The Express. — London, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

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TO CORIZOPONDINTIL Ildwrllimels Wisimi IN "Tie Illzlime." lamwe R.setNl a" be al lik• oem Tin *via os di au el patinas& Ten A 001110 AL 001411448,—V1CT111 , '—Tllll AID aIKOOND 1L0014.-Arl TYY GLIAMEttS.—Coa row 7. PILINOVIIIIAL TEN Furoo. LllllllO TOO PUT. -AM ?II TEMPEST. Us. O. &ma -Dens ernr MiligUlL Az i ts Snow SPIIIIRALDL. Kum FL B~fd.Oa■M Y Um. sod Orin; Mr &au .. fts4-1111TallitIELT Pi ri g &tie .gb" MI EMPILIIOII D NUM WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. is Dav—Wissfass. M. Ma. diaIMNS. Ma. Twasaarit—Monlag. 3L ...... AMMO" M. 40M LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY IL Btu.. an now coming io—one for the Persian War, and one for the Canton hostilities. To meet them, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asks the Mouse of Commons to continue the present duties on Tee and Sugar for the next two years. Their con tinuance for that period will bring no to the Aenua Nirebilis, when we hope and expect to get rid of the Income Tax altogether. Heaven help the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER for 1860, if he • --- disappoint us! At present, however, t. sufficient for the day is the evil thereof •" so let us turn to the consideration of oar wars, their cost, and how to pay it. The Persian War *u, no doubt, a non-Parlia zentary war. That is to say, the Ministers of the Crown directed the Indian Government to make war on the Shah of PERSIA for Indian purposes authorised the Indian Government to advance money to carry it on; agreed to pay the European ex pease ; sever announced to Parliament the fact that we were at war, or stated to it the causes of the war; did not lay before it any papers showing how it was that such a war was in their opinion unavoidable and justifiable. After peace was concluded only did Ministers presentablue book, which—the =Rive afeurioaity no longer actively existing, and the op reanity of useful criticism being past—of course filw have read, or can now be induced or provoked to road; and now that all interest in the war is over, the Hoene of Commons is asked to vote half•a- million—not for its total cost, but, so far u yet ap• pears, merely to account. Viewed from a highly constitutional stand-poinb nothing can look worse than this. But then it is not exactly the whole case. It is very true that LOrd "MLrxasror prefers to take any persons, or body, ito his confidence in preference to tho }BUM of Oommone. A deputation from Islington is sure of a statement from the noble Viscount, apparently frank sad complete ; and the worthy rottir., retire from his presence charmed and delighted will: the easy, familiar, and pleasant explanations they have received—charmed with their first lesson in " foreign politics made easy." But when asked for similar explanations in the House of Commons, who so reserved, who so costive, who so " dodgy' as Lord PiLmexerov ?—who so great a master of pro mastination, who so glib of stereotyped excuses and (Alicia! replies, meaning nothing ? All this art of resistance Lord PALMERMT played off te perfection on the question of this Permian War. That we quite admit. But he really had some better excuse than usual. When Parliament met, the papers, he armed it, would be laid on the table with all practicable despatch. Now, practicable despatch, we all know, means some unnecessary delay. This unneeemary delay in the present instance brought the Persian Ambassador first to Constantinople, where he wrote insincere notes to the invisible Lord STR \ NORD ; and then to Paris, where he produced his full powers to the less crigeont Lord Cow Lee. Thus the unneeemary delay involved in all practicable despatch landed Lord Pees EILSTON in negotiations for peace. On the fact of those negotiations he M isted all applications for the papers, and suppli cated Parliament not to discuss the question of the war. Under the circumstances, Parliament did not insist on the papers, and postponed discussion —wisely and prudently, as it turned out ; for a peace —not uneatisfuotot7 if it really is a peace—and cer tainly placing our relations with Persia on a better footing than that in which the war found it—was the apparent melt of this Parliamentary abstinence. The owe is not one of which we can be constitu tionally proud. On the contrary, there is • great deal in it to be very much ashamed of. But then Lord PALMERSTON is not, and does not affect to be, • oonstitutioeal Prime Minister. Although in his time he has flouted the Crown itself, and even kept mosarche waiting for dinner, he has a higher esti mate of the power and authority of the SOVEREIGN'S Ministers than most English statesmen, and he has alwayabeen anxious to keep the fingers of the House el Commons out of foreign policy and affairs. On the other hand, although this unconstitutional tinslency probably assisted in getting the country into the Persian War, the abstention of the Hones probably got us much sooner out of it than any great debate would have done. The war was unpopular. No matter what defence it was capable of, people were resolved not to be satisfied with it. This feeling was not lost on Lord PALEIER mom, and, a Parliamentary debate not coming to Taaties Kwiti's assistance, that Persian represen tative made substantial concessions to avoid further disasters for his master. We are happily out of the Persian War, and are now,of amuse, well entitled to protest against the ewes Lord PaLseasrots pursued and to denounce its cost, if we are so disposed. But we must in fair ness and in justice recollect that our Indian Empire L altogether an exceptional affair. It is impossible to bring it within the constant purview of Parlia ment. The Legislature has not time, inclination, lueowledge, or competency to do more than intervene i• great emergencies and to exercise some control ne occasional appeals to it. India has too external rliatio•s : it is exactly in Persia where its external relations and those of the Home Government meet ; wad in dealing with an Oriental Prince and a