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London, England, 1870-06-25 00:00:00

MORNING EDITI:..N

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RIMMEL'S TOILET VINEGAR is a perfect
luxury this hot weather for the Toilet or Bath, or as a re-
freshing handkerchief scent, whilst its sanitary properties
render it an absolute requisite in all families. See that each
bottle bears E. Rimmel's signature, as some small makers are
now issuing a worthless imitation, copying the label exactly, all
but the name. Sold by all perfume vendors.—E. R immel, per-
fumer to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales, 98, Strand ; 128, Regent-
street ; and 24, Cornhill.

EDMUND YATES ON CHARLES DICKENS.
In one of his letters to a provincial paper Mr. Edmund
Yates gives a number of interesting particulars about the
late Mr. Dickens. Referring to the way in which the
deceased author edited Allthe Year Round, Mr. Yates says :
It was the fashion to say that many of us, who for fifteen
years had been the staple contributors to this journal, tried
to imitate our great master; but the fact is, that much of
what was supposed to be mere imitation was a touch in-
serted by the master-hand during his revision of
the proof. One day a week he devoted to " makirq up "
the number coming up regularly from the country for the
purpose, and selecting the articles, in co-operation with
his son, who has for some time been his acting editor.
He was, indeed, very regular and methodical in all his
work, sitting down to write about ten, and rising from
his desk between one and two, when, after
a slight luncheon, he would start for a twelve
mile walk with some favoured companion. How
many times have I traversed that Kentish country
with him, hanging on his words, and prouder of his notice
and his friendship than of anything else in my life. Now
would we go over the gaunt dreary marshes where once
we were nearly benighted ; now through Cobham Park,
to which, by Lord Darnley's permission, Mr. Dickens
had access, and where there is in the midst of the
velvety glades and overhung by arching trees, a grim
family mausoleum, which always seemed to me
to be the prototype of that one at Chesney
Weld, Sometimes on a hot day we would stop
for a refreshing draught at the Leather Bottle in Cobham,
where it will be recollected Mr. Tupman found solace in
the cares of life, and sometimes we would go into Roches-
ter—henceforth' and for evermore to be recognised as
Cloisterham—where we would wander about the Cathe-
dral or round the ruins of the Old Castle. Throughout
these walks the conversation never flagged for a
moment—comments on the events of the day ;
stories told with a wonderful touch of humorous
exaggeration ; anecdotes suggasted by the locality
through which we were passing ; clear and prompt
decision on matters submitted to his judgment—all this
he poured forth as he walked, stopping now and then
to call attention to some distant prospect, some effect of
light and shade, or some eccentric character on the
road. One most remarkable fact about him was the
deep interest which he took in his friends' work, and the
time he would give up and the trouble he would
take 'in aiding them. A month ago I went to him,
as was my wont when about to commence a new story,
giving him an outline of the plot, and asking his opinion
of it. He praised it very warmly, but on coming to dine
with me a few days after, he placed a written paper in
my hand, saying, " I have been thinking about what we
talked over the other day., and I have jotted down some-
thing which I think will give rather a good turn to the
story." When I opened the paper at night I found he
had filled a page with a very valpable suggestion.
The readings given by Mr. Dickens throughout the
country have familiarised his face and figure to all his
countrymen ; but those who would know what he was in
earlier life will find an excellent reproduction of Mr.
Maclise's admirable picture of him prefixed to the original
edition of " Nicholas Nickleby," whilst an almost equally
good portrait of him at the same period was painted by
Miss Gillies, and is engraved in Hazlitt's " New Spirit
of the Age." The photographs recently taken vary in
merit, but I have seen none of them without a strong look
of the man.

Prince Charles of Roumania has sent £l,OOO for
the relief of sufferers by the Constantinople fire.
A French paper, referring to the prospects of the
harvest, says that it will be possible this winter to obtain
bread and meat, though they may be dear, but only
millionaires will be able to sleep on straw !

