The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

tHE SUN, LON VON. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1867

have due honour paid to him previous to his depar-
ture from among us, though for a brief season
only, to visit those shores of the New 'World, in
which we take so deep an interest. His welcome i❑
America will be sure to be cordial and complete,
worthy of the greatland he visits, and the noble race
which flourishes in so astonishing a manner, with
gigantic steps, ever seeming to catch up the civiliza-
tion of the Old World. We know that if there is
one thing wanting in that community it is softness,
and how better can this deficiency be supplied than
by the refining influences of literature? A great
high priest from the Temple of Fame is then to g.)
among them. May his influence be of the happiest
and huliest kind—may he teach them to value the
great advantage they enjoy, and assure them of the
goodwill of his countrymen ! May his visit to the
New World be a prosperous one, and though it can
hardly increase his fame, it may be a proud reflec-
tion to him when he returns to the end of his days
that he has acceded to the request of his numerous
admirers across the Atlantic to read to them his
works, which are in the same language as their own.

The crisis in the affairs of Italy, whose progress
is now watched with such intense interest and
anxiety on all sides, has assumed a new phase. The
Government of King VICTOR EMMANUEL is placed
in a position of almost unparalleled difficulty, and
whatever step they take they are certain to offend
some one or other of the conflicting parties. There
are the French, their quondam allies and self-con-
stituted advisers, whose formidable assistance is
drawing nearer and nearer. There is the POPE,
whom, as professing Catholics, they dare not dis-
regard, for fear of the consequences.- There are
their own people chafing under foreign interference,
and clamouring for Italian unity. Above all, there
is GARIBALDI, whose name is a tower of strength
to the enthusiastic revolutionists, and whom it
seems impossible for force or reason to restrain.
Amid such conflicting passions and interests it is
no great wonder that neither the old nor the new
Government of the Kingdom of Italy has found
itself able to avoid the risk of collision with one or
other of the contending parties. The last move,
in the occupation of the Papal territory, has called
forth the disapprobation of M. DE MOUSTIER,
whose despatch, which we publish this day,
emphatically disavows any sympathy with the
movement. The French Minister is emphatic in
his condemnation. "If the Government of the
King of ITALY," he says, " believes that he may
expect from us even a tacit adhesion, suck a belief
is an illusion which we must not hesitate to dispel."
In a lofty and dictatorial tone of reproof, the French
Minister censures the action of the Italian Govern-
ment. He cannot invest in any degree with his ap-
proval a step which France as an adviser has always
blamed and dissuaded from. The previous declara-
tions of King VICTOR EMMANUEL had, he says, led
the French Government to hope that the new
Ministry, " proceeding firmly in the course that had
been traced out for them," would have been able by
efficacious measures to discourage all revolutionary
intrigues and to re-establish order. But M. DE
MOUSTIER and his chief appear alike to
forget that they are dictating not to
one man not even to a Cabinet but
to a sensitive, impassioned, and enthusiastic popu-
lation. It is easy to sit in the Cabinet at Paris
and pen positive directions to the Government at
Florence, bat the Italian people are something
more than a dead letter. They cannot see, without
excitement and apprehension, the threatened reoc-
cupation of any part of the Peninsula by foreign
troops. The Moniteur, indeed, has explicitly de-
clared that the intervention of the French troops
had no hostile object towards Italy, but the embar-
kation of troops and horses continues incessantly at
Toulon, where the ironclad fleet has arrived, and
already a French brigade is in Rome. The Italian
Government and people can hardly fail to chafe
under the tone of M. de MOUSTIER'S despatch,
which is, in fact, neither more nor less than a direct
reproof and censure to them. The French Minister's
despatch will not even entertain the considerations
which General MENABREA advances in support of
their proceedings. "We do not wish to discuss to-
day the reasons by which endeavour is made to
justify an act so contrary to international law, but
we desire to manifest without delay the impression
which the determination of the Florence Cabinet
has caused us to experience." General MENABREA'S
Circular presents a strong contrast to that of
the French Minister. He entered at some length
into the position of affairs between the September
Convention and the present crisis. Ile expresses
the regret with which the KING'S Government have
found themselves unable to change the resolution
of France to intervene, and he affirms that the
crossing of the frontier by the KING'S troops cannot
in any sense be construed into an act of hostility to
France. The troops are to occupy a few points
only of the Papal territory, to respect established
authority, and to endeavour in every way to
conciliate the people. The intervention of
the Imperial troops has, he points out,
altered the situation, and he plainly hints that since
the Imperial Government no longer abides by the
terms of the September Convention, the KING'S
Government is not constrained to do so. By plac-
ing itself in an identical position with that of the
other contracting Power, says General MENABREA,
" the KING'S Government will be able to open fresh
negotiations on a footing of perfect equality."
Unluckily for VICTOR EMMANUEL, it will need a
good deal more to put Italy on an equality
with France ! A hostile collision between
them, indeed, would be as discreditable to
France as it would be unfortunate for Italy, and it
would be inconsistent alike with all NAroucox's
professions, as well as with his former services to
Italy. The sympathies.of the French people, too,
would be strongly opposed to any such a measure,
while it is difficult to say who would be really the
gainer. GARIBALDI is holding the torch. Should
he once kindle the fire, it is hard to say when or
how it shall be extinguished. Unhappily the hero
of Sicily is a conspicuous example of that valour
without discretion which so often loses all
it gains. He is now entrenched at Monte
Rotondo, and refuses to listen to appeal or re-
monstrance. It is said that he courts death, but
his sacrifice would but complicate matters still
further. No nation in Europe would hear without
a thrill of emotion and regret that GARIBALDI had
met his death at either French or Italian hands.
The situation is a grave one, and each of the con-
flicting parties must make concessions and act with
moderation, or all alike will have cause to rue the
events of November, 1867.

