The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-11 00:00:00

tMPEItIAL PARLIAMENT. 1 l ior:,E i F I'ommoNs.—wEDNE.,rAT,.ll.,-.1.1. LIN LAI6IIII t . ..BLif At 12 tit:luck. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PUBLIC REALM ACT. Sir. EVELYN wave mottos that 'beat aeries I e she is I move it leave to brir Is a Lid tenpin! the LAW OF FARTNERSIIIP. Mr. WARNER begged to ash the Prisident of the Beard ni Trade wheth.f it l• to ietrntinin of the g rodent to bring in a bill early nest us-ion to amend the present Mw of partnership. with a view to facilitate the formation of part nerships with limited Inability, without the necessity of a charter or act of incorporation, and if this is not their in vi nuns, then he wished to know whether the rat =meat intend to lay down any or whit principle for their future guid ince in giving or refuting charters with limited Itch lity ? Mr. CARDWELL said that two committees bad sat ea the tuffienot of hunted liability, and the last committee brad recom mended a grown e msui.si in of inquiry, which had been ap poinned and was now sitnnz, and their report win expected to be delivered early next ...ion. It would be improper, therefore, to make any tieclarauen with regard to In gislative measure., in 'shell:Wien ut that report. With regard to the course to be persued ny the Board of :rade in the ente real all he COY:4 say was that if the %hours of the COMIninCP ?le the question on a matisfattnry footing, no one would rejoice more than he would, and toe Board of Trade, in tie meantime, would deal with every case in the manner that they ternight the best. THE FRONTIER TERRITORY AT TUE CAPE. col. DUNN E asked whether it was the intention of the government to rare a Swiss (we fur the protection, of the trontier of the Cyr; and also whether the Orange territory wee eimpletely evacuated so that the Boers of the Butch :t -rundle eortil occupy it. Mr. l' FTEL said when General Cathcart went oat it had been proposed to raise two SWISS Regiments to light against the Kafiri, and who were to colonise the mountain Monti. rs as military settiers. The late government wit the subject into considerati nr, but came to no decision. and sines the present government had been in office no further application had been male on the subject, and no steps hind 'men taken in the matter. There were, in fact, no funds applicable to the sending of emigran•s to the Cape. With regard to the ether gention, he could say that Sir George Clark would carry out the intentions of the government, which he (Mr. Pei I) hid explained the other day when this subject was dimusse, and the government must wait our information from Sir S. Clark before they decided on the destination of the Orange Territory after the evacuation of that territory. Mr. ADDERLEY gam notice that next session he rhou:.l move fur a tettct committee to inquire into the sit! jest cf the abandonment of the Orange Territory and its occupa tam by the Dutch RepOltc. TUE CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL. This la was reed a second time. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. This bill as amended was considered. CUSTOMS BILL. - • • • lln the motion thaiiitl;llllbeicad a third time. Mr. WILSON said. b►fore the flea► passing of the hill, be must take the opportunity of expressing his acknowledfra mut to the Commissioners of Customs for the assi-tanee they had given in the preparation and conduct of the bill In all its details. The act was the completion of the con tinuous labour of 20 years, begun by Mr. Deacon Hume, mad now finished, and it was the completion of t)e great commercial reforms of Sir R. Peel begun in 1542, end whets would not have been fully operative without each measure as this had Ike• Carried. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON al-o bore testimony to the as sistance giv.•e by the Commissioners of Customs in carry ing nut this important chouge. The bill was then passed. CU SIOMS ACTS CONSOLIDATION BILL. This bill wee wad a third time and passed. LOAN SOCIETIES BILL. This bill was reed a second time. STOCK IN TRADE EXEMPTION BILL. • '►'his bill was read • third time mod pseud. REGISTRAR OF MEETINGS BILL. This bill was read a third dam and pained. MIMIC WORKS AIIKNDMENT (IRELAND) BILL Ilia Lill was read • third time aid paand. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION BILL. 'lbis bill was road it third time Lad passed. X ILITIA BALIATILSILI . PRIN9N_ AND MILITIA LAW - AMINIMIN r BILL. Thu Lill was read 'third [IMO sad passed. MILITIA PAY BILL. Tbia bill was read a third time sad passed. COMMONS ENCLOSURE BILL. Ibis Ina was read a third time aad passed. CROWN SL'ITS BILL. This till stand for a third reading. 1 ite SPEAKER stated that a eliu•e had 'Lien tmittes: a committee, which rendered it null and void. Th. bit' wee thertfirt recommitted, and passed through ossuairt“. RIR I ROPOLITAN DEW EIIS CONTINUANCE LILL. This bill, as mu/ended, was considered. COPYIIOLD COMMISSION CONTINUANCE BILL. This hill, •• amended, was considered. LUNATICS' CARE AND TREATMENT BILL. This bill, is amended, was considered. COPIES OF SPECIFICATIONS REPEAL BILL. This bill pared through committee. CHANCERY SUITORS' RELIEF BILL. _ . Tkla bill pemed through committee. TM SOLICITOR-01sNEItAL brought up the following dame, which woo added to the bill t•—•• And whereat, by an ast passed in the lith and 16th years of the reign of her CII:t Majesty, e. 87, s. 46, provision was made for grants sperannuaties allowances to any person holding any aim en appointment in the Court of Chancery who should be afflicted with some permanent infirmity diublang him from the due execution of his office, or should have con tinued in any office or offices for twenty years, and she slid be desirous of resuming the same; sod whereas, by the net of the sth year of the reign of her present Majesty, e. 5, certain of the sworn clerks and side clerks of the Court of Exchequer were appointed registrars and clerks to regis trars of the Court of Chancery, nod it is expedient that the time during which they hid held the offices of sworn clerks aid s'ile clerks of the said Court of Exchequer should, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, be added to the time during which they have been registrars and clerksof registrars of the Court of Chancery ; be it therefore enacted, that the Com miumaers of her Majesty's Treasury, in ascertaining and awarding the amount of any