, France is tributary to Norway for the supply of roe used as bait, and pays in this manner a sum of no less than two millions of francs per year. In like manner the French fisheries supply a very trifling proportion of the oils required for the medicinal and tanning purposes, whilst the increasing developments and requirements of her agriculture render France dependent upon the foreigner for the fish offal as a manure, which the extension of her own fisheries would more than sufficiently supply. The com merce of salt, by no means in a flourishing condi tion, would also receive an impetus, whilst the ex tended supply and lowered price of salt fish as an article of food would afford material benefits to a population rapidly increasing in presence of high priced provisions. Without entering into the more immediate details and explanations given in the prospectus of the proposed working of the com pany, I think sufficient reasons have been adduced by them to show that their object is one not only patriotic, but likely to be eminently useful to com merce, and if well conducted to prove a remune rative speculation to those who engage in it. The names of the directors at present given, and which are all aen of note and high standing in France, afford a prima facie guarantee for further examination, and although it at present comprises French names only, I believe the company will only have to make known its existence, objects, and plan of action to find the list considerably re inforced, especially from England, so noted for commercial enterprise, and between which nation and France each day shows the necessity of and brings about a closer alliance. The Government itself has this week distinguished itself in the cause of humanity by voting a credit of two million of francs for the suffering inhabitants of Algeria. The Titres (le la Dynastie Napolienne have been attacked in all directions during the past week by the Opposition journals. I am by no means a blind partisan of the Government, and am responsible only for an individual opinion as regards the various crudities which fill up my weekly letter ; but no one living in Paris, and thus having an opportunity of observing the admirable manner in which France is now governed, but must feel desirous that it should receive fair play in the interpretations of its acts and motives, at all events at the hands of a stranger. The position taken up by the Opposition journals is one of extreme weakness. In the first place, the cavil by insinuations at the validity of the Napoleonic Dynasty ; in the second, they assume most mon strously, and upon the principle of locus a non lucendo, that because the Government has initi ated a system of gradual reform, that system must now of necessity gradually stop and leave the nation nothing further to hope for. The Times has a little more method in its madness, and merely demands what end can be answered by the proof of the Napoleonic Dynasty having been the choice of France, remarking at the same time upon the gra dually increased expenditure during the last fifteen years, though admitting, with singular inconsis tency, the unexampled prosperity of the country, and the greatly increased development of its re sources during that period. The reply to the first question will embody the reply to the whole, and it appears to be very simple to make it. The proof of the Napoleonic Dynasty being chosen by France, is merely the first link in the chain of a very clear argument—the enunciation of . the various measures of Reform originated by it, the giving account of its stewardship at a most important constitutional period. It is the balance-sheet at the end of the session, of the promises which were given upon its inauguration; and it is for France to judge. A great demonstration has taken place this week at Venice, upon the occasion of the reception of the 'aortal remains of Daniel Mania, his wife, and daughter. Mania was the originator at Venice of the first revolution against the power of Austria. Upon its partial success he was chosen President. The speedy recovery of Venice by Austria necessi tated the flight of Mania and his family into France, where they all died recently. The three coffins have been exhumed and conveyed to Venice, to receive the honours of a public interment in the Cathedral of Saint Zaccaria. A demonstration upon French soil was very properly refused by the French authorities, who desire to be at peace with all the world, and therefore offer 1 10 needless affront to Austria. The reception and interment of the bodies, however, at Venice took the proportions of a national demonstration ; all denominations of people joining in the celebra tion, one part of which, the procession on the waters of the Grand Canal, in which the superb funeral galley was accompanied by thousands of gondolas, the inhabitants of 'Venice at the same time illuminating their houses internally, so a s to throw upon the waters a light and shade that Rem brandt would have loved to copy, produced an effect of solemnity which an eye-witness characterizes as utterly indescribable, unless with the possibility of