The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1868. Yesterday was a grand day with the Merchant Taylors' Company, and her MAJESTY'S Ministers were entertained at a Banquet in the hall at Thread needle-street. The affair was very brilliant, and the whole of the entertainment reflected the greatest credit upon those concerned in it. The Premier , and nearly all the Ministers, were present, besides a numerous assemblage of the conspicuous members of the Conservative party. The guests were nu merous, and the general arrangements altogether conduced greatly to the effect of the evening. It will be in the knowledge of many that the Merchant Taylors' Company is one of the most time-honoured of all the Guilds for which the city of London has been famous, and last evening they appeared in a spirit and splen dour worthy of the more magnificent days of their history. The Hall itself is well fitted for a scene of this kind, being lofty, and admirably complete n its various parts. The history and traditions of the party are Conservative in the fullest acceptation of the term, and on more than one occasion the party has made it a standing-ground for political manifestations on the eve of any great crisis that oc curred. There is ample reason for this Company making an effort to welcome the present Administra tion, for it has conferred honour on the cause by its spirited action respecting Reform. The popu larity in which the present Ministry is held was amply proved yeA .rday, for the Premier was ex tremely well received on arriving, and again in the hall ; and some of the 1, aging members of the Administration also obtained a cordial recognition. In proposing the " Army" the Master said that the Conservative prestige in war had been fitly borne out by the recent success iu Abyssinia ; and Sir J. PAKINGTON, in returning thanks, made some interestin4observations. He truly Dbserved that it was not the mere fact of victory that was so gra tifying in this affair, but also the circumstances that conduced to it. In proposing the toast of the evening the Master made an appropriate speech, in which he dwelt upon the character of the Adminis tration generally, and concluded by associating with the toast " the name of the right hon. gentle man at the head of the Government, whose com manding genius, great eloquence, and unshaken resolution had commanded success in spite of the enormous and hostile attacks which have been made against him, and whose good temper and tact enabled him to rule the storm, and, if not to reach port, at least successfully to keep to the open sea." Mr. Ms- RAELI was received with the most unbounded ap plause on presenting himself to the assembly, and spoke in his usual felicitous strain on such occasions. A year haz ^^c-^a since in that !all the right bon. gentleman had the task of returning thanks for the House of Commons, then engaged in one of the most arduous works that have been witnessed by this generation, and it is still occupied in the completion of that glorious labour. The Premier has some reason for expressing the opinion that when the heat and excitement of tl:9 con filet is over a more favourable impression will be felt concerning the achievement of the last t7o '..ears in improving the Representation of the People, and that the generations which succeed us will conclude that, considering the difficulties in the way, the present Parliament has successfully combined respect for past traditions with a due re gard for the progress demanded by the future. The Constitution of our country, as Mr. DISRAELI well reminded his hearers, is not a " paper Constitution," and its efforts are well seen and fully recognised by all who take the trouble to enter into its character. It is an aggregate of institutions, and the conse quence of these political institutions, aS was Well described in the speech before us, is that in England "society has already been more powerful than the State." Without eriggeration, we may affirm that Mr. DISRAELI is always very successful in delinea tions of this sort, and intelligent men of every shade of party will readily acknowledge the truth of this masterly sketch of the blessings they, in common with other Englishmen, enjoy. "In moments of difficulty and danger, in times of emergency, there has always in this country been something round which we can rally, and by these means we have secured the greatest blessings of a civil community, which are seldom reconciled ; that is the enjoyment alike of crier and liberty." We cannot expect the same unanimity of opinion to prevail respecting the comments which Mr. Ms- RAELI passed upon the manner in which the Administration of the last ten years had performed their duty; and yet, if we cri tically consider them, there is a dt!al of truth which some may find more potent than pleasant to dwell upon. In foreign affairs England has re gained that position which for smne time seemed well-nigh lost for ever, an I the successful conduct of the Abyssinian war has imparted a fresh energy and put a new stimulus into our army and navy, and shown the world that we vindicate at al: hazards the might of that empire on which the sun never sets. Mr. DISRAELI concluded his eloquent speech by expressing his confident trust " that, when the hour of trial came, the people of this country will not be unmindful of what the present Ministers have done under circumstances of great difficulty, and with much to contend against." The Lord Chancellor, in his effective speech, vin dicated the character of the House of Lords from the charge of idleness. The present sesiion has in deed witnessed many instances of their energy, and just now