The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENI N G, JUNE 30, 1862.

THE 570121 OF THE LEASE OP

MONTAGU-HOUSE

(From the London Review)

It is more than probable that the report of the Thames
Embankment Committee will give rise to much animated
discussion both in and out of Parliament. We are just now
dealing with but a small instalment of a grand scheme
which, sooner or later, will certainly be carried out, and
which will substitute wide public quays, such as adorn the
Seine in Paris and the Arno in Florence, for the mean and
ruinous sheds and foul mud-banks at present degrading and
contaminating the margin of the Thames.
The section of this scheme, which has been lately under
the consideration of a comraiftee of the House of Commons
extends but from Blackfriars to Westminster. We have
learnt with consternation that the report of the committee
recommends that the public road along the embankment
shall extend no further than from Blackfriars to Whitehall-
stairs, and that it shall, at that point, turn up into White •
hall and pour its traffic into Parliament-street. The only
reason given for this extraordinary suggestion is, " that
further time may be thus afforded for ascertaining the best
means of relieving the thoroughfares of the metropolis."
It must, however, be clear to everybody who has attended

the sittings of the committee, that the reason thus given is
not the real reason ; that the motives by which its members
have been influenced are very different from those by
which they say, and we hope, they suppose they have been
actuated.

Between Whitehall-stairs and Westminster-bridge stand

the residences of the Duke of Buccleuch and of one or two
other gentlemen, who possess considerable Parliamentary
influence. If the original scheme submitted to the com-
mittee be persisted in, a public road will be opened in front

of these houses, between them and the river, by which they
will be separated from it, exactly as the houses in Picca-
dilly-terrace are separated by Piccadilly from the Green-
park. The Duke and his neighbours object to this intru-
sion ; they are desirous that the embankment shall be made,
they are even _willing to incur a portion of the cost of
making it—for its construction would be an enormous ad-

vantage to them—but they are determined if they can, that
in front of their houses there shall be no traffic, and that
the new quay—public everywhere else—shall be kept
strictly private in front of their residences.

W e do not propose to discuss the many important ques-
tions opened by this strange recommendation of the com-
mittee, before the report and the evidence on which it is
based are made public ; all we at present propose to do is, to
detail the circumstances under which the site of Montagu.
house—probably the most valuable plot of ground in Lon-
don—was recently smuggled out of the hands of the Crown
into those of the Duke of Buccleuch, who now stands for-
ward, by counsel, as the chief obstructor of the proposed
public improvement.
His Grace holds the ground on which Montagu-house
stands on a lease from the Crown for 99 years, commencing

in 1855. The old mansion, recently pulled down, was built
in 1733 and a lease of it for 62 years, commening in 1806,
was granted to his Grace's father in 1810. It appears from
Parliamentary papers now before us, printed on the 11th of
August, 1854, that the Duke has long been anxious, for
good and sufficient reasons to obtain a renewal of the old
lease granted to his father in 1810, and that the Lords
of the Treasury, with whom the matter rested, have been
equally determined not to grant any such renewal, on the
ground that the site of Montagu-house would, in 1868, be
requred for the erection of public offices.
Early in 1852 the Whigs were driven from office, and
Lord Derby succeeded them. At this crisis the Duke of
Buccleuch, in no way discouraged by the decided refusal
which he had already received from the Whig Lords of the
Treasury in 1850, again pressed that department tor a re-
newal of his lease. In June, 1852, we find the Duke's agent,
Mr, Frederick Nichol), of Carey-street, addressing Mr.
Charles Gore, of the 'Woods and Forests, on behalf of his
employer, and renewing the very same application that had
been firmly rejected but two years before.
In spite, however, of Mr. INTichoLl's importunity, and in
spite of the marked and affectionate interest which Mr.
Charles Gore appears to have taken in the subject, the Tory
Lords of the Treasnry, who had just come into office, and
probably expected to remain in (for they anticipated great'
things from the impending dissolution of Parliament), very
properly declined to entertain the gross job suggested to
them by Messrs. Nicholl and Gore. and their refusal is 're-
corded in a Treasury minute, dated Aug. 17, and in a letter
addressed by Mr. Charles Gore to Mr. Nicholl, dated Sept.

