The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-14 00:00:00

'THE SUN, LONDON -SATU RIMY EVEN ENG, NOVEMBER J 4, 186`,--,',

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 14, 1863.

" Procrastination," according to the Poet of the
"fight Thoughts, " is the thief of time"—it might
added, also, of credit. One of the great dis-
credits attaching to our Government in connection
With the Crimean War, at its very
was the helpless commencement,
into it. A manner in which we had drifted
remembrance of that slowness of deli-
beration, of that reluctance to take the initiative in
any matter
daring
importance, has been hanging
over us
g these last few days, with
a sense of
I°Gal
almost sinister in its
way, in reference
to the absolute silence maintained here
orespeet to the intentions
of the Cabinet as to
NApoLEoN's proposition. That
proposition was moment
kind, to necessitate
aometis denough, certainly, of its
:I°Y before the answer
to it could be decided
up But total and abso-
lute silence—a silence as that of
death, as to what
was in every any likely to cooi
of
it, augured
seriously, as to the risk of this laps
e diminution
time, caul •
ing in England no inconsiderable of
credit. It bore the appearance of
of profound bewilderment. It se: senmed se
be scarcely, in any way, propitious ofa t°
settlement of the difficulty and least of all Distinctf
a
satisfactory settlement of it. Abruptly—the
silence
is faintly broken, the gloom is slightly dissipated,
A.telegram comes to us late in the afternoon bringing
to us the intimation from Vienna—rather a round.
übout way for the tidings to arrive—that the Courts
of Vienna, Berlin, and London have agreed to ac-
cept the proposal of a Congress ! That the proposal
should have been accepted " with eertain modifica-
tions" wasonly of course what could reasonable have
been expected. The proposition in its original form,
as propounded by the French EMPEROII,firSt of all in
his, speech to his new Legislature, and afterwards
in his circular letter to the European Sovereigns,
`K-as so grand, and vast, and almost, one might say,
illimitable in its scope, that, in order to render it
t any way at all practicable, it required to be
harrowedeverthat
down at least to a definition. Now, how-
-I....russiaat the Congress, so far as France, Austria,
, and England have already decided it, is to
te—it i 8 satisfactory to know that the questions
taus to be submitted to consideration must be re
strictedsimiy
now actuallyalreadypending.
Questions, for ezarn
such as those relating to
Poland, to Schleswig T e
o'liatein, and to Italy, particu-
larly in reference to AT;f .tia and the Papal States.
T
ho mere announcement beforehand that to those
th
actually pending questions deliberations of the
Congress are to be restricted, se
the whole scheme of the Congrmess s to us to render
being
ein more feasible,
carried
feasible,
more practicable, more capable of
into operation, in fine more secure of
dactive of good. Another important stiputationgb 13"
n "'-
that no States bat those directly concerned in th'"'
entire execution of the Programme are to take,
part in ,tho delibE rations of the Congress. Not a "
whisper, as yet, as to whether the EMPEROR'S
offer of P, iris as the seat of the Congress is to
be accepted! Nevertheless, accepting as Austria.,

Prussia, and England are doing, the proposal of the
Congress itself, of course upon certain conditions,
with certain preliminary stipulations and modifi-
cations—it is hardly possible that they can hesi-
tate about the accptance also of the proffered place
of rendezvous.

Tho time has gone by for the present when
reform meetings were the order of the day. Mr.
BRIGHT'S magic eloquence that was to rouse the
land from one end to another has suddenly col-
lapsed, and we now hear nothing of the importance
of immediate measures being adopted. Still, from
time to time, some more earnest or energetic mem-
ber comes forward, and the old question is brought
up. At the meeting in Bristol nothing particularly
novel or striking was said, but the observations
are worthy of attention, and it is at all events
something gained that the subject should be mooted
at all. The chairman gave the working classes
some very sensible advice as to the advisability of
relying on themselves, and showing forth the ad-
vantages that they have derived from working
men's institutes and such like undertakings by their
increased intelligence and self-control. This is
very salutary and sensible exhortation, and the
more it is attended to, the better for the improve-
ment of their social and political welfare. No
better arguments can be adduced as to the in-
creasing of the franchise being right and fitting
than to point to the well•ordered and intelligent
community of those whose predecessors a century
ago were lawless, and undisciplined, and totally
unfit to take any part in the management of affairs.
The resolution which was moved by Mr. WILLIAMS
was an excellent one, and properly expressed the
purpose of the meeting, while it did more than that,
for it explained the great drawback which exists
in the claims of the present Ministry to popularity.
1 " That this meeting, while generally approving the
foreign policy of her MAJESTY'S Government,
regrets that it has not more energetically promoted
those measures of political and ecclesiastical reform
which its supporters had a right to expect." This
is strong language, but not a bit too forcible, and
it would be well if more constituencies followed
the example of that of Bristol and made
a home-thrust at the policy of an administration
that has abjured its principles. It is now more
than four years since the Derby Reform measure
was rejected by the doggedness and pertinaeity of
Earl RUSSELL. No half measures for him, no
expediency, and no compromise, he could not be
content with trusting to the remedial agencies of
committees, he must have instant perfection, ant
Ccesar ant nihtl was his motto, and though he has
since chosen the easiest part of his performance he
and his immediate supporters seem to expect the
same deference and to meet the same universal sup-
port as if he had vanquished the difficulty, and
restored the advantages that were promised to the
people. His conduct is almost unparalleled in the
annals of political duplicity and patty manoeuvring,
rich as they are in the details and double-dealing
and finessing. Notwithstanding some exaggera-
tion in ides, and extreme notions in the way of
proposals, there is much in the discourses that were
uttered at this meeting that may attract attention,
and win a favourable consideration. For instance,
Mr. COSSEIAM made some very decided stateme c is
as to the perilous position in which their party
were placed by the extraordinary vacillation of its
leaders, and their want of purity of purpose and
unity of action. He said that he believed that" as
a party they would be gone" if they had not better
and more marked principles for home reform, and
chat the liberal Government would sink the party
if they went on like this in matters relative to
home affairs. This lugubrious prophecy will
more likely than not be realised, and it is
now an acknowledged fact that the once
famous Liberals have not a popular cry with
which to go to the hustings. P. is well, therefore'
that those leaders who have occasioned so much
mortification to the more advanced members of
the party should occasionally b 3 told of their
defalcations, and reminded of their shortcomings,
even though the remembrance of the events re-
ferred to may have faded out of the immediate
recollection of the public. Mr. BERKELEY'S speech
was spirited and to the point ; the hon. member's
views, as he said, were too well known for him to
need to divulge them, but his remarks on many points
of interest and importance may, nevertheless, re-
fresh the memory of his auditors, and also the
general public, who will read his observations.
It is in every way satisfactory that the question of
Reform should have been brought foward at this
time, because many other affairs of moment have
engaged the attention of hon. members at various
public meetings, and therefore it is necessary that
one of the chief home questions of the day should
be considered, since it is never useless to pay at-
tention to these matters, even if they may not
be coming under notice at once. At all events it
is a disgrace to the so-called Liberal Ministry
that, after years passed by them in the plenitude
of power, any assembly of their countrymen
should have occasion to make statements as were
uttered at the meeting at Bristol. The speakers
have all spoken out in a bold and manly fashion,
and with a spirit that does them honour, and,
doubtless, many will appreciate their straightfor-
ward declarations, and concur in the sharp but
salutary remarks that have been made by the
various speakers at this demonstration.

