The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1864.

line of battle. Smith, commanding the Irish Bri-
gade, was placed in support. The left was protected
by refusing it, the third brigade being disposed so
as to cover that flank. The formation of Gibbon's
division on the right of Barlow was similar. Tyler's
brigade (heavy artillery) holding the right, Smith's
the centre, and Owen's the left—Mliean in rear
of Tyler's centre, in two lines. On Hancock'e line
there were but few places where artillery could be
used with effect. Barlow had directed that his
attacking brigades should, previously to the assault,
be moved out, and formed just in rear of the picket
line. From this point they advanced for half a
mile through woods and over open intervals under
severe square up to the enemy's works. That por-
tion of his front where the right of Miles's brigade
joined with the left of Brooks's—the same brigades
that so brilliantly carried the famous salient
in the lines of Spottsylvania—succeed in a similar
splendid coup here; they got over and into the
enemy's parapet, capturing his guns (four light 12-
pounders), his colours, and 500 or 600 prisoners,
about 300 of whom were seeured by promptly pass-
ing them to the rear. The storming column, in fact,
were just turning the enemy's guns on the retreat-
ing rebels, when powerful reinforcements from the
second rebel line appeared advancing. The first
rebel line was held by Breckinridge's troops and
was carried, but Lee is too good a General to leave
a point so important thus weakly defended. B reek-
inridge's men were placed in the tore front to re-
ceive the baptism of fire, but behind these lay the
veterans of Hill's corps, and it is these we now see
dashing forward to retrieve the honours we had
snatched. Barlow's brigades—stout hearts not
used to pale before the greatest odds—could have
held their own under conditions the least short of
desperation, but the situation in which they now
found themselves overleaped its limits. It
was not merely the overwhelming front that came
pressing down upon them, of that they had no fear,
but the position they had gained placed them in
advance of the whole line of battle, and gave the
rebel artillery the opportunity for a deadly enfilad-
ing fire. Besides this, they had lost the directing
heads of two of the chief commanders. Brooks and
Byrnes, souls of courage all compact,' fell mortally
wounded, and all the organizations had suffered
fearfully from an unparalleled loss of officers. In
this state of facts they fell back, bringing with them
the prisoners they had taken, and a captured:colour,
but not the guns. They fell back, but not to their
original position ; to a position far in advance of
that they had held, and at different points not more
than 50 yards from the enemy. Here they intrenched,
and here I leave them to pass on to Gibbon's division
of the same corps on the right, and which was en-
gaged at the same time. Gibbon's advance was si-
multaneous with Barlow 'B,.but in moving forward he
came upon one of the swamps of the Chickahominy
which had to be turned or overpassed, in the process
of which it became very difficult to establish the
connection between different parts of his line. This
overcome, however, his troops pressed forward with
the same vigour that marked the conduct of their
companion division on the left. Parts of the bri-
gades of Tyler and Owen gained the rebel works,
but for reasons identical with those that forced back
Barlow's troops they also were compelled to give
up what they had won. Gibbon's division, too, lost
very heavily. Gen. Tyler, before reaching the works,
was carried off zhe field, shot in the ancle. Oae of
his regimental commanders, Colonel Porter, of the
Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, was killed ; im-
mediately after, Lieut.-Colonel Bates fell dead. An-
other of his regimental commanders, Col. M'Mahon
of the 164th New York, was struck while planting
his colours on the rebel works, and was
left a prisoner in the enemy's hands, his troops not
supporting him after he was wounded. Owen's
brigade lost two entire companies taken prisoners
inside of the enemy's intrenchments. In giving
way, Gibbon's division also was fir from losing all
the ground it had gained, It took an advanced
position close to the enemy, and just over the crest,
the rearward sloye of which was held by the rebels.
This position it has retained during the day, and
M'Kean's brigade has held all day a position within
15 yards of the enemy's works. Not until the splendid
attack of Hancock's corps had been made, not till after
its blood-bought victory had been wrested from our
hands, was he or any men in this army aware of the
supreme importance of the position this morning
carried and lost. The kcy.p)int of the battle of
Gaines' Mills, two years ago, it is strange and morti-
fying that no one should have appreciated its value.
