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HER MAJESTY,

BALMORAL, Sept. 2.

The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha, Princess ILlena, and Princess
Louise, walked and drove in the grounds of the
Castle yesterday morning.

In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess He-
lena and Princess Beatrice, drove to Abergeldie.

The Prirc3 and Princess of \Vales honoured the
gathering at Braemar with their presence, his royal
highness being one of tLe patrons.

SErr. 3.

The Queen, accompanied by their royal high-
!teases the Duchess of Slxe-Coburg and Gotha and
Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds
of the Castle yesterday morning.
Her Majesty in the afternoon drove out with the
Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Prince Leopold.

The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her
Majesty last night. Their royal highnesses left
Abergeldie Castle at ten o'clock this morning to
embark at Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, in her
Majesty's steam yacht Osborne, for Copenhagen.
His Royal Highness Prince Victor Albert of Wales
accompanied his royal parents.

As arranged at present, her Majesty the Queen,
with the Royal Family, will leave Balmoral on
Monday, Oct. 24, and arrive at Windsor Castle on
the following day to breakfast, Prince Alfred will
return to England in about three weeks, when his
Royal Highness will go to Scotland, and remain at
Balmoral until the return of tho Court to Windsor.
Extensive alterations and embellishments are being
made in the private apartments of the Castle.
Nearly one hundred workpeople are employed in
the various rooms since her Majesty's departure.
All the Equerries' apartments are being newly
decorated. Carpeting is being laid down.—four
Journal.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador left
Chandoe House on Saturday for Vienna, on leave of absence
for a couple of months. The Countess Apponyi goes to
Baden- Baden in a fortnight.

The Duke of Newcastle is in about the same
state of health as when he left town. His grace is very
weak and does not take any out-door exercise.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
3hart Railways
100 Itlantie &St Lawrenei all 58 60
Sk Plorn.,Barodatt.Centln
, 10.. 101 102 1013 a
Gu. 5 per cent..
20 Do. E. Shares..... 74 dis p
'404 and Lake furor all 54
10 Do. Preteronce all 74 84
100 duilalo,BrantazGodriel 100 75 80
1 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1`37.
100 1)0. do. July 1, 187. 100 75 80
100 )o. do. June 1, PK-, 100 75 80
et
„llcutta.&S.Eastn.(l.ii: 100 97 9.)
st 'anoTown W Dock Seri 10n 94 95
100 Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf all
.tock aatain. Bengal gu.y. •tuu 102 104 101
Stool East Indian. gu. sp. c ton 101 102 1014 3 1
20 Do. do. ti Ext all 192 201
20 Do. do. H do.
stook r 4 rand Truna of Caned, 1.0 19 2) 181 19
1 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds
1 charge 6 per ce,-nt all 91 93
100 Do. Ist t'rei.
,„, 71 73 72
100 Do. do. def;,fred..„„ all 60 63
100 Do. 2d fret. Bonds all 65 67
100 Do. (1.0. deferred all 55 57
:00 Do, 3d Pref. stock all 48 51
100 1:o. do. deferred all 43 45
100 Do, 4th Pref. stook all 27 29
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COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
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Do. do. 1883.... 100
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dauritins 6 p.cent. 1873 100 103 105
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New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 101
Nora Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
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4ueensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 100 103
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Vio.Gov, 6 p.o. Ja.,Sr.July 100 -
Do. lc; 6 p.e. An..tOct.. 100 ,09 110 1091

The Earl and Countess of Derby, who were on
a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Longshawe Lodge,
Derbyshire, from Monday to Friday last, have returned
to Knowsley. The noble earl intends to leave Kiowsley
the week after next for Doncaster, where he will pass the
week.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have en-
tertained a succession of visitors at Bretby Park since the
commencement of the past week. Oa Monday, the celebra-
tion of Lord Stanhope's birthday, there was a cricket match
in front of the hall. Among the guests staying at Bretby
during the week were the Earl of Coventry, the Earl and
Countess of Carnarvoa, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury,
the Earl Annesley, Mr Payne, Captain Little, Hon, Col.
and Mrs Curzon and Miss Anson, Hon. Francis and Mrs
Stonor, Hon. Colonel Forester, Mr Forester, Hon. E. C.
Leigh, &c.

Viscount Palmerston, who came to town on
Saturday evening from Wales and Hereford, left yesterday
afternoon• to join her ladyship at Brockett Hall, Herts.

Lord and Lady Poltimore's party last week, dur.
lag the races at Exeter, included the Earl of Portsmouth,
Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Mr A. Seymour, Colo•
nel and Mrs Acland, Mr Fleming, Lord and Lady Il-
cheater, 5.;-.3.

Lady Mary Craven has left Thomapa Hotel,
Berkeley-Square, for Drakelow, Burton-on-Trent,
The Countess Schouvaloff and family have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-Equare, for the Continent.

Colonel the Hon, W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot
have arrived at Munich, on their way home from Germany.
They intend to make a tour in Switzerland before they re-
turn to England.

Sir Andrew Buchanan, the English Ambassador
at Berlin, who is now at Potsdam awaiting the accouche.
went of the Crown Princess of Prussia, will visit England
for a short period after that event, and will proceed to his
new post at St Petersburg about the middle of October.

In a fortnight from this date Millie. Victoire
Balfe (late Lady Crampton), the daughter of our great
composer, will espouse a grandee of Spain, who unites with
his title of duke and a large fortune the best qualities of
head and heart.— Thc ['reha' a.

BRITISH MINES.

