The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-27 00:00:00

APPEAL.

The Committee of Management have to state that, since
lie beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments n the Coasts of Eng'and. Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, .nd other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67.,00 on Life-boats, Lite-boat
Transporting-care iages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enab'ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet
or 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United King-dom.
preply sensib'e, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi h can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national. a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions:—

£ s. d
Her Majesty the Queen ~.. .. annual 50 C 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G • • • • .. annual l 5 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • • • • ' ' • annualanua 10 1 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. • •
4th don 10 0 0
Currie, Wm. Esq., • • " • • • • don 10 10 0
Erle, Lord Chief Justice • • " ' •
Paushawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A. K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq , cost of a Lifeboat and 'Fran-250 0 0
sporting Carriage .. • • • • ' • don. 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. • • • 0 0
lli .. • • artin, Sir Henry, Bart.. •
don. 15 15 0
. 7th don. 10
Moore, Rev. G. B. ,
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich . • • • • • 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. • • annual 20 0
Thom . s. Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
18 16 0
Ladyship •• •• .. .. ..
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Ste,scriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by the Bankers of tho institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-greet; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farauhar• and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the UnitedKlugdom; and lsy the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-street, Adelphi. London. W.C.

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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at Ring's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCL EUCH, K.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 gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it thelr 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.
mCasornetrirmbaunt,ioEnssq.,are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. Berries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.;Smith, Payne, and Co. Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W Dims, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the HospitaL
STANFORD_B. SMITH. Secretary.

"They lie hushed in grim repose."
And the day will come—and it is not very far distant perhaps
--when you will have to encounter their claims and examine
their merits. What I want is, that when that inevitable
hour arrives, the Tory party shall be found prepared-(loud
cheers)—prepared, gentlemen, in the discipline of their mem-
bers, and prepared also in something which in my mind is
more important than disciplined members—definite opinions
—(cheers)—and distinct principles. (Hear, hear.) It always
appeared to me that the great political struggle which has
prevailed during the last 30 years is in effect a struggle be-
tween popular principles and liberal opinions. (Cheers.)
The institutions of the country—our ancient and limited
but still real monarchy—our national church—our estates
of the realm—our colonial empire—our hereditary tenure of
land, our ancient corporations and endowments, the vast
and complicated fabric of our local jurisdiction and admini-
stration—all involve, and represent, and secure popular
principles and popular rights. It is by their united aid and
agency that we enjoy security for our persons and our pro-
perties that in the same degree and in the same manner aro
enjoyed by no other country and by no other state. It is by
their united aid and agency that the public liberties are
preserved, that an education, secular and spiritual, are pro-
vided for the great body of the people—that the rights of
labour and the claims of industry are recognised in the
scheme of the constitution. It is in short, by their united
aid and agency that the Government of this country is car-
ried on by the benign assistance of traditional influences,and
not by the rude authority of a systematised police, (Cheers )
Gentlemen, it is by their agency that the national character
has been formed. A professor of liberal opinions, on the
other hand, is an individual who is of opinion that ho ought
to be liberated from the control of these institutions.
(Cheers and laughter.) If he has a republican bias he is for
reducing the sovereign to the position of chief magistrate.
(Hear.) If he is a Dissenter, quite forgetful of the indirect
advantage of an established and national Church even to
himself, quite forgetful of the direct advantage of a national
Church to millions of his fellow-subjects, he is desirous of
reducing that Church to the position of a rival sect. If the
House of Commons is an obstacle to the success of his po •
litical scheme he is for reforming the House of Commons ;
if he is successful in the House of Commons, and the
House of Lords is the obstacle, he would abrogate the
House of Lords. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) To him
the colonial empire is only an annual burthen—
(laughter)—to him " corporation" is only
an equivalent
term fur monopoly, and "endowment" for privilege. The
tenure of land, which in an hour of peril and perplexity,
external or domestic, affords something around which men
may rally and save the state, is to him only the remains of
a feudal system. (Hear.) And as to our great system of
self-government, no ono is happier than the professor of
liberal opinions in showing you the imperfections and in-
adequate qualities necessarily inseparable from a great popu-
lar scheme which may occasionally distinguish it, or can
prove with more convincing logic that the whole thing
may be done much better and much cheaper by a system
of centralised administration founded on the principle of
competitive examination. (Cheers and laughter.) Gentle-
, men, the Tory party is only in its proper position when it

