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Vie erpreoo. TO ODBILMIPONDINTS. Merl Womb total:dad lw "no lapron• lasi= lowan =woo to. at Ilse WA" 11‘ Downwfwairoob by Two on the cloy of yobloodow 00i71241 6ULDI2I, Ttini &Millie, THE /7110i1HE8 0 - F NANTES. mews. Weir, u n ti e , B. Coat, and W. Harrison . ?dims L. Tine and A. HBee. - Apa BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Concluding with the lranatormation Scene.—Ccannaemos at 7. .11.AlpfARIcZT, TIM Ermeolo. OIIS AMILICAN COUSIN. Mown Sottisen and Snekatone ; Ya S FttzwUIIam.—BASSRLAS ?LINOS OF ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton and Mt. L. Keeley. .—And MRS. WHITS Mr. Campton and Ulm liardeur. PltplcP2BB. Tins Ergs's°, THZ 1 1/111 - 11141 81712. Mesas. H. Marston. Ver.* and Cathcart: Moo Alty liaderriek sad lira. H. Marston And Will:lff WITH TIM TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother lillpton. Kama Masao, Poses, sad Raiford; Mira OdUinson• 11. THIS EVIIMNI, A SUDD ITCII7 EN ATTACK. Mews. Shore and Wi,ldicomb Mau liairode ad Mrs. Lee. —And THE DUBE'S MOTTO. Morn. lectitar. G. Vining, Brougham. and Raymond . Mims C. liacicardi, I. Tarry, and laswortA.T. 16 nos Snows, NVOLTA DSVOTIO. Ws. Yarnold and Min Sophie BOX HASSAN. Mn. 8. hoe ; Mews. liana, lamb. Newham, And Mlle. C. Stephan ; Tow Byers and Ma bribitoliw—Comanonn at halt-pant EON WATS& AT WNDON 113.11)01. TO DAT lialllkli. n• Om • •••Anirmook 76, 47k. ToNoasow—Yonlms, AL 11m..... Abaft" AL 70. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26. Wa are anxious to direct the attention of our readers to a comparatively unpretending Associa tion recently founded for the special behoof of the industrial classes throughout the country. This is the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, established for the purpose of promoting not only the mental and moral improvement, but especially the social intercourse and rational recreation of the working classes. The general scheme of this Union is so thoroughly sensible, its basis so broad, its objects so definite and so practically useful, and its plan of operations at once so simple and so efficient, that it well deser►es to be widely known and actively supported. It is formed for the pur pose of helping working men to establish clubs or institutions where they can meet together for con versation, business, and mutual improvement, and be at the same time supplied with various means of recreation and simple but substantial refreshments. The main object is thus to secure for the working classes all, and more than all, that thedd Mechanics' Institutions were originally intended to effect. These institutions have, it is well known, so com pletely failed in their primary design, that, instead of supplying the mechanics with cheap and avail• able means of amusement and instruction, they have either ceased to exist, or have fallen wholly into the hands of the trading and middle classes. This failure may be traced to a radical defeat in their object and organization. Their design was from the outset too exclusively educational. The Institution usually included • library, which was also a reading-room, a class-room, sad • lecture hall. If a mechanic was determined to devote his leisure time to reading or learning, the Institution offered him, no doubt, very seasonable assistance. But for a workman to be willing to do this after spending the whole day in continuous and exh►ust ing labour, argues an amount of previous mental discipline and self-control which in any consider able body of mechanics would naturally be the ex ception rather than the rule. The great majority would require to be gradually roused and encouraged to an effort of this kind, not only by the stimulus of example working through some esta blished means of social intercourse and enjoy ment, but by having this intercourse and enjoy ment directly associated with the opportunity and the means of self-improvement. And even the highest class of mechanics could not be expected to spend all their leisure in reading and learning. To continue their studies with success, they would require now and than • little social recrea tion and amusement. This is exactly the want which the broader aim of the " Club " and Institute Union" proposes to supply. The social element is connected with the educational element, is in fact the basis of it, the working men of a town or district being protided with a genuine " Club" as well as an " Institute." An Institution of this sort, while offering social attrac tions and healthy occupations to all, affords at the same time ample means of self-improvement to the increasing number who may come to desire and to prize educational advantages. Aooord ing to the plan of the Union every such working men's "Club and Institute" should include a room easily aommalle for eonvers•tion, newspapers, refreshments, and such games as chess, draughts, bagatelle, dominoes, Ac. ; a room for periodical and library book-reading, where talking should be prohibited ; and a smoking-room. There should if possible be in addition one or more rooms for classes, committee meetings, and general business purposes, such as meetings of friendly co-operative societies, with provision for throwing two or three of the rooms into one for lectures, concerts, social entertainments, general meetings, and the like. Whenever the funds admit, a piano is purchased for occasional concerts, as well as the regular social meetings of the Club. Regular provision is also to be made not only for ocemerts, but for readings from popular authors, recitations, sing ing, story-telling, exhibition of pictures, dissolving views, and works of art. The place of regular resort at all times would of course be the coffee room, with the papers and refreshments, and the smoking-room. The refreshments are supplied "as nearly as possible at cost price, great care " being taken to have them thoroughly good " of their kind." It would be difficult to overrate the importance of this fundamental social feature of the scheme. Where are the great body of young and