The Express. — London, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

Ilie •rprel4. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Averlisamento intended for " The Express" London Evening must be et the °dice, 10, BOUVOTIO - Illeti, by Two Ayes on the day of publication. COVENT GAII.DEI!. TIM EN - rasa— Listlimel-MAHITTNA. Misses A. Riles sf l 8. Pyne Mem', Weiss, Patel, Coot, loose, and W. Harrison.— Mid HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.—Condactor, Yr. A. Mellon.—Counnenos 'Alan iitsatos to 7. HAYYAZKIT. Tan WINING. OUR AIIiRICAN 66URLN. Mama Mother') mad Beekstome ; /dm R. Fltzwlllass.—RAßßlLAS MINOS OF ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton mad Mho L. Issamy.—And OUR MARY ANN& Re. Clark mad Ws Ilarfleur. YRINCEMY& TRH ilrintllo. LAW v. LOVE.—ONE GOOD TURN rloll2,Vgg ANOTHICIL Mr. R. Darby and MIN Amy Bedgrlck. - And JIQURT WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin snd Harbor Myron. Mama Milano, R. Power, and Ha/ford; Mini A. Col/Loam. .I.YCZUI TN! it 1311116), A SIIDDin ThaCE. Venn Wl•ldleorab, Garden, and Shore Mir Henna° and MI% Lee. - And THE DI7K KS MOTTO. Hearn Pechter, G. Plaine, Brougham, and Raymond Mara C. Leclerc% K. Terry, and Illororthy. BRITANNIA. Ti EVENING, the Pantomime, ABON HASSAN. Mrs. Lime : Maws. Evans, Louis, Newham, and Mdllalltephan ; Tom Sayers and his two ]tales—THE CIRCLET OF GOLD. Miss Sophy Mlles—And MARY EDMONeTONE.—Ccemseace at hall-put & ZION WArn AT LONDON =IDOL TM DAT —Yoram 104.0660w-416ia16R. AL las....Allirassis. 677. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. This inorning the candidates for the vacant seat for Cambridge are to be nominated, and a hardly fought battle is expected to-morrow at the poll booth. From what has been said and written on the spot, we fear that the Liberal party in the borough is not animated by the spirit of union which is necessary to success. Divisions of old date have been prolonged to the present time. In consequence of these, Colonel ADAIR, who was the Liberal candidate three weeks ago, has withdrawn from the field, and his more im mediate friends in the constituency are so offended that some of them have publicly de clared their intention to take no part in the election. We hope we may without presumption appeal to these gentlemen to reconsider that resolution. Without question, their views extend beyond the range of their constituency, and take in the interests of the whole country. Let them, then, considerwhat would be the consequence if their conduct should be generally approved and imitated, and if it were held that a section of the Liberal party in a closely balanced constituency is justified in withdrawing from the field on the eve of a contest. There are a great many towns where the Liberal party can only hope to carry the election of a candidate by compromises in which not only personal considerations but che rished political objects must be surrendered ; and • false resolution in so conspicuous a constituency as that of Cambridge may produce the worst effects. Only one Liberal candidate is before the electors. Mr. Fawcwrr is a gentleman who would do credit to the constituency, and we believe that no per sonal objection is made to him. If any Cam bridge Liberal is reluctant to vote for him, it is because of the manner in which he was brought forward. Even in this respect we do not gather that Mr. Fawcwrr has been to blame. Every Englishman understands and sympathizes with resistance to what has the appearance of dictation ; but if Mr. Faworrr was originally brought forward by a section of the electors, he is not the man to become the instrument of a clique, and is in every respect anxious to serve the united Party- We do not presume to judge of the sufficiency of the reasons which led Colonel ADaIR to retire, but we cannot be wrong in supposing that ho did so with the wish of uniting the liberal party in the borough. But if any colloid' arable portion of his friends abstain from the election, the very evil which he sought to remove by withdrawing will happen. We must trust to the public spirit of those gentlemen to avert this consequence. Their situation is one for the display of • magnanimous temper. A PARAGRAPH in the Notices of Motion printed in our summary of Parliamentary Business yester day discloses a little corner of Mr. GLADSTONE'S forthcoming Budget. The duties on Tobacco and Snuff are to be reduced. At present these duties yield nearly one-fourth (5,604,03210 of the total revenue (24,000,0004) derived from Customs Duties. Our financiers have always treated these luxuries as articles which they were warranted in taxing as heavily as possible, without that tender regard for the intermits of the consumer which is just when duties on articles of neceasi4, such as sugar and tea hare become, are in question. Accord ingly a customs duty of 3s. 10. per lb., equal to 900 per cent. on the value, is levied on unmana lectured tobacco, and a &Ay of 9s. 50. per lb. on imported cigars and snuff. An agitation for a reduction of these duties in the interest of the consumer is perhaps what no body would think of attempting. Not but that there is a great deal to be said of injustice and in equality in the levying of the tax on various classes of the community, since the real Ilavannah and the cheap and nasty cigar, the one worth a shilling, the other ten or eleven shillings per lb., pay the same duty. However, we do not expect to hear the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposing a reduction of the duties in committeeon these grounds. We rather anticipate that, like his predecessors, he will consider it right to levy as large an amount of duty as he can from tobacco, and will recommend a reduction of the rate as a protection to the revenue, and indeed as a means of increasing it. Mr. GLADSTONE proposes to reduce the duty on foreign cigars from 95. 50. to ss. per lb., and on snuff from 9s; 50. to 3e. pre lb., while other manufactured tobacco is to pay 48. He further proposes that "unmanufactured tobacco " warehoused in any warehouse approved for " security of duties of Customs may, in such ware " house, be manufactured or converted into the " articles denominated Cavendish or Negrobead " tobacco ; and upon every pound thereof pro " duoed by such manufacture or conversion there " shall be charged and paid on the delivery thereof " for home consumption the Customs duty of " 3s. Bd." Some change in this direction - r PUN THIS Will, one Peony. w.