The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Ist division of the Ist battalion 22d Regi-
ment, consisting of about nine officers and 260 men,
under the command of Major George Robinson,left
Dublin on Saturday, for Cork, to embark on board
her Majesty's screw steamship Alegtera, 6, for con-
veyance to Malta, there to await the arrival of the
head-quarter division, under the command of Col.
Harding, C.B. The 2d division will sail as soon as
tonnage can be provided for it.
The I Battery of Artillery is about to leave Nor-
wich Barracks for Woolwich.

The 10th Regiment now quartered at Devonport
has received orders to proceed to Aldbrshott.
The first battalion of the 11th Foot, stationed at
Portsmouth, will be presented with new colours by
Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., commanding the
south-west district, on Southsca-common, about the
Ist of June.

Major-Gen. Douglas has reviewed the East Nor
folk Militia at Southtown, Great Yarmouth. The
regiment, which musters between 500 and 600 rank
and file, presented a creditable appearance.
The East Essex Militia, under the command of
Lieut.-Col. E. H. M. Kelly, assembled at Colches-
ter last week. A considerable number of men have
enlisted in the line, and there are consequently some
defaulters.

The First Devonshire Regiment of Militia assem-
bled last week for 28 days' training at St. Thomas's
barracks, Exeter,under the command of Lieut.-Col.
Ferguson Davie, M.P. The total number of the
force is 547, and the men are reported to have a
very soldier-like appearance.

The 2d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia assem-
bled at Guildford last week for 28 days' training.
The force consists of 36 sergeants, 33 corporals, 10
drummers, and 291 privates, besides the commis-
sioned officers. When the muster-roll was called it
was found that there were only 19 absentees. The
men assemble daily for practice in the cricket-
ground near the railway station. The regiment is
under the command of Col. the Earl of Lovelace.

The Royal Bucks Regiment of Militia assembled
last week at High Wycombe for 28 days' training.
The force consists of about 800 men.

The Royal Monmouthshire Regiment of Militia
assembled at Monmouth last week for 27 days'
training, under the command of Lieut.-Col. J. F.
Vaughan.
The Hertfordshire Regiment of Militia marched
into Hertford last week, under the command of
Colonel the Marquis of Salisbury. The regiment
consists of 23 sergeants, 11 corporals, and 382 pri-
vates.

The Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners Regi-
ment of Militia assembled last week at Truro for 27
days' training, under the command of Col. Sir John
Colman Rashleigh. About 180 men, nearly the full
complement of the Regiment, answered when the
muster-roll was called.

The first Worcestershire Regiment of Militia are
undergoing an active drill of six hours a-day. Four
companies have been on duty for six days and they
will forthwith be succeeded by four other compa-
nies. The companies under drill have been inspected
by Lord Lyttelton, the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county, and a most favourable report of their pro-
gress has been nrulc.

The Leicestershire Militia assembled for training
on the 27th ult. The muster roll of all ranks is
898, 77 privates only being absent.
Col. Marriott, the officer commanding the Royal
Artillery in the northern district, inspected the Nor-
thumberland Artillery Militia in Tynemouth-garri-
son on Friday and Saturday last. On Saturday the
regiment was exercised with the great guns, form-
ing the modern defence of the Castle and the port
of Tyne.
The Ist Regiment of Militia is under orders to
assemble at Chester Castle to-day.

The South Devon Militia assembled for 27 days'
training on the 30th of April at their depot at Mut-
ley, one mile distant on the north, and marched
into Plymouth fully equipped, about five o'clock in
the afternoon, under the command of the Col.-Com-
mandant Lord Churston. The regiment occupies
Milibay Barracks, the cfacerN are in billets, and the

PTiICE 4D. STAMPED. SD.

mess establishment is in a hired house, furnished
by the South Devon Militia, the complete appoint-
ments bring the property of the regiment. The
drills, including a course of musketry, have been
entered upon with vigour. Lord Churston is on
parade throughout every drill.

THE VO.LU.NTEER.

