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London, England, 1866-10-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, CCT. 29, 18,66.

The cost of maintaining tranquillity will be
very different now from what it was a year or
two back. The war is almost forgotten,

and scarcely any allusion is made to the natives.
They are said to be disappearing, but whether dying
out or emigrating to other islands is not stated. At
any rate, they are no longer formidable to the
colonists, and WILLIAM TnomPsoN, the kingmaker,
has been paying a visit to Wellington, petitioning
for the restoration of his land. His petition was
refused, but he himself was hospitably entertained,
and, in fact, seems to have been " lionised." Two
pieces .of news are likely to exercise an important
effect • upon the future of the country. The •
one is the successful laying of a cable
across. Cook's Straits, so that telegraphic communi-
cation is now perfectly established between the two
principal islands, and the towns of the Middle Island
are put in easy and. rapid communication with the
seat of government. It is manifest that this will
confer an immense advantage on the Executive and
on the population. It will make the task of ad-
ministering the affairs of the colony much easier,
while, it will be likely to improve the internal
organisation of the country. The other point
of interest is the progress of the west coast
gold-fields, which, it is anticipated, will soon
bring across a rush of diggers from Mel-
bourne. The gold-fields have had a great deal
to do with the rapid rise and progress of the sister
colonies, and it is very probable they may he similarly
beneficial to New Zealand. The islands have great
natural advantages, they possess a fertile soil and a
healthy climate, besides the blessings of free govern-
ment. All they require are internal tranquillity and
an increase of population.. Let us hope that both
these favourable conditions may be secured to them,
and that we shall soon see New Zealand wealthy
and prosperous, like its neighbours.

There arc few things more interesting and instruc-
tive than to dwell upon the careers of those who
have risen to eminence by their own exertions. We
commend the speech of Sir D. GOOCH at the Swindon
Institute to the attention of our readers, and we
feel persuaded that they will not be disappointed at
its perusal. Last Wednesday he presided at a meet-
ing to distribute the prizes to the members of the
classes at the new Swindon Mechanics' Institute.
This institution was intended for the benefit of the
numerous persons employed at Swindon on the
Great Western Company's locomotive works. In
alluding to his own early connection with this insti-
tution the hon. baronet made some impressive re-
marks, and especially directed his observations to
those young lads who were entering upon life, most
appropriately disclosing some events of his own
early days. He began life with prospects hardly
better than those of his hearers ; and when he set
out to work under ROBERT STEPHENSON his mother
said to him, "Always keep in mind, my dear son,
that you should look forward to being some day
manager of that concern." This honest am-
bition evidently took possession of his mind,
and incited him to struggles and exertions that he
might not otherwise have undertaken. He acknow-
ledged that the words had remained with him
through life, and he constantly dwelt upon becom-
ing equal in authority with those above him, and to
consider that if he could earn their position he had
as much title to it as anybody else. This feeling is
the true impetus to English society ; it raises our
lower middle classes, and elevates our upper lower
ones until they end their lives very differently cir-
cumstanced to what they began them. Far better,
safer, and wiser is this gradual infusion than the
wholesale schemes which some are constantly

advocating.
Those who feel natural confidence in their own
powers, and an honourable desire to rise higher in
the social scale, will do well to ponder over the
eloquent words of Sir D. Goocu where he advises
them how to act. "I would earnestly ask these
young lads, who are now rising and beginning their
life, not to look at the present, not to think that
their present position is a final one, but that they
should feel it is within the power in this free coun-
try of any boy to rise to any position he will fix his
mind upon." If they follow earnestly and energetic-
ally in this direction they will no doubt succeed, and
even if they do not absolutely obtain them imme-
diately, they will, as Sir D. Goocii remarked,
gain something ?qually valuable, " the respect and
esteem of all those about them." Another matter
which had aided him in his arduous undertakings
was told by Sir D. GOOCH to the young men before
him—" Nil Desperandum ;" he found these words
on the old Sunderland Bridge at a time when he
was getting depressed, and thought that the chances
were against him. These significant meaning and
cheering words encouraged and inspired him, and,
toquote a gain from his own earnest and expressive
language,
" These words have aided me through life,
`Nil Desperandum.' If you earnestly set your mind
upon an object—an honest one—l don't believe that
you will fall far short of its attainment. Stick to
it, never give it up, never say die." Surely no
better illustration of the truth of this, nor more
forcible exponent of its merit, and no more splen-
did achievements of its success, can be found than
that furnished by the hon. baronet's own career. lie
has risen by his own exertions through the might of
his perseverance and the strength of hispurpose until
he has taken part in a stupendous work, in fact, the
marvel of our age, and we say it confidently, de-
stined to be the admiration of generations yet un-
born. No better lesson can be given to the young
. •
than to study the words and actions of those who
have worked their own way to success and distinc-
tion. It 'must be one of the most cheering reflec-
tions of those thus circumstanced that they will
leave landmarks for those who follow after them,
and, that the path they once trod in doubt and
weariness will be regarded in future times as the
road to honour and the guide to success.

