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The Week.
insisted that Russia had not complied with the conditions on ivhich Poland was secured to her by the Treaty of Vienna ; but nevertheless , " neither the obligations nor the interests of England require that ive should go to war for Poland , " ancl he , therefore , thought it "unbecoming for us to rail at Russia when we were not prepared forcibly to resist aggression . " With
regard to Mexico , he pointed out the distinction between intervention for the redress of wrong and intervention for the purpose of forcing upon a people a particular form of government . France had adopted the latter form of interference in Mexico , and her Majesty ' s Government had felt it to be their duty to " part company with tho Emperor as soon as his real object was
disclosed . The noble Earl next spoke of what is now going on in what "a few years ago were the United States of America , " ¦ and at considerable length defended the policy of the Government since the outbreak of the civil war . The Duke of Aumale , who , in his exile , seeks solace in the pursuits of a cultivated English country gentleman , presided at the dinner of
the A ale of Evesham Agricultural Society , last week . In one uf his speeches his Royal Highness glanced cursorily at the leading "features " of English agriculture . One of these , he said , was peculiar to this country . When farmers met together on such occasions " they managed their own hnsiness for themselves without O-Heial superintendence ; they did not require any
. superior authority or interference , and he believed the advantages of the system were far greater than the disadvantages . Mr . Glaisher deserves great credit for the courage with which he prosecutes his important inquiries among the clouds . Ballooning is not the most comfortable way of testing scientific calculations , but Mr . Glaisher braves all the dangers attending voyages of this kind , and by this time he must have acquired all the coolness of an experienced aeronaut . He made another
ascent from Wolverhampton on Tuesday , but did not get beyond the height of three miles and a half . The balloon descended at -a point about six miles from Sleaford , and we learn from a telegram that the descent was a " very rough" one . The balloon was torn . The revenue returns for the quarter and year ended September 30 were published on Tuesday .
Although there is a net decrease of . 6189 , 479 on the quarter , the returns can hardly be considered otherwise than satisfactory ; for this decrease is mainly caused hy the loss to the customs from the reduced tea duty , and to the property-tax , hy the reduction which has been made in it . The three items of decrease are—Customs , 329 , 000 ; property-tax , £ 108 , 000 ; and
. miscellaneous , £ 102 , 479 . On excise , however , there is an increase of £ 315 , 000 ; on stamps , of £ 11 , 000 ; taxes , £ 10 , 000 ; Post-office , £ 10 , 000 ; and Crown lands , £ 1 , 000 . The total revenue for tlie quarter was £ 14 , 411 , 504 . In-the account for the year an inereasa of £ 803 , 812 is shown , the total revenue having been £ 70 , 194 , 582 against £ 69 , 035 , 540 last year .
• Sir AVm . Atherton is stated to have resigned the Attorney-Generalship on account of ill-health . He is to be succeeded In his office by Sir Eoiindell Palmar , now Solicitor-General ; and Mr . Collier ' s name Is mentioned in connection with the latter office . -Trouble has once more overtaken the Great Pastern . The great ship is declared to be perfectly sound in her hull and
machinery , but the old financial difficult y has again put a temporary stop to her career . The Director , in a report just issued , state that " the position of the Company ' s affairs is most critical , " and a meeting of the shareholders has been summoned , to choose one of two alternatives—tbe raising of additional capital , or the dissolution of the Company . At a meeting of
local shareholders in Manchester it was resolved to recommend that the leading shareholders form among themselves a neiv company for the purchase of the ship , and that all tho existing
proprietors who may desire to join the new company be invited to do so . —•—The Channel Fleet has at last left Liverpool and Lancashire Witches , who appear to have so charmed Admiral Dacres ancl his officers that they were only too ready to take advantage of the prevailing low tides , and stay a while longer in the Mersey . The squadron arrived in Dublin Bay on
Saturday morning , and the enthusiasm which has been displayed by all classes proves that Irishmen , like Englishmen , are proud of the Queen's navy . The various ships have been visited hy thousands of persons , and the officers , as representing the service to which they belong , are being feted as they were at Liverpool and other ports of the United Kingdom .
