The Express. — London, England, 1857-05-21 00:00:00

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Tns t•mH, PSI STOON TO CONQUIK—ATILANTI: cc Timorlmo Odin £i —W AB 1111 ♦l TWO TUB.— Ommimosl T. passe. Promos, AN 1110411110840 3 NOOSE 0 HIS CA9YLII —Asa II SIV II AlO SECOSID. M. =kiln 9. Kam —Dann emai4 gals. VINVIC "[ATRIUM llama Orate owl gaitilart— Ibi IlariWaaies et Fiala la limit lasriorbla li a Lir t. faer m ead Pray. Wadiocab, UM Jim- HIGH WATIE AT LONDON BRIDGE. To u.,-11welim II b. Towarre-- 111 nbs , Yana" N. Qs. LONDON, THURSDAY. MAY 21. TO OUR A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will pabliahed se weal ON SATURDAYS• WITILI regard to the grounds of Divorce and Dis solution, the provisions of Lord CRANWOWIIeiI present Bill are the same as those con tained in the Bill of lost session. The grounds of Dissolution aro—For the husband adultery without qualification. For the wife : adul tery with the qualification of its being—l. Incur Mous ; 2. Accompanied by such cruelty as, without adultery, would now bo a ground of divorce ; or 3. Coupled with wilful desertion for two years. The only other ground is bigamy. The grounds of Diroree arc those at present existing, with the addition of desertion by the husband for two years, whether accompanied by adultery or not. We have already more than once expressed an un qualified opinion that the remedy thus conceded to the injured wife is incomplete. As usual, we find Lord LYNDHURST bringing all the resources of eloquence and argument to the support of the views which, on this matter, we must hold , to hi just. The great jurist pointed out with unrivalled force and cogency that by the Bill as it stood a married man might still live in vagrant and notorious profligacy, might treat his wife with grow harshness and cruelty, might even bring his paramour home to his own house, and the wife would yet have no power of dissolving the marriage bond. He met the argument from the ap prehended frequency of petitions for dissolution, if the simple adultery of the husband were admitted as a ground, by referring to the example of Scotland and the character of Englishwomen. In Scotland, where the law is equal for both sexes, no scandal or inconvenience had been found to result from it ; and the notion that, if made equal here, our country women would be too prompt to avail themselves of its fall powers, evinces a singularly low estimate of English wives, a singularly mistaken judgment of the sex in general. " Nothing," said Lord LIND 1101LBT, "but deliberate and open adultery would lead a woman to institute such a suit. She had everything at stake : she lost her home, her society, everything that was dear to her—in all probability the guardianship of her own children — if she instituted and successfully prosecuted pro ceedings before this tribunal." We entirely concur with Lard Lin DIKES? ; but on this point it may, per be doubtful whether the public opinion of this coantry is av yet 'anciently advanced to follow him. It will probably require several more years of broken hearts and desolated homes before the manhood of England is prepared in this respect to " be just and fear not." On another point, we trust that Lead iTNDUCBST will succeed in carrying out his views. The malicious nod wilful abandonment of the wife by the husband ought surely, on every ground of reason, to be made, a ground for dineolation of the marriage tie. The argil swab in favour of this proposition are truly Mated by Lord LYNDHURST to be unanswerable. AU the closets of the marriage contract, as set forth In the solemn bump of oar atarels—the procrea tion of children, the maims@ at immorality, the comfort of mutual society and neggra4—are directly violated by each an ahandenment. Is it not a amookary to declare a contrast binding when all the declared objects for which it was engird into are thus Irretrievably and hopelessly defeated? As far, then, as regards the grounds d Dimolation and Divorce, the CHANCILLOO'II MB as oily be assegni _ _ . u butabiest Tbe shim et Jodi! as be Teamed am eatielki wail the invade of diode tire in mile woad is the two ems i but wee thing will lave lna pined if Lord LY NDHURST arieteede silks saltier sad wiltal deaths meth the mese d dieeektha mew eesiemekled ly the Bill. With regard to the other clam of question' aide of procedure, sad the kind of tribunal to be adopted—we readily admit that Lord Cautworra's Bill is to a coasiderable extent an improvement of the mug* system. It is an improvement to 'A nhui@ one proms for three processes, one tribunal he three tribanabo. It is an improvement to have abolished the action of cries. con. u a neemeary pre liminary in all cases to the right of divorce or diem lotion. It is an absurdity, no doubt, though in practice it would probably prove a barmier one, to leave the satin for Brim. eat. st ill sublisting as means of redress for the Wand huaband, after the decree for a &ss lathe hes been obtained. Surely this is a very nuadabont method of accomplishing what ought to be, and we believe might be, a very simple process. The object, it is urged, is to give redress against the adulterer: a good object no doubt in its way ; but why not attain this object by making it a part of the decree of the Court promossting the Dissolution, that the adulterer should be mulcted with all the costs of the proem? If it be objected that the adulterer is net neesmartly before the Divorce tribunal, the answer is, let him is all ears be cited to appear before it. If he shants hinself, let it be taken si a contemn= of his "AL If be really means to contest, and ha a grand he contasdog, his guilt, it is fair sad right that Its should be entitled to appear before it. Surely Ms would be for preferable to keeping up the tarn at, this anon description of action. The real objections to the new Tribunal are its TEE EXPRESS, THI7RSDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1867. probable costliness and its exceptional character. With regard to the tint objection, Lord Limrimunst said all that could be advanced in ttk favor. Admitting that the Court would be central, be yet denied that its proceedings would be necessarily costly. The first step to be taken would be merely a shoat and informal petition to the new Court for a divorce or dissolution. The Court would thereupon order the trial to be had, in the remoter districts, ' either at the assizes or in the local courts. The trial would be by jury. The judge presiding at the trial would report the evidence and hie opinion on it to the antral Court, which would, after due delibera te:a, pronounce its decree. This view of the mode of procedure introduced by the Government Bill certainly answers many of the objections raised on the soon of costliness, and corresponds to a great ex tent with certain suggestions which we threw out ca the subject the other day. But it seems obviate to inquire, if the process is to be a Common Law pro cess and the trial in most eases a trial by jury, why there is any necessity for creating a new special and exceptional tribunal ? As Lord LUIDHVIST himself remarks, .' In Scotland and in the United States there is no difficulty experienoed in trying these eases by the ordinary tribunals what difficulty can there be in doing it here ?" On all grounds we ob ject to the multiplication of special and exceptional tribunals—an evil which already exists in this country to an extent