The Express. — London, England, 1857-05-01 00:00:00

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DMA—AM TRII DODO SAVOYARD XIS .Anson; Mame Aula—Oprii prof RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDOIL 77.7-77m01n. ..... Attmuacs. Mi. Ahrsers. 7•s. A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will Is publiard r mar TO-MORROW. 11 the report be mint that a change in the castody of the Great Beal is impending, the public will be prepared to accept the re tirement of Lord CIAICWOIIII as an earnest that the Cabinet has at last resolved that the peat gantlets' of law reform shall no longer be trifled with. Assuming its accuracy, the aely regret that an be felt is, that the change has been delayed "Mil the eanammeemest of the new Parliament. ?to bd woks al that Parliament cannot last much sae than three meths. But, in the absence of high piing's' Menem it ought to be illustrated by subitantial costribations to law reform. The materian are most ample, and the preparations for several tamearts greatly advanced t but the powen aMa ere finite, and a new Lord Chancellor, op pressed with the judicial duties of the Great Seal, and with the pruidesey of the Home of Lords, wish it is skims, and reensable means for pet. twin stremal of the mare important measares twr OA par at promise, 1868. Another means ta ani thiw may anfortmately be band in the Mug pan ha at the two Law ()Seers at the Crown is ea I Howse. The health of Mr. tiroaar wig heath, we fear, as wholly to incapacitate hr absoram exertion, while Sir R. Bcrinu., h Is he leisrat Nib of the mast exten sive pawls paalke sow pommaad by any member dila La h ham aembeasi with a weight of 1/4/11/410it ansreely any man is mid& ahmamillmi imshimbi. These Mmes. dmius 11111.111.• paglahm b the papcsa of Law RAM. • Hut *Apr the report above alluded to be seen- WPM lINIONNIn, this is quite certain, that the Cabi- Stialnaleaditlitiet be allowed to continue the lbesdce allow ins in Lard Cass woarn's feeble, ge r laelpho. Yak With seek great lawyers as Led BROMISM& Lewd LTMUCIUST. sad Lord Sr. illonanon pressing forward, with all the irresiMible led& of their high authority, the subject in the per House, and with the eo-operation of Mr. Ottana, Sir FITTIM ESLLT ' Mr. CAIRNS, Mr. NAPILL NT Janie Gun tat, a nd Lord Jolts At:N ULL in the Lower Hoses of Parliament, the Government must either take some mesas of satisfy ing the demands and wants of the pablic, or it will be the duty of the Legislature to express an opinion that on this great question Lard PALMERSTON'S Cabinet is not equal to the exigencies of the day. It is impassible that the Liberal Party, now in mach fares and strength in the Haase el Commas, can again submit to the humiliations of the emits of ; sad it is undeniable that foe the humiliation of that sea on theparty is very mainly indebted to the ineapacityof LordChanccllor CRAMWORTH. Thealter native is, then, tolerably obvious; either his lordship most give way to an abler man, or the Cabinet will be irreparably injured by his retaining the custody el the Great Seel. It is not pleasant to be obliged to speak in this way of the highest dignitary of the law, and meekly when he has so many amiable and excellent penal qualities ; but there is no help for it. Ai a grinds Peer Lord CU:MORTIS will be able to do the *lie, both as &judge and as a legis late, great sad valuable wevieee and it is no de gaidatka to say ma's real merits to have failed in a pule= when ma bet dam peasewiag the very lisisot equities as smislow mmsaa The report on laid' vs lays Wei doe obsiewfr tines connects the now of M. Vissamsdhr PAGE WOOD with the change It teen te. Thee that distinguished personage Gore have been line better judges or more earnest eadaseveilly nem' politicians. In transferring to his the amp of the Great Seal, a man of high inteprity and Nevi- Mai ability would be restored to the Erie active anew ef public life. Prom his remenjaillialsareer would derive ample assmity kr an efficient tion of the law. and ham bis phlhearbical slad and cultivated intellect tame amid be every mama to expect a treatment et the puler italetione of law reform on a eseapeeirrha esd Wiry& sys tem. The claims eel preemie= of the present ATEDRIIET-GENERAI are also great. But with such • chief in the House of Lords, Sir RICHARD BETRELL wadi enjoy that support and eo-operation in the Comma which have been denied to him under Lord Clammilor Citin woarn, and be able, perhaps, to do at gement more good where he is than in the more elevated sphere to which he may hereafter be raised. • Tow is asalag, after all. like native genuine impoloom '!lbis shem thing will age le at all, but Mao me melds di do vosoists. Fogs&lly in that souswist itlisaas oposalso af 011isetin g gold. idling ma opriodead. mg of the lossolse pocket of PI! 11.1411 . 11111; lime i astalog to compare with • ganneed agglif of onolitolimal beam. The os preprint is de hint stoek-istrade for realising an malliaitod almand over the .e alimony : nor los soy nothoi d thing dm wind been yet lbstwered at all ologoidio to the proem d hotly sad powslorbrgiy %lowing your own trumpet It is smosely push to conceive a fire illmdmema d them messidita truths than bas jest be. faldwil by the examination of Mr. atimmer Illionni—one of the closing scenes in beam history of the "thing ironically called gis Isyal British Bank." We think it is Cm.- storm who, in discoursing of the stages of human THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1857. philosophy, sagely declares that "fa wonder ttl knowledge begins, in wonderittaila and admiration fills up the interepacc." Applying thirdphorios with a slight change to the rase before al, we may say of Mr. Biowx's connexion with the Royal British Bank that impudence it began, in impu dence it ends, and hocus-pocus tills up the inter epees." He opens his account with lat. 45., be clues it with an unsecured debt e/ 63,00 W., sad all that intervenes is nothing but the legerdemain , of the ledger—s mighty mane of discount and double entry, of imaginary meets and delusive pro mises ; when nothing is (leer except the one per petual purpose, to borrow without paying ; nothing tangible except the cash that is always going out of the Bank till into the ever.gaping pocket of this model Bank Director. The story kites in February,lBs3. In that month Mr. HIIIIPILIET Baowir characteristicallyecenmenoed hie career as a director, w ith the three nearly contemporaneous operations of opening an &mom by a eash payment of 181. 