The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-24 00:00:00

YEOVIL.

The Reformeri of West Somerset, after partaking
of a public tea, held a meeting in the Corn Ex-
change on Monday evening last, under the presi-
dency of the Mayor, Mr. J. Raymond. Upwards
of 600 were present. The meeting was very unani-
mous. The retirement of Mr. Gladstone from the
leadership of the Liberal party was the subject of
universal regret, but a hope was expressed that the
voice of the country would succeed in inducing him
to withdraw his resignation. The seceders from the
Liberal party, which led to the defeat of Mr. Glad-
stone's amendment, were denounced. The meeting
was addressed by Mr. Clark, son-in-law of Mr.
Bright, Mr. Lowater, Mr. Clinker, Rev. Mr. Ellis,
Rev. Mr. Klench, and Mr. Mark Price, of Manches-
ter, who pointed out the incongruities in the Go-
vernment bill, and showed by figures that while
in some boroughs the household suffrage pro-
posed would increase the .number of voters 12 per
cent., in others the increase would be 398 per
cent. The following are the resolutions which were
unanimously carried:—" 1. That this meeting
desires to assert its unabated confidence in Mr.
Bright and the other leaders of the - Liberal
party, but would respectfully suggest that as an
attempt at household suffrage has been introduced
by a Tory Government, household suffrage with the
one qualification of ,a six months' residence should
be the main object ak!..ied at by the Liberal party.
2. That this meeting is of opinion that the Tory
scheme for the redistribution of seats is ludicrously
inadequate to remedy existing anomalies, that the
ballot is necessary for the protection of the voter,
and that no bill will meet the just requirements of
the people which does not include a lodger fran-
chise and provide for shorter Parliaments. 3. That
this meeting deeply regrets the defection of professed
Liberal members, which caused the defeat of Mr.
Gladstone's amendment. At the same time it trusts
that the right hon. gentleman will reconsider his de-
termination to make no further efforts to amend the
Government Bill, and is of opinion that in continu-
ing those efforts he will be certain to secure the
hearty sympathy and support of the great majority
of his countrymen. 4. That this meeting deeply
sympathises with the gathering of the National Re-
form Union in their high appreciation of the late
Richard Cobden, to whose memory they this day
inaugurate a statue; and it hereby pledges itself to
united exertion and increased agitation until the
industrious classes are fairly represented in the
Commons House of Parliament, and their interests
faithfully promoted by local and parochial authori-
ties. 5. Tha' a petition to Parliament be prepared
embodying the foregoing resolutions, and that it be
signed-by the chairman on behalf of the meeting."

PREMATURE BALDNESS.—Mr. J. Fergeant, bookseller, of
Linton, Cambrtoge, has made public a curious cue s f a
young man, named Ilay lock, of Ashdon, whose hair ea s coif
entire from some very unaccountable cause. and len him in
a state of premature baldnes•. lle purchase,' from Mr. r-
geant several popular preparations, whi h he applied, bFe t
without any elf,ct whatever. At last, how.ver. made
trial of the lliacassar Oil of he
ssrs. Rowland, or London,
and exhibited to the most tacreduloas the proof of its effi-
cacy in a thick crop of hair. Mr. sergeant permits a dirixt
reference to hire on this very interesting, fact.
MALT.—The large quantity of 52,281,222 bushels
of malt were charged with duty iu the year 1856 ; the
amount of duty charged was £7,089,218.
bushels were retained for home c,onsumption. 55:423137,8138
cwts., equal to 2,361,482 qrs., of barley were imported in
tho year.
COAL IN POLAND.--Borings are continubd the
whole length of the railway lines in the kingdom of Poland;
these operations, which have already led to the discovery
of four seams of coal, have now obtained a still further
success, as a fifth seam has just been found at Dombroff,
and a sixth in the forest of Stohemoschiton.—Journal of
the Society of iirt3.

third anniversary dinner, for which the late
Mr. T. P. Cooke has bequeathed ample funds in his
curiously-worded will, took place at the College at
Maybury last evening. The terms of the great,
nautical actor's last testament are as follow :
,4 And for the more effectually carrying into opera-
tion my intentions, on the 23d day of April in each
year, which is the birthday of our immortal dra-
matic poet, Shakespeare, and which is my own natal
day also, a public holiday or treat Fhould be given
to the pensioners of the college for the celebration
of this day. And that on this ocecasion annuAl
dinner shall be provided iii the hall of -the college,
at which the master, Ivardens, and members of the
council :hould preside, and to which the whole of
the pensioners, and any supporters and patrons of
the drama, and well-wishers to th college ; awl
such members of my family as shall be living, and
the trustees for the time being of my will (if any)
shall be invited."

