The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-17 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

Advices from Berlin of the 14th inst. state that
the Ministerial crisis at Berlin is not yet over. The
first Cabinet Council, under the presidency of Prince
Hohenlohe, was held on the 12th, when a pro-
gramme was to be drawn up; but there was such a
difference of opinion that Count Schwerin, M. de
Patow, and M. Auerswald offered to resign. This
is attributed to the concessions demanded on the
question, which were opposed by M. Von
militaryß
oo nthe
Alin is
Minister of War. The successor of M.
Bethmann-Hollweg will, it is said, be M. de Witz-
leben, actually President of the Province of Saxony.
He was for a long time attached to the King's
household when the latter was Crown Prince.

MUSKETRY INSTRUCTION AT HYTHE.

The following report of the late class for the
musketry instruction of Volunteers has been re-
ceived at the War-office:—

Flythe, Feb. 15, 1862.

" Sir,—l have the honour to forward, for the information
of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief,
the enclosed practice return detailing the results of the
shooting of the class of Volunteers No. 10, which has just
completed a course of instruction at this establishment, and
have left the station, with the exception of the following
who remained for further instruction :—Captain Williams,
Ist Warwick, R. V. C. ; Sergeant Thelwall, South Middle-
sex; Sergeant Joseph, Ist Glamorgan; Sergeant Middle-
tan, 11th Norfolk ; Private Emery, 2d Northampton;
Private Wilshere, Ist Sussex; Sergeant Good, Ist Dorset;
Sergeant Barnard, 2d Hants; Corporal Worth, 2d War-
wick; Colour-Sergeant Merritt, Ist Herts ; Sergeant Pun-
chard, 20th Essex; Sergeant Osborne, 20th Middlesex ;
Sergeant Gittas, 20th Suffolk; Ensign Metcalf, 2d Cam-
bridge ; Sergeant Cleeve, 11th Barks ; and Lord Northwick,
Hereford Militia.

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'The shooting is very good, ' particularly at the long
ranges, and this class has obtained the highest ' figure of
merit'—viz., 47.67—0 f any class of Volunteers yet trained
at the School of Musketry :—Captain Nightingale, 22d
Middlesex ; Ensign Browne, Ist Wilts ; Ensign Hunt, 10th
Norfolk; Sergeant Hewitson, Bth Tower Hamlets; Sergeant
Good, Ist Dorset; Sergeant Mitchell, 2d Essex; Sergeant
Gibbs, 9th Berks; Sergeant Pulley, 23d Essex ; Sergeant
Sparrow, Victoria Rifles ; and Private Wyatt, Ist London.
The Volunteers having obtained seven points in shooting
in the first class, and being first-class judges of distance,
were examined in the theoretical principles and cleaning
arms instruction, and found acquainted with these subjects ;
hence the non-commissioned officers and privates mentioned
are eligible to wear the marksman's badge of cross muskets
on the left arm.
" I would mention that the class judge distance in the
afternoon, and that the proficiency of the several Volunteers
in the said exercise was, on the whole, satisfactory.
" I have the honour, &c.,
" CHARLES HAY, Inspector-General
of Musketry.
" The Adjutant• General of the Forces, Horse Guards."

" THE NoE."—On the division of Friday night,
which caused the adjournment of the house, there was a
majority of one. In the votes on Saturday morning this
lonely member, Major Windsor Parker, figures asp" the
" Noe ;" and with him are the " tellers for the noe, Mr.
Lygon and Mr. Cubitt.
MR. W. F. WINDHAM.—A correspondent writ-
ing from Norwich says :—Mr. Windham has returned 10
Norfolk, where he appears to find his chief amusement in
driving a
"drag." On Friday and Saturday he drove to
Norwich with a very business-like air, taking up as pas-
sengers several stray wayfarers whom he met on the road,
so that when he reached Norwich on the latter day he had
a tolerable coachful. Mr. Windham seems in excellent
health and spirits, and does not—at any rate so far as ex-
ternal circumstances indicate—trouble himself much in
dnre-
gard to the endless Chancery arguments respecting himself
and his fortunes, and probably he is pretty well seasoned by
thisp e timese
his to the costly wordy contention. He appears to
is
!
[ s hospitalities in much the same liberal fashion
at Windsor.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

By the overland mail we have received papers
from Calcutta to the Bth of February, from Madras
to the 15th, from Hong Kong to the Ist, from Mel-
bourne and Adelaide to the 25th of January, from
Sydney to the 21st, and from Auckland to the Bth
January.