11, 1852.
Here the subject would probably have dropped for ever
had not the general election, which took place in the autumn
of 1852,,proved unfavourable to the Tory cause. The new
Parliament met on the 4th of November, and while the
Chancellor- of the Exchequer (Mr. Disraeli) was girding
himself up for the onslaught which he knew would be made
on his financial measures by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Forbes
Mackenzie, the Patronage Secretary of the Treasury, was
exerting himself to prop up shaky votes and to make poli-
tical converts by the usual means found efficacious on such
emergencies. It was well known that if the Tories were
. forced to resign, Lord Aberdeen would succeed Lord Derby ;
and the Duke of Buccleuch, a nobleman of vast political
influence, was more than suspected by the Carlton Club of
entertaining dangerous Peelite tendencies. It became there-
fore desirable that he should be well looked after, and con-
ciliated as much as possible.
So, at this critical juncture, the subject of the lease of
Montagu-house suddenly cropped up again, spontaneously
as it were. It does not appear, from the papers before us,
that the Duke himself revived it; or that Messrs. Nicholl
and Gore bestirred themselves afresh on his behalf. Never-
theless we find that on Dec. 8 (the discussion on Mr. Dis-
raeli's 'financial measures, on which his Government de-
pended, having been fixed for the 10th), a friendly letter
was addressed by the Secretary of the Treasury to Mi.
Gore, apprising him that " my lords" had reconsidered the
matter of the renewal of the lease so much desiderated by
the duke; that since their last- refusal to grant it "my
lords" had obtained information regarding the terms of the
leases of the houses in Richmond-terrace, which had
changed their views ; and this new information, coupled
with the fact that the duke was a very old tenant of the
Crown, had induced them to agree that a lease of 99 years
should be granted to him.

A reference to the plan facing page .2 of the papers be-
fore us shows that ," my Lords" did not adhere 'very
rigidly to the truth in making this communication, in-
asmuch as the information regarding the terms of the
leases of the houses contiguous to Montagu House had
which is the date of the last minute refusing to grant the
proposed renewal, but as far back as the 7th of October,
1850. And, as the last refusal had taken place in Septem-
ber, 1852, the Duke was but three months older tenant
when he.got the lease than he had been when the selfsame
Government had flatly refused to grant it to him. Be that
as it may, two days after "my Lords'" conciliatory letter
was written to the Duke the discussion on Mr. Disraeli's
financial measures was resumed in Parliament, and after a
debate which lasted four nights the Tories were driven
om office by a small majority, and the Peelites succeeded
them. We are not in a position to say on which side the
Duke of Buccleuch exerted his influence on that occasion
in the House of Commons, or whether he exerted it at all
on either side ; but such are the more than suspicious cir-
cumstances under which his Grace got a lease for 99 years,
on remarkably easy terms, of one of the most valuable pieces
of land in the metropolis, as proved by official documents
and by dates which cannot be disputed.
_ _

The ludicrous manner in which Mr. Disraeli dragged be-
fore Parliament in 1854, with the view of damaging Mr.
Gladstone, the circumstances under which he himself had
sanctioned the minute authorising this shameful jDb are
now well known. Mr. Disraeli declares that in the hurry
of business he initialled the document in ignorance of its
contents, and we give entire credence to his assertion, for
he undoubtedly had plenty of work on his hands at the time.
But we would ask whether it is even now too late to insti-

tute some inquiry into the job,"and whether the actual per-
petrator of it cannot be, if not brought to justice, at least
ascertained and stigmatized ?

And, although we do not presume to insinuate that the
Duke of Buccleuch did more in the matter than to accept
the bribe which the Tory Government, in the agony of im-
pending dissolution, possibly forced upon him, we are of
opinion that a Committee of the House of Commons, when
cognisant, as they now are, of the disgraceful circumstances
under which the renewal of the lease of Montagu-house was
granted, would not feel disposed to evince much considera-
tion for the objections which its tenant may raise to the
opening of a public highway along the embankment be-
tween him and the river. The time will undoubtedly come
when the proposed quay will be prolonged, in front of the
Houses of Parliament, from Westminster-bridge to Vaux..
hall, the contiguity of Westminster Abbey to the Houses of
Parliament precluding the possibility of widening the
thoroughfare between them. And when that time does
come, if we give way on this occasion to the Duke and his
allies, we shall have to repurchase back from them, at an
enormous cost, the indusputable right which we now pos-
sess, and which the committee so strangely recommends us
to abandon, of making an uninterrupted public quay from
131ackfriars to Vauxhall. Beyond Vauxhall the quay
already exists.

