The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

DEVONSHIRE.

A numerous and influential meeting of noblemen,
deputy-lieutenants, magistrates, and yeomen of the
county of Devon, convened by the Lord-Lieutenant
(Earl Fortescue), was held on Monday at the Castle
of Exciter, to promote the forination of volunteer
rifle corps in the rural districts of the county, and
to receive tlle reports of what had been already ac-
complished. Fortescue • presided, and among
those present %vete the Earl of Devon, Lord Chur-
ston, Lord Poltimore, Sir T. D. Acland, Sir E. S.
Prideaux (Major-Commandant of the Exeter and
South Devon Rifle Corps), Sir S. H. Northcote,
M.P., Sir J. L. Duntze, Sir J. T. B. Duckworth,
Sir M. Lopes, M.P., Sir J. Kennaway, Sir W. H;
Tonkin, tie Hon. C. R. Trefusis, M.P., the Hon.
and Rev. J. Fortescue, Mr. S. T. Kekewich, M.P.,
Mr. J. W. Buller, M.P., Mr. B. S. Gard, M.P.,
Mr Mills, M.P., Mr. T. D. Acland, ke.

!urge.

Earl FORTESCUE, in opening the proceedings of
themeoting, said that the plan for the extension of
rifle volunteers into the rural districts of the county
had received the approbation of the authorities at
the War-office. (Cheers.) He had 'received a let-
ter from the Under-Secretary for War, who said :

"I understand that you have called a public meeting in
Deionshire on the subject of the formation of corps of
mounted rifle voiunteers, anti I am induced, by the interest
which Iffeel in the amiceAs of the movement, tots euble you
with this note for the purpose of assuring you that this plan
meets with Mr. Herbert's approbation. A corps of this
kind, if organised on a good system, will be very useful,
ang I have little doubt that if the attempt now making in
your county proves successful, the example will be exten-
sively followed elsewhere. I trust that your mounted rifle-
men (and to this the noble earl called the particular atten-
tion of the meeting) will bear in mind that they are infantry
on horseback, and not cavalry occasionally on foot. Infan-
try drill should be the basis of their instruction ; the rifle,
and not the sword, their principal. weapon."

(Cheers.) The noble earl then remarked upon the
state and circumstances of affairs both a.t home and
abroad which had given rise to the rifle movement,
and which had happily, he said, extended through-
out the length and breadth of the land. (Cheers.)
He had always earnestly desired to see the rela-
tions of alliance and amity firmly established be-
tween England and France. He must say also
that he never for one moment had entertained any
apprehensions of invasion. He believed that the
great ruler of France knew too well the true in-
terests of the country which he ruled over to desire
to see any interruption of reciprocal good feeling
and friendship between that country and this.
(Hear, hear.) Further, he believed that the Em-
peror had the energy and power to carry out his
desires. But they must not forget the important
words of the Duke of Wellington—that steam navi-
gation had bridged over the sea. He felt, there-
fore, that this country must not owe to the forbear-
ance and will of any other country its exemption
from insult or protection from attack. They had
up to a recent period considered themselves a nation
of sailors, and their enemy had once called them a
" nation of shopkeepers ;" but a new era had now
dawned, and they must henceforth resolve to make
England permanently a nation of soldiers. (Cheers.)
The Earl of DEVON moved the first resolution, to
the effect that the meeting cordially recognized the
importance of permanent volunteer organization
for the defence of the country. He believed that a
permanent volunteer organization was that which
would enable England to speak with that weight in
the councils of the world which she had hitherto
done. (Hear.)
Mr. lluLnEn, M.P., seconded the resolution, in
doing which he said, that when they saw France
and Russia engaged in forming large naval forces,
it was necessary to preserve, as far as in them lay,
their naval supremacy, and to keep up a permanent
volunteer force at home. (Cheers.)
The motion was carried unanimously.
Lord CIIIJRSTON moved the next resolution, in
which the desirability of extending the rifle corps
of towns to the rural districts was expressed. His
lordship congratulated the country on the patriotism
of the ladies, and stated that Lady Rolle had sig-
nified her intention of equipping from 25 to 50 men
at her own cost—an example which he hoped would
be extensively followed. (Cheers.)
Sir T. D. ACLAND seconded the resolution, and
stated that Lord Poltimore and himself had just
succeeded in forming a rifle company of (30 men in
their neighbourhood. (Cheers.)
The motion was carried by acclamation.
Several magistrates present reported that rifle
companies had been formed in various parts of the
county of Devon.
Lord POLTIMORE then moved, and Sir M. LOPES
seconded the appointment of a committee, which
was carried.
. Mr. W. PORTER stated that he had succeeded in
forming a corps of 60 men in three small parishes
• with which he was connected, and that, although
• at first it was understood that Government would
only supply one-half the number of rifles required,_e
he was now happy to state to the meeting that h
talt themeetGteervefrroemetwas prepared
Secretraryfeodr
larhda r ,j announcingust received
that
. to supply the whole of the rifles. (Cheers.)
A unanimous vote of thethanyksteetino y rifle
county
eLord-
i Lieutenant for his zeal in rein
corps concluded the proceedings of the meeting.

