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DON, Ti n e PVENINCi.

:If Alio late L I I.o.4YnoNtinitTeir
:rn! h, /heti a the kinds of h
; t -is some Quoit grateful and eoe-
oicnon4 eviien...e of their recognii ion. His
*wry as one of the veterans of the Peninsula wry
Ap•ai any a well-font:hi &LI under
,n tiers of WELLINGTON. His personal prowess wa;
frequently displayed elsewhere, but never more
conspicuously than during the famous battle of
Fuentes d'Onore (May 5, 1811), when, as the classic
Historian of the War himself records, " General
CHARLES STEWART, joining in the charge, took the
French Colonel L A.MOTTE, fighting hand to hand.'
(Narrna's Perlin. War, book xii. ch. v.) An in-
cident celebrated no less pointedly by the Euro-
pean Annalist, Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON ()fist. Eur.
ch. S. 92.) As for the diplomatic achieve-
ments of the late Marquis Of LONDONDERRY, they,
too, are inscribed in imperishable characters
upon the tablets of history, those memorable
and romantic annals which recount the Down-
rall of the Great NAPOLEON. It was—AusoN
himself tells us in his record of the events which
matked the close of 1813—it was by reason of
" the able and courteous deals of Sir CHARLES
STEWART" afterwards Marquis of LONDONDERRY,
aided by those of General Count Pozzo DI BORGO,
that BERNADOTTE, at a most critical juncture,
was "retained during the campaign in a course
in conformity with the objects of the alliance."
(Hist. Eur. ch. lxxix. S. 42.) It was through Sir
CHARLES STEWA RT'S personal remonstrances that,
at last, during that same momentous campaign,
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of SWEDEN,
that same tricky ex-Jacobin, ex-Frenchman, ex-
every thing 'good, bad, and indifferent, BERNA
DOTTE, was at length induced to bring his troops
on the 16th of October to Landsburg, and
on the 17th to the heights of Beitenfeld. An
important occurrence at that period, and one
which was actually brought about by a letter of
remonstrance addressed to the Crown Prince by
Sir CHARLES STEWART, then accredited as the
British Plenipotentiary in the north of Germany—
a letter " penned with respect, but militaryfrank-
ness, and breathing a warm but not undeserved
spirit of patriotic iadignation."—(Hist. Eur. ch.
lxxxi., s. 48.) A letter so bold indeed and out-
sp-Acen in its language that BERNADOTTE, in the
true fashion of a Gascon, could not help resenting
it a short time afterwards by thus gasconading with
a vapoury flourish as they encountered—" Com-
ment, General STEWART ! quel droit avez vous de
m'ecrire ? Ne rapellez vous pas que je suis
Prince du Sue le, un des plus graads generaux de
Cage Et si vous etiez ama place, que penseriez
vous si quelqu'un vous ecrivait comme vous
in' avez eorit ? " In fine, it was in consequence
of tho vigilant and sleepless watchfulness of the
English Military. Plenipotentiary, Sir CH ARLES
STEWART (who again employed very successful and
most energetic remonstrances to the end that
BERNADOTTE might not play false to the Allies at
a juncture of extraordinary emergency) that the
PRINCE ROYAL of Sweden was, in spite of himself
as it were, compelled at last to abandon alto-
gether the project of allowing DAYOUST and the
garrison of Hamburg the opportunity for escaping
try means of a capitulation. "And thus," says
ALISON in recounting this latter circumstance,
" the same eminent and patriotic officer, who, by
his moral courage on the eve of the battle of
Leip;ic, had gained for the Allies the decisive
advantage of bringing the PRINCE-ROYAL'S
army up to the charge on that eventful
day, now rendered to his country the
not less important service of preventing a capitu-
lation which, by restoring twenty-five thousand
veteran troops to the standards of NAPOLEON,
might have entirely changed the fate of the War
next spring in France."--(Hist. Eur., ch. lxxxii.,
s. 39) Sueb, in brief, are among the more
conspicuous achievements recorded in regard to
Sir CHA R LES STEWART, afterwards third Marquis
of LONDONDERRY, in his twofold position as a
Soldier and as a Diplomatist.

