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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

tHE " LONDON REVIEW ON THE DEATH THROES
OF MODERN WHIGGISM.--The Whig Government
which has held office for a quarter of a century on
the principle of doing nothing that was not forced
upon it, expires in this session of 1865 with a mur-
mured laissez faire on its lips. And so Lord Pal-
merston, who has completed his half century of ad-
ministration 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-
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 -11,14 leader. And, indeed,
the expurgatory statute belongs rather to the
office of the Lord Chancellor's draughtsmen 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 ?
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 the 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
,4 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 Biitish 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 has 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. It 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 sccial revolution strikes it
as a discomforti 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, in language so
strangely earnest, and so dissonant from the tone of
all the rest that it enforces the conviction that it
heart, csme straight from the Royal 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
those who, on all great ques-
tions, already, this is the great task
bid the stream of time roll backwards, and bring
thatttilloanlsl liY:e arstebeaeicfrr our statesmen of the future. We can-
nothore
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-1
the England of railways, and telegraphs, and uni-
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 are 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 -Dairnio has
been brought to his senses. The war in New
Zealand continues. The North American Provinces
are discussing a scheme of Confederation. There
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 F.
Crossley's observation that the English Government
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 to 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
itself by bringing forward a Reform Bill for
the purposes of the election. As Lord Derby ob-
served, the authorised physicians who are watching
the death-bed of the present Parliament have not
the smallest desire to induce a crisis. As the outside
practitioners cannot be prevented from trying their
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

to an insincere experiment on the patience of Par-
liament. Mr. Gladstone, even if he has made up
his mind to abandon his preface and to stand by
his speech, is probably well contented to postpone
the agitation until his colleagues have ceased to be
his rivals. The most remarkable peculiarity of the
Speech, and of the opening of the Session, is that,
while domestic inaction still corresponds to the
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 overpasged 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 Britain, read by the whole

