The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

THE NA VY.

Commodore the Hon. James R. Drummond, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and Superintendent
of Woolwich Dockyard, yesterday hoisted his flag
on board the receiving ship Fisgard, at Woolwich,
and presided on board that vessel at a Court of
Inquiry.

Her Majesty's steam store transport Rhadaman-
thus, Master-Commandant Sturdee, was yesterday
undocked at Woolwich, after a thorough course of
general repairs. The Prometheus, Harracouta, and
Icarus are also completed and ready for trial.
The screw steamsloop Racer, Commander the
Hon. Thomas A. Pakenham, in Plymouth Sound,
discharged her powder on. Sunday morning, pre-
paratory to going up Hamoaze for the purpose of
being docked.

The screw steamship St. Jean d'Aere, 101, is to
be commissioned at Plymouth with a complement
of 900 men.

The permission for leave of absence to Sir Thos.
S. Pasley, Admiral-Superintendent of. the Devon-
port Dockyard, has-been cancelled.

The troopship Cospatrick, which sailed on Friday
with detachments for the East Indies, put back on
Sunday to Plymouth Sound.

The Curacoa, 31, screw, Captain T. H. Mason,
will leave Portsmouth harbour on the 3d instant,
and anchor at Spithead, to receive shot and shell,
and await orders to proceed on her diplomatic
mission to New York with Lord Lyas and suite.
The Perseverance, 6, iron screw troop frigate,
Commander Edward It. Power, and Urgent, 6, iron
screw troop frigate, Commander John W. D.
11‘Donald, are both coaling alongside the dockyard
at Portsmouth, and will shortly receive on board
troops for Malta and the Mediterranean.
The Virago, 6, paddle, Commander M. B. Dunn,
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday, to land
the remainder of the Tipperary Artillery Militia
from Cork. She sailed in the afternoon from Purts-
mouth to the westward.

Captain Harry Pyres, C. 8., commanding St.
Vincent, 102, ordinary guard ship at Portsmouth,
has recovered, we are happy to learn, from his late
indisposition, and has gone on three weeks' leave
of absence, after which he will resume his official
duties.

Commodore Eden, C. 8., controller-general of the
coastguard, having his broad pendant in the Argus,
screw steamer, Commodore Grandy, arrived at Fal-
mouth on Friday on an official visit to the Russell
and the Naval Coast Volunteer Department under
his orders.

Lieut. F. 11. Hastings is appointed to the Excel-
lent, and not to the Exmouth.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:—
Commander—N. F. Hewett, to the Viper.
Lieutenants—Geo. Douglas, to be Flag-Lieutenant to
Rear-Admiral Hope ; C. 0. H. P. St. John, to the St. Jean
d'Aere ; Charles J. Wray, Charles J. Rowley, U. C. Sin-
gleton, and William Johnston, to ditto; Cuthbert Lo Me-
surier and Alex. Butler, to the Hogue.
Masters—C. R. P. Forbes to the St. Jean d'Aere ; Thos.
R. Collingwood (additional) to the Exmouth; Charles
Gahan (additional) to ditto.

Second Maste'r Frederick J. Ray, to the Vesuvius.
Paymaster George W. Pickthorn, to the St. Jean
d' Acre.

Clerks—Henry W. Andrews and Alfred P. Cox to the
St. Jean d'Acre.

Assistant Clerk—Thomas, W. Cleave to the St. Jean
d' Acre.

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.

General.—R. S. Brough, Royal Artillery.
Major Generals.—Major Mitchell, Unattached ;
H. J. Wood, C. 8., H.M. Indian Forces.
Colonel.—W. H. Robinson, Unattached.
Lieutenant-Colonels.—C. Holden, Unattached ;
J. P. Hart, late 11th Foot.

