The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13.

we cannot say it is enlivened, by sketches of some
of the leading politicians in the Houie of Com-
mon'. We are afraid that Mr. R. H. Burrow's
" Studies in Parliament" are responsible for Mr.
GRANT DUFF'S efforts at political portraiture ; but
the rare gifts of observation and insight, and the
instinctive delicacy of feeling which have carried
his accomplished prototype successfully through a
delicate task, are not traceable in Mr. GRANT
DUFF'S delineations. Performances of this sort
place their author in a somewhat false relation
towards the objects of his study. The altitude
of the loftiest mountain or tower may be taken,
and its magnitude in every direction computed by
a creature physically insignificant at its base. But
moral and intellectual altitudes cannot be calcu-
lated, nor mental capacity gauged, by an observer
altogether out of proportion with the objects of his
study. When Mr. GRA= Durr talks of getting
"an amusing glimpse " into the state of Mr.
GLADSTONE'S mind, the amusement which his
hearers or readers share with him is not likely to
be at Mr. GLarerortes expense. Mr. Gwatia
DUFF'S merriment is raised by his discovery in Mr.
GLADSTONE of a " concentrated malignity of
" hatred" against those Liberal principles, of
which he is the unwilling captive, and which he
obscurely sees are destined to gain further con-
quests over him. A petty rancour at the fact
that time is on the aide of the doctrines for which
Mr. GLADSTONE has deserted Toryism, and of the
politicians who are now his colleagues, is attributed
to the late Chancellor of the Exchequer.
If Mr. Gas= Dore does not see that,
in imputing these motives to Mr. GLAD-
now; he is talking downright nonsense as
well as gratuitously thinking evil, no one
can enlighten him. It is quite true that Mr.
GLADSTONE is on a few questions imperfectly
liberal. In matters of academic and of eccle-
siastic politics he has not yet come up to the
position of his party. The cause is creditable,
though the consequence is to be deplored. Mr.
GLADSTONE'S convictions on all subjects are some-
thing more than intellectual conclusions. They
take deep hold of his moral nature. They are
not, therefore, cagily abandoned. On topics con-
nected with religion, in respect to which early
associations are naturally strongest, conversion is
naturally slowest. The obvious pain and reluc-
tance with which, in homage to truth, Mr. GLAD-
STONE has disengaged himself one by one from the
articles of his Tory creed, are grounds for sympathy
and respect. Mr. GRANT DUFF'S imputations on
the Liberal leader cease to be unintelligible,
though they do not cease to be unbecoming, when
we become aware of his extraordinary admiration
for Mr. LOWE. No two men could be more
unlike. Mr. Lowe's incessant and rapid changes
of opinion, and the mastery of logical fence with
which he maintains the position of tho moment,
belong to a temperament on which association and
feeling have apparently little or no hold. The
moral nature opposes no resistance to the versa-
tility of caprice. Of Mr. MILL, Mr. GRANT
DUFF speaks in a tone half gratified, half disap-
pointed, wholly patronising. He wishes that the
member for Westminster would reserve himself
in the House of Commons for the composition and
delivery of philosophical essays, instead of joining
in the skirmish of general debate. He refers with
disapprobation to his impulsive utterances on the
Bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in
Ireland, and on the Hyde-park Riots. No doubt
many of Mr. 3IILL's really well-meaning

