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doubt. That Mr. Disraeli is prepared to- pay it,
and to " educate " his followers into the belief
that it is a capital bargain, we as little doubt.
That the Conservatives will consent to be so edu-
cated we do very much doubt.
It is at this critical juncture that the Easter recess
-has arrived. It offers a time for reflection free from
the heats of debate which often obscure the soundest
judgment. It. remains to be seen how the interval
will be used. The policy of the Radicals is unmis-
takeable. They are employing the holiday in foment-
ing, as they so well know how to do, the opposition
to the Government. England does not care much
for the Land Bill, and so it is the Education Bill
which the Radicals use for their object on this
side of the water. The course of the moderate
Liberals is nearly equally certain. They are showing
their usual indolence and short-sightedness. They
hug themselves in the belief that Mr. Gladstone
still possesses a majority of 112, forgetting that in
the crucial division of Friday we3k it was
reduced to 32, and heedless of the fact that many
more such victories would be worse than a defeat. The
Conservatives, so far as they are mere party politicians
thinking more of office than of their country,
watch the coming storm—the daily increasing disin-
tegration of the most powerful Ministry of modern
times—with eager expectation, longing for the time
when they will once more be installed on the Minis-
terial benches, and prepared to carry any
measures that a Liberal House of Commons
may require of a Conservative Ministry on
sufferance. Of these three parties the first is
the only one which rightly appreciates the position
and which has a clear idea of what it wants, and of
the means of attaining it. There is no need for the
Radicals to alter their tactics. It we wished them
success we could not do otherwise than exhort them
to persevere with their present agitation= To the
second we would' put one question—Do you not
think it is time that you made some sort of demon-
stration in behalf of your leaders and their policy ;
in behalf, that is, of a moderate land bill,
and of an education bill which does not outrage
the first principles of liberty by forbidding
the teaching of religion ? To the Conservatives, so
far as they are not mere party politicians, we would
say, Aro you prepared to work this time not only
and unconsciously for, but knowingly with, the ex-
treme Radicals? Are you prepared to assert with
Mr. Mill the right of the minority to prohibit reli-
gious teaching ? Are you prepared to revolutionise
property by granting fixity of tenure? Are you pre-
pared, in fact, to take another—two other—leaps in
the dark and (so that you may rest for a little while
on the Treasury benches), alighting eventually you
know not and care not where ? We will
not believe it. We rather ask the Conservatives
to study well during this Easter recess—not the
organs of the Liberal party—not even independent
opinions like our own, but their own organ, which
has done them good service in times past, and
which they might have read to greater advan-
tage four years ago. In the Quarterly Review,
just issued, there is an article entitled
" Government dealing with Irish Crime." It
is a thoroughly Conservative article ; it severely re-
bukes Ministers for not having introduced their
Peace Preservation Bill at the beginning of the Ses-
sion, and it considers that Mr. Gladstone is personally
responsible for the delay, which Mr. Chichester
Fortescue urged him to terminate. Nevertheless,
the Quarterly Review highly commends not only that
bill, but. the Land Bill as well. Alterations and im-
provements in the latter measure are undoubt-
edly suggested, but this is the verdict passed
by the ablest of the Conservative organs upon
this measure." In the main, Ministers have followed
the path which we traced out in January as the only
one which they could safely or equitably tread; and
they have avoided most of the errors which we then
stigmatised, and into which the noisier and more
imperious of their clients and supporters sought to
hurry them. Are the Conservatives prepared to
endorse this verdict practically, or do they mean to
sanction that most monstrous of political combina-
tions which we are just now witnessing in county
Lon ford, a " Tory Nationalist ?"

The Earl and Countess Russell and family ar
expected home the week after next froni spending the winter
in Italy.

The Marquis of Bath is lying seriously ill at his
residence in Berkeley-square.
His Grace the Duke of Manchester says that
neither of his sons are in Greece, so that the reported cap-
ture of one of them by the brigands is untrue. It is Lord
Muncaster, and not the Duk3 of Manchester, who has been
captured by the brigands in Greece. Miss L'Estrange, a
sister of LaJy Muncaster, is also in the hands of the bri-
gands. • _ _

Sir George Bootb, Bart., is recovering from his
savere illness.

