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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1864.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1864.

The Government is certainly not fortunate this
week, but according to the old adage, that troubles
never come single, they appear to have a perfect run
of ill-luck. We must admit, however, that their
misfortunes were in every case richly deserved. The
debate on Monday, whose tone was so an favourable
to the Ministry, and in which Lord PALMERSTON
himself showed to signal disadvantage, was indise
putably brought upon them by the more than sus-
picions attitude they are assuming with respect to
Danish affairs. The defeat respecting the National
Gallery was a discomfiture with which they will
not find many sympathisers, and the decisive, though
less conspicuous, adverse majority which followed
it on Tuesday, was also well merited from.their per.
sistence in delaying a measure calculated to effect
much public good for some reasons best known to I
themselves. -It has unfortunately been too often
found that Radicalism evaporates with surprising
rapidity on the Treasury Bench, and probably if Mr.
ERNEST JONES were made Prime Minister tomor-
row, his views respecting the charter would be very
considerably modified. In accordance with this rule
Mr. MILNER GIBSON finds the atmosphere of the
Board of Trade by no means suitable for the main-
tenance of dangerously practical views, and he too
has joined the long list of political special pleaders
who find it so easy to oppose all measures of actual
reform by voluminous arguments and unsound logic.
Accordingly we find the right hon. President of the
Board of Trade joining Sir GEORGE GREY, in active
opposition to a very useful proposal. The real secret
of the Ministerial hostility to Mr. CAIRD'S resolu-
tion, in favour of a system of collecting and publish-
ing the agricultural statistics of the country, is pro-
bably to be found in their reluctance to offend the
country electors so near the coming struggle at the
hustings. Why else should a scheme so manifestly
advantageous to the public, so often eulogised by
men of standing and influence, and even some 20
years ago made the subject of a resolution by Mr.
M. GIBSON himself, meet with so churlish a recep-
tion from the Treasury Bench ? Mr. CAIRD moved
simply—`` That in the opinion of this House the
collection and early publication of the agricultural
Statistics of Great Britain would be advantageous
to the public interest." He had naturally views of
his own as to the best tray of effecting this
object, but although he laid them before the House,
he did not press them upon it. He contented him-
self with moving the exact resolution as we have
quoted it, leaving, it would seem, no loophole by
which any one who professedly approved of the
principle contained in it could possibly escape from
its support. Yet specious reasons were not want-
ing, nor ready words to cover the Ministerial de-
fection. The chief arguments were, first, that it
would be difficult to carry out any scheme for col-
lecting the required statistics; secondly, that such
statistics, when obtained, could not be relied on.
Other objections were raised as to the expense, the
men to be employed on the service of inquiry, the
manner of collection, the extent of ground to be re-
gistered, the dislike of the farmers to the plan, and
so on. All these objections appear, however, on
close inquiry, to have been considerably overstated.
The farmers, it is plain, will really profit very
much by an accurate knowledge of the state
of the agricultural prospects throughout the
country. The more comprehensive and accurate
the information which a man obtains about his
trade the better for his fortunes, and we are con•
vinced that the more intelligent and experienced of
our farmers would readily admit that an increase of
knowledge would be very beneficial to their into.
rests. In all other trades and professions men
strive to be fully informed of the condition of their
special branch of industry throughout the country ;
why, then, should a farmer, whose prospects are
naturally so variabie and uncertain, shrink from
obtaining that information which he needs above all
others. As was said in the course of the debate
the other evening, the great corn-dealers have
agents who travel from north to south to procure
them such information, and it is surely to the ad-
vantage of the farmer to be placed on an equality
with his customer in that respect. It cannot be
to the profit of the seller to know less of the state of
his own trade than the buyer does. Such a condi-
tion of affairs would be ridiculed in any other busi-
ness. Then as to the obstacles put in the way of
collecting and publishing such statistics, they
can hardly be of a very formidable nature. Our
officials are not usually so incapable of executing
any labour that they may undertake, and
it seems that the Registrar-General has expressed
his conviction of being able to collect the
required information with a comparatively small
outlay. The expense to which some hon. members
attached so much importance is not to be considered
in a matter of this nature, when information so
nearly affecting the public welfare is to be obtained.
But the real amount demanded can hardly be very
serious, and it is little more than an artificial ex-
cuse for opposition. The probable inaccuracy of
the returns, about which a good deal was said, is a
matter of pure conjecture, and there is no clear
reason why these returns should be less reliable
than any others of a similar character. Mr. GAUD'S
suggestion of taking a sample district in various
parts of the countryserveisa practical and moderate
measure, and as a good introduction to
a more enlarged measure. It might serve to dispel
prejudice and to modify opposition, While
the ob.
jections raised as to the inquisitorial nature of the
returns would be avoided, since the names of the
owners of the sample land need not be known.
CAIRD proposes to take 15 sample districts for the
whole of Great Britain, those districts containing
1,500,000 acres, representing, as he calculated,
about one.tenth of the cultivated surface
of the kingdom ; and if such returns were taken
according to the maps of the Ordnance sur•
vey, the officer taking the Ordnance map of
100,000 acres, and filling up that map as
cultivated, need not know the name of a single
farm or farmer. Other speakers showed that the
districts could be selected according to geological
principles, so that a fair estimate might be made
Mr. GIBSON'S opposition to this proposal on account
of alleged discrepancies between the average of the
typical counties in Ireland and Scotland and the
produce of the rest of these countries, was by no
means well founded, since his own statistics showed
that the typical counties at least represented the
fact of increased or decreased produce accurately.
The one hon. member went so far as to say that he
could not see why a farmer's should be inquired
into more than a shopkeeper's stock, forgetting that
a shopkeeper's stock only concerns himself, whereas
the account of A farmer's produce affects the whole

