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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate rininity of the Great Northern Railway
Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron--His Royal Highness the Prince of WILEs, K.G,

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President—His Grace tho Dake of BuCCLNITCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish
the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de-
lay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for
support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in adm-
tion to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute
sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and
4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevo-
lent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing
several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds
to maintain them.

Contributions aro received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Hanson, and Co, Abehurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Contts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. • Glyn and Co. ; Harries and Co.; Ransom and
Co.; Pzescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclayand
Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street;
and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5

T_TYAM Sc CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS.
No. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear.
No. 2. Bespoke or Order Department.
No. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department.
No. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department.

HYAM and CO.'S ESTABLISHMENTS.
LONDON-66 and 67, Oxford-street.
BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, New-street,
LEEDS-42, Briggate, and)
DEWSBURY—Westgate.

ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary.
Office, 98, Cheapside, London, F.O.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing.

dyoenarand Westminster Batik,
bgiry lthfoerLoonne
370 children.
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS,
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
C4olnstrililul tkioenis) rea boy
yveodr

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common
parts Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, B.G.
whereby a home has be,
and denoen afforded for 280 Destitute
of
all "
Girls of all ages, classes
the kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
wailsdelapurnodviryde,
dtofolirt twhhemenftohrodyoaratteasitoiclsseVacre and, if not other-
s;
of
age,
to
obtain
suitable situations for them.
The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity Is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGSDOTE, Treasurer.
W. H. WARWICK, Secretary.
Office, 121, Pall-mall, S.W.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
JU FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN-
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DAN.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 180,.8 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Bosan-
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, E.C. ; Francis Nicholls,
hsq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS, Sec., 700, Euston-road, N.W.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hanip- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland-street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John's-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside,
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ale deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its hdmes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Cominittee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in -which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy"). may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. COOPER, Sec,
85, Queen-street, Oheapside.

Colonel RATOLIFF, in moving the adoption of the
balance-sheet, said it showed the battalion to be in
a better position this year than it had been for some
time past. It was a matter for congratulation that,
so far as the corps was concerned, the past year,
instead of being one of difficulty, as many might
have been inclined to suppose, had been a
happy one. There < had not been a single
misunderstanding that -„had in the slightest de-
gree disturbed the fiarmony of the battalion.
He felt the utmost gratification in stating that
they had now attained the highest number of effi-
cient members that they had ever possessed. The
Birmingham battalion was one of the largest in the
kingdom, and it was also one of the most efficient.
There was not a single battalion that could turn out
with more spirit, alacrity, and ability to enter upon
active service. The review at Derby last year had
shown this. They had been put in comparison with
other battalions, and among others with the Robin
Hoods, which was quite a crack corps, and spoken
of as being very efficient, and yet none had been
more efficient than the Birmingham battalion. He
hoped that they would not rest contented with the
past, but that they would be determined to main-
tain, and even to exceed the excellence which they
had already achieved. As regarded the Wimbledon
competition, it must be gratifying to every one
to know that of the number who went there to com-
pete against the Volunteers of the whole country,
nine came back with prizes. Referring to the in-
spection which took place under Colonel Sir Ed-
ward Campbell, be was happy to find that that offi-
cer's opinion was very complimentary to the batta-
lion. Sir Edward was satisfied that they were not
retrograding, but were fully keeping up the pro-
ficiency he had found on previous occasions. As
regarded the general conduct of the corps during
the past year, he thought it reflected the highest
credit upon every one. He did not know that there
had been a single act of insubordination as to cause
a court of inquiry to be held. That was the first
year—at least in his recollection—that such had
been the case, and it was gratifying to think they had
been so united, and that there had been so much
good feeling among the whole of the members.
Some remarks had appeared in the papers from
Lord Ranelagh, who had asked what condition the
Volunteers would be in should they be called out
for active service ? In reply to this observation he
would say that in such an event the Government
would have to give them just the same weapons and
equipments with which they provided the regular
army, and of which they knew they were at present
deficient. The Colonel concluded by stating that
Major Elkington had announced his intention of
presenting a handsome shield to be competed for by
the Warwickshire and Birmingham battalions, and
then formally moved the adoption of the balance
sheet.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
Major HEBBERT moved a vote of thanks to Col.
Ratcliff, and in doing so he congratulated the bat-
talion that it had obtained such an energetic and
efficient successor to Colonel Mason. The !um-
bers of the battalion had had an opportunity of
judging of the capacity and ability of Col. Ratcliff
to fulfil the duties of his position, and every mem-
ber of the corps must be satisfied with the manner
in which their worthy colonel had discharged his
important duties. He was sure that every member
of the First Warwickshire must have admired his
frankness and generous disposition, and must be
animated with a desire to support him in all his
efforts to maintain the battalion in its present state,
and to increase its efficiency. In the name of the
battalion, he offered to Colonel Ratcliff their sin-
cere congratulations upon the position which he
held among them.

