The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1868.

their days that it is sometimes possible for them to
escape into brighter scenes and a purer atmo-
sphere. In spite of all our recent improvements,
and, in fact, partly in consequence of some of them,
there is still much to be done among the rookeries
of London. The demolition of houses and high-
ways, inevitable in some poor and populous quar-
ters, has thrown so vast an increase of inhabitants
into other parts already overstocked, that the evil
which all practical reformers acknowledge and
lament is increasing rather than diminishing. The
public health must naturally suffer from such a
state of things, and the only chance of the people
preserving their health at all iu hot weather
is by getting what fresh air they can.
It is well, therefore, that the growing
popularity of out-door entertainments should call
them, on days like yesterday, out into the fresh air
and under the open skies—not into the heated at-
mosphere and glare of theatres, and places of in-
door amusement. In another and more important
aspect the fine weather of this W'hitsuntidt is
doubly welcome. Last year Whitsuntide, it is
true, was fine and sunshiny, but it was so excep-
tional that it could not revive the drooping spirits
of the population. The Derby was run in a snow
storm less seasonable though less violent
than the thunder-storm which this year
characterised the Oaks. The interminable winter
and constantly recurring frosts played havoc with
all the natural products, and flowers, fruit, and
vegetables showed only too plainly what we might
expect from the all-important crops of a later date.
This year, with its glorious early summer, has
happily reversed the picture, and better than any
holiday intelligence is the news from the corn
market yesterday morning, where there was a
decline of between 3s. and 4s. from the rates of
Monday last. The high price of bread, which has all
through these winter months carried desolation
to many a struggling household, will now, we may
hope, soon become a thing of the past. We must
hope that in some cases at least it will have taught
pleasure-seekers a lesson of prudence, since, in
spite of holiday-makers, winter will come, and
those who like to enjoy the beauty of the present
seaion should alio " learn, like the ant in summer,
to provide" for darker and more costly days.

Yesterday the Premier was able to turn his
thoughts from the weary range of political subjects
into more agreeable channels, and the inaugura-
tion of the Halton Industrial Exhibition afforded
a pleasant holiday to many. The county of Buck-
ingham has thus asserted its claim to notability
in this respect, and, as may readily be supposed,
a rural affair of this sort offered more attractions
than the hackneyed exhibition of towns. The
origin of this Halton business was, it is said, the
desire of the ROTHSCHILDS to collect specimens of
the works of the inhabitants in a parish of their
estate, and the result has more than justified any
expectations that may then have been formed of it.
Straw plait, which is one of the most notable pro-
ductions of the county, was in great force, and
hats and bonnets, baskets and boxes, were duly
exhibited. Models of cottages were also shown,
and it is worthy of notice that in this more regard
was had to the comforts of within than to the orna-
ments of without ; but this, if a fault, was one on
the right side at any rate. Altogether the arrange-
ments were of the most admirable kind, and re-
flected the greatest credit on all who had to do
with them. In order to avoid any awkwardness
that might arise, the judges of the standard of
merit were either from London or outside the dis-
trict. Mr. and Mrs. DISRAELI came to do honour
to the affair, and the scene altogether was one of
the most animated description. The beauty of the
weather cub mcel the attractions, and enabled
those present to do full justice to the display
before them. Mr. DISRAELI addressed some ap-
rropriate remarks, which were listened to
with tl:e greatest attention. In alluding to the
industry of the vale, the right hon. gentleman men-
tioned that at one time it was believed that the
good old county of Buckingham could only produce
" butter, beef, and barley," but the fact was that
they had produced a variety of other things, for
which the world had not given them credit, and
hence this attempt to vindicate their reputation had
been made. The
attempt was at first to be con-
fined to one district only, but as the news
spread so did the demand for annexation in-
crease, and at last fifty parishes contri-
buted their share to the interesting display of
Buckinghamshire industry. As Mr. DISRAELI re-
marked to his hearers, iu some branches of art ma-
nufacture their county had excelled, and well sus-
tained its reputation. " The lace of Buckinghatu,
especially of late years, has vied with that of the
L)w Countries, and we have produced for public
exhibition specimens that have rivalled the products
of Mecklin and Valenciennes." Furniture has also
been made with great success in this county, in
consequence of the large quantity and good quality
of the beechwoods, and those products have been
sent to the Colonies, and also to other parts.
It was not likely that Mr. Disnasa.f would pass
over in silence the " earnest movement" that has
been making of late to improve the dwellings of the
working classes in Buckinghamshire, and the nu-
merous specimens of inventions and devices that
were furnished in the Halton Exhibition suffi-
ciently proved that it exists in full force at present.
Anything that can tend to promote the comfort and
convenience of the poor is to be welcomed, and it is
to be hoped that with due attention being bestowed
upon this important object it will be found possible
to combine improvement with economy, and thus
achieve a most desirable object, and one which has
long baffled the skill of the most learned on the
subject. It is, indeed, a mortifying reflection that
those who contribute so much to the prosperity of
the land and to the general comfort and welfare of
the community should suffer hardships and incon-
venience in their dwellings. To better this state
of affairs is indeed a " great end ;" and we may
hope that those who have hitherto been culpably
indifferent, or inexcusably ignorant on the subject
may be shamed into more activity, and induced to
spend more care in consequence of the example set
them in some quarters that have been made to
effect this desirable end. Buckingham has indeed
no cause to hide its light under a bushel, for it
rests its claim to the approbation of the country at
large in no solitary achievement, but possesses
many advantages. The " silk manufacture" was
laid particular stress on by the Premier, and justly
so, for of late there has been a sort of mania with
respect to French productions ; and it is therefore
very satisfactory to know that the Ayles-
bury silk manufacturers are very suc-
cessful in their products, and it was
mentioned in this speech that they find
Itheir productions not only welcomed in the French
markets, " but they are re-exported back to Eng-
land, and bought in Regent-street as admirable
specimens of silk from the Continent." It is at all
times a desirable thing for friends and neighbours to
assemble and note the progress that is being made
in various departments ; and as Mr. DISRAELI truly
said, in conclusion, how much better were such
meetings than those which merely assembled for
some " brutal pastime ;" they fill up a void which
has long been felt, but which unfortunately the

