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London, England, 1866-02-19 00:00:00

Bible, and to lead eventually to a :further loss of
British life and property. The intelligence which
has just arrived from Bombay, via Trieste, unfor-
tunately confirms these suspicions, for we are told
that the aspect of affairs in Bhootan is unsatisfac-
tory, and that war is again probable, so
that during the hot unhealthy months our
troops will very probably be again exposed to
the evil influences of the fever malaria of the Dooars,
while our hands are virtually tied by an enemy
more formidable than any Bhootanese or other
natives is likely to be. It will be well to inquire,
should this rumour prove correct., by whose
authority the peace was patched up at
sucha season of the year. One might have
supposed that the device was too transparent to
delude the most simple or careless, and certainly
our Indian authorities, both civil and military,
should by this time have had sufficient experience of
the insincerity and want of faith of the native powers.
We are glad to find that the reported retirement of
the Viceroy has been authoritatively contradicted,
though whether or no a certain change in the Ca-
binet has anything to do with the contradiction the
curious may amuse themselves by speculating. As
a sign of the increased vigour and energy of Indian
life we find that the means of communicating intel-
ligence to England is occupying attention. The
Postmaster-General is arranging for a weekly mail,
and the Bombay Chamber of Commerce has peti-
tioned Parliament for an inquiry into the working of
the Indo-European telegraph. There is, in fact, no
reason why, under improved arrangements, we
should not receive the summary of Indian news
in a week, a fact which tends to bring the two
countries nearer together, and keep up a continual
interest in Anglo-Indian politics and proceedings.
The importance of improving our means of com-
munication with our colonies and dependencies is
becoming very widely appreciated. On Saturday
last a new iron screw steamer was launched
intended for the Panama, New
Zealand, and Australian Mail Company, who
hope by the adoption of a new system to
save seven days in the voyage from New Zealand
to England. This ship, the ➢lataura, will, it
is calculated, be able to travel a distance of
7,000 miles without stoppage, being constructed to
carry coals to enable her to steam at the rate of 13
knots an hour. This will prove an important con-
sideration, since the inevitable delays of coaling,
&c., tend considerably to increase the length of the
journey. There is no reason why our Anglo-Indian
communication should not be considerably improved
likewise, and a saving of a few days will make more
difference in a voyage to Bombay than in a voyage
to Auckland.

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.
4.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PAnts, Sunday Evening.
Sometimes political facts transpire here before
they arc known in England, and particularly news
of Ministerial modifications. I know not if a repert
of the resignation of Sir George Grey is of this
character. It is mentioned by a paper of large cir-
culation, which hints that other changes in Earl
Russell's Cabinet are probable.

The Siecle, remarking upon the subject of Reform
in England, says :—" The reform movement is not
so insignificant as some have imagined. Imposing
and numerous meetings rapidly succeed each other.
The working men of London are very eager for
Parliamentary Reform."
The Memorial Diplomatique contradicts the re-
port that Austria is about to recognise the Kingdom
of Italy, but says that the Governments of Austria
and Italy are about to come to an understanding
with a view to improve their commercial relations.
A foot race, which excited considerable interest,
has just taken place at the Avenue de l'lmperatrice,
Bois de Boulogne, between the groom of Mr. Wat-
son, an American gentleman, and the jockey of M.
de Cerilly. The bet between those gentlemen was
20,000 f., and more than £l,OOO sterling was sported
by the backers. The distance is about two miles.
M. de Cerilly's jockey performed it in nine minutes
and five seconds. The groom took two seconds
more, so that the winner was M. de Cerilly. To be
accurate, I should mention that the pedestrians
went three times round the race course, and the
French estimate of the distan?,e is six kilometres (or
four English miles).
A beautiful and lifelike bust of Verdi, the tom-
poser, has just been executed by Dantan, the most
eminent sculptor of France, and a few evenings ago
a friendly inauguration of it took place at Verdi's
residence in the Champs Elysees. Only a few
friends were present, chiefly singers, including Patti, j
Delle Sedie, Fraschini, Escudier, the Tamburini
family, and of course Dantan himself. Aldry, who
is hard at work upon Verdi's new opera, was pre-
vented from attending by indisposition. The bust
has been much admired by all who have seen it ;
and on the occasion in question there was an agree-
able surprise, which excited much laughter—the
exhibition of a caricature bust, also by Dantau,
the resemblance of which to Verdi is easily recog-
nised. He is represented as a lion, the face of which
presents all the characteristics of that of Verdi.
Underneath is the following verse :
II a des fiors Lions la grille et la criniere,
Traurer est son triomphe, h ce maitre hardi,
Il suit a travers champs des chemins sans orniere,
L'art flcurira toujours—tant gull aura Verdi.

