The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-27 00:00:00

THE SHOW OF DOGS.

There is no mistake about an Englishman in hig
fancies ; and, therefore, it is not to be wondered at
that ho may have a fancy for the " faithful dog."
Any ono who passed up Holborn yesterday would
have been surprised at the crowds assembled before
llelbern Repository, all eager to witness a dog
show. To attempt to enter into the claims of the
hundreds of animals displayed—pets, "toys," and
other favourites—is out of the question, but it really
and truly was a show of Cockayne. There were no
foxhounds, there were no " bold bloodhounds," with
only one solitary exception ; there were no " sensa-
tion" animals—the " nigger hound," for instance--
but there was a show of " gems" that was even sur-
prising to witness. When you can see a yelP..leig
terrier" to carry in your waistcoat poic.ket,endli
~another compartment a display of E
ngshmastiffs
exhibition-
-unsurpassed in any other previous
we give the best character of what we ourselves
witnessed. There were Mese
wereogs; and how
with heads as broad as
they could find "their way about" we do not know,
seeing that their covered eyes
gave token of total
There d
a writing-desk ; and one
a
especially we noticed, which came from Birming-
ham, recognised us, and gave two wags and a half
of tail as a kindly recognition. The noble " Baltic"
was missed from the Newfoundlands, but his brother
Azoff was there, and took the first prize—a some-
what cheerer to the gallant Zingareo for the loss of
his truly fine-looking animal. We shall enter more
fully on our next visit, and content ourselves with
giving the awards of the ' d
iu ges, whose dccisions
appeared to give every satisfaction :
Bloudhounds—First prize of £lO 10s. to Mr. Lockwood's
Rufus, of Blackwater, bred by Baron de Saussey ; and a
Birmingham dog, belonging to Mr. Sinclair, took the se-
cond prize. - -

Bloodhound Bitches—Although there were many com-
mended, no prize was awarded.
Retrievers (Dogs)—First prize of £l2 108. to Mr. James
Turner's Royal ; the second, of £6, to Mr. Stone's Major.
Retrievers (Bitches)—Mr, Parker's Flush gained the
first prize.
Mastiffs—First prize of £lO to Mr. Hanbury's Duchess,
and his Enipress took second prize of £3,
Newfoundland—First of £lO to Mr. Infelix's Azoff (bro.'
ther to Baltic) ; the second to Mr. Anderson's Norah.
Bulldogs (Large Size)—First prize of £2O to Mr. Ilink's
Modman ; second prize of £4 to Mr. Tupper's Nell.
Bulldogs (Small)—First prize of £lO to Mr. Macdonald's
Lady; and ho also took the second prize with his Tiny.
Bull Terriers—The first prize of £2O was awarded to 3,1:_:
Hinks, of Birmingham, for Puss; tho second to Mr.
monds's Don.
Black and Tan Terriers (over 51b weight)
F 1
13rooman.
£5. to Mr. Morcham's Topsy ; the second to Mr.
: hi) Mr. Wade,
Black and Tan Terriers (under 61b, weig,yr. G. Nuight
of Clerkenwell, took the first prize of £5;
the second. 0, £5, Mr. Hoodless
White English Terrier—First
prized,
uo second.
first; as in many other cases, there
jus, of Billingsgate,
Blue English Terriers—Mr. 11agb 'rot prize of
Ka.% tour,,sl.
iln'cood odd a
itnocetki
the
ee
fifursstt
first.
er, the second of £2.
prize of X 5; Mr. Silvcritioody,o
Scotch Terrier
Skye Terriers—Dl• sugar the second of £2.
prize of £5 ; Mr. (13rAwir.
Wild's Collier took the list prize
Dandle Dinmot
, competitor for second honuu
of £6,
theirnt G ilbe t' 13 • "
Ther s londin took hist
f £lO, and he also received the second with Lis
prize
Tibby.
Itslian Greyhounds—Mr. Burke, of Barnsbury• road,
s—Alr.hori2 0
with his Silvry and Sophy took both first and secw:d
prizes ; and they deserved it.
vlenliciar Span ieh—Nr. Acton's Funny took first prize
to ; the eccoad to Mr. Btigg's Jim.
The prize for King Charles Spaniels (over 7lh Weight)
was awarded to Mr. Woolmington's Judy; and the ono
under 71b. weight to Mr. Stretchy's Charley. In this class
both gentlemen were most deservedly applauded.
Maltese Dogs—The whole of the prizes in this class were
awarded to Mr. Mandeville, who, with his Fido and Lily,
distanced all competitors.
French Poodles—Mr. Ratherton's Sam was first on the
list, Mr. Gagan's Minnie running very close indeed for
second honours.
Esquimaus Dogs—A fine display ; the first prize won
gallantly by Lieutenant Steward's Etab, and no second.

