The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1863,

10TH JUNE, 1863.—UNCOVEltING of the
v MEMORIAL of the EXHIBITION of 1851.
In the Pri sence of their MIL H.H.'s
he PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES.
Cards of Admission, price 15s. each, if obtained before the
27th of May ; 20s. up to 9th of June ; and 30s. on day.
A. MURRAY.

yR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his
Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic
stab 'shutout, 32, Regent-street, P.ccadilly-circus, is now
in full operation.
Cartes de Visite, 10 for ifs. 6d; 21 for £l. Miniatures on
Ivory, Marble, and the Pho:ographic base in his former
styles.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL
GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.
PURCHASE of FREEHOLDt!ind ADDITION of FIF FY

BEDS.

At the Thirty-fifth Anniversary Fe tival held at the Free-
masons"ravern on the 6th instant, CHARLES DICKENS,
Esq., in the l hair, the undermentioned Contributions were
at n mneed.

The Sum of £6,100 is required for the purchase of the Free•
hold of this most excellent Institution and other outlay inef•
dent thereto.

An Earnest APPEAL is now MADE to the Public for
FUNDS to complete the purchase and increase the accommo-
dation for patients.

Charles Dickens, Esq., has been promised the last £lOO re-
quired for the purchase, provided the r,st be made up by the
24th of next month.

,euch, K.G., President, £lOO.
Mss Mocatta 42
Lord Bishop of Derry 5 I
Curling' and Co lO 11
R. IL Galloway, Esq lO 1
O'Brh n B. Vt'oolsey,Esq 5
Henry Warner, Esq lO 1
Duncan Fletcher, Esq. 5 1
Phillips and Co.
Mess, s. l'reston & Sons 5 !
Geor_te W. M. Reynolds,
E
Tomas Cave, Esq. 5 3 1
T. Ford Esq. . 2
Do., annuallyy» 1
L. B. Harris, E5q..... 5
Charles Cowell, Esq. .. 5
SeptimusGoldsmid,Esq. 5
H. K. Bone, Esq.
E. S. Willett, Esq., M.D. L
Henry Hyde, Esq 2l I
T M. Nelson, Esq. 10 ii
W. R. Rogers, Esq 5
tharles Inner, Esq
J. S. Phene, Esq.
Messrs. S. Foulger and
Son... lO 1(
Do., annuallf 1 1
W
Messrs. I. and W. Holt 10 I(
George Routledge, Esq. 2 1
A. L. Mocatta, Esq 2 2
S. Mocatta, Esq.
J. T. Mounsey, Esq 5 6
E. S. Mounsey, Esq..., 5 5
J. A. Piigott, Esq 1 1
W. B. Smith, Esq 1 1
John Moser, Esq 2 2
James Bowyer, Esq 5 5
G. P. Salmon, Esq 2 2
Mrs. G. P. Salmon
R. W. Lovsey, Esq., an-
nually
Alfred Watson, Esq., an-
nually
Messrs. Evans, Lescher,
and Evans
W. IT. Warre, Esq 5 5
W. Hughes, Esq. 1 1
J. N. Dymond, Esq 1 1
A Lady in the Gallery 1 1
Ditto 1 1
Ditto 1 1
H. S. Pownall, Esq 1 1
John Cross, Esq.