We learn by the arrival of the Australasian mails
that there have been some political changes of con-
siderable importance in New Zealand. The STAF-
FORD Ministry, which assumed office so lately as
June last, has been obliged to resign on account of
the strong opposition excited by its financial policy.
This department of the Government is likely to be
the most troublesome for some time to come, since
the expenses of the war have been burdensome to the
colony, besides damaging trade and commerce.
Added to this matters are now in a transition state,
since the colonists are determined to undertake the
charge of self-defence. The new Colonial Treasurer
was not successful in dealing with this question, and
although we are not told what were the particular
featuresla.t of his budget which gave offence, it was
n
caly extremely unpopular, since a motion of
want of
confluence was made in the House of Re-
presentatives, and was carried by 47 to 14. The
Ministry at once
vacated their seats ; but the ques-
tion was, who
was
to succeed them ? The
changes have of late
beenal rapid. Ten months
ago Mr. STAFFORD
was
ti: means of ejecting the
WELD Ministry. Since
he had himself assumed
office, and now the Budget had broken up his Ad-
ministration. An attempt Was
made to effect a
coalition between Mr. STAFFORD
and
party, and although there were very the WELD
great difficulties
in the way, arising from the existence of a good deal
of personal animosity, the negotiations were at
last successful. Mr. STAFFORD is once. more Pre-
mier, accompanied by most of the prominent mem-
bers of the WELD party ; Mr. FITZIIERBERT has
assumed the invidious office of Colonial Trea-
surer, corresponding to our Chancellorship of the
Exchequer, and the result, it is popularly believed,
is the formation of one of the strongest Ministries
that New Zealand has seen for some time.
The policy of the new Administration has been
already indicated by the Premier and the Treasurer.
They intend to carry out a colonial policy; they
are willing to dispense altogether with the imperial
troops, though they would willingly retain
one regiment if the Imperial Government

It may not be uninteresting at the present time
to consider the impressions received by a French-
man on the subject of Mr. BRIGHT, and the part he
is now playing with more zeal than discretion as a
Reform agitator. A correspondent of the Petrie
has just been describing with some conshierable
dexterity the style and manner of the great plat-
form orator, and his observations will be found well
worthy of note. In the first place, he depicts him
as a powerful orator, but never one more savage.
ths language is fierce, bitter, and provoking.,,
The French critic
gives it as his opinion
that Mr. BRIGIIT is
" urged on, "' because
his manner changesmuch
mw
ahr when hear e
true, gets
on the hustings. Perhaps these
but if so, they cannot be very pleasant to him
to whom they refer. "If he advances, and ad-
vances more and more, it is because he is driven ;
it is true he marches as the head, but so far as I

agrees. They propose to provide for the defence have been able to judge, he is not so free and in-
of the colony by means of a constabulary force. dependent as one would suppose at first sight."
They reduce the defence estimates by £39,000, and Certainly it is rather a falling off from the position
they impose stamp duties which are estimated at which Mr. BRIGHT assumes to himself of dictating
£50,000, but which many competent judges think to Parliament and influencing the million, to be
will produce much more. £70,000 is the sum allowed told that he is virtually a demagogue, whose
for defences, but this is considered by some too low success depends mainly upon his exhibiting
an estimate. We must hope, however, that if the those violent passions and indulging in those
expenses are greater so the returns will also exceed vehement denunciations which excite those who
the estimate. have no more elevated pursuits to charm and

interest them, and where class prejudices and love
for excitement may be gratified at the expense of
the reputation of their superiors in station.

Some of the comments upon the Reform question
we have met with are likewise very good, and we
suspect that there is a great deal of sound sense in
them, although they may take the gilt off the ginger-
bread so far as the clap-trap of certain cliques are
concerned. Then we read that Mr. GLADSTONE has
long been associated with the question of Parlia-
mentary Reform, but "if it is believed that this
eminent statesman adopted all that JOHN BRIGHT
says in these great popular gatherings it would be a
strange error." Very true also are the deductions
which this able foreigner draws from the circum-
stances around him, and the prophecies he makes
are likely enough to be speedily realised. The more
Mr. BRIGHT advances, writes he, the more does he
separate himself from those Commoners with whom
he votes and speaks, and he " reaches what we
used formerly to call in France Radicalism—the
democratic aspirations of which take no account of
constitutional forms and requirements, and he may
not find himself separated, or nearly so, from
his party." In point of fact, "we do not
see how a clear and comprehensive politician like
Mr. GLADSTONE could possibly coincide with a tenth
part of Mr. BRIGHT'S extravagances, and so on with
the rest of the party. Some of the remarks made
upon the difference of the English and French
temperaments are well done, and the following is an
admirable illustration of a truth which Mr. BRIGHT
is only too apt to forget, or to pretend to do so at
any rate. " The Englishman studies politics and
examines them largely, and with such liberty and
independence are the problems presented to him
that the solution is not far off. For him
politics may have their Gordian knot, but he
dreads, above all, to have recourse to the sword of
ALEXANDER to get at the secret." There is much to
attract attention in this admirable discourse upon
a question that now occupies so much thought and
notice, and we may feel convinced that there is
truth in the satirical observations respecting Mr.
BRIGHT. While professing to advocate principles
which will guide and govern the community, he
is reality doing his utmost I° sap the foundations of
the time-honoured Constitution of the country, and
by sowing the seeds of dissension broadcoast over
the land, he is exerting his most strenuous efforts
in a cause both impolitic and imprudent—that of
setting class against class, and creating discord
everywhere.

