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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1868.

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1868.

An illustrious man has passed away from us—
one who has done much in his day to merit the

goodwill and earn the gratitude of his fellow-

countrymen. It is true, that he has for some time
retired from the stage of active life, but the circum-
stance of his death recalls to mind the busy part he
once took in the important affairs of the country.

A. generation has elapsed since his most stirring

works were done, and yet he has survived to wit-
ness the passing of a second Reform Bill, and to

take part in many of the events of this time. His
death appears to have been a most tranquil one,

and his attendant believed he had died in his

sleep. Until the close of his long life, extended
far beyond the ordinary limits of mortality, he

enjoyed good health, and had been out taking car-
riage exercise the afternoon previous to his death.

It is curious to notice that Lord BROUGHAM did not
command the attention of the House of Lords to a

ate period of his life, as did some of his most strik-
ing contemporaries in that assembly. Those he had

eclipsed in his prime surpassed him in the vale of
years, and were often the admiration and wonder
of their peers, while he whose meridian had been
so successful evidently rested from his labours, and

did not at all rise to the height expected from his
previous reputation. Be this as it may, now that he
has passed away from among us, we must look upon

HENRY BROUGHAM as one of the most notable men
of the stirring days of old, and certainly as hard-
working a man as any that ever rose to eminence

by the sheer force of his own exertions and ability.

If Lord BROUGHAM did not retain his powers of
eloquence to the last, it must be borne in mind that
he put them forth very strongly and to very good
purpose at an early period of life, and attained his
political eminence at a time when many have only
begun to think of striving for a certain position,
and settling what line they should follow. The
various objects in which he showed himself a pro-
ficient proved the grasp of his mind, and showed
that he possessed a rare combination. Seldom
if ever has one man succeeded in displaying such
unusual abilities. What will be chiefly borne in
recollection of this distinguished man just departed
is the fact that he was connected for some years
with the most notable events of his country's his-

tory. It is strange to be criticising a career the
most notable incident of which might have well
been noticed by those who flourished thirty or forty
years ago. His legal triumphs were great, but the
political events in which he took a part are still
more striking. Lord BROUGHAM lived also in an
age which produced many statesmen of note, and he
held his place well against the best of them. As
might have been supposed, from the bent of his
mind and the style of his oratory, his most fitting
sphere was the House of Commons, and he never
showed so effectively in the Senate after he had left
the popular assembly where his most signal tri-
umphs were won. The Slave Trade was one point of
great interest in the House when BROUGHAM began
his career, and he distinguished himself in a re-
markable manner by the zeal which he displayed.
In the struggles of his Parliamentary career Lord
BROUGHAM made many enemies, and, indeed, was
too strong in his peculiarities and prejudices not to
offend some, but such a course was only to be ex-
pected from one of his decided bent of mind and
determined energy. His stirring days were just at
that period when abuses were most rife, and when
there also existed a great opposition to reform of all
kinds, and we, who dwell in more advanced times,
should not fail to appreciate and recognise the ser-
vices rendered to his country by the daring Re-
former, who feared no one, and cared not for con-
sequences, provided the end could be attained, and
the Liberal cause be triumphant. The work that
he got through in each Session was amazing,
and some of our present members of Parliament,
who consider themselves very ill-used, would stare
if they were expected to rival his earlier days in
the House of Commons. He left the House
having won for himself the reputation which
will not pass away while its records survive, and if
he did not shine there with the popularity of some
he contrived to have many followers in the way he
took in his energetic and sterling course. The
years during which he was the mainstay of the
Opposition were his most brilliant ones, and doubt-
less he both directly and indirectly conduced to the
continued progress that was making while his voice
was ever raised in defence of the oppressed, and his
powerful aid at once invoked against abuses of all
kinds in Church, State, or Parliament.
In the trial of Queen CAROLINE this remarkable
man found another sphere for his energies,
and it furnished him with an opportunity
for the exercise of his forensic abilities. The
spirited manner in which BROUGHAM conducted
the defence of the QUEEN made him immediately
popular, but it must be said also that he won for
himself thereby an enduring fame, and whenever
in future years the student of history dwells on
these details, he must recognise the varied powers
that distinguished the advocate. His sudden ele-
vation to the Chancellorship created at the time
much excitement, but to all intents and purposes
he pursued the same policy in the one House as he
had done in the other, and his triumphs at the
outset rendered his position a secure one even
n the Upper House. It was by these that
the Reform Bill passed finally, and the
part that the Lord Chancellor took in that
affair can never be forgotten. When the noble and
learned lord retired from the most active duties of
public life, it was not to rest in dolce far 'iaente ;
,hat would not have been in accordance with his
vigorous intellect and energetic temperament. On
the contrary, he devoted himself to literary produc-
tions, and he encouraged in many ways scientific
and other associations, apparently unheeded by the

