The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC.

Tars EVENING, at 7, SL t SHER &CRASHER : Messrs Atkins,
Vaughan, G. Vincent, Bc.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield.
After which, at 8, THE TICKET OF LEAVE MAN: Messrs. H.
Neville. G. Vincent, H. Cooper, E. Atkins, R. Soutar, H.Vaughan,
and H. Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, E. Farren,
and Caulfield.

ROYALTY T EATRE .
Under the Management of Miss bL Oliver.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, MARRIED DAUGHTERS: Messrs.
Day, Russell, and Dewar; Mesdames Thompson, Bromley,
and M. Oliver. After which, THE RISE AND FALL OF
lICHARD III.: or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar,
Slr. Danvers: Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con
tlude with THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton,

THIS EVENING, ATCHII Messrs. Blakeley and Montague;
Misses Addison and A. Wilton. After which, SOCIETY : Messrs.
J. Clarke, Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and
Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss C. Addison. -

ROYAL ALFRED THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. H. R. Lacey—Directress, Miss Amy Sedgwick.
THIS EVENING. at a quarter to 8, PINDEE SINGH. Preceded
by DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. And at 7.45,
LAND RATS AND WATER RATS: Mavis. Mr. Creswiek;
Jonas. Mr. Shepherd; Messrs. E. F. Edgar, Vollairs, W. Crosby,
Mat. Robson; Miss Pauneefort. Miss Elizabeth Webster, Miss E.
Lennard. With MILES'S BOY.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
of 50 Horses; also Avolo, the Marvel of the Nineteenth Century,
Alfred Bradbury, Mdlle. Montero, M. Napoli. F. Clifton, and
EamwelYs Performing Dogs. Commence at 7.20.

AGRICITLTETRAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—FAIRY PALACE
CONCERTS, Every Evening, at 8.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at S
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET?,
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. ; Children
under twelve, 6d.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1868.

Among the new candidates who are now present-
ing themselves in such abundance before the various
constituencies throughout the United Kingdom for
election to the Reformed Parliament, there are a se
lect few who, strictly speaking, can hardly be called
new candidates. They are, rather than that, old
and honoured representatives of the people who evi-
dence an eagerness to return to public life, here in
the midst of us, by seeking admission anew to the scene
of their former successes as Parliamentary notabilities
within the walls of the House of Commons. Conspicuous
among them, there is one whose name—during that
interval of thirty years which has elapsed since his
disappearance from the Parliamentary arena—has
been rendered illustrious and historical by his emi-
nent career as a diplomatist, and more especially by
that career of his having been marked by more than
one memorable diplomatic achievement. When we
hesitate not to describe the candidate we are here re-
ferring to as beyond all comparison in the popular view
the greatest English diplomatist now living—the
" Great Eltchi" of Mr. KINGLARE'S History of the
Crimean War, having long closed his brilliant career
by virtually retiring from the political arena—it will
be understood upon the instant, as clearly as though
his name had already been specified, that allusion is
made to no other than Sir HENRY LYTTON &LIVER,
now one of the three Liberal candidates who are at
present before the constituency of Tamworth, for the
selection of two of them as the borough representa-
tives.