community. It is highly satisfactory that the reso-
lution was carried as a precedent for future times,
since we have little hopes of seeing it embodied in
a practical measure by our present supine adminis-
tration:

Whatever faults may have been committed in
the way of omission, or whatever strictures may be
passed on the Legislature for inattention to matters
of consequence to the country, at all events the
Penal Servitude Question will not be classed in the
fatal category. It has received care and attention
from all degrees and classes, and both Houses have
allowed it to engross a due share of their time. In
the discussion that took place in the House of
Lords the other evening some of the difficulties of
the case were again brought forward, and the pros
and cons of the measure urged with more or less
success. Lord HOUGHTON moved an amendment
that had far its object to do away with the plan
proposed of making it incumbent on the ticket-of.
leave man to report himself to the police once a
month. His lordship spoke with great earnestness
on the point ; but, notwithstanding his fluent argu-
ments, it must appear on consideration that the
proposal, if apparently harsh, is yet a necessary
one. Lord CARNARVON, who is a good authority
on such matters, is a strenuous advocate for the
retention of the police supervision, and the reasons
that he adduces in support of his views seem to be
very comprehensive and to bear reference to the
most vital interests of the community, and in the
end to show that the stern measure of justice meted
out will be the most merciful treatment that the
unhappy individual himself can receive. Lord
CARNARVON explained that to carry out the change
proposed nearly all the effect of the numerous dis-
cussions that had taken place would be done away
with, as the ten changes introduced by the measure
of the Secretary of State could easily be recalled
after the fancy of a successor, and thus we should
insensibly glide back to our former inefficient sys-
tem. This is a most cogent reason for agreeing to
the new regime, for it is imperatively necessary that
all the alterations that take place in our prison
discipline should be fixed on some firm basis, and
be rendered secure from change and free from in.
novation. It would have the most effect upon the
men themselves, and on their associates who have
not yet been convicted, if the idea obtains among
them that, after all, legislation in their affairs is
a very doubtful case, and that after much outcry
they are left pretty much in statu quo. -What if
some sharp-witted one assures the others that, no
matter how stern or severe certain innovators of the
System may be, there will always rise up some
friend at the last to rescue them from the extreme
penalty and obtain that care and consideration
which have for so long been shown to them. Such
a notion becoming prevalent would ruin all future
attempts at discipline. It will never do for these
unruly spiri:s to think that they are beyond all
management, and that, rather than adopt coercive
measures to a great extent, we are willing to let
things take their chance, and allow them virtually
to get the better of us. Lord CARNARVON was
also very happy in his exposure of the fallacy of
Lord HOUGHTON'S argument as to the infringe•
ment of the rights of the subject, He
showed that these convicts had no right
to liberty, bat were permitted as an act of
grace to be at large for a season. Finally, he
put the case in its true light by saying that " the
only way to get rid of the evils of an irregular and
objections ble espionage was to establish a regular
system of responsible police supervision." This
will obviate the necessity of petty interference, and
of minor arrangements which militate against
carrying oat its original intentions. It should be
recollected that when these convicts are constantly
giving the excuse that it is the persecution of the
police that has driven them into crime again ; but
if such be the case, in some isolated instances,
it cannot be the cause of so many reconvictions as
are constantly occurring. Another plea for the
adoption of this system is that in Ireland where it
has been tried fer some time, the most satisfactory
results have taken place, and neither have there been
vehement assertions, indignant protests, or scepti-
cal suggestions against its continuance, such as
have abounded in this country ever since any men-
tion was made of a plan to curtail the licenses now
permitted to convicts outside the prison walls, and
to render more severe the discipline that prevails in
the interior of these establishments. It is never
too late to mend, is a very old but at the same time
a very wise saying, •and it cannot be too forcibly
applied to this question before us, that we have
failed utterly and unmistakeably in our mode of
dealing with these desperate characters, and the
chief cause of annoyance is that it is so very diffi-
cult to make the majority of persons understand
the question in its innate importance and vast con-
sequences. A sort of morbid sentimentality seems
to prevail, and while pity is thrown away upon the
criminal, justice is r.ot rendered to his victims, nor
to the society whose peace he endangers and whose
property he imperils—all mistaken excitement is
productive of evil consequences, and if half of the
superabundant energy and enthusiasm that is ex-
pended on the state of the culprit were bestowed
upon struggling honesty and poverty, and on
suffering virtue in trouble or sickness, how diffe-
rent would the state of society become, and how
far more equitably would its laws be adjusted.
There is no reason why the offender should be
neglected or despised ; let all available means be
adopted to bring him back to the paths of recti-
tude and honesty, but that desideratum can never
be gained
,by blameable indulgences and scanty
supervision. The measure now before the House
may very likely not solve the difficulty of the
complicated question, bat at all events it goes
some way in the right road, it brings the prisoners
under a better mode of discipline, and seems to
provide some means f r holding a check over them
when they are left to take care of themselves for a