active, 'spirits of this generation. Lord BROUGHAM
has go; le to his account, but those who form a true
estima to of things, know full well that he
has we n a proud place in the annals of Parliament,
and to at he will live in the history of his country
as or Le who worked nobly and well, and, despite
some errors of judgment and extreme views of
politics, rendered important services to his country-
men. For some time past, in fact, he has belonged
to hist ory, and there his fame is in safe keeping ;
while A hose who still survive, and are able to recall
his more sterling days, will acknowledge that he
was one of the master minds of the country at a
time, when much had to be done, and when spirit
and energy were loudly called for.

To-night the members of the House of Commons
are to leave polemics alone, and are to address
themselves to the consideration of the Navy Esti-
mates. It is not altogether an easy: task, although
it may not affect the position of Ministers or influ-
ence the relations of parties. The Admiralty is one
of those venerable institutions which 'every one
feels himself entitled to abuse and to criticise, and
our naval administration, costly as it is, is one of
those things which an Englishman feels anything
but satisfied about. Britannia rules the waves of
poetry, history, and tradition, but nobody who has
studied the subject feels very comfortably assured
that her supremacy, so far as ships go, is unques-
tionable, and the fashion we have of trying to
remedy mistakes and lavish expenditure of money,
though it may give us nominally a large fleet, fail
to bring us up to either the scientific or the practi-
cal requirements of the day. So long as the only
thing to be done was to find gallant sailors and
good officers, England was always first i,n the race ;
but of late years it has grown to be a question of
naval architecture rather than of personal courage
or skilful seamanship. England certainly has no
lack of native ability in all other departments con-
nected with practical science and constructive skill;
indeed, the war departments of other nations owe
much of their power to the assistance of English
genius. How is it, then, with so much ability, so
much money, and so much goodwill on the
part of the country at large, our naval ad-
ministration should be in such a thoroughly
unsatisfactory state ? This is the question
which a good many anxious questioners are now
putting, and which no one seems to find it very easy
to answer. To judge by the notices before the
Houses of Commons, the Secretary of the Navy
will not have a very easy time of it to-night. Be-
sides the usual minor questions on matters of de-
tail there are three successive motions of ominous
import. Captain MACKINNON, on going into com-
mittee of supply, gives notice that he will draw
attention to deficiencies said to exist in the iron-
clad fleet. Mr. SAMUDA follows him with an inti-
mation that he will call attention to the Parliamen-
tary return entitled " Navy Designs for Ships."
Captain MACKINNON follows with a motion to the
effect that it is not expedient to expend any more
money on the building of duplicate ships untried.
Certainly there is room for complaint on more than
one ground, andiwhen we remember what the navy
estimates have cost the country in the last ten or
twenty years we shall not be surprised that some
few at least of the members of the House of Com-
mons are inclined to pause before going further.
Those who from their practical acquaintance with
shipbuilding, like Mr. SAMUDA, or from their nauti-
cal experience, are aware of the requirements of a
ship, and of the real condition of our navy,
are sensible that the House may vote twenty
millions more without our being much better pre-
pared to face a. combined fleet than we are now.
The Admiralty and its constructors have spent ten
millions in building ironclads, and the result is that
during a recent cruise of the Channel fleet, in which
it was, according to the official report, " favoured
ships
rowlleinreg
with singularly fine weather," some of our best
froman dtheirmost
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itsh e ither gunscase
in singularly fine weather, it isnot • • " surprising a
considerable sea and a heavy swell" sh
ould find the
Bellerophon rolling 20 degrees, making eight

