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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1868,

public men, but it really is ridiculous to speak of
the Conservatives clinging to office in an indecorous
manner, and to overlook the fact that the Opposi-
tion are making a life-and-death struggle for place.
A more mortifying spectacle of public men for-
getting themselves in the excitement of the
hour was never witnessed than that which
took place in the House of Commons yesterday,
and long may it be before we have a repetition of it.
It has been the boast of this country that our public
business can be carried on in a far superior manner
than that which distinguishes foreign States; but
really we are beginning to lose this in common with
may other relics of the past. We have had enough
in all conscience of Mr. GLADSTONE'S interruptions.
Let the business of the country be ranked higher
than the gratification of mortified vanity, and the
House of Commons not degenerate into an arena
for the display of party tactics.

The legislation respecting our Friendly Societies
is confessedly a difficult matter. On the one hand,
it is highly desirable that every encouragement
should be afforded to such genuine and solvent
associations as will enable the working man to lay
aside what money he can spare as a provision for
the time of sickness or distress, while it is even
more desirable to exercise some supervision to put a
check upon those ill-managed or dishonest societies,
which only squander the money they leave gathered
without profit to the subscribers. There are many
minor points which demand attention, and many
difficulties connected with the working of such
societies which do not affect the insurance
associations of the middle classes, while there exists
a very great obstacle to satisfactory and compre-
hensive legislation in the strong jealousy with which
the working classes themselves regard any attempt
at interference. Thus we find that a number of
petitions have already been 'presented against the
Earl of LICHFIELD'S Bill; but the facts to which
the noble earl referred last evening show that, in
the interest of the members of such societies them-
selves, there is much need for a change. The prin-
cipal features of the proposed measure are reason-
able enough, and the clause to which exception has
chiefly been taken—the third clause of the bill—
does not interfere in any way with the provisions of
the Act already in existence. Some of the points
touched on by the bill call loudly for improvement.
One of the most prominent of these is the transfer
of members from one society to another, without
their own express consent. This is often the cause
of loss and inconvenience to the members, because
they are unaware of the transfer having been made,
and as the collector who has been in the habit of
calling for their subscriptions does not come, they
get out of benefit with the new society. This indi-
cates great negligence on the part of the new
society, whose managers, one might suppose,
would be anxious to secure the adherence
of fresh members, but there is often
great negligence in the administration of
such affairs. Another point is the forfeiture of
benefit, which often occurs owing to the collector
not calling at the right time ; and the bill intro-
duced by Lord LICHFIELD very justly and sensibly
provides that no member shall forfeit his claim on
his society without having had distinct notice that
if his arrears were not paid by a certain day he
should forfeit such benefit. Provision is also made
for obtaining more speedy redress iu the case of dis-
putes between members and the societies. There
are great difficulties attending the settlement of
such disputes at present, especially in the case of
burial societies, whose members are spread
all over the country, while it is specified that
the arbitration must take place where the
society carries on its business. Under Lord LICH-
FIELD'S bill a member may proceed against the col-
lector acting in the place where the member resides,
and thus the almost insurmountable difficulties
hitherto attending such arbitration will be removed,
and a check put upon the collectors. Members
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been got up by the most influential societies—
like the Foresters, with their 40,000 members, and
the Odd Fellows, with their 400,000 members. Those
most instrumental in petitioning against the bill
are the Royal Liver, the Victoria Legal, and the
United Legal Societies. When we come to look
into their affairs, however, we shall find that some
changes are very desirable even in their own inte-
rests. The income of the Liver Society is, it
appears, £140,000 ; the management expenses,
£53,000 ; and the funds in band, £117,000. The
working expenses absorb far too much of the in-
come, and the result is seen in the unsatisfactory
state of the balance, which falls
considerably
short of the year's income, which actuaries
always allow as the reserved fund of a sol-
vent society. The Victoria Legal is in a still more
unsatisfactory condition, the income for last year
having been a little over £24,000. It must be borne
in mind, however, that the whole of the returns are
not given, and also that last year hardly affords a
fair test of any society as the general depression
of
trade was severely felt by the working classes. It
has often been found, however, that such societies,
however well meant or honestly conducted, are
managed imprudently. The managers being inex-
perienced in such associations, are very apt to for-
get that the first few years are not to be taken as
evidence of their income. Naturally at first money
keeps flowing in from the subscribers while hardly
any goes out. Few men would join such
a society unless they had reasonable prospect of
life and health, and were in possession of a pretty
good income. The managers do not reckon on the
losses of the coming years when they are called upon
..to pay out perhaps more than comes in, or when
their old members drop off, no longer paying in
money, but actually drawing out through their
families what they have put in. A bad year, too,
may compel many subscribers to give up
their membership, or an epidemic may play havoc
among the families of those insured. All these con-
siderations are borne in mind by the experienced
actuaries who conduct our life associations, but the
working men in their anxiety to manage for them-
selves do not profit by the experience of such
societies, and begin dividing profits when they
ought to be saving up for a rainy day.