The gunboats—or "hornets" as they were playfully called —which were so hurriedly put together during the Crimean war , are rapidly disappearing from the Navy List . Eight more of these craft—which , if not rotten , are now-a-days useless except for service as despatch boats—have just been ordered to be broken up . Three six-gun steam vessels , one of which , the
Cyclops , was the first frigate-built steamer constructed for the navy , anil was once regarded with great admiration and curiosity , have also ceased to belong to the royal navy—the Admiralty having succeeded in finding a purchaser for them . There was a very interesting field day , sham fight , and evening bivouac at Hadley , near Barnet , on Saturday , under
the command of Colonel Wilkinson . Several of the well-known metropolitan corps took part in the proceedings , which throughout were well conducted , and gave complete satisfaction to every one present , whether as volunteer or as mere spectator . The Honourable Artillery Company had a field-day at the Alexandra Park on Wednesday . Although the members of the corps did not attend very numerously , the evolutions were performed in exceedingly good style . One thing was demonstrated
—that for such a review the park is admirably fitted . A lengthened investigation took place on Saturday at tho Thames Police-court into the circumstances attending the flogging of a charity boy at the Aldgate Charity School by the master . The case was clearly proved , and although the hoy seems to have been incorrigible , the punishment was held by the
magistrate to he excessive , and .. the master was fined in the full penalty of £ 5 , or in default two months' imprisonment . At the Thames Police-court a man who had been . previously before the magistrate for the same offence , and who then escaped on a technical point ) has been again brought up charged with stealing £ 22 , the money of a friendly society . The
robbery was done most audaciously , as the prisoner went the same evening to the society ' s meeting , and acknowledged taking the money , saying that he " meant to stick to it . " This time he is not likely to escape . . The prisoner who is already committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money on false pretences of the sale of an advowson has been again brought up at the
Westminster Police-court on two allegations of fraud , on both of which he was further committed . A case of horse-stealing " for a lark" has been before the Worship-street magistrate . The prisoner , on a Sunday night , was riding a horse barebacked , without bridle or halter , along the High-street , Lower Clapham , aud when stopped by a policeman he assaulted . the officer . It
appears , however , that he had really mounted the horse in a tipsy frolic , and the magistrate taking a very lenient view of the circumstances , discharged the prisoner . . Two men charged with the murder of John Meers , at Teignbridge , wore examined before the magistrates at Newton Abbot , on Monday . The principal witness against them is a boy
named Pike , a sweep . He declares that he saw the murder committed , and that one of tho men gave him a penny not to tell ; hut it is said he bears an indifferent character . There is ,
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The Week.
insisted that Russia had not complied with the conditions on ivhich Poland was secured to her by the Treaty of Vienna ; but nevertheless , " neither the obligations nor the interests of England require that ive should go to war for Poland , " ancl he , therefore , thought it "unbecoming for us to rail at Russia when we were not prepared forcibly to resist aggression . " With
regard to Mexico , he pointed out the distinction between intervention for the redress of wrong and intervention for the purpose of forcing upon a people a particular form of government . France had adopted the latter form of interference in Mexico , and her Majesty ' s Government had felt it to be their duty to " part company with tho Emperor as soon as his real object was
disclosed . The noble Earl next spoke of what is now going on in what "a few years ago were the United States of America , " ¦ and at considerable length defended the policy of the Government since the outbreak of the civil war . The Duke of Aumale , who , in his exile , seeks solace in the pursuits of a cultivated English country gentleman , presided at the dinner of
the A ale of Evesham Agricultural Society , last week . In one uf his speeches his Royal Highness glanced cursorily at the leading "features " of English agriculture . One of these , he said , was peculiar to this country . When farmers met together on such occasions " they managed their own hnsiness for themselves without O-Heial superintendence ; they did not require any
. superior authority or interference , and he believed the advantages of the system were far greater than the disadvantages . Mr . Glaisher deserves great credit for the courage with which he prosecutes his important inquiries among the clouds . Ballooning is not the most comfortable way of testing scientific calculations , but Mr . Glaisher braves all the dangers attending voyages of this kind , and by this time he must have acquired all the coolness of an experienced aeronaut . He made another
ascent from Wolverhampton on Tuesday , but did not get beyond the height of three miles and a half . The balloon descended at -a point about six miles from Sleaford , and we learn from a telegram that the descent was a " very rough" one . The balloon was torn . The revenue returns for the quarter and year ended September 30 were published on Tuesday .
