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MIES.—li would be very hard if in these days of
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nopoly of indiscretion in dealing, with IL:forin.
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been almost altogether on one side. Blunder after
blunder has been committed by the Government
until sober-minded people, who desired that a great
question should be adequately treated and. settled
upon some permanent began to despair of any
fulfilment of their hopes. Except in the debate on
ihe Address, when Lord Russell showed his appre-
ciati.)n of the Reform movement by ascribing it all
to the fatal Chandos clause, there has been nothing
to counterbalance the alternate indecision and rash-
ness of the Administration. Mr. Gladstone has
displayed a caution which has been the surprise and
delight of his friends. Last night, however, Lord
Derby and his colleagues must have felt some con-
solation. A motion for franchise returns, of which
Lord Russell had given notice, had twice come on
with the orders of the day, and twice bad been
postponed on aceount of his indisposition. Yester-
day he reappeared in the House of Lords, and at
once began to play into the hands of his antagonists.
The decorum of the Upper House is always unfa-
vourable to outward manifestations either of sym-
pathy or of dissent, and nothing could have been
more silent or more dreary than the languid atten-
tion with which the querulous retrospect of Lord
Russell was endured. He ranged to and fro from
the 17th to the 19th century, touched upon the anti-
Reform opinions of Lord Liverpool and Lord Castle-
reagh, favoured the Peers once more with his views
ou the C halides 'clause, and ended-with an eulogium
on the Reform Act of 1832, which provokes the
inquiry why he should ever have been tempted
to sacrifice his own offspring by the bill of last
year. The ostensible object of Lord Russell's
speech was a desire to procure certain returns on
the electoral franchise. From -the form in which
his motion was framed it seemed that he wished
to have a claSsfied return of the electors in 1865-6
of the places which existed as Parliamentary
boroughs before 1832. It was acknowledged, how-
ever, upon the absurdity of this requisition being
pointed out, that the language of the motion was
unfortunate, and that nothing more was wanted
than a re-arrangement of certain returns relative to
existing constituencies which have already been pre-
sented to Parliament. The real object of Lord
Russell's motion was, however, something very dif-
ferent. He had, as he said, " given frequent and
much attention to Reform," and nothing can be
more natural than that a veteran Reformer should
desireto eXpres4 -his opinions on the question at a
time when-a. Bill in under diseintiOn in the
Cabinet. The' meMberSa.the Cabinet must haie
been content to sit andlisteri, and recent experience
warrants' the belief that they might have sat and
listened with advantage. But Lord Russell's speech
partook of what a modern philosopher describes as
"the infinitely little." Instead of being instructive
it was irritating ; _instead of taking a large view of
the question, it carped at trifles ; instead of being
statesmanlike, it was mean, paltry, and, in a very.
small way, egotistic. Lord Russell first fell foul of
Mr. Disraeli's statement that the Reform Act of
1832 deprived the working classes of a share in the
• representation they had previously enjoyed, andthat
it was an object of Reformnowto repair thatwrong.
• This declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
is one of those half truths which might have been
. disregarded as the mere garnish in which it pleases
him to dress up his proposaLs, but Lord Russell
chose to meet it with counter-statements, which
were as partial and incorrect as Mr. Disraeli's own.
He maintained that there • are more working men
on the register now than there were before 1832.
This is perfectly true, though it is perhaps open
to dispute whether the proportion of working men
on the register now be greater or less than it was
before the Reform Bill. The material question,
however, turns more upon the distribution of elec-
toral power than upon the number of .electors, and
- it is certain that before 183f1 the working classes
, absolutely controlled the elections at Preston, Old-
ham, Coventry, and other places where the fran-
chise was vested in the " inhabitants at large,"