Me. GRANT DUFF is what our ancestors would
have called a " painful" politician. He spares
himself no trouble in his efforts to apprehend and
bottom the great problems of statesmanship, and
he has enabled the public to profit by his con-
scientious studies of the condition of some of the
nations of Europe with which our connexion is
very close, and of which our knowledge is very
loose and slight. He is assiduous in his collection of
materials, and if sometimes overpowered by them,
he often succeeds in grouping and penetrating
them by a genuinely interpretative idea. In home
questions he is honourably associated with the
movement which has partially opened the great
English Universities to the nation ; and though
last session he gracefully yielded the post of ho-
nour to a moro dexterous parliamentary advocate,
still no secondary place in the conflict belongs to
him. Mr. GRANT DUFF is a good typo of the
really " thoughtful Liberal." As with some
chemical combinations, the political compound so
designated ordinarily retains no trace of either
of the ingredients which, we aro assured, enter
into it. Water, as analysis discovers, is rondo
up of oxygen and hydrogen ; but the result is
a third substance, which has the properties of
neither of its elements. In like rammer, in
many " thoughtful Liberals " both the thought
and the liberality have been merged in some-
thing as different from either as the spirit of
Toryism itself. Mr. GRANT DUFF, as his speech
to sus constituents of the Elgln Boroughs shows, Is
unequivocally Liberal on most of tho great ques-
tions of the age ; and he is Liberal nut by instinct
but by reflection, and by a deliberate recognition
of the tendencies of modern society. tin the
question of Reform, while criticising the procedure
of the Government, he frankly admits the neces-
sity of making a real, though moderate, concession
to the democratic principle. He puts his linger
upon one of the most corrupting elements of poli-
tical life when he attributes the larger part of the
resi-Liberal opposition which defeated the mea-
sure of the Government not to conviction, but
to fashion. " The social influences were not pro-
" pitious." Mr. GRANT DUFF, while supporting an
enlargement of the franchise, in our view, under-
rates the beneficial social changes which may be
expected from representative reform now as com-
pared with those which followed on the measure
of 1832. if it leads to the adoption of a com-
prehensive scheme of popular education—and this
is one of its most probable consequences—it will
do a service to England not inferior to any of which
the Reform Act was the instrument. Mr. GRANT
DUFF, who has realised as thoroughly as most men,
all that is implied in the words " an educated
" people," and who perceives the widely radiating
social and political effects of popular ignorance,
is inconsistent with himself in maintaining that
Reform is less necessary now as a means to great
social ends than it was in 1832. We do

friends desire to see him economising his re-

putation, and courting those " social influences "
which Mr. GRANT DUFF himself declares to be per.

viciously potent in Parliament. But Mr. MILL
would not be Mr. MILL if he did so. The
chivalry which leads him to espouse an unpopular
side—unpopular, that is, with the public which
he addresses—is as apparent in his writings as it
has been in his Parliamentary conduct. A
man who thought about economising his
reputation would not have been the
defender, when English calunmy was most
wanton, of the French Revolutionists of 1848,
nor the advocate, amid an unbelieving generation,
of the political claims of women. In his
Lilliputian criticisms on Parliamentary Brubden-
gagians, Mr. GRANT DUFF does not, perhaps, go
beyond the usual limits of public comment. But
when he allows himself to speak in re-
ference to a common charge against the late
Cn N ettoß of the EXCHEQUER, of "the
" well-known peculiarities of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
" disposition," he is guilty of what must be
called personal rudeness. On a former occasion
Mr. GRANT DUFF dilated in the presence
of Lord HALIFAX (then Sir CHARLES Wu9D) on
the physical defects which impeded that Minister's
utterance. If this sort of thing is pushed much
further, we may have again in Parliament allusions
like that of CANNINI: to the " revered and rup-
" turgid OGPEN," and of GuarrA.N to the imputed
infirmities of Lord CANTLEREAGH. 1311 t CANNING
and GRATTAN had excuses in the wider license of
their times, and in the vivacious temperament of
genius, which cannot be urged in palliation of
Mr. Gassr DCFF'S indiscretions.

not understand his tactics. To disparage the
worth of the prize is ill-calculated to animate
the combatants to the conflict. On other questions
of the time—on the essential elements of a sound
and healing policy in Ireland, on the defects
of political training and of administration which
ace enpany, but are not, perhaps, necessarily
inherent in our system of government by party,
and on the lamentable inadequacy of the higher
education, as it is pursued in England, to form
statesmen, Mr. 0 saxr DUFT speaks with dis-
crimination and force. On his own favourite
theme of foreign politics, there is much to ap-
prove, if there are also some things to dissent from,
in his criticisms. Mr. GRANT DUFF has the credit of
having foreseen and foretold the victory of Prussia
when more conspicuous politicians pronounced
that she was rushing on her ruin. But his sym-
pathies with Berlin, as the headquarters of Geist,
the capital of tho Intelliyenz Stoat, make him bear
too hardly upon Florence. Is it just, or generous,
or politic, to describe the Italians as having
gained Venetia simply by crying for it ? Had the
struggles and the final defeat of 1848 and 1849
nothing to do with the success of 1866 ? To
narrow the question still further, was the diver-
sion in Venetia unconnected with the victories in
Bohemia ? If there had been no Cuatozza there
would have been no Sadowa.

