The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

tially, and to every useful purpose, free. So much
the worse for her if she withdraws her gratitude
because France has not indulged her to the full
fruition of all her hopes, and has paused before the
sacrifices which the complete enfranchisement of
Italy would have demanded. To have obtained
Venice and the Quadrange would have cost long
sieges and new battles, au immediate war upon the
Rhine, manillas in Central 'ltaly, insurrection in
Hungary, and a change in policy which would in-
volve the abandonment of the cause of order and
the advocacy of that of revolution throughout
Europe, There was no duty which impelled France
to such sacrifices for such a result. Her gift of
freedom, such as it is, is a free gift. Victor Em-
manuel has not the prerogative of imposing as he
may list new labours on the Hercules'of France.
There would be much reason in these remon-
strances if we could admit the assumptions on
which they are based. But we do not think those
Italians for whom anything has been done are un-
grateful for what the French have effected for them.
The French army cannot expect the Venetians to
be grateful to them for having sealed their fate
irrevocably by cutting them off from the rest of
Italy, and closing the iron hand of Austria upon
them. France has up to this time earned no grati-
tude from Tuscans or Modenese. But Lombardy,
which has obtained what it desired, is exulting and
thankful. Milan, with the exception of a few wary
lovers of their money bags, who are calculating the
future cost of freedom, is gay and demonstrative ;
and Sardinia is ready to do almost anything to
show her gratitude—even, perhaps, to that strong
proof which the diplomatic agent of the Emperor
of the French is now demanding. We see no proofs,
or even symptoms, of Italian ingratitude. Gari•
baldi, who seems to be the Washington of this great
struggle for freedom, is not wanting in almost pas-
sionate acknowledgment of the service which the
Emperor has rendered to his country. While he
refuses to submit the cause of Italy to the arbitra-
ment of diplomatists, and while he remains in arms
to obtain for Central Italy what has been achieved
for Lombardy, he exhorts his countrymen never
" to forget the gratitude they owe to Napoleon and
to the heroic French nation, whose valiant sons still
lie, for the cause of Italy, wounded and mutilated on
the bed of suffering." These are not the words of
coldness or ingratitude' nor is it acknowledgment
grudgingly given. The fact is, not that Italy is un-
grateful for the past, but that she is uncertain .as to
the future. Accustomed to read her destinies in the
commands of foreigners, she waits, hushed in sus-
pense, to hear what gloss the treaty of Zurich will
publish upon the text of the Convention of Villa-
franca. She is not ungrateful for the gift bestowed
upon her, but she is full of fear lest that which she
has just acquired should be taken from her by force.
The result of the French interference has been
much greater than the French themselves reckon
when they count up their claims of gratitude from
Italy. Montebello, and Magenta, and Solferino
have not only purged Lombardy of the Austrian
rule, but they have freed all the rest of Italy from
the immediate pressure of the Austrian power. In
the present attitude of the recently belligerent
Powers it would be obviously impossible for Aus-
tria alone to march an army into Italy to put down
any insurrection, or to put up any expelled friend
of Austria. The conditions which the Austrian and
the priest party throughout Italy and throughout
Europe have always declared to be the conditions of
anarchy have come to be the actual conditions of
Italy. The will of the Italian people has been now
for a considerable period the only source of action.
They have feared no foreign force ; they have been
stronger than any domestic oppression. Every-
where throughout the Peninsula the instruments of
tyranny have broken in the hands of the tyrants.
The Pope's mercenaries were permitted even to
sack cities and to butcher innocent inhabit3nts, and
they were not destroyed ; but they will be re-
strained from repeating the offence. The Swiss
troops of the King of Naples were slaughtered not
by the people, but by the Prince who hired them.
The Grand Dukes of the Italian Duchies went forth
in peace with all who chose to follow them, There
is no force, except the French throughout the
Italian Peninsula which could control or interrupt
a gteat popular insurrection. If the Italians were
what Italians have been thought to be all the cities
of that fair country ought at this moment to be
echoing revolutionary cries and flowing with blood.
The Papal authorities, the Austrian partisans, and
all the priests ought, if what we have been so sedu-
lously told were true, to be at this moment under
the sentences of revolutionary tribunals. There
was much to remember. Bitter oppression had left
a rankling wound in many a heart, and it would
not have fairly caused surprise if some excesses had
marked this new period of exemption from the
threat or presence of an armed force. The fair
ground of surprise, however, is in that which has
really happened. Mazzini's name has never been
heard throughout the whole of this contest. When
the hope of freedom dawned, all the grotesque
goblins of the darkness seem to have flitted away.
We have heard nothing of the Red Republicans,
with their secret conclaves and their secret stabs.
No Republic, " one and indivisible," has started
into 'a spasmodic existence. Every proceeding has
been as reasonable, as orderly, and as little influ-
enced by extravagance and enthusiasm as if it had
been directed by an English churchwarden, and
modelled upon the proceedings of an English pa-
rish vestry. Private property and personal secu-
rity were never better guarded than they are at
the present moment, when all Central Italy is re-
lieved from the presence of those foreign armies
wnich have been so long maintained there under
the pretext of preserving " order," preventing
" anarchy," and repressing the mischievous in-
stincts of the people. The people have been dis-
pointed by the terms of the Peace, and they are
now alarmed lest they shall have to fight a hopeless
fight against invaders whom they had hoped to be
able to welcome as deliverers. But they have not
committed a single act of violence. So far as they
have yet gone, they have shown a marvellous apti-
tude for managing their own affairs, and a wonder-
ful Fewer of abstaining from those crimes of re-
venge to whritciliculathrelyltalia prone. Theirnraceconduct
always
been exemplary particularly
even beyond the power of calumfly
to question it, for doubt not that if there had been
been
has
one questionable act, one instance of severity
capable of a double version, we should have heard
of it. The old priest party and the Austrocanti
would, if they could, have found any credible mate-
rials, and filled all Europe with their outcries.
These facts should weigh with Napoleon 111. He
has worked hard to earn Italian gratitude ; he
now has the opportunity of reviving Italian confi-
dence at the cheap rate of doing nothing. Venetia
is gone. Austria has in the fortresses retained
her power of future reconquest. These things
cannot be helped. Italy must be content to work
out her nationality with this thorn iii. her
flesh. All that Europe now asks for her is that
is behaving admirably. The cause o
uf
la"r order" loses
po assemblies,
FnLorotauhniiscneNg and Austria shall let her alone. She
apinolteboen'sboalndds" porfinteirple" p
the sovereignty