This position is a bald hill, named Watts'-hill,
dominating the whole battle ground, and covering
the angle of the Despatch-road. Along this ridge
the rebel works formed a salient, and in front of it
was a sunken road. Of this road Hancock got pos-
session, and the brigades of Miles and Brooks ac-
tuslly struck and carried the work directly on the
salient ! Had we he'd this point, we would have
had a position whence the entire rebel line might
have been enfiladed ; and I think it is net too much
to say that the day would have been ours, and Lee
pushed across the Chickahominy. Had we even
known in advance its commanding importance
very different dispositions for attack would have
been made ; we would have massed on the left, and
made the victory a certainty. These considerations
certainly inspire bitter regrets; but who does not
know that it is on such contingencies that the fate
of battles often hangs ? Simultaneously with the
attack of the Second Corps, the Sixth, under
Wright, connecting on the left with Hancock, made
a general advance at a quarter before 5 o'clock—
each division assaulting on the entire line. Of
this corps, the Second Division (M'Neill) held the
right, the Third Division (Rickets) the centre, and
the First Division (Russell) the left. Five batteries
under charge of the Chief of the Artillery of the
Second Corps. Colonel Tompkins—namely, Adams'
First Rhode Island Battery, Cowan's First New
York (Independent), Hahn's Third New York (In-
dependent), M'Curtin's First Massachusetts, and
Rhode's First Rhode Island were planted in good
positions and did effective service in covering the
advance. The assault of the Sixth Corps was made
with the utmost vigour, and succeeded in carrying
the first line of rebel rifle pits along its entire front,
and got up within 250 yards of the main works.
Smith's corps, connecting on the right with the
Sixth, had advanced in conjunction with it; but
the left division, that of Martindale, who led the
attack in heavy, deep columns, got disarranged,
and was repulsed. General Smith made three
different attacks to relieve Martindale, but his last
supports did not get up in time to allow him to
hold on. The effect of this repulse on the left of
Smith had a disastrous effect on the position of
Wright. It uncovered the right flank of the 6th
and exposed Rickett's division, which was stoutly
holding the advanced position, to a savage fire on
the prolongation of its line. In this state of facts
to retain possession of a position somewhat in ad-
vance of his point of starting was the utmost Gen.
Wright could possibly do. Operations along the
fronts of Warren and Burnside were of on impor-
tance quite subordinate to that of operations on the
left. No results were achieved except the carrying
of the line of rifle-pits occupied by the rebel skir-
mishers. The Fifth and Ninth Corps nowhere
struck the enemy's main work. Burnside kept
up a furious cannonade for some hours, but
it was nothing—vox et preterea nihil. From
the tenor of one of Burnside's morning de-
spatches it was at one time hoped that he would
b© able to turn the enemy's left, but this hope also
was doomed to disappointment."

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The Late General Dembinski.

Tho funeral obsequies of a man who probably was one of
the best specimens of the Polish ratriot and soldier since
the time of Kosciusko, says the Paris correspondent of the
Times, took place oa Wednesday afternoon in the church
of Notre Dame des Champs. Henri Deminski was born 80
years ago in the palatinate of Cracow. His tather was De-
puty to the Diet of Poland, and was one of the most ardent
supporters of the independence cf his country. Dembinski
received his military education in the Military Schools of
Vienna, and on completing his studies was offered a com-
mission in ,the Austrian service. He declined it, and
joined as a private volunteer the ranks of the national army
of the grand duchy of Warsaw, and subsequently entered
the Polish Legion in the service of France. He went
through the campaign of 1812, and received his captain's
commission and the Cross of the Legion of Honour from
Napoleon after the battle of Smolensko. He was present
at Leipsic, where he greatly distinguished himself. On the
fall of the Empire he returned to Poland, baffled like so
many others of his countrymen, in his hopes of the recon-
stitution of Poland as an independent State by the man
whom they had faithfully served, He was elected member
of the Diet in 1825. When the Revolution of 1830 broke
out Dembinski was named Colonel of the regiment which
he had raised in the palatinate of Cracow, and on his ar
rival at Warsaw with his men was promoted by the Gene-
ral-in-Chief, Skrzyneck, whose-aide-de-camp he had been
when in the service of France, to the command of a bri-
gade of Lancers, at the head of which he greatly distin-
guished himself. His conduct in the affair of Ostrolenska,
the combat of Raygrod, and the successful retreat of Kurs-
zawy (July 1831), procured for him the rank of General of
Division. On his return to Warsaw, after 26 days' con-
stant movement, during which he marched 300 leagues,
baffling when he did not beat his enemy, he was received
by the population with the greatest enthusiasm, and the
Chambers unanimously voted that Dembinski and his
army had deserved well of the country. He was soon after
named to the command-in-chief of the national army.
