The Express. — London, England, 1856-05-26 00:00:00

rte exprefifl. oewelbentestelatieisilie "Trte -- Teie;w7l47Zs leadarpeger, meet be at the Ogee, 10. Behverfeettreet.tty Two ✓*lush es the abe et paliketke. NIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRAWN. Tan Dar—llershig, lb. 10 46a. toomoamow—!Romig, 7b. ....Idiom." 7 11. Os* LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 26. TUE actual state of Her Msnurrr's Opposition begin, to cause us unaffected concern. To friendship or intimacy we lay no claim; and to sympathy founded on soy other feeling than that of ordinary humanity we can make no profession.. The con templation of human weakness in its more aggra vated forms, however, is always painful; and when sudden prostration of the mental faculties occurs before the show of physical strength is wholly lost the case is rendered peculiarly distressing. It was bet the other d.y that we beheld the sturdy aspect and heard the significant laugh of coming triumph. At Easter there was a certain scornful air of dignity and forbearance noticeable in every word and gesture, as tbosgh the official rivals, whose doom was said to be sealed, were pitied for that they should take so long to die. At Whitsuntide things had somewhat changed. " The sick man" was no longer the man in Downiotstreet, but in Pall-mall; and haughty accents of compassion have given plus to grumbling. and murmurings that there was some thing unaccountably wrong somewhere, or at least great want of proper arrangements for the great political change that was still (though more gravely) talked of as impending. Within the last fortnight the condition of things has undergone a more serious alteration. It is obvious that the mind has become affected. The most painful symptoms of incoherency, accompanied with violent spasmodic action in the in ferior extremities, and morbid restleasnees at all times, indicate the presence of some grievous malady, each as must occasion total incapacity for responsible duties of an intellectual kind for some dine to oome. Partial loss of vision, calming the most dangerous mistakes as to the plainest matters, adds to the com plication of the disorder, or rather is to be classed smug its most lamentable symptoms. In the agony of unexpected affliction dark insinuations have, we are told, been thrown out by free-spoken friends— and there has even been a whisper of " poison," but we shrink from attaching any credit whatever to the fearful suspicion that any one long confided in, and hitherto bearing a character for frankness and fair dealing, should prove guilty of the unnatural political act inconsiderately attributed to the bead consulting doctor of the Tory party. It is indeed incontestably true that at his instance, on one resent ciegssion, and under his personal guidance still more lately, the unfortunate Opposition has with dreadful deliberation been seen to knock its head against stone walls of the most apparently obvious solidity; and we have hardly a doubt, we must say, that the learned Coroner for Middlesex will feel himself bound, in eau the act is repeated and death ensues, to direct a jury to find a verdict of foto de es ander the influence of insanity, produced by anses un known. Be that as it may, it no longer =mite of metro veny that the great Conservative party, as they used to call themselves, are in a bad way. At the begin ning of the session their hopes were high. As fax as any definite= intelligent intentions could be imputed to each a body as the present House of Common, it seemed to be bent on obeying every caprice of the Carlton; while the House of Lord. was equally is the humour, se it appeared, to thwart and nullity every proposal, however useful or innate= that emanated from the Rummy= administrations In ens or the other Chamber every Government mem% whether is form of bill or resommendatioc, intro duced by a Minister, wee sammarily cuhioned, with Use single exception of the Polio* Bill, and that was compelled to undergo several amputation& Enumeration would be tedious, and is altogether unnecessary. The existing Parliament, true to the purpose for which it was milled into being in 1852, declared itself on every question resolved to impede and hours= Liberal legislation and popular progress. It would neither acknowledge the right of the Crown to make Life Peers, nor the right of the people to enjoy an hour's innocent melody la the parks. It would neither reform Testamentary Jurisdictions, nor relieve shipping from fraudulent and oppressive charges. It would neither debate the question of the Ballot, nor listen to so mush as the enunciation of a plan to extend and equalise the Fraschise. It would neither abrogate Ministers' Money in Ireland, nor adhere to the compact sano timed by the House ten years ago to deal with the grant to Maynooth as an endowment. In a word, there has been nothing reasonable, wise, or honest proposed this session which Parliament hss not oostameliouly spurned at the bidding of the Opposition; and nothing raischievoo& °eyrie/one, or Glossies to the mass of the community which it has sot evinced its resdiness to adopt as soon se sag. gelded. Yet, strange to esy, in the midst of all this unparalleled triumph of thwarting and perversity, the Opposition appears to have boeo stricken with soar thing worse than paralysis, sod, without a total =- Unction of power, to have been bereaved of the cape. hility of distinguishing between what its own devoted parliament would swallow, and what eves its Soma= would reject. Everybody bet Lard Dinar aed hie =cadential assistants in blundering knew, ten days befogs the WHITESIDE each, was administered, that the patient would not staid it ; yet, as all the world knows, the prescription was persisted in with childish petulance to ludicrous discomfiture. Co warned by the mischance in question, Lord Dame, the other day, ordered a special muster, ander his ewe personal iospectioe, and entsiauded a form pre lude of defiance to be sounded on behalf of oar national Maritime Rights, about to be perfidiously surrendered at the bidding of oar meant enemy; yet, after all the pomp and circumstance of set array aid protracted battle, this more =comprehensible of com manders discovered, or pr tended to