The Grand Duke Constantine is expected to pass
through Spithead to-day, and will be recognised. as
Admiral Romanoff.

The Baron Brunnow arrived at Portsmouth yes-
terday, and passed over to Ryde, Isle of Wight, to
see that proper arrangements have been made at
the Royal Pier Hotel, for his Imperial Highness
and suite, who are expected about four p.m. Sig-
nals will be forwarded to Portsmouth from the sta-
tions at Dover, Deal, &c., announcing the approach
down Channel.

A great number of Russian officers have teen
down to Cowes to view the Royal Yacht Squadron
Regatta, and were received with the utmost cour-
tesy by the members of the club.
The Collingwood, 80, in charge of Mr. Stokes,
assistant master attendant, has arrived at Chatham
to be fitted for a screw steam ship.
The Channel squadron crossed royal yards yes-
terday at Spithead after having exerc►sed crews
aloft.• _ _

The Belleisle, 6, Corn. J. R. Rodd, from the China
station, was paid off into ordinary at Chatham yes-
terday. During the time the Belleisle has been in
commission, upwards of two years she has been
employed chiefly as a hospital ship in the East
Indies and. China. Notwithstanding the number of
her crew, she was paid off in a very expediti )us
manner, under the superintendence of Captain G.
Goldsmith, C.B.

