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THE GREAT PAGEANT, entitled " the
Capture of Anak,'ltbe greatest Giant in the World, will
be repeated cvery evenitty, supported by all the attractions of
this establishment, inclitding a host or ballet fairies, Lilli-
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Dot, and the French ant, surnamed Anak, the Anakin.
Doors open at 7,30.—G 't James's-hall, Regent-street and
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ANAK— ANAL—A.NAK.
There were giants in those days."
Great St. James's Hall, Regent-street and Piccadilly.

ANAK will APPEAR EVERY NIGHT, with
Professor ANDERSON. M ACC ABE, the Misses
ANDERSON, at the GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL. An-
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and the Great Giant and General Tom Dot at 9.30. " This is
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—Vide the Press. Admission, is. ; balcony, 25.; reserved
seats, 3s. ; stalls, 53.

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The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited%
SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, and a New
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Maria, and Miss Fitzllenry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Husk,
Evans, W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli and Spagnoli, with
full Band and Chorus, THIS EVENING.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jongbmans.

THE BRIDAL of LEAUTY, in which the MIBECB TESSY
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The HUNGARIANS —The Brothers and Sister KIRALFI
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in costume this evening.

Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, Is.; private
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NO rICE.-Will shortly be produced, first time in this
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Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
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On MONDAY NEXT the ttvourite, ARTHUR LLOYD,
will make his Re-appearance with New and Original Songs.
Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.

All visitors to London at this season should see the above
entertainment.