The harvest prospects in Ireland are reported to be
of the most favourable character.

It is not probable that Lieutenant-General Sir
Richard Airey will succeed Sir James Yorke Scarlett in
the command of the Aldershot division.

Thirty-two War Office clerks have applied for the
retirement offered by the Secretary of State. This is the
last day for volunteers for retirement.

It is stated., that a writ for £l,OOO damages has
been served upon a Tipperary priest for violence at the
late election.

The Bishop of Moray and Ross has refused the
Bishopric of Edinburgh which was offered to him, pre-
ferring to remain in his present diocese.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with their
three esdest children, are staying with the Queen at
Osborne.

Five individuals were executed on Wednesday at
Borcelona, who had been condemned for robberies and
murders committed in March last.

Although at least 120,000 visitors were at Green-
wich on Good Friday, there were only three cases in which
persons were charged with drunkenness before the raagis_
trate this morning.

M. Guizot is unwell, and has kept his room for
some days. No immediate danger is apprehended, but
considering the venerable statesman's age, his friends are
naturally anxious about him.

The foreign animals brought by sea to ports in
Great Britain in March which have been found to be af-
fected with any conta,,,rioue disease numbered 88, all of
which were slaugLtered by order of Customs.

The Sporting Gazette hears that Sir Edwin Land-
seer's large picture of Voltigeiw, upon which he has been
so long engaged, will form one of the principal attractions
at the forthcominz Exhibition of the Royal Academy.

Festival celebrations at the two Inns of the Temple
are in contemplation. A ball or some similar entertainment
is projected in connection with the opening of the new ball
of the Inner Temple, whilst the Middle Temple will for
onco make a popular 1130 of its magnificent hall.
CAPTURE OF A LARGE SALMON AT CORBY.—On
Tuesday evening last, whilst a lady was walking on the
Wetheral side of the Corby boat pool, she noticed a large
salmon playing in tho river. Miss Hall, daughter of M.
Howard's fishernian, was rowing in the river at the time,
and on being told by the lady what she had seen she in-
formed her father; but sport had only boen bad during the
day, and he reluctant about throwing another line. How-
ever, he was prevailed upon to try again, and in about six
minutes he hooked and landed a salmon weighing twenty-
two pouuds. The fish was gaffed by a gentleman who came
up at the time.

The Sheffield Independent says that Mr. Mundella's
explanation of the reasons which prompted him not to
give evidence to the Parliamentary committee with re-
spect to the Sheffield Corporation Gas Bill, has given
" extreme satisfaction " to his friends.

The New York Supreme Court has set aside .Tudge
Barnard's injunction staying the proceedings of Mr.
Ramsey, of the Suarluebanna line against Messrs. Gould
and Fisk. Mr. Ramsey will, therefore, carry on his suit
against Mr. Gould simultaneously with that of Mr.
Burt.

Festival celebrations at the two Inns of the Temple
are in contemplation. The Law Times .believes that a
ball or some similar entertainment is projected in con-
nection with the opening of the new Hall of the Inner
Temple, whilst the Middle Temple will for once make
popular use of its magnificent hall.
It is the intention of boating men in this country
(says the New York, Turf, Field and Farm) to select a
Prew, consisting of Bernard Biglen, Joseph Ward, John
Biglen, and Walter Brown, to row the winning crew
of the coming four-oared race between England and
Cads,.

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IIER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Apil 17.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise toil the Priucess of Walps,
dro.:e oat ye terday afternoon.

he o•her !numbers of the Royal Family also
webt out.

Her Majesty and the Royal Family and the Ladies
and Gentlemen in Waiting attended Divine service
at Whii..pinghain Church this morning.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

ROME, April 16.
Cardinal Gonella died here yesterday evening.

FRANCE.

PARIS, April 17.

It is stated that all electors will receive a printed
let er from the Emperor, explaining the signification
of the I'lebiscitum.