& Modem, ILE Mrs. druWe The Bear sod 1 14 7ris. Metropolitan Me *lmmesh and Diary. Prise Imam to. How flad7. Sdadocaaelyboaadia maassala °loth, allS. prim la. paid la, THE SECOND HALT - VOL UME VOLUME of TUN, with sumer- OLIS Kograrings by Wanted artists. wad articles by dlttinguisbed writcre.. The lint Volume, uniform with the Second Volume, on male. Odico, 80, lieetwtreet. plus FIRST CLAW sad LONDON PRIZE NIXDALB. WATKEISTON sad ,BICGDIN WU:MOTU sad JEWILLI2.6. INsanfoctory, 16. Bearietts-street, Coveaticsrdsa. W.C. Lsodoa, N.B This setahtlahaseat is closed at 6fa the evening, sad es laisadsys st 1 o'clock. HHARMONIUMS.-NEW MODEL MAXI E. DEAL& sal WOOD, 101. Zegeat-acrest. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1863. is necessary if we are not to lose the large re venue we now derive from these artaciss, and with it the means of absolving more important commodities from excessive burdena. Under the present system of duties the revenue from tobacco and snuff is languishing. It does not par take of the elasticity and movement common to the revenue derived from other articles which enter into general consumption. The duty is checking consumption, or at least what for fiscal purposes is the same thing, it is checking the consumption of the duty-paid article. In their report for 1861 the Commissioners of Customs show that while in the preceding year the consumption of currants rose 33 per cent., of spirits 11 per cent., of refined sugar 6 per cent., of tea 6 per cent., and of coffee 3 per cont., that of tobacco roes only 1 per cent. For the ten years 1850-1860 our importation of manufactured tobacco stood still, and since the latter date it has been falling off. Nobody believes that we actually consume less tobacco than we formerly did ; the falling off arises from the evasion of duty. Our high rates place a premium upon smuggling and adulteration. The Reports of the Commissioners of Customs are full of stories, some of them very entertaining, of the ingenuity by which the revenue laws are evaded in respect of these articles. Against the professional smuggler precaution may be taken, but when the bulk of our seafaring population, and nearly all the people who hang about the shipping in port, dabble in smuggling as an occasional occupation, it is another matter. Indeed, our revenue officers admit that they cannot prevent the smuggling of tobacco while the inducements to it are so great. The true remedy for this state of things, injurious alike to the public treasury and public morals, is that which was pointed out by Mr. Hors's Committee in 1844; it consists in reducing the rate of duties to such a point as that smuggling may becomeunpro. fitable, while the loss to the revenue will be re paired by the increase in the quantities of the com modity brought to duty. We have reduced Customs duties for various reasons of late years—some in order to encourage trade, some to lighten the burden to the taxpayer; these tobacco duties need alleviating for the sake of the public revenue. The enormous consumption of tobacco leaves not the least room for doubting that an augmentation of the revenue would follow the proposed change. tbt Court. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant- General Keay, and Major Thesdale, visited Marlborough House yesterday, and afterwards honoured the studio of Mr. Walton with a vent. The Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to his Royal High- The Prince of Wales, attended by Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps and Major Teesdale, went at a quarter before three o'clock in the afternoon from Buckingham Palace to the Waterloo-terminus of the London and South Western Railway, and left for Osborne, Isle of Wight. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Hind, chairman of the Birkenhead Commission, Mr. Mocatta, chairman of the Library Committee, Birkenhead, Mr. A. Wain, law clerk, with Mr. John Laird, M.P., bad an interview with Mr. Hamilton, yesterday, at the Treasury, on the subject of the erection of a public library at Birkenhead. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Lord Kingsdown gave judgment on an appeal from Canada, " Triggs v. Lavallee," that the judgment of the court below could not be supported, and that their lordships would advise her Majesty to reverse the judgment com plained of. An appeal from the Caps of Good Hope, " The Rev. Wm. Long v. the Bishop of Caps Town, • wu com menced. The Lords present were Lord Kinpdown, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Coleridge, and Sir E. Ryan. PRINCE LOUIS OP HESS, IN BIRMINGHAM. His Royal Highness the Prime Louis of Hesse, husband of the Princess Alice, arrived is Birmingham from Windaor Castle yesterday afternoon by the express train, arriving at the Snow-bill station of the Great Western Rail way at 1.45 p.m. Am his royal highness arrived at the station incognito, the public authorities were not aware of hie visit to the town, but • carriage and pair being in waiting, he at once proceeded to the Hen and Chickens Hotel, New-street His royal highness was accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat, Captain Von Wolter wallet, and Dr. Ernst Becker. After partaking of luncheon, the prince and the gentlemen of his suite, with Dr. Alfred Evans, proceeded in the latter gentle man's private carriage to inspect the manufactory of Messrs. Elkington and Mason, in Newhall-street. They were there received by Mr. Frederick Elkington, who, with Mr. S. F. RolLuon, accompanied his royal highness and suite through the showrooms of that extensive establishment His royal highner also visited the workshops, and observed with much interest the several promise of manufacture. In the foundry the large figure of the late lamented Prince Albert, which Mews. Elkington are now outing, and which is to form the Albert memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1851—win much admired by his royal highness. Before he left the establishment the prince made several purchases of articles of virtu and art. He afterwards visited the works of Mr. Joseph Gillott, pen manufacturer, Graham-street ; Messrs. Edeleten and Williams, pin manufacturers, George-street, Parade ; and the works of Mr. Watley Richards, gun manufacturer, High-street, and manifested considerable M UNE in everything presented to his notice. His royal , highness then returned to the Hen and Chickens Hotel, where he afterwards dined in company with his suite. He will remain in Birmingham until this (Tuesday) afternoon, and until his departure will occupy his time is visiting the several other manufactories of interest in the town. