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MIS Lyrics°. RACCIiiSANITiIIADINE.—THE CASTLE
OF ANDALUSIA. Messrs. Weiss, Fines, Backetwoe,Cmosptiso ;
Miss L Keeley and Madame Weise.—FRIEND WAHOLLR.
11r. Compton. —And A KISS IN THE DARK.

P&INCPS9'&

THIS Emma, BORN 10dooD—LCCE. Mr. D. Murray.
And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. J. W. Ray, Dmid
Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Forrester, and H. Mellon ,
Mrs. H. Marston, aliases Barnett and Gwynn'.

ENTAIrNth.

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TRW Ingrnit. THE HARLOTS PROGRESS. -Shighig by
Mews. H. Clifton and Lenin Clod y: Kaduna Pleon.—Mr. O.
W. later.—Concluding with THE MUTINY AT THE NOEL

HIGH WATF.R At LONDON-BRIDGE.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.

have settled notions of alir.reubjecia}l:-
rived them from Waiters andn
who, like Bona; see in the &arch of
England neither more nor less than the
religious organisation of the English people. It
must surely occur to an acute observer like Dr.
Piyaer, that no single public institution can to
permanently exempt from permeation by those
principles which are accepted with regard to
others. It is inevithble that men should carry
over into the affairs of the religions establishment
of the nation the principles which they apply to
other public institution. And if there is one
principle which has steadily gained force and 1
authority in this country for the last two hundred
years, it is that which tends to acknowledge for all
national purposes the equal title of different re-
ligious beliefs. It is true that this is an essen-
tially civil principle, and hitherto it has
never been formally and explicitly proposed
to apply it in all its breadth to the national
Church. But as Dr. PtSZT and Mr. KSBLS
perceive, events are alroady tending in that
direction. It is impossible that, believing the
Church to be the constituted depository and
guardian of Divine truth, they should not be
shocked at whatever tends to make its teaching no
more than a reflection of the many-coloured and
changing opinions of the day ; impossible that
they should not strain every nerve to avert such a
calamity. They stand on the ground of history,
and are supported by the sentiment of Christen-
dom. But it is not easy to see how their claim,
founded on principles strictly ecclesiastical, can be
reconciled with that fair and impartial provision
for the different classes of the community
which enters as an essential constituent into our
idea of an institution truly national. In such cir-
cumstances a conflict seems inevitable.

/Mt Court.

BALMORAL, Bar. 22.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helema,
walked in the grounds of the Culls yesterday morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess Helena, Prism
Alfred, and Prince Elitism of Oldenburg, drove to the Lynn
of Dee.

Prime's Louie*, attended by the Hoe. Harriet Phipps,
went out riding.

14:

.INCESB OF WALES

H. S. Freeman, E.g., Governor of Loges, had aa inter-
view with the Eight Hon. Edward Cardwell, at the Colo-
nial-ofEce, yesterday.

Vincent and Vimmantem Palmerston have returned to
Broadlan4is fora Wilton.

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i3ORINCA ANDLiklialc._
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COPKtirRAGEN, Elzer. 20.