THE IRISH CHURCH ESTABUSILUENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-If anything were wanting to show the
utter failure of the Protestant Church Establish-
ment in Ireland as a " Missionary Church," I think
it is the fact that she has not only failed to convert
the Catholics, but has actually been unable to hold
her own in that country. Witness the following
list of converts of note from Protestantism to the
Roman Catholic religion in Ireland within the last
few years, viz. :—Earl of Dunraven, Earl and Coun-
tess of Granard, Lord Louth, Marchioness of Lon-
donderry, Countess of Portarlington, Sir John
Bradstreet, Bart., Sir Aubrey de Vere, Bart., Sir
Charles Domville, Bart., Right lion. W. Monsell,
M.P., S. Ram, Esq. (Romsfort), A. Cliffe, Esq.
(Bellevieu) ; besides numerous other converts to
the Church of Rome in every rank of life.

Can the defenders of the Church Establishment
show similar results on their side?

I am, Sir, faithfully yours,
May sth.

G. T. L.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AMERICA.
(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
WASHINGTON, May 6.

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the
usual monthly statement of the public debt of the
United States. The total amount of the debt on
the Ist of May was $2,639,500,000 against
$2,642,000,000 on the Ist of April last, being a
decrease of $2,500,000. The cash in the Treasury
on the Ist inst. was $139,000,000 against
$122,500,000 on the Ist ult., being an increase of
$16,500,000.
(l'er the City of London, via Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, April 25.

At the continuation of the Impeachment trial
yesterday, Judge Nelson, on behalf of_ the defence,
delivered a long argument, in which he sketched
the life of Mr. Johnson, cited his loyalty during the
rebellion, and claimed for him honesty and integrity
of purpose. The Tenure-of-Office Law was uncon-
stitutional, but even if not it.was not violated by Mr.
Johnson, who only sought to test the matter in the
Courts. Furthermore, Mr. Johnson's case did
not come within the provisions of the law. The
speaker quoted the opinions of several Attorney-
Generals in justification of Mr. Johnson's interpre-
tation of the right of removal and appointment by
the President. lle agreed with Mr. Johnson in
thinking that Congress, with ten States unrepre-
sented, had no constitutional right to attempt an
impeachment. The Senate was sitting as a legal
Court, and he urged Chief-Justice Chase to charge
it as a jury, and expound to it the nature of im-
peachable offences under the Constitution.
The officially announced majority for the new
Constitution in South Carolina is 43,000.
Mr. Johnson has:nominated General Scholfield
Secretary of War, vice Stanton, to be removed.
General Scholfield has postponed the election in
Virginia until Congress makes an appropriation to
defray the expenses.
Governor Brownlow has postponed the Tennesiee
election at the request of the candidates for Con-
gress.

Governor Pierrpoint, of Virginia, has preferred
charges to General Grant against General Schol-
field of allowing rebels to hold office without taking
the test oath.

The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of London
arrived at Queenstown at 4.45 a.ni. to-day, with
$175,000 in specie. After landing mails and pas-
sengers she proceeded immediately for Liverpool.
All well.

COXRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(Fnom OUR OWN CORRESPONDS :I.)
PARIS, TUESDAY, May r,

The sittings of the Senate recommenced yesterday, and
Manpas opened the debate with a severe attack upon
the new Press Law. This senator was formerly Prefect
of Police. He was appointed reporter of the commission on
the Press Law, and had !determined to present a report
unfavourable to the bill, when the Government, wishing
to avoid the :awkward complications in which its ultra-
Imperialist supporters would place it, succeeded in
inducing one of the commissioners to change his mind,
and. thus convert M. Maupas's majority into a
minority ; whereupon be resigned. But he was not to be
prevented from making a bitter speech against the bill.
He declared that he could not see any reason why fresh
liberty should be given to the press. For sixteen years
itihkd been under restraint, and during that time there
had been no barricades, no street fighting; but if the
present bill became law we must expect a renewal of
disturbances. Moreover, now vas a very bad time
to place greater power in the hands of the journal-
ists. The Emperor himself had said that there
were black spots on the horizon, commerce and
industry were in a bad state, and there was a general
malaise, tending to make men's minds peculiarly open to
evil excitements. To make the proposed concessions was
dangerous to liberty itself, for the Government would
certainly, like the Governments of July•and the Restorat
tion, he compelled to take back again by violent means
the license which it was now going to bestow. The pro-
posed law ought to follow, not precede, other reforms. As
long as these were not granted, the press would take
advantage of its new liberty to deal severe blows at the
Crown itself. M. Maupas then made the astounding
statement that the English press law was a hundred
times snore severe than the French, only the Government
had by little and little forgot its power over the press just
as the press had improved in manners. He urged the
Senate to subject this measure to a second examination,
and concluded with an impassioned warning against the
dangers which the country would incur by sanctioning the
'bill. On descending from the tribune, M. Maupas was
greeted with warm congratulations from a large number
of senators. M. Hubert I)elisle, who was appointed
reporter of the commission in the place of M. Maupas,
replied to this senator. The point of his argument wa4,
that the Government of the Emperor strengthened itself
by allowing controversy, and would profit by the good
sense, the eloquence, the truthfulness, and the efforts of
all parties. He pointed out that in Russia and Austria,
,and even in Prussia, " where there is a Prince
so little geneious, so little liberal towards the
princes whom he has conquered," the liberty conferred
by this bill was already enjoyed. He concluded by saying
he should oppose the motion for referring the bill to *
second deliberation. He was followed by Count S6gir
d'A guesseau , who was as fierce as M. Maupas was serious:
The count, no less than M. Maupas, opposed the bill. He
said that there had of late risen up a third party who
demanded their " necessary rights," but who omitted
to add "in order to overturn the Government." He
declared that to give the journals fresh liberty was
to deliver up the State to charlatans and quacks of all
kinds—to expose the most precious principles both of
government and religious morals to the attacks of subtll.
and perfidious men. He went on, amid frequent interrup-:
Cons from M. Baroche and M. Rouher, to describe the
frightful evils which would, according to his account.
follow the proposed change, and concluded by declaring
that there would be an emeute among the electors whoa
the press would have corrupted and converted into "
vile multitude," and that the Emperor was now handing
over the Government to his greatest enemies. This last
assertion caused considerable sensation, in the midst of
which the Senate adjourned until to-day.
M. Baudrillart's long article in the Constitutionnet,whiest
I summarised two days ago, has, as I expected it would
caused considerable sensation. It was not written in con,
sequence of any specific inspiration, but the writer ha(
received a letter of thanks for it from the Emperor
Cabinet.

M. Alfred de la Guerronni4e is following in the footsteps
of his well-known brother, the viscount, by writing
political pamphlet. It is entitled " L'Esprit du Temps es
l'Arenir," and it argues strongly against personal, and
in favour of parliamentary government. It also denouncr
centralisation. It is also rumoured that the Viscount a
la Guerronniere will be sent to Brussels as Ambassador
lie is at present a senator.
A farewell dinner was given at the Trois Frres, in tht
Palais Royal, on Sunday, to Baron Budberg, the Russian
Ambassador. The Marquis de Moustier presided, and
the Princess Metternich, wife of the Austrian Amba s.
sador, and decidedly the most spirituelle woman in Pari%
was present, and made one of her neatest compliments tt
the Baron's wife.

Letters from Constantinople mention that genera,
Ignatieff, the Russian Ambassador at that capital, has
been treating M. Bourr6e, our Ambassador, with marke'
rudeness. This, I suppose, is all of a piece with the
sudden and diplomatic illness of the Russian Minister in
Italy when he was about to pay his respects to Prince
Napoleon at Turin, and with the equally suddezi
and diplomatic illness which prevented the Princess
Clotilda from receiving the Minister's wife. Clearly,
there is no love lost between Paris and St. Petersburg just
now, in spite of the ostentatious alliance between the
Emperor and the CzAr last summer.