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (71011 OLIN OWN PARIS, llontay Evans°. In the Corps Legislatif, this afternoon, M. Picard took advantage of the question that the minutes of the last sitting be confirmed to call attention to the note in the Moniteur, which seemed to prohibit the journals from making any comments upon the debates in that house. He alluded to the "black man" as one of those messengers whose instrumentality had been fre quently mentioned in that house and who had been sent to all the newspaper offices previously to the publication in the Moniteur. He wished to ask the President of the Council of State (M. Baroche), who had lately told them that it was his misfortune to read the journals every morning, whether this new interdiction was to be considered as one of those forms of that liberty of the press in France in which his excellency was almost the sole believer. He wished to know whether it was really intended that while a measure, when passed, might be com mented upon and discussed, the opinions pro nounced by members while laws were under dis cussion could not be criticised at all. From such a strange interdiction it would follow that they, the members, might make the most absurd mistakes, or might speak with the most hopeless obscurity, and yet the press was not to be allowed to correct their errors or elucidate their imperfect expressions. He trusted that M. Baroche would agree with him that his recent prohibiition was the offspring of a very unfortunate idea. The Passim:sr (Duke de Morny) said be had allowed K Picard to proceed because, as a general role, he thought it always best that a member should explain himself freely ; but he felt bound to say, as matter of order, that the speech just de livered had nothing whatever to do with the con firmation of the minutes. He thought M. Picard might find another opportunity of saying what he wished upon the subject. K BAROCHE—who seemed not to agree in the latter observations of the President—said that Neither now nor at any other time would he give K Picard any explanations whatever touching the note in the Monitcur, because that note involved a question of law and of th 3 interpretation of the constitution. M. PICARD observed, "In that case, Monsieur le Minister, the debates on the address will be sterile." The incident thus terminated. MARRIAGE OP THE PRINCE OP WALES. CITY OF LONDON. Yesterday the subjoined official communication w received by the Lord 'layer from Sir George Grey, Beeretary of State for the Horne Department, io anticipl tion of the arrival of the Prisoner Alexandra, and indicating the route of the royal pageant from Gravreeod to Windsor Castle " Whitehall, Feb. 7. "My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your lordship that it is intended that the Princess Alexandra of Denmark shall arrive in England on the 7th of March. Her royal highness will land at Gravesend, where she will be met by the Prime of Wales. Her royal highness, accompanied by the Prime of Wales and by her royal parents. the Prime and Primers of Denmark, will proceed from Gravesend by the railway to the Bricklayers' Arms station of the Scutt:l - Railway, and thence their royal highnesses will pas along London-bridgs and through the City, on their way to the station of the Great Western Railway at Pad. dingtoo, on their route to Windsor Castle. " I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant, " G. Garr. " The Right Mon. the Lord Mayor of London." As respects the City, the course which the royal proces sion will take will no doubt be from London-bridge by King Williamatrest and the Mention-house, thence along Cheap side, round Nes-churchyard, and onward by Ladgate hill Led Fleat•street to Temple-bar. The Lord Mayor has summoned a special meeting of the Court of Lieutenancy of London, at Guildhall. for Friday nett. to invite their co-operation with the corporation in in offering a suitable welcome to the august lady and the Prince of Wales on the entry of their royal highnesses into the City on the ample:ions occasion. The governing bodies of the twelve principal civics companies will likewise take part in the reception, as will also the old Volunteer Artal lay Company. and some, if not all, of the City Volunteer Corps. As yet, however. the arrangements are etcomplets. The committee to whom they ore confided, composed of iamb= of the Oourtm of Aldermen and Common Council, and upwards of forty in number, headed by the Lord Mayor, will hold another meeting to-day at Guildhall for the purpose of forwarding the preparations. rill VOLUNTEERS AND GUARDS OP HONOUR TO ROYALTY. The following order wore circulated on Saturday Let among the let battalion of the Kent Rifle Volunteers, In reply to an offer to form part of a guard of honour to the Princess Alexandra, on her arrival at Gravesend : “Sir,—ln teferenoe to the colothrs proposal, suggerfad by Captain Carter, commanding 4th corps, that the Wa lk* be offered as a guard of honour at Gravesend to Primers Alexandra on landing, the lord•lieutenant has ex pressed his regret that he cannot accede to the wish of the battaliou, ea there is a rule that no guards of honour an. sm furnished by voluoteers to the royal family, though be is we that the loyalty of the offer will be much app.- elated.—By order, J. F. demon, Adjutant, lst Battalioe, h...R. V.