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Bo CAUTION. sure to ask for " NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprutag up in consequence of the success of Norton's Camomile Pills." • rb g11pe334, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1868. Mr. DISRAELI has indeed hard work of it in answering the repeated quest ions put to him on various subjects, and nothing seems to satisfy the curiosity of the Opposition, for as fast as one point is settled another starts up. At any rate, the right hon. gentleman sought to pacify Mr. GLADSTONE yesterday by the intimation that the Government would not offer any " formal opposition " to the Committee on the Suspensory Bill, nor did they intend to propose any amendment to it. After a good many questions had been put, some of them referring to the:dissolution, Mr. DISRAELI re plied at some length. The work of the session he had previously declared should be confined to neces sary labours, and which of course must be desig nated the supplementary Reform Bills, and the Estimates. The Bribery and Corruption Bill the Premier trusted they might be able to attend to, after other more immediate claims had been settled, and to do this the Government would strain every effort. As to the steps to be taken with regard to the dissolution, Mr. DISRAELI said very honestly that he had nothing more now to say on the subject than he had eight hours before when it was called to his notice. This was a very well-timed hint to those fussy individuals who make out that they are in a hurry, and by the very con fusion they make retard things still more. The right hon. gentleman retorted on those who kept up this jargon, and defended himself from the charges preferred against him, :to the effect that he had not considered the subject when he made his first statement to the House. No time has been really lost, according to this plain state ment of Mr. DISRAELI, which we hope will be allowed to last for some time at least without being questioned ; but it is a subject that requires great care and consideration, because it would not do for the electors to think that the arrangements had been hurried on, and due time hal not elapsed to perfect the new scheme. Perhaps the right hon. gentleman mentioned the chief obstacle that was in the way of a speedy settlement when he alluded to the " in credulity of hen. gentlemen opposite." Mr. GLADSTONE'S observations on this point were straightforward enough, for he admitted that the Government had acted for the best in the matter, and the right hon. gentleman passed some very just strictures upon the observations of Lord ELCIIO. 'The noble lord at least introduced some novelty into the long series of complaints, for he said that it was not expedient to take steps to promote an early dissolution, because it would put many to inconvenience. The mover had objects in view, and thinks he will find many to agree with him as to the early autumn months being spent in electioneering. " Mr. SIDNEY SMITH'S" letter to the Tim es appears to have made a deep impression on Lord Ei.ciro, and he treated the house to some extracts fro m it. Of course, the Secretary of the Liberal Re .gistration Society in London has a right to give his opinion, but there is no need for that opinion to influence the decisions of Parliamei it, and so far as that goes the inconve nience w'. hick may ensue from an earlier dissolution than was anticipated rests upon the Liberal side of the HMIs 3, who have " maimed and mutilated" the session i, and precipitated matters to the utmost of their power. Mr. GLADSTONE very properly said that so grave a question as the importance of a dissolution taking place should not turn upoa the holidays of any person. Those who undertake to assist in c Irrying on the business of the country must take their chance of the rough and the smooth, and cannot expect to be assured of intervals of rest just as it may suit their convenimce to enjoy them. One point of Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech is, to use his own epithet, " invidious, not to say offensive"—namely, tha t passage in which he intimated that after the \Vhit suntide holidays the House should take some steps to insist upon a settlement of the matter of dissolution. How can any one decide until it is seen how things go, and how the bills before Par liament are progressing ? Mr. CLAY made some sensible remarks on the whole, and while he averred it to be his opinion that the Liberals would have a majority on the reassembling of Parliament after the general election, he admitted that if ever a Prime Minister had a right to a dissolution before resigning office it was the present Premier, because his Government " had passed one of the most important acts in the history of this country, and he had every right to ask whether the country gave him credit for it, or did not." We feel obliged to the hon. member for thus putting the case fairly before the House. In the confession that Mr. GLADSTONE has made upon the question of the Irish Church, short-sighted observers are very apt to ignore the important question that occupied the attention of the Ilouse of Commons last session, and indeed bad disturbed the peace and progress of many more. The country will not be so conveniently oblivious of the great services which the Conservative Government have rendered to the people, and on every account, of reason and of justice, it is desirable that the present Ministry should remain in office until after the assembling of the new Parliament. We are glad to see that this is become more and more the general opinion of the House, and the sooner it becomes universally looked upon as such the better for the completion of the necessary measures and the due performance of the public