Fully thirty years, as we have said, have elapsed
since Sir HENRY BULWER was last a member of the
British House of Commons. Ile had then, although
still i❑ his jeunesse doree, acquired some six or seven
years Parliamentary experience—before his with-
drawal altogether from the Legislature for the dedica-
tion of his energies, thenceforth, exclusively to the
diplomatic service of the Crown. He had entered the
Home of Commons for the first time as far back as
1830, when he took his seat as member for Wilton.
The year previously he had entered the diplomatic ser-
vice, namely, in 1829, having been attached succes-
sively to the British Embassies at Berlin, at Brus-
sels, and at the Hague—being despatched, moreover,
upon a special mission of considerable delicacy and
importance, to Brussels in 1830, for the purpose of
watching, there athead-quarters, the course taken by
the Belgian Revolution. From 1831 to 1832, he
sat in the House of Commons as member for
Coventry. And from 1834 to 1837, as member for
the great metropolitan borough of Marylebone.
Within that interval of his being M.P. for Marylebone,
viz., in 1835, Sir HENRY BUTNER was oppointed Sec-
retary of Legation and Charge d'Affaires at Brussels
—in 1837, upon his withdrawal from Parliament,
being appointed Secretary of Embassy at Constan-
tinople. Remembering the fact last mentioned—
taking note of that date, 1837—one sees at a glance
that his personal knowledge and experience in re-
gard to all the complications of the Eastern Question
extend back now over a period of upwards of thirty
years—giving him the most perfect mastery of that
question, of any man now living, always excepting,
of course, Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, but bear-
ing in mind always, at the same time, that Lord
STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE has, so to speak, retired
upon his laurels. At Constantinople, in his capa-
city as Secretary of Embassy, Sir HENRY BUL-
WER inaugurated his career, there in the
East, by negotiating the Commercial Treaty
between the Sublime Porte and England. Ap-
pointed in 1839 Secretary of the Embassy at
Paris, he was, within a very brief interval, no less
than three times gazetted as Interim Minister at
the French Court, during the temporary absence
of the Ambassador. So acquitting himself of the
responsibilities which thereby devolved upon him, as
fully to justify the confidence reposed in him by
the Government. It was in 1843 that he first be-
came Minister Plenipotentiary—the Court of Madrid
being the scene of his first full embassage. Within
a year from his appointment as Ambassador he had
been the means of effecting an honourable peace
between Spain and Morocco. During the turmoil
of 1848, Sir HENRY BULWER'S summary expulsion
rom the Spanish capital, at the arbitrary instance
of NARVAEZ, because of the British Ambassador's
supposed complicity in conspiracies then said to be
afoot against the Spanish Government, is matter of
history not soon to be obliterated from the national
remembrance. The resentment felt by England in
regard to this extraordinary indignity was conspicu-
ously evidenced by the refusal of our Government
during two years to appoint any successor to the
eminent representative of the Sovereign, who had
been thus most unjustifiably expelled from Madrid
by the arbitrary act of the Soldier-Minister of ISA-
BELLA 11. It was then that, as a mark of her
MAJESTY'S sense of his high services, Mr. BULIVER
was created by the QUEEN a Knight Grand Cross of
the Bath—the House of Commons unanimously ap-
proving his conduct, without one dissentient voice
being audible during the discussion. Eventually at
the end of the two years already mentioned—as the
world " hath writ its annals"—the Spanish Govern-
ment made the amende in a document the terms of
which were dictated by Lord PALMERSTON. After-
wards Sir lIENnY BULWER went as Ambas-
sador to Washington, where, under hi::
auspices, there was ratified on the 4th of
July, 1850, the now historical Bulu•er-Clayton
Treaty, by which Sir HENRY, on behalf of the

British, and Mr. CLAYTON, on behalf of the Ame-
rican Government, declared that neither should
obtain exclusive control over the proposed ship
canal through Central America, or erect fortifica-
tions in any part of the country. Two years after-
wards, in 1852, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary
at the Grand Ducal Court of Tuscany, bolding that post
until the commencement of 1855, and in 1857 pro-
ceeding as Ambassador to Constantinople.
The diplomatic career of Sir HENRY BULWER
is, we cannot but think, especially worthy of
being recalled thus briefly to popular remem-
brance, now that he proposes, with all his im-
mense diplomatic experience, to re-enter Parliament
as one of the people's representative. As a
Liberal politician he has, throughout the whole
of his career, remained unwaveringly consistent.
His knowledge of the Eastern Question, his Ameri-
can experience, his Spanish experience, his intimate
acquaintance with our diplomatic relations, here with
France, there with Germany, above all—ending
where we began—his complete mastery of that most
vitally important of all questions diplomatically
speaking, the great and paramount question but just
now spoken of as the Eastern Question—all these
considerations together, but that one in particular,
cannot but lead us to hope most earnestly that the
appeal which is now being made by Sir HENRY BUL-
WER to the constituency of Tamworth, will not have
been made in vain, but that the Liberal electors there,
by securing his services as one of their representatives,
will, in a higher sense, add another truly Representa-
tive Man to the very few really Representative Men
who, at rare intervals, are returned to Parliament.

