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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 7.

WINDSOR CUITIX JOIN &
The Queen, accompanied by. Princess Alice,
walked to Fromm this morning.
The Graisd Duchess of Mecklenbwah and the Duke of
Cambridge visited her Majesty to-day.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council this day (Saturday)
at Windsor Castle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Russell, the
Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles
Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C.
P. Villiers.

A derstatioe, consisting of Mr. Roebuck, M.P., and Mr.
Chapman, bad an interview with the Right Roo. C. P.
Villiers, yesterday, at the Office of the Poor-law Board,
WhitabalL

A deputation, weskits( of Sir William Gore Ouseley, Sir
George &narks, Mr. W. Houk:her, Colonel Macdonald,
and Mr. G. Grippe, had an interview with the Duke of New.
castle, at the Colonial-08os, yesterday.
The Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey left London
yesterday for Fallodoe, Northumberland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Hrs. Gladstone left
town yesterday for Bowden-park, Chippsnden, thtereidence
of Captain Gladstone.
The Right Hon. W. Hutt left town yesterday for his seat,
Gibside.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at yester-
day, in the Conucil•chamber, for the purpose of giving judg-
ment on an appeal from the Court of Arches, ",Beath v.
Border." Lord Cranwerth gave judgment, thattthe first
charge against Mr. Heath was distincAlv made out; that
the second charge was clearly made out ; that the third
charge was fully established ; and that their lordships
would advise her Majesty to effirm the judgment of the
court below, unless Mr. Heath would revoke his errors.
Mr. Heath must pay the costs of the appeal. The lords
present were, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of
London, Lord Cranworth, and the Londe Justices Knight
, Bruce and Turner.

COLONEL BII27IINCE must have strong interest.
This incompetent officer has not only induced the
Duke of CAMBRIDGZ to place him on the half-pay
list in direct violation of two royal warrants, but
he has succeeded in inducing Sir CoatrzwAix
Lzwis, one of the most grim of philosophic states-
men, to defend the job before the House of Com-
mons. Lord HERBERT used to declare that the
half-pay list was reserved for officers who were
really incapable of further service, and both he
and his colleagues often declared their anxiety
to reduce the list to the lowest possible
figure. The army costs the country enough
without the additional necessity of keeping
all the incompetent officers on the muster-roll.
Sir CoarrawAti Lewis is certainly not yet pre-
pared to endorse the doctrine of General Pim.,
that such a case as that of Colonel BENTINCE
does not come within the cognisance of the House
of Commons. But he insists that since Colonel
Siam, who has been brought from half-pay to
take the place of Colonel Mumma, is younger in
years, the public lose nothing by the exchange,
and therefore ought to have nothing to say in the
matter. It is very natural for the Duke of CAM-
BRIDGE and his military friends to insist that so
long as the sum demanded out of the people's
pocket& is not increased the people have nothing
to do with the way in which it is spent. But it is
surprising to find the WAR MINISTIZ adopt-'
ing this theory. Youth is not the only
essential for the command of a regiment,
or of an army. On the contrary, at the Horse
Guards as at the Vatican, youth is often a serious
inconvenience. The younger a man is the longer
it is likely that he will remain in his depart-
ment. But the selection of Colonel Snore
to command did not involve the placing an
incompetent Colonel on half-pay. The alternative
of selling or standing a court-martial is familiar to
the Horse Guards ; and if the same measure had
been meted out to Colonel Bwrruscx as was
meted out to his subaltern, Captain Roam.-
scer, the former would either have been a
Colonel on full pay, or no Colonel at all. No
doubt this would have been a more severe punish-
ment than that which has now befallen him ; and
the discontent of his military and private friends
would have been more loudly expressed than it
has been. Nevertheless the public would have
felt that the WAR MINISTER had at length suc-
ceeded in asserting his supremacy over the COM-
MANDER-IN-CHIEF, and in controlling that spirit
of favouritism which presides at the Hone Guards.
But the WAR MINISTER has not merely
connived at an act of favouritism, he ha&
violated the distinct regulations contained in a
royal warrant peened for the express purpose of
reducing the half-pay list—and that for no reason
whatever. Neither Sir CORNERALL Lewns nor
the COMMANDZR-IN-Cain' has done any act which
is technically illegal. A royal warrant is not an
act of Parliament, and therefore it may be varied
by the sanction of the Crown. But the COMMANDER-
IN-CHIEF had better not push this theory too far.
Theoretically, no doubt the army is under
the command of the Crown. The regulations
as to education, as to qualification, as
to retirement, are all subject to instantaneous
change. But, surely, neither the Duke of Cum-

