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hope that he will soon be out of their way, and if
they really believed that the feeling of the coun-
try was with them they might very well wait
in patience for the full development of their policy.
But the fact is that the prosecuting party are
very well aware that the country is not with
them, that Mr. JOIINSON, though occasionally
betrayed into hastiness of language and conduct,
is really better appreciated, and acted upon the
general feeling of those classes who are not under
the immediate influence of political partisanship.
In condemning Mr. JOIINSON the Radicals aim at
the discomfiture of the Democratic or moderate
party, and they are eager to secure for themselves
a more assured position. If the Senate Court should
sanction the authority assumed by the House of
Representatives, henceforward that assembly will
be the chief power in the States. The Presidents
will bow to its decision, and it will virtually have
the nomination of the Cabinet in its hands, since
Ministers must not be removed without its approval.
This is quite a new reading of Constitutional Govern.
'pent, and one which, if permitted by the American
people, will very soon alter the whole character of
their institutions and government. The jealousy
with which Congress regards any attack upon itself
is still more ominous. Much of the charge against
the PRESIDENT is based upon his censures of Con-
gress, and speeches in which be has denounced its
action were on kriday and Saturday last produced
in evidence by the prosecution. This is the first
step towards that system which Americans, like
Englishmen, so bitterly condemn in Continental
countries, where criticism on public debates are
forbidden, and free speech and a free press are
only intangible shadows. If once Congress is
allowed to stand above the reach of official cen-
sure or public criticism, then America may say fare-
well to her civil liberty. The number of the
members is no guarantee for its preservation, since
we have seen during the last session or two of Con-
gress how ready are the majority to follow the
dictates of one or two unscrupulous leaders. the
system of paid members, too, brings into the
general assembly a class of men altogether different
from our members of Parliament. Political adven-
turers, men who have objects to serve for them-
selves or others, men of no particular profession,
all press into the American Congress, while even if
they could obtain a seat they would gain nothing
nothing by admission into the English House of
Commons. This is another reason for watching the
increasing assumption of Congress with much
jealousy and suspicion, since the liberties of the
people are not safe in its hands. A desperate ad-
venturer, a reckless schemer, a military dictator,
might easily, by the proper combination of force
and skill, make the majority his tools ; and the
United States ought to have learned from the close
of the 18th century that the existence of a public
assembly is not always a guarantee for the safety
of the State or the preservation of civil and religious
liberty.

On Saturday, so we learn by the Atlantic cable,
the case for the prosecution was concluded, and the
Court adjourned until Thursday next. Every effort
to procure some delay has been resisted by the
House, and the Managers of the Impeachment can
scarcely conceal their impatient anxiety to press on
the trial to its conclusion. The Senate Court re-
opened on March 23d under the presidency of Chief
Justice CILASE. President JOHNSON'S counsel read
his answer denying the Impeachment charges in de-
tail. The PRESIDENT claims that the removal
of STANTON was no violation of the
Tenure-of-Office Law, as Mr. STANTON was ap-
pointed by Mr. LINCOLN. He affirms that he
removed him in order to test the legality of the Act.
He denies conspiracy with Gen. THomis to seize the
War-office, and states that his Western speeches
were incorrectly reported, but claims that the PRE-
siDENT has a right to give his opinion on public
affairs. Certainly this is a right which every other
American PRESIDENT has hitherto acted upon.
The reticence exacted from a constitutional mon-
arch, who in the eyes of the law " can do no
wrong," is never demanded from a ruler whose
term of office is limited, and who owes his election
to the popular suffrages. If ABRAHAM LINCOLN had
never expressed his opinions on the civil war, what
would have been thought of his silence? If
former Presidents had refused to utter their sen-
timents regarding slavery, how many supporters
would they have found in either House? The Ame-
ricans are naturally an outspoken people, and they
can hardly expect or wish to find in their President
that absolute impartiality on all public affairs which
England may look for in her reigning Sovereign,
but never dreams of seeking in her Prime
Minister.

