The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

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For many reasons, it is desirable that just no w there should be no diminution nor an apparent falling off in the efficiency of our Volunteer force, and there fore we hail with the greater gratification the fact that the best and most complete review of this kind that has as yet taken place came off yesterday. The weather, concerning which doubts had been entertained from the ungenial atmosphere of Sunday, proved most propitious, and everything else was in accordance with this auspicious sign. We all know that that is a great thing, for bad weather is an enemy that the bravest may dread to encounter in an affair of this kind ; and, above all, it is to be regretted for the sake of the many who go to witness the show, and put themselves to great trouble and expense to do so. The greatest excitement prevailed in all parts to witness the brilliant spectacle, and for the time the quiet and monotonous routine of everyday life was exchanged for the glare and glitter, the bustle and animation of war, without its sad attendants or melancholy thoughts. A change of this sort is of benefit, even though we do not expect to see the semblance put aside for reality ; but we shall be all the more ready to maintain peace if we are quite au fait in a con trary direction, and if, when we hear of the threats and insinuations of unfriendly allies or jealous neighbours, we can meet them with more equanimity than if we were quite at random as to the mode in which we are to meet attacks. Without any ex aggeration we may affirm that England has taken a decided start in military affairs, and that the scene of yesterday must be regarded as a triumph of voluntary efforts, and a testimony of the national spirit of independence, which cannot fail to be in fluential among foreign nations. The thirty thou sand who assembled yesterday are, indeed, most efficient guardians of the country, and teach foreigners a lesson that they cannot overlook and will not speedily forget. We have not the standing armies which are such a drain on the resources and such a blight to the social happiness and civil progress of other nations of Europe. The conscription, which brings thousands to the call of NAPOLEON, and surrounds the throne of Prussia with legions of armed hosts, is not known among us, but our shores will not be left undefended should the chances and changes of public affairs summon our soldiers to the seat of war, and withdraw our regular army from among us. All the arrangements for the Review of yester day were most admirably planned and successfully carried out, and no accident occurred to mar the splendour of the scene, or occasion any doubts or differences in any mind. We should think that by this time even those who do not feel quite certain about the advantages of the Volunteer system can hardly call it a " sham." This its ninth celebration in the review line has not been carried out with such perfect success without a struggle, and perhaps more than on former occa sions it has been subjected to censure and cri ticism. Still nothing that is really strong and steadfast takes root easily, and the under taking in question is none the more or the less likely to prosper on account of being made the sub ject of comments not very friendly, and subjected to sarcasm, which is certainly hostile. It is some thing to know that our Volunteers can get through such a day as that of yesterday at Portsmouth with out failure, and, more than that, with all the success that had been anticipated. We do not mean to say that perfection has been attained by these forces, but they have gone on and prosper e d i n suc h a manner that we have every reason to hope for still better and more efficient work being done by them than they have yet achieved ; and as time goes on and events complicate around us we should turn with renewed interest to this creation of our patriot defenders, and honour the zeal and assiduity which have sustained them in their self- COUNTER VICTUALL CLOTHS FOR LICENCED ERS. - - .THE only article really suitable for that p ur p ose, ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address s O5, Fleet-street , and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. GLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN. 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Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN.—Elegantly repainted and redecorated.—Under the management of Miss Fanny Josepi s.— New and Talented Company. This Theatre will OPETHIS EVENING (Tuesday) with Mr. lI.T. Craven's famous drama of THE POST-BOY; a new grand spectacular fairy extravaganza, entitled THE WHITE FAWN, by Mr. F. C. Burnand; and an original Farce, by Mr. Wilmot Harrison, called SPECIAL PERFORMANCES. For particulars see bills. Box-office open daily from ten to five. B UTTERCUPS AND DAISIES, THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. DING DOUG THIS EVENING THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. BELLES LE CTRIC SPARKS. THIS EVENING. - THEATRE ROYAL, HOLBORN. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE: Messrs. Belford, Harcourt; Miss Sheridan. After which, TIIE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Mes.grs. Thorne, James, and Robson; Mesdames Swanborough, Lydia Thompson, Sheridan, Hughes, &c. 