INDIA.

The following is from the overland summary of

_
the Friend of India:—
The Indian public have now been able to judge of the
character of the new constitution by its actual working.

Allowing that despotism must be the basis of the new legis-
latures, the result has been as satisfactory as could be ex-
pected in the case of the Governor-General's, and perhaps
of the Bengal Council. But the exhibitions made by the
Madras and especially the Bombay Council seem, from the

reports of the local press, to be not only undignified but
ludicrous. On the occasion of the introduction of a bill by

Sir Bartle Frere, who acted al the request of the Lieutel

nant-Governor of the North West Provinces, to entail all
grants of land henceforth bestowed by the state for loyal
services, and to enable all previous grantees to apply for
such entail, the three native members of council ex-

pressed their opinions with an unexpected dignity and
absence of servility. Rajah Dinkur Rao, accus-
tomed to the Durbar of the Maharajah of Gwalior, op-
posed the bill on the ground, among others, that a grant

burdened with the condition of entail ceased to be a gift and
became a trust, which no native would value. Rajah Deo
Narain Singh expressed similar opinions in a speech which
he read, while the Chief of Puttialla, on the eontrary, sup-
ported the bill as one of the highest policy, especially if
primogeniture were attached to the grant. The discussion
is well worthy of study by all who are interested in the
self-government of the natives of India. As yet only one
of the non-official members has spoken. Mr. D. Cowie op-
posed the Flogging Bill, which Mr. Beadon has revised in
the new legislature under the title of the Whipping Bill.
The Bengal Council consists of the following members, of
whom the first six are officie.l:—T. H. Cowie, Esq., A. R.
Young, Esq., H. D. H. Fergusson, Esq., E. H. Lushing-
ton, Esq., Baboo Rama Peraaud Roy, Moulvy Abdool
Luteef, John N. Bullen, Esq., William Maitland, Esq.,
W. Moran, Esq., A. T. T. Peterson, Esq., Rajah Pertaub
Chand Sing, and Baboo Prosunuo Koomar Tagore. Mr.
Fergusson, who was commissioner of Patna, will give all
his time to the duties of legislation. The other members
are ex ojicio. The solitary advantage of the standing
orders over those of the other councils ill, that they ex,
pressly provide that a member shall rise from Ilia chair
when he speaks.

In discussing questions coming before the council for
consideration a member shall speak from Ids place, shall
rise when he speaks, and shall address the president. A
member shall not be allowed t o read hie speech, but he may
refresh his memory by referring to notes, and be may read,
as part of his speech, passages from books or papers cited
in support of his argument. At any time if the president
rises, any member speaking shall immediately resume his
seat. No member shall be hoard except upon business then
regularly before the council, or by permission of the presi-
dent specially obtained, in explanation of what he had said
in previous debate. Except In discussing verbal amend-
ments when the council is settling the several clauses of a
bill, no member shall speak more than once upon a ques-
tion, other thAn the mover, who shall be allowed, if he have
spoken to the question when making his motion, to close
the debate with a reply. But a member who has spoken
upon a motion, may speak again upon any amendment
thereof afterwards moved. And a member may explain
what he has before spoken if it has been misunderstood.
No member, in debate, shall name another member. If the
lieutenant-governor assent to an act, it will be by him sub-
mitted for the assent of the governor-general ; if the
governor-general assents to the act, it will be published in
the Calcutta Gazette as an act of the lieutenant-general of
Bengal in council, assented to by the governor- general,
and having the force of law.
The council meets in the building occupied by the former
legislative council of India. Mr. Macpherson, a barrister,
is secretary. As all the native members are good English
scholars they will speak in English, and no translator will
be required, as in the case of the Hindtistani clerk of the
imperial legislature. At the first meeting of the council on
the Ist day of February, several important local bills were
introduced, which had made some progress in the late legis-
lature. The Bengal council is the only one the legislative
members of which are, most properly, not termed " Ho-
nourable."

