The Express. — London, England, 1856-04-11 00:00:00

that kited, fee so nee meld be as mispetstat to defied say r Team , tovileing consitutiosel haunts as the noble lord (liar, bear.) All be wont.' say on that point, therefore. wee that it b d beta too web the habit, when an bon member wished to Week soy mestere ha did no:like, and dad sot know to assail it, to say that it was OCC3II. ititytaollol. (Hear.) flit tight boo. blend stated Melba that the noble loto's plan a kid the blow to threw aside the voluntary cycle „ and to ihteriere with religions freedom. He would not support any plea that was fairly opea to sash a chirp'. (Hear.) He admitted that no system of edacuti le would he *earthier, that did not provide for the relig out element, and combine, in some way or other, religious with mailer instruction. The right boo. baronet bad end d to chow that the phis be (Sir J. Pakisg tor) had advocated would not afford religions leatruction. Alt he could sty on that stunt •a., that be did act share in the right bon. geotleman'a o u nion, and in differing with best h • use ou.iperted by the experience, sot only of Rig lad, bet o' e , stioestel c tante es. latch at owed that they might Lave religious teaching in their echo le, sad that these wis so danger of eser.ficing the religious priscip . c. Thee* went mazy e.tablishments is Mislead wcere this oar done sod tins he believed to be the tree sciatica of tM dals4lty. In Switzerland and Faces the difficulty wee he mane. le the R Mitt cab lie match of Switzer land the prutesiant children were not complied to be taught R less embolic doctrines. Tmie he believed to be a coen;irte and atietnatory answer to that object.on of the rich• hon. Beatles au. He (chilly dissented from the objection, that it they imp used a wheel rate, thy would bring an oh tlei evils of them% rate.. (Hear, hew) The shut h fa's and the echoed rate were • stattally autism. The cbj.ct or. of the dimmer to the chunk rate was, that he we,. called spa to pay a rots io sup Art a March from whirl, h. &it en. eerfee hearlt. Wait would both sem with the who it .s 0 ? That the dieestaPr would Mailed apse to pay a rate, M return for which ha children would haw the twee& or cdseatisa is the at oil. The can appeared to him to In .sully p.meite. Is the one ease the dissenter had as !guilt, la tk- ether be had precisely the same bows. It as sm, otter pmts. He meet ay that the maidens@ of eke Oget bee. baronet and of his right how. friend seer hi.. as dim s% 1• I. resolutions west rather too meth Leto dc evil They treated thee timbales's, rather sa if they weft Chases to a bill, than et if they were merely intended to ley down broad prineplee for tonere attics, and he %Irises% the rsgtth us. her met hardly met them la that creel which the settle lord's tuition on this subject ea. titled him to. Bat tb most imp:inset statements which the right hos. geutll.man avareed were not appointed by fans. H waded to the sitar vilest that Ragland wee educated. He was of the opposite riptides. He maintained that Ragland wee sot educated,— that their *drama, such se it we', bore to pros o• t-os to the wevesities of the am, — • then if pstlealest did its duty I. the country, they meld to• let the natter rest whore it wee. He beard with psossure the view takes by his hoe. Wad the member for llidhorst. Iv 0 took exactly the view that be entertaised ow this tabiett which wee not that , hey were to despise the voluntary attar, nor undervalue the ezeitiose bititinto made, het that that system was iessficient, sad that of itself it did tot educate the ;imp'. of this cavalry. Tim spites sew proceed net so system of cestrailmtlwa, bet rep ef cal manse. Mat under antral &dazes sod ad vise. Was the phr law system •h ch the right boa. pea these halms* t-d is sarryiss a einem ef 'minestrones ?if it was ar, a. ither was the plea tow rimmed. He (Sic J. Pettis d. fled the right boa. pesilestan ho prove that the plea was opposed to the spirit of liberty. He lepthalstal the elutes. Then come the questios of whether ow ate ths des4secy et fend, wan to be supplied by a rate. He would way state to the house, there tele, stern detailed sapless, time lo• the roolutio, keel', that he advocated a rata solely basset be saw so other pthetisal mode by which the deficiency could he supplied. Him noble fr.esd sear him aid, let p natant grant the sit aemerary; bet who was to h .ve almisamatum of it ? He believed it asset at last he sesled like ay other matter of heaths. The v.lest eta late meeting, said that 'donation wesi • parental duty, bat the question was, wire the working dusts of this country is a cmention to perform that dlity_f The voluntaries themselves did sot ask th em to do it. Ile believed thee the rate would be Mond to be theca!y preetMal mode of rode ng the dielcull. He was extremely Wetted to the house for the patters* with which they had alma ban to go threttgli la trauma task. He did sot mem ft dewy that tt e task be tie them was trine of great Mama", bat he treated the h time would mart it is a lags sad liberal sp4 , t, and he felt hit the day woald 0)11111 whim the world waeli bestial ha at the baboon shish parliasset had 60 I ie g allowed to deter it from the mod import's' sad =JAMBI duty of setios os this queetion. (Cheerio.) Hr. BROTHER lON tweed the adjournment of the debate. After a few espeseati he from Mr. BINLIT, Me. DISRAELI remarked up ot the Mistiest* same, whleh thr eovrraseest had pre►stved wpm the subject dar ttit ba e. J. RUSSELL hoped that, e moldering the vast Isar remises of the qer,tion, the debate woold be allowed to premed this (Peso's►) evening. Lord PALMERSTON enateated, ander the circus steams, to t.os•poee the iatesded mataitum of sat ply rat! Moeda', end the &bete was ordered to stead sojiarariel usal Me evening. The hoer, then resumed. T►e Joint Stock Braes BM was read a mend time, oa the 'Dotson of Si. J. V. t naLLaY. Toe *edam' Profe•sim Bal was reed a mooed time, end ordered to be re•erred tea select enswittee. The house adjourned at a quarter &heroes o'clock. The King of Prussia has ordered that the prayers hitherto mid is the protestant elsernes foe pens shall hi changed into thanksgiviogs, whisk an to be continued &Mil after the ratification of the treaty. The following is the ten of the prayer to he wed Almighty end mete% fel God! we