Joseph Raw, Esq 2 2
J. Kirkbank, Esq 2 2
Messrs. W. H. Warr
and Co
J. A. Beardmore, Esq.. 1 1
B. Rogers. Esq , M.D.. 1 1
J. S. Earle, Esq.
C. H. Horuby, Esq 5 0
W. Banks, Esq 5 0
George Yeomans, Esq 5 5
B. W. Horne, EFq 5 0
I Ditto, annually 1 1
W. Banbury, Esq., an-
nually
Charles Dickens, Esq 5 0
T. Beale Browne, Esq lO 10
F. I. Masson, Esq 3 3
W. Richardson, Esq 1 1
T. It. Smith, Esq., an-
nually
J. D. Aileron, Esq 2l 0
J. C. Pawle, Esq., an-
nually .... • •
D. C. Gardiner, Esq. 1 1
Ditto annually
E. Coleman, Esq lO 10
W. B. Waterlow. Esq 5 5
Messrs. Ring, Brymer,
and Sons
A. J. Brinton, Esq 2 2
Thomas Pocock, Esq 1 1
W. J. Meymott, Esq 1 1
P. Binekes, Esq , 1 1
John Kinahan, Esq.,
annually
Dr. Read, 4nnually 1 1
Dr. Wynn Williams
Dr. Bridges 1 1
Joscph Robinson, Esq ,
annually
John Dyer, Esq 1 1
B. Bond, Esq 1 1
Lieutenant Godfrey 1 1
George Gurney, Esq 1 1
Edward O'Riley, Esq 2 2
George Cockle, Esq ,
annually
W. Pass, Esq., annually i 1
A. R. Steel, Esq lO 10
Ditto, annually 1 1
Mrs. A. It. Steele 2 2
Ditto, annually,
Mr. Steele, jun 1 1
Mr. T. J. Steele 1 1
Miss Steele 1 1
Miss Camilla E. Steele 1 1
George Simpson, Esq 5 5
J. Mullins, Esq 1 1
J. Bridges, Esq 1 1
G. Turner, Esq 1 1
W. Stevens, Esq 5 5
A. J. Pritchhrd, Esq 1 1
S. R. Tome, Esq 3 3
J. D. Hill, Esq 1 1
Rev. C. H. Boutcher.
Rev. E. Braithwaite 1 1
Miss Grace Barrow 1 1
A.Austin,Esq,annu ,Ily 1 1
W. E. Walmisley, Esq. 10 10
R. Swift, Esq 2 2
H. Huggins, Esq 2 2
M. Ballard, Esq lO 10
Mr Alderman Lawrence 21 0
Hamilton Geale, Esq,
annually
Messrs. Burgoyne and
Burbidge 5 5
Edmund Yorke, Esq 1 • 1
J. I. Briscoe, Esq lO 10
B. C. Robinson, Esq 3 3
M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P 5 5
H. A. Brive, Esq, M.P 2 2
W. Long, Esq , M.P 1 1
T. Tilson, Esq..
"7. W. Christie, Esq lO 0

His Grace the Duke of Bucc
George Moore, Esq.. £250 0
Ditto, annually 2O 0
Messrs. Copestake,
Moore,Crampton, and
Company 100 0
Ditto, annually 2O 0
It C. L. Bevan, Esq 100 0
Ditto, annually 2O 0
Messrs. Masterman,
Peters, and Co. l5O 0
Edwd. ,sterman, Esq. 50 0
Messrs. Hankey 52 10
Messrs. Foster and
Braithwaite
Messrs. Caldecott, Sons,
and Wilcox 52 10
John Deacon, Esq.
Messrs. Williams, Dea-
con, and Co 2l 0
Samuel Morley, Esq.
John Cunliffe, Esq 2l 0
R. Cunliffe, Esq lO 10
Richard Durant, jun ,
Esq 3l 10
James Capel, Esq
E. W. Lermitte, Esq
Charles Adams, Esq 5 0
Ditto, annually 1 1
E. Allenby, Esq lO 0
Messrs. Combe, Dela-
field, and Co 105 0
Richard Gibbs, Esq 5 0
Thomas Baring, Esq.
Messrs.Fuller,Banbury,
and Co. 100 0
Henry Peek, Esq, 5O 0
James Peek, Esq ... 5 5
Messrs. Peek, Bros, and
Co., annually .
Messrs. Smith, Payne,
and Co. 25 0
Messrs. Barnett, Hoare,
and Co
E. Walker, Esq .. 10 10
Rev. J. B. Owen
Wm. Cooke, Esq
Henry Tucker, Esq 25 0
J. Gurney Barclay, Esq,loo 0
Messrs. Bra,, g and
Stockdale 25 0
Messrs. Jones Loyd
an i Co lOO 0
Ditto, annually lO 0
Messrs. Whitbread and
Co. ICO 0
Henry AI asterman, Esq lO 10
Messrs. Overend, Gur-
ney, at d•Co. lOO 0
Messrs. Charles Candy
and Co. 100 0
Messrs. Longman and
Co.
Messrs. Truman, Han-
bury, and Co. 100 0
Hy. Green, Req 2l 0
Messrs. C. Tanqueray
and Co 52 10
Ditto, annually 3 3
T. G. Hubbard, Esq
M.P.
P. de Salts Laterrier,
Esq.
W. G. rrescott, Req.
Messrs. Dent, Allcroft,
and Co 5O 0
Messrs Barclay, Per-
kins, and Co.
