The Express. — London, England, 1863-03-05 00:00:00

SPECIAL NOTICL—TOCIENTLENEN. MitMILES (Alfred Webb Miles), 73, Brook etreek Hanovegequam, V prepared to submit foe pUbllo approval all the NEW TROUSLUS PAT/WM for Spring and Summer wear, which will be found In pester variety and better than ever. The continual remark of gentle. men t o (b e t, reueth 14 Why pay more than lea. for your Summer ' tYPODY KNOWS Mr. KILLS removed from Bond street In 1856. HA RMONI lIMEL-NICW MODEL. cRAVID, aura, and WOOD, WI, lent4Ore4, Elie erortoo. TO COII.II.IISPONDINIL Amassment@ intended toe "The liprem• Ueda' Wadi( TWO 10 t ximil 130., at he WY* 10, 111111•40111111. by rri wit 6 , ay at patotkodes. HOVENT GAZDEN. ran !WWI" THE ARMOUR= Or NANTES. Norm Wets, s ous, , L Cord, Bpd W. Harrison Mimi 1 Pre sod A.hum Ai el BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Cone-Wd43g With the t milifor rat= Bates.—Commeace At 7. RA YMAREIT. _THIS r Maw BUZ AMERICAN COUSIN. Madera . 01 aer. rad Non Idra L —RASSLAS PRINCE Cr ABYSSINIA. Mr. Masan sad Mla L. Keeley. AS. WHIYIE Mr. Compton sad Mas Harlisar. PRINCESS'S. Vent C rime, Crime, tin WINNING sur. Maas. H. wanton. s. Lad VIA? ; Was My Wiwi& and Mu. N. Marston. —Add. LIZ GLITTCISS IS NOT GOLD. Messrs. Venn. Irii4dossatalon ; Masts Aylmer, Jos" end Yrs. Mariam. LYCIUM. TM I maw, A BUWIN ATTACK. Moen. Shore and Mid *comb: has Henrade sued Mrs. Gee.— TUB DOMES MOTTO. Sierra Yeehter, G. Vint's, Brougham, and Ramon e ; Mame C. Leetareq, IL Terry, and hlaworthy. aznarlictL Tun !Moron, WOILLICS DiVOTION. Mrs L Yarnold and Mll Sophie IlUeo—And AWN HASSAN. Mrs. S. Lane; _Wow 4. Leans, Louis, Newham, and Mdlle. C. Stephan ; Tom retro • and his two Malea—Comseneo haltpass MGR Wit AT LONDON 8A1D421. 7 MB DAT —Vilal. !b. fla.....Albrateries. A 25 se. 2 4lOSlO,—!lenalra !IL als.....Afteuess. 11. 67a. LONDON, TEUIRBDAY, MARCH 5. RECEPTION OF THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA. On MONDAY EVENING next a DOUBLE ;NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published, ! containing the fullest particulars of the reception 'of the Princess Alexandra in England. Advertisements for this number must be received at the office of the Express by T ~ ►elve o'clock on Saturday morning. Tux first great and concentrated effort of the Tory party in the " broad light of a Wednesday " morning," will hardly be regarded, even by its most ardent admirers, with feelings of unmingled pride and satisfaction. Notwithstanding the vigorous exertions of the Tory Whip, to the suc cess of which the crowded Opposition benches afforded ample evidence, Mr. HADFIELD'S Qualifi cation for Offices Abolition Bill was yesterday read a third time and passed in an unusually full House. The House of Commons is thus saved from the disgrace of having rejected a measure of the simplest and most notorious justice. This humiliating task must now be executed, if executed at all, in the more congenial atmosphere of the Upper House. According to the current rumour, however, the Peers were anxious this year to be relieved from the odium of rejecting for the fifth time • Bill framed in a spirit of the severest equity, and supported by every consideration of enlightened principle and wise expediency. The leaders of the Tory party in the House of Com mons had this session generously undertaken to share the burden of public obstructiveness and popular op probrium which the Upper House has so long borne alone, by securing a majority against the measure in the representative assembly. The result shows that in this undertaking the Tory leaders had reckoned without their host. The Commons yes terday refused the attempted dictation of the Upper House by passing once more the measure of equitable relief which it had already supported by decisive majorities in four previous sessions. Though the question is in itself of comparatively subordinate importance, the short debate which preceded this triumphant vote affords some features of special interest. It is, in fact, so instructive as illustrating the position taken up by the Tory party, that it well deserves the consideration of liberal Churchmen and sonacientious Dissenters throughout the kingdom. The opponents of the measure did not pretend to say that the existing law afforded any protection, or was in itself of the smallest value to the Established Church. They allowed, as they have repeatedly done before in both Houses, that for this purpose it was practi cally worthless. But if so, the only excuse that could ever have been urged on behalf of so one aided • law is swept away, and it becomes simply a gratuitous outrage against the whole body of Dissenters and a large proportion of liberal and enlightened Churchmen throughout the kingdom. This was not denied by Mr. NEWDEGATE and Mr. WALPOLE, the chief speakers against the Abolition 811 l yesterday. They opposed the measure on the ground that the oaths and declarations required by the existing law were the result of a compact made between the Legislature and the large body of the nation who claimed relief from oppressive and per secuting disabilities thirty years ago. No plea could more strikingly illustrate the inherent rotten ness of the cause these gentlemen undertook to defend. Supposing any such compact had ever been made, it was long ago broken by the Legisla ture itself, who have reduced the law to a dead letter so far as the higher officers of the Crown are concerned, by formally indemnifying them every year for neglecting to meet its requirements. Bat of course no such compact was ever made, and the notion of its exist ence is simply an absurd and mischievous de lusion. It is no doubt historically true that the progress of more liberal, just, and enlightened prin ciples of legislation amongst us has been not only gradual, but comparatively slow. It was only after years of persevering agitation that the most oppressive and intolerant disabilities were re moved, and when at length the more flagrant forms of injustice were done away, the spirit of intolerance still lurked in less obtrusive enactments. When the profane and revolting Sacramental test was abolished, the oaths and de clarations of the existing law were in this way re tained. But they are in reality merely a remnant of the old mediaeval spirit of persecution, and the notion that Parliament has a