The Peaceful Labours which marked the latter
portion of Lord LONDONDERRY'S lifetime are—we
cannot but think it—yet more memorable, yet
more remarkable, yet more eminently entitled to
some public tribute of grateful and honourable
commemoration. They were achievements so re-
markable, and we believe we do not exafNerate
when we add, so entirely unparalleled as the achieve-
ments of a single individual, that they elicited
s'.me years back from no less important a person-
age than Sir ROBERT PEEL, speaking authorita-
tively as the Prime Minister of England, a pane-
gyric in every way very notable. What were a
few of these home enterprises, of these purely
pacific and industrial achievements ? They in-
clude the digging out of a Harbour upon a
barren and rocky coast, and the building up
of a Town now numbering within it very nearly
five thousta.id inhabitants—the town and harbour
of Seaham, henceforth Lord LONDONDERRY'S most
enduring monument ! They include, moreover,
these peaceful labours towards the close of his
career, the daring project of an entire Railway
—a passenger line—t work unexampled before or
since as the undertaking of a single individual,
as an enter prise from first to last his own pri-
tette property—the railroad for goods and pas-
sengers now uniting Siahain with Sunderland.
Besides all this, the princely originator and promo
ter of these gigantic undertakings had to conduct
the working of a Colliery Property known to be
the largest anywhere in the possession of a single
family, a property extendieg over an area of some
12,000 acres, producing upon an average
1,000,000 tons of coals per annum, and neces-
sitating the disbursement every year in wages
alone, exclusiveof contracts, of no less a sum than
135,0001. sterling. With an earnest view to
the social and intellectual well-being of the thou-
sands of " families" thus employed in connection
with the Harbour, with the Town, with the Col-
lieries, with the Railway, schools have been
erected, churches endowed, everything that in-
genuity could well devise or munificence rapidly
accomplish, Durham has witnessed, long since
slat on foot by the late Marquis, and very re-
cently in several instanced happily completed by
iris relict the Mtrchioness Dawager of LONDON-
j'ERRy. Hence—remembering all these things,
remembering the exploits of the Soldier in
Holland and in the Peninsula, on the
Heights of Busaco and in the hand to-hand en-
C muter of Fuentes d'Onore ; remembering the
brilliant successes of the diplomatist in 1813 in
:egard to the eve of Leipsic and in reference
ta' the garrison of Hamburg ; above all
be aring in mind his "more beneficent and, in every
way, more remarkable achievements of a pacific
character—the town and harbour of Seaham, the
railway from Seaham to Sunderland, the col-
lieriea, the schools, the churches, those products
at once of daring enterprise and personal munifi-
cenc—we cannot but deem the late lamented
Marquis of LONDONDERRY one who, in truth,
"deserved well of his country " in very many
particulars. We cannot but regard his memory
''s an object very worthy, indeed, of a public
raonumeutal couimemoration.

AMPRICAN MAIL.---tie steamer Eritmeon sailed from
I:4l‘,:rp.io; f,,r Now Yor'i. yeAerilay tnfirning with tin
passengers and a fair cargo, betides the usual mails.

ITFST NEIITS.
A t

THE CONGRESS.

PARIS, APRIL 16.

The sittings of the Congress terminated to-day.
The members were occupied with questions of de-

tail in reference to--

1. The free navigation of the Dinube ;
2. The iuterior r'gime of the Principalities,
and the arrangement of the frontiers ;
3. The situation of the Christians in Turkey.
For these purposes three commissions are ap-
pointed :

1. A commission, named byall the Powers repre
sented at the Congress, on the subject 01
the Danube ;

2. A commission*, named by all the Powers ex

cept Piedmont, on the frontier question ;
3. A commission, named by all the Powers,
with the addition of delegates from the
Divan, to consider_ the position of the
Christians.

PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 8 A.M.
The Moniteur announces that the Congress of
Paris has terminated iti labours.

The closing sitting was held yesterday at the
Hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
After the signing of the treaty, the Plenipo-
tentiaries had still to occupy themselves with

different questions of a nature to consolidate and
complete the work of peace.

The ratifications will Ise exchanged at the end

of the month.

Immediately after the promulgation of the
general treaty the protocols will be published, and
will make known the labours of the Congress in

heir detail.

INSURRECTION IN BULGARIA.

PARIS, APRIL 16.

A telegraphic despatch announces that an in-
surrection has broken out at Belgradchick, in Bul-

garia, near the Servian frontier.

A Bulgarian, formerly an officer in the Russian
service, professes an intention to expel the Turks
in the name of Russia. He is at the head of two
or three hundred men.

