The Express. — London, England, 1856-05-14 00:00:00

BANDS IN THE PARKS. The following letter has been addressed le Dia& tenant-Colonel Dickron by Sir B. Hall : " 9, Great Stanhope-street, hey Is. " Dear Sir,—lt is with much regret that lam under the necessity of informing you that I have re ceived instructions not to allow the bands to play any more in the parks or garden. on Sunday afternoon. I beg again to thank yon for your consideration is cffering the band of your regiment for the gratifies don of the working dames of Spitallields sad Bethnal-green and the densely populated neighbour hood of Victoria-park. I was very glad to meet you in Victoria-park on Sunday last, as you were thus a witness se well as myself of the excellent Londnot of the 86,191 persons there assembled, and who so tho roughly enjoyed the mule you were so good as to provide lot them.—l am, dear sir, yoors Dickaaa." NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAOUN. The following letter appears in the Horniest Herald: TO THI 111701 0$ THE 10//1110 HIIALD. Btl,—le pour leadiag artkla of this eseraleg on the subject of the Banday beads to the parks ocean the follow lug passes: Possibly the ruflaaless of last sumer meg De revived, and the National Sunday League easy summon all the blackguards of the mewl:polio Into Hide-park nest Baader.' " On the part of the antral canatittee of the National Sunday League, I most emphatically protest against the unwarrantable chug* against the associetion. 0 The National Sunday League has bees established ft r geauite objects, which are filly sit forth la the accompa nying praptetus, sod aumbere 'laciest its nuaben gen tlemen of all abades of political and religious opinions, la eluting clergymen of the Church of Esglend sad ether deamainations, members of parliament. etc. The League had nothing whatever to do with the disterbausse in Hyde perk to which you refer, sad it !ma ao desire to see them revived. " M an net of j aitiot, I sail apoa you to giro t►ls am arasication sa prominent and 'perfidy as iassrtion la year salamis aa poasible, is order to easatarsot the (.)visas offsets of your attempt to seamiest eh" Lew" by aatisipatioa with aay disturbaarea which nay arias out of ths withdrawal, by the government, of these privileges whieb the psop'e have lately been In the esjoyameat of, sad which ahoy have slows theateelves by their szeolleat sad moderato media so capabl• of approsiatiog. ROW,. M. Moaaau, Ron. CommonAlai llos. " National Bsaday Lows, Central Committee Room, Lumamov lianas, Adolph', May 13." We read in the Br i ghton Guardian, "The Church hal htey been mach scandalised by the dotage et • 'slimness is holy crden in this neighbourhood. He was lately call. dto the death-bed ed a• aged gentleman, and took advantage of the 000fidosoo reposed I. his holy office t • seduce the gentleman's daughter. What render the affair or re disgraceful an the circumstances that the deceased bad presented this viper with his living—his "cure of seal.," sod that he is the father of a family ef grown-up daughters. He has been cnapelled to leave his parish, and noway all hi. effects wars sold by auction." It is ootifitd in the Gazette, that the Board of Health at Leghorn has decreed a des days cuarautins on all meal. coming firm the Levant, in ease of their having' ae sickness ee berd, or there Livia, been nose during the vols.*, and of fifteen days le gale of Eskimo o• board, or ef died boviag occurred during the passion. The Goseito contains a series of new regulations sesordlog to which elute.. duties will be kdkd heessforth t• Puerto Blew rbe Oxpleoo. adastatarautts latia64l7tr ..Tria --- wan be al at, Otiaa, 10, lea by Teo Vila* ea tka lay el palmier HIGH NAVIN AT LONDON NILLIN3I. T. Dar—Wmaing, 100. lOsi-11fteres00.1 8 11. 4 3 To4oooori—Zersu/s, 110. ........11ftwaesk 1110 4,m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. ALL the world knows the story :of Sir Walter Raleigh : how, finding himself unable to get at the rights of a row beneath his prison window, he began to moralise on the presumption of men's pre tending to write the history of distant ages. The moral of this anecdote is, that every one ought to exert himself to let the exact truth be known re garding important incidents in contemporary history. Under this impression we beg to offer a contribution to the veritable history of the great controversy about the Sunday bands in the Parke. Lord Shaftesbury, with more regard to esthetics' propriety than exact truthfulness, has attributed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the honour of converting Lord Pal merston from the error of hie ways. Now, in the eyes of Lord Shaftesbury and his friends, this ap pears, no doubt, to redound exclusively to the honour and glory of the Archbishop. Bet when society is nearly equally divided in opinion, such apotheoses have their inconveniences. Malcontents are mutter ing satirical scuffs at the penitent prostration of Henry IX. before the successor of Thomas& Bec kett. Now, Lord Palmenton's reply some time ago to the Presbytery of Edinburgh shows that he is not the man to submit tamely to clerical dictation ; and all who know the Archbishop of Canterbury are aware that he is not likely to presume over-much upon his sacerdotal authority. It may somewhat spoil the romance of the story, but truth compels us to state that the mild and gentlemanly ap peal to the Premier which importunities extorted from the Primate had comparatively little to do with the ultimate decision of the former respecting the bands. A much more powerful engine was brought into play. It is matter of notoriety that in the present nearly balanced state of panics in the Roue of Commons, the votes of the friendly Scotch members are indispensable to Lord Palmerston. And it so happens that in the beginning of the week an irruption of the aggregate Scotch representation into the presence of the badgered and baited Pre mier, was headed by that most solemn of the Free Birk leaders, the Lord Advocate. From the solemnity of these legislative sages it woe obvious that, for the moment, the souls of Knox and Came ron were burning within them that they were a resuscitated " Westminster assembly of divines." Lord Palmerston, it ammo, was bluntly told that un less he immediately commanded Sir Benjamin Hall to silence his bands, he could no longer count en a single Scotch vote. The Premier might have defied the Archbishop as he did the Presbytery, bet to be left in a minority