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TAPANESE TROUPE.—First Appearance in
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crossed the sea. The full programme will be ready on
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MONDAY next, February 11, 1867.—Asi-Kitchi-San.—
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" The strength of Mr. Morton lies in his operatic selections,
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:lon4hmans. --Times, Jan: 9,1867.
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Slr. ROBT. FRASER. Comedian and Vocalist. will make
his appearance THIS EVENING with his crop of comicalities
and his new song, "THE BOY AT DIUGBY."

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS•

TIMES.—The opening of a Session of Parliament
is in these civilised times rarely an occasion of dis-
cord. War to the death may be in store, but the
combatants begin with a graceful exchange of cour-
tesies. Each side shows certain indisposition to
commence the attack, and appears somewhat dis-
posed to imitate the conduct, real or imaginary, of
the Highlanders of Fontenoy in inviting the gentle-
men of the French Guard to fire first. Last night
was no exception to the modern practice. The
Addresses in answer to the Royal Speech were agreed
to, both by Lords and Commons, without division,
andi almost without discussion. Some criticism was,
of course, inevitable ; some hesitation to echo sen-
timents expressed in words obscure and, perhaps,
ambiguous; some doubt as to the possibility of -a
divergence of opinion when the studied phrases of a
Royal Speech come to be explained in the precise
language of legislative proposals to Parliament; but,
subject to those necessary qualifications, nothing
could be happier than the tone of the debate on the
Address in each house. If experience did not warn
us against being deceived by the fair promise of the
first day of a seesion, we could fancy we were en-
tering upon a perpetual peace : that the year 1867,
instead of being a time in preparation, for which
gladiators had tested every joint of their armour
and made ready every weapon of destruction, was
to be signalised by a display of goodwill such as has
not been seen for many a year. It is too probable
that in the course of the ensuingsession party feeling
and party conflicts will be revived; but meanwhile we
cannot but rejoice at its happy commencement. The
members of the late Ministry seem to have returned
from their holdiday sojourn beneath Italian skies
renewed in strength, yet free for the moment from
the distempered zeal which magnifies points of dif-
ference, and refuses to discern any good in an oppo-
nent. Mr. Gladstone was particularly happy. He
showed no disposition to stint his approval of the pro-
posals of Government with respect to Ireland, and
he approached the crucial question of Reform with
a breadth of spirit which we trust will be maintained
unstraitened. The earnestness with which he dwelt
on the necessity of attempting to remedy in some
degree the electoral corruption that dishonours our
representative system was confessedly due to the in-
fluence of foreign critics, and while he justly re-
marked on the enigmatical character of the para-
graph in the Royal Speech relating to Reform, he
insisted strongly on the duty of accepting an ade-
quate measure, come from whatever party it might,
and gave the Government credit for the intention
tosubniit their proposals to Parliament on the earliest
possible day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
was fortunately able to declare that he would lay
before the house the Ministerial plans as early as
next Monday, unless unexpected obstacles intervened,
and with this declaration the debate in the House of
Commons may be said to have collapsed. The
course of discussion in the House of Lords was, on
the whole, not quite so equable. Lord Russell's
temperament is, perhaps, not so amenable to soften-
ing influences as that of Mr. Gladstone, and, as au
old combatant, he is always eager for a fray.
Neither the unstudied simplicity of Lord Delamere's
eloquence, nor the more elaborate review of the mul-
tifarious topics of the Royal Speech attempted by
Lord Beauchamp, availed to mitigate his criticism.
In expressing his doubts as to the possibility of a
durable peace in Europe so long as the spirit of ag-
gression prevailed which prompted the attack upon
Denmark two years ago, ,g in opposition to every
treaty," and which had since been exhibited by 4, one
Power," he showed himself needlessly offensive to an
ally, forgetful of the fact that he had himself acqui-
e,ced in the attack, and incapable of understanding a
movement which was undoubtedly supported by the
mass of the Prussian nation. But it was on the sub-
ject of Reform that Lord Russell's idiosyncrasy be-
came most apparent. Reform is undoubtedly the
question of the hour, and, impoitant as are the other
subjects referred to in the unusually extended
Speech from the Throne, the short paragraph refer-
ring to Reform is probably worth more than the rest.
Lord Russell, as a veteran Reformer and the leader
of the Opposition,
was on every account justified in
drawing attention to Reform and demanding an ex-
planation of the obsure language in which the pro-
posed action of the Government is described. Lord
Russell is, however, such a veteran Reformer that
he cannot bear in mind the just relations between
the tasks of to-day and the conflicts of the past. He
cannot even forgive the late Duke of Buckingham
for having marred the symmetry of the measure of
which he had the conduct, and apropos to nothing,
he ventured last night on the extraordinary asser-
tion that all past and present agitation for Reform
was due to the fact that the Chandos clause had
been inserted in the Reform Bill of 1832. We know
not whether to marvel more at the obstinacy of
Lord.. Russell's resentment or at the limited view of
the reasons for Reform implied in this assertion. It
is clear that, had the Chandos clause not been ac-
cepted, many more Englishmen would have been
excluded from the franchise. Reformers are accus-
tomed to say, and with truth, that the franchise is
not only a trust, but a means of education, and yet
Lord Russell would have us believe that the demand
for enfranchising the unenfranchised would have
been less had the unenfranchised been more, that the
cry for the admissionof working men to the polling-
booths would have been unheard had tenant farmers
not been admitted. If, however, Lord Russell is un-
able, after five-and-thirty years, to forgetthe defeat
which Lord Chandos, assisted by Mr. Hume, once
inflicted upon him, we cannot be surprised that he
should be incapable of viewing aright the transactions
of last session. He cannot believe that the Reform
measures of 1866 were rejected on their merits,
and complains of an unprincipled opposition which
never existed, except in his own imagination. It is
time to forget the mistakes of the past—to some
extent doubtless shared by both parties—and brace
ourselves up to deal with the work of the present.
Next week the plans of the Administration will be
thishei voisehamt eotdmh,
the most
moment
tnod as Mr. Gladstone truly said last
sl,
Lirportant interest of the country at
in
the speedy settlement of the
Reform question ; it is above all things necessary
that the proposals of the Government should be ap-
proached without prejudice, discussed without fac-
tiousness, and perfected by the joint wisdom of all
sections in the great council of the nations. Neither
the Royal Speech, nor the observations let fall by
Lord Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
lait night, explained the mode of action proposed to
be followed by the Government in dealing with Re-
form, and we may reasonably consent to wait till
next Monday for a full explanation of their inten-
tions.

