The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATTIRDAY EVEIN7NG, JUNE 8,-1861.

THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1861.

From no body of men could a tribute of honour
to the memory of Count CAVOUR be paid more ap-
propriately than from the British Houses of Parlia-
ment. He was a noble by birth, a commoner by
position, and the constitutional sentiments of both
our Houses found in him a fitting representative.
The Lords were first to speak ; and Peers of opposed
politics, and none more emphatically than those
who had had diplomatic intercourse with the Count,
joined in their expressions of high regard for the
great statesman whose loss they sincerely deplored,
as a loss both to Italy and to Europe. Last night
the Commons added their cordial acknowledgments
of the great merits of the deceased statesman, and
their regrets at the seemingly irreparable loss which
his country has sustained. From no one could the
introduction of the subject be more graceful than
from Sir ROBERT PEEL. It was openly proclaim-
ing that no differences of opinion on important
matters of detail could interfere with his hearty re-
cognition of the fact that Count CAVOUR was " a
man who was certainly the most conspicuous states-
men that ever directed the destinies of any nation
on the continent in the path of constitutional
liberty." Generously he remarked—a generosity
which all England will:share—that "many of us—
perhaps from not knowing the difficulties and dan-
gers which encircled his course questioned
his policy and criticised his conduct, but
he is gone —be lies wrapped in the
hand of Death, and I believe it is befitting us, when
we see the merits of his character rising so con-
spicuously, to give some expression of our sympathy
and regret." _ _

The Foreign Secretary and the Premier followed
with eulogies of bis statesmanship not more decided
than just. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had, like Sir
ROBERT PEEL, on one occasion at least, written to
the Count's Government in a tone which he pro-
bably soon regretted, seeing the pain it gave to his
own countrymen ; but the Count replied with that
almost unvarying good nature for which he was so
distinguished, and with a diplomatic logic which
Lord JOHN'S countrymen greatly preferred to that
of their own Foreign Secretary. And now the
constitutional lord could say of the man who is
beyond doubt the real founder of Italian constitu-
tionalism-4$ I cannot but feel it due to the memory
of him who is gone to say, that I believe there never
was a man who devoted himself heart, and mind,
and soul, more entirely to his country than the late
Count CAVOUR."

Not less distinct was Lord PALMERSTON'S testi-
mony to the worth and merits of the great Italian.
Sir ROBERT PEEL seemed to wish for some record
on our journals similar to that which the French
Parliament entered on theirs, on the occasion of his
father's death ; but this, as the Premier observed,
was not English practice in reference to the loss of
even her greatest statesmen. ills tribute of praise
was, however, more specific, and much warmer,
than that of the Foreign Secretary. It was
something for his loss to be spoken of
by the most veteran statesman of Europe,
amidst the long and loud cheers of the house,
as " the loss of that distinguished man—a
loss not only to his own country, deeply to be de-
plored, but a loss undoubtedly to the whole of
Europe, and whose memory will be embalmed in
the grateful recollection of his countrymen, and in
the admiration of mankind so long as history will
teeeri his deeds ;" something to have it said by
such a mum that his acts which attracted most the
attention of the world were probably surpassed by
others for which his countrymen would yet more
revere his name. "It should be recollected that he
laid the foundation of improvements, legal, politi-
cal, and social, it, all the internal affairs of the
Italian people, which win I,,ng survive him, and
will be remembered among those wt., are to come
hereafter." That the metal to be " drawn froni
life of Count Cavour is this--that a man of tran-
scendent talents, of indomitable
energy, of inex-
tinguishable patriotism, was, by the impulses which
his own single mind may give to his countrymen,
aiding a righteous cause—which I shall so call it,
in spite of what may be said—and seizing favour-
able opportunities, notwithstanding difficulties

