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Vtt ex pTeOO. haeartlembiste !mended let "The Ispreet,"Lesdes amiss prow, be at the 04.0. Is, Beeeedestreet, by We Vela& es the Soy of pebiltedos. stow WATER AT LONDON BRIMS. ib Dar—Kersing 47a .... 411. OM. To•reamow—Marsag. 4k. 4k. On. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23. Two more chapters have been added to the his tory of the Life Peerage controversy. Two further debates, each terminating in a party division, have taken place in the House of Lords. Both are full of significance and importance. No great concession his ever been extorted from either privilege or prerogative in this country withoat protracted dis cussion ; and we have therefore no reason to re pet—very much the reverse—that the ill-advised tenacity of precedent on the part of the Tories, and their instinctive jealousy of every proceeding on the part of the Whip likely to be popular, have led them to place so many obstacles in the way of Lord Wens- Lan:razes reception u a member of the Legisla ture. Every hour's additional debate deepens the public eonviction that the day of an exclusively here ditary peerage is past, and the looser the vela resist ance of its members to the introdudan of re-invi gorating elements the larger will the enforced infusimi of such new elements be. On the assembling of the Upper House yesterday an attempt was made to persuade the Peers to pause in their passionate and precipitate ceases of wantce antagonism with the Crown, and to ask the advise sad aid of the Judges before hams:ding what is point of fact amounts to a judicial decision on a great question of constitutional law. Lord Otinum, after _ . _ a bybernation of many years, see= to have felt the spirit of his youth stirred within him. In a speech which may be taken as a fair reflection of the wadi that of mind of many of thee* be addressed—anxious to do what wen right, but horribly afraid of the law yers bewildering them into doing what was wrong— the ex-minister of other days earnestly implored the adjournment of the final vote proposed by Lord Lint:mom, in order that the judicial counsellors, provided specially for the help of here ditary doubts and perplexities, might be called in and heard on the validity of patents of nobility for life. His avowal of lay ignorance and embarrassment maid the conflict of noble and learned diepatasts was gait* pathetic. The LORD Cxxxottmos told him use thing, and the LORD Cum Jun= another. Lord LYNDHURST, he thought, might pair off with the noble claimant himel4 who wee esakmedly a keen and aosomplished lawyer, not likely to risk his long-coveted honours on a nearly illegal toners. The easilieting .vertices of Lord Sr. Leonia" he taught, might be set off against each other; sad time se reliable residua& of law wee left fee the me of phis men like himself. The expediency, policy, ▪ seestitatiosality he did sot dwell es, if, in deed, these weighed for meek with hi; some what timid lordchip. Oa all hands there hoe hitherto bens • disposition to shirk those eassiderations, whisk are after all the only owe by whose fora any substantial change can or will be Anted. Lord Cimino reiterated his impostasitise tsr men law. They bed nearly bust dews all the luminaries they had is the Hoe" sad, after many naffs" the light they shed was so lentos than darkness. Weald they sot send oat for a dense of ether lights, whieh,theagh each of less Witham might help them to me their way 1 As if to gess* all lisp et the Idled in his sonstrymas's breast, Lord CAMPULL immediately lb:lowed, sad flatly oostradieted the edam he had himself laid dews • few der before respeetiag the illegality of Lord W 101SUITDALeS must. With as intrepidity el &mower all his own, the Chief lonise of the Clessn's Bsseb, wile, set a fortnight due, is his place is Parliament, treated the title of nobility ushered by the west in googlies, and formally proposed that sodas shield be gins "b air lowa Perko" that his claim to ad sa ne. would sot be allowed, lest sight anded at the Idea of cesseltisg the' 'edges sa the matter, be aus* Needy meld doubt tee QUIRK% prerogative to mate a peer for life, for years, or foe • mints day I The debate yid& ensued will be found else where. Lord Onarruzs spoke as meek to the purpose, and lard WINCXIIIIIA as little, as usaL We doubt if are vote was istesseed by anything that was said or was toe said es as lase so sorrowed sod a theme so worm Two great parties had bees mrshelled is appalling array to decide by dist of yodel( a question lamina; a world of prejudice and feeling; and they were sot to be separated sad dis persed by any appeal to kw sr tog* so winter whams it sum It la awarthelem Emil= that do divides es Lord Ge.samo's motion was bit to be a preliminary trial of streagtl4 sad that the =Meat of the struggle Zagged after the easomeessent el the majority of thirty-ons. That, were far bwor listens= to Lord LTNDIRMIT than thew had bean to the scrambling sad inessaintdve prefatory debate which had gm before. finale is the appreelatioa of hereditary taste far eloquence sad beralag—anek the &Soma it makes in oar vaunted Upper Rowe, wheeler a ma of pales rims to eddies@ them Were or after Maser. Differing, es we do, altogether fro. Lard LTIIDZIIIST in the views he hoe adopted as the Peerage gaieties, we cannot withhold the tribe= of ear admired's from the mangle= ability sad power be displayed ea the meek= For es bow sod a belt he addressed the Peeve on the history of their privileges, end the perils to which be &seise they are espeeed, without a wee to aid his memory, or • pease to recollect what topics he had wed, or what he had still to touch upon. Om, cad only 000% he mad to have some usligivinge whether his, phyakal strength would sustain him to the sad. Ile had toiled through may paten= which, one by est, be sought, by verbal oritieleme, to take at of tie category of precedes= again= him, and time appealed to the Curacetwa whether he would act admit them all to be what he bad described. Lord Csanwown answered that he would admit about ass-helf of them we,. "Ralf r azolainiod the sz treardisary aid ma, his voice suddenly acquiriag Was sad =era se be preseemeed the word l "thee I'll go through them all:' sad he did so without falter's'. The bast portion of his speech was that wile= he referred to amp w the methadon= basis en which so many dear best rights sad isadta ticas rest. We do not cue te pinny in general terms the view in this respect saannood by the Moran paw.' Bat Lord LTIIDIRTILIT ought to rends= that he less himself se Minister bean the adviser of pest ehallgelb with whose accomplishment his reputation is ladle solably hosed up, and again= which the power et resistance was nudely and emphatically that traditional obstinacy and =gaited opposition to all improvement to which, unhappily, be now leads the leers of his eloquesce and the authority of his same. Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade Le Corn were resisted by the sem phalanx of hereditary Idly that know arrayed to frustrate Peerage Reform. To the last Lord LTN Daum failed to penes& the majority of them that either measure was necessary or just ; and both of them wen carried without their conversion. So also will the present 'measure be, even thm.gb he should persist in sanctioning sad encouraging them in their futile inilination. THE proceeding* at the Treasury yesterday morn ing, upon the occasion of the bidding for the New Loan, were somewhat remarkable. This loan, like that of April last, though thrown open to free com petition, fell practically into the braids of one eminent firm. In each cam only one tender was presents& the monied public being content to combine their subscriptions under the swims of the Yeses• ROTHSCHILD. The April loan, however, was sego dated smoothly. The price bid for it was above the Government sealed minimum, which was Dome quently not opened. But in the case of the loan tendered for yesterday, a difficulty occurred. The terms offered by the intending contractors were nearly 1 per cent. below the minimum price which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought he would be justified in exacting. The difficulty was obviated by Baron RoTascnuses agreeing to take the whole loan of five millions, together with the contract for the funding of 3,000,0001. Exchequer Bills, upon 81r G. C. Lewm's own terms. Speculations as to the muss which Government would have adopted in the event of this satisfactory arrangement not being arrived at are thus rendered unnecoteary. Upon the whole, the State seems to have made a good bargain. The Treasury authorities may legitimately plume them selves upon the saving of l per cent. which they have effected by a little judicious self-confidence. At the same time there is no ground for the belief that the subscribers to the loan have booms committed to • losing engagement. This is, indeed, sufficiently proved by the fact that, immediately epos the conclusion of the transaction, the paper representing it could have been sold by the holders at 1 per sent. premium or profit. It would thus almost appear as if, so far, we could congratulate both parties to the bargain. Bat the point which the general public will regard with chief satisfaction is the eagerness shown to take the saw stock now offered by Government, who officiate as financial agents of the nation. Practically, the deposit spon subeeriptica was no less than 20 pee teat., for, although the preliminary deposit was reduced to 10 per mat., the subscribers will be required to meet the eecond payment of 10 per cent. us early as the 3rd of March--i. 0., before they can transfer their scrip to other hands. Notwithstanding the notorious tendency of this heavy deposit to check applications,, the total amount of the subscriptions is known to have amounted to upwards of thirty spoilliesu Wait". This fact speaks etzengly in favour of the universal disposition at the part of the monied public to come to the assistaiee of Government: It also affords abundant proof that the socanialated wealth at the nation may always be relied apes as awe snares is timeset deaseial seed. - We an glad to wades that the CHANCILLOI of the _ EXCHLQUiI soriomed in the propriety of the sug gestion that when any future floandal saneness meets are to be 1161114 so made* loping shall be ob served. Complains are made, ad with resew, that the Stock Exchange and the money marine wen kept in anneesseary and injurious suspense se re garde the intentions of Government. The first Gla cial *nineties that a loan and a funding of Bache queer Bills were cestemplated fell like a thunderbolt upon the Stock Exchange shortly after the WIS. meneneent of bonne on Friday morning last. The Inotautaneees elect of the intelligence was a species of panic in the stock markets, Consols expert easing an humiliate fall of so lea than 11 pit cent. From Friday morning until one &don en Monday, when the preliminary interview of the City capitalists with the Quantum of the Ililattgont task place, Rumour had the field to her self. In many quarters the mast exaggerated re ports wen circulated with referees* to the probable amount of the sew loan. We may take some little credit to ourselves for having contributed to cheek the tendency towards a &nein of this nature, which ought to have been dispelled by an examination of the statements of none and expenditure recently published by the Anil authority. Bat there can be no doubt that the den of the prevailing un certainty was very prejudicial. The operation of merchants throughout the kingdom were temporarily impeded by the apprehension that made:able disturbance of the many market might take place. Had the limited amount and ether essential partioulare of the new loan been sem annicated on the Friday morning, all this nese realises would have been obviated, sad the fads would probably have been preserved from undue depredation. Land, we an no mason why Lodi genes of tin -animal character should sot be sun enniaated to the daily Jimmie la the nurse of the night. It wool them be disseminated throughout the country prior to the ootamenomeent of badmen the following seerniag. No napkin end thee win that any exeinsin information had bees impend le the interest of favoured individuals. By the adopted on the present :amiss, behead.