TIIt WESTMINSTER GAZETTE ON NATIONAL CIIA-
RACTER.—There are some things which appear
difficult to express in exactly the same proportion
in which they are easy to conceive. A simple object
can be seized at once by the intelligence, but it is
quite another thing to express it accurately with
the pen. Multiplicity of words is somewhat antag-
onistic to simplicity of thought. A broken mirror
may reflect the object, but it will be in a multitu-
dinous and fragmentary manner. This difficulty
does not always arise from the nature of human
speech. We often imagine we possess very distinct
notions, till by some accident we are forced to try
our hand at putting them on paper. The very fact
of taking up the' pen Aeew to. act as a dissolvent

lon our power of conception. The vivid thought
which we prided ourselves so much upon, moves,
and melts, and runs into a cloud, and disappears
the moment we attempt to throw it into words.
These notions possess a sort of affinity to ghosts
—they disport themselves with all the greater
boldness in proportion to the imbicility of the
mind which they inhabits. The more vivid they
are, so much the more difficult it is to grasp them.
But there are other causes of this difficulty besides
poverty of mind. Men may not only be possessed
by an idea, which, while it haunts them, escapes
their apprehension ; they may also conceive a
notion which bears about it all the notes of
genuine thought ; and yet, when they attempt to
seize hold of it and force it into words—like catch-
ing a pony in a field with a wisp of hay—it cleverly
gives them the slip, and leaves them looking fool-
ish, with the experiment to try again with proba-
bly about the same success. It is a much easier
thing to repeat words than to fix the mind steadily
on thought. A parrot, we presume, is not gifted
with any power of analysis, or even with capacity
to understand the force of words. But a parrot
can talk. To make use of words is one thing, to
understand them is another. Most animals can
be taught to imitate certain sounds. Men are pro-
verbially of the imitative class. Sheep do not walk
more contentedly in each others foot marks, than
men follow each other in the grove of thought.
To repeat what has been said before, without
the trouble of having thought it out, requires
very little intellectual wear and tear. Most men
are simply echoes of another voice. Few think ;
but all men talk, and theorise, and declaim. The
leis' the- intellectual ballast, so much the more
freely can the tongue disport itself. Now there
are a variety of topics upon which men consider
they have a right to speak. Of course matters
of strict science, of theology, of jurisprudence,
and such like, are the property of a certain
class. But every man can talk of liberty, and pro-
gress, and free thought, and religion, and truth,
and morality, and national character. These be-
long indiscriminately to all. These, and kindred
questions, the multitude may toss about with as
they please ; and no one is thought presumptions
who ventures an off-hand opinion on them at a mo-
ment's notice. Men can speak fluently upon them
and with ease. They have their opinions at their
finger ends. They can go on arguing and beating
round the bush, till they have fairly muddled them-
selves, and effectually puzzled everybody else.
Where the weight of thought is absent there
the consequent flow of words begins. Now there
is a certain class of subjects upon which the
public has so long made up its mind, *that is,
upon which it has so long ceased actively to think
at all, that we have some hesitation in touching
on it. We know well the force and inveteracy7of
habit. And we know that there is no force and
inveteracy equal to a formula of words, which,
by process of time and continual bandying
about, has had all the thought knocked out of it.
One might just as well try to ward off the blows
of a bludgeon with an enthymeme as imagine it
possible to overcome the immoveable rigidity of
steriotyped phraseologywith argument on common
sense. But, when to the inveteracy of habit,
and the torpor of a satiated mind, is added the
dictates of self-love, the case becomes ten times
more difficult. How best the old formulas can
be broken up, and the dried bones be decently
buried away, while a new life of genuine thought
can be implanted, is a problem which requires solu-
tion. We clearly see the delicacy of the task.
Our thorough appreciation of it at once accounts
for so long an introduction. Now there is no ima-
ginable question on which an Englishman thinks
he has a greater right to speak than on the na-
tional character. And yet, of all others, this is a
subject in which the difficulties we have just men-
tioned find a place. No matter ; the English-
man's views, like a Newfoundland cod, have long
ago been cut and dried for him. He wants no
schooling on this point. It is simply preposterous
to imagine that he does not know the very people
amongst whom he has been bred and born, and
is incapable of understanding them. Ask him and
he will tell you at once that an Englishman is
honest, manly, straightforward, and truthful.
He is the magnanimous man. He possesses the
