The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

The Student's English Dictionary. By John Ogilvie,
LL.D. One vol. Pp. 814. Blackie and Son.
One of the most exquisitely printed and carefully
compiled of Modern Dictionaries has here, in this
handsome quarto, been published by the Messrs.
Blackie and Son of the Row, of Glasgow, and of
Edinburgh. It is a Dictionary at once Etymological,
Pronouncing, and Explanatory. It has been edited
by the Editor of two other dictionaries already
famous in their way, " The Imperial" and " The
Comprehensive." Dr. Ogilvie, it should be re-
marked, has been assisted in the labours of
compilation applied by him to The Student's
-English Dictionary, now under notice, by Mr.
Richard Cull, F.S.A., under whose hands the Pro-
nunciation has been very carefully adapted through-
out to the best modern usage. Word after
word—from Aaronic to Zymotic--will be found
to have been traced back to its ultimate
source, the root or primary meaning being in each
instance inserted, and the other meanings very fully
given according to the most reliable authorities.
Scattered through the letterpress are about three
hundred illustrative wood engravings. Alike to
teachers and to pupils at our more advanced schools
and colleges, the " Student's Dictionary," here
issued from the press by the Messrs. Blackie and
Son, will be found to be not simply acceptable, but
absolutely invaluable as a long-looked-for book of
reference. According to the old slang of pro-
spectuses it might have been defined before its
appearance as a desideratum. Afterv►-ards it becomes
nothing less than a necessity. Once placed upon
the bookshelf, or better still, because more directly
within reach, upon the study-table—we can't very
well do without it. Once consulted, the work
is certain to be consulted again and yet again. The
information is never superficial or incomplete. It
is always directly to the point—remarkable at once
for its terseness and its completeness. All the more
accomplished philologists and lexicographers now
living, or who have but recently passed away from
amongst us, hav'e been here put under contribution
by Dr. Ogilvie no less assiduously than the most
famous amongst their more or less remote pre-
decessors. The Dictionary is, therefore, brought
as closely as possible up to a level with the full
and comprehensive knowledge of the present time.
It is a whole library in a single volume—as every
really good dictionary ought to be. It is the key to a
whole literature. It is a treasury of the most diver-
sified information. It ranges over all the arts and
all the sciences. It is a store of all the ripened
fruits of knowledge. And it is a store of this kind
so complete and all but perfect in its arrangement,
that the thoughtful student, turning it over at any
moment, never, we conceive, could find the time
hang heavily on his hands—never, we believe, could
rise from its examination—open it where he will—
uninstructed in regard to something with which he
was not previously acquainted.

Bishop Colenzo v. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and Others.

It was stated in The Sun of the 14th inst. that Dr.
Colenzo, Bishop of Natal, had filed a bill in Chancery
against the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Attorney-
General, tho Archbishop of Canterbury, Vice-Chancellor
Page Wood, Mr. Hubbard, and others, seeking to compel
them to pay over the amount of his salary from the Colo-
nial Bishoprics Fund, which has been withheld during the
last two years. The defendants in the case have filed their
answer, and have fully set out the circumstances under
which the fund was formed. In June, 1853, the council
of the fund appropriated a capital sum of £lO,OOO for the
establishment of the bishopric of Natal, and Dr. Colenso
was nominated bishop by the Duke of Newcastle, who was
then Colonial Secretary. The defendants urge that they
had nothing to do with the appointment of Bishop Colenso.
Having adverted to the letters patent and the recent judg-
ment of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, the de-
fendants say in their answer, " We are advised that, in ac-
cordance with the said judgment, the letters patent are null
and void so far as they purport to create any diocese or to
confer any legal authority or jurisdiction on the plaintiff,
and that the plaintiff has no power to exorcise the func-
tions of a bishop in the colony of Natal, or at all events,
has no jurisdiction as bishop in the colony, and is not him-
self subject to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Cape Town
as his metropolitan, or to any other spiritual or ecclesias-
tical jurisdiction whatever; and we submit that, if such is
the case, the objects for which the funds heroinbefore men-
tioned were inscribed and invested have not been ob-'
tamed, which objects were, in the first place, to secure
the pastoral care of a bishop for the clergy and people
of the diocese of Natal, and, in the second place, to
bring such bishop under the jurisdiction of the
metropolitan, himself being subject to the Archbishop
of Canterbury. And we declare our belief that none of the
contributors to the Colonial Bishops' Fund intended to con-
tribute towards the support of a bishop such as the judg-
ment of the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Privy
Council has decided the plaintiff to be ; that is to say, a
bishop without any jurisdiction over his clergy on the one
hand, and entirely independent of all metropolitan juris-
diction on the other." The defendants proceed to allege
that the clergy of the diocese of Natal have refused obedi-
ence to Bishop Colenso ; that one of the fundamental prin-
ciples of all arrangements for the erection and endowment
of colonial bishoprics was the maintenance and preservation
of strict connection, in doctrine and discipline, between such
bishops and the United Church of England and Ireland ;
that all the archbishops and bishops of such Church are
trustees for the endowment of the see of Natal, and, as such,
are authorised to withhold the income from the plaintiff.
The case will be argued before Sir John Romilly, in the
Rolls Court, at the commencement of the forthcoming
Michaelmas Term.