A Suspicious CASE.—It was reported in The
Sun a fortnight ago that a vessel, the Mary of Exeter, laden
with teak, had been
picked up floating upon her broadside,
off the Fern Islands,
-and towed into the Tyne by three
powerful steam tugs. This vessel having been discharged
of her cargo has been righted. She was surveyed on Sa-
turday morning last in Shields harbour, and holes were
found in her bottom) bored from the inside. In one of
these holes a wooden plug was found, which is in the pos-
f3e6BioA of tlu) Collector of Customs at North Wads.

LITERATURE.

The Sandwich Islands. By Manby Hopkins.
Longman and Co.
This work, by the Hawaiian consul-general,
gives an extremely interesting account of that
group of small islands, mere specks in the map of
the world, one of which is notorious as having been
the place at which Captain Cook was killed. Since
then their progress in civilisation has been rapid.
They have adopted European customs and clothes;
have learned to read, write, and cast accounts; pos-
sess a constitutional government, a free press, and
an agricultural society ; have accredited agents
at the European Courts ; and rank among the
kingdoms of the earth. it is this transition from a
simple to a sophisticated state that Mr. Hopkins
has set himself to chronicle, and the ability with
which he has performed his task will be widely re-
cognised. "The importance of the Sandwich
islands," he says, " politically and commercially,
arises from their particularly central situation.
They lie in a diagonal position from south-east to
north-west, in a parallelogram rather exceeding one
formed by the 19th and 22d degrees of north lati-
tude, and the 155th and 160th meridians of west
longitude; and it will be seen, by reference to a
map, that the group is nearly equidistant' from the
coasts of America and Japan, and that a radius
from its centre would touch in succession the shores
of Central America, the North-West States, the
Russian territory, the Aleutian Archipelago, Japan,
the Phillippine Islands, Torres Straits, New Zealand,
and the Feejes Islands_ And whilst Australia is
just beyond the ambit, California and Vancouver's
Island are within a shorter distance of the Ha-
waiian Islands." Their origin is volcanic, though
the ceaseless labour of the coral insect has tended
to increase their size or to produce reefs at greater
or less distance from the shore. They have no
metals, but possess dense forests, rich valleys, and
many rivers, whilst on the pasture lands large
herds and numbers of horses are raised, many of the
latter being in a half wild:state. The climate is tem-
perate and equable; there are no noxious reptiles,
but insects and vermin have entered with civilisation.
Thestrong, well-made, and highly cou-
rageous. meha I. would allow six of his
peo PI
i are
mehawarriors to throw their spears at him, himself armed
ia
only with one of the javelins, with which he would
turn aside the flying weapons, each ready to let out
his life-blood." They are daring swimmers and bold
riders, do not hesitate to attack the shark, and
will " plunge down the waterfall into the ocean
when the leap is forty feet and upwards in height."
The ieenery is thus described

"On approaching the group from certain directions the
the first objects which meet the sight are the two lofty
peaks on Hawaii, each 14,000 feet in height—two miles
and a half—one of them capped with perpetual snow, which
contrasts with the deep blue of the tropical sky above, and
with. the darkness of the lava forming the sides of the
mountains. A rude and irregular outline of high lands then
presents itself; and on the north side are seen, on a
nearer view, the dark forests which clothe the lower region
m
of the mountains; whilst giddy precipices front the sea, of
whosemLeflls theto waves bet in perpendicular height, against
wat, and surge) and thunder through
the caverns which they have hollowed for themselves in
their ceaseless war. In some places, streams, which have
united their waters on their way, rush together over one of
thos e palis, or precipices, into the ocean. Still nearer, the
white foam is seen pouring in sheets over coral reefs,' of
which there is sometimes an outer and inner ridge. The
islands are generally lofty ; the small isle of. Lehua, near
Niihua, having an elevation of 1,000 feet. The upland
region of Hanai has an uniform height above the sea' of
4,000 feet. Once through the reefs, or anehoied in a lee-
ward roadstead, scenes of gentler beauty are discovered—
pleasant bays, with sandy shores, a native village, often with
its small chapel, and generally with its school,. sheltered
by groves of palm and cocoa-nut, and the deeper green of
the bread-fruit tree; rivers running down to the sea, down
some of whose cascades the native girls and youths cast
themselves with laughter, and take a bath, which must
exceed any douche ever experienced at the severest of our
water-cure establishments. At the mountain foot grassy
plains meet the forest, roamed over by herds of cattle,
which, in many instances, have become m ild. Coffee
plantations and sugar-cane give their verdure to the culti-
vated districts."

