The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-03 00:00:00

n one and the same court, and that such mode of jlf in porin g, try's , N try', t o reify, the present sys trial Ike by viva voce eeidrnee before a trine the Liberal Party cannot have the aid of the ',lrq; that suits for legacies and for the distri- ! Conservative Party, so much the worse for the cone dbetio o f meets shall no longer be eon- I try ; but the want of that support, so far from being hc‘ d to Courts of Equity, but be transferred a reason why the Liberal portion of the H ouse to the co gnisance of the same tribunals that are em- should not persevere, is the best of all reasons why ntl to try the validity of the will. On the im- it should. For in addition to the disease itself, there P°' outwit s ubject of the custody of wills the Commis- l is a party encouraging the disease, to be abated reLvmmend a general, or at all events a l and the motive for exertion becomes all the greater. en rol: ave, re4istry. Let us trust, therefore, that, supported by Lord r — w„l, N erd to matrimonial causes, including suits, PALMERSTON and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Sir JOHN une,:i•utiou of conjugal rights , for nullity of mar- SUELLET will be successful this evening in s tn;. ,.. mi d for divorce a mown et Muni, the ' pending the issue of the Bridgnorth and Blackburn ckmni:-sioners. while declining to pronounce an writs. oi ,: ' o n whether the remedy now afforded by t h e ordinary tribunals should not be so far ex tended as t., dissolve the bond of marriage and allow the parties to marry again, explicitly recommend the introduction of trial by jury and rind two 'evi drr:,. into the majority of these causes also. We a ecr re I.V N hat rteently fell from Lord CAMPBELL, that the tommisaioneru en the Law of Divorce have ta p e , to a decided opinion on this point, and are Fe ld to .eeommend that all divorce suits shall be tried before one tribunal, which in all cases where the cwt is prosecuted at the instance of the husband, shall be empowered to dissolve the marriage bond without necamitating an appeal to Parliament. The more exclusively spiritual jurisdiction of the Tale sine;:cal Courts is a matter which may safely be left in the hands of those interested in the promotion of Church discipline. On this portion of the subject we shall not attempt to fellow the recommendations of the Commissioners. The fourth, and perhaps meet anomalous, species of jurisdiction exercised by the Le.lesiastical Courts is the Criminal—embracing at it- principal subjects, snits for brawling (i.e., riotous conduct in a church or churchyard) and defa (amnion. The printed evidence appended to the Itepet contains innumerable instances of the amount o f po s y and vexatious, but at the 3311 C time costly, htnration, which, especially in rural districts, tins brar.ch of ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is the means of inflicting oa the community. The Commissioners r e commend its entire abolition, and suggest that cog nisance over these minor offences should be trans ferred to the petty or quarter sessions. Such, in rapid outline, are the principal recom mendations of the Commissioners of 1532. Let us restate them in the fewest possible words. They advocate the entire abolition of Peculiar and Dio cesan Courts, retaining only the Provincial Courts : the present procedure of the Provincial Courts they would entirely remodel—introducing viva me evi dence and trial by jury; the Courts so remodelled they would allow to have cognisance of all causes teaming the validity of all kinds of wills—of legacy and administrative suits—of matrimonial causes— and of proceedings for the spiritual correction of clerks. Their criminal jurisdiction they would ulto getter abolish. There can be no doubt that if these suggestions bad some twenty years since been carried into act, the mind of the country would have been satisfied, and the cry fur further reform allayed. Now we want some thing more—and shall have it. Doctors' Commons has hitherto proved too strong for the Legislature. After a twenty years' siege not a single outwork has been tarried by its assailants. The lieges of Queen Vie t:Me remain in undisturbed enjoyment of all the prescriptive and time-honoured abuses which Rome originated, the Reformation spared, and class interest still clutches with unrelaxing gripe. But Reform is now at hand. Ur to the present time the result of the Election Petitions. on the grounds of Bribery and Corruption, is, that five Conservative and three Liberal members ' have been unseated; viz., CONSERVATIVES. LIBERALS. CANTEIIBI.IY. LAWC.4BIIII. Mr. Boger Johnstone. Mr. R. B. Armstrong. Mr. Gipps. BLACISOIff. . BILIUOXORTII. Mr. Reales. Sir It. Pilfo4 CLITHEIOI. CaysatnoE. /Ir. M. Wilson. Mr. J. 11. Astell. Mr. IC. Macaulay. FRANCE. PARIS; WEDNESDAY EVENING. In the Legislative Assembly yesterday another scene ensued on the continued refusal of M. Boubier de l'Ecluse to take the oath to the Emperor. The Assembly voted, by an unanimous bulletin of 221, that it was incumbent on M. &uglier to take the oath; but on the latter rising to protest he was stopped by the President, who declared that the forbearance of the Assembly had been carried to its utmost limits. The difficulties on the Swiss frontier seem in the way of adjustment. Radetzsky has diminished the rigours of the blockade, in consequence of the cen t:oo3lTO acts of the Swiss Federal Council. A despatch from Jassy states the abdication of the Oladika to be definitive, but the representatives of foreign powers have refused to recognise it. The Bourse here to-day his remained in much the same state as yesterday, with little business doing, and no attempts at investment in either rentes or railways. The Three per Cents closed at 80f. 43c. for cash, and 80f. 25c. for the account. The Four- and-a-Half per Cents, 106 f. 10e. for cash, and 105 f. 95e. for the settlement. Bank Stock, 2,800 f. Amsterdam Two-and-a-Half per Cents, ca 5-16 ; MetalLques, 96 9-16; Three per Cent exterior, 421 ; peas., 61. Berlin Fives, 1024 ; Three-and-a-Half ditto, 93 ; Ba l nk, 109; North Railway, 514 ; Rhenish Railway, 86. Vienna Fives, 931 ; New Loan, 106/ ; Bank, 1,402 ; Exchange on London, 10.52 ; Silver, 91. Of these six cases, Canterbury . and Cambridge are much the worst ; next in enormity comes Lancaster, whirs also the electoral diocese has assumed& chronic Soria; sad then Clitheroe, where to corruption, vicious and intimidation are to be added. The lame tithe writs in these four instances has already been enegesied by_ the House of Commons; in that of Castseitury Mr. Kea SETMaIt has, too, given notice of as Address to the Crown for a Commission to in quire ea the spot into the scandalous and dis eases that prevailed at the last elec empe which r. Ifisnon SMITH will, we have no doubt, panne l ie d the ON of Ca m bridge also, as sons an the evidence is printed. In that of Lan easter the wit is bang up until the 4th of April, and is Mhos, wadi the 11 th April; between now and when it will be hr the chairmen of those committees le dada whether they will take further ster to peons the *skies at whether they