A correspondent says, with regard to the com-
parative merits of English and French manufacturers—
" After all, the leading jewellers of London have exhibited
some good and tasteful articles. Messrs. C. F. Hancock,
Son, and Co. have, however, fairly attained the right to
take the lead of thorn, fcr they have brought a continued
succession of articles of jewellery unparalleled for beauty,
originality of design, and skill in execution. Of course
they had a gold medal. Had it been set with diamonds
the reward would not have been too great." It is said
that Mr. C. F. Hancock's name was down for the red
ribbon, had the English Government not prohibited " the
wearing of the red," being almost as afraid of it as the
wearing of the other colour, "the wearing of the green."
...CO re IkUrnal, NOT 2.

Tort errtufar.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 2.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold, left Balmoral yesterday at eight
o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle this after-
noon at five.

Nov. 3.

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and
Prince Leopold and the Ladies and Gentlemen in
Waiting attended Divine service this morning in
the private chapel. The Rev. Thomas James Row-
sell, honorary chaplain to the Queen, preached the
sermon.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ROMAN QUESTION.

FLORENCE, Nov. 3.

The Official Gazette of to-day says—" In order
to avoid all doubt the Government of the King bas
determined neither to accept nor encourage in the
neighbouring Papal States any action calculated to
effect a change in the actual state of things. That
determination is in conformity with the desire of
the royal Government to, leave to a future period
the arrival:at an understanding, whereby a definitive
and satisfactory solution of the Roman question
may be obtained."

THE CRETAN INSURRECTION.

CONSTANTINOPLE, NOT. 2.

The Grand Vizier has addressed a proclamation
to the Cretans, reminding them that the delay for
the amnesty has now expired, and that the time has
come for energetically proceeding to the pacificated
and administrative reorganisation of the island, with
the aid of their delegates. Measures are to be at
once adopted for the troops protecting the well-
disposed, for the action of the tribunals, and for the
authorities supplying the urgent wants of the popu-
lation. Every foreign volunteer, under whatever
circumstances he is arrested, is to be tried by court-
martial; and every Ottoman subject who shall be
taken in arms, or shall assist the insurgents, will
be judged by a mixed tribunal.

ARRIVAL OF THE MANHATTAN.

QUEENSTOWN, NOT. 4.

The Guion steamship Manhattan arrived here at
7 a.m. with 61 passengers, of whom she landed a
portion, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Cimbria arrived out to-day.

INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS.
MARSEILLES, Nov. 3.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Moeris, with
the above mails, arrived here at 10 p.m. to-day.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received a telegram from Mr. Pater-
son, their superintendent at Calcutta, dated Nov.
2, announcing that none of their ships had been in-
jured by the cylone which occurred there the pre-
vious night.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Nov. 2, 'Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

4} per Cant.
End of month —
3 por Cent
End of month 67. 72i
Credit Mobilier 180
End of month lBO
Credit Fonder 1278 7.5
End of month 1280
RAILWA

Bank Shares 3300
Ital'an Loan
End of month 44 90
Mexican Loan 11
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt..
Deferred .
TS.

Account.
Orleans ... 8511
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 525
Western
Eastern •• 543/
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain 55
Saragossa
Roman ....................................... 46i

MARK LANE.—?his Day.

Abort average supplies of wheat were on sale in the
leading country markets held on Saturday. For all kinds
the demand was in a sluggish state, at about stationary
prices. Barley and other kinds of produce were firm in
value.