The Prince of Wales has been in this country a
fortnight to-day, and the greater part of that time
has been passed in seclusion, but yesterday he made
up for previous inaction, and went through the
sights with perseverance worthy of a writer for
Murray. First of all he visited Rosenborg, in
company with the King and Queen, the Princess of
Wales, the Prince Royal, Princess Dagmar, and
the gentlemen of the suite. Rosenberg is coed-
dered here to be A 1 as a lion, or, as the Chinese
say, "first chop." It is an old castle, crammed
with curiosities, which is included within the limits
of the city, having been built in the time of Chris-
tian IV. It is an irregular building of red brick,
in the Gothic style, with a high pointed roof. The
curiosities are excessively curious, no doubt,
but an exhibition all curiosities must of neces-
sity be tedious, and if the Prince of Wales
carried away from Rosenberg any clear im-
pression of its contents beyond a general belief
that a good deal of money could be raised upon
them if they were pawned in Wardour-atreet he
must possess a remarkable taste for archaeological
relics. The castle, as I have said, was built by
Christian IV., but this is its least distinguishing
characteristic, as moat things in Copenhagen have
been built by Christian IV. If Denmark has not
been endowed with a great number of remarkable
men, those whom she has raised have at any rata
been remarkably energetic. Thorwaldsen has left
sculpture enough to make the reputation of a score
of artists, and Christian IV. seems to have been
more industrious as a builder than Cubitt. The
Bourse here dates from his time, and seems to
me a more interesting building than Rosenberg.
1 It is a complicated mass of gable ends, cut in pat-
terns in the Elizabethan style, and is surmounted
by the most comical thing in spires I have ever
beheld, composed of griffins, or dragons, or some
similar medieval beasts, who stand upon their
heads and curl their tails together in the air. The
royal party did the castle in a very conscientious
manner, and then drove off to the palace of the
Princess Amelia in the Bred Gade, where
they lunched. At three they drove to the
Gallery of Northern Antiquities, and wandered
amongst more curiosities for an hour. It is very
fortunate that the Prince visited this place, because
it will have made him look back to Rosenberg as
to a really delightful collection of interesting ob-
jects. Moreover, it is important to see the cut and
dried sights of a town, because you cannot then be
told that you have come away without seeing the
very best thing in the place. The only way to
enjoy a strange city is to rush through all the shows
at once and have done with them. Of course the
process will be disagreeable while it lasta, but it
will ensure you a peaceful time afterwards in which
you an lounge about the streets and look at the
1 houses and the dreesea of the people and the names
over the shops, the carts, the carriages, the little
boys and the beggars, the market women sitting
by their stalls, and the soldiers drinking in the
cafés, the get-up of the policemen, the wooden
shoes of the peasants, and the thousand little ob-
jects that must interest an intelligent man in a city
he has never seen before. You cannot look out
of the window in a strange place, or walk a mile, or
ask a passer-by your way to the hotel, without being
amused in some way, and seeing the regular show,is
always a waste of time. Shows are alike, all
Europe over ; but there are rarely two cities in
which the people harness their horses or exhibit
their wares, or stroll through the streets in exactly
the same manner. I wish Murray would publish a
new guide to everywhere, in which he would tell
tourists to walk about in all directions, and look up
all the turnings, and notice their peculiarities, but
on no account to go to any show which the inha-
bitanta told them was the most remarkable thing
in the place. If you adopt this plan now, in de-
fiance
of the existing customs, Murray's devotees 11
will be sure to say afterwards that you have missed
the only thing really worth seeing, and you will be
unable to put them down decisively, in spite of au
inner conviction that they are entirely in the
wrong. The Prince of Wales made a very sensible
comment on the sight-seeing system, yesterday, by
driving straight from the Gallery of Northern
Antiquities to the stables belonging to the King's
palace of Christiansborg. There, no doubt, lie
found a great deal to interest him, for there are
very fine horses iu Copenhagen—horses, indeed,
which to an English eye seem altogether too good
for the equipages to which they are attached ; their
good points come out prominently (for all, except
those drawing regular Euglish-built carriages) are
harnessed without collars,and very simply by means
of a broad belt passing across their chests, so that
they are well exposed to view.
In the evening the Prince dined with Sir Augus-
tus Paget, at the embassy. The Princess of Wales,
the Princess Dagmar, and the Prince Royal were
there, but the King and Queen did not come. By
the way, a trifling little contretemps occurred to the
Princess, as a dress, which she bad intended to
wear, and which had been sent in from Bernstorf,
was accidentally carried off again by mistake ; and
her royal highness had to borrow one for the
evening. At the Phoenix Hotel yesterday, the
Prince bought some curiosities, a couple of old
swords and powder flasks.
It is all but certain that the departure for Stock-
holm will take place on Saturday. The Osborne
bas left the moorings she occupied at
first in the inner recesses of the harbour, where,
by the way, she was so far in among the
houses, that it seemed as if she had got up one of
the back streets of the town and lost her way, and
she is now lying off the custom-house, where she
is open to the inspection of the public. She is
about a couple of dozen yards from the shore ; and
as the weather this morning is more beautiful than
it has been since the Prince's arrival in the country,
the water is covered by a fleet of little boats carry-
ing the visitors between the ship and the landing-
place. The Aurora is lying far out in the roadstead
and the Salamis a little nearer. The frigate is, I
believe, to start from here on Thursday ; she is a
much slower ship than the Osborne, and it is ne-
cessary that she should have a good start.

