LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 222, 14 February 1861, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Resident Magistrate’s Court. —The following debt cases have been decided since our last report. Jan. 28. Joseph Jones v. Wm. 7/enwood, <£2 16s. 6d., judgment for £2. Allison Walker v. John Martin. ,£3 75., judgment for £i 3s. Daniel Hughes v. John Martin, £7, >judgment for £5 16s. Feb. I. Pehira Taupari was fined £1 10s. for stealing a Militia man’s Cap. He pleaded in extenuation that he was the worse of liquor, and. was fined four times the value of the cap.

Pifle Shooting Match —A match be tween No. 1 and 2 Companies of Volunteers! was fired on Saturday last, for ‘the choice ofl the 50 new. Hides lately sent here from.Auck-

land. The weather was most- propitious, the wind being but slight, and during t ie gi<■*; part of the time the sun not too bng it. a very close contest, Mo. 1 Co. prove \ic torious by 6 points. The shooting was con ducted as follows—two rounds at 20 ya.i s, and three rounds at 300 yards. The scoie o No. 1 was 13 centres find 56 onters,. 82 point* in all; the average, therefore, was of hits 3 per man, and of points 3.13 per man. Ihe following made the best scores : W. T. Owen, 6 points ; John Cummings, 6 points; Captain Deighton, 5 points; Sergt. Parkes, 5 points ; T. Scowen, 5 points ; H. I. Jones, 5 points ; D. i/urley,. 5 points ; R- Pay, 5 points ; J. Lockett, 5 points. No. 2 Co. made 60 hits 3 bull’s eyes,. 10 centres, 47 outers, thus scoring 82, and averaging 3'.3. on the points, and 3 on the hits per man. Their best scores were, J. \V. Armstrong, 6 points; D. Smith, 6 pts.; IV. Aiken, 5 points; J. Mailman, 5 points. The average of the two companies was nearly 3 points per man. This bears very excellent comparison with the shooting of the Auckland Volunteers, Nov. 1860, for prizes given- by the townspeople, their average of hits being 4.14, and of points 5.47 out of 8 rounds, fired at 100, 200, 300, and 400 yards, two shots at each distance. If our townsmen persevere, Wanganui will not be so much in the background jat tile great match on the Queen’s birthday. Their great difficulty at present is the want of ammunition; for although the government has promised them 120 rounds per man, and as much more as they choose to buy at a reduced rate, there is none hers yet which is available for these purposes. We are glad to say that the rifles shot for on Saturday have fully realised the expectations of the victors. They are made by Hollis and Sheath, London, and their accuracy lias been tested and proved by many of No. 1 Co. The Wangaehtj. —The Wellington mail did not arrive yesterday till 8 p.m., in consequence of a heavy flood in the Wangaehu which carried away 150 ft. of the south end of the bridge. The river rose very rapidly yesterday morning between six and. seven o’clock, bringing down large masses of ice and snow, and a great quantity of heavy timber. At seven o’clock the bridge gave way, and in about two hours afterwards the river had returned nearly to its usual channel, leaving hundreds of tons of mingled snow, ice, and clay stranded on the hanks. .During the whole of yesterday the floaling masses of this kind made communication impossible ; but late in the afternoon, through the exertions of Mr. Booth of Putiki, the mail was brought across. It is supposed that a landslip or avalanche at Rua-peho or. Tongariro may have been the cause of this-unprecedented occurrence. Mr. Woodward and Mr. Hogg, 'the-Provincial Engineer, who are here at present, are making arrangements for the repairs of the bridge. Approaches are meanwhile being cut to the river for horses and drays, and a native has been engaged to cross foot passengers in a canoe. • Sale at Turaicina. —Messrs. Taylor, Watt and Co. bad a Sale at Turakiua on Thursday last, which was numerously attended ; but as there were no fat cattle brought forward the bidding was not very spirited. There were sold 61 steers at £2 ICL. to .£3 10s., the average being £3 Bs. 6d.; 3 2 heifers at £1 15s. 6d. to £4; averaging £2 9s. 6d., and 34 cows at £3 to £4, average £3. 6s.a horse and cart brought £45, a gelding £27 155., and a year colt £l4. There was a lot of grass seed sold at 3d. per lb.