The replication, as it is termed, to Mr. JOIIN-
SON'S defence against the Impeachment charges,
was adopted and filed in the House of
Representatives by 116 to 36 votes. The
replication, of course, reaffirms every charge,
since the accusers are acting on a foregone
conclusion, and the direct evidence of their senses
would scarcely alter their line of policy in regard
to the accused. The Senate, it would seem, is less
strongly biassed than the Lower House, since the
majority by which it was decided to prosecute the
trial with all haste was only four, twenty-eight
against twenty-four votes. After Mr. JOHNSON'S
application for time this was .of itself an affront to
the PRESIDENT, but in reality the delay would have
been immaterial. The issue remains to be seen,
and we shall probably learn within a day or two
further particulars of the trial.

It is most satisfactory to find that the affairs of
Austria are progressing favourably in all respects,
and the latest intelligence confirms the impression
already entertained of the unanimity that existed
between the two Houses. The Lower House of the
Reichsrath has adopted all the amendments which
were proposed by the Upper House to the Public
Schools Bill. The bill for the organisation of the
district laws was likewise passed. It is encouraging
to notice this readiness on the part of both Houses
to agree in all that relates to the public
welfare, and it affords us a well-grounded hope
that the future may witness still more important
changes take place. Now the work of progress
has begun it is not likely to stand still, and
freed from some of those restrictive ways and
customs, which were tolerated for the sake of old
times, though they were felt to be burdensome,
there is no doubt that the Austrians generally
will develope into a much finer and more power-
ful nation.

Side by side with the improvements in Austria,
we may mention that the South German Parlia-
ment has just come to a very wise resolve,
for it was settled by a large majority on a reso-
lution of Herr CASKER'S that the members of
Parliament should not be liable to prosecution for
speeches delivered by them in the House. We hope
that this will be kept to, and not overruled as some
of the decisions of the Prussian Chamber of De-
puties have been. There will be an end to all
chance of freedom if hard and harsh measures against
liberty of speech are to be put in practice, and we are
not surprised that the sense and spirit of the assembly
have declared against the notion. The only chance
which the Germans can have of keeping their own
against the encroachments of Berlin will be in keep-

ing to themselves a free and unfettered Parliament
and they must not, on any consideration, consent
to the imposition of laws which will cramp or re-
strain them, instead of allowing a free development.
They have made a good beginning, so far as this
goes, and we hope that they •will strictly adhere to
the resolution whose principle they affirmed the
other day, for by so doing they will increase their
strength and greatly enhance their influence.

LATEST INTELL MENGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TIIE BOMBAY MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, April G.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta has arrived with the heavy portion of the
above mails, 16 passengers, £1,564 in specie, and
1,093 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of Indian
corn and wheat.

In the Straits of Gibraltar she spoke the brig
Bermuda ; off St. Vincent the steamer Egyptian ;
off Cape Finisterre the steamer Ueda ; and in the
Bay of Biscay the Prussian bark Amonia.
The accounts received at Gibraltar, Ist April,
from Mexico are more satisfactory. At Tetuan the
cholera had entirely disappeared. Fine rains had
fallen at Mogadore and in the vicinity, greatly
benefiting the growing crops. The price of wheat
at Mogadore had consequently declined one-fifth.
Exchange on London, 4911 r ; Paris, 5 22 ; Madrid,
/to discount.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE NEW YORK.
(Via Southampton.) -
NEW YORK, March 26th (Noon).

President Johnson has vetoed the bill prohibiting
appeals from Circuit to the Supreme Court, on the
grounds that it leaves cases involving life and
liberty wholly exposed to the judgment of inferior
Courts, and has a retrospective effect in interdict-
ing appeals already before the Supreme Court.
The President points out that the act con-
ferring appellate jurisdiction upon the Su-
preme Court was approved in February,
1867, and says nothing has since occurred to dis-
prove the wisdom of the act. The proposed bill
would injuriously affect the legal equipoise of the
Government, and establish a precedent which, if
followed, would sweep away every check upon
unconstitutional legislation. People would re-
gard the removal of the appellate jurisdic-
tion to the Supreme Court as an admission of the
unconstitutionality of law appeals to test which are
interdicted.

The New Jersey House of Representatives has
passed over the Governor's veto, the resolution
withdrawing the ratification of the constitutional
amendment altering the bask of the national
suffrage.

General Lopez, the betrayer of the late Emperor
Maximilian, is in prison at Mexico.

