The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVESING, MARCH 5, 1870.

" TLIE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS TUE
MAN.'

BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES
BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST
PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S.

Every description of Clothing ready-made
or made to measure, br all ages, all occa-
sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and
SON'S.

An immense assortment of WINTER
CLOTHING, innil tlto newest designs and
materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S.
OVERCOATS from 19s. to .£5.

BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10s. Gd. to 455.

For the convenience of Ladies accom-
par,ying their Sons there is a separate de-
yartment for Boss' Clothing, and it is fur-
nished with a splendid assortment of Suits,
Overcoats, and Clothing for ail occasions,
including all the favourite designs and the
most fashionable materials.

Orders by Post are attended to with care
and punctuality, and the easy and accurate
system of self-mensuro introduced by E.
MOSES and SON enables them to guarhntee
a faultless tit.

Any article not worn or injured will be
exchanged, or, if desired, the stoney will
leturned.

All Goods are marlced in Plain Figures,
from which no abatement can be made.

The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats
and Caps, and Boots and Shots, is un-
aqualled for magnitude, variety, and cheap-
ness.

A very large assortment of BLANKETS,
from as. 4d. the pair.

Complete Outfits for all Climates, with
every requisite for the voyage.

List of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea
cure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and
post-free.

E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments
are closed every Friday evening at sunset till
Saturday evening at sunset, when business
is resumed until eleven o'clock.
E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be-
spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers,
Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and ShGe Manufac-
turers, and General Outfitter for all
Classes.

The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES
and SON:—

LONDON.
CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE.
NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET.
CORNER OF TOTTENIIAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON-
ROAD.

Country Branch:

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.

FOREIGN and COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
TRUST (SECOND ISSUE),
In Certificates of £lOO each, bearing 5 per cent. [lnterest.
To bo issued at £BO.
TRUSTEES.
The Right Hon. Lord Westbury.
Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P. •
Geo. Wolehouse Currie, Esq.
G. M. W. Sandford, Esq.
Philip Rose, Esq.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
The success of the Foreign and Colonial Government
Trust, which was formed in May, 1868, has called for an
extension of this mode of investment.

During the last two years the Investors in the Trust
have received at the rate of 7 per cent. upon their capital,
free of income tax, and 235 Certificates have been drawn
and pa'd off at par. The successful holders having thus
received a bonus of £l5 per cent. in addition.
The market value of the securities held by the• Trust is
greatly in excess of the original purchase price, and its
estimation by. the public is shown by the present quota-
tion of the Certificates, the issue price having I.):,en £B5.
In compliance, therefore, with a general desire, it has
been determined to open a subscription for a second issue
not exceeding £600,000, in Certificates of £lOO, to bear 5
per cent. interest, to be issued at £BO.
Tho object, which is now well understood, is to give to
the Investor of moderate means the same advantages as
the large capitalist, in diminishing the risk of investing in
Foreign and Colonial Government Stocks, by
.spreading
the investment over a number of different Stocks, and
reserving a portion of the extra interest and the amounts
received in redemption as a Sinking Fund to pay off the
original capital ; and, in addition, to give to each Sub-
s?,riber a pro rata participation in the ultimate reversion in
these different Stocks. which will remain when the return
of the original capital has by these means been accom-
plished.
The annual receipts by the Trustees will be first applied,
after deducting the limited amount of expenses, in paying
the interest upon the Certificates. The excess will be ap-
plied as a Sinking Fund in repaying the Certificates at par
by annual drawings, to be made in the presence of a Notary
Public in the month of May in each year.
The securities representing the Second Issue will form
a distinct and separate Trust, though identical in p: ineiple
with that of the first, and under the control of the same
Trustees and managed by the samo staff.
The Trust of the Second Issue will last for twenty-five
years, at the expiration of which time it is estimated that
a largo proportion of the Certificates will, in all probabi-
lity,
have been paid off, and that a largo proportion of the
Stocks will still remain for distrilanion as a reversion ;
accordingly the Trust will I e wound up as soon as all the
Certificates have been drawn, or at the end of twenty-five
years, whichever shall first happen, the remaining Stocks
hiring then sold, and any Certificates not previously drawn
being first paid off, after which the balance will form thi
reversion to be distributed pro rata.
All sums received will be placed to the credit of the
Trustees, at the flanking House of Messrs. Glyn, Mills,
Currie, and Co.

