The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-26 00:00:00

CHARGE OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
_ _ _

Patrick M'Nally and James Carroll wore charged with having
robbed Klig)? Mallen. Mr. Black defended. It appeared
that at half-past two en Sunday morning the prisoners met
the prosecutor op Bootle-road, and got him into a field, where
he alleged they assaulted and robbed 4iip. The case was
a.djourned, as Mr. Muck said he was instructed that he could
produce witnesses to falsify the prosecutor's statement.
(Before Messrs. HUTCHISON and J. SMITH.)
DETAINING A SgFtYANT'S CLOTHES.

The Rev. James England, of Grove-street, was summoned
for refusing to give up a box of clothes to Eliza Parry, late a
servant in his employment. It appeared that some time ago
the girl was engaged at the rev. defendant's house, but in
consequence of, as she alleged, illness, she wanted to go away
at three weeks' notice. She was allowed to go to Southport,
and an arrangement was made -after that she should remain
ti 4 the sth October. The rev. defendant said she left after
that in a surreptitious manner, leaving the hall door open.
He trusted this case would get into the papers, so as to warn
persons trona taking such seryants. He was ordered po give
up the box and its contents to the young woman.

The Stamford Mercury records the following mar-
riage :—" At Bedford; Mr. Lynn, aged eighty-nine, to
Mrs. Crawley, aged seventy,"
On Thursday, while a small boat was returning to
Limekilns, from a trip round the Channel Fleet, the
wind-caught the sails, which, filling with water, upset
the boat. There were nine persons on board ; of these
five (three of them young women) were drowned, four
of them being picked up by the crew of another boat.--
Scotsman.

THE NEW COMET.

Another of those mysterious wanderers is now, all
circumstances being.;. favourable, at times clearly visible;
and its appearance will doubtless be matter of consider-
able interest among scientific savans, seeing that it
comes unexr?ectedly and unheralded. Accounts from
various
being up .
Pw:ts of the country all speak confidently as to it
mistakeably a comet; and the only doubt which
seems to exist is, whether it will be'seen in any degree
of br. illiancy.

Captain Cross, of the steamer Courier, (on the route
loetween Milford Haven and Cork,) writes to the Times,
stating that, when crossing the Channel, on Thursday
evening last, it was visible even to the naked eye, and
that it seemed to be of considerable magnitude. At
midnight it bore N.N.W. (true), the nucleus about ten
degrees in altitude, and the tail about four degrees in
length. Mr, R. Newton, jun., President of the St.
Agnes Institution, Cornwall, writes to the same journal,
stating also that he saw it on Thursday evening.

Mr. Hartnup, of the Observatory, has received a
letter from Spencer Mansel, Esq., of Shrewsbury, from
which it appears that the comet was seen there at 11.40
p.m. on Saturday, in the constellation Aurigze, a little
below the line joining Alpha and Beta, and not far
from No. 58 Auriga. Its position would therefore be—
right Ascension, 6b. 45m. ; north Declination, 41 deg.
30m. If the cornet has not passed the perihelion, and
is coming northwards, it bids fair to be very bright
One peculiar circumstance is, that the comet has
appeared in almost the same spot in which an exceed-
ingly faint one disappeared a short time ago.

THE LONDON PAPERS ON THE
VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

(From the nmes.)

Saturday was one of those surprises for which no one
can be prepared without a careful consideration of the
character and the history of this country. Hyde-park
saw an army such as it had not seen for half a century ;
an army such as any general would be only too glad to
find in his hands at the hour of need, ready for action,—