oscillations a minute, and the Lord Clyde roll-
ing 29 degrees, or making ten oscillations, both ships
being obliged to close their ports and being unable
to fire their guns. Even in fine weather the War-
rior and Lord Warden had to close most of their
ports during five out of eight days' sail. This may
pass muster very well on paper, smoothed over by
complaisant Admirals for the edification of not too
inquisitive Boards of Admiralty, but it is not ex-
actly the sort of fleet which we should like to send
to face a junction of Russia and America, or France
and Russia. If Admirals are to consult their chro-
nometers as well as the enemy, if it depends
on the strength of the swell whether or no a
ship can fire her guns, it will be rather diffi-
cult for the most skilful naval commander
to carry out his plans. Another drawback to this
excessive rolling is that it leaves the side of the
ship unprotected. The armour-plating is carried
a certain distance below the water-line, but some
of our finest ironclads rolls to a degree which ig-
nores the water-line altogether. If a ship, we are
told, rolls 15 degrees she leaves her unarmed hull
exposed, but here we have the Bellerophon rolling
20 degrees and the Lord Clyde 29 ! Four ships of
the Invincible class are now in course of construc-
tion, and good authorities declare their belief that
they will roll beyond all precedent. It is no
great wonder that men of practical experience are
beginning to rebel against Mr REID'S theories, since
he has had full scope and verge enough to carry out
his plans as he likes with anything but encouraging
results. Some of his late influential supporters have
lately deserted his standard—a sign, we presume,
that he is not much longer to be permitted to amuse
himself at the national expense.

HER MAJESTY'S OPERA.—Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge and her Royal Highness the
Princess Tech honoured the performances ather Majesty's
Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Lady
Geraldine Somerset was in attendance upon their Royal
Highnesses. H.R.11. the Prince of Tech was also present.
Amongst the noble and distinguished visitors were the
Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and Lady Susan Vane,
the Marquis and Marchioness
the ownsend, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Hastings, Earl and Countess of
Sefton, the Earl and Countess of Yarborough, the Earl
and Countess of Denbigh, the Countess of Fife, the Earl
and Countess Russell, the Earl of Harrington, the Earl of
Listowol, the Earl of liaclesfield, his Excellency the Por-
tuguese Minister, his Excellency the Persian Ambassador,
and suite, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mrs. Brown and party, the
Viscountess Gort, Viscount Barrington, Viscount Bury,
Viscount Hamilton, Viscount Castlerosse, Viscount New-
port, Viscount Exmouth, Lord and Lady Rendlosham, Lord
F. Paulet, the Hon. Richard Curzon, the Hon. Seymour
Egerton, General Sir William Knollys, K.C.8., Lady
Knollys, Miss Knollys, and party, M. van Weyer, Colonel
the Hon. James Macdonald, Sir George Arinytage,
Lady Macdonald, Lady Vitzgerald, Lady Selina Bedwell,
Colonel Sykes, Colonel Seymour, Mr. Lane Fox, Mr.
Hubert de Burgh, &c.
The Church Tinies, a high ritualist raper, thus
concludes an able article on the recent report of the
Ritual Commission :—There is not, however, so far as we
can see, the slightest risk of legislation following on such
a report as this, and Convocation will treat it with as
little ceremony as it did the episcopal "rigmarole" not
long ago. The original clamour is dying away gradually,
and wise mon see that there is no use in worrying toiling
scholars to soothe the dying hours of that school whose
patriarch is Lord Westmeath, whose saint is Dr. M'Neile,
whose statesman is Mr. Whalley, whose laureate. is Mr.
Tupper, and whose Gospel is the "Confessional Un-
masked."