ENGLAND. Inauguration of the Liverpool Free Library and Museum. —The noble building erected at Liverpool, at the cost of Mr. William Brown,, for the purposes of a free Museum and Library, was on the 18th October formally presented by that gentleman to the corporation, as the representatives of the inhabitants of the borough, and was by liiim declared to be open. The day was kept as a. public holiday. All shops, banks, and markets were closed, and the shipping in the docks were dressed;in-their smartest colours. A grand banquet took place in St. George’s ILill; and. Lord Brougham,. Lord Stanley., and Mr. Win, Brown, took part in the proceedings. Seven-years ago (says the Manchester Guardian. >) Mr. William Brown, came forward with the offer of a, sum.* of .50000 for the purpose of housing the literary property of Liverpool in a becoming manner, if the Council would provide a site. A. considerable delay having ensued without the final acceptance of this proposal, the generous donor doubled his offer, on'condition that a Museum should be attached to the Libraryand, finally, announced his intention of building, the edifice opened on Thursday entirely at his own cost, and presenting it as a free gift to bis fellowtownsmen. The expense which will have been incurred in the execution of this generous resolve is estimated at scarcely less than 40,000£ (Lord Brougham inaugurated on Friday the establishment of a local society in connection with the Association for the Promotion of Social Science; and the festivities in connection with the opening of the Brown Library and ff/useum, were brought to a close by a brilliant soiree given by the Mayor of Liverpool at the Town Hall.

Chinese Education. —At the above meeting at Liverpool Sir -John Bowrning said, —II there be anything that keeps society together in the present fearful disorganisation of that country, it is the great competitive organisation for learning. Schools are open to every kind of boy ; and the children of the meanest parents often rise up to the mightiest offices, and occupy the. highest positions. 7'he man at this moment who stands at the bead of their literature, and who bears the strange name of Cliwang-Tueu, is the first'man in the empire of China,'and ;hc is the son of a petty shopkeeper,

a stationer, who lives in an obscure street i'i that very city of Ning-po. 'There is scarcely a Viceroy in China who- has not risen from the very lowest grades, for office is only attainable, according to the laws of China, by that competitive struggle through which they press towards distinction. 1 have seen 9000 students, not youths only, for there were men of seventy, eighty, and ninety—(laughter - ) —years of age—l have seen 40,000 or 50,000 persons enter the great cities of China in order to engage in this struggle. Consider what a struggleit must be in a jrovince when a province ordinarily consists-of twenty millions of human beings. The village schools are universally spread, and the cost of education is very small r so there is not a man, however mean, whodoes not join in these competitive struggles. Death of a Corunna Veteran.—-'There-died at South /Shields, last week, a man named /Tilliam Hudson, ninety-three years of age, who was formerly sergeant in 52nd regt, and who was with Sir John Moore when that gallant officer was killed at Corunna. He took the spurs off Sir John after Ids death, and was one of the six. who burn d.him.— Star and. Dial, 25tli October;

111 EL\N I) 1 . What the Irish Brigade has Cost.— The Cork Reporter, a Roman Catholic organ, publishes the following interesting statistics: — “ The quantity of meat cooked in Dublin—upon very short notice, too —by Mrs. Tanner,, for the Irish Brigade, was 16 cwt. —about £4O worth of meat—and they walked into it like bricks. The freight of the steamer Dee,, from Havre to Cork, was £1250; and finally; the total cost of the Irish brigade to the Papal Government was, we are informed, about £4o,ooo—making in all nearly £42,000 ta Rome and Ireland. The other side of. the account shows some half-dozen Sardinians shot. A poor result. But one of the brigade, who took part in the affair of Castlefidardo, declares that he certainly sent, fur his own share, half a dozen of them to the d—l with. Ins bayonet.” Queenstown and Cork are represented ashaving been almost wild w : fh delight at be--holdiug the brigade men, bnt their enthusiasm was capped by that of Dublin. Thousands of people assembled at the railway terminuswith torches, and when the Liain freighted with heroes arrived, the -carriage-doors were forced open, and the young warriors borne off in triumph on the shoulders of the populacev As in many instances they were forced away, from friends with whom they wished to speak, by their indomitable gloriliers, the picture which naturally rises to the imagination, of these demi-gods kicking and struggling like calves that refuse to leave a cattle-ship, certainly partakes considerably more of theridiculous than of the sublime. The Rev.* Cauon Pope, in a strain of somewhat Chadbandish eloquence, jubl ly welcomed the cusaders to the capital. In the name of the counthree which had so much reason to bo proud of them—(loud cheering and cries-of ■ (She is, she is’) he gave cead mile failthe to < the hayroes who had so nobly shushtained her.chanter for chivalree, fur honor, for fidelitee,.. for braveree, for religion. Me requested their lellow-citizens to look at thin) and to tell him whether they recognised thi:n. (Thrilling excitement and cries uf ‘ H'c do ; we do !’ ”) •‘ Are they ours ? ” \ rncecded' die rev. gentleman. (Cries of “ They -are; they are!’") *• Yes, furrowed though their cheeks might-be, bronzed their brows, and torn their breeches they were still true Oirishmen,” &c. &c,

