The Express. — London, England, 1863-11-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1863. would be better than making men immorel by Act of Parliament, which hoe beast, we believe, the tendency of many a statute. The promotion and protection of social morality has always been considered one of the duties of the legislator. The danger he has really to guard against on this ground is the enactment of measures which, under the ap pearance of guarding morals, really destroy them by producing a hollow outward conformity, toge ther with an immense increase of hypocrisy and secret vice. The Permissive-Prohibition Bill discussed by Mr. Bcxvox appears to ua to start from a wrong principle. It is proposed to pass an Act according to which, when a certain proportion of the inha bitants of a pariah or municipality shall agree to that effect, the sale of beer, wine, and spirits in that parish or municipality shall thereby be made unlawful. No such power ought to be given to a local majority. If the liquor traffic is of itself so injurious to morality that its suppression by law is justifiable in one place, it must be so for the whole kingdom, and the Imperial Legislature ought to take the responsibility of roAking a general prohibitory law. After the public opinion of the country has sanctioned and Parliament has estab lished a principle of legislation, local knowledge and judgment may safely be left to apply it ; but it is a wholly different thing to make the will of a smell population the law of a district on a matter which affects the personal rights of every inhabitant. In this instance, supposing, for the convenience of the argument, that the canoe of public morality is the cause of prohibitory legislation, it would be placing that cause at an immense disadvantage to make one portion of a local population the legislators for the other on a matter which so nearly touches individual convenience. On the first attempt to introduce such a law into our towns we should have contests at tended with the bitterest clams feeling and with an evocation of the foulest elements of social disorder. The friends of the Permissive-Prohibitory Bill do not act fairly either to the public or to them selves when they seek to decry the sale of wine, beer, and spirits as that of intoxicating drinks. If they were merely that—simply instruments of vice—the work of those ardent reformers would be soon and easily accomplished. Nobody would be found to stand up for the right of men to make beasts of themselves. But the public, out of its own experience, gives those articles • milder character, and as long as a large body of exemplary people em ploy them, in the belief that they serve • whole some physiological purpose, the friends of temper ance will do well to remember that fact. No doubt many erroneous notions on this subject still linger in the public mind, and to remove these is • work in which oar total abstainers may usefully employ themselves. They have already done good service in this respect. The intelligent classes of this country have got rid of much error on this subject, and do not set so much store by wine and beer as they did, while spirits are more and more going out of use. The notion that alcohol economises waste and aids nutrition, by diminishing both the pro &let and the process of metamorphosis in the tissues, is falling into discredit, and the same may be said of the doctrine that alcohol was necessaii to keep up " combustion" in the system. In due time all the science the abstainers can teach will descend to the multitude, and become common property. But in the meanwhile they must take account of the prevalent belief, which those who hold it refer to experience, that in some way or ' , other, which it may be left to physiologists to ex plain, wine and beer do sustain the system under the wear-and-tear of life. Broad abstract propo sitions on this subject make little i-npression on the public. It may be true, as men of scene tell us, that even a moderate daily use of alcohol diminishes the ability of the body to resist ex tremes of temperature, that it is • source of nutritional derangement, and that it impairs the capacity for muscular exertion. It is certainly remarkable that the chamois hunter and the ma thematician equally avoid it when they want to draw most largely on their several faculties. And yet the popular belief may have solid grounds. We must take the conditions of existence as we find them made for us, and, in point of fact, very few of us are so fortunate as to be permitted to live as nature meant. We cannot, if we would, forget that we are the creatures of artificial neces sities. Physicians of experience remark how 'ew healthy teetotallers are to be met with in our ordinary inhabitants of cities. The excessive mental and bodily toil and insufficient exercise which are the lot of thousands of dwellers in towns, bring on fatigue, depression, and weakness, which make a moderate stimulus far from superfluous. Of course it may be said that oocupetions which could only be carried on under these conditions would not be fit for anybody. Bet the remark would have no practical value. As long as people believe that wine and beer impart comfott and energy, and counteract fatigue, the conviction of their utility will give an appearance of stronginjustice totheattempta of any set of persons to place these articles out of reach by procuring the interdiction of theirsale. It is contrary to the recognised maxims of our legis lation, and against reason and common sense, to prohibit the moderate use of a good thing be cause some abuse it. Mr. BUXTON expressed in a rough general way the feelings with which such legislation would be universally regarded :—" For " &urn and Baows to say to me, you shall have " no more porter for fear we should get drunk, or " for fear I may get drunk, is • trespass on my " freedom. It is • wrong done t o m y na t ura l " independence. It would be an intervention in "my private affairs that would be ur bearable to "an Englishman. If they cannot keep themselves " from getting drunk, why let them take the " pledge. I shall reepsct them 'or that." Se riously, we hope that the efforts of our temperance reformers will take some more rational direction than an agitation for • Permissive-Prohibitory Bill. gbc Court. WINDSOR CIARTLE. Nov. 6. Princess Helena and Princesa Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel H. F. Ponsonby, went to London yesterday evening sad honoured the per. tormanee at the Adelphi Theatre with their presence. Her Majesty the Queen drove out in the afternoon. Lg. 267 1 g 28 I 28 0 m m O W.N.W. &W. = i = $ 1 14 $I 1$ I 114 1 i 11 LATENT INTELLIGENCE. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE ER-QUEEN OF FRANCS, AT CLAREMONT.-(THIS DAY.) This morning, her Majesty the Queen, accom panied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Heleos sod the Princess of Bohnlobe, and attended by the Couotess of CaWon, Major-General Hood, and Colonel Ponsooby, left Windsor shortly before 10 o'clock for the Windsor termions of the tondos and South Western Railway en route for Claremont, on a Visit to the ex-Queen of Frame, Marie Amelia, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has arrived at Cheveley Part, Cambridgeshire, from visiting Major General Hall at Weston Colville. The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, 3L P. and M. Cowper us expeotid is Curzowatrwit is a few dam from a toar fa Italy. The Duke of Argyll, accompanied by the duchess and fasuly, is expected to arrive is lowa oo Tuesday from loversry Outlay N.B. The Duke of Sutherland arrived at Stafford House, St. James, front Tarbet, N. 8., yesterday. The doeheas sad family have arrived AI Lilleahall Perk, Salop. _ . . . The Earl and Countess of Lincoln's departure for the Continent bas been prematurely announoe& The counter has been indisposed, which has delayed the intended movements of the family. The Bishop of London will resume his weekly leafs at London House on Tuesday, the 10th Mat., for the corning season, with the exception of the usual intervals of Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuutads. THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OP DOBLIN.--We (Times) have authority to state that the Anthbishopric of Dublin bas been offered to the Very Re►. the Dean of West minster, Dr. Trench. MUSIC'. PRUSSIAN POLAND. The Prussian government is beginning to taste the bitter fruits of its conduct in the affairs of Poland. The elections have terminated in the Grand Duchy of Posen. In spite of the efforts of the official agents, in a country which they are more than ever interested in causing to be con sidered eminently German, of 29 deputies elected 21 are Polish, and of these 21 five are accused of WINDSOR, SATURDAY. , high treason, and are in prison or abroad. _ _ (astrria's ruzauxL) FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 7. The Moniteur of this morning says the govern meat does not intend to abolish the tax upon horses and carriages. Marshal Foray's farewell to the Mexicans and the French army has been published. It concludes by saying :—" If the chances of war should place you again under my orders when you return to France, I shall be happy to find myself at the head of the valiant soldiers of Mexico." The Constitution/gel publishes an article signed by M. Limayrac, saying he is convinced that governments and nations have svffered too long from a state of affairs no longer corresponding to new wants and desire~, to reject the idea of a con gress. The result of this step will be agreement suoseeding antagonism, true peace, and not that factitious condition always within a hair's-breadth of vrer. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 7, 10.20 A.m. The Bank of France has raised ita rate of dis count from 5 to 6 per cont. CAPE MAILS. FALMOUTH, Nov. 7. The Union Company's steamer Cambrian left this port at 5 o'clock this morning with the mails for the Cape of Good Hope. She takes out 127 sacks of mails, 90 passengers, and 50,0321. sterling in specie. The Prince Consort arrived toil morning from Kingston. ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN. ON MIMIC TZLIONOW.) (r 7.011 OUR OWN comaromourr.) SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 7. The appointment of Grant to the command of all the Western forces, except those in Lousiania, has given universal satisfaction. His disposable strength will be 200,000 troops. Vance has been offered the next Confederate presidency if he will keep the old North State true to the South. The north-eastern counties of North Carolina have repudiated the rebel government. THE FRENCH IN MEXICO. The New York Tittles of the 22nd ult. al the arrival of a legation from Mexico : Among the passengers by the steamer Creole from Ha m:Bah yesterday was Senor Dee Marisa Romero, late Mexi can charge at Washington, who now returns as envoy extra ordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the republic of Mexico to the United States. Senor figrero is accompanied by Don Ignacio fdariacal, secretary of Don Fernando de la Cossta, second secretary of legatios, and Senor Macin, attaché. Senor Romero is already well known to the citi zens of the United States fur his ability and his tried fidelity to republican principle& His return will be received with great pleasure. Senor Manual, the new secretary of legation, is a gentleman of great worth, • distinguished lawyer of Mexico, sod was lately acting as assistant secre tary of state. He enjoys a very high reputation in Mex.co. Senor Cuesta, assistant secretary, and Senor Macin, are pc. tlemen of fine accomplubmenta, long connected with the department of foreign affairs. The appointment by the Mexican government of a full legation to the United States at this time shows the importance which Mexico attaches to the action of the United States at this moment. The New York Herald says: The resistanee which the Human government is so ener getically preparing to make against the French is the beat answer that could be given to the ridiculous pretensions of Napoleon that he is doing all to better the condition of the