The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1852.

=many timid persona were alarmed with the awe
that robbers had broken into the house; others
state they were almost heaved out of their beds ; and
the greater laugher were induecd to get up and
light their mulles. It is evident that a good
deal of difference in the manner in which the shock wee
peer, iced arum from ,he s.rueture a the houses them-
selves, end that while hia,t and slightly built houses'
roeced with the motion; others, mere firmly built, and
lower, simply ap;,..reell to tr. odd& In all cases the win.
dotes shook violently, end the delft, glasses, candlesticks,
Re., rattled sudibly. Some farieied they heard the floors of
their rooms crack beneath a heavy footstep; and ou the
minds of moat of those who were thus abruptly awoke from
their midnight dream, en undefinable Piling of fear and
awe was impresser,.
Accounts have reached us from Kingstown, Bray, Kil.
rudder'', Halkey, Ulenagari y, liowth, Utmost', Utunevin,
and other glue. in the vii ~:itc, in all of which the vihra-
time was felt .1.• we have already di scribed it. Pereoes who
have arrived by sailers,' tray greater distatices Kite medlar
statements; mid the ; aesengers by the packet arrived
at mid-day fr.im Holyhead mention that in %Vales the
earthquake was felt very stroegly, and of course about
simultanieiely, the time basing been nearly the same,
making allow..nce fur dill-recce of longitude. Uu board
ship in the channel the &hock was not perceived.

THE SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

On Monday, at She meeting of the Geographical
Society, Captain Penny:in answer to the call ut the pre-
sident, made sons, 41(.1a-sting remark. respectia the future
route of tbe search. lie directed the attention of the
meeting to the chart, and puintieg to the Wellington
Chants I, he r. marked—" You will there bed diet Captain
Sir Edward Belcher has only now catered upon the door of
the search. Then turn your eyes to the Anse shore,
you will (hire see it. M. eh4c Euterprise and Inveoegator
vainly strugOing with a drifting body •if we, in a potation
which, if Franklin had been there at all, we eliould have
bail him in England long ago by his own beaten path. The
renewed mareli that I have now the honour to propose.,
in order to solve this great geograpiiieal problem,
would he worthy of England's humanity and eons-
mereial wealth. We have now a new ags ut at
command,—namely, screw steam power. What I
propose, then, would he that two steamers be despatched
to Behring's Straits, so that they should he early on the
ground to take advantage of the land ice. That they
should pass along the Asiatic shore, through the strait
formed by Cope Yikan end the land seen by Wrangell
and her Majesty's steamer Herald, into the Arctic Basin,
where on extensive belt must exist, in the months of June,
July, August, itud September. Any one can easily conceive
what en extensive search would be accomplished in four
montliv by traversing in every direction that vast ocean.
The whole distance from Cape Farewell to Befalls Bay,
although one thousand miles, iv icebound in April, hut in
Angust frequently not a pieco of ice is to be seen. If imw
von will tun your attentian to the northeml of Spitz-
hergen, and lay down by compass one thousand miles,
you will see that it will reach New Siberia and the
Asiatic shore. This proves unquestionably that a large
sea must exist even to the Ynle, And who is the that
would not be proud to see the lag of our beloved Queen
flouting upon it. With these fasts before us, we should
urge upon the government the adoption of Mr. Petermails
Novi Z AllIbi; route, the practicability of which he hes so
clearly demonstrated, and which processes each great advan-
tortes of manner:lel wealth to the, nation. I would suggest
that a sin 11 screw reamer, of a light draft of water, not
more than six feet, be likewise despatched to Captain
elttegnire, to search along the American shore, in order to
wa'eh weir the brave men on board the Enterprise and In-
vestigator, who have become second Prauklia's. Likewise,
that Dr. Itae should be despatched again along the Victoria'
land towards Banks' land to watch that coast for the arrival
of the same party, Circe Captain Maclure and his crew will
probably be compelled to abandon his vessel this spring. I
have yet a valuable fact to bring forward. I have this day
received a letter from Stromness, which informs me that Id
American seamen who left their ship and wintered in an
inlet discovered by me on the west side of Davis Strait,
have killed 13 whales during the Reason, an amount of food
upon which Franklin end his whole crew might have sub-
sisted during the whole time he has been absent. With these
valuable facts before us, and such induesenents, is Eng-
land to lag behind in the solution of the greatest geogra-
phical problem of the last three centuries, and which by
the aid of steam power might now be happily resolve t"

