The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-02 00:00:00

AdditiornaL)

kat.-

WITH the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE and
AGRICULTURAL 0 4213TYR of SATURDAY. Ink 7,
win lenpreeented • Chromo Lithogespite PLAN el WWI-
- PA MTH= and surrounding TIMILACRS at Crews
M Mr. NNW& —font free for ail iiimp.—Oam 41,
IVelßagionotrost, Covent den, W.C.

ELEANOR'S VICTORY,
Al the Anther of Aurora Lady Madera
teeerel." Ac.,will elcetly be commenced in °NCI • wTs[.

ANEW SERIAL TALE, entitled
i4LtNOIII VICTORY, by the Author a -Aurora
O; let&ltsrs flecret."*.e., wilt shortly he commenced
la 01. CZ •
Lades : Bradbary sad Reams, 11, Bouverle-strset,

•
V ERRE,R'S PRIDE,
by tbe Author of ••Effist Lynne," de., will baited:, lb
S vols., on February 4.
Loudon. Bradbury sad Vans, 11, Bouveriestreet, LC.

Sevesith &Woo, Pisa jobtlifsd, prim to, bp post teiplonps,
DEBILITYPhYIicaIj and IRRITABILITPto•s Y (Mental and
; the Utotot. AM. Meets. lotions'
Trestmest. lep 2. I. Taman, ILD, Ploolatan toand tie General
Pall Letter Outlaw' Provident laptitattleo, eke. Also, post
free,
VOUA z
@tamps, The ENGLISH MALADY—IIIDIGISTION and
1112NItnal.
R. lock 65, Upper North-place, Grafolnn•road . and bole
the oak% 111, Lloyd-square, Isisass. W.C.

A Munich letter of the 28th Jan., in the
Augsburg die. grn:—." TM Vienna Scan*, Mete that
Queen Mariam/ Nyrnisabawt• diet Orr Verged, wbefes
rhino has best hired for her. I claa amen that the tumour
to completely unfounded, cad that no preparation for dew.
two is being made at the Palace of Biederstein."

The King of Saxony arrived a few days back at
Prague from Dresden by a special train, and proceeded to
&andel', to visit the Grand Duke of Tuscany. His
Majesty travelled strictly incognito.
Latest advice. front Gibraltar mention that the
steamer Gibraltar (Lite Sumter) wee cruising is the bay
on the 22nd oh., for the purpose of testing her machinery.
She was closely watched by the Federal gunboat Chippewa.
Tux FUNERAL or M. BAXTHE.—The funeral of
M. Bartle, late President el the Court of Amounts, took
place on Friday at the Church of St. Salpice and was nu-
merously attended. The funeral corttire left the residence
of the deemed in the Rue Cassette at half-past eleven,
and proceeded to the church heralded and accompanied by a
battalion of the 72nd Regiment. The Minister of Finance,
the President of the Council of State, the members of the
Bureau of the Senate, and a number of senators, a &pa-
latial' of the Academy of Sciences, &c., were present. The
bar of Paris was oleo numerously represented.

MILHORY.—The Polytechnic, with it. ammo-
teristie enterprise, has engaged Mr. William Stokes for a
series of lectures on the art of aiding and strengthening the
memory.
THE CH•PLAINCY OF THE Housz OF COMMONS.
—The Speaker has conferred the Chaplaincy of the House
of Commons, recant by the death of Archdeacon I)rury. on
the Rev. Charles Merles's, rector of Lanford, Essex, author
of " The History of the Romans under the Empire," and
brother of Mr. Herman Meriesle, under Secretary of Stab
for India.

