The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-20 00:00:00

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Another night of excitement, or would-be such, for some hon. members are resolved, coute qui coute, to drive the Government to resign, and fancy that, by continually suggesting the subject to them they may at last induce them to do so. Mr. DISRAELI is too sharp for them, and we should not be surprised if he disappointed their expecta tations after all, and contrive to meet the new Par ment, as he has every right to do. If he do, it will not be without having accomplished many a hard struggle. Mr. BOUVERIE'S amendment had so excited and elated some of these worthies that Mr. DISRAELI was beset on all sides, in order to draw from hi►n a statement of his intentions. Mr. GLADSTONE first manifested curiosity, and very innocently inquired what course the Government meant to take with respect to the Suspensory Bill. This, it will be remembered, stands for Friday as at present arranged, and the right hon. gentleman intimated that the Ministry had had sufficient time to make up their minds as to their policy. This ingenious hint was replied to by Mr. DISRAELI, to the effect that looking upon the Suspensory Bill as the first step towards the disestablishment of the Irish Church they would oppose it to the utmost of their power. With respect to the Scotch Re form Bill, Mr. DISRAELI declared that on Thurs day he would state the intentions of Government with respect to it. So then we have till to-morrow to wonder and speculate, and ex. cited politicians may speak and write in the most extravagant style. We wonder what would be said if Mr. DISRAELI had conducted affairs after the fashion of Mr. GLADSTONE, what virtuous in dignation would not be excited, and what taunts of abuse would not the Conservative party have been assailed with. But reason and justice should not thus be trampled under foot, and made subservient to party purposes. If it would have bean uncon stitutional for the Conservative leader to have in terfered with the course of public business, and the conduct off affairs during the last session of Parlia ment, it must be equally so with the Liberal chief, and even more so, in one sense, because he should understand better the popular desire for the Re formed Parliament to meet. The Irish Church has, in fact, no more to do with this confusion in the House than the most trivial bill thrown out a year or two ago can affect present legislation. It is the struggle for place, the thirst for power that possesses the Opposition, and has once again drawn more compactly together that desultory body of waverers. The idea of Hr. DISRAELI meeting the Reformed Parliament as leader drives Mr. GLADSTONE to a state of distrac tion that knows no license and can have no counsel. Accordingly we are treated night by night to spec tacles such as the English House of Commons has long been a stranger to, and which we trust it may be long before it is again called upon to witness. The most important matters are put aside, the . most interesting measures neglected in order that a few perverted politicians may play out their game, and seek to effect their purpose. In the hurry-scurry of events one is very apt to forget what is said or done a few weeks back, and hence it is as well to assume that Mr. GLADSTONE merely expressed a desire at first that the opinion of this Parliament should be recorded on the subject of the disesta blishment ; but to what lengths has he not gone since, and how widely has he diverged from the line he marked out for himself. It seems strange that some of those hon. members who fol low on his track so closely do not reflect upon the position they are putting themselves in, and how they are compromising themselves before the coun try. The object at present in view appears to be to force Mr. DISRAELI into awkward predica ments, and then to prevent a dissolution. As we said before, we expect that he will get out of them, and if he does we shall regard it as a triumph over the manceuvres of a selfish faction, and not at all in the light of the settlement of the Irish Church disestablishment. Mr. GLADSTONE was too impatient and irritable to keep his place, and do the work he assigned to himself, and has been ever since smarting with disappointment in consequence of his rival having done it better, and contriving to excel in the displayof those qualities of moderation in which he himself was so lamentably deficient, as shown by his determination to get into place, by hook or by crook, during this session, and with a zeal worthy of a better cause he is working with might and main to effect that object. 'l'o say that such a ling of action is unfair and ungenerous, is treating the matter leniently. We might go a good deal further, and declare that by the exhibition of these qualities he is showing himself deficient in the chief requisites of a states man—moderation and reflection. The state of public business and the wishes of the country ought to rank higher than the mere desire for place. If he live long enough, Mr. GLADSTONE must cer tainly have many chances of coming in during the next few years in the usual changes that befal administrations, but that does not content him—he must and will have his own way at once. All that we can fall back upon is the good sense of the independent members of the House of Commons, let them turn to the public interest as they did last year and stop this disgraceful struggle for place. If they all fail Mr. DISRAELI must dissolve at all hazards, and appeal to the country for its verdict on this strange and most unworthy struggle for place at cost of all precedent and in defiance of all pro priety. Last evening in the House of Commons Mr. TREVELYAN proposed his scheme for army reform. The more pressing claims and general interest of Parliamentary Reform have of late thrust this im portant question somewhat into the shade ; but it is one which cannot be for ever laid on the shelf, but which sooner or later must assume its proper position. No doubt there is very great difficulty in the way of that particular reform which Mr. TREVELYAN is most anxious about. The system of promotion by purchase is of old standing, and a strong opposition must natu rally be expected to any interference with it. The manifest injustice of the method which renders military skill and knoviledge, personal courage and character, and