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Manager, Mons. GRENET.
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days when Moses, the man of action, associated to
himself Aaron, the man of words. No extraordi-
nary success has waited upon this new idea in
France, and the same may be most unquestionably
said of it in England. The House listens with much
patience to members of Opposition speaking on sub-
jects connected with public affairs upon which
they possess very scanty information; it knows that
they have not access to official documents and
- secrets; it recognises the utility of the functions they
perform, and it treats them with indulgence ac-
' cordingly. But from a Minister of State speaking',
on behalf of the Government the House of Com-
mons expects to get its information at first hand; it
hears with impatience men who appear to speak frotn
a brief furnished to them by an office with which
they have no connexion, and seems to regard them
rather in the light of professional advocates than
of authoritative exponents of Ministerial policy.
From this instinct of the House it probably
arises that, with the exception of the law officers
speaking on purely legal points, no Minister not in
. the Cabinet has ever made a reputation by making
speeches in defence of the Government beyond the
sphere of his own Department. The feeling always
is that the Department should be defended by its
own representative, and that if any further defence
be needed the Government should find it in the
goodwill and ability of its non-official supporters..
Perhaps from these and similar causes—perha7Ps
from the non-oratorie4l tendencies of the men who
have held the office—ieZertainly does so happen
that the Chancellors of -the Duchy of Lancaster
have for many years taken very little share in the
debates House of Commons, and that the
purpos office was retained said to
be ret y no means fullyMswered.
The duties o e office,.such as they are, consist in
the management! upon certain very well understood
principles, which_leave very small discretion to the
holder, of a certairr porPten of the domains of the
Crown, rultPtnight, without any conceivable injury
to the public service, be transferred to the Office of
Woods and Forests, to which they seem properly to
belong. We do not here enter into the question
whether it is desirable that the Crown lands, the
income from which during the life of the present
Sovereign is the property of the nation, should be
administered by a person directly responsible to
Parliament, or by a permanent official. One thing
is quite certain, that both plans cannot be right,
and that we should either extend the jurisdiction of
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to all the
lands of the Crown, or put an end to the anomaly
of managing one part upon one system and another
part upon another by placing the whole of them in
the hands of the same office. It seems from these
considerations that the Chancellorship of the Duchy
of Lancaster is just one of those offices which exist
simply because they have existed, and because plau-
sible reasons were advanced for their maintenance,
which experience has failed to justify. The attention
drawn to this office may be of good service if it shall
put an end to a sinecure from which, tracing its history
from the year 1848, when it was last called in question;
the public seems to have received very little advan-
tage in return for an expenditure of some thirty-five
thousand pounds. It does not follow, however, that
if the office should be abolished the Government
should lose a place in the House of Commons. It
would be very easy to find departments which might
be created, the head of which would be much more
profitably employed than in the sinecure of the
Duchy of Lancaster. Some of the great Departments
of State—the Treasury, the Home-office, and the
Foreign-office, for instance—complain of • being
overworked ; the duties discharged by the Secretary
of the Treasury, who has gradually engrossed to
himself almost all the powers of the Board, are
larger than his official position iu the House of
Commons warrants. It might not be thought too
much, considering the great importance of the sub-
ject, should a Cabinet Minister answer for the
Foreign-office in each House of Parliament. Or, if
such an innovation be thought too bold, there are
many new Departments which might be suggested.
The Ecclesiastical Commission would probably have
given much less dissatisfaction, and been exposed
to much less obloquy, if its defence had not always
been allowed to go by default in the House of Com-
mons, and if the Government of the day had felt
itself responsible for its proceedings. The affairs of
the metropolis and its environs might well furnish
occupation for a Minister of State, and it is pro-
bable that its inhabitants would view with much
satisfaction any measure that should rescue them
from the present anarchy of boards and vestries, and
place them under the guidance and direction of a
single able and efficient Minister. It would not be
difficult to enumerate other cases, but we have said
enough to show that the money now wasted on a
sinecure might easily be employed in a manner
highly beneficial to the public. One of the most
valuable political discoveries of the present day, far
surpassing anything which the gentlemen of the
Social Science Congress even profess to have effected,
is, that affairs bungled and mismanaged by a board
may be placed with the very best results to the pub-
lic service in the hands of a single responsible
Minister. We do not press for the abolition of the
office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, we
only suggest that to the position and the salary
some kind of duty useful to the public should be
added, and if none such can be found we are pre-
pared to acquiesce in the saving of the salary to the
public. Our taxation sits easier on us than it did,
but we are not yet rich enough to maintain offices
which add nothing to the dignity of the Crown and
confer no ad% antage on the subject.
POST.—In. America, as in England, the unofficial
speeches of Cabinet Ministers not unfrequently
furnish correct indications of a future Ministerial
policy, and what have been termed the extra-parlia-
mentary utterances of those in power are listened to
with equal attention on both sides of the Atlantic.
Parliament is in no country in constant session, and
the occasions on which a Minister is called on to
respond to a toast at a dinner-table, or reply to a
complimentary speech in a town-hall, are perhaps
as good as could possibly be selected for affording
