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sometime previously been rather disposed to lean to
the other side. He turned the tables on Mr.BARING
by reminding the hon. member that the complaints
were not all on one side, for the Federal agents had
given great cause for offence by their practice of
enlisting British subjects into their army, this being
a violation of the law. It would really seem sur-
prising to notice this inconsistency, if by this time
we were not tolerably accustomed to it among these
devotees of the North. Mr. BARING certainly did
not escape unharmed from the contest which he had
so wantonly provoked. His ally, Mr. COBDEN, did
not fare much better either, for Lord R. CECIL'S
speech was a complete exposure of his fallacies, his
prejudices, and his extreme notions. Perhaps the
most effective part of it was the passage in which
he set off one of his adversaries against the other,
and brought home the subject in a manner that
could not fail to be understood. Mr. COBDEN
made an elaborate statement concerning the bitter.
ness of feeling that would be engendered by the
assistance rendered to the Confederates. "But,"
very forcibly urged the noble lord, " has British aid
been given only on one side ? Have there been
losses and suffering only on one side r, He then
proceeded to state that, in one year, there had been
exported no less than twelve millions of percussion
caps, and rifles and muskets to the value of five
hundred and fortyssix thousand pounds to the Fede-
ral States. " I cannot pass over the fact," observed
the noble lord, "that the mercantile house which
has been mainly instrumental in conveying this
enormous assistance to the Federals, and effecting
this fearful injury upon the Confederates is the
house of BARING and Co." Thereupon the speaker
very properly said that they had been considering
the feelings of the Federals, but did they think the
Confederates had none also. The fact is, that when
Mr. COBDEN or Mr. BRIGHT get upon the subject
of America it seems impossible for them to preserve
any show of consistency or semblance of modera-
tion. They do not say that we ought to take up
arms to further the interests and assist the progress
of the Federals, but they do imply that we cannot
do to much for such a purpose. They infer that
all attempts to act with impartiality is unrighteous
in a national sense, and subversive of our best in-
terests in a mercantile capacity. It would be more
straightforward for us to declare war at once in aid
of the North if we think they are so immaculate,
than to go on covertly forming plans and concoct-
ing schemes which are to result in the ruin of those
who may be trusting to our avowed expressions of
neutrality. Such a course as that advo-
cated by Mr. BARING, and vehemently
supported by Mr. COBDEN, is neither honest nor
honourable for our country to pursue, and far dis-
tant be the day when the policy it sets forth be
made the ruling spirit of our statesmen. The prin-
ciples which are laid down by these apologists for
the Federals are fundamentally wrong, and must
prove most mischievous in their tendency and ruin-
ous in their practice. Mr. COBDEN'S great argu-
ment is, that if we do not take heed to our ways we
shall offend this or that Power, and thus our inte-
rests will be affected. We should always be afraid
to do an injury to any State, however weak, but if
we had ever dreaded to offend the most mighty, or
waived our rights to the strongest, England would
never have attained her proud pre-eminence or
gained her mighty influence. It is quite time that
these un-English anti-national doctrines be dis-
avowed in Parliament, and that it should go forth
to the world that they have no root among our race
and are not indigeneous to our soil. Peace at any
price will never be popular among us, and this new
notion of selecting favourites, and naming victims
when wars are going on in other States, will no;
answer in the long run. The American war is a
sad event, and the calamities it has caused will not
be effaced in the time of the present generation,
but there is no need that this untoward circum-
stance should change all our preconceived ideas of
right and wrong as regards belligerent Powers and
the duties of neutrals. By forfeiting our position
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The motion for the second reading of Mr. Baiates
Borough Franchise Bill attracted an unusually
large attendance of members to the brief Wednes-
day sitting. A House of 488 members assembled
for the discussion of one of those great questions of
Reform, which have been so long hanging over the
heads of successive statesmen. Although no prac■
tical solution of the difficulty was arrived at, and
such a result could indeed hardly be hoped in the
present state of the House of Commons, yet the
evening was by no means unimportant. The prin-
cipal feature of the debate was, of course, the speech
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and we congra-
tulate Mr. BAINES on having gained so valuable an
auxiliary to the side of Reform. In a calm temperate
and statesmanlike address, adorned with all those
powers of argument and oratory for which he is so
remarkable, Mr. GLADSTONE brought forward his
reasons for supporting the measure, and proved so
powerful an advocate, that all the theories of his
opponent, even supported by the eloquence of Mr,
WHITESIDE, could not supply a satisfactory answer.
It is true the measure was not carried, being quietly
disposed of by a motion for the previous question,
neither party liking to commit themselves to open
opposition, but great good was nevertheless effected
by,the discussion. In the first place, as we have
said, it is a great thing for the Reform cause
to have gained so valuable an adherent, al-
though we can hardly cherish the hope
expressed by Mr. FORSTER, that the Government
would abandon its present indifferent and hesi-
tating attitude on all questions of Reform after so
open a declaration on the part of one of its most
distinguished members. The members of a Whig
Cabinet, although always unanimous on the subject
of office, are by no means so invariably of one mind
on matters of general policy, But whether we
regard the weight of Mr. GLADSTONE'S position,
or the influence naturally exercised by his personal
abilities, we must regard his accession to the cause
as a great gain. The discussion on the bill, too,
brought up all the old debateable points, on which
it was more difficult than ever for the opponents
to hold their ground. The tone and temper of the
present day, and the prominent part which the
leading Conservatives lava taken with regard to
the long-delayed Reform Bill, no longer renders it
possible for the Opposition members to use the
arguments familiar to their forefathers. No man
of any sense, enlightenment, or experience can
anticipate an overthrow of Church and State, or
the establishment of a Republic in place of a
throne, from the extension of the franchise ; neither
can he point his moral or conclude his peroration
with ROBESPIERRE and the Reign of Terror. The
workingmen of England have fairly earned their
right to a share in the representative govern-
ment of the country, and have afforded Wis•
factory evidence that they will make good
use of the power when once it is put into
their hands. They have shown in a high de-
gree that capacity for self- control and self-
government which are among the distinguishing
characteristics of Englishmen, while their love of
order and fair play are a continual marvel to
foreigners. The wildest and most turbulent spirits
ere usually to be found in great cities, and it is
certainly among large masses of townsmen that
mob orators and Chartists ezercise moot power.

