The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-28 00:00:00

Proclamation of Neutrality.

A supplement to the London Gazette, dated Wednes-
day, June 27, contains a proclamation by the Queen,
which, after the usual formal recitals of the state of
war between the Sovereigns of Austria, Prussia, and
Italy, declares—That, being desirous of preserving
the blessings of peace, which her subjects now hap-
pily enjoy, England is firmly purposed and deter-
mined to abstain altogether from taking any part,
directly or indirectly, in the war now unhappily
existing between the said Sovereigns and States,
their subjects and territories, and to remain at peace
with, and to maintain a peaceful and friendly inter-
course with all and with each of them and their re-
spective subjects, and others inhabiting within any
of their countries, territories, and dominions, and
to maintain a strict and impartial neutrality in filo
said hostilities and war, unhappily existing between
them.

The proclamation continues :—We, therefore,
have thought fit, by and with the advice of our
Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation.
And we do hereby strictly charge and command
all our loving subjects to govern themselves accord-
ingly, and to observe a strict neutrality in and
during the aforesaid hostilities and war, and to ab-
stain from violating or contravening either the laws
and statutesof the realm in this behalf, or the law of
nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to
the contrary at their peril.
And whereas in and by a certain statute made
and passed in the 59th year of his Majesty King
George the Third, entitled " An act to prevent the
enlisting or engagement of his Majesty's subjects to
serve in a foreign service, and the fitting out or
equippingin his Majesty's dominions vessels for war-
like purposes without his Majesty's licence," it is
amongst other things declared and enacted as fol-
lows :—" That if any person within any part of the
United Kingdom, or in any part of his
Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, shall, with-
out the leave and licence of his Majesty, for that
purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid,
equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or en-
deavour to equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or pro-
cure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed,
or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in
the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of
any ship, or vessel, with intent or in order that such
ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of
any foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any
foreign colony, province, or part of any province or
people, or of any person or persons exercising or
assuming to exercise any powers of Government in
or over any foreign State, colony, province, or part
of any province or people, as a transport or store-
ship, or with intent to cruise or commit hostilities
against any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against
the subjects or citizens of any Prince, State, or Po.
tentate, or against the persons exercising, or assum-
ing to exercise, the powers of government in any
colony, province, or part of any province or coun-
try, or against the inhabitants of any foreign colony,
province, or part of any province or country with
whom his Majesty shall not then be at war, or shall,
within the United Kingdom, or any of his Majesty's
dominions, or in any settlement, colony, territory,
island, place, belonging or subject to his Majesty,
issue or deliver any commission for any ship or
vessel, to the intent that such ship or vessel shall
be employed as aforesaid, every such person so
offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour,
and shall, upon conviction thereof, upon any infor-
mation or indictment, be punished by fine and im-
prisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of
the Court in which such offender shall be con-
victed; and everysuch ship or vessel, with the tackle,
apparel, and furniture, together with all the mate-
rials, arms, ammunition and stores which maybelong
to or be on board of any such ship or vessel, shall be
forfeited; and it shall be lawful for any officer of
his Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any officer of
his Majesty's navy, who is by law empowered to
make seizures for any forfeiture incurred under any
of the laws of Customs or Excise, or the laws of
trade and navigation, to seize such ships and vessels
aforesaid, and in such places and in such manner, in
which the officers of his Majesty's Customs or Ex-
cise, and the officers of his Majesty's navy, are em-
powered respectively to make seizures under the law
of Customs and Excise, or under the laws of trade
and navigation; and that every such ship and ves-
sel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together
with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores,
which may belong to, or be on board of such ship or
vessel, may be prosecuted and condemned, in the
like manner, and in such Courts as ships or vessels
may be prosecuted and condemned for any breach
of the laws made for the protection of the revenues
of the Customs and Excise, or the laws of trade and
navigation."

