The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

IrU :.

N°. 22,154.

LADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW WORK.
Just ready, in 3 vols,
1W AR Y YNDS A Y.
By Lady EMILY PONSONBY.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
Orders received at all the Libraries.

• LORD WILLIAM LENNOX'S BIOGRAPHY.
Now ready, in 2 vols., Bvo.,
FIFTY 'YE ABS' BIOGRAPHICAL
11 EMINISCENCES.
By LORD WILLIAM PIT I' LENNOX.
Hurst and Blacken, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

ST. JAMES'S HALL.—
GRAND TANCT BAZAAR.
THIS DAY, fromDNE till NINE o'clock.
Admission—lMF-A-CROWN.
Choice PICTURES—FLQMand FRUIT—RIMMEL'S
FO NS.

ST. J A .1%1 H,A. L L.-
GRAND FAROY BAZAAR:- -
THIS DAY (TUESDAIS,OO WEDNESDAY and
THU itSDAY.
The Band of the SioileXpallier Guards.
Beautiful SPECIMENS of WOBB.

ST. JAMES'S HALL.-
GRAND FALNOTALZAAB.-..
TILINOIS,A.Y, from ONEtIIrNINE.
AID of the FUNDS of the LONDON SURGICAL

HOME,

MINION'S CHINA—CHILDREN'S CLOTHING and
TOYS, Sze. &c.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE,
JUNE 39, 1863.
A Grand MELANGE DRAMATIQUE will take place in
AID of the FUNDS for a NATIONAL METROPOLITAN
MONUMENT to SHAKESPEARE, under the immediate
Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, before wnom 60 eminent artistes will hate the
honour of appearing. —Hon. Sec., Mr. Adolphus Francis, 43,
Cumberland-street, Hyde-park.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1863.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—On and after
the let of JULY the Price of SEASON TICKETS
will be REDUCED.
MONTHLY TICKETS will also be issued.
Particsulars on application at the Superintendent's Office,
or at any of the Stations on the Line.

TH ENGLISH and SCOTTISH MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited) will COM-
MENCC BUSINESS at its Temporary Offices, No. 2. Royal
Exchange-buildings, on WEDNESDAY NEXT, the Ist
July. _ _

By order,
D. MACPHERSON, Secretary.

26th jtme, 1F63.

FA AB T AND WEST
COMPANY.

INDIA DOCK

The COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST and WEST
INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give notice that a HALF-
YEARLY COURT or GENERAL MEETING of the said
Company will be held, pursuant to the direction of the Act
Ist and
.2d, William IV.. cap. 52, at the Dock House, No. 8,
Billiter-equate, on FRIDAY, the 10th day of July next, for
thei)uraose ot choosing and appointing EIGHT DIREC-
TORS in the tem of those going out of office by rotation ;
at which Meeting a DIVIDEND will be declared on the
Capital Stock of the Company for the half year ending the
30th June.. :

By order of the Court,
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
East VI4 West India Dock House,
Bilttter-square, June 26,1863.
NA-44%e chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS
for ORPHANS and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN,
Pinner, Middlesex.
A General Half-yearly Court was held at the London.
Tavern, this day, June 29, 1861, George Moore, Esq., tree-
surer,in the chair, when an election of fourteen children—
nine boys and five girls—took place. The following is the
result of the poll :

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES.
BOYS.
Piper. Edmund WU'S= 9,281 Cooi)tr, R. W. .. 5,786
Jones, Benjamin
Chapman, James
Headland, C.
Waters, T. H

Baxter, E. A.
Thorp, Lucy M 4,BV
Mansell, L. E. . ..... 4,548
UNSUCCESSFUI
Bo'

Alassing.ham A. E..... 3,156
Goodchild, Louisa E... 3,050

CANDIDATES.

MR. CHURCH'S New Picture, the ICEBERGS,
painted from studies made in the Northern Seas in
the summer of 1859.—German Gallery, 168, Ne w Bond-street,
W. Admission, Is.

PARIS. -GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.
Established in 1855.-Situated in the most Central part
of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palais Royal-Six hun-
dred Bedrooms at from 3 to 20fr-r0 Sitting-rooms at from
4 to 20fr.- a richly decorated Dining Saloon-Table d'Hote
at six o'clock-Public Coffee and Dining Rooms-Choice
Wines-Dinners served a la carte both in the dining-rooms
and the private apartments- Reading and Conversation
Saloons ; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other par-
ties -all Newspapers and Serial Publications received-
Divans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms-numerous
Bath-roams-Carriages on the premises-first-class Private
Equipages at command-Omnibuses running to all the rail-
way stations-Postal Letter-box-Telegraph-office day and
night-Photographic studio-a staff of Servants speaking all
Languages.

TH E OXFOR D,
e, OXFORD STREET.
Will be performed Selections from the following Operas :
LA CTRCASSIENNE, MARTHA, and
MASANIELLO.

Bupported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Miss Edison,
Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Finish, Kimberley, and
W. Evans, with full band and chorus.
Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Drew Dean's Flute Solos
• Master Sanders, the Juvenile Vocalist.
lINSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes.

Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutchenson, and the mat venous
ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
The HALL has been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and
Is now one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.

Porter, Clement 3,650
Marshall, Wm... 2,616
Compton, P. C 2,275
Shenton, Fred.

Ryder, E. C. "
' ..,, 2,155
Bolton, Isabel 1,966
Worsfold, Emily

Powell, F. W. ..... 1,381
Campbell, E. J ..... 1,039
Potter, John .
Hartley, G. N. R. 228
'LB.