represents popular principles. (Cheers.) Then it is truly
irresistible, then it can uphold the authority of the throne
and the majesty of the empire, the liberty of the nation and
the rights of the multitude. There is nothing mean, petty,
or exclusive about the real character of Toryism, (Cheers.)
It necessarily depends upon enlarged sympathies and noble
aspirations, because it is essentially national. The moment
Toryism deviates from that great fundamental principle it
is in danger. From the moment Liberalism flourishes, for
Liberalism is the consequence of our errors, and often their
corrective. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I agree with my
noble friend, your chairman, that we have reason to con-
gratulate the Tory party on their present position. (Loud
cheers.) My noble friend has alluded to some who are dis-
contt rated, and to murmurs which I think must have
reached very few. (Laughter.) I say that a certain
degree of discontent in a great party is not only inevitable,
but may exercise a salutary influence. (Laughter.) I
would not this evening like to indulge in any vague com-
pliments upon the position of the party with which we are
connected, because I think it would be worse than idle to
indulge in praises of that kind on such an occasion.
But I congratulate sincerely the Tory party on their posi-
tion, because I think it is one which ought to be to them a
source of real and sincere satisfaction. (Hear, hear.) In
this age of numerous and rapid events one is apt to dwell
very little upon the past ; yet allow me to remind you that
without some reference to the past it is impossible to form a
just judgment respecting the present. I would on this
occasion call to memory what was the state of the Tory
party only some few years ago—(a Voice, " 1846")—only
12 years ago—a period not so distant as that which has been
referred to by my unknown friend. (Laughter.) Why, gen-
tlemen, looking back only 12 years, there is no record in the
history of England of a:political connexion so utterly for-
lorn, sohopeless, and so prostrate as was then the Tory party.
(Hear.) That eminent man, whose great sagacity and great
heart had rallied us around him at a moment of unforeseen
and unprecedented difficulty had just met an untimely end.
I will never mention his name or recall his memory with-
out expressing what I feel, sentiments of admiration and
affection. (Cheers.; At that moment we literally did
not count in the House of Commons by any means one-
fourth of its members; and as for your political opinions,
that identity of sentiment which is the only foundation of
political action in public life, that "idem sentire de repub-
lice" which is the soul of political existence, why we were
in this position, we were the representatives of opinions—
that was the crueller; cut of all—which had been selected by
distinguished men who had been our leaders as the soundest
and most expedient foundation for political action, which in
consequence we had advocated, and pledged ourselves to our
country to advocate and support, which that country had
ratified by a large majority only recently, and which had
been given up with such precipitation and panic that it
was impossible to rally the country round the more tempe-
rate applicati, n of those very principles which subsequent
events have proved to be practicable, and which, being
adopted by France, have led in that country to a great in-
crease of its wealth. I say we were the representatives of
opinions suddenly described by our very leaders as absurd
and impracticable, and around which, under the circum-
stances in which we then found ourselves, it was impossible
effectually to rally the country. As regards the three
great considerations first, numbers in Parliament;
secondly, distinctive principles of polity; and thirdly,
public men who could in a decorous and efficient manner
represent the convictions of the great party in the country,
we were altogether without them. Why, at that time—l am
not using the language of exaggeration, but that of literal,
historic truth— there was no man who believed that the
Tory party would ever again rally. (Hear, hear.) It was a
question which of thogreat political sections should obtain
the greatest portion of the plunder. (Laughter,) We were
like a wreck stranded on the beach, and it was a question
who should rifle our stores. (Laughter.) Well but, gentle-
men, if that were your position 12 years ago--and there is
not a man present who has not an average knowledge of
public affairs but knows how accurately I am describing
that situation—contrast it with your position now. (Cheers.)
In either House of Parliament we confront the minister
with at least an equal power. (Loud cheers.) We are the
advocates of a generous and a national creed ; and as for
public men, why, gentlemen, there is not a subject that can
be brought forward in the House of Commons, but from
every part of the benches on which I sit I am confident men
will come forward who, by the amplitude of their know-
ledge, their argumentative power, and their general ability,
will so demean themselves as to command, as they deserve,
the attention of the assembly in which they sit. (Cheers.)
But then, gentlemen, it is said that the Tory party, though
it may have rallied to a certain extent, though it may no
longer be in that disheartened and perilous position in which
it was some 10 or 12 years back, have twice been entrusted
with power, and twice been unable for any long period to
maintain it. Gentlemen, when the historian of our coun-
try records the events to which I refer, if he be a philoso-
phical historian his astonishment will arise, not from our
not having been able to maintain power, but from our
having twice acquired it. (Hear, hear.) I say that in the
history of our country so much was never before effected
by a public party and by public men under such difficult
circumstances. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, when Lord Derby
reluctantly accepted the Queen's Government in 1852 there
was an absolute majority against us in the House of
Commons of 200 ; when Lord Derby took office in 1858
there was an absolute majority against us in the House of
Commons of 140. Do you believe that under such circum-
stances those whom you entrust with your confidence were
ignorant of the immense risks they ran ? (Hear.) Do you
suppose that those to whom you still look up with a confi-
dence which is their greatest pride were not prepared in
either instance for the great probability, perhaps the posi-
tive certainty, of great personal mortification ! (Cheers.)
All this we had to weigh and consider when we accepted
office under conditiots which were never before even offered
to English statesmeL. But, gentlemen, we had a sense of
duty to guide us under such circumstances, and we had to
ask ourselves this, "Shall we still straggle to preserve the
great traditions of English political life, or without an effort
shall we say that that system of party government to which
we owe, in our opinion, English liberty, and all those bless-
ings which have marked out this great realm from other
countries for so wary years, shall we at once say that from
the fear of personal mortification we will lose such a chance
for the kingdom awl for the people ? (Cheers.) No, gen-
tlemen, with great reluctance, as is now well known—with
a duo sense of danger, which all might have imagined, we
confronted on both occasions that imminent peril, and in
time, I confess, we yielded to it. But this I may say in
passing, that havirg accepted office under such circum-
stances, we at least performed its duties in a manner not
disgraceful to ourselves—(cheers)—and net dishonourable
to you. (Renewed cheers.) But, gentlemen, what was the
cause of our fall in both cases ? There happened that
which in this country, rich and long as are its political
annals, never before was equalled, for which there was no
precedent, and which perhaps the future will have no in-
stance to compare with; wo fell before the most peculiar
coalition—(great cheering)—that ever existed, or probably
ever can exist, even in England. (Renewed cheers.) The
Liberal party, defeated in 1852 because they coalesced with
the pupils of Sir Robert Peel ; the Liberal party, defeated
in 1859 because they coalesced with the principles of Mr.
Bright. (Loud cheers.) But, gentlemen, do you not see
the moral of all this ? The powers of coalition are ex-
hausted. (Hear.) In the purgatory in which the Liberal
party found themselves they first applied to celestial arch-
angels, and then descended into the lowest abyss of Hades.
(Laughter.) But a lower abyss there is not. Their means
are exhausted. The coalition has no balance to fall back
upon. (Cheers.) This I tell you, I tell the country—for
it is an important matter—that in countries like England
a coalition produces the same effect as in continental lands
is produced by coup d'etat; it suspends political life, and in
such a state of affairs there is an inevitable reaction which
no nation can escape. It will come; it will come in coun-
tries where coups d'etat have succeeded as it will come in
countries which are still ruled by the remnants of exhausted
coalition. (Cheers.) But whenever that inevitable reac-
tion may come, it is the duty of the Tory party to be pre-
pared for it—(cheers)—and if during that lung period to
which my noble friend (the chairman) has referred, you
have endured mortification and disappointment—if you
have been betrayed by those whom you had trusted—if for
a moment the principles which bind you together seemed to
be loose and of little effect, I trust that the moral experi-
ence of these years has brought you back to a due sense of
the true value and eternal character of the principles by which
a great national party in England can alone be maintained.
(Hear.) I cannot say I have ever looked upon the past with
those feelings of disappointment which many of my com-
panions I know have shared ; I have felt the circumstances
under which our political connection was first formed wore
of most rare and remarkable occurrence. I knew that there
was a hard trial to be experienced before we were proved for
the great trust to which we aspired. Then there have been
murmurs about delay. I have not shared in them. Even
when there has been discomfiture I have recognised pro-
gress, and I know of no time when the Tory party and the
principles they profess were more clear in the appreciation
of themselves and of the country. Under these circumstances
I trust that the society of which you are members, and which
has honoured me to-day by inviting me as a friend, will
feel that we have a great duty to perform ; and I have
great satisfaction in availing myself of the opportunity of
proposing the health of one who bears a name and title dear
to Englishmen—who has identified himself with thin great
constitutional movement, and who has had practical expe-
rience of the working of our constitution in both houses of
Parliament—in that in which he is now an influential and
in that in which he was for many years my friend and col-
league. Gentlemen, I propose " The health of the Earl of
Shrewsbury and Talbot, and success to the National Con-
servative Registration Association." (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, spoke of the advan-
tages of the operation of such. a Society, observing that one