not known in any other civilised community. Why should not the existing Com mon Law Courts take this jurisdiction, it being understood, if you will, that no ism a number than the collective fifteen judges should have the ultimate power of pro nouncing a formal decree of Dissolution ? In this way you would combine the great desiderata of a matrimonial tribunal—comparative cheapness, gene ral accessibility, and undoubted dignity. We have no desire of censoriously commenting on the "short comings" of that "unambitious legislator" Lord exams/care. We are quite willing to admit that his present bill, even if carried as it is, will work a great improvement on a most absurd and anomalous and wicked state of the law, but we cannot accept it us • piece of final legislation, and we think it in many important points suceptible, by comparatively slight changes, of considerable Improvement. Tat odious fragment of ecclesiastical exaction known by the name, in Ireland, of Ministers' Money, is likely to be at length extinguished. For twenty years an agitation on a small scale bee been carried on against IL Leviable in but eight of the principal towns in Ireland, it was felt as a practical grievance by only a comparatively insignificant minority of the community at large. But the inequalities of its incidence, and the distinctly statutable nature et its origin, counterbalance in some degree its limited amount in monism levied, and its limbed extent in range of imposition. Unlike dr other funds applicable to the own d db Church of the wealthy minority is do abler island, Ministers' Money is a tax specifically laid by Act of Parliament on the inhabitants of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and a few inferior towns in the southern portion of the kingdom, and until lately was collected by, as well as payable to, the parochial clergy of the Fatahlishnent. The Statute ender which it was first imposed belongs to the disreputable reign of the second CHARLES, and was pared at a period when Nonconformists of every sect and hue, whether Catholic or Protestant, were excluded from seats in the Legislature. A great majority of the population in the towns so taxed were at the time, and still con tinue to be, aliens to the Anglican communion; and thus, while the total amount raised by the tax does not reach 15,0001. a year, the dispute regarding it has always been identified with the greatest imaginable complication of reproaches as to its origin, nature, mode of levy, and application. About ten years ago it first began to figure amongst Irish topics of parliamentary debate. To the present member for the city of Cork the merit belongs of having first presented the subject in a tangible shape to the House of Commons, and to the perseverance of that gentleman is now due the credit of having at length forced Government into admitting the principle of the absolute abelition of the tax, and supporting a bill for its final extinction. Nobody proposes indeed that the incomes which the parochial clergy formerly derived frees the proceeds of the wretched impost should come to an end. An set paused in 1854, at the instance of Lord ABEILDIEN'S administration, charged their yearly maintenance upon the general funds of the Irish Ecclesiastical Commis sion, and upon thole funds the charge, it is argued, should remain. Bat the tax by which the amount was to be compensated—and which under the modified form prescribed by the late act it was found difficult to collect without continual recourse to vexatious and costly litigation—it is now proposed to abrogate wholly and for ever. The amount will sink of coarse into the pockets of the owners of house pro• perty in the towns referred to ; and a fund which, had it been dealt with betimes, might have been made available for general purposes of charity or education, is now to be thrown away irrecoverably, and without a shadow of reasonable claim on the part of those who have heretofore paid it. Bat this is in accordance with the prescribed habits of legis lation in these procrastinating and paltering days of oars. No question, whatever be its intrinsic merits, is grappled with in time; and no Govern ment saa be induced to lend a serious attention to the demand for redress until the grace of concession is lost. and the opportunity for making equitable and useful terms for the community in general his passed away. The Thaw stair that M. Marian Thurnerapea, the pollaaiirs at wham Mars an Ova la oar City srtich, IA Pada ea ma is Or MIMI BUM. as Thursday MM. lag We. Do thief ealsoeh r swessa, ads et - poem .real Await mow sod swiehlee r hie bask sons of the plosipl Pella Imam taihei h Peels Immlag Instal lia web estrimissisy assisida. On• boluses of eta WWI le diva ta tube the wana h nem than 31:00,000L ' ' " TM dna of Mr. Jima Froodilledd, jun., the soli cits, WY link or amassamel yastarday, Air saw. Mom lila We will be damply tilt mom all otoomoniall lalloraft—fitaaa. ROYAL OTAGRAPHICAL ocirrY.--A crowded aee17471 tids;x7siy 7 ;ssheii itaiwkatt Merobiscs, poetise., is the ink. 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Tbe peeileat Irk doefr fare elisillea et Se seekly ts the ep os Iliesika . the bee., re=r u neeellon I. = slim wide be alleueei, ma the pit reside De do i resieseei be Mr. A. C. Ore• S T sail im =Oehselm "I t 1 , eat Meshe eme Aim% *Mt his piles et the Fremeseret Sarre, at Ness &desk. via be hoped to IN do is weo esipereet War Yew esil ear Meade. court. OSBORNE, KAY ft The Queen walked in the grounds early yester day, and drove out in the afternoon. The Prince monad over to Ny,__en the Southampton Water, to KO the works of the new XMal Hospital. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Orey, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Lebouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles W ood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. A deputation from the Han. the Irish Society, consisting of Mr. Herter Lloyd (deputy grentor), Mr. Alderman Lea, Mr. Witham Oreshent, Mr. George Walter, Mr. Charles rise, Mr. R. G. Reed, and Mr. J. E. Davies (wastary), bed en interview with Vissount Palmerston yestadey. A deputed= trent the Manchester aid Salford Savings Bank had en interview yesterda with the Chancellor of the at his andel rs in Downing-strut, on the the proposed Barnes Bank Bill. The depute. don consisted of Mi. Alderman Head, Mr. U.E. Marad and Mr. W. R. Wood (trumees), sad Mr. J. H. Redd (actuary), eccorepared h Mr. A. Ti urner, M.P., Lord Ca resilialt, M.P., Sir John Prier, M.P., Mr. John Chartism, M.P., Mr. J. W. Patton, M.P., Mr. R. N. Philips, M.P., and Mr. Marry, M.P. Colonel Duncrates, M.P., and Mr. Siren= bad an iatrr. view with Lord &solo of Alderley yesterday at the oaks of the Board of Trade. _ _ _ hat= st wit e Viscou ßriag. yeksrday. TILE POPE'S PR (non ova owl WWI, Mar 14. The Pope's pro gress through his states naturally forms the prin cipal topic just now in Rome ; but in spite of a vast deal of conjecture with respect to the real motive of his Holiness's journey and pro longed absence from the capital, the explanations hitherto put forth are far from being unanimous or concordant. Prob ably several of th e motives ad duced have con curred to take l'io Nono is voyage rather than any one potent reason by itself. It ap pears to be certain that Cardinal Antonelli was very much opposed to the Pope's departure, and therefore there must have