ANOTIIER DISCOVERY (;F BOMBS IN
• • IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JUNE 23.—1 n the Commission Court Mr.
Henry Pritchard has been sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment, with hard labour. The Limerick police has
discovered in the Irishtown a quantity of boinbs fully
charged, and arrested the man on whose premises they
were found.

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IRISH WIT AND HUMOUR.
Under tliwtitle of Zosimats a weekly periodical is pub-
lished in Dublin whose mission it is to combine fun with
nationality; The enterprise affords in itself a proof that
humour liar not departed from the island with the fairies
and the emigrants and that patriotism is assuming a more
genial shape than that of Molly Maguire or Rory of the
Hills. The following are extracts from this week's
number :--:--
" CONSTEMARA NEOPHYTEs.— Evangelical Gentleman
to Mission Class :—" Again, observe another absurdity :
You are 1:10.t allowed to eat meat on Fridays, but yoil are
allowed td drink milk. Now isn't milk part of the cow?
Where's the difference? '— Mike Lally (in consternation
and perplexity)—` B—b—but yir reverence, av it's not agin
Scriptlinii ye don't mane that I might as well ate my
owld mother here as well as I dhrank her milk—'
[lrrever.Ot howls from Biddy, who runs out, and
fre-
lapses
- o Popery. The missionary "adjourns " the
class, siologico-theolo-
gical CQ ' ideration started by Mike.r
Whaf China is the goonest broken ?—Break-fast china.
Ins AbcEPTANcE.—Our friend Tom Tinterton has seen
in the, 14/st Weekly Register an advertisement of some
music 4 compositions among whicli is' " Dr. Holloway's
FallingWew —3s. "—Tom says if the Falling Due in his case
..
I was (ma 3s. he wouldn't say a word about it, in print, or
otherwio.

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7ERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. •
The', thenteuin, has the following :—Mr. Elwin's ' Pope'
wills appear: The first volume will be published in
Nove4ber, and after that a volume will issue from the
press in every second month until the work is complete.—
Ex-President Johnson is said to be engaged on a history
of the events of his term of office.—` Lothair' has been
succe4fful in America. It is said that 25,000 copies have
been sad, of which a single firm—the American News
Comiaily—account for 5,000 copies. A travesty of the
novel is to appear at Boston.—lt is understood that
Mr. .Croldwin Smith is writing in The Nation.—
We believe no new sect of Christians has before been
formed in India. Now, at Rangooh; a sect is reported
as EAites, named after a Mr. Edge, and combining the
practices of the Baptists with the Plymouth Brethren.
Is not this an American sect, however ?—A congress of
geographers is to be held at Antwerp in August.—The
friends of Professor Agassiz have already learnt that he
has had an attack of illness, which will prevent his pur-
suing,liis scientific studies for some months to come. The
singrtir fact is now related of him that at the conclusion
of his last protracted effort in the way of study, he sud-
denly became very drowsy, and slept a number of days
almost -without any cessation, which his physicians looked
upo)as an unfavourable symptom. His labours during
the ast winter were unusually severe, and perfect quiet
both ,of body 'and mind is now a necessity.—Miss Loretta
Manh, a lady compositor, has been elected a m ember of
the Philadelphia Typographical Union. Miss Mann is
studying .medicine at Philadelphia, and works as a com-
positor in order to pay her expenses while proceeding to
her degree.