varied,

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Regarding the long struggle between the Presi-
dent and the republican party in the United States as
constitutionally terminated by the elections which have just
taken place, the TiMU thinks that Mr. Johnson will do
wisely to oppose no longer the demand of the republicans
that the Southern members shall be in proportion to
the voting population. The principle is in itself not
unjust, and it is plainly upheld by the majority of
the people. If the clause in the constitutional amend-
ment disqualifying for office all who have hal any share
in tho rebellion were expunged, the amendment might be
accepted by the South without much ado. The belief
which some people entertain that the President and the
Congress are about to come to open war, the Times dia.
misses as contrary to American ways. The politicians of
the United States are shrewd, and know how to bear a
defeat as well as to employ a victory.
The Jamaica Committee inviting the aid of the public
in the prosecution of Mr. Eyre, the Times submits some
considerations which it thinks should prevent assistance
from being given. It is disposed to accept as nakedly
true, since they are virtually confirmed by the report of
the royal commission, the allegations that the lives of
several British subjects were taken illegally by a military
tribunal which had no right to try them, upon evi-
dence which ought not to have been received
and did not establish their guilt, under colour
of a paramount necessity which did not exist ;
but were Mr. Eyre convicted, and dealt with according to
law, the capital sentence would certainly be commuted,
and probably annulled, by a pardon, with the hearty con-
currence of all reasonable men, who believe that Mr. Eyre
did what he conceived to be his duty with undue severity
and too little discrimination, bet without private malice-
The trial will probably fail upon a point of law in its
earliest stage ; it will certainly fail in its ulterior purpose
of enforcing a moral lesson by a terrible example.
The Dash, News is disposed to think that General
Cadmus, at Palermo is rash in his conclusion that because
monks and nuns were engaged in tho late insurrection they
acted under instigation from Rome. There is reason to
believe that large numbers of the Sicilian clergy are ready
to hail any power which will protect their endowments,
and are in a state of permanent disobedience to tho church•
The Italian government will be doing u much for mai'

THE it. EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1866.

ion s.-for economies progress and public prosperity. when
eseentes the reap* enacted..law and .disperses these
disorderly oommtnaides.
In justice to the Registrar-General, the Daffy News
thinks it should be known by those who have complained
of the discontinuance of the daily cholera returns, that the
staff of the General Register Office has had all the extra
labour involved in preparation and publication, without
a farthing of additional cost to the country; and
it is not unreasonable, it says, to suppose that
the suspension is due to the exigencies of the
department. On being made acquainted with the
importance of the matter, the Registrar-General at once
agreed to resume the publication ; but the government
should bear this in mind, and not fail to supply him with
any additional assistance that may he necessary to prevent
his department from being overtaxed by the present
pressure upon it.
The Daily News points out that reasons of state and
convictions of duty go together in the congressional policy
of reconstruction in the United States. The great masa of
the freeholders support the constitutional amendment be-
cause they have resolved that justice shall be done to the
liberated slaves ; and the politicians, who have never made
a conscience of protecting the negro, are interested in its
success by their concern for the balance of power, and the
predominance of the preponderating wealth and popula-
tion of the North and West. The South knows well
enough how easy tho conditions offered it really are ; and as
soon as it is convinced that it can never return without
conditions, it will accept them, and make the best use of
them.
Discussing the Church Congress, the Post says it will
be well for the ritualists if they can gather up some frag-
ments of wisdom from it and receive an impetus in the
direction of moderation from the good sense which per-
vades the majority, and if they will be induced to for-
bear pushing their practices to an extent which is pretty
certain to bring down such an interference of parliament
in the affairs of the church as would probably lay the
foundation of a very serious and most undesirable rupture
between the spiritual and the civil power.
To the Herald the remarkable feature of the London,
Chatham, and Dover meeting yesterday was the compara-
tive resignation with which the majority of those present
submitted to their fate, and accepted the situation with
all its desagremens. Our contemporary allows that Sir
Morton Peto's explanation disposes of some of the most
sweeping of the censures upon him, but cannot accept it as
an answer to the charges brought against him by the
debenture holders. They said, and their argument was
unanswered and unanswerable, that they bad advanced
their 4,000,0001., trusting in the obligation, legislatively
imposed upon the borrowers, that when lending that sum
they should have the security of 12,000,0001. of ordinary
i capital actually paid up, and it was no answer at all to tell
. them they were safe becau...e just half as much had been
really paid.