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It seems as if we were never to hear the last of
the international law as regards America and our- '
selves. Time after time the subject is mooted, and
whatever be the length of the discussion and the
number of the speakers who engage in it, it is only
dropped for a time to be again renewed at a future
time. Mr. BARING on Friday made himself un-
necessary
officious, and gained nothing by his per-
piece of great effrontery for him
tinacity. It was a
to have entered upon the task at all, for his charge
was unfounded, his demand of the Government
his arguments altogether
most unreasonable, and
inconclusive. We should, indeed, have come to a
pretty pass if we are to forbid the vessels of another
nation to enter our ports. titre are not at war with
the Confederate States of America, and it is simply
absurd that we should be asked to issue such an
edict. Seldom has it happened that CO many egre-
gious blunders have been made, or contradictory
statements put forth, as in the speeches of those
who advocate the Federal interests in the House.
These wise and upright judges seem to affirm that
the general opinion of the House and the commu-
nity is against one set of belligerents, and that in
a war in which W 3 aro professedly to be neutral.
We should at all times, and in all places, expose the
cease of one and put down the attempts of the other
any engagement that they may seek to enter
upon. This is not at all a doctrine that is in
accoidacce with the English love of fair
play, that has been a time-honoured institution,
and a cherished custom in our land from by.
gene days. When Mr. BARING pressed his argee
ment by ruling that the vessel referred to,
t hepeorgia, was preying upon the commerce of a
friendly nation, he seemed to ignore the fact that
if we are neutrals in the strife, one of the bellige-
rent parties is no mere a friendly power than the
other. The Attorney-general came out very strong
in his reply, and seemed to be at great pains to give
an exhaustive answer to this vexed question. The
speech cf the honourable and learned gentleman is
doubly welcome on this occasion, from his having