Majors.—Wm. Anderson, 2d West India Regi-
ment; G. Langdou, retired, full pay, Royal Ma-
rines ; W. Ford, ditto ; John T. Tucker, ditto ; E.
Sheppard, half pay, Royal Artillery.
Captains.—Fred. Wm. Goldfrap, 18th Dragoons ;
Sir Chas. Des Voeux, Bart., half-pay 63d Foot;
David Gordon, half-pay sth West India Regiment;
James Girdlestone, Unattached ; John Inman, do. ;
Joseph Triscott, half-pay Royal Marines ; Alex.
Eckford, ditto ; Arthur Onslow Lake Lewis, half-
pay Royal Marines.
Lieutenants.—Robert Harding, Bth Dragoons,
adjutant, of wounds ; Edward Hales, 19th Foot, at
sea, on passage to England ; Lucas Waring, 24th
Foot; George Pinckney, 73d Foot; Win. Maclean,
80th Foot ; James Blagg, 91st Foot ; Henry Percy
Tillard, Royal Artillery ; Wm. Taylor Cathcart,
ditto ; Alexander Smith, half-pay 42d Foot ; Geo.
Dunlevie, half-pay 83d Foot ; Lewis Kerchner,
half-pay Ist Light Dragoons, King's German
Legion ; Thomas Bonner, half-pay Corsican Regi-
ment ; John Roberts, half-pay Royal Artillery
Drivers ; James Dusautoy, retired full-pay Royal
Marines ; Duncan Campbell, half-pay ditto ; John
Nicholas Fischer, ditto ; James Cassel, ditto ; Robt.
Saxby, ditto ; James Walker, ditto; Robert Wil-
son, ditto ; Frederick Parker, ditto ; Samuel Cox,
ditt6 ; John Alexander, ditto ; Henry Arnold, do.;
John James Douglas, ditto.
Ensigns—William Parry Jones, 10th Foot ;
Henry Aug. Knopp, half-pay 2d Light Infantry
King's German Legion.
Second Lieutenants—Augustus Hailes, half-pay
Royal Marines ; Samuel Hugoe, ditto ; Richard
Sargent, ditto.
BrigadeQ uai't e; r mR aosbtteerrs .E— l
a
half-pay
; Alexander Harrison, half-pay Ist
half-pay-paayyßßoyiflael
Garri-
son Battalion.

Commissary General—Sir Randolph I. Routh,
K.C.8., half pay.
Deputy Commissary General—Wm. Heyward,
half pay.
Assistant Commissary General—Jas. Lane, half

a
p Deputy Assistant Commissary General—Thomas
Peter Marter, half pays

Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals—W.
Cruikshank, M.D.

Surgeons—S. G. Lawrance, half pay, first class;
T. Cowan, M.D., 94th Foot ; P. Clark, staff; J. N.
Shelley, half pay Ist Greek Light Infantry.
Chaplain—Rev. H. Irwin, half pay Royal Artil-
lery.

the Royal Artillery Barracks' -Woolwich. The pri.
' soner, a driver belonging to the H Battery, Royal
Artillery, named Henry Smith, quartered at the
encampment on Woolwich-common, had been con-
victed by a board of officers of gross and insubor-
nate conduct, tending to subvert the discipline
of the service, and was condemned to receive
fifty lashes, and to be imprisoned in Fort Clarence
for the term of eighty-four days. It is stated
that he is one of those obstinate characters on whom
all other punishment short of the extreme seve-
rity resorted to yesterday has failed to produce
a profitable result. On a recent occasion he per;
versely refused to perform his stable duties, and
when brought before the officer commanding the
battery he defied his authority, and swore that no
amount of threat or punishment should subdue him
to submission. After receiving the 50 lashes the
prisoner was taken to the infirmary, and on his re-
covery he ;will be removed to Fort Clarence to
to undergo the remainder of his punishment.
Mrs. Seacole, of Crimean celebrity, visited several
of the military and naval heroes doing duty at
Sheerness on Friday and Saturday last. She
received a hearty and kind Welcome from the
garrison officer:, whose quarters she made her home
during her stay. She purposes in a few days pay-
ing a visit to the officers of the navy, many of
whom now in port partook of her creature comforts
while in the Crimea. Previous to her arrival at
Sheerness she visited Chatham Barracks and Mel-
, ville Hospital, at which places she was received
with the best feelings by the officers and men.
Many of the heroes of the Crimea surrounded her
and cheered her most enthusiastically.
ROYAL • ENGINEERS.—Orders from the War
Office were received yesterday at Brompton for
Lieut. W. Bailey and .11 non-commissioned officers
and privates to proceed to Southampton, to embark
on Friday, the 4th Feb., on board the mail steam-
packet Norman for the Cape of Good Hope, for
making a geographical survey of that British pos-
session. There is another party under orders to
proceed to the West India Islands for similar duty ;
and another surveying party, ,with officers, arc
ordered to proceed to India.
MEDICAL OFFICERS FOR INDlA.—Staff Assistant
Surgeon G. Park, M.D., and Staff Assistant Sur-