to an inquisitive public some inkling of the manner
in which a Ministry either are conducting, or pro-
pose to conduct, the affairs of the nation. Now, it
so happens that Congress is not at present sitting
in the United States, but there are nevertheless a
variety of questions, both -of foreign and domestic
policy, on which the American public are desirous
of being enlightened, and &Tr. Seward, the Secretary,
for Foreign Affairs, has availed himself of an oppor-
tunity which recently presented itself of affording
some little insight into the possible action of the
Cabinet in that department of the State over which
he presides. The American Government have of
late had so much to do at home, that, however, de-
sirous they might have been of intermeddling in
foreign matters, the possibility of doing so was vir-
tually denied to them. Now, however, that they
have succeeded in bringing to a termination a se-
rious family quarrel, even though they have not as
yet swept away the traces of the recent struggle,
they seem to have found the much-desired leisure
for reviewing the state of their foreign relations.
Some little differences between the United States
and Great Britain, arising out of the late war,
still remain unsettled, and an intervention by a
foreign State in the affairs of a Republic which,
though not part of the Union, still took its root, if
it did not flourish, on Americani soil, has until
now been completely disregarded. Both these
matters must be looked to, and Mr. Seward in a
speech, evidently intended for publication in
Europe as well as in America, has given—in that
rather obscure language in which statesmen delight
when indicating a policy which is subject to modi-
fication by future events—some significant hints
which it would be impossible to disregard. In re-
spect to the attitude which will be assumed by Mr.
Johnson's Cabinet in regard to the claims made
upon the English Government on account of the
depredations committed by Confederate cruisers,
the language of the American Secretary may be re-
garded as reassuring. A declaration that the Pre-
sident will conduct the settlement of those claims
without compromising the national dignity and
honour certainly seems not only to exclude the idea
of having recourse to the ratio ultima regum in case
the satisfaction of the demands made by the Ame-
rican Government is refused, but appears to con-
template the possibility of a course of action on the
part of Mr. Johnson, which by some might be in-
terpreted as amounting to a concession. Mr. Seward
and the other advisers of the President have, long
since had before them the voluminous correspon-
dence which was published about a fortnight since
in the London Gazette, and haveprobably come to
the conclusion that the complaintsaddressed to the
British Government were groundless, and the claims
with which they were accompanied untenable. It is
now placed beyond a doubt that it was the Ameri-
can Government which first created their opponents
belligerents, not only by proclaiming a blockade of
the Southern, ports, but by proceeding to enforce such
blockade before the English Government had ac-
corded to the Confederates a belligerent status. It
also appears that Mr. Seward himself was the
first Minister who, in an official despatch, made use
of the word " neutrals," a term which can have no
application except during the existence of a war.
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no means so substantial as those on which the
Spanish and Portuguese Governments based the
claims which, in 1818, they submitted to the Go-
vernment of the United States, and which that Go-
vernment declined to satisfy:. Mr. Johnson can
scarcely deny the appositeness of a precedent created
by one of his own predecessors, and we may there-
fore reasonably expect that the course resolved upon
by the Government at Washington will be one 1
which, "without compromising the national dignity
and honour," will amount to a frank withdrawal of
demands which could not equitably be sustained.
The language in which Mr. Seward treated the
Mexican question was far different in its tone. " The
influence of the United States on the international
conduct of foreign States, particularly on the Ame-
rican continent," would, he told his hearers,
"though impaired by the civil war, be now re-
newed," and "he expected to see republican insti-
tutions, wherever heretofore established throughout
the American continent, speedily vindicated, re-
newed, and invigorated." Unless Mr. Seward em-
ploys language for the purpose of concealing his
thoughts, instead of expressing them, these words
only admit of one construction. It is no secret that
the famous doctrine which has received the name of
President Monroe is one which specially recom-
mends itself to the national vanity, and any action
taken by the Government with the view of uphold-
ing it, even though at the cost of a foreign war,
would be viewed with almost universal satisfaction.
Hitherto the American Government have contented
themselves with refusing to recognise the new Mex-
ican empire—they have simply remained passive—but
now, to quote the language of their spokesman, "their
influence will be renewed." One can hardly suppose
a Cabinet Minister, even in America, would give
utterance to what egtainly sounds very like threats,
if . •", Go • n ,'- I . .._. d no intention of carrying
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th • : ,I ii. 1...-qt : • ution ; and when Mr. Seward
de .
~, ' '.'-, - • ' cts to see a republic where an
empire ,
now exists, people are justified in thinking
that those with whose intentions he must be pre-
sumed to be acquainted have resolved on endea-
vouring to effect that change. American Ministers
are so frequently betrayed into " bunkum" that we
would willingly believe that in the present instance
Mr. Seward had no other object in view than that
of gratifying his audience by expressing sentiments
which they would be sure to relish. But the Mexi-
can question is one, of all others, which ought only
to be touched seriously. The present is certainly
not the occasion which the Government at Wash-
ington would be likely to select for embarking in
another war • and, whatever may be their designs,
it is likely that the time for putting them into exe-
cution has not been determined upon. A distant
policy must, however, be to a great extent depen-
dent on the course of events, and we may be per-
mitted
to hope that, ere the subversion of the
Mexican empire is, resolved upon, the American
people may be brought to regard in a different light
the exclusivi doctrine of President Monroe.

The Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter.

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of
the Albert Memorial Museum, at Exeter, took place
on Monday, when the main streets of the city were
decorated with flags, and gave tokens of a festive
day. The site of the building is in Queen-street,
adjoining the Post-office, and it is to be devoted to
the purposes of a museum, library, reading-room,
and school of art for the people. -The building is
erected in memory of the late Prince Consort; hence
its 'name, the Albert Memo;ial Museum. When
completed it will be a handsome structure of the
mediaeval style, 160 feet by 60 feet, with a general
elevation of 55 feet. It will be built of Pocombe
stone, relieved by Bath stone and limestone dress-
ings. There will be a room for the museum of
antiquities at one end, with a room for the natural
history department above it. A corridor will lead
from the lower museum to the library and the
reading-room, above which will be the school of art.
There will also be class rooms, a curator's room,
and librarian's room and porters' rooms. The en-
trances will be in the centre, and will consist of an
arcade of three arches, with polished granite shafts
with handsomely carved capitals. The chief en-
trance will lead to the great staircase, the centre
flight of which is to branch out on both sides and
lead to the main rooms of the building on that floor.
At the top of the central staircase it is intended to
place the bust of the late Prince Consort in a niche
constructed for it. The windows are very artistic
and deeply embossed. That portion of the building
of which the stone was laid on Monday is but two-
fifths of the completed building according to the
design, and temporarily is to be appropriated to the
purposes of a museum, though eventually for the
free library, and the two class rooms-behind the
entrance staircase will be used for the public library
until other portions are completed. The frontage
of the building was given by Mr. It. S. Gard,
who performed the ceremony of laying the founda-
tion stone. Amongst those who took part in the
proceedings of Monday were the Mayor, the Earl of
Devon, Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., Sir Lawrence
Palk, M.P., Lord Courtenay, M.P., Mr. T. Acland,
&c. In the evening a dinner was held at the
New London Inn, under the presidency of the
Mayor. The company included Sir Stafford North-
cote, M.P., Lord Courtenay, M.P., Mr. J. D.
Coleridge, M.l'., Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., Sir
John Bowring. In proposing " Prosperity to the
Institution," Sir Stafford Northcote said, whilst of
late years we had paid attention to the education
of the labouring and poorer as well as the middle
classes, we had been somewhat remiss in paying
proper attention to those branches of educa-
tion which were mainly connected with the
promotion of the natural sciences, and the study of
the laws of the world. And yet there was no coun-
try in which the study of those laws were of more
importance, materially and morally, than in Great
Britain. Materially, it had been felt of late that
they had a great battle to fight with their rivals in
other countries—that whereas some 50 years ago
England had the advantage over these foreign na-
tions of a greater accumulation of capital, and a
better system of machinery, andpossessed moreover
certain exclusive privileges from which other nations
were shut out—especially the great privileges
which they had enjoyed under the system of re-
striction and monopoly which they prescribed, and
which had enabled them to command the mer-
chandise of the world—it had been felt, he
said, that for many years other nations had been
gaining on them. They were accumulating capital,
and would soon be nearly a match for England in
that respect. Then as regarded the facilities of
transport throughout the world which their country
had enjoyed, the promulgation and acceptance of
the doctrine of free trade had, as it were, put all
nations on one footing in respect to what had been
considered the peculiar national advantages. The
pressure of foreign competition was being more and
more felt, and if Englishmen were to maintain
their position at the head of the manufacturing
nations of the world, it must be by the study of
those laws of nature and of art to which allusion
had been made, and the application of which must
be always felt to be of the greatest importance in
connection with their commerce and with their
manufacturing industry. It had been over and
over again pointed out by those who had attended
to these subjects—and he might appeal for confir-
mation of this fact to his friend Sir John Bowring,
who at a very early period had studied the subject,
and presented avery valuable report upon had
appeared to many if England was to maintain her
pofla
the
eamcoonntgisntentht,eitla
greatvs
manufacturing
essential, and
necessary, that she should not fall behind in the
cultivation of science and art—the application
of which by her rivals would render,them more
formidable ; but which, if England used
them, would render her irresistible. And there
was another view which had been pressed upon
them. It would be found in the evidence laid be-
fore the Commissioners on Public Schools, and by
the report of that Commission, that in order to
secure the proper education of their youth, in order
to develope properly all the faculties of the mind, it
was necessary not only to cultivate the faculties of
reasoning, eloquence, and memory—to which they
had perhaps paid too exclusive An attention—hut