Capt. MOLE seconded the vote of thanks, re-
marking that every member of the battalion would
support their worthy Colonel, and attend to his
duties, the battalion would fully maintain their
present efficiency, and have their number in-
creased.

Colonel RATCLIFF briefly acknowledged the com-
pliment, and the proceedings terminated.

AMERICA•

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NEW YORK, Jan. 16.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
World gives the following account of an interview
he had with President Johnson concerning the re-
instatement of Mr. Stanton :

"The importance of the issues uow pending be-
tween Congress and the Executive led me to seek
an audience of the President, with which I was for-
tunately honoured this evening. In response to the
inquiry whether an understanding was had between
the President and General Grant previous to the late
action of the Senate, Mr. Johnson said—' General
Grant, with General Sherman, was here at the
White House on Saturday, when the old understand-
ing was reiterated that he should either resign his
office as Secretary of War and surrender it to me in
time to anticipate the Senate's action,or announce his
intention to retain the office until the right of the
Senate to reinstate Mr. Stanton could be put to the
proof. On Sunday it was suggested by Senator
Reverdy Johnson, with the concurrence of Senator
John Sherman, and the understood concurrence
of a number of Radical members of both Houses,
that if ex-Governor Cox, of Ohio, should be no-
minated by me forthwith as Secretary of War, the
majority in Congress would be willing to let Mr.
Stanton's grievances go by the board. I listened
to these suggestions without assenting to them. On
Monday I had expected to receive another call from
General Grant. General Sherman called, but
General Grant did not. The latter was here at the
reception in the evening. He made no reference to
the action of the Senate in respect to to Secretary-
ship of the War Department, of which I myself had
not been apprised. It was not until about 11 a.m.
on Tuesday that I received the note from General
Grant, which has been published, advising me that
his functions as Secretary of War had ceased.' I
asked the President whether Mr. Stanton was or
would be recognised by him (the President) as
Secretary of War in consequence of Monday's
resolution by the Senate. Mr. Johnson firmly
replied, No. The Senate,' said he, ' has passed
a resolution in which it says it "does not concur"
in Mr. Stanton's suspension, but this does not
reinstate Mr. Stanton according to the law. The
office of Secretary of War is liable to be reduced
to a mere c!erk ship. He can issue no binding
orders except by the direction or with the con-
currence of the President, and as Mr. Stanton
will not receive instructions from the Executive,
it is apparent that his resumption of a chair
in the War Department amounts to that, and no-
thing more.' I now ventured to assume that the
President would probably see fit to make a new
nomination for Secretary of War within a short
period. At the proper time,' said the President,
that will be done.' lie anticipated, however, that

The Constitutionnel has lately been publishing a
series of articles under the title of " Napoleon 111.
as an Agriculturist," and which explain the efforts
made by his Majesty in the interest of rural la-
bourers. The following passage relates to the
model farm of Solferino, near Labouhere (Landes) :
—" There exists a region in the south-west which
reminds one of La Sologne, by its sandy soil, its fir
trees, its pools of water, and its insalubrity. In this
district the victor of Solferino, upon his return from
Italy, having again become agriculturist, concen-
trated all his efforts. He purchased a tract of
4,000 hectares (9,000 acres), to which, in memory
of his victory, he gave the name of that great
battle. How can this land be described, covered,
as far as eye could reach, with reeds, heath, and
fir-trees? When we contemplate the grey sand
totally destitute of a moral of vegetable soil, we
admire the boldness of the idea of submitting
it to cultivation. However, the Emperor did
not hesitate to undertake the task, and
he has carried it through successfully. The reeds
and heath have given place to farms, which have
been too recently established to yield results as yet ;
but we are bound to state that the clearings have
been made with much circumspection, and only
with a view of showing specimens of culture on an
ungrateful soil. \\That mostly prevails at Solferino
are plantations of firs, either from seed or from
young trees. In them lies the future prosperity of
he sterile lands of Gascony and the success of the
imperial domain. The Emperor desired to realise
on his property an eminently social idea. He has
caused an entire village to be erected. Most of the
houses have been granted gratuitously to the la-
bourers who live in them. All have a little garden
attached, and one or two hectares of ground,
which the tenant cultivates for himself, and from
which he raises part of the food of his family.
On the imperial domain the entire population is
occupied, and we are informed that,
later a cer-
tain time, they will become,se. thTehiasbi6s-o absolute
.owl owners
of their houses and holdine,y an
excellent mode of peopling a desert disteriecrta"le

