The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-16 00:00:00

THE A.R1121.

The following general order, dated Horse Guards,
Sept. 25, issued by command of the Duke of Cam-
bridge, has been received at Chatham garrison :

"His Royal Highness the General Commanding. in-Chief
having had before him the annual report of the instruction
carried on at the School of Musketry at Hythe, and of the
progress of musketry instruction throughout the army dur-
ing the year 1860-61, desires that officers commanding
divisions and districts will call the attention of officers com-
manding regiments in their respective commands to the fol-
lowing points, viz. :
" 1. It appears to his Royal Highness that commanding
officers are not so careful as they ought to be in the selection
of men for training, and that in many instances sergeants
and privates have been sent to Hythe three times over. The
consequence is that the energies of the Staff of the establish-
ment aro wasted, and the object of the school as a normal
training institution defeated.
" Too many officers trained for the appointment of in,.
structors are ensigns, who, although they are qualified for
the position, fail to discharge the duties thereof satisfac-
torily from want of a knowledge of the service and weight
as regards years and rank.
" To insure the schools of musketry being in future used
with the greatest advantage to the service, officers of the
superior ranks will, whenever it may be practicable, be al-
lowed to go to those establishments, and all adjutants and
sergeant-majors of regiments and depot battalions should
be regularly trained there, either before or after appoint-
ment ; and all k ergeants, corporals, and privates sent for in-
struction should be specially selected for their conduct, in-
telligence, and educational acquirements, in order that they
may be of use on their return to their respective corps.
"2. Nothwithstanding, the previous injunctions on the
subject, the number of non• exercised men in many regi-
ments continues very large, proving that every opportu-
nity is not embraced to bring all the men under instruction.
It only takes 12 days for a soldier to execute his annual
course of rifle training, hence no excuse can be made as re-
gards time.
"3. The practice still prevails of medical officers exempt-
ing men from rifle training who, in other respects, appear
to be doing duty in the ranks. This proceeding is prejudi-
cial to discipline, and is one which, if not stopped, will open
the door to great abuses. _ . .

"4. The inferior shooting of many regiments points to
the want of greater care in the execution of the preliminary
drills, and of the more frequent exercise of the men in the
' position' and aiming drills ;' also to the necessity of
greater attention being paid to the further instruction of
third •class shots during the winter months, which alone will
insure a higher position in the letter of merit.
"5. Particular attention should always be paid to the dif-
ferent firings at battalion, brigade, and divisional field days,
as if executed in a hurried and careless manner the good
derived from a steady course of rifle training is in a great
measure counteracted.

"By order of his Royal Highness the General Command-
ing-in-Chief.
" JA.MES YonxE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General."

In consequence of the numerous discharges of
men of the Royal Engineers which have taken
place for some time past at Chatham, chiefly on ac-
count of their unfitness for further service, that
branch of the service is so considerably reduced
that the corps is at present about 500 men be-
low its proper strength. Recruiting for the Royal
Engineers is accordingly proceeding as briskly as
circumstances will permit, but still the greatest
difficulty is experienced in obtaining well-qualified
mechanics, artificers, draughtsmen, surveyors, &c.,
of which class the corps is exclusively composed.
By the sanction of the Duke of Cambridge volun-
teering for the regiments of the Line for the Royal
Engineers has accordingly been opened, and num-
bers of young men, some of whom are first-rate me-
chanics, have volunteered for the Engineers, where
the pay and emoluments are considerably higher
than in other corps. Notwithstanding, however,
the numbers of volunteers who have' arrived at
head-quarters, Chatham, several hundred men are
still required to raise the companies of Engineers to
their full strength, and the somewhat unusual
course has therefore been adopted of opening volun-
teering in the cavalry regiments, a number of men
Lancers—have
service—chiefly
already
v
from o
volun-
teered. the
9th s Royal)
teered.h branch of the
Up to the present time the number of
volunteers from cavalry and infantry regiments who
have arrived at the head-quarters of the Royal
Engineers, Chatham, is close upon 100. the whole
of whom receive the sum of one guinea on joining
at Btompton-barracks. The volunteers as they
arrive are attached to the 36th company.
The attention of general and other commanding
officers of the Royal Artillery has been called by
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge to the
following important directions respecting the mode
of carrying on gun practice. From the reports re-
ceived at the Horse Guards it appears that a very
largo proportion of common shells, fired seaward, fail
to burst, and this is on nearly every occasion ac-
counted for the fire in the fuse being extinguishedby concussion, ricochet,
or immersion. To prevent
the recurrence of these continued
failures it is di-
rected that in future, when shells are being fired at
a floating or other target at sea, the fuses be bored so
as to cause them to burst the shell ten yards short
of the target, but in all 4724 ego the iustructor

We have to announce the death of Major J. W.
Pringle, which took place on Saturday last, in his
70th year. The deceased entered the army in 1809,
gin ers in the Penin-
sulaand served
fromlBwliothtoththeeßeanydaolfEtnhe war in 1814. He
took part in the battles of Dive and Neville, where
he was wounded. He was present at the investment
of Bayonne. He served also during the campaign
of 1815, and was severely wounded at Waterloo. In
recognition of his services the deceased had received
the war medal with three clasps.

SHAM FIGHT NEAR DOVER.

In anticipation of a visit from hisßoyal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief the whole of the troops in
the camp at Shorncliffe and in Dover garrison were
ordered to assemble on their respective parade
grounds at an early hour on Monday, and to march
thence to a field near the Royal Oak, about three
miles to the west of Dover, for a sham fight. The
troops assembled accordingly, and under a bright
sun, with more of May than October in the atmos-
phere, ascended in glittering columns the heights
from Dover and Folkestone respectively to the
elevated plateau on which they were to form up for
inspection. The troops from Shorncliffe were first
on the field, and just as they were taking ground
the guns of Dover Castle were heard, announcing
the arrival of his Royal Highness from London.
The troops from Shorncliffe consisted of a squadron
of the 18th Hussars, commanded by Capt. Pering ;
four batteries 9th brigade Royal Artillery (Lieut.-
Colonel Shakespear) ; a squadron of the Military
Train (Major Salis) ; 23d company Royal Engi-
neers ; Ist battalion 10th Foot (Lieutenant-Colonel
Longden, C. 8.) ; 2d battalion 21st Fusileers (Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Lowe, C. 8.) ; and the 2d battalion
25th Foot (Lieutenant-Colonel Allen). The Dover
troops were the 4th company Royal Engineers; five
companies 2d brigade Royal Artillery, without
guns (Colonel Aylmer) ; Ist battalion 3d Buffs
(Lieutenant-Colonel Ambrose, C. 8.); and the 64th
Foot (Lieutenant-Colonel Shute). The total of all
ranks and all arms on the ground was 4,139. The
appearance of the Commander-in-Chief on the
Round Down Hill was announced by a Royal salute
from the F battery, stationed on the brow of the
cliffs ; and as his Royal Highness rode on the
ground, accompanied by Major-General Sir Richard
Airey, K.C.8., Quartermaster-General; Brigadier-
General Garvock, Major-General Stotherd, and
Major the Hon. W. Colville, he was met by General
the Hon. A. A. Dalzell, and his staff—Brigadier-
General Sutton, C.B„ Colonel Taylor, C. 8., Colonel
Walker, C. 8., Colonel Ormsby, Major Straubenzee,
and Captain Dalzell. The Duke immediately in-
spected the men, who were drawn up in columns,
and then gave the word for the commencement of
the sham fight. The troops at once advanced to
meet a supposed enemy from Dover, the 10th Regi-
ment deploying into line in skirmishing order,
covering batteries of artillery, the right on Round
Down Hill, and the left extending through the hol-
low and up Hougham Hill, A troop of Hussars
was on each flank, to protect the guns from a flank
movement of the enemy, or to make an advance in
case of need. The 21st Fusileers were in line in sup-
port, followed at a distance by the 25th and 64th,
each in line. The fight was chiefly sustained on the
right next the sea. The 3d Buffs supported the
10th, Hougham hill on the left, the 2d brigade of
artillery, without guns, in reserve to the Buffs. A
battery of artillery was advanced to a sheltered cor-
ner on the left, and kept up a continued play on the
enemy, driving them to the right. Meanwhile the
10th descended the ravine, still skirmishing, the
artillery playing over their heads. Here the 21st
advanced to the front skirmishing with the enemy
pursuing them up the next hill, and as they gained
the top advancing with a hearty cheer to the charge.
After that the 25th took the front, and then the
64th. On the left the Buffs had chased the enemy
up the hill, and brought them between themselves
and the sea. The 64th here ceased firing, the Buffs
being in the line of their fire ; but the artillery on
foot supported the Buffs, and kept up a vigorous
file firing on the enemy, who were supposed to be
sheltered by haystacks near the sea cliff. Then
came a pause, and the Hussars sweeping in from the
left cut away vigorously around the sheltering
stacks and demolished the invisible enemy, to the
satisfaction of all concerned. After half an hour of
rest the troops again formed up and marched past
in grand divisions in quic)c time, the Commander-in-
Chief complimenting audibly every regiment but
one as it passed him. The 64th, however, bad nn-
fortunately its colours in the wrong position, and its
marching was also unsatisfactory, but an apology
was offered his Royal Highness by an officer of the
Staff in the fact that 150 men had joined the regi-
ment only on Saturday last. The troops then
formed in line, and, marching up, gave a Royal
salute, with which the proceedings of the day were
closed.