they are considering four great measures, besides a host of supernumerary matters that claim their attention. Some other speeches of interest were made before the company separated, and we may add that the memory of the brilliant and success ful entertainment will long live in the memory of all present. The present Government has been driven too long by the determined and factious course of the Opposition, but until the verdict of the country has decided against them they have a right to be lieve that some recognition will be made of the great work they have accompiihed, and those numerous classes which their policy has enfran chised may not be such realy and willing fol lowers of the Opposition as Mr. BRIGHT would fain have us believe. We learn by the arrival of the Nova Scotian, with news from New York on the Gth inst., that the difficulty of making diplomatic appointments is not yet over in America. The Senate indeed appears to have grown more moderate in their conduct since the conclusion of the Impeachment Trial, but the Foreign Affairs Committee has now begun to make itself troublesome, and its members have recommended the rejection of the nomina tion of General 111`CLELLAN as Minister to Great Britain, and of Mr. Cox as Minister to Austria. The mere fact of a Minister having been nominated by the present Government is quite sufficient to call forth a protest on the part of some politicians, and the newly-ap pointed Ministers to England and Austria seem to have the benefit of this feeling. Mr. THORNTON is meanwhile comfortably installed at Washington, and has begun inquiring about the Renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty. Mr. SEWARD is reported to have said that the action of Congress in the matter would be necessary. We should hope that com mon-sense counsels may prevail this year, and that having indulged their feelings against England, without any advantage to themselves, the Radicals may cons:nt to allow the inte rests of the commercial community to be considered. The merchants of Detroit, who might reasona')ly be supposed to know more about the matter than the angry gentlemen who meet at. nashington, made, it will be remembered, a very spirited and sensible protest against the rupture of the commercial arrangements between Canada and the United States ; but at that time the Radicals car ried everything before them, and England was the object of their supreme displeasure. Times have changed since then, and every succeeding election shows how strongly the tide of public opinion has set against the faction which has worked so much mischief. The late elections in Oregon form the latest triumph of the Democrats. An unex pected success has attended their candidate for the State membership for Congress. A sharp contest and a full vote resulted in the success of the Democrat by a majority of nearly 2,000, an d nearly all the Legislature and the county officers belonged to the same party. At the last election, two years ago, the Republican candidate obtained a seat in Congress by a majority of 55, and in the State Legislature the Republicans secured a majo rity of seven members. The Democrats, as might be expected, are greatly elated at this result, which they accept as indicative of the votes which the Pacific States will give in the Presidential election. They call it satirically " the first gun for General GRANT." Meanwhile General GRANT and Speaker COLFAX have been waited upon by the Committee of the Chicago Convention, and officially informed of their nomination for the two highest offices in the State. General HAWLEY, who made the announcement, said to GRANT that they were sure he would not impose upon the unwilling representatives of the people aoy policy of his own devising, for he had said that " the will of the people was the law of the land." General GRANT, who never exhibits any of the rashness of the soldier, but always main tains the cautious reserve of the statesman, contented himself with agreeing to this statement, and saying he would write a letter of acceptance. Three days later the letter was published, and exhibits the same caution, and is also, we must ac knowledge, characterised by good sense. While Congress is rashly pledging the future, and making the elections of national representatives dependent on rigid obedience to specified restrictions, General GRANT justly declares that "In times like the present it is impossible, or at least eminently im proper, to lay down a policy to be adhered to, right or wrong, through au administration of four years." He adds that new political issues not foreseen are constantly arising, the views of the pub lic on old ones are constantly changing, and a purely administrative officer should always be left free to execute the will of the people." This is to say, in other words, that GuANT, as candidate for the Ra dical suffrages, accepts the position which the House of Representatives has marked out for the occupant of the White Thule, and that he will, if elected, consider himself merely "an administrative officer," whose first duty is to consult " the will of the people," as expressed, of course, through their re presentatives. Happily, judging from the turn which the elections are taking, the will of the Congress is not likely to be so arbitrary, so oppres sive, or so self-seeking as it has been of late years. So far as the refusal. to pledge himself to any par ticular policy is concerned, General GRANT is wise. It would be presumptuous folly for any man to pledge himself as Co his acts four years hence when he assumes the conduct of the affairs of a great nation. Such a pledge given in sincerity is tanta mount to announcing that the statesman in ques tion refuses to learn anything by experience by the march of events, by the inevitable changes which years bring about. If such a politician is out of place among ourselves more must he be so in that enterprising and vigorous young commu nity, which has cast off so many of the shackles which bind the policy of the old world. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) -+ lIUN GARY. PESTI!, June 17, Evening. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House the bills on indirect taxes were adopted in principle. Prince Napoleon was present at the sitting. The Prince dines to-day with Count Andrassy. lie leaves on Friday for Mezoe llegyes, and from thence proceeds to Constantinople. The recruiting this year takes place on the old system. .ree o'clock.—The market BOURSE, June 17.—T closed as follows 41 per Cent. End of month... ItaPan Loan 3 per Cent End of mouth 7O 22} Mexican Loan ... 22 25 Credit Mobilier End of month... 312 50 Spanish Threes Credit Foucier _1530 Home Debt 33 75 Eadiof month... Deferred RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans N orthern Lyons and Mediterraocan Southern-- 6OO Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 3BO North of Spain Saragossa Roman—.. 46 THE 1313101 QTY OF CRIME IN ITALY. The 7 lanes Florence correspondent, writing on June 13, says :—ln the midst of long-winded and arid conversations about declines and centimes a poli tical question of some interest has been introduced. Deputy Finzi announced his intention to ask the Government for certain explanations with regard to recent occurrences at Ravenna, a town which Deputy Farini yesterday declared, not without some reason, had come to be considered a nest of banditti. You were told of the assassination of Signor Cappa, a magistrate whose functions—rather it would seem by their mere nature than by his manner of discharging them—had rendered him odious to those classes of society—in the Romagna, it is to be feared, only too numerous—who view with abhorrence the repression of crime, and readily fly to the poniard to rid themselves of any who con scientiously and energetically carry it out. Cappa, it appears, had rendered himself unpopular- in other words, he had incurred the hatred of evil-doers. A story has now been got up of arrests made in Ra venna several month s ago , and it is said that the parsons are s till i n pr i son, having never been brought to trial, and th a t t h us t h e assas sin's hand had been armed against Cappa. It is a matter of the ut most difficulty to sift the truth of such stories in a country were the moderate press is too prone to suppress all that is unpleasant to its friends, while the journals of the Left, by their habitual violence and exaggeration, often prevent credit from being given to statements substan tially correct. What is certain is that the local authorities of Ravenna neglected the natural opportunity that presented itself of showing sym pathy with the murdered man and abhorrence of the crime by attending his funeral, an I that the unta, or Executive Committee of the Municipal Body, has sent a deputation to Florence to coinplain to Government of what are styled by a Bologna piper the " unjust, numerous, and arbitrary" arrests made at Ravenna since Cappa's assassination. The truth is, that murders of which the motive, for the most part, has remained a mystery, while the perpetrators have almost invariably escaped un punished, have of late been scandalously frequent in Italy. A number of papers have recently_ had articles tending to attribute them to political fac tions, but this is a mere attempt to elevate some what the character of the crime, and to lighten the charge cast upon the national morality. The true cause of such crimes is the absence of a high moral tone in the country, the inefficiency of the police, the cowardice of juries, the facilities for prison breaking, the maudlin agitation against capital punishment. Remove these original causes and facilities for crime, and there will no longer be any occasion to fall upon the "sects" as the instigators of murders, which will then be of comparatively rare occurrence. It is the same with minor offences; they might be checked by a stern measure of justice. But in Italy it is too common for the big fish to break through the net. An immense deal must be set down to sentiment in this country. What can be more touching than a truly penitent murderer ? Hand him a file, give poppies to his guards, and let him away in the dead of the night, or, perhaps, in broad daylight. Dives is everywhere well received, and has numerous friends of high character, although it is known to everybody that hundreds of poor families lost their little all by the smash of the bubble company by which he made his fortune. This, it may be said, is a case to be paralleled in various countries, and such is as suredly the case ; but, ul.fortunately, here the evil reaches very le . gh and habitually escapes ex posure. The papers are very prudent, and love not to compromise their friends an I make things un pleasant. A public scanial see - ns repugnant to their feelings, however necessary it may be to the interests of public morality, and they are glad to smother it up. What about the Bologna forgeries? A certain number of persons have been arrested, including some of a social p , sition which exempted them from suspicion, and rendered it most impro bable they would be arrested, especially in Italy, unless the strongest evidence against them had been forthcoming. We wait to see what comes of the affair, but it will be far from unprecedented if nothing more be heard