time. In the event of this suggestion of police
supervision not answering, there will be additional
cause to regret the hasty decision of the Govern-
ment, not to allow a greater number of transporta-
tions to places where the difficulties that abound
here cannot intrude to mar the progress of a reme-
dial measure.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had a dinner
party the other evening at Lambeth Palace.
The Duchess of Somerset left the First Lord's
official residence at the Admiralty on Monday, to pass a
week at Bulstrode, Buck,.
The Duchess of Sutherland has left Stafford
House, St James's, for Trentham, Staffordshire.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland left town
for Cliefden, near Maidenhead, after attending the nuptials
of Lord and Lady Frederick Cavendish.
The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea and the
Countess of Uxbridge have arrived at the St George's
Hotel.

The Right Hon. C. Fortescue and Frances
Countess Waldegrave entertained at dinner last evening, at
their residence in Carlton-gardens, the Earl and Countess
of Clarendon, the Earl and Countess Grey, the, Earl and
Countess Sowers, the Earl and Countess of Morley and
Lady Katherine Parker, Lord and Lady Skelmertdale,
Lord and Lady Claremont, the Bishop of Oxford, Lady
Georgians Bertie, Mr and Lady Horatia Wardlaw, Sir
Henry Cotterrell, Mr Hayward, and Mr 'Wm. Harcourt.
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor had a dinnei -
party yesterday evening at their residence in South AudlEy-
street. Among the company wore Lord Redesdale, Lord
and Lady Cremorce, Lord and Lady Chesharo, Lord
Honhton, Sir Robert Brownrigg, Hon. G. Cavendish,
Sir J, Frederik sad /•ady Love, Mr kOADQULY.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

RUSSIA.

Termination of the War in the Caucasus,
ST. PE I'ERSBURG, JUNE 8.
_ _

A despatch from the Grand Doke Michael
announces that the war in the Caucasus is now
terminated, and that no more tribes remain to be

conquered.