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The return of better weather for drifling and the
approach of the time when her Majesty intends
holding a grand review of all the metropolitan
regiments in Hyde Park, seem to have stimulated
the activity of the new levies to the utmost. There
is scarcely a day in the week on which some one of
more of the London corps do not assemble in the
evening either for drill or marching out, and every
week shows a marked improvement in the solidity
and ease with which the evolutions are gone
through. The London Brigade, the Westminster,
three or four of the various Surrey corps, the West

Middlesex, the Scottish, the Victoria, and others
have already made great progress, and will require
but a few days of steady brigade drill to make them
almost, if not quite, equal to the regular rifle regi-
ments in the service. To civilians, who have gene-
rally regarded a soldier's drill and discipline as a
sort of mystery only to be overcome by years
of practice, the really astonishing proficiency
attained by most of the volunteers after a
few months' drill seems unaccountable. In truth,
however, there is nothing in the whole range of
squad, company, or regimental drill which is not
within the compass of the most ordinary minds;
and when it is recollected that 19-20ths of the me-
tropolitan volunteers are young men of intelligence
and education, who are not only willing but anxious
to master their new duties, the rapidity of their
progress will be no matter of surprise. In all re-
lating to ability or will to learn the volunteer is so
superior as to be removed from all standard of
comparison with the ordinary run of common sol-
diers, and in this lies the secret of the apparent
ease with which they have advanced. No day has
yet, we believe, been named, for the grand review
by her Majesty in Hyde Park, but it is generally
understood that it will not take place before the
middle or end of June. A kind of grand rehearsal
will, however, take place on the evening of Friday,
the 18th of this month, in Hyde Park, when most
of the regiments will go through brigade drill, and
it is to be hoped that this will not be the only mus-
ter of the kind attempted before the great event of
the summer comes off. As is seen every month at
Aldershot, the best drilled regiments in the service
find they have much to learn when they come to
work in brigades, and the drill of the barrack•yard,
though essential in "setting up" and giving steadi-
ness to a regiment, is only the first step to that
final proficiency which con be gained alone by
drilling in brigades and acting in the field in
conjunction with masses of other troops. There
is yet sufficient time intervening to hold at least
three brigade field-days on Saturday afternoons
in Hyde Park before the review takes place,
and it would be unfortunate if, from neglect of
these opportunities, any contretemps should
occur in the performance of the state programme.
The latter, it is understood, will not be
very intricate or elaborate, though sufficiently com-
plex to prove, if creditably gone through, that a
sound foundation has been laid, and one from which,
in the course of another twelvemonth, the most per-
fect results may be anticipated. Of one thing the
Volunteers may rest assured, and that is that their
appearance and evolutions before the Queen will
be regarded throughout the country as the test
of their efficiency, and the very universality of
the interest which is felt in their success will natu-
rally lead to a most e:Yreful scrutiny of all their
movements. The reputation which will he gained
on that day by the best drilled regiments will be
second only in degree to the fame of the corps
which shall show the highest number of good marks-
men at the rifle compet ion in July. At the review
in lly-de Park all regiments throughout the king-
dom can attend if they arc so pleased, and intimate
their intention, through their commanding officer ;
but-, of course, from the distance to travel, and other
inconveniences, it is not likely that any but the
regiments of the metropolitan counties will be pre-
sent, excepting probably the corps of the two Uni-
versities.