of it. In order to convey to the public some idea of the power of the battery now engaged at Shoeburyness in proving the resisting power of the various shields, the Times says that if its five guns were fired simultaneously they would deliver about 1 G cwt. of shot, propelled by 2501 b. of powder, strik ing the target with a m e ch an ical force sufficient to throw nearly a ton weight over the top of the highest mountain in the world. _ _ The Irish Government have determined to re lease Mr. Pigott, of th e I r i s hman. On Tuesday the Governor of Richmond Bridewell received authority from the Lords Justices (acting in the absence of the Lord-Lieutenant) to release him from custody on his perfecting the recognizances required by his sentence. This concession amounts to a commutation of punishment by one-half. Mr. Pigott was sentenced to twelve months' imprison meat, and has spout exactly six in the Bride well. Mr. A. M. Sullivan (of the Nation) has just de livered a lecture on " Hofer and the Patriot Leaders of the Tyrol." He described it as a contribution to the " training up of young Irishmen ia the way they should go as citizens and Irishmen." " Hofer,' he sail, " was for a considerable time concealed, but at length a Judas, a Corydon was found to clutch the Bavariin blood money." Mr. Sullivan woul I say to his audience, in Ilofec's worth, " Oh, friends, pray, pray always that God may preserve to us the old religion and brotherly love throughout the land. They had heard of late that the clergy of the Catholic Church, the teaching, auth , )- rity, and influence of that Church, had been adverse to liberty, tending to national abasement, submission, and slavery. Ah, my countrymen, they who say these things blaspheme the truth of history, and calumniate the best friends, the most lunic martyis, of:liberty." EXrLANATI Barometer corrected and reduced to : r., Tieing; f., falling; s., steady—lndio mercury within last 14 hours. The Extreme Force with its Direction du Wean), r : 11—blue sky ; c.—clouds, ; nn, —misty, Lazy ; o.—ove t.—thunder. Rah-fall, snow cr hail ( Sea di3turbance dcg. a sea level. Theletters ;ate directieii of motion of the ermometer ezposed in shade. firing last 24 hours. Z.—calm detached ; f.—fog ; h.—hail ; ;Yeast, dull ; r.— rain ; B.—snow; (melted) during last 24 hours, REMARK: A rapid increase in barometrical pressures has occurred on our north and east coasts since last evening, and readings are now high at all stations : they are highest in the district named, and there is a difference of four-tenths of an inch between Leith and Biarritz. On the west coast a slight decrease is in progress. Temperatures are very high except in the north. The winds yesterday were of moderate force, and towards the afternoon were ve2ring : they are generally from the eastward this morning, and are very light in Scotland, but moderate on the Channel coast. Weather is generally fine and dry. The special correspondent of the Times writes that the ou t ra ge at Belgrade is felt in Hungary al mos t lik e a The impression is so much th e greater as family tragedy. there was not the slightest premonitory symptom of the catastrophe. The Prince had succeeded in completely mastering the Opposition, so that, except in form, he had become, far more so than his father, the uncontrolled ruler of his country. Every year his popularity increased, so that at the moment of his death the chances of founding a truly national dynasty seemed quite assured. This would seem to exclude the idea of assassination from political motives, did not the details which have at present transpired leave little or no doubt that private motives of revenge played, if not the first, at any/rate a very essential part. A probable list of candi dates for the succession is furnished by the writer. There is first the nephew of the deceased Prince, the grandson of Milosch's brother Ephraim, a youth 14 years of age. The second candidate named is the deposed Prince Kara george vich, the son of the Servian hero Czerny George; and the third, Prince Daniel of Montenegro, the favourite of the national party. The last, but by no means the least on the list, is Garachanin, the Minister President. He is undoubtedly in intelligence and character far ahead of everyone else, and in Europe his accession to power would be the greatest guarantee of peace and order. It is feared, however, that there may be a difficulty in induc ing him to exert himself in the matter, or to allow others to do it for him. Now that we have the official despatches from Si; Robert Napier giving all particulars of the storming of the fortress of Magdala, the victory does not seem to have been so easily attained as the telegrams had led us to suppose. As the Daily News points out, it appears to have been no child's play in which our forces were engaged, and therefore the English nation ought to be still more deeply impressed with the gravity of the enterprise and with the genuineness of the triumph. The Abys sinians fought with a determination which won the respect of our commander-in-chief, and, although they bad terrible odds arrayed against them, returned again and again to the attack, and yielded at last to the sheer weight of material superiority. " We have shewn once more," says our contemporary, "that English troops can Perform feats deemed impossible, and can boast the ser vices of a general who may rank among the great com manders of an age fertile -in military genius. The Abys sinian army and Sir Robert Napier maintain the noble traditions (4 British valour and discipline." Under the new Reform Act every man who for one year prior to the 31st of July has occupied