BOURSE, April 16.—Three o'clock—The marlet
closed as follows :

if per Cent.
per Cents 73 70
End of month 73 771
lrodit Mobilier 270
Transatlantic 2OO

*rorlit Fonder l2BO
Paris Gas.. 1695
Suez Canal 3OO
• RAILWA

Bank Shares 2805
Itt.F.an wives 55 50
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt... 4B 10
Spanish Threes 28 25
Home Debt —
Deferred ......

Cash
Orleans
Western
Northern
Strasburg
Lyons and Mediterranean .. . 1030
Southern.... 605
•
Sardiniansl
Austrian
Lombard '
North of Spain
-4
Saragossa
Roman 49

AUSTRALIA.
(By British Indian Cable.)
MELBOURNE, March 29.

A Parliamentary cris's has occurred. The Ministry
have been defeated ;ind their resignation is expected.
A pension of £I,ODO per annum has been voted to
Lady Darling. A severe drought prevails.
The mail steamer Malta takes to Galle 88,375 oz.
of gold and £67,750 in sovereigns.
The Lochness has also sai'ed with 2,875 oz., and
the George Thompson with 2,625.

The homeward Australian mail steamer arrived at
Galle on Monday, April 18.

ADELAIDE, March 29.
The genl-ral elections to the Legislative Assembly
are Low proceeding.

SYDNEY, March 27.
The Legislative Assembly have voted the Budget
ai submitted by the Ministry.
Heavy floods have occurred.
The first of the new lint; of mail steamers to Eng-
land, via San Francisco, sailed yesterday.
Trade is dull. Wheat 62 pence per bushel.
Advices from New Zealand siate that hos'ilities
continued, and that Te Boots had again escaped.

AMERICA.
(By Cable).
NEW YORK, April 16.
The North Gelman Lloyd steamer Bremen ar-
lived here at 3 a.m. to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Go'.d clos,d at 111 ; the highest quotation during the day
was 1131 ; the lowest, 113-1.
Sterling Exchange on London
5-20 U. S. Bends, 1882
-a
1885 'llll
•
71 1867
10-40 „
Illinois
Erie
Cotton—Mid. upland
Petroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra State, 81 50e. to $5 10c. Corn—Old
mixed, $1 11c,

AIR. CANDLISH .M.P., ON THE EDUCATION

BILL.

The speech which Mr. Candlish made to his constituents
at Sunderland, on Wednesday, was in great measure
devoted to the Education Bill. Referring to the religious
clauses in the bill he observed that he for one could not
accept in principle, nor could he see his way to give effect
in practice, to these clauses as they now stood. One clause,
as they were aware, provided for denominational or
sectarian education. Of course, a national system to be
worthy of acceptance at all must have within itself
the element of essential justice, and to apply that
to the denominational principle they would be bound to
provide that every religion should have a school of its
own. If they cast their eyes over the different sections
into which the Christian communities of their own town
were divided, they would find at once how exceedingly
difficult it would be to find children enough to fill even a
single school of a particular denomination. But let
them take a smaller town. Go to Houghton-le-Spring,
a place of 5,000 or 6,000 inhabitants, and there they
would find some six or eight different religious
denominations. Well, then, to act under the denomina-
tional system, and make it just, it was perfectly clear that
they must have a school for every religious sect in that
place. This, he considered, was a practical impossibility.
For his own part he quite accepted the secular system.
He believed it could be maintained in logic, and that it
could be maintained on the ground of justice; but logic
did not govern the affairs of this world, nor yet did it
govern the Legislature of this kingdom. The purely secu-
lar education would not be acceptable to more than a
minority of the people of the country, although that mino-
rity might be a large one, and hence a secular system of
education could not and would not be a national system.
In considering how much further than the threee R's
they ought to go, it should be added that the whole com-
munity of the Dissenters, who so strongly, desired non-
sectarian education, did not object
.to the authorised
version of the Bible ; the Episcopalians did not object
to it ; neither did the Nonconformist bodies. The con-
clusion, therefore, to which he had inevitably been driven
was that the undcnominational, unsectarian teaching of
the Bible by the schoolmasters was the system open to
the least objection, and that this with a conscience clause
might solve the religious difficulty, and form the basis of
a national system, , .