The advance and extension of liberal views among
the agricultural classes was strongly marked by the
reception accorded to the address of Sir EDWARD
DEItING, the recently elected Member for East Kent.
The hon. baronet remarked that the present
flourishing condition of British agriculture shows
that When the British farmer is put on his mettle
he is 'Pell able to overcome all difficulties and to
farmers
lativeasuccessfully with the foreigner. What our
compete
right to demand, placed as they are
in competition
_DERING ; with the world, is, as Sir EDWARD
justly observes, the opportunity of carry-
ing on their opermi
The
reduction ons unshackled by official re-
striction.or abolition of the malt
duty was, of
course,nference to which this
logic pointed, and, by the° inference
y of encouragement to the
Kentish farmers, interested
more
resse
than any others in
xp d his belief
the question, the new Member
that the time was approaching when they might
hope to have the privilege of malting
The
prosperous
g their own
barley to fatten their own cattle,
state of the country, despite the disastrous effect of
the American war, Was naturally a ~ibjtet
of
con-
gratulation, and truly it may be almost as tulle:
matter of surprise as thankfulness to many.
Foreigners will marvel more than ever at the
buoyancy of our commercial resources 'when they
see the shock that was expected to half pauperise
England gallantly surmounted, and the lesson thus
taught will not, we may hope, be altogether profit-
less. Not many years since the Indian crisis
made a sudde4 and terrible demand on the re-
sources of Great Britain—not so much of the
nation collectively, but on individual capacity
and character. Those who were or. the spot had
to answer for the people, and nobly they
bore the test. Far from reversing the system
, of Government, the mutiny has been the means of
confirming our authority and riveting our rule in
India. In the same manner has 11 a American

difficulty been bravely and stedfastly met, and the
sudden and almost total suspension of one of the
chief branches of national trade and commerce has
failed to work the evil anticipated. This time we
had something to learn as to the mismanagement
that had brought the catastrophe upon us, but the
elasticity of our resources and the temper and spirit
of the people have received a most striking illustra-
tion. The American war and its apparently hope-
less progress filled the closing paragraphs of Sir
EDWARD DERING'S speech. He professed himself a
firm supporter of the South—a sentiment which the
audience apparently shared, to judge from the loud
applause with which they greeted it. On the vexed
question of the rams, the speaker expressed his hope
that the Government would pursue a straightfor-
ward course, and that if the construction of the
rams be proved to be illegal the constructors should
suffer the penalties imposed by law ; but that if no
such law could be shown to be in existence, we
might not be induced by threats to pass any Legis-
lative enactment to that effect. It is not at all im-
probable that the early days of next session may
witness a debate, or even a trial of strength, on this
very point ; and it is therefore well for every mem-
ber fully and clearly to set the case before himself
and his constituents. Sir EDWARD DERING'S
statement is a just and temperate one, as it would
evidently be a most unfair proceeding to alter the
laws of the country to render that act culpable
which, when committed, was not intended to in-
fringe the laws of the country. Such meddlesome
legislation will not suit the temper of Englishmen,
and he will b 9 an unwise and an impolitic Minister
who endangers his place and his reputation by
tampering with our sturdy old English laws at the
bidding of foreign agents.

:rain.