His Highness Prince Mustapha Pacha has arrived
at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris.
Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess Sagau
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury entertained at
dinner lad evening the French Ambassador and the Coun-
ters do Mahwah and ffidlle. de Flahault, the Cowden de
Horny, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Coas-
ters of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers, the Fart
and Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl and Lady Con-
stance Grammer, the Duke of Rutland, Viscount and Via-
counter Newport, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Londes-
borough, Mr. Henry Greville, Viscount Hamilton, and Lord
and Lady Bingham.
The Earl Canning has arrived at the Queen's
Hotel, Upper Norwood.
Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant's ball is fixed for
Ike 24th instant.
Comte Gaston de Villeneuve has arrived at the
Inumriek Hotel, Jermynstreet, on a visit to the Viscount
sed Vietionateas Duchatel.
Count and Countess de Pourtales have arrived at
Caddie's Hoed, from Paris.
Mrs. Gardner bad a concert last evening (Friday),
at her reddens@ in Fatoemusre.
The Bishop of London will not hold his usual
weakly levee at London House, St. James's-square, on
Tuesday next, the 10th instant, his lordship being engaged
throughout the week at Fulham Palace with candidate@ for
his general ordination ea Trinity Sunday.
It is rumoured that Major-General Sir Edward
Lewd, mananest Under Secretary of State for War, is
to have one of the vacant regiments.
The will of Colonel Sir William Lockyer Freeetun,
of Belvidere, has been proved. This military officer bad
served with distinction in the Peninsula, on the staff of
General Sir de Lacy Evans, and in Syria, and received the
Spanish orders of knighthood of Charles 111., San Fernando,
and Isabella. Sir William represented Weymouth in pu-
liiunent from 1847 to 1869, and also hold the offices of ma-
gistrate and deputy-lieutenant for Da at. The teetator,
who only attained to his 68th year, died at his town resi-
dence in April last, having the month preceding made his
will, which is very brief, and disposes of the property, real
and personal, prindp•lly to his widow. There is a singular
bequest to Lord Palmerston of • watch and appendages,
worn by Sir William (the testator), and which he (Sir
William) requests that his lordship will do him the honour
to accept.
The will of James Shoolbred, Esq., of Totten-
ham-court-road, and of the Elms, Acton, was proved in
the Court of Probate, on the 2nd inst., by John Young,
Joseph Jordan Knight, and James Shoolbred, the execu-
tors. The effecta were sworn tinder 250,030/. The teetater
bequeathed his leasehold premises in Tottenham. court
road to his sou James, and the residue of his property
equally amongst his children.
The Times points out the numerous claims which
the Viceroy of Egypt has upon Englishmen, and expresses •
hope that the viceroy, during him stay among us, will meet
with all the courtesy doe to his high rank and his exemplary
conduct. "It must be contemned," says our contemporary,
"that our treatment of such illustrious visitors is rather
poor in comparison with the splendid hospitality of France.
While a palace is placed at the disposal of •
royal stranger in Paris, we leave him to take up
Ida quarters in some close and inconvenient hotel, where,
in return for an indifferent lodging and • commonplace
cuisine, a bill is presented which might make Crmsus stare.
Can we not do better this time, and treat our Eastern
visitor as a sovereign prince should be treated The
Queens in retirement, and cannot receive him, but • por-
tion of her palace in London might be placed at his service,
as the Tuileries were; and some of the great officers of the
court might be deputed to do the honours for her Majesty.
Nor would it be out of place that some of the noblemen who
have accepted the Pacha's courtesy in Egypt should remem-
ber it now that there is an opportunity of repayment. Let
us not, while immersed in our own pursuits, neglect one
who would have been the guest of the Sovereign had the
time of his visit been a happier one. The nation now has
it in its power to show that it appreciates his merits, and
does not forget his many marks of good will to English-
man."