Ma beweda• Power we must treat them very much, not i• oar, but in their sense of right and wrong, and Is their intentions and acceptance of things. Far Me it tram RR to my that • war with Persia is not a Pepe subject for Parliamentary discussion. Be. A all doubt it is. Bat it is obvious that in dealing PEWS. as with lad* Ministers, whoever they e la TSB EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1857. may be, must have far greater latitute allowed them than in area and affairs in Europe. In the instance of the Afghta War they had that latitude, so also in the two Sikh Wars, in the Burmese War too, and, lastly, in this Persian War. In truth it must be so. India and its relations are • good deal outside the Convtitntion. When we can drag them within, so much the better for them and for ourselves. But don't let us endanger India for the sake of form or strict attention to the Bill of Bights, still less for the ease of Mr. Rotermes uneasy conscience. It may be very shocking to the ears of sentimen talists, but we should, as practical persons, have been quite content to have seen the whole cost of the Persian War thrown on the finances of India. Indeed, were it not that the revolt in the Bengal army is likely for the time to press heavily on these finances, we should have strongly resisted any part of its cost being a burthen on the Home Treasury. The entire superstructure of our relations with Persia rests on an Indian basis ; it is as an Oriental Power that we deal with Persia; the charge of diplomatic representation there is paid for by the Indian Government ; and it was for exclusively Indian purposes, or for the assumed safety of British Indi t, that we recently went to war with the Slum Our Indian Empire pays its own coot; it pays for its own defence; it pays for the Court of Directors at home and for the Board of Control too ; it paid for the Afghan War, which war sprung out of a policy identical with that which led to the Persian War. Why theu should any part of the cost of the Persian War be thrown on England ? AU precedent, all analogy, all principle is against any such imposi tion. If we have to pay one-half the extra expense of this Persian War, we may have to pay two-thirds of the next; and so we may go on increasing the proportion, until India becomes a serious burthen on the finances of England. . In the position in which the question of the Per sian War now stands, this seems to ns by much the most practical part of it. Why should we have to pay a single penny for it? Ir any illustration could be wanted to enforce the views so eloquently urged by Lord LTNOMERST in his recent protest against the inequality of the Law of Divorce as it affects the two sexes in cams of matrimonial infidelity, it is supplied by the report which appeared in our columns yesterday of the pro.. ceedings in BARING'S Divorce Bill. On the facts et this distressing cue it is net necessary to dwell in any detail. Mr. WILLIAM FREDERICK BARING, the petitioner, a married man with two children, raiding at Eaton Hall, near Retford, in the county of Nottingham, became acquainted some few years back with a Mr. and Mrs GORDON, the. resident in the immediate neighbourhood. A class intimacy sprang up between the families—as intimacy that, as regarded Mr. GORDON and Mn. BARING, soon passed the limits of virtue and self-re. straint. It was not till the spring of the present year that anything occurred to alarm the suspicions of Mr. BARING. He then became the reluctant and asto nished witness of a fact that left no reasonable doubt of his wife's guilt. Inquiry was set on foot, and produced. as in such melancholy eases it often does, the miserable proof that the intercourse which bad worn the outward semblance of friendship had been a long intimacy of guilt. Mr. BARING announsed his intention of separating from his wife, appointing an hour for a final interview. Mrs. BARING deenned the interview, and at once went up to town with the adulterer. At the Great Western Railway Hotel the fugitive and her paramour were living together in the free indulgence of their guilty passion, when a terrible scene ensued. Mrs. GORDON, the wife of the adulterer, made her way into the presence of the false friend and the false husband. The woman lied— the husband and the wife were left together. When the friend who accompanied Mrs. GORDON re visited the room after 20 minutes' abscess, I he found the wretched wife making a passionate appeal to Mr. GORDON to retire home. The appeal failed, and the unhappy lady fainted under the stress of that prolonged agony d contending passions. She was at that time eneeigg tit I she was removed to the country : she had a timn. gerous illness : the husband was telegraphed ht : he came, and he went spin never to ream. Mr. B kRINO brought his action : the damages were assessed at 3,0001. This brut's= Adam of an indignant British jury was, of course, goaded in the style which has long been onstomary in such cases. Mr. GORDON took his poesage to Boulogne before the verdict was pro nounced, and is still, we learn, an inmate of that famous City of Refuge for all the naffs and roues of this eminently moral island—absolved from the cares of wedlock and beyond the reach of bailiffs. Mr. Btausti having gone through all the forms which the absurdity of the law still prescribes— baring obtained his verdict in the action for trigs. on. in the common law courts, and his decree of divorce d maenad eg gkoru in the ecclesiastical courts— has just succeeded in getting his bill for dissolution of marriage read a second time in the House of Lords. All this, under the circumstances, is • mere matter of course, and Mr. BARING, in the course of • few weeks and at the cost of a few thousand, of pounds, will succeed in breaking asunder by the strong arm of the law the violated tic which binds him to an adultness. But how stands the case with Mrs. GORDON Aggrieved. insulted, trampled on, there is no release for her. Flagrant, shameless, cruel has been the wrong; but the wise, the humane, the enlightened law of England can offer her no redress. With a smile of self-complacent wisdom on the