EnGLISITMAN. -An Indian

°Meer, in an account of a trip front India to Port Peinip,
says : " After we got clear of Java Iliad we had a fresh
breeze from the south•east, and, as we had been unable to
take in water at Anjer, the captain decided upon doing so
at some small islands I had never heard the name of before;
they are called the Cocoas, and are about 700 to 800 =Unto
the suu'hward and westward of Java Head. Their history
is richer curious. A Captain3liess, formerly in the Eat
Indian service, lives on them with his family. Before
Borneo was given up to the Dutch he was governor of k,
and while there he advised the English government to allow
him to build a sloop of war, as there was such magni-
ficent timber. She was launched only the day before the
' island was given up ; but the Dutch: allowed him to finish
Mr, and the English government there made a present
of her to Captain Roos as a reward for his services. He
cruised about in her for many years and, as it were, re-
discovered these islands, for they had been known to exist
although visited. He took a fancy to them, wrote
home to England, and brought out the whole of his fauiiiy.
The English government refusing him protection, be his
placed himself under that of the Dutch, and got 300 Malay
slaves, whom he liberated upon arriving in the islands,and
formed a settlement there. His ship was lost on a voesge
to Betazia, and he was many years without having anj in-
teroouree with the world; but, being nearly starved, fur the
islands produce little more than cocoanut-trees he bull a
schooner, making the ropes of the cocoanut fibre, and the
sails of the thick bark that is round a cocoa-nut troy just
below the branches. He was just sailing, when a whaler
put into the island, and front her he procured canvaa and
went to B,t ' , since which time be has traded regularly
there, riling cocoa-out oil, of which he makes great quanti-
ties, having a steam-engine of ten horse-power to bruise
and press the nut. Captain Ross is a strange, Roust-
looking man ; he and his eons resembling Robinson Craws.
They live in wooden houses, raised about tea feet, on piles,
from the ground, and are as rough as you can well ima-
gine. They have books, end On quantity Captain Rom
his read is wonderfaL He has been twenty-eta years in
this islands. The Malays are • lazy set of fellows ;he pays
them ea mush a day, sad so well that they won't work for
morn than two or three days a weak. The greatest punish-
ment he inflicts is to banish them from the islands.

REPRESENTATION OF CARLOW 0011111TT.—It is a
singular feet, says a correspondent, mad one which to. no
parallel in the three last parlionentsof 1837, 1841, aadlB47,
that windlass months of the general elect ou, no Ism than
four aewly shoted mamben hams dosessed. Thum ara Mr.
J. Dassault (011ibmsh Eon &Watson (Polorlaseri)4
General Caulfield (Abloolos), ami Col. Henry
(Carlow). For three eat of this lon wasont seats now Writs
will be Wind immediately ; boa with moped to this
oldie above, namely Carley neenty, Essay aitiornally
knows that besides the piths already c)tnot
the mann of Mr. Ball, then is a wetter ed the
pad Olds liberals twist Ma Mums of 041. ban,
and did M this pad*te poodshoi lax it is periblathat
(loptALgogh may Ms JMoeeilisto4 the solloasse of the sitting
member, Mr. Ball, sad so no ern doilies elm take plan.
Oa the ether hand, in one ad the pthitiese bean both with-
draws, the vacant seat will be weep dimly semlested, as a
Mod amdidate will be stardridthaut delay_ . It is also
Mat at the recent deaden he the Int time lane
MU, ansonative and one liberal member And have
bona Mena for Carlow. In Ip7 the two liberals,
Meth Tate awl ylitees yen retsesed by a of
90 ever the tatims4 Moms bindfdaar, end
La the year 1961, the Wee @weeded Is wrestles the two
mete bon llama Tess end O'Connell: 4, • majority of
tea. Oa the haw essonion not a split vote was
eves ea either elk, mg es Ike latter y one. In 1347
time was so nalsot, and the tones were again returned,
wholesale eviedise of their tiseatry having secured for
them a vet seelerlty. At the last election the nambes
were—Bßraes, IN; Simsbury, 880; and Keogh,
877, giving 13 split veto es the one side, and 18 on the
other.
SUDDEN DEATH OF • VETERAN WHO SERVED
wits Tie Duce.—Patrick Lowe, itifiredease hem the
62nd Regiment of Light Infantry (w semi tired
of the Light Brigade during the Peninaskit war),
on the 9rd inst. aged 84, at his salaam, Btrawhetreet,
Enniskillen, alter a few minutes' of disease of the
heart. He was la every reeved a gore ell midi'', and was
present at every battle and thse Awls( the late war, snider
the Duke of Waives. Re tensed the of the " Forlorn
Hope " at Bads*, whore he personally captured the go-
vernor of that feetran and for which he obtained a large
reward. He she wasommat at Watseka, and had a medal
eieegs, which mew wen, as considered him-
self dal act getting a fourteenth ewe. Be did not
long sun ve his illustrious commander. An inquest was
held on the body, when Dr. Pcile 91st Regiment, gave it
as his opinion from previous knowledge of the deceased,
that he died irons disease of the heart. Verdict, " Visita-
tion of God."—lhnteartagh Mail.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE EARL OF RIPON'S.—
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster,
held an inquest at Charing eras Hospital, on the body of
Robert Goodman, aged 64. The deceased, who was a
painter, was on Thursday last engaged in painting the ex-
terior of tin residence of the Earl of Ripon, No. 1,
Carlton-gardens, and for the work he was about was stand-
ing on a ladder placed upon a siege 30 feet from the
ground. Unfortunately he overreached himself, and thus
overbalanced the ladder, which immediately fell, and pre-
cipitated him on his head into the area underneath. He
was forthwith taken to the above hospital, where he was
promptly attended to by the house surgeon, but expired on
Sunday in consequence of the injuries. The medical gen-
tleman stat. d that death was the result of laceration of the
brain; hut the skull was not fractured, which was ac-
counted for by his fell being broken by his coming in con-
tact with a gas pipe across the area. The jury regreted
that the numerous scsffold accidents which had lately ott-
curreil had not impressed on masters as well as workmen
the necemity for adopting precautionary measures and mole
care. Verdict, " Accidental death.'
REPSESENTATIoN OF ABINGDON. —IC is elated
that Mr. J. T. Norris, of Sutton Courtney, will be a can.
dilate for the seat vacant by the death of Major-Goa
Cannella.
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THE CAPE. NiAtt.s.—Tho Post office authorities
'ease notice yesterd■ that the neat Cepa of Oood flop
triads will not he despatched before the 25th lasted.
The proper time for their departure) is on the 16th.