Yet the upper classes are not afraid to trust the
vast throngs of the metropolis to their own virtual
control on the occasions of the busiest gatherings or
most exciting spectacles. A population which is
reckoned by millions, and maintains order by the
help of a few unarmed civil officers, is surely fit to
be trusted with the exercise of an occasional vote.
Mr. CAVE, in opposing the motion, though he dis-
claimed any ides of disparaging the working
classes, tried to show that matters were better left
as they were by citing the example of Lancashire.
Was not the conduct of the Northern population,
he asked, during that severe trial the conduct of a
people satisfied with their institutions. Mr. GLAD-
STONE, however, turned the same argument to better
account when he pointed to the unparalleled for-
bearance and fortitude manifested during that pro-
longed trial of so large a portion of the working
classes of England as a powerful argument in
favour of the extension of the franchise. Men
whose steady firmness, whose clear common sense,
and sound principle could not be shaken by famine,
and cold, and wretchedness for their wives and
little ones, and the bitterness of dependence for
themselves, are not likely to be carried away into
wild excesses by the acquisition of a degree of poli-
tical power, or to lend a credulous ear to every
advocate of rash and headlong change. Rather
would they feel a sense of responsibility, and be
inclined to take their time for consideration. Mr.
BAINES, in his opening speech, dwelt strongly upon
the immense diffusion of literature now taking
place among the masses, and the rapid growth of
intelligence and knowledge. In fact there can be
no question that many working men are better in-
formed and more qualified to vote than the class
immediately above them, and we apprehend that a
working man, who voluntarily gives his evenings
to study after his day's work, could give a better
opinion on political questions than many thriving
tradesman, with no thoughts beyond his till. Be-
sides, it must be borne in mind, that no wholesale
measure of universal suffrage is advocated. There
must be proper limits, proper conditions, such as
working men themselves would wish to see imposed,
else the gift would lose its grace. A prudent ex-
tension of the franchise, such as Mr. BAINES advo-
cates, would do more to repress any lingering dis
content than any other political boon. At any rate
when we are told, on good authority, that forty-
nine fiftieths of our working men are left wholly
unrepresented, it is surely time for Reform of some
kind to begin without delay.

find a precedent for the present, it was not difficult
for Lord ELLENBOROUGH to remind the House of
similar conduct on the part of Prussia. Notwith-
standing the sympathy evoked by her misfortunes
after the campaign of Jena, and the noble struggle
of her people to throw off the yoke of the in-
vader, the name of Prussia has unfortunately
become associated with mingled cunning and
cruelty. Her ambition leads her on without the
slightest regard to the claims of honour or justice,
and, unhappily, those characteristics which called
forth the censure of an earlier generation of Eng-
lishmen are still the leading features of hir na-
tional policy. "I recollect," said Lord ELLENBO-
ROUGH the other evening, "the indignant language
of Mr. Fox reprobating her conduct, which he de-
scribed as combining all that was contemptible in
servility with all that was odious ,in rapacity.
Servile in the presence of Russia, rapacious in the
attack upon Denmark, Prussia still maintains her
bad pre-eminence." These are strong words from
the lips of an Eng'ish statesman, stronger still
when supported, as they were, by the applause of
the English peers. Let Prussia take heed, for
trifling value. Or, if
she such n indicationsr rlaeLgouf a
ga
ee
to convince her of the
folly as well as guilt of the course she is now pur-
suing, let her weigh well the words of solemn
warning that closed Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S
protest. He reminded that unscrupulous Power
that a day might come when Prussia herself might
call for aid, but who shall grant it ? But the les-
sons of the past are useless to those infatuated by a
vain ambition, and men are often apparently un-
conscious that they are themselves playing the
very parts which they censured in ethers. Our
oa n Liberal Goverumeut, for instance, whose
leading members have so often denounced the po-
litical crime of the partition of Poland, appear to
be quite regardless of the fact that they are coun-
tenancing a similar injustice. The reply of Earl
RUSSELL on Friday evening can give no satisfac-
tion except to the partisans of Germany, and the
general agreement vaguely spoken of respecting
the levies appears to have produced very little
effect in modifying the pressure on the Danes. But
the moral sense of Eat ope cennot be outraged with
impunity, and the German Powers, in forfeiting
the respect and sympathy of all free nations, have
sustained a loss which no paltry amount of thalers
extorted from suffering people will er Er compensate
for. Prussia at least has lost her most powerful
ally in the English people, and though insolence
and assumption may serve her now, a day may
come when they will avail her nothing. Let her
beware lest in that day the wrongs of Denmark be
avenged, and the cry of Vic Victis, now murmuring
throughout Jutland; shall resound in yet deeper
tones on the banks of the Rhine.

Couza.