business. Mr. PAuLL's speech was much to the point, and he laid great stress upon the dictatorial style in which Mr. GLADSTONE though( fit to address the House, and truly declared that the tone of the debates in that House might be - considerably improved. Mr. BOUYERIE outdid himself in attacking the Govern ' ment a week since, and Mr. BRIGHT gave the "lie direct" on the previous evening in repelling an accusation brought against him. He concluded by intimating that those who wasted the time of the House so much themselves had no right to find fault with others, and of all the Bills before the House Mr. GLADSTONE'S Suspensory Bill was of the least consequence. Mr. HARDY'S ad vice was very salutary, and the sensible remarks of the right lion. gentleman brought the House again back to the point from which many had diverged in the course of the desultory discussion that had occurred. Mr. HARDY said that they must make some progress with the Boundary Bill before it could be possible to declare in precise terms what should be done. As to the Government h tying changed its tone, he denied that the charge was a correct one, and he repeated, what long be fore he said, that they would do all in their power to hasten a dissolution if due opportunity were afforded them for doing so. This was all that could be expected, and it be for the interests of all, anal the credit of the House, if these interminable disquisitions on the matter are dropped after the holi days are over. Let the question at issue be decided and the minor ends be left alone. It is certain that the Liberals gain nothing by their factious ma noauvres in the face of the country, and the sooner they wait for their turn to come in in a constitu tional manner the more desirable it will be for their future prospects and the more conducive to their reputation. The English Constitution has often been in dan ger. Every remarkable change in our policy, whether it be in the extension of the suffrage or the removal of the restrictions on trade, has been accompanied with doleful predictions and melan choly jeremiads over our departed greatness. Within the last ten years we have several times been told that our civil and religious liberties were seriously imperilled, and so wise a man as Mr. Low' told us a couple of years back that the qualification for the franchise was the last plank between us and ruin. That last plank, as we know, has gone, or is going from us, so national ship wrecks must be at hand. But that we may have no doubt of our impending doom we are threatened with a fresh danger from another quarter. So cautious and experienced a statesman as Earl RUSSELL, who prides himself on his strict adherence to the Constitution and on the fidelity with which he upholds it, has sounded the warning note, let all take heed. " The safety of the Constitution de pends on the Government not remaining in office without the confidence of the House of Common 3." The principle of making the retention of office by a Ministry dependent on their possessing the confi d3nce of the House of Commons is, according to Earl RUSSELL, "the great keystone of the arch of the safety of this country." So, then, if Mr. Dis- RAELI persists in dislodging this keystone, if the arch falls, and the vague but alarming threat we have so often heard is actually fulfilled, it will not be Earl RUSSELL'S fault or for want of due warning. Such a catalogue of crimes of omission and com mission did he bring against them that it is only marvellous the " safety of the country" and the " constitution" have so lung withstood their influence. What with the Hyde-park riots, when, according to Mr. BEALES, it was necessary for the Reform League to restore public order, what with the execution of the Fenians at Manchester for a murder which the Go vernment should have prevented, and what with the trades union disturbances in Staffordshire and Mr. MURPHY'S mischief-making in the north, the Government, according to Earl RUSSELL, have shown themselves perfectly incompetent to pre serve the public peace. Of course in such a long list of misdemeanours it is natural to make a mis take or two, else it :night be possible to remind the noble earl that it is no longer the same Govern ment as in the time of the Hyde-park riots, or of the Manchester rescue; also, if the Government of the day is to be answerable for every trades union outrage, every successive Cabinet might find them selves awkwardly placed. The revelation of the Commissions of inquiry certainly broaght to light outrages committed while Earl RUSSELL was in power both at the Home-office and. at the Treasury, but for these what man in his senses would hold him answerable ? But besides these infractions of the peace which F.R.S. Mr. Eyre baying been committed to take his trial, the Committee of this Fund earnestly IN VITE SUBSCRIP TIONS to defray the great expenses to which he will tbereby be subjected, and as a protest against the proceed ingS of the so-called Jamaica Committee. Civil proceed ings are also pending in the Court of Queen's Bench, en trviling very heavy expenditure. With reference to Mr. Charles Burton's letter to The Times of the 25th inst., stating that "it is notorious that siams vastly beyond all possible costs are at his disposal," in other words, that pecuniary assistance is not needed on account of the vast sums subscribed for the defence, the Committee desire to state that there is not a shadow of forundation for such an assertion. It is a well-known matter of fact that it would have been absolutely impos sible for Mr. Eyre in any way to have met the expenses of the civil and criminal prosecutions that have been carried 0.1 so persists ntly against him for the last two years but for the generous aid of the public. Subscriptions to b-' paid to the credit of " The Eyre De- Tice and Aid Fund," with the United Service Company (Limited), Bankers, and Army and Navy Agents, 9, Water lto-place, Fall-mall, Loudon ; or Messrs. 