geon Duncan, M.D., will leave the General Hos-
pital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, on Thursday, to embark
on board the mail steampacket for Alexandria, to
proceed overland to India ; and Assistant Surgeon
It. Lindsay, M. 8., from, the staff, is under orders to
proceed to Canada to join the 39th Regiment, vice
A. M. Humphrey, M.D., cashiered by a general
court-martial held on the 14th December last.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND.-
LAYING THE FIRST STORE.

(From rue Freeman's Journal.)

The ceremony of laying the first stone of the
National Gallery of Ireland was performed on
Saturday afternoon by his Excellency the Lord
Lieutenant, in the presence of a numerous and dis-
tinguished company. The weather was very unfa-
vourable ; nevertheless, the importance of the
occasion brought together a larger assemblage than
was expected under the circumstances, and fortu-
nately the rain haying cleared off towards three
o'clock, the ceremony was carried out with but little
inconvenience to those engaged in it. We congra-
tulate the citizens of Dublin upon the beginning
that has just been made of a work of great national
importance. When the building, of which the
Viceroy has laid the first stone, shall have been
erected—and we believe that the work will be
pushed forward with all due diligence and speed—
the capital of Ireland will be relieved from the
reproach of having no public gallery of art, no
national collection of pictures, for the instruction as
well as the recreation of the people.
A large number of ladies and gentlemen had
assembled before three o'clock in the board room of
the Royal Dublin Society House, where the formal
proceedings were to commence, by the presentation
to the Lord Lieutenant of the address of the gover-
nors and guardians of the National Gallery of
Ireland. Amongst those present were—The Lord
Mayor and the Misses Kilbee, the Lord Justice of
Appeal, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare,
Lady Seaton and the Misses Colborne, Lord Talbot
de Malahide, Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon
and Miss D'Arcy Irvine, the Hon. Sir Francis
Stanhope, Lord Win. Fitzgerald, Sir George and
Lady Hodson, Sir R. Griffith, the Right Hon.
Maziere and the Misses Brady, Mr. C. Stronge,
Doctor Petrie, Rev. Dr, Todd, Dr. Mackessy ; and
the Mayor of Waterford.

At three o'clock precisely his Excellency arrived
at the Society-house, accompanied by Major Bagot,
Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Mr. Everard, the Hon. C.
Haribury, Capt. Wigran, A.D.C., and the Hon. C.
Lindsay, A.D.C. He was received by the guardians
and governors of the new institution, and conducted
to the board-room, where he assumed the presiden-