Throughout the Continent it heat has beoome inactive ;
nevertheless, the quotations
.havo been fairly supported.
In the value of spring corn very little change has taken
place. The American markets are drooping.
The imports of foreign and colonial produce into Lon-
don last
3,4
tweekoB3oats.amounted 8
t 092
.30!,5,
090 6 quarters of wheat,
8,579 barley, 4,9
beaus,
529
peas,
1,500 tares, 14,314 linse d, 17,495 rapeseed, 2,520 maize,
687 sundries, 11,477 sacks, and 6,550 barrels of flour.
The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our markets
to-day were moderately good, and in fair condition. The
attendance of millers was rather limited, and the demand
for both red and white qualities ruled somewhat heavy, at
a decline in the quotations, compared with Monday last, of
from is to 2s per quarter.
We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Even the
finest samples were much neglected, and a few forced sales
were effected at is to 2s per quarter less money. The
fresh imports have been on an extensive scale.
Floating cargoes of grain were inactive at about previ-
ous rates. •
_ . .

The supply of English barley was limited ; of foreign
on the in rease. Sales progressed slowly, and the quo-
tations had a drooping tendency, tho decline being is to
2s per qr.
There was a moderate inquiry for malt, the supply of
which was tolerably good at last week's prices.
Oats moved off slowly at barely previous rates.
The show of foreign samples was good, of English very

The few samples of beans on the stands were taken at
late currencies.
Peas were very firm in price, although the inquiry for
them was by no means active.
The sale for flour was very inactive, at barely stationary
prices.
Seeds and cakes commanded very little attention, on
former terms.

CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE
Wheat— Essex and Kent, red, now, per qr. 63s to 723
Do., old —a —8
Do. white, old —s -s
Do., now
Norfolk' and Lincoln, rod, old —s -3
Do., nay,.
Talavera
Rye— ...1 -8 -s
Barley —Grinding
Malting 4ls 46s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingstown and Ware
--- 74, 753

Cheialier
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolash., Feeding 25a 29
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black 26a 29. s
Cork, white 27s 30a
Scotch, Feeding 3ls 334
Beans—Tick
Pigeons ... 493 52s
Peas—Grey,
Maple
White
Boilers
.. _ . _ .

Flour —Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk s2s 58s
Stockton and Norfolk . . sos 583
American, per barrel
French, per sack 44s sOs

THE SUDBURY MURDER.—It was stated recently
that William Martin, who has been committed for trial for
the murder of a man named Burbridge at Sudbury, is
suffering from illness and in a dying state. Martin has
been examined by Mr. Macnab, temporary surgeon at Bury
St. Edmund's gaol, and no symptoms of disease have been
detected, although the prisoner exhibits great depression
of spirits.
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—The court was
specially convened on Saturday for the purpose of fixing
the days for holding the sessions for the ensuing year. It
requires the attendance of eight judges to form a quorum,
but this number did not attend, and after waiting for more
than an hour the court was adjourned until this afternoon
at half-past four o'clock.

FAREWELL BANC2UET TO MR. CHARLES

DICKENS.

A complimentary banquet was given on Saturday
evening to Mr. Charles Dickens, previous to his
departure for the United States. The numerous
literary, artistic, and scientific friends of Mr.
Dickens mustered in great force on the occasion,
and the large new ball of the Freemasons' Tavern
was filled itx every part. Covers were laid for
nearly 450 persons, and so general was the desire to
be present tint a large number of applicants were
unable to ol.itain admission. The committee, anxious
that noth',ng should be wanting to give interest to
the evening, obtained permission of the proprietors
of V.,e already magnificent hall to introduce deco-
rations appropriate to the occasion. "It was the
happy thought" (says the Observer of yesterday) "of
the hon. secretary, Mr. Charles Kent, not only that
the guest of the evening should be surrounded by his
friends in the flesh, but that the walls of the dining
hall should suggest the presence of those other
friends, scarcely less real, who from our dear old
acquaintance Mr. Pickwick, to our dear new
acquaintance Dr. Marigold, have become, as it
were, identified with the family history of every
household in the kingdom. It was entrusted to
Messrs. Green and King, the decorators, of Baker-
street, to carry out this idea, under the direction of
one of the stewards, and with the professional aid of
Mr. E. C. Robins, architect,of Southampton-street,
who generously volunteered to design and superin-
tend the work, both the architect and the decorators
accomplishing their task with a zeal and ability in
every way worthy of the occasion. The walls of the
hall consisted of twenty large blank panels with arched
tops. Each of these has been entirely recoloured.
Borders of laurel leaves on a deep red ground have
been run round the panels, and in the arch top of
each the name of one of Mr. Dickens's works has
been introduced in gold letters, the post of honour
over the chair being given to the immortal Mr.
Pickwick. The walls literally glistened with the
dear familiar names, and the noble room had all the
semblance of a temple specially erected to the ho-
nour and for the glorification of England's favourite
author.