we might say even anxious for it,—which has sprung
into existence from the mercantile, professional, and
other civil classes within the brief space of a twelve-
month. In number, upwards of 20,000; in stature
and strength, in bearing, in step, in order, and all that
is supposed to be difficult of acquisition even in the case
of the youngest recruits, there was little a general might
desire, had he to encounter an army of veterans. Could
Queen Victoria have stamped on the earth with the
significance of the old boast, she could not have raised
legions more prepared for the work, or more terrible to
a foe. Oar readers are aware that, except in the case of
the volunteers in 1803, there never was such an army
assembled in this country for several centuries. That
former movement is not to be disparaged, for it saved
the country; but the volunteers of 1860 are a very
different set of men from the volunteers of 1803.
The soldiers, for soldiers they are, we now possess
are picked men in every sense of the word. They are
men who spend their own money, and still more precious
time. They come forward with a 'free heart, with no
inducement but love of their country, and their own
sense that the lot has fallen upon them, and that they
are called upon to be its defenders. As a rule, they are
a finer body of men than our infantry of the line.
Their drilling has been done so quietly in out-of-
the-way places, and often under cover, that no one
could anticipate such perfection in so short a time.
The troops kept the best time. The companies followed
at equal distances with the even flow of a continuous
stream. Had the operation been rehearsed several
times over, instead of the fifty corps having never seen
one another till that hour, it could not have been better
executed. It must have been a matter of amazement to
the spectators, as they recognised their friends in the
successive corps, to reflect that out of such peaceable
materials so terrible a force had been composed. No
doubt, these twenty thousand men look very, like other
people at home; but on Saturday they made an army
that any Emperor might regard with confidence or
alarm.

(From the Morning Herald.)

"High sight it was and haughty," the scene wit-
nessed last Saturday in the world's metropolis. We
can recall no greater ebullition of patriotism to mind
than that displayed at the first, review of our Volun-
teers. It boots 'not to speak here of the equipments,
marches, and manoeuvres; how citizen soldiers wheeled,
and circled, and pressed on in dense unbroken
columns to the . word of command ; what accuracy,
precision, steadiness of movement were exhibited by
battalions of civil recruits ; how the chivalry of Eng-
land, Ireland, and Scotland competed in noble rivalry,
and what corps excelled, where the nation contended
with spontaneous emulation, in martial bearing and
all the pomp and circumstance of war these things
belong not to our argument, and they deserve a sepa-
rate notice. But that mighty heaving surge of
national volunteers, with its ridge of bayonets
and crest of rifles, its never-ceasing sweep and
resistless swell, was a spectacle worthy of the
pen that sketched " Marmion." . To us, however, it
appertains to " point a moral " rather than " adorn. a
tale," and so far as we can to gather up in one view the
thoughts that rise before the mind's eye on beholding
snob a manifestation as that of Saturday last. To us,
then, the great feature of note was this, that every
person present at the review appeared to have a personal
interest therein.

(Front the Evening Star)

To-day the volunteer movement, which now for some-
thing over the last twelve months bas been in the course
of organisation, has culminated in one of its darling
objects—a grand pageant. Had the ghost of the first
Napoleon been permitted to pay a visit to Hyde-park
this afternoon, and seen some twenty-five thousand of
the youth and manhood of England, clad in the panoply
of war, wheel into splendid line in front of our most
gracious Sovereign, be world have, perhaps, said that
we are something else than a nation of shopkeepers ; 'or
at any rate, that we can turn out pretty well in the guise
of soldiers.

In this country, fortunately, we are not much accus-
tomed to mildtary pageants, but at the same time it is
well known that no people are more voracious sight-
seekers and sight-seers than are the English. giren
amid the fogs, and damp, and dreariness of a November
morning—that month so fatal to, the throats of Lon-
doners in more senses than one—they will turn out in
thousands to gape and stare at the unmeaning pageant
of a Lord *ayes show ; the simplest stir, in fact, puts
them on the qui vive, and moves them in masses; but
to-day, both in respect to novelty and national interest,
they had something tangible to look upon. It is true
that in the park the view, except to those who had the
good fortune to be provided with tickets, was rather
circumscribed, and not very satisfactory, the long line