Da. PUSEY'S natural desire to infuse his own
zeal into the minds of those on whom he must
rely for support in his new Church movement has
betrayed him into an excess of warmth of which
he does not appear to be conscious. In his en-
deavour to make out a cue for the reconstitution
of the highest court exercising esiclesisatkal juris-
diction in these realms, he has ventured on a free-
dom of imputation which makes it quite out of
place to disavow anger—the only passion that can
account intelligibly for his invective. It would be
a pity, however, if the discussion of the great ques-
tions which he has raised in his letters were to be
narrowed to an inquiry concerning the temper of
an individual, however eminent. Dr. Pusry does not
write like a man of the world, which he has never
professed to be ; ho appears rather to think the style
of a Hebrew prophet best suited to the particular
work he has to do ; and perhaps he is right. At
all events it is proper to acknowledge frankly that
the recent judgment of the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council which he impugns bas brought
about a state of things which must be looked
boldly in the face. It is vain to ascribe to cleri-
cal agitation the uneasy feeling which that judg-
ment has awakened. Mr. Exate, in his letter to
a contemporary, has asserted, what we were cen-
sured for stating when the Judgment was delivered,
that theaction of theJ udicialCoturnittee tends to do
away with all dogma ; and as Mr. KEBLE considers
that "a real Church cannot exist without dogma,"
be necessarily considers the destruction of dogma as
"the annihilation" of his Church. This is not a,
notion peculiar to High Churchmen. The Evange-
licals
hold the same opinion, which is also that of
the great body of the Dissenters. Defined doc-
trine as a rule of faith has in all ages entered
as a characteristic into men's conception of the
Church. It is only very lately that we have been
familiarised with speculations as to the possibility
of a Church whose members were not united in agree-
ment concerning the objects of faith. The martyrs
and confessors of Christianity did not surrender
themselves to sufferings and death merely to found
a great philanthropic association under the
patronage of Heaven, but in order to bear witness
to truths which they regarded as supernatural in
their origin and of priceless value. It is im-
portant not to lose sight of history in considering
this matter, because, even if the old idea of a
Church is as obsolete as we are told, and if public
opinion is a better guide than the most venerable
creed, it is not to be expected that the view of the
nature of the Church which has prevailed for
eighteen centuries is about to be suddenly and
quietly surrendered. It is far more probable
that we are entering on a contest which will
be of long duration. Dr. PUSEY will certainly fail
in the electoral campaign which he has an-
nounced, should ho be so unadvised as to prosecute
it. The tactics of the Anti-Corn Law League, which
he seems to have in view, are in this case inappli-
cable, and the battle cannot be fought on the
hustings with any advantage to him or to his
friends. Their grievance is one which the great
body of the public find it difficult to understand. if
they could affirm that some rivals, the Romanists
or the Protestant Dissenters, were unduly pushing
an advantage which they might happen to have
over the Church, they might reckon upon getting
general sympathy. But the complaint that Judges
will not pronounce decisions in accordance with
their views and wishes will only raise a
presumption in common minds that the complain-
ants are on the wrong side. Dr. PLSEY demands
liberty for the Church ; but the liberty he claims
for it is liberty of organic and corporate action,
whereas only a few people conceive of the Church
as a distinct corporation, and of these probably the
greater number connect that idesof the Church with
power and authority rather than with liberty.
On the other hand, everybody understands in-
dividual liberty ; it is the form under which
all our institutions lead us to think of freedom,
and unhappily for Dr. PUSEY it is in the name of
individual liberty that his adversaries are arrayed
against him. This is the principal source of the
difficulty which the defenders of a traditional and
strictly determined creed encounter whenever they
have to deal with that portion of the general
public whose habits of thought have not been
moulded under ecclesiastical influences. The diffi-
culty is increased by the fact that, owing to the
aspect which the Church of England presents as an
institution established by law, every Englishman, as
such, claims a voice in her affairs. The Bishop of
SALISBURY, in his recent charge, has developed the
idea of the Church as a divinely instituted king-
dom, having an integral existence and rights which
cannot be impaired by an alliance with the State.
This, no doubt, is the strictly correct view of
the matter; but the majority of Englishmen who

MR. SALA AND PROFESSOR GOLDWIN
Thal Liverpool Doily Post, quoting the purge of Mr.
Sala'. letter, in which he contruts his reception is America
with that which be anticipates for the Oxford Professor of
Modern History, expresses an opiates from which there
will be few diseentienta ;—" We quite believe that Mr.
Sals.'s siacerity is more remarkable than his discretion ; bat
the immodesty of comparing himself edvantegeoualy with
snob a man es Golderie Smith is absolutely nauseous. Not
all the midis( jeuilleton ability in the world could justify
IL—Northern Whig.
PROPOSRD RESTORATION OF GRANTHAM CHURCH,
LINCOLNSHIRE—A movement has been set on foot for the
reetcratioe of this, which is one of the finest parochial
churches is the country. At a meeting held on Thursday,
the Earl of Brownlow presiding, the following subscriptions
wars annouseed :—Earl Brownlow, 1,0001. ; the Duke of
Reiland, 2004 ; the Earl of Iferrowby, 4001.: the Bishop of
lased°, 50/. ; the Bishop of Worcester, 501. ; Lieutenant,
General the Hoe. Sir R. Cast, 251. ; Sir G. B. W. Gregory.
11001. ; the Rea. F. J. Tollemaohe, 50/. ; the Arebdssooe of
Lincoln, 101, ; Mr. Ostler, 6001. ; the Rev. G. Maddieto,
SOO/. ; Mr. Johastee, 2001. ; Mee. Bradley, 4601, ; Mr.
Ridge, 10W. ; Rev. Geo. Gilbert, 1001. ; Mr. Gilbert, 50f.,
Re. The coat of the widgets/dug is indicated by taw wad-
ton, Mr. C. G. Scott, at about 11,000/.