which appear insurmountable, may confer upon

his countrymen the greatest and most inesti-
mable benefits. That is the moral to be drawn."
Nor can we easily describe better than in
the Premier's words, the nature of the Ceunt's
achievements ; the moral of his life he had given ;
he added, the tale with which his memory will be
associated is one of the most extraordinary, I may
say, of.the most romantic, recorded in the annals of
the world. We have seen under his impulse and
guidance a people, supposed to have been torpid in
the enjoyment of luxury, to have been enervated
by the pursuits of pleasure, to have had no know-
ledge of or feeling after politics except what they
derived from the traditions of their history and
the jealousies of rival States—we have seen that
people at his call, and under his guidance, rising
from the slumber of ages with the power of a
giant refreshed, breaking that spell by which they
had been so long bound, displaying on a great
occasion the courage of heroes, the sagacity of
statesmen, the wisdom of philosophers, and attain-
ing for themselves a political existence which for
centuries bad been denied them. Sir, I say, that
this is a great event in history, and that the man
whose name will go down to posterity connected
with that series of events, whatever may have been
the period of his death—however premature it may
have been for the hopes of his countrymen—can-
not be said to have died too soon for his glory and
his fame."

It often happens that on occasions like this some
one is found willing to become the foil to set off
the praises justly and gladly bestowed by others ;
in the Lords the Marquis of BATH proffered him-
self as the accuser of the dead whose well earned
honours he grudged. In the Commons the same
magnanimous office was assumed by the O'DoN-
OGIIIIE. He rose to express, Ist, his entire dissent
from the praises which had been lavished on the
Count. 2dly, to accuse him of hostility to the
temporal power of the Pope. 3dly, to accuse
gentlemen of the House of Commons of prejudice,
and the people of this country of " stupid bigotry."
4th, to tell the House that " he saw in the death
of Count CAVOUR, the finger of God's justice."
Having said which he sat down amidst exclamations
which may authorise him to sign his name in
future as the " Oh-DONOGHT.TE."

The Count's Roman policy will certainly need no
vindication to oar readers—as the "Oh"-Donoghue
might say, because they are " stupid bigots ;" but
this much we may remark, that we find Roman
Catholics repudiating as nick-names the epithets
" Popery " and "Papists." Now we never prefer
to call persons by denominational or party names
they do not like, but in Count CAVOUR'S case
it was just Popery and Papists to which
he was hostile, while, as his death equally with
his life bore witness, he was a sincere Catholic.
Pope worship—that belief in his right divine which
would assign several hundred thousand human
beings to the government of such heartless wretches
as Cardinal ANTONELLI and his comrades—to this
Count CAVOUR was hostile. It is clear that he
was not an opponent of the spiritual claims of the
POPE, but, with another sincere Catholic, D'AZEGLIO,
he thought Pio Norto would be a much better
Pope if he outwardly as well as inwardly resembled
more the Divine Man whose vicar he professes
to be. Count CAVOUR was opposed to the Popery
which cares only for liberty for Papists—which
makes a great stir here because in workhouses the
Irish poor, who accept the charity provided by taxes
paid almost exclusively by Protestants, cannot find
a school to teach the children Popery—but which
never sent a word of remomonstrance to their
fellow Catholics in Italy or Spain against the
shameful denial by them of all religious liberty—
even of religious sepulture to Protestants. On the

profanity we may spare comment. The " Oh,"

DONOGHUE has not yet informed us by what light
he sees the finger of GOD more in the death of
the Great Count than in the flight of each of the
Italian Princes, and of the POPE'S Governors from
the Legations, and the defeat of General LAMORI-
CIEEE. Of course, it cannot be through "stupid
bigotry."

If Americans will not be satisfied with what
took place in the House of Commons last night
they ought to be. Not only are the acts of the
Government studiously neutral, but that grand
arena of debate on every subject, the House of Com-
mons decides for neutrality also. It is ready
enough, generally, to debate foreign topics. Our
memories must be short, indeed, to forget a year in
which its foreign talk was not cited as an apology
for doing hardly any domestic work. But the
merits and demerits of the Southern or the Nor-
thern cause are equally refused a hearing in our
House of Commons. We have strictly prohibited
our citizens from acting as privateers. We have
refused to allow prizes to be brought into our
home or colonial ports, and we have submitted
to the inconvenience to which blockades expose our
trade. We have told them both that we are sorry
for the quarrel, and hope they will soon settle it in
the best way they can ; but we do not offer even
mediation, we simply say—it is no business of ours ;
for, though our trade is deranged by your disagree-
ment, you have a right to disagree, if you like.