A Papal Bull has been received at Toronto, con-
stituting- the Toronto diocese an Archiepiscopal See, and
promoting BiFhop Lynch to be Archbishop.
A TELEGRAPHIC UOMMERCIAL NEWSPAPER.—
The Lombard Telegraphic News Company (Limited) an-
nounce that they have completed arrangements for
the early publication of a journal of commer-
cial intelligence, entitled The Lombard Telegraphic
News. The Directors state that as a purely
commercial paper, local and general politics will be
avoided, and that it will interfere with no existing paper, but
work out a speciality of its own. While giving attention
to foreign reports, commercial and home news will form
the bulk of the intelligence.
STARTLING DISCOVERY AT CAMBRIDGE.—TIIO
Provost of King's College, Cambridge, is about having
his lodge extended, and the workmen employed for this
purpose discovered a skeleton while excavating the soil
the other day. The bones were carefully put together,
and an eminent surgeon sent for, who pronounced the
skeleton to be that. of a human body, an adult, but
owing to the thigh bones and lower extremities being
broken and decayed, it was uncertain whether the
skeleton was that of a man or a woman. The teeth were
in a good state of preservation, although the body is sup.
posed to have been buried some 200 years. The skeleton
was discovered about 7ft. deep. The college gardener,
under the directions of the Provost, buried the skeleton
again on Thursday evening, at nine o'clock.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Mcssts. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wido celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Morning. Evening
MONDAY 40 min past 3 58 min past 3
TuEsnAY 20 min past 4 45 min past 4
WEDNESDAY
TuxitsraY 5O mill past 5 17 min past 6
Faxppc,,...,,i. 43 Dalll past 6_,.„,.„12 Lain past 7

TOWN TALK.

("om the Western Mail of Saturday.)
LONDON, Friday Evening.

Could not Mr. Tenniel oblige us all with a cartoon
of a lost historical possibility, as suggested en Mon-
day night (immediately after the Budget), by that
preposterously incongruous colleague of Professor
Fawcett's, Mr. James White, or, as one always feels
tempted to call h'in, the wrong member for Brighton,
just as the admirers of James Montgome,3 , cf Shef-
field, used wickedly to c .11 the Reverend Robert,
"the wrong Mr. Mont pinery ?" The suggestion of
our unwic'dly Anglo-Lbines.3 Falstaff being no!hing
less utterly ridiculous than the notion of Mr. Lowe
enacting for once (if only he had thought better of
it !) the Menken like part of Lady Godiva. Not
that the oetical allusion is by any means
new; being, a; it is, about as threadbare a simile as
that terrible New Zealander that Lord Macaulay
must so often have repented ever having imagined on
a broken arch of London Bridge sketching the ruins
of St. Paul's. Only that the' Poet Laureate's meta-
phorical indiscretion is entirely new as applied thus
ludicrously to the blonde graces of our shy and reti-
cent Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It was the fortune of Mr. Lowe on Monday even-
ing so far to resemble the fat knight whose name was
only just now mentioned incidentally, that, besides
being with himself, if -not the cause of wit in others=
'1
he was provocative of this outrageously nonsensica
re-application of a worn out similitude. Having no
ambition to earn the gratitude of the people, accord-
ing co Mr. White, like Lady Godiva, who

"Took the tax away Lwhich tax? I
And built herself an everlasting fame."