Mexicans, and that they sympathise with him. These pre paratioos prove the utter falsity of this assertion, and ad monish him to beware lest he @tend before the world en long a convicted filibuster. He pretends that it is accord. Mg to the wishes of the people of Mexico he is now sodas roaring to change their form of governmeat, and yet we see them ready to sacrifice their lives to prevent this. The perfidy of France is too apparent, and were there at the bead of her attain men of principle the invuioo of Mexico would ►t once be abandoned, as it is, beyond doubt, a flagrant violation of the rights of the Mexican people. We hear that Napoleon i@ *ending immense reinforcements to Mexico, sod that he is determined to conquer the country. la that light he may place his invasion, but not under the hypocritical plea of acting according to the desires of those whom he is doing all in his power to enslave. We shall ere long have our word to say about this French invasion of our continent, and shall defeat the machinations of Napoleon by meeting them with an overwhelming oppo sition. The rebellion ended, we shall have a million of veteran troops, men who will be eager to undertake the release of Mexico from her foreign invaders. We shall have an im mense fleet of soch powerful war rowels as the world never saw before, and with this force to back our demands we shall be as peremptory as the aim requires. We will prove to the nations of Europe that the Monroe doctrine is one which we fully intend to enforce, and through Fromm we shall teach them a lemon which will deter any future attempts on the part of European powers to obtain a foothold on this continent. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATvitDAT, NOTIOUNIa 7. $ A.X. ME. BENEDICTS CONCERT. The concert given last night by Mr. Benedict, at St. James's-ball, was on a wale of extraordinary magnitude. He bad for vocalists Noille. Tithes, Mdlle. Signor Bettini, Signor Bassi, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Bentley. He bad a full and complete instrumental orchestra ; and be had the numerous and powerful choir of the Vocal Associ ation, a choir famed and trained by himself. The:concert was in three parts. The tint was composed of miscellaneous pieces ; the second col:added of his new cantata, Richard arwr de Lies ; and the third was a selection from Gounod'i rand. The first part (among other things) included the mews to the Gazza Ladra, admirably played by the orehestia ; Mendelasohn's beautiful part song, " 0 hills, 0 vales of pleasure," snug with great delicacy and effect by the choir tied two we ,"coal pieces composed by Signor Arditi ; the one English song, " The stirrup-cup," sung by Mr. Bentley ; the other a bolero, "Legpro invisibile," song by Mdlla Thiene. These compomitioes, whiniest° greatilamour to the composer, were sung with great effect and mast warmly applauded. They are things whke cannot fail to be popular. The second part of the concert was its greet feature ; Beimediet's Biased Ckesr de Lion, written for and pro duced at the recent Norwich lauded Festival, and now performed for the list time before a London audience. It was performed in the mama manner as at Norwich, excepting that the tenor pub (that of Blooded) was sung by Mr. Wilbye Cooper instead of ilir. Sims Reeves. The part of Matilda, as before, wan sustained by Mcllle. Miens, that of Mimic, the page, by Mdlle. Ttebelli, and that of King Richard by Mr. Bentley. We gave a full account of this cantata—both the poem and the musk--witen it was first performed at Norwich ; and it is therefore only aeosseary for us to say that its repetition was as successful in every respect as its production. The singers exerted themselves to the utmost. Thiene was in splendid voice, and sang magnibently. Her great scum, "Of love, they say, the hapless lady died," was a display of vocal power and pas sionate feeling such u has seldom been equalled ; and bailey's scene, " Out on this weary, listless life" (the royal captive's monologue in his solitary prison), was equally admirable in a dramatic and a vocal point of view. Millie. Trebelli, though she was suffering from indisposition, yang her two airs, especially the quaint Roman3e, "An hundred years ago," with charming grace and expression. And Mr. Wilbye Cooper acquitted himself most satisfactorily, espe cially in the fine duet between Blondel and the Queen. The whole performance, in short, was eminently suocessfni, and we trust will lead to many repetitions of this beautiful work. The selection from Faust, which formed the lest pert of the concert, included several of the thugs which were most popular at Her Majesty's Theatre during last lesson ; and the great chorus of soldiers formed s splendid finale to the moose. The hall wee crowded, and Mr. Beoedict wee received by the aodieoos with the broom due to his character sod baleata. K Jullien's concerts will commence this evening at Her Majesty's Theatre, to be continued there till the 21st of December. Hier orchestra is to be that of Her Majesty's Theatre, reinforced by several solo players from the Continent. Signor Sivori is to appear, " being exclu sively engaged." Mdlle. Volpini is to be his singer. programme is to be changed every night ; and, besides the works of the clerical masters, is to include, daring the season, a grand selection from Pause, with a full chorus and three military bands extra; another selection from La Pone del Destine, and "L'Espranos," a quadrille based on melodies of Poland. Czywrat Patacit —The first winter concert takes place Ibis afternoon. The cool:est room has been consider ably enlarged. The directors hays i•en notice that stalls for the soma of fifteen concerto will be sold at one guinea each. radar's giant balloon and car were expected to arrive at Folkestone yesterday, for exhibition at the Palace. Thin evening a new comic drama in two acts, entitled A Bull in a China Shop, will be produced at the Haymarket Theatre. Mr. Charles Mathews will take the principal charsoter. The Mayor of Southampton gave his concluding ball at Victoria Assembly-rooms