long and arduous experience, corn' letely sub or din a t e t o t h e acc idental possession of a f ew spare thousands, I cannot fail to strike every unprejudiced observer. Its deleterious influence on the army itself is naturally very great. Not only does it advance mediocrity to onerous and responsible positions which demand the highest capabilities, but it dis gusts men of talent and enterprise with the service, and checks ambitious young men from entering so uncertain and unsatisfactory a profession. Mr. TREVELYAN proposes that, after a date to be fixed for the purpose, the purchase and sale of military commissions shall be discontinued; that from that date every officer on full pay shall be credited with THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1868. the then value of his commissions, taking into con sideration both regulation and the extra regulation price ; that regimental promotion up to the rank of captain shall be made according to a combined system of seniority and selection, and after that rank and selection that suitable conditions of retirement shall be provided at the expense of the State for officers of every rank, and that a fixed proportion of the vacant commissions in each regiment be filled by the pro motion of qualified non-commissioned officers. Several minor points were dealt with, but these were the main features of the scheme which Mr. TREVELYAN last night submitted to the House. The great objection, which the hon. member fore saw would be raised to it was that of expense, and this he admitted to be considerable, but he argued that great saving would follow the reduc tion in the number of officers, and in the half-pay list. To the complaint that it would fill the army with old officers, he replies by instancing the suc cessful scheme for promotion and retirement drawn up by Mr. CHILDEP.S' committee for the non-pur chase corps, and he argued that the French army and our own navy proved that a system of selection did not necessarily open the field to favouritism. Whatever merits may be claimed for the purchase system, no one can pretend that we do the business economically, and therefore it is neither politic nor reasonable to refuse to lis ten to any scheme for improvement on the score of expense. Mr. TREVELYAN'S scheme may not be the best possible in all respects, but the principle of abolishing a vicious and increasing system, which men of spirit must feel to be derogatory to the pro fession, is a sound one, and sooner or later must obtain recognition. Mr. TREVELYAN indeed de clared himself satisfied with having obtained a full discussion of the subject, which he desired should be brought fairly under the notice of the new con stituencies. When once its importance becomes recognised we shall have plenty of suggestions put forward, and even last night an amendment was moved by Captain VIVIAN, who opposed the wholesale alterations of Mr. TREVELYAN, and pro posed instead that purchase should be abolished above the rank of captain, as is now the case in the Brigade of Guards. By this means the officer will only have one step to buy, that from lieutenant to captain ; and the scheme also provides for a course of practical professional training as a necessary pre liminary to a commission in the purchase corps. Captain VIVIAN also advocated a considerable re duction in the number of regimental officers. It was a little singular that the advocates of the pur chase system should take different and contradic tory lines of argument. Captain VIVIAN declared that so far from its being a system of money against merit, it frequently enabled men of merit to supersede unfit men. General PEEL, on the other hand, admitted the anomalies of the system, but urged that in all walks of life—in the Church and the Bar—money gave great advantages to its possessor. Promotion by seniority would, he con tended, produce stagnation, and promotion by selection jealousies. According to this no officer could ever be selected for command without in juring the profession. Something can of course be urgedlagainst every plan, but in no case can a more faulty or anomalous system be at work than at present. Sir ROBERT NAPIER, whose achieve ments have reflected so much honour on our army, belongs to a non-purchase corps—a favourable in stance of what we may hope for with a change of system. It is pretty generally admitted that, scoundrel as Theodore was, he was no coward. A passage from Mr. Rassam's interesting " Last Days in Magdala," in the Pall Mall Gazette, shows that the King could upon occasion display courage of a very dignified order. One day, soon after his crossing the Bashilo, the King suddenly ordered Mr. Rassam's chains to be knocked off, treated him and his companions with great civility, and even sat down by Mr. Rassam, and, after pledging him in a glass of mead, conversed with him on the general conduct of the war, and the hopelessness of his (Theodore's) cause, and his willingness to submit to the decrees of his Creator. Mr. Rassam probably thought that the King was not unwilling to deprecate the anger of the British by this timely display of gentleness to the captives, and he sent a message to the King to the effect that, if his Majesty had no objection, he w ould write and in form the Commander-in-Chief of the British army of his Majesty's late civility and kind ness. Mr. Rassam then adds :—" The King sent me a reply, saying that I must not think that the reason he opened the chains of my fellow captives was because he was afraid of the coercive measures used against him by England, or for the sake of the prisoners —he merely did so to please me, and to prove his friendship towards me. Therefore he thought it unnecessary for me to re port a matter to the general which was done out of mere personal friendship. He told Messrs. Flad and \Valdmeier to reassure me of his un ceasing regard, and that he believed implicitly in my friendship." Nothing could surpass the dignity of this reply : it would have become Louis XIV. at the highest period of his fortunes. There is a difficulty about the vicarage of Leeds and the canonry in Ripon Cathedral, which have become vacant by the preferment of Dr. Atlay. Mr. Disraeli claims the nomination to the vicarage, and is indisputably entitled to it ; but the Lord Chancellor claims the canonry, and it is said to be difficult to find a clergyman of any mark who can take the vicarage without the