117tg SATURDAY glitigNlNO. SEPTEMBER 24, 1864.

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0111011 OUR OwN

THE FRENCH TREATY WITH ITALY. —The situa-
tion of the Pope will be exceedingly different to what it
was when both Andra' and Naples were at hand to land
him succour in hie ditlieultim Italy is pledged Dot to en-
hance his difficulties, but of course she will not relieve
them. The alternative for the Pope will be either to make
himself ti uly iodepeodector to give up the game. To make
himself truly independent he meet have a strong,
ciplioed, and therefore well-paid army, at least a tolerably
governed people to whom life is note mere harden and the per-
manent contrast with Italy too palatul toasters, ands ream tie
equal, or at least very nearly equal to the claims opoa it—for
the 'oorrowiag power will be greatly diminished, if not
almost extinguished by the sew arrangement. Hitherto the
calculation has always been that Italy munt in the end ac-
cept the papal obligations • but the moat once fairly drawn
sheet the Petal states, smiths mama debt fairly divided,
Italy would not be expected to become responsible for future
accumulations. The chance thee would not he small that
without any aggressive move on the part of Italy, without
any quarrel even with Rome, Rome would drop into her hands
before long. The question for the Italian parliament will
be whether these fair bat somewhat distant home, with
the immediate gain of terminating the French interven-
tion, are adequate compensation for taking voluntarily an
obligation to amigo what the Italian people look epos as a
right. We understand that it was to some arrangement
of this sort that Cesar himself looked as the Seal gelation
of the Roman question, believing that if carried out in good
faith it most sod, perhaps at a distant, but soyary distant,
date in the possession of Rome. The choice certainly lies
between some policy of this kind and a much mare actively
revolutionary movement than the Italian government sagas
at all prepared for. It is at least better, we think, than
mere waiting, which is the polar at preheat ; and it will
libeeete the natioe's energies for ►s equally asonsary and
more serious business—the acquisition of Vesetia.—Sper•
triter.

—Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
oakmes to
of he
e governors of the settlements lea the West
Cot ica.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS. FRIDAY EVENING.

It is a subject of general remark that the Monireur
has only given itself the trouble to announce in an
indirect manner the Franco-Italian treaty. The
official journal has contented itself with copying the
inspirations forwarded yesterday from the Foreign-
office to the Rue Louvois. Perhaps no writer in the
Moniker can compete with M. Paulin Limayrac in
giving information so mysteriously worded that a
coach-and-four could be driven through every
phrase. To the Consfitutionnet has, therefore, been
left the honour of announcing to the French nation
the near termination of what in the first instance
was a shameful seizure by Oudinot and his troops
of the holy city. The ultramontane journals see in
this reticence and in the two years which are to
elapse between the ratification of the treaty and its
fulfilment some shadow of hope that the old order
of things has not yet been definitively pushed aside.
They cannot, however, hide their anger, which
escapes in every line they print, One journal
indulges in remarks on the possible inability of
King Victor Emmanuel to fulfil what he under-
' takes and to protect the Pontiff ; " the French
government has signed the death warrant of the
temporal power." The Gazette de Prance is probably
not in error. When France entreated Austria to
make peace after Solferino, one of the treaties
signed at Zurich was that the dispossessed dukes
should return to Florence, Modena, ikc. This
clause was not kept because the Italian nation
would only hear of peace and not of a condition
which would have been intolerable. The French
government could not force Italy to respect a
solemn treaty agreed upon at a personal interiiew
between two belligerent Emperors. The Union,
which, in its fright has visions of universal suffrage
at Rome and the downfall of the Papacy, voted out
by the most degraded population of any European
capital, cries :—" Ah, you would call that &solution
of the Roman question ! It is, then, aa we
have said a hundred times, that the real Ro-
man question would commence in its most
folinidable character, and that each step of the
august exile would shake the universe." The
Union, which demands permission to indulge in its
grief, forgets that when the august exile was at
Gaeta the world turned round much as it did in
the days of Galileo.