A NEW RIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK—Altera-
tions of an extensive character are going on in St.
James's-park, with a view to provide a ride for horsemen,
such as that of Rottenrow, in Hyde-park. The portion of
the park which ➢lr. Cowper, the Chief Commissioner of
Works, has set apart for this purpose extends from Storey's-
gate to Buckingham Palace, being the whole length of
Birdcage-walk, It has hitherto formed part of what is
known as the enclosure, which has been devoted to the use
of persons who are not fortunate enough to have horses and
carriages, and who have extensively availed themselves of
it for the purposes of recreation. A space between 30 and
40 feet of ground in depth, along the whole length of the
walk, has been dug up, and is now a rudis iradigestaque
moles. In the course of a few days the railings on the
north side of Birdcage-walk will be removed 30 or 40 feet
back, and that largo and important strip of ground will be
cut off from the enclosure. As soon as the necessary
arrangements can he made, it will be thrown open as a ride
for the exclusive use of the aristocracy.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S SEAT IN NORFOLK.
—SANDItINGHAM, Sept. I.—Great preparations are
being made for the reception of their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales for the shooting season
after their return from Denmark. The prospects of the
shooting season on the royal estate are very good, as there
is a great quantity of partridges, an abundance of pheasants,
and every variety of game. Tho very dry season has of
course been very favourable tolgame preserving, and, poach-
ing being almost unknown here, the principal enemy which
the keepers have had has been Master Reynard, a good
supply of foxes being preserved by the directions of the
prince. The alterations and improvement which have
been and are being made under the direction of Mr
Carmichael, the resident steward, are very marked, and
have already completely changed tho aspect of the estate.
The plantations, which had become completely overgrown
and choked with rank underwood have been thinned, por-
tions of the park have been raised and planted, and new
and excellent roads made. A new anti commodious house
hare been provided within the park for the head keeper,
and on the table land before it have been constructed
18 large pheasantries, each being about fifty feet
square, all connected, and forming one large and
compact block. Tile kitchen garden, which has been
laid out, and is to supply the teyal table with fruit
and N'e;;etables throughout the year, comprises 15
acresof land, 7 of which are completely enclosed
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brick walls, that on Ike north side being of great
height, and parallel with, it are six large grape conserva-
tories. The new le;,,ourers, dwellings each of which is pro-
vided with three sleeping apartments, approach completion,
and others are to be commenced. All the old cottages have
been repaired, painted, and ingrained. The royal stables
have beat Mill further extended, so as to show uniformity
of appearance, and aff'rd sufficient accommodation for his
royal highness's stud. The comptroller's house, which is
really a very beautiful mansion, situated in the park to the
south-west of the hall, is completed. A model of Sandring-
ham Hall has been constructed according to the plan of
Mr Humbert, and if they aro carried out a splendid palace
will supersede the present modest mansion of Sandringham
House. Nothing has as yet been decided in the matter-
The beautiful Norwich gates and their accompaniments are
on the point of completion—the decorator being now
engaged in putting the finishing touch to them. The Home
Farm falls into the hands of the Prince of Wales at
Michaelmas.

THE GAME SEASON IN THE EAST.—The game
season commenced under favourable auspices on Thurs-
day, in the partridge district of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,
and Lincolnshire. The weather was beautifully fine, the
air fresh and invigorating, and it may emphatically be
said to have been a " glorious first." Game is considered
plentiful, although in come localities partridges have been
picked up dead from the effects of the drought. In conse-
quence of the turnips having attained but a meagre deve-
lopment, while the birds are very strong and wild, sport°,
men have had to put forth active exertions in order to make
Up good tags. In the neighbourhood of Stamford many
gentlemen were on the alert shortly after 4 a.m.

TUE HARVEST IN CUMBERLAND.—Harvestiug is
now general in the county of Cumberland, even in the
localities that are usually late. The fine weather of the
past few weeks has brought the grain well forward, and
much is already safe " under thack and rape." The
wheat crop is generally spoken of as an average crop ; bar-
ley and eats have done well in most places. Turnips have
been greatly benefi tted by recent rains, and the pastures
which in many cases ha.l been quite burnt up by the
drought, arc looking better.
SINGULAR CASE OF SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.—
Yesterday morning about 6 o'clock, two females called at
a coffeehouse at the Market-head, Woolwich, and partook
of refreshments, after which one of the women was, at her
request, allowed to go up-stairs. Shortly afterwards both
parties left the house in a hurried manner, and in conse-
quence of some suspicious circumstances a search was made,
which resulted in the discovery of the body of a newly-born
ilitaut secreted iu the apartment which the woman referred
to was allowed to enter. The police were immediately in-
formed and pursuit was made, but neither of the females
have yet been apprehended,