discover, for the first time, that one half of his men were not upon the groncd, and were not &beet to contribute their firs. even from a distance, wording to the long range practice of hereditary warfare. Why they were not present, or did not vote by proxy in support of a pro position so clearly and ooneervatively wrong as that of Lord COLCHESTER, remains to be explained. Dose Lord DERBT know the reason why P Par centavos, we are beginning to get excessively uneasy at the condition of affairs we have thus briefly iadieated ra'her than described. With us it has always been a matter of profound conviction that, for the well -working of constitutional governasat, a good, strong, healthy Opposition in lissiutely ledispensable. We therefore view with appands. little shut of dismay the sodden prostration d tt moral sad iotellectual faculties is the party Aim dissosaioss occupy so large a space is the oasillis. tiro of our present Legislator*. We have been OM costomed to regard that ponderous seas as toe all riot ice! porpoise the nether-raillitoso of legislation— impracticable but immovable, not making much of a show indeed, bat quite essential to the great work of grinding new wants and old remedies int. one uni- form mw of sound law. What is to become of as if the millstone is broken—broken into many and an- guise fragments, some of them difficult to find, others very disagreeable to meet with P By a report inserted in another column, it will be seen that at the meeting of the Carlton Club on Saturday' Lord Ranelagh's motion was not pushed to a division, but that there was • pretty strong and general expr• lesion of opinion that mem bers of the club should abstain from using it so long as they hold office under a liberal government, or habitually support the liberal party. Every man with the feelings of a gentleman must cordially oon our in this view. For our part, we are dis posed to go a little further. It does appear to us that any person remaining • member of a party club atter he has left the party, thereby indicates that he contemplates the possibility of his again joining it. What faith Gan the people have in the sincerity of public men, when they see them in the vere act of apostasy making arrange ments for being reconciled at some future period to their original church ? The inevitable inference is, that the principles professed for the moment by those political Dvald Dalgetties are merely the uniforms of the armies in which they are serving at the time. Hence, it would follow that political clubs are mere houses of call for unemployed politicians, at which any firm—Whig, Tory, or Radical—may apply with a tertainty of finding workmen. CO' Court. OSBORNE, MAT 24. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by Prince Frederisk William of Prassi■, the Prisons Rep], Princess Alia, sad Prince Ereest of Leiniegen, drove out yesterday afternoon in ca open carriage and tour. Priem Ernest of Leiningen arrived ea a shit. Tbe Baron de Moltke, Captsia de Heins, Lieutenant Bunt de Behreekenstein, sad Dr. Wegner, is attendance on Priem Frederick William of Prussia, arrived yesterday at Osborn*. This morals( being the anniversary of her Majesty's birthday, t►e Band of the Royal Marines played s selection of music on the TS/71101, under the direction of It, J. C Earl, band master, as follows : Orals _ Bolnane, .WA " . 7=7: Mend.boob& Kink .1A ProptiEts Iletemics. "II Immo suites - Yawl. The baud also attended Muria, Mawr, sad perforated the foam's, oempositioae Overtaie, " Daa Backdoor la Kraatior. Wall& "MAW' . Diemlaslolor Ballet), "Le Proplike lleyarbsor. Oak% " Mit 24. Her )(qui, and Prises Albert, the Prince of Weiss, Priers Alfred. the Princess Avyal, Princess Alice, and Primers Helena, attended Divine service at Whappingbant Permit Chinch this months,. The Gerrit)* wee performed by the Rev. O. Printers. Prism Froderiek William of Prima', and Priam Bruit of Linda's:l, also attended Me service. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after noon at the Foreign-office, Downing -street. The ministers present were:—Vieconst Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchers, Lord Panmure, the Chascellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Staoley of Aldertey, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll The Council eat three hoars. John Waring (Soften), Joseph Perrone (Nottingham), ud Stewart Fletcher (Manchester), delegates from the operative bkeeben, ea the suPjeet of the bill now is parlia ment fat limiting the hours of labour for women sad c►ildren la bletaoh works, had an interview with Timpani Palmerstea en Saturday. The &ingot on wu headed by Mr. I. Butt, M.P., and Lord Goderich, M.P., ammapealed by Mr. Statgees, barrister. Tn Humus or KABS.—lntelligeree has been received from St. Petereborg that Getters! Williams and his staff quitted that city, ins route for Eng land, on the meeting of the 20th inst. We are in formed that they pripose to travel by way of lionise berg, Stettin, Berlin, and P ar i s , to London. At Bt. Petersburg they were courteously welcomed; and their passage from the Caucasus to Moscow is repre sented to have been one long triumphal march. We need not say how warm a welcome awaits at home men who so gallantly sustained the military repata don of their country under such adverse circum stances. Arpoinniame.—The Queen hes appointed the Reel of Shaftesbury to be Lord 'Automat of the thusly of Dorset, end the Rail of Biatore t, be Lord Ideational of Kiacardinathire. The Lord Chancellor has prethated the Rev. B. P. Southwood to the rectory of Newhaven.