return Thee thanks fcr haring overfill from ear aosatry the evils of war, and fvr bevies blessed theorises la of he King, which have steered as this ankle peen ! We vet an Thee thanks, esPodirllf, for hay ing isspived the hearts of the men to whom Thy hand hes e midair the guidons of the peoples, to the sad that they rt-eetablish end preserve yew, aid keep Thy words in remembrance , . !Bland are the yenteseaken, for toey shall be ailed the children of Ch , d.' May aad praise to Thy came thonegh Jesus Christ." The eoart-martial at Berlin, which bad brae ap point's! .0 Ott cogaisean of the Mile of M. da Roetow sad his income, M. de Marmite, for the keel in which X. de Mackeldy wee killed, has beard the defense, and will very neatly deliver its judgment. . - itletwithataodieg the cress& ma& a sheet time leek by the Northern Bee nyelast Warms balm" the leis,. et Bt. Prtsreberp have n 2 Lesitated to profit by the *relates, sad to replenish their wardrobe. The pint French manalarteriee houses of all deseriptiose ►art aloe essayed important orten, ant wee am aegis le arrive with the us rks of Paris or Lyons. The Customs sneers at Malaga have captured en English sauseignag ortolan off that pert, worth, with bet cargo, 603,C00 piartres, sad have aloe wised • large quantity of amesialed goods in a steamer hem the Lomat. 11tehttnister of War at Turin bee ffiVes organ for the forgaatiou of a cusp of observation at hr Spittle, when the seeps returning from the Crises are to he gomeatrated beim esteeming to their respootin regimens. Ws read in the Paris correepondmoo of the Ado pladitfted :—.° M. Saint Mare Oirardia reeently ashievei great trianth in his Intim-rocs. H. spoke to his pupils of use mg Brat lyric posts, lass-Baptises Housees, mad peoseetted to e 'lmpure his with M. Lasaartlee, to the adeaatege of tle latter, whoa he eased the Hones of Frazee. To justify his ass ram. M massaged stadia, me et two of the .11slitatises' et M. de Laimestiae, Ind with go toneltiag as mast, mad sash depth of feeling, that teen gained bold of lath profaner sad paella, mad it hems* asetsoesey to impend tie testae, be several Mertes. Whets the emotion had sabsided. U. St. Han Girardia mind the opporleiliti a al, a few words epee the buttarable penny of the Wanness poet, who, it is sot issobettle, will lave to seek in e..le the reste which tail his her.. It semen that the atelensties se the am dams was.. V 11010•11 that N. Salm Mare Oiesedia gent didieeky at the slam is scarier as maths." The (Mestifistionsml quotes a letter from • !rind of Id. Buss.'., itstiag that that *aloes illasm feast an alteetisa of the ars st, as bad beta stated by the AMMO! Heise-erlasee, bet an ante rheumatism sad esualgie psis., from .b gh be has hem suffering for these last hue scathe met, sad that them were the coin et hie lease his tamer, sad speaking wildly as the mimes es stagers. Hopes are eatintsimed of bit speedy mestery. The Paris Sport announces that the grand rum between Kerlish, Erna, Arab, sad ether hank tibia it was desired to pet up at Le Manila, sad which was to hare come off es the In of May, will sot take plait, "in semempioace otaaformega sad imanasuitable eheleeleir A letter from Coeetantinople of the 31st aye:— "• terrible Was has rectally Wes emositted at Vans. • mug Greek f al, foartsa yeses of age, was forcibly Ulm away fen her fatally sod soseetasted, attar having beta elissefully abused. TM Cameral of Divides, San Paths, lime been arrested. sad Is charged with the arise. He. Immese, eosin may rankings' is the anittor, tad hitherto ao proof het Wee dissented let esamit his. His pried* servant, who her disappeared, is elleraled. Ho gaga sign. it appears, is the ease of his sawn, to the BUM of the game (private polls Shahid to high pgreta mos is Turkey). to destroy the roue glut &lib Paths rteeleme that he aim gem my sash eider. The Porte has amenalead le mitt the mattes to the hone., sad t the guilty parties." Dr. Vast, tin German historian, ban again fallen cadet the rower at the lay. The 'Wed voltam at his big amy haatme hies ly declared to eastaia a libel as use Bolka. a Yocilenb4rger, the doctor has buss seateseml le It BMWs licapclacomea'. ebt expretlo. Oftilleassitsbisededist "Ilie ItapreeNnarlis Ivalagpoisi muut lop et Um Offise. 10. einsrata, by To Oslo* as Oa ar SIP---- SIGH WATIIi AT LONDON DEIDON. fn. DAT—Mollusc 61. Se ...«...Altersoisa. 66. 2711. Toollossow--ilatinag. IS. 36e....—..Atiersoes. Ht. 2761 LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 11. Ir is certain that the Italian question has, in some shape or other, been brought ander the notice of the Plenipotentiaries aasembled at Paris. Whether this has been done by a direct overture from one of the Governments represented in the Conference., or whether the diecuesios areas incidentally, does not distinctly appear. There can be no doubt, however, that the question has sorely perturbed the diplomatic mind. The meet authentic amounts from all parts of the Peninsula concur in representing disturb ances se imminent, especially in the Neapolitan dominions and in the States of the Church. But for every Continental Government the Italian question is beset with dilicalties. The King of NAPLES has tried the patience of his subjects to the very uttermost. The Roman. ars wearied out by that priestly domination w►ich, while it tyrannises over them, can afford no security against marauder.. Pima is in a stets of anarchy. The Pontiff and the Princes of Italy (with the exemption of the King of Ssant.tA) IN only protected from their subjects by foreign bayonets. Bat these foreign bayonets only afford impunity to misrule j they cannot maintain law and order. Two courses are open to the foreign powers which maintain armies in Italy—either to insist that the Pontiff and Princes shall give their subjects guarantees for just and equi table government, or to withdraw their troops and allow the Italians to take the settlement of the matter icto their own hands. With regard to the former alternative, what can be rationally expected from the absolute government of Austria, or the filially absolute government of Frazee? With re gard to the latter, neither France nor Austria will set the example of withdrawing her troops from Rome or from the Legations. Each will make the presence of the other's army a pretext for continuing