Mr. Lowe, we are told, has frittered away a mag-
nificent surplus of very nearly £5,000,000, without any
very consolatory remission of anything in the shape of
indirect taxation. For all that, I have, for one, the
remembrance of having listened with a sort of p'ea-
sure to that Budget speech of Mond ty evening,
during the delivery of which the lips of the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, if not dropping pearls and pre-
cious stones like the Arabian Princes, seemed ulti-
mately to mumble a lump of delight or an acidulated
drop like Pussy's in the new green number. The
remissions were, several of them at hny rate, delicious.
The biggest lump of them all, sticky and saccharine
in the mere naming of it,, being, of course, that one
whole half (if the Irishistn be allowable) of the sugar
duty amounting, in one luscious blob, to £2,350,000.
Another lovely morceau, "melting away," as Keats
wrote of the over-ripe nectarine, " like a large
beatified strawberry," was the odd penny on the
Income Tax representing a trifle over another cool
million. These two rather ample tit-bits, being
powdtired or candied all about, as by• a plentiful
sprinkling of comfits, with remitted imposts like
those hitherto inseparable from foot hawking, soap
making, card selling and so forth, to the tune one
way or another of a supplementary or miscellaneous
quarter of a million. Then, as to those witticisms,
tart phras2s, shrewd sarcasms, or what not,
compared a while since to intermingling of
acidulated drops, they were certainly abundant
enough to enliven the tedium otherwise inseparable
from a financial statement, insomuch that
time and again the house fairly roared with irre-
pressible bursts of laughter. Even chance interrup-
tions drew forth the ready gibe or apropos taste of
persiflage, as when, asked by a member below the
gangway to turn in that direction, the reply was,
" I'm afraid I can't play the part sustained by the
character in The Pilgrim's Progress,' called 'Mr.
Facing-both-ways.' " So, too, with all the fun poked
at the brewers, dexterously and delicately in between
the small ribs. Even the members for Derby and
E.-:st Stafford could find no sting in the jesting
dialogue between the Parliarrient.tty committee and
the confiding publ.can (and sinner)—Query : " Bow
do you retail it?" (meaning the beer). Answer :
" Why, Sir (with a solemn look), we dash it." Q. :
" What do you mean by dashieg is ?" " A.: " We
turns the New River irto it." And se, too, in regard
to the Ch incellor of the Exchequer's comparison of
s)ap to the Ulster custom, there being no legal
definition of it—together t ith other quips and crankS
and verbal facetim that tickled almost every one but
the smileless member. for North Warwickshire, and
two bewildered Orientals in white turbans, seated
in the Speaker's gallery, into peals of merriment.
According to Mr. Lowe's way of putting it, one of
the drollest practical jokes out is the annual re-dis-
tribution of misery by that great official taxing-
machine, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. And,
judging from the bearing of the House on Monday,
John Bull, as seen through his popular representa-
tion, has, under Mr. Lowe's dexterous manipulation,
certainly learnt to grin and bear it.
While, here, in England, the Ministry has con-
trived to slide smoothly into the Easter holida3s,
after. getting through the brunt of the Budget,
though making but small headway, it is true, in the
matter of their Land Bill Legislation, and none at
all (to speak of) in that relating to National Edu-
cation, at Vienna, Count Beust's Cabinet has been
replace], as at the stroke of a harlequin's wand, by
a bran new one, headed by Count Potocki ; the con-
stitutional administration, constructed by M. Emile
011ivier at Paris, being simultaneously loosened all
but to pieces, from within, down to its very founda-
tions. Threatened with anything but an easy time
of it in the legislative chamber, the virtual Premier
of Napoleon 111, has
.been cushioned rather com-
fortably in the midst of his ministerial difficulties as
one of the forty Dii Majores of the French Academy.
With a thin political brochure in h's hand, as his sole
contribution to literature, the Minister of Justice has
passed, side by side with a veteran feuilletoniss like
Jules Janin, in amongst the immortal rank of the
Academicians, they being the two chosen succes;ors
there to the recently vacated seats of Sainte Beuve
and Alphonse de Larnartine. Only that there is still
left the Count Charles de Montalembert's claim for
occupancy by that most chiming writer, Theaphile
Gualtier, one would almost feel indignant at the
radiant claims of the latter to considsration having
been overlooked purely on the score of the au, eor
of a primrose-coloured pamphlet, dated and in-
tattled " Janvier 19," having, a few months after
its publication, won his way to the front
as the organiser of a Government. Those
who are angered the most with M. Olivier,
however, because of his having conceded to the
Emperor the exercise of his undoubted prerogative,
namely, that of appealing directly to the adult male
population of France for the sanction of recent
changes through the medium of a plebiscitum, are
counting, all along, it seems to me, without their
host, are arguing, in other words, as though Fiance
will fail in its acceptance of.lmperial Constitutional-
ism. According to the babble of the uubelieving
Smellfungi of Paris, whether of the Bourse or of the
Boulevards, his Majesty, the other day had fainted,
was in extrends, had certainly one, foot in the grave
that had suddenly yawned open at his feet—the
Emperor, very marvellously, all but miraculously,
the very next day, being for hours in the saddle,
himself in the best possible health, reviewing some
of his picked troops at broad noonday in -that toler-
ably conspicuous arena, the Place du Carrousel. By
just such another rather agreeable aati-cquiax we
shall hat e the sufficiently lu,gubt ions anticipations as
to the disas'lOU3 result of the ilebiscituai fa'sitiecl by
the more-than- ever loudly trumpeted triumph through
that very medium of the in no way jeopardised cause
of. a Government, still nominally and tstensibly
imperial, but, fr m this time forth, permanently and
securely constitutional. Granted that (and the re-
sult will not Lave long now to be waited for) M.
Emile 011ivier will then have his justification in a
course, for pursuing which he has, during the last
few days, had to endure so many bitter objurga-
tions. That a Constitutionalist like DI. Adolphe