— Obeerver. The following court arraogements have been made :—Maa 26 • of the coon to Buckingham Pa lees ; Ks, 27, Qesee's visit to the Turkish Arebssarided ; May 29. Queen's birthday drawing nom; May 30, Qespea's Gamin at Buckingham Palace ; May 31, stwe dieser. by the ministon aid oilcans of state is honour of the Queen's birthday. _ _ The Prime of Prussia, father of Prince Frederick Willits, at present the guest of her Majesty at this Cowls may be =posted to visit this eoustry in the loam of a few weeks. His Royal 'diabase the Regent of Baden is also expiated to visit the Court of Elt James's daring the swat season, by special invitation of her hisjtety. His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge left nom Met @velars lot Folkestone. His Royal Highness passed the eight at the Pavilion Hotel, and will this mon ist impost the troops cf the British German Legion at abuse'Rh Camp. Oa !lauds; evening the Earl and Counters of Derby entertaiaed at dinner ■ select party of friend►, at theft ismaton in Bt. Jaran'e-serwre. The guests wore Prime Idwerd of Baas Weirs, and the Countess of Dora• I bet g, the Doke of Hamilton, Earl Gromemer sad Use Cosstess Constsnee Oraeeaor, Viscount and Visional's@ Barrington and the Hm. Miss Barrington, Lord West, Ledy Aliquots &art sod Mr. Start, and Mr. N. ratan Mardeeald. The 'obis emotes. enbsequently had a re tasks, which was honoured by the attendance of a large sad fashionable emayany of the lead's, nobility sad hew gen. His Excellency the Ambassador of the Ottoman Nrs end Madame Mesons gave a dimmer, ate Saturday, at the resideam of the embuey, to the Oraad Ves:er of Tar key and the members of hie suite. Amon the gams is sited to meet hie highsees there am present the Portuguese Minister sad the Countess Lamella, Vise mat Palmerston. the Earl of Westmorland. Sir Marla sad Lady Mazy Wood, Sir Nape sad Lady Orly, Bit George lad Lady Theresa Lewis, Ike. The Archbishop of Armagh entertained on Satur day. at Coon, to intobratiois of hot. Idepoty's birt►day, the Archbishop of Csatsrbary, the Bishops of Wischester, Chi erodes, Bath sod Wells, Sc Darldre, uebbld , liaeola, Bangor, Peterborough, St. A•aph, Worn tor, Silos, Sa lisbury, Lboorieh, Kew. Lord Jam Thymus Archtleassa Siesleir, Arshdescon H.le , ker. Fnd Bleml.ld , sad the Rev. Akssattsr Iresa. Lord Claud Hamilton baa arrived in town tram Rose ; sad as ta►ea Mr. Harcourt Voraoa's masks Is Holaravo-oquoro for the mans. Lady ingests Gordon Hallyburtoo has left Kew eleven Passe a few days else• for ( ) Lei. The barrel of the late Lord Adolphus Pilule roue took plies on Saturday. His lordship wr twirled Is the family vault ribs Washer!' in Yorkshire. The Duke of Cambridge and several relatives of the dressed attemied the ohregalea. Qum - Marie Amalie and the Due d'Aemel• arrived at Kau es the 17th, aad lift is the 20th ihr Baikal!, by way of thritsastawl. The Bayonne journals say that the Emperor aad Malmo the From& are not ozpossad at !Limits Won t►e Ilth et lel,. Sir Hairy Delwin has beta selected to proceed to Baellieteet ter the, ►urpose et repronsethog Or. et Meths fa the Ppeehil Csenamiodoe for deliberating upon the futan argaaiseelos el the Prinelpelitten THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1856. MUSIC. SEE MAJESTY'S THEATRE. There weiT;xtsitetil;iii atthis honsa on Saturday night, created by the production of Verdi's new opera, La Trariata, and by the first appearance of the houng and high born prima donna who seems to ave turned the heads of the Italian public by the witchery of her acting and singing in that opera. Signora ricoolomini, se msny of our readers are aware. is of a noble family, the niece of a Roman car dinal, and a descendant of the ancient and illustrious house which furnished Schiller with the hero of one of his finest tragedies. From her earliest years this young lady manifested extraordinary genius for music, and her passion for the lyrical stage became so invincible that her family found it necessary to give way to it, and allow her to appear on the stage. Her success was immediate, and at the age of one or two and twenty all Italy is ringing with her name. She has new been induced by Mr. Lumley to cross the Alpe for the first time; and her reception on Saturday by a iramontane audience could scarcely, we should think, be exceeded in warmth by anything she has met with in her native country. It is said that it is chiefly to her that Verdi's new opera owes its success, and this we believe ; for, low as we estimate the prevailing musical taste of Italy, we cannot suppose that, even there, such a work could stand by its own intrinsic merits. When the present excitement of novelty shall pass away, La Trariata will be universally set down u the very weakest of Verdi's operas, not worthy of comparison with Ernani, or the Ferrari, or Rigotetto, or the Tro ',afore, or indeed any one of them that may be men- tioned, The Trariafa derives some adventi tious attraction from its subject, which, though worthy of condemnation in a moral view (a view too little regarded), is capable of acting strongly on the feelings, even against the better judgment of those who take the trouble to judge at all on the matter. The libretto is a version of the younger Dumas' play, La Dame ass Cam& has, in which so striking an effect was produced at the Thfitre dtt V,,udeville by the fine acting of Madame Roche. The incidents are the same, though their effect is weakened by the baldness of the Italian dialogue, and the deficit is not made up by the addi tion of Verdi's music. The fairptiona donna, the object of so much cu riosity, appeared when the cur sin roes on the scene of revelry of which she is the queen. She wu welcomed most warmly, and made an instant lope/. sion by her engaging septet before she opened her lips. Her small and slight Sgure and pretty features made her like a girl scarcely arrived at her full growth. She was gay, graceful, aid sparkling, look ing like a youthful Hobe as she poured out the wine to her guests, Hissing the cop to pus it to the rest, and seasoning her courtesies with bright glances and smiling words. An animated drinking song and chorus first gave us an idea of her sweet and brilliant voice. But its qualities, as well as her powers of expression, were more fully deve loped in the subsequent force, in which, when the guests are departed, she communes with her owe heart on her condition and her growing pas sion. In this monologue the composer's talent ap pears to some advantage. Atter various fluctuations of feeling, the damsel resolves to be merry and neat away ears, in a joyous Gibsßetts, full of brilliant divi sions and reaching to D in alt, which closes the first act. It was in this act, we cannot help thinking, that her vocal powers, as well us her natural dispo sition as an entrees, were moat fully shown. Not withstanding her great command of the pathetic, she seems to us the queen of