will leave it to caw moth= to take tap the ',abject. In both these cams the bribery and treating are reported to have besa manmade and exteemire, aid the s .snrion of the writs is to be regarded as some pro of that the asomittess thought further investigation necessary. With refs:wee to Bridgnorth and Blackburn the MOM are somewhat different. The former is a family biee the pWeas being the WHITMOILEB and an ieesi h their intorno. in it that the bribery weird is WNW et Sir R. norm seems to have Lo a very assihm Pisa of corruption. He had the ' mess et the Wannosz *; and the' Mr. P. CADMAN, acknow that the Wimmunts Mara their into= so minded. baked of John Plash they_ adopted Sir R. Floor ; ani M make ammo &slily ow his agents threw a Mks sore Into the eeiss in the very wan ness, of pilled prelligisy. This has cost Sir R. tow his mat asd:giemi Mr. Ititramaa his costs. At Disekkma, Kr. loam, dm Liberal. we ashes @sled a met aawartby pet. Mho seem to have in haled bawl hoe that hare* and so laid the heeded's he fig tberengb mid amPlet• wr= Time tweasom. brewer. are at a meth less dale thin the test dime; and the qesetisa is whew. with raged to th em also, the write eught Is he For teen there two two roams= Int, that thelikene st theism may bs as to the ',lime on whisk theihstises have been voided ; sweatily, that the oseMitneesies themselves as t i sz co i n:ider it, and pelitisahr tardier investigation If think fit. On **ether hiu4 it is contended dot report of the thimaittees to be strictly and ass by the Homes, and that seliesqnsat steps IN* not to be allowed to become party questions. home of the writ is an set of the Ulm itself; and to enable it to decide on the hear, it _ought of ammo to know all ItitottOtaittoi which have produced the vacancy ; tad, as it is quite possible the case brought before the Committee may have been only a very small portion at the actual state of facts, the constituency Guy very properly desire to have an opportanity of emloding the whole trath before another sane of arroption and demoralisation is forced on them. Wherever an election is voided= the ground of bri bo7_. taere yr isselbrie widows exists of the necessity Procgoduip deeper and more settees in their charac ter and intention than an investigati merely to de cide whether the member has bee n duly elected ; Gad. =km some effort is made to nip in tho bud the first growth and appearance of corruption, gradually both Bridgnorth and Blackburn will be encouraged P m a e r i l e i s a s me n tary impunity to become asbad and as as Canterbury and Cambridge. It is indeed exactly in cases where electoral re gality has first made its appearance that the actual cautery may be most soccesdally applied. There are certain electo rs in Bridgnorth and Blackburn who were last election bribed. Why should these men not be promptly disfranchised? Wby should not a Parliamentary stigma and mark be at once Stamped on their foreheads? That would be intel ligible to them, and an earnest to these boroughs of their future disfranchisement too, unless all ranks and classes join in repressing (as they easily can) these practices. But simply to void the elections and then issue new writs without looking at, read ing or considering the evidence—that is surely to make the House of Commons itself the great en courager of future corruption in these places. Election Committees have so far done their duty well. But their decisions reported, the duty F the House itself only commences ; and if there be one indisposition or hesitation to act as ener- Pik:ally and as regardless of all considerations but electoral purity, as the Committees have done Ulla the labour of the latter will be nearly lout. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1453 trio, which can ea well afford to close its deers to Britons as to Ticinese. VIENNA, Pas. 26. The prosecution of Libeny fur the attack on the Emperor has come to a close. The trial, as well as the preliminary examination, was conducted in secret, but the protocol which has been drawn up extends in some degree our previous knowledge. Libeny, it is set forth, was 21 years of age, a native of Czakvar, in • the comitat of Stuhlweissenherg, in Hungary; a catholic, and unmarried. It is not true, as some German papers have stated, that his father buffered at the hands of the government in the late war. The knife with which the blow meant to be fatal was struck was bought in a shop at Vienna two months ago, and afterwards ground on the back as far as four or five inches above the point, so as to give it two edges. It was ten inches long, and near the shoulder two inches wide, and fitted ►n a strong vrioden handle. With this terrible instrument con cealed under his buttoned surtout, he walked on the bastion twelve days, seeking an opportunity to attack tho Emperor. On the day of the actual attempt, he went out, without having dined--such is the trivial minuteness of this judicial document—and finding a convenient oppor- malty, „ he unbuttoned his surtout, from which he drew the murderous implement there concealed, ap proached the august person of the monarch at first timidly, then springing at one bound like a tiger, with the brandished weapon in his right hand, he dealt his Majesty, with all his strength, a blow so violent that the blade of the knife was bent back ward to the extent of an inch. lie was in the act of dealing at the sacred head of his Majesty, new blows which according to his own avowal he meant to continue until he had accomplished his heinous crime, when he was seized, at first by Colonel ODonnell, and afterwards by those who came to his aid. Trans ported with rage at tho failure of his attempt, Libeny gave way to exclamations in favour of the free republic, and of him who, by revolt and treason, has brought so much trouble on his country." The rest ea sans dire. Libeny will be hung tomorrow. EGYPT. We have advice' from Alexandria of the 18th ult. Egypt enjoyed internal and external tranquillity, and the commerce of Alexandria was never more active. It was anticipated that this town would soon take rank among cities of the first order in the Mediterranean, both by virtue of its growing com merce and by the increase of its European popula tion, which was fast absorbing its indigenous inhabi tants. The physiognomy of the town was rapidly changing, and European buildings were invading even the old Arab quarters, and extending over what were but lately uncultivated wastes. The railway works were pushed forward with so much activity that it was hoped that the section from Alexandria to the Nile might be finished by the end of this year. Meanwhile the Indian transit was becoming daily of more importance, and it was necessary to double and triple the means of conveyance in Egypt. TURKEY. The Debats publishes a telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, March 1, stating that Omer Pacha had re received eiders from the Porte to suspend hostilities against the Montenegrins. A RIVAL TO TEA. THE LEAVES OF THE COFFEE PLANT. The ii;;;;;;; ice. 1;;e..; has an article re commending the use of the coffee leaf as a aut. stitute for OW berry. The sensible writer appears to be an