MARKETS-1 his Day.

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market the arrivals of English wheat
were moderate. The supply of new produce was received
in very middling condition ; consequently old wheats were
held at fully late rates. Generally speaking, however, sales
progressed slowly, at Monday's currency.
There was a fair supply of foreign wheat on sale. For
most descriptions there was a moderate demand, and prices
ruled firm.

Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request,
at full currencies.

With barley the market was very moderately supplied.
The trade was firm for all qualities, at fully late rates.
The malt trade was firm, at fully late rates.
Oats were in good supply. Most qualities were in steady
request, at about Monday's quotations.
For beans and peas the trade was firm, and late rates
were well supported.
The flour trade was steady on former terms.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch B2O 160 810 20 150
Irish
Foreign 7,600 250 16,120 30 sks.
4490 brls.
COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.

For the week ending Aug. For the corresponding week
26, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 48,026-458 4d Wheat 47,958-42s 7d
Barley 1,052-30s Od Barley 1,083-28s 7d
Oats ,.. 2,340...24s Od 1 Oats

THE QUEEN AT COBURG.

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(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
COBURG, Aug. 27.

There were uneasy glances at the clouds all day
yesterday and the day before at Coburg, and anxious
consultations of the weather-glass. But such a sun
blazed out at daybreak this morning, and held so
undiminished a sway in the heavens the whole length
of the day, that I hardly believe the Queen's pro-
verbial spell over the weather ever was more tri-
umphantly asserted than on this occasion. The little
town of Coburg had put on her best holyday dress,
and every house was gay with garlands, festoons,
and streamers, coats of arms, masses of flowers, and
every variety of simple but tasteful devices. Every
window-sill, every mullion and cornice, up to the
topmast gable, was mantled with evergreens. The
last finish had been given to the public buildings in
the Market-place. The Town-hall and the Govern-
ment offices were hung with flags drooping down
from the roofs to the basement, and the same vivid
colours waved from lines and flagstaffs all across
the square. These colours were chiefly the green
and white of Coburg, the black and white of Prus-
sia, the red and yellow of Baden, the red and black
of Wurtemberg, and the red and white of Darm-
stadt. The Union Jack and the Royal Standard of
England were not forgotten, nor yet that German
tricolour, that unfortunate Schwartz-Roth-Gold,
which never, perhaps, more emphatically than at
this moment represented a bare idea, a mere geo-
graphical expression.
The heavier wrappings had been removed from
the statue of the Prince Consort, and there it now
stood, in the centre of the square, with no other
covering than a thin white linen cloth ; opposite to
it was the Queen's pavilion, an elegant structure, all
scarlet and gold, with a canopy supported by 11
columns, and above it, in two escutcheons sur-
mounted by a royal crown, the arms of England
and Coburg, and again over the crown the English
standard. All round the square, right and left and
opposite, were the tribunes, all walled with ever-
greens ; some for distinguished strangers, others
for the notabilities of the place. The profusion of
all that nature lavishes, most lovely and most charm-
ing to the eye in field, garden, or forest, gave the
somewhat homely but not commonplace, and, in-
deed, highly picturesque, town a look of half-rural
festivity, which had little to envy the more gorgeous
shows of motley drapery and glittering tinsel with
which southern lands usually celebrate their solem-
nities.