the faurt.
'BeImoRAL, OCT. 11.

The Queen went out in the morning, accom-
panied by Princely' Christian, and drove in the afternoon'
accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Louise.
Baron von ITechtritz has arrived on a minion from the
Duke of Saxe Meiningen, to announce the accession of
Duke George.
Major Elphinstone, C. 8., has arrived at the Castle.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert
Victor, and Prince George, and attended by the Hon. Mrs.
E. Coke, and General Knollys, arrived at Marlborough-
house yesterday morning from Scotland.

RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO WINDSOR. Her
Majesty and the royal family, attended by the suite, are
expected to leave Balmoral and return to Windsor Castle

about the 3rd of November.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to become
the patroness of the College for Educating the Daughters
of Ministers of the Church of Scotland, and of Professors

in the Scottish Universities.
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, and other gentlemen, honoared
the Strand Theatre with their presence last evening.
The Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole leaves
town to-day for Brighton.
The Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Hastings,

• Viscount Falkland, and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Wyndham
have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. •
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
have left town for Portman& Castle, county Galway.
The Earl of Dalhousie has arrived at Claridge's

Hotel, from Brechin Castk, N.B.
The Count and Countess de Flahault and Hon.

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Ephinstone dc Flahault arrived at Edinburgh yesterday,
from Tuliallan Castle, Perthshire, on their way to London.
The Bishop of Illinois and family have arrived

st 37, Queen's•gardens, W.
Tho Marquis of Lansdowne has resumed his

studies at Balliol College, Oxford.
Yesterday a deputation of the legal profession
waited upon the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, to urge upon
his lordship the desirability of having a special assize for
the county of Lancaster. Lord Derby promised to lay the