MEETING OF GERMAN REFUGEES.

At one of the late John Murray's authors' dinners,
the poet Campbell, being called upon for a toast, gave'
" Napoleon," explaining as his reason for proffering
rt tentiment," at the linen sit utterly unpatriotic, that the
Emperor bad fully stoned fur all his political sins by his I
social discrimination in shooting a bookseller. But in Ger-
many, where the " publicists" are nut l'ariohs, a different
view is taken of such a mime ; and it is remarkable that
two of the moat stirring watchwords untie use of by tlut
combatants for "German unity," or " Vaterlend independ-
emcee," have consisted of the names of two booksellers—
Palm and Blum. Palm" was the shout of the student-
battaltous in the Prussian struggle of 1812 against
Napoleon, as it ligroin less the rallying cry of Blucher's
dragoons at Waterloo; and it is in dm nano of
It then Blum that the more ultra•politiciant of Gerinany
now renew their reward' hared againtt Atssurm elesputiAn.
In London the Gunmen refugees meet every 9th November
in an annivere try COMM moration of the martyrdom of the
boldest and honest( sr ut the democrats of the Frankfort
parliament,and on these occasion. opportunities ore envied
and nag. rly seised for protesting in all the immunity of an
English pl ttfofm egoist tha reactionery state of things
cuutinueil on the continent. These festivals are warmly
welcomed by the German political exiles resilent among us,
and they present some intrreq corn for Etiglith politicians;
and the commemoration which took place yesterday even-
in.; at the ITOCCIMOIn"Iavern is entitled to some descrip-
tive notice.