or some equally extended constituency. Thus,
" Orator" Hunt was returned for Preston, and it
is more than doubtful whether Mr. Bezdes could
DOW find any avenue to Parliament. , if Lord
Russell was ill advised in his treatment of the
first topic he discussed, he was still more flag-
rantly wrong i❑ the second. Lord Russell objects
to the statement that there have been five Reform
Bills, all of which have failed. It is true lie ac-
knowledges that he introduced--a bill in 1852, but
the Government resigned before it came on for
debate. He was, he admits again, the sponsor for
a bill in 1854, but the Russian war intervened.
The only Bills which have been failures were
those of 1859, 1860, and 1866. W e wonder he
allows even so much as this to be true. The Bill
of 1859 was abandoned because Lord Derby refused
to defer to a motion made by Lord John Russell
which Mr. Gladstone a fortnight ago condeinned
not indirectly as factious. The Bill of 1860 was
overlaid by interminable speeches, and the Bill of
1866 was withdrawn on an issue between rating and
rental. If the first bills were not failures, why.
were the last ? It is trifling to attempt to distin-
guish between them. We know not why Lord
Russell should be unwilling to face the fact, in
nowise discreditable to himself, that each successive
bill perished because it was regarded with invincible
repugnance by the House cf Commons. The only
part of Lord Russell's speech which appeared de-
signed to serve any useful purpose was that in
which he quitte'd what Lord Derby not inaptly
called his " autobiographical reminiscences," and
deprecated by anticipation any proposal of House-
hold Suffrage. Even this was subject to two serious
drawbacks. It seemed as if the main motive of
Lord Russell's disapproval of such a proposition was
its inconsistency with the matchless measure of
1832. This in itself will not be generally deemed a
conclusive objection to any proposal of Reform,
and, indeed, were it pushed to its logical conclusion
it would be fatal to all suggestions of change.. The
second drawback to the value of Lord Russell's cri-
ticism is that it is made wholly in the dark. Like
the rest of us, he knows nothing of the plans of the
Government, and all his objections are hypothetical.
We are not the less glad, however, to have a decla-
ration of opinion from Lord Russell that it would
be unwise to introduce such a change as would
swamp altogether the middle classes, and deprive
them of all weight or power. The country does not
wish it, the House of Commons does not wish it,
and it would be wholly inconsistent with the pro-
fessions of her Majesty's Ministers. What is de-
sired by Parliament and the nation is such a mea-
sure of Reform as will take the question out of the
dangerous position in which it is now placed, and
this is precisely what Lord Russell has always failed
to see. We want an ample enfranchisement which
shall remove'the cause of offence found in the con-
tinued existence of unenfranchised classes, and
coupled with it such a redistribution of electoral
power and revision of electoral methods as shall give
each elector a guarantee. his .yote, will be a real and
not a nominal gift—a pledge that he will not only
have the privilege of voting,'but full representation
in Parliament. It..may be' necessary to endure
novelty to secure these endS, but there are occasions
when it is the part of a statesman to brave novelty ;
and, grave as are the other objections to the scope
and character of Lord Russell's speech last night,
the gravest is perhaps this—that it showed an in-
curable unwillingness to review the preconceptions
of another generation ; a clinging to old schemes of
Reform, the utility of which has passed away ; a
hesitation to acknowledge that new circumstances
must be dealt with and new difficulties faced by new
principles of action.