superannuation allowance under the authority of the said act of 15 and 16 Vie., c. bi, to any registrars and clerks to registrars of the Court of Chancery, who shall have bees swots clerks and side clerks in the Court of Elebequer, shall take into consideration the whole period doting which they shall hays been such sworn clerks end side clerks, and the same shall be added to the time during which they shall have held the offices of regis trars and clerks to the registrars of the Court of Chancery." The right hon. and learned gentleman brought up another clause, the effect of which was, that the fend which hail been transferred from the equity side of the Court of Ext Neer to the suitor.' lee fend in Chancery, and out of which the salaries of certain officers were paid, should be exempted from income tax. Mr. WALPOLE said if he understood the clause a por tion of a suitors' fee fund, which was transferred to another lead, was exempted from income Cox, which was to pay salaries of ofßeers who were to pay income tax. If he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer be would not give up the revenue derived from the income tax so payable. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the suitors' fucd was payable to no one, and he thought it might be ex• opted from income tax. However, he would withdraw the dame. FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a mond time. IYPROVEIIENT OF TOWNS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time, and on the urdior. of Mr. MACAILTNIT, eledeled M M nemntitted this day three months. RECOVERY OF PERSONAL LIBERTY BILL. Oa the notice of Mr. Newnan/ma, the order of the day for the adjourned debate, oa referring this b:II to a select clatesittet, imstlisellarged. SMOKE NUISANCE ABATEMENT (METROTOLIS) BILL. This we, read a third time. Lord PALMERSTON brought up a clause prsniiicg that no information should be laid without the authority of the 1 Seminary of State or the Commiuionen of Police. Mr. BOUVERIE objected to the clause as . ..suiting the ' operation of the hiU. hlr. SPOONER supported the bill. Tho house dividtd. Forth. clause Against it -54 Mr. SPOONER then moved to !ring up a clause giving n power of appeal. Lord PALMERSTON did not think an aypeal te- OHSari. The motion was negatived without a division. The bill wag then passed. BETTING HOUSES BILL. This bill wag read a third time. On the luestion that the bill do pass. Mr. PLLLATT moved to odd the following clause : " That every person w►o shall by any bill, placard, or writing, or by advertisement, notice, or intimation of any kind in any newspaper, offer to give information as to the result of any race, tight, or game, thereafter to be run or e , •• termined, and any editor or proprietor of any newspaper, insetting or knowingly suffering to be inserted therein, any such advertisement, notice, or intimation as :tot tiald, or any winter or publisher knowingly printing vr any sorb bill, placard, adverthement, notice, or intimation, shall upon summary conviction thereof before two juttices of the peace, forfeit and pay a sum not excer , liag twenty pound., or at the discretion of such justices, or in default of paymint of such flee, be imprisoned in the ere-ten or house of correction, with or without hard it`. .:: 'et aLy period not eaceeding on.• eels adar month." The EOLICITOIt , OENERAL supported the elan.e, *LI mid he thouett the bill would not 02 effectivo without it. Mr. BOVVERIE was sorry the Salicitir-Getyral sup ported the clause, for by it say editor of a &easy:ice limiting one of these advertreenteets would be lie' !c to a pe nally el 201, er be subject to imprisonment with har•l :ahcur. Were t►ey to call upon the editors of newsparirs to read every advertisement bef o re they inserted it, list by any Shitile they should incur these penalties THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. AUGUST 11, 1853. Ceti bout/ Why shouldwe copy the continental sys tem of mart ial.hiss and show, and sputter without real use? When that reality in petticoats,Queen ELIZABETH, went to master the English forces at Tilbury, there were reasons of the soundest fur the step. It was a great cccaaion. There was national peril. An in vasion menaced our shores, and happily for England there was • monarch and a ministry equal to the needs of the hour. The great English QUEEN rode along the Essex shores like another BOADICEA, over shadowed by a happier fate. She was there to rally the patriotism and the loyalty of the realm—to do what Ecglishmen have ever been ready to do—to spill their blood fcr a good cause. There was a noble response. There was real business on hand—great work to be done— an enemy to be fought and beaten. The pulse of the whole land beat higher, and as the fleet went forth to meet the Spanish PHILIP'S Popish Armada, the beliefs, the blessings, and the prayers of England went with it. The Tilbury gather ing was a real review,—there was purpose, object, intention, meaning, in it. There was a task on hand, the most holy that a nation can undcr:ake —t he overthrow of an invader: and hence to this hour, and whilstEnglaud has a history with Englishmen to read it, the muster at Tilbury will be reckoned among the stepping stones of that greatness which this country has attained. But the review at Spit heal ? What does it mean? Are we to have a huge fleet out to burn powder for mere idleness? Is the firing of forty-eight-pounders to be sanc tioned for giving a new excitement to the "wed up" M.P. and the blast• man about town? Are the noble fellows who man our unequalled fleet to ise disturbed in the routine of their du'ies to make diversion for the idlers who have exhausttd all the novelties of the season, from the Budget of Mr. GLADSTONE to the Adee Lilliputians ? If this Naval Review at Spithead is not a mere freak—is not a mere whim of the Court,—what dues it mean ? Abroad it is the fashion to have reviews of all sorts. Soldiers are at once the tools and the playthings of Royalty on the Continent. The mili tary there keep down the people and keep up the pride of the Sovereign. But in England hitherto the system has been widely dif ferent. Our troops may sometimes, as in Burmah, be wasted on absurd conquests or ; as at the Cape, be destroyed in Maytag savages who have been unjustly deprived of their lands. But wherever English soldiers or sailors have hitherto been active it has been in real work. We have not seen our forces busy with shams. When