upper classes do not contrive always to effect. At
any rate, Halton has set an example which may
well be followed, and other counties may, with ad-
vantage, rival that of Buckingham in exhibiting
specimens of their excellence, and showing signs of
improvement, which are alike important and inte-
resting to dwell upon.

LATEST INTELL LGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION-DEATH
OF KING THEODORE'S WIDOW.

HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
ATTEGERAT, May 22.

Sir Robert Napier and the rear column arrived
here to-day, and will reach Senafe on the 24th inst.
The widow of King Theodore died of consump-
tio❑ in the British camp on the 15th May.
Five regiments and two batteries of artillery have
already embarked at Zoulla.
SCEZ, June 1, 6 p.m.

Colonel Milward arrived here to-day with de-
spatches and presents for the Queen from the army.
The captives and a portion of the troops are ex-
pected in a few days.

SPAIN.

MADRID, June 1 (Evening).

The official Gazette of this morning publishes a
royal decree authorising the Minister of the Colo-
nies to accept the proposals of a company to lay
telegraphic cables between Cuba, Porto Rico, the
Mexican coast, and Panama.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, June 1 (Evening).

The Chamber of Peers was constituted to-day as
a tribunal of justice to arrange the preliminaries
for the trial of Count Peniche for treason.

Troops continue to scour the country near
Torres-Vedras, but no further tumults have oc-
curred.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLES, Juno 2.

The Messagerics Imperiales steamer Peluse, with
the above mails, arrived here at 10 a.m. to-day.
Her advises are from Shanghai to 22d April, and
Hong Kong to 27th.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, June 1.

The negotiations between the Viceroy and
Messrs. Oppenhein and Nephew for a loan of
£6,000,000 to convert the floating debt of Egypt
have just been concluded. One of the conditions
of the loan is that the Viceroy shall not make
another loan for five years.

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY, June 1.