in the House of Commons was a mach more swimss matter than clerical censures, and he yielded with as good a grace as he could. We pet this feet epos record simply from an abstract love of truth. We doubt whether Londoners will be reconciled to the loss of their mask by learning that it has been suppressed at the digi tate of a class of theologians who will not tolerate an organ in their *bombes either on Sunday or on week days. In fact, the movement against the bands begins to wear the appearance of a crusade against the art of music. In the dreary lay sermon which has been pat forth by Mr. Edward Baines, the arguments against musical performance, for the delectation of numerous assemblies, if they ars of any weight at all, tail as coselusively against the practice on any day of the week as on Sundays. , gbt Court. OSBORNE, KAY 18. . Her Majesty and the Prince Cowiert, with the Prises of Wales, Prima Alfred, the Pommes Rolla. hid Princess Alice, welt to Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday afteraime, to inspect the Bth litmus, which regimeat had arrived la the coarse of the day from t►e But, under the ecommead of BrigedieuGsaeral Showell. Her *eject, wm reatived on landing by Vim-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Major-General Breton, and the naval and military authorities. The tamps, consisting of the Bth Hussars, a detachment of the 17th Lassen, and invalids from different regiments, MID minutely inspected by her Majesty, who remained 12 the Dockyard till 10 minutes before seven o'clock. Major-General the Hon. Charlie Grey, Equerry to the Queen, left Loodon last night, with a letter from her Illajoety for the Emperor of Ruda. The Princess of &Imo add the Doke add Deane d'doatale visited the Dubose of Kent yesterday, at her residence, Clarence-hems, St. James's. Tho Dueling of Kent, at , endsd by Laiy Anna Maria Durso*, Lord James Murray, and Colonel Stephan', honoured the Italian Opera wit► her present:slut evening Sir Alezander Spearman had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official real dance, in Downing-street. Despatehee from the Governor of Canada were merited yesterday at the Colonial *Mu. (MON LAST NIGHT'S OLSITTL) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 29.—Notioe is hereby given, toot her Majesty will hold a drawing-room at St. James's Palmy, on Thonday, the 29:11 May neat, at two o'clock, to celebrate her Mejesty's birthday. No preeentatioss wal take place at tbis drawiog roons.—N.B. The knights of the several ords re us to appear is their cellars at the draw ing-room on the 29;b of May next. WAS DEPARTMENT, MAT 10.—The QOllllllll ham been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Lieutenant lob. Archibald Ballard, Lieut.; Colonel in the sorties et hie Imperial Majesty the Sultan; Lieutenan t Christopher Charles Teudale, Lieut.- Col An in the 110TVi011 of his Imperial Msjsety the Bohan; and Captain Heary Lutglicaue Thompson, Major in the service of his IsaperiY Majesty the Bekaa, to be Honorary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class or Companions of the Most Hooosrable Order of the Bath ; and of Dr. Hamphry Bead. with, late InspectmOenerol of Hospitals in the service et bit Isaias! Hejerty the Solute, to be aa Hortatory Maher delta Civil Dincon of the Third Clan it Compraione of the said Mott Hoeooroble Order. WHITEHALL, 11a2 12.—The Queen hes been pleased to direst letters mutt to be pawed under the Great BM, granting the dignity of a baronet of the United Mili tias of Great Britain and Ireland unto Major-Geasnl William newish Williams, of Ken, En , ght Commander of the mot Honourable Order of the Bath, and to the heirs male of ►ie body lawfully begotten. WHITZBALL. MAT 13.—The Queen has been pleased to eppeint the Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines to be the Fourth Charity Commiesioser for Ragland and Wales, fa the room of the Hight Honourable Lord Jetta Hassell, re. eigaed. Foanion-once, MAY 12.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Joao Tertuliano Fernandes Nobrr p as Causal at Demerara for hie Majesty the Kiss of Per tegsl and the Algarve'. Dowsneo-erzarr, MAT 13.—The Queen bas been pleased to appoint tile Rev. Robert Smith to be Cbaplala of the Soots Kirk, at Heady, in the Island of Coyly's; Dover Wales, &pin, to be Harbour Master of Port Lowe, Is the (shad or Neerinse; sad Hodr7 Craw. Esquire, to be Amine to the Native Chiefs wields the Protnied Territories, war or adjacent to the settlements on the Geld Coot. LORD DALHOUSIE. MAT 13. - - - - - - --- The Tribune, 21, Dorm frig►te, Ceptain Edpll, having Lord Dalhousie, late finnan-Gem/rat of ladle, aid family oa board, arrived at Spithesd this moralag at mom. fib saluted t►e nag of the nimateader-ia which the Victory acknowledged. The Onensader-la- MO wait est to Spithead is the Fire (them, mad paid kis rrpsen to the noble lord. The health of kis lordship is reported to have improved of late, although he is still ex andiagly week, requirieg to be moved in a lot. At fear o'airiek this 'Person the Tribes* man into harbour, hot his lordship did sot lead till mar 6 o'clock. He thee m ended with his fanny to the George Hotel, rottenest!. Hen he will remain for • few days. Oa leaving the Tri bune be stew numed yards, sad es the barge la whisk hie 1 irdship sad Easily were brought Loa shore, rang the Victory, that ship fired a salute of 19 gam. His lordship wee immediately carried to the carriage of the nonameader ta-ablef, whisk was waiting, sad draw to tha George. DOVER, TUESDAY. Lord Cowley left at 4 p.m., in the stem packet Vivid, for Boulogne. Primes Frederick William of Prussia will, it is mid, 1111/111118 Lades, so ao to be present at oar Court as the eaeivonery et the Qaees'e birthday. Lord sad Lady ideates& are pawing the Whit ma holidays with the Master of Tidally, Tidally-lodge, Cambridge. We regret to learn that Viscount Ebrington is suffering fins a neer, ophthalmic stink. The Earl and Countess of Westmorland enter tained at Mann, at their naming n Cavendish-pears, last evening, hie Highness the Grand Vizier. There ware in vited to most hie Highness hie Excellency the Turkish Am bassador, his Baseline, the Premien Minister and the Countess Bernetorff, hie linellenoy the Hanoverian Minis ter aid the Countess Kielneasegge, the Martian and Mar chioness of Ely, the Earl of Malansbary, Lord sad Lady Model:ogee, Lord Burgherelt, Hon. Julian Fun, Lady Rosa Fame, Lord Heytesbary, Hon. Mr. and Mn. apeman