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LONDON, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21.

I.oan Denny's latest appointments are all bad—
is bad, indeed, as they well can be—and it is in the
personal policy of a government that its true in-
stincts are best to be seen. lie has just given the
Garter to Lord LONDONDERRY, and the Lord 'acute-
namey of II impshire to Lord WINCHESTER; he has
perpetuated one rinceure--the Rangership of Hyde-
park—in the person of the Duke of CAMBRIDOE ;
and, for the sake of conciliating the Peelites, he has
offered another sinecure-the Wardenship of the
Cinque Potts--to Lord Dittioeste, who already
was in possession of Deal Castle rent fete. Now to
all these appointments there are, we submit, very
serious public objections.
Let us take what is first in dignity—the Garter.
This is decimd the highest honour that the Crown
can bestow on a subject ; and the number of these
knights being limited, the Garter has always been a
distinction and • decoration highly prised by our
aristocracy. Since the elevation of 11 .%LeOLE to the
peerage, it has been confined (except when bestowed
on foreign Sovereigns' to the nobility—to what may
be termed the haute noblesse ; and when Sir ROBERT
Yeti. declined to accept the Garter on its being
otfcred to him by the tart of the feeling
which dictated the refusal no doubt was that the
distinction was wisely confined to such members of
the peerage as had great traditional renown to sup-
port, or had performed great national services in
their own persons. Lord LONDONDERRY, however,
has neither qualification ; and there arc some pecu-
liarities in his public career which ought to have
induced Lord DERBY to follow the example of all
other Tory -I'remiers of late years in not recom-
mending Lord LONDONDERRY for the Order of the
Garter.
All that can with truth be said favourably
of Lord LONDONDERRY as a pablic man is,
that during the late war lie was a very tole-
rable cavalry officer, fond and proud of the
service; and the same may be said of mime hun-
dreds who yet survive without having met with any
such rewards, substantial and honorary, as his lordship
has received. Already he has long had the Coloneley
of a Regiment of Horse Guards, with the Gold Stick
in Waiting, and the Lord Lieutenancy of Durham.
As a soldier, having a separate command, he is un-
known; and no one, wo may very safely presume,
would ever think of entrusting, either in peace or
war, an army to his care. Ile is not the representa-
tive of an ancient family. In the civil service of his
country he so notoriously failed that one Prime
Minister contemptuously rejected, in a phrase that
will descend to all posterity, his pretensions to a
pension ; and not many years ago, the House
of Commons took the unprecedented step of objecting
to his representing the British Crown and nation at the
Coutt of St. Petersburgh. Asa member of the House
Lords he was long foremost in insolent opposition to
every popular measure, and lost no possible opportu-
nity of factiously obstructing the government of the
country when in the hands of liberal advisers of the
Crown. Both in and out of l'arliamettt, too, ho has
made himself conspicuous by his bad taste, his in-
discreet conduct, and his ungracious manners. Fiery,
impetuous, wrong-headed, and uncivil, he has been
anything bat such a model of dignity and of self and
public respect as only ought to be permitted to wear
ea renowned an order as the Garter.

