The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1867.

order it has shaken the .security of every
neighbouring State, turned the Continent'
into one vast camp, and arrested the hopes
of civilization ; while professing the most pacific
sentiments and even entertaining all nations at a
festival of industry, it is at this very moment in-
triguing to escape from its demotic difficulties by
pandering to the barbarous lust for glory, and on
a false point of honour musing the pas-
sions of a multitude of eager dupes. It is impos-
sible to examine impartially this so-called
Luxemburg question without perceiving that
the transaction of the Emperor of the FRENCH
with the King of HOLLAND can only be compared
with that of a bill discounter who offers a needy
spendthrift a loan at 60 per cent. and pays half
in cigars. The King of HOLLAND has not a
shadow of title to dispose of the undoubted
military rights of the Germanic Confederation in
the Grand Duchy. That Confederation, it may
be pleaded, is no longer in existence ; but the
Powers that founded it exist ; Germany exists ;
Prussia, one of the chiefs of that Confederation,
exists, and it was not to the Confederation in its
mere federative capacity, but as representing Ger-
many, that the military rights which Prussia still
holds or exercises in the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
burg belonged. And it is for that Ger-
many which Prussia is entitled to represent
to renounce its military rights in Luxemburg, or
to defend them in the common interests of all
its States. If Luxemburg is to be given to
France because France grudges the gnawing power
of Prussia and of Germany, or because the Emperor
of the FRENCH wants a sop to take the taste of
Mexico out of the mouths of his people, why,
let it be understood once for all, that the peace
of Europe is to depend on the readiness of every
Power to follow the changes of the French Em-
PEROR'S policy, and to make things pleasant to a
Sovereign who dare not give his people liberty,
and must keep them quiet with some sort of
"glory." For such is the complexion of affairs
to which sixteen years of Imperialism have
brought Europe. The French Minister of
Foreign Affairs comes down to the Corps Legis-
latif and to the Senate with a message of twenty
lines sufficient to reassure speculators for a rise
for a single afternoon, and to satisfy all dispas-
sionate observers, who are not "men of business,"
that the peace of Europe will never be worth six
months' purchase while it remains at the mercy of
one man's convenience or caprice.

THE statement from Madrid, purporting to
give the reply of the Spanish MINISTER of
FOREIGN AFFAIRS to a question put to him in
the Senate respecting the relations cf the Spanish
Government with England, has very naturally been
regarded as presaging a refusal to grant the just
redress which Lord STANLEY has demanded in the
name of this country. General CALONOE stated
that the Government would "cause the rights of the
" nation and the decision of the Spanish tribunals to
" be respected." This language does not necessarily
imply an intention to deny us justice, but it is jus:.
such language as would be employed by a govern-
ment which had that intention, and we fear that
no other inference can be drawn from it.

should be drawn between those new pommelling the fran-
elite sad ibthe to be enfranchised without some strong
reasons justifying the change. If the ministry be
wise, they will not stake the fate of their
measure upon a condition open to many objections,
and which could in no case have more than a tempo-
rary existence in the Statute-book. But Mr. Gladstone's
other amendments are of a totally different character,
and as they show that he still regards a 5/. rating as the
beat test of fitness, he cannot expect that the oonimittee
will adopt them. No one can doubt what their fate will
be. It was decided on Monday afternoon.
The Daily News points out that the new amendment of
which Mr. Gladstone has given notice, and which ap-
peared in yesterday's Ezpreas, raises at the very threshold
the question of personal rating. If this clause be carried
them will be an end of discussions about the compound
householder, for he will be, as he ought to be, in
just the name position as the householder who pays
his rates directly into the hands of the overseer.
I When the artificial barriers raised to keep out the
compound householder, or, as the friends of the bill
would say, to call out his " prudence and energy," have
been removed, there will be no occasion for the artificial
aids by which a show is made of enabling him to surmount
them. Either the compound householder is fit to receive
the gift of the fraschiao or he is not. If fit, there is no
need to impose on him the trouble ►nd inconvenience not
required of anyone else; if unfit, he ought not to be
allowed to acquire a vote by a payment to the overseer.
It would perhaps be rash to conclude that Mr. Gladstone
will receive the undivided support of all who obtained
seats at the last election on the profession of liberal prin-
ciples ; but there can be no doubt that this motion gives
members who have lately gone astray a good opportunity
of rectifying their position, and making it intelligible to
the country.
The Past believes it is correct in stating that the tem-
porary disturbance in tho liberal party has been almost
wholly removed. On reflection, the course adopted by the
handful of members at the meeting in the tea-room does
not seem to have satisfied mazy of those who at the mo-
ment supposed it to have been the wisest or safest solution
of the difficulty. It is therefore more than likely that, in
the approaching division, either to-night or at whatever
time Mr. Gladstone's amendments are put to the vote, the
liberals will unite and give their whole support to their
natural leader.