smiles more than of tears- During this act she reminded us of Milton's. Einddess fair sad free, Is" hess's yelspt Euphrosyne; and, whatever may be the case at present, her most permanent success will lie in the highest order of light and elegant comedy—a judgment, however, from which we expect to find many dissenting opinions. In regard to her voice, it is an exquisite organ—a pure soprano iforsto—clear, penetrating, en diet extremely sweet. It hos, moreover, the cleri c outs freshness and bloom of youth—so fair, and, alas! so tiding—while its every tone and inflexion seem to flow from the spontaneous impulse of feeling. Her taste is pure, and her style is natural and simple ; but (as we ' are nothing if cot critical") we must add that she still has something to acquire in the mechanism of her are. She does not yet pones" that perfect execution—that clear, articulate enunciation, of which Albooi, under the same roof, has been giving us such exquisite specimens. She has not yet gained the aplomb which enables that most accomplished singer to strike every note of the most complex passage with the certainty and Aransas of the finest violin—a defect which is s"weatily shoat by her habit of measuring a large interval by means or a slide. She is very young, has been brought up as an amateur, and, moreover, the present Italian school does not subject its disciples to the severe artistic training of an earlier day : so that the only wonder is that her method of vocalisation i s so excellent as we find it to be. In the second act—in the great scene in which Violet's, yielding to the old man's remonstrances, re solve, to part from her lover—thevereatility of Mille. Piceotomtit's powers began to appear. The tumult of contending passions, under a thaw cruel, was finely expressed; and the little air, " Non sepete quale affetto," so full of anguish, was a beautiful piece of singing. Bat it wee in the last act that her poser, over the pathetic achieved their great triumph. lo doing this she received little assistance from Verdi. One little melody dwells in our memory—the air in A minor, " Adcho del panto bei sogni ridenti," which she sang in a manner inexpressibly touching; and the distant sound of the Bacchanalian shorn, mingling with her song, is a trait on the part of the composer which reminden us of Desdemona listening to the client of the gondoliers in the closing scene of Otello. With these exceptions, the long con certed piece which forms the finale of the Opera is flat, feeble, and unskilful; while the tears which flowed from many fair eyes, and even moistened the eyelids of bearded men, were due to the actress, who was irresistible In her truth, beauty, and pathos. Piccolomiui'e reception was enthusiastic. During the performance she was warmly applauded, and several times called for. At the end she had an "ovation" such as we have rarely witnessed. The curtain fell amid rapturous cheers; the audience rose when she NM forward; the house rang with ao &smiting', and bate and handkerchiefs waved on every side. The fair stranger's triumph, in short, was complete. Madame Medan, who is engaged for the Grand Opera fa Fula, is popular to Vienna. Madams Bored- Kane sad MM. Everardi Comas and Boni appear aho to be great favourites. Madame Albania! and M. Bancudi have left Flormies, on their way to London, to appear at bet Majesty', Theatre. 1,11 , 0i1e du Nord " has bees given at Milan, aid proved a decided failure. DRAMA. HAYMARKET. Oa Saturday sight, a sew farce, by the author of Rio sad Cog, ems produited, imbed The Rights mad W/011,1 of Wawa. The object of the pion is not, as might be semen, to 'adobe one of the social mowanote of the dey, but to ea►ibit ths peculiarities of one 81r Brisk de Brasil& This "entlemsa, who is hianelf as " tbs last fella of chivalry," has a missies, to redress the wimp of mom who hen "bates of husbands." With what num his efforts are usually ace =palsied may eaely be gamed ; and, indeed, be coarsest. obit be his hese kicked oat of lamp amtrablo hostage, the objects of his chivalric isterfersaes generally assisting la hie ospuisioa. It seems that Sir Brims, having la the struts aseidestally " splashed" a lady awned blareboont, follows his home, fa order to offer hi. apologies. Bit Brian, it 'Dodd be obosnid, Is played by Backstoes, sad his appease* mid demeanour an sal steady bloom. His indiscreet pertiewity aserly succeeds I. improvable' lira Manhunt with her husband, who discount him le tha hues; sad to pretreat • satiumplut, sk g " Nile of chivalry" hastily pulls of his eeat, puss es a livery, and aanonaese himself to Kr. Karebactet at a es.- Mate for the plan of a footsie., whisk has jut become vacant is the family. He is sagged, mad his behaviour I. his asw asthma is, to or she leaflet it, reasztablo. By this tlaso he hat mods up his Wad that Mn. hiarchnnat is a victim to dosentie tyrassy ; sad he peters tot to the verge if temporary laoselty with if.,. of his protection. lttn Moeibioat lee a Nag time does eat voultmle mach as a reply; bat acmehow it comes out tint Sir Briaa has in his possession a packet of letup which she had written to a forme lover. This causes a change in her tone, and Sir Brian, is the moat handsome saltier, offers to give her the correepsadeoce. Unluckily, however, Mr. Marchmont, ening Sir Brian's coat beogiog on • chair, and thiokiog it one el his owe, putt it on. Of course the let we are in the pocket, and this Wade to much droll embar rassment ; but, eventually, the correspondence is secured, and an appropriats "tag" finishes the piece. It was an nounced for repttition till further notice. THE FLOWER 8110 W AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Encouraged by the success of last year's flower show, which it will be recollected was unparalleled for the extent of the collection exhibited end the beauty of the specimen', the managere of the Crystal Palmas have this year again summoned the priests of Fl tea to their aid, sod with what success may be inferred, from the immense assemblage that waisted" at last Saturday'. fete. Bo brilliant a company was, we believe, rent walls of the Crystal Palace. Airmen immediately after twelve o'clock, the earliest possible moment et which admit eon could be obtained, the flower