noblest national gifts of any man under the sun.
'He is plodding and persevering, and indomitable.
He is the ancient Roman Anglicised. He is com-
paratively the most perfect type of human nature
that has been created. He has his faults, but so
have others. He has done injustice ; but who
has not ? He may be a sinner, but he is the
noblest of sinners. His worth is seen in the works
of his head and hands. In the fruit of his thought,
in the results of his skill, and the enterprise of his
commerce. His strong, hard, practical sense, his
stubborn energy have made him take the first place
in the race, and carry away the prize. Such are
the common places which are continually repeated
to the echo. They have been uttered a thousand
times, and it is pleasant, and requires no thought
to utter them again. To say we are the first
people in the world, and to carry so pleasant a
proposition by acclamation, and to raise it almost
to a national axiom, is quite in accordance with
the build of the public mind. Men do not object
to flatter the national vanity on so trifling an intel-
lectual cost. But this miserable and weary repe-
tition, besides encouraging a sickly vanity, super-
induces a very unhealthy stagnation of mind—a
stagnation of mind upon a subject of the most
vital national importance. If men allow their
minds to crust over with unmeaning platitudes,
.they will never know anything of what lies be-
neath the surface. The traditional opinion of
our superior worth is most likely to engender
self-deception. It is so pleasing to indulge in these
dreams of our own virtue and perfection, that they
all the easier occupy the place of healthy thought.
Have we advanced in our knowledge of the na-
tional character within the last hundred years?
Have we not been content to take up the cry
which has been handed down by tradition, almost
from time immemorial ; has any one made a
serious study of the Englishman? Has any one
taken so much interest in the improvements of
his character, as many have in the breed of sheep
avd oxen, in studying the habits and functions of
animal creation ? If the character which we give
ourselves is mainly true, are we to be content
with anything so vague and general, so unsatis-
factory for practical work? Can our sayings of
ourselves help us in the least? The fact is, this is
one of those points in which we play the parrot.
Why not break through the crust and sink into the
depth of this important subject ? For instance, do
Englishmen ask themselves such questions as
these? And are they anxious for an answer? How
is the national character formed ? What are its
essentials? Who is the model man? On whom
should we form ourselves? Is there more than
one type ? - Which is the most perfect ? Should
we tend towards it ? Is the national character
pagan or Christian, or a mixture of both ? . Have
we a clear idea of the character we should en-
deavour to develop in the child? What methods
do we make use of to elicit it in youth ? What
are the principles on this point in 'our schools and
colleges and universities ? Is there any systematic
process for forming men on a perfect model ?
What are our aims, what our success ? Is there
a model universally received ? or is the English
character formed imperceptibly by the various
influences which surround his education—is he
fashioned into shape like a number of pebbles
shaken in a bag ? it is simply the result of fric-
tion ? or is it the spontaneous growth of the natu-
ral man ? or is any great hero held up to imita-
tion—Cromwell, or Newton, or Nelson, or Well-
ington ? 'These and a thousand questions more
suggest trains of thought as interesting and often
equally important with themselves. We sincerely
hope that such questions as these have been
seriously thought upon and carefully. discussed.
If men have blindly followed the picture of tradi-
tion they may possibly have fallen into serious
error. The traditions of a race, and the radi-
ance of national glory, are not always the
est
instruction of mankind. The type of
infae t. best
instruction national
perfection o
al
perfection may be an imperfect model.
takes the accepted notion of an Englishman,
in
however the Englishman mayi be advance of
other national characters, take as his pattern that
which itself requires a fairer form and a more per-
fect finish. He who does not look above and be-
yond a nationality, is little better than the pagan
ned
Greek or Roman. Those sturdy pagans look
higher than this ; they looked with reverencewon
their gods, and strove to reach them. There
as
a Fatherhood above them which knit them into one,
and after which they strove. They moulded
themselves on the highest form they knew.
Plato and Cicero, the model Greek and the model
Roman, held lofty notions of the righteous man.
At times they almost appear to have been visited
by a vision of a higher and a purer morality than
their own ; though they fell continually to earth,
their tendency was heavenwards, and their
writing sparkle here and there, in a' startling
manner, with a purer ray. The Greek especially
had a more polished and a loftier mind than
our own, and the Rowan, though alOrs;)