canonry. The vicarage of Leeds is worth about £1,500.a year, but the claims upon the incumbent ar3 so large that no clergyman who has not private means can accept it. The canonry is worth £5OO a year. The vicarage of Leeds is understood to have been offered to one of her Majesty's chaplains, who is one of the most practical and energetic of the London clergy, but he does not seem inclined to take it. It is also said to have been offered to a Lambeth clergyman, whose political claims upon the Government are strong, but he too declines. M. Feyonet, writing in a Paris journal, gives the following anecdote of Lord Brougham :—Speaking one n'ght in the House of Lords, his lordship ex perienced some interruption from a conversation which was being carried on during his speech by the Dukes of Cumberland and Wellington. Taking occasion in the course of his argument to explain the word " illustrious," he said that we sometimes use that word conventionally, and sometimes lite rally. " For instance," said the noble lord, "we apply it by courtesy to the Royal Duke who is talking so loudly, and who has done nothing what ever to deserve it, whilst we apply it in its pri mary and real signification to the illustrious duke whom his Royal Highness is addressing." On the 22nd of October, 1839, a hoax was played off on the public by a report of Lord Brougham's death from an accident. When the truth came out, the general opinion was that, in one of his eccentric moods, the noble lord had _himself used the stratagem to learn, while living, what would be said of him when dead. The trick is understood, however, to have been invented by a gentleman who is at this time employed in a Government office. Letters from Carlsruhe mention that the Go vernment of the Grand Duchy of Baden is about to follow the example of Prussia, and reduce its army in the same proportion. It is asserted that the committee appointed by the llouse of Commons to report on the accom modation. of the present Chamber have decided to recommend that a new one, to hold 569 members, be erected in what is known as the " Commons' Court," the present House to be used as an entrance lobby. The cost is estimated at £120,000. LATEST INTELLLGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 19, Evening. A Cabinet Council was held to-day, under the presidency of the Emperor, when the Imperial sanction was given to the law relative to the posi tion of the different religious denominations in Austria. Baron Meysenbug will leave for Rome on Saturday evening at the latest. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, May 19, Evening. the King leaves the capital on Friday next for Schonen, but is expected to return before Whitsun tide. Herr Carl Johann Rooth has been appointed Consul for Sweden at Kiel. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, May 20. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Boston, from New York on the 9th inst., arrived here at 9 a.m. to-day. She landed mails and passengers, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. FRA. .NCE. ree o'clock.—The market BOURSE, May 19.—Th] closed as follows : per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of mouth 69 621 Credit Mobilier End of month 290 Credit Fonder 1473 75 End of month — RAILWAY Bank Shares Italian Loan — End of month — Mexican Loan 21 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred s. Cash ... 870 Orleans , Northern 1198 k Lyons and Mediterranean Southern__ sB2} Western . Eastern . Sardinian Austrian . Lombard. North of Spain Saragossa Roman 43 5561 375 THE FIRST BLAST OF THE TRUMPET. The following letter has been addressed to a contemporary : Sir,—The word went forth at the great special service in Westminster Abbey on Sunday exening that to disestablish the Irish Church is to disown Christ. Our uninstructed lay intellects had ima gined that the way to honour Christ was to do justica, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God ; and we had begun to feel happy in the idea that the last badge of conquest was about to be removed, and that Protestant and Roman Ca tholic were going to live side by side as fellow subjects and fellow-Christians, as they do in Canada, Australia, Germany, and other part s o f the world. Let it not be said with any show of reason that the English, as a nation, love to bully the Celt, and have no real desire to do justice to Ireland. The Episcopal Church of Scotland was disestablished 180 years ago, because the Scotch refused to be treated as a conquered people ; and the Irish Roman Catholics are now four or five times as numerous as the Scotch Presbyterians then were. however this may be, Dr. Words worth hasput himself forward as the fugleman of the 20,000 pulpits with which we were threatened ; and as he has entered on the domain of politics, he will acknowledge the fairness of publishing his sermon in order that it may be seen what there is in it to accept or answer.—l have the honour to be, &c., AN ENGLISH CELT. The Court of Assizes of the Gard has just been occupied with the trial of a shoemaker, named Her mann, and his wife, for the murder in November last, at Nimes, of their daughter, thirteen years old. They were 48 hours in accomplishing the deed, and when they had finished they passed the rest of the night in singing hymns and uttering strange cries. The woman had formerly been of light character, and the deceased was born before her marriage. But having reformed she felt the presence of the child a perpetual reproach, and took an intense dis like to her, saying that shy was possessed by the devil. As the mother was in the habit of beating her, the girl had been heard to say she was sure she would not live long and that she should not die a natural death. The jury found both the prisoners guilty, the mother of murder without premedita tion, and the husband of being an accomplice. The court sentenced the former to hard labour for life, and the latter to 10 years of the same punish ment. M. Dump, Minister of Education in France, is about to send to Constantinople, to the College of Galata-Serai, organised by the French Embassy, 12 of the best teachers to serve as superintendents or inspectors; they are to be from 25 to 30 years of age, and unmarried. They will remain attached to the University, although passing into the Ottoman service, and will be under the protection of the French Ambassador. They are to be boarded and lodged, with a salary