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It is no light thing to say that the Volunteers have done more during the years the force has been in existence than their most sanguine and enthusiastic well-wishers could have expected at the time of their first enrolment, but it is never theless true in the fullest acceptation of the term. The telegram which we publish to-day from Sir ROBERT NAPIER, bearing date March 17, records progress more rapid than we had reason to expect. The last accounts were not altogether satisfactory, inasmuch as the difficulties of the route were on the increase, and theinformation obtained from the na tive princes appeared to be not altogether reliable. The selection of the wrong road to Muzno had lost the force some eight or ten days, and all the skill of our engineers will not obviate all the difficulties which nature herself interposes to an advance. The ne ws which Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE has just re ceived from the vicinity of Ashangi, however, is full of encouragement. Sir ROBERT NAPIEIt, writing on March 17, says that he expected to be at Lake Ashangi on the following day with 700 men. STAVELEY was one march only in the rear with six mountain guns and 1,400 men. Two marches further back were 1,500 more with four Armstrong guns and two mortars on elephants, so that a formidable body of troops, 3,600 in all, are fairly en route and close to their journey's end. Sir ROBERT NAPIER confirms the accounts of the diffi culties of the advance. On the day previous he had crossed two ranges of mountains during the march, the highest being near 10,000 feet. This is no light obstacle for an army to surmount, and probably THEODORE relied upon such natural pro tectors to render him invincible in his stronghold. Notwithstanding his " big gun," he can form but little idea of the capacities of European artillery, since, as we know, the big gun is a formidable hindrance to his movements. The notion that an invading force could ever make their own roads as they advanced, and still more that they should con struct a railway from the sea to the foot of the hills, would have no doubt been ridiculed by THEO DORE and his counsellors as a preposterous vision. Yet he must by this time be fully aware that he has to deal with men of a different stamp from any which he has previously encountered, and even the superstitious awe which gives him his strongest bold over his ignorant people will lose its force in presence of the incomprehensible marvels wrought by the invading force. THEODORE himself by this time must be somewhat doubtful as to the result of an actual encounter, and some even conjecture that when Sir R. NAPIER'S force arrives he will give him a courteous reception, and willingly deliver the captives into his handß, declaring that all the time his intentions have been most friendly towards the English. The improved treatment of the captives of late certainly goes to confirm this theory, which, if realised, will bring the Abyssinian expedition to a successful close without bloodshed. Sir ROBERT NAPIER states in his telegram that THEODORE is close to Magdala with his guns, and that ho will probably make his stand there. The better treat ment of the captives continued, and they were well. The troops also were in good health, which is highly satisfactory. Sir R. NAPIER has, it would seem, asked for another European regiment, find ing no doubt that the greater dependence to be placed upon them more than outweighs any defi ciency in the way of experience of climate or country. The news from Abyssinia, which has always been full of interest, will now be watched more closely than ever, and we hope that soon after the reassembling of Parliament Ministers will be able to announce to both Houses the successful ter , mination of an anxious and difficult, if not a dan gerous, undertaking. Among the good old Easter customs preserved among us the traditional banquet at the Mansion House is not to be overlooked. Formerly politics were allowed to mingle in the festivities of the evening, and her MAJESTY'S Ministers were the prominent guests, but of late there has been a change in this respect. Politics and all their pro blems and perplexities are felt to be unsuited to a holiday season. Ministers themselves are glad to forget them as far as may be, and the world at large would rather have a change of ideas:from the all engrossing topics of the season. So it has gradually con.e to pass that the civic banquet to Ministers has been deferred to a later period, when every one is in working order, and when holidays are not to be thought of until the !recess, and the Easter entertainment has be come, as it was meant to be, a mere friendly and social gathering, more in the spirit of Easter plea sure trips and Easter extravaganzas than of dry de bates and anxiously-reckoned divisions. Last even ing Ireland and the Irish naturally occupied a pro minent part of the general attention. The visit of the Prince and Princess, on which they start to day, was a pleasant matter for commen t, an d presented a delightful contrast to the regret, which, during the last twelvemonth, has been so constantly expressed at public dinners for the ill ness and seclusion of the amiable and popular Princess. To-day she starts for what is to her a ne w country, to win new hearts among her future subjects, and the warmth and cordiality of her re ception will, no doubt, do more to strengthen the alliance between the two countries than a thousand speeches or proclamations. The Lord Mayor, in referring to the royal visit, said that he had been invited to be a spectator of the approach ing ceremony at Dublin, and he would go there with the greatest satisfaction, hoping to pomote a good understanding between the Corporations of London and Dublin. The other loyal and constitutional toasts were duly responded to, and some interesting speeches were delivered. The Bishop of ROCHESTER, who had delivered the address to the Christ's Hospital ' scholars, 750 in number, expressed the interest with which he had fulfilled that duty. The Solicitor- General, in proposing the health of the Lord Mayor, remarked upon the distinctive charac teristics of the British merchant. He observed that the advent of no person as the chief represen tative of the Corporation had been looked to with more hope than that of the present Lord Mayor, who had fulfilled the expectations of his friends. Altogether the