sewhere). Very interesting, well done, and the
illustration of his plan by the boys of Dr. Kay's school and
other (adult) pupils of Hullah's was excellent. The plan has been
tried with great success in France, Germany, and Switzerland, and
the Education Committee are disposed to assist in giving it a
trial here. These plans, which are founded in benevolence and a
sincere desire for the diffusion of good among the people, merit
every encouragement, and will in the end get it, for there is, in
the midst of much indifference and prejudice, a growing
disposition to ameliorate the condition of the masses, both
morally and physically.

[7] [I had myself put Mr. Hullah in relation with the
Government, and with Mr. Eden, who tried his system of
musical instruction (based on Wilhem's plan) at the
schools at Battersea. Indeed, I persuaded Hullah to go
to France to study Wilhem's system, which was in
operation there. Lord Lansdowne saw that musical
education was a neutral ground on which all parties
(those most divided) might agree; and he took up this
idea with success. Sydney Smith went to this lecture,
to Hullah's great delight, and it was very successful.
Mr. Hullah, after a long and useful career, died in
1884.--H.R.]

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Yesterday all the Tories were in high glee at their success at
the Canterbury and Walsall elections, the former not having been
expected by either party, and nevertheless they had a majority of
165 votes. It is certainly curious, for the Government have a
right to be popular, or, at least, to expect that no tide of
unpopularity should rise against them; and after all their
successes, and the declared inability of their opponents to find
fault with them, it is strange that they should lose ground to
the extent that they have. The Government see all the danger of
their position, and how very probable it is that they may be
reduced to the necessity of resignation or dissolution, and,
though they have no hopes of bettering themselves by the latter,
they have made up their minds to try the experiment, in order
that they may give the Queen no reason to accuse them of
unnecessarily deserting her, and not exhausting every expedient
to retain their places before they give them up. They are,
however, very much divided upon the question of what to dissolve
upon,