Contrary to the statement in Mr. Disraeli•s circular, the
Siamlard says that the term of residence may be a matter
of compromise, but by the personal payment of rates the
government must stand or fall. If in an evil hour the
House of Commons should consent to repeat the blunder
and the crime of 1859, Lord Derby will not shrink from
appealing to the country.

The Hera/c/believes that Mr. Gladstone before to-morrow
evening will find it expedient to appear in the part which
Mr. Coleridge played on Monday.
The Day prefers both to Mr. Gladstone's scheme and
Mr. Disraeli's, a union which Earl Grosvenor suggested
between the rate-paying clause of the one and the rental
clause of the other, and it trusts to the tact and experience
of the noble lord to bring the two together.
The star urges upon all liberal members that it is of the
utmost importance they should cordially aid in permitting
issue to be joined in the mode determined on by the leader
of the party, to prevent the fatal consummation of having
a purely conservative Reform Bill saddled upon the
country.

The Telegraph assures every man who joins in defeating
the government to-night that he will live to be glad that be
had a voice in striking from the tory bill the insults which
it oilers to the people under the name of reform.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

• *HOME OF COMMONS.—Aran, 10.
TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD) BILL

Order for committee read—lotion made, and question
put, " That it be an instruction to the committee, that
they have power to extend the provisions of the bill to
the University of Cambridge."—(blr. Fawcett)—The
house divided—Ayes, 253 ; noes, 167.