our men have been called upon to suffer fatigue it has been—for something real; when to fight—it has been in earnest. Is this likely to be changed? Are the Two Services to be used, like the Woolwich Horse Artillery, as playthings to please visitors? Is the morale of either service to be petaled by mimic employments? We hope not. The officers and men of the English Navy are un equalled, in their way, in the world. We never, perhaps, had so fine a fleet, for its number, as that this day floating at Spithead. The force of steam ships is something marvellous in its way, and is sure, should a war come, to let us know what that power, hitherto untested on a large scale, can do• To-day's show will be a grand one; for the waters off Portsmouth, or of the world, never saw so vast an assemblage of material power fitted for the destruc tion of an enemy. But the very reality of this power and force, whilst giving dignity to the fleet, suggests, also, the very best reason why the ',hips should not be used as playthings. Whilst our foreign interests are entrusted to despotic Austria, and our foreign relations are kept secret by an ABER DEEN Ministry, we arc offered the divertissement of a naval review at Spithead. But great fleets of great nations are meant for other work than the amusement of sea-sick spectators. To-day's proceed ings are sure to do credit to that gallant service which bas done its duty in every sea on the earth's surface. Bat the experiment is not one to be re peated. Do not let us degrade the Navy by using it as a plaything. HEttems should not be asked to do service as a ballet-girl. 'Fa& such, that Sir JOHN only survived until the next morning. The plaintiffs life, according to his own statement, I which was certainly not very coherent, has been " remarkable for its vieissitules. This abatement was to the effect that he remembered being at nurse at the ago of three years old, with a woman named Rem; that he was re moved from this place by GRACE, Sir Iketu's butler; the person who is accused of concealing from Sir Ikon the fact of his sun's being alive. After receiving instruction from various quarters, he was entered at Winchester College as a Commoner under Dr. GODDARD. His bills not being paid he left Winchester in 1810, and was advised by Dr. GOD DARD to proceed to London, and call on the Mar chioness of BATII, who, with Lady IsABELIA THYNNE, had been accustomed to visit him when at school. The Marchioness refused to give him any information respecting his mother, but put him in possession of a sum of money to the amount of 1,4001. or 1,5001. in notes, which had been left him by the mother, Shortly after tLis he travelled, assumed the profes sion of a lecturer on education, and afterwards came to England, where he became acquainted with the nature of his claim, and made the communication to the tenant of the estate, which was attended with the fatal consequences above alluded to. It is not necessary to follow the plaintiff through a detail of circumstances the falsehood of which became gra dually apparent under the searching examination of Sir F. THESIGER. It will be sufficient to proceed at once to the startling termination of one of the most singular cases that has ever been brought into a court of justice. The first decisive blow given to his story was when it was shown that a letter in his handwrit ing, sealed with the SMYTH seal, was dated the 13th of March, ho having before sworn that he did not ob tain an impression of the seal before the 17th, and had then to get it engraved. What defence he would have made at this point in the evidence it is impossible to say : he turned pale, and requested permission to retire. At this moment, when the skill of the counsel had brought the witness to a stand-still, a mightier power was at hand to crush him with its evidence. While he was uttering his perjuries, in the full persuasion that he should be enabled by their means to commit a gigantic robbery, the lightning was flashing along the wires, and conveying the most incontrovertible proof that his whole story was a fabrication. An electric telegraphic message from London brought the news that the police had discovered that the witness had, in January last, applied to an engraver in Oxford, to place the Bandon crest on a ring which ho had produced as a family relic. The evidence was com plete. The criminal was detected. The counsel for the defence was deeply moved. The Court was hushed in silence. All were impressed with the solemnity of the scene. Sir F. THESIGER showed that the witness had been previously found pill on a charge of forgery, and sentenced to transporta tion. The counsel for the prosecution threw up his brit f, and the detected criminal was committed to gaol to take his trial for forgery and perjury. Who will say, after this, that the events of modern life are not as full of romance as the most laboured fictions. The SOLUAIOII-(SLNEIt AL i•aid hr Li:as rstlutl patio tae rl SLISC • :14 OUSitlrd. Me. PELLATT said he woo'd withdraw that past of it Mr. cow rEit asked if the lion. member ssau'il exp! sio why thee .haul.) ..t h t.e the Testi:l of & race t.raitial. 1 lit SOLICI I 011. G EN EItAL explainedti.a7theclause apulisd to r-ces to take {'ace thereaftsr. Ms. WALPOLE said the elause would apply to editors of nomspef) Wil I announced beforehand that they would R'-re a fell account of a race. Lord PALM EItS7ION w3uld suggest to h:s hon. fri•nd Mr. Pellet.) that this subject required much considsration. The clause might set in directions they did not intend. If., thought it better that the clause should be withdrawn. If, after the passing of the bill they found the evil still to exist, they could brinie in another bill. Mr. PI LLAIT said as the sense of the Louse appeared to he against the cause, be would withdraw it. The clause was then by leave withdrawc, and the hill then weed. -• . . EN IDENCE A)IENDNIENT BILL. This bill p.issol throu g h committee. _ ECCLESIASTICAL LEASING ACt BILL. This bill a!to passed through committee. AII.I6I:RNSIF.NT THE HOUSE. Lord Fiimiusros ®need that the h ,u‘e at its r:s.ug do adjourn WI ten o'clock to-morrow (this) night. Ile soid it was nsces... y that some hills ehcul4 be passed a •hee, and he hoped that hon. members who were not over-tatmueti by their exertions to-morrow would meet for the purpose. 