The unscrupulous conduct of the Allied German
Powers during their invasion of Denmark Proper
has brought down upon them an amount of indig-
nation and censure to which even German impas-
siveness cannot be wholly insensible. The absurdity
of the flimsy pretest that the oppressors of Venetia
and the tyrants of Posen were going to fight for the
freedom of the Duchies, was from the first so mani-
fest as to be merely contemptible, but when we find
two of the great Powers of Europe, not content with
overrunning a weak State, extorting extravagant
levies from its poor and simple peasants, we cannot
but feel that, as all justice and honesty were absent
from the origin of the wain so common humanity is
wanting in the manner of its prosecution. English-
men who have watched, with painful feelings of
indignation and humiliation, the progress of a
campaign which a word from their rulers might
have averted, have regarded these extortionate levies
with unanimous reprobation. The invasion of Jut-
land, the bombardment of Sonderborg, the lavish
waste of human life sacrificed to gratify the vain
ambition of an aggressive Power, have all in turn
helped to fill up the measure of Prussian iniqlit3
in tho sight of the English people. but thanks to
the supineness of our Foreign Secretary, and the
marvellous spell of vacillation and delay which
hangs like a cloud over all our foreign policy, these
feelings, so unanimously felt by the public at large,
have as yet found no adequate expression. Timorous
remonstrances, expostulations that are withdrawn
at the first angry answer, hopes that the German
Powers will do what is right, convictions
that it will be impossible for them to act
unjustly., ignorance of their plane, and con-
sequent refusals to interfere, evasive answers
in the Lords and specious replies in the
Commons—of such materials is made the help
which England has given to Denmark against her
oppressors. In such ways has the glowing indigna-
tion of our country been reflected to the German
Powers, and although the English press must have
kept them better informed b 8 to the true state of
affairs, yet no official voice has been found to speak
the censure which the most phlegmatic must feel is
deserved. The cheers which greeted the announce-
ment of the Danish victory in the House of Com-
mons the other evening must have taught the
Germans something; but it is right and fitting that
an English Peer, one, too, long distinguished for
eloquence and ability, should rise in his place in
the Upper House and represent the light in which
the conduct of Prussia appears to the English
people. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, always fore-
most on behalf of the injured, always ready to lift
his voice in the cause of right and freedom, has
denounced, in terms that will not soon be forgotten,
the barbarity of the enforced war contributions in
Jutland. No courtly phraseology encumbered his
stern rebuke, no diplomatic hesitation tempered the
outpouring of his honourable indignation. His
words were not measured by the rule of the Foreign
Office—they were not weak against the strong and
strong against the weak. To him the side that
claimed consideration and indulgence was the side
of the vanquished and crippled nation, still
struggling valiantly for her national integrity
against overwhelming odds ; the party that
provoked outspoken condemnation was the
one whose strong hand and whose iron heel are
now grinding her to the dust. He painted in simple
and earnest language, the primitive existence of the
peaceable inhabitants of Jutland—a province which
cannot boast of extensive manufactures or even of
wealthy agriculture. Lord ELLENBOROUGH briefly
described it as "one great grazing ground, inter-
rupted by sands and by water," where the few large
proprietors lived in the midst of their people, who
depended on them for their labour and consequent
means of support. The ruin of one of these pro.
prietors must necessarily carry desolation to scores
of simple homesteads. "The destruction of a farm in
that country," said Lord ELLENBOROUGH, " is like
the destruction of a city or a town in this." And
the only crime of the quiet and simple people who
inhabit these rural wastes has been that they have
come valiantly forward to take their part in the ser-
vice of their KING and country. The patriotism
that animates them, that renders them capable of
sacrifices from which wealthier and more cultivated
nations might shrink is forcibly shown in ae re-
sistance which they have offered to these oppressive
levies. But that very patriotism is a deadly offence
to the invader. Their freedom is their worst crime
in the eyes of the despotic German Powers. "1
say,', exclaimed Lord ELLENBOROUGII, after dwell-
ing on these facts, " that it is might against right.
The war is altogether an unjust war." Such lan-
guage as this from the lips of our Foreign Secretary
twelve months ago would have saved some thou-
sands of Danish lives, " butchered," as the indig
cant orator effectively declared, " to make a Ger-
man holiday." Turning the pages of the past to