Pot onby, Le. The Earl and Cattalos of Lichfield have left Grosvasor plus for Stragbotositt, Staffordshire. Tire Earl cad Countess of Doaoaghmors have arrived at Claridge'. Hotel. The Earl of Gainsborough and Lady Victoria Noel have left Claridge's Hotel for St. Iwonird'e-oa•tka. Lady Hotham has left Claridge's Hotel. The Countess de Persigny gave a soiree dassatae last night, at Albert late-house. Fits Hmltnees the Grand Vizier honoured the counter wit► his oompas y. arriving from the 'Gal of Westmorlaad's, where ha had bees diaiag, about eleven o'clock. His Weiser was accompanied by his By 'Betsey the Ambassador et Turkey cad Madame ilasatus. The following are among the visitors now at Brighton :—The Marquis of Aeglessy, the Berl of ligliatoo, Colonel Elydnoy North tad the Eames. North, the Bishop of Women, and Mn. Papys, Lady Brant Brune, air Chas. and Lady Dnglas, Lady Rua Ortville, Baron and Lady Plitt sad the Mines Platt, till George sad Lady Grey, Lady Wisaingtan, Lady Bearer, the Bari of Hinton, L a dy Asithcooko, Lady Cottaaha;, air Chapman Marshall, the Hoe. F. and lire. Btoser. The Bishop of London is pro longing his stay at the residence of the Martial' of Bristol, to Kemp -town. A lucrative pesos of patronage has jest been plaoed et the disposal of the government by the drains of Sir Edward Tierney, Ban., which took place on Monday after noon at his house is Dahlia. The deceased held for may pus the Mike* frown solicitor for the worth-wrest fir cult, comprising ail mantles, the ecnolanents pertaming to which are little short of 3,0001. per annum. The oleo is virtually in the gift of the Attorney-General. The office of clerk of snipe, ia the Bolls' Court, I. also vies.; by the death of Sir Edward Tierney. We (Times) are requested to state that the Sultan, as the application of the &WM govennamt for persainlon to erect a manorial church at Constantinople, has non lib' ?city panted a pities of pound lug. enough for a Much, schools, sad presage. The expenses of the ocebrated "Dyes Sombre" eon in the Court of Chancery have already amounted toi 80,0001, and tics sass is set yet casehided. The proceed ings connected with ft hays minded over twelve years. It is now looked upon as certain that the Prince of Prussia will be deputed by the Eng to be prams at tics aromatics of the Emperor Abseador is Kamm. The Cowan of King's College, Loudon, bare appointed Mr. James Swift, of the City of London School, Aesietent Adtbamtisal sad Writing Mater. ••• . THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1856. ITALY. -.- • (moat ova OWN NAPLIB, MAT 8. I am informed by those who have lately returned from visiting Sicily that the feeling of hatred and in digestion which exists against the sovereign in that island is indescribable. A match would set the whole comm.} , in flames, and no measures are being taken to sates or to ameliorate it. The monstrous miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Janus:hie wu wrought last Saturday, but so imperfectly that the minds of the faithful are filled with fear. The descendants of the saint—who, by the bye, are allowed privileged seats during the operation—were loud in their cries at the delay in working the miracle; and, horribi(e dietu, the blood displayed in its centre a solid globular mass. Some great misfortune is said to be impending over the city, and the faithful shake their heads and specu late as to the form it will assume. For myeelf a poor, carnal-minded man —I cannot but remember that Saturday night wu one of the coldest we have had for many a week, or perhaps even many a mouth. On Monday their Majesties and all the royal family visited and venerated the ampulla which contains the blood. Thirteen carrisges and six conveyed them in grand state to the church, and the people were edified by another display of royal piety. To-day ie the fete of the apparition of the Archangel St. Michael. This fete wu inttituted by the same admirable sovereign to commemorate an event dear to the recollection of his subjects—that is, the salvation of the life of the King through the visible mediation of the arohangeL This is, indeed, s holy land. Ina recent letter I sent you some specimens of the literature of Naples, as indicating the spirit of the government towards the English. I quote from the woe work "Le Spie," which is now Ijing upon my table. The author thus describes himself: I am not a spy either of the Pope or of the King of Naples, het a eon, a shoat affectionate, active, dieinterested subject of the Pope, r f the King of Naples, ache Emperor of Aut. trim, of the Emperor of Russia, of the Duke of Modena, of all those sovereign, is fine, absolute, legitimate, who with an iron hand tsonapress, for the good of the people whom they govern, thews hordes of wicked me. who shoeing the holy name of liberty, blupheme God, conspire against throne, attempt in the name of the human race to rob freely.—P. 18. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for as sinners, exclaimed, in this horrible night, my little Maltese servant shivering with fear. For these excomnin. taloned Jacobins, raid he, God has sent as the cholera, end for these English dogs, yet more ezcommunitaeed, who have given them a reception, we shall now surely die, if St. ' Paul does not save ; nor could a truer sentiment prote.ed from the lips of innocence. In fact, to whom else does I the world owe its misfortunes than to this multitode of pinata made a nation with the bread and with the peace of not one ? Meat holy Pant, then who from the asp and the viper didst tear the poisoned tooth for the manakin of the children of Publiue, wield thy sword to strike off the heade of then famished wolves. Avenge the shame of having lent thy name to altars raised to heresy—destroy the fox of Albion—re.cue as from chip. wreck. The ieritable political ruffianism of a Miato—the Insidious Pharistle eloquent , ' of • Cobden—the lying, vulgar calumnies of • Gledstons—vivified and animated by the sordid and shameless robbery of a Palmerston, and of us many *thin as have preceded or shall follow him in the Jadaising ministry, have pillaged the wor:d, so as not to leave the skin of man laminated by the bloody teeth of the British bear! The Menial, the Prondhiani, the Kossuth, and all the refuse of the creation, will be always the rusty, dist^rted instruments attached to the *tinkered getter of the English shield, for the raoine of the rich evils of the Osman flee. Who does not know that on silks, MU rags, our skin, ars constantly designed to cover the libidinous limbs of this prostituted, shameless, stinking hag, and that we shall be ever endemmed to satiate her with our arm, and assuage her with oar blo A, if the mercies of G id do not save as, to. ? Thin work wee written for and paid for by a mem ber of the Neapolitan government. TIE CRIMEAN MILITARY INQUIRY. BITTING.