The foll Owing transports are engaged by the War
Department for the shipment of powder and general
war stores from Woolwich—namely, the Amelia, the
Eurydioe, the Skipwith, the Adventure, the Sea
Breese, the Goshawk, the Arthur Padew, the Anna
Maria, the Harwood, and the COsmos.
The Clara has sailed from Woolwich laden :with
230 fons of powder and stores.
The officers directing the recruiting department
of the navy in Woolwich Dockyard were yesterday
furnished with instructions from the Admiralty to
suspend the entry of novices until Thursday, the
11th inst., when the entry will recommencein fewer
numbers—namely, at the rate of 20 per week 'only.
The officers are reminded that their exertions for

procuring able seamen are not to be relaxed in con-
sequence of the amended regulations, as that class
of seamen is still required in large •numbers.
The gunboat Hind, Lieut. E. F. Kerby, having
had her starboard bilge piece repaired at Keyham,
was undocked on Tuesday afternoon, and appointed
to leave Plymouth yesterday afternoon, with stores
for the Russell, 60, at Falmouth.
The screw steam-frigate Orlando, 50, J. E. Mills,

master, at Devonport, is ready for sea.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Virago, Commander
Dunn, was placed in the basin at Keyham on Mon-
day evening. She will be fitted and slightly re-
paired so as to run out her commission.
The Turkish line-of•battle ship Shadia is IID aer
the crane at Keyham, receiving her boilers.
The Imperieuse, 51, screw, Capt. Roffnfort B.
Maguire, bent sails in Portsmouth ha?oour yester-
day.

The Simoom, screw troorship, Commander J.
Cook, was undocked at Portsmouth on Tuesday,
and will be redocked again this day.
The Undaunted, sailing frigate, in the ship basin
at Portsmouth, has workmen engaged upon her
affixing the iron plates to her sides for exper}mental
practice.
The following appointments were made I yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut.' Henry Waller to
the Mersey ; Henry Salmond, Acting Mate, to the
Trafalgar; E. R. A. Law and Charles J. Kent,
Midshipmen, to the Neptune ; W. G. Scott, Mid-
shipman, to the Melpomene ;, E. Drummond and
3. E. Cochrane, Midshipmen, to the Donegal ; A.
E. HutChinson, Midshipman, to the Nile ; J. Cole,
Midshipman, to the Mars ; R. B. Croft, Midship-
man, to the Cesar ; H. F. Stephenson, Midship-
man, to the Emerald ; A. Wallington, Midship
man, to the Sidon ; A. Williams, Acting Mate, to
the Edgar.
A court-martial assembled on Tuesday on board
her Majesty's ship Impregnable, at Plymputh, for
the trial of Mr. Frederick Kirkman, master of.
the Gladiator, Commander Hickley, on a charge
of drunkenness. The case as sought to be proved
against the prisoner was, that on the even-
ing of July 27, when the Gladiator left Plymouth
Sound, he was unfit to do his duties from being in

a state of intoxication. Lieut. John Lige GiihT,

the First Lieut. of the Gladiator, deposed that his
reason for believing the prisoner was tipsy on the
night in question was, that when the prosecutor,
Commander Hickley, desired him to tak(i the bear-
ing of the Eddystone Lighthouse, he considered
he looked at the compass in the wrong direction,
and was unable to answer certain questions put to
him by the commander. The witness afterwards
noticed that the prisoner's walk was unsteady. It
was about nine o'clock in the evening. Owing to
this circumstance the vessel was hove, to for the
night, and returned to the Sound at half-past six
o'clock the following morning. William Clarke,
Second Lieut. of the Gladiator, deposed that he
considered the prisoner was not sober, and that he
was unfit to undertake the navigation of the ship.
Mr. Mark Hamilton, surgeon of the Gladiator,
offered similar evidence. The prisoner's defence
was that he had been in a state of excitement con-
sequent upon the vessel leaving the port, but
although he had drunk a small quantity of wine on
board, he denied it had rendered him incapable of per-
forming his duties, or that he was intoxicated.
He called various officers of the Gladiator as
witnesses, who deposed that he was most tempe-
rate in his habits ; and laid before the Court nume-
rous testimonials which he had received from
officers in her Majesty's service. The Court found
the charge proved against the prisoner, and sen•
tenced him to be dismissed her Majesty's service.
Commander Hugh A. Reilly (1858) has joined
her Majesty's ship Pioneer, 6, screw, at Spithead,
vice Commander May, promoted.