Nine o'clock was the hour fixed for the admission
of visitors, and of course before that time there was
a long array of carriages waiting, while there was
still some finishing touches to be put to what was to
be done inside. But, punctual to the minute, the
officers of the Brigade were at their posts, and as 9
struck the doors were opened and the visitors began
to arrive, at first fitfully and in little groups, but
soon in a broad rich stream that covered the stairs.
Occasionally the guard that lined the staircase
"stood to present" as a guest of royal rank ascended,
causing quite a flutter of expectation among the
visitors above, but these visitors were so numerous
that the false alarms ceased to excite much attention
till his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge came
who, as the most popular officer in the service, was of
course welcomed with profound respect and sin-
cerity. Then came the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale,
then the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, then
the Count de Paris, the Due de Nemours, the Duc
and Duchess de Chartres, the Prince and Princess
de Joinville, the Due de Montpensier, the Due
Phillippe de Wurtemburg, Count and Countess
Gleichen, his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange,
Baron de Pallandt, his Royal Highness Dhuleep
Singh, his Serene Highness the Prince of Reusse,
Prince and Princess Bandini.
Within the entrance in the Cromwell-road the
wide platform which formerly gave access to the
Processes Court of the Exhibition was enclosed in a
kind of draped pavilion, red and white, and bril-
liantly lighted. Here, on the left, was a sort of
boudoir cloak-room for the use of all royal visitors ;
but those to whom the fete was given, the Prince and
Princess of Wales, had a special apartment to
themselves, a wonderful fairy-looking sort of gossa-
mer structure, with walls of satin and roof of lace,
in the gallery above. The wide flight of stairs by
which the central entrance to the picture galleries
used to be gained was draped with the traditional
red, white, and blue, the colours of the regiment,
with here and there central shields bearing the
names of the most famous struggles of the Guards.
from Steenkerke to Inkerman, the chronology of
which events was, as it appeared to us, in some in-
stances capable of more accurate adjustment, if any
one ever minded chronology at a ball. Men in
armour, with groups of banners and lofty mirrors,
with here and there fine statues and clusters of
plants, made up the rest of the adornments at the
entrance, which looked imposing and stately enough.
Its best and most characteristic ornament, however,
consisted of the tall, martial-looking forms of the
Guardsmen themselves, the very elite of the rank
and file of the brigade, men who had survived not
only the pestilential atmosphere of Varna, but the
still more desperate ordeals of Alma, Inkerman, and
Sebastopol—men many of whom bore on their
breasts not only the medal and clasps, but the
medal for good conduct and the medal for distin-
guished conduct in the field. The presence of these
men was one of the most striking as it certainly
was one of the most pleasant features in the very
beautiful scene. The first entrance-room was where
the gallant hosts of the evening, all in full uniform,
received their visitors. This apartment was fitted
up as a drawing-room. The walls wore hung all
round, and to a considerable height from the floor,
with a noble series of tapestries lent by her Majesty,
who had, with the kindest condescension, offered to
the officers of the brigade the use of any ornaments
or statues they might require from Buckingham
Palace. Between the tapestries were festeohs of
coloured cloth to relieve and heighten the effect,
while the lofty screen which divided the furthest
end of the apartment from the conservatory was
filled in with what may almost be called specious
mirrors, festooned around with amber-coloured satin
hangings, and massive fringes and tassels to match.
Tables with ornaments, with sofas, conches, and