Ma ster Willie Paep's Pianoforte Recital,

This accompl*Weel young pianist, whose perfer-
naances are rising in favour, gave a pianoforte re-
cital at the Hanover. square Rooms on Friday even-
ing. Master Pape belongs to the class of juve-
nile performers, though not to be ranked among
infant prodigies whose achievements are only won-
derful in respect to their years. Master Pape,
although still a youth, gives evidence of powers
which, when matured, will probably elevate him
to the first rank of his profession, and it may be
readily imagined, from the character of music se-
lected, that laborious application and careful study
must have developed his talents. One of his
greatest successes was Beethoven's grand sonata in
A flat, which includes the celebrated Marcia
Funebre. The varied and difficult movements of
this elaborate sonata were rendered with surprising
effect by one SO young. In less classical pieces the
youthful player acquitted himeelf with cqaal credit.
Gottschalk's " Last Hope" was one of his most
pleasing performances, while a Romanza and
"Danse des Soreieres" were especially interesting
from being his own adaptatiou. His musical abi-
lities are evidently of a high order, and we must
unfit, that time and study will perfect them, and
that so promising a musician may escape the
dangers that teo often attend precocious celebrity.
The performances were varied by some songs
prettily sung by Miss Clara Darken, among them
Spohr's graceful " hese softly blooming," and
Persiani's aria, " Ah, no, no, no," which was her
happiest effort. she rooms were filled with a
fashionable company.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1864.

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DENMARK.

ARRIVAL OF THE DANISH SQUADRON
AT COPENHAGEN.

COPENHAGEN, MAY 15, 3.36 p.m.

The North Sea f quadron arrived here to-day at
noon in an undamaged state, and was greatly
cheered by the assembled spectators. The King
went on board the ships.

(From the Times Special Correspondent lately at the Danish

Head-quarters.)
COPENHAGEN, May 13.

I cannot say that I attach great importance to
the Ministerial crisis through which this country
has just passed, and this may explain my silence
about all this transaction hitherto. The Home
Minister, those of Justice and of War, have tendered
their resignation, and that of the first and last has
been accepted. The alleged cause of this split in the
Cabinet is the acceptanee on the part of the Govern-
ment of the terms of the armistice, especially for
what concerns the raising of the blockade of the
German ports. This retirement, however, implies
no change in the policy of the Cabinet, which is,
as it always was, represented by the President of
the Council, Bishop Monrad.
The Danes are almost out of their senses with joy
at the tidings of the sea fight off Heligoland of the
9th. I have nothing to add to the particulars which
must have reached you both through German and
Danish telegrams. The encounter is highly hon
ourable to the Danes, as, with somewhat inferior
forces, they succeeded in inflicting serious, and very
nearly fatal, injury upon at least one of their
enemy's ships. Their advantage, however, was
void of important results, as they withdrew to the
northwards, as if unable either to pursue the
Germans into Heligoland, or at least to watch their
movements and intercept their escape from that
neuteal harbour.

ALTONA, MAY 15.

The Prince of Augustenburg entered Altana this
evening, and met with a most enthusiastic reception.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, MAY 15.

The Electoral law and an additional article to
the Constitution have been proclaimed by Prince

The nation has been invited to vote a simple
affirmative or negative on these questions.
Tranquillity prevails, and public opinion is
favourable to the Prince.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 16.

The Spanish war steamer Isabella Secunda, from
Cadiz, having on board their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess Montpensier, family, and suite,
arrived here this morning.

Their royal highnesses will land and leave for
Claremont by the three o'clock train this afternoon•

MARSEILLES, MAY 15.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said, from
Alexandria, with 201 passengers, ex Imperatrice,
arrived here at 11 p.m. yesterday.

BUENOS AYRES, APRIL 14.
(By telegraph from Lisbon.)

Exchange, 502.. Ounces, 2,910. Wet salted
ox hides, 40. Dry American, 40 to 42. Wool
firm. Tallow, 14/. Lumber, 35, firmer. Flour,
7-1- to 8, in demand. Refined sugar, 189. Freight
dull and unchanged.
BOURSE, May 14. The market continues
buoyant, and prices show a further slight improve-
ment. Threes, for the Account, are now firm at
66f. 90c.. and Mobilier at 1,182 fr. 50c. Railway
Market not very animated, but previous quotations
pretty well maintained. The market closed as
follows

4t per Cents. 94 50 Italian Loan 69
Do. end month.... Do. end month 6B 85
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 67 Do. end month —
Credit M0bi1i0r....1175 Russian
Do. end m0nth....1176 50 Austrian
Bank Shares 3380 Spanish Threes.... 51 50
Credit Fonder 1260 Home Debt
Roman
BAIL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
886 25 ~ 885
985 983 75
887 50 .. 887 60
890
616 25 .. 652 50
500 .. 500
463 50 .. 465
365 .. 365
405 407 50
533 75 .. 536 25
490 .. 485
572 50 .. 570 50
270 270