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this week. ' Since Thursday morning the wind has blown
a gale from the E,S.E., and the sea iu the offing is very high.
No vessels of any kind were able to put to sea yesterday or
the night before, and few steamships have got out to-night
Snow and sleet fell in heavy showers most of to-day, and
the weather is very cold. The sun got out a little this
afternoon,' but to-night the weather seems to be coming on
as bad as over again.
LORD LLANOYER'S HEALTH.—The ',reply to the
numerous inquiries during the past week, we are glad to
learn, has been that he has much improved in strength,
and the accounts of his lordship's health have been and
continue to be most satisfactory ; but after the severe ope-
rations he has undergone his perfect recovery cannot be
rapid. H.R.H. the Prince cf Wales has caused fre-
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THE FENIAN INSUARECTION.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
MALLOW, Saturday Evening.
Mallow Junction is a point of great strategic im-
portance. It commands the rail way communication
between Cork and Dablin, Cork and Limerick and
the west, and is one of the places which in their
vague rambling way the Fenians proposed to attack
and occupy, so as to cut off Cork and the west from
snecour, and give full opportunity to: the local pa-
triots who were to have established the Irish Re-
public in those parts. It is hardly necessary to-say
that, whatever they have proposed to do, they never
ventured within gunshot of Mallow, or of any other
place held by troopS. General Sir Alfred. Horsfad
has now transferred his head-quarters hither from
Killarney, and has a force of infantry, cavalry, and
artillery here under his immediate orders. Before
his arrival the soldiers were billeted through the
town. There are obvious objections to such a dis-
position of troops just now, and they are now con-
centrated so as to be at once available in case • they
are wanted. Although the insurgents have not cared
to come within sight of the troops, they still infest
the neighbourhood. On Friday evening parties of
them called at several farm-houses and residences of
the gentry a few miles from the town and carried off
arms. They also now and then force the farm
labourers and others to join their ranks;: but these
men generally join with reluctance, and desert as
soon as possible. Here, as in other places, however.,
great difficulty is experienced by the authorities in
procuring information as to the movements of the
insurgents. The country people are unwilling, or
afraid to tell what they know, and the military de-
tachments sent to the points at which Fenian bands
are said to have been seen invariably find the coast
clear. It is probable that false information may
sometimes be given, or that reports may be set on
foot by the insurgents themselves in order to harass
the troops. As the roads for miles around are
swept night and day, officers and men at this and
other stations have little rest, and the soldiers are
furious against enemies who melt away at their ap-
proach, and whose tactics seem to be to wear them
out by this kind of service.
Around Mallow the resident gentry and some•of
the well-disposed inhabitants have formed them-
selVes- Into volunteer parties, who accompany the
military- patrols, and are, of course, very useful as
guides along the cross-country roads. It would be
well if this example were followed more generally
throughout the disturbed districts. A low range
of mountains south of the town affords good har-
bouring ground to fugitives, and there islittle doubt
that during the intensely cold weather of the last
few days the Fenians must have got shelter in the
peasant cabins or the farmhouses which lie scattered
among the hills. Last night some hayricks were
burnt at one of these solitary farmhouses, but in-
quiry this morning makes it appear doubtful whether
the fire has anything to do with the insurrection, and
whether it is not rather owing to private malice.
Some rocket signals were seen, however, last night
at about the same time by a sentry and one or two
other persons, and it is also alleged that they were
answered from the town.
These mysterious lights were, of course, a good deal
talked about,and to-day the constabulary officer here
remembered that upon one of the Fenian prisoners
lately taken a mysterious manuscript had been
found, which might possibly throw some light upon
the occurrence. On examining the manuscript an
artillery officer here discovered that it was an exact
trauscril.t of a page in the little manual of " Field
Service" published for the British army. The part
transcribed was a description and explanation of
Colotnb's system of " Flashing Signals." I am
told; on evidence hss satisfactory, that similar sig-
nals have been seen on the Galtee mountains, and
the fact I have mentioned seems to show that the
Fenian leaders have studied and turned to account
this code, which in a mountainous district like the
west of Ireland they would, no doubt, find very useful.
The constabulary have been withdrawn from the
exposed barracks around Mallow, and are concen-
trated in the town. Of course, they take a portion
Of the patrol duty, and I can bear testimony to their
vigilance, for within an hour after arriving here this
evening I was twice arrested as a possible Fenian.
The police were perfectly right in thus challenging
a stranger who looked about him with an unseason-
able curiosity, and seemed to have no other business,
nor could I be otherwise than amused when they lis-
tened with evident incredulity to my explanations.
They were respectful but firm, and put business-like,
straightforward questions, which showed that they
knew thoroughly well what their duty was and how
to do it. Of course, my credentials set everything
right, and we parted excellent friends. I have seen
a good deal of the Irish constabulary during my two
missions to this country, and can hardly speak too
highly of their intelligence, alert, soldierly bearing,
and discipline. Their good conduct and steady loyalty
during this troublous time have been one greatstum-
bling block in the war path of the Fenians, and
will, I am sure, be remembered gratefully hereafter
by the whole nation. A point to be noted with still
greater satisfaction is the behaviour of the troops.
The Fenian leaders encouraged their deluded fol-
lowers—deluded on many more points than this—
by declaring that hundreds of Irish soldiers would
join the Fenian ranks. Now, I am afraid it must be
admitted that, as a general rule, a soldier, whether
he be called Brown, Macpherson, or O'Flanagan,
will promise anything for drink, and probably when
excited by a little whisky, and seduced by the pros-
pect of a little more lie would take, not one Fenian
oath, but 20 of them; but as to deserting comrades
and regiment in order to join such a rabble rout as
did not fight at Tallaght, Ballyhurst, and Bottle-
hill, events have shown the notion to be just as pre-
postei ous as it always appeared here to all whose
opinion possesses any authority. St. Patrick's-day,
which falls next Sunday, is now spoken of as the
time for the real rising. What we have had hitherto,
it seems, is only a feint and small diversion ; what
is coming on the 17th is the genuine article. I can
only say that, judging from their conversation, the
soldiers will be only too eager on that or any other
day to meet any Fenians who will stand to meet
them, and will show very clearly under what Crown
and Constitution they are prepared to live or die.
One of the incidents of the insurrection was the
capture of the police barrack at Ballykuockane,
about six miles south of Mallow. This feat of arms
is supposed to have been achieved by a party of in-
surgents from Cork. There were five policemen in
the barrack, and when summoned to surrender they
refused. A volley was at once fired at the windows,
and they replied by shooting one man through the
shoulder. Upon this the insurgents disappeared
from the front of the house; for, though called bar-
racks, these police stations are nothing more than
small houses, often with scant accommodation. Un-
fortunately there were no windows at the rear, and
the policeman could not, therefore, defend the hick
door. This the insurgents battered in, and then,
piling up wood at the foot of the stairs, set fire to
the heap and withdrew. "We were prepared to
have held the staircase against the whole of them,"
said one of the constables in describing the scene to
me ; " and we had, no idea that they were going to
burn us out." There was a woman in the barrack at
this time, and the police asked the Fenians to let her
come out. At first they refused unless the police
would give up their arms, but ultimately she was
allowed to come out. The five constables remained
in the batrack some time longer, until the staircase
was burnt away and the smoke became stifling.
They would undoubtedly have perished in the flames
had not the parish priest, the Rev. Mr. Navell, pre-
vailedupon the people outside to bring a ladder and
place it at one of the windows. Down this ladder
the policemen came, carrying their rifles, which were
snatched from them before they reached the ground.
Two or three shots were fired at them as they de-
scended, and one shot grazed the cheek of one of

