The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-14 00:00:00

SIR IT. STORKS AT RIPON.

Both the candidates—Sir Henry K. Storks (L) and Mr.
A. Cayley (C)—aided by their friends and supporters,
prosecuted their canvass of the electors, on Saturday, with
much vigour.- At noon the Liberal candidate addressed
an open-air meeting of the electors held in the
Market-place. He spoke from one of the windows
of the Unicorn Hotel, and was accompanied by a
number of the leading members of his party, who
were greatly encouraged by the reception he met with.
Sir H., K. Storks again expressed his entire concurrence
in the opinions held by the Government, and spoke with
the same confidence and hopefulness as to the tranquillis-
ing and beneficial effects of the great measures passed on
behalf .of Ireland in the last two sessions of Parliament.
After referring to his opinions in favour of extended
education, his announcement that he was quite prepared
to support the Government measure for the adoption of
the ballot led one of the electors to remark, " Aye, and
you are quite prepared to go against it if the Government
should do so," and " You are sent here as one of Glad-
stone's hounds, and are afraid of his.whip." This sally
was received with laughter, but Sir Henry replied with a
readiness of retort that turned the laughter into cheers in
his favour, by exclaiming, " No, I am not ; and I am not
in the least afraid of your whip." He wanted, he
said, to be perfectly understood on this question.
He had always been an advocate of the Ballot,
his principal reason for this 'being that in his
time he had had to do with a rather unruly oppo-
sition which was greatly improved when the members
came to be returned by vote by Ballot: Here again he was
interrupted by the previous speaker, who declared him to
be the' nominee of Earl de Grey, and that he durst not
have visited Ripon had the ballot been in operation. To
this Sir Henry answered decidedly that he was not the
nominee of anybody. Having stated his strong desire to
see the University Tests abolished, he expressed a belief
that the time had arrived when we might hope to see peace
established between France and Germany. He next ap-
proved of the neutral course pursued by Her Majesty's
Government with reference to the combatants. The
measures that were about to be introduced by the
Government with regaid to the national defences would,
he believed, be approved of by the country. He called
the attention of the meeting to the recent throwing open
of civil service appointments to all classes of the people,
and said that now, if a man had that ability which would
enable him to pass the Civil Service Commissioners,
he could receive his appointment without the
protection or the patronage of anybody. After referring
to other points dwelt upon at the meeting already
alluded to, Sir Henry concluded hisaddress by declaring
that, if he had the honour to be returned to Parliament as
the representative of Ripon, he would pay his best atten-
tion to the local interests of the city, and would, at all
times and under all circumstances, be found performing

his duty. His intimation that he looked to be placed at
the head of the poll on Wednesday next was received with
loud cheers. He told the meeting that he was prepared to
answer any questions that might be put to him, and an
elector immediately asked if he would vote for the
abolition of the purchase of commissions in the army. His
ready answer—" Yes, I will ; and not only so, but .I have
been an advocate of it for twenty years "—met with much
approbation. He also said his opinion was that we ought
to make the best use we can of the volunteers ; that we
ought to associate them with the regular forces as much as
possible, while keeping and maintaining them as volun-
teers. To a persistent questioner, who wanted to learn if
Mr. Childers had gone on his cruise for the benefit of his
health at the expense of the nation, Sir Henry replied—
" I should think he has not. Upon my word, I can't tell.
but I will inquire and let you know."

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE.
The Musical Standard hears that Madame Adelina
Patti has been performing in" Otello" at the St. Petersburg
Opera ; and the Russian papers with one consent declare
the lady the greatest lyric tragedienne of the day. At
Moscow the performances of Madame Artot have been
crowned by a torchlight procession organised by a body
of students. The lady is about to make herself heard in
the opera-houses of Stuttgart, Carlsruhe, Cassel, Hanover,
and Wiesbaden. The same paper adds that Mdlle. Sessi
is performing in opera at Vienna.
The Athenccum says Mr. Swinburne's new poem is en-
titled " The End of a Month," and will be published in a
' new magazine in March. A second edition of the " Songs
before Sunrise" is in the press.—Mr. Simeon Solomon, the
artist, has nearly ready for publication a literary work,
entitled " A mystery of Love in Sleep." It is a prose
poem, and will be illustrated by a photograph from an
original design by the author.—Mr. O'Shaughnessy is
preparing for the press a volume of poems, called "Lays
of France," founded on the " Laies " of the early poet,
Marie de France.—Mr. J. Payne is about to publish a
volume of sonnets, under the title of " Intaglios."—
Mr. David Laing, of Edinburgh, has just issued an in-
teresting little memoir of Milton's tutor from ten to
fifteen years of his age.—Dr. Thomas, Young, the cele-
brated Puritan divine, Vicar of Stowmarket, Suffolk, a
Scotchman by birth.—Mr. James Grant, the late editor
of the Morning Advertiser,' is preparing a work on " The
Newspaper Press ; its origin, progress, and present state."—
It is, gratifying to record any recognition of scientific
merits. Dr. Stenhouse, than whom few men have done
more in chemical investigation, and in the practical ap-
plication of discoveriss, physical and chemical, to the use-
ful purposes of life, has, by her Majesty's ,direction,
been granted a pension on the Civil List of £lOO,
"in consideration of his scientific attainments. "
Next Tuesday, in St. James's Hall, will be the first per-
formance in London of Mr. J. F. Barnett's cantata,
" Paradise and the Peri."—The director and conductor of
the National Choral Society, Mr. G. W. Martin, has re-
ceived a special note of thanks from his friends and sup-
porters at the general meetini, for having tarried on the
society for eleven years at his own cost and risk. From
the formation of the society one hundred oratorio per-
formances have been given, including the production of
two new works.—A domestic drama, by Mr. H. J. Byron,
is in rehearsal at the Gaiety Theatre. Mr. J. L. Toole
and Miss Carlotta Addison will play important characters.
The Parisian theatres will not, it is said, reopen until
peace is settled. Plays on the subject of the siege of
Paris are in preparation at the Palais Royal and the
Gait.—Miss Glyn has arranged to give a series 'of Shak-
spearean readings in New York. The popularity .of her
readings has rendered the forthcoming performances a
matter of great public interest.—A new comedy is an-
nounced from the pen of Ada Christen, the poetess, which
will shortly be produced on the stage.

A. parliamentary return has been issued, giving
some information as to the fishing boats which are regis-
tered at the ports of the United Kingdom. It shews that
at the beginning of last year there were 42,960 boats,
having a tonnage of 242,179 ; they employed 152,779 men
and 13,969 boys.

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION.—Lord Ten-
terden has been appointed Secretary of the Anglo-
American Commission, not only because of the ability
which he has shewn at the Foreign Office, but mainly on
account of his particular acquaintance with the important
questions which are about to he negotiated a'; Washing:
ton. Viscount Goderich will act as private secretary to
his father, Lord de Grey and Ripon. General Schenck, it
is said, will not come to England until the work of the
commission ha 4 been brought to a conclusion. If lam
correctly informed, the transference of the negotiations
from London to Washington is the result of a message
from Mr. Gladstone to the President, which was convoyed
to the latter by General Burnside.—London Corrrspondent
of the Scotsman.