For each .CBO of the total amount subscribed will be
issued a Ceitifieate of £lO9 with Coupons attached, bearing
5 per cont. interest, payable at the Thinking-house of
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and ro. half yearly, on the
15th of January and the 15th of July, the first Coupon for
the proportion of the half year falling duo on the 15th
July next.
In addition to the Interest Coupons, a Coupon, repre-
senting the share accruing to the Certificate-holder in the
above reversion, will be attached to each Certificate. This
Coupon of Reversion will be retained by the holder when
the Certificate is drawn, and entitle him to a pro rata divi-
sion of the ultimate reversion.

The advantages of the investment may be summed up
as follows:
1. interest at £3s. bs. per cent. on the amount sub-
scribed.
2. A bonus of £2O per cent. by the repayment of capi-
tal at par.
3. A revel sion, eventually divisible among the holders
of 'he Coupons of Reversion.
Application to be made in the annexed Form, accom-
p tnied by a deposit of £lO per cent.
Payments to be made as follows
:
On application £lo 0 0
On allotment 7O 0 0

£BO 0 0
Certificates, with Interest Coupons attached, and also
the Coupons of Reversion, will be issued as soon as pos-
sible after the second payment, of which due notice will
bo . _

A Draft of the Trust Deed, together x‘ ith forms of the
Certificates and the contract as to the expenses, may be
seon at the Offices of the Foreign and Colonial Govern-
ment Trust, No. 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, and
Prospectus and Forms of Application may be ob-
tained of W. B. Rose, Esq., Secretary, and of Messrs.
Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., Solicitors, at the same
address; and of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co.,
Bankers, Lombard-street, where all subscriptions must
ba paid.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
TRUST. (SECOND ISSUE!.
To the Trustees of the Fund (care of Messrs. Baxter,
Rose, Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster,
London).
Having paid to Messrs. Glyn and Co., to the account of
the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust (Second
Issue), the sum of £ , as a Deposit on Cer-
tificates of £lOO each in the said Trust, I request you to
allot to me that number of Certificates, and I engage to
pay the further Instalment of .£7O per Certificate upon
that or any lesser number that you may allot to me at the
time named in the letter of allotment, in default of which
my previous payment will be liable to forfeiture.
Name
Address
Description
Signature

THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY of ST.
PATRICK. lestituted in the year 1784.
Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Roya

Highness the Prince of WALES.
The EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY FES
TIVAL of this Society will bo celebrated at Willis's
Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on ST. PATRICK'S
DAY, the 17th March. 1870,
His Grace the Duke of ABERCORN, K.G., :in
the Chair
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Marquis of Lansdowne.
The Marquis of Headfort, K.P.
The Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P.
The Earl of Egmont.
The Earl of Clonmell.
:The Earl Vane.
TheiViscount Harberton.
The Viscount Crichton, M.P.
• The Lord A. Edwin Hill Trevor, M.P.
The Lord Dunsany.
The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, K.P.. K.C.B.
The Eight llon. Chichester Fortescuo, M.P.
STEIVA RD S.
•The Right Hon. William Cowper-Temple, I.P.
Colonel the lion. Pulley Fitzgerald do Ros.
"['he Hon. Robert Harris Temple.
Lieut.-General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence,
K.C.5.1.,
Sir George Frederick llarver,
Captain Sir F. Leopold M.Clintock, R.N.
Sir Edward Cory.
John F. Corsearlen. Esq.
James Courtmlay, Esq.
Alexander Fiudlater, Esq.
Thomas Greg, Eq.
_lon Trant Hamilton, Esq., M.P.
Robert M•Calmont, Esc.
Morgan John O'Conncl!, Esq.
..To.seph Radeliff, Esq.
C.'aptain II ugh de Grey Seymour,
Mu,icd A rrangem,tits will lto under the dirurlion
Land, of tl,:e Lor.d.in Glee am! 'Madrigal Union.
'on table at Srven o'clock punctually.
ltis Festival affords to Irishmen in London the
°,••• y of uniting the celebration of the national
t:Phary, the committee earnestly hope for a numerous
ruential meeting.
21s. each. to bo had at Willis's Rooms, and at
.ols. in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road.
inildren Dine, as uusal, on St. Patrick's Day, at
'tools, at One o'clock.
ir THOMAS KIPPAX KING, Jun., Secretary. 4:

THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY- L A NE.
Aole Lessee and Manap•er, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Tins EVENING, at 7, PHOBUS' FIX: the Yokes Family. At
7.45, PEEP 0' DAY: Messrs. J. P. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Bar-
lett, eville, F. Charles, C. Moore, M'lntyre, W. F. Yokes,
and Fred. Yokes; Mesdames E. Stnart, Barrett, Michelle, Amy
Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosins, Yokes

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
EVENING, at 7 o'clock, POPPING THE QUESTION.
After which, at 20 to 8, OUR AIIERICAN COUSIN; Messrs
Sothern, Bnckatone, Chippendale, &c. ; Mrs Chippendale, Miss
P. Wright, &c. Concluding vith DEAF AS A POST

treatment. It presents, indeed, much scope fot
economy
of omyeffiincideentcay filsoc butth e
minim
in order tooseccousrett is maxi-
mumhe
need-
ful also that there should be a re-arrangement
and reconstruction of the force. Mr. Card•
well has made a vigorous endeavour
retrieve the pledges of the Ministry in both particu-
lars. lnere was no lack of opportunities for " cheese-
paring." Some of the doings in connection with the
supply departments were on a par with the dockyard
follies ; but owing to the system of more efficient con-
trol, which is duo to the last no less than to the present
Ministry, this Hume of waste has been brought to
an end. - It is chiefly, however, by a reduction in the
number of troops that the saving of over one million
sterling on the year's estimates has been effected.
In two years the strength of the army has
been diminished by 24,000 men, the reduction this
year being half that number. The home force
will remain much as it was; but the process
of withdrawing the regiments from the
colonies, and concentrating them at home—a
policy which first originated with Mr.
Arther Mills, a former representative of Taunton,
and candidate for Exeter in 1868—has made rapid.
progress of late years, and is now well-nigh
complete. In a brief space there will be hardly
a single regiment in the outlying provinces
of the empire. Gibraltar, Malta, and other
posts of like character, will retain a garrison,
but the colonies proper must raise troops themselves
or dispense with them. This policy is in every way
just, and it is likely to be advantageous. It is just,
because the principle of levying taxes upon the inha-
bitants of the United Kingdom in order to main-
tain permanent garrisons in distant colonies
was utterly inequitable. The dependencies are quite
able to provide for all likely emergencies. Whilst
we were willinre to supply troops, of course they gave
no further heed to the matter ; but now that they
are left to their own resources, proper measures
of protection are being set on foot. Canada, which
most needs a defensive rorce, is rapidly organising an
efficient army. If the other colonies do not follow
the example, it is because they are so thoroughly out
of danger that precaution would be superfluous. It
was never intended, however, that any portion of the
British Empire should be left without help in time
of need. We concentrate the army in England, and
in case of waf it would be sent out to fight to the
last for any jeopardised dependency. There will
thus be a colonial army and an Imperial army, ready
to make war upon any enemy; whereas, had garri-
sons been left in the colonies, the former force would
never have existed.
The only question of doubt is whether these reduc-
tions have brought the army below a safe limit,
whether the force is now so small as to be
unequal to any duty which might suddenly
befall it. This brings us from Mr. Card-
well's work of destruction to his scheme of
construction. Whilst ho has been disbanding ex-
pensive soldiers, he designs to supply their place with
a cheaper, though for British purposes equally ser-
viceable article. The army is to be reconstructed
on a principle which has never been recog-
nised in England, but which is now in
full practice on the Continent. The barrier between
the military force and the civil population is to ho
broken down. On the one side the regular soldiers
will be taught trades, and allowed to spend their
time in useful labour; and on the other,
the Government now offer to admit the civil

poptilation to the army on terms which will give a
soldier a short period of useful training, and then let

him return to ordinary work. Mon will be enlisted for
twelve years, of which they will spend, under some
circumstances, six, under others, three year 3 in
active service. Those who choose, and whom the
Government will accept, may re-engage for active
service ; but the remainder, who must, of course, be
the greater proportion, are to pass into the army of
reserve. In this condition they will enjoy a retaining
pension of 4d. a day on very easy conditions. The Govern-
ment will not call them into the field, unless there is -
pressing need for their services. Their position is to
correspond that of the Naval Reserve. They will
not be subjected to long periols of drill, which would
brcal: up their ordinary occupations, but will b 4
mustered now and thCn for a day, or in the evenings
I:kc the volunteers.

