The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 18-65.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW to
FRIDAY.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY.—
Arrangements Daily:
Orchestral Band
Mr. Stokes on " Memory" in the Lecture Room 3.0
Great Organ
Orchestral Band
No extra c targe to the Lecture Room.
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The thousand and one other attractions of the Palace in-
clude:—The Picture Galleries, the Fine Arts Courts, in
variety and beauty unequalled In the world; bhakespeAre
House, Montanari Models; Galleries of Models and Ships;
Armour Plates, lent by official authority ; the extraordinary
Chimpanzee, the unique Aquariums. All these things render
the Crystal Palace the one place of holiday enjoyment.
Admission, One Shilling. Children under Twelve, Six-
pence. Open for admission from 10 till dusk.

3/][R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JOHN PARRY, in PRE RIVAL COMPOSERS, in
which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and
HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone ude ROSELE
AT THE SE A-S I DE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening
except Saturday) at Eight; Saturday Ai ternoon, at Three.
- -ROYAL GALLERY ON' ILLUSTItA LION, 11, Regent-
street. Unreserved seats, is., 2s. ; stalls, Se. ; stall spring
chairs, ss.
OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by
Macfarren, and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every
TUE -DAY and T HURSDAY, at Three.

T II E 0 X F OR D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

ORPHE E AUX ENFERS •(Off.nbach's brilliant Opera
Comique), is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the
Song : "King of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and
the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid,
and horus ; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva,
Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; a, d thial Minuet
and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz-
henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and
Lascellcs.

Also, MA.SANIELLO, in which Mons. L AVESSIERE, the
successful new Tenore, from the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, will
make his appearance.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAII RANDALL, Mr. GASTON
MURRAY, LITTLE 808, SEST IL LION, and all the pro-
curable Talent oi the day.

CANTERBURY HALL.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

. ,
HODGE PODGE,
the most extraordinary Christmas Entertainment in Lon-
don (incluiing the whole strength of the establishment),
every even!ng at half-past Nine o'clock.
The usual Operatic Selections by Hisses Russell, Barre,
Hays. Godden, Jr.c. ; Messrs. Lascelles, Harland, Beaumont,
Kimberley, &a

Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. RandW, Mr. Hilton,
Stacey, Woodman, Little Bob, &c.

ROYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL,
Commercial-street, Shoreditih.
(Close to the Great Eastern Terminus,.
Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NI7GII.IT.
Operatic Selection, SON
ELLIBbNTAMULA. Prima Donna, Miss
ON.
Comic --NE LLY POWER, HARRIETT COVENEY. J.
G. FORDE. WEST, FRED. FRENCH, CERITO
SYLVES PER. The BROTHERS A LTOFF, from the
Theatre Desarts, Rouen, and the ELLISTRAIS, from the
Crystal Palace.
Stalls, ls. ; balcony, 6d. ; area, 4d. Open every evening at
Sevsn o'clock.
Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GLIM VILLE.

M establishedAllE T
29yllearTA 'S
at the Bazaaraker
EXHIBITION,-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—A Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL
of MULLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast
taken by Doctor Donovan; aUo a full-length MODEL of
KOHL, taken at his trial -are now added to the Chamber of
Physiognomy.

Open, 11 till dusk, and 7 till 10 evening.
Admittance, One Shilling ; extra rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
GRAND CASINO. CONCERT. First time in England,
Gungl's new German Toy Waltz. Prince Imperial Quadrille,
Huguenots, Robert le Diable, William Tell, and a variety of
Dance Mutic.
Conductor; M. LUIGI CURTL
Admission, One Shilling.
Manager, M. GRENET.