I
Walker, E. C.
Hurley, F. L
Swann, r. R.
ENRY LENDON, Secretary.
ton, E.C., June 29, 1863.

Offices, 76, Cheapslde, Lonct

CANTERBURY HALL AND
FINE ARTS GALLERY.
NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT.
This Evening the Marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND,
the Two Frew h Clowns.

ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque Drama, arranged expressly
for him.
A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH'S new Comicslilies, dm.
SAM COLLINS, with new Songs.
UNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator.
EUGENE, and G. HUTCHINSON.

GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and
CANTATAS.

Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green,
Signor Small, and Signor Tivoli.

Conductor, Mr. Jonghtnans.
Admission—Hall, ed. ; stalls and balcony, Is.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. New
Musical Invention, the GRAND PIANO ORC EST RE,
cumbining a full Band of 2n Instruments, will be Performed
on by the Inventor, Herr SCH A LICENBACIT, EVERY
AFTERNOON, between the hours of Three and Five o'clock
Admission—Sixpence and One Shilling.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE: --Continued
Success of the marvellous RISARELIS.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
FAIRY FOUNTAIN EVERY EVENING, at Ball_
past Ten o'clock.

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir Join; HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS
Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq.
'ohn Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Ed'mann, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq.
P obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.!
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq.

Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Earl of Leven and Melville.
Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
William Wallace, Esq.
Chas. Baring Young, Esq.

Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
NOTICE.— file usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Midsummer will expire
on 9th July.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Life.
Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on one
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
n the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ARGYLL ROOM S.-JULLIEN'S
PROMENADE CONCERT S.
NOTlCE.—During the Week the Selections will be—" Der
Frieschntz "—" i.a Forza del Destino "—" Il Trovatore "
" Don Giovanni," Am.

LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays
from half-past Nine to Twelve.
Admission, is.

MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his
Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic
xstabliablnent, 32, Regent-street, Piccad►lly-circus, is now
in full operation.
Cartes de Visite, 10 for 10s. 6d ; 21 for £l. Miniatures on
Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former
styles.

THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 505., a
new Instrument, by Negretti and Zambra, will cor
rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls for Rain or for
Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden ;
57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street.

GEORGE HOBSON invites public attention to
his Superfine West of England Woaden BLACK
CL, )THS, for Beaufert and Frock Coats, £2 15s. to £3 3s. ;
the New Neutral Colour Scotch Angola Travelling and
Tourist Suits, £2 10s. to 18s. ; the new Summer Trousers,
ifs. to 21s. ; the Baden Waistcoats, Va.
Excellence wi li Economy.
GEORGE IIOBSON, 57, LOMBARD-STREET.

LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and
Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of
ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties
of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott
invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con-
vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., is. 6d., 10s. 6d.,
and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas
Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s
£1 10s.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
! XHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to De the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
• ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
lfoc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
rid closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
rruss, which cannot fail to lit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
nimference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
-ent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. td., and 31s. Bd. Postage, ls.
Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. td. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Bd. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,Post-
uftice, Piccadilly.
NEW PATENT
ELAST IC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS. &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
Weakness and Swelling 01 the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are
porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
tire an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s.
each. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 22.8. Piccadilly.

DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER
INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in-
vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into
the ear, not perceptib;e, removes singing' noises in the head,
and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at
public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The quarterly meeting was held this day at the offices in
Norfolk-street—Lord Ranolagh in the chair.
The SECRETARY (Mr, Gruneisen) read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting.
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN read the following report of
the Executive Committee :

It will be gratifying to the shareholders to find that the
Executive Committee of the Conservative Land Society
are enabled to annex the following satisfactory tabular
returns of the receipts for the three first quarters of the
eleventh financial year :
Qrs. ending
'Shares ini Shares Total I Receipts.
progress. Complete. Shares.

s. d.
Dec. 24, 1802 136 67 203 15,946 15 2
March 25, 1863 2OB 24 232 15,013 19 11
June 2i, 1863 255 91 346 20,697 2 0
--.
Three quarters
ending Mid-
summer, 1863 599 182 781 52,257 17 1
Totals to Sept
30, 1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2
Grand totals to
Midsummer,'63 15,359 4,107 19,466 077,650 10 3

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail•
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCTI, N.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of. our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it ,ratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and
W
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.. Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd' and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ;Matas,-Deacon, and Co. Co.;; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co.; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital
STANFORDA SKITS, Bectetazy.

The Union of thei lonian Islands with Greece.
-

Earl Russell has addressed the following despatch
o her, Majesty's ambassadors at the Courts of Aus-
ria, France, Prussia, and Russia :
EARL RUSSELL TO LORD BLOOMFIELD.

" Foreign Office, June 10.
" My Lord,—The time is at hand when her Ma-
jesty's declaration o her readiness to consent to the
union of the loniatlslands with Greece, if the
lonian Islands shoulktheiiiselves desire that union,
must be followed by practical measures ; and her
Majesty's Government arti anxious, before taking
further. steps, to free :the subject from ambiguity.
As, therefore, some unfounded notions are enter-
tained with respect to those islands, it may be use-
ful that I should call your Excelleney's attention to
the truth regarding their position, their rights, and
their future condition.