-THIS DAY. The proceedings were resumed this morning, after ea adjousamest from T►anday het, all the memben of the board belay prima,. At half put Meru, The Judge-Advocate, oddment( General Airey, stated that • Rif J. to attend, sad the following reply had ban reeeived : Onutton Flom, Edinburgh, May 10, 18,56. Bv,—la reply to your letter of the Bth, requesting se to ottani ea Wirinesday, the 14th instant, at eleven o'clock. a..., la the Great Hall at Chelsea, for the purples of being examined as a Witness, I have to talons you that I as too unwell to be able to attend at that Hine. " But although the state of my health of itself preeladee the possibility of complying with the requett contained in your letter of the Bth, or with the suggestions contained is your letter of the Bth, I thlak It right, with all possible re tina for the board, to add t►at, even ff that obstacle had not existed, I could not have agreed to deport from the roam I have hitherto taken in the abeam, of say authoritative information, more definite dm I have yet received, as to the precise objects and the room, of the preisedinp going on at Chelsea, and as to the position occupied or expected to be *coupled, rela tively to the board and to each other, by the persons who have appeared or ►evs boon invited to appear in those proceedings, and especially w►ether the promedioge are intended to bear upon the ra in which the mem bers of the late Comatisaloa of Inquiry in the Crime■, of whom I was one, discharged their duties; and if so, in what respect and particular, and to what effect. —I have the he emir to be, sir, your most obedient servant, " Joax W.Nzuz. "The Right Hos. C. P. Villiers, - - --- ---- Jadge-Advoeste General." The Judge Advocate also stated that Colonel Tolloch was still too unwell to attend, and expressed his regret that an impression had got abroad owing to as expressioa used by him, that 0 I Aire? had conducted himself dierespeotfully towards Colonel Talloch. Nothing woo farther from his intention than to con very each an impression, as General Alm had conducted himself towards Colonel Tallock with the moss marked eonsidera•ion. General Aim repudiated all idea of aoadneting bienaelf in a matinee diereepeetfel to Colonel Talloch. Colonel Wetherell, Major Hackett (11mistent Quarter- muter-G 1), Colonel Derryman, and Mr. Watson (s ,or's clerk attached to the first division of the Crimean army) were then examined by G 1 Airey, with On Mew of showing that there bad been no want of care in the discharge of ►is duties by Sir R. Alrey. There was nothing new in the evidence of them witnesses. General Airily then said, that before going farther with he own cam, ►s wished Colonel Gordon to 'sake Ida data mint. The board ohjected to the adoption of this snare,, aad a long reespitalatory conversation thea took place between 0 1 Airey and the board, is macerator' with the duties Wangles to the departrasat of the quartermaster-general, at the end of which °moral Ahoy mooluited his address to the biud, Mating his coovictioa that the eatmativ.rsion east upon his sondes:4 by the oommiseioaere ►ad been completely reserved by the wane of the inquiry. The inquiry Wee pron *ding when oar nport left. The large model of a ship, on the screw principle, which was exhibited last summer to the Universal Bahibl tie°, under the nests of Le Ville de Naides, has toes launched on the large lake in the Bela de Boulogne. " On the day of M. A. Adam's death," says the Messages des Moir es, " the IlLielster of State seat M. C Dermot to the widow of the lamented composer to repress Bacelleacy's gnat regret at her lass, and to offer Ms sincere condolence. The neat day, the minister accorded to Mme. Adam a melon of 1,2001 r. a year, sad increased to the same amount the pension already received by the mo thers of the deceased." A letter from Los (Hautee Pyremfee), of the 9th, says:—" The snow continues to fall is peat Outdates is our mountains. The *rope on the high plateaux us all lost. Bar4ges hu again suffered from an eyebaths. Thlrtees small buts were swept away this mauniag. A young man named Iffanuguet lost his life while amiss to warn a fatally la one of the helms of the approadang bagel." [Advertimlmp emeut ateines."l—AT MIL Idsczta Minium Nam% . sil w krtashammit. awl *yawl I PO" we Maim the hese et MI6 maalaiNa% Tgabliat4bak mierhamm •sesse. Cluweirliep. Water =Mu at r Mbar team NOY& gasembe b * de. =lkr hake BIWA linabstaral lad Tabb llaaara. bine% In. 01110111MONMIL ORM prim= Me NOW WSW se she Illegmbelnall blettlimakit She sais tame ghgegugeww. Mao and emit/id SIM* LATEST INTELLIGENCE. JPIEDMOPT. , ' DISCUSSION IN THE SENATE. The Turin journals contain a report of a discussion in the Pledmontees Senate on the 10th, relative to the treaty of peace. Ia reply to some objections, Count Cavour said: The chamber will understand that If the government had received an °Stela reepciatte to the momoreadain It would have hastened to cominsaioate the same to parliament. I only request tire boacutrablelenttor to be snared tbit when two greet powers manifest ea opinion, that opinion cannot rest sterile ; ►ut they do not wish to reply officially smell they have well weighed the effect of their words, and I be lieve it would be leoonvenient for us to press them ; it would then seem that we here little confidence in Pesti meats expressed by our allies in so solemn and frigidly a manlier. If effervescence exists in Italy, the fault is not in my words, nor in the fact that the subject of Italy vim considered by the plenipotentiaries. The irritation would h.ve boon mach greater if the Con gress of Paris had separated without speaking of Italy, end if the silence of the great Pdllollll had given a sort of sanc tion to the OM:401n extension of the Austrian power fa Italy. Then the eseeperatioa would have been immense, and but too easily have degenerated late despair. The die couions which have token place is the Congress have proved to Italy thet the great Powers wish for the stneliora tion of its fate; they thus contribute to alley irritation, end give patience to these who wafer. The con duct of