active working men to spend their leisure hours after work t At present they can only go to the public-house or the cheep mule halls. A well-appointed "Club" would offer to them • far more rational end healthy alternative, and one which we believe the great body of working men would thankfully welcome. The attempts hitherto made have been uniformly successful, and the success is largely due to the social features of the scheme. The Hon. Secretary of the Southampton Working Men's Halls well contrast' this feature with the defective system of the older societies :—" Our " fundamental principle is recreation and occupe " tion. On this we build the superstructure of " classes for reading and writing, large elocution " and singing classes, a harmonic club and benefit " society, and • lending library to each hall. " Everything we add is therefore on an ascending "scale. But with literary institutes they aim too " high to begin with, and then descending sink "to the depths of comic lectures' and such " like follies to catch more mem ber." The other main cause of the failure which has attended Mechanics' Institutions is to be found in their organisation and machinery. They were largely vitiated from the first by a certain element of patronage and air of condescension that marked their operations, and was, it may almost be said, wrought into their very constitution. They were' HARMONIUMS. -NEW MODEL. CIAMIL. BLAU, and WOOD. DD. Delosit4D9W. THE • EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, li managed for the working classes rathar i Za' ad by them. One result of this was, the mechanics getting what they t t. wan they got only what their superiors in sofia ignition thought would be good for them, or—as the mechanics dropped off—what the new class of members who supplied their place were supposed to like. But even supposing the arrangements to be ad missible, it was a fatal mistake not to confide the carrying them out very largely to the working men themselves. They will not only value the Insti tution far more highly, and take a keener interest in it, if they manage it themselves, but this very management involves a mental exercise and moral discipline of the most important kind. The duties and responsibilities of such a position supply exactly the kind of training these men most need, and would help directly to produce the sense of personal dignity and habit of self-command in which they are often specially deficient. Dr. Eurcrr, of Carlisle, who has laboured many years for and with the working classes, puts this point very happily. " Why should we guide them t "We are so accustomed to it. More in our " way is it t If so, how came it to be sot Is it " not because a good Providence put it in our " power to do this and that for ourselves without " consulting others or needing any help ? We " have had to drive ourselves, and we proffer our " aid to drive others as our paelemiers " rather than leave them to learn, bemuse " they are not equal to drive. We put then " side ; but when and how there are they to IMO " No, set them on the box ; let them try their " hand in turn at driving, and who shall say that " they cannot learnt The success of the expert " meat here is complete." The plan of the Union, therefore, is, that working men should always in the main manage the clubs and institutions they assist in establishing. "In some cases," we are told, " the Managing Committee consists entirely of " working men, andthey have obtained the necessary " counsel and help required beyond their own body " by being able to apply for it, informally, to one or " more zealous and easily accessible friends in the " chum above them. In other cases, the committee " has been of a more mixed character from 44 first, and men of all classes have worked use folly and harmoniously together. Occasionally the trustees form a sort of council for conaulta- " tion ; but whatever the composition of the " managing body, one-half of it at least should " consist of working men. Several failures in "otherwise well-devised schemes have taken place " from want of attention to this principle." The plan by wldch the Union endeavours to carry out its design is that of stimulating local effort and emitting it in every possible way. It seeks both to extend and improve existing asaociations of a kindred nature with its own, and to establish new ones where none at present exist. The Council of the Union propose to effect these objects by correspondence with the officers of thisting Afro ciations throughout the kingdom ; by visits of ' their own officers and conferences with the work • ing men in places where this may be useful ; by the distribution of special papers explaining the nature and objects of the institutions ; by grant ing loans of books, &c., for club-houses ; and by grants of money in special cases for building, en larging, or altering of club-houses. The new So ciety has only been in operation about four months, and already we are glad to find it has originated, in whole or part, Working Men's Clubs in a dozen towns of the kingdom,and is in correspondence with nearly twice as many more. Those who are inter. ested in the permanent welfare of the country will desire it all possible success in its noble and moat honourable work. 7, int Court. I • WINJ;IBOR Peg. S. Royal Highness the prince of Wako w sttended by Major TesedsleArrived at Windsor Outle yseteeday, from Abhor!) Park. The Bev. Dr. McLeod arrived at the Castle on Monday , amid loft to-day. The Donates of °dodos has snootaded the Domeier Cloantea of Monet Edscumbe as lady is waiting. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and. the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. The following deputation had an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers yesterday et the dike of the Poor law Board, viz. :—Mr. W. W. Wright (chairmen), Mr. Henry Whitworth (clerk), from the Barton•upon-Irweß Union ; Mr. Conon (clerk), from the Burton-upon-Treat Union ; Mr. John Trevor (chairman), from the City of Chester ; Mr. J. Grant (clerk), from the Dcareatet Unioe ; Mr. Joseph Hughes (overseer), Mr. H. F. Hews (vestry cleric), from the parish of Liverpool ; Mr. W. Barnett (chairman), and Mr. John May (clerk), from the Macclesfield Union ; Mr. C. Cheshire (clerk), from the Northorick Union ; Mr. J. B. Hughes (chairman), sad Mr. W. Cleaver (clerk), from Tosteth-park ; . /Ir. H. Bleckley (chairman), Mr. R. Thew* and Mr. T. Geddes (clerk), from the War raglan Union; Mr. J. Hayes (chairman), Mr. T. Haigh (vice-chairman), Mr. Owen Roberta (deputy vino -chairman), and Mr. W. Cleaver (clerk), from the West Derby 'Union. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. M. T. Bane, ILP., Lord G. H. Cavendish, ILP., Mr. John Chapman, ILP., Mr. J. U. Gobbed, M.P., Mr. 0. E. Horton, ILP., the Hat Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., Mr. J. C. Ewart, M.P., Mr. B. Greven, M.P., Earl Grosvenor, ILP., Lord Richard Gros venor, M.P., Mr. John T. Hibbert, IL P., Mr. T. B. Hon fall, M.P., Mr. P. B. Humbersion, M.P., Mr. F. A. Leathern, M.P., Mr. W. J. Legb, Major Y. Corn wall Leigh. 11. P., Hon. Colonel J. Lindsay, hLP., Mr. John Laird, ILP., Colonel J. Wilson Patten, ILP., Mr. J. B. Meath, M.P., Yr. W. P. Thornhill, ALP., Mr. J. Tolle macho, LLP., Mr. C. Turner, 1L P., and Mr. Henry Woods, M.P., Mr. G. Greenell, M.P. LATIBT INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. The following is the order of the day of General Meuse Langiewicz, military chief of the palatinate of Sandymar, addressed to his corps d'armde, after the defeat of the Rusinluts before Staarow, on the 17th February : Oompsaioss is Arms,--A company of oomacka, a squadron of dragoons, and a detachment of chasm= have dared to attack our camp. According to their barbarous custom, the Bnsdans before savaging in the combat traitorously set fire to the town, In order that thousands of families might perish in the foment and fields from hunger and cold. Your bravery, companimis in arms, has saved the town and driven the enemy to a shameful flight. You have been under arma only a few days, and your courage, your parse vinare, soar discipline, your ardour, sod the terror of the Itumiann compel me to regard you as already soldiers old in battle. Sedlnia, Szydlowiso, Bodsentyn, fluchedniow, &re nown., Gors,Wouliock,Salnte-Clvix, and St scow have in the space of twentyneven days covered you with glory—you who are ill-clad, tried by hunger, half-froten, and fatigued by marches and bivouacs. The country which furnishes so oh soldiers must be free and powerful. Companions in arms, the country and history will not forget the 17th of February. The committee of landed proprietors in Russian Poland have issued a circular, in which they say that the moderate party were opposed to the com- menoement of the insurrection under such unfavour able circumstanoes, but that nevertheless, now that it is begun, they adhere to it with all their hearts. The circular concludes with these words : Whatever may be the issue of the struggle, heaps of dead bodies, ruins of cities and village', will declare in the face of God and humanity that Poland will never abandon her inalienable rights, and that at least there are oertain social and moral duties which any government, even • despotic and foreign one, is bound to fulfil, if it wishes to govern in any other way than by fire and blood. The Russian troops certainly appear to be more inclined to fall back before the insurgents than to attack them. The Russian corps which menaced Ojoow has retreated precipitately in the direction of Miechow in consequence of its advanced guard having been repulsed at Skala and lwanowice ; but what is more serious than the retreat is the discon tent which is becoming apparent among the im perial troops. The insurgents in the neighbour hood of Olkusz have maintained all their positions. They have received considerable reinforcements, which add greatly to the courage of those who first took the field. The Diritto of Turin publishes an appeal to arms from Garibaldi, dated from Caprera. This procla mation, which is addressed to the Roumains of the Danube, the Magyars, the Germaine, and the Scandinavians, calls on those people to co-operate in the struggle which is now going on in the land of the Sobieski' and the Kosciusko'. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. OWE ODE OWN 00111111201 DIES.) PARIS, WIEWEBDAT ETNNING. A postscript in the Opinion Nationale says it watt rumoured at the Bourse that the Emperor Napoleon had received • letter from the Czar of Rnssia offering to submit the affairs of Poland to his arbitration. I cannot tell whether any such letter has really been received ; but I can certify that the rumour had very little, if any, circulation at the Bourse. 1 was there myself for a long while, and up to the close of business, and the only reason I heard assigned for the great rise of the day was that Prussia had given way. That seems to me more probable than the news of the Opinion Nation* which, by the way, is not noticed in any of the money articles of the even ing papers. It is difficult to understand what can be meant by the submission of the Polish question to arbitration. The con stitution of an arbitrator supposes two parties equally willing to accept his decision. The offer alone is not likely to stop the Polish insurrection. And who are the parties competent to treat on behalf of the Polish insurgents 1 If, then, the idea of an arbitration, properly so called, be inadmissible, as I think it is, the letter supposed could only imply an offer on the part of the Emperor of Russia to do with Poland whatever Napoleon 111. may please to suggest. I cannot think the Czar has come to that. If so, the Russian alliance must indeed be • great fact. As to the present attitude of Prussia, the Opinion Nationale says, in its " Latest news," that M. de Biamark has asked for five days' time to consider his answer to the lent French despatch. It is curious to observe how emphatically all the government prints repeat the charge against the English journals which I noticed yesterday— viz., that they endeavour to urge