Patti, in her usual, unaffected and courteous
style, offered to sing an air from one of Verdi's
operas. "No," said Verdi, "no usurpation. To-
day is the fête of the sculptor. Let the musician
be silent."

With respect to the opera of Don Carlos, I can
inform you that the libretto by Messrs. Mery and
Camille Dulocle, founded upon Schiller's work, is
nearly finished, and Verdi has composed two of the
five acts. He has engaged to finish the whole of the
music by the 15th of July. It will be produced in
the course of December next. A splendid ballet
will be introduced into it. The scene is laid at
Aranjeuz, and poetry, music, and action will be re-
dolent of Spanish characteristics. Schiller's drama
turns chiefly upon an incident worked out in the
" Phdedre" of Racine—the mutual love of a mother-
in-law and her son-in-law. Philippi the Second of
Spain has married a princess of France, Elizabeth
de Valois. Don Carlos, the King's son, had loved
the lady before her marriage, but fur State reasons
their union had been forbidden, and the love of the
son had been sacrificed to that of the father. One
of the ladies of honour, who is also in love with
Don Carlos, but who is repulsed by him, with jea-
lous w atchf ulness,discovers someletters in the Queen's
possession written before her marriage, which prove
her passion for Don Carlos. The lady discloses the fact
to Philippe, aud, of course, that monarch is furious,
and swears that he will destroy his son. In the
meantime, he delivers him to the tender mercies of
the Inquisition. There is a pretty considerable
amount of material for an opera, or drama, or what
you like, and such incidents, musically illustrated
by a Verdi, must perforce prove enticing. The
caste is arranged to this extent. The characters
will be thus supported—the Marquis de Posa by
Fauve, Philippe the Second by Obin, the Grand
Inquisitor by Belval, Elizabeth de Valois by Mdlle.
Saxe, the Princess d'Ebole (the Lady of Honour)
by Mdlle. Bloch. There can be no doubt that Verdi
will have finished the opera by the time proposed,
for " Il Trovatore" was composed in 33 days, and
the " Traviata," it is said, in a fortnight. He is
about to leave Paris for his chateau in Italy for
quiet inspiration and the enjoyment of his native
air. Ilis present intention is to return to Paris in
June with his opera finished. I told you of the curi-
ous mistake of the telegraph aboutkilliug Fauve. The
account was quite accurate. M. M6ry has made up his
that Faure shall be killed in the fourth act by
a shot from a carbine. It, may not be generaiiy
known that Verdi was at one time a deputy in the
Italian Parliament. Ile resigned his seat because
he wished to devote his time exclusively to musical

A curious calculation has been made as to the
consumption and manufacture of silk at Lyons.
The city of Lyons consumes annually a million kilo-
grammes (two million pounds) of silk worked up in
different ways. Four cocoons are required for one
gramme of silk (there are 500 grammesin a pound) .
The consumption of Lyons only amounts to
4,200,000,000 grammes. The average length of a
cocoon of silk is 500 metres. The 4,200,000,000
metres manufactured annually by the industry of
Lyons would form together a length of 2,100 mil-
liards of metres, or 2,100,000,000 kilometres. This
length is that of 14 times the distance of the earth
from the sun, and 5,494 that of the moon from the
earth. Thus it would go 52,505 times round the
earth or the equator, and 200,000 times round the
moon.

A sale of books, drawings, and works of art from
the cabinet of M. Gustave Hequet, will commence
to-morrow, which is likely to prove interesting
The drawings and portraits are valuable. One
work of art will, no douht, excite much competi-
tion. It is a copy in crayon and sepia of the beau-
tiful picture representing the entrance of Charles
the Sixth into Paris.

The committee of the Great National Exhibition
have accepted the proposal of M. llostein, director
of the Theatre du Chatelet, and M. Carvalho,
director of the Theatre Lyrique Imperial, to erect
one or more theatres in the part attached to the
building. The idea is to perform plays in all the
known languages of the world. Some English
managers, I am told, have made arrangements to
take advantage of the concession, so that among
other attractions of the Exhibition will be the perfor-
mance of English tragedy and comedy, and, I pre-
sume, the production of dramatic performances of
every description.
There will, of course, be no balls at the Tuileries
during Lent, but there will be some admirable con-
certs, in which all the leading singers will partici-
pate.

Winter has come back to us ; yesterday and to-
day the weather has been cold, cheerless, and miser-
able. It has rained constantly since the morning.