" It should be named that the work was a marvel
of expedition, the whole having been designed and
executed in less than three days, and it should be
also added that Messrs. Green and King contracted
to do the work for a sum amounting to less than
a moiety of the actual cost to themselves—in fact,
all concerned, even to the very workmen, who did
not cease their labours day or night, seemed to share
in the pride and pleasure of contributing to the
success of the festival.

"The Dinner Committee (to whom," adds the
Observer, " great credit was due for the manner in
which they carried out the arrangements) consisted
of Mr. S. Arthur Chappell, Mr. T. Chappell, Mr.
Wilkie Collins, Mr. Charles Fechter, Mr. Charles
Kent, Mr. Edward Levy, Sir Charlesßussell, Bart.,
M.P., Mr. George Russell, Mr. W. H. Wills, and
Mr. Edmund Yates."

While so much was done for the interior of the
banquet-hall, the lobbies and corridors leading
thereto, the reception room and the ladies' tea-
room were profusely decorated with the most ex-
quisite statuary the celebrated atalier of Bucciani,
in Great Russell-street, could produce, which, aided
by the effect of the choicest exotic plants, gave the
avenues a very charming aspect.
The chair was taken by Lord Lytton ; the guest
of the evening sitting on the right, and the Lord
Chief Justice on the left. Among the company
seated at the cross table on the dais being noticeable,
besides the three already named, Sir Charles Rus-
sell, V.C., M.P., the Chaplain-General of the
Forces, Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal
Academy ; Sir Benjamin Phillips, Sir E. Landseer,
R.A., Sir J. E. Tennent, Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr.
Otway, M.P., Captain Houston Stewart, R.N.,
Lord Houghton, the Marquis d'Azeglio, Mr. An-
thony Trullope, the Lord Mayor, Professor 0 wen,
Sir C. W. Dilke, Sir William Fergusson, Mr.
B. Webster, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Charles Dickens,
junior, and his brother, Mr. Sidney Dickens, R.N.
Among the rest of the company seated in the
body of the hall were very many of the Royal
Academicians, besides other artists of celebrity—
authors of more or lees importance in great abun-
dance, journalists, members of the bar, and the
other learned professions, and among others, nearly
the whole of those whose names are inscribed upon
the following remarkable list of one hundred and
twenty stewards :--
The Doke of Argyll, Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Tho Lord
Chief Baron, Jules Benedict, Esq., Richard Bentley, Esq.,
John Blackwood, Esq., Algernon Borthwick, Esq., the
Dean of Bristol, Robert Broadwater, Esq., Shirley Brooks,
Esq., Rev. W. H. Brookfield, J. B. Blackstone, Esq., Sir
John Burgoyne, R.E., Samuel Cartwright, Esq., the Chap-
lain General of her Majesty's Forces, Fred. Chapman, Esq.,
Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., S. Arthur Chappell, Esq.,
Thomas Chappell, Esq., Robert Chambers, Esq., LL.D.,
R. F. Chorley, Esq.,, Charles Collins, Esq., Wilkie Collins,
Esq., Alderman Cotton, the Earl Darnley, the Marquis
D'Azeglio, J. 0. Do Gex, Esq., Sir Charles Wentworth
Dilke, Bart., M.P., W. Hepworth Dixon, Esq., Rev. Alex-
ander Dyce, William Evil!, Esq., junior, Charles Fechter,
Esq., Thomas Faed, Esq., R.A., Sir William Fergusson,
Bart., Percy Fitzgerald, Esq., John Forster, Esq., W. P.
Frith, Esq., R.A., the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., H. A. Glass; Esq.,
F.R.G.S., Frederick Goodall, Esq, R.A., Sir Francis Grant,
P.R.A., the Earl Ciranville, K.G., Frederick Greenwood,
Esq., C. L. Gruneisen, Esq., Col. E. B. Ilamley, RA., C. 8.,
Rev. W. Harness, M. J. Higgins, Esq., W. Charles Hood,
Esq., M.D., the Lord Houghton, J. W. Iluddleston, Esq.,
Q. 0., the Lord Chief Justice of England, Charles Kent,
Esq., Charles Knight, Esq., Henry Lake, Esq., Charles
Landseer, Esq, ILA., Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., A.usten H.
Layard, Esq., M.P., Mark Lemon, Esq., Edward
Levy, Esq., G. H. Lewes, Esq., William Lethbridge, Esq.,
Frederick Looker, Esq., T. Longman, Esq., the Hon.
Spencer Lyttolton, Chas. Mackay, Esq., LL.D., Daniel
Maclise, Esq., R.A., W. C. Macready, Esq., the Baron
Marochetti, MA., J. Westland Marston, Esq., the Master
of the Mint, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, J. E. Millais,
Esq., R.A., Professor Henry Morley, Sir Roderick Murchi-
son, Bart., K.C.8., General Freeman Murray, John Murray,
Esq., J. H. Novella, Esq., A. J. Otway, Esq., M.P., Frederic
Ouvry, Esq., Professor Owen, John Oxonford, Esq., J. C.
Parkinson, Esq., Sir Benjamin Phillips, the Right Hon. Sir
Frederick Pollock, Bart., P. F. Poole, Esq., R.A., Dr.
Priestley, B. W. Procter, Esq., Charles Reads, Esq., D.C.L.,
J. R. Robinson, Esq., the Earl Russell, K.G., Sir Charles
Russell, Bart., M.P., V.C., George Russell, Esq., G. A.
Sala, Esq., J. Palgrave Simpson, Esq., F. 0. Skey, Esq.,
F.R.S., George Smith, Esq., Dr. William Smith, the Earl
Stanhope, Captain W. Houston Stewart, -R.N., Marcus
Stone, Esq., Tom Taylor, Esq., Sir Jas. Emerson Tennont,
Bart., John Tannic), Esq., Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Sir
Henry Thompson, Rev. Channcy Tovrnshend Hare, An-
thony Trollops, Esq., T. A. Trollop; Esq., J. S. Virtue,
Esq., E. M. Ward, Esq., R.A., Sir Thomas Watson, Bart.,
Benjamin Webster, Esq., Thomas Webster, Esq., R. 1.,
Charles Wescomb, Esq., M. Van do Weyer, W. H. Wills,
Esq., Erasmus Wilson, Esq., F. 11.5, Dr. Forbes Winslow,
D.C.L., Edmund Yates, Esq.
Dinner was served shortly after seven o'clock.
At the entrance of the guest of the evening, accom-
panied by the chairman and followed by the mem-
bers of the dinner committee, the whole company
rose en masse and cheered with enthusiasm.
Grace before dinner was said by the Rev. the
Chaplain-General of the Forces.
The Band of the Grenadier Guards, who were in
attendance, by the kind permission of Colonel
Michael Biuce, occupied the gallery, arrayed in
their regimentals, and during the dinner performed,
under the direction of Mr. Dan Godfrey, a choice
selection of music from Mozart, Meyerbeer, Verdi,
Strauss, and Offenbach.
On the cloth being cleared, the grace Deum Lau-
chic was sung by the Messrs. Baxter, Coates, Land,
Chaplin Henry, and Winn—vocalists, who enlivened
the after part of the evening with occasional glees
and madrigals.