France to under take a war in favour of Poland, while not meaning that England should draw the sword. The Petrie, Pays, Prance, and ?lotion, all speak in this tone —evidently from identical instructions. The Nation, quoting Shakspeare, says that France may say to England, " Were it my cue to fight I should have known it without a prompter." The France, with • clever jesuitical noli epiaeopari affectation, pretends to understand that the English journals tempt France to rush into war by holding out the Rhine frontier as a bait to her vanity. I dare say the France would like to be better assured than it is that England would have no objection to this immense sop to French ambition. I rather think the English journals have said just the oontr►ry to the repre sentations fathered upon them, and that the pre sent crisis must on no account serve as a pretext for France to get the Rhine. The France now says that it is premature to be very angry with Prussia about the convention of Feb. 8, because we do not know exactly what it is ; and because, as the Alba, in an article by an outside hand (who writes in a different spirit from its daily productions) suggests, there may perhaps be nothing in the convention incompatible with the standing obligations between Prussia and Russia with respect to their frontier& The Bourse, for some reason or other, was very buoyant. Rents rose 75c. for cash, and 55c. for account, closing at 69fr. 75c. and 69fr. 55a Mo biller rose 57fr. 50c. The Southern Railway rose llfr. Isc ; Lyons, 7fr. 500. ; and the other lines 2fr. 50c. to Mr. ThePhare de laLoire has received a warning (the second) for an article which is stigmatised as " ex citing to hatred of the government by charging it with having checked the impulses of public charity" in favour of the cotton operatives. REPORT.-(TRLS DAY.) LY. iiiiimAT 26, B as LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY. ) ZQUITI" COURT. (Before the Lords Justices of Appm/) lINOWDZII v. TIM MITROPOLITAI LIILWLT 0011PATI. This wee an wpm' motion spinet a dear:not Pine-Chace. cello( Stuart, milder Chamber, involviwen ripactint point of pertain of the Court of Chancery. Theatre' m ai m wee made on behalf of the plaintiff, John Park. Snowden, that the company might be ordered within one week from the servios of the order to produce at the alias of their solicitor, 5, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, for tbe inspec. tire of the plaintiff, certain documents mentioned in the misedide to the 'Marna of Jobe Henchman, secretary to the company. The suit was instituted to compel apeeifte perfannenos of an agreement dated 15th July, 1861, which the company declined to perform on the ground th a t it was not erred into by the authority of the company. Mr. Henchman, in conformity with the usual order, made as affidavit respecting documents in the proration of the company. The Vice-Chancellor refused the motion, and Mfr here the Mairet . ol 1'9.1. J. Bovill raised an objection, that the ppeeaaeawsnt motion was in contravention of the decision in Y ',mph v. Creel" by the Lord Chancellor, which also wee an appeal from an order made by the same vice-chan ostler in clambers. His lordship therein said it world be • mischievous thing if the court received appeals from orders made in ambers • as these would be eminent appear sad all the delay and Warranter. which led to the abdi of the office of Master in Che rry might be reintroduce!. He should decline to unction such padre. A judge in chambers had • discretionary power et adjourning any question into court for argnmeat, end in • ptcper cam would consent to an adjournment ; but if be retried to do so, the court would give credit to the exacta of hie discretion and not interfere with his decision. Ur. Oradmall, in support of the motion, said the Lord Chancellor had given him express leave to set down the motion before their lordships. Lord Justice Turner gave it ea his opinion that the mote Lion ought to proceed. At the close of she argument, Lord Justice Turner delivered judgment, varying the Vice-Chancellor's order, and directing the production al one of the letter , and of two entries in the compeit e minutabook (excepting certain parts to be sealed up) sully were mentioned in Mr. Henchman's affidavit. THE HEALTH OF PRINCE ALFRED. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred continues to progress favourably. He was conveyed from her Majesty's ship Bt. George to Malta on Tuesday, and bore the removal without the least apparent inconvenience. Dr. Alexander Armstrong, the bead of the medical department at Malta, and the senior surgeon of the St. George, are attending the prince. It is said that no spots have recently de veloped themselves. A telegram was received last evening from Malta, which states the prince to be going on satisfactorily, and that he had passed a comfortable night. Our Malta correspondent, writing on the 21st given the following particulars up to that date :—" On the 19th her Majesty's ships St. George and Magicienne arrived from Naples. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was suffering from sold and fever caught at Naples. Apartments had been prepared at the Repel Naval Bospital, bat it was not judged prudent to move him for the present. Dr. Armstrong, inspector-general, immediately attended }um, an d from the remedies administered his Royal Highness spent a good night, was much better next morning, and is steadily improving. This attack has prevented his peasingforhia lientenantay. Hewillprobablyprooeed to Ragland, as soon as be is well enough, in her Majesty's ship Magicienne. The weather is beau tiful, warm, and sunny ; no climate could suit his Royal Highness better. The Roman catholic archbishop at Malta has been very attentive in sending on board to inquire after the state of the royal invalid." viz CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER ON TARIPP REFORM. To a memorial promoted to him by the Liver pool Mammal Reform namelotion, the Mann for of the Embalm has Jost returned the following reply:: " 11, Dowoiq•etreet, Feb. 