vested interest in such a miserable heirloom, a sacred right founded on solemn compact to perpetuate this wretched legacy of injustice, is in the last degree puerile and absurd. The Test and Corporation Act was abolished sa an act of public justice, not as a matter of bargain or sale, and the nation did not give up any of its rights to secure the re dress of this enormous and humiliating wrong. Bet even if such a compact had been made thirty years ago, the first duty of the Parliament of to-day would be, imiteadof blindly appealing to its existence, to inquire whether it was just or unjust, expedient or inexpedient. Mr. GLA DSTONE disposed very summarily of this pretended argument in support of a useless and vexatious enactment : " He must " say be had merely heard of a cue in which the " argument of a compact was more easily dealt with " than in the present instance. He could not I THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, lid. admit it was in the power, bat neither did he " think it was in the inclination, of hia nails " friend Earl Rtresut to have given the cha " racter of a compact to such • declaration as " this. In his opinion the nature of the case was " snob that it defied all idea of a compact He " confidently stated—holding then the language " which for fifteen years he had always held in • that House—that there was no benefit or advan " tags to the Dissenters or to the Church of Eng " land, by the maintenance on the statute-book of " such a declaration sa this." This reference to a pretended compact is in plain truth altogether idle and irrelevant. The real questires is whether the existing law is just in itself, or in any sense necessary to the protection of the Establishment. If it is not, then to main tain it against the feelings and convictions of half the nation is an act of perfectly gratuitous and oppressive tyranny. The opponents of its abo lition on the Tory benches allowed to the fullest extent that the law is of no use whatever to the Church ; but they persisted, nevertheless, in at tempting to maintain it. This was done even by Mr. WALPOLE, who might have been expected to take a more just, temperate, and sensible view of so simple a matter. The right honourable gentleman in this, however, illustrates the truth of the maxim that evil commu nications corrupt good manners. Left to himself, he would naturally have hesitated to de fend a useless remnant of intolerance; but the leaders of his party having, in their new character of ecclesiastical champions, determined to resist any measure of reform, however wise, or just, or necessary, he is dragged through the mire of ob struction in their wake. The position thus taken by the Tory party on this measure is, as I we have said, peculiarly instructive. They virtually say, " The measure we oppose is perfectly fair " and just. It proposes to abolish an enactment " which is confessedly of no Ilse to the Church, and " is notoriously felt as a grievance by Dissenters. " But as Dissenters ask for its abolition, we are " determined not to grant it. The Church can " not afford to deal justly or honestly with Dia " senters, and we are resolved in its name to " act in a persecuting spirit, and defend to the " uttermost every vestige of existing intolerance " and political inequality." We confidently appeal to all fair-minded and intelligent Church men against this utterly unworthy and ignoble species of championship, and ask them to compare it with the higher and truer ground of defence taken in the debate by the CHANCELLOR of the RICHLQUEE :-" It had been said that the " Church of England was in danger, and that the " pressure of this declaration was meant to be " upon Dissenters. If the Church of England " were in any danger, he believed it was from " internal dimensions ; but he sincerely trusted " she might outlive them, for it would be a sad " day for the nation, Dissenters included, if " she should cease to exist. But, for his own " part, he could not find, in the legislation of late " years, any trace of danger to the Char:A of " England. He thought they had • security for " the Church in the seal of its own members, " proved by sure experience—a security of • " thoroughly natural and wholesome character, "because it was produced by the free action of " free discussion in that Hones." PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COIIIIOM-114aca 4. QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES ABOLITION BILL. Oilier for third reading read, motion made, and (motion proposed, "That the bill be now mai the third time"—Amendment proposed, to leave oat the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months Newderate :)--Quee tins pat, " That the word ' sow' stand part of the ques tion :"—The house divided : Ayes 175, nos 171. - • AYES. Adair, H. B. /Wart, J. C. Merriam W. Agnew, Mr A. Ewing. H. IL North, F. Alcock, T. Finlay, A. IL ( MGM Mt J. Anson, Major Forster, C. Onslow, G. Antrobaa, L Forster, W. L &Rainy. K. W. Ayrtoe, A. B. Fort...watt F. D. Peeks, Col. Aytoun, R. 11 OsakeLl ii. l.lB . . Padmore, R. Defacer, J. D. Garin, P• 11 4. Barbel, A. H. Gibson, T. Y. Paget, Lord C. Baring, T. 0. Gilpin, C. Peeae, H. Barnes, T. Gladstone, W. Peel, Sir R. Baxter, W. L. Goldsmid, Mr F. H. Fender, J. Baziee Gower, 0. W. Pete, Sir B. K. Berk C. P. Greene. J. Plikington, J. Bifida CM. Grenfell, H. R. Potter. Z. Black, A. Grey, Sir G. Powell, J. I. Blake, J. Grosvenor, Earl Pritchard, J. Blencowe, J. O. Gordon, B. Rayek..., Ifbct. Bouverie, IL P. Gurney, J. H. Roberta, T. J. Brand, H. Banbury, IL Robertson, H. Miaow, J. I. Headley, J. Roebuck, .1. A. Browne, Lord J. T. Hardcaritle, J. A. RusaeU, A. Bruce, H. A. Hayter, Sir W. G. St. Aubyn. J. Buchanan, W. Headlam , T. B. Scott, Sir W. Buller, J. W. Henley, Lord Seely, C. Buller, Sir A. W. Hibbert, J. T. Seymour, H. D. Butter. C. B. liodgkinaon, G. Seymour, A. Butt, I. Howard, C. W. Matto, R. D. Y. H. lulhefe. L. Shelley, Sir J. V. ard li t r a e li. Jackson, W. Sheridan, H. B. ie, C. King, P. J. Smith, J. A. Ca Carneg vendish, W. UMW" A. W. Smith, J. B. Clifford, C. C. Kinglake, J. A. Semen Me, Sir W. gl i tt e ast ei filir R. J. =el, A. F. ii:=.. Y. Cobden, R. NW L Stanaftid, J. Colebrook*, Sir T. L Layard, A. H. Steel, J. Coningliam, W. =,. W. IL Stuart., Col. Cox, W. J. Sykes, Col. W. H. Cranturd, K. H. lemma, W. Taylor, P. A. = ~ Sir F. than, R. A. Towline, 0. R. loving% Slr R. Trelawoy, Mir J. S. Davey, R. Imola, H. Turner, J A. Davis, Col. F. locks. J. Villiers, C. P. Damao, G. Lowe, B. Walter, J. Dent, J. D. 4sley, W. I. Werner, IL Daring, Sir Z. C. Westin, I. Wanyss, J. H. Myrrh L. 1.. Macßae', L Western. 