as sole tenant the same lotll,7ings,which if unfurnished would let at the rate Of £lO a year, may claim to be placed on the list of voters. Joint occupiers will be disqualified, and the value is to be regarded as a question of fact for the revising barrister to decide. If taken unfurnished, the rent paid is to be accepted primd facie as the proof of value. Every person paying 4s. a week rent for unfurnished lodgings will be entitled to claim. If the lodgings are taken furnished, the claimant must spew that, exclusive of a reasonable charge for the use of the furniture, the lodgings occupied by him are worth 4s. a-week, or £lO a-year. Occasional absence during the twelve months will not disqualify, pro vided no other person occupies in the interval, and pro. vided the rent continues to be paid by the claimant. The lodger claims are to be published by the overseers in a separate list got later than the cOMMOIMMLit of Eicamber. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1868. CORRESPONDENCE FROM Ems, (rnom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, June 17. The unfortunate Empress Charlotte of Mexico is better, but the hope of perfect restoration to sanity seems to have been abandoned. From time to time she has had attacks of her disease, and it is only by being kept in a state of perfect calm that she continues even as well as she is. She reads and writes much, and often talks of her past life mournfully, as one that has suffered greatly. She has sent a funereal crown, a chef d'aurre of jewellery, to be deposited upon the tomb of her husband on the anni versary of his death (to-morrow), and she has also sub scribed about £l,OOO towards the monument which is to be erected to his memory in Trieste. An arrangement has been made with the Emperor of Austria in her behalf, by her brothers, the King of the Belgians and the Count of Flanders, by which she abandons all right of succession accruing to her through her husband, and has confirmed to her use the palace and Property- which he possessed, and the dowry settled upon her. The report of M. Bussor:Billaut upon the Budget was distributed this morning. It is expected that the dis cussion will commence on the 25th. It will no doubt be long, and as animated as this hot weather will allow. The French I'ress does not at all like Count Moltke's speech in the Prussian Reichstag upon the loan for the navy. The Minister enlarged upon the importance of having a great military Power in the centre of Europe, which should be able to restrain all the rest, and, though military, should not be warlike, but a peacemaker. Of course that Power, according to the Count, was Germany. Here it is very well understood that the Prussian policy is intended to keep France in check, so that the Master of the Tuileries shall no longer be able to declare of his sole will whether there shall be peace or war. . Some Frenchmen are wise enough to see that this is really for the good of Europe. But it is still too soon for the national love of pre-eminence to be satisfied when it ktees a rival near the throne, and Paris no longer the capital of Europe. How does the Havas agency (which answers to your Reuter Company) obtain its news? Yesterday evening some of the London journals announced that there was an insurrection in Catalonia. A telegram is published this morning in the Paris journals, purporting to come from Madrid, and denying the statement. Denials come very quickly from Madrid. Probably they come from the Spanish Legation in Paris, which, according to a well known theory, is Spanish ground. To-day we hear that there is a terrible famine in the neighbourhood of Madrid. Of course this, too, will be denied. The denial would have more weight if it were not so prompt. The Corps L6gislatif has after all decided by a large majority that a loan of four millions sterling shall be made to the Isthmus of Suez Canal Company, to be repaid by lot. There was strong objection on the part of a few members both to the principle of the loan and still more to the revival of the lottery system. Fut in the end the Ministerial proposal was adopted by 183 to 8, and thus the Government has added to its reponsibilities by lending money to an undertaking in which the public has so little faith that they will not subscribe for its shares. Prince Napoleon has set out for Constantinople. The Sultan intended to give him a magnificent reception, and, thinking the Palace of the Sweet Waters too small for his visitor, chose another. The Prince has, however, sent word that he wishes to maintain his incognito, and he will make his yacht his headquarters. Ile weather continues superb. The sky is as clear and bright as though this were Naples, not Paris. Some per sons sleep out in the Bois de Boulogne all night. I hear that the crops are beginning to suffer from want of water, especially the root crops. The vineyards, however, are magnificent. In Algeria some welcome rain has fallen, and wheat is now being cut. The Arabs have come down from the mountains in large numbers to assist the harvesters. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Extreme Sei Thursday, F. I 1 Ju Re 18, B. T. W. Ito F. D. WR. t 4 a.m. 12 9 _ Nairn Aberdeen Leith - Shields Scarborough 30•36 r. 58 '54 N.E. 2 3 W. cb. Yarmouth 3 O -32r. 60 57 N.E. 4 4 S. S.E. c.b. Helder Cuxhaven 337 19f. 59 56 1 3 N.N.W. oTcb Cape Clear 3O 17f. 59 157 E. 2 2 W. .W. c. ache's Pt 3 9 .13v. 60 56 E. 4 4 S.W. f.c. 1 30'25r. 62 56 S.E. 3 2 S.S.W. c. Liverpool A rarossan Greeneaittle , 30 - 1 , 7 f. 58 ,54 S.O.W. 1 4 N.W. o.cb - PC Ilzanco . 