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the party, carrying away the „strap of his cap.
When they had been disarmed and robbed
of belts and equipments, some of their captors-
proposed to shoot them, and there was much
disputing over this proposal. Two men,
who looked like Irish Americans, addrez-sed the
crowd, and said the police had only done their duty
in misting the attack, that if they were shot the
people would be hung, and that the better plan
would be to let them go. These counsels prevailed,
but before the constables were allowed to go evury
effort was made to induce them to join the army of
the Irish Republic. The promise of commissions,
good pay, and other advantages had, however, no
effect, and ultimately the policemen were allowed to
go away unscathed. The insurgents afterwards en-
camped on a place called Bottle-hill, near here, but
executed a strategic movement on the other side of
the bill with such rapidity when a few troops came
in sight that only three of their number were taken.
Seeing that one of the attacking party had been
wounded at the barrack, there was a certain gene-
rosity in their release of the five policemen. And
when severe measures are urged against these insur-
gents, it must be remembered to their credit that,
from whatever motive, they have been merciful when
mercy was hardly to be expected from them, r.nd
have forborne plunder and outrage in the country
districts they have traversed. I venture to think
that in treating them the true„policy will be this :
Make the most signal example of the leaders ; let
the troops deal in fair fight with any who resist; but
give no ground for retaliation now or hereafter by
outlawing the wretched herd of shop-boys, clerks,
and drapers' assistants who are now fleeing like
sheep, even when no one pursues them. Martial law
in any part of Ireland, administered as martial law
has been elsewhere, may make this a war of barbar-
ous reprisals, instead of an outbreak memorable
chiefly for the childish folly of those who took part
in it.

TIPPERART, Sunday.