The CHAIRMAN (Lord LYTTON) on the conclusion
of the Deum Laudate, rose to give the first toast—
his rising being the signal for long continued applause.
Ho said—ln rising to propose to you the health of a
Sovereign so.dear to her people, it is not irrelevant to
he character of this meeting, nor to the occasion that
brings us together, to remark that one special at-
tribute of the reign of Victoria has been the vast in-
crease in the popular cultivation of literature ;
while a glance at the list of our stewards may suffice
to show how much has been added to the glories of
that reign by inventions in science and master-pieces

of art. And when we consider how many of our
most eminent public men, including the leaders of
both parties, have combined literary distinction with
political honours, we may recognise,in the connexion
between literature and statesmanship, a sign of the
civilisation which ever seeks to draw closer together
the legitimate union of knowledge and power.
(Cheers.) Permit me to accompany the toast that
I shall now propos) with the hope that that union
may be rendered more lasting and complete by
securing new facilities for knowledge wherever we
enfranchise new elements of power. I give you
"The Health of the Queen." (Cheers.)

The toast was drunk wi h the usual demoustra-
tions of loyalty.
The CHAIRMAN—The next toast is " The Health
of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales, and the rest of the
Royal Family," and in proposing it permit me to
express our thankfulness that her Royal Highness the
Princess of \Vales is, we are told, happily recovering
from a long and painful illness, borne with a resig-
nation which has heightened our sympathy in her
affliction, and increased our respect for a character
womanly in gentleness and royal in its fortitude.
(Loud cheers.)