in that town. previous to IF, as is said, the E ng li s h mo difi cat i on of the his going out of aloe, on Thursday night. This ball was to celebrate the birth of a daughter. Up, ards of WO of Maine Law—the Per m i ss i ve -P ro hibi tory Bill, as it the elite of Southampton and its neighbourh oo d a tt en d e d 11. The mayor's infant daughter wa s p resse s wall is somewhat paradoxically s tyl e d b y i ts f r i ends—is the b its purse in an apai mein near the ball-room. The latter to be brought forward i n th e next sess i on of Podia - was gorgeously decorated, rod a gigantic tent was erected nds ment, it is well that the subject sh ou ld be discussed io proftbe grou attached to the as sem bly- room . , w h ere a usion of the most costly wince aod a superb supper by Mr, Belzer, the purveyor, were provided for the company. in the recess. Mr. CRAZI.EB BI7ETON took the field The ball was by far the most magnificent ever given in at Maidstone last Thursday, as the opponent of all THE POLISH QUESTION. Southampton, extreme measures of legislation with regard to the PRINCE ALFRED AND THE ROYAL Scornful drinking usages of the people, and talked a great The following despatch, addressed to her Ma- Swim or airrs.—An extraordinary meeting of this deal of sound English com mon sense . He has laity's ambaseador at St. Petersbu rg , i s pu bli s h e d i n society was held on Wednesday afternoon in their hall. °forge-street, Edinburgh ; Dr. Stevenson Macadam, pre set night's Gazette : opponenta, however, who can talk as well as he, Foreign-office, October 20. sidest, in the chair. The president communicated the rano and whose opinions are entitled to be beard. My —Baron Brumley has com on' ted to a l A utiee a the council to grePaes ir . teothe society ithet y Pth r4 In the discussions of last year there was on the bespoke from Priam Gortchakoff, dated m August 26 ( I Lp- a af l t f er red ref h g l og to the well-kno t er f n ell in ' te:es t t wh ich his ; ro e val part of the adversaries of l eg i s l a ti on on th i s sub. Usable 71, is reply to my despatch to your excellency,highness toot in all matt ers re l a ti ng to sc i ence and its jock a strong infusion of intolerance, a coarseness No. 1714 of the 11th ultimo, of which you were instructed , t ap licati°6 l t il i t t e art.'hri)r. Macadam Boyal se Afrid r nan _ntl Y P"Pased that to glee a copy to his exaelleocy. Her Majesty's government ha,. which - Mon wended by p ie v7 t yi e . " • " " m a e ry g . of appeal to popular prejudice, which we may hope have no wish to prolong the correspondence on the subject ! president , and carried by acclamation. willnotrecur. If unreasonablemessureeare brought mere , Purrese wi I, of eootroversy. Her Ma- I Nov, Tae New QUILEhN'a Co ernoe..—Citoww-orrice, forward, their character will become clearer and of P e a for me t t e t their rejection be rendered more certain in that the l" Emperor of Rulseveia colotiomitistactotil:atehimae arenas - th : trader the Gies e t Seal ;the troi eeau red e. Kisc d l to con letters :tient and appoint William Hegel Cooke, of the Inner Temple, portion as they are examined with care and die - ianntios• of benevolence towards Poland, and of wi th - cussed with candour. Let it be remembered that ; the I. respect to all foreign power. Her Majority' , Irvero- ' r.Z.tird E lUb j .tt i Th ra l / Zw o olt h : 4 Middl e iidT e i m it i Lou, xi the evil against which Bills like that introduced by meet acknowledge that the relations of Russia towards don, 'Esq., to be of her Majesty's counsel learned in t he law. u.. E uro p ean powers are regulated by public law. But the --° "el,, ge- Mr. Sown last session, and the measure advocated by Mr. WILFRID LawsoN, are, however mistakenly, P ained . H ef er ß if a a ssia , has special p o i bligatioas is regard .. I . CROWN -orrice, N the tp. OVEM I6 BER a_ ls.—Member returne d Colesel Richard H directed, is one which fills our gaols and madhouses, et the 11th of f a ult y s , eo a v n e d rnme i h n a g ipumathhe.despssok, ,inure I° Richard Howard Fr, of Stoke-place, for the borough r ei Y f oty of Buckingham, in tile room which yearly consigns hundred, of families to poverty that, in regard to this particular question, the rights of rfew W indsor , W ' In Hope, EN , deossaad and degradation, and hurries thousands to • pr o - Poland are contained in the same instrument which condi- i Tui MEESEY Doe.BOA . RD.--LOAN OF 875,0001. mature grave. The subject is thee one to be totes the Emperor of Russia Kiug of Poland.— I am, Lc., i —After a long and animated discussiee at their timeline oe approached in • serious spirit. (Signed R o ... LL 1 Thursday the beard &aided to adopt the recommendations sod is the co instructed ta by a special emornittee appoint e d t o 000m d er the im - .S.—Your excellency is to give a copy of thi s , L relle . p °d 4-.--. for dock weeks, and to apply to parliament i n th e An objection is frequently taken i n li m i ne to PM.—Your to Priam Oortaltakoff. I next semicoo for powers to borrow a sum of 660,00 m, to b. • all legislation for diminishing dr un k enness, on the applieddespatch is the .time of the purchases natese. ground that it is an attempt to m a k e men moral tioo of the new dock works oo the Liverpool aide of the by Act of Parliament. After all, thi s m i g h t not Foixwer-orricx, Nov. s.—Tbe Que en h as been river included la the Plane erree) to by the ommhi'tee. it pleased to approve of Mr. Gustav an Consul at waa afterwards resolved to incresee the amount to W 5,0001., be so terrible an evil as is imagined ; certainly, it Cape Town for his Majesty the Kiag of o ver . Ha—Gisseffe. is order to include the Purchased moths additiosed land. PIORAI6II strilbAT. ON Me MONDAT. to W., vanable, iroian-Lest. B.W. to N. W. and N.E., tight to fresh moderate to fresh. 