The Government of Jamaica.

The following is a copy of the bill to make pro-
vision for the Government of, Jamaica which has
been introduced by Mr. Cardwell :
" Whereas two acts were passed by the Legisla-
ture of Jamaica during a session held in the present
year of her Majesty, intituled respectively, ' An Act
to Alter and Amend the Political Constitution of
this Island,' and An Act to Amend an Act passed
in the present session, intituled, " An Act to Alter
and Amend the Political Constitution of this
" and it is expedient that the said acts
should be brought into operation, under authority
of Parliament, in the manner and to the extent
hereinafter set forth : Be it therefore enacted by the
Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral, and Commons, in the present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows :--

" 1. So much of said recited acts as is contained
in the accompanying schedule shall come into ope-
ration in the Island of Jamaica as soon as the assent
of her Majesty in Council shall have been pro-
claimed in the said island by the officer administer-
ing the government thereof, and, unless continued
by authority of Parliament, shall cease to be in force
at the expiration of three years from the date of
such proclamation.
" 2. In construing the secondly-recited act, the
term' Government' shall be held to include " Legis-
lature;' and the powers exercised by her Majesty
under the said act shall be exercised by her Majesty
in Council.

" SCHEDULE.

" An Act to Alter and Amend the Political Con-

stitution of this Island.

" Whereas it is necessary to alter the present po-
litical constitution of this island : Be it enacted by
the Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly
of this island, and it is hereby enacted by the autho-
rity of the same,

" First, that from and after the coming into ope-
ration of this act the present Legislative Council
and House of Assembly, and all and every the func-
tions and privileges of those two bodies respectively,
shall cease and determine absolutely.

"An Act to Amend an Act passed in the present
session, entitled ' An Act to Alter and Amend the

Political Constitution of this Island.'

" Whereas an Act was passed by the Legislature
of this island during this present session, entitled
An Act to Alter and Amend the Political Consti-
tution of this island ;' and whereas it is desirable
that the same should be amended ; be it therefore
enacted by the Governor, Legislative Council, and
Assembly of this island, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same,

" In place of the Legislature abolished by the
first section of the recited Act, it shall be lawful for
her Majesty the Queen to create and constitute a
Government for this island in such form and with
such powers as to her Majesty may best seem fit-
ting, and from time to time to alter or amend such
Government."

EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED.-- As another step
towards the solution of the great commercial pro-
blems affecting the relations between employers and em-
ployed, we have pleasure in here recording the fact that at
a meeting of tha directors of Greening and Co. (Limited),
manufacturers of iron and wire fences, iron gates, etc., held
at their offices in Manchester, on the 12th inst., it was
unanimously resolved —" That, in order to stimulate the
zeal, fidelity, and good-will of the clerks, foremen, and
workpeople employed by this company, and with a view of
enabling them to acquire a substantial interest in the pro-
sperity of the firm, the directors undertake to recommend
and support, at the first ordinary meeting of shareholders,
the adoption of the following special arrangements:-
Ist. Whenever the nett profits in any one half-year exceed
71 per cent. upon the gross paid-up capital of the company,
then for every additional 2131- per cent. dividend or bonus
paid to the shareholders upon their capital, a dividend or
bonus of 2 per cent. shall be paid to every person em-
ployed by the company upon the amount of wages earned
by him or her in the same half-year: provided always
that such participation in profits shall not give toany of the
work-people (not being shareholders) any right to inter-
fere in any way in the management of the company's busi-
ness : nor shall it render them liable to any debts or respon-
sibilities incurred by the company. 2d. That shares of the
company at par value be issued from time to thee to the
work-people, and that they be permitted to pay the cab's
upon same, either out of a common fund to bo subscribed
by them, or out of dividends and bonuses accruing to them.
3d. That these resolutions be printed and circulated
amongst the work-people, with a cordial appeal to them to
co-operate in promoting the welfare of the establishment
of which they form a part."