The Mexican judiciary courts have decided that
the law under which Maximilian was executed was
unconstitutional.

The North German Lloyd's steamer, New York,
from New York, arrived at Southampton to-day
(March 6) with 84 passengers for this port ; Havre
and Bremen, 41 sacks of mails and $13,000 in
specie for Paris. On the 3d she spoke the steamer
Bremen, 4th the Oldenburgh brig, No. 93, and on the
sth the barque Charleo, steamers Berlin, English,
and Achmidian.

COititESFONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.,
PARIS, SUNDAY, April 5.

Mere must, as your readers may imagine, be very little
news going, for the papers are still fighting over Prince
Napoleon's visit to Berlin. Some time ago the Prince
published a pamphlet, which he was very anxious to get
noticed in all the journals both at home and abroad,
because, as he told a friend of mine, he wanted to make a
row—faire du tapage. I do not know if that was the object
of his visit to Berlin ; if it was, he has thoroughly suc-
ceeded. Every day there is something fresh ; and, as
no two papers agree, there is, of course, room for any
amount of speculation. In fact, one would think that
the decision of the great question Peace v. War depended
far more upon the Prince than the Emperor. On the
whole, I incline to believe that the Prince is in favour of
peace. No doubt, if the honour or interests of France
were attacked, J6rome, no less than Louis Napoleon,
would be fez punishing the offender. But if all that I
hear be true, the Prince does not get on well with Marshal
Niel. The Minister of War thoroughly believes that
we shall be fighting with Prussia before many months
are gone, and is making the greatest possible efforts
to be prepared for that event. On this point
he and the Prince have had a somewhat lively discussion.
Monseigneur has told the Marshal that he (the Prince)
knows Germany better than the Marshal does, and that
all his attempts to get up an international struggle of the
kind in question will only end in disaster. The Prince's
policy, so his friends assure us, is "peace abroad ; liberty
at home."

Your readers will ask, " And what of the Emperor ?
That is just what no one knows ; what probably he himself
does not know. There is a story in circulation just now,
to the effect that a very high functionary attached to the
War Office, and who contemplates resigning his post in
order to become a candidate for the Corps Ld,gislatif,
asked the Emperor if there was any chance of war for this
year, because if there were he would remain at his post ; and
that his Majesty replied that he would give his word of
honour that there would be no war this year, at least not
through any conduct of his. Nevertheless, the prepara-
tions, both offensive and defensive, go on rapidly. It is
said that the
.fortifications of Strasbourg and Metz alone
will cost more than a million sterling.

Poor M. de Kerv6guen ! Even his enemies and prose-
cutors pity him. He has cut the most miserable figure at
the trial now going on for slandering the Liberte, the
Debats, and other papers. He has made a humble—not to
say abject--confession, and throws all the blame upon M.
Cassagnac, of the Pays, who forced him to go on with the
matter even after he had discovered that the whole story
was false. The Avocat Imp6rial was so touched by the
spectacle of the defendant's misery that he appealed to
the prosecutors by way of softening their animosity
towards a colleague who was so " sadly humiliated." It
is expected that the trial will close to-morrow. The only
doubt is as to the severity of the sentence.
Hostilities threaten in another quarter. The Senate has
chosen for its reporter upon the Press and Public Meetings
Bills M. Maupas, who is known to be strongly opposed to
both measures. This appointment is supposed to indicate
a determination on the part of the Senate to reject the
measures, and thus bring the two Chambers into antago-
nism. This would be a very serious result, as it would
shew that the Senate is even less inclined to moderate the
existing despotism than the majority of the Legislative
Body are. The matter is causing much talk.
There is a rumour to the effect that during the recent
riots at Charleroi, in Belgium, the rioters raised the cry
of " Vive la France and Viva l'Empereur." It is said that
similar cries were . raised during the disturbances at
Geneva. If this be true, people will not believe that the
coincidence was undesigned. When such manifestations
occur in Belgium on the north and in Switzerland on the
south, the Emperor will be accused of having had agents
at both places. It is even rumoured that your Govern
meat has made repress ntations on the subject ; but that of
course is absurd.

The Courtier Francais has just been sold to its old pro-
prietors, the Vermorel Company. It was put up to
auction, but there was only one bid of 50f. ; the reserve
price was 30,000f.---21,200—n0t a large sum, but large
enough for a paper which the Government seems deter-
mined to ruin. After having been suspended for some-
time, it will appear on the 9th.