THE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1864

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

THE " tONDON REVTEW" ON INN I.:I9II!EY'S CARE 'QR
THE STATE OF Mats HOT'LET4B Hopley has
appealed from a British jury to the British public at large,
in a pamphlet entitled "A Cry for Justice, and for the
Souls of my Wife and Children." Whether the meaning of
the last portion of the title be that Mrs Hopley is endanger-
ing her eternal welfare by taking refuge from her husband
upon the Continent, or that she has already endangered it
by giving evidence against Mr Hopley in the Divorce Court,
may be a matter of debate. It is sufficient to say that Mrs
Hopley's course makes Mr If opley very anxious for her
immortal soul. There are certain natures with whom a
quarrel sure to take this theological shape. In some
cases, and in some mouths, blessing becomes bitterer and
more effective than cursing itself , and to propose to pray
for the o'her side is the last and most terrible arrow from
the quiver of an angry controversialist. "Charity, my
dear," said the injured Mr Peclisniff, "when I take my
bedroom candlestick, remind me more particularly to pray
f.a. Mr Martin Chuzzlewit." There are some nymphs, and
some male angels, too, in whose " orisons" all their neigh-
bour.' sins are sure to be " remembered ;" and whose devo-
tional exercises partake not so much of the character of a
Liteny as of a Conarnination Service. It would, perhaps,
be refusing Mr Hopley that justice for which, with many
gushes of religious expostulation, he appeals, if we
were to put down to hypocrisy his ostentatious anxiety
for the spiritual condition of those who have offended
him. He is, doubtless, sincere in the belief that he
is an ill-used man. But his missionary efforts to im•
prove the souls of his pupils and his family have
been attended hitherto with such lamentable results,
that when, after all his trials, the missionary vein
crops up again as luxuriant as ever, it is perhaps na-
tural for Mrs. Hopley and her relatives to feel alarmed.
Similar phenomena preceded the death of the unhappy boy
Chancellor, and accompanied the moulding by which Mrs,
Hoplcy was to be made fit to be the mother of juvenile
Hopleys. If Mr. Hopley had chastised his unhappy wife
out of ill temper and hot blood, there might be some hopes
that his long imprisonment might have taught him the
necessity of domestic self-control ; but when we discover
that all was part and parcel of a pious curriculum, and that
Mr. Hopley's victims have been victims rather of his de-
sire to reform his fellow-creatures than of any natural
ferocity, the domestic future of the Hopley household looks
very dark indeed. The charge made against the gentle-
man in question by his wife and by the public is not that
he is a Quilp ; nor does Mr. Hopley meet the issue by
affirming, with some appearance of truth, that he is far
from being a monster in human shape. Nobody says that
he is a monster. What is alleged against him is that he
carries concern for his fellow-creatures to the verge of mo-
nomania, and that he polishes and brightens the Christian
character of those about him in a way that seriously affects
their physical health and comfort. That he has begun
again, after so serious a warning, to discuss Mrs Hopley's
soul, is, then, not a reassuring symptom. By this time,
very possibly Mrs Hopley trembles at the very mention of
her soul at all, and when she learns from her secure retreat
that Mr. Hopley has been thinking over her immortal pro-
spects, she will feel like the emancipated slave who dreamed
of the cracking of his master's thong.
In order to vindicate himself, and partly doubtless in order
to expose the true nature of the religious precipice ea er
which Mrs Hopley's soul is balancing itself, Mr Hopley
prints at considerable length the letters which his wife
wrote to him during his confinement, The taste of pub-
lishing such documents is most questionable, but the ex-
citement under which he is evidently labouring and the
obvious character and mental training of the man render
it unnecessary to discuss his conduct from an tethestic point
of view. The panegyrics he himself bestows upon his
wife's correspondence for refinement and delicacy are pro-
bably sincere and certainly deserved. No ono can peruse
her effusions without a strong feeling of sympathy for the
woman who is their author. If it be true (and we see no
reason to believe the contrary) that Mr Hopley found his
wife when he married her an ignorant and half-educated
girl, and has made her an accomplished and clover woman,
the fact says nothing for him that might not be conceded
by his severest critics. From the fiery ordeal which she
entered as a raw young lady Mrs Hopley has emerged a
cultivated wife and mother; but, for all that, the process
which has been so intellectually successful may have been
physical and mental anguish. The great poet who tells
us the discipline of pain with which it pleased Heaven to
try a lady of hie acquaintance, winds up with the funeral
remark—