On Monday the members of the Manchester Re-
form Club celebrated the opening of that establish-
ment by a luncheon, at which about 100 gentlemen
were present. The chair was occupied by Mr. Hugh
Mason, of Ashton-under-Lyne, and amongst those
present were Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., Mr. Goldwin
Smith, Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Mr. T. B. Potter,
M.P., Mr. B. Whitworth, M.P., Mr. G. Wilson, &c.
The health of the Queen having been drunk,
Mr. JACOB BRIGHT proposed the toast of " Earl
Russell, Mr. Gladstone, and the Liberal members of
Parliament."

The following letter from Mr. Gladstone, who had
been elected an honorary member of the club, was
then read :

"My dear Mr. Potter,—l thankfully accept the honour
you have been pleased to confer on me,•and though I shall
not be enabled to profit by your hospitable invitation to
the luncheon of the new club on Monday, I would ask you
to believe that on that day, as indeed cn most others, my
thoughts will be very anxiously directed towards the at-
tainment of the salutary changes which I trust the session,
now about to open, may see accomplished.—l remain very
faithfully yours, "WILLL&M EWART GLADSTONE."

Mr. CHEETILIM, M.P., in responding to the toast,
referred to the cabal now afloat in London for the
purpose of displacing Earl Russell and Mr. Glad-
stone from their positions as leaders of the Liberal
party. He expressed his conviction that the Liberal
party would not submit to any such intrigue, and
said that for his own part he would never follow the
lead of any titled nonentity, however distinguished
might be the name he bore.
Mr. T. B. POTTER, M.P., proposed the toast,
" Political progress, the only safeguard of civil
liberty," coupling with it the names of Mr. Stuart
Mill, M.P., and Mr. Goldwin Smith.

Mr. J. STUART MILL, M.P., who was loudly
cheered, in responding to the toast, said—You have
done me the honour of associating my name with
the words political progress. It is with you—the
men of Lancashire—that that idea should be more
particularly connected. We of the south are accus-
tomed to look to you of the north, as invariably
leading the van, not only in the industrial progress,
not only in the commercial progress, but in the
political progress of this country. And, in doing so,
youhave confirmed the idea that we have heard from
our childhood, which is admitted and even asserted
as a general principle, by Conservatives as well as
by Liberal thinkers, that manufacturing and corn-
.mercial populations are always the leaders on the
side of progress, and that agricultural populations,
and particularly an aristocracy of great landowners,
have a different function in the community—a func-
tion which is sometimes necessary, although it is
apt to be excessive—the Conservative function—.
the function of keeping that which is good, and I
am afraid, sometimes that which is bad too.
(Cheers and laughter.) But to you it particu-
larly belongs—to the manufacturing and commer-
cial communities of the world, and to the manu-
facturing and commercial part of mixed commu-
nities—it belongs to you to take the pad yin
improvement, both in ideas and in the application of
those ideas to practice. It is natural that it should
be so, because those who are constantly employed in
devising more and more new contrivances for making
the laws of nature applicable for the increase of na-
tional wealth and for attaining all the objects that
are pursued in the economical department of things,
with ever increasing facility, and those, a very
large proportion of whom are always men who have
made their own position and their own fortunes,
and who are always rising—a succession of them
rising from an inferior to a higher position—these
are the persons whose practice and whose course in
life naturally ought to make them, and very gene-
rally does make them, habitual improvers and re-
formers ; these are the antecedents which turn men's
minds to improvements in all departments of things,
as well as their own. I wish it were not unfortu-
