The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-14 00:00:00

THE CHESHIRE HUNT.

Bally's Magazine for the present month contains
the following biography of Mr. Corbet, master of
the Cheshire hounds :—" Mr. Reginald Corbet, the
master of the Cheshire hounds, is the eldest son of
Mr. Richard Corbet, of Adderley, and grandson of
Sir Andrew Corbet, of Acton Reynald, Bart. That
the subject of our memoir has claims to the master-
ship of the Cheshire may be inferred from the fact of
his grandfather having been in partnership with Mr.
J. Co bet, of Sandown Castle, in the hounds when
they hunted that vast extent of country from Shrews-
bury to Warwick, at the beginning of the present
century, having their headquarters at Stratford-
on-Avon. Mr. Corbet was educated at Harrow,
from whence he went up to Oxford, where he did
not let the study of the dead languages interfere
with that of the manners and customs of the fox and
hare, which were uppermost in his thoughts, while
he had a greater admiration for Nimrod than for
Julius Caa3ar, and gave the preference to Diana
over all the other heathen deities; for from four to
five days out of the seven saw him at the covert side
in the prosecution of his study of the ferx naturz
of Oxfordshire. In the year 1849 Mr. Corbet
established a pack of beagles, which very s'aortly,
according to the anticipations of his father and
friends, developed themselves into harriers, which,
in four or five years, not only afforded him consider-
able amusement, but gave him a good knowledge
of hunting, which is very scare among many who
figure at the covert side of the present day. In
1866, on the retirement of Earl Grosvenor from the
Cheshire hounds, Mr. Corbet accepted the master-
ship, being the first gentleman who has occupied
that position who was not strictly a Cheshire man
One of the first steps in Mr. Corbet's policy was to
hunt another day, giving his subscribers five days
a week instead of four, which, it is almost needless
to say, increased his popularity ; and so far from
this proving a tax upon the raw material, the foxes
actually increased, and thrived upon the additional
exercise that was afforded them ; and during his
entire tenure of office he has given perfect satisfac-
tion in a country where real fox hunting is so tho-
roughly appreciated. And this will be better under-
stood when we reflect he had to tread in the steps of a
Barry, a •Mainwaring, a Shakerley, a White, and a
Grosvenor, whose names for generations appear in
the book of the Tarporley Club, In the field Mr.
Corbet is always with his hounds, ever anxious to
show sport. Both master and men are well
mounted, there being between forty and fifty horses
in the stables in first-rate hunting condition ; and
at the expiration of each seas.m they are sold by
auction without reserve. His country is well sup-
plied with foxes, as up to the end of December they
had brought forty-four brace to hand, and ran
eighteen brace to ground. And we may observe
with great truth that all classes, from the highest
to the lowest in the county, combine with a united
effort to promote sport, with a view of showing

their respect for the master of; the Cheshire. Mr.
Corbet, we may add, is married to Miss Egerton,
eldest daughter of Sir Philip Egerton, by whom he
has two sons, the, eldest of whom, and ' the hope of
Troy,' bids fair to keep the mastership in the
family."

TURKEY.

(From the Levant Herald of Feb. 5.)

The rumour is current that A'ali Pasha is to pro-
ceed to Paris, for the double purpose of conferring
with M. de Moustier as to the grant of quasi inde-
pendence to Crete under a Christian governor, and
of conveying in person the Sultan's invitation to
the Emperor to visit Stamboul. We register the
fact and its reported explanation for what they
are worth. It is also said that Omar Pasha will
return to Crete as soon as the Grand Vizier
leaves it.

Fuad Pasha has had three lengthened audiences
of the Sultan during the week. Yesterday the
Minister of Finance also had a long interview with
his Majesty.
On Monday Count Brassier de St. Simon, the
Prussian Minister, had an audience at the palace to
present his new letters of appointment as Minister
Plenipotentiary for the North German Confedera-
tion. His Excellency was conveyed to and from
Dolmabaktche in court carriages, with the custo-
mary ceremonial.
A new street is spoken of between Tophaneh and
the main street of Pera, which will pass close by the
Austrian and French embassies. The cost is esti-
mated at £15,000, and will, it is said, be met by the
Tophaneh department.
An extensive robbery was committed on Tuesday
night last in Mr. Proins's counting-house in Zum-
bullu Khan, Stamboul. The thieves, it appears,
effected an entrance to the office with false keys,
and by the same means opened the safe and got pos-
session of £14,000 in Consolides and about £l,OOO
in diamonds. The police are investigating the affair,

and several hamaLs and oda-bashis have been ar-
rested on suspicion.
The question of purchasing some 30 300-pounder
Armstrongs at a cost of £2,000 a gun is now before
the Admiralty. _