AYES.
Acland, T. D. Forster, C. Murphy, N. D.
Adam, W. P. Forster, W. E. Nicol, J. D.
Agnew, Sir A. Foster, W. 0. Norwood, C. M.
Akroyd, E. Fortescue, C. P. O'Brien, Sir P.
Allot, W. S. Fortescue, D. F. O'Conor lion, The
Amberley, kflsct. French, Col. Ogilvy, air J.
Andover, VJICS. Gaselee, Seri. Oliphant, L.
Armstrong, R. Gaakell, J. M. O'Loghlen, Sir C.
Ayrton, A. 8. Gibson, T. M. °Aortic, IL B.
Aytoum.B. S. Gilpin. C. Otway, A. J.
Bagwell J. Gladstone, W. E. Owen, Sir H.
Baines, k Glyn, G. Padmore, It.
Barclay, A. C. Goldmild, Sir F. Pease, J. W.
Barnes, T. Goldianid, J. Peel, A. W.
Barron, Sir H. Gower, F. L. Pelham, Lord
Barry, A. H. Closchen, G.J. Philips, It. N.
Barry, C. It. Graham, W. Pim, .1.
Bass, A. Gregory, W. H. Platt, J.
Baas, M. T. Greville-Nugeut,Col Pollard-UrquharkW
Baxter, W. E. Grey, Sir G. Portman, W. H.
Barley, T. Gridley, Cspt. Potter, K
Beaumont, W. B. Grosvenor, Capt. Potter, T. B.
Berkeley, H. F. Gurney, & Power, Sir J.
Biddulph, Col. Hadfield, G. Prise, A. G.
libidulph. M. Hamilton, E. W. Price, W. P.
Bingham, Lord Monkey, T. Pritchard, J.
Blake, J. A. Roomer. Sir J. Pugh, D.
Blennerhamett,Blrß Hardcastle, J. A. Bearden, D. J.
Bonham-Carter, J. Harris, J. D. Rebow, J. G.
Brand, H. Harlington, Marg. of Robertson, D.
Bright, J. Hartley, J. Rothschild, Baron
Browne, Lord J. Hay, lord J. M. de
Bruce, Lord C. Hay, Lord W. Russell, F. W.
Buller, Sir A. W. Hayter, Capt. St. Aubyn, J.
Butler, C. S. ifeadlam, T. E. Salomon., Aid.
Butler-Johnstone, II llemiersoa.J. &studs, J. ILYA.
Bunion, Sir T. F. Henley, Lord Samuelson, B.
Calcraft, J. H. Ilibbert, J. T.
llodskinson, G. fkunderson, E.
Candlish, J. Scholeffeld W.
C•irdwell, E. Hoiden. I. Scott, Str W.
Carnegie, C. Holland, E. Neely, C.
Olive, T. Howard, C. W. Seymour, A.
Cavendish, Lord E. Hughey, 'l. Seymour, If. D.
CaveinUsh, Lord F. Hughes. W. 11. Matto, it. D.
Cheetham, J. Hurst, It. H. Sheriff, A. C.
Clay, J. Ingham, It. Simeon, Ski.
Clement, W. J. Jermise, Sir J. Smith, J.
Clinton, tool A. Kearsley, ('apt. Smith, J. A.
Clinton. Lord E. Kennedy, T. Smith, J. B.
Cogan, W. 11. Kinglake, J. A. Speira, A. A.
Colebrooke. air T. Kingseote, Col. Blacpoole. W.
Coleridge, J. D. Knatchbull -Hugs- FdroleY, W. 0.
Collier, Sir It. sen, K Stansfeld, J.
Colthurst, Sir G. Laing, B. Stock, 0.
(olvile, C. R. lAyard, A. H. Stone, W. H.
Cowen, J. Lamont, J. Stuart, Col.
Cowper, H. F. Lawrence, W. Stucley, Mr G. IS.
Craufurd, E. H. Lawson, J. A. Sullivan, E.
Crossley, Sir F. teattuun, W. H. Sykes, C.
Daiglish, B. Lee, W. Synan, B.J.
Davey, R. Leeman, 0. Tile, W.
Davie, Mr H. Lefevre, G. J. Torrena, W. T.
De La Poer, K Lewis, H. Tracy, C. R.
Denman, G. Locke, J. Trevelyan, G. 0.
Dent, J. D. Lusk. A. Yandekur, Col.
Dewing, Sir E. MacEroy, K Vanderbyl, P.
Devereux, R. J. li'lletuts. J. N. Verney, Sir H.
Dillwyn, L. L. "Mackie, J. Villien, C. P.
Dodson, J. G. Mackinnon, Capt. Vivian, Capt.
Duff, M. E. linsgan, P. Waring, C.
huff, It. W. Maguire. J. F. Watkin, K W.
Dundas, F. Ilarjorilmnks, Sir D. Western, Sir T. B.
Dundas, Sir D. Martin, C. W. Whalley, G. 11.
Dunlop, A. C. Matheson, A. Whatman, J.
Edwards, C. Merry, J. White, Capt.
Eliot Lord Milbank, F. A. Whits, J.
Enfield, Vinci Mill, J. 8. Whitworth. B.
Erskine, Vice-Adm. Mills, J. R. Williamson, Sir 11.
&monde, J. Mitchell, T. A. Winnington, Sir T.
Ewing, H. E. Moffatt, O. Woods, H.
Eykyii, R. Monk, C. .1. Wynne, W. R.
Fawcett. IL Monsen, W. Wyvill, M.
Finlay, A. S. Moore, C. Young. R.
FitsPairlek, J. W. Morris, G. TELLERS.
Foley, H. W. Morris, W. Nike, Sir W.
Follambe, F.. 1. Morrison, W. Neate, C.

THE GOVERNMENT BILL FUR THE PREVE.I-
- OF CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELEC-
TIONS.