The Moscow and Sebastopol Railway.

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE_ 8.

It is asserted that a contract has been definitively
concluded by Mr. Hope, the manager of the Inter-
national Financial Company of London, with the
Russian Government for the construction of the
Moscow and Sebastopol Railway.
The works are to be commenced in the course of

,his year.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 9.
The Hamburg American Company's stutuiship
Germania, with the English, French, and Getman
mails, has arrived. She brings 13 passengers for
Havre, 38 for Southampton, and 122 for Hamburg.
The Germania left New York at 4 a,m. on the
29th, having been detained in getting over the
bur of the harbour. On the sth inst., in lat.
48 57 N., long. 26.46 W., she spoke the British
barque Liverpool Packet; on the 6.h inst., in let.
49 N., long. 2013 W., the British barque Parsee ;
and on the Bth, off the Liz ird, the Dutch ship Pre•
sident van Rickevorse.

The Germania brings no specie. Her news has
been anticipated.

Increased Taxation by the Metropolitan
Board of Worm.

Yesterday the Representative Vestry of St. Pan•
eras assembled at the Vestry Hall, Camden Town
(Mr Churchwarden Robson in the chair), for the
purpose of electing a member to represent Sr. Pan-
cras at the Metropolitan Board, in the room of Mr
Francis Healey, J.P., who ceased to bo so by
effiuxion of time.
Mr J. R. Collins moved, and Mr H. Ferrer
seconded, the re-election of Mr Healey, which was
carried unanimously in a very full board.
Mr HEALEY, in thanking the vestry for this
renewal of their confidence, referred to the
various measures before the Metropolitan
Board, tending to increase the taxation of
the metropolitan ratepayers, but also the many
others which he said were " looming in the dis-
tance." A bill had passed through Parliament
for the establishment of a park for Bermondsey.
Then there was the Fire Brigade and Fire Escape
Bill. Again, there was the scheme of Alderman
Salmons for throwing open Southwark and Water •
loco bridges, as well as schemes for various other
improvements, the whole of which would involve a
large amount of additional taxation if they were
carried out. He and his colleagues had done their
best to check this onward increase, and would con-
tinue to do so, but they required support. (Hear.)
Mr. SILAS TAYLOR, the other member for St.
Pancras at the Metropolitan Board, said the mem-
bers of that board, who desired to cirry out eco-
nomy and check the onward march of taxation,
could do nothing unless they were firmly backed
up by the vestries and district boards. He moved a
resolution expressive of the alarm with which that
vestry viewed the proposed increase of the rates of
the metropolis, not only with reference to public

►mprovements, and especially for Southwark, Park-
lane, the fire brigade, and the bill for purchasing
Southwark and Waterloo-bridges, and calling upon
Parliament to place the horse and carriage duties
levied on the metropolis at the disposal of the Me-
tropolitan Board for such purposes, and not further

tax the ratepayers. The resolution further called
upo❑ other vestry and district boards to co•operat'e
in aiding the Metropolitan Board to sustain this
concession. Mr. Taylor added that there had been
a pressure attempted to be put on the Metropolitan
Board to expend £lBO,OOO on improvements in
Park-lane, which would cost St. Pancras about
.£14,000; and if the purchase of the bridges scheme
were carried ont, it would in the 20 years tax them
£70,000 or £BO,OOO.

Mr. PARNESS seconded the resolution, and said if
they did not stop the Metropolitan Board it would
go on clipping their wings till they Should have
nothing to do but find the money.
Mr. Ross did not oppose Air. Taylor's motion,
but thought it would be more effective in tLe
first place to confine it to the fire brigade. The
centralisation of the Metropolitan Board was be-
coming intolerable, and the parishes could manage
their local fire brigades far better than the Metro-
politan Board. He should move to call upon the
borough members to oppose the Fire Brigade Biil.
(Hear, hear.)

The resolution was put and carried unanimously.

The Right of Meeting in the Parks.