lip, with arms folded in indolent impotence, that renowned and equal Justice which is the boast and glory of our land solemnly looks down on this ineffable injustice, in the blind and obstinate conviction that it is a wrong for which it is hopeless to find a remedy. As the law now stands, Mrs. GORDON is wholly without the power of procuring a dissolution of the marriage tie on any terms; as the law will stand, supposing the Divorce Bill of 1867 to pass unaltered through the Commons, she will have the power of freeing herself from the union, but only after a lengthened period of absolute desertion has been added to the insufficient provocation of base and flagrant infidelity. Can our Legislators really be insensible to the scandal and inequality of such a law WI this ? The probability rather is, that, admitting the hardship, they do not see their way to an alleviation. They need not look far before they find one. The law for husband and wife is equal in Scotland, equal in the United States. It is not found to be abused in either. It is for the opponents of this righteous rule to show cause for thinking that it will be abused here. We should be exceedingly reluctant in any way to en danger the success of the Divorce Bill as sent down from the House of Lords; it contains so very much that is salutary, it is so far in advance of what priori could have been expected, that we had fax rather accept it as it is, than run the slightest risk of im- L perilling the chances of its becoming law ' this session, by urging any claims however just, or any amendments however obvious. • Even with such unanswerable arguments as those contained in Lord LYNDHURST' si protest, and such startling illustrations as that supplied by Mr. BARING'S Divorce Bill, it will still, perhaps, be mare prudent in our Law Reformers to adopt as their rale of conduct for this session, in reference to the Divorce Dill, the maxim gado non motere. A time must come, and that speedily, for making further concessions to the demands of good sense and the dictates of morality. When that time arrives, the case of Mrs. GORDON will have to be cited as among the most flagrant examples of the one-sided oppressiveness of the existing law. A BILL is now before the House of Lords fur amending the Winding-up Acts, and unless we misunderstand the matter it is most fit that its future progress should be watched, and that Government should be called on to furnish some explanation on the subject. So far as we can discern, it is identical in principle and very similar in its details with • Bill of last session, which originated in the House of Lords, and was after considerable discussion rejected by the Com mons. On that occasion Mr. MALINS, the Member lee Wallingford, advocated the measure. So ques tionable, however, did its provisions seem that be was not only opposed by many Irish Members, but esien by Members on his own side of the House, erruipt whom we remember the Eames elf Kr. lIENLEY and Mr. Curren. Unfortu nately, the Bill of this session, involving the same principles which were so emphatically con demned last session, has nearly reached the wished fee goal ; inasmuch as it has only to pass the Lords—an ordeal which it succeeded in getting through last year without much difficulty. We think it right, there fore, to c'-aw the attention of their Lordships to the petition of one MICHAEL CARROLL, which is now be fore as, in which be alleges, and apparently on good grounds, that if this Bill becomes law he will be deprived of certain valuable rights which as a cre ditor he has a'-eady acquired. He asserts that this Bill is intended to apply to the case of the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank—that memorable BADLElR swindle—and " that, contrary to all precedent, the provisions of the Bill will have a retrospec tive operation, and will most injuriously affect the vested rights and interests of the petitioner." This is a serious objection, so serious that it was one of the chief reasons why the Bill was thrown out last session. It may be that there is some provision which will protect vested interests, but we confess it has escaped us. It may be very inconvenient and very expensive that where a Company is not made bankrupt, but has been brought under the Winding up Acts, the majority of creditors should be incapable of binding the minority. No doubt it would be a great improvement if the creditors were able to appoint representatives, and these representatives empowered to bind the whole body of their coostituente, the creditors. Such regulations as these are very proper to be made for the , future. Bat the Tipperary Bank is a thing of the past. The creditors have acquired certain rights, and the shareholders have incurred certain liabilities, which ought not now to be interfered with. Thus MICHAIL CARROLL tells us he has ob tained judgments against various shareholders for his debt, and in obtaining these judgments ho has incurred considerable expense. NJW he complains that if this Bill passes, his rights under such judg meats will be destroyed, and he will be unable to recover the costs to which he has been put in obtain- ing these judgments. Whether this be so or not is a question for the law officers of Government to answer. It does seem far from improbable that the repre- sentatimu elected bye majority of the creditors, who by the first section of this Bill are to have power to bind all the creditors in such compromise as they approve of, may agree to compromises which would be destructive of the rights of some of the creditors. We must observe that the class of persons who con stitute the creditors of the Bank are many of them small farmers sad tradesmen, whose voices will never practically be heard in the choice of their representatives; and no doubt many of the larger creditors are men who will not only elect the repre sentatives, but will have influence enough to get the terms of the compromise so framed that they will not themselver ruffcr. It is true that the Judge or Muter must give his sanction ; but the danger is, that the cue of the small depositors will never be brought to the