OUTWITTING THE.
MENT. ECONOMICAL

There is an amusing story afloat that • the Admiralty
has been outwitted again—not by a contractor, not by a
fraudulent store-clerk, not by a purchaser of old anchors,
not by a marine-store dealer, and not even by Sir John
Dalrymple Hay, but by a discharged dockyard
elefk. The basest Tory, the mildest Whig, the
wildest Fenian, and the totally unpolitical Briton
alike will smile when they hear that that in-
jured individual, the dockyard clerk, has at length
revenged himself upon the omniscient and unerring Board
which now sits at Whitehall, and has for some time sought
to erase his class from the catalogue of human beings.
Yes, this man has actually cast to the winds a large
portion of the savings effected by the; reductions
of clerks, and has done the Admiralty out
of re thana,ooo. The story is briefly told. The hero
of it was discharged from the -service at Devonport
some months ago, with disgrace, and without pension, his
offence being that he wrote scurrilous articles in a local
newspaper, directed against his official superiors. He
again and again appealed for a pension, but was as often
refused. An idea struck his clerical mind. He
wrote to the authorities at Whitehall, proposing to com-
mute his pension (as if it had really been granted) for a
fixed sum of money, according to certain new regulations,
carefully avoiding any allusion to his former correspondence.
Into this trap one of the clerks at Whitehall, who has
recently been elevated on account of rare merit, fell.
The application was passed on by him to asury
Commutation Committee without remark, and our
friend has received
trip more than £2,000, where-
with he is enjoying a in the United S'ates. —Globe.

SAVAGE ASSAULTOLICE ON LORD LENNOX BY
PMAN.
At the Windsor Petty Sessions on Thursday, Thomas
White, a supernumerary policeman, was charged with
assaulting Lord Francis Charles Gordon Lennox, an
ensign and lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion
Scots Fusilier Guards, now stationed at the
Victoria street Infantry Barracks. There was
cross summons against Lord Lennox, charging him with
assaulting White. Both cases were taken together. Mr.
H. Darvill, town clerk of Windsor, appeared on behalf
of Lord Lennox, and Mr. Brummell Smith for White.
Colonel Lord Abinger and several officers of the 2nd
Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, and Colonel Marshall,
of the 2nd Life Guards, were present
excite great nterest.
Mr. Darvill, in opening the case, said it appeared that
about twelve or half-past twelve o'clock on the morning
of the 19th of June Lord Francis Lennox had charge of
his brother's four-in-hand, which he had driven to the
gates of the infantry barracks for the purpose of taking in
some rugs, his intention being to drive from there back to
the Castle Hotel, and whence his brother intended to take
it back to Maidenhead. When Lord Lennox had arrived
at the gates of the infantry barracks he pulled up the
herses and saw one of the privates of his regiment
dragged by the policeman and a soldier into the barracks
or towards the gates, and the defendant kicking or striking
the soldier. His lordship, seeing that the man was ill
used, expostulated, and pointed out with his whip to
the sergeant of the guard the way in which the soldier
was being treated. Upon that the sergeant of the
guard came up and immediately restrained the defendant
from kicking and striking the soldier. The defendant
then got up on the box of the drag, took out some hand-
cuffs, and proceeded to handcuff Lord Lennox a
most' extraordinary proceeding. He did not, however,
succeed. When the sergeant of the guard and others saw
the violent conduct of the defendant, and that he was
seizing. Lord Lennox by the throat, they came up and
pulled him down from off the drag. He was afterwards
taken to the police-station, and a charge was entered
against him for assault. He (Mr. Darvill) would be able
to establish, by the clearest possible evidence, that Lord
Lennox never struck the defendant with his whip at all,
and that the assault upon Lord Lennox was a violent one
and committed without the sligitest object. The case for
White was that Lord Lennox had first assaulted
him with his whip. After hearing a number of
witnesses on both sides, the bench came to the conclusion
that a most unprovoked assault had been committed
upon Lord Francis Lennox, and fined White £l, and
costs ill. 4s. 6d. The case against Lord Lennox was
dismissed.