" The saint survived it, but the woman died."
It is possible that Mrs Hopley's virtue in like manner
increased, pari passer, with her misery ; but the principle
which produces hot-house matronly graces at such a cost
would justify the worst enormities of a Grand Inquisitor,
If it be lawful to do God service at the risk of cruelty
to man, there is no form of torture that may not logically
be supported. Th.) instinct that leads to such excesses,
either in public or in private life, may be termed the peda-
gogue instinct in its worst and most dangerous form, It
is an instinct which has done more to retard progress than
any other which can be named; and when it breaks oat
violently in private has led men, before now, to the gallows.
The feminine devotion and warmth of heart which are
conspicuous throughout the whole of Mrs Hopley's corre-
spondence, do not disprove what the jury have asserted—
that Mr Hopley hoc) boon Gruel; it only confirms their fur-
ther admission, that his cruelty has been unfortunately
condoned. It is by no means a rare spectacle .to see a
woman, in the hey day of youth and imagination,
attracted rather than repelled by harshness. The annals
of the police-courts show that many a woman retains her
infatuation for some drunken ruffian, who beats her and ill
uses her from day to day—and Mr Hopley has posssibly
mental qualities sufficient to fascinate the fancy even of a
frightened and ill-treated wife. Still less can such a cor-
respondence be taken to rebut the accusation of original
cruelty, when the circumstances are considered under
which it was panned. Mr Hopley was at the time in
prison, and both he and his wife well knew that he was an
outcast from society. If ever a noble and generous woman
would feel inclined to condone her injuries, it would be
when she felt the loneliness and misery of the man who
had been her tyrant. Mrs Hopley in the Divorce Court,
with her own letters before her, solemnlyswore, neverthe•
less, that she had been cruelly dealt with. The jury,
to a man, believed her. Mr Hopley replies that she
has perjured herself. He must be insane not
to perceive that the grace and tenderness of the letters
which he himself produces from her, are the strongest
companion easier
to
o f a pos-
sible argument against
e whisoarnssearntidoni.llulstedis
far
be-
lieve that the woman who wrote them
was, in spite of her
love ;and afftctio
monomaniac that to believe her capable of having given
false and fraudulent testimony for the purpose of ruining
an innocent and virtuous husband. Nor was his wife's tes-
timony unsupported. Servants were called to corroborate
her in important particulars; and though Mr. Hopley in-
sinuates that their character was not of the best description
the only alternative theory to that of his own guilt is the
theory of a domestic conspiracy between his whei his wife's
family, and his own household. The fact that none of his
pupils were privy to any of the conduct of which he was
accused goes for very little. The strictest conjugal discip.
linarian would not be likely to punish his wife, so to speak,
upon parade, and in the presence of a regiment of boys.
Even Mr. Quilp did not pinch Mrs. Quilp when strangers
were looking on. He chose quiet moments, when nobody
observed him, and made her life a burden to her without
violating decent conventionalities. Mr. Hopley is a man
whose vanity and dignity would preserve him from the
error of making his matrimonial training a by-word in his
house and schoolroom ; and if, as seems probable, his
cruelty is only a form of pedagogeism run mad, he pro-
bably inflicts unhappiness on those under his iron rule
upon a strictly decorous system. If We wished for an
instance of the truth, that men who Commit crimes are
not wholly bad, we do not know Whither we could
better turn than in the case of such a man. lir.
Hopley with tears protests that he is not a demon, or a
butcher, or a murderer. The social philanthropist knows
well that those who draw upon themselves the indignant
censures of society are rarely demons. There is often
soma good in them, as in Mr, lienley, coupled with a
monstrous want of self-control iu One direction, which
poisons their whole nature, and ruins their "a hole life.
The consciousness of some good intentions and some
noble ambitions is a possession I which Mr Hopley
shares with not a few of the greatest tyrants of history.
It is not the pleasure of any generous mind to trample on a
fallen man, or to outrage even Mr Hopley by comparisons
which would be insulting and Unjust. It is quite enough
to say that his pamphlet by no means makes us regret that
Mrs Hopley has escaped from his society, His self-delu-
sions aro probably Fenuine, but they amount to disease.
In carrying out his vain sad inflexible plans he has done
much harm and caused much unhappiness; and his tone
and temper render it probable that in his obstinate blind-
ness to his own defects, he may cause still more unhappi-
ness heron) he dies.

THE "EXAMINER" ON Two SOYEREIGNS AT VIENNA.
—The Germans have certainly reason to be proud. They
have outrun all other people for the moment, and step for-
not equalled by Prussia.
"ward as the most prominent at least of the European world.
The obstinacy and wilfulness of the Americans, their turn
for bloodshed too, certainty are
But in the old world, iswhat talked of but Germany
Russia seems to be under an eclipse. Italy is unobtrusive ;
the French Emperor running unlucky France up to her
ears in debt; England quietly minding her own business.
Other nations aro asking what the Germans will next beat.
Wiil they reconquer Lombardy or claim Alsen ? That so
powerful an alliance should limit itself to the acqui-
sition of the poor little province of Schleswig is not an
adrquate reosit. The Emperor of Austria and the King of
Fruesia have met at Vienna. Now the anxiety is great to
know who is to be the next enemy, and where lies the prey
whose turn it is to be devoured. Their last joint meal, the
victim of this summer, has, however, yet to be devoured and
digested ; and it was precisely to rub beaks over this carcase
that the Eagles of Prussia and Austria were gathered toge-
ther. The meeting was like fire and water. As is evident
from the explosion of hostility which burst forth immediately
from the press of Vienna and that of Berlin. It is remark-
able how these organs, more or less, of the two peoples and
the two Governments, have exchanged their traditional tone.
So much so, that to look merely at the papers, one at Vienna
might fancy himself in Berlin, and Berlin has the air of