---
ST. THOMAS'S AND BETHLEHEM HOSE/TAM—AS
et no site has been chosen on which to erect the future St.
s Hospital, bat it is not improbable that Bethle-
hem Hospital will ultimately be selected, although no
advances have as yet been made to the committee of
governors of the latter to negotiate for its purchase. We
understand, in case a negotiation is dratted, that a wealthy
Surrey magistrate it ready to transfer to the governas of
Bethlehem Hospital a tract of freehold !sod, land-tae re-
deemed, consisting of seventy-three acres, on condition
that they contribute 20.000 i. to the funds ot the London
Hospital, Whitechapel•road. The Lod is in a most Wu.
brious part of Surrey, about eight miles from London,
and io close proximity to the Croydon Railway. The title
deeds are now, it is stated, in the hands of on. of the lead-
ing bankers of the City for inspection. It ix to be hoped
that, for the mks of those who participate in tbe benefits
of both those excellent institutions, so eligible ao arrange-
ment may be carried out, It is impossible to find a more
elieble spot for St. nomads Hospital than the present site
ot Bethlehem. and it is almost needless to observe that
a situation out of Loodos with extensive grounds, is the
moat desirable for a lunette mylium.—Ofierer.
DESTRUCTION 07 THE ROYAL, GLAMOOM,
BY Film —This beautiful theatre was totally destroyed by
fire on Saturday morning. About 5 o'clock the fire was dis-
covered in the north-sue pert of this building, where, to
judge by the hold it seemed at that time to have gained, it
must have existed for some time previously. Although the
alarm was speedily given the flames spread with such
rapidity that before the fire bngades under Mr. Bryson
arrived the theatre, from the front of the stage back-
wards, was a mass of fire. The flames were burst-
ing them:ash the side windows and part of the roof,
and it was apparent that the fire had gained such a
mastery that the splendid building was doomed to
destruction. In addition to the central brigades, Mr. 11
Bryson brought into requisition the Anderstoo' Cow.
maddens, and Corbels brigades. and every etfott which could
be devised was made to stay the progress of the flames, but
without effect. Although 13 Inanehen, throwing 60 gallons
of water per annals per minute, were in operation. they
produced little effect, and by half-pad 6 o'clock the building
was completely gutted. The building is insured, we uodor-
stand, for 8,0001. in the following officers :—Scottish Provin-
cial, LOOM ; Liverpool and Leedom, 1,0001. ; Commercial,
2,000& ; Royal. 3,0004 •' and Sun, LOW. The machinery
and properties are also covered by insurance to the extent
ed 1,0001. and 3,6301. respectively. The fire is supplied to
have originated in the properties room, in the north-east
wing of the building, but the circumstance. which gave rise
to it remain es yet unexpkined. It appears to have
bees a rule of the establishment that a gassmau and an
assistant should go round the premises every night, after
the audience and performers had left, to see that all was
right. The officials in gustation are said to have wide their
rounds as usual on Friday night shortly after 12 o'clock, at,
which hour they found nothing smile. So completely hen
the fire dove its work that nothing sow remains d She
building but the tottering walls, inclosing a meet of donna
timber and ruined brickwork. Besides the fittings and pre.
parties there has been destroyed a large library of valuable
music, which has been in course of collection for many
visas.
COAX AND YOUOHAL RAILMAT.—The meeting of
this eoraz:4 advertised for this der, February 2. was
IwsfirSit and adjotnued to •futare day,
wkieh entice da be shwa.

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

A deputation from the Senate presented the
address of that body to the Emperor at 2 p.m. to-day.
The Court was present at the ceremony; Prince
Napoleon was absent.
The Emperor thanked the depntation for the
address in a speeth which, it is asserted, did not
contain the slightest allusion to political matters.

THE GREEK THRONE AND THE DUKE
OF SAXE COBURG.

ATHENS, JAS. ai.
M. Babbi, formerly Minister under the Ooletti
administration, has been elected President of the
National Assembly by a large majority, and M.
Moraiteni, President of the Court of Caseation, has
been chosen Vice-President.
Mr. Elliot has announced to the Greek govern..
went that the Duke of Saxe Coburg has consented
to become a candidate for the throne of Greece, and
that he will nominate his nephew, the Prince of
Coburg Kohary, his heir. The latter, it is stated,
will embrace the Greek religion. This intelligence
has produced a favourable iuipresaion.
VIENNA. Jmg. 31.
Pit alireko64o.l. &maul Corregrouksis of to-day
says :—"Xegotiations with the Duke of Saxe Co-
burg to became a candidate for the Greek throne
I have entered a new phase, betokening a successful
termination."

TURIN, JAN. 31.

There is no foundation whatever for the state-
ment made in the Frankfort Europe that Signor
Pasalino, in a communication made to the Greek
Minister at Turin, and Signor Mamiani, in a com-
munication addressed to the Greek government, had
expressed the readiness of King Victor Emmanuel
to accept the crown of Greece for an Italian prince.

TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN
ITALY AND RUSSIA.

TURIN, JAN. 31.
The Marquis Pepoli will leave for St. Peters-
burg on Monday next.
It is asserted that he will on his arrival com-
mence negotiations for a treaty of commerce be-
tween Russia and Italy.
The debate on the budget still continues in the
Chamber of Deputies, but is devoid of political
interest.

RUMOURED REFORMS IN VENETIA.
VIENNA, JAL 31.

The General Correspondenz states that an Aus-
trian Minister of State will shortly proceed to Ve-
netia, announcing to the inhabitants extensive re-
forms which will be granted by the Emperor.

CONDEMNATIONS BY THE CONGREGA-
TION OF THE PAPAL INDEX.
ROME, JAL 31.
The Congregation of the Index has condemned
M. Michelet's work " L► Sorciere," and the news-
paper II Mediatore, published at Turin by Father
Paasaglia.

THE ADDRESS OF THE PRUSSIAN
CHAMBER.

BERLIN, Jut. 31.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies a
letter was read from Herr von Biamark-Schon-
hausen to the President of the Chamber, wherein
the former states that the King cannot be induced
to reoeive • deputation from the Chambers for
the presentation of the address. The President of
the Chamber therefore proposed that the address
should be sent direct to the King as a letter, which
was agreed to without debate.

FEBRUARY 2, 1868.