entertainment was agreeable as well as brilliant, and made a pleasant conclusion to the holiday. Paris seems just now to be very like the troubled sea, for a week cannot elapse without our hearing of some contretemps which ruffles her serenity, and disturbs the calculations of the most astute. This is very much to be regretted, for the constant con fusion thereby created must cause loss, and entail grievances, great and small, in many quarters ; but so it is undoubtedly , and if for a brief space of time we rely on the hope that all is quiet at last, the next telegram is sure to disap point and perplex us. It is now said that the EMPEROR himself had to do with the intimation about peace and war, which was supposed to have merely been the suggestion of M. LIMAYRAC, and, as might have been expected in consequence, the effect on the Bourse was moat unpropitious. It is the more unfortunate that all this misunderstanding should have arisen, because there was really no foundation for the matter in dispute. France will not begin the work of disar mament, it is said ; but really after all that was pretty well known before the communication which seems to have set Paris by the ears, and frightened the sober and sedate out of their pro priety. In the best interest of our lively neighbours, we wish that something could becontrived by means of which more reliance could be felt, and that they should not always be like one who beats the air, rather than one of sense and experience, engaged in the discussion of great national questions of Moment and importance to themselves and others. It is not at all wise on their part to allow the crafty and insidious Minister of Prussia the opportunity of witnessing so many panics. They had better take things more as a matter of course, and not allow themselves to be so unhinged by these every-day occurrences. If they could keep their minds more evenly balanced, and resolve to look at the conse quences of things more than the signs and tokens which may deceive them, the result would be in creased security to their own institutions, and their position with regard to their Allies would be rendered infinitely better and more dignified. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXHIBITION. On Saturday we attended at the soi disant Private View of the Third, and, we regret to add, Conclud ing Exhibition of National Portraits, now opened to the public at South Kensington. Like its two predecessors, it is full of interest, and possesses a peculiar and exceptional interest never before apper - taMing so distinctly to any art collection. It is sequential, and it is chronological. Each picture undertakes to represent the vera effigies of the individual portrayed. The por traits are no fancy portraits--eio litnnings done from memory—but delineations taken down from the life, line for line, tint for tint. For, each of these portraitures, in other words the respective originals—as a rule—gave sittings. The result of all this being (we may be certain of that) a series of extraordinary veresimilitudes. Altogether, we now have, there, on view amongst us, in the South Kensington Museum, between nine hundred and one thousand portraits, many of them as like as life. Nearly athousand ! Avery mob—of celebrities! Be ginning with the 40th year of the reign of King George the Third, namely, immediately at the close of the last century, the present collection brings the whole series down to a date immediately contemporary to ourselves, down to 1867. Twenty years more of the reign of George 111., the whole of the reigns of George IV. and William IV., and thirty years of the reign of our present beloved Sovereign are thus illustrated according to the felicitous notion first thrown out by the ex-Premier the Earl of Derby, who has been enabled to see thereby for himself his own happy thought realised magnificently under the approval of the Crown, and with the hearty ce-operation of the Imperial Government. The mere catalogues of these three noble Exhibi tions are fraught with a remarkable and an en during interest. Art collectors who have one spark of patriotic enthusiasm in their nature, will gladly secure these three enthralling catalogues, and, binding them up together in one goodly volume, accord them a place of honour upon their book-shelves. As is very well known, the pictures thus collecte I together are simply on loan to the South Kensington Museum for a given time for the purposes of Public Exhibition. Sauntering through the Galleries the visitor finds himself or herself in the motliest throng imaginable. Princes and Demagogues—squinting Jack Wilkes, for example, and bloated but tight buttoned and well-strapped-up Fum the Fourth— Poets and Philosophers, Statesmen and Philan thropists, Inventors and Navigators, Orators and Warriors, Actors and Divines, Architects and Novelists, Painters and Men of Fashion, Sculptors and Celebrated Beauties, the genus honzo in all its marvellous diversities of how shall we term it ?—proclivity or aspiration ? Here (147) is bare-armed Mrs. Trimmer of educational fame, and whose said bare arms would be rather alarmingly suggestive of the swinge of the birch-rot, only that her face is of the kindliest well imaginable. Here (160) is William Roscoe, the ,nueificent art patron and sympathetic biographer of Lorenzo the Magnificent—himself ludicrously portrayed in that absurdest artificial integument ever contrived for human legs, the tight-fitting once thought Yonder o t n o d er be a poet,(l6 is but looking about as William Sotheby, much like a poet as the Duke of Wellington di I ! Yonder (180) is good, noble-minded, noble-souled William ‘Vilberforce, with a sidelong gaze, writhing himself into the awkwardest attitude —just as he is represented doing (according marblewwe are to what was evidently his wont) in his white Abbey. One while Sir Charles Bell, the s e t ffi ar g tl y ed in to Westminstergne a s anatomist of