Ever since 1857, there has been serious discontent among
our subjects in Assam and the Indo-Chinese tribes on the
frontier, and it has now manifested itself in a most serious
form. The outpost sanitarium of the Eastern Himalayas
is Cherrapoonjee, noted for one of the greatest rainfalls in
the world. It forms the centre, and is the chief station of
the Jynteah hills. It lies immediately to the north of
Syihet and east of Caehar, two fertile districts in which
there are at least a hundred Englishmen engaged in tea-
planting, and where grants of land are being rapidly
bought up in fee simple. In 1835 the Rajah of Jynteah,
India Singh, finding the territory unprofitable, offered to
give it to us for a pension of rs. 500 a month. Up to 1858
the administration of that district was not conducted with-
out expense, and in that year, after deputing a member
of the board of revenue to the place, we imposed a
house tax on the people. They resisted, were
punished, and the tax was paid. The impost
which was no novelty, had been made use of as a pretext
by the ex-rajah to stir up intrigues for his restoration to a
pest he had voluntarily surrendered. The order went forth
that he should be removed to Dacca, but it was never
obeyed by the local officers, " from oversight," as is naively
confessed in the official report. It is thus Bengal is go-
verned, and we need not wonder that the Jynteah lihasias
are once more in rebellion. The people of Jowai, Jalong,
Tuteer, Shirmany, &c., have surrounded the sepoy guard
located at the first-mentioned place, and all the villages in
that part of the country are only waiting for a favourable
opportunity to join them. The whole inhabitants of the 19
districts into which the territory is divided are estimated at
only 40,000, covering an area of 25 square miles. The cause
of this rising is said to be the new tax lately imposed upon
them. But they say they would have been willing to bear this
quietly bad it not been for other burdens which are still
more grievous. Of these others they mention the lawless-
ness and corruption of the petty officials sent amongst them,
who, they say, fleece them without mercy ; the disregard
shown to their prbeipal men, and the fear they have that
Government will force them to pay rent for their lands.
When the rising took place there were not 600 troops in the
whole province, which is as large as Scotland. Major
Richardson is in cammand, and Major Rowlett, the civil
officer, has considerable influence with the people.
To add to this difficulty the independent Rajah of Tip-
perah has chosen this time to attack two of our subjects,
who are large zemindars. His Kookees, old enemies of
ours, have burned 28 houses and scalped 20 ryots. The
Landholders Association, which represents the important
interest in that quarter, at once addressed Government.
Some thousand native troops were despatched from Bar-
rackpore, Calcutta, and Dacca, the whole to be commanded
by Col. Dunsford. Meanwhile the latest news is that Major
Richardson has taken the Jowai stockade with a loss of 12
sepoys. There is still a third com?lication. Bhootan, fur-
ther westward, between which and Nepaul stands Darjee-
ling in its unprotected beauty, must also be humbled, Like
Japan, this Indo-Chinese territory is ruled by a spiritual
and a temporal sovereign, named respectively the Dhorm
and Deb Rajahs. The former, being regarded as an incar-
nation of the deity, rules for life. The latter is elected
from time to time ; and we were prevented from punishing
Bhoctan in 1857 only by the mutiny and by the fact that a
new Deb Rajah had been appointed, supposed to be favour-
able to the cause of order and peace. As usual, our fax•
bearance has been mistaken for weakness, for the only pun•
ishment we did inflict was in 1859 to cease the payment of
Rs. 2,000, the yearly rental for a tract of land in Rungpore
surrendered by Warren Hastings in 1779, when he was too
busy wii h higher matters to fight the Bhooteahs. Still the
kidnapping of British subjects has gone on, and now ven-
geance will be readily taken. A. wing of the 10th Native
Infantry and 150 men of her Majesty's 38th have been sent
to Darjeeling.
The Bengal civil service have adopted a memorial to the
Secretary of State for India, the claim of which is—" It
will be a reasonable and just concession to the expectations
of your petitioners, and a restoration only of the advan-
tages originally designed, if annuities of £l,OOO per annum
are granted to all members of the service after twenty-five
years' service (and twenty-two years' residence in India
under present rules), on making up their contrtbutions to
the fund to one quarter instead of one half the value of the
annuity; the retiring allowance of such of your petitioners
as shall serve more than twenty-five years being annually
increased by £25, the maximum annuity attainable after 35
years being thus £1,250. The Madras memorial, which also
represents the civilians of Bombay, makes a similar claim,
but wisely does not ask more than the 11,000 pension. The
only effect of the £1,250 asked for must be to stop promo-
tion, while it induces the bad bargains of the state to cling
to their salary to the last. Really good men will always re-
main in India beyond the minimum term of years, interested
in their duties, and attracted by the hope of higher ap-
pointments and a greater reputation.