THE DERRYAIACASH RIOTS.,—The prosecution of
the Roman Catholics charged with assault at Derrymacash
last year was resumed on Saturday at Lurgan. The exa-
mination and cross-examination of witnesses were repeat-
edly interrupted, not always in the most courteous manner,
by the learned counsel for the prosecution, who seems to
have enlivened the court by displays more than verging
111394 /o,l49UerYs The caw was adjourned till Thursday,

(From the Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply,
and Sanitary Improve»zent.)
The Minutes of the Committee of the Privy
Council on Education are exciting the sensation
and the opposition to be expected whenever a money
.interest is touched. The Minutes propose a reform,
and no reform was ever effected without pinching
the pockets of those who have profited by the evils
to be excised. The fact that the proposed Minutes
will cut off the prospects of many pupil teachers,
and impair the present and future income of many
certificated schoolmasters, who have been cramming
themselves in order to pass the ordeals enacted by
the Minutes about to be superseded, cannot and
ought not to be evaded ; but the change is not a
whit the less needful, because it is hard on the army
of schoolmasters. The fact is that we have, for a
series of years, left the management of what we
will call Parliamentary education—for Parliament
pays for it—to the only people who were enthu-
siastic about it—tbe doctrinaires—the good people
of Sir Kaye Shuttleworth's school, who honestly
believed that it was a national duty to cram paupers
and little smock-frocked bumpkins with as much
literature and science as possible, without regard to
their age or their future probable pursuits. These
enthusiasts did not look on the national system of
education as a means of making good ploughmen,
blacksmiths, soldiers or sailors, neat, obedient dairy-
maids, or handy servants; but of developing the brains
of occasional prodigies. They made a race of edu-
cation, in which the winners were applauded and
intoxicated with praise, and the losers neglected.
The whole tendency of the system was to induce
schoolmasters and mistresses to concentrate their
efforts on their cleverest pupils. The teacher's
payment, reputation, and promotion did not depend
on the general proficiency of the school, but on pro-
ducing a few bright particular stars, to remain in
the first class long past the age at which the hard-
handed class usually go into the world to get their
living. The result was, a crowd of little parrots,
learning phrases by rote, and thus astonishing
casual visitors ; but unable to read, much less to
write or cypher, in a useful manner. If any objec-
tion was raised to this system of forcing and
"starring," it was set down to an ignorant aristo-
cratic prejudice against the labouring classes; and
a list of illustrious men who, self-educated, had
risen from the ranks, was cited to show the pro-
priety of fishing in parish schools for a Watt or a
Stephenson. Some years ago, the intelligent
manager of a pauper school in the neighbourhood
of London, where the modern high educational
system was early applied, asked a well-known
baronet what he was going to do with the boys
who, under his influence, had been taught enough
elegant and useless knowledge to disdain the only
callings they were ever likely to have a chance of
following ? " Ah !" replied the worthy " idealist,"
" that is my greatest source of anxiety ; but I shall
never be satisfied until I get the cleverest of the
poor-house scholars an opening as clerks in the Go-
vernment offices." When boys and girls whose voca-
tion it is to earn a living by hand labour of some
kind, can read easily, write fluently, and cypher
correctly, a legitimate means of advancement in life
has been bestowed upon them, as well as a source of
instruction and recreation in leisure hours if they
have a taste that way; but,when they are retained
to an unusual age at school, and imbued with an
inordinate idea of the value of mere book know-
ledge, it constantly happens that they become dis-
contented with the only livelihood open to them,
without being fit for a white-handed employment.
In nine times out of ten, it will be found that these
village prodigies have been forced at the expense of
the rest of the school—a very natural result, as
gentlemen of moderate means who have a gardener,
with a taste for horticultural prizes, will acknow-
ledge—the care which ought to be bestowed on
fruits for dessert, and vegetables for the pot, is apt
to be concentrated on a few choice specimens de-
signed for competition at flower or fruit shows. On
a subject about which so much has been written, a
single practical illustration will be more effective ,
than a whole volume of abstract arguments. In a
village in a purely rural district, where we were
lately visiting the squire, are the pauper schools of
a very large union. These schools were, a few years
ago, conducted by a certificated schoolmaster and
schoolmistress ; of course, they were assisted by
Government funds, and inspected by a Government
inspector. The schoolmaster and schoolmistress,
anxious for the increase of salary, and certificates
leading to promotion which depended on the condi-
tion of their first classes, took the greatest pains first
to cram their best pupils, and next, to keep them
at school as long as possible. Wonderful was the
proficiency of these selected ones—not squires only,
but parsons, fresh from the Universities, were
astonished at the range of their acquirements and
the promptness of their replies. But, after a cer-
tain period, two facts became painfully evident—
first, that the mob of little stupid ones left school
with no useful education, and a great hatred for
everything in the shape of print ; and, next! that
the first classes made very bad and very discon-
tented servants, carters, ploughmen, and dairymaids.
When they left school, they were above their busi-
ness, and fit for nothing else. The farmers and
their wives, who paid the poor-rates, were naturally
discontented with the management. The poor-house
became unreasonably full of boys and girls whom
no farmer would hire, and of girls who returned
from service not unfrequently disgraced. The dis-
ease became so virulent, that a strong remedy was
required and applied. The certificated master and
mistress were replaced by two decent people, who
looked to spending their days, without promotion,
in the union schools; the Government grant was
surrended ; the official visits of the inspector of
schools were declined, although he was still invited
to come as a friend, and ask any questions he,
pleased. At the time of our visit in August 'ast
the new plan had been some time in operation,
and with perfect success. The children were well
and evenly taught useful things ; they were made
good servants and labourers. The number for hire
in the poorhouse had been diminished from I no to
less than 50 ; and the inspector, in a recent unoffi-
6laj yisit, 1104 adinitteriithat the elements of educa.