This morning a movable column of cavalry and
infantry, under the command of Col. M'Neill, left
this town for the Galtee mountains. The troops
will probably camp out and spend two or three days
in searching for rebels. Yesterday the country
people paid back into the banks here great part of
the money which they withdrew before the outbreak.
This, of course, is satisfactory as a proof of return-
ing confidence, and shows that even the credulous
think the Fenian game is played out, and that the
British Government may survive the shock it re-
ceived last Tuesday. The Roman Catholic priest
here this morning strongly denounced the Fenian
leaders, and pointed out the folly of those who took
part in the movement. I hope his flock were con-
vinced, but fear that on this topic the priests do not
exercise much influence. The temperature is much
milder to-day, a thing to ba regretted on some
grounds, for I can imagine no more salutary punish-
ment to the Feniaus than a pilgrimage upon the
mountains in the bitter cold we had up to yester-
day. If there were a continuance of such weather,
it would be worth while to draw a cordon round the
Galtee range, if one could, and keep the fugitives
up there, instead of sending movable columns to
hunt them down into the plains. Three " milesmen"
employed upon the Great Southern and Western
Railway have been arrested on suspicion of being
concerned in the outbreak. It seems they admit that
they were out with the insurgents, but they say they
were pressed into the service, and left when they had
a chance. There was a report that Millstreet,
small town on the railw ty half-way between
and Killarney, would be attacked last night, and
troops were accordingly sent there from Mallow
Junction, but, of course, no attack took place. In
the same way, the town of Tipperary was to have
been attacked any and every night since I have been
in these parts. If there is anything in such reports
as this, they probably cover some " operations "----if
that be not too grand a word—elsewhere. It is very
unlikely that men who have been scattered by a hand-
ful of constabulary will attack stations possessing a
considerable garrison of regular troops.
LIMERICK JUNCTION, Monday Evening.
The flying column commanded by Col.
which left Tipperaryyesterday to search for fugitives
in the Galtee mountains, returned this afternon.
No prisoners were made.
~ Other flying columns are being organised.
Special trains with troops from Limerick passed
through 'here to-day en route for Thurles and Mary-
borough'
Much alarm existed owing to an apprehended
attack, and the loyal inhabitants have associated
themselves for defence. Arms have been seized and
arrests made by the police.
All was quiet to-day at Tipperary, Thurles, Mal-
low, and Cork.

DUBLIN, March 11.

At Mountrnellick, in the Queen's County, a man,
who must have been mad or drunk, rushed from a
publichouse on Saturday with an eight-barrelled re-
volver, and commenced firing at the constabulary
barrack. Ile was fired at by the police and wounded
in the right arm. Another shot from the barrack
killed a man in the street. Mr. M'Leod, R.M., and
Mr. P. C. Morgan came promptly to the place with
a large force. Six Fenians were arrested, two of
them being seized on the roa4 and brought to the
barrack by a single constable named Kerr.
Warrants for the issue of a Special Commission
will be prepared to-day, and the Commission will
commence proceedings at the earliest moment
allowed by law.
On Saturday evening the detectives arrested nine
persons in Camden-street, Dublin, where they were
said to be in council in a publichouse no.; usually
frequented by the Fenian brotherhood. Most of
them were bricklayers. One, Arthur Forrester, a
book-keeper, refused to state his residence. Another
clerk, named O'Hara, from Earl-street, had two re-
volvers, one of them having ten chambers. Forrester
and another, named Hollywood, were both armed
with revolvers. When Forrester was taken he made
an attempt to shoot the officer who arrested him,
Constable Carey. He regretted afterwards that he
had not succeeded, because, he said, he was deter-
mined that Hell or Heaven should have either him-
self or the constable. Forrester is about 18 years of
age. He is known to have been the Fenian sub-
centre of the district of Manchester. In 1866 he
came to this country upon the business of the Con•
federation, under the name of Thomas Murphy. At
the Fenian raid upon Chester Forrester was in charge
of 40 men from Manchester. Immediately after-
wards he came over to Dublin, and on Feb. 16 he
was arrested at the North Wall, after leaving the
steamer. He was subsequently discharged on ac-
count of his youth. The prisoner was a contribu-
tor to the columns of the Irish People, under the
names "William Tell" and " Argus." He is stated
by the police to have been frequently found tam-
.' , with soldiers, and he was known to have
perm,
been a companion of Thomas Baines, who was sen-
tenced at the last Commission to 10 years' penal ser-
vitude for endeavouring to seduce soldiers from their
allegiance. The bricklayers are believed to have
been enlisted in the conspiracy by Croneyn, the
foreman at the works at the new chapel at John's-
lane, who left the country at the tune of the seizure
of the. Irish People. The prisoners were immediately
taken to Chancery-lane station, and thence they
were removed to Richmond Bridewell, having been