" The lonian Islands are not, as some persons ap-
pear to suppose, a part of the possessions of the
British Crown. They form the Republic of the
Seven Islands, placed by treaty unclgA. Ike protec-
tion of the Sovereign of; the United Kifigdom, his
heirs and successors. The manner in which these
islands came under the protection of the British
Crown is well known to all those who are acquainted
with the European transactions of 1816. Provisions
relating to them were not included among the arti-
cles of the general treatyconcluded at Vienna in the
month of June of that ye!,,r, but on the 4th of June
of that year the pknipuientiaries of the fouiPowsers,'
Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, being
assembled, recorded in a protocol what had passed
at their conferenceof that day. The plenipotentiary
of Austria declared that the question of the posses-
sion of the lonian Islands being connected with the
tranquillity of Italy and of the former Venetian pro-
vinces, the Court of Austria would charge itself
with the protection of these islands, and would gua-
rantee to them the maintenance of their laws and
privileges. But the plenipotentiaries of Russia said
that, desiring nothing else than to assure to the in-
habitants of those islands the happiest lot, and that
most appropriate to their situation, they thought it
their duty to promote the wish of the inhabitants
of those islands that they should remain under the
protection of Great Britain. The plenipotentiaries
of Russia also remarked that Count de Capodistrias,
who had been charged specially with this matter,
being absent, they could not then make any defini-
tive arrangement, and they proposed an adjourn-
ment, and this proposal was finally adopted. It is
well known that Count de Capodistrias, who at that
time enjoyed great favour with the Emperor Alexan-
der, was zealous in behalf of the nationality and
freedom of his countrymen. Knowing that the
lonian Islands could not stand alone as an inde-
pendent state, he wished to place them under the
protection of Great Britain, whose institutions,
framed on principles of liberty, he desired to see
established among a people of Greek habits and
language. These desires of Count de Capodistrias
were, by the influence of the Court of Russia, and
with the consent of Great Britain, accomplished by
the treaty of Paris of November 5, 1815, between
Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia.
"The preamble of this treaty recites that the
Powers concerned, animated by the desire of pro-
secuting the negotiations adjourned at the Congress
of Vienna, in order to fix the destiny of the seven
lonian Islands, and to insure the independence,
liberty, and happiness of those islands by placing
them and their constitution under the immediate
protection of one of the great Powers of Europe,
have agreed to settle definitively by a special act
whatever relates to this object,' &c. The first article
of this treaty declares that the islands of Corfu,
Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo,
and Paxo, with their dependencies, such as they
were described in the treaty between his Majesty
the Emperor of all the Russias and the Ottoman
Porte, of the 21st of March, 1800, shall form a
single, free, and independent state, under the deno.
mination of the United States of the lonian Islands.'
The fourth article declares that the Lord High
Commissioner of the protecting Powers shall regu-
late the forms of convocation of a legislative assem-
bly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in
order to draw up a new constitutional charter for
the State, which his Majesty the King of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
shall be requested to ratify,' The fifth article
is as follows In order to ensure without re-
striction to the inhabitants of the United States
'of the lonian Islands the advantages re-
sulting from the high protection under which
these states are placed, as well as for the
exercise of the rights inherent in the said protection,
his Britannic Majesty shall
have the right to occupy
the fortresses and places of those States, and to
maintain garrisons in the same. A like provision
places under the order of the commander-in-chief
of the troops of his Britannic Majesty the military
force of the said United States.

Compared with the receipts of the corresponding period
last year, the present returns for the three quarters show an
increase of £3,880 ss. 9d., an increase in the quarter over
the Lady-day cne of £5,083 2s. ld, and an increase on the
issue of shares of 223. The total withdrawals since the
formation of the society (September, 1852), to Midsummer,
1863, £199,348 3s. 3d. ; the total sale of land to Midsummer,
1863, £326,990 ls. 7d.

" It appears clear from these provisions that the
intention of the high Allied Powers was to found in
the Seven Islands a free, independent State, which,
by the protection of so powerful a country as Great
Britain, might develop its resources without fear of
external aggression, or internal anarchy. It appears
also from the filth article that the main object of the
stipulation placing the fortresses in the hands of
Great Britain was 'to insure to the inhabitants of
the United States of the lonian Islands the advan-
tages resulting from the high protection under
which the States are placed.' The constitution
established in execution of the articles of the treaty
contained in its fourth article a provision that the
established language of the States is Greek,' thus
showing conclusively that the intention of Count de
Capodistrias to create a Greek nationality was
steadily kept in view by Great Britain, as the state
entrusted with the protectorate.
" The British Government having received this
trust, have endeavoured faithfully to discharge the
duties imposed upon them by the allied Powers.
In spite of many obstacles, they have amelio-
rated in all respects the condition of the in-
habitants. With regale', however, to the exer-
cise of the constitutional functions of the Lord High
Commissioner and the legislative body, complete
harmony has seldom prevailed between them. Bat
the great change which took place in the condi-
tion of some of the neighbouring Turkish pro-
vinces, when the Greek people of those provinces
asserted their independence, altered materially
the political condition of the inhabitants of the Seven
Islands. From that time the sympathies of the lonian
people began to turn towards Greece, and when the
Greek kingdom became a recognised State of Europe,
the wish to be politically united with men of their
own race took root among the people of the lonian
Islands. This wish has been often laid hold of as a
pretext for factious opposition ; it has been expressed
since 1850, at times when Great Britain could not
listen to it without yielding to projects of ambition
very foreign from the freedom of Greece. But in its
origin and tendency there is something iu this lonian
wish of union with Greece which must obtain the
respect of the British nation. A love of independence
in union with a kindred race has in itself claims to
regard from a nation which prides itself on the love
of freedom. It is thus that, with a view to strengthen
the Greek monarchy, to fulfil the original objects of
the foundation of the lonian Islands as a State, and
to comply with the wishes frequently, though irre-
gularly, expressed in the lonian Islands themselves,
her Majesty's Government have declared their readi-
ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands
with Greece.