4s. ; taking up the 20 shares neccessry foe his qualification by a note of load far 1,0001., which was of course never paid; and electing a small loan on his own account for 2,0001. This MU in Feb., 1853. By the 2nd of May that year a MICOIS63II of similar small loans had brought the total debt to 9,0001., and having once reached this paint it went on at a rapidly accelerating ratio. By the end of 1854 it had reached some 30,000!. In May, 1855, CAMERON, on his return to the Bank after a three months' illness, found that it had been incensed to upwards of 74,0001. In November, 1865, it had reached its maximum, and then stood at 77,8081. At this point even CAMERON thought it time to interfere. On the 26th November, 1833, he writes b the AIM that mmething must at me be does—H an krasaiehr sediment is indhpensable " —" at least a word= Cl tba entstanding debt must be impolitely paid is cord "—mese Cl the this stortpied (but maks Imre& nor registered, sad Iltsidise. es at assessol well know, utterly 1/I.lldles as issollits). snot be " *elected for ode The Isltst viols sp with three categorical Mash s- 0 I. To provide hemediately additional eamaitg. 2. To provide he the percent of peat dm 16 and overdraws hams% MUGU 3. To repose for the liquidslion Is las Wolin year of fie sivasess on ocorrsolibls sesseidss of 21,0791." Pion* down& then one ma tits MI as oddi ties'sl essositios to give, who la so isms of pay ing sost4se bills but by other bile 0101 mmer worth ies% and wimps convertible merithe we at that ti pigged to at lad their full vales as ether peedim, Pleasant, and, of course, bowels It is line* see bow Mr. Beown bean eg wing ditti es/dm which would at once have crushed an indi- Admit of lees genuine and elastic impedence. We dad him telling CANZIIOX, in reply, that he enesidere himself really a much injured mss He is on the verge of bankruptcy, and ke moat understand their thus preening kiss. " Have yea ever done this," he asks, " with peer previous friends—the originaton of your Cat debt —with 14•0azoort, MoLuss, Miran; Out:. num, Owerrez r Ho mos peat peril in the mucus they are pursuing —set, indeed, in the state of the accounts and depceita : not a bit of it. " I never," he writes, "feel any over anxiety on this score. I an. always wore afraid Met sow. day SOW eti UM would eriu in um skareholier's sailed as to mat transactions aflame hind or smother (mark the eepheetisee), end Mat *wiry may lead to sufficient to ask for w ineootilation by de altarelioldera. _ _ Thew are tho Mediae o-rind. Now, ores my saying so : you aro seeking tkeee cerybreekerel se certain as I ineloonlee tAis wry ktter to you." Notwithstanding this skilhil application of dark hints and retantous inoeodoe*—the instincts of sheer self-preurvation were too strong even he the Bank parlour el the Royal British, and in March, 1666, the &end Director, whose little account then ausustsd to sous 70,00 W. of unsecured debt, is told that "a line is drawn," and that his future farms will sot be honoured. Even this explicit announce- TO ma ammo or rromßir) WHITIRALL, Arm. 30. Chu* morning, at a quarter after fire o'clock, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Olosesster, aunt to her Most Gracious Majesty, departed this life at Gloncester-house, to the great grief of her Majesty and of the royal family. (1 , 1011 TIP COI7IIT CIRCVLAI.) Her Midway the Queen received, at seven o'clock =lesuieg, the nionrahl intelligence of the the Daher of Glonstater,which event took place without, swift _at a teeter put five o'clock, and wu essEd to her Majesty and the Prises hi the Dabs of Ceiskridge. The Ifeb of Ossisidge afterwards went to ClA reserisems, St. Jame* to notify the sad event to the Dubs of Nest. Prime Albert paid vi is in the forenoon to the Daises el Kent at Clarence-home, and to the Duke of °Eskridge in Bt. James's Palace. The Prime afterweetis went to Glonersterlouee. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty in the afternoon. We have authority to state that, in consequence of the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, the state imamate at Windsor Castle will be closed until further orders. The theatres were closed last evening, and will be closed on the evening of the funeral of her royal highness.eih were present at the Jut moments of the Duchess, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Hee Grand Ducker of Mecklenburgh Strflitz , v i rht tli a remained at Gloucester-home during the night. Two of the medical advisers of the Duchess were also in attendance on her royal highness until the time of her death. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duchese of Mecklenbnrgh Strelita quitted Gloucester-house in the morning for Kew. HIE ROYAL DIONNE= PRINCE ALBERT AND Till MANCHESTER EXHIBITION. The following appears in the Manchester Guar dia's of the day :--‘` eat permitted to mks the fol- Icons asiousorrat :L' Is caStrkestioa of the inseams') of the occasica, sad to ceder not to diesystat the vast rosbees who east bar suds their erreageraits, hie Royal Highness Priam Albert has caseated to perform the shin duties allotted to hire upon the 6th sad Oh of May.' It will be sderstood that with thew empties, hie Royal Riess last rarer la Stet privaey.