With a view to put a stop to the dissensions which had
broken out among the Poles, caused by their own rivalries,
and fomented by Russian agency, he aimed at a military
dictatorship—but his attempt failed—he lost his popularity,
and tell from power. When Warsaw surrendered Dem-
binski took refuge in Prussia with the remnant of Rylinskes
corps, but in conseqnence of the remonstrances of Prince
Paskiewitch, he was soon forced to quit the country. He
retired to Dresden, and finally took up his abode in France,
where he published an account of the campaign in Lithu-
ania. In 1833 he set out for Egypt, and took service with
Mehemet Ali. In 1835 he returned to Paris, and published
a work in the Polish language on the state and prospects
of his native country. The revolution of February caused
him once more to leave France; he went to Breslau and
Prague, and was present at the Congress of the Slave
patriots held in those cities. He proceeded to Hungary,
and offered his services to the Maygar Government, then
menaced by the army of Windischgrata. He was appointed
by Kossuth to the command-in-chief of the insurrectionary
army, aad drew up a plan of campaign, but did not succeed
in obtaining the adhesion of Georgey, whose tardiness in
joining him occasioned the loss of the battle of Kapolna on
the 28th of February, 1849. Forced to retreat behind the
Theiss, he resigned his powers, which were transferred to
Georgey. He stayed two months at Debreczin, aiding by his
counsels the Magyar Government, which had definitively
broken with Austria. He earnestly advocated the neces-
sity of uniting the cause of Hungary to that of Poland, and
urged an expedition to Galicia. His plan being rejected,
he refused to take the command of the army of the north,
but at the approach of the Russians accepted the post of
Quartermaster-General, under Messaros,who had succeeded
Georgey in the command of the army in July, 1849, The
army retreated on Szegedin, where the Government
was then installed. An engagement took place at
Szdreg on the sth of August, in which he was defeated.
He at once marched on Temesvar, and in front of that city
fought his last and unsuccessful battle with the Austro-
Russian army. The retirment of Kossuth from the Dicta-
torship and the capitulations concluded by Georgey at Vela-
gos on the 13th of August put an end to the struggle, which
indeed had long become hopeless. Dembinski, with other
chiefs, sought refuge on the Turkish territory, reached
Widden, then Shurula, and finally was claimed by the
French Embassy at Constantinople as a naturalised French-
man, He returned to France, and in 1850 fixed his abode
in Paris, where he remained till the day of his death. He
is said to have occupied the last sight years of his life in
writing a history of the war in Hungary. Dembinski was
a sincere and disinterested patriot, but kept apart to the
last from the democratic revolutionists, with whom he never
had the slightest sympathy. He was greatly respected,
and is regretted by all who had the advantage of knowing
him.

gow on Tuesday to coneider the Gimpy. .
Bill, Sir A. Orr in the chair,
Mr IVAIN*RiGiii, the secretary, hating read the notice
convening the meeting,

The CHAIRMAN explained that the directors highly ap-
proved the measure, which they considered very important
to the company. The directors had made very satisfactory
arrangements for station accommodation and for working
over the proposed line, which would establish a communi-
cation between the railways on the north and south of the
Clyde. The company's present station in Glasgow was
very incomplete and inadequate for their increasing traffic;
but by the proposed scheme they would get into a very ad-
mirable central station in one of the best places in Glasgow.
The Glasgow Union Railway when constructed would be
of immense benefit to the city of Glasgow and to the rail-
ways having their termini in it, both on the north and
south of the Clyde. He concluded by moving a formal
resolution approving the Bill.
