The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-01 00:00:00

LOYALTY IN A REPUBLIC.

"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."—Among the festivities of
the 4th. there was an ;incident, at once delicate and
appropriate, which marks the larger growth of our
national spirit. It was the introduction of the British
loyal melody with our own national airs upon the
chimes of Trinity. "Hail, Columbia," swaggerer as he
is, never looked so well as when, he strutted up Broad-
way, to the music of the sweet bells, with " God
Save the Queen" hanging like a lady on his arm,
and a flock of sparkling. little "Yankee Doodles"
skipping after. We shall not be accused of 14 want
of patriotism -if we echo the wish, "Long life to the
thrice noble lady, fair and fruitful scion of a corrupt
tree, whose beautiful virtues have redeemed the
name of Guelph from execration." Such a Sovereign is
not only a blessing to the particular kingdom over which
she reigns, but to all others. If a single good deed in a
naughty world throws its beams afar, how wide is the
scope of eminent purity in high places' All Europe is
better for Queen Victoria, and even sturdy Republi-
canism can gracefully do her homage, for America is
not above the benefit, of her example. Her spotless
life, tentlexess, steadfastness, solicitude for the interests
of religion and public morals, compassion for the evil-
doer, firmness for law, and Royal munificence may well
justify the love of her subjects and our hearty respect.
If a nation must be ruled by a woman, let it be by such
as she. The British nation knows, for it has had .other
experiences. A bigotovho drenched the land in the best
blood of her subjects, and a tyrant, made more false and
capricious by the perverted instincts of her sex, have
stamped dark records on the pages of English history.
We are not unmindful of the
.golden glory of the
Elizabethan age, nor of the regal qualities of the-Queen
herself. .Yet her sister was the truer woman, and. her
sister's cruelties were more excusable than hers. Men
must be ruled by strength or gentleness. 'Not that
strength is necessarily ungentle, or that gentleness must
be weak; but the strength of a woman's gentleness is
not in the sword, handling which she is usually a tyrant.
When the example of a woman like Victoria—an
example never spotted by exceptions—goes • before a
people, all the virtuous rejoice and take courage, While
dishonour creeps and hides itself. The national tone is
advanced, and wickedness, although it be not cured, is
rebuked and silenced, so that the young and unwary are
saved from its influence. We said that the incident
which has occasioned these- thoughts marked the larger
growth of our national spirit. Fifty years ago we were
on the eve of a second war with England, and fOr many
years after its close a deeply-seated feeling of hostility
prevailed in this country. There are not wanting even
now demagogues Who seek popular favour by-encourag-
ing this narrow animosity. But we can well afford to
forget it. The mother country is far more proud than
jealous of our growing strength,: and with reason ; for,
beset by enemies, to whom could she look for aid in
extremity as to us ? Respected by .this great- nation,
from -which .we separated_ ourselves eighty-four. years
ago, and 0-6iVing-ficidomice's and power; We-hife—inOre-
to fear from within than from without ; for the develop-
ment of-- resources -rilisiengageLinan-y__ te rests- vehicla. are:.
liable to dollisiOd. ...This we have found- to be truee
in our history; and -for the katernal adjustment of
these interests we should be ithiefif iolieitous.—New
York Paprr. - •

For the last few days there has been again a great
importation of excursion visitors into Liverpool. The
ferries, as usual, are extensively patronised, and the
Welsh and Manx steamers go out each voyage crowded.
RE -ADAM Glastni —This bankrupt, described as a
factor, carrying on busimlss in Liverpool, came up yes-
terday on his adjourned last examination, and had his
certificate sitting fixed for the 29th of August.
LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—New. cases . received
advice and medicine at the institution : North, 293 ;
South, 119:, total, 412. New cases visited at their own
houses and supplied with medicine : North, 91; South,
55 ; total, 146. Rev. Rector Campbell, A.M., Pre-
sident; Captain Bourne, Vice.Tresident of North
Dispensary; Mr. R.: A. Payne, Vice-President of South
Dispensary ; Mr. Francis Mill, Treasurer ; Mr. F. H.
Langley, Secretary.
The Calcutta and. China mails were due at
Marseilles on the 25th inst., but have -not yet
arrived there. They reached Aden on the Bth,
on board the Simla, and it is thought that some
accident has befallen this vessel or the one coming
from Alexandria to Marseilles.
THE FLEET AT QUEENSTOWN.—TIIC fleet, which
artived at Queenstown on Friday, consists of the follow-
screw steam-ships : —Edgar, 91 guns, 600 horse power,
Captain Baton, carrying the flag of Rear Admiral Ers-
kine ; Trafalgar, 90 guns, 500 horse power, Captain
Fanshawe;. Algiers, 91 guns, 600 horse power, Captain
O'Callaghan; Mars; 80 gunS, ItlehbrSe power, Captain
Strange; Mersey, 40 guns, 1,000 horse power, Captain
Caldwell ; Diadem, 32 guns, 800 horse power, Captain
Cockburne. Total guns, 424 ; horse power, 3,900.
This fleet forms one division of the Channel squadron—
the other has gone to Flolyhead. As might be expected,
the arrival of so many large men-of-war has added to
the bustle which has existed in Queenstown since the
arrival recently reported by us, of the fleet of corn ships,
many of which still await orders, in our harbour. The
demand for fresh meat on the navy contractor is; of
course, very brisk, and the consumption of this article
by the fleet amounts to over five thousand pounds weight
per day. It is expected that the vessels will remain in
•Queenstown fox the next fortnight.