tial chair.
Mr. GEO. F. MULL. 1N hon. sec., then came
forward, and read an address, of which the follow-
ing is a portion :—" The governors and guardians
of the National Gallery of Ireland have made the
mistake of too cheaply estimating the probable cost
of the work, and have found that the funds by
which it was originally contemplated that the
building could have been erected fell far short of
the necessary amount. Those funds amounted to
the sum of Xll,OOO, £6,000 of which was supplied
by parliamentary votes in the years 1855 and 1856,
and £5,000 contributed by the committee of the
subscription collected at the close of the Great Ex-
hibition, held on this lawn in the year 1853, a sub.
scription designed to commemorate the distin-
guished public services of William Dargan, Esq.,
in connection with that exhibition. After consi-
derable time had been occupied in the consideration
of plans and designs for the gallery it was found
that a much larger sum was required, and it became
necessary to obtain the sanction of the Lords of
the Treasury to az application to parliament for a
further grant. Such an application was accordingly
made for the additional sum of £12,000. The en-
deavours of the governorstop rocure this sanction
time,
occupied a much longerbut at last, in the
spring of 1858, the justice of the claim was re-
cognised, and an additional sum of £5,000 has been
voted towards this object in the last session of par-
liament. With funds thus at present augmented
the building trustees ;have thought they may
safely proceed in the erection of the gallery.
The designs and plans of it have been finally Lir-.
ranged under the sanction of the Board
d of Trade
and their inspector for science and arts,
of by the public bodies whose concurrenceai is approved
required
by the act of parliament—namely, the Trustees of
4imate Marsh's Library, and the governors and
guardians of the National Gallery ; they have also
been approved by the Committee of the Dargan
Subscription Fund, by the Council of the Royal
Dublin Society, and on the part of the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, under whom the lawn is holden.
The external elevation of the building will corre-
spond with that of the New Museum of the Royal
Dublin Society, recently erected on the south side
of the lawn. Internally the National Gallery
building will comprise on the ground floor a sculp-
ture hall, to be designated the Dargan Hall, of 114
feet in length by 40 in breadth and 22 in height,
and a library apartment of 91 feet by 40; at the
end of the sculpture hall a double flight of stairs
will lead to the great picture gallery of 126 feet in