its own occupation. There is no hops for Italy in the Conference/. We are given to understand that the Sardinian Government has proposed the evacuation of Some by the French troops, and of the Legations and the Duchies by the Austrians. This accent reaches us from a quarter in which we have been ammetomed to repose implicit confidence. And it in corroborated by information which has reached us from a very different, but equally trustworthy source. Ao- cording to this latter intelligenee, the memo rial, or memorandum, which Count Cavort' is said to have submitted to the Conferral*, did not emanate from the Government of Sardinia. We are assayed it is • protest from private citizens whose names are attached to it, spinet the continued occupation of Italy by foreign troops. The signatures are numerous, and would have been still more numerous but for two reasons. In the first place, the authorities exerted themselves to prevent the circulation and signing of the documents in the second place, no persons of nitra•democratio principles were invited or allowed to sign it, in order to takeaway every shadow of a pretext for attributing it to revolutionists. The protest expresses the apprehensions and the wishes of the moderate—the monarchical section of the Italian Liberals. That they who have signed the protest are resolute and in earnest is evident, for every man whose name is attached to the paper will hone& forth be • marked man. That the Bard'. Dian Government is aware that the pro test expresses the convictions and opinions of a preponderating majority of its subjects. and of the population of the Italian Peninsula, is beyond a doubt, for otherwise Count CAvoun would not have undertsken the invidious teak of directing the attention of Congress to it. Sardinia is strong only in the madden°, of the Italian Liberals. Even with this strength she is not suelciently powirtal to run the risk of giving uneecessary umbrage to the great Powers of the Continent. Nothing could have induced the Studinian Government to propose, at this moment, the withdrawal of the French and Aso trim troops from Rome, the Legations, and the Duchies, bet the aoaciatio• that only by so doing am it ensure the confidence and attachment of its own subjects. There is bet one solution for the Italian diNealtise —the establisheasat and recognition of Italian as tiooslity and salty. For centuries Italy has been the battle-field of French and German ambition. Its plains have been deluged with blood in the pro treated contest, whether the Emperors of Germany or Austria, or the sucesseive dynasties which have reigned over France, were to give law to the Penin sula. Tao peoples of Germany and Frame have suffered as much from these ware ea the Italians. Their treasures have been squandered, their best blood has been drained—not to augment their own well-being, bet to gratify the vanity and ambition of their rulers. The French nation and the nations subject to Austria have as deep an interest in Italy's being left to the Italians as Use Italians themselves. The solution of the prob lem is evidently approaching. The practical Libe- rals of Italy are daily becoming more convinced that the best thing that can happen to all the various States of the Peninsula is to be associated with Piedmont user the sees of a constitutional monarchy. It is the knowledge of the growth of this mutinies& that has drives Austria to conclude the Concordat with the Papal Government. The Cabinet of Vienna flat tered themselves that by conciliating the most exten sive State in Central Italy they might establish a emoterpoiss to the popularity of Sardinia, and thus be enabled to retain their hold on Lombardy and the Venetian territories. Already they sea that this was a mistake. The Concordat has only entangled them In irritating and embarraming divots, with the theocracy of Roam Hated by the Italian people, suspected by the Italian potentates, Austria feels her seeendamy in Italy tottering to its fall. The French Marmon ea his part begins to feel that the friend ship of the Court of Rome—to secure which he has made so many consessions—la but a broken reed to ism upon. Foreign and &mewl° despots are alike beginning to pensive that the days of their dotal's& don in Italy are numbered, whilst the confidence of the Italian people in their as•s and in themselves is continually beressing. In this state of affairs the great truth that ought ever to be present to the minds of Italian patriots is, that their only reliance ought to be in themselves. From °ornaments they have nothing to hope. But foreigners are learning that they cannot put an end to Italian disquiets so long as misrule prevails is Italy. Despots will not ald to put down Despotism, but they may be wearied oat and obliged to with. draw from the contest. Firmness and warthogs are now the virtues to be cultivated by Italian patriots y station not to move till the hour has woos, pomp tits& to set the moment it arrives. As for Rag land, its duty to Italy is steadily to Woo to este* THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1856. itself in any leagues or oonventione with the absolute Governmeats of the Continent, with a view to interference in the affairs of Italy. A proposal has been made that the French and English Govern ments should interfere to mediate between the Xing of NAPLES and his sebjects. It is to be hoped that our Government will peremptorily decline all such insidious overtures. The absolute Ruler of France and the responsible Government of England could act in concert—have acted with anacceo—whore the object wee to repel foreign invasion from the terri tories of an ally; but in domestic disputes between a despot and a people repining to liberty, the Ruler of France and the responsible Government of Eng land can at present have nothing in common. Ir was on Wednesday our painful duty to record one of those dreadful incidents which mark distinctively the social condition of Ireland. Agrarianism, which for a season slumbered, seems to have lately re•awak cued to fell activity and vigour. Within the last few months several appalling cases of mid-day assassina tion have followed each other in quick and terrible succession. More than one of these appealed pecu liarly to the indignant sympathies of the community, because the objects of unpitying