THE periodical scoldings which the Colonies one
after another get from the press of the Mother
Country show bow much easier it is for the Crown
to grant self-government to its subjects than for
one commonwealth to respect the free and en-
lightened judgment of another. The other day
it was Australia which was going straight and fast
to ruin, because it had taken the popular elements
of the British constitution and left the feudalism.
Bat none of the mischiefs which we were then
told were imminent have happened, and the change
of ministry in Victoria, which had occasioned the
outcry, has proved • positive advantage. To-day
it is the turn of Canada to hear hard words and
bitter remarks, easily enough spoken but impos-
eibleto be recalled. The Canadian Parliament has
thrown out &particular bill on military defence, and
straightway is told that it is signally wanting in the
sentiment of liberty, and is spunging on Eng-
land. We object, in the name of sound policy
and also in that of the principle of responsible go-
vernment, to these frequent and gratuitous cen-
sures. They perpetuate in another and moat
offensive form that tutelage which we have had
the wisdom to renounce in actual government.
The inhabitants of Australia and Canada know
better than we do what is their intention in this and
that act, and in nine cases out of ten they are
better judges of the fitting course of conduct than
people at home can be. We may, and doubtless
do, blunder in the animadversions upon foreign
governments which have formed the staple of our
newspaper articles since the prevalent optimism
in home politics set in ; and we can do so with-
out working much harm. But experience proves
that invective and reproach, coming from a people
speaking the same language, and from whom
intelligence and consideration are expected, are
not received as patiently as they would be from
total strangers. These frequent censures never
do good, and only irritate some of our best friends.
The attack made on the Canadians yesterday
by a contemporary is not justified by any public
facts. It is taking • great liberty with a people
in the enjoyment of constitutional rights to affix
to their acts a meaning which they repudiate, one
that stand., moreover, in opposition to qualities for
which they have lately been highly praised by
their present detractors. The Canadian Par-
liament has rejected Mr. Cumuli's Militia
Bill ; but that it has declined the duty of under-
taking the public defenm4 of the country no one
has • right to say. If we look to the amendments
which the Opposition had placed on the books we
find that some of them are in favour of another
mode of providing for the security of the territory,
one more analogous to our own volunteer
organization, while others recommend the reference
of the whole subject to a select committee. If we
look to the language of the Opposition press, we
find it asserting as a notorious fact that the adver-
saries of Mr. CARTIER'S Ministry Were and are notions
anxious than its supporte-s can be for the institu-
tion of a Militia system suited to the necessities of
the colony. The Toronto Globe says :—" The
" gentlemen who have defeated the Government
" on the Militia Bill are avovedly as favourable to
" a proper reorganization of the Militia of the
" province as the present Ministry can be. They
" voted against the Bill because it was too cam-
" brans and costly, and because they could not
" entrust the carrying out of its provisions to the
" hands of the present men." Add to this that
Mr. bf'DoNsin, the new Premier, has stated that
one of the measures he will introduce into Par-
liament is a Militia Bill, and it will be seen that
the charge made against the Canadian Opposition
is ill-considered and premature.
We are not left in doubt as to the influences
which have led our contemporary to accuse of
selfishness • community which it was lately hold-
ing
.up as an example of patriotism and public
spirit. They appear plainly in the complaint that
the Canadians have not rushed to arms "on the

11R1D(73 nor Sir Coaraw.tu. Lawn can suppose
that this would be endured. The theory that these
royal warrants are only made to be applied to par-
ticular CUE% and that the COMMLNDEK-IN-CRIZIP
to make as many exceptions as he pleases, is too
startling to pour unchallenged. These warrants can-
not be allowed to evaporate into a mere set of
rules which are never to be followed. The excep-
tion must not be practically elevated into the rule.
The warrant notices the possibility of an occasional
exception ; but in that defining the cases in which
an officer is to be permitted to retire upon half-
pay no allusion is made to any such exception.