C
g by in breadth ' Ipat
lower library room will be div
-the first or middle story of this part of the building
comprising a second 'library apartment with some
official rooms. The upper story, to which an
.entrance 'open from the great picture gallery,
will consist of four lesser galleries for the small
sized and cabinet pictures, each being of the dimen-
sions of 36 feet by 20 and 22 feet in height. The
library apartments are destined for the reception
_ of the very important public library, founded and
endowed 1 y Archbishop -Narcissus Marsh in the
year 1694, and it is hoped that by its removal to
this central position, and by further accessions of
more modern publications, this -library will become
of much more value to the literary and scientific
students, and to the general public-of Dublin, than
it :could ever be expected to prove in its present
comparatively secluded locality, and from the
deficiency of means which it has long laboured
under for the annual increase of its -collections.
The galleries will afford ample space-for the display
of larger collections of works of art than may at the
first be available.
His
lEjoxrdcsELLEdxGeYenrtelepinlicendlni Deceive with
greatternis
pleasure the address which you present to
me on the part of the governors and guardians
of the National Gallery of Ireland, and it is
the more gratifying to me when I find that the
office which I hold in the Royal Dublin Society
constitutes me a member of your body ; although
I assure you it was without the knowledge of that
fact I responded to the call made upon me on this
Occasion. It is to be regretted that the various
difficulties under which you laboured should have
retarded the progress of this great national under-
taking; but I am glad to be informed that the
funds now collected arc sufficient to justify you in
commencing operations, although they may not be
adequate to all the requirements which a scheme of
such magnitude necessarily involves. From your
'description it appears that the buildings will be
worthy of the site and the object for which it is
intended, and I trust that both externally and --s -
ternally it will prove a fitting testimonial to the
generosity and patriotism of Mr. Dargan, and a
lasting monument of the magrsifirent temporary
structure which was erected under his auspices.
cannot doubt that an institution such as this, by
supplying a want which has been so long felt, will
be of the greatest benefit to the student of art in
the city generally as well as to those.of the Royal
Dublin Society, within whose precincts it is placed,
and I trust it will receive that liberalsupport from
the public of which it is so highly deserving.
His Excellency and the members of the viceregal
household then proceed to the lawn, -where the ne-
cessary arrangements had been made for laying the
first stone of the new institution, the site of which
was marked by an oblong cut in the sward, run-
ning parallel to the building on the oppsite side of
the lawn. It was already trenched in several places
for the foundation works, and from a temporary
scaffold was suspended by chains the large block of
granite, the setting of which was to be performed
under the supervision of the Lord Lieutenant. The
ceremony took place at half-past three o'clock, and,
as the weather bad cleared up, witnessed by the
entire of the assemblage mentioned above. A glass
globe containing a circular copper plate on one side
of which was engraved "National Gallery of Ire-
land,"and the names of the governors and guardians,
and on the obverse, " The firststone laid by the Earl
of Eglinton and Winton, Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, 20th Jan., 1859," was placed in a cavity, and
covered with mortar. Sir R. Griffith, Bart., with some
appropriate observations, handed to his Excellency
a silver trowel, richly chased, and on which was
engraved the following inscription :—" Presented
by the governors and guardians of the National
Gallery of Ireland to his Excellency Archibald
William Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland; on the occasion of the first stone
of the Gallery being laid by his Excellency on
Leinster Lawn, the 29th January, 1859." His Ex-
cellency, with the trowel, smoothed the mortar ;
the stone was then lowered into its place, and, when
fixed, his Excellency, with a small mallet presented
to him for the purpose, struck it several blows
amidst loud cheers, and immediately afterwards
used the plumb to ascertain whether the setting •
was straight, which it proved to be. The band,
with a guard of honour from the Lanark Militia
Regiment stationed on the lawn immediately played
"God. save the Queen."
His EXCELLENCY said-711y lords and gentlemen,
•
in laying the foundation-stone of the National Gal-
lery of Ireland, I may be pardoned for making a
few observations with respect to the events in which
the project originated, and the purposes for which
it was intended. I think that, in addition to the
right which my. official position gives me on this
occasion, I have another claim to be sthe .mouth-
piece of the public. It is about six years since in
this place, and I believe almost on this very site, I
performed the same ceremony for the Great Exhi-
bition building-s-an enterprise which reflected the
highest honour on those who supported it, and
brought into more prominent notice even than be-
fore the name of the man who had conferred the
greatest benefits on Ireland previously, but whose
generosity and patriotism on that occasion will
never be forgotten by his countrymen. When the
doubts and difficulties appeared almost insunnount
able, Mr. Dargan came forward, guaranteed all
expenses, removed all difficulties, and enabled you
to display a show which attracted the critical eye
of Royalty itself, and to which not only the noble,
the rich, and the educated thronged, but the poor,
the artisan, and the labourer—all, in short, except
him who presided at its birth, and who, very
much against his own wish, was prevented from
witnessing its matured glories. (Loud applause.)
It was out of that great enterprise that this arose,
and I am happy to find myself again assisting in
the commencement of another great undertaking,
which, although not so gigantic in its proportions
or so varied in its details as the other, will, I trust, .
prove of permanent benefit to the country, and an
ornament to this city. When this project is finished
what a combination of the useful and beautiful
shall we not have here ! In the main building and
in its western face we have libraries, schools, halls
for lectures, and an agricultural museum; and on
the southern face the treasures of general art,
which, spreading beyond the
general limits des-
tined for them, have been within the last year, I
believe, communicate with the building erect e_d on
the other side. But this only was wanted. Ireland
had no national exhibition. The gratitude of the
M
people was exemplified by a large. subscription. for
could
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was
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then determined upon, and it was settled that the
library bequeathed by Archbishop Marsh should
be brought here from the obscurer part of the city
in which it had hitherto been placed. The various
interests connected with the operation's were
arranged, and here is the result. I have only now,
therefore, to wish all success and prosperity to the
National Gallery of Ireland, and I trust we shall
soon see erected in this place a building worthy of
the objects for which it is destined. (Cheers.)
Lord TALBOT DE MALAiIiDE said that before the
meeting -separated he wished to express, on the
part of the governors and guardians, their sense of
gratitude for the honour conferred upon them by
his Excellency in presiding over the proceedings
of the day. His Excellency had so appropriately •
stated the history of the National Gallery of Ire-
land, that it was quite unnecessary to. say anything
additional on the subject; but he (Lord Talbot de
Malahide) begged to say that the anxiety of his
Excellency to forward the industrial and general
interest of Ireland was well known, and he confessed
he had always admired the zeal and alacrity with
which, if he might be allowed to use the expression,
his xcellency came forward to stimulate and en-
courage their enterprises. He begged again to
express, on the part of the governors and guardians
of the National Gallery of Ireland, their gratitude
to his Excellency for the great assistance and en-
couragement which he had that day given to their
work. (Applause.)
•
The proceedings then terminated.