Matters are just now anything but satisfactory
in the States. 'The Radicals have gained so great
an advantage that they are confident of carrying all
before them in the new Congress, and their writers
and speakers assume a tone which leaves little hope
of common justice to the South. One of the Re-
publican journals says on this subject, " The South
insisted upon war, and has had enough of it ; it is
now our turn to insist that the peace we have
conquered shall be so settled as to make
war impossible for the future." This is the
mistake into which the members of the extreme sec-
tion are continually falling. They imagine because
the South is now exhausted and subdued by the war
that the North will be able to dictate its own terms
for the future. But if they intend to withhold the
right of representation from a large population, and
an immense tract of country, while they attempt to
enforce the most unpopular measures upon the
people, they are contemplating an impossibility.
Tyranny of such a character is growing out of date
in Europe ; it would certainly never be tolerated in
the free Republic of the New World. ilhe Radicals
of New England and Washington are gravely
setting forth a programme which would scarcely be
tolerable in Poland or Venetia, as it was before
the resurrection of Italian nationality. They do not
appear to see the inconsistency of their acts, and,
unfortunately, events have so far declared them-
selves in their favour that we can hope but little
from their moderation or from their fear of conse-
quences. Men who are pledged to neither party
should exert themselves to stem as far as possible
the violence of faction, remembering that the tempo-
rary triumph of a party may often represent mis-
fortunes, and that a political victory may be too
dearly bought if it exercise an adverse influence on
the future of the nation.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.

The Moniteur illustrates thus the position of
affairs arising out'of the conclusion of the treaties :
—" The evacuation of Venetia is terminated, and
the populations restored by France to themselves
have been called upon to pronounce an opinion as
to their own fate." The Moniteur then recapitu-
lates the points of the speeches made on the occasion
of the surrender, of which I gave you a report.
" The result of the vote was such as might have
been expected, and the union of Venetia with the
provinces has been consecrated by the imposing
manifestation of her own wishes. The whole of
Italy has now been made, and the' diplomatic in-
tervention of France basiaided in the happiest and
most efficacious manner in terminating the work
which her arms had so gloriously commenced.
Public opinion in Austria, exclusively occupied with
internal affairs, is anticipating with interest the
fresh efforts which ate to be made to effect the
constitutional organisation of the different parts of
the Empire. All the Diets have been summoned
to meet except that of Pesth, the exception being
on the ground of the unfavourable sanitary condi-
tion of the country. The treaty between Prussia
and Saxony was signed on the 21st, and conse-
quently the armies of the two countries are to be
placed on a peace footing. The Cabinet of Berlin
is about to occupy itself successively with the ap-
plication of the Prussian laws and institutions to
the territories recently incorporated. It has adopted
various measures destined to reorganise the civil
administration of the ex-kingdom of Hanover,
which is placed under the orders of a Governor-
General."

There was another Cabinet Council yesterday at
St. Cloud, at which the Emperor presided.
For some days a report has prevailed in Paris that
the Government has the intention of resorting to a
loan of no less an amount than a milliard, and that
it was to be called a Peace Loan—Emprunt de la
Paix. The great financial authority, the Senzaine
Financiere, seemed to think last week that events
had rendered such a proceeding probable, if not now,
at least at no distant period. Some well-informal
papers do not believe in the idea of a proposed loan,
and a sort of official contradiction is now given to
the report. My information, however, leads me to
think that a loan will be resorted to, but that the
amount will be much less than above stated.

A French geographical writer, in explaining the
recent aggrandisement of Prussia, states that in
1865 the Prussian monarchy, composed of the eight
provinces of Posen, Braudenbourg, Pomerania,
Silesia, Saxony, Westphalia, and countries of the
Rhine, Jade, Lauenbourg, Schleswig-Holstein, and
the domains comprised iu Luxembourg, at Mayence,
L Rastadt, Frankfort, &c., had an extent of 5,087

square German miles (one German mile contains L A TEST INTELLIGENCE
7,420 metres and a fraction), with a total popula-
tion, according to the census of 1864, of 19,305,000 (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
persons. The recent annexations give to Prussia a
total augmentation of 1,309 square miles of terri-
tory, and an increase of population of 4,285,700
persons.