THE IMPROVEMENTS IN PARK-LANE.—The hoard-
ing on the borders of Hyde Park will be sold to-day, and
will be immediately removed. The great improvement
which has been effected by the widening of Park• lane and
the construction of a neat railing will then be made mani-
fest.

.51011 AL CONDUCT OF PARTNERS.—III the case of
Snow v. Milford, heard before Lord Romilly, the question
at issue was whether Arthur Milford, one of the partners
in the firm of Milford, Snow, and Co., bankers, Exeter,
ought to be expelled from the firm on the ground that the
public disgrace into which he had fallen by the commission
of shameless adultery was in breach of a clause in the
partnership articles to the effect that partners were
" not to do any act to the discredit or injury of
the co-partnership." In November 1866 a decree for
judicial separation was pronounced in the Divorce Court
against the defendant, on which occasion the learned Judge.
Ordinary remarked that " adultery of the most disgraceful
and profligate description had been abundantly established
against him." Many customers of the bank stated in
evidence that if the suit had not been instituted it was their
intention to withdraw their accounts, and that so long as the
defendant remained a partner they should refuse to do
business with the firm. Thus, it was affirmed by the
plaintiff, the bank was materially injured. For the defen-
dant it was argued that the article in the partnership deed
was intended to refer only to acts causing commercial, and
not to those producing moral discredit. The Master of
of the Rolls having strongly advised that some private
arrangement should be attempted, an adjournment took
place for that purpose. It was now stated that the sug-
gestion of his lordship had been duly considered. All the
persons interested in the suit were most anxious to remove
the case out of the court and bring about an amicable
adjustment of the existing differences, which result would
no doubt ultimately be attained, but so many difficulties
existed that a further adjournment was imperative. The
case, therefore, stands over for a fortnight.
THE VALIDITY OF A WILL.—In the Court of Probate,
before Sir J. P. Wilde, a case was heard involving the
question as to the validity of a will which had been exe-
cuted by a Mr. Harriott in favour of two brothers and the
children and widow of another, excluding entirely a third
brother, who was the promoter of this suit. The
testator had been a great traveller, and had resided
'many years in Africa. He returned home in 1863, inva-
lided, and he had been attentively nursed by the defendant
in this,"suit at Liverpool and Manchester. He appeared,
however, to have contracted, whether by incitement or
otherwise, a rooted antipathy to this brother, and a con.
tinual dread that he would incarcerate him in a lunatic
asylum. The court, at the previous hearing,
decided in favour of the defendant, and reserved
the question of costs. Sir J. P. Wilde, in now delivering
judgment, said he had come to the conclusion that it was not
for the court to make any order at all.; consequently both
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The Post comments upon Mr. Butler-Johnstone's pro-
posal to create a separate Irish Parliament. Our contem-
porary is of opinion that the political power acquired by
an independent national Legislature, if it did not destroy
Ireland, could hardly work for its regeneration. Let us
rather, as Lord Palmerston advised with regard to the
agitation which was abated by Catholic Emancipation,
"turn materials of mischief into elements of strength."
The Post cannot follow Mr. Butler-Johnstone to the con-
clusion that measures of real improvement will be lost
upon a kindly and generous people. As to the "sun of
royalty," our contemporary acknowledges that it is pri-
marily responsible for a theory which, though Mr. Butler-
Johnstone seems to make light of it, is, it apprehends,
perfectly in harmony with the character he gives the
Irish for loyalty, and in which it heartily concurs. Not-
withstanding all that is said about the " average Celt,"
the Post ventures to hope that there is a better future in
store for Ireland. It may be a " naive idea," but it trusts
that its realisation is not remote. The wrong which lies
like a stumbling-block in the path of improvement can be
redressed by an act of simple justice. A nation divided
into two very unequal parts, and separated by a religious
distinction which maintains the ascendancy of the small
minority, is to all intents and purposes a nation divided
against itself.
The Daily News, after again telling the story of the
Clerkenwell plot as revealed by Mullany in the witness-
box, observes : They may not, perhaps, add any one
fact of single importance to those elicited by the inquiries
of the police, but they supply some missing links in the
previous evidence, and render the whole story of the plot
more coherent. Taken by themselves, the statements of
an approver might have little value ; but the significance
of the more solid testimony is increased by the light re-
flected. Mullany told Sir Thomas Henry that he " knew
a great deal more about the case," and the man, having
chosen his part, evidently wants to make a clean breast of
it. He says that Barrett told him that he another man
went down to Bow-street armed with revolvers, and re-
mained there all day, watching for an opportunity, which
did not arrive, of shooting Corydon the informer. Cer-
tainly, if these Fenians do us some mischief, it must be
acknowledged that they have a knack of destroying one
another. Mullany is the second of this group who has
turned upon his associates ; and if the prosecution should
have the result which everybody expects, it will be in great
part owing to the evidence of these two men. We get now
a view of the type of character and intellect which have
produced this great crime, and can see how well adapted
they were at once to injure us and bring the conspirators
to ruin.