These two items are merely specimens of a whole
class. The oxen, the bacon, the butter, cheese, &c.,
are all pouring in, in rapidly-increasing quantities.
Yet these foreign supplies do not seem to depress
undesirably the products of British industry ; for
provisions, though not very high in price, are by
no means remarkably cheap. We observed that on
the last market-day, although 10,000 sheep had been
imported, the price of mutton rose as much as from
about 2d. to 4d. per stone.
The truth seems to be, that since our ports were
first opened to foreign provisions, in 1842, about
4,000,000 of people have been added to our popula-
tion, while our cultivated lands have not been in-
creased to any considerable degree. Hence we have
more mouths to feed than in IM2, while we have
scarcely any more acres from which to feed them.
Thus an increase in our purchases from foreign
lands seem natural and nearly inevitable.
That we should have to buy from France and
Holland about two hundred millions of eggs year
by year, strikes the bystander at first with aston-
ishment; but it becomes intelligible when we reflect
on the very different circumstances of the two
countries. A continual subdivision of land is going
on in France. On the death of an owner of fifty.
acres, his land is divided among his children, who, if
six in number, obtain about eight acres a-piece.
These small proprietors, who are neither farmers
nor labourers, are just the sort of people to grow
fruit, rear poultry, and sell eggs. In England, on
the other hand, the tendency of land is to coagulate
into large estates. A wealthy landowner who is
prudent, is always on the watch to buy up any
pieces of land that adjoin his own property. He is
fond, too, of wealthy tenants, gentlemen farmers,
who cannot stoop to a poultry yard, except for the
supply of their own tables. And the poor labourer,
with from 9s. to 12s. per week, can neither buy
fbwls nor feed them, nor take the eggs to market.
Thus the supply of our great towns with eggs,
rabbits, and fruit is either wholly, or in a great
measure, left to the little farmers of Normandy,
Brittany, Belgium, and Holland. If it were not
for these sources of supply, eggs and rabbits and
fowls would be very expensive luxuries in England.
Yet we have often wondered that in some of
the villages within reach of London the experiment
of producing eggs on a large scale has not been
tried. An " egg :grower," having his own ware-
houses and shops in London, and his poultry-yard
in Kent or Hertfotdshire, must have some advan-
tages over a Belgian grower who must deal with
a merchant at Ostend, which merchant has to
pack up and and the eggs per ship to London,
where another merchant receives them and carries
them to market. Here is the profit of two factors,
the shipmaster's charges, and the risk of breakage
and loss by spoiling, all to be saved by a grower
who takes his own eggs from his own yardin Kent
to his own shop in Leadenhall-market. Surely a
living profit might be made by any prudent mana-
ger out of such a trade.
The remark which we have often made here
comes again to mind. How little able to predict
were the Protectionists and Free-traders of 1842
and 1846! Both felt sure that the import of foreign
corn, meat, fruit, &c., would greatly lower prices
in the English market, and save the consumers'
pockets. The Free-traders rejoiced in this belief;
the farmers looked to the future with alarm. Yet
we have had, within the last two or three years,
enormous importations, and yet no cheap bread.
The fears of the Protectionists and the hopes and
promises of the Free-traders have both been shown
to have been groundless.
A similar instance of human fallibility has oc-
curred in the kindred question of the increased
supply of the precious metals. M. Chevallier, in
France, and Mr. Cobden, in England, have been in-
sisting, for three years past, on the certainty of a great
derangement of prices and values, in consequence
of the new and large supplies of gold from Austra-
lia and California. Nor have they been singular
in these expectations.
We remember that, when, in 1852, the effect
of these supplies began to be felt, an impression
prevailed among capitalists that "money would
never be worth 2 per cent. again." One of our lead-
ing railway companies was offered at that time a
million of money at 21 per cent. for seven years, and
it scornfully rejected the offer. On that day five
years the same company would have been rejoiced
to have been able to borrow a million at 5 per cent.
And we have seen the Bankof England, fora short
period, obliged to charge 10 per cent. for the dis-
count of bills.

The truth is, that man remains a fallible being,
and that no amount of sagacity, foresight, or expe-
rience, can enable him to foretell " what shall be on
the morrow." In 1851 we held, at the Great Exhi-
bition in Hyde•park, a sort of friendly Congress of
Nations, and there were not wanting those who
predicted that we had seen the last of European
wars. It was less than two years from that time,
when finding his friend Lord Aberdeen in power,
the Emperor Nicholas ventered on that fatal ad-
vance which soon placed four nations in battle array
before Sebastopol. No sooner had we escaped from
that conflict than our dominion in the East was en-
dangered, and a few thousands of Englishmen had
to fight to save themselves from massacre, in the
cities of Hindostan. Then came open war between
France and Austria—next, a warning that England
herself, to be safe, ought to prepared—and lastly,
we behold at this moment at least 500,000 men in
arms on the banks of the Potomac and the Missis-
sippi. A tolerably stirring period of ten years has
this been, considering that many orators foretold,
in 1851, that the leopard was about to lie down
with the lamb, and the wolf to gambol with the kid.
Men will hardly predict, when, in May next, the
second " Great Exhibition" shall open, that no more
war will shake and harass Europe. They have had a
lesson which may teach them to avoid anything
like a prophecy ; and especially all prophecies of
apneaecrer.or.W.we
eousrhsaellivnesotarveenntoutrgeotiongsatyo
tfhalalti,nitn Aa
o sulchy
next the world will shake with a dozen conflicts,
and yet there are many things more unlikely. This,
however, all men can see to be improbable—that the
Ist of May, 1862, should dawn, like the Ist of May,
1851, upon a world at peace. The Great Duke is
gone, of whom it might be said, as of several of the
great captains in the Book cf Judges, that,infohrtiys
time, "the land had rest forty 5 ears." The
years, too, are gone with him ; and now, as we have
remarked above, we hear of a new war about every
second or T
more than
he
that—we
toov yeastmar. Andresultsoral
in
arising.perceive,
Crimean
va
r
indeed, had no other fruit than an unmasking of
Russia's weakness. But the Indian conflict wrought
out great things. It made India really English;
it
established
a power in Hindostan where there
had been previously only an occupation: And the
war of 1859 60 raised Italy to the rank of a nation ;
and reduced the Papacy to a bishopric. As to the
war in America, we cling to the hope that it will
not cease until it has wrought the downfall of
slavery ; and then the contending parties have our
free leave to terminate their quarrel in any way
which to them shall seem M.—Advertiser.

The report of the directors of the Bank of Turkey
recommends a dissolution of the undertaking, owing to the
non-fulfilment on the part of the Turkish Government of
the conditions first proposed by +he unsatisfactory character
of tho modifieut;ene subsequently offered. An immediate
return was made of £2 per share out of the £3 paid on 40,000
shares, and the realization of the caution-money wiu yield
A rum of about £13,400 for further dietributioa.