notice of either the Muter or the lodge. At all events, we protest against any attempt at ex poet facto unless the amplest security is taken that vested rights shall be respected. Those persons in the position of MICHAEL CARROLL who have obtained judgments, and who have incurred expense in so doing, must have their vested rights secured ; and if the Bill is permitted to pass, a provision must be introduced into it in order effectually to secure this. THACKZRAT for Oxford! The city of Oxford is not the University of Oxford, yet its close contact with alma mater imparts to it an intellectual charac ter. As the flower in the Persian fable says, "I am not the rase, but I have grown in the same garden as the rose," Oxford, like Edinburgh, is one of the few coeudituencies to which we ought to be able to look with confidence for a due appreciation of the claims of a literary celebrity. Wo shall be re minds& of the antagonism between " Town" atai • Gown :" it is precisely upon that an imation that we rely. Opposition springs some times from similarity of character. The University boo got the habit of choosing representatives for purely party considerations ; the City ought to show itself superior to this un-academical weakness. Seriously, there are few men whom it would give us greater pleasure to see in Parliament than Mr. TIIACIERAT. We want en infusion of men of in tellectual pursuits into the House of Commons, to elevate its tone. At present the balance is held between the purely material interests of commercial and manufacturing enterprise, and the purely mate rial interests of agricultural production. We want more scholars, to remind the representatives of breeches' pockets on bath sides that there are higher interests to be minded. Now, we frankly confess that it is not every literary celebrity upon: whom we could see such a charge devolve without feeling apprehension and misgiving. A crotchety wayward race they too often are, the brethren of the pill ; but Mr. THACKERAT is no mere hitirateur. He is a man of the world, who has mingled largely in society; he has a shrewd, observant, practical intellect ; and in addition to that, he is thoroughly imbued with the principles and sentiments of an English geirlernan. We will not pretend to indicate any special vocation that Mr. TIIACKERAY may have—any peculiar line of usefulness to which he may devote his energies. But he will serve to swell the number of right thinking and right-feeling members of the Bonne of Commons; and his sagacity and tact will eminently qualify him to conciliate and guide those who sin cerely aim at legislating for the benefit of the whole community. Therefore we say again— TIIACIERAT for Oxford! TEE admission of the Jews to Parliament is, by last night's vote of the House of Lords, pct off till next year—longer it cannot be postponed. The immediate consequence of the vote will be the re election of Baron ROTH3CHILD for the City of Loudon. DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS LAST NIGHT. OATve Bur..—Wand, that the bill be now reed II *mond time (the lord President) ; objected to; en amendment moved to keys ost (" non") and imam. (" this day three months") (the Earl of Derby). On question, That "now" Wand part of the motion—Contents (Present) 91, (Proms) 48, total 139; Not-Contents (Present) 109, (Proms.) 63, total 172. P• 1 ,11,. Orinwr Gerden. V. Lone, L. Mala o n ti. & D. L. &den Wan, V. Mettaera. L. Neeratle, D. Zw iu t Mart r, I. Norfolk. D. . V. Mental/., L Iletnerret D. Ni i=•. ° IrOt I t e agtost. D. I=ftp. 1 , 14a10. la. Allerhary, M. ... . DD. Or el, L. in Wallow, K. L. rsoteure. L. Imelefolore. M. Pete. L. Tanana.. N. il Vow. L. P4.rteaus, L. Wertrolater, K. L. Fiere.......an, 1.. Ka. /t Wren, 1.. Aleserka. IL 11...1e, L Annum* & =11:11.L Mere &A MI6 le &AWOL B. Oww, 1. Helton. L. Clatireeter, IL Orplaft. L. e.m.riolL L. flared," S. Onsaraln. L. Stafford, L Cotasbam, N. Cliairboyc L rion?r, of A Walay.L. Omar, IL Strafford, L Durban, Z. r•• oat de Dods, L. 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Chodlimo, L AO,. 11. NoIWO. IL Cletnattr. L. Cb hatestbary. M. Stamford astl Ws. CD... I. TrtaeJ.l3l*. M. E. vni=r.. Croft.. L. Dtatll• and CLIt. AO.: fora. X. c.. 1. L. /Wetter. K. Dm. V. Yoxford, L. turi...l Vv. X. Derrsar. V. 01. X.. L. estbrart. IL IMAM. V. fir. L. DeetAttb, X. ft/rard i ; ;. Mho... to Er. IL Saw. 1.141.11... L. Van.. K . 001.1 ford. Z. it i r .r bso hlo. Phi... L. ftolarly. L. 821toriford. L. Itarrwal,4. L = i t Be. flarrtuitob, M k .4 ile , ja t l. 11,11.0000. b. Ilastb. DP. I. I 34berte K.I. K. !IL An^. ft Ilhafitedar. Sra Vinci.% L. Man.rs,ll. Valet Leortarr4. L. Netron. X. Orlo, IL M"kr... L. Orford, V.. Wetors. L. Whab. L. CURIOUS BUM 111 THB HOUSE OF LORDS. The roles of their lordships respecting proxies led to • curious sone last night ea the division on the Jew Bill. The eels Is, that when proxies are being taken no peer is to leave Wssa but as the peonies are called seriatim by the As k at the table from the book in which they are en tered, the peer to whole the proxy is given rime uncovered, and rays content, or um-content. Usually, indeed of rising, the peer simply takes off his hat. Last night, one of the peers gave his proxy vote while apparently standing below the bar. The rote was Instantly objected to, on the ground that the peer Is question was not technically in the house. Hempen • discussion arose, which had the drollest poseibie effect upon the spectator., inasmuch as the peers were supposed to be glued to their seen, all tion being contrary to the rules of the house. They all spoke sitting, WON with their hats on, half a dozen at a tmie, end each to make himself heard had to raise hie voice to a pitch meet unusual in that solemn assembly. Lord Campbell commenced questioning the delinquent peer, " Where were you—were you in the hewer all this sitting and &roam the door, sad we know net how many peers speaking at the same time. On this the voice of the Duke of Buceleugh I. heard thundering across the house protesting against one peer being called in question by anotheri per. some one quoted the House of Common,. Lord