1 30'2Cf. 64 160 E.S.E. 5 4 N.E. c.b. Plymouth 30'21f. 65 160 N.E. 2 1 N.B. c. : Weymouth 1 _ Portsmouth ; 30'15f. 66 60 E.S.E. 4 2 W.N.W. c. Loudon 30'29r. 64 '57 E. 3 4 N.N.E. b. C'oeGrisNez' 30"25r. Cl 157 N.E. 7 7 N.E. c. Brest I:Orient .. 33 OH. ! 66' 59 E. 5 5 E. c. noel: fort.• :1 30 1 71 64 E . 5 5 E . b . Biarritz 129 971. 77 73 S.W. 3 3 S.W. C. Brussels ....I 20'24 164 1 N.E. 3 b Paris ......I 3017 67 E.N.E. 2 _ Strasbourg—l 7l N. Lyons Ten:on 30'08f. 79 77 E.N.E. 1 1 E.N.E. b. Heart's Con-1 tent (6 a.m.! local Hine) 30'0s. 45 144 S.W. , 1 2 S. r.b. o'll LIE HANDSL FiLsfIV,AL. TIIE << SELECTIONS "_YESTERDAY. The attendance yesterday of upwards of twenty one thousand visitors beneath the arch of the Grand Central Transept of the Crystal Palace at Syden ham, evidenced in a striking manner the extraor dinary popularity and paramount attraction of the Second of the three Grand Days of these Triennial Handel Festivals—the day of the " Selections." They are selections, as all the world knows, from several of Handel's Oratorios, and from other works of that Master of Masters in the divine art of Music. Opera, Oratorio, and Cantata—Chorus and Double Chorus—Duet and Trio—Air and Recitative—March and Overture—alternate in this wonderful display of the diversity, the variety, the versatility of this astounding genius, this Shakspere among musical composers. No marvel is it, therefore, that while thousands throng to any one of the grandest of these co:ossal oratorios, that yet more thousands sbou'd crowd the Great Hall of luminous glass and delicately-traceried iron, dedi cated especially t•a his memory, as immediately con f: onting what is now known far and wide as the Ilandel Orchestra ! The Orchestra the diameter of the exquisitely proportioned roof of which is actually twice that of the dome of St. Paul's CeViedral ! The Orchestra—the stringed instruments in which exceed four hundred —the entire occupants of which, counting vocalists and instrumentalists together, number up the enor mous aggregate of fully four thousand souls ! That majestic and altogether matchless Orchestra, the central portion of which is of itself about the grandest and most appropriate monument ever erected in honour of a great musician—meaning the glorious organ inscribed with the name of HANDEI„ and having also incribed, there, upon either side of that great name, as dates worthy of being held in ever grateful and reverential remembrance, the year of the giant composer's birth and of his death. Emblazoned in panels around the inner circumfer ence of that immense Orchestra are, among others, the names or titles of the magnificent oratorios from which the principal solos and choruses which were performed yesterday had been selected— " Saul," "Joshnt," " Samson," '' Jephtha," "De borah," "Solomon," " Judas Maccabeus" ! Bear ing in mind alone those marvellous masterpieces, any one with an ear for music can appreciate upo❑ the instant the astonishing treat provided for them on the Day of Selections, inure particularly when the soloists entrusted with the task (that labour of love), of interpreting the recitatives and airs (in among the colossal choruses), are such artistes as Titiens, Nillson, Kellogg, Carola, Sainton- Dolby, and Lenemens-Sherrington, as Santley, Cummings, and Sims Reeves. As a matter of course the vast area was filled therefore. As a matter of course the aggregate of visitors exceeded 21,000. The Palace, crowded at the commencement of the performance, namely by two o'clock in the after noon, remained so up to the close of this second celebration, namely, until six o'clock in the evening. During those four hours, nineteen grand choruses, nineteen exquisite solos, one delicious duet, and one crowning or culminating trio, constituted, together with a noble overture, and an immortal march, at once the soul and substance of yesterday's memorable performances. The selections from San/ led off punctually at two o'clock the demonstration of the splendour and diversity of the gifts of Handel's incomparable genius as a composer. And nothing could very well have struck more majestically the keynote, as it were, of the whole performance, than the great chorus of adoration " How Excellent Thy Name !"—the antiphonal grandeur of which hushed the immense audience at once into an attention that, from that moment until the close of the whole diversified perform ances, four hours afterwards, it may be said with perfect truth, never for one instant flagged. After Madame Lemmens-Sherrington's voice, clear as a bell, had given the air, " Au infant raised," fol lowed immediately by the appalling semi -chorus, " Along the monster Atheist trod," through which the footsteps of Goliah are audible through the con cordant clangour of the basses, the five great choruses followed one upon the other in rapid succession.— rising as by a marvellous crescendo through " The youth inspired by Thee," and " Our fainting courage," and " How excellent Thy name," to the " Halleluj,th " (it is Saul, remember, that we are still speaking of) up to the climax of them all—one of the grandest choruses ever com posed by Handel, and consequently one of the grandest ever composed by any one,--" Envy, Eldest Born of Hell." It was at the conclusion of that chorus that came, what according to our notion was, of all, the great sensational performance of the day, a day full o f supreme sensat i ons o f del i ght andastonihment —nam e ly, th e ren d er i ng , as it never until yesterday hai been rendered not even at the rehearsal of Friday last, the matchless rendering of the pathetic, haunting, funereal " Dead March" —the simplest and yet the sublimest burial march ever written. It was played yesterday just abso lutely to perfection, and clings still