The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

§tif tONI3OI- MAY. lB/6.
9._

TOWN TALK.

(From the Western Mail of Saturday.)

LONDON, FRIDAY E7ENING.
a brief i, terVal, it seemed to Me like the old days,
Ler •
L." et to London The lloyal banner fluttered front the
13"„g,3taff of titickighain Palace. Her Majesty, not by proxy,
""111 he!' own reyel P:rspn, held a drawing-room in
3
an'es Palace. Her Majesty with some degree of
!Late ceremonial opened a public building in the metro-
Ale April shower iu May laid the dust upon the
ece4iTi; instead of the lumbering old water carts of the
coaiiiiiisioeei•e; and therefore everybody, as a matter of
vele•eie • e t 6 Not Queen's
, said toevere body else (quite gravely),
eke
'eery,
let homage to that traditional figment which for
Yeere
" has implied that the clerk of the weather is
-"e Most:obsequious c',urtier in the land. Yellow gravel
a""led up St. James's-street, the Horse Guards iu attend-
eine', the mounted and unmounted police of Colonel Hen-
niarshallieg the way, parti-coloured bunting dis-
-I°,l here and there front the windows of Piccadilly, re-
4. 'led for one brief interval the time when he Majesty's
"loges in tho metropolis worn in habit of repeatedly, and not,
vele, exceptionally, indeed, the Sovereign herself
epassing to and fro in their midst. As it was, the Queen's
e6e4:l°''s eppearanc the other afternoon to inaugurate the
and really nob ele home at last provided„ a
itself by the
- ,ie""ti University in Burlington-gardens, was as lipid, I had
11.1110 st said as fugitive, as well could be. With a curious
wentOfpre-arrangeinentastowhether the leading personages
in r"0 be in full dress (full fig, as it is profanely called), or
04linary costume, there was, at least, the aided charm of
tie 19
a Primo Minister in a great coat, an ex-Premier in
tille livery-like Windsor uniform, the Lord Chancellor and
tee chancello • of the Exchequer, each in his glitteriag
Bete"r golden robe of office. The Queen came, looked,
ed to a loyal address, blandly intoned by the Colonial
t etarY, who was officially there as Chancellor of the
r tiversity, the palatial house of which was being inaugu-
lai rated'replied silently handing a gracious answer back in
wa of acknowledgment, pronounced the building
'Peued in. those silvery accents of most cl ar and most
r46)lled articulation that we have all heard too seldom here hi
t ticur of late years—and then—disappeared. Ono had hardly
Fortee that her Majesty was there when she was gone.
64tit elloyal Family it was a busy weee altogether. Scarcely
(Z.; e Sovereign herself opened the London University
oft"
i•diuge, when the Princess Louie assisted at the opening
4 a .
goner Temple Hall, the reconstruction of which (not
°o' too soon) had only just then been completed; Prig e
'•tr h-
atttln being inducted into the gown of a bencher, as a
the - of honorary distinction, to the evident amusement of
wi th i'Oirng Princess. Hardly was this little celebration over,
144 1,8 Courtly ceremonials, when the Heir Apparent pre-
, ed over the Theatrical Fund dinner in the capacity of
tem
•
ids rn'au o that altogether in the fresh bloom of the
,
6Q:111011. London, for once, cannot regard itself as ne-
e'e u
eet e •
by the Court. osi sic saver!
lee-eu expectation, there does really appear to be a pros-
ifr-el3
t of the nroceetiings of the CEcumeuical Council being
4-;,11glIt to a conclusion about midsummer.
th4llo literary expectation of the hour i• that awakened by
announcement that, during this present season, there is
'4Bt to published Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer's eagerly-
fe°kNl for "Life of Lord Palinerston." Those who are