English planter of the Dutch settlement of Padang, in Sumatra, where the coffee plant has been cultivated for several generations, and where it is now produced in larger quantity and of better quality than in any country of the Malayan Islands, Java excepted. The coffee plant is an evergreen large shrub, which yields a profusion of leaves, and bears fruit for about 20 years. The leaf, and even the twigs, have, in a minor degree, the same stimulating and exhilarating property as the berry, and its habitual use by the natives of the country, agricultu ral Malays of very simple habits, and little amenable to innovation, shows:that they at least find the coffee leaf to make • wholesome and agreeable beverage. The introduction of this article into our consumption would, we cannot help thinking, be a benefit to the poor and to our colonial planters. Of the patentee we know nothing, except that he iv not the Dr. Gard ner who wrote "Travels in Brazil," that gentle man, a scientific botanist, having been dead for some years. The patent, if there be one, can only extend to some particular mode of preparing the leaves. In order to render coffee leaves marketable for European consumption, we fancy the bog mode of preparation will consist in subjecting them to the same kind of manipulation as tea and for be :Zs, this purpose it would probably t, at first, to employ, for instruction, Chinese in the art, such men as Mr. Fortune lately brought from the northern provinces of China to Upper India. The leaves of coffee, neither fleshy nor succulent, are even more easily dried than those of teat and being larger and more abundant, while the plant itself is more easily reared than tea, and embraces a much wider geographical range, it is certain they might be sold at a lower pries than the poorest kink of Bohn. It may be added that the leaves so prepared would not be amenable to the charge of adulteration so often urged against the ground berry. The subject is worth the attention of planters, traders, and consumers. TO is *DITO OP TRI WIMPS. Bra,—l rejoin is thinking that, by your mans, the NW& public begin to take an interest in the prosperity and welfare of the ISO millions of ear swarthy fellow subjoin in ladle. The 011111111itiell es the New Charter sands April tau s.d the =Yalu of evidence pub lished by Ike fi ape. rm el ea tin drat head only, el NO abe ven geaT i tt ill eswik ond 11 the evidence ue in t to be ia se one body the /abbe will ale Ned it, and they will be no wiser ea that saliest IMa liwaliftre. The idioms as ask wilds droll be published at ones, and by iMIL • Mil amid be bun& in immediately for onatinnizdthe arts" tor me or two years, sad the interval be 0176.1111.114 In issoild impary and deliberation. A CONSTANT MADER. BOOM op ARTB.—At the weekly meeting of this soda* ler eosin (Mr. C. W. Milks in the chair), &highly istaresting peps& on the management of ships' bomb; and on the lam of Ws et en (written by Kr. Bterlim Lamm), wee reed by the sesselely, Mr. Seely. After daft( to the mad noeineldg lees d the Anima, the Mese oh eared that tie eiggiget he t. is hod alp was goomelly inedible& TM prime Riede of lemeing heals We the mew bestowed to le mem" to an the piebles el me demise' seismee—so ee, that irked of as @evident being the eme=it might almost be baked apes as the rule. Akar • the weeks of dr Or the Pe gaszle del. ether mei& the writ., plated out of falies the danger arising from the present Limb of lam* beats, by the me of ropes or chains arranged Ia enek a masa rend s wiadies as te ss ld e j themselves when dm hese leashed the WM& amble woe Waited le Dialed' the aide of 'diem At the dm is interestiag emanation mined. in which or siderehie diversity of opinion was TUB CLERGY RUMEN INTirAt. —lt est s z day a petitionary document was band, showing that tU number of acres originally appropriated was 3,346,262. The number of acres amid, 1,574,600. The probable value of the clergy reserves remaining unsold was 430,4821. 10s. FATAL EXPLOSION or GAS AT NEWCASTLE-ON TYNX—Os Saturday a tremendous explosion of gas took plain in a provision slop is BackingheartraM Newcastle, dash hammed the dui of the ehogioseger's wife, and Mee* maimed two ether penes The meemier of the deg is WON' Weiker. eagise-wright, hie wife taking drop of the ship in Ms donee. An asap dos had boss going on fee semi time, and it bosoms se dodo UM ea Saturday emit Mr. Walker premeded Se sca ndal, the gemeter,whide wee la a amited Amelia un der the ~Arm leepsold a leap IN, which temimei gated with the widen end meet beradeatly harem is his hand a lighted mai the gas immediately ignited, and such was the Videllee of the sapid= that the whole building wee shakeable its foundation ; the counter western to pieces and the shop-windows blown away. Mrs .Walker was amid paddy into the street, and her husband was ren dered inemeible. Both were conveyed to the infirmary, wire every attention was paid to them ; and Mr. Walker, Mangle WIWI braised, is recovering. His unfortunate wife, hewer, was so much mutilated that the only chance of as her life was the amputation of both her legs, to whisk de patiently submitted the same night, but all in vela. Aber lingering in great agony, she died on Tuesday ISOffilaff. A girl who was pawing at the time of the ex =was dreadfully cut in the far, by some broken glass ha windows, but she ye in a fair way of stoovery. VW Court. THE LEVEE. Prince Albert held a Levee (the first this season) by desire of her Majesty, yesterday afternoon, in St. James's Palau. His Royal Highness arrived from Buckingham Palace shortly before two o'clock, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, and was received by the Great Officers of State. Before the Levee Commander John J. Robinson, R.N., had an audience of his Royal Highness, and delivered up the Insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, worn by the late Admiral Sir Edward W. C. R. Owcu, G.C.H. The Duke of Cambridge (attended by Lord William Paulct), and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimer attended the Levee. Prince Albert war attended by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Muter of the Horse, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the Household, the Marquis of Ormande, Lord in Wait big to the Queen ; Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, &seer of her Majesty's Privy Purse ; Colonel the lion. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting to the Queen; Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour, Groom is Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Colonel Bonverie, Equerry in Waning to the Queen ; and Captain lion. Dudley de Ros, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highneu. The Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were on duty under the comm.nd of the Right lion. the Cap-.airs. The Lieutenant Sir James Tyler, the Standard-bearer Major Harmer, and Mr. Joseph Skip Lloyd, Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutaat, attended. The Sub-Officers Lieut.