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Mr Zohrab, vice-
consul at Mostar, has been appointed her Majesty's consul
at Berdiansk. The vice-consulate of Mostar will be abo-
lished. Mr Dunlup, Consul at Cairo, has been appointed
consul at Cadiz. Mr T. F. Reade, Consul at Tangier, has
been appointed consul at Cairo. Mr White, vice-consul in
Cyprus, has been appointed consul at Tenger. Mr Col-
naghi, consul in Corsica, has been appointed consul in
Cyprus. Mr Smallwood, Keeper of the Archives at H.M.
Mission at Turin, has been appointed consul in Corsica.
The appointment held by Mr. Smallwood in the mission at
Turin will not be filled up.—Observer.
THE CHAPTER IN DANGER.—The courts of law
have narrowly escaped a trial in which the doctrine-,
of the Church of England on sacramental efficiency would
have undergone a searching scrutiny. The Venerable
Charles Dodgson, Archdeacon of Richmond, has been
preaching, in his turn, in Ripon Cathedral, and in dealing
with his subject—the efficacy of the sacraments—made
remarks which the Very Rev. Dr. Goode, the Dean of
Ripon, construed into a personal affront. The Dean
" presented " the Archdeacon to the Bishop of Ripon for
teaching unsound doctrine, but the Bishop having before
his eyes recent unsatisfactory and very unprofitable theo-
logical lawsuits, declined to interfere, and informed the
Dean that if he desired to proceed he must do so through
the Ecclesiastical Courts, by setting the Church Discipline
Act in motion. This course the Dean declined to adopt,
and the Church has been spared the scandal of a conflict
between two high dignitaries of the same cathedral,
THE TIN TRADE.—Since our last notice the tin
standard has been further reduced 4s. per cwt.. all
round, making the present quotations :—Common; 980;
superior ditto, 99s ; fine, 101 s ; superior ditto, 103 s. No
further alteration has taken place in metal, the market con-
tinning very dull. The official drop of 4s per cwt. on the
3d inst. was scarcely appreciable, as fixed prices had not
been adhered to, and consumers are looking for a further
concession. The importations, &a., of tin into London
during the present year exceed those of the corresponding
period in 1863 by 975 tons ; the quantity of straits afloat
is just double that of 1863, or 616 tons; and the Banca
stock in Holland is nearly 30,000 slabs in excess of last
year. Any advance in price just now, therefore, cannot be
expected.
THE UPSTAIRS OMNIBUS.—At the new Brighton
hotel, we are told, the principal of the five hydraulic
lifts works up and dcwn in a vertical shaft eight feet square.
It is nearly finished, and constitutes a small saloon or
"upstairs omnibus." The shaft is enclosed on all sides,
except an aperture or doorway on a level with each story.
The height of the shaft is, from the ground-floor to the
fifth story, fifty-six feet. The little movable saloon within
it will accommodate seven or eight persons at once, who
can be raised to the uppermost of the lye stories in ore
minute, or to any of the intermediate stories in a few seconds
less time. The pulling of a handle—very little more trouble
than pulling a bell—suffice to set in action the hydraulic
power which raises the platform ; while the adjustment of
nicely-balanced weights renders the movement smooth and
easy. This is, per excellence, the visitors' lift, not to be
used by mortals of less exalted dignity. A second lift ascends
from the basement of the fifth story, intersecting and
communicating with all the intermediate stories in its way;
the ascent is 76ft.; and the purpose, we believe, is to faci-
litate the ascent of servants with their burdens. A third
lift, about as lofty as the second, is for sending up dinners,
&c,, only, and not hundredweights of humanity. A fourth
carries up dinners from the basement to the grand coffee-
room only. A fifth carries up wines and other liquors from
the cellar to the bar. Now, if the reader will only picture
to himself the amount of :canning up and down stairs inevi-
tably involved in the daily proceedings at any one of our
large hotels, he will easily perceive that these hydraulic
lifts will not only save much bodily fatigue, but will also
economise time. It may, perchance, turn out that lofty
hotels will really be more handy than those of less height.
Already, some of our photographers have begun the adop-
tion of lifts, worked by a winch-handle, to raise their sitters
to the studio at the top of the house,— Chair:here. 'Journal,
24ew and Improver? Series,