The Volunteer Movement in Ireland. Viscount Massereene and Ferrard has transmitted to Mv. Richardson, the Secretary, the sum of 525 in aid of the expense hitherto incurred in promoting the movement in this country, and expresses a hope that he may be called on for a larger subscription on the establishment of the movem lit, du'r'ng the ensuing session of Parliament. Active steps are being taken to bring the matter again before the attention of the Legislature on the reassembling of Parliament. —Northern Whig.

PRINCE OF /TALES. 2’he Prince of /Tales does not seem to have ' met with that courtesy in every case which lias distinguished most of the crowds by whom . lie lias been received. The New York Yimes’ reporter says : —“ I hardly dare t.o give you faithful resume of to-day’s proceedings, so improbable will it appear. For the first time the Wince has departed from his meritorious resolve of doing nothing in violation of the ordinary observance of Sunday. After service he went with the-Mayor, the Duke of Newcastle, and General■’ Bruce to visit the Capitol. There being no police, the rude, ill-bred crowd pushed in and allowed the party, who were joined by Governor Letclmr, no privacy whatever; While examining the Houdon statue of /Washington the crowd surrounded the royal party and annoyed them beyond endurance, while they insulted them with such remarks as he (Washington) ’socked it into you at the Revolution !’ ‘lie gave you English squirts the colic ! ’ ‘ We reckon you do love /Washington—oh, certain ! ’ until young Davis, the artist, turned upon, them, and, aided by two reporters, managed to stop their insolence for a while. But as the parly walked towards the Senate Chamber the crowd, started a run, and actua'ly pusbe 1 them inside of the door. The old fashioned store, with British coat of arms, the portrait, of Jefferson, the portrait of I’hatiiain, painted for Westmoreland County, /i’nglaud, and by it given to Virginia-; the statue of Lafeyette, and Crawford’s statue of Clay, were shown and explained to the Prince, who, with the Duke, was very much interested in them all, and would have been glad to stay longer, had they not felt insulted by the mob.. I'hey walked still followed by the rule popiu-