We believe, however, that neither party, in their
hearts quite like this. The South relied on our love
of cotton.7and our disgust with Northern protec-
tion. They thought we should refuse to permit
blockade of cotton exporting ports, and that
they could command and purchase supplies
through the commercial sympathies of Europe. The
South, however, says little, but rather persists in
speaking well of the old country and of Europe.
The North is much more proud and touchy. She
has shown displeasure, that we should acknowledge
the belligerent rights of the South. She seems half
inclined to demand that we shall declare ourselves
on the side of the North. She has told us, through
some of her officers too, of the consequences which
may come upon us,
if we do not---in the hour of diffi-
culty—make special friends of the North. She has
even threatened us with, no one knows what, if we
should acknowledge the "so-called confederate
To all this our consistent and unvarying
reply is We
Stat e s . "
leave you entirely to yourselves ;
any way draw us into your disputes.
mronleyhave
don't
in any
one national wish—the abolition of
slavery, for that neither of you are prepared.

A remarkable requisition was on Wednesday last
addressed personally to the noble lord her
MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary by an
important
deputation. The deputation was one from the
Association for the Preservation of the Fisheries of
Great Britain and Ireland. The requisition was
one running to the effect, that Lord JOHN would,
if possible, use his influence with the French Go-
vernment in order to induce it to assist in prevent-
ing the destruction of salmon during the fence
months, by prohibiting the sale of it in Paris.
Does any one deem the matter referred to one of
comPod—kk-.ly small importance ? Let Lord SAL-
TOUN be heard—Lora 13,1,r,a,-Tv. by the way, is
President of the above-mentioned Association—let
Lord SALTOUN be heard, as he was heard by Lord
lOTIN RUSSELL on Wednesday afternoon, making a
statement to the effect, " That we were now en-
gaged in legislating upon the salmon laws, but that