But, great as even these objections are to so
adorning Lord LONDONDERRY—they are not the
most serious or the most recent. Though a peer
of the realm,—and u such forbidden both by the
spirit and the letter of the constitution to interfere
with or meddle in the representation of the people,—
a correspondence was published by his own nephew
in the course of last summer,
from which it
appeared that for years beforehe bed ac-
tually placed the member for a great county
much in the position of one of his own lacqueys—
compelled hint to vote as he pleased in the House of
Commons, and bound him to resign his seat when-
ever he, his patron, should requtre it. Further, it
appeared that Lord LONDONDERRY deemed it an oh.
ligation of justice and of morality to his family to
preserve and perpetuate the representation of the
county in this degraded state, because of the " im-
mense treasure " which they bad spent in
reducing it to such a plight. And on a
former occasion, when the late Mr. Prams
contested in the Conservative interest the city of 1
Durham, it appeared that there also Lord LONDON-
DERRY claimed the right to nominate one member
on similar grounds and terms.
Such a confirmed trafficker and interferer in the
representation of the Commons in pirliament is not,
we submit to the good sense of the country, a noble-
man on whom the Sovereign ought to ham
been advised to bestow an honour which,
—above all other honours the Ckewn has to
gum its subjects with--is amoslated with pails
honour and private mirky. And it is met *sight ea
an unmeaning thing in en age of improved=
feeling on such matters, that Lord DEIST
have procured the Garter, under such sinamstalities,
for Lord LONDONDERRY. It exhibit' a large die-
regard and a contempt for pebble opinion i as well
as a determination to preserve himself in power
by acts and perdue. which it was to be hope(' had
disappeared feat the SWMBIIIIIIOIt of England.
The appointment ef Iced Wittrucsrert to the
Lord Lieuteneney et is also bad ; but in
716
another and • musk
eisha:s Personally Lord
WINCHESTER is a MM. But at a time
when Lord DWT bas ansassed parliament
together for the avowed purpose of settling
a confirmed Free Trade policy, it was
not decant or proper foe him to onahr,
an important public position on a
of whom all that the public know is that he ra
decided opponent of that polleT, and resigned in
1546 a put at court to enable hint to oppose it in
parliament. Lord WiNemitsrez Lune such territo-
rial claims to the Lord Lieutenancy of Hampshire
as can account on other grounds for the appointment ;
and it is to be taken as another example of what
Lord Defter would do with the people's food if he
dared. It is simply a piece of political in-
solence and spite. In either Lord A311111:11.TON or
Lord PALIIRILITON a such more appropriate Lord
Lieutenant might have been found for a county ho-
noured by the marine residence of royalty. Nor
would the public have objected if the rule not to
make two in succession of the same family Lords
Lientecant of the setae county had bum disregarded
in the ease of the present Duke of WELLINGTON.
The perpetuation of the Rangership.of Hyde Park
is nothing but the prolongation of a lob. Substan-
tially the parks are now under the care of the Board
of Works, and in that Board their ill
ment ought also to be vested. Mindy, , milir;tise.
present Duke of CAMBRIDGE has been liberally dealt
with by parliament; he has a largt allowance, one
of the beet and most profitable regiments in the ser-
vice, and a separate command, at an unurtally early
period of life. It was, therefore, gratuitous and
obsequious jobbing in Lord DERBY to give his Royal
Highness this sinecure.
It is full time, also, that the wardenship of the
Cinque Ports should be abolished, and the duties,
such as they are, be otherwise and better provided for.
But, no: Lord DE1113718 fishing for the support of
the Peelites; and therefore he proffers this desirable
and sgretable vacant poet *to Lord /im.nouont ; in
the hope, doubtless, that he will influence his friends
to join, and improve, if they can, a bad admi-
nistration. _

In none of thaws appointments can the limit public
principle, fitness, or utility be traced. In Lord
LON DO% DERRY'S there i., we mutest, a disregard of
all propriety; in Lord Werenrirmes there is ap-
proval Oren to a policy which Lord DERRY has de-
sided in his measures; in the Duke of CAMBRIDGE.'
there is euteerviesey to cant influence ; and in Lord
DALHOUSIE'S there is an endeavour to pander for
political support.
And then, too, there is the app,intment of Sir
JAMES Emaasort TERNANY to bo Secretary of the
Board of Trade; and of Dr. buttata to the ties of

Meath. Thus bad begins, but worse remains behind.
" Ah! " said a friend to DaTDEN, returning from the
playhouse, "I did not think Drantr could bare
written so ill a comedy." " Tut !" replied the great
poet, " You don't know yet what Tuft can do in that
way." And so it is with Lord DEItIfY ; bad as these
appointments aro, tolerate him longer in power, and
we shall hare much worse.