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.
SEBASTOPOL, April I.—The wintry weather, which
was ex.eing its retarding influence on many mat-
ters in the camps when the last mail left, has not
yet ceased, notwithstanding the advanced period
of the season. The extension of the armistice has
been ffirmally announced in General Orders. No
date for its duration is mentioned ; the suspension
of hostilities is to continue until further orders.
The French have constructed an enormous salte a
danser in the Balaklava valley, between the Fe-
dioukine heights and Canroberes-hill. It is in a
convenient situation to be approached, near the
Woronz.Zroad as. it turns to ascend towards the
position of the Sardinian encampments and Ka-
mara. The opening ball is to take place to-night,
and invitations have beer.l issued to all the English
ladies and English officers in the Crimea. Crlonel
M'Murdo has returned in good health and resumed
the command of the Land Transport Corps.
Among the recent arrivals is -also M. Soyer. He
came by the Ottawa, three days since, after a very
stormy passage from Constantinople. It is ru-
moured in the French camps that the Russians
have received news of the peace negotiations having
been brought to a favourable conclusion.

1 ra. 11.4 93; Krt,olei-,11, It, 88 ; O 1; Compta, R 85
11, 75 't) 77.
Ht..mp difile(ll market I r ~p;om is
znd we may quote Rs 1,100 to R.- 1,115 per
e

Exchange—The rate of the day we quote 2s 2 5.16 d
to 2-, 21d for credits, and 2s 2id for documents. -Orr-
Oiona, 60 days' sight, Rs 219 ; Calcutta, 60 days' sigl.tti-
Rs 119/1.
Freights—For cotton to Liverpool and London the
rates are 41 Si to 41 7s 6cl, and for seeds to London
41 17s- 6d to 51 per ton. A large amount of tonnage has
lately arrived, but the whole has been freely taken up.
PALoIITTA, March B.—lndigo has been in goOd in-
quiry, and there has been some competition for snveral
lots at an advance of about 6d per lb on the October
price. Raw silk basalso engaged good inquiry, conse-
quent on the news from home and China.
In imports a fair amount of business has been done in
mule Twist, coloured cottons, grey shirtings, and jacco-
nets. The market continues inactive for all other de-
scriptions of cottons, woollens, and metals.
The pacific aspect of politics has made no great effect
In the. money market. In the Bazaar supplies are pro-
eurable as reported in our last review, on more reason-
able terms than those of the Banks. Government Se-
curities have slightly improved, and are readily dis-
countable at 5 and 6 per cent. per annum. The Bank
of Bengal has reduced 1 per cent, on discount of Go-
vernment acceptances.
Exchange.--After the departure of the last mail, the
exchange had ice up a little ; but it has since taken a
downward tendency, and• it is now difficult to procure
first-claSs (six Months) paper at better than 2-, 2-id to
2s 2ii-; and these rates are not likely to be maintained,
as far as we can judge from present appearances.
Freights, on the first news of peace, were fur some
days almost at a stand still, but after a while some
transactions were entered into which established a de-
cline of 103 to 15s per ton. Lately some heavy arrivals
have made shippers hold back again, and at closing
business'is very bull at our quotations.

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, APRIL s.—Said Pasha has during
the, last few days been rushing about the country
in the most fanciful manner.
His Highness first started from Alexandria at the
utmost speed of the railway to look at his new toy,
a palace on, the banks of the Nile, which he has
purchased from one of his nephews for 150,0001.
sterling; thence he proceeded to the barrage of the
Nile, where he is erecting extensive fortifications,
which can never be of any use ; then he came down
the Nile to Cafr-el-Ais, whence lie summoned, by
electric telegraph from Alexandria, an accession
of troops to the 2,000 cavalry and infantry he al-
ways takes about him. At Cafr-el-Ais he expressed
his intention of going to the great fair of Tantah,
in the Delta, which was then taking place, but
changed his mind, and went down the Nile to
Atfeh, where some measures are finally to be taken
for the deepening of the canal. From Atfeh he re-
turned to Cafr-el-Ais, and went to Tantah, where
he spent a couple of days, and had the dancing
girls to perform in his presence.
Suddenly he gave orders to take down all the
tents, and, mounting on horseback, he started in
the direction of the railway station, where prepara-
tions were hurriedly made to receive his highness,
but he said he was not going by the railway, and
proceeded down the line. The train started, and
soon overtook his highness, who immediately called
out to the engine-driver to stop. The viceroy dis-
mounted, and, on the plea of unwillingness to dis-
turb the passengers, his gets on to the locomotive,
sits on the coke, and i 5 now in Alexandria.
The working of the railway between Alexandria
and Cairo is often interrupted by Said Pasha's
hasty movements and the constant conveyance of
his troops. Delays and disorders frequently occur,
and the only reply that his Highness makes to any
observation on the subject is, that the railroad is
entirely his own—that he must be served first, and
the transit afterwards. Several robberies of specie
and of goods have again occurred, and the com-
plaints of the lack of system and vigilance are loud
and frequent.