stands were surrounded by dense masses of ernuoist ears, and every successive train from that hour down to four o'cl.ck poured its gaily dressed stream of visitors into the building. To judge from the gaiety and taste of the ladies' toilettes, one would hove imagined that the straggle lay between them and the flowers, as to which the prises should be awarded, for beauty of form and brilliancy of colour. The Cachets of Batty - eland was an early arrival ; end shortly after, the Duke de Nemours was recogni.ed, accompanied by a fashion• able party ; bat the 'leiter who attracted most not ce WAS his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, who, from his sue. MI in another field, took that early opportunity of showing with what meet he could enjoy bin holiday. Hie grace was accompanied by the Bishop of Winchester, and one or two other cheetah d igoi tar ies, and the ple mut glow of complexion exhibited by the right reverend group afforded strong pr of of the great advasteges resulting from a little occasioaal pure air and innocent antasement, to persons of studious habits or sedentary employments. In the resents of so crowded and fashionable an assemblage, the Bowers, beau tiful as they were, seemed almost to form a secondary object of attrs ction, still, they were pronounced, by those moot competent to judge, to excel in quality, if they did act equal in quantity, tie exhibition of the previous year. MEETING AT TUB CARLTON CLUB. (From the Morning &raid.) One of the largest meetings ever koown at the Carlton Club took place on Saturday ; the Marquis of Se isbury in the ehair. Above 300 members were t resent. the object which attracted se considerable • b tdy of the rooseevatove party was the resolutions moved by Lord • Reselegh to the following effect:— " I. That this club wee established for political purposes " 2. That the pAitical pen epics on which this club wee established are entirely adver-e to those advocated by the present government. 3. That the active presence in this club of gentlemen who have altered their political view., and bees members f tbe present goveroment—ta which government the con receive party have been in direct opposit . on—is Injurious to the intimate of the conservative party, and is at varacce with the price ples upon, and for watch, this club was established." It appears that the gentlemen to whom this motion, if carried, would immediately apply, Ire the Duke of Wel lington, !!aster of the Mores ; the Eq.' of Hsrrowby, Lord Privy Seel; Sir H. Peel, Lord of the Admiralty; and Lords Sydney and B. Bruce, who hold Court parse. Lord Ranelsgh deprecated the use of all entities lan guage, and all feelings of prnonal li stitity to those noble men and gentlemen, whose associate be declared hi self proud to be in any society but that of a political dub ; bet it was a groom anomaly, that, belonging as they did to a whig government, they shou'd continue to use the Carlton Cush. H. eatnewed • hope that they would herestier re torts to their party, but till then Omaha from entering the slab. Colonel Browslow Knox mended the motion. Mr. George Beating then moved an amendment, lb* purport of which wee to include all members of the club who had held °Ea under Lord Aberdeen', government. He argued that the coalition of those greens with Lord J. Rosetta talowers in December, 18.52, with the successful object of ejecting Lord Derby, was a sufficient bar to their being considered conservatives in the sins. in which the Carlton was established, and that they ought to be involved within Lord Ratielagh's reeolutions. This category would contain Ur. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and otter minor Pulite,. The amendment was seconded by the Duke of Dock. Ingham. bin Adolphus Dere mole then addressed the meeting, sod moved the previous question. Being ill received, end exprineing himself with difficulty, we could snip guitar that he considered it unwise to agitate a question which might bring greet dbission into the deb. Sir J. Pakingtos seconded this motion in a very tautly and sensible speech. He 'odd not blame Lord itanelegn or Mr. Bentinck for mooting this question; hot he to At a different view of it as regarded their object sod the mance, of effecting it. Lore Ranelegtt's motion would only include Live peewees if very inoffecsive main. re and of email indi cted conecquenee, and even Mr. Hemlock's mote sweeping measure would not catch the busy class of gentlemen, who, it appears, made theaseelvea most effusive to the club by their hostility to the ens restive party. He felt sure that if, without going to a division, the meeting would espies, strongly its reprobation of the anomalous conduit of those members who, having abandoned and persecuted the pricy pies of this consenative club, still frequented the Carlton, they would have too much pride and good feeding not to abstain from doing so any longer. Lord Bglinto. [allowed in the suns sense, speaking strocgly against gentlemen who could think it tolerable, even to themselves, to associate in a puny dub with those who met then solely for political views. Then was no precedent for such conduct; aWI he rejected any idea of explosion, being invented that the e►iaent (pinion of the club as displayed during the preceding speeches would be sufficient to induce ties to retire or remain sting. The noble earl allured especially to those who during Lord Deibre government bad as member of the Carlos not stapled systematically to writ* is the newspapers against it. This observation produced an explosion of cheers, which by their continuation and violence made it evident that the meeting applied the worts to some particular page. This seems to have been understood and accepted by Mr. Abraham Hayward, wt o, in a state of the most painful onitement, attempted to adores the mestteg. The reap tfsu od this pedestals was, however, so uncoursou that Doting could be heard but the simile menace assuring the club that "he bad not +fattest against the party for a year and a half." This apology incensed the demenstrstion of dislike to a perfect storm, and Mr. Hayward retired from a position is which we think he very unceeessaelly placed himself by &clung be was ready to give "satisfaction " to any member who