= kin contrived to obtain a loess sisal, sod as lotion responsibility has been ant upon some of the rank through whom the important intelligence we permeate prior to its communiestioa to the general public. Air G. C. Liwuh's ready misnames i• the proposal Ix a future departure in certain poiats from the of system of routine, warrants the belief that ether suggestions tending to the satisfaction of the public will be received by him in a similarly undid spirit VACANCIVI, APPOINTIIIIITS, AND PIIOIIOTIONS 111 vas Civil. 83ov:co.—War Depertsast : Mr. Drew, Ps Pee aopoieted PristeipolClerk at the Pall-wan brae* vies Mr. Weed, resigned. • :sense, la do Ones of Chief Baturisesdsst of tie Lead Transport Depot at Soaps baa bees enact by she dee* of Mr. W. B. Baku. The Consehoodelts Mr. deauel Petrie, Prin d ip a t Clerk, Pa bees Ho Musa" Quota of Vie COlMMilli4fiSt Breech Hospital. Ortetwioh— Clack of the Cheeps 011 so : Mr. teemed Linsley, Chief Clerk, be. red alter a tanks ef fly years ; Mr. George Ikw has btu appoiehill 0161 curb, vies Lusby, retired ; 11r. J. W. Reps, has bass prineted to the sewed elan, vies Dues ; there 4 a weasel for a Wed slue Clark. Cuesne—Mr. Willie= Lieglen hn bap applaud a Clerk le the Lug 340 1 /1 le Tastes; Mr. Janes H. Mackay bee beta ap plaud • Cleo! la Na Warts tad Matures Oaks is Lu das ; Mr. J. C. Jelnearee bee boss ponoted frau Coe. *elk r st Celeeeins ie be Psindjui Mar at Bosh Melds ; Mr. 7.lesienbeebtapoeloned Mae Camas r ot L.- .I,h to be Operallor at Oelsaine. Own Gearti—Mutu Theuat Use., 1.111„ W ban stneesed nom re esetaarld the Let suns., vies Jame P. Suer Chief 011eer tiehard =Pals, esimeadiegeke Lociuu district. hos bus sepaieud Chief Oilers{ dolsvutikse, vie, ilr. W. C. Piper, R.N., previously resoved.—C.ul Ise Cksetts. NAVAL MIDICAL l'inu.—Tho Gilbert Bless Primeed ale hem lest hese 11W1/40 I by the preetieste of the Royal Colliers of Physician* sad flisro of Z0e19.4 asd the Direeter-Oeseral of the Novel Modkal Departmest. to Dr. William of H.M.S. Cennerest, 1860; Dr. George hieskay, of H.M.S. Powerful, 1861 ; Mr. Jame Semen. of H.M.S. Prism Begest, 1862; Sad Mr. Retort I'. O. Sett . . f H.M.S. Hastbip, 1863, f.r the aspirin maser is which Mei. )(meals wm kept. Them miles, shish ars is poski, sad of the Mee *4 ten seisms, were eat cetmi by the late Sig. Nantes', set homes the reverse a eviller likeness ef the late Sir Gilboa Slum, the fassier, with the (*hawse Isecri otion Gilbert Blase, &rem tse Arehl•tree it. teed." Os the obverse Is a mycoses taloa et • ea ter hilise wesaded bete the eras of a sow mow, whilst Britsasis, whe leeks meandslly es Dm emu ream, palate le lb, emblem of the bellies art at her silo, with the t ice, " Mast* Mossise, bestial ▪ D.COCXXII." no 4 he. swam, es It the nem ef the Naiad* ',driest. CITI?AL PALiaL-81ILLDro DAT, FM 22. Maids= ea moat, MI SIM by mum tasks% 230, tier. LW* ItIMEN•im THE EXPRMS, SATURDAY ENTNING, FEBRUARY 23. 1356. ebe Court. Ike Qom held an Investiture of tke Mast Ben eatable Order of the Bath, at 8 o'clock yeoteedayellisinsen. at Seeking/ham Palace. Her Majesty, the Sovereign of the Order, WM seadnalet to • elm r of State in the Throat•non ty the Lord a Wail, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Closaber- lain, and the Comptroller of the Household. Prime Albert, the Great Master of the Order of the Bath, secompenied the Queen, and stood by her side on the right, the Dicke of Cambridge being en her Majesty's left. The Queen wore the mantle of crimson lads, haring tt • star of the order embroidered on the left brevet. The Queen also wore the gold and enamelled collar of the order, and • rugnifieent circlet of diamonds. Prince Albert wore hie atantle as Great Master, and also the collar of the Bath. The Knights Grand Cross of the Order were called over by Bath King of Anus is the grew drawing-room, when the !allowing answered:—Genual Sir Howard Dangles, Ban. ; Lieut.-General Sir George Pollock; Field-Mushallftscoant Harding. ; Bear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, But.; Liutt.-General Sir Henry George Smith, General the Right Hoer. Sir Edward Blakeney, Lent.-General Sir John Fon Bergoyna, Vine-Admiral Sir James Whitley Dew Dander, Gaunt Sir Junes Maodonen, General Sir Hew Dalrymple Boss, and General flir James Simpson. The Knights Grand Cross appeared La their erinsacesatk mantles, sad westing their gold 'Wars. The Mars of the Order present were Walter Aston Blount, Beg., genealogist ; Algernon F. Chorale, Esq., Beth Kiog of Arms; sad Albert William Wcods, E-q., Gentle man Usher. The *Roue appeared in their mantle', with their respective badges of office. _ _ _ _ The knights Greed C0..,r by the Queen's cuunaad, entered the Throne-rooss, attended by the Moue of the Order of the Bath, and the former having taken their urea stations near the Sovereign, Major-Oustal Bit Riahud Ragland was istrodued between General fir Bow Da maple Roos sad Gauen! Sir Jean Sieepeen, the two Janitor Knights Grand Crow, weeded by Bath Bing of Arms, and the Gentleman Usher of the Order—the farmer bearing en a erosion velvet mullion the ensigns of a Knight Grand Cross of the Bub. 81r Richard bash before the Chalk Ma her Majesty, sighted by Prises Albert, plead over by *lit shoulder tbs rihs•d of • Haight Grand Craw, baring ebs badge sppe•- East, amid this i•vested ►its with the star of • (military) Haight Greed Chou. 81, Bland bed the hoses, of kissing bet Majesty's head, sad tboa retired. Admiral Sr Graham Edith Hamad. But., was adze dated with the like coreateay, sad was faulted by the Qum with the ribs•d, badge, sad star of • (wllitary) Height °read Cross of the Bit.. Lord Nassau, The Quota's Priseipal fleastary of State for War, wee laboured with the like unuosy ; sad hes Msjnty, assisted by his Royal Highness the Great Muter, placed the vbikad of • Knight Qrmd Croat, with the badge sppuded, over bh lordship's right shoulder, sad afterwards I•rested his lordship with the Star of • (eivil) Haight Greed Cron of the Bath. The noble lord Mend buds sad withdrew. Bear Admiral iltepbso Lasbiagtom was iatrodand &twerps Both /Clog of At.. sad the Oastlemma Usher ei the Order, sad knelt am dm &vertigo, whets the Qom wee grreicarly pleased to wafer the beaver of Haightheed epee birs, sad am:weeds placed resod Ms seek the Ahead wit. the badge sppeaded of a Haight Coseassader of the Bath. Her Majesty, *added by Prises Albeet, invested Sir Sophia with the !tar of a (military) Haight Corium der el tie Order. Sir &opium bad Shoham:or of Ulm, tho Clasea's Misdeed withdrew. Gomm' Janos Wei's.. Sleigh, Liost.