The CHAIRMAN, in giving the next toast, said—
I have now to propose to you "The Health of our
gallant defenders in the Army, the Navy, and the
Volunteers." To the Volunteers we leave the de-
fence of our shores, to the army and navy we
intrust the honour of our flag in whatever sea or on
whatever soil it may brave the battle and the breez).
May that flag soon wave triumphant over that dis-
tant and barbarous land in which the necessities of
empire swivel us to prove that there is no spot on
earth to which the Queen of England sends her
representative beyond the reach of her power to
protect her delegate or to avenge his wrongs.
(Cheers.)
Sir CHAS. RUSSELL, V.C., returned thanks for the
army, and expressed his strong conviction that the
valour of the British army would very speedily cause
the British flag to wave in triumph in that " barba-
rous country."

Captain HOUSTON STEWART, R.N. acknowledged
the toast on the part of the navy.
Mr. Tom TAYLOR, in returning thanks for the
volunteers, said he did not know whether it was for-
tunate or unfortunate that the volunteer force did not
exist in the days of the immortal Pickwick—(laugh-
ter)—because he could not help thinking that, had
it existed then, some of its members would have
been painted in colours rather different from those
in which the force was generally presented in speeches
after dinner. (Renewed laughter.) If he had
figured under the pencil of their honoured guest, he
was afraid he could claim no place except alongsid e
of the unfortunate Mr. Winkle in the famous sport-
ing scene, where he was compelled to sit down
under the stern but well-merited rebuke of Mr.
Pickwick as an impostor. (Loud laughter.) For
five years he had most undeservedly worn the uni-
form of the Civil Service Volunteers ; he had now,
by his own act, been most deservedly reduced to the
ranks, and reversing the usual order of military pro-
cedure, had held, as a full private, a court-martial
upon himself _as captain, and he was compelled to
pronounce that he had thoroughly deserved dismis-
sal from the volunteer service. (Laughter.) But
the experience which had forced the humiliating fact
home to him had also forced upon him the conviction
that the reproach under which he bad left a com-
mand in the volunteer force did not attach to the
majority of his brother officers. Indeed he was
afraid that the deficiency under which he laboured
was due not so much to a want of application as to
a rooted incapacity for military command. Certainly,
in the proportion of four out of five of the volunteer
officers they were zealous, intelligent, and able sol-
diers, and the Civil Service Corps had furnished
some of the best officers in the volunteer force.
(Hear.) He bad seen the advantages connected
with the volunteer movement, promoting as it did a
healthy and manly feeling of esprit de corps among
different classes of the community,and teaching some-
thing like a common duty of citizenship beyond the
mere payment of rates and taxes, with which an
Englishman's perception of public duty was very
apt to be bounded. (Laughter and cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN—I LOW approach the toast which
is special to the occasion that has brought together a
meeting so numerous and so singularly distin-
guished. You have paid the customary honours to
our beloved Sovereign—due not only to her per-
sonal virtues, but to that principle of constitutional
monarchy in which the communities of Europe re-
cagnise the happiest mode of uniting liberty with
order and giving to the aspirations for the future
a definite starting point in the experience and the
habits of the past. You are now invited to do
honour to a different kind of royalty, which is
seldom peaceably acknowledged until he who wins
and adorns it has ceased to exist in the body, and is
no longer conscious of the empire which his thoughts
bequeath to his name. Happy is the man who makes
clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius, while
he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of
those he has subjected to his sway. (Cheers.)
Though it is by conquest that he achieves his throne,
he at least is a conqueror whom the conquered bless ;
and the more despotically he enthrals the dearer he
becomes to the hearts of men. (Cheers.) Seldom,
I say, has that kind of royalty been quietly con-
ceded to any man of genius until his tomb becomes
his throne ; and yet there is not one that is now
present who thinks it strange that it is granted with-
out a murmur to the guest we receive to-night.
(Cheers.) It was said by a Roman poet that Na-
ture,designing to distinguish the human race from
inferior animals by that faculty of social progress
which makes each combine with each for the aid
and advance of all, gave to men mollissima corda—
hearts the most accessible to sympathy with their
fellow kind ; hence tears, and, permit me to add
laughter become the special and the noblest attri-
bute of humanity. (Cheers.) Thus it is humanity it-
self which obeys an irresistible instinct when it ren-
ders homage to one who refines it by tears that never
enfeeble, and gladdens it by a laughter that never de-
grades. (Cheers.) We are about to trust our ho-
noured countryman to the hospitality cf those kindred
shores in which his writings aro as much household
words as they are in the homes of England. And
if I may presume to speak as a politician I should
say that no time for his visit could be more happily
chosen ; for our American kinsfolk have conceived,
rightfully or wrongfully, that they have some recent
cause of complaint against ourselves ; and out of all
England we could not have selected an envoy,
speaking not in behalf of our Government but of
our people, more calculated to allay irritation and
propitiate good will. (Cheers.) In the matter of
good will there is a distinction between us English
and Americans which may for a time operate to our
disadvantage ; for we English insist upon claiming
all Americans as belonging to our race, and spring-
ing from the same ancestry as ourselves, and hence
' the idea of any actual hostility between them and
us shocks our sense of relationship. And yet in
reality a large and very active proportion of the
American people derive their origin from other races
besides that of the Anglo-Saxon. Germans and Dutch
Celtic forefathers combine to form the giant family
of the United States. But there is one agency for
ever at work to cement all these varieties of origin,
and to compel the American people, as a whole, to
be as proud as we are of their affinity with the Eng-
lish race. (Cheers.) What is that agency? Is it
not that of one language in common between the
two nations ? (Cheers.) It is in the one mother
tongue that their poets must sing, their philosophers
must reason, and their orators must argue for truth
or contend for power. Does not history show us
that it is always through one language in common
that differences of origin are welded together? I see
before me a gentleman distinguished for the manner
in which he has brought together all that is most
modern in sentiment with all that is most scholastic
in thought and language—permit me to say Mr.
Matthew Arnold. (Cheers.) I appeal to him, I appeal
to you all. Am I right when I say that that is the
cause cementing together all difference of origin, that
is the cause why Etruscans and Oscans, and Sabines
and Romans became ono family, as Latins once as
Italians now. Before the influence of a language
in common, have not all ancestral differences in
England between Briton and Saxon, and Dane and
Norman, melted away ? (Mar, hear.) And by