There has been no death in Plymouth from small-
pox for more than fifteen months.
THE SALE OF MACLISE'S PICTURES.—The large
collection of sketches, unfinished pictures, and cartoons,
left by the distinguished painter, Daniel Maclise, R.A.,
whose death occurred just before the opening of the pre-
sent Academy Exhibition, was begun yesterday by the
Messrs. Christie and Manson. Of the pictures
to be disposed of, the most interesting is the
last work of the painter, " The Earls of Des-
mond and Ormond," which now hangs upon the walls of
the Academy, where the great artist intended to give
his work the last careful touches of finish. The sale of
this picture will take place to-day (Saturday). It will be
followed by the cartoons executed for some of the painter's
large works in fresco in the Houses of Parliament, though
there are none of his " Death of Nelson." One mag-
nificent cartoon of the full size for the fresco of the
Battle of Waterloo, or rather " The Meeting of Wel-
lington and Blucher," at La Belle Alliance, after the
battle, occupies the whole side of the gallery. The pic-
ture is, indeed, a monument of the painter, and an ex-
ample of English art which is worthy the most honour-
able place in the gallery of the Academy, or even the
National Gallery. The picture of " Duncan's
Last Sleep," with Lady Macbeth stealing in, shad-
ing the lamp with her hand, is a very striking work,
more remarkable, however, for the figures of the
two sleeping soldiers than for the' principal figures. The
portrait of Macready as Macbeth is an interesting
picture, and preserves the expression of the grest
actor. " Macbeth with the Witches over the
Cauldron " is another hig.hly dramatic work, left
apparently unfinished. Many studies in oil from
the life, and several admirable copies of the old
masters, VelaSquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Watteau,
for whom Maclise seems to have had a great fancy, attest
the thoroughness of the eminent painter's study of
his art. After the sale of Maclise's own collection,
his large picture of the " Baron's Hall" is to be sold, by
order of the Court of Chancery. This important work
formerly belonged to Mr. Gibbons, of Athol House, near
Birmingham.

JUNE 2b, 1870.

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT

FRIDAY.

The interest in the education debate seemed, yesterday
afternoon, to have fallen with the temperature. Instead
of the densely crowded benches which there were on Thurs-
day week, Monday, and . Tuesday, there were, at the re-
sumption of the debate, great gaps in the ranks of black
coats, white waistcoats, and white hats. May I be
pardoned for suggesting that the absence of so many
members was due to the foreknowledge of the
fait that Mr. Dixon was to take up his
parable? One might have expected that he, the
life and the soul of the Birmingham League,
would be sure of a good audience. But Mr. Dixon is not
an orator, and as all the world knew the line that he
would take up, there was not even the anticipation of
curiosity as to what he would say. Hon. members who
absented themselves cannot be said to have lost very
much. He spoke for an hour:and a quarter, and it
seemed a very long hour and a quarter. Radical mem-
bers cheered him, and loud above all others
was the " Hear, hear," of Professor Fawcett. The
Professor and Mr. Dixon usually sit upon the same bench
—the front row below the gangway—and near these two
are usually to be found, except when the Irish members
muster in force, Sir Charles Dike, Mr. Vernon Har-
court, Mr. Locke, and Mr. James White. The last-
named gentleman has not been seen much of late. No
doubt he shares in such weather as we have had the
fear which Hamlet felt as to the dissolving and melting of
" this too too solid flesh." His absence leaves
room for two other members, which is an ad-
vantage on occasions like the education debate.
Mr. Dixon complained that the Government having first
of all introduced a bill framed with the idea of allowing
the denominational system to die out in course of time,
had so altered their measure that it rendered the system

permanent, a complaint enforced by emphatic cheers from
the Radicals. Then he went on to sundry other com-
plaints very wearisome to hear, and the reporters
laid down their pens and gossipped. At last
(the time was four minutes past six), the member
for Birmingham sat down, and simultaneously there
jumped up half a dozen members in various parts of the
house. That was a sorry sight to see, it seemed as though
there were no chance of the debate terminating that night,
though' every one had supposed it would.