- -
We have sad news from Algeria. When the famine was
at its height a "philanthropic association" was formed to
distribute food to the famished people. For three
months the association worked heroically ; but all those
who approached the Arabs collected in the depot of men-
dicity were struck down by typhus fever, and many died.
The consequence is, that the association has been broken
up. About forty or fifty Arabs are still dying of hunger
and fever every day.

According to the Paris correspondent of the Times, the
proposal to dissolve the Corps Legislatif immediately was
originated by certain .s.oppori.,ers of the Government in the
Bc,dy who are afraid of the working of the new Press and
Public Meetings laws. They said that, having helped the
Government with their votes, Government ought to spew
its gratitude by considering their position, and giving them
an opportunity of getting re-elected, which they miint not
have again. The proposal was strongly resisted by several
of the Emperor's advisers. They urged that even if any
such advantage as was imagined were obtained, the
suddenness of the measure would have such a bad
effect as to more than counterbalance the advantage.
The reports sent in by the prefects were con-
tradictory. There is no doubt that many of them were
divided between the desire to keep the Emperor well
advised and the fear of speaking unpalatable truths which
might injuriously affect their own promotion. The result
is that the ele:;tions are postponed, in all probability until
after the harvest ; perhaps until June 1869, when they
must take place by effluxion of time.

Readers of the Revue des Deux blondes will much regret
to hear of the serious illness of M. Eugene Forcade, the able
writer of the admirable " Chronicle of the Fortnight "
which appeared in each number. M. Forcade has fallen a
victim to overwork, and is now suffering from the most
terrible of all calamities—madness. It manifested itself
first during the festival at Venice on the translation
of the remains of Manin. In the midst of
that august ceremonial M. Forcade stepped for-
ward and lit a cigar at one of the tapers surrounding
the sarcophagus—an indecorum whereof, of course,
no sand man would have been guilty. He also
went about to the shops ordering enormous
quantities of decorations. This distinguished litterateur
was born at Marseilles, and founded the well-known news-
paper in that city, the Semaphore. Removing to Paris, he
became connected with other periodicals—some successful,
some the reverse. One of them was suppressed at the
coup d'etat, and Forcade was sent to prison for some severe
remarks on that event. He was at one time chief director
of the Patrie, and from 1856 to 1862 edited the Se»taine
Financiare. He is, we believe, under 50 years of age.

The Austrian Archduke Ernest has resigned the military
command which he held at Gratz. The reason of his
resignation is said to be his determination to follow the
example of his brother Henry, and marry a girl of ple-
beian origin. What is come to the Hapsburgs ?

The Austrian Government finds King George of Hanover
a troublesome guest, and has, so says the Laerte, written
to his Majesty earnestly requesting him to leave Hietzing,
and take up his abode elsewhere. He had better go to
Rome, where dethroned kings are always at a premium.

The Marquis de Moustier has received from the
Roumanian Government a despatch denying the reported
alliance between that Government and Russia, and also
declaring that the first Government is in no way respon•
sible for the monstrous bill against the Jews which had
been introduced into the Legislature. It appears that
there are 200,000 Jews in a total population of
4,000,000.

After all, the anxiously-expected "grand field-day" foi
the volunteers at Portsmouth is not to come off ; there is
to be nothing but a mere "march past." Instead of the
17,000 or 18,000 men who were expected to go down for
review, it is now calculated that 30,000 will attend. Con-
sequently, the place will be too small for a sham fight.
Not only so, but should a fight and a march take place, the
railway company would not guarantee the return of the forces
that night to the metropolis. Under these circumstances the
sham fight has been practically abandoned, though it is
still urged that it might take place, for its abandonment is
likely to altogether discourage the men, who have so long
been lookirg forward to the part of the day devoted to
the fight as the best. Though on the one hand it is said
to be impossible to manoeuvre 30,000 men, on the other
such a scheme is said to be practicable.