Mr 3. LUMSDEN seconded the motion.
Mr W. AULD objected to subscribing £250,000 towards
the undertaking, but after a very long discussion and ex-
planations by the cnairman in favour of the measure the
resolution approving the Bill was adopted.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

THE " MORNING POST" ON THE CONFERENCE.—
On Saturday the Conference again met, and, after
a sitting of nearly four hours, separated without
having arrived at any positive result. Indeed, so
far as we can ascertain, the resumption of hostilities
on the 26th may be considerel at this moment quite
as probable as it was before the meeting. A pro-
posal was made to submit the question of the frontier
line to arbitration ; and we believe it met with the
same success that has hitherto attended other sug-
gestions--it was referred to the belligerent Govern-
ments, by whom there seems little prospect of its
being entertained. Our readers will not fail to
observe that the mere fact of this proposal having
been made is a virtual departure from that of a
boundary line of the Sehlei and Dannewerke, as
submitted by England on the 28th of May, and
accepted by the other neutrals, and by Denmark
itself. The German Plenipotentiaries at the meet-
ing on Saturday threatened to have recourse to
privateering against Denmark if the blockade
should be renewed on the expected recommencement
of hostilities. The feeling appears to become more
embittered at each succeeding assembly of the
Congress.
"'TIE OBSERVER" ON THE CONFERENCE.—The
London Conference has given rise to hot and cold
fits on the part of the susceptible public—alternate
days of hope and of despair. In spite of all the
desperate aspirations of irresponsible writers and
speakers after war, the party of peace is still the
must numerous. The friends of peace are by no
means confined to the Stock Markets and counting
houses of Europe, The clamourers for a more
" spirited" coarse of foreign policy have always the
best of the declamation ; but the friends of calmand
prudential actio❑ are likely to last the longest, and
to get the best of the argument in the end. When
it was found the Conference was put off from Thurs-
day to Saturday all sorts of alarming and suspicious
reasons were given for the delay, although some—
perhaps more sagacious—argued that the delay was
arranged to give a better chance of coming to a pre-
liminary agreement. The thermometer fell lower
and lower when it was given out that the Conference
would not meet on Saturday. It was even said to
have been put off indefinitely. Most of the papers
in Paris, and some in London, continued up to yes-
terday morning to assert that the meeting was again
postponed. The Stock Exchange was, therefore,
reassured when it was known that the Conference
met at the appointed hour of one o'clock yesterday,
and that it was attended by all the members accre-
dited from the several courts. There seems to be
some ground for this favourable view, for it would
appear as if the delay had been turned to good ac-
count, and that the Conference had really been
reassembled for the despatch of business. We are
glad to be able to raise higher the hopes of those
who are inclined to draw this not unnatural or
strained inference when we inform them that the
sitting of the Conference was unusually long. They
met at one o'clock, and did not break up till nearly
six in the afternoon, about the same time that the
Cabinet rose, which had assembled at three o'clock.
The Conference is summoned to meet again on Wed-
nesday, at three o'clock. From all these circum-
stances it is not difficult to infer that some arrange.
went is likely to be arrived at in.spite of the mis-
givings of those who, for reasons sufficiently ob-
vious, desired a contrary conclusion. There were
wanting persons who predicted the breaking off of
the negotiations, and busied themselves rather pre-
maturely ig discussing the consequences of the re-
newal of hostilities. It is not improbable that some
of these consequences may have had their effect in
producing, at all events, a more grave considers.
lion of the means for bringing about the settle-
ment o' these troublesome questions, and witndraw-
iug from the market the difficulties that have hung
over the whole condition of Europe for so long a
period.

" THE STANDARD" ON TIIE CONFERENCE.—The
Conferences of London are virtually at an end.