It will be curious to remark what effect the
various sops thrown by Napoleon 111. to the elec-
tors of Paris and the large towns will have when
the chambers meet to discuss his Majesty's speech
and the four budgets. The Roman question was one
of the most formidable points on which the speak-
ing ministers were pressed, and this has now been
removed from the list of grievances. The Mexican
was another question upon which the members of
the opposition were strong and eloquent. A por-
tion of the expeditionary troops will be at home ;
the force which remains will not weigh upon the
budget, and the expedition will finish altogether
at about the same period as the equally unpopular
Roman occupation. Self government will have
received a certain impetus from the creation of a
chair of political economy and additional power*
granted to the " Conseila Generaut." The
government will hare a good many popular mea-
sures to show as a set-off against that impolitic
affair of the "thirteen."

M. de Sartiges has presented the convention to
Cardinal Anton°lli. The Pope has held a con-
sistory at which the Cardinals Bonnechoee and
Treviaanato received hats ; 23 biahope were
created, of which 12 were in parnbus, and a new
diocese created in Malta.

An actress at one of the larger theatres is about
to bring an action against a minor actress for
imitating both her gestures and voice. Should
the decision of the court prove favourable to the
outraged artiste mimics will have to be careful.
Bavaria, savage that Austria should so far
insult the misfortunes of Otho as to recognise
Greece, has determined on a pretty piece of
vengeance—Bavaria will recognise Italy.
The Bourse is calm. The Franco-Italian treaty
is discussed, and transactions in the meantime
remain in stab< quo.

The Paris 3funde announces that an expedition
is being prepared which is to amend the Nlger sad Tint the
interior of Africa, under the °emoted of Captain Hagman.
The expense is to be defrayed from private sources, and
the expedition is highly approved and summed by
the French government. IL de Quondam Lanimt,
ter of Mario., has, at the expreme embossed of t►e Emperor,
placed eight rifled minim as the disposal of Captain
Heenan, together with all the ammunition required for the
expedition. Captain Magoon boa purchased a galliot, and
has fitted it out to sail or fight. He ha. freighted a mer-
chant ship, and he bakes with him four gunboats built at
Toulon, which ►e intends to nee when the water is too
Aglow io the river for his larger vowels. Captele Mag-
ian's monad in command, who is a retired officer of the
imperial navy, is at present in Paris selecting scientific
men, whets, and painters, sod likes ne s cargo of various
articles to exchange with the natives. The military who
are to form part of the expedition are to be commanded by
Captain Gerard, formerly of the &wee, and great m-
eets are expected from this expelitiou, is pommies' which
ao expense has bees spared.

A Paris correspondent says that pony carriages
love latterly become the fashion in the Champs Elysees
and at the Bois de Boulogne. "If the present rage for
ponies were to continue, it would be worth while to import
some of the breed which roam over the mountains of Corsica
—they have wonderful strength, and are very perfect I.
shape. Bat it is a fancy that will not last among the
grander dames of the great world, berranie their imitators
of the elms of which London so liberally supplies Q 1 with
so many specimens have universally adopted pony carriages,
and as these turns-out are faultless, and ►he driving of the
anonymons occupants equally so, the fair duchesses of the
Faubourg Bt. Germain or of the Tuileries will have to leave
the field deer to their antagenists."

The town of Pe'rigneux three days ago received
• painful shock. 31. Damsel, member of the Council-
Gemara, was on the point of gettiog his daughter married
to • young gentleman of fortune. This latter, by some
mischance, was stung I. the arm by • venomous insect
His father, while mimics* him laliitllooll, was struck with
apoplexy and expired. The pence who was c►arged to
convey the melancholy Intelligeoto to M. Himmel executed
his mission so abruptly, that the young lady, thinking that
it was her intended husband who had died, was so effected
that she expired in three days after from the effect of the
shock.

Nadar is said to be collecting, for the approach-
ing ascent of his giant halloos from Brussels, carrier pigeons,
who are to convey letters from his fallow.travellen earth-
wards, post-aloes not being yet organised in the clouds.
Entries every hour are to be made by one of the savant who
accompany the expedition, which, by means of a Davy
lamp, are to be aratinusd during the eight ; thews entries
are to be wmatersigned by the pamengees.
It is remarked that about the Danish o:dimi-
ties of approval there is this peculiarity, that all the energy
is coneeatrated os the And portion of the word, and not, as
with or, draws out tea breathless extent by dwelling on
the end of it. Whoa a Danish crowd cheers, the " Hoor "
goes spines& rased and round in their mouths like a Ca.
theries wheel io a display of fireworks, the woad syllable
dropping out almost inaudibly. Is England, on the coo.
trezy, the " r-a-a-y" comes swelling round a corner. sod
goat, half-way up the street Wore an. ma distinguish •
single preliminary " Har."