Lr rose
Fontaine,
taarimn
wounds don nageehouimntno
(From the Tin2ehr. a !..;
"Friend," said a Quaker to a dog who lid'a bitten
Quaker himself. The
ex-
istenceo
beautiful
giune_ theanciaFdt
,:freeearrnptai
French, the
srasiytrrahwstea:hgaiteicnonohguaCnteatittloharl
imagination
countrymen
htohef
him, "I will not beat thee, neither will I kill thee,
but I will give thee a bad name." Titus saying, the
'man of peace opened his gate and dismissed his
enemy,
b after
him, as loud as he could, " Mad dog ! " The village
have
enasvd:t thehey apparentlydh oagvewi asm pkoibrl
been
eeeddn
ostudying with
tru jaeays
ithundredn-:uothkis:
our manufactu
and have extracted this piece of homely wisdom, or,
perhars we ought rather to say of vulgar cunning,
from tee pages of that venerable authorty, Joe Ilia-
ler. At any rate, they have not been slow in its
application. No besieged city ever awaited the
final assault which was to decide its destiny with
more terror and more anxiety than the French
manufacturers and the protected interests in gene-
ral awaited the dawning of that dreadful 2d of
October which was to witness the invasion of the
markets of France by the productions of the Eng.
lish manufacturer, converted in his turn into the
untaxed foreigner, and threatening to sweep out of
the market the beautiful and hitherto highly
praised manufactures of France. The day came
and went, as days will come and go, whether
they bring adversity or prosperity to man-
kind. As soon as the panic-stricken Protectionists
had time to breathe they began to perceive that
the evil was not altogether so great as their ar-
dent imaginations had represented it. Bad as it was,
things might very easily have been worse. The
Chamber of Commerce at Rouen were so much de-
pressed by the magnitude of the danger that they
deputed a number of merchants to assist in the valua-
tion of the imports. The precaution was unneces-
sary, for the amount imported proved to be exceed-
ingly moderate. We believe that the same thing is
true of the other places of importation; but though
the quantity of English goods brought into France
has hitherto, from some cause or other, been exceed-
ingly moderate, it is equally certain that the mar-
kets of Paris have been supplied to overflowing
with English goods at very low prices, and of very
inferior descriptions. How are we to expound this
riddle? Has there been some gigantic fraud at one
of the French Custom-houses, or has there been
found some means of smuggling somewhere on the
coast between the ports where import is allowed ?
The mystery is cleared up in another manner—in
a manner certainly more creditable to the ingenuity
than to the honesty of some of our neighbours. There
are different parts of Paris where articles of different
manufactures are sold. Thus, goods from Mulhouse
are sold in the Rue du Sentier, Roubaix goods in
the Place des Victoires, and- Rouen goods in the
Rue St. Martin. These ingenious persons per-
ceived that the French public would naturally
look for a large importation of English goods, and
would expect them to be sold exceedingly cheap.
They proved themselves fully equal to the occasion.
Instead of providing themselves with English
goods, they reflected that 'they had on hand large
quantities of old stock quite unsaleable under ordi-
nary circumstances. These faithful friends of the
shop were touched up to look like English goods,
received high-sounding names out of the English
Dictionary, and were purchased in great quantities
by retail dealers requiring English goods at prices
highly remunerative to the sellers. The buyers also
were probably satisfied for the moment, though, as
the Nouveiliste of Rouen truly observes, disenchant-
ment is sure to come in time. We should think it
would. The man who pays for sherry and gets
Cape for his money, who pays for a young horse
and gets an old one, has seldom reason to be satis-
fied with the transaction ; and the man who bar-
gains for new English goods and is put off with old
French ones has no reason to be better pleased. By
this ingenious device the shopkeepers in question
have not only filled their pockets, as might be done
by any other fraud, but they have, they hope, com-
pletely discredited English goods in the French
retail market. Many of the persons who have
been thus imposed upon, it is believed, and very
reasonably, will never know the fraud of which they
have been made the victims. The goods will have
got a bad name, and, as it is not possible just now
to tear the Treaty of Commerce in pieces with can-
non balls according to the prescription of M. Dupin,
as they cannot either beat or kill the English ma-
nufacturers, they deem themselves very fortunate
that they have been able to conciliate a considerable
amount of private gain with the darling object of
discrediting the manufactures of England. Our
Rouen contemporary, the A'ouvelliste, which is evi-
dently thoroughly imbued with the spirit of protec-
tion, seizes upon this not very creditable event in
order to read a lesson to the French public. The ad-
vice which the Rouen paper gives to French buyers
is to lay aside their senseless desire for English pro-
duce, and this advice is strengthened by the follow-
ing statement:—" Our advice is.worthy to be fol-
lowed, and the best proof that we can give of it is
the assurance that several manufacturers in our
town are taking advantage, for the present at least,
of this disposition of buyers, to dispose of all the
rejected articles thrown aside in the corners of their
warehouses, after having dressed them up and given
them high-sounding titles, borrowed from the Eng-
lish Dictionary."
The argument of the Rouen paper is briefly this—
" Put aside your senseless desire for English goods,
and buy old French goods at old French prices, as
heretofore, because if you order English goods you
will not get them, but French goods of an inferior
quality, tricked out to look like English goods by
the rascals with whom you deal, and sold at a price
which, however low, is infinitely too high for their
value." Such is the practice of the shopkeepers of
Paris. Such, on the authority of a Rouen journal,
is the morality of the principal manufacturers of
Rouen. Now this would be exceedingly good advice
if it was absolutely necessary for the French con-
sumer to rely exclusively on such agency as that de-
scribed in the Rouen journal. But it seems almost
too ridiculous, even for a protectionist driven to des-
peration, to argue that the French consumer must
give up all hopes of the goods of England because
his agents will not permit him to receive them. He
may reasonably claim to have a voice in the matter.
If we might venture to offer our advice to the French
retail dealers, we should say,—" My friends, you
have been cheated, but not by us; eschew hence-
forth the Rue de Sentier, avoid ike a pestilence
the Place des Victoires, and hold no communion
with the Rue St. artin ; distrust Rouen,
its manufacturers, and its protectionist jour-
nals; find, if you can, some honest im-
porter, who will give you truly the goods for which
you pay him, and will not seek to wean you from
the senseless desire' of buying English goods by
selling you French trash and filling his pockets at
your expense, and whenever you buy English`goods
insistupon seeing the invoice." It might be worth
the consideration of respectable English houses
whether it would not be worth while, in considera-
tion of the very peculiar code of ethics which is
applied to the importation of English goods into
France, to establish agencies of their own, and to
take measures for exposing more in detail the frauds
under which they suffer. The thing will sooner or
later work itself right, but better sooner than later.