vengeance were women. A Special Commission is now sitting in the county of Cavan to try the suspected murderers of Miss liittne ; and upon the very eve of its being opened another unhappy victim, of the same de fenceless se:, has in a neighbouring county been shot to death in broad day while walking with her nephew in her own grounds. Of the circumstances that wad as the imme diate provaatiou to this dreadful deed we are se yet but very imperfectly informed. Pkusiblesteries of dispossession or distraint an always reedy upon such occasions; and the character of the unfortunate individual whose cruel fate has thus been casein mated was not of a kind calculated to cause any special incredulity in the present instance as to the troth of such tales. The time, we fear, has not yet oome when details of the description we allude to are destitute of significancy in mitigating the degree of severity with which pradial crimes are reprobated in Ireland. By us they are read with impatience, as though they were obvious irrelevancies. On the other side of the Channel it is otherwise. Everybody con cerned is the management of landed property in Ire land feels more or less keenly interested in the dis mission of what is called the cause of the lent great crime committed there ; and the Irish impale will be occupied for days and weeks to come in analysing sad answering , statements of the manner in which poor Mrs. XELLT dealt with the tenantry of her somewhat extensive and scattered estates in Westmeath and elsewhere. We tarn in sickness of heart from such controversies, whose vehemence and bitterness invariably betray the aflame of feelings not openly avowed, but w►ose prevalence is the key in a great measure to the inefficacy of all attempts hitherto made to extirpate agrarian combination. Apart from these perplexing and disastrous con , sideratiees, there Sr. some Incidents suggested by the recent tragedy to which we would draw a momentary attention. There is hardly to be found, perhaps, in the voluminous varieties of French romance, a story more fall of strange and startling vicissitudes than that which the life of SARAH BELLY might supply. The daughter of an inn-keeper in one of the smaller towns (AIWA, she had been brought up with as little are as persons of her elate too frequently are; and at an early age was sedated by a gentleman of rank and fortune, by whom she was taken from place to place, in order to elude pursuit, and ulti mately removed to Ireland. After no very pro tracted interval, the power to charm the veteran rani for whom she had forsaken bee father's roof came to an sod; and after a resident's of some months in Dahlia she found herself not only abandoned but turned out of doors, without the ordinary means of subsist ence. The circumstances beams accidentally known to a well-known practitioner in the Irish courts of law, and by him an motion was brought against her betrayer; and owing to the singular exertions made at the trial by Kr. Onst.s.thes a distinguished Mei press advomite, damages were recovered to the extent of several thousand ponds. The mains of retrieval from bet deplorable position seemed the. unexpectedly opened to lee; bat it was not so to be- In the mule of a 4w weeks the whole of the sum referred to was lost, by the Mare we believe of the person in whom hands it had been deposited; and the unhappy woman whose wens had enlisted fee the hour the worthlme sympathy of the sentimental and the idle, wee ones more brought hoe to facts with hunger and privation. Who shall tell the struggles ' and remorseful efforts that she may have made to escape the gaff of shame into which she was eventually drawn P We dare not dwell upon the fearful theme, of give unmarried utterances to voo doos that suggest themselves to every humane and mereital mind that has calmly contemplated the terrible temptations abet beset despair. Buffos it to say, that for a period little short of twenty piers this ill-fated woman lived in the eceiditica of an oat east is the city of Dublin, sad that at the end of that time she breams the mistress, sad eventually the wife, of a Mr. LILLY, who had messed a very con siderable fortune by the proferdes of the law. On his death, some tea or eleven years ago, questions re garding the right to his real end personal estate were raised by several members of his family. Bills of discovery were flied in Chancery, and snits of eject ment were brought is the common law courts. The proceedings were complicated and protracted, sod famished lucrative employment to the gentlemen of the long robe for several years. Mee. Baum was an many occasions subjected to searching examination by the pear:dad skill of those retained against her; she had to answer mina* inquiries as to endless series of facts, and to explain apparent incongruities and inconsistencies that might have puzzled the brain deny ordinary man of badness. Pitiless imputations of fraud and perjury were hurled at her by her hungry end avaricious competitors for the rich prise at stake; and recourse was remorselessly had to ell that in her previous life could tend to shake the credibility of her testimony, or create prejudice against her. Again and spin her legal advisers, fearing that at some moment her self-possession would fail, urged her to oomprornise with her antago elate, and be =stoat to save a portion at the sacrifice of the rest. Bat with a comp and oiestasey almost unrivalled, she rejected all Nish resommesdatioes, except in one hetanee, we believe of very inosnsiderable amount. She had not swore falsely, she averred, and she would prove it. She had not robbed the man who had rescued her from poverty and degradation, and she would asks all ma own it. She did Kt, sad sneseeded fa obtaining the final judgment of every wart of law sad of equity wherein she had been nod. Latterly she has lived unostentatioosly, and almost In seek sire. We have Tomo to knew that she never ceased to retain in her own hands the mill= direction of bet pecuniary affairs ; and moneyed men, whom she from time to time consulted with regard to par ticular investments, were streak by the aeon racy of the varied intimates As displayed, and the quickness with which she appre ciated distiastioes or diatoms of whisk do had sot bard beam How her loaded estates was administered we rennet tell ; and, for the reason' above glanosdat,we should be very slow in venturing at present to form any opinion. Bat we think he must have a strange nature who can contemplate the wear of each a woman—neglected as a child, be trayed as a girl, tang u a woman seder the very hoofs of fate, winning, after youth and beauty had long rased away, the pity, confidence, and respect of a shrewd man of the world, and in old age holding the fortune he had bequeathed her against all odds to perish at last by the hands of an assassin—without feelings that he hardly knows how to express. Wz have before ni the copy of a letter recently published by Mr. Asucoui, the polio, magistrate, re lating to the tenure of office by the Magistrates of the Metropolitan Police Courts. The point raised by Mr. ARNOLD is very simple, but by no means unimportant. His case is this. AU other judicial functionaries in this country are made independent of the Crown by holding their offices " during good behaviour;" in other words, they an only be de prived of them in consequence of publicly proved misconduct. The police magistrates of the metropolis, on the contrary, and the stipendiary magistrates in the provinces, only hold their offices "during pleasure;" in other words, they may be deprived of them without any cause publicly assigned, by the mere will of the Home-celoe. Is there any valid and satisfactory ground for this distinction? We think not. It is quite clear that the duties of the metro politan magistrates are at the present time ex ceedingly onerous and important. The sphere of their powers is continually on the increase. They are oonstantly called upon to pat new interpretations on complex and difficult Ants of Parliament. They have an extensive penal jurisdiction, quite independent of police charges—they have a very considerable civil jurisdiction—they can fine from a few shillings up to hundreds of pounds, and in many oases inflict very lengthened imprisooments without fine. The question is, ought judicial functionaries of this importance to be kept in a state of absolute depend ents') on the mere will and pleasure of the Home Secretary for the time being ? Is it not desirable that the judgment which has to be exercised on so great a variety of matters of such moment should be exercised, not only without fear or favour, but without the possibility of any suspicion of either P And can this be the case so long as matters remain as they are P By way of reply to these questions we take leave to state only one case out of several that are put by Mr. ARNOLD. Under the Smoke-Nuisance Preven tion Act all proceedings before the magistrate are initiated by the Home Secretary i every case is investigated in his office, and he becomes actually the prosecutor. " Here, then,' as Mr. Aithow truly says, "we have an instance of a magis trate who Ins to adjudicate upon the merits of a ease, holding his office at the will of the pro secutor—a state of things, I believe, quite unparal leled in the whole range of our judicial institution." A single instance of this kind is worth volumes of abstract reasoning. The system under which it is possible cannot be a right system. We quite Inner with Lord CAMPBELL, that instead of leaving Ohs metropolitan magistrates removable, as at present, on the mare order of the Home Secretary, it would be far more satisfactory to make them removable by an order of certain selected Judges of the Supreme Courts, after due process of investigation. A vacancy in the But India Direction has just been caused by the death of Mr. Maus Maivu.m. The appointment is in the hands of Government, land we treat that it will be exercised with a due sense of responsibility. Mr. Morris, the principal opponent of the five time-expired directors, has, we perceive, just been defeated by 80 votes through the influence of the House-list. It would, we believe, be Idifficult foe Government to make a better 'elusion lfor the vacancy than Mr. Morris. He lea member of the Madras Civil Service, and there is at resent no I Madras civilian in the Direction. He is well known as a man of distaste practical ability, and of no mean peodoisoey in Oriental liter& tore. On five previous memo= he has neUselsil the votes of the proprietor& Is the d present= l out of 2,670, the total unmixe votes, be in obtaining 1,067. Some year. bank he was, it may be remembered, defeated by Mr. Marjoribanks, the gentleman whose most signal qualification for sharing in the government of India ooneisttd in his never having set foot in the dominions he was to amid in ruling. We feel confident that the appointment of Mr. Morris would very generally be hailed as a wise and beneficial mends, of Government patronage. TIM ESSENCE OF THE BLUE BOOBS, There is at length &chance of the blue books being brought within the range of human powers of read ier, as far at least as the severer and more earnest clam of students are concerned. Hitherto, these stu pendous folios have been among the Wit obiblia even to the meet omnivorous consumers of printed paper. They would have appalled the appetency of Maglia heal and turned the stomach of Justus Lipniis. Their antlineas was as repulsive as their bulk. And yet, in this unreadable and unpur abatable chaos, the raw material of most useful, nay, invaluable knowledge lies buried. Who would not be grateful to the skilled labour which should succeed in extracting it ? Messrs. Smith and Elder, with the valuable aid of PrJessor Levi (already known as a marvel of indefatigable iodustry by his laborious and learned work on " the Commercial Law of the World"), am about to make the attempt. For an annual subscription of two guineas they pro. miss those whom it may concern an Essence of the Blue Books--• sort of Bouquet de Parioneet—in a saper-royal octavo volume " of not less than 1,000 pages" let us hope of net much more. If this work is done well—and Professor Levi's name ought to be • guarantee against its being dare badly—it will un doubtedly be one of the most useful publications of the time. We heartily wish it all manner of snows,. It will be men by oar parliamentary report that Lord Jolts Busell &WIN to the Souse of Comeau leas trashily to the commas of a domestic dB etit - n la the fatally of the hon. member for the Wrst Riding. The fared to is of a very dimming satire, c s si oo tog of