—l sr, it, your reran serest, T)101LOO ChIiZIOOR of the Kaarstive Cansaltra" . Ws Mrs already pablithal the programme of tea tow mold for Tardy amt. We my odd that William Atkiases, Nag., high shelf at Mollies has intlasiod hie Mantles of joiator those devoted to met his royal high er' at the Cheadle Mita, when his royal highness is sweets& to INTIVII soca after ism o'clock, by a geoid aim, Odds will kern Load= at twisty Woks after six as Tosday madam TM stades (a mall sae) will he Masted se totially as paellas Fon COO* his royal Wiliam (foe who.. ens them et the royal corteges, and air bones, so to strive as Woodsy) will drim to Ahoy the mat it James Watts, Faq., Natant sliest two mats Who the preemies (as beim simagsd) snits at the facia of Osfad-read sad Goodie-greet, ths 7tlt Dramas, oda , the commad of Colossi Botha, will fall la mimes, sad so premed to Om Palace, the smoothes to which they will keep, whits his royal bigh orn bls sibs Le. star.—Almody the represearatims of ode*. of Druids, Terseters, Oddldlows, Lc., horn apps to the experstica to be permitted to Vas the reed trots AO Wats' estser; sad penisska his bets greatod. Pablia swim, Orbs the tosmarsble visit of Or *Mt, la 1861, striklegly elbowed that des poi, it Meachernee assd so odor arrsagooted them sods es this, sad that this weld be no bearn, to keep ohs lie for the premiss. THE DUCHESS OF The death of the last of the fifteen children of Getup 111. carries back all minds over • large space of time, and would create a historical interest in connexion with the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, if there had been mach lea than there is of personal interest attending the character of the amiable princess who has just departed. Her birth, and :her title by marriage, recall some association' which it may be useful to revive, under the altered circumstances of a new century and generation. The discontents which existed for a time between the father and the father-in-law of the deceased Princess produced consequences on her life—and that of most of her family—and on public morals and welfare, which ought sot to be forgotten in a review of her character sad position, and which are not yet over, in regard to the existing generation. George TH. married, in 1761, the Princess Char lotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was not satis fied with pleasing himself in his own marriage, but folly expected that his brothers would plow, not themielves, but him, in their marriages. They did not do so; and when he was a sober married man, with half-it-dons children, he was excessively scan dalised at the discovery that the Duke of Cumber land had married Mrs. Horton, and the Duke of Gloucester the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave. There were immediate political consequences arising from the family quarrel—the Opposition finding their spirita and fortes at once revived; but a more per- manent, and far more serious, consequence was, that the Royal Marriage Act was devised by the King, and carried through parliament with a high hand, in the midst of protests and remonstrances from Burke, Lords Camden and Rockingham, and others, and many forebodings of the mischief it would cause. Under this Act no descendant of George 11. could marry under the age of twenty-five without the King's consent ; nor after that age other wise than after applying to the Privy Cowl cil (in care of the Sovereign's disapprobation), and waiting a year to see whether either House of Parliament would address the King against the marriage —which, in that case, could not take place. It was too late now, happily, to overthrow the Duke of Gloucester's marriage, which had taken place five years before. It was declared at court in the autumn of 1772, the same year that the Royal Marriage Act passed. The fanaticism of the German Queen for royal quartering'', which even exceeded the passion of the Xing for prerogative, was ne cessarily mortified this time ; but both were re solved that it should be the last. Their children should marry royalty, or not marry at all. They never doubted whether they could enforce their decision when once they had the law on their side. Certain other, prior, and greater laws of human nature they made no mount of. After the birth of two daughters, the discounte nanced pair had a son, who remained the only one. He was born at Rome, on the 13th of Jemmy, 1776; and all the English in Rome were present at his baptism, the next month. On the 25th of the fol lowing April was born the eleventh child of George lll.—the Princess Mary, who was to be the' wife of the little cousin at Rome. The event wee signalised by a rather remarkable address presented (on the day of the baptism) by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London—an addles* which contained a sermon on laws, liberties, and the glorious Revolu tion, which did not seem to have much to do with the infant Princess, and which got a very short answer from the King. That was the time when the Americans were preparing their Declaration of Independence, which wee promulgated on the 4th of the next July; and when M. Necker was put at the head of French finance—a time at which King George did not want to hear anything about liberties and revolutions, and when accordingly all manner of people were seizing every opportunity of preach ing to him about them. Daring the long course of years in which many of the other members of the family were involved in the penalties and perplexities of their rank, with regard to love and marriage, it was believed that the Princess Mary and her cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, were Weald She was interested in his Cambridge life (his execution being finished there); and she gloried Is Ms receiving the General's thanks in the field, vim b was fighting in Flanders, so early as 1704. proved himself both a gallant and able soldier, mid really won his rank—which rue to that of meld-Marshal in 1816. When the young people wire one-and-twenty the Princess Charlotte was born; and as it soon became understood that there would be no heir apparent if the Princess of Wales lived, the necessity was admitted of keeping the Duke of Gloucester single, to marry the pre semptive heiress of the throne, in case of no eligible lwelen prince appearing for that function. For twenty of their best years the