20. " ffir,—l am desired by the Gbancelloid the Exchequer to acknowledge your letter of the 18th bat, sendiog a printed copy of ► memorial signed by the vies-presideats of the Financial Reform etiaosiation, sad pointing out certain abolitions of duties of EXCINI and Canons which in their opinion would be generally beaseciaL " Mr. Gladstone desires me, in the fret place, to observe that he is not aware of haying described the expenditure of the °pantry as • profligate and enormous,' or of having dap racterised it by either of thee* very dram epithets— although be has, on various amnions, expreend regret that the temper of the public mind, during some recent years, bad been less inclined than formerly to the maintenance of a strict economy in dispensing the sums necessary for the honour sad safety of the country, and for the general de ficiency of the public service. Glacisione is not able to hold out any expectation that the number of articles subject to Customs duty to this country can, within au early period, be greatly reduced, those of them which produce small amounts being retained on the tariff, not for the sake of the proceeds, but in order either to countervail duties levied on the oorreeponding commodity produced at home, or to prevent evasion of the more immanent heads of Customs revenue. " With respect to the Pitt,' °barges as trade, I am de sired by Yr. Gladstone to refer you to the widest* given by himself during the last session of parliament, before the committee on that subject. " With regard to tie recommendations of the usocia tie°, that various importaat duties should be repealed or redueed, I ma directed to state that the time is draw* near when it will be the duty of her Majesty's goverment to estimate the revalue and charge for the ensuing year, sad to make such recommendations to parliaromit as the probable balsam may permit. In the tomatinek the Chen seller of the Exchequer is happy to be favoured with the views of those who have in former time ooetributed to promote the passing of beuellrial measures, or who have paid atteatioe to the impartiust subject of tazakion.—l re. male, sir, your obedient servant, "JAria F. STUART WORTLIL ...._..... ..--. "C. E. Ilacqsaso, Fan., Bearetary, "Liverpool Financial Rif orna Anameintina." THE PRINCE OF WALES'S LEVEE. Hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by command of the Queen, held a Levee on behalf of her Ma. jetty yesterday afternoon in St. James's Palace. The court was very numerously attended. The whole of the Diplo matic) Corps (with the exception of the Belgian Minister, prevented by indispodtion), with the Smelteries and Attaches of their respective Legations, were present. One thoumand gentlemen bad the honour of being presented to hie Royal Bighnene, the presentations by her Majesty's pleasure being considered as equivalent to presentations to the Queen. . _ The Levee was also attended by about 1,700 of the nobi lity and gentry. The Prince of Wales wee attended bye brilliant court, comprising the Ministers of the Crown, the Greet Offset= of State, and the principal officers of the household of her Majesty and his Royal Highness. Ale Pardo Ambasadors and Ministers were ushered to the throne room, when the following presentations to the Prime of Wales took place in the diplomatic circle. By the Astalrisa Ambemador—Prince Ifsenburg, Attache to the Embassy ; Bares Bamberg. Attache to the Em bassy ; BereaFerdinasd de Bothenhild, By the Baia Ambassador—Le Charabeilan D. Longui• not Douaitier d Erabsamy ; Mr. de Linke, Aida-de-Camp of his Imperial Mishima the Dread Duke Doestaatine. By the Prussian Ambeseadr—M. Frederic de Batts first Secretary of Embassy ; Y Theodore do Busses, Attache. By the ram& Ausimeador—Le Marius do °adore, First Secretory ; Le Marquis Caumout IA Force, Third Bern tar/ ; Avant de oourceusel. Attache. By the helm Eavey—Ocamt Taaalei, Attache ; Berea Marochetti, Lieutenant is the Italia Marisa By the Netherlands Minister—Le llama Donald Mackey, Gentleman of the Chamber to the Bing and Attache to tke Legetion. By the Pertaining Minkter—Oonnt v➢Da B.J.e liens Alfredo Dupes, H. Secretory d Legation ; Senor Eduardo Pereira, and Senor M. J. Coelho, Portuguese gentlemen of distinction ; Senor T. de Morass Barinento, son of the late Viscount de Moscorvo. By the Danish /Emitter—Mr. 0. A. Gala, Attache to By L a il e t rpaoish Minister—The Duke of Granada, Attaché to her Catholic Majesty's loptioa ; Mr. R. Gaardamino, Attaché. — i3y the Envoy—Don Jima B. to Valdivia, Bearer tary of Legation ; Captain B.oenan, Aicia.deKneop to the ViewPresidant of Para ; Dun dean F. Pinot, aloe: of the Mint at Lima. By the Persian Envoy--Gcneral Armen Dallah Khan, Comedies of Legation ; Mahouted Aly Khao, Aide-de et the camp, Fine Secretary ; Mina Aly Akbar,First Deagoman Legation. By the Greek Charge d'Affairee—Le Ospitaine B. Nice laidy, Attache Militaire to the Greek Legation. By the Oommillar al the Below Legitioa—M. A. yea de Veld*, Snood Secretary of Legnica. Earl RoaW4 K.G., the Queen's Principal Secretary et State for Fgn Affairs, and lieetnant-Oeserel the Hon. Sir Edward Oust, K.0.H., her Majesty's Muter of the `Ceremonies, attended the Diplomatic Oorpa. r After the reception of the Foreign Ministers, the noble ' men and gentlemen present at the Levu were introduced, and were announced to his Royal Highness by the Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Household. Their Royal Highnesses Prinee Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince William of Prima, attended by Lady Caroline Barringtoo, and the Hon. Colossi Liddell, ho noured the perfcanausee at the Theatre Royal Drury Lana yeaterday by their presence. The Rigkt Hon. the Speaker had his third full dregs parliament/ay dinner last evening, at his oncial madam is the New Palace, Westminster. There were present Led Reny Vane, Lord Fiche, Viscount Ealleld, Lord Rohl. Coal, Lord Hotbern, the Right Hen. E. P. Bouvet* the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Somerville, the Right Hon. Sir Wm. P. Hayter, the Bight Hon. Sir David