DEATH OF LORD HOLLAND.—We have to an-
nounce the death of Lord Holland at Naples, intelligence
of which has been received by telegraph. The mournful
occurrence took place on Sunday, after a short but severe
illness, which baffled the most eminent medical skill. The
deceased, Henry Edward Fox, Baron Holland of Holland,
county Lincoln, and Baron Holland of Foxley, county
Wilts, in the peerage of Great Britain, was only son of
Henry, 3d Baron, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter
of Mr. Richard Vassall. The deceased peer was born on
the 7th of March, 1802, and married on the 9th of May,
1833, Lady Mary Augusta Coventry, only daughter of the
late Earl of Coventry. The late Lord entered the diplo-
matic service in July, 1831, and was for some time attachil
to the Embassy at St. Peterburg, whence he was removed
in 1832 to Turin, as Secretary of Legation. In July,
.1835,
he proceeded to Vienna in a similar capacity, and continued
there till April, 1838, when he was appointed Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confederation. Having
held that post up to December the same year ho•was re-
moved to Florence, where he was Resident Minister up to
June, 1846, when on vacating that post at the Court of
Tuscany, he retired altogether from diplomatic duties,
mainly, we believe, from the indifferent state of his health.
On the death of his father in October, 1840, he succeeded
to the title and family estates. his Lordship not leaving
any issue the barony becomes extinct.

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At a meeting of citizens of Glas :w4-A-44.7-1
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pious Institution-rooms, on Friday, e .
December, Bailie 111‘Adam in the chair, 16: R. t S
M'Tear, secretary, the following address to Lord
John Russell was unanimously adopted:—
" We, the undersignedcitizens of Glasgow beg to ex-
press to your-lordship our high satisfaction that, in
the present critical . aspect of Italian affairs, the
direction of the foreign polity of this empire is in
the hands of one who has proved his attachment
to liberty by noble and successful labours on behalf
of the civil and religious rights of his own country-
men.
"We Ip.iled with the heartiest sympathy your
lordship's loud and solemn protest' at Aberdeen
(on occasion of your acceptance of the freedom of
that city, September 28, 1859), against any inter-
- ference by foreign force' to prevent the Italians from
' having their own Government,' arid conducting
neje affairs as they- like,' and becoming the free
citizens of a free country.' Your lordship irre-
ported to have said that if there should be a Con-
gress of the Powers of Europe,' we might assist
only upon one condition—viz , that with respect to
the using of foreign force,in order to compel those
conditions of peace, whatever they may be, to be
enforced, so as to interfere with the right of the
people of these countries to manage their own con-
cerns—that if such is the object, or may be thdre-
suit of such a Congress, England must stand apart
and take no concern in it ;' and we therefore hope-
fully conclude that the fact of her Majesty's Go-
vernment consenting totako part in the Congress is
a sign that the just rights of a great people are not
to be outraged or dettiVed.
"We now venture to address your lordship to
give you the clearest .asssurance that in the main-
tenance orthe principles enunciated
_at Aberdeen
you, will be supported by this great community, and
also, as we firmly believe, by the nation at large.
We accept gladly as the guiding law of the foreign
policy of our country your lordship's declaration
that the different States of Europe should be in-
dependent, that (in your lordship's own words)
they should manage their own concerns, and
that no one State should have a preponderance
in Europe, no matter what should be the
constitutions or the internal Government of the
rest. We assure your lordship that the practical
maintenance'of this principle, in its application to
the affairs of Italy, will add the gratitude of an
Italian nation to the gratitude felt by your coun-
trymen for your services unto them, and will join
to the gratitude of Britain and Italy the admiring
respect of every lover of freedom in the world at