The ceaseless activity of our commercial life un-
questionably gives great facilities to the crafty and
designing, as well as affording opportunities to
honest and honourable enterprise. It is a trite say-
ing, that if there were no fools there would be no
knaves ; but it is as hopeless to look for a commu-
nity wholly composed of wise and prudent men, as
for a city in which there should be no rogues. The
one is as likely as the other, and all that those who
are both wise and honest can do is to interfere as
far as is consistent with individual liberty of action
between the plotter and his dupe. Of the many
various kinds of fraudulent money-making now
commonly practised among us, there is none perhaps
more cruel and disastrous in its results than that
perpetrated under the guise of seeming kindness,
which takes advantage of a man's necessities and
difficulties to involve him in a network from which
he is never to escape, except at the price of all he
has. The system carried on by many money-lenders
is very similar to that pursued by the spider to the
unfortunate fly he can entice within his perilous
meshes, and the fate prepared for the victim is no
leas merciless. They entrap the young and thought-
less beginner, who having outrun his quarter's in-
come, or wishing to enter upon some expense just
above his means, is delighted at the prospect so
plausibly held out to him, and walks into the snare
with little delay. Then comes the old story, inte-
rest at ruinous rates, simple and compound, time
granted on extravagant conditions, which the miser-
able debtor is forced to accede to, and as the chain
grows tighter and tighter round him, it is pressed
more earnestly, for the creditor xnows that escape
is no longer possible. Many a young man in good
position, with fair means for a moderate ambition,
has had cause to deplore his first acquaintance with
the smooth-spoken gentleman, who so pleasantly
promised to help him out of his little temporary
embarrassments. A striking instance of the system
pursued has just been laid before the public by a
gentleman, who tells us that on Monday morning
he entered on his duties as clerk at Somerset•house,
and on Tuesday, the very day following, he received
a letter from one of these money-lenders, assuring
him of the easy, convenient, and csnfidential terms
on which he advanced money to gentlemen in his
position. 1-Tow many would have fallen into the
trap, and how close must be the watch kept on all
civil appointments and other likely quarters for a
fresh supply of credulous dupes. It is a pity that
the law cannot be framed to catch some of these
harpies tripping, and to punish them as they
deserve when caught.

HUNTING ACCIDENT. —Lord Middleton nearly
lost his' first whip" on Monday night. The meet
was at Sledmere, and some of the hounds were scattered,
and the first whip remained to get them together. The
night was very dark, and being a stranger, this being his
first season—ho took the country by Wharram home.
Behind Wharram Church there are some spring heads, and
into one of these horse and rider fell, the horse being
uppermost. Both lay in the cold spring water unable to
extricate themselves, but, curiously enough. both with
heads above water, The hounds in the dark worn heal('
down the valley as far as Wharram station, and by the
passengers in the last train on the Driffield Rail-
way. As the hounds continued to cry for so long a time,
some labourers set off in the direction of the cries to see
what was the matter. Here the man who found tho pitiable
position of the " whip" was prevented rendering him any
help by the dogs, which for some time would not permit
man or horse to bo touched, and would clearly have worried
any one attempting a rescue single-handed. Both man and
horse, however, were eventually got out, after two hours'
immersion. The " whip" was taken to the nearest house'
and was soon able to move about again. The hunter, how-
ever, a valuable mare, took a great deal of getting round,
and seemed by far the worse of the two. Had not assistance
arrived man and horse must inevitable have been starved
to death.

THE COMPLETE LIST OF THE NATIONAL COM-
MITTEE for the Shakespeare Celebration has been
issued, and a public meeting is shortly to be convened for
the purpose of deciding npon the precise course to be fol_
lowed, and the form which the Commemoration is to take.
At present nothing seems to have been definitely fixed, be-
yond the affirmation of the general principle that the Corn-
memoratian should be effected "in a manner which shall
be in some degree worthy of Shakapeare and of the
ceuntzy." One thing only seems certain, that on the anni•
versary •day shall be laid " the first stone of a monument in
a conspicuous part of London." The list of the committee
now put forward contains the names of 276 gentlemen
whose names are, for the most part, connected with British
literature and art. Among the few foreign names, we
notice those of M. Gallait, the great Belgian historical
painter, M. Louis Blanc, and M. Fechter, who has done
such noble work for Shakespeare. The president and
patron are not yet named; but it is not impossible that the
name of the Prince of Wales may soon appear in connection
with the former office, and that his gracious mother will
consent to allow herself to be nominated to the latter post.
The vice-presidents are the Archbishop of York, the Duke
of Manchester, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl Stanhope,
Charles Dickens, Esq., W. C. Macready, Esq., and Alfred
Tennyson, Esq. With reference to the idea of a monu-
ment, certain writers are adopting the tone of opposing the
monument on the grcund that Shakespeare's greatness is
so unquestioned that he has no need of any monument.
This seems to us to bo tantamount to declaring that monu-
ments should only be erected to the memory of insignificant
men, a theory which only insignificant men can be in•
terested in supporting.—The Queen.
-NIEDICINES : THEIR IMPURITIES AND ADUL-
TERATIONS.—The Lancet has just commenced the
publication of a new series of investigations, relative to the
impuritiese and adulterations of medicines, giving, as it did
tn
foos thd, case of its inquiries respecting the adulteratian of
samplesp.es w
the names of the vendors of whom the analysed
were obtained. The report in the lancet of this
week is on "sweet spirit of nitre"—a remedy, perhaps,
more extensively employed than any other. It shows, first,
that this article
when not adulterated, is usually in a very
impure state, but that by far the greater number of the
samples were adulterated. Some of them were diluted with
water, which brined in
third, and in one instance
cases a fourth, in other, a
Leah,.
re
e s and
with instructions of the
half, the so-called spirit;
d
while others, contrary to the
e Pew:
College of Physicians, were
ppriormitsiseof
to be
ofm of; hylatec spirit,
costing about 3s. 6d. per gallon, in place
at 225. per gallon. These investigations
second
dtofonrly in importance to those which appeared in the
L so many years relating to food anti drink,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA

MAILS,

The following telegram has been received at
Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Ori-
ental Steam Navigation Company :
MARSEILLES, Nov. 14.
The Massilia, with the above mails, arrived here
at 7.30 a.m. this day.
The mails leave for London by the 11.30 a.m.