the same omnipotent agency will not all difference
of orgin equally melt away in the nurseries of Ame-
rican mothers extracting the earliest lessons for their
children from our own English Bible, and in the
schools of preceptors, who must resort to the same
models of language whenever they bid their pupils
rival the prose of Macaulay and Prescott, or emu-
late the verse of Tennyson and Longfellow ?
(Cheers.) Now, it seems to me that nothing can -
more quicken the sense of that relationship which a
language iu common creates than the presence and
voice of a writer equally honoured and beloved in
the Old World and the New. (Cheers.) I cannot
but think that wherever our American kinsfolk wel-
come that presence or hang spell-bound on that
voice they will irresistibly feel how much there i 3
of fellowship and unison between the hearts of Ame-
rica and England. (Cheers.) So that when our
countryman quits their shores h. 3 will leave behind
him many a new friend to that old fatherland which
greets them through him so cordially in the accents
of the mother tongue. (Cheers.) And in those
accents what a sense of priceless obligation, per-
sonally to him, but through him to the land he re-
presents, must steal over his American listeners !
How many hours in which pain and sickness have
changed into cheerfulness and mirth beneath the
wand of his enchantment (Cheers.) how many
a hardy combatant, beaten down in the battle of life
—and nowhere on this earth is the battle of life
sharper than in the Commonwealth of America--
has taken hope, and courage, and force from the
many lessons of this unobtrusive teacher ! (Cheers.)
No wonder the rising generation of those who have
learned to feel and to think in our language should
eagerly desire to see face to face the man to whose
genius, from their very childhood, they have turned
for warmth and light as instinctively as young
plants turn to the sun. But I must not forget that
it is not I whom you have come to hear; and all
that I could say, had I to vindicate the fame of our
guest from disparagement or cavil, would seem but
tedious commonplace when addressed to those who
know that his career has passed beyond the ordeal
of contemporaneous criticism, and has found in the
applause of foreign nations a foretaste of the judg-
ment of posterity. (Cheers.) I feel, indeed, as
I had already too long delayed your natural im-
patience for the toast that I now propose : —" A
Prosperous Voyage, Health, and Long Life to
our Illustrious Guest and Countryman, Charles
Dickens."

The toast was drunk :with all the honours, the
cheering being renewed again and yet again.
_ _ __