Messrs. Brown, Davis,
and Haise
JosephUnderwood,Esq lO 10
Messrs. I. and W
Nicholson 105 0
Joseph Vickers, Esq lO 10
Messrs. Farmiloc and
Son
Messrs. Gregory and
Cubitt
Messrs. Munt, Brown,
and Co lO 10
Jno. Boldero, Esq., an-
nually
R. Ricardo, Esq.
F. ed. Huth. Req.
Miss Ile'en A. Tasker in 10
N. Griffiths, Esq.
W. B. Mitchell, Esq.
J Wimbush, Esq 5 0
W. L. Webb, Esq.
Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne
Messrs. Vyse and Sons 25 0
Messrs. Hoare lOO 0
Messrs. Elkington and
Co.
F. Goodyear, Esq.
Messrs. J. Shoolbred
and Co
Messrs. Grout and Co 25 0
Thomas Slater, Esq 5 5
D. Cronin, Esq lO 10
Messrs. Dimsdale and
Co.
Messrs. Robarts, Lub-
beck. and Co. ICO 0
N. Griffiths, Esq.
vi essrs.Bradbury,Grea-
torex, and Co 52 10
Messrs. Morrison Dil-
lon, and Co 105 0
Hen y Robinson, Esq 2l 0
William D nt, Esq 2O 0
Bishop of Oxford 5 0
John Sperling, Esq lO 10
Thomas Price, Esq 5 5
John Morley, Esq. 25 0
Messrs. Maclure &Co 5 5
Messrs. E. Saunders
and Co lO 10
Messrs. R. and C. Mil-
burn
Jeremiah Colman, Esq lO 10
James Hop;ro)d, Esq 100 0
Messrs. 11. Meux &Co 105 0
Messrs. Reid and Co. —lOO 0
Messrs. Moses, Son, and
Co.
Messrs. Welch and Son 10 10
Messrs. Travers di Sons 5 5

P. Cazenovc, Esq
10 10 F. H. Janson,' Esq.... 3 3
Messrs. Matheson and A. Pereira, Esq lO 10
Co.
Messrs. Pritchard and C. Irving lO 10
Sons, annually
Messrs. J.and A. Scrim- John Hooper, Esq 5 0
geous and Co 25 5 R. Ravenhill, Esq lO 0
J. S. Gilliatt, Esq 5O 0 W. Howard. Eaq 2 2
Samuel Seal, Esq .. 10 0 Valentine Knight, Eeq. 10 10
Wm. Edger, Esq 2l 0 H. Berlyn, Esq 1 1
Mess-s.Halling,Pe arce,
G. S. Benhaa), Esq 5 0
and Stone 2l 0 A. Jamieson
Stephen Lewis, Esq... , 0 10 Earl of Cadogan
A. J. Lewis, Esq
F. L. Slous, Esq.
H. W. Andrews, Esq.. 5 5 G. G Glyn, E,q 5 5
W. H. Mullens, Esq.... 10 10 Benj. Mocatta, Esq.... 2 2
Hon. Charles Howard, Messrs. Crosse and
M.P.
.......... 2 0 B'ackwal, 11th don.. 1 1
Messrs. Hose, Graham, Albert Tillott, Esq .
and Wilson. 2O 0 annually
Alderman Salomons .. 10 10 E. M. G., 6th don 5 0
Messrs. S. W. Silver The Marquis of Lothian
and Co., annually.... 2 2 2d don.
William Stericker, Esq. 5 5 Magistrates of Clerk.-n-
Messrs. Moses, Levy, well Police Court, 21st
and Co.
Messrs. Gosling and A Gentleman of Kent,
Sharpe
Messrs. Welch and Mar- The Rev. R. N. Drake.. 2 0
getson, annually, .... 5 0 Mrs Westlake
W. A. Jones, Esq. .... 10 10 T. W
H. W. Eaton, Esq. .... 10 10 W. Dent, Esq.
Western Wood, Esq., B. Claon, keg... . 0
M. P,
105 , 0
Messrs. Forster, Porter, Mrs. F Mackenzie
and Co., annually.... 2 3 F. Colllson, Esq.