SPIOII
iced

Liverpool o 9 Saturday by
announcing that the Alabama bad captured one of
the Californian mail steamers, and seized upwards
of 1,500,000 dollars in specie. The same letter also
states that the Alabama captured two American
whalers which she burnt, and afterwards landed the
crews at one of the West India Islands.
THE RUMOUR RE9PRCTING PZLNCL COUZAo—•
" A telegraphic despatch from Vienna," says the zing,
"announces that a proposition is beim; prepared 'alas
&tante Senate, having for object the reolovelat Primp
Comm. We shall merely remark that this sews empales,
from the same *came as that; which was popsomptly man.
dieted, announcing the andicatioa of the Prince.*
Tan CALCUTTA AND CHINA Mona.—Tho
taw Ned Oriental Company's steamship Pera, Cap
Jamieson, with the heavy Calcutta and China mails, arrived
at Southampton on Saturday evening at six o'clock. She
' brings 38 passengers, 5 packages specie, 4 packages vela-
shies, 94 boxes of oranges, &c., 183 ditto, 4 casks wine, 194
packages sundries, 54 packages baggage rived from Us
Colombo, and 1,504 bales silk, value 140,0001. steeling.
The Pelf sailed from Alexandria on the 18th,pfalta Turd,
and Gibraltar the 26th. On the 29th, in the Bay of Biscay,
she spoke the company's steamer Delta, with the outward
smile of the 27th last. Gibraltar exchanges were quoted an
London 90 days' date, boi ; Paris, sf. 28c. ; sLarailles,
sf. 29c. ; Genoa, sf. 30e. ; Brassie, 51.30 e. ; Madrid, 8
days' sight, # pees.; t7Vie, # to f die. ; Seville, I to
Almeirs and Malaga, 'par ; Barcelona, # prem. ; Valencia, I
prem. ; Alicant, din. ; premium on five franc pieces, it to #
per oent.

Damtvca os Amoutc Mona—On Saturday
the British sad North American Boyd Mail Steamship
Company's steamer Asia was despatched from the Mersey
for New York with mails for the United States and British
North America, together with about 80 passengers and •
fell cargo. On Wedaesday next the Inmang steamer the
Cis yof Washington willleave Liverpool for the New York
with mails for the United States.
WORKING Mint's CLuse.—On Tuesday evening
last the inaugural meeting of the Wandsworth Working
Men's Club was held. The ,proasedings commenced with a
well attended tea meeting, held on the club premises,
which was followed by • crowded public meeting in the
Spread Eagle Assembly-rooms. The chair was taken by
G. F. White, Fog.. who after prayer had been offered by
the Rev. Hugh Allen, D.D., Rector of St. George's, South-
wark, gave an account of the circumstances connected with
the formation of the club, and the objects and mode of
conducting the institution. George Cruskshanks, Esq.,
then addressed the meeting in •• forcible sips.
He was followed by the Pier. Hugh Allen, D.D., who
pointed oat some of the special advantages of work-
ease's dubs and halls. The Rev. J. H. Rylance la member
of the Council of the Working Men's Club and Institute
Union, and curate of St. Paul's, Southwark) next gave an
admirable address, edvoesting the necessity of seeking out
by such agencies the lowest of the community, and striving
to awry them up to a h!gber level. Speeches were after-
wards delivered by Mr. George Howlett end the Rev.
Henry Solly (secretary to the Club and Institute Union),
and the proceedings terminated with • vote of thanks to the
chairman, moved by the Rev. D'Amy Irvine, and seconded
by Dr. Loogstaffe. The club premises consist of • recently
vacated public-house, with skittle-ground attached, and pro-
vided with the venom rooms requisite for the purposes
of the club. The lease was purchased by the liberality of
ten gentlemen, who each lent 251. without interest, to make