The Alahmoodich Canal being closed to navi-
gation the railway is almost the only means the
I merchants have of bringing their goods to Alexan-
dria, and though the charges are enormous, no care
is taken of their property. Last week a train that
was bringing to Alexandria 20 trucks, with 1,100
bales of cotton, caught fire, and the whole was com-
pletely destroyed, the cotton being placed on tile
:rucks without any precaution to save it from the
sparks of fire from the, engine.
Lord Dalhousie, late Governor-General of India,
arrived at Suez, in the East India Company's
steamer Feroze, on the 2tl inst., and will proceed
to Europe, on the 7th or Bth inst., in her Majesty's
steamer Caradoc.

SPAIN.

•
TH 141 INSURRECTION AT VALENCIA.
The Madrid journals of the 9th and 10th of
April contain details of the insurrection at Va-
lencia.
In the morning of the 6th, whilst the munici-
pality was proceeding to draw for the conscription,
a numerous body of insurgents rushed in, crying :
" Down with the authorities ! No conscription 1"
and, amidst threats of death to the members of the
municipality, proceeded to break the urns. The
alcade, M. Eszribe, who attempted to restore order,
was fired at several times, and was miraculously
preserved by a serjeant of? the civil guard. The
insurgents were headed by firemen and national
guards, but were fur the most part labourers from
the railway. After expelling the mayor and his
colleagues from the building, the insurgents pro-
ceeded to the Plaza San Francisco. Th captain-
general, hearing of what had taken place, published
a bando, but as it produced no effect, be marched
against the insurgents at the head of a column of
200 infantry, 50 cavalry, and 4 pieces of artillery.
The insurgents, who were in the balconies and
windows, received him with a sharp fire, which
caused .hiin some loss, and he fired his cannon
against them ; but the insurgents resisted despe-
rately, and bands of them spread over the city and
attacked several guard-houses. After three hours'
combat, in which the cavalry took part, the insur-
gents were dislodged from the houses, and were
compelled to retreat. The number of killed and
wounded on both sides was about 40 ; and it is
now said that amongst the slain were six—not, as
at first stated, three—soldiers and a lieutenant.
This account difrars in some respects from the
following, given in a Barcelona paper, the Pro-
gresso, of the 10th. This paper says that the in-
surgents erected a barricade in the Calle de Carni-
cores, and that 300 of them defended it with such
energy that it was not carried without "„real
both amongst them and the troops. It says also
that their rallying cry was " Vive Espartero
Vivo liberty !" General Villalonga the captain-
general of the city and province, published, on the
7th, an addiess to the National Guard, exhorting them to co-operate with the troops in preserv-
ing order. On the Bth a military commission
was instituted, and 130 insurgents captured with
arms in their hands had been taken before it.
The greater part were sent to the fort of Murviedo;
the others were detained to be otherwise dealt with.
Troops arrived in the city from Barcelona on the
9th, and others had been despatched from Madrid.
T;te last telegraphic accounts published in the
!gazette announced that tranquillity continued, bu t
that groups, displaying considerable agitation,
persisted in remaining in the streets. The (gazette
publishes the decree, dated the 9th, which, as
stated by telegraph, removes General .Viga-
longa from the captaincy-general of Valencia;
and another which appoints General de Zebala,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the post, with the
powers of a special commissioner of the Govern-
ment, Marshal O'Donnell, Minister of War, being
charged with the administration of the foreign de-
partment during his absence. A report was cur-
rent in the capital that the troops of the garrison
of Madrid had been kept in their barracks owing
to the fear of disturbances ; but the Epoca says that
it was not true. A grand review of about 39,000
of the garrison and National Guard of Madrid had
been ordered.