The volcanic features are very remarkable. The
crater of Kilanca is the largest active one in the
world, the circumference of the orifice being esti-
mated at from six to nine miles, and its depth at 400
to 1,000 feet. In this pleasant place was supposed
to dwell, in heathen times, the Goddess Pele, who
with attendant divinities of equally unaccountable
tastes, bathed and sported in fire and sulphur.
Eruptions sometimes take place on a scale of terrific
• grandeur. "If," says an eye witness, on some moun-
tain side.the largest fire that ever devastated St.
Francisco could be reproduced, and four or ,five
hundred domes, like that of St. Peter's at Rome,
when illuminated, be dotted about on "the slopes be-
low, the general effect might be that of a very pretty
miniature on ivory of the eruption on Mauna Loa."
The capital of the islands is Honolulu, a city of
about 12,000 inhabitants, remarkable for being
built without a single chimney. In other re-
spects it appears to have quite a European
character " people Of all nations are meeting
in the wide streets; English, American, 'French,
German, Chinese, South Polynesians, are repre-
sented here ; busy with commerce, with polities,
with dinner at the very excellent hotels, or, in
that rest-inviting climate, busy doing nothing."
The presant King Kamehameha the Third is a
very intelligent and enlightened sovereign, who has
travelled in Europe and America, and has turned
his experience to good account. "On a small scale,"
said he to Mr. Hill, " I am endeavouring
to do with the blessing of God, what Peter the Great
of Russia, did on a large 'ecale "—a remarkable
sentiment for the King of the Sandwic Islands to
utter. Although the Islands had been undoubtedly
touched at before Captain Cook's arrival, he was
the first to discover them, in the common sense of
the term, and the fact of his having been killed at
Hawaii, has indissolubly connected his name with
them. This renowned navigator seems to 'be no
great favourite with Mr. Hopkins, and the version
he gives of the intercourse between the English and
natives, and the cause of the conflict does not
wholly redound to the credit of the former. Their
arrival created great astonishment. "The appear-
ance and get up the British Seaman' of that day
was a peculiar one; it was especially wonderful in
the eyes of the .Kanzak,a (native). The cocked hat
adhereing to the head, was to them identified strictly
with the wearer, so that the spies who went to ex-
amine the ships described the people on board as
having + heads horned like the moon.' • They had
fires burning in their months,—no doubt cigars ;
they ate the raw flesh of men; this was the red,
juicy watermelon brought from Monterey; they
took, like Peter Schlemmit, anything they wanted
out of their bodies,—such was the first impression
of pockets on the native mind ; and what was more
laughable than all (for the Hawaiians are essenti-
ally a risible people), was the utterly unintelligible
gibberish the strangers spoke. All these circum-
stances, together with the firing of some
guns, made the natives conclude that their
visitors were gods." They thought, in fact, that
?ono, the Hawaiian Hercules, who, having killed
his wife through jealousy, had become frantic, and
turned wanderer, had returned, as he had promised,
" on an island bearing cocoa-nut trees, swine, and
dogs." They, therefore, at first, paid Captain Cook
divine honours, which he seems, by this account, to
have unhesitatingly accepted ; but misunderstand-
ings gradually arose; the islanders lost faith in the
divinity of their visitors, and tha tragedy of Keala-
keagua Bay was the unlucky result. The most re-
markable native who has appeared in these islands
is Kamehameha the First, styled by Mr. Hopkins
the Bonaparte of the Pacific, and who " had the
unusual advantage of having two fathers. He was
at once reputed to be the son of Keona, brother of
the King Kalaniopun (Cook's Tereobu), and he was
equally claimed as the offspring of Kahikili, King
of Mani. As he received inheritances from both
claimants to his paternity, he could scarcely object
to an arrangement which in many cases might be
felt embarrassing." This chieftain signalised him-
self by conquering all the neighbouring islands, and
his administrative talent seems to have been of a
high order. Still he remained an idolator to the
last, as the arguments of the missionaries were not
sufficiently convincing to induce him to change his
creed. He seems to have been a practical man of a
humorous turn, for, " at the conclusion of a highly-
coloured appeal about the power of faith," he
• pressed on them the crucial test of throwing them-
selves, in faith, from the top of a neighbouring pre-
cipice, his belief to be dependent on their safe ar-
rival at the bottom of it." So deep was the grief at
this great king's death that one of his chiefs pro-
posed, as the right way of testifying it, that they
should eat the corpse raw, but as the majority de-
murred, probably thinking it would be disrespectful,
the deign was abandoned and the king's remains
were " tied up in a bundle of tapa and put safely
away." So safely indeed that they could never be
found after. The national religion now began to
decay, the people lost faith in their idols, the high
priest led the van, and at length, strange to say,
they burnt and destroyed them all. "Then, the
writer eloquently says, " to fancy's ear, came moan
to,
ing along the rocky shores, murmuring in the
passionate mountain torrents, and sighing in the,
winds, the melancholy wail, ' Great Pan is dead!
through the—old primeval, forests clothing the
flanks of the volcanoes, echoing from dread prom-