Smith Greenwell, Esq. 10 10 Charles Skipper, Esq,
Henry Poole, E5q..... 25 0 14th don 5 0
Henry Gibbs, Esq. ....100 0 Mrs. Battine, sth don 1 1
G. T. Trowel'. E5q...,, 10 10 Mrs. Sturn, annual 1 1
Messrs. D. Evans and Clothworkers'Company
Co. .... ....
J. Hutchinson, Esq. .. 10 10 J. Ditchbourne, Esq 1 0
T Eykyn, Esq„ annually 1 1 W. Ditchbourne, Esq 0 10
31. 0., per Edward Mrs. S. Miles Wynne
Masterman, E5q..... 13 0 E Hunt, Esq lO 0
J, Spicer, Esq.lo 10 C. Hemery,Esq., 3d don 10 10
C. W. Roberts, 1i.:5q.... 5 5 Home and Colonial
Wil,iam Booth, Esq... 20 0 Sehool Society, annual 1 1
R. W. Moore, Es.
F. Harrison, EsqE
B. C. Robinson, sq.
J. Corderoy, Esq ...... 5 5 John Sully, Esq., annual 1 1
James Watney, jun., Mrs. R. Matson
Esq. ..... ... ...... . 10 10 Albert Wat,on, Esq.._ 5 0
Sir Morton Peto, Bart., egacy
M.P. ...... • • • • • • .. 20 0 L
Eh's'of f he late Jane
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Robert Burnett, Esq.. 5 0 Rev. R. Palmer, 9th do'sloo 10 10
B. C. John on, Esq.... 5 5 J. Morl,y, Esq., annual 1 1
John Pr.ctor, E5q..... 10 10 S. Northcote, Esq., an-
Messrs.
Ewart, Mac-lanai .1 1
eaughcy, and C 0..... 25 0 J.H. Allen,Esq , anhual 1 1
Edward Shepherd, Esq 10 10 A Friend
Lord Overstone ...... 50 0 I. J. Ruskin, Es 1 0
and ...0 0 MessCo rs. Newton,Evans, A. Jamieson, Esqq.
50
0
... 5 5 G. S. Benham, E5q..... 5 5
Mrs. L.Evans, annually 1 1 S. J. ifallard, E5q..... 1 0
Robinson Ridley, Er q., Sir Cusack Roney . 1 1
annually
Messrs. Blenkinsop and Sir G. R, Phillips 5O 0
J.
Co.
N. Corbe• t, Esq lO 10 Per Mes rs. Masterman
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and and Co.
Co. . lOO 0 Robt. Chater, Es 1., an-
Messrs. Twining & (b lO 10 nual 2 2
Mr. Sheriff,lones
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GM,iss Masters P. Ricardo, Esq. .. • .. 10 10 Mrs. Jane Fort' scuo ' 2 0
Messrs. lta.thschild Wird Goo Miller, Esq.
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ii, rn. Mo. ley, Esq. an- Miss Baker
nually ..... .. ....... 2 2 Miss C. Baker
J A. Guthrie 1'
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onslvill be thankfully received by
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Donations
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Co.'
Titres.% and Co.,
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Bow Churchyard E.C. ; the
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of mastering the details of essentially practical
subjects, the case might, perhaps, have ended diffe-
rently. He would probably have been able to win
over the support or neutralise the opposition of a
portion at least of the Irish members, and at all
events he would doubtless have succeeded in throw-
ing upon them the responsibity of suggeeting some
better measure. But the member for Tamworth is
in himself a receipt for failure. An air of absurdity
attaches itself to everything serious he attempts;
and there is a mischievous gravity about his ill
limed jokes that would set a less suseeptib!e race
than he has to deal with incessantly by the ears.
What we prognosticated when he was appointed
Chief Secretary has fatally happened. He has
marred every question he has ventured to touch,
and rendered the confusion of Irish parties and jea
lousies only worse confounded. 'We cannot wonder
that the representatives of a sister country should
show little disposition to follow the legislative lead
of one so utterly incompetent to guide or govern.
We were therefore not surprised that Sir Roundell
Palmer should be put up to take the matter out of
his incapable hands; or that finding the bill con-
demned as inadequate for its purpose by nearly all
the members for IrelEnd, he should have advised its
abandonment. The Solicitor-General told the house
that he was happy to be able to announce that since
the introduction of the measure the easy-going oc-
cupants of the Registry office had wakened up, and
by a patriotic effort had succeeded in wiping off the
arreer ; so that some good had been effected after
all : and with this Parthian dart the battle ended.