Another Aracancy has been caused in the Corps Ldgim;
latif by the death of a deputy. He was a supporter o?
the Government, and was elected without opposition
I have not heard if the Opposition-mean to start a midi.
date to fill his place. They are very well pleased with the
result of the elections so far, and the Avenir National pub.
lishes some statistics in parallel columns to shew how great
is the progress made by the Opposition since 1863',
when the general elections took place. In the district
where the Government candidate did not obtain a clear
majority, a second election will take place on the 16th.
Both parties profess themselves confident of the result.
Four elections have just taken place for the provincial
councils. In two the Ministerial candidate was elected,
in one the Opposition candidate, and in the other case the
Government did not ir.t.zpose.
Patti has gone to England, and so has the Marquis de
Caux. Rumour says that Patti is in truth the Marquise,
de Caux. It is believed that the fair, or rather dark;
cantatricc has actually given her hand to the nobleman
who has so long aspired to it, and that the civil marriage
has taken place, but not the religious one.
With the sudden accession of heat there has been quite
an epidemic of suicides. No fewer than six took place on
Sunday, in Paris alone.
I am sorry to say that the more favourable report of the
crops which I gave some days ago must be understood of
only a limited district. There has been rain in the
south-west districts, but in the south-east the
drought continues, and in the Rhone valley and
on the Alpine frontier the wheat is growing
yellow, and actually withering for want of water.
The farmers are in some places cutting down the growi s
corn for litter. The fruit has been nearly all destroyed by
the frosts at the end of last month. In Algeria there
have been torrents of rain, which have been welcomed,
but unfortunately, owing to the famine, sowing has been
neglected, and it is believed that not more than a third of
the usual crops will be forthcoming this year.

Some idea of the cost which the "bloated armaments"
of the Continent involve may be gathered from the fact
that in the little State of Hesse Darmstadt the war budget
was before the war of 1866 1,800,000 florins, and is now 3i
millions. •

Trains are now running on Mr. Fell's railway over
Mont Cenis. The distance from St. Michael on the French
side to Susa on the Italian side is forty-eight miles, and
this distance has been accomplished in five-and-a-half
hours, including an hour of stoppages. The working of
the engines was very satisfactory, and it is expected that
the authorities will sanction the opening of the line at
once.

The Avenir National says that the Turkish Government,
finding itself supported by France and Austria; is accu-
mulating faults. Tri Bulgaria the Ottoman Government
has pronounced its intention of levying the capitation tax
upon every male, even uponinfants; the Bulgarians declare
that their misery is such that they cannot pay the impost.
The Turkish troops, being very irregularly paid, take to
ravaging the country, and a serious collision occurred
between them and the people some time ago. Both the
Montenegrins and the Scrvians are waiting only for an
opportunity to rise against the Porte.

A correspondent from Annesley Bay, in a communica-
tion dated March 26, gives in the Times an interesting
account of the making of the Abyssinian Railway. The
writer recalls the manner in which the authorities in India
sent off for use rails of different make and sizes, old engines
already condemned as useless, bad fish-plates, and the like,
almost causing a failure of the whole thing at the outset.
Yet against this, Captain Darrab ; Lieutenant Pennefather,
and Lieutenant Winans, struggled so effectually as to
make the work push on. well. Seeing that neither of
these officers had ever had anything to do previously with
railway engineering, their efforts are most praiseworthy
and the result satisfactory. The manner in which the
Engineer officers worked reminds us of the manner in
which they are paid. In the Indian Commissariat Trans-
port Train and Army Works Corps, captains draw 500 rs.
a month and subalterns 300 rs. In the Adjutant-General's
and the Quartermaster-General's departments more is
earned; while in the Engineers, who hold more responsible
positions, captains only get 240 rs. and lieutenants 112 rs.
Seeing that they are older men for their rank, this is a
most substantial grievance.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION

As if in compliment to the Prime Minister of
England, the motto selected for the Catalogue of
this year's [The One Hundredth] Exhibition of the
Royal Academy has been taken from Isaac
Disraeli's work on " The Literary Character." The
passage chosen is one inculcating the truth that
" Poet and Painter are only truly great by the
mutual influence of their studies"—Milton, Michael
Angelo, and Mandel, according to the argument
of Disraeli the Elder, belonging to the same ego-
gory, "the same imaginative powers and the same
sensibility, only operating through different mate-
rials." The distinction is just and the motto appo-
site.