the sadden death at Wolaheim, Hades, on hloaday last, of Yr. Cebdea's only so., a tooth of 16. Th. marriage of thi Lady Lavinia Bingham, daughter of tits Earl aid Coastal's( Lusa, with the Hos. Charles Hardiase, eldest am of Verrosat Herding', took pima yesterday at St. Q.srgs•. shu sh. liasever4quare, is the pretests of a limited eirsie of privets &leads, tits earesmay Mies eesdasted whit as htt!. display as pesible, la rosemsesos of a resist &moods • fitiotios is Lord Lomas% yalifly. TM bride wee &Mewled to it. altar by tee Hes. Mks Steslay of Aldo/lay, Eke Jamas, the Hos. Eke Her Mar, tad Kiss &room Bathant. Early is the thermos the happy couple lest tows Is. Booth Park, mar Neslasnt. As a compensation for tha over-time in which the asetersys workless of Wealaktt sad D.ptterd kayo berm ememerily messed for the despatch of the gas sad mortar heats, it is said that the Leeds of the Admiral*, ham decidod m Improprieties a stsem•voseel kg the &0801111110. deities of the elves sailothon thus employed is Woolwich sad Doptiowl dockyards, et so to suable anal, whims the Oast to .he thole labours sad sztitioss Imo so imply costribatod. The Monitor, aanesaces that the rsilways half Leaks to Dever sad Fellness,. Nut Corti& Is Newest* Goa Dersastoe ti eteehtm, sod the Caledeatae Ha*, have ceateet.d to trsaapart the &Waal, fee tin cattle obey at Paris at the rates pill by exhibit we at the steelier of the Soya &ditty el Agriseltere, aaraely, smalltime manias of the Weals, sae a redsettee of 1G per lest ea the treassort of atashiam sae feapieswate. Ms works ea tbs railway from Marseilles to Tosio• an es tie plat of WWI wwiest gbe Court. THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM. The Queen held her first Drawing-room this season yesterday afternoon In St. James's Palace. The Queen and the Prince Cons .rt, accompanied by lb* Princess Royal, arrived from Buckingham Palace at tire o'clock, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Home Guards, and were received by the great officers of state. Before the Drawiag-room, her blpety, accordior to seen,' custom, received a deputation from Christ's Hospital In the Throne room. Tice Witlieoieenabridite, K. 0., President of the Inuits. tion, was stoical in the Throve-room with her Majesty and the Prince. The Omen condescended to inspect the charts end drew iags of the boys, and to express her approbation of their per formances. After the reception of the deputation her Majesty sad Prince Albert, sec Dimpled by the Pi Sees Royal end the Dake of Canahridge, received the diplomatic corm. In at tendance on the Queen and the Prince were the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes; the Deckers of Wel lington (in Weitirg), the Countess of Deur% Lady Churchill, and Lady Macdonald, Ladies of the Bedchamber; the Hon. Ellien.o Stonhy (in Welting), the Hon. Lacy Kerr (in Waitiep), the Ito, Caroline Cavend sit, the Hon. Flora Masidoeald, the Hon. Mary Butted, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Beatrice Blair, and the Hon. Rosily Cathcart, Maids of Honour ; Lull Caroline Barrinston and ' Lady Gardiner, Wawa id' the Bedchamber ; also she ordi nary great dean il her Majesty's Household. The Queen wore a red pu pion train, with a running pat tern of gold, trimmed with gold blonde. The petticoat was white satin, Weaned with gold blonde to correspond. Her Mejesty wore a Medicines of opals and demand'. The Peaces Royal wore a dress of rich white glue silk, with three skirts of white tulle, looped up with bunches of corn flowers, and rich white satin ribbon. The body was trimmed with a wreath of pore S :were, ribbon, and blonde. The train was of rich white moue antique, trimmed with bouilonnies of tulle sod coin fl mire. Her Royal Highness's mad-dress wee formed of a wreath of ems flowers, feathers, and lappets. In the diplomatic circle the followieg presentations to her Majesty took place: By Medium ran de Weyer, Madame Henry &Aryls, femme des Congener de Is Legation. ez the Countess de Lansdlo, Madame I into de Segerte d olls o ce se the Minister at the man of itio de Janeiro, and sells Plato de Several, daughter of the above. By Mediate de , Nuesibe, Madams C. Simla de Liam bias, di Seeretairs ee In Legation du WM; Madams H. Fianna de Una, bellemeur du ohm dearftsu a It llams= Palmerston, Mrs. Dallas, wife of the United Staten BMrs. Dam Min Dallas and Min Sophia Dallas, daughters of the United States lalaleter, and Miss Stalin. Lega By the . Brazilian Stingier, Major J. L. titeekmeyar, Attache to the tion By the United States Minister, Philip N. Dallas, Em., son of the Minktn, and &mewl to the Legatee. The following presentations took place, the names bevies bees ormiossly left et the Lord Chamberlain's office, and submitted for her Majesty's approves: Mrs. Henry /Moon. by Hem Mrs. Being Currie. Miss Aldridge, by Lady Umbra IL Dickinr. Mrs. Lytteiten Abawlay, by thettenter Dann. Mir demi% by her reser o, Mrs. Lytteltoo ABDtflay. Lady OiliemMise A. by the Comma Dowager of WhSid. Mies Alias Ames, by the Ombra Dowager of Ltchiteld. Lad; Mork SAM, by the Omer of Shaftesbury. Mrs. Midnight dieMy,* the cute. Delmer of Darnley. Hon. Mrs. Lloyd anerriter, by lady Caroline Banirman. Mrs. John zadrefts., on bag megliefle. by Lady Antroms. Lady enure Millis, as her marriage, by the Doerr of Wei. Mem UM Mazy HMIS*, by Lady Trances Baillie. lLsdy bradask. by the Ham Lady Hawkins Whitalted. Mrs. Cheeks it m i n er s , by Mrs. Leopold Papt. Mai. lehul Stosa. - bybar ins; Lady Codringtom. Mrs. beim by lbs. alk. The Ike. Mt. es breakbhm her roantim, by the Mates of Pasebery. Mew O.J.lessernme, bythe Omens of Cottmem. MM Borgia,, , Mr needbes, Mrs. 0. J. Itesemeg. lady Mein m‘er meow, by the Lady Ilasaaabl. Wessman . en Me manfaga by the Mews of Albemarle. Comer et * kr Steaks,,the ßest. lady Philip. Me., Mae by Mr weSMi, the Lady Swathed= and CampbM. Mrs. Clamildl. cif Mgfleneat bad the Duchess of ArgylL MinallimplelL ly liskilliompleiL The Men. - 111M Osemilk, r i =l:= 4. Lady Maks* 011iked. by Ma. May IlleberribeLit Meuse Wimber. Mtn Beekeisa Crelsell. Vessenees Mess& Me Lady _iin. by Smarm. Mealier* &Mfg. by Ls. Ma wood. MM L Dior. by Yr ann.. Mrs. Lass Mad. lady Made& Ones. en Mr rani by Lady Ana Maria Lei. Mrs. Iris afigvarst. se her by her mother, Mrs. Ashes tabs. Mir Desire. by bar