of raised platforms or galleries keeping out the view
altogether in front of the line, while the glimpse to be
got from the finks and the rear of it afforded but little
gratification. But then there was the musterings at
the different rendezvous; the bugle calls to arms, which
ring loud and shrill through the streets and alleys of
this brick and mortar Babylon; the marching of the
plurnea troep," acid all " the pomp and circumstance
of glorious war !1-7.a1). the mare glotiolls that it was
only a mimic display of it—these, and the stir and
bustle attending them, were amply sufficient to excite
and gratify the curiosity of the great masses of this
great C*IT p4y•
To the parties who were tp act a part in this great
military spectacle, the past week has no doubt been an
anxious one, for, from the number of armed men to be
seen =Telling and counter-marching along the streets,
one has almost been led to believe Loudon in a state of
siege, and to imagine the railway whistle to be a
" whistling Dick," coming bounding in upon us from
the Surrey hills; and although there may not during
Friday night have been heard "the chink of hammers
closing rivets up," or although men may not hive been
sitting by their watch fires, and "only rnininating the
morning's danger," as Shakespeare tells us was the case
on the eve of Bosworth's bloody field, yet there were no
doubt many anxious hearts thinking over the coming
pageant, and many anxious wishes expressed that they
might cut a respectable figure in it.
It would be difficult to convey an idea of the effect
produced by all these brigades and corps marching from
different points. From all directions—from east, west,
north, an 4 south-Ldid the stream of martial array float
on, the strains of martial music indicating its tortuous
windings, producing that effect which Dr. Mackay, in
his beautiful lines, tells us King Alfred's harp did upon
the Danes—

"Filling their hearts with martial thoughts,
The streets with melody."
(from the Standard.)
The review of Satarday must certainly be considered
that
a successful demonstration. The weather was all
could be desired on such an occasion; and this almost bya
miracle, for the early dawn was wet and stormy. and as the
morning advanced the fitful gusts which would blow the
weather any way scarcely abated. But by noon the fine day
was settled, and when the Queen came from her PalacC
to review the Volunteers the customary genial sunshine
greeted her. The shouts, long and loud, which greeted
her Majesty were no mere lip-service, but the heart-
expressions of a devoted people. Not a man, young or
old, in all that vast throng, but would die, if duty called
him, for so worthy and constitutional a Sovereign. The
Volunteers were not the only defenders of Queen and
country on the ground ; every man, woman, and child
present would haye clone his part in the patriotic struggle.
The fact must strike foreigners that so united and loyal a
population could not possibly be beaten. Englishmen,
Irishmen, and Scotchmen were all-filled with the same
generous enthusiasm. There was no difference of race where
the cense was national. We need scarcely say
that this
devotion is no blind or misguided zeal, but the result
of deep and well-reasoned convictions. The ready
and universal knowledge and information which reach
every man now through the public press acquaint the
humblest inhabitant of these islands with the pondition
of foreigners, the amount of liberty they enjoi, the
kind of govemnent they live under. The most dis-

contented Radical or Chartist in the three king-
doms would not exchange Queen Victoria's rule for
the Imperial sway of France, or Russia, or Austria, or
any other of the Continental sovereignties. If he is
an intelligent Chartist or Radical, he would not barter
our constitutional government for the republican
despotism of America. In fact, he would like to
retain his own country's institutions, only patching
them up and mending them according to his peculiar
crotchets. He knows he is absolutely free. He can
talk, walk, write, and act as he likes, so long as he does
not violate the established laws of common morality.
The institutions of his country may be imperfect, but
he can set about improving them without having his
privacy invaded, his language noted, his papers seized,
and himself secretly longed in prison. These are the
kind of convictions which make Englishmen loyal and
patriotic. They may make things better here they
could make nothing of elsewhere.

MR. DISRAELI ON THE PROGRESS OF
THE FINE ARTS, &c.