The weather, until within the last few days, has
proved very severe in the Black Sea and the Sea of
Marmora, and there have been several heavy gales
of wind and snow-storms. On Thursday, Mr.
Hopper, Lloyd's agent in Constantinople, received
a telegram reporting the wreck of the English bark
Circassia, Captain Cooper, of North Shields, at
Coumbao, near Rodosta, on the night of the 29th
ult. She was bound with a valuable cargo of wheat
from Varna to England. No one was found on
board the stranded ship, and her boats were absent,
but her captain, a skilful seaman, experienced in the
navigation of the Levant, bad succeeded in reaching
a part of the coast with the whole of his crew in
safety. An agent has been despatched to the spot
to look after individual interests. We also learn

that the Champion, which recently went ashore near
Varna, is likely to prove a total wreek.

WIIA7 THE PRESIDENT SAID.

There is an extraordinary statement in the letter
of the Standard's correspondent, dated Washington,
Jan. 21, and several American papers allude to the
same subject :—" The President said yesterday to a
friend of the writer, I believe in the people. They may
sometimes be deceived—it sometimes takes a bloody
revolution like that through which we havejustpassed,
or like that which may be before us, to set a country
right upon principle. But I hope that these dis-
orders may be settled without bloodshed. . . . 'I
am glad to say that there is a better feeling in the
army. These Radical destructives fancy that they
can do what they please ; but, if they go on in this
way, with their attacks upon the Supreme Court
and upon the Executive—all aiming at the liberties
of the people, the people may find it necessary to
take the work of correction into their own hands.
. . Congress abuses me worse than a pickpocket.
I desire to preserve the decorum due from one de-
partment of the Government to another ; but 1
don't know but the time has come to handle them

(the Congressmen) without gloves.' I may be
pardoned for repeating the President's exact lan-
guage, and for adding that when Mr. Johnson
speaks of correction by the people he does not allude
to the peaceful remedy of the ballot. And here
one may refer to an interview between the Presi-
dent and a correspondent of the New Fork World.
Mr. Johnson said that, though for a long time
it required firmness to act up to the conviction that
the demands of the Constitution are more imperative
than those of Congress, and it was like breaking
thick ice to break through the crust of prejudice
that intervened between the perceptions of the
multitude and the President's real motives,' the
country had become better advised, and the Presi-
dent's duty much lighter. The Radicals in Con-
gress, he thought, were desperate. 'they were aware
that they were losing ground in the North ; they
hoped to retrieve their loss by the full conquest of
the South. They were capable of employing any
means—constitutional or unconstitutional—to get
rid of the President, or shear away his powers.'
Their evidence' in support of impeachment had
been obtained by the person Ashley' and
others, 'by ransacking brothels and low slums,
and accepting testimony from the lips of a felon.'
The President proceeded at length to denounce the
revolutionary measures' of Congress : he de-
clared it to be his duty to defend the Constitution
' from any and every assailant.' He considered
the Executive Department at the present time su-
perior to Congress. At all times its power wits
equal to that of Congress. The President was
elected as directly by the people as Congress, and
was therefore as much a representative of the

people. Representatives were chosen once iu two
years, to be sure ; but Senators were chosen once
in six years, and the President once in four years.

If the frequency of elections were an argument
for superior power, the President had more
power than the Senate. Mr. Johnson consi-
dered the Supreme Court equally independent
with the Executive, of legislation by Congress.
lie was fully aware of the partisan object of the
important bills now before Congress. The Pre-
sident then dwelt upon the effect of theßadical policy
upon the country. The North was suffering great
commercial depression ; in the South the cot-
ton interest had nearly died out ;' the Congres-
sional policy was making paupers of the Southern
people ; the South was able to support no part of
the public burdens, the cost of collecting the re-
venue in the South being actually greater than the
amount of revenue received. Mr. Johnson pointed
to Tennessee—where 70,000 black and white voters
control the destiny of 800,000 white persons rope-
seating the intelligence and respectability of the
State—as a ' model' of Congressional reconstruc-
tion. Of Congress Mr. Johnson said, further—
' I consider the Extremists, who have violated their
own express declaration of the object of the war,
and who are dishonouring the Constitution every
day that they proceed with this damning policy
towards the South—l consider these men, I say,
far more inconsistent than, and quite as treason-