LATEST INTELL WINCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

FRANCE.
THE EMPEROR AT ORLEANS.
ORLEANS, May 11.
In reply to an address of the Mayor of Orleans,
the Emperor said—

"I accepted your invitation with pleasure, be-
cause I am always happy to find myself again in
the midst of a city which, whilst religiously main-
taining such glorious remembrances and patriotic
sentiments, devotes itself with ardour to the struggles
of labour, and I was desirous to ascertain for myself
the progress which you have made, and to en-
courage your exertions, convinced that, amid the
general tranquillity of Europe, it may be developed
with confidence."

The Bishop of Orleans said that Paris had al-
lowed her gates to be forced more than once by
strangers, but Orleans never. His eminence laid
stress upon the patriotism of religion.
In reply the Emperor said :

" I am much touched by the noble words which
you have just addressed to me. It is on this spot
that we can dwell with happiness upon how much
religious faith and true patriotism can effect for the
safety and grandeur of a country. In this city was
produced one of the most wonderful facts of
history. The river which flows beneath your walls
has been one of the ramparts of our independence,
in the same manner as it protected in less distant
times the heroic remnants of the grand army. The
Empress and myself, in coming to share in the
popular festivities of Orleans, were desirous first to
kneel within that ancient Basilica, and, surrounded
by the grand remembrances of the past, to ask from
the Almighty his protection for the future."
The Moniteur of this morning reprints the article
in the Constitutionnel defending the estimates of the
war budget.

BOURSE, May 9.—Three o'cloek.—The market
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent.
End of month... Ital'an Loan
3 per Cent
End of mouth 69 40 Mexican Loan ... 19
Credit 31obilier

End of month... Spanish Threes 37 50
Credit Foncier ...1457 50 Home Debt
End of month... Deferred
RAILWAYS. Cash
Orleans
Northern 1195
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... s7Bi
Western
Eastern • •
Sardinian
Austrian 562}
Lombard 367}
North of Spain 7O
Saragossa
Roman 43

QUEENSTOWN, May 11.

The Cunard extra steamer, Aleppo, from New
York, arrived here at 4.45 a.m. to-day with 95pas-
sengers. She landed despatches and eight passen-
gers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 5 a.m. All
well.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 11.

The Hamburg and American Co.'s steamer,
Teutonia, from New York on the 28th ult„ has ar-
rived here with 73 passengers for this port, Havre,
and Hamburg, 44 sacks of mails, $152,458 for Lon-
don, po,ooo for France, $25,000 and 600 tons of
cargo for Hamburg. On the Bth she spoke the
English ship Wandsworth, and on the 9th the
Hamburg ships Electric and Hevas, steamer
Saxonia, American ship Chapman. The Teutonia's
news has been anticipated.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, SUNDAY, May 10.

The announcement that the Emperor would not make
the pacific speech at Orleans which was expected of him
has led the Opposition journals to infer that there was
nothing peaceful to say. Meanwhile, the Constitutionnel
attempts to reconcile us to the present state of things
by a most elaborate article on the war budget. M.
Fonville says that the increase in the military ex-
penditure has been caused by the increased cost of
armaments and weapons. But, he argues, the increase
in the war budget is not so great in proportion as the in-
crease in the total budget. The war expens:ls under Louis
Philippe were 2G per cent. of the ordinary receipts,
while under the Emperor they are only 24
per cent. In other words, M. Fonville would
make the public believe that the 373 million francs
spent on the army in 1847 are less than the 445 millions
spent in 1866. I fear that he will hardly get many per-
sons to assent to his paradox ; nor will it be much satis-
faction to them to know that they have to pay a larger
amount for the administration of every other portion of
the Government as well as for that of the army.
There is rather serious news from Vienna. In the first
place, the Avenir _National declares under reserve that
Baron von Beust is suffering from an attempt which has
been made to poison him. Next we are told that the
Austrian Cabinet has determined to interpose in Eastern
Europe, ostensibly with a view to prevent further persecu-

tions of the Jews. There is much excitement in the Danu-
bian provinces, and things seem approaching a crisis in
that country of chronic excitement.