Westmeath thunders out, protesting against being governed by the precedents of the House of Commons. Their lordehips must stand on their own bottom. Lerd Granville quietly remarked that they should at least be governed by common sense. Lord Clounicarde, to settle the qaestion, tries to get at • book ; but es he, like the rest, is suppoeed to be glued to his seat, he had to make • furious rush to the table and back again for the purpose. Lord Campbell again commences questioning 7 Lord itedeclale ex pounding the law—Lord Saliebury explaining where the peer IMP, and the peer himself laughing and explaining nothing all in the same autocratic fashion, se if they were afraid that even their lips should be seen to move. This droll spectacle ended by the vote being admitted. The Jewiab claims do not make much way in the Home of Lords. Lot year the bill was vjected by a ma- patty of 32-110 to 78.. This year the adi;eree majority is 34, sad the house as both side. mastered more arongly, the riumbeni being 173 to 139. It has been arranged that instead of the punish ment of seven years' transportation, as oriainal , y proposed in the Fraudulent Trustees Bill now before parliament, the term of tt•ree years shall be adopted, and that this may Le modified to fine or imprisonment for not more than two years, with or without hard labour. - The bill promoted by the directors of the Great Northern Railway to throw the coat of liodpeth's hands on the preference gareholdies, rend the committee of the lime of Lords yesterday afternoon, to tho anoniehment of it. opponent.. It will therefore be forthwith brought up for it. thir d reading. _ _ Ma. BASS, M.P., AND TILE I)I*CDT OP LAN CA/1711:80M Of Our readers may remember that when a debate arose in the House of Common. on Mr. Wins motion bra committee to inquire into the affairs of the Duchy of Larder, Mr. Baas made certain ohoonstiunk He complained of having to keep game on the Duchy lands rented by him in Staffordshire, for the benefit of the Crown and ita favourites. For that com plaint, aside by Mr. Baas, es a member of parlia ment, he has been punished, we hear. Lord Waterperk, axe-bearer to the Duchy, beers not the axe in vain—that is, enter the report in circulation be Wee. By virtue of his office of axs-bearer he IS vested with authority over the Dueby Waits, and in the exercise of it he writes (goesip say.) a latter of rebuke to Mr. Bees. A cogragendenes enema, and ends in the with drawal from Mr. NM of his shooting privileges over his own leaseholds, to the rim depreciation of the property, lame holders not beim waling to ltuld under the boo idnisir of Lord Waterpwk. _Why has not the honourable member brought Lord `Waterperk to the bar of the house for this onconeitu- Dowd rowan P—Leader. Tin Dun AND WEST INDIA BOCK 4.—At a meeting of the proprietors of the F 4104 and West India Docks yesterday, the report wee unanimously adopted, and a dividend of 3 per mat., free of income-tax, was declared, being at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. The report stated that there had been a coneiderable deficiency, as com pared with last year, in the tonnage from the Bast cod West Indies and the Mauritius, which WAS n. t counterbalanced by increseed arrivals from Chins, Australia, and the Baltic, the numbers. being 384.116 tens in 1867, e4mket 403,338 in 1856, showing falling off of 19,222. The impede of colonial produce having also teem low, the stocks in the warehouses had been diminished, so as to affect the receipts for rent. The directory., however, considered those circumstances to be purely exceptional, and felt justified in recommending the declaration of the usual dividend. New eceetroctions and improvemente were stated to be in progress at the Easters Docks for the accommodation and security of ships of heavy Medea. The meeting &reed with a vote of thanks to the board. The .Flje Journal reports a subterraneous fire in the Dysart coal seam. In the village, says the game autho rity, " the walla era rending, the lime is bursting at some Owe off the wing, numbers of the doors will not phut, nod some of the noon are bursting sounder. The farmhouse at Brunton is torn, and swayed, and propped to hold I It up." cps court. The Queen, nocentpanied by the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and Priam Freclerick William of Prussia, took a drive in an vim carriage and four on Thursday afteenigiu. Lord Charlie Mem and Major-General Bouvorie attendedon honebeek. Thu Prince Commit, the Princom Charlotte of Belgium, and the Count of Flanders, went to inspect the new Palace of Westminster on Thursday afternoon, end afterwards visited the British Museum. tier Melody and the l'rinre Consort, with his Majesty the King of the Baleena and the other royal visitors, were con ducted to a state supper at 12 o't lock on Thursday night by Earl Spencer, Lord Steward of the Queen's household. tier Majesty and the illustrious party afterwards returned to the ball and ooncert room, where the Queen remained I until two o'clock yesterday morning, when her Majesty and the royal gnats retired, the quadrille band playing the national anthem. iiseDnch;e7f Kent visited the Qom yesterday. The Prince Comsat rodeos horseback, attended by Capt. the Hon. D. de ROC Ilia Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Prince's Char lotte, and tho Count of Ihutdcra, attended by the Counter d' Yve, Madame do Bovee and Count Moerkerke, went to the residence of the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, at Teritlien ham, yesterday. l'nnoe Arthur and the Prioresses Helena and Lonfiis, took a drive in an open carriage and four Yeelerda). The Queen, with the Prinoess ltoyel, and the Primers Charlotte of Belgium, took a drive in an open earrings and four in the afternoon. Lord C. Fitzroy attended on horseback. The l'rince (Newt rode on homeback with Prinoe Frederick William of Praia* attended by the lion. Capta't D. de Roe. _ TieliTMen had a dinner party last evening. The company included the King of the Belgisns, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince.. Royal, the Duchene of Cambridge, and the Princ es. Mary, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the Count of Flan den, and Prince Frederick William of Pruattia, the Prince of Hohenzollern. the Belgian Minister, Lady Anna Maria Demme, the Lady in Waiting to the Durham of Cambridge, Countess d'Yve Madame de Borer, the Berl and Countess of Westniorelmid, Sir George Cooper, Count de Moerkerko, Captain Burnell, Dr. Koepl, tbeEquerry in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Baran Moltke, and Baron Alvan'. lobes. Altar dinner there was a esnairt. The performance took place in the edam. Her Illajestra private band attended, under tiuldirceiton of Mr. Anima& 'me fell., was the pargeormr : Mr. "Tae ewe lo MN " Breit T• zr . ;,...,, , vi. .w.. Wag nar k .lii.. 