The election of the jury who, are to decide upon
the admission of works destined for the Fine Art
Exhibition of 1867, which was fixed for the 2d of
November, is postponed to that date from the 15th
to the 16th of that month.

Few persons are aware of the volumes of contro-
versy which have been printed for and against the
use of tobacco. A sale is about to take place in
Paris, however, which throws a light upon the point.
It will consist of the complete collection of writings
and printed books produced in the entire world
during the three centuries for and against smoking
and snuff-taking. The collection forms a library
of from 6,000 to 7,000 volumes and pamphlets.
Among the works and documents is a &man of an
Emperor of Turkey, a Russian Emperor's ukase, a
law of a King of Persia, and a large volume written
by King James the Second of England.
It is only within about thirty years or so that
horse-racing has assumed any importance in France,
but the chief progress has been made during the
last ten or twelve years. The Jockey Club, founded
in 1833, soon afterwards established steeple-chases.
The first steeple-chase took place on the Ist of April,
1834, at Croix de Berny. In 1848 La Marche was
selected for the purpose. La Marche is a corrup-
tion of the English word, a marsh. The locality
was an immense marshy meadow belonging to the
rich and powerful Abbey of St. Germain des Pres.
In the 13th century the Abbe Jean de Vernon con-
structed a village, and a parish church was built
under the invocation of St. Lou and St. Gilles. The
neighbouring marshes, however, engenderedf ever and
the inhabitants emigrated. In one geographical work
La Marche is thus designated " Farm and beauti-
ful house near Vaucresson." On the sth of April,
1852, there were splendid races at La Marche.
Viscount de Tournou, who rode Pilot, was thrown
against a hedge ; and Eugene Sue, ridden by an
English jockey, called in the French papers Harry,
rolled over him. The Viscount broke his arm, and
Eugene Sue was killed. Neither Pilot nor Harry
were hurt.

The Carlsruhe Gazette states that a commutation
has been obtained of the sentence of 20 years' im-
prisonment passed upon Oscar Becker, the young
man condemned by a tribunal of the Grand Duchy
of Baden, for an attempt to assassinate the King of
Prussia. This commutation, it is said, was ob-
tained at the intercession of the King of Prussia
himself, who was moved by the representations of
the uncle of the prince, M. Weber, an evangelical
minister at Hostenwitz. Becker is now released.
The only condition is that be must not stay in
Germany.
After two or three days of beautiful weather it
changed to rain this morning, and it has rained
almost all day.
A strange conflict has arisen which has led to
unusual excitement in the dramatic and literary
world of Paris. I mentioned that M. Victorien
Sardou had written a piece for the Vaudeville,
which, after much consideration, was to be called
"La Mai son Neuve." The piece was placed in
rehearsal. Indeed publicity bad been given to the
whole or the greater portion of it. Seve-
ral papers elaborately reviewed it, described
the plot, and commented upon the " situations." M.
Sardou was much displeased at these anticipatory
disclosures. He says the critics have culled the
best parts of his drama and exposed them prema-
turely to the public view. This being the case, and
the public being by anticipation initiated into all
the mysteries of his play, it has been deprived of
its chars and lost its interest, and he will not
allow it to be represented. The dramatic critics
argue in support of the right of anticipatory criti-
cism. Another difficulty arises. Although M.
Sardou has withdrawn his piece, M. Harmant,
director of the Vaudeville, says he will produce it
in spite of him, as it is now his property. The
tribunals may have to decide upon these knotty

points, but it is a miglay pretty guar rel as it
stands.

FRANCE.

PARIS, October 29.

The Liberte has received a first warning from the
Minister of the Interior on account of an article
signed by M. Duvernois, published on the 27th inst.
'The article in question is declared to have dis-
paraged the policy of the Government, and vio-
lently attacked the constitutional 'institutions of the
country, thus inciting disobedience to the laws.
BOURSE, Oct. 27, Two o'clock.—A limited amount
of business is being transacted, but with a rirm
market. Quotations were, for the most part, higher
at the opening, but have somewhat retrograded.
Threes opened at 69f. 10c., and are now worth 68f.
97ic., a fractional decline. Italian Fives are quoted
at 56f. 40c., an advance of sc. Credit Mobilier
Shares lose 2f. 50c., at 631 f. 25c., whereas Credit
Foncier gain a similar amount, at 1,377 f. 50c.
Comptoir d'Escompte are at about the same as yes-
terday. Railway Shares are firm, with, in some
cases, a slight advance.
Three o'clock.—The last quotations are as fol-
lows :

li per Cents 96 70
Do. end month —

3 per Cents. 69
Do. end month 69
Credit Mobilier

Do: end month 628 75

Credit Foncier

Do. end month 1377 50

Bank Shares 3600
Italian Loan 56 40
Do. end month 56 30
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds — --
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

'AYB.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1175
Lyons and Mediterranean 926 25
Southern 583 75
Western 557 50
Eastern
Sardinian

Austrian

Lombard 421 25
North of Spain lO7 50
Saragossa 137 50
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman.