THE LONDON REVIEW.—It was the opinion of
Mr. Weller, senior—and his prolonged experience
as the driver of a stage-coach gave weight to
his authority—that the keepers of turnpike
bars are " all on 'em men as has met.
with some disappointment in life. Conse-
quence of vich they retires from the vorld and shuts
themselves up in pikes ;:partly with the view of being
solitary, and partly to rewenge themselves on man-
kind by takin' tolls." Since the delivery of this dic-
tum the establishment of railways has greatly
favoured their indulgence in a taste for seclusion. At
no time has the most misanthropic amongst them
had cause to fear that he was wearing away life
without sensibly augmenting the sufferings of his
race. Their exactions drove half a dozen counties to
the semi-revolt of the Rebecca riots. In many parts
of England bars hem in the country towns with im-
penetrable lines of circumvallation, which make loco-
motion a nuisance, and the possession of a horse and
a vehicle an expensive torture. Even if the tax upon
our pockets were less considerable than it is, the
constant blister to our tempers would still be a
serious grievance. No other bodily pain is equal to
that inflicted by water falling drop after drop upon
the head. Nor can there be a worse fiscal infliction
than an impost which perpetually lies in wait for
victims, and is ever ready to punish by mean exac-
tion of coppers the slightest indulgence in a vagrant
habit. As a general rule we recognise in direct tax-
ation the convenience of making a man pay once for
all the annual sum at which he is assessed towards
any given object. Our streets and parochial high-
ways are kept up by a parochial rate, and not by
the daily and hourly extortion of contributions to-
wards their maintenance. We know how it happens
that the expense of repairing Fleet-street is defrayed
in one way, and that of repairing the turnpike road
to Barnet in another. But to account for an anomaly
is not to justify it. As the street and the road are
equally matters of public concern, there can
be no reason why one should be supported
by a general rate and the other should de-
pend upon payments made kr its use. In no other
country but England are the main lines of commu-
uication in the hands of private proprietors, who
are authorised to make travellers stand and deliver
at the distance of every few miles.
THE LAW TIMES —The question, whether a soli-
citor in practice should be appointed a justice of
the peace for the borough in which he practises, has
received an official solution. The Lord Chancellor
has refused the request of the Town Council of
Wolverhampton that he would place the name of
Mr. H. H. Fowler, the present mayor, in the Com-
mission of the Peace, on the express ground, as stated
in his answer to the memorial, that" the Lord Chan-
cellor will not consent to break the rule which it
has been found necessary to make against the
appointment as a magistrate of any gentleman
whose name appears upon the roll of attorneys and
solicitors." The rule, as thus stated, is certainly,
much wider than it was understood to be. Succes-
sive Chancellors have refused to put into the com-
mission solicitors practising in the county, city, or
borough within which they would act as justices,
for the reason—on the validity of which opinions
will differ—that circumstances may arise in which
the duties of judge and practitioner may come into
conflict. The objection is, perhaps, more theoretie
cal than practical. Solicitors are eligible to be
mayors; and, in fact, many solicitors are elected to
that office, and fill it with honour to themselves
and advantage to the community. Mayors are ex
officio magistrates for their year of office, and for
one year after • consequently, we do actually wit-
ness the state of things which the rule of the Lord
Chancellor professes to prevent—that is to say,
practising solicitors acting as justices in cities and
boroughs. And what is the result of this ex-
perience ? Why, that in no single instance has
the supposed difficulty cccurred, and in all cases
the solicitors have discharged their judicial duties
to the entire approbation of their fellow-citizens.
That the objection of the Lord Chancellor is not
shared by those who would be the first to see
and feel it, is Droved by the growing desire to place
solicitors in the civic chair, mainly because they are
found to be the best magistrates. Surely, then, if
the inhabitants of the city or borough, having a free
choice, select a solicitor to be their chief magistrate,
there can be no reason for retaining a rule of exclu-
sion which, however reasonable it may appear in
the abstract, is proved not to be supported by ex-
perience.