TEETH.--Mr. ESKELL'S exclusive PATENT.
The right to this patent was secured t.) Mr. Eskell, of
8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, by a Royal seal (July 17,
1860), a d can only be procured at his residence, where speci-
mens may be seen, and every information can be obtained.
Under this patent, artificial teeth, to last a lifetime, are
made, and fitted in a few hours without pain or extractions.
They support loose teeth and protect tender gums; the►r re-
semblance to nature is perfect and undetectable, and they are
guaranteed for mastication and articulation. Treatise on the
subject sent for seven stamps. Consultations free. Terms
strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street

THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.-
MOL LARD'S perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and
Cream, highly patronised by the faculty, nobility, and gentry.
Nothinz equals the properties and qualities of the Soap No.
i for ordinary toilet purposes, and of :cos. 2 to 5 in all cases
of cutaneous affections or rheumatism. _

Perfumed toilet cream, cold cream, and pomatnm for the
hair.
Barege cream for sulphur baths, without any disagreeable
odour.
All these preparations may be had at the central depot,
221 A, Regent-street, London, W. ; and at Messrs. Newbery
and Sons, Barclay and Sons. Edwards, Keating, Sanger and
Son, .)ozeaunetti, and all chemists. Pamphlets and test -
monials tree on a plication.
Agent for Edinburgh—Mr. John BPKay, chemist, 119,
George-street

NOTING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
most useful invention of the day, A MIA. AMARRLL 3.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard-
street, London, Perfumors to her Majesty, respectfully offer
to the public this truly marvellous flui t. which gradually
restores the human hair to its pristine hue--no matter at
what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of
dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and
when the hair is once restored one application per month will
keep it in perfect coiour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in
half bottles, Ns. 61 Testimonials from artistes of the highest
order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may
be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have
been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wake.

SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
11011 E, Hampstead. Offices, 77, Cornhill.
PATRON—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES.
Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon Charnppge
I R.N. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.Y.
TREASURERS.
It. C. L. Bevan, Esq. $ Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in
the Royal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service, and provides a home free of expense for former
inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasi g applications through the
recent storms and loss cf life at sea, and to enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thinkfully received by the bankers, Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
R. SWEETING, Hon. Sec.
CHARLES NASH, Sec.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected I Tom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a feW
of the most recent cases :
F. r., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeles., both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. R., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, h.'meless, deserted by her parents,
M. H.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. B. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
oung girls, almost children, from the age of s to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen•street, Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street.

SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS.-1n a paper addressed to
the Academy of Sciences, M. Terreil gives an analysis of a
piece of bronze and a piece of iron ore bearing traces of hav-
ing been cut by human hands, both specimens forming part
of the various objects found in the ossiferous caverns of the
Dordogne by MM. Lartet and Christie, and consequently
affording very conclusive proof of the high antiquity of
metallurgy. The piece of bronze has the appearance of
having dropped out of a crucible while in a state of fusion,
and it is composed of 86 parts of copper, 12 of tin, 1 of lead,
half a part of zinc, and traces of iron. The crust with which
the surface of this metal is covered contains, besides particles
of the above-mentioned metals, a certain proportion of lime,
chlorine, carbonic acid, and micacious clay. The piece of
iron ore is a compound of 50 parts of peroxide of iron, 34 of
silex and micacious clay, and 11 of alumina. M. Bianconi
has examined the bones of the Epiornis maximus, a gigan-
tic bird now extinct. From certain anatomical peculiari-
ties, he concludes that this bird was not a Breripennis, or
runner, but must have been much akin to the condor. It
was a native of Madagascar and Southern Africa; and
Marco Polo, in his travels, says that the gigantic bird of
Madagascar, which he calls Rue (probably the Rue men-
tioned in the " Arabian Nights "), looked like an immense
eagle. This passage has generally been treated as a mistake
or a fiction ; but from the remains of the Epiornis it would
appear that the celebrated Venetian traveller spoke the
truth, as he generally dues. M. Flandrin, who, on the 25th
of July, 1864, had deposited a sealed packet with the
Academy of Sciences, caused it to be opened at the last
sitting, when it was found to contain a project for employ-
ing ammonia as a moving power. This gas being extremely
soluble in water, which, however, emits it again very rapidly
in vacuo, M. Flandrin compresses it in a reservoir, whence
he makes it pass into a cylinder, so as exactly to balance
the pressure of the atmosphere. When the piston of the
cylinder has thus been driven out, the ammonia escapes
into a condenser containing water, where it is absorbed.
But here an air-pump sucks up the gas from the water and
carries it back to the reservoir, and thus the motion con-
tinues, the piston being at each stroke driven in again by
Atmospheric preagpros—Galiynani•