Yesterday afternoon the committee of the metro-
politan electors appointed to confer with the mem-
bers for the metropo,itan boroughs as to the right
of the Government to prohibit peaceable public
meetings in the parks, assembled in the Tea-room
of the House of Commons, for the purpose of receiv-
ing a report drawn up by the legal gentlemen con-
nected with the committee.
Mr EDMOND BEALES, M.A., Was called to the
chair, and after a few introductory remarks, read a
long and elaborate report treating of the rights
formerly and now possessed by the Crown over
what were called the Royal Parks. The report
stated that all personal rights over the parks pos-
sessed by the Crown, and all revenues arising
therefrom, had been given up in 1701, and the
parks dedicated to the use of the people, with
certain restrictions, none of which related to public
meetings, in return for a fixed payment from the
Consolidated Fund, now forming part of the Royal
civil list. The management of the parks was then
vested in a commission, the Chief Commissioner
being paid out of the public moneys, and all ex-
penses of the parks being also paid from the same
source. The report recited various Acts of Parlia-
ment relating to these transactions, and then went
on to say that no Act could be found upon the
statute book conferring either upon the Home Se-
cretary, the Chief Commissioner of Works, or the
Commissioner of Police the power of preventing
peaceable public meetings in these parks. As to the
right of the people to meet in what were ll
the Parliamentary parks, such as the
Re cat's
get
Park, Primrose Victoria Park &.-4, it stood on
a foundation beyond dispute. ,
Considerable discussion followed the reading of
the report, in which Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Whal ey,
M.P., Major Richards, Capt. Rogers, Mr. Nicoolay,
Mr. Westerton, Mr. Shaen, and other gentlemeh
took part, and ultimately it was resolved, on the
motion of Major Richards, seconded by,Mr. Wes.-
tenon, "That the report read by Mr. &ales' be
printed, and proofs supplied to every member of
the committee previous to its final adoption, end
before the metropolitan members are asked to take
action upon the subject."
A vote of thanks to the 0184A:tan having been
passed, the committee adjourned.

EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD._Near Esthwaite
Lake, on the 19th May, the heat in the shade reached 89
degrees, and on the 31st the cold was down to three degrees
below freezing. Snow was three inches deep on the top of
Hellvellyn yesterday week.
YANKEE BRASS.—The editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle, lately arrested for hoaxing the New York
papers, by a pretended 'Reclamation of President Lincoln,
has addressed the following letter to the _Eagle, from the
walls of Lafayette :—" Dear Eagle,—ln the language of
the magnificent' Vestiali, lam here.' I think I shall
stay here, at least till I get out, Perhaps you are surprised
at my sudden departure; so was I. But I received a pres-
sing invitation from General Dix to come down here, which
I did not feel at liberty to decline, so I didn't. Bob Murray
brought the invitation, Bob Murray is United States mar-
shal, and he marshalled me the way I should go ; so I
thought it best to go it. Bob is a nice man; he has a very
taking way with him ; but I wouldn't recommend you to
cultivate his acquaintance."
MACKEREL.—The Cornish fishery for the week
ending on Monday last was again very productive,
and mackerel, largein size and excellent in quality, continue
to be in plentiful supply in the county. Large quantities
were sent by rail to London and elsewhere, and the curing
process was carried on somewhat extensively. Employment
was thus given to a considerable number of poor people, of
both sexes, who are by no means illiberally paid for their
work. The St. Ives boats fur the week were, as has been
the case for some time past, the most fortunate, the catches
of the Mount's Bay and other fleets being comparatively
small. In the early part of the week the catches off St.
'yes fiVerag6d 2,000 per boat; price 10s to 19s per six score.
On Wednesday the largest catch was about 1,500 ; price
16s. On Thursday the average was again 2,1)00; price 16s
to 183. Good luck did not desert the fishermen on Friday,
the average being 2,000. The supply of fi,l2 had now be-
come very large, and prices consequently gave way, the
quotations being lls to 15s. Some difficulty was
on
experi-
enced in getting rid of the fish in reasonable time.
Saturday the local markets were all well stocked, and
mackerel was retailed, in good condition, at 8, 10, and 11
for a shilling. On Monday the catches were not large,

