separate staff who has completely van- The speech which Mr. Gladstone delivished, the "Master of the Ilarriers and Fox ered at the Lord Mayor's banquet is esHounds," with his salary of £2,000 a year. pecially remarkable as confirming and deCruel here also towards the philologist fining the policy of abstention which Enghave been some of the suppressions of land has adopted in respect of her foroffices, as that of the "Avenar and Clerk eign relations. We do not think that we Martial," or of the "Clerk of the Avery." ought to condemn our neighbours, nor Against these diminutions in the House- judge them so harshly as has been done hold there is indeed one set-off. At the for their refusal to intervene in our favour head of the list in the Imperial Calendar during the late war. The Empire had enstands now a small department of 12 per- tered upon the game with such levity that sons only, beginning with the name of the all alliances were rendered impossible, and, Private Secretary to Her Majesty," and moreover, we know that the diplomacy of which is emphatically designated "Her M. de Bismarck had foreseen all continMajesty's Household," of which only one gencies and prevented all intervention. It or two elements, such as the "Keeper of is also manifest that a country has the His Majesty's Library" and the "Keeper right to consult only its own interests, and of the Privy Purse in Ordinary," are to be to regard them in its own light. It is found in the lists of 1738, both in the therefore rather from an historical point Lord Chamberlain's Department. This is of view that we should now regard the atwhat really represents the personal service titude assumed by England during the required by Her Majesty; and nothing is events such as have happened and may more remarkable as showing the gradual again occur in Europe. Nothing can be separation which has taken place between more simple than her rule of conduct; she the individual Sovereign and the Sover- withdraws herself from everything, repueign's office, than the growth of this dis- diates all interest in anything, yields on tinct personal department of the House- everything. If her signature appended to hold. a treaty of guarantee is pointed out, she On the whole, then, we repeat it, the allows it to be protested. Quite recently fair consideration of this subject requires she has consented to the annihilation of us to bear in mind that a very considera- the principal clauses of the Treaty of ble diminution in the Royal Household Paris, which formerly she deemed so inviewed as an apparatus of State pageantry, adequate and so disproportioned to the amounting, we may say roughly, to one-sacrifices of the Crimean War. We requarter of its personnel, has taken place peat that England, in withdrawing into since the reign of George II. On the the serene regions of abstention, is acting other hand, the fact that this diminution within her right, and it would be bad (the "when" and the "how" of which we taste to dispute it. All that can be objectleave to those more learned in such mat-ed to it is, that the inoffensive character ters than we care to be) has taken place with which she invests herself does not already, affords a strong argument for sup- necessarily imply security. England does posing that further diminution is not not appear sufficiently to appreciate the impracticable; whilst the separation be- solidarity which connects nations with tween the personal and the State depart- each other. We know the remark of ments of the Household, which requires to Lord Palmerston when he heard of the be more generally known than it is as a fact, aggression which Prussia and Austria and which, as a principle, might probably were preparing against Denmark - "This be carried much further into practice, is the gravest event which has happened affords the means of carrying out any well-in Europe. and it is but the beginning of considered reform of the State departments, without trenching on the rights and comforts, as a lady, of "the highest lady in the realm."

From The Pall Mall Gazette.

A FRENCH VIEW OF MR. GLADSTONE'S

POLICY.

events far more serious still." These anticipations have been realized, and who will venture to say that England ought not then to have done all in her power to prevent what has since occurred? Or who will maintain that the position of England has not been modified to her own detriment by the three great wars of which she has been an unconcerned spectator since 1864? It is impossible for a great Power to sacrifice influence with impunity.