The Herald reviews the report of the London any
Brighton Railway. The directors, when they took the
management last year, had no easy task before them.
Eveu now they find new items of charge continually crop-
ping up, and fresh exemplifications of the wastefulness and
improvidence of the former management making them-
elves manifest at every turn. To give but one example,
they tell us that, with all the lavish expenditure of capital
for fresh works, the rolling stock has no sufficient shed ac-
commodation, so that " engines and carriages of the value
of several hundred thousand pounds are now standing ex-
posed to the weather for want of sufficient shed room"
while other examples of the same kind are also mentioned.
But, notwithstanding all this, the board believe in the
future of the line. They look forward sanguinely to the
day when all the preferences shall be provided for, mid
when the ordinary stocks will once more pay an honest
dividend. They do not expect to be popular when they
have to tell these truths to shareholders who have been
accustomed to receive six per cent. But they unmistake-
L bly show their anxiety to brim the concern out of its
difficulties, and they avow their readiness to resign their
places if the proprietors do net like what they have done.
In short, they seem to have begun with the intention to
make their advent to office the commencement of a new
era in railway economics ; and it is to be hoped that they
may continue in a course which must be inflexibly pursued
if railway property is ever to resume its former place
among the investments of the country.

The Standard argues against an opinion lately expressed
in the Times, which appears to be gaining ground
in the public mind daily, that it would have
been better to have sent a smaller army to Abyssinia.
Our object in relieving the prisoners is surely to let it be
seen that we are a Power which has force enough to punish
such outrages. We desire to leave behind us the opinion
that Englishmen are not to be caged at the pleasure of any
of those barbarian kings. But if we had used the proposed
alternative, and sent a flying column of a thousand men,
and depended upon chance for any native allies that we
might pick up on the road, how would this have convinced
the people of Abyssinia, or of the cos ng,
that England had power to punish outrages upon her
citizens? The very insignificance of the force employed
would be accepted as evidence of our weakness. But it is
idle to discuss the wisdom of an alternative which we have
agreed not to adopt. Of the two courses the Government
has certainly chosen the safer and the more efficacious ;
and whether it is more or less expensive is nothing to the
point. The work had to be done at whatever cost. upon
the whole it is being done well, and at no more expense
than was inevitable.
The result of the forthcoming press trials will, in the
opinion of the Telegraph, guide us, to a
great extent, as
ceias shssall juries then
regards the future government of Ireland. w
know whether we can still rely on the middle
to suppress, not actual conspiracy alone, but that mur-
derous literature of sedition that helps on the plot more
efficaciously than a thousand secret oaths. Irish jurymen
will know better than the Government itself how far
continued political excitement keeps Ireland poor,
affrights capital, paralyses enterprise, destroys trade.
Far be it from us to interfere
' terfere with our boasted
liberty of the press, througvhtthea action of anof em-
panelled jury ; we do not want
contemporaries—we want to see the honour and the in-
fluence of the press preserved. It hurts us all to have
among us those who use the influence which has grown up
under the fair names of Reason and Right for the behoof
of assassins and bravoes. Let an Irish jury say whether
this language which we condemned was or was not of such
a character, and we shall know to what we are come. As
regards Ireland, it is because we care for her so much that
we are thus " very jealous." We want to have the shield
of her champions kept bright and their weapons unrusted
with vile stains of that blood which never " comes out,"
namely, innocent blood. We wish to go to Parliament,
for Irish rights and Irish reform, with men whose hands
we can tale proudly, not with such as give the murderer
secret grip.