And it is, in and by the said act, further enacted,
" That if any person in any part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any
part of his Majesty's dominions beyond the seas,
without the leave and licence of his Majesty for
that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid,
shall, by adding to the number of the guns of such
vessel, or changing those on board for other guns, or
by the addition of any equipment for war, increase
or augment, or procure to be increased or augmented,
or shall be knowingly concerned in increasing or
augmenting, the warlike force of any ship or vessel
of war, or cruiser, or other armed vessel, which, at
the time of her arrival in anypart of the United King-
dom, or any of his Majesty's dominions, was a ship
of war, cruiser, or armed vessel, in the service of any
foreign State, Prince, or Potentate, or of any per-
son or persons exercising, or assuming to exercise,
any powers of government in or over any colony,
province, or part of any province or people belong-
ing to the subject of any such Prince, State, or
Potentate, or to the inhabitants of any colony, pro-
vince, or part of any province or country, under the
control of any person or persons so exercising, or
assuming to exercise, the powers of government,
every such person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanour, and shall, upon being con-
victed thereof, upon any information or indictment,
be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either of
them, at the discretion of the Court before which
such offender shall be convicted."

Now, in order that none of our subjects may un-
warily render themselves liable to the penalties im-
posed by the said statute, we do hereby strictly com-
mand that no person or persons whatsoever, do
commit any act, matter, or thing whatsoever con-
trary to the provisions of the said statute, upon pain
of the several penalties by the said statute imposed,
and of our high displeasure.
And we do hereby further warn and admonish all
our loving subjects,
and all persons whatsoever en-
titled to our protection, to observe towards each and
all of the aforesaid Sovereigns and States, their sub-
jects and territories, and towards all belligerents
whatsoever, with whom we are at peace, the duties
of neutrality ; and
to respect, in all and each of
them, the exercise of those belligerent rights which
we and our Royal predecessors have always claimed
to exercise.

And we do hereby further warn all our loving
subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to our
protection, that if any of them shall presume, in
contempt of this our Royal Proclamation, and of
our high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation
of their duty as subjects of a neutral Sovereign,
in a war between other Sovereigns and States, or in
violation or contravention of the law of nations in
that behalf, as more especially by breaking, or en-

deavouring to break, any blockade lawfully and
actually established by or on behalf of any or either
of the said Sovereigns or States, by carrying officers,
soldiers, despatches, arms, ammunition, military
stores or materials, or any article or articles consi-
dered and deemed to be contraband of war, accord-
ing to the law or modern usages of nations, for the
use or service of any or either of the said Sovereigns
and States, that all persons so offending, together
with their ships and goods, will rightfully incur, and
be justly liable to, hostile capture, and to the penal-
ties denounced by the law of nations in that behalf.
And we do hereby give notice, that all our sub-
jects and persons entitled to our protection who
may misconduct themselves in the premises, will do
so at their peril and of their own wrong ; and that
they will in no wise obtain any protection from us
against such capture or such penalties as aforesaid,
but will, ou the contrary, incur our high displeasure
by such misconduct.

Society for Improving the Condition of the
Labouring Classes.

The twenty-second annual meeting of the sub-
scribers and friends of this society was held yester.
day, at Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of the
Earl of SHAFTESBURY.
The Rev. Emimus BAILY having opened the pro-
ceedings with prayer,
Mr. PAGE, the secretary, read the report, which
speaks of a gradual improvement in the position of
the society and the extension of its operations, and
calls attention to the great necessity of such an
agency consequent upon the overcrowding, resulting
from the clearing away of the dwellings of the poor
for new railways. It then states that the railway
bills of the present session contemplated the removal
of 16,000 houses, while the whole of the model
lodging-houses only supplied accommodation for
8,798 persons, and after referring to recent legisla.
tion on the subject, and urging the importance of
extending the efforts to provide cheap and healthful
dwellings for the working classes, it gives the fol-
lowing abstract of the cash account and of the funds
and property of the society for the year ending 31st
December, 1865 :—The funds actually received in
the year from all sources for the general purposes
of the society was £5,981 Is. 6d. ; the balance in
hand at the commencement of the year being £287,
makes the total amount to be accounted for
£6,268 Is. 6d. The total current expenses of all
the lodging houses (including repairs and re-paint-
ing, &c.) amounted to £3,365 Cs. 31d. ; the loans
repaid, and other claims, and interest on loans, &c.,
amounted to £1,932 Bs. 4d. ; and the rent of of-
fices, salaries, manager's commission, printing of
publications and plans, stationery, postages, and all
incidentals, £669 4s. 3d. ; leaving a balance of
£3Ol 2s. 74d. The real property, &c., of the
society (valued at cost) is £44,365 3s. Id., and the
general liabilities £21,015 ; leaving assets, £23,350
3s. Id.