During this figure, for which there was only just
sufficient room, all the brilliant assemblage had
full opportunity to see the Princess, who, dressed in
mauve, with white lace over it, with roses and dia-
monds in her hair, looked, indeed, well worthy of
being the beloved and honoured guest of that
lordly company. Both the Prince and Princess
seemed delighted with their reception, and the
Princess especially was radiant with smiles and
kindly recognitions of the fair faces around. The
Princess Mary also excited universal admiration.
Dance after dance followed, until at a little before
1 o'cloek the band played the National Anthem, the
heavy curtains at the head of the room were drawn
aside, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, the
Duke and Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge,
followed by the most illustrious and distinguished
guests, passed down the ballroom to the apartment
where the supper was laid out with more than regal
splendour. As a spectacle it was one of almost un-
equalled magnificence. The room had been decorated
by Mr. Stone entirely with military trophies. Four
great stars, formed entirely of weapons, occupied
each side of the room, each star requiring the mar-
tial equipment of almost an entire regiment to com-
plete it. Some were of immense weight, all were of
great size and beauty, and those towards the centre
of the room were encircled with wreaths formed of
sabre blades, which had a most beautiful effect.
Between these trophies, which glittered from a
thousand different points, were noble groups of flags
with men in armour at the bases, while at the head
of the room, in the alcove where Foley's great
statue of Caractacus stood last year, was one of the
finest ornamental military trophies we have ever
seen. It consisted of a group of figuresor in full
suits of tilting armour, with viz
and lance in hand. The centre knights sup-
ported shields bearing the Prince's plume and
motto, and the cross of the Dannebrog.
Behind them were grouped a
collec-
tion of ancient weapons—_a perfect
perfect thicket of
bristling poiate and blades, battleaxes, brown bills,
two-handed swords, halberds, partisans, with hel-
mets, gauntlets, shields, greaves, and breastplates,
mixed up with spears and wall pieces that had done
duty from the Wars of the Roses to the time of the
Ironsides of Cromwell. Behind all was a star, com-
posed of nearly a thousand ramrods, its centre
formed of a small glass device representing the
Crosses of St. George and Andrew, with the badge
of the Brigade with its motto, " Tria juncta in uno."