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Lord Pal-
ministi-ation without ever originating a measure, or
standing by a principal that was not popular, con-
cludes his career with a recommendation to the State
to build its Law Courts between Carey-street and
the Strand ! As the fruit of experience beyond the
average of mortals, the concentrated result of ob-
servation on the British Constitution the wise de-
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ductions from a broad study of mankind through
the Foreign Office and the Treasury since Napoleon
fell, this veteran statesman spends his last breath in
an entreaty that his countrymen shall extend the
equitable jurisdiction of the County Courts in cases
of small amount. Were these great objects effected,
there would remain but one crowning glory for Eng-
land to achieve. Is it possible that Lord Palmer-
shall live to see these ideas adopted by the Legisla-
ture, and in the very same session to behold the
Patent Laws amended.and another expurgatory Act
of obsolete statutes passed ? Might this but be, he
will have seen all he longs for. Two other measures
indeed he has prevailed on the Crown torecommend.
—a bill for altering the laws of poor relief, and
another for reforming public schools. But these
stand on the recommendation of Committees of the
House of Commons, and might probably be carried
into effect without the weight of the personal
authority of the great Whig leader. And, indeed,
the expurgatory statute belongs rather to the
office of the.. Lord Chantellor's dranghtsmen .than
to that of the head of her Majesty's Government.
So let us fix our venerating eyes on those peculiar
reforms which the Ministry, through its chief, de-
clares to be all that England wants, and which
secured, he will only pray to depart in peace. New
Law Courts, a little extension of County Court
Jurisdiction, and amended Patent Laws ! Happy
the country that has no history, but surely happier
the people who have reached perfect institutions in
every point but these ; and thrice happy that per-
suasion that nothing more than these are needed for
the nation he has ruled so long. But if we look
abroad at England's station in the world, is there
not an equal reason for self-gratulation ? Do we
not, in three places at once, disprove the assertion
made by an older veteran, that " England cannot
afford little wars ?" Have we not, as our Govern-
ment tells us, prosecuted with distinguished success,
since Parliament separated and left the executive to
pursue the path of glory unrestrained, some of the
very smallest wars that have ever been recorded ? A
war with Japan would, in the days when we had
statesmen, have seemed almost too slight a thing to
deserve notice from Royal lips ; but in this year
of grace we draw satisfaction from thp lofty
announcement that the diplomatic agents and
the naval commanders of Great Britain, France,
the Netherlands, and the United States of
North America, undertook a combined operation"
for the purpose of chastising a single rebel lord
in that island. So a declaration that her Majesty
had been obliged to employ her forces in India
" to obtain satisfaction for the past and security
for the future," is worded in a style so appropri-
ately magniloquent that it led to rumours of a new
Sepoy rebellion, only quelled by Lord Granville's
assurance that nothing more was meant than the
insignificant expedition to Bhootan, which few but
inveterate readers of every column of the Indian in-
telligence had in this country known to be in pro-
gress. Unhappily, that character does not apply to
the third " little war" in which we are involved.
Everybody knows that we are at war with the natives
of New Zealand ; everybody knows that it costs us
10,000 British troops, or an annual charge of 'a
million and a half ; everybody is ashamed of it,
angry at it, weary of it ! The policy of her Ma-
jesty's Government in this matter has hitherto
escaped condemnation because it has escaped in-
quiry ; but the presumption lies heavily against a
system which has brought us to look to the exter-
mination of the finest race, physically and morally,
we have yet taken under our protection--which
secures our success only by attacking them on Sun-
days, on which days the religion we have taught
them forbids them to fight, and which hag as yet,
by these means, done no more than obtain the sub-
mission of a few among the " savages." In these
circumstances, no common boldness is that which in
the British House of Peers claims this as a " suc-
cessful effort" of her Majesty's forces, and which
adds that those who are still in arms, and whom her
Majesty's forces have been unable to subdue, " have
been informed of the equitable conditions on which
their submission would be accepted." Yet the auda-
city, of meanness for which her Majesty's Govern-