demanded it. After this episode tt e me sting resumed its calm and temperate discussion of the emolutiass, and was addressed by Lords Mansfield aid Dustannoa is teweer at the previous question. Both noble lords and other members repeatedly statiag that after the unanimous hoeing of the club that it was a politics' society, and ought sot to sung adherents to a *big policy, however estimable those individuals might be, it was imp eatable to suppose that such gentlemen would be so deficient in good taste end feeling ea to continue to fir quint it, to the annoying of its Oan oonsistent semben. Cgs this undoubted expressin of opinion the neolutions were withdrawn, and this panful dismission terminated without a Bogle word having bees uttered which geld jus tify °Seise, or that was uawoet►y of the company see tiembled. a _ 00 the subject of precedents respecting enststions from political clubs, Lord Malesesbary stated by authority t►at the Earl of Darby, who bad been said by the newspapers sod by various persona to be still a member of Brooke's, h►d taken his raw* off that slab after be left toc whip goeeronient in 1834, and previously to hisjoiaing the con. servanve party ander Sir Roblin Peel. She Herald Lopes "sow that the emission of the vast ma jority of the membus of the club hu been unmistakeably espoused, that the el jest for which it was founded was a p lit:cal cone, the grimiest* ta enemies' will see the pro priety of refraining Irons obtruding theuiselves upon a society in which their peewit , ' has leen produced distrust, and in the minds of whose meenhers it mast now, after .bat has passed, predate haloes of the most sainistaks able contempt." BROMPTON HOSPITAL, CHATHAM. Sts,—Loa don or provincial paper*, directed to the "Crimean Soldiers, Broom:ilea liegatel, Chichem," will be most welcome. Upwards of three boadred patina are there at grunt, sad mon ere erriviag every week. Be say one who having dean with a newspaper will forward it there—it goes free if stamped—will be doing a Madsen to our sick sad wounded soldiers. Will you he Foul enough to insert UM letter to year paper t—l me. le., AUG. BTAFFORD. Hew of Coww, lisp 23. The Metropolitan Board of Word. meets, by ad journment, es Wedatelsy, to resume the talk shoat the Baglaret's Ryon es flume latereeptioa, sad lisia Drainage Reath of the name. Amount, from Vienna state that Baron Siea, the well-kaowa baker of that Sty, whose death we hare already recorded, Iwo left a fortes* of 'early 80 ralllfese of beam LATEST INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIA. (FROM OUR OWN HAMBURG, SUNDAT Niout. The bankers, Heine and Haller, have suddenly been summoned to Berlin, to meet Baron von Stieg 'its, the great banker of St. Petersburg, and M. Per eire, of Paris, in order to consult with them as to the conditions of a new loan which the Emperor of Rotate intends contracting. THE EAST. The French papers of yesterday publish the follow ing despatch: MARSEILLES, SATURDAY. lhe Timber has arrived with Constantinople letters of May 15. The Sultan sends the Order of Medjidie to the Emperor of Austria. The Softer) has sent a commission of inquiry to Palestine. All the pachas of Syria have received very strict ordere. 6,5,000 French, 10,000 Turks, 9,000 English, and 7,000 Ptedmontete have already le( t the Crimea. 17,000 Tartars are about to abandon the Crimea for the Dobrudcha. Many of them enter the Turkish army. 9,000 will work at the lateral canal of the Danube. The Circassian deputation is about to go home, the Divan refusing to recognise Circassian nationality on account of the treaty of Paris. The exchange is lower at Constantinople. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, )L*. 23. The King of Prussia and the Empress Downer of Russia, accompanied by her eon, the Grand Duke Michel, arrived yesterday at Konigsberg. They left to-day for Bromberg, and will arrive to-morrow at Potsdam. The Emperor of Russia arrived at Warsaw on the 22nd inst. THE PRINCIPALITIES. JASSY, SATUADAT. This day the Moldavian D.van, before the close of the session, unanimously voted an address to the Hospodar, calling for the union of the Principalities. The news of this vote has caused the greatest joy among the inhabitants of Jassy. THE SOUND DUES. BERLIN, SATURDAY. The United States have declared that they will oonsent provisionally to allow the Sound dues to continue, but that they cannot recognise them in principle. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OOR OWN PARIS, SoNDAY EIWING. On the 13th of December last five envelope,, bear ing the Brussels post mark, each containing a copy of a manifesto signed Kessuth, Mazzini, and Ledru Rollie, were seized at the Paris post-office. Domi ciliary visits were in consequence made at the houses of the five persons to whom the letters were addressed, bat with the exception of a scurrilous song about i the Emperor, found at the residence of one of the parties, the search produced no result. It was ascer tained at the time, that the person who had sent the letters from Brussels was M. Gustave Jules Jourdan, a barrister, who, in 1850, was implicated is the affairs of the "Committee of Resistance," and who, after the coup detest was sentenced to transportation by the Marseilles court-martial as being one of the promoters of the insurrection in the Basses-Alper. M. Jourdan contrived to escape, and has been living for four years in exile, but in the early part of last month he came privately to France, was recognised, and arrested in the department of the Cote d'Or. He was brought to Paris in custody, and taken to the residence of his wife in the Rue de Savoie. There in her presence a search was made for papers, and it is alleged by the Folios that a letter to his wife wss discovered, begging her to solicit his pardon from the Emperor, but telling her at the same time not to betray too much l anxiety on the subject, for fear of compromising him with his party. M. Jourdan having admitted that he sent the five manifestoes seized on the 13th of Decem b3r, appeared yesterday before the Tribunal of Correc tional Police to be tried on a charge of having excited b civil war, of having excited hatred and contempt of the government, and of having justified facts which are qualified by