up the total required. About 150 working men havaalresdy
garotted themselves as members. On 'Monday evening
• public meeting was held in the Town-hall, Scarborough,
for the formatioe of • working men's club. The chair was
take, by Sir J. V. B. Job stove, Bert., M.P., and speeches
war, delivered by J. D. Dent, Req., M.P., H. Walker, Faq.,
the Rev. J. Hargreaves, Councillor Smith, Mr. A. J. Tug-
well, and others. The meeting was large and outhusiastic.
A considerable amount of money was subscribed, and a
proviiional committee was appointed, with Mr. Tugwell as
hon. secretary. From the feelings manifested by the work-
ing men of Scarborough the club is considered certain to
obtain several hundred members as moues it gets into work-
ing order.
THE BRMIGI AMOCIATION.—On Saturday after-
noon • very large and influential meeting of lead-
ing gentlemen connected with Northumberland sad
Durham was held in the Literary and Philosophical
Society's Lecture Room, Newcastle-upou-Tree, the
Mayor of Newcastle, Mr. Bell, in the chair, with
the view of forwarding the business connected with
the meeting of the British Association in Newcastle in
August next. The nomination of Sir W. J. Armstrong as
president, Sir Walter Trevelyan Mr. N. Wood, Mr. H.
Taylor, Mr. I. L. Bell, and Professor Cbevallier, as vioe-
presidents ; Captain Noble, Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Clapham
as secretaries ; and Mr. Hodgkin as treasurer, was
confirmed. Very influential local executive and etieral
committees were elected ; and it was determined to ream-
meld to the council of the associatiou to commence the
beldame on Wednesday, 26th August. The bast meeting
the British Association held in Newcastle weals 1838, and rt
was eminently successful. Between rd,oool. tend 4,000/. was
subscribed in the locality at that time, and it is aoticipated
that an equal, if not a larger, sum will be subscribed in the
town sod district in 1863. Nearly 1,000/. was put down in
the meeting.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The annual meeting of
the proprieton and shareholders of the Theatre Royal
Drury-lane, was held oo Saturday in the Grand Saloon of
the theatre, Mr. Arden in the chair. The report of the
' general committee was read, stating that the receipts,
melodies a balance of 5564 17s. 9d. oa December 31, 1861,
amounted to 6.0191. 4s. 6d. on account of receipts from the
theatre, and 5001. 13s. for house-rent—total, 7,0751. 15.. 3d.
The payment. were 4,851 f. Pa 4d., leaving • cash balance of
21241.65. 11d. The report of the general committee also
stated that agnegoSiatior. was pending between the present
lessee and his sub-lessee, Me Falconer, to have the lease
taken directly in the name of the latter. The report was
adopted. A vote of thanks was then given to the architect
for his we in discharging his duties, and the excellent re-
mits attained ; and, after the usual compliment to the chair-
math the meeting separated.
Gar-Ar &arms RstLwAv.—As an illustration of
the reduction made in season tickets, it may be stated that
by the sew tariff which came into operatics yesterday, the
first and second class fares between Colchester and London
for twelve months will be 391. 5a and 311. IA. respectively.
as compared with 451. and 361. 10s., the rates previously
charged. Similar reductions have been made upon the
entire system. A pert, of the directors made a tour
through the Tootling Hunched, is Ease:, early last week
for the {tarpon of weertmising by penned inspection the
merits of tire rival esteseinse proposed to Waltoe.oe.the-
Naas. The asollosatiea of trains takes effect to-day.