the hand in the Bridgwater Treatises, reeois a picture (236) that w e should otherwise have sup posed to represent the make-up of somebody for the part of Mr. Peter Wilkins in a dramatized version of Boz's Sketch of " Miss Jerninaa Evans and the Eagle"—the " fascinater," coiled in the centre of Sir Charles Bell's forehead, being a very ditto to the " aggerrawator" in the centre of Mr. Peter Wil kins's. In the portrait of Basil Montague (183) we have a genuine Napoleon face—while in that of the dramatist Morton we have the very facial coun terpart of M. Thiers. The fourth bay (247 to 270) is chiefly noticeable for the various portraits of Sir Walter Scott, by Saxon (247), by Grant (249), by Reeburn (252), and by Leslie (263),as well as for thomas Feed's delightful picture (257), in which the groat Sir Walter is depicted as surrounded by his famous friends and contempo raries(including among them Moore, Crabbe, Camp bell, Wordsworth, Hogg, Wilkie, Lockhart, and and others), at Abbotsford. In No. 261 we recognise James Lonsdale's admirable likeness of Dr. John Lingard, the English historian, a pic ture lent by Ushaw College. In the gorgeous painting by T. Brigstocke (526), also lent by Ushaw College, the late Cardinal Wiseman, arrayed in full pontificals, wearing over his scarlet robes as a Cardinal a gold-embroidered cope, having ou his head a jewelled archiepiscopal mitre, and bearing in his left hand a jewelled archiepiscopal crozier, is in the act of blessing with his lifted right hand—his train being held the while by a boy-acholyte. Near this picture is one by Lomas (520), representing the late Father Faber of the Oratory, Brompton, read ing a book. And hard by that, West's full-length portrait of Father Mathew (552), the Apostle of Temperance. E. M. Ward's portraits of Thackeray (531) and Macaulay (538) will be turned to with the liveliest interest, representing those two great writers as they do each in his respective workshop —his library—one on Campdeu Hill, the other in Palace Gardens, both at Kensington. The handsomest head in the whole collection is that of John Philip Kenable as Richard 111. ; the loveliest face there, that of Master Lambton, son of the late Earl of Durham. One great improvement we would suggest to the autho rities of the South Kensington Museum, in any future reprint of the Catalogue or Catalogues, namely, an alphabetical index of the names and numbers attached to each for ready reference. The Collection is one to be visited and examined, and commented upon not once only, but time and again during the period it is on view as a public Exhi bition. MALVERN COLLEGE.—The athletic games this Easter were very successful, and showed great improve ment on those of last year. The seniors' sport was as follows :—T hrowing the cricket ball : 13.trdwell, 83 yards 1 font 6 ; ii. Ramsbotham. Long jump :i. Mealy, 17 feet 3 in. ; ii. Robinson 1. High jump : Blethwapt and Mealy tied at 4 feet 11} in. Hurdle race, 120 yards, over 8 flights : i. Mealy ; ii. Robinson 1, time 19 secs.-100 yards : i. Smith 4; ii. Smith 2—quarter of a mile : i. Smith 4 ; ii. Smith 2, time 611 secs.—mile : Norman led for the first three laps wheu he was passed by Ingham; about 50 yards from the finish Walker, who had been lying third, came with a rush, and won by five yards; ii. Ing ham; iii. Norman. Tho junior school showed excellently, both in running and jumping. • G, APRIL 14, 1868. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, April 13. At the risk of being reckoned by your readers a " pessimist," I am compelled to revert to the matter which is the one topic of discussion here—the probability of war. Every day the prospect becomes more gloomy, and even the " optimists" are beginning to lose their confidence. It is not so much that any sudden and extensive military movement is being made in this country. That is quite unnecessary. For nearly two years France has been arming, and is now in such .a state of preparation that she could bring a million men into the field in a few days. What chiefly alarms us is a coincidence of many circumstances, some of which may seem trivial, and which may re ally be so, but which are nevertheless interpreted to signify a good deal. General Raasloeff has left Paris, and has returned to Paris without going to London. What of this ? you may ask. Well, this is what people say here. They declare that the Danish War Minister has come to Paris on a similar errand to that which brought the Italian General Govone to Berlin two years ago. True, the semi-official journals tell us that he was merely taking his Easter holidays, and was visiting the French and British capitals in order to see what progress had been tnade in the art of war. But no one believes that. One journal professes to give a minute account of the matter which did bring the General here. It says that he had several interviews with the Emperor, and assured him that Prussia was reeking a quarrel with Denmark in order to conquer the whole of that country, and so obtain the command of the Baltic ; that he promised he would bring into the field 60,000 men ; and that he has bought 60,000 Chassepot rifles. I don't pretend to attach much ciedence to this story. Nevertheless, Ministers of State—especially military Ministers—don't travel several hundred miles for nothing. Another sig nificant incident is the formation of a new camp at Saint Maur, near Paris. The manoeuvres are to commence on Wednesday, and to continue until September. Another matter on which I lay some stress is the publication of certain articles in the semi-official journals one—declaring that the recent disturbances in Belgium arose through the dissatisfaction of the people with their political condition and With their "feeble" king . ; and another, republished from the Augsburg Gazette, declaring that Bavaria will on no account enter the North German Confederation, but will maintain her independence. Together