Shilling tickets admitted to the meeting ; and at the
doer of the m eting there was a supper, participation in
which reqoired the additional expenditure of half-• crown
per heed. We did not wait for the supper; and we suspect
the guests were not numerous. But the large b ill eng.iJed
for the me, Ling was densely crowded, principally with Ger-
mans; the mass of 'lconic' physiognomies being varied
with the darker traits of ',Alien. Pules, and Uungations.
There were a few Engli.hmen, of the class anti cast of face
only met with at Reform meetings; and there were some
lathes, thou being for the most part German Jewesses,
which is explained by the tut that a great number of the
German refugees are Jews. At the head of the hall, be-
hind the chsirman, was hung a large sized and well painted
portrait of the heavy but intellectual face of the gladiatorial
bookseller: and ever the picture drooped the dull flag of
the abstract German republic—the tricolor, "rowans, rush,
and gold." Agues, on each site of the picture was
hung that equivocal "red " banner, which has unhappily
been made the emblem of spoilage and murder iu modern
politics.
The chair was taken by Profaner ARNOLD Rune, a
gentleman of extensive political celebrity in his own
country, and of considerable political power. After having,
invited the orchestra to a prelude of tousle, which was ea-
eceilingly bad, he addiessed the meeting (in German). He I
commenced by explaining how it was that Robert Blum
had become the apostle and martyr of German freedom.
Blum was the thorough German representative man. lie
was intensely the toms of the German people; he incorpo-
rated ell their instincts, all their faiths, all their aspirations;
ho embodied the people's demand fur those rights promised
when Napoleon bbd to be crushed Out never granted ;
and he was the voice of the people's generosity
when they had their tyrants in their power an -1 should
not have been generous. He was the man of the era—
precinly the man to translate and put in action the pas-
sions of the time. All Germany spoke in him in 1848, with
the greater effect that he was sprung front the democracy
but he was too German in not being severe enough, for
when the Germans had conquered their kings, the sword
was left in the hands of those kings, and the democracy
had suffered accordingly for that fault. Ilium, however,
' was intensely the democrat. Ile had resolved to go as far
• the people would go; and not to foresee—to anticipate—
bem than they did ,• and his faith in the people was so great
Mat he regarded their instincts—their impulses—as wiser
than all the calculations of statesmen. He was no philo-
sepkez—no Utopian, as no optimist. He was a Inge-
Warted, clear-headed, practical man, hating wrong, and
laving his race ; and he had determined to do
sod to call on others to do precisely that which Le believed
the time demanded. The speaker proceeded to sketch
Blum's political life—the political action he had called into
existence in Saxony, and the impetus he gave by his
permed dauntletanne to the religious anti•papal movement
slimes. After a rapid survey of the history of the Frank- ,
Art parlimmati sad the appointment of Blum (with Flubel
mid Rfirtiren, the poet), as a deputation to the Viennese re-
volutionists, he entered into a defence of Blum's much
questioned conduct doting the struggle in Vienna. Vienna
was, at the time, the turning point of all the efforts of en-
slaved Europe in 1818. If Vienna were made secure again
is the hands of her Emperor, and without conditions,'
Hungary could not long have resisted, Italy would
have been overwhelmed ; and the Auttrian empire re-
formed the rest of Germany would have been overrun
with reaction. Blum understood this, and attempted to
master the crisis; and be fought gallantly, and fell like a
hero of humanity under the bonds of his assassins. But in
Blum's blood had been written a now charter fur the
people ; for, as Pericles said of the Athenians who fell in
resisting the Spartans, the grave of a great man was the
whole earth. This part of the speech, or rather elegiac
siege, was loudly cheered ; end the cheers were taken up
again when the orator—announcing his belief that the
time was rapidly approaching when Blum would be
' avenged by a new and permanently successful revolution
throughout Europe—expressed his conviction that, in their
next contest for freedom, the Germans would obtain the
sympathy of the English people. He distinguished between
the English government and tho English people. The
English people were no longer dictated to by a class or a
man—by nn aristocracy, or by a Pitt, or a Wellington, as
Ohs mouthpieces of clasps. The English nation was dictat-
ing for itself in these dap in its political relations with
Mtn peoples; and it could not be that within the same
=IP re there could long be a London and a Naples—
Institutions and military despotism. London was