The will of the Right Hon. George Granville
Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, of W orsley-
hall, Lancaster, and Bridgewater-house, St. James's,
was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate under
£160,000 personalty. The executors are the Hon.
Francis Egerton (the brother) and the Hon. and
Rev. Lord John Thynne. The testator, who died
at the early age of 39, was a twin. His twin brother
died in infancy. His lordship married, in 1846,
Lady Mary Campbell, daughter of the first Earl of
Cawdor, and succeeded to the title and estates in
1857. His successor, their son, the present Earl of
Ellesmere, heretofore Viscount Brackley, is in his
16th year. His lordship inherited a large portion
of the property of the late Duke of Bridgewater,
whose name of Egerton the first Earl assumed, in
1833, in lieu of Leveson-Gower. The will bears
date 1861, and a codicil April, 1862. To his relict,
the Countess of Ellesmere, beyond her marriage
settlement and reversionary interest, his lordship
bequeaths certain jewellery and other personal
effects, and a life interest in the estate of Burwood,
Surrey, which latter estate will revert to their
second son, the Hon. Alfred John Francis Egerton,
and to whom his lordship has bequeathed a legacy
of £40,000. The estates in Lancashire and Cheehire
are devised to the present earl.

The will of Mrs. Elizabeth Wray Martin-Leake,
of Queen Ann-street, Marylebone, Was proved in
London under £30,000 personalty, by the sole
executor, Mr. Charles Henry Moore, of Wimpole-
street. The charitable bequests are—to the King's
College Hospital, £200; Charing-cross Hospital,
Middlesex: Hospital, Marylebone Dispensary,
Marylebone Almshouses, Governesses' Benevolent
Institution, Distressed Widows' Society, Sackville-
street, each £lOO ; and a small legacy to the Alden-
ham parochial schools.

RUSSIAN CLEMENCY.---The Posen Journal has the
following Madame M--, the wife of a landed
proprietor in the neighbourhood of Wilna, waited on Gene-
ral Mouravieff the new governor, and requested him to re-
vise the papers connected with her husband, who, she said,
had been condemned unjustly by the former gcverror,
Nazimoff, to six years' banishment to a distant government
of the empire. Mouravieff listened very politely to what
she had to s,y, and promised to make known the result. On
the Sth Madame 111- received information that her hus-
band was condemned to be shot, and on the 10th the sen-
tence was carried into execution."

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1863.

The extraordinary intelligence brought to us this
morning by the Persia, and still dropping in upon
us as the day advances, in more or less fragmentary
telegrams, almost looks like the beginning of the
end of that dreadful civil war in North America.
Never among the Americans, with all their odyllic
force, their spirit rappings, and their wondrous
feats with gymnastic upholstery, never yet, we
may safely aver, have they had brought so vividly,
and undeniably, before them such an astound-
ing instance of a complete turning of the
tables. The biter is there, in truth, bitten, and
bitten too most severely. Diamond has there
assuredly cut diamond. The pursued has fairly
turned at bay, mid become himself at last the
pursuer. The Yankee ACT.XON is meeting far worse
than the fete of his but partial prctotype. Instead
of being devoured by his own dogs (of
war)—he has been turned upon and is no w.
being fast followed up (to the death ?) by the
Southern game he had so very confidently set his
cruel heart upon bringing down in a veritable
battu, The Confederate Commander-in-Chief,
having at length fully matured his plans for a new
and more daring development of his already bril-
liantly successful scheme of a campaign,
has boldly crossed the Rappahannock, it
seems, in three places, and carried the war into
the enemy's territory. At the head of an
army of 100,000, including among them 30,000
cavalry, the valiant and hitherto victorious military
chief of the Southerns, has commenced offensive
operations, in earnest, against the Northern States.
Already the foremost among these stages of advance
have been clearly marked out even in this first mo-
ment, as it were, of the announcement. Foremost
among the foremost, STONEWALL JACKSON'S old
corps, commanded now by General EwELL, is noted
down as advancing, 18,000 strong, through Cul-
pepper, en route for the Shenandoah Valley. The
bare thought of " STONEWALL " JACKSON'S death,
we may be sure, giving a firmer grip to every sword
hilt, and a steadier aim to every rifle-bearing right
hand, in all that dauntless band. Penetrating reso-
lutely beyond Culpepper, EWELL, it seems, without
one instant's unnecessary delay, had attacked MIL-
ROY at Winchester—carrying Winchester by storm,
and compelling MILROY, after spiking his guns, to
retreat in hot haste upon Harpers' Ferry. Not
however, until after MILROY had been intercepted
by the Southerners on the path thither, upon the
Martinsburg Road, from which point he eventually
broke his way through EWELL'S men—reaching his
destination, that is Harper's Ferry, with 2,000 of
his men put hors de combat. Subsequently the on-
ward movements of the Confederates appear to
have been rapid and almost uninterrupted—now to
Hagerstown, in Maryland, now to Greencastle and
Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania. Thence they may
advance either to Harrisburg, to Pittsburg, or to
Baltimore. As a matter of course, the northward
movement beyond the Rappahannock by the whole
southern army under General LEE has necessitated
aretrograde movement of a very decided kind on
the
part of the Federals under General HOOKER.
Leaving Falmouth and proceeding with all speed,
taa Dumfries in the direction of Fairfax, the Fede-
ral Commanaereiu.chier
(notable mainly of late in
Retreats, though not quite, so notable hitherto, even
in that particular as, let
üßsaybi. either MOREAU or
XENOPHON), General nooictlt
causedas
.his army
and A
to abandon both Belle Plaine
num Creek,
selecting Alexandria as the new base
of his now
purely defensive operations. By an ominous gein
-
eidence, the Federals have thus got back again to
the fatal old Bull Run battle-ground. There
the main army, under HOOKER, was, accord_
advises, encampedi
ing to cur last
RAY having had his men driven back by
EWELL'S corps as far as Harper's Ferry. At
that point, namely at Harper's Ferry, it was that
that very corps, under their beloved and glorious
chief, General STONEWALL JACKSON, took 10,000
of the Federals prisoners, after subjecting them to
a crushing defeat. While, how fatal to the
Northern cause the old battle-ground of Bull
Run, was, all the old world as well as all the new
world knows full well, long since. No
wonder that so astounding a turning
of the tables as all this would clearly
indicate should have created, as we hear it
evidently had created, before our last advises left,
per the Persia, an extraordinary excitement