Duke and the Princess were kept waiting, during which interval (in tie year 1806) he succeeded to his title on bis father's death. Everybody liked and loved dm Prima. Mary, who was • pattern of duty sat sweetness through all the family trials she to witness and share in; and the Duke, 'Though not a man of much political ability, was in that part of his life • Whig, and on the generous sad liberal side of almost every question. We are obliged to say "almost," because he supported with his whole force the exclusion of Dissenters from the Universities, when he was Chancellor of the Univer sity of Cambridge, after the death of the Duke of Grafton. On the anti-slavery question he was as earnest in his own way as Wilberforce in his, and kind and helpful in all matters of charity that came before him. Itomilly tells us a curious thing of him —that he volunteered, in a trite-i-tite with Sir S. Romilly, his declaration that Queen Caroline was innocent, and that her accusers were perjured. lie latterly became a Tory ; but, for the greater part of his life, the same genial spirit of liberality and per sonal onessomingness distinguished him and the PI ilium' Mary. As for her, she pleased old and young alike. Lord Eldon used to tell with delight a joke of Queen Charlotte's—about the last person in the world whom any one would suspect of jesting. Her Majesty used to chime the Lord Chancellor with flirting with her daughter Mary; and the Chancellor used to reply that he was not Emperor, King, or Prince, and that, moreover, he was married already--a reply which reminds us of that repertedby Charles Lamb of six Sootehmen, who, on somebody wishing that Barns was present, all started forward SI digit seats to declare that that was impossible, buns, Burns was dead. But we must suppose GM Km& Eldon, who really had humour in his way, wmdiewsi tbe above as near an approach to jocularity as weld be permitted in the presence of royalty. In 1814, when the Prime of Orange was in Eng- WA and his father announced his approaching Essrisge with the Primes Charlotte, Princess Mary Aim& bright sad happy. Lord Malmesbury re mit in Ns diary what her manners were like lap Or Oho" of youth was pad, and the charm. ler dwttlined was marked. Ile said she "was all pribione and pleasantness I" Wing, " bur , jogiog g gig *het ; and I never saw erg with say pelisses so meetly what she algid* am And no One Ilying, perhaps, knew IMO 1161111111114 or more of what they really were, than the old di plomatist. The Prince of grange went away, and Princes, Mary drooped. Oesrybody waa saying that the Date of Gloucester inert be the Princess Char- lotte's bridegroom after aIL But a few months more put an end to the long suspense. When the Princess Charlotte descended the great staircase at Carlton House, after the ceremony of her marriage, she was met at the foot with open arms by the Princess Mary, whose face was bathed in tears. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were married in a -- few weeks—on the 23rd of July, 1816. The bride's - • demeanour was so interesting and affecting that it opened the sluices of Lord Eldon's ready tears, which ho declared ran down his cheeks: but the Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough, also present, must have been in another mood. Some persons —. . were talking in a corner of the crowded room ; and the Chief Jtudice called to them, in the midst of the ceremony, " Do not make such a noise in that corner —if you do, you shall be married yourselves." It is rather pathetic now to think of the details of that marriage—the crowded saloon—the royal mother and sisters on one side the altar, and the royal brothers on the other—the bride, though no longer young, • " "looking very lovely," in a remarkably airopledress; to remember how the scene was related at every fireside in England; and then to think that none of the family, and probably no one who was present, survives. No application was made to parliament for an fulcrum of income in this cue. The bene volent habits of the Duke and Duchess had taught them in a practical way the value of money ; and they arranged *dr plan of life so as to make their means suffice, anti leave enough for much support of schools, and aid to Many a good cause. They lived together eighteen years—the Duke dying in November, 1834. It surprised no one that his wife proved herself the most assiduous and ad mirable of nurses during her husband's decline. After his death, she lived in as much retirement as her rank admitted, doing good where she could, and universally beloved. She saw the last of her imme diate relatives drop from her side, and herself left the survivor of that long family train that used to look so royal and so graceful when returning the admiring salutations of the public on the terrace at Windsor. All that long series of heart-histories was closed. The wretched avowed marriages, and the wretched, or happy, or charmed secret marriages, and the mere formal state maw Timm, which took place in eonaequenee of the Princes Charlotte's decease, were alike dissolved by death. What a world of misery could this survivor have told of, arising from the law-made incompatibi lity between royalty and the natural provision for the domestic affections. The elaborate and public preparation required by the Marriage Act in her own case, by which her marriage was made an act of the state, was painful enough ; bat her lot, with its one steady affection, long in suspense and late gratified, was a happy one in comparison, perhaps, with that of any other member of the family ; and many a painful meditation must she have had on that piece of enforced legislation of her father's early and headstrong years. Those various love stories are hidden now in the grave ; and she who was the depositary of so many of them has followed them thither. There, then, let them rest. But the lesson they yield should not be neglected. There was a strong hope that when our young Queen Victoria, who was at full liberty, as Sovereign, to please herself in