. •
THE NEW PRESIDENT OF TIIE ROYAL ACADEMY,
when a witness before the Royal Academy Commis-
sion of 1863, as the Reader takes occasion to remind us,
spoke strongly against the pre-Raffaelite school. His words,
as reported in the Blue-book, aro : " I think that it has
thrown art back 50 years. I think that pre-Raffaelitism
has been most injurious to art. . . . It descends to a little-
ness which is below art. . . . It has taken away from its
followers large ideas of breadth, and made them more
imitators without art. . . . There is a littleness in that
style of art which I think very unsatisfactory. . . .
think it has done a great deal of harm. . . . It has sent
men in a wrong direction. Instead of aiming at large and
broad effect, it has descended to a needlework style of art,
which is anything but art ; it is labour without art."
GROWTH OF THE BRITISH M USE UM.—The original
collection, says the London Review, comprised iu round
numbers about 50,000 volumes and valuable manuscripts,
besides 69,352 articles of vertu described in the catalogue.
It has, however, been since encrmously increased by gifts,
bequests, and purchases ; by the Cottonian, Harleian, and
other libraries ; by the Townley Marbles, in 1812 ; by the
Elgin Marbles, 1816 ; by the Lycian Marbles, obtained by
Sir C. Fellows, 1842-0, ckzr.:. George 11. presented the Royal
Library in 1757 ; and George IV. gave, in 1823, the library
collected at Buckingham House by
George 111., consisting
of 65,250 volumes and about 19,000 pamphlets. In 1b46
the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville bequeathed to the Mu-
seum his library, consisting of 20,210 volumes. The spe-
cimens of ancient art were considerably enriched during
the next few years by the A.Esvrian Sculptures, and other
trelsiin.yl, for which wo are iadebted to the researches and
indefatigable energy of Alr.",,yufd.
antiquities from Halicarnassus, which had been obtained
by Mr. C. Newton ; and, ill 18G0, further relics of great
Value were brougut h..ota Ckrthage.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, FEB. 19.

It is asserted that Prussia is about to send a
Note to the Austrian Cabinet, declaring the per-
sonal union of the Duchies with Prussia to be the
only solution of the Schleswig-Holstein question.

1' R A

BOURSE, Feb l7, Thr(
taken place on the follow:
4j per Cents 9B 95
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 10
Do. end month €9 15
Credit Mobilier 675
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3690
Credit Foncier 1330
Italian Loan 6l
Do. end month 6O 97i
RAILV

N C E.
o'clock.—The close has
Lug quotations :
Roman —
Ottoman Fives 3B 30
Mexican Loan 47 25
Do. Bonds 3OO
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt -
Deferred

TAYS.
Cash.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
'Western
Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
►Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

Acct.
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172 50
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ON A SONG IN THE PRINCESS.

A CRITICISM, BY GEORGE GROVE, IN THE " SHILLIH4

MAGAZINE."

The following charming paper we extract in its
entirety from the " Shilling Magazine" for Feb-
ruary. We should be tempted to do so, if we
were simply to regard it as a specimen of refined
and sympathetic criticism. But, far beyond its more
obvious excellence as such, it is, to our thinking, so
especially remarkable as indicative of its subtle
appreciation of the lyrical genius of Alfred Tenny-
son, that its perusal throughout can hardly, as it
appears to us, do otherwise than afford exquisite
gratification to the countless admirers of the Poet
Laureate. :

" Ask me no more : the moon may draw the sea ;
The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape,
With fold to fAd, of mountain or of cape;
But oh, too fond, when hays I answer'd thee ?
Ask me no more.

" Ask me no more; what answer should I give ?
I love not hollow cheek or faded eye :
Yet oh, my friend, I will not have thee die !
Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live ;
Ask me no more.

" Ask me no more : thy fate and mine are seal'd ;
I strove against the stream and all in vain :
Let the great river take me to the main :
No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;
Ask me no more."

A Song ? surely a Drama ! If, instead of a song in three
versos, we called it a drama in three acts, it would be nearer
the truth ; and indeed it might well form the motff of such
a drama. Name the three acts Indifference, Hesitation,
Submission, and let us see what they disclose to us.