THE EUROPEAN CONGRESS.
VIENNA, Nov. 14.

The Courts of Vienna, Berlin, and London have
agreed to accept the proposal of a Congress under
certain modifications. The Ministers of the Great
Powers will confine themselves to the consideration
of questions at present pending. Oaly States con-
cerned in the entire execution of the programme
will have a seat and vote at the Congress. Most
positive guarantees for the thorough carrying out
of the programme will be required.

ITALY,
THE NATIONAL BANK OF TURIN.
TURIN, Nov, 14.
The National Bank of Turin has raised its rate
of discount from 7 to 8 per cent.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
POSEN, Nov. 10.

The insurrection in the palatinate of Lublin has
lately taken a threatening turn for the Russians.
General Kruk has ten detachments operating under
his orders, commanded respectively by Wierzbicki,
Ruszki, Kozlowski, Szydlowski, Krysinski, Le-
niewski, Sucbodolki, Cry zawicz, Sieukiewicz, and
Janosza.

In the palatinates of Sandomir and Cracow the
detachments of Bosak, Rembajlo, Chmielewski, and
Czachowski display extreme activity. The recent
disasters they have suffered have only retempered
their courage and their hopes.
In the palatinate of Kalisch several well-armed
detachments, among others that of Korytkowski,
are under the direction of Colonel Kopernieki.
In Cujuria three detachments of cavalry, one of
which is commanded by Okoniewski, hold the
country successfully against the Russians.
In Augustow, notwithstanding the persecutions
of General Mouravieff, the insurrection increases
daily.

Lastly, in the palatinate of Plock, in Podlachia
and in Masovia, recent engagements iu which, the
Poles have uniformly proved victorious, sufficiently
demonstrate the vitality of the insurrection in those
regions.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8.

The lnvalide Russe of yesterday announces that
the Emperor left the Castle of Livadia in the Crimea
the day before yesterday upon his return to this
city. The Empress will leave to-day, remain a
night in Moscow, and arrive at Tzarskoe-Selo the
succeeding day. The Grand Duke Constantine and
his wife are again about to go abroad, and will most
likely pass through Austria. The Emperor's third
brother, the Grand Duke 'Michael, Viceroy in the
Caucasus, will return with his consort to Tiflis.

Many rumours are current of what passes in the
Imperial Family, but little is really known. The
Polish suite of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
Constantine is said to ba especially distasteful to
the Empress. If this be true, the approaching
journey of the Grand Ducal pair sufficiently shows
which influence has gained the day.
It is questionable whether the Emperor Napo-
leon's speech and the projects therewith connected
will alter our Polish policy. Little chance as there
is of the notion of a general Congress—often, by the
way, proposed by Prince Gortschakoff—being point
blank rejected, there is equally little probability
of its unconditional Acceptance. Certain guaran-
tees would undoubtedly be first required to avoid
falling into a trap. Everybody here is agreed that
Napoleon's proposition will be far less inconvenient
to Russia than to Austria, and that the Emperor
Francis Joseph would be unable to avoid the par-
ticipation of Italy is the Congress. He could still
less refuse to take part himself, after having re-
cently set on foot Congresses of Princes and Minis-
ters with so much gusto.
It is stated that the Imperial Bank has refused
to aid the Exchange Bank, just founded in Riga,
either with advances or credit, although the Finance
Minister had held out the prospect of both. The
success of the new undertaking may, therefore, be
regarded as very doubtful.

LITERATURE,

plontalembert's Last Great Speech,

L'Eglise Libre Dans L'Etat Libre. Discours pro-
nonces au Congres Catholique de Malines. Par
le Comte de Montalembert, I'nn des Quarante de
l'Academie Franclise. Pp. 188. Paris : Dauniol.