ANOTHER CASE OF ACCIDENTAL POISONING.-
Yesterday an inquest was held by the coroner for West-
minster on the body of Mr. John Baker, aged 59, overseer to
Mr. Reilly, gunmaker, Oxford-street. Captain John
been in company with him. He then complained of wind
on the stomach, and said he should take a black draught as
hßaudrnadrunby,koson
some
ee
onfigithhtebseafoidre. t,h,
a remedy. Mrs. Baker, the wife of the deceased, said that
going to bed her husband asked her to go to the safe
after going
and fetch him a bottle containing -medicine. As soon as he
fortis." He called for mustard and water which, he got
and drank. He then fell on the floor, while his wife called
in the police. Dr. Black and Dr. Grey arrived shortly after-
wards, but they had not been long in the house when the
unfortunate man died. The post mortem examination of
the body showed that the deceased had suffered from a
serious internal complaint. The poison which he had
swallowed was found to be a weak klution of cyanide of
potassium. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from
taking poison by mistake." l‘eidYeadthearo:lthheavd

THE REGENERATING LOZENGE.—MediCaI Science has
brought to light a new and successful mode of administering
remedies for spermatic regeneration, contained in a simple
lozenge, known in tropical climates and throughout the world
as THE TRIESMAR. The therapeutic properties of the re-
generating lozenge promote those albuminous and fibrinous
secretions, which have the well-known power of at encc re-
producing and enriching the fecundating. fluid, when dete-
riorated from its natural consistency. In cases where
iiex-
cesses have been blindly yielded to, from almost uncontroll-
able able impulse, a single course of this invaluable medicine
at once restore the ebbing powers, and re-energise
ced,
ever advanced, but immediate relief will be P
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iepatient,
wiii o
The Triesmar can be taken at the
able
to the palate,
in-
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hausted.being a simple regenerating lozenge,
aderive the additional ad-
purchasing the above medicine will p
and unattended with any personal
Royal College of
ersonally or by letter
Br:convenience. Those
vantage of medical advice. I
Sur-
(without fee), from
a juLicentinte of the Royal College of
Sur-
geons, England, anclii
.no is registered under the new
Physicians, Edinbu-aed his exclusive studies to the above
Medical Act, has dc'
1, the discoverer of this great remedy. Post-
disease&
be made payable to William Medicos, and oflice orders to here of the
ad-
dressed to No. 19, Berners-strect, Oxford-street, London,W W.
next door to the Foreign Library), where the resident physi-
cian attends daily to give advice, between the hours of 11 and
o'clock. The medicine may be obtained, securely
packed
and free from observation, as above. Prices 11s. per case, or
four cases in one 3369
1- eifeettnn.
a §twiug Qt 115., and in 40
oases, saying 4112 x.

s. x.
*INN-Jet-sum' Lfigan rota' otrr-Flot-semi loz
Wall~murem 24 March-4-29 Sept. mrrant'm)- flaangials,
as Treasury data of the Fishery-park Laws.
T 2113 STA.R'S-PERIGEE'AN-LONGITUDE P,MILOSOEHT, OR
ELECTRO. COMPASS (-) pO'NTI USE FEATIT.
riINQUE-i"ORTAL. Wit-in-G" moot-court.--In
vv B. c. Diez-Cinc'kent 50. N. Polar*Soar''above & below-
p istre-geograph. •
: : to Gover's * Arrow off-
and-on' Diepp's-uouen to Lizard-Pt. o'er Ind. Quadra..
culmination Tropic-wend t'uord Mineral's Lang,ue Took
40. N. Its state-rope Anchor flag-tow%l. pres-by Tyre
'round the fist earth, as of Titus Vespasian's meter, yr 79
on 1824-35 Act for Bso'ca-Gonchoidal, leet-Crts.
The Bowloigne 'd illegal mixt-Comjn-negatta fete of
27-Bth, August'en A.D. 1861—as Eve shamid-on " the after-
math-n' head'ng night of Ihon ,8 apte'ft"—issued the 13th,
Old Lammass-day from the " Jag Assey's office (of Grand
master of Malta's College, St. James's-st.", on U. S. c. 33,
8. 7, 1800-2-as of Amiens treaty-Nap), in dupelex, ' welkin
.Paul the eapson-scholastic,' by Goal-LEwEs' in Ship way
Peal' of rParis Zonekirk's ? Earth-moving' error. So to—.
" Command oid words, that low, have slept—to wake,
Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake.
This langawa Banifin, out ftot m„key-loop as, Corn-
hill-st. ma-chaTcil. "Like GGG-father-131 Co-wpm-R-1712,
like GaG.Tchildsprim PALMERSTON 1861 -as of ll.J.Temple
—cites the charter of Bristol L. P. 9 Anno, 24 July, for its
backwarn'ng to six, five, or four," combay-(on's in Lath'm
Span'sh Cabotage) curvature a Latriuqy-us., Yer
the
sunk port, Q. inn Jeken land wad-set' s prior to Pope -Nip.'
tax 1291..97-Doge 91G.'s 9th, at ShorexAm, 18-21 ' pavillion,
Bright-helm-stone meridian of old London, £sd-resumed
for" Carthage-mud port-Coe hon, Edict Comfirn., of Review
in Egypt's 1828," by 9-10 NV. 3d,, c. 15, for undersigned's
sole Etruscan " Arbitrat'm grate .na Ponti fiseuna--0 MiSra•
tor" as G' log &Jaya) 'twixt Turkish ALI, aud Cod irngton,
who in Claudian's 0 'way conic letter-A didn'
11. t—
" Scorn arbitration as a stain-
9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [no 10th.
Ist. So, no 1581's Earthrolling-bull's, with a Fiat earth
Langueg7oi Ber aemit Jet'famen'ys astral, See I Edw.
c. 2, re,_,enact 284-yr. in 1832 by 2-3 Will. IV., c. 92,
the Clergy 4. Restraint
sec. 4,—entitled, The Submission of
of Appeals—a! yet pending to Pombal's Brazil-9, in ach-
ita' intervention, 25 Henry 8,
.0.. 19, ¶ 3, Whereas divers
life-titled noblemen and spiritual persons have sent
out civil-summons, in their own names, as in the
time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome,
contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes
of correction De Jure patronatus, and probates of testaments
—Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes
by advocates or other will-court officers, of the King's
Highness, do bear the Echo-Knight rider's fiscustom'ary
endorsement, as well as the Common-clerk's name placed
under citor's name, after registered seal, in polar " Die
Baaren" Jet] meridian roof'd :: R mchester-bridg'd in
maw. Antoec-transit, o'er N. Zen Waithangad brother
and sister's 3-ty. as G. 5.20. E. of Azores (-) Verd ' fulcrum-
ponticulus-hemisphera3' m 4, Ist re-ponti-P hi /i more- Te' ad as
the old longitude-bridge' %ark-dance o'er the L'aid4- ley
"In silence, till the cheerful sun.
Has twice six months its star -wend run."

Thus--Laganton-uotalorum's of Kent under s yn-sid eral-
lathe epoch for P. £' audits, to Bow towns 51ivN., 8 prefix
over its L' mnd'on-wavey bye Wall-in-ford fcirencester
Seven hundreds' in 34-HEN. Alnothus, to 1-4
Hen. 4's hogshead of wine Jus-" Ex-change A 1." as of
Bristol's ` leva lvngue in X-by's alemare meet, of Fresh
and salt water Admiral's Court, not of Co-mercer's fa. fa.,
l'Erewing-sup,' as on Jesuit's ward books ea. fa.'d.
" Think deep.—or touch not the empyrean spring."
2dly. Whence, by 1 Fhilip & Mary, c. 7, "No man shall
exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailiff's
Silver-oar, of July, 1521, 81—now Utrecht's Indian-paddle
Treaty of 1713-63, as of Mexico's Philipine isled Bohun-
inspector of all 3 fiscal-fmeter-Crts.), who like WOLSET's
Temple'r shall take on himself 'to direct and serve his own
pncept.' Hence this cinq Negative ; since (by Russn-Dutch
loan on America's double-hdd-eagle-KoEegk, 91's Mingan
trust acts of 1832), pension' d Church-Queen's "in to—of a,
by civil list, —tho' in teer" Left facs"—have ceased to be
the head of Malcolm In.'s G.G.G -son monetary Trust in
presbyteralkindred and at your peril disobey this law
—for "one and all as breast-high' d on Agricola's E;cot and
lot hand-up lIIMERA4 typic, as on Caesar's silver coinage
for electing the yearly Abkari' Rhat's on 29th Sept., or
Simi-call-tneze—magistrates, on life union Echo-wall, to the
24th March one,lsof *Red Indian " murri nomine"—