DEVONPORT, Arc. 3.

Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour unexpectedly
visited the Calcutta, lying alongside the jetty of
this dockyard, yesterday (Tuesday) morning last.
On the gallant admiral leaving the ship he was
most enthusiastically cheered by the crew, the band
playing " Auld lang syne."

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THE EFFECT 'OF w-A 11, _ l._
-% .--7-- . 3,.z One clear half century has ela s ~, , -..i,71 4
India was. affected 'by .a naval w , ---
ebinpt eib
though England has been almost',' ssaiy let .
w 4, in some quarter of the :glebe, the coasts-and
seas of India have been free' from apprehen4ion.
No English merchant has paid war risks, no one
ever waited' for convoy. Even iu 1856, when the
war with Russia crossed as it were the shorter; line
of communication,, the overland route was ai safe
and uninterrupted ,as, in peace- So profound, in-
deed, has been the security, that Anglo-Indians can
scarcely realise the`Waof danger, scarcely estimate
their position during a naval war. Yet. there is
probably no class', of Englishmen in the world
whom a war withthe only power, save Britain and
America, capable of holdim, the sea would more
injuriously affect. It is with a full consciousness of
the calamities which must follow that we record
our conviction that a naval war, disastrous, mpo-
pular, wicked as it may be, is almost inevitable.
Its effect will be to put a stop to the rapid commu-
nication now almost in our hand. The Red Sea
telegraph may
be laid down, but the cable is com-
paratively useless while no messages can be trans-
milted through France or the Mediterranean: The
overland route may not be closed, for its importance
is so great that armed steamers may be employed
to convey the mails. But the swifter route will be
closed at once, and the steamers will be hampered
and delayed by the necessity of
,precaution. Our
navy is not now so strong as to sweep the Medi-
terranean clear at the very, commencement of the
war. How specie is to be sent overland wefail to
perceive,:and even round the Cape a large,. remit-
tance will require a squadron for its convoy. That,
single circumstance, a, mere incidentinherente in
hostilities with a first-class Power, will enormously
increase the embarrassments of the Indian Govern-
ment. The only resource will be to send a strong
squadron to the entrance of the Red Sea,-and.pa-
trol the Mediterranean with a steam fleet, thus
diverting no inconsiderable sectiop of our strength
simply to keep open a road. On' the .longer .roue
matters will be even worse. Steam has not been
generally employed for the carriage of heavrgobds
round the Cape. Our ships from China and
India are the richest which sail the ocean, and
.will be in a proportionate degree the objects of
attack. The system of issuing letters of marque
has never been finally abandoned. Every sharp
Havre trader, every unscrupulores Yankee will be
taking them out, and in a few months.war risks must
be added to the other drawbacks on our. costly
trade. The trade may 'tear it, for, with the excep-
tion of silk and ind;:go, the demand must increase.
The prices of saltpetre and seeds, of all fibres, and
all articles of food ought to rise as, they had begun
to do during the Russian war. But war, changes
commerce into speculation, and though a few for-
tunes may be made more rapidly, and on a larger
scale than before, the mass of Traders must suffer
annoyance only surpassedby their direct pecuniary
loSs. The effect upon the Indian money-market
will depend materially on the duration of the war,
but, sensitive as that market is; We may safely
affirm that the average of fluctuation and conse-
quent loss will be about three times that of the
London Exchange. Every movement in the coun-
try itself will pi educe exaggerated apprehension,
from the certainty that England can lend no aid,
and, as we pointed out last week, three of our great
cities are not exempt from actual danger of attack.
War, we fear, will not yield to Anglo-Indians the
pleasurable excitement it is apt to afford to quiet
Englishmen.—Friend of India.