62 50

Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited.)

VICE-CHANCELLOR KINDERSLEY'S CHAMBERS.
(THIS DAY.)
In consequence of its being known that an application
was to be made to the Chief Clerk this morning with re-
spect to some of the matters in connection with Overend,
Gurney, and Co. (limited) the room was densely crowded
with shareholders in the concern.
Mr. Denton, on the part of the liquidator, said he had to
apply that day for the usual four day order to enforce the
payment of certain calls that had been made
on the shareholders. It appeared that two gen-
tlemen, holding shares iu the company, iu order
to test their liability, had taken out summonses
which were to be heard before his Honour, Vice-Chancellor
Kindersley, on the 3d of November; but, notwithstanding
that, a summons was taken out against those who opposed
the call, which summons was heard before Mr. Peek, who
decided that the call ought to be enforced, and he, there-
fore, overruled the usual order to go. With a view to give
an opportunity to those dissatisfied with the decision, the
order was not to be signed for a week, and before
the expiration of that time, without any notice to the
liquidator; another applicition was made by Mr.
Lewis on the part of certain shareholders, but.
his Honour directed that the matter should stand adjourned
The next step on the part of the liquidators was to take
out 12 summonses against those who still refused to pay
their calls, one of which was heard before Mr. Hall, who
made an order that the call should be enforced. To show
the effect of this proceeding it had originally been thought
that they (the liquidators) would have to deal with no
less than from 1,400 to 1,500 shareholders, but in conse-
quence of the decision of Mr. Hall, the liquidators had re-
ceived a very large amount of money in payment of the
call; and the number of dissentients at the present moment
did not amount to more than 950. Up to the present
moment the calls had come in well, and he had no doubt
but that before long the number of those who still objected to
pay would be reduced to about 100, and what he had to
ask for that day was that the order should go against those
who had not yet paid.
Mr.tia,wligns (who appeared on the par tof the 629 share-
holders) asked that the present application might stand
over for a week, when the matter would be resumed before
the Vice-Chancellor iu open court. It was then proposed
to take a representative case, which could then be decided,
the rosult of course to be held binding on the others. It
would be a much better course to pursue than to put such
a vast number of persons to the expense of defending them-
selves singly. He contended that many were on the liqui-
dators' list but who ought not to be there.
Mr. Buckley asked whether a summons to vary the list
had been taken out ?
Mr. Rawlings replied in the negative.
Mr. Buckley said he had no authority but to grant the
order applied for, as the time had expired for making the
application.
Mr. Rawlings said it was a very serious matter to have
to proceed singly over 300 cases.
Mr. Buckley said he did not apprehend the same alarm;
he thought the number would be very greatly reduced.
A shareholder said he hoped the application of Mr.
Denton would be refused until the whole matter was laid
before the open Court. He should then be prepared to
show such a mass of fraud had been committed that was
without parallel in the City of London. (Cries of " Hear,
hear.") He should also impeach the appointment of those
persons now acting as liqnidators. (Hear, hear.)
Another Shareholder hoped that out of consideration
for the widows and orphans who had been rendered desti-
tute, the present application would be refused. No harm
could ensue to auy one through the matter being allowed
to rest until it was fully before the Vice-Chancellor.
Mr. Buckley said he had no such power. The validity
of the order ho had to make could b 3 tested before the