liellesdig the beacon of the world ; and the English nation
mmdd aeon admit that they must contain another people,
Miami it fought and did not win, in struggling with del-
la Germany force must be met by force ; and the
Rust not suppose that freedom was to be got, like a
la degree—by a motion or by a division, or by
public meetings. The English bad used the sword
lam ; and the Germans had imitated them, and
wee imitate them again and again. (Cheers.) The
heath would recommence ere long. Humanity still lived;
sod pit 'ph had but to be patient and to have faith in them-
selves, and to be true to that faith. This faith in the
destiny of democracy was the new religion of the world.
Professor Huge wont on to point out the errors committed
in the years 18489; and then to vindicate the democrats
from the false chaise' brought against them. It was a lie
to my, as the " Philister" party had said, that the demo-
erste and socialists were robbers and murderers. They had
essght but to rob the sword from their oppressors; and
May would seek to murder only—the murderers. (Great
aissaisg.) Which party had abolished the punishment by
&add (Loud cheers.) As absurd were the charges of the
Miser party—the "Frivolen." The .. Frivolen," in ridi-
culing the demeerat's faith in the possible perfectibility of
society, did sot redoes an argument—they bin meetessed
their own matemptiblesess (gemeinheit). The Gennemo
had learnt amessery lessons in their failures. lbw had
learnt to know themselves; and, still more, to wieginis
their tyrant'. They might fall main, but it shesM not le
because they were deceived in the kings.
Kr. Oscan Farm of Vienna, was the next speaker, NA
gratified his audience: with a vi 'sample of the nee-
litionary shoot stoesSery.
_feesor Ronge was quiet,
&likes's, and unisqlosied—ia a word, German—in
his style; NA to this Herr Fs& presented a remarkable
esterase, indkratiag the semi-Selavonie character of a
Timor% and the great extent to which M. de Lasnartine's
==the oratory of the Oirondina have affected
ea well as modern Irish elocution. Hen
Psik's losiamatom tribute to the memory of Blum (his
illsof) was not very reportable; and, as hie poetic ab-
senteeism Implied no opinions, and conveyed no
hots, this h dm lees to be regretted. He gays
an account, in very exaggerated and inflated language,
of Blum's career up to 1848 ; that career, as he phrased it,
being essentially that of the revolutionist—a revolutionist
in politics and in religion. He described Blunt in his early
local efforts ua reformer; then as the German orator, ad-
dressing a nation, in the Paul's Kirehe of Frankfort; and
lastly, as a combatant (Herr Falk having also been onel at
Vienna, carrying barricades, and then stopping to weep
over the fallen. Referring to the future, Herr Falk ex-
pressed the same faith as Rug" as to else coming revolution,
which he hinted would begin in Paris by the dethronement
and death of the "Caligula of the day. ' Germany would
rise on the first opportunity; and, said Herr Falk, as the
blood of the maryrs of freedom had been so copiously
spent that, if collected into a lake, it would drown all the
royal houses of Europe, the duty of the democrats would be
clear in a new crisis ; and that duty would be to erect a
permanent guillotine. This "red" sentiment, it Is but
t to say, was not warmly applauded ; and clearly cheer-
ing it would have been Inconsistent with the hear-hears
neviously extended to Itupe's vindication of the humanity
and mercy of the alleged "robbers and murderers." Herr
talk concluded by saying that Germany now only awaited
anther Robert Blum.
Dr. TANSINAN followed, speaking in English. This
gentleman is much better known than any of the other
Berman refugees in London, and his influence with his
countrymen seems earned by the statesmanlike tone he as•
senses. Ile speaks English with ease, if not with elegance,
std his residence among us, and careful attendance at our
public meetings, appear to have had the effect of teaching
him all the tact sad art of our own platform orators. Cer-
tainly the style Rat be very superior, and the result is,
tint Dr. Taiwan, though speaking in English, was more
mmeessfal thee *lsar of the gentlemen whom he followed.
elefifilefillhill the meeting could not be regarded as a l
timmenstration. Tim Germans were not to be '
they were beaten for the time ; and they
tact tt bet right in standing on and speaking from
kelirzaoN
hos platform leg them in Europe, and in en.'
gi
aims ems wan those political virtues of
lad to which the English had
the rest of the world to trust. He pro-
ended to romper the question he was often asked—why
SW GUMS dehoeraty held Blunt in such reverence : re-
peating the opinions of Blum's character previously ex-
pand, and saying that it was not because Blunt was
the only or even the greatest martyr, but be-
".site a. concurrence of circumstances had made