TIIE Duke of Newt-serve on Tuesday last ad-
dressed the annual meeting of the council, members,
and friends of the Sheffield School of lksign. The
speech nal manly, instructive, and practical. His
Grace gave his lwarera to understand that he did not
come there merely to lend them the eclat of his name,
or to flutter their prejudices by a clap-trap address.
lk applied thoroughly to the matter in
band, and enunciated a few truths which it is of the
highest importance thut the inhabitants of a town
like Sheffield should lay to heart and reflect upon.
About the Duke's political leaning we have just
now nothing to say. We are chiefly concerned at
resent with the value of the corroboration which
his testimony affords to the opinion which we have
always expressed u to the state of the Schools of
Design. Agreeing fully in the principle that good
Schools of Design were most valuable institutions, we
have nevertheless always maintained that the exist-
ing schools have been decided failures. We affirmed
this long before the appearsuce of that report of the
Commissioners appointed to examine the subject,
which confirmed all our assertions. It was shown
in that document that the present management of
the schools was marked by incompetency, that they
were conducted under no definite plan, that extra-
ordinary differences in the sums expended in conduct-
ing various establishments rendered it almost im-
possible to come to any accurate decision as to what
ought to be the necessary working expenses. A case,
in fact was made oat for the utter abolition of the
schools, unless some fundamental alterations could be
introduced into the system.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE pays a visit to one of the
best of these schools. Ho his the natural desire of
all public men to say as little displeasiug to the feel-
ings and prejudices of his audience u possible. There
is no doubt that he would have wished to leave agree-
able impressions behind him. Ho finds thia,-
ever, impossible. Ile fairly tells his hearers that
their school is in anything but a proper condition. It
is not worthy of Sheffield. The rooms are bad. The
geometrical room is ill calculated for the education
of future Sheffield NEWTONS. In the figure 1
room the light is admitted in the very worst
possible manner. The speaker's judgment as to the
cause of this deficiency is instructive. He finds it
in the fact, that while the government contributes
(100!. per annum, the town of Sheffield only contri-
butes 200!. Now, the old fable of Huout.se and
the carter is as applicable here as in any other case
where people look above for help, and sit down
quietly while expecting it. Heaven only helps these
who help themselves. If the Sheffield manufactories
expect the government to feel more interest for
the progress of art in their town than themselves,
they will be made sensibly to feel the consequences
of their mistake in the failure of the
school. The function of government, in cases
like the establishment of art schools, should

be more suggestive than active. Each town knows
its own wants best. Government may be required
in the first instance to initiate operations by laying
a necessary foundation and establishing a few general
principles of action, but to the local authorities them-
selves should be committed the task of development.
The Duke reminded his hearers that if the forty or
fifty great firms in the town would subscribe each
100!, the objects of the school might be carried on in
a manner creditable to them all. There is no doubt
that when once such a due perception of the value of
a good art school exists in the minds of the manufac-
turers of Sheffield as to lead them to make such a
sacrifice, -the great end will be obtained, and
the foundation of a school may be raised which shall
soon equal or surpass those on the Continent. For
we do not believe with the Duke of NeWCASTLE that
it
.requires a long course of years to mature and
bring into operation a system of Art Education. On
the contrary, looking at the undeniable ability of
numbers of our artists, and the great practical skill
of our manufacturers—superior to that of sny other
in the world—we see no reason why, by good ma-
nagement and zealous endeavour, a very few years
should not suffice to give us Schools of llesign supe-
rior to any on the Continent. It is a fallacy, on the
IDularis part to suppose that because the schools of
Lyuna,Cambrai, and IQ vres,are 100yeare old, teliereferrc
they have been 100 years in arriving at their present
state of These schools have been equally
du at dined every point in their career,
and dainties is owing to the perhalien which
they mannered so early, and which terniehed the
most conelmivo pie& tor their continuum The bet
is that the grist anomie to the improvement et the
English lassie eerie in the Irani at a tens tuts
tor art boa aminet minntsenseirs and praisers,
and on this point the observations el the spas, at
Sheffield im sera sod sensible

I believe Mr Pudenda mei lad ell of es on
this platform, nod in the body tithe I believe all
equally fad Ihe want at alasslisk
_met dealing with ,
this sub=evald aallanseit+ Mieidehl sadhans, Ido not '
wish to le my lora parenelitcy, bat treat it
es a main Wawa ny thet is MN et is all mitten
osamobi wilt leek. Iho Wm of singly and Mural
eluelly apply) Gni d yea lave Ina antioi the
yes hen ast Wm tgaltab4 the Enna% lioneeeklir
an, by eissedia, ellsoldi a Web kr mad 41
high an, lad brie an thstefere mak- 1
mega. I wQNArrasailea7that bee bow a de-
b* la the oiainits althea theme whom the.
of Ohre weighs t lad NIS Miry et then is Ck::
ranks of life want Mot ankaantaf education in art to enable
them to woolen end_ pentnee that which is Rood and
tastafal and boanalkl. Mod of that which is vicious sad
1111,7.