The Emperor has returned, andthe Prince haa departed.
These are almost the only items of news to-day. The Pays
certainly asserts that three men have been arrested at
Rouen for conspiring against the life of the Emperor. This
is entirely new: if it be true, the Pays, "Journal de
l'Empire," has contrived to keep the matter to itself,
for none of the other journals that I have seen—
and I have turned over a pretty large number of them—
has a word about this. Of the Imperial visit to
the Norman capital there is abundant information.
The Emperor and the Empress were to have left the
station in the Rue d'Amsterdam at eleven o'clock, but
being detained by the length of the service (it was Whit-
Sunday), they were a quarter of an hour late. However,
the engine-driver made up for lost time, and reached
Rouen by the appointed hour, 1.25 p.m., stopping at
Vernon and Saint-Pierre-Louviers on the way. At Rouen
station their Majesties were received by the official nota-
bilities of the place, and in the waiting-room the mayor
presented an address and the keys of the ancient city.
In spite of the jeremiads of ii. Ponyer-Quertier,
who is deputy for Rouen, the mayor assured the Em-
peror that the trade of the city owed much to him, and
that the people desired to express their gratitude and
unalterable loyalty. To the Empress, the mayor said
that her presence " embellishes every fOte, completes the
happiness of the people in their hours of prosperity,
and consoles and relieves them in their days of affliction."
(The italics are mine.) The Emperor replied by express.
ing the sympathy of the Empress and himself with the in-
dustrial and agricultural population of the department. "We
have," he said," pitidd the sufferings which have been borne
with courage, and we have applauded the efforts which you
have made to diminish their effects. You know well that I
have at heart the prosperity of this city. I will forward
with all my power the measures which should increase its
development. Now that the bad days aro passed, I hope
that a favourable era will open for the agriculture and the
industry of this rich province." Their Majesties then
drove from the station to the cathedral amid an enormous
crowd which seemed to have been gathered from
every part of Normandy. The Emperor, who was
dressed in black coat and white waistcoat, and wore
the broad ribbon of the Legion of Honour, looked dull,
dispirited, and weary. He leaned upon his stick in the
Lack of the carriage, and rarely raised his hat. The
Empress, in a mauve silk dress, and petticoat of muslin
and white lace, and mauve bonnet with a lilac flower, and
a green parasol, kept smiling and bowing every minute as
if to do away with the bad effect produced by her hus-
bend's gloom. The Cardinal-Archbishop Bonnechose, sur-
rounded by his clergy, received their Majesties at the
entrance to the cathedral, and when the latter had taken
their places under the dais, the Cardinal read them an
address, which was very historical, and referred, among
other things, to the fact that the heart of Richard Coeur de
Lion lay beneath the place where the Emperor was
standing. Adverting then to the Church festival, he ex-
pressed the wish that the gifts of the Holy Spirit might
be poured upon the Imperial family, and he invited them
to offer their supplications within that venerable house of
prayer. The Emperor replied : "It is never without pro-
found emotion that the Empress and I enter these ancient
basilicas, where so many illustrious heads have bent, and
where every day the faithful find support and consolation.
The Church is the sanctuary where are maintained intact
the great principles of Christian morality which raise men
above material interests. (This, of course was a reference
to the recent debate in the Senate.) Let us, then, ally the
faith of our fathers to the sentiment of progress, and never
separate the love of God from the love of country. It is
thus that we shall be least unworthy cf the divine protec-
tion, and that we shall march with head erect in the path
of duty over all obstacles." A "Te Deum " was then
chanted. After the service their Majesties visited the
Horticultural Gardens and the Horse Show. They then
went to the Grand Pavilion and received the religious,
civil, and military authorities, and the Emperor gave the
prize of honour to a farmer who, by his excellent farming,
had succeeded in obtaining 1,200 fr. per hectare (about £l9
per acre) in twelve years. Several persons then received
the Cross of the Legion of Honourifrom the Emperor.
The Imperial visitors left Rouen at 4.40, having been just
three hours and a quarter in the city, and reached Paris a
little before seven.

The Emperor may well look weary just now. There is
no doubt that he is working very hard for a man who
has passed his grand climacteric. Every day he has long
interviews with Marshal Niel, the Minister of War, and
of course this fact is not lost sight of by the vigilant
watchers of every symptom of war. On the other hand,
the rumour is very general that the elections will take
place this autumn. This would imply that at all events
there will be no war this year.