THE Temps published on Tuesday the The English nation may strive in vain to following article:

be counted for nothing; a moment will

come when they will feel that commercial | large sums being thrown on the market to prosperity itself depends upon political find new investments. That is a reason power. Let us suppose that England why all values in Germany have kept gopushes her principles to the utmost limits. ing up, and I anticipate that this rise in She has no longer any allies upon the value will continue for some time longer." Continent, neither Austria nor France, This is obviously a very important stateand she congratulates herself upon the ment of the Finance Minister, quite apart fact. She declines to protect her former ftom the theory as to the effect of keeping clients, Belgium, Luxemburg, and what money for the new German coinage, which remains of Denmark. She goes further, it is intended to refute. We learn now and declares herself prepared to abandon for the first time that the German Governthose of her possessions which may give ment has been using its indemnity money occasion for any dispute. She gives up to a material amount in repurchasing the Heligoland to Germany, Gibraltar to bonds which are to be repaid next JanuSpain, Malta to Italy. She becomes ex-jary and February. To what extent exclusively pacific and manufacturing. She intrenches herself behind her girdle of sea and abandons the Continent to itself. She imitates the snail and retires into her shell. And what has she gained by that? Simply placing herself at the mercy of the Powers which she has permitted to aggrandize themselves, and holding her independence only upon the condition of never becoming an obstacle or an object of envy to any

one.

From The Economist. THE REPAYMENT OF THE GERMAN

DEBT.

In the course of the Coinage Debate last week, the Prussian Minister of Finance, Herr Camphausen, made rather an interesting statement respecting the Treasury bills or bonds which are under notice to be repaid next January and February. It had been objected, he said, that the operations of repayment would be impeded by the new coinage, because some of the Treasury bills of the Confederation had been created in English money, and they might have to repay them in that money. To this the Minister replied, that already a large portion of these Treasury bills had been repaid. "I can inform the previous speaker," he said, "that at this moment the Treasury of the North German Confederation possesses 3,600,000l. of these Treasury bills. We have naturally interpreted the authority which the Reichstag has given us to issue notice of repayment, as an authorization to buy them back at suitable prices, so that the money may not lie idle in the Treasury, but appreciably alleviate the burdens of the State (bravo!); and it has not only contributed to alleviate the burdens of the State, it has facilitated that 'equalization process' which the previous speaker so powerfully depicted

aetly this has been done we do not know, as the Minister only speaks of the bills expressed in sterling money, 7,500,000, whereas the whole amount noticed to be repaid is 15,000,000l. Of course to the extent the German Government may use the instalments about to fall due in a similar inanner the less gold will have to be sent to Germany, and we are glad to see that the German Government professes to be sensitive to the saving of interest. The statement, however, also shows that the German Government has all the greater future power over the money market, for the more it has repaid the more on balance it has to draw out of the European money market. There is one point on which there can be little doubt. Now that the proceedings of the German Government in regard to receiving the indemnity and repaying the debt, are so important, they should be carefully made public. A Government causes great mischief by conducting such transactions in the dark, and in the end it is itself a loser by the uncertainty and confusion it creates in the markets where its financial operations are carried on.

THE LAMENT FOR ADONIS.
TRANSLATED BY HENRY KING.

I WAIL Adonis! fair Adonis dead!
"Adonis dead!" the Loves repeat the wail.
Sleep no more, Cypris! - from thy purple couch
Rise sable-stoled, and beat upon thy breast,
And cry aloud, that all the world may hear,

"Alas! Adonis! fair Adonis dead!"

I wail Adonis, and the echoing Loves
The fair Adonis, by the Boar's white tusk
Repeat the wail. Amid the hills he lies,
Gored in his whiter thigh: - and Cypris sees
Distraught his faint and fainter failing breath,
And o'er his snowy flesh the red stream well,—
And underneath the lids his glazing eyes
Grow dim,- the rose-flush and the kiss's fire
Die from the chilling lips where yet her own

Cling passionate, as they ne'er would part;-to | Immortal live, and cannot follow thee!*

* In all the range of Poetry I kdow no lament for survivorship so simple and tender as these words ὁ δὲ τάλαινα

* Was this line in Tennyson's mind, when he ζώω, καὶ Θεὸς ἐμμὶ, καὶ οὐ δύναμαι σε διώκειν

His nuptial-garlands scattered:
silent now
Of" Hymen, Hymenae," is the song :-
O Hymen! "Ai! ai!" is the strain to-day,—
"Ai! ai! for dead Adonis!" and once more
"Ail ai! for dead Adonis,- and for thee!"