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THE SUN.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1859.

Austria now regards England with peculiar
favour ; and, as a mark of its special benevolence,
is willing to accept the nice little sum of £6,000,000
sterling—say six millions—at the hands of the
gentlemen of the Stock Exchange. Some years
since it was threatened that they would be excluded
from any participation in the loan then about to
be contracted, and some accordingly were hooked,
for there is nothing so tempting to a party whose
" money burns in his pocket," as the affectation of
indifference--a little well-acted coyness on the part
of the really eager would-be borrower. The result
was, that a large amount of English gold was trans-
mitted to Vienna, which doubtless had some effect in
producing the subsequent derangement in our
own money market. It was one at least of many
co-operating causes, for it was clearly proved that
our " good friend and ally," who
(!)
whodisplayed such
chivalrous and daringgallantry
and disinte-
rested generosity (!) during the war in the Crimea,
was largely increasing the stock of precious metals
in the Bank of Vienna at our expense.
The kindness of Austria does not, however,
appear to be duly appreciated in Lombard-street
or Capel-court. The capitalists of the former
steadily button up their pockets and display an
unequivocal determination not to part with their
money without being thoroughly satisfied as to .the
nature and validity of the proposed securities;
while, mirabile dietu, even the jobbers refuse to
" make a price" or establish a quotation, save at so
wide a margin as to effectually prohibit any, even
nominal, transactions. Austrian stocks were never
looked on as very favourite investments, even
when there were no clouds lowering in the political
atmosphere ; and although the dealers are not -very
scrupulous, provided they can realise a handsome
profit, that is a matter that touches them in the
most tender point. They do not, in fact, see their way
sufficiently clearly to speculate in the new busi-
ness, and will not, therefore, accept it at any price,
or engage in it on any terms;

There are other grounds higher than mere pecu-
niary considerations which should induce every
conscientious capitalist to abstain from intermed-
thing in the affair. It may, by providing Austria
with the sinews
of war, lead to a sanguinary and
expensive War, that would reduce the stocks and
funds of every European Government to a far
greater extent than the losses occasioned by
the reckless address of
LOUIS NAPOLEON,
or the better-considered but no less dan
gerous, speech of VICTOR EmMANUEL and the
accomplished sacrifice of the poor little
Princess CLOTILDE. The advance of £6
,000,000
may lead to further losses, amounting to twice the
amount ten timestold. It is manifest. that Austria
must make important concessions if the loan be
rejected. She must give additional privileges to
the Lombardo-Venetians at all events, and probably
to others of the oppressed Nationalities," and
those lending her money under the circumstances
would not only have the guilt of Woodshed on their

souls, but would aid and assist in revetting
the chains of despotism on the suffering
peoples, and prevent them from obtaining the
ameliorations in their condition which they have
now some reason to anticipate. It is certainly
said that Austria had intended raising the money
in the latter end of December, and that the avowed
object was to pay off X 5,000,000 ; but can any one for
a moment suppose that if the money were paid into
the Imperial Exchequer and was required for State
purposes, that any such intention would be fulfilled
" Credat (Adam apella non ego," or, to use our
own vulgar phrase, " that story must be told to the
marines."

Besides, Austria already owes two hundred mil-
lions of pounds, and her revenue is derived from
scattered territories, that may at any time be cut
off, and a large proportion of her income lost. She
must maintain an expensive army; and, inasmuch
as she has been unable to pay her way in time of
profound peace and under the most favourable
circumstances, it is scarcely probable that the most
confiding capitalist will be disposed to assist her in
increasing the burden, which is more than she can
at present sustain.

The Statesman who expired on Friday at his
residence, on Putney-heath, although once upon a
time, as Premier of England, the chief ruler of the
mightiest empire upon this globe, had long sunk
into obscurity, and was literally either utterly
unknown to, or forgotten by, the present genera-
tion, yet very little more than thirty years have really
elapsed since the date when he held this supreme
post in the land as First Lord of the Treasury.