—Feb. 7.” This Its_ m, it need not be mid, bee mimed moos Oa 1,500 men forming tM Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left town an a visit to the Marquis and Morelli:sum of Ailssbary at lavareake Forest, Marlborough. The Connteaa Dowager of Yarborough arrived at Ur residence in Portman-square yid/why. The Lord Chancellor received a Zliatiognished Arty at dinner at his residence in Hyde-perk Gerdes. West, na Saturday last. Amoeg the company present Were —the Bishop of Oxford, the Speaker of the Hones of Com. mesa, Lord Meekly, the Lord Chief JOlltioll of the Common Pleas, his Excellency the Americas Minister, his Excellency the Danish Minister, Sir Charles Eastlake, Mr. Walpole, M.P., Mr. Montague Smith, M.P.. kn. Lord Hatherton has been confined to his mi asmas at Teddealey Park, Stelfordshlre, for some time past by serious indisposition. Lord and Lady Frederick Hallyburton are ex ploded at Ewe*tee Nees as or about the 28th instant front their nest is Soothed. Sir iTharies X. Grey has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Tunbndp-wells. IATICST INTELLIGENOL THE lON IN POLAND. Letters from Warsaw speak of the appearance of the manifesto of the National Committee, in which it is said, " The moment will shortly come when the inhabitants of Warsaw will have no longer to envy their brethren in the provinces as regards par ticipation in the contest." The Temps of to-day has a letter from Warsaw, in which we read : It is very difficult—in the present state of things aimed impossible—to say what will be the consequences of this movement, now become nearly universal, and for which all classes of the population are ready to furnish their contin gent. But in view of what we witness, it is still more difficult to see in it the effeotof aplot—a long-prepared plan. Poor conspirators indeed would they be who should have contemplated and decreed the insurrection of a whole people without having for the day of the outburst munitions, arms, or chiefs! The only thing premeditated is the provocation of which the recruiting was but the last act. The govern ment could not endure the spectacle of this nation in mourning, always having victims ready for sacrifice, but re fusing the combat. This continual protest urged on the ambitious and the powerful, who bad promised at St. Petersburg to change it all. They said to themselves that they would force it to quit this passive character, and in that they have partly succeeded. As for the accusations of massacres and communism, they are so belied by evidence, and even by official reports, that I believe I should be doing injustice to your readers by stopping to refute them. What is unhappily true is that when the Russians make prisoners, or when the wounded fall into their power, before they are consigned to the summary justice 'which awake them, and of which many have already felt the effect, the soldiers treat them with the greatest inhumanity. (azursa's TRLEGRAIL) WARSAW, F. 9. The official journal of to-day announces that the revolutionary band which occupied the forest of Skierniewic has been dispersed with the loss of 50 killed, and 40 taken prisoners. The same paper publishes the following telegram, dated " Was, Feb. 9. "General Maninkine has completely defeated the insurrectionary band near Semiatezy. The loss of the insurgents was 1,000, while that of the Rus sians was oily 12 killed, amongst whom were 6 officers. "The village of Semiatiezy was burnt," FRANCE AND POLAND. The Opinion Nationale insists strongly on the necessity of France interfering in favour of Poland, if she wishes to preserve her reputation as a protec tor of oppressed nationalities. The following are some passages from the article : . . . . Koscinako's exelsunation on the brittle-field of Magowiore " Fink Polonite," was not • prophecy, but a cry of despair, the expression of the conquered patriot's grief. In fact, if the Poles have yielded to the fatality of force, at least they have never believed in the extinction of their country—in the end of Poland. From the first partition, in 1772, to our own times, their attitude has been a constant protest against the conquest, The nation still lives ; but, were there not • eine* Pole left to denounce the iniquity committed against that people, the , very soil would suffice to trouble the conscience of its sharers and accuse them of treason against nation. And who can say that • nation is extinct, when we have before our eyes a double resurrection, which I was declared impossible, in Roumania and Italy ? Besides, did not Fiume, for eighteen years, publicly declare by her official organs that Poland should not perish ? That is a solemn engagement which cannot be forgotten or rejected like an idle and thoughtless promise. It was not a man, a minister, a king. who proclaimed the re-establishment of Poland : it was a nation -France herself. So, at every new attempt made by the valiant Poles, there is not • Frenchman, whatever hie station, who does not feel pro found regret and bitter anguish on account of these in human straggles, this shedding of generous blood. France has intervened in Italy, China, Mexico, the United States ; she has done great things ; but her glory will not be com plete till she shall have solved the question of Polish nationality in conformity with her engagements of thirty years past. It is a French debt, and honour demands its payment. PRUSSIA. The festival at Berlin, commemorating the rising of the Prussian people, which the Court party hoped to turn into a demonstration in favour of the King, passed off amidst general indifference. The King appeared at one or two of the popular banquets and proposed patriotic toasts without referring to the crisis of the moment ; but his language is de scribed as producing little effect. (smies msamm.) FRANCE. DEBATE ON ITALY IN THE CORPS LEGISLATIF. PARIS, Frs. 10. The paragraph of the address relative to America was adopted yesterday in the Corps Legialatif. The paragraph in the draft of the address of the committee relative to Italy was then discussed. The committee thought that France does not owe Rome to the Italians. An amendment had, however, been brought forward by M. Jules Fevre demanding that the occupation of Rome should cease. M. Fevre said that since Garibaldi's expedition France had changed her policy. He did not think • new solution of the Roman question possible. Victor Emmanuel would not abandon Italian unity, and the Pope would not renounce his ancient pro vinces. M. Fevre spoke ironically of the ponti fical reforms, and opposed the French policy, which, he said, was either equivocal or powerless. The Duke of Brabant