La Lantcrne, M. Rochcfort's new paper, is likely to be a
success. The witty editor has made a great hit by
declaring his devotion to the Bonaparte dynasty, and
adding that his special admiration was for Napoleon 11.
Of course that sovereign reigned, says M. Rochefort,
for is-not our present Chef de l'Etat Napoleon III.? And
what a happy reign it was. I can find no traces of any
wars- or foreign expeditions costing milliards, nor enor-
mous taxation, nor heavy loans. Napoleon 11. is my man.
This joke will last, you may be sure, and it is one that
the Government cannot resent, but must not the less
wince nuclei-.
Another journal is to be started here, of which great
things are said. It is to be called the Universel, and
will be Liberal without being invariably Oppo•
.itionist. Jauret, who was for six years on
the r esse, will connect himself with it. There is also
to be a new weekly paper, the Revue Politique, which will
take the place of, and I hope be more successful than the
defunct Revue Nationale. Its first number is to appear on
Saturday, and its literary staff comprises a large number
of well-known men.
A curious trial comes off to-morrow before the Imperial
Court, at INletz. Some time ago a chateau in the Ardennes
was purchased for the Prince of Orange, son of the King
of Holland. He now refuses to pay for it, and the vendor
has brought an action to recover the amount. The Prince
has retained M. Jules Favre.
There has just been another groat picture sale, at which
some high prices were given. The works were chiefly of
the Flemish and Dutch schools. The highest sum was
£1,640 for a Van der Heyden ; a Gabriel Metsu fetched
£BOO.
A Parisian, M. Adrien Scholl by name, has just been
fortunate enough to become the possessor of the person
(and purse) of Miss Irene Perkins, daughter of the great
brewer.
The Paris papers, in announcing this fact, men-
tion an incident for which they must be responsible. They
say that in the year 1822 there was a certain huge vat
in Mr. Perkins's brewery, the beer of which had such
delicious bouquet that everybody was asking for it, and
the vat which should have lasted a month became emptied
in a fortnight. When empty, the secret of this fine
flavour was discovered. At the bottom of the vat was a
dead negro, who had committed suicide in a fit of disap-
pointed love. " There are still," says the Petite Presse,
" thirsty souls in the Strand who speak of the negro
beer' with an air of sadness. Bordelais (the people of
Bordeaux) gossiping about the comet' wine could not
assume a more melancholy air." I suppose that now-
a-days there is more spirit than body in English beer.

The Pays asserts that three men have been arrested at
Rouen on a charge of conspiring against the Emperor
Napoleon's life. The Pays is not a trustworthy authority
on most matters, but being devotedly Imperialist, and
calling itself par cxedience "Journal de l'Empire," it is
scarcely likely to have spread a report of this kind with-
out some foundation. The Constitutionnel, however,
denies the statement.
The Liberte says that on the arrival of the Cretan depu-
ties at Athens, the French and English consuls with one
consent addressed energetic representations to the
Government of King George, advising it to refuse entry
into his Parliament to deputies come from a country
under the rule of the Sultan of Turkey. Taking this
advice into consideration, the Greek Government had the
prudence to elude the demands of the Cretan deputies,
who consequently have not entered the Greek Parlia-
ment.

Although the morning papers still continue to receive
letters from their special correspondents in Abyssinia,
the interest in the campaign is gradually dying away.
When the stock subject of the weather is considered to be of
such importance as to have more than a column devoted to
it, it may be taken for granted that no stirring incidents
are occurring on "the march" to deserve attention. All the
communications bear evidence of being " padded," and
the sage remark of the representative of the licraid—that
he is sure the British public must be getting heartily sick
of Abyssinia will be agreed to without a murmur. When
"specials" have nothing to chronicle but the prico of a
bottle of Lrandyand a box of matches,it is evident that the
" sound of strife" has disappeared.

Burying alive in India does not appear to be altogether
an extinct crime. Lepers weary of life now resort to this
means of getting out of the world. The Friend of India,
in mentioning the matter, calls attention to the difficulty
of pre-enting the practice. Vain are the threats of death
or imprisonment to those assisting at the ceremony, for,
seeing that the offenders are lepers, death would in many
cases be welcome, and they know that no prince would in-
troduce them into his prisons. Therefore, the practice is
unfortunately increasing, though happily but slowly. The
list for six years contains less than twelve cases. Our in-
formant suggests that lizArettos • should be erected, in
which the affiicted en a' ures would get Mlle kin sl 9/ §y9ltß
and comaritiv; combit

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE.