The crowd, even the privileged many who had
admission to the reserved galleries, began to fill their
places soon after two in the afternoon. So broil-
ing, pitiless a sun I hardly ever remember having
to withstand on the north side of the Alps. Hats
and umbrellas screened us only imperfectly ; the in-
tense glare made eyes and heads ache. Yet before
us, together with the Duke's battalions muster-
ing up in the square, and whole legions of students
and schoolboys in their tiny saucer-like caps with
invisible brims, there came upon the torrid pave-
ment two fair bands of young damsels, all dressed
in white, but distinguishable on one side by green,
on the other by pink ribands. All these girls had
wreaths of flowers in their hands, all of them were
bare-headed, bare-armed, bare-shouldered. How
they did manage to hold their ground for two roast-
ing hours is what we could not help wondering all
the time.

At a quarter to four their martyrdom and our
own was rewarded by the arrival of Court car-
riages bearing the suite of the Royal personages.
Soon after them the Royal personages themselves
made their appearance. In the first carriage, the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Prince Alfred ; in the
second, the Princess of Wales, the Crown Princess
of Prussia, and the Prince of Wales ; in the third,
the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, the Princess Alice,
and the Crown Prince of Prussia ; in the fourth,
the Princess Clementine, the Princess Amalia, and
the Duke of Brabant ; in the fifth, Prince Louis of
Hesse, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Augus-
tus of Saxe-Coburg ; in the sixth, Duke Ernest of
Wurtemberg and Prince Leopold ; in the seventh,
Prince Hermann of Hehenlohe, Prince William
Lobenstein, the Prince Hereditary of Reuss, and
Count Alexander Mensdorff ; in the eighth, Prince
Philip and Count Alphonse Mensdorff.
In attendance upon the Queen were the Duchess
of Roxburgh and Lady Churchill, General Grey, and
Sir John Cowell, lately created a K.C.B. by her
Majesty at Rosenan. In the suite of the Prince of
Wales, Colonel Teesdale and Mr. Holtzmann ; at-
tached to the Duke of Cambridge, Col. Clifton. In
the suite of Prince Arthur, Capt. Elphinstone, &c.
The friends of the late Prince Consort assembled
here from England and from all parts of Germany.
I noticed Playfair, Professor Hoffmann, &c., Lord
Granville and his secretary, the Hon. R. H. Meade,
were in attendance, and also the Hon. C. A. Murray,
her Majesty's Minister at Dresden, and Mrs.
Murray, &c.

The pavilion was soon filled with all the Royal
personages, who took their seats and waited for
the Queen's arrival from Rosenau. Soon after 4
the bells from all the steeples in Coburg set up
their loud peals, the cannon thundered from the
fortress on the hill, thg bands struck up the solemn
notes of the English national anthem, and the
Queen's carriages drove up amidst the loud shouts
of the multitufle. in the first carriage were her
Majesty, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice ;
in the second, the ladies and gentlemen of the
Queen's suite. Of the Royal family only the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary were
absent. They had remained at Rumpenheim, the
summer residence of the Landgrave of Hesse. The
Queen was received at the carriage door by the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg. She soon appeared in her place in
front of the pavilion ; she wore deep mourning,
black dress and bonnet, with a black veil thrown
back, and under her bonnet that cap a la Mary
Stuart with which the English public have lately
become familiar. The Royal ladies around her wore
colours, and the variety of their lively costumes
presented a striking contrast to the sable hues in
which the principal personage was attired. Prince
Leopold and Prince Arthur wore Highland costumes.
Prince Alfred wore the Coburg uniform. All the
other Princes and their attendants displayed the
English colours.

The Queen stood up in her place whilst anthems
were sung by the chorus, with an accompaniment by
the band. She stood up while the Burgermeister of
Coburg, from a very low platform in the middle of
the square before the statue, delivered a long—an
unconsciously long—address, every word of which
was lost to the tribunes, and to which no answer
was vouchsafed. When the speech came at last to
an end there were more lofty strains from the band,
more peals of the bells, more discharges of artillery,
and at a given signal the linen wrappers of the
statue collapsed, and the gilt-bronze of the hero's
effigy stood out, all glittering in the flaming sun,
with its countenance fixed upon the countenance of
the Royal lady by whose unwearied love it had
been reared on its pedestal.