marriage, had made her choice, this wretched and demoralising Marriage Act, always reprobated by the wisest and best men of the time, would be re pealed. There were then none left of the last gene ration who could be pointed at, or in any way affected, by such a repeal ; and it was thought that it would be wise to do the thing before there was a new generation to introduce difficulty into the cas. The opportunity has almost been allowed to slip from us. The royal children have ceased to be children, at least the elder ones. Meantime, there is, as we all know, a strong and growing popular distrust, in our own country and in others, of the close dynastic con nexions which are multiplying by means of the per petual intermarriages of a very few families. The political difficulties recently, and indeed constantly, experienced from the complication of family interests, involving almost every throne in Europe, are a mat ter of universal feeling and conversation. There is no chance for the physical and intellectual welfare of coming generations when marriages take place among blood relations ; and there is no chance foe morality and happiness when, under legal or state compulsion, young people love in one direction and marry in another. No evils that could possibly arise from marriages out of the royal pale can fbr a moment compare with the inevitable results of a royal marriage law like ours, perpetuated through other generations than the unhappy one that is gone. Royalty will have quite difficulties enough to con tend with, all through Europe, in corning times, without the perils consequent on this law. Its ope ration will expose all the intermarried royal families in Europe to criticism and ultimate rejection by peoples who will not be governed by a coterie of persons diseased in body through narrow intermar riage, enfeebled in mind,—strong only in their prejudices, and large only in their self-esteem and in their requirements. There is yet time to save the thrones of Europe—or at least the royal palaces of England—from the consequences of a col lision between the great natural laws ordained by Providence, and the narrow and mischievous arti ficial law ordained by a wilful King of England. That King is in his grave, and the last of his children is now gone to join him there. Let the time be laid hold of to bury his evil work in the tomb which is now to be sealed over him and his for ever; and the act will be gratefully acknowledged by a long line of future princes and princesses, who will be spared the bitter suffering of those who have gone before. It can never be, as was said by wise men 80 years ago, that royal personages who are declared of age at eighteen will have no will of their own, in such a matter as marriage, at five-and-twenty. Marriage is too solemn and sacred a matter to be so treated as a piece of state polities : and the ordinance which is holy in the freedom of private life may be trusted with the domestic welfare of prince and peasant alike. There were thirteen children born from the mar doge of Omens 111. with Queen Charlotte —George, Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV. • Frederick, Duke of York ; William, Duke of Clarence, aft erwards William IV.; FA ward, Duke of Kant ; Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, after weeds King of Hanothr• Augustus, Duke of Soarer; and Adolphus, Dubs of Cam bridge. Of the six daughter. three died unmarried, and three were married. The names in the order of birth Mani thus:—The Prisms Royal, Char lotte Augusta, who was mania to the Kieg of Wortmatmarg; the Princes. Aureate, wb. died unmarried ; the Prisons Elizabeth, who was married to the Priam of Home Hombre; the Princess Nary, the lady jut dead, who was nuirried to her muds the Dub of 1310001/AIR; ad, lady, the Primaries Sophia lad And* both of whom died unmarried. With es copious a ram One we. anger of a disputed methadon or of a vacant throne. It is depict, however, how few in number an the reprowrata tirall of this DUZSMOUS family in the preeset gemeradoe. QIINZ Victoria, the Kiser eflianomer, and the three diadem of as late Dabs of Cambridge are, eri believe, now the may omnivore. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) Their lordships met shortly after two o'clock iz z .44 to 04 ring following royal coma' asioners took their Irate Infer, the throne, via the Lord Chainellor, the Duke of Spier err, Earl (inmate, and the Earl of Hu. rorowat ll' . Viscount Evereley took the oaths and his kV. TM wail lord was introdac:d by Viscounts Combennere and TcrIie gREIIINTATION OF THE SPEAKER. _ . sisissel; iii;;E:emm at the Usher of the Black Bad, WNW maw if lbe iwwee bra appeared at the tar axe ate the Leal Canshkenere hd taken their seats. Nr. EVELYN DENISON ma:—My lordn 1 have to acquaint your lerdshim that, be .balsa to her Majesty. command', and in the excretes el k& wadeabled privaersa, her Mejeety's faithful Commas haw grooeeded to the eleo: tion of • speaker and that their shale. has fallen upon me, kaLesseti with my own wirastldsew, I Dow Puked Ow a amalgam. Irille aLOßD CtrCELLON—dis. Telkinlyn Denbo" we eme eimendell her Pd~euremes:i nm. l ber t awn =bee le Wimp lbe Ls Comm lama mpeasil Ilor Mtty fay approves of sad gins her mass In their The SPEAKER—I bow in all humility to bee WV: will ad Aware, end it now t:comes duty be by humble petition, on Whey of the Ownnswas tha b ilgitell Kppriivdom tro all their &octant and nadeadand as et e t especielly to Peed= of arrest of themtl!lvvt and their 1111611% tree same to her Majesty whenever occsaion rq riplus; and that her Majesty will be pleased to put th• rsmip vowel:de coustruction on all their acts and words. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Mr. Spetker, w hrve k better in ceousand to my that her Majestymeet readily confirms all the rigida andmivilages which have brenhitherte granted to har hutMul Commons, either by her Majesty or any of hear royal predecessors. The Commons then withdrew, after which some of their lordships took the usual oaths, and the house adjourned. HIS ROYAL BMWS PRINCE 4LPEZD. Prince Alfred, who left Omen, where he hem pared th■ winter, on the 16th elAgell, arrived et Gotha on the 26th, on a visit to Ida uncle end sant, the raigaieg Mk* and Dachas et Sam Cobary, and to Ms grandmother the Dover, Du:hem. Agar a May et a lartaight at Gotha and Gamer, his royal highnem eD eenthme hie Joarney to England, when he le everted to only. about the 20th I MOM. Raz MAJZITT'S Taaana.—The theatre having bees demi hut eveslag by seer of the lord Marshals* la coaastresea of the illeele et Yr Royal Memo. the Dwaine otOloweeeter, the perbresweee easoluseed will be gives We iffleadsg, Friday, Ray 1. _ _ - His Ems tLa Ailbasudor of France and fibs Camara Pualgay an .spacial is tower from Paris aa ths 1110 i haaaat. His Eye,Heeler tbs Russian Minister and the Cadres Cleepeewtieb see espeled to return to Chashais Hoses tram Pula silly in do mesa atter nest. . The Dike sad Bathes of Bedford have arrived of Woburn ♦bbey hem Cat.. E...s iCiikisee, when they have boa otoyfog oa e visit •Itk the Doke sad Duchess of lokoator. Their groom trill was to tows shoat the middle of *is mouth. The Memel, earl Marchioness of Tweeddale have mini Is lowa ism Yoke Hesse, Haddisgtosoltire, His Sadie" boo teas a miasma is , for the Frances Marchioness of Londonderry will return to town on Thursday wit, boar Paris. _ _ The Countess of limy and Lady Clemeutina Valises eat nem to lowa to,otornw, from Portaroonth. Tba noble ail totem to town to-morrow, from lfiddletos Pot. The Douala* Dowager Grey and lady Georgians they arrived at their rade/sea is Baton-pans, a few days dace, fleet Riekiske Park, war Dersaister, the seat of Sir Charism Wood. . The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have arrived at the St. Gee%Vs Kota. We are author tied to state that Lady Palmerston's party for so-morrow is unavoidably postponed. Lord Lilford has arrived at the St. George's Hord. Lord aad have arrived at their Lady Arthur Hay low widens to Cbster-square bum Strathlieldave, Hemp- Abe, kg the moos. _ . Colonel the Hon. Imes and Lady Sarah Lindsay vet arrived at their as neldeace In Porramn•pawn. The Hoe. Mr. Vernon has arrived at the St. eorge's Hold. Si; John and Lady Thorold return to town to day, ham Systaa Perk, LimoWhirr, for the mean. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and Lady tibias St. Mawr lame for tows for the erases is the coons of aezt weak frays Storer Lod seer Newton Abbot, Dram. The Earl and Countess of We'ayes are staying at their Mat in East Lothian, and will not return to London . . natal the latter and of mai month. The marriage was celebrated at Bt. George's, Hanover -01w% co Waistsley, et Major Vlao®t Whig, Sniff Battalion, depot, Petthant, to Gertrude Elizabeth, may &Meer al Lady Mae sad the late Sir Francis Vane, Bert., of Hatton Hell sad Antathwaita, Cumberland. The We tree attired la s besatifel dregs sad veil of Brunie lace, mid wageless my by hag broths., Sir Henry R. Vasa, Bert. We (Poet) believe that Captain Sayer, who re- Natty vacated ma appointment hi the Adjatteat-Gensrelre thpatimat, 0.1.1 Dapity Aristaat Chador' die Horn 011•141. kali kadldr:a 8A to Ow Foram, at On Monday afternoon next Liant.-Colonel Sir H. 'Waltham will deliver a teeters et the United Service la. etitetioa. ea Penis sal the Pain& The Bi►hep of Cartialo peen:hew the anetveriu7 mom at the Mach Kketaerry Society et St Brides, PL.4eheet, on Maeda, evening .at Th► seamed eseadai to pine the hatevoiag def. Toloorrow the easel breakfast meeting on be. halt at the Wedge& Milks to Chime tam *OS et the Seedea Taxers, Chas. Banco, Eel, proddlog. mat does not 'bake of the indomitable Wrenn H• had keg " wished to withdraw from the board ( be hod over sad OM •gain told them, " they snot get mere men of business habits, as the board was • lamentable exhibition." He had sacked I'o,oool. of their money, and he was on the whole not reluctant to subside int* viz. tual retirement. Bat there was one mare little minim of disoment which be contrived to effect with his friend Caneeme. Ous of his mortgaged and re mortgaged ships wanted an outfit foe the East In dies, and on the 14th of June, more than three menthe after his **count had been virtually closed, he managed to borrow from CAMERON, without any pretence of consideration, a further sum of 1,0201. for that purpose. When the final crash came in August he complains of a "very crude letter" having bans written to him by the Bank solicitor for 75,000 i., when the reel sun he owed was actually not more then 63,0001. Beek, thee, is in brief the historyof Mr. lime Pirate Burtne's account with the Royal British Bank. It hew with a deposit of IN. 4e.: it aided with a debt of 1111,0001. And this debt was virtu./ emsecured I the ships which be reigned es protean' securities wag, as such, 'sleeken. Having engaged to got them registered, he openly and impudently evaded his segegenent. " I undertook t• regken them in the port of London, but I never did, and sever men to de so." Many of the vessels thee merged to the Bank had been previously mast gaged to their full value to 1/I"ALTos, the ism governor, me his private account. On one, fra in stance, oared an seenrity to the Bank for an admen of 16,0004 two mortgages for 10,0001. eerie had previously been effected with Wovrost. Well might 14r. BROWN decline to register thane Teasels in the port of London. Again, he bed engaged to insare them. He openly avows den he never did so, and never meant to do so. CAltaott eat of the fonds of the Beak depository, actually paid away theorem& is inearing ships, weighing es a security, for this man who wee then iabbleil to the Bank between 60,0001. and 70,0001. One of the ships was lost at sea, and Baowx with characteristic impudence complains that the Bank had not insneed her for mare—that is, that they had mat mant mesa of the shareholders' money in keeping alin bb worthless seenritiea But we damn poems further the windings of this man's loamy. and the barefaced impudence of his avowals. He has built his