The war will be resumed next Monday. The
plenipotentiaries met on Saturday only to prove
that there was no possibility of their coming to
an agreement, and they meet on Wednesday
only to sot their hands to a formal certificate of
that impossibility. We understand that Earl
Russell, abandoning, as we intimated that he
would do, his own frontier line, proposed that
the division should be left to arbitration ; that
this proposal was rejected most decisively by both
the Danish and German plenipotentiaries, the
Germans insisting upon the line from Apenrade
to Tondern, the Danes adhering to tnat by ,
the Schlei and the Dannewerke. The English
proposal was, indeed, taken ad referendum,
but all parties declared their certain conviction
that their respective Governments would not
entertain it for a moment. The significance of
the sitting of Saturday does not, however, con-
sist so much in the rejection of this absurd scheme
of the English Government as in the general tone
of the discussio❑ and the nature of the pretensions
raised in it. We are informed that the German
representatives, in compliance, of course, with their
instructions, adopted a most arrogant and over-
bearing manner, as well towards England as Den-
mark, and that the deliberations, which were pro
tracted over five hours, ought rather to be termed
recriminations.

THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE POSITION
OF THE GOVERNMENT.—The weakness of the Go-
vernment is so apparent, and produces so much con-
fusion in the transaction of the ordinary business
of Parliament, that the Opposition naturally asks
with eagerness whether the time is not come to
make a great effort for place and power. There
can be no doubt that the country is suffering from
the inability of the Government to devise and carry
out a definite policy. It is not only that a cloud
rests over all our foreign relations, and that we
spend week after week of uncertainty whether war
may not end the negotiations on which we have
wasted so many well-meant endeavours for half a
year, but there is nothing done at home. The Go-
vernment cannot carry any measures of its own, i:
cannot secure the Success of the independent mem-
bers whom it supports, and it cannot shape the
course and economise the time of Parliament so as
to afford a proper opportunity for the passing of
measures of local importance. It is only the per-
sonal reputation of the Cabinet, and a sense that
it has done some things well in former sessions,
that saves the Government from sinking into a
position like that which was held by the Melbourne
Ministry in the last years of its existence. Lord
Palmerston has not quite reached that level of
humiliation at which the head of the Government
is treated with a patronising contempt by the
head of the Opposition. But this is principally
because he isLord Palmerston, and because his chief
opponent is, not Sir R. Peel, but Mr Disraeli. In
every step the Ministry takes, in its whole attitude
to the country and the House, there is felt the want
of a strong and a guiding hand. Lord Palmerston
has piped much experience; he is more moderate
and farsighted than he was 20 years ago; but it is
impossible to believe that the Danish business would
be in the state in which it is now if the diplomatists
of Europe had had to do with the Palmerston of
1841. But a country cannot for ever retain its
statesmen in the prime of their days, and the nation
has shown beyond question that it thinks the quali-
ties which the Premier has certainly gained more
than compensation for those which he may possibly
have lost. England is the most faithful of all nations
to its political favourites, and when it has once given
its esteem and confidence it is very slow to with-
draw them. It would be very untrue to say that
the country is tired of Lord Palmerston, or wishes
to get rid of him. But there is a general feeling
that the position which Lord Palmerston now holds
is not the proper position for him, nor one that be-
comes his reputation or is on a level with the expec-
tations of his countrymen. It was hoped that,
whatever other shortcomings he might display, he
would at least be free from the indecision which
leav,..s the Country and the House of Commons with-
out the ruler that both need. Long suffering
theas
England is, and steadfast in its admiration o
men it once raises to eminence, it cannot be expected
that Lord Palmerston could go through anotherected
Session like the present and nut throw something of
a shadow over the brightness of his fame.
THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE OrroSITION.—AII
through the week there have been rumours
of coming disasters, and that dissonant gong
the Herald has been struck to a jangling note
of triumph, and in all clubs every body with a
'° Whenever
promise of something to be given

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and anon Mr. Disraeli has an idea twee' the Napo-
leonic Congress was a magnificent thought. It has
all come to nothing. Upon the great question of
the hour, the defence of a little Power against dis-
memberment by two great Powers, the Tory leaders
have no policy to propose. They and their chief
assert very boldly that all that has been done is
merely " meddle and muddle," but they neither
propose to leave off meddling nor allow us any clear
certainty that had they bees in power the muddling
would have been avoided, They know perfectly
well that if Louis Napoleon will go forward so will
the Whig Foreign Secretary, and as that is pre-
cisely their own idea they have nothing to say, ex-
cept that the Emperor might with a little tact have
been kept in better temper. That assertion may be
a sound political criticism, but it is not precisely a
policy, and what more definite course has Lord
Derby yet ventured to suggest? Apart from this
great question there is nothing afoot which can
heal the schism permanently produced by the pre-
sence of Mr. Disraeli. If Lord Derby asks his fol-
lowers to vote simply that they have no confidence
in Lord Palmerston, fifty of them retort that they
have less in the astute member for Bucks. Yet the
Tory chief cannot, even if inclined, throw his lieu•
tenant over, and without these fifty his majority is
very far from assured. The old sore is unhealed as
ever, and there is no healing it, and so the Ministry
stumbles on, doing as little as possible, and the Op-
position follows after, criticising as much as is pos-
sible without incurring the risk of action, and the
nation watches and begins to doubt whether prin-
ciple is, after all, at the bottom of the struggle for
office, as it has always been told. The Tories may
come in any day by virtue of an accidental
majority, a victory they could not decline,
or a rumour they could not refuse to hear;
but for a planned and final assault the Opposi-
tion, numerically strong as it may be, allows itself
still too weak. Of course in such a condition of
affairs the influence of England abroad is for the
moment gone. Her Government is only strong when
a distinct line of action meets with the approval of
Parliament, and at present the evil of the weakness
of the Opposition is that neither approval nor disap-
proval can be made manifest. The leaders are afraid
to demand a distinct verdict, and Parliament there.
fore remains conscious of nothing except an indis-
tinct dislike to all that is going on,—to seeing
Denmark dismembered, to hearing Heir von Bis-
mark exult, to any line of conduct which might
prevent either of those annoyances. The Ministry
hunts for middle paths, suggests lines of partition
just north of the Dannewerke, tries to believe in
universal suffrage, or asks whether arbitration may
not do, and the Opposition, liking none of those
things, is still afraid to oppose any. A vote of want
of confidence distinctly rejected would deprive their
accidental victories of all value, and they cannot
risk the battle except on some point on which the
schism in their own ranks will be unfelt. Conse-
quently they wait on, and the Ministry unopposed
at home becomes more and more powerless abroad,
till it seems almost certain that Conference will rise
with nothing determined, and a campaign recom-
mence which must either develop into a conquest
or a European war; but which will in either case
leave on us the stain of inability to protect an ally
on whose behalf we had threatened the only Power
bound by permanent interests to ourselves.
THE "EXAMINER" ON THE YELVERTON CASE.
—The facts (to the common-place mind) would
warrant the supposition that Mrs. Teresa Yelverton
went, as she affirms, to Edinburgh with the fair
hope and expectation of her betrothal ending in
marriage. She took with her an elderly lady, and a
young lady even younger than herself, as companions,
and she proceeded to occupy with these friends a
small apartment, all the rooms of which communi-
cated. She did not receive Maj. Yelverton in the even-
ings ; she did not receive him alone in the daytime.
Her conduct was perfectly consistent with the idea
that she was (as the landlady assumed) receiving
decently and with propriety a respectable suitor, a
gentleman and her equal. If she had desired, as
suggested (nay, insisted on) by Major Yelverton's
counsel, to come to Edinburgh merely to cohabit
with him, what on earth was to prevent her from
taking a lodging or apartments in that city or the
suburbs, without occupants ? Why encumber her-
self voluntarily with witnesses of her irregular and
vicious course of life ? Why have ladies to stay
with her arid embarrass her communications with
her lover? Why not merely one of those small
"fiats," as they are called in the modern Athens,
where a drawing-room and bedroom, or three small
rooms, often constitute the whole allotment of space,
utterly divided by the staircase from the higher
and lower flats? There no one could have pre-
vented her receiving whom she pleased for as many
hours as she pleased, and there could be no after
inquiry, nor after denials, such as " all landladies"
make under the circumstances. It is obvious, if
only from that fact alone, namely, the arrange-
ment as to lodging made by Mrs. Teresa Yelverton
that she did not expect tho misfortunes which have
overtaken her " like a summer cloud" when she first
went, glad and hopeful, to meet Major Yelverton
in Scotland. "Sei la ben venuta !" says he, in the
odd, ungrammatical Italian which both parties oc-
casionally employ in their love-letters. " I did
write her a small sentence in Italian to that effect,"
says Major Yelverton in his former examination.