matter before the government.
The official list of the export of sherry wine from
Cadiz for the nine months ending the 30th of September
shows a total of 46,055 butts. The principal exporters
from Xeres were:—Gonzales and Byass, 3,613; Garvey,
2,579 ; Miss, 2,257; P. Domacq, 2,194 ; Mackenzie, 1,800 ;
Pemartin, 1,479; Wisdom and Warter, 1,124. From
Puerto—Duff Gordon, 2,373 ; Tosar, 1,506 ; Lasaaletta
and Co., 1,294 ; Mom, 1,121 ; Vergers, 1,106; Campbell,
1,104 ; Yaasi and Co. (Jerez, 840 ;Puerto, 241), 1,061 ; and
Cosens and Co. (Jerez, 1,701; Puerto, 1,342), 3,043.
TILE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.--GOL-
SPIE, THUR.SDAT.—The royal visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, which has extended over no less
than 16 days, was brought to a close this morning, when
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess, accom-
panied by the infant princes, and attended by General
Knollys and the Hon. Mrs. Coke, left the castle on their
way to Bonar-bridge, the northern terminus of the High-
land Railway, whence they were to proceed by special train
by way of Inverness to Perth. At -Perth they would over-
take the mail train for London, and after only an hour's
delay proceed direct to Marlborough House. Their noble
host and hostess accompanied their illustrious guests to
Bonar-bridge, and the Earl and Countess Spencer and Lord
Clans/Mien' took advantage of the royal train on their
journey southwards. At a later hour the Duchess of St.
Albans, Lady Diana Beauclerk, and Lord Henry Lennox
sailed in the Duke of Sutherland's yacht Undine for Inver-
nets. The royal party have been favoured almost through-
out their visit by magnificent weather and have been
enabled to explore the many beauties of the neighbourhood
and to appreciate the almost unexampled facilities the
Sutherland estate presents for every variety of sport. The
Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh have each
tilled several tine stags in the forest, and on one day no
less than 16 varieties of game, including red and roe deer,
salmon, turbot, sea trout, black game woodcocks, &c., were
killed. The Castle wall illuminated last night, and the band
of the Sutherland Volunteers, which had been in constant
attendance performed several national airs in the presence
of the royaiguests and a large concourse of spectators. At
the conclusion, " Auld Lang Syne " was sung, the guests
taking part in the chorus, and loud cheers were given for
the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh,
and the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The guard of
honour this morning was supplied by the Golspie company
of Volunteers. The Duke of Edinburgh still remains at
the castle.
DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM FISHER HORRS.—WC
regret to have to record the death of Mr. William Fisher
Hobbs, of Boated Lodge, in this county, which took place
yesterday (Thursday). Until within the last few years,
when declining health compelled him to relinquish an
active and often really laborious life, Mr. Hobbs was one
of the most prominent agriculturists in England, and in
many respects an admirable representative of his class.
He was a highly successful breeder of stock; farmed
largely and well ; and combined both scientific knowledge
and practical experience in that rare degree of balance,
that, while both were thoroughly studied, and as
thoroughly applied, neither was allowed to assert
any preponderance over the other. Mr. Fisher
Hobbs was, we believe, one of the founders of
the Royal Agricultural Society of England ; for very many
years be had been one of the society's council ; and there
were few of its more important committees which were not
indebted to his indefatigable labour and keen powers of
investigation. In the smaller sphere of his own county
Mr. Hobbs was equally active and useful. Every county
agricultural society formed during the last thirty years
was more or less indebted to his assistance in its formation
and management ; and of the less pretentious labourers'
friend societies lie was the founder of two at least (Coggea-
hall and Earl's Colne), and the promoter of several others.
The anti-malt-tax movement also loses one of its most