1 oe motion wai ureecl to. BURGHS IN SCOTLAND Mr. BOUVEIt I E moved for leave to brief; in a 1.1.1 to am:nd the law relating to the boundaries ef burghs in Se dland. The hon. members cid he wished the bii!s to be brought in now. iu order that an opportunity might be given for members to consider it during the recoss. Leave given. On the motion of Sir O. 11. PECIIELL. a return was ordered of the m-mner in which the sum ed wee di.- posed of as voted in the Civil Service Estimates. 15.:3, fee payment of rewards for services connected with the libera tion of slaves on al.ure in the territories of the King of Biumbl, stating the authority on which such grmit or award was made, with the amount allowed for each slave, and the amount apportioned to the flag officer, and each case re spectively, for distribution. TRANSPORTATION BILL. - - Mr. WALPOLE referred to two amendment•, which he thought essential for the good working of the Teat-porta tMn Bill, the third reading of which would he moved to morro w night. lle thought they should retain the power at any rate of sentencing convicts fur 10 pars, and trans porting them if government thought ht. It was supposed that Western Australis would take 700 or Bdo convicts a year. The returns showed that the average number trans p tried for periods exceeding 10 years, did not amrunt to that number. If they 3i towed only those convicts to lie sent to Western Australi t, who were now anxious to go there, or those who were under sentences of 14 years and up ..geds, the colonists might suppose that they would get on:y the worst cies., and be no h•nger willing to receive them. Be was anxious that government should consider the propriety of ab3lisbing transportation onto f.r seven years' sentences, and not for sentences b.yonirthat period, leaving the rest M the discretion of the crown. Another amendment which he thought of still greater importance wet, that when convicts in this country obtained u condi tional pardon, they !dilutd not abuse the mercy of the erawn by again committing offences of a nmilar nature, without heir g liable to a much mare severe puniitiment. These two paints he wis!.ed onee mote to press upon the attenticn of her Majesty's minister , - He would not take the sense of the house upon them, oecause it was a matter, the rispmsi hilitv of which rale entirely with the government, but he should not hate 114". his duty if he had not pointed out this matter to lids government before sanctioning this otherwise excellent and beneficial measure. Lotd PALMERSTON said the suggestions shcul3 re• ccive every enn.Lleration at the bands of government. Mr. BARROW gave notice of his intention to move an cmendment in the same hill to enable sentences of trans partation to be Franuunced for a less term than four years. TURNPIKE TRUSTS CONTINUANCE BILL. The Lord's ameedmests on this bill wore brought up. Oo the mot inn thot they be agreed to, Mr. FREW EN said the clause probibitiog the use of dog carts on turnpike ma; s was struck out, and he moved that it be reinsert:it. Mr. MACKINNON supported tho motion. Ha said the clause was lost in the Lords by a majority of two. Sir J. V. SHELLEY created some amusement by read• lag a printed circular from Mr. Frewen, stating that the L ,rds' amendments would be brought on on Monday night alter all the business was over, sad without n• tire, and re guesting him to be present to vote for the reinsertion of the ' clause, but cot to mention it to any one, and not to appear to make a party befure the matter esme on. Lord PALMEItSTON said ho should support the re insertion of the clause. These dcg-earts were pre kt nui• sanees in small uistricts, and were a cluck tar piltcring, (tom which Minces followed. Mr. FR EWEN thanked the noble lord for his clurtav • and with regard to the circular, he raid it was usual for cir culars to be seat to members. As the clause was struck out on the motion of a w ember of the government, he thought it was at the instigation of government. The soli= wee then pat and agreed to, and several 'Bombers were appointed to confer with their lurdship.s. BITTING OF THE HOUSE ON FRIDAY. Lord PALMERSTON said there was not much business remaining, and he therefore proposed that the house should meet at the usual time (4 o'cluck) on Friday. Tney would then he sitting at the same time as the House of Lords, which would be convenient, in we their lordship sent down any bills. The house then adjourned at half-put 2. Vat eranrogi• TO CORRESPONDENTS. • Amend Edit.= -1" The Weer." eontalaync the lame eetnipers Gaattta," iA yublithed emery Tuesday aan • ridgy eight, in tir.e tot •I.Te Inte7.4ed 'or "The Es rrese,•• Lc rim :wry?, curt he et the tote.. IJ, Bouveri•ogreet • by Two 141. a. cn the big a yntiatat.on. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Two DAT—Morning. W. 9si 6b. 2g.. Teamacw—Morintr. S. Six. .—......Aftertoun. 7a. Wm. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. We seem to have taken of late to Playing at Sol diers, and to-day we are Playing at Sailors also. The Camp at Chobham is followed by the Review at Spithead. Being practical people we manifested some public satisfaction on being told that to work Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery together in Surrey would lead to the cure of divers evils of our military system. But tho i tprovements we were told would follow our temporary adoption of themilitary systems of the Co ntinent are still in perspective. The reforms constantly asked for, for months and. years past, have not yet been made ; and all that Chobham seems at present to have really achieved is a place in the list of Ex - I cursions from London—somo extra traffic for the South Western Railway—a constant corner in the pages of Punch. The Chobham Playing at Soldiers is (we repeat) to be followed by a Portsmouth Playing at Sailors. The red coats hav ing tired out the idlers on town,—having spent un counted quantities of blank cartridge, and displayed unheard-of prodigies of valour round about Virginia Water, we are to have the naval service put upon their I mettle. Infantry, cavalry, engineers, artillery, are all at once at a discount. Tho town cuts Chob ham in a body, and rushes helter-skelter, by special train and special steamboats, to be sea-sick at Spithead. The waste of harmless gun powder is to be transferred from the land to the water, and the idlers of court and city, tired by the real toils of sham-fights on shore, are now to be gratified by mock battles at sea. The Lords and Commons are all bidden to the show ; and less could scarcely