to our remem brance with a haunting impressiveness. Madlle. Nillson's " From mighty kings," out of "Judas Maccabeus," and the same radiant soprano's " Wise men, flattering," from the same oratorio, were brought into striking contrast with Mr. Santley'e. noble delivery, ore rotundo, in between them, of " 0 voi dell' Erebo," from " Resurrezione." Directly after Madlle. Nilsson's second withdrawal from the platform, came the first though not the greatest of Mr. Sims Reeves' two great triumphs of yesterday rendering of the recitative "Deeper and deeper still," and of the air " Waft her angels," both from the pathetic pages of Jeplahah. By rea son actually of the exquisite refinement of his sing ing, our great tenor contrives somehow in the vast aria of the Crystal Palace (admirable though the acoustic arrangements of the auditorium are accord ing to their present construction) he contrives some how, we say, by the very perfection of his singing (in its refinement) to militate against the effect pro duced upon a considerable portion of the assembled multitude. Upon the occupants of the upper gal leries, the subtler beauties of his style were lost alto gether. The enthusiasm manifested, however, by . those happily placed within more reasonable range attested to those others who were less luckily situ ated that if distance, according to the poet, lends enchantment to the view, there are occasions upon which it certainly does not to the hearing. Instead of pausing at the close of the First Part, namely, at the conclusion of the bewitching chorus, that chorus alternately awful, and pathetic, and ex ultant, "Ile saw the lovely youth," taken from Theodora, the theme of which is the raising of the widow's son to life—M. Costa passed on, with a merely momentary interruption, to the Second Part, the opening piece of which was the masterly and varied Overture from the Occasional Oratorio. The great chorus, " May no rash intruder," from Solomon, preluded, in a manner, most -effec tively the appearance of Madlle. Titiens, who gave as none other could give it more brilliantly, " Lascia ch' io pianga," from Rinaldo. And then came Mr. Santley's grand triumph of the day, the one only encore, his unsurpassable rendering of the love song of the amorous giant Polyphemus, " 0, ruddier than the cherry," from Acis and Galatea. Often and splendidly as lie has sung it before now, he never sang it more splendidly than he did yesterday. And he was rewarded accordingly, being compelled by a burst of acclamations that there was no withstanding (even by that arch enemy of encores, Mr. Costa) to repeat it, as he did in consequence repeat it—singing it again just as splendidly, and being rewarded at its close with an other thundering burst of applause. " Whslre'er you walk," from Semele, having been given excellently well by Mr. Cumming, was capped by the sequent chorus, " Now Love, that everlasting boy," finely ren dered by the four thousand musicians in the orchestra. Then followed the delicious duet already alluded to, " 0 lovely peace," from Judas Maccabeus, in which Christiue Nilason's young soprano and Madame Saintou-Dolby, still fresh though more matured contralto, vied with each other, and, in vying, so exquisitely harmonised. The trilling "Sweet bird," from L' Allegro, was immediately afterwarde given with dulcitinous effect by the always welcome voice of Madame Lemm,.ms-50er‘ riugton, accompanied, interwoven one might 8 3 91 with the rebec of the flute obbligato of Mr. Radcliffe' Then at last came the pause in the day's prograinwe after the pealing forth of the grand chorus fro", Alexanders Feast, i n w hi c h th e ki n d re d gen iuses 01 Dryden ani Handel were knit together— W i lla many rend the skies." . As a noble signal of commmcement for t he concluding portion of the day's performan ces after a not unwelcome interval for refresh' ment and chit chat, came the double chorus fr c ? )eborah—" Immortal Lord"—mainly re markath e , for the marvellous mass i ng toge th er o f conc ordant i sounds. Immediately up on it s comp l e ti on foliose' the final selections front Judas Maccabens.. gl dne Titiens' "Pious Orgies"—Mr. Sims Reeves tog; nificent " Sound an a l arm ," i n t h e d e li v ery which our great tenor is simply peerless and un 3 Pl proachable—and, to crown all, the choral outb ll of " We hear, we hear," which, as given yesterday' was nothing but electrifying. Madame Saiato n- Dolby's " What th oug h I trace, " f rom So/oniorli oddly to our thinking preceded Madlle. Carol radiant rendering of " Let the Bright S er i ! . plum," from Sanzson, made more radiant still by Mr. Harper's t rum p e t o bbli gato —i nstea d o f that previously mentioned air bei ng groupe d with the other airs and choruses, selected immediately aft er ' wards from the same oratorio of Solomon. The choruses were especially fine and the airs superb l y delivered, all but one of them, by Madame Saint ° Dolby. That one exceptional air being allotted to Madle. Kellogg her one, and most lovely pe t ' forwance of the day, " 0 had I Jubal's lyre." a fitting climax to th 3 wh o l e o f th ese magn ificell performances of yesterday came, almost taneously with the stroke of six o'clock in th e evening, the trio (sung by Madlle. Titiens, I\lad lle * Carola, and Madame Sainton-Dolby), toget her with its astounding chorus from Joshua, " See the Conquering hero comes"—the indescribably jestic effect of which we referred to in the strongest terms we could apply to it iu our n otice of lag' Friday's Full Rehearsal. Yesterday it was giv e ; just as astonishingly, just a s magnificently. Al 2 so the Day of the Selections came to its couclusiou't To-morrow we have in prospect the grande s l choral day of all—namely, the day of the Pra t in Egypt, by many regarded as Handers loo ter* piece. 