Within the last few days we had, in common
doubtless with a multitude of others alike in France
and in England, the anguish—for, unaffectedly, the
feeling was nothing less poignant than one of
anguish—of remarking the ventilation in the sittings
of the new Imperial Chamber of Representatives at
Paris of another name than the name of Montalem-
bert as the member for Daubs. A reperusal of these
most impressive arguments comes to us, since then,
as in some small degree a consolation. It is so far
a consolation, at least, that it places as au courant
with the views of the Count de Montalembert upon
one of those root-qnestions the most vitally affecting
the whole condition of the Christian dispensation in
its relations with Modern Civilisation. The opinions
of a man so profoundly and tenderly devoted to the
divine interests of Christianity, and of one who is
at the same time so warm and ardent a champion of
the in finitely subordinate, yet still sublime and even
sacred, interests of Civilisation, of Modern Civilisa-
tion—eannot but be all the more eagerly welcomed,
uow that circumstances have unhappily hushed his
voice as that of one of the boldest political thinkers
and speakers in his native land. The discredit of the
circumstances thus hushing that voice, so long beloved
and honoured among the more enlightened body of
Frenchmen, does not, however, by any means, as it
appears to us, attach exclusively to the imperial
system now dominant in France. That system
has its share, and a lion's share to boot it
is, of that discredit. But the discredit re-
ferred to, we cannot but repeat this as our
conviction, does net, in any way, as it ap-
ears to us, appertain to it exclusively. The People
must share it with the Government. The multitude
of electors have participated with the Napoleonic
institutions, in closing the door against the Count de
Montalembert as a candidate claiming admission as
freeman and (as the Count does not himself, of course,
effect to be, but simply is) as a great orator, as a
pure and philosophic legislator, as a world-renowned
champion at once of Religion and Liberalism, honour-
ably seeking admission into that scene of his ancient
triumphs, the hall of the French Parliament, the
tribune of the FrenehLegislature. However brought
about, the exclusion of Montalembert from that hall,
from that tribune, was nothing less—our innermost
feelings aver this—was nothing, was absolutely
nothing less, than a heinous act of ingratitude. To
open his lips—meaning by that simple phrase, his
whole mind as well, his soul, his heart, his very
conscience—to open his lips frankly in regard to a
matter of such vital and momentous import as that
of " A Free Church in a Free State," of their
position relatively to each other, of their
being absolutely essential, each to each—the
Count: do Montalembert was constrained to
cross the northern frontiers of France, to
ascend the steps of a Belgian tribune, and to speak
then and there, not in France, not at Paris, as four
thousand people remember him to have spoken a
very few months, little more than a very few weeks
back, in the old Flemish city of Mechlin or Malines.
Breathing the pare atmosphere of that constitutional
country, the Count de Montalembert spoke, it will
be remembered, with a boldness, and a precision, and
anunflinching determination to lay bare his own deli-
berate convictions in regard to everything constitut-
ing or relating to" A Free Church in a Free State,"
as to startle many of those who were most familiar
with that boldness of thought and speech for which
the Great Orator during his whole life, his pure and
noble life, has been so pre-eminently remarkable.
For ourselves, in his regard; we can speak, and
think, and feel, perhaps, in a more peculiar man-
ner, dispassionately. It is the privilege, it is in one
sense the right of this true Champion of Religion
and of Liberalism—call him as a Politician and as
a Christian what you pleasz:—it is the Count do
Montalembert's privilege, it is his right,
to be regarded with peculiar and most
unprejudiced sympathy here in this Pro-
testant Eagland. His views in regard to the
relations: that ought to hold between the Church
and the State, are, for the most part, identical with
the views of freeborn Englishmen. His opinions, in
regard to the political forms of Government are
substantially and peculiarly those entertained by
the great mass of us Englishmen. Constitutional
Government—a Constitutional Government such as
that which has grown up here in England during
many centuries—is what he cherishes the belief may
yet come to be the possession of his fellow country-
men. Startling though his views ana opinions
were to many of those who listened to his great
oration at Malines, to us they come quite naturally
and familiarly. They are the echoes of the thoughts
and convictions we have long cherished. Happily
we have had occasion, since the speech was first
delivered at the Congress, to note how the doubts
first of all excited amongst a certain proportion
of its hearers, and afterwards of its readers,
have been cleared away. At this moment they
have all but vanished altogether. The Count's
views are no longer looked at doubtingly,
wistfully, and askance. They are accepted for
what they are, for what he meant them to be. The
orator has himself taken the trouble to specify with
the utmost distinctness what in, effect was the scope
of their inner meaning or general significance. He
did so origina'ly in a recent number of Le Corres-
pondant, as a sort of supplement to the issue of
the two speeches, or rather of the two halves of
the great oration, given in successive numbers of
chat able and brilliant periodical. Here together with
the explanatory note, the speech itself appears in its
collective form. In that collective form, as a sepa-
rate and substantial publication,it comes to us cer-
tain of obtaining—what we yield it upon the instant,
with open hands and with open heart—a welcome.
The voice of the Great Orator will be found by those
who may hero hearken to it again, will be found
by them to have lost, through lack of use, none of
its former resonance. It cornea to els, once more
like one of the dear familiar voices of old, melo-
diously, sonorously, but, by reason of more than
one sorrowful remembrance, with yet one additional
touch of beauty in its vibration—the sound as of
suppressed tears in it. As we listen, it is the friend
of Lacordaire (hushed, even in the pulpit, before
death) who is speaking to us—in a word, it is
MONTALEMBERT.

Les Institutions _Representatives En Autrielte.
Par P.. De Haulleville. Pp. 175. Paris :

Guillaumin et Cie.

Having recently directed attention, in our lead-
lug columns, to these very happily-timed Papers
of M. de Haulleville, on the occasion of their
original appearance in the pages of Le Correspon-
dant, it now merely remains for us to notify the
fact, here, of their separate and collective republi-
cation, As such they can hardly fail to prove, where-
ever they may be met with, especially acceptable.
They are certainly most acceptable to ourselves.
Acceptable for their own intrinsic merits as a
cluster of brilliant magazine articles, and still more
than that, for the deep interest attaching to them
as the most, comprehensive, searching, and perfectly
dispassionate exposition that has anywhere yet
appeared, of the extraordinary movement of rehabi-
litation, of general transformation, now visibly
and appreciably in process of development
in the whole form, substance, spirit, genius, of the
Imperial Austrian Government. Th it movement
is now being watched with the liveliest interest
in this country. Nor can it be any wonder at all
that it should be so. For what, in simplest truth,
is the nature of that movement ? Nothing less, in
reality, than the substitution for a Despotic Go-
vernment, of a Government strictly and essentially
Constitutional. For inasmuch as M. de Haultlee-
ville's pages, here, afford us a keen insight hc,es
in h
rise,progress,and general development of the
now being effected throughout the administration
of the vast Austrian empire, from
the
e have reason
central point
of the imperial capital of Vienna'we able
to feel indebted to him for his exceedingly
chapters (there are ten of them) upon the subject :
chapters that have already won for themselves a
wide populArity through the trodium of Le Corre-

spondant, a popularity that, we are satisfied, will
be confirmed, and that, we trust, may also be ex
tended, by means of their present collective reissue.