have been done, for both Lords and Commons have been most courtier-like, most discreetly mute (with one or two manly exceptions) about the Eastern question. And then the Commons, who have to vote the money for these speclacks outside the Opera, must be propitiated. So two of her MAJL-11CS steamers are ordered to take on board all Honourable Members who may choose to present themselves at Portsmouth Ifor that purpose soon after daybreak this morning. i The vessels are ordered punctually at six—with sea -1 sickness to follow. Great will be the hilarity of Ports mouth and the joy of Portsea. If they cannot have re al war, then three cheers fora sham one. Flags willbe ' flying, and great will be the businessof the brewers and publicans of Hants. A few thousand, at the most, may see t h ose grand sea Itviatlians, our Wooden Walls, go through some distant and half smoke-hidden mermen vres—floating giants at play—and then the remaining millions of tax-payers will pay the piper; a nd the whole affair, like the echoes of our sea thunder off the Nab, will die away—in smoke. WE are often told that ours is an age in which we must never calculate upon events diverging from the usual tram-roads—that there is nothing for ns but to look upon social life as a very mechanical, prosaic affair, and make the beet of it. If wo want romance, we are told to look for it at the circulating' library. Society is " cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd " within such narrow limits, is pinioned down by such a multitude of petty trammels, that we must never expect any development within it that may not be explained by the commonest laws. There are very few dili gent observers of the course of public events who will not be able to show the utter fallacy of this statement of the composition of modern society. Such persons know well enough that in any crowd they enter they may be jostled by some individual worthy to figure as the hero of a three-volume novel or a five-act drama. They will not turn pale f you tell them that they have just shaken hands with a murderer. They acknowledge as the vulgarest of truisms that "there is a skeleton in every house." They are fully con vinced that as they walk through society they are for ever on the verge of awful mysteries that the merest accident may bring to light. They are certain of only one thing, that nothing in the constituted state of social life around them is certain. Such person■ as these will look upon the trial at Gloucester (reported in our columns this day), in which a soi-dibant Sir RICHARD SMYTH strove to eject an undoubtedly bona fide SMITH (a minor) from the possession of estates valued at from 20,0001. to 25,0001. a year as a phenomenon that may be ex pected occasionally to manifest itself in the working of society. The " used up" portion of the world would never expect to meet with details of this nature ' out of a three-volume novel. Certainly, they are such as would do credit to the imagination of a crack novelist. SMITH versus SMITH is clearly an illus tration of the romance of real life. The present possessor of the ancestral acres of the SMITHS derives his title from his grandmother, the sister of a certain Sir 111:GII SMYTH, who died in 1824. Sir HUGH was known to be twice married, and to have had no issue in either case. On the death of Sir limit, is 1824, his brother, Sir JOIIN, succeeded to his estates, who, dying in 1849, was succeeded by his sister FLORENCE. The plaintiff claimed possession as a legitimate son of old Sir by a previous mar riage. Ilis mother, he said, died in childbed, and the birth was kept a secret, because the father wished to marry a daughter of the Bishop of BRISTOL. The plaintiff was (he alleged) sent abroad, and his father made afterwards to believe him dead. The documents brought forward in support of the plaintiff's case were the register of the marriage from an old family Bible —the register of the baptism from the same Bible — a letter from Sir Hum to the wife just upon the eve of delivery—and deeds made in favour of the present claimant when Sir HUGH was made ac quainted with the fact of his existence. It is to be remarked that the signatures to these documents were attested with various degrees of assurance by persons apparently entitled to different grades of credit. One fact was asserted which, although it proves nothing, was calculated to make a remarkable imprtssion. The plaintiff declared that when in 1849 he communicated to Sir JOON SMYTH the fact of his being in posses sion of proof that he was the legal heir, the effect BELGIUM. The first publication of the banns of marriage of the Duke de Brabant with the Archduchess Maria Henrietta took place at Brussels on Sunduy last. The Burgomaster read it, conformably to the law, at the principal door of the Hotel de Ville, and it was after wards posted up, as well as several others m Lich had been read at the same time. SWITZERLAND. The Swiss Council of State has ratified the con cessions of the following railways : the line from Zurich to Dietikon ; that from Dietikon to Aarau, and from Baden to Coblentz (in Switzerland); that from Glatthal to Zurich ; that from Chur to the Lukinanier pass ; and finally, the wes!ern lice by Geneva, Merges, and Yverdon. These lines had previously received the approbation of the Council of the Nation. The Swiss Federal Chambers separated on the sth, and arc to re-assemble on the 9th of January, 18.'4. Before the session broke up, the executive council held a special bitting, in which it was re solved that the concessions already made to Austria for the sake of a friendly arrangement were the ut most that should be offered. THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. (ax 111:101AUINE TELLOMPH.) TItIESTE, WIDNESDAT, Avo. 10. The steamer Calcutta, arrived here this morning, at ten o'clock, in 111 hours, from Alexandria. The Calcutta mail of 2nd July has arrived, with the China mail of the 23rd of June, and intelligence from Burmah to' 2nd of June, Sydney 31st of May, Bombay 2nd of July. The King of Ave has become more submissive ; he has issued orders that the British troops aro not to be molested, and that Mesday and Tounguhon are to remain in our possession. lie has, moreover, released all the prisoners, but will not yet sign a treaty. Trade in India was dull. Exchange on Loudon, 2, 1 to 2, 1. The Imperialist army in China was preparing to re-take Amoy, but without much chance of success. The