a'roughout the whole of the Northern States !
President LINCOLN, in evidence of this prevailing
e xcitement, calling out 120,000 militia, for six
month's service, from New York, Ohio, Maryland,
Western Virginia, and Pennsylvania. A word in
that lantern-jawed PRESIDENT'S ear, however, there
anent—" You may call spirits from the vasty deep,
but—will they come ?" As additional evidence of
the all but panic excited by these last marchings
and counter-marchings on the part of the main
axmies of the belligerents, we observe that there
were rumours flying about just before the Persia
left, that by an adroit flank movement General
LEE had succeeded in cutting off and capturing the
whole of the sixth corps of General HOOKER'S
army. Even if this particular rumour should in
the end tarn out to have been altogether without
foundation, the fact of its being bruited about
at all is sufficient testimony in itself of the peril-
ions plight, or, as they would term it themselves,
" fix" into which the Federals had by that time been
driven by the Confederates. LEE pushing onward
thus formidably to the possible threatening of
Washington—JOHNSTONE, it now appears, bad
at that other extremity of the seat of war, namely,
in direction of Vicksburg, already cut his way
clean through GRANT'S army to the relief of the
beleagured city, or was at the very least advanc-
ing against GRANT to raise the seige, empowered
so to do by the accumulation under his banners of
immense reinforcements.