The Graces weep the son of Cinyras : —
"Alas!" each echoes each-"Adonis dead!
The fair Adonis!"—- shriller is their wail
Even than thine own, Dione! And "alas!
"Adonis!" weep the Muses, and with chant
And spell would win him back:-but he not
hears,

Though gladly would he hear them if be
could: :-

Nor e'er will Ceres' Daughter let him go!
Cease thy lamenting, Cypris!- for to-day
Forbear thy plaints! *-another year must
wake

Thy grief anew, and bid thee weep again!
Blackwood's Magazine.

Kouuuv-Gai-ford's, or Ruhnken's, happy emendation of the ordinary reading, kwμwv.

THE "MEGÆRA's " CREW ON ST. PAUL'S | vessel, and about 600 eyes were anxiously levISLAND. The Bombay Gazette publishes some elled at her. She proved to be a small Dutch particulars regarding the stay of the crew of the barque, and it was plain not much relief was to Megara on St. Paul's Island, furnished by Cap-be expected from her. Three officers Lieutentain Roskell, the commander of the Peninsular ants Rokesby and Hazlewood, and Midshipman and Oriental Company's steamer Hindostan, the Henderson, who was about to join H. M. S. vessel which brought on Captain Thrupp and Blanche -were detached, and sent off to the some of his officers to Galle. After describing Dutchman as a sort of relief party, to make the circumstances under which the vessel was whatever arrangements were possible in order to run ashore, the account says: to procure the dispatch of assistance from some port. The officers were rowed by two seamen; but the way was long and the sea was rough, and the men could not return to the island, and had to set their boat adrift and to take up their quarters in the barque. The officers and the two men were landed at Batavia, where it would appear, they at once communicated with Government. From Batavia they went to Singapore, and at that port they were taken up by the Hindostan, and landed at Galle, whence they proceeded to Melbourne. Forty-seven weary days in all had passed with the islanders, when another ship appeared: It proved to be the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Malacca, which, in consequence of the advices of Lieutenant Rokesby and his companions, had been sent by Government from China to take off the castaways. The sea was running dreadfully high round the island, and it was blowing hard. The Malacca tried what she could to communicate with the shore, but could not, and lost three of her boats and two of her anchors in the endeavour, besides having all her live-stock washed overboard. On the fifth day she was successful, and the suspense of those on the island was allayed. On the fiftysecond day after the Megara was run ashore, all the men were reshipped. Just as they were about to leave, their old ship, which had held together till this time, began to dismember; in a short time she went down and the men felt comfort in the reflection that they had seen the last of the Megara from other decks than her own. They were not vexed to be relieved from their position on another score. On the island side of the crater there is a considerable peak, about 800 feet high. Two days before they left an enormous crack had rent its shoulder, and it was feared that if it fell, as it seemed likely to do, it would bury something more beneath it than its own débris.

The situation was not very alluring. The island was nearly barren, and a journey of reconnaissance failed to discover more than two human beings. These were Frenchmen, who had remained on the island to look after certain stores for whaling ships, which called in occasionally at the island. The ship's provisions and every other thing available were taken off from the Megara, and the men proceeded to make the best of bad circumstances. They erected tents, built little houses; they had a few games and some social meetings; and they smoked and looked a good deal to seaward. The architectural arrangements, though primitive, had very civilized nomenclature. The tents were arranged as streets, terraces, crescents, lanes, and so on, and several residences were designated as villas and mansions. The streets had sounding or appropriate names, and it has been hinted that the leakiest and most miserable tent was dignified with the classical appellation of Megæra Mansion." The island contained many hot springs, and it was probably attempted to utilize them as natural cooking-pots, since fish were caught in great abundance in the crater. By way of novelty and amusement, combined with usefulness, the captain and Lieutenant Rokesby, of the Survey Department, executed drawings of their encampment from various points of view. A month passed on, and the Robinson Crusoe sort of life began to unfold a few of its inevitable discomforts. Provisions began to run short- - at least biscuits did; and latterly the men's rations on that head were reduced to a quarter lb. per day. Some water was discovered in a cranny in the island, and the resources from the little stream were eked out with some condensing operations. Some of the men had got unwell, and this made matters still more uncomfortable. One day the little community was excited by the appearance of a

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