A *fount Washington correspondent says that
Dearly all the slams at the hotel are you ag lady school
teachers, of latelliisat upset, sad easy, affable macaws.
They take this pka each soma of seeing the mountains aad
of making an hewn dollar at the ems time.—diettrican
Paper.

SPEECH OF EARL DE GRIST ON THE PuLICY
OP THE GOVERNMENT.

Yesterday, the members of the Ripon and Clan,
Agricultural Society, of which Earl de Grey and Riron in
president, dined together in the Town-hall, Ripon, t•-.,el
Mete the past success of the emaciation.
EARL DE Ge' and RIPON, is responding to a toast t
her Majesty's ministers, said—The task which we hail before
us during the pest twelve months has been one of
ordieary, difficolty, and one which you will easily belies..
has caused no ordinary anxiety. (Hear.) We saw
on in Europe an attempt, which we held to be =patina:::
and violent, to invade the rights; of a small nation, on th.
part of certain of the great Powers, for otiects which yy.
could not approve, and with which we could feel
sympathy. We were entitled to lift up oar coke in .
mon with the other great Powers of Europe who were t
belligerents in the quarrel, and freely to express oar
upon the questions at lane. We did so, but we were a.
bound, as you know,—this country was not bound by ma..
treaty engagement which rendered it a point of hon.
with us to enter upon the quarrel on behalf of Denman,.
If that had been the case, her Majesty's present giver.
merit would not have hesitated for • moment—(hear,
—no government that could exist in this country we:;!
have hesitated at once to draw the sword in any ',tar t:
in which the honour and good faith of England were et
gaged. (Applause.) But the treaty to which En„,:
was a party was one to which other great powers of hiroi,
were parties also, sod it was right, it was wise, I
the part of prudent men, that we should endeav,..,
go hand in hand with those other powers. We were
called upon by any special obligation to engage st,g;..
banded in • contest in which others were as much liter
fated as we ; and although we made known our wympathit,
although we did not hesitate to swore the other great Power.
we were prepared to co-operate with them in any ram-
we might mutually agree upon, we yet did not feel justir.,,,d
in *miring this oouotry in the enormous evils of war, whet,
we found France and Russia unprepared to drive matter. to
that extremity and unwilling to follow us in th.t
(Hear.) I believe that in the course we then took, tbit is tu
may, in the efforts we made for the preservation of peace.and in
our determination not to bring war upon this country, we were
sopported by the great body of the people of every shade of
opinion. (Hear, bear.) The task wee, as I say, a it.dicult
cm& We used every endeavour in our power first to avert
the outbreak of war in Europe, knowing well what cool..
MO= extension such • war might possibly attain ; and
when it did break out we used every endeavour to bring
that war to a termination. It it quite true that those
efforts made at the Conference in London were not success.
fat ; but it is no easy task, as you well know in private
life, to bring to reasonable terms two persons involved in
hot quarrel, the am having on his side the weight of
power, and wealth, and numbers, and of great population
at his back, and the other having the strong, embittered
feeling of iajostice, combined with weakness. (Hear, hear.)
Well, then, I ray we did well, and 1 think it was
oar right sad duty to make every effort we cote, on
the part of England to pat a stop to the effusion of
blood, while at the same time we hail, as I
have already said, the support of the country in not
heels' involved the nation to war, and in not having by
such a step run the risk of attending those hostilities
through the length and breadth of Europe. (Cheers.) And
I belies that that course—a firm desire to maintain this
country at peace—a determination to uphold our honour, to
fulfil all our obligations, and at the same time not to rut
hastily into quarrels when they re possibly be 'voided.
thus averting the evils of war-1 believe that each a policy
is one which will receive and ought to receive the approval of
each an assembly as the present, (Cheers.) You who are
engaged in the pursuits of agriculture must feel that the
maintenance of peace is of the first importance to a country
like England—to a country in which industry of every
description, agricultural and manufacturing, is spreading
every day, and is which that industry is mote and
more dependent upon that moat delicate inetrumeat whi:h