- Colonel Nevin and Major Cooke were also present. Her Iffejesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty in the Palace under the command of Captain Bick ford, Eon in Waiting. The foreign ministers were first introduced to Prince Albert, when the following presentations to his royal high nese took place in the diplomatic circle; By the French Ambassador—M. le Colonel Fleury, Coined des Guides, First Equerry to the Emperor ; Id. Pique:nal, Captain of the Staff in the Army. By the Prussian Minister—Count Fleming, Councillor and First Secretary to the Legation. By the Swedish and Norwegian Minister—Baron G. De Geer, Major in the Royal Swedish Engineers. By the Spanish Minister—Don Mariano do retested, Attaché to the Legation ; Don Juan Crooke, Attaché to the Legation. By the Sardinian Minister—His Excellency the Cheva lier Massimo d'Azeglio, Aldo-de-Camp to his ',Nasty the King. By the Turkish Minister—Essad Bey, First Secretary of the;Ottoman Legation. By the Netherlands Minister—Le Comte de Zuylen de Nyevelt, Councilor de Legation de S. M. to ltoi des Pays Ban. By the Brazilian Minister—Captains Lemare and Possolo, of the Imperial Brazilian Navy; M. do Montezuma, At taché to the Legation. By the Austrian Minister—Count de Karolyi, Secretary to the Imperial Legation. By the United States Minister—Mr. William Henry Trescot, American Secretary .f Legation. By the Peruvian Minister—Don Jose A. Rodulfo, Secre tary of Legation; Don Julian Sandoval (Surgeon in the Army), Attache to the Legation; Don M=4llo de la Fuente, Attaché to the Legation. The Diplomatic circle was attended by Count Walewska, French Ambassador, and M. C. Baudin, and M. Jules de Sass=. Secretaries of the Embassy; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and the Chevalier Dronet, Councillor of Legation ; Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister ; Baron de Bnuanow, the Russian Minister, and M. de Berg, Coon- , eillor of Legation ; Count de Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister ; the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister ; Baron de Behausen, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister ; Baron de Geer, Secretary of Le gation; Senor X. 'stunt, Spanish Minister; Mr. J. T. Comyn, First Secretary of Legation; the Marquis d'Aseglio, Sardinian Minister, and M. C. F. Gienotti, Attache to the Legation ; M. Tricoupi, the Greek Minister; M. Musurus, Turkish Minister; Prince A. Vogoridea, Counsellor de Legation, and Dilute Effendi, Secretary In terpreter of the Legation ' • Baron Bentinck , the Nether lands Minister ; Count de Lanadio, the Portuguese Minis ter, and the Chevalier Pinto de Several, Secretary of the Legation; Prince di Carini, the Sicilian Minister; M. Macedo, the Brazilian Minister ; M. de Bills, the Danish Minister, and Count Reventlow, Secretary of Legation ; Count Colored° ' the Austrian Minister; Mr. J. It. Inger soll, the United States Minister ; General Don Manuel de Mendiburu, the Peruvian Minister; the Earl of Clarecdoo, K.G., the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ' and Major-General the Hun . Sir Edward Cut, K.C.11., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. In the general circle the following presentations took pleas : Ensign Adams, 49th Regiment, by Mr. Serjeant Adams. Mr. Adeane, by Lord Stanley of Alderley. Colonel Richard Airey, on appointment as Military Se cretary, by General Viscount Harding., G.C.B. Lieutenant D. G. Anderson, by Lieutenant-General D. Bat. The Attorney-General, on his appointment, by the Lord Chancellor. Sir Jos- ph Bailey, by Sir John rakingten. Alfred Ballston, Muter R.N. on promotion and reap pointment to her Majesty's leak by Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitzelarenee. Mr. Bethel, on his appointment as Solicitor-General, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Grenville Berkeley, M.P., on his appointment as Secretary to the Poor-law Board, by Lord John Russell. Lieutenant Betty, on obtaining his commission Royal Artillery, by the Hon. Captain Clements. Cornet Betty, on obtaining his commission, the Carabi neers, by the Hon. Captain Clements. Mr. Blacken, by Sir George Grey. Ensign L. Blakiston, on appointment to the 62nd Regi ment, by his father, Major Blakiston. Lieutenant-Colonel Bloomfield, on his return from Corfu and appointment to Horse Artillery, by Lieutenant- General Sir Hew Rose, K.C.B. Lieutenant James Bontein, on appointment to Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia, by Lieutenant-Go- neral Sleigh, C.B. Lieutenant F. Brash, by theEeri of Wilke'. Captain Brooking, on promotion, by Sir Charles Wood. Honourable George Byng, M.P. by Viscount En fi eld. Mr. Sheriff and Alderman C arter, by Viscount Pal merston. Lieutenant the jkinenrabis R. W. Ch.twynd, by the Right Honourable Remy Geedhurn. Dr. Charlton,_Burg.. R.N., on return from foreign service, by Sir Wm. Ensign C. H. Chichester, by Lieutenant-Colonel North. Rear-Admiral Henry Wafer, by the Marquis of An glesey. Via-Admiral Sir Thomas Coarsest, an being appointed Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, and on his marriage, by Sir Jima. Graham. Captain William Crispin, R.N. on promotion and re appantment to her Melesty's yac ht, by the Duke of North umberland. Mr. Sheriff Croll, by Lord Palmerston. Mr. Allegan Cunningham., by Sir Thomas M. Cunning ham.. Captain J. Bruce Curling, on appointment to the Royal London Militia, by Colonel W. Thompson, M.P. Lieutenant-General Sir George D'Aquilar, on being ap pointed • K.C.B. by Viscount Harding.. Lieutenant George Onslow Deane, on retain from India, by Lientenant•General Sir A. Woodford. Lord De Tabley, on his appointment as one of the Lords in Waiting on her Majesty, by the Lord Chamber lain. Le Chevalier Don Pedro de &dada, by the Spanish Mi nister. Le Chevalier Don Jai &nand° de Lauds, by the Spa nish Minister. Lieutenant P. Dickson, on promotion, by the Mastar- General of the Ordnance. Mejor-General Drummond, cm promotion, by Lientenange . General Sir Alexander Woodford. Colonel Lord Dynevor, on coming to his title, and up= appointment as A.D.C. to the Queen for the Militia serviee r by Colonel Wood. Major William Elssy, on appointment as Deputy-Lieute nant of the county of Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salis bury. Captain Evans, by Colonel Sir C. M. Wade, C.B. Mr. Francis Dundee Farquharson, by Mr. Farquhanna of Invermuld. Lieutenant the Hon. H. W. Fiteinauriee, by the Earl of Orkney. Mr. John F. Leslie Foster, an appointment as Colombia Secretary of Victoria, by the Duke of Newcastle. Major French. by Lord Keane. Hon. Captain Evans Fmk., by Lord Burghley. - neitenant-General 1314 Honey Goldfinch, R.8.,' es We Investiture as a K.C.8., by Vi count Harding.. Lieutenant George G. Gordon, on his appointment to tie Scots Fusilier Guards, by his father, Lord Possie Gordon. Lieutenant W. J. Gray, by Sir C. Wood. Major Chafyn Grove, by load Bf 3 Lieutenant-Colonel C. Haldane, l i sy i er. Weed. The Duke of Hamilton, on his emollient es Lori- Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, by the Dake et Cornet T. L. Hampton, by LieutenanbOdend Lord George Paget. Mr. Francis John Helyar, on his appointment to be one of her Maj esty 's Honourable Corp..! Gentleman-at-Anse, by Lord Foley. Mr. Ainslie Hoare, by the Earl of laneaborough. Mr. Francis Bligh Hockey, on appointment as Deputy- Lieutenant of the Comity ofZent, by Berl Romney. Dr. Holland, on his appointment as Physician in Ordi nary to her Majesty, by the Earl of Aberdeen. Captain George Home, by General Sir H. J. Cum ming, K.C. H. Lienteaant Geo. Hamby, by this Earl of Wilton. Sir Paul Hunter, Bart., on succeeding to the title, by Sir John Verde Buller, Bart. Assistant-Burgeon H. James, on his appointment to the Royal London Militia, by Colonel William Thomp son, M.P. Mr. William Milbounte Jenne, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Counsel, b_y the Lord Chancellor. Lieutenant Dashwood Jones, on promotion and return from foreign service at Hong-Kong, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Lieutenant Clarence Judd, by the Earl of Wilton. Edward Wilson Kenworthy, late Captain, Madero Army„ on his appointment to be ono of her Majesty'. Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley. —Bari of ginaore, ma- his marriage, by the Marquis of Breatlalbane. Lieutenant Edward Kitchen, un appointment Hon. Artil lery Company, by Licut.•C.)lone! Hon. 11. Fitzroy, M.P. Lieutenant E. G. Lansmore, on his return from India, by Sir C. Wood. C, , lonel the Duke of Leeds, on appointment to the North York Militia Regiment, by the Earl of Zetland. Lieutenant Edward Leeds, by Sir C. Wood. Lieutenant J. Granville Lightfoot on return from India, by his father Lieutenant-General Lightfoot. Major-General Uncaps, C. 8., on being appointed Colonel of the 39th Regiment, by Viscount Ilardinge. Lieutenant W. F. Lowrie, by Lieutenant General Kenah. Captain 3l'Dougall, R.N., on his return from service, by Sir J. Graham. Lieutenant George V. Macdonald, on return from foreign service, by Lteut.-General C. Turner. The Lord Mayor, by the Earl of Aberdeen. Major G. B. Michell, by Lieut.-General Sir W. Cotton. Mr. Sussex Milbank, by the Earl of Mu'grave. Commissary-General Miller, en return from foreign ser vice, or appointment as C. 8., by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Captain Mike, R.N., on re-appointment as a Lord of the Admiralty, by Sir J. Graham. Dr. Mortimer, by the Lord Mayor. Captain E. Mortimer, by the Earl of Wilton. Commander Newton, R.N., by Sir J. Graham. Ensign C. G. C. Norton, on his appointment to 52nd Light Infantry, by Lieut.-General Sir A. Maclaine. Mr. Osborne, on appointment as Secretary to the Admi ralty, hy Sir J. Graham. Sir W. Gore Ouseley, on being appointed a K.C.B ,by the Earl of Clarendon. Admiral Sir William Parker, But., G.C.8., on his return from foreign service, by Sir J. Graham. Licntenant A. If. Pater, ot, by Col. A. W. Torrent. Mr. Frederick Peel, M.P., on appointment os Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Duke of New castle. Captain L. Perrott, by Mr. Draz,M.P. Viscount Pevecsey, by his father, the Earl of Sheffield. Captain R Phelips, on promotion, by the Master General of the Ordnance. Colonel Phil'pot% on being appointed Commander of Royal Engineers at Bermuda, by the Inspector-General of Fortifications. Captain P. G. Pipon, on promotion, by the Master- General of the Ordnance. Captain E. Purcell, R.N., on return from foreign service, by Sir J. Graham. Lieutenant William Robertson, on appointment to the Rural London Militia, by Colonel William Thompson, Lieutenant-General Sir Hear Ross, on appointment to the Coloneley of Royal Horse Artillery, by Lord Raglan. Captain G. B. Shakeapear, on promotion and return from foreign service, by Lord Raglan. Lieutenant Sinclair, on promotion, by Lord Raglan. Captain Smart, R.N., on return from foreign service, by Sir J. Graham. Mr. 0. A. Smith, by Colonel Lord Sydney. Colonel Smyth, M.P. on his appointment to the corn mind of the 2nd West York Regiment of Militia, by Earl de Grey. Mr. Spearman, by his father, Sir A. Spearman. Lientenant-Colonel Stephens, on his appointment u Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to her Majesty, by the Lord Chamberlain. Vice-Chancellor Stuart, by the Lord Chancellor. Rev. Henry &divan, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Colonel Thornton, Grenadier Guards, on promotion, by Viscount Herdinge. Mr. F. J. Thyane, by his father, Rev. Lord John Thynne. Mr. W. F. Thynne, by his father, Rev. Lord John Thynne. Colonel A. W. Torrent, on appointment as A,,iataat Quarter Muter General, by Viscount Hardinge. Captain J. Towgood, by Sir C. Wood. Lord Justice Turner, on his appointment as Lord Justice, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., by Lord Hotham. Lieutenant Mansfield Turner, by his father, Mr. W. Turner. Second Lieutenant E. C. Vaughan, by Lord Raglan. Mr. A. W. Ward by Sir J. M. Wilson, C.B. Lieutenant T. P. Warlow, on promotion, by Lord Raglan. Lieutenant-CO. West, on promotion, by Col. Thornton. Mr. G. Whitbread, by Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood. it Wood, on his appointment, by the Lieutenant-Colonel B. Wood, on appointment as aide-de camp to the General Commanding-in-Chief, by Viacoust Harding., G.C.B. The general circle was attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and ' Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretary at War, the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, G.C.B. (on returning from hie post at Florence), the Master of the Rolls, the Chan cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Queen's Advocate, Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal), Sir Charles Young (Garter), Coking Cornwall, her Majesty's Assistant Master of the Ceremonies; Sir Augustus Cliff .rd, Bart., Gentle man Usher of the Black Rod; Sir William Martins, Gen tleman Usher of the Sword of State ; Mr. Norman Mae donald, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Depart ment; Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Groom in Waiting to the Queen; Captain Hon. Mortimer Saekville West, Groom is Waiting to her Majesty; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to Prince Albert ; Colonel Hall, Silver Stick; Colonels Wood, H. Bentinek, Broke Pennefather, C. 8., PriauLx, and Clark Kennedy, C.B. and LH, Aide-do-Camp to the Queen; Mr. Thomas Skiffs's!, Paymaster of the Household ; Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Equerry to Prince Albert ; Lieut-Colonel Lord James Mussy) Scots Fusilier Guards), Equerry to the Duchess of Kent; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Augustus Lid dell, Equerry to the Duchess of Gloucester; Mr. Frederick Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod ; Colonel Fitxmaurice, Adjutant of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Sir John Kincaid, Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Cheva- Jier Hebei, their Prussian and IVuttemberg Majesties' Con sul General ; Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., Sergeant- Surgeon to the Queen ; Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Gentleman Usher in Waiting ; Lient.