I'lle Ignorant Learned: or, Researches after " The
Long Lost" Mysteries of Free-Masonry; also,
The Eleusinian Mysteries, as they relate to
Royal Arch Masonry. By Henry Melville,

R.A.C. One Vol., pp. 118. Newby.
Assuredly " a little learning is a dangerous thing"
—dangerous sometimes to more than its possessor.
The author of this little book, believing himself
endowed with alt knowledge, ancient and modern,
sacred and profane, has kindly endeavoured, out
of his own wisdom, to *enlighten the ignorant re-
mainder of the community. " Researches after
the long lost mysteries of Royal Arch-Masonry,"
says Mr. Melville, "having engaged my ardent
and almost exclusiv3 attention, for nearly thirty
years past, have at length resulted in the re-
discovery of the use of the keys of these mys-
teries, and of the laws by which those keys are
regulated." We are afraid Mr. Melville has, like
many others, employed his time in the perusal of
that " false science," " which leads to bewilder
and dazzles to blind," for we cannot compliment
him upon the universal knowledge which he has
gained by his researches. In one place, for ex-
ample, we find him suggesting that the shortest
day should be the 31st of December, as if the
length of the day were a matter for arbitrary
arrangement, and in another part we find the
following jocose remarks upon the Roman year,
in utter ignorance or unconsciousness of the pos-
sibility of the year beginning in any other month
than January !

Our year, according to scholars, consists of ten months—
that is, if there be any meaning in words—Septem • means
seven, Octo eight, Novem nine, and then comes the end
of the year in December, the tenth month. Bookmen tell
us Julius Csa sar altered Sixtilis, or June, into August—thus
cutting two months, or 60 days, from the year. Poor un-
fortunate Roman workmen had then only 300 days in the
year, whilst all the barbarians had 365 or 360. Whilst
Caesar robbed the people of 60 days, it appears he was very
scrupulous about one day, for it is said he invented leap
year, giving to every fourth year one day additional.
Julius means " soft and tender hair," and Caesar " to cut,"
or " a head of hair"—a very fit and proper name for a
barber-surgeon, but one not very applicable to the con-
queror of the world. However, that gentleman, if his
history be true, was evidently a conjurer, for he deducted
two from twelve, and let twelve remain Supposing we
were to believe that the deduction of the two months did
actually take place, as recorded, how did the Romans ma-
nage their monetary affairs ? How about bills becoming
due, and interest on deposits, &c. ? Suppose our Govern-
ment were to take it into its head to issue a proclamation
turning the month of August into October. It would
puzzle our merchants and bankers 1 It may be argued that
in Caesar's time there were no bills of exchange, for the
first on record only bears date " 1 Jan., 1160," and that
all prior transactions were for ready money.

Yet more remarkable is this learned ignorance
when the sacred writings become the subject of
interpretation. We will only cite one among many
kindred instances. After remarking that St. Luke
describes the parentage and birth of St. John, Mr.
Melville goes on to say, " The other Gospels make
no mention of this event. Not even a word on the
subject is given by St. John, for he introduces him_
self. There was a man sent from God whose
name was John, 8.7.c."' The commentator being quite
oblivious of the fact that the St. John referred to is
St. John the Baptist, the St. John whom he de-
scribes as writing of himself being St. John the
Evangelist, the brother of St. James f While we
find such ignorance upon matters of general know-
ledge, we may be pardoned for doubting the
"Learning" in matters more recondite and abstruse.

O. Life and Death. Four Lectures delivered at the
Royal Institution. By W. S. Savory, F.R.S.
One Vol., pp. 203. Smith and Elder.

These lectures were not originally intended for
publication ; but at the request of many of those
who listened to them when delivered at the
Royal Institution, they are now given to
the public, and they will be very welcome.
They present in a clear and concise form a collec-
tion of great truths, a series of " facts" more strange
and momentous than "fiction." The first lecture
is occupied with the Study of Life, Types of Or-
ganisation, Grades of Development, Law of Progress
from the General to the Special, Unity of Plan.
The whole lecture concludes with this very beauti-
ful and truthful explanation of the common term,
"Law of Nature:"---" The Law of Nature," reve-
rently observes the lecturer, "is the will of God."
The second lecture relates to the essential features
of life when reduced to its simplest terms—
Structure and Function, Nutrition, Mutual Rela-
tion of Organs, Vital Action, &c. In reference to
the changes effected in the body by the reparative
effects of nutrition, we are happily reminded that
"the body is in no sense as a vessel in which mat-
ters are burnt; it is itself the very fuel which is
being rapidly consumed." Lecture 111. refers to
the Conditions of Life, Material Agents, Vital
Force, &c. Lecture IV. refers particularly to
Death, in the course of which the lecturer remarks,
and strengthens his remarks by a quotation from
Sir B. Brodie, that the mere act of dying is seldom
very painful. So with the dread of death. The
King of Terrors is not always most terrible when
he approaches. " I think," says Mr. Savory,
" no one who has often stood by the bedside of the
dying can have failed to be struck by this fact—
the comparative or complete absence of dismay as
death draws near." With this consolatory reflec-
tion we will take leave of these very interesting
lectures.

The Guards, the Press, and the Jockey Club.