'raw {-1: sk.ral l fv. L. m rre vr. 6 " k e6 DOWD, Old ....... .. ..... Nledenneler. AUuodena lea -Mr " Maims A name. POI, PADA Mir . ~., . 1 .." . Deoson. Se.roate.. Des .Mr' * u * A otardotAs Illuy. ..ttmez e,-. 11,416..w:Ii...ei,kzierica ~ the planuforte. The Prince of Lehdages lidt 011111•0111 Hew" St. James's, yesterday, for Portsmouth. Mr. Alderman Salmons, Mr. George Holgate Foster, Mr. Northall Laurie, Mr. Cayley, M.P., and Mr. William Nicol, a deputation representing the London and Weatminster Bank, the London Joint-Stock Bank, the Union Bank of London, the Commercial Bank of L 01 2 ,100, and the London and County Bank, had an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley and the Right Hon. IL Lowe, yesterday. A deputation of Scottish bankers had also an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley of Aldcrley and the Right Hon. IL. Lowe, at the once of the Board of Trade. A deputation from the parish of St. Pancras, introduced by Mr. P. W. Martin, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Church warden Wyatt, Mr. G. A. Young, Rev. K. Littler, Mr. Itashleigh, and Mr. Clarke, and attended by Mr. Hibbard, clerk of the directors and guardians, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. P. Doucette, at the office of the Poor law Board, on the subject of the workhouse of the parish, as represented in the debate in the Haase of Commons on the 25th iorplches +ere sent yesterday to the Governors of Canada, the Mauritius, Ceylon, and Hong Kong, from the Colonial-office. THE ROYAL VICTORIA PATRIOTIC ASYLUM. (IRIS DAY.) ller 'Majesty will lay the first stone of this new Asylum for orphan daughters of Soldiers, Seamen, and Ma rines, at five o'clock thin afternoon, on the site chosen for the balding, Wandsworth-common, near the Clapham station. 100 orphan boya (50 from the Duke of York's School and 50 from Greenwich School), and 100 orphan girla (50 from the Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and 50 from the Soldiers Infant Home), will be placed vs :thin the enclosed space. The royal commissioners and the executive and finance committee will ensemble at the Royal P►vilion in levee dress, to receive the Quoen at five o'clock. Her Majesty's arrival will be ertiounced by • royal e late from • lottery of artillery. It will be • most interesting ceremony, a., in addition to the mem bere of the Royal Family, all the great Officers of State will br present, and the Archbishop of Canterbury will offer up a blessing for the Institution. A Guard of Honor.- of the Scots Fusiliers will receive the Queen, also a battery of the Royal Artillery. The hands of the Foot Guards and the Woolwich division of the Royal Marines will be present. A temporary road has been constructed, along which the royal cortege will proceed to the g.-end reception pavilion, erected by B. Edglngton. From thence along • covered platform, her Majesty, mite, and officials, s'l par to the stone. A large amphitheatre, to seat 2,000 perms, has been erected by Mr. Alderman Cubist, commanding a view of the scene, and as the weather is highly favoe-able,the ceremony will be witnessed by thousands. lier Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by tho Princess Royal, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and the younger members, keys Buckingham Palace on the 16th or 18th Jost., for Osborne, to peas a few weeks at her Majesty's marine residence. It is not expected that the Queen and court will return to town until after the contem plated visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French. Her Majesty hna granted to Lieut. R. C. Mayne, R.N., permission to weer the natal' of the Order of the Legion of Honour —Omits. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Primer Mary leers Cambridge Cottage at the close of the month for a tour in Switzerland, after which the royal duchess goes to Rumpenhenn, near Frankfort, to pass the autumn. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen left Clarence House, IR. larvae's, yesterday, for Portsmouth. His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess d'Apponyi are to be hammered by the company of their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at Chandos House this evmeng. Lady Moiesworth entertained at dinner, yester day, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bornstorff, the Marquis and Marchioness of Brea&lbane, the Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis end Marchioness of elanricarde, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Earl and Countess of Fife, the Dowager Countess of Marley, the Viscountess Combermere, Mr. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beaumont, Lord John Hay, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Marjoribanks, the Hon. Waller Harbord, Viscount Cholla', and Viscount Csatlereese, M.P. The Baron and Baroness de Keverberg have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, 'amp-street, from the Netherlands. The Count and Counter de Cutenano have arrived at the Clarendon, from Part. We (Western nmes) hear that a marriage is on the trtpia between Miss Mary Laura Talbot, of Rhode Hill, in this county, and Mr. Lewin Bentham Bowring, third eon of Sir John Bowring. The parties are both Roman ratio,- lick Mr. Bowring is a member of the Civil Service of India —who has highly distinguished himself se a scholar, having gained hie appointment se the reward of hie proficiency at Haileybury College. The Doke of Manchester has unrestrictedly placed at the disposal of Mr. Cunningham the whole of the original autograph letters adhered by Horace Walpole to hie Eton schoolfellow and nearly lib-long friend, George Montagu. " To no one of hie many emesnowdents (sheens' the Illus trated London lines) did Walpels write wee unreerevedly than to Montego. When the Were were fast printed many peseeiee, of ewe% were propely animmened, as affecting Bring penom. An Miami el forty pee. he removed this neeeeelty, end the suppmemel poses to the new edifice now in the press will, of COM% imperr—aod the balk of them (luckily) in their proper Sam" A meeting of the members of the Army and Navy Club has been called for the 27th instant, to take Into consideration a communication from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the institution. It ap pears, Nays the Untied &retie. Gaseits, that bis Royal High. nese has become aware that gambling has been for some time carried on in the Club to a fearful extent. The eldest son of Sch i ller died on the 20th of tune, at Stwiterd ;he Isms one q en officer in the Aus trian service, the only immediate deeomdeat of the post bearing his name. ELECTION COIIIIIITTEIL9.-(THIS DAY.) LAMBETH. This committee reassembled at the usual hour this morning, Mr. Ingham in the chair. Mr. Edwin Q.C., applied for a warrant against a witnee. named 'l'redrr, who had refused to attend the com mittee, unless forced to do so. Ilia evidence was required reference to the proceedings at the Surrey Anne Tavern. He had been eubpoeuanl, but was keeping out of the way to avoid being compelled to attend. The committee, *her taking evidence of the point, directed that a Spiedter's warrant should issue. Mr. Edward Proom, formerly en ouinibua proprietor, but now a retired Kind/unto, we s and exa m i ne d by Mr. Edwin Janice for the petitioner.. He said he sea an elector of Lambeth, and resided at No. 2, St. Paul'. place, Westland-road. He wee a holder of considerable home property in Walworth, where he had 45 tenants, of whom ha should imagine 10 were elector.. Reacted as chairman of Mr. RoupeU's committee, which sat at St. Paul's Tavern, Wel erwth-corrinion, sod after the election ho received an amount equal to 15a. pee day, not for his **evicee, but to reimburse him the money he had paid during the mince, for cab Lire and such like expense. On the 30th of March be received • sum of 1.5 f. 2w; on the 27th, 331 12*.; and on the 31st, 201. 13e. 6d. Mr. Trneman, a member of Mr. Rolipelfs central committee paid hire the money ; but be could not my whether Mr. Truman was a clerk in the eervice of Mr. Itoupell. The money was distributed aruungut the committee, the canceinere, and messenger., moat of whom he believed were voter, and polled for Williouu and Itoupell. The total amount ho received and distributed was 60f. 7s. The clue mines over which he winkled was compoind principally of Williams, friends of Mr. the other sitting rem her, but no pay-sheet or charges were sent in to that gentle man's agent. They were forwarded to Mr. Itoupere central committee, at the Ilona Tavern, where they were examined and pained for payment. The committeemen were paid at the rate of 7e. a day, and memengers at de. • day. As chair man he received i.e. a day. The committee was occupied with vimilur evidence up to three o'clock, when they adjourned until Monday. MAYO. This committee reassembled at the usual hour this morn• tag, Mr. Scholetield in the chair. The committee were occupied the whole of the morning with Mr. Karslake's summing up of the case tor the sitting member. - - o BURY ST. EDMUNDS. The above committee met again this morning, and evidence of neatiog on the part of the agents of the skiing member, Mr. LL&NuoUe, wee continued. GALWAY. The Galway Town committee resesetubled at the UMW hour dill Mollllog, and the evidence in support of the alle gation of bribery on the part of Mr. O'Fisherty the sitting naenrer's &genie, was reautued. All the committees rose early this afternoon. UNTRIED PETITIONS. Select committees severally to try the petitions complain. in of undue eloctione and returns for the Berwick-open. Tweed town, the Leitrim county, Dover borough, Finsbury borough, and Drogheda borough, will be chosen by the Oa neral Committee of Election' on Monday, the 27th, at one o'clock in the afternoon, in No. 14 Cutaouttee•ruem of the House of Common. The committees to try the petitions from the Borough, of Portsmouth, Caudle', Beverley, Sligo, the City of Dublin, and Lisburn, will be chosen on Tooeday, the 28th. LARGE BOROUGHS AND THEIR MEMBERS. (From the now number of the Edinburgh Review) While the same classes, and nearly . the same families as formerly, continue to furnish the m inistries who rule ue, and while the counties and the email boroughs return, to • great extent the same sort of members, and often the very same indivi duate, es of yore—the claw of men chosen by the large town cocurtituenews, and eepecially by the new conatituencree, ore altogether and increasingly dis similar. Thew are either men who have wade themselves known in public life—and known for the most put as holden of extreme opinions —or men of local influence and reputation. Where they do not owe their seats to dienoceatk favour, as noted radicals, they owe them to the respect and esteem they enjoy among their fellow- Imenemen. There can be few stronger or better frendid titles to a twat in parliament than this. NM who have won the trust and admiration of there among whom they hare lived, who know them well and have watched them long, will often make excellent members of proliament, 'sagacious judged of public questions, sad vigilant guardians of the public purse. It ie well that the House of Commune should consist, in • fair proportion, of such men. But there me certain onuaterbalancing amid deratione which should not be overlooked. The marked and increasing diepoeitiou of large boroughs to elect local men and mere town celebrities tends towards consequences not fully foreseen nor altogether beneficial. In the ant place, the