There does not seem to be m ach likelihood of
the decision being reversed, for Lord Elcho writes,
"The intended Easter Monday field.day has undoubtedly
broken down." Hia lordship appeals to the volunteers
not on that account to be deterred from going. It is, no
doubt, a great and grievous disappointment to all con-
cerned. But he trusts that the natural disappointment
thus occasioned will not cause any volunteer to abstain
from going to Portsmouth who had previously intended to
do so. He expresses this hope asthe advocate of an increased
capitation grant. So imposing a force as 30,000 carried
by rail from distant places and massed on Southsea Com-
mon cannot fail, lie thinks, to impress spectators and the
nation with the value of the volunteers ; and it may not,
says his lordship, be unreasonably expected that this im-
pression will find an echo in the House of Commons should
the subject of the capitation grant again come up for dis-
cussi9n.

ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION ON LORD
STANLEY'S AIIIENDMEN7.

Liberals voted against 326 Conservatives voted for 263
Conservatives d 0....... 5 Liberals voted for

331 270
Liberals paired against 1.2 Conservatives paired for _l2
Liberals absent l7 Conservatives absent ... 5
Tellers 2 Tellers ' 2
Vacant seat 1 Vacant seat

Total 290
343
282

Total 363
Total against
Total for
Tellers
Speaker
A bsett
Seats vacant
Boroughs disfranchised

Total .. 658
LIBERALS. PAIRS. CONSERVATIVES.
Mr. H Seymour ... ... Sir John Pakington.
Sir G. Grey ... Lord H. Scott.
Mr. G. C. Glyn Mr. Tollemache.
Mr. Jackson ... Lord H. Percy.
Lot d Milton ... ... Mr. Jones.
Sir F. Dundee ... Mr. Long.
Mr.. Tito ~. Sir P. Burrell.
Sir H. Williamson ... Mr. Kennard.
Mr. Dunlop Mr. C. W. Wynn.
Mr. Norwood ... ... Mr. Liddell.
Mr. Beaumont ... ... Mr. Barrow.
Sir H. W. Barron... Chancellor of the Exchequer
LIBERALS VOTED AGAINST.--Edmund Antrobus, John
J. Briscoe, Lord Cremorne, Sir J. Matheson, lorries Max-
well, Edward Saunderson, James Wyld.
CONSERVATIVES VOTED FOR.---Lord Bingham, 11. A.
Butler-Johnstone, R. A. Earle, Sir J. M'Kenna, Mr. G.
Morris.

LIBERALS ABSENT.—ilenry B. Baring, James Brockle-
hurst, James Brown, Sir G. C. Colthurst, Richard Fort,
Julian Goldsmid, Robert Jardine, W. A. Mackinnon,
Capt. Mackinnon, Lawrence Oliphant, Colonel Packe, Sir
R. Palmer, Sir Morton Peto, Jonathan Pim, Colonel Pryse,
John Steel, Sir T. E. Winuington.
CONSERVATIVES ABSENT.—Viscount Cranborne, James
M. Gaskell, Nicholas P. Leader, George S. Sandford,
Colonel Vandeleur.