ment demand applause at the antipodes is surpassed
by the effrontery of imbecility with which it dares
to refer to interests nearer home.. Could it be
credited, without being seen, that those who egged
on Denmark to resistance—who counselled her to
retire only to a strong point where English sym-
pathy would become active aid—who bade her fight
and then left her to fight alone—who called a Con-
ference to mediate, and then upbraided her for de-
manding the terms we had declared just and reason-
able—who boasted of English " opinion" and
" moral force," and then admitted that we dared
not lift a sword unless France stood by our side—
that these men would have the courage to speak of
Denmark's fate ? Such courage, however, her Ma-
jesty's Government possess. R is at least a courage
which none will envy them, and which we may trust
no future English Government will ever emulate—
the courage of men who have sense neither of honour
nor of shame—the courage of the unabashed brow
and craven soul, that calmly and coolly refers to the
truce when it shrank from a friend in peril, and
bore with resignation the open contumely of a foe.
So, consistent in self-seeking and self-contentment
to the very last, the soul of pure Whiggery passes
away. It has reached now that beatific state in
which it withdraws itself from observation of ex-
ternal objects, and concentrates its faculties in in-
ward contemplation. It has no longer sight for the
events of the world ; the birth-cry of a new creation
fades in its ear into a languid hum of ancient com-
monplaces the agony of sc cial revolution strikes it
as a discomfort to be assuaged by new law courts
and the giving of equity jurisdiction to the
county judges. It is time it were gathered to its
fathers, with the close of the political career of the
astute leader who has guided it so long. For the
nation has a weighty work before it, which the
easy old formulas of a Royal Speech-have no words
to speak of. That people for whose welfare and
happiness the Royal solicitude prays,f the
in
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language so
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strangely earnest, and so dissonant
all the rest that it enforces the conviction that it
csme straight from' the Royal heart, and was not
devised by the Royal Minister, is not the people
that the Whigs were wont to evoke
to save them-
selves from loss of office. It is a people that does
not now break out in riot, as before the Reform
Bill; that does not now agitate for impracticable
objects, as before the Charter fell out of sight. But
neither is it a people that is ignorant, or indifferent,
or solely bent on the satisfaction of its animal de-
sires. Day by day it treads on the heels of the best
educated in the land ; day by day it asserts silently
its overwhelming power ; day by day it summons
before the tribunal of its opinion the statesmen who
presume to act in its name. Already it is supreme,
for its bitterest opponents confess that they cannot
stand before its force. But at the same time it is
irresponsible, for the Constitution lays the duty of
acting on but a small section of the body. This is
the fact that we have to deal with—the peril that
we have to remove. To place those who hold the
power in their hands where they shall feel the
solemn responsibility that it involves--to call in to
the councils of action those by whose will all action
is directed—to teach self-restraint and self-guid-
ance—by that practice Which alone can effec-
tually teach—to those who, on all great ques-
tions, are irresistible already, this is the great task
that lies before our statesmen of the future. We can-
not bid the stream of time roll backwards, and bring
us again the England of our youth, when but a few
among her population were intelligent, and there-
fore but a few were worthy to govern. We must
take the England of our day and of our sons' day—
the England of railways, and telegraphs, and nul-
1, ersal penny papers—the England in which public
events, at home or abroad, warm the interest of
millions whom as yet the Constitution does not ac-
knowledge—the Englandjwhich public opinion rules,
but in which public opinion is the voice of the
people, and not merely of the Houses of Parliament.
This is the England to which the Queen, when she
meets her new Parliament, will speak—the Eng-
land for which her Ministers, when Lord Palmer-
ston has ceased to hold the seals, will have to legis-
late. For the moment it is patient and still ; but
who can predict what will rouse its wrath ? For
the moment it is busy and occupied ; but who can
tell when it will find that its patience has been
abused and its indifference taken advantage of ?
Always, too, it is considerate of past services, and
reverent, perhaps beyond safe limits, of age. But
these ire noble qualities, which it were wise not to