with the prevalent rumours of war there has been a revival of the Congress project. It is said that Napoleon mentioned the matter to Lord Clarendon when he was here, and it is also reported that Bismarck is now taking up with the idea. A Congress would be of no avail now, and would in all probability only hasten hosti lities. We have had a wretched Easter. The weather was atrociously cold. In Strasbourg the snow was two or three inches deep ; at Marseilles one of the most violent " mistral" gales ever known chilled the Provencals to the bones. Here the sky seemed to harmonise with men's thoughts—with the prevailing discontent of the present and its dear bread and slack trade, with the alarms for the future as every day the " black spots " seem to grow larger and blacker. Nevertheless, there was a great crowd of holiday-makers on Easter Day, especially in the neighbourhood of the Place du Trail°, and along the road to Vincennes, where there were innumerable shows and booths and huge piles of pain d'ipice (Anglice ginger-bread) and dariole. Con cerning this last piece of Easter confectionery I may mention that it absorbs every year 450 sacks of flour, about 22,0001 b. of butter, 15,000 dozen eggs, 1,000 sacks of potatoes, and 35,0001 b. of plums. The cakes are sold at a sou each. _ _ While the bourgeois were eating in the Place du Trone, the Court were going through their devotions at the Tuileries. The service was unusually grand in consequence of the baptism of the infant sons of Marshal Canrobert and the Duke de 'Montmorency taking place after High Mass. The Emperor and the Empress stood sponsors for both children. The singing was particularly good, Mdlle. Nilsson performing Auher's "0 Salutaris hostia." After mass an antique copper basin was placed in the quire, and then the baptisms proceeded in the middle of a crowd of most distinguished persons. After the two ser vices, which lasted an hour and a half, the Emperor received several general officers, and the Prince Imperial drove out in a carriage-and-four in the Bois de Boulogne. At some of the churches the clergy had made great efforts to obtain a handsome contribution to Peter's pence, and had got up lotteries in order to help that object. Some interesting scientific discoveries have been men tioned lately in one of the Paris journals. The first is that the Calabar bean is an antidote to strychnia. The second destroys by spasmodic contraction. The first taken alone paralyies, and thus directly neutralises the action of strychnia, if given after that poison. The bean has been found useful in cases of lockjaw. Another discovery, or rather development of an old discovery, is the, applicoiAon of electricity to persons suffering from suspended anima• tion. Messrs: Onimus and Legros have been trying many experiments. Among them they subjected a frog to the action of chloroform, and, its heart being exposed, they' watched the gradual subsidence of the beatings of that organ. When it had stopped they applied a strong current of electricity to the animal, and immediately the heart began to beat again. A rat, to all appearances dead, was restored to life in like manner. 'The experimenters con sider that as death is often caused by asphyxia, by mere cessation of the heart's action through feebleness, many a life might be saved by the galvanic battery. It appears that the Hanoverian officers who have been condemned for high treason• endeavoured to seduce from their allegiance a number of Prussian soldiers at the time the Luxembourg business threatened to involve Prussia in a war with France. The officers are now in the last mentioned country, and as there is no extradition treaty between the two Governments, the condemned are per fectly safe so long as they keep out of their native country. _ The reaction against Kossuth has set in with vigour. Like the Bourbons, he has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing during the last twenty years, and thinks that the Hungary of 1868, with its constitutional sovereign and its representative assembly, is the Hungary of 1848 rebelling against an illegally ruling king, and placed at the mercy of foreign invaders. One of Kossuth's old colleagues of the revolution has entered the lists against him, and is everywhere received with enthusiasm, while those who still cherish their old idolatry are put to confusion. Among the items of Italian news, we learn that a young man has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for endeavouring to pull down a statue of Victor Emmanuel at Turin during the disturbances after the battle of Men tana ; that emigration to the United States is going on from Genoa to a considerable extent ; and that the cele brated statue which the French Government paid a large price for as an antique, is beyond all question the work of a poor Florentine sculptor now living, named Giovanni Bastianini, who sold for £2O the bust which was bought for the French Government at £5,440. This sculptor is said to be a very clever artist, and if works of art were sold according to their intrinsic value, instead of at fancy nrices, he would be a wealthy man. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times describes the Council Chamber . at Calcutta, which is, however, a by no means remarkable room, and its chief attractions are the portraits of great Anglo-Indians like Hastings, Clive, and Wellesley. The admission of strangers is by ticket, and the demand for the necessary passes was unusually large when Mr. Massey introduced his Budget last mouth. Probably no previous Budget since the introduction of tile income tax by Mr. Wilson had been so much canvassed as; the present one. For a long time it was believed that an income tax was inevitable, independently of a loan public works. Then came rumours that the income had largely exceeded the estimate, and that no such impost would be needed. This agreeable presage proved . correct. Mr. Massey, in the midst of a very large audience, announced that he had a surplus of £790,000; which, however, was only the unex pended balance of the loan of £1,000,000 sanctioned last year for extraordinary works. This surplus is applied to the reduction of the loan for irrigation works and Bombay advances. Mr. Massey proposed to renew the license tax, and reckoned that he should have an income of £48,586,900 to meet an expenditure of £48,358,710. He argued that the - income tax should be reserved for a pressing emer gency, and he said with regard to the public, debt of India, that 27 millions out of 64 were held by Europeans in India, 15A millions by Europeans in England, 101 millions by natives in India, and 10 millions promiscuously. To tax the fundholdera would be to throw a heavy burden chiefly upon widows and trustholders. The merchants do not like the reimposition of the license tax, but the cor respondent thinks that they aro well able to bear so light an impost. In truth, Indian taxation is a mere " fleabite," and, including the opium tax, which really does not affect the great majority of the population, taxation is only 7s. 34d. per head as compared with £2 7s. 9d. in England, and £3 3s. 74d. in the United States. The Italian Government are beginning to awaken to tne importance of diverting the overland traffic for India from France to Italy, Passengers making use of the Brindisi route are to be allowed to pass without examination of their luggage. It is now proposed to prepare a summary of news on board the steamers from Alexandria to Brindisi, and telegraph it immediately on the arrival at the latter port, and thus anticipate by several hours the telegrams sent vid Marseilles. It will be necessary, however, to accelerate the Mediterranean voyageS very considerably. For instance, Lady Lawrence was eighty-five hours doing the distance, instead of the arranged seventy-two, THE ROYAL VISIT I'D IRELAND. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, MONDAY. I have arrived in this magnificent old city, the capital of Ireland, the seat of representative Royalty, the liveliest, raciest, and jolliest community in the wide circle of her Majesty's dominions. Dublin, as any person who has resided in it any time can testify, is always in good humour with itself. It cannot help being so. Its people, in sunshine or shower, in prosperity or adversity, try to be happy. They give and relish good dinners and suppers, they dearly love picnics and evening parties, they glory in balls, concerts, and theatres ; they drink champagne with gusto and whisky-punch with their whole soul, and if they do get sick or " out of sorts," in difficulty or in debt, they still keep pleasant countenances, wear an air of rcderche abandon, and play off their rich wit and juicy humour with the resolute determination of frightening " the blues," and driving dull care away. The city is now, in the immediate prospect of the arrival of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and other members of the It o3ral Family, in a state of feverish excitement. Business, except in the way of house-painting and decoration and for purposes of display, is almost at a stand-still. Nothing is talked about save processions, balls, reviews, and other matters of interest associated with the advent of the heir apparent to the British throne. These, and these alone, form the absorbing topics of conversation and discussion on 'Change, in public offices and newsrooms, in hotels and restaurants, at social parties and in the streets- eve t in ancient Trinity itself, the students of which, to the number of 300, have peti tioned for " a clear term," in common with all the sections and classes of her Majesty's subjects in the metropolis of " the Green Isle." I should fail to convey to you anything like an idea of the intense excitement that prevails. You could have no conception of it in London, where Royalty is so often seen, and where the " white heat" of feeling so common to the Irish is scarcely ever recognised or known. . No doubt Dublin has seen and welcomed her Majesty on three different occasions —first in August 1849, when she re ceived,an ovation to which she has done ample justice in her recent volume ; second in August 1853, -When she visited the Great Industrial Exhibition; and third in 1861, when she passed through to inspect the troops at the Curragh of Kildare, to view the magnificent scenery of the Wicklow hills, and to feast her eyes on' the autumnal splendours of the beautiful Lakes of Killarney. It has also seen and welcomed the Prince of Wales—first in Sep tember 1861, when he honoured by his piesence a grand ball in the Mansion House, given by the Right Hon. Richard Atkinson, the then Lord Mayor, and again in May 1865, when, representing her Majesty, he inaugurated the Great International Exhibition in the presence of 10,000 of the elite of fashion of the city and the adjoining counties. Still, there is held to be much in the forthcoming visit, not less, if not more attractive than in any of the previous ones— indeed, there is no need to dispute the fact that what lends special charm to it is the appearance, for the first time in Ireland, of the Princess of 'Wales. " The Rose of Denmark " is really idolised here, especially by the ladies, who, though they may have never seen, believe in her beauty and her virtue ; and she, it must be confessed, will prove the great source and centre of attraction. The various arrangements which have been in progress for the reception of the Royal visitors are now rapidly drawing towards completion. You have, I see, published them as they have been made, and therefore it will be unneces sary for me to repeat them at any length. For the sake of convenience, however, I will briefly sum marise them, so as to give at a glance the whole of the programme. Their Royal Highnesses and suite will leave Holyhead to-morrow evening, and will