State embankment—to the sea ?—So stop all Pensions, and
Pay, above £365-yr ; no Queen's nor Ministers' money,
Default on Russell's (1683, N. Bedford/eve/ Carr-), attaint.
T APANESE MISSION, its Katlrso Nipon Baton
40 Rouge RIVER- q—in England's Privy Council, as of the
Virgin Islands St. Thomas-Porto Rico.

The allied treaty for Juge de Pais et Amite' of Trade,
by Articles 1,3, 18, 21, under coin-texte Hollandaise for
revision every 14 yrs, signed on 26-August, 1858, and tested
by the Russian intermediate, Count Ignatief in 1859, under
Pekin's Xun.Tien-('sin Treaty—in Alcor's Vi and 'Ki
demands), Obedience to the heaven's Zenith +a- sol pta-meter
sphere fate '7. overhead'-spiral earth-fist, distinct from the
Sun's ts planeterry declination N. and S. for Frei Japan's
Cantonal-1586 in Ton- Quin's Le Chua C. J., on Edw. lll's
1327 Duchy-Chancery Crt, isst of Macao's Cabotage guard
as England ' itself' of the Isles, 50' pied de Rol,' against
Tartar-british China-manslave—trade, &c.
You are called to register the old Teti ra-cone La montee
Q' civic limit-wall of China, as the Jeso-horizon of London,
40e N., as England's 1581 Receipt of Exchequer, and take
out Yedo copy of Standard Pigmeter weights' for regional
exemplification, under your red moon' disc mark—of the
Menan-caVyian empire of the Borne) ice's, on, Q. Eliz.
and J. i.'s Ennaam to Sicily's font in alt ° skyset link, (as
between Man and God) so Serpentine : : • fly audits.'
Explain to the Tycoon's Free-haired Tailmen as of Our
fathers, That this results from my sole Macao charge, on
Holy Alliance Abolition of Christian t clubs, 29th August,
1825, by 11 G. so. c 55—founded on 14 G. rn.. c 83, 17745,' for
the one meter-rod, by 5-6 W. 4, c. 63, as Earth's empyreal
spirit-'-level—restored 1824, suspended one year to kill off
the life and death ' 1815 justice-men' for 6 Jan. '26 Romish
motu—so cause of 12th Leo's white Mitre' being set to all
Criminal law exchequer deeds, over which, if not removed
1 will sign for the people's rights, without any workhouse
Baly.C4Sian cropping of 1842's coolie bald pated Chinese
Tartar shaved Jesu mark of Macartney's '92 /word, CAR,
and to-harness foist—for a -papal British government mis-
rule by confusion—as seen in Pekin summer palace.
IR- The suspended 1824 Act— became re-incorporated in
1835—and writer its State wall trustee under 1837-43' for
the lineal spirit-level inter-'-national oathing for all 4es,
without sect creeds idea—on 'Staff insii-poy'ze sight.
THUS on water trehpasa," YETI'S ask of Lisbon's IVlacao
Company's governor in 1857—(0f the Romish Pope) ? who
was England's 1594 Stil-laird of N. Guinea 1713 and 1826,
Kings Gersfa Judge River Conservator, on Brazil-marshal
Beresford's baton N. rouge submission to Admiral G. Hr •
mond's flag-lieutenant II Montague II Ackerley—for facing .%
court the Red-man Tycoon Imperator, by s law as typic
in
the hut's in Q. Ann's Bnty office, Westminster, 1841 act.
Your Philipii 11. MISSION was to 9- unite the treaty 'AD.'
1664, with Angl°Dutch executive of Holland, and marshes
as of Leicester's create 1560-85 so Cromwell and Louis xxv.,
1655, affirmed by Parliament, of 16 Car. 11., re-embody'd on
Phillipine-isles 6 & 6 native jury-1764-Scholastic teaching
the Red indians by Act of 1832 for making N. W. America