been some strong counteract ing influence from some other quarter to have induced his Holiness to withstand the remonstrance@ of his habitual adviser. This influence was evidently not of French origin, for the French would never wish to see the Pope abstract himself from their immediate protection ; consequently the inference is that the suggestion came from Austria, possibly to show the world that the Supreme Pon tiff is not a prisoner in the hands of the French general. In the opinion of some this journey is . a scheme t r e t er zp u ll ..., Cardinal , in order to withdraw en tr u e P s ope m from his eminences immediate intercourse, and facilitate intrigues against his continuation in office. In this respect a Roman Secretary of State has not theism, advantages as the favourite minister of any Use petal sovereign, because he cannot so completely prevent any rival from getting access to his mists'. No Cardinal Secretary of State can prevent pro vincial bishops from having free intercoms with the Pope when they come to Rams to , report to him upon the state of their diosoma. During these conversations political as well as spiritual matters may be treated of, and no doubt the Bishops of Romagna and Bologna have repeatedly represented to the Pope the necessity of his visiting those districts. In the northern provinces the poli tical passions of the people are more vigorous, and their opinions more openly expressed than in the south. Ovations and acclamations are now greeting I the Pope on every aide; but when the fervour of applause and the excitement of novelty begin to wear off, es must be the case during a random of same months, an amnesty and administrative simstio rations will be required to ensure a continuation ef the popular enthninum, if indeed the feeling of the masses on the present occasion amounts to it. Hitherto the only exception to the universally favourable reception his holiness has met with In the various towns he has visited, occurred in Perugia, where the triumphal arch erected for his entry was consumed by some nocturnal incendiaries unknown. At Spoleto the officious zeal of the archbishop, Monsignor Arnaldi, was near proving extremely in convenient to the Pope. That prelate had prepared his own equipage for his holiness's use in the town, but the carriage was so antiquated that the Pope had no sooner set his foot upon the step than that necessary appendage gave way, and poor Pio Nono would have fallen with his face on the floor of the 'vehicle bad he not used himself with his hands. As it was he displayed his amiable disposition bv good ' humouredly going round to the other side . of the carriage, where he found the step in rather better condition. The Pope's liberality was abundantly experienced by the poor of his quondam diocese, and amusing anecdotes are related of his friendly recognition of former acquaintances, amongst whom a country curate of very small means, to whom Pio Nono presented forty scudi, telling him jo cularly at the same time th at he well recollected ring tasted some famous coffee in his home, which coffee, he assured his courtiers, the mate had made in the same recipient he need for his broth, to the said curate's very great confusion. The town of Foligno displayed its loyalty on the 7th inst. by the variety of it. festive decorations, amongst . which a triumphal arch and a copy of the column in honour of the Immaculate Conception, both executed in wax, were most conspicuous. The Pope's carriage was inundated with flowers from the windows and balconies. Having gone through the customary benedictions and audiences, his holiness set off the same afternoon for Assisi, where arches, ells gorical statute, illuminations, and fireworks awaited him. The monks of the celebrated convent of St. Francis had the honour of lodging the pontiff, who sang mass next morning in the cathedral decorated with the paintings of Cimabue and Giotto, and then prayed aloud before the tomb of St. Francis. Bene dictions, receptions, and visits to religious establish ' ments occupied the Pope until four o'clock, when he set off for Perugia, where he arrived in the rain about six the same evening, and was received at the cathedral gates by the cardinal-bishop and his clergy, whobad been joined by ten bishops from the bowing Umbrian and Tuscan dioceses. The Grand Duke of Tuscany's second son, the Archduke Charles, bad also arrived at Perugia with Prince Collard, the grand chamberlain, the day before, to compliment the Pope, in the Grand Duke's name, upon his near approach to the Tuscan frontier, which he did, with out delay, in the audience granted to him, during which his holiness consigned to the Archduke the insignia of Knight Grand Cross of the Plan Order. On the 9th the Pope, the Archduke, the Cardinal Bishop, and their respective suites, went sightseeing about the town, admiring . the works of Pietro Perugino, Raphael, Vannucci, and other medimval masters, in the public buildings and religious esta blishments, his holiness entertaining the party at dinner at his customary early hour. On the morn , ing of the lOth, the Pope celebrated mass in the 'cathedral, and kissed a renowned relic preserved there, being the Virgin M x ry'a ring, which he also presented to the Archduke lips. After mass came benedictions, plenary indulgence to the collected crowds of people on the piazza, and farewell visits to colleges, convents, and monaste ries, after which his holiness set out on his return towards Foligno, in the rain, as usual, notwith standing which unpleasant accompaniment, he honoured Signor Bianchi's agrarian establishment for the education of orphans with a visit, and entered the church and convent of Santa Maria degli An gell, near Assisi. The bad weather did not prevent an immense concourse of people from awaiting the Pope's return to Foligno, through the streets of which town, b ri lliantly illuminated, his holiness was escorte d with a most profuse display of those ponderous wax tapers for which Foligno is fames& On the morning of the 11th, after having mid mass and left generous alms for the poor, the Pope left Foligno for Camerino, on the other side of the Apennines, where he arrived safely at two o'clock in the afternoon, the hill on which the town is pie tsreaquely situated being crowded with spectators Ilan the neighbouring districts, who braved the weethen for a sight of their sovereign. The Pope's stay in Camenno was marked with the usual demon strations, the evening winding up with fireworks and illuminations. On the 12th, his holiness arrived in the rain at Tolentino, where he was received by the Cardinal Archbishop of Fcrmo, at the head of a deputation of ecclesiastical and temporal authorities. The mad- cipality, in sign of rejoicing, awarded several dowries, which were drawn for by lot, to Mgirls of the various parishes, and his ess having . granted audiences, walked about the town visiting . monasteries and convents,' and dined, set off again for Macerate, where he arrived about seven o clock the same evening, sail where his reception was most splendid, even the weather having become favourable. In this city, the capital of the province of La Mama, our last accounts leave his holiness. The grandest affair of the whole journey is expected to be the Pope's solemn entry into Bologna, on or about the 30th of this month, for which occa sion the municipal council of that city has voted 60,000 scudi; an