WHOLEMIA FOIy:tERY IN FRANUE,--A most p-Ainful
case has just,been tried before the Court of Assizes. M.
Durieu, sixty-two years of age, aficer of the Legion of
Honour, formerly chief of a division in the Ministry of
the Interior under the ilepubliet and afterwards director
of the. Administration Public Worship, was accused
of embezzlement .and forgery.. When , a complaint was
first made against him he absCended, and was condemned
by default to twenty ye-ars' hard . labour, but he lately
gave himidf jiistic'e. The indietnient set forth that
in 1854 the prisoner-was largely, interested in certain
marble quarries in Ceisica. and, being in want of funds,
he applied to a friend of •his, •Baron Ernoux, to assist
• •
him. That gentleman accepted nine bills of exchange
of :5,000f. each, and subsequently nine others of the
same amount, and Durieu got them discounted. Baron
Ernoux having to absent himself from Paris, accepted
not fewer than thirty-six other bills with the dates in
blank, each of .6,0001; one-half of them being destined
to renew the eighteen about to become due, and the
other half fora further renewal some months !Ater. But
Durieu got eighteen of the hills discounted, and appro-
priated the proceeds to his own use. When Baron
Ernoux heard of this, in order to prevent scandal, he
paid the bills as they became due. In 1636, how-
ever, he learned to his surprise that two bills, each of
5,000 f., bearing his signature, were in circulation in the
neigibourhood of Les, Andelys. After a while the bills
were presented, and he then perceived that his name
had been forged by Durieu; but he implored the
holders not to say anythi» ,;t and made Durieu pay them.
Shortly after other forged bills to the amount of 22,000 f.
were presented to him, but.he induced the holders not
to prosecute, and Durieu found money for them also.
Ernoux now hoped to hear no more of bills or forgeries,
but before long he learned that a M. Javel. of
Paris, held other forged bills to the amount of 28,000 f.,
and a M. Dehay-Calle, of Arras, for 20,000 f. Not-
withstanding this Durieu had the art/to induce Ernoux
to write a letter to Dehay-Callet, conceived in such terms
that it appeared to the latter a sort of guarantee of
payment; and on the strength of that letter he.(Dehayz.
Callet) discounted for Darien new bills to the amount of
20,000 f., but theyalso turned out to be forged. At
length Ernoux became indignant at the scandalous
manner in which his name was used, and laid a
complaint againet Durieu. An investigation was in-
stituted,sixty-five ahuddis,t.iletine
amounting
gugto d2i7s7eo,svoeory was made that
t..,
Of which sixty,
deny
umerous bills;
if hot all, were certainly forged, :were in
h
in cireccircula-
tion. When before the Court, the prisoner, in answer
Wguheseatta had
but said that the latter had authorised hint to do so, that.
dtitohnes n putan name
t ofo him,B at
n 0 did
Ernoux not
to
in fact they bad been partners in the operations which
had led to the first drawing of bills and had necessitated
the renewals. That, however, Baron Ern denied,
and with much emotion declared that by his connection
with the prisoner he was almost '
ruined. The jury
brought in a verdict of guilty on every question
submit-
ted to it, but added that there were extenuating
stances. The Court condemned
Durieu
cireuni:
mien to four years
imprisonment, 100 f. fine, atoandpay 10,000 f, clativirs
to the prosecuting party.