I:4lilier with the great diplomatist's lest brilliant work,
:eribed to his illustrious brother, Lord Lytton, look for-
e:4'cl t 0 Sir Henry's biography of his friend Lord Palmer-
with the greatest eagerness, and, I will add, with the
faille,t coufidence.
The artistic--unhappily, I can't say expectation, but I
term' at any rate, say longiug—desire and wish at heart is
that the Royal cademy cou for once beak
1,14°44b its rules by electing Holmanld Hunt as RA. r
(in
hir.° of the late Dani,i Maclise) he acclamation, if only the
' •ba "Y-liine would, just kir once, in this purely exceptional
t
40444°,et', break through their own hitherto inflexible regula-
At tt,
e Newavenders', or, rather, at the Newspaper Press
11.41,', Dinner the other evening—where, with Mr W
ritsith, the member for Westminster, in the chair, the
o' t
matt for once was certainly in the right place—a good
of tl of amusement was caused by the allusion made in one
tde mere facetious speeches of the night to the fact of
Cn being seated there, "cheek by jowl," Monsignore
the
t'il(lxpularly identified with the Monsignore Catesby of
ei-Premier'e new novel of "Lothair") and that arch-foe
Isietl° toensignore's whole order, the senior member for
ihe"4l Werw. 1- 1 're Mr, Newdegate, in spite of the amuse-
.
,‘ caused by this little incidental reference, replied with
teet7oc,(Hoing .ravity to the toast of the " House of Com-
e, '
414'.,treeag.ant as it sounds, and. as. of course it is for that
‘ter, if regarded in its full significance, the aspiration
Aired by V Disraeli's last hero, the patrician million-
r*
Lothair, for the extinction of pauperism, practical
verynthropists hardly yet realise to themselves how
to may be done (if one only sets the right way
p ("to "oil() towards the effecting of its steady, rapid; and
thill •
Y appreciable diminution. " Proof " positive of
Da' lies before me as I write, in less than a dozen small
4:8 of printed matter, setting forth, in the shape of a
rtiotellert, the results of but very little more than one
ka.'‘}l'e labour (from the 14th of February to the 31st of
eiZell, 1870) of the. Paddington Committee for Organising
oi7eitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity. I turn to
ttiedB,i,ngle page of this First Report, page 3, and I there
'oat in compliance with a request from the Paddington
4°1'14 tee for Organising Charitable Relief and Repress-
toridieity, Colonel llenderson placed five plain-clothes
Deheectives on duty in that district in addition to the five
Vgeltoently on duty there—with what results, think you?
etch. With results no less surprising than these within the
thi ioterval of one fortnight ! During the first week of
• 43he Pecial service, that is during the week ending
27th of February, 36 mendicants were arrested !
of ;larch--seven
the next week, the week ending on the 6th
;!aroll---seven ! The committee, observe, work-
-4114 It on one side only, but on both sides equally
simultaneously—with one hand, as it were,
l'errye3 destitute,
mendicity, with the other lifting up the
kiom.e3titute, granting relief in kind with_ careful discri-
-1300, ,I.°ll, apportioning bread and coal and dinner and
obtaining admission to hospitals, affording
kimfibles for emigration, procuring employment for all
tee, °f unfortunate people out of work, mechanics, mes-
heedi'erB, labourers, porters, domestic servants, charwomen,
the ewomen, and so forth. A committee, surely, after
for IN-e4rt of Mr. Davenport Bromley, the junior member
the ,').1111 Warwickshire ! A committee that must, by
toinant keynote of its first report, strike a thrill of
1o!aI•11.Y on the heart-strings of the Marquis of
,
1112,411 g seems hardly to have commenced when we are