ample private subscription has been set on foot also, and many of the richer resi dents are puttin themselves to great personal expense besides. g _ Two state carriages and twenty four horses of the pontifical stud have been for warded from Rome for this purpose, and supplemen tary detachments of noble guards and Swiss halberdiers. Some clandestine publications have been distri buted in the provinces, exhorting the inhabitants not to applaud the Pope . on his journey A man memed Bonvicini has been imprisoned in Rome on simpisien of being the author of one of these doeementa. Bane of the political exiles who have remedy re- EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1.1011 017 i OWN PARIS. WZDNPADLY Evsatrwo. The Emperor and Empress, the King of Bavaria, the Grand Duchess Stephanie de Bade, and the Duchess of Hamilton, came to Paris to-day from Fontainbleau to be present at the open . _ . ing of the horticultural show in the Palais de !Industrie. Tho committee of the Imperial and Central Horticultural Society succeeded better than might have been expected in adapting the space within the building to the purpose required. The nave was transformed into a garden ii ['Anglaise. Lawns, running streams, rocks and waterfalls, were tastefully instenpersed among beds of azaleas, rhododendrons, rose trees, and a variety of flowering shrubs. Aquatic plants were arranged in the water so as to present a perfectly natural ap pearance. In compartments apart from the garden may be seen espalier trees bearing fruit, exhibiting interesting specimens of different modes of cutting and training, and hard by there is a kitchen garden with a goodly choice of vegetables. The exhibition, which is extremely well worth seeing, will be open to the public to-morrow, at the cost of one franc, and will remain open till Jane 5. The Bourse was again extremely dull. The fine weather, which entices people out of town, is sup posed to have some influence in restricting busibees within very narrow limits. Certain it is that both yesterday and to-day there was a constant down ward tendency without any disposition to buy upon a fall. The Bente fell 20e. for cash, and 23c. for account closing at 69fr. in each case. Mobilier fell ltifr. 7.5 c. Railways were all lower. The Lyons, Mediterranean, and Southern fell 13fr. each; Orleans, 10fr. ; and the other lines from about 2fr. 30c. to 6fr. In the official list of bankrupts to-day appears the name of M. Charles Thurnessen, merchant, Rue Bare du Rempart, 48 his. This is the wow, the the rumour of whose execution " produced an un easy feeling at the Bourse yesterday. His liabilities are estimated at four millions of franc. lie is a family connexion of M. Pereire, and the son of the agent of the house of Streglitz and Co., of St. Pe tersburg. . . . There is a little Mir at this moment in the French press about the general elections. The legitimist and fusionist journals of different shades, the As sembles Nutionak, the Union, and the Gazette de France, openly advocate abstention. The Slick, ' which long ago pronounced in favour of a policy of action so far as the times will admit, continues to support its views with considerable energy, and the Preset and Debate adhere to the Siècle's doctrine. The Balite* thinks that the vast majority of thinking meu belonging to the Republican party will vote. The government journals) feeling sure of victory, and anxious only that the majority in favour of government should approach as nearly to unanimity as on the two former occasions of an appeal to universal suffrage) denounce abstention in strong term' and taunt the legitimists with a desire to pass off the halt, the lame, the bliud, and the indifferent, as members of their party. Notwithstanding the attitude of the &ids, there are many sections of Re publicans who will probably not vote. The question among them seems to bo this—wbe ' tiler the dice are so much loaded that it is impossible to play the game to any advantage, or whether, notwithstanding all the precautions taken, there is ' an opening for gaining something against the bank. The Preset says, with sly ker.'', that " if " the voter can learn of a candidate whom he thinks a better man than the government one, the best thing he can do is to vote for him. There is much virtue in that " if," because the regulations against electoral meet ings, electoral addresses, and the circulation of bulle tins are such, that in the majority of cases the bulk of the electors cannot possibly- know anything of any other than the government candidate. The Viscount do Truchis, mayor of Saint-Loup d'Ordon (Yonne), has been dismissed, and imme diately after his dismissal the Municipal Council of the same town unanimously signed an address to the prefect, containing their resignations. A M, Bonnecaze, deputy-mayor of Aesousto (Basses- Pyrenees) has been dismissed, on the ground of ir regularities in his accounts. General Baugel, director-general of artillery in the army of the Mexican Confederation, has ar rived in Paris on a " military mission" on the part if his government. Ferukh Khan went to the Jardin Mabille last night in the dress of a European gentleman. A Council of Miniaters, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday morning at Fontaine bleau. In the afternoon, their Majesties, accom panied by the King of Bavaria, the Grand Duchess et Iletlea, the Duchess of Hamilton, and the other pada at the palace, took a drive in the forest in eltars-i-bancs. In the evening, all the court asaem bled in the:garden,and were present at a night Pte. A fiber of morceaux were sung by the artistes and aurae of the Opera, who were placed in the sum mer-house which stands in the centre of the large piece of water, whilst boats ornamented with Venetian lanterns rowed about in every direction. Fireworks, principally consisting of pieces which ran along the surface of the water, terminated the evening, which was favoured by delightful weather. AUSTRIAN ITALY. The Opinion of Turin has the following in its number of the 18th :—" A few days ago, at Padua, a party of students, who had been merry-making in the country, and bad, on returning, assembled be fore the Café della Vittoria on the Piazza dei Signori, the usual resort of students, were addressed in severe language by the officer of the guard stationed there, who bid them not make such a noises. Words ensued, and the officer at length mused them to be charged with the bayonet. Two students were wounded, and others arrested, merely for having made some inoffensive noise, without giving the slightest cause of umbrage to the police." A letter from Berlin of the 17th, in the Cologne Gaulle, say.:—" On Wednesday lest, an English depu tation arrived here with the view of completing the arrange ments =kiss for the grand assembly of Emagelkal Chrie dans which is to take place here in September next. The deputation was received by the King at Potsdam two day. beck, and It predated to him NeJeaty ea Mime Iran the Erangelical Album et Eaglaad. The areaben at the deputation bad the homer ef &Wag with the King in the evening. A letter from St. Petersburg says that the birth of an imperial prince (already saammeed by telegraph) woe made known to the inhabitants of that city by the firing of WI guns from the ramperte Mlles keine& The newly-born prince has of COAIMO received the this of grand duke end imperial hipbone. He is the 11th son and sixth child d the Emperor sad Empress. The sided eon of their Majesties la now nearly irides mem of sp. The grand Duke Constantine was present at the theatre M Bordeaux ea Monday sift*, the orchestra welcoming him with the Ruin natbasl hyena. At the concludes of the act a mats* composed for the occadoe, was sung. The nest morning the Grua Doke visited the frigates übith an being bulk for the Rawl= government, and was present at the dun& of a !ma tad, and was to 'ass the sat day (yesterday) Radish:et. THZ PRINCI OP VALES. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales em beaked boss the docks at fleethimpton last evening la the Poky Weans yacht, Maass Canmentler Welch, an his retain bon the Lakes. The Hon. Mr. Cavendish, Mr. Gibbs, end Captain Crispin, .sae is attendant* on the Prints. His royal highness wee recolved by Mr. Hedge and Kr. J. Levy an the pert dew dock company. The young prince appeared in the best health, and wee Loudly chewed by the Spectators, who hod siewhisti le lap nuatere toottnes kis embarka tion. The Fairy Mredlately Weaned out of dock for Oabcone The lieknipes frigate, stationed off the military harks], near Motley, Breda royal saw as the Feiry pawed. ?ALYCE ALFRED IN BRE'SBELS. (Pram the broirproodree Doke at 7Merdq•) The peened ion of the Queen of England and Prato nEvirt, his Royal higher., Alfred Ernest Albert, arrived yesterday at Breasele. Rim royal highesr sad saite,wbo left Worts yeeterday =ruing by the meets Ira* strived at the Northers station at hall-prd 3 o'clock. Their tOTli3gsw tWlhake - of Bralie - st - sad :the Count at Flandereds pirate drew, together whit thStdicers at their were i. tr waiting et the etation,wlth the court cantageo, re &ti august cocain.' at eltamenre-asitinsiisTwith their bead, In unikent ; General Betts, anamandent at Bewasels, and his adjutants; and ware gawk. Gaiters of the gmond:staff wereNimbler= phi piationn at the moat at ithe princes antra His royal Winces was received by the Duke of Beaten:lt and the Count of Flanders; also by Sir T. W. Wax, Bart., Seeretery et the Bridah Legs' don, charge Ws/hires, eJ intorius, ta the absence of his Exesihney Lad Howard de Walden, the Envoy Extra ordinary mad 201.13g•t0r Pliaipelastlary. When the train stopped the ealbrooei each other allecticastaly and thepailitary Hod ears the chimin." Prince Lind, who . is nearly 13 yews old, posseene the and planing *Munn Hi wee salted wry simply, and wee* ea ordinary esp. He saluted the pones sr ambled on his route:with easel @lability. The royal evrieye proceeded by the boulevard of the Botanic Garden to the palace, win,* the royal !nay Ind enesehled:i lad night a grand court Hews wee gins la heaver of the prime, at the pane of Enemas. The King had turned to his table, in &Mara to the princes sad primeness of the royal family and their august noels, the dispettarice sad grand oaken of the crown, the ladies of honour sad of We palace, Sir T. W. Wager, Bert., the personages who a company the young prince at hie tour, all the ministers, the President of the Chamber of Repramentstives, and the Con sul-General of Belgium sad Buse-Coburg Botha at Ain stardom After the Mate dinner, the Mos, and the Duke and the Dueler of Brabeat o the Count of Flanders, and the Prin• CON Charlotte returned to the Chateau of Luken. Prince Alfred slept at the ps t. eo, where apartments Lad been re served for him and for the personages of diminution whe or. with him. _ This rooming (Wednesday), at in early hour, tha yew prime left the palace to •isit the King and royal Leanly at the Cbstam of Leant The young Prince Alfred is expected to pass throe& Senthernptaii to-dey for Osieras, on his return from Geramay. The Portsmouth and Ryde United Steam-packet Company's viral the Prince of Water, Captain Barnsley, meheriund their Some Rigkarma Prison Edward el daze Weiser and the Prince el Lidyeo yesterday altersoes, at helfiont two, trout the Boys! Vitiate Pier, and conveyed them to Rydeona their way to Osborne, to visit her Majesty end the Prince Cowart. His Excellency the Ramis' a Minister and the Countess Chreptowielt bars lamed earls for lams dinner parties at Cbsaham Mass cc the led proximo sad on the 17th proximo. The water will ham as asissably after dinner oil each erealeg. The Duchess of Inverness his arrived at the Bed- Sad Hotel, Brighton, ss Henaington Pekoe. _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are on their way from Berlin to Lemke, where their graces may be ex pected to 'Moe cm the Lt proMmo. The Countess Frances Waldepave and Mr. Har em" M.P., enteetained ar dinner, last evening, at their smoke, in Caelton-gudens, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Lady Constanee Grorreocr, the Lad and Counters of Abingdon, the Berl end Cession of Cork, the Earl end Camden Grey, the Viecount and Virmantem Barrington, lard and Lady Elam, the Bishop of °shed, Lady Seymour, Yes. and Wm W. E. Gladstone, end lb. Fortnum. Tie Earl and Counter Spencer entertained at dinner, lest ermang, at Spencer House, the Countess Dowager of Motley, Viscount sad Viecesiatees Enfield end the Boa. Mies Byng, the Bishop of Lcedon and Mts. Veit, Boa. F. Byng, Han. A. Posocatby, the Speaker and Lady Meddle Denims, We George and Lady Orey, Mr. and Mrs. Hail firpigar, Mr. Cole, Lady Sarah Spencer, and Lord Althorp. The Countess of Daaraven will give a ball at ber Tamil= is Belgravraquase, aa Taarlay, the 26th init. The Counties Dowager - of Errs and Miss John stone thee unwed is Beigravrequare thr the seen& Lord and Lady Willowelaby tle Ersaby tabbed at dims, Let womb% at air smith 4a the Terrace, Piceataly, ire sad the Coaster Chnitheedela ik. am' rages, the Coster d Jersey sad Lady athesthlas WWI, the Berl at Easton, the Casten of Tail Tim* Chelsea, Lord sad Lady Meedeaald, Mr. Kaildility, de. Lord and Lady Downes and Many have arrived at their heath is Onthea-elthet, for the mama. The Hon. Mrs. William Roue' nisi* &want* is Iliad to Tharelay. Joe 4. Mrs. Manners Button's ball will take place on Tuesday, the 22ad od AMC Mn. Tyrwhitt Drake's first bell will take place in liddisee-quart as Weduarlay, the 3rd at Jae. Lord Aveland pave a asagoilloent ball Let even ing, at the badly madam ia Beigrawropuse. The coat pea, hips to sit dews et half-peat tea, sad from that boor eatilas ask • eislisaid iscossics otentrala took place, mil the t U (ti Mad Miss the piety had separated. ifaOYaioiaa ball ben beau waned to take pletpsa7tls% the Nth ofJose. The lady petroassoie ar• Sot in tows, sad Lae alandy conalawd their sestiais poillosiaery to the fib, whki,a red, will take piece at 111111 l le Racer. The exteasive estates of Mr. Vincent Benny, Masai ta the county of Unwary, wBl shortly be brought Ye the teat. The rentals ere la cease of preparation, end is a by days or so ell the portloatere will be mods piths. - The Iformilig Post anticipates that the provision *mod to-sstew sight for the PAWNS ROrld, will wa ist of e Ward peat of . capital Ewa tad ma ataudy. turned to Rome, in wosequence of special permis sions, after being used to live in free countries for seven or eight years, have been not a little disgu s t e d to find themselves subjected to the precetto diately after their return. By this measure they are not allowed to be out after dark, to go to places of public resort, or to leave the capital without inform. ans the police. On complaining . that they had corn. nutted no offence to merit this infliction, they were