mother, Diakin Mrs Denim Mr.. Spew U. Dickies, on ha marriage, by Lady Elisabeth S. e. Ms Disidnes, by her ewes, Ms. Disarm. Mies Zany Dlabiaaaa. by beg moths, Mrs. Diddres. Hoe. Caroline Delos, mother, Lady Clonbreek. Mrs. Chair Da Plat, en Mr marriage, by the Countess of Bow bary. leim Mary ICills a a a. Ledy baked. Mws may by Moe. Clabbres. Ms Prairies Oembise, bytes wallsr, Ma William Gambler. Mr grim Or ahem by Mr mother. Mrs. William Gambier. Mrs. Charles Owdlisek bg the Man Mrs. Hedgers. MM Ceram, hai s ar.lbe Man. Mrs. Joecalles Wm. Per y. co l ow. Mrs. Oswald the /km Lady Philip. MM bialaMererbmrea, Mrs. Oswald Grtmston. lady IlanselOte Orey. lady What* tally W Mine Man. by melme, Has. Mr.. Hope. Men Jests. *bay Jamb. Miriam lbw Ewa bylaw mother. lady Lister Kaye. Leify Aussie I SM by Ss Comma of Albemarle. Mos My te el Nam. Ms. tacks Kb& Mi. ram Imesifs. byes. Charles OnshlL Mr Nedellne Maw Lbws, by bar mother, Mrs. John Shaw Leese. Mrs. mews Porten Leith, of Whitsbessb. by Mrs. Philip Crawley. MM Malabar. Perbulelth. by bar Nadkar. Mrs Stewart Forbes Waal. Mrs Unew in tr . tdy_ . y MAIM lerbeby. Mn. AesbilaM Little By Ley Pets Wend. Him ISM Jews Loyd by Mr mother, Lady OveMase. Ills =Pr, bY bee meths, lady Macgregor. Mrs. by Ils. Falk. Mies Oceralla . p . m, Im bar redher. Ley Mal an The Le* by Vlessralme Pabeerston. Lady M. by Se Comilas of Desert. Mire heDswild, hg bar mathr, Lady Ill• Donald. Mr ha dm *Mode. by bwr mother, Lady !Mould. MM Midas MILIMO. by fair mother, Lady Il`DonabL ISM Meolombil liarseas, - by bar mat. Lady Charlotte B Hoe. Mrs. Mackey,. by Mr medlar, Dowager Vissountemn=a -111111116 Ms. MatOnley. ll•oll*. La* aladaaa Melnik Orims by the Combos cl Milted. lbre Osbars. Isy lads Osborn. Min Lela Osions, by Lo y C. Z. Oar& Km ==der ee thienees Torsined. *be by her masks', Kra Osborne. Mrs. Omaha Own, by Orman Orrevaln Lady Illimbedi Therm Paws, by her mother, the Comber of Oottenhem. Mrs. Bret Pb/Okatee. by Lady Cheriette Denisse. Lady Ombra Forel, in ber merriage, by lbs. Pstg. MIR labet raftsloa Me meirbse, Ifs. Porte. Boa Ms. Pumas as Mr marriage, the Countess if Sheffield. Lady Mane PMet, by bee aunt, Mr.. emus Pratt. Mrs. Mae Purim by Lady Buse Campbell. Lady Semelia i g e r a dy Cbarbum Berkeley. MM wage . , by lady Emily Seymour. MM balminae, by greeds Nbate. lira. Mrs. John Elliot. Mrs. Miennwelf la* b y Mambos' Palmerston. Ms de Masibild. by her mother. lady Ifirra ea her Neuf am by bar mother, Mrs. Hamilton Story. Mks arethums Mr etsch o Zil a tos Mrs Rosie/. MM hymen. et by the Grey. Mrs. negate Ow, by Ws lers.Phipm. MM Sayer, by bar softy Mn, Sayer. Mrs. Lee Sehrmets by Mrs. Milner Gibron. Mrs. Freels IMO& m bet masers by Lady Shall. Mrs. Podftelemliseessee, by the Mm. Mn. Join Mtt. Miss Pookiagmbnisem by Mx masker. Mrs. Paidingtce.rien. house. Wm Wane* Perablebset lmoss. by her mother, Mrs Po king. ton :teahouse. Lady the% in Ma Intlari lobe sae 1LC.8., by Ldy Palms. stop. VW Kathentse SWIM; bylaw mother, Mrs. Jobe Intepherd. Mir emyo,ltry theßen. Mrs. IMO& lady Anne Mmes.* her, saber, the Marchioness Thenettend. Lary ISIM limeret, by the Dadra Dower of Beenfort. Mt w. H • Whelk niegitenese, by Lady Stapheems. Mn If Il D i a lss ys, yl by Vamortort Mir Taor ,by the on. Mrs_ Miss Marie UMW, link., by Hon. Mrs. ilraddlaw. Ilia Idarchimer Townshead, by the Comes of Albennirle. Lady llsalieth Townshead, by the Mechtiones rownehend. Lady Treerbridgr. be Lady Grey. MM Catharine Vershoyie, by bee mother, Mrs. Vcrschoyle. MM Jane Marla Viliart. by Lady Eli:Meth Osborn. Lady wader, on her return Mom abroad, by the Duchess of Wale/ton. Mrs. Edward Wards, by Emily, Dubose of Peaufort. The Has. Catharine Leteester Warren, by her mother, lA* DID Table,. Mrs Thomas N. Werria, by the Marchioness Tomnbend. Baroness Whwisce, ce the termination of the mums of the Barony of Windier, by Vineuntees Palmerston. !My Agates Tern, by her mother, the Oneness of Ilardwieke. The Queen and Prince Albert, with thus Prince. Rays!, returned to Backlashes Palms after the Drawing Room, attended by the ladies mid gentlemen is waiting. The Countess of Shaftesbury has issued cards for ait raw ptioe," on Monday .at, at the finely mansion is CirJOVellOt square. The Earl and Countess of Bradford and family are imputed to aeries in Beigrave-sguare, on the 16th inst., from Titular. Yeateeday evening Lord and Lady Overdone en. tended a ',Pet did, of friends to dinner at their amulets in Oarltougardens. Later in the evening her ladyship threw her imegaillcent saloon open foe the reception of a numerous and distinguidiel company of the aristocracy and ABU ton who honoured the resistors with their promisee on this occasion. Among the was pen, were:—His Rocalleacy 11. Alred Backer, the Duke of Newcastle, the Ilsrguie of Br.adalbeae,the Counters of Caithneis. the Counter (dame) Banns, the Berl of Wistmoreland and Lady Rose Faso, the Berl of Carnarvon, the Count am of Cottenham sad the Ladies Pews, the Countess Grey, the Countess of Wicklow Viseonat Makes, Lord and Lady Watnpark and Itn; Caysadialt, Lord Fsliilasd, &r., &c. Lady Wharnelifts gave birth to a mon and heir at 15,Causms-stnet, on Wadnaady last. . - . - The Arehbihop of Armagh and Mr. and Mrs. Dialler sad family am arrived Se Charlet-street, Si. lases's, Eros the Pam, Arouses. The Marquis Cumuli has arrived at the Clarendon, boa Pads. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS. FRIDAY MORNING. The Monifeur of this day publishes the monthly returns of the Bank of France to yesterday, Thursday, April 10. We give the most important items, with the corresponding figures of last month, en regard: A or .1 Ms rob Coin and bu lion , Pr r,s 105,123,236 .... 91,483,478 Ditto ditto braocb backs 153,107,083 122,613,766 Bills discount" d, Paris 244,275,347 .... 240,521,526 Ditto branch banks Notes in circulatten, Paris 532 863,500 .... 