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The Opposition being perhaps annoyed at the compendious programme which the Conservatives boasted of last year have resolut..lly prevented them from undertaking any thing fresh, while they have as yet effectually hin dered them from completing what was begun. " I think," says Lord RUSSELL with the most perfect sang froid, " we are entitled to ask the Government that the Scotch and Irish Reform Bills and the Boundary Bill shall be proceeded with without any further loss of time." The Government, changing a ward, might very well say the same thing. Loss of time is the very charge which is brought by in dependent members against the Opposition. Mr. GRAVES, the other night, ran over the long list of bills and questions in which his constituents were . interested, and asked where they were to come in the midst of these perpetual party struggles. But the real head and front of the offending is that the Ministry have not resigned their seats at the first whisper of the storm, leaving the immediate direction of affairs to Mr. GLADSTONE, and the unofficial dignity of counsellor and referee to Earl RUSSELL. The present state of affairs, according to the Parlia mentary Historicus, is one without precedent since the accession of the House of Hanover. But it did not oceur to him to ask what course Earl GREY'S Government would have pursued if the Tories had succeeded in thrusting forward another great ques tion before the details of the Reform Bill had been completed and the opinions of the new constituencies c)uld have been secured. With the country con vulsed from one end to the other by its eager parti zanship for reform, the GREY Ministry was certainly on a memorable occasion in a Parliamentary mino rity without Earl GREY finding his way to the block, Lord ALTrIORP being banished, or the Paymaster of the Forces being imprisoned after the fashion of the historical precedents whom Earl RUSSELL was pleased to bring forward to impress DISRAELI. If the conduct of the Ministry wants a precedent, so also does that of the Opposi tion. If Mr. DISRAELI had followed the example set by Mr. GLADSTONE and Earl RUSSELL, and hastily resigned his office because of an adverse vote on what her MAJESTY rightly called " a matter of detail," he would no doubt have given greater satisfaction to his adversaries ; but he would neither have done justice to himself, to his followers, nor to the public. He has been so short a time in office, and the attacks made upon him have been SO constant and so merciless, that he has not had time or opportunity to submit his policy to the country. His real claim for support lies in the successful conduct of a liberal Reform Bill, and on that ground he feels that he may with confidence appeal to the country. On that important question the Govern ment is in the majority, while in their conduct of foreign affairs they have undoubtedly the confi dence of the House and the country. They are not, therefore, in so pitiable a condition as Earl RUS SELL would represent, while the political anomaly which endangers the safety of the Constitution, in his mind, has not been produced by them, but by the Opposition, who were perfectly well aware that the Government was hampered by the position of Parliament when they challenged a ministerial crisis. Any in convenience that may result from the present situa , tion can only be temporary, because it is an openly acknowledged thing that the days of the existing House are numbered. The historical tragedies to which Earl RUSSELL refers all took place under very different circumstances. A specific time is fixed for testing the opinion of the country, and there is no more inconsistency in matters going on ad interim. as they are now doing, than in a Minis ter who has resigned holding the seals of his office until his successor is appointed. In fact, it is absolutely necessary to wait for some such test before we can decide who has the confidence of Parliament. Earl RUSSELL and Mr. GLADSTONE, judging by past ex perience, do not possess it, and it must be doubted whether a less ingeniously framed motion would have brought so many members under any one standard. The present house is " a thing of shreds and patches," in which every man wishes to be leader, and consequently the followers are few, and nothing short of a thorough reformation will read just the political balance. LATEST INTELL MENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YOR,K May 29. The Inman steamer, City of Limerick, arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing prices :—Gold, 1391; Sterling Exchange on London, 1101 ; 5-20 United States Bonds (1882), 1111; 1885, 1091 ; 10-40 U. S. Bonds, 1885, 105 ft ; Illinois, 149 ; Erie, 71i. Cotton : upland, 31. Petroleum : standard white, 29. The Radical Soldiers and Sailors' Convention at Chicago have unanimously nominated General Grant for the Presidency. It is reported that the Canadian authorities, apprehending a Fenian raid, have ordered the militia to be in readiness. The Royal Mail steamship Australasian from New York arrived at Quee nstown at 2 a.m. to-day with 50 cabin passengers and $975,000 in specie. She landed 6 passengers and 106 bags of mails, and proceeded to Liverpool at 2.15 a.m. All well. ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIA. NEW YORK, MAT 20 (Morning). The Impeachment Managers have examined a wealthy citizen of Ohio who received a large sum of money at Washington Bank the day previous to the Senate vote vrith the view of ascertaining if the funds were used to bribe the Senators. Several other witnesses, including three news- paper reporters, were also examined. The Chicago National Republican Convention assembles to-day. Full delegations from the Southern States will be present. HUNGARY. PESTH, May 29, Evening. In to-day's sitting of the Upper House the Corn inereial Treaty with Prussia, in its amended form, was unanimously adopted. The Emperor has arrived here. Advices from Balasfalva, in Transylvania, state that a large meeting of Roumains had been held, at which resolutions were passed in favour of the se paration of Transylvania from Hungary. PROPOSED NEW CLUB.—It is in contemplation to form a new Turf Club in Paris, on th,3 principle of the London Victoria Club. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, May 29. Prince Napoleon's ittineraire is now definitely announced. He is going to Carlsruhe, Munich, Stuttgard, Vienna, and Constantinople. The list is highly significant. His Imperial Highness, who has, of course, no mission, is nevertheless going to visit the capitals of each of the German States in succession, then the Austrian, then the Turkish capital. That person must be very blind indeed who does not see in this journey an endeavour to get up an alliance be tween the South German States and Austria, and an attempt to persuade the Sultan to give his consent to the plan by which Austria is to be compensated for giving up Gallicia by obtaining possession of Roumania, over which Abdul Aziz holds a merely nominal sove reignty that is constantly causing him trouble. That Prince Napoleon will succeed in uniting the South German States in favour of his policy—that is, against Prussia— fdo not for one moment believe. Even at Stuttgard, where the Anti-Prussian feeling is strongest, an alliance with France would not be listened to for a moment. It is to be hoped that the Prince's visit will lead his cousin to see hcw hopeless arc all these projects for the reconstruc tion of the map of Europe. The Paris papers persist in denying the reports of insur rectionary movements in Poland, and in attributing the reports to Russia, who, they say, wants an excuse in order to crush Poland utterly out of existence. Whether the reports be true or false, I look upon them as a serious symptom just now. They indicate that the attention of France is being once more turned to a country whose "cry of anguish" has before now powerfully moved them. The application to vote the army contingent for next year is explained in some of the papers to have no political significance, being, in fact, merely a return to the more strictly parliamentary arrangement' that was in force last year. It is said that communications have passed between our Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Prussian Ambassador respecting the offensive article which appeared lately in the Kreuz Zeituny. Count Goltz declined to be held re sponsible for the article, declaring that the journal was not the organ of the Prussian Government, and had no official character. There has been a tolerably sharp debate in the Corps L4fislatif respecting the recent election of M. Bosredon, the Government candidate, who was lately elected for Dordogne. Objection was made to the election on the ground that the prefect had vilified the Opposition candi date, and used undue influence on behalf of his opponent. The Government officials in the Corps Li:gislatif replied by a severe attack upon M. de Malleville, which, as the objectors pointed out, did not mend matters. On a division 176 deputies voted for, and 22 against M. Bosredon taking his seat. In the Senate there has been a long debate on the Public Meet ings Bill. M. Maupas attacked the bill, M. Mile warmly defended it. The debate was carried on in the midst of the most terrible heat, the thermometer marking upwards of 90 deg. Fahrenheit in the shade. The Bishop of Ajaccio is now in Paris, making arrange ramts for the celebration of the centenary of Corsican annexation to France on August 15. It was on that day, 1768, that this island passed under the dominion of France. It was on that day, one year later, that Corsica gave birth to a child who was afterwards to govern France. The annexation and the First Napoleon's birthday will both be celebrated this year. It is intended to build a new cathe dral at Ajaccio in honour of the two events. Another new church has been added to Paris, that of St. Augustin, in the Boulevard Malesherbes. The Archbishop of Paris and Baron Haussmann were pre sent. A remark made by the first in the course of his speech to the second has excited much notice. Monseigneur Darboy said: " A few months ago you handed over to me in the name of the city of Paris the church of the Holy Trinity which adorns the neighbouring arrondissement. To-day you offer me, in order to consecrate it for worship, the splendid church in which we are now gathered together." Is, then, the Baron reaVy " Emreror of Paris ?" It is believed that the Pope will pass a portion of the summer at Frascati, in the neighbourhood of the camp, where the air is better than at Castelgandolfo, where he usually makes his villegiatura. Count Papolini and SenatorMartinengo have arrived in Rome, and have had frequent communications with the French Ambassador. The object of their visit is kept a profound secret ; nevertheless, it is believed that they have informed the French Minister that Italy will not pay the yearly instalment of the debt due to the Papal Govern ment until the French troops are withdrawn from Papal territory. It is rumoured that France will advance the money to the Pope and endeavour to recover it from Italy. The memoirs and letters of Cardinal Andrea are announced for publication at Florence. They cannot be genuine, for all his papers are under seal at Rome. An ecclesiastic has, however, commenced a biography, which will be published in Paris. An enormous crowd has visited the (*vette ardente in which the cardinal's body has been lying in state, and the people have carried off such relics as they could lay hold oF. The lands of the Polish nobility are being given away wholesale to the Russian nobles, or sold to them at a nominal cost. In fact, the country is being completely denationalised. The Emperor of Russia is expected at Warsaw in August, on his way to Kissengen. At the latter place he will, acco rding to present arrangements, have an intervi ew with his uncle, the King of Prussia.