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MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AAVD
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Dr. Bandinel retires from the librarianship of the
Bodleian next September.
Mr. John Luard; an artist of great merit, is very
seriously ill..
Messrs. A. and C. Black have in preparation a
" Schoolboy's Manual of Geology," by Mr. J. B. Jukes.
Mr. James Hannay is about to withdraw from London,
to assume the editorship of the Edinburgh Courant.
M. Delaporte (our late guest) has resigned his presi-
dency of the commission of the French choral societies.
Mr. Townshend, late M.P. for Greenwich, is once
more an auctioneer : the stage has been abandoned.
The end of October next will witness an Art Exhibi-
tion at Madrid.

The editorship of the Quarterly Review has, it is
stated, passed from the hands of Mr. Elwin, and has
been entrusted to Mr. MTherson, a Scotchman.
M. Horace Say, the son of J. B. Say, and one of the
most eminent writers on political economy in France, has
just died.

A new "Life of Louis Napoleon," by "Lucien Her-
bert," has been brought out by M. Sauerlander, Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine.

A new novel by the Hon. C. Stuart Saville, entitled
"Night and Day," is to be shortly published by Messrs.
Hurst and Blackett.

Some efforts are now being made on behalf of the
poor Cambridgeshire bard, James Reynolds Withers, of
Fordsham.

The, French Academy has unanimously conferred the
triennial prize, founded by M. lialphen, on M. Emile
de Bonnechose, for his " History of England."
The present steeple of St. Stephen's, at Vienna, is
about to be taken down, and is •to be replaced by a new
one from the design of Ernst.

Madame Van den Heuvcl (Mdlle. Duprcz that was,
and Mdlle. Sax, are about to make their first appearance
at the Grand Opera, Paris, in "Robert."
Madame Grisi is about to make an operatic autumnal
tour in the provinces, accompanied by Mario and
Madame Viardot.

Mr. Gregory's Committee on the British Museum
will, it is stated, propose several reforms and additions,
and will also put in a claim for an additional grant of
mane`•.

Mr. Marshall Wood's statue of Daphne, executed in
marble for the Countess (Frances) Waldegrave, has
lately been set up in the Chapel at Strawberry Hill.
A large and fine picture by Sir W. Allan, represent-
ing Nelson boarding the San Nicolas, has been ►resented
to the gallery at Greenwich Hospital, by Mr. Herbut
C. Blackburn.

The remains of a Roman theatre and temple dedi-
cated to Apollo, have recently been discovered at
Pierrefonde. near Compiegne. These are said to be in
the best style of Roman art,—and the bers-relilf,F
admirable.

Madame Cicely Nett, after a most successful tour in
Germany, will make her first re-appearance upon the
stage in. England, at Brighton, on the Opening night of
the season.

• Prince Emil of Wittgenstein, late Russian commander
of cavalry. during.the Crimean war, has just published,
through Brockhaus, Leipzic, a series of sketches in verse,
,from the Caucasus, under the title "Hacischi Jurt."
Amongst the grants for the civil service estimates for
public works. appears the sum of £4,000 for decoration
of the Houses of Parliament, paid for the year to the
,Messrs. Maclise, Ward, and Cope.
Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. have nearly ready for
publication a new novel by Mr. Chanter, author of
"Ferny Combes," to he entitled " Over the Cliffs."
Mr. Chanter is, we believe, a near relative-Orth-e Rev.
Charles Kingsley.
A new musical work is now in 'performance at the
Surrey Theatre. This is Mr, Tully's "Garibaldi," the
principal characters in which opera are sustained by
Miss Rebecca Isaacs and Mr. Parkinson.

We understand that a large volume will be published,
under the direction of the Astronomer Royal, "of the
records of the different astronomers of the Himalaya
expedition to North Spain to observe the eclipse.
The Messrs. Macmillan are re-printing the "Charges
of Heresy against Mr. Maurice, considered in a Letter
to the members of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion," originally published in 1854.
The Crteic hears that the office of keeper of the de-
partment of antiquities in the British Museuin will be
filled by a gentleman well known as a traveller, but not
hitherto connected with the Museum.
Two well-known American anthers are circumnavi-
gating the globe—Mr. Dana, the author of !` Two Years
'before the-Mast," and Mr. Herman Melville, the author
of " Omoo,"'" Typee," cte. Both will doubtless record
their impressions of travtl for the benefit of the reading
World.