Hen is the true mei of the evil. It is precisely
became we want elnentim in art that we have
al ot advocated good wimple of design, and ex-
pa the shortesminp of them which we at pre.
seat perms. The Greet Exhibition proved in the
mot =to amass that we were Tailing behind
ether s in ear capabilities of connecting &Meth
beauty with mookaisel skill. If the Exhibition
bed taught us nothing mere than this it would ham
been of the most lesetimshis value to us. As bog,
hetrover, as the Innimeerie content with ink=
productioas, the 'Wiese will net trouble
to attain to say high degree of exesihess. In
this, ss in othee Wage whisk some mar the opera-
tions of oriemsme,—the thassi einem sip*.
We hive so often in the Arras mina of the
immense imporMnee of seitivetieg s high steadied
of taste amongst oar skilled workmen, as !surely com-
mercial as well as other esesidoredsne, that we need
not make any direst Windom to the Duke of New-
CASTLE'S 'emeriti upon the stalest. The soislosion,
however, of his week ea the moral sepses of the
question are worth quoting:
do not wish," said then speaker, "b piss this
branch or SAIMIStiell higher than it deems ;
Cirie
ttltr ay that It occupies a gains. of no salary
importance, quite span lift the leessisi stresidere-
limas which I ham beam sedemenfig to learees apse
pee • but I dwell uses this mess imprint 'ablest.
I Mainly believe that II yes amiss into this salgoct (I
speak of the gamed role led not of the creepiest) you
will And that these, la whammy was of life, whe have de-
voted thesseelme to the shaking Wiesen et the study of
the See mss web. imeget ins wimp ere ass eel, the best
norksase„ bedtime beet mikses—wet egg*, best fathom tie
bit brothers, md the best saw the sesaamity, but else,
he sea word, the lest id whim warabers of the gnat
family of man."

We trust that these words will penetrate deeply
into the minds of all manufacturers, and that the
sentiment they express will have its influence in
fostering a taste for art, which will not only enable
us to maintain our manufacturing supremacy, but
also to advance the civilisation and the rational en-
joyments of the great body of the community.

THE recent letter of M. MONTALEMBERT on the
affairs of Switzerland may serve to recall some de-
gree of attention to a subject which has of late been
well nigh forgotten in the rapid succession of graver
European events. In the true spirit of a sectarian
!politician, M. MONTALENSERT sees only one aspect
of national concerns, and thinks only of their sober-
' dination to tho interests of his church. In his
'devoted eyes the independence and honour of the
Helvetic Republic is as nothing compared with the
attainment of ecclesiastical objects by a minority of
its subjects; nay, the very integrity of that moun-
tain-guarded soil which for centuries has defied the
sinister cupidity of adjacent empires, is itself undis-
guisedly indicated by the fanatical Count as fair game
Tor the anointed huntsmen of Parts and Vienna.
Into the merits el the old divide which led, in