the Sardinian plenipoteatiariee lee had the effect of noderatiag, not pri,y,kittg, and cannot be termed either rash or imprudent. Alter these explanations the Senate, upon the proposition of M. d'Azeglio, voted two orders of the day ; the flest, fully approving of the conduct of the government; and the second, thanking the army of General La Marmara. We reed in the Optaiow of May 11: The diplomatie negotiations on the subjeet of the Italian question have thrown the courts of Central and Southern Italy into a state of alarm. The court of Parma has already published an arks, fee its condact ; and what as apolxgy I While the court of Tuscany is consideriog what can be done by the sovereigns of Italy, its miaisters are at loggerheads among themeless about • proposed concordat with Items upon the model of that wade with Austria. At Rome • diplomatic memorandum is in preparations, having for its oSpot to prrre that the states of the church are better governed than lay other country in the world. At Naples, it is pretended that liberal laws, • comprehensive amnesty, any, even oonstitati nu, are stout to be promulgated. What • entrust between all these miserable intri gues and the magnificent spectacle of the Piedmont's, parliament unanimously votiag solemn thanks to the army, the fleet, and the generals of the eastern expedition ! Os the occasion of the anniversary fete of the proclamation of the riongitution, the population will celebrate the bravery of the army which, while °penis' • more prosperous path for oar peninsula, has enriched the military history of the Italian people with sew laurels. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Glom ova OWN PARIS. TOISDLT EVININII. The Paris lloonteur reprints the note of the Moai tear Belga, and adds:—" We felicitate the Belgian government on the care it takes to guard its inten tions from misapprehension. The part of the French government hes been simply to point oat the evil and its consequences : it is for the cabinet of Bressels alone to seek, to find, and to apply the remedy. The go moment of the Emperor concerns itself with the efficacy sad not with the nature of the remedy." It is impossible not to be struck with the studious arrogance—the thoroughly unfriendly tone of the above paragraph in the Mondeur. It is more offset. sive by far than Count Walewski's speech itself, and contains the very menace - wht,4l that "sinister, with great assumption of delicacy said, the "re monstranese alone of a stronger power with a weaker" too much resembled. The Belgian Masiteur, correcting a telegraphic despatch published in Paris, to the effect that the minister had declared that the country would consent to a modification of the laws of the press, said that what he had really said was that the present ministry would never propose to alter the constitution. The differeooe wee not, in substance, of very great importance, for it clearly appears from the authentic report of the speech that what the Belgian minister vehemently protested against was any change, at the dictation of a foreign power, of the constitation as affecting the press. The correction of the Belgian ifonnesor is perhaps more emphatic than was necessary ; still no objection can fairly be made to the de claration that the government did not Intend to bind itself not to propose to parlia ment, " within the limits of the constitution," any modification of the press laws at its Men good time. Probably the hope of conciliating the French government had something to do with the wording of the paseage. If so, the Belgian cabinet most be woefully disappointed. The Monitor, in sarcastic language, ignores the " limits of the con stitution " to which the official journal of Brussels so carefully refers. It affects to see in the reserva tion of the power to propose an alteration of the law in a legal way " whenever the Belgian govern. mat may see fit," a reluctant avowal that the cabinet of Brussels is bound to " seek for, fled, and apply a remedy" for the grievances which France has indicated. The Emperor's government, Belgium is told, ears* nothing about the nature of the remedy, but will only look to its efficacity. This means evi dently " Franca takes no note of your constitution or your juries, but you, Belgium, must contrive to have a press which shall not offend France." The Emperor and Empress will go to St. Cloud to morrow, to take up their summer residence there. M. de Hubner has goo* to Strasbourg to inset the Arehdake Maximilian, who is expected in Paris to- morrow or Thursday. The King of Wurtemberg left Pare this morniag. Business was stagnant at the Bourse to-day. The Renee, which warmly fluctuated 60., closed at yester -1 day's primp, 75rr. for ash, and 75fr. 20c. for menet, being a rise of 10e. Bank of France rose 25e. No variation in Credit Mobilier, and very little in rail ways. The principal business done was in railway obligations. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WIRDWINDAT. The Peninsular and Oriental Cou3pany's steam packet Sultan, Captain Neil Cook, Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Henry Stewart, RN., has arrived with the Peninsula mails. Her dates are:—Gibraltar, May 6; Cadiz, May 6; Lisbon, May 9; Oporto, May 10; Vigo, May 11. The Sultan brings twenty-eight passengers, amongst whom are Sir George and Lady Bonham and suite, also four naval invalid s , and eleven dis tressed British seamen. Her cargo includes eight packages specie, value 1,5671. Ships seen or spoken with during the voyage : May 7, the Spider, yacht, arrived at Lisbon eight days from Baltimore (Ireland), Sir Henry Becher, Bert., owner. Hsi. Majesty's steamer Miranda wu laying at Gibraltar. The Spanish war steamer Volcano, 6 pcs, was at Cadiz. The French war steamer Phan was at Cadis. The usual Portuguese squadron was at Lisbon. SHERIDAN INOWLIB, ESQ.