LIBERAL candidates will make a very great and
grievous
.mistake if they pledge themselves to vote
against either compulsory education or an education
rate. If we are not greatly mistaken, both those
measures will very shortly be a portion of the Liberal
creed. The objections which have been raised
hitherto are worthless. The old " stupid" argument
about the liberty of the subject will be heard,
no doubt, wherever country squires address
bucolic audiences. Their argument in behalf
of a man's right to be ignorant is on a par
with the argument of the everyday-diminishing
number of opponents to the Permissive Bill, who
insist upon a man's right to get drunk. The
State can recognise neither right. The drunkard
is a public nuisance and a public injury. He makes
the streets unsafe for women, disagreeable for men ;
he beggars his family, brings them upon the
rates, and robs the ratepayers. He must be
put down, and as punishment will not
put him down we must try prevention. Simi-
larly with regard to the ignorant man. He, too,
is a public nuisance and a public injury. Ignorance
is the mother of crime. It breeds poverty,
vagabondage, theft. It is incumbent upon the
State to get rid of this brood by getting rid
of its parent. The drunkard must be sobered by
" Act of Parliament." The ignorant must be edu-
cated by " Act of Parliament." The Legislature fails
of its duty if it does not accomplish these tasks ; fails
as much as if it did not put down fraud by " Act of
Parliament."

In the parliamentary interference with ignorance
there is a consideration which does not weigh with
regard to drunkenness. It will cost nothing to put
down the second ; it will cost a good deal to put down
the first. The prohibition of the liquor traffic will
be all gain to the nation, even from the pecuniary
point of view. The education of pauper children
will involve a somewhat heavy pecuniary charge. It
is on this ground that Conservative candidates are
promising the farmer that they will not sanc-
tion the placing of this charge upon the rates.
CandidateS say, and say truly, that local rates have
increased of late years, and are now unduly onerous ;
and it is not altogether surprising if, in order to
catch votes, they pledge themselves against any
increase. But Liberal candidates must not fall into
the same blunder. They must leave to their oppo-
nents the humouring of prejudices ; it is for them-
selves to look forward, to have a far-seeing eye, and,
at the risk of temporary defeat, to educate the
country to the duty of teaching its poor—a duty as
inevitable in a near future as it is clear in the
immediate present. There are two points to be
insisted on. First, it must be boldly announced that,
no matter what the cost may be, it is the nation's
duty to educate its poor. The poor, being without
any guardians save the nation, have the right to look
for protection against disease and against ignorance.
The first is already granted to a great extent by our
humane sanitary laws, by the laws for draining our
towns, for regulating lodging-houses, and the like.
The second is partially granted by the Factory Acts,
which insist upon the education of all children
engaged in factories, workshops, and mines, and are soon
to be extended to agriculture. But these Acts have
to be supplemented by a law which will protect the
class that needs protection most of all—the children
without employment. To them the State owes a
duty which at present is done only imperfectly, neces-
sarily so, by the promoters of ragged schools. Having
insisted upon the performance of this duty, the
Liberal candidates should go on to shew that
performing it is to the nation's advantage. Not
immediately, perhaps. At first the rates will be
heavier, for it will take some time to civilise the race
of street Arabs. But in a few years we shall see the
difference. The generation that, but for our inter-
position, would have grown up to swell the great
army of criminals—that army which costs us millions
sterling yearly in gaols and courts of justice, as well
as in actual loss of property—this generation will have
joined the army of honest workers. Instead of
enlisting in the ranks of the destructives, as
now, the children of the poor will enlist in the ranks
of productives. If we do not reap the benefit, our
successors will ; if we have to pay somewhat higher
rates, our successors will pay much lower.
We have spoken of compulsory education and
educational rates as though the second followed the
first. There is, perhaps, no necessary sequence, yet
we believe it will occur. There are some reasons why
the present central system would be preferable.
Especially would it be so because of the possible,
and, indeed, only too probable parsimony of paro-
chial financiers. The shameful condition of some
of our workhouse infirmaries, with their "econo-
mical " arrangements of imbecile pauper nurses, may
well lead us to fear that parochial schools will be
inefficiently managed. On the other hand, we doubt
if the country will be content to see the present central
organisation greatly extended. If it is decided that
' every child shall go to school, the increase of schools
will be so large that it will possibly not be either
prudent or practicable for the Imperial Government
to undertake the charge of them. Moreover, a new
element will be introduced into our educational
arrangements. At present schools are founded
voluntarily, and the State assists them ; but
hereafter the State will have to insist on schools
being founded, and then the means of providing
funds will have to be considered, and that will involve
the religious question, which must be referred to the
locality concerned. The whole matter is a very large
one, by no means to be dismissed in a single article.
We can only end as we began, by warning candi-
dates who wish to take a statesmanlike view of the
future, instead of merely flattering the prejudices of
the electors, that they will do well not to declare
themselves against compulsory education or educa-
tion rates.