The Rev. J. B. OWEN moved a resolution adopt-
ing the report and recognising the Divine blessing
upon the society's operations. As showing the value
of the application of simple inexpensive methods of
sanitary reform, he stated that of the population
inhabiting the society's dwellings, numbering 1,678
persons, there had been only 28 deaths during the
year, and of those 12 were children under 8 years
old ; making the average of deaths among the popu-
lation inhabiting the society's houses only 16 per
1,000, the average in the entire population of
London being 26 per 1,000, and the average
in Edinburgh 27 per 1,000, in Manchester 33 per
1,000, and in Liverpool 41 per 1,000.
Dr. GREENIIILL, who from personal knowledge
bore testimony to the benefit which had resulted from
the sanitary measures adopted by the society in the
provision made by them for providing improved
dwellings, seconded the motion, which was carried.
The Rev. Canon CONWAY moved the re-election
of the members of the committee, and pointed out
that as a means to the greater end of improving the
moral and religious character of the lower classes,
the operations of the society were of great import-
ance.

The resolution was spoken to by the Rev. E.
BAILY, who remarked upon the commercial aspect
of the question, that by taking old buildings, alter-
ing them, and adapting them for suitable dwelling
places for the poor, 5 per cent. might be secured on
the outlay, and that upon freehold securities.
On the motion of Mr. Spurling, seconded by the
Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, who stated that five thousand
poor persons would be dispossessed of their homes
between this and October on the site of the proposed
new law courts, and drew attention to the evils
which overcrowding must occasion at such a season
as the present, thanks were voted to the chairman,
who, in acknowledging, said he had received letters
regretting their inability to attend from the Bishop
of London, Lord Ebury, and Lord C. Bruce. He
then referred to the munificent gift of Mr. Peabody,
and expressed the desire of the people of this coun-
try to reciprocate ; and in urging the claims of this
society, observed that there was no greater obstacle
to the social, moral, and intellectual improvement
of the population than the domiciliary condition in
which they were allowed to remain. He added that
one result of the displacement of the dwellings of the
poor to make room for railways and other improve-
ments was to increase rents so much that families
who used to have two or more rooms were now
crowded into one, and had to pay for that one as
much as they formerly paid for two, and the evil was
increasing to such an extent that the ultimate effect
was fearful to contemplate.