0

;d.

THil *Liß4ildeor LANEIDOWNX

With the Marquis of Lansdowne bee passed
away a political spectacle peculiar to this oonntry,
—that of an aristocratic gentlemen of moderate
and politics which might be called mei-
liberal, being connected with the entire,
history of his time by the force of tonsil-
beitiamm. Consistency is, from the character of
the Mall, Pot only so oat of fashion, but for most
meet) out of the question, that any one signal
alit fixes as'nititili'attention at the preneht
day a kmairiedek* Vag Innovation did in a
foram. Om' ,faintbdinnetiowne remained stead-
fast whale the- Weillplq end Peek were
changing on alea.,nee. sead Me Barden&
and the Broughams on other • and every 4
body is Interested in seeing how this happened.
Thereat stigmertion in the case is that it could not
havuettaajned
daif
n be hadnot not .been et high and an: .
. oold havaliapper ds
course Whom delft-aimed in a ned
lama , ea/
tine ,ar xod not been te4 NOM ;
char na
U vq•A It. Man ot genial, meek any
Vigorous • tailikhrief sliver of lull meat ItM
make the awe *Ade be other than ens.
,miat Internet." . •
The family tif toldtdandowne figure In Irish
history as Barons of Kerry for several hundred
years. His father was the celebrated Lord
burns, the first Marquis okLanedowse ; and the
late Marquis was the son of a second
marriage. He was never, nor were his
elder brothers, the pupils of Dr. Priestley, as
is supposed by many people. Dr. Priestley was
never a tutor in the family at all, but resident,
nominally as libraries to Lord Shelburne, but
really as a friend and a scholarly companion. Lord
Shelburne had a dread of public schools, and his
two eldest sons were educated at home ; but Henry,
the subject of this notice, so earnestly desired &
public-school education, that he was sent to West-
minster. It really appears as if his lifelong solicitude
on behalf of education began with his own. From
Westminster be went to Edinburgh, and was one of
the band of youths, since become statesmen, who
debated at the Speculative Society, and worshipped
Dugald Stewart. The judgment of his comrades on
him was, as Horner tells us, that he was " dis-
tinguished by a cool, clear-thinking head, and a
plain, firm, manly judgment." One would like to
know whether in the presence of the Speculative
Society, he manifested the inaptitude for specula-
tion and the propensity to detail which dis-
tinguished his mind in after-life. It was a joke of
the season, forty years after, when he and
Sydney Smith, with a companion or two,
went inoognito to Devil e, in the Strand, to
have their characters read from their skulls,
and were most perversely interpreted. Lord Lem-
downe was pronounced to be so absorbed in
generalisation as to fail in all practical matters, and
Sydney Smith to be • greet naturalist—' never so
happy as when areas erg his birds and his fishes.*
" Sir," said the divine, with a stare of comical
stupidity, " I don't know a fish from a bird ;"
and the cabinet minister was conscious that " all
the fiddle-(addle Of the cabinet " was committed to
him, on account of his love of what he called
practical business. In 1801, when he was just of
age, he graduated at Cambridge. After travelling
on the Continent with Dumont, he took his seat
for Caine, the family borough, and he sat for two
sessions silent, as he thought became his youth, but
diligent in attendance, and earnest la his study of
the chief orators of the time, Fox being his
great admiration. His maiden speech was on a
politioowamomical subject--_the effect on Ireland
of the working at the Bank Restriction AM The
remark at the time was that this young lord Henry
Petty justified his descent from Sir Win. Petty,
who had that to say in Cromwell's time which
caused him to be called the father of political
economy in England. The first very strong im-
pression made by the young member was, however,
on the Bth of April, 1805, in the Melville business,
when, in addition to the discretion and good sense
which were noted as remarkable in a man of five-
and-twenty, he showed a power which never re-
appeared. Fox declared it the best speech that
was made that night. When parliament was pro-
rogued, he went to Ireland with Dumont, to explore
it politically, beyond the bounds of the family pro-
perty. On the opening of the session of 1800 he
was to have moved the amendment on the address
—that amendment which was given up became
Pitt was dying. By that time, the first Marquis
was dead, and was succeeded by Lord Henry's half-
brother, who afterwards died without issue, de-
volving the title and estates on him.
On Pitt's death, Lord Henry Petty came in for
Cambridge University, over the head of the young '
Palmerston, who was a grave and modest youth in
those days. Fox used to say in private that he
looked upon Petty as his political successor ; but
still, in the notices of the time, it is always the
gravity, consistency, and diligence of the young
man that we find extolled, and not any power of a
higher order. He was made Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer at once, in the Grenville administration •
and he brougheforward a financial scheme which
was prodigiously admired by his colleagges, who
were but too like Fox in their aversion to Adana
Smith and the subject of his book; but Lord Henry
Petty's financial scheme would not bear examina-
tion. His operations ended in a great increase of
the maimed taxes and the property tax ; and there
are caricatures yet in our libraries in which Fox
and Petty are seen as bear and dog, taught to
dance by Lord Grenville as trainer ' • and again, as
taxgatherers, bearding John BuIL Already we and
him busy in doing what he delighted in doing
through life, helping people to a position, or fitting
people and places to each other. The last entry in
idorner's journal bears date June, 1806, and it
relates to a negotiation set on foot by Lord Henry
Petty tor bringing his friend Horner into
parliament under the auspices of Lord Kin-
naird. A few months afterwards the Oren-
vine administration went out, letting the Tories
into power for nearly a quarter of a century.
Cambridge would have no more of the young
liberal ; but he indulged himself in a "last act" of
patronage, or propitiation of patronage, even at that
moment. He got Professor Smyth the "amiable
and accomplished," as hie friends called him,
appointed to the chair of Modern History. It was,
like most of Lord Lansdowne's appointments, an
act of kindness to the individual, but scarcely so
to the public. There is no saying what benefit
might have accrued to British statesmanship if a
man of more vigour, philosophy, and comprehen-
siveness of mind than Professor Smyth had been
appointed to so important a professorship.
In 1808, Lord H. Petty married Lady Louisa
Emma Strangewaye, his cousin—a woman who had,
without seeking it, everybody's praise. She was
beautiful ; and every advantage of natural ability
was improved by education, and sanctified and en-
deared by the finest moral qualities. They lived
together to old age. The year after their marriage,
the second marquis died, and they began, at Bowoud,
the long series of hospitalities which made that
abode as celebrated iu its own way as Holland
House was in a somewhat different one. The dif-
ference lay iu the hostesses ; and it was wholly to
the advantage of Bowed. It is amusing to see, in
" Moore's Diary," an account of consultations
between the visitors of the two houses--Rogers,
Tierney, Barnes, and Moore—about which of the
noblemen was the more aristocratic in his habit of
feeling, Lord Holland or Lord Lansdowne—the
impression of those who knew them beet being that
neither could be more so than the other, while both
were blinded to it iut,themselves, as superficial obser-
vers were, by the genuine benevolence which was the
prevailing mood of each. As to the ladies--there is
no need to describe the hostess of Holland House.
Lady Lansdowne had her aristocratic tendencies,