" To gain the race he eager tries ; his forfeit life's the stake."
27, Aug. 31, 1861 [unpaidl-jan.ter martyr 19 yrs]. London,
PETER BASQTTET, n The flag-unien Jag, Ist Fruit-
a.m M p.m. pacca-corn hill' d-tribun e as Income-tax-
. DT freeman, Antipod'n Crown colon chief
Bulo.ta' of 1842, The criminal law's Extradi-
t Temple. tion Gap-constable 3-mile off-sea-shore,
Labouchere. bearing Kamerica's paddle of Admiral's
W [2 March, '4l] court, over Canterbury's @e-Guizote
H. M. Perley, settlement for New Zealand's probate
3 Sept, '4l's Crt., its Gig /UM' poy Stil'lordWarden
clap v viz'r. tho' cruelly set up a medal'd necca-
machine, in " paccaria3 gentis imagines." .*
CHARLES ' ACHERLEY, J.P.of Carib-allyd f
Enctland, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- .•• : :
miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown-
retary; Marcus HiII—SANDYS, Lay-presbyter's 69u,
on The holy alliance abolition,' of King- A
clubs), its Standard meter-bearer 1837—Lt. I
R.N. pay'd double- oath fed victim—supporter Si
of poor indian PETER 10 yrs, by Indian female Peu Qu'
sponsorship 1820—thro' Quebec's Hamilton-' Rien
Dalhousie, m Elder's duty for HIS and own's S.P.Q.R.
instant 'State-birth provision, as the Mon-
tague Subsidy first-fruit loan 1814'20's, major Trensor-
Cartwright's mtccessorial Ombra-U'horno. to trove.
1322'99's red-turban'd Hen. Quadra Manfre-
dum'y de peccaria! on IL s's colona'd martin 5; I. V
to GoNalLvi 1816 rezolamento-159, by Pius 7th on
Ch.—Bailie Urban Bth's caps-city-oath, of 1749 Ad-
vocate STUART wortley-Newcomen's en Gonfaloniere'
182.5 passed iR C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, sa. 64,
as th" goin'd popied Luther- calvin, for lay seignorage-
trust, over W. Russell and Stanley's Dead-hand (1683)
yet-attaints, in secret propaganda (Sion Hill) agency.
To all metre-roded ' Councils General' in nature's Year-law;
under 1835's Municipal and Reform Acts to Mayor's local
supremacy (against New" Conlin Grippe-Jesus Christian
Clubs. 11 Geo. 111, c. 55, male or female," as at the Burgh-
ports 1772's on the Shoreham resignation, aver-bull'srun of
Clement 14tb's Jesuit priest Abolition, for the Earth Lay-
resumption of life-set allotments of land), over the yearly
Poor-law Guardians—as are for the time being—on 1603's
church Canon in vestry'red lettered functional succession
—an afterthought of Q. Elizabeth's I P. C. i'nuRLEY-men,
for oaths in retro-' O'way-sense, for sound office, whence
stoppage of all pensions and ministers' money (for public
works) whereby all Creed'rs are made self-supporting.— So
be it—for Asia-Europe's posse eomitatus rectification.
" 'Tis thus that Heaven its empire doth maintain ;
It may affiict—but MAN, must not complain!'

4. Papal-tribunes of /film minor Ex-change bA pointers*
o.s. Fiat-earth's Pi6ra'an philosophy to 1582, on COWPER'S
1671's Hnitson Chiliarcha3'r ^ of St. Michael's PENN for
Vox humans organ Tun' of Hidelburgh, in Heligoland 3ty., •
Jan. 14, Mav-Copenhagen'd by C. X A. of H M S Daphne,
1814, as the Montague letter'd Crown-page before Embassy
Fosamit's Abbe-locum' of Hanover's Exmouth 3ty of 1816,
in Labouchere's father, Rothschild's Hessian 10-mare.
Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and
Maritime Register, 17th Aim, 1861, p. 1051.
Survey Arbitrations.—By 9 10 W. 111, c. 15, it is enacted,
" That merchants. sole-traders—(and all Antipode'ans
as those under the 'Turkish, 1809-Dardanell'd Padi; hie Jan'
Bailled 16treaty,' 1841)—desiring to end All controversies by
arbitration, =ay agree that their submission of their suit to
an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on Thony
Monthermer' ACKERLET, Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),—0f any
person, should be made "on Captain Cook's mane rule in
tribal Admiralty red-flag MAoRi4-plea," of his Majesty's
courts of Record ; and in case of disobedience to such award
or Umpirage, the parties neglecting or refusing (I.T. Q.
Review, Nov. 1829),—to perform the same, shall be subject
to penalties of contemning a Rule of Court, "as Pa •tax Infs.
sion'd on the Anglo-Saxon Mexi-Spanish trust, yet Cuba-
Philipin'd to 1763-4-state A Grants, as reset 31 Jan. 1842-3,
on the Carib-micrnac's minor L'Boar's head, Inn-fan-Gee
and Out-fan-G.-sustenance of
(without "Locatelli" death's,
or further maddening poor PETER by exile from), family.
"Neath polar Astra's wehr-ring wolf to fawn,
And view with trembling, whom theyview'd with scorn.'

GUILTY (OR NOT GUILTY FICTION) RIDER.
" The sea-writ original (now police-sheet root
To ' St. Peter's-key) spring, of ev'ry civic-suit."
Thg "not guilty" when GUILTY is the free and accepted
for county-rate expenses, in all the courts—but, the guilty
on written confession to Female complainant, before hear-
ing—is of right saved (50, E. 3) from a slaughter under the
twofold spiritual and corporeal capacity of the casting voice
in Judge, as prisoner's police arbitrator. The case in ques-
tion being a complicity 'twat Mistake-plaintiff, and Defen-
dant. rre-tacited—in order to obtain " a Court-christian
Baillie-day's criminal fiat-papal," —as an October ' Laird
o'Cockpen's Ist usefruet, of the French treaty jurisprudence
in the Marylebone Police-court on Wed.. Oct. 2, " Bellew
v. Baillie" committed for three calender months to the cells
with loss of hair—omitting the real Rued-pursuer's name
on civil law table-turning, a Flemish-Balieu cased in writ
into a police-sheet-charge'r-in-fault.
The pre-forgiven prisoner, (on faith of pre-arbitration
with Plaintiff in rug- laundress), for not having counsel—to
explain the kneeling facts' not forthcoming—Therefore,
on suggestion,' Mr. Tyrwhitt may instantly ' from defunct
justice,' as saving being outwitted—rectify this Cassandra
washing-rng' trial between mistress and servant—in order
for instant Henry 6th release, under Chief Justice Bruce-
-nakto-Fortescne' s " K t.- Stapleton Statute" of 1442 (0,
e'lldlAtth Vestal-women-jail-keeper's o'er the 600, in Tothill
mun.7Y-like prison)—&c., on modern Bench-warrant as
gen Itive-eaßed-in V', sth Victorice, c. 24 as—La voila !
" Provided always Yea I that, if e'er
Quakers lady Quacks interfere,'
Or take upon them—'as,a scholar'—
Prohibitory' wri should follow."