The Victoria and Albert, Royal yacht, Captain
his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, left
Portsmouth yesterday for the Baltic.
Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley, Commander-in-Chief
at Portsmouth, shifted his flag yesterday from the
Victory to the Fire Queen, Staff Commander Paul,
and proceeded to the Channel Islands (calling at
Portland) on his annual inspection. During the
Admiral's absence the duties of the port will devolve
on Admiral Superintendent G. Wellesley.
The armour-plated steamship Bellerophon, Capt.
Macdonald, flagship of Rear-Admiral Ryder, second
in command of the Channel squadron, went out of
Portsmouth harbour on Saturday and anchored at
Spithead. Yesterday she received her powder and
shell, and will leave this morning for Portland,
where she will remain a few days before proceeding
to Ireland to join the Channel sylaclrop.
The screw steamship London, Capt. W. G. Hall,
R.N.R., arrived at Spithead on Saturday night
from Gibraltar, with 67 military invalids and time-
expired men from various regiments, also 11 sol-
diers' wives and 13 children, under the command
of Lieut. Innett, R.A., and in medical charge of
Staff Assist.-Surgeon Nash. The invalids were re-
moved to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, and
the time-expired men disembarked at the dockyard,
to be forwarded to their respective depots. There
were also 30 passengers who proceeded to Loudon
in the ship.
The Terrible, paddlewheel steamer, went out of
Portsmouth harbouryesterday morning and anchored
at Spithead. She exchanged salutes with the Vic-
tory, flagship of Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley.

The 97th Regiment, under the command of Col.
Gloster, left Portsmouth yesterday morning for
Farnborough, en route to Aldershot. They will be
relieved by the 67th Regiment, Col. Thomas, from
Ireland.

The officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers
at head-quarters, Chatham, have commenced their
summer course of out-door instruction in field tele-
graphy, under the direction of Captain It. H.
Stotherd, principal instructor in telegraphy at the
Royal Engineer establishment. Yesterday the
Royal Engineers were engaged in practising the
new system of military telegraphy for field ser-
vice, by means of which lines of telegraph can
be carried over a space several miles in length
in a very brief time. In order to facilitate
the operations two large waggons have been spe-
cially Constructed to accompany the field force, con-
taining the whole of the material and equipment
for laying down a line of telegraph and for carry-
ing on telegraphic operations from headquarters or
to the base of operations. In one of the waggons
are conveyed the whole of the batteries and appa-
ratus for communicating by telegraph, while the
second waggon is filled with several miles'length
of wire, together with telegraph posts, tools, and
other appliances to enable the sappers accom-
panying the working party to run out and fix
the wires wherever it may be found necessary to
lay down the lines. Each waggon carries a com-
plete equipment for laying down and immediately
working a line of telegraph from four miles to six
miles in length. The result of the operations which
have already been made at Chatham show that no
difficulties whatever exist, but such as can be
promptly surmounted, in laying a line of telegraph
wherever required by an army in the field.
Yesterday Major-Gen. F. Murray, commanding
the division at Chatham, inspected the detachments
of Royal Engineers and the 29th Regiment, under
orders to embark for Canada, on the general parade-
ground at Chatham Barracks. The troops will
leave the garrison to-morrow and embark at Liver-
pool on board the mail steamer Moravian.
Yesterday No. 2 Battery 17th Brigade Royal
Artillery, numbering about 100 non-commissioned
officers and gunners, with four officers, arrived at
Gravesend from Hull, and proceeded to Dover,
where the battery is ordered to be stationed.
An order has been received at Chatham garrison
directing quarters and stabling to be provided in
the North-square, Brompton Barracks, for four
officers, 100 non-commissioned officers and men,
arid 70 horses of B troop Royal Engineer Train,
which will arrive at head-quarters on Friday, from
Aldershott, for the purpose of going into summer
quarters. The dismounted portion of the troop,
with the women and children, will arrive at the
garrison to-day.

The C and D Batteries, 11th Brigade, Royal
Artillery, are under orders to proceed to Aldershot
to-morrow, under the command respectively of
Capt. the Hon. L. Addington and Lieut.-Colonel
Ingilby. The C Battery arrived at the Royal Ar-
tillery Barracks this day from Shorncliffe, en route
to their destination ; a troop of the Military Train
is also under orders to leave the garrison for Alder-
shott.

Yesterday morning the 3d Hussars left Houns-
low Barracks, en route for Chichester. The regi-
ment was conveyed by special train, which quitted
the Hounslow station of the London and South-
Western Company's loop line at 10.43 a.m., and
proceeded, via Clapham Junction and the Brighton
line, to Chichester.