varying from 2,000 fr., to 3,000 fr., subject to a deduction for a retiring pen sion to be paid by the French Treasury. Teachers of all the departments are allowed to become can didates for employment in this mission." A military tribunal at Grenoble has just tried a man named Saunier for desertion to the Russians in 1855, in the Crimea. He had stolen 470 f. from his captain and was placed in confinement, but he managed to escape and went over to the enemy. He reached St. Petersburg and thence returned to France. At Annecy he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for robbery, and while in gaol was discovered to be the deserter Saunier. He alleged he had been taken prisoner, but a majority of the Court did not believe him, and sentence of death was pronounced. Mr. Darby Griffith on an " early day " is to " call attention to the manner in which the exercise of the prerogative of the Crown in the granting of titles and dignities has come to be considered to be part of the ordinary patronage of the Prime Mi. nister, and to the extent to which the exercise of that power for political purposes may affect the independence of the House of Commons. In Monday's sittings of the Academy of Science M. Dumas, Professor of Physics, delivered an eulogium upon the late Professor Faraday. His speech was much applauded. In Tuesday's sitting of the Berlin Chamber the Upper House, after a debate lasting seven hours, the bill for the abolition of capital punishment was rejected by 22 against 15 votes. The thre.e clerical members of the house voted for the retention of the death penalty, and the Crown Prince in favour of its abolition. The clause doing away with corporal punishment was unanimously agreed to. In reference to an accoun t of a train on the Bologna and Pistoja line having been in danger from running down an incline, the directors of the Upper Italy railways, considering that this state ment was of a nature to do injury to the company, publishes a rectification. The train in question having acquired a certain momentum in the descent passed the point at the Piteccio stat ion, at which it should have stopped. It was, i n consequence, run on to a safety line at the side, constructed with a steep gradient in prevision of such cases, which not unfrequently occur. The engine and carriages were thus brought to a standstill before they had made half the ascent, and their departure from the main line was not the result of an accidental manoeuvre, but was intentional. A racing club, called "The Union," has just been founded at Berlin. A considerable sum of money has been subscribed by the members to be given in prizes. Mr. Thomas Cooper has written to the Lincoln Gazette to say that he is not dead. He says : " The Nottingham papers of Tuesday say I am dead. I can assure you I don't think it is true. I don't remember dying any day last week, though they say I died at Lincoln last Friday. Lord, lord.,' as Falstaff says, ' how the world is given to . lying." 0010031'01iDlit1CF; ..eGEI6. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.); PARIS. TUESDAY, May 19. I mentioned in yesterday's letter that M. Pinard had been very successful in his management of the elections. But even while I was writing there was impending a most severe defeat. Early in the month an election took place for the district of Tarn. There were three candi• dates, one officially favoured, the others independent. The result was, that the first was at the head of the poll, but did not obtain the absolute majority required by the law. A fresh election therefore took place, and one of the Opposition candidates having withdrawn, the contest was fairly fought out on equal terms. The result was that the official candidate was beaten by more than 7,000 votes. Nor was this all while at the first election he received 13,774 votes, at the second he received 1,176 fewer ; on the other hand, the Opposition candidate received 3,752 votes more tl:an both the Opposition candidates together received at the first election. So that the Government has lost 5,000 votes in that district during the past fortnight. The Govern. ment journals had spoken confidently of their champion's success. To-day they declare that when the second Oppo. sition candidate withdrew the election lost all its interest, for it became a mere question of personal preference—a statement manifestly contrary to fact. This is a sore rebuff for the Minister of the Interior. Recently there has been some talk of a visit by the Emperor to Berlin. The idea has been abandoned, but it was at one time entertained. I believe that this is what took place. When the King of Prussia visited our Exhibition last year he gave a return invitation to his host. It was accepted, and this year an attempt has been made to give effect to it. M. Benedetti, our Minister at Berlin, was charged to make the necessary arrangements ; but he soon found that it would be better for the visit not to be made at all. He had to tell his master that the Emperor of France was by no means popular in Germany, and that his reception, if he went there, might be even more marked by unfriendliness than that which lie had at Salzburg last year. Under these circumstances the project has been abandoned. It is far more probable that the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia will meet at some watering•place, probably Kissingen. The Archbishop of Algiers complains that there is a religious influence at work at headquarters adverse to him. Mgr. Lavigerie refers to a curious fact which is not gene. rally known. There is a certain M. aUrbain who is attached to the Ministry of War, and who attended the Emperor during his journey to Algeria. This official, who is much consulted on all matters relating to the colony, acme time ago turned Mussulman. It is, therefore, not surprising that the Arch bishop should suspect M. Urbain would use his influence to prevent the education of Arab children in the Christian faith against the wishes of their relatives. The Commissioners of the Great Exhibition have got into deserved trouble. Last year they suddenly removed all the chairs from the front of the restaurants, in order that the public might he compelled to use the seats which were the property of the Commissioners. For this they were sued by M. Bernard, one of the contractors, and they have been condemned by the Civil Tribunal of the Seine to pay him an indemnity of more than £9,000 and all the costs the trial. Baron Haussmann is as merciless as death. He spares neither the young nor the illustrious. He is pulling down one of our finest streets, which is comparatively newly built ; and he has now doomed the house of our great dramatist Corneille, IS, Rue d'Argenteuil, to destruction. The air is full of the dust that comes from the baron's demolitions, and it has produced a peculiar effect upon the nasal and bronchial organs, which is called the Haussmann catarrh. Both Chambers have been sitting this evening. In the Senate the important subject of free teaching in the higher grades of instruction—one which excites immense interest here— was discussed by Baron Dupin and M. de Sainte-Beuve. The latter senator is a rara avis at the Luxembourg Palace, and is considered by the great majority of the senators a very black swan indeed. They refused to listen to him the other day when speaking on the Press Law. This afternoon he made a somewhat violent speech in behalf of free thought. In the Palais Bourbon the discussion on free trade was resumed by M. Rouher. The Chamber was crammed in expectation of this speech, and presented a very im posing spectacle. The Minister of State said that this long debate had raised two fundamental questions, which it was important not to confound. Had the Com mercial Treaty of 1860 proved injurious to the industry of the nation, or had it not rather had the effect of an ener getic but most necessary stimulant? The second question was, what were the causes of that general crisis which for the last twelve or fifteen months had weighed upon the whole of Europe? The first was a permanent and general question ; the other a special and transient one. This distinction established, he would inquire into use motives that led to the conclusion of the treaty, and the promises which accompanied it ; and he would point out that at the time the Government had not the advantage of finding ready to hand a maturely-considered system of legislation on matters of commerce and of public works. Anterior to 1852, French legislation on these sub jects was in open contradiction with the moderate tariffs of Colbert and the Liberal theories of Turgot, which led to the commercial treaties of 1786. The system practised anterior to 1852 was, in fact, an act of anger on the part of the Convention, finding itself at war with all Europe. That it had subsisted so long was to be explained by the great wars of the Empire, and during the two succeeding pacific Governments by the predominance of privileged interests. Since the Treaty of Com merce bad been signed, it had become the fruitful basis of confidence between two nations upon whose mutual good understanding depended the peace of the world. But the treaty had not been hastily concluded. It was preceded by an inquiry which lasted eight months, and in which no interest had been overlooked. As for the promises which accompanied the treaty, and which removed any uneasiness the manufac turing interests might have felt, he would prove that the programme then held out, so far from being neglected as had been charged, was being persisted in with unremitting perseverance. M. Rouher refuted the figures given by M. Pouyer-Quertier to prove that taxes had increased in France while they had diminished in England, and that French Budgets had been constantly growing while British ones followed the inverse direction. M. Pouyer- Quertier had forgotten, said M. Rouher, that the English budget was not that of a centralised Government like ours. Again, as for the valuation of exported articles, which M. Pouyer-Quertier criticised so much—who fixed the scale of that valuation? Not Government officials, but a committee (la commission des valeurs) consisting of 80 of the most honourable merchants in Paris. All M. p ou yer-Quertier's figures vanished as soon as they were touched with the end of a finger. During the progress of hi s speech, which was delivered with M. Rouher's usual effective eloquence, the orator was several times applauded from the Opposition benches. It was stated by one of the correspondents of the morning papers that the Abyssinian captives had no love for Mr. Rasam, and it was pretty broadly intimated that he was a humbug who used his influence with Theodore to his own advantage without caring for his fellow-prisoners. A letter from that gentleman, published in the Pall Mall Gazette, gives a different account of the matter. He mentions (without reference to this accusation) that when his chains were taken off by the command of the King be used every favourable oppor tunity that offered to obtain the same concession for his com rades, and at length had the satisfaction of seeing his exertions rewarded. lie indignantly denies the charge of which he had heard—that he had appropriated to his own use money which bad been presented to him by Theodore. He gives an amusing account of Theodore's great gun, which had been named Sevastopol. The King asked many questions about the English style of warfare, and said that had he been as powerful as he once was he would certainly have gone down to the coast to meet our people on landing, or he would have sent and asked them what they wanted in bis country. " But now," he added, " I have lost Abyssinia excepting this rock ; and it would be quite foolish of me to say anything. However, I am ready to meet them here, and I must sub mit to the will of my Creator." Surely never did more pious words come out of the mouth of a blood-stained monster. Last week the Pope entered on his 77th year. He is wonderfully vigorous for his age. He takes pleasure in referring to the great longevity of his nearest relations. His brother, Count Jerome, died at 84 ; his mother, the Countess Catherine (née Polazzi), at 82 ; his paternal grandfather, Count Hercules, at 9G. His two surviving brothers, Counts Gabriel and Gaetano, are respectively 87 and 83 years old. His one surviving sister, Countess Benigni, is only three years younger than himself. Very different from some other Popes, Pius IX. has neither enriched nor called to Rome any of his relations. There are some in a condition of fortune not far removed from embarrassment. According to the reply of Pius IX. to the bishops, the great Church Council is to take place on the anniversary of the promulgation of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. Bth ; but, as it is estimated that the preparatory