MADRID, APRIL 15.
The garrison of Valencia has been reinforced.
A Council of War takes cognisance of the per.
sons who have been arrested.
The operations of the Conscription are to be
pursued to-clay without interruption.
Tranquillity is re-established.
The Cortez have approved the law on the retire-
ment of Ministers.

T:3 TH9 EDITQK 01' THE RUN.
Sza,—Among 'the- items which on Ilist Monday night
eassed—te—ewellethe majority in support of awarding a
three-thousaud-peunds' premium to jobbery, and mime-
-I*On:rent at, ;the Natioual Gallery—for, -audacious as it
may appear, our profligate and servile House of Commons
has awarded to the, purchasers of the "Adoration of the
Magi," out of the taxes extorted from an oppressively taxed
people, an increase.of 3,0001. above the estimates of last.
year, a fact known to but few—there is one .item of that
majority, I say, upon which .I wish to offer a few remarks.
That item is Mr. William Stirling, a member of the Select
Committee on the National Gallery of 1853.
On the 6th of May of that year the committee adjourned
from the House of Commons to the National Gallery it-
self, for the express purpose that I might be challenged to
point out in detail upon the nine pictures which, in my
public letters, I had alleged to have been injured by the
authority' and with the approval of Sir C. Eastlake during
the immediately preceding vacation, the damages which I
had denounced. I was the only person thus questioned.
My attacks upon Sir C. Eastlake were not, as it has been
mendaciously intimated, "anonymous;" mendaciously, for
to affect ignorance of me on this question is men,tacity.
In
every instance since 1850 my attacks were authenticated by
my own proper signature and address. I reiterateil them with
redoubled emphasis throughout my evidence. Was that evi-
dence "anonymousrWbether they were "un worthy" attacks
we shall presently see. Before the committee Y replied un-
reservedly to upwards of five hundred questions upon the
cleaning, some if which were of so invidious, so disgrace-
ful a nature, that at last a member, prompted, perhaps,
by the manifest disgust of the public present, remembering
that there was such a virtue as decency, suggested that the
examination should assume a less questionable character.
Ou the 13th of May, after my second and last examina-
tion on the, cleaning, the seine Mr. William Stirling, who
now votes in . support of Eastlake and Vandalism, Ger-
manisni and daubs, accosted me near the western door ( f
the Rubens-room, and volunteered the highest compliments
upon that evidence. He went so far as to say that I had
made out my case ; and to cap all, As for old Uwins,"
said he. " he's an ass." Mr. Uvrins is a Royal Academi-
cian. Nor was this the only time that Mr. Stirling so ex-
pressed himself. I may here mention, incidentally, that
my evidence on the cleaning extorted from other members
of the committee, commendation as explicit as that of Mr.
Stirling, with the same, or a similar, refrein in hondur of
Uwins. • Among those members were Messrs. Raikes Cur-
rie, Wm. Marshall, Lord Elcho, and Col. Mere, the chair-
man. Lord Elcho pronounced my evidence on the clean-
ing, but for one exception, " perfect ;" while Col. Mare,
with more rtedateness,. as became his years, though not
less emphatically, passed a general encomium upon it;
and, strange to relate ! "seized upon Lord Elcho's.' "im-
perfection" as the "great toe" of that evidence. At a
later period of the inquiry, the chairman virtually, and
Lord Elcbo literally, begged of me not to "kick Sir C.
Eastlake---because he was down ;" not to " kick" that
"thorough gentleman," Mr. Vernon's "gentleman above
all sordid considerations," who pockets the people's money
while conscious of being incompetent to discharge the
duties for which he receives it ; but of whose " talent,"
Jupiter-, or that as "mysterious influence" to whom Cupido
—not he of Jupiter and Venus—in daily orisons mumbles,
"ti baeierd dove' vuoi," has decreed it "presumptuous"
1 even so much as "to speak!" As though the fellow-
countrymen of Sydney, and Hampden, and Milton, and
Cromwell, were sunk so low as to accept as law a Royal
certificate of merit ! I resume Mr. Stirling.
Mr. Stirling's commendatory remarks upnn,my evidence
on the cleaning were uttered at the sixth meeting of the
committee. That " select" body met, publicly, 25 times.
The result of the examinations on the cleaning was, that
out of a hundred and fifty-four decisions delivered upon
that subject, exclusive of my own and of those of the par-
ties impeached, one hundred and forty supported my
charges. Among the witnesses were seven Royal Acade-
micians. With the exception of Mr. Uwins, who main-