They are addressed by a woman to a man--a man who
loves her most ardently, and to whom, after long resist-
ance, she ultimately yields ; and they describe the process
of her mind in the unequal conflict. In the first—lndif-
ference—she is almost aggressive. " Ask me no more,"
she says, half angrily, as ono well-nigh wearied out by his
ceaseless importunities. "Ask me no more,"—your en-
treaties are of as little concern to me as the moon to the
ocean, as the cloud to the mountain, to which it has a casual
and distant resemblance, but no real connection. "Ask
me no more,"— you are " too fond,"—when have I given
you either encouragement or return for these advances ?,
Go, go, and " ask me no more." But the man, the lover—
who with all the instinct of real, faithful, heartfelt love,
knows no obstacle, and will take no denial still perseveres;
still assures her of his devotion. And thus it comes to pass
that in the next act she is softened and is become more
merciful. She has allowed herself to notice his worn and
haggard looks, and to recognise that is the cause of them,
and that if she relents, they will be removed. She still
reiterates, "Ask mo no more," but with what an altered
meaning ! Her perplexity and uncertainty are evident.
"Ask me no more,"-1 pray you press me no longer, lost
I be compelled to give you an answer which I do not wish
to give. "Ask me no more ; what answer should I give?"
She is still almost vexed by his persistence —" I love not
hollow cheek or faded eye." But then the blessed light
and warmth break into her mind, and the first token of
relenting appears. " Yet oh, my friend,"--" my friend,"
mark that concession !—" Yet oh, my friend, I will not
have thee die !" The thought of the loneliness which
would beset her if this one man, this " friend," with whom
she is still half angry, were to go where he could never
come back ; where he would really be for ever lost to her;
where all his delicate, thoughtful, scorned, unrequited acts
were gone for ever—this thought for the first time has
found its way into her marble bosom, and it makes her
tremble, it makes her hesitate, and the " Ask me no more"
with which the verse concludes is more troubled and softer
in its tone than that with which it begins. A new light
has shone in upon her, and the moment of her conversion
is at hand. For her lover, possessed by the divine inspi-
ration of his love, will not, cannot, cease from his suit.
Ho still presses her with that which is a necessity for them
both ; which, though they neither of them know it, is their
Fate. He still " asks" her; and now comes the moment
when with all her force, all her fancied panoply of indif-
ference, she can resist no longer. And this time again
what a different meaning do the familiar words contain.
"Ask me no more! Not because I will net grant, but be-
cause I can no longer refuse,"—because she sees how true
is the instinct, how irresistible the fury, of real passion ,
because she is forced to admit how right as well as how.
powerful her lover has been in his obstinate perseverance ;
because sho finds herself too feeble, and is compelled to
give herself up to an influence which is too strong for her
weak will to combat. And observe how readily and
gracefully the concession is made, as all concessions should
be, when the inevitable moment has arrived. ." No more,
dear love, for at a touch I yield." How wonderfully sweet
is the " dear love," following on the " too fond," and the
former verses ! Even to this it has come—" No more, dear
love, for at a touch I yield." "A touch,"—yes! not yet
an embrace, but a touch—the touch of hand to hand, which
at such a moment does more than match to fire a magazine.
" No more,"—yes, "no more" now —no more importunity,
but also no more resistance -now, silence and fondness,
and unutterable union of hands to hands, and lips to lips,
and heart to heart, and being to being.
When we turn from the inward to the outward, from the
substance to the form of this exquisite poem, how truly and
astonishingly beautiful it is ! It would be difficult to find
a more striking example amongst the many that meet us on
every page of his works, of the singular power which Mr.
Tennyson possesses of clothing beautiful sentiments in
beautiful words, and thus fulfilling the definition which
Coleridge gave of poetry, that it was "the best thoughts in
the best language."
The stanza in its mode of rhyme has a ring of " In Me-
moriam," which will prejudice no one against it, though
the difference in the length of the lines and the addition
of the short terminal line, are sufficient to make the resem-
blance but a distant one.

I have already endeavoured to bring out the moral force
of the constant recurrence of the burthen, " Ask me no
more." But its artistic worth, in reference to the sound
alone, is hardly less ; and the finish which it gives to each
stanzas, and the expression of its varying cadence as the
phases of the drama alter, are beauties which may be felt,
but can hardly be described.

The music of the lines is throughout charming. It is
not perhaps quite equal to the last stanza of the 18th canto
of " Maud," beginning—
" Is that enchanted moan only the swell
Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay 2"
and containing the two most exquisite lines—

" To dreadful wastes wherefootlessafaucies dwell,

Among the fragments of the golden day;"
or to the Bugle Song from the "Princess," or to that other
idyll from the same—

" Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawns,
The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmurs of innumerable bees."
But then these are indeed pre-eminent instances even of
Mr. Tennyson's pre-eminently melodious verse, and, being
less dramatic, they are able to be sober and smoother in
their flow.

Two things I venture to remark in the structure of the
verse of this poem. First, that it is almost entirely com-
posed of monosyllables. In the whole fifteen lines there
are only six words of two syllables. This gives a great
fulness to the Enos ; and I can only find no other instance
of it, to the same degree, in Mr. 'Tennyson's works
Secondly, it is most interesting and instructive to observe
that whereas the passages just quoted, and others in the

In considering, to conclude, the final impression which
this masterly composition leaves on one's whole being
ear, heart, intellect, imagination, memory—l find myself
continually tempted to.compare it with some of the master-
pieces of the musical art, some of the slow movements of
Beethoven's symphonies for example, which present the
same astonishing combination of beauty of subject and
beauty of general form with perfect delicacy of detail, the
same consummate art, with the same exquisite concealment
of it—and which, like it, form a whole that satisfies both
the intellect and the imagination, and, once known, haunts
the memory for ever.