work to be done will take at least seventeen months, it is not probable the Council will be convoked . lAce,mba WC. THE ROYAL VISIT TO LEEDS. The Times correspondent describes the scene on the mtry of the Prince of Wales into Leeds on Tuesday, for the purpose of opening the Art Treasures Exhibition in ',hat town. From his letter we make one or two ex tracts THE PREPARATIONS. All Leeds was busy throughout Monday night, and 'rola the size of the barriers erected, and the nature of the lecorations, one would have thought the good town was celebrating its deliverance from some strongly pressed and almost successful siege. Windows, it is true, did not 2ommand the prices which were asked when it was ;bought the Princess was coming, but still very large nuns were paid for good views of the very small proces sion. Places on the line of route were, in commercial terms, " much inquired for," and places from which hardly anything could be seen at all were in fair demand. What • t would have been had the Princess of Wales come it is hard to say, except that it could only have increased the tariff for eligible situations, for it was not possible to fill them more densely than they wre filled. To the streets along the route as much was dune as there was time to do it in. Houses that had grown black and grim with a long experience of murky atmosphere were made to shine out clean at least ; balconies were built into structures never intended for them, and whole facades were made at once brilliant and odoriferous under the influence of the brightest paints. The sky hue of the town, made picturesque rather than beautiful in its dis play of houseroofs so variously and wonderfully con structed, of church-spires so changeably designed, of long chimneys which shot up into the heavens, and each of which seemed trying which was to be the longest, was for this occasion relieved and made in a way attractive by hundreds of banners and flags that streamed from every convenient and inconvenient elevation. At some places the sight line down the streets was completely hidden by the huge folds, and nowhere could the eye turn without being encountered with the blazons of half the monarchies in the world, and .most certainly with those of the chief potentates in Europe. Late and early, men were kept hammering and sawing, restoring and improving, and last night especially, as the effect of the devices for illumi nation purposes was being tested, the light which was obtained shewed not only a crowd of spectators, but lit up men still working, as if under a punishment that was never to end. It looked as if Leeds had determined to alter its appearance in a night ; and, indeed, this morning it seemed as if it had carried out such a deter mination. The sun rose upon the full proportions of triumphal arches which a few hours before had been nothing but skeletons ; upnn rich colouring on house fronts that were bare and ugly enough on Monday ; upon the quaint terminations of the New Infirmary, and upon the Town Hall, richer than any other building in the elaborateness of its decorations. It shewed all Leeds to greater advantage than it has ever done before. '['he decorations, as we have stated, were not so complete as they were when the Queen came, but they were very satisfactory. What had been left to individuals was done so far as workmen could be obtained to execute it; what was taken in hand by the corporation- was skil fully executed. The members of each family gratified their own tastes to a great extent, so that along the route there was little, if any, sameness about private decorations, and, where, as at the Town Hall, much was expected from professional skill, the effect was pleasing and attractive. The great attraction of the sight, how ever, was not its decorations, but the vast masses of people which were drawn together from all parts of York shire and the surrounding counties. THE CROWD. Thp crowd was not greater, perhaps not even so great, as when her Majesty opened the Town Hall, but it was second only to that vast concourse, and it would be diffi cult to say any more of its immensity in fewer words. From almost dawn the country people came streaming in, at first in twos and threes, and then in a long straggling line, which only thinned at the rural breakfast hour of eight o'clock, and then resumed its flow with greater force than ever. Soon after ten Leeds was very full indeed. It always is a rather crowded town, so when we say it was very full indeed we mean that by soon after ten o'clock the paths behind the barriers were quite lined and almost impassable, while even the roofs of .all the houses far and near, to say nothing of the, windows, were thronged with spectators. So much loyal bunting has seldom been draped in so small a space or in so short a time. Royal processions and great celebrations are, so to speak, familiar to London ; it is really only in thegreat provincial cities that one sees anything like enthusiastic display on these occasions. Manchester, Halifax, Leeds, Doncaster, Oxford, York, and Birmingham have all done better than London has ever accomplished, except only on the great reception of her Royal Highness the Prin cess of Wales, and even that was not so well managed nor so beautiful as the farewell given to the Princess Royal when she left Gravesend in - a, snowstorm with her bridegroom the Prince of Prussia. The route taken by the Prince from Teniplenewsam, though the shortest that could be devised, was still a long one — about seven toiler. Th.. greater part of this, of course, lay through country districts. Still nearly three miles of it was in the WWII of Leeds itself, and part of the way lay through the very district where last, winter there was so much trouble in preventing the Fenian processions which had been organised to sympathise with the murderers hung at Manchester. Nothing could be more enthusiastic than the cheers as his Royal Highness slowly drove through this, the poorest and dirtiest part of all Leeds. The con course was rough even for a Leeds crowd, but it was, like a Leeds crowd, thoroughly good-humoured, and most ear nestly enthusiastic in its almost uproarious manifestations of devoted loyalty. Certainly his Royal Highness was quite as well received elsewhere and by a far better class of the inhabitants, but by none was he more cordially greeted than by the dwellers in this very poor locality. From this point—the Kirkgate—the