1 Mr. Disraeli presided at the recent 106th anniversary
festival of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures, and Commerce, and proposed the toast
of the evening, " Prosperity to the Society for the
Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce,
and Success to the International Exhibition in 1862."
It was a hundred years since the society, of which the
present generation was then assembled under this roof,
was established. A century was no mean period even
in the life of a nation. A hundred years ago the United
States of America did not exist. A hundred years
ago, and the French Revolution had not only not
occurred, but had not even been contemplated. England,
a hundred years ago, had not conquered India ; and
Australia, it might be said, was not even discovered.
The application of steam power to practical purposes in
the working of ships especially was unknown a hundred
years ago, and so were those inventions of science which
bad since aided and animated the industry of the
country. They should remember these circumstances ;
they should not forget these things when they attempted
to appreciate the position and efforts of those who, 100
years ago, associated themselves together to form a society
to encourage arts, manufactures, and commerce. (Cheers.)
This association was soon successful, it soon exercised
an influence upon "public opinion even in those- days.
Though limited in its range, it soon exercised a benefi-
cial effect upon the invention and the industry of the
country. As years rolled on those influences became
more extensive ; but as time advanced this society
declined, and it was only some fourteen or fifteen years
ago, a very small section in the history of the institute,
after flourishing so long, it became a question as to its
continued existence; but just at that moment, when all
seemed dark and desponding, this society, by an extraor-
dinary effort, affected public opinion at that period, and in

an age when public opinion was omnipotent, and they con.