-Osneral MAW Goddard Hare Chigoe, Via-Admiral Henry Prtcott, Lioat.-Gmoral WUliaa Bows., FierAdmiral Barrington Hayashi; Limit -General Jolts M'Aseald, Jamas Froderisk Lave, Majoractseral Janos Take, Boaz Admiral the Hen. Hiskard doomian Duda', Hojac-Geseral Lovell Seejantin Lovell, mad MajorGewaral George Au. is Wather.ll, inn sererelly iatrodeced between Bath Kiag of Arms and the Gentlemaa Usher of the Order. and bad the tower of Knighthood ossferred upon them by the Qua. Her hisiesty, swished by Prises Albert, also la mmed t►em severally with the Mend, badge, and star of a (military) Knight COSTAZIMiIf of ties Bath. Liszt. Coloned Heavy Orsewlabo Rawlins". sad Mr. Semjavala Hawse were introdssed with tbo like seramewy, rotilvod from the Quasi tho kosses se Halgttlasod, tad were afterwards Invested by bar Majesty with the assigns of (deil) Knights Commander of the Beth. Captda Vie Hoe. Hoary Koppel, of the loysl Navy, was totrodseed between Beth Lag of Arse aid the Ow gesso fishes of the Order, sad hash sear the Quern, whoa ler lfsjeety, emoted by !Noes Albert, placed the Ahead sad bodge of a Holayssios el the Bat► oa his left breast. Coptala Koppel bad the bee oar of klub* the flovereiga's haled sad withdrew. Captais Gawp Ramey, Cassel Edward Dinh Bay eardioa, Captain Envy Caldwell, R.N., Lint.-Wad Arthur Bt. Geary Herbert Stapary, Lint.-Colatad Mary Frew& Etna" Major Beam Caarlaa Cush& Oivaa, Major haws Freakieri Mums &was ; Dr. David Dau ber ck, Deputy lespeetor-Geseral et Beepittle; Dr. Jobs Fermat Deputy Impeder-Deena et Hopitala • Mr. Jesse Mcreat;iltair lerge;• ; Mr. Aleseader th;wart(Civil), the Judge of the ♦dasiralty of Nova Ikeda; Lieat-Coowel Behest Lumley Deem (CM), sad Mr. Jobs Ken Max well (civil), were severelly lateedweed with the like sere messy, whew the Qua's, aniseed by the Priem, lambed them wish the wipe ef Corepealswe el the Beth. The Haigh* Greed Clow were gala sailed ever i■ the preemie of the geese, and thee withdrew flea the Threw Bar IGJeet7'e Guard or Ilia Zak Cane of Gastirmas at Arms ware ea duty ia the nano ram, wider the eon. mead et Um Llostiaast. Nevin is& Cook, the eabillßern, wove es duty with the sups no Cast was anode& by tlio Dodoes al Wollialtio (elleiatiag foe the Dateline of astkarlesd se )[litres of the Reba) ; the Castes Desert, lily is Waiting; the lbs. ter of the Hone ; the Green of tle Rosie to the Prism ; tha Coptaie of tke Teases of the Ovasi ; Zed Sewers, Lied I. Visiting ; Lord Gorge Loom Lard In Waldo( to kis Royal Memo; Mr. R. Ormsby Gem Goo= is Waiting; Majw-Goseral Wyk., Green is Weities to kit Royal Memos ; the Orson of the Robs ; Lkwasast- Colossi Toyama', the liestessat of the Hes. Corps of Hea tless's at Anse; Colonel the Right Rs& Gin Perasta. Solver Stick is Weida,: Colonel Wool, Platt Moor is Weltiag ; Major-Meson Boor* Proarry is Waiting; Capin. Da Plat, Mowry is Waiting to hie Royal High ..s; Hr. Joseph Ride Lloyd, Cloth of the Mole aid AAjetaat of the Hon. Corps el Manama at Ann; Colossi Fitosteeriee, Adjured of the Yeinlia of the Guard ; Meows Pltlypo tad liaspboreae, Pages of Hamar ia Waiting; mad Major Clifton, Equart7 is Mains( t t the Dirks of Cemboilgo. _ _ _ ♦ party of tli;lrt oats of the Quid tree ea duty la the Greed 114/1 seder exesaad of Akar Phillip. the Ram la Welder. • turd of Meow of thalleete Foam' aura was oto. Weed la hest et the Palos% wit► the hied of the test mew. T►. Queen sad Priem Albert, atimeded by t►. Combs et Dream, t►. Hoe. Huy Buittel,Major amoral Bouverie. sad Copia& D. Piet, Losoused t►. Haymarket Theatre With t►.ir peeeseee to the eveeisg. Prises Ctepote visited the Desists of Catabridge. En Msieety will bold a Privy Cowell ea Monday ant at Beetiegt ass Palms. The Pats apeetseate at Wish*, Castle will le re-noosed ea sod after lioeslay seat, the Utb last. A depetadoe on the wildest of the fatten prtirdletion of lbe ;eine 'nada the Teo*, eenekting of Mr. Iteebneh, M.P., Mr. HUdeerd. M.P., Mr. M. M. Matt, MX.. My. batten, M.P.. Mr. Leaden, M.P., Mr. Allnatoe. Ml' . Mr. Wanes, M.P., Mr. florgiee (treasurer of tie Middle Tempi . Mr. Bryant (ender Menne. of the law Temple , and Mr. Debris (ender treseurer of the Middle Temple , had ea interview with &r Gawp GM yesterday et the oaks. Depstatlmo rues Hives Lyn, the Hell Desk Camplay, Bali Triad*, Reese, Hamm* Limiest. Dever, sad 11111 City of Habib', had ea interview with Vieswast Below roe yrstardsy. Tae doestatiews werll headed by the fel lowfai somber§ of peritansed Vielovat Chelsea, Loci Heehaw. Mr. Z. R. De% Bit Jobe Daektrenh, Mr B. Dales, Mr. Deed's, Mr. P. Henley, Mr. T B. Beadle., Mr. o.orge Bailey, Mr. George W. Bestiate, Mr. J. B. Han f.h, Mr. J. 11. Boer, thr !Award L co.. Mr. T. F. Maguire, AideflUlll Cobh% Mr. Wawa, Mr. B. Mean, Mr. L. Day*, Mr. Gore Larvae, Boa. H. Liddell, Mr. H. Berkirtry, sal Mr. B. ambit. Tbe deastetiess esseisted of floe Kisee Ly.., the Mayor. tho Tows Clerk, Mr. P:at. sad Mr. Anew. Yrose the Hal Deck Cos asy : Mr. Jobs Tall. deputy abstruse' ,• Mr. Stephen Wist, ditimx ; Mr. Charles 7,0 whetter Mr. C. H. Barbee, parliesestery most ; sad Mr W. H. Haffam, !screwy. Prom HallTriaity Hanes : Mr. W 14 0 ,11 (eseretery), Mr. Collieses, Capt. Whitaker. R. 14 . Mr. Deaitry, sod Mr. (i•eiory (partied eatery scent) hoes Newcietle: Tb. Mayor, Br. Dana, sad Mr Parks (*arils. atestety egad). hem Livespael I Mr. Hesstry, Mr. Tobin. Mr. Bade, Mr. C. T , Mr. Shand, Mr. Bold, sad the Tow. Clerk. From Dover: The Morn and MI Town Clerk. From the City of Mobilo : Mr. Grogan sod Mr. Yastio. The tenoning deputations bad Interviews yesterdsy with Lord Stanley or Alderley and the Right H on . R o b er t L owe at the Board of Trade :—Frout Suaderland : Mr. Shafts, M.P., Mr. Fenvriek, M.P., the Mayor of Sunderland, Mr. J. F. Alcoa (chairman of the Shipowners' Society), Mr. R. Brown (secretary to the Shipowners' Sreety), Hr. Taylor Petty, Mr. Martin Lore., Mr. Robert Ord, Mr. R. J. Brown, Mr D, Joaartohn and Mr. C. AJeock. From &shalt Harbour: Mr. John Ceadliatt. From the &clay of Merelsont Vontoren of Bristol: Mr. Jamie Hassell (suitor), Masan. Tromso P. Jose and William o.iver But (wardens), Mors. R. Grey, Barrow and William Brie. (assistant.), and Mr Charles R. Ward (clerk). From the Corporation of Bristol, on the antjsct of the Lneal Duos en Shipping Bill : Tiro Mayor, Mr. Hsrapath, Mr. Poole, Mr. Hank, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Terrel, the Town Clerk, arpl Mr. Blue, areompanted b 7 t h e Host. F H. F. Barioloy, M.P., and Mr. W. Ll.Gors Langton M.P. From !loath Shields : Mr. R, lasham, M.P. Mr . Hamiltha (mayor), Mr. J. T. Wawa, Mr. Jobs Rlisinons (obawnsau of the Sh.pownars' Society), and Mr. Salmon (tows clerk). From North Shields: Mr. Lindsay, 11. P. Mr. Joseph Hooker, J P., Mr. Alderman Pow, a: d Mr. M.P., Avery. Mr. Samuel Morley, Chairmen of the Administrative lir ilorm Arsoclotion, and Mr. J. P. Chariot, tnnsacted beelines at the Home-oeice. Neetitip of the Orford University Commission were held et No. 17, On at Quesc-itrest. Westminster, on Nosday, Taesday,_ Wednesday, sad Thursday daring the present week. The sonsmiselooen present were the Earl of Ell•r -am, the Earl of Harrow by, Mr. ileitis. Coleridge, the Eon. Edward Twtskitee, the Dean of Wells, Sir Jahn W. Awdry, and the Seersteties. A deputation from the Trinity Home, Dundee, had an istereiew with the Right Hon. Robert Lowe yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation connoted of Captain Ewing (Master of tke Trinity Hogue), Mom. John Jock and Vilnius Clark (thipowners), and Mr. J. Ill'Ewen, 'screwy, with Yr. George Damao, 111. P. A deputation, e-asisting of the Hon. H. °melon, M.P., Mr. With, M.P., Mayor of Beverley, Mr. R. Roden, and Mr. D. Boyne, had an interview with the right boa. gentleman. Mr. Hugh Fleming, mentary to the Numbest, r Com mercial Ammeratioe, bed as interview with Lord &sole, of Alderley, ropeeting the farrow of the import duties on the omit of Africa. Despatches Wen Rent yeeter?s, frail the Colonial-ogles to the Governer of Canada, and to the Governors of the West Coast of Africa. (Prom last afett's Grath.) Lou) CauninuAnea-orncs, Bz. 6.—Notios is two), gives, that her llajtity will bold levees at Itt. James's Palma" the fonowtag dawn 2 Wale& : Wealth, day, the 27th the. ; Widanday. the 12th of March mt. Loco CHAMBERLAIN'S-OPTICE, FEB. 22.—Notice is hereby gime, that the dal. aperimants, Windsor Castle, will be re-opened oa and after Monday sent, the 24th Met Warrinaz, Fan, 22.—The Queen has been pleased to dine, letters patent to be paned ander les Great Beal. granting the dignity of a Baron of the United King dom of Groat Britnin and Ireland unto Sir Gilbert lobs Heatiscote, lissome, and to the heirs oak of his body law folly begotten, bribe PEW, style, and title of Baron Ave land of Aveland, in the county of Lincoln. FOREICIN-0171011, Fan. I.—The Queen has been graeioany plumed to soloist Rickard Rittman Zeseil Lyons, Req., now lest paid attach{ to her Majesty's Logs don at Florence, to be Bearetary to her Majesty's Legation at that mart. FORILION-OFFICI, Fn. 20.—The Quota has been plowed to sp,.rrww of Kr. gnat &Mot in Comm( at Cap Town for the Frew listweatie C.ty of Bremen. CROWN onus, FEB. 20.—Monber returned to se me lo thaprewort parllanintt for Lwerniweter—Gatborie Bud,. or No. 36, Zetoe-Aparo, fa tho tout, of Middl•- ou, E.q., ie tte nos of Choi* /killifish', Esq., de mind. Viscount and Vouoanteas Gunbernsore have arrived at Comborastrs Abbey, when thy propose rsosaistag WI Easter. Viecoust Falmouth ham arrived at the Clarendon from Mommorth woor MaHomo,. Lord Claris., Sir Thomu and Lady Arsbella Bakstll. sad Laiy Mean Strain, an using t►e meat arrivals at Claridge . " Hotel. T►e Lade Mark Mesta has taken her departs» trim thew» establiehnest. The Director• General ot the Geological Survey, Ns R. I. Marabou, bas based card' for his ',ring rev, tone la Restage-sown. The Out reeett'oe will tab place o a Wedtenis, next 81r Roderick haa recently been *lents, a foreign amber of the Royal Academy of "hook bolls and a tondos of the Ranterian Menem of the Royal College of barge ow. The Marchioness of Londonderry (says the Sun derland now) intends giving a dinner of resat beef sad plan psddi• - g to her mining spats and workman, abase 1,600 in number, on Saturday, llarolt 1. This mainly us preardamsd entertainment arUl be given is me of the large bulldisp of Mr. Osage Hopper's new iron works, nom Penes Rosso. Tie noble Ilarakiansm herself will pro bably be priest, sod wW, it is expiated, read an address to the salt assesiblage. MUSIC. CONCERTS AT BIRMINGHAM. Oa Wednesday and Thursday evenings two soseerts were given is the Town-hall, at Simileshut, in which Module Ooldsebtaidt sppeated. The performeaces took pl.ct aide, mice ampler of the Festival Committee, and nothing *mid have gene off better or mere satisfactorily than did both performances. Fr Widowslay avesiag Hayda's Oratorio—the Creation—was selested; the bead assented of between 60 sad 70 perfamers, of whams about one Is'.l were hoes Leaden:; sad the aural body was eon rued of some unbundled velem. Mr. &lupus presided at the west aid anwitaelail. Madame Goldtdmidt was moved with a bout of applause. Bbe was la very Ise noise ea this evening, mad most eharsaiagly eke nag, espedally the duets Is the tided pert. Lewd Ward, the pre eldest, gave the Gigged to encore the recitative sad ah, "Oa mighty whip." whisk however, Mr. Bonsai* did set observe. The aadirses encored tts dust, " Greeefel Cos. wet," sad a burst cf *prime Welted. Mr. Swift sad Mr. Wiles sastabed their pert. admirably, and were both highly eliollineded. The bail was wall filed. Oa Thstsday *yetis, the assent wee a esiseellantons nail, the selsetiese Wag ;Melly hew Sao compositions of Illawdelwoha, Meyer bear, Radial, Weber. tad Montt. Then was gala a sept tel atarsiissan. Madams Geiaasksaidt wag, with weed iai grass awl sweetness, the belled, " Jets Amiens my Js," sad, apes a re. &need, she pee her wielwated "lea." nag. The receipts es the two 'miss sasested to 2,4/0/. EXHIBITIONS. BURFORD'S PANORAMA. A now View of the interior of lisibsetopol and its defame was ealtibitod privately as Wedaesday, aid opened to the patio es Thursday. The artiste, ILL& Burford sad Kr. H. C. 1441/01/, hen rarely, if 'Tar, Wm men susein fel than on the priest monies ; rho work sew oa view beds, a chef Wonsan of it. Wad, painted wit► a lath aid imitation of delsil bat seldom Wham& ha panoramic pletati The Wilts have bees materilly sided by the &Meshes of Captais Yeenholle (of the fiteriadier Guards) sad photographs taloa es the spot, nil the wait is a perfect realisation of the &masa stroaghold es it append on the Bth of flopteabor. The spectate* I. supposed to be steadfast* a paths of the Malakkolf works, from wine he overlooks the when interior date city, the valleys bulldisge Jawlike (essay Ii Wet) an depilated with remarkable dietitians, rug the most eeseplesne objects being the Greek Mari, a copy from the Temples( Themes. Northwards is the Mr beer, ea the En sea me I. width are to to secs the few remaining Resin vessels, entrain agreeably with the masses of beadle, la the kregiond ; Mae farther mid, I. obtain. d ea the sther hand by the breed amass, of net enatey, w.th the Waal% parallels, ad other Witten sorbr. Further es is to be sees the Hades, sad the &drams Mlle Brain Is that memorable attack in which they mistaised so fearful a leas. The priasipal point of Wires, bower's-, la the whole paean is destine the snail of the kialskhoff by the Pesti, W. time skews Miss jest at the moistest of plantiag the standard os the highest piat. The Zonis ad Chaaecuroi•pied us shows is deadly coedits vial the retreating Rusin., sad the maguleary streak and resistless impetuosity of the Fr oath are depicted with Weld animation. The paters la well worthy of aa Ton's morel study by all who would wisi to bet old a perfect reprelantation of seines aid events whin have fo- to 'mg a time ben sitieste of the deepest fieriest ; and, to judge by the fro tided &Madame yester day, this is every noon to believe tt at hr. Barford's ant view will be oas of the moil asseeasfal of his efforts. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. We reed in the Austrian Gazette: " In order to avoid all waste of time in the sp proaching Conferences, the Western Power, have re solved that the negotiation shall take place by means of notes. At the first reunion, such stipulations as the peace is to contain will be presented to the Russian Plenipotentiaries in writing. No discussion upon principles will be admitted; these conditions will be so regulated as to respond, in each case, W a Euro pean interest, and most be simply adopted or refused by the Russian Plenipotentiaries. They will thus lona a species of ultimatum. "In cue of soceptanoe, the propositions formu lated in protocol will have the force and value of preliminaries of peace, and peace will be assured. In case of refusal, the Conferences will be declared at an end, but there is no reason to fear that this will be the result. Rarely has a Congress opened under more pacific auspices." IMPRESS FROM PARIS. (IRON OVA OWN PARIS, FRIDAY RVININO. I must again return to the subject of the publica tion in the Monitesir of the &fete's article, which, owing to the paragraph in the official journal of this morning, is more than ever upon the order of the day. The public knew well that no Paris journal would venture to contradict the Monitsur except upon official authority. And the public was right, for it is oertain that the anstitutionnel had official, although not the very highest official authority for what it stated. But the practical and interesting ques tion is what are we to believe now that the Monitor throws over the Conititationnel, and says, after two days' reflection, that the diecles articlewas notinserted by mistake? Prima facie we might repose in entire confidence that the French government is not only as has been said—en tirely united with the English government, but is united in a determination to exact from Ramie a peace which both nations might honourably swept. This, however, I am bound to tell you is not the opinion here. Official people pledge tkeir souls that the mistake was really committed, that another article was intended to be inserted in the Afessiteur, and that the scissors made a mistake; but then they say that, after much con sideration, the government has determined to drink the wine that is drawn, rather than discredit the official journal, to give satisfactory explanations to diplomatists, and to leave the public; to think what they like. A warning was drawn up to be given to the Constitution:set, but it was ultimately withdrawn. There is a talk of the resignation of M. Waiewski, who, no doubt, furnished that journal with its information, which is now to be deemed and taken tales, bat the latest rumour is that an editor of the Constactionnel will be sacrificed as the nape- goat .° It is said this evening that Baron Brunow has received a telegraphic despatch from St. Petersburg, stating that the Czar has made up his mind to sacri fice Ricolaieff. This caws, I must observe however, circulates in thew very official quarters where Mr. Y., of the liadependance Bilge, drinks in his inspi ration, and when it is exultingly proclaimed that the liromusur, in pretending to adopt the article of the Sink, is only joking with the public. The Turkish Ambanador lett Paris yesterday (it is supposed for Lyons), to meet Asti Poch'. One of the rumours of the day is that when the Sitela's article appeared in the Monileur, Bacon Brunow was about to telegraph to Count Orloff not to come to Paris, bet that he was diverted from his purpose by an facial SIIIIMILICO that the publication meant nothing. At the Bourse the general opinion was that the apparent adoption by the Monitaur of the article of the &eels did not prejudice the certainty of peace. l After some hesitation and fluctuation, business was decidedly brisk. The Rente rose 35c. for cub, and 100. for account, closing at 73fr. and 73fr. 3.5 c. Cre dit Mobilier rose Mr. Railway, were has in demand I lthan they have been for the last