committed ou remand by Col. Lake. .
There was a report 'of a Fenian gathering near
Clontarf last night, but it proved to be unfounded.
The persons arrested at Drogheda on the night
of the rising were removed ou Saturday to the
county gaol at Dundalk. There was a "scene" at
their departure. A detachment of the 85th Foot
from Dublin, and 24 of the police from the depot,
Phoenix-park, arrived by rail for the purpose of
escorting them to Dundalk. About half-past 11
o'clock they proceeded to the local prison, accompa-
nied by 25 of the Drogheda constabulary, when the
prisoners were handcuffed and brought out, Byrne,

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the town the crowd augmented 1. mach Areek;
Among the persons so assembled'—were the
mothers, sisters, and brothers of the pri-
soners, who set up a mournful wail as they passed
along. The scene was one of painful excitement..
The prisoners, who were for the most part ill-clad,
appeared to bear up against their unenviable con-
dition, unless when a rush was made by a mother or
a sister to etnbrace a son or brother, and then some
of the younger prisoners winced and wept. On pass-
ing
over the bridge which sr,a.:s the Boyne the
pole'.! say some stones were thrown at them, but nc,
one was hurt. Arriving at Vie railway station tho
pt isouers were disposed of in several carriages, and
the train left at 12 o'clock for Dundalk, a cheer •
having been raised by the crowd.

The town was remarkably quiet on Saturday. It
is reported that 20 persons from Slane have been
missing since Shrove Tuesday. The prisoners, 48 in
number, were all of the artisan class, many of them,
stout looking fellows. A large crowd assembled to
see them from curiousity. When they arrived. at
the station of the Dublin and Belfast Junction Rail-
way they were met by a troop of the 10th Hussars
and a large body of constabulary, under the com-
mand of Captain Kevian, county inspector, and Mr.
Edward K. Supple, sub-inspector. This formidable
escort conveyed the prisoners to the county Loutli
Gaol, where they were safely lodged for the present.
MONDAY NIGRT.
No fresh disturbances have taken place about
Dublin, but alarming rumours of intended risings
prevail.

The metropolitan police force are about to be
armed with Snider rifles.

A national schoolmaster was brought up to-day
for attempting to climb the walls of MouutjoyPri-
son, and a young gentleman named Crofton was
arrested last night at Portobello Barracks ; he had
a loaded pistol and ammunition, and a-skeleton key
that opened one of the gates. Bail was accepted for
his appearance to-morrow.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin has decided to bring
an action for damages against the proprietors of the
Evening Mail for the libellous letter signed " Clon-
currp," which has excited general indignation in the
city.

The Smells of Edinburgh—How it Strikes a
Stranger.

(From the Scotsman.)
A gentleman of rather a cosmopolitan turn, who
assures us, however, that he is "not the wandering

Jew,"sends us the following notes of his experience

of our ancient city :

I have been driven by an unquiet spirit to walk
up and down in the earth for many years, and have
seen many curious old towns, and smelled many
curious odours. My nose is tolerably well versed in
smells. There is a city on the coast of South Ame-
rica, Callao yclept, where one may experience a cer-
tain peculiar perfume nowhere else to be attained in

its full flavour. The ships that load with guano at
the Chincha Isles have a faint trace of this perfume

lingering about them after they have discharged their
cargoes, but it is not the genuine article. There is a

stench that arises on a nice hot day from the Alster
Bassin at Hamburg that is especially nasty. The
fish markets of London, Paradise-street in Liverpool,

and some of the slums of Manchester, are not scented

with the zephyrs of Araby the blest. If you walk
through Valparaiso, taking care to keep in the middle

of the street, about midnight on a summer evening.