TEE BRAZILIAN DIFFICULTY.

" HOWARD DE WALDEN AND SEAFORD."

(Translation.)

The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights are as
follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority,
4972 3191 1681
Deduct Rights exercised on estates, &c..

Total.
9844
7449

Unexercised Rights
The last share number on the register by seniority is No.
13,853 ; and the last share number issued to midsummer,
1863, was No. 19,466. Since the last report, a second estate
has been acquired in West Worcestershire, situated on the
Henwick-road, with frontage to the Ludlow-road, Com-
manding views of the Malvern hills are obtained from this
new property, which is adjacent to many handsome villas
and grounds on the banks of the Severn. The committee
hope that they may be in a position to allot the Worcester
Estate, and also the recent purchase at Southampton, during
the current quarter. The next allotment of land will be on
Wednesday, July 8, of the Stoke Station Road Estate at
Ipswich, and the Reading Estate; and some well-secured
ground rents, on the Roman Road Estate, North Bow,
will also be offered on this occasion. The allotment will
take place at Ipswich, after a public meeting, at which
a deputation of the board will attend to explain the
society's system. The Ipswich property adjoins the Hand-
ford Hall villas, and is laid out into 48 plots, ranging in
price from £37 up to £220 per plot. A portion of the pro-
perty will be formed into a crescent, facing which will be
an open space, intended for ornamental gardens extending
to the Stoke Station Road, In addition to plots for de-
tached or semi-detached villas, land has been kept free for
close building and for business purposes, such as an inn or
hotel and shops. The Reading Estate is a portion of the
Castle Hill property formerly allotted, but as the original
site for the proposed church has been changed to another
locality, the centre of Downshire-square mil now be con-
verted into plots for detached and semi-detached houses of
moderate size. The committee have much pleasure in re-
porting that the Rector of Reading, the Hon. and Rev. Mr.
Cust, is now actively engaged in raising funds for the new
church, the society having granted a site free on the estate
equal to the original one. In the new plan of allotment
there are 45 plots, ranging in price from £52 4s. 6d. up to
£lO4 9s. per plot. The executive committee have to report
that the works on the final portion of the Woodbury-
park Estate, Tunbridge-wells, and on the first allotted
portion of the Colchester Estate, are just completed, and
an inspection of these two properties will show the great
improvement in the respective localities, by the opening up
of new communications. The committee will be enabled
to announce in their next report the completion of the
works in progress on the Roehampton and Putney-Heath
estates. It is with much regret that the committee have to
report the death of John Gorham Maitland, Esq., one of the
earliest promoters of the Conservative Land Society, with
which ho was connected as a member of the board, until
his appointment as Secretary of the Civil Service Commis-
sion. As the Registration Courts will be opened in
due course, the allottees whose names have not yet been
inserted on the register are reminded that their claims will
be maintained free of expense, but that it will be necessary to
forward their deeds in time to the society's solicitor, as well
as proper instzuctions as to the polling place in the county,
where their land is situated, they may find it most conve-
nient to vote, should they not reside in the county. The
executive committee, in conclusion, congratulate the mem-
bers that the business of the past quarter has been of a
nature to afford every promise of another successful financial
year, when it terminates at Michaeln2aB,

" Her Majesty's Government are not insensible of
the value of Corfu as a maritime and military sta-
tion, nor are they unaware of the apprehensions felt
in Austria and Turkey at the prospect of the aban-
donment of the lonian Islands by Great Britain. It
has been suggested in England that Corfu might be
retained, while the other islands might be given up.
But her Majesty's Government conceive that it would
be a perversion of the trust confided to them by Ea-

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rope, and a breach of faith to wards the lonian people,
it Great Britain were to turn a portion of a single free
and independent State under her protectorate into a
part of her military possessions, and to make Corfu
an element of her European power. Her Majesty's
Government propose, therefore, now that a
King of Greece has been recognised by the protect-
ing Powers, to consult in the most formal and au-
thentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the
lonian Islands as to their future destiny. If those
wishes, deliberately expressed, should bo in favour
of a union with Greece, her Majesty's Government
would propose that, with a view to considering the
future condition of the lonian Islands, a conference
should be assembled, to consist of the representa-
tives of the Powers who signed the treaty of 1815,
and of the protecting powers who, in 1827 and
1832, signed the treaties by which the kingdom of
Greece was constituted.—l am, &c.,

(Signed) " RUSSELL.
" P.S. You are desired to read and give a copy of
this despatch to Ceunt Rechberg. R.

* Similar despatches were addressed to Earl Cowley, Sir
A. Buchanan, and Lord Napier.

The following despatch from Lord Howard de
Walden, transmitting the decision of his Majesty
the King of the Belgians in the case of the officers

s!,Earls, wasvablished_yeaterday
LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN TO EARL RUSSELL.
(Received Jane 24.)
"Brussels, June 22.