Dun dee, the Right Has. Wm. Mendell, Has. Admhal Dun. kink, Sr Wm. Heatheote, Sir Henry Willoughby, Sir Edwd. Harrison, Sir W. Miles, General Buckley, Admiral Walcott, Colonel Wilke Patten, Mr. T. Baring, Mr. Hee tinge Rumen, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Roanoke, Mr. O. Tenter, Mr. Rear &yaw, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Ldroy, Mr Greven, Mr. Wrightos, Mr. Hugh Adair, Mr. Selsoleikad, Mr. Puller, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Newdegate, Yr. W. Ewart, Mr. Wood, Mr. Haseard, Br. Edwd. Me, and the Rev. Chan. Berniea (chaplain) and Mr. A. Dodson (private now•tori to the Speaker). The Duke of Devonshire leaves Devonshire House today, for Holkar Hall, Westmoreland. Einily Duchess of Beaufort and lady Edith Soinereet arrived at their residence in iiilLetreet, rater. day, from Badminton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire and Lady Alice Hill have arrived at their mansion in Beiges's'''. square, from Emthanistead Park, Berks. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal and Lord and Lady Sacrist Ashley have arrived at their man iacal in Groavesorequare, from Harostead Park, Boas, for the season. The Count and Counteaa Flahault received at dinner, lest evening. at Coventry Howe, ViIICOOMS and Via °ouster Faheereks, the Fad and Connie. Grey, floe. Frederick Bona, Hoe. Jamas Howard, Hoa. B. Loewe Gower, Mr. West, Mr. Heai7 Grentell, ke. L. in the evening the countess received a small party. The Manikionees of Salisbury had a reception last seedier is Arliiigtoo4trest. Among the members of the diplomatic corps present were the French Ambassador, the Austrian Ambasmdcw and Countess d'Apptayi, sad Countess Marie Psaassesten the Portuguese Minister, the United States Minister sad Mrs. Adios, the Brasilisa Minis ter, the Sane Minister, the Swedish Minister, the Greek Chore d'Affaires, Baron F. de Katki, M. Souks, ("oust rassugsztes. Bane Beck-Fula, Chevalier A. de As. drab% ka. The British ambassador left Berlin on Monday morning, accompanied by Lady Bochansis and Mr. Lowther, to deliver his credentials at the oourt of Mecklenburg &re lies, to white las la deo accredited. He was expectad back la Berlin yesterday. Oa astarday he will leave ter Min dos, to meet the Princess Alexandra, who will panes for a night at Cologne, as her way to Brussels, where she will have to remain a few days in order not to arri re la Eng land before the emendated date of the 7th of March. During her stay in the Belgium capital she will be the gaud of Xing Leopold. AUSTRIA. The Vienna journals speak of two cases of violation of the Austrian territory by the Russians, one in the district of Raesgow, and the other in that of Zolkiew. The Press of Vienna demands that satisfaction should be demanded from Russia for those violations, and states that petty incur sions of Italian patrols on the territory of the empire frequently led to proceedings which were not so necessary as energetic remonstrances at the present moment, particularly ,when having for its object to disengage the responsibility of the Austrian government. PRUSSIA. RESIGNATION OF THE PRIME MINISTER. A few days ago IL Berkent, member of the Dantaic Chamber of Commerce, and Vice Presi. dent of the Chamber of Deputies, had an interview, as representative of the commercial interests of that city, with Count Bismark, the Prussian Pre mier. He solicited the premier to give some in formation relative to the conduct of Prussia towards Poland, observing that the imports from the city of Dantzic into the Polish' provinces were upon a very large scale, and that an intervention on the part of Prussia would completely ruin the trade. Count Biamark refused to give any definite reply, saying that the interests of a single city could not be taken into consideration when the interests of the state were concerned. A telegram from Berlin, dated last night, says "In a Cabinet Council MM. Eulenberg and Mahler declared against the Russian convention and the attitude of Prussia in Polish affairs. " Count Bismark consequently resigned. His resignation is as yet neither accepted nor with drawn." (aria's BERLIN, TEUUDLT. Since Friday last rumours of a ministerial crisis have been circulating on the Bourse. Up to the present, however, they have not received any oon firmation. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE PRINCE OF WALES'S MARRIAGE. The Nouse !lists of Ronen says that the Emperor has been invited to the Prince of Wales's marriage, and that "perhaps" he will accept the invitation. GREECE. ATHENS, WaursaDAT. The assembly elected the ministry yesterday. It is a compromise. Valhi is President ; Smolensk, Minister of War; and Dimitri Mavrooordato, Minister for Foreign Affairs. (asurzes nuniuzl NEWFOUNDLAND. ST. JOHN'S, Fn. 14. The ship Rothsay, which went ashore near here, has been sold, and will probably be got off The wreckers cut away her masts, and plundered the cabin and cargo. The ringleader in the affair has been arrested. The weather is very severe, and the inhabitants of the island are suffering very much in conse quence. In the Monday evening receptions of the Em press Eugenie since the commencement of Lent, music hoe replaced dancing. That of last Monday evening was devoid of all official character, and some of the guests at the re• quest of her Majesty gang, M. Alary sesoinpaaying. Mar de Criers gave several Spanish and Italian romances, and • duet from the Trovagore with Coast Olympe Agra°, who afterwards rag with great effect the " 0 Santiasima Vir ginia" of Gordigiani. M. de Menus also gave a romance from the opera of Marfa. The members of the Committee of the Associa tion of Dramatic Artistes of France, at their last rifting, add:eased tee [Gnome' s to MdLle. Emma Limy :—" Made moiselle and der ocwarada,—We shall not attempt to depict to you the delight we have felt on bearing of your getting better. We have watched with the most lively in. tweet the different phases of your health, and, like all the world, and morel than everyone, we were happy to receive that gratifying