be escorted to Kingstown by a squadron of men-of-war. The preparations at Kingstown are not extensive, and, with the exception of the display of flags and bunting by the ships in harbour, will not be very attractive. The Royal party will land at twelve o'clock, and, accompanied by the Lord-Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Abercorn, will proceed through the streets of the city to the Castle. Along the entire route, seven miles in length, every window ha 3 been engaged, and a vast number of platforms have been erected and let at high prices. On Thursday their Royal Highnesses will go to the Punchestown Races — the Irish equivalent for the English Derby. The Lord Mayor will give a splendid ball at the Mansion House on Friday evening. The citizens have engaged the Great Exhibition Palace for a grand national gathering, and are decorating it in a magnificent manner. It is expected that 10,000 persons, representing the nobility and gentry of the island, will be present. This is to come off on Wednesday the 22nd. In addition to these two balls, there is to be one at the Castle on Monday next, to be given by the Lord-Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Abercorn. The installation of the Prince as a Knight of St. Patrick will be the mcst imposing feature of the visit. As two clays have not elapsed since you printed the elaborate programme, I will content Myself with barely mentioning that the ceremony is to take place in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and that it will form one of the most splendid spectacles which has been wit nessed in Ireland during the present generation. Not the least interesting feature of the visit will be a grand review in the Park on Monday. Nearly 10,000 horse, foot, and artillery will be on the " Fifteen Acres " under the command of Lord Strathnairn and under the in. spection of the Duke of Cambridge, who will be the guest of the Commander of the Forces. Of course the Royal party will be present, and if the day be fine the concourse of spectators, I need not say, will be enormous. In addition to what I have described as associated with the Royal visit, the Prince of Wales will uncover a statue of Burke, by Foley, placed on its pedestal last Vriday, in front of Trinity College and on a line with the statue of Goldsmith ; that he will be present at a cattle show and conrersazione of the Royal Dublin Society on Tuesday; and that he will receive addresses from the Dublin and other corporations of Ireland. The weather is now very fine, and the prayer is universally that it may continue so-till at least the Royal visit and festivities are over, and over with the in - Ipr essive effect which everyone so heartily desires t , ice. HIGH CHURCH RITUALISTS _IND IRISH BOMANISTS. The following letter, addressed by Mr. Disraeli to the Rev. Arthur Baker, rector of Addington, Bucks, a con stituents of the right hon. gentleman, has been published " Hughenden Manor, Maundy -Thursday, 1868. " Reverend Sir,—l have just received your letter, in which, as one of my constituents you justify your right to ask for some explanation of m 3 lieged assertion that the High Church Ritualists had beei !ong in secret combina tion and were now in open co: "ederacy with Irish Romanists for the destruction of the union between Church and State. "I acknowledge your right of makini this inquiry; and if Ido not notice in detail the various E gesti° llB in your letter it is from no want of courtesy, but from the neces sity of not needlessly involving myself in literary contro versy. "You are under a misapprehension if you suppose that I intended to cast any slur upon the High Church party. I have the highest respect for the High Church party; I be lieve there is no body of men in this country to which we have been more indebted, from the (lays of Queen Anne to the days of Queen Victoria, for the maintenance of the orthodox faith, the rights of the Crown, and the liberties of the people. " In saying this. I have no wish tp intimate that the obli gations of the country to the other great party in the Church are not equally significant. I have never looked upon the existence of parties in our Church as a calamity ; I look upon them as a necessity, and a beneficent necessity. They are the natural and inevitable consequences of the mild and liberal principles of our ecclesiastical policy, and of the varying and opposite elements of the human mind and character. " When I spoke I referred to an extreme faction in the Church, of very modern date, that does not conceal its ambition to destroy the connection between Church and State, and which I have reason to believe has been for some time in secret combination, and is now in open con federacy, with the Irish Romanists for the purpose. " The Liberation Society, with its shallow and short sighted fanaticism, is a mere instrument in the hands of this confederacy, and will probably be the first victim of the spiritual despotism the Liberation Society is now blindly working to establish. "As I hold that the disso'.ution of the union between Church and State will cause permanently a greater revo lution in this country than foreign conquest, I shall use my utmost energies to defeat these fatal machinations. " Believe me, rev. sir, your faithful member and servant. " B. DISRAELI." " The Rev. Arthur Baker, A.M., Rector of Addington." FLOWERING SUNDAY. —A very pretty custom prevails in the country districts of South Wales of assem bling in the churchyards on Palm Sunday and spreading fresh flowers upon the graves of friends and relatives. After the late mild winter, spring flowers are unusually plentiful, and on " Flowering Sunday," as Palm Sunday is called in this locality, all the churchyards were dressed in bright flowers and wreaths of evergreen. The custom is not by any means confined to the lower classes, and in many of the graveyards flowers of hothouse culture were mingled with