—The amnesty which was expected to have been granted on the birth of the son of the Czarewitch has not been announced.—There appears to be no doubt that the Russian Government has deter mined to make war u p on Bokhar a , and thus advance one step nearer our Indian frontier. The Grand Duke Vladimir is going to take the nominal command of the troops, but, as he is only 21 years old, it may be assumed that the real command will be entrusted to a general of greater experience. The Count de Chambord has written a letter to Ex-King Francis, congratulating him on the marriage of his brother to . the Infanta of Spain. The Count says : " I earnestly hope that these nuptials may be the dawn of happier and more fortunate days for you, for your Royal family, and for a' i tho Bourbons whom the combined usur pation of Europe, united to the apathy of friendly Govern. ments, has b ti exile far from their country and their thrones. Ile ad Is, that while the younger branches of the house (the `'pa iish) are greatly beloved b y t h e i r people, they "will alw. , ys experience the same disquiet so long as the elder branch shall not have re vindicated their throne from the usurpation which invaded it and dispossessed the lawful sovereign by the same arts as those by which your M a j es ty's kingdom was usurped. The French people, fortunately, begin to comprehend that the sole race under which flourished the glory of France and popular liberty was promoted, is that of my great ancestor Henry IV. ; while under the government of the usurpation I only find a brief ray of delusive glory, twice followed by the most cruel disenchantment and the deepest humilia tion for French national honour." The Count goes on to assert that the day cannot be far distant when his dear France, " again possessing its legitimate king, will recover its felicity, its glory, and its liberty. Then will Europe, also, have peace, and regain her lost equilibrium, and the various branches of the Bourbon family will be firmly established upon their thrones, or will be restored to throne and country [should they still be leading the un happy life of exile." The Empress of the French had a long interview with Madame de Miramon, widow of General Miramon, who was shot with the Emperor Maximilian, and heard from that lady's lips an account of the sad tragedy which took place just a year ago. The Empress informed the widow on leaving that her name had been put clown for a pension of £240 a year. The Austrian Imperial Government has also granted Madame de Miramon a pension. It has been stated that King Theodore advised his cap. thins to attack our troops by night, but they declined to do so, and preferred to meet their deaths by daylight. The Spectator says that had they carried out the sugges tions of the King, they would have had a new proof of the power which science can bring to bear in aid of slaughter. Sir Robert Napier had with him an apparatus for employ ing the magnesium light on a grand scale. At a distance of 600 yards a bewildering blaze of light would have been thrown into the eyes of the Abyssinians, and the British, themselves in impenetrable shadow, would have shot down their lustrous enemies at leisure and at ease. "The poor Abyssinians," in the opinion of our contemporary, " would have been as helpless as herrings with the electric ray streaming on the shoal. It is hardly war, such a contest ; but it is better that civilisation should be armed than that barbarism should be." The Yankee" of the Spectator, writing from New York, May 15th, thus presents his view of the modes operandi of the impeachment trial :—" For party purposes Congress has divided itself into accuser and court, to decide a con stitutional question between itself as one party and Presi neat Johnson as the other party; the Constitution, in virtue of which only Congress and the President both exist, having provided a tribunal independent of both and of the people—the Supreme Court, to which Congress did not chooie to appeal—for the decision of all such ques tions, Party was strong enough to present articles of impeachment, party was strong enough to cause them to be entertained by the Senate," but party, he adds, "was not strong enough to get two-thirds of the senators to pronounce Mr. Johnkion guilty of the chorges preferred against him.". ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.—The Imperial Review states that Mr. John (-Tardy, M.P., has declined the invitation to become a can• lidate for the representation of Maidstone in the event of Dartmouth being disfranchised. ESSEX.—A meeting of the Conservatives of North-west Essex was held on Friday afternoon at Chelmsford to ?rornote the return of two Conservatives for that division. [n South Essex the Liberal candidates—Mr. R. B. Wing field Baker and Mr. A. Johnstone—have matters at pre sent all their own way. In North-east Essex Mr. C. Du Cane will come forward with another Conservative. ATIILONE.