earnest and persevering advocates. Mr. Hobbs was never
married. He has dirt at the :,ge of 57. In early life be
enjoyed uninterrupted good health, and had apparently a
strong constitution ; but the rupture of a blood-vessel
brought on increasing debility of frame, upon which fol-
lowed partial debility of mind ; and his death, as already
stated, took pl tee yesterday after:ann.—Essex Standar/.
THE QuEEN'a UNIVERSITY.—The convocation of
the Queen's University met yesterday in St. Patrick's
Hall, Dublin Castle, the members of the convocation and
reporters being only admitted. After Mr. Ross had been
elected senator, in room of Lord Monteagle, Sir ltobt. Kane,
after a long speech, in which he stated his reasous for so
d.:ing. moved —" That in the opinion of convocation the
acceptance of the supplemental cheater of 1,66 is inex-
client.- Mr. Porter seconded the motion. Mr. 31`Cauley
proposed. and Dr. Davys seconded, the following amend-
ment, " That we approve of that portion of the charter
which recognises the affiliation of properly organised col-
leges, but object to tLe principle of admitting to degrees
persons not educated in some such institutions." Mr.
O'Donnell subsequently made use of some remarks for
which the chairman did not think it necessary to call him
to order, and as he would not retract, the mover and
seconder of the amendment, with a number of graduates,
left the halt The original resolution was unanimously
adopted, condemning the acceptance of the supplementary
charter.
Tug Kist; or BCRGI:NDIES.—Champagne can
be made of rhubarb, allies. turnips, and other trash ; port
can he made of logwood and brandy, and, as some chemists
tell us, of the refuse of gas-works. Fortunately, you can't
make burgundy of anything but of Burgundian grapes; and
not always of these, for the grape is coy and uncertain,
and the vintage of one proprietor may be good and super-
excellent, while that of his next-door neighbour, whose
gripes are of the came quality, whose vineyard may have
the ssme exposure. aml the soil of whose " terre " may to
all appearance be identical, may yield n very inferior tin.
Grapes are a mystery. No one knows their secret. We
know, however, that wine is good, in moderation, as
all heaven's choicest blessings are • and may be content
to remain in ignorance of all the little crotehetty idiosyn-
cracies of the grape which produces it. And if you want
any further praise of burgundy, find it in Erasmus, who says
it restored youth, and made him feel younger at forty
than he was at twenty. Napoleon I. always took a supply
of Chamberlin with him when he travelled, or entered upon
a campaign. Pope Gregory XVI., in the year 1371
—for Clos Vougeot was even then celebrated all
over Europe—made the abbot of the monas-
tery a cardinal to show how grateful he was
for a present of his best old wine, which the good abbot
bad sent him. It is declared in the neighbourhood that
Clos Vougeot has never been so good as it used to be when
the monks had the estate, and cultivated the grape de
near, for their own consumption. The worthy fellows
were dispossessed in 1794 by decree of the National Con-
vention, and the domain sold as national property for
1,140.000 francs, or 46,5007. The old and last superin-
tendent of the tau, the chief mock vintager, named Dom
Gobelet (a singularly appropriate one), carved off secretly,
by some mesas or other, a hundred dozen or more of his
very best and oldest wine, and took it with him to Dijon.
He lived for nineteen years afterwards, tea green andhearty
old age, nourishing his failing energies by the excellent old
Clog Vougeot, which he had helped to make, and of
which, better than any man living, he knew the virtues.
He was very poor, but he would never sell a bottle of his
" Clos." After the battle of Marengo, Napoleon, who had
heard of the worthy monk'streasure, sent to ask him for slew
bottles, in order that he might make a present to some
one whom he especially delighted to honour. No," said
, Dorn Gobelet ; I have Clos fit for the god', and forty
years old. If Napoleon en remit boire, qu'il tense. If he
wants to drink with me let him come and be welcome; but
out of my house my wine shall never go, either for love or
for money."—Rackwoocre Magazine for October.