8. Divot; L Mackinnon, W. A. Westbead, J. P. Dodges, J. 0. lillaboa, P. Whalley, G. B. =stills, v. liaguize ' I. F. D. C. White, W" J. =er e lir C. Moiler, Sir W, Wickham, H. W. Dundee, F. Martin, J. Williams, W. Dundee, Sir D. Marta, W. N. Wood, W. DunkeUln, Lord Merry, J. Wriettsoo, W. B. Ellice, IL Mills, I. 8.. Enfield, Vact. Mitchell, T. A. yiLLsoi. Brans, T. W. Moocrieff, J. Hadfield. G. Swart, W. Morris. D. Baines, R. Addedey, C. B. Hardy, J . : Northooto, Sit H. H. dd W. W. Hay, Sir J. D. Parke, C. W . Agyp=r. IV Gin. Hentboote, Mr W. Paklogton Sir J. Bailey C. Heathrote, G. H. Palk, Sir L Budd*, Col. Henley, J. W. Papillon. P. O. Bathurst, A. A. liellillker. Lord Parker, Major Bow& W. W. Hesketh, Sir T. 0. Patten. Col. Ilimeroft, O. B. HeYgate, Sir Y. W. Pauli, H. Bentlnek, G. W. Hodgson, R. Peel, Oen. = he. C. Holford. R. B. Pennant, OIL Boimesdale, %lad. Promos". ViorOolit Bareaford, W. Horntiy, W. H. Phillips, G. It, BovllL W. Huston. T. & Powell, P.S. Brandon,'. W. Hot** Lord Powell, W. T. B B:d o r : Hr B. W. Howes, I. Ridley, 81r IL W. Z. Humberston. P. S. Bolt, J. Enloe, Major C. Hume, W. W. Howley, R. T. Bruce. Btr H. H. Hunt, 0. W. Brit, T. Burghley. Lord. Jumps. Earl Soourfield, J. H, Burrell, Sir P. Jobssione, J. J. Seymer, H. L. BOUCT4OhIidOIIO.II. JON" D. Smith, Sir Y. Cartwright, Col. Kennard, & W. Smith, A. Cave, & King, J. K. Mulch, B. G. Ceell, Lod R. Itnatchbull, W. F. Somerset, Cot. Chapman, J. Inightley, & 130011011, J. Clive, Capt. laird. J. Spooner, R. Cochrane, A. D. Langton W. H. Stanhope, J. B. Codrv,.. Bin W. ~ z . P. ittracey. Sir H. u rn. Collins, T. Levi, W. J. Stud. H. G. Cab* G. Leighton, Si B. Stud, Lt. Col. Conks, W. Immo i, Lord G. Talbot, W. C. Curs* Visa. Ulm*. C. 8. Taylor, Col. Dimon, S. P. Lune, W Tempe* Lord A. V. DUrsell, B. Liddell, H. G. Mynas, Lord IL Du Cane C. Madam, tienl. Tollemsehr, J. Domani* W. E. Imains, Lord Torre* S. Dutton, S. H. C. 141111. G. Trot** C. H. Radom, E. /Awards, M Lygoa, Y. ThAIMul. illr J. MVormolek. W. Turman C. 1 rbr, ~...71. 11=', , . Vanes, J. Vandeleur, CoL Fsne, Col. Malcolm, J. W. Vansittart, W. Farquhar, Sir M. Matins, A . Verner, Sir W. Parser. J. x.ner., lord J. Wakolt, Admiral Yellowes, E. Miles, Sir W. Walker, J. B, Pergumion SG J. Mills. t. Walpole. A. H. Yerrand, W. Milford. W. T. Walsh, Sir J. nrestar, ass. mom agu, 1,,,,d S. Wallington. J. W. Gard, R. 8. N o . sig. 0, Whitmore, H. J. J. 17.44,y, 5. G. Gilpin, 081. yord.i.g. C. Would, B. T. Mugu, 0. Montt; W. J. Wyndkani, P. Wynn, C. W. Gore, J. R. 31 ..twaY. J. R. Wynne, W. W. Grey de Wilton, Via Mandy, W. Yorks ; a j ia . Grogan. Sir E. Murray, W. Halibut*, T. C. Noel, G. J. Headers* C. N. Hardy, 0. Nor*, CeL Selwyn, C. J. ale Court. WINDSOR OARTLR, 1114scs 4. The Queen and the Crown Print* an d princess of Prussia went to London this morning, and honoured Baron Marochetti, Mr. need, and Mr. Noble, with Tints at their studios, to see the statues of the Prince] Consort which are now being executed. The Crown Prince and Princess went afterwards to Buck ingham Palace. The Prince of Wales, attended by LieutenaoLGeneral Knollys and Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, went to London. _ . The Prince and Prince= Louis of Home drove in the grounds of the Castle. The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Major•Oeneral Seymour. The Bight Hon. Sir George Grey left town yesterday afternoon for Windsor Coeds. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Sir J. Coleridge gave judgment on an appeal from New South Wales, " Williams v. Byrnes," that the judg ment of the Supreme Court cannot be sustained, that their lordships would recommend her Majesty to set aside the decree, and that the parties amend their pleas. A petition for a prolongation of Norton's patent for "weaving figured fabrics" was heard. Their lordships refused the applica• Lion. The lords present were Lord Kingdoms, the Master of the Rolls, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. Ryan, end Sir L. Peel. Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey and Colonel F. Seymour, C. 8., have been sent to Brussels by her Majesty to conduct her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark to England, having been selected as the senior members of the household of her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and as having attended his royal highness upon his arrival in England. LATEST INTIBILLD POLAND. SPREAD OF THE INSURRECTION. The Paris Prase of last evening says : "It can no longer be doubted that the Polish movement, which seemed to have been arrested by the two bloody days of Malagozy, is suddenly re organised with vast proportions. All the bands now appear to conform to a plan concerted intelli gently. They appear in all parts of Poland ; they boldly glide between the exhausted Rue- Man columns, and converge towards Lithuania, where an explosion is imminent. Already this morning the telegraph from Warsaw brings us the translation of an article in the Military Journal, which confesses that the in surrection is increasing. Nor is this all. We know that at Warsaw there are two publications, the bulletins of which are contradictory. The Thiennik, which is intended for the people, systema tically registers bulletins of victory, and incessantly represents the insurrection as crushed. But, con currently with this journal, the Russian go vernment causes to be printed clandestinely a journal exclusively destined for the army. The following is published in that paper : ' The commandants of troops ought to neglect nothing, and to abandon no means of suppressing the insurrection. It ought to be observed that although we have been successful in all the encoun ters with the rebels, this insurrection is by no means vanquished, and is assuming from day to day larger proportions.' To these accounts we may add a significant fact. The greater part of the foreign journals are confiscated at the gates of Warsaw, and the Sreutz Zeitung itself is, in all which con cerns the news from Poland, subjected to