IRELAND.

G. GROTE.

D ÜBLIN, Sunday Evening.

Many exciting rumours are afloat, but most of
them have no foundation. One is that Mrs. O'Do-
novan (Rossa), Mrs. Luby, Mrs. Stephens, &c.,
have been arrested. Another is that disturbances
are expected in the south, and that artillery have
been sent there.

Great excitement was caused to-day by the guard
of one of her Majesty's mails vans being shot at in
this city. No arrests were made. A man was also
shot at in the suburbs, but this crime has no con-
nection with Fenianisna.

I believe that a body of cavalry has been sent to
Nenagh, and that troopshave been kept under arms
in Dublin. •

Many of the Irish-Americana left the eity.last
night.

DUBLIN, Saturday Evening.

Dublin was in a ferment to-day. The sympa-
thisers with Fenianism were dismayed, and all loyal
men encouraged and triumphant, in consequence of
the action taken so promptly and creditably by the
Government for the suppression of the American
pest. "We have done all that it is within human
power to do to keep out the cattle plague," said the
more reflecting and scrupulous, " and is it rational
to suffer another plague to bring ruin upon the
people, or paralyse industry, check the outlay of
capital, and disturb society in every department ?"
There has always been much confidence placed in
the calmness and firmness of Lord Wodehouse, and
his last act of applying for extraordinary powers
against the Fenian conspiracy has inspired the loyal
people with new hope and trust in the vigour of his
will. This trust has been much increased by the
manner in which the suspension of the Habeas Cor-
pus Act and the consequent measures in Dublin,
which I am about to describe, have been carried out.
It was not until a late hour last night that it was
known in Dublin, by the receipt of a telegram, that
the Government intended to apply for the suspension
to-day, and the Fenian American emissaries were ac-
cordingly resting in their customary security this
morning, fancying themselves absolutely safe under
the pretence of being merely strangers seeing the
country, when the police disturbed their slumbers
rudely, and, anticipating the passing of the act,
took scores of them into custody. Altogether, over
a hundred were placed under arrest, and as it was
not necessary to bring them before the magistrates,
the police were able to turn their attention to the
duty of capturing others for whom they have been
some time seeking an occasion for arresting in vain.
The persons arrested are not desperadoes in appear-
ance by any means, but there can be no doubtwhat-
ever that their designs are what the authorities have
concluded them to be. Other arrests will be made
to-night; but it is highly probable that before to-
morrow evening there will have been a flight of the
revolutionary Brotherhood from Ireland, to which
the flight under similar circumstances in 1848 was
not to be compared. The Fenian conspiracy is
much more dangerous than that of 1848, and there-
fore required to be thus dealt with at the present
stage. There is no reason for thinking, however,
that the American Irishmen will be any braver than
the Young Ireland Irishmen. They will speedily
rid the country of their presence, and we may then
hope for a return of that peace and prosperity which
foreign emissaries exclusively have interrupted.
The Freeman's Journal gives the following ac-
count of the arrests :