Saturday was a very busy day with the Volun-
teers, who were drilling in large and small bodies
every where. The West Middlesex and Scottish,
headed by their bands, marched out, and the West-
minster assembled to keep the ground in front of
the Horse Guards, while the London Brigade was
inspected and reviewed by the hake of Cambridge.
As this inspection excited considerable curiosity the
Westminsters found they had their work to do, and
their most successful efforts only enabled them to
define the line which ought to have been kept, but
across which almost imaginary boundary the crowd
kept surging every minute. Apparently the Volun-
teers had no terrors for the crowd, which their
curiosity was not able easily to overcome, for certain
it is that the line was more or less invaded
every minute, till a few Life Guaids made
their appearance, and succeeded in restoring
something like order. There was an immense
concourse of spectators by five o'clock, and
all the roofs and windows of the surrounding build-
ings were thronged with ladies and gentlemen. A
little before 5 o'clock the London Brigade, 1,200
strong, marched on to the ground and took up their
position along three sides of the parade. Their
movements were steady and soldierlike, and if any
came with the expectation of laughing at the
awkwardness of the Volunteers they must have
been entirely disappointed. When the Duke of
Cambridge with his aides de-camp came on the
ground, after a brief inspection by his Highness the
brigade was put through a few of the ordinary
manoeuvres, such as marching in open columns of
companies, in slow, quick, and double time, chang-
ing front, &e. In these marches, especially at
double time, when the companies wheeled by the
left, there was a good opportunity of judging ,of
their steadiness of drill, and with scarcely an ex-
ception the movement was performed in a manner
that reflected the utmost credit on the brigade. In
some companies perhaps where the same regularity
was not exhibited, we believe it was caused as much
by over-anxiety to execute the movement quickly
and welras from any other cause. In advancing
in line the whole movement was admirable, and
was cheered by the crowd with enthusiasm. After
a few more evolutions the brigade formed in hollow
square, enclosing the Commander-in-Chief and the
officers of the regiment, to whom his Royal High-
ness in a few words expressed his great satisfaction
at the appearance of the regiment, and with the
proficiency which it had attained in its drill. The
brigade then formed in sections of four, and, headed
by their band, marched back to the playground of
Christ's Hospital, where it had assembled previous
to marching to the park.
A meeting of the commanding officers of London
Volunteer regiments took place on Friday last, with
a view to arranging the details of the rehearsal on
the 18th inst.

The prospectus has been issued of the London
and South African Bank, with a capital of £400,000, in
shams. The list of directors comprises members of some of
the leading houses connected with the Cape trade. The
head office is to be iu London, and the branches will be in
Cape Town, Graham's Town, Port Elizabeth, and the
colony of Natal. Banking business has hitherto been im-
peded in the colony by doubts as to the legality of any rate
of interest higher than 6 per cent. ; but that question- has
just been definitively and satisfactorily settled by a judg-
ment to the effect that the trade in money is entirely free.
The existing banking capital of the colony is small, and the
natural average rate for accommodation is high. It is stated,
however, that another company is about to issue a pros-
pectus forthwith, the proposed capital of which will be
£500,000. There may be good room for one, but in the
conflict of two perhaps neither may succeed. If both should
be found to possess elements of strength, an immediate
filatigmatisli livAld ate tIAQ riktiml moo.

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LIVERPOOL, SATLvoLgyttz,;--t1 errA6s
The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Captain Ai- kins, from New York on the 26th ult., arrived here SAL
at 11.15 this morning.
A summary of her news, by telegraph via
Queenstown, has been already published.
The following steamers had arrived out :—The
America, hence, at Bostom, on the 2:3d; the Aus-
tralasian, hence, at Portland on the 231; the Ham-
monia, from Southampton, at New Yet-I:, on the
23.1; and the City of Baltimore, Lenee at New
York, on the 24th ult.
The steamship Vig), from c,JI fcr w
York, put into Halifax on the 21st ult., short of
coal.

AMERICA.

'Ele news is quite Uniznportant, exa,pt ca relates
to the meeting of the National Democratic Conven-
tion at Charleston. nir2, proceedings of the first
taco days were devoid of interest, hut according to
the general tenour of the telegrams from Charleston
they indicated a preference, on the part of a tr.3jo-
. rity of the members of the convention, for Senator
Douglas as the nominee of the democratic party for
the prcsifler.ey. Mr. Guthrie. of Kentucky, a
member of Piesident Pierce's Cabinet, also ap-
peared to be a prominent favourite. Mr. Caleb
Cashing, who had been chosen to preside over the
convention, was Attorney-General during the
Pierce Administration.

Rumours had been current of dissensions in the
Cabinet at Washington, but :they were pronounced
unfounded.