During Mr. Bruce's speech a certain magnificent rajah,
magnificent as to his costume, that is, for he himself
was not much to look at—rose and left the House.
His highness had sat there the observed of all observers,
just above the clock, the place assumed by royalty on the'
few occasions when royalty cares-to be present. He was
dressed in light grey muslin tunic, looking refreshingly
cool, and a scarlet turban, the one bit of bright colour in
the mass of black and white. Oriental, and, therefore,
scrupulously polite though he was, he could not resist
many a yawn as our enlightened legislators proved
with wearisome minuteness what peril there was in
teaching a child that he believed in God the Father
Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. Mr. Bruce
is not a lively speaker ; but he was eloquence itself com-
pared with Mr. Dixon. He scouted at the outset the idea
that the Government ever meant to supersede the present
system ; they intended only to supplement it in those
districts—the verypoor agricultural parishes and the large
towns—where the voluntary system did not suf-
fice. Turning his back upon the Speaker, he
addressed himself to the Radicals, and his speech
was an answer to their various arguments,
especially to those raised by Mr. Richard, his old rival at
Merthyr. He told them that the jealousy of the parson
had a great deal to do with their opposition, and they
ought to remember that they were better off even in that
respect than they were before, since if the clergyman were
a man of extreme views, he would not be elected to the

school-board. He rebuked the Radicals for their want
of faith in their own pet principle, the Ballot,
as soon as it was applied. The strongest point
of his case was when he shewed that in Ireland
the model country of the Secularist, where religious and
secular education are kept distinct in the Government
schools, the system had altogether failed, and the result
was that three quarters of the children were
now in denominational schools, a pretty clear proof that
the growth of public opinion is not in favour of the secu-
lar system. Mr. Bruce was very much cheered when,
in reply to Mr. Miall's objection that the system would
not last 20 years, he said, give us but five, and
wo will cover the country with schools. He admitted
that he had little faith in compulsion, and then amid
much applause he expressed the mortification of the
Government at the fact that though Dr. Playfair had
endeavoured to carry his debate into the wide issues in-
volved by the bill, the great majority of the speakers had
altogether sunk its national character into a miserable
theological dispute, interesting enough to the
ministers of religion, but utterly without interest
to the parents of the children for whom Parliament
is endeavouring to legislate. Mr. Bruce also repeated,
with no little fervour, Mr. Hardy's question how the
children are to be taught religion if they are not taught
it in the school. He sat down after over an hour's
speech.

By this time the House was very thin, and con•
sequently the number of members who rose to
speak was not so large as before. There were
cries of Henley, and the Speaker attended to
them and called upon the highly respected M.P. for Ox-
fordshire, who is I believe now the Father of the House.
He bears his years well, and there is many a man several
years his junior who looks older. At first it was impos-
sible to hear anything that he said, but he soon
strengthened in voice, thanks to the kind aid of a
friendly M.P. who went out to fetch a glass of water.
Mr. Henley made a speech even more distinctively re-
ligious than those which had gone before. It was followed by
one from Mr. Charles Reed, the Dissenting M.P. for Hack-
ney, and one of the most regular attendants of the House. He,
too, paid no heed to Mr. Bruce's mortification, but argued
the measure solely from the ecclesiastical stand point. He
spoke of tyranny on the part of the clergy, but his charges
would have been more relevant if the clergy had not surren-
dered the power to be tyrannical by accepting a conscience
clause. Towards the close of his speech the division in
the camp of the Radical Opposition whereof rumour had
been talking for the last 24 hours, became apparent.
Mr. Reed was compelled to protest strongly, not only
against secular education, but against the speech of that
incarnation of the Liberation Society, Mr. Miall. It was
seen from this clearly enough that the Dissenters were by
no means at unity among themselves, and that while Mr.
Richard and Mr. Miall, animated by a common hostility
to the Church, could unite for the purpose
of obtaining a secular education, Mr. Morley
and Mr. Reed, whose love for religion is
stronger than their hatred of the Church, would not
accept secularism. With them, a little later in the even-
ing, Mr. Edward Baines joined himself. He, so far from
denouncing denominational education, declared that deno-
minations were the natural fruit of religious liberty in this
country, and he promised that he would support the
Government bill. He was preceded by Mr. Hibbert,
whom, though he sits on the benches behind the Govern-
ment, no one can accuse of any lack of religious
Liberalism. He made a good point by quoting
against Mr. Richard and Mr. Miall the reply
of Mr. Binney, when he refused to join the League on the
ground that to establish a secular system would be the
tyranny of a minority against the great mass of the Eng-
lish people. The member for Oldham then took the sub-
ject out of the religious category, and discussed the ques-
tion of compulsion, urging that it should be made universal,
and not merely permissive. Mr. Gordon is a member not
often heard in the House, and as a Scotch university
member it was fitting that he should reply to Dr. Playfair,
After Mr. Baines came Lord Sandon. His father, the hand-
some Earl of Harrowby, had been in the Peers' Gallery
during the early part of the evening ; but seeing the large
number of members who rose every time that a member
sat down, he left the house, thinking probably that there
was little chance for his son. Lord Sandon, who repre-
sents the borough that Lord Harrowby represented after
the passing of the first Reform Bill, speaks well, and the
House is always ready to listen to him. No little merri-
ment was excited when he asked the Government to give
some security that their promise with regard to the increased
grants, in lieu of the building grants, would be fulfilled.
Lord Sandon was quite willing to trust Mr. Forster, but
how if Mr. Forster should be sent asAmbassador to Japan,