the law as crimes and misdemeanours. He was found guilty, and sentenced to four years' imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 fr. It has t:ea discovered that several copies of the above-mentioned manifesto were sent from Brussels, cleverly packed in the interior of a large lobster ! The prefect of the Moselle has suspended the municipal council of the commune of Valmont on the ground that " by its hostile attitude towards the mayor, its illegal meetings, and its obstinate meddling with matters beyond its jurisdiction, it has produced divisions among the inhabitants, thrown the Entire commune into a state of trouble, and endasgered public tranquility." A considerable number of foreign cattle has already arrived in Paris for the great show, which will be opined on June 1. The Austrian and Swiss speci mens, were among the first arrivals. Several droves of bulls and cows from Schwitz and Berne were conducted through the streets yesterday by drovers in their picturesque national costumes. The Hungarian buffaloes, the long-horned cattle of Po- dolia, and the sheep from the same province with perpendicular horns of an uncommon shape are re• merked as belonging to races totally different to any which we are accustomed tone in this country. TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. ELEVENTH DAY. SUMMING-tip OF THE EVIDENCE - - The excitement at the opening of the court this morning was at fever heat. Long before the doors were opened they were besieged by mult.tuies of persr.os evidently belonging to the higher walks of life, and in aft minute. after the barriers were ptsuble, the gull, r:is sod body of the court were filled to inconvehience. Hundreds of people holding tickets were doomed to remain °stride, and the yard sod portages remained crowded throughout the day by perm os wh.. clung t s the live that either hest or fatigue would compel some of the mcra fortunca ones to Tecate their seats. A few minutes before ten o'cloric several of the civic functionaries of the city of London tx.k their seats on the bench. The jury, shr had been out fa. an Mein; in the early part of the morning, bad already arrived and taken possession of the bas, The crown was represented to-day by only Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Huddleawn ; but the (our counsel for the prisoner were all present—viz., Mr. Serjeant Shee, Mr. Groves, Q.C., Mr. lienesly, and Mr. Gray. The prisoner advanced to the front of the deck as the court resumed. He made the same respectful obeisance to the bench ►nd the jury which had marked his c ntracce on the former days, and he then seem d t r give himself up to inward thought. Suddenly, however, he awoke from this apparent reverie; the Lord Cnief Justice had btgun his charge, and it was quite paint ul to watch the eagerness with which the prisoner devoured every word. He gazed with a fixed /elk at hie lordship, (who spoke slowly but yet somewhat inekinctly,) and appeared nervously ap preheosive of loosing any portion of the addrea , . In this way he eyed the judge with parted lips until hie lordship began to reed tne evidence, aed then he seemed to breathe freely again, and to lo ik on with cum piraiively calm indiffer ence. The names cf the jury panel Levies been duly read over and responded to, silence was cull , cl by the crier, and the Lord Chief Justice at once proceeded to rum vp. Lord Campbell maid the time had arrived ' , than it was the duty of the judge to explain to the jury the haters and bear ings of the charge against the primed r, and he must tegin by imploring them to hansh from their minds all opinions they may have preconceived heft ro the opening of this trial. They must only suffer themselves to be influenced by the evidence which bad been laid teturs them ao far as It related to the charge open which the prisoner had been arraigned, and altogether exclude teem coesidetatton any thing that might bear upon the miner ,[fence incidentally imputed to the prisoner. It gave. him gre,t satiefee•ion that the cues had been so patiently and car, fully conducted on both sides. Fur the sake of securing the ends of justice, the prosecution hod been We= up by the Crown, and witnesses brought from all parts of the country, who could be supposed to throw light upon the project, while the prisoner had been de fended by one of the ablest and most saps rienced members of the bar. I t a few wordy, now, let him explain the allegations on both sides. Well then, oo the pert of the prosecution it was all, g,d that the de• ceased, John Parsons Cook, di , d under the most suspicions circumst tr en, and that the symptoms ex hibited at the death, c..uple d with tie c oduct of the prisoner both before and alt. r ward' were ',efficient to bring home to him thecharge cf having administered to the de ceased a deadly poison known by the name of a On the other hand, it was o intended on the tart of the pri soner that he could have had co motive for such an sot, and that the reel c ease of death was an attack of ordinary Winos. The question, then, that the jar, had to consider was, wheth, r the symptoms at Cook's death were consistent with poison by strychnine, or on the other side whether there was still snoop r evidence to show that they were produced by natural causes. In eases of this nature they had nothing but circumstantial evidence to rely upon, end that being ao, the motive w'tich could have induced the act was a lsrge element for theft consideration. To gin with the latter branch of this the quiry, it appeared by the evidence that the prisoner before the death of Cook had become involved in heavy pecuniary difficulties. A soLeitor named Pratt hid advanced him the sum of 12,500/. upon the security of various bills of exchange; many of thee) were ntsordne, and it had been expected by the Irisaner that to would be enabled to meet them by money which he claimed to be due on • policy of in , UTSIIO4I effected non his brother Walter's life. The Prince Of Wales Lamson office, however, disputed their liability on that policy, and hence arose the severe peauniaty @reason which fell upon toe prisoner immediately preceding the death of Cock. The nature and extent of these difficultien were fully developed in the evidence of Mr. Espin, the