serious mutilations before it can be distributed." A letter from Cracow of the let, in the Debata, stays : The corps of General Langiewicz, represented by the Rumania despatches as having been beaten, dispersed, sad annihilated, holds out against the regular troops, and effects movements and engages in combats, in which courage sup plies the place of numbers. The insurrection is now gene. ral. When pat down in one point it breaks out in another, and fresh centres are being established in the governments of Haliach and of Plonk. The Russians bad con centrated all their efforts to crush, in the government of Radom and in the neighbourhood of Kielce, the rising directed by Langiewics, and no sooner is that done than fresh com batants start up. The adjoining Polish provinces furnish their contingents. From Wloclawek, on the Vistula, to the frontier of Galicia, the country is in insurrection. Detach ments of insurgents make their appearance and tight at Eutaw, Kolo, Konin, Csenstochow, in the neigh bourhood of Kalish, and on the Kalowitz railway. Information as to the insurrection in Lithuania, and on the other bank of the Vistula, reaches this place with difficulty, and the Cracow telegraph in a general way only sends to Europe the accounts of military operations which take place in the country nearest to the Gallician frontier. There is nothing, however, to throw any doubt on the extension of the insurrection throughout the whole country. The following is an incident which deserves mention :--Senator Petroff was at the residence of M. Pagodin, his father-in-law, who was in • dying state, when the place was surrounded by the insurgents. Langiewicz made M. Petroff prisoner, and wishing to exchange him for one of his companions who bad fallen into the hands of the Russians, kept him prisoner with him for some days. Having received intelligence that his un fortunate friend had been shot, and that exchange had be come impossible, beset M. Petroff at liberty, and he rejoined his family at Warsaw. He was afterwards sent for by the Grand Duke to give him an account of his stay in the incur gent's camp. Cracow has become, since the affair of Miechow, • city of desolation. Nearly 2,000 fend lies, who have lose all they possessed in the lire and pillage of that place, and who fled from the ferocity of the Russians, have sought refuge on the Gallician territory in the most complete state of destitution. The charity of the inhabitants, although very active, cannot suffice for so many calls on it. The Russian officials, who are among the number of the refugees, state that they never could have believed in the cruelties which have been exercised, had they not been eys-witnesses to them. The town of Miechow is completely burnt to the ground, and Jendruijow is at this moment burning. "The Pope," says the Nation, " has replied in severe terms to the request of Count de Kiaseleff, the Russian ambassador, that his Holiness should publish an encyclical letter against the Polish in surrection. The representative of the Czar had neglected nothing which he thought could influ ence the mind of the Sovereign Pontiff According to his account the Polish clergy were imbued with the most revolutionary principles. The Pope held firm, and has even, it is said, given orders for the republication of the protests of Cle ment XIII. and Clement XI V. against the partition of Poland." (110Thi'll mum/ AM DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA FOR ENGLAND. BRUSSELS, M•zoi 5, 10.15 A. IL Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra, with the Prince and Princess Christian of Den mark, and Princes Frederic and William, left at 9.30 this morning for Antwerp, where they will embark for England. The English Minister, the Grand Marshal of the Belgian Court, and other personages of distinction, accompanied the august party to Antwerp. . . . The Prince of Hesse and the Duke of Glucks burg left at 10 o'clock this morning, with their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, for London, by way of Calais, accompanied by several high dignitaries of the Bel gian court. VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO THE WEST END. The Haymarket and Regent-street yesterday afternoon were particularly thronged, the Prince of Wales visiting some of the establishments at which the various costly gifts preparing for the royal wedding are mow on view. At the coach warehouse of Mums. Hooper, in the Hay market, his royal highness called to see three of his psi-- Hips now remaining there. The state coach, which has been on view for some days, and which has been seen and admired by great numbers of persona of all degrees, was sent to the stables of Buckingham Palace yesterday morning; but • park barouche, destined for the use of the Princes Alexandra. occupied much of the attention of the Prince, who personally toned the construction of the carriage by taking • mat in it. His royal highness was pleased to ex press his satisfaction with the appearance of the carriage, and at the manner in which it had been built. During the Prince's stay here he was joined by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, who had paid a visit to Messrs. Mortlock's, in Regent-street, and also to Messrs. Garrard's, in the Haymarket, to inspect at the latter establishment the jewels ordered by the Prince of Wales, and which we described is few days since. On leaving Messrs. Hooper's the crowd had enormously increased, and the royal party were warmly and repeatedly greeted. Their royal highnesses spent an hour at this establish ment inspecting the carriages and drawings. This firm had the honour of building the first carriage ever used by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; also the carriage pre sented by the town of Konipberg to the Crown Princess of Prussia on her arrival in Berlin after her marriage—and, we understand, have been now honoured with her royal highness's further commands. The number of persona who called at Messrs. Garrard's was so great as to entirely pot a stop to all business, as the services of all the persons engaged there were required to comply with the constant demands made upon them by the eager visitors. On the arrival of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess (who were attended by Count Ftirstenburg and Captain Grey), the crowd around the doors increased tenfold, and much seems, was displayed to catch • glimpse of the Princess Royal and her husband. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Crown Princess of Prussia (the Primer Royal), and the Crowe Prince of Prussia, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence last night. The Crown Princess of Prussia honoured Miss Darant's studio with a visit on Wednesday, and inspected Baron de Triqueti's works. Some members of the Prince of Wales's house hold have visited Stokes Bay, with the view, it is supposed, of making arrangement' for the Prince and Princess of Wales reaching Osborne,vil the Stokes Bay Railway, on the day of the marriage. The Right Hon. the Speaker gave bin fourth parliamentary full dress dinner lest evening, at his official residence at the New Palace, Westminster. There were present Lord George Gordon Lennox, Lord Dunkellin, Viscount Ingestre, Lord Henley, Hon. Hy. F. Berkeley, Colonel the Hon. Hugh Anneeley, Hon. Major Amoo, Hon. Ralph Dutton, Hoe. C. P. F. Berkeley, Sir Andrew Agnew, Sir J. D. Acton, Sir Minto Farquhar, Sir Thomas Heaketh, Sir Arthur W. Buller, Colonel Pane, Mr. C. C. Clifford, Mr. E. C. Egerton, Mr. A. Bathurst, Mr. H. B. Baring, Mr. Aston, Mr. W. E. Baxter, Mr. Beech, Mr. Beal:nib, Mr. Run, Mr. Childers, Mr. G. Cubitt, Colonel Ferguson Davie, Mr. Dillwyo, Mr. Divett, Mr. Gurney, Mr. W. J. Garnett, Mr. Hardcaatle, Mr. King King, Mr. Lawson, and the Rev. C. Merivale, Chaplain, and Mr. Alfred Denison, Private Secretary to the Speaker. The Right Hon. the Speaker will hold his first pouiisametary levee on Wednesday, March 11, at ten o'clock P.M. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a parliamentary dinner yesterday at his residents, Groevenoriate. There were present the Earl of Yount Edgcumbe, Lord Stanley, Viscount Curzon, Viscount Holmesdale, the Hon. E. Doug las Peement, the Hoe. Charles 'henna, the Hoe. Breast Duserenbs, the Hon. Godfrey Morgan, Sir William Heath en* Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Sir John Walsh, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Holford, Colonel Poulett Somerset, Mr. Bee croft, Mr. Laird, and Mr. George Oubitt. The Earl of Derby was prevented by indisposition from dining with the right hon. gentleman. The Duchess of Somerset will give her first mean* this evening at the Admiralty. Lady Margaret Beaumont held an assembly last evening at her mansion, on the Terrace, in Piccadilly. Viscountess Palmerston had a soiree d,ansante Let evening at Cambridge Home. Lady Colchester held an assembly last night at her ladyship's residence in Berkeley-square, at which a nu merous and brilliant circle assembled. Previously to the reception the noble lord and her ladyship had a dinner party, the guests at which included—His Excellency the Count Lavradio, the E►rl and Countess of Cork, the Earl of Breekooek, Lord and Lady Burghley, Lord and Lady Creinorne, Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot, Dowager Lady Shelley, Mr. Hastings and Lady E. Russell, Sir Robert Dallas and 3Cws Dal as, Mr. and Mrs. Murray, to. Above 400 non-resident graduates and members of the university of Oxford have now signed the protest against the prosecution of Professor Jowett by Dr Pussy and his oolleagura. The psotest, amongst other eminent names, contains those of Dr. Temple, of Rugby ; Mr. F. D. Maurice; Mr. Spottlswoode, the Queen's printer; Sir Edmund Head, Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., Mr. Chichester F061111C116, ALP., Hon. Adolphus Liddell, Mr. Godfrey Lushiuglon, Mr. Wyksham Martin, ILP., Mr. Herman Merivale, Professor Charles Neste, Dr. Dames; Mr. Win grove Cooke, and =ay others. The following appears in the Times :—" As my mass does net appear among the signatures to the address to the Bishop of Natal published in the Timm of pater. day, will you permit me to explain that I wee obliged to withhold it, not because I dissented from the substance of that document, but because I felt unable to agree with the construction there put upon the passage cited from Part L, page xii. ? I was prevented by Moms from at tending the meeting of the bishops at which the address was agreed ow, and had not the opportunity of seeing it till t wee finally digested into its present form.—l am, Sir, year obedient servant, W. Ku.L.sum. Claristord House, =Alm March 3." On going into committee of supply on the 19th, Mr. Suter will move the following resolatioos :—" 1. That, in the opinion of this house, in oases when ordinary Wale supports several line. of steamers, the parent system of granting subsidies for carrying the trans-osetaio mails weed to be dispensed with. 2. That this bones is not pre pared to grant a sum of money to the Atlantis Royal Mail Oempany for conveying the mails betimes Galway sad North America." SPAIN. MADRID, Wesca 4, EVENING. The opening of the Cortee will take place on Monday next. The question whether the government will ask authorisation to continue collecting the taxes, or will request the Chamber to discuss the budget, is not yet decided. CHINA. dHANGHAE, JAN. 26. (By telegraph from Suez.) Mr. Holland has been appointed to the command of the late General Ward's Contingent. The French Contingent has been defeated at Chowsing, near Ningpo ; Lebretbon, the com mander, was killed. The Treaty of Commerce between Prussia and China has been ratified by the Emperor. It is stated to be the intention of the Chinese government to issue medals to all the of who have served iu the Taeping campaigns. There is a probability of a civil war in Japan between the Tycoon and the Daiinios. The latter were disbanding their follower. The Chinese expeditionary force, fitting out under the command of Captain %Greed Osborn, R.N., to aid the imperial government against the Taepiogs, is pro graming rapidly in its equipment. All the officers have been most carefully chosen, and the high pay and nature of the service secure to the naval portion of the force an absolute choice among the best able seamen. It has been decided that all the best marksmen of the expedition are to be armed with the Eofielda, fitted with Storm's American breech-loading chamber. It is said that Victor Emmanuel will commence his tour through Italy next month. He intends to visit Bologna and Florence, io company with the Prince Royal, and afterwarda stop a mouth at Naples. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom on owl PARIS, WZDIIIIIDAI EV13117210. The Opinion Nationale, no doubt sufficiently au thorised, says positively that the report of Prince Napoleon's visit to England for the Prince of Wales's wedding is wholly unfounded. The France undertakes to say that all the alarm ing rumours about the Pope's health are false ; and that there is no truth in the report of Cardinal Antonelli's resignation. It is believed that the French government has officially expressed a hope that Count de Christen, a French subject of ultramontane opinions, who was lately convicted of conspiring against Victor Emmanuel, may be set at liberty. He has already been removed from the ordinary prison to a com fortable apartment, but this indulgence is not considered enough by his French protectors. He was in the French army before Sebastopol, and stress is laid upon the fact that when the Italian police threw him into prison he wore the Crimean medal. "To repair such an indignity," says the France, "the government of Turin has but one course to take—not to change his prison, but to set him at liberty." This is an argument which can not be too strongly protested against. Let Count Chriaten's friends prove his innocence if they can ; or, otherwise, let him plead extenuating circum stances, or ask for mercy as a favour. But all Europe is interested in repudiating the pretension that a French decoration carries with it immunity from the laws of the country in which the wearer may be staying. The Charivari has a caricature which I am sato niahed to see published, and which leads me to suspect that there may be some truth in the ru mour that the Emperor is looking for an excuse to withdraw his army from Mexico. A soldier wearing the medal* of the Crimea, Italy, and China turns his back upon two female figures repre senting Mexico and Cochin Chins., and pointing to a Polish woman in tears, says, " There is a poor little creature who has been ill-treated this long while ; I would much rather help her than those other two strangers, about whom I don't much care—but, no remarks, and attention to the word of command." It is rumoured that the following batch of new senators is about to be created :—M. de Germiny, governor of the bank of France ; M. de Sacy, editor of the Journal des Thibats ; M. Sainte Beuve ; M. Mocquard, the Emperor's private secretary ; and M. Auber, the great composer. M. Vuitry, the councillor of state, is likely to replace M. de Germiny iu the direction of the Bank of France. M. Alphonse de Rothschild, son of Baron James, is at Turin, and has had an interview with DL Miogbetti on the subject of the Italian Loan. The Bourse continues firm. M. EugAne Pelletan, who was lately prohibited from lecturing in France, has been making a highly successful circuit in Belgium. The juxtaposition of these two facts suggests to M. E. de Girardin the question, what good does the French govern ment expect by driving eminent writers, orators, and professors to display their talents in foreign countries 1 Why should France, that "great country where liberty is so little," export such a man as M. E. Pelletan to Belgium, "that little country where liberty is so great ?" The Prase compares this policy to that of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, which endowed foreign countries with the skill and intelligence of the French protestants, and founded the silk manu factory of Bpitalfields. It would fain hope that the Emperor does not know of these acts of his subordinates, which but a few years hence people will scarcely believe. It is a very sore point in Farb; now that French literary men should be debarred from emulating the success of Mr. Dickens as a lecturer. Meyerbeer has lately arrived in Paris. His long talked-of opera, L'Africaine, will now, it is said, really be brought out, " provided he finds performers at the Grand Opera capable of doing justice to the principal parts." This qualification, I think it safe to predict, means further postpone ment. The Duke de Rausan died yesterday. The temperature has risen rapidly within the last forty-eight hours, and yesterday was quite like a summer's day, the sun shining brightly, the whole world abroad, and crowds enjoying the beau tiful weather outside the cid& aloug the Boule vards. The thermometer at four yesterday after noon marked 14 centigrade (GO Fah.). The well-known chestnut-tree in the Tuileries Garden, known as the Vingt-Mare, does not this year wait for the 20th, to justify its traditional re putation. It is at present covered with buds which begin to show their leaven. "The preliminary investigation into the late gambling transaction," says the Droit. " has resulted in mending M. Garcia mid IL Calzado for trial before the Tri bunal of Correctional Police." VICTOR HUOO ON CAPITAL PuNIRIDIENT.— In • recent letter to • Belem association for the abolition of capital punishment, Victor Hugo says " The abolition of the punishment of death is henceforth certain in all civilised countries. The inviolability of man is the starting point of every principle ; it will be an honour to the nineteenth century to transform this philosophical truth auto a social reality, and to wipe away the stain of blood from the august forehead of civilization." THE NATIONAL DRAMA OF FRANCE.—The first performance of • new military drama, entitled Marengo, took place a few nighte since at the Thatre Imperial du Chltelet, in Paris. A correspondent of the I adependanee Beige, in reference to this performance, says, " Was it really the first representation! For my part, it seems to me that, for at lust • quarter of a century, only one piece has been given at this theatre, with the exception of two or three fairy eztravaga•ras—a piece having for its hero Napo leon I.,either on foot or on horseback, but more frequently on horseback. During that quarter of a century we have successively buried tragedy, romantic drama, historic drama, rustic drama, the coatelha-drams—we are in • fair way to bury the revues. The Napoleonic, or National Drams, if you please (to quote the play bill), has alone survived, with its drums, its music, its artillery, and its Old and Young Guard ; and that drama Mill stood. erect above the tombs and the ruins of all the others. In truth, take my word for it, that dm= is immortaL" THE ICE TRADI.