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population, translated into every language of the
Continent. No sensible Englishman expects or
wishes it to read as well as a newspaper article,
to contain any rhetorical flourishes, to display any
of that frank strength always apparent in the
addresses of the Emperor of the French. Terse-
ness would be unprecedented, eloquence alarm-
ing, point unconstitutional. The Sovereign
in England does not argue, or threaten, or announce
schemeS of policy which set all Europe in commo-
tion, and are felt upon every Bourse almost as much
as a rise in the rate of discount. But still the Royal
Speech at the opening of Parliament is, or ought to
be, a weighty State paper, meant to be recorded,
certain to be quoted by future historians, sure to be
criticised by all who study contemporary politics,
and as such should be marked, if by no other quali-
ties, at least by a stately directness and simplicity.
Of neither is there in this Speech the faintest trace.
Her Majesty is actually made in one paragraph to
announce that she has "employed a force to obtain
satisfaction for the past and security for the future"
from—space. No enemy is mentioned, or indicated,
or hinted at, unless indeed the context may be held
on close analysis to imply that the enemy is India
itself, which nevertheless enjoys a " general tran-
quillity." One expects involved sentences from Sir
Charles Wood, whose style has necessarily been
spoiled by reading Indian despatches, but other
.Ministers are almost equally guilty. Mr. Gladstone,
who has most of the work of the session to do, is al-
most excluded from the Speech, merely informing
Parliament that " the revenue realises its estimated
amount ;" but even in these three words he com-
mits a barbarism for which, if he used them in an
oration of his own, he would be tempted to apologise.
What does Mr. Cowper mean by erecting law courts
in a site, or the Chancellor by writing about " the
important work for the revision of the statute law,"
or talking about bills which " will be submitted
for your consideration, for the amendment of the
laws relating to patents for inventions, and for con-
ferring?" &c. Cannot his lordship get rid of " for-
asmuch" even in a memorandum for a Royal
Message ? Earl Russell does not quite despise
grammar, but his sentence recording that " the
negotiations in which the Emperor of Austria and
the King of Prussia were engaged with the King of
Denmark were brought to a conclusion by a treaty
peace;" has a funny effect of being projected in vacuo,
as if it had been an abstract remark to which dates,
or tenses, or indications as to time and place were of
no consequence whatever. Sir C. Wood, however,
fairly outdoes his colleagues, and must be allowed to
bear the palm for slipshod obscurity of diction. Not
content with making his Sovereign declare war on
space, he actually suggests the assertion that the
prompt assistance of the officers of Government to
sufferers by the cyclone occasioned those sufferings.
" Prompt assistance," he says, " was rendered by
the officers of the Government, and generous contri-
butions have been made in various parts of India to
relieve the sufferings which have thus been occa-
sioned." One of the papers was wondering the
other day why Sir Charles Phipps signed a Royal
letter instead of the Minister in attendance. The
secret is now clearly revealed—her Majesty
was too painfully aware of the untrustworthi-
ness of her Ministers' grammar. The matter
of the Speech does not do much to redeem its
faults of manner. The great object has been appa-
rently to say nothing in as many words of as little
meaning as was easily possible. Her Majesty, of
course desires a " friendly reconciliation" between
the contending States of the Union, just as all the
rest of the world desire it, though they have slightly
divergent views as to the mode of " reconciliation'
which could fairly be characterised as " friendly."
The war between Denmark and Germany is only
mentioned to express a " well-founded hope"—do
the Cabinet intend in that phrase to impose on their
Sovereign the prophetic function ?—" that no re-
newed disturbance is to be apprehended." The
New Zealand trouble is mentioned, but only to
affirm that the efforts of her Majesty's forces have
been successful, although the conflict "has not been
brought to a close," and that the terms offered to
the tribes are " equitable," which they certainly are
not—to the colonists, and the greatest project of the
day, the Confederation of the American Colonies,
receives only a formal approval. One single line
in the Speech heartily recognising the loyalty of the
Canadians, and their preference for representative
as contrasted with republican institutions, would
have been worth a fleet on the Lakes ; but the word
is not spoken, and the Canadians are left to feed on
the secret suspicion that Canadian confederation
is popular at home as leading to Canadian.
independence. The capture of Simonosaki is de-
clared to have been planned by the diplomatic agents
and naval commanders of all the treaty powers,
and " to have afforded additional strength of the
Government of Japan ;" the little Indian war is
alluded to only in the unintelligible paragraph for
which Lord Granville apologised, and which Sir
Charles Wood will doubtless not attempt to ex-
plain ; and the cyclone, a calamity which her Ma-
jesty deeply laments, is attributed to the Indian
officials. At home the cotton distress is declared to
have abated, Ireland is said to have " had its share
in the advantage of a good harvest"—a statement
which roused Irish members to a funny explosion
of choler—and there the review of the past may be
said to end. The promises for the future are of the
very smallest kind. We are to have a palace of
justice—" the children ask for bread, will ye give
them a stone"—further revision of the statute law,
which at some future period, when the Cabinet, let
us say, is a little younger, may be " a step towards
the formation of a digest of the law," a patent act,
an increase in the powers of county courts, some
measure or other, not stated, for improving the poor
law, and a bill devised by a commission, and not by
the Cabinet, upon public schools—a most miserable
bill of fare ! Not a word of reform, or railway legis-
lation, or reductions, or the law of settlement, or
spiritual tribunals, or any one subject in which the
people can be justly conceived to take any interest,
or the Government fairly expected to indicate its
policy. So far as the Speech can be accepted as a
guide, Lord Palmerston's policy is to do nothing, to
offer no point to hostile critics, to let the session glide
on, and then to send the Liberals to the country with
his name only for a rallying cry, no programme, no
policy, no reason for being elected except that being
Liberals they are willing to support a Premier whom
the Tories with loving appreciation hail as one of
themselves. Politicians only wonder as they read
it how the Premier ever strung himself up to any-
thing so definite as a bill for concentrating the Law
Courts—why he did not content himself with a
commission of inquiry into the possibility of
Hall.
im-
proving the ventilation of Westminster
Promises he evidently thinks are dangerous, sug-
gestions useless, reforms doubtful, innovations out
of place, immutability the one attribute which in-
stitutions ought to share with the Power that in
spite of the flaccidity of their supporters permits them
still to stand. The impression produced by the
Speech was of course one of utter deadness, mem-
bers asked loudly why they were dragged to Lon-
don, and the leader of the Opposition in the Com-
mons, for the first time in the history of the re-
formed Parliament, disdained to open his lips in
reply to the Address. What was there for him to
say ? :There was nothing to object to in the
Speech except its grammar, or in its policy except
its colourlessness, or in its promises except that their
Performance or failure do not signify a farthing,
except to the architects who may be looking out for
a job. Even that keen scimetar would have wasted
its edge upon such stuff.
THE " OBSERVER" ON METROPOLITAN IMPROVE-
MENTS.—The completion of the metropolitan rail-
ways seems to be no longer in doubt. The lines
that were passed last session are about to be made.
The company is formed for the inner circle under-
ground, and the capital is subscribed. So far the
thoroughfares will be relieved ; we do not, however,
believe that the relief to the streets will be at all
what is expected. Indeed, the more railways are
made, the more crowded the streets seem to become.
The new thoroughfares do not progress like the rails.
It is much to be hoped that the Hamilton place
the
pice
opening will be proceeded with, as
Middle-row, Holborn, and the WhitecrPliol acom-
munication. Let us at least have one
street-s opened
astreet. We
from Pimlico to Bayswater and Oxford
believe we shall want many more. The Strand
seems more crowded than evei
for the new courts,. NV e are glad to see
that the proper site is selected
and that the bill is likely to Pass. Amongst other
d new and wider streets.
promised
advantages we are prom
round the four sides of the new buildings. Let the
one on the north side be extended to the west side
of the new Post-office buildings, and this will •wi
re-
lieve the Strand and Fleet-street more than any-
thing else. Some new idea is ventilated in letters
to the Times of putting the law courts near the
river. But the new grounds and gardens are already
bespoke for the ground inside the Embankment.
Much as new buildings are wanted, open spaces are
still more desirable. We ought to keep sacredly all
those that we have, and get as much more as we
can. Temple Bar is left out this year, in defer-
ence, we presume, to the Corporation of London.
They will thus have the trouble and cost of pulling
it down themselves, which cannot be much -longer