lace, to the Governor’s house, where the i closed doors enabled them to breathe freely : and be presented to the ladies. There tiieir carriages slipped unobserved round the corner, and eluding their tormentors, the party rode back to the hotel, only to find another crowd pregnant with similar ideas of hospitality. An account of the ball given to the Prince of Wales at New York appears in the special correspondence of the 2’imes. Many exaggerated accounts of the accident, which happened to the floor, were floating about ; the writer says* “ It is quite true, however, that some thirty feet square of the floor did sink in the centre of the parterre about three feet, forming a kind of wooden pond in the veiy space set apart for such dancing as the crush permitted. The whole thing, however, though indicating a good deal of miscalculation on the part, of those in charge of the carpentering portion of the details, was, after all, more a ridiculous incident than anything else, and certainly by no means justified the ‘ sensation’ notices of it in some of the journals on the following day, in which what lam told was almost a noiseless bend was spoken of as a ‘ tremendous crash.’ For more than an hour the rough shirt sleeves and coarse jackets of the workmen were mingled with the delicate toilettes around—an amusing commentary on the anxious forethought of the committee with regard to dress. The work was done with marvellous quickness—so quick indeed, lam told, that one of the men was overlooked and nailed down under the floor. He knocked to be let out, but his request comiug at such a moment, ju3t as the floor was complete, was generally regarded as. frivolous and ill-timed. He maintained, however, such a determined knocking that his demand was at last conceded, a plank taken up, and the imprisoned artisan let out all hot and dusty, A little before nridnight the flooring was thoroughly restored anfl dancing began,” Saturday was spent by the Prince in driving about New York, and visiting various places of interest, Barn urn’s Museum among others. In the evening there was a grand torchlight procession by the firemen, who turned out to the number of nearly 6000. “All their engines (polished till they resem bled goldsmith’s work) were hung with lamps and draped all over with garlands of flowers. The ladders, and hose waggons were similarly decorated. Every man, marching in ranks and and hollow squares, wore his red tunic and helmet, each had a lighted torch in. his hand, and each brigade was p: eceeded by a fine band. As the procession came down the Fifth. Avenue it seemed, looking along the countless mass of lights, like & river of flame—a kind of narrow variegated Prairie fire, which lit up the buildings far and near with its bright glare, turning the sea of faces to a dusky red that, gave the whole scene a tremendous and indescribable aspect. Most of the engines had beautiful lime lights in front of powerful reflectors which concentrated the rays into one long pencil of brightness that was visible above everything. As the head of the column approached the royal balcony a long deafening cheer rent the air, and the companies simultaneously lit the 2?oman candles which eacli man carried, and thousands of varigated balls of fire went ■whirling up in all directions. The effect of this was really wonderful. The cloud of coloured fires in the air—the bright dancing mass of torches below, lighting up the trees and houses—the lively music of the bands, the cheering of the wh< le c-u.cmirse, and the interminable column of Same which now seemed to surround the hotei .ike a belt, dying away among the trees m the fill’ distance in a dull, foggy crowds of faces thronging out of windows and peering over lofty roofs, the waving of handkerchiefs and clapping of hands as the scene grew more brilliant and exciting every minute—all made up such a grand piciure as only New York can show on these occasions.”

The Prince left Boston on the 20th, amid enthusiastic cheeis from the citizens. Tie was accompanied by Governor Banks, and other distinguished gentlemen, for Portland, where he was received by the"" Governor of the State of Maine, the Mayor of Portland, a body of military, and the entire population. He was escorted through the streets of the oity, and finally embarked on board the British war-steamer Hero. 7'lie cannon of tjhe ships and the battery thundered, the bands played the national 'airs of Great Britain and America, the vast concourse of people shouted their adieus, and the royal squadron steamed away for England. The Prince of Wales completed his nineteenth year on Friday. Tie was born at Buckingham Palace on the 9th November. 841, and was created by patent Prince of M ales and Earl of Chester on tlj.e 4th December in the same year. LORD Z>UNDONA.I,a Lord Cochrane,, at five years of age, was entered as “captain’s teiuu.;'’ (.Jon board the Vesuvius bomb, under bis undo, //diniral Sii Alexander Cochrane, G.C.8., but did not •>f course go to sea just then. His education was sadly neglected, mainly through the premature death of his mother ,in 1784; but at length his maternal grandmother provided a tutor for ljim, of whom he says in his autobiography that he has little recollection except the tact that lie once received a stinging box tm the ear for “ asking the difference between mi interjection and a conjunction,” which t ffectually cured him of philological investigation for the future. On tba. 27tli •/une 1793 lie went as boy on board his uncle’s ship, the Hind, being then seventeen years and a half old. When he was acting Lieutenant of the Then's, his ship was engaged (in company with

the Hussar) with a French squadron of five sail, which he thoroughly defeated on the 17th May 1795. He a' f erwards served on board the Africa, the Resolution, and (again) the Thetis, and with Lord Keith’s Mediterranean squadron, p tiie Foudroyant, the Bavfleur, and the flag-s ip Queen Chailotte. After innumerable skibmishes with French ships of all sizes, we find hvm in 1800 appointed commander of the Speediy (14), and within 14 months he was the personal captor of S 3 vessels, mounting 128 guns, and carrying 533 men ! But his greatest feat in the Speedy remains to be told. He was stationed off Barcelona, and pluckily engaged a sloop of war, the El Gamo —double his own force, bearing 32 heavy guns, and having 319 men —which had been sent with other-ships to effect his capture. After a cannonade of forty-five minutes, lie ran ' alongside her, hoarded her, and carried her ' with but three killed and eight wounded of his ; own ship. For this brilliant exploit he was made, a post captain; but before the' news ’ could reach him his ship hud been captured by M. Zinois (3rd July), after so determined an exhibition of gallantry that the captain of the Dessaix, to whom he gave up his sword, im- : mediately returned it, hoping he might long i live to use it with similar courage. He was almost immediately exchanged, and returned home.