patriot Christian army was within four days march front Nankin. Canton has not yet been attacked. Business was very dull, and money very scarce. Exchange on London, 3,3 to .5,4. The Arab ship Faze Kareem, on her passage from Aden to Bo:ubay, with the Bombay portion of the India mail, which left London on the 21th June, foundered at sea twenty miles from Aden. The mails, consisting of sixty-eight boxes, were lost, and nit out of 190 Arabs and Dieters who were on board, perished, with the officer in charge of the mails. The Legislative Council of New South Wales has appointed a committee of ten to prepare the new con stitution. The produce of the Victoria gold fields is increas ing. There is great destitution among the newly arrived emigrants at Melbourne. Rents are at prices extravagantly high. The American steamer Monumental City was wrecked on the 13th May on her passage from Port Phillip to Sydney. Thirty-five persons perished. Prices of gold at Sydney 76a. per oz. NORTH AND SOUTII AMEBIC. (ItY ELECTRIC TELEGuArn.) SOUTHAMPTON, TIIVIISDAY MORNING The Franklin has arrived at Cowes, on her way to Havre. She brought specie to the value of 850,000 dollars, of which 50,000 are for England. The Franklin left New York on the 30th July. '1 he steamer Georgia had arrived at New York from the Isthmus with specie to the value of nearly two millions of dollars from California. Erma the South-Western coast of America we learn that the ' town of Cobiya had been taken by the Peruvians. Yellow fever prevailed at New Orleans. Owing to the advices by the Asia, which were looked upon as promising a more speedy settlement of the Eastern question, cotton was firmer. Bread stuffs were more sought after. Freights: the rates were firmer. Exchange on London, 109 to 1091. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. In the House of Lords, on Monday evening, the Earl of Clarendon stated as a correction of previous intelligence from Jassy, that the Russian government had sot exacted or demanded the tribute due from the Hospodars to the Porte, but had only forbidden its transmission to Constantinople. Letters from this last capital of the 28th ult. state that the I'orte had issued a protest specially directed against the appro priation by the Russians of the tribute of Moldavia and Wallachia; so that there can be no doubt that the earlier and fuller statement of the wrong is that which is credited by the Turkish government. Letters from Vienna of the 6th state that the Czar's readiness to " receive the ambassador of the Suiten" is the real gist of the message from St. Pe tersburg which has made so much noise during the last few days. Direct negotiations with the Porte in the capital of the Czar are, above all things, de sired by Russia. The intervention of France and England would thus be practically got rid of, and the Porte, exhausted by delays, would hardly fail to surrender the whole ultimatissimum of Priuce Men chikoff. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Moniteurcontains a decree elevating M. Drouyn de Lhuys, already a grand officer of the Legion of Honour, to the dignity of a Grand Cross of the Order, " in consideration of his eminent services in the direc tion of diplomatic affairs." M. Drouyn de Lhuys has un doubtedly given many proofs of his ability as a diploma tist, but so far as the extraordinary honour this day con ferred upon him may be intended as a reward for his conduct of the Eastern question, the public has no means of judging whether it is deserved. The latest known result of M. Drouyn de Lhuys and Lord Aberdeen's diomacy, according to a telegraphic despatch from Vienna of the Bth, appearing in yes terday's Express, is that the " good o ffi ces "of Aus tria are accepted, that "no objection was raised" by the Czar to the main propositions; but that no for mal demand having been made for the immedi , te withdrawal of the troops from the Principalities, he enters into "no specific engagement" in that re spect. He is willing to receive an embassy from the Sultan, and "protests" that he is animated by the desire to effect a pacific and amicable arrange ment. All the disjointed accounts that have reached Paris go to confirm the accuracy of this, the clearest explanation that I have yet seen of the present state of the question. To say, under these circumstances, ea the French papers do, that the affair is as good as settled, is clearly to trifle with the public. The pub lic both in France and England have been told to expect a categorical answer from Russia to a distinct proposition—an answer that was at once to put an end to the present state of armed truce, and show whether it would be necessary or not for the fleets to advance to Constantinople. Those "explanations" to which according to Lord Clarendon we are " entitled," mast also, if our title be admitted, be now on their way from St. Petersburg. Yet while all this is pending, we aro called upon to re joice and sing the praises of diplomacy , because 'Russia is said to have accepted the " good offices " of Austria, good offices to be exercised in support of some unknown proposition, to the " main" points of which the Emperor Nicholas has" raised' no objec tion. Some people soy the eagerness of the Emperor of Russia to adhere to the terms proposed by the con ference of Vienna the instant they were communi cated to him by anticipation by his own ambassador, M. de Meyendortf, is a plain proof of his desire for a speedy settlement, for otherwise ho would have waited till the proposition was formally before him. I much fear, on the contrary, that this apparent haste will turn out to be a crafty device for protracting negotiations. There is nothing in the news from Sr. Petersburg, as now explained, to show that the Empercg of Russia has done anything to bind himself. Ileyrotests in a general way that he wishes for a pacific arrangement, but so he has done from the beginning, while all his acts have belied his words. The statement that he " has " raised no objection to the main points of the proposition of Vienna—whatever that proposition may be—implies that minor objections have been made already, and dues not preclude Russia from raising more important ones hereafter. The " main " point of the business, so far as Europe is concerned, is that the Russia army should not be allowed to pass the winter in the Danubian Principalities, and upon this vital subject there is too much reason to believe no stipulation