Behring's land-gnarantee of Dutch-loan extends to New-
fonndland-1820 as Crown colony Antipodean to N. Zealand,
Siam, and its Ceylon trop' arctic //word dexpendencies, bar-
ing the Belge-jesu re• statue' d Pedro r. at Rio Jan. '62.
You'll now see into the May 14 Bar'ing-visit (leading t y
Libman Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON treaty) of my
state-associate—and afterwards to Northumberland-house
to pass before the Supreme Indian portraiture of Joseph
itrant, (stamp. Act Sag6moth Chief of 1774-'93 of Anglo-
/Chinese America, west to east), uncle and predecessor of the
now Siderial-crown Income-tax Freeman herein Basqu-
eta' d as P. Rwrwarr, one of your race under the ligne tiree
for Washington § Texas—Extradition act, 1843—its alien's
having no French ' white' flag for their Co-chin Le Bua-
Annam assumption vers l'annee 1821 Colberti-restaurate,'
on my Meximicmac Brazil-Canton sponsorship '25.
BY letter, save disproved acts, Ye are of the out'd-1585
Dairy-sumo, or high Sinto Papists, separated from the state
z-kub'ship-coroner t so, not of the peoples 'mats-mai y-f &-
pole Zenith Court, of elect Tycone over the provincial Dia
and district Sio-mi-O. If so Rip' or Ratify by meter
oath for AngFChina—as East-Searehmen. on the water
flaglimit by the high contracting parties,' April 7, 1862—W.
-H. Seward & R. Pemell, City ni/aname LYONS ; Amer. Ind.
Co'mission'rs by Art, I, rule 2 within the territorial waters
of the other (L'aiitre neutre) party' —in Carib's right of
search ' mother earth's legistatrices by Brenta+ Peter.§
In LAST—Know that by 28 H. 111., as of China, the tidal
octagon tower flag of Parliament 1265, when sitting at the
Ei Aid 'Apt-era/-house, was of Red Sarsinet, with a Gold
Dragon ss,s Tetra-conic—thus the Portugue-papal Tartar
change of your National-river Red flag disc-/o 1 by the
Macao'd Chancery, (1594-1618), and others, in the Scotch
Dutch Japanese treaty with China Oct. 1663 to Feb. 1664,
—signed by Tycoon, for BORT &Does, whereby a White
flag with red moon was set as the Gaduch'y Mexi-Anahuaq'
emblem, over your Tail-hurd embassy in London.
ss tine verge qui (fit Armer la race-rouge si grande
ti Pour la loi civique §), pese avec Fierte I
00 l'on veit que jamais I'ENGLAND' ne nsarchande
Quand it faut par la mer leur donner Liberte .
. • • N.] II CHARLES ' ACRERLEY,
• • 1-2 W. IT., No. 54, Chamberlayne' Die-sworn.
• PBTER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842, unpaid.§
c.:04 . • China Rug wall circuit horizon ofssLondon, May 27,
-r4 is 1862), its Montdzuma-Texas-peace Red Flag.
160: So Paris-gab 'Wight ship' ,Belgire-Tocant Kalfateren
skiff Om-egtt " Het fchip svylt wel, het is ras in ssylen,
—item, het is een klock-ship in failen." Cape- G-sma I
t By 7.25 Hen. in. the Purser discarge-ree or steward
is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping
Act aid'onus, to avoid Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration in
log default on deaths or Offences to the Person by the
1842 British-triad Emigration Soc:, ,e vac-sign Belly -skin
mark' S. A. C. of Sandwich Isles, Australia, California,
and Tern is poll-tax, on Spanish hut- tail'd goldfinders.
(See The Sun of April 19, 28, and May 16.)

lIHEATRE-RO YA L. HAYMARKET.
Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone.

THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.
After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (133 d time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entit►ed LA CONTRA-
BAN Senora Perea Newt, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

i) ()YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
k, Sole Lessee and Mana7er —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
166th Night of the -ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING, PE EP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falcone, ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chstterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
!. Box-office open daily from 11 Ull5.
Commence a 7

12; OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
'l' HIS EVENING., THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. Wid-
dicombe, Fll2-gie ; Miss Howard and Miss Rose Leciercq.
After which. at a quarter to Eieht, LOL IS XI. Mr. and
Mrs. C. Kean. Supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter,
Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, &c. ; Miss Chapman,
and Miss N. Chapman.
To conclude with THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higgie,
Meadows, &c., and Miss Maria Harris.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT •
.51mrs. J. L. Toole, Emery. Billington, Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss woolgar, Miss H. slmms, M Y
bliss K. Kell
and Mrs. IL Marston. ,
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. liesers. Dion
Boneicault, Emery, Jamison, Billimiton, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer ; 1T rs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.
Commence at 7.

C A NTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
iirand Selections from " Lucrezia Borat a," by Miss Rus-
sell, With Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh-
Illatnt.

Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated ,S,r,ttnp
Speech "Or any other man " the orinal), and EG G-KANT,,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing gi,
at Ten o'clock.
JOE BROWN, the renowned American Prize Jig Dancer,
for a few weeks only.
Also the tollowinv Comic favourites - Ur. Randall, Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Fordo, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment.

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Messrs. Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon-
don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, free, between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

IUHE OXFORD,
1:614_
OXFORD-STRERT.—
I Every Evening, Iti and PFAU on the Flying
Trapeze (last two weeks). - The unrivalledels Ethiopian Come-
dians, Runi,ey and Newc,o, mmbA'syMpinAsyt
aJeti, attioUnsworth and
(by .0 peratic Selec-
Engen e, in addition to a host of coulter
..... Macfarren)
tions and the cantata of
".Jolly BegtTarg " (by G. Linley),s
, m(l'irroitendderbsysohthne, and the
entire company, including* 3liss Busse
Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—Full Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. f'. Jonghmans.
11 an, Bd. ; Balcony and Stalls, le. ; Private Boxes, 10s. &I.

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Afternoon, 2h. 2m.
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THE S LTN•

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1862.

The Prussian Chambers are now fairly buckling
to fur their sessional labours. The representatives
have already elected their President and their two
Vice-Presidents. The first mentioned—M. GRA-
BONY—being chosen almost unanimously, almost by
acclamation. And, judging from his inaugural
address on assuming his presidential office, an ad-
mirably judicious choice it has been. For—in the
exquisitely delicate and difficult position of affairs
just now, as between not merely the majority of the
newly-elected assembly and the actual members of
'the Government, but even, we might almost venture

to say, between the great mass of the Prussian
people (at any rate of the electors) and the reigning 1
Sovereign—no words that could have been addressed
to the assembly at such a crisis could possibly
have breathed more the spirit of moderation
or of conciliation to all parties, and even
section of parties, than those which were spoken on
the 23d instant by M. GRABOW on his entering
upon his duties as President. Reading merely the
brief and fragmentary notes of that speech that have
as yet reached us here in England, we do not in any
way wonder that the member thus promptly selected
from all those recently returned by the various
constituencies to the Prussian Legislature should
have been chosen, nearly as we have in other words
already intimated, nemine contradicente. There,
literally, in M. GRABOW—standing in front of the
Presidential chair,and addressing the assembly—was
"the right man in the right place." Not—to employ
SYDNEY SMITH'S whimsical figure of speech (an
odd foreshadowing, by the way, of Mr. LAYARD'S
long-subsequent and now world-famous axiom just
quoted !)--not the square man in the round hole, or,
vice versa, the round man in the square hole, but,
as one may say, a hexagon or a rhomboid, or some
other exceedingly queer-shaped figure, presenting
a distinct side., as it , were, to all the various
and complicating parties about him, and fitting in
there just to a nicety !