"My Lord—l had the honour of receiving yes-
terday from the hands of the King the accompany-
ing portfolio, containing the text of the decision of
his Majesty as arbitrator in the case of the officers
of her Majesty's ship Forte and the Brazilian agents.
"I expressed to the King on behalf of her Ma_
jesty's Government their sense of his Majesty's gra_
cions and friendly act in having accepted the part of
arbitrator in this painful and troublesome affair.
"The King restricts his judgment to the character
or spirit of the proceeding of the Brazilian agents,
whether, in a national point of view in regard to
the British navy, it was to be deemed offensive or
not; and on this his Majesty decides in the nega-
tive.—l have, &c.,

" We, Leopold, King of the Belgians, having ac-
cepted the functions of arbiter, which have been
conferred upon us by common consent by Great
Britain and by Brazil, in the differences which have
arisen between these States in the matter of the ar-
rest, on the 17th of June, 1862, by the guard of
Brazilian police posted at Tijuca, of three officers of
the British navy, and of the circumstances which
resulted after and at the time of that arrest ;

" Animated by a sincere desire to respond by a
scrupulous and impartial decision to the confidence
which the said States have shown towards us ;

" Having to this end duly examined and maturely
weighed all the papers that have been produced by
one side and by the other ;
" Wishing, in order to fulfil the task which we
have accepted, to bring to the knowledge of the
High Parties interested the result of our examina-
tion, as well as our decision in the capacity of arbi-
ter upon the question which has been submitted to
us in the following terms, namely :
" Whether, in the mode in which the laws of Bra-
zil have been applied towards the English officers
there has been offence to the British navy ;
" Considering that it is in no way shown that the
origin of the conflict was the act of the Brazilian
agents, who could not reasonably have had motives
for provocation ;
" Considering that the officers, at the time of their
arrest, did not wear the uniform of their rank, and
that in a port frequented by so many foreigners they
could not expect to be believed on their mere word
when they declared that they belonged to the Bri-
tish navy, while there was no outward sign of their
rank to support their declaration ; that, conse-
quently, once arrested, they ought to have submitted
to the existing laws and regulations, and had no
right to require any treatment different to that
which would have been applied, in similar circum-
stances, to all other persons;
" Considering that, although it is impossible to
deny that the incidents which ensued were most un-
pleasant to the English officers, and that the treat-
ment to which they were exposed must have ap-
peared to them most harsh, it is nevertheless proved
that, when by the declaration of the English Vice-
Consul, the social position of these officers had been
duly established, measures were at once taken to
secure them special consideration, and that their
unconditional liberation was then ordered ;

" Considering that the functionary who caused
them to be released ordered their release as soon
as he possibly could, and that in acting thus he
was prompted by the desire to spare these officers
the disagreeable consequences which, in conformity
with the laws, must necessarily have entailed upon
them from any further steps taken in the matter ;
" Considering that, in his report of the 6th of
July, 1862, the Prefect of Police had not only to
make a statement of facts, but was also obliged to
render to his superior authority an account of his
conduct, and of the reasons that induced him to
treat them with consideration ;
"Considering that he was from that time, pro-
perly, and without any malicious intention being
fairly attribtitable to him, authorised to express
himself as he did •;

" We are of opinion that, in the mode in which
the laws of Brazil have been applied towards the
English officers, there was neither premeditation of
offence nor offence to the British navy.
" Done and given in duplicate under our Royal
Seal, at the Palace of Lachen, the 18th day of
Jane, 1863. " LEOPOLD I."

MEMORANDUM REGARDING THE ASSESSMENT OF COM
FBNSATION IN TILE CASE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

On the Bth of February Earl Russell directed the
Queen's Advocate to be informed that the Govern-
ment of Brazil had instructed their representative
in England to notify to her Majesty's Government
that he was authorised to pay, under protest, what-
ever sum her Majesty's Government might demand
in the shape of compensation in the case of the ves-
sel Prince of Wales; and his lordship requested the
opinion of the Queen's Advocate as to the amount
at which that compensation should be assessed.
The Queen's Advocate was at the same time in-
formed that the responsibility of assessing compen-
satton had not been sought by her Majesty's Go-
vernment, who had, indeed, proposed through Mr.
Christie, that the question of amount should be
referred to arbitration. The course pursued by
Brazil, had, however, left her Majesty's Govern-
ment no option in the matter. The Queen's Advo-
cate's report is to the following effect :—The Queen's
advocate states that he is of opinion that no sum
should be claimed in excess of the sum mentioned
in Mr. Christie's communications to the Brazilian
Government; that no demand should be made on
account of freight or on account of the loss of the
vessel itself; that the demand should be founded on
the plunder of the cargo, of the effects of the crew,
and also upon the too probable murder of some or all
of them. lie estimates roughly the loss of wages
and effects at £290, and the compensation for pos-
sible murders at £4BO, to be paid to the families of
those who were wrecked. As to the cargo, he makes
allowances for probable and necessary damage, and
for salvage had the inhabitants of the coast appeared
as salvors in place of plunderers ; and he then
roughly estimates this item at £2,360. Upon these
data a sum of £3,200 was fixed by Earl Russell,
instead of £3,490, the sum total of the items esti-
mated by the Queen's Advocate. This sum was
demanded by a note of Feb. 24, addressed by Earl
Russell to M. Moreira, and was paid by M. Moreira
on Feb. 26.
Foreign-office, Jane 21, 1863.