whatever has been so much as proposed, at least it is clear that Russia has accepted none. While M. Drouyn de Lhuys is bedizened with the Grand Cross, for his skill in diplomacy, the govern- ment papers, as if to prepare the way for sonic dis graceful disclosure, are instructed to designate the evacuation of the Principalities es a "secondary questioa." which cannot lead to any difficulty. There has been a Council of Ministers at St. Cloud this morning. General of Division Despnns Cubitres has just died in Paris. This is the individual whose name acquired such notoriety in the altar of Teste. The Emperor, after personally examining, a scheme proposed by M. Le Barazer, a captain of a merchant man, for making Paris a sea port, made him a present of 130,000 fr., to build a sailing vessel which he under takes to navigate up the Sine to prove the practicabi lity of his plan. The Presse says that a steamer of 00 tons now building in M.M. Arman's yard at Bordeaux will positively come up to Paris next month, and it goes so far as to predict that, owing to modern improvements in ship-building, Paris will soon have no reason to envy London the Thames. M. Bize, ex-questor of the late Ledslative Assem bly of France, has written a letter to the lialepend ance of Brussels, in reference to the permission, lately obtained for him from the Emperor by Jasmin, the poet, to return to France unconditionally. M. Mize declares that the narration of the scene which took place at St. Cloud gave him the greatest pain. " I thought (says the letter) that I had made nll my friends, and particularly M. Jinimin, understand how much any solicitation made on my behalf would annoy me ; and I was in hopes that they would for the future confine themselves within a reserve which for me was a right, and for them a duty. That has not been the case. What has just passed obliges me once more to make a disavowal, the motive of which will be easily understood by every man of proper feeling. rho end of the proscription which has fallen on me, and which in my family affects three genera tions, cannot, even in appearance, be the result of a favour accorded directly or indirect,y by an 7 one." The Bulirtm de Paris states that the Emperor is about to visit the camp at Helfaut. The municipal authorities of Lille and other places, through which he will have to pass, have already taken measures for his reception. At Lille they are on an extensive scale. His Majesty is to enter the town on horse back, is to be received by the authorities, and is to be conducted with great pomp to the Prefecture. Two triumphal arches are to be erected in the line of pro cession, and all the houses are to be decorated. It is it not known whether the Empress will accompany his Majesty. The Liberh: of Lille, of yesterday, says :—" We are assured that the official news of the precise period of the Emperor's aarival, reached the Prefecture this morninc: A new work by M. Proudhon, entitled " Philosophy of Progress, or the Program," is announced to appear at the end of this week. As originaly written, it con tained less than ten sheets, and could not be lawfully pub:ished without the visa of the Minister of the lute dor. Not wishing to run the risk of this permission being refused, M. Preuelliun has added a new chapter, and so brought his book within the class exempted from censure. The Emperor has sent 10,000fr.' and the Empress 3,000 fr. to the Prefect of the Doubs, for the relief of the sufferers from a recent terrible fire at Frasne. M. Berryer has been re-elected batoanier of the Order of Avocats of Paris. M. Arago, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences, was able the day before yesterday to attend the weekly sitting of the Academy. The Bourse to-day has had a dull aspect, and Rentes have hardly maintained the quotations of yesterday. The Three per Cents. for cash have ad vanced ac., but for the account they have fallen 10c. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for both cash and the account have just sustained previous quotations. No change has taken place in the value of Bank Stock. At the close of business the prices were steady at the following quotations:—For cash : Three per Cents., 79f. 80c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 f. 40c. For the account : Three per Cents., 801. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 f. 40c. Bank Stock, 2,b3 f. Northerns, 893 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,215 f Paris and Strasbourg, 007 f. 25c.; I'aris and Lyons, 957 f. ; Paris and Rouen I,loof. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, itidf.; Western of France, 700 f. 500.; Rouen and Havre, 510 f.; Bor deaux and Cette, frl3f. 2de. gti e Court. OSBORNE, Aunrar 10. The Queen and Prince, with the whole of the royal fantily, attended by the ladies and uentletuen in w a i t . ing, arrived at o.borna tram Buckingham Palace ymterday evening at a quarter before 6 o'clock. A deputation, consisting of the Earl of Itoase, ' , m u m of the Royal Society ; the Rev. Dr. R ibiti.on, late pr o i. dent, and Mr. Hopkins, president e'eet, of the Briti s h Ag o . u A'valicemen of thei.Uyal Society, h a d an Advancement Science ; arid C o l. S a bi ne c v i i a ce t i . o p u rc tr t he uil l treasurer a ~ n t interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at his t fg. rid residence in Downing-street to recommend the csta. b lament of a telescope of great optical power in the southern hemisphere, for the purpose of increasing o ur knowledge of the nebuke of that regi .n of the heavens. Mr. Forlonge, from Victoria, had an ittlerview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday. Rear-Admiral Boxer liad 1 oleo an interview with the noble duke at the Culonial•oftee. NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITIIEAD. (11118 DAY.) The following is the official PROGRAMME OF INsPECTIOM Or nEn urs - rv's The whole of the steam-ships to b.• unin,orel and te , so short by eight a.m. of the morning of the 11th inst., awl steam up by half part eight o'clock. Oa the royal yacht approaching the fli.et, a royal Salute will be tired. As soon as her Majesty has signified her intention•, the signal will be made for the steam tl,et to uei.4b, and to form the order of sailing in two columns, according to the following order : Port, or Lee Division. Starboard, or Weather Division. Agamemnon 2 cables aria' Duke of Wellington , ... Rogue ~„. Blenheim v. a. . Ajax 4. Edinburgh ..i .