COTTON TRADE WITII INDIA.—A short tabular
return which has been laid before Parliament shows, side by
side, how our imports of cotton wool from India have been
increasing of late, and our exports of cotton goods thither
decreasing, In 1859 we took 1,717,240 cwt. of cotton wool
from India, and sent thither cotton goods and yarn of the
value of £14,713,812 ; in 1860 we took 1,822,689 cwt. of the
raw material, but the cotton exports to India fell to
£12,425,736; and in 1861 we took 3,295,004 owt. of cotton
wool from India, but only sent thither cottons and yarns to
the value of £11,618,350. Still, this export compares well
with that of six years before, which was only of the value
of £6,458,086. There was a sudden increase to the extent of
more than £4,000,000 in 1858, and again in 1859 an increase
of above £3,000,000 more, the export of manufactured
cotton goods rising from £5,156,171 in 1857 to £12,167,498
in 1859, and the cotton twist and yarn from £1,147,379 to
£2,546,314.

2HE NEW ROYAL 111.AUSOLEUM,

(From the Court Circular.}

Her Majesty the Queen laid on Saturday the
first stone of a Mausoleum in Frogmore-gardens, in
which are to be deposited the remains of her dearly
loved husband the Prince Consort, and ultimately
her own.

Her Majesty, in performing this act of reverential
and devoted affection, was surrounded by all her
children now in England, and was attended by the
ladies and gentlemen of her Household in waiting
and those who had in any way specially attended
upon the Prince.

Her Majesty, supported by the feeling of the
sacred nature of the duty she had to perform, was
able to complete the ceremony, and after the stone
was laid the Dean of Windsor said a prayer, asking
God's blessing on the work. The few carefully se-
lected persons who were permitted to be present
were assembled upon the ground at 12 o'clock, and
her Majesty, with no attendants but the Royal
children, proceeded on foot from Frogmore House
(whither her Majesty had previously come in a
carriage in the most private manner) to the spot
where the stone was prepared. Upon the stone is
tEe following inscription :
" The foundation stone of this building, erected by Queen
Victoria, in pious remembrance of her great and good hus-
band, was laid by her the 15th of March, A.D., 1862,
" Blessed are they that sleep in the Lord.' "

The building is to be erected under the superin-
tendence of Mr. A. J. Humbert, architect, and the
reclining statue of the Prince will be executed by
Baron Marochetti.

Her Majesty had wished that this mournful cere-
mony should take place upon the first anniversary
of the death of her revered mother the Duchess of
Kent ; but as that day was Sunday the eve of the
anniversary was selected.