kiCY in the midst of sweltering heats like those of
141,11°41er. The difficulty of the climate is that one hardly
vit 3' even after long experience, how to have at it—
for for th r to clothe oneself like an Esquimaux, or to go in
trolls:t bread-brimmed Panama hat of the tropics, jean
14.0r8, and it light jacket made of that seemingly un-
at Est will
material nowadays, nankeen. Our only plan
4rearv"vill be for the fashionable frequenters of that
ivit':etiag round Hyde Park to take changes of raiment
auf4, era on setting out for that heart-wearying crawl (it
the"::l3' the merest absurdity to speak of it as a drive) in
!ieree4tetr-halting, frequently dead-locked, procession. By
aft: such arrangement the monotonous insipidity of the
Of h-trurtight be very pleasantly varied, the requirements
earefa.""u being consulted at the same time. Veiled by the
variatr blinds during the period of disrobing for these
NlAt-T3 of the toilette, as many varieties of costume
tette, e:cfluer a single airing as in all the transformation
1"1.%414;,11 °x.ilig-night, or in all the burlesques of Easter
-1
etld„,J; During this last fortnight the atmosph of
nag bee while in temperature like thatere of an
44.0118 e, and another like the radiating morn of the
he sell Hummums. I have alternately longed for
,41)D mufflers (with the pile inwards) of the well-
kah°a-Ted Russian traveller, and for the winnowing pun-
talirthe Indian bungalow' No wonder Englishmen
er tcloeh about the w eather It gives them—by the
c'ree of surprise—reason to. do so everlastingly.
f
-1)411da. 'l°n• Arthur Kinnaird M.P. will lay the
tlozi
Sto
kl,reeettor, with
of the new asylum at . Hornsey Rise, in
w Ith the Aged Pilgrims' Friend Society, to-
ss
ert--"NT•J—Avoid Medicines—they always aggrevs.le
teelia,letu 7plaints; but Du Barry's delicious health-restoringr
1 p 0 recut
abticuale Food, which yield threesitSeost in eoeth'erereemejedies,
Sizls restaotier peeerfesct timesdigestion, strong nerves, sound
triteflty,„.4l3' liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re
b„- ,revr',,lerB"Y to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex-
''''/),:,asarri't of tho 68,000 cures:—" he" Pope's health restored
4httrici 4ealte Pood. Cure No. 68,413. Home, July 21, 1866.
ensea a„of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since,
Rt, ia_tt other remedies, he has confined. him_seelfeoenuBtlrneel3
" Revale
la '4l etl evozv uta Arabica Thx:4'.ott walliset:prtingly ITenes-
k!lt foo,?et on , his pr.oamecannot
praise
this eloo itealth,
,xO, of 't'Y.--Froamndthe4H‘Gaohnzeettess du Midi," July 25. Cure
,41141,84 at, wait Marchioness de Brehati, of seven yearn' lives
.I",'Sling away debility, nervousness, with a nervous
que-40at ei-ee,°ver, bad' digestion, constant sleeplessness, and
(1), rt de o:eft-Table nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord.
(14:1)4. VeR, LOrd-Lielltettallt of Waterford, of many years
19,832 " Fifty years' indescribable agoly from
.„rvousness, asthma, cough, cons4ation, flatulency
Aana Nir'ClleSB, and g.—Maria Jolly." —Cure No.
141 D. janles Robertvso,mif nFrimleq, Surrey of 30 years'
448.31 deale„L 'Tilting of o blood, liver dertingement, and ‘sthol?itry • Important Gaution.--Beware of the many
244 arer.e !hat: sloppy imitations t 9 which, without
pib,4 1 at 1, lid jeibing3's name is most audaluty
.atitle2o.s
'.LvbeipAlteia Pa,.° B.A.:3BIY?adItII3II,IAbLiERNIC(AI. RSIBICAL6HOCOLATI
!oett canisters: for cups at 2s, fer249Lis
h._qie aOoat on'en t 6 , for 2eB cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s
x •PertnY Per cup. The :Os and 55s tins are sent
411 %%4130440 k.-sugland on receipt of Post Office Order.—
and ohiand Co., No. 77, Regard-street, London aid