ADULTERATION OF BEER.

All the various kinds of beer, known as porter,
ale, Strasburg, Louvain, small beer, 8.7 c., differ from
each other only in the manipulation -and relative
proportions of their proper ingredients, unless
noxious substances be mixed'up with the latter.
Beer, according to its strength, contains from 3 to
8 per cent. of pure alcohol; but its quality may be
influenced by the nature of the water or clarifying
substances used, or by the vessels used either to
brew or to keep the liquid, and which may impreg-
nate it with copper, lead, calcareous salts, or tartaric
acid. The copper, if any, may be discovered by
evaporating the beer to the consistence of an ex-
tract, incinerating the latter, and treating it with
dilute nitric acid, which will assume a bluish colour,
and become darker by the addition of ammonia. If
a piece of iron scoured with dilute sulphuric acid
be then introduced into the solution, the former
will be precipitated upon it in a metallic state. The
presence of lead will become evident by sulphate of
soda, which produces a white precipitate ; oxalate
of ammonia will effect a similar precipitate if- the
liquid -contain calcareous salts, and tartaric acid,
which is not dangerous to health, may be detected
by a solution of potash, poured on the extract above
described, redissolved in water, which will give a
granular precipitate. But adulteration in its stricter
sense comprises the substitution of various drugs or
leaves for hops. Such are the leaves COMO box-tree
and of the menyanthes, the flowers of the linden
tree, gentian, poppy heads, guaiacum, or lignum
vitae, Spanish juice, henbane, grains of paradise,
coculus indicus, cayenne pepper, nux vomica, and
a powder composed of sulphate of copper, persul-
phate of iron, fecula, and a bitter and astringent.
extract of some sort. Some of the above substances
are the reverse of noxious ; the leaves of the box tree
are sudorific and slightly, purgative ; gentian is
tonic and a febrifuge; guiacum is hot, aromatic,
and anti-rheumatic ; Spanish juice is innocent, and
used only to deepen the colour, &c. But poppy-
heads are narcotic, henbane stupifying, cocculus
indicus is acrid and intoxicating, and nux vomica,
as well as other drugs of the stryclozos genus, are
positively deleterious, producing tetanus, and even
in small doses giddiness and convulsions. They are,
in fact, used to poison dogs and cats with, and
brewers using them consequently incur a serious
amount of responsibility, the more so as this kind
of adulteration may be easily detected by redUcing
the beer to an extract as above, and then treating
it by alcohol ; the latter dissolves-the strychnine
and brucine, which are the vegetable bases of the
family of the stiychnew, and their nature is imme-
eliately tested by sulpuric acid and bichromate of
potassia. As for the compound powder, the only
really noxious substance it contains is sulphate of
copper, the test for which is given above.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 4.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
77—highest since noon yesterday.
67—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.
BABoarETEn--29.87.
WIND, Westerly; fresh, with fine weather. Heavy rain
in the morning.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, oh. 34m.—Afternoon, sh. 56m.
To-Monitow-Morning, 6h. 17m.—Afternoon, 6h. 38m.

THE SUN.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1859.