Vienna, Berlin used to be for progress, and given to sneer
at the stationary and gligEish nature of Vienhit, Now the
Berlin writerS have all steeled their pens in npolsonic
ink, and are giving vent to doctrines completely of the
French Imperialist school. The spirit of Herr von Bismark
might have inspired M. Persigny's speech of the other day.
But von Bismark is, it seems, too Imperialist for the Court
of the old Cassese. He finds no one there to assent to his
doctrine, save Count Rechberg. And even ho smiles at
Bismark's soldatesque diatribes against Constitutionalists
Bismark and the Prussian organs denounce all Liberals as
democrats. Every person and every idea, that is in oppo-
sition to him, he stigmatises as democrat. And he no doubt
treats Schmerling himself as a democrat quite as dangerous
as Waldeck. However, the official prints of Berlin have
not arrived at a denunciation of all Austria as democratic.
Their present target is Schleswig- Holstein. Eight or ten
months ago the people of the Duchies were objects of popu-
lar sympathy and admiration to the Prussians, even to
Prussian officials. Now they are treated as mere demo-
rats, bent on anarchy, and absurdly given to independence.
According to the sound Prussian version, the only right
thinking and well-behaved portion of the population are the
Danish peasants; for the German traders of the Schleswig
towns are, it seems, deplorable radicals, who, if endowed
with freedom, would offer a worse example to Germany
than the Danes themselves. On this political plea, much
insisted on at Vienna, Bismark would keep military posses-
sion of the Duchies, which he declares would be utterly lost
to Conservative Government if Duke Frederick were in-
stalled. Bismark abhors the Duke far more than he ever
abhorred Christian, and ho abhors still more the men who
surround Duke Frederick, and who were more or less mixed
up with, and remain the friends of, the great movement of
1848, In however strong language this may have been re-
presented by Bismark at Vienna, it still did not seem to
prove to the Austrians that either Prussia should keep pos-
session of the Duchies or that she should hand them over to
an obedient nominee. Austria insists that Germany, and not
Austria or Prussia, should profit by her conquests. Prussia
had proposed to oust the Federal Commission from Holstein,
Austria objected, and the Federal Commission remains, in-
stead of the inber ins, which Prussia recommended. More-
over, Austria considered that Prussia had made an unfair
and unwarrantable choice in Scheele Plessen to defend at
the Conference the pecuniary interests of the Duchies.
Scheele Plessen was one of the nobles of the Duchies, who
professed attachment to the reigning power of Denmark,
yet headed the opposition in the Chamber against Denmark,
and thus upset the object of their attachment. Scheele
Plessen would govern the Duchies by a senate and without
a duke, who might interfere with the aristocracy and its
pretensions. He is, theref ore, beloved of Bismark. But
the Austrian Government, more liberal, insisted that
Reincke, the Altona banker, a truly liberal and popular
Holsteiner, who had been one of the deputation to England,
should be joined with Scheele Plessen to represent sincerely
and essentially the great commercial and pecuniary interests
of the duchy to which Altona belongs. A knowledge of
these circumstances must add to Austria's character and
influence, and thereby induce the Emperor not to hearken
to Bismark's wild advice. It is well known that this Minis-
ter would have se.zed and appropriated the Duchies had the
King, his master, consented, and this ho would still do,
even at the risk of a quarrel with Austria, could he obtain
permission. The King, however, is some check upon his
Minister's foreign policy, althohgh in domestic matters,
and in the virtual abolition of representative Government
in Prussia, King William seems to have given carte blanche
to the Prussian Strafford.

THE " SPECTATOR" ON CAPT. MAYNE REID AS THE
LAWGIVER OF CROQUET.-All devotees of croquet must
be satisfied with the progress made in the c/ilitcs of their
favourite game during the present year. For the last three
years and more the game has gone on progressing every
day in popular favour, and gradually fascinating. even the
most obdurate opponents—for croquet, like all other good
movements, has had no small amount of opposition to con-
tend with. It was soon found that the direct mode of
attack must be abandoned, and in a very short time after
the introduction of the game there were comparatively few
left who openly dared to assail it, while the majority of mal-
contents had to console themselves by malignant insinua-