The Right Hon. FREDERICK JOHN ROBINSON,
created in 1827 Viscount GODERICH, and in 1833
Earl of RIPON, was born more than eighty-six years
ago—the second son of THOMAS, second Baron
GRANTHAM, of Grantham, in Lincolnshire. The late
Earl of RIPON'S elder brother (who was created
Earl DE GREY as far back as 1816) still survives at
the advanced age of eighty-seven. The noble lord,
hitherto popularly known by his courtesy title as
Viscount GODERICH, M.P. for Huddersfield, was,
until last week, heir to two earldoms, to that of DE
GREY as heir presumptive, to that of RIPON as heir
apparent. To the latter he has now succeeded
upon the death of a father who was formerly as
much overrated by his fellow-citizens as he has
during the last twenty or thirty years been unde-
servedly depreciated. As a Prime Minister the de-
cetsed nobleman was notoriously a failure. As an
active and energetic member of many successive Ad-
ministrations he was eminently useful, and at times
acquitted himself with distinguished ability. Asso-
ciated as he formerly was with two such men as
GEORGE CANNING and WILLIAM HUSKISSON, as
one of a triumvirate towards whose future a con-
siderable number of the community one generation
back looked with sanguine expectation, it was im-
possible that FREDERICK ROBINSON could have
been from first to last that egregious mediocrity
which he has been long represented to have been
by his depreciators. An administrator who had
continued so long in office, and at times SO' credit-
ably, a man who had filled in successive Cabinets
posts of such variety, of so much importance and
responsibility, could not manifestly, could not, on
the face of it have been the nonentity as the
very incarnation of which he has latterly been repre-
sented. A mistake as the responsible chief of the Ad-
ministration—he was a meritorious servant of the
Crown and of the country, during many years as a
member in one capacity or another of various me-
morable Governments. The two most illustrious
of his colleagues, with whose brighter genius his
own inferior talents were at one period, as
already observed, mistakenly associated, disap-
peared from the public scene, each of them pre-
maturely. Mr. CANNING, in 1827, worn
out, almost broken-hearted, with anxiety and
disappointment—Mr. HusKissoN lamentably killed
by the first locomotive engine run upon the first
railway inaugurated for the conveyance of passen-
gers—the railway on the 15th September, 1830—
between Manchester and Liverpool. Surviving
these, far more' eminent colleagues, the recently
deceased statesman lived for more than eight-and-
twenty years after the last-mentioned catastrophe,
to be either overlooked or depreciated. Between
his birth, on the Ist of November, 1782, and his
death, on the 28th of January, 1859, elapsed those
six-and-eighty years, marked at first with such
promise and activity, to be brightened out at last
in such dull, protracted, and monotonous retire-
ment.

The gorgeous little particoloured bubble of the
Haytian Empire has burst at last. There is an end
to the short-lived imperial glory of the negro NA-
POLEON BONAPARTE. The Emperor SOULOUQUE
has been deposed from his " high estate," by a
counter revolution. Dethroned and discrowned—
he is now charged in half-a-dozen counts with the fol-
lowing high crimes and misdemeanours :—First,
of having filled the prisons with untried citizens—
secondly, with embezzling the funds of the judicial
treasury—thirdly, with laying lawless hands
upon the proceeds of the coffee crop—fourthly,
with misappropriation of the sales of rosewood—
fifthly, with issuing bank notes for his own par-
ticular advantage—sixthly, with organising a sys-
tem of armed pillage along the coasts, somewhat
after the fashion of one carrying on the combined
professions of a wrecker and a contrabandist. His
I vverial MAJESTY, or, as he ought perhaps to be
more appropriately designated, His Imperial Massa
had been succeeded as ruler of St. Domingo by
General GEFFRARD, 9.5, chief of the Provisional Go-
vernment. The prisoners wrongfully incarcerated
had been released. Increased pay had been
awarded to the Haytian soldiery, and every
other kind of effort had been made by
the victors of SOULOUQUE to invest themselves
and their authority with a popularity unknown to
that grotesque adventurer. The intelligence of these
occurrences will probably have been overlooked by
those who may have glanced but cursorily over the
news last received in this country from the opposite
shores. of the Alantic—the accounts relating to
Hayti being uttered, so to speak, sotto voce (and
no wonder), as a matter of little importance,
in the midst of the correspondence. Ridiculous,
however, though the late political events in St.
Domingo have undoubtedly been in themselvec—
they are entitled to some passing consideration
whenever they reach, as they have just now done,
an acme of burlesque. They are deserving of this
casual notice because relating to (however small)
an independent community—struggling (flounder-
ing would perhaps be the better word) in a wild
effort to clamber somehow on to the broad pathway
of modern civilisation.