THE READER.—What used to be the prevalent
doctrine or style of speculation respecting the great
social experiment going on in the New World, and
its probable rebound on the more veteran and com-
plex civilisation of the Old ? Unless we are mis-
taken, something like this :—More than three hund-
red years ago our European forefathers discovered
what may be called a new cheek to our planet---a
vast habitable continent, previously unknown,
wherein there were scattered relics of strange races
that had roamed over it or dwelt on it ; but these
relics, so scanty and mean, in proportion to the ex-
panse and its capabilities, that it seemed as if God
had kept the land vacant, in the sheer care of the
elements and a few red Ir diens, until the men of the
Old World should have occasion for it, and should
be ready to enter upon the possession. Accordingly,
America did become mere new space and growing-
ground for colonies from the chief European nations
—of which colonies those of English or Anglo-
Saxon foundation gradually proved themselves the
most capable, and superseded or absorbed the
others, or distanced them in wealth, importance,
and strength. But what sort of items from her
own body did the Old World thus part with,
and send over to form the beginnings of the
body-politic in the New ? Items of all sorts ;
but with this one common character amid all
their diversities, that they were the extreme
tips and clippings, the very last developments,
of the social, moral, and intellectual tendencies of
the Old World. Still the notion was that what was
seen there was simply a transplantation of what
was best and most advanced, or at least most ex-
treme and developed, in the social tendencies of
Europe—a transplantation into a freer space and
ampler growing-ground, where, disentangled from
impediments and restrictions, it might extend and
flourish, and where, moreover, from the very neces
sity that there should be peace and mutual tolera-
tion among so many elements of different origin,
problems of government and civil equality never
solved in the Old World were sure to be worked
out. Hence the idea was that the Great Ameri-
can Republic was an experiment of cosrnopo-
!Weal significance, a kind of pilot-experiment for
all humanity, showing, by the actual spectacle of
.a
nation ahead of the rest by its constitution and
its processes, what all the world, or at least all the
in
civilised world of Europe, was comingcertainelhs ato:
if it advanced at all. Something
l peculation
was the prevalent doctrine andissetTiiikoecoqf si
ueville, also,
with regard to America. A w
aule
sympathetically and admiringly studying Ameri-
cang
civilisation, could see daners in it
admitting it to be a splendid pilot-emperid, w
naent for
the whole earth, could not but recognisecertain pi.
periorities still apparently inseparable from the
civilisation of the older and more crowded nations
cf Europe. Among ourselves there were some deep
thinkers, by whom the material prosperity of the
American Republic was regarded as a phenom©
non to be explained by mainly physical CaUBCS, and
not very admirable essentially, and not likely to
last very long. Again, there were shrewd end-
who brought
kindly travellers, like Dickens'
back from America, an
the results of their
direct observation of men
such reports as could not,and manners there,
whatever were one's
philosophical prepossessions,. give one a very lofty
idea of the peculiarities of the actual American
mind, It is extraordinary to note how courageously

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Mr. Dickens, in his " Chuzzlewit," set down, on
the faith of hie own impressions, things about the
Americans which it was not the fashion to express
they, but which it has been common enough to say
of late. Finally, there were the liberal and
philanthropic tree; who, full-- of admiration for
A merle's, saw the black spot of slavery in the very
centre of what they admired, and who wondered
hew and when the pot was to disappear. Still en
the whole the prevalent doctrine with respect to
America, in quarters where doctrines about any-
ihieg exist, was very much what we have described
ATIIF,N,EITII.—M. de Quatrefage e, who seems to
regard all scientific doubt as to the fosiii jawbone
found at Moulin Quignon, near Abbeville, as so
much depreciation of the glory of France, continues
to fight, for the authenticity. It is another Crecy,
another Agincourt, and the battle seems likely to
have a similar result. M. Quatrefages says his
first convictions have been strengthened by a further
examination both of the jawbone and the flint
hatchet found near it. He quotes the opinions of
MINI, Delesse, Desnoyers, Gaudry, de Vilbraye and
Lyman, who all concur in considering the jawbone
perfectly authentic. M. Pictet, after examining
it with care, had declared that he had not ex-
pected it to offer such conclusive evidence, As
to Dr. Falconer's assertion that the tooth which
had been found, besides being very white still
contained a large propartioe of gelareac,
Quatrefages contended that the existence of
gelatine had occurred ere this in fossil teeth of
much greater antiquity than any which could be
found in drift. Messrs. Prestwich, Falconer, Burk,
and Carpenter are in Paris, strong in their convic-
tions, and we hear that many French inquirers are
already of their opinion as to the spuriousness of
this extraordinary discovery in the drift.
SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW.—The vast amount of
money kept in greater or less sums on the premises
by retail dealers, farmers, and others, and hence
kept exposed to depredation as well as to the loss of
interest, is highly discreditable to the good sense
and frugality of the persons who do it. Of this
publicans are a common example, and they are fre-
quent victims of depredation. In the course of some
investigations of systematic depredation, a police-
officer stated to us that when the extent of culpable
exposure of property was considered, there ought to
be little surprise at the extent of habitual depreda-
tion. Thus he said he might almost undertake to
find blindfold large sums of money kept by publi-
cans as well as by other tradesmen. He would
grope his way to the bedroom on the second floor,
and he would find a chest of drawers with three
large drawers, and two small drawers at the top ;
in the right hand small drawer, which had the com-
monest lock, one that might be opened by a nail or
a piece of bent wire, would be found a bowl in which
there was silver and gold, and now and then notes,
kept for paying the brewer and the distiller. These
stores are from time to time swept away by thieves.
And so it is frequently with other tradesmen, who
keep for months as well as weeks their quarterly
collections in the most exposed manner on the pre-
mises. One common course of depredation in Lon-
don is on the Sunday, when a tradesman goes out
on a pleasure excursion with his wife and children,
leaving a servant girl alone in charge of the house
and shop. A young fellow, a thief, pays court to
ber, and gains admission to the premises, finds
out where the money is kept, and in re-
gular course it is stolen. I do not see why some
of the more popular banks should not make
arrangements for receiving cash boxes with the
money collected up to Saturday after banking hours
and save the risk of keeping it on the exposed pre-
mises during the Sunday.
THE MEDICAL TIMES.—Dr. Richardson, on the
9th instant, conducted an inquiry which may ulti-
mately be often resorted to in those medico-legal
investigations in which the question of identity is
ins olved. On the preceding Wednesday an inquest
was held by Mr. Humphreys, the coroner for East
Middlesex, on the body of a man who bad been
found drowned in the Thames, and who was assumed
to have been the murderer of the unfortunate girl
Emma Jackson, who was found some weeks One
with her throat cut in a brothel in St. Giles. The
witnesses who knew the supposed murderer were
taken to view the body of the deceased man on Wed-
nesday, but the body was so decomposed, the face so
black, and the tissues so swollen, that they were
utterly unable to offer any opinion. To prevent the
case from falling through, Dr. Richardson sug-
gested, first to Dr. Lankester, and afterwards to Mr.
Humphreys, that probably the features of the dead
man might be greatly restored. Mr. Humphreys
thereupon requested Dr. Richardson to make the
attempt, and deputed Dr. Edmunds to take part in
carrying out the operation. The process adopted by
Dr. Richardson consisted in immersing the body in
a salt water bath for two hours; then the face was
raised from the water and exposed to chlorine ; and
finally the arteries leading to the face were injected
with chlorine water containing chloride of zinc and a
little sesqui-chloride of iron. The decomposition of
the tissues was so great that the operations were at-
tended with mach difficulty, but the resultsjudicially
were all that could be desired. The face was brought
from dark black to a pale ash colour, the tumefaction
was reduced and all the witnesses on viewing the body
after the process were enabled to depose without
hesitation that the body was not that of any man
whom they had ever seen ; while one witness
(Stoke) swore positively that it was not the person
who attended Emma Jackson when he saw her last.
Dr. Richardson and Dr. Edmunds were also enabled
to determine that the dead man was a young man
of 21 or 22, whose beard had not been shaven, and
whose whiskers were imperfectly developed. While
we may look upon this inquiry as fruitful in its
results practically, we may add the fact that Dr.
Richardson believes that in future much more per-
fect results may be secured, and we may hope that
by improvements in the different steps of the pro-
ceedings, any dead body, the tissues of which are
not actually destroyed, may be so far restored as to
be identified. This f.s a new feature in Forensic
Medicine, and ore which may render service to the
public, and reflect credit on modern Medical science.
SPECTATOR.—Since the untimely death of Sir G.
C. Lewis Mr. Gladstone is recognised by common
consent as the heir apparent to the leadership of the
Liberal party; and those, therefore, who, like our-
selves, are not quite so ductile to the rash timidity
and dangerous caution of the times as to look with
equanimity on the prospect of a long series of years
in which the Government of this country should
cover with its aegis every rotten abuse, and wave
aside every noble cause till it has ceased to need our
aid, must henceforth watch the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's career with mingled anxiety and pride.