informed that it was merely a precautionary mea. sure. They bad also domiciliary visits from the sbirri. _ . . Tho Empresa cf Russia will leave Rome on Tues day, the 19th inst. PARMA. Letters from Parma bring some very pleasing news. The regular troops, and the volunteers from that duchy, after serving under Charles Albert during the national wars in Lombardy of 1848.9, received from that King the distinction of gold or silver medals, but, soon after the restoration of the ducal government, were forbidden to wear th ose honourable insignia won by them upon the field of battle. The present ministers of the Duchess Regent, yielding . to the friendly remonstrances of M. Boncompagni, Sardinian minister to the emits of Tuscany, Modena, and Parma, have come to the resolution to allow their !soldiers full permission to wear all such orders and medals as they hod re. ceived in those wars, an act by which the Parmese government not only Five evidence of their sense of justice, but also of their tendencies towards a Pied montese, i.e., national Italian, policy. We must again insist on the expediency of her Ma jesty's government accrediting a special minister to the court of Parma, to watch over those interests of rational freedom with which the interests, material as well as moral, of this country, no less than the general cause of Italy and of mankind, are indis solubly associated. A PERSIAN PROCLAMATION. We find in the Bombay Telegraph and Courier of April 16 the translation of a prochunation found in the libmi Zada's tent after the capture of Mohamrs, which is maim and amusing in its style. The proclamation declension the British government has for some time seam of aggression aiming at the dominion of all ttr 111: "Unexpectedly they brought troops to the gait aping of Islam, and. having thus gained a footing, tore of we of the forts of Islam, which was on the mm=ol yea only held by • small number of troops as its initipoi• sou, and thus no army being present, they eotioid M. si when they saw that if they advanced from the gga iiigg they would flounder about, like flab on dry bask Os Me stuck there, for they knew that if they advanced the Weed the sharp swords of the heroes of Islam would teitillge breath in the soul of one of them. But his Ilejeety Ike Shah-in-shah has taken advantage of this breach of faith el the British government to make manifest his royal will and pleasure; and his orders have gone forth that remitters armies are to be assembled on the boundaries of every country; and victorious troops have been directed towards the frontiers to drive out the enemies of the faith, and scatter the rubbish and dirt along the shores for (Arabic, God giveth the victory to whom He pluses;) and now in obedience to the words of the Prophet to him who doeth ix -17 unto you do ye ipj el-, unto him in like manner as he don ury to you,' let all the people of Benin consider it le cumbent upon them to follow the precept ' any in the nuts of rood those who wish to slay you ; and let the old and the young, the small and the great, the wise and the ignorant, the eyot and the aepoy, all without exception stile In the deism of the orthodox faith of the Pr ophe t; and hay* girt up the waist of valour, adorn their persons with arms and weapon; and let the alma and preachers call ups the people in the mosques and public assemblies and in the pulpits to give in • J•had in the cause of God. and that than the (thane in the cause of the faith have a just title to tho promises contained in the words of the' Verily Ire ars of those who fought in the MINI of God . , The Journal de Franefort contains a letter from Giessen, annotating the death of Count Lehrbach, Grand Menial of the Court of Hesse Darmstadt, from the acd dental discherge of a carbine which he wee about to try to /ring at • mark in a ahooting-ground. M. de Lotirbach wee Minister of War id Darmstadt from 1849 to 1831. A letter from Vienna states that, on the 13th, one of the cashiers of the National Bank diaappeared, leavieg a deficit of about a million of franca. The seam created • cer tain aeseation at the Bourse, but uithont having much effect on the price of bank shares. The cashier of the National Bank of Vienna, who lately absconded with a sum of 300,000 florins, was armlet on the 15th, at Herninth, in Lusatia. Prince Metternich attained his 84th year on the 13th. He is in perfect health, and tell take a journey into Bohemia in June. He brie just had co p ies made of ea un p o bli s hed work of his, " Hungary, before, during, aad after 1844," to be distributed among his friends. A letter from Vienna says :—" The Archduke Maximilian d' Este, grand master of the Teutonic Order, U now having the chateau of Bilenbourg, which belongs to that order, repairekin order to found in it an eatabliekment of Jesuit bthers. This I. the first time for fifty yaws that tide fraternity has gained a footing." PRESENT TO THE QUEEN FROM THE RING OP Poem:GAL.—His Majesty the King of Portugal bee jest sent over to this country a present of cattle of a very pecu liar breed to her Majesty Queen Victoria, consisting of a bull, two betters, and a bull calf. The animals are of the most perfect symmetry, and very diminutive, dead* enamel, 40 indite Wet ; they are of a dun colour, and is fine condition. The cows are very docile, but the bull, on being driven Sem the station to Prince Albert's modal farm at Frogmen, where they are now installed, eahibited a dia• position rather the rennin of that of bin compailions, taming an unfortunate donkey about his own sine 'Auk happened to come in hie way. These Lilliputian animals math neemble the Alderney or Jersey breed, but appear to be scarcely more then half the size. NEW MANSION AT FONTHILL.—Tho interesting ceremony of laying the foundation atone of a new mannen, about to be erected by the Marquis of Westminster took lace on Monday lad. The stone we. laid by the resident Pend in for the noble marquis. It will be • "edam edi &eon the Scotch baronial style, from the designs of Wm. Burn, Bal., of London. The estate was formerly the pro perty of Mr. Beckford , author of " Caliph Vathek," and the Bite for the new mansion la about a quarter of a mile from the remains of the celebrated Foothill Abbey.—Sierberes Amaral. DEATH OF MR. ROBERT BURNS.—We have to announce the demise of Mr. Robert Bunn, which melancholy event occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, the 14th inst., at his residence hem. Mr. Burns arm born at Matichlios in September, 1786, so that he bad nearly completed his 71st year. In respects, In point of intellect, the deceased was no ordinary man, but yet he was chiefly remarked' throughout life as being the eldest eon of Robert Baru,, the national poet of Scotland. Burns died In 1796. and his allot boy wee nearly ten years of age at the time of that premature decreer. Mr. Burns wee an accomplished scholar. En dowed with a prodigious memory and great pewees of er plication, he had amassed a vast quantity of knowledge on • great range of subjects. His enthusiasm In the sequienian of information continued to almost his test days, and he some years he had been almost pemeionately attached to the study of the language of the Gael. In music he was a pro ficient student, poseeding both. a theoretical and practical knowledge of the art. A portion of the father's poetic mantle had fallen upon the eon, and in bin earlier years he composed verses of considerable intrinsic merit. The re mains will be laid to-da beside those of his father in the mausoleum, St. Micha els churchyard, the vault of which had not been opened for upwards of twenty years.