As upon the two previous occasions, the dinner
was laid in the central hall, and the whole of the
inmates of the college were present. Mr. Benjamin
Webster, the founder, presided, supported by Mr.
Hugh Cumming„ the son-in-law of the late T. P.
Cooke, Miss Patey Joseph, Miss Kate Carson, Miss
Fanny Hunt, Miss Buffton, Mr. A. R. Slous (the
author of " True to the Core"), Mr. Croker, Mr.
B. Webster, jun., Mr. Mohamet, Mr. Gruneisen,
Mr. G. B. Childs, Mr. R. J. Wool, Mr. Raw, Mx.
S. Burton, Mr. Lavender, Mr. Churchill, &c.
At the conclusion of the dinner (which included
every luxury of the season, and was served by
Messrs. Willis, of St. James's, in a manner that gave
marked satisfaction) the usual loyal and patriotic
toasts were drunk with much enthusiasm.

The CHAIRMAN subsequently gave the toast of the
day, observing that by the will of a great and good
smtoe,or,they were once again as,tf_sablt(7. to do honour
to his memory, but the first wish of their deceased
benefactordeceasedarnyr"not
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on the genius displayed in his works would be to tell
an oft-told tale. Without further preface, there-
fore, he gave the toast "l'o the Immortal Memory
of William Shakspere." (Great cheering.'
Mr. CHURCHILL then went through the form of
reading the will of the deceased gentleman, and the
chairman subsequently gave the " Donor of the
Play," in the course of which he referred to the ver.
satile talents of the late T. P. Cooke, and to the bril-
liant success that had attended his career as an actor,
observing that he had left behind him a sincere
evidence of the love and interest he felt in his pro-
fession. After stating that the drama produced by
Mr. Slous had realised at the Surrey £527 6s. 6d.,
and at Liverpool £6OO, and expressing his belief
that before next year the council would have a large
sum to dole out for the benefit of the recipients, be
concluded by coupling the name of Mr. Cumming
with the toast.

Mr. GRUNEISEN proposed "The Drama," in an
interesting speech.
Mr. SLOUS replied, and concluded by giving
".Success to the Institution."

The CHAIRMAN afterwards proposed " The War-
dens,", in terms to the effect that there were two or
three to whom the College was indebted for the
getting up of the present entertainment, but to none
was more credit due than to Mr. Anson, their
honorary secretary.
Other toasts were subsequently given and drunk,
and the company separated after spending a most
agreeable afternoon.
The musical selections, which were of the highest
class, were under the direction of Mr. T. Kings-
bury, who presided at the piano, and the artistes
who gave their services were Mrs. Henri Drayton,
Miss Julia Derby, Mr. Henri Drayton, and Mr.
Edward Murray.