I,t 0Y A L EN
1 GLIS IT OPERA,
COVENT GARDF
Under the managernHeanrrtiosofT,MissslLouis4aNP. Yrie and Mr. Wm.
, o e Lecaees
(Stierirn on MONDAY,
Wi II OPEN for the Sixth Operatic
Or% 'fl, IStil, when will be produced
Nf w Grand Opera, in Four Acts, by HowatrialeGiaonyeern,ttirocblye
Cut. tied RUY RLAS.
1,
he t 3,nnmany : ..... Sop ran os : Miss LonissPynive:;3_ Liss Thin-
on the
w•? 11. and Madame Guerrabella (her first a
14; n(4 i i sli sta,e). Contraltos : Miss Susan Pyne,mZ,l,'
.1,,,,, Miss Jessie M`Lean (her first appearance on the entm}:
ms ~,r). Baritones and Basses: Mr. Santicy, Mr. Hen7,—
(!t:rri, Mr. Pat ey, Mr. T. Distill. Mr. EuErene Dussek, Mr. Ty
Watrworth, and Mr. George Honey. Tenors: Mr. Henry
1 2 Vir. A. St. Albyn, Mr. C. Lyall, and Mr. W. Harrison
....aqf.a• -

Conductor, Mr. ALFRED 31ELL07•;'.

T RINCIPAL DANCER, MADEMOISELLE LAMOUREUX.

or ADMISSION : —Private B^xe from 10s. CA. to
stlik S ven Shillings ; Dress Circ'e. Five Shillino.s ;
Cri-er Circle, Four Shillings; Pit, Two Shillinqs and Six-
r/fT ; Amphitheatre Stalls, Two Shillings ; Amphitheatre,
)7-ie S', y. The Box-office will be onen from Ten to Five
or? , ito,l each day after, Thursday, Oct,bor 17. No charge for
bookiii,,, nor ices to fl'x-keepers. Doors cpen at Half-past
Si x. Commence at Seven o'clock.
1-• tn p-e.. Man aver, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr.
d ~zd Murray.

VIOYAL LYCEUM T lEAT.IIE.
11Ian ager-- F.dmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND.
A tie.- which, at Eight o'clock. the new and success:
lomedy of WOMAN ; or, Love against the World.
arscters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Ve7in,
,„„' ,„11A,,tina, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs, Weston, Miss Murray,
'us" LYdia Thomson.
'a
cone' a
Will :11 bunt" with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
Quit LYdia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer
P ri^eß
unreal
7. Lcox-offto 0 • oors open at half-past 8, to commence at
Pen dally from 11 till 5.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstene.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY
Alter which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX
Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers
Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &O.
With PAUL PRY MARRIE AND SETTLED. Paul
Pry (in a new position), Mr. C. MDathews.
To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER.
Commence a• 7.

ItO Y AI. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
HIS EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M.
Harris and Mr. H. Widdicomb.
Alter which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ-
ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ;
3haracters by Mr. John Brougham (his 16th appearance), Mr.
Ryder, Mr. 11. Widdicombe, Mr. G.rJordan (of the principal
theatres of thenited States, his 15th appearance in En;-
Lin ri), Miss C. Lettercq, and Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with LOVE AND MURDER. Mr. John
lit con,fham.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATT! CHARMS. Messrs.
13, Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
Alter which (252 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. • Mr.
D. '2oucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson,
L. .1. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boueicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
'foconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
3lr. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter
tc Eleven.

Also, Grand Selections from

TR OVATORE, TR A VIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, &c.,
By Mies Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli,
Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus.

The Comic department comprises Messrs. Harvey and
French, " The Nerves "—Mr. Marshall—Mr. Wood and his
talented Son—and Miss Harriet Coveney.

Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission —Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

T " 0 X F O RD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.

EVERY EVENING.
SELECTIONS from Auber's New Comic Opera, "LA
CIRCASSIENNE," by Miss Ernst, Messrs. Greene, H.
Herbert, and the Company. And from Verdi's new (rand
opera, "Simon Boccanegra," by Miss Russell, Messrs.
C. Geville, Morley, Greene, and the Company. Full band and
chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jot-r,hmans. Varied Comic
Entertainments by Mr. and Master Wood, Harvey and
French (The Nerves), Mr. E. Morshall, and Mr.W. Randall.
Hall, &I. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m
To-Moßßow. -Morning, 12h. 68m.—Afternoon, lh. 18m,

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 16, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
56—this:day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.26.
WlND—Northerly—moderate ; with dull, but fine;
weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1861.

There must be no squabbling next session, and
the reason is obvious. We all know that some-
times when brothers and sisters, and occasionally,
though that is only to be whispered, husband and
wife themselves, have been hotly bickering, and
looking not exactly as members of one family
should do at each other—a rap at the door is heard—
a visitor is announced—is shown into the room, and
—forthwith, and during the whole of the visit, all
the family's faces look as bland, as smiling, as genial
as possible. The visitor never could suspect that
the same faculties which produced such a series of
smart pleasantries for the hour had been for an
hour previously producing much smarter invectives
and satires. For aught the visitor could tell,
feminine eyes were always mildly and modestly
drooping, never flashing wrath, and gentle-
men's brows were always open, never knit with the
vain effort to match the keenness of a feminine
retort. The visitor leaves happily a really
" Happily Family."
Now, so it is to be, if report speaks truly, in
1862. Visitors from all the world are to be here.
They will visit not only the Great Exhibition but
our Houses of Parliament; they will see all that
is to be seen ; and, we are told, that they are to see
Earl RUSSELL smiling on the Earl of DERBY, and
Lord PALMERSTON on Mr. DISRAELI; that no quar-
rels are to be allowed; Parliamentary Reform not
even to be mentioned; Mr. BERKELEY'S motion to
be handled with silk gloves, and Sir JOHN TRE-
LAWNY'S with white kid ; Mr. WHALLEY, as
successor to Mr. SPOONER, to be counted out; Mr.
BRIGHT to be propitiated with some additional
Free-trade sop, if, indeed, Mr. GLADSTONE'S inge-
nuity can find any materials left in that line ;
some indulgence is to be offered to the Bishops
and Clergy in regard to Religious School
examinations, and they and the schoolmasters are
to be privately informed that the better they be-
have the better for them. We are to have an Exhi-
bition Session ; to put on our best behaviour before
visitors ; to look as if we never had or knew of any
domestic feuds. Some sham fights are to be exhi-
bited, perhaps, that our friends may see the aspect
of our serious tactics and evolutions, but blank
cartridge only to be thought of. As to any dis-
placement of a Ministry, with all the world in our
house, it is not to be thought of; and then what
in 1863—will Lord PALMERSTON retire, or will
he fight the strengthened Conservatives, or will
Reform, or anything else, be a subject for the neces-
sary battle—Heaven knows ! With America, Italy,
Rome and Venetia, Hungary and Poland—we may
add, cotton difficulties, all before us, he would be an
unusually bold political prophet who should write
a political almanack for 1863.
Yet there are some thoughtful men who would
like to use the present lull of agitation to prevent
by anticipation future political quarrels. At Ox-
ford the retired Judge and real Conservative, Sir
W. P. WooD, observed the other day :—" Progress
must now he the word. I have no desire to trespass
on party politics, but I should be glad if all great
questions of progress could be settled in quiet times.
Although I do not agree upon all points with the
right lion. member for Oxfordshire, I will say in
his presence that if his views had been carried out
some time ago in reference to parliamentary reform
we should have had a measure which would have
gone very far towards a settlement of that vexed
question. Whoever may be in power, I think that
Government will deserve the-greatest approbation of
the people of this country which shall take care that
before a time of difficulty, pressure, or commercial
panic arrives, any great question likely to unsettle
men's minds shall be satisfactorily adjusted."
Mr. HENLEY, when it came to his turn, amidst
general cheering, heartily accepted the Vice-Chan-
aellor's opinion. " With regard to the question of
parliamentary reform," he said, "I believe that it
wasauaiesastnwiooitnth wthgeals.fault of those in Parliament that that
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always been of his opinion, and I have more than
once expressed it in Parliament as well as in this
city—that things of this nature are better settled in
quiet times than in times of excitement." Mr.
HENLEY threw the entire blame on people outside
—Parliament, he affirmed, was utterly powerless
through popular apathy. " It was no more possible
for Parliament to settle it than for honourable
members to fly." The honourable gentleman went
so far as to prophecy on the probabilities of his own
life. " When the question," he observed, came be-
fore the House of Commons I gave my opinion on
it fairly and frankly. I said at once what I was
willing to do, and I left office because that did
not suit those with whom I was acting in the