On the 6th of November, Dr Macrae came the conclu-
sion that the illness was mot tal. This intelligence, which
he communicated at once to Lord Elgin, was received with a
calmness and forth ude which never deserted him through nil
the scenes which followed. When once he had satisfied him-
self, by minute inquiries from Dr Macrae, of the taus state
of the case, after one deep, earnest, heartfelt regret that he
should thus suddenly be parted front those nearest and
dearest, at whom his lie was of such inestimable importance,
and that he should be removed just as he had prepared him-
self to benefit the people committed to his charge, he
steadily set his face heavenward.
He was startled, he was awed; ho felt it " hard, hsrd, to
believe that his life was c.tndenaned," but there was nit look-
ing backward. Of the officers of his staff he took an affec-
tionate leave on that day. "It is well," he said to one of
them, " that I should die in harness." And thenceforth he
saw no one habitually, except Dr Macrae, who combined
with his medical ekilt the tenderness ancl devotion at Once
of a friend and ot a pastor, his attached secretary, Mr Thur-
low, who had rendered him the most faithful services, not
only through the period, of his Indian vice-royalty, but
during his last mission to China; and her who had shared
his every thought, and whose courageous spirit now rose
above the weakness of the fragile frame, equal to the great-
ness of the calamity, and worthy of him to whom, by night
and day, she constantly ministered.
On the following day the clergyman whom he had ordered
to be summoned, and for whose arrival he waited with much
anxiety, reached Dhurmsala, and administered the Holy
Communion to himself and those with hint. "We are now
entering on a new Communion," he had said that morning,
"the Living and the Dead," and his spirit then appeared ter
master pain and weakness, and to sustain him in a holy calm
during the ceremony and for a few hours afterwards. "It la
a comfort," he whispered, " to have laid aside all the cares of
this world, and put myself in the hands of God ;" and he
was able to listen at intervals to favourite passages from the
New Testament. That evening closed in with an aggra-
vation of suffering. It was the evening of the seventeenth
anniversary of his wedding day.
On the following morning, Lady Elgin, with his approval,
rode up to the cemetery at Dhurmsala to select a spot for
his grave, and he gently expressed pleasure when told of
the quiet and beautiful aspect of toe spot chosen, with the
glorious view of the snowy range towering above, and the
wide prospect of hill and plain below,
The days and nights of the fortnight which followed
were a painful alternation of severe suffering and rare
intervals of comparative tranquillity. They were
soothed by the never-failing devotion of those that
were always at hand to read to him or to re-
ceive his remarks. He often asked to hear chosen
chapters from the Book of Isaiah (as the 40th and sGth),
sometimes murmuring over to himself any striking
verses that they contained, and at other times repeating,
by heart favourite Psalms, which recalled to him an early
feat of his youth, when he had translated into Greek the
137th Psalm—" By the waters of Babylon we sat down and
wept."
At times he delighted to hear his little girl, who had
been the constant companion of his travels, repeat some of
Keble's hymns, especially those on the festivals of St. John
the Evangelist, and of the Holy Innocents. Years ago he
had prided himself in having been the first to introduce
into Scotland "The Christian Year," which he brought as
a student from Oxford, where the first edition—first ot its
seventy-seven editions—had just appeared. H.,w touching
a reward-to him—how touching a tribute to the enduring
piety and genius of its venerable author, that after the lapse
of so long a tract of time to both—of quiet pastoral life
and eager controversies for the one ; of diplomacy and
government, war and shipwreck, and travels from hemi-
sphere to hemisphere for the other—that fountain of early
devotion should remain still fresh and pure to soothe his
dying hours.
Until his strength failed him he was carried at times into
the verandah, and showed by words and looks his constant
admiration at the grand evidences of God's power and good-
ness in the magnificence of the scene before him; and on
one such occasion was delighted with the sublime descrip
Lion of the wonders of nature in the 38th and 39th chapters
of the Book of Job. At times he was able to enter into
conversation and argument on serious subjects. When under
the pressure of his sufferings he was one night entreating to
bo released—" Oh that God would in mercy come and take
me I"—Dr Macrae reminded him of the dread ot pain and
death which seemed to ne expressed in the account of the
Agony of Gethsemane, and he appeared to find much cam-
tort in the thought, repeiting once or twice that he had not
seen it in this light betore, and several times saying with
fervour, "Not my will, but Thme be done."
At other times he could even be fed, by way of steadyitgg
Lis wandering thoughts amidst the distraction of restless-
ness, to fix them on his school and college days, to tell
anecdotea of his hard reading, or to describe the visit to
Oxford of his venerable friend Dr. Chalmers. Ha dwelt in
this way on a sermon of Dr, Chalmers' at Glasgow, which
he remembered even in detail, and tram which he quoted
some eloquent passages, bringing out the general scspe of
the sermon, to the effect that, rather than teach men to hate
this bad world, we should weal them to love and look no to
a better one, It will naturally be understood that long
converse was really impossible. As occasions rose, a few
words were breathed, an apps opriate verse quoted, and a few
minutes were all that could be given at any one time to
discourse upon it.
It is characteristic of Hs strong, cheerful faith, even dur-
ing those last trying moments, that he on one occasion asked
to have the more supplicatory, penitential Psalms exchanged
for those of praise and thanksgiving in which he joined,
knowing them already by heart, and in the same strain of
calm yet triumphant hope, he whispered to himself on the
night when his alarming state was first made known to him,
" Hallelujah I the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. We
shall all meet again."
That thought was raised to its highest pitch by the sight
of a portrait of a beloved son, who had died in England
during his absence. It arrived in the close of those sad days.
He recognised it: at otzied,' with a burst of tenderness and
delight which at once lifted his mind above the Buffeting ct
his mortal iiluees. Again and again he desired to see it, and
to speak of it, with the fixed conviction that he and his
"angel boy," as he called hint, would soon meet in a better
world. " Ohl,,vshen. shall Ibe with you " You know
where he is ;we elite-all go to him ;he is happy,"
Every care had lbeen taken for the public interests, and
for the interests of those still nearer and dearer to him. He
laid the most solemn charge on his faithful secretary to
conduct Lady Eight home on her mournful and solitary
voyage. Ile had given to Dr Macrae with the tenderest
marks of affection, a tuzquois ring---" We have had a long
struggleetogether ; keep this in memory of it." He had
dictated a telegram to the Queen resigning his office, with a
request that his successor might be immediately appointed,
With this exception, public affairs seem to have faded
from hiS mind. " I must resign myself to doing no work.
I have not sufficient control over my though's. I have
washed my hands of it all." But it was remarkable that
-as the end drew nearer, the keen sense of public duts
once more flashed up within him, Is was on the 19th
that he could not help expressing his wonder what was
meant by his long lingering ; and once, halt wandering, he
whispered, " If I did not die, I might go to Lahore, and
early out the original programme."
Later on in the day he sent for Mr. Thurlow, and desired
that a me: sage should be Ben , through Sir Chutes Wood,
expressive of his love and devotion to the Queen, and of his
determination to do his work to the last possible moment.
His voice, faint and inauttible at first, gained strength with
the earnestness of the words which came forth as it direct
Irma his heart, and which, as soon as pronounce t, left him
prostrate with the exertion. Ho begged, at the same time,
that his " best blessing" might be sent to the Secretaries ot
the Indian Government, and also a private message to Sir
Charles Wood in England.