returned to Cairo on the 21st ult., from his excursion in Upper Egypt. The warmth of the climate, and the repose be has enjoyed while navi gating the Nile, have had a very beneCcial effect on his health. The prince, soon after his arrival as Cairo, paid • visit to the new Viceroy, who returned it on the following day. The Paris oorreapondent of the Post writes : "Tee Confederate government of America have, I learn, ancoseded in concluding a loan for about five millions ster ling, through the Paris and Frankfort house; of Erlanger and Co., in conjunction with leading mpitedista in Loodon and LiverpooL The stock is to be 8 per cunt., and the prim to the oontraotars is said to be 80 per rent." Au avalanche fell a few days back upon a part of the village of Vedrotto, in the canton of Ticino, destroying five Louses inhabited by twelve families, and twelve stables. Thirty-two persons perished, seventeen being rescued alive from the masa of snow ; two of the number, however, only on the third day after the accident. A number of cattle were also lost. A Punue Maims') AT NAPLES. —The "public meeting " on the subject of brigandage, which was held a few days ago in the Winter Garden at Naples, was attended by 2,000 to 3,000 persons. Count Ricoiardi was in the chair, and on the stage by his side were several Franciscan flare, primes, and many of the principal members of what may be called the party of action in Naples. The pro• ceadings wen cltanaderised by perfect order. Franco, or the Emperor, was treated by the speakers without mercy, which was the renal for the consul to withdraw. England was inscribed as the mistress of liberty, a sentiment which was nosived with shouts of applause. The deepest scorn and isclignalioe, however, wsw rmerved for the church and its musters, and foremost I. the attack were two priests, cod s acs. On the very eves* of the day on which 1116 sisslig was bold, sews arrived that the four dims who lied bees betrayed end murdered by Niooo Nanoe had had their ears cut off and their heart. tern oat, whiph were carried goatee the points of bayonets amid cries of " Viva it Papa I Viva Fresomoo IL!" BILL TO ABOLISH CHURCH RATES. The bill to abolish church-rates prepared and brought into the House of Commons by Sir J. Tre'away, Sir C. Douglas, and Mr. Dillwyn, is as follows : " Whereas church-rates have for some years ceased to be made or collected in many parishes by reason of the opposition thereto, and in many other parishes where church-rates have been made the levying thereof has giveo rise to litigation and : and whereas it is expedient that the power to make church-rates should be abolished : be it therefore enscted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present pill , liarneat assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : "1. From and after the passing of this act no church rate shall be made or levied in any parish in England or Wales. "2 Provided always that in any parish where a sum of money is at the time of the paring of this set due on the security of church rates to be made or levied in Etch pariah under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, such rates may still be made and levied pursuant to each provisions for the purpose of paying off the money so due, but not otherwise, until the mme shall have bean liquidated. •• 3. Any church rate made at any time before the pear ins of this set may be collected and recovered in the aims way as if this act bad not been passed. •• 4. This act may be cited as • The Church Rate Aboli tion Act, 1863.•" On an early day Mr. Baxter will move a resolu tion on the subject of the Ocean Mad Service on the North Atlantic, and the renewal of the Galway subsidy. Mr. Henry Seymour will shortly call the atten tion of the House of Commode to the sale of MAUI lands, and the redemption of the land tax!in India ; and to more foe mew. . . Mr Berkeley has given notice that, on second reading of Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, he will mov e that it be read a second time upon this day sir months. On Thursday Mr. Horsfall will move for a se lect committee to inquire whether it would be practicable and advantageous to consolidate any of the establishments now governed by the Boards of Inland Revenue and Cus toms, respectively ; or to unite any portion of the duties performed by their officers. with a view to economy in the collection of the public revenue, and to simplicity of sr ' rangement. Viscount Enfield will put a question to the First Commissioner of Works on Friday relative to the closing of the carriage road that was opened last year through • portion of Hyde-park, between the districts of Bayswater and South Kensington. . . . On the 16th Mr. Cowper will introduce a b• 11 for making a new street from Blackfriare to the Mansion. house, in the city of Londou, in connexion with the embank ment of the river Thames on the northern side of that river ; and for other purpose& • Mr. Hadfield, Sir M. Peto, Mr. Baines, and Mr. Kershaw, have prepared and brought in the House et Commons a bill to render it unneessian to make and subscribe certain declaratioas u a qualification for offices and employments. The . Sixaker of the House of Commons ha. appointed Sir F. Baring, Bert., Mr. Walpole, Hon. A. Herbert, Sir W. Miles, Bart., Mr. H. K. Sumer, and Yr. I. B. Oarter, to be members of the general committee of elections for the present session. The misgovernment of India was the subject of meetings at Oldham and Dorwen, last night, at both of which Sir Charles Wood's measures were severely censured. The meeting at Oldham was principally attended by opera tives, and a memorial was adopted urging upon the govern ment the necessity of more freely encouraging the growth of cotton in Hiodostan. That at Darwen was attended by many manufacturers. The sentiments expressed were quite as strong as at Oldham, and urged the adoption of a coin. pieta free-trade policy as the cure for Indian misgovern ment. Her Majesty (says the Kentish Gazette) has been graciously pleased to swept the resignation of the ()amis. sloe held by Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward Chola:lslay Doris', Bart., M.P., in the Royal Eat Kent Yeomanry Cavalry. The Hon. H. Butler-Johnstone, late M.P. for Canterbury, and