There were some peculiarities, and one mistake
about what may be called the personal disposition
of the division. The mistake—a very venial one—
occurred on the Liberal side, and was in this wise :
Mr. Traill, M.P. for Caithness-shire, was so unwell
that he required the assistance of ,a friend, which
was afforded by Mr. Miller, M.P. for Leith, and
both were so preoccupied that they went into the
" noes" lobby, and so gave two involuntary votes
to the Government. In a certain way Lord Elcho
is a prominent person, and so it may be thought
worth while to observe that he, so to speak, sepa-
rated himself, for he voted in the first divi-
sion with the Government, but took no part in
the second. The same course was pursued
by Sir Robert Peel and Lord Ernest Bruce,
while exactly the opposite line was taken by Lord
Cranborne, who abstained from voting in the first
division, but helped to swell the Government mino-
rity in the second. The political designation of a
Liberal Conservative was well illustrated by Mr.
M'Lagan, who halved his support between both
parties, voting with the Government in the first,
and with the Opposition on the second division.
Amongst the notable absentees on the Government
side were two members of the Cabinet, Sir John
Pakiugton and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
both of whom neutralised their non-appearance;
and as neither of them was present at the Cabinet
Council, which was held on Saturday, ii
may be presumed that in both cases phi sical
disability was the cause. The reasons for
pairing on the part of two Liberals has been
ascertained ; Sir George Grey being abroad, and
Sir Henry Winston Barron being unwell. In regard
to the Liberal members who voted with the Govern-
ment none of them having expressed their opinions
during the debate, there is no overt clue to the rea-
sons of their proceedings ; but it may be said that it
was currently reported during the week that the ad-
herence of Lord Cremorne and Mr. Wyld to their
party was at least doubtful, and it is to be remem-
bered that Mr. Saunderson and Mr. Mainwaring
last year voted steadily with the Government
all through the proceedings on the Reform Bill.
It is just probable that nobody will be much
troubled to discover the motive of such obscure
members as Mr. Edmund Antrobus, Mr. Briscoe,
Sir J. Matheson, and Mr. Herries Maxwell—except
their constituents. In reference to the Conserva-
tive members who voted with Mr. Gladstone in both
divisions, it may be said that there is nothing gener-
ally known by which to indicate the reason for the
course taken by Lord Bingham (son of the Earl
of Lucan) ; but as regards Mr. Butler Johnstone,
in his speech on Mr. Maguire's motion on the
state of Ireland, he distinctly stated that he
would follow any leader that could dis-
establish the Irish Church. In regard to Sir J.
M'Kenna, it was from the first understood that, as
a Catholic member, he felt that he had no alterna-
tive but to Tote against the Irish Church. In three
instances the total absence of Liberal members can
be accounted for easily ; for Mr. Julian Goldsmid
is on leave—has just "been married, and could not
come ;" Mr. Oliphant is ill in America; and Sir Mor-
ton Peto could only vote at the risk of heavy pecu-
niary penalties. The total absence, both from the
debate and the divisions, of Sir Roundel Palmer is
significant ; while as to the rest, Mr. Jonathan
Pim has given to his constituents a reason for his
defection ; which may or may not be satisfactory,
and as to Sir George Colthurst and Captain Mac-
kinnon, they were both certainly in the house at
even a late hour on the evening of the division ! It
is to be noted that Mr. Sandford, who, it was ex-
pected, would have followed Lord Cranborne's
course, was entirely absent ; while Col. Vandeleur
and Mr. Leader, two of the other absentees, were
about the house up to Thursday, at any rate. It may
be also worth while to notice that, in the first divi-
sion, Colonel Taylor and Mr. Whitmore were the
tellers for the Government; while in the second Mr.
Noel and Mr. Whitmore changed places, the latter
voting and the former telling. In both divisions
Mr. Glyn and Mr. Adam acted for the Liberals as
tellers.

When, in 1856, Mr. Miall proposed a motion
similar to that of Mr. Gladstone; it was supported
by but 95 votes, and rejected by a majority of
70, only 322 members voting or pairing on the
occasion. In 1863, when the question was re-
vived by M. r. Dillwyn, that gentleman could
not press it to a division, and Sir George Grey
declared that disestablishment could not be
effected without a revolution. In 1866 Sir
John Gray submitted a motion on the
subject, but without obtaining a division. Last
year he was more successful, his motion being sup-
ported by 183 votes, and lost by only 12 ; while
Mr. Gladstone spoke in emphatic condemnation of
the Establishment. Now 330 members have voted
for Mr. Gladstone's motion, and the majority in
its favour is 60, or nearly twice as great a majority
as that which in 1835 (33) voted for the more
limited policy involved in the Appropriation Clause.