procession, if it may be so called, wound through the busiest and most popular quarters of Leeds. THE RECEPTION. The Prince was in a plain open carriage and four, pre ceded by two outriders in scarlet liveries. He wore a plain morning dress, with the riband of the Garter across his white waistcoat. Beyond this and the escort there were no signs of State whatever. What, however, was wanting in the procession was amply made up in the demonstrations to receive it, for to the good townspeople of Leeds the Prince seemed to be all in all. Every window was thronged, every how' top covered. All the houses were rippled over with waving pocket-handkerchiefs, and even from distant by streets in which the people could see little, if anything, of the little that was to he seen, the white fluttering welcome could be discerned far and near, while the roar of cheers and clapping of hands were almost deafening and certainly incessant. To these continued and evidently most heartfelt manifestations of welcome his Royal High ness had to bow his acknowledgments on every side, and did it with a cheerful winning grace which is almost pecu liarly his own. The enthusiasm as his Royal Highness drove very slowly along was almost boundless, and when ever a halt occurred in the little procession, as it did very frequently, and often for rather long intervals, the cheering . around the Prince's carriage was as long as it was loud, and as a demonstration of welcome it would be very difficult to say more than this. Near the Leeds Infirmary the scene was really fine. '1 lie front of the Town Hall was lined with volunteers, and up the hill leading to the Exhibition every avenue - was thronged, every window crowded, and every housetop covered with spectators. These seen under the bright sun, amid the almost endless waving of flags, garlands, and banners, and, above all, amid the continued cheering, clapping of hands, and flutter of handkerchiefs, made up a scene of welcome and enthusiasm which cannot easily be described or forgotten by these who saw it. Such was almost throng] . out the welcome accorded to his Royal highness from the moment he left Ternplenewsam till he alighted at the Exhibition buildings. To the central hall of the Exhibi tion visitors were admitted at eleven o'clock. It was beautifully decorated, and its chief decorations were those which are always most effective—flowers and ferns. From the central roof hung, in alternate rows, baskets of the most exquisite plant.i, while the ornamental buttresses which ran into the court were made still inure ornamental by being wreathed in the most arti-tic manner with groups of ivy and masses of artificial clunburs. The round dais. with a demi-throne, stood well out in the centre of the hall, the background to which was formed by the orchestra, the background of which, again, \VHS filled in with climbing shrubs amid a golden trellis. Altogether, in spite of the great heat of the day, the effect of the whole was cool aed most strikingly beautiful. All the plkces were well arranged, and, considering that the area at the disposal of the Executive Committee was very limited indeed in comparison with the demands made upon its space, nothing could have been better managed. His Royal Highness arrived at the building shortly after one o'clock. A lengthened procession entered the ball, and as the Prince took his place ell the dais, the assembly. which had risen to receive him, cheered till his Royal Highness had to bow repeatedly in all directions. What then followed was, as it generally is on these occasions, a matter of the purest routine. The National Anthem was sung, and at its conclusion the mayor and corp o ration ad vanced and presented an adorers. To this his Royal and expressed the disappoint. Highness graciously re plied, ment which the Princess had felt at having been unable to he present. Then Mr. Beckett Denison, chairman of the executive committee, read a loyal address from that body, which referred to the origin and traced the progress of the Art 'treasures Exhibition. To this also the Prince reterned a gracious reply. The s at night were very effective, and the streets crowded to a late hour. The company invited to the fityor s ball began to assemble at ten o'clock. The Prince of Wales, however, did not arrive until mi He led the Mayoress into the ballroom, and a qua irille was immediately formed. The Prince opened the ball with the Mayoress, and the Mayor of Leeds with Lady Fitz william for his partner. Dancing went oa with great spirit until a late hour. The Prince of Wales and a select party had supper in the Mayor's state rooms ; covers were laid for fifty ; the other guests of the Mayor and Mayoress, about a thousand in all, were sumptuously regaled. All the nobility and gentry who attended the opening of the Exhibition were present. The decorations of the ballroom had been entrusted to Messrs. Morant, and were superb. A 007111 Tart ~,(11.11111at LONDON, May 19. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. Mr. Edward W. Cox, of the Western Circuit, Recorder of Ilelston, is to be raised to the dignity of a Sergeant -at-Law. The death of Sir Benjamin Guinness is an nounced. The president of the Royal Academy has an nounced that the next exhibition of the Academy will be held in the new rooms at Burlington House, and that the apartments which would be ultimately at their disposal would be large enough for the exhibition of 1,500 pictures. The present rooms only afford wall mu face for 900. A great convalescent hospital seems likely to be added to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, through the munificence of the shareholders of a railway com pany. By the accounts of the storming of Magdala which have come to hand this week it seems that the Snider rifle has played a most important part in the taking of that place. To describe the fight after that weapon came into play would be only to describe a battue. Its sharp, short cracks follow ing each other in breathless succession were the death-knell of the Abyssinian cause. The unfor tunate foe had no longer even the shadow of a chance, but went down like grass before the scythe. The. " printed extract" which provided Colonel Stuart Knox with the materials for his attack upon Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons on Thurs day evening, and which is alluded to elsewhere, has been doing service in the country. At a meet ing