11847, to the formation of the Sunderband, and the
disastrous straggle which that Muse association
provoked, it were superfluous to re-cater here. So
long as the discontented cantons observed the limits
of loyalty and law, they were free to seek the.
sympathy and to receive the aid of ultra-mintane
friends in other countries; and they did, in point of
fact, derive no inconsiderable amount of both for
some time. Other counsel and succour also
were not wanting. Prince Mierrzaeicit and M.
GUIZOT, inspired by very different sentiments,
evinced a lively solicitude on behalf of what
was popularly called " the Jesuit patty;" and the
subtife mechanism of that diplomacy which they
imagined had been brought to irresistible perfec-
tion in their hands, was for many months kept
actively at work for the purpose of securing by
peaceful interposition the settlement of the points
in dispute, between the federal and local authorities
of Switzerland. But from the day when the igno-
rant and undisciplined peasantry of Argau and
Lucerne were (eluded into rashly end unwar-
rantably taking up arms, the cause of quarrel
ceased to he ono regarding collegiate discipline
or the laws of mortmain and became directly
and obviously that of the national existence of
the Swiss as a European community. If at the
bidding of any order of men, whether ptit sits or lay-
men, certain cantons that for ages had formed con-
stituent pegyinces of the state, might with impunity
renounce tHeir allegiance, end effect a separate and
distinct integrity,every principle which blade societies
together would be annihilated—the power of a mi-
nority to control, nay, utterly to overrule and over-
throw, the majority would be made good in the face
of the world—all that the forefathers of the com-
bined Switzer. had dime and suffered fox the sake of
a common independence and liberty would be fruit-
less heroism and fruitless courage—and the fields of
Moral and Morgarten had been fought and won in
vain. Civil war is suicide, and every geed and wise
man will resort to any means within Lis reach to
avert its eventual consequences.
So thought not only the persons invested in 1847
with the office of the Central Executive Government,
but the overwhelming preponderance of the entire
nation. Numbers of moderate and enlightened
Catholics testified their condemnation of the mad
and mischievous cry for a severance of the Union, by
openly tendering their services to the Government
at this critical juncture ; and the miserable want of
either intellectual capacity or physical firmness be-
trayed almost in the first encounter by the insur-
gents, enabled the authorities to put a
prompt and mercifu: termination to the
apparently formidable movement. Since then,
the country has enjoyed an uninterrupted
tranquillity. Throughout the entire period of conti-
nental convulsion which followed, Switzerland, like
its contemporaries in political freedom—England
and liolland—remained peaceful and unmoved. The
evil spirit of disunion seemed to have been cast
out, and the Catholic cantons appear to have re-
mained from that hour quiet,--clothed like their
brethren with all the privileges of a free people and
restored to their right mild.
But M. MONTALEMBEBT mourns over their con-
tentment, and is eager to re-light the torch of
religious war. How to lo it is his present diffi-
culty. Ho finds • worthy who from the lauda-
tion of his character we may take to be as
unscrupulous a fanatic as M. NIONTALEMBERT him-
self, and ho publicly adjures this personage to pub-
lish a series of seditious epistles about Switzerland,
by the help of which 14 hopes some signs of mischief
may. he re-kindled in the peaceful cantons. But not
relying much apparently on this box of literary luci-
fere, he solemnly invoice the aid of imperial com-
bustibles from all aides. lied Franco and Austria
interfered when ho admonished them to do so in the
autumn of 1847, things would be very different now
in Helvetia. " The noxious and dangerous power of
democracy," as Lord lieene would call it, would
have been overthrown, and either a repeal of the
, Helvetic Union would have established two feeble and
conflicting States where for ages there has been but
one, honoured, free, and sufficiently strong for self-
protection and defence—or else another infamous
partition of an ancient and liberty-loving common-
wealth would have been practically agreed upon by
the greedy and powerful despotisms to whom its
existence is a standing cause of uneasiness and vexa-
tion. And to their rapacity and jealousy, M. MON-
TALEMBERT now openly beckons, as though the
French and Austrian eagles had overlooked their
appointed prey. With pious reproaches he reminds
them of a florid passage in one of his own
harangues in the Chamber of Paris, in which
the gift of prophecy having been vouchsafed to
him, he actually foretold the downfall of the poten-
tates that forbore to invade, crush, and subjugate
Switzerland in conformity with his directions; and
with ineffable humility he hints that Providence
literally kept all his (M. MONTALEMBERT words.
He omits, however, to explain how it happens that
the unfaithful METTERNICU has been restored to all
the splendours of his former position, if not to the
nominal post of ministerial power, while poor M.
Outzor, who, as is well known, though himself a
protestant, leaned far more energetically to tho
side of the Sunderbund, is still doomed to the
obscurity of literature in Normandy. In
We next a nide epistle it is to be hoped that the
Meat us a little on these mysterious
Glycoside:tem
In all eseleassees, we cannot refrain from deplor-
ing the tome of hostility to all that is liberal in
=liand free in national institutions which a
section of the Catholic party abroad ostenta-
tiously assume. As sincere friends of religious tole-
ration and religious peace, we tremble for the results
that must inevitably follow from the preaching of
such a crusade as that of which M. DE IktoNTALEK.
BERT aspires to bo the apostle.