„
” In times of anxious difficulty like the present,
it cannot but strengthen the hands of a British
Statesman if the world knows that he possesses the
confidence of the people, the maintenance of whose
honour he holds in charge. Such confidence we
now express. You yourself declared 'the indtipen-
deuce of the several States of Europe an object
which Great Britain ought to feel a sympathy for
and an interest in.' Feeling such sympathy and
interest, we trust your lordship will stretch to the
utmost the influence of Britain at the coming Con-
gress to procure the withdrawal of all foreign troops
whatsoever from Italian soil. Seldom in history
has people so suddenly proved itself adequate to
the task of sell-government as have The Italians in
recent times—seldom in history has so clear a way
been opened for the spread of religious liberty over
a land long held in spiritual bondage; and foreign
' intervention has no excuse to plead, for it has no
wrong to redress and no blessing to bestow.
"We believe, moreover, the issue of the Congress
•a matter not merely of Italian but European mo-
ment. What safety can any State possess if its
internal affairs arc subject to the decision of a Con-
gress ? If the States of Central Italy are to be en-
forced to act against their own recorded convic-
tions, why may not any other States be compelled
to exist under like subordination to a few para-
mount Powers ? It is the great question of Euro-
pean liberty itself which is now at stake.
" Finally, we would express our hope that your
lordship's influence will be exerted to prevent un-
due delay in the proceedings of the Congress as
tending to complicate still _more dangerously the
difficulties of a land in whose past history-civilised
Europe has a garteful interest—a land bounteously
blessed by Providence, but too long unhappy
through the misrule of men not native to its soil,
and not rejoicing in its freedom or its glory.
" With high respect we remain your Lordship's
faithful obedient servants."

The memorial is being very respectably and
numerously signed.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIG EXCE.

CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 19.
SUBJECTS FOR PRIZE EXERCISES.

I. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Chan-
cellor of the University, being pleased to give an-
nually a gold medal for the encouragement of
English poetry, the Vice-Chancellor gives notice
that the prize will be given this year to such resi-
dent undergraduates as shall compose the best poem
on " the Comet of 1858." N.l3.—The exercises are
to be sent into the Vice-Chancellor on or before
March 31, 1860, and arc not to exceed 200 lines in
length.
11. The Most Noble the Marquis Camden being
pleased to give annually a gold medal as a
prize for the best exercise in Latin hexameter
verse, the Vice-Chancellor gives notice that
the subject for the present year is "Platrea
Lacethemoniis obsessx. ' N.B.—The exercises are
to lie sent in to the Vice-Chancellor on or before
March 31, 1860, and are not exceed. 100 lines in
length. All undergraduates who shall have resided
not less than two terms before the day on which
the exercises must be sent in, or who shall at least
be then in the course of their second term of resi-
dence, may be candidates for this medal.
111. The representatives in Parliament for this
university being pleased to give annually (1) two
prizes of 15 guineas each, for the encouragement of
Latin prose composition, to be open to all bachelors
of arts, without distinction of years, who are not of
sufficient standing to take the degree of master of
arts ; (2) and two other prizes of 15 guineas each, to
be open to all undergraduates who shall have resided
not less than seven terms at the time when the exer-
cises are to be sent in. The subjects for the pre-
sent year are-1. For the bachelors, " Ex Philoso-
phorum veterum disciplinis qinenam at fidei nor-
mans Christiana, proximo accesserint, quieritur."
2. For the undergraduates, " Semperne in orators
probando aut improbando vulgi judicium cum in-
telligcntium judieio congruit 9" N.B.—The exer-
cises are to be sent in on or before April 30, 1860.
IV. Sir William Browne's three gold medals,
of the value of five guineas each, are given to such
resident undergraduates as shall compose—
(l.) The best exercise in Greek verse, the
metre being either hexameter, elegiac, or lyi is ;
(2.) The best Latin ode in imitation of Horace ;
(3.) The best Greek epigram after the model of the
Anthologia,' and the best Latin epigram after the
model of Martial. The subjects for the present
year are :—(1.) For Greek verse, Elegiac metre,
oioiuoc cipLo-ros, ciktinifcre9aL 7r(irpqr. (2.) For
the Latin ode, Alcaic metre, "In memoriam Johan-
nis Franklin, equitis aurati." (3.) For the Greek
epigram, ncopov. (4.) For the Latin epigram,
" Nmo mortalium omnibus horis sar,it." .N.B.—
The exercises are to be sent in or before Aprii 30,
1860. The Greek ode is not to exceed 25, nor
the Latin ode 30, stanzas. The Greek ode must be
accompanied by a literal Latin prose version.
V. The Porson Prize is the. interest of 1400
tostock, to
morebe annually
Greek
bo
books,
employed ebde
given
N,
etheli purchaseto such
o
resi-
dent undergraduate as shall make the best transla-
tion of a proposed passage from the works of any
standard English poet into Greek verse. The
ec sub-
j t for the present year is Alassinger : " The
Virgin Martyr," Act IV., Scene 2 :-
1 —4' She smiles

'Unmoved by Mars"—

;o the words—
" Better, indeed, than you can fancy yours."

N.B. The metre to be " Tragicum iambicum tri-
metrum acatalecticum." These exercises are to be
accentuated and accompanied by a literal Latin
prose version, and arc to be sent in on or before
March ?1,1860.

N.B. All the above exercises are to be sent in
to the Vice-Chancellor privately. Each is to have
some motto prefixed, and to be accompanied by
a paper sealed up, with the same motto on the
outside, which paper is to enclose another, folded
up, having the candidate's name and college
written within. The papers containing the names
of those candidates who may not succeed will be
destroyed unopened. Any candidate is at liberty
to send in his exercise either written (but not in his
own hand), or printed, or lithographed. No prize
will be given to any candidate who has not com-
menced his residence in the university when the
exercises arc delivered.

L. NEVILLE, Vice-Chancellor.

THE REPRESENTATION OF PONTEFRACT.—Mr.
Overend, Q.C., in consequence of the decision of Sir John
Coleridge on the dispute in reference to the last, election
for Pontefract, has accepted the Chiltern Ifanadreds, and
has issued an address to the electors, in whit b., after reca-
pitulating the well. known facts leading to it, ho announces
his retirement from the borough, and thanks his friends for
the kindness they had bestowed on him.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—At the half-yea rly meeting
of this company, held yesterday, the report ck ie directors
was adopted, and the dividend of 2s per Share ,eclared.

ROYAL

ENGLISH OPERA,
cov ENT - GA UDEN.
tinder the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING (the 21
time) VICTORE. M
Mess
ssrs.
Santley, Haizh, H. Corri, G. Honey, BartlemalNn, U.
Parepa, Thirlwall, &o.
Conductor, Alfred Mellon.
Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H: Payne,
F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Zenon, Clara Morgan,
and Mons. Vandris.
Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 23 o'clock.