It may be argued in defence of the Imperial
policy, that it is not so very long since it was
illegal for English journals to report the proceed-
ings of the Houses of Parliament. The Duke
PERSIGNY is fond of comparing France with Eng-
land, and always assumes that, so-far as political
liberty is concerned, France of the 19th century,
should be governed by the same laws as ruled Eng-
land in the 18th. But even granting the ex-
Minister's unflattering premise, there is no parallel
between the English press prosecutions of seventy
years ago and the French prosecutions of last week.
Those originated in the desire of Parliament to
maintain its privileges, the most prized of them
during the corruption and political profligacy which
then prevailed being , the right to speak and
vote without being subjected to the scrutiny
of the electors. These are intended to
prevent discussion on Imperial measures. Nero-
LEON does not prohibit reports of the debates
altogether, but only such as have not been fur-
nished by the Government reporter. This prohi-
bition permits the EMPEROR to suppress all the
strongest arguments which tell against his favourite
measures. Just as Dr. JOHNSON always made the
Whigs have the worst of it in the reports which he
wrote for the Gentleman's Magazine, so NAPOLEON
or his Minister of the Interior may make the Oppo-
sition orators cut a sorry figure by the side of the
Ministerialists—may represent THIERS and FAVRE
and PICARD as crushed by the logic of ROUHER
and PICARD and NIEL. Then, too, the EMPEROR
and his subordinate may entirely misrepresent the
temper of the House. We do not know that the
first offence has been charged against the Govern-
ment reporter ; the second certainly has. It has
been complained that all the " marks of approba-
tion" and "signs of adhesion" are reserved for
the Government orators, and that, according
to the reports, the Opposition speak amid
chilling apathy and silence. Were the offi-
cial reports ever so honest and. ever so perfect,
the people would suspect and be dissatisfied with
them. Wherever there is an interest in suppress-
ing the truth the public will always believe that
the truth, is suppressed. Especially will this be so
in the present instance. The prosecution just over
was directed against ten journals—against the
Glaneur, for publishing a summary of several days'
debates on the Army Bill, so that the reader might
have them all before him at once ; the Journal de
Paris, for publishing a summary of a particular
debate, and for mentioning that a particular speech
excited considerable interruption, which com-
pelled M. ROUHER to speak ; the Interet
Public, for presenting in a tabular form the de-
bates on the Army Bill with the proposed
amendments ; the Union, for a similar offence,
and for the crime of quoting verbatim part
of two speeches, one by the MINISTER of STATE him-
self ; the Journal des _Mats, for mentioning that a
lively discussion took place between the MINISTER of
WAR and the Government reporter, and for ana-
lysing the Minister's speech ; the France, for giving
a list of the speeches ; the Avenir National, for
publishing verbatim a portion of JULES SimoN's
speech ; the Temps, for committing a like offence.
and for analysing another speech ; and the mem
and the Opinion Nationale, for describing the im-
pression produced upon the Assembly by two
speeches. In no instance, it will be seen, was there
any charge of misrepresentation. The high crime
of which the offending journals have been guilty is
that they were too accurate, too faithful.
One would have thought that a Sovereign and a
Government which were bent upon carrying at all
risks a most unpopular measure, would have been
particularly careful not to fly in the face of public
opinion more than was absolutely necessary. In,
private life, when a man has to perform a duty dis-
;asteful to his friends, he takes special pains to
make himself agreeable to them in all other respects.
NAPOLEON has chosen the time when he is more
unpopular than at any time since he attained.
power, to execute an act of rigour which has induced
even the Government journals and the most devoted
Imperial pamphleteer to protest. The decision just
given against the ten journals diminishes the liberty
which was established by a decision of March 10, 1862,
Not content with this, he is now directing other pro-.
secutions in every direction. The editor of the Opinion
Nationale is being prosecuted for inciting to hatred
and contempt, because in an article, headed
" January 19," he has compared the promises of
1867 with the performances of 1868. The editor
of a provincial paper, the Franche Comtg, has
been sent to prison because he ventured to
question the accuracy of a prefect in his explana.c
tion of the reason why a report of the EMPEROR'S
Speech had been withheld from one of the journals'
M. PiNann, in fact, seems resolved to outdo all his
predecessors in the severity with which he treats
the press. He is exercising his rigour to a degree
that is becoming intolerable, and which must soon
become dangerous. For, whatever the military
strength of a ruler, he cannot long afford to tyrant
nise to this extent over a people so noble and en.)
lightened as the French. NAPOLEON ought to be
very sure of his position before he sanctions such
extreme measures as the present. Yet it is by
no means certain that his position is secure. The
history of France contains numerous examples to
illustrate the saying that those whom the gods wish
to destroy they first make mad. NAPOLEON'S pre-
decessor on the throne was never so arbitrary as on
the day before he abdicated. NAPOLEONis hreimsadien..
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the sauce of a huge loan.