It is just as we expected. The Peace (?) of Vil- 1
lafranca will cost its authors more trouble than 1
they bargained for. Whatever were their motives
for that close interview the world at large will,
before long, be edified by its effects. France is now
in a desperate hurry to disarm, but the blind will
not do. We are so accustomed to surprises of late
that wonders have become mere matters of course.
It seems almost a pitty that a man so clever at
hoodwinking others should at last have contrived
to overreach himself. But this, the great magician
of the age, has accomplished in a masterly manner,
and will no doubt reap the fruits of his
Imperial labours before he sets out on the next
campaign, be it to the Adige or, more probably,
the Rhine. As for poor deceived Italy, she is now
in less trouble than her heroic and chivalric would-
be liberator, if he were allowed ; but the Im-
perial swayed the will of the Royal scape-
goat. VICTOR EMMANUEL is now asked (?)
to undo almost all that he had helped to
achieve. The world will marvel to learn that he
is required to reseat the tyrants of Tuscany and
Modena on their thrones! Let the following, from
the Correspondent of the Times, speak for itself:—
" You are already aware of the secret mission of
Count Reisset from the French Court to that of
Sardinia for the purpose just specified. The count
was received on the 30th at Turin by the Sardinian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, who, as I learn on fair
authority, very plainly declared that he could not
accede to the wishes of France that the Sardinian Go-
vernment should employ their efforts to have the
dukes recalled, `with enthusiasm,' I presume, by their
late subjects. It was observed, with some reason,
that to satisfy the French Government in the first
instance, the Government had withdrawn the Pied-
montese Commissioners from the Duchies and the
Legations, but that it would be preposterous
now to expect that, in addition to this, Piedmont
should use her influence conjointly with France,
contrary to the wishes of the populations and the
interests of Italy. After this interview Count
REIssET had an audience of the KING, who, it is
more than probable, held similar language to him.
You are aware that the Commissioners from the
Duchies have been received by the EMPEROR
at St. Cloud. Their reception coincided, in point
of time, with the departure of M. Reisset on his
Italian mission. We are told that at that audience
his Majesty declared that he was not the man,
he, the Elect of universal suffrage, who could go
against the wishes of the people."

The Commons are now rapidly getting through
the supplies in Committee. Yesterday they were
hard at work once more—distributing the most
various sums, upon the most diversified pretexts, for
subjects the most miscellaneous. The contrast pre-
se rated by this variety is almost as whimsical, in-
deed, as that afforded through the memorable
conversation recorded by OLIVER GOLDSMITH in
relation to SHAKSPERE and the musical glasses.
And ;Ipon every imaginable plea the hon. gentle-
man th e member for Lambeth displays the same
insatiable greed to economise upon every con-
ceivable o,wportunity. The apparently incongruous
vote, £1,8:::13, for a constabulary force for the mili-
tary camps Aldershott and Shorncliffe, impelled
Mr. WILLIA ms yesterday, for example, to pro-
it appeared
test against the absurdity, as
to him; of paying a police force to look
after the soldiers in an. encampment. It had
to be explained t o the hon. member that the con-
stables were employed not by any means in look-
ing after the soldiers, but simply in looking after
the followers,, sutlers, and sight-seers, who are
always gathe• ring around an encampment.. Then,
but not till tl sen, the vote was agreed to with the
kind permiss ion of the hon. member for Lambeth.

As to the extraordinary diversity of the sums voted,
and of the objects to which those sums are devoted,
a glance down our Parliamentary report will show
that fantastically enough. The amounts and the
objects vary, for instance, from nearly £60,000—
to be precise, exactly £59,219—for the payment of
" certain charges," on the Treasury chest—to £703
to the office for the registration of designs ! Among
the supplies voted yesterday afternoon in close
proximity or rapid sequence, " find £40,000 for
the improvement of the Kaffirs and the better go-
vernment of Kaffraria—£3o,ooo for charges in-
curred in consequence of the guarantee given to the
company organized for the laying down of the
submarine electric telegraph—nearly £B,OOO
(£7,945) for the expedition to the River Zambesi
under the direction of Dr. LIVINGSTONE—L4,7OO
for the salaries of the inspectors of corn returns—
£11,850 for revising barristers in Great Britain—
£3,ooo for the inspectors of burial grounds—and
so on, " from grave to gay, from lively to severe."
From the compensation (?) of poor Mr. BARBER
by the doling out at last to him of £5,000—exactly
half the amount he is proved to have lost by reason
of his unjust and cruel condemnation !—to the good
round sum of £23,000 for the purchase of a site for
the extension of the Four Courts in Dublin.