supposed to take a holiday is of itself a sufficient warning
to ambition ; and, from the celebrated " Give us your paw
young'un" story, it is evident that when Lord Palmerston
visits a go-ahead town like Bradford, he thinks
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that something of the Yankee pump-handle must be
introduced. But it is pictorially that our principal
statesmen are chiefly doomed to suffer. The
enorneou,s facilities for multiplying likenesses which have
been created by modern discovery are in perpetual requisi-
tionoeey;eer.inging the peculiar cut of his garments
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wearing 18 of the habilineents upon which the ingenious
tradesman chiefly prides hie n self. The Queen serves as an
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proportions of the swallow-tail. ,Lord Palmerston figures
in a negligrie suit, Lord Russell is selected as the fittest
model for exhibiting the merits of a P riding suit," Lord
Derby wears the honcurs of a
4 6 ceeetertield overcoat,"
and Mr Disraeli, from some ethnologicel co.
efusien in the
mind-of the artist which it is difficult to tt:leth appears
as the ideal wearer of the "Inverness cape!' But
the chief sufferings of our public men are from the Lew art
of photography. Since the cheap carte de visite cams into
fashion, and still more since it became the correct thing to
have a carte de visite album on everybody's table, the furious
demand of the public for likenesses to fill these albums has
been quite uncontrollable, and the consequent labour thrown
on photographers and their sitters has been very great.
There is no need to pity the photographers, for they are
well paid for their labours, and the more furious the de-
mand becomes the better they will like it. But the Cabinet
Minister's case is a harder one. There are three principal
duties which attach to his eminent position. He has to
manage his department,to attend in his place in Parliament,
and to sit for his carte de visite. The first two duties are
considered in the estimates; but the last, and (upon a hot
day) the heaviest, has to be performed gratuitously. Of
course it is necessary, in so many sittings, to contrive a little
variety, and the ingenuity which must be brought to bear to
attain this end cannot but be very exhausting. The Bishop
of Oxford, who, in this as in other matters, loves to accumu-
late labour, is photographed as often as a Cabinet Minister, is
satisfied with striking out as many attidudes in relation to a
curtain and a pillar, as the restricted number of human
limbs will permit. But the changes which can be rung
upon this combination are necessarily limited. You cannot
do much with a pillar except lean upon it, and, unless you
stand in front of a curtain, you can do nothing else with it
except get it between your legs, Mr Gladstone has pre•
ferred the more fertile reseurce of different changes of dress
and with no little ingenuity he has made them symbolise
the particular phase of political existence through which he
happens to be passing. When he was the great Finance
Minister carrying out the great treaty, he presented himself
to the photograper in the official dress of a Chancellor of
the Exehequer. But finance has fallen a little into the
background of late. Other aspirations have taken the place
of those of the pure financier; other claims to a possible
Premiership than those which rest upon the suffrages of
the trading community are being sedulously cultivated.
Accordingly, Mr Gladstone presents himself before the
lens in the Court-dress of a Privy Councillor. It is not a
pretty dress. On the contrary, a profane stranger,
unacquainted with its sacred associations, would describe it
as something between the dresses of a postilion and a buf-
foon. It is, in fact, rather an extreme specimen of the
taste which governs the selection of most of our Court cos-
tumes. It required some courage in a grave statesman to
have himself immortalised in white kerseymere shorts; but
no doubt Mr Gladstone felt that the dress, though ugly,
was symbolical of a present policy, and prophetic of a bril-
liant future, But it is upon Lord Palmerston that the
chief burden of the Administration falls in the photographic
as in every other department of Ministerial duty. We are
informed by the journals most in his confidence that, at the
end of July last, he honoured the Stereoscopic Com-
pany with a sitting at which no less than four dozen
negatives were taken. There are very few people who
are not able, from their own recollections, to illustrate
the amount of endurance which this announcement
reveals. The retreat of a photographer, built at the
top of a tall house, roofed in with glass like a hot-house
and concentrating the rays of the sun almost with the force
of a burning glass, is probably the hottest place of confine-
ment known to human suffering on this side of Calcutta.
Allowing two minutes and a half to each negative—and
very few sitters escape from the oven at half so cheap a
rate—the Prime Minister must have undergone at least a
good two hours' thorough baking, under the full power of
a July sun, in his anxiety to "spread his likeness broad-
cast o'er the land," When he took office, he probably
never calculated on labour such as these. The Treasury
Bench does not look comfortable, and there must be a
monotony in the sensation it communicates when you
I have to sit on it for nine or ten hours a day.
But it must be pleasant, and even luxurious,
compared to a protracted session in a photographer's
bakery. Listening to his own colleague, Mr Denman,
upon the case of the Baron de Bode, is usually supposed
to have been the severest trial to which even the veteran
Prime Minister and the well-seasoned officials of the house
were ever exposed; but it must have been an exciting pas-
time compared to posing far two hours before a lens in a
pothouse. It cannot be said that all this labour has pro-
duced much variety in the resulting portraits. The object
of them all is much the same as the object of the nume-
rous speeches which the Premier has spent the month of
August in making. Both equally serve the purpose of
advertising unabated juvenility to the world, This ob-
ject the photographs undoubtedly effect for the
positions are carefully selected, and great vigour of posture,
and some vivacity of expression, is preserved. No one
would gather from them that our Prime Minister was a
joker of jokes, or that he owes much of his continued success
to the dexterity with which he deadens the thrust of an
attack by shielding himself behind a defence of particu-
larly bad chaff. The face is anything but merry or cheer-
ful. It is the weary face of one who has been much in
oourts, and knows how to go resignedly through any
amount of ennui. In some, probably those which came
early in the portentous sitting, there is an expression
of business-like attention, as though the sitter was
still fresh, and could fancy himself transacting his ord:nary
offieial duties. Some even look contemptuous, and half-
ernitn;g, as though he enjoyed the absurdity of the position.
But as, .the series goes on, the countenance becomes more
and more ;lead, the eyes more and more destitute of ex-
pression, as though his force were yielding to the op-
pressive influences of the hour. At length this change
of feature culminates) in one which must evidently have
been the last of the sales, and which is deeply pathetic.
It bears the lineaments of a man heroically struggling,
Lut on the point of giving way. The powers of
endurance have failed e t last. It seems to say, in
tones of despairing remonstrance, " I am but a man of 80,
after all; you have put me through what half my colleagues
would have fainted under—how can you expect me to stand
quite still and wear a tranquil expression of countenance
for the 48th picture ?" A copy of the carte ought to be
presented to all premien:s undergraduates in either Unii.
versity who are likely to talte to politics, as a warning of
t successful statesmen have) to ge through.