Blum the the representative of the whole German
people at Vienna; because his asmaelnation was one of pc•
cular atrocity ; and because the man himself was of that
pure nature—loveable in his family, and therefore virtuous
in the political arena—which excited enthusiasm in aroma-
leg regrets. The learned doctor went on to show that the
English nation had lulicreusly misunderstood the whole
German political struggle ; and, man instance of the falla-
cious reasoning still influencing our leading etatsimes whoa
they bad to refer to Oennan politics, he menticuted lb. Ma-
.

Gautey's recent speech at Edinburgh. That speech, said
Dr. Tatisenan, was a libel upon the democracy of Europe.
Ile was an admirer of the works of Mr. Macaulay; be
this particular speech had made him pause in his
tribute; and he had begun to doubt whether this
heart of Mr. Macerley really best with that of mankind ;
whether it did not beat merely for the success of a single
party 1 Mr. Macaulay had proved Gibban to be short-
sighted in having thouebt that civilisation could no longer
be is (huger from barbarians, sine* eivilieation could
always command thelargest and most powerful material—
resources of war. Mr. Macaulay bud discovered that civili-
sation itself bred the barbarians, who were more savage
thau Huns and Vandals. lie (Dr. Tansenan) might ask if
that could be the real genuine civilisation which produced
such musters? (West cheering.) But ho did not admit
the fact; judging of the ariuy by their leaders, he
would Fisk it Lein' Kossuth was a herleerien ? Vas erWtlh
Mateini a savage ? Was Arnold It age a Vaiolal 1 Sias
Julianne. Emma • Hun? (Much she ',ring.)
accordiuw to Mr. Meraulay, had been saved;
hut where were the Siana of this ealvatioe ?
Was civilisation saved because all the capital. of Germany
and Italy hat been sacked and himsbarded—because the
preen was now everywhere garged—fweause there were
hundreds of thousands is prison for political offences, and
other hundreds of thousand, in exile—because popery woo
everywhere aggressive or triumphant—hecause education
was in the hands of igneraut and arrogant priests—because
in all Italy the Bible could not he read—beesuce every
king in Gerinuny had committed perjury—lastly, hecause
Louis Napo.con, crowned scoundrel, wig shout to become
an Ismaerot ? (Enthusiastic applause.) Well, if that in.
deed were civilisation, he (Dr. Tausehien) would turn
Arab, and, make war on that civilisation.
(Great cheering.) Mr. Macaulay mistook desolated% fur
peace: Le did not see that the democrats had newer com
mitted a crime, and that they hal been crushed only by
t-heir oppressors reverting to all the crimes which were at-
cursed of (hod and man. Mr. M leaulay lived too much iu
Lis closet for the healthy play of his genius. lie lived eel,'
in the circles of government boards, and did not under-
stand that a people had faith iu mnre than routine, and
that what now existed from Paris to fit. Peter.hurg 'sae
false and artificial, end could not last. (Loud cheers.) This
Mr. Macaulay would soon ascertain, and then, perhaps,
change Ids opinion. Louis Napoleon, the pateet saviour of
civilisation, would soon invade either England or mews the
!thine. If he invaded Germany, there would be at first
only German armies to him ; and it was poesible that he
would conquer those monies. And when rogue, fell out honest
man came by their own; and when the German armies were
destroyed the German people would look up, would or-
ganise their own defence, and would then seise and hold
for over all that they had Inst. (Cheers.) This was what
the successful tyrants of Germ my must be now antici-
pating; and he (Dr. Tausenaii) would tell them that
though they had 3,000,000 of lehyonete to defend them he
knew they rested uneasily; for tile), knew themselves that
they were not Mr. klacaulay's saviours of Europe, but
Asiatic despots, and that though they had sown disease,
death, and destruction, the people, and not they, would
reap the fruits. (Loud cheers.)
JOitANNIES Ronne, the celebrated religious reformer,
and founder of the " Free Congregations," next addressed
the meeting, but in a manner I.) tedious end in a style so
mystic that he with difficulty avaidehl a hissing dorm from
the large crowd who had not heard his name announced,
and who took his oratory on its merits. For a man who
has exercised in immense an influence, and that as a
preacher rather than as an organiser, he is a singularly
awkward and unsatisfying speaker. His subject, on this
occasion, was the " Solidarity of nations," which he re-
commended with the elaborate vagueness suited to the Plea.
A Mr. LOCIIIAILT, announced as an English gentleman,
hut rapidly developing himself ae nn Irishman, was the next
speaker ; and as the hour WAS late, and a certain section of
the meeting was anxious for something more substantial
than Mr. Lockhart's not very well-arranged feast of rea-
son, he was induced not to prolong his remarks to the
extent which might have made them appear more con-
netted and logical. When he had done, some part songs
were sung in reference to the Deutches Rhein and the
Doutches Vaterland; hut the elaborate prohibitions of
those popular ballads not extending to the repast prepared
in another room, the chair was vacated, and the meeting
was technically broken up, though some knots of foreign
gentlemen gathered still about the platform, expecting that
familiar personage, Captain Ackerley, to keep a promise
he had made (in French) early in the evening, to address
" Kelky mo" to the intelligent anti innocent audience he
had chanced on in the course of kis evening ramble in
search of any public meeting.