most really able and intelligent residents are usually busy men—merchants, manufacture, or others—who cannot leave their vocations; and the choice is thus frequently driven, by a process of exhaustion, upon men whose local eminence is doe solely to their wealth, their benevolence, or the respectability of their private character. It would be in decorous and invidious to specify instances, but recent etc, I lions abound in such. And the class of member. usually sent up by the Ingest borough constituencies in the king dem has lung eupplied a subject for disparaging comment to the satagonista of reform, and has undeniably been a source of disappointment to its f, linde. la the second place men who have achieved eminence among their fellow-townsmen, and won their respect by cha racter and conduct, will necessarily, in the majority donee, be men peat middle life. As senator, whore function is namely to watch over popular rights, to check wasteful or corrupt expenditure, to counsel, and, if need be, to control the rulers of the nat ion, such men may be fully competent, and pehaps even invaluable. But the attributes and require ments of an English parliament take • 'rider range. From Its members are chosen the confidential advisers of the sore reign, the responaible ministers of the day, the men to whom are entrusted the actual reins of power, and on whom devolves the daily task-work of administration. These ministers have not merely to contrive wise measures, and to defend them skilfully in debate, but to transact barmy with foreign Make to conduct complicated affairs at home, to encounter and to solve many laborious and difficult problems of legislation and finance—in a word, not only to understand vaguely the science of politic, but to administer it practically with sagacity and diligence. The HOUIO of Commons, It is true, is not the executive, but it far niehes the chief portion of the members of that executive. Now, to become a competent and efficient minister in a country and a constitution such as ours, demands not only good capacities, but good opportunities — the devotion of the whole man-t he advantages of long and early training. It ia rare indeed that a representative who his spent the best years of bin life in alien callings, however honourable and ser viceable those callings may have been, can enter the cabinet's a minister adequate to the various and onerous requirementa of his office; and it is too late for him to commeneean apprentice ship in subordinate positloll3. Neither the faculty of debate nor that of admiuistntion, are easily acquired late in life. Few ever distinguish themselves, either in parliament or in office, who do not begin their political career while yet young and flexible—ready for toil and drudgery, and net too old to learn a new profeemon. The clam of members, therefore which it is the natural tendency and the increasing habit of large popular conetituenries to choose, is not such as can furnish moisten for the service of the country and the crown ; and the more then constituencies are midtiplied the more will the House of Commons be impoverished for official and ministerial pwposee,—the more restricted will be the body from whom, practically, we can choose our rulers. As a rule, large boroughs will not elect young men or unknown men ; es a role, too, only men who enter parliament while young will become, can be induced to become, or are fitted to become, ministers;—it follows, therefore, inevirably, that, if the prevalent democratic notion of a Belton Bill were stri y carried out by the disfranchisement of small boroughs and the transfer of their members to the moat populous towns, the effect would be to confine ua, in our chance of three alternatives. Either we must take them from rgel to House of Peers,—and already there is an increasing tendency towards this born of the dilemma,—or we must look to those ancient and wealthy county families who, by connexion, by territorial influence, ly ancestral custom (aa it wen), can return their younger members for county consti tuencies •—or we must follow the example of other natione, and so fir alter our constitution s to snake ministers out of statesmen by education and prefeeeion,—but statesmen whose adneetiaa has been conducted, not in the Noun of Commons, bat In the offices of establiehed and experienced politicians. To state the matter broadly, our leaden and rulers would be 'Rhea' aristocrats or bureaucrats. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT WATERLOO.—Hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales whited the Field cl Waterloo on the Bth inst., proceeding thither in a prints c l " from Brussels. Afterwards he drove to the time's endatfeStation of the Great Luxembourg Railway, a distance of five miles, sad proceeded by that line to Namur, where he arrived at half-pest 3 o'clock. His Royal Highness slept at Namur, and the next day continued Ids journey towards Germany. The sew route by the Great Luxembourg hoe adopted by his Royal Highness offers great attraction, to the tourist proceeding to the Rhine and Germany, whether as regards the beauty of the scenery throughout from Br usela the regularity of the service of the railway, built by English capital and worked under English management, or the directness of the wine. TESTIMONIAL ;77 E PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO AN ENGLISH CATT A IN.—L ITERPOOL , FRIDAY. —A letter was received to-dsy by the owner of the Ann Pit. cairn, Captain Sharp (Mr. A. Henderson), from the General Registry of Seamen in London, requesting information as to the whereabouts of that vessel, so the President of the United States disbud to present its captain (Shan)) with a chrono meter and • gold chain, for bermes render.") in taking off the mew (tithe A m erican ship Cathedral in February last. Ths lollowieg Is Captain Sharp's report of the occurrence. "We hod 16 storms off Cape Horn. An American ship, the C of 2,000 tons, foundered close to us, February M I of Cape Horn. We saved 34 of crew, 27 of which we landed Vaipandso. The captain, doctor, stewardess, and sit hands Inuit down with the ship." 11