tions and disparaging whisperings. It soon became clear
that a great want had been supplied--that of an out-door
game of skill and variety in which ladies could join
sufficiently simple for anybody to become a moderately
good player, and yet capable under favJurable circum-
stances of being carried to a point requiring almost as
much precision and delicacay of play as billiards itself.
But it is only within the last month that croquet has
gained a crowning triumph. The majesty of the law
has been invoked, and no less a personage than a S' ice-
Chancellor has been occupied in determining to what extent
the rules of the game are private or public property. It has
been the great drawback to the full development of the
game ever since its original establishment that no consistent
and complete code of laws was in existence. All the toy-
makers who seized upon the game at the first as the means
of making exorbitant profits by the sale of very ornamental
but too often excessively unsuitable implements, issued
brief directions for play with their sets, but these were all
insufficient and generally worse than useless. The conse-
quence was that even if the players on any particular lawn
succeeded in agreeing upon the fundamental conditions of
the garue,questions of construction and interpretation were
continually arising during the game which it was impossible
to leave unsettled without depriving the game of its main
elements of interest. Even if any community of friends ma-
naged to settle a working code of rules amongst themselves,
the establishment of the district croquet clubs now so widely
in progress was seriously hindered, as it was next to im-
poesible that a match could be carried on between any two
clubs he which some difference of practice or insoluble diffi-
culty di',l not arise. Everybody was calling for a code of
laws which might be fairly expected to meet with general
acceptation, would provide for every situation that could
arise, and would tfula:
ish croquet-players with a settled
vocabulary of technical ea";aressions, or, to use a shorter
and more expressive phrase, °` croquet slang." Now it
appears from the proceedings in e;:eancery, to which we
have referred, that this great deeideratZ.
sm of a croquet-
playing generatton had struck Captain Maine Reid some
twelve months or more ago, and with cLaracteriatic
energy ho immediately devoted himself to the task of
supplying the want. He seems to have entered upon
his task with all the keenness and perseverance of one'
of his own Indian heroes on a war trial, and during four
months he occupied himself in studying all possible
combinations and contingencies that can arise, as well as
the best croquet materials and other ,necessaries
of the game. After mature deliberation he formulated his
experience in the shape of 126 distinct rules, with explana-
tory footnotes, besides a vocabulary of " slang " and many
general remarks, all of his own composition, and published
the collection towards; the close of last year. The coda bore
the practical test Of play, and before long naturally came
into extensive use amongst croquet-players. Captain Mayne
Reid was naturally desirous ef. securing the credit duo to
himself for his arduous labours, anJ he was surprised the
other day on taking up a work entitles:ls "The Rules of
Croquet, revised by art old hand," to find than of the ninety-
three rules contained in it the majority were simpYy the re-
sults of his own experience and ingenuity much abbrWated
but occasionally transcribed literally by the compiler or
"revisor,'' and sold by hilts at the prig of sixpence,
while that of his own work was half-a-crelfl)/ Upon
inquiry he found the " Old Hand " had some mysterious
connection with the manufacturer of certain pat-
erns and designs of croquette; io known as the Cassiobury
set, and on application to the publisher whose
name appeared to the " Old Hand's work it came Lut that
the "Old Hand" himself was in reality iot to be sought
for very far from Cassiobury—that the Earl of Essex was
the individual who had thus sought an aristou:atic short
cut to learning in the laws and practice of croquet. Now,
it seems from this that our great peers are far from bans,
the mere useless drones in the hive that certain classes
would have us believe. Lord Essex, being a croquet-player,
and also a proprietor of timber, thought that he might ad-
vantageously turn his knowledge of the former to business
account as well as the latter, so he accordingly set up in life
as croquet manufacturer as well as peer. Of course the
good points of crogloterie with a handle to its name were
rapidly seen by an impressionable British public, and Lord
Essex dcubtless turned many an honest penny by his first
venture in business life. But unfortunately he thought it
essential to the completeness of the Cassiobury sot that it
should be accompanied by a code of laws, and by a strange
coincidence those which he adopted were in numerous in-
stances verbally identical with those of Capt. Mayne Reid.
The latter not seeing why Lord Essex, Whether in his capa-
city of peer or manufacturer, or under his incognito of "An
Old Hand," should be entitled to the results of other people's
work, demanded an explanation and the withdrawal
of the work. Lord Essex being, as he now alleges, igno-
rant of the extent to which the piracy had been carried, re-
fused either, and Captain Reid then had recourse to Vice-
Chancellor Kindersley, and Lord Essex, who apparently
became aware how untenable his ease really was, agreed on
Friday last to withdraw the book, to destroy all copies re-
maining unsold, to pay Captain Mayne Reid £125 as com-
pensation, and also to pay all costs of the suit—a result
which must materially disturb the proportions of the new
manufacturer's balance-sheet for his first year. Lord Essex
has scarcely yet attained a degree of circumspection and
acuteness in business commensurate with the ingenuity of
his operations. Ho is now at least too old a hand to allow
a friend to compile a book of croquet rules without his own
superintendence. There were no pre-existing laws of
croquet, and Captain Mayne Reid's work was to all intents
and purposes an oi igival composition,the result of consider-
able exertion and thought, and no one can complain be-
cause he has been'protected in reaping the fruit of his
labours, even though a slight cheek has been inflicted upon
the business enterprise of a noble Earl.
Tun " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON TUE PENALTIES 01'
GREATNESS.—The peculiar development which hero-wore
ship has recently taken in this country makes it very de-
sirable that people in exalted positions should not be afflicted
with the miefortune of shyness. In America, popular good-
will has to be conciliated by direct personal appearance
before the people, and to a great extent by contact with
them. "Going on the stump," and "the pump-handle
movement," are the two tributes paid in the land of freedom
to*the supremacy of popular principles. With us matters
are not quite so bad, although they are getting worse every
year. The oratorical treadmill upon which our chief states-
men have to go in the Beam of the year when they are

SECOND EDITION•

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

TURKEY.

TRIESTE, Sept. 2.—Letters from Constantinople
of the 27th state that an insurrectional movement
has broken out in the arrondissement of Payaz, in
Syria. The insurgents occupy the roads from
Marasch to Alexandretta, and from Adane to
Aleppo.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

TAT TERSALL'S---This Evening,
DONCASTER ST LEGER.
5 to 2 agst General I'cel (taken and offered)
3to 1 aget Blair Athol (taken and offered)
9to 1 agst Minor (offered)
100 to 6 agst Baragah (offered)
100 to 6 agst Ely (offered)
25 to 1 agst Master Richard (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Catnbuscan (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agA Knight of Snowden (offered)
40 to 1 agst Peon (take 50 to 1)
Claremontßlack
Kock
oe ( off
(taken)ere d
105000 ttoo 151 agsta gst B

THE DERBY.
.1000 to 35 agst Wizard's dam colt (taken)
1000 to 35 agst Archimedes (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Brown Dayrell (taken)

ARRIVALS AT WARWICK.
Lady Egidia, Attraction, Oldminster, Tilt, Birdfinder,
and Disappointment.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE---This Day,

CITY BETTING—Tuts DAY.
ST. LEGER.
5 to 2 agat General Peel (taken)
3 to 1 eget Blair Athol (offered)
9 to 2 eget Miner (taken)
15 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
100 to 6 agst Master Richard (taken)
20 to 1 agst Ely (offered)
25 to 1 agst Knight of Snowdon (taken)
40 to 1 agst Claremont (taken)
30 to 1 eget Breeze (offered)
20 to 1 agst Cambuscan (taken)
LEAMINGTON STARES,
3 to 1 agat Bradamante (taken)
6 to 1 agst Teneriffe (taken)
6 to 1 agst Catch 'em Alive (taken)
7 to 1 agst Revolver (taken)
7 to 1 agst Despair (taken)

Friendless and Fallen.
TO TUE EDITOR OF TUE SUN.