This morning was issued the government bill to
provide for "the more effectual prevention of corrupt
practices and undue influence at parliamentary elections."
It enacts that the Speaker shall form a panel
of election commissioners for the investigation of
charges of bribery, treating, or undue influence made
in election petitions. No person is to be a commissioner
in the case of an English election unless he is qualified as
follows:—" Is a barrister or serjeant-at-law of not less
than seven years' standing, and in constant practice, or is
or has been a judge of one of her Majesty's superior courts
in England or of the Court of Admiralty, or a commissioner
in Bankruptcy, or a judge in • county court, or Recorder
of London, or a stipendiary magistrate, or a judge
of some supreme court in some part of her
Majesty's colonial dominions, or in India" As
regards Scotland no person is to be a commissioner unless
he is • member of the Faculty of Advocates of not less
than seven years' standing, and in actual practice, or is or
has been a judge of a court of session. In the case of Ire-
land no person is to be a commissioner unless he is a bar-
rister of not less than seven years' standing, or is or has
been a judge of one of her Majesty's superiorcourta, or is or
has been Recorder of Dublni,or Judge of theLandedEetates
court, or an assistant-barrister. Within seven days after
the receipt of an election petition the Speaker is to select
from the panel of the commissioners three persons to
investigate the charges, name one of such persons to be
chairman, and forward the names of the persons so
selected to the returning officer from whom the petition
was received. Within fourteen days after receiving the
names of the commissioners the returning officer is to
give notice to the parties of the time and place for the in-
quiry. On the receipt of the Report of the Commissioners,
which is to state whether the candidate has been guilty of
bribery, treating, or undue influence, personally or by
his agents, the Speaker is to lay the document
on the table, and, in the absence of any mo-
tion to the contrary, the necessary directions
will be given by the house for either confirming or altering
the return, or ordering a writ for a new election to be
issued. Any member of the House of Commons may,
within fourteen days after the report has been laid on the
table, move that it be referred to an election committee,
on grounds to be stated by him ; and in the event of its
being carried, the petition is to be deemed an election peti-
tion within the meaning of the act, and dealt with amoral-
ingly, , provided the petitioner has paid the costs.
Clauses 16 to 18 are as follows :

" Any candidate for a county or borough who is found
guilty of the offences of bribery, treating, or undue influ-
ence, or any of such offences, by a report of the election
commissioners under this act, and whose return is in con-
sequence made void, shall, in addition to any penalties to
which he is otherwise subject by law, be disqualified
as follows, that is to say: if found personally
guilty of any of the above offences, he shall,
the first time that he is so found guilty, be incapable of
being elected, or sitting in the House of Commons for •
period of five years ; and if found personally guilty of
such offence • second time, be shall thenceforth be in-
capable during the remainder of his life of being elected
or sitting in the House of Commons. If found guilty by
his agents of any of the above offences, his election shall
be void, and he shall be incapable of being elected or
sitting in parliament for the same county or borough
dewing the parliament then in existence.
" The commissioner, shall report specially to the
Speaker the names of any persons, other than the candi-
date complained of, who have been proved before them to
have been guilty of bribery, treating, or undue influence,
or of any of such offences, and who have not been fur-
nished by them with certificates of indemnity in pursuance
of the power hereinafter given ; and such report, with
the evidence thereon, shall be laid before the Attorney-
General with a view to his instituting at the public ex-
pense a prosecution against such persons if the evidence is,
in his opinion, sufficient to support a prosecution.
" If any candidate knowingly employs at any elec-
tion the services of any person who before the passing of
this act has been or may hereafter be found guilty of
bribery, treating, and undue influence, or any of such
offences, by any competent court, or by any committee of
the House of Commons, or by the election commissioners
under this act, or by any commissioners sppointed under
any other act to inquire into the conduct of elections, the
election of such candidate shall be void."

With regard to the powers of the
the following important provision :

there is

" The commissioners appointed to investigate the charges
contained in an election petition shall have such powers,
rights, and privileges's on the occasion of any action or suit
are vested in or exercisable by any of her Majesty's superior
courts, or in any judge thereof, in any of the matters fol-
lowing ; that is to say—(l.) The enforcing the attendance
of witnesses, and examining them on oath. affirmation, or
otherwise, as they or he may think fit : (2.) The compel-
ling the production of documents: (3.) The punishing
persona guilty of contempt: and a summons under
the hand or hands of one or more of the com-
missioners may be substituted for and shall be equiva-
lent to any form of process capable of being issued at law
in any action or suit for enforcing the attendance of
witnesses or compelling the production of documents.
Any warrant of committal to prison brayed for the purpose
of enforcing the powers conferred by this section shall be
under the hand or hands of one or more of the com-
missioners, and shall specify the prison to which the
offender is to bo committed, and shall not authorise the
imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding three
calendar months."