Although there is a net decrease of . 6189 , 479 on the quarter , the returns can hardly be considered otherwise than satisfactory ; for this decrease is mainly caused hy the loss to the customs from the reduced tea duty , and to the property-tax , hy the reduction which has been made in it . The three items of decrease are—Customs , 329 , 000 ; property-tax , £ 108 , 000 ; and
. miscellaneous , £ 102 , 479 . On excise , however , there is an increase of £ 315 , 000 ; on stamps , of £ 11 , 000 ; taxes , £ 10 , 000 ; Post-office , £ 10 , 000 ; and Crown lands , £ 1 , 000 . The total revenue for tlie quarter was £ 14 , 411 , 504 . In-the account for the year an inereasa of £ 803 , 812 is shown , the total revenue having been £ 70 , 194 , 582 against £ 69 , 035 , 540 last year .
• Sir AVm . Atherton is stated to have resigned the Attorney-Generalship on account of ill-health . He is to be succeeded In his office by Sir Eoiindell Palmar , now Solicitor-General ; and Mr . Collier ' s name Is mentioned in connection with the latter office . -Trouble has once more overtaken the Great Pastern . The great ship is declared to be perfectly sound in her hull and
machinery , but the old financial difficult y has again put a temporary stop to her career . The Director , in a report just issued , state that " the position of the Company ' s affairs is most critical , " and a meeting of the shareholders has been summoned , to choose one of two alternatives—tbe raising of additional capital , or the dissolution of the Company . At a meeting of
local shareholders in Manchester it was resolved to recommend that the leading shareholders form among themselves a neiv company for the purchase of the ship , and that all tho existing
proprietors who may desire to join the new company be invited to do so . —•—The Channel Fleet has at last left Liverpool and Lancashire Witches , who appear to have so charmed Admiral Dacres ancl his officers that they were only too ready to take advantage of the prevailing low tides , and stay a while longer in the Mersey . The squadron arrived in Dublin Bay on
Saturday morning , and the enthusiasm which has been displayed by all classes proves that Irishmen , like Englishmen , are proud of the Queen's navy . The various ships have been visited hy thousands of persons , and the officers , as representing the service to which they belong , are being feted as they were at Liverpool and other ports of the United Kingdom .
The gunboats—or "hornets" as they were playfully called —which were so hurriedly put together during the Crimean war , are rapidly disappearing from the Navy List . Eight more of these craft—which , if not rotten , are now-a-days useless except for service as despatch boats—have just been ordered to be broken up . Three six-gun steam vessels , one of which , the
Cyclops , was the first frigate-built steamer constructed for the navy , anil was once regarded with great admiration and curiosity , have also ceased to belong to the royal navy—the Admiralty having succeeded in finding a purchaser for them . There was a very interesting field day , sham fight , and evening bivouac at Hadley , near Barnet , on Saturday , under
the command of Colonel Wilkinson . Several of the well-known metropolitan corps took part in the proceedings , which throughout were well conducted , and gave complete satisfaction to every one present , whether as volunteer or as mere spectator . The Honourable Artillery Company had a field-day at the Alexandra Park on Wednesday . Although the members of the corps did not attend very numerously , the evolutions were performed in exceedingly good style . One thing was demonstrated
—that for such a review the park is admirably fitted . A lengthened investigation took place on Saturday at tho Thames Police-court into the circumstances attending the flogging of a charity boy at the Aldgate Charity School by the master . The case was clearly proved , and although the hoy seems to have been incorrigible , the punishment was held by the
magistrate to he excessive , and .. the master was fined in the full penalty of £ 5 , or in default two months' imprisonment . At the Thames Police-court a man who had been . previously before the magistrate for the same offence , and who then escaped on a technical point ) has been again brought up charged with stealing £ 22 , the money of a friendly society . The
robbery was done most audaciously , as the prisoner went the same evening to the society ' s meeting , and acknowledged taking the money , saying that he " meant to stick to it . " This time he is not likely to escape . . The prisoner who is already committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money on false pretences of the sale of an advowson has been again brought up at the
Westminster Police-court on two allegations of fraud , on both of which he was further committed . A case of horse-stealing " for a lark" has been before the Worship-street magistrate . The prisoner , on a Sunday night , was riding a horse barebacked , without bridle or halter , along the High-street , Lower Clapham , aud when stopped by a policeman he assaulted . the officer . It
appears , however , that he had really mounted the horse in a tipsy frolic , and the magistrate taking a very lenient view of the circumstances , discharged the prisoner . . Two men charged with the murder of John Meers , at Teignbridge , wore examined before the magistrates at Newton Abbot , on Monday . The principal witness against them is a boy
named Pike , a sweep . He declares that he saw the murder committed , and that one of tho men gave him a penny not to tell ; hut it is said he bears an indifferent character . There is ,