two or three days. Some lines fell Mr., but others rase w much. The body of the murdered Dochese Caurnont la faree was sent into the country to-day for interment, after the performance of a funeral service. The Gaut& du 71-awaits says, "it appears from Dr. Ts:siren's report of his post mortem examination that her death was ultimately caused by strangulation so that the assassin, after giving ber repeated blows, mast have deliberately finished hie work. • [We observe that the Comities/Sonnet of yesterday Is signed by a sew seams, Soured, tree of the presto, la stest of that of Amides de Gooses, redeem. ea Oleg SWEDEN. (mon ova owir The semi official STOCKHOLM. Pie. 12. lawhe Zearg, of Vienne, lately stated in an article that 13wedei con sidered the demand made for a guarantee against the re-building of Bomarsand or the erection of any new fortifications on the Aland Islands, as of little con beguiles and needlessly humiliating foe Rsaeie, and thee this bad produced& change in the views of Neig hed se the reject; and the official journal here, N. 4 ark lowan Tidnimpar, today publishes a formal denial of the statement, and invites all newspapers in sad oat of Sweden to give this refutation the greatest possible publicity. Great sensation bee been produced by an article in the Finland Atinsanne Maws', evidently written by authority to endeavour to calm the public feeling in Finland on the subject of the November treaty with Francis and England, which is described as " the natural consequence of the premiere experienced in Scandinavia by the encroachments of the Western Powers, and which is also so severely felt at Tule, Napier, and Athens, extending even to Madrid and Lisbon." The article got son to ray that at first the adhesion of Denmark to the treaty was combined certain, "but that this presumption was refuted by the late cireslar despatch of the Danish gorernmest, renewing in the most decided manner their cow donation of a strict neutrality"—the existence of which circular has, however, been officially denied by Denmark. The sum of 108,000 dollars has been granted to General Akrell, the head of the 'kettle telegraph department, to enable him to extend the telegraphic communication with other parts of the kingdom, and lay down double wires on the most important lines. The Independence Beige states that the commun ist rep üblie Okada, established at NIOT. o, is is a state of dissolution. The president. M. Caber, is represented as meditetleg a soap erdtet 'galas* Um minority of his adhe rule, whose. la tre habit of quationing the rap 'dummy of many of his eats, and ars impudent enough to dispute with him as if he were but a cosmos m3rtel 1 Ire them selves. N. Cabot declares is his ofliciat j 1 that "loans I. In design it ro^s games of the audac;ty of some eagovernable an, plunged in vise;" be then pr, puss a new emestitution in ten articles, by which he Is to be la. 'Wed with abeolute authority. M. Leverets, states, in a letter to the Minister of Pahlas lastraetioo, that hi I. firmly peruais4 that a great sambar of small planets are situated betw.sa Min sad Japiter, sad that before 1860 mail 100 will e mini; be dissevered. OUR PARIS CONTEMPORARIES. The Sinle of yesterday oontsine the following re. m►rks written before the announcement in the Monitor, which appeared in last evening's F.rpress We have not been accustomed for o any years past to receive honours, and we do not seek them. We were there. fore much surprised to see in the Ent sheet of the Monstewr of yesterday morning the reproduction of as article in the Siecie. We imagined that the ofilcial organ, in rendering as this unusual honour, had wished to show to the diplo matists and to Europe that beyond the menaced parties whisk had accepted with little dignity the hopes of peace, there existed a serious and patriot c party that tad net illuminated on the announcement of Ruesio's accep tance, that had not received M. de Brunow at the railway station with ovations, and that de. mended, with head erect, that is order that the peace should he honourable and laitieg, it should be based on terms acceptable by all. We had clam no other convene tion to the reproduetio• by the Illonekur. We are net eient!y acquainted with dtplornatie customs not to have fallen into any illusions on the subject. We had sot ima gined that the government had accepted all the opinions procoaneed in that article by the Sleek. It therefore ap peared wonderful to us that a journal from time to time disavowed by government had assumed semi-official airs, and had announced that our article was inserted in the OA. vial pew by mistake. We might inquire—What do you knew on the n►ject ? We will not do to We will confine °armless to the remark that this journal somewhat reeemblee those persons who, though they belong to the house, are net admitted to the drawing-roam. Notwith standing this, they kaow all that p totes and they reptat It is, therefore, in consignee= of an error that we have been reproduced, although the error is most singular. Let it, however, be an error. We therefore say, sot to the official journal, which maintains a silence with respect to the pretended error, but to the semi-official j same) :—The Steele is on a height with its fortunes; it demands no fa vour, not even from the Monsieur. But it has the preten sion to @sprees the opinions of men devoted above all to France, to her glory and standout,; and the npsoduntion of her patriotic manifestations can do no harm to the official organ, even though inserted by error." The Union having congratolitel the Sleek, in an front. esl toe., on the honour conferred on it by the Monitor, ►as rectivel the following rejoinder :—" A word to the Union. That paper is delightful this corning; it has • railing tone which seen approach's impertinent*, although it is that impertinence which no wt l becomes people of quality. It is a dowager of the nob'e feubourg conversing wit► poor plabeisat. She csadescands to (*heads them; she is rather surprised that snob people ehoild talk, that they should be listened to, and that enaction should be paid to their writings. Fatal revolution of 1;89!" Our Paris contemporaries sometimes indulge in wonderful freaks. Thus one day this week we have had a serious an nonsenmeat that the London journals have received en official warning from their government ; and another that the greatest evils are preparing for the United St►tes, through the election as speaker of the negro, Mr. Banks, Our Parts contemporary having taken to the letter the sig •tficuee of the " Ws= republican" party ! REFORMATORY SCHOOLS. FEB. 20.