—Au extensive business is carried on at present between Switzerland and a Feat part of Europe in the transport of ins. In imitation of the German railways, the French Eastern line has just Woad • special tariff at reduced prices for the conveyance of that commodity. Letters from Switzerland state that the orders already received are enormous. At Grindelwald hundreds of workmen are employed io cutting ice into blocks Ice being sent to • distance. A depth not hitherto reached in the ice has been attained, and unknown marvels of • new kind have been discovered. At Griodelwakl, after penetrat ing several layers, the labourers arrived at • sort of opening in the mass of ice which led to a natural grotto 160 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 65 high. The men who first entered this cavern were lost in admiration at the maga'. ficeot spectacle. The grotto has since been lit up with torches and illuminated with Bengal fire, and the light re flected from these walls of crystal produced a dazzling effect. MIII.IIODISN IN THE UNITED STATE& —Tho sta tistics of church-membership for the year have bees gathered up. " They show a total in so c i e ty o f 942 , 906 , which is a decrease from last year of 45,617. The number of deaths is set down at 10,622. Of the 942,906 in society, 843,401 are members, and 99,505 probationers. The decrease of members is 22,055—0 f probatiosers 23,573." This is accounted for by the demands and ravages of Lb. war.—Meaodim. SYMPATHY WITH POLAND. Last evening a public meeting was held at th e British Institute, Cowper-strest, City.rosd, for the pun., of protesting against the traatawat to which the peopl e 0 ( Poland were subjected in their efforts to establish th e i r nationality. The meeting was numerously attended, and was presided over by Mr. Baxter Langley. The chairm en , in introducing the proceeding, expressed the sympathy h e felt in the cause in respect of which they had llnellibled. So far is Russia WO concerned Poland might be chic to dal with her ; but what the people and the government of tw o country ought to look to wu the conduct cif Prussia. H e hoped that the government of this country, whits th ey observed the principle of non-intervention themselves, would see to it that Prance and Prussia observed the acne course of action. Letters wine then read from Sir 1. Pet e excusing his unavoidable absence, but sending a cheque for 51. to aid in defraying the expenses of the meeting ; h em Mr. Ewart, M.P., and from Mr. Serjeant Parry, also e e . c their unavoidable absence. Mr. Bea ne tt s thee moved the first resolution, which was that the treatmest to which the people of Poland have been and are subjected is • disgrace to civilisation and humanity, and impar t . tively demands the active exertions of me , Englishman to arrest and terminate these bariurni ze Mr. John Smith seconded the resolution. The ineeszee wens next addressed by a native of Poland, who deocribed" the moose in which the Polish conscripts were seized by O ne . Nicks and the Russian police, and who was received with much applause. The resolutions having been agreed to, m r. Cox, ALP., next moved :—" That the government of the country is bound by every consideration to use its inflam e for the suppression of the atrocities committed br Russian officials, and for the support of the cognised position of Poland as • nation." There wag no man in the country who more ardently wished to see the kingdom of Poland fres than he did. Sir Robert Clifton, M.P., in seconding the resolution, re. marked that while it had been stated that Poland wanted arms, he would say that she wanted something else. She wanted the sympathy of the people of this country, sod that sympathy expressed in such • manner that no (coven. meet could misunderstand or resist it. (Cheers.) The nee. lution was cordially adopted. A memorial to her 'Welk, founded on the resolutions thus carried, wan adopted, iud the proceedings, which were most enthusiastic throughout, terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE GEORGE GRISWOLD RELIEF SHIP. Yesterday afternoon au address of thanks for the generous contributions of provisions for the relief of the Lancashire operatives, sent by the American eubscriben, was presented to Captain Lunt, of the George Griswold, by the members of the Central Relief Committee. The pro. ceediop took place et • luncheon in the large room of the Manchester Town.hall, and was presided over by the Maros of MANCHLIITIR. The room was well filled. sad there were present Captain Lunt, Captain Gallagher (of the Achilles relief ship), Mr. Lord (the Americas, consul), Mr. W. JUDOS (chairman of the Liverpool Americas Committee), Mr. Babcock, Mr. W. S. Still, the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P. Major Egerton Leigh, Mr. T. Ashton, Mr. E. Ashworth, Mr. H. Aahworth (president of the Man ' cheater Chamber of Commerce), Mr. Macfie (president of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce), Sir J. Kay. Shuttleworth, Mr. Kay-fibuttleworth, the Mayon of War. rington, Preston, Blackburn, and !iodide/a, Mr. R. N. Hutchinson, Mr. W. Bethbone, jun., Mr. B. Gladstone, Mr. M. Ross, Mr. Stern, Mr. J. W. Machin, Mr. T. B. Crowe, Mr. H. Ramo, Mr. Hugh Fleming, Mr. S. Codas, Mr. A. IL Heywood, Mr. J. 8 Bannerman, Dr. Watts, Ms. T. B. Potter, Mr. Roberta, Mr. James Crowley, Sir Jamie Campbell, de. Colonel Patten, M.P., was unexpectedly prevented from attending. It was also stated by Mr. Mannar (the ham secretary) that letters expressing great regret at being unable to be present had been received from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, from Lord Sefton, Lord Wilton, the Bishop of Manchester, the Bishop of Chester, Mr. W. J. Leib, M.P., the Duke of Devonshire, Lord E. Howard, Mr. C. Turner, M.P., and Lord Derby, who bad requested him to read the following letter: " Dear Sir,-1f you have an opportunity, I should be obliged by your expressing, at the dinner to be gives on Wednesday to the officers of the Georp Griswold, my sin an regret that my engagement' in London have made it impossible forme, by my attendance on the occasion, to testify my appreciation of the generous spirit in which the citizen of the North American States, in the midst of their owe political embarrassments, have munificently contributed to the relief of the physical distress which unhappily prevails in the meaufacturing districts of this country.