The advantages of this fine scheme are con.
smerable. it ought to solve the long pending
problem of establishing a reserve force which may
be powerful and efficient, without imposing a great

burden on the country. Many men, too, will doubt-
less be glad to take a short period of experience and

training as a soldier, and then return to their ordi-
nary work. with tho help of their salary as reserve
troops. Such training must have a good effect
on our labouring population. Moreover, the
plan may be confine within narrow limits of opera-

tion, or it may be so extended as to furnish a reserve
army of great magnitude. The Government are
about to make an attempt also to consolidate the
whole force of the country—regulars, reserve, and
volunteers—by dividing the kingdom into military
districts, the commanders of which will each have
all three branches under his orders. A. step in the
direction of abolishing the purchase system is a
notable feature, besides several minor items, in Mr.
Cardwell's programme. Altogether this year's state-
ni3nt of the War Minister is the most important

of late years. It announces an extensive
reduction in the annual cost of the nation's military
resources, it carries to completion the new colonial
policy, and it inaugurates a scheme of army reorgani-
sation /Thiel], if brought to its full development, will
recong,rtfts The entire force.

A. SERIES of reports by the Poor-law Inspectors
on the existing relations between landlord and tenant
in Ireland conies almost too late to be of service in
forming opinion; but the information is worthy of notice
a 3 strengthening and justifying the opinions that have
been formed already. It is satisfactory in one sense to
find that the Poor-law Inspectors have nothing new to
tell us. Their facts have long ago been anticipated.
Their descriptions in no material respect differ from
these which have been circulated by independent but
impartial observers; and it is reassuring to learn from

those unquestionable authorities that English conclu-
sions touching this intricate and difficult problem
have not been one-sided or prejudiced. The prac-

tices of different districts vary considerably; but the
general deduction of the Inspectors is that the
tenant's rights and welfare are dependent upon
his landlord's sense of justice, and that
the former is at the mercy of the latter, even

to a great extent in Ulster. The vast majority of
holdings are very small, and of the small holdings
very few are not tenancies-at-will. In most cases

the cultivators struggle on pretty well under this spe-
cies of tenure. Its obvious and great disadvantages
are modified in practice by various causes, chief of
which are the indulgences granted by good land-
lords, and the force of custom, which prevails in
every species of degree, from the excellent tenant-
right of Ulster to the vaguest traditions in the south-
era and western counties. But justice or injustice
is entirely a matter of the landlord's choice; and
instances of his failing to do his duty are not few.
In this respect the Inspectors' reports, covering the
whole country, present a specially valuable body
of testimony. In Galway the tenants
make all the improvements, and yet any
works of the kind are often followed by a
riot) of rent, "The instances in which tenants

have lost the value of their iraprovoments 1)y reason
of a disproportionate increase of rents aro very
numerous." In Mayo the tenants, " in innumerable
mstances,Thave similarly suffered, and often the action
the Encumbered Estates Court has produced this
effect. In Sligo things are much better, but some
few instances of injustice are noted. In Leitrim a
sort of tenant-right custom is acknowledged, but here
again are cases of lost improvements. In Wex-
ford, Kilkenny, and the surrounding district, it
is not usual to raise rents in consequence
of tenants' improvements, nor do they lose
the value through eviction. But here, too, there
are exceptions, and in some districts injustice is not
unfrequent. In many of the U 1 ter counties it is

" certainly not " the practice to raise rents in conse-
quence of improvements; but in Donegal lands reclaimed
by tenants are very often saddled with an increased
charge, sometimes from the first year. In this county
standingnotices to quit are frequent. InCork the farmers
affirm that rent is often raised in consequence of im-
provements, whilst the landlords assert the contrary,
but whatever statement be correct, it is certain
that the occupier has no guarantee what-
ever. It is needless to quote further.
It is unquestionably clear from abundant sources both
that land in Ireland is held, for the most part, on no
sufficient tenure, and that the instances of landlords
taking an unfair advantage of this insecurity aro
sufficiently numerous to demand redress.

TOWN TALKo
(From the Western Mail of this Morning.)