8.8.. to Y. W. and N. W.. WSW OCHilig As nest above. minder ,to, some rain In w.s.vr N., variable, Bourn Coins. W. to N., medicate to light to fresh. /rah. N.W. to N.K, and Bouraiirgr.W.Y.W. t o N . N . E ., back to It.W , wart- moderate to fresh. able, moderate. Noelb.gast=Caltbness to Lincoln. West.Domegal to Corn wall. likeith.Cluumel and &scar Comes Boutb-limesatralt of Dover to Lincolnshire and Heligoland. The Breafau Gazette has the following :—" The rnerchaot Krupeoki, whose name has bees so often men tioned in CODIDOXiOII with the Zemoyski Peirce, has been declared innocent sod free from suspicion by the three one cemins stages of the commiseioo of inquiry, mid even by the military tribunal. Any other result would have beau eatonishieg. When the order for Krupacki's relates was presented to Gemmel Berg for signature, he wrote under neath : ' This man has extensive coonexions la the city ; let him be exiled to ?altar,' which means that he is orie of those whose exile will frighten and deter many others. Krupecki is to leave immediately for hia place of exile." a. jal Naha .......- 111 1 20 • $ &ba 10 rds= ls 2 Leith 21'41 2 Shields 2 1 ;m1= !• •y 2_ °Away Vtlentla - verpoot tolybeed Pembroke 11114211 111 • Platanoe . L veleta so 61 2 &vb.-fort - Plymouth Weymouth sllslll2 1 Portonouth 10.11140 I Leadou UM 46 1 Dover phlilles 1 Tersouth 405252111 1 Italleuteue 1$1111!42 0 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE LEGISLATIF CORPS. SPEECH OF THE DUKE DE HORNY. (fox ona owl' couseroyamm) PALM FILDAT EVINIIIO. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the Duke de Morny took the chair, and opened the first sitting of the new Corps Legislatif. Pursuant to the imperial decree of Feb. 3, 1861, the President called upon the four youngest deputies present to take their place at the bureau as secretaries. The names of these members are MM. E. Fould, Welh de Lavalette, Maurice Richard, and Ikopold Lehon. The Duke de Morny then pronounced the follow ing speech : Yessieurs,—'The recent elections have revived political aspirations which have been lulled for several years. The word liberty has bee° often pronounced ; and no doubt it will be spoken of again. The government is not uneasy at this. It is not permissible for us to doubt that the first cause of this movement of opiniot is the sovereign himself. Is it not the Emperor who took the initiative of all the reforms with which the last chamber was endowed The admirable epee.* which you greeted yesterday with so much applause, contains once more the enumeration of important change• in the law, sad all in • profoundly liberal sense. There is no one within these walls who approves these measures more highly than I do. I was brought up in the admiration of that English society where absolute individual liberty inspires every citizen with a emu of his dignity and independence ; where freedom of usociation develops personal initiative, careless of state tutelage ; and when the largest political liberties are tempered by a religions respect for law, by a blind acqnkscence in the principle of the government, and, finally, by the good sense of the public. But it is to be observed that time only fortifies those edifices which it has taken a part in building. Only eon rider how many years England has taken to achieve those kw" of which I have just laid before you the enviable picture. In France the oonfliets between the great public powers have always produced revolutions, but have never definitively eor•sd to the benefit of durable liberty. I Believe me, gentlemen, when I ass ere you with a patriotic, conviction that liberty can never be established except in a peaceable manner—it can only be established by the sincere accord of a liberal sovereign and a moderate assembly. And my constant desire has been to cultivate this under ' "tending. The confidence which the two WS unemblies were pleased to afford me enabled me to achieve this de. sirabk result. I trust that similar sentiments on your pert will help me to ME my new task with like success. The anilines of the people have sent amongst us several illustrious members of former parliaments. I 'venture to say, for my own part, that I am delighted at the innovation. In the first plans, this adhesion is in itself a limns to our I form of government, which is not that of their political school, and I have too much esteem for them to doubt for an instant of the loyalty of their intention. Moreover, our government cannot but gain the closer it is scrutinised. In a country which like ours has been the theatre of so many commotion', there must always be io the part career of these who have played any coasiderable part in public affairs, trials which, while being warnings for others, ere, sometimes, lessons for ourselves. Well, then ! Let no nuke a common stock of our idea s and our experience, without prejudice and without any obstinatel► predetermined coarse of action. Let no endea vour to enlighten ourselves by loyal and courteous discus sion, and let our only object in the solution of the ques tions before us be the true interest of the country. I cannot termin►te this short speech without pronouncing the name of the eminent man whom France has lost. On the brink of a tomb in which all passionate judgments are merged, we moat all agree in doing homage to the amiable qualities, the refined mind, and the high talent of M. BO bilt ; and I am certain that I respond to en unanimous sentiment when I say that he has left in all our hearts the moat profound regret. I am informed by a trustworthy eyewitness that all the exclamations of " Yes, yes," "True, true," and " loud approbation," with which you will see this speech interlarded in the reports of the French journals, are the mere usual additions and ornaments which the imperial printers put in to round off paragraphs, and that, in point of fact, there was no applause at all. I may claim credit for impartiality in mentioning this minor, but not unimportant, detail, when I say that, in my own opinion, there is much to commend in the Duke de Moray's speech. Indeed, with the exception of the paragraph in which he claims exclusive credit for the Emperor in initiating the reforms in the chamber of 1860—sinking the fact that by the imperial constitution nobody but himself can possibly take any initiative—l can discover