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
THE EMPEROR ON THE PLEBISCITE-

Whatever blunders, observes the Times, M. Emile
011ivier and other members of the French Imperial
Government may have committed, no than will doubt that
the Emperor himself well knows what he means to say;
and says it to the best purpose. He has, perhaps, hardly
over been more explicit; more self-reliant and determined;
than in his speech of Saturday last. There are two pointi
On which the Emperor will accept no compromise. ' The
first is that of his own sovereign rights and those of his
dynasty ; the other concerns his undivided supremacy over
the country's destinies. The Eniperor Napoleon, it must be
Understood, is entitled to reign, and he intends to rule.
His Government is to be " all for the people, nothing by
the people," except insomuch that the people's assent
may, at the Sovereign's own pleasure, be solicited when
needed. The Emperor is only tenant of the national
sovereignty of France. The lease may require occasional
renewal, but the management of the estate is his exclusive
concern. If the happiness of the French people mainly
consists in a release from the troubles of self-
government, they have every reason to be thankful to
the Sovereign who takes so much of that trouble
upon himself. The new lease of power which the Pl -
biscite has conferred upon the Emperor Napoleon has the
same basis as that on which his power was established by
former votes—the people's distrust in the possibility of
reconciling freedom with order. The immense majority
of the French nation seem unable to conceive any middle
course between peesonal rule and mob .rule. A well-
defined tangible evil is more endurable to them than an
unknown and unlimited peril. But if they recover from
their panic, if they look upon their position with becoming
calmness, and count up their gains and losses in the cause
of self-government since last January, they will see that
enough scope is left for liberal aspirations, even within the
limits of the programme by which the Emperor has just
ushered in his new system. The French have nothing to
hope from Revolution. The task assigned to them is the
promotion of their own iiberties, and those liberties, we
are convinced, may be extorted under any imaginable
system of government, and under none so easily as under
the new Imperial Constitution, provided the war be
waged on legal grounds, provided free opinion never
degenerates into factious licence, provided opposition
avoids every suspicion of complicity with Revolution.
Count Daru and the Constitutional party, a few months
ago, won a clear game against Imperialism. It was
Rochefort-and the Marseillaise that enabled Imperialism
to have its revenge.

The Standard says that Napoleon the Third has made a
good many speeches during the twenty years ho has ruled
France, but he has never spoken in language more suit-
able to the occasion, and never, we will venture to assume,
to more useful effect, than he did last Saturday, in ac-
knowledging the formal announcement of the result of
the plebiscite, made to him in the Salle des Etats, by the
President of the Legislative Body. The plebiscite,
says the Emperor, had for its sole object the
ratification by the people of a constitutional reform,
but amid the conflict of opinions, and the excite-
ment of the ' struggle, the discussion was carried
beyond this. The adversaries of our institutions have
raised the question between the Revolution and the Em-
pire. The country has solved it in favour of the system
which guarantees order and liberty. The interest, even
more than the honour, of Napoleon the Third is involved
in the honest acceptance, in the spirit, as well as in the
letter, of the new Constitution. We never conceived it
possible that he would be deluded by the immense ma-
jority in favour of the plebiscite to attempt
to render the plebiscite itself null and void, to
murder the Constitution it sanctioned. The Emperor's
direct reference.to the great question of the hour, the in-
vitation to the country to aid him in dealing with it,
is an appeal which the true Liberals of France must not—
we hope we may say cannot—resist. They may not
have liked the plebiscite, but the plebiscite is over, and
whatever the objections to it, it has given a solemn
sanction to a constitutional reform which practically re-
stores to France self-government. The Sovereign whom
that popular vote seats more firmly upon the throne,
whilst limiting his prerogatives, summons men of all
parties to join him in giving France the real liberty she
needs—the liberty of local self-administration—the only
solid basis of political liberty ; he summons them to aid
him to diffuse education, and the state of popular educa-
tion in France is a shame and a scandal to the nation. Is
is possible that the appeal will be made in vain? Is it
possible, in other words, that France is still unripe for
freedom and self-government ?

THE DECLARATION. OF THE PLEBISCITE
The ceremony of formally announcing to the Emperor
Napoleon the results of the late Plebiscite was performed
on Saturday in the Salle des Etat§ of the Louvre. Some
changes had been made in the arrangeMents usual upon
similar occasions. The EinPress at the opening of the
Chambers occupies a gallery on the right of the Throne,
but on Saturday her Majesty *as placed near the Emperor
upon. the dak On, the right of the EinperOr was the
Prince Imperial, and next to bfin Prince Napoleon. On
the left of the Empress were the Princess Napoleon,
Princess Murat, and Princess Mathilde. Behind the
Imperial family were ranged—on the left the great digni-
taries of the Empire, and on the right the Ministers.
His Majesty wore the uniform of a General of Divi-
sion, and the Prince Imperial that of a-Sous Lieutenant.
The Empress wore a dress of buff-coloured lutestring,
with a train.