LATET

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[GENCE.

(sEuvia's Tzurazate.)
AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Om. 13.
General Menabrea dined yesterday with the
Emperor. It is believed that he will be appointed
Italian ambassador at the Austrian court.
The patents convoking the provincial diets are
expected. to appear on the 24th inst. The Hun-
garian Diet will be opened on the 15th November.
The intelligence received from Miramar relative
to the health of the Empress Charlotte is not sale-
Ifactory.

,R1;8.

THE ENGLISH VOLUNTEERS AT
BRUNE&

(nom ♦ 00l

=VEVA oar. 11.
The preparations making in this city, both
for the celebration of the national fetes sad the teeep
Lion of the &Wish valuators, are upon an extemio
sole. Nor is it alone to English volunteers that honour
is to be accorded, for • telegram furnishes the wet.
oration that about 300 French riflemen are on thdy
way from Paris vid Valenciennes, to take peer hi
the Tir National, open to all comers, and the Ewei
Liengelle, Rue Royale, has been taken se their Ow.
quarters. The headquarters of the English volua.
leers and of the executive are at the Belle Vue Beal,
where Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd Lindsay, the ma.

ia
=indent of the force, Viscount Bony,
djateat
a
command, and his staff, have already arrived. These
*owlet of Lieutenant Purley, 29th Kent, •
Major; Colonel McGregor, Ist Midlothian Arany, *
C. P. Hunter, lit Berke Battalion. ideseirCaup....
Mr. K C. Simeon, Ist Surrey Rifles, Quartermaster, see
Captain and Adjutant Burge,ss
A notioe is posted at the entrance to the headq
that instead of the assembly for the torekdigee
procession being, as originally arranged, at the "Mee de,
Nations," near the "Station du Nord," it is to take plate
at 6 p.m. at the "Place du Masse." The Belgian colours,
intermixed with those of England and France, ate epee'
from all the public edifice' ; every train brings in hop
[numbers of people from the country, and the whole city
appears to be in a state of bustle. The English volunteers,
in every variety of uniform, are parading the thorovp.
fares in groups, and are not the least of the %Mae
tions. It is not in Brussels alone that the Eng%
volunteers are receiving a most cordial welcome by the
Belgian people. At Ostend and Antwerp, the pone el
debarkation, and at every town along the lines of rents
by railway, the stations are crowded, and shouts of se.
proval greet the volunteer trains as they arrive and depart,
The first contingent in anything like numbers made
their entry into Brussels last night. These emitted of
about 250 volunteers, who left London by the 6.30 down
train from Charing-arose for Dover in the snorting, see
were conveyed across from Dover to Ostend by the Beleian
government mall packet Rubies. The whole town $9.
peered to have poured out its inhabitants to give the
English volunteers ahearty welcome, with the Bargemarter
and municipality and military authorities at their head,
with other officers of high distinction ; and as the vend
[ drew alongside the quay, the band struck up " God save
the Queen," amidst the mingled and enthusiastic cheering
[of the thousands of Belgians who lined the shore, and
the English volunteers on board. The latter were
represented by Lieutenant-Colonel Mayne, formerly
adjutant of the Queen's Westminster, but now of
the third administrative battalion of Aberdesenahhe Bides
I by Captains Scrivener and Styan, of the Queen'. ; Cspteia
and Adjutant Burgess, of the 9th Lancashire; Lieutenant
Greene, of the North Middlesex ; and other office's. The
Burgomaster came on board, and having briefly expressed
his welcome, begged the acceptance of the invitation to
partake of the rim d'honneur from the municipality of
ostend. This cordial invitation was accepted by Coked
Blayne on the part of the English volunteers, who at cues
obeyed the order to fall in and form fours, in which fume
tion, headed by the band and guard of honcur of the Garde
Civique, the march took place through the densely.
crowded thoroughfares, to the Place des Arm., sad
Hotel de Ville, where the tin deurouteur was pre
I seated and accepted. The glasses being charged, the
Burgomaster addressed the English volunteers seen
I bled, and complimented them upon their arrival on the
shores of Belgium, as be looked upon it as being the mesas
of still further cementing the good feeling which niece
I between the two countries. He could not help remarking
on such an occasion as that on the origin of tie
present constitution of the Belgian kingdom, which bad
taken place in 1832, and which was based upon that
of England. They had watched the liberty which the
English nation enjoyed, and they had endeavoared to
emulate them in their freedom of the press and of
speech, and in carrying out a system of constitution
government. He was unable to express all he could wish
to say in English, but he would say on the part of the
people of Ostend, and, he believed he might add, on the
part of the whole Belgian people, they were most happy to
welcome them to their shores. He then proposed to
them " The Health of Queen Victoria rind the British
Volunteers." The toast was drank by the whole comply
amidst loud cheering. Colonel Mayne, on behalf of the Eng-
lish volunteers, reciprocated the KAUAI:We which had
been so ably expressed by the Burgomaster of Ostend, end
the gratification which every one must feel at the
cordiality of their reception. lie concluded by pro.