At length we find ourselves landed in a higher
region, in a purer atmosphere, among all the grace-
ful charms and amenities of the fine arts. A vote of
£2,000 is asked for with a view to the extension
and improvement of the National Portrait Gallery.
Now the struggle begins in earnest. Mr. SPOONER
—despairing probably of ever having his effigy
enshrined in the collection—objects point blank to
the vote altogether. He deems the pictures already
bought as worthless. He regards the £2,000 as
only the old, insidious small end of the wedge,
that will gradually spread wider and wider as it
is driven home—until one of these fine ses-
sions, in Committee of Supply, the House will
be called upon to vote not £2,000 but £30,000 for a
building large enough to contain the thea expanded
collection. At that prospect we must acknowledge
ourselves, that we for one are not by any means
alarmed. Nor do we think for an instant that the
House of Commons—a house diametrically the
reverse of niggardly—would in such a contingency
hesitate very long about voting that hypothetical
£30,000. Mr. AYRTON heartily supported Mr.
SPOONER'S amendment, however, that the £2,000
vote for the National Portrait Gallery, at this
period of its inauguration, should be quietly
passed over altogether—alleging as a sort
of a reason or excuse, that "it was
all very well for the noble lord at the head of the
Government and his colleagues to support the vote,
because they might expect to be placed in the gal-
lery themselves." Disclaiming, good humouredly,
any such selfish motives of vanity as those actuating
him in his view, in regard to this vote of £2,000 for
the National Portrait Gallery, Lord PALMERSTON, we
rejoice to remark, spoke of the partially developed
project of that collection in terms of the strongest
eulogium. Yet the vote was only agreed to
yesterday after a division—the result of
that division giving a clear majority of
106 in a house of 176, 35 voting for, and 141
against the amendment.
Another division later on yesterday was
taken upon another vote of £2,ooo—this time
the £2,000 being required for the purchase
of HATTER'S historic picture of " The Moving
of the Address in the First Reform Par-
liament." This division resulted, it will be observed,
in the unusual circumstance of exactly the same
numbers voting for and against the amendment.
This amendment (like its predecessor),movedby Mr.
SPOONER—the very WILLIAMS of Art—led in the
first instance to an animated discussion, which was
closed by an exact division of the committee, then
numbering 164. For the vote, eighty-one ;
Against the it, eighty-one. An announce-
ment received by the house with loud laughter,
which was renewed when Mr. MAssEY, as Chair-
man of the Committee, gave his own casting vote
for the motion. And so " the Ayes had it ;" and
HITTER'S " First Reform Parliament" became the
prcperty of the nation, and, being so, will hence-
forth aid in the decoration of the new legislative
palace at Westminster. Upon the subsequent
vote of £9,988 for a new entrance to the National
Gallery—a vote eventually carried, upon a division
by a majority of 43,in a committee of 189-73 voting
against and 116 for it—there was a somewhat
lengthy, and, all things considered, we conceive a
very satisfactory discussion, condemnatory in the
strongest terms of those hideous, absurd, and costly
fire-proof make-shift buildings down at Kensington-
gore—commonly known as the Boilers (though we
should be disposed rather to christen them
Albert's Folly) down in South Kensington.
There were, at any rate, two most acceptable
assurances extorted, by this debate in Com-
mittee, from the lips of the First Lord of the
Treasury. The noble viscount announcing that there
is no intention whatever to transfer any portion of
the collection at the National Gallery to Kensing-
ton—and, beyond this, assuring the House of Com-
mons that " the recommendations of the committee
would be carefully attended to, subject to the ex-
pense attendant upon the enlargement." That ex-
pense will not be in any way—we may rest per-
fectly well assured upon this point—that expense
will not in any way be grudged by the national
representatives.