We stated last week that Mr. G. G. Scott had pre-
pared a new design for the Foreign Office in the Italian
style, and now it is repotted that Lord Palmerston had
commissioned Mr. Garling to make a design in the same
style, which was cent in throe weeks einoo.
A Festival has been held at Giessen, in memory of
Spobr, at which his overtures to "Jessonda" and " Der
Berggeist," .and his symphony The Power of Sound,"
were performed under the auspices of Herr Bott, one of
the great violinist's pupils.
Among the works preparing for publication by the
Messrs. Routledge, is a collection of the poems of Gerald
Massey ; a volume by Captain Mayne Reid, to be
entitled " Odd People ;" and a re-publication of " The
Unloved One," by the late Mrs. Hofland.
The Memorial of Oriental Travel, by Mr. Walter
Thornbury, formerly announced as in preparation by
Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., is to be entitled " Turkish
Life and Character," and to be accompanied by illustra-
tions from photographs.
Twenty-eight designs for the proposed North Riding
Infirmary were sent in. The first premium of £5O has
been awUrded•to Messrs. Oliver and Lamb, of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne ; and the second, of V 5, to Mr. Hope, of
Manchester.

The London art season is over. The Royal Academy
and other Exhibitions closed on Saturday. "tpon the
whole," says the Illustralcd London Yews, "the past
season has been good' one, in a commercial sense—
pictures have gone off well at top prices, and many have
changed bands whilst yet on the walls at an advanced
figure."
It has been resolved to erect a memorial to Sir 'Hugh
Myddleton, at Islington. This is to consist of a drinking
fountain, surmounted by a statue of the bringer of water
to London,-and is to be placed on the site of the old
watchhouse now standing on the green. Sir Samuel
Morton Pete has offered to present the statue to the
parish.

Mr. Lowe's Committee on the South Kensington
Museum will, we undereand, propose an additional
grant for public buildings there of 1.:27,000 a year, to
be applied to the construction of a building of a more
beautiful and permanent nature, and erected so as to he
part of any future plan for a uniform collection. It is
proposed to remove from the British Museum only the
smediteval part of the collection, and such duplicates and
superfluities as cannot find room in Bloomsbury.—
Obsei•ver.

Mr. Macfarren, who has been for several years engaged
in exploring that part of the African continent border-
ing on the Cape of Good Hope, has recently arrived in
England. He has brought with him a numerous col-
lection of rare quadrupeds, among which are a male and
female camel-leopardalis, 679 birds, 18,500 insects, an
herbarium of about 100,000 subjects in beautiful perfec-
tion, and numerous geological and mineralogicalnpeci-

mens—the produce of the labour of fifteen years.
Referring to the statement made in the House of
Commons that Sir Edwin Landseer is at work on the
lions for the Nelson monument in Trafalgar-square, the
Critic says :—" Sir Edwin Landseer neither has been,
is, nor ever will be, occupied in modelling these lions.
Ali that he has done is to prepare two drawings upon
black boards, which drawings are now in the studio of
Baron ltfarochetti, who is actively employed in modelling
the lions from the drawings of the great animal painter."
An interesting howl of bronze, has been exhibiting in
the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries. - This was
found near Sir Percyvall Dyke's Park, at Lullington.
Kent, together with skulls and fragments of pottery and
iron, in clay. two or three feet below the surface, by
navvies," who broke off some bronze ornaments that
had been attached to it ;—these,. Which represent birds,
stags,- fish, roundels, and interlaced work—a common
Celtic ornament—have been replaced. The object is
supposed to be a Gabbata, a vessel used in churches for
an unknown purpose, but frequently 'mtntioned in early
in

At a meeting of artists and art manufacturers held in
Dubiin recently, it was unanimously resolved that it
was desirable to have an exhibition of the fine arts and
of art manufactures in May; 1361, and following months,
on the premises of the Royal Dublin Society, and under
their superintendence ; and that this resolution should
be reported to the council of the society, with the
expression of an earnest hope that they would be able
to give effect to it. Towards a guarantee fund of
4000, £l,OOO was subscribed. The exhibition is not
to be open to all countries, though it was not suggested
that it should be confined. to the artistic products cf
Ireland


WESLEYAN 'METHODIST CONFERENCE.—On Monday
morning Alto ex-president of the Wesleyan Methodist
Conference, the Rev. Samuel D. Waddy, of Wesley
College, Sheffield, preached what is termed the "official
conference sermon," to a large congregation in the
City-road Chapel
•
•NEw•CitiTiturt.—LAYlNG THE FOUNDATION STONE
BY HIS R9VAL HIGIINEsS 1155 DUKE Of CPOIBRIDGE.
—On Tuesday afternoon his Royal
_oo Highness_ gate,
. DukeHis
of Cambridge laid the foundation stone of a new church
at Kingston Vale, near the Robin
il A
who is the donor of the site
Royal Highness,
eglround about
corned by a
on which
the church is to be erected, arrived on the
half-past four, and was very warmly iv
huge concourse of persons who had assembleid
honour to the occasion. • (o do