Sir,—Will you favour me with a small space in
your columns (just now I presume there is less
pressure) to plead the cause of those who cannot
ordinarily ask help for themselves, viz., friendless
and fallen females ? By the first class are meant
those who have maintained their moral integrity,
but through adverse circumstances are placed in
great danger ; the second, those who have fallen a
prey to the vile arts of the betrayer, and
are consequently thrust out of the pale of
society to drift down to misery, temporal
and eternal, unless rescued by some friendly hand.
Nor is this plea urged on behalf of those
belonging by birth to any particular country or pro-
fessing any particular creed. All are alike welcome.
The committee of the London Female Preventive
and Reformatory Institution have resolved to seek
to do good to poor females upon the broadest possi•
ble basis, seeking to save all as far as their funds
would permit ; and out of the 1,300 poor creatures
already received into the Humes, nearly every vil-
lage and town in the United Kingdom has supplied
a subject, as well as the continent of Europe, Africa,
Asia, and America. And, thank God, of those
received about three-fourths have been permanently
reclaimed. The committee seek the accomplishment
of their mission in five distinct Homes, where the
inmates are fed, lodged, clothed, and instructed free
of all• charge to them. When all these Homes
are full, 3iooo meals per week have to be
provided for the support of inmates ; and for this
one expense, as well as every other, the committee
are absolutely dependent upon daily voluntary con-
tributions. When the necessary period of proba-
tion expires, they are provided with suitable
situations, restored to their friends, or assisted to
emigrate. Oh, sir, if your space permitted, I could
present to your readers some painfully interesting
facts, gathered during my thirteen years' labours in
this department of Christian philanthropy. How-
ever, there is one which I must allude to. I have
said 1,300 have been admitted. This is cheering ;
but I have been compelled to refuse 500 applications
a year, simply for want of larger funds. What be.•
comes of these rejected ones ? The echo says, What?
And I would that I could make it ring in the
ears of every adult in the land, cautioning our often
too confiding maidens, compelling our young men
to realise their duty to protect the weaker sex rather
to betray them, or supinely leave the betrayed to
their unhappy fate ; and every parent to throw
around their daughters all the protection that is pos-
sible, in order to shield them while passing through
the critical period of youth. I would still further
urge this plea by reminding the reader of a fact
patent to all, viz„ that of necessity tens of thou-
sands of young women are compelled by the force
of circumstances to leave their homes in remote
country districts and seek a living by dos
mestc servitude or otherwise in London, far
away from natural protection and sympathy, and
often to confront with fierce and subtle temptation by
which many fall, more sinned against than sinning ;
and furthermore, not a few, when so overtaken,
would be for ever lost but for the efforts of the so-
ciety for which I plead. In asking for contribu-
tions, I solicit small sums as well as large,
the poor widow's mite as well as the rich man's
cheque. It is a blessed work of mercy, in
which all aro invited to join according to
their ability, by remitting postageastamps, post.
office orders, See. I would also recommend persons
interested to send for a copy of the prospectus of
the society, which gives an epitome of the work
done.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
200, Euston-road, London, N. W.
E. THOMAS, Secretary.
Bankers.—Messrs. Bosanquet and Co., 73, Lom-
bard•street, E. C.

--
The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2i per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of L 3
17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 i per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, 2-10ths
per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is quoted 2761 to 278 per cent., and the pre-
mium on gold 1551 to ,57 percent. Go:d still continues to
u.rilve in moderate quantities.

To Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lord
WharnelLifet and two other gentlemen shot over Long-
shawe_moor, near Hathersage, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
and had good si%ort. On the first-named day the five guns
procigced 209 i brat:e of grouse.
MR. WEEKE'S :,rATUE OF TORN BUNTER, which
was exhibited this year at the Royal Academy, has been
placed in the Hunterian Pi/learnt College of Surgeons,
Lincoln's-inn-fields.
'AN ENERGETIC AS WELL 'AS GIFTED ARTIST.—
Mr. Leighton has in band three pictures, which will
probably appear at the neat Royal Academy Exhibition.
These are, 1, a subject from the Iliad, Helen going with
two attendants to the Susan Gate of Troy, to satisfy her
craving to see her husband and kinsfolk, before the pro-
posed duel between Menelaus and Paris ; this work com-
prises three figures, life size. No. 2 is from the Psalms,
David sitting on the roof of his palace and gazing at the
hills, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove," &a. No. 3is a
genre subject, a woman and child, the latter holding a basket
of cherries. This artist is engaged to paint the'portrait of
the Prince of Wales for the Fishmongers' Hall. full-length,
with the garter and robes ; also that of the Princess of
Wales. Mr Leighton has departed for Florence, in order
to assist at the erection of the beautiful monument of Mre
Browning, which was designed by himself, and which we
recently described. This work will be finished in October
next.
A despatch from Marseilles announces the death
at Rome of Cardinal Savelli, ex-minister, and formerly
governor of that city, in his 72nd year.
Linant-Bey, Minister of Public Works to the
Viceroy of Egypt, has left Marseilles for Alexandria on
board the Maris,