The smallness of the sentence appears to him a
point for consideration. Like the maiden lady who
was accused of having twins, and was defended
on the plea that she had had but one, and that a
very puny one,—the Major thinks too much stress
should not be laid on a welcome so briefly ex-
pressed. "A small sentence in Italian !" Contra-
dicting, it is true, all his assertions that his "Pur-
suer" found out his address without his knowledge,
and came without his knowledge, and came without
his sanction ; but so short, so insignificant, such a
nothing of a sentence to build a foundation upon!
Still the briefest and simplest sentences have a
meaning, and the deuce of it is, that by no possible
intepretation can " Welcome r be made to mean
"Keep off!"
THE " READER" ON THE UNPOPULARITY OF
GREAT BRITAIN ABROAD.—Great Britain, it seems,
is at this moment extremely unpopular with all the
rest of the world. By some of the great Powers she
is absolutely detested, others are unusually cold in
their estimates of her, and the one or two that are
still kindly to her as a nation are sad on account of
her present statesmanship. Such at least is the re-
port from all quarters, and there seem to be corro-
borations of its truth. Neither of the two Powers
now at war with each other in America is satisfied
with the conduct of Great Britain in reference to
their struggle, and the feeling of the Federels to-
wards her is one of actual bitterness. On the Con-
tinent, for some time past, but more especially since
the war between the Germans and the Danes began,
there has been a universal pointing of fingers, with
hisses or other unflattering expressions, towards
our tight little island. We have been snubbed by
Russia for our officiousness in the matter of Poland,
without any compensation in the way of respect or
gratitude from the Poles. In France the selfishness
and insular narrowmindnees ofil Britain are at pre-
sent the favourite themes of journalists. As to Ger.
many—why there, it is said, we are in such dis-
favour on account of our behaviour in the Schleswig
Holstein business that English tourists are every-
where, throughout the German States, received
with the cold shoulder, and are even in risk of
insult. The statement has been contradicted,
but it has been made and repeated so strongly that
it is impossible to suppose it wholly false. And thee,
in pour little Denmark, where they do love us for
the sympathy so generally shown among us for their
cause, they are sorely disappointed that our sym-
pathy has been so barren of aught save words. In
short, if there never has been a time when Britain
was generally popular with other nations, she seems
at present to be exceptionally unpopular all round.
THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON METROPOLITAN
HORSE-COPERS.—Aniongs the mysteries of horse-
flesh is the noble science of coping, and its practi-
tioners the horseecopers. These individuals prac-
tise fraud as a trade, and in order to do so they are
obliged to pass through an apprenticeship as severe
as that undergone by Fagan's school of young pick-
pockets. Your accomplished horseecoper must
possess a shrewd knowledge of men to begin with,
and secondly he must know horse flesh well, espee
cially that portion of it in which ho deals—the
genus screw. He must be to his charges what
Madame Rachel is to her old dowagers—able to
restore them to youth and make them "beautiful
for ever," or at least for the half hour during which
it is necessary the screw should put in a good ap-
pearance before his purchaser. The horses upon
which copers operate are generally nags, such as
hunters, roadsters, and carriage horses. They are
known under certain slang names, such as " the
Adam," an aged horse; " the strong wid" one with
broken the " piper," htly one sli affected in
his
s wind
wind ;
wind; the
" knock g
," a lame horse• the
"bobby," a chinked backed horse. These animals
are generally showy-looking creatures, being selected
for their handsome appearance and sprightly
looks by the toper, just as a bright palmer fly is se-
, lected for trout fishing, and many of these horses
remain the stock in trade of the same copers for
years, as they generally contrive to repurchase them
of their dupes, by the aid of confederates, a few
days after the sale, for the mere value of the hides
and hoofs. The getting-up of these old screws is
the first care of the ooper when they come into his
hands. "The Adam," for instance, has to be re-
juvenated, and in order to accomplish this he has to
undergo three processes—bishoping, gypping, and
puflsing his glims. The first is the method of imitat-
ing the mouth-marks of a young horse, so called