-Colonel Stephens, Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter in Waiting; Mr. Wilbraham Taylor. Gentleman Usher; Captain G. C. Blaze, R.N. Gentleman Usher to Prince Albert in Waiting • ' Colonel Diggle, Gentleman Usher to her Majesty in Waiting ; Captain Henry Green Wilkinson (Scots Fusilier Guards), Adjutant in Brigade Waiting; Mr. Lawrence, Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen • and the following: Dunne—Montrose, Norfolk, Argyll, Leinster. MARQUISES—Exeter, Clapricarde, Salisbury, Cbandcs. EARLS—Ruston, Ellenborongh, Bessborough, Clamed liam, De Gray, Sheffield, Pomfret, Clare, Devon, Desert, Laneaborough, Mount Charles, Arran, Zetland, Orkney, Bective. VISCOUNTS—Sydney, Canning, Newport, Enfield, Dun can, Bolingbroke, Mouck, Emlyn, Fits Gibbon, Chelsea. BlSHOPS—Winehester, London, Manchester, Limerick, Salisbury. Loans—Rivers, Broughton, Stanley (of Alderley), John Manners, Colchester, Manners, Charles L. Fits Roy, Fe venham, Alfred Hervey, Colb orne, Burghley, M.P., Claud Hamilton, Wodehouse, Overstone. Henniker, Milford, William Graham, Naas. Rump 110NOURAIL11)-4/07 Banker , M.P Henry (bulbuls, Sir Moleswo ,B. Disraeli, Sir John Pakington, M.P., Edward Cardwell, Henry Labouchere, M.P.. Sir George Grey, J. W. Henley, Sir Henry Ellis, K.C.8., Spencer Walpole Edward Strutt,M.P., Charles P. Villiers, M.P., Sir John Young, M.P. Holiounau.ne—William Bathurst, Charles Clemente, Irby, Charles Harding., M.P., W. Portman, M.P.,— Stoner, Patrick Talbot, Robert Curzon, jun., Jacob ela val Astley, John Elliot, F. Charteris, Stuart Knox, M.P. Counz—Pissni. Danonars—John Yards Buller, Archibald Campbell, E. N. Buxton, Alexander S , William Jolliffe, M.P. ' George She*, Graham ontgomery, M.P., James JohnHamiltoo, George Staunton, Henry Mildmay, John Duckworth, M.P., Thomas Rokewode Gage, John Warren der' Thomas Montgomery Cuuiogbame, George Brooke Pechell, M.P. Robert H. Inglis, Walter James. Stns—Rich ard Westmacott, George Nicholls, K.C.8., Edwin Pearson, Richard Mayne, K.C.B. Charles Aldis, John Orde, Robert Walter Carden, Charles 'Fellows. Quinn's Connect,—Malins, Spencer Follett, Hogging, Frederick Calvert, Bacon. SERISANTS-AT-LAW.—Bellesis, Goulburn, Adams. Paevose—Of Eton . RETURNED DOCTORS-40101N, Parish. Dourons—Richard Bright, Jamu Millar, 011lkrest, Todd, Ashley. RITZRIINDS—ChuIa Baring, Joseph Saes, LL.B., Lord John Thyme, John Godfrey Angley, W. Canning. 11115SIRURS—Chartee Clifford, Mandeville, W . Turner, Thomas Baker, R.N., James Whiskin, Augustus Stephen son', Toners MeDullagh, Charles Manby, Moncton Mines, M.P. James Wilson, M.P., Banks Stanhope, Erumus Wilson, Henry Cole, C. 8., William Pox Strangways, H. U. Addington, Stephenson, Holdship, Sandford, Hussey Vivian, Dodd, ALP., Weyland, Meade King, Nounille Rudge, Robert Peel, Barges, Alexander Henry Neale Suite, R.N., Farqnhanon of Invereauld, T. C. Grattan, Chas. M. Middelton, H. W. Tapered, M.P., Henry Vyner, Efts. Bowriog, James Booth, Victor Houl ton, Neild M.P., Warner, Charles W. Grenfell, M.P., Evelyn Denison , William Ferguson, Rasch, de Honey, Frauds Cavendidi, Beckett, M.P. S. Dalhousie Ramsay, Graves Sawle, M.P., Bai ll ie (of D ocbfour),' Scott Murray, Whitgreave, Oswald Smith, William John Hamilton, Val entine Browne, M.P., White Cooper, Milner Gibson, M.P., Whiskin, Marshall, W. Seymour Fitzgerald, ALP., George /lepton, M.P., Halsey, M.P., De Burali, Jones (of Ponty glas), M.P., Yarde fuller , Hawes (Deputy Secretary at War), Pussy, Henry Whitmore, M. , Cavendish, Mike, M.P., Pakhigton, William Jones Loyd, G. Borlase Childs, Henry Stanhope Illingworth, William Hay, C.B. John Wood, Augustus Stafford, Henry Baillie, CornewaiLewis. ADNIRALS.—Price, Meynell. The Vice-Chan Lord Chancellor, - -------. CAPTAIN. TOTAL Navv).—Rdgell, Sir Thomu Mut ing., William eel, the gon. Frederick Pelham, Robert Farnham) Stopford, M. J. Currie, Drinkwater Bethune, C. 8., Jerninghem, Moore, Lord Frederick Gordon Melly burton, Clifford. COMMANDIUM—Montague Ilefes, Lord Adolphus Fits- Clarence. LIBUTENANTe (Royal Navy)—F. A. Craufurd, C. R. Cuter. GENIMAT s—Sir John Burgoyne, Sir A.nhibald Maclaine, Anson, D'Oyly, Sir Willoughby Cotton, G. C. 8., Sir Pere grine Maitland, Freoth, Barr, Sir George Bro.vot Sir Fmk' ,rick Stovin, the Hon. Henry Murray, C. 8., .6lr Robert Harvey, Sir Charles H. Thornton, G.C.11., Cgvendisli, Viscount Mardinge, Lord Raglan, bir George Bowler. COLO/TWA—Robert Lewis, Pinney, M.P., Edward Begot Stepney Cowell, ICH., Lord Challis Wellesley, P el, Neil Campbell, H. E. Robinson, S tndham, Jebb, C.ll , Blake, Cranford, Colvile, Junes inn's, Alves. Lovell, K.H. Clifford, )1.P., Nevill, Spenser Stanhope, Wood: Chatterten, D L., Harry D. Jones, Lord Frederick Paniet, Fox Strangways, Angerstein. MAJOILS—Cooke, Wilton, Qomtus Vivian, Lord Francis Gordon, Graham, Charles James Lewes, lion. Hobert I Spencer. CAPTAINS—W. T. Hall, F. Vanderlure Mats, Lowther, Streattield, Leopold Paget, Henri C. Owen;Hanoler, Rut dole', Charles Wright, Hatton, Per_ey, Patterson, Robert Lewis Taylor, David Wood, H. P. Whits, Murray Cowell, Hare.inge. I - _ _ - LIIILTI 7 INANT6 FEU], Edward Ottley. Buckley, W. Cecil Pochell, Burnaby, Id. Wards's, Neville Ward, Lord Balgonie. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester-house, yesterday. A deputation to present a memorial from the merchants of London, Greenock, Liverpool, Poole, and Bristol, en. gaged in the trade and fisheries of Newfoundland, had en interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterd iy at the Foreign-o ffi ce. The deputation consisted of Mr. Thtmma H. Brooking, Mr. T. N. Hunt, Mr. T. B. Job, Mr. T. H. Newman and Mr. Schenk. Sir Th;mu Fremantle, Bart., Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation from the townships of Hanley and Shelton had an interview yeiterdsy with the General Board of Health at their office, Whitehall. They were introduced by Mr. Ricardo, M.P., the Hon. E. F. Leveson Gower, M.P., and Mr. Smith Child, M.P. The deputation con sisted of the following gentlemen :—Mesars. C. Bailiff, Ridgway, Dimmed:, Clemeutson, Brownfield, and Keel ing. ELECTION EXPOSURES. CHATHAM. When the select committee re-assembled yesterday morning, Sir Frederick Smith, the sitting member, who had been partly examined on Tuesday, was again called, and gave the following additional evidence in answer to Mr. Serpent Wrangham—ln reference to the cave of Hogg, mentioned yesterday, for whom I had obtained the situation of steward ea board a ship, I received the following letter from him. [The letter was read by counsel, and stated that the writer would not have troubled Sir F. Smith again, did he not feel the absolute necessity of obtaining some employment betare the winter set in.] In reference to Naylur's case I never seed the words, ". When a horse runs away you must stop him before anything can be done." With regard so a person named Sibbit, I have no recollection of him at all, and I never used the expression, My !earliest friends will be earliest thoaght of." I said, with respect to a man who refused me his vote, that I considered him a friend for giving me an early answer. I never authorised a person named Coldgate to call upon Bibbet on my behalf. I recollect Mr. Stallard, late Secretary to the Admiralty, being at Chatham, but I never conversed with any one at Chatham in oompaoy with Mr. Stafford. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Kinglake—l made it known in March that I was going to stand for Chatham. I made it known at a public meeting, at the Sun Inn there. I stated I would support a conservauve government. I don't think I said " Lord Derby's government." Ido find it rather puzzling is remember all 1 may have said at an elec tion time. When I entered upon my canvass, it was tho roughly impressed upon my mind to make ne promires [of places]. What impressed that thoroughly on my mind was because I had been told a great number of applications would be made, and I determined to resist them ; my reason for that resolution was because the voters at Chatham are in a very low station of life ; that was the character of the consti tuency generally. Deadedly I draw a distinction between promising a place before and after an election. When I embarked in that election I resolved to make no man a pie raise of a place till after he had promised me his vote. I have no recollection of the date of the first application made to me from Chatham for a place, after I began my canvass ; I kept no memorandum of those applications. have gone to the Admiralty very often, but very seldom to make applications. I have gone there between the time of the commencement of my canvass, and the time of voting. I can't tell how many applications I made to the Admiralty. I think they might be more than 20 ; in fact. I feel positive about that. Those applications were made between March and the election. They were situa tions for labourers chiefly, and boys in the ropery. I can't tell if the majority of those applicants were either voters or the relatives of voters. The names were given in to me by the members of the old Conservative Club. A man named Honey I obtained a situation for as weigher ; a man named Potts I got the situation of a tidewaiter for ; and a young men named Greathead I got into the Post-office. Letters et application for situations which I could not obtain, I *sow into the fire. I made one application to the Gri mace for a clerkship, for a person named Green, son to the sleek of the works at Chatham, _who voted for me. I think that was a ft er the election. My communicatious with the Admiralty were chiefly through Mr. Grant, private secre tary to Mr. Stafford, whose fattier and grandfather I had known intimately. I did not declare myself at Chatham to be " the government candidate." I think that unlikely. I knew that Cooper had been on the other side, and there fore n expected that he would give me his vote. It was very likely because Pitts was reinstated I got Cooper's vote. I believe it was. I had been at the Admiralty with Wells. sen., in consequence of getting no answer to my letter. I don't know whether Wells was aware Cooper would vote for me if Pitts was reinstated. I was going to the Admiralty then about some other Chatham voters. I can't tell who they were. I made no application for Pita. I only made a remonstrance to have justice done him. I have no doubt Ackworth said to me Cooper would give me his vote if Pitts was reinstated. My only answer was that I would have the affair properly investigated, and never with re ference to Cooper's vote, but as an act of justice, for I thought Pitts had been ill-treated. In Mr. Hill's presence and mine, at the Sun, I heard Ackworth state he would vote for me if Pitts was reinstated, and he would endeavour to get me 16 or 20 other votes. It might have been gestated. Mr. Hill said he would have nothing to do with it if Cooper was mixed up with it. I addressed a letter to Mr. Grant at the Admiralty, and sent It by Aekwerth, saying, " the bearer of this is Mr. Ackworth, who can explain Pitts' pay to you ; I beg you will give him an answer." Some weeks after that I saw Cooper, who said he was cruelly deceived, and that I could not have done my best, as two other men had been appointed, and Pitts was shoved out. I said I was very sorry. Cooper than went away. He was in such a fary he was foaming at the mouth. With reference to Tatters the name of Cooper was never mentioned. Tatton told me he wished very much to support me. I only saw him once. I think I saw Naylor only once. I first saw John Driver in the street; he came up to me and tendered me his vote. I saw him the same day after that at the Sun. He is a bricklayer. Wks* he called on me at the Sun, he said "I've • son in the same trade as myself, I want to get him an appointment." I said " Is he a good workman ?" sad he said " Hs is, and a good charao ter." I said I would like to see him. I sent him down to Portsmouth, and atter that the father complained I had sent the son to a contract job, and not a permanent situation. I seat that man to Portsmouth because his lather wanted me to do so. If the father did not promise me I would have done the same. I did cot send him because the father promised to vote for me. It did not occur to me that the man was bartering his vote. He was an old, sturdy conservative, and I think he required nothing to confirm him in his vote. I heard after the election that Driver had refused to take the bribery oath. With reference to Brad shaw, the first time I saw him he came to me and promised me him vote. Mr. Wells, jun., was more with me on my cannot than any one else; he is a large timber merchant. The second time I saw Bradshaw I shook hands with him, and said I was always glad to see my supporters. Nothing else occurred then. Bradshaw did not say to me, " I undentaad I'm going to give you my vote, and if you will be so good as to get me into Greenwich I shall, be much obliged." Bradshaw said to me, over and over again, he hoped I would get him into Greenwich, but did not ever couple them together—the vote and the getting into Greenwich. The next time I saw him was at my office in London. I told him I was at my office every Friday. Mr. Wells may have told him where ray office was. I think ke hadno intimation of it from me. I took him to the Admiralty, and saw Mr. Briggs there, who is what is called • reader. I made Bradshaw no promise before the election, but after the election I told him I would do my best to do so with pleasure. I did say to Bradshaw, in London, I would get him into Greenwich if I could, but I feared my interest was not strong enough. I knew Bradshaw had a pension of 161. a year, and he said if he got into Greenwich the government would be the ininen, as his keep would not cost 151. Mr. Oreathead is a person of respectable appearance. He is a chemist at Chatham. He was quite a stranger to me till the last election. I was astonished at Mr. Greathead applying tome to get his son into the Post-office, as I thought he was in a superior station of life. I was glad to be able to serve the father through his son, as I thought the son would be a very good recruit for the Post-office. For the kindness the father showed me, I was glad to serve the son. It was not because the father promised to vote for me, but as a civil return for hie canvassing for me, and promis ing me his support. I mean by promising to support me that he promised me his vote. It was not the sole reason of my getting the eon into the Poet-office that)). would be a very good recruit for the post-office, but because I was dis