PLY M 0 UTH, Sunday.
The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail steam-
ship Roman, Capt. W. Strutt, arrived here last
night, bringing news from Natal to Jan. 3, Algoa
Bay Jan. 6, Table Bay Jan. 12, St. Helena Jan. 19,
and Ascension Jan. 23. She has 63 passengers,
among whom are, from Natal, his. Excellency ex_
Governor Scott and Mrs. Scott ; from Table Bay,
Lieut. Crozier, R.E. ; from Ascension, Lieut.
Knowles, R.N., and Lieut. Mitchell, R.N. The
Roman's cargo consists of four cases of bullion,
about £1,500 ; 930 bales wool, 1,920 bags copper,
5 butts 5 qr. casks 34 cases wine, 109 packages
ivory, 25 cases ostrich feathers, and 10 casks 16
loose sealskins.
At the Cape, Col. Maclean, the late Lieutenant-
Governor of British Kaffraria, had left King Wil-
liam's Town and proceeded to Natal, where he had
been sworn in as Lieutenant-Governor of that
colony. Before Col. Maclean left Kaffraria, in ad-
dition to numerous very satisfactory addresses pre-
sented to Mrs. Maclean and her children the very-
substantial testimonial of their appreciation of the
colonel's services in the title deeds of a valuable
I freehold estate known as the " Cove Rock Estate."
Mr. Graham, late civil commissioner at Graham's
Town, had been sworn in as Governor's Deputy
over the territories of British Kaffraria.
The settlement of the Basuto difficulty continued
to progress favourably. The President of the Free
State, Mr. Brand, on his return to Bloemfontein
was congratulated by the inhabitants on the
peaceable termination 'of his labours on the
boundary. In reply, he said that, next to Pro-
vidence, he had to thank Sir Philip Wode-
house for the peaceable and satisfactory solution of
the dispute. Moshesh had withdrawn his people
from the territory awarded to the Free State, and
most of the burghers had passed through Bloem-
fontein on their way home ; three hundred, how-
ever, still continuing to patrol the border. Peace
also prevails along the immediate colonial frontier
elsewhere, but a furious native war that has con-
tinued for the last two years between the Hottentots
and Damaras continued to prevail, and was becom-
ing every day more and serious, and more serious,
and threatened utterly to efface what good had
been effected by the missionaries among them.
The present extent of country unsettled by this
war, and likely soon to be fully involved in it, was
estimated at 8 degrees of latitude and 10 of longi-
tude or from Angra to the Okovango north and