DRINKING CUSTOMS OF ETON. —Our readers will
hardly believe, what the evidence of this report abundantl
chews, that drinking is " connived at " and " counti
nanced by the authorities, and treated as a part of the.
system." It appears that at least a hundred boys may
go into the " Tap " and the " Christopher" every ordinary
day, and stay there " for hours," and that the number of
boys, and the time spent in these places, are greatly in.
creased on Sunday afternoons after four o'clock. It also
appears—and this is the strangest feature of all=that in
spite of a sham prohibition, no master, and certainly nc
monitor, or person in authority of any kind, has power
to interfere with these practices, however much he may
deplore them ; nor wouldhe be aided by the reverend head-
master, provost, or fellows in any attempt he might make
to put a stop to them. Other injurious customs of the
place—such as the initiation into the " swell" set, or
" cellar "—an honour much coveted and valued—by drink;
ing at one breath the contents of a glass twelve or fifteen
inches in depth, are well known and denounced by some of
the masters, and complained of to the head-master, whose
general advice in regard to such points is, we understand,
" that such things should be seen as if they were not seen,
and known as if they were not known principle, if we
consider it well, wonderfully suggestive. The fact is, that
all these evils are maintained consistently with the " feel
ing of what is right and honourable" entertained by the
most influential of the Eton boys—by those whose opinion
on all subjects of morals is paramount—and are rampant
still, just because " the system" does not fasten the re.
sponsibility upon the pusillanimous head-master, who
ought, by authority, to prevent young boys from learning
to become drunkards or perish in the attempt. Any argu.
ment which justifies the scenes at the " Tap " and the
" Christopher," would have j ustified the maintenance of the
Chamber of Horrors ; but that has been abolished, and so
could these, were the Eton authorities anxious to abolish
them. We are warranted in saying that some, at least, of
the assistant masters would gladly aid ia the good wQric,
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The Judge-Advocate-General has been addrsting
his constituents, at Durham, and taking a survey of
things in general. When he last met them the
prospects of the Government were by no means
bright. The tumultuous meetings in London had
disturbed men's minds, and some, indeed, went so
far as to anticipate a repetition of the events of
1832. Kind friends and candid opponents alike
assured the Ministry that if they did not bring in a
Reform Bill they would be out before Easter, and
that if they did they would be out after.
Mr. MowßnAr had the satisfaction of point-
ing to what he had then said, and show-
ing its accuracy. Twelve months ago, the
Conservative Government had only lately accepted
office, but now they could look at every depart-
ment of the State and find that it had been filled
by men of great ability, who displayed zeal and
assiduity in the arduous discharge of their duties.
To take one notable instance, he pointed to the
administration of foreign affairs, and asked, with
truth, if that responsible office had ever been put
into safer hands than at present. Lord STANLEY
has conducted matters there in a way which has
called forth the universal eulogium of both
friends and opponents. Well might Mr. Mow-
BRAY ask his hearers to look on this picture and on
that, to " contrast the calm, dignified, statesman-
like, forbearing policy which had replaced England
in the position which she used la occupy among
the nations, with the meddling and muddling me-
thod of going on to which they were accustomed
from 1859 to 18G5." The annals of Administrat'ons
can show few more striking contrasts than this, and
it was indeed high time that somethino. was
•
done in the right direction, for we were fast becom-
ing a bye-word and reproach among the nations
of Europe by the very tame and inefficient manner
in which our affairs were conducted, and the very
little regard which was paid to all the protestations
that our Government made. In fact, our influence
seemed to rank among the things gone by, and
this was a very sad state of things indeed. Hap-
pily we have now taken a fresh start, and it is to be
hoped that whoever succeeds Lord STANLEY in the
administration of foreign affairs will follow his
example in the way of decision and that, what-