TIIE ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPHANS.--The. new
asylum for female orphans was opened at Bedding-
ton, near Croydon, yesterday, by the Duke of Cambridge,
K.G., the president of the institution. After the arrival
of his Royal Highness, who was received by the vice-pre-
sidents, the committee, and the secretary, he proceeded to
the building, accompanied by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the Bishop of Winchester. Mr. W. H. Stone,
M.P., then read an address, in which he referred to the his-
tory of the institution. Ho stated that since it was estab-
lished in 1758 it had provided a homo,and a useful and
Christian education for 2,874 orphan girls. At the time of
its first foundation the situation of the asylum at Lambeth
was, no doubt, well suited for its purpose, but the enormous
extension of London during late years had produced such
changes in the neighbourhood as to render it in several
respects inconvenient for an institution of this idnd. Tho
committee and guardians decided upon the removal of the
children to a new situation in the country; and with that
view they purchased the estate and mansion of Bedding-
ton, a former residence of the Carew family. The man-
sion had been successfully converted into an asylum capable
of containing 200 children, with abundant space and venti-
lation, and all the advantages afforded by the best modern
construction. Tho value of the old site at Lambeth,
together with the surplus land which might be disposed of
at Beddington, would, it was hoped, cover the whole ex-
pense which had been incurred in the removal. On en-
tering the large hall, one of the most remarkable parts of
the mansion, an old Tudor building, which has been re-
stored and extended with great taste, the children and
company, accompanied by the band of the Grenadier
Guards, sang the National Anthem. A dejeunen at which
various toascs were proposed, closed the proceedings.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] -Da Barry's delicious and health-
resto.ing Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three
times the nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its
cost in other remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong
nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, func-
tional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or en-
feebled, removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dys-
pepsia?, habitual constipation, diarrhcea, hemorrhoids, liver
complaints, flatulency, ne. vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore
throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and
ears, rheumatism, goat, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu-
ralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heart-
burn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea,
and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, inci-
pient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at
the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. Certi-
ficate No. 29,410. We -find it the safest remedy. Andrew
Ure, P.R.& ; Dr Harvey; Dr Wurzer ; Dr Shorland;
Dr Campbell. We quote a few out of the 62,0 0 cures -Cure
No. 57,314. Tittenson - I cannot express my gratitude for
the benefit I have derived from Du Barry's food. My ap-
petite is perfectly restored, the pains in my leg, back, and
chest arc quite gone, and I am fast gaining strength and
flesh. Mrs A. Owen.—Cure No. 51,812. Miss Vtrginia
Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advisers
abandoned all hopes of recovery.- Cure No. 49,532. Of fifty
years' indescribable agony fret-a dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at
the stomach, and vomiting. Maria Joly, Wortham, Ling, near
Diss, Norfolk.-Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of
NasingVicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervous-
ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies
In tins, ilb, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 63; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 228; 211 b,
No.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dialers, 8, King William-street ; likewise
at 61, Oracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate-
street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 830, Strand ;
54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96,
Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and she-
mists.—Beware of spurious imitations.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.--At last the telegraph brings us news that
the armies of the two great German Powers have
met on the field of battle. The centre of the Prus-
sian army has, as our readers know, crossed the
Austrian frontier within the last few days at the
eastern extremity of Saxony, and advanced on
Reichenberg and Turnau, while the left wing, under
the command of the Crown Prince, extending from
Landshut to Neisse, entered north-eastern Bohemia
in force. Both these great divisions of the Prussian
army have now engaged the enemy. There has been
an encounter near Turnau, in which the Prussians
are said to have been victorious, taking prisoners
seven Austrian officers and 500 men. But this
success will be more than counterbalanced by the
disaster which appears to have befallen the Prussians
at Silesia. The various accounts received by tele-
graph made it uncertain at what point the Crown
Prince intended seriously to invade the Austrian
territory. The Prussians were heard of at Oder-
berg and Oswiecin, at the extreme south-east of
Silesia ; they were in possession of Zuckmantel
and Friedberg, having crossed the frontier oppo-
site Neisse, and they were also operating further
to the north-west. As we anticipated, it is at a
point not too distant from the centre of their line
that they have entered in force the Austrian
territory. The centre of the Austrian line is sup-
posed to have extended from about Turnau to
Josephstadt, and it is with the main body of Bene-
dek's army that the Prussians have been engaged
in this the first German battle of the war. The mili-
tary pride of Austria may well be soothed by the
event. In four days two battles have been won, and
the invading armies of her two adversaries driven
from the field. All we know of the battle is, that it
was fought on Austrian ground, between Joseph-
stadt and the frontier. The troops engaged advanced
through Nachod and Neustadt to Skalicz, which
is within ten miles of Josephstadt, and here we may
suppose they were met by the Austrians in force.
The battle began at ten o'clock yesterday morning,
and lasted till six in the evening. The Prussians
were repulsed from Skalicz, the Austrian cavalry
taking part in the action; and the Prussians were at
the close of the day, according to the telegraphic
despatch, in full retreat, leaving their dead and
wounded on the field. Such is the success which the
Austrian arms are said to have achieved. It may be
exaggerated by a partial report, but there is in it
nothing improbable. Field Marshal Benedek may
have shown that if the Austrians have allowed their
opponents to gain signal advantages at the beginning
of the campaign it has not been for want of ability in
their commander. The promptitude of the Prussians
has gained for Berlin the supremacy of Northern
Germany, but the inactivity of the Austrians, from
whatever cause it has arisen, may at last have given
them a triumph over their too confident opponents.