Since last season, the Academy has lost three great
names—now sorely missed from the new Catalogue
and the new Exhibition. Clarkson Stanfield, the
painter (among other great marine pictures) of "The
Abandoned"—Baily, chiefly famous an the sculptor
of " Eve at the Fountain"—Marochetti, to whose
hand England owes, among other noble art-trea-
sures, that kingly and knightly effigy of " Coeur de
Lion," which iu 1851 was conspicuous among the
glories of the first great International Exhibition,
as it is conspicuous, now, among the few endurable
adornments of the London S.reets under the shad iw
of the legislative palacedown at Westminster. These
three are, now, looked back to with mingled regret and
admiration, as we had formerly occasion to look back,
regretfully and admiringly, to Turner and to Mul-
ready. But—as if in compensation to us for our re-
grets over the more recently deceased Academicians of
eminence---the living Academicians have, as a body,
greatly distinguished themselves in 1868 : some
among them, indeed, by successful manifesta-
tions of their genius entitling them to the
profoundest admiration. Webster, for one, it is'
true, contributes nothing whatever to the walla
of the gallery, but he is happily about the
only conspicuous defaulter : and he has a Homeric
right to slumber, for once in a while, when he
so pleases, if only by reason of his having
so often before now sunned us with the
Homeric (otherwise "inextinguishable ") laughter
awakened by the limnings of his homely and
humorous pencil.
Millais, who has five pictures, here, is chiefly
remarkable for two among the number, namely
(6), " Sisters, " and (70) " Rosalind and
Celia." Admirable though the latter is, espe-
cially in the humour of Touchstone—commend
us to the former as one of the choicest gems
of the whole collection, mere-portrait group
though it is, namely, as a delineation of three
sweet little maidens clad in white, with blue
ribauds tying up their b)nuie brown hair, and
binding their girlish waists, as they stand clus-
tered together in the garden, among the green and
flowering branches of rose and azalia. Meaning no
disparagement whatever to (22) " Felice," one of
Sant's blooming child-portraitures,
_Millais beats
Sant on his own ground, as a glance will convince
any one who cares to make that invidious com-
parison. Herbert, in (138) " The Valley of
Aloses in the Desert of Sinai," is still in his element,
as if, with the great Mosaic Lawgiver, he, too,
were fresh from the Holy Mountain. The sandy
wilderness, the blinding sunshine, the arid per-
spective, the pink hill-tops, the lights and shadows,
the men and the camels, the broken fragments of
marl and litter in the foreground —in all its
details, this landscape is truly wonderful. Stand-
ing before it we are far away, there, upon
the instant, upon the sacred soil of Pales-
tine. Faed, in (172), " Worn Out," has produced
another of his choicest masterpieces. A picture
never told its story more swiftly or more elo-
quently. A labourer (if ever yet a labourer has
been depicted by the painter's art) is depicted, there,
to the life, to a hair, to at. The poor fellow—
utterly " worn out" with watching all through the
night by the bed of his sick child—has now, himself,
fallen as soundly asleep in his chair as the little
sufferer, who lies, there, near him, ou the humble
pallet, hard-by, comfortably tucked under poor
" faither's" Coat for greater warmth. The horny
right hand of the father still laxly holds the
spectacles with the aid of which he has been
reading out, we perceive, for the enjoyment of
the wee bairn, from the child's story-book dropped
on the floor near the " clouten shoon" on each
poor outstretched limb. The fag-end of the dip
is burning; down towards the socket. The early
daylight is gleaming in through the windows. It
is a home scene of the homeliest character that goes
straight to our heart, and that lives afterwards
vividly in our remembrance. Not far removed from
this is time picture of the year (188), a dream of the
Father of English Poetry, realised at last by a
living English Poet-Painter. Chaucer's Cus-
staunce sent adrift by the Constable of
Alla, King of Northumberland—lepicted in
3 flood of wonderful- moonlight in an
open boat on the waters at midnight ! Custaunce,
:is she appeared, when—