THE GREY PARTRIDGE OF INDIA.---The grey
partridge is often reared in captivity by the natives of
India. They admire its shrill cackle as much as we
should the sweetest notes of a nightingale ; and, besides,
is a first-rate fighter, and affords nearly as much diver-
sion in that way as a game-cock. It is a hardy bird,
and becomes bold and familiar, like the chuckore,
sparring at people's legs, and flying at cats, dogs, and
children. It feeds on rico and all kinds of grain, to
which insects, especially white ants, should be occasionally
added to correct costiveness. The pugnacious disposition
of this bird renders it one of the easiest of all game to catch,
and there is hardly a village in the wilder parts of Upper and
Western Bengal where this amusement is not carried on.
For this purpose a tame one is placed in a small cage covered
with strong horsehair nooses, and carried out of an evening
or earlymorningto the jungle. On arriving at a likely spot
the fowler blows two or three timos upon the bird in the
cage, an act which has the invariable effect of rousing the
little captive to fury. It answers every puff by a shrill cry,
and in a minute or so goes off into a paroxysm of rage and
defiance, screaming and cackling challenges to all comers
in which state it is placed on the ground dancing about
in its cage, while the fowler retires behind some neigh-
bouring bush to watch operations. The decoy bird's calls
have been answered probably all round the coppice by
the time its master is hidden, and ore long an
exceedingly diverting scene, s which I have more than
once witnessed in Singbhoom, CUSUeS. Ono by ono the
wild cock birds, whose crows have been audible nearer
and nearer, emerge from the covert, heads up, wings down,
and tails spread, and after showing off in. a species of war
dance before the cage, thn nearest rushes at it with a
charge that would send it rolling off the scene wore
it not securely pegged to the ground. The bird
within and the bird without engage furiously, a la
Pyramus and Thisbe—but with kicks instead of kisses
—through the intervening wall, till after a few inter-
changes of this nature, the assailant finds himself fast by
the leg in one of the 1:100Se6. The fowler runs out, de-
taches the captive, and retreats with it to his ambuscade,
whereupon other wild birds which have been scared away
at sight of the man, quickly reassemble, and the same
scene is enacted with another champion, and so on, du
capo, till the whole are secured or till the decoy bird has
become exhausted and sulky.

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,

HER MAJESTY.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, April 4.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal
nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold, left Buckingham Palace to-day at
one o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle shortly
before two.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 5.
Her Majesty, Prince and Princess Christian,
Princess Louise. Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice attended divine service this
morning in the private chapel.

MR. GLADSTONE'S FAMOUS AIVD
DISGRACEFUL MOTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—There are yet a fuw more remarks I am
anxious to make to you on the above-named infa-
mous conduct of her Majesty's Opposition. Im-
primis, no one member of the present Administra-
tion pretends for one single instant to contend
that the present state of the Irish Protestant
Church is satisfactory, or that if it ought not to be
entirely abolished it ought at least to be greatly
revised and altered. How can any one in their
senses suppose that, because some eminent sur-
geon or physician tells their patients that
they ought not to take a particuler medicine
at a particular time, that the same medicine
may not prove highly beneficial at another time ?
Or does any lessee complain that albeit his land-.
lord admits that an old room, or part of the house
ought to be pulled down, or a new wing added, that
he will not allow it to be commenced until the lease
has expired? How long a time have not our new
Law Courts been delayed in order that the lessees
should not be disturbed. But no one ever supposed
that on that account the authorities which allowed,
the lessees' terms. to run out did not admit the
necessity of the new Law Courts. No man can
with advantage put a piece of new cloth into an
old , garment, or new wine into old bottles. Pari
ratione can be shown the utter folly, absurdity, and
complete waste of time of bringing forward a
most momentous question at the fag end of an old,
condemned, moribund Parliament. Surely, however
great an injustice the Irish Protestant Church may
be, neverthless the Irish Roman Catholics can
afford to wait one short year longer, especially
when we reflect that the Whigs during their all
but 40 years reign allowed the whole thing to
slumber. All parties agreed in condemning the old
10 per cent, income-tax which was levied during
the time of the old Freach war, and which actually
did expire on the sth of April, 1815, being the first
of April after the general treaty of peace of 1814.
But all parties consented, without a single murmur,
to its reimposition for one short year, to move an,
order to wind up, at the end of a long and expert-

sive war.