There were present her Royal Highness the
Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal oS, Eng-.
land), their Royal Highnesses Princess Alice,
Princess Helena, 'Princess Louise, sad Princess
Beatrice, Prince Alfred and. Prir.ce Arthur, the
Countess Caledon (Lady in Waiting), the Hons,
Beatr=ice By n g and Emily Cathcart (Maids of
r-
Armour), Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Caroline
Barrington, Countess Von Schulenberg (Grande
Maltresse to the Crown Princess of Prussia) Coun-
tess Bliicher Walstadt (Lady in Waiting), and
Count Fursteinstein (Chamberlain to her Royal
Highness), Viscount Torring on (Lord in Waiting
to the Queen), Colonel Cavendish (Groom in Wait-
ing), Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood and Colonel the
Hon. A. Hardinge, C.B. (Equerries in Waiting,)
Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the
Hon. C. Phipps, and the Hon. H. L. Phippsi the
Hon. and very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the Hon.
Mrs. Wellesley, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Bid-
dulph, Lady Couper, Major-General Seymour, Miss
Hildyard, Madame Hocede, Miss Bauer, Major
Cowell, R.E., Major Elphinstone, R.E., Mr.
Ruland, Mr. Woodward, Colonel Ponsonby, Colonel
Seymour, C.B. (Scots Fusilier Guords), Mr. Meyer,
Dr. Jenner, and Mr. Brown,

ROYAL INS7IIUIION.

MR. D'ORSEY'S LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH

LANGUAGE.

Now that the course of lectures on the English Language,
which the Rev. Alex. D'Orsey has been delivering at the
Royal Institution during the last two months, is com-
pleted, we devote a brief space to noticing the wide and in-
teresting field of study over which the English Lecturer
of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, has taken his
hearers during the last few Saturday afternoons.
The first lecture, on Saturday, Jan. 25, was devoted to
the English language in its relation to the Indo-European
Family—and how great this is, we can in some degree esti-
mate when we bear in mind that under that name is em-
braced the vast chain of languages which extends
from the Ganges to Mount Hecla, and is rapidly
spreading over America and Australia. Mr. D'Orsey
passed rapidly over the great branches of the Indo-
European family—viz., the Indian, including San-
suit, Hindostani, and at least forty dialects—the Medo-
Persian, embracing the languages of ancient and
modern Persia, &c. The Pelasgic, under which is
included Latin, ancient and modern Greek, Italian, French,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Romannie ; the Teutonic, com-
prehending the Frisian, German, Dutch, Flemish, English,
with the Scandinavian branch of Medo-Gothic, Swedish,
Danish, and Norwegian. The Sclavonic, under which
branch come the Russian, Polish, and Lithuanian, and the
Celtic, which includes the Irish, Welsh, Gaelic, and Breton;
and then proceeded by a series of excellent diagrams and
maps to alien, the birth, growth, and kindred of the Eng-
lish language. To this division of his great subject Mr.
D'Orsey's second lecture was devoted. It was his
belief, he said, that the English might date
its birth in India many centuries before
the beginning of the Christian Era, for though no records
existed in the shape of written books of our language, yet
the spoken words of England at this day, if compared with
Sanscrit, Persian, Old Gothic and kindred tongues, would
point to a common origin. Mr. D'Orsey divided the whole
growth of the English language into seven periods, which
he classified thus—(l) The Pra3historic, (2) the Gothic,
(3) the Anglo-Saxons in England, (4) the Semi •Saxon or
Transition period, (5) Early English, (6) I ntermediate
English, and (7) Modern English. The distinctive cha-
racteristics of these several periods were explained, and
various works placed on the table to illustrate the descrip-
tions, including among them an immense variety of versions
of the Scriptures in different languages and dialects.
For the advantage of being able to exhibit these, and other
rare literary treasures, we believe Mr. D'Orsey was in-
debted to the kindness and liberality of Prince Lucien
Bonaparte, whom we observed among the' most attentive
and interested of the many distinguished philologists and
savans who filled the lecture-room.