THEATRE -It OYA L, HAYMA.RKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENINI: the performances will commence with
A GAME OP SPECULATION.
After which, by desire, THE CONTESTEION ELECTION
Kr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, Szo.
And SHOCKING EVENTS.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING. the new drama: entitled HOME
TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews,
Miss C. Leclerc(' and Mrs. Charles Young.
Followed by A WONDERFIL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris
Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which, Mons, Espanosa (Premier Danseur Comique),
will appear, with Madlle. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of
the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as
danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la
Porte St. Martin, Paris.
To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. 11.
Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs.
Weston.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
TIIIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
E. Webster. J. L. Toole; David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland ; Miss Woolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINORAII UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office onen from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.--7
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called
THE KEY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. JaineS
Vinning, Jno Rouse, &c. ; Mesdames A, H. Hatton and Julia
St. George.
To be followed by the new Drama Fantasfique, entitled
PARIS AND PLEA.SURE ; or, Home and HappineJohnss.
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy. J. Vining, J. -
stone, F Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate
Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste.
Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE.
and Mr. Rouse.

Madame Celeste

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production,
by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the
principal events in the Life of the Great Italian GeneraL
To befollowed by New and Brilliant Equestrian Changes in
the Arena, introducing a vivid Four-horse Scene by John
Henry Cooke, as the Nemlean Conqueror —More Wonders by
the Educated Elephant—Elegant Equitation by Miss Emily
Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Alfred Cooke's sur-
paPsing evolutions on a naked Courser—Electrifying Feats
by the Athenian Atbletn, J. 11. Cooke and Crouses—Ndvel
Flag Exercises on horseback by Madlie. Jenny—Varied by
those heralds of fun, the
cClowns,
times,Mi and Drolls.
To omment 7.

Espeehi Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations
of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQULN TOM
MOODY ; or, Old Towier the Huntsman and the Goddess
Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday
Jan. 2, 1860, at Two o'clock each day.

CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.--
v EVERY tEVENING. Sterndalc Bennett's MAY

QUEEN.
And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAIT.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
nights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to-the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Smq OFFICE, DECEMBER 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
46—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.
WIND, Westerly; light, with fine sunshiny weather.
Rain last night and this morning.

HIGH WATER AT 'LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 32m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om.
To-monnow.-Morning, 12h. 3m.--Afternoon, 12h. 21ra.

THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1859.

It is amusing to observe the difference between
the Moorish and the Spanish accounts given of the
different minor actions and skirmishes that have
already taken place in the neighbourhood of Ceuta,
since that melancholy little war commenced there
upon the north-eastern frontiers of Moroceo. Ac-
cording to the Moors the Spaniards have.met with
nothing hitherto but reverses and discomfitures.
They have been killed and wounded in numbers
altogether disproportioned to the importance, or
rather to the want of importance, of the, different
engagements. They have repeatedly been driven
back ignominiously. They have, even by this
time, in some measure expiated the guilt of their
hostile movement beyond their own African boun-
daries by the severity, the swiftness. and the reitera-
tion of .;heir punishments. This, all this and a
great deal more, according to the accounts given
to the world by the Moorish authorities, from the
Commander-in-Chief downwards ! And upon the
opposite side—reading the military records laid
before Christendom by the Madrid Government—
how wide and glaring the difference! Running
the eye down these despatches one is led to the
conclusion that even now, almost by this time,
Morocco is—all but—conquered. The skirmishes
there in the immediate vicinity of Ceuta, viewed
through the Spanish lorgnette, appear to be mag-
nified almost to the dimensions of momentous
pitched battles pitched battles only just
short of being - conclusive ! Warlike achieve-
ments, that supposing them to answer accu-
rately to those descriptions would certainly
necessitate a very copious appendix to
Professor CREASY'S literary masterpiece. When
all is said and done, however, in turning over these
extraordinary bulletins from the side of the Moors
and from the side of the Spaniards—there stands
out the significant and undeniable fact that the
fighting is still restricted to the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Ceuta ! Showing as plainly as possible
that whatever other advantage has occurred to
them, the Spaniards have decidedly not
advanced ! It has been bloodshed hitherto
to no purpose whatever beyond that of
enabling the belligerents to flesh their swords
and their bayonets—and to test their skill as marks-
men upon living targets closely clustered together.
The situation is thus as nearly as possible the, same
now that it was when the struggle commenced.
Only the foes are a trifle breathed, a trifle heated,
a trifle more irritated against each other.