THE REV. MORLEY PUNSHON, a graceful writer
and an eloquent preacher, of whom the Wesleyans aro
naturally proud, is so seriously ill as to preclude any hope,
though he may yet live many years, of his being able over
to write or preach again.
LAND RECLAIMED FROM THE OCEAN.—A project
has been set on foot for desiccating the Zuyder Zee, by
which it is estimated 380,000 acres will bo gained for
agricultural purposes. The calculated cost is £10,500,000.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Mr. Richard Thornton West
and Mrs. West have presented to the National Lifeboat
Institution £620, to defray the entire cost of a lifeboat
station to be formed at West Wittering, at the mouth of
Chichester harbour, on the coast of Sussex.
INSECT DEVASTATIONS OF BEETROOT.—M. A. de
Norguet, of Lille, an entomologist, has presented to the
Central Society of Agriculture of the Pas de Calais a
treatise on the insects that ravage the beetroot fields;
these creatures, at least the most destructive amongst them,
are seven in number, some of them bearing rather Curious
names—the opaque shield, the beetroot flower eater, the
little striped mole, the common cockchafer, the nocturnal
Y, the harvest night fly, and the nocturnal mark of excla-
mation ! M. de Norguet treats the matter scientifically
and practically, traces each insect from the egg to matu-
rity, and points out the seasons and the methods for their
destruction.— Grocer and Oil Trade Review.
INAUGURATION OF THE SYKES MEMORIAL.—On
Friday at noon the magnificent monument reared by the
East Riding of Yorkshire in memory of the late Sir Tatton
Sykes was formally inaugurated in presence of a gathering
such as rarely assembles—the nobility, the gentry, the
peasant, the clergy, the farmer, and the sportsmen of the
county. No sooner was it determined to raise a memorial
is honour of the deceased baronet than everyone, from the
peer to the peasant, were desirous to co-operate for the ob-
ject was to honour the memory of one who was in reality
" a fine old English gentleman"—a thoroughly English land-
lord devoted to' home and tenantry, attending personally
to his estates, his stock, stud, and hounds, but ever mind-
ful of the poor, and no niggard in the work of church erec-
tion and endowment, and the building of schooli—whose
portrait, iu short, is to be met with in every cottage. The
history of the undertaking shows how much the work has
been that of a labour of love. The idea of a memorial was
conceived early in 1864, and a committee of gentlemen and
farmers of the Riding was formed, under the presidency of
Lieut.-Col. Pease, of Hull, and the joint hon. secretaryships
of Mr. F. C. Matthews, of Driffield, and Mr. W. Topham,
of Eastborno. Subscriptions flowed in so rapidly that in
July of the same year au exhibition of designs for the me-
morial, comprising 157 competitive contributions, was held
and the present design was selected, and on May 17, 1865,
the preliminaries had so far advanced that the foundation
stone was laid by Lord Hotham, M.P. for the Riding, who,
also undertook the ceremony of inauguration on Friday.
Except, indeed, fOr the sculpture, the monument might
have been inaugurated six months ago. The site selected
for the monument may be regarded as classic ground. The
erection occupies the summit of Garton-hill, and stands upon
the southern rampart of the British earthworks which cross
the high wolds from Wartre to the Danes' Graves, a range
of 15 miles. The burial mounds of the Britons—the abori-
ginal occupiers of the welds —are scattered profusely around.
Traces of Roman occupation are there too, and after that
of tho Anglo-Saxon rule—the mound on which the monu-
ment stands being one vast Anglo-Saxon Christian ceme-
tery. Through the mediaaval period the wolds were an open
waste, and their cultivation and enclosure was mainly
owing to the Sykes family, and to none was their improve-
ment more due than to him whose memorial now occupies
the loftiest position—for not only to the wold country and
to Holderness, but to Lincolnshire, the pile is visible.
Tho memorial consists of a tower and spire, surmounted
by a cross, the design being a flue conception of the
early decorated period by Mr. John Gibbs, of Oxford. The
design is admitted to be of bold conception, picturesque
arrangement, and beautiful proportion. The monument
has a base of 28ft. square with a total height of 120 ft. The
base, or pedestal, has four panels, iu one of whieli is the
entrance door, and over it the b xs-relief of the lato baronet
on his favourite huuter—a copy, in fact, of the idea of
Grant's famous picture of Sir Tatton. The opposite panel
is filled with the emblematic representations of agricultural
life, and the two others are blank. The sculpture is from
the chisel of Mr. Forsyth, of Worcester, and is extremely
bold and effective. The ornamental portion is limited, so
as to give effect to the sculptured caps, string, entabla-
tures, Sze. A stair leads to the observatory, a room at the
base of the spire, lighted by four ovate windows, from
which there is a lookout over most of the county, and a
glimpse of Sledmere itself. The monument was estimated
to cost upwards of £1,500, but the full outlay will be nearly
£l,BOO, solely from the contributions of the East Riding
people, among whom the veteran baronet spent his long
and useful life. It is requisite to state that the work has
been most admirably executed by Messrs. Simpson and
Malone, of Hull, and the stone used is in alternating strings
of white Yorkshire and Mansfield rod, producing a very
fine effect.

judge.
Another Shareholder here exclaimed, " The liquidators
are not disinterested," and another called out, " They are
creditors !" .

A gentleman standing at the back of the room, said if
the order was made to pay the money into' court, he did
not think there would bo much objection to such a course.
Mr. Buckley said that was the order already..T he money
paid on calls was sent to the Bank of England, and could
not be touched without an order signed by him.
Mr. Denton thought it but fair that it should be known
what the fraud was.
A Shareholder said he was prepared to show that two
millions had been lost on steam alone.
Mr. Rawlings said, if the application was postponed, two
representative cases might be taken, and if the court should
be of opinion that the call ought to bo stopped as for
far as persons in the position such as ho should select,
there, of course, would be an end of the matter.
Mr. Buckley said ho had no power but to make the order,
but he would adjourn the motion for the opinion of the
judge to be taken. The orders would not be signed until
that opinion had been given. (Loud cries of "hear, hear.")
According to his view of the case, Mr. Rawlings had got
all ho required.
Mr. Rawlings said the matter relied upon was, that the
old firm was insolvent at the time of the transfer to the
now company, and that the prospectus afterwards issued
was consequently false.
Mr. Buckley said that was matter of. opinion ; the making
of a bad bargain, or even being cheated, did not, absolve
any one from the payment of his debts. However, the
matter was at an end for the present, because the order he
now made would not be signed until the opinion of the
judge had been taken upon it, therefore the case must
stand adjourned in order that that might be done.
The decision of Mr. Buckley elicited loud cries of "hear,
hem" from the gentlemen who by this time had crowded
the room to overflowing.