able as, any rebel who fought in the Southern
armies.' If a proper policy of moderation had
been adopted, Mr. Johnson said, long ere this the
South might have been set on its legs again,'
and peace and prosperity restored. The President
concluded his remarks by saying that a new revo-
lution would be far more disastrous than the late
civil war ; that he would ' leave special measures
for special occasions ;', and that he believed in the
young men, who would not permit a revolution to
be accomplished, even though it might be neces-
sary for the people to take the matter into their
own bands.'"

[ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. Dark and
cheerless indeed is the present season, when the weekly
deaths are far above the average. The cause is probably
diffused through the dense damp fogs which have been
so prevalent of late. These pills purify the blood which
has been contaminated by foul gases, and give tone to the
nervous system, whereby typhus, typhoid, gastric, and
bilious fevers are warded off. Holloway's pills are also
the best known promoters of digestion, the surest regu-
lators of the liver, and the most valued and effective of
all aperients. When health is impaired, with loss of
appetite, vigour, and sleep, this medicine will be found a
certain restorative, and will rarely fail to effect a com-
plete cure.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

HELSTON.

No Liberal candidate being forthcoming there is
very little excitement in the borough concerning
the pending election. The Solicitor-General, who
returned to London on Tuesday, is virtually un-
opposed, as Mr. Robert Lea, who seeks to be re-
garded as an independent Liberal, is not supported
by either party, and has not the least chance of
success. At the general election the Liberals in-
tend to bring forward again Mr. A. W. Young, who
was unseated by a committee of the present Par-
liament on the ground of his having been elected by
means of corrupt practices.

STOKE-ON-TRENT.

Mr. Beresford Hope issued his farewell address
o the constituency of this borough yesterday. He

says :

" In fulfilment of the promise I made to the members of
the Senate of the University of Cambridge, who tendered
me their support in 1859, I have now offered myself as a
candidate for the representation of the University, in which
the promotion of Lord Justice Selwyn has made a vacancy.
I have therefore to resign the scat to which you elected
me in 1865, and I do so with great gratitude to those who
then supported me, and with kindly feeling to all the in-
habitants of the Potteries. Though no longer your, mem-
ber, I retain my interest in North Staffordshire, and I shall
always be glad, to the utmost of my power, to promote
your legitimate interests."

Both candidates for Mr. Beresford Hope's seat
are actively canvassing, and there is a probability
of a close contest. Mr. Melly addressed a crowded
meeting at Hanley on Tuesday evening, and was
very warmly received. Mr. Catnpbell commenced
his addresses to the constituency last night at
Longton.

A VESSEL DRIVEN FROM THE FIRTH OF FORTH
TO NORWAY.— Considerable uneasiness prevailed at
,Gran-
ton for some days pa,t, owing to the non-arrival of the
schooner Bellenden, Captain Whyte, which had left Lon-
don for Granton on Wednesday last. Mr. Guan, Grantor,
owner of the schooner, has, however, received a telegram
from the captain which has set at rest all apprehensions
for the safety of the vessel and her crew. The captain
in his telegram, which is dated " Christiansand, Sun-
day," states that the Bellenden was entering the Firth
of Forth on Friday, in ballast, when she was caught in
4 severe gale and driven right across the North Sea to
the coast of Norway. Captain Whyte succeeded, with
much difficulty, in making the harbour of Christiansand ,
where his vessel now lies awaiting a favourable change in
the weather.