GOLDEN-TRESSED ladies beware ! A great peril
besets you. Your tresses are golden in more than
one sense of the word. They are golden to look at,
they are worth their weight of gold to sell. Hence
covetous eyes are cast upon them ; hence we have
a new " Rape of the Lock." The BELINDA of
the period betook herself a few days ago
to a hairdresser's. The hairdresser proved a hair-
stealer—a regular poacher, in fact, He snipped

off a fine curl, and sent his client away shorn of
so much of " the glory of a woman." But hair-
dressers are clever. They have need to be in these
days, when baldheaded dames go into society with
pyramids of hair large enough to supply half a dozen
decent, sober wigs. BELINDA, therefore, did not dis-
cover her loss at first ; did not find it out, we sus-
pect, until she began to " do" her hair previously
to retiring to her rosy (or carmined) slumbers.
Great was her wrath. When at length indig-
nation had been relieved by tears, anger gave
place to revenge, and the owner of the
ravished lock determined to punish her ravisher.
The thought of vengeance is sweet. It enabled
BELINDA to sleep, and she awoke in the morning pre-
pared for every emergency. Once more she
went through the process of " doing " her hair, and
though the missing tress caused a grievous pang, she
bravely suppressed the rising sob, and placed upon her
head one of the false ringlets which formed part
of her ordinary head costume. Armed with this
snare, she went again to the hairdresser's, sub-
mitted herself with beating heart once more to
the treacherous scissors. Snip, snip, went the
coiffeur, nothing loth ; and, as she had anticipated,
snip went the false lock. The thief had fallen into the
trap, and straightway despoiled, clever, BELINDA
betook herself to a magistrate and asked for a
summons against the criminal. The case seemed
clear enough to BELINDA, but to the magistrate by
no means clear. Such a case had never come under his
notice before. How was he to tell if the hairdresser
had not accidentally cut off the missing lock,
or, if not accidentally, had not thought that it ought
to come off in order to make it grow stronger ? This
perplexity and doubt were intolerable to BELINDA.
It was so plain to her that the coiffeur was a thief,
that she could not understand how there could be any
second opinion upon it. Eloquently she enforced her
view of the case, and at last the magistrate advised
her to sue her injurer in the county court
for the value of the missing ringlet. This
is not a satisfactory termination, even should BELINDA
win her suit. The shareholders of the Merchants
Company may not see the difference between a civil
action and a criminal prosecution, but BELINDA is
clearer sighted, and what she wants is, not the
value of her tress, for which no money can repay
her, but the punishment of the trespasser.

LATEST INTELL MENU..

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPUN.

MADRID, Oct. 29.
The Minister of the Netherlands has notified the
recognition of the revolution by his Government!

The Municipal Council has adjourned the dis-
cussion of the vote of censure upon the Government
until to-morrow. It is believed that the motion
will be withdrawn altogether.

LISBON, Oct. 30.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Oneida has arrived here from the Brazils, and will
leave at noon this day for Southampton with 58
passengers and $102,380.
The La Plata, with the outward mail of the 9th
inst., left St. Vincent on the 20th inst. for Brazil.

QUEENSTOWN, OCt. 30.

The National Steamship Company's steamer the
Queen, from Bombay on the Bth ult. and Algoa
Bay on the Ist inst., arrived off Rochespoint at 8
a.m. to-day. She landed the Cape mails, and pro-
ceeded for Liverpool. All well.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS.

MARSEILLES, OCt. 30.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Bangalore arrived at 7 a.m. this morning. The
mails leave by the 11.30 a. 11l . train.
Letters may be expected in London on Saturday
evening.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY, OCtQlny29.