nothing to find fault with. He admits the revival of public opinion in favour of liberty much more frankly than the Emperor does when be talks scornfully of some "local dissidence." An important commentary upon the "local dis sidence" mentioned in the speech is contained in a statistical work on the elections just published, from which it appears that the votes polled for opposition candidates in 1863 were nearly four tunes as many as 1857. The figures are as follows : Among the opposition candidates not elected, 33 obtained more than 10,000 votes each, or a total of 409,8 as ; 66 from 6,000 to 10.000, or a total of 493,328 votes; 75 from 3.000 to 6,000, or 340,112 ; and 73 from 1,000 to 3,000. or 100,055. The 947 opposition candidates thus obtained 1,343,298 votes, which, added to the 408,304 of the successful oppo• sitioc candidates, makes a total of 1,731.802 votes. Those figures do out include the fourth circumscription of the Seine-et. Oise ; the tirst of the Seine-et-Marne, and the third of the Messes-Alps, nor the candidates who obtained less than 1,000 votes. Those different omissions would complete a total of 1.900,00 suffrages. If the entire votes are taken together it will be found that the opposition, which in 1857 obtained only 571,859 votes, coast 1,900,000 in 1863. These are the statistics which I lamented the want of in June last, and which I have never been able to find till now. They are moat significant. The misapprehension of a translator introduced into my letter of Tuesday last a mistake which cannot be too soon corrected. I am, unfortunately, responsible for the circulation of a report that the imperial government was about to abolish the "censorship " of stage plays. Nothing of the kind has been ever thought of. I am appalled at the idea that the theatrical world of London may possibly have thought for a moment that the liberalism in France was so far in advance of the institution of the Lord Chamber lain. All that is meant by the "liberty of the theatres," alluded to in the imperial speech, and of which I had a previous inkling, is that it shall be less difficult than heretofore to become a manager. Government authorisation of some kind there must still be before a man can open a theatre. Several journals noting that the bakers' and the theatrical reform stand out so prominently in the imperial speech, cannot resist the temptation of referring ironically to the panel► et droners of the Cesare. At the Bourse the imperial speech continues to be regarded as an enigma. The letter of it, every body says, means war ; but there is a strong party with a robust faith that the Emperor does not mean what he says, and is only talking to "Chauvin "—a French synonym for "bunkum." However, in spite of the buoyancy of Consols, Refute, after some fluctuations, left off with a fur ther fall of 10e. A communication from Vienna states that the Archduke Maximilian is to leave Miramar about the 15th and, iu his quality of commander-in-chief of the Austrian fleet, inspect the Bevel establishments of Pole, Venice, and Trieste. This step is considered u a farewell visit prior to Lis departure for Mexico. MOURAVIEFF AND THE SIERAKOWSEi FAMILY. All the members of the family of the gallant Sierakowski have fallen under the vengeams of Mouravieff. Mrs. Dalecka, his mother, wif e and her sons have been banished to Siberia; but Mrs. Sierakowski, who is enceinte, wa s detained at Wilna for several months after her husband's execution. Hearing that sh e was near her confinement, Mouravieff ordered her to be taken in her bed by railway into the interior of Russia, and that the child be placed immediately after its birth in the Orphan Asylum at Pskow. An officer of gendarmes accordingly broke int o the house of Mrs. Sierakowski with his men, and ordered them to take her in her b e d through the town to the railway station. The un• fortunate lady fainted several times during this dreadful journey, and at length had a severe fit of convulsions. The indignation in the town wee tremendous, and the officer, not daring to proceed any further than the station, sent to Mouravieff for instructions, reporting that the town was in the greatest state of excitement. Mouravieff sent back, and ordered her to be sent on by railway, accompanied by a Russian midwife. The sub*. quent fate of this unfortunate victim of Russian cruelty is not known. PERSECUTION OF POLISH LADIES IN WARSAW. There are upwards of fifty ladies imprisoned in the citadel. It is said that a young lady named Trochanowski is about to be publicly executed i n one of the principal squares of Warsaw. The police arrest numbers of women in the street every day, and take them to the guard•housea. where they are searched by the troops with the most revolting indecency. It has thus become dangerous for any respectable woman to show herself in the streets. As the decree of General Lewszyu does not define what is meant by mourning, the police and the soldiery arrest whom they please. The news of the discovery of a printing press in Niecala-street is confirmed. Councillor Wengleuski has been arrested. The arrests of Jews take place on a large scale. MR. COBDAIN ON TEI CONDUCT OP TSB BRITI6II AUTHORITIES IN JAPAN. The following letter from Mr. Cobden hie been reosived by Mr. Ashworth : mayor of Rochdale : • Ilkihunt, November 4, 1814. "My dear sir,—Circumstances will prevent me from paying my accustomed visit to Rochdale previous to the 'Ati union% and I fear I shall therefore not have the satisfaction of attending • public meeting under your presidency is mayor. I regret this both on personal and public g r ou nd s . I should have taken the opportunity of calling the ate% lion of my oonatituenta to the lest news from the East. " I have been reading carefully the official correspondence last published, respecting our recent proceedings in Japan. It is • horrible narrative, which I find difficult to tre,t with calmness. It appears that • despatch was sent by Rai Russell, instructing the British Maim in that country to demand redress from Prince Satsuma, one of its feudal chiefs or clehnios, for the murder of Mr. Richardson, and, in default of which, discretion wee giv en to our naval commander, either to 'sei ze or detain' the prince's steam vessels, or shell his residence or blockade his port. Thereupon, according to his own despatch, the British admiral proceeded forthwith to burn the prince's steamers, and set tire to the town of Kagosima, when, to quote his language, the condagration thus created continued with unabated ardour up to the time of the departure of the squadron. 