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and that universal favourite, Mr. Ayrtou, should become
Education Minister? That was not more improbable than
that the right hon. gentleman, while professing un-
bounded contempt fer architects and market gardeners,
should become First Commissioner of Works. To Lord
Sandon succeeded that very rising young Chancery
barrister, Mr. Winterbotham, the only member who has
had the courage and the ingenuity to devise a non-sectarian
religious education, and which he says may be stated in
three lines. "Be honest, industrious, and true. Little
children love one another. Do unto others as you would
.they should do unto you." Mr. Winterbotham declared
his allegiance to the Richard-Miall wing of the Non-
con'ormist party, chiefly because the Government intended
to perpetuate the denominational system. A reference to
education- in Ireland, and the lateness of the hour
made members impatient. It had been hoped in
the early part of the evening that there would be a
division last night, and some members still Cherishing the
hope gave. Mr. Winterbotham a broad hint in the shape
of a chorus of "'vide." Such happiness was not in, store for
the House. Stately Lord John Manners was the tie xt
speaker, and he, while promising to support the Government
in going into Committee, indicated several amendments of a
decidedly Conservative character, such as the abandon-
ment of the ballot in electing the school-boards, which he
meant to propose. Black-bearded Mr. Mundella, who has
sprung from the lowest of the ranks which Lord John
Manners once bid perish,in order that our old nobility might
survive, then moved the adjournment of the debate. This
proposition did not much please the House. They would
sooner have Mr. Mundella's speech over at once than have
to go to bed and dream about it, and then awake and
endure it the next morning. Surely it was time to divide,
and a good many hon. members said so. Not those who
had not yet made their speeches, and the multitude of
these was still so great that, after some remarks from Sir
Ranald Knightley and Mr. Walter, Mr. Gladstone
assented to an adjournment on the understanding that the
vote should be taken to-day.
For those who were not tired out there was a lively
scene in store. In the small hours of the morning, when
daylight was filling the House, there was a fierce battle,
fortunately not with, but about, guns ; and the country
squires whose power of " staying " in every sense of the
word, sporting and literal, is always greater than that of
the commeiial members, who have their business to do by
day, divided and divided again until they won a victory,
in the glow of which all other defeats about the Irish
Church and the Irish land seemed pale and insignificant.
They carried an amendment to Mr. Lowe's Gun-tax Bill,
whereby a landowner carrying a gun on land in his own
occupation shall be exempted from paying the tax. The
tax was only ten shillings 3, year ; but it was not the
amount,but the principle—the principle that the landowner is
a privileged person—which the squirearchs prized ; andso,
shortlybeforethree this morning a joyful shout rent the air
and arousedthe sleepy reporters. Really the delight was so
keen and so pleasant to witness that no one would think
of grudging to the party who have few triumphs nowa-
days, the ten shillings which this one cost.

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