-- Several probable candidates for the borough 3f Athlone are mentioned as likely to come forwardat the next election. Foremost is Mr. Robert R. !Bayley, a Conservative gentleman of independent fortune, and closely connected with several of the most wealthy families of Westmeath and Roscommon. He con tested the borough in 1862, with Sir John Ennis, and was defeated by a very small majority. the present member, Mr. Reardon, is stated to have for 'eited the confidence of all his respectable supporters by his recent outrage on good taste and loyalty in the House ~ f Commons, and his chances of return are down to zero. The other candidates mentioned are Sir J. Ennis and Mr. Sullivan, the proprietor of the ll'ealy News, who is under going imprisonment for his writings and still more seditious cartoons in the journal. LEEDS.—The Reform League and the Reform Registra tion Society intend bringing forward three candidates in the Liberal interest at the next election. The names of the proposed candidates have been freely canvassed, but active measures are adjourned for a fortnight. SHEFFIELD.—The following gentlemen are named as probable candidates for the representation of Sheffield at the next general election :—Messrs. Roebuck and Had field (the present members), the Hon. J. F. S. Wortley and Mr. Campbell Foster (candidates at the last election), Mr. S. D. Waddy (barrister, and son of the Rev. D. Waddy, late governor of the Wesley College at Sheffield), Mr. Samuel Plimsett (of Whitely Wood Hall), and Mr. Robert Leader (of Bank-street). Each gentleman has friends in the town, and movements are already on foot for bringing some of the new men forward. Mr. Labouchere's successful motion of Tuesday night is likely to lay bare a good many arrangements of the Foreign Office that hitherto have been kept profound mysteries. In the meanwhile, we get from time to time a little light thrown upon the secrets of the prison -house by former inmates thereof. For instance, " Civilian" explains in the Morning Post how it was that Lord Russell or Mr. Hammond contrived to bestow £B,OOO a year upon the late Sir Frederick Bruce without applying to Parliament for the amount, or even letting Parliamentknow that it had been granted. Up to the time of Sir F. Bruce's appointment as Ministerat Pekin the salary of the senior consul in China was fixed at £l,BOO a year ; that of the junior consuls at £1,200 a year. To provide for Sir F. Bruce, the senior consul was transferred to Japan, the salary of the post vacated by him was permanently reduced from £l,BOO to £1,300 a year, and the salaries of • the junior consuls were simultaneously reduced from £1,200 to £9OO a year. These reductions, owing to the opening of the new Chinese ports, the Foreign Office, by a process of shuffling of men, were able to effect. At the same time, regardless of the efficiency of the service, most of the vice-consulships were abolished at a sweep. With the paring from the consuls' salaries, and the above saving, the requisite sum of £B,OOO was raised; and as the esti mates were not exceeded the arrangement did not excite notice in this country. Thus were the interests of an entire service, numbering some eighty civilians, per manently marred for the sake of one personage. " A Civilian " forgets to mention that Sir F. Bruce was the brother of a Whig earl and of a Court official, and brother in-law of a Whig dean. Of course the interests of eighty such small deer as those he mentions were not to be thought of for one moment when the promotion of a man with such powerful connections had to be effected. The House of Commons will reassemble after the Whit suntide recess with the certainty that no more holidays will then stand between that time and the day of prorogation. From the 4th of June to the middle of August they will find themselves fully occupied in getting through the work which yet stands on the notice paper. It seems to be taken for granted that there will be no more ministerial crises, no further threats of a dissolution, no more hints as to a stoppage of the supplies on the part of the Liberal majority. With respect to the supplies it may be mentioned that the House has made wonderful progress with them during the past fortnight, and, follow ing the usual rule of slipping as many votes as possible through a House which has not yet recovered from the rust of the holidays, " supply" is the first order of the day for Thursday evening. Very little more business will be taken. On Friday evening Mr. Gladstone's Suspensory Bill is down for committee, and, as the Government will offer no opposition to the measure at that stage, it may safely be assumed that the Lords will very soon have the pleasure of dealing with it as they think proper. There is a rumour that the very Liberal Earl Grey will move the rejection of the bill on the second reading. On Monday, the Bth June, the Scotch Reform Bill, the Boundary Bill, and the Corrupt Practices Bill are to be considered in committee. It is not anticipated that the first and the second of these measures will occupy mach time ; the third will necessarily demand much at tention. On the following day the morning sittings begin, and the first will be devoted to the Electric Telegraphs Bill. The Irish Reform Bill is to be taken in committee on June 15. Other business, involving the consideration of many questions of minor importance, stands on the paper for successive days until July 1. Then the ad journed debate on the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Bill is to be resumed. The notices of motion for which no days have been fixed are very voluminous, and in the present condition of public business it is not likely that many of them will emerge from the obscu ity in which they are now enveloped. The Spectator takes Mr. Bright to task for his opposition to the minority principle. He is said to have burst out with an impatience, and almost passion, which he has not exhibited for two years, when the proposition to adapt this system to the city of Glasgow was made. Mr. Bright's objection to the plan is, that if three members are proposed and the electors have only two votes, the " can vassers " cannot canvass for all three, but for only two out of the three. This, our contemporary says, is one of the great benefits instead of evils of the method. " The truth is," continues the Spectator, " Mr. Bright does not care for a representation of the people ; he wants—and he admits he wants—a representation only of the majority of the people." The report that Lord Strathnairn is about to give up his command of the forces in Ireland is contradicted by the Army and Nary Gazette. There is no foundation for the rumour, and it is his lordship's intention to resume the command in Ireland on the expiration of his leave in July.