tained (Uwins' Evidence,: 3,174-80) that "if the glazing
had been removed from the ' Rebecca' Claude, it was very
mach for the benefit of the picture," and that "really
Canaletto's erode of painting water was so absurd, that if
it was all robbed.. out, it would be so much the better,"
with this solitary exception, the Royal Academicians
examined also: endorsed my charges, For even Sir
C. Eastlake himself, although, as a Trustee, he had
" resolved that the pictures evinced an improved
appearance" in consequence of the cleaning, never-
theless, as a witness, found it expedient to con-
fess (Eastlake's qq, 4,590-2, 4,718 23-4-5) that some
of them had been ." ill and tastelessly °leaned," and ware
"now out of harmony:" that "the softness of outline in
others might have been destroyed by over-cleaning ;" that
all "do very much want some of the dirt they bad before;"
that "if you were to take a little dust and rub over the
picture of the `Annunciation,' he had no doubt it would
be much improved"—for " dirt" gives "gusto," &e.
six six other Academicians phrased their sense of their Presi-
dent's achievements thus : ," injured to the extent of the
original work of the master being rubbed off ;" " rawness
and want of tone very disagreeable ;" "geoial and plea-
'sant warmth very much damaged •;" " distinctive attri-
butes of the master gone ;" " scumblinge, and even paint
rernoved,7.so much so as to destroy the whole harmony of
the picture ;" "scrubbed to such an extent that the paint
is taken off altogether;" "now all raw and disjointed;"
" nothing can ever remedy" the damage ; " feetures re-
membered 'formerly, reineved by the late cleaning ;"
" very much shocked indeed at seeing the alteration th t
had taken place ;" " harmony and t, ne destroyed ;"
"frightful alteration;" " tort n red —in tist sly that, speak-
ing candidly ;" "DONE Poll," See.* I have quoted thus
freely from Royal Academicians, not that I value the
opinions of other witnesses less, but because Royal Acade-
micians, at least, will never, be suspected of prejudice in
my favour. On one 'occasion Sir C. Eastlake recounted to
the CormuLtee that he had had "a hunt ihreugh Han.
surd." This was to fasten upon this lute Mr. Mums a
mean sentiment which at a former ex troinatiou it had
~sited his purpose to impute to him. "It is a very labo-
rious undertaking," said Sir Charles, '` to hunt even
through Hansard, but I think it right to say that I have
searched in vain for anything of the kind in the papers."
(Eastlake's Evid. q. 6,575.) Equally ." laborious " and
equally successful would his search be were he "to hunt"
through my public letters for expressions more damning
to himself—more "violent," if he will—than those flung
in his teeth by his own colleagues and subordinates.
I have now established that, subsequently to Mr. Stir-
ling's commendation of my evidence ou the cleaning,
nothing occurred to warrant the slightest modification of
his opinion. A man's vote should be the genuine reflex of
his conviction. Under what category, then, shall we place
Mr. Stirling's vote oldest Monday night ? Is it not sng-
gestive of a lamentable analogy to his friend Herr Maud-
ler's " Careggio ?" but' with this advantage on the side of
the German, that it is less discreditable to possess such a
" Correggiei," then to have given such a vote.
With respect to Mr. Stirling's ignoble and underhand,
yet obvidus attack upon me, I shall have sufficiently,
punished him by positively declaring, that, substantially
it was a direct contradiction to the sentiments which he
once expressed to me in my own room, and which he has
repeated elsewhere. His inability to perceive how Herr
Miindler's attempt to sell us a daub, at the p, ice of a Cor-
reggio, should affect that "vaulting" German's eligibility
to a post of 1,0001. a-year at the National Gallery of Eng-
land • his rebuke to Mr. Otway for the "unfair terms used
by the honourable member for Stafford, with regard to
Mr, Otto Miindler," that is, for having exposed the "Cor-
regio" imposture, and so, the aggravated character of the
Mindler job—" because" forsooth! the Miinoller "gentle-
man was not present to defend himself;" but, above all,
that he should have administered such a rebuke at the very
moment when the "hoc. member for Perthshire" himself
had on his own lips an unwarrantable and "unfair," be-
cause a disingenuous attack upon another, who, though
"present," was as much debarred from making a defeime,
as could be the absent owner of the spurious Correggios—
denotes such weakness of understanding, as to afford Mr.
Academician Uwins a triumphant case for a retaliatory
to quoque: And now a word with you Lord Palmerston 1
I will not degrade a noble theme by discusser; with a