own monument, and it is east im brass. A grateful constituency, on the ands of his late defeat at Tewkesbury, combined to present him with a testimonial. Deserts like his have national value, and should meet with a conrespond iog recognition. Inspired by this sentiment we have offered him the humble tribute of our remarks. Were the law of England what it ought to be, his misdeeds might meet with a sterner retribution. We believe we MIT date with couldrace that Lord Pabiaenton by promised to take charge of a bill to remove the dirbalities miler which our Jewish fellow-eubjeete labour. Sr C. Trevelyair Ins cared a Frit* in nescticie with the Beth Apieelbuel Society, on " Cidor, la ils metel, medal, GM ecescietkol elhete." HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.) The membere began to assemble some time before tire o'clock. At that hour the Speaker Elect wu announced by one of the offlciale, and the house mime diately roes to roe ho the right hon. gentlemen, who had not yet summed his .l costume, but wore merely a court snit and a wig. lieleekhis seat laths chitin Soon afterwards the house was semalenela attend the Lords, and the Speaker Elect quitted Ma ban% do so, followed by the minima y and most of the nualiere sent After a few minutes ' shame they returned, and The SPEAKER having taken the chair, acquainted tits house with what had pawed in the House d Leeds. Having made this communication, he again offered the house his az ure end grateful aelmowmmal for the Iraq honosrable distinction they had anferad upon him. He invited them to aid and moist him with their countenance and apart u maintaining the authority of the chair, and at the sane time be assured them that am for ma lay in his power that alio rity should be exercieed with the most perfect impartiality and In the =neer moat conducive to the public intent sod the honour and dignity of the house. (Crs.) The hen. genn haring intimated that the aily hominess that could then be transacted woe that they abua take the oaths prescribed by law, proceeded to do so himself, attar which the oaths were administered to many other men. bees in attendance. The CLERIC called over the names in the order of the pimper they represent, commencing with the counties in alishabeaal ceder, and taking the cities and boutaba ualth mat/. the members swan were Mr. Diarall, Mr. R. rti l lpt, Mr. Robert Palmer, Mr. Keating, Q.C., Mr. C. P. Oradell, Sir E. W. Easton, W. Kagan, Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr. Wyld, 11r. DuPre, Mr. Canada, Mr. Kenneth Meeenley, and Lord Grosvenor. - The house rose at 4 o'clock. %AWING OF COMCATION.-(THIS DAY.) This morning at a quarter before eleven o'clak the right reverend the bishops and the clergy of the pa Mum, who bad been cited to attend the convocation, aver bled in the cathedral church of St. Paul. The bithops,lg their habits and convocation tobes, were admitted at thi north pt. of the area of the churchyard; the clergy,ll their gowns end hoods, at the south gate. The Archbishop of Canterbury, with his chaplain', ott rived at the Chapter lime about eleven o'clock, sal um there met by the dean of the arches, the ekes-geoid die province, and the chanoihir of the diocese se Labs; IF oompinied by the advocates and proctors ef the Oseitd Arches. 1111 grace thence proceeded, admisl 4 bbasp Wm and the civilians, to the wait eshinisie et Se solo dal, where he was received by the Dean ant AIM The archbishop, on entering the cathedral met by the bishops and the clergy of the province, and ass• ducted up the centre aisle by the dean and chapter to the dasn's stall in the quire. The biehope followed his rimy and took their seats on either side in the stalls of the muss The civilise followed the bishops, sad the clergy of the province closed the procession. The litany of the convocation war then said in Rails the Right Rev. Bishop of Llandaff, as junior bishop, officiating; after whkh the anthem " Pray for the gam of Jermam," was sung. A Latin sermon was then preached by the lea. Mr. Cox. After tho sermon the "Gloria in Exable" tee I, sung; upon the conclimion of which the sichbishop pro nounced the benediction in Latin. Divine service being ended, the archbishop, MUM hif the bishops and other members of the convocatiameeeleild to the chapter-house, where, the archbishop and kiss mblig seated, the vicar-general prevented to the weak. the Queen's ,it. for summoning end proregeleg the convocation. His grace thereupon directed fie registrar to read the Queen's writs, which have( ; been read, the Bishop of London, so dean of the • province of Canterbury, returned the archbishop's modes, presented is him by the chancellor of the diocese, with hie =Mamba that it had been duly executed. The certificate • having been reed aloud by the archbishop's order, the registrar preconixed the bishops mentioned in the return, sad the archhiehop referred to the vicar-general to molt upon the certificates transmitted by them, and open the letters at proxy. The registrar then read by the awl* bishop's order the schedule of contumacy, by white a partite cited and not appearing are peonouneed conemederea • with a reservation of the penalties until a further &wale schedule the archbishop sighed. The archbishop then admonished, in a Latin Mk clergy of the province to withdraw, under thediredien dole Dean of St. Paul's, to the Male on the sera aide d fie quite of St. Faure, there to form themselves iele s Ma house ' and to choose a prolocutor, and to permit VD he approval and confirmation to his grace in the sagas Chamber et Westminster, between the hours of Mee MI eleven in the forenoon, on Friday, the 12th day ofNewerhila to which day the convocation stands prorogued. The clergy of the province having thereupon withdraw: to choose a prolocutor, the archbishop substituted hisses. general, Dr. Travers Tsviss, to receive from the DWI St. Paul's the report of the choice of • prolocutor. The registrar then read the schedule of promidee which schedule the archbishop signed. The archbishop and bishops