Mr. DICKENS, who was received with enthusiasm,
said—No thanks that I can offer you can express
my sense of my reception by this great assemblage,
or can in the least suggest to you how deep the
glowing words of my friend the chairman, and your
acceptance of them, have sunk into my heart. But
both combined have so greatly shaken the compo-
sure which I am used to command before an audi-
ence that I hope you may observe in me some
traces of an eloquence more expressive than the
richest words. (Cheers.) To say that I am fer-
vently grateful to you is to say nothing ! To saY
that I can never forget this beautiful sight is to saY
nothing !! To say that it brings upon me a rush of
emotion not only in the present, but in the thought
of its remembrance in the future by those who are
dearest to me, is to say nothing !! ! But to feel all
this for the moment, even almost to pain, is very
much indeed. (Cheers.) Mercutio says of the wound
in his breast, dealt him by the hand of a foe, that
—" 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as 3
church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve." I maY
say of the wound in my breast, newly dealt to me by
the hands of my friends, that it is deeper than the
soundless sea and wider than the whole Catholic
Church. (Cheers, and a laugh.) Imay safelyadd that
it has for the moment almost stricken me dumb. I
should be more than human, and I assure you I and
very human indeed—(cheers) —if I could look around
upon this brilliant representative company and not
feel greatly thrilled and stirred by the presence of s°
many brother artists, not only in literature, but also
in the sister arts, especially painting, among whose
professors living and unhappily dead, are many of
my oldest and best friends. (Cheers.) I hope that
I may, without presumption, regard this thronging
of my brothers around me as a testimony on their
part that they believe that the cause of art gene-
rally has been safe in my keeping—(cheers)—and
that it has never been falsely dealt with by fl'
(Cheers.) Your resounding cheers just now would
have been but so many cruel reproaches to me if I
could not here declare that, from the earliest days
of my career down to this proud night, I bale
always tried to be true to my calling—(cheers)never unduly to assert it on the one hand, and never,
on any pretence or consideration, to permit it to be
patronised in my person, has been the steady
endea-
vour of my life—(cheers)—and I have occasionally
been vain enough to hope that I may leave its social
position in England better than I found it. (Cheers.)
Similarly, and equally I hope without presumption'
I trust that 1 may take this general representatioil
of the public here, through so many orders, pursuit°,
and degrees, as a token that the public believe that,
with a host of imperfections and shortcomings Ott
my head, I have as a writer, in my soul and COe"
science, tried to be as true to them as they have ever
been true to me. (Cheers.) And here, in referenee
to the inner circle of the arts and the outer circle 0i
the public, I feel it a duty to-night to offer two re"
marks. I have in my duty at odd times beard a
great deal about literary sets and cliques and coteries
and barriers ; about keeping this man up, and
ing that man down; about sworn disciples and svioi 1
rP
unbelievers ; and mutual admiration societies, Ana,.
know not what other dragons in the upward path',
1 began to tread it when I was very young, wit
out influence, without money, without companion'
introducer, or adviser, and I am bound to put I'l
evidence in this place that I never lighted on these
dragons yet. (Cheers.) So have I heard in my dle
at divers other odd times, much generally to t e
effect that the English people have little or no lef
of art for its own sake, and that they do not greatly
care to acknowledge or do honour to the artist. ,
own experience has uniformly been exactly t°
reverse. (Cheers.) I can say that of my countri;
men, though I cannot say that of my country.
laugh.) And now passing to the immediate
oc-
casion of your doing me this groat honour, the sto
rd
of my going again to America is very easily 50(1
briefly told. Since I was there before a vUnited
entirely new generation has arisen in the ~,.st
States. Since 1 was there before most of the best
A nub
known of my books have been written and 0
lished ; the new generation and the books have °0
T.,
together and have kept together, until at 10114
numbers of those who have so widely and const4 the
read me, naturally desiring a little variety in
relationship between us, have expressed a styeoo
with that I should read myself. (Cheers.) This %icis
at first conveyed to me through public chin err-
and business channels, has gradually becoule in
forced by an immense accumulation of letters fro ,
individuals and associations of individuals, al
1 e%
• I un-
pressing in the same hearty, homely, ex-
cordial 9
affected way, a kind of personal interest in nie
had almost said a kind of personal affection f:risnlih-
-(cheers)--which I am sure you would agrenot to
me it would be dull insensibility on my Part so
prize. Little by little this pressure has been: ivy
great that, although, as Charles Lamb saY-' I hs‘
.0
household gods strike a terribly deep rootl e ,
torn them from their places, and this dtty.,NlYreaciiii
this hour, shall be upon the sea. Yon `will red &
conceive that I am inspired besides by a
change an
sire to see for myself the astonishing to
there' I
progress of a quarter of a century over
whoto
rasp the hands of many faithful friends
new
aft there, to see the faces of the multitude last,
looked' and
friends upon whom I have never 100 3
lay dO W
not least, to use my best endeavour to
lt.o_
third cable—(ebeers)—of intercommunic, 1740 ed
alliance between the old world and the now. knows
Heaven
cheers.) Twelve years ago, when Heav, bouricl
ve fore
I little thought I should ever, bei
upon the voyage which now 03, syriE,
natural a
tee, I wrote in that form ofn c%ten..
ings which obtains by far the in
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sive circulation these words of the An..l
_i_otcs
Lion I know full well, whatever little
beamy eyes may have descried in ther.
_trleLlitt 1,,„5c0
are a kind, large-hearted, generous, a -I_l',„ to r
them
(Hear.) In that faith I am g,olreto
them again ; in that faith hball, please uvc