the more modest field flowers, &ITT- Mtn: HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 13. The Queen went out in the grounds this morning, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Prince Arthur. LATEST INTELL EGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA. Sir S. Northcote has received the following tele gram from Sir R. Napier, dated from near Ashangi, March 17 : "My camp, with 700 men, will be at Lake Ashangi to-morrow. Stavelcy one march in rear, with six mountain guns and 1,400 men. Four Armstrong guns and two mortars on elephants, with 1,500 men, two marches in rear of Staveley Country very difficult. Crossed two ranges of mountain in march yesterday; highest near 10,000 ft. Theodore close to Magdala with his guns. He will probably make his stand there. Captives well; better treatment continues. Troops all well." PORTUGAL. LISBON, Apirl 13 (Evening.) Disorderly bands of unemployed workmen pa raded the streets to-day, and many of the shops were closed. The Municipal Guards have patrolled all day. Several members of Count Peniche's com mittee went with a petition to the Minister of the Interior. Public order has been maintained. HAMBURG, April 14. General Raasloff, the Danish Minister, arrived here yesterday evening upon his return from Paris to Copenhagen. CROOKIIAVEN, April 14 (Noon.) The Inman steamship City of Boston, from New York on April 4th, is now passing Browhead Signal Station en route for Queenstown. BRAZIL. Per the Estramadure, via Lisbon. Rio DE JANEIRO, March 24. No news has been received from the seat of war' Exchange on London has been negociated at from 18 to 20 ; on Paris, at 490 to 512. Coffee good first, 7,900 to 9,200 reis. Total shipment since the departure of the last mail, 39,838 bags; of which 2,690 were for the Channel, 8,341 for Europe, 3,310 for the Mediterranean, and 2,5 49 for the Baltic. Sales, 39,838 bags ; stock, 125,00 0 bags ; freights, 375. 6d. BAHIA, March 29. Exchange on LOndon, 20 to 21. Sugar, whites, 2,300 to 2,500 reis. Cotton, 11,200 to 10,200 rem. PERNAMBUCO, April 2. Exchange on London, 191 to 24. Sugar, white/ 4,800 to 4,900 rein ; browns, 3,300 to 3,500 red' Cotton, 11,800 to 11,700 rein. LISBON, April 13. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Estramadar e from the Brazils arrived here at eight o'clock tbo evening. She brings 773,074 f. in specie, and diamonds valued at 1,019,000 f. The Navarr e arrived at Dakar on the 3d inst., and the Seine a t Pernambuco on the 28th March. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 13.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : ti, per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 6B 95 Credit Mobilier End of month 256 25 Credit Foncier —1428 75 End of month — RAILWA Bank Shares 3IGO ItaP.an Loan , End of month••• AlAyie,.. Loan 19 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred ... Account Orleans ... 857* N orthern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern-- 572* Western Eastern • • — Sardinian Austrian 552 Lombard 368 forth of Spain 74 . Saragossa Roman 45 HOME-SICKNESS• In last week's number of Charles Dickens's Al l the Year Round appeared a charming copy of verse ; entitled " At Home in St a t en I s l an d," consisting of thirteen eight-lined stanzas, which we would 1 0 . 111 give here in their entirety, had we bat the Wi n for so lengthened a metrical extract. The author ship of the poem it is surely impossible not to recognise—impossible at any rate among those Ab e through the " Voices from the Crowd" and ° I. " Voices from the Mountains" have long learnt t° love the name of Charles Mackay as one of t il6 People's true Song-writ er s. I n a n ot e prefited t° the patriotic poem we are here alluding t ' ° ; the author takes occasion to remark " 6 , " For the proper und er sta n di n g of the followin; ,0 verses, written by a home-sick Englishman 1 01 resident in Staten Island, near New York, it Mal I ', necessary to state that in North America there s' f neither daisies, nor primroses, nor skylarks, D o t nightingales, nor any bird with a musical note W e l l the mocking bird, which is not often heard north Maryland." The writer adding, "The' dogwood' An d# the catalpa,' of which mention is made, are 00'0 ing trees of great beauty in the vernal landeaP e t , o Thereupon follows the poem in which the Pn e true love having invited him to fi x hi s home th ero w in Staten Island, he thus answers th e seeming tion : " A little while," I made reply "A little while—one summer : For, pleasant though the land may be To any fresh new comer, I miss the primrose in the dell, The blue-bell in the wild-wood, And daisy glinting through the grass The comrade of my childhood. " I miss the ivy on the wall, The grey church in the meadow, The fragrant hawthorn in the lanes, And all the beechen shadow. . And more than all that proves to me It never can be my land, I miss the music of the groves In leafy Staten Island. " There's not a bird in glen or shaw That has a note worth hearing ; Unvocal all as barn-door fowls, Or land-rails in the clearing. Give me the skylark far aloft To heaven up-singing, soaring ; Or nightingale, at close of day, Lamenting, but adoring ! " Give me the throstle on the bough, The blackbird and the linnet, Or any bird that sings a song • As if its heart were in it. And not your birds of gaudier plume, That you can see a mile hence, And only need, to be admired, The priceless charm of silence." 3u0 60 0 Altogether this little poem is a charming pro —the sweetest utterance that has ever been g ar p to the home-yearnings of the victims of n° 9 .Vof with one only exception—Campbell's " r e- Erin," the tender close of which who does 0 ° eeo , member (almost with tears) as " Erin mavoar n Erin go-bragh ?" o co The newspapers are teeming with references w c Od,, o d. my in tea by co-operation. Horniman and Co. 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