legislation would be useless if the present destruc-
tive practice of exporting salmon to France dur- •
ing the fence months continued to be permitted.
Among the principal causes," Lord SALTOUN argues,
"among the principal causes of the decay of our
salmon fisheries was the killing of the fish during
the fence months, when they were heavy in spawn,
and many of our rivers were almost destroyed, and
others much damaged by this exportation." And
the noble lord, having so far prepared the way for '
the information that immediately followed there-
upon, assured the Foreign Secretary that " The
Association he had the honour to represent had
taken upon themselves to obtain information con-
cerning the exportation to France, and they found
that during the fence months, which might em-
brace a mean period of, say, 20 weeks, not less
than 50 tons, and probably far more, of foul fish
were exported to Paris, and in every kind of
package which would disguise the nature of the
contents." The particulars that follow are cer-
tainly sufficiently disgusting. They are at any
rate enough to take the relish from any fish, how-
ever disguised, placed at these seasons before the
gourmands at the Maison Doree, or the Trois Frere
deProvince. " Persons," remarked Lord SALTOUN,
with frightful particularity, " persons who had
seen the contents of these boxes and baskets,
described them as a loathsome mass of putrifying
garbage, with the spawn running out all over the
fish, oozing through the packages, and utterly unfit
for human food; and how the French cooks
managed to make them eatable he could not
imagine. They found," moreover, said the noble
lord, " also, that on many of the rivers in Devon-
shire the fry were taken by bushels, and sold to be
converted into sardines." In fact, anything
that can in any way be learnt in regard
to these malpractices, does most undeniably
go far, indeed, to show that the evil complained
of by the Association, of which Lord SALTOUN is
the President, requires prompt and energetic inter-
position on the part of the authorities, with a view
to the effectual prevention of its recurrence hence-
forth. The noble President of the Association,
speaking on his own behalf and on behalf of his
fellow associates, reminded Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in
his capacity as Foreign Secretary, on Wednesday,
that " the French Government was very much en-
gaged and interested at the present time in improv-
ing their salmon fisheries, but that it would be diffi-
cult for them to protect their own rivers while they
admit4ed English salmon, because they could not, of
course, tell the difference between French and English
salmon ; and therefore," he added, " as the French
were as much interested in the matter as ourselves,
the Association had asked for this interview with
his lordship to lay this statement before him, and
to beg that he would represent the matters to the
French Government, and ask its consideration of
the case." Hardly a word more was requisite after
this, in enforcement of the urgent request made to
the Secretary of State, on Wednesday, by the
deputation then waiting upon him. Yet even
that word was added, and added it should more-
over be said, most effectively by the Earl of
MALMESBURY. The ex-Foreign Secretary observ-
ing " that, when he was in office, a request was
made, emanating from French salesmen and others,
that English grouse might be admitted into
France before the French season, which did not
generally commence until the Ist of September,
and the English Government willingly acceded to
such an arrangement, and therefore he thought it
fair to suppose that, in return, the Frensh Govern-
ment might be able to lend us any little assist-
ance required is this instance." Surely, that
would be only reasonable. We put it to Mr.
COBDEN—We put it to his Imperial MAJESTY on
the other side of the Channel—a compliance
with the request made in this instance would be
only reasonable now that, in the midst of this
age of Free-trade, the Apostle of the Free-trade
Doctrines and the Imperial Pupil in the Free trade
Doctrines have together revived—however oddly
it matters nothing to oar present purpose—have
together revived the " golden mean " of Reci-
rocity.

Galway has sent us American news at last. The
Parana, which we have heard so much of, has
arrived there, having left Boston on the 28th, and
St. John's on the Ist of June. The latest tele-
graphic news therefore, we may consider to be but
seven days old.
The position is little altered. The Manassas
alluded to is a railway through a gap in the Alle-
ghanies of that name, by which Western Virginia
is connected with Alexandria and Washington,
and by which the Secessionists might be taken in
flank at Harper's Ferry, while the Federalists also
advanced to that place in front, across the Potomac.
It is not clear which party threw up the entrench-
ments at Alexandria; the place was in possession
of the Federalists, being within sight of Wash-
ington on the Virginian side of the Potomac.
Harper's Ferry, as we anticipated, seems likely to
be warmly contested. The Minnesota is about to
take the place of the Niagara in the blockade of
Charleston ; no mention is made of the arrival of
the former vessel at any other port. General
BUTLER is operating actively at the entrance of
Chesapeake Bay, from Fort Monroe.

Marshal de M'Mahon took possession of his com-
mand of the camp of Chalons on the Ist inst. The Em-
peror is expected to visit the camp in the beginning of July.
By the arrival of the Magdalena from Buenos
Ayres we learn that the surveys for the projected Grand
Southern Railway by the agents of Messrs. Peto, Brassey,
and Betts were progressing favourably. The city terminus
will be in the Plaza de Constitucion.

The accounts received at Buenos Ayres of the
earthquake at Mendoza are most fearful. It was stated
that at least 13,000 people were sacrificed, and not a wall
was left standing. As the situation of the city exposed it
to a repetition of the catastrophe there was but little chance
of its being rebuilt.