We do not know the designs of the Prussian generals,
nor what have been the dispositions of their forces;
but it is difficult to believe that any good strategical
purpose can be served by an invasion of Bohemia.
The people are not German, they are sufficiently
attached to Austrian rule, and they are above all
things anti-Prussian. Any dislike they may feel for
the Germans of the South is a faint sentiment when
compared with the antipathy they bear to their
neighbours across the mountains. No moral effect
could therefore be produced by capturing positions
in this essentially hostile territory. The Prussians
could never conciliate or even conquer the Bohemian
population. The only object, then, that an able com-
mander could propose to himself would be to anti-
cipate Benedek's invasion by attacking the Austrian
army on its own territory. And in this he might
feel some diffidence. Where the Great Frederick
failed it is hardly given to another to succeed. Bo-
hemia is a country offering many positions for de-
fence ; it is strengthened with fortresses which have
been carefully repaired within the last few months ;
and the line of railway through Moravia to Vienna
allows men and materials of war to be sent to any
point of the frontier that may be threatened. The
Austrians, too, have had large experience in de-
fensive warfare. Even when their organisation was
most defective they fought great battles against the
most active and spirited soldiers of the Continent.
The student of their campaigns against either Napo-
leon knows that they have always been stubborn
enemies, who might be borne down by French
energy, but were hardly likely to succumb to brother
Germans. These things might well have made the
Prussian Generals hesitate in such a scheme as the
invasion of Bohemia. It may be that their purpose
was to get possession of the lines of railway which
place Prague and the Saxon frontier in communica-
tion with Vienna, and thus to take a better hold of
their new conquest. But, whatever the plan may
have been, it seems to have been defeated. After a
doubtful campaign the Prussians would have to re-
tire from Bohemia, probably at all points, and leave
the Austrian commander to mature his own plans
unmolested. In Northern and Western Germany
matters look more favourable for Prussia, though
the battle of yesterday may have its effect on all
classes, raising the spirit of the Federal party and
discouraging the Prussian alliance. But the ad-
vantages gained by the Berlin Government cannot
be easily impaired. One of the strangest incidents
of the war has been the effort of the Hanoverian
army to escape, and the uncertainty which has pre-
vailed as to its fate. The last news was that a capi •
tulation would be effected, and that the greater part,
if not the whole, of the army would surrender and
be disbanded. Prussia, it was said, had again offered.
the King an alliance, with a guarantee for his pos-
session of the Throne, on the basis of Federal Re-
form. The King will neglect his own interests if
any family or dynastic pride prevents him from ac-
cepting this offer. Whatever may be the military
events of the war, it can hardly be doubted that the
old Confederation is at an end, and that Northern
Germany, at least, must be united under the leadership
of Prussia. All the tendencies of the age are in favour
of unity, and the monarchy of Berlin may justly look
upon time as its ally. The longer the war lasts the less
is it likely that the minor Sovereigns can be restored
to their old state and independence. The shock of
hostilities and the pressure of calamities will destroy
the minor Courts and Bureaucracies of Germany.
They can only prolong their existence under other
conditions, and by leaning on the Power which has
shown that not one of them has the strength to
maintain its own independence for 24 hours. There
is as yet no movement in the Federal army, to the
command of which Prince Charles of Bavaria has
been appointed by the Federal Diet. It may be
presumed that the choice of a commander has been
dictated by the desire to attach the Bavarians as
firmly as possible to the cause. This State can
bring at once 50,000 men into the field, and in a
few days the Federal army will amount to not less
than twice that number. It remains to be seen what
effect the Austrian success will have on the minds
of the people whose Governments maintain the alli-
ance with Vienna.
POST.—The Russell-Gladstone Administration,
when it comes to have its history written, will run
the risk of having said of it, as was said of Charles
1., that the most graceful act of its life was its death.
Nothing could be at once in better temper and taste
than the short speech in which Mr. Gladstone an-
nounced on 'Tuesday the final decision which had
been arrived at, and it is impossible to avoid the re-
flection that if former speeches from the same quar-
ter had partaken more of the same character we
might even now have been in presence of a Reform
Bill passed and a Government saved, instead of
having to lament over the ashes of both bill and Go-
vernment. The House of Commons is a peculiarly
sensitive assembly, and it is easy to conceive that
the assumption of a somewhat dictatorial tone
towards it—and that not only in the manner of
proceeding but in the matter which was forced
upon its reluctant attention—has had much to do
with the astonishing reaction which has driven from
office a Government starting with so much promise,
and commanding so large a majority as the mori-
bund Administration which is now only await-
ing the appointment of its successors to retire
from the direction of public affairs. The names
of which it was composed, although wanting in
such mighty towers of strength as those of Sidney
Herbert and Cornewall Lewis, which shed so much
lustre upon it in former days, were undoubtedly
those which commanded the greatest respect and
represented the greatest power among the whole
Liberal party. With the traditional name of Rus-
sell in one house, and the increasing name of Glad-
stone in the other, it could boast of leaders second
in most qualities to none who have ever preceded
them. To Lord Clarendon we are indebted for the
maintenance of a discreet, and, at the same time, a
dignified foreign policy which has done something
by no means inconsiderable towards the rehabilita-
tion of our much-decayed influence on the Conti-
nent, and especially towards the cultivation of in-
creased good feeling between this country and the
French Empire. The Duke of Somerset, with a
love of work and an application to details which are
rare among those of much lower rank, has carried
out that reconstruction of our navy of which Sir J.
Pakington only talked ; Lord Cranworth has main-
tained unsullied the honour of the Chancellorship,
and lilted it as worthily as his known ability and
experience led the public to expect ; and, in addi-
tion to this, such men as Mr. Villiers and Mr. Mil-
ner Gibson not only brought to the Cabinet busi-
ness habits and great special aptitude for the work
of their own departments, but also represented the
great and growing power of the advanced section
havei
ncrecaosmede
of the Liberal party. We cannot but feel regret
by
that a Ministry so constituted ttuhtaet regretdshou is should
untimely
yon thaneantdi and
occasion of it need not have
theso urnetf
existed at all had Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone
but refrained from pressing upon colleagues who