English politics attract a good deal of attention here, in
the absence of important Continental topics, and on the
eve of the general election. Mr. Gladstone astonishes the
French by his fecundity. They cannot understand how
" a silent people " can delight in these immense harangues.
Mr. Bright's speeches they consider marked by an eloquence
sauvage " difficult to be understood in France." Why
"the powerful Reform agitator" does not adopt a more
courteous tone is a problem which is disposed of by the
reflection that Mr. Bright's manner suits those whom
he addresses. Mr. Disraeli receives much open admira-
tion—not for his virtues, but for his finesse. The man
who could keep in power so long with such a small force
at his back, and could successfully execute the great
coup de theatre of 1867, is clear above all to the French.
Most of the papers support the disestablishment of the
Irish Church : the Liberal journals because it is a Liberal
measure ; the official papers because they are Roman
Catholic. I find the excellent hit of Mr. Newton, who
imagined the Irish Church with its twelve bishops and
1,500 clergymen transferred to the Tower Hamlets—the
inhabitants of which are as numerous as the Irish Protes-
tants—very generally quoted.
The papers are all discussing " the" Map. Their com-
ments may be summarised very briefly : they are all
laughing at it. The idea of Algeria being an addition to
the effective strength of France, of North Germany being
less powerful than the old Confederation, and of France
being the gainer by the events of 1866, are too ridiculous
even for the official papers. Strange that the Govern-
ment should degrade itself by these shallow attempts to
impose upon its people.

Queen Isabella, her husband, Afarfori, Claret, Patroctnio,
and their suite, numbering forty-five persons, will arrive in
Paris on the 6th of November. The Memorial Diploma-
ague says that her Majesty is not going to Brighton.
The Count and Countess Girgenti have retired to Eng.
land for a few months, in order to make it understood
that they do not intend to interfere in any way with the
course of events in Spain. The report that Queen
Isabella was going to Brighton arose from the address
"S. A. R. Isabel," being on the baggage of the Queen's
daughter and son-in-law. The Queen, says this journal,
will continue in France until the decision of the
Constituent Cortes be made known. She is about to quit
the Chateau of Pau in consequence of the "respectful
representations" of the French Government—which, it is
to be presumed, has also received " respectful representa-
tions" from Madrid.

The budget of the Memorial Diplomatique is not yet
exhausted. It affirms that Prince Napoleon really did go
to Turin to sound King Victor respecting the candidature
of the Duke of Aosta. He took this course on account of
the pressing solicitation of General Prim. This story has
not much of the air of probability about it. Why should
General Prim solicit Prince Napoleon in particular, and
why should the latter consent to undertake this delicate
office ?

Rossini, who has been ill for some time, is worse. A
consultation of medical men, among whom were Professor
Nelaton and Dr. Barthe, was held yesterday morning at
Passy. The patient was declared to be free from inflam-
mation, but so exceedingly weak as to cause great anxiety.
He is 76 years of age.
A man at Brest has been condemned to death for the
murder of his wife. After hearing the sentence he threw
away a dagger which he had concealed upon his person,
saying that he should have committed suicide had he been
sentenced to hard labour for life.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.

METEOROLOGICAL REFORM

SIB JOHN PAKINGTON AT FIRM-TWICE:

Sir 3. Pakington addressed the electors of Droitwich on
Thursday night. After an elaborate reply to Mr. Glad-
stone's charge of extravagant expenditure against the
Government, he came to the Irish Church question, and
declared that he would be no party to attacking the
Protestant institutions of England.. He deplored the
unworthy manner in which the subject had been brought
before Parliament, and contended that it should be ap•
proached in a calm and patriotic spirit, and not be made,
as it had been by Mr. Gladstone, a subject for a party
manceuvre. Mr. Gladstone had been going about the
country declaiming in most violent language on
this subject, without regard to facts or expo•
rience. He read extracts from Mr. Gladstone's Lan-
cashire speeches, and said he was a man who stood alone
in the power of tergiversation. He had sat in Parliament
with him for thirty years—now with him as a Tory, now
opposite to him as a Radical. At one time he was heard
ably supporting the Established Church, and now he was
pronouncing its destruction.

At the close of the meeting a vote of confidence in Sir
John Paking;ton was unanimously passed.

CAPTAIN SHERARD OSBORN ON THE
NAVAL EXPENDITURE.