The Lancashire Relief Bill yesterday passed
though committee in spite of the renewed opposi-
tion of Mr. FERRAND and the disparaging com-
ments of Mr. BENTINCK. The lengthened addresses
of these gentlemen, and the ingenious logic with
which they endeavoured to prove that the origin of
the present distress was to be found in the Free-
Trade agitation, occasioned se much delay in the
discussion of the clauses that some fears were en-
tertained of the ultimate fate of the bill. The Pre-
sident of the Poor-law Board expressed himself
with some warmth at the conclusion of the sitting,
and certainly he had some excuse for doing
so from the general opposition he had met
with, although the particular exception at
which he took offence was, no doubt, well founded.
Colonel WILSON PATTEN expressed his regret that
it had not been found possible to separate the bill
from the Poor-law Board, on account of the preju-
dice it had met with from its connection with that
not very popular office. Mr. VILLIERS, upon this,
expressed some vexation that all the trouble and
responsibility had been allowed to fall to his share
under such circumstances. But instead of all delays,
demurs, and objections the bill is now fairly through
committee, and will, we hope, be productive of much
good. Some hon. members appear to quarrel with it
because its action will be only partial and limited,
but this objection seems very unreasonable. No
single measure, except the raising of the blockade,
could give immediate wholesale relief to the dis-
tressed districts. The large army of unemployed
men and women must be dealt with in detach-
ments, and we expect it would puzzle any of the
opposers of this measure to devise any scheme
which would give practical assistance to 400,000
persons. Allowing this Bill to give employment
to comparatively a small portion of this aggre-
gate, it will take three or four times
that number off the parish, and as the works on
which they are to be employed are of practical and
permanent benefit, we see no reason for so much
cavil and disparagement. Mr. FERRAND and
others are warm advocates of emigration, but that
is no reason why they should not pass this bill as
well. The hon, member for Devonport said, after
speaking strongly on this subject, that of course he
did not advocate the wholesale departure of unem-
ployed operatives, but that he thought 50,000
or 100,000 might safely be supplied with
the means of emigration at the present
time. As on his showing one great fault in the
measure just passed is its limited character, there
will unhappily remain many thousands to make
the colonial experiment if they so will. As Mr.
VILLIERS justly observed, it is unwise and unne-
cessary to mix the two questions together, especially
as Mr. CHILDERS, the member for Pontefract, has
given notice of a motion on the subject of emigra-
tion. ColonelWasoN-ParrEN, whose name is so well
known in connection with the Central Relief Fund,
has had an extended experience of the distress in its
worst forms, and an opportunity of becoming fully
acquainted with the wishes and capacities of the
operatives. He cordially supported the measure,
and gave but a qualified approval to an extensive
emigration scheme, while Mr. VILLIERS said with
truth that the Government would assume a great
responsibility with regard to those emigrants to
whom it granted a free passage. We must not
accept the expressed wishes of the men as alto-
gether conclusive. They know tittle of the country
they are to go to, even by report, or of the kind of
work they will have to do when they get there. The
piciures drawn by enthusiastic theorists fill them
with hope, and when after the prolonged wret-
chedness of the last eighteen months, the strong
man, who can find no work for his wiling hands to
do, looks round on his bare home, his anxious wife
and hungry children, no wonder he exclaims, in the
pathetic words quoted by Dean CLOSE, " Send us
anywhere out of this." But we must not, in our
anxiety to get the distress oat of our sight, rest
satisfied with merely carrying it across the seas.
The subject of emigration requires careful
thought and anxious inquiry, and we must
ascertain that there is work to be done, and that
we can guarantee food and employment before
transporting any large body of emigrants to a
strange land. It would be advisable to establish
agents in the localities to which they are sent, to
make arrangements for their reception, and to take
steps for finding them work and wags. Bat,
while all these schemes are being discussed a better
solution to the difficulty may be at hand. The signs
of a possible termination of the American war are
visible in the horizon. The capture of Washington,
the relief of Vicksburg, will answer the appeal
of our helpless operatives a thousand times more
satisfactorily than Poor-law Boards or emigration
agents can do, and, even if this hope is deferred,
we have every reason for supposing that in all
human probability the cotton trade not only niay,
but must revive. The gentlemen who take so
mournful a view of the case appear to forget the
supplies we may confidently expect to receive from
our colonies next year. The struggle has been
long and bitter, but let not patience or charity fail
just when the end is in sight. 1

Colonel CRAWLEY'S case again occupied the at-
tention of the House for a short time on Thursday.
m
Several hoe, members made a few remarks, and
asked various questions
concerning the compli•
cated affair. The Marquis
in
parrying the iIARTINGTON showed
great dexterity
many endeavours
that were made to wrest some information from his
unwilling statements. It is to be
questioned how-
I ne
ever, if this mode of procedure is wise,
natural that the greatest excitement shoultd insr
l"lY
on this subject, and that every possible - desire
-
should be ninced to becoma acquainted with all the
details relating to it. Mr. BENTINCK'S fears appear
quite groundless regarding the court-martial taking

place in England. It is a most proper decision to
have come to, and, indeed, were it otherwise
arranged it is most probable that great disappoint-
ment would have arisen and great dissatisfaction
have been expressed. Colonel DUNNE made some
attempt to clear the reputation of CoIoneICRAWLEY
from a part of the charges adduced against him,
but he was not very successful. Mr. FORTESCUE
explained that it was in the single room that
the sentry was posted when Sergeant LILLEY was
ordered to be placed under confinement. Sir F.
SMITH more truly represented the general feeling
which exists on this subject when he declared that
" the trial ought to take place in this country,
otherwise public opinion would not be satisfied."
There was some force in the suggestion which was
made by Sir DE LACY EVANS, that it might be
advisable to recall the regiment. It would be most
likely that in that case the truth would be arrived
at more effectually than if the trial took place in
India, or than if the evidence were not fully and
fairly delivered. Colonel DuNNE explained how
the difficulty in the way of expense might be
obviated by the Government changing the rota, and
thus ordering home the Inniskillings instead of the
Sth. It is not likely that any of these suggestions
will be carried out strictly in accordance with the
mode in which they are made, but still they may be
of good service in the cause. It is an incontrovertible
fact that all the attention to routine, and exclusive
adherence to forms have lamentably failed in the
instance here mentioned to carry out the rules of
justice. It is always the fashion in official quarters
to decry the attempts made by lookers-on, to get at
the unvarnished truth, and arrive at the real solu-
tion of the difficulty, but the question is " what
would become of the case, if there were none of
these self-prompted stirrers in the cause ?" It is by
the due admixture of the various influences that sway
the motives that a modified opinion is at last
arrived at, and often a very correct one. It is by
no means evident that if all the members were as
tranquil as the Marquis of HARTINGTON desired
upon this subject, that the result would be as satis-
factory as it now promises to be after all the various
influences have been brought to bear upon it from so
many different directions. The facts now elicited
in regard to the treatment of this painful
case are very different from those at first men-
tioned, and this is because the real opinion
of the public had been unmistakeably
manifested, and their indignation expressed in
terms that could not be mistaken. Hence it may
result that this now approaching investigation of
Colonel CRAWLEY'S conduct will be far more com-
prehensive and searching in its style than if the
subject had been left to die out of remembrance,
instead of being thus constantly recalled to mind
so perseveringly.