There is not an honest Liberal in the land, we
believe, but will regard with pain and indignation
the brutal outrage perpetrated, on Monday, at
Wakefield, upon the person of the Right Hon.
STUART WORTLEY, now the Conservative candi-
date for the representation of that constituency.
Unless the outrage itself be expiated in some man-
ner it will go far to confirm and enhance for that
constituency its already unenviable reputa-
tion. It was only last week adjudged
to have been guilty of the grossest
venality in the exercise of its electoral rights at
the last general election when the Quaker
banker, Mr. W. H. LEATHAM, the brother-in-law
of Mr. BRIGHT, the distinguished member for
Birmingham, was placed at the head of the poll
in return for the most flagrant squandering of
bribes by his agents, and of course—of course
—we are all perfectly satisfied of that—with-
out his knowledge ! So infuriated are these
high-principled patriots at Wakefield at the
unseating of that open-handed Friend LEATHAM,
the Banker—that they must needs mob Mr.
WORTLEY directly he makes his appearance
among them as the candidate brought forward (to
contest the seat at this new election) on the side of
the Consen atives. Lord PARMERSTON'S ex-Solici-
tor-General is yelled at and hooted through the
streets of Wakefield by a mob of the
pure and high-minded Liberals of the borough.
A formidable lump of lead, carefully pointed at one
iseacnd, a d
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prepared
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forehead—his face is covered with blood—he is
stunned, and, for the moment, almost insensible.
Apparently to represent Wakefield you must have
your chQi.cP, there, and your forehead
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be-
tween the alternative—of scattering largess about
you abundantly, or—" taking it out" in brickbats.

SUMMARY OF ELECTION PETITIONS.

1859 (SEss. 2).

The following are referred to select committees :
Beverley—William Duesbury Thornton Duesbury and
Charles Reynard, Edward Auchmuty Glover, John Nutchey
and others, Charles Robinson Empson and Richard South-
wick. _ _

.. ___.
Huddersfield—Thomas Pearson Crossland and Thomas
Haigh.
Kingston-upon-Hull—James Beeton and Robert Scott.
North Leicestershire—Rev. William Astley Cave Browne
Cave.

Limerick City—James Spaight.
Preston—James Carr and others, John Hawkins and
others.
Select committees have reported on the following :-
-

Ashburton—Brooking Soady and Thomas Pinsent ;
member seated.
Aylesbury—Thomas Frederick Charles Vernon Went-
worth, George De Fraine and William Hobley, Thomas
Frederick Charles Vernon Wentworth, Samuel George
Smith, the younger, Richard Henry Simons and others;
Mr. T. T. Bernard and Mr. S. G. Smith seated.
Bury—James Parks and Thomas Horrocks ; member
seated.
Cheltenham—John Knatchbull and John Henry Morgan ;
member seated.
Dartmouth—Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B. ' - void election.
Gloucester—Thomas Eycott and James Haines ; void
election.
Maidstone—William Russell and Joseph Popjoy Sawer ;
members seated. _ _

Norwich—John Wright and others ; void election.
Wakefield—Samuel Richard Green and John Tuting
Sweeting ; void election.
Select committees not as yet appointed for the following :
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis—Joseph Slade and
others, Robert James Roy Campbell, Colonel William
Lockyer Freestun.
Carlisle—John Park Arthur and John Graham.
Barnstaple—Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bart., Sir
William Augustus Fraser, Bart.
Roscommon—Denis O'Connor and Patrick Graham.
Great Yarmouth—Joseph Bayly and Robert Pilgrim.
Newry—Robert Dempster and Thomas Cardwell.
King's County—D. Hume and F. Cassidy.
Chatham—George Wilstead and George Pattison.
Dover—Sir William Russell, Bart.
Carlow—Henry Cary and Thomas Harris Carroll, Henry
Cary and Thomas Harris Carroll.
Dundalk—Patrick Dowdall and Matthew Moore Graham.
Clare—Nicholas Butler and John BarrymoreMacnamara.
Lyme Regis—John George Sarsfield Macnamara Moore
and George Nathaniel Shore.
Peterborough—William Vergette and others, Thomas
Scoley and Henry Freeman.
Athlone—Robert Preston Bayley, James William Fair,
Lawrence Kelly and Thomas Gill.
Norwich—Joseph -Fletcher and others, • John Godwin
Johnson and Roger Kerrison, Philip Back and Gardiner
Christopher Stevens.

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