The members of the Conseil d'Etat were seated upon
benches adjoining those of the Senators—a departure from
former arrangements, when they were placed behind the
Imperial family—but upon this occasion the Emperor
received all the great bodies of the State, and not the
Senators and the Deputies alone.
The appearance of the hall when the ceremony com-
menced was perfectly dazzling. The Corps Diplomatique,
in full costume, occupied their tribune, on the right of the
throne. In a gallery to the left were seated the Dames
d'llonneur of the Empress and the wives of the great dig-
nitaries. When the Emperor entered the hall he was
loudly cheered, as were also the Empress and the
Prince Imperial. The acclanations Were prolonged
until their Majesties had taken their places upon the
dais.

The President of the Corps Legislatif, M. Schneider,
then advanced to the Emperor and delivered the following
speech :
" Sir,—The Corps Legislatif is rejoiced to lay before
your Majesty the solemn reply which the nation by
7,350,000 suffrages has just returned to the Plebiscite
which you submitted to it. In complete accordance of
ideas with the striking manifestation, we offer to the Em-
perorethe Empress, and the Prince Imperial our homage
and our congratulation. It is noW 18 years since France,
wearied with confusion, and anxious for security, con-
fiding in your genius and in that Napoleonean dynasty,
placed in your hands, together with the Imperial Crown,
the authority and the power which the public necessities
demanded. The expectation of the nation has not been
disappointed. Social order was speedily restored, and
great things were done. All classes of society have found
their welfare promoted. Agriculture, commerce, and
manufactures have made advances to an extent hitherto
unknown, and, together with the increasing public pros-
perity, France has also witnessed the extension of her
influence abroad. But from the first your Majesty has
looked forward to the time when this concentration of
power would no longer correspond to the aspirations of a
tranquil and reassured country, and, foreseeing the pro-
gress of modern society, you proclaimed that liberty must
be the crowning of the edifice. Thus a noble enterprise,
which will form the eternal honour of your reign,
tempted you, and you determined to secure to French-
men one of the highest positions among free
nations. The dates of November 24, 1860, and January
19, 1867, attest your generous initiative and your patriotic
designs. Later, when universal suffrage had declared
its liberal tendencies, when the Corps Ligislatif expressed
similar desires, your Majesty, assured of our co-operation,
did not hesitate with a self-abnegation unprecedented
in history to lay down the bases of the Parliamentary
empire. But, faithful to the great principle upon
which your Government is founded, you were unwilling
that so important a modification of the power conferred
upon you by the free will of the people should be made
without the direct participation of the entire nation. As-
sembled in their electoral districts after your reign of 20
years, the people, now in its absolute independence, and
under conditions which' attest the progress and virility.
of our public customs, has pronounced its approbation
with a degree of unanimity the force of which cannot be
denied by any one. In welcoming the new form of the
Empire by more than seven millions of suffrages, the na-
tion, with an instinctive appreciation of its interests and
its greatness, says to you, ' Sire, France is with you.
Proceed confidently in the path of practicable progress,
and establish liberty upon the bases of respect for the laws
and the Constitution.' France places the cause of liberty
under the protection of your dynasty and of the great
bodies of the State."

The speech of M. Schneider was frequently applauded
during its delivery, and at its termination the Emperor
replied :

" Gentlemet—ln receiving from your hands the census
of the votes, given on the Bth of May, my first thought
is to express my thanks to the nation, which, for the
fourth time during twenty-two years, has given me a
spiking token of its confidence. Universal suffrage, the
elements of which are renewed without cessation, never-
theless preserves in its mobility a persevering will. It has
for its guidance its tradition, the safety of its instincts,
and the firmness of its sympathisers.
" The plebiscite had for its sole object the ratification
by the people of a constitutional reform, but amid the
conflict of opinions, and in the excitement of the struggle,
the discussion was carried beyond this.
" Let us not regret this. The adversaries of our insti-
tution have raised the question between the revolution
and the Empire. The country has solved it in favour of
the system which guarantees order and liberty.
" The Empire now finds itself strengthened upon its
base. It will show its force by its moderation.