nately to be said that, owing to the general infirmi-
ties of human nature, even these very men, after
they have once raised themselves, and after their
fortune is completely made—they and their descend-
ants very often cherish the rather low ambition of
passing over into the class of territorial men—
(cheers)—and from that time they would rather see
their influence employed on the Conservative side—
often wholesomely, sometimes not quite so whole-
somely—than on the side on which they have them-
selves
made a position. (Cheers.) Still, however, it
is to this class that we must look in all great na-
tional movements for political improvement ; and it
is to them that we must look mainly for victory in
the great battle in which we are now engaged
against what remains of privilege in this country.
(Cheers.) The sentiment which has been given by
my friend Mr. Potter associates political progress
with civil liberty as being the sole condition of it ;
and I think no person who uses the smallest reflec-
tion can doubt that that is true, for our history and
our principles together combine in showing in the
first place, that the nation which is not going for-
ward always goes back, and the nation which is not
constantly employed in improving whatever it
has, both of material and also of spiritual
good which is not constantly engaged in
improving—gets into a state of stagnation and
mental indolence, the sure consequences of which is
decline. And we have declined in these things. We
have declined either in material prosperity, or in
mental and moral culture, and with that decline
comes necessarily, where a people has been free, the
gradual loss of liberty. Consequently, it is not to
be expected that any country should long retain its
liberty which is not engaged in political progress—
which does not keep political progress constantly
going. But more than'that, 'there is a point which
very specially demands and invites our attention at
this very moment, namely, the question how a coun-
try, in the new state of the world, is to protect not
only its liberty, but even its national independence
against foreign countries. Look at the armed hosts
which are rising up all over the world just now.
Look at the immense extent to which all the Govern-
ments of Europe—all the more powerful Govern-
ments—are devoting the whole of their resources,
and the whole, almost, you may say, of their peo-
ple, to the maintenance of enormousarmiesm;ie. ands notis
merely of defensive, but of aggressive ar
that not menacing to this country ? Does anybody
suppose that those Govertehnatst
w look
enjoy,k
with
andpl upoeasuroe
upon the degree of freedom
the contrast respects, our position
offers to that which,
of ich,
their
r many
subjects, owing to our free-
domth ? Not at all. And yet what position are we in ?
We, with our small army—and I hope we never shall
have a larger—still cannot keep it up. we cannot
get recruits, because—and this is a point to which
all men's attention, I think, ought to be turned, as
being one of the most remarkable signs of the times
—the people of this country, and indeed of other
countries, but especially of this country, will n o longer
fight for a cause which is not their own. Men will not
be soldiers as a mere profession ; at least the number
is constantly diminishing of those who will hire
themselves out to shed the blood of others, when it
is not for their own protection and their own free-
dom and laws. But we have a noble example of
how a people can fight when it is for themselves,
for their own cause ; when it is for their own
liberty, or for moral principles which they regard
equally with their liberty, in the late heroic and
glorious struggle of the United States. (Loud cheers.)
We have seen a million of men in arms for their own
freedom, but chiefly for the freedom of others, chiefly
for the general cause of liberty—a million of men
in arms, and every family in the country almost bad
some one of its members in that force—there is
scarcely a family in the Free States that is not now
in mourning in consequence of that war. Never-