as was natural ; but they were leis than dttnillYnals
of her manners led some to supra, ; aed *if ism
subdued Is
peed harmlessness by her persesat
hiumlitY an& all-pnvading modesty. The hospi-
talise of Bowoce4 so conducted, sight all form,
as they did, a social feature of the time.
Dewing the quarter century of tory rule, Lord
Lansdowne was steady in hie advocacy of the pat
mations of his youth, and, we may now add, of his
old age. He was ranked with Lords Grenville and
King as a leader cd the politiosloiconomy school.
He sever let slip an opportunity of advocalii
popdar education ; as whim, for Mama he
about liatland, which Lord Liverpool called
best-conditioned country upon earth, that sal
welfare as inhad was wholly ascribable to its
chial schools, which had counteracted the mica •
atierpolitical system lie sulitained the Cathode .
Ada, quietly and steadily ; and he detailed
coalitions during the whale interval from the ha
he joined in 1806 to the last hi 1852. He declared
tam to be not only justt bat riecessary in a foie
country, as • defence amanst.the ntereachnents el
the courti.and that tha-fanciple was the same as
that of party
•-rooscanon around, for the sake of
combined eldlieh 18H1 he Oak a noble stand
in mpeolialet 'tiemr:gs. spinet the
fflin j &
t
gliteedi Apt Avian idripelsee free-trade
mai& --M• Mio tell him that
he was becoming a parliamentary reformer ; and so
he was, but not so fast as his piratical comrades.
When the Mug took it into his at that time,
to court the Opposition, and tad some of them to
dinner at Brighton, the courtesy of Lord Lana-
down's behaviour was remarked in contrast with
the ill manners of some others—his habitual
moderation here standing him in good stead.
His advocacy of the independence of the South
American republics prepared some minds for his
act, so much disapproved by others, of joining Mr.
Canning in May, 1827. Steady as he had ever been
in asserting the virtue of coalition, he was anxious
and uneasy in his new position in the cabinet ; de-
clued that be was powerless ; was complained of
for being too mild with the oppodtion when they
were hunting Canning to ; and was deeply
afflicted by that rancorous and yet most pathetic
speech of his friend Lord (hey which is believed
to have broken Canning's heart. In October he
was Home Secretary in the Goderich cabinet, but
not even the mess enabled the coalition to work,
and the Duke of Wellington was premier in a few
weeks. It is rather miming to find bow Lord
Lansdowne was beset as the plue.procurer during
his very short tenure of power, and how he com-
plained in private of the worry of this, while he bad
really very little patronage—what there was not
being at his own disposal. It is clear that now, as
later, this sort of business was devolved upon him
by his colleagues, under the ideadiat it suited him
better than the larger labours of statesmanship.
When Lord Grey came into power Lord Lans-
downe was President of the Council—an office which
suited him and the Council admirably.. He conti-
nued in office with the Melbourne Ministry—going
out wan Sir R Peel was sent for to Rome in
November 1834, said returning on the breaking up
of the Peel administration, in the next April. After
Lord Grey's retirement he was the , when
necessary, of Opposition in the Lords, and during
the Russell administration, of government ;
and Lit was during that long course of
years that his finest qualities appeared—his
moderation, his courtesy, his knowledge of
and deference for parliamentary forms and usages ;
and better, his sincere zeal in causes which bore
least relation to party warfare. As a parliamentary
reformer, no one expected much from him ; and he
had done his duty long before by questions of
liberty d eioneciense, is the ease of the catholic!,
and the dissenters. He consistently, but mildly,
advocated free trade ; but it was in the business of
education that he distinguished himself most.
Little as has yet been done in that cause, that little
has been done by government, and government, in
this case, meant originally, and always meant
chiefly, Lord Lansdowne. After all that can be
said, and truly, about the Committee of Council on
Education giving him work of detail to do
and superintend, and many places to give
away, it remains a certainty that here
began the work of popular education by the State ;
that Lord Lansdowne gave his zeal, his interest,
and his pains to it ; and that the nation ought to
be grateful to him accordingly.

In 1836 he lost his elder son, the Earl of Kerry,
who left a widow and one son • and in 1851 the
Marchioness of Lansdowne died. He had a son
and a daughter left ; but every one felt, as lie did,
that his life was drawing towards that closing period
which should be one of repose. He took leave of
active, and, as he thought, of official life, when Lord
John Russell made way for Lord Derby in the
spring of 1852. No speech that be ever made won
him so many hearts, and so much respectful sym-
pathy as that in which he declared that, though he
should appear in his place in Parliament on
occasion, he was then taking his leave
of active public life. When the Coalition Ministry
under Lord Aberdeen came into power, Lord Lans-
downe reluctantly consented to take a seat among
them—without offiee—to affird the government
the benefit of his character of conservative whig-
gism, of his dignified presence in parliament, of his
urbane and moderating influence in council, and
of his experience in the business of statesmanship.
This was understood to be only another form of that
farewell to public life which be had announced,
rather more expressly, on the occasion of the Derby
ministry.
Lord Lansdowne had been gradually declining
for some months, but his death was hastened if not
actually occasioned by an accident that occurred
ten days ago. The venerable nobleman while
walking on the terrace at Bowood stumbled and
fell, and in falling cut his head severely. The
shock was too much for his enfeebled frame, and
after gradually sinking for some days he expired at
six o'clock on Saturday evening.