The Washington correspondent of the New Fork
Times writes as follows :—lnformation has been
received here which confirms the statements, pub-
lished in the New Orleans Picayune, in relation to
to the efforts made by the English Government to
bring the contending parties in Mexico to a settle-
ment. Captain Aldharn, commanding officer of the
British vessels of war at Vera Cruz, .addressed a
letter on the 24th March to President Juarez, con-
gratulating him on the glorious resistance the city
offered to Miramon, and renewing the efforts made
before in the name of the English Government for
the establishment of peace in that distracted coun-
try. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Con-
stitutional Government answered in the name of
Juarez, in as elaborate note, defining the position of
the Constitutional Government, showing by refer-
ence to history that peace cannot be restored while
the priests have power to conspire, as all constitu-
tions which have been either framed by legitimate
representatives of the people, or accepted by the
people themselves, have been overthrown by the
priests, who will not accept anything short of su•
premacy, which they aim to exercise over every-
thing in Mexico. The note goes on compare the
conduct observed towards foreigners both by the
Constitutional Government and by the reactionists,
to show that the former, notwithstanding it has not
been recognised by the ministers from England and
France, has complied with the obligations of the coun-
try, and afforded protection, as far as possible, to
foreigners, while the latter has committed most shock-
ing outrages ofevety kind ; that the Government was
desirous of seeing an end put to the distracted con-
dition of:the country, and was ready to do every-
thing consistent with its duty to bring about a settle-
ment in which the sovereignty of the people should
be acknowledged, and the great principles of civil
and religious liberty be secured.
The reply of Lord J. Russell to the last note of
Secretary Cass on the slave trade was received by
the last mail, and diseases points of international
law at great length. It is very severe upon the
course of the United States. The venerable Secre-
tary is extremely restless under the lecture read
him by his lordship, but he will pay him back in
his own coin with interest.

President Juarez has issued a decree indemnify-
ing all the sufferers by the late bombardment of
Vera Cruz, deriving the means for doing so from
the sale of church property confiscated to the State
Lust July.

C TELLIGE.2:;LE.
The -New York money market, under the influence,
of tick-ices from this side, exhibited symptoms of a
more cautious feeling, and the tendency was rather
towards a tighter mark2t. The supply of money
was nevertheless abundant, and the demand •,s,s
only moderate. Call loans ranged horn 510
to t.

The weekly st::tement of the Pify
banks was rega:dcd as rather untavonva;)!e. ,T;ici,t
dcercesc in the specie reserve of 3rt,Gti,!...3 duds,
in the deposits of 2,511,0;10 dohs., and in the I,3ans
and discounts 1,470,147 dots. Sterling exchange
Was in active demand for the Peria, and a large
business was done by the banker, there being few
commercial bills in the market. Prices in gtneral
closed firm. The quotations on Loudon were 1081
to 1091; on France, 5.15 a to 5.161.
The stock market had continued active, though
with some check to the rapid advance in prices
during the ?revious week, At the close there was
a strong pressure to realise on railroad securities,
and in most cases there was a slight giving way in
these kiwis of securities. Erie shares and New
York Central Bonds were exceptions. State Stocks
were firmly held. The following were the latest
quotations :—EriQ shares, 17Z- ; ditto 3d Mortgage
Bonds, Si;l- ditto 4th Mortgage, 65; New York
Central shares, 78a ; ditto 7 per Cent,. Bonds, 1041 ;
Reading shares, 421 ; Illinois Central Bonds, 88,1 ;
Pacific Mail shares, 105 ; Michigan Southern
shares, guaranteed, 23q; Michigan Central shares,
471; United States Fives of '65, 102 ; Virginia
Sixes, 931 ; Illinois Central shares, 60, After offi-
cial hours there was a tendency to improvement in
the share list.

Cotton was dull, and transactions light, at pre-
vious rates. Middling Uplands 114 c. per lb. The
receipts of the week at all the Southern ports were
43,000 bales against 50,000 last year. The exports
of the week to Britain were 108,000 bales. •
Flour buoyant, and 5 to 10c. per barrel dearer.
Wheat in good demand for export, at higher rates.
Indian corn also in improved demand, at advancing
prices.

Freights to Britain tending downward, the offer-
ings (except grain, of which there had been large
engagements) being very light. Cotton was taken
at 3-16 d. to 7-32 d., closing at the lower rate. Rosin
was taken for London at 2-3 d.; oil cake, 42-3 d ;
bacon, 225. 6d.

QUEENSTOWN, MAT (3.

The Royal Mail steamship Europa arrived hero
at 11 45 a.m., embarked mails and passengers, and
sailed for Halifax and Boston at 625 p.m. All
well.

THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1860.

-- -4.