FRIDAY EVENING.
The Ministry—all powerful in the Commons—
are confronted in the Lords by a more than ever
formidable Opposition. It is not simply that the
Government are thus in the hereditary branch of
the Legislature overwhelmingly out-numbered. That
is pretty much as it used to be, even in spite of
the reckleSsly wholesale and almost unconstitu-
tional additions made to the peerage very recently
by the Whigs. Coronets having been squandered
among a crowd of mere nobodies, the Srni! hs,
Browns, Joneses, and Robiusous, of political life,
the majority in the House of Loris still remains,
for all that, unmistakably with the• Conservatives.
My allusion above, therefore, is not in reference to
the numerical- preponderance on the side of the
Opposition. I would direct attention simply, by
my remark, to the admirable manner in which, in
spite of countless difficulties, the serried masses of
the Conservative Opposition in the House of Peers
have been brought together. Jealousies and rival-
ries of all kinds have been scattered to the winds.
D fferent sections of Cons,?rvatism, heretofore
holding more or less aloof from each other, have
become so united, or, rather, blent into one disci-
plined phalanx, that they can act together hence-
forth harmoniously. Thanks to the amicable spirit
in which the negotiations in regard to the leadership
have been carried on from first to last, the scattered
chiefs of the party have at length been placed side
by side—like Highlanders, shoulder to shoulder—
on the front bench of the Opposition. Declined
summarily by the Earl of Derby, and the Marquis
of Salisbury, the leadership has at last been accepted
by the Duke of Richmond. The proposition that
it should be offered to his grace was moved by Lord
Salisbury and seconded by Lord Derby, with the
unanimous approval of
.all the Conservative peers
who were in attendance at the Carlton on the oc-
casion of this momentous—and it would not he
extravagant to say historical—meeting of the
leading members of the Opposition. As the result
of the whole deliberation, the comparatively feeble
array of statesmen and orators now ranged on the
Government front bench in the House of Lords
is confronted by as formidable a row of antago-
nists as ever constituted the chiefs of au Opposition
in either branch of the Legislature. There, seated
on either side of the new Conservative leader, the
Duke of Richmond, are the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Earl of Carnarvon, and the Earl of Derby, as
well as Lord Cairns, and Lord Chelmsford, no less
than the Earl of Maltnesbury and the Duke of
Marlborough, together with others among the
more prominent chiefs of the Opposition. The
moving up to that front bench from the position
they had both of them recently assumed below the
gangway—the moving up to that front bench of
both Lord Carnarvon and Lord Salisbury, cannot
but be matter for very general satisfaction, if only
out of regard for the mere fitness of things. By
the time Lord Cairns shall have r,turned from
his stay at Meutone, the reorganised party will,
I doubt not, have been brought into good

working order, under the guiding influence of

the Duke of Richmond, aided and abetted,
as his grace will be, by his mover and seconder,
the Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Salisbury.
Surely the feeblest joke that was ever perpetrated
in a political cartoon is the one contributed to
Punch this week by Tenniel. " Daerted" will
more aptly apply to the wits of the great caricatu-
rist himself, rather than to the great party leader
he Las caricatured, and who, in the midst of all
these charges in the House of Lords, continues to
be, in the House of Commons, as leader of the Co-
nservatives, quietly and passively master of the
situation.

On Monday and Tuesday the Commons locked
vainly, immediately after prayers, at four of the
clock, for the welcome apparition of the wise jester
we have all been longing for, to rid the Rouse of
its duln css. lEstead of Bernal Osborne taking his
seat on either of these days—it was on Monday
Sir John Lubbock who did so, and on Tuesday
Mr. Sergeant Dowse, the Irish Solicitor-General,
and with him the newly-elected member for Not-
tingham, the Hon. Aul eron Herbert, the Radi-
cal brother of the Ccnservative Earl of Car-
narvon. Sir John Lubbock's entrance passed
unnoticed ; but the two others wire, in my hear-
greeted with hearty cheering by the Minis-
terialists.
Of all the dreary cxhibitions in the shape of a