we call credit, which shuts up at the Ant breadth of war,
and which, when it does shut up, brings wide-spread nip,
amt only epos the manufacturing but upon the agricul-
tural interest also. (Hear, hear.) Such then, was
the policy which guided her Majesty's government in dim
diffieult foreign questions with which we have had to deal
during the pretest year. That has been our policy from
the commencement, in the Italian question, in theAmernen
question, and sow again in this Denali question. We have
laboured to keep the country out of war, at the same time
that we have never failed to uphold, ea I believe, our boom
wherever it has been needed. (Cheers.) Withrespect to
domestic affairs, there is not much in these days which c.di
be mid in regard to the duties of the government* relation
to agriculture. There was a time when men believed that
' the government had the means of greatly promoting the
prosperity of agriculture, and when everyone engaged in
this permit was inclined to lean upon the broken reed
of protection. Prophecy was made when protection was
absodoned of the ruin that was swain upon the spin'.
turd interest, and of the ruin which would come afterwards co
the country at large. These prophecies have all proved futile.
Facts have been stronger than theories ; the advance of
years has dispelled the dreams of false prophets, awl there
are new few who do not believe that in agriculture, as in
every other breach of industry, that which the ewer*
meat can best do is to strike off shackles and remove fetters,
and that that which those engaged in industrial pumas
can best do is steadfastly to rely upon themselves.
(Cheers.) Well, then, as I say, it is little in these days
that • government can do for agriculture or for trade.
My friend Mr. Powell has spoken upon the =pleasant
subject of taxation, and has alluded in terms, I dare say
very trios, but perhaps net very pleasant if be bad been
present to the Chancellor of the Exchequer—sot merely to
my neat hon. friend, Mr. Gladstone, I take it, but to any.
owe w o fills that powerful office. Yet lam bound to my
that the insatiable desire for • aufbcieet amount of tam
Um to meet the demands of the country which I God in my
right hon. friend has been truly described by Mr. Powell.
My right boa friend within the Mot few years has pat
his head very largely indeed into myfa pockets—very much
more largely than I like—but I have lt, as Mr. Powell his
felt, and as, after all, we all must feel, that if we desire
this sweater to be great, if we drink with enthusiasm the
health of the " Army soil Navy," if we desire to nee the
flag of Eoglaod maintained untarnished sod our reputation
unsullied, we mutt be prepared to pay for it, (Cheers.)
But, 1 believe, and the story of the last few years is there
to prove it, that there ate few if any men in this
country who are not prepared to py the mite of
national honour and national security. (Applause.) Her
Majesty's present government have shown, under the
chiafship of my noble friend Lord Palmerston, wham
name will go down to posterity connected almost more this
that of any man with the national defence of Etr-
lead—(hear, hear)—that government have shows their
determination to pros those defer= on a satiefactoe
faction ; but, on the other hand, this I can say, that her
Majesty's government are as maxims as any men to bro.;
the expenditure of the country within the narrowest Wilde
consistently with the requirements of the =bile rem*,
and by that means to effect every reduction of taxation that
may be legitimately possible. (Hear.) Although ruy ri:bt
hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have the
money which is needed for the public service, there is no
man eau the country, I will undertake to say, who is more
zealous la the cause of Mammal reform than the pretest
Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Hear.) But we lour bear is
as ad that we have a vest empire, extending late evert
quarter of the glebe ; that our ships are in every port. and
our commerce upon every sea ; and that, if I do not num
lapis the feelings of this country (though we sometime
grumble at the cost of colonial expenditure sad at Da"'
armaments), the people are net prepared to abandon the
colonies or give up their commerce ; sod if you are got re
pared for that, if you wish to remain • great nation, spread•
log your arms into every part of the world, and eofoldrg
the world within them, you must be prepared, as.l hire
said, to bear the various bordess and discharge the vaiica
duties of that grist position. (Loud cheers.)