" Hir libel child lay wepying in hir arms,
And unto heven hir eyghen up nibs caste,,,

as Geoffery Chaucer wrote of her with his pen of
light, and as Paul Falconer Poole has here deli-
neated her with a pencil to the full as luminous. It
is :an exquisite work of art, and takes rank at
once among the painter's greatest achievements.
O'Neil's (247) ,t Before Waterloo" realises to us
the distinctive peculiarity of the artist's composi-
tions, namely, that his figures are, as a rule,
grouped on an inclined plane, and are either always
going up or coming down. Here, for once, they
are doing both—the scene depicted being the stair-
case after the ball at the Duchess of Rich-
mond's. Goodall has two companion pictures
delineative of the Blessed Virgin —one (267), "Mater
Purissima," the other (284), "Mater Dolorosa"—the
former being wonderfully beautiful in its virginal
purity. llook has three of his green, briny sea
pieces, the best of the three, to our mind, being
(270) "The Morning after the Gale," the senti-
ment and feeling of which are most happily ex-
pressed. The little sailor boy balancing himself
on the rail in the foreground is charmingly
drawn in every tint and line. Richmond
has never been in greater force than he
is this season but, admirable though all
seven of his portraits this year are without one
exception, the happiest achievement among them
all, evidently a labour of love with the artist,
is (59) that of the Bishop of Oxford. It is a
breathing likeness. And among all Richmond's
works is only surpassed to our mind by his noble
crayon head of Dr. Newman, produced many years
ago, and 'now in the possession of Mr. Henry
Wilberforce'. The Hogarth of our Day—meaning
Frith—has five works in the gallery, all of them
good, one among them a masterpiece. The last-
mentioned is, as a matter of course, the Johnson
and Garrick picture (87), representing that
immortal incident, in Boswell, of Goldsmith
arrayed complacently in the bloom-coloured
coat made by John Filby, of the Harrow in
Water-lane. Johnson, Garrick, Goldsmith, Rey-
nolds, Murphy, and Boswell, all are there, with
Davies and Bickerstaff. The place, in fact, is Bos-
well's Lodgings in Bond-street. The time is 1769.
[he central figures in the group are those of
" Garrick playing round Dr. Johnson with a fond
vivacity, taking hold of the breasts of his coat, and
looking up in his face with a lively archness, compli-
menting him on the good health which he seemed
then to enjoy, while the sage, shaking his head,
beholds him with a gentle complacency." Leigh-
ton's chief success this year is (328) " Ariadue
abandoned by Theseus"—the dead, white, lovely
limbs, and the flowing, delicious drapery being very
triumphs of art. Though Sir Edwin Landseer has
a much larger picture in the place of honour in
the chief apartment, his happiest effort, to
our mind, is (347) a delineation of a dead deer
just shot down among the snows on the hill
top, with a deer-hound couched beside it. Bur-
gess, Spanish Eurgess, as he is called, contri-
butes to the Gallery, in (391) " Stolen by
Gipsies," the most important. work he has pro-
duced since the memorable Bull-fight scene
that first fixed attention upon him as a marvellous
delineator of character. Maclise has two pictures,
both worthy of his great powers, but neither to our
surprise iu the principal room. One (439) is "The
Sleep of Duncan," from Macbeth ; the other (685)