The inquiry is to be conducted in public, due notice
being given of the time and place of holding it, and all
questions before the commissioners are to be decided by a
majority.
The question of meta is left in the bands of the commis-
sioners, and their certificate is to be conclusive evidence of
a debt due from one party to another. Every person who
wilfully gives false evidence is to be liable to the penalties
of perjury. The commissioners are to be protected
as justices in the performance of their duties; and it is
provided that no action shall be brought against them or
any other person, for anything done in the execution of
the act, unless it be brought within six calendar months
next after the doing of it.

It appears that the Mr. Biddulph who was present
at the meeting of the " new cave" on Monday was Mr. R.
Myddleton Iliddulph, M.P., for Denbighshire, and not Mr.
Michael Biddulph, M.P., for Herefordshire. The former
is stated by " Dod" to be in favour of " gradual reforms in
church and state." Mr. D. M`Laren says he has always
doubted the wisdom of the policy pursued by the liberal
party in IWO, in throwing out the Derby Reform Bill, by
an amendment moved on going into committee, and all
soon as he learned that the present government would
consider the carrying of Mr. Coleridge's instruction as
equivalent to throwing out the bill, he at once re-
solved to vote against it " in order to give the govern-
ment the benefit of getting she bill into committee,
which they appeared so earnestly to desire, and where
they hail promised to give way on the details of
the clauses to the general wishes of the house." This op-
portunity has now, by a stretch of courtesy, been granted
to them, and the responsibility for the manner in which
the opportunity may be employed rests with them only ;
" and " adds the hon. member, " I feel free to act as I
may think beet respecting all the clauses and proposed
amendments in committee."

The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his ninth par-
liamentary full dress dinner last evening, to the following
noblemen and gentlemen :—Earl of Dalkeith, Earl of Bec-
tivc, Viscount Andover, Viscount Curzon, the Hon.
Percy Herbert, Major the Hon. A. Anson, Right Hon. Sir
John Trollopo, Captain the lion. C. White, Sir James
Strong, Sir John Neeld, Mr. Antrobus, Mr. Arthur
Russell, Captain Mackinnon, R.N., Mr. Alfred
Seymour, Mr. Pollard Urquhart, Mr. Aytoun, Mr. Inner,
Mr. A. H. Campbell, Mr. Goodson, Mr. Hartley, Mr.
Grant, Mr. Karshike, Mr. Hodtoon, Mr. Kelk, Mr. C.
More, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. R.. H.
Paget, Mr. Simonds, Mr. Treeby Mr. Reanlen, Mr.
Abel Smith, Mr. Vauderbyl, Mr. Williamst Mr. Whit-
worth, Mr. Wise; Rev. Dr. Meiivale, chaplain ; and Mr.
Alfred Denison, private secretary.
PAUPERS IN ST. PANCRAS. —At the meeting of
the board of guardians of St. Pancras, held yesterday,
Mr. Churchwarden Robson in the chair, the officers re-
ported that there were 10,:t3ii persons receiving in or out
door parochial relief, being an increase of 2,008 as conipared
with the number at the corresponding period of last year ;
also that there were 50 children in the workhouse, for
whom no adequate accommodation could be provided in
the house, and they could not be received into the district
school at Hams-ell, on account of the contract number, 3::•0,
being already exceeded by six.

THE FORTHCOMING ROYAL ACADEMY
EXHIBITION.