What really and truly, then, it may be asked, is
the light thus thrown by M. GRABOW'S peculiarly
conciliatory inaugural address upon the hitherto
gloomy and chaotic view taken, since the recent
elections throughout Prussia, of the political situa-
tion ? What is the light ? Why, truly, if it be
not tinged throughout with the most delicious
couleur de rose imaginable, it is, at any rate, of the
most charming and exhilarating character the veri-
est political optimist could have hoped for ! M.
GRABOW, after thanking the assembly for electing
him almost unanimously, promises—as we can see,
when we have read his speech, that he might safely
do, and with a clear conscience—distinctly and
emphatically promises " impartiality !" He then
advocates—[mark now, well, what it is precisely
that he does advocate]—he then advocates almost
in so many words the great and noble principle of
Prince and People ! The loyalty of the man is clearly
indestructible. It matters nothing that the Prince
and the People are in direct and visible antagonism to
each other throughout nearly the whole of the elec-
tions that have just terminated. It signifies
nothing that of this notorious antagonism, M.
GRABOW had before him, in the anti-ministerial
crowd of representatives who were then listening
to him, the most obvious and glaring attestation.
" All's one for that," to M. GRABOW, no less than
to Sir JOHN FALSTAFF. The late elections, to the
contrary, nevertheless, notwithstanding, he is still
con amore for the great and noble principle of the
Prince and People. And not only is it thus with
M. GRABOW—unconquerable in his loyalty—but it
is actually thus also with the anti-ministerial as-
sembly itself who have just chosen him for their
President. The representatives, at any rate, affect
it to be so ; they assume the virtue of this over-
weening and all-mastering loyalty, if they have it
not ! Their mode of doing this, moreover, is, in truth,
exemplary, For, hardly has M. GRABOW observed
at other things, that the unity he is speaking of
is one the Prussian nation will never allow to be
dist urbed; that they, the representatives, will
always uphold alike the sworn rights of the People
and the constitutional rights of the Crown; that
the late attempt to raise an election cry of " KING
or Parliament" had been answered by their all de-
claring for the Constitutional Monarchy in combi-
nation with the faithfully Constitutional Chamber
of Deputies : hardly had M. GRABOW capped the
climax of these loyal assertions by maintaining that
all Prussia had (in the remit elections) raised the
cry of " Long live King WILLIAM I. and the illus•
trious house of the HOHENZOLLERNS !"—when the
Deputies echoed back the cry with a ringing burst of
what we know so well in this country as a genuine
"three .times three and one cheer more !" President
and Assembly are evidently bent alike upon letting
the KING down as softly as may be. His Minis-
ters, his political creatures, have been tumbled
into the dust—one and all of them—and
rolled there. With his MAJESTY himself, how-
ever, the chosen representatives of the people
—now that they have turned the Statesmer.
of his choice quietly to the right about—the
Deputies are prepared to deal only with
the courtliest good grace conceivable. A
wise and most judicious course certainly; but none
the less amusing to all dispassionate lookers on—
after what has so very recently occurred. One
can't help feeling, for example, that if this is the
manner in which the Prussian people have been
raising these vaunted cries of loyalty to "King
WILLIAM and the illustrious House of the HOHEN-
ZOLLBRNS," it is the oddest fashion of doing it that
the most fantastic lover of cross-purposes could well
have contrived. A homely adage saith, " Love me,
love my dog." The bran new axiom, now brought
to light by the Prussian elections, says, on the other
hand, in the name of whoever happens at any time
to be the reigning Monarch of that Kingdom, "Love
me, kick oat my Ministry !" Bewildered though we
may be at the utterance—M. GRABOW has said it,
and the newly chosen Deputies of the Prussian
people have cheered it!
The election, by the way, on the 23d instant, at
Berlin, first of all of M. GRABOW as President, and
afterwards of M. BEHREND and of M. BOCKUM
DOLFFS as the two Vice-Presidents—ought to be
regarded on!y, in point of fact, according to the
strange usage there in-vogue in the Prussian Assem-
bly as a mere preliminary proceeding. For at the out-
set President and Vice-Presidents are only chosen
for the first four weeks, and have then to be either
set aside or re-elected. Under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, however, we cannot
for an instant doubt but that M. GRABOW
must as by a sort of necessity be re-elected, as he
has been already elected : that is, all but unani-
In"'4Y. And, for this sufficient reason, that—
" None but himself can be his parallel !"