As evidence of the bias of the bowl as it rolls
from either side in the form,of the last bulletin, note
the Moorish account of the affair of the 9th inst.
" At daybreak on that day," quoth the Moorish
record, " a force of about eight thousand Moors
attacked the Spaniards encamped outside the
frontier lines of Ceuta at three different points,
put them to flight immediately, and got posses-
sion of all their recently constructed earthworks.
ifterwards the Spaniards rallied, and

Shortly

with a considerable reinforcement from the town
attempt.d to regain the defences they had lost.
Three times they fell upon the Moors, and were
each._ time repulsed with great loss. Then the
Spaniards brought up still larger forces than before
and attacked the Moors whilst they were engaged
in carrying off the field their dead and wounded.
Thus. assailed the Moors retreated slowly and
steadily to their own ground, and were pursued by
the eittacking Spaniards down the hill side be-
low title further redoubt, where some 200 Moorish
cavalry charged the enemy and. drove him back
most gallantly, the Moors regaining the redoubts.
A heroic band of mountaineers, numbering some

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600 men' h.ageildainthste omodtdhse, '
almostgrouud
othveerylvitloeoira.lci.:lfi;
throughout.; the day, and kept up a sharp and most
effective fire until nightfall, when, seeing the field
deserted, they withdrew to their camp.
The
lkienrs could , have remained in occupation of the
redoubt, but as they had no cannOil to
there,
place
930 as their present camp is more secure,
they
did no do so. It appears the SpanL,rds
had withdrawn their cannon from the battle-field
before the Moors Attacked them. The Moors lost
about 100 killed and 200 wounded, and de-
clare that the loss sustained by the Spaniards
must be far more considOrable than in any former
engagement." The Spanish account of the same
action is of course as different as can well be. The
losses there are all on the other side; The advan-
tage in numbers was the advantage of the Moors.
The repulse was the repulse of the Moors. It is
another wreath of laurel to hang on the Spanish
standard, another clasp for the future medal to be
Aram in gold, or silver, or bronze, according to their
grade, by O'DONNELL and his companions. And
we dare say that by the next mail from Madrid we
shall learn that Queen ISABELLA has penned
an autograph letter to the Commander-in-Chief of
her forces now at the African seat of war,
offering to him and to them her most Catholic
Majesty's congratulations. The news from Morocco
is a fact like that mouth marvelled at by the Satyr
in " .2Fisop," blowing fitfully as the whim promp ts,
now hot, now cold. It is the shield of the pic-
turesque allegory—painted on one side black, on
the other white—fastened aloft as a vane—blown
hither and thither, to the right, to the left—now
I !-)lack, now white, accordingly as the wind blows
from the camp of the Moors or from the camp of
the Spaniards.
Happily there are other observers than either
Spaniards or Moors out yonder at the seat of war
in Morocco. From their narratives we learn more
reliable tidings as to the character and result of
the different struggles that have already occurred
near Ceuta. The Special Correspondent of our
principal morning contemporary stands forth con-
spicuously among them, and the last of his de-
spatches is certainly by no means the least interest-
ing. In this communication, dated as recently as the
10th inst., from Algesiras, he speaks of the rumours
afloat at the " Rock" as to the conflict of the pre-
ceding day, that conflict—the couleur de rose account
of which by the Moors we have but just now been
examining! " The Moors in Gibraltar," says he,
" were in great glee this morning, and had a notion
that the Spaniards had been thrashed, but the
news of the cutting off of the pickets was all that
seemed to have reached them. lam impatient,"
he adds, "to learn how the Spaniards behaved in
the first confusion of a night attack. If they
showed coolness and avoided panic, it is a great
thing on the part of troops so new to this kind of
warfare. But, meanwhile, this is not making pro-
gress: THE SPANIARDS SEEM RATHER IN THE POSI-
TION. OF A BESIEGED FORCE." It is undeniable. It
is the very fact upon which we have just been in-
sisting as in itself so peculiarly significant. There,
still at Ceuta the fighting continues ! The
Spaniards have, therefore, we repeat, not advanced.
They have their old rot) crrco in Africa—but for all
that, they have failed (as yet) to move Morocco !
Cum grano salis, therefore, we must still read the
Madrid records of these wonderful Spanish achieve-
ments.