realizing one of the poetic paintings of Dante. Se veral addresses were delivered on the occasion, especially by various members of the French Com mittee deputed to take part in the cere monies. One amusing anecdote appears in the French journals to the following effect :--An Eng' lishman arrived a few days ago at an hotel ill Bayonne ; the worthy gentleman had not set foot upon his native soil since the year 1837, having spent all the intermediate time in travelling in foreign parts. His passport, the same in his 10' session when leaving London, had increased to font metres 20 centimetres in length, and had cos t its proprietor no less than 12,000 francs for cliffs" ren visas. When asked why he preserved EA carefully that immense placard, his reply was, " 31 1 rascally farmers will not have the opportunity sl saying at my return they have paid me their rents, as I can prove to them that I was not in England A the time." If this singular yarn be true, the eccentric gentleman must have looked as sharply after his steward as his tenants. A mysterious and zelancholy event took place here last week. Cant' R., commanding a company of the 20th Chasseurs, had not, for some reason at present unexplained, attended the review of the Guard by the Emperor in the Courts of. the Tuileries. In consequence of this the officer in question was placed under an arrest for several days. Probably exaggerating the disgrace involved by this punishment, Captain 1?-9 after spending the night in arranging and verifying his accounts, and after wards handing over the money in the chest to the sergeant-major, called together on the following morning his company, which be first formally reviewed ; then, advancing in fro nt of the company, drawn up in line, he pronounce d, in a loud tone and firm voice, the words " friends, I quit you ; I bid you adieu ;" at the sam e time drawing out a revolver, and directing it full a t his breast, ,he pulled the trigger. The ball, how' ever, singular to relate, striking the Cron: of the Legion of Honour, which he w Ol. on his breast, glanced off harmless, a sec°ll(l discharge taking effect in the region of the hear: . Captain R. fell grievously if not mortally wound eu The wounded man was at once carried to th e , Hospital of Val de Grace, where his life is despair ed of. A serious accident has occurred upon . t vi _ s ts,tl . o o . Eastern line to the train leaving the Lagny for Meaux, in consequence of the locomotive gettnii; off the rail, when the train ran into a bank, to engineer being killed on the spot, and the stoker grievously wounded. The shock was so gr e ' re that the waggons loaded with coals, &c., e smashed to pieces, and two of the passenger cs` riages driven violently into one another; two a th: female passengers have since died. The races s Vincennes on Sunday last came off with great Pr ix the weather being specially favourable. The de Nogent was well contested, and won by Ch a m p „f d'Oiseau, a three-year-old colt from the stables . ' d the Baron Finot, although more heavily weigh be than any of his competitors ; Queen of a; Harvest and Royal Tartan second and t hlr Tim Meagles being a bad fourth. The St. Maude was carried off by Miss Aurore beau°l: Floreal and Fugitive ; whilst the Prix des kla r : 3o 5,000 francs, for five year olds and upward° , n gained by the Duke of Hamilton's well-knu, horse Beadle. I regret to say that, whilst no ach e dent occurred on the course, a very serious uef befell the Vicomte de Turenne at the entrance the Route Daumesnil, the horses of his pbastokh starting off unexpectedly at the moment he had l6 1 , 0 1 down the reins, for the purpose of drawing 0° 0 gloves. After a short but furious course the phat o was upset, the Vicomte being thrown out 01 on ; 0 head, and taken up senseless. A congestio n brain is apprehended by the p h ys i c ians. the Moustier, Minister of Finance, has informed. jai , petitioners against the conversion of the a rea cif Bonds that the French Government has sires is communicated with the Consul-General, and ~,o protesting against such conversion, and ass".cts the petitioners that the interests of French etible will be carefully looked to in the matter. BROWNLOW —On the 27th in Births st., at the Royal Ariet°f/rl4; yard, Deptford, the wife of Commander Artbur Dr low, Royal Navy, of a son. Oa r WARD—On the 26th inst., at St. Anne's, Monkstow°l Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Somerset Ward, of a son' Marriages. a rge ' ' 4l DIGBY—HOLLOWAY—On the 28th inst. at at St. •-• 3 . 0 0 1 " Hanover-square, George Edward Digby, well Villa, Malden, Eseex, to Mrs. Maria E. of Elm Lodge, Heybridge, Malden. TT ,, , 1 .1 : 1° s 31 JARCHOW —BENNETT—On the 26th inst., at --- I .' f it i er- t- Church, Tulse-hill, Frederick Jarcrow, Es+ , v. tA ' onnet t, ham, to Annie, eldest daught - !r of John F. li of Carisbroult Villa, Upper Tulse hill. Deaths. 1 fired. BAYLY —On the 26th inst., Frederick, only son ° Bayly, 11,:q., 61, rulteuey-street, Bath.l ol otOt l ' CLAXTON.-- On the 27th inst., at Chelsea,Captain ~ R.N., aged 78. of 31.'' 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