BRUSSELS, Feb. 5.

Thirty of the miners who took part in the riots
at Marchienne have been arrested, including the
principal ringleader. This has had the effect of
restoring order, and the men belonging to the diffe-
rent factories and coal mines near Marchienne
have now resumed work.

A denial is given to a current rumour that the
disturbances were provoked by the intrigues of
foreign emissaries.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 4.

Intelligence received here from Charleroi gives
the following account of the progress of the riots in
the mining districts:—

It appears that the coal miners of Dampremy left
their pits on the morning of the 2d, and advanced
towards Marchienne. The day hands, being
threatened by the night shifts with having the ropes
cut if they went down, joined their comrades. The
point of attack was the steam mill. The strike had
suddenly changed its aspect, the iron workers hav-
ing given place to the colliers.
Among the crowd were to be seen women and
children, who were not the least prominent adding
to the tumult. The men were, for the most part,
armed with sticks ; some of the women carried pitch-
forks. When this mob arrived at Marchienne,
swollen by those who joined with the intention of
taking part in the disorders, but also by many in-
quisitive persons, its number was estimated at about
2,000 individuals.

The mill of Marchienne was defended only by a
small detachment of 100 men of the 11th Regiment
of the line. They were immediately assailed with
showers of stones by the crowd, which had taken up
its position upon the square facing the mill and the
brewery, and in the old cemetery surrounding the
church. Their numbers momentarily increasing,
the mill was soon surrounded upon all sides.
The small garrison supported the attack for seve-
ral hours with patient courage, but it was impos-
sible that such a state of things could last. The
rioters, encournged by the apparent quiescence of
the troops, gave signs of au intention to storm
the mill, and the soldiers then received orders to
fire. Only a few drew trigger, but three of the
rioters were killed. For a few minutes great con-
fusion prevailed, but the assailants rallying, ad-
vanced again to the attack, and the garrison being
clearly too weak to oppose effectual resistance, it was
decided to save further bloodshed by evacuating the
mill. Two of the soldiers were hurt while leaving
—a sergeant badly in the head, and a private in the
hand. Eight gendarmes were among the garrison,
and seemed to be especially obnoxious to the rioters.
They were overwhelmed with stones, their uniforms
and faces covered with mud, and only succeeded in

saving their lives by hasty flight.
The garrison having withdrawn, the mill was at