south, and in the other direction from the coast to

Lake Ngami. The South African Advertiser and
Mail said it was suggested to be a. case "in which
a friendly British interference might be legitimately
and -beneficially exercised." The United States
steam corvette Iroquois, 8, Commander C. J. R.
Rodgers, arrived in Table Bay on January 9, on a
cruise, last from Tristan d'Acunha, Dec. 28. From
that island she brought 27 men, landed there by the
Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, being part of the
crews of the Federal schooner Lizzie M. Stacy, and
barque Edward, which she had captured and burnt.
The Cape papers contain voluminous accounts of
this now-becoming famous cruiser (formerly the
Sea King) and her doings, obtained from the Federal
captains that had been prisoners on board of her. She
is pierced for eight guns, and is armed with two 32-
pounders, four 7-inch guns ordinary smooth-bores,
and two small guns, supposed to be 8-pounders. She
is commanded by a Captain Waddell, and had
a complement of about 74 men. The following is
a list of the captures made by the Shenandoah
after taking in her armament and leaving Madeira :
—The Alena, barque, of Ceres, Port Maine, from
Cardiff to South America, general cargo, burned.
The Susan, brig, of Boston, cargo coal, bound to
South America, burned. The D. Godfrey, barque,
of Boston, to Valparaiso, burned. The Charles
Oak, schooner, of and from Boston, for San Fran-
cisco, general cargo, burned. The Kate Prince,
ship, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from Eng-
land to Bahia, with coal ; she was boarded, and the
prisoners from the previous ships put on board.
The Adelaide, barque, under the Argentine flag
bound to Rio ; the captain of the Shenandoah
threatened to burn her, but finding that the princi-
pal owner, Mr. Prendergast, of Baltimore, was a
Confederate friend he let her go. 'The Lizzie M.
Stacy was a fine fore and aft schooner of about 140
tons, and belonged to Messrs. C. Brewer and Co.
of Boston. The Edward was a whaling barque
of New Bedford ; she had about 100 barrels of oil
on board when captured.
The Diocesan Synod of the Church of England
in the diocese of Cape Town was to be opened at
St. George's Cathedral on Jan. 19, by Bishop
Gray. Some of the churches in the diocese had
abstained from electing lay delegates, but it is
believed that the prejudice which existed against
the adoption of that course prior to previous
Synods has been to some extent relieved.
A strong feeling, however, still existed that the
bishop was prepared to bring about a separation of
the Colonial Church-from the Church of England,
rather than abandon the position he had taken up
with respect to Dr. Colenso. An active paper war

was going on on the subject in the columns of the

local Press.

A large fire took place in Maine-street, Port
Elizabeth, on Jan. 9. The value of the property
destroyed was estimated at £20,000. Most of the

property was insured in full.

To allay the public irritation felt at the delay in
the commencement of the railway in the Eastern

Province, the Governor had explained in a letter to
the Mayor of Port Elizabeth that the difficulty was
caused by the action of the Parliament during the

last session.