A detachment of the 17th Lancers arrived at
the Waterloo station of the London and South-
Western line from Brighton yesterday morning,
and left London in order to take posses-
sion of Hounslow Barracks, just vacated by
the 3d liussars. The main strength of
the regiment, which is commanded by Colonel
Lowe, quitted Brighton shortly after seven o'clock,
and are on the march by road for Woolwich, where
the troopers will remain till Hounslow Barracks
are ready for them. Till then the regiment will be
stationed in detachments at Woolwich, Kensington,
and Hampton Court.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Staff-Commander Chas. Bow-
den, additional, to the Indus ; Staff-Commander
George B. F. Swain to the Medusa, in command ;
Staff-Commander Benjamin B. Stuart to the Indus,
for the Black Prince ; Lieut, John W. Jones to
the Rapid ; and Lieut. Philip W. Mayow, to the
Eclipse.

THE PROPOSED VOLUNTEER REVIEW
IN WINDSOR PARK.

The following notice bas been issued from the
War Office :

" Her Majesty the Queen having fixed the 20th
instant for the review of volunteers in Windsor
Park, commanding officers of corps which .are de-
sirous of being present on the occasion are reminded
that their applications for permission to attend the
review must, if not already made, be transmitted
through the lords-lieutenant of their respective
counties in sufficient time to admit of the receipt of
the applications at this office on or before Monday,
the Bth inst., after which date no further applica-
tions will be received.

" The troops will be formed on the review ground
at four p.m.
"Further icstructions will be issued when the
number of volunteers intending to be present has
been ascertained.
" War Office, June 1."

Brorsen's Comet, which is one of the few whose
path is eliptical, and which consequently returns at
fixed intervals, in the present rise of five years and
a half, had been lost sight of for some time, but
has quite recently been re-discovered by M. Tempel
at Marseilles, M. Schmidt at Athens, and M.
Bruhns at Berlin. The latter has even published
an ephemeris of its path.
A popular edition of the translation of Dante by
Philalethes (King John of Saxony) has just ap-
peared at Dresden.
EMIGRATION FROM THE MERSEY.— The monthly
return prepared by the Government Emigratio❑ agents at
Liverpool shows thit (11.164; May the tt.tid number of
ships sailing under the Act was—to the United States, 24
ships with 11,032 passengers; and 8 to Canada with 4;937
passengers ; total, 32 ships and 18,969 passengers, of whom
613 were in cabins and tha remainder steerage. The
steerage passengers consisted of 4,310 English, F,62 Scotch,
3,190 Irish, and 11,107 foreigners. In addition to these
there were 18 " short" ships, conveying 779 passengers, of
which 8 ships with 603 passengers were for the United
States, and 3 with 103 passengers to Victoria. The total
emigration for the month was, therefore, 19,743 persons
against 17,861 in May, 1867, being an increase of 1,884.

7al
timfiat

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, May 30.

The Queen walked out in the morning, accom-
panied by Princess Louise; and her Majesty drove
out in the afternoon, with Princess Louise and
Prince Leopold.

The Duchess of Athole and Miss Macgregor were
in attendance.

Ills Royal Highnes3 the Prince of \Vales rode
out yesterday forenoon, attended by Major Tees-
dale.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, ac-
complied by the Crown Prince of Denmark.