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and it seems to be just as unseemly fo4 . eesa sse3e . /Al
scend into the political arena to justifjeelteipatiuy--qi' 7e
as it would be for the equeen of atekte:a 44-4Aas.Asas.
write an autograph letter t - seta. e
o the chairman
public meeting which passed rsseolutions ceiddislna-'-'
air a n s
tory of the policy uursued by hi.n. Government. At
the present moment, however,
when the Con-
federates are literally thundering
at the gates of
Washington, and when a militia is. being rapidly
organised to do the work of armies wil`ch have dis-
appeared, there is something positively ~'.udicrous in
the tone in which the Chief Megistrate of te'le United
States speaks of the rebellion, and gravelly' contests
the various grounds on which secession cemild be
justified. It is true that when the letter was written
Lee's army still occupied the line of the Ral-Ta-
hannock, and the public received daily assure:cakes
thatthe backbone of the rebellion was within an jack
of being broken, but still the contingency which has
since occurred was not then completely absent from '
the minds of Mr. Lincoln or his advisers. We will e
not follow the President through his lengthy epistle.
If it satisfied its recipients, and if the population of
the Northern States are content to accept his expo-
sition of constitutional law, and consider diequisi-
lions on the legality of secession instinctive reacin Ter
we have no objections to offer. Assumir g, as Mr.
Lincoln seems to assume, that the provision of the
Constitution authorising the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus in cases of rebellion and invasion
confers the power of suspension on the Executive,
and not on the Legislature, of course he can justify
his recent arrest of Mr,Vallandigham. But as the
majority of persons will be inclined to think that it
wasn ever intended that the President and his Minis:
ters should be the sole judges of the propriety:ler , '
making arbitrary arrests, it is not probable tha '.'
Lincoln's justification of a gross violation se., :,
rights of citizenship in the person of Mr. litillairit e' , a, . --
digham, will carry conviction into the minds-et-7' .
many. . -;
HERALD.—The propositions which the Allied
Powers have addressed to the Russian Government
have this radical vice, that they o.re.unacceptable i-
alike to the Russians and the Ales.: .They askfrom .
Russia much more than. :iv And air , lb* .
s,
Poles far lesaViaits W 1",,, ' "-"'...'..e4sisilAg*
the Russian Government were reduced to the last
extremities it might submit to the summons to put
down its arms and recognise the Poles as a bellige-
rent power, with whom to treat upon an equal foot-
ing. If the Poles were convinced that Europe will
do no more for them, they would abandon a strug-
gle which they only sustain by enormous sacrifices;
and although they would not accept—if their accept-
ance should be demanded—guarantees of liberty,
for which they do not care, they would take the
concessions given without thanks, as so many steps
upon which, at a future day, to attempt again to
rise into independence. To please neither party in
a quarrel is, by some persons, held conclusive evi-
dence that a judgment is impartial and sound; and
the supporters of the Government may cite the
failure of Earl Russell to conciliate either Prince
Gortschakoff or the National Government of War-
saw as decisive testimony to the fairness of his pro-
posed arrangement. We do not question it. Earl
Russell has, no doubt, been actuated by a very sin-
cere desire to see Poland prosperous and free under
Russian rule. His arrangement would have been
defensible, perhaps admirable, if he had been
called upon as arbitrator to settle the question.
But his interference is perfectly gratuitous. The
Poles, on whose behalf it is made, repudiate alto-
gether the terms which are demanded for them ;
the Russian Government has felt itself con-
strained to declare that it will listen to his sug-
gestions, but it has also said plainly enough that
it thinks the tender of them a piece of imperti-
nence with which it could very well have dispensed.
The Minister of a great country who undertakes
to intervene in the quarrels of another Government
with its subjects, and puts himself before the world
as the mediator between them, must look not to the
absolutely just, but the practicable, and suggest an
accommodation which has a chance of being accepted.
The fact is, that in interfering with the Russian
Government on behalf of Poland, and in framing an
arrangement, the allies undertook a task impossible
of fulfilment—a task which one of them, at least,
knew to be impossible, whilst both the others should
have known it too. The Poles have never con-
cealed their objects. They have declared loudly
enough that they will be content with nothing
short of the expulsion of the Russians from every
inch of territory which at any time formed a por-
tion of the Polish republic. They recorded in a
hundred different ways their contempt for liberal
institutions and administrative reforms, and the
Governments of England and France ought to have
known thoroughly that administrative autonomy
or any other of their six points, would never induce
a Pole to lay down arms so long as he felt the
slightest confidence in his ability to resist Russia.
!ley should not have interfered at all beyond the
expression of an opinion and a hope ; or they should
have put to Russia tlie cliinarid or theTelimiiiish-
ment of Poland, and have backed it up by force of
arms. The course they have taken has inflicted the
most serious calamities on Poland, has estranged
Russia, and has placed them in a very unsatisfac-
tory and discreditable position. The struggle in
Poland has been kept up for the last three or
four months solely in the hope of the assistance of
England and France. The Poles have been well
aware that unaided they must succumb to the im-
mense armies which Russia could bring against
them. But long after all attempts to enlist the pea-
santry on their side had signally failed, long after
the attempt to raise an insurrection in the Polish
provinces of Russia had proved a complete disap-
pointment, the contest has been kept up at a most
tremendous sacrifice of all that can be dearest to the
Polish heart. The language of the English
Ministers has induced the belief that England
would eventually, on the failure of her own.
schemes of mediation, give the Polish cause her
active aid, and for that reason, whilst diplomacy
has been at work the semblance of an insurre©-