The now famous post-captain in the Royal Wavy was on shore for about a year and a half in his native country, admired, young, free. He entered himself as a student in, the University of Edinburgh, and was never once absent from the lectures. Studying at that time in Edinburgh was Zord Palmerston, who lived in the house of Dugald Stewart, and with him Lord Cochrane was intimate. Being placed in command of the Pallas, he captured, in March 1805, a /Spanish galleon, with specie on board to the extent of £150,000, and merchandise of equal value. He restored 10,000 crowns to the crew, and set them all at liberty In the following month he was off the coast of Biscay, and detached ninety men in boats to cut out a corvette of the enemy which was lying at the mouth of the Gironde, and perceiving three vessels approaching him, bearing in all sixty-four guns, he gave them chase and drove them on shore where they were wrecked. 7t is uecessary now to go back a little and refer to the endeavours of Lord Dundonald to appear in Parliament in order to attack the Admiralty. His electioneering capabilities seem to have been unique of their kind. In 180.5, he offered himself as a candidate for Honiton, but was rejected. He affirmed that the success of his opponent was obtained by bribery, and therefore assuming—with sailorlike directness but deficient logic—that all those who voted for himself had nobly refused bribes, lie directed his agent to pay every one who had voted for him the sum often guineas! Nothing can be more naive than this transaction, which astonished even his agent. He had a reason for doing it, he tells us. He wanted to make capital ffor lflm.self, and to discredit his opponents. So bis friends would say, “It be gives us ten guineas each when he loses his election, vyhat will he give if he wins next time ?•” while his opponent’s friends, who luid not received half that sum for their votes, would argue that by voting as they had done they had lost £5 10s each ! Anyhow, in the next year, the Honiton electors, Conservatives and Whigs, received Lord Cochrane with open arms. He easily got in this time, but when asked for money by those who voted for him, he said, “ Not onejfarthing: I am a reformer.’ But the bluff old sailor was no match for the veteran electioneerers, for he consented to give his friends a dinner, and the expenses came to £I2OO, he grimly says. The electors of lloniton asked him for so many places that lie was “ disgusted” with the borough, and at the general election of 1807 determined not to stand again. At the Westminster election of 1807, Lord Cochrane was returned at the head ol the poll, and his colleague was Sir F. Burdett. . In the house he made several speeches against the abuses of the Admiralty ; and the revenge of ministers, in default of argument, was to order the unpleasant opposition sailor to join Lord Collingwood's fleet in the Mediterranean, hoping that he would vacate his seat. But the electors of Rest-minster thought fit to give their representative unlimited leave of absence. In May 1806, Lord Cochrane, once more afloat, destroyed all the semaphores on the French coast, but four days after this exploit the Pallas was wrecked. Then he commanded the Imperieuse, and burned fifteen sail of vessels laden with merchandize. Under Collingwood he served at the blockade of Cadiz; on the 31st July he took the castle of Mongol, and kept the coast of Languedoc in constant alarm by his bold razzias. On his return home he joined the British Channel fleet under Lord Gauthier. His most astonishing feat was off the Basque Roads. He was ordered to attack the French fleet. He started 1500 barrels of gunpowder into puncheons, on the tops of which were placed about 350 shells charged with fusees, and amongst these were 2500 hand grenades. Lord Cochrane committed himself into a small sloop, with one lieutenant and four seamen, and ran the fireships towards the enemy’s line in blazing piles, and thoioughly discomfited the whole fleet, burning some and putting the others to flight. Is it not a noble trait in his character that, after bringing away the people from the Ville de Varsovie (one of these doomed ships) the brave, captain, when lie heard that a little dog was still left on board, declared that not even a dog should perish, rushed back, and brought the lit.l le auimal safe in his anus ? For these exploits he was made a Knight of the Bath. But now Zord Cochrane’s fortune was to desert him, and political animosity was to hunt him down.. One. day in February of 1814;