Mr. GLADSTONE will have need of all his elo-
quence to-night. In the debate on the Wine
Licences Bill he may think himself fortunate if the
ingenuity of opponents do not find it quite relevant
to raise a discussion on the awkward question of
the working of ad valorem duties arranged as pro-
posed by the treaty ; but, if he get through the
second reading of the bill, in the Ways and Means
Committee, he can hardly escape a severe catechising
on the position in which our merchants and manu-
facturers will be placed.
It has become evident that on a great part of our
manufactured products ,the ad valorem duty of 30
per cent. will not be a revenue duty, nor merely a
protective duty, but an absolutely prohibitory one.
The French excel in fine workmanship and taste-
ful designs, the English in the stronger and cheaper
fabrics; but it turns out that it is just in these—
which the French peasant, without stockings inside
his shoes, if he can manage to fabricate something
which bears the name of the latter, asd with agri-
cultural implements hardly better than were used
by his ancestors in the days of CESAR most needs
—it is just in the stronger and rougher fabrics and
manufactures of all kinds that our merchants could
look for trade with France.

Now, we can hardly conceive, that the French
EMPEROR, or rather his servants, foresaw the pro-
bable working of ad valorem duties, fixed on the
medium scale of prices, which had ruled during the
preceding six months, but so it is—that for the
classes of goods referred to the prices of most have
been excessively high. The result is that 30 per
cent. on late prices may be 50 or 60, or even 70 per
cent. on their prices a little time hence. It might be
supposed that the fall in price here would enable
our merchants the more easily to export to France.
And so it would if the raw manufacture were not
in all such articles the principal part of the cost,
and the raw material would cost the French no
more than it costs us. For instance, the Bradford
Chamber of Commerce observes that on yarns of
the present value of thirteen shillings the groas,
the raw material costs eleven shillings and three-
pence, only the difference representing the cost of
English skill and labour. An ad valorem tax on
such an article at the present time would of course
become an enormous tax on the manufacturing skill
employed in it, if the price falls, as it is likely to
do, materially.

It would seem, therefore, that to a very great
extent we arc placed in the hands of France. To
a very great extent she may, if she pleases,. coni
tinue her protecting system under the guise Of
duties levied in strict accordance with the treaty;
and of what her inclination is the recent debate in
the French Chamber may give us a good conception.
The single idea of that debate was, how completely

France had "jockeyed" England. Not only was
there the entire absence of anything like a generous
feeling, one so common here, of feeling a pleasure
in having conceded more than was strictly required
by another party, but the boast was that France had
got everything—England nothing. The witness
turns out to be too true. Yet most English
members of Parliament—English Ministers cer-
tainly—would think it a little below the
dignity of their country to endeavour
to prove that she had made an entirely one-sided
bargain. Our statesmen assuredly would not like
a treaty with which both sides had not fair reason
to be content.

We may be told, as we have been told again and
again, that we have conceded nothing, because we
have merely repealed or lowered Customs' duties,
which we should have dealt with in like manner,
even had there been no treaty. We can hardly
believe this. It was not the prospect of cheap in-
ferior wines that induced Englishmen to submit to
a single penny more of the odiously unjust tax
which swells our revenues ; it was the belief that
cheap wines were to be paid for in British manu-
factures, and the trade between the two countries
thus rapidly doubled and trebled, which carried the
budget, the treaty, and the tenpenny income-tax.
We had no need of a treaty at all, but, as
we were told, to enable the French EMPEROR
consistently with the constitution which he has
so benignantly conferred on Frenchmen, to lower
his tariff. It is to be feared, now, that we have
humbled ourselves from free trade to a commercial
treaty, to reap from it protection and prohibition
under another form.

Both Manchester men and peace men will pro-
bably find themselves deceived. The former forced
the treaty on the House at the cost of the
unpopular budget, by the argument of Mr.
GLADSTONE, that reducing tea and sugar duties
was of little consequence to the working man com-
pared with finding him employment and wages—it
told well at the time, but how will it tell if it be
found that, after all, the productions of our indus-
try can hardly squeeze into France through a
hostile tariff framed in accordance with the letter
of the treaty ? Our "peace-at-any-price "men, also,
—they were exulting in the hope that now our
gunboats might as well rot, our dockyards dismiss
their hands, and our volunteers exchange the rifle
practice for cricket—what will they say to France
refusing to accept the commercial recognisances by
which they had hoped to bind her over to keep
the peace ?