Presently the bevies of damsels in green and pink
ribands, who had been so long baking and waiting
for the performance of the part assigned to them in
the ceremony, stepped forward, and one by one laid
before the pedestal their wreaths and garlands.
There was a new anthem by the chorus, and as its
last notes died away the Queen withdrew, and we
all thought she had gone back to her carriage, when
she was seen at the head of all her family, walking
across the square up to the monument, where she
handed to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg the bunch of
flowers which had longlain before her on the balcony
of the pavilion. Those flowers were laid by the
Duke on the pedestal, and along with them all those
of the Princesses and Princes, till the fragment mass
rose high up to the feet of the statue.
Her Majesty then walked back to the pavilion,
and presently her carriage left the square amid the
loud shouts of the deeply-moved people. The whole
ceremony lasted hardly 20 minutes. When the last
of the Royal carriages had disappeared, the multi-
tude, which bad long been pent up at the inlets .o.t

the market-place, broke in like a swelling tide upon
the empty area, which was soon black with its swarm-
ing masses. Only a few minutes later, the Queen,
who had been driving round the gaily-variegated
streets, reappeared once more unexpectedly on
the densely-beset square to obtain one more
glimpse of the newly-inaugurated monument.
The crowd, among whom her carriage could with
difficulty make its way, greeted her enthusias-
tically on her progress, and it was noticed that
as the Queen passed she had a smile and a kind
word for the sculptor, Mr. Theed, who, together
with Messrs. Thomas and Winterhalter, were stand-
ing on the steps of the pedestal.
I have been concise, and, no doubt, dry in the
above descriptian, because the scene, although pleas-
ing, and even touching, had nothing in it that could
be called imposing, and the very atmosphere of the
place seemed to give it something of German domes-
ticity and sentiment. The feelings of those many
actors and spectators in the cermony could not,
however, be analysed so briefly. There were not a
few among those present whose imagination could
go far back into the past and bring it to bear on the
present with all its whelming contrast. Even as the
principal personage stood before me in her weeds on
the platform of that pavilion, my memory could
conjure back the image of a young, almost too young
Princess, as she passed before me, much dos& than
I saw her now, all dressed in white, between two
lines of her loyal subjects, on the terrace at Windsor,
more than five-and-twenty years ago. The career
that was then opening led to one of the most fortu-
nate and glorious reigns in English history ; but its
lustre, after so many years of domestic bliss, was
partly obscured by a great domestic calamity. The
sharer in all that happiness and that greatness—he
who was at that time just expected to come over to
England from this very spot—where was he now ?
He now stood before her " even with such majesty,
such warm life," as all the trick of art can give, but
was no less a mere recollection, a monument of the
past !
There was many a moment in that short space of
20 minutes that sent a thrill through the veins of
even the most collected and unimpressionable
spectator. The cannon announcing the Queen's
arrival, her appearance in front of the platform,
the falling of the drapery that enshrouded the " dead
likeness," none of these was so overpowering,
nothing took us so much by surprise, as the simple
act of the Queen walking up to the monument to
pay her tribute of affection to the dear departed.
That, I believe, was the essentially German part of
the performance ; it was the touch of nature that
came home to every man's bosom. One could almost
have cried out " Music, awake him ; strike !" and
expect the transformation in the " Winter's Tale"
reproduced before us. Her Majesty went through
the whole ceremony with her wonted command over
her feelings. The Princess of Prussia was visibly
affected by the scene before her.

The sun was too painfully dazzling, and the gilding
of the bronze too vivid, to allow one to do justice to the
merits of the statue as a work of art, or to enable me
at this moment to give a description of it. The
model has long been before the London public, and
every one is aware of the rare advantages the
sculptor, Mr. Theed, had, in his long intercourse
with the Prince Consort, in the mask he was allowed
to take of the countenance after death, and of the
still rarer skill with which he availed himself of those
advantages again and again to reproduce the most
perfect likeness of a countenance so familiar to all
of us—a countenance in which the worth within so
happily harmonised with the outward beauty ; a
countenance no less endeared to all beholders by
the most exquisitely handsome set of features than
by the effable benevolence of its expression.
The execution in bronze by the Nuremberg
founders is greatly to the satisfaction of the artist
himself. The statue is 10ft. high. The pedestal is
of polished granite, and bears in front an inscription
with the names and titles of the Prince—" Prinz
Gemahl von Gross-Britannien and bland," with
the dates of his birth and death ; at the back the
date of the erection of the monument, with the fol-
lowing words—" Das Gedachtniss der Gerechten
bleibt in Segen" (" The righteous shall be in ever-
lasting remembrance"—Ps. cxii., 6).
His Highness of Saxe Coburg gave a reception in
the evening, at 9 o'clock, in the handsome " Giant's
Hall," a splendid room with immense caryatides, in
the Ehrenburg, the town palace. Most of the
Royal Family of England were there, with their
relatives. The Queen was not present, and it was
understood that she would not quit Rosenau for the
evening. The assemblage was select, not large.