—At the Town Hall, this day, the Mayor (Major French), Col. Lloyd, and E. Wardle, Esq., in petty sessions, were attended t 7 G. W. Latham, Esq., of Bradman Hall, accompanied by Mr. W. Morgan, of Birmingham, the solicitor appointed by Eir George Grey to conduct proceedings under the Youthful Offenders Ade. Mr. Morgan stated that be evpe•red by direction of the Secretary of State to presents • complaint spinet the parents of • boy who was now detained is the Reformatory at Bradwall, which had bees lately opened under the auspices of the excellent magistrate then in court, and which bad received the sanction of government. The boy bed ab sconded from • workhouse in • distant pert of the comity, where be was maintained at the public expense, and bed taken with him some peeper c htbing. He bad been neglected by his parent., who were living in comparatively prosperous circumstances la Chester. It wee no doubt an act of great charity to pro vide an asylum where this boy might be trained for five years to some, end it would be a protection to honest boys to remove Iran contact with them, or.. who might temp them to crime. But jut, on the other band, reformatories ebould prove unattractive, the begin a had wisely deter mined to lay a pecuniary burden upon parents, by whose negFgenes or connivance children might fall into crime. The inmetary of Slate was anxious it should be understood that this law would be enforced. In the present ease he should entent himself by asking that in order be made foe such weekly payment for the coining five years, se the magistrates might determine. He would not at peened call say evidence, as he understood a very creditable c ;tars. would be taken by the parents, which would render it un necessary to ester into the fens. Mr. Bridgman, for the defendants, consented to al order for the pimento( four shillings pm week and come. Mr. Morgan said that, if the aseg , a'retts from their know ledge of the eirottotatanees of the par aes were satisfied, Ite would accept tlw proposed no, and an order was made aoeordingly. It was stated ta court that this wu the first application wader the sew set is the Midland and Northern counties. Sir Hoary Ellis resigned his responsible post u yrineipal Mullen to tat Brit eh Museum oa Srtardey last. The stanza hes served the public f a more thee fifty years. It Is generally supposed (Gaya toe Athounan) that toe go vernment will take advantvge of thin resigeat•on to carry Into saecat ow the reforms eaggotted by the Royal Commis sioners of 1860. Ws (Gardeners' chronicle) learn with mach tad& factn that the late ease of poisining with monkshood has aniseed the attention of Sir Wm. Hooker i and that there has been mostly placed in a conspicuo es situa tion I. the Hew Museum a specimen of the root of the 'monkshood by the lids of one of horseradish, together with a short description of the points in which they differ. This is rosily using a great public institution for grail r oods! advancer. - The following are the meetings of the Literary and Scientific Societies for the missing week :—Monday—lnsti tete of Actuaries, 7, " Oa the Origin end Progress of the Calculus of Probabilities," by Mr. Brown ; Royal Academy. 8, "Oa Sculpture," by Sir R. Weetaitcott ; British Archi tects, 6; Geographied, Si, "Oa the Formatio of Cy sad et the Tracks they Porscre," by Captain Perish ; "Notes ea the Coadition of the Gypsy Popu lation of Moldavia," by Mr. Gardner; "listratte of a Despatch from Goveraor O'Connor, Bathurst, Gambia, May 22, 1866, crateluing a Report of his Visit to the Wand of Balms, en the West Cent of Africa." Tuesday—Horti cultural, 2, "Oa Grefting;" Meteorrlogicel, 7, Council; lustitution of Civil ,Engineers, 8, "Oa Marta Cele gelation," by Mr. Bidder; Z 9, Seientifie ; Royal Isstitutioa, 3, "On Ployai dew and Compiratire Anatomy," by Professor Hazley. Wednesday—Society of Ares, 8, " Om some of the Animal and Vegetable Products eosotitating the Foreign Commerce of Lie rpool," by Mr. Archer; Royal Society of literature, 41 ; British Ara:co llie's:al, " Oa Palsitings, and other Antiquities, from Ewell," by Mr. Pettigrew; Microecopicel, 7, Anniver sary. Thareday—Nnwismat;e, 7 ; Royal Academy, 8, " 05 Paintiss," by Nehru Hort; Society of Antignaries, 8; Royal, Bi. the Bakeries% Lecture, " Iterearcbse on the Eleetee-dyeamie Qualities of Metals," by Professor Thom son ; Royal Isettution, 3, " On Light," by Profe.sor Tyn , doll. Friday. Royal lastitatiou, B}, "On the Origin and Treasformetioes of Motive P.wer," by Proferser Thornton. Saturdey, Asiatie, 2; Royal Institution, 3, "On Organic Chemistry," by Pretence. Oiling. In the lut sitting of the Society of Acclimatation at Paris, the Minister of War communicated !coons which he bat received, setting forth that some Angora goat', pre sented by the society sad sent t) Algeria, bad perfectly prospered and had produced yowl,; also that their fleeces ere exceedingly fine, end are destined to be rent to Frances in the spring to be employed in the manufacture o• peen. liar species of velvet. la the same sitting, the Marquis de Solve peeeensted specimens of silk obteined in Frame, from a specie, of weal whreh the witty by procured from Asia Miser; end M. Convenor) made known that to has perfectly secceeded in breedin at Lairesnne the silk worms (bomb,: bylitt ) which the society had obtained from India. The 1 meeting of the Paris Academy of ilisienees has again paned of without mljodic sting the rest prise in the department 'of mathrtnatou. This hes only been awarded three times sine , 1836. The Viennese papers tell us that tho Archbishop of Vienna has refuted to allow a monument tot e meted to Mcsart in one of hie cht.rolum, on the ground that the worship of palm is • sort of idolatry ! N t