The reciprocation of courtesies between her
Majesty's Ministers and the Royal Academy on
Saturday evening last, were—if that be pcssible—
more than usually delightful. We cannot of course
help thinking that the postponement for another
month of all the fret and worry incident to the carry-
ing of that " Little Bill" must have imparted a pecu-
liar zest and relish to the appreciation of Saturday's
Banquet by the leaders both of the Government
and of the Opposition. It was only immediately
anterior to the Private View on Friday, and the
Banquet on Saturday, that the agreeable act of
procrastination was decided upon. The second
reading being passed without a division, the noble
lord the Foreign Secretary contrived in some mea-
sure to assuage the irritated " nervous system" of
the house, by giving it assurance of one calendar
month's tranquillity in respect to his " Poor Little
Bill," by delaying, from the 4th instant to the 4th
proximo, the next stage incident to every Parliame-
ntary measure, that of its detailed consideration in
Committee. It was like the administration of a
timely dose of GODFREY'S Cordial. There was at
once, at any rate in that direction, a prospect of four
or five weeks' delicious tranquillity. A hiatus in
the session of calm repose after a lengthened period
of sleepless nights, and drowsy days, and perpetual
perturbation. And hardly had this welcome deci-
sion been arrived at, when upon the forenoon of the
very morning of the day which inaugurated one
blessed month of quiescence in regard to the " Little
Bill"—its anxious parent could loiter with his col-
leagues (each, wonderful to tell, with his heart at
ease) round those six apartments, en suite, at the
National Gallery set apart for the Royal Academy
Exhibition. And upon the evening of the day after-
wards could sit complacently at the hospitable board
of the President and his Forty Acadamicians, vis a
vis with a good many of all the talents of all the
professions, cheek-by-jowl with several among
the chiefs of their political antagonists. In
the exuberance of his satisfaction at this
occasion of annual " unbending "—Lord PALMER-
STON has pronounced the day of the Academy
Banquet one of the brightest in the whole course of
the twelvemonth. All who enter those doors,
said the Premier, deposit upon the threshold every
troubling thought of the outer world—put them
aside there with their hats and their overcoats. And
there, around the banqueting table of the Royal
Academy you meet, as the noble Viscount further
remarked," men of professions free from their cares,
men of literature unmindful of their anxieties, men
of science who for a time do not think of their
labours,"' above all, "politicians forgetful (for a
while) of their antagonism." In vivid testimony
of this, there on Saturday sat together at those
graceful and refined festivities, the Premier and the
ex-Premier, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
the ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord
of the Admiralty and the ex-First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Lord JOHN
MANNERS, Lord CARLISLE and Lord STANLEY-
-there, too, sat the historian GROTE and the nove-
list TIJACKERAY, Professor FARADAY and Professor
OWEN, the President of the Royal Society, and the
President of the College of Physicians. There,
in fact, as the First Lord of the Treasury olsserved—
year after year " we have the pleasure of seeing
assembled within those walls men of the greatest
ability and of the most eminent distinction in all the
walks of life." Assembled there too for one common
purpose—to admire and appreciate. Remembering
this—nothing could well have been in more de-
lightful good taste or in more admirable good
humour than the words in which the noble lord,
the Foreign Secretary, acknowledged the toast of
Her MAJESTY'S Ministers. Lord JOIIN RUSSELL
asserting (as he rose) to the President of the
Academy—" I do not rise, Sir CHARLES, to thank
you for the toast of ller MAJESTY'S Ministers—l
rise rather to protest against it." Adding, humor-
ously, " I think that in these meetings of the Royal
Academy it is very difficult to speak of the merits
of her M EsTv's Ministers without raising a
political debate, and putting you in the place of
the Speaker of the House •f Commons." By
way of affording a whimsical specimen of what
might be done in this way, Lord JOAN face-
tiously continued—" Now if I were to dilate,
which were only speaking the truth, on the devo-
tion and patriotism which her MAJESTY'S Minis-
ters have shown in accepting office (cheers and
laughter), on the unerring wisdom which all these
measures show, and the universal popularity which
has attended them (cheers and laughter continued),
I am afraid, instead of meeting the consent -of all
who arc present, I should, as I have said, raiso a
discussion, and have to contend with Me. DISRAELI
(cheers),:to prove the assertions I have made." Apart
from the harmless pleasantry of all this one might

regard it almost as a relief to the noble lord to
be so entirely rid, for once, of all the rigid rules
of the House that he could actually thus mention the
loader of the Opposition otherwise, than as the
right hon. gentleman the member for Bucking-
hamshire.