Parliamentary exposition, commead me to the
three Lours' speech of Mr. Childers on Mont3ay
night, -when txplaining the various complications
of his carefully-prepared Naval Estimates. Dur-
ing the whole of those three hours he talked in
one dead level of a monotone. Since taking to
high office as a Cabinet Minister the right hon. gen-
tleman has become, like Cowper's friend,
"An honest man close-buttoned to the chia,"

allowing his beard at the same time to grow to any
length. There he stood for three mortal hours at
the table, carefully buttoned up to the throat, a la
militaire, in his frock-coat, droning, no 1 I should
rather say gabbling and jabbering figures in a man-
ner perfectly distracting, I should imagine, to the
reporters, who must have been put to their wit's
end to catch what he said—literally to catch it—it
was " reeled " out £0 fast and so inarticulately.
Few of us realise, I fancy, bow very much we have
reason to feel indebted to thosa swift-fingered,
keen-eared, vigilant, indefatigable gentlemen, the
short-hand writers in the Reporters' Gallery, who
are perpetually doing what Baron Justus Liebig is
facetiously said to hare done often of late years--
reducing an ox to a lozenge. The flaccid, diffuse
waunderings of the merest dullard in delivery, they
are, time and again, -whenever the opportunity pre-
sents itself, in the habit (most beneficently for the
outer public) of epitomising in a single sentence,
or, at most, in a mere paragraph.

A hardly expressible sense of relief has fallen
upon London, within these last few days, through
the cessation of that deplorable divorce case before
Lord Penzance. During this present year, the first
quarter of which has only two-thirds run out, one
has often, thanks to two women—first of all, that
wretched Mrs. Stowe, and immediately afterwards,
this most unhappy Lady Mordaunt--one has often,
thanks to those two women, had occasion to cry
out, " 0, for au ounce of civet, good apothecary, to
sweeten my imagination!" Instead of letting " such
things notibe so much as named amongst us,"accord-
to the Apostle's recommendation, we have had them
sifted, examined under a microscope, scrutinized
in open court, talked of by the hour, written of by
the ream, printed by the column, read and discussed
by the million. The investigation has, for a long
while past, rendered the public newspapers un-
savoury. The close of the inquiry, therefore, came
in every way most acceptably. The shop windows,
by the way, are horridly crammed, here and there,
with villanous photographs of the respondent her-
self, or of one or other of the co-respondents. A
sheaf of these has actually appeared, among other
places in the shopwindow of Mr. Churchwarden
Westerton, of Knightsbridge—hard by the Alex-
andra Hotel, where, under the name of Farmer,
Captain Farquhar was Posted as having been a
sojourner.

Turning over the brilliantly parti-coloured maga-
zines for March, I would especially commend to your
notice a masterly paper on " Faraday," in Fs aser.
It relates in little more than half-a-dozen radiant
pages, the rise and development of tl:e genius of the
most wonderful practical philosopher who ever
lived ; beginning his career, though he did, as the
son of a Macksznith, and having his first start in
ife a 3 an errant boy, a news-boy, and a journey-
man bookbinder. The true theory of the " Mtn in
the " Man in the Iron Mask," set fort!' in the Corn-
hill, I must b 3 permitted to pronounce by no means
,o acceptable as the apocryphal one hitherto in
vogue ; according to which latter that mysterious
prisoner was the twin-brother of Louis XIV.
It reads almost like an admission of the deadly
failure it is, that a fly-leaf notice is conspicuously
prefixed to the current number of the Gentlenzan's
Magazine, announcing (forgive bull), as a sort of
grand negative attraction, that the " The
version of Victor llugo's L'llowne qui Pit, published
under the original title of ' By Order of the King.'
will be completed iu the May number !" For the

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PARLIAMENTARY STZF,TOFI.

FRIDAY.

" Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." How sick at
heart I was yesterday when another day passed without
the appearance of our Osborne, I would tell your readers
were I not afraid of boring them. I begin to think that
h 9 is unkind. There is this to be said for him, however,