—Derrefries airier of Tuesday. TESTIMONIAL TO A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR:. The Madams listiwedel lately saiseribcd for by no lelornonnielumen, and dim owilsmen connected with is ermehlratitliskany _lbiliatiltants of the city of Olsarsdae, wasgausalad tole , . D. M. Walker, modem* of the Ay s _akft ~dor el fiVeressar Journal, et the Ifsees Mad Heral, - ca Wedassiwast, st a public diner. W. P. Price, Req., M.P., medlad, ad shoat a hundred =awere pmeent. Its lasilmealel consists of a llini vase, two silver dad jaw, a sliver inkstand. MI • dreaming are—the deshe ward at shout 330 gulag. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AsTLcd.—Teisterday the 29th madvanary festival at tbe UnweiedVictoallers' Antes was held at Os Higideary Ban Timm. M. T. Bea, Est M.P., was fa the distr. He was sagprened by Sir J. Duke: M.P.. Mreq. Awn* M.P., R. lisalasy, lam M.P., Edda J R., thee geed air st die came the am ams, ino' .rfflaa foe dish the . smesd wietaders ar e 92 hennaed*, dielingeledeek ad seams Ma ad the ads. It is ehl be sand Hest this lad= wag indituted in the yeer ths papas staliadang aa sedum flla inbasod dm* ambirs Odes ads, while or they U nage sal he asallsi l=sweesirg el their days la hawks tat Thin sre at mead be the asybam := bb tlesa 1411amedm, vibe receive the ad vantage Odellnientibb •.101111611, 11111. dicta*, mead ado., sad to rte less them WO have been sdadad here the ot the inedads• The chairmen sad other gentlemen very _ easeged%dZols i the intimate of the iastitntion, whim woo no sponded to. It vas stated that In the pad per e l f Wt. 07: enriptione ko the asylum exceeded 1,1001. A Ps et WI. was received from the amid bell. The list of I as awasamal was Wald by the dminaini.ll. TZ 4 C sad ha as, yak MI plasm; a private fried of dos awe 1311 plums; and de des malnaldsd through the agog of dist Ina asssumiall liant. • wry liberal sabwaldimb add mammal is Mamma I.poli sad 1,0001., wee des The read sta way saweadal mfwamy at the • dame sea sae at thins rs adrawebtsey Bate by era dors T„,, Sltihdaray upplied. SIM wry good. Mr. 1411 2 '" tanalwasnw. nOrINCLAL BANNS X 07 I I I MUTING , . ( D This morning the thirty-seeped yearly general el the proprietors of the capital stock of the Pro owiei of Ireland, was held at the bank, Old Broad- Mr. OLIVER FARBER, in the chair. The usual formalities haring been gone through, the fol lows gentlemen were re-elected directors, riz., Hoary abetander, Esq., Sir W. Minto Towneend Farquhar, Bart., James H elene, Esq., and Sir Moses Montellore, Bart., The T ep.-t for the year was then read. After dwelling in Wterms upon the physical, weal, and commercial e i sman of Ireland, and the increasing prosperity of the Clgenerally, it proceeds to give some particulars, show w, improved character of the last harvest. As regards the operations of the lank, the directors state that eines the bet sonnet meeting they had opened a branch at Carrick as-Sur, while the two new branches at Nenagh and Tarn- O w n, have been quite successful in a reran airative point of view. The balance-sheet for the 1 , exhibits the follog results, vim :—The seeount submitted to the l uteearly general meeting, is Sae, 1856, showed the amount of rest, or =divided profits, flit March, 1856, to be 196,7871. 12a. 4d. ; out of which there was paid to the proprietors a bonne of 4 per cent. at Alideummor, 1866, amounting to 43,2001. ; leaving • balance a t 153,6871. 14s. 4tl_ • and there has been further deducted the M ount of two half-yearly dividends, paid to the pro prieteta as follow, viz.:—At Midsummer. 1866, 21,600!.; at Christmas, 1866, 21,6001. ; together, 43,2001. leaving of the rest of last year a balance o(110,3871.120.41; to which there has since been added the amount of net stoats for the year ending on tho 28th, being the last &tur " of March, 1857, after deducting the property tax, and providing for all bad and doubtful debts, 115,5271. g e . 6d. ; making the amount of rest or undi vided profits, at 28th March, 1857, 225,9141. 17a. 9d.; In conclusion, the directors intimated to the proprietors that It Is their intention to pay, in July next, a bonus or extra- Ordinary dividend of 11. 10s. on each 1001. share, and 12e. es each 101. share, of the capital stock of the bank, in addi tion to the half-yearly dividend of 4 per cent—making the *mount to be then paid 21. 10e. on each 1001. share, and 11. on each 101. share, for the half-year ending at Mi dsummer Eat; and they will also, as heretofore, pay the property less for the proprietors. • The CMAIILKAN, in moving the adoption of the report, ad verted to the continued prosperity of Ireland, and the con " Mat diminution of pauperism there. At the end of the year 1861 theexpmditure under the poor law in Ireland amounted ID 1,167,000.. whereat in the year ending September, 1866, it wee only 676,3901. ; and if 2W,0001. ware deducted from that sum as the cost of officials, it would be found that the wind expenditure upon the poor was still further reduced to this later yew. There could be no doubt that the poor low in Ireland wasa complete 8.420.8, and recentittformations showed that the wages were rising, and the mania for emi gration on the decline. (Hear.) - Having justified the Writ banns paid at Christmas last be reminded the shireholders that the dividends and bonus now proposed to be paid would make the dividend for the year at the rate dill per cent.; and Its order to prove that they were not acting imprudently brit viding_ao much he mentioned that in ISM thereat was 162,WM• hi 1856, 196,0001. and now, in 1857, 225,0001. (Her.) As regarded the proprietary body. out of 967 shareholder!, the total number on the register, 660, were in Ireland, while so flir from the executive of the bank being English, he could eats that, of the 194 individuals who were connected with the beak in Ireland, six only were English, thkti-two were Scotchmen, and 156 Irish. (Bear, bor.) The chairman concluded by prong • warm saleetim upon the seal and efficiency of the staff of do bank from the secretary down to the lowest clerk. The motion having been duly seconded it was put to the pots and carried unanimously. Thanks were then passed to the officials, chairman, and &rectors, and the proceedings terminated. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR CRIMINALS Yesterday Mr. Thomas Hodgakin, of the.Ecoao islet nempaper, delivered • lecture in Bt. Martine-lull on the qualm " What shall we do with our Criminals?" Mr. prime, M.P., Mr. Ingram, q M.P., and wail other = who take en intete ettating in th , is pressiniLl r uestion of the ore After s and uo in support elailewast prevent. the admissions of Paley, Lard rougham, aof toed ▪ Oat "all the punishments hitherto invented have • realedm criminals or prevent or even check crime," Mr. BrAgada said that his answer to the question, " What sun we do with our criminals?" wee, "Don't create th‘m," and that his object was to show that our criminals were the Inevitable roadie of en erroneous system. The number of Commitments for trial in England and Wales in 1864 was 49,369, an incratthof 8 per cent. on the previous year. "This Increase, it I. some estisfaction 'save the compiler of the returns) to be able to state, is confiner to thejeaat grime class of of fectoes, and offences of violence haw, on the whole, de creased." , The offences against property, without violence, tompriee about four-tiftbe of the indictable crimes, and, in this large class, the increase of 11 per cent. shows how largely the increase of commitments in the year i• made up of offences of the least grave character?' This old.) du neription of the national criminality 1n1264 is applicaba, with one or two brief exceptions, to the whole period bet.. 1806, when our criminal records were that kept with sot.. lot not sufficient sere, and 1843. " The increase in commit ments (said Mr. Porter, in 1842) is chiefly in offence' com mitted against property without violence. ' At that period time offences constituted 79.31 bundrethe of the whole; in 1864, they bad increased to 81.12 hundirths. Thus, the great majority of all the crimes punished by the law atter • solemn trial, secluding all summary convict ion—more than leer-Itlths of all the offences the increase of which so alarms the community—ere offences against property committed without violence. They are vulgar, low - ulna, n plunder. itationally '-•• we are conspicuous for pilferinc c it Ike -- GeT; g ;ic, !...un!!,g boot, the injuring it ppeu howe he it herd n the P hc r n g there) n themu that the t ,fen wee t: ito: l tog letablialtu at his rot time the c againstbl jigged Itio Hia Wu the deka( dent, an tl of thngint but the w to her face and tepee conaequei officer of ries, and favourebl munkate --"Y °Peaking , easaserination. The proportion of these sgainat property Is continually augmenting, while the graver and more atrocious crimes are, on the whole, continually diminishing. Most of these graver crimes, too, originate in a desire for property, 61 bur -111:1' , garottings, some poiseninp, an d other murders. progress mentioned," said Mr. Hodgokin, '`l regard ea thoroughly established, end as lying at the basis of all lost reasoning on the effects of penal laws. This important Ike may relieve timid doubters of all anxiety as to the future Cl society. It limits my remarks to one elms of offinnom to gum bow our eysteui treats criminals, how it induces theft." Mr. Hodgskin then proceeded to show, by many and *tracing examples, bow the poorer classes have ever been in inenced by the practice of the higher—that against this no punishments were of any avail ; and that " till the upper Classes pay a much wore profound respect than at present to the poverty of the multitude, they will continue to be tormented - - by frauds and thefts." (Applause.) The criminals of the time were the offspring of past errors. Like and steamboats, they were our neceosities—the direct =sequences, probably, of penal lain, the national debt, locked-up land, a fettered commerce, an extravagant government, and an established church. The rule, there fore, "that at Rome you must do as they do at Remo" held generally good, and the morality of the multitude, like their dress, was derived by a specie, of constraint from Others, who punished them for the peculiarities they had at least been instrumental in producing. Having argued and shown that the upper chaser., by means of their unavoidable Influence, created most of the crimes committed against pro- Lirt p le. Hodgekin did justice to those chasm by showing y effect of their example in lessening crimes of vio lence, and in spreading generally a milder tone throughout society. He was happy to say, too, that they were becoming sensible of their influence for good or for evil, and conscious cif their great responsibility, but he was there she to say that yet misunderstood the means by which alone they could fulfil their duty. 't Born" (said Mr. liodgskin in conclu sion) "of our common mother, the earth—for man is em phatically dust, and always mutually connected with her, she besnng us all, as it were, for ever in her spacious womb, and always preserving us mentally united by the similar knowledge and similar impressions she produces in all—cor rectieg, too, by invariable laws or by facts all our vague dreams, our iodated hopes, and our boundless imaginations, false only because she does not confirm them—united all by and in her, the whole of mankind forms mentally bat one family. no knowledge gathered by each is generally dif fused, and so it is inercaned and comes to bean a larger pre • dominating proportion over individual peculiarities, it con stitutes one mind for all, imparting a great meaning to what you may perbepe have often repeated as merely a beau tiful and impressive couplet— All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is and Ood the soul. This principle gives us the theoretical or abstract explana tion of the manner in which crimes—our present thefts—end virtues—our patriotic energy—become and continue national. Aka individuals, as dawn, and as the incorporated Mate, we can bidolge no denim, prosecute no action, practise no virtue aor crime and enact nu law which, in its visible effects, is not very influential, though very often the reverse of what Is intended, in moulding the characters and minds of all. Wo out only make fining lawn, therefore, for greet communities, which now constitute not merely a few hundred or thousand Isatcar, not merely a few tribes, but many millions of men, of various lineage and venous faiths, by ascertaining and fully comprehending the mutual and reciprocal influence araroised by the acts and the example of all the individuals sad claws who compose them. We can only comprehend, boo, the great subject of crime, by diecarding our municipal Haute and institutions, and even our aational pniedices, and by extending our views put all human legislation to the great law. which eidablish an eternal distinction between tight and wrong, and impose cm every human being his or Its own peculiar dutice, and give him his own peculiar rights." At the close of the lecture Mr. licidgskin was loudly ap- Waded. TSB 4 Yeah Bacon w the (shall Prefesen petted. On tho examine nod of f A Ma 11°`'° des 4( dol.„ .?;c1 f h emir, over HOLY THORSDAY.—This festival, according to anaasi custom, was observed this day by the rector or vicar sad clergy, accompanied by the chtuchwardem, over awe, and other parochial officers, and the chanty sad juvenile children of the variotui parishes, through Oat the metropolis, perambulating and marking the bounds of their respective perishes, by striking the bounds- lies with wends. It is needless to my that the p ecbial officers enjoy themselves, and never forget the chit who are regaled with bone, cakes, and ale, and, in some perishes, with • good dinner. The Directors of the London and North Western Railway have presented the Rev. Ferdinand G. C. Spitler, 11. A., curate of Aston Flamvillea, Leicaoterehire, to the in awanbeway el Crewe, Cheshire. 01INIMAI This was an against the rat Thumb, at tha recover . lol. Col ragement v Mr. Roberti WV character From the I tiaoment th, aa valet, a pen was i itat at 79, Revel gaged by the LOS. • mout was ntddetly by Mr. Pears ICI. for which By Mr. Rol at bM a:Minn( a Roman glad of errands. be certainly w valet, and bete him to the Co Mr. Rober charged Lim Hsrnum, IV hi very late with him, he he should ;On do suit, u than 30 aecou and witness to had been the offered and re mania which plaintiff's app Mr. West e plaintiff but BosonHla NA and gave Mos 11. 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