Year: 1867

ceiving good supply of pennies


Another subject of excitement has been the victory
OF the government on Thursday night and the stu
atl0n OF the Liberal party which has become very
se10ns. This is the most disastrous defeat which
the Liberals have sustained for MANY years. The
Notedecided: THAT the compound Oecupiers, that's
the ratepayers whose rates paid through the me-
dunn of their landlords, shall not be enfranchised
The number who if treated like others who pay the
same money, but pay il directly, would be enfran-
chised, half of whom are now left out is nearly
10000 And 2-Ihe vote decided that there
piers of over ten pounds, quarter of whom
have hitherto voted, but now cannot; 1t was
q notable feature of the discussion which preceded
TINS dIylslon; that all the arguments were on one one
side. Mr.. Mill showed in forcbe speech, that the
clause invited wholesale bribery, and Mr. Gladstone,


In the abes speech he has made this session. showed
that 1t made every landlord in England necessarily
hostile to putting his tenants on the register, which
would be taking lucrative contract from him. The
Government did not pretend to answer these POSI-
tons They simply went about in the lobbles, whs-
perlng In the ears of the timd the paralyzng word
dissolution" and the Commons was once more
brlbed and frightened into carrying measure which
all felt to be thoroughly wrong and bad. Ii can
not be longer disguised that Mr.. Gladstone has
shown himself incompetent to lead the Liberal
party. He began the session by sitting on the
fence, and it has cut him in two The whole mat
ter is very simple The House of Commons is to
two-an outside and an inside one. The inside one ~
formed of desire to do something about reform, q
desire TO end agitation, and above all not to incur
the risk and expense of another election. The other
influence is the resolution and enthusiasm OF the
people The inside influence Disraeli is now using
with the utmost deXterity. The outside one, which
could alone check him. Gladstone fears TO use. When
the Tory Ministry brought in the bill containing the
words household suffrage" in IT, any adequate LIB
eTa leader would have at seen that the country
would never rally about any measure short OF that,
and he would at once have raised the
banner of household suffrage pure and sim
pie free from the restrictions with which
the Tories have surrounded it, Instead of that, MIR.
Gladstone is seized with fear of introducing the
lower househOlders, and talks about tive-pOund
franchise
to this and so Disraeli is walking the field. Ever
since the defeat of Thursday Mr. Ga stone has shown
sign of being able TO advance to the platform from
which the Government can alone be fought. Inc
RefOmers in the country have, however, perceived
the danger and have, within the last two days, been
IN consultation, with important results. They have,
apparently In concert resolved TO reserve for the mo-
ment their views in favor of Manhood Suffrage, which
they is not on the cards at present and TO put
forth unanimously household suffrage" as their


immediate practical AIM 1t is now plain that, unless
Mr. Gladstone is able to advance to this point and
lead the people, he must cease to be the Liberal
leader. 1t is true that his resignation would be fol
lowed by temporary confusion; but his remaining rs
the guarantee of chronic failure. Ii will be decided
within a week whether he is at once TO take n for
ward step toward Tadicalism, TO pass out of the
ranks. If he can advance with the country the Re
form BILL even after being carefully dressed may
be thrown out Of the window instead of eaten. At
present he and his adherentS are so nearly on the
same level with the Conservatives that the people
don't care which succeeds.


The Conference which is sitting at DOwnng-st. to
adjust the Luxembourg affair is not composed OF per
sOnages sufficiently eminent to create much sensation
in society. Unfortunately they have not brought
their fine coaches with them and the London mob
cannot afford to attend to people who visit Downing
ST. III cabs. The satisfaction with which Lord Stan
leys announcement that the Luxembourg difficulty
has been adjusted on the terms of the tIaZation
of the fortress is marred by universal misgiviag
concerning the guarantees which Europe linclud
ing England have given, that the naturalization will
be preserved These guarantees" are thus far, of
cOurse--beng the pivot of the whole matter-kept in
mystery. The question which everybody vany asks
England agreed "a
burg in case hereafter France decides TO 60 in and
occupy that placei The declaration of Prussia, that
nothing short of snch guarantee should induce her
10 evacuate LuXemburg, was most emphatic. And
the many recent Instances III which strong nations
on the continent have dsIegarded such treaties and
guarantees make the people here nervous / find that
there il growing belief among shrewd politicians
herethat this whole LuXemburg affair sa roundabout
and tactical way of giving LuXemburg TO France
Such as Karl Blind, for example, declare
they have reason 10 believe that Bismarck had
before the late German war, made TO the French En-
perOr certain promises of territorial concession, which
the sentiment of Germany did not permit hlln TO
fulfil; that he subsequently agreed with Napoleon to
compromise by giving Luxclnburg; that the state OF
feeling in Germany made theatrical show OF Teluct
and opposition but that after Prussia has gone
out France will quietly occupy Luxemburg, in which
Bismarck Will do no more than accuse Europe Of
bad faith i'll not defending its own arrangement.
do not vouch for this beyond saying that some
sagacious politicians here believe that this is tho
little game which is being planned over the dipo-
matte table in DOwningst.


The Royal Academy of Paintings was opened this





on this occasion to sit down TO dlnner-wlnch ls
served in the hall where the chief pictures hung
at abont o'clock so that the daylight shall depart
just abOnt the time when the dining is over. The
shadows of evening are around the company as the
chairman rises to propose the first health which, IN
every English gathering, Is TO the Queen. As he
utteTs the name of the Queen the gas is suddenly
turned on and the roof becomes blaze of light, the
pictures glowing under 1t with wonderful
beauty. The chief and largest picture this year
is one of the Queen by Sir +. Landseer, which
makes artists blush and the crowd laugh Surely, no
sane woman could ever have had such painting of
herself made, much less hung in the most conspicu-
place Of great exhibition. She is soon to leave
Oft the mourning costume it is said and recently
saw splendid lilac silk which Messrs Taylor ~
Stokes ordered TO make for her, and which is
in the Paris Exhibition. But, as a last gasp of
grief, she commanded Sir f. Landseer TO make por-
trait OF her representing mOurnfulness hitherto
unriyaled. pony black as midnight was pro-
cured; next two jee-black little dogs. She is
i'll front of Osborne Palace. Near the iorefcet
Of the pony, one of the jet dogs is rcchr@. the
other sits upright on his tail. John Br, tho
SeeH So ueS aks in T@o% prO


from head to foot, broken only by the CLEAN
white legs, and stands holding the horse Win "c
Queen Of course in rayess black sits reading
letters. She has thrown TO the groom her black
gloves and near them are a dozen black edged en-
velOpes of the letters she has been reading. This
drama OF backness and the gross afectation OF the
picture throughout exctes and can excite only rdi-
cue Sir L. Landseer has painted the horse and dogs
well, but he cannot paint human being, and as for
the landscape, every tree looks as II 1t had
come from Dutch tOy-shop warranted to stand up
straight on its plank pedestal The Exhibition II
very good the whole. 1t is observable that, ~
though the English artists distinguished for la
scapes. there are are only two three landscapes
this Exhibition. The presence of immense portrait
of titled people that are OF no Importance except to
themselves, and to whose looks it would require
sometimes the genius of DR.. Holmes to do justice, is
getting to be nuisance. Ii is pleasant TO see that
good portrait of man who has done something Eli
hu Burritt, who is thrust far up but why should
those charming little works, which genius and toll
have been spent. be thrust TO the ceiling to make