(From the Era.)
THE EARL OP COVENTRY, THE HON. HENRY JOHN
Rous, AND CALEDON DUPRE ALEXANDER Y. WILLES.
This action, brought by the Stewards of the Jockey Club
against "Argue" for simply remarking that the Tarragona
Committee evinced a desire to convict the two officers of
the Guards, by telgraphing for Mr. Crump, the Inspector
of Forgeries to the Bank of England, to examine their
betting books, has at length assumed a definite form, as the
demurrer to the defendant's pleas, or rather a portion of
them, will be argued before the full Court of Queen's
Bench in the course of the ensuing week. The trial of the
cause will take place in the course of March or April, and
the friends of the liberty of the Press will learn with no
small pleasure that every endeavour to come to a compro-
mise of the matter has been indignantly rejected, and no
exertion will be spared on the part of the Morning Post to
prevent Newmarket from being placed in the same position
as Warsaw and Cracow as regards the publication of intel-
ligence in which all classes of society are interested.
Mr. Mellish has been retained for the Jockey Club,while
the cause of Mr. Willes and the Press has been intrusted
to Messrs. Hawkins and Quain. It is, however, stated, in
well-informed circles, that when the actual trial comes on
the Stewards of the Jockey Club will be represented by Sir
Fitzroy Kelly, with a foe of a thousand guineas, so im-
pressed are they with the idea that they should be placed
beyond the reach of all criticism. Mais nous verrons.

RUSKIN ON A WAR FOR POLAND.—Mr. Ruskin
has just written an earnest letter to the School of
Art in connection with the Liverpool Mechanics' Institute,
in which he speaks of the horror and shame with which he
regards the political position, taken, or rather sunk into,
by England in her foreign relations—especially in the
affairs of Italy and Poland; saying at the end of his letter,t
" I like war as ill as most people—so ill that I would no
spend twenty millions a year in making machines for it,
neither my holidays and pocket-money in playing at it—
yet I would have the country go to*war, with haste, in a
good quarrel ; and which is, perhaps, eccentric in me, rather
in another's quarrel than in her own. We say of our•
selves, complacently, that we will not go to war for an idea,
but the phrase interpreted means only that we will go to
war for a bale of goods, but not for justice or for mercy ;
and I would ask you to favour me so far as to read this
letter to the students at your meeting, and to say to them
that I heartily wish them well; but for the present I am
too sad to be of any service to them ; that our wars in
China and Japan are not likely to furnish good subjects for
historical pictures ; that " ideas'' happen, unfortunately, to
be, in art, the principal things, and that a country which
will not fight for its ideas is not likely to have anything
worth painting.
TliE 'CULIPOMANIA.—It was from 1631 to 1637
s‘t
awhich
that the tulipomania exerted its influence in Hol-
land. In those years tulips rose to enormous prices, and
hatnye species, n speculators.
whichprecious
Tvhhse e
yt
hgatv eaparticular floristsesteemedwas
n named
prin-
cipallyenrichedThe
s certaine c
Semper augustus. It was valued at 2,000 florins It was
reported to be so rare that there existed only too flowers of
this species, one at Harlem, the other at Amsterdam. A
gentleman to obNin one of them offered 4,000 florins, and
in addition a beautiful coa3h with two horses
accessories. Another gave for a bulb twelve
all the
ground. The passion tor tulips turned the acres of
head of all the
i
world, A bed of tulips WP.9 the greatest treasure
any one-
could have, and wai equal ill value to
Magnifl,zent man-
4ivul

61:1711, lirsnlar

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 13.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royaq
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Mr. Odo Russell arrived at the Castle yesterday'
evening.

FOREIGN COURTS.
BERLIN, Nov. 11.

The Crown Prince, attended by his adjutant,
Captain von Lucadon, has left Letzlingen, ou his
way to Windsor. It is expected that the Crown
Prince and Princess will visit Brussels and Curls-
ruhe on their return to Berlin from England.

The Earl Granville was to have left.town yester-
day on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, at
Kimbolton Castle, lluntingdonshire, but was prevented by
an attack of lumbago.
The Earl of Sefton has entertained at Croxteth.
Park during the present week the Earl of Stamford. the
Earl of Westmoreland,Lord Courtenay, Lord Andover, an
a select party of friends. The visitors, who assembled on
Monday, separate to-day.

The Earl and Countess Howe and Lady Mary
Curzon, who arrived at Curzon House a few days ago from
the Continent, left town yesterday for Gopsall Hall, near
Atherstone.

The Dowager Countess of Westmoreland and
Lady Rose Fane have arrived at Brighton.

Lord and Lady Radstock have arrived in town.
Lord and Lady Kilmaine and Hon. Misses,
Browne left town on Wednesday last for their seat in Ire-
land, for the winter.

Lord and Lady Vernon have arrived at Buxton,
from Sudbury Hall, near Uttoseter.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily
Peel were to leave the Secretary's Lodge, Dublin, on
Thursday, on a tour of visits to the southern districts of
Ireland.

Lord and Lady Forester will entertain at IV illey
Park during the ensuing Shrewsbury race week the Earl and
Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl and Countess of Wilton,
the Hon, General and Mrs. Forester, the Hon. Henry
Forester, and Mr. Charles Greville.

Lady De Dunstanville has arrived at her house
in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from the family seat im
Cornwall.

Lord and Lady Herrieg and the Hon. Misses
Maxwell are on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Gerard at
their seat, Garswood Park.

Lady Sondes and the Hon. Misses Mulles have
arrived in town from Norfolk.