TRH RIOTS AT STOCHHOIX.--11 will be remem-
bered (says UoMptass) that ammo Whir eldest distur-
, beam sesurred ~Ply is thoshbelia, la of
a Jewish tredgemea. named 4...b.zitint,egi
Rom:
N. &nem. enter el a
(the Velem el the Pespleartmtvieg published aa article
=I hod bin peamially, sad ad manses of the
; BWeem lisekm bad the art be melte the
1710.bp rweemliethitimeif as • lietial of the amity
008 W Ih• Cb 11, Aden. eesemmeed a
peguesugme aphid Sheen he the ilhel. led the Oriel of
' themes Mob plass Mei &Imago, before the loyal Court of
ilemithelm. As the Ihrodisti taw ekes the jury, which
esmide sI Mae te be eiswa three by the
semi. hem by ms eat three by the dohs-
dash sad as it gives its all he poster of obieethig
Set
imuladay to my of thejarymm @ahead, it took a
Imams to lima *jury. TIIS *Wet eempleimed of was
h wee All of Walt, ea lambuses uses; surged him,
emeagst ghee thiage, with siding, ia hie weds of perfumer,
whim deagseem te the piths buddy mg Mid ha up to
awaleami ea emseat of his tellgles. The jury at once
Mee& ha • media if sad he mart condemned
Sham le the hes atheism, to maim pubWh so sews*
haaaaaMa te Y. halessoo, to be i.pigsel 80 days on
breallemi Barr gad to pay 6,000 da-delbire (12,6110 e) ea
deamps. It ghee mimed N. to pay he emits. The
Pdhillwhis ibwieb 88wilslidari• vat le hia reality ;
es Webs Seidl& huh eterpliday the seemed will be
=ilie have he eiwy mime allowasee of food,
of steed and wahr, mei seilay widest be counted
ai =he mmiameat.
CHOLT C& OF DROWNIMO....4keIy On
Sabah mesh( the easier stationed at Bpriaghld guar
Mead a pimpawl amy pmeseelag from the mirth iIA•
oft aAsst. He istarybattay presered the hery-beat,
mid west le the spot, whoa, shag with two ether shows,
he semesded is tables die body of a woman oat of the
them Iftle goats miket. Diseased wee sees stalking
=athse. gam la the meapay at au*. hardy before the
FMK mashiesliar, sad amain papers found
iarashee. she he ideatilled as the wife of • re-
se MM. hem whim, however. she has been spa-
rred se asesuat of bee ewe irregular seaduct.—About 4
Admit the we 111,211.1 Wide Odin. deenesse, etyma
ea beard the brig Omsk of M. Jells% was m.o.:aging
dreg the quay. he Sire mews ef rag is board his vow
set, when, nearly impede Cligemtnet ferry, he fell into the
river. Before meisteme meld be tendered the poor fellow
had sunk. After a sheet time, however, the body was found
and taken to the Clyde pilisemase, where Dr. Robertson
was In &madame. The usual mass were used to restore
animation, bat without effect. Deemed had been drinking
rather freely during the day. Hsi, lest 80 years of age,
and a native of Halifax.—North British Daily /Mil.
GAME Olt THE SUTHERLAND FJITATEL—The Duke
of Sutherland hie, we understand, made a judicious and
benevolent arrangement regarding the game on his estates
in the north. Some years since, a person was employed to
kill the rabbits irLiett overran the arable faros. They
were then nearly destroyed; but reoently, though the same
person Is still employed, from the great extent of young
plantations, the rabbits began again to inertias. This
being represented to the duke, he directed that the " let-
ters," or small tenants, should be authorised to kill and
keep possession of the rabbits on their holdings, and his
grace also stated that Im intended to take measures with
respect to his bares, his object end his deli a being," to
use the duke's own words, " the protection of the smell
tenants or lottery, on every rood of whose encboures the
crops are to them of the greatest consegueuee."—birerness
Cpwsq'.