ho has had a very serious misadventure. In
.escaping from the hotel in which he was stay-
ing, the newly-elected M.P. had to get away by the
roof, the door being blocked by a shouting, yelling, blas-
pheming, " murtherin' " crowd of his constituents. 111,
effecting his exit he descended by mistake into a large
water tank, where he got exceedingly wet. Now our
Osborne is not much given to
.water-drinking, and I fear
Cult this experience of his will hardlyinduce him to join the
United Kingdom Alliance ; the less so as the owners of the
said tank mistook him for a burglar, and were about to
make even shorter work of him than his constituents would
have made. Fortunately he was discovered to be an M.P•
The kindness shown him must almost have compensated for
his involuntary aquatics; must have made him even think
that it was worth while to be M.P. for Waterford. 113
owners of the tank took in the half-drowned senator,
changed his clothes for him, put him before the
fire until he was half-burnt, and as the free
and independent electors were raging . more furiously
than ever, and were threatening to force their way into the
house, the inmates would have hid him away in a drawer,
only that the drawer was too small for him. However,
the assailants (compared with whom Mr. Osborne's former
constituents, the Nottingham lambs, are really Jamblike)
did not effect an entrance, and the object of
their search remained perdu until the city
began to resume a more tranquil aspect. H°
was then wrapped in a great coat, and thus,
half disguised, clambered back over the roof (avoiding the
tank this time), and re-entered the hotel, where for aught
I know, he may still be confined, and pa-ssing the time of
his imprisonment by diluting the tank water with waters
of a more potent character, such as an frishman loves. I
live in hope that he will make his appearance on Monday-
It is the day fixed for the second reading of the
Land Bill, and all Irish M.P.'s are bound to
be in their place. Moreover, on Friday Mr. Bruce
unfolds his liquor Bill, and our Osborne will have to
be present, in order to watch over the interests of his
especial friends, the liquor-sellers. He is sure to be here
next week !

But though he did not appear last night, another nota-
bility (lid. Shortly after prayers Mr. Disraeli's " sham
Fenian " entered the House. There were very few mem-
bers present, and instead of the applause usually given on
one side or the other to a new M.P. who has won his seat
after a hard fight; especially after two such
fights as Mr. Heron has fought, there was silence.
I believe that most persons were not even aware that the
learned gentleman had entered. By half-past four the
House was very full, and almost every seat on the Minis-
terial side was occupied. On the Treasury bench I was
glad to see the Attorney-General, recovered from his
wounds, and on the anti-Treasury bench I was
no less glad to see Mr. Disraeli recovered from
his bronchitis.. Then catechising began. Mr. Charles
Reed obtained the satisfaCtory information that the
Metropolitan railways are making arrangements to run
workmen's trains at low rates and convenient hours. The
House cheered as vehemently as though every member of
it belonged to the diplomatic service when, in reply to Mr.
Rylands, Mr. Otway said that the system of Foreign-
office agencies would be abolished at an early date ; for
which good deed let Mr., Murray, of Queen's Messenger
notoriety, and the Pall Mall Gaxtte of better
report, have due praise. Then, in reply to a
long question from a gentleman far away under
the right hand gallery, Mr. Stacpoole to wit, Mr.
Gladstone said the Government were not at all " shy " of
any inquiry into the treatment of Fenian prisoners, for
the treatment was particularly good. So good was it
that when Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa lately called to see her
husband she was able to congratulate him upon his good
looks. At this there was a shout of laughter, again and
again renewed. I dare say your readers will
not be able to discern anything very comic in
it. Nor can I. The excessive cachinnation
only chews how terribly hard up the House is for a joke,
and (if you will pardon me for reverting to the old topic)
how sorely it needs its Osborne. Even less funny was
Sir Robert Collier's reply to bald-headed Colonel
Stuart Knox's question as to who would pay the
counsel engaged to prosecute the Beverley, Nor
with, and Bridgwater bribers. Yet the House laughed
at it. It laughed again with better reason whet?
Ms. Otway, after acknowledging Mr. Munzinger's ser-
vices in Abyssinia, stated, among other reasons for not
giving him the money he wanted, that the Queen had
been graciously pleased to bestow upon him the Order of
the Bath. It was a thorough anti-climax, as thorough as
the bath of the newly-elected M.P. for Waterford ; and I
fear neither Mr. Munzinger nor Mr. Osborne duly appre-
ciates the distinction. Mr. Fawcett, I need hardlY
say, is very anxious to get University Tests abo-
ILl:ad, and is not a little nettled because the
Government does not manifest quite the alacrity in the
matter which the Professor wishes to see. So he put a
question intended to nail the Government to a definite
announcement. But he did not succeed. All that he
could get out of Mr. Gladstone was that Ministers did
not think it would be wise to introduce the measure unless
they saw a good chance of carrying it ; nor did a second
question, still more precise, elicit a less vague reply. I
fear the Professor, who thereupon left the House, was not
in good humour with her Majesty's advisers. I confess
that I, too, am puzzled by their "backwardness in comia
forward " on this question.