It is clear that the House of Commons was taken
by surprise by the defence met up by Sir Cowin-
WALL Loris, and Mr. CONINOHAK will do well
to bring on the subject again for discussion.

DEATH op MR. BUCKLE.

"least surmise of danger from foreign enemies."
It is inconceivable to our contemporary that the
Canadians should not apprehend danger of inva-
sion from the United States. It is long since the
Tick.. adopted the theory that the• American

nation is • disorganized masa, governed by no
settled principles, but hurried hither and thither
by fitful and inexplicable influences, amenable to
no authority, and carrying its leaders away with
its own gusty passion. And it maintains this
theory still, although Mr. Liscoxac has steadily
carried out the Chicago programme announced
while he was yet a private citizen, and
although recent English travellers express stir-
prise, as well they may, considering what pre-
judices they took out, at the habit of implicit
obedience to the Government which marks the
merican people. In these circumstances it is
natural that our contemporary should be asto-
nished that the Canadians are not exceedingly
apprehensive of an attack. As they are not, and
as they are in a very favourable position for
estimating the probabilities of aggression,
we venture to conclude that the danger
is not such as has been supposed.

We regret to hear of the death at Damascus on
the 31st alt. of Yr. Heavy Thomas Bookie, the well known
author of the "History M Olvilleatioe in Enilsod." The
deceased gentlemen wee here at Lee, Nov. 24, 1822. His
father was a wealthy merchant, and Mr. Buckle enjoyed the
advantages of an excellent education in Dr. JIM/ Thomas
Holloway's school at Gordon House, Modish Town, end
also of having at his command an excellent and extensive
librery in his father's house. After leaving Dr. Holloway's
school. be entered his father's counting-house; bet instead of
giving his attention to business, he devoted it to chew, and
exhibited so much aptitude for this game that he gained the
reputation of being one of the first players of England, if
not of the world. His father dying io 1840, leaving him as
ample fortune, he was enabled to indulge his taste tar
books, and devoted himself henceforward exclusively to
literary pursuits, for which he was by his secluded aid
studious habits better qualified than for more active can-
cations. The first part of a work which has pined for him
a considerable reputation appeared in 18157, entitled " Sir
tory of Civilisation in Wend.*

A provincial matriculation examination of the
University of London will be held at Queen's College,
Liverpool, in July next.
The following gentlemen have been elected Fel-
lows of the Royal Society :—llessra. G. Beatham, H. W.
Bristow, Captain A. R. Clarke, J. W. Dawson, F. J. 0.
Evans, J. B. Hicks, M.D., the Very Rev. W. Farquhar
Hoot, D.D., G. Renege'', it D., C. W. Siemens, M.
Simpson. B. Stewart, T. P. Tea* Bit J. E. Tennant, L
Todhuater, and C. G. Williams.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Highland
Society held ea Wednesday, 70 new members were elected.
The premeds of the Scottish division of the great show at
Batteries were declared-26 entries in the Polled Angus
hued, 21 Galloway", 24 Kyle's. 63 Ayrshire', among
cattle ; 27 horses ; 87 head of Blackhead and 44 head of
Cheviot sheep make up the northern complement of the ex-
hibition.