1 LADY'S GLIMPSE OF THE LATE WAR
IN BOHEMIA.

--1-

Miss Eden has written a pleasant book on the
late German war. Her sympathies are all with
Austria, such a display of sympathies for the van-
quished, after the waste of praise lavished so
largely on victorious and successful Prussia, is de-
lightful to witness. During the war the authoress
was staying at Bodenbach on the Elbe, and
made the most of her opportunities in seeing
and hearing what was going on. Her de-
scriptions are very lively and life-like.. Tier sym-
pathies are as warm and genuine as her detestation
of Bismarck and the needlegun is thorough-going.
She evidently shared the belief—so common at
the time when Benedek stood on the plains
of Bohemia confronting the boastful hosts of
Prussia—that Austria had merely to put out
her strength to throw the Prussian armies back
on Berlin, and to march into that northern
capital. Though there was a mystery about
Benedek's movements whiCh surprised even
friends less enthusiastic about Austria than Miss
Eden, yet few doubted the military power of
Austria, which was one of the traditions of Eu-
rope, and yet few, if any,
imagined that in a
few short weeks, after only one heavy blow,
Austria would suffer such a col
ut lapsweakness e. We now
know that it was not strategy, b and
disorganization in the Austrian war department,
and treachery on the part of Bavaria, whiCh
prompted the dilatory tactics of Benedek. But we
must not detain our readers from judging for
themselves of the pleasant and lively manner in
which Miss Eden delights to describe scenes out of
that short but disastrous Bohemian campaign.
We give the following scene as a favourable spe-
cimen of her descriptive powers:—
" About twelve o'clock wo were disturbed bYa rap out-
side the window, which looked into the lane, and had a
raised pathway running past it. A very brown face
appeared, and J—, instantly mounting the dresser,
opened the window. It was one of the Jagers, who said
he was dreadfully cold—might he come in and warm him-
self ? Oh! yes,' said J—, 'and have some beer also.'
So in marched the Jager, and we had to go and dis-
cover the key of the cellar, as well as the way to draw
the beer. By and bye, others of the bivouac finding the
warm kitchen better than the cold night air, we had the
room full of them. J —not onlygave them all beer, but
she and her maid cut them thick slices of bread and
batter. They wore so pleased and delighted that in the
warmth and light they soon regained their usual spirits
and conversational powers. We laughed heartily, think-
ing how astonished our friends in England would have
been if they could only have seen us in this sanded kitchen
from twelve at mid-night till two in the morning, sur-
rounded by large open baskets of crockery, all packed
ready to be carried away, with JEgers seated on every
available place, chairs, ;stools, and oven the kitchen
dresser—the floor strewn with their knapsacks, and their
round hats covered by drooping black plumes (no roses
in them now) hanging on every available peg and projec-
tion. I was sitting over the fire, Gamp-like, with my
bonnet and shawl on ready for a start. Whilst J--
and her maid attended to the men's suppers, I gave
them lights for there pipes and cigars. I also did the con-
versational department ; and very pleasant and. amusing'
they were to talk to—so natural and simple, like chil-
dren. . . . The questions the soldiers asked us
wore most amusing. When, in reply to the question,
'What country did we'come from ?' I answered, ' From
England,' some of them looked as if the)' had never heard
z
of such a country before, whilst others seemed aston-
muchthey
notnn
ished, and asked, 'Why were we living in Boden-
e
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iblaoctehl?: D,Widhtyhewehroeusweebeulpongsotolatues;
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all the English light, with blue oyes and fair. hair, liko
wh,ll
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had come from England, and asked,
the other lady ?' All this chat served to while away
the long hours of expectation. At lialf-past two they
said they must go, as the lieutenant and the rest of the
men would, be returning from the woods. One man, who
seemed seemed to be the spokesman for the others, came up to
me, and, after making a long speech in Italian, ended by
caving that it was doubtful if they should ever see us
called them to
again on earth, but whether
safedestiny
aysthem
with
ithlovaegaaiund
gratitude or
remember the
shheoaulvedn, sent home to Italy, they
two English ladies, and the
pleasant
night they had
passed in the Inn at Bodenbach

Mr. Murray Dunlop has announced to the elec-
tors of Greenock that he will not again offer himself for
re-election. Mr. Dunlop assigns, as a reason for adopting
this course, the coming long and arduous struggles which
ho foresees will result from the passing of the present Re-
form 13i11, and into which ho is unable to enter as ho could
wish on account of advancing years.

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LONDON, TVEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1867.