" Madeline after Prayer," from the Eve of
St. Agnes. Marks has one of his quaint
mediwval pictures .(494) " Experimental Gun-
nery in the Middle Ages "—Stone, a most effective
group (639) entitled "An Interrupted Duel "
Orchardson, a Shaksperian scene, in which (400)
Falstaff, Prince Henry, and Poins are introduced—
and Crawford, a capital sketch (365) of Rousseau
in Mrs. Garrick's box at the theatre. The Presi-
dent's battle scene (64) representing 11.11.11. the
Duke of Cambridge at the Alma is, of course, ono
of the great attractions of the Exhibition. And It
would be ungrateful not to record the fact that Cal-
deron wins approving smiles with his gay, riant pic-
ture 6f (316) "The Young Lord Hamlet" riding over
the greensward perched on the back of the King's
jester, Yorick. Cope has a most impressive deli-
neation of (283) The Disciples at Emmaus"—the
only defect of which is the se linty, almost spectral
proportions given to the glorified holy of Oar
Lard. One of the great peculiarities noticeable lil
regard to the whole of this year's Exhibition by the
Royal Academy is this—that so many foreign
artists have their works displayed upon the
walls, several of them, even, upon the line,
as, for example (10), the Baron Leys' large paint-
ing of the Belgian Burgo:n esters—a picture
so hard i❑ its outlines as to be suggestive of the de-
sign upon a stained glass window. So that one is
almost fain to look for the thin lines of lead run-
ning like veins among the interstices of the group-
ing. Signor Rapisardi is conspicuous among the
foreign exhibitors by reason of his companion life-
size portraitures of (93) " Hamlet" and (151)
" Ophelia," the Hamlet being very fine and effec-
tive. Altogether the Exhibition for 1863 is worthy
of the Academy's Centenary.

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111 ER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, May L

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, drove out
yesterday afternoon.

Iler Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise,
drove out in the grounds this morning.

The other meinhers of the Royal Family also
went out.

NA VAL AND MILITARY INIELLIGENCI-%

The First Lord of the Admiralty held his first
levee yesterday afternoon at the Admiralty, White-
hall.

Private letters received by a Chatham corres-
pondent announce that her Majesty's armour-plated
ship Zealous, 20, 800 horse-power, Capt. R. Daw-
kins, flagship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. F.
Hastings, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific
Squadron, and the Sparrowhawk, 4, 200 horse-
power, Commander E. A. Porcher, were at Esqui-
malt on March 17th. The Reindeer, 7, 200 horse-
power, Commander E. Nares, arrived at Esquinralt
on the 27th of February, 44 days from Panama.
Her Majesty's screw sloop Cameleon, 17, 200 horse-
power, Commander W. H. Annesley, from Hono-
lulu, was under orders to leave on the 10th of April
for Mazatlan, thence to Panama, and her Majesty's
screw sloop Reindeer is to proceed to the Islands
and afterwards to Valparaiso.
Yesterday detachments of the Ist Battalion of the
15th Regiment, 50th (Queen's Own Regiment), and
the 109th Bombay Infantry, to the number of 55
non-commissioned officers and men, in charge of
Lieut. J. E. C. Doveton, 50th Regiment, proceeded
from Chatham garrison to the Isle of Grain, for the
purpose of being employed with the Royal Eng'
neers and other troops in the construction of the
defences now in progress for the protection of the
entrance to the Medway. Detachments of 50 men
of all ranks from the 4th and Bth Depot Battalions
at Colchester will also proceed to the Isle of Gram,
to be employed with the other troops at that station.
Fifty-one non-commissioned officers and men of
the 29th Regiment have been placed under orders
to proceed from the depot of that corps at Chatham
to join the service companies of the regiment 111
Canada.

The half-yearly inspection of regiments com-
menced at Aldershot on Friday, when the 2d bat-
talion Bth (King's) Regiment, Lieut.-Colonel A. C.
Robertson, was inspected on the general parade,
Suuth CAmp, by Major-Gen. H. Renny, command-
ing the Ist brigade. The regiment, which was le
complete marching order, received the General
with the usual salute, and, after he had made a close
scrutiny of the ranks, broke into open coital:lo9
right in front, and marched past in slow and la
quick time. On wheeling into line it was Pet
through the manual and platoon exercises by Maier
Hamilton, V.C., and through the bayonet exercise
in slow and in quick time by Adjt. Jones. Carte.
`''hitting, Bannatyne, Tanner, and Stebbing the°
put the regiment through a variety of field move-
ments, and after being exercised in light infantry
movements by Col. Robertson,. the regiment ad'
vauced in review order, and gave a general salute.
The books, quarters, kits, &c., were afterwards in"
spected, and the regiment, both under arms and it'
regard to its internal economy, was found to be to
a highly satisfactory condition. On the same dayi
the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards were inspected
by Major-Gen. H. D. White, C.B. The regiment'
which is under the command of Col. C. Camereu
Shute, displayed the highest proficiency in cavall
drill and movements. The inspections will be Coll#
tinued during the present week, and, on their 0011.11
elusion, it is expected that the field-day season iv /
commence.