iotelligence, for you are not only one of the glories but also the honour of our institution. We offer up the most sincere prayers that you may within a brief delay be motored to the admiration of the public, who ex pect that pleasure with an impatience equal to our own. Accept, mademoiselle, with our coognitulations for your improvement in health, the assurance of our distinguished Large quantities of cotton are now being sent from Havre to New York by the Bremen and Hamburg bomb& TIN Tombola, which left Southampton yostar dry for New York, took oat 300 bales. IS MAMA FRIDAY. B.W. to N.W., fresh to lloccuip. • strong. WS.W. to N.N.W., lassAiw froth to stroog. As next above. w.asizaz. ILTIMAto IX. W.N.R. FLAW. —. otrosi, avow or oda. N.W. to 8. W., strong, some min. W. to N., fresh, showery. As next above. N.N.I. to W.N.W.,mo- N. W.TP.ANCI. rate to fresh. LEW. to W.N.W., I.W.AssaANn. W.N.W. to fresh to strong. strong to moderate. W. to N. fresh. showers. Mt 21111.411 D. As next above. N. to W. and 8.W., I. Malt N.W. to N.E, fresh to fresh, showery. strong. The late Marquis of Lansdowne has bequeathed to Lord Montagle and the goveroors of the hospital called Berrington's Hospital, in the city of Limerick, the sum of 3,0001., to be expended by them for the benefit of the mid hospital, provided that it shall be open at all time for the natives of the county of Berry. Tbree grand dinners, followed by concerts, will take place at the Tuileries during Lent, at the following data :—March 2, a state dinner, followed by a concert per formed by the artists of the Opera-Coiniqtte ; March 9, dinner, and concert by the artists of the Italian Opera, and March 16, dinner, and concert by the artists of the Grand OP 4 T‘ _ _ . Advices from Bavaria state that the ex-King and Queen of Greece are about to fix their residence at the royal palms of Lanshnt. From the restricted state of their mowers they have, it is mid, been induced to sell for 60,000 fr. their stud of thirty horses, which was valued at double that sum. During a recent representation of the Courier de Lye. at the Theatre of St. Petersburg, an accident happened which it was at first feared would have been attended with serious conaequenoes. The first act menhaden with a brigand scene, in which numerous shots are ex changed. During the conflict the pistol of H. Haase, for whose benefit the representation was given, went off unex pectedly at half cock, and the whole charge struck the face of another actor, M. GersteL He was taken away ie • dreadful elate, but it has since been found that hie injuries are not serious. The Channel Islands Mail packet, Southampton, which has undergone a thorough repair, had a trial trip at llpithead, on Tuesday. Her speed avenged nearly 14 boot' an hour. It is expected that she will throughout the year perform the voyage from Jenny to Southampton, except in very tempestuous weather, is time for the London puma gen to catch the 7.15 p.m. train at Southampton. The New York Tribune of the 14th says :—" Lord Hartle/4ton and CoL Leslie, who recently ran the blockade from Virgiuia into Lower Maryland, came neer being cap. tared by the Potomac flotill► The third one of the party, however, the Rev. D. K. Wilmer, who was crossing the river in another boat, was 11111144‘1 and brought to Washing ton. Oa his perm wee feud a par from General Winder for all three of them. Lard Harlington, it Is trleritood, could have immediately eeasesd Outlines under Leg of truce ; but the extension of a Mealier privilege to Colonel Leslie, he being a British officer, was necessarily delayed.* 7= il. A 707 81 48 Lab .93 48 Anton SO 44 Patin* e.44142 .19149 Ir l =4 —53.19149 .1992416 i =7 40.19,47 Liverpool 410.24148 Pribroloi —40.36148 'miry — &eat loalatiort 1410.471t7 ta 710.46 e 9 th 60.4647 PaeYmoath 110.4346 few. '30.4446 Loudon '110.4446 Yarmouth '30.40 44 Scarborough Ind 13,44 Shields 1)0.18'49 Heligoland ;30.3742 Caliagen 1 l— adder Bayonne_ —I— COURT Or QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Sittings at Nil Prius at Guildhsll.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cocklnun and a Special Jury.) CAMPBELL, D.D., O. -MAHON ON LIM *cancer MB " BATVIDAT 1171111." This Wes an sodas far libel brought by Dr. Canipbelli proprietor of the Britian EISA" against the defendast, the registered printer, kr., of the Saturday Review. The da fondant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Lush, Q.C., Mr. dor - leant Parry, Mr. Row, Mr. Has& bags, and Mr. Pater wean comae' for th• plaintiff ; Mr. Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Gibbons were counsel for the ddondanL Mr. flerjeant Parry, in stating the plaintiff's cue, mid that gentleman had been compelled to bring this action to vindicate his character from a most serious imputation that tad been cast upon it by the defendant. The plaintiff had bees for years a minister of religion, and the pastor of the congregation meeting at the Tabernacle, is the City-road, whose confidence and affection he had own. *telly pined. The defendant, Mr. Spottiewoods, is the registered printer, ha., of the Saturday &view, the reel defendants being Mr. Beresford Hope and Mr. H. D. Cloak, the registered proprietors. The plaintiff had throughout his life been an earnest labourer as a Christine 'madder, and he bad also contributed to religious Wenders works that enjoyed the largest circulations, and which the plaintiff believed bad contributed to the good of his fellow men. The plaintiff complained of a serious and gross libel on his personal and Christian character published in the Saturday Review. The press of the country wielded an enormous power, having at its com mand some of the greatest intellects of the day, and the Least discussion our not only allowed to them by the common consent of the people, but was allowed by the law of the land. There was, however, a limit to that freedom It was desirable that on all public and political otbjects the press should have a free and open way before it, but the law provided that public writers should not invade the &a ranter of a private