These were his last public acts. A few words and looks of
intense affect ion for his wiN and chill were all that escaped
him afterwards. One more Light of agonised restlessness,
followed by an almost sudden close of the long struggle,
and a few moments of perfect calm, and his spirit was re-
leased, Ilia death was on the 20th of November, and ou
the 21st he \sits privately buried, at his own request, on
the spot selected beforehand.

SALE OF THE PRESENTATION PLATE OF MR. G.
V. BROOKE.--Yesterday afternoon Messtb. Christie,
Manton, and Woods sold at their great sale rooms, King.
street, St. James's, the gold and silver plate presented at
various times to Mr. G. V. Brooke, the eminent tragedian.
The following are the principal articles sold, with the prices
realised:—A richly-chased solid gold goblet, on stand of the
same, 340 z, 18dwt., inscribed " Presented to G. V. Brooke
by his irieuds and admirers in Melbourne, March 19
1856"—£120—a beautiful candelabrum, with branches for
six lights and frosted figures of a nymph and satyr on
shaped plinth with extra scences, about 185 ounces, " To
G. V. Brooke, from bis friends in Sydney, New South
Wales, in acknowledgment of hi 3 unsurpassed histrionic
talents, and as a mark of their appreciation of his delinea-
tion of the characters of Shakspere, 13th July, 1855'—x69
A silver tea and coffee sez7ice, a tea- kottlo with stand
and spirit lamp, teapot, coifeepot, sugar basin, "Presented
to G. V. Brooke, Esq,, by a few of his many friends in
Boston and Providence." A piece of gold quartz, sur-
mounted by a figure of Shakepere on plinth of virgin gold,
"Presented to G. V. Brooke, Esq., by the Company of Mr
Coppin's Olympic, Melbourne." Some other articles, the
property of 41r Brooke, were also sold. The collection rea-
lised about £3OO.