tax too heavily. For one session more they will
make the Premier's authority secure, and his duties
easy as his conscience. But another Parliament will
not be guided by mere admiration for veteran jocu-
larity, or sympathy with impressible good humour.
The Royal Speech of 1865 is the last that will be
constructed on the dolce far niente theory of Govern-
ment. As it stands, it-will remain the significant
expression of what Whiggery left to itself can come
to—and its epitaph.
THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE OPENING OF
THE SESSION.—Peace has been signed between
Denmark and the German powers. The war in
America continues. A Japanese Daimio has
been brought to his senses. The war in New
Zealand continues. The North American Provinces

are discussing a scheme of Confederation. Then
is a little war on one of the Indian frontiers, and
there has been a cyclone at Calcutta. The. Esti-
mates will be produced at the usual time. The re-
venue is flourishing ; and the last Irish harvest was
tolerably good. All these things were already known
with the addition of the name of the Indian seat of
war ; and now they are offically known. The cap-
tain of a ship says, when he is told that it is twelve
o'clock, "Make it so ;" and now the Queen, through
her Commissioners, has made it so. Not, indeed,
that an Irish harvest, or any other Irish fact, can be
removed from the region of controversy. Lord
Charlemont, having to propose the Address, con-
curred in the statement of the Speech, but Mr.
Scully, though he could not say that the last sum-
mer was not fine, indignantly denounced the implied
proposition that sunshine or anything else was good
for Ireland. The chief crop of his country was, as
he said, oats, and dry weather was not good for
oats. As three rainy years in succession had caused
great distress, and as a dry year did no good, Sir".
Crossley's obsebiation that the English Governmffit
could not provide Ireland with rain was irrelevant as
well as unsympathetic. There would be no use in
finding either rain or blue sky, if both conditions
of the heavens are equally deleterious. The true
want of Ireland is, according to Mr. Scully, a
little more of that kind fine talk which is known
in the indigenous dialect as " blarney." No people,
as he says, are so easily cajoled as the Irish, and the
Government is to blame for not providing an am-
pler supply of the cheapest of all commodities. The
same object would be partially attained by the cog-
nate method of promoting two or three Irishmen to
the Cabinet ; yet Mr. Scully himself asserts that it is
not the fashion to read Irish history in Irish schools,
and it therefore seems that by no conceivable pro-
cess can the condition of that singular country be
understood. Amid conflicting generalisations it is
satisfactory to turn td the statistics of Lord Charle-

mont and Sir R. Peel, for the increase of savings, of
crops, and of manufactures must, even in the most
anomalous of . countries, indicate some material im-
provement. It is unfortunately true that disaffec-
tion is still widely prevalent, and that no plan has
yet been devised by which the rights of the landlord
can be sufficiently reconciled with the interest of the
occupier. Mr. Maguire was justified in his asser-
tion that the welfare of Ireland is more important
to the empire than the prosperity of India. Unfor-
tunately, the conditions of order and mutual har-

mony were not satisfied in former ages. Mr. Scully
might, after all, have produced a great historical ar-
gument in support of his theory of Irish wants. If
Henry VIII. had taken a little more trouble to ca-
jole the Irish chiefs, and especially if he had given
them a share of Church lands, they would have cor-