In the third lecture on " The English Language, Lite-
rary and Vernacular," Mr. D' Orsey entered into a full
examination of the composite character of literary English,
showing that fully two-thirds of the vocables might fairly
be considered Teutonic, while the grammatical construction
was strictly so. A very interesting table was also exhi-
bited in illustration of the third lecture, showing the pro-
portion of Anglo-Saxon in some of our chief standard
authors : thus, the English translation of the Bible had 97
per cent., while Gibbon, the most Latinised of our writers,
had but 58 per cent.
At the close of this lecture Mr. D'Orsey entered into a
very interesting as well as entertaining discussion on pro-
vincial dialects and national corruptions of the English

language, such as frishisms, Scotticisms, and Americahisms.
Perhaps the fourth lecture was the most valuable as regards
the direct practical benefit to be derived from the excellent
hints which Mr. IYOrsey from time to time offered for tio
consideration of his hearers. It was on the English lan-
guage as now written, and in his treatment of this branch
of his subject Mr. D'Orsey exhibited all that scholarly re-
search and delicate critical acumen by which his lectures
in general are distinguished. He pointed out the chief
prevailing errors in style and composition, and contended
that they were the inevitable results of a defective system
of instruction in thought, and the use of language as the
loom in which thought is woven.
The last lecture attracted, perhaps, the most crovkled

audience of all ; nor was it a matter of surprise, considering
the many highly interesting and popular topics embraced
in its syllabus, viz. :—The English Language as now
spoken—Conversation—Foreign Words— Slang Public
Reading—The Church Service—Public Speaking and
Preaching—Sermons—Lectures— Speeches The Bar—
The Stage. All these subjects were admirably treatsd in
a free, candid spirit, and without the smallest approach to
pedantry or affectation. Indeed, it would be unjust to Mr.
D'Orsey if we concluded this mere outline of his course of
lectures without saying that his manner is as easy, pleasant,
genial, and unaffected as his matter is sound, sterling, and
full of materials for thought.
In alluding to the subjects of public reading, preaching,
and speaking, Mr. D'Orsey was exceedingly happy in his
remarks; and that they were well appreciated by his
audience was shown by the loud and repeated applause
which greeted his observations. While dwelling on these
topics, Mr. D'Orsey strongly commended to all who were
interested in them the Rev. J. H. Howlett's work "On
reading the Liturgy," and Mr. C. J. Plumptre's little
volume of " Lectures on Elocution," recently delivered by
him at Oxford.

We tender our best congratulations to Mr. D'Orsey on
the success which has attended his zealous and unflagging
efforts on behalf of the study of the English language being
raised to its proper position in the educational courses of
our colleges and schools, and trust that his valuable sugges-
tions may have a wide and increasing influence and benefit
equally all classes of the community,

A Chamber of Commerce has been established at
Halifax, with nearly 200 subscribing members, Mr. Edward
Akroyd, of Bank-fleld, has been elected President, and the
Vice-Presidents appointed are Samuel Waterhouse
and Mr. Joseph Crossley, "Until now the commercial and
manufacturing interests of Halifax have been represented
by the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, as the Chamber for
the worsted district of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Occasional notices in the law reports show that
the affairs of the Deposit Bank and National Assurance
Association continue to furnish steady materials for litiga-
tion. Meanwhile there is not the least indication that the
immunity enjoyed from the first by Mr. Peter Morrison is
likely to terminate. The means of discovering the places
of retreat of persons who are charged with heavy banking
delinquencies, and who are supposed to retain ample spoils,
RPM' to be singularly inefficient,

THE PRINCE OF WALES IN-EGYPi,

ALEXANDRIA, MAPCH 6.
The Prince of 'Wales arrived here on the Ist inst.
The arrangements for the reception of his Royal
Highness underwent considerable modification, and,