He alone can pretend to lead the Liberals ; but it is
useless to ignore the fact that he will be a leader
whom all the Conservatives will delight to assault,
and not quite all the Liberals will delight to de-
fend. Nay, we must say more,—though he will
be a leader to be followed with enthusiasm,—
with far greater loyalty of sentiment than one
can readily feel for Lord Palmerston's pleasant
and politic expediency,—we must often, too, fol-
low him with anxiety and trembling, as a leader
whose thoughts and ways are not very easy to anti-
cipate—one of the greatest defects in the leader of a
popular party—and whose mind is too inventive foro
any large measure of that political sagacity wr:
finds the true track rather by scent than
tual effort. Great parties like to have ileadoweri
thoughts and measures they
wouldhand.
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wishes, Mr. Gladstone is the natural link between
the commercial spirit of his country and the higher
culture of the sage,One of Mr. Gladstone's most
eminent characteristics as a Parliamentary leader,
which is closely allied both with his great qualifi-
cations and some disqualifications
for the supreme
post, is his wonderful power as a debater—which
is, indeed, in some respects, too great. His mind
may be said to swarm arguments, all of them at least
telling, and for the time converging on his point; but
still of that independent and tenacious vitality
that they do not perish with the occasion, but are
apt to return upon their progenitor at inconvenient
s
seasons, when they are not likely to strengthen
position. There is none of that parsimony logic
about Mr. Gladatone—that disposition to use up tha
same consideratio”s again and again till they sr,e

little threadbare—which, in the .
rous chief like the late Robert Pt
most useful of a leader's tendencieV.l
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handles to his opponents. But when e Lialk--...
milted that even as a debater his wonderl fettilityS
is as much a risk as a power, we must add that a
greater debater probably never addressed the House
of Commons.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Letters, dated April, 2 have been received at Ply-
mouth from the screw steam frigate Sutltj, 35,Cspt.
Conolly, tg of Rear-Admiral John Kingcome,Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Pacific. She was, at the
Lime they were despatched, at Valparaiso all well.

The screw steam sloop Alert, 17:Commander Ma-
gendie, at Devon port, just commissioned' is ordered
LO be stored and provisioned for immediate service.
She was placed on S tturclay in dock No. 1, to have
her bottom cleaned and be overhauled.
His Swedish Majesty's corvette Lagerbjelkie,
Capt, Herkipe, sailed from the Motherbank on Sa-
turday evening for Carlscrona.
Tier Majesty's screw frigate Leander, 39, 400
horseln
ei. power,y, was
made the final trial of her ma-
cinspected at the Nore, on Saturday, by
having
Vice-Admiral. Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8.,
Commander, in- Chief, and yesterday got up steam at
an early hour, and proceeded to Portsmouth, where
she will receive her final orders from the Admiralty.
The Leander will relieve the Topaze, 39, 600 horse
power, carrying the broad pennant cf Commodore
of 2d class, the lion. J. W. S. Spencer, the
Toraze being about to retrrn t; England. By di-
rection of the Admiralty every despatch is to be
used in hastening the departure of the Leander, in
consequence of the serious delays which have taken
place caused by the unsatisfactory working of her
machinery. It is, however, the opinion of compe-
tent naval engineers and other officers at Chatham
that, although the defects in the engines of the
Leander have been temporarily overcome, her whole
machinery is so defective that should she be des-
patched to her proposed station a very short inter-
val only will elapse before she will be compelled to
return home to have her engines and boilers taken
out.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :—Commander John T. J.
Parry, to the Cambridge ; Lieut. Henry Waller, to
the Leander; Lieut. H. H. Washington, to the Cos-
sa ck ; Arthur D. Fanshawe, 'William S. Talbot,
George L. Atkinson, and Seymour H. R. Dacres,
midshipmen, to the Revenge; Harry G. Stevenson
and Edward A.Cooper,midshipmen, to the Orlando;
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Hibernia ; William C. Hadrill, master's assistant,
to the Orlando; Robert Bacon, engineer, to Weser ;
Richard S. Lee, assist.-engineer, to the Marl-
assist.-engineer, to the
borough; Edward Watson,
Weser; Peter Colquhoun and John Green, acting
second-class assist.-engineers, to the Orlando.