some person posted rapidly from Dover London, announcing the news of Bonaparte sj death. When the intelligence reached the Stock Exchange the funds naturally rose, and in the course of the same day two messages arrived to “ corroborate ” the false statement. •A great disturbance was the consequence of this impudent fabrication, and on June 8,1814, Lord Cochrane, M.P., Mr. Butt, M. Random de Berenger, and Mr. Cochrane Johnstone (cousin of Lord Cochrane), were tried on an indictment for circulating false news. The only fact which seemed to incriminate Lord Cochrane was, that Berenger changed his clothes at his lordship’s house on that day. However, Ldrd Cochrane was convicted, and sentenced to pay £IOOO fine, to stand in the pillory for an hour, and to be imprisoned for a year in the King’s Bench. The fine was paid by his constituents by penny subscriptions, and the £IOOO note is ■ still in the Bank of England, indorsed with Lord Cochrane’s declaration that he submitted to robbery rather than allow himself to be murdered by confinement in prison. The degradation of the pillory was remitted by Lord Castlereagh. On the sth July he wa3 expelled the house of Commons by a vote of 140 against 44 ; but on the 16th he was re-elected unanimously for the city of Westminster. At a Chapter of the Bath his insiguia were ordered to be taken from his stall in Henry Yll’s Chapel by the King-at-Mrms, and his banner was torn down and kicked under foot. He also lost his rank in the navy. He escaped from the King’s Bench on the 15th March, 1815, and proceeded to the house of Commons to take the oaths ; but while there he was captured by Mr. Jones, the warder of the prison, and taken to the strong room. On the day of his liberation he went to the house, and, by his vote on the Liberal side, prevented the grant of an additional £6OOO to the Duke of Cumberland.

In 1818 he resigned his seat in Parliament, and, having now no rank in the English navy, proceeded to Valparaiso and took command of the Chili fleet. He annihilated the commerce of /Spain, and made a successful invasion of Peru, for which the Chilian Government gave him 20,000 acres of land. His cutting out of the Emeralda in Callao harbour was referred to in the house of Commons by Sir James Macintosh (1824) in terms of the warmest praise, which were echoed from the Tory as well as the Whig side of the house. In 1823 he was made Commander-in-Chief of the Brazilian fleet, and when, in 1825, he appeared in a Brazilian ship off Spitliead, lie was enthusiastically received by his countrymen. In 1827-8 he was Commander-in-Chief of the Greek fleet off the coast of Egypt. Then lie returned to England. In 183.0 William IV., honest old sailor as he was, restored Lord Dundonald to his rank in the navy, at the earnest intercession, the Earl says, of Lady Dundonald, who fought her way through hostile antechambers, and personally sought the presence of the generous sovereign. But it was not till 1847 (22ml May) that he was restored to his rank in the Order of the Bath (G.C.8.) Lord Cochrane succeeded to the Earldom of Dundonald on the Ist of July, 1831.

Lord Dundonald has been Gazetted nine times for services to his country ; he has received the Brazilian order of the Cruzero, the Order of the Redeemer of Greece, and three Chilian decorations. He enjoyed a high reputation for his scientific attainments, and was the author of a pamphlet entitled “ Observations on Naval Affairs,” in which he inserted a summary of his naval services, and exposed several acts of injustice which lie had expe rienced in the performance of his duty. He long ago invented a projectile for blowing up and annihilating fleets, which was submitted to the Government, and it is said that it is so overwhelmingly destructive, that at the personal request of George IV. he not only abstained from using it, but pledged his honor to bis Majesty that he never would use it without the sanction of the Crown. Lord Dnndunald is known to have suggested several valuable hints for the improvement of our steam navy. During the late war in the Crimea his Lordship wrote to various members of the Government, offering to destroy Sebastopol in a few hours, with perfect security to our own forces ; but his plans, after examination by a committee, were rejected by the Government, lie married, 12th August 1812, Katherine Frances Ccrbet, daughter of Mr. 2’. Barnes, of Maiden, Essex, by whom lie has issue four sons and one daughter. His son, Lord Cochrane, who succeeds him, and is now eleventh Earl of Dundonald, is Captain in the 18th Foot, and married the daughter of Mr. W. A. Mackinnou, M.P. His daughter married, 1840, Mr. John Willis Fleming, ol Vtoneham Park, Hants. —Daily Teteyraph.