Mrs. Butler4ohnatone are residing at Naples. Mr. Edward Wingfield Verner, eon of Sir Wil liam, is Um new *nonnative candidate for Lisburn. The animal ball of the London Royal Yacht Club will take plow this evenieg at Willis's Rooms. _ . _ At a meeting of the Juridical Society last even ing, Mr. Karr read a paper on the Alabama. Were it not for the unanimous accounts which come In from all the provinces, it would be almost lea*. Mile (nays a letter from Athens) to what extent Prince Alfred's name has become eagraven on the minds of the maim of Greece. The only awkward thing Is the hard. sounding foreign name of Alfred. Even by affixing the en desiring diminutive, and making " Affredalis " of it, it cannot be naturalised, so the simple-minded people have taken to calling him "the Bon of the Widow." The Brussels journals, referring to the health of King Leopold, mention that Dr. Langecbeek performed so other operation a few days back on his Majesty. The King is in good epirite, and is not prevented from continuing his easteenery occupations. A grand fête was given at Paris on Saturday evening by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mme. Drouyn de Limy,. Fancy drams being the rule, the geese was of the most animated desoriptios. The Emperor and Empress were present; the latter was is a black domino, whilst the former changed his costume several times. The Emperor went several times through the different salons, acid thee going up to a group in the midst of which were the family of the minister, took off his mask and asked whether he had been recognised. Amcor the characters the mast remarked were Mine. Gortchakoff, who was dressed as a boyar& with a axonal covered with pearls and diamonds; Mine. do Bois de Meng, who wore a Polish costume ; Maw. Say, as Esther ; the Princess Dolgorooky, as a beehive; and Mon. de Nee, as aa Egyptian . Mme. Hesekeren was a complete ease•tree from head to foot, and Mme. Delvel was enveloped in ivy. M. Kolisch, who now writes on chess in the Nord. has the following :—" A ebees-rieirlie took plea a few evenings back at the midget" of the Countess de Colbert. Amami the poems present were Yr. Baal Norphy, IL de Riviera, one of the host French *yeah and Y. Frani, the author of eeriest well-losswa woeful. We comet unfortunately offer to our readers the games played oa this Lad other orandons lately between Kr. Murphy and N. de Itivihe ; we ma only aciacaures the result d dee palm played—three wee* wort by IL de Rivi4e, and two I by Mr. Mellb7-" THE AF'FAIREI OF GREECE. A lengthened official correspondence respecting the late revolution in Greece has been laid before puha- meet. It embodies despatebeo sod the period of the insurrection in Greece, in reference to the movements of the King and Queen ; the formation of • provisional government ; the views of Russia and France, as declared by the French and Russian ministers, on the enocession of the Greek throne, together with the declare teens of her Majesty's minister on the subject ; the demon stratloes in favour of Prince Alfred ; the mission of Mr. H. Elliott ; and the subsequent negotiations on the question of the succession to the throne. _ Mr. Elliott, writing to Earl Iliumll on the sth ult., says there is a lingering hope that, if sufficient time is givers, parliament may reverse the decision of her Majesty's government with regard to the non-acoeptance of the mown by Prince Alfred. "Indeed, it is hardly possible co • convey to your lordship an idea of the permatenos with which the Greeks still cling to their hopes. The right of her Majesty or of her Majesty's government to decide upon the matter is sometimes iodignantly denied, and it is occa sionally seriously proposed to carry on the government under a regency, in the name of King Alfred, until his royal highness shall be of age, when he should for himself decide upon the acceptance of the crown." On the 15th ult. Earl Russell observes, with regret, that King Ferdinand has, on account of his affection for his sons and for the country he has adopted, absolutely declined to allow his name to be put forward. On the 22:4 ult. his lordship writes :—" The great con fidence felt by the Greeks in the constitutional principles by which her Majesty bas always been guided, has no doubt base the main cause of the spontaneous enthusiasm which has been elicited by the mention of the name of his Royal Highness Prime Alfred as King of Greece. As, however, the three protecting powers have declared that the protocol of February, 1830, is still in force, yen will declare to the Executive Council in Greece that his Royal Highness Prince Alfred cannot accept or wear the crown of Greece. You will aosorupany this declaration with the expression of her Majeety's full appreciation of the value of this unsolicited mark of friendship and trust on the part of the Greek people. You will at the same time state that it appears to her Majesty's government that the first object of the Greeks should be to elect a king who will not set aridg the constitution by violence, nor pervert it by corruption. The princes upon whom the greatest reliance can be placed in this respect are those who have acquired a reputation in Europe by their consistent ad herence to liberal principles, and those who have been accustomed to live in a free country. In the former cate gory there is no one more entitled to regard than the Duke of Coburg. Her Majesty trusts that this suggestion on her part will be viewed by the Greek government and nation in no other light than as proof of her Majesty's due appre ciation of the confidence shown by them in the British royal family, and in the principles of political freedom on which the institutions of Great Britain are founded ; and as it is impossible that her son Prince Alfred can accept the Greek crown, her Majesty considers that she is only re. paying confidence by confidence in suggesting for the con sideration of the Greeks a prince who by close and long. established connexion with England may be deemed to possess some of the main conditions which the Greeks appear to be desirous of finding in the person to bs chosen as their sovereign.-1 em, (Signed) " P.3.