man for the purpose of defaming him and holding hum up to ridicule or contempt, or for mating false charge affecting his reputation and career in life. It was, however, because the Saturday &rim had innagrased the law, that the plaintiff, who was the editor of two religious papers having large circulations, complained and asked for reparation at the hands of a jury, because the defeadants had not thought proper to retract the sapersionstheyhadmat upon him. The Saturday Review very naturally aoitsys a large circulation from the knows ability of its writers, and therefore the charges made by it against the plaintiff were the more serious. The plaintiff was note rions amongst the nonconformists for his deep interest . . . . . _ in heathen minion; and early in life he obtained • prize for • work showing the best agency whereby the truths of Christianity might be spread amocipt the Mathes& Stimulated by that moons he had continued in the same course, and the coesequenes bad been to bring him into personal cow. munioation and friendship with the leaders of the non. conformist party of tank sod positiou, who took an interest similar to himself in this work. He was the persona friend of the Earl of Shaftesbury, Mr. Mansard, M.P., the Earl of Gainsborough, and others, who, like himself, were engaged in what he considered a useful and holy work. The plaintiff was known to Mr. Thompson, of Prior-park, Bath, who had married the Oster of the Earl of Gainabotough ; they were enthusiastic in this matter, like the plaintiff, and had taken up the !subject of missions to the Chinese. The article in question contained a sneer at the idea of evangelising the Chinese, but it did not date to outrage public opinion by openly condemning it. It might be wall to sneer at the work as chimerical, but he doubted if the conversion of 400 millions of Chinese was more se then that of the poor fishermen of Galilee, whose teaching received the worship and swayed the minds of the whole of the civilised world. There was no plea of justification on the record, and the I defence would be that the defendants had only exercised the privilege of • public writer in this country, making • fair and free criticism on the plaintiff's writings and !abeam as • public minister d religion. He felt certain that defence would not avail. Had the defendants justi fied, the plaintiff would have been able to go into all the facts; as it was, be should put the plaintiff into the box, sod produce enter evidence showing the book fides of the plaintiff's conduct. He should prove the plaintiffs perfect good faith in reference to the question of the China minion by his own evidence as well as that of others. The ;Mintsf was anxious in every way to show that he bad not done • single thing whisk any Christian man need be ashamed of. The nab tact had been treated by the plaintiff in the Ensign in 1861 in • number of letters addressed to eminent personages of all denomination', who felt interest in the work of heathen missions. The lamed counsel read a lotnr, dated Iltk September, 1861, addressed to the Queen, which was pub. belied in the Resign, relative to the Chinese Mission, and it was not tillthe 14th June, 1862. that the defendants published the libel complained of, which replied to that and other letters published in the Ensign with reference to the subscription for copies of the tatter , • penny pub li cation, foe circulation, in order to tome public feeling in favour of the missions. The learned mama then read the libel own *Med of, the following entracte being relied on as libelous : " Fortunately when in • dilemma, Mr. Thompson, of Bath, is at hand to help him out. The doctor refers fro. quietly to Mr. Thompson as his authority —so frequently, that we mast own to having had • transitory mineral that Mr. T. was nothing more than another Ms. Harris, and to believe, with Mrs. Gimp's acquaintance, that there ' never was no inch person.' But as Mr. Thompsou's name is down for five thou and copies of the Ensign, we must accept his identity as fully proved, and we hope the pub- Haber of the Ensign is equally sanded on the point. Cer tain it is that Mr. Thompson knows more about China than anybody else in England." To spread the knowledge of the gospel in China would be • good and en excellent thing, and worthy of all prone and enitouragement ; but to make such a work a mere pretext for puffing an obscure newspaper into circulation is a most seandalons and flagitious act, and it is this act, we fear, we must charge against Dr. Campbell. Buy the letters, sod save the Mathes. About 25 letters will be ' required ;' they must be circulated and read, and for this ' 1 am wholly dependent on the good °Sloss of the friends of the heathen.' There is no disguise in all this. ' Letters from correspon dents, all bearing the mark of one hand,' put the matter on • very simple Men ' Ah,' writes one, would we have our great protestant *plea, privileges, and lineman more widely , and more securely perpetuated, than let us to • man, willingly, liberally, and prayerfully set up an Ensign for the mums. The good soul adds, ' put me down for five hundred copies.'" " There have been many dodges_ tried to make s losing paper ' go,' but it remained for • leader in the nonomforniks body to repreeent the weekly subscription as an act of reli gious duty. Moreover, the well-known device is resorted to of publishing lists of subscribers, the authenticity of which the public have, to say the least, no means of checking. ' R. G.' takes MO copies, A London Minister' 120, ' Au (lid Soldier' 100, and so on. Few readers, we imagine, will have any doubt in their minds as to who is the ' Old Soldier.' " For whatever may be the private views of the editor of the Ensign there can be no questioe that his lollowess are sinners enough in the confidences they repose in his plan. It W.B.W. aw. W.&W.' W.B.W. as LW. (SAW. Cir. IL W. LLW. LW. LW. &&w. w.&w. w.i..w. diem Higbi Bomb Celan Eni lived 1 1/1 14 t sot k which Elle theta% The oa year k eum re J. 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