It must have been with very amiable feelings that
Mr. DISRAELI last evening addressed the company
at the Conservative Banquet. The unity that reigns
among the councils of the Conservatives is strangely
opposed to the eonstant bickerings that disturb the
ranks of the Liberal party. Mr. DISRAELI reviewed
the condition of the party in whose honour they had
that day assembled, and skilfully contrasted their
present position with their former discomfiture.
Some years ago, he said, " There is no record in the
history of England of a political connection
so utterly forlorn, so hopeless and so pros-
trate, as was then the Tory party. There was
no one who believed we would ever rally," truly
observed the right hon. gentleman, " and it was
a question which of the political sections should
obtain the greatest portion of our plunder ; we
were like a vessel stranded on the beach, and it
was a question who should rifle our stores." With
laudable pride Mr. DISRAELI pointed out the great
difference that now existed in either House of Par-
liament ; they confronted the Minister with at
least an equal power. He then adverted to the
opinions some expressed as to the incapacity of the
party to retain power, and observed that the won-
der was not that they should not have retained
their places, but that they should ever have ac-
quired them. He gave a brief but impressive
account of the difficulties that Lord DERBY'S Ad-
ministration had to contend with on both occasions
when it was formed, and forcibly exposed the in-
sidiousness and subtle machinations of coalitions.
" We fell before the most peculiar coalition that
eve: existed, and that probably ever can exist in Eng-
land; the Liberal party defeated us in 1862, because
they coalesced with the pupils of Sir R. PEEL, the
Liberal party defeated us in 1859 because they
coalesced with the pupils of Mr. BRIGHT." The
moral of this, Mr. DISRAELI proceeded to explain,
was that the powers of coalition were exhausted.
"In the purgatory in which the Liberal party
found themselves they first applied to the celestial
archangels, and then descended into the lowest
abyss of Hades." There is great truth in this state-
ment, fanciful and figurative as it may appear. The
last condition of the Coalition is certainly more
unstable than the first one, and it does not need a
very great share of the spirit of divination to fore-
tell its ultimate downfall. It is through circum-
stances out of the control of those who direct
public affairs that so long an immunity has been
enjoyed by the powers that be. When a re-
action comes there will be seen a change.
The Conservative party has in all human
probability a great future before them,
and it behoves them to profit by the experience of
their past days of defeat and despondency, that
when they pass from the cold shade of opposition
to 'the more genial atmosphere of the Treasury
benches they may improve the opportunity allowed
them for the benefit of their country. Their present
position is a striking warning to those who despair
at difficulties. How would Mr. COBDEN and Mr.
BRIGHT have ridiculed the idea some years ago of
Mr. DISRAELI addressing such a circle of his
followers. They would have considered the idea as
a delusion, but no one can judge of future events who
narrows his mind to the immediate contemplation
of the events before him, without taking a more
extended and a more lofty view. The leaders of
the Conservative party are eminently deserving of
the enthusiasm with which their names were received
last night. No men could merit more appreciation
from a party. It is in the day of doubt and the time
of trouble that the great qualities of a leader are
fully displayed and conspicuously brought to light,
and in these important features Lord DERBY and
Mr. DISRAELI have not been found wanting.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.— Wednesday—Horticultural, at 1, Great
Exhibition. Friday—Archeological Institute, at 4. Sa-
turday—Horticultural, Promenade.-4thenawn.

THREATENED DETENTION OF ANOTHER SHIP AT
LlVERPOOL.—lntimation having been given that it
is intended to export two of Blakeley's large guns on board
the steamship Gibraltar, bound for Callao, notice, we be-
lieve, has been served on the owners of the vessel by the
Custom .house authorities at Liverpool to the effect that if
the guns are put on board the ship will be detained on the
suspicion that they are destined for a Southern Confederate
American port. This proceeding is deemed extraordinary,
as the guns from their vast size, each weighing about 21
tons, and being capable of carrying 700 lb. shot, it is consi-
dered perfectly clear that they cannot be used in the arma-
ment of ships. It is further deemed singular from the fact
that arms are shipped, and the ships cleared almost daily
for Northern Federal States ports. It is allegel that the
interference, in the case of the Gibraltar and Capt. Blake-
Y'' guns has been made in consequence of the represen-
tationse of the United States Milaifiter is Londou%