The Union Company'smail steamer Athens, Capt.
R. B. Davie, had returned to Table Bay, Jan. 8,
after inaugurating the extension of the company's
mail packet line to Mauritius. At the island this

new arrangement had been welcom;ci with great
cordiality by the islanders, and a series of festive
entertainments took place between them and the
officers and passengers of the Athens. The presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce at Port Louis, in
addressing Mr. Anderson, the representative of the
Union Company present, said the Chamber had been
looking forward for a long time for the establish-
ment of steam communication with the Cape, and
expected great benefit from it. Trade had been

somewhat depressed during the winter holidays, but

was again looking up.
The following have been the arrivals in Table Bay
from England during the month.—Dec. 24, screw
steamer Tararua, from London to this port and Mel-
bourne, and barque Napier, frdm London to Auck-
land; 25th, barqueL. da Vinci, from Swansea, 26th,
barque Dagmar, from Liverpool to Calcutta, barque
mdinelia
Eastward Ho, from London, barque Rfroon
from London, barque Sultan, from Livferrpomoocl ;ar2dBiffth
Geffrard, brig, from London ; 29th Ealing Grove,
January Ist
Lon-
donba rq.u3eo,
tfhromß i
hardc London,
Cobden,Acacia,
barque,barque,
A 3 steamerlbse
rt,:
mJoasnep,
Enterprise, h
firnoe brig,
onfutrneoradmli
Sunderland.
dora.Calcutta London •
paddle-wheel
Ava, barque, from London i sth:
Lon-
don 2bgatirlq,utehlevbiatrqchumoef
the Seas,
; 9th, barque
Algoa Bay, Jan. 2, the
hbarque Oleander, derim, :rno'ms
e, from London. In
Loßany:
from London ; 4th,
barque Minalto, from

BREAKFAST BEVEnaGE.—Hommapatic practitioners,
and ttb.-., medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homceopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to b.! obt fined no vreparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
Was either supplied id the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Ep..s, of Loudon,
Uomceopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 181 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at lenAth succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the 81'4
to produce an articlo pure" in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
thro..gh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach,
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Hassell, in his wol Ir, "Food and its
Adulterations," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. secured
in tin-lined Vb., ,}lb., and lib. labelled packets, and sold by
all grocers, confectioners, and chemists.--EADvz3

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the past year 1864 the boats ot the National Lifebaat
Institution have saved 432 persons from different wrecks on
our coasts, The Institution also expended £19,531 14s. sd.
in the same period on lifeboat establishments, in addition to
granting £1,569 as rewards for saving 693 shipwrecked per-
sons by its lifeboats, and other means.
The Committee of the Institution earnestly A ?PEAL to
the vublic for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the
continued heavy demands on the Institution's 110 lifeboat
establishments.
Contributions are received by Messrs Willis and Co..
Ilerries and Co., Contts and Co., and by all the London and
country bankers; and by the Secretary. Richard Lewis, Esq.
at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Sole Manager and uirector, Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING thi performance will Cycommene with
the new °per., LA EA. Principal characters by essrs.
Swat, G. Honey. Forbes, Terrott, and Renwick; M saes
Luu.sa Pyne, Ci. ttrell, Burrington, and Romer.
Condurtor, Signor ARD IT I.
After the Opera will be given the Burlesque, entitled THE
J iON AND THE UNICORN. Principalcliara,:ters, Mes,,rs.
Rouse, Anderson, &c. ; Misses E. Isuito, o Cottreß 11, Furtad
lIONo.
To conclude w.th the GKAND T.E.A.NSFOAX
SCENE.
Doors open at Halt-past Six. Commence at Seven.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GA.RDEN.
(Opera Company. Limited.)
CONTINUED SUCCESS OF CINDERELLA AND TEE
WON DERF UL LONATO.
THIS EVENING a new Opera, in one act, entitled THE
RIVER srtuTE. The music by Frank Mori, the words by
George Liniey. Characters by Messrs. G. Perrin, Weiss, A,
Cook,- Lyall, E. Dusstk, and Mdme. Florence Lancia.
Conductor, Mr. A. MELLON.
Aiter which, at a quarter-past 8, the Grand and highly
successful Pautomime, CINDERELLA, in which Donato
will reappear. Magnificent Scenery and gorgeous accessories.
Commence at Seven.