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His Serene Highness Prince George of Solms has
arrived at the Hanoverian Legation in Grosvenor-place
from visiting the camp at Chalons. The prince leaves
town in a day or two for a tour in Scotland.
The Duke of Leinster has been entertaining a
family party at Carton House, Maynooth, including the
Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, Lord and Lady Otho
Fitgeratd, Mr. and Lady Jane Repton, &c.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
have arrived at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square.
The Marchioness of Salisbury and family have
arrived at their residence in Arlington-street, from passing
several weeks at Bournemouth, on their way to Hatfield
House, Herts.

The Earl and Countess of Essex have arrised at
their country seat, Cassiobury Park, Watford, from Ow
Continent.

The Earl and Countess of Hopetoun have arrived
at Long's Hotel from Paris.
The Earl of St. Germans is expected to return
home shortly from the Continent. The noble earl has
derived great benefit by his visit to Spa.
The Earl of Clarendon is expected shortly to
arrive in town from Wiesbaden.
The Earl de Grey has left Carlton Gardens to
join the countess at Studley-park, near Ripon. Viscount
Goderich is quite recovered from an attack of measles.

Lord Stanley, M.P., is staying with the Earl
and Countess of Derby at Knowsley Park, near Liverpool.
The Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot have arrived at
Knowsley.

Viscountess Royston and infant daughter,
according to the last letters from Paris, are both doing well

VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT LAMBTON PARK.—About
three thousand volunteers were reviewed on Monday at
Lambton Park, Durham, by Lord Durham and Colonel
Roney. After the review there was a sham fight, which
was much enjoyed by the spectators. One accident marred
the pleasures of the day. Probably by the indifferent
serving of the vent of his gun an artilleryman had his arm
shattered, besides sustaining other injuries.
FUNERAL OF A VOLUNTEER AND FREEMASON AT
WlNDSOR.—Yesterday at two o'clock the remains
of Mr. Charles Stuart Voules, solicitor, of Windsor, and
one of the leaders of the Conservative portion of the con-
stituency of the Royal borough, were interred at the
cemetery in the suburbs of the town. Mr. Voules, in addi-
tion to holding several municipal officers in the borough,
where he was much esteemed and respected, was a mem.-
ber of the Berks Volunteer Battalion, and also master of
the Castle Lodge of Freemasons. The funeral was con-
ducted privately, but the corpse was met at the entrance
to the cemetery by the Windsor Volunteers, under the
command of Captain the Hon. Leslie Ruthven, and the
members of the Castle and Etonian Lodges of Freemasons,
and followed to the grave, by the side of which the Belt'
Mr. Rooke, who performed the ceremony, delivered a
funeral oration.

ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND UNJUST WEIGHTS.
—A number of councils-general in France have ex-
pressed a wish for a revision of the law in the sale by
weight and in the adulteration of articles of food, so that
the penalties should be heavier and more efficacious. The
council of the Indre-et-Loire has done more ; it has ac"
companied the wish with a proposal which might bo trans"
formed into a legislative enactment. According to it, flue
and imprisonment should in the generality of cases be abe-
lished, and publicity substituted. This last would consist,
not merely of a placard or a paper—which is torn °lf
almost as soon as posted up—but of a large board to be
hooked on to the shop of the offender—to remain there
one, two, or three months, according to the gravity of the
offence.
CONVICTION FOR INFRINGING THE ORDER 114
COUNCIL 'TO BURY DISEASED CATTLE.—At the
Chelmsford Petty Sessions, Mr. J. Seabrook, of Old Lodge
Farm, has been summoned for infringing the recent ordere
in Council by not causing a cow which had died of thu_
cattle plague to be buried on the premises. The proses. e
tion was instituted by the committee appointed in
neighbourhood to endeavour to stop the progress of th.,°_
cattle plague. It seemed that a cow, belonging to the_ociu'..
fondant, died of the cattle plague on the 21st., and def
dant sent for a knacker, who came and flayed the mail
on the farm, and took it away in his cart for the purPeuet °it
being boiled down. The defendant pleaded guilty,
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