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.-.-" If it should appear that from jealousy
of trade, or unjust suspicion of contraband, or any
ether motive, the British trade were deliberately
and systematically made subject to vexatious cap-
ture and arbitrary interference, it is obvious that
Great Britain must interfere to protect her flag."
Such are the words of a despatch from Lord Rus-
sell to Lord Lyons, written to be communicated
to the American Government. "It cannot be con-
ceded by the American Government, nor claimed
by Great Britain, that some British vessels may
not be fraudulently engaged in an ostensible
trade between British ports and Matamoros in con-
veying supplies to the insurgents of the United
States." Such is the important portion of the counter
despatch which has been received from Mr. Stewart.
This is a very important issue. We are promised
that the next steamer will bring us a report of the
arguments and judgment in the case of the Peter-
hoff ; and the fate of the Dolphin is already decided
The American Courts appear to be fully equal to
the occasion, and to be ready to make an interna-
tional law to meet the exigencies of their own special
and temporary convenience. According to the doc-
trines now laid down by Mr. Seward, a belligerent
cruiser may blockade not only his enemies' ports, i
but also the ports of neutral powers which have any
possible communication with his enemy's port. If
be can board neutral vessels passing from one neutral
port to another, and can make prize of them, and
if the Admiralty Judges condemn them upon the
ground that the cargo was intended ultirnatiiir to
reach the enemy, then it clearly come to
what-we hove said, that a ,belligerent-prirer-ln&
right to blockade neutral ports; to prevent anything
entering therein which may ultimately reach the
enemy. It is evident that Mr. Seward's words mean
this It is a very strong doctrine, and it carries the
rights of belligerents beyond anything that has ever
been claimed in their behalf since modern views and
armed neutrality protests have set a limit to the
old pretensions. There is nothing to be said in
favour of such a pretension, except that if the Ameri-
cans are determined to rivet this patch upon the
hard old international law, we of all the people in
the world are the least interested in opposing the
innovation. The nature of " contraband of war " is
also receiving a very extended interpretation at the
hands of the traditional champions of the rights of
neutrals. Although we have not yet the judgment
in the case of the Peterhoff, we know that a special
commission had been issued to inquire into the
quality of her cargo, and the report of that special
commission had been read in court. These Com-
missioners say that they have opened the boxes,
cases, and bales found in this steamer, and have
made a true and perfect inventory of the contents.

It seems, however, that there were no cannon, or
muskets, or arms of any description ; no gun-
powder, or shot, or shells ; nothing which, even if
the Peterhoff had been going to an enemy's port
not actually blockaded, would have subjected the
ship to confiscation as carrying contraband of war.
Bnt the Commissioners remark that there were
articles on board capable of being applied to army
uses. There was an assorted parcel of drugs, con-
taining quinine, calomel, morphine, and ehloro-
form, addressed to " Burchard and Co., Matamoras,
Mexico." There were also cases of Blucher boots,
which we must in candour admit might be worn
by soldiers as well as by any other unfeathered
bipeds. Moreover, there were bales of gray blan-
kets, which " are believed to be such as are
" used in the United States' army." But as these
undoubtedly came from England it seems hard to
conclude that, because the Yankees have bought some
of our woollens for army purposes, we can therefore
make blankeis for army purposes. There were
also harness and riding saddles and horseshoes, and
13 pieces of bacon and a bag of peas, all of which
might, doubtless, have found a use either in or out
of a camp. Lastly, there were two hydraulic presses,
capable of pressing cotton, and one basket of rusty
cotton hooks. Such is the cargo which, from its con-
traband nature, is held to justify the detention of an
English steamer passing between neutral ports, and
such is the " contraband of war" which the
American Courts are now being asked to
hold suflieient to insure the condemna-

tion of a neutral vessel upon the high seas.
Of course we do not pretend to doubt that the quinine
and the boots might have been intended ultimately
to reach the Confederate storehouses. It may be
just possible that they might have been bought up for
Mexican use, but the probabilities undoubtedly are,
that if they had reached Matamoros, they
would have been pushed into the Confederate terri-
tory. The question, however, remains whether
medicine and boots are contraband of war because
they can be used by soldiers; and secondly, whether
anything thus capable of being usei by an army can
be seized anywhere by the strong band. The Ame.
ricans say they have the authority of Sir William
Grant and Lord Stowell for what they are doing,
and we are happy to see that they now entertain a
reverence for the decisions of those two great inter-
national lawyers which they certainly did not pro-
fess in other days. Lord Russell is careful not to
commit himself to any opinion us to whether Sir
William Grant and Lord Stowell's doctrines will
justify such strong measures as are now being taken ;
but if they should, we think he is quite right, as
an English Minister, not to do anything to weaken
those doctrines which have been found so necessary
to our own island interests. On the other hand, if