dially supported him in his rejection of the autho-
rity of Rome, and their countrymen would at this
moment recognise the bishops of the Establishment
as the successors of St. Patrick. Turning from the
past to the future, the officials framers of the Speech
easily satisfied the languid curiosity which awaited
their revelations. It is determined that Courts of
Law shall be built in the space which separates
Lincoln's-inn from Fleet-street, and it is possible
that the arrangement will promote economy and
despatch, while it is certain that it will tend to the
convenience of the profession. As the only opposi-
tion to the scheme is raised by the Society of Lin-
coln's-inn, on the ground of the artificial value
attached to chambers in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the present Courts, the Government will
find little difficulty in passing the bill. A sentiment
of regret for the removal of the Courts from West-
minster Hall will probably be confined to veteran
lawyers. The architectural controversy is likely to
be more serious, especially if Lord Palmerston insists
on his opinion that all mediaeval buildings were,
churches, and that modern business requires the
same accommodation which was provided in Grecian
temples. No similar question of art will arise in
considering the modest proposal of the Government
to complete the revision of the statutes. Her
Majesty is advised to cherish a hope, which in the
minds of her subjects will be mitigated to a wish,
that the forthcoming bill may be a step towards
the formation of a digest of the law. The statutes
form an appreciable portion of the whole body of
the law, the partial simplification of their contents
may not improperly be called a step towards a
digest ; but the difficult part of the work has yet
to be commenced, and even to be projected. The
other legal reforms which are contemplated will re-
quire and secure the careful attention of Parliament.
The late decision of the Court of Queen's Bench on
Mr. Feather's petition of right renders the subject
of patents unusually interesting • but, until conflict-
ing opinions have approached to: an understanding
or a compromise, the matter will not be ripe for
comprehensive legislation. The Government will
recommend to the adoption of Parliament the altera-
tions in the Poor-law which were proposed by the
Committee of the House of Commons. There will
be no difference of opinion as to the expediency of
conferring on the county courts a limited equity
jurisdiction, for it is often as necessary to compel
the discharge of an obligation as to award damages
for a breach of contract. The bill which is an-
nounced to confirm the conclusions of the Committee
of Public Schools will probably, in accordance with
the precedent established in the case of the Univer-
sities, provide for the appointment of Commissioners
with legislative powers. Lord Derby did injustice
to the Report when he applied to it Martial's esti-
mate of his own poems ; for it contains more good
suggestions than bad, as well as some criticisms of
doubtful value. If an Act of Parliament could
be passed to secure in every school the appoint-
ment of a head-master of commanding and original
ability, it would scarcely be necessary to enact
any further reform. Mr. Baines and his friends
have not persuaded the Government to stultify
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ear ivl fo
r
the
theirnoo rt
the smallest desire to induce a crisis. As the
ob-
served, the authorised physicians who are watching
outside
favourite experiments, it is probable that the sick
man will be temporarily disturbed ; but the West
Riding members may be well assured that the addi-
tional votes which they may probably catch will
carry little moral weight in the House or the country.
It would be impossible to convince any impartial
observer that the present Parliament desires changes
which it has almost unanimously declined to coun-
tenance or support. The £6 bill, and the £lO bill,
and the Ballot resolution, will be successively intro-
duced, with a full understanding on all sides that
Reform is only stirred in the House of Commons
for the purpose of an appeal to the hustings. It
would have been discreditable to Lord Palmerston
and to Lord Russell to afford official countenance
s is that,
e
to an insincere experiment on the patience of Par-
liament. Mr. Gladstone, even if he has made up
peculiarityemed to
be
his mind to abandon his preface and to stand by
his speech, is probably well contented to postpone
ne t thi le
mosthi s
openingc
remarkable
ol colleagues aog uf et sheh asvee
Session, of the
Speech,
the
e
while domestic inaction still corresponds to the
his rivals.eaegjhat andi agitation
n no f u
general tranquillity, no foreign question occupies
the immediate attention of the country or of Par-
liament.

THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE MINISTERS' MES-
SAGE.—There is a limit of imbecility which ought
not to be passed even in drawing up a Queen's
Speech, and her Majesty's Ministers, we fear, this
year have overpassed it. Cobbett in his grammar
drew all his examples of vicious style from speeches
put into the mouths of English Kings, but even he
would have paused in amazement before the extra-
ordinary document lisped out by the Lord Chan-
cellor on Tuesday. The audience who listened to
Lord Westbury's odd delivery so eagerly must have
felt that the speech explained at once the otherwise
inexplicable fact that the Sovereign who attends so
assiduously to every other official duty declines to
perform the first duty of all—that of lending dignity
and grace to the opening of her Parliament. The
Queen could not have read that rubbish aloud with-
out an unconstitutional feeling of ridicule for a Ca-
binet which, composed as it is of gentlemen and
scholars, and containing as it does one great master
of language, could yet prepare a State paper so en-
tirely devoid at once of dignity, of lucidity, and of
force. The Queen's Message,
.we are well aware,
has now descended into a formality, a scanty official
programme of the work which Parliament may be
called upon to attempt ; but still is a State paper,
republished all over Great Bntaui, read by the whole