pices, and heard on the winds that :rushed down
smiling valleys, came the same despairing strain,
' Great Pan is dead!' The ocean, as he ran his
waves hoar'sely in the rude shore and into the
resounding caverns, took up the universal cry,
Blush, 0 Zidon, saith the sea,' was formerly the
exhortation, when vile rites polluted and human
sacrifices terrified the Syrian shore ; but now, as
the coming tide- sent in her white breakers and
boomed over the coral ledges of Hawaii, the tri-
umphant song, which mingled with 'the roar of
waters had the same burthen,—‘ Great Pan is
dead!" But although paganism was thus aban-
doned, the Christian religion did not immediately,
supply its place. The people indulged for a season
in infidelity, tilt the missionaries effected a change,
and large numbers of the people were in a certain
sense, converted. Since then the chief events
of moment that have taken place in these
islands have been of a politidal character.
Thus the King, in 1840, voluntarily conferred on
the people a constitution, and the independence of
the kingdom has been guaranteed brthe principal
European Powers. The present monarch, Kame-
hameha the Fourth, seems a patriotic sovereign,•
whose whole thought is how to benefit his subjects,
but it is greatly to be feared that his successors
will have none left to govern. The Polynesians
seem a doomed race. •The inhabitants of these
islands have diminished to one-third of what they
were in Captain Cook's time, and the destroying
agencies are still at work. Of' their nature Mr.
Hopkins gives some indications, and he expatiates
at considerel)le length on. -the_ intrigues of the
various missionaries who have settled here, and the
results produced by their teaching. In fact, the
account of all connected with these islands is as
complete as could be desired. The matter is ex-
ceedingly well arranged, the style is easy and fluent,
and the book is entertaining as a novel whilst
being instructive as a history.