Captain Sherard Osborn, who is au fait on the matter
of naval expenditure, writes to a gentleman in Sheffield
on the subject. His fear is that the Conservatives will
persuade the working men of Sheffield that an extrava-
gant naval expenditure is good for their own interests.
He says : " I am not astonished at any tales spread by
those in favour of our present wasteful expenditure on
useless war-ships and fortifications, but I am at the men
of Sheffield not seeing and appreciating their value. If
Sheffield dealt in wooden ships or stonework forts, I
think they would have good grounds for voting Tory,
as I think, with a reformed Parliament and Reformers
in office, their business would be in danger, and the
taxpayers proportionately happy. But all I can say, so far
as my own views are concerned, is this, that from the year
1850 I have been teaching and writing in favour of armour
plating and rifled guns. Had I been listened to after the
Crimean war, from 10 to 15 millions thereby wasted on
wooden ships would have beedsaved to the navy ; and if I
had my way at present, instead of some 15 millions now
being spent on fixed fortifications, with little patches of
iron, called shields, over the guns, I would for less, far less
money, turn out a squadron of monitors, carrying turrets
invulnerable to existing cannon, and give the country
what she is still without—a good means of coast defence.
I dare say you observed Lord Henry Lennox's asser-
tion the other day, that we had three armoured ships
on foreign stations. You will smile when I tell you that
these so-called armoured ships are vessels of wood exposing
a huge area of target to the arms of precision of to-day,
and that the only armour they can boast of is a narrow bell
along the water-line, and a patch over the centre of the ship's
side ; all the rest is as vulnerable and inflammable as wood,
pitch, and paint can make such war-ships. Worse still, a
large portion of the money voted for shipbuilding is still
being spent on such craft, because men will not break away
from the traditions of the past in the form of their fighting
ships, and still insist on the ironclads of to-day resembling
as nearly as possible the navies of past times. And there
are those who find it to their interest to pander to such
weaknesses. I want to combine efficiency with economy,
and to use more iron and steel, and less wood, in our
navy. You and your friends can therefore judge how
the policy of the naval reformer is likely to serve 03
damage Sheffield."

THE .RIGHT HON. W. N. MASSEY ON

INDIA.

Manchester has had a sermon on India from the
Marquis of Salisbury, the former Secretary of State for
that empire. -Now the Right Hon. W. N. Massey comes
forward at Liverpool and gives his views on the same
subject. The former, however, had ceased to be a " party
man," and what he said was greeted with approval. Mr.
Massey, on the other hand, is the Liberal candidate for
Liverpool, and spoke to a number of political
opponents. Said opponents were by no means
willing to let him have it all his own way.
His speech, therefore, was interrupted continually.
The topics on which he touched were railways in
India, the great irrigation works, and cotton growing.
He prefaced his remarks on these subjects by an apology
for the annexation policy which had formerly been the
rule. "In the province of Oude, for instance, we ex-
hausted every effort to maintain the native rule, and it
was only when they found the vices of the rule incorrigible,
and the people suffering the utmost misery from the
lawless tyranny which oppressed them, that the English
Government removed that unworthy ruler, and supplied
in his place a representative of the British Crown."
In Mysore the same wish to maintain the native rule was
evinced. As to the railway system, "they could now
travel by express from Calcutta to Delhi, 1,100 miles.
The railway was being pushed on to Amballah, at
the foot of the Himalayas. Tho line from Alla-
habad to Bombay was one of the greatest marvels
of engineering art. The development of the
railway system was not only conducive to the inte-
rests of commerce, but it had produced an astonishing
effect upon the social habits of the people, and had done
more to connect the natives with the British race, and to
abolish the prejudices and distinctions of caste, than any
other measure which was ever conceived. Amongst the re-
volutions which were due to the institution of railways*,
none was more valuable than this breaking down of caste.
Mahomedans and Hindoos now thronged the third-class
carriages indiscriminately. He feared he had dealt with the
subject of railways until he had wearied their patience, but
he must further say that the Indian Government were
now engaged in laying out railways in every part of India,
so that the produce, not only the developed, but the still
undeveloped produce, of India should find its way to the
seaboard with as great a facility as the produce of Europe
did in this day. They were about to establish these rail-
ways without any regard to their cost. But the capitalist,
Mr. Massey went on to say, would profit by them. Then,
as to irrigation, that had engaged the foremost attention
of the Government in India during the whole period that
he was engaged in the administration of its affairs. India
had a watershed which was not exceeded by that of
any country in the world ; but bordering on its enormous
iver were arid plains, and if the monsoons did not take
place at the proper time the whole produce of those
plains was consumed and died away, and the people
were left to starve, for the calamity of drought was of
the same gigantic proportions in India as distinguished
everything else in that country. They might consider,
then, how great was the sense of obligation in the
mind of the Indian Government to adopt means
for guarding against this dreadful infliction on that
large portion of the human race for whose lives and
safety they were responsible, when he told them that
they were prepared to raise millions of money
in order to utilise the Indian rivers, and make them chan-
nels for irrigating those arid plains, and so guard against
the vicissitudes of the seasons upon which the lives of the
people of India now depended. With regard to cotton,
the Indian Government had done all in their power
to foster the growth of a staple so valuable. They
bad, on the occurrence of the American war, organised
a staff of experienced gentlemen to instruct the people of
India in cultivating and preparing the staple for market
but the Indian cultivator at the time of the cessation of
the American war, three years ago, was under the impres-
sion that cotton would flow in from the Southern States
of America as before, and that there would be no
demand for his production. They had now found
out their mistake—they had found that the produce
of the Southern States was not, and probably
never would be, what it had been ; and the Indian
cultivator, who, as he had said, had a pretty keen eye to
his own interests, was now satisfied that he would consult
his own interests by continuing to supply the English
markets with the staple they required. There was one dis-
trict, Hingaughaut, with great capacity for producing
cotton, which would vie with any sample that came into
the English market.