-, .t.'" - Arrogant . 7 lmperieuse • Tribane 4 Amphion 5 ., .f, Ildrhflyer vi ...% 0 Desperate ,t,'..; Sidon Terrible tt. Encounter Odin 4 Vesuvius • Leap ird The leading, ships will go easy ahead, to allow the other ships to take their stations; as soon as that is done at the distance of one cable's length, the col umns steam out to the Nab, the leading ships preserving their hue abruast. After passing the Nab, the columns will steer a compa.s course, as designatcil, and as soon as there is sufficient space the signal 919 will be made to form the liue abreast, when, from the order in sailing in two columns, the flee t will form, line abreast. Note.—The leading ship must go very slow, tl.ose astern of her to increase their speed as tin y become inure distant, so as to take a relative distance tram each oft, r, when abreast of their respective admirals, of one cobls's length. - When in line abreast the signal shall be made to alter COUTIO together. At this time a squadron of strange vessels will be seen in a S.W. direction, opening fire upon the line. The ships having been previously ordered by signal to beat to quarters, will, when so ordered, commence firing upan the supposed enemy. When firing ceases, the signal aid be made for the Beet to chase. After the chase has continued for a certain time, the re call will be made, and the signal will he hoisted to form line of battle, with their beads towards the northward and eastward. When the signal is made, the Duke of Wellingtnn will lead, instead of being in the centre, and the otlicr ships of the starboard division will t .ke their relative places astern of her as before. When the rignal to wear in succession is made, the flag will bear up and pass to leeward of the royal yacht, etch ship following her next ahead, at the appointed distance, and will probably come round with the head towards the Nab Light. The ships will then be ordered to form two columns, and to proceed to Spithead, or execute such mann-Pars as may be ordered, the leading ships being two cables avert. Should signal No. 03I—" the port column to Iwcotne starboard column"—betnade,then the port column will krcp steerage way only, until the testing ship can pas ise astern of the rear of the starboard disisien, when they will put on all steam to wain their stations, the starboard column checking speed until they have done so. It is to be clearly understood that no evolution is to be commenced until the flag-ship shall haul down the skcal for it. _ _ --• The dinner signal will probably be made on running to OIL Nab Light. I'M:MI/MUTH, Aro. 10. The greatest activity prevails at this port to-day in reference to the naval review tomorrow. The town is rapidly tilling with visitors, and hardly a bed is to be 11(1 at any price, although a variety of ingenious arrangement' have been made for meeting the demand. It is understood that her Majesty will go on board the Duke of Wellington, 131, at half-past 8 o'clock to-morrow morning at Spithcad, and that she will remain on board that ship during the review. The Duke of Wellington is the flagship of the commander-in-chief at this port, Vice. Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, K.C.8., who takes the com mand in chief of the fleet. Her Majesty will give up to the use of her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess of Russia, her family and suite, the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitzclarencc, G.C.H. The fleet to be reviewed to-morrow will comprise the following vessels: Hone Ton Guns. Men. power. nap.. Duke of Wellington, screw, Capt. H. B. Martin, C. 8., beariag the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Vice- Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, K.C.B. Agamemnon, screw, Capt. Sir Thomas Malt Lind, C. 8., bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Corry. Queen, Capt. Michell Prince Regent, Capt. Hutton London, Capt. Eden Blenheim. screw,Capt.liender son, CAS. Rogue, screw, Capt. W. Ramsal Ajax, screw, Capt. Quin Edinburgh, screw, gunnery ship, tender to Excellent, Capt. R. S. Hewlett Insperieuse, screw, Capt. Watsor Arrogant, screw, Capt. Fre- I mantle Am Key Tribune, screw, Capt. Hon. S. I T. Carnegie Sidon, paddle, Capt. Goldsmith Terrible, paddle, Capt. WM verty Hightlyer, screw, Capt. Moore Megicienne, paddle, Capt. T. 1 Fisher Valorous, paddle, Captain C. It. M. Buckle Odin, paddle, Captain Francis Scott Encounter, screw, Capt. O'Cal laghan Leopard, paddle, Capt. George Giffard 7SO 3750 3074 113 - 3053 - 2613 - 249.3 450 1474 450 1750 4 , 10 1761 $ , 50 1772 350 2146 360 1676 300 1471 30 300 300 1051 22 300 560 1324 21 300 800 1541 21 230 250 1153 16 200 400 1255 16 300 400 1231 IG 270 560 1310 14 17.5 380 90 Desperate, screw, Capt. Chem- 12 240 560 1412 'atnre, paddle, Captain F. 11. 8 172 400 1100 G lasse 'e:auvius, paddle, Commander Wilson . 6 200 470 1193 8 160 2S O 976 Barracouta, paddle, Commder. t 6 160 300 1043 Parker In addition to the above the following will be in attend ance on the fleet to afford accommodation to the members of both houses of parliament, the government, the offici , li of the government department, and others who can make good a claim to a ticket of admission on board :—The Con flict, 8-gun screw sloop ; Bulldog, Gorgon, Heels, Stromboli , Driver, 6-gun paddle sloops; Victoria and Albert, Fairy, Elfin, royal yachts ; Black Bogle, Admiralty yacht ; Ban shee, despatch vessel ; Fire Queen. nubile, Lizard, Lu cifer, Vivid, Sprightly, Wildfire, and Avon steamer;. The whole of the above vessels are now at this port, and one or two others are elpected to arrive in the course of the night. The Black Eagle is the vessel always used by the Board of Admiralty as their steam yacht. Lieutenant George Mason, first of the Victory, tlag-shiP , to harbour, is appointed to act as flag-lieutenant to the Lords of the Admiralty ; and Lieutenant liiekley, of the Victory, goes in the Admiralty barge instead of Lieutenant Masan. The Fire Queen will take out Rear-Admiral l'anshawe, C 8., superintendent of this dockyard, and a party. It will be the leading vessel of those in attendance on the squad ron. The Sprightly will take out Lady Cochrane, wife °i the commauder-in-chief, and a party, including the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, &c. One vessel, the Lizard, has very considerately been placed by Sir James Graham. the lust Lord of the Aimirolty, kt the scrsice of the ra 131 1100 If I