Three bills will come before Parliament to night,
all of them testing ones on either civil or religious
liberty; hence, we: fear, nonev.itt of them likely to meet
from, the' present
they
defie.il
odd:,
t likalent with the reception
ia'e
to sage a large-por-
tion ,
Its object d To. be offered to the
goose of 'Lords.
of the clergy from what
.is eqUivalent to per-
jury. But, undoubtedly, the Lords will much pre-
the Act of
oenqlu y ire
an
fete clerical perjury, to, relaxation of
Uniformity. 'The act, as is well-known,
from greater part of clergymen,
ym not r
engagement to use the Parliamentary Prayer-book
but to declare their " unfeigned assent ace
consent" to all contained in it. A declara-
tion which not only ejected the two thousand
two centuries ago, but which a PORSON, with his
thorough honesty, and hundreds, perhaps thou-
sands, of honest Churchmen since, could not make;
and who have, in consequence,not taken holy orders.
Indeed, clergymen of the highest standing, bishops
included,
have declared the literal "assent and con-
sent" to be so impracticable to any man of intelli-
gence that they sought refuge in some non-natural
interpretation. Thio gleams nothing else than
doing in religion, and in order to be A clergyman,

what no man of honour would do to take any other
post in the national service. Lord EBURY proposes
that the declaration of conformity which clergymen
already make shall be sufficient, and that declaration
of belief in some hundreds of dogmas, all of which
no single mind can believe, shall not be required.
If we mistake not, we shall see the Lords, under
Lord DUNGANNON'S leadership, voting briskly to
uphold clerical unveracity.

Sir JOHN TRELAWNY will also test the Commons
on the subject of oaths. His object is a very simple
and reasonable one. By the inconceivable perver-
sity of our common law manufacturers, the judges,
although they have most of them heard of BEN-
THAM, they object to rsceive evidence unless it be
given according to their own religious notions.
Granted that it may show some mental perversity
not to believe in the existence of the DEITY, it
does not follow that the man is therefore a liar.
Indeed the fact that he avows his unpopular be-
lief in Court, and frequently at the hazard of losing
justice for himself, or for others in whom he feels in-
terested, shows that he is a truthful man. But the
great folly is in refusing any evidence. Let all
come forward. Let its worth be weighed by the
judge and the juty, but let nothing be declined
which may afford a hint or clue in the investigation
of truth. If we take the evidence of men and
women accused of adultery in a Divorce Court, it
is surely mere legal prudery to reft.iie that of a wit-
ness whose error is at the worst an intellectual one.
However, the members for the University of-Cam-
bridge, perhaps it may be Mr. DISRAELI himelf,
in his new line of Wednesday intolerance, will pro-
bably bid the Conservative hosts reject the measure.
And then the Ballot—why, of course, that is to
be tipped off without remorse. A funny speech
from Mr. BERKELEY—an unmistakeable eagerness
for dinner—a suppression of all debate—and then
a coalition of Whigs and Tories will soon vote the
contemned measure down. The members are all
pretty well agreed that they would rather be able
to buy and influence votes, as they now do. Many
of their constituencies desire them to support the
Ballot, and they do so ; but the number
who can confide its deserts with confi-
dence to a really independent constituency is
is very small. Nevertheless the really earnest
members, in connection with the numerons earnest
constituencies, could, if they would, easily bring
about a very different state of things in the Govern.
ment and in the house. We shall see to-night how
the motion for free and independent voting fares,
in a House the majority of which must have been
elected by bribery and unfair influence, in all their
indefinable shapes and forms.