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among other things, the intention of receiving him
with a sort of feu de joie from the batteries of the

harbour was abandoned. The matter was compro-
mised by the Prince landing under the ordinary
salute of 21 guns, which the Viceroy insisted could-
not be dispensed with, since its omission would have
been liable to be misconstrued by the people of the
country. The Prince landed at the railway terminus,
and at once went on to Cairo, where the Viceroy
awaited his arrival and received him with every pc..4-
sible attention. The train was driven direct to the
Pasha's palace of Kasr-en-Nil. on the banks of the
Nile, whence, after a short interview, the Prince
and his suite were conveyed in carriages to the
palace prepared for their residence. On the follow-
ing day the Viceroy visited the Prince, but without
form or state, in consideration of the privacy in
his Royal Highness travels. The Prince on.
Monday, in like,manner, returned the calls of the
several members of the Viceroy's family who had
come to pay their respects to him. With these for
unavoidable exceptions, the Prince's visit to Cairo
has differed but little in its cireumstancra from that
of a private gentleman. On Sunday afternoon big
Royal Highness attended Divine
service at the
English chapel, and onhis excumions into the town
few of the Cairenet who beheld him riding through
the bazaars on the ordinary tnonture of the city can
have suspected that they looked upon the future
King of England.

On Tuesday at midday his Royal Highness left
Ce3_l'o for Upper Egypt. The Pasha's steamer con-
veyed the Prince and his suite from the palace of
Kasr-en-Nil, and they were accompanied by Vice
Consul Calout for the first day. At Djizeh the
Viceroy again received his Royal Highness in per-
son, °Ad Colonel Minie exhibited to the Prince and
his party some of his recent improvements in the
rifle. On the shore every variety of Eastern means
of locomotion had been provided by the Viceroy
and awaited his Royal Highness's arrival—car-
riages, horses, asses, and dromedaries. The last-
mentioned obtained the preference, and a long '
valcade of richly caparisoned dromedaries wound