trifler like yourself, its mighty influences. Your brain
rankling with intrigue, your lips reeking with ribald and
inane jokee at the agony of a eation, agony to wh'ch you,
and such' as you, had caused it to "drift," what faculties
to the contemplation of a Raphael, a Mi-
chael
Aynoguelo bring,r a Phiedias? A joke—to raise "a laugh "
could
from an obsequious audience. Just imagine yourself fiord
Palmerston, face to face with the Pediment of the Parthe-
non ! I will confine myself then to what you can under-
stand. t.
You can undeestand that on the 22d of April you asserted
in the Rouse of Commons, that. "no appoietinents had
hitherto taken place with respect to any eft-hse at the N.l,
tional Gallery, and that "the whole of the arrangements
were still under the consideration of tie, Government ;"
and you can understand that at the vary time you were
uttering those words you knew that the whole of the ar-
rangements were completed, yell yourself havieg ordered
the " ~rants" for all she appOintinente to be made out,
as they now stand, a month before. Your own Treasury
Minute of the 27th of March convicts you. I eight like-
wise quote your admissiou on last Mon,ley night that upon
succeeding Lord Aberdeen, you bad " no hesitation in con-
curring" with that " antiquated' imbecility's" " previous
determination, that Sir. C. Eastlake should be ditecter,"
though that ado:ageism is partly false ; for you did " hesi-
tate" while " concurring." The consummation of a job so
audacious made even you pause.
You can also understand that, on the 22d of June, your
Secretary of the Treasury—the same who, on the first of
August, when defending. your " arrangements" and " ap-
pointments" of the 27th of Afareh, stigmatised the entire
people of the British Empire as beneath the purchaser of
the " Adoration of the Magi" in the appreciation of art,
for "undoubtedly, if any Eqglishinan had been equally
eligible," said he, " he would have had a prior claim ;"
you can also understand, I say, that your Secretary of the
Treasury, by your orders, again denied those appointments.
What manner of men can they be who twice thus submit
to be publicly repudiated, passes my understanding ! Your
mind may be so perverted by the prescriptive evasions of
office, as not to realise the true characters of such denials.
In Ethics, their nomenclature is short and startling. Such
denials degrade the country which, presumptively, you
represent.
in a public letter, not " anony-
On the 27th of August,
mous," which I know you read,l suggested that the " pil-
lory for Ministers who adulterate truth" should have pre-
cedence over Commissions of Inquiry into all other adultera-
tions.:' Your covert, but ill-disguised, attack upon me on
Monday night, I accept as the reply to that suggestion.
That attack, aeain, was virtually a defiance of fact through-
out. It is fafse, Lord Palmerston ! that you believe Sir
C. Eastlake "undoubtedly fit to hold the office entrusted
to him." Your "individuals with-whom personal resent-
ments have greater influence than the interests of truth or
the welfare of the community," your "disappointed com-
petitors" was levelled at me—a slander as gross as your
"anonymous" told "unworthy attacks." Search the
Treasury, and show, if you can, the% directly or indirectly
I have sought this Directorship. " Competitor !" I ac-
cept the term as the involuntary
recognition of a dent.
The Treasury, it is said, has been beset by secret appli
cants for that office; and I know that Germans and semi-
Germans have been the round of the town begging fur tes-
timonials—even from an Eastlakee--to shed a ray of light
upon their blushing merits, and I know that such testimo-
nials have been printed for ." private circulation." But
such'men do not make attacks upon officialism, even "ano-
nymously." They fear detection. Secret beggars for
office, presumptively incompetent in " virtue" of their
calling, dread retributton. They bide their time. Like
the fox in the fable, they lie in wait to purloin the prize
won by nobler animals.'' No man of spirit would be other
than a public candidate for a public office. A man of refine-
ment might shrink even from that, and wait to be called.
It was a compound of insincerity, vulgarity, and insolence,
to insinuate as a motive, "disappointed corapetitorshie,"
except against rejected and incompetent applicants,
convicted of "anonYrnoUs attacks." Had you the feelings
of a gentleman, or the spirit of a man, where you offered
the affront, there you would make retraction, But I give
you credit for neither. I have delayed this apostrophe,
that contempt, not indigestion, might speak.
Your attack on the Press-04 the 1: twayalcue wawN.