Thiers has not altogether lost faith in him,
was indica`ed rather whimsically on the edge-line
between, if not exactly the sublime and the
ridiculous, at any rate between the pathetic and the
laughter-moving, when, on the announcement of the
Mi ister's election to the academy, M. Thiers and I‘l.
Olii% ier—prepostcroth-ly like the short-and-Etout 11114
tall-and-thin of the late• Alphabet 13ayley's ludicrous
version of the " Tale of a Tub"--fel into each other's
aril-Iz, as up ;n another memorable c ccasion Mr. Via-
Cent Ciunindes locked in his ernbrz-xe " Lis noble
boy," Mr. Johnson, of the provincial Theatre Royal,
or, in o7her words, Nicholas Niekleby.

Hardly anything like the .interest excited by the
la'e trial of Psince Pierre at Tenn-) a matter
of course, excited by the trial just now completed
at Madrid in regard to Prince Henry's death by the
pistol-shot of the Luc de Moatpensier. Extenuating
citcumsauces are deemed to have not unr,.asonably
led to his acquittal.
• Tidings from the seat of war at Paraguay an-
nounce the death, in the harness of battle, of the
ruthless Lopez, whose fate hag been sealed, when
driven to bay, not unlike that of the Abyssinian King
Theodore.

A telegram from Rome brings information of the
astounding unanimity with which the (Ecumenical
Council have voted the entire text of the Consti-
tutio de Fide, 515 bishops voting for the measure
unreservedly, 83 conditionally, and not a single pre-
late in opposition.

A masterly translation from the Spanish of Calde-
ron of a drama of early Christian Rome, entitled,
'• Chrysanthus and Dania," or " The Two Lovers of
Heaven," has just been published, from the pen of
the gifted Irish poet, Denis Florence .Macarthy. lb
is chiefly renurkab!e for some exquisite dedicatory
sonnets to Longfellow, in conimemoratien of the Irish
and American poets baying been together i❑ the
midst of the classic ruins of the Eternal City.a year
ago. Having been there since then myself, I ain
tantalised by that record of their companionship.
By a coincidence, the crowning charm of LongfeLow's
own translation of Dante's Diviva Commedia" was,
to our mind, his prefixing to those pages also son-
nets of exquisite grace and eloquence.
Apropos to the discussion of Mr. Forster's scheme
of National Education, George Cruikshank, with bis
usual knife and fork, the pen and pencil, in wielding
each of which he has been so long an adept, carves
for us one and all, in the shape of a.second edition of
that same, another slice of bread and butter on ditto,
ditto—i. e., the cause of general, or, in other words,
of National Education. A complete catalogue of
the works of this great and humane artist is an-
nounc( d, I perceive, as immediately forthcoming.
Its completeness I doubt, believing it to be
simply impossible to be arrived at. Never has any
man, not even Albert Darer, carved his name more
indelibly, with the delicate point of an etching needle,
upon the world's remembrance than has George
Cruikshank. I shall look for the catalogue with the
liveliest interest, for it will, at' any rate, have the
charm and value of. an approximation at least to the
completeness at which its compiler and its publishers
aim.