4$ hours subsequently to the first attack,' which, he proceeds to say, affords ream. able ground for believing that the entire town of Kago shima is now • mass of ruins and he expresses his ' trust that her Majesty's government will be pleased to approve' his deeds. It is stated, I know not how truly. that Kagceima is a city of mon than 150,000 inhabitants. la an interesting amount of Japan which appeared to the Revue du Aux Yowler of the 15th October, from the pen of Adolphe Linda'', a recent traveller in that country, this place is described as • L'un dee plus considirables entrep& do oommsrce de rile de ICIOII4iOU.' " Now, let me ask you to consider fors moment what is really implied by the destruction, with incendiary shells without previous warning, of a city of even 100#10 inha bitants? There are always in such towns hundreds of Winn at their mothers' breasts. thousands of children wider five years of age. hospitals with their sick, end numben of aged and infirm. tottering on the brink of thr. grave ; there, too, must be women over whom the pangs of maternity are impending, and there will be toned homes filled with mourning for the dead which are awaiting the rites of sepulture. Such is the normal condition of every large city, whether in Asia or Europa Now, picture this great commercial cetrepOt, with all its contents, reduced in 48 hours to a heap of ashes ; try to realise in imagination the fate of its population ; and then ask yourself what great crime they had committed to bring on themselves this havoc and destruction. To our shame sod confusion the answer must be that this is the way in which English. men, under the command of Admiral Kuper and CoL Neale, administer justice for the murder of an individual sue I hundred miles away—of which crime the inhabitants of Hagosima were as guiltless of all knowledge and oomph.* as your own neighbours in Rochdale. It is precisely se though an enemy should lay Bristol in ashes because sa individual had been murdered on the highway between London and Breotford. And the cuief actor in this out rage on humanity, instead of expressing one word of regret, or even emotion, coolly lay claim to the approbation of their government. " There hes been much criticism in this country on the manner in which the civil war has been conducted by the Americans. We have been prompt to condemn a people over whom we have no control. for acts for ehich we are in nowise responsible. I remember the indigos 800 with which the prime minister denounced General Butler's proclamation in which he threatened to consign to the aanboun those women who should insult his sol diers is the strain of New Orleans. Will he :JAI his colleagues now make themselves and the country worn idiom after the fact in these atrocities of their own neon, who, in contemptuous disregard of the instructions of their government, bare brought this heavy diagraoe upon the country ? I trust not. But, at all events, let us tot for get that our moral power in the world is at stake ; that as a people, we condone such crimes as these, when per. nitrated in our name by those for whom, under heaven, we are alone respousible, we shall only invite the sawn of mankind by assuming to sit in Pulgrneot, as moral censors, upon the delinquencies of other nations.—Believe me, yours sincerely, " R. COBDEN. " G. L. Ashworth, Esq., Mayor." The following advertisement appears in our Stam boul contemporary, the T,r j uonati Ahrai tootb•acbes, lumbago, eye-bores, fever. &c., cared by a cele brated divine put arrived from Asia Ilium, by breathing on the patient and by charms. Addreu Dede-kavt', at Air mai." CAPTAIN STEER.—Thia gallant officer wax enter tained at a banet given by the Bristol Society of Merchant Ireatureis on Thursday evening, at which, however, re porters were not present. Yesterday Captain Speke pro ceeded to Taunton, where a 000gratulatory address on his return to his native country was presented to him. On Wednesday neat a public dinner is his honour will take place at Ilmiester. AMERICA AND RUSali.—Unhappily, in our ad miration of the present Emperor for his humanity and courage is freeing the serfs, we are in danger of forgetting that he may be far from having acquitted himself of his wholeduty to his fellow-men. We know that if he were fully impressed with the belief in the equality of mankind. he could not retain his sceptre a moment. The sight of his count ry men suffering under a shameful wrong—the statesmanlike estimation of their increased value as sub jects when freed—the perception that only through emasci• patios could Russia attain the level of the first nations of the globe—or even the fatigue confessed by Frederic 11. io ruling over slaves —these are sufficient motives for the Emperor's action, which we all applaud. But when be would thrust back Pam' to the bloody grave to which his father met her, we may, nay we must protest is the name of that humanity wows laurels are fresh upon him. It is pitifully selfish to rejoice that France sal England ire snubbed on the mere suspicion of an intent to interfere between Poland and her oppressor—to taunt these powers with want of courage to declare belliceranta the unfortunate poles, or to play the neutral in their behalf. This is pram tinily to adonis that our struggle is one for empire, like 'curia's, whereas ourcondemnaboo should be (mend forth coming, on the ground that we fight to crush • oonspiracy for the creation of a new despotism, while Russia is slay ing • people whom it has twice murdered and deprived of their rightful liberty. Our cause mono' possibly be oilskin —its justification is in the right of self-defame against a restoreeleas semen, and as well in every prima* of malty, order, sad law. We need sot clap o,ir bands when a seem iogly wallet conflict, with no parallel io the rebitioa of the contending parties, unmasks the cowardice or hypocrilY of our evil wisher,. We might rather indi.tnowitly to spurn the forced comparison of Poland to the Confidesoy. as as Iseult and a disgrace to Americas honour. —Nis York AAh• SlarerN Standard. Oct. THE MerisY IN THE MaltaßT.