THE SI.NIOI WRANGLES 7011. 1883.—Robert
Romer, Esq., of Trinity Hall, the Sean( Wrangles al the
present year, is the son of Prank Romer, req., of 7,
Greville.place, St. John's-wood. His was educated at pri-
vate schools in St. John's-wood, and ander private tutors.
He obtained one or two open exhibitions at Trinity Hall, is
Easter, 1859. During the summer previous to his com-
mencing residence, and for several term subsequently, Mr.
Romer read with Mr. Besant, of St. John's College, and
during the latter portion of hie university course, Mr.
Romer received his instruction from Mr. Routh, of St.
John's College, who had been engaged as mathematical
lecturer at Trinity Hall.—Cerestridgc iltdepredent.
Acel DIMS PEON FIEL—ME.BUCkIanti, asaistaut-
surgeon is the bid Life Guards, writes to the Tister..--"It
is not many weeks since that 1 was suddenly called toe poor
young woman (the wife of the owner of a public-house close
to the cavalry barracks, Windsor). Her clothes caught Sr.,
and eh* rushed out of the house, but unfortunately bad not
pressen) of mind enough to throw herself into the horse-
trough, which was doss to the door and full of water. The
poor thing was fearfully burnt. I will save my readers the
description. 1 immediately
imperatively
her opiates, bit soon per-
ceived that stimulants were called fur. Opiates
ere excellent things, and should be given for the sake of
relieving pain, but the stimulants moat sot be forgottep.
The shock of the hurts depresses the whole system most
terribly, and laudanum, though it relieves the pain, is also
I gemming in its effects. I would therefore (us in a:sidente
of this kind time is most precious) recommend the following
mixture to be gives at once :—Laudanum, 30 drops ;
sul-
Pharie tether, 40 drops ; brandy, atablespooeful, in a wipe-
glass full of warm water. This should be given directly,
sad repeated in an hour's time if the pain is not subdued.
This treatment should be followed up by beef tea and other
connetrated forms of nourishment. Of course, the ever-
preeent remedy of coteries tbe barns freely with dour
from a flour dredge, and applying cones wool above the
layer of four, must not be neglectd, and should be put
I. fun* till the medical man arrives.
Uurte RAILWAY.—The directors, at their meet-
*" ea tbe 28th ult., resolved to recommend to the pro-
Trs dividend for the ball-year ended 31st December,
sites the rate of 5 per mat. per spouse, lees
income tax, which will absorb 18,0411 d. 17s. W., and leave a
sum of 3,5001. for reserved fund, and 2434 Is. 6d. for ant
accoaat.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.—The TELEGRAPHIC INTlkAaagiba that& Grande, as well as satisfaction for the im-
NINTH ANNUAL zrzinwricut of the PHOTOSIZAPHIC pregiziThent of three English naval °Seers.
SOCIETY of LONDON is OPEN DAILY, trots 10 1111 A the _____4ll
Gallery of the liedirty of Britt& Attila SerfoliteMeek omerza's Telsolails.) *MI Brazilian government having refused these
East -kebobs." Is. • dealing* the English seized five merchant vessels
THEPROGRESS OF THE POLISH INSURBEC-
LONDON PAVILION.—LITTLE TION. An.ortangereeat was, however, finally made, under
oo seam en of the day. The FOUR
AYLEICAUEIIOIICrortsss WI ever wintered In this corm LEKBERG, fp= L whisk the Brazilian government will pay an M-
iry. Grend ileMeliam from the . Tzarists' EVERT EVENING. Armed insurgents have attached a detachment of dimity, to be fixed at London.
ein Amnon bowling alleys. Open daily.
The other question has been submitted to the
THE LONDON PAVILION, TICHNORNISTRIMT. troops guarding the railway near Luviec, The
TOOL mad SONNIAMMER, Preprialten
arbitration of the Ring dthe Belgians.
result of the engagement is unknown.
THE LONDON GRAND RESTAURANT. Near Hirnevries the insurgent, have manned a laffair cansedgreet porshariceitement, which
ImemlsB l'A DINIIIIA A " °AN" *" be bed number of recruits who were being carried away for bastawl!heweerri, subsided.
with COKIPORT see
_DISPATCH.
SAWIWES MIMS LONDON DINNER, ready tram S Ells military service. * 0031AUSECIAL IirrELLIOIINOL
In the timid Isla" at be. 6d. each venom
Special dining-roams for ladies sad gentlemen. The regular troops are conoentratiag near Kielce EAlhinge on London at Rio, 21 to 27}. Coffee,
abeam awe wan vaatnatad wie,smse, sae guselnettalocs• and mem, while the insurgents, are withdrawing 7,009 to 7,200 ; shipments, 50,188 bags, of which
QM ON StYNDAYS MOM FOUR TILL NINA.
• sew -M Pleteleem. into Litlittallia. 9.202 were for the Channel ; stock, 90,000; freights,