—On Sunday Mr. Knowles prow:died two moose oa behalf of the Day ad Bimodal Bab oob about to be built is Crow-street, laisitoa. His swum were writs.. WILLIAM PALMER AT THE OLD BAILEY. THIS DAY. The trill, which commenced this morning at the Central Criminal Court, whatever may be its results—and heaven f rbid that we should anticipate them, will long bold a di.tioguished plec amongst the causes celebres of this country. Under oidinary circumstances it might seem ill judged to usher in wita more than ordinary solemnity a criminal trial, but in this cue it would be mere prudery t 3 ignore, while it would be im possible to exaggerate, the interest which the general public takes in the solemn investigation which commenced this morning at the Old Bailey. A variety of causes have c notributed to create this extraordinary interest, and even to make it cumulative from the first discovery of the alleged crime down to the present moment, when it is tin divgoing judicial iuvs st.getion. In the first pl -ee, there was the peculiar chance, of the offence itself, one which in all times has had infinitely more terrors for soclsty than any deed of open violence. The savage trusts to the strong arm, or the craftily planned ambush for the means of getting rid of his enemy, hut the more civilised, and, therefore, more enervate man, shrinks from each rude collisions and physical effort, and, turning to his books and his science, finds a weapon which he may wield without exertion, and with whi.b he expecte to kill without detection. When these facts are thought of, it is not to be wondered at that • trial for poisoning, at tended with circumstance, so prcaliar as those that sur round the case of William Palm, r, should stir up the public cariosity from its depths, and create that eacitement in the place of trial which were witnessed tc-iay at the Old Bailey. Bat there are other and still stronger essence fir the extraordinary c incentration of public atten tion on this p.rticular cue. Until of late years we have f sadly nutted the beLef that the crime of poisoning, bow ▪ r common it might be or have been in Southern Europe, woe foreign t Eogliab soil, and hateful to English disposi tions. We read of the conspirecies of the B. man ladies, the Philtres of Lr cults, the death bacquns of the Borgia', or the crimes of the Marquise de Brinvilliers as we should • strongly written romance, merely as harmless excitement for oar imagination and wonder, and u having no hearing oa our own habits or social con ditios. But, unhappily, a succeeuion of circum stances, the first of which is still froth in the public reelllection, has given a horrid vitality to the interest which is felt in poisoning class, and his sit men a thinking whether in truth an near inrable change is not creepieg in upon the national character—whether a social Mc ,r has not commenced to form. which will require mere careful and searching treatment than the mere judic;sl proems by which • single case, only more prominent than the rest, is sub mitted is the ordeal of jotter, and jury. It is not long since an obscure village in &sec furnished • series of poisonings, more numerous and sore atrocious in character even than those charged in the present ind ictment—more atrocious, be• cause it was mothers that poisoned their children, but the obscurity of the et iminals ant the seclusion of the locality pre vented anytbiog like en extended or teeing interest in the crime. Bat in " The Queen v. Palmer," the prisoner is one of the educated middle slaws, at °tee a professional and a sport ing man, and in both charavers is well known to, and popular with, an extended circle Of acquaintance. Ia ad dition to this, the crime for which he is now on his trial would, if proved, shake the security of two wide spread, but widely different equitation', one, that which ewes each immense sums annually to change bends I awarding to the vicissitudes of what is popularly called "The Tarf," and tt e other, that which, when fairly admin istered, is looked up us as one of the most blessed fruits of our 'dammed civiltsatioa, we mean the modern system of life asearathe. If proofs were wanted that circanistasices of peculiar interest invest this case, they might be Gaud in the fact that so great was the local excitement created by the MfCMILIVIPACM connected with its earlier stages, that the prisoner's c sunset found it necessary to apply for the removal of the trial to another county, and that to carry out their (under the circumstances) reasonable proposition, it was found necessary that the legislature itself should interfere and pass a special act of parliament authorising the change of venue. By such i/12- posing and unusual machinery it was removed to the me. tropolitan court, whither the public interest bee followed ft in as smelt a cerrent as at Rugely and fitafford,—so mach so that the court-house has had to be completely nastamorpboeed to meet, in some degree, the situ rdinary is of applicants for admission. The whole of the large antral table has been removed, and the vacant spaces tilled with seats and desks. as in the courts at West minster, to accommodate the bar; while in the other parts of the court every possible device bas been resorted to, to increase the amount of accommodation. The Lord Chief Justice of England, awiced by two of our mo.t, eminent criminal judges, tees the case, and the certainty of an im partial jury is obtained by the character of the panel, which includes names from Esau, Bent, Surrey, London, and Middlesex. The ablest names at the bar are ranged on either side, and the most suisest of our scientific men have been summoned u witnesses to give their opinions as to the causes of the symp t nes by which the deaths of Cook and Mrs. Palmer are alleged have been attended. We have good authority for be lieving that "in the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom," but, if report speaks truth, there is region for fearing, in the present case, that in the multitude of scien tific men, there wilt be nothing but c3nfusion. It is under st)od that a violent schism has been raging in the regions of tosioologiral up-shunt, as to the symptoms following the administration of strychnine and antimony, and • relenting crusade has been waged against the domestic animals to disprove or verify, as the case might be, the different theories of the discordant protestor,. 