530,380,900 Ditto branch banks Tresenty depoeits Private deposits, Pere 137.531,219 97,678,952 Ditto branch banks (MON 001. OWN CORILISPONDINS.) PARIS, TurasDAT EYZNINO. The Congress will nor, it is thought, sit again till Saturday. The Pays says it has reason to believe that the protocols of all the sittings will be pub lished in their entirety, as well as the treaty itself, immediately after the ratifications. It is stated pa sitively by the Pattie that the treaty was ratified by the Emperor of Austria on April 6, and that the red. floation wu at once despatched t, Paris. This may very likely be true, bat I doubt whether the Pairie has any other authority for the statement than the German Journal of Frankfort, which gives the same news. It is hoped, the Patric says, that the ma cations will arrive at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs about the 25th. This would be some what within the four weeks from the day of the signing (March 30) within which time ("if not sooner") the Moniteur anticipated that the ratifications might be exchanged. However, ' there is a grand dinner at the Tuileries to-morrow, which officials speak of as a farewell dinner to the plenipotentiaries; and then on Monday there will be the farewell filPe already announced at the HJtel de Ville, so that unless there are to be a good many repetitions of " Good bye!" it may be fairly sup posed that boldness will be concluded even earlier than the 26th. The decorations of the HOtel de Ville for the fete are nearly completed. The table, at which covers will be laid for 100 persons, is of an oval form, In the centre is a magnificent Sevres vase, worth 16,000 fr., which the Emperor presented to the Prefect of the Seine only a few days ago. The wine after the diaper will, I believe, be much more "select" than was at first reported. It is said now that nobody but plenipotentiaries, the corps diplomatique, and high functionaries have received invitations. Count Walewsk►s infant daughter, who by a an gular coincidence was barn on the very day of the signing of peace by the Congress over which its father had presided, was christened this morning in the Imperial Chapel of the Tuileries. The Emperor and Empress (represented by the Duke of Banana and the Princess Essling as proxies) were the god father and godmother. There was a considerable reaction at the opening of the Bourse to-day notwithstanding the rise In Console, but there was a rally in the afternoon, and the Route ultimately closed with much firmness at only sa. and 10c. lower than yesterday, the quota tions being 73fr. 40c. for cash, sad 73fr. 90c. for ac count. Bank of France fell 25fr. Credit Mobilier, after falling about 20fr., recovered to yesterday's price. The railway market was in an excited state. In the middle of the day sales, to realise profits, were so much pressed that they could only be effected at a great sacrifice. There were, however, a great many purchases afterward., and ultimately the lines which had most retrograded recovered to within Ur. or 10fr. of yesterday's quotations. la conse quence of repeated complaints, the telegraphic despatches from London distinguished to-day for the first time between the prices for cash and for ac count. It was reported that M. Rothschild bad obtained from the government a promise to rescind the rule against negotiating certain foreign securities, so far I as respects the Austrian Credit Mobilier. Tne accounts of the state of trade are far from good. Raw materials of all descriptions are so dear that manufacturers restrict their purchases as much l as possible. " The people's theatre," as it has been called, for the building of which M. Dennery has obtained the concession, will not be on the Boulevard de Sebasto pol, as was at first intended, bat on the Place da Ctitelet. It is to be called "Le Theatre du Princes ImperiaL" A letter from Rome states that the Prose of Paris has been placed in the Index. The Gazette de Lyon speaks of an interview which has taken place between the Count de Chambord and the Countess de Neuiily, and at which were present the Duke de Nemours and the Princess Clementine. The Countess de Nenilly having several times ex pressed a desire to visit the Count de Chambord, but being prevented by the state of her health, the could anticipated the intention of his august aunt, and visited her at Nervi on the 6'h instant. The conveyance of troops to Algeria continua♦ nearly every day. On Monday 550 men belonging to various regiments embarked at Marseilles on board the Louqsor for Philippeville. Another yawl was to leave the next day with part of a regiment which had arrived from Lyons. " Scarcely," says the Semaphore of Manilla, " was the news known of the removal of the blockade of the Rossini port., when our commercial men hastened to resume their old relations with Odessa. Two vessels are now in this port loading for the Black See, and another for the Baltic." P.S.—I have just heard that M. Biot and the Count de Felloux have been elected members of the Academie Francsise to-day. The election of the former was certain. He is an old man of 82, a celebrated mathematician, and an old member of the Academy of SCiCOCX s. With respect to M. de Falk= the contest must have been severe. He had proba bly a majority of not more than two or three votes. AUSTRIA AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. A Vienna journal, the Oat Deutsche Post, reputed to represent the views of the Austrian Foreign-office, takes pains to show that while it is perfectly proper that thescespation of the Sultan's territories by foreign armies should osase with the termination of the war, the continued presence of an Austrian mi:itary force in tbs Principalities is dictated by special considerations, independent of those which apply to the French a nd English armies. " Austria desires to abridge the term of occupation, but she cannot withdraw her troops until certain things have been done. She can not think of so doing before Russia has fulfilled her engagements and recognised the new frontier still to be defined, nor before the interior organisation and the tranquillity of the Principalities have bees I established." A letter from Vienne, in the Hamburg News, sayer —" A considerable sum will be put aside again tbis vein for t►e Isontinuetion of the fortifications of Cracow. It le kends& to make of this place a mond Comoro. The word sure to be completed in three years." Lettere from Leipsie state that the Easter fair e which is now being h in that piece, is riot, on most favourably. Purchasers from the East Sena arrived In treat nemobere. The merchants from the BalVe end Polend, who for the last fe v years have *tweeted themselves Mont this fair, bane this year C:0110 low Ard as purnasets, as wall es mural AMlltitlDS. I I