41 4, A, euritar. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 17. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis e ' Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and suite, ar rived at the Castle this morning from Balmoral. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterditll attended by Viscountess Walden. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE Colonel Milward, of the Royal Artillery, 1111° was sent home in charge of despatches and the Pre" sents to the Queen by General Sir R. Napier, Cosy mander-in-Chief of the Abyssinian Expedition, s r ' rived at his residence, on Plumsted-common, 01/ Saturday last. Brigadier-General Little, C. 8., commanding the Cavalry in Ireland, made his insp ec ti on o f the 1 4 u` , King's Hussars in the Curragh on Monday. r r be General expressed himself much pl ease d with t h e appearance of the regiment, th e p rec i s ion Wit h which it manoeuvred, and the first- ra t e co ndition c' i the horses. He afterwards visit e d th e barracks at Newbridge, and made the usual inspection of th e rooms, stables, hospital, schools, remount horses, recruits, and regimental and troop books, the whol e of which appeared to give the General entire sails' faction. The annual Volunteer review by the Lord-Lieu" tenant of the county of Kent, Viscount Sydnel' G-.C.8., will be held this year on the 4th of 11 on Woolwich Common. The Secretary of State fo r War has given his saection to her Majesty's 0:0 0 0 taking part in it, and the whole will be under ti e command of Major-General E. C. 11Tarde, Cs' the commandant of the garrison. There are UP,' wards of 5,0u0 Volunteers in the county, and it i 5 expected that a large force will assemble on the C C casion. On rfu , sday the Ist Battalion 20th Regiment was inspectel at Aldershot by the General ail' inanding the brigade on the Clubhouse-green. I , ll° regiment having marched past in a man ner satis factory to the General were put th roug h vatic% battalion movements, which w e re pe r f orm ed wi t great steadiness and precision. The Elk, 2, twin-screw (unarmoured composite; built) gunboat, 465 tons, 120-horse power, P s completed in her outfit by the Portsmouth steam reserve for her first commission, was p u t throtig , c l her light draught trial of speed o ver th e m easure d mile in stokes Bay yesterday, d raw i ng Bft. Sin. °f water at the stern, and 7ft. at the bows. Six NO over the mile with the engines condensing gave h e : a mean speed of 10.069 knots per hour, and til same number of runs non-condensi ng ga ve bet a mean speed of 10.137 knots per hour. She is er pected to be immediately commissioned. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander W. S. de Kantzow t° the Star, vice Bradshaw ; Commancier P. R. Sharr f : of the Waterwitch, to the Lapwing, commissionl; the officers and crew of the Waterwitch are to turned over to the Lapwing. AQUATICS. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. The match for the Queen's Cup given to this club Na held On Wednesday. The entries were unusually 0 0 Wer B including vessels by the most fa mous b u ild ers. They as follows: SCHOONERS. Yachts. Tonr. Owners. Gloriana Mirage Cambria Egeria CUTTERS AND YAWLS. Yachts. Tons. Owners. Fiona Menai 7G Astarte Sphinx Rosebud Vindex A large numbir of yachts and steamers accompanied t r,, steam yacht Cordelia, 300 tons, the property of Earl with Prince Tack, Earl Vane, and a lar ge p ar ty on VW' The course was from Gravesend to the Mouse, an d rot to Gravesend or the Lower Hope, as the s t a t e of the " 013 ,,, and tide might allow. There was a slight breeze frora westward, wh'ch had almost fallen away when the stsr` ing gnu was fired. The vessels were started in two lit i c ° ' the schooners off Gravesend and the cutters and P s % higher up the river by about a couple of ca bles' leng v l , The Fiona was very smart in getting round before "", wind, and was nearly abeam to the windward of the G lo . riana schooner before the others had g ot way ou the . 0 The Gloriana immediately luffed up across the f l i°r l , o bows, and went on down the river with the load. i ' t .- 11 contest was very interesting, and the vessels freclue%s.. -changed places. They got back to Rosherville (Gr°'l . s ° 3 H. H. S. 7 43 . end), and ended the match as follows : 0 Fiona 7 10 25 Gloriana Menai ............. 46 Evria \lndex The Fiona thus won the Queen's, and the Ege rj 'il flo r £5O Cup. The prizes were presented to the two by the commodore, Lord Alfred Paget. The Fious;,a Scotch vessel, built by Fife, and is now generally I°o 11 - ; 1 upon as the fastest cutter afloat, her only presumed e r cl ize# being the old Arrow. She has won innumerable P 0, since 1865, but mostly distinguished herself in lig' h ei t o VeS topsail breezes. The Menai was built by Ratsey, of and is a very fast and powerful vessel. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER have recently issil e , (l l ; the public some really beautiful ivory textured house note paper, presenting a surface that it is r ol `. l l l luxury to write upon with either steel pen or goos e c l u ar i ot The Illoniteur de Soir states that the EirP, - t . and Empress have sent a telegram to the Czar t he pressing their sympathies on the occasion of r t 3 t. anniversary of the attempt upon his life. Th e ,,,, - ,. z o tt has communicated his thanks fit this step to I ' o 4 de Talleyrand, the French Ambassador at 6t• peso burg. !Or t quo lee° tog Str, ( brer 11101 dig. can 18t are gra ate; Om I ter ( _ 1 Ne