—Yoa will reed this despatch to the pretideut of the provisional government, and, if he dream it, give him • copy of it. R." Father Passaglia is not to take his place in the Italian Chamber. He has decided upon retaining the Chair of Theology in the University of Turin, and, the number of professors admissible so the Chamber being tilled up, be will have to resign his of of deputy. Ma. Gowait, M.P.—The picturesque town of LimpsSethi preeented 'a most animated eerie on Saturday last. It was understood that Granville Levee& Gower, Esq., M.P., the successful candidate for Reigate, was to return to Tatou Park. his seat, in the course of the afternoon of that day. The inhabitants of the town proceeded at mice in making preparations for a hearty reception. Three triumphal arches adorned with laurel wreathe, banners, and streamers of the true bias, were erected across the road; flags were suspended from every window. The iehabitanta of Litups6eld and Titsey all appeared in the victorious colours, and lined the road. At 4 o'clock load hurrahs announced the first appearance of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Lemon Gower, they were met by the assembled crowd, and a large number of their tenantry. The homes were quickly utcharnessed, and before Mr. and Mrs. L. Gower were aware of their change of hones, they found theneelves dragged in triumph through the town. amid &deem' cheers ma all sides. Mr. L. Gower then addressed his friends, from the carriage. He thanked them for the enthusiastic demourtratioas of sympathy and feeling I ANOTHER BALL= DANCER BURNT. ° 4 they evinced in his gumless • he explained his reasons f or w i s hi ng t o represen t R eigate, an d h opes , before the close of the psntomimo last night st Sadler , being able to do so worthily. He spoke of his is. I Wells Theatre, Min Fenton, one of the corps a tercet in the welfare of all these around him. He pre hie build, while standing near a fire-pan placed at the 4 6 ideas on the relative duties and sympathies °I all dams. of the stags, entangled her gauze skirt in the machiotr , w H i e fe rea by pon h d i. ed e rac s gracefully to the , w fiting igai sho u wn . k;c . the jo y g ou hii ng am is an instant sr.. enveloped is gums. The poor el • i thanks. Mr. tad L. GOWN. wogs not a ll owe d to pro- rushed screaming for help across the stage, and was meson geed to Missy, even at this period, with their own hones, by one of the scene-shifters, who after some diM" i " sew relays of willing heart& took them at a great pace extinguished the fire, but not before the unfortunate errs' to the door of litcol. a chitst•o• of ball a iodic — SicrreN tare was much burned. She was conveyed to the hospital. 814"" M the meeting of the council of the Bath and where she remains in an good Impalas coaditioo. Thl West o f England Society, as ekt ur d ay, it sras reported excitement on the stage and in the theatre was lotion. that the War-office had grained • for th e me o f It is stated that the prisoner M'Atanino. the Oa csh7 Barracks as Exeter for the horse show at the charged with convo yi ng poison f rom Dr. c oortoito , t o tts sPiwabcbiag purt of the deta bi t t i l on " app and oi ""e nteer sig to d vis t i lm t Brist mci t y anth Th re e fe re r: nue to the meeting for 1864, not being satisfactory sa to turned approver, and that her e vidence , which will be tAIS the show yard, was, on the motion of Mr. Arland, refer- at the adjourned inquiry to-morrow, will dear up the inr , isto Mir Cary, in the mysterious case at Ballymena. be red,back to the deputation. i tory of the young lady's death. Mr. Howard said that be received the document oa Saha. day morning. He laid it oa the table and never saw 'lee& He felt certain, however, that it could not possibl! have been the abstracted copy that was made public. Mr. Goonwrir said it WAS preposterous to suppose that the old men wen able to get it printed. Mr. HOWARD stated that it could not have been his COp , that was need, bonnie be bad scarcely missed it when Is learned that the memorial was printed at length in ' tbs papers. It was all over the district. Alter mane further discussion. it was resolved to row mosteate to the Poor.law Board a report In reply it) tU alepLlOSe marls. THE REPRIBENTATION OP CAMBRIDGE►, NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.) (IT Juan= TZLZOZAPIL ) 0101 001 OWN 008U8PONDCPIT.) CAMBRIDGE, TUSBOAT Amnon. The nomination of candidates seeking to serve is parliament as member for the borough of Cambridge, t oo k plan this roaming. The parties interested assembled hl front of temporary hustiop erected before the Town-hall Yr. Alderman HT. Bums, mayor, presided, sad the emits. matt usually consequent upon elections prevailed. After the usual preliminaries, Mr. CHAIM BALLS pr,. needed to nominate Francis Sharp Powell, Esq, The motion was seconded by Mr. Damn Alums. Mr. Alderman ECM next proposed H. Fl6l/0844 Esq., ti e motion being seconded by Mr. MACMILLAN. Mr. POWELL then addressed the electors at considerable length. The foreign policy of the country he denounced as i• many rapes* a meddling sad impertinent po l i c y. A s • proof of this, he referred to the recently published due patch on the Roman question. Owing to the course par sued by Earl Russell we have beta told by Napoleon to mind our own briars. and have received a well-merited rub (ram the Pope. He considered we ought not to interfere in the American question, but he mast add also that he defied any person to ry that he had said one word in favour of the maintenance of slavery, for he believed that its aboli tion would raise the negro in the scale of civilise. Lion and humanity. With regard to the public Armes, he rid that lest year no less theo 71 and a half millions of money had been spent ; in order to maintain that they had a bloated system of taxation, the most important part of which was the income tax. He should specially direct his attention to the reduction of that tax. Mr. Famcrrr, who followed, said, after allusion to local loath:in, that he was in favour of and would support the priment administration generally, though that support would not be unqualified ; he would especially'support the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston. Mr. Fawcett treated with ridicule "the snub of the Pope " sad " interference of the Emperor of the French." He desired a reduction of the income tar —was not opposed to the Church of England, and neve said one word about the church that was sot synonymous with what Lord Stanley—undoubtedly the future leader d the conservative party—had said. He would have every one placed on a union so far as civil and educational privi. laps were concerned. One seat might decide the fate d the administration, and so all England was looking to this contest ; but he had oome in and spoiled the "nice little arrangement" made in favour of what was called "conger. retire reaction." In conclusion, after elaborate allusion to 101 l matters, Mr. Fawcett announced his thorough belief in his Process. The MAYOR having called for • show of hands. the same was declared to be undoubtedly in favour of Mr. Fawcett. A poll wm demanded for Mr. Powell. MEETING OF CONFOCATION.