Lord and Lady Londesborough have been enter-
taining company at Grimston, their seat in Yorkshire.
The visitors comprised Emily Duchess of Beaufort, the
Marquis Conynghara, Captain Egerton and the Hon. Mrs.
Egerton, the Hon Mr. Chichester and Mrs. Chichester, Mr.
Brinckman and Lady Cecilia Brinckman, the Hon. Albert
Denison, Sir Henry and Lady des Vceux, and Sir William
Somerville, M.P,

Lord and Lady Carew have been entertaining the
Earl and Countess of Camperdown, the Earl and Countess
of Clancarty and Ladies Trench, Dowager Lady Carew,
Hon, Mr. and Lady Hester Carew, the Right Hon. W. F.
and Lady Louisa Tighe, Sir R. Paul, and a succession of
guests, at Castleborough, county Wexford.

Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley and Hon. Eleanor
Stanley have gone fo St. Leonard's-on-Sea to pass a fesv
weeks.

The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, M.P., and Lady
Harriet Corry and Miss Corry have gone to Brighton,
where they purpose to pass several weeks.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli end Mrs. Disraeli
have passed through town from Hugheuden Manor, Bucks,
on their way to Torquay.

The Imperial Pageant in the Tuileries.

_;

The affluence of people crowding the approaches
of the Tuileries and the Louvre, both on the side the
Rue de Rivoli and the quays, on Thursday last, was
excessive. The day was fine, and all Paris, used as
it is to such sights and pageantries, was out to watch
the drawing up of equipage after equipage to the
gate of the Pavilion Denon, in the court of the
Louvre, by which all favoured with tickets, or hav-
ing a right of entrance on the occasion, were to be
admitted. The carriages and gay liveries of the
various members of the diplomatic body, and of some
foreigners of distinction, soon began to enliven the
scene, and were closely followed by those of the
Ministers and their wives, nearly all having taken
their respective places before half-past twelve
o'clock. Just befell!) the arrival of the Empress,
followed by the Prince Imperial, several members
of the Imperial family began to arrive, and on the
Empress making her appearance, holding by the
hand the little Prince, the Princesses Clotilde and
Mathilde, the Princess Anna Murat, and several
others of the Murat family, greeted her Majesty at
the entrance of the hall, and followed her as she
walked up, gracefully bowing and smiling, towards
her seat on the throne at the upper extremity of the
Salle des Etats. It was observed that the Empress
looked remarkably well and animated. She has
gained embonpoint since her departure from Paris,
and this, although it makes her look more
matronly, is rather becoming than otherwise.
Her dress (that important feature of the fair Em-
press of the French) consisted of a plain blue
eatin, of that beautiful shade known as the
blue imperatrice, made perfeetly simple in
the skirt, which was exceedingly ample,
and formed quite a demi-queue behind ; an elegant
white lace shawl was thrown over her shoulders,
and she wore a bonnet of blue velvet and white
blonde, from which fell in front a pointe ending in
a fringe of white beads resembling bugles. The
Princess Clotilde, who sat near her Majesty, had on
a grey satin dress,
and black lace shawl, and a
white bonnet with feathers ; the same fringe of
white beads terminating the pointe which fell over
the front of the bonnet. The Princess Mathilde had
on a moir antique dress of a grey shade, with a ro-
tonde of the same material, ornamented with rich
gimp. The Empress had scarcely taken her seat
(which happening to be close to the one I had the
good fortune to have secured, gave full opportuni-
ties of watching her), when the Emperor was an-
nounced, and, amidst loud and continued acclama-
tions, his Majesty proceeded to the throne; and all
present having been summoned to be seated, the
business of the day began. Several portions of the
discourse were loudly applauded, more especially
those relating to recent events in Mexico, and the
state of Poland. The Prince Imperial, who stood
by his lady mother all the time without a gesture
of impatience, is much grown, and is certainly a
very noble, promising-looking boy, full of intelli-
gence, and with a frank expression of countenance
which is exceedingly winning. Whatever of en-
thusiasm there may be remaining among the French
nation for their rulers seems to be brought out when
the youthful heir of the Napoleonic dynasty appear 3
at any of their public shows. On this present occae
sion, the expressions of admiration at his tenue
his costume of grenadier of the Guards, and at hi°
general genuine and unmistake'
able. The
goodThewo
whole ceremony
were
was closed
and, at two o'clock, a salute ofguns in n
announced
no
uonce hou
r,
and, d the
termination as it had marked the opening of the
pageant,—Court Chronicle.

THE RECENT HEAVY GALES.-LIFEBOAT SO'
VICES.-During the recent heavy gales some of the
boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have bee 3
instructed in rezoning the crews of the following ship'
wrecked vessels :--Barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17 ton;
schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4; schooner Arionf
of Workington, 4; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4;
Saucy Jack, of inverness, 1 ; barque Marietta, of L',sb°'3,'
1; and barque Providence, of Dantzic, 7. Total lives save4'
38. The lifeboats also assisted in bringing safely into port'
with their crews consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig
Camoglino, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of WhitbYze
the schooner Gallia, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, "
Amsterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signal!
of distress on twelve occasions, but their services were not
ultimately required. The amount of reward paid for
all
these services was X 166. The committee of the Institution
are earnestly appealing to the public for assistance to en"
able them to meet the continued heavy demands on t
Society's 125 lifeboat establishments. Since the establish
ment of the institution nearly 14,000 lives have been saveid.
by its lifeboats, and by shore-boats to the crews of which
has grant-el rewards.
ADltEgAri:lup inO sculpturei3ULWEn de,
R;3 MARDBioLmEe.---Bn"
his
wife and child, fleeing from the destruction of Pompeii.,
The idea is taken from the closing chapter of Balwer
s
" Last Days of Pompeit.".weith
has a
flee