SPEECHES AT THE ZORD MAYOR’S BANQUET.

Custom has somehow assigned to the Banquet annually given by the Zord Mayor ol London on his inauguration, attended by her Majesty’s Ministers and the Ambassadors of Foreign Powers, the character of an occasion when indications of importance legarding European politics are thrown out from high quarters. The representatives of Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and the others, there can be little doubt, resolved, among themselves, and for ■qertain reasons, of their own, to signify their dissatisfaction, at. some, tilings or some people by absenting themselves in a body from a meeting at which it has been their annual custom to attend.

Tlie mere presence of the French, Minister, while his brethren stayed away, is evidence that the -feelings and relations of France towards this country are different from those of the other Towers, though they are not. all

that could be desired. His speech, too, was excellent in tone, and in the view it took of such topics as it did not carefully leave out of view. M. de Persigny spoke of the progress of commerce, and more than impliedly of free trade, as the means'by which Great Britain and France would strengthen their common interests and secure the maintenance of peace; he rebuked “the anxieties, suspicions, and mistrusts which, on every incident of policy, are generated on both sides of the Channel;” he deprecated the influence exercised by the memory of past hostilities; he proclaimed, as the “ true truth,” that “ the-two nations can mutually derive as many benefits as they could inflict injuries on themselves by war;” and finally he explained that “ that is the meaning of the great economical revolution which the .Emperor has just accomplished in France.” There may here be a little exaggeration of facts, but the argument is sound and the sentiment friendly. There is, however, no shutting of eyes to the fact that on another subject—the subject on which everybody was thinking —the French Minister said nothing at all. On that point the absence of the Austrian and other Ministers only served to give him a fairer opportunity of saying something, if he had anything which to a British audience it would have been pleasant to say. If he had been free to say that he rejoiced in the general course of events in Italy, and that France and England, though sometimes differing as to means and details, are actuated by the same principles and hope for the same results, there was nobody there to take offence, and a multitude to whom to give delight. From the fact that, in these circumstances, he said nothing on a topic which in the minds of his audience was almost everything, it must be inferred that at this moment France and England cannot on that subject speak in accord.

The same inference is almost unavoidable from the speeches of Zord Palmerston and Lord John Fussell. The Premier referred to the aspect of matters both abroad and at home, as “satisfactory;” but besides altogether avoiding the subject of Italy, he went a little bit out of his way to descant on the advantage or necessity of this country being as to armaments at least as strong as the strongest of its neighbours. The manner in which lie contrived to do this was characteristically expert—the harmony that has existed'between the British and French forces in China, where the forces of each power are equal, was made to serve as suggestion or proof that a similar pquality of power was desirable for the preservation of harmony and good understanding between neighbouring States. Passing over all questions as to the value of such an argument, tbei;e is some significance in its being chosen as a topic in such a presence, and in its being chosen to the entire exclusion of the one topic on which everybody desired and expected Zord Palmerston to speak. If lie could have said that the two countries looked on the Italian question with similar feelings, lie would doubtless have said it; but that would have been to unsay Zord John Fussell’s despatch, which described France as “eensuriug” while England is “ gratified.” The Premier therefore said nothing—which must mean, that what Zord John Bussell wrote on the 27th October unfortunately remained true on the 9th November. Lord John Bussell himself did say something obliquely referring to Italy, but it is not altogether of a pleasant or reassuring character. “We were always,” he said, “ desirous of keeping on the most friendly terms with all foreign nations whatever their form of government; we valued and respected their friendship and alliance, hut we never could vary in our attachment to that liberty which we ourselves had so long enjoyed, and in our sympathy for other nations endeavouring to obtain it.” This pretty plainly says that, though we are most desirous to be on friendly terms with France, we cannot, for the sake of her friendship, refuse our sympathy and countenance to the cause of liberty in Italy ; and when a Minister for Foreign Affairs says that we cannot do a certain thing, he means that that certain tiling lias been asked or proposed. Altogether, the manifestations afforded by the meeting of Friday are not cheerful; so far as they indicate anything, they indicate a considerable degree of distrust and uneasiness as between this country and her neighbours—under which is left us the great consolation, that this country is entirely and disinterestedly in the right, and the well-grounded hope that the right will prevail.— Scotsman.

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