In connection with this matter I may mention that
Prince Napoleon is going to Vienna. Having failed in his
visit to the Prussian capital, he is now going to see what
he can do in the Austrian. Still more important, it is said
that he is going to visit Gallicia. If this be true it. is very
significant. The Prince, has long been an ardent partisan
of Poland, would have gone to war with Russia in
1863, and if he now visits Austrian Poland it
will confirm the deep impression made here by
Prince Czartoryski's speech in London, in which
he declared that the Poles must henceforth look to
Austria as their leader. Is it possible that an alliance
between France and Austria is now on foot, with a com-
mon foe in Russia, and a common purpose in the settle-
ment of the Eastern and Polish questions ? It would
seem as if something of the sort were believed at St.
Petersburg, for to-day's papers announce that the Russian
fleet at Cronstadt has received orders to cruise in the
Mediterranean, and that this order has caused no little ex-
citement at Paris and London.

I mentioned in my last letter that M. de Saint Paul was
about to leave the Ministry of the Interior, and that this
was a blow for M. Ronher. The clever Minister has suc-
ceeded in warding it off. He represented to the Emperor
that it was absolutely necessary for him (M.
Ronher) to have some one on whom he could
rely to control the elections, and so the Emperor
gave way. It was said at first that in consequence
of this defeat M. Pinard, the Minister of the Interior,
would resign, and there was even some talk of Persigny
coming back to office. But to-day it is aserted that the
quarrel has been arranged, and that the not very happy
family, the Imperial Cabinet, will go on as before.

The much-talked-of pamphlet, " La Paix par la G u erre,"
which was to have been published by Dentu at the close
of last week, has been postponed, if not suppressed. The
reason is said to be that the defeat of the unification
address in the German Customs Parliament has altered the
position.

The Government has sustained another and very severe
defeat in one of the elections for the Councils General.
The Government is likely to be defeated also in the elec•
tion of a deputy at Tarn for the Corps Ugislatif.
You will remember that a contest took place
a few days ago, and that the Government candidate was at
the head of the poll, but did not get the necessary
majority, so that there must 13c another contest. The
second Opposition candidate has now withdrawn, and
asks those who voted for him to transfer their support to
his late competitor. Should they do so, the Government
nominee will be beaten by a large majority.
The forthcoming debate on free trade, which begins to-
morrow, is expected with much interest. M. Thiers has
been preparing a great speech in favour of Protection.
He reckons upon getting eighty votes. Of course there is
no chance that the commercial treaty with England will
be repealed ; but the debate will be lively enough. M.
Henri Martin has a capital article in the semi-official
Constitutionnel to-day, pointing out that protection is for
the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.

The Luxemburgers are resolute in having nothing to do
with FIVIIC3. A fortnight ago there was a great outcry
at the proposed establishment of a French journal in their
city. They have new positively refused to allow the
Great Luxemburg Railway to be sold .to the French
Eastern Railway Company, on the ground that it would
} an anti-national policy to do so.

The 'l'M)* National says that, "according to a widely-
sprcatl rumour at Vienna, the illness from which Baron
von Beust has been suffering is due to an attempt to poison
him. It is a subject of general discussion in Austria, and
a judicial inquiry is to be made into the matter."