As we stated the other day, the Law Amend-
ment Society is continuing its useful exertions.
It has in one respect departed from the prin-
ciples on which _it has so long acted with
credit to itself and advantage to the commu-
nity.
It has directed its attention to the system
of administration, and pointed out the evils that
must result from a number of different courts, held
at various points, distant from each other, exceed-
ingly inconvenient to all parties concerned. Bar-
risters frequently could not attend to the engage-
ments for which they were handsomely remunerated,

and clients were deprived of services which ,
might have ensut ed their future fortunes, or, at
least, placed them in far more advantageous posi-
tions so far as pecuniary matters were concerned.
There have thus been serious differences, simply
as Sir B. BETHELL truly declared, "the
because,syste of administering justice in this country had
been divided by accidant, and that which was our
misfortune had become our characteristic." Law
had formerly its domicile in Westminster Hall, but
with the increase of population it has swelled be-
yond its former limits, Like a child that has out-
grown its former garments t There are, no doubt,
many parents who would stiff . maintain the former
regime, but there is a pressing necessity that re-
quires a change.
Fashion requires that every barrister must
reside in one or other of the funs of Court. He
must be a member of either the Inner or Middle
Temple, Lincoln's-inn, or Gray N-inn. Many
solicitors and attorneys reside in the' same vener-
able localities for the purpose of being enabled to

obtain immediate advice ; but the tribunals are
distant. Time, of which every minute is worth
gold, is wasted in dancing from place to place, and
the injury is not merely theirs, but that of the
general public—at least of all who are compelled
to engage in litigation, either as plaintiffs or de-
fendants.

It is required that there should be a convenient
point at which all could meet—at which the dis-
tinguished leader, overwhelmed with briefs, and
the aspiring junior, could appear on neutral
ground. It may be supposed that in this crowded
metropolis it might be a work of intense difficulty,
if not of impossibility, to discover such a locality.
But it is clearly indicated. The space- between
Temple-bar and Lincoln's-inn-fields is palpably
available. The ground is, unquestionably,
valuable ; but it could, perhaps, be obtained
at a far cheaper rate than any other offer-
ing similar advantages. There is a space, or
what our transatlantic brethren term " a block,"
that may be purchased on reasonable terms. It
would give ample accommodation to all the Law
Courts, enable the Judges to try cases—civil, cri-
minal, metropolitan or county, legal or equitable—
under the same roof; learned gentlemen might
argue before different tribunals, and receive the latest
instructions from chambers without the slightest
inconvenience or annoyance, and the chief benefit
would not be that merely of legal practitioners,
whether barristers or solicitors, but of their clients
and of the community at large, who have a deep
interest in the pure administration of justice.
The only question relates to cost. The Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer will have rather a hard game
to play. The navy estimates must be increased.
We must keep up the " national assurances" at an
adequate amount. It may be regarded, therefore,
as something out of the way to ask for what will
be sufficient to purchase Carey-street, Clement's-
.
inn, the two Boswell-courts, and, possibly, Clare-
market and the adjoining streets. But the project
will be self-supporting. Nothing beyond a gua-
rantee will be required. The suitors' fee fund
would provide the means, and the Government
might, without undertaking any extraordinary re-
sponsibility, undertake to satisfy the claims of any
parties that could prove the justice of their de-
mands.

THE LATE PREDICTION.

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