SUICIDE BY A DEFAULTING SECRETARY.—Yester-
day an elderly man, named Thomas Farmer, a glass
bottle dealer in Thomas-street, at the back of Kennington
Park, committed suicide by shooting himself. For many
years past the deceased had been connected with several
building and other benefit societies, and from his re-
spectable position had been appointed to various offices
of trust and responsibility. Amongst other positions he
held was that of secretary to the Loyal United Friends
Gift Fund, Lodge 31, held at the Lamb and Hare Tavern,
Lower Kennington-line. For some time past there had
been suspicions in the minds of the trustees of that fund
about the money, and the result was that an examination
of the books was made, when it was found that there
were defalcations to the extent of about £7O. The trus-
tees communicated with the deceased upon the subject,
and he made several proposals for the refunding of the
money, which he admitted he had appropriated. No ar-
rangement having been come to, however, the trustees
determined to take proceedings against the deceased. A.
summons was applied for and granted, being made re-
turnable on Tuesday last at Lambeth Police-court. The
defendant, however, did not appear, and a warrant was
issued for his arrest. On the officer proceeding yesterday
morning to execute it, he was answered at the door by a
female member of the family, and whilst in conversation
with her a loud report of firearms was heard to proceed
from the rear of the house, and the deceased was found
lying in a pool of blood with his head and face in a most
horrible state. By his side was lying a double-barrelled
gun, with which the deceased had shot himself by dis-
charging one of the barrels in his mouth. The second bar-
rel was loaded with ball, and the nipple was capped. Med
cal aid was at once called in, but death must have been in-
stantaneous.

FANNY KEMBLE ON LADY M4CBETII.—In a mo-
mentary absence of memory, a friend of mine once sug-
gested to me the idea that Lady Macbeth's exclamation in
the sleeping scene—" The Thaneof Fife had a wife; whore
is she no vr?"—was a conscience-stricken reference to herself
and her own lost condition. Of course the hypothesis was
immediately abandoned on the recollection that Macbeth
never had been Thane of Fife, and that it is Macduff's
slaughtered mate Lady Macbeth is dreaming of—the poor
dame who, with all her pretty chickens, was destroyed at
one fell swoop by Lady Macbeth's murderous cruelty. The
conversation that ensued led me to reflect on this mis-

taken suggestion of my friend, as involving a much
deeper mistake—an important, psychological error. Not
wily the fact was not as suggested, but a fact of that na-

ture—viz., an accusing return upon herself by Lady
Macbeth - could not be. Lady Macbeth, even in her
sleep, has no qualms of conscience ; her remorse takes
none of the tenderer forms akin to repentance, nor the
weaker ones allied to fear, from the pursuit of which
the tortured soul, seeking where to hide itself, not seldom
escapes into the boundless wilderness of madness
A. very able article, published some years ago
in the " National Review," on the character of Lady
Macbeth, insists much upon an opinion that she died of
remorse, as some palliation of her crimes, and mitigation
of our detestation of them. That she died of wickedness
would be, 1 think, a juster verdict. Remorse is conscious-
ness of guilt—often, indeed, no more akin to saving con-
trition than the faith of devils, who tremble and believe,
is to saving faith—but still consciousness of guilt ; and
that, I think, Lady Macbeth never had ; though the un-
recognised pressure of her great guilt killed her. I think
her life was destroyed by sin, as by a disease of which
she was unconscious, and that she died of a broken heart,
while the impenetrable resolution of her will remained
unbowed. The spirit was willing, but the flash was weak ;
the body can sin but so much, and survive ; and other
deadly passions besides those of violence and sensuality
can wear away its fine tissues, and determine its wonder"
ful fabric. The woman's mortal frame succumbed to the
tremendous weight of sin and suffering which her im-
mortal soul had power to sustain ; and, having destroyed
its temporal house of earthly sojourn, that soul, une%-
hausted by its wickedness, went forth into its now abode
of eternity.—Fanny Kemble, in Macmillan's Magazine for
February.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Du Barry s Delicious Health Restoring
Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three times the
nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other
remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lunge'
healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energid
to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing speedily an
effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual constipation'
diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervouf-,
ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza'
noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, erulr,
Lions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, P5l
pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasrae,
nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis'
incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains 5„
the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. We quo
te
few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health restored by -1-'1!
Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866.---Tho
health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, 51,51'
doning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely ~-,
Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consum eel
plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly ben is
cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise thr
excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi." Jul
25. Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable agony frol3,
dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatulenel,
spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." Maria 30Pr;
Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,121,-I\ll6
Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Hert
of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low sPirifit7s,
and nervous fancies. Important Caution.—Beware of the man
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, witho.,
authority, Baron Liehig's name is most audaciously attached .
'
In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d, • 5 lbs. 1',.°1:
121b5., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co., N°:
Regent-street, London; also Fortnum said Mason, 182,
and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 2'
Oxford-street 330 Strand; and all grocers si,nd chemists.