these pretensions should turn out to be far beyond
anything ever heard of in our Courts, and quite im-
possible ever to be put forward by ourselves in case
of war, then Lord Russell can scarcely consider
himself acting as a neutral if he submit to them
from one of two belligerents and to the disadvantage
of the other. If we allow boots and blankets to be
seized on their way to Mexico because they are the
same sort of goods we are sending to New York,
that can scarcely be called neutrality. Public
opinion will support Lordßussell in the maintenance
of an absolute neutrality during this war, but it will
not support him beyond this. The English people
desire to hold a real bona fide neutrality between
the two combatants. This cannot be to the extent
we could wish it to be, because the possession of the
sea enables the Northerners to draw from us all the
materials of war, and to engage all the scum of
Europe as mercenaries in their service. Without
this aid the North would long since have been ex-
hausted and the fighting at an end. Bat if the South
have some privileges conferred by the rules of inter-
national law, it would be mean in us to go cut of
our way to deprive her of them because she is weak
and cannot complain. Lord John Russell stated the
case truly in his despatch 'when he said "the trade
to Matamoras is a perfectly legitimate trade. It
is carried on from New York as it is from London
to Liverpool. To pretend that some goods carried
to Matamoras may be afterwards transported across
the frontier to Texas does not vitiate the legitimate
character of that trade." If this be so, to surrender
our commercial rights to the Northern States would
be a breach of neutrality towards the Northern
States. Although, however, Mr. Seward puts for-
ward these preposterous claims, there is reason to
believe that the Americans themselves are seeing
that these strange decisions against the rights of
neutrals are establishing precedents which may
hereafter be used against them. A smuggling trade
to Matamoras can be of no great importance to
us, and can never have any substantive effect upon
the issue of the war between North and South ;
but the principles now in course of recognition and
extension in the American prize courts may be
very precious to England at some future crisis
We should therefore be very patient and cautious
in these matters, up to that boundary line where
acts cease to be defensible upon any possible doc-
trine of international law. We observe that the
American papers begin to suspect that they are
going too far for their own interests; that they are
adopting and strengthening all our old precedents,
and forging chains for themselves in future wars.
Some of them are already recommending that ships
going from a neutral port to another should not be
interfered with, whatever may be the suspicions
against them. 'W hen this mist clears away, they
will discover that the course they have taken in
this war has established all our pretensions as to
the right of blockade and of search also.
POST.—The verbose document with which Presi-
dent Lincoln has replied to the resolutions passed
at a recent public meeting censuring his conduct in
respect to the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham reads
strangely at the present juncture. It is one of the
pecularities of the American Constitution that both
theoretically and practically the Chief Magistrate
of the Republic continues the equal of his fellow-
citizens. He may possess by virtue of his high
office great authority, or
or sufferance of the
Ambeeri
Ely ruetehopole
ehxt
ehrc
ias pe a tex-
traordinary power, but he does not for all that cease
to be a citizen whom the humblest can at anY
moment approach and shake by the hand, or whom
a knot of platform orators can compel at a
moment's notice to publish an elaborate exposition
of his political views. Still, however, 13 otveith-
standing the relations known to subsist between
the American people and their President, one
cannot read such a letter as that which we pub-
lished yesterday without some feelings of surprise.


tion has been kept up by some devoted men.
Long since the insurrection has burned itself out.
At the very first call the chivalry of Poland proper
threw itself into the struggle. As the ranks of the
insurgents were thinned no recruits were forthcom-

ing. The peasantry refused to follow their masters,
and gloated over their massacre. Posen and Galicia,
furnished large contingents. Adventurers of every
nation flocked like vultures to the carnage, but the
number of these professional cut-throats who can
command the means for a long journey is but
limited, and long since the insurrection has ceased
to make any head against the Russian forces. Small
bands have performed wonders, and have had
miracles performed for them by telegraphic agen-
cies, just to keep Western Europe interested in the
Polish question and confident in the Polish power.
Men have devoted themselves readily to death—
have devoted their country to a contest which will
reduce it to little better than a desert, in the con-
viction generated by the language and acts of the
French and English Ministers that France and
England would ultimately go to war for Poland.
The dream is still cherished. The National Go-
vernment of Warsaw has declared, as a contem-
porary who acts at the same time as its organ in
this country and the exponent of the Premier's
policy, assures us, that the Poles will fight to the
last unless Russia accedes to certain conditions
which are equivalent to the abandonment of Po-
land. It is the last effort. The journals which
have championed the Polish cause still try to make
out that the Polish patriots are victorious. The
truth is, as we have said, the insurrection is almost
at an end, and the announcement by England and.
France of their intention to pursue a pacific policy
would be the signal for the dispersal and flight of
the bands still carrying on the contest. It is due
to the Poles and to ourselves that the announce-
ment should be made at once. England has
assuredly h
tnoe
re-establishmentintentionof engagingf
o in a great cru-
sade for
an
independent
Poland. She will not undertake to reverse all the
decrees of history, and commit Europe to a conteste
which must cause enormous misery,deprecated and,
if see
thanes s
ful, produce a result rather to be
desired. It is idle trifling to talk
the Russian fleet in the Baltic
ignorance or want of principle l I a blockade o.
as no war. It L fil
meter to talk as the Morning
of the grossest dia-
-1
capacity of the Poles to
they are only allowed Post does about the
with all our energies. to
The Poles are already '
crushed by Russia, and if we
want to raise them we get arms from Galicia.
must engage in the task
mind that it .
will do no such thing; it ought to
The country has made up its
make up its mind, too, to withdraw from an atti-
tude which compromises its dignity, and unfortu-
nately has encouraged delusions in the Poles which
have prompted them to bring unexampled desola-
tion upon their uehapPY land.

LONG LEGS AND bHORT LEGS.—The standard
height of the sexes has been fixed by the Venus
and Apollo; from whence it may be generally observed
that
who exceed the height of the statue will have the
in the legs, and those who fall below it will
trt
ea lengthhose
have the deficiency in ;the shortness of them. As a ridicu-
lous instance of this, Mr. Barrymore, the tragedian, was
greatly upwards of six feet high, and his friend Mr. Smith
,us very much under five feet; when meeting at the same
convivial board, they were accustomed to sit side by side,
and appeared while thus sitting like two gentlemen of equal
size and consequence ; when it was necessary to rise in
respect, as in drinking the King's health, which they would
both spontaneously do, little Mr. Smith. contrary to al/
order, would appear to keep his seat, while Barrymore
would spring up like a spectre from the trap-door of the
stage.; this circumstance placed the two gentlemen in a
serious predicament, as it was said of each of them that
the one ought never to get up and the other ought never to
sit down l—Areicle 04 46 Comparative .Beauty" IVationßi
Magazine.

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