" Great excitement was occasioned this morning
when it became known that the detectives and other
police were making arrests of persons suspected of
being concerned in the Fenian conspiracy. Detach-
ments of police were to be seen going in every direc-
tion, and persons were much at a loss to discover
what was the cause which led to such a general
movement on the part of those charged with pre-
serving the public peace. But the cause was soon
explained in the batches of prisoners being led
to the several station-houses, Those first
taken into custody were strangers to Dublin, who
had been here for some time past, without any ap-
parent employment, but who were never in want of
money, and stopped at respectable hotels and lodg-
ing-houses in excellent style. These persons had
been for a considerable time under the close obser-
vation of the police, as it was alleged they had come
here from America, England, and Scotland not for a
good purpose. The men first arrested this morning
were the persons whose dress and general appear-
ance showed that they had been residents at the
other side of the Atlantic. Although it was known
that the Habeas Corpus Act would be suspended,
those whom the suspension was likely to affect did
not think that they would be interfered with for at
least a week, which would give them sufficient time
to make their arrangements for a well-planned de-
parture to Liverpool and elsewhere, but nothing
could exceed their surprise on being pounced on
this morning. Some of them were in bed, others
were dressing, and some were at breakfast, when
the police came on them by surprise ; and when
they asked what charge was against them, in no
instance did they receive reply. No time was given
for communication with friends or associates, and as
fast as the arrests were made the prisoners were
hurried off to the nearest station-houses; where
they were locked up without being charged with
any offence, nor even told why they were taken into
custody. The second class of prisoners that were
taken up were principally of the class of strangers
that had been residing in the streets adjoining the
South Liberties, and who, like their friends who had
been stopping in various hotels and lodging houses
in the city, had no occupation but walking about,
and who were remarkable for never being in want of
money. Up to two o'clock 120 persons bad been
taken into custody, and the cells of the station-
houses were receiving every moment new inmates
in the shape of suspected Fenians. It is stated
that the Government, in anticipation of the pass-
ing of the act for suspending the Habeas
Corpus Act, issued a general warrant last night
for the arrest of all persons suspected of being
concerned in ' the Fenian conspiracy.' The police
have been active in carrying out their instructions,
and the promptness with which the arrests have been
made gave no time for escape or resistance."
A later edition of the same paper says :—" As the
day advanced the arrests became more frequent and
general, and from every direction prisoners, princi
pally well-dressed and respectable-looking men,
were to be seen going to the various station-houses,
where large numbers of the police were kept on re-
serve duty in case their services would be required.
The female members of the families of those in cus-
tody were to be seen bringing food and refreshments
to ' their relatives,' and ' the strangers' appeared
to be
generally well cared for. The greatest excite-
ment prevailed throughout the city, as it was gene-
rally rumoured that the large number of Fenians
now in Dublin would resist any further arrests being
made, but in no instance could we perceive or learn
that any such attempt was made or is likely to occur.
The neighbourhood of Cullenswood, which for
months past has been the resort of persons who had
arrives 1a t:.1.-; country fr.,sal ..' aact:l;,a, 'aho 11:41, been
in the Federal army, and who were strongly sus-
pected of being concerned in i the movement,' was

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visited this morning at an early hour by the police
of the E division, and a large number of stalwart-
looking men i.vere taken into custody and conveyed
to Rathmines station-house, where they were locked
up. Finer or abler-looking fellows could not be
seen, and that they had been resident in America
for a considerable time could at once be perceived
by their manners and customs. Prisoners from
public-houses, drapers' establishments, workshops,
factories, &c., were brought in, but in no instance
charged nor informed on what ground they were de-
tained, and it was sad to witness the wives and chil-
dren of the prisoners collected in the neighbourhood
of the station-houses seeking permission to speak to
their relatives, which had to be in all cases refused.
The great majority of those now iu keeping of the
police are persons suspected •of taking leading'
positions in. ' the conspiracy,' and it is strange
with what facility the constables succeeded in get-
ting at them when they were required. At two
o'clock, when the workmen left off for dinner, num-
bers of them were arrested. At the out stations in
the constabulary districts adjoining the city su-
spected persons have been captured in dozens, and
it is stated that at the time we go to press not less
than 250 suspected Fenians have been 'deprived of
their liberty in Dublin and its immediate vicinity.
The military in garrizon have received orders to re-
main within their barracks, and to be ready for any
emergency at a moment's notice ; but notwithstand-
ing all these precautions there is not the slightest
sign of anything to cause alarm in any part of the
metropolis, save the suspension of the Habeas Cor-
pus Act to those who have taken part iu the Fenian
conspiracy.

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Col.+

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Saturday.
The Queen drove out with Princess Louise yes-
terday morning, and walked in the grounds in the
afternoon.

SUNDAY.

The Qa2cn went out yesterday morning with
Princess Helena, attended by the Duchess of Rox-
burghe, and in the afternoon with Princess Louise,
attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish.
Earl Granville arrived and had the honour of
dining with her Majesty and the royal family.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marl-
borough House on Saturday.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the
Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale in
waiting, attended Divine service in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's, yesterday.
The Communion Service was read by the Rev.
Albert Sitwell and the Rev. John Antrobus.
Anthem, " Hide not thou thy face " (Farrant).
Mr. Goss presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Lord Arch-
bishop of Armagh from Isaiah, chap. 58, verses 6,
7, and 8.

WINDSOR, Sunday.

Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess
of Wales on Friday at noon left Cumberland Lodge
in General Hood's carriage, and drove out to the
Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, in order to in-
spect the suite of apartments which it is believed
the prince and .princess will occupy for about a
month in summer. In the afternoon, the weather
having slightly cleared up, the prince and princess,
attended by Major Teesdale and the Countess of
Macclesfield, and accompanied by Major-General
the Hon. A N. Hood, Mr. Horatio Hood, Miss
Hood, and Lady Filmer, rode out in the park in
the vicinity of the Lodge.
General and Lady Mary Hood again entertained
their royal highnesses in the evening at eight o'clock,
covers being laid for 16 guests in the dining-room.
Among the guests were the Earl of Morley, the Earl
of Mountcharles, Sir E. and Lady Filmer, Colonel
Ponsonby, Major Teesdale, the Countess of Maccles-
field, Colonel and Mrs. Ewart, the Hon. Miss Sey-
mour, Captain and Mrs. Blundell, Miss Hood, and
Mr. Horatio Hood. Their royal highnesses slept
at the Lodge.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at-
tended by Major Teesdale, and accompanied by
General Hood, met Mr. Grath's foxhundes on
Saturday at Sawyer's-gate, in Windsor Forest.
There was a large muster in the field, and, although
the ground was somewhat heavy after the late
drenching showers, some excellent sport was ob-
tained. His royal highness returned to Cumber-
land Lodge about half-past two o'clock, the Prin-
cess of Wales returning from the Castle shortly
afterwards.

Shortly after luncheon their royal highnesses took
leave of Lady Mary Hood, and left Cumberland
Lodge for town, arriving at Paddington at half-past
five.

The Paris Exhibition.

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Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Paris Exhi-
bition held a meeting this morning, at the South
Kensington Museum. His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales presided—and there were present
Earl Granville, Duke of Buckingham aud Chandos,
Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Lansdowne, Mar-
quis of Salisbury, Earl Derby, Earl Stanhope,
Earl de Grey and Ripon, Lord Elcho, Lord Over-
stone, Lord Taunton, Lord Houghton, Sir George
Clerk, Sir John Pakington, Right Hon.
R. Lowe, Right Hon. C. B. Adderleh
Right Hon. Henry Austin Bruce, Sir Stafford S.
Northcote, Sir Alex. Young Spearman, Sir Rode-
rick I. Murchison, Sir Morton Peto, Sir Francis
Richard Sandford, Edgar Alfred Bowring, Esq. ;
Edward Akroyd, Esq. ; Thomas Baring, Esq. ;
Charles Forster, Esq. ; Thomas Field Gibsoo,
Esq. ; William Henry Gregory, Warrington Smyth,
Esq.; William. Hawes, Esq.; Michael Daintree
Hollins, Alexander J. B. Beresford Hope, Esq.;
Darnton Lupton, Esq. ; Charles Duffin, Esq. ;
John Fowler, Esq. ; John Francis Maguire, Esq. ;
Philip W. Skymer Miles, Esq. ; Richard Redgravel
Esq. ; Lieut.-General Edward Sabineill:A. ; Win*
Scholefield, Esq. ; Frederick Tayler, Esq. ; Henri
Thring, Esq. ; Henry Cole, Esq., Secretary.
The Prince of WALES made the following short
address :

" My Lords and Gentlemen,—
" I have great satisfaction in finding myself for
the second time in the chair of this important cal'
mission.

" Since we met here last year considerable Pre-
gress has been made on the other side of the water
for the Exhibition of next year. Possession has
been taken of the well-known Camp de Diary
On it is now in course of erection, perhaps the
largest building that has ever been 01;
strutted, surrounded by a large park, wl.t,
the Seine at the north side, both to be made
able for •the purposes of the Exhibition. The lel
penal Commission propose to attempt much that
has not been tried before. Many things, although
calculated to increase the interest of the Exhibition,
will be attended with difficulty.
" I venture to state, on behalf of this Commission,
and especially its committees, that we shall be ready
on these and all other points to give the best assla
tance in our power."

ECZEMA.—Lord Salisbury, in the House of Lords
last Thursday, declared himself quite puzzled to ku
d°ll
the meaning of this word, as applied to cattle
ease. If, If, says the Examiner, his lordship bad con:
suited his Greek Lexicon, or even a good Frelll'
o!
Dictionary, he would have found that it wea
Pustule or Boil, from I<CE(O--efferveo.
OMINOUS !—Lord Russell, says the Satti
aeurdaYs
Review, has made such a series of mistakes in his
with his own party, has made such unfortunate apow
ments, and, still more, has given such wanton and pointsehl.e
offence by the offers of office he has made on terms the
were, an insult in themselves, that it is easy
Government may any day perish by an indirect attack, !
A PAMPHLET ENTITLED " NAPOLEON ET
l'itte s will shortly be published in Paris. Its aPP'-'4r-
ance has been for some time looked for with great curiooity'l
as it §pppoeed to be of official origin. to see that