once carried and completely sacked. The books
and papers belonging to the establishment were
thrown out of the counting-house windows, and
sacks of flour were carried sway by men, women,
and children. Several were seen to make two or
three trips. The granaries of the mill and the
brewery were left untouched; the plunderers carried
off nothing but the flour.
The mill being cleared out, some of the most
desperate among the assailants set the building on
fire, but the flames were speedily extinguished by
others, who stove in the casks of beer in the brewery,
and poured their contents upon the blaze. It is
said that the strong-room of the establishment, in
which the journal and ledger, together with the
bank-notes and specie, were deposited, was broken
open and despoiled of its valuable contents, but no
confirmation of the rumour has yet been received.
After the pillage of the mill, further riot ceased.
No opposition was offered to the plunderers, who
continued carrying away the flour until no more-
was left. The troops had been compelled to seek
shelter in the town. At half-past 1 p.m., 100 men
of the 11th Regiment, commanded by Major
Quenne, arrived at Marchienne, followed at three
by a battalion of the 3d Chasseurs from Mons.
Three other companies of the same regiment went
on to Charleroi, where one occupied the Hotel de
Ville, and the others returned to Marchienne. To-
wards ten in the evening two squadrons of Lancers
came in from Mons, and two squadrons of Chas-
seurs from Namur. Reports having been spread
that the mills of Charleroi and Chatelinean were
threatened with the fate of Marchienne, these
establishments were occupied by strong
bodies of troops. Intelligence received direct
from Marchienne, dated 4 p.m. on Sunday,
announced that no further disturbances had
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ART IN IRONMONGERY.—NO lesson is more in-
structive than a visit to the warehouses and show-
rooms of some of the City trading firms. Take, for in-
stance, the furnishing ironmongery establishment of
Messrs. Benetfink and Co., of Cheapside. Their exposi-
tion of goods in metal-work is astonishing for its intrinsic
value, while the beauty in workman and design of most of
the articles exhibited awakens unbounded admiration.
Few persons reflect how much metal is employed in con-
ducing to domestic comfort and convenience; and it is
only by visiting such laden emporiums as the one under
review that a due conception can be gained of what is
owing to the workers at the forge, and the more cunning
craftsman at the crucible. A stroll through those noble
saloons in Cheapside shows us corridors filled with stoves
and fenders, from those of the plainest style to these
whose burnished surfaces would serve as mirrors, and
whose sensitiveness would reveal a sign of rust from a
lady's fingers. Overhead, in ono of the rooms, are sus-
pended innumerable chandeliers, from a Quaker-like
simplicity to an ornateness of design fitting for an Oriental
palace. To those who need the luxury of rest, there are
scores of bedsteads in brass and iron to select from, many
very rich or ornamental details ; papier macho trays, some
of which are real works of art, to delight the eye ; while
a host of table-lamps stand up in emulation to court the
alluring sight ; baths of every form and adaptability sug-
gest health and personal comfort. In the electro-plated
department a very wilderness of wealth and exquisite
workmanship enraptures the sight. As one passes over
the successive ficers of metallic merchandise witnessing the
multiplicity of articles, from a kitchen range to an iron
skewer ; from a Japan candlestick to an ormolu lamp, with
all the varieties of utensils for complete house furnishing,
the feeling of wonders and admiration yield to that of
thankfulness for the contrivance and manufacture of such
utilities, and one is induced to reflect how much we owe to
the thoughtful skill and enterprise of such firms as Benet-
fink and Co., who, while they are daily augmenting the
national commerce and wealth, are serving humanity as
civilisers and benefactors by placing such beautiful objects
within the means of everybody.—Mernin.7 Post.
akers in
PAPERDIAKERS.-110 number of P perin
in the United Kingdom is declining. In 18a64 414 took out
licences ; in 1865, 402 ; in 1866, 392.
The Conference of Representatives from Bavaria,
Wurteraburg, Baden, and Hesse Darmstadt, which
is shortly to assemble at Stuttgart, was convoked by
the Bavarian Government in an identical note ad-
dressed to the other South German States, and
dated the B'll inst. This note lays down the Prus-
sian model as the basis for a new uniform military
organisation, and proposes general liability to mili-
tary service, the division of the army into regiments
of the line, reserves, and landsturm, and the sup-
pr esion of the right of recruits to be replaced by
substitute.