--Referring to the statement that a mutiny had broken out on board H.M.S. Phoebe, in the West Indies, our contemporary says that nothing of the kind had been heard of at the Admiralty up to Friday evening, but that it may be quite possible that some discontent might exist in the ship, as she was reported not to be "comfortable" before leaving Plymouth. Professor Newman writes to the Star, advocating the organisation of a system of national militia in this country. He points out that while a large navy is an implied threat to foreigners (and therefore an incentive to quarrels), it does not give us perfect security from foreign invasion. His hope, therefore, is in a militia, to resist foreign aggres sion. But how, he asks, are we to form a powerful militia? Ought all men in their turn to be trained, compulsorily, or ought the matter to be left optional? Professor Newman, while deprecating compulsory foreign service, is in favour of conscription for home defence, and, therefore, is of opinion that the whole English nation should be trained to become soldiers. His argument is that soldiers are only justifiable in that they are a necessary police, that conscription for special constables is not merely defensible but necessary in many cases (as at Manchester in 1842) ; and, therefore, com pulsory service may be taken by the nation from indi viduals without any outrage on the laws of personal liberty. The Atheiurum states that the thirty-eighth meeting of ':,he British Association will commence at Norwich on August 19. Dr. Hooker, curator of Kew Gardens, will preside.—Mr. Horace Greeley has sent over from New York 100 copies of his " History of the American Conflict," to be distributed among the most frequented libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. The work consists of two large volumes of 1,430 pages and 222 illustrations.—Sir Henry Ellis is the present father of the Society of Antiquaries, having been elected in 1807. Next to him are the Earl of Lonsdale and Mr. George Ormerod.— Lord Clermont is editing the works of Sir John Fortescue and writing a history of the Fortescue family.—Mr. Blades, author of the monograph on Caxton, has been fur a long time engaged on a work on typogra phical numismatics, which will contain engravings of all the well-known medals of ancient awl, modern printers, with a notice of each.—Letters from Melbourne state that the association formed for exporting meat.to Europe has decided that meat can best be conveyed spiced. Measures arc being taken to send a large quantity of spiced mutton to England. —Dr. Rietz is publishing, at Leipzig, a new and complete edition of Mozart's operas in score:—Mr. A. Stevens has promised the House of Commons that his statue of Wellington shall be " approaching completion " in 1869.—1 t is proposed to erect a statue of Mr. Peabody on a site near the Royal ;cliazuze. IVA/3 „ Tara '''''.---(flrsnfar. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 27. The Queen drove out in the morning, accom panied by the Prince and Princesses ; and her Ma jesty again drove out in the afternoon, with the Duchess of Athole and Miss Macgregor in attend ance. LITER& tUttE. Chores Dickens and Am.lr:ci. Among the three latest reprints of Mr. Dickens's Works, in his own, " The Charles Dickens' E ii tion," we would especiAlly direct attention to the one most recently published--the reissue of " Atneri- C4ll Notes." The other two volu:nes imm3liately preceding it are noticeable tnerJly as reproduc tions in a compact and beautiful form of books already dowered with an immense poailarity— works as strikingly dissimilar as well could be-- " The Sketches by Boz" and "The Tale of Two Cities." But " American Notes" demands at this moment more than simply a passing mention of the fact of its reappearance. It does so by right of a Postscript which was promised by our great novelist a little more than a month ago, while be was yet on the other side of the Atlantic, in a speech in which he far more than merely compen sated, and that, moreover, in words as graceful as well could be, for whatever had caused most gra tuitous misapprehension among the population of the United States, through his humorous and trenchant commentaries upon them in this and in another more famous book of his—that inimitable story of " Martin Chuzzlewit," in which he made the world familiar with such great originals as Mrs. Garupt Mr. Pecksniff, Tom Pinch, M. Todgers, Bailey junior, Mark Tapley, Mrs. Prigg, and last, not least among them all, Mrs. Harris. Already in his Preface to his Library Edition of the former book, the " American Notes," Charles Dickens had s aid very distinctly—" Prejudiced, I am not, and never have been otherwise than in favour of the United States." Adding, "I have many friends in America—l feel a grateful interest in the country—l hope, and believe, it will successfully work out a problem of the highest importance to the whole human race." And remarking thereupon finally and very emphatically—" To represent me as viewing