ISE,ELENTIIIIIIIIN. COON= of CHANCERY-LANE.HEHL/2i, FML 1. 54L t 2.6451.
toA2s.t.nahis, Exchange OD London was quoted 2n
UK! INK! INR I , Letters received here from Warsaw to the 30th
But few sales had taken place in cotton, the
wAlltre warm° see cIOPTIA9 MU suns. " I January state that the insurrection has a gnat total, amount being 140,000 hags. Noshing
in gritty sad durability of caber. Agents wanted ter
Teensand osemift. Meastectery,olol4m, N.IL 1 number of yarn/a' nit in Lithuania and Volhynia. quote 4 in sugar • browns, 1,600 to 1,700.
HE SCULPTOR'S JOURNAL and FINE
! Rumours devoid of foundation, however, were Exchange on i.ondon at Pernambuco was quoted
T ART MAGAZIN/ Prise dd., by poek7d. even circulating at Warsaw, that insurrection bad 28 to-28}. Sugar, seconds, 3,350 to ;500, thirds '1
NOV . a,nraw.ajemmins:-•AiiviewsoiNew anady broken out in those provinces, and men- 3,00 G to 3,300 ; iMumoovadoa, 18,500 to Scittii9t
Meets del awes-Phidies vole .CottiAls 17,600 to 18,000. , 0..
i.g at International Eitildesm, tit& Wilna as its principal scot. T Trwch steamer Guienne arrived at *tram
14°Z seajra:PribraporG.,4-A0r,6114:' •• 'go game iettaa the • ta
to No. , . Tufigeleut L'AurliteL ' as the inst. . 1
am,.
theta- vleeel 1-I.' andcubtedly the w*er pity, Nit 4 telervips . .----,,, ! . i
:,:. • - ' • leilezied fa may Pte, allitongh En iititers AVID AND MILITARY.
• tat . —•
-the• the Student, i they had obtained considerable advantages. The let- • PORTSMOUTH. PER 1.;
um SA& Rilisel• Id
le.,em," 1 1 ten add that the Russian government is now acting The Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, Captain C.
poem Drem whatever emote moted la
me lieffilliblatsiall dirbe the month. Ilis coe- I very energetically, but that the evil has acquired H. Boymonr,C.B., etstared oat of Wham rinierdariortrial
Itrib==a lime .18",:ltielal"red nw a cal I= I" much au extent that it cannot be quickly removed. of he mitilms after Mei"' The
. trial I'm col•eled inter
the saineresr le Tile ulptor's i in sill
.the auparlntaarlamo of Captain Broadhead, of the stem
respects a ImillessmilMl if, Ihs Arta, the laiwalyi fora WARSAW, JAN. 31. reserve ; Mr. Murdock, inspector of afloat; and
for which Is ems of pis shot Ontifying and plowing beinres of The city is tranquil: Mr. Weed. The yacht first gleamed emtwa as far as the
t~emmthe meal pp. •
. Boma. WC. : sad ma! be The Officie/ Jannis/ states that all the news re- Nat Light, sad ea rotunda' westward took ots Weed their
had of 41 LW agents. Royal Hig_hneeees the Prism of Was and the Prime
aired by the government from the provinces are of Loafs of Hoooc. The „iota than continued her Tomo
This day. Second diglasjo. a. prim One Shillnig. • satisfactory nature, and that order is being westward as far as Yarmouth, Lie of Wight, mid retersed
THE PHARMACEUterTICALthe JOURNAL, every where re-established. to Osborne, where their Royal Rightism disembarked.
Contain .. r The weather wee eery rough, but the trial woe satisfactory.
TRANSACTIONS-OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. BERLIN, JAL 31. The Ng/soot, sling atoroobip, is wider Olen to mil for
__.....,..,u°etee/L-rbe Meekele4ed em. ........Q.----. 1-6 °l'd*" The telegraphic communication between Berlin Rio de Ilea° when the weetker keeowtee la Per A...,........01/ PUIIIIIIIOIIMIO.I • ...=..--..11W .1.0114011 a lane.
dies : DiCen Mk (Consist* torso.,, Turkey Corn-Cinebordee- and Warsaw has been ft-established since this very strong winds have prevailed the
On Commercial Tincture of smouichlorlde of Ise-On tbe Com- "Tesontrl-wtsyts. Puinh aftenroon, however, tbe weather mods-
position of Hy cam Crete-Coellver en with Citreto morning via Mysolovitz and Granica. rated, the wind veering more to northward of west, imilhe
of Iron--et.. Drugs of the liesemlbuca The wend communication is also again in Egmont will probably tail at ones in Sew of the Geyes• .
-The New Developerani-Manulacture pe Help and wine-
Fir Moat 011 mird Fir Wool-Procas kr eblidelleg Metal/M. regular working order. .. . ...
Cooper la Mee Powder—Preparation of Bissau:hie Acid.
RUMOURED Carrl7lll or A CALIFORNIAN SPECIE
TVolumesteon 111, Second Series, may be had In cloth, as well as the
paleaJoh llen Wo
urchilllin:nos, puce Ins, Nett. e THE ADDRESS OF THE FRENCH SENATE. SmiAtize BY THE ALABAMA.—A letter was remised
vlol : Ch and So
Idtatenglit : and Stewart. d.w
Burtington-strest.
Deblin : Fannin and Co. . - - - - PARIS, Fle• 1. in Liverpool on Saturday by the Wert India Mee