you will experience a sensation in your olfactory
nerves that you will not forget in a hurry. If you
venture to walk under the windows of the houses,

you will fare worse. Washington market, and the
Five Points in New York, furnish some extracts
that are not so pleasant as Lubin's. Thera is an
exceedingly horrible smell to be obtained in Con-
stantinople ; and the fig market at Symrna has one
that is hard to beat. But I think that, during my
walks through the Conate and certain circumjacent
places, I recognised all of the smells that I have

mentioned, and some others that were quite new• to
me. Sometimes I caught them separately ; again,
they came, not as single spies, but in battalions.
In ouo spot, where I had paused to admire some
panes of stained glass, in the front of a dilapidated
and ancient hut, which, with their delicate and curi-
ously worked iron frames, seemed as much out of
place as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's car, a blast
reached me wonderfully rich in odours. As I in-
haled its fragrance, I distinguished the musty, sour,
and sickly smell of old clothes half washed in dirty
water, stale tobacco smoke, flat beer, ancient fish,
the exhalations of a sewer, and something penctrat.-
ing through all the rest, and only to be compared
with the hot and foetid breath of a workhouse casual
ward, a slave ship between decks, and the cell of a
police station filled with drunken men on a wet
night—all mingled together in one horrible and dis-
gusting mass.

But I had not come to Edinburgh simply for the
purpose of inhaling new perfumes, or renewing the
remembrance of old ones. I had long contemplated
a v'sit to this ancient, renowned, and romantic
city ; and my deferred purpose was whetted by a
warning that had reached me of the destruction im-

pending over the most ancient portion of the Old
['own. I had heard in London that, if one would
look upon Edinburgh as it was 300 years ago, ho
should hasten thither quickly ; for the fiat for its
destruction had gone forth. So, with a keen but
mournful interest, I wandered through the antique
streets, and wynds, and closes ; and I may as well
admit that, before I had completed my investiga-
tions, I rejoiced at the thought that ere long no
one could lOok upon the sights that I saw therein.
Antiquity and romance are all very rine ; but health,
and comfort, and common decency are still better.
whosel 100
ikecltttupon h a tdh
soe windows
often
beeian
thethe frame G ras
of rk
sa
paelte,
and out upon the spot
faces,gallo,v gasazni the stake, at which
wiitial enryes saddened den s
e h
goodmantede
laid down his life in the dark
days of old. I saw St. Giles's Church, where,
sitting in regal pomp upon a gilded throne, Lord
Darnley listened with frowning countenance to the
denunciations of John Knox,. who warned him of
the fate of Ahab and of the idolatrous Queen
Jezabel, of whom dogs did eat the flesh and drink
the blood. I saw the house of that bold preacher,
whence he was taken before the enraged Court and
ordered to preach no more lest he should be slain.
I saw the spot where Darnley was killed, and the
street through which the beautiful Mary passed in
queenly splendour, amid the exclamations of the
nobles whose palaces lined the way—now the abode
of pawnbrokers and old clothes merchants, whose
dirty garments hang where princely banners floated,
ssthi
shields
triple
dbeael last
eaerfe
arms
departedfrom
andthe s‘cvuhl°psteu rne'dy
lords. And I went into the closes of St. Mary's
and Blackfriars' and Fishtnarket,
and
saw sights
and heard words that harrowed up my soul for
sonic time thereafter, and thoroughly
dissipated any
sentimental regret that I might have entertained
for the destruction of these antiquities.
I had fancied that I had seen something before
this of human misery and degradation ; but after
all that has been said, blood is thicker than water ;
and although one is pained to witness misery and
degradation among negroes and Indians, it does not
cotne home to him as does the spectacle of such
Buff. ring among his own race. The earth is full of
(lark places that are the habitations of cruelty ; but
iu some of the places that I saw in these closes,
where penury makes his home, disease reigns, and
vice and crime bold their ghastly revels, I witnessed
scenes that I had never dreamed could be enacted
in a Christian city in the nineteenth century. No
d a this
doubt, you have again and again
•roinda toescribe troublll e you
in your columns ; lam not h
stck to see, and
with a recital of what it made Inc,
which, indeed, cannot be truthfully described in
language fit for publication.

Ths:it emir National calls upon 11. Emile ()Dicier
to give in„ltis resignation as deputy, and invites all tho
Opposition
journals to join it is urging him to take that
decision.
The Princess Mathille has roceived at a pri-
vate audience M. Delyhnais, Minister Pluto •
tentiarr of the King of Greece,