1 he results will possibly he felt in the contradictory character of the scientific evidence given, and not the least difficult portion of the solemn task devolving upon judge and jury will be the elimination of • setisfactory conclusion from the ' variety of opinions that will be submitted to their decision. However, no realisation of these expeotations could be ex pected is this the first day's proceedings, which opened in a singularly quiet manner, considering the space the case had occupied in the public mind for some months before. The feet seems to have been that the sheriffs, apprehensive of pressure, had so limited the issue of tickets, as wholly to preclude the probability of • rush either outside or inside. Blue tickets admitted to the body of the court, and by 8 o'clock a.m. nearly the whole of the persona who had been favoured with this clan of admission were assembled round the appointed postern. A rem uncertainty, however, prevailed, as to whether this was the right entrance, as the tickets them selves gontained no instruction, sad the police on slaty were equally reserved with regard to informs- Ina. Two or three barrister,, in wigs and gowns, Oa* lady, gad the representatives cf the pu' lie press were all that seemed to have obtained tickets for this entrance, and they might all have been admitted as they arrived without the slightest inconvenience. How ever the police inside were at once excited and inexorable. Neithertke rather uncom f arhable position of the solitary lady, the oljargations of an outraged member of the senior bar, nor the solicitations of those chose special business it was to be there could procure either admission or information. Once, at the eight of several savoury•anellieg trays from the Albion, the inspector's heart relented for • moment and he opened the wicket, but on the small band of visitors attempting to follow, • column of the garrison and a vigorous sr He which followed Immediately , was was formed inside, In a moment, after the Rl:grist manner, eminently successful in sending the besiegers, the lone lady and the fur-robed barristers inclusive, into the mud, with which, by a wise forethought, the centre of the street ' the courtesy udpu the City had previously been amply supplied. This =etcetera was zone than once repeated, and we ourselves were up the matter in despair, when, by of Mr. Alderman W re, we Wen enabled through the hostile forces. On en bring we giving v about Land Committee comfortably seated in their box, and the whole of the judicial bench It the exclusive possession of AI terosen Humphrey and Wire, who had, a few moments after, the honour of receiving the Marquis of Angles's, the Earl of Derby, and Earl Grey, the only members of the aristocracy we recogoind as being pre sent. Shortly after, the chaplain entered in clerical costume i and occupied a seat almost immediately facing the dock, an d the remaining privileged teats were gradually filled by the aldermen. At this time every one expected a tre mendous rush on the opening of the doors, but here again the effect of the sparse distribution of Make= was strikiegly apparent. The occupants of the gallery took their outs in the usual quiet and orderly manner, and even the barristers found the places allotted them without disturbing anything, even their own Mashy. The wart was soon Comfortably filled, bat on an of e o thi eil loo k i ngdhe, deuced Judges, o c a • e gar ed i:asnanthun.ot unco At vered oo t n unusual : r e fii :vt, d : h i announced : o n . u m : t isce. t . :d ri t oe the ti n te, a i n no d en : L i o ti t r e rb a s : ne s i bench. e e lad i es cn: pi j of ute au tice. The ordinary solemn preliminaries w-re got tbrongh in the anal mechaeical mariner, and immediately that mg. liar stir which either in • street crowd or i,edror awenthly in dicates the advent of some object of .urpaieing interest, told as that the prisoner, William Palmer. was about to appear. He walked rather quickly to the front of the lock, but without haste or uncertainty, and looked all rued with a seemingly composed air. He seemed older than is stated in the indictment, and had evidently green much stouter daring hie confinement. He is a man rather under than over the middle height, of fair Ihrid com plexion, and linguine temperemeat, and with nothing la his round, ordinary face, to indieste 1 1 aid inelinat one or dark and deep desigas. A cued observer would set him &Awn ea a respectable, good humoured farmer; and • phy•iognimigt would be more in dined to give him credit for social and convivial habit'', than thou elaborately planned crimes which the indictment lays to his charge. His forehead is high and open, and altogether the expression of his countenance is the reverse of disagreeable. His manner during the day was en trely free from bravado; and, although oat the jury bein called, he scrutinised the face of each man et'eetively as he some up, he declined his right of challenge, and consequently the first twelve were sworn, after an inquiry from the Chief Justice as to wheti•er any of three were in terested in either of the three suer .nce c meanies Gummed in the cue. One gentleman sub•equectly demurred on the potted of "having a prejudice," and the plea being admitted he was immediately discharged and another subetituied. During the pexces of swearing the interest of the audience was teen. ferred Irons the dock to the jury box, and each juryman he foie and took the book underwent a rcrutiaiiing minatien. From the frequent recurrence of the words " baker," " tailor," " confectioner," eic., during the calling over of the panel, it would 'near that they were all of the middle class of shopkeepers, and all from different dis tricts. They looked to be quiet, respectable men, and their demeanour indicated a full seese of the heavy respourbility that deceived on them of deciding "without fear, favour, or affection," on that most solemn of all queitiens, the life or death of a fellow-creature. Next to the pelsoner, the pen ins whom the public were most auxins" to see, were his brother from Rugeley, with a strong family resemblance, but d , sad Mr. Smith, his very active solicitor, whose name has been so frequently Were the public. It was men Ixed In exert that this gentleman had endeavoured to nears the services of Sir Fitzroy Ke.ly, but that the latter had demanded one thousand &new w i th his bre, and con sequently, and in the absence of Seejeant Wilkie', the leadership was entreated to S.rjeant Shee. It was also said, that on the side of the proseoution some confusion had arisen in the carriage of the proceedings, in coosequence of the change of solicitors that had more then once taken place. la the first place, a gentleman from Rugeley was employed, tun the case was entrusted is Mr. Rtyaolds, but that gentleman becoming suddenly aftl c.ed at once with illness and a severe domestic calamity, the ease was handed back to the Rogeley solicitor again. Seeing that the most trivial details of the great criminal trials of former days are read with the deepest interest whensoever they become matters of history, it may not be amiss to notice that in this, not the least remarkable of the present time, the Chief Justice himself took special charge of the cue from the commencement, and indicated an earnest nervous anxiety that tied and iwpartialjnatice should be done. Nothing either could be more temperate then the state ment of the case by the Attorney.Oeneral, which was merely a lucid auel connected narrative of the events con nected with the dean et John Parmens Cook, the charges connected with which was the first in the order of trial. THE TRIAL. William Palmer, aged 31, detcribed as a surgeon, wU arraigned fir the wilful murder of John Parsons Cook. The prisoner in a clear Sem tone of voice, plea lel" Not Guilty." The Attorney-0 I, Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Weisby, and Mr. Bluddlertme appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. 