It is noticeable, however, in the midst of
all these charming amenities incident to an oc-
casion like this annual Banquet at the Academy,
how much of courtly etiquette is still observable
in the distribution of complimentary honours by
the President when coupling with the sequence
of toasts the names of particular individuals.
It was not simply by chance or by acci-
dent, but with a kindly and courteous pre-
meditation that the toast of Literature,
for example, was associated with the name of the
accomplished American citizen, Mr. MOTLEY, author
of " The Rise of the Dutch Republic." In the dis-
tribution of these convivial kindnesses, moreover,
Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE secured to the evening an
agreeable variety, so that in some measure—

" One after one the lords of Fame advanced,"

Sir BENJAMIN BRODIE responding for the Royal
Society,:as its President. Earl STANHOPE, speaking
as Patron at once of the National Portrait Gallery
and the Society of Antiquaries. The Marquis of
LANSDOWNE as one of the Governors of the British
Institution. And so on throughout the whole even-
ing to the close of this delightful entertainment.

" Class against class "—was exemplified again a
week or ten days ago in one of its too frequent and
revolting forms. The class game presevers sitting
in judgment on the class who are ever ready to deal
with game as ferce naturce. The Ilminster magis-
trates, headed as they frequently are by a clergy-
man, were the first class, and two poor men named
JOHN KEETCII and JOHN ENGLAND the opposed
class. The evidence was concerning a dog—the
running of a dog after a hare,--of a dog said to be-
long to, and to have been with the two men—and
most certain it is that the evidence was such as be-
fore any English jury, presided over by any of our
judges, would not have been sufficient to " hang a
dog." It was held, however, by his reverence and
his colleagues to be sufficient to convict two poor men
who could not pay the money, in fines amounting to
£1 10s. 6d. and to 18s. 6d. respectively, and because
they could not pay it to send them to gaoI—KEETCH
for 21 days and ENGLAND for 14 days ! We shoald
like to know what text the rev. prelate preached
from the following Snnday—whether he descanted
on the wickedness of " trespassing in pursuit of
game," and took for the foundation of his discourse,
" Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those
that trespass against us."
But indeed, if the evidence be correctly reported,
the conviction was wholly inexcusable ; it is the
clerical magistrate and the lay magistrates who
have trespassed on the liberty of Englishmen. Ad-
mitting that the laws, however iniquitous, must be
administered by magistrates, the evidence was
wholly inadequate. The men were convicted be-
cause country parsons and squires love game, and
hate every man who has a dog with him, for
there is no evidence that these men were poachers';—
indeed, it was between 11 and 12 iu the morning—
and not because the two poor men were proved
guilty of the artificial crime of setting a dog to
run after a hare.

The only witness against them swore that he re-
cognised the two men at the distance of 550 yards.
He acknowledged there were three men, but he
could only identify these two—identify the two men
at one hundred yards over a quarter of a mile !
We may well ask whether any one but game pre-
serving preachers of the gospel and country justices
of the peace would believe this. But, further, JOSEPH
ENGLAND—the brother, we presume, of the victim
—stated that he went with KEETCLI on the morning
in question to see a six-legged lamb; they had no
dog, and he returned with him home just before one
o'clock. During the time he was out KEETdII had
no dog, and was not concerned in coursing a hare.
He affirmed that the rev. magistrate before him had
met them without the dog—but his reverence
would not say yes or no to the appeal ! Again,
ANN Bisuor swore that the accused kept a grey-
hound for a gentleman to whom it was now re-
turned—she confirmed the story of their going to
see the lamb—and was certain the dog was in the
house from eleven to one that day !
If the evidence be fairly reported, we should
say the decision of these gentlemen ought to be
brought under the notice of the Home Secretary,
and after proper inquiry, they ought to hear from
the keeper of her MAJESTY'S conscience. It is
for Lord CAMPBELL to see that justice only, is ad-
ministered in her name.