INNER TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentle-
men were yesterday called to the bar by the Hon. Society of
the Inner Temple, viz. :—William Willis, B.A. (holder of
the studentship awarded in Michaelmas term, 1860), Joseph
Green, B.A. (certificate of honour), Emmanuel Maguire
Underdown (certificate of honour), Montagu Woodmass,
8.A., St. Aubyn Barrett Lennard, M.A., Reginald Carew
Glanville, 8.A., Andrew Thomson, 8.A., LL.B., John
Simson, Thomas Child Hayllar, S.C.L., Markham John
Law, 8.A., Daniel Birt, George Thomas Edwards, 8.A.,
Arthur Yardley, and Stuart Rendel, M.A.
GRAY'S INN.—At a pension of the iltmouralle
Society of Gray's Inn, holden yesterday, the undernamed
gentlemen were called to the degree of Barrister at Law,
viz. :—Lawrance Counsel, of University College, London ;
George Harry Palmer, of the University of Glasgow, M.A. ;
SBmuel Kydd, William Brook Bridges Stevens, and William
Henry Clarke, formerly of Queen's College, Cambridge,
LL.D.

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Mr. Thomas Cochrane, the resolution of the
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ing was agreed to, and the liquidators were urged to
the most active measures to secure that the deed of agree-
ment be signed by all the shareholders.
THE BIRMINGHAM CANAL.—WOLVERHAMPTON
June 6.—The water in this canal broke through a large
fissure into one of the extensive coal mines which tis canal
intersects at Westbromwich yesterday. The waterh was all
drawn off out of the canal last night, and a considerable
length entirely emptied. The Staffordshire Ironworks at
lirestbromwich, and the Eagle Ironworks at the same place,
were bc,th stopped at twelve o'clock last night in conse-
quence of the supply of water for the engines being cut off
from the above cause. This unfortunate affair will throw
a large 'number of men out of employment for a short time.

LATEST NEWS.

COUNT CAVOUR'S FUNERAL.
TURIN, FRIDAY NIGHT, JUNE 7.
The obsequies of Count Cavour have been per-
formed with almost Royal pomp. All the bodies of
the State, the authorities, and various deputations
joined the procession, which was followed by the
whole population.
During the funeral ceremony frequent discharges
of cannon took place.
All the houses were draped in black.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8.
The Nationalites of to-day states that Garibaldi
is rather seriously ill at Caprera.

AMERICA.


GALWAY, SATURDAY.

The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Parana
arrived here this morning. She left Boston on the
28th of May and St. John's on the Ist of June, and
brings 160 passengers.

NEW YORK, MA 27.
It is reported that the Secessionists are throwing
up intrenchments at Manassas (?).

They have effected a junction at Alexandria, and
expect reinforcements from Richmond.
The report of fighting at Alexandria has not been
confirmed.

An immediate attack on Norfolk is expected.
The Federal forces in Virginia will be reinforced by
5,000 men.
Strong intrenchments have been thrown up com-
manding Alexandria.
Western Virginia has declared itself against sece.s.-

The capture of Hampton by General Butler has
been confirmed. No attack was made on Sewall's
Point, and General Butler has returned to Fort
Monroe.

10,000 Southern troops are at Harper's Ferry.
It is expected that a movement of the Federal
forces will take place to cut them off from Rich-
mond.
The war steamer Minnesota was to leave Fort
Monroe for the blockade of Charleston, and will be
followed by others.

Twenty-three prizes have been taken to Fort
Monroe.

The Malatengo gold diggings at Vera Craz have
proved very rich.
The Federal Loan of 9,000,000 dols. has been
subscribed for at 85 (?).
The Prince Albert has arrived out.

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.

PRIVATE VIEW.-THIS DAY.