We have now details of the quarrel which has arisen
between the French and Tunisian Governments. Some
time ago the English and Italian consuls, in order to pro-
tect the interests of their fellow countrymen who have
lent money to Tunis, proposed that the Bey should mort-
gage a portion of the Customs to pay the interest due to
his creditors. At the same time they proposed to the
French consul to join the arrangement, but he declined to
do so. Subsequently to that the Bey contracted a loan in
France. Latterly the payment of interest has been sus-
pended, and the French consul thereupon pressed for
arrears. It was then suggested— whether by Tunis
or France is not certain— that a French •finan-
cial commission should be organised. To this
the English and Italian consuls objected, on the
ground that the interests of their fellow-countrymen
would be injuriously affected thereby. For this reason the
Bey declined to sign the deeree. The French consul,
knowing that the commissioners were on their way from
France, said that if the Bey did not sign the French flag
should be hauled down. This was actually done ; and
diplomatic relations having been thus broken off, the
despatch of two French frigates to Tunis was ordered. In
consequence of these proceedings, the English and Italian
Ambassadors at Paris have made very strong representa-
tions to the French Government, and it is believed that
the question at issue will now be settled by a joint com-
mission, in which all three of the European Powers will be
represented, although the Etendard declares that it will
be left to France and Tunis alone.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post has reason
to believe that when Napoleon's advisers last met, his
Excellency M. Rouher spoke out bravely about the neces-
sity of making economy in the military and naval budgets,
and expressed himself trss ferines about the wisdom of
applying the army reforms with as little severity as
possible ; in fact, pointing out how the policy advocated
by Marshal Niel .might be considerably modified by a
political as well as financial revision of what has taken
place during the last few months, always respecting in
principle the provisions made by the Reorganisation Bill.
But, we are always told, the Emperor still ccnsiders that
peace is to be secured by war armaments.
The Pope has recently reviewed the Papal soldiers
wounded at Mentana. .They were accompanied by some
Sisters of Charity, who have displayed much zeal in col-
lecting contributions for the alleviation of the sufferers in
the different hospitals. The Pope, addressing the soldiers,
said : "My dear children, the Pope thanks you! You
have fought like brave men, and have given him great
marks of your devotion. In fact, what greater mark of
devotion can a friend give than to give his life for his
friend ? You have valiantly defended the cause of right,
justice, and truth. When you return to your families
take them the blessing of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, who
gives it to you with all the tenderness of his heart."
Mr. Disraeli has got over his episcopal difficulty, and
very satisfactorily. He has selected for the see of Here-
ford the Rev. Canon Atlay, vicar of Leeds—a clergyman
known more for his parochial energy than for his identifi-
cation with either of the great Church parties. Dr.
Atlay was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and
graduated in 1840 (the year that the Dean of Ely, Dr.
Harvey Goodwin, was second wrangler), and took a some-
what low place among the senior optimes in the mathe-
matical tripos, but was a first-class (9th) in the classical
tripos. Ile was also Bell's university scholar.
He became Fellow and tutor of his college. From 1847 to
1852 he was vicar of Madingley, and when the late vicar of
Leeds, Dr. Hook, was appointed by the then Derby-
Disraeli Administration to the deanery of Chichester,
which post he now holds, Mr. Atlay was selected for the
important incumbency of Leeds. He was in 1861 made a
canon of Ripon, and subsequently graduated D.D. As
Dr. Atlay was a Cambridge man, it can hardly be said
that political considerations have had much to do with
his appointment. The vicarage of Leeds is in the
presentation of twenty-five trustees, but in consequence
of the preferment of the present vicar by the Govern-
ment, we presume that the next presentation will be made
by the Crown. For the same reason the canonry of
Ripon will be also at Mr. Disraeli's disposal, who will
thus, through the death of Bishop Hampden, obtain three
pieces of patronage. It is singular that, two successive
vicars of Leeds should have obtained ecclesiastical prefer-
ment at the haw's of two Conservative AdmirOtrations.