—Yours faithfully, " Dialer. " J. W. Maclure, Esq." CITY OP LONDON COLLEGE., LLADENHALL-STREET. This evening the Rev. Charles Mackenzie M.A., preben. dory of St. Pad re of St. Besets, Gnirechurchetreet, and founder of the evening chases, will deliver a lecture oa "The Scotch Family Robinson Cruses in the Far West; or, Half-an-hour beyond the End of the Globe." The chair will be taken by Mr. John Greenwood, Q.C., solicitor to the Treasury, end • director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Coln_ piny, at Oen o'clock precisely. MR. AND MRB. GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAINMENT. —To meet the convenience of the public, an evening repre sentation will be given at the Gallery on Saturday, the Zilt instant, commencing at 8 o'clock, instead of the usual morning performance ; and on Tuesday the management proposes to commence at 6 o'clock, to allow its visitors so opportunity of witnessing the illumination. The eaten tainmeot will consist of "The Family Leased " and " Mrs. Roselests Little Evening Party.".., NEGRO Emaareirarlow. - --On Monday evening the largest meeting that has been held in Tewkesbury fat matey years assembled in the Music-hall to bear Wiwi lon the American war and negro emancipation ; the Mayor (S. Hitch, Esq.) though not fully sympathising with the objects of the meeting, very courteously seceding to the re quest to take the chair. A resolution arming " that the meeting abhors the attempt now made for the first time the history of Christendom to establish an efooaded es slavery as Its chief corner stone," was moved by Rev. W. Box, seconded (in the absence through illness of Rev. R Welsford), by Mr. E. Spurrier, and carried unanimously; a amendment moved by Mr. J. Garrison not findings seconder. Mr. George Thompson then delivered an eloquent &damsel nearly two hours' length, in the course of which he was fie queatly applauded ; and was followed by Ray. T. Wilkie. son in a short but forcible THE MITROPOLITAN 7:W ch AGIL—The following n solutions were unanimously to at a meeting of the x. Glare's District Board of Wo Southwark, ea Tuesday "That this board, recognising facts that the sewage of the metropolis is the property of the ra tep ayer; and is of eoonuous value se • source of a gricul tural manure, desire to press upon the Metropolitan Bawd of Works the ier porterse of the mode in which it is dealt with. The er.- dance taken before the Select Committee of the How of Commons upon Town Sewage having stir limbed that the greatest results follow from its moderato application over an extended area of land, the Metropolits Board of Works should, in the opinion of this board, on template and provide for its future utilisation in that maser. or both the return to the nitepsyers and the advan e agriculture would, according to that evidence, be jeeps di ei or lost. And that a copy , of this resolution be presented to the Metropolitan Board of Works by our representative And that copies be also sent to the various local beards a vestries of the metropolis, reqnesting their cooperation itt this important social question." THE FATAL ACCIDINT AT KING'S-MISS STATION.- - Vezpirr.—Yesterday afternoon Dr. Lackester, the corcea for the central division of Middlesex, resumed the inviter at the Royal Fees Hospital, Gray's-inn-rod, relative to the death of Mehard Cowan, aged 45, late in the employ Messrs. Nioholsoa, distillers, of St. John-street-road, - alto was killed on the 18th imt., et the goods station of the Midland Railway, at Ring's-cross. Some further evideea having been taken, the jury, after being locked up a con siderable period, returned a verdict of accidental death ; tot they appended the following expression of their feeling -•• 1. The jury regard t e e conduct of Alfred Davis, in neglect ing to iris. the proper signals, as highly censurable as . approaching to criminality in the carelessness of his err duct. 2. They desire to pass their severest censure on tie Midland Commit' , for employing young and inexperinkri men in the important duties of shunter ., and the geocril mismanagement of the truck department of the Goat Northern Terminus. 3. They also would censure the tarsi Northern Company for the ball construction of their pre miss, and particularly the contiguity of the dock where the accident took place. 4. The jury would also census both companies for not having s better system of direction in the traffic of their station." The proceedings then termi nated. THZ AMERICAN WAR AND THE IRON TRADE The general too. of the iron market at Liverpool is of a Yen' depreising nature. Staffordshire and Welsh makers are without new orders, and in the north the same slackness it observable. The Cleveland makers of pig iron are forcing their iron into new districts, in preference to putting it to store. It is a known fact that this iron finds ready Inners in Liverpool and Scotland, and promises to compete strougif with Scotch pig iron, as the quality u .ipprecisted, and the cost is much below that of Scotch ; eoosn t uently, the Scotch pig iron has of late unmistakably shown a tendency to lour prices, notsflthstanding this being the great shipping mason for that iron. Other circumstances may be cited ate Scotch iron should not inaiutsin the present eocipamtite Ohigh say fr4s. for mixed number warrants—rte : the rs in warrants based their operations upon the ides erican war being terminated by this time. ot'l having been disappointed, they are now clearing o ut their parelmen, although at a great sacrifice. TEL OUTWARD CAPE MAIIA.—The Union Screw S o i r e sany's mail steamship Cambrian, Captain &mak?. from Southampton yesterday for Ascension. st• Helens, and the Cape of (kind Hope, calling off Plymouth to receive her mails. She took out a full complement ape stagers and a general cargo on freight. Amongst the ras• mega" are the Bishop of Chips Town, Rev. ai r . Brows. Rev. Mr. Thomas, Bishop Tozer, Lienta. Halkett, Kerive`l!' and Campbell, and Rev. Mr. O'Reilly. The rompo , steamer Dane is appointed to sail for the Cape, &c., ou the 21. t. to take up her position on the company's b ra nd, Use to Natal, Alga. Bev, &0., soil the Saxon is appointed to with the usual mails on the 4th proximo.