Another of those charmingly interesting collec-
tions annually brought together in the three rooms
constituting the " Gallery" of the British Institu-
tion, we have visited this forenoon. The Private
View taking place to-day, in anticipation of Mon-
day, when the exhibition will, as usual, be thrown
open to public examination. Altogether there are
this year 214 paintings on the walls of this noble suite
of apartments. Specimens they are of many great
masters of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Datch,
French, and English Schools of Painting. They
are gathered together as hitherto from divers scat-
tered quarters—a fresh " pick" from the royal and
from numerous private collections. Her Majesty
the Queen and various noblemen and gentlemen
being among the number of the munificent patrons,
in this way, of the British Institution.
Although the collection for the current season is
to our thinking rather below the ordinary standard
of excellence, there are in it, as a matter of course,
several works of particular interest, lending an
especial attraction to the collection for 1861 at the
British Institution. The portraits this year, for
example, are (several of them at least) of extraor-
dinary merit. There are, for example, two
MORONIS in the North Room—(No. 29) " Portrait
of a Gentleman," and (No. 55) " Bartholomus Bon-
gus"—a bishop this latter, we presume, from the
heraldric device in the corner—quite admirable
in their way. Life itself not simply the
man being represented but the man's very idio-
syncrasy. In the same room there is (No. 49)
" Portrait of a Gentlemen,"—(strange it is the
identity of these pictures should be lost)--a bril-
liant Vandyke ; and near the doorway, (No. 36)
a splendid Velasquez—hung rather too high for
our liking—a handsome portly figure of a man,
entitled in the catalogue " A Spanish Noble-
man." The place of honour (No. 1) is occu-
pied by Baroccio's " Noli me Tangere." But
near it, low down, is hung a beautiful little
quaint specimen of Fra Angelico (No. 5) " The
Death of St. Francis." A hideous grotesque Her-
rera el Viego, is displayed above the line in (No.
25)—showing us the same holy monk, St. Francis
being introduced to the mother of St. Bonaventura.
Near the doorway, on the opposite side to the
Velasquez already particularised, is (a repetition of)
a figure of " St. Michael" (No. 39) by Pietro Peru-
gino—a figure that will be instantly recognised by
those familiar with the same master's larger pic-
ture in our National Gallery Collection.
We have scarcely crossed the threshold leading
us back into the middle room—the room" welled"
by the staircase—when we notice there upon either
hand—a Canaletto. One of these Canalettos (No.
64) is a truly exquisite specimen—" The Rialto
and the Grand Canal." Looking at it, one feels
disposed to hail a gondola and to be—" off, off and
away," like the Stranger in the old love-song.
There are also particularly noticeable in the Gallery
two delightful exemplars of P. le Hooge. One of
these (No. 77) a charming little " Garden Scene
with figures"—the principal figure in the act of
just going to bowl down some spindling skittles or
ninepins. The other P. la Hooge (No. 108), a
pretty peep in a doorway of some queer little old-
fashioned " Children at Play." There is an excel-
lent Rembrandt too in (No. 123), " Portrait of an
old Lady." Though it might almost as lief have been
called "Portrait of an old Gentleman" —if not even
"Portrait of the old Gentleman," it is so grim and
and ghostly. In Van Huysum's (No. 135) " Flower
Piece" there are some delicious creamy little eggs
in a mossy nest that it would do Mr. W. Hunt's
heart good to look at. The numerous portraits
from the hand of Sir Joshua Reynolds, form the
distinguishing peculiarity and attraction of this
year's collection of bygone masters in the British
Institution. They are principally to be found in the
South Room—where, however, we must at once
direct particular attention to (No. 159) a portrait
by Riley. It is the most deeply interesting picture
to us of all at this moment, being a representation
of the heroine of that exquisite historic love story
told so admirably by Lord Macaulay in the
posthumous volume of his great history (vol. v.,
pp. 28-32) but just published. The heroine of that
1 story may there be seen upon the eanvass of Riley
Lady Clancarty, daughter of Robert Earl of
Sunderland." A passing word now about the Sir
Joshuas. Among these, there are (No. 160) "The
School boy," (No. 174) " William Beckford," the
author of Vathek, as he was in his youth,
(No. 148) " Garrick," with his thumbs
together (everyone knows the picture) : there are
besides two (Nos. 192 and 203) of Georgiana the
beautiful Duchess of Devonshire (who won a vote
for Charles Fox by letting a butcher kiss her)—
(No. 190) a cabinet portrait of the great " Doctor
Samuel Johnson" in his cauliflower wig—and (No.
177), a portrait by Sir Joshua, also of Frank
Barber (the " Mr. Francis Barber " of
Boswell), the black servant man, first of all
of Dr. Johnson and afterwards of Sir Joshua
Reynolds. The visitor to the gallery ought to
direct one glance up to (No. 201) Romney's vivid
portraiture of himself and his father—and upon the
opposite side of the room, another glance up to
(No. 173) Opie's noble head of " Mary Wollstone-
craft." Other works of great interest, and several
also of peculiar merit deserve attention, but these
we cannot pause now to enumerate.