8 rjeant Shee, with whom were Mr. Grove, Q.O , and Mr. Keneely, defended the prisoner. The fallowing jurors ware then called —Thorns. Knight, Richard Dumbral, William Mayor (veterinary surgeon), William Newman, George Miller, George Oakshot, Charles Bates, William Bei:lesion, Samuel Mullet, John Over,Wil. liars Nialh, and William Pigtail.. Mr. E. ism, e, Q C., intimated that it would be as well, if any of tone gentlemen were interested in the Prince of Weer, the Guardian, end %slither insurance office, that they should leave the box. The Lord Chief J net eet intimated assent, but none of the jury retired. The jury were then sworn. A jarymen espied John Mason wu put into the boo, but upon his intimating that he was prejudiced with regard to the Cate, he was allowed to withdraw, his place being sup plied by Mr. William Fletcher. The Attorney-General now opened the case to the jury, bespeaking their . impartial cionsideration of the evident*, and imploring them to dismiss from their minds anything they may hitherto have beard with regard to it. The case had assumed a position of vast importance, and there was scarcely any branch of society which had not canvassed its details, but he appeared there as the minister of jolter., and if the evidence should be insufficient to clearly establish the guilt of the prisoner, God forbid that the scales of justice shield be overbalanced against him. Having said thus much, he would proceed to give • brief history of the prisoner, and the cime imputed to him. Tee prisoner then had been originally brought up to the profession of • surgeon, end he afterwards practised at Rugeley, in Staffordshire, for some few pars. He subse. quietly went en to the turf, and s mos short time ago, with the ezcepttou of a few patients, be made over his practice to a Mr. Thireby. Ice the course of his previa on the turf he became acquainted with a young man aimed John Perrone G. ok, who bad bun brought up to the profession of the law, and he was eventually admitted as an attorney and iol:citor in the legal tribunals f the country. Thi. roues rase, however, did not adopt the law as his only tailing, for he was else a follower of the turf, and in tnie latter capacity the prisonet Imams acquainted with him. Both had been the pro• pelotas of race h'.reel, and both appeared to, have been confederates in turf transoetions, aad it wee alleged that the prisoner, takirg advaatage of this confidence, hod Winced the means f administering poison to the young man Cook, and thereby oecsoioniog hie death. Motive a nu r .c 1 into this esso largely ; it we-, in fact, • leading element; and it would therefore be necesearyt for him to go into the detail, of other matter*, in order to discover the motive which must have actuated the primer in administeriew the poison to one who bad before been his moat jot mete friend. The learned gentleman thee pr.:we fried *ts relate the money and bill trans actions of the pro run during the yore 1853, 18.51, and 18.55. In the first year the prisoner was in difficulties; his wife at that period died,and her lifebeirginsured f0r13,0001., wish *hie money he was enabled to pay elf some of hie liabilities, and also to porch On two hones which they would hear something of in the CAMS of this [tie!, celled Nettle and Chicken. The pecceeds of the in.orance, however, were insufficient to clear him of all his difficulties, and now it would appear that he hod recourse to forgery for the purpose of ovtaiLiog tho means to me a t las more 1 pressing demaods. In the meanwhile, his hrother, upon whose life be had eff cted au tentrhtlee for 13,0001., died. With this money he had hoped to pet rid of his forgeries; but, unfortunately for him, the policy was disputed, and the money never paid. He was therefore driven again to apply for assistance to a solicitor named Pratt, who had before helped him with advances, but that gentleman declined to lend any further aid with , ut substantial security. In this state of Wogs be induced Cook to make an swipe meat uponto Mr. the Pratt understandingo twOb u t that a c el led his i r Piero:T:,lS t.nibb e longing of p ie r ? and a it s hold u li a o rst e for rw theic re: e " ba to bie t ee he . The money, t istett er with the wimp warrant, wee remitted by Mr. Pratt to the prisoner at Doncsstfr, where he and Cook were attending the race.. Tee money was sent in a cheque payable t' tee order of Co ; but instead of hand le' over either the cheque or the wine w errant t h's friend, be put the latter into his per het and, having f rped Cook's name to the cheque, paid it into his banker's et Hugely, who afterwar is realised it in London. It should be usderstood that the prisoner bad still out Severs' bevy running bills in favour of Mr Pratt; and that gentlemen, after the tran.ection just referred to. wrote Ice remind him that the hills must be punctually met, or his wo'hee, whose same wee up in th' in, would br troubled with legal proceedings. At this time it hal been weer tidied teat the policy on the br they's life would be dia -1 retied, and in September and October last year, Mr. Pratt became very pressing for muerte., writing repeatedly to the prisoner ' s mother, threatening to issue writs, but, through the agency of the then poen:testi r Replay, named Cheshire, these letters were intercepted, and answered by the prisoner. Three pressing demands were met by payment. to the extent of some hundreds of pounds, but there still remained 1,4001. due on the bills; and on the 13th of November Mr Pratt wrote to ine4ll upon the payment of that sum. On this day. Cook's horse, called Pole Star, was the Shrewsbury HaselicaP. the value of which Was 424/., and this rem added to his bete shouldon a d tg , ,heit ' e t I n t 0 go,