its way through the green fields and palm groves of
Djizeh, under the declining light of a glorious Even'
ing, to the platform of the Pyramids. The 'sun had
just set when the Prince and his party came into
full sight of that memorable view. They had
just time to survey the colossal features of the
Sphinx and the general outline of the Pyramids
by the fading light, and then retired, not to the
ordinary bivouac in which European travellers rough
it in the Desert, but to the sumptuous tents sup"
plied by the Viceroy. Here, after a late meal'
the party retired to rest till they were roused 11
early dawn to make the ascent of the Great Pyrr
mid before runrise. The Prince, who was the ear'
liest of the party, excited the astonishment of the
Bedouins by climbing to the summit without assist'
ante, a feat which, as all who have tried it, are well
aware is anything but a light one. "Is that the
governor ? Why does he go alone ?" was the Ties'
tion the Bedouins put in their broken English. The
sunrise revealed in its usual beauty the wonderful
view that spreads itself out at the foot of the Pyra-
mids, and, after enjoying it at their leisure, 01°
Prince and his suite descended again to their tents;
An hour or more was devoted to the examinations'
the other antiquities in the neighbourhood, and the
cavalcade returned as it had come, not without
having been successfully caught by the skill of gf'
Bedford, the photographer, who accompanied the
Prince's suite. At Djizeh his Royal Highness,
joined the steamer, when he was met by Aft'
Colquhoun, her Majesty's Consul-General, who oro
companies him to Upper Egypt. The Prince wig
return to Alexandria about the end of the Inee'
when he will re-embark for Syria.
itta
This morning the Duke of Saxe Coburg
Prince Charles of Leiningen arrived from Tries
by the Austrian steamer. They have taken up tlaeifst
abode for the night at one of the Pasha's palucee.l 0
Alexandria, and to-morrow the party starts on
journey to the far South.
The matter of the Egyptian loan is at length
settled. The Viceroy has just signed the contract
with Messrs. Openheim, the representatives of the
German banks, whose offers the Porte has decide'
he was bound to accept. The loan is fet
40,000,000 f. to 60,000,000 f., 30,000,000 f. of Nc'bich
t.:
are to be paid at the expiration. of six inontu
from the present time, and the balance at the eIP/;
ration of 12 months. The terms of the loan,
you are aware, are 11 per cent, per annum for .00:.
years, comprising interest and a sinking fund fed
the redemption of the debt. The annuity is secure
by th© ample revenues of the provinces of the Delft!'
The general opinion here is that the German car
talists have done an excellent piece of busiuesti;
Their success is not undeserved, seeing that the'
were the only persons who came forward with offers
'
of assistance on fair and liberal conditions at the
moment of the Pasha's greatest difficulties.
In my last letter I informed you that I‘--f ' (Ifit
Lesseps had been supplied by the Governoeio
with some thirty thousand labourers for the wet
on the Isthmus ; but I refrained from mentionill°,
that the men are not paid their wages by the COeiot
pany. The information I received to that effe
some weeks ago was so explicitly contradictea
to me by persons closely connected with the CO,
pany, and who I had every reason to believe P 0 0,
tbe
sessed the best possible means of knowing
c,
truth, that I felt myself compelled to yield Nett
tion to their denials. It was those persons, hoWe°e.i;
who were misinformed, and the scruples I felt
crediting the accuracy of my first informants'
now appears, were altogether misplaced.
wits
rations men are supplied by the company
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rations of food, but on the expiration of the tti,
be,
during which they are "held to labour" they f
eeive in lieu of money a paper specifying the vo,
lance of wages due to them. This paper is Otto
tersigned and the debt is acknowledged by to
Government, and then passed in account betviejeo
the latter and the company. To both these part,
the arrangement is, of course, perfectly satisfacto„'
but the mode in which the claims of the fellahs
settled by the Government is much less so, at let
to the men, for whom, indeed, the transaction (3;e
not possess the charm even of novelty. Th
papers are anything but easy to convert into eee ip
ry
In short, the transaction on the part of the Govety
ment differs very little, if at all, from those of
means of which Mr. Micawber was in the habit d,
relieving his conscience from any sense of indebt`
ness. of
The Viceroy has for some time back spokellvg
visiting England and the Great Exhibition dull or
the course of the coming summer, and there is
probability that he will carry his plan into eseti,
tion. The Egyptian contributions to the 031
tion are in course of preparation, and will coul'o•V
some specimens of guns and rifles, with imPl°oo
ments of the Pasha's own invention. The faro
toe
ancient jewelry discovered by M. Mariette E°oo
years ago on the mummy of one of the daug„bdoe'
of the Pharoahs is likewise to be sent to I)°4tre
and will unquestionably become an importan.t ef-iette
of attraction at the " World's Fair." M. 111-e.," the
will be one of the Egyptian Commissioners
Exhibition.

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RELIGIOUS POSITION OF BRITISH SUP-

1111 ,s_PAIN.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Of
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SIR,—Mr. Blake asserted on Friday in the 11-'„";ni,'"'
Commons that " throughout the whole of the '-'r ewer'
Peninsula English Protestants enjoy the full and free
cise of their religion."
olic re'
The Spanish law asserts that "the Roman Cat-h cog
ligion is the only religiora of the land, and tha.,!, /3:oalfdrf
shall be tolerated." Tkje Royal decree of 17th I‘°.e'il;l49-
1852, enacts that "no foreigner shall profess ally re'
but the Roman Catholic." ssiool
Having acted as the Bishop of Gibraltar's talrom i
chaplain to the English in Spain in 1869, I speak ; j
knowledge of the state of the case, wolf,
That your readers may judge of Mr. Blake's acc,,,vrolr"
submit a quotation from the letter of a brother e'e-r-
-in 1860, t/ 0°
m •
[The letter is too long for insertion at this me enpot'
purport of it may, from the context in our rev. Corte SP.
dent's communication, be readily enough surmised.
Sun.l
course, it is quite Possible a law may have /is been
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cently passed in Cortes granting toleration. If so,
be delighted to see a Copy of the decree.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, OY.
OR .
ALEX. J. D. 13 ,-13,
Cambridge, Nara, 15, 1862,

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