Reform Demonstrations are at this period so en-
tirely uncalled for that no good judge of political
matters can take interest in these celebrations that
are succeeding each other with so much rapidity in
the north of England. If the object be to change
the Government it is a most unworthy one, and if
it be to keep the members of the League promi-
nently before the public it is a very contemptible
one, and a very mean ambition can alone prompt
men to sacrifice pliblic ends for such purposes.
Leeds was the chosen Spot for yesterday's exertions,
but the affair did not approach in grandeur that
of Birmingham the day before. The chief thing to
notice was the absence of any excitement, it being
generally understood that there was nothing to
agitate for in reality, and that the only object to
attain was to give expression to the desiro for
Reform that universally existed. As on the pre-
vious occasions of this sort the speakers in the
out-door part of the proceedings strongly advo-
cated " manhood suffrage," and consequently con-
demned the Bill of the Goverment. Mr. GLADSTONE
was not so much of a hero among these zealous
Reformers as might have been expected, but pos-
sibly they believed that he was not of a very con-
genial temper. A public meeting was held in
the evening at the Town-exchange, which was
not crowded, nor was there much excitement or
eagerness displayed. Mr. BE ALES tried hard to in-
fuse some energy into his hearers by speaking in the
most extravagant manner, and declaring that the
House of Commons was corrupt, and that there
were traitors in the Liberal camp, winding up with
the assertion that it was not " idle now to say that
the temper of the people on this matter was dan-
gerous, and they intended to go to Hyde-park on
the 6th of May." It is a very different thing to go
with the stream and to go against it, and so Mr.
BEALES and his friends will find. As for their de-
sire to confuse the state of the public mind, stop
traffic, and cause serious losses to trade in the
middle of the season, it is a sure proof that they are
totally unfit to be the guides and directors of others,
and no doubt many whom they may hitherto have
influenced will be of the same opinion before long.
Why, at a moment when the worst part of the dis-
cussion is over in the House, should they seek to
revive the clamour that took place last year,
and to give rise to those angry feelings which
existed at that time. All this made-up indig-
nation and would-be agitation is very ridicu-
lous, and can never reach the desired goal of creat-
ing discontent and giving rise to clamour.
Mr. FORSTER, M.P., said he came from the
House of Commons after a division in which the
Liberal party was defeated, but he would not allow
that the " Radical Reformers". were a defeated
party in the eyes of the country, for their prin-
ciples had been gaining ground, and one
party vied with the other in professing them
to gain popular support. If this be the case
we wonder that they are not more contented
at the aspect of affairs, and do not reflect that they
have a moral victory to rejoice at. But this will
not do, and it must be evident to all, not only that
they have won the day, but that their notions have
been carried out to the fullest extent. Only thus
can we explain the course pursued by these Reform
virtuosi in the getting up of demonstrations, and
such like ceremonies. Mr. FORSTER, it must be
said, spoke fairly enough in some parts of his speech
about the measure of the Government. He said
that he thanked the Tories for having
done this much, " that they did not base the
franchise upon the value of the house in which a
man lived, but upon a far better principle, the
principle that the head of a family should have a
vote. This bill opened the franchise to seven hun-
dred thousand householders under ten pounds, and
so far it was good." Mr. FORSTER did not agree
with Mr. ERNEST JONES in thinking that Mr.
GLADSTONE'S letter was intended to imply his re-
signation of the leadership of the Opposition, and
in his endeavours to show that the right hon. gen-
tleman was most deserving of confidence and sup-
port he made some awkward revelations, such as
saying that Mr. ROEBUCK inspired greater faith in
some than Mr. BRIGHT did.

Mr. STANSFELD also protested against the sup-
posed resignation of Mr. GLADSTONE, declaring that
it would look as if he thought the Liberal party
incompetent. He seemed to look forward to another
trial of strength before long; but, if Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S letter meant anytbiLg, it meant that he
would not make another move this session, and he
can hardly play false and loose with his party and
the public after this fashion. He wound up by
the declaration that the Liberal party would
degrade it, and pronounced its own doom if it
allowed this " illusory measure to pass without
attempting to mould it in the manner suggested by
some of the amendments now on the table of the
House." In short we gather from the tenour of
these remarks that Mr. STANSFELD thinks they have
lost the battle, but that they had better have ano-
ther, but we imagine that he will find it a very
" forlorn hope" indeed to undertake such a con-
test. At Newcastle-on-Tyne there was a confer-
ence of Reformers, and at Yeovil also a similar
affair took place. At both these places expressions
of regret at the retirement of Mr. GLADSTONE were
general, so that Mr. STANSFELD'S motion must have
been more indicative of his wishes than of the
reality of the matter. While Mr. GLADSTONE, then,
may be thought to have resigned, these Reformers
have come only too prominently forward, but the
country desires neither the one nor the other to
succeed, but will rest satisfied if the present com-
prehensive measure before the House of Commons
be carried.

No more appropriate site could have been selected
for the statue of RICHARD COBDEN than a pro-
minent position in the city of Manchester, neither
could a more suitable president of the inauguration
been chosen than the gentleman whose name was so
long and so worthily associated with the chairman
ship of the Anti Corn-Law League. The statues
and memoriaLi of the great leading c:ty were cer-
tainly incomplete so long as the eminent Free-trader
found no place among them, and the enthusiasm
manifested by the spectators of the bautiful statue