were certainly lukewarm, if not adverse towards the
sulkject, their determination to attack the question
of eform, or even if, having attacked it, they
could have had the generosity and justice to
treat the House of Commons wifh more frankness
and consideration. Mr. Gladstone's speech of
Tuesday would appear to indicate that the lesson
has not been lost upon him, and we confidently
look for its effect when he next assumes the
leadership of the house. In a Constitution like
ours, not only the abilities but also the tempers of
our political leaders are of vital importance ; and
when, as in course of time he must do, Mr. Glad-
stone succeeds to the chief position in his party, wo
doubt not that he will habitually exercise that con-
trol over his temper which at times, under pecu-
liarly :trying circumstances, he has shown himself
to possess. Lord Derby having been sent for by
her Majesty, there is no reasonable doubt that he
will succeed in forming an Administration—and
although the materials with which he has to work
may not be easily adaptable to the task in hand, the
Conservatives have been out of office too long not
to try their hand. At any rate the first difficulty
that must present itself will be the choice of a
Foreign Minister capable of worthily replacing, at
so difficult a juncture, Lord Clarendon. The chiefs
of the Adullamite party, who have really brought
the Conservatives in, will not, however, it is under-
stood, join them, more ostensibly than at present,
but will so far support them as to stand between
them and the Opposition, to prevent them from
being unduly harassed, though how far precisely
they may be inclined to go in defence of Tory prin-
ciples still remains to be seen; and, judging from
past experience, they may possibly at no distant
time prove as dangerous to their new friends as they
have been to their old. The new Administration
will have the advantage of coming into power at
the fag-end of the session, and consequently may
be considered as safe until the meeting of Parlia-
ment next year. It would not, indeed, be loyal or
fair in those who have been compelled to abandon
the reins of power themselves to harass those who
take them up without giving them some chance of
showing their capabilities. The same reasons which
were recognised as being so weighty as against a
change of Government at this time will be of equal
force as against a second change, and the forbear-
ance which should be shown to any Government
now taking office should be great. The Liberals
have had a long lease of power, and can well afford
to be magnanimous for the present. When Parlia-
ment meets again it will be fair and proper enough
to have a trial of strength. In the meantime, the
propriety of abstaining from anything like factious
opposition to whatever Government may be formed
is apparent, and will, we doubt not, be fully recog-
nised by those who find themselves in the unaccus-
tomed places of opposition.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NEIVCASTLE-ON-TYNE-TUESDAY.

At our market this morning there was a small supply of
English wheat, and a moderate quantity from abroad.
English wheat found buyers at an advance of from 2s. to
35., and fine foreign of from is. to 2s. per qr. on this day
week. But the trade was not so active as on Saturday
and secondary descriptions of foreign moved off slowly at
an improvement of barely ls. per qr. For very fine old
English 595. were made. Barley and oats were the turn
dearer. Malt was firm. Beans and peas were unchanged.
Flour 3s. to 4s. per sack dearer. There was a moderate
supply at Hexham market to day, and prices were chocked
by the high rates asked. The quotations would be about
2s. per qr. in advance of last week. There was a small
supply of oats, and the demand was good at an improve-
ment of 2s. per qr.