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Keith Johnston, by right of his two great master-
pieces, " The Royal Atlas" and " The Physical
Atlas," has assumed an authority and a position
among the geographers of the present century
in which, if he be not actually unrivalled,
he is most certainly nowhere surpassed. The
title selected by him for his present volume
has about it an especial significance. For,
the work is, in point of fact, as that title inti-
mates, The Royal Atlas in a Handy form. It is the
larger and costlier work, produced at a more mode-
rate charge and within more reasonable dimensions.
The advantages accruing from that reduction, both
in size and price, are, as a matter of course, obvious
upon the instant. But, to refer simply to those
arising out of the fact of the book being handier,
any one without previously handling the book can
appreciate at once how great a facilitation the modi-
fication in size must insure, where frequent reference
happens to be the rule, happens in fact to be a thing
unavoidable. To the tutor and the pupil teacher
" The Handy Royal Atlas " must necessarily be—
not conventionally, but necessarily—regarded as
one of those three things so often spoken of, but so
seldom found mentioned anywhere in plain Eng-
lish—a ne plus ultra, a vale mecum, and a deside-
ratum. Here, in effect, they are, all three of them,
combined, and combined, too, in a wonderful man-
ner. For, without being cramped or entangled in
any way, each map, so far as the scale permits,
includes within it many of the distinguishing
excellences hitherto to be found only in its
costlier and bulkier prototype. Upon that
prototype, that is upon the " Royal Atlas," the
" Handy Royal Atlas" is, as its title indicates, di-
rectly and avowedly based. As a substitute for that
larger and nobler volume, the work under notice is
not merely what it alone assumes to be —that is to
say " valuable"—it is invaluable. The care taken
even in the mechanical getting of it up, is something
remarkable. The printing of each individual map,
all through the forty-five pages, is in the clearness
of it really beautiful. And, after the printing has
thus been seen to with admirable manipulative
dexterity, the maps have been, one after another,
daintily and delicately touched along the outlines
by the camel hair-brush of the colorist. It is a treat
to turn to any of ttie pages—it matters nothing
which of these may be selected, for you can open
the book hap-hazard with perfect confidence—and
minutely examine them upon any point, upon any
particular. For the compacting and selecting of
the information contained in it, the book is really a
marvel, and though The Royal Atlas is so vastly
its superior in its dimensions, as well as very much
more costly in its price, The Handy Royal Atlas can
hold its own in any comparison that may be insti-
tuted between itself and its otherwise more im-
portant prototype in respect to accuracy, precision,
authenticity, and distinctness. For portability, or,
in other words, Handiness, it is superior to the
larger work beyond all comparison.

A supply of the Remington breech-loaders has
been distributed to the Pontifical troops.
On Monday the Count de Girgenti and his bride,
the Princess of the Asturias, was presented by the
King of Naples to the Pope. They will remain at
Rome for the festival of Corpus Chr;sti.

On the festival of St. Philip Neri, the patron of
Rome, the Pope went to the church bearing the
saint's name. The Holy Father was attended in
his carriage by Cardinals Borromeo and Monaco de
Lavalette, and preceded by Monsignor Persinelli,
the Pontifical cross-bearer, on a white mule and
riding bareheaded.
The Rev. J. D. Massingham, LL.B., incumbent
of St. Paul's, Warrington, has been lecturing the
members of the Blackburn Church Institute on the
proposed disestablishment of the Irish Church. la
the course of his remarks he said Mr. Gladstone, be
believed, was actuated in the course he had taken by
two motives ; the first was revenge, and the second
was a desire to get back to pay and place. The
other day he astonished a gentleman by classing
Mr. Gladstone with the Todmorden murderer, in aa
far as they both acted from the feeling of revenge.
There was, however, this difference; they could hang
the man for murder, but they could not hang the
man who sought to disestablish and plunder the
Church, and he held that hanging was too good for
the man who proposed to do that.
A monument from the hand of the sculptor
Molin is going to be erected at Stockholm to the
memory of King Charles XII. The inauguration
is to take place on the 30th November next, the
150th anniversary of the monarch's death.
M. Leon de Rosny, Professor of Oriental lan-
guages in the Imperial School, Paris, is appointed
to the chair of Japanese just established.
The Sultan of Turkey has just ordered to be nl3-
nufactured in Paris a silver table, the price of which
will not be less than three millions of francs.
The great cattle market at La Villette, Paris, i 5
provided with sheds large enough to accommodate
4,600 oxen, 2,500 calves, 23,000 sheep, and 4,000
pigs. Taking the whole of France the consumption
of meat is on the increase. In Paris, during the
last five years, there has been an augmentation cif
about six kilog. per head and per annum, the
average being stated at 77 kilog. in 1866.
The Queen has just presented the public library
of Malta with two copies of the " Early Years °l
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,' 3°a
" Leaves from the Journal of Oar Life in the
Highlands," each bearing her Majesty's autograFh
signature. The gift was accompanied by a ::
spatch from his Grace the Secretary of State
the Colonies to his Excellency the Governor, trastl
v_
initting, by com.nand of her Majesty, the t
works, and expressing the Queen's desire tn'
o,
these books may be placed in the public library
Valetta.
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miles. Upwards of (30 tons of pearl oystelrs
owle:r
fished up in December last, and sold for i
ton. Sir Jobil
Lord Clermont is editing the works of 111 of
Fortescue, and writing a history of the faintly
Fortescue. Ile offers £5O for authentic inforw,
chequer that 13ourne Willis says was
tion of the picture of the old ChancelolorldofwVi:l