There is every prospect of a strong exhihiMg
at the Royal Academy this year. Most of the lead.
lug academician& are exhibitors ; and many of the
other artists have pictures of considerable merit.
The circumstances under which those works are
seen, of course puts criticism out of the questittn
for the present, btit we propeit to briefly catalegue
some of the principal works of the year.
Mr. Frith's " Last Sunday of Charles H." is
founded on an extract from Evelyn 's diary. The
King is seated between Lady Castlemaine and the
Duchess of Portsmouth. while a page warbles love
songs, and the profligate courtiers and lathes t.ty
and flirt on all sides. A party of gambler+ are
at the back, while at the right stands
Evelyn, with mournful thoughtful face, scan-
dalised and pained at what he sees. Scntpuluus
attention has been paid to details and accessories,
and it is the common report of art circles
that this picture is Mr. Frith's master-
piece. Mr. Creswick contributes a small sea.
piece, and some exquisite sylvan scenes. Mr.
Millais gives ua Jephtha Daughter, and
three exquisite pictures of children. Jephtha is
seated in his tent, clasped in his daughter's arms,
while the attendants and the court are retiring
mournfully, and as if with a forehodei.,
of evil, the precise shape of which
not yet known. Everyone who remembers
" The First Sermon"—and who does not ?—will be
charmed to see the same sweet little chill, but
grown older, dancing a minuet in a formal red
dress of the period. A pretty child asleep in bed,
with its nurse at work by its side, and another
just roused from slumber, are both 0..
quisite pictures, and are among those f.or
which one may safely predict a crowd of
admirers. Mr. O'Neill has two large pic-
tures, one of " Luther in his Cell," the other .f
" Titian on the Grand Canal at Venice." Luthtr,
as is well known, was subject in his youth touts
melancholy and abstraction. During one of these
he locked himself in his cell and remainLd
secluded for some days. A fellow monk, he.
coming alarmed, broke the door open and
found Luther stretched on the floor in-
sensible. Other efforts to rouse him from
his trance having failed, some choristers were
brought in and sang his favourite hymn. 111 r.
O'Neill has pourtrayed the moment of returning
consciousness ; the bright rosy faces of the singing
boys contrasting bravely with the worn ascetic
on the floor, and the burly father she
is endeavouring to raise him up. The Titian pio.
tore is a hint to the ladies of England, concerning
the treatment of great artists. It is recorded that
when Titian's work was over for the day, high.
born Venetian dames called for him in their gen.
doles and played and sang while the great artist
rested and enjoyed the setting sun. Mr. O'Neill's
fine picture represents him doing this.
Mr. Elmore's as What is whispered in the closet
shall be proclaimed from the house-top," is a view
of the roofs of the city of Algiers. The central riga!'
is a Moorish woman who is clapping her hands
before retailing the choice bits of scandal she has
to communicate to her friends. Behind her is
another woman in an agony of suspense, lest it
should be her secret which has been brought
to light ; while on the flat white roofs tin
all sides are eastern figures at work and
play, and carrying on the business and pleasure of
their lives. A faithful pictorial realisation of
scenes described in the Bible is a not unfair defini-
tion of Mr. Elmore's work. Mr. Ansdell's " Ship-
wrecked Friends " is an enormous picture of
sailor with bound-up head who has just been
washed ashore with his faithful dog. liege
waves are dashing in as if on the point of en-
gulfing him ; sea-gulls are sweeping overhead,
while in the distance lies the shattered hull of the
wrecked ship. A Highlander returning house laden
with game, his dogs by his side ; and a Spanish
scene, showing a group of peasants and fasters
praying at a shrine, with the Alhambra in the dis-
tance, will be also contributed by Mr. Anedell.
Mr. J. Feed's " The Poor the Poor's bur.
Friend," represents a blind man and child beggtag
at a cottage door, at which sits a sturdy fisherman
and his child mending nets. The latter is fumbling
in his pocket for money ; while the two children
eye each other wistfully, and with a world of cha-
racter in each little face. Mr. Leighton has seve-
ral line classical pictures, and a picture of Venus.
Mr. V. Prinsepe shows a Venetian gambling tteene,
and Miriam watching through the bulrushes as th
infant Moses floats down the river. Mr. Gale':
tine picture of " Christ on the Mount of Olives
shows the Saviour on a white ass—painted, by th
way, from one of the few veritable Syrian donkey
in the country—and a crowd of jubilant Mon
giving him enthusiastic welcome. There is
world of mournful prescience in the quiet dignity
of the Saviour's face, and the effect of this
heightened by the boisterous congratulation, t
the varied Oriental group around hint. Pet
tit's " Treason" is one of the meet powerful p.
tures of the year. A group of conspirators, one
cardinal in scarlet, the rest in mail-arm tar
sit in secret council, while a sentinel k,-1
at the fastened door. The lb, -
ad
rDeferred
" of Mr. Thomas Brooks is a striking pie
ture of a French fishernuan's wife peering
anxiously over a stormy sea for her husbands bat,
while other wives are praying at the large crucifix
behind. Mr. Eyre Crowe's Knighting that sir
loin," shows King Charles and his Court in a halt-
ing lodge, the King in the act of striking the j.tfit,