America with iil nature, coldness, or animosity, is merely to do a very fo)lish thing which is always a very easy one." These things he had -written in the form of a Preface before his second (and but just completed) visit to Ame rica. But, now, in fulfilment of the pledge spon taneously proffered by him to the American people, and welcomed with enthusiasm by the two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States who were listening to him upon the occasion when they were entertaining him at a Public Dinner in the City of New York—the author of " Ame rican Notes" reproduces at the end of that work, in the form of a Postscript, the expres sion there and then made of his opinions now in regard to America, on Saturday, the 18th of April, in the present year of grace 1868. Words more cordial and genial he could not have uttered, and he reproduces them here in the boldest type—appending to them the following two sen tences additional, dated " May, 1868," and signed " Charles Dickens"—" I said these words," be writes, " with the greatest earnestness that I could lay upon them, and I repeat them in print here with equal earnestness. S 3 long as the book shall last I hope that they will form a part of it, and will be fairly read as inseparable from my experiences and impressions of America." Words so repeated and so endorsed will be a pleasant greeting to the Americans fro►n our great author, upon the morrow of their mag nificent reception of him wherever he appeared in the chief cities of the American Republic. Saints and Sinners; or, in Church and about it. By Dr. Doran, F.S.A. Two Iro;s. Hurst and Blackett. This is one of Dr. Dorau's very interesting col lections of anecdotes culled from an infinite variety of sources. It might perchance be very correctly averred of this work, as was once wittily ob served of an ela.b )rate speaker, 6 , lie has said many things that are new and maul things that are true, but unfortunately those things that are true are not new, and those that are new are not true !" Flavoured, not with the conventional grain of salt, but with a whole bushelful of that purifying condiment, these volumes make very pleasant reading, and, opened at hazard at any leisure moment, are pretty sure to provide matter for entertainment. Dr. Doran deserve credit for his wonderful powers of research. His" tory and romance, both sacred and pro fane, from the most ancient times till these present days, have been the subjects of his close investigation, and very abundant are the results of his literary gleaning. The first volume begins with the "Magnates of the Old Church," and 66 Th e Old Folk of the Old Churches," and goes ou to describe "Life round St. Paul's Cross," " Sceptre and Crosier," " Throne and Pulpit," " Ordination," "Preferments," "Congregations," "Pews," "Stray Sermons," " Font, Altar, and Grave," " Irregular Marriages," " Long and Short Sermons," and con" eludes with " Texts and Church Stones." The second volume tells about " Style at Home, " "Titles Titles and Dress," " Sports and Pastimes," " Theo Joy Songs of the Church," " Royal Chaplain% Military Chaplains," " Naval Chaplains , Family Chaplains," " Chaplains Abroad," ,6 New" g ate Chaplains," " Popular and Fashionabl e Churches," " Fashionable Congregations at How e and Abroad," " Country Clergymen," " Honora rium," "Slavery in High Places," 6 , Axe and Cr o ' sier," and " The Pulpit and the Boards." Withou t giving them a picture of the actual edifice ou r readers may, from this enumeration, have some ide a of the variegated and diverse bricks of which it 10 composed. A good deal of information may 13° picked up by a careful reader of this book ; but it is one, nevertheless, which is not very well calcu lated to prove attractive to the " saint" or profit able to the " sinner" who may chance to turn over • its pages. Love's Matchless Might ; or, Blanche—her Choice. By Henry Hopkinson. One Vol. Chapman and Hall. Love is proverbially allowed to laugh at lock" smiths and to despise conventionalities, and in the little story now before us, these same convention' alities are indeed set aside with a vengeance. T 1 1,! fair Blanche, who electrifies her family and frien cij (and the readers of her history also) by ' amazing choice, is the only daughter of a rich a n . indulgent father, who allows her in most mat ters . to please herself until it comes to the choice of ; husband, and then the father and daughter are variance. When we first meet the fair Blanche 11 ; find her engaged in a mission of charity, rea ding the Bible to a poor old man. This poor man's s°° ' a young mechanic, who has a mind above his c 13.5 5; and has read a great deal and can “" J d like a book," returns from some journey o n becomes acquainted with the fair visitor. Ile 110 0 the good luck to protect the adventurous damsel la a crowd, and to save her from a mad bull, an the f Blanche, who has refusei every offer, an is considere 1 inaccessible to love, at once surrendeurs her heart to this poor working man ! Having t h set at defiance the ordin try laws of social o ut this good and pious maiden, who has been to pass her leisure hours in giving religious jo le tion to the poor, now enters into a clandestine e gagement with this young workman, an d stes : frotn home to take evenin strolls with ban vib e e his day's work is over, givin g g all sorts of falsey o g cuses for her absence to her kind over-confl i ci , l so father 1 Such is the " Might of Lov . e, the portrayed in this history, and such Is 13 ,t " choice" of " Blanche !" We cannot say either the one or the other is veil. t i o a calculated to enlist the sympathy or adtmr3 re of the reader. The working out of the stciliot well contrived, but the main incidents of the I ) will preclude it from becoming popular,