Mr. Gladstone's Lancashire speeches (seven in
number) are being printed in a form suitable for wide
circulation. They are expected to be in the booksellers'
hands on Monday and Tuesday next.

Captain Vivian, M.P., is suffering from an acci-
dent of some severity. A few weeks since, on the north
coast of Cornwall, he was climbing over rocks, and, having
no shoes on, the sole of one of his feet was cut by a mussel.
Due attention to the wound was unfortunately neglected,
and its injurious effects extended to a considerable portion
of the leg, necessitating rest and medical care at Pencar-
row, the residence of Lady Molesworth. A surgical ope-
ration being deemed necessary, the patient has returned to
his town residence in order that the operation may be per-
formed by his own surgeon.— Western Morning Noes.

ERRORS OF SPEECH.-- One often hears spoken
and sees written, and that by fairly educated people, the
word " suppositious." There is no such word in the Eng-
lish language ; what is meant is " supposititious." There
is also a good deal of misapprehension abroad about the
meaning of the word " plastic." I have seen it used in
print as if it meant capability of being moulded, instead
of power to mould. It is not the clay of the potter, but
the potter's hand that is plastic. So when we speak of
Shakspeare's " plastic mind," we ought not to mean as
an English review did in using the term the other day,
that Shakipeare's mind was moulded by circumstances,
but that he had the power to fashion whatever fell in
his way to the pattern that pleased him best,—Caisen
afayazfith

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Tart stanlzt

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, OCT. 28.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
went out yesterday morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove to the
Glassalt Shiel, attended by the Duchess Dowager
of Athole and Miss Macgregor.
Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold drove to
Birk Hall.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, 4t.
tended by the Countess of Morton.

CANTERBURY HALL.

The energetic lessee of this very popular place
of amusement took his benefit on Tuesday evening'
when he was honoured with an overflowing atten
ante of visitors. Prior to the commencement of Od
entertainment a great number of visitors inspected
the splendid Crystal Saloon which Mr. Holland has
just completed for the gratification of his patroo'
The noble apartment is most elegantly decorated,
the colours being in perfect harmony, and tb,,,
introduction of gold into the devices
the whole a very splendid appearance. The eel%
brated Signor Brucciani has furnished specialene
both of ancient and modern sculpture, which
had placed in admirable and commanding posiiinil
that they becaMe the chief attraction, and at tbe
same time give a richness and finish to the elegall
decorations of the saloon. The floor is enverei,.
with Brussels carpetting, and the furniture
of the most luxurious description. With %ea
spect to the entertainments they embraced.'
name of every artiste of any music-hall celebrity'
Blondin also adding his name to increase the at
traction. A new ballet, entitled Masaniello,
produced, which met with the most flattering recePd
tion ; after which Mr. Holland had to appear 313,r
thank his patrons in person for the spirited coanl/ve
in which they had supported him during the tll/1
he had been lessee of the Canterbury Hall.