THE ATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,
Managers, Means. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.

THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Play of HENRY THE
EIGHTH, terminating with the fall of Wolsey. Messrs.
Phelps, Walter Lacey, H: Marston, K Phelps, Barrett, Sin-
clair ; miss Atkinson, Mrs. V andenoff, Jr.c.
After which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP 011 Y
THUMB AN]) Ills ELEVEN BROTHERS ; or, Harlequin
and the Ogre of the Seven-League Boots : Messrs. G. eel-
more, Tom Matthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, &c.
Aliases Lydia Thompson, R. Leciercq, &c. ; Messrs. Boleno,
C. Lauri, W. A. Bane., T. Morris, Cormack, Saville ; Mdrne.
Bolen°, the Misses Gunnies, and Signor Tescano.

TH EA TR E-R OYA L, HAYMARKET.
JJLL Lessee. Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 13, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs.
Chippendale, Sothern, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Wea-
thersby, A-
o. ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, Fatzwilliam,
After which, LORD DUNDREA.RY MARRIED AND
DONE FOR Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Braid. Gordon,
Clark, White, Coe, Weathersby, dtic. ; Mesdames Snowdon,
Hill, &c
With PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton, Miss L.
Keeley.
And THE WOLF AND THE LAUB.
To commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
sole rrupriettOr ant 31.414:-.,ar. ts. ttinstAtr.
THIS EVENING, STEPHEN DIGGES. Messrs. J. L.
Tool , Billington. Eburne ; Mrs. A. Mellon, Mrs. Billington,
and 31 ss II Simms.
To conclude with THE FLO NV E .1S OF THE FOREST.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, I'. Bedford, BiilitigtOD, ntuart, S.ephen-
son, C. J. Smi.h, Eburne ; Mrs. A. Mellon, Mrs. Billington,
Miss IL Kelley, and miss A. Seaman.
Commence at 7.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
Tlll3 EVENINti, SIMPSON AND CO. Messrs. &
Emery, C. Horsman, Collett ; Mesdames C. Horsman, lien-
rade, E. Boyce, and Elswortny.

After which, at halt-past 9, a New Drama, entitled THE
ROA DS IDE INN. IIL bert Mamii e, Mr. r echter. Messrs.
Wlildicomb, C. Iloraman, r'itzpatrick, Garden, Moreland,
Raymond, Collett; Mesdames Ens orthy and B. Percy.
To conclade with BEARFACED IMPOSTORS. Mr.
Widdleonab. _

Doors open at Hall-past Six.
The Box-office open daily from klev,n till Five.

RCYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.

HIS EVENING, a new Extravaganza, entitled THE
MAGIC HORSE AND THE ICE MAIDEN I RINCESi.

- -
Atter which, THE STItEhTd ON LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H.
Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma
Barnett, and Miss Fanny Liwynne.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7, TILE WILFUL WARD. Mr.
Belfold ; Miss Palmer.
After which, the great Comic Drama, MILKY WHITE
ble,srs. Craven, Stoyle, James ; Miss Swanborough.
To conclude w.th ThIE " GRIN" BUSHES : Mr. Fenton,
&c. ; Mesdames Raynlaam, Simpson, Johnstone, Ste..

COALS.—The T,TLLIESHALL COMPANY'S
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Direct from their own Collieries.
Marquis' .264. per ton. I Double .. 21s. per ton.
Top 255. „ Deep ....225. ~
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eaddington, W., and Maiden-lane, Pt.
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