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Then came the question of questions, that which had
evidently brought hon. members down in such great force,
for the House was now fuller than ever. This interroga-
tory was put by Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, who Was
compelled to flee from Taunton to take refuge
at Whitehaven under the protecting wing of Lord
Lonsdale. Had the First Lord of the Treasury read the
charges of Chief Justice Monahan and Lord Chief Justice
Whiteside, and, if so, were her Majesty's Ministers pre-
pared to take more effectual means for the preservation of
life and property in Ireland ? Mr. Gladstone had read
the charges, and he aroused some laughter by quoting 0'
passage which Mr. Bentinck had not read. Then assuming
a graver tone, the Premier went on to say that he and his
colleagues were fully aware of their responsibility for what
they did, and for what they did not do, that he could
hardly be expected to expound the ministerial intentions
in reply to a private member, - but that their policy WO
now under consideration, was quite in accordance with the
speech from the Throne, and would shortly be announced.
Colonel Stuart Knox, who must have a finger in every pie,
wanted Mr. Gladstone to have the Judges' charges printed
and laid upon the table, and ' also wished to know in
what paper he had read the charge. The House laughed
at this unnecessary minuteness of curiosity, and then the
matter dropped, not altogether satisfactorily, I suspect, to
either side of the House.
Then Mr. Gladstone rose to ask if hon. members who
had notices on ping into supply, would postpone them in
order to allow Mr. Cardwell to make his statement on
the Army Estimates, which he was sure the House wished to
hear. Mr. Hanbury Tracy, as a Ministerialist, was
bound to comply. Not so Sir John Hay. He is rapidly
overtaking Sir George Jenkinson and Mr. Newdegatel
who hitherto have been the chief bores of the House, Bug
he was not going to lose this opportunity of getting a fall
audience for his discourse about smooth bores and rifle
bores, and himself the greatest bore of aIL But if one
man can lead a horse to water twenty men cannot make hill'
drink; and if one M. P. will talk to the House, twenty M. r's
cannot make the House listen. So when the ex-Lord of the
Admiralty rose, members too rose and left the House en
masse. If they had any desire to hear the navy estimates
unfolded, they dissembled that desire ; for when at length
boredom had finished, and Mr. Cardwell got up, there
was a beggarly array of empty benches ; and though
it was still only twenty minutes to six, etnii
two hours from dinner-time, M.P.'s did not return, and
throughout a speech, involving the reconstruction. of the
army and an expenditure of nearly 12 millions, our guar-
dians of the public purse were conspicuous by their
absence. The fault was not all theirs. It was partly
Mr. Childers's. M.P.'s dreaded another heroic speeel
of more than three hours, such as the First -Lora
of the Admiralty gave them. Moreover, Mr. Card'
well is no orator. He is pleasant to look at"
but rather dreary to hear. Many times throughout h:1
address he was told to "speak up," and if he had followed
Mr. Childers's example, by turning his back upon us, No
should not have heard a word. Fortunately he did not do
that ; fortunately, too, he was more considerate than gr.
Childers, and spoke for only two hours and ten minutes,
which is moderation itself when every Minister feels
bound to follow the example of his chief by orations
of portentous length without his eloquence. It is not
my place to discuss the estimates nor the discussion upon
them. Suffice it to say that there was plenty of criticism,
and that it wasnot always complimentary. I will conclude
with a question which I should be glad if your reader
can answer. Mr. Childers wears a beard, and beards are
permitted in the navy ; Mr. Cardwell wears no beard,
and beards are forbidden in the army. Is there any con-
nection of cause and effect in the two parts of these Pr()"
positions? If so, wouLl it not be well for our gallant
soldiers to club to,eth;:r a sum of money for the puipose
of bribing Mr. Cardwell's valet to hide his master'il
razors?

The Coastguard retirement pension of £2O a
year, vacant by the death of Commander W. par'
sons, has been awarded to Commander T. S. COP'

pinger.

03pt. J. M. Maitland, Royal E.lgincers, has
taken over the command of the 30th Company;
Royal Engineers, at Woolwich, recently returned
from Gibraltar under the command
as of Captain C:
A. Law de Montmorency, who h been granted
leave.

'1 he President of the Board of Trade, who
remains at Norwood, continues to progress favourably.

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The marriage of the Marchioness of Hastings
to Sir Geargo Ohetwynd is to come off immediately after
the baronet attains his majority iu May next.