posing "The Health of the King of the Belgians,'
which was most enthusiastically responded to,
the three hearty rounds of Euglish harms being taken
up outside by the thousands assembled. The march ern
then resumed to the railway station, where the luggage
had already been conveyed, and at 6 p.m. the eerie started
for Brussels, where it arrived shortly before 10 o'clock. At
Bruges and Ghent many hundreds of persons were sr
sembled, and loudly cheered the visitors, and at the rail-
way station the large crowd in the Plece des Nations put
the volunteers a similar welcome.
As time wears on, the numbers of volunteers rs.
pidly increased. This afternoon those who started ref
Harwich and Antwerp were discharged from the swine(
the Che.nin de Fer du Nord, and they would have been
here ce: lier, but for the adverse winds and tide which
met tl.e vessels in coming across the German Ocean, end
up the Scheldt. A very large and um sleeted number
of both volunteers and visitors accepted the advents„-es
offered by this route of coming through places of deep hiss
torical interest to our countrymen. The Great Ere=
Railway Company had made ample provision for some
three or four hundred volunteers and visitors, and, as way
be imagined, no small difficulty was presented to then
when passengers to about double these numbers appeared
at the pigeon-holes at Bishopsgate a few minutes &fee
the time announced for the speciel train to start, sal
asked for " Return tickets for Antwerp," just as Noll
as if they were demanding tickets for Stratford. The re,
pany's difficulties were heightened by an unforeseen 0.11.
[ aster. The new and commodious 'steamer As don, width
they had announced should be fitted with 300 beds, wastes
into on Wednesday morning in making her return rural
' from the Scheldt, and was not inn fit state to carry so hop
a number. The company, however, was not wantine
if
promptitude, and there were two large and well fitted
boats ready for the traveller: ; but the cepaedy of the
vessels could not be stretched to give all beds, and,
might be imagined, there was at first some grulabliag
among those who had not taken their tickets early, as tine
might have done, and so have given the company time to
prepare for their reception. The train ran down Eros
Bishopsgato in less than two and a half hours, and as the
volunteers entered the station the Harwich volunteers
had turned out to welcome them with voice and band:
The travellers quickly embarked on board the vein Ls, the
Zealous and the Pacific, and while the latter was 101
comfortably filled, the other was crowded to excess. 110
[ morning's light found the sea voyage over, fuel the vse
sews passing up the Scheldt, and midday fouultlng
[ landing at the picturesque city of Antwerp. On WlO4
to take tickets for Brussels they were told that no tickets
would be issued, for they would be carried free ;
and d
turned out to be the case, for a train, composed only
[ first class carriages, carried on the volunteers to Brune!,
and no one in uniform was asked for a ticket. At ell!!
stations the train passed the travellers were received ffiti
every manifestation of welcome and respect.
The reception appointed to take place this evening ni lII_
[ certainly a very grand affair, but a detailed amount "
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must be deferred for another letter. It may, however,
stated that there was a very full muster of the volunteeee
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cheered our volunteers. The men fell in at 6 o'clocor
the evening, and Lad to stand for three hours before
thing whatever was done. This partly arose frooLP
anxiety of the officers in charge to ho early, and so caw,
late, the Ostend boat having been delayed at sea be _
a too early muster, and partly from the volunteers
.beisgfol.
But when they did come, and the long line of voluntesmies
four deep, marched down the broad street/Orb hce,,
lighted by hundreds of flaring torches borne by fie_
escorted by the Civic Guards and the troops. Old CA
by the tens of thousands of spectators, they fell
patience had then its reward.

The wine.s are light and variable, but still chiefly easterly over
France and the southern portion of the British isles, and chiefly
from the westward on our northern coasts. In the north baro-
meters have fallen about two.tenths of an inch, with rain. Tem.
peraturea have fallen several de..grecs in must planes.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 6th says :
A large hunting party assembled at Tsarskolo Slovanka
on Tuesday, composed of the imperial family and some of
the most distinguished members of the aristocracy. The
Princess I)sgmar and the Princess Eugenie de Lenchten-
berg joined the hunt, and excited the admiration of the
gentlemen by their bold and graceful riding. It was a
fine afternoon, and the grand full-dress livery of the impe-
rial huntsmen, some green and some red, all laced with
gold, had a very pretty effect. The Crown Prince of Den-
mark left on the following day for Copenhagen."
TOTAL Loss OF A FRENCH FRIGATE AND 150
Lrves.—lntelligenoe was received in Liverpool yesterday
of the total loss of the French frigate Niobe, off the coast
of Newfoundland, on the 22nd ult. 150 dead bodies were
washed ashore, with the word "Mobs" on their dress.
Nothing else has been heard of the vessel, or her people;
but great quantities of wreck were being washed ashore.

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