clerk of Mr. Pedwick, who had also advanced the prisoner mon. y, and. Mr. Pratt, the solicitor, to whom he had already referred. This evidence the learned Lord Chief Justice read over slowly, commenting upon it as be went al mg, and afterwards Vie correspondence which passed be teem the prisoner and Mr. Peal on the subject of his bill. and loan tranallo ions. Ravi, g read this correepondsnee, his lordship ; raceeeled to observe that it related to matters in which the prisoner only was concerned ; but now came a part cf Mr. ['nu'. evider co and his correspondence with the pri,o.ter, in which the deceased Cook was also con cerned. Tele was that part of the case which related to the loan on Polestar and Sir.ne, and which the prisoner nego tiated with Mr. Pratt. His lordship remarking upon this evidence said it had been stated that the prisoner had de. feuded Cook out of the money which Mr. Pratt sent to Don caster for him, but on the other side it was contended that the prisoner paid Cook a sum of mosey which was also remitted to him at the same time, and that in consideration for that Cook Fare toe prisoner Mr. Pratt's cheque for 3751. Passing (rant this part of the case, his lordship, as hearing up m the pecuniary dif f iculties of the prisoner, next ptooceded to read the ev.dence of Mr. Armstrong, the solicitor, of Rugeley, who sued the prisoner fora elute, and who reerived trim him the amount of tie cla'm a few days het. re Cook's death; then the evideece of the Ruecicy botcher, who lent the pri soner 25!. to go to the Shrewsbury racesond who received the money back again on the Saturday befcre Conk's death; then the evidence t f John fpilekury, who also hod a claim upon the prisoner, and receive.• i - just hefore Coi,k's death. Then the evidence rf Herbert Wright, the Birmingham soLcitoe, who had a bill of rile for 1,500/. odd upon the prisoner's boron, and who bald bills of the prrsoner on, end accepted by, his nether, coakmg the whine debt due In that quarter 10.4001.; and then the evidence of 11r. Charles Weatherby, the racing agent, who produced a let( r hem Palmer written the day of Ceoei death, end enclosing an cadet purporting to he et i eni d by Cork for payment of the stakes Pal, star had won at S:lreseshury, and a's a gave other evi doom epoa the same subject. life lordship observed that the cheque or order sent to Mr. Weatherby had not been produced. It a a. re turned to the prisoner, owing to there Whig no funds to meet et. It was act found amongst the prisoter's pipers, and notice had been given to produe It, but it was not forthcoming, and it w es for the jury in the state of things to say whither Ce . oh had sieved the the que or not. If they thought he Aid, of C 0411•0 this part of the evidence would go foe nothing, but it shmld not be forgotten that aei her this order roe the document referred to by Cheshire as having beea produced by the prisoner, and signed by Cook, relative to the bill transaction'', bad been found amongst the prisoner's paper., nor were they fonhcomieg. Hie lordship then read tic evidence relative to the impounding of the prisoner's pacer. after the coroner's inquest on Cook, and this, he said, closed that branch of the case which bore upon the motive for the crime. The jury must now paw to the conduct and actions of the prisoner in immediate personal connexion with the deceased Cook. His lordship then read the evidence of F.sher relative to the brandy and wan t incident at Shrewsbury, and pointed out to the jury that there were discrepancies between the evidence of this witness, and that of Mr. Myatt, who was celled C:r the defence. The latter said Ccok did not leave the room atter taken V.° broody and water, wh the former said he did for tea minutes. The jury would a',o ot serve that F:sber spoke to having banded Cook b. t seen 700 f. and MM. en the Thursday morning loe`ore his death, and yet, when Coale died, no ouch sum was found in Its possession. The same witness likewise op eke to kenos seen Co with e lonises book on the Thursday, and to the Vet of his having i told the cr timer the tame morning that Cook accused him of hawing dosed hie brandy and water. The prisoner denied this, and added, " The feet is Cook w es d—d drunk last I sight," but the witness declared that he was sot, and herein again he cliff. red from the witness Myatt. His lort fags of Cook and the prisoner at Shrew bury, ebservieg the ebip then read the wirer evidence bearing upon th e pre ere t Mn'. Br otthe's evidence tat • n by noel( was g , oat for nestlings and it would be for the jury to consider aette•her it bad any eonriesion what /ether and the other witnesses had deposed to. His lordship then i e d the jell tothe „ Incidents at Moseley, commencing with the evidence to SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 19. &patter°, on returning from his tour in Castilla and Arragon,made the following speech to the Cortes: Gentlemen, after having had the hOcour to ret resent the Queen at the inauguration of the Vallee° id sad Saragossa Railway, I hare the pi 000000 t, Inform the deputies that the provinces of Caw:lle, Nayarit, and !treason enthuiasti mill, hailed the Corstituent CurteP, which has petard such smallest laws, and the Queen, who has sanctioned them. For say own part, I shared the happioeas of the populations, and I thank the Cortes and the Queen for the great ser vices which they hare rendered to the c natty. The President of the Cortes replied : The Cortes receive with pleeeure the sentiments which the riesident of the Council of llimisten hes Jul ezprefsed. The King of Prussia intends to erect a monument to the late M. Hinekeldy, opposite the polies hotel at Berlin. A letter from St. Petersburg says: "A brave and valiant Russian warrior, I.ke 0e I Williams, would doubt's's he well received in Beglend, but we may be per. Wiled is doubt whether the Ant ladies of the Euclid' arb- Unr►ey would hasten, ea I observed ours do at the Priam, Yosisowpull's ball the other Biel, to prevent themselves to the streapr, in order that he might feel as winch at home as passible, and nc•ive the tribute which was hie doe." At Paris on Saturday, at noon, a young man of 24 threw himself from the tep(f the coluout of July, and was killed ea Ma spot. r F J