Roads and Rails, and their Sequences, Physical and
.Moral. By W. Bridges Adams, Engineer.
Chapman and Hall.
To make a book readable two things are requi-
site; first, that the writer be master of his subject,
and, secondly, that he display a certain degree of
enthusiasm in its exposition ; and both these in a
high degree Mr Adams has bore shown himself to
possess. In fact, .bis enthusiasm will sometime
make sober-minded people inclined to smile. In
his opinion there is nothing like steam. Rail-
roads, according to him, will.:-reform the
world. And, indeed, the results to which
he points are so desirable that it is impossible not to
wish that his previsions may prove correct, however
much one may doubt the power of steam to produce
them. When we consider the wonderful material,
and aesthetic civilisation of ancient times, a civilisa-
tion, of the latter kind especiallyiof which we are
only beginning to have a faint conception, and:
when we consider that all that was produced with-
out the agency of steam, we feel somewhat scepti-
cal as to the peculiar efficacy of that motive power'
in producing such results. Nevertheless, we are.
far from wishing to detract from the merit of Mr.
Adams's book. It is thoroughly honest, manly, elo-
quent, and eminently suggestive. It is perfectly
free from all taint of snobbish exclusiveness, and its
aim is to advocate and promote the greatest happi-
ness of the greatest number. Thus, if he err some-
what as to the means, he is perfectly right as-to the
end. For instance, speaking of the evil of too
great a subdivision of labour, he says that, "Farm
men, and factory men, and mechanical men, dwell
ling near each other; and capable of chaiOng to
each other's employment, would not be Japer or
helplesS. Their faculties would quicken by variety
and their lebours of loathing would-bect*ltiboure
of love,'t But-,-" It is only by cheap antooriVehient
transit, facilitating the aggregation of pekicins and
things, and their dispersion, that thisr :desirable
change can be brought about?' To cntiellice to it
he would have steam supersede comnidir earriages
on common roads. "Long it cannot/lac ere- our
suburban roads and our country roirds-will- have
iron rails inserted in their surfaCesi!civefe,
locomotives with small -wheels will 'work in' hilly
districts, and locomotives with-Ur:Or wheels
on more level districts," then 3t the' squalid
huts will pass away and be no More; the easy
means of transit will unlock the latent faculties, and
the labour—both of townsmen arid countrymen—
will be convertible to either locality." We fear
there are other difficulties besides, mere want of
transit ere this kind, of communion can be reduced
to practice. There are few, we imagine, who could
successfully or profitably pursue more than one call-
ing, and the common proverb about the "Jack of
all trades" expresses the general opinion on this
point. " Let the shoemaker stick to his last," is a
still more antique saying to the same effect, and we
suspect it will be applicable to the end of time. But
Mr. Adams considers that it is not mechanical
labour alone that is to benefited by railways, but
art. "Little," he says, "do artists dream of the
high purposes to be wrought out by the agency of
railways, unless, indeed, they dream that high
art and nature's beauties and wonders should be
reserved, only for the few, while the many toil to
give them leisure. Would ye build, temples, oh, ye
men of art ! temples to God ? Would ye build these
temples only for the rich ? No e the true artist
builds for mankind. Where then, would ye place
your temples ? In the squalid haunts where men
congregate, in the cities that have grown up in the
days of barbarism ? No, no; the high places of the
land, the wild heaths and pine groves made by God
ere man was—where the lark sings, and not the
dens where the mouse chirps and the rat burrows—
are the true sites for your temples, where the hand of
the spoiler shall not come to build them round with
dens of iniquity. Aild how shall the people go to
worship at God's altars thus placed in the pure ana
holy air, how—but by the railway you run down
and scorn ?" Hitherto it has been thought best to
place temples where they could be generally seen
and be most conveniently used, where, in fact;
people "most do congregate." We fear that even
the respectable classes, to say nothing of the lower
orders; would demur at paying a railway fare when
they wished to go to church ; and then what would
the Sabbatarians say to the employment of stokers,
engineers, guards, porters, and 'olher officials on
their day of rest ? If our temples ilik exclusive it
is not because they are built in town rather than
the country, but because of the peculiarities of the
Church of England. We have no temples for the
poor. With us the road to heaven can only be re-
spectably reached through Sunday clothes and
renting a pew. In Roman Catholic countries it is
different. The church there is as free to the beggar
as to the prince, and the consequence is that whilst
infidelity is widely prevalent among our lower
orders it is there confined to the educated classes.
Not that we advocate Roman Catholicism. Heaven
forbid ! We merely point out to Mr. Adams why
railways alone will not make people lead religious,
sober, godly lives. He continues—" Again, artists,
would ye build temples to the drama, to the muses
—IN here would ye place them save on the railway
line ? The day has gone by when it was a need for
men to build close cities; and the time is coming
when, as of old, the tree will again shadow
the dwelling. Time and space have been
vanquished, and the residences of regenerate man
have yet to be constructed. Turn whither we will,
do what we will in art, artistry, mechanism, agri-
culture, exercise, health, knowledge, or,' if it must
be, war—in all things henceforth the iron way is
the way of our worldly salvation, of our mental
progress, of our souls' rescue from:degradation.."
This. is sufficiently comprehensive, and we trausatnidt
may come to pass. Provided our dwelliinag
our
persons be rendered healthy and beautt;
what
minds educated and refined, we care
it
is rather
means be used in the process.
But
tsidered to be
who
curious that Mr. Ruskin, is considered
advocate for
the great apostle of art and thde great advocate
deadly foe of
aittlend
elevating the workman should
it is to them that
railways, and should consider
it is one of the
the iniquity and perversityßentf
should be mainly this generation
to be wisdom. Upon one
counsellors there
all reformers saideformers agree—that reform is
missions of doctorsotwoidnigier, and in a multitude of
point certainly
.al
which doubtless admit, to some
rife among us, ant.
needed. Filth, ignorance, vice, disease, are evils too
the fact
dbe not a perfect one, mere of its
extent at least, of remedy; and•even if the remedy
propose
directing attention to the subject is sure to conduceto good. Of interesting suggestions the present
and our only regret is that many of
present be carried into operation.
work
Bu
:1st() much of a practical tendency,National Defence"
tit
thereci sanfanliolei
and
andthe cthhaepatpe rpeoendix Railways way s a
" Guns and Armour" merit
' especial attention. In conclusion, we recommend
all to read this work, not that they will agree with
all the writer advances, but that they cannot fail
to be charmed both with his enthusiasm and his
integrity of purpose.

MIILLINGAR, 26TH JUNE.—Three threatening
notices were found posted in Killucan, one on Mr, Moore's
gate, one on the market houso, and the other on the church
gate, threatening any person who would use mowing
.ma-
chines with death. Similar notices have boon posted m
other parts of this county,