—The nineteen seamen from the American ship Webster were yesterday again brought before Mr. Raffles, the Liverpool stipeadiary magistrate, charged with mutiny, and Lynch in particular with attempting to reorder Impactor Carlisle, by stalling him io the neck with a knife. It appeared, from the evt deuce adduced, that the paper collar which the ofhorr wore was so tough that it altered somewhat the direction of the blow and diminished Its force ; otherwise, it is believed. the officer would have been killed ou the spot. The prisores were all committed for trial. (MILE MEDAL AWARDED.) ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAVELLING BAGS with LADIES WARDROBE TRU NID, ii rASS " MO B , with liver ORS. DESPATCH EOM WRITING and DRESSING CASES, and /PI other artietes for home or continental Varlets& Illnittedeet =Linguae pest Dye. Also Alines Barrack Furniture Catslogro• ot Portable Bed @Lads, Drawers, Lay Chain, Waskhandatands, Canteens, be., Lett tree. W. 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Mellon—Commence at L RAYKARKILT. . Tin Moon OUR MARY ANNE-A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP. Mr. Charles Mathews : Mew Y. Wright sad Mn. B. Ms wallam.-THE °OLDEN MHOS Mr. aad Mn. Maass Mathews.-Aad MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Mr. Clark. LYCLUY. Tuts Evvoia.), CYCLE BABY. Mr. Wlddicomb and Wei C. Leclerc,' —En 1 EM0:410. a Lon Story. Mom Pechter. Brougham, I mere, Chutes, and lards& ; lams Teem taveatte, mkt llieworthp, aa4 Mrs. Low 11=ANIRA._ TOM IT S. TEI °RIO — GHOST EFFECT. Mama Reynolds nod Cooks: Mao. Cranford and Yarsold. —ERZ DAYS OF LOUIS XV. Mn. S. Lase. of by Mr. Asada and Moss. Aron—And GUY FAWKES. Diq of of Fireworks. NION WAD= AT LONDON MO DAT —Naeske INA ne. .Aneressa. Ilk. 27s roams,' 111 . Mkaases, Ok. Oa. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7. FOR the last four and-twenty hours afl Europe has been trying to find out the puzzle of the French EMPEROR'S Speech. His MAJESTY has discovered in mystery a new secret of power. A knowledge of his intentions, even if they are so dire as some suppose, would probably cause leas disquiet than the uncertainty in which he has in volved them. In France the first effect of the Speech was to send the funds down. At Vienna yesterday it was held that the Reruns's words were calculated to cause uneasiness. The Paris journals profess to discover in it the premonition of war. Here, on the other hand, it has generally been considered as of a decidedly pacific tendency. We think that the English opinion is the one that will ultimately prove correct. The speech is cer tainly that of a potentate who has come to occupy an uncomfortable position, and it is a percapoon of this fact which makes our French contemporaries conclude that a violent solution of the embarrassing difficulties may bepending. We in England have no faith in the EMPEROR'S bourgeois prudence. " The Polish question," La France observes, "is " now merged in the European question." That, no doubt, is the intention of the EitrEitoß, but public opinion does not recognise the existence of a " European question," as stated by his 2dA.msrv. The Imperial an- nouncement that the treaties of 1815 are at an end and need remodelling, is one that might be in sidiously aooepted by Russia. It may reply— " Since the meeting you propose does not exclu " sively refer to Poland, but to a general recoosi " deration of the state and partition of Europe as " it was settled in 1815, Russia can have no objec " tion. Let us by all means meet and talk it over." Well might Rossi* say this, for her statesmen know that a Congress which met under such circumstances and with such proposal', could never assume a united or unbroken front against her. There is one Power, and that is Great Britain, which would most seriously object to any such re vision. The objects of this country are peace and the balance of power. And that both would be menaced, if not overthrown, by such a Congress could not but be the fear of every prudent states man. When a great Sovereign calls a Congress with the declaration preceding it, like the sound of a trumpet, that the arrangements of 1816 are no more, it is surely a signal for the return of poli tical chaos. A Congress held upon such an invi tation would be a kind of talk, in which it would be impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Such a Congress at the present time would call out the ambition and cupidity of Power after Power. Nearly all are anxious and expectant of aggrandisement, either under pretext of indemnity, or nationality, or self-preservation. Russia wants East Prussia as well as Poland. Von BISMARCK would consent if he got Ha nover and Saxony as a compensation. Austria wants • Lombardy this side of the Alps. France looks to the Rhine. Bring all these hungry and ambitious Powers with their unstable governments together, and the probability is that wolfish ten denies would outweigh all feelings of regard for the rights and welfare of peoples. Congresses are like wars ; States never quit them with the lame alliances with which they entered them. The Monarch who at the present moment asks for a Congress, can do so merely with the object of opening a large political gambling table, around which the Powers are to sit and play, choosing new partners, and following new combinations, as events start up or prospects open. It cannot be too well understood that we shall not join in the pate. I W.B.W. LW. NW. U.M. N.W. W.N.W. N.W. N.W. N.N. 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