posed to oblige the father. I did not know the son was at that time a tailor in London, and in ill health. I did it first to oblige the father, and next to give the public a good servant, as I think people in low stations are not the fittest for a public office. I made no inquiry about the son's character except from his father. Most decidedly • consideration for the public service was what led me to make this recommendation, and to oblige the father, who canvassed actively for me. I heard in this room yesterday with great disgust that Mr. Greathead had promised to vote for Admiral Stirling. I now see I misjudged the man—be was unworthy of my confidence. He did vote for me. If I had known he had promised Admiral Stirling I would not have recommended the son to a Post-office situation, because I would have doubted the son of such a father. I never canvassed any one at work in the dockyard. Willism Madrills voted for me. I did not promise him an, place ; he wanted to get into the Ordnance or the Admi ralty, but I did not promise him. When I heard of a fa vourable result to any of my applications for situations I did not often communicate it to Mr. Wells, the chairman of my committee. I did sometimes communicate it to him, but mostly the results were communicated to the applicants themselves. I hive not the slightest idea of what hos bosoms of the canvass Ig)tik. I never made any inquiry for it. BELGIUM. The numerous foreign officers in the military ser vice of Belgium were, on the 28th ult., the subject of an animated debate in the Chamber of Representa tives. M. Perceval proposed to remove all these officers from the army, making a becoming recom pense to them for their past services. In case of war both they and Belgium would be placed in a false position, as soon as they were asked to draw their swords against their native country. Honour, the oath, and naturalisation might be pleaded, but a Frenchman was a Frenchman after all. The govern ment strenuously resisted the motion, as one of sus picion and ostracism. M. Brouckere, chief of the cabinet, said there were Frenchmen, Prussians, Saxons, Swiss, and Dutch in the service, most of them naturalised, and thus Belgians according to the constitution. He adjured the house to reject the motion by an imposing insjority. M. Perceval, in' answer to the remark of the minister that the bill was not required, said that he had a letter from several French officers praying him to press his proposition. This announcement was the cause of great excitement, amidst which the minister de manded the names of officers serving in Belgium upon the same footing as natives, and whoyet were speculating for retiring pensions. He demanded to know who they were, that on the very next day they might cease to belong to the Belgian army. The debate was speedily closed, and in a house of 78 only 8 voted for the proposition. ITALY. The Poe. della Verila states that it received on the 23th ult. the painful announcement that a decree of the Austrian government placed under sequestration the entire property of the refugees of the Lombardo- Venetian provinces who are not naturalised abroad until they shall have proved that they were not per ties to the movement of the 6th February. A Coun cil of Ministers was held, after which a courier was despatched in all haste to London. The Parlameaio in acknowledging the receipt of the same intelli gence, with the addition that the decree includes even these who have obtained permission to emigrate and those who have been regularly naturalised citizens of other states observes that the stupor which that in telligence gas caused will find its natural explana tion in so egregious a violation of all the principles of equity and international laws. But the very enormity of the fact renders the writers incredulous, and induces them to regard it as the effect of some At Milan smelts were continued to the 22nd ult. Among the persons arrested i s a priest named Don Giovanni RossarL The church-bells are still mute, the authorities having had all tho doors giving SCOW to the staircases of the steeples closed until further orders. In order to propitiate Heaven and obtain the re covery of the Emperor, tho Archbishop of Milan has ordered the e of the Host for three days throeghont his • The Yore delks Maria of Turin publialua two letters by M. Manini equivalent in substance to that which appeared in yesterday's Express. M. Mas sini in first mimes the responsibility of the proclamation of the National Committee, which he 1 1 had drawn up himself, and signed with only one of his collimate. In the mend, he declares that the Hungarian proclamation actually emanated from M. Kossuth; that he had demanded it from him when I the latter was still a prisoner . at Kutayalk to make use of it, in the event of an insurrection in Italy, and that the . original manuscript, signed by Loins Kossuth, was in his possession. ROMAN STATES. The Superior Council of the order of Jesuits hare presented to the Pope, with a prayer that his Holi sm will transmit it to the different catholic powers, a protest against the decision of three of the repub lica of South America, banishing the Jesuits, and con floating their property. GERMANY. A dispatch, dated Vienna, Feb. 28, states that the bodily condition ot Ilse Buiporor was still ins- The bulletins which we receive with the official Vienna (142414 present the situation of the Emperor in a graver light than that of the telegraphic des patches by which they are preceded. The follow ing are from the latest Gazette which has reached England : Vienna, Feb. 25 4 p . m—His Majesty feels easier, al thoagh for several bolus the heat in the fors part of his head has inuessed.—(Bigned) Ilinnonosa and Warr- MANN. View, Feb. 26, 1 co.—The increased heat is the fore part of his iligesty's head has contiased throughout the day, sad mad late last eight. Hie Majesty has dosed often, but his sleep has been of short duration.—(Signed) Sassososs and War:smog. A few days after Libeny's attack on Francis Joseph, it was stated by an Austrian paper that an attempt had been made at Pesth on the lifeof the Arch duke Albert, acting as governor of Hungary. Nothing more has since been heard of this alleged occurrence, but yesterday's mail brought a rumour, without de tails, of an attack on the notorious Jellachich, Ban of Croatia. Frederick Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, died suddenly on Sunday morning, in the 69th year of his age. This Prince was the father of the Queen of Oreece. He is succeeded by his son Nicholas, aged 26 years. The Augsburg °antis states that a European con gress is to assemble this spring. The Austrian go vernment had formed the "energetic determination" of requiring from the British government the expul sion of Mazzini and Komuth. In case of refusal no British subject would be permitted to cross the Aus trian frontier. The Lloyd of Vienna says further that England will find that she can hardly maintain peaceful, much less friendly relation, with continen tal powers, unless Austria's demands were complied with. If Englishmen will shelter revolutionary ra fugees they must not expect entertainment in Aus-