The council of the International Decimal Asso-
ciation and their friends propose to meet together at the
International Exhibition, on Wednesday, the 23th of Jan,
at 3 o'clock p.m., to inspect the current coins sod weights
and measures of all countries exhibited in Clue 13 (Philo-
sophical Instruments), and to dine together afterwards in
the French Refreshment Booms.
On Monday the All-England Eleven meet The
United at Lord's. The All-England Eleven, as at present
arranged, comprise Cower, Clarke, Daft, Hayward, Jackson,
Parr, Rowbothari, EL Stephensoe, Tarrant, Tinley, and
Witcher; and Atkinson. Caffyn, Grundy, Wiaden, Sewell,
Lockyer, Lillywhite, Grilllth, Matlock, Carpenter, Iddien,
and Bennett are the twelve from whieh the United will be
selected. On the same day the Gentlemen of the Surrey
Club v. Gentlemen of the Manchester Club will be played
at the Oval. On Monday the dNese are—Army x. Bar
Pontao SCHOOL'S Commission. The Public (with bands) at Ultra Nottingtamak6+ v. Surrey at tbe
Schools Commission's held a asening at their office is Oval. sad County of Eon v. OnsbMatioildr• at Madam
Victoria-street yesterday. The cornininionere present I The " coming events" in yachting and "rowing
were—The Earl of Clareadon, the Sad of Davos, Lord ars amerce and Campbell to rest es the Clyde foitmlat
Lyttedten. Sir Stafford IL Northam* Rut, ILL. Rev. a side es Toseday ; Royal Western Yacht Club of
Profaner W. IL Thompson, K Balked Vaughan, Jim., Regatta at Cork ea Thursday and the kin Maid Yacht
and the Secretary. Club sailing match on Saturday.

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
Canada, or the Canadian ocsination Englhad, to - •
the chances of war, is a delicate question, on which
the Canadians will form their own opinion, little
influenced by anything that can be urged from this
aide, and we see nothing to be gained by dis-
cussing it.
The defence of Canada, however, be the danger
of invasion greater or leas, is before all things a
Canadian question, and we are glad to see it so
represented. The best service we can render the
Canadians is to state frankly our position in the
matter, and tell them plainly how much and how
little we can do for them. We are very glad to
see the Times now doing this, and informing the
Canadians truly that "it is not in our power to
" send forth from this little island a military
" force sufficient to defend the frontier of Canada
" against the numerous armies which have learnt
" arms and discipline in the great school of the
" present civil war. Our resources are unequal
"to so large a concentration of force on a single
" point ; our empire is too vast, our popula-
" tion too small." Our military capabilities con-
stitute a topic on which the Canadians will read
our contemporary's columns with attention and
also with profit if it will only hold a consistent
language. But we cannot help remembering that
when an eminent writer had the courage to pub-
lish in this journal, last January, a truthful letter
on this subject, containing a statement of the limit
of our helpfulness more moderate than that wo have
just quoted, it was made the occasion not only for
an indecent personal attack, but of a general inti-
mation to the colonies that our national greatness
is inseparably bound up with " empire." If the
Canadians are really the close and selfish calculators
they were described yesterday, we should be justi-
fied in believing that such intimations, repeated both
loud and often, could not be wasted on them.

ROME.
The Opinion Nationale learns that the bishops in
Rome are making great efforts to induce the Pope
to pronounce the major excommunication against
Victor Emmanuel and his adherenta, and to relieve
his subjects from the oath of allegiance.
A communication from Rome of the Ist says :

The Pope, in the two semi-public consistories which have
been held, very soon forgot the Japanese martyrs, to
think only of hie present position, and to melt into tear
in relating his miafortuees. His Holiness went
so far as to speak of the possibility of his
death, and amidst the commiseration of those pre-
sent he pointed oat to the bishops the line of conduct
which they should follow in that event. The bishops them-
selves feel that they have been less called to decide on •
canonisation than to console and sustain the common father
of

believers. The thirty prelates who arrived et Rome
together on the 21st, at tho head of whom were the Arch-
bishops of Toulouse, Bens, and Avignon, and the Bishops
of Nimes and Montauban, thought they could not do
better than sign on board the steamer of the Mesemigeriee
Imperials' a collective address to the Pope, and they for-
warded it to Pius IX. even before setting foot in the Holy
City. The consistory which is to follow the canonisation
of the Bth June, and in which will be brought forward the
question of the temporal power of the Pope, is now no longer
• matte of doubt.