A NEW WATCH KEY.—The Messrs. Carpenter,
of Carshalton, have just patented a very useful key, which
combines an improvement on the Brequet action, with a
contrivance in the shape of a plug to prevent the accumu-
lation of dirt in tho key, which so often proves destructive
to the machinery of the watch. It is an ingenious and
useful invention.

BOTHWELL .-DISTINGUI SHED VISITORS.—AIong
with other distinguished visitors at present residing at the
Clyde Hotel, Bothwell, are the widow and daughter of the
late Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of
America.

VISCOUNT NELSON, DUKE OF BRONTE.—III con-
nection with the disputed point as to whether an English-
man can legally bear a foreign title, or wear a foreign or-
der in England, without the sanction of the Crown, we
Othenown) may refer to a precedent in the case of Nelson.
He was informed that he could not appear at Court as Duke
of Bronte and Knight of various foreign orders, until he
had received the usual sanction. Nelson replied that those
honours had been conferred on him by his Royal master's
allies for services he had been deputed by his Royal master
to render. He would go to Court, he said, with all his
titles and all his honours, and he did not suppose anybody
would stop him. The supposition was correct; nobody ven-
tured to " stop Nelson."
THE CHEVALIER DE CHATELAIN, 011 the theme
and under the title of In Deo Spes, has just written a
heart-stirring copy of verses, which appeared in the last
number of the Courrier de L'Europe.

AUTHORSHIP OF THE ENIGMA ON THE LETTER H.—
Mr. Beresford Hope asserts that the well-known enigma
commencing, "7 was whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered
in Hell," on the letter Li, universally ascribed to Byron, was-
written by Miss Catherine M. Faushawe, a literary spinster
of the past generation.

LIT

R E.

Mr. Algernon Swinburne and His Critics.

Under the title of " Notes on Poems and Re-
views," Mr. Algernon Charles Swinburne has just

published, with Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly, what he
apparently designs to be a crushing reply to the
whole body of his critics, and a triumphant vindi-

cation at the same time of the unsullied purity of
his own poetic reputation. his reviewers, accord-

ing to him, are not only altogether in the wrong—he

himself all the while being as completely in the right—
but he undertakes to prove them (not himself) to be
foul-mouthed and filthy-minded. Certainly this—if
it could only have been effectually accomplished—
would have been carrying the war into the enemy's
camp with a vengeance. Only—very unluckily for Mr.

Swinburne in this his new adventure—every succes-

sive shaft of ridicule he hurls against his assailants

no sooner leaves his hands than it transforms itself
into a boomerang. In effect, the task thus undertaken
with so much audacity, was in itself too flagrantly
outrageous to prove otherwise than an inevitable
fiasco. Reverting to the " Poems " which imme-
diately preceded, and in fact thereby elicited, the
" Reviews"—of both of which (that is, Poems and
Reviews) the "Notes" now under consideration,

are intended to be elucidatory—one cannot but feel
that, here, in these Poems, it is no Virginal Muse who
comes to us. Rather than that, it is some Stripling
Satyr, with his horns scarce budding, and his hooves
just beginning to harden, who creeps towards us
through the arcadian coppice to whisper his foul
imaginings in our ears froM a lair of tangled vine
and roses. Taking them for such as they are, these
lyrics and ballads, born of a libidinous imagination, are
not certainly, it must be admitted, of the literature
of Grub-street. They are, in an artistic sense, of
course, immeasurably above and beyond all that.
But they have the taint as of Holywell-street about
them nevertheless, and that, moreover, as it appears
to us, ineradicably. Insomuch so that it becomes
almost a matter of question with us, in the abstract,
with respect to these same libidinous word-pictures,
as they have been pencilled by Mr. Swinburue,
whether he has not by their production rendered
himself amenable to the law, as defined but a very
few years since in what is popularly known as Lord
Campbell's Act—an act expressly designed with a
view to the suppression of impure and demoralising
publications. It has been somewhere wittily re-
marked by Lord Macaulay in reference to the
sometime laureate Robert Southey, that his
(Southey's) lovers are always in extremes, that
either they love like Cattle, or they loved like
Seraphim. Mr. Swinburne's lovers invariably come
under the former category—they love like cattle.
As to his religion, his god or goddess, or however
else it may be termed—his chosen idol, in other
words, the recipient of his orisons, we are left to
presume can be no other than the unutterable
object of adoration shamefully held in reverence by
the Ansayrii. That evil race of " the assassins" of
the Lebanon, of whom and of whose abhorred wor-
ship the Hon. Frederick Walpole has given, per-
haps, among all modern travellers, the most popular
and accurate description. Born seemingly of precisely
such a worship as that:indulged in by the Ansayrii,
these hot-breathed poetic utterances of Mr. Alger-
non Swinburne's are definable no otherwise than as
an outrage on our common humanity. They are a
wanton violation of the sanctity and of the purity
of all the domestic affections. So wanton a violation
of them, in truth, that one marvels bow this young
writer could himself by possibility have come into
existence—incredulous for the moment that ue could
ever have had a mother Or, that, having had a
mother, and a sister possibly, as well as other near
and dear relations of the gentler sex, he could so
outrage, by the gloating prof anations of his lascivious
fancy, what had been enshrined (meaning the ideal
of that sex) as in a sanctuary of reverential chastity
by the whole genius of Christian Chivalry. His
Muses, however, one and all of them, are Wantons.