Mouth of the Hudson. By George L. Brown.
A very beautiful picture from the hand of a
young artist of considerable promise, Mr. George
L. Brown, is now on view at No. 120, Pall Mall,
better known as the French Gallery. It is in
the same apartment with the royal pictures
already noticed by us the four remarkable
court pictures, painted, two of them, by Phillips and
two by Winterhalter. Mr. Brown's painting, the
property, we believe, of H.R.H. the Pince of Wales,
a picture, if we recollect rightly, presented to his
Royal Highness before his departure homewards
from the United States depicts an exquisite
sweep of sky and water, of land and
cloudland. " The Mouth of the Hudson " it is
—and as such, as a reminiscence of the wonderful
scenery in the vicinity of New York, that great
transatlantic combination of Lolidon and Liverpool,
it will be viewed with intense interest by all who
have visited the locality and who are thereby qua-
lified to recognise
,the faithfulness of the resem-
blance.

THE EN CYCLOP2EDIA BRITANN ICA . 0 a Wednes-
day Mr. Black, M.P., gave a sumptuous entertainment at
the Trafalgar, Greenwich, to the contributors to the last
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and several of his
personal friends. Amon the former we observed Sir John
Herschel, Mr. M. Milnes, M.P., Mr. M'Culloch, Major-
General Portlock, Mr. Caird, M.P., Mr. Robert Chambers,
I Mr. Bazley, M.P., Mr. Hepworth Dixon, Professor Masson,
Drs. Letheby and Lanka:ler, &c. Among Mr. Black's
private friends were the Lord-Advocate, Sir John Ogilvie,
M.P., Sir William Dunbar, M.P., Messrs. Edward Ellice,
M.P,, T. A. Mitchell, M.P., W. S. Lindsay, M.P., Walter
Buchanan,M.P.,W. E. Baxter, M. r.,Willi am 'Mellor, M.P
Mr. Peter Dickson, Mr. Thomas Young, Professor Pillans,
Mr. Thomas Vardon, &c. After dinner Mr. Black pro-
posed " The Health of the Contributors," and ex-
pressed his deep sense of the great obligations under
which he was laid by the invaluable assistance he
had received from them in carrying to a successful
completion his great work. After alluding to the advan-
tages conferred on the world by the labours of men of
literature and science, he concluded by returning his
warmeit thanks to the contributors to the Encylopedia for
the kind and efficient support he had received from them.
Mr. Monckton Milnes, after alluding to various Encyclo-
prodias which have appeared from time to time and to the
number of Scotchmen whom ho saw around him, and who,
he hoped, did not mean to subdue the Southern States, con-
cluded a speech full of humour by giving " The Health
of Mr. Black," on whose ability and sterling independence
he pronounced a high eulogium. The Lord-advocate, after
complimenting Mr. APCulloch for his contributions to poli-
tical science, not in the Encyclopedia Britannica only, but
in other publications, concluded by proposing his health.
Mr. M'Culloch replied in an effective speech, and con-
cluded by proposing the health of Mr. Black, junior, the
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efficient manager of his father's establishment during
absence of the latter in London. Mr. Black read a letter
from Lord Brougham, in which he stated his great regret
at being hindered by ill-health and the prohibition of his
medical attendant from meeting so many of his distin-
guished contemporaries and friends. Mr. Black then gave
the toast of "Better Health to Lord Brougham.' After a
very feeling and eloquent response from Sir John Herschel
to his health, proposed by the chairman., the company
separated, highly gratified by their entertainment.