However ill any one may be supposed to have
acted, no right-thinking individual ever thinks of
marrying the said man or woman in their last hours,
and when it is known that they have not long
to live. People are willing to tolerate divers faults
in a servant when they know the said party
is about to quit their service. I could pursue
this theme to a far greater extent, but I think I
have said quite enough to show that the present
Opposition is fully condemned in having brought
forward their Irish Church motion at such a time
as the present, and when, owing to the delay in the
meeting of Parliament arising from the fact of our
having had an autumnal session, and, later still,
the illness and consequent resignation and retire-
ment of our excellent ci divant Premier, so much
remains to be done, and we are already far ad-
vanced in the session. However, we have lived to
witness the present state of things, and therefore I
earnestly hope Mr. Disraeli will do as all men ought
to do under similar circumstances, and that is,
boldly look his enemy in the face. Should Ministers
therefore be defeated on Lord Stanley's
.and Mr. Gladstone's divisions to-night,
let him at once appeal to the country.
If we should he put to all the worry and annoy-
ance of two general elections within a year of one
another, the thing is' not without precedent, as I
remarked to you in my letter yesterday. In the
spring of 1807 there was a general election within
six months after the general election which had
taken place the previous autumn of 1806. Again,
in the spring of 1831, there was a general election,
albeit there had been one the previous summer,
1830, on the demise of the Crown. Now although
at the time of the general elections in the autumn
of 1806 and summer of 1830, the general elec-
tion which came to pass in less than a twelve-
month afterwards was not foreseen never-
theless, at the general election which took
place during the month of May, 1831, the general
election of December, 1832, only a year and a half
afterwards, was well foreseen, as it was universally
believed that the Reform Bill then in discussion
would become the law of the land, and that too at
a much earlier period than it did become so, as few
persons contemplated its rejection by the House of
Lords in October, 1831; consequently a general elec-
tion was contemplated in less than a year from
the time of the aforesaid general election of May,
1831. I have, therefore, furnished you with abun-
dant evidence to prove to you that we are not
without precedents of having had general elections
taking place within a very brief period of each other,
as we had in 1806, 1807, 1830, 1831, and 1832, and
the year following our present Prime Minister,
Mr. Disraeli, himself stood for Marylebone in favour
of annual Parliaments ; and",this very likely he will
do again when he considers that the proper
time has arrived for such a step, and he
sees it wise and expedient to do so. Nor,
to my mind, would there be the least
dishonesty in his again advocating the same mea-
sures which he did 35 years ago, when he stood for
Marylebone. The late William Cobbett said when
speaking of the death of the Princess Charlotte,
" In one sense her death must be regarded as a
blessing, however good and amiable she may have
been, because it multiplies the chances of frequent
dissolutions of Parliament," owing, I presume, ac-
cording to his opinions, to the fact of some of George
lll.'s numerous children having any grandchildren
who could succeed to the throne, and the chances
of a number of short reigns in consequence, which
must have led to frequent dissolutions of Parlia -
ment.—l remain, Sir, your faithful servant,
A LOVER. AND OBSERVER OF HISTORICAL
DATES AND FACTS.

April 3, 1868.

NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT
INSTITUTION.—The Hon. Evelyn Ashley will take the chair
at this year's annual dinner of the Newsvenders' Benevo-
lent and Provident Institution, and the following gentle-
men have kindly promised to act as stewards upon this
occasion :—The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., the Hon.
J. F. Stuart 'Wortley, Montagu Corry, Esq., Donald,
Cameron, Esq., H. G. Calcraft, Esq., William M'Arthur,
Esq. (Sheriff), Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Stone, Captain
D. Forbes, R.N., William Lethbridge, Esq.,Wilkie Collins,
Esq., Lionel Lawson, Esq., Wm. H. Smith, Esq., C. L.
Gruneisen, Esq., F.R.G.S.

A SCOTCHED ENTAIL.—There wiil be much joy at
Tattersall's upon the occasion of a decision pro-
nouncedon Thursday last in the Edinburgh Court of Ses-
sion, which affects seriously the future position of the
successors to the great Scotch dukedom of Hamilton
Brandon, and Chatelherault. The present duke has brough t
an action of declaration against his brother, Lord Charle4
George A rchibald Hamilton, and others for the purpose
of having it, found and declared that the various deeds of
entail of the Hamilton estates are invalid and ineffectual in
so far as regards the prohibitive and irritant and resolu-
Live clauses therein contained and referred to, and that he
(the pursuer) is entitled to hold the said estates in fee
simple, and dispose of them at pleasure. Lord Barcaple
has given judgment, finding that the entails under which
the Duke of Hamilton holds- his ancestral estates are in-
valid, and that he may bring the property to the hammer
as soon as he pleases. There will, of course, be an appeal
to the Inner House, but it is said that the best legal autho-
rities entertain no doubt that the Lord Ordinary's judg-
ment will be affirmed.—Pall Mall Gazette.

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