His Erato has no sense of decency or of reticense
in her lyrical warblings. His Terpsichore is a
Nautch Girl, but half clad and bedizened with coins,
flushed less with wine-lees than with animal passion,
shameless as the daughter of llerodias, meretricious
of eye, breathless of lip, dishevelled ! And so on
through the whole sisterhood. With regard to the
running loos; hitherand thither, whithersoever they
list, of his erratic erotic fancies, we are sometimes

fain to wonder if ever, in his affected disdain for
modern languages and in hispining by preference for
some memorable utterance in a classic tongue, he
could hearken for once—and lay well to heart on
hearing them thus echoed in the recesses of his con-
science—to words articulated eighteen hundred years
ago by holier lips than those of Catullus, by an elo-
quence more inspired than that of Sappho— iropveta
8; Kai racra aKaßaperia ovoliaCicrtho ev viuv—or
according to the Vulgate of St. Jerome, " Fornicatio
autem et omnis immunditia nec nominetur in vobis !"
Instead of which holy abstinence from anything like
a deliberate consideration of them—here, in Mr.
Swinburne, is one who not merely selects those very
themes to gloat over them and to expatiate upon
them in the abandon of a voluptuous imagination,
but one who, while thus gloating over them and ex-
patiating upon them, strives to render them more
than ever insidiously alluring by tricking them out

with all the depraving resources of his rhetoric.
Love and Poetry, with Mr. Swinburne, are as the
masses are to Mr. Gladstone—flesh and blood. And,
when singing of the loves of his fellow mortals in his
melodious verse, this young poet sings of them with an
eve to them solely as flesh and blood. The art prefer-
red by him is that usually concealed by curtains in the
inner salon of your epicurean voluptuary or fashion-
able sybarite—only, here, the curtains are torn
asunder, and the painting revealed to view in the
broadest light imaginable. According to one of our
time-honoured proverbs, no doubt—" To the pure
all things are pure"—except, par exemple, the reve-
lations of a brothel! Hardly such as those, at any
rate, we may presume. And these poems of Mr.
Swinburne are nothing more nor less than the out-
pourings of the hitherto unuttered fancies engen-
dered by the upboilings of sheer animal puberty.
They are the carefully defined and minutely elabo-
rated celebrations of the bitings and mumblings and
slobberings of a precocious pruriency, or even, we
would say, of a wholly supposititious lasciviousness.

It is related of some eccentric old lady, whose name,
happily for her, has been forgotten, that shortly
after the first, appearance from the press of Dr.
Johnson's Dictionary, she offered her congratula-
tions to that great lexicographer and moralist, for
inasmuch as his stupendous and all but exhaustive
catalogue of words made no mention whatever of
some of the filthiest and foulest in the language.
" So, madam," said the Doctor, "You have been
looking after them, I find !" Now, precisely what
the Old Lady attempted to do in regard to Dr.
Johnson's Dictionary, Mr. Swinburne has done,
with unhappily the fullest success, in his re-
searches among the stores of classic litera-
ture. He has sedulously hunted up whatever
there was in it of impurity and salaciousness.
His readings have been almost exclusively confined
to those astoundingly inconsequent supplementary
pages or appendices of the Expurgated Editions of
the Greek and Latin authors, in which have been
carefully set apart together—for readier reference at
the hands of those who may chance to prefer them—
all the loathlier passages previously and v,ery care-
fully eliminated from the writer's text, as calculated
to profane its beauty, yet afterwards, as carefully
collected together in these astounding Supplements
or Appendices as propitiary offerings to Cloacina—
offence of which, like the arch-crime of the
King in Hamlet, "is rank and smells to heaven !"
Among the accumulation of such later portions
of those strangely Expurgated Editions of the
classics, Mr. Swinburne has evidently wallowed with
a sort of grovelling exultation, as of a seal sporting in
its native element. If he has taken up Juvenal, he
has turned, as by an instinct—we may be sure of
that--to an examination of one abhorred book
in particular—in preference to any of the others.
Coming down again to our own times, how-
ever, from that far-off table - land of Anti-
quity, we are constrained (by himself) to believe
that if he knows as yet anything at all about the world,
it is with the demi-monde alone he is acquainted. To
borrow a happy illustration of his own, from one of
the few things he has written worthily (his prose in-
troduction to the Selections from Lord Byron's