Now that death has suddenly snatched away I
apparently in mid career, the Right Hon. HENRY
FITZROY, heir-presumptive to Lord SOUTHAMPTON,
and up to the time of his demise Chief Commissioner
of Parks and Palaces under the Coalition
Government—we are constrained to ask with
some anxiety who is to be his Ministerial suc-
cessor at the head of that important de-
partment ? The most popular Minister of
Public Works that we have had for many years
past was unquestionably—the name will be antici-
pated by the majority—that able administrator,
late Sir BENJAMIN HALL, now Baron LLANOVER:
We believe that Lord LLANovEL's nomination once
more to the office he filled with so much honour to
himself, and with so much reflective credit
to his colleagues, under Lord PALMERSTON'S
former Government, would be hailed with very
general, with almost universal satisfaction. It was
only very recently that we took occasion with no
small pleasure to commend as in every way excellent
and praiseworthy the selection made by the Premier
in almost all his late appointments. His " second
thoughts" as the organiser of a Cabinet have in
this manner certainly proved best. It was thus
with the Right Hon. CHARLES VILLIERS, when
named by an after-thought to the Presidency of
the Poor Law Board. A selection, in that instance,
that we ourselves, several days before the actual
nomination, pointed out as of all the most advisable :
naming him in' these columns, as the right man
for that right place immediately the post
had been vacated by Mr. MILNER GIBSON'S pro-
motion to the Presidency of the Board of Trade—
when the latter place was declined by the hon.,
we regret we cannot (for that very reason) say
the right hon. member for the borough of Roch-
dale. So has it been more recently with regard
to the elevation of the Solicitor-General, Sir
HENRY KEATING, to the bench in the Court of
Common Pleas, upon the unexpected demise of the ,
late Sir RICHARD BUDDEN CROWDER ! And so too
again, in turn, with respect to the selection of Sir
HENRY KEATING'S successor as Solicitor-General—
Mr., soon, of course, to be by the knightly accolade
from the hand of the SOVEREIGN, Sir WILLIAM
ATHERTON! Whose previous minor offices as Counsel
and Judge Advocate to the Admiralty have been
since hardly less wisely awarded to Mr. COLLIER,
Q.C. Here once more, by the lamented death of
Mr. FiTzrre— the First Lord of the Treasury, is
afforded another, ,opportunity for the improvement '
of his Administration. For it is only repeating
frankly what was candidly remarked on all sides
again and again during the latter portion of his life-
time, when we say that as Chief Commissioner
of Public Works Mr. FITZROY was in a very great
measure a Ministerial failure. In that more con-
spicuous and more responsible capacity he assuredly
did not fulfil the public expectations in his regard
—he did not sustain the reputation he had pre-
viously acquired at the Home Office, when he was
there two years previously as Under-Secretary. Now
that the right hon. gentleman has been otherwise
for the public and for his friends, unhappily, and,
as it seems to us poor mortals, prematurely
snatched away by death—there remains his
vacant office to be filled up (if Lord
P LIS EASTON pleases) most advantageously.
Will Lord PALMERSTON so please ? Will Lord
LLANOVER consent to resume his position over the
Public Works Department as Chief Commissioner?
Let us hope so—for it would be in every respect a
very wise and a very popular appointment.

The Countess Dowager of Macclesfield has arrived
at Howchin's Hotel,. from the family seat, Sherborne Castle,
Oxfordshire.
The Earl of Orkney arrived at the Pavilion Hotel,
Folkestone, on Saturday last, and loft on the following day
for the Continent. •
The Rev. T. L. Sutton, jun., has arrived at
Howchin's Hotel, from Geddington Vicarage, Northamp-
tonshire.

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