The Orcadian says that a linnet's nest with five
eggs was found in tbc mainsail of a Kirkwall packet boat,
the sail not having been unfurled for about a fortnight pro.
vionsly,

The Queen's Return to Windsor,
Her 11hjesty, accompanied by the Princess He-
ena, Louise, and Beatrice, Prince Leopold, the
Princess of Leiningen, and the Princess Alberta of
Leiningen, arrived at Windsor yesterday morning,
having left Balmoral about one o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon. Her Majesty and the Royal family, with
the suite and attendants, travelled from Aboyne by
a special train of 15 carriages provided by the Lou•
don and North Wester❑ Railway.
The royal saloon was placed in the centre of the
train, and was occupied by the Queen and Princess
Helena; the two saloons next, and in front of the
royal saloon were occupied by Princess Louise,
Princess Leiningen, Princess Alberta, Lady Cnurch.
ill, Mrs. Bruce, and attendants ; while the saloon in
the rear of the Queen's was set apart for the Princess
Beatrice, the governess and maids; Prince Leopold
and certain members of the Court.
The royal train started from Aboyne station et
2.30 p.m., and travelled along the Deeside Railway
to Aberdeen, and thence to Perth (122 k miles),
which was reached at 6.18 in the evening. An
hour's stay was made here, in order that the royal
passengers and their suite might take some refresh-
ment. Carlisle, the first station of the London and
North• Western Railway, and 2731 miles from
Aboyne, was made at 11.40 p.m., and the junction
with the Great Western Railway et Bushbury
(454 miles) at 5.10 a.m.
At this point the care of the royal train wag
transferred to the charge of Mr. J. Grierson, the
general manager, and Mr. Kelley, the divisional
superintendent, of the Great Western Railway, and
the train then proceeded ma its way to Windsor,
finally arriving at the terminus of the Great
Western Railway at 8 55—just five minutes before
the appointed time. The journey from Balmoral, a
disrance of about 600 miles, having been performed
in 20 hours.
About five minutes previous to the Frrival of the
royal train, his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, ac-
companied by his suite, drove into the station yard,
and, alighting at the Queen's private entrance,
passed on the platform, where he >R waited the ap-
pearance of the Queen.
As her Majesty and each member of the royal
family left the saloons they were most affectionately
received by Prince Ai tt ed. Her Majesty, who oP'
peered to have borne the fatigue of the long
journey remarkably well, seemed in excellent
nealth.

The royal party then entered the c trriages, which
were driven rapidly up the hill to the castle. The

royal waneard was hoisted on the Round Tower

immediately on the quadrangle: being reacned. Tb°
Queen's retutn to Windsor was conducted with ea'
creme privacy, and there was not even a guard of
honour at the station.

Hitherto no objection has been made to the pre'
senee of the to wnspeople on the platform to welcome
the Queen on her arriv3l; but, for some reason not

exactly apparent, the most rigorous orders were
given to exc:ude the public from the station. The

privilege of being present at her Mjesty's arrival
has always been highly valued, and on the present
occacien the Mayor of Windsor (Mr. T. Clew),
Mr. Alderman Blunt, many of the pri2eipal inha-
bitants, and a number of ladies, hastened to the
station, but the railway police refused them admit-
tance. The strict orders which had evidently been
issued were carried out to the letter, so that pro-
bably, for the first time in the loyal borough Or
New Windsor, its mayor was turned back and pre-
vented from proceeding to the platform to Jo
homage to his Sovereign.

temburg left the unswick'llotel,
H's Royal ilighcese t he Prince Philip of War•
day, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales at Frog-
more. Jerrnyn-street, yester-