-(THIS DAY,) Tine irKrRAORDTWART ARMORIAL FROM THE AGED AND INMAN INMATES 0) BETHNAL &ASSN WORKHOUSE. At a meeting of the board of guardians of Bethnal-green Inld yesterday evening in the boardroom of the workhouse, Victoria-park. the question of the recent memorial to the Poor-law Board was taken into consider& Sion. . . It may be necessary to mention that the regulation corn. plaided of by the memorialists, rendering the performance dr certain amount of work obligatory epos the aged in mates, was passed as a resolution of the board of perdiane, on the 26th January, and a quantity of oakum was ordered to be advertised for. Mr. W. T. HOWARD, clerk to the beard, said that be bad received on Saturday last a communication from the POOP law Board, enclosing a memorial from 142 of the inmates of the house respectiog the rennet regulation. The document having been read, Mr. COLLINS, vice-chairman, said that it was wrong to say that the " paralytic, the asthmatic, people on crutches. and the rheumatic " would undergo any hardship from the regulation. They multi go before the doctor, and be would stop their work directly. The amount of labour six( 1 for the inmates of that house was 25 per coat lower then the lowest elsewhere. At Maryleboae, Whiter chapel, St. Tenures, fie., the quantity of oakum for males was four pounds, sad for females three pounds., while in liethuadgreen the quantity was three pounds and two.and a-balf. The old people, he believed, only regarded it as SS occupation and amusement. Before the regulation was made he one day saw Smith. wham signature cos said to be &Mead to the memorial, in the oakum room, and upon being asked what be was there for. he replied that he was there to amuse himself. And no doubt he would have bees unhappy if he had not been let in there. He (Mr. Coll'oq) would wish to know hoe much oakum bad been packed last week. Mr. IfitilliCE, the master, mid that there hail been note. as there was none in the house. He had never forced an! one to work when incapacitated by p.ralvdie, Be. He had nothing to do with the regulation, and it had not been our ried out with regard tto anyone. Terre had not been weight of oakum pinked since the 20th of January, as was almost impomible to obtain a supply. Mr. CIOODZAW said that it was absurd to suppose that them old men had written a memorial to the P ord. , Board about a regulation which had not been put in font unless they were rendered disaffected by some deeignisi persona. He wished to know how the document got low the papers? When was it received from the Pourdso Board? . _ RusseLL. This morning the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury was formally opened, a ceremony which was rendered necessary by the elevation of another primate to the archiepiscopal see. His grace arrived at the Chapter House of Bt. Paul's Cathedral at a few minutes past eleven o'clock, there being present the Bishops of London, Lincoln, St. Asaph, and Llandaff ; the Very Rev. the Dean of Bristol, the Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, the Venerable Archdeacon Bickersteth, the Deputy. Prolocutor. the Rev. Chancellor Massingberd, the Via. Archdeacon Kaye, the Dean of St. Paul's, the Vex. John Sinclair, 11.. A., Archdeacon of Middlesex, the Vene rable W. W. Hale, M.A.. Archdeacon of London, the Res. Dr. Jobb, the Rev. M. W. Mayon, the Venerable Arch. cleacou Clerks. the Rev. H. A. Woodgate, the Rev. Henry Mackenzie, theßev. J. Pendell, the Rev. Canon Wilma of Wit:mho:Ater, the Venerable Archdeacon Moore, the Pen*. rable Archdeacon Denison, the Rev. Sir George Prevost, and many other proctors of the various archdeacenries. As soon as the bishops and clergy had assembled in the chapter house and exchanged mutual congratulations, the Litany service was read in Latin by the Bishop of Lincoln, the junior bishop present. Dr. Travers Twins, QC., the Vicar Gene. ral of the province, then rose and presented to the arch bishop her Majesty's writ for summoning the Convocation, and his grace directed that it should be read by Mr. Francis Hart Dyke, the Registrar of the province. The Bishop of London, as Dean of the Province of Canterbury, certified that it had been duly executed. All the bishops of the southern provinces were then formally cited by name and the returns were made, except in the came of Gloucester and Bristol, from which an intimation was received from Chancellor Monk that the episcopal throne of the diocese was vacant, Dr. Ellicott, the bishop. elect not bane( yet been consecrated. By the direction of the archbishop the registrar read the schedule of coo tumacy, by which all parties, bishops, deans, archdeacons and proctors, who had been cited and who had not appeared were pronounced contumacious, but the penalties to which they that became subjected were marred until the next meeting. The next proceeding was the reading of the schedule of prorogation by which the Convocation stands adjourned until to-morrow. The archbishop then pronounced the benediction io Latin, and the proceedings of the day tenni. mated. Vast numbers of persons congregated in St. Paul's churchyard to witness the novel ceremony, and great amaze ment was expressed at the varieties of episcopal and claricsl robes which were thus brought together. There was no service in the cathedral as had been aoticizated. a - egr;a;t : children a Attar ta Lai T'be ft M. w oo s: z fondant. -- Mr. IA at 11r._1 The tr wart. 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