"My Government will cause the laws to be executed
without partiality, as well as without weakness.
" It will not deviate from the liberal course which it
has traced.

" Respecting all right, it will protect all interests wah-
out keeping in mind dissentient votes and hostile
manoeuvres. But it will also know how to make re-
spected the national will which has been so energetically
manifested, and will maintain it in itself, and also above
all controversy.
" Freed from the constitutional questions which divide
the best minds, we must have but one object in view. To
rally round the Constitution which has just been sanc-
tioned by the country, by the honest men of all parties, to
insure public security, to calm party passions, to preserve
the social interests from the contagion of false doctrines,
to find by the aid of the, highest intellects the means of
increasing the greatness and prosperity of France, to dif-
fuse education, to simplify the administrative machinery,
to carry activity from the centre where it superabounds
to the extremities where it is wanting; to introduce into
our codes of laws, which are monuments, the improve-
ments justified by experience; to multiply the general
agencies of production and riches ; to promote apiculture
and the development of public works ; and, finally, to
consecrate our labour to this problem, always resolute and
always seeking to find the best reparation of the burthens
which press upon the tax payers. Such is our programme.
In realising it our nation, by the free expansion of its
powers, will advance the progress of civilisation.
" I thank you, gentlemen, for your presence on this
solemn °cession, and weigh the affirmative votes, which
ratified those of 1848, 1851, and 1852, also strengthen your
powers, and give to you as to me new strength to work for
the good of the country.
" We must at the present time more than ever look
fearlessly forward to the future. Who indeed could be
opposed to the progressive march of a dynasty founded by
a great people in the midst of political disturbances, and
which is fortified by liberty."

SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A PIC-NIC
PARTY IN INDIA. •

The Bombay Gazette gives particulars of a fats' occurrence
which happened to a pic-nic party on the 23d ult. at Ban-
don/ Hill. The party, which was composed of about 30
adies and gentlemen, left Bombay at five o'clock, in two
omnibuses and several private carriages, and after passing
two or three hours very pleasantly iu the bungalow of the
Hon. Byraujee Jejeebboy at Baudora Hill, which had been
placed at their service, began the return journey about
i eleven. Two of three private carriages went on n
front, followed by the omnibuses, in each' of which
there were about ten persons, some on the top
and some inside. The horses of the first omnibus
soon became somewhat unmanageable, and at a sharp
turn at the foot of the hill the vehicle came in contact
with the parapet of a well and upset. Madame Vinay, Miss
Phillips, and Mr. P. A. Oldfield were thrown sheer into the
well—a depth, to the surface of the water, of about 90
feet. Mr Oldfield was rescued by the valiant exertions of
Mr. Briscoe of the Peninsular and Oriental service), but the
two ladies, who had no doubt been stunned by striking the
wall of the well, were drowned.

The Volunteers bad a field day on Saturday in the
Regent's Park, Bushey Park, and Wimbledon Common.
The meeting at Bushey was the most successful, as the
London Brigade and the 2 4th Middlesex mustered 500
strong each. The St. Georges and 49th (Post Office) were
also btrongly represented. The officer in chmmand, Colonel
Taylor, the inspecting officer, complimented the respective
corps on their efficiency.
ADELPIII THEATRE.—:Mrs. Alfred Mellon an-
nounces her benefit for Wednesday next, on which occasion
a remarkably attractive performance will take place. In
addition to Mr. Byron's new drama and burlesque, Mr. J.
L4Toole will appear, for this night only, iu his great part
of Paul Pry ; but irrespective of the entertainments Mrs.
Mellon is so great a publi • favourite that the mere announce-
ment of her benefit would be quite sufficient to ensure the
house being crowded in every part.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUltli'S . TELEGRAMS).
FRANCE:
PARIS; MAY 23.

An Imperial deCree, dated the 21st inst.., has been pub-
lished this morning appointing M. Ollivier Minister of
Foreign Affairs ad into irn during the absence of the Duke
de Granimoift..