CONSERVATIVE DEMONS7RATION AT

BIR2III.NGHAM.

A meeting of the friends of the Liberal-ConSer
vative candidates was held on Wednesday evenit.
The Town-hall was as crowded as on the °1 D,
when Mr. Bright met his supporters. Mr.
Doodman (partner of the late Mr. Scholefield,
presided. He was supported by the Ho' ane
fb
Rev. G. M. Yorke, a numerous array of "0,
clergy, and many members of the Town Conn°
d
Messrs. Lloyd and Evans were enthusiasticalll re
ceived.
In the course of his speech Mr. LLOYD PIP;
You are reminded by Mr. bright that front
year 1760 to the year 1828 was a period of politlsi
darkness. Well, it was a period of great politico
suffering. Our country was engaged in a gig
struggle for dear life with the greatest genertio
modern times, having at his beck and call the arw„a
of almost the whole of Europe; but if liberty Po
enlightenment did not in all respects progress so
fast as we could have wished them to do, it W
at least an age not unfruitful for great memories
to
this country. It was an age that gave us a Chstill o
a Pitt, a Burke, a Grattan, a Wellington, an
Nelson. (Applause.) It was an age that galteio,
also a Huskisson, to inaugurate again those Pr're,
ciples of tree trade in which William Pitt hail),;ve
viously failed. It was also an age when our in,
country grew from being a petty kingdom to 13°01 e,
a gigantic empire. (Hear.) We are told, geest
men, and with truth, of the oppression of the 1131
Act, and the exclusion of the Catholics fr°o
power, and the exclusion of the Dissenters fr°,
some offices unless they would make a C-e
rto
declaration. I disapprove those acts just as n3OO
as our opponents do. (Applause.) But wil° ho
it that wanted to repeal the Test Act ? And :Ws?
was it that wanted to emancipate the Cathnbtebis
If the opposite party had allowed him, it Ylas
same great statesman, William Pitt, who ye
have repealed the Test Act, and would P'
is
emancipated the Catholics ; the reason it lithe
not done was, he believed, on account of yr
terror caused in this country by the excesses c°Ge,
witted by the revolutionary party in F1.,.3.300
11r. Lloyd went on to discuss at great lengOboof
course of factory legislation, his rbject being to: the
that Mr. Bright and his friends had opposed re.
benevolent efforts of Lord Shafterbury in tvu°,loo
spect. He concluded—Two issues are before, the
in this contest. The one is small and 10e01,00
other is important and general. The one is wille/ott
on this occasion—the first on which many
will enjoy the privilege of the suffrage—t'o'ttered
exercise exercise that privilege in a free and tinfe"-ent
manner, and follow your own individual junignjos
in the choice of your candidates ; or whetherradol
will surrender your individual freedom to 3 ,:ieo
committee or clique of your fellow-townsmen ka7.000
of " No, no," and cheers)—who may be amb`Jbat
of ruling a great many things in this town, oot
who, I am sure, will not be permitted to rule Ivo
free and unfettered judgment. (Cheers.) 13`1,,ttflis•
is a much weightier issue behind that. Next tin-cl of
ment will decide the destinies of this Engl3-Je
ours, that we all love so much, and for which W"
all proud.
naofej
The Hon. and Rev. GRANTHAM M. YoBl
a resolution, pledging the meeting to use pt.
effort to secure the election of Mr. Lloyd and
Evans. (Cheers.) „
Mr. OWEN, a Conservative working nia'",erf
conded the resolution, and it was carried by

large majority.
ed tb°
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated
proceedings.

711 E DOULTON TRIAL.

BRUSSELS, ()et' 1,4
The judgment of the Court is short, WI
severe in its comments on the alleged fratlliii4
misrepresentations of Doulton. The grolleu fade
decision is that as those representations were;hich
in a foreign country, and as the contract by
he gained a pecuniary advantage from 01°1: beet)
executed in a foreign country, and as it 120.9117bee0
established that the Belgian shareholders bad lent
induced to take the shares by any frilti fiese°
manoeuvres on the part of Doulton, the °
with which he was charged does not cone °
the new penal code of Belgium. odr
The Public Minister will appeal against the
ment of the tribunal.