Government of the country. So far as I was

personally concerned there was an end to the

matter, but since then the whole question has
been gradually dying out until it came to a

natural death last session. Whether it will ever

come to life again I don't pretend to say, but I

must confess that in what remains to me of

my life I can hardly expect to see it again."
So Mr. HENLEY cheerfully hopes that no " ugly

rush" will occur in his days. He quitted office
rather than hazard what he thought the first step
to it, the equalisation of the borough and county

"ranchise, and now he hopes that for the remainder

of his life, at least, the question of Parliamentary

Reform will have no resurrection.

All is quiet enough,indeed, just now, on the sub-
ject. That Sir W. P. WOOD and Mr. HENLEY

should advert to it seemed quite a novelty. Earl
RUSSELL himself was perfectly silent at Newcastle
upon it ; the great battle of 1830 and its
great results were all he could think or talk of. Not

a sentence was there deploring his own failures to
perfect the Great Reform Bill after so many trials.
One might almost suppose he had reverted to the
conclusion of bygone days, and that he accepted
finality again with the peerage. Yet it cannot be
doubted that the two Oxford speakers are
right. Such a grotesquely gross absurdity as our
present representation cannot long remain un-
assailed. The ARUNDELS and THETFORDS are not to
last for ever. Earl RUSSELL showed that slavery,
if not got rid of now, must give rise some years
hence to another civil war; and so, assuredly, a
political monstrosity, like the absorption of almost
all electoral power by a minority, will, sooner or
later, stir again the waters of political strife.

One or two of our political contemporaries are
indeed, very fond of repeating the assertion, that
no one cares about Parliamentary Reform, because
there is nothing of consequence now left for Par-
liament to do. We cannot accept this view of the
question. The influence boroughs, the corruption
boroughs, and the political slavery of the counties,
are alone something to be done. The unfairness of
the present system is as much an object to deal
with as the old unfair corporations, and the reli-
gious disabilities, on which Earl RUSSELL and
his fellow speakers dwelt so much. If no
great changes were effected in consequence of
rectification of all this—the rectification itself is
one which would place the constitution on a juster
and therefore firmer basis.
There can be no doubt, however, that Govern-
ment would be much better carried on by a larger
infusion of the popular element giving greater
weight to really liberal principles. There is, indeed,
one subject which has been made very prominent
in late Parliaments, which would be better settled
in a Parliament more perfectly representing the
intelligence and mind of the nation—we refer to
what we may term Lord STANLEY'S question—that
of Religious Equality. We agree with him that it
is the next great question which must occupy Par-
liament. In most of our colonies it has already
received the solution which it must eventually
find at home. No observer of the progress of
things can fail to see this. Half the nation already
worships unaided by the state, and is free, religi-
ously, from its jurisdiction. That half will demand
Equality. Privileges of every kind have almost all
vanished—the Boroughmongers, as such, lost their
privileges; the Corn-growers theirs; the old Corpo-
rations theirs ; the West Indians theirs ; the Pro-
tected Trades theirs; the Colonies theirs; the Ship-
ping interest theirs; not only have disabilities been
removed as utterly intolerable, but the special
privileges conferred on some, have been felt
to be almost direct injuries, in a free country, to
those who did not share them, and they also have
vanished successively.
It is folly to doubt the ultimate effect of such a
tendency on religious establishments; either by
disendowment, or by equal endowment of all,
equality must be reached. It is contrary to all
the sentiments of the day that one man's mode
of worshipping his GOD should be regarded as
so much better than another, as to deserve all
the emoluments of every kind which the
nation can confer ; while the others are
so entirely rejected, that the word " Religion " in
all deeds is held to mean the Religion of the
Prayer-book and Articles ! What form the agita-
tion will at last take it is impossible to tell—
but when it has come to this, that all special
privileges to every class are gone, and that the
Churchman could hardly be found who dare
attempt to prove that his religious service had
more intrinsic claim to State favours than his Dis-
senting neighbour's service, the day cannot be far
distant when the equal claims on the State of all
Churches will be the great subject for Liberals
and Reformers.

No part of Earl RUSSELL'S comprehensive
speech on Monday at Newcastle-upon-Tyne was
more cordially applauded than that in which he
pronounced so very graceful an eulogium upois
his distinguished colleague and leader—Viscount
PALMERSTON. Yet the noble Earl's speech, it will
be remembered, was applauded vociferously
throughout, from the exordium to the peroration.
Upon his first rising to respond to the toast of his
own health, he was greeted with acclamations.
And those acclamations were renewed and reiterated
for a lengthened interval, after he had resumed
his seat. It has seldom fallen to the lot of a
public man to receive a more enthusiastic welcome
than Lord RUSSELL received on Monday at New-
castle. And yet, as we have said, almost the
heartiest plaudits among all the frequent rounds
of cheering accorded to Earl RUSSELL during the
delivery of his very comprehensive speech,
were those elicited by his panegyrics upon
the veteran Premier. Nor can this be very
well wondered at. For among all our states-
men, Lord PALMERSTON stands forth at least un-
rivalled in popularity. If he is not the greatest of
our administrators—and but very few, indeed,
would venture for one instant to assert as
much—he is, at any rate, the most universally
liked ! If he is—as he most certainly is—very far,
indeed, from being the happiest or even the readiest
speaker among our leading public characters, there
is, undoubtedly, not one amongst them who is even
listened to by a mixed audience with a more lively
interest or a more eager curiosity.

Occasionally, too, Lord PALMERSTON justifies,
by the mere merit of his oratory (though his speak-
ing but seldom rises to the dignity of the oratori-
cal), the noble Viscount, we say, justifies at times by
the intrinsic merit of his oratory the interest and the
curiosity of his listeners. Generally it is true, if a
total stranger to the House of Commons, who has
never before heard Lord PALMERSTON addressing
any assembly whatever, perhaps has never pre-
viously even seen him, beholds the Prime Minister
rise from the Treasury Bench, put his hat upon the
table, and begin one et his ordinary displays in
Parliament, that total stranger to the Houso of
Commons and to the Prime Minister, we will
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and the gloved hands in one everlasting see-saw