177RTBER COMMERCIAL FAILURES IN LEEI,z.

(From the herds Mereitry of ibis day.)
Petitions iu bankruptcy were promo ted yesterdaY,
on their ows behalf, by Charles Turner, cloth roanufatarer,
Bolbeck, and by William Turner and David Johows, clod,
manufacturers, Leeds. No estimate as to liabilities h"
been given, but it is understood that the failures are attri-
butable to the suspeorion of the Leeds Banking CootesY.
and to the dealings of the two firms in acoommod+tws
paper. Darin the day Messrs. Alfred Taste tad "
woolles. merchants, King-street, made an ainipment.
cisesequence of the suspension of the bank, which held
a quantity of their paper. The total liabilities are 'Wed
to be about 100,0001. Masers. Bead and Barwick and Y.
Yewdall are the solicitors. We are informed that t.v
winding up of Messrs. Saalfeld's estate is expected to be
more favourable than was at first anticipated. There were
rumours of other failures in the course of the day. As
though, oo inquiry, we were unable to confirm them.
ia a 'soarsl fear that other houses, some respectable. otb.l
worthless, will be dragged down, sooner or later. Them
however, an entire absence of excitement, and evident:F. o
far, a determination to face the disasters which may
pending calmly and with resignation.
With regard to the affairs of the bank, nothing farther i
anthontatively known. There are reporte—eome of thcs
of the most serious character, aid apparently well.feuedel,
but which no one possessing the information will ether
adopt or deny. Without indorsing these reports, ar
publWty to mere idle rumours, we believe we may ser ttst
there is strong roma to tear that the creditors sod Mire
hoiden of the bank will not only have to deal with a moo
of accomaiodatioo paper, but also with a large quantity of
forged paper, which bee been recklessly and fratidectly
throwa into the market.
There is also reason to fear that, in some Meter". it
least, securities deposited at the bank by customers. ts'i
not drawn against, have been handed over to the Lotela
agnate as bank securities against drafts coming ism than
heads from Leeds.

MUSIC.

MR. YELLOWS CONCERT.

Mr. Mellon is carrying on his concerts, if not
with increased succese—for it is incapable of incream— bet
,et with success that continues undiminished. From the very
outset Coved Gerdes Theatre has been filled to overflowing
even. night, and so doubtless it will be to the end of the
series. Last night was culled by him a " Handel night," the
ant part of the concert being selected from the great
master's secular works, with as infusion of Corelli
ael Bach. The pieces were gems "rich and rare"—
things which rejoice the heart of every one who loves the
music of the olden time, while ►t the same time they de-
the modern ear as much as they ever did, for such
music never grows old. It is a pity that our caterers for
the public, in their endeavours to satisfy the incessant
craving for novelty, do not consider that the beautiful
music of the great old masters, neglected and almost for
,:otteo as it is, abounds in delicious things which have, in
fact. become novelties, and are as full of interest as any
°ovally can possibly be.
The concert last night began with the overture to
.t• -. um! Oalatra, which was beautifully played by the
admirable orchestra, but lost some of its effect from not
bong followed by the fine chorus, " 0, the pleasures of
the plains," into which it leads, and which seems inseparably
connected with it. Then the charming air, " Love in her
eyes site playing," was very sweetly sung by Mr. G. Perron.
Next, Corelh's seventh trio for two violins and violoncello
was played on two violonoellas and contrabass°, by Mr. G.
Col:ins. Mr. E. Howell and Mr. Howell, sec , •
performance which brought to remembrance the days
of lamlley and Dragonetti. The upper part was played by
Mr. Collins with his well-known beauty of tone and brit.
hunt execution ; Mr. E. Howell sustained the second in • '
manner which showed that he is "a chip of the old block,"
and promises to he one of oar most distinguished per-
formers ; end as to Mr. Howell, men., everybody knows
tbat it was on his shoulders that the mantle of the bloom-
parable Dragonetti fell, and still remains. After this,
the air from Headers "Sweet bird that
the noise of folly," was sung by Madame
l'arepa, accompanied on the flute by Mr. R. Patten.
It was au exquisite performance, the singer and aocompanyist
seeming to vie with each other in the bird-like clearness sod
bnlliancyof their execution. Mdlle. Marie Krebs then played
Bach's famous Peeks/Se Chrunustique, one of the most dif-
hcult compositions ever written for a keyed instrument.
Her performance was perfect : she conquered every difficulty
without the slightest apparent effort, seizing at the same
time the spirit of the music in a way which showed
the soul as well as the hand of a great performer. This
young girl—she is little more than • child—has
A bright future before her. Handel's fine bass song,
"Niece al basso," was extremely well sung by Mr. Lewis
Thomas ; the trio, "The docks shall leave Use Mountains,"
from Acis and Galatea, one of the most lovely concerted
pieces in existence, was admirably sung by Madame Parepa,
Mr. Peeress, and Mr. L. Thomas ; and the first' part of the
concert ended with the Triumphal March, " The Conquering
Hero," in Ado* Afevabens, performed by an immense
instrumental strength, the orchestra being reinforoed
by the bands of two of the regiments of Guards. It
is almost unnecessary to add, that the whole of these per '
foresaw:we were received with the warmest applause.
The second part of the concert was made up chiefly of
the operatic selection from Faust, followed by • number of
miscellaneous pieces, vocal and instrumental ; the whole
terminating with Auber's overture to Le Domino Noir.

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