ceived and carried out a great enterprise, which still com-
manded the admiration and fond recollections of the world.
Well, then, they had to consider what was the cause
of their decay, aud what was the principle of its revival.
He remembered, some years ago, finding himself in what
he considered to be a most forlorn position, confined to
a house in the country on a rainy day. Nevertheless, it
happened oddly enough that he discovered an odd volume
which gave a description of the transactions of the
society to nearly the commencement of the present cen-
tury, when half the period of the company's exist-
ence had passed away ; and it was at the time when
the influences of the society were mast consider-
able, and exercised a very beneficial effect upon the
industry of the country. At that period the society
offered a number of premiums, not only large in
number but in amount also, for the encouragement of
of various objects. There were 67 classes, to include
planting and husbandry, 25 for the fine arts, and he
believed something like 26 classes for chemistry aud
mineralogy, about 10 or 12 for mechanical inventions;
and 6 for manufactures. There was no doubt that the
disposition of their resources and their apportion-
ment fifty or sixty years ago was very advan-
tageous to the country. They must not forget that at
the present they were indebted to those efforts, and to the
encouragement then given to planting. But great changes
had occurred since that period—take husbandry and
planting for example, There was hardly one who could
explain the colossal progress of agriculture in the last
25 years. The publications of the transactions of this
society abounded with information, and the criticisms
to be found therein are were not inferior to those of
any learned society. There could be none which had
made the public so well acquainted with various
branches of science. Their predecessors 50 or 60 years
ago thought they were doing a great deal by including
themistry and mineralogy, but science had since opened
up • new branches, and had developed itself in new
forms, and required •for each class its • own institu-
tion and means of illustration, and it would not
be satisfied by the partial assistance and favour
which might be granted by a society which, from
its origin and title, was of a miscellaneous and
universal character. He could well understand, under
thosa oircumstanoas, the positiqu of affairs being so
changed from the time when the society was first
formed and flourished, and that there should have been
a great decay and decline in its fortunes, But hap-
pily there .was one subject which was subsequently
appreciated by the country, and which obtained
the special patronage of . the association—there was
one subject which had not been taken up, and which
this Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 11fanafae-
ture, and Commerce, had the quickness of perception
to, see, was neglected, and that whilst it was neglected
it was inferior to none in importance, and which, if
properly developed, must exercise a great effect upon
the fortunes and opinions of the country, and that was
one which was little thought of sixty years ago—
namely, the manufactures of the country. To that sub-
ject, fifty or sixty years ago, this society devoted only
half a dozen premiums. But fourteen or fifteen years
ago, when the society was on the eve of its eatination,
they fortunately recognised this great troth ; they found
out that the society had a mission to carry out, and
that mission was the education of the artisans of
England. (Loud ' cheers.) It was then that they
discovered that, with education of the artisans,
they improved the manufactures, and that by
improving the manufactures of England they vivre
silently strengthening the commerce of England. From
that period the prosperity of the society had revived and
increased, and what it originally intended Ito do it had
performed;--and its mission was, to a certain extent,
ful4lled. In the year 1818, or about that time, when
fortunately the Prince Consort assumed the position
which he now held, and took a lively interest in the
matter, it was determined to hold an exhibition of metro-
politan productions, of manufactures, and of the arta
generally. This was looked upon with no great relish by
some parties. There were two exhibitions confined to pre,.
ducts of this country, which were held in 1848 and 1849;
and then the idea was first conceived that they should pass
the line hitherto obserae4 by other countries, and that
instead of exhibiting the productions of arts and indus-
try of . any particular country, they should make it an
international exhibition. The idea was first received
with coldness, but the result the right hon. gentleman
demonstrated with great ability. In reference to the
proposed eahihitien of 1862, he condemned the principle
of holding great exhibition's of thiS character At isolated
periods, the tendency of which would only be to pro-
duce an effect contrary to that which was intended. It
had been suggested at first that these great exhibitions
might be held quinquennially. Now if the period was too
long, the idea woold languish, end he should say that a
decennial period was long enough, but it will a wise term to
fix upon.. In reference to the Exhibition of 1882, he
saw no reason to doubt that the effort would be success-
ful. The fact of a guarantee fund of £300,000 having
been raised, showed how deeply-rooted the feeling of
the country was in its favour. He hoped that if the
exhibition was held, it would not be a mere repetition
of the brllliklat effort of 1851; which was, of a Arelimivary
character, when they had to reveal the resources of tha
world. He should propose that the exhibition} should
not be confined to the productions of countries, but that
they should invite the productions of classes, the excel-
lence of which should be recognised by the society's
rewards and by public acknowledgment ; and that
foreigners should be admitted on the same conditions as
their fellow couutrymeo. lie would venture farther, to
suggest that they ought to add to such exhibition the
arts of Music and poetry. 1851 they had to send
agents over the' country to convince the artisans and
manufacturers that it was necessary for their benefit that
the exhibition should take place, but in the event of the
projected Exhibition in 1862, he would venture to say
that now no such effort would be necessary. Let it be
remembered that 6,000,000 visited' the Exhibition of
1851, and that We lived on the ounget of that event.
Since then the means of communication had greatly
increased; population 'had greatly increased ; there was
one-third more of railway.communication, and with
railway communication much of the success of the
scheme depended; railways on the Continent had
greatly increased, and the pilgrips of taste would be
multiplied by such inealls, and, therefore, he thought
the statistics would speak rightly. There was one
other means which ought not to be neglected, and
which the society had by no means neglected—namely,
the drawing into union those local societies the objects
of which, though in a limited degree, WU identified
with those of this society 4 tendig as they did to the
education of English artisans, and thus carrying out the
peculiar objects of their mission. Having alluded to me-
chanics' institutes and the causes of their failure in many
cases, the right hon. gentleman hoped that the promo-
ters of the Exhibition would not be deterred from their
plan by rumotlaa of way. The learned colleges did not
shut up during the periods of civil war. He trusted the
society would not suspend their efforts becitifse a province
was aonexed or a river was passed. (Cheers.) The
arts were eternal, and the nation OWL pursued and
applied them laith deaotron and purity, its their intel-
lectual power and elevated sentiments, and in their
cultivated development,' would find the best securities
for the welfare of the people and for the duration of a
_ state. (Loud cheers.)