then left, leaving the TkOP general at the chapter•house to receive the report of choice of a prolocutor by the clergy in the lower house. The new Speaker has appointed the Hon. Gent Waldegrave as his acretary, the Rev. Thome Gander in his chaplain, Mr. G. K. Rickards as hie counsel end air =JIM' of election recognisance', Mr. Robert Bay as MI trainbearer. Mr. It. Beekerson, for many years the inspector pollee attending the House of Commons, has been pecoold for his efficient services to be superintendent of the LB+ I hoe, and Inspecbx Bray, of the A division, is appoinisl Ids place. A deputation respecting Smithfield-market hal an interview with the Chancellor of the Excluqeer yelled* at his official residence, in Downing-street. The &pallet caudated of Mr. H. L. Taylor (chairman), Mr. Deputy We Mr. De Jersey, Mr. Deputy Ilicks, Mr. Rase, the CRY , membeancer, end the City Architect. At the antral public meeting, on Wedneser next, of the Society for the Liberation of Religion fetes State Patronage, the chairman will be Thee. Barnes, Es 44 ex-11.P. for Bolton, and ensong the wakes will be W. Foe, Esq., and Mr. E. 0. Salisbury, M.P. We ( Wiltahire Independent) hear that it is ate' templated to erect • building in D. vises for the purposes de County Means" and Llbsery,in connexion wititthe /mbar logical and Batumi History Society of Wiltshire. On Monday last upwards of 300 holiday maktill fees Leicester and adjoining places, visited Burghley IMO Stamford, and were invited to view the noble masthead paintings and antiquities which are found there. Tr Marchioness of Enter has since expressed her sera el dr excellent behaviour of the visitor*, remarkieg that transacted so quietly that unless, it had been lowa that large party was being conducted through the Lease el mates would not have perceived it. Lady Derghte, left Mary Cecil, end Lady Victoria mingled with a pep Ma. of the room, but were mot ',cognized. At the ekes of day the attendants stated that warmly a Uwe of art or dad could be seen upon the Ikon, and not a single act of OAP credos had meowed. LATEST 1N TELL] CHINA. The Patric says (affecting to gi form of an on dit) that the Frei about to send several more Teal among them the steam-frigate Ai Paris, now belonging to the Medit The Audacieuse will be the large that has yet been seen in the I Each of the ships of the new a oat a thousand infantry. EXPRESS FROM THE GRAND DUKE CO:' PARIS. (moil OVA owl/ main PARIS, Ti l The Grand Duke Constantine t Railway station somewhat ear fixed—five o'clock this afterne which had been decorated for th magnificence usual on similar an uncommonly gay appearanc number of Russian ladies in graced the front seats of the t Man corps diplomatique, with M Secretary, at its head, appeared Ambassador, M. de Kisseleff, Duke, as has been already state all the other embassies but the R remarked, and the French will their heads that Lord Cowley it Russian Prince as much as pus fore, that none of the foreign m because it was known that the would not go. Baron de Seeba tiator, whose rapid journey to ceded the peace, was there, bi Among the Russian officers of were Generals Jomini and Lude arrived, Prince Napoleon, who to the door of the state carriage Duke out. But very little time tion. The first thing the Grand I) bands with Prince Napoleon, we the personnel of the Russian cm band of the chaplain (or pope Russians), he asked his blessin then motioned the Grand Duk , carriage waiting to receive bin pressed a wish first to inspect opposite the station. This re complied with, and his imperi front of the fine regiment of tl guard, and the two squadro formed the guard of h, the Grand Duke took his which was drawn by s Napoleon placed himself by h ttge moved on. There were with the suite. A good many p on the Boulevards, and the flags were hung out from sem were no cries and nothing li general feeling was merely one feeling itself is not very wide The cortege proceeded to the levards and the Rue Rivoli. 3 with the Emperor to-day. At the theatrical fete at ti May 4, the pit will be exclusi Grand Duke's suite, the Erm the corps diplomatique and fo Fragments of Muses, PsycA and the ballet of Armide, an At the Bourse the market than yesterday, but speculate commencement. A sudden ever, at the close, and all the ant. It was reported that if were to be introduced into between the State and the 1 Threes rose 10c. for cash, dosing at 68fr. 70c. and 68f Mfr. The railways improve 16fr. to 20fr. Accounts have been reedy committed by the Riff pirate month they made signals on that they had a 'good cargo provisions to dispose of. A by four sailors and an interp for the point from which the nearing it, a large boat, fill( had been lying in ambush, Tho Spaniards rowed for themselves stopped by in English shallop (which they Twe of the sailors were ah, two, with the interpreter, n last accounts it was feared t murdered by the pirates. The Petrie threatens an corsairs to "penetrate into try and exterminate their n Riff racks are not more inac of Algiers. The Correspondent has the Minister of the Interic ergot, M. Donnie], and the the writer of the inerimins dared to be calculated to laws and to create discord church. The article in qu the number of the 23th A l'Appel comme d'Abus." that the recent judgmeni against the Bishop of Mou that Napoleon I.'s Coma Emperor refused to modify rights of the Church of lb The bi-monthly tax ot shows a fall of 9c. on beef, mutton. The shareholders of th just held a general meeting character. A commission a the grant on the mu liquidation ; and in case 3 will be sold by auction. micits report to another to be held on the 4th of M. Breason, engineer and who has had the works at Cherbourg, has authorisation of the gc enter the service of Btu direction of the extensiv the Emperor Alexander i in Courland. The Moniteur contains " The Sardinian govern preliminaries of a contra Victor-Emmanuel Railwi telling of Mout Cenia. having been deemed st bawl and galleries rey Y previously sanctioned lotted to take twenty company an equivalent