of defenders of the Irish Church, held at Car lisle on Thursday afternoon, a letter was read from the Yen. S. P. Boutflower, Archdeacon of Carlisle, concluding with the following sentence :—" And surely we ought not to despair when we call to mind the words, too memorable to be forgotten, with which the very leader of the assault himself cheered on in bygone days our fathers and our selves iu a similar conflict—' rhe Church in Ireland can never be destroyed but by a recreant Senate and an apostate nation.' " The words thus des cribed by Archdeacon Boutflower as " too memor able to be forgotten," and as being those " which cheered on in bygone days our fathers and ourselves in a similar conflict," are now recognised as those used by Mr. Whiteside in 1866 ; and the reports of the proceedings in the House of Commons on Thursday night having revealed by whom and when they were really uttered, there is a good deal of speculation as to the manner in which the archdeacon will get out of the dilemma in which his familiar quotation of the " memorable " words, so cheering in bygone days, has placed him. Sergeant Armstrong's motion for a vote of want of confidence is discussed in the Irish papers. The A/art/tern Whig thinks it " thorougly justifiable in the abstract." Mr. Disraeli it regards as unteach able. Though the opposition have sought to keep on tolerable terms with the Government, "Lord Mayo's statement about the charter to the Catholic university showed plainly that the repeated votes of the House of Commons, and the strong expres sions of opinion even from the ordinary supporters of the Government, have had no effect upon hint. The Daily Express says :—" Want of confidence in what part of the - Ministerial policy ? Is it in their position with regard to the Irish Church? This the House has already condemned, and the Ministry are at present employed iu facilitating an appeal from this censure to the country at large. . . . The Government have refused to accept the decision of the existing House of Com mons upon their policy as the expression of the national will, and no amount of importuning can induce them to alter their determination." The Evening Mail believes that the Ministerial crisis has not passed away, and now hedges towards the stage on which small rather than great incidents may precipitate it. The attacks of Mr. Sergeant Armstrong and Mr. Hay - ter are, it thinks, " dange rous." The Evening Post consi lers it natural that au independent member should desire to put au end to a " situation ignominious for the Liberal party, compromising to Parliament, and peculiarly unfortunate for Ireland." It is stated that " Colonel " Nagle left Ireland with a conviction that the design of the American Fenians was utterly hopeless. He is said also to have acknowledged that the Americans have been altogether deceived as to the state of Ireland. The Irish Rifle Association will hold a contest at the Curragh on the 26th and three following days, when the Abercorn. cup and about £3OO worth of other prizes will be shot for. English volunteers are expected by the Association to attend and compete. A Parliamentary return issued on Afonclay Shows that the number of voters on the electoral roll of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, on the Ist day of January, 1868, was—Oxford, 4,190 ; Cambridge, 5,440 ; and Dublin, 1,871. An itinerant knife-grinder, named Duscher, arrived three evenings back, accompanied by his family, at Munster (Haut-Rhin), but as he bad been drinking freely he found a difficulty in getting a lodging for the night. Very much exasperated, he began to abuse bis eldest daughter, accusing her of not having carefully searched for one, and at length seized her by the hair and began beating her cruelly. The second son, a young ma n of eighteen, went to his sister's assistance, when the father suddenly turned upon him, and seizing a freshly-sharpened razor, prepared to attack him with it. The son tried to escape, but Duscher rushing forward struck him on the neck, inflicting a wound from the nape to the shoulder blade, and repeating the blow, cut his arm completely through the muscles. The son made a few steps and fell covered with blood. The neighbours at once arrested the murderer and handed him over to the police. The young man expired in the hospital the next morning. The Dispatch, once at the head of the weekly' press so far as circulation was concerned, but which has long had a struggle for existence, has passed into the possession of Mr. Edward Levy , the principal proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. It is a pleasing sign of the times that the Dispatch , which was once noted for its infidel scurrility' , has of late years completely changed in this re spect. At Nenagh Petty Sessions on Saturday two street players were committed for two months' imprisonment with hard labour for playing wha t the police described as " Fenian tunes." The me n pleaded ignorance. The Journal Illustre gives a fac-simile of a s ketch of Marie Antoinette on her way to the scaffold, taken by David, the painter, who had himself, as one of the Convention, voted for her death. Her hands are tied behind her back, and straight wisP s of hair—she had cut it close herself that m orning —escape from under the hideous prison cap. l' h° contrast of this ignominy with the unyielding prn l° expressed by her bearing and face is most tragica l ' The drawing is one of a collection bequeathed by the late M. liennin to the Imperial Library. The statements published with respect to the re port of the Irish Church Commissioners are O W said to be " premature." At the sitting of the Customs Parliament 011, Tuesday, the Commercial Treaty with the States 01 the Church was adopted without discussion. The Courrier des Alpes relates that a nurser,' gardener of Chambery, M. Burdin, has just f a llen a victim to a sad accident. A few days ago, ha s " ing gone gathering simples in the mountains o f 001 vicinity of La Chapelle-Blanche, he happened to cu . t his